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Horseman Of War · May 09, 2008, 01:15 PM // 13:15

Ill try and be less blunt in the 'official' update thread here

Buyable emote title is not necessarily cool.

Total account Balth Faction should play a role in calculation of title progress.

To PvPers' credit, BUYING the ZKeys (and other tournament reward pts things) should give points toward title.

The Transmo Tonics is epic awesome. I take back saying im 100% dissatisfied because this will add a new element for powertraders, which honestly... is pretty cool.

Im pretty avid about my 3 suggestions here, and I hope anet makes some changes.

romeus petrus · May 09, 2008, 01:18 PM // 13:18

Hmm... an emote you can actually buy. I have one word to describe this:

ABSURD

lyra_song · May 09, 2008, 01:23 PM // 13:23

I think my response is simply this:

/shrug

chest running emote? um...yay? nay? Does it affect gameplay? no. Does it affect skills? no. Does it affect weapons? no. Does it affect player dynamics? not really.

Does it give you something to waste time/money on? YES!

anyway....

URSAN IS BAD! >.> Lets nerf ursan.

Tarkin · May 09, 2008, 01:32 PM // 13:32

In my country we have something called "bolsa familia" (family bag), the govern use the taxes to share money to the poors...

I think anet use the same politic with special weekends... and some titles... they give drinks, sweets, and party stuff to everyone in the game, and the the ubber richs, buy this stuff from poors ones for some good money...

With zkeys same thing, poor players go and farm faction, increase the pvp world, change faction, sell zkeys to rich ones, rich ones happy because get a new title and with lucky some good drop... poor ones get some good money...

Ctb · May 09, 2008, 02:15 PM // 14:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tarkin

In my country we have something called "bolsa familia" (family bag), the govern use the taxes to share money to the poors...

I think anet use the same politic with special weekends... and some titles... they give drinks, sweets, and party stuff to everyone in the game, and the the ubber richs, buy this stuff from poors ones for some good money...

With zkeys same thing, poor players go and farm faction, increase the pvp world, change faction, sell zkeys to rich ones, rich ones happy because get a new title and with lucky some good drop... poor ones get some good money...

The only places that are realistically accessible to non-PvPers are RA, AB, and TA. Few people now are willing to devote the time to penetrating the ranks of HA and GvG, and HA and GvG are where the real balth faction is, and I doubt that the prospect of a silly emote and a buttload of firewater is going to fix that problem.. Plus, most of them are only going to be able to store up 10k faction at a time anyway, so they'd probably even lose a chunk in many typical HA runs.

Poor people are not going to get anything out of this. The title track start to finish is only to the benefit of PvPers who have the keys already, or the means to obtain them. Worse yet, even if you do obtain 50 keys, at 5k each that's only 250k. Not exactly poor, but that's also 250,000 balth faction, and you can probably make more than that doing various PvE farming runs. Hell, you can match that income rate by farming ectos in UW, and it's both easier and more reliable.

Neo Nugget · May 09, 2008, 02:17 PM // 14:17

Makes me wonder if there's an everlasting Candy Corn Tonic.

Tyla · May 09, 2008, 02:28 PM // 14:28

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Originally Posted by SirSausage

Wow, another title. Here we go again.

It looks like for Anerf PVP-ers are more important than the PVE players.
Personally I hate this update.

What Black Sephir said, and: The PvP'ers are more important than the PvE playerbase. At least PvE'ers get stupid imba buttonmash easy-win skills.
And skill balances make the game fun.

@Lyra -- It will probably effect weapon prices, and it also effects people's e-peen being enlarged because of some spear that comes from the sky.

Neo Nugget · May 09, 2008, 02:34 PM // 14:34

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Originally Posted by Covah

ROFL ROFL!!!

*When you use a Zaishen Key on a Zaishen Chest, you get 5 Zaishen Reputation Points.

Thats over 20k Z keys to max the title. @ 2.5k each thats over 50 mill.

I've seen keys for 5k right now.

so 5k each would be around 100 million gold?

pumpkin pie · May 09, 2008, 02:47 PM // 14:47

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Originally Posted by N Sane OEF Marine

How about improve Hero AI (run like hell if someone is targetting you, especially when u get hit by Maelstrom, Meteor Shower, etc.)

Enemy AI kites like champs. Why cant our own buddy AI grow brains like the rest of the freaking game.

Allow hero Henchies use of URSAN....so u dont have to do crap.

they do run away from maelstrom very fast too, if they are not frozen by the imps. nothing much you can do if that happens, unless someone think of a way to make 3 heros interrupt 3 different targets at the same time.

Jetdoc · May 09, 2008, 02:55 PM // 14:55

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Originally Posted by Neo Nugget

Makes me wonder if there's an everlasting Candy Corn Tonic.

Yes, that's been out there for a while...

http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ever...ogrifier_Tonic

Aera Lure · May 09, 2008, 03:01 PM // 15:01

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Originally Posted by lyra_song

Does it give you something to waste time/money on? YES!

It does so, and in epic fashion. Its about all it does. 20k keys? I mean who is the idiot that makes things like this?

I so hope GW2 actually comes up with reasons to continue playing the game that dont go down these roads. Character development, more varied weapon stats, deeper exploration and/or PvE gameplay. Titles like the above just make me depressed and dont motivate me to play at ALL.

Dronte · May 09, 2008, 03:17 PM // 15:17

Lol what an epic fail, ebayers get emotes? Seriously..

Sarevok Thordin · May 09, 2008, 03:29 PM // 15:29

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Originally Posted by Dronte

Lol what an epic fail, ebayers get emotes? Seriously..

They could do that with HA accounts anyway.

AceeBlueEagle · May 09, 2008, 03:30 PM // 15:30

Just another indication that GWars has jumped the shark. Maybe not for everyone, but for me, definitely.

Kyp Jade · May 09, 2008, 03:32 PM // 15:32

I've been suspicious from when they announced GW2 that it will actually be any good, but the more failed design decisions I see in gw1, the more i think gw2 will not live up to our expectations.

Im fully expecting to see fail like
race bonuses
title grind
ursan from day1
..
..
..

Im holding my breath, but Im not getting my hopes up either for gw2

zwei2stein · May 09, 2008, 03:58 PM // 15:58

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Originally Posted by Dronte

Lol what an epic fail, ebayers get emotes? Seriously..

Maybe they could change all those weapons falling from sky to credit cards falling from sky.

Sarevok Thordin · May 09, 2008, 04:01 PM // 16:01

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Originally Posted by zwei2stein

Maybe they could change all those weapons falling from sky to credit cards falling from sky.

I would lol so hard.

Zahr Dalsk · May 09, 2008, 04:08 PM // 16:08

The Zaishen Title Track just turned every conceivable bit of grind in WoW into child's play.

Congrats, ArenaNet - you won. You have invented the most massive time sink I've ever seen.

Jetdoc · May 09, 2008, 04:11 PM // 16:11

Keys were hovering between 4.5K and 5K last night...wonder what they are doing today?

pfaile · May 09, 2008, 04:23 PM // 16:23

easy fix, customize keys

for pvp players trade in blathazar faction
this would hold true to your skill>time thing

for pve players trade in skill points
this would would be better than crafting consets

but it is too late