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Even if there was a counter it could be rigged. This way no one knows when to stop spending their gold on vote tickets. ;p

Nope not allowed – against the rules! You can only buy votes from the peaceful zephyrite merchant. Otherwise you have to go murder any/everything else that he sold voting tickets to … which seems to be a LOT of things.

He sells them to grubs and skale too? :/

Just thinking out loud here – regardless of who wins they offer a discount on something. Does that mean they will balance the lost revenue by increasing the costs elsewhere? Higher taxes on anything isn’t really something people would put on their election profiles, so I’m just speculating for the 4 weeks that follow the election…

If Kiel wins: WP cost reduced / Black Lion Key price increased
If Evon wins: Black Lion Key price reduced / WP cost increased

I actually hope ANet has planned to do this. What do you think?

Just time your run when your server is dominant or go at odd hours when you know the opposition will mostly be asleep/at work/at school etc. You may still run into some but in lesser numbers, and usually when in lesser numbers they aren’t as evil.

Whose time is more important to you?
There is your answer.

Hi all!

Since I don’t think I’m going to be very good at the activities with this release, I figured I’d support my candidate Ellen Kiel in a different way…through my apprentice art skills! Thankfully Lady Kasmeer Meade was a willing muse for this project. See attachment. :P

How does this work?
Post your support for Ellen Kiel as replies to this thread to be a “participant”! I’ll be taking a list of your names.

If Ellen Kiel wins the upcoming election then two things will happen:

A) I will start up a new thread in the GW2 Living Story forum for active participants to suggest how they want Lady Kasmeer depicted. Like this council voting there will be a 2 week time limit to get your input in. Afterwards I will compile all the most similar ideas, merge them together and run with that . If the end result is too risque for these forums I’ll put it up on my own site to share it.

B) For every 20 “participants” I will pick one at random to win a free drawing of any character they like. I know I’m not the most talented artist out there but I’ll do my best!

If Ellen Kiel DOESN’T win the upcoming election then:

None of the above will happen, but just as a show of appreciation for putting up with my silly idea I’ll pick one random participant from the whole lot to receive a free art request.

As long as the end result is that Lion’s Arch is torched, destroyed, flattened, wiped out from the map, and all of its criminal / criminal supporter inhabitants (pretty much all of them) are killed and/or executed then I will be happy.

More so if I can slay all of them myself.

In-game hash tag titles? Really? Didn’t know they also had twitter in Tyria. I suppose this is all Lord Vanquish’s fault. >.<

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Xar.6185:

Thanks to Vahkris for doing this.

Not to diminish Vahkris’ efforts though, but…

I just think he/she shouldn’t have had to. Someone at Anet must know when specific pieces of content are going away. They can’t just be adding content by the seat of their pants every 2 weeks and then ending it randomly. Surely there is a timeline somewhere.

Strongly agree.

Echo of the above. Thanks Vahkris, and hope ANet rewards you for picking up their slack!

As I posted before when I look for GW2 related info I look at the GW2 forums and/or wiki first. Dulfy second. Reddit? NEVER. It is infuriating that that’s where the ANet employees decide to post first.

Nick.6972:

Are you really that poor in-game to be all exited for reduced WP costs?

Yes.

Pretty sure the tokens can be grinded too, which again would favour the dungeon runners / grind-masters. Not that it’s a bad thing, because it is the grinders that will mostly be affected by whatever outcome happens I’d think.

I’ve got to admit, that’s a very clever gold sink though – especially if they decide to display “event status bars” during the whole thing so people can see who is winning the race.

It would be lured to play fractals if this suddenly became scary/dark like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. / Metro 2033 – look out for anomalies and bloodsuckers! :P

To either: Can you share the specific discounted prices you are offering for waypoints and black lion keys? Also, just curious – what is your favourite colour?

Still, if the fractal runners are as grindy as everyone makes them out to be then I would think they’d be able to vote more than the average casual. That’s absolutely fine though because in the end they are the ones who will likely use (more heavily) whatever content comes up, so this method gives them a heavier weighing vote too.

Risingashes you should be on Mr. Gnashblade’s payroll if you aren’t already. While I am not going to vote for your candidate I certainly enjoy the campaign posts you put up for him.

Given that it’s still a bit away and they’ve already generated this much forum activity yeah, I think it’s going to be a hit. That said I doubt I’ll personally do half of the upcoming content since it seems more PvP / survival focused this time (both of which I dislike) but that doesn’t mean it won’t be good.

PS – don’t vote for Evon. :P

She may not have any campaign posters, or promises, or hell – maybe she doesn’t even want to run but if she did – I’d vote for Dulfy!

Her site has helped so many people already. So yeah, if you happen to read this – thanks and keep up the good work! Anet should seriously give you the first seat on the player’s council or whatever if they decide to make one.

As an aside, maybe Katsu should form the player’s council? Not sure what you would do other than hold events and such though… :P

If you were after true justice you would slay all of Lion’s Arch. No such thing as a good pirate.

