Meanwhile, the Gem Store continues to burst with new skins; at the release of HoT they just added a full new weapon set and a new outfit with some other new skins, which you could buy in a pack for “just” 2000 gems.
Sooooo, there is actually quite a sizable amount of skins added which you can obtain ingame.
As described above, nope.
And there are far, far more skins that you can get in the Gem Store.
ArenaNet didn’t release even the 3 new legendary weapons that they had promised, much less the full set, yet they had enough resources to make A LOT of content for the Gem Store and are still making more as we speak.
Clearly, they could have added more to HoT for the $50,00 people paid, but they simply chose not to.
You’re also ignoring
“60 UNIQUE ADDITIONAL ITEM SKINS, MINIATURES, AND MORE”
Yes legendary crafting for the legendaries isn’t in the game yet, but that doesn’t mean the precursors are not available as drops. Link me showing where Anet said they didn’t get the new legendaries in yet.
Also Anet doesn’t sell armor sets on the gemstore anymore(do they still unique pieces either? Not sure). So you can’t compare ingame armor sets with outfits since the two aren’t the same.
it does feel like dlc…or a f2p expansion (not a 50 buck paid expansion). there is next to nothing in the way of discoverable loot in the new areas. all arrows point directly to the gem store (new outfit anyone ^^;…).
Except for all the new unique armor and weapon skins for all of the elite specs, the four new armor sets(bladed, leyline, Mistward, Guild) that are acquired in game. The weapon sets from the new race vendors, the other new weapon skins from drops. The new legendary back skin and gold fractal weapons acquired through fractals. The new look for precursor skins which can be acquired from the new precursor crafting. The new four new legendaries added at HoT launch and the other 12 that will continue to be released until all 16 are out. Oh and the legendary armor that will becoming from raids once those are released(probably some weapon sets there too). Also the new Halloween weapon skins from ToT bags, armor skins from vendors, recipe for Nightfury, and finally those invisible boot skins.
Sooooo, there is actually quite a sizable amount of skins added which you can obtain ingame.
That shouldn’t be the problem, because I’ve done the hit the skritt with the snowball daily around 4 times and its always progressed the meta. I’m also stuck at 19/20 now too. I’m going to be really disappointed if this isn’t fixed before wintersday is over.
So, I’m not sure if this has been widely reported but it seems like The elementalist’s Fire XI: Persisting Flame’s fire field extension doesn’t work when paired up with the Blasting Staff trait.
That’s fine, I have no issue with that either, I don’t care if guilds transfer down from tier one to tier two to balance out gold league, or guilds transfer down to t6/7/8 to balance out those leagues and gold league as well. I was thinking gold league would be easier to balance out simply because there are less servers competing in it than in the other leagues.
I realize a lot of players still have a bitter taste in their mouth from the last time server transfers were free, but please hear me out.
So as we all know Anet decided to change the amount of leagues in NA from two to three and I am thrilled that they did this as it will stop the t1 servers from destroying everyone below them. However, I also realize this could potentially be a good chance for t1 servers to de-stack themselves and balance out the top six servers . Before when we had our stale match ups, where pretty much each tier was locked with no chance of moving up or down, matches were pretty balanced for each tier and t1 wasn’t as stacked as it is now. However, I believe that ever since the WvW match ups changed and most matches became blow outs, where you either completely destroyed your opponents or they completely destroyed you, many players/guilds became sick of there being no middle ground and moved. I also think that when these players/guilds moved they went to t1 simply because even with the matches having more variation, t1 servers usually fought against another t1 server in most match ups and thus were more stable. So here we are now, around 20 days before season 1 starts and it seems like the t1 servers are even more stacked than they were ever before. So what can we do? Lower the price of server transfers or make them free temporarily for a short time before seasons start. I’ll admit this is more for the servers in the gold league more than anything, but I think this could be good. Right now I think that the price to transfer servers is too high and it is a deterrent for many to transfer down to other servers. If the price of server transfers was temporarily reduced or made free I hope that we could get some people to transfer off of t1 and down to t2, which will hopefully create 6 balanced servers and 7 weeks of great fights and less queues. And of course this would be more incentive for more players to spread out/fill out the servers in the silver and bronze leagues as well. So could this be something to consider? Or do you think that its a bad idea and players would just use it to stack up even more? Is this idea viable?
TLDR;
Is it a good idea for Anet to temporarily make the price of server transfers reduced or free so that the WvW player base spreads out(specifically in gold league) and makes the matches more balanced and fun? Or is it a bad idea because players will still just stack on certain servers?
This is it. Had enough with PvD for 3 months straight on CD, went to TC to have some fight on SEA time, only to see WM transfer away from KN, and now everyone is stacking up on the same server. Sucks to be SEA players on TC(or any t2 SEA players) when league start, we’ll either fight doors or just severely outnumbered by 3 stacked servers. There won’t be any good “WvW fights” anymore, maybe if we fight FA/DB again, but then that will only happen one time until the end of the league. Personally, I hate how people stacked up on those 3 server but I can’t really blame them for doing so. It seems like getting the “PvE achievement” in WvW is rewarding for them when the real PvE achievement give way better reward than WvW. Meh, who am I to complain, you guys bought the game so you can play as you wish.
