Apollosipod wrote: »

Why are so many items being put behind crown gem pay walls these days? ZOS, I'm sure you have some MBA behind the crown store saying people will gamble to get more gems, but please just let me buy things without having the play the capitalism mini-game

I don't think they're putting more things into crown crates than they used to, but I don't remember them putting so many of them on the crown store's front page, even when a new crate was released. It caught me out too, I started looking through the featured items then realised they were all priced in gems, not crowns and had to hunt through the individual tabs for stuff I could actually buy.

Yes I know they can be bought with seals, but it still caught me out when I was looking at things to spend crowns on and realised that's not an option with all the featured items.

I am on a new character and looting stolen stuff with autoloot on crashes EVERY TIME. What is going on? It's literally one dumb thing after another anymore. What can I do to fix this rubbish? Spent 40 min crashing and googling - I don't work here

All the Vet players saw it coming. It didn't take super psychic powers.

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Kallykat wrote: »

Some players have one sugar cookie they can enjoy and a whole plate of various cookies they are allergic to and cannot enjoy.

Yeah, no. Vets being unable to play it because it's not designed to include them is very different from someone who doesn't enjoy group play. Normal trials and dungeons are already in the game. And many casual users play and enjoy them. They aren't allergic. It's existence does not cause them harm. Some of them don't feel like eating the sugar cookie with blue frosting because they don't like blue. But it's still a cookie baked to the taste of sugar cookie enjoyers.

It's more like I hate peanut butter so I should be the only with a sugar cookie, if we're going to treat the other content as cookies on this plate.

Obviously, I don't mean by using the term "allergic to" in this analogy that I think any part of playing a game actually harms anyone. To clarify, I was just using the metaphor to express that some players can't participate in most of the non-overland content, and that includes so-called "normal" difficulty in dungeons and trials. I won't rehash all the reasons why here as we've been over them in this thread before, but I will amend the analogy as follows: I stipulate that of the people just eating the sugar cookie, some are allergic to the other cookies (can't play the rest), some could eat the other cookies only after seeing a doctor and getting a shot or otherwise preparing and jumping through hoops, and some just don't like the taste of the other cookies just as the people in the second group don't like the taste of the original sugar cookie.

To clarify another point, there are obviously other players I didn't mention in the analogy who like sugar cookies and some of the other cookies but not all of them. This is an analogy. I was simplifying to make a point.

I don't think one group should be the only one with a sugar cookie, but whether or not they get a sugar cookie made to their exact taste is the real question. They already have access to the sugar cookie.

Analogy aside, as I've said before, I don't necessarily mind an optional increased overland difficulty solution if it doesn't affect my game play. I'm not so sure it won't affect me, but we won't know until we hear the details about ZOS's answer to the issue and test it out. I do have concerns about what a reward system that doesn't punish players who opt out of increased difficulty could possibly look like. We'll see, I guess. I do think there should be a story mode in other content as a balance, and I appreciate your support in that.

The whole reason I responded to your initial analogy is because I didn't think it was a fair assessment of the context of the overland difficulty debate. It seems to me the those who object to an increase in overland difficulty are frequently told, in so many words, that they are just selfish and unjust. It's not that simple. I don't think the arguments against increased overland difficulty (or against exceptional rewards for increased overland difficulty, as we already know the increased difficulty itself is coming in some form) are being given a fair shake. They are often just being dismissed out of hand. I was modifying your analogy to point out that there is another way to look at the whole of the situation from the other side and to hopefully dissuade people from just assuming that anyone who objects to overland difficulty is just doing so for selfish or unfair reasons.

ketsparrowhawk wrote: »

Thumbless_Bot wrote: »

Great post.

My first impression of this was, "oh, look. It's another thread on how terrible 2 sided battlegrounds are. I think we are approaching one hundred of these".

And while it is that. You have articulated a lot of my concerns very well. Battlegrounds are a shell of what they used to be. They are absolutely terrible.

On the other topic of Subclassing: subclassing is an admission by zos that they one, cannot balance classes and 2, have given up trying. You can either run the meta not.

Subclassing combined with the new mythic and scribing have turned pvp into a cluster. It is way too much change in too short of a time. They will likely never be able to sort out balance concerns woth this many variables changed at once. They couldn't do it with fewer variables.

Again. Theyve given up and subclassing is their tacit admission of this.

I am in the minority but I never felt that balance was that bad between the different classes. They all had their different strengths and weaknesses. Not every class needs to be on equal footing in a 1v1 duel, imo. I had reasons to play every single class depending on which strength I was wanting to lean on that day. The one exception ofc was Necro.

I agree partially. They used to need to maybe make a tweak here and there to class skills, Like during the ward meta, just adjust the heal and all would have been good... and maybe slightly nerf spec bow, but that was it.

They just never did this stuff. Instead they come out of left field with something crazy that makes it worse.

My complaint with balance is more about broken items behind pay walls, imbalancrd ranged damage, broken sets that should have been left on the cutting room floor, and dot items like vate ice that were never aligned to two second dots. Classes were pretty good before.

100% agree that the system's poor respect for MMR is the issue. And maybe the BGs population is low and ZOS feels that justifies the present system, but imo it suppresses the population because there's no entry-level lobbies. People play once or twice, then decide it's not for them because all the lobbies are filled with first-timers and people who hide or use Arcanist beam vs actual PVP players and builds. If a team doesn't get a few of the latter on it, that team is doomed.

Great post.

My first impression of this was, "oh, look. It's another thread on how terrible 2 sided battlegrounds are. I think we are approaching one hundred of these".

And while it is that, you have articulated a lot of my concerns very well. Battlegrounds are a shell of what they used to be. They are absolutely terrible.

On the other topic of Subclassing: subclassing is an admission by zos that they one, cannot balance classes and 2, have given up trying. You can either run the meta not.

Subclassing combined with the new mythic and scribing have turned pvp into a cluster. It is way too much change in too short of a time. They will likely never be able to sort out balance concerns woth this many variables changed at once. They couldn't do it with fewer variables.

Again. Theyve given up on balance and subclassing is their tacit admission of this.

They dont care about real pvp. This is was their intention with 2 teams. Make them more relaxed... easier. They really do not know what they are doing when it comes to pvp. They just knownhow to make money off of meta chasers.

I stick to doing zone dailies, one bg for the rewards and farming furnishing mats in different zones. Once this gets old there won't be anything to keep my attention like pvp used to.

They evaporated

It’s been said in another thread that the event will run simultaneously on PC and consoles so each will have the same opportunity to breach the wall first and gain access to eastern Solstice.

Also 127 pages and no fix, wow just wow, this is so slack