Guild Wars 2

Don’t be so dramatic. There is no indication you’ll have to do dungeons or whatnot for the traits. In fact there are plenty of powerful monsters/bosses in the open world to add a trait to their defeat.

This might actually be a reason for people to kill a specific spawn or do a specific event chain for a change.

Snowden Drifts and Dredgehaunt Cliffs have event based snowstorms that really hinder your vision. I always thought they were a nice touch.

It’s not unreasonable to want something new to do in between. QoL update or not, the game has been rather stale for a long time now.

Of course, it’s called transmutation splitters and it’s big business!

So basically you or your select few can buy it for hardly any gold at all, while the longer your have to wait the more it’s going to cost up to the point that you are better off just buying it yourself?

With all due respect, this sounds like a horrible and naive plan.

Oh come on now, she thanked all races several times.

OP you sound just like a tabloid ‘journalist’, pulling one quote out of the context. The truth is that she said nothing with far more words than you imply!

No no, you misunderstand.
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. It’ll become a Druid’s Circle (Infused) which is different from the regular one so you can equip both. However, don’t upgrade the other one then or you once again won’t be able to wear both.

No they don’t?
I’m fairly certain they drop as prefix-boxes which allow you to pick any weapon type of that prefix stats.

This is making my head ache…
Good thing there’s aspirine in the topic.

It’s just part of their make up I guess.

The whole “we talk slow and childish” Quaggan thing works well enough for cute, cheerful bits (which grow old fast enough too), but while coo-ing their depressing story these two just sound so whiny and useless.

It might not be fair, but the moment I heard them in the story at Kessex Hills I felt so annoyed. shrug

Mary Sue, Villain Sue. Terms that people throw around like they are the new hipster word of the season. Most of the people here on the board had probably never heard of the term, and now everyone considers themselves an expert.

Well I disagree, and I loathe such sheepish behaviour. A couple of people here have already brought it up, we need to give Scarlet the time to flesh out as a character because she is far deeper than she lets on.

A specific implication:

Alas, you have defeated me! And thus I have learned the error of my ways. I shall be good and sweet and nice from now on.
Just kidding! But you do have my full attention now. I don’t think you’ll enjoy it.
I keep a list of people that need sharp reminders about how insignificant they really are. And you just jumped to the top of it.

It was a well-earned victory, and you should be proud. You should be happy. *No, I mean it: you should be happy. *
So be happy. Right now. Because shortly, very shortly, your life is going to be nothing but tears. See you soon!

They way she tells you to be happy, not in her jester ways, but very serious and sincere… There is a lot more to her, and we’ll get to know all of that over the course of the following months.

He’ll more likely get his own ascended weapon prefix with some lame stat combination. Something with major vitality maybe.

You are all too clever to play this game.

“Engineers are one of the least played professions. We want to give them some love but you must understand that the warriors represent a much bigger, more vocal group.

Given time and resources we will give the engineers their due love."

There, I just went and wrote that up for them, saving them some time.

That’s assuming the recognizable aspect of the personal nemesis would be in universe, and not just in this particular game. Someone new to the Guild Wars universe would most certainly not recognize Lazarus.

But then what’s left? The way Scarlet acts makes me believe that the bigger force, and thus personal nemesis, is of a whole different level than the regular NPC’s. However, I can’t put a realistic fitting character in this position =/

The problem isn’t that we don’t have any options, the problem is that we have to consider them.

Try to put yourself in the role of our characters.

For some reason we volunteer to be sent into ‘unstable’ pocket dimensions in the Mists to explore and gather data. We do this under the watching eye of Dessa, the leader of this project, who gives us ample information on the Fractal and provides us with direction to the extraction point. So far so good.

Then we end up in the Uncategorized Fractal and all of a sudden Dessa ‘freaks out’: “You’ve landed… I… need to go. I’m sorry.” and abandons us to our fate with no sense of direction or goal. We start climbing the place because we conveniently have goal markers as a game mechanic, but in character we just decide up would be the most logical thing to do.

We often say she panics, but what she does is effectively leaving us to die and she apologizes to us for it too. Sure she comes back after a while, directs us to the end and finally urges us to go asap. But her little line of text could imply more than just ‘panic’.

Then there’s the Raving Asura who could possibly know he’s in a Fractal (You can’t be here, you’re not real) and talks about being abandoned. Dessa obviously knows the place too.

When landing Dessa hesitates but decides she needs to go and leave us to fend for ourselves. I would assume the place holds secrets we’re not allowed to know, for one reason or another. Abandoning us there would be the easy way to accomplish this, as we’d be stuck forever, if not dead by local hazards. She does however have a change of heart, and guides us out as swiftly as possible. Mystery? Yes, lots of it!

