1: Mechanical flaws. I’m sure this is a broken record by now, and might’ve even been fixed by the time this post starts circulating around; but why is the communication device soulbound? Not everyone did the opening event on their main, specially since you can theoretically complete it at any level. So those that did that, not including me, are at a disadvantage until this is fixed.
I reckon you didn’t try at any point to talk to Vorrp with another character or you would have received a brand new sparkly communicator usable by that character.
You have to take it all with a grain of salt after all.
But Scarlet has seen something all right. And Sylvari are arguably closer to the Mists than any other race.
Also interesting about her mechanical minions… the green vibe, the fact that they rebuild eachother from ‘dead’ scraps. “Necromancy and golemancy have long been destined to collide.”
On a related note, does anyone know what video game this boss is inspired by?
King toad of the funghus kingdom is an obvious reference to Wart from Super Mario brothers 2 (see attachment) but I have no idea what the Storm Wizard would be. The dragon destroying platforms reminds me of Megaman somewhat…
EDIT: actually, he’s probably inspired by the “Dragonlord” from the original Dragon Warrior (which later became Dragon Quest) who starts off as a weak wizard and turns into his ‘true form’ after taking enough damage.
Anyway, I too think this is way over the top. There is a line to be drawn here, but how do you justify where it lies?
To be honest, it is even a little offensive that time and effort of you guys is put into this, while other relevant topics are treated with complete silence.
Come to think about it, why did Caithe or the Pale Tree let him go back anyway. If both knew that the Sylvari, as a race, were dragon minions all along, and Malyck confirmed he had no dream, then they basically let him go back to tell the dragon all about their location and organisation.
AP is not about player skill. It is not about experience.
AP in my opinion measures how seriously you take this game
Actually for a large part AP is much more about how much free time you have on your hands than it is about dedication.
You can take Guild Wars as serious as kitten, but if you don’t have hours to spend on grinding AP (if you call that dedication to begin with), then it ain’t gonna happen.
I do admit the new LS achievements have improved the old formula.
So if you don’t have free time to play the game then how are you going to become that person that knows the content by heart and that people want in their groups?
It still holds up – either you don’t have the time or don’t want to bother and take it seriously but in the end it’s still the same result – there s a bigger chance you’re inexperienced.
I can finish the main story with my chosen profession and then repeat Ascalonian Catacombs hundreds of times in my theoretical ample free time. As a result, I would be more knowledgeable about AC than most of the “experienced” people forming parties, but only have a couple hundred of AP.
It’s not a measure of skill or dedication, but of time spent. Often, these are connected, but that’s not always true.
Someone who has a lot of AP has played a fair amount of hours. That’s the only real conclusion you can make.
I agree with your post, Queen Malafide, though the emphasis on Bria’s quest seems unnecessary. The fact that this DE has such a long history of problems is a different topic altogether.
The whole crown search is extremely uninspired. The events on which this was tacked on are as much a victim of this living story update as we are.
Of course it’s a fancy commercial. And when you are going to throw around concepts like ‘fun’ and ‘grind’, which are highly subjective, of course a bunch of people are going to be bumhurt.
I wish people would just let it be and focus on the here and now. What does this accomplish anyway? It’s been over a whole year and those who are still here, are still here regardless of the ‘lies’. So why keep on going on and on and on about this same old poor dead horse that has been beaten down to nothing more than decrepit horse pulp…
Rubbish. If you want to make a somewhat appealing and comparable statement you should create a scenario where we’d keep our Berserker armour, but some other stat gets boosted, shifting the meta towards that leaving our Berserker armour absolutely identical to before, but useless now because none of us play it any more.
And surely we’ll call for refunds then too right? Right?
It’s still your interpretation of the usefulness that matters. The gilded infusion is not changing one little bit through all this and still has it use. I’m sorry you find it insufficient but that’s not ours, nor Anet’s problem but your own.
No offense Kenny, but your rant loses a lot of oomph if you end it with ‘I bought it!’ because it turns your whole argument into a ’I want to be a special snowflake!’ message.
Why should these materials be tied to a way of playing anyway? Shouldn’t we be stimulated to play how we want to?
So do away with the whole thing and change every dust/fragment/ore drop into an ascended grab bag that generates an amount of a random selected material.
They can still adapt the amount of bags you get per piece of content, or make small/medium/large versions. At least everything has a equal chance to contribute and we won’t have these outrageous differences in availability any more.
I have to be honest, I can only conclude that crafting an entire time-gated exotic set for the purpose of MF is a very bad investment.
Now that MF is going, what is left is a very niche armor set, which to me it was from the very start. However, as MF was not the original purpose of the set and that the stat totals are still very high without it, I can understand Anet’s decision not to compensate.
With the launch of the April 2014 Feature Pack, we’ll be activating the megaserver system on our level 1–15 maps, main cities, and the PvP lobby. We’ll monitor and test the system to verify that everything works correctly. Later in 2014, we’ll activate our megaserver technology across the entire world of Tyria.
Obviously, from the player’s experience with regard to precursor crafting, new legendaries, guild halls, “large projects cooking in background”, QoL features etc., “later in 2014” was not “in 1 or 2 weeks”, but rather “sometime in early 2015”.
I am fully aware of that post. And nowhere in that post do they say that they will SLOWLY roll out the mega-server. They only say later in 2014, and technically one day after the patch is later.
As far as we know the system worked well enough with the first zones they tried so they figured they might as well turned it on for all zones and working on tweaking it from there.
Oh come on, that’s just being insufferable. I’m not going to throw about imaginary percentages, but I’m most convinced that the larger part of people reading that line did not interpret ‘later in 2014’ as the next week. Nor should they.