Yeah, at first glance the voting seems tilted to favour grinders too (vote tokens only come from the survive waves of aetherblade attacks). Guess we’ll have to wait and see.

ANet made a good competition though to get this much forum activity.

If you discovered that Mr. E was behind the Molten Alliance and was the boss of the Aetherblades would you still vote for him?

You do that. Vote for the lying, silver-tongued, snake-nosed trickster from the city who dresses in scarlet clothing.

Leablo.2651:

Don’t worry, the one true king returns every Halloween.

Big thumbs up.

Hmm looks like it will be mainly a vote based on grinding, if those vote tokens can only be gotten through the “survival” aetherblade pirate event.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

how could fighting this guy be not epic?

http://img.kongzhong.com/gw2/news/2013/01/17/49dd615ae91358402147.jpg

They could give him immunity to all weapons and you’d need to defeat him by luring him into his own mines using an everyman tool regardless of your class. It’s not like they’d ever do something like that right?

Oh wait…

I’d vote for you, simply to have a voice from a player on the council than either of the developer puppets.

As long as they put the tallied vote results up at the end I’ll be happy. Must be showing my mmorpg age when I laugh to myself at those voting for Evon simply to fight Abaddon though. What’s wrong kiddies? Never killed a god before? :P

Lokheit.7943:

How much do you plan to waypoint in 4 weeks? And it’s a reduction cost (10%? maybe 20% even 50% won’t matter on the long term).

The amount of WP-ing I’d do in a month would still be higher than the amount of black lion keys I would buy (zero). Since I don’t really care for Fractal content, Kiel has my vote.

Just wanted to let the musicians and art fellas (paintings & map builders) that they did a great job again with this release! Got slightly worried with the Dragon Bash theme there muso’s – it kept reminding me of “In the Navy” by YMCA for some reason, but I’ve got no such issues this time! :P

As for the Zephyrite song, is there any place that has the lyrics in order? Listening to the VA’s do it all out of key with each other in game hurts my ears a little. I’ll just sing it myself! ^_~

Edit: Ahha, google is my friend. :P

I found the whole thing pretty cool too. Being in love with Zephyrites… uhhh maybe not (they’re a bunch of whack jobs). Up to when does this content last anyway? I didn’t see an end date anywhere.

My favourite part:
“She was as old as the Shiverpeaks, older than the gods. None will ever hear her true name spoken properly. And so we will remember her only as Glint, the one and only dragon who fought the destruction of our world. While we live, she will never be forgotten.”

And to those who don’t bother to read, she will never be known in the first place. :P

@Ghost (3rd post): Not only are we using a dead dragon’s bits but I doubt they all came in similar sizes originally. That means they pain-stakingly carved up the remains. What nice people. Given they setup a scavenger hunt that encourages self-termination and have diving goggles at the prow of their air ship, one simply must assume that these people are psychos.

Actually it behaved the same for me jeatsen – I needed to stop at every lightning pull. If you really must keep moving try turn on your auto-run instead… that said it didn’t work for me (it activated the hidden aspect-lag/rubberband/chaos-teleport skill). ;p

Not sure if these can help anyone but I thought I’d put a link to them here just incase.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/bazaar/Sanctum-Sprint-from-Australia-tips/first#post2410383

Not sure if these can help but I’ll put them here anyway just incase.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/bazaar/Sanctum-Sprint-from-Australia-tips/first#post2410383

Heya Optionals – Lightning pull (3) was also my main downfall. To get the “auto” pull I found you should be as close to the next one (the one you want to jump to) as you can before pressing 3. Sometimes this is in the middle of the lightning graffiti or lightning platform, sometimes closer if you are lagging. You can also manually jump (target it) but results may vary.

I’ve found it fails (to activate) more often the more people you have near you so ideally be out in front or in a small group. Running with the big cluster will give you the issue more often.

For latency heavy people this is really a problem so you have to play dirty with the light travels (see above) and fake powerups. Best place for the fake powerups are ON the lightning platforms and on thin bamboo spots. You can place them without stopping. I felt guilty putting them down but win first, play nice later. :P Putting them on waterfalls is pretty neat but it doesn’t slow down your opposition that much unless it knocks them into space.

Forgot to mention above: that last shortcut? Practice it at the end of the race while waiting. If you don’t know where it is, jump off and kill yourself – you will respawn near the line with the blue crystal which marks the spot you should jump up.

I think if you turn on “6” you can run through the bombs and take no damage. Well, the first bomb anyway. :P

“My past and future are clouded by a fog of violence.”

Didn’t get that from a cookie, just some strange random Zephyr woman. :P

That would be a devious mode (if you died and were disqualified). People would be more cautious and aggressive. I’d think the guy up in front would want to turn around and slaughter everyone to ensure victory. :P

To the Drakkar fellows in the Obsidian JP one hour ago (14 July 2013 – 1 PMish Sydney Time), thank you for not attacking me. I think there were around 10 or so of you in total (separate teams) I passed (I was the human with a flaming book on my back). Was very fun saluting/waving/dancing with you all, and I hope the guys on your various teams that I saw falling managed to get the kite/chest themselves afterwards.

