The Tribulation Mode skins are color-shifted variants of the regular set. Each World has a color. Blue is the general SAB color (so not gained through Tribulation Mode), Green is World 1, Yellow World 2, Red World 3 and Purple World 4. This follows the Bauble value color scale. But don’t get your hopes up for getting the Tribulation color variants. Tribulation Mode is ridiculously difficult and time consuming. I don’t expect to see many green or yellow super skins out there. TM is there for a very small group of people who are into that sort of thing.
You had to make them purple, didn’t you?… my mesmer was perfectly happy with his blue super greatsword and staff and now you had to mention purple.. .now he won’t shut up until I grind the purple versions!!!
It’s a pile of Elonian protection magic, mixed with a little monk training,
wrapped up in some crazy ritualist hoo-ha from Cantha.
A real grab bag of ‘you can’t hurt me. They’re called Guardians.
What I understand out of this skullmount is that in tribulation mode, each world will drop specific coloured bubbles, of which 250 make one specific coloured bauble. You’ll likely need 50 coloured baubles for 1 specific colour skin.
Hmm, well that’ll be weird, and a lot of new currencies/items.
I’ve also been looking forward to the dagger skin since last time. It looks like it might be a pretty big dagger based on the hilt that shows in the picture.
I wonder how many people actually got this. I managed to do it after a lot of effort, and I like the idea of some content that is this difficult as well as a reward to show off, but I’m worried about having enough time to get it done since it’s not sticking around.
Honestly I didnt think 8 lights was all that difficult once I finally figured out how to beat her normal. Turned out trying to burn her fast was the trap of the fight. Built more as a bunker its possible to just out last her as long as your careful around the 2 1-hit mechanics in the fight. ended up geting 8 lights about 5 attempts after killing her the first time.
back on topic though I cant wait to see tribulation mode. I enjoyed SAB the first time even if I only got to see it for about a week due to RL.
John, will there be a solo mode of the tribulation difficulty? I really hope so! If that is the case, I would hope the skins are not tradeable. If it’s a forced group setting, I hope they will be.
Like before you can go in with 1-5 players. I imagine most Tribulation Mode play will happen solo. We made it so everyone in the party has to make it to a checkpoint before it will activate so that no one can coat-tail along.
Anyway, the Tribulation weapons won’t drop from bosses, you still need to gather enough baubles of a colour. It seems very likely that Tribulation mode will be far, far harder to solo.
Each Tribulation Mode zone end chest will drop an item. You’ll need all three from a World, along with a weapon design purchased from Moto. Combine those in the Mystic Forge to create your Tribulation Mode colored weapon. Keep in mind we only have Worlds 1 and 2 right now, so the only colors available this release will be Green and Yellow.
Wow, I really like that method of creating the Tribulation weapons. That’s a really effective way to do it, requires you to beat all 3 stages of a world but doesn’t involve any RNG and allows you to create the specific weapon you want. The SAB team continues to come up with the best ways to distribute rewards.
Can I assume that you can repeat the same world in Tribulation Mode to get more parts and create more weapons as well, and thakittens not going to be 1 weapon per person?
Dagger skins? That’s a good sign.
Perhaps there’ll also be pistol and rifle skins this time around. Or does Moto have a thing against giving out firearms to strangers?
The Tribulation Mode skins are color-shifted variants of the regular set. Each World has a color. Blue is the general SAB color (so not gained through Tribulation Mode), Green is World 1, Yellow World 2, Red World 3 and Purple World 4. This follows the Bauble value color scale. But don’t get your hopes up for getting the Tribulation color variants. Tribulation Mode is ridiculously difficult and time consuming. I don’t expect to see many green or yellow super skins out there. TM is there for a very small group of people who are into that sort of thing.
The Tribulation Mode skins are color-shifted variants of the regular set. Each World has a color. Blue is the general SAB color (so not gained through Tribulation Mode), Green is World 1, Yellow World 2, Red World 3 and Purple World 4. This follows the Bauble value color scale. But don’t get your hopes up for getting the Tribulation color variants. Tribulation Mode is ridiculously difficult and time consuming. I don’t expect to see many green or yellow super skins out there. TM is there for a very small group of people who are into that sort of thing.
