It’s the sun catcher, causes little lights and flares to emit from the body, yes even the front of the body.
Everything in this game can be bought with money, why you want the last thing that involves some ppl work instead, to be the same?
Actually its one of my few little hopes that this game can become something ‘fun’ instead ‘pay and get anything u want’Because i have 16 fractal skins that have no use. I’d prefer giving them away for free than let them rot on my storage character
No they didn’t earn it, you did…
Really sweet guy, but lets be little more realistic white knight
Legendaries don’t require skill, Fracs do. Unfortunately both are plagued by bad RNG…..
Man these questions are starting to get really dumb.
You people don’t get it with your spread out farmers your hurting yourself nonsense…. As long as Captains alive and you keep killing his champs, not him, he spawns more champs in, so no you don’t jump from event to event as quick as you can.
Once people figure this out, you’ll see half of the map camped at one event point. Plus this scaled the captains health so doesn’t get killed by noob fire.
Don’t think you people really understand how many bags were talking about here……
Tag up! Get your Zerg, go to the Aetherblade spawn, only kill the champs and vets and leave the Captain alone. Due to scaling, a few people won’t be able to kill the captain if they wanna be kittens and interupt your farm. Melt the champs, and well isn’t that captain nice, he’ll just keep spewing a nonstop stream of champs for you!
In all honesty, just farming these champs in one spot pays out so much better rewards then actually trying to complete the event, but if people do complete it for you, the more the merry!
Yah try patch notes
Lolololololol……
No!
I got a couple more maps to go, then I’m done with achieves. After this I’m just going to farm champs w/ my tag and I figured out how to get an never ending supply of champs to spawn.
It’s so simple just don’t kill the captain( the big guy), kill all the champs and vets around him and he’ll just keep spawning those champs nonstop. A big Zerg, you can get so many loot bags compared to actually finishing off the captains. Plus the way the captains scale on a big Zerg, you can literally sit in one area farming it the whole event.
Hey what can I say, Anet nerfed deadeye….
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Coming before 2014
/closethread
Spending (insert insane amount of gold here) on something isn’t going to make it “special” no matter how you slice it.
Of all the weapon skins I have had, the one that made me the happiest was the Pact Staff. Yes, I know it’s not legendary nor is it even that spectacular. The one thing that it is, though, is special. You can only have 1 pact weapon per character, and you can only get it by completing your personal story. To my knowledge, it’s the only weapon skin in the game that you can ONLY get by completing an epic, map covering story line that involves numerous “quests” and tasks. So, go ahead…laugh…Pact weapons are the only “special” weapons in the game.
Yup so special! Sold my avenger skin on the TP for 94s……
Before 2014
/15cdshy
I play for the rewards, because I know the fun comes with the journey to receive them. Just wish the rewards were less RNG based, and more skill based!
Nah I’m good, don’t want more annoying tooltips or hints…..however, I’d like to state that I passed 3rd grade comprehension so I am clearly able to put together the meaning of the words in the patch notes and LS achievements to understand the objectives I need to complete…..
Good for you . You get a Gold Star in the middle of your forehead. Go to the top of the class
Thanks, I like to excel! I have a commander tag for a reason, to lead people in the right direction so we can all prosper!
Should have worded it better, when I say skill I mean you skill lvl as a player.
I’m talking about difficulty, not gear…..
I.e. FotM
I’ll never understand how people can say this game is dead when all the servers have a very high to full population.
How long is a piece of string?
Half empty, or half full?
“Coming soon”
Future patch notes
Maybe progression is a joke to you, but not to me!
Progression I.e. your skill and char progress by fighting harder and harder mobs over time and tiers of difficulty. QG sound familiar?
Progression moving forward, moving up, getting better, elevating standards.
Sounds terrible right!
No you’ll have all the noob crybabies complaining cause they can’t get the rewards.
It already started with the Liadria mini….
Nah I’m good, don’t want more annoying tooltips or hints…..however, I’d like to state that I passed 3rd grade comprehension so I am clearly able to put together the meaning of the words in the patch notes and LS achievements to understand the objectives I need to complete…..
