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These other colossal races...

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How do such massive creatures not require a second brain in their abdomens just to move around?!

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Scarlet, Slayer of Lores.

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CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE! The “Scarlet Fiasco” is now making gaming news. MMORPG.COM picked up a feed about it, and it is lighting up their forums the way it was lighting up ours… last month.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Scarlet, Slayer of Lores.

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I may be wrong, but I think JenLo is referencing Jennah/Logan.

I thought of calling them J-Lo, but there would be confusion. It’s a Bennifer reference.

Logan is such a horrible character. He’s a total lost puppy that Jennah just can’t bring herself to kick. They’re so co-dependent it isn’t funny. He can’t do anything without her approval, and yet she can’t seem to stay out of danger long enough to order him far from her side. So bizarre and emotionally twisted that it makes me sick.

But Scarlet is still far worse. She’s not just poorly written, she’s poorly conceived. Everything about her is just so wrong and perverse that she violates even her own rules of existence. She has no place in the world, literally. She doesn’t fit the established backgrounds for Sylvari, violating their own creation methods, has no place in the Grove, doesn’t know the Pale Tree, never entered the Dreaming (at least not the one the Sylvari come from), and then we get to the rest of the violations, like her Asuran training, and multiple classes. I’m just not sure what they were thinking.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Charr behaviour too Human

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The Charr have had an industrial revolution in the last hundred years, this is obviously going to make them less savage than when they were essentially a mongol style horde in GW1. That said the Charr still see nothing wrong in killing your superior in a duel as a means to get a promotion (at least in blood legion).

If your warband’s Centurion or Legionnaire is incompetent, then of course you have the right to challenge his authority, if you can prove you can do a better job first. If you’re just as incompetent, you should probably expect to die in the Bane, too.

I did it both ways for my Blood Legion Charr. My Guardian let his Legionnaire live as a Gladium which totally didn’t come back to bite him in the tail, whereas my Warrior killed her misogynistic pig of a Legionnaire and ended all discussion of her fitness for command immediately.

Of course, I’ve noticed that some of the times when she says things in the wild, she seems to have the male voice, but her voice acting in scenes is all female. I suspect that heavy armor female Charr might be XXY’s. I’ll have to see if she pees standing up at some point.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Scarlet, Slayer of Lores.

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I’ve said it before, and I will say it again: Scarlet is the worst character in the game, beating out even the perceived flaws of character’s like JenLo and Trahearne. A total Villian Sue. Someone who is all tings (evil) to all people. She can make the Krait bend to her will. She can go to all three Asuran Colleges. She can pick up every trade skills and find them boring. She can be an Engineer and Mesmer all at the same time. She slices! She dices! She even makes julienne fries! But, that’s not all! Act now and we’ll throw in the Molten Alliance and Aether Pirates for free!

To paraphrase a common proverb, “* needs to go.” *- insert your favorite noun, pronoun or pejorative, for another person, regardless of gender. I prefer “Salad.”

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Perfecting on evolution - the tail

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Instead of perfect, I would say the closest to perfection possible as of right now.
Finished products are for decadent minds.

As my mentor used to say, “If you think that your project is finally finished, it’s already a failure.”

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Hey Asura! (A Charr Thread of Insults)

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So why don’t we see the charr mega laser?

To be honest, I would think that the Charr would be more inclined to build a MegaCannon, than a MegaLaser. Make the entire top half of the Black Citadel rotate and place a huge gun emplacement on it. The range would be measured in territories. I wouldn’t be surprised if they could get it to fire as far away as Divinity’s Reach. Of course, the kind of powder required to discharge a gun of that size, combined with the overpressure generated by the explosion would be lethal, to say the least, to anyone within several miles of the cannon. The sound alone would probably be sufficient to destroy every ghost in Ascalon at least three times over.

Now that I think of it, cooperating on such a project could be an exciting challenge! My ears, I think I’m already forming a brilliant idea how to overcome the near range lethality for the operators and visitors to the Black Citadel. Yes, this could have far-ranging applications! EXCELSIOR!

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

i cant wait for the gasmask :D

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And can it be worn by Charr? It looks awesome on the Asura. Wonder how it will make my Charr look, too.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Why do people stop playing GW2?

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Top 3:

1: The most interesting race from GW brought into GW2 is being ignored. The Charr were implemented in a half-rumped manner, with clipping issues to their armor that persist to this day, floating shoulder, back and shield pieces that haven’t been fixed since they were pointed out in Beta, and stretched textures that make their armor look like a 5-year-old’s fridge drawing. The baddest enemies in GW demoted to an afterthought in GW2.

