I never realized this was a bug. I don’t PvP much with ToolKit/Magnet, but in the Tarir metaevent, I noticed Magnet was just outright failing half the time.
It doesn’t seem like that bad of an idea, but the costs are too low. Getting crafting from 400 → 500 is supposedly 119g. Then we have various materials to make the ascended item totaling 46g. That’s only 150g for an item that currently sells for 300-500g on the tradepost.
However, I feel like there should be something much more. As part of making a legendary, you already have to level two crafts to 400. Leveling one of them to 500 and spending the prerequisite amount doesn’t seem too different.
With the introduction of outfits, I’d imagine the Anise armor becoming available for player use. This way, Anet doesn’t have to dabble in cutting up the armor in specific places in an effort to make it fit better with preexisting armors without clipping.
Now they just have to focus on what males, Charr, and Asura look like.
Also, I wonder if outfits will ever be constrained to armor class.
It’d be nice if the cores/bosschests were part of a popup reward after downing the respecive Watchwork Knight. Getting no loot even from a group of full berserker players outputting damage is demoralizing.
Over on SoR main, we killed Red and Green the first time the watchknights spawned, and their pools appeared. Failed on Blue. Red and Green pools appeared.
The second time the event happened, We killed all three, but only Blue pools appeared. No other pools appeared.
Third time, all watchknights downed again, no pools.
It seems that if a pool appears once on a server, it’ll never appear again. Additionally, Watchknights seem to have loot dropping bugs.
HGH works only for skills labeled “elixir” that are not Elixir Gun skills labeled “elixir”. So if it says “elixir” and it’s not an Elixir Gun elixir skill, it’ll exlixir work. Except elixir exlixir on Elixir gun alixar “Elixir” skill on HGH will exlicir exolir.
The only effects the Predator has on the Engineer aside from rifle skills is Grenade Barrage. It works regardless of whether you have a kit equipped or not.
It’s three months in advance and too mild to be an april fool’s joke. It’s too close to reality to immediately be recognized as a joke.
All Anet’s april fool’s jokes have been absurd in some sort of lovably flavor-breaking way. They did time-travel, they did helicopters, they did modern assault rifles, they did retro video games. They’ve never pulled off a stunt that would intentionally kitten off the majority of the population.
There was no real chance for the Abaddon fractal, they wouldn’t be able to shoehorn Scarlet into it. It was a rigged poll.
Scarlet is a Villain Sue. She has machines. She would have found some way to time travel and mess with Abaddon in some way.
At this point, I prefer if Mary Sue Trahearne comes in with his SaladBlog SueHorn and slays Scarlet.
We’ve gotten to the point where Scarlet is a saturday morning cartoon villain that interferes with everything. The Christmas episode will be on how she became Santa and ruined Christmas.
Yeah, I did it with a character that did it last year. I guess I’m flagged as having completed it already, but this year the rewards are different. I’m assuming it’s a bug.
I’ll add myself to the list of people that didn’t get a mask. I got the achievement for doing it once and 25 bags for doing it “perfectly”, but no mask.
Another commonality among games in the genre (which I’m not aware of having a name yet… let me know if you’ve heard of one) is that lives are extremely cheap, and you blow through them. Lives are like HP in an RPG or ammo in an FPS. You go in EXPECTING to lose a LOT. If you interpret losing a life as “failure” then you will have a miserable time. It would be like feeling like you “fail” when you take damage in a turn based role playing game. Instead, if you see every death as another learning experience, you’ll have a much better time. Kind of like the way your armor rating increases when you take damage in Skyrim. So part of preparing for a TM run, you’ll be ‘leveling up’ your ‘life meter’ by collecting as many lives and Continue Coins as you can.
So your goal is to buy an Infinite Continue Coin in order to play the game the way it was intended.
They’re not really silly mistakes when World 2 is littered in dozens of instant-deaths. It’s trial-and-error.
Just drop gems on the Infinite Continue Coin if you enjoy the content and don’t recommend SAB to your friends. The continue coin makes the experience much less stressful and casual when lives are meaningless and you can overcome any challenge through throwing enough lives at it.
Everyone that said they enjoyed Tibulation mode so far, when you look into it, you see they have the infinite coin.
I won’t lie, it was very well done ANet, it’s really game design made specifically to enhance your micro transaction sales. Or at least it looks like it.
I actually have to agree. When I bought the gemstore item that lives completely meaningless, I was better able to appreciate the constant goofy deaths and the mistakes I made.
The reason we did the 1 life thing is because we found that lives were not meaningful if you can just pop back in, catch up with your party or die once and catch up with them. Now they are. We also added Continue Coins in each Zone chest, and they are in JP chests as well. And you can buy 5 of them for one Bauble Bubble.
