Guild Wars 2

Ok but could you like revert condis back to only 25 stacks on player characters and keep it at unlimited on npcs…because like I don’t care about gliding, it can stay in pve

I mean you can already break into keeps with vault on thief, I’m not really seeing how gliding is not going to be broken.

Makai.3429:

It doesn’t effect you so it’s not an issue. Got it.

In your words I have GRINDED far more than you have, I had to edit that last post I’ve HAD 6 full sets, which means I’ve straight up deleted leadership runes through stat changing before and regrinded them. It has consistently effected me. It’s still whatever.

Makai.3429:

Syryn.7591:

Makai.3429:

Shadowmoon.7986:

Why is condi food being nerfed AGAIN. It was nerfed by 50% when HOT was launched, and now over 60% again. Are you just trying to brick everything in the game so everyone needs to buy the new xpac? The nerf to power food was 50% damage, this is worse than that.

Bingo. It’s going to happen before expac 3, too.

Syryn.7591:

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Vindicus.2130:

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

So raids will be 16% harder… Ty for killing my motivation. Just made 6th viper set, so that when i do raid I would be fully geared nope.

Also with the addition of power precision ferocity AND condi damage gear, ty for combining that with viper. It’s a kill to my gear, as that Grievers gear (of what the name is) is new meta… Ty Anet.

So in conclusion: 100% condi duration (clearly meant to be achieved by lots of classes) is killed… ty so much anet. And you think power has just as good food? Power has some things that are really strong for it (like decreased stun duration) wich is useless for most condi. This change is just a overreaction to the current raid status. (and making raids actually worse).

Someone lost their OP toy now they’re gonna throw a tantrum :p Grow up, move on, adapt, overcome.

Lost their op toy? If gear itself would get a +5% boost to overcome this no probs. But they didn’t. Power and griever are new meta no matter what cause this change. They have to gives tons of +10/20% condi duration traits to compensate for this (and they wont).

Atm i had a condi thief. Perfectly geared. 30k dps if played to best. Guess what people didn’t even WANT it. So op? c’mon. What makes me angry is i just invested in 6 viper full armor sets. And they are all absolute. Just changing stats with expensive orbs for insignia = 20g per armor set to change. Anet must refund me that. Grinding like hell to have on every profession a viable raid ascneded set, to then have it smashed to pieces by anet. No thanks. Look if at HoT they removed condi duration food (and i expected/hoped it back then! ) ok. I would be 100% ok with it. But they chose to not do so. And balanced the raids (start of HoT) on them. Now it’s over and power is clearly taking over for good. If most condi builds are stranded at 70% condi duration, then they have no place in raids.

And have you noticed how hard a condi engineer is to pull off? With these nerfs, condi engie is out of the meta for 10 years. and power engie? also bad. Thus these changes petrify the raid meta even further. Not a good decision.

Good thing you can easily convert sets now, 20g loss or not. I too have multiple sets of this stuff for raids, I’ll deal. It isn’t hard. Also don’t just think of this in terms of pve – this meta was destroying pvp gameplay especially in wvw where you’d have people stacking this crap in large numbers. With PoF comes new stat sets and specializations, I’d rather they preemptively nerf the potential for also breaking them into OP status prior to us getting them. You might not have felt OP in pve but condi was friggin ridiculous in any other aspect. Split balance is a thing I wish they would do, but they’re inconsistent with it, I expect nothing different now.

And Anet owes you nothing, nowhere does it guarantee that there won’t be any meta changes in future gameplay, this is something EVERYONE has to deal with, you aren’t special, you aren’t owed any refund. I’m someone who does more than just dps in raids, not only will I have to change my condi sets I’ll have to change my mesmer sets as well. You don’t hear me crying.

It still leaves a bad taste. What’s the point of grinding out gear if it’s going to be taken away on a whim? How much of your time and effort will be negated when expac 3 hits? It also goes against the original purpose of the game, being an anti-MMO MMO, but then again, that went away with Fractals.

