Hey, any #guildwars2 players on the fediverse into data science and interested in helping me with a little (as in specific, not little as in "not a lot of data to parse") project?
There's another site, https://gw2wingman.nevermindcreations.de/stats that posts logs on every fight. I'm not sure how easy it would be to scrape logs and determine "burst" windows mathematically, but this site has a ton of logs for a ton of encounters that you can use to model against, instead of the benchmark logs on snowcrows.
Looking for a multiplayer game to spend as much or as little time on as you like? Let me recommend #GuildWars2.
It's an MMO, yes, but one without a subscription fee, without gear grind, and it's not pay-to-win. You can literally drop out for a year, come back, and all your gear and progress are still relevant. It also has a very generous free-to-play tier, you can basically "try it out" for months.
@wintersweet Yeah I've noticed that they apparently created a little backstory cameo when they re-released season 1 last year. I haven't even played that particular instance yet, but I'm definitely looking forward to seeing him there :)
Kind of anxious about the upcoming #guildwars2 patch on the 26th, since they've not released any information about it and I'd really not like to see my characters have their builds ruined again, when I've been playing those same setups for 6+ years (or since 2014, in the case of one they outright removed. Again).
I just want to enjoy the game, not be worried that my characters will get progressively worse for seemingly no reason other than "but raiding."
@Lucinellia@itspomf yeah it seemed like a way to kill two birds with one stone -- enable healing-centric thief builds, and gut unhealthy stealth spam builds in pvp modes. Which is good efficient balance, even if it had an unfortunate side effect on builds that relied on it previously that were doing honest things. But that's just how balance goes
@pixel@itspomf I think enabling healing-centric Thief builds was a happy accident and mainly as a result of Specter. There wasn't any serious way to heal with Thief back in 2019 when the SA changes were made but there was a lot of consternation around WvW especially.
I am hopeful for a happy accident with the new weapons!
@neatchee Gotta love how a major seasonal activity has a ton of AP and potential wealth gated behind it and the only way to engage with it is Jumping Puzzles Without Swiftness
Rebixx: whichever just took me the most effort I guess. Honors in Applied Jumping, now Cod Swimming.
Bzakki: she's a Good Apple
Ronn Felsythe: Armchair Commander because he has been sitting collecting dust for years.
Rrnch: Honorary Skritt. She's decided to be best friends with them during her story.
Everyone else is not played enough I guess. Maybe my ranger is Deer Commander because of pet class.
@pixel
Practical answer: If I'm leading a train, I'm almost always using I'm rich, you know. It's a lot easier to help gamers learn goldmaking if they see that you're loaded :P
Compared to week 1, reset was a lot smoother. There was still some fuckery with the borderlands opening when they shouldn't. Queue times were reasonable. That could be simply an issue of less people trying to play. We had very minimal lag as well....
#GuildWars2 multiboxing hurts legitimate players. This needs to stop.
I ran Dragon's End today. Kicked these people when they joined, before we got a map to play on. They were not able to join our instance via squad.
Within about two minutes, a map queue formed. These people running 5-6 accounts EACH maxed out the map's player limit of 60, and made it so legitimate players could not join and have fun. They waited in queue for an HOUR.
Seven people could not join our fresh map and have fun.
If you happen to still have a Twitter account, I would very much appreciate any help boosting this post. Decided to bring it up over there too and the discussion is gaining traction.
More eyeballs means more chance of this problem actually getting fixed.
Update: this incident went a little viral? Teapot boosted this on Twitter and did a stream where he tried to find leeches on EU. Glad to see the issue get more visibility.
I also got a few other commanders reaching out to offer suggestions on ways to avoid leeches while we wait for ArenaNet to figure their shit out, which was GREATLY appreciated. We ran DE today and had zero leeches.
This isn't over yet, but at least ingame it's at least playable.
@Lucinellia tbh idk if I want to, life is so stressful rn that I'm not sure I could manage spending that long on prog. I'm content filling and then hoping I can fill enough to one day stumble into voidwalker lol. I think I'm good enough for it, I just need a bit more experience and then the opportunity lol
@pixel yeah it is really a commitment and the encounter itself is buggy and not brilliantly designed imo but it's about the only thing offering a proper sense of progression in Guild Wars 2 so I think it's worth making some time to check out and see if you want to commit!
It will definitely happen for you at some point though, either which way! I think community experience and knowledge is growing enough to support that.
I realized that my #GW2 account (actually Anet account) was still hooked to an email I used back 20 years ago (seriously). While I still have access to this email address, I decided to update that, and my second account, yesterday.
I have TWO Anet accounts because back in the day, I had two GW1 accounts (complete with expansions). This is despite the fact I have many, many alts on my main GW1 account. Can't remember exactly why I had a second one, though.
