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I want that too – even if it’s in the gemstore.
They did come from underground but now live in the Tarnished Coast, we assume that is where they popped out from under ground.
Tarnished Coast.
All of the peninsula is a vast and verdant jungle. While the wastes have completely dried and are uninhabitable, the Tarnished Coast has maintained its wildland of tropical trees. It is here that the asura and sylvari races have made their homes; from their capitals of Rata Sum and the Grove, respectively. Metrica Province and Caledon Forest collectively pour into the Brisban Wildlands, and later into more cultivated territory.So the Asura have been living in vast and verdant jungles now for over 1000 years.. I’d say Taimi is used to Jungles then.
You do realize you make no sense right?
Taimi lived in Rata Sum- Rata Sum is not a jungle – it’s a city within the jungle.
The city I live in is surrounded by hills and woodlands – so it’s in a hilly woodsy area – so that means I’m qualified to survive there just because MY CITY is in located in that area? Even though I haven’t ever survived on my own outside of my city?
Also – where did you get the 1000 years number? Did you make that up to suit your theory?
In case you’ve never been to Rata Sum – I’ll give you some inside info about it – it’s a floating city it doesn’t even touch the ground – let alone the jungle.
Stop making things up to try to make it seem that you’ve got a point.
Asura are not jungle-trotting survivalists – they rely on their technology and safely built environments to survive.
You’re trating Taimi like she’s the rule. She’s not the rule, she’s the exception, which is why doing the things she does still works in the world.
Lots of Asura can build golems, but only a very small handful of asura can build golems capable of what Taimi does.
Taimi isn’t an average child, she’s an exceptional one, just like your plaer character is an exceptional member of whatever race you are. making the argument that she’s just a disabled child is like saying the story is unbelivable because my character came from the slums of DR and went on to be a pivotal factor in the death of two elder dragons.
Like it or hate it, the main characters are main characters because they’re exceptions to the rule. Taimi isn’t just a child any more than traherne is just a scholar, Logan is just a human in armor, or Snaff is just a golemancer. These characters, like it or hate it are unique specifically because they’re exceptional examples of the people of tyria with skills, knowledge, determination, or circumstances that most people simply don’t have. That’s what makes them heroes of the story rather than nameless filler NPCs.
And I understand that.
All that aside – being an exceptional builder of golems and a prodigy don’t mean you’re automatically qualified for front-line fighting.
Taimi has proven in this very story that while she has a lot of cognitive potential she is still a child – because of her inability to control her emotional side and lack of emotional maturity – that almost gets her killed.
That’s not the kind of person you want by your side when you’re fighting for your life. Or for some bigger goal.
If she can make great golems she should just send the golems. Or have some other asura drive it around.
She didn’t get to the heart of the maguuma by herself. She was escorted there by tyria’s greatest heroes at present, including the PC.
Now that she’s there, she can reasonably hold her own between her golem and the reactivated Rata Novus defenses.
Though even with her golem, it’s a safe bet she wouldn’t have made it to Rata Novus without us. We’ve saved her life more than once.
If we were to keep her out there without her state-of-the-art cutting edge golem? That would be negligent homicide.
We should absolutely check in on her occasionally, but she’s far from helpless.
As for a lack of tension? All things said at the end of the day, she’s a young asura with special needs in the heart of the maguuma. Of course it’s incredibly dangerous.
All that comes with being a hero.
What our PC (and every major hero in the story) does is basically gamble with their lives and hope a combination of skill and luck works out in their favor.
Fighting elder dragons is dangerous business. Not big surprise. Taimi’s mature enough to make her own life choices and this is the path she’s pursuing.
She’s an asura. She’s perfectly aware of what she’s getting herself into. Probably has the exact statistics and all that.
The problem is she’s all that but she’s also an NPC that’s both a child and disabled. This pretty much guarantees that she won’t get killed – which makes the whole dynamic of threats boring.
How can I take “saving her” seriously when I absolutely know no harm would come to her because of the RL backlash against Anet if they killed her off.
By that logic our PC is incredibly boring because you absolutely know we’ll never really be killed off. Just won’t happen, you know?
