Siolfir

Bah! I wasn't disputing that you had insider knowledge and logic usage, I was disputing that you were using it instead of pictures to say that defense uses the cur values. Knowledge and logic have no place on the internet!

Begone with your insider knowledge and logic! Pics or it didn't happen!

Yeah. After all, it has a 10 second countdown!

A small example.

I agree that it's pretty stupid, but to hopefully answer the question about why the random character names were taken: I was informed (and never cared enough to personally verify) that the names used in Guild Wars were reserved in Guild Wars 2, so that people who were going from one game to the other could use the same names. If so, any gold farmers from Guild Wars could have the gibberish names already reserved for them when they move their business over.

If that's not the case, oh well - it's not like spreading around unsubstantiated rumors is uncommon here.

But the torches and pitchforks are so much more FUN!

So mean.

Tales From the Floating Vagabond.

Where you can play an Irresistably Cute Fuzzy Thing with a Don't Point That At My Planet Gun.

So is my average rate of posting.

Yeah, that's my expectation as to what's going on also. You should be able to unlock them, but once they're locked out for whatever reason they don't automagically unlock the first time when your status changes back and you have to reassign the server slots.

I wasn't trying to make it seem wrong, other than saying that "i13 PvP" was a laundry list of things rather than a single change or feature.

Some of which I even think are positive.

But mostly I was agreeing that it should not have been abandoned, that I preferred i12 PvP to i13 as they implemented it (because, well, I felt that they screwed up in how they went about making the changes), and then listed what I thought would have worked.

A shorter summary of which was in the tl;dr summary at the top of my post. I wasn't trying to make you sound "wrong", and originally intended the post to be in support of what you were saying with an explanation as to why it wasn't the first single thing that came to mind.

I just then started to ramble because I had two quotes and was basically saying "yeah, this!" And now I'm still rambling.

Or law.

Sadly, I have a few more posts than that to bump my own level.

But a factor of 4 is only two bit shifts.

And two bits is a quarter, which is 25 cents.

So it's only 25 cents off!

>.>

<.<

What?

Well... yeah. But, as mentioned here:

... i13 changed a LOT more than just one thing in PvP. And it did it all at once, so I didn't consider it to be on the table.

But many of the changes were things that were requested for a long time by the PvP community - it wasn't that they weren't listening when they were planning it, it was that they didn't listen once they implemented it and they tried a shotgun blast approach of "do everything at once!" rather than, as mentioned in the second quote, working things in slowly to see how it impacted things.

Second builds alone - which were also part of i13 - would have been great with no other PvP changes at all, because you could then skip the need to respec after you get your accolades. This was probably one of the biggest barriers to entry at the time, because even on FotM PvP builds you either built for PvP or did poorly against someone who did, and had to completely scrap your current build to PvP with a character.

Tagging the powers for player vs critter targets had already been done for some powers prior to i13 but was done wholesale with different damage values and not just irresistable damage and/or debuffs, and defense powers reacting to being in a PvP zone to provide the more exotic resistances for those environments was a good thing (especially given the lack of grantable psi resistance). While changing how powers work by a huge margin is one of the complaints, I think that a balance pass on damage vs available resistances for PvP could have helped without changing the old learning curve, which was much smoother than the current one.

A lot of arena options were added, although they took a long time to get working correctly. I personally think that done correctly THOSE few changes were sufficient to meet the requests of the community and you probably wouldn't even need all of them. But along with those changes came heal decay, movement suppression, mez-resistance-only, free resistances, and diminishing returns, which were all unpopular overkill.

I also want my money back. I just don't expect that to be their answer, since they already have the money.

Licensing issue has been debunked on both sides.

And I agree with the last sentence.

Works great, plus it keeps the annoying dog from barking since it plays a whimper every time you pelt it with a snowball.