Guild Wars 2

Let me congratulate. Mawdrey 2 is really the best thing you guys would invent.
Without it, I would NEVER pay these 200 crystals for the episode where I just replay common events in Iron Marches. Without it I would stay as far away as humanly possible from the Dry Top aka “I can kick you from the cliff and you can’t”. Without it I would NEVER suffer another line of Marjory <3<3 Kasmeer dialogues and kept miles away from the “one dumb male & 4 wonderfull females” group.

But I want that Mawdrey 2 and you got me.

But if you want me to buy the DLC, add a skip button to every dialogue and also let me skip the parts where I wait until the NPCs I’m forced to cooperate with, despite the fact I hate them with passion, are finished with their cute talk. There might be some people who actually like Majory, Kasmeer, Taimi, Rox and that male who can be pardoned for being male only because he is a son of allmighty Eir. But the rest of us need the skip button. Be fair. Let me have fun. And I will buy the DLC. If you tell me explicitly I will be allowed to skip every dialogue and cutscene in the game, no exceptions.

Fext.3614:

Without it, I would NEVER pay these 200 crystals for the episode where I just replay common events in Iron Marches. Without it I would stay as far away as humanly possible from the Dry Top aka “I can kick you from the cliff and you can’t”. Without it I would NEVER suffer another line of Marjory <3<3 Kasmeer dialogues and kept miles away from the “one dumb male & 4 wonderfull females” group.

Kinda sad that people are willing to go through content they don’t enjoy just because they get a shiny reward in the end. This is the reason why ArenaNet does not have to even bother trying to make fun content – they know they don’t need to, people are going to play regardless as long as they get a reward for it.

Test.8734:

Fext.3614:

Without it, I would NEVER pay these 200 crystals for the episode where I just replay common events in Iron Marches. Without it I would stay as far away as humanly possible from the Dry Top aka “I can kick you from the cliff and you can’t”. Without it I would NEVER suffer another line of Marjory <3<3 Kasmeer dialogues and kept miles away from the “one dumb male & 4 wonderfull females” group.

Kinda sad that people are willing to go through content they don’t enjoy just because they get a shiny reward in the end. This is the reason why ArenaNet does not have to even bother trying to make fun content – they know they don’t need to, people are going to play regardless as long as they get a reward for it.

Content is subjective mate. There are people who think Living Story Season 2 has been fun especially when played back to back.

Unless you are talking about the Mawdrey skin it was one of the worse ideas ever because the situation with the excess bloodstone dust shouldn’t be occurring in the first place.

I’m confused, is this is a positive or a negative thread?

The lore of the thing is actually really interesting. Apparently Mordrem, given enough time, nurturing and companionship, can be turned into the friend. Says a lot about Mordrem and Sylvari.

yanipheonu.5798:

The lore of the thing is actually really interesting. Apparently Mordrem, given enough time, nurturing and companionship, can be turned into the friend. Says a lot about Mordrem and Sylvari.

Also have to start with the seed.

Dirame.8521:

Test.8734:

Fext.3614:

Without it, I would NEVER pay these 200 crystals for the episode where I just replay common events in Iron Marches. Without it I would stay as far away as humanly possible from the Dry Top aka “I can kick you from the cliff and you can’t”. Without it I would NEVER suffer another line of Marjory <3<3 Kasmeer dialogues and kept miles away from the “one dumb male & 4 wonderfull females” group.

Kinda sad that people are willing to go through content they don’t enjoy just because they get a shiny reward in the end. This is the reason why ArenaNet does not have to even bother trying to make fun content – they know they don’t need to, people are going to play regardless as long as they get a reward for it.

Content is subjective mate. There are people who think Living Story Season 2 has been fun especially when played back to back.

Yet the OP clearly states he hates it, but is willing to play it anyway just to get a reward. Hence my comment.

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Dirame.8521:

Test.8734:

Fext.3614:

Without it, I would NEVER pay these 200 crystals for the episode where I just replay common events in Iron Marches. Without it I would stay as far away as humanly possible from the Dry Top aka “I can kick you from the cliff and you can’t”. Without it I would NEVER suffer another line of Marjory <3<3 Kasmeer dialogues and kept miles away from the “one dumb male & 4 wonderfull females” group.

Kinda sad that people are willing to go through content they don’t enjoy just because they get a shiny reward in the end. This is the reason why ArenaNet does not have to even bother trying to make fun content – they know they don’t need to, people are going to play regardless as long as they get a reward for it.

Content is subjective mate. There are people who think Living Story Season 2 has been fun especially when played back to back.

Yet the OP clearly states he hates it, but is willing to play it anyway just to get a reward. Hence my comment.

That exists in all games. But that doesn’t mean the OP is representative of the majority and I don’t believe he is.