Unless you are 100% new to this game, and I’m talking about in your first 6 months, there is little to no “grind” when stat swapping ascended gear. I feel like people who talk about grind in this game have never played any other MMO. GW2 is most definitely still the least MMO MMO I have every played, by far. That sentence was odd to type. The new fractals are not a necessity, you don’t have to have anything they drop, they aren’t integral to your “gear progression” in any way. Meta changes in every game, if it didn’t change at all in this game it would’ve already died. You have casual players and you have hardcore players, you can’t just pander to casuals, you will effectively destroy your game. Not a lot of people want GW2: Hello Kitty Edition and the people that do, don’t particularly play any part of this game beyond complaining in map chat about how hard it is to get one piece of ascended.

The gear has been changing since the beginning. People went from cheap exos to full ascended sets, a lot of power meta changed and a lot of power meta was effectively killed. Condi was due for an actual balance, people play more than pve – wvw has been a cesspool. I’m just waiting patiently for Reaper to be put back into its power corner, the condi version that exists for it is a friggin abomination and should’ve never seen the light of day.

I don’t want Hello Kitty edition either, but having my time and effort marginalized out of nowhere feels awful. I regret spending time on Leadership runes, and this will make me hesitant to pursue top end gear in the future.

Since I play more areas of this game than just raids I’ve had around 6 full leadership rune sets. It’s whatever.

AndyJo.8794:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Leadership

Does this mean those too? The announcement doesnt say anything about runes, though it touches on upgrades. Are they getting the nerfstick as well?

Did you read it? They literally say in the first paragraph under concentration and expertise of the announcement that “Runes and Sigils are not included in these changes and will remain in their current form.”

Makai.3429:

Shadowmoon.7986:

Why is condi food being nerfed AGAIN. It was nerfed by 50% when HOT was launched, and now over 60% again. Are you just trying to brick everything in the game so everyone needs to buy the new xpac? The nerf to power food was 50% damage, this is worse than that.

Bingo. It’s going to happen before expac 3, too.

Syryn.7591:

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Vindicus.2130:

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

So raids will be 16% harder… Ty for killing my motivation. Just made 6th viper set, so that when i do raid I would be fully geared nope.

Also with the addition of power precision ferocity AND condi damage gear, ty for combining that with viper. It’s a kill to my gear, as that Grievers gear (of what the name is) is new meta… Ty Anet.

So in conclusion: 100% condi duration (clearly meant to be achieved by lots of classes) is killed… ty so much anet. And you think power has just as good food? Power has some things that are really strong for it (like decreased stun duration) wich is useless for most condi. This change is just a overreaction to the current raid status. (and making raids actually worse).

Someone lost their OP toy now they’re gonna throw a tantrum :p Grow up, move on, adapt, overcome.

Lost their op toy? If gear itself would get a +5% boost to overcome this no probs. But they didn’t. Power and griever are new meta no matter what cause this change. They have to gives tons of +10/20% condi duration traits to compensate for this (and they wont).

Atm i had a condi thief. Perfectly geared. 30k dps if played to best. Guess what people didn’t even WANT it. So op? c’mon. What makes me angry is i just invested in 6 viper full armor sets. And they are all absolute. Just changing stats with expensive orbs for insignia = 20g per armor set to change. Anet must refund me that. Grinding like hell to have on every profession a viable raid ascneded set, to then have it smashed to pieces by anet. No thanks. Look if at HoT they removed condi duration food (and i expected/hoped it back then! ) ok. I would be 100% ok with it. But they chose to not do so. And balanced the raids (start of HoT) on them. Now it’s over and power is clearly taking over for good. If most condi builds are stranded at 70% condi duration, then they have no place in raids.

And have you noticed how hard a condi engineer is to pull off? With these nerfs, condi engie is out of the meta for 10 years. and power engie? also bad. Thus these changes petrify the raid meta even further. Not a good decision.

Good thing you can easily convert sets now, 20g loss or not. I too have multiple sets of this stuff for raids, I’ll deal. It isn’t hard. Also don’t just think of this in terms of pve – this meta was destroying pvp gameplay especially in wvw where you’d have people stacking this crap in large numbers. With PoF comes new stat sets and specializations, I’d rather they preemptively nerf the potential for also breaking them into OP status prior to us getting them. You might not have felt OP in pve but condi was friggin ridiculous in any other aspect. Split balance is a thing I wish they would do, but they’re inconsistent with it, I expect nothing different now.

And Anet owes you nothing, nowhere does it guarantee that there won’t be any meta changes in future gameplay, this is something EVERYONE has to deal with, you aren’t special, you aren’t owed any refund. I’m someone who does more than just dps in raids, not only will I have to change my condi sets I’ll have to change my mesmer sets as well. You don’t hear me crying.

