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People are really letting those nostalgia googles blind them if they think LWS1 was “amazing” with “great gameplay and story”.
I remember it being much worse, extremely laggy and with Scarlet “lorebreaker” Briar constantly involved.
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I’m still wondering why the items have such weird stats [like Healing Power on an item for the Warrior spec]
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Thumbs up. Let’s hope it won’t take longer than that and that the peeps ahead of me get their stuff fixed up.
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I’ve sent a ticket at least 3 or 4 days ago now and it keeps showing that someone saw it recently, yet there seems to be no answer.
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Is there a finite amount of magic in Tyria? Is it just recycled in and out of Elder Dragons? Or do they use some and then capture and store new magic that is created over time? If magic is not finite, then killing all the Elder Dragons would be an issue, eventually. Unless, of course, one or more Gods could be persuaded to take the Elder Dragons’ role of keeping magic in check.
If Balthazar was full of magic from perished Elder Dragons, would said magic be, once again, released upon his death? Can magic be destroyed by killing its vessel?
I imagine the implication with Aurene is that she’ll replace one of the Elder Dragons.
And no, killing the vessel doesn’t destroy the magic, as shown by Mordremoth having Zhaitan’s death magic and infusing his own creatures with it. We can assume that the other Dragons now have both Death and Plant magic.
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Ok if we kill another dragon the magic gets released and rip tyria. But balth will absorb said magic so why is it bad?
You know, it isn’t really clear.
In the fight where you are trying to stop Balthazar from sucking primordus dry, Taimi indicates that what Balthazar is doing would kill Primordus, which is exactly what we do not want at this point. And in the end we basically stop Balthazar from taking the last little bit necessary to kill Primordus, and Primordus slithers off and back to sleep.
And here, is where it isn’t clear what the heck our character is doing.
The reason we don’t want Primordus to die, is that the resulting release of magic would destroy the world, but Balthazar absorbed the magic, preventing said cataclysmic release. And since that was exactly what Balthazar planned from the beginning, we can assume that would have happened just the same if we hadn’t prevented Primordus’ death. So we basically just saved an elder dragon, for absolutely no reason.
And finally, while Balthazar certainly isn’t a good guy, he’s not actively trying to destroy us or the world so far as we know, he just doesn’t give a crap about mortal life. For all we know, we could just stay out of his way, let him kill all the dragons, and nothing bad would happen, or at the very least the world would survive him, while it won’t survive the dragons. Our character is acting based on giant unfounded assumptions about Balthazars motivations.
Furthermore, even if Balthazars intentions are to destroy the world, a small group of largely unremarkable shmucks have killed and/or imprisoned three different Gods before him. Killing just two of the dragons took the largest and most advanced military alliance in the history of the world, and was still only accomplished at a massive cost of lives.
Even with the power of several dragons absorbed, Balthazar would be significantly easier to deal with than the Dragons themselves. Let him kill/absorb the dragons then we can ship him off to be Dhuums roommate in the underworld if we need to.
……Balthazar is a GOD. Do you really think it would be easier to handle him WITH every Elder Dragon’s powers than just trying to handle the Dragons themselves?
The Elder Dragons have been pushed back before, but the huge point of the Personal Story is learning that we have absolutely no idea how it was done.
People ask stuff that’s easily explained [and in some cases, explained constantly] in-game. Of course we didn’t allow a kittenED OFF —-—>GOD<——- to continue fueling himself with the Dragons’ power, we can barely handle 1 Dragon, let alone the God of War infused with draconic energies from at least 2 Dragons [Primordus and Jormag].
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What the topic says.
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I assume it’ll work similar to how Reaper’s Shroud works
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Does it matter? In a few hours we will have the answers. Do we really need speculation thread #657?
If you think this didn’t matter, imagine how little your own comment mattered.
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It’s going to summon a phantasm, broski.
No it won’t…
Confirmed or speculation?
Mainhand weapons don’t produce phantasms, they produce clones.
If the axe is offhand, half of this forum is gonna riot.
If the previous leaked pictures of the new specs is real, then it should be main hand since she’s holding it with her right hand.
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We’re getting the official announcement for the expansion tomorrow, so what does everyone expect from it? In the previous one, we got a look at some of the new specs and the Revenant, does anyone think we’ll get another new class or a new race?
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I believe anet balances primarily with PvP in mind, so the PvP version is likely the intended one.
Wut?
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I got hope…….that absolutely nothing good will happen and they’ll get nerfs for reasons known only to the surviving Elder Dragons.
