Not to hijack the thread or anything silly like that but ….. Why in the name of the eternal alchemy would you make and level 64 much less 128 individual characters? I would think you would go batty just exploring the CITIES that many times much less the other maps.
Not to be a bull in a china shop but it would be nice, if it is based on finding and tagging the rubble piles that they would say that instead of saying it is about collecting heirlooms with no mention whatsoever about the rubble piles.
Trust me when I say that nothing short of the Apocalypse will prevent idiots from being idiots whether there is one social hub or 5, or 50. At day’s end the only effective way to deal with idiots is to ‘ignore list’ them as fast as they spawn.
When you look back over this first season of Living Story several maps have had changes. You have the hatchery in Diessa Plateau, you have the new Village in Wayfarer Foothills, you have the new platform in Divinities Reach, not to forget the huge change to Kessex Hills. These aren’t the only changes just the biggest ones that occur to me.
These things are now a permanent part of the landscape, now Lion’s Arch is gonna get an Extreme Makeover courtesy of Ms Scarlett, and for at least two weeks and more probably a month, Lion’s Arch isn’t gonna be the central hub. It will be there, it will be explorable but things will be much more dangerous.
However, I stand with many doubting that this signals the end of Lion’s Arch as a social hub. I don’t see them putting skill challenges, and renown hearts and giving LA it’s own mob table. I do see Lion’s Arch looking different in the aftermath, perhaps significantly perhaps not.
I will grant you that One Singular Asura who happens to be a personal story npc rides around on the shoulder of a golem. As for the tanks yes they are vehicles so are the dredge tanks for that matter, but while this might be considered semantics there is in fact quite a difference between ‘vehicles’ intended to carry several and personal ‘mounts’ intended to carry one.
btw, outside of a personal story mission have you ever seen one of those charr tanks move?
there is no argument, are you blind?
i would like to travel in a more immersive way, quick travel is way to cheap a way and running everywhere makes the game all that more boring.
Could you please explain to me how having mounts would be more immersive? Norn, Charr, Sylari, Asura, Human. Of the five character Races only Human reasonably would use mounts and within storyline even they don’t.
You do remember that this is a sequel to Guild Wars right? Now I didn’t play all the way thru GW1 but I don’t remember anything even remotely like mounts in use even by NPC’s.
So explain how all of a sudden with no historical basis within storyline all five races would suddenly evolve mounts?
Edit: now if they did I could see stables where you buy a mount but mounted you lost most of the effects of armor, couldn’t fight/defend yourself until you dismounted, then had to keep your mount healthy or face the cost (high) of replacing it.
If they are (even just for the term of this event) turning lion’s arch into an active combat zone with leveling characters up to content. They would need to move many services out.
Only time will tell but I suspect Talonblaze that you are correct, Lion’s arch will be changed, possibly in major ways, but NOT destroyed or turned permanently into an active combat area.
I say no to Mounts, I say no to Mounts especially in BLTP, I say no to mounts flying.
Anet/NCSoft has games for those who want to do these things from Lineage to Aion.
We don’t need them, we don’t want them, and a good many of us are sick and kitten tired of hearing about them.
For some reason I cannot get the discovery Panel at an artificer crafting station to see a recently created Celestial Orichalcum Infused Insignia, this is on a level 80 human Elementalist with 431 in artificing, And I checked there are no current exotic staff recipes in my list.
And apparently the same thing is true of Weaponsmithing and my Warrior
On two separate occasions I have been in a party of 4 right bloody outside the transition point to enter the resealing the reliquary ‘instance’ and been unable to get all 4 into the same instance. Yes, we were actually in a party. Yes we were on the same map, we were in fact in the same bloody room.
pardon my ignorance but aren’t most tonics 15 minute duration? I’ve not used an ‘Endless’ Tonic in GW2 but it was my impression that when ANet says ‘Endless’ they are referring not to effect duration but to the fact that the ‘consumable’ can be reused endlessly.
Now I sympathize with upset over 5 min duration and 30 min cooldown, but …. To ask for a Transformation to last till you map change shakes head.
For the last few months I have noticed an oddity, perhaps someone can tell me if this is an error or deliberate on Anet’s part. The merchant(s) in the 1-15 maps (general merchant not tradeskill merchant) no longer sells tier 1-3 harvesting tools, instead they seem to carry only darksteel+.
I find this odd because the characters harvesting on those maps will be most likely shopping for copper tools.
Are we both even playing the same game??
(H) hero window has 5 symbols down the left hand side. (helmet) character pane with stats and equip gear, (shield) Skills and traits, (Star) Personal story, (Hammer) Crafting, (Circle w/ Anet Symbol) Achievements. In addition, the right side of the GUI shows a green star (with a description of the current personal story step) and one or more yellow stars for Dynamic events or Meta-events.
In addition to that, you get XP just from wandering around exploring the city for your race, or the outside map for that matter.
PS; this whole thread fits more in Players helping players than in Living World Sub-Forum, I encourage you to look around there as well as the wiki.