It still leaves a bad taste. What’s the point of grinding out gear if it’s going to be taken away on a whim? How much of your time and effort will be negated when expac 3 hits? It also goes against the original purpose of the game, being an anti-MMO MMO, but then again, that went away with Fractals.

Unless you are 100% new to this game, and I’m talking about in your first 6 months, there is little to no “grind” when stat swapping ascended gear. I feel like people who talk about grind in this game have never played any other MMO. GW2 is most definitely still the least MMO MMO I have every played, by far. That sentence was odd to type. The new fractals are not a necessity, you don’t have to have anything they drop, they aren’t integral to your “gear progression” in any way. Meta changes in every game, if it didn’t change at all in this game it would’ve already died. You have casual players and you have hardcore players, you can’t just pander to casuals, you will effectively destroy your game. Not a lot of people want GW2: Hello Kitty Edition and the people that do, don’t particularly play any part of this game beyond complaining in map chat about how hard it is to get one piece of ascended.

The gear has been changing since the beginning. People went from cheap exos to full ascended sets, a lot of power meta changed and a lot of power meta was effectively killed. Condi was due for an actual balance, people play more than pve – wvw has been a cesspool. I’m just waiting patiently for Reaper to be put back into its power corner, the condi version that exists for it is a friggin abomination and should’ve never seen the light of day.

Real talk tho, them pvers getting their irl money back or no? Lel

lol this isn’t worth a real reply

SkyShroud.2865:

I demand explanation! Swapping alt is reasonable but putting individuals in, bypassing the limit is not reasonable!

Paging for Gaile Gray!

How do you know he didn’t have an alt he swapped? And why would he owe you or anyone an explanation if he did? It’s way funnier watching you guys lose your marbles over this anyway.

Lol the conspiracy theories in here are popcorn worthy

Mmm TC always supplying the salt mine.

Ope I lied – my connection issue is very much so the cause of an NCSoft server. Rip.

Yeah I figured it was a node Anet has no control over as this is rarely an issue for me but has been persistent for the past few days.

They (not Anet) need to fix it because it’s frustrating as hell and I have no one to yell at about it

Sartharina.3542:

Clearly, the reason why BG and DB are teaming up against TC is because it takes two long-standing Tier 1 servers to even have a hope of taking us down! =D

omg thank you for the laughs

jayson.6512:

I think im gonna use this if a mesmer told me the L2P crap.

The ones crying and saying L2P are the ones hinging their entire “skill” on that broken as feck build. Ofc they’re going to cry “Nay!” when you call it like it is, because they know they’re going to have to go back to being skilled at their class when it’s balanced.

That being said I have refused to watch and be involved in any part of this sorry excuse for a “season” or “league” or whatever it’s supposed to be. If Anet doesn’t care enough to balance before it’s release, as they know they should, then I don’t care enough to give them my time or my views.

This has probably already been requested. Can we please have a separate area in the LFG for Raids…having them in the open world content is making finding open world parties ridiculously hard unless I refresh every two seconds… in which case the parties have already filled.

Just asking because I have no idea – Do the other legendary collections have the same sort of timegate in their first tier? Yes, it’s been available for weeks, but I’ve been doing a ton of other things and haven’t gotten to that one yet. It’s really “meh” that some people get to essentially skip the first tier timegate having already done the achievement previously while others don’t.

Idk it’s kind of off-putting in my opinion. I enjoy the collections so far but when I read the one-per-day-per-account I was like lolwut.

As for the 12 days not being “that bad” – it’s about perspective. If you want something really badly and are excited about it, then even 2 days can be annoying.

[stream was here but I assume i’d get banned for linking it so nvm] here’s a stream of a live botter lol I guess farming the reactor fractal while playing all 3 characters at once.

No idea who the guy is though.

Lol “undefeated 1v1”
and as for fragile egos lol if you’re going to talk like you’re the best you’re going to have to prove it – it’s the internet

Until you duel and beat Glacies Aurora, I Like Big Boons, Redgen, Got Boons, and Meridia Stormgarde you don’t get to claim to be the best guardian NA.

