You need to pay, but not necessarily real world money. You can pay a player in gold to send you a crown store token. It’s at least better, even if it isn’t actually good (imo).

When I hear vulgar, or otherwise inappropriate chat in zone, I announce that I am going to start reporting the offenders. This has actually stopped it a few times.

SilverBride wrote: »

Ackwalan wrote: »

rpa wrote: »

To repeat my suggestion: increase base mount speed by 30% remove major gallop and rapids and optionally replace it with some new skill relevant to pvp. Players would be happy and server hamsters would have one less buff to track.

People will always want to move faster then the base speed no matter what it is set at.

This type of statement is what I find the most frustrating, because it is a gross exaggeration. Some people will want to move faster, but not all. There are many players who never use rapids.

It's the simple truth. Just like bag space, an increase would be welcome, but it won't take long until more is wanted. If rapids was replaced with an increased base movement spend, it would not take long until a "rapids" like skill be added.

I think it would be helpful to have a training area similar to what WoW had. It required you to pass simulated situations before you could queue for more difficult content. You could still do the content with a group, but couldn't queue for a random until you passed it.

I don't think we should be locked behind these, but it would let you know what content you are able to run adequately, and when you are ready for harder content.

Hi people.
Nice to meet you.

I am not one of that META gamers you know ..., but it does not mean that i play bad

For me it is trully different. I do not like some other guys META, I like, when others play the way that they like and do not impose there way of thinking and play to others.

I like tanks in leaching, by the way
Even in ebon. If they are not dead
(But they often are )
So for me player, that do his job is more important than the sets put on him

So for people with the same interests i want to post this video:



May be some body likes to play the same way 😉

witchdoctor wrote: »

Grianasteri wrote: »

They are generally not wearing among the most powerful DPS sets in the game, like you are.

You must have missed this:

novemberhhh wrote: »

yup and its not even difficult gear to acquire, just new moon (craftable) and mother's sorrow (overland), with slimecraw

None of that is particularly difficult to acquire. At all.

Grianasteri wrote: »

They are wearing trash. Not to mention the traits and enchants that you will have optimised, not to mention the purple/gold gear you will be using... all things the average, casual player is unlikely to have anywhere near to the same standard or degree.

Whilst it is obviously absurd to expect Nefas-tier DPS from the rando in your dungeon PUG, the basic information required to unlock a starter, passing, decent build is not difficult to acquire. A basic interest and a simple Google search will give a person somewhere to start.

I would tend to agree that anyone wishing to engage with higher level content, dungeons, vet dungeons, trials, probably should invest a little time and effort into improving their game and their dps and probably should, on balance, be able to do average dps, 15k or something, + or -. But who am I to tell someone else how to enjoy a game they have bought and enjoy playing, its worth remember this principle.

However, as is often the case the reality and practicalities are being ignored. New Moon is a 9 trait craftable set. Hardly any players can craft 9 trait, certainly most average, casual players wont be able to. "Just get someone to craft it", comes back the cry... ok, now go get all the materials. The average, casual player, wont have those materials, or money to buy them, nor will many have the inclination to farm or spend time acquiring such - farming materials is quite boring to most. And a lot of folk of course arnt in guilds, or dont know about having others craft for them, or wont feel comfortable engaging in that way. There are multiple reasons that folk wont or cant access a 9 trait craftable meta set and pretending otherwise achieves nothing.

Turning to mothers sorrow, again the comments made by experienced, meta, end game players are so often removed from reality for the average, casual gamer. Suffice to say, a huge number of the players were talking about, wont even be aware of Mothers Sorrow or the importance of crit chance or damage etc and even if they do have a decent set on, it is unlikely to have correct enchants, never mind correct traits and its also unlikely to be purple or gold - all things which together can potentially, literally add thousands onto a dps parse.

I must highlight again, since it wasnt mentioned in the reply to me here, CP, purple/gold gear, enchants and traits etc, oh and mundas. When heavy attacks are the main source of damage (in the parse in question), and you have buffed them by 20 or 25% (just ball park figs from CP allocation), that is a massive amount of extra dps,. So that 15k parse drops by probably a couple of thousand, and we have not even considered, as I mentioned earlier, the rest of the CPs, purple/gold gear, enchants, traits, mundas etc.

It has been a fairly well established understanding that the average, casual player tends to manage about 15k dps, +or-, clearly there is variation and in this thread were particularly focused on those who are only doing like 5k, 10k etc. Now, players screaming, variously, "but its easy", "these sets are easy to get", "just google", "just learn to LA weave", etc... well sure but none of that changes the facts. I mean ANYONE could learn advanced maths and get a maths PHD, and for those maths professors advanced maths is soo easy... were all human and it just requires learning, time, dedication... but, the reality is most folk struggle with their times tables and actually dont like maths in the first place so yeah, practically speaking no, advanced maths is not easy and not everyone can do it.

This is a circular argument. Any player CAN do high dps, because the mechanics of the game allow it. But most dont, cant, wont, for a whole host of reasons, some of which have been discussed here.
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Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. I wish more people learned this valuable lesson.

I was posting somewhere else and something just occurred to me,

Could this be the result of folks trying to do group dungeons in 1st person???