2: Scarlet. OMG, this one alone is reason enough to boycott the game. The single worst game-breaking feature has to be Villian-Sue Salad-Top. She’s destroyed more enjoyment in this game than any ganker I ever faced in PvP. Blow up all my bases, set up all my bombs, Scarlet is the single worst thing I have ever seen canonized into lore. I get physically ill every time she’s the anything behind a living story update.

3: Broken classes that the devs won’t even admit are broken. Turrets that die in 2-3 hits from trash, pets that can’t path and leash after a few feet, flamethrowers that can’t hit targets in front of them, dodging an attack and still taking full damage, AOE that doesn’t hit anything in its AOE. They just aren’t trying anymore. They got our money and they’re making a token effort to justify our continues interest in the game, but they won’t take the time to fix the problems that have plagued the game since Beta.

I haven’t played in three weeks. I don’t see playing in the next three weeks. Hell, if Scarlet is still in the game, I don’t see playing in the next three months. No more money from me in the Gem Store, and I advise everyone to do the same. Stop spending money in the gem store until the problems are fixed. Hit em in the pocket book.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Can we get new haircuts?

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The only fangs that look feral and awesome and not like you have a genetic deformity are coupled with eyebrows-from-hell. Why? There are some nice rune-etched (that what they look like to me) fangs in CG that look awesome, but they have grandpa eyebrows. Thufir Hawat-level eyebrows. OMG.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Thoughts of why charr are being ignored...

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“When it comes down to it, the average MMO player wants something that looks sexy or relatively aesthetically pleasing – not something ugly, unusual or vicious.”

I think all charrs look sexy and aesthetically pleasing ._.

Yep! Love the way the Charr look. They just need to have textures for their armors that don’t look like they were stretched out like a fruit rollup. And the clipping issue should be dealt with quickly. Honestly, that’s just laziness and a lack of pride in one’s work there.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Asura Quaggen Backpack

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I like my little Charr backpack. It makes my Elementalist feel like that little kid from an anime who turns around and opens a can of whoopass on someone unsuspecting.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Why Scarlet is amazing.

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I think the OP is just making up lore for scarlet. I haven’t seen any of that storyline in the game. Only thing I’ve seen is ‘DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!’.

Oh no you forgot “HEHEHEHEHEHEHE!” That’s the important part!

And “Later, Tater!”

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

The Name of Ms Villain Sue's Next Alliance?

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So… krait and the Nightmare Court… mhm.
Toxic Alliance?

Will they attack us with their Brittany Spears?

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Why Scarlet is amazing.

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There is nothing about Scarlet that does not make me want to vomit. From her pinata champions filled failure of an invasion update, to the whole debacle with the revamp in the salad bowl, it’s been one disappointing update after another featuring her. And now we’re getting a salad shooter extreme to play with, courtesy of Carrot Top. Joy. Yet another 2 week stretch where I get to avoid playing for fear of randomly having to interact with the worst character ever contrived nominee for 2013.

ANet, I paid for the game, can I please play it without feeling like I’m in a bad episode of Scooby Doo? Why do you hate us so?

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Can Scarlet finally die

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Please kill Scarlet at least here, no one cares how she dies

Fire. Fire is good.

Oversized weedwhacker.

Nightshade salad with a nice herbicidal vinaigrette, perhaps.

They’re all good.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Asuran chat-up lines

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I like large posteriors and I can not prevaricate.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

New Playable Race and Lore

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If you want dwarves playable figure out the lore to reverse their stoning and their reasons to stop fighting primordius and his minions under ground for us to delay his full onslaught while not kitten ing off the entire player base :p

Why stop fighting? Wouldn’t the point of introducing them be to move on to the next dragon? Why not Primordius? An underground Dwarven city, new starting area, expanded underground zones a la GWEN, and a lot of new lore, plus a lot of backstory between games filled in by people who lived it without dying. Who would be kittened off?

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Turrets are broken

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This is not a suggestion. This is a bug. But ANet won’t treat it like one, so we’re going to have to make sure they know this isn’t going away.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Miss! Miss! Miss! Miss! (Flamethrower bug)

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Back to the top until this issue gets some love.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Miss! Miss! Miss! Miss! (Flamethrower bug)

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turn off auto targetting if you wanna use flamethrower.

Workarounds are not fixes.

Autotarget really shouldn’t be on in the first place, though.

lul.