Sadly as stated by Meridia 3 of the 5 are on your server.

and lol Texblue is not known as one of the best guardians NA I mean he’s not bad…and that’s not Gladomer.

Honestly I can’t tell if you’re joking or not at this point.

yeah just did lol
it’s just all kind of weird

So say you know some people who have played the game for a really long time and they’re pretty well known in your server’s LA. And someone decides they’re going to start stalking these well known people – to the extent of finding out info on them irl and even going as far as to assume the identity of the people they’re stalking and now pretending to be them in your LA on a daily basis.

Is this considered harrassment by the ToS? And if so what can be done about it?

It’s frustrating to log in and see this person multiboxing three different characters, two of which are just well known people on my server, one of which is pretending to be Dulfy (which causes more problems considering the people that want to give Dulfy stuff for just being Dulfy). And this has been going on for a good two weeks now.

It’s mind-boggling that this person has kept it up for this long to be honest lol.

Anyway i’d love to know if you guys have a good way going about possibly fixing this? If it can even be fixed.

Teraphas.6210:

boxes marked in krytan “store inside” and “live contents” there is also a couple down with ogden on the left just as you enter that say october 13 and nov 11. those two have me very curious as they are not patch days that i can tell.

The Priory has translated the first letter of the Deep Sea Dragon’s name(or so they think) it begins with S. The one historian tells you this about the symbol on the ceiling(eternal alchemy)

Well October 13 is Columbus Day and November 11 is Veteran’s Day. Though i’m not sure why these 2 specific holidays would be featured…lol just a thought.

lol I love the people that assume every server has their population. You can’t just implement something in JUST t1 that’s not how it works – just like you can’t reward t1 servers better crap than you do t8.

Scouting is great and all for servers who have the manpower to do so.

Yeah i’ll jump on the already populated enough train of thought with the white swords – Not a very good “balance” for less populated servers. Maybe find a happy medium and remove them from keeps only? Meaning that if you have a t3 wped keep you’d know when it’s contested regardless considering the wp so more initiative for upgrading those but i’d keep white swords on everything else.

250 Bloodstone dust = 5 champ bags with the same crappy RNG you’ve always had. Only 5 champ bags a day for ..btw opening champ bags which is where most of the bloodstone dust comes from.
Yeah they drop exotics, as rarely as any champ bag does.
But to be honest, 5 champ bags you can easily farm in like less than 5 minutes in Frostgorge, is not a big deal.

chill

I think we’re missing a key point of Scarlet’s character here and that is her independence. I don’t believe she was under Mordremoth’s control in helping to wake him up, I believe she did it because she wanted to do it and that’s that, not because anything was pulling her to. In her short story it talks about how she recognized something (possibly Mordremoth) as a force that was swaying the Sylvari in one way or another and she wanted to set that force and another(s) against each other. To manipulate them – her manipulation was possibly awakening Mordremoth long before he should’ve been awakened.

“I’ve learned so much,” Scarlet continued. “Now I have to put that knowledge to use. An insurmountable challenge is rising, and my people have been called to meet it. We are compelled by our creator to do so.
“But I reject that call. I reject the notion that that I must choose the Dream or be lost to Nightmare. The forces that push us this way or that can be redirected. They can be set against one another to the detriment of both, and now I know how.”

So no, I don’t think in the end she was anyone’s servant but her own. She died with a smile on her face and an army destroying everything around her. She embraced technology and science, which to put frankly, could be considered the opposite of a Jungle Dragon. But eh what do I know.

Also the symbol for the aetherblades is not a cog, it’s a skull with a partial cog in the cranium, the skull is biting a sword.

I’m literally cackling at the pure gold that is the content of this thread. I did all the work I deserve candy! Gimme candyyyy!!!!

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Syryn.7591:

Out of curiosity where does it state that Ronan specifically found the seeds in a cave in Maguuma? I thought it just stated that he found the cave in his travels while at war.

The Shining Blade, of which Ronan was a member of, was in the Maguuma Jungle at the time – well, mostly. They had presence in Kryta, Southern Shiverpeaks, and Ring of Fire too but only briefly. Ronan found the cave after being separated from a patrol, however, which would heavily reduce the chances of him finding it while in the Southern Shiverpeaks (modern day called Mount Maelstrom and Timberline Falls) or Ring of Fire, as there weren’t any known patrols by the Shining Blade in those places, and slightly reduces the chance of Kryta depending on whether it was prior to or after the events of Prophecies (given that the mursaat wiped out his family while he was away, it would have to be prior to or during the events of Prophecies, as they were almost all wiped out during the end of Prophecies) – in such a case, Kryta becomes even less likely, as they seldom had patrols in Kryta before and during the events of Prophecies. And as Aaron said, Malyck’s tree’s placement slants it further to being the Maguuma Jungle.

