Guild Wars 2

I just logged in after some time and saw the Ad Infinitum glider was changed in July 25th update.

I abhor the new design.
I grinded almost three months to get this glider.
The original design looked like the organically, naturally moving backpiece wings.
The new one looks stiff, and static. Kinda generic tbh.

Dear Anet,
at least give us an option to use the old design, since – and I am very certain of this – many people went through the process of crafting Ad Infinitum to get the (original) glider.

Old:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/7/71/Ad_Infinitum_trail.jpg
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/2/21/Ad_Infinitum_%28glider%29.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jQbHP0Z2DqI/maxresdefault.jpg

New:
http://i.imgur.com/neKXTF8.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/vRTJED6.png

Malediktus.3740:

I am glad that it didnt come back, being exclusive to being there at Halloween 2012 is what makes it special.

“Every time you respond like this to requests for old items to return it reminds me of this from Seinfeld.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr3g_4e3ydg” – JustTrogdor.7892

Didn’t Anet say something about a Mad Memoires Collection to be released during Halloween 2016, because it wasn’t release-ready for Halloween 2015?

Will the collection for the Mad Memoirs back pieces be released next week?

Was it simply forgotten?

I was really looking forward to this, but there is no sign of a Mad Memoires Collection on the horizon.

Leon de Damasco.8105:

OP, as you realize, there is a reason because we didn’t had a complaint post about the scarcity of this particular item before:

No needs.

ANet even added a Fractal Pages sink with the introduction of BLING-9009:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/BLING-9009-thank-you-THANK-YOU

Soon or later you will have enough pages. Then you will have your Legendary Backpice and, after that, if you like the low tiers (as me), or wanna help people (as me), or have a sever case of completer behavior (as me), you will have a ton of those (I have 427 Fractal Pages atm). You could said: You have ton, that is the why you are not complaining… then I will ask you: Why are you the only person complaining about it?

Have fun.

Actually I am not the only one. On the forums so far: yes – ingame: no, absolutely not.

You do realise that I did not start this thread for me, since I know that even if Anet ever considers to change anything about it, I will already have Ad Infinitum for months or longer?

You do realise that I made this post because others and I think that this is a rather demotivating, frustrating mechanic and that maybe at some point other players do not have to go through an overly exaggerated timelock mechanic to get their Ad Infinitums?

It is called constructive criticism and feedback – if you disagree, fine – still does not mean that your opinion on this is universal.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Archon.3987:

Source?

Looks at the acquisition methods for all 2 of the 2 current legendary backpieces and note the months of unavoidable time gating on both. There’s your proof.

Are you actually defending the frustrating, exaggerated time-grind mechanic of the two Fractal Research Pages a day?

Well, this forum hasn’t changed at all. I had similar “funny” discussions about the Fractal weapons RNG system back then and how “great” and “awesome” it was, not to be able to choose a weaponskin.

Guess what – whispering – it was changed since that mechanic was absurd.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Archon.3987:

And the PvP-League back item is relevant here because…?

Because ANet wanted to time gate legendary backpieces, and that’s OK.

Source?

BlaqueFyre.5678:

How are they not equivalent? They are both the only legendary backpieces ingame, why should you get one in a shorter time than anyone else because you are impatient?

Guess I hit the right spot there, didn’t I?

Now you simply ignore my argument. Therefore this is my last response to you.

The point is – as I described in OP – that the two pages per day are nothing more than a rather pointless timelock, which is a frustrating mechanic and artificially lenghtens the process of completing the collections to two months. It is neither challenging nor fun to do two low level fractals for 56 days. It is a timelock grind and nothing else.

What do you mean by “than anyone else” I did not demand Anet to give me and only me two additional pages a day. What the heck, man?

Don’t be so triggered.

BlaqueFyre.5678:

Equivalent items should take equivalent time and effort….. just saying

How are they equivalent? One is a PvP-item the other one is a PvE-item.
PvP = harder + more challenging than PvE. By your logic all back item skins should be acquired via systems similar to PvP reward tracks like for Fires of Balthazar.

It sounds more like your subtext is: “I had to go through a pointless and frustrating mechanic and I want everyone else to have to go through it too.”

BlaqueFyre.5678:

You do realize the other legendary back piece took a Minimum of 3-4 months to craft correct?

And the PvP-League back item is relevant here because…?

To my surprise I did not find a thread about this, so I created this one.

I am a few days away from completing the second collection for Ad Infinitum and the thought of having to “wait” for another month, because one can only acquire two Fractal Research Pages a day is simply frustrating.