The line I have a problem with is when you say “that’s why Anet doesn’t have to make fun content”. But some people find that content fun. So Anet isn’t not making fun content. They’re making content that is fun for a portion of the population.

I loved the Silverwastes jumping puzzle and think it’s one of the best in the game. Thus I find it fun. That’s fun content to me. There are people, however, who hate jumping puzzles. They really hate them. So that content is not fun to them.

You’re implying the OP isn’t enjoying the game so the content isn’t fun. It’s not fun to him. It’s not fun to you. It’s fun to me.

Therefore Anet does make fun content. You just don’t enjoy it.

Vayne.8563:

That exists in all games. But that doesn’t mean the OP is representative of the majority and I don’t believe he is.

And you have nothing on which to make that argument stand. It’s – guess what – your opinion!

Vayne.8563:

The line I have a problem with is when you say “that’s why Anet doesn’t have to make fun content”. But some people find that content fun. So Anet isn’t not making fun content.

See, Vayne, it’s the Manifesto thing all over again: you are reading it, but not understanding it.

Take a look at what I said. Did I say, “that’s why ArenaNet doesn’t make fun content”? Nope. Ergo, your reply that “some people find that content fun” is worthless. Did I say “that’s why ArenaNet doesn’t have to make fun content”? Yep! And guess what, it’s true – as the OP here has proved, people are willing to play through content even if it’s not fun.

Test.8734:

Kinda sad that people are willing to go through content they don’t enjoy just because they get a shiny reward in the end.

Not exactly. I liked the gameplay – in most cases. I find it cheap however to resell already existing content (the charr events). Also I find it wrong if the game cheats agains me just to make it more challenging for me. If I can be knocked down from the cliff, the other guy should have the same disadvantage, unless he has wings for example.
And I hate the NPCs and I do not want to wait till they are done with their idle chatter.
Give me that skip button and I’m a happy man. I’m a casual player since we have a baby, and I do not have much time. I do not want to waste it on some anoying dialogues.

Khisanth.2948:

Unless you are talking about the Mawdrey skin it was one of the worse ideas ever because the situation with the excess bloodstone dust shouldn’t be occurring in the first place.

You are right, but I think this is an intent. They for some reason love to have inbalace in resource accessibility.

Fext.3614:

Khisanth.2948:

Unless you are talking about the Mawdrey skin it was one of the worse ideas ever because the situation with the excess bloodstone dust shouldn’t be occurring in the first place.

You are right, but I think this is an intent. They for some reason love to have inbalace in resource accessibility.

I think it’s simple. And not entirely by conscious design.

There’s so much Bloodstone because it has the easiest acquisition method – it’s incredibly easy to farm tons of it, or get tons of it as a byproduct of other farming. See, it mostly comes from champion bags, which are also one of the ways to get several nice pieces of valuable loot. Or even desirable loot – the exotic skins.

So you have Bloodstone guaranteed out of all the champion loot bags, rather than a random drop (like Dragonite and Empyreal Fragments are). But because you only need so much of it, and can only transform it at a set way . . . and it cannot be traded . . .

Well, you have a ton of it gathering on people as a byproduct of play. Largely as intended, because it’s not supposed to be the bottleneck for Ascended crafting. No, that’s supposed to be the Insignia and last-tier materials themselves.

Hence, you see this situation develop where people make Bloodstone Dust hand-over-fist as they farm other things. Mawdrey II was a sink which offers up some reward when you no longer need the Dust, or if you never plan on using it. Then the Star of Gratitude was created so you could sink Empyreal Fragments . . . because those are earned out of world chests.

Now the only one without a sink is Dragonite Ore.

And I don’t know if you were around, but this is not the first time a material sink was introduced into the game. The Bazaar of the Four Winds was where they got the sudden realization of how much silk, mithril, elder wood, and thick leather people actually farmed up. (Hint, it was a lot more than the Tier One materials.) The material sink there was trading off stacks of extra stuff for RNG boxes.

(GODS I wish I hadn’t turned in silk at all, but at the time it was actually pretty worthless.)

Fext.3614:

Let me congratulate. Mawdrey 2 is really the best thing you guys would invent.
Without it, I would NEVER pay these 200 crystals for the episode where I just replay common events in Iron Marches. Without it I would stay as far away as humanly possible from the Dry Top aka “I can kick you from the cliff and you can’t”. Without it I would NEVER suffer another line of Marjory <3<3 Kasmeer dialogues and kept miles away from the “one dumb male & 4 wonderfull females” group.

But I want that Mawdrey 2 and you got me.