However, I do recall there being mention of the Maguuma in direct relation to Ronan finding the cave by a sylvari NPC in GW2 – either in the Grove or during Malyck’s personal story. Sadly, both cases are lacking in details on the wiki (otherwise I’d just link that NPC since that’d be the sole absolute case if I’m remembering correctly).

Syryn.7591:

And I believe that the things you kill in bloodtide and sparkly count towards Maguuma killer.

That’s mechanics, not lore. Also, it’s Sparkfly and Mount Maelstrom – which lore wise, are Steamspur Mountains, not Maguuma Jungle. Bloodtide counts – lore and mechanics – as Kryta. Sparkfly is, in lore, more or less split between geographic Kryta (and historical Krytan kingdom) and… Sea of Sorrows shores I guess? (and historical Orrian kingdom).

Syryn.7591:

Actually the Thaumanova fractal is proof that the Ley Lines are connected to magical energies, sometimes specifically that of the Elder Dragons, also the dialogue between Rytlock and Twistgear during the first update of OoM further provides us with the information that the Thumpers are specifically designed to locate large areas of magic.

I never denied that ley lines have to do with magic.

However, at Thaumanova, the draconic energies was introduced, not natural.

Yeah the Maguuma jungle is the most likely candidate for the cave to be located in, and as for the ley lines – I was more using those points as a reason why it’s unlikely they wouldn’t be magical hotspots, considering the probes are specifically made to find magical energy. As for for Thaumanova ah yes! The dragon magic was introduced not natural there. Just as you can’t use Subject Alpha as an example of Elder Dragon’s being able to corrupt other Elder Dragon minions because the dragon energies there aren’t working naturally but by the scientific experimentation of the Inquest.

Darkbattlemage.9612:

Wasn’t the cave found near the ruins of his village? I thought he found the pale tree’s seed after the Mursaat burned down his village.

No, he found the cave and the seeds before returning home. He was going to present the seed as a gift to his daughter (I think) but came home to find his village in ruin and his family dead so he planted the seed on top of their graves.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

*Sparkfly and Maelstrom. That’s just mechanics though.

As for Ronan, strictly speaking, I don’t think it’s ever said to be specifically the Maguuma. That’s still the most likely- he found it while separated from his patrol, so that narrows it down to places that had a Shining Blade military presence before 1078, which would be the Maguuma, Kryta, and the Shiverpeaks. Since the Maguuma had the largest long-term Shining Blade presence at that point, and Kryta and the southern Shiverpeaks were too heavily populated to easily overlook such a cave, and since Malyck’s tree, implied to have come from the same cave, is somewhere west of Brisban, the balance of probability is heavily slanted towards the cave being in the Maguuma. But are we 100% certain? No.

Ah yes well I’m just pointing that out cause there are an awful lot of “don’t state things as facts unless they’re facts” nitpicking going on in this thread. As for maelstrom and sparkly and mechanics, I don’t necessarily think elder dragons have to be confined to the specific areas they are “sleeping” at as the only areas they can influence, but that’s just my take on it. They all work in their own way, that’s been made pretty clear in the way they corrupt and get from one place to another so to make assumptions about one based on another isn’t always the best way to go about it. Either way bring Tuesday on.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Tamias.7059:

But we know why there’s sylvari in the Maguuma – because that’s where Ronan planted them! Had someone planted the seed that would become the Pale Tree in North Kryta Province, that could have been the sylvari homeland. So it isn’t that surprising that the sylvari are somewhere slightly different to Mordremoth (if you believe that they are dragon minions).

The seeds were there in the Maguuma before Ronan found them.

And I don’t believe they’re dragon minions, not on a whole, as all evidence supports the contrary. At best, the Nightmare is Mordremoth’s influence, thus the Nightmare Court (and their creations – husks and thorn wolves) are Mordrem’s minions/corruption/whathaveyou.