The Tribulation Mode skins are color-shifted variants of the regular set. Each World has a color. Blue is the general SAB color (so not gained through Tribulation Mode), Green is World 1, Yellow World 2, Red World 3 and Purple World 4. This follows the Bauble value color scale. But don’t get your hopes up for getting the Tribulation color variants. Tribulation Mode is ridiculously difficult and time consuming. I don’t expect to see many green or yellow super skins out there. TM is there for a very small group of people who are into that sort of thing.
Are we talking as fun as Liadri or even more so?
We are talking about the man who designed the Clock Tower during Halloween, the massive whine storm that appeared from bad players who couldn’t jump but still wanted credit for something they can’t do.
We are far over the top here, we are far over Liadri hard, we are -far- over Liadri forum whine nerf.
We are in SAB.
Get your popcorn ready and get ready for chaos, get ready for even worse forum whine, get ready for something that is worse than people using the word ’’racist’’ in wrong terms.
Grab your tissues, but not for your tears, but for the amount of drool and popcorn that will appear on your screen for laughing your kitten off when reading those posts.
Dagger skins? That’s a good sign.
Perhaps there’ll also be pistol and rifle skins this time around. Or does Moto have a thing against giving out firearms to strangers?
The SAB preview page for the upcoming patch says its going to complete the Super Weapons set. So that means rifles and pistols as well, yes.
The Tribulation Mode skins are color-shifted variants of the regular set. Each World has a color. Blue is the general SAB color (so not gained through Tribulation Mode), Green is World 1, Yellow World 2, Red World 3 and Purple World 4. This follows the Bauble value color scale. But don’t get your hopes up for getting the Tribulation color variants. Tribulation Mode is ridiculously difficult and time consuming. I don’t expect to see many green or yellow super skins out there. TM is there for a very small group of people who are into that sort of thing.
Are we talking as fun as Liadri or even more so?
We are talking about the man who designed the Clock Tower during Halloween, the massive whine storm that appeared from bad players who couldn’t jump but still wanted credit for something they can’t do.
We are far over the top here, we are far over Liadri hard, we are -far- over Liadri forum whine nerf.
We are in SAB.
Get your popcorn ready and get ready for chaos, get ready for even worse forum whine, get ready for something that is worse than people using the word ’’racist’’ in wrong terms.
Grab your tissues, but not for your tears, but for the amount of drool and popcorn that will appear on your screen for laughing your kitten off when reading those posts.
I loved that clocktower! Been wanting more insane stuff like that!
Wow, I really like that method of creating the Tribulation weapons. That’s a really effective way to do it, requires you to beat all 3 stages of a world but doesn’t involve any RNG and allows you to create the specific weapon you want. The SAB team continues to come up with the best ways to distribute rewards.
Can I assume that you can repeat the same world in Tribulation Mode to get more parts and create more weapons as well, and thakittens not going to be 1 weapon per person?
I concur. I loved the SAB method for acquiring weapon skins, and it looks like the trend is continuing for SAB World 2!
Would like to know the answer to Electro’s second question as well. Although I’m not really going for any of the TM skins myself, I’m sure some of my guildies will want to dual-wield Toad/Lightning Super skins.
Also, Josh, can you confirm whether or not the original Super skins will be back this time around? I’ll understand if you need to keep quiet about it to avoid shocking the current Super skin market though.
Something is not right here. Why are people saying Clocktower was harder than Liandri?? I did the clocktower in roughly 10 tries. Liandri, in over 20 tries, still eludes me.
Something is not right here. Why are people saying Clocktower was harder than Liandri?? I did the clocktower in roughly 10 tries. Liandri, in over 20 tries, still eludes me.
Because liadri was only hard because not all classes or build could defeat her, just because of the way it was designed. This is going to be hard purely because of game mechanics. Since everyone is going to be on an even playing field, which in all ways is a much much better way to do “hard” content.
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Something is not right here. Why are people saying Clocktower was harder than Liandri?? I did the clocktower in roughly 10 tries. Liandri, in over 20 tries, still eludes me.
Because liadri was only hard because not all classes or build could defeat her, just because of the way it was designed. This is going to be hard purely because of game mechanics. Since everyone is going to be on an even playing field, which in all ways is a much much better way to do “hard” content.
All professions were certainly capable of beating Liadri. Maybe not all builds, but even that’s a pretty big stretch and wouldn’t know how you’d support that argument reasonably.