Not everyone plays only one alt. Turning off auto-targeting for the Flamethrower means that you have to spend time turning it back on for other classes. Not to mention that auto-targeting doesn’t actually matter, since the Flamethrower only does damage in the direction you’re facing, if it works at all. When it does work, it’s very nice support DPS. When it does work. But posting a workaround instead of a fix isn’t helpful. The fact of the matter is, like so many other aspects of the Engineer class, Flamethrower is broken. The targeting doesn’t work.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Turrets are broken

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Even with a health buff, turrets remain rather……stationary…

I think that will keep getting them killed rather fast, but I wouldn’t know a solution.

Hover Turrets would be awesome, but fixing their crap survivability would be better. You know what, that’s fine, too. Give turrets mobility, the ability to dodge/evade attacks, and the survivability bug will be fixed, too. Scalability would be good, too, but one bug at a time.

Be careful what you wish for. Are you sure you want turrets to have an AI similar to ranger pets?
“Oh! Big boss with lots of 1-shot AoE! Let’s cuddle!”

As opposed to now where they’re “Oooo! Trash! Come kill me! I can’t hurt you!”

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Miss! Miss! Miss! Miss! (Flamethrower bug)

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Not getting buried.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Turrets are broken

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Even with a health buff, turrets remain rather……stationary…

I think that will keep getting them killed rather fast, but I wouldn’t know a solution.

Hover Turrets would be awesome, but fixing their crap survivability would be better. You know what, that’s fine, too. Give turrets mobility, the ability to dodge/evade attacks, and the survivability bug will be fixed, too. Scalability would be good, too, but one bug at a time.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Turrets are broken

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And now the mods decide this is a suggestion rather than testimony about a bust mechanic in the game that is making a class ability worthless to play. The turrets are bugged and they want to call a request to fix them a “suggestion”.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

New Playable Race and Lore

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I’d love to see the Skritt as playable, specifically because of the

Not really on-topic but I have always loved the Skritt because as a race they break the fourth wall and are a reference to players’ tendencies (“shinies” are not that different from “loot bags”).

I know, right? There’s just so much that could be done with them, and it’s all fun!

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Miss! Miss! Miss! Miss! (Flamethrower bug)

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turn off auto targetting if you wanna use flamethrower.

Workarounds are not fixes.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Miss! Miss! Miss! Miss! (Flamethrower bug)

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So many views and no one is saying I’m wrong.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Turrets are broken

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The moderation seems, at times, rather…well, spotty.
I’ve seen posts removed from General Discussion, then placed into Engineer when they were successfully appealed, I’ve seen posts no different from many on the Engineer boards moved to the Suggestions forum for no reason at all.
Recently, they even deleted my player-reference thread about Turret Bugs from the Engineer forum because I said I was considering uninstalling the game – apparently, this was grounds for claiming that the thread was created solely for the sake of complaining months after it had been created.
I appealed that, and was successful, but I’ve yet to see my thread restored.
Maybe they just lack oversight to make sure what they’re doing is what they should be doing. It certainly sounds like that’s what’s involved here.

Exactly. I don’t have any faith in the appeal process. ANet doesn’t have a consistent policy in place for dealing with negative feedback. Some mods delete threads, saying they don’t mind negative feedback, but the thread was too hostile, even when it wasn’t, and some don’t even bother giving a reason, the thread just disappears. But in every instance I’ve seen, the thread disappears. I think this one is due for it, too. Which is sad, because it means another thread about how broken the Engineers are as a class, specifically in their core mechanic – Turrets, is going to disappear as if everything is fine.

Turrets are useless. The main method of employment is to drop, overcharge and blow. They don’t stay down, they don’t have sustained DPS because of their pathetic health levels, and they get no love. Even Overcharge is broken, because if you don’t use it at the right time in the animation cycle, the turret stops working altogether. The state of turrets, since they are a big part of my engineer’s play style, makes me cry. I quit playing him for all but the content where I MUST HAVE an 80. There is a preponderance of evidence about these issues.

But we don’t get any attention. And that’s sad. A little justified irritation should be fine, but it will probably get this thread deleted, like all the others. In a way, I can’t blame the devs from not knowing about the issues, because the forum mods are probably not telling them about the threads they delete before anyone can notice bad press.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Turrets are broken

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Nope. I put it up on the Engineer forum and it was taken down by a forum mod who said that while they did want to hear about feedback, positive and negative, that wasn’t the place for the post. Then a post went up asking that all feedback about class mechanics be directed to the bugs forum. So, since this mechanic is broken, it needs to be here.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Miss! Miss! Miss! Miss! (Flamethrower bug)

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Not seeing a reason why my flamethrower is constantly missing. The target is in rage (it’s beating on me and doing damage), in front of me (I’m looking right at it), and yet, the flamethrower can’t hit it. Miss! Miss! Miss! It’s getting old. Fix your FF AOE already. Check for the target on each splash, not just the first. Just do something to fix the broken mechanics for this class.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Turrets are broken

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I can’t see how this one hasn’t been addressed yet. Throw down a turret and in two-four hits from trash, it’s destroyed. A major focus of the Engineer class can’t stand up to a stiff breeze.