But if you want me to buy the DLC, add a skip button to every dialogue and also let me skip the parts where I wait until the NPCs I’m forced to cooperate with, despite the fact I hate them with passion, are finished with their cute talk. There might be some people who actually like Majory, Kasmeer, Taimi, Rox and that male who can be pardoned for being male only because he is a son of allmighty Eir. But the rest of us need the skip button. Be fair. Let me have fun. And I will buy the DLC. If you tell me explicitly I will be allowed to skip every dialogue and cutscene in the game, no exceptions.

If I got this right, your main gripe is that you have to pay 200 gems (if you haven’t unlocked for free) for LS episode 3, which mostly contains re-used content to get started on Mawdrey 2?

Well, turns out, you can get those ingridients from the centaur in Dry Top for a few laurels. So there’s no need to do it.

Sorry about the tinfoil hat.

Bubi.7942:

If I got this right, your main gripe is that you have to pay 200 gems (if you haven’t unlocked for free) for LS episode 3, which mostly contains re-used content to get started on Mawdrey 2?

Well, turns out, you can get those ingridients from the centaur in Dry Top for a few laurels. So there’s no need to do it.

Sorry about the tinfoil hat.

I thought that only was available if you should otherwise have access to it but may have deleted the item or had it go buggy on you. (Which happened when they added new chapters and layered the further evolution on the resulting seeds.)

Could be, have to look into that.

Nothing about it in the wiki: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Azarr_Softhoof

Dunno, someone needs to confirm

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

(GODS I wish I hadn’t turned in silk at all, but at the time it was actually pretty worthless.)

I remember times when silk was under or slightly over 1 siver apiece.

Bubi.7942:

If I got this right, your main gripe is that you have to pay 200 gems (if you haven’t unlocked for free) for LS episode 3, which mostly contains re-used content to get started on Mawdrey 2?

Well, turns out, you can get those ingridients from the centaur in Dry Top for a few laurels. So there’s no need to do it.

Sorry about the tinfoil hat.

Nope, I mean the seed. It is episode 2 IIRC. You must buy it to get the first seed.

Bubi.7942:

Could be, have to look into that.

Nothing about it in the wiki: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Azarr_Softhoof

Dunno, someone needs to confirm

kitten you are right. I didn’t know that.

Well tbh, if you buy it for 13 laurels, which is ~ 15 gold, you might as well do the LS for ~25 gold.

Bubi.7942:

Well tbh, if you buy it for 13 laurels, which is ~ 15 gold, you might as well do the LS for ~25 gold.

Well I have enough laurels to choke a troll with them so losing 13 laurels is not an issue… otoh I had 400 crystals left after some purchase from earlier so not such a bit loss either. Most of the harm comes from suffering the Marjory motley crew around me.
BTW you can sell / buy laurels?

You can “sell” laurels.

There are several methods, best one (most rewarding) being:

Go to a city Laurel vendor (or HotM), buy t6 crafting material bags, which cost 1 laurel each and contain 3 t6 mats. You’ll avarage ~1.2 g for each bag (granted you sell the mats you get).

Meaning if you are sitting on say 200 laurels, you could exchange that for 240 g at will.

Edit: forgot to calculate TP costs, so it’s more like 1 g / bag.

Fext.3614:

Bubi.7942:

If I got this right, your main gripe is that you have to pay 200 gems (if you haven’t unlocked for free) for LS episode 3, which mostly contains re-used content to get started on Mawdrey 2?

Well, turns out, you can get those ingridients from the centaur in Dry Top for a few laurels. So there’s no need to do it.

Sorry about the tinfoil hat.

Nope, I mean the seed. It is episode 2 IIRC. You must buy it to get the first seed.

No, the seed is given by a charr in the Iron Marches through the mail. That was chapter 3, and the first back piece was entirely contained in that chapter.

Now it’s about time to add some positive comments:
NPCs and NPC interaction aside, I started to like the quest. And the “scavenger hunt” sends me to places I never knew about, which is a good idea.

Test.8734:

Fext.3614:

Without it, I would NEVER pay these 200 crystals for the episode where I just replay common events in Iron Marches. Without it I would stay as far away as humanly possible from the Dry Top aka “I can kick you from the cliff and you can’t”. Without it I would NEVER suffer another line of Marjory <3<3 Kasmeer dialogues and kept miles away from the “one dumb male & 4 wonderfull females” group.

Kinda sad that people are willing to go through content they don’t enjoy just because they get a shiny reward in the end. This is the reason why ArenaNet does not have to even bother trying to make fun content – they know they don’t need to, people are going to play regardless as long as they get a reward for it.

not sad at all – but I tell you what actually is: you being unable of letting go of a single topic you bring up every time and which you obviously perceive as relevant and central for everyone else. Shocking revelation: your opinion and preferences are not universal.