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Don’t worry. Since it was pretty much confirmed gliding will be available in core Tyria soon, every jumping puzzle will be far easier.
Most won’t be helped by gliding and ANet will likely make sure gliding will not trivialize jumping puzzles.
This is ANet we’re talking about.
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Probably next year, or the year after that knowing Anet.
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still waiting for those revenant weapon skins
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Just keep on waiting. Don’t worry, they’ll be placed in the gem store soon.
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Don’t worry. Since it was pretty much confirmed gliding will be available in core Tyria soon, every jumping puzzle will be far easier.
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And every single jumping puzzle in the game just became trivialized and you can bet countless players will find ways to skip most of the hard parts.
GJ.
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They didn’t mention anything for poor Warriors or the real issues with Revenant.
It’s like they don’t caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare.
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It’s a bit obvious by now that Anet doesn’t give a single kitten about Warriors or Thieves.
Hell, we should’ve realized this when we saw that the BERSERKER’s weapon was Torch.
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In other words, they made the manifesto simply to draw people in and then disregard it.
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If the problem is hubris and overconfidence, then Kralkatorrik HAS to be one of the hardest Elder Dragons to take down because he’s the only one that was close to death, but survived thanks to Snaff getting killed first. He HAS to know that some people can actually be a match to him.
Hopefully this means he’ll try to do a preemptive strike against the specific race that invaded his mind and almost killed him: The Asura.
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I’ve had something similar happen to me, but it involves Shiro’s Impossible Odds and it doesn’t lock me out of utilities.
I try to change into Mallyx, which should deactivate Impossible Odds, yet every once in a while, it doesn’t, like it was a “normal” buff like Might.
AKA, Impossible Odds doesn’t deactivate on Legend swap, allowing me to use both IO AND Embrace the Darkness at the same time.
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I love how people are comparing TIME GATING with simply taking the process slowly.
Hurr, i got a legendary in a year, i got it in 2 years, hurr kitten .
That’s not the point and each and every one of you know it.
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This is quite literally a L2P issue.
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Actually, it seems that the Elder Dragons’ weakness is attacking their mind directly.
Even though we don’t do this with Zhaitan, we do with with Mordremoth and it works. Destiny’s Edge did it with Snaff’s inventions against Kralkatorrik and almost killed him, by themselves.
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We need a race voiced by Yuri Lowenthal like a lot of male Tengu seem to be.
Anet, do it.
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It was implied that the Pale Tree was actually one of Mordremoth’s Blighted Trees that was purified [i’ll assume by Ventari’s Tablet]. This means that wherever Malyck is from, it has to be a place with very high magical power since, so far, a purified Pale Tree is the only way a Sylvari is born.
The bigger question would be this: Why is he not affected by the dream? Aren’t all Sylvari involved with the Dream? Maybe Malyck’s Pale Tree also has some sort of Avatar who realized that their connection to the Dream is one of the reasons why Mordremoth could control them so he/she severed it.
Although, more than likely, Anet simply forgot that had mentioned Malyck having come from a different Pale Tree.
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Well said @Ashern, well said. You summed it up so well I don’t even know is there something to add.
The game became downright worthless; a complete waste of time.
That being said, a family member for whom I bought the game already got bored and I’m already on the way back to my favourite title from Blizzard.
To everyone:
beware of titles with the NCSoft logo (just as with GW2) on them, or anyhow associated with. Their business practices ruin every single one of their games. It’s shoddy business with only money in mind. Lineage 2 is a perfect example.
I thought Anet broke off from NCSoft and now work on the game independently. It seems some NCSoft tendencies remained in Anet though.
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In the end the thought process seems obvious to me. The reason for the expense is less about current trends on TP, but more about the future of Legendaries. They want future legendary weapons to have both time investment and gold cost. Those future ones (like Nevermore) cannot be traded and don’t drop from anything so the cost is something baked into the collection. In the end, they wanted/needed the old legendary collections to use the same formula as the new ones so it made sense.
I’m sure you’ve realized that all the collections follow the same basic roadmap. This roadmap needed to be consistent between old and new legendaries, so what we got makes perfect sense. They did an ok job matching the price fairly well with the TP, but honestly I think that was purely a secondary concern.
What is the point of making the new PRECURSOR collections cost THOUSANDS of gold to craft when they aren’t tradeable and are EXOTICS!?
I can give multiple reasons:
1) It takes money out of the economy for a luxary item.
