Posts by Looney

  • The truth about Pre-Nerf

    Quote from kriss

    Yes but no, making undroppable only a few skins wasn't intended as a nerf from ncsoft. They would have to made undroppable every shields q8 to call it a nerf but that's not the case :)

    but meh, I guess we all have our own definition, logic or not

    One skin or all skins is not the point. Q8 of the skin was nerfed. All currently dropped OS shields of those skins are q9+ so the power of those old drops is no longer attainable, hence 'nerfed'.

  • The truth about Pre-Nerf

    "In video gaming, a nerf is a change to a game that reduces the power of a weapon or skill in order to maintain game balance. The term is also used as a verb for the act of making such a change. The opposite of nerf is buff (in one of that term's two usages)"

    The term 'nerf' applies. The req one needs to get the full power of something is a change in the weapon's power. If an item can only happen at req 9 now that was previously available at req 8 it's power has changed. You can no longer get full power at req 8.

    Just my 2¢

  • Does it exist?

    that's kinda what I thought. Interesting that all martial weapons in factions share the same possible inherents as proph, except the only 'new' martial weapon (at the time, daggers) which has the same possible inherents as what became inscriptions.

  • Q9 20/20 Hypnotic Staff

    Hmmm... 10e ~ 50e ~ 150e?

    Can anyone else weigh in since it's such a large range so far?

    As of now it's gonna be sitting on my mesmer as her first q9 20/20 OS staff...

    Hopefully one day I clean out her inventory of all the stuff there so I can actually play on her lol

  • This or That?

    Omg, hard choice. I'd probably go with both, and sausage, and bacon, and hamburg...

    Picking one or the other i'd probably pick pepperoni, but it depends on my mood lol

    Deep dish or greek style?

  • Post Your Favorite Chest Run

    I agree with Vizi, most often on Factions runs I'm pretty sure I'm usually not losing $. If I am it's due to how I don't sell unids since I really don't have space to store them to sell. Yesterday was decent I think all told I ran 50-60 HM chests and had decent luck retaining, only 22 broken picks. Final tally of drops was 2 superior vigors which I kept since some of my heros still need them, ~18k made from selling other runes to traders, a q9 15^50 mammoth axe which some characters koss will probably get and 2 elite tomes (1 necro, 1 rit).

    Runs like outside Boreal Station idk how profitable they are, the skins mostly suck so you are stuck praying for max mods that are also wanted mods or elite tomes. About the best weapons you can hope for are draconic or ornate spears, bramble bows or dolyak prods. There are a few others but too but most of the weapon drops aren't really worth your time. The only time I even bother running there is if I need mods or inscriptions because I try to avoid kamadan as much as possible.

    On a different note,

    What is everyones biggest pet peeve about chestrunning?

    Mine is getting a reg mesmer tome from a chest and breaking the pick.
    Worst drop imo + broken pick = annoyed Looney :@

  • Post Your Favorite Chest Run

    Idk about 'profitable' it all depends on luck. Your luck retaining picks and your luck with drops. Nomal mode is definitly not profitable imo, hard mode is less not profitable due to elite tomes. Honestly, I don't really keep track of my cost of picks vs. cash made from drops. I don't sell my crap unids to improve my income, I id everything and salvage most junk drops if it salvages into mats I use for other things. I usually chest run in hopes of getting that rare item that makes it seem worth it. Most stuff I have/use on my characters was dropped to me, I have traded for some stuff but it's a small % of what I have.

    http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/15/15%20The%20…%20Run.003.html

    There is some math on it in that thread... just change the 3 on the end to 4 thru 7 to see the rest.

    Just today I broke 10 picks running chests for a few minutes but got 2 superior vigor runes, random luck is random like that (Halcyon Job, lux sin chests). Most times you probably won't make money but there is always a chance at a string of good luck.

  • Post Your Favorite Chest Run

    I #$% ING hate loot scaling and the anti-farm code. 'Doesn't effect rare drops' my ASSassin!