It’s also a case of different skill sets. All jumping puzzles are an exercise in experience and muscle memory. With the Clocktower, after you’ve done it a while, you become so familiar with the path that you could probably do it purely by listening to the music.
Liadri is different because the Cosmic Orbs inject a bit of randomness into each fight, requiring the player to adjust their strategy on the fly. Not to mention that little factors like Liadri getting more crits on you (or vice versa) can also alter the outcome.
Anyway, the Tribulation weapons won’t drop from bosses, you still need to gather enough baubles of a colour. It seems very likely that Tribulation mode will be far, far harder to solo.
Each Tribulation Mode zone end chest will drop an item. You’ll need all three from a World, along with a weapon design purchased from Moto. Combine those in the Mystic Forge to create your Tribulation Mode colored weapon. Keep in mind we only have Worlds 1 and 2 right now, so the only colors available this release will be Green and Yellow.
The Tribulation Mode skins are color-shifted variants of the regular set. Each World has a color. Blue is the general SAB color (so not gained through Tribulation Mode), Green is World 1, Yellow World 2, Red World 3 and Purple World 4. This follows the Bauble value color scale. But don’t get your hopes up for getting the Tribulation color variants. Tribulation Mode is ridiculously difficult and time consuming. I don’t expect to see many green or yellow super skins out there. TM is there for a very small group of people who are into that sort of thing.
This is sort of confusing…
So you need 3 items from the chest of each zone in a world. Okay.
Then you need the weapon design from Moto. Now at first I though this means we update the SAB skins to another colour using the items… Still, I can’t help but notice you said weapon design instead of skin.
But then why would you say there are different coloured baubles with values?
The baubles you collected within the SAB varied in color. Blue ones were the most common, which you would find everywhere. The other colors were green, yellow, red and purple, where purple was the most rare and valued at 50 points.
Still, I can’t help but notice you said weapon design instead of skin.
Because it’s not a skin. The design represents what weapon it makes when put into the mystic forge along with the other 3 components from the end of each zone.
I think that’s an exaggeration. We know that of the 50 (or was it 100?) ANet testers that fought Liadri, only 6 of them managed to beat her. Still, that’s about 15% of the playerbase. When you multiply that across 1 million+ players, that’s 150,000 players who should have the skill necessary to beat her.
Im sure its a lot more than 15%, I see a lot of minis on just Stormbluff. Some people who I thought would never get it, have it.
Maybe you server has a bigger share of the good players, or maybe the testers had less time to work on their build/train their tactics/etc.
Whatever the case, in my guild too, it’s apparent that only a few get the mini. At the moment, as far as I know, only 2 out of 15 active people have it.
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Tribulation Mode is ridiculously difficult and time consuming.
Are there any plans to make SAB permanent someday? Anything “time consuming” isn’t likely to work well within the confines of temporary content or the 2-week cycle Anet has set up for its releases.
I would like to try Tribulation Mode, but I’m afraid between getting all of this round’s achievements plus any Living Story content added in mid-September there isn’t going to be much opportunity.
Tribulation Mode is ridiculously difficult and time consuming.
Are there any plans to make SAB permanent someday? Anything “time consuming” isn’t likely to work well within the confines of temporary content or the 2-week cycle Anet has set up for its releases.
I would like to try Tribulation Mode, but I’m afraid between getting all of this round’s achievements plus any Living Story content added in mid-September there isn’t going to be much opportunity.
You’ll have a full month of SAB this time as well. Really looking forward to tribulation mode. Gonna kick some 8bit kitten .
You’ll have a full month of SAB this time as well.
A ‘full month’? Last time it took me about 2 weeks just to get all of the achievements and that was before they started on this ‘new content every 2-weeks’ cycle. Assuming there’s another LS content patch mid-September then at best I’ll be trying to juggle that and SAB, which isn’t going to leave much room for “time consuming” activities. That was the point I was trying to make.
Each Tribulation Mode zone end chest will drop an item. You’ll need all three from a World, along with a weapon design purchased from Moto. Combine those in the Mystic Forge to create your Tribulation Mode colored weapon. Keep in mind we only have Worlds 1 and 2 right now, so the only colors available this release will be Green and Yellow.
Can you still purchase the old weapon designs like the greatsword from the previous release?