Just wanted to stop in an say I’m really impressed by these new zone invasions and they’re quite fun and polished! At first it was a little confusing cause I didn’t understand i needed to zone in before 10 after, but after I figured it out ( reread the patch notes, crazy right?) I was golden!
Also this really pushed me to go ahead and purchase a commander’s tag I’ve been contemplating on. So far it’s been a great buy, and to many people’s dissatisfaction, PvE commander’s really help push and split the Zerg in the right direction and overall increases the events success!
Anywho,
+1 Anet!
Hate it, can’t wait til it gets removed!
You 45 out of 50 players killing a champ in 8 secs don’t deserve a kitten thing!
Yah you put so much effort and skill in spamming auto-attack for 8 secs……You really deserve a reward!
Totally agree with the OP!
The reward system in this game is so BROKE!
Which rewards more? Lvl 30+ frac or farming champs in CS with a 100 other people…..?
Which rewards more? Story dungeon or Ember farming?
Take the time and skill required to complete these compared to mindless zerging in mass numbers, who gets rewarded better…..
The higher I go in Fracs, the closer everyday I get to quitting this game, because Mr. Nobody kitten skill players in my guild keeps linking me exotics after exotics and mass amounts of T6 mats from FAILING event chains in CS, while I get kitten for busting my balls in Fracs…..
LOL this post!
/15char
FotM 26 here, 3600 AP………just sayin
Probably when you get a sex-change…
Until I’m on Anets payroll, I’m not doing a virtual job for them.
I already got a real one, don’t need a fake too….
These threads are getting ridiculous, yes guy was a moron….
Next time u pug, just don’t wear any gear, then you can’t be criticized for your gear choice.
As a Necro there is absolutely no reason to roll survivability stats because you have death shroud. Which is 10 times more useful defensively than any survivability stat. So why Zerk? Well conditions aren’t really happening in dungeons, so what gear are you left with?
Thing with Necro, you can go balls to the wall offense and still have great defense…
I have a genuine question for zerkers to answer – and I ask this out of interest and because I’m not good with numbers!
So, obviously the DPS you can build into a Warrior is much higher with the DPS you can build into, say, a Necromancer, right? So, even in full zerker gear, the Necro is going to be doing significantly less damage than the Warrior. I think (and please correct me if I’m wrong) that we can agree that is a fact.
Ok, so the Necro has a ton of conditions they can stack, but once you get to a point, adding any more becomes pointless as the stack is full, and you really need to rely on DPS to get the boss to finally quit.
So … what happens if the amount of hurt this boss can dish out just outlasts everything the Necro can throw at it? I mean, maybe the Warrior could get this guy down because his limit of DPS is so high, but the Necro doesn’t have anything like that. So the Necro is left glassy as all heck, but still pretty limited in its DPS.
Is it still better for the Necro to spec for DPS in this case? Or would the party actually be better off if the Necro specced for survivability and brought skills along that could support, like well of corruption etc?
Just as a quick note – please don’t use “anyone who plays Necro is stupid” as an argument. I’m talking hypothetically about the use of zerker gear and trying to establish whether it genuinely is the optimal gear for every class, and I’m doing it because it’s genuinely an interesting debate when people are willing to be reasonable rather than rude.
Questions right my alley homie
My first char, near and dear to my heart, my Necro!
Okay so Condi or Power?
imo
After playing all the builds and gear setups, Power all the way!
Why?
Because of the boss buffs Defiant, unshakable, condition caps, conditions overridden by other players, effectiveness % cut by bosses, etc.
If it wasn’t for these nuisances, condi Necro would be king in PvE and dungeons but its not…..
Is a Zerk Necro as powerful as a War? Of course not, but you bring a very neat trick that Wars can’t. Death shroud
Death shroud is great for dmg of course, but amazing at saving your skin when your gettn rdy to get pummeled….
Necro’s weakness: no support whatsoever, especially of your running power.