    Quote from Emma

    Looney,

    Perhaps it is an idea to post all the chest runs with maps in the first post for easy findingz :D :D Thanks Marty for posting the link :D


    All the maps I could find in the whole chestrunners thread are in an imgur album linked in the first post now. There is also a link to a .zip archive file on my google drive of them if you cba to visit imgur.

    @Kairi, I think a couple maps may have been posted by you, hope you don't mind me trying to save them from the ashes.

  • Announcing the Guild Wars Guru Archive

    I was going through the chestrunners thread and I noticed the archive contains many doubles of the same page. Most pages there is 2 copies of. If you look at the size column it's pretty obvious. I know it would be a task but it may be possible to curate it a bit and remove the doubles to save some space. Just looking here it's quite a few doubles. http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/15/15%20The%20…e/11%20Farming/

    Is there a reason for the doubles I'm missing? If the whole archive is similar it could really add up.

  • Post Your Favorite Chest Run

    I was hopıng some ppl would post maps too. I could do another one for tasca's but my route ıs pretty much a bıg cırcle ;)

    Idk where else to post a map of, Raısu ıs my favorıte and Gayala ıs almost as braınless as Fu.. ı mean Pogmeı.


    (Help, someone stole the dots from my "ı"s)

  • PC req9 Domination CC and random stuff

    #8 is like any celestial pet(5-10e) any cele pet can be gotten during canthan new year, pick one for a Celestial Miniature Token

    it's the mini pig (non-celestial one) that is not available every year now that is worth something. It is from 2007 and no longer available unless someone has some year of the pig fortunes from 2007 laying around.

    The people who try to sell the cele pig for a high price are attempting to scam people who do not understand the difference between the two.

  • New Player - Getting my butt kicked by level 7 mobs

    I agree armor would help. You may not die but if monks are helping you stay alive they have less time/energy to keep themselves alive.

    The ranger set from Corwen or Breyshaw is probably the best you have access to now.

    If you still have starter armor your headgear is especially useful to upgrade. Better headgear will give a +1 to an attribute. For ranger I would probably go with the +1 Marksmanship headgear. Adding runes and insignia to your armor will help you out as well.

  • Inactive due to internet problems

    :( Tech support is always a horrible experience. A month or so ago my phone and internet went out for no apparent reason. No dial tone and the modem would fail to connect. Long story short is they blamed the home wiring and yet it was fixed without them ever stopping by. I was wondering wtf had happened so I called the local office rather than the tech support number and actually got an honest answer... "There was a leaky seal on the one box we didn't replace yet on ___ St. so it filled with water."

    One would think that since you pay for their service that they would,idk, serve you. Every isp I've had has had their own set of issues. My current one has a few thousand customers that have a certain model modem with a known flaw, after a while ppoe will fail and then reconnect, then fail after a short time, etc. They know it is those modems yet will not just send everyone a new modem, it's not 'cost effective'. They figure most ppl don't use their service constantly for large transfers so most people will not notice the problem and if they notice it usually reconnects for a while and they forget about it. The only time they replace the modem is if the customer complains about the modems connectivity issues and says they have watched it disconnect and reconnect XX times in 24hrs would the isp please replace their defective modem.

    I think there is no such thing as 'customer service' any more, there is only '¢u$tom€r $€rvi¢€' where the dollars and cents of their bottom line comes first and the customer comes second, or even last below everything else.

  • Open letter to Arenanet regarding goldsellers

    Seriously, wtf. I just saw someone selling a faction farming service. You pay them XXXe a day or a weekly price for their bots to get enough faction to hold a main town. A-Net doesn't even have to login to see the problem, decltype shows enough of it. Most rmt sellers aren't showing there (it seems to ignore messages on a set timer) but enough players know A-Net isn't doing squat that they are breaking into the arms, ectos, zkeys, bots, etc for cash game. Now it's iBot you pay me ectos too.

    Ignoring this is stupid on A-Nets part since it affects gw2 as well. People sometimes buy stuff in gw1 just to trade it for gw2 stuff thinking if they don't trade with a known gold seller directly in gw2 they will avoid a ban.