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Each Tribulation Mode zone end chest will drop an item. You’ll need all three from a World, along with a weapon design purchased from Moto. Combine those in the Mystic Forge to create your Tribulation Mode colored weapon. Keep in mind we only have Worlds 1 and 2 right now, so the only colors available this release will be Green and Yellow.
Can you still purchase the old weapon designs like the greatsword from the previous release?
Josh Foreman said before that old weapon skins would most likely not return, but a new set would appear instead.
But I guess with Tribulation mode, and how building a weapon with a special colour was explained, the older skins will come back again(?) but not sellable on the TP.
The Tribulation Mode skins are color-shifted variants of the regular set. Each World has a color. Blue is the general SAB color (so not gained through Tribulation Mode), Green is World 1, Yellow World 2, Red World 3 and Purple World 4. This follows the Bauble value color scale. But don’t get your hopes up for getting the Tribulation color variants. Tribulation Mode is ridiculously difficult and time consuming. I don’t expect to see many green or yellow super skins out there. TM is there for a very small group of people who are into that sort of thing.
Wanna give us a preview of the red and purple? You know you want to…
The Tribulation Mode skins are color-shifted variants of the regular set. Each World has a color. Blue is the general SAB color (so not gained through Tribulation Mode), Green is World 1, Yellow World 2, Red World 3 and Purple World 4. This follows the Bauble value color scale. But don’t get your hopes up for getting the Tribulation color variants. Tribulation Mode is ridiculously difficult and time consuming. I don’t expect to see many green or yellow super skins out there. TM is there for a very small group of people who are into that sort of thing.
Watch people walk of of SAB within 20 minutes with Yellow weapons.
The Tribulation Mode skins are color-shifted variants of the regular set. Each World has a color. Blue is the general SAB color (so not gained through Tribulation Mode), Green is World 1, Yellow World 2, Red World 3 and Purple World 4. This follows the Bauble value color scale. But don’t get your hopes up for getting the Tribulation color variants. Tribulation Mode is ridiculously difficult and time consuming. I don’t expect to see many green or yellow super skins out there. TM is there for a very small group of people who are into that sort of thing.
I have only 1 question.
Assume that (after a ridiculousl amount of time) i get my Green SAB weapon. Next (after and other huge amount of time) I get the 3 item for color a weapon in Yellow. Do I have to put the Basic Blue Sub weapon in the forge or I could just put my green one?
The Tribulation Mode skins are color-shifted variants of the regular set. Each World has a color. Blue is the general SAB color (so not gained through Tribulation Mode), Green is World 1, Yellow World 2, Red World 3 and Purple World 4. This follows the Bauble value color scale. But don’t get your hopes up for getting the Tribulation color variants. Tribulation Mode is ridiculously difficult and time consuming. I don’t expect to see many green or yellow super skins out there. TM is there for a very small group of people who are into that sort of thing.
I have only 1 question.
Assume that (after a ridiculousl amount of time) i get my Green SAB weapon. Next (after and other huge amount of time) I get the 3 item for color a weapon in Yellow. Do I have to put the Basic Blue Sub weapon in the forge or I could just put my green one?
I think he said theres 3 parts from the World and 1 part from Moto which makes 4 Mystic forge pieces.
The Tribulation Mode skins are color-shifted variants of the regular set. Each World has a color. Blue is the general SAB color (so not gained through Tribulation Mode), Green is World 1, Yellow World 2, Red World 3 and Purple World 4. This follows the Bauble value color scale. But don’t get your hopes up for getting the Tribulation color variants. Tribulation Mode is ridiculously difficult and time consuming. I don’t expect to see many green or yellow super skins out there. TM is there for a very small group of people who are into that sort of thing.
YEEESSSSS!!! PURPLE! YOU SAID THE MAGIC WORD! PURPLE DAGGER SKIN!!! i must have it…. i have been waiting for an awesome glowy purple dagger skin to match my whisperblade and ilya forever. oh yes. there is hope for daggers after all….
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I think he said theres 3 parts from the World and 1 part from Moto which makes 4 Mystic forge pieces.
Yes.
And that would make sense. With the blue skins, you collect 250 baubles (or was it bubbles?) and pay 50s (1g?) for a weapon. With the new mode, you collect 3 items and pay 50s (1g? any other price) for a template and toss those in the MF for a weapon.
I loved the SAB method for acquiring weapon skins, and it looks like the trend is continuing for SAB World 2!
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