May be a small gesture to everyone else but for me it was awesome. Thanks again!

Woo finally got the first place on run number … 28. :/ Still, no quarter was given – I basically just ran well and got lucky. However there are a few things (in addition to all the other tips out there already) to help improve your odds!

1 – Guest to a low pop server on their off times. I went to Whiteside Ridge and the amount of rubber banding I was experiencing was reduced drastically.

2 – Use “2” liberally. Aim for the thin jars to either get the “4”-“2” combo or if you are behind, Light travel.

3 – Light Travel is your BEST tool. That said, you have to know the best time to use it. Learn the course checkpoints. Some are super easy to reach where others are more difficult. If you know the next bit is easy/a short way to the next checkpoint DONT use it. Wait till you get to a segment that you know is problematic to teleport.

4 – If you get shot you may lose your important light travel skill. Always turn on “6” if you get it. Not only does it protect you from zaps (which you can dodge btw, but why) – it also negates the fake powerups people put down.

5 – Two shortcuts you should make use of, both near the end. The first is an optional balancing bamboo path that hugs the final cliff face with orange crystals, letting you run fast. Can do better, I was using “2” on that (press “2” again to hit the brakes). You’ve probably seen other people use it, and it is worth it.

Last one is on the final circuit – there’s a blue “wind” crystal near the final plateau which boosts your “1”. Pick it up and press “1” to jump up behind the chest. You still need to cross that line though so ignore the chest (if you don’t you are flagged as a late starter anyway and get no loot) and finish first!

That second one is subject to a “is it cheating” debate, but until the powers that be declare it to be so it’s your best bet to get first place because really, everyone else is going to be using it.

My only gripe with it so far is that player action has no effect on the story whatsoever. Otherwise it’s good. :P

Starscream.6498:

What ALSO caught my eye is that the Sanctum has ballistas placed everywhere. It might just be a precaution, but…

There’s an event where Aetherblades come raid the supplies near the Sky Docks. Was very annoying actually as it was spamming last night, many vets and many champs.

Can we just kill them all? They’re pirate scum!

All the maps I’ve travelled upon so far have zero. None. Kaput. Well that’s not true, I did see one next to the garrison waypoint but it vanished when I opened it. Never seen it there again and I’ve been visiting it daily for crystal transmutation.

Happens to me a lot on that wind jump bit too. Around 25% of the time is certain death, whereby I press “1” but instead of jumping just die instantly.

Then people at ground level can revive me and I stand back up on the platforms. And ANet expects people with these issues to actually compete in that Sanctum Sprint. <shrug>

Are speedy reader and the clean up the neighborhood currently stuffed? Not sure if I got all the separatist propaganda but I’m certain I got most, and all the books for sure.

Both still track as 0% for me. Is that normal? Or have I just been wasting my time doing this? >:(

There are icons on the map? I didn’t see any. Just little “kite bag” pairs on the ground. :/

Maybe what they should do in the future is have a pvp set of achievements so that the WvWers have something of their own too. Using the kites as an example:

PvE – get 6 kites from JPs and mini dungeons (1 AP for each)
PvP – get 3 kites from each of the borderlands (2 AP for each)

Completing either gives you the Learn to Kite achievement (4 AP), but completing both will only still net you a max of 10 AP (as if you only completed one), so it’s pointless to do both. Or a simpler way is just make the overall Learn to Kite grant all the achievement points, it would just have 2 completion bars which is either/or.

Having more objectives in there would actually mean less camping, since the campers would have to spread out to cover each. If they do go with this I hope they aren’t scum by putting the kites (or whatever) inside forts though. :P

The annoying part is that they should have been aware of this all the way back from the molten weapons facility. Those “waves” were so out of sync for me it wasn’t funny, the ones that needed to be jumped over I basically had to jump as the wave was being created, not when it was near me, to evade.

If the frequency of the LS updates changed and were brought out every 3 months, would you quit?

Nope, I’d still play… just less frequently. Like, every 3 months. :P

Would you stop spending real money in game?

Haven’t spent any real money yet. Not even for the box (it was a gift). Don’t see any reason to start.

Would you be so un happy?

Not particularly. I juggle a lot of games, often playing at least 3 a night. Less updates means I’ll have a free slot for something else.

If you read the interviews about the LS the devs make it sound like without them the game would die. Is this true?

Yarp. I’ve seen what happens when content goes stale. People leave then games die.

And another thought occurs, does their current schedule cause you to spend more real money in game, and play more?

The current schedule certainly sees me playing more. Never spending any money though until I see something worth spending it on… maybe a super fast flying mount that can sprint clear from one side of a zone to the other in 15 seconds or less can part me from my money.

Just curious.. I truly think every 2 weeks is nuts and quality will suffer. Your thoughts?

What they have going now seems to be working. Why change it?