2) It makes the item more exclusive and thus more desirable by much of the player base.
3) It prevents the item from being “devalued” by simply being a item made so that it can be sold and made money on (which is something the community has begged for over the last 3 years).
4) In the end it is the Legendary that is being sought after, the “exotic” level means very little at that point because almost nobody would make it and then stop without making the legendary since you can’t sell the precursor.
5) Even if somebody didn’t go all the way to Legendary at that point, it is still just about the skin, not stats since that person would easily have enough money to have aquired at least Ascended weapons by then.In the end, it is either worth it to you or not in order to get the rare Legendary skin. If you only care about trading it then it isn’t worth it, or if you are only interested in the stats, it isn’t worth it either. This is all talking about the reasons for the new system for new Legendaries of course. The reason why the old ones are like that I’ve already answered in my previous post. Simply put, the old ones had to follow the same format, the only difference is that you can sometimes go the cheaper route by buying them from the TP (however that may change as the market changes slowly to adapt to new collection system).
No offence, but you should apply your forum signature to yourself since you don’t seem to understand why people are so up in arms about this.
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GW2 should’ve taken a page from the old WoW days.
I don’t recall at what point in WoW’s lifecycle it was, but during the days of “class quests”, the Hunter quest involved you killing certain mobs that could only be killed by using certain Hunter skills.
Why didn’t Anet do something like this for the legendaries?
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It’s called rushing to make a deadline.
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The community asked that we had to hunt for our precursors/legendaries. We asked that it was hard to do so.
We never asked that it was so hard and time consuming that simply grinding the gold to flat-out buy the precursors was actually far easier.
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I’d say wait a bit longer before deciding to get HoT and come back
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Not sure, I am rather unpleased by a few things. The first week was nice, but the deeper you dig the more and more issues and bugs you find. And Anet is fixing them at a glacial speed.
Looks like Anet is perma-Chilled.
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If they prove they will not make the same mistakes they’ve done in HoTs, then yes.
Also, they gotta remake underwater combat. Did Anet forget that was one of the things they focused on before? Remember the manifesto where they hint a giant Leviathan during the end of the video? Remember concept art for some characters like Eir that show her fighting a giant creature underwater?
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Eir, as a NORN, died horribly. The Skalds will not sing about she seemed to accept death without a fight.
Btw, i LOVE how you say that game mechanics should apply to her yet contradict yourself by saying that, if they did, we could’ve simply revived her. Good job when you have no real argument.
Also, no offense, but that is not a fighting stance. She was preparing herself for the blow she knew was coming.
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Ok, so after replaying the story mode on another character, I paid more attention to this scene.
First, the fact still remains that she most likely got wounded after the crash. You can argue about our reality vs the games, but the game has its own reality as well. And since we can die from fall damage, so can she be hurt or killed by it too.
More on her injuries, we can assume there is some internal damage from before, but its kinda hard to show that from the outside other than bruising. But we do see she has a black eye and blood on her face. Also, with the game’s rating, there is only so much they can show.
Next up, being starved and dehydrated for DAYS. We don’t know the exact number since the crash and finding her, so we know it has to be 2+. Attribute to that they were forced to march as well, with injuries, and hungry.
Finally, count the newest injury from Faolin stabbing her. We’ve seen her take a hit before, and pretty much shrug it off or recover pretty fast. Here, she seems to just struggle to pull out the thorn. Heck, I think the most unbelievable part was her perfect aim at this point hitting Faolin.
Now, the creature approaches behind her, and she nods to Brahm, knowing. Now, what does she know? She is going to die? Or understanding the creature is behind her? Well, Brahm shouts it, the creatures falls behind, the screen shakes, so it wasn’t quiet, so it leads me to she was starting to accept her fate that she may not come out of this alive (note, NOT giving up).
Now, she turns and faces the beast, and its the look of determination. In other words, YES she is ready to fight despite her condition, or at least go down fighting.
And then she gets stabbed with the tail. Maybe if she was at her peak condition, it may have grazed her and been a moderate wound. But anet was clearly showing she wasn’t anywhere near peak condition, and in pretty bad condition. She was most likely expecting a front attack with the head or claws, not the tail.
Now, as for everyone pointing out “but she’s an action hero! She did this and this in the book!”, let me ask you this: What makes you think she DIDN’T do that already to stop being captured, or to help Pact members flee as they were surrounded? I am gonna assume she gave it her all to take down the Mordrem that captured her, because chances are at the time, she probably thought they just wanted to kill her. So she already went all out before hand and was STILL taken down eventually.