But that’s an entirely other cup of tea. One that I can spend dozens of walls of text utterly destroying the hypothesis – yet still leave you all unconvinced because it’s your opinion, and I cannot brainwash you over the internet unless you’re an idiot.

Tamias.7059:

While it’s true that the ley lines don’t represent the magic itself but the possible paths the magic could take, an intersection of ley lines would suggest a high magic concentration (otherwise Thaumanova wouldn’t have happened). And of course there’s the question of Scarlet’s motivation – she’s not gonna be interested in a bunch of “empty” channels – she’s after either the magic (aka dragon energy) flowing through them, or the source of that energy – the dragon itself. And from a narrative perspective, I know which possibility I find more compelling.

Mmmmm, not quite.

An intersection of ley lines means a larger-amount-than-normal of magic passes through, thus travels through.

And it’s also foolhardy to claim that magic within ley lines are dragon energy. Because draconic energies is corruptive magic (otherwise all magic would be considered dragon energy and thus it’d be pointless to use that as a distinction). And if the ley lines were full of corruptive magic, then the entire globe would become corrupted in a matter of weels, days, or even minutes, depending on how fast the magic travels. The entire world of Tyria would be one huge Dragonbrand of crystal, fire, rot, vegetation, ice, and water.

Tamias.7059:

As I said above and in this thread, if you assume Mordremoth is beneath Lion’s Arch, and pay attention to Scarlet’s overall motivation, the way she behaves, what the trajectory of her narrative arc might look like etc., it becomes pretty obvious what she’s after :P

Do you not recognize your own fallacy in this statement?

You open up with a presumption. Yes, if we presume that A happens, while we know that B happens, then C becomes likely. But there’s little to actually suggest Mordremoth’s under Lion’s Arch.

If you use the argument of “Orr likely is an intersection of ley lines, and there was a dragon there” then one should argue… there’s a dragon underneath Thaumanova too.

You make a LOT of assumptions in these posts of yours, and act as if they should be treated as facts.

Tamias.7059:

But just think about what you said for a minute. Of course an area with lots of magic flowing under it is gonna be a magic hotspot! An intersection of ley lines is surely exactly where you’d expect to see the most ambient magic! A magic “hotspot” is exactly what I’d call Thaumanova.

Depends on how one defines a “magic hotspot”.

Because absolutely nothing indicates that there’s ambient magic above or around the ley lines. So nothing indicates that Lion’s Arch has a lot of ambient magic, just because there’s an intersection of ley lines.

If anything, I would argue the existence of ley lines prevents magical hotspots, because a magical hotspot by definition is a location in which there is a lot of magic over a continual amount of time. Ley lines can empty for periods. If ley lines dictated where magical hotspots are to be, then magical hotspots should be constantly moving – but then that’d create a contradiction with the understanding of what a “magical hotspot” should be – a lot of magic over a continual amount of time.

In other words, it is possible – IMO likely, but not proven so – that magical hotspots have static magic, i.e., no ley line. But again, we just simply have too little information to definitively say one way or another, and that’s what you’re doing all across the board here – definitively saying one way.

Actually the Thaumanova fractal is proof that the Ley Lines are connected to magical energies, sometimes specifically that of the Elder Dragons, also the dialogue between Rytlock and Twistgear during the first update of OoM further provides us with the information that the Thumpers are specifically designed to locate large areas of magic.

Out of curiosity where does it state that Ronan specifically found the seeds in a cave in Maguuma? I thought it just stated that he found the cave in his travels while at war. And I believe that the things you kill in bloodtide and sparkly count towards Maguuma killer. It’s not so much of a stretch to believe that a dragon sleeping under LA could have influence in the maps directly south of it. Tbh the only place in the game that I can think of that would be directly influenced is the swamp in Caledon, maybe the Rise of Zhaitan weakened a slumbering Mordremoth in the areas he began to invade, who knows, either way I’m hoping it is a dragon. And I’m hoping it is Mordremoth, it’d be nice for something like that to shed more light on the Sylvari as a race as a whole, they’re kind of fascinating.