Chests?
I haven’t seen any chests. What I have seen is that they drop their sack. One would expect two sprockets inside, but I’ve gotten up to four! Tyria can be a place of wonder.

Well then you should be able to use them. Is your equipment also req. lv65 at least? Because you can’t use them on armor lower than that I believe.

Well then we’re a community of hoarders aren’t we. Displeased about it, but unable to let it go.

Well there are people who can play Guild Wars as a daytime job. Others will have to tap into their salary to get this over with.

In Tribulation Mode, the dead horse beats you!

Or just keep the cost and make them double effective. Isn’t that what upgrades are supposed to do?

A picture would probably help a lot…

EDIT: Added. Hmmm I’ve browsed through the armors and I can’t really say I’m finding a match.

Yes legendaries are so much easier to make. Hardly complicated at all with them recipes inside of other recipes. Not to mention the vague materials which randomly spawn out specific item combinations, not in the least mentioned anywhere in the game.

I too find legendaries much “less complicated”.

Destroying the city is all good and well, but quite a few of the personal story quests happen there.

I suppose they can move the “meeting your mentor” quests around, but what about “the attack on claw island”?

I applaud the balls but I have some serious questions for the implementation of this.

But it should be account bound, and preferably with a simple interface button available to all your characters.

I’d very much dish out for that.

And we’ll all be like “Those clockwork sentinels are too copper-ish to be made out of aluminium. L2Design Anet !!!1!!1”

eldrin.6471:

So a new player joins this game levelling up in a starter zone and spends hours and hours maybe months levelling up and crafting expensive ascended gear and maybe legendry’s only to come back to that starting zone to find himself weaker than when he started. Are anet taking the kitten or what.

But the thing is, they won’t find themselves weaker, because they have experience now and will be much more efficient. This is nothing more than numbers, raw stats. But it’s how you apply them that matters.

And for the record, you can stop calling yourself stupid.
Anyone who asks for help with the things they don’t know is a smart person.

Not to mention 800 gems equals roughly 16g to 26g depending on whether you buy with cash or convert gold.

How long do you think it will take a weapon that drops from a boss to fall to those prices? Not long my friend, not long indeed!

Everyone’s annoyed.
Sounds like the holiday season to me.

Cotheer.2806:

God forbid they implement a system where we need to actually work to get those skins, but instead we are, AGAIN, relying on RNG and ticket/scraps (yo dawg) to get them.
Color me unimpressed :/

It’s even worse actually. We’ve gone from a system where pve world drops provide guaranteed scraps alongside the shop equivalent, to a system where only shop items have a rare chance at dropping scraps. I’m not including Key drops from dailies, map completion or personal story because these are either circumventing regular play, finite in nature or highly rare.

The silver lining is that the weapons do drop from the event challenge though.

Your point is moot. Although you might think the infusion is now useless, gold does drop from all sorts of enemies in PVE.

The gain you’re going to get out of it will be significantly lower than you intended, but that doesn’t mean the infusion is now useless. It’s useless in your opinion.

No you’re not entitled to a refund.

I don’t know, generally that’s what people do after a while. Especially very old people are susceptible to that.

Yet she did see her own purpose in a way. She saw herself as the dusty red vines squeezing the life out of the Pale Tree until the Pale Tree herself snapped Ceara out of that vision.

I suppose I’ve answered my own questions here. The Pale Tree declared her a danger because she is a threat to the life of the Pale Tree.

Doctor.5068:

The patch notes mention “new permanent” winters day achievements. I’m not sure if this is one of them or not. But if it is, you would be able to get the drinks year round if you have the present node in your home.

Brilliant! It only takes about 28 years like that.

Crimson, it’s certainly not the easiest of JP’s, but it’s short, you don’t die and get to go pretty much immediately again. If you stick to one path, you’ll get the timing pretty much down in a couple of tries.

As for the presents… There’s no place for empathy there :p
You jump as soon as that middle red gift appears and run for it. You can go left or right one row if the gifts start to wobble, but more than that is probably a miss.

Once up, dodge over the peppermint platform and don’t rush the snowball part. You have a decent time frame now.

Algreg.3629:

Evans.6347:

Why all so negative?
“Trendsetter”
“Winner takes it all”
“Armed to the teeth”

more like jolly sarcasm :P

I guess it is
However, it irks me because in a couple of weeks/months, Ascended is going to be the standard and no one will even question it. It just takes a bit more time to convince the first sheep to start moving.