@Aywren@belghast Strikes are mostly the GW2 of FFXIV trials, meant for 10 players (although some can be handled with fewer). I'd be more than happy to pitch in on any fractals, strikes, or even raids that folks want to try out. Just need enough heads up to carve out the necessary time.
@thalenfirebeard@Aywren I've got a commander tag so in theory if I recruit for the rest of a group it should fill relatively quickly. I just don't relish the thought of plugging an ENTIRE team heh.
Good Morning Friends! This morning I talk about #GW2 and the existential problem facing aging MMORPGs of having a clear point where the story content massively improves. Please note, this post is going to have some story spoilers for #GuildWars2 up through #PathofFire as a result, but does dive into some broader #MMORPG topics.
@Hawner Keep trying to distract from the point that you came into this with a disrespectful comment and have the audacity to demand respect lmao
I never said you insulted me. I said you were hostile for no reason.
Guess what! Zojja's coming back in the next expansion! Deal with it because I really don't care if you are upset about spoilers or not. That's a you problem, so fuck off.
@micahdraws Thankfully, I was expecting it and stopped reading. No harm done.
Since you don't want to see your faults, I'll do the right thing and block you. That way, you won't spoil anything for me and I won't bother you again.
I wish you a nice day.
Thinking about my guild in #GuildWars2 and honestly just guilds in general. I tried really hard with my GW2 guild, we were small and honestly there isn't much support for a small guild, but I tried anyways.
I'll never forget a comment someone made that really annoyed the shit outta me. It was something along the lines of "well I'd play if the guild did things." It was such a slap in the face because I organized things all the time but if players don't show up how is that on me.
Your guild leader and officers are not your fucking cruise director. It's not their job to constantly have stuff for you to do. If you aren't putting in the effort to show up then how dare you ask them to constantly put in the effort to have stuff to do.
@pixelone This is what honestly turned me into a bitter ex-guild-leader. People meant well, but nothing ever happened if one of a handful of people were not organizing it. I want to do a lot of content... but I have trouble bringing myself to actually lead anything anymore so I just solo everything heh.
Seems like it, though it wasn’t actually my intention. I’m not even (planning on) using my Mastodon account much. But when I followed the MassisvelyOP account on Mastodon they followed back and I thought, I should (at least) pin a post to my Mastodon profile which references our GW2 community.
What I didn’t know until now is that referencing a lemmy community from Mastodon also creates a post in the referenced community. I thought that you could only comment on lemmy posts from Mastodon.
But it appears that only direct replies to the post (comments on top leveL) are federated back to Mastodon. Replies to comments (nested comments) aren’t shown when expanding the post.
@pixel@bass yeah power alac is also in a rough place, especially compared with condi alac which is much better for boons. Maybe after the new weapons... 😌
Kinda stumbled into a world event train last night in Istan last night in #GuildWars2 and it was really fun. I always feel like the junior team member along for the ride, but people were plenty chill, the commander rode a raptor so us plebs without flight didn't get ditched, and I earned a bunch of achievements.
Was a pretty great time that’ll have me coming back.
@belghast @kevinbrill Too many players want a tag to follow, but not enough players are tagging up. 99% of the time all the tag has to do is get enough people into a map, but I guess folks even view that as too much responsibility.
This is a societal problem, so it needs societal change. Show folks that it's not hard to tag up and that the bar is low for success. (1/2)
@belghast @kevinbrill I do this by getting 50 players into Dragon's End and then telling everyone to leave squad and tag up.
It looks completely ridiculous. Memes and shitposts about following the tag fill map chat immediately. The minimap transforms from a useful way to find where you are into a UI stickerbomb of everyone's exact location. Nobody is organized at all...and the boss still dies! (2/2)
I would very much like for Anet to stop designing fights that need highly specific roles to make them more feasible, which then becomes a bottleneck in trying to put groups together...
@pixel perhaps, portal also has a huge barrier to entry in terms of knowing the fight and isn't as easy to pick up, or switch over to, as the other roles.
@pixel the fight is massively more difficult without portals though. It's a bit like trying to do raids without boons and that wasn't considered very enjoyable! 😅
officially have logs on every fight this patch in #guildwars2
need to get logs for the easier CMs but, I'm really pleased with my performance. I'm hoping I can go out as the #1 willbender when pistol comes out and i eventually have to relearn the spec, chasing mastery on it has been such a fun adventure for me :)
@pixel Yeah I don't think pistols will see much of a change either. I think thief axe will just get up and nerfed, necro swords slightly buffed and rev scepter probably changed to be worse with allied targeting.
The new weapons look cool enough, but I am more interested in what comes next tbh. I'd love selectable weapon skills that we could change in and out between fights.
@Lucinellia that could be kinda neat. My guess is we'll get a new set of util/heal/elite skills and potentially a new traitline with the new expansion, but we'll see
Also I forgot but I def think they're gonna make changes to engi sb, they have to LMAO that weapon seemed so anemic