Meriem.3504:

Syryn.7591:

Meriem.3504:

BobbyStein.2315:

aspirine.6852:

Either the writers got some help, or they gotten a lot better. Whatever it is it’s working

We’re focusing a bit more on the presentation of the writing now. In the past, we wrote and voiced a number of scenes that never got built. There were story and character moments for planned instances that, unfortunately, got cut. What was especially difficult for the writers and narrative designers was that feeling of “I wrote all this stuff that would make the story more cohesive but nobody can experience it.” We learned a lot over the past year about how we could do a better job of conveying the story, so we partnered with a number of designers and learned some basic implementation skills.

Really, the root of the issue was communication between disciplines. The changes you’re noticing are a direct result of the increased collaboration between narrative, design, art, and audio. The story moments in the past three releases came about through many meetings where we’d all talk about character moments and plot points, and how we can best portray them with our tech.

We experimented with using instanced and open world scenes, and tried to place those moments in and around gameplay such that they were in the direct line of sight but weren’t heavily gated. This is all basic game narrative stuff that is common in development, but something we’ve had to experiment with due to the unique nature of our platform. And yeah, we’re also trying to seed more ambient lore that ties back to the current episode plot because it makes the world feel more alive. The fact that people are noticing these changes makes me incredibly happy.

I am glad to see much more dialogue and there was a severe lack. I mean this not in a rude way but I felt i was reading a childs story book where there is like 1 sentence per page before. I never could get into it.

• I want you know the next part of my comment is not meant to be rude but I am serious on my feelings about it and I tend to use metaphors among other things to help clarify my point. *

However, Scarlet for me anyways still remains a poor character mainly because of the personality that failed to keep the story together. When I say personality I mean she basically as stated before, a Saturday morning cartoon villian. I am serious when I say I could replace her with Gargamel from the Smurfs and see the same results with the story.

Now if you took someone like Jon Irenicus from Baldur’s Gate II I could easily see him pulling off the stuff Scarlet, probably a few minor changes to him, did without it being really corny or cheesy though I still believe it needed to be polished, I felt like it was a rough draft. The big part is also he would be taken seriously and could be scary.

Thank you.

I’m being serious when I say that’s a poor character understanding of Gargamel on your part.

You are right. Gargamel is better… I hold my head in shame. * sad * ;_;

I actually like Gargamel but my point is I don’t see him doing all those things that Scarlet did. I could see Scarlet though trying to do what Gargamel does… though he still better. :s

Lol well that’s a completely different point from what you were previously claiming.

Meriem.3504:

BobbyStein.2315:

aspirine.6852:

Either the writers got some help, or they gotten a lot better. Whatever it is it’s working

We’re focusing a bit more on the presentation of the writing now. In the past, we wrote and voiced a number of scenes that never got built. There were story and character moments for planned instances that, unfortunately, got cut. What was especially difficult for the writers and narrative designers was that feeling of “I wrote all this stuff that would make the story more cohesive but nobody can experience it.” We learned a lot over the past year about how we could do a better job of conveying the story, so we partnered with a number of designers and learned some basic implementation skills.

Really, the root of the issue was communication between disciplines. The changes you’re noticing are a direct result of the increased collaboration between narrative, design, art, and audio. The story moments in the past three releases came about through many meetings where we’d all talk about character moments and plot points, and how we can best portray them with our tech.

We experimented with using instanced and open world scenes, and tried to place those moments in and around gameplay such that they were in the direct line of sight but weren’t heavily gated. This is all basic game narrative stuff that is common in development, but something we’ve had to experiment with due to the unique nature of our platform. And yeah, we’re also trying to seed more ambient lore that ties back to the current episode plot because it makes the world feel more alive. The fact that people are noticing these changes makes me incredibly happy.

I am glad to see much more dialogue and there was a severe lack. I mean this not in a rude way but I felt i was reading a childs story book where there is like 1 sentence per page before. I never could get into it.

• I want you know the next part of my comment is not meant to be rude but I am serious on my feelings about it and I tend to use metaphors among other things to help clarify my point. *

However, Scarlet for me anyways still remains a poor character mainly because of the personality that failed to keep the story together. When I say personality I mean she basically as stated before, a Saturday morning cartoon villian. I am serious when I say I could replace her with Gargamel from the Smurfs and see the same results with the story.

Now if you took someone like Jon Irenicus from Baldur’s Gate II I could easily see him pulling off the stuff Scarlet, probably a few minor changes to him, did without it being really corny or cheesy though I still believe it needed to be polished, I felt like it was a rough draft. The big part is also he would be taken seriously and could be scary.