I think the main reason guilds transfered to t1 at least before leagues were announced and after the match up changes was mainly just so they would be guaranteed a good fight majority of the time. As it stands, in the last three months most people either get steamrolled or steamroll everyone else. I can see the allure of wanting to go to a server where things are a lot more stable. But of course things won’t stay that way for long, unfortunately for the duration of season 1 everyone will have blowout matches. :/
But Tequatl is there for those that would like a more challenging boss fight than what the current loot pinatas have been offering up until now.
So you’ve mastered the “get competent players on the turrets” skill?
Is that available on Overflows or only on main servers?
What this has to do with what I said, I don’t know, but his complaint was why he should bother with Tequatl if he can get more loot from other sources faster.
As for this other jab you gave me, give it time, the new Tequatl has only been out for a little for 24 hours, it’s going to be awhile before people can start beating him consistently.
Black Gate beat him. It’s not impossible but will require effort as it should always have been. It’s only been a day. Relax. Giving up won’t get you anywhere. We were just so used to the brain dead spam auto attack encounters that most of us are struggling to actually work together to beat a dragon.
and that tells everything. new Teq is an end of autoattack spam.
it’s the time to co-op.
what possible reason is there to fight taquito? I can get better loot from 2 champs in ANY zone in less time.
Sure, if you feel going in a zerg train to get champ bags is a better use of your time, please go ahead and do that. But Tequatl is there for those that would like a more challenging boss fight than what the current loot pinatas have been offering up until now.
I wouldn’t have felt pressured to get the coin if Anet hadn’t nerfed farming the baubles in SAB to once a day/account bound. If they had left dig spots and end chests how they were in April, I would have thought the infinite continuation coin was truly a luxury item. But since they added an infinite continuation coin at the same time they nerfed bauble farming, it makes me feel a little suspect.
The reason I think the infinite coin is kind of pay to win-ish is 1. Whoever uses the infinite continuation coin is going to be able to finish tribulation mode a lot faster than someone who has to farm all those coins. And 2. Anet changed it so the dig spots and reward chests are only once a day. It doesn’t make much sense why they care after they already removed the obsidian shards from moto and everything else he sells is account bound. But this comes back full circle, because now it’s harder to farm bauble bubbles and continuation coins than it was before, it makes it a lot more enticing for the players to turn to the gemstore instead and buy their continuation coins if they want to do tribulation mode a lot.
If anything the nerfs to the dig spots/end chests was more than likely to push people to the gem store.
After this match up the only problem I have with Kome is that they all like to run away as soon as the walls of their tower and keeps fall down. Must be tough to be in that kind of guild. :/
Must be easy to type things out without proving it and hiding behind forums without showing which guild you belong to
Alright, if you guys still show up tonight I’ll try and get screenshots for you, but I’ll try not to title them derogatory names toward CD.
Also it doesn’t matter what guild I’m in because it’ll just be used to write me off instead of taking the criticism I’m going to give you to heart. I’ll admit there are times that you guys have stayed and defended your keeps to the very end, but there were just as many times where you guys had a strong defense as we were breaking through your inner and outer walls, but as soon as we got in, you were no where in sight.
See people? I said this guy is bitter. Yea, a few people left to form their own guild in a game. Shock, horror! Must have untold tortures going on in our guild. Our numbers are dwindling down so much we are going to cease existence!
Oh wait, even our sister guild got filled up.
Talk about slapping your own face, lmao.
You make it sound like the whole world hates us, even CD guilds. Wonder how you came to that conclusion when you are not even in our server. Geez, guess we have a stalker
After this match up the only problem I have with Kome is that they all like to run away as soon as the walls of their tower and keeps fall down. Must be tough to be in that kind of guild. :/
I think what ended up happening was that Anet wanted to plan something special related to female norn icebrood. But they ended up running out of time before the game launched and decided to just explain it away as the sons of svanir killing them whenever they saw them.
I’m aware of your thread, but I wanted to create a thread asking Anet asking for a response on the topic of missing armors. While that thread is more about listing which armors are missing and how you might go about acquiring them in PvE.
As for the rubric set, there is once piece available in pve, which is the chest, the rest is unobtainable. For the medium armor set commando set the gloves and boots are unobtainable in pve.
If its simply an issue of the drop rates being bugged and not dropping at all then I see no reason why Anet can’t comment on it and say so. Or if they don’t know then these types of threads will help bring it to their attention. At the very least I want a clear answer on this issue.
So I love playing my elementalist, but unfortunately a lot of the male light armors just don’t interest me. But the two armor sets that look really nice are the PvP rubric set and the PvP masquerade set(tribal set). But of course they either aren’t in PvE at all or only once piece is available in PvE. I understand that there are also missing PvE armor for the medium and heavy sets as well. And I’ve seen a lot of different threads here asking about them but Anet never seems to reply to any of these topics.
So basically tl;dr: Will someone from Anet please reply to this topic and tell us what’s up with these missing armors and/or if there’ll be any way to acquire them in the near future?
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I would also like to encourage other players to post their feelings here too, lets try at the very least to keep this thread alive and let Anet know just how many of us are out there that want these armors!
I think mini-pets would be used more often if they didn’t get sent back to your bank when you used the “deposit all collectibles” option when trying to deposit regular materials.
I love to use my mini pets, but I always forget that they get treated like regular materials and accidentally deposit them.
