Dean Calaway.9718 - Guild Wars 2 Forums (2024)

Misleading players and gate guarding

Dean Calaway.9718 replied to eriniy.8607's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Is this a good time to learn Legendary weapons don't do more damage than Ascended... ? What's fake? All buffs and debuffs is the baseline for benchmarking builds. Well there's your problem, your DPS was low when compared to other Deadeyes they play with. You're doing it wrong then. Citation needed. He did it in the video, so... Yeah, those kitten conservatives and their benchmark videos are clearly fake if the best Deadeye in the game can't do it, it can't be done.

Any need to purchase ALL expansions if you're new / below lvl cap?

Dean Calaway.9718 replied to Galladara.7953's topic in Players Helping Players

The mount itself makes it too easy, the Raptor alone gives you access to areas you're not suppose to. There were no mounts up until PoF, that's Base, S1, S2, HoT, S3 that we played without them. Ember Bay for example is a map designed to be difficult to navigate, the Raptor ruins this and the Springer just kills it flat, mounts before PoF are basically cheat codes.

AFKers in Convergances.

Dean Calaway.9718 replied to Wwefan.4982's topic in Instanced Group Content

No, life is unfair, get good, earn your keep. What's unfair is the top 10% having to do 80% of the work and getting the same rewards. I was watching Nike stream some time ago and he was doing 50% of the group damage by himself.

Switched from Steam to Official Launcher

Dean Calaway.9718 replied to GamingGrid.7506's topic in

Where can I get some of that?! First order of business: buy every game on Steam from the 90s and play them in alphabetical order.

Map - Closing Broken

Dean Calaway.9718 replied to Quirin.1076's topic in Bugs: Game, Forum, Website

I remember when Anet changed the system to what they called the megaserver (because people refused to do events on overflow and the QQ reached nuclear levels during the attack on LA) people then started complaining they could never join their friends since maps were always full. After enough people complained about that I have a feeling (anecdotal evidence here) Anet solution was to run these maps at a lower capacity, so at any time you wouldn't have a problem porting in of even getting a small squad in there, and since people stopped complaining, they left it at that. Only recently with the queue for PvE did Anet mention that this part of the code hasn't been touched since mid 2010s my guess is because this approach of running all these shards at low capacity we end up with an excessive amount of them just so there is always room for a sizable number of players to get on. I've seen with my wife we're in the same map, we get the low population warning we press change and the system puts us in different maps that also have the low population warning, only for us to click that too and once again be placed on different maps. Before anyone comments "must be meta that ended" this was in Ember Bay earlier this year, there was nothing special going on at the time, just a dead map as ever, this sort of thing happens fairly frequently hence why I'm convinced the system is tuned to run an unnecessary amount of shards at low capacity, since so often we teleport to a map on the same party and we land on different shards both of which with low population, as if the system is struggling to fill these up instead of congregating all the players in just one.

If AFK farmers are not caught, can that have consequences on my account?

Dean Calaway.9718 replied to Crono.4197's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

I wouldn't bother, remember no good deed goes unpunished, and from what you see people here saying they keep reporting accounts and nothing happens to them... The report system is more of a placebo it seems.

Please update older premium lounges with Jade Bot benches and Resting Bonuses

Dean Calaway.9718 replied to Tuxie.1209's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Highly doubt the homestead will have jade bot benches, and the lounges set back 2,000 gems. It's on Anet best interest to keep these up to date to keep alluring new people to buy them and have the people that already did happy with their purchase. I'll go even further than OP and ask for special unique vendors like the one in Arborstone and Wizard Tower to be duplicated into the VIP lounges, since the whole selling point of them was to be "the ultimate convenience" I shouldn't have to be back and forward into a bunch of maps to talk to these vendors.

Will the Skyscale Fireball skill ever be changed to prevent semi-afking/leeching events and metas? [Merged]

Dean Calaway.9718 replied to Zalle.5468's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

How will people ever manage without the people that do 3% of damage...

Switched from Steam to Official Launcher

Dean Calaway.9718 replied to GamingGrid.7506's topic in

So to chase a deal you wasted more money than the money you saved to get the deal... 👍

Somewhat newish game questions

Dean Calaway.9718 replied to Sand.3795's topic in Players Helping Players

I'll tell you what I tell my friends: play the game in the order it came out, skipping to 80 and a late expansion to then come back is just going to be a mess. Remember, you aren't going to be the first, so just enjoy yourself along the way.

GW2 Sales/Revenue Report 2Q-2024

Dean Calaway.9718 replied to Zok.4956's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

Thanks for the notes, that's puts the whole thing nicely in perspective. Now watch them release home instance skins and more bikinis, to the moon!

SotO and story: confused.

Dean Calaway.9718 replied to Bio Flame.4276's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

You are even called "The Wayfinder" as in "how do I find the way out of yet ANOTHER organisation that could just as easily be called Pact 2.0 sending me around on a story I find increasingly forgettable and detached from."

A new character.

Dean Calaway.9718 replied to OlsenSan.2987's topic in Players Helping Players

I have 7 Rangers. You could have kept that character as a bank (character slot cheaper than bank tab) also to keep crafting, not to mention parked at a chest and getting birthday presents.

Will the Skyscale Fireball skill ever be changed to prevent semi-afking/leeching events and metas? [Merged]

Dean Calaway.9718 replied to Zalle.5468's topic in Guild Wars 2 Discussion

It is fair, plus you don't need to reach top 10% you just have to avoid being in the bottom 10% it pays to be a winner.

Things that I would like in my Homestead, what would you like? [Merged]

Dean Calaway.9718 replied to Agrotera.1254's topic in Janthir Wilds Discussion

That would undermine Bank Tab expansions from the gem store. These would undermine VIP lounge passes. People need to realise Homesteads aren't suppose to be your very own personal VIP lounge with all the QoL you can imagine.