Thank you.

I’m being serious when I say that’s a poor character understanding of Gargamel on your part.

I’m not saying it’s Mordremoth BUT, it’s Mordremoth.

Midnight Gypsy.9360:

that’s why you just check back and move around a little and go “AFK” again. Most people really are not away from keyboard they just are not doing anything. Maybe looking at something else. I think what OP wants is to kick people who get group effort rewards for doing nothing to help, and while I write this I am “AFK” getting group effort rewards (No Bots)

Lol you so evil

I went down several times on my thief in LA yesterday (mostly because I was kitten ing on my thief) – I got ressed every time, by zergs or by people passing by. I specifically blew all of my utilities several times ressing other people. Now, all of that being said sine I started playing this game (about a year and some months now) I’ve had bad experiences and good experiences with people being helpful and not, but it’s been that way from much earlier than the “Zerg” events, so the mentality isn’t changing, you just finally witnessed some of the bad.

At the end of the day this argument literally boils down to convenience. You can still get every service you could in LA, they just aren’t all together anymore, and for all we know temporarily so. You can loot airship passes from the event drops, you can buy the passes, whatever, you can use wvw or vigils keep for the mystic forge for free you can use one of the MANY places with crafting stations in it for free. You’ll have to waypoint every now and then if you decide to switch from forging to crafting and vice versa. It’s inconvenient and it’s annoying but it’s far from a pay to win standpoint. And no I can’t blame anet for wanting to make money, but I also can’t blame the side eying, maybe it’ll turn out to be purely temporary, but demonizing anet over rather normal business tactics is stretching it a tad.

Jackums.3496:

Joonks.7501:

Thanks for clearing it up, Allie.

kitten , there are some really rude people on here.

Agreed.

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Thanks for the clarification.

They seem to think being overly snarky and passive-aggressive gives them a one up on the mods/devs/anyone who works for anet.

Arganthium.5638:

EoNxBoNx.9213:

Every leak so far has been accurate to the release notes. Why not these?

Allie Murdock.8152:

Because they are not real.

Something is tingling my Spidy-senses here and telling me that this is a bad counter-argument, shockingly.

Personally, I’m skeptical about the notes, but I won’t be surprised whether or not they are true. But by judging ANet’s past behavior, I see no reason why these notes wouldn’t be true (or at least close to the truth).

Want some more h8terade? Possibly sat at a table with the smallest violin in the world?

Allie Murdock.8152:

Because they are not real.

I can practically hear the “z” snap accompanied with this.

Darkbattlemage.9612:

SirDrygan.1823:

We didn’t destroy too many lettuce girl airship.

Ok let me rephrase the question, how exactly did she come into possession of the Airship technology? The Pact were the only faction shown to utilized the technology before the living story. If she simply salvaged down Pact Airships than why couldn’t the pact simply utilize the same methods?

You also have to remember that Scarlet trained under some of the people who worked for the Pact in creating their technologies – hence she learned their tricks. Beigarth is just one of the many who worked for the pact at one point (you see this in a PS quest).

The Tengu are very much so standing on the other side of the gate murdering anyone who comes too close. They fire indiscriminately.

Yeah evil evil anet they’re all probably specifically laughing at you for falling into their secret evil trap of doom!

I for one am glad they’re trying to fix things before releasing rather than releasing it and sending a zillion “new builds” through to fix it in the process. kitten ed if you do kitten ed if you don’t, some of you need to learn patience, goodness. You’d complain just as bad if something was severely messed up in the patch.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

By the way, it’s not a city. It’s a castle.

By the way, it’s not a castle it’s a tower :P

Well actually it’s not a far stretch to believe it may be Verata considering what he was trying to do during his lifetime. Even if you did defeat him. (Cringes inwardly at people who throw around the term Mary Sue incorrectly)

Zaxares.5419:

The funniest part of that is when you do TA Story and not only has Cadeyrn relinquished leadership of the Nightmare Court to Faolain, but he behaves like a totally loyal and obedient servant towards her. It clashed quite a bit with the image I had of him after reading his short story.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeep, especially seeing his disdain for the firstborn in the story.

roachsrealm.9284:

What good is a wall going to do?

see: airships

Magical force-field of featheryness of course.