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Alpha Two testing is currently taking place five days each week. More information about Phase II and Phase III testing schedule can be found here
If you have Alpha Two, you can download the game launcher here, and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
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Re: Node Voting restrictions are OVERDUE
context of people on Vyra calling for their guild to use this exact exploit / bug
Re: Serious concerns about loot recovery
Its often the case that when my group wipes everyone just abandons their bodies also for the same reasons. Again, the timer causes everyone to be frantic and reckless. Often times it leads to more chaos and death. So the default response is to just move on...which is a shame. If we had a longer timer we could coordinate getting our bodies back...
I don't share the same negative sentiments as the other comment. I'm not for this game capitulating to WoW style fetch/grind/kill quests...they're horrific and destroyed what MMO's used to be in the 90s. I'm all for the vision of this game...100%...I just think we need to be able to get our loot back. Very simple.
I don't share the same negative sentiments as the other comment. I'm not for this game capitulating to WoW style fetch/grind/kill quests...they're horrific and destroyed what MMO's used to be in the 90s. I'm all for the vision of this game...100%...I just think we need to be able to get our loot back. Very simple.
Re: Serious concerns about loot recovery
In general I don't bother retrieving.
Same. I will *literally* forget to loot my own body even after a rez because typically once I get rez'd I need to immediately jump back into the fight to prevent a full wipe, and most of the time by the time mobs are dead my corpse is gone anyway because it's such a short freaking timer. Wiped further than 200 ft away from an emberstone? Nah, no point. The forced PVP flag takes literally what, 30 seconds to wear off? Someone for sure snagged it, and even if they didn't if there's a single mob I need to fight to clear the area? Body despawns.
Also when it's a complete wipe I got no damn clue which body is mine, arg. I mean I get the lore reason why we're piles of ash but damn... I gotta wander around like "is this me? No... Is this me? No... Is this me?"
I'm not opposed to punishing systems, I loved EQ better with its full loot drop and experience loss and deleveling death system, but I'll be honest the 25% non recoverable loss and laughable "consequences" for snagging loot off a body feels like a slap in the face here. The current state of how corpses work needs a LOT of rework to feel like a good system.
Fippy
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Resource Respawn Issue: Broken Balance and Game Economy
Hello,
I’d like to raise the issue of resource gathering in the game.
Currently, the resource system is broken, and players are exploiting it. Let me give an example: if you chop down a legendary willow tree, it will respawn in the exact same spot after four hours. This happens repeatedly until the server restarts. (The same applies to ore.) Players either wait for these four hours or park an alt character at the spot, logging in based on a timer to harvest it again.
This shouldn’t be the case. Resources should respawn randomly so that everyone has a fair chance to gather them.
Right now, the system allows city mayors to fly around the map, mark these spots, and assign alt characters to camp them. Their guild then monopolizes the legendary resources while other cant get any.
This issue needs to be addressed urgently as it is breaking the game’s economy.
I’d like to raise the issue of resource gathering in the game.
Currently, the resource system is broken, and players are exploiting it. Let me give an example: if you chop down a legendary willow tree, it will respawn in the exact same spot after four hours. This happens repeatedly until the server restarts. (The same applies to ore.) Players either wait for these four hours or park an alt character at the spot, logging in based on a timer to harvest it again.
This shouldn’t be the case. Resources should respawn randomly so that everyone has a fair chance to gather them.
Right now, the system allows city mayors to fly around the map, mark these spots, and assign alt characters to camp them. Their guild then monopolizes the legendary resources while other cant get any.
This issue needs to be addressed urgently as it is breaking the game’s economy.
Vasorion
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Re: Grinding Spots
Arya_Yeshe wrote: »It would be fair splitting the xp among both groups, if group A did 70% dmg on the mob then give them 70% of the xp and group A would have a 70% chance of owning the loot. The end, thank you, sent the dollars to my bank accout for my great visiion.
I actually really like that idea.
Re: 📝 Dev Discussion #71 - Spells & Abilities ⚔
Basically all of the ranger abilities feel lackluster except air strike(which does terrible damage for being a top tier talent point). All the other ranger abilities seem to be unnecessarily flashier versions of ranger skills from other games..and I'm not really sure if the class lore of my ranger is supposed to be hunter/marksman- or leaning toward some sort of Druid like character due to the root ability.
Marks need to be more powerful if our class is going to revolve around it.
No hate here- only hoping it gets better!
Marks need to be more powerful if our class is going to revolve around it.
No hate here- only hoping it gets better!
Re: 📝 Dev Discussion #71 - Spells & Abilities ⚔
Literally entire Mesmer kit in Guild Wars 2 are my favorite spells in any MMO.
Perfect class skills for Trickster or Charlatan in AoC.
Perfect class skills for Trickster or Charlatan in AoC.
Major Graphic Upgrade Needed.
The game is horrible to look at long term.
When I first started testing on Dec 20, I thought the graphics where ok. But after playing a while I think they are pretty horrible and I never cared much at all about graphics. If I, a person that cares little about graphics find them bad, I wonder what others think.
This needs to be fixed before launch. Maybe it doesn't matter right now, but really it has to be upgrade. I hope there is a plan for this.
When I first started testing on Dec 20, I thought the graphics where ok. But after playing a while I think they are pretty horrible and I never cared much at all about graphics. If I, a person that cares little about graphics find them bad, I wonder what others think.
This needs to be fixed before launch. Maybe it doesn't matter right now, but really it has to be upgrade. I hope there is a plan for this.
Re: 📝 Dev Discussion #71 - Spells & Abilities ⚔
Environment interacting abilities,
I'm a big fan of abilities that do more than combat. These help with immersion and bring you in closer with feeling a part of the game
I'm a big fan of abilities that do more than combat. These help with immersion and bring you in closer with feeling a part of the game
- Light magic, the caster grants a user a modicum of light in a badly lit dungeon.
- Summoning Magic, A user is able to summon party members to there location via a ritual of some sort.
- Locate Object , A spell that allows a user to locate an item.
- Disguise Self , a spell that allows a user to disguise a party member
- Attacks that miss and damage things behind them. Example, you shoot a fireball and it misses the target but damages a tree behind the person.
- etc...