Bottom line: Necro’s good fun, but not the most optimal class for dungeon running, but if your running Necro, you gotta roll power with Zerk gear….
I use Zerk gear
However,
It don’t matter what gear I wear, I’m always OP!
OP=Player skill, not gear….
Everyone owes it to his self to make a zerk warrior or zerk something. Even if I got bored with it after a couple runs it is fun to take out for a spin once in a while.
Totally agree with this!
It lets you know how much you’ve been relying on survivability stats IMO.
It’ll make you a better player or at least better dodger/evader, cause if try to take hits as a Zerk you’ll eat kitten real quick…..
Once you become really good at evading mechanics, I cant think of a reason why you would roll any other setup, unless your group is so bad that have to support them the whole time…..
yes a skilled player in berserker gear is OP……….
yes a skilled player in apoc gear is OP……….
yes a skilled player in rampager gear is OP……….
yes a skilled player in carrion gear is OP……….
yes a skilled player in rabid gear is OP……….
yes a skilled player in knight gear is OP……….
etc……
Point?
arah path 4 in my miserable experience should give 100g per run… 7 hours to complete it (yes we were all first timer, but it’s still stupid to come up with a dungeon that if you do for the first time could take 7 hours)
wow, that’s very impressive perseverance!
sounds like you at least had a very positive group, gratz on beating it!
Do what I do post on gw2lfg.com Lf3m coe path 3 no zerker scrubs . What this translates to is if I got to pick you up every ten seconds your not wanted in my group.
very impressive
glad you made a post about this…………>.>
/sarc
weeklies>dailies
why dailies, I got a life and shiz, but I don’t want to miss out on daily rewards either…..
this “you have to log on everyday to be competitive”, its so old school and like 2006, seriously A-net…….
people mad because people are wearing bezerker gear? What?!
/closethread
It has nothing to do with rushing. I play with zerker gear because it’s better, but I still “sit back and enjoy it”.
There’s a large difference between people who want to “sit back and enjoy it”, and people who want to pick weak stats. I know, I know: people enjoy build diversity. So do I, especially as a big GW1 fan. But this game’s design does not treats all builds equally. So don’t blame the players for “rushing in”, blame the systems. It’s the systems and the mechanics in place that discriminate most non-zerker builds.
But the system isn’t flawed, the player’s logic is. I never run with zerker parties and I’ve done every dungeon just fine. Nothing in PvE requires zerker gear(or any other stat combo for that matter), the players do. I just hope that when they release the LFG tool that they make it as easy to see who I don’t want to play with as it is now.
Oh yeah bro, there gonna have build and gear discrimination built into the LFD…….>>
You could always delete your alts……problem solved!
In my opinion the real problem is that most people just want to rush through the content as fast as possible rather than sit back and enjoy it. I like that so many groups advertise that they only want people in zerker gear, it tells me who I don’t want to play with.
Although I don’t use MF gear I do agree it doesn’t need to be removed. If that’s how people want to play then by all means they should be able to.
Yah I know bad guy elitist kitten me for wanting to use the most optimal build and gear…. I know I’m such a Dik right?
Well, hopes that these things would improve with experience is proven once again to be wishful thinking. IMO, this is by far the worst event in the Living Story chain to date and, yet again, another waste of developer resources.
You’ve taken a very free form MMO with a massive game world and reduced it to a stage on which to host the worst example of Theme park trash one could imagine.
The Queen’s Pavilion? Each piece of the pie is just a variation of a theme park exhibit of everything that is wrong with MMORPGs. Apparently, difficulty is supposed to make up for the complete lack of any redeeming design qualities, but it just makes the content as frustrating on a play level as it is on a design level.
The Balloon rides. Could have guessed we wouldn’t actually get a vista like traveling experience, instead it’s just another portal. Just gates to some stairs with a chest and an escort request required to unlock the door. Stale, boring, horrible; huge disappointment.
