Love the account wide measure as I love my alts. That said, is there a measure on what fractal level you are at? I don’t think there is now, would love it to be tracked in the achievement panel so that I always know where I’m at (frankly I do them sparsely and don’t always remember where I am on track).
Right now it’s character based. All you have to do is walk up to the portal in LA and it’ll tell you your level. I’m sure when they add the account-wide levels it will be somewhere, likely on the achievement panel near the Luck bar.
I’ve actually got 2 necros, neither of them are particularly dark. This is the first: He’s named Brugh Mansia for the plant he resembles. He loves technology and uses it to aid in the spreading of disease and severe allergy attacks.
The main problems I have with this system are:
1) The player’s success gets predicated on something they can’t control, if your server is weak in wvw or is simply facing a much stronger opponent you simply can’t explore.
2) WvW will be filled with players who don’t want to be there. Those players often don’t contribute anything to wvw (they just want to explore and get out as soon as possible) and are taking up precious slots that prevent other players from joining.
3) It’s NOT part of the world. WvW takes place in the mists just like SPvP (which you don’t have to explore either).
About 3. 100% completion involves every thing that can be accessed via a portal in the world. WvW is accesible via portal in LA. sPvP on the other hand is not accesible via portal. So yes it is part of the normal world regardless of how you perceive it.
Actually sPVP is accessible through a portal. it’s the pink one right next to the ones that lead you into WvW.
Whatever – I’m one of the main people what wants some other poor Profession to suffer The Curse of Portal. C’mon, Devs – hand that to Necro and/or Engi already, it can actually be done in a logical way for either of ‘em. Let someone else go through it, for kitten’s sake. And then, I want bug-fixing and polish … make ScepTorch less of a bloody joke, amongst other logical fixes.
I’m with you 100%. I’ve long thought another class or two should have their own flavor of Portal. Necro’s with some kind of tunnel through the underworld, engineers with a portal device, or even some sort of “Smuggle” for thieves(though their Shadow Refuge is the traditional version of Smuggle from other games.
I wouldn’t mind seeing this happen, but I think in the interest of preserving what made the ones that were released at various times in the living story special, make the ones in the bundle use the normal gathering tool animations.
I can deal with everything except the Target window being at top center. That irks me beyond measure. When I’m in a big fight i play zoomed out almost completely so I can see the landscape around me in case an AoE is dropping or adds come into the fray. That spot at the top center of my screen is exactly where the boss usually is. I’d do anything, anything, to be able to move that somewhere else.
I can get behind this mostly because the male version of the Witch costume would be AWESOME on my necromancer if it could be his normal armor. I also would like to put the Wintersday outfit on my Mesmer. Asura are adorable in that outfit and it’s no less plausible as light armor than anything else we have for the category.
On the characters I use the Golemancer runes on(all of them Asura) I keep an alternate set of gear with either different runes or orbs in them for teaming and dungeons.
I use the golemancer and pet runes for fun while I’m soloing. The pet isn’t as bad as people make it out to be but the knockback can be a bit of a pain unless you’re in close quarters since it stops doing damage once the enemy is out of range. When I’m solo I use those and the D-series golem to have a pet up more often than not.
Just a wild stab in the dark, but i’m guessing that’s the new Norn hero we’re meeting on Tuesday’s update to Flame and Frost. If so, it might be possible to earn those skins from the event.
That said I haven’t really been paying attention to anything related to the living story stuff so I coud be way off.
I’d say the only ones that are out of place are the Salad Engineer, the Asura Ranger and Warrior and my female Charr Elementalist. Female Charr only because I can count on two fingers the number of other female Charr I’ve seen out there. Of all the Rangers I see very few of them are Asura, they’re mostly Human. The Engineer’s next on my list to level.
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Necromancer: ??? It totally does not fit, but I guess that every Society has its wackos…
Mesmer: Skaalds. Nuff said.
Necromancers absolutely fit, and far better than Elementalist. Norn are a shamanistic race, shamanism is to do with spirits, divination, and rituals. They’re not so much with the elements and magic in the sense that Elementalists are. Elementalists are more the “finger wiggler”(Gandalf, Dumbledore, Merlin) types while Necromancers are the ones that would carry totems, runes, and other more “primitive” spellcasting/divining techniques.
Granted, Norn have a very individualistic lifestyle so anything works. Norn Guardian? Sure. Norn are natural fighters, and guardians use magic, in the case of Norn it can be easily explained as spirit magic.
You know. I always just thought my facetank necromancer build was awesome. But I have noticed a lot of my necro friends who aren’t built for tanking do tend to maintain a lot of aggro even when they’re not doing anything.
I was running TA with a guildie the other day and the thief aggro’d some mob. The mob ran straight passed him and right to the necro without the necro even moving. It was a sight to see. Perhaps it’s got something to do with a lot of good necro builds requiring the defensive stats like Vitality and Toughness. I know Toughness along with things like proximity and weapon selection are all included in the way mobs determine aggro. So if you’re running with a group of people in berserker gear you’re more likely to have aggro over, say, a tank-spec’d guardian.
Not saying others aren’t having trouble but I had the opposite experience personally. I had no problem getting the dodges while fighting cows in queensdale. Took me about two minutes.
I was just testing this on my trap ranger with an axe warrior. Most of the kills didn’t count, but when she stayed back and did whirling axes and sent bolts at the cows rather than hitting them directly they counted.
I’m thinking it’s got to be the projectile that kills the enemy, or at least damages them, for it to count. a Ranger shooting through an Elementalist field should always count if one of the combo’d arrows is the killshot.