Taimi is just as likely to be killed off as the rest of the cast. Certainly has a better chance of kicking the bucket than we do as the PC.
Taimi’s circumstances don’t exclude her from danger any more than the other heroes.
The story has already made a precedent of that more then once with her specific character no less.
You’d probably find it all more enjoyable if you didn’t go TVTropes meta with it.
It’s possible it could play out exactly as you’re saying it will or maybe something different will happen.
We don’t know where the story is going to go. Let it happen.
You did read my post above where I specifically explained that when you play an MMO you come into it with the acceptance of the fact that your PC is not going to get killed.
In fact – your PC is not so much a participant to the story as he is a means through which you are there for the story.
In a sense a PC’s survival is guaranteed because without it how could you further explore the story? The PC’s participation is a necessity. His survival and plot armor stem from the fact that Anet can’t just “kill” and delete something you’ve put 3000 hours into as a customer.
What they can do is not apply this rule to NPCs – which are there to drive their story with their own characters, motives, fears, actions and ultimately deaths.
When you compare an NPC that’s part of the story to the PC you display a lot of ignorance to the basic different roles the two play and both to their importance in the story.
Taimi’s circumstances don’t exclude her from danger any more than the other heroes.
And I’m pretty sure there is some form of regulation that forbids showing the death of children in video games.
Also – like I mentioned – the fact that she’s both a child, then asura, then a girl, then disabled pretty much makes it that the backlash of her death would be pretty big.
Do you think she’s just as likely to die as any other character? Might want to give that another thought.
You’d probably find it all more enjoyable if you didn’t go TVTropes meta with it.
Honestly I don’t find any of Destiny’s Edge 2.0 to be enjoyable. I’d rather not have any of them around – except for Canach who’s the only one who seems to be connected to what’s going on.
Still – out of all of them – the ones I find I can stand the least are Taimi and Kasmeer+ Marjory. It’s still a tie between these – can’t really make up my mind who I dislike more.
She didn’t get to the heart of the maguuma by herself. She was escorted there by tyria’s greatest heroes at present, including the PC.
Now that she’s there, she can reasonably hold her own between her golem and the reactivated Rata Novus defenses.
Though even with her golem, it’s a safe bet she wouldn’t have made it to Rata Novus without us. We’ve saved her life more than once.
If we were to keep her out there without her state-of-the-art cutting edge golem? That would be negligent homicide.
We should absolutely check in on her occasionally, but she’s far from helpless.
As for a lack of tension? All things said at the end of the day, she’s a young asura with special needs in the heart of the maguuma. Of course it’s incredibly dangerous.
All that comes with being a hero.
What our PC (and every major hero in the story) does is basically gamble with their lives and hope a combination of skill and luck works out in their favor.
Fighting elder dragons is dangerous business. Not big surprise. Taimi’s mature enough to make her own life choices and this is the path she’s pursuing.
She’s an asura. She’s perfectly aware of what she’s getting herself into. Probably has the exact statistics and all that.
The problem is she’s all that but she’s also an NPC that’s both a child and disabled. This pretty much guarantees that she won’t get killed – which makes the whole dynamic of threats boring.
How can I take “saving her” seriously when I absolutely know no harm would come to her because of the RL backlash against Anet if they killed her off.
Most five year old musical prodigies don’t have anyone trying to chop them into pieces with an axe while they play the violin.
My nephew was determined to be a math prodigy in grade school. Not sure that it would have qualified him for a SEAL team position in Afghanistan.
That’s because he didn’t use that math prodiginess to build himself a Gundam with enough firepower and armor to provide better offensive and ground-holding ability than three full fireteams.
Except even if he could do that he would be more valuable developing other new and better Gundams while other cannon fodder guys piloted the one he made.
Not to mention just because you can make a really good ground breaking technical warmachine ( of any sort) doesn’t automatically qualify you as the best person to pilot and use it.
Of all the characters that hang around the commander like a bad smell, Taimi is in my opinion the most repugnant. Her interactions with the player and environment are wholey unbelievable, she routinely makes utterly idiotic and downright dangerous decisions in a time of war and puts her team mates in jeapordy as a result. We need more Canach, tbh.