May 28th Patch seems to have marked the end for the periscopes, speaking for myself they will not be missed nor mourned …. the Moderators can now close this thread
A loophole you may not be aware of is that you can turn one of the rings into it’s Infused version.
Upgrade a regular ascended ring in the Mystic Forge using 1 Shard of Crystallized Mists Essence, 3 Glob of Coagulated Mists Essence, and 5 Vial of Condensed Mists Essence.
this will be treated as a different unique from the regular ring
Just in the last two days I have been getting major latency spikes in gameplay on my desktop system. I have run every diagnostic tool I can think of, deep defragged HD, Deep scanned for viruses and malware …..
The game runs fine on desktop, though not as good a settings.
run -repair in the command line.
is it possible to have something wrong in the client that was not found with the repair tool?
The Game bugs forum is probably not the best place to post your feedback. As Caedmon posted knowing what to do and not do in a dungeon is far more valuable than simply level and gear (to say nothing of a good mix of classes). btw you don’t mention what classes nor which dungeon. Laughing at the quote, I seldom play dungeons or PvP that has nothing to do with enjoying gameplay in general.
Finally I agree their message cap is over aggressive but I don’t agree that they should put a direct trade option in, those are far too vulnerable to scamming (probably why they are not there to start with).
File this as a weird oversight on the part of QA but with the new update and southsun Cove content we have apparently not seen the last of the Sonic Periscopes. They can still be found and fought in all the places they spawned before.
On the plus side they are no longer animated, nor do they attack.
If the only difference is the amount of time the content will be around then it’s not really all that different at all.
The reason for up-levelling everyone during the Lost Shores was to ensure everyone, not just level 80s, could take part in that time limited content. It’s how they work, they up-level people, they did it in the Molten Facility dungeon, in Halloween, in Wintersday and in WvW.
It’s established practice at this stage, I would be amazed if they don’t do it here.
And yet that would make one of the few (there are currently only 2) pure level 80 areas a level 2-80 area, and for all we know the living story arc will stay for MONTHS which would completely remove Southsun from the “end-game”.
One of the main issues would be that there is a guaranteed spot for Orichalcum which could quite easily be abused if every single player could take all their alts and park it at that spot.
There will most likely also be permanent additions to the area, so when will it go back to be a real “end-game” area?
the solution for your quite valid complaint would be to make the living story ‘version’ an instance. just as you entered an instance for several bits of the flame and frost story. But I for one am curious as well how they will handle this. It seems somewhat unlikely they will run a living story arc that ‘requires’ you to be 80 to participate without up-leveling.
I got a stack of several of these emails just in the last week. I have more than 1 e-mail address so I find it quite curious that the e-mails came not to the e-mail connected with my ArenaNet(GW2) account but the email address I use for Non-Gaming issues.
Thanks for the advice on dodging and stability, if it weren’t for the posts dripping in sarcasm I would have mistook it for genuine help.
I wasn’t raising this as a skill issue, there are certainly more difficult challenges in the game. I just wanted to see if anyone else thought they were a frustrating addition or just me. If it’s just me then maybe I do just need to man up and take it.
As it happens I DO find them annoying, {scene} being on a narrow ledge heading to a Vista and Pop —- over the edge you go because a Periscope just blasted you. And I have not found stability very effective against their knockback, nor is dodge always possible (see above about narrow ledge and vista)
I would like a slight clarification about bag and bank expansions .. I’m guessing that bag expansions are per character are bank slots or are they account?
example; I am a recently joined player and have 4 characters in development, do I have to buy 3 bag and 7 bank to max storage or 3×4 bag and 7×4 bank?
Bag slots are per character….you can have up to 8 total
Bank tabs are per account….you can have up to 8 total
So….you can have a maximum of 8 Bank Tabs and a maximum of 8 * # of characters Bag Slots.
blinks I am not certain this addressed my question. I am aware that bank slots are account wide and bag slots are character. I was asking about the expansions, that are sold in BLTC. If I buy for instance a character slot it is applied to my account, if I buy a bank slot increase is it applied to the account or a consumable to allow THAT CHARACTER to use a second bank slot?
I would like a slight clarification about bag and bank expansions .. I’m guessing that bag expansions are per character are bank slots or are they account?
example; I am a recently joined player and have 4 characters in development, do I have to buy 3 bag and 7 bank to max storage or 3×4 bag and 7×4 bank?
I do not know if this has been reported already, if so I could not find it. There is a glitch where you can be logged into game but on visiting Trading post or Black Lion Trading Company window you see a blank screen and “you must be logged in to view this” message.
logging out and back in resolves this but …..
My guess this occurs when packet loss results in a partial disconnect, game server connect recovers but trade servers do not.
laughs I have finished the race cities on each of 5 characters and have 70ish Transmutation stones (3 each map/character) and 0 keys aside from the ones I got for finishing the level 10 personal story quest. kind of sad they can’t be sold
kind of sad they can’t be sold