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I should add it seems like it needs to be an offensive combo not a defensive one. shooting through a water field and curing conditions won’t count.
Traits are disabled during many transformations. (But not any skill based transforms, I believe.)
For potions and tonic changes this makes sense, but not for situations like Ascalon Catacombs path three where you’re given a ghost illusion or the Battle of Ascalon fractal where you’re given a Charr illusion. At those times we still rely on our own equipment and abilities. Having traits disabled during those times is a handicap and should not be an intended result of the transformation.
The bombs that spawn from the “Bandit Supplies” that can be destroyed for heart completion don’t despawn. This causes them to be stacked on top of each other to the point that they actually cause graphic lag when you enter the cave while it loads in dozens and dozens of bombs in the area. It’s bad enough that I go from 60FPS outside the cave to about 10 while inside.
I just spent 15 minutes trying to destroy all of the bombs in a single stack and there were still enough left to cause the sparkle aura that objects give off to look like a camp fire.
The OP recreated it as best we can in his screenshots. The helm being the most important part is the light armor helmet from Sorrow’s Embrace. The helm is the same except the player version has orange eyes instead of blue. The white on the NPC versions is most likely Celestial and the black is probably Abyss.
in my opinion you guys are the ones who ruin the game you dont want anything new on the game because then you dont have it all wow talk about self centeredness, whats so fun about having everything the game would become boring if you get nothing new after a while.
There are plenty of ways to add new things to a game without making people play catch-up with numeric levels.
Might it be possible to convert them to account bound using the ‘de-soulbinding transmutation’? (transmute the skin ONLY over to a stock white or blue, then transmute that on the desired character onto an exotic/[ascended] – the purple name is tied to the skin, afaik)
HOWEVER – Don’t take my word for it. I have not done this with a legendary myself as I have no legendaries and would probably wait for someone else to for-science it anyways. Someone else may be able to confirm this. I have however done this with starter gear to replace that which I had accidentally destroyed. [This is in fact a feature, not a bug/exploit as was originally believed btw – Anet actually went to so far as to fix a bug related to it, where it retained the soulbound tag though acted properly as account bound]
Anyways, just saying I cannot be held responsible for anything bad that happens to your legendary.
It would be pretty funny to see a level 1 running around the tutorial with Twilight.
edit: If legendaries function the same way other items do, the purple name isn’t tied to the skin but the item you transmute it to. Taking an exotic like Deathwish and transmuting it onto a level 1 staff would turn it into a white Deathwish.
NCSoft may have sold all of theirs, but that just means they were all sent to retailers. I’m sure there are still tons of them out there on shelves or in stock rooms, especially considering the prices they’re selling for on ebay.
They both ended up so different from how I expected them to turn out while I was leveling them.
They’re both beasts in WvW in their own way. My Mesmer’s a 1 man hit squad and my Necro is a zerg stopper when paired with a friend who’s similarly built.
They were both ridiculously slow to level compared to my Warrior and Ranger though. I started the Mesmer first and shelved him because it was just so slow. It was slow mostly because I had no idea what I was doing, but still. I leveled my Ranger and Warrior to 80 before I picked up my Mesmer again. Now neither of them see any play, It’s all about my casters.
LOTRO allows people to cosmetically wear any kind of apparel, no matter their class, through their very excellent wardrobe system (hint hint) and it works fine. Yes, some pieces do clip, but from what I have noticed there, players avoid putting together things that clip. I mean, who (unless they have the fashion sense of the average Risen) is going to wear items together that look entirely hideous?
Besides, a lot of armour and weapon combinations already clip as it is. The huge, wide greatswords cut right into leather coats. Apart from the fact that I dislike the pearl skin, this was a major reason why I changed my Norn ranger’s GS into a Krytan design.
In the past, I would transmute lowbie armor over most of my higher level stuff because of clipping issues. Especially on light armor with long hair on my Norn. Every single outfit that didn’t cover his hair had it clip through the collar. The only set I’d found that didn’t was the named exotic stuff, and that’s because it’s more form fitting than the other robes. I finally caved and gave him the small mohawk instead because I was tired of burning fine transmutation stones and wanted to wear the tier 1 cultural stuff.
There’s so much clipping even in the same set that that argument for not allowing other “weights” to mix is pretty much moot. Though I do tend to agree with the restrictions. It would be nice to be able to wear x-tier or lower instead of just x-tier though.
I’ve got to agree with pretty much everybody on Mesmers being solid.
The /duel thing, I’d like to see it added in non-city zones but mostly not in Lion’s Arch. The other cities don’t see enough traffic for it to be that big of a deal but Lion’s Arch is far too busy to have that going on too. I could see some parts of some cities having the capability to duel, like in Hoelbrak in the space outside of the spirit lodges and on the lake. But Rata Sum doesn’t have anywhere that would be suitable for it. Though any Asura worth his weight will take things out to the little arena in Metrica and have a Golem duel. Hell, the Black Citadel has an entire coliseum in it that could be used for that sort of thing.
But if it were to be an all or nothing situation, I’d say no duels in cities. I’d really like to see some arenas set up with various landscapes and what not to fight in. Some of my favorite fights in WvW ever were in the jumping puzzle on ledges and platforms, I’d love to see some varied environments like that in an arena setting.
I like to use Illusion of Life on people who are downed on the map. Almost always they get up assuming they’ve rallied or something, and then wander off – A few seconds later, my minimap is cluttered with Dead Player marks.
I’ve always wanted to do that soooo much, but never got around to it
and i love your incin