Why is this? Even buffed and traited, they die with an additional hit. There isn’t anything for it. They’re just not worth using at this point. Down, hit, boom.

And the workaround from the Engineer forum? Deploy, Overcharge, Destroy. Yeah. Drop and then blow it up. Worthless.

They’ve been like this since release. Its been long enough. I think that a stern “Fix it!” is appropriate. You managed to omit the turrets from the pet/minion health buff last patch. Fix your oversights. Turrets need usability. That means survivability.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

New Playable Race and Lore

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Sorry, it just amazes me that you think Anet would even consider redoing all the armour in the game to fit the Krait.

I don’t. I just said they could do it. There is always a way. They lack the will, as far as we know.

The Tengu and Kodan are far more likely to be made playable before the Krait. Hell, even the Skritt will be playable first. But if they were to make the Krait playable, your objections are by far the LAST ones that would ever keep them from doing it. Nothing you raised as an objection is even in the realm of reality as being a problem. It’s all your opinion, and it is very unfounded. Never confuse probable with possible. Just because it isn’t’ likely doesn’t mean it CAN’T be done. And that’s exactly what you’ve been doing.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

New Playable Race and Lore

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You really think ANet are going to go and change every single piece of leg and boot armour in the game just to fit the Krait? They couldn’t even be bothered to fix the tail clipping with Charr so there is slim to no chance of them re-modelling all armour in the game to fit a race with no legs and feet.

Never said “would”. I said “could”. And for someone who can’t be bothered to argue this point, you don’t seem to be able to shut your mouth for more than a few minutes. Is “can’t be bothered to argue the point” code for “shut up about it because I don’t like your opinion”? I’m just curious, because you’re getting awfully chatty.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

New Playable Race and Lore

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Neither I think they’ll ever do it. But if they wanted, there wouldn’t be lore-based obstacles.

There aren’t any real mechanics based obstacles either. And we all know that companies reverse their positions on decisions made, so the fact that they said the race was supposed to be irredeemable doesn’t mean they won’t change that.

Jumping is just a stupid argument. Really, trying to keep a race from being playable because of an animation issue is just silly. The armor can be handled easily. “Pants” can be made into hip/tail armor and “boots” can be made into tail tip ornamentation.

Honestly, I’d be excited to see ANet beat Blizzard to taking on a non-traditional humanoid in a game. That would be beyond exciting. Trendsetting, even.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

New Playable Race and Lore

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But there is one major reason why Krait will never be playable, they don’t have a humanoid body. Not only would this cause massive issues with armour and weapons, but you know that spacebar on your keyboard? you know, the one that makes your character jump, not only would jumping Krait look ridiculous, but please explain how that is even possible?
Also, a Krait Guardian? just no.

Technically, they do. They have a head, a torso, bi-lateral symmetry with at least two limbs, and a generally upright posture. They even have hips, which they shouldn’t, but they do. Armor can be adapted to their version of the humanoid form.

Jumping… Apparently you don’t know anything about snakes. They jump all the time. Their bodies are all muscle. A twitch causes them to shift a fraction of an inch to a few inches, depending on the breed. Besides, if “actual jumping” is all that important to you that you just can’t deal, go play with a slinky. Come back when you get the connection. Jumping is just animation. The mechanics of jumping is crossing a gap with or without a solid collision surface beneath it and arriving at a point where there is a collision surface at the far end of the movement. That can be accomplished by any number of animations, not just classic hopping. As a Charr player, I can assert easily that my characters do NOT jump. They hop. The distance bridged is far too short to be a real jump for any Charr. They also run far too slow to be really running. I call it “playing around at a mild pace”.

I’ll be happy when a game finally stops making every race conform to the same speed and movement requirements. Big race? Fast movement because of huge stride. Small race? Slow movement speed because of hobbit stride. Serpentine race? Serpentine movement, wall climbing, and body bridging. Check.

But that’s just my personal wish list. Stop being so literal. Nothing in this game is literal. Jumping isn’t jumping for all races. Only the Asura actually run and jump. We just call it jumping and running because that’s what we’re conditioned to call it.

And OMG, a Krait Guardian would be awesome! Yeah! Make this happen!

EDIT: Oh and I never heard anyone saying that Pandaren wouldn’t be able to be playable in WoW, they work because they can wear normal gear and use normal weapons and act like just every other playable races.
You can’t just add a playable race because it would be cool, it has to work with the games mechanics and that is the most important thing.