Rin.1046:

I have mixed feelings about much of the armour and weapon skins in GW2. They seem to be extremes. Some are really good looking skins while others are plain ugly. But as others have said it is all a matter of personal taste.

That said I would love to see, and pay real cash for, remade skins from GW1. I would pay gems for elite & non-elite kurzick warrior and imperial assassin armours. I would also love to see Chakrams for dagger skins or something more akin to fist blade type weapons. I am a minimalist style of person, so anything sleek and minimalistic is a winner for me, even more so if it has a futuristic feel to it, like much of the Asuran skins. Oh and it has to be white .

There is one thing that really disappointed me about the new skins though. Before, you could get a full set of armour for your character (who is unable to change armour type btw) for 800 gems. Now however, it seems you will need to pay 1800 gems to get a full set. Now I am perfectly ok with having the option of buying each piece seperately, because you may not like all pieces of a full set, but why 300 gems per piece? Shouldn’t it be 100-150 gems per piece per armour type? What if I only want the skin for one character? What if I only HAVE one character? I really feel we should be given the option to only buy the skin for one armour type.

They have made them usable for all armour types so that they can slap a higher price tag on them, but this just seems very underhanded, and somewhat unfair on players who only have one character. The current lawless armour (head, shoulders, hands and feet so far) will set you back 1200 gems and is not even a full set of armour. I personally would prefer seperate payments for each armour type much more than having to pay more for a universal version. This new method of selling armour just feels like an money grabbing and unfriendly way of making a profit.

I know Anet is a business at the end of the day, but there are player friendly ways of making a profit without resorting to underhanded tactics. Giving us the choice of buying one armour type piece or a universal piece would be a good start and will gain a lot more respect from players.

Sorry for the rant, but this kind of tactic really annoys me and I feel there is no need for it. I’m just glad I find the lawless skins ugly.

Understandable, truly.
However, for every post such as yours there has been another asking just this. They even specified that they didn’t care paying more for single pieces if that option were there.

Unless they add both options, with adequately balanced price tags, there will always be one party that feels cheated. But then again, adding both options isn’t such an outlandish idea anyway, right?

Legendary armour can only exist as racial armour and look good, this is a fact.
They better get off their lazy one for all attitude with this or it’s going to be a legendary disappointment.

If you ask me it’s out of sheer ignorance of the mechanics of that fight. This collection is in complete and utter contradiction of Anet’s stance on dynamic events in which they state that failure of an event should never be the goal.

Al right, that was in the light of exploits, but a stance is still a stance darnit!

It’s a QOL issue, for certain.
However, the Silver-Fed Salvage-o-Matic has one specific obstacle it’s Copper sibling doesn’t face: Mystic Salvage Kits.

If not for those kits with 250 uses, the Silver-fed would be a much larger QoL uptrade. As it stands, however, it’s really not worth the gems at all.

I’m on Aurora Glade and I feel it’s a pretty active server. We’re pretty mediocre for WvW though, for what I can tell.

I’ve never felt the urge to change server.

Moa jousting!
take my money now squawk

I have to voice my opinion on this ‘new trait system makes it easier for people to understand’ argument. It’s rubbish.

Seriously, to whoever though this up, what time and age do you think we live in? Were you raised in the Sierra games period perhaps, where forgetting to pick up an inconspicuous piece of cheese would result in permanent game over 3 stages later, all the while without any hints or online guides to help you?

Because we don’t live in that age any more. We live in the now, the now in which there is a tutorial for every trivial, menial task one could ever come across. And we know it, because most of us spend over half our day online, via pc or smart-phone.

It’s downright insulting to think that a large percentage of players would have had trouble figuring out how trait points used to work. And even if we assume that this is so, which is asinine, then giving us the choice to change our traits at any time, free of charge would have been the fix all along.

I’m sure there are reasons for these changes, but the ones I’ve been given are really lacklustre.

Also, I have to wonder how large this group of struggling people must have been for you to change the trait system for, considering you apparently care diddly-squat for the significantly sized RP community.

Well I expect them to be released within the next 3 months. I hope that clarified it somewhat.

That’s very nice and technical, but imo irrelevant. Choosing jack of all trades inherently makes you master of none.
What do you expect then? That they make Celestial better than all other choices, boosting it’s attack on par with Berserker and give all the other stats as a bonus?

The stat totals are higher, the effectiveness rarely. That’s just the way this combination is supposed to work.

I basically hear “Hey, I want to play a profession of which I dislike all the core mechanics, do you think they’ll change them around completely?”

I think the safe answer to this would be “No.”

They must be pretty desperate getting people to stay playing