Guild Wars 2

Hi,

You said that it would take too long to implement added mechanics as you progress().

IMO the best part about dungeons is the first time you play. When you don’t know what awaits you, how to play? How to beat that path? How to adapt? If it doesn’t change it get’s boring pretty fast once you get the hang out of it

So what would you say about this approach:

1-30lvl hp and dmg scaling
30-50lvl little hp scaling and dmg with added random instabilities per each fractal (because now you can choose the easiest instabilities and ignore almost all of them that you added you would also have to remove the boring and the most hated one’s)
50-60(70?)lvl stop adding hp and dmg, and NOW add new mechanic’s to each fractal and no instabilities (so the player’s can learn the mechanics)
60(70?)+ lvl add instabilities to the new(same as added by lvl 50+) mechanics

With this approach the fractal’s would have a lot of variety and would be fresh as you progress. Ofcourse the best way would be to change mechanics every 10 levels(would be really cool) but if you really can’t do this than my suggested approach would at least a little spice the fractals up and the added mechanic’s would be played by all once they hit 50+. Also each fractal would be different because of the random instabilities that you could get.(you can keep adding them when you want)

You could also keep adding mechanics later when you have the time. You don’t need to roll them all out at the same time.

Thanks for reading my post and sorry i’m not the best english user. :P

Well i was right afterall!

http://imgur.com/9b9n3Xg It has the backpack so it can fly and that explains everything. :P

Source: http://atlas.guildwars2.com/en/

Btw. what is firing those green lasers? Isn’t this the same color that the watchwork use? The laser from marrionete was also green. It sure isn’t from Aetherblades their laser is RED. Also the camera here is shaking and went off before it could show what it was. Maybe this is our culprint?

Watch from 50-55sec.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIv5ikDpvq8

SirMoogie.9263:

I’m just not seeing a footstep in some of these images and the red lines you draw are going to have a biasing effect on any interpretation of the images. Be careful of Pareidolia.

I would think if these were footsteps of something large enough to make them it would have been in the cutscene or had some mention of it by NPCs. A Molten Berserker, one of Scarlet’s Steam Creatures, Flame Legion Effigy, Dredge carrier, explosions from the airship cannons or giant lasers from the sky could damage the terrain in such a way. I suspect it’s some combination of the last two.

Don’t mind the red lines, I just made them so you know where to focus. It would be best if you could go in-game and see it there it’s much better than with this pictures. -In-game you can see a lot more details.

I also first thought that it might be from canons or something else. But:
-how can an explosion be at least 3(probably 5) times in similar shape and scale and linear form one after another?
-if you go look in game it look’s like something heavy must have pressed the surface. If it were and explosion it wouldn’t have soft edges. Also an explosion spreads evenly into all directions(if the material is the same) so you get craters (the shape is a circle).

zamalek.2154:

Tomzzy.9564:

Did it step over 2nd gate?

Bingo. As I said this thing would need to be massive to have footprints that big and a cadence that long.

Tomzzy.9564:

Maybe this is nothing afterall. :P

ANet are known for having little details like this all over the place. This is definitely not nothing. If it was nothing the footprints wouldn’t be there. I’m going to do a little investigation when I get home.

I guess will find out sooner or later. :P

Btw. I couldn’t find anything in the water. Hope you find something more

@Blurk i think that the 1st isn’t a footstep and than the other by the statue probably isn’t as i wrote.

Also if this really are footsteps i agree with zamalek, that the “owner” is something humanoid.

Also found the next footstep(im blind xD). will update soon.

zamalek.2154:

We should put them on a map. Sadly your first two links don’t work so I can’t at the moment.

Sorry. My bad. XD

Should be fixed now.

Hi there

I already posted this in the other thread but I don’t want to ruin the discussion there so I opened a new thread.

As I was running through the “new” Lions Arch I found these footsteps IF they are footsteps.

These are the first footsteps that i found.
http://tinypic.com/r/mjmy6e/8
From another point of view: http://tinypic.com/r/i434n5/8

So IF they were footsteps there should be more and not only 2 so I went looking around bit more.
Surprisingly I found more of this “footsteps”. This is the first footstep that I could find(I left the HUD on this time so you can orient on the mini map):
[IMG]http://i58.tinypic.com/2qis382.jpg[/IMG] after that two are half buried under the ruins:
[IMG]http://i57.tinypic.com/nxq15l.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i59.tinypic.com/wty3p2.jpg[/IMG]

I couldn’t find any on the Grand plaza. The only thing I found near the ex-Lion’s statue is this damaged floor. Don’t know if this is related to the footsteps though. [IMG]http://i57.tinypic.com/5fn976.jpg[/IMG]

I have already posted the next 2 footsteps that follow after that but here they are again.
[IMG]http://i57.tinypic.com/a3cj9v.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i62.tinypic.com/v3qcuf.jpg[/IMG]
This is all that I could find ATM.