Didn’t spend much time on the WoW forums when/if you ever played, eh? The forums were lit up every time a new expansion was announced with thousands of people calling for and against the inclusion of the Pandarens. Even when the announcement was made that the entire expansion was going to revolve around them, there were people saying they couldn’t be included because of lore. Really? REALLY! Give me a break. If you need any greater reason to stop saying that one race or another CAN’T be in the game, I give you two examples from WoW: Space Goats and KungkittenPandas. If they want it bad enough, they will do it, and you saying they can’t doesn’t mean a squirt of dog kitten .

Besides, I already outlined how Krait armor could work. Go look at my first post in this thread.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Charr age rates?

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There is one link between them. Rytlock and Pyre are both voiced by the same person: Steve Blum.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

New Playable Race and Lore

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Sorry but no matter what people come up with for reasons Krait would make good playable races, it’s just never going to happen and I would willingly bet money on it not happening.

Was the same for WoW, I’ve lost count how many people keep going on and on about playable Naga and Murlocs yet it will never, ever happen..

The only races I see a potential of becoming playable is the Tengu, Kodan & Largos (slightly less possibility) and at a push, the Dwarves, however it would need some extreme lore explanations as to how they became living again.

People said the same thing about the Pandarens. Never say never. The only people who can say never work for Anet and there is always an asterisk after that “Never” because they can change their minds at any time.

I don’t see the Largos ever happening. They just have nothing worthwhile going for them. We meet 2 in GW2, one for a few missions and the other for a skill point. Nothing special, lousy fighter, very little help against the mobs we fight, and she has this huge chip on her shoulder. Bleh. Not interested.

I’d rather see the Kodan, Ogres, Tengu and Krait. At least they have interesting things going for them. Skritt look like they would be pure fun, and the Grawl, Quaggan and Hylek look like they would add a lot of interesting lore to the game. I could see any of them happening, mostly because I think they wouldn’t be hard to implement. Almost makes me wish there was a way to set up a poll so we could see what the top three choices among players would be for races to make playable next. The results might be surprising, but would certainly be insightful.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

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As for Krait, never going to happen, same goes for Skritt, Quaggan, Troll, Dredge, Centaur, Ogre and any other lesser race.

Oh, well. I guess we’ll just have to /thread! Whitey has spoken and this is all meaningless now.

Thank you for your input, but that’s all just your opinion. You’re entitled to it, but you aren’t entitled to take a dump on everyone else while expressing it.

In return for your favor, the Largos are the LAST race that will ever be included as playable. Part of their appeal as characters is their mysteriousness, and if they become playable, they’ll lose all of that. Taking what little mystery is in GW2 out would be a disservice to the game.

Krait, while they are supposed to be one of the unshakable enemy races, could be made part of the playable circle. This is how you would do it:

Krait might be done lore-wise.

Remember the mission “Wet Work” and following?

At the end of it, you steal the orb protecting the city in the Treacherous Depths from annihilation by the Risen. (IMHO in the personal story you character should say something about destroying an entire city, even if they deserved it)

Krait characters could start their story from there. They might barely escape the annihilation, maybe with some children they must protect, and they realize their superiority was just an illusion.

And I love this idea. This is so wonderful. Good job.

Amusingly, I’d love to see the Skritt as playable, specifically because of the ironic disjunction between the character and the NPCs for the firing range event in the Charr starting area. I’d love to see some sort of look of dismay when your Skritt character hears “No scrawny buck-toothed thieves on my firing range!” and a look of horror when she says “The next thieving skritt I get my hands on is getting fired out of a cannon!” That would be awesome.

I’m looking forward to Ogres just because I want my ranger to have the option of starting with/acquiring a Rock Dog, Gryphon or Black Raptor. Yeah. This has needed to happen for the last year.

Honestly, any of the lesser races would make good playable candidates, but their personal stories would have to remove their own race as a possible option for the second quest chain you get during the Orders segment of your play. Just imagine the character generation portion of Grawl creation. “My personal God is _ (armor piece) _.”

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Pet QoL suggestion (Comfort Animal)

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They want you to swap pets when your pet is downed. They don’t want you to waste time trying to revive him. If you’re out of combat, your pet will revive anyway, but in combat, they want you to switch him out and keep fighting. I wouldn’t mind that ability with some of the players I’ve seen lately…

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Summon Power Suit

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I know what you mean, but Anet whanted people to role classes and not races. Making one of my favourite elites stronger, would make more people play the asura and norns whose skills are the weakest would die out.