Why did you remove the bubble baubles from the end chest and replace them with the coins instead, then? I think people would rather have the five coins then just one, or the bauble instead of a coin.
You’re supposed to buy the Infinite Continue Coin.
They reduced the number of lives you get for free, they added much more instant-deaths, they reduced the number of baubles you can get by far.
Once you buy the coin, lives become more trivial than they have always been and you can save your baubles for something other than extra lives.
Just buy the Infinite Coin if you enjoy the content and don’t recommend the game to anyone that has a marginal interest.
They’ve had different ways of obtaining each ascended item so far.
Backpacks from Mystic Forge.
Rings are from Fractals of the Mists.
Accessories from Guild Commendations.
Amulets from Laurels.
Weapons from Crafting.
Armor, being SIX pieces, will likely have a variety of ways. Likely, we’ll get one or two pieces at a time through some method. Perhaps dungeon runs or world bosses?
I think this is breaking grounds in a bad way….but I bought it…I’m sorry….
No need to be apologetic, I complained about it myself and bought it as well. I just won’t be recommending any of my friends to try any of it.
When SAB first came out, I told everyone I knew as if it was the second coming. It was awesome.
With this new SAB requiring the Infinite Coin in order to be “fun”, it’s not anything to tell people to try. It’s niche appeal, and I’m that niche. I doubt anyone I know would care to even try.
A hard game should be something that is difficult to do, but there is room to learn how to overcome it. If we are expected to die a lot, we should be given the opportunity to continue without strict penalties such as spending real money for a “cheat” (infinite continue coin).
It’s essentially paying gems for infinite lives. It’s not “fun” until you pay gems, and when you do, much of the content becomes rather easy.
They mentioned that the purpose of all the nerfs was to not “cheapen” the value of lives. Then they cheapen it worse than it ever was.
It just leaves a sour taste to implement this one-life-on-gameover feature while debuting the Infinite Continue Coin. Any argument towards the cheapening of lives is undermined by the mere existence of the coin.
Another commonality among games in the genre (which I’m not aware of having a name yet… let me know if you’ve heard of one) is that lives are extremely cheap, and you blow through them. Lives are like HP in an RPG or ammo in an FPS. You go in EXPECTING to lose a LOT. If you interpret losing a life as “failure” then you will have a miserable time. It would be like feeling like you “fail” when you take damage in a turn based role playing game. Instead, if you see every death as another learning experience, you’ll have a much better time. Kind of like the way your armor rating increases when you take damage in Skyrim. So part of preparing for a TM run, you’ll be ‘leveling up’ your ‘life meter’ by collecting as many lives and Continue Coins as you can.
Our analogue to HP doesn’t refill after closing the game and starting over.
Originally, continue coins allowed us to “continue” our progress. Now, continue coins are analogous to HP refill potions with the gem store selling us an “unlimited life” item.
One of the big reasons that “I Wanna Be The Guy” and “Super Meat Boy” and other similar games are fun and popular is that you’re expected to fail over and over, but the time of return is nearly instantaneous. If you fail, you laugh it off and try something new. Limiting us with a consumable item (and selling us unlimited life in the gemstore) makes failure an outright failure.
The reason we did the 1 life thing is because we found that lives were not meaningful if you can just pop back in, catch up with your party or die once and catch up with them. Now they are.
This whole exploit was eliminated in Tribulation Mode by not allowing party members to join their party once they outright die.
Additionally, you can still do just that in normal mode except you’re back with five lives.
That’s quite disappointing to hear that getting a gameover is noticeably changed from last time SAB was around as soon as the infinite coin became available.
I’ve bought a lot of gem store items myself, but when it starts interfering with normal gameplay, it’s really disheartening.
If you get a game over and return to the hub and attempt to immediately re-enter a world, you will have 1 life.
If you have a continue coin and use it when you get a game over or buy one from Moto when you get a game over, you will receive the 5 lives you are expecting.
TLDR: Get continue coins and use them for your five life bundles.
Also if you have 5 or 10 continue coins when you get a game over, you can use them in bulk for 25 or 50 lives
MF gear would work only if its an additional plus stat that weakens other stats slightly.
No MF already exists in a form that weakens the party only to benefit the individual wearer. Adding a wishy-washy “slightly” threshold is meaningless when you’re only lessening the problem.
Every other stat in the game benefits the entire party in some way or another. You either kill the enemy better, or you prevent the party from dying. Magicfind is a stat that disadvantages the entire party due to sub-par stats and only benefits YOU.