Honestly the only reason why we even have Taimi in this story is clear – Political Correctness and new-age liberal “diversity”. Let me explain.
1.She’s an asura – that’s not a human – so it’s good.
2.She’s a child – not an adult – so that’s good.
3.She’s disabled – so that must be good!
This is for all intents and purposes, a disabled child, that granted has a golem following them, but is able to survive the harshest jungle environments basically on her own.
You mean where asura (and humans in real life) are naturally from?
How can anyone feel threatened in a world where children wander off perfectly fine in unexplored areas.
What I took from it is Taimi is just exceptionally brilliant and well prepared. She’s a prodigy even by asura standards. You know those five year old musical prodigies in real life? The ones who play music it took many adults many years of practice to play? Those are human beings, and humans are inherently dumber than asura.
I wont be able to take any part of the upcoming story seriously.
Why do you want to take part in a game’s story seriously? Not everything has to be plausible, what’s wrong with just having a fun story to play through?
It’s too ‘new age’ for me to feel that a child should be making unilateral important decisions.
Not everyone who plays the game is an adult so it’s empowering kids who play the game too. In real life kids very rarely ever make big decisions so kids playing the game can live that through Taimi in a way.
Before you start making claims in bold at least bother to check your facts. Asura are originally from UNDERGROUND – they lived in the so called “Depths of Tyria”. They are not " from the jungle" – they just inhabited it for a while. And even then if you look at how Rata Sum is structured you’ll notice it’s not very jungle-ish – quite the contrary.
The fact that she’s a prodigy doesn’t mean she’s emotionally mature or capable of making the right decisions – this is evident multiple times throughout the story – including the part where she almost dies.
Just because this is a game doesn’t mean some people don’t want a more serious story.
Just because a book is a book – does that mean you can’t take the story seriously? Have great literary works of art not influenced our views on the world even though they depict events that are ultimately made up?
That aside – I understand what the OP is saying. Even tough this is an MMO and people have to come in already accepting the fact that you character does have plot armor – as far as I see it everything else should be up for grabs.
No other NPCs should have “plot armor” and things should be dynamic and interesting.
Also “empowering to kids” – wow – the reason children usually don’t make their own decisions is because they are yet to be complete human beings – they are in the process of forming – both biologically and psychologically – which makes them poor candidates to make life-shaping decisions in the majority of time.
Nobody wants defined roles – if you want that there’s probably another MMO out there for you.
There are a few skins in the game that have different looks based on whether it’s day or night in game. (Eternity, AC weapons)
While this is fun and flavorful – the lack of control over how your item looks is a bit frustrating.
I would propose a toggle for these items with which the player could choose which version of the skin they wanted regardless of the in-game day/night cycle. You would be able to choose which skin variant you wanted or you could choose to let the item as-is and have it change as “normal” with day and night.
What do you guys think? Could this be a thing?
Learning and overcoming something is part of a fun game experience,
No it is not.
That said my hands shake very badly and i have arthritis, my hand eye coordination will never get better, i’m personally ok with never getting a legendary, they are ugly as sin to me, but forcing such content to pass it is extremely unfair on those in my condition that ever did want them.
What ever happened to the original fun experience GW2 released as..
Oh how far we gamers have fallen. Did I actually read someone disagreeing that gaming is about learning and overcoming things? That’s a sad commentary on the state of gaming if that’s a common view.
If you are aware of your own issues then being aware of your own limitations should also be a thing.
It is indeed sad that people would rather complain they can’t do something rather than just objectively realize some things may or may not be for them.
So I am more than 1k gold into Nevermore. I have also spent more than a hundred hours going to 100+ locations, waiting for obscure group events to spawn and traipsing back and forth across every zone.
I have 60/63 for Nevermore IV and have reached a hard stop. "Embody the Ley-Line Energy’ requires silver or better for The Ley-Line Run Adventure. It might as well be walking to the moon.
I am clumsy. Always have been. That is ok. I have many other gifts and can do most of the game well enough. I have completed a number of jumping puzzles and world completion a number of times.
I am ok with occasionally paying a mesmer for port, like https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wall_Breach_Blitz and sometimes, with patience and repeated effort I can do them myself.