Unless they gasp made all the elites equally powerful and people might gasp again choose a race based on how you like to play and not on which one has a .0001 advantage over some other race. Theorycrafting always kitten es me off. Nothing destroys a game faster than min-maxing theorycrafters. My radio and my TV are the only things in my life I want tuned.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

If you could create a vilain... ?

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Scarlet is a perfect villain.

Not even close.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

If you could create a vilain... ?

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I’m reminded of the old Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon (the good one, not the one that needed eye bleach). It had a lot of potential with the dichotomy of Robotnik and Snivly. Robotnik was the big face of evil, while all the time in the background, Snivly was the one making things happen. Robotnik was a genius, for certain, but he was only the overblown face of the organization. The last episode of the series revealed that Snivly was really the one pulling the strings, calling the shots, and making things happen. Without him, Robotnik was just a fat man with a bad attitude who got lucky once.

So I would like to see something like that. A villain who is just the face, but who everyone believes is the one who is calling the shots. S/He may even believe s/he is in control. But behind the scenes, his/her right hand wo/man is really the one who has the connections, the insight, and the capacity to make the schemes work, lay the traps, and overall get things done. The overshadowing may be intentional as the “lackey” bides his/her time, waiting for the right moment to strike and bring everything crashing down. Until then, s/he plays the role of servant, not doing anything to remove him/herself from the situation so that s/he has access to all that power.

We keep defeating the face, but s/he keeps coming back with new schemes. This isn’t the same as Scarlet, because the face is imminently fallible. S/He’s hardly a master of all talents. In fact, s/he’s probably only specialized in one talent, two at the most. Focused, so to speak. There’s a madness driving this villain. This madness is fed by the “lackey”, who strokes the villain’s ego to keep them focused on the mission at hand and attention diverted away from the lackey’s own plans. We, as players, may learn something about the lackey, and even suspect s/he may be behind some of the mayhem, but we’ll always be directed back at the main villain, the face, as the one to blame for the overall carnage.

That sort of villain pairing is what works for long-term interaction. If we are to get a decent villain for the Living Story, it needs to be someone less Mega Sue.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

GW1 has been forgetten about

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Drakkon, we aren’t confused as to how or why things are the way they are, we are disagreeing with them. We do not require a lecture on the facts- we’ve got those down, and now we’ve moved on to formulating and expressing opinions. You’re missing the point.

You can thank drax for that. He has a bad (and disturbing) habit of calling me out. So a word of advice: Stop replying to people you don’t agree with if you don’t want them to post replies back. Don’t call someone out by name in your posts is you don’t want them to call you out in return. You’re going to get a lecture each and every time you do it. Each and every time.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

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The main question is, how do you integrate a new personal storyline? ANet has this issue whereby expansions within the same era are chronologically stable. GW2 happens at the same time as GW2+new race. They might be in cahoots with Jennah or Trahearne, or not. At the end of the day the original playable races never heard of them because they were working behind the scenes – helping out the others without actually interacting with them (or partially, treaties and so forth that the original PCs didn’t know about). For example, one of the missions could be fending off a certain amount of enemies during the siege of fort trinity. The storylines can be completely different up to a certain point in the storyline (even after Victory or Death).

Thoughts?

The point of an expansion is to provide a starting point for a new storyline to begin, even if the old one isn’t ended. So where would we introduce the Kodan as playable races, with their own starting city/territory? Well, when we go after Jormag, I’d say. The Tengu? How about the jungle Dragon? Krait? Unnamed Dragon #6. See, expansions are the perfect place to say, yes, this is what happened so far, and now we’re taking you further.

So, personal story? Simple. The first two parts (intro and background item) are simple. They would be built into the new starting areas for the new race. They explain who that character is and what his race’s beliefs are. Then you have the new race trying to integrate into the rest of society for whatever reasons (finding out about these strange outsiders for Tengu, hoping to educate/test the lesser species/preserve their culture for the Kodan, forge new alliances for the Krait) by joining the orders. From there, they progress as normal through the rest of the personal story to Orr.