While 90% of each collection can be done without haste in a matter of more or less three days, one then hits this wall in form of an exaggerated 14 days timelock for every single collection.

I had conversations with other players, who currently work on acquiring Ad Infinitum and almost all people I talked to, shared the same opinion on this: it should be possible to earn four Fractal Research Pages per day.

The two additional pages could be rewarded for unlocking all the t1 (initiate) and all the t2 (adept) daily fractals achievements. Together with the two pages from the daily recommended fractal achievements it would then take one week to acquire 28 pages resp. one Fractal Journal instead of two weeks.

I know that the collections for the legendary back item were not released at the same time, but at an interval of a few weeks. I guess that is the reason for this “two pages per day”-timelock.

I don’t see any reason whatsoever, why a dedicated player should not be able to earn four pages per day. Ad Infinitum costs more than enough crafting materials and completing the collections is challenging and fun – so why keeping this ridiculous two-month-timelock which causes nothing else but frustration? One month timelock (4 Fractal Research Pages/day) until the last collection is finished would be more than appropriate.

This is great news. Thanks a lot. Four of my characters have been waiting for this for so long.

Will the story instance entrances be returned to their original locations, rather than the current airship ‘airdrop’ thing that currently occurs at Fort Trinity?

The original entrances of the story-missions and what happened on the maps fitted together very well – it makes little sense to me that I had to travel back to Fort Trinity and board a ship to get airdropped at a place I had been a few steps away from.

Lasur Arkinshade.4107:

Could you clarify, for absolute certainly: will the story steps that were re-ordered be returned to their original order (in addition to the restoration of the Greatest Fear arc)? And will the story instance entrances be returned to their original locations, rather than the current airship ‘airdrop’ thing that currently occurs at Fort Trinity?

I’d like to read a clarification about this too. Especially that “airdrop”-thing. Before the redesign it felt like the pact marched and was really carving its way into Orr step by step and had to fight hard for every inch of ground. The original order of the story-missions and the events on the maps fitted together in an epic way. A clear-cut post with details about chapter 7 & 8 would be appreciated.

Sithis.3564:

Would be nice to see some update sometime soon. Is anyone even working to fix this? Will it be before HoT release? This is personal story we are talking about. There are so many ppl scratching their heads and thinking – “what’s going on here”, while playing this chapter.

I know few people who don’t post on forums but like me, are stuck with their characters because they don’t want to play a broken story.

There you have it Anet – now even HE is bothered with what happened to the personal story. Do not ever invoke the wrath of Sithis. xD

It is a good thing that you guys at Anet keep trying to improve the overall GW2-experience, but with changing the last chapters of the personal story, you did a disservice to the players. It was great the way it was before the patch. Actually I liked the story that much – especially the last two arcs – that I couldn’t wait to get there with every single character.

Now one of the best parts (greatest fear arc) is missing and the chapters 7 & 8 are in complete dearangement and chaos. Almost disturbed-Tarantino-like. Call my insane, but I just can’t continue playing the personal story beyond “A light in the darkness”/chapter 6 with none of my characters. It may be too late for my Asura but for the sake of my Norn Guardian, my Human thief and the revenant I am so eager to create – please Anet, change it back the way it was.

lvl 19 Mai Trin – first 10-20 fractal of the day – no daily chest for the whole group
lvl 29 Jademaw – first 20-30 fractal of the day – no daily chest for the whole group
sent ingame bug reports…
Not to get the daily chest renders fotm pointless.
Fix this.
Getting the the not spawned daily bonus chest(s) at next login, after fix has been rolled out, would be appreciated.

I am hoping too that Rox’s quiver returns during anniversary sale. I missed the chance to get it in march and need it for my ranger. :/

Sometimes I think that some GW2-players skipped every single dialogue after Trahearne gets introduced into the personal Story…

Ok I admit – the thing with Trahearne is a little complicated. He suddenly shows up (if you’re not a Sylvari) and seems to be a replacement for ones mentor (truth is good ppl die in war – and the mentor’s death was noble and honorable) and becomes the leader of the Pact. During my first playthrough, the whole Trahearne Situation felt kind of strange at first. But as it turns out – like e.g. in the pale tree mission pointed out – Trahearne’s fate (cleansing Orr) and PC’s fate (killing Zhaitan) are tied together.
He is a scholar and expert when it comes to Orr (perfect as a strategist), not part of one of the orders but respected by all of them. The PC is member of one Order, which means that PC can’t lead the pact because then one Order would be sovereign over the other two.