I am not a happy camper There was no warning that completing a timed race would be required. There is no other option for a work around, I am just unexpected stuck with no hope of progressing.
I want to either progress, or I want my gold and time back. Now, I have been playing games for about three decades at this point. So I realize that one person complaining on a forum, or even leaving a game entirely is not going to change anything.
However, I do think that the developers need to be loudly reminded that not everyone is a 13 year old with fighter pilot reflexes.
Drytop doesn’t work for me. I am ok with that. There were other level 80 zones available, and eventually Silverwastes came out which was better. I doubt that I will ever see the raid, and (again) I am ok with that. But many, MANY of us will not be able to be able to complete this adventure in the 90 seconds.
We could try a hundred, a thousand, or a hundred thousand tries. It isn’t going to change.
I suspect that many players will end up stuck here. People who have dedicated the time to complete ALL of the masteries, spent over 1000 gold, did map completion on all four of the new maps and then suddenly get stopped with an ugly ascended staff and no way to complete the project.
It is a good time for people to examine other game options.
I bolded the problem. You’re not.
Try – fail – repeat that over and over again – eventually you’ll get it.
Nobody is going to give you anything back – if you know you’re “particularly clumsy” maybe you should have checked beforehand if this weapon’s crafting process was “clumsy proof”.
It’s common sense to check whether or not you can accomplish a task or not before starting if you are aware you have an above-average limitation. It’s not like you discovered your own limit while building this.
However, I do think that the developers need to be loudly reminded that not everyone is a 13 year old with fighter pilot reflexes.
Sorry to remind you – but you’re just as responsible as they are.
Also honestly – the game has PLENTY of margin of error – but you probably need to try to improve more and take it more seriously if you are to succeed.
We could try a hundred, a thousand, or a hundred thousand tries. It isn’t going to change.
Unless you actually cannot even start it – trying repeatedly for 1000 times will most likely give you a win.
In fact – I’m willing to bet money that if you did this 1000 times – provided you went into it with no ill will or desire to prove me wrong – you would probably get it.
I would rather have selectable runes than have it work on all weight classes.
Also I believe the outfit thing is not a good idea – I don’t want to have non-heavy armor users posing in heavy legendary armor.
Legendary armor should be * a choice* – you choose what armor class you want it on and you build that.
It always drops to someone else guys. In this 4 years, only once I got ascended chest and it was from low fractal lvl.
Not a single drop of weapons out there nor rare items such as precursor in these 4 years.
How do you suppose I craft so expensive items such as ascended armour when nothing good drops to me?
How often do you do Teq/TT?
How often do you do fractals? What levels/tiers?
How often do you do the PvP reward tracks?How often do you do Teq/TT? Almoust every day
How often do you do fractals? What levels/tiers? Same as above, 1-40
How often do you do the PvP reward tracks? Once in 2-3 days I play PvP, currently doing glorious armour track as no other brings any good PvE lootI am literally lord of calamity here among all of you. Not a single freaking drop. It feels like game don’t want me to play it.
If you can do fractals at level 40 – just farm that for gold.
One hour in there should give you about 10 gold + drops ( exotic drops too).
Farm it – earn your money.
It always drops to someone else guys. In this 4 years, only once I got ascended chest and it was from low fractal lvl.
Not a single drop of weapons out there nor rare items such as precursor in these 4 years.
How do you suppose I craft so expensive items such as ascended armour when nothing good drops to me?
Farm. Learn how to make money in the game.
I have quite a big of money – Up until recently ( two months ago) I never had a drop more expensive than 80 gold.
Two months ago I did get a Gorseval infusion – but at that point I was already pretty well off money wise.
Learn how to make money – don’t expect it to drop.
I say NO to both. It takes zero effort to obtain laurels. If you want the shards or ascended armor then work for it like everyone else that has.
It takes 0 effort to pay for raid carries as well.
But this is at least in part dependent on people being skilled.
At least it means 9 people are skilled enough to carry a 10th through raids for a fee.
Laurel acquisition is basically just logging in each day.
This sort of system is absurd.
“Give us access to the best and most rare rewards in the game simply because we logged in every day pls Anet”.
How about no.