After that, they progress through the added levels from the expansion to the expounded story in the expansion as would any existing level 80s. Rinse/repeat for each expansion. Don’t have the expansions? No new race, no new personal story quests, no access to the new zones. I’d pay for that. It would be an excellent compliment to the Living Story, which has become the bi-weekly joke content. One two-week period of insanely hard, followed by two weeks of insanely insipid. Anything with Scarlet is likely to be both, sadly. She’s just bad and whoever came up with her should feel bad. Yes, OK, I am enjoying the new content for the Mad King. No Scarlet. I think there’s a correlation.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

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Let’s start with the fan favourite. Kodan. I personally like this idea far less than a wild pig becoming a playable race – I want more questions than answers. The Kodan (from what we know) are merely the genetic ancestors of the Norn. Boring. For the same reason I dislike Cantha – I can always play GW1 to go there (that’s a different argument entirely though). The concept of explanation is far less interesting than expansion – look at WoW: when they were on their last leg they brought out a new race with a completely new lore (the pandas). While I personally think WoW is pathetic, I can’t argue with that decision to re-ignite interest in the game. Either way, people will vote for the Kodan in the same way they voted for Kiel. Just avoid these guys – we don’t need more Norn – I would be seriously impressed if you could logic them into the storyline because I can’t. Your Lore forum is as active as it is because you keep leaving stuff open to interpretation, this is closing off that possibility.

The difference is I would play the Kodan. I don’t like my Norn. I’m thinking of re-rolling him as a Charr because he’s just so BLEH! The Norn don’t appeal to me and the Kodan do.

The second fan favourite is Tengu. It seems as though these guys were the plan all along – pay very careful attention to where the Dominion of Winds is: it’s a great starting area (even if they have to use/abuse their neighbours further levelling). They have enough space for 1-15 and 15-25. The Tengu in terms of GW2 are very much shrouded in mystery, trying to decide who to form an alliance with. It’s a really solid premise with which to form a personal storyline. They have a lot of room to go wherever you might want to take them.

As I like beast races, I would play these, too. More than if they just introduced Cantha back into the world and we got oriental characters, though I miss my assassin and no, the Thief isn’t close enough.

And then my personal favourite troll race: Krait.
Thoughts?

The Krait will never be a playable race for many of the same reasons that the Centaur will never be one.

First, armor. They don’t have a humanoid body with the right shape legs (centaur have too many, and krait don’t have enough). Anet is lazy enough about localizing armor for races (see Charrmor arguments, and to a lesser extent Asuran complaints) that anything they produce here will be equally as haphazard. The argument that not enough people play such races to justify any time being allocated to fixing them is causal, not demonstrative. The reason no one plays such races is because the armor looks horrible, and not fixing it isn’t going to get more people to play the race. But here, the problem is that they would have to build entirely new models for the armor, which will lead to the inevitable “hover gear” on the Krait’s snake-like lower body, where it doesn’t QUITE touch the body and just magically hovers around their hips.

Second, and most importantly, Krait are a universally hated species. By design. Centaur are evil. Krait are evil. They are that way because the devs have SPECIFICALLY STATED that they are. They are not something players should ever have remorse about exterminating because they would do it to you in a heartbeat, and that isn’t warmongering rhetoric. Its how they designed the race. Forget that one centaur in GW1 and the herd he was putting together that were peaceful and helpful. Yeah, whatever to that. They don’t exist anymore. Peaceful centaur get stomped. Krait? Same deal. No nice Krait. No non-biting sea snakes. We’re supposed to hate them.

But, yeah, I would play a Krait if they ever got over themselves fast enough to make them playable.

LEGALESE: This is a commentary on ANet policy and its effects on potential advancement avenues for the game, not an attack on any specific dev, though an interview with a specific dev was referenced, but not in a negative way. It’s sad that this clarification is necessary, but we seem to have brought it on ourselves.

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fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Charrs species

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Every predator in the world is morphologically divided into one of three branches: Feliform, Caniform and Primate.

What about predatory birds? Or reptiles, fish, insects, etc…

Yes, I didn’t state “mammalian” predators. Since we weren’t discussing birds, reptiles, fish, insects or anything else like that, and all the examples were mammals, I kind of expected people to catch on.

To expound, fish are almost all predatory to some degree, with very few dedicated plant eaters, mostly because there are few plants, except in the shallows, in abundance for fish to survive upon. Most of the plants are in the form of plankton, and a lot of fish eat plankton. Plankton themselves can be either plant or animal and are unnecessary to classify further in this discussion because they are A) too small to care about, and they only eat other plankton, so they aren’t specialized enough to matter.

Cartilaginous predators are sharks. Just sharks. Skates and rays are still sharks. Highly specialized in their body shape, but still just sharks. All other fish are bony fish, and they don’t subdivide from there into more than their taxonomic species.

Birds are differentiated by beak style. Horn bills, hook bills and straight beaks. Horn bills typically are non-predatory fruit eaters. They consume berries and fruit, and sometimes nuts. They are usually called Birds of Paradise because they aren’t terribly aggressive, though they can be territorial.

Birds of prey are divides into hook and straight beaks. Eagles, hawks, and some sea birds have hook bills, useful for tearing flesh to expose the tissues and organs, and for pulling out said lumpy structures. They predominantly eat larger more mobile prey like snakes, rabbits, foxes, and small pets, or scavenge the dead carcasses of said creatures.

