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The more they add content like this, the more the community will reflect it and then you really are back to WoW.
So we don’t have to go back to WoW – WoW came to us 
I love the implication that 5% of the GW2 populations, equaling thousands of people, will become animal abusers as a result of this daily.
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(edited by Calcifire.1864)
That’s the new Daily for you. Always pushing players to do things that don’t fit in with their desired play style.
That’s the typical forum poster for you. Always whining about something that doesn’t exist.
Nobody is making you do ANYTHING in this game.
Well, that’s some silly logic if I’ve ever heard any. Because we can apply it to any questionable mechanic in this game and simply say “nobody forces you to turn the computer on..!”.
Yes, nobody forces me to run rabbits through with my sword, but if I want a reward that is a result of the Daily and the other options on the Daily are even less appealing, then guess what I have to do to complete the Daily?
I don’t normally run around smacking ambient critters while I travel. I don’t normally drag a fight out much longer than it needs to be just to work in some extra dodges. I don’t normally perform a much more risky dodge THROUGH mobs instead of away from them to get finicky credit for evading an attack. I don’t normally sit there and let mobs beat on me so I can score an extra revive before all the other players doing the same thing clear away the opportunities. I don’t normal travel specifically to zone-X to complete task-Y when I had no intention of playing there prior to seeing the requirement for finishing the Daily. The list goes on.
Fact is, the original Daily used to have some fairly generic tasks that fit in well with whatever activity we all enjoyed doing. We could just log on and proceed with our plans and we were likely to complete the four tasks: kill quantity, kill variety, gathering, and event quantity. But now, the Daily has changed from its original intention of rewarding players for just playing the game to a busy-work end-game device, and completing the Daily requires players to often jump through some very specific hoops that often move them away from their normal activities.
In other words, the Daily has gone from something you just happen to complete by playing normally, to something you specifically spend time and effort working on to complete.
By the way, to touch on your comment.. you seem to be “whining” about other forum posters. Isn’t that pretty typical too? Nobody’s making you read these forums.
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The best thing about playing a Flamethrower Engi is the efficiency of turning bunnies into twitching tufts of ash.
as a necro, I find life transfer more effective, 5 rabbits per pulse, each only takes one pulse to kill, and there are about 8 pulses, that’s 40 rabbits in one attack
The best thing about playing a Flamethrower Engi is the efficiency of turning bunnies into twitching tufts of ash.
as a necro, I find life transfer more effective, 5 rabbits per pulse, each only takes one pulse to kill, and there are about 8 pulses, that’s 40 rabbits in one attack
I find efficiency to be less of a factor than amusement.
Yeah you can butcher them en masse with some abilities, but killing them with Frozen Burst is just so much more satisfying.
And I stand by the assertion that if the devs didn’t want us butchering bunnies, they wouldn’t have given them special Fire, Freeze, and Shock death animations.
The best thing about playing a Flamethrower Engi is the efficiency of turning bunnies into twitching tufts of ash.
as a necro, I find life transfer more effective, 5 rabbits per pulse, each only takes one pulse to kill, and there are about 8 pulses, that’s 40 rabbits in one attack
Where is this area with a large population of rabbits? We have to put warning signs up.
High Risk of collateral damage, avoid fighting.
(P.S. Locust Swarm – why stop when you can just keep going?)
Yeah! Nobody complains about killing wolves and spiders and they are at least 20% cooler than bunnies.
-twitch-
Wolves and spiders have been vilified them in video games for decades. I blame Tolkien.
You don’t need to blame Tolkien for wolves, you need to blame whichever culture needed them to be evil for being predators. Be aware, the oldest of stories about wolves generally run a fine line . . . fear the wolf if you wish but respect the wolf, don’t hate it. They are/were an apex predator, incredibly good at what they do. I can probably run out and find two dozen tales where wolves are good. (We can start with Wheel of Time or Game of Thrones if you like.)
Also, a nitpick, but Tolkien had “wargs” which were not wolves
Spiders, I have to seriously try to find something where they are good or at least not an enemy. That said I don’t have a problem with spiders so long as they don’t come crawling up my leg. They keep the insect pest infestation down to a manageable level
The best thing about playing a Flamethrower Engi is the efficiency of turning bunnies into twitching tufts of ash.
as a necro, I find life transfer more effective, 5 rabbits per pulse, each only takes one pulse to kill, and there are about 8 pulses, that’s 40 rabbits in one attack
Where is this area with a large population of rabbits? We have to put warning signs up.
High Risk of collateral damage, avoid fighting.
(P.S. Locust Swarm – why stop when you can just keep going?)
it’s just theoretically that much, but I did get 15 at the shack near theshadow behemoth spawn :P
Yeah! Nobody complains about killing wolves and spiders and they are at least 20% cooler than bunnies.
-twitch-
Wolves and spiders have been vilified them in video games for decades. I blame Tolkien.
You don’t need to blame Tolkien for wolves, you need to blame whichever culture needed them to be evil for being predators. Be aware, the oldest of stories about wolves generally run a fine line . . . fear the wolf if you wish but respect the wolf, don’t hate it. They are/were an apex predator, incredibly good at what they do. I can probably run out and find two dozen tales where wolves are good. (We can start with Wheel of Time or Game of Thrones if you like.)
Also, a nitpick, but Tolkien had “wargs” which were not wolves
Spiders, I have to seriously try to find something where they are good or at least not an enemy. That said I don’t have a problem with spiders so long as they don’t come crawling up my leg. They keep the insect pest infestation down to a manageable level
charlotte’s web :P
(and possibly arachne from the greek myth, she was an arrogant prick, but in the end she’s a tragic figure who gets cursed because it turns out her arrogance is justified and the greek gods are total divas who hate to lose)
actually, spiders are the reason behind a reaction known as “The arachnid response”
it’s a bit like the uncanny valley, but the logical opposite, where the UV is “things are so like us they are scary” the arachnid response is “they are so different to us they are scary”
and it’s completely true,different size, different number of appendages, too many eyes, unusually intelligent way of hunting (unlike any other creature), skeleton on the outside, move too fast for their size and number of legs, can be hairy AND have a shell at te same time… they’re the closest thing we have to aliens on earth :P
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Spiders, I have to seriously try to find something where they are good or at least not an enemy. That said I don’t have a problem with spiders so long as they don’t come crawling up my leg. They keep the insect pest infestation down to a manageable level
Spiders, I have to seriously try to find something where they are good or at least not an enemy. That said I don’t have a problem with spiders so long as they don’t come crawling up my leg. They keep the insect pest infestation down to a manageable level
This is the internet era so . . .“seriously try to find something” means “fifteen seconds on Google”
Point is, I couldn’t come up with either on the top of my head, but I could come up with a half dozen stories where wolves were either not the antagonists or were the antagonists without being evil.
Anansi is a really cool spider.^^ Spiders are only misunderstood.
And it’s not that I googled for “good spiders” or something I stumbled on it when I was looking about tricksters some time ago and I found it really interesting. So I appologise for linking an example.
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