It makes perfectly sense, that Trahearne “officially” leads the pact – he does not steal PCs glory or credit – truth is Trahearne and the PC lead the pact like partners (e.g. T. continues the ask PC for advice and thanks PC more than once). The PC even helps Trahearne to overcome his self-doubts (seemingly impossilbe wyld hunt) and to recognize that he always had it in him (pale tree mission). While Trahearne does nearly all the stratigic (expert of Orr & the undead) and logistic stuff, PC commands the troops in the field and does the fighting at the frontline. Division of tasks. T. never took over the personal story – and that comic – well, funny but couldn’t be further away from the truth.

And when it comes to character-developement: what else or how much do you want to know about Trahearne? When you meet someone new in RL, you don’t get to see a 10hour introduction cinematic about that individual’s life (who would even want that o.O). Usually you are being told what that person’s job is (scholar, expert of Orr) and maybe some information about leisure activities (strolling around in Orr) and things like that. = poor charactern developement? o_O

Admited – some parts of the last third of the personal story seem to have been rushed through during the development, but if you ask me – I don’t want such intense charakter-developement all the time like witnessed in Naruto… where you get to see every single event from a character’s early childhood on and how he hurt his toe that one day he stubled over a rock and how freaking much that incident influenced him….. X_X

Then you have Ghost in the Shell – Motoko Kusanagi – you recognize that she’s a first-class hacker and member of that elite police force in the very first episode – period. You don’t see how hard she learned all day and every day in the police academy to aquire those skills xD – which would be utterly boring.

Conclusion – in my opinion PC got to know more than enough about T.‘s background during the personal story. I even hope for an important role for T. in Season 2. Trahearne is so much more epic than those “new” living story “sidekick-heroes”. I mean – come on – they are totally immature and look so out of place. Why is nearly noone complaining about those wanna-be Destiny’s Edge figures…

Hello there,

I was quite excited when I read, that miniature-packs from previous seasons were availabe again in the gem store, because of the Festival of the Four Winds. Then I realized that only the “Dragon Bash Mini Pack” and the “Great Jungle Wurm 3 Pack” made it back to the store.
Why only those two packs and not other ones like the “Baby Minis Series 1 Pack”, or the “Mini Avian 3 Pack” etc.?

I’m pretty sure I am not the only one, who missed some of the limited mini-packs offered in the gem store at some point in the past. Make more limited miniature-packs, from previous seasons, available in gem store during the Festival, please.

Regards

…just got the fractal hammer…have no need for it…only character who uses a hammer is my Norn guardian who already wields a hammer which appeals to me. If that thing wasn’t account-bound I’d give it to an other player who wants to use a fractal hammer.

The situation now: most probably 15 – 20 or more fotm runs to get another fractal weapon – what will it then be? The speargun?! – or maybe another hammer?! This RNG system is ridiculous and – as I stated before – totally frustrating.

There has to be a possibility implemented which lets a player choose the fractal weapon he wants to have.

P.S. Did my dailies every day during the last 2 weeks – got 1 infused ring, 1 ring (not infused) 1 fractal weapon (hammer-.-). Didn’t even get enough Mist Essences to upgrade my 2nd ring – spent more than 150 Gold to craft and infuse my back item. The costs (currency & invested time) outweight the gain by far, if you ask me.

I totally agree with the OP. This rng system in fotm is nothing more than an endless and eternal pain. I’ve been doing many fotm runs for some weeks now, because I’d like to have the one handed sword. Even if I get a fractal weapon – it is very frustrating to never know if the weaponskin I desire will be inside the daily chest or not. The chance is very low that it is the one I want and not one of the other 18 skins I am not interested in.

Anet should really do something about this. I’m so fed up with fotm right now because I just can’t see a light at the end of the tunnel. Meanwhile I do 2-3 dailies per day which means that there is not much time left for things in GW2 I like and enjoy – exploring, story, normal dungeons, wvw etc. This sword could drop tomorrow evening, maybe in some months and maybe never.

Let us exchange e.g. 30 or 60 Pristine Fractal Relics for a weapon skin = light at the end of the tunnel = I do something to earn the item I desire, even if it takes a month.

Or let the daily chest drop Fractal-Weapon-Tickets instead of random fractal skins so players can go to a merchant and exchange the ticket for the item they want.

Please Anet – do something about this. Remember your manifesto? You guys told your community that we won’t have to do mindless grinding in GW2 “to get to the fun stuff”. Guess what: doing FOTM – as it is right now – to get a certain, random-dropping Fractal Weaponskin, with which I want to have fun when fighting monsters is just that: a frustrating (which is even worse than “boring”) grind to get to the fun stuff.