Straight bills involve most other birds, and include ravens and crows, and the wide variety of small birds that eat both seed and snails, slugs, words, beetles and other insects. These beaks are designed with the same intent as a surgeon’s scalpel. They go in, excise the tissue they want, and retract out the same hole without snagging.

Insects don’t have predatory classifications because only multi-stage insects aren’t typically meat eaters, and even that varies a little. Butterflies and moths start a caterpillars and worms, which eat plants or drink plant fluids to grow until they’re large enough to metamorphose into their adult stage, which typically only exists to mate and die, though some may be nectar drinkers, and thus also fill the role of pollinators. The rest are predatory and don’t differentiate style past their exoskeletons.

Reptiles aren’t broken down further than their body types, either. Monitors, ophidians (snakes), and a handful of other classifications exist, but there aren’t any truly herbivorous reptiles. They’re all predatory, so distinction isn’t required. Some iguana species, perhaps, but they’re the result of isolated development, and not because the species as a whole is herbivorous. (A note to anyone wanting to keep one as a pet, meat-eating reptiles have better immune systems than herbivorous ones, so though iguanas are very docile and look pretty, be prepared for them to die suddenly from some infection you didn’t even realize they had. Experience talking here. And wash your hands before and after handling them. That’s for your protection and theirs.)

There, happy now? The main reason that only mammals are interesting enough to classify this way is because most of the initial classification was done by zoologists traveling with big game hunters on safari, and big game hunters don’t hunt beetles. Fish, particularly in the deep sea, are hard to find in a comfortable to study manner. And reptiles are… well, you’d be hard pressed to find anything on the planet more complex than a microbe that doesn’t track it’s genetic structure back to a reptilian ancestor. They haven’t changed much in all this time, so… Yeah, not so interesting. Mammals? Mammals are ever-changing. Much more fun to study.

Oh, also, this thread is about Charr, and Charr are mammals, so… Yeah.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

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GW1 has been forgetten about

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The most you are ever going to get in a sequel title, unless its a specific mechanic of the sequel, is a nod to the former game/content in the form of small things referenced here and there, commonly referred to as “Easter Eggs”. Why? Simple.

Game development is meant to drive a game forward, not backward. You aren’t supposed to be replicating the game play and story from the prequel. The sequel is its own game. It takes place in the same universe (usually, FF may vary…), but at a future point in time, so things will be different. Stuff gets forgotten and has to be dug up (which can be implemented later), stuff changes (so the old stuff isn’t important anymore), and some stuff remains constant (to give those who played the other game a sense of nostalgia when they come across it, and the new players who never did a sense of wonder at what might have been).

So why is some lore forgotten/ignored/left out? It isn’t relevant to the game play of the current game. Simply put, the developers are telling you that it doesn’t matter at this stage of the game, literally, if ever.

“But, but, but, that was my favorite part of the old game!”

Go play the old game. This isn’t that game. This is the new game. New time, new setting, new rules. Get with the program, or go back to the old game.

And it really is as simple as that. Sure, the PR guys will put a happy spin on it and tell you something about how the world has suffered some major upheavals and changes and as the heroes of this brave new world its your job to… yadda, yadda, yadda. But simply put, they’re saying this isn’t your old game, so enjoy this one for what it is.

Threads like this aren’t new. Developers from hundreds of different games with sequels have made similar posts when these come up. Do I have to read minds? No. I have to read forums. And I do. Lots and lots of forums. I have the time right now, sadly. So what does that all mean? It means that I know what they’re thinking because they aren’t that different from the other developers out there, and they all say pretty much the same thing. The game moved forward, we’re not looking backward, times, they are a changin’. Change with them, or get left behind. Have a nice day.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Concerning the (future of the) Charr

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Gotcha. Maybe the Blood and Ash legions are? Iron is tied down with problems in their own territory, but I doubt they other two are throwing everything they have into Ascalon.

If that’s the case Charr demands of Ascalonian land seem petty and then their population base must be absolutely overwhelming in size.

The beginnings of wisdom…

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.

Charrs species

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Charrs originally come from Thundera. A small band of Thunderians were asleep in a capsule traveling the universe when their ship crashed in Tyria. Those Thunderians woke up, made babies, and became known as Charr.

Imaginative, but I think the Charr are to Thundercats what the Centauri are to Humans.

“People don’t hate Scarlet the way Game of Thrones
fans hate Joffrey. They hate her the way Star Wars
fans hate Jar Jar Binks.”-not a direct quote, but still true.