~Ursan Blessing and balance~
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Quote: Originally Posted by trobinson97 I've played long enough and been in enough bad Pugs with bad monks and still survived to know it doesn't take a skilled monk to ensure survivability. As Simath mentioned the individual (in this case, the monk) could be surrounded by superior players to make up for their lack of ability. I could bring along a necromancer hero with Enfeebling Blood and Reckless Haste to significantly reduce the pressure on the party. It would significantly reduce the workload of the bad monk when everything is either missing or striking for 66% less damage.
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It's been a long thread, so it's easy to skip some things and then say they weren't there.
Every class has their own self heal for a reason.
The good monks would be the ones you can trust enough not to bring a self-heal and in that spot slot some utility to make their job even easier. Quote:
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Quote: My real point is that ursan is making everything that is rewarding in the game become obsolete, when you can do any elite run in the game in half the time with 6 ursan +2 monks, then of course elite items become more commonplace and drive the price down, which of course makes the elite items not elite anymore because anyone with 5k in their pocket can buy it. Prove where UB has made any item reward obsolete. As of yet, nothing considered "elite" has fluctuated in price. Armbraces are still around 100+30++, same with tormenteds. I do look forward to the day when they are sub 100 though I doubt it will happen anytime soon. You guys are making a really big ruckus about UB but the fact of the matter is, it's not very common. Yeah you'll see it around but it's no where near the level some of you seem to propagate. I've been in DoA at peak times EST almost every day since last week and I see more non UB things going on that UB, mainly just a few 600 and Trap farmers.
Low prices on items are not a bad thing in any case. It's a great thing. For one, it cuts down on a lot of those ridiculous 100 +___duped ectos (oh yeah, you better believe they were duped too lol). Without those, you're likely to see a lot less ebayers. So someone has the same precious Tormented Shield as you, boo hoo. Thanks to that wii site for builds, everyone can be a "pro farmer". It takes little longer to build up bank than it did before loot scaling, but it's not all that bad. Somehow I still manage to get whatever armor I want outside of FoW whenever I want it.
Quote: One of the reasons i left guildwars before nightfall was because there lacked incentives to actually do more in the game, i get titles that give no bonuses? Plenty titles give bonuses now, welcome back.
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Proof? You still have the choice to run what you will.
weapons that are exactly the same as another skinned weapon that costs 1/20th the price, all armour being the same too. What is their to work towards in the game? the only thing i could see was minipets, and as their prices are only going upwards because their will only be less and less of them, whereas prices for weapons are only going downwards, and quickly because of how easy it now is to get them, how are we ever supposed to get the more expensive pets?
Ahhh, now I see the resolution of the problem I had with your first two paragraphs. You need to sell the tormented stuff high so you can buy mini pets high. Well, that's easy, the UW still exists so you can always get ecto and you can still get cash from farming and selling to merchant. So you may have to work a little bit, but isn't that the point anti-UB folks have trying to make, put some effort into it? Chances are though, if you're talking about those uber rare minipets like Kanxai and the Panda, well don't fret, those weren't meant for the majority of the people anway. If you weren't in on the duping craze and managed to slip by Anet's multi0ban, chances are you wouldn't be able to afford them anyway. The rest (majority anyway) are pretty doable. Besides, this UB craze has still yet to catch on as it's been stated so tormented stuff is still in excess of 100k. You can still make some moeny and hoard it away for your future cheap mini purchases. Quote:
Again, no it hasn't. Traditionally it's been all about the Trinity and that's not balanced.
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Quote: now people are farming faster, and prices are dropping (dont believe me go look at price of titan gems, dropped 2 k in the last few days becuase of how easy it is to farm everything) thats 20% loss on value to someone who is trying to get money for HOM How is farming faster a bad thing? If you're farming faster you're probably making money faster, either by selling to players or merching, so what's the big deal?
Quote: (no i dont mean panda, but i do mean some of the better ones that cost lets say 80 ectos) how the hell can i get 80 ectos if i cant even FARM the only area with anything +100k in it anymore, let alone the fact that its being overfarmed now because a baby could do it with ursan. A baby could go into Underworld and farm ectos with 55/33, Rits, Warriors or groups. A baby oculd spec as B/P and farm ectos in Tombs. Your argument is lacking, ectos haven't gone anywhere, you get them the same way you've always gotten them: farm them or farm other stuff, merch and buy from people.
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what other gamers do does effect me because it effects my ability to generate money which in turn effects my ability to get my heros in HOM (due to paying for armour) or my minipets (due to them inherantly going up in value as they become dedicated) to even my own armour sets (how do i pay for dwarven armour?)
Wow man, woe is you. If you are worried about prices fluctuating you are aiming your frustrations at the wrong thing. That's what happens in a player driven economy, prices change. You get your hero armor by doing the quests to get them to drop. If you want to pay for it, you farm for the cash like everyone else. If you have to farm that green a few more times to get the money nothing has changed, you're still farming to get the money. You pay for your Dwarven armor the same way you always have, with gold and materials that you bought/collected by playing the game, whether it was playing through or farming. That's how the system works man. [quote]because i cant do any farming because ursan is just plain superior by FAR to any build out there. [quote] That's so utterly ridiculous. You can't farm because Ursan exists? How in the world does someone farming in one instance determine how you farm in another? Wow. Quote:
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