What is very interesting is if you look at this picture: [IMG]http://i60.tinypic.com/inbq5l.jpg[/IMG]
You can see that the first gate is totally destroyed. So this might hint that maybe something went through because the 2nd gate that follows is totally intact and the footsteps also end there. So did this whatever it is teleport away?

Just my observation. Would be great if somebody else finds some more.

EDIT1: Im kinda blind….the next step is AFTER the GATE that is NOT destroyed:
http://tinypic.com/r/11jnp7r/8

Now this is getting weird. The 1st step after the Lion’s statue is right in the middle of the 1st gate. This gate is destroyed. The 2nd step is just BEFORE the 2nd gate. This gate isn’t destroyed. Now I found the 3rd step is slightly before the 3rd gate and this gate is destroyed again.

Will add a picture so you can see what i’m talking about. I marked the footsteps with red. http://tinypic.com/r/18hyl4/8

Did it step over 2nd gate? It surely didn’t go around(no footsteps). Maybe this is nothing afterall. :P

I found some giant footsteps IF they are footsteps.

Pics:
[IMG]http://i58.tinypic.com/mjmy6e.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i61.tinypic.com/i434n5.jpg[/IMG]

Edit: They are probably not from marrionette, cause she has high heels if i remember. These look more like barefoot.

Reply to Blurk.

What if that really is the center of all the magic lines? And what would happen if you try to disturb the flow right on the crossing? You would disrupt all lines (with the new watch knight beeing placed in lornar’s pass? maybe this approves my theory that it actually is disrupting something)

I also read alot of the lore speculation. The latest version is that the thumpers are trying to wake up Primordus. (Psync’s theory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLD5F1mAhIA)
I also read on the forums where one guy said that the thumpers are trying to wake up the destroyers/Primordus.

Now if you go watch the trailer again and read the article on massively you can see that:
1. the wurm has awaken because of the thumpers(it’s not the dragon but it’s something xD) Quote:" you will find out what happens when a bunch of heavy objects pound the ground over and over again: Sedat made the apt comparison to earthworms being disturbed by stomping on wet ground….."

2.Go watch the trailer again and pause it at 0:24. You can see that the giant watcknight ISN’T actually walking. It’s stepping on something that I think is a GIANT thumper(you can see in the video that when it’s steps on it it ressonates). There are 5 of them there (picture from that on the massively http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/adam/950ea0e331888b18e0d6a614dfc38d3d/Marionette%20Fight%201.jpg ) Maybe that will wake up something….???

Just what i saw.

Now i’ll let the others go speculate more about this. ^^

I am also wondering this . I salvaged yesterday 21 rares and got 7 ectos. (i know RNG, but can someone with higer sample size say it’s all ok?)

Edit: I salvaged with Master’s.

Paradox.5498:

Flash.6912:

I remembered short time ago that 1 of the dev said if ascended armors drop, it would be in fractals. Is this true?

I’m not even counting on it. Fractals would also drop fractal weapon boxes at higher levels (which they don’t and it’s not considered a bug) and fractal weapons would be skins instead of weapons without stats (which is sometimes true and sometimes false).

@OP they said they’ll add armor to the fractals.

About the fractal weapon skin boxes, they start dropping at 51+ LvL. (A dev confirmed that, too lazy to search for it)

I’m just gonna drop this here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/What-happened-with-phase-2-of-dungeons/page/2#post2276423

and the next response: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/What-happened-with-phase-2-of-dungeons/page/2#post2276921

Have a nice day.

@TheDaiBish you might be right, but I think the devs said somewhere that there will be no mounts in this game before the game was even released. The capes on the other hand were in gw1.

I saw a debate long time ago about capes beeing in the game or not. So today I was just random clicking the gw2 website. And after looking at some images I think they already got some capes, not in the game but hints that there will be some.

sky pirate leader cape Here the woman in the front row clearly has a cape IMHO.

character at purchase site The red “thing” behind the man is clearly a cape.

So….I belive that we will get capes in the future for sure. What do you think about this?