To sum up:
Fighting turn sylvarie on the ship, surviving a crash, fighting for her life against the mordrem, starved and dehydrated for days while being forced to march, puncture wound from Faolin. I’m sorry, her being able to fight that beast and survive would’ve been really cheap and basically saying “yes, none of the main NPCs will die.”If something like this doesn’t kill one, then what would? A drago- oh….
You’re adding real logic to an MMO. By that logic, if an Elementalist hits me with any fire spell, i’m screwed.
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Yet it’s a little obvious they want to replace Zojja with Taimi just like they did with Eir and her son.
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I would dare say i hate how we killed Mordremoth even more than how we killed Zhaitan. At least with Zhaitan, we HAD to use cannons specifically designed to kill Elder Dragons [notice how this cannon tech doesn’t seem to exist now, i guess Zojja forgot].
If you recall, their entire fleet was shot down, including the cannons before they knew what was happening. You know that airship in Verdant Brink with the glowing aura coming out of a ‘core’? That’s the main airship of the fleet. Mordremoth took them out before they could fire the cannons. Meaning we lost our highest tech stuff in this fiasco.
And yet we STILL killed Mordremoth, who is supposed to be far stronger than Zhaitan, much more easily. In fact, we, almost literally, beat him with nothing but swords.
In his mind. He had the most unstoppable body, but his mind was his weakness. If we had a battle against his body we never would have won.
Uhh no, we fought both. WE, as in us the PC, fought in his mind. A lot of the others fought his physical body and actually managed to hold him at bay while we fought in his mind at the Dream.
And may i remind you that the last time someone fought an Elder Dragon head on like that, it was Destiny’s Edge and ONLY thanks to Snaff going into Krakaltorrik’s mind and almost winning.
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It’s a bit obvious that Anet wants to eventually replace Destiny’s Edge with the “new generation” [Taimi, Kasmeer, Marjory, Braham and Rox].
Why else kill both Traeherne and Eir, have both Zojja and Logan MIA and still keep us in the dark about Caithe’s loyalty?
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I would dare say i hate how we killed Mordremoth even more than how we killed Zhaitan. At least with Zhaitan, we HAD to use cannons specifically designed to kill Elder Dragons [notice how this cannon tech doesn’t seem to exist now, i guess Zojja forgot].
If you recall, their entire fleet was shot down, including the cannons before they knew what was happening. You know that airship in Verdant Brink with the glowing aura coming out of a ‘core’? That’s the main airship of the fleet. Mordremoth took them out before they could fire the cannons. Meaning we lost our highest tech stuff in this fiasco.
And yet we STILL killed Mordremoth, who is supposed to be far stronger than Zhaitan, much more easily. In fact, we, almost literally, beat him with nothing but swords.
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Cause we want to kill Mordremoth, duh.
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Apparently him and Zojja are “missing”.
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Logan’s not dead. After the “i’ll sacrifice myself for you all” moment before the fight with Zhaitan, they won’t kill him for a while.
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So both Eir AND Traeherne are dead thanks to Mordremoth.
Things aren’t looking so good for the Pact and Destiny’s Edge, we still got 4 Elder Dragons to go and one of them is underwater [ironically, there’s some old concept art of Eir fighting a huge creature underwater with a sword].
Who is next on the chopping block? Likely Zojja. Who else could die after Eir of all people but her?
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I would dare say i hate how we killed Mordremoth even more than how we killed Zhaitan. At least with Zhaitan, we HAD to use cannons specifically designed to kill Elder Dragons [notice how this cannon tech doesn’t seem to exist now, i guess Zojja forgot].
Just one thing that kinda angered me. A HUGE part of the Living Story involved both Caithe [who somehow didn’t succumbed to Mordremoth even when she’s one of the Sylvari who has a pretty dark mind] and Glint’s egg.
WE KNOW NOTHING NEW. I thought the egg would be key to eliminating Mordremoth [similar to how the specialized cannon was key to killing Zhaitan], yet nothing happened. Caithe didn’t seem to do anything or truly say anything, the egg didn’t hatch or do dingus, so…..we gotta wait for the Living Story to kick in again?
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Let’s be honest, Anet doesn’t really care about Underwater combat at this point and they likely won’t till they decide to make us fight the Deep Sea Dragon.
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The sword looks more like Travis Touchdown’s Beam Katana from No More Heroes, which in itself is a Lightsaber reference.
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