Yet another currency, because we all know we need more of those. Why not allow all holiday and LS events to share a currency, so players who are casual can maybe save up and buy something nice every other event, rather than just making it pointless to try to earn a temporary currency you may have no hope of making anything useful of.
Speaking of special currency, now we don’t just need special currency to get nice skins, we need that currency AND gold!
One of my guild mates that hadn’t completely abandoned the game, (the rest of the guild left after Guild Missions ended up being for large guilds only due to unlock costs), returned after a month away to check this out. It took us an hour to agree it was horrible, log out and go play something else.
Arenanet, you are killing the game. You are thumbing your noses at the Manifesto and apparently doing everything possible to make the game the worst kind of theme park.
I love the core game. It was very close to the game I’ve been waiting for since I started playing MMOs over 14 years ago. There was a natural progression for closing the gap between the game at launch and the lofty ideals of the Manifesto. It would have been hard work, it may have taken a couple years of steady progress, but the path ahead was clear.
Why have you abandoned the game world, allowing the illusion of life that Dynamic Events provided to flutter away as the world has remained stuck in an infinite loop, in exchange for the absolute worst kind of MMO content?
At this point, the issue isn’t more permanence, Living Story has culminated to the inevitable conclusion that Living Story itself is a colossal waste of everyone’s time and energy that needs to shelved for some miraculous Plan B asap.
It’s not fun. It doesn’t make the game feel alive. It’s frustrating for casuals. It’s the worst form of theme park content one could imagine. It diverts resources from where it’s really needed. It diverts players away from the assets of the game, the massive, richly detailed game world. It even sours the concept of Holiday Content, because Holiday Content is too much like LS content and many of us have had as much of that as we ever hope to experience.
If there is anyone left at ANet that believes in the Manifesto and actually understands what MADE this game so incredible, it’s time for you to show those who have become so lost the way back.
I can’t even couch this with anything positive, other than maybe that some of the skins are nice, even if they are wasted behind a currency that few are going to want to bother earning.
The biggest problem is that the content isn’t just a waste, but it’s actually soured the game for a number of people in a way I could never have imagined possible a year ago. You would have been better off doing nothing but the occasional holiday event than this.
What should you have done? Well, you should have stuck to the original plan you talked about last fall and created boatloads of new Dynamic Event content. Content that would have advanced the story with in each game zone told by the Dynamic Events that were there at launch. Adapting some, replacing some, rotating some in and out of circulation. That would have created a Living World. that would have preserved the sense of a dynamic game environment. That would have shed the negative stereotypes about Theme Park MMOs.
Instead, we got this mess.
Queen’s Pavilion is satire of everything that is wrong with really, really bad theme park MMO design, but it seems you guys are oblivious to the joke. It may be the worst part of the Jubilee, but the rest of it isn’t much better.
TL;DR
I don’t like this game anymore.
… the stats on your items only serve two roles : making you lose your own HP bar slower, and making the mobs lose their HP bar faster.
Lol, I just wanted to point out the funny side of this. Isn’t that how any game is really? It’s always about trying to get your enemies HP bar to move faster while making yours move slower. I mean that’s really the ultimate paradigm of video games: defeat enemy while preventing self from being defeated. Everything in the game serves to achieve those two things.
Woah brah! I didn’t go to Yale, calm down with the crazy mathematics.
No
/15characters
I heard dodge was a OP ability……
Btw I would also like to state a very famous saying that I think would be fitting for boss mechanics and competency of “causal players”.
“Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me! Fool me three times, blame Anet!”
Sound familiar?
I heard this move called “Dodge” was a really OP ability!
But I wouldn’t know, I run toughness, vitality, and healing power…..
Also I average about 200 dps.
Someone help me out here on this TA hard path?
Ran it the other day and we skipped all trash mobs except the spiders and the 2 mobs outside nightmare trees place. Not really sure what’s hard about?
Btw the run might of took us 12 mins tops…
Anet doesn’t want you farming, Anet wants you to enjoy the game(their way, not yours)
There’s no healers or tanks in this game, so why wouldn’t I go all out DPS…….