Seriously, do you tell your friends you’re going to see them ‘later in 2014’ when you actually mean in the next weeks? Why should any of us interpret that in the most strict sense ever instead of the conventional social manner?
The only materials you cannot buy in any form are the ones needed for the vision crystal. In order to get those you’re going to have to farm champions, dungeons and world bosses. You can use the gold, tokens and materials you gain from that to start leveling up your crafting discipline to lv 500.
You already realise it’s going to be a long journey, so I suggest you pick it up with what you enjoy doing most and generally work towards your goal. If you are bent on getting ascended quickly, then crafting is probably the worst way to go about doing that. You’re better off at high Fractal levels for that, even if the drops are random.
I got about 10000 skill points (spirit shards) I think. I’d agree with OP.
So because you have a lot, everyone else must be punished? Great thinking there.
It’s fine the way it is. People are not going to throw their sets in the forge every other day.
Why would they give karma direct to your account, when you used the vials/sips/tastes/jugs to get karma. That wouldn’t solve the problem. They’re going to reimburse you with jugs(or other variety of Karma) so that you can reuse them and get the karma with the booster buff on.
And thus give him double Karma?
They’re going to pick a mean boosting percentage and give you the difference in Karma. Most likely around 75%
If by mature you mean desert, then yes. It will be the first desert map I suppose.
Apart from that there are plenty of dreary locations to be found in the game, including but not limited to haunted misty forests, snowstorm infested mountains and full out decayed undead lands.
I wouldn’t mind having the option of moving a craft from a character you want to delete, to another character you own.
This please, a ‘knowledge transfer’.
I have spread my crafting masteries over characters I would now like to remake, but considering the time and money spent on the craft, I can’t really do.
I dunno, common sense might have something to do with it.
You know, if you make a NEW PROFESSION one of the biggest selling factors, people are going to expect being able to actually create such a character, without having to delete existing characters or having to pay extra to make room for it.
Anyone that’s up on the lore that can explain a few things? I mean I thought waypoints were more of a game mechanic to deal with travel and it was more of a time saver than an actual in-lore thing. Asura Gates are the in-lore travel devices, that if waypoints are actually in-lore make absolutely no sense. Why have asura gates if everyone can travel via waypoints? That makes the whole original story look dumb because several portions of it are based around asura gates. Otherwise it would have been plonk down a waypoint and lets teleport an army in. Other places it doesn’t make sense either because when waypoints get contested it’s the enemies ignoring a device that will lead to their downfall. For example you don’t think the centaurs would blow up the waypoint in the middle of their base? Or zhaitan have the ones all over his territory destroyed? Or scarlet would have let any of them in Lion’s arch remain?
It seems like a massive plothole. Don’t get me wrong the whole vine thing is really cool, but storywise it seems kind of dumb. I really hope they don’t try to use this as some big plot point because that would seriously be on the level of scarlet. “Oh, yeah the dragon used the fast travel things that all other bad guys in Tyria seemingly forgot existed to corrupt everything”.
I’ll point to an interview from Angel:
Angel McCoy : Absolutely! Waypoints are asuran devices, and all the money you spend to use them goes straight into the coffers at Rata Sum. The asura have been developing these magi-matter-transportive devices for centuries and have seeded them across the world. They’re often contested if creatures or bad guys disrupt the traffic coming through them, but the asura work hard to maintain this money-making web of mini-gates. The fee, in case you wondered, is automatically separated from your person and transported directly into a guarded room in Rata Sum. The coins drop in and pile up there, and workers put them in carts and carry them to the vaults.
Disclaimer: Said information is not found in game and is thus malleable and prone to change.
You honestly believe that it would be impossible without Dulfy?
Within hours after a patch, the new spawn locations of Orichalcum, Ancient wood, Omnomberries, etc etc are spread all over the internet. What makes those needles less hard to find in the said haystack?
Two whole weeks to find 10 clues in 3 maps is surely not over the top. You have never searched for Guild mission bosses or that one elusive point of interest then?
Keep in mind that Margonites are still humans during the battle, infused with strong magic sure, but there is no real indication that this would have corrupted them at the time being. The demonic manifestations we see in Nightfall are the same human followers, tainted and twisted but the madness of a god long shackled in isolation. Also, as Abaddon had to rebuild his own body from the realm itself, so too is it likely the Margonites did or were made to do.
Anyway, the point is that the Margonites we’d battle would pretty much look very human.
Not necessarily. A bunch of it can be gathered by pressing F repeatedly too.
You can ridicule all you want but it remains humorous to me that those who are most vocal about the ‘only press 1 to win’ are the ones who religiously preach the necessity of only one stat combination, trait spread and even skill rotation. Somehow, that feels contradictory to me.
I would counter by asking how it makes sense to plummet to your death off a cliff, when you have a glider on you. My biggest peeve with no gliding in core Tyria is just that, I often forget I can’t and fall to my death.
I’m also very reluctant to buy any glider skin, considering new expansions might not allow gliding either.
to all the morons who say nobody would spend money on this….there is a picture on this exact forum of somebody with 21 thousand evon tokens………feel silly now dont u
Why yes, a picture which was clearly fotoshopped as the total used inventory space didn’t compute with the amount of token stacks shown. Feel silly now dont u
To be fair, Mordremoth has always been there. In fact, that’s the only way we even know it’s name.
I think it was a nice touch for Dry Top to be considered “Inquest territory” in the story line, as the only early mention of Mordremoth we had came from the Crucible of Eternity.
Also, both Mordy and Bubbles are far easier to work with as they don’t have much of an impact on the zones in which the personal story takes place. As such there’s less chance of conflicting scenario’s.
That’s way to cheap to begin with. It’s much more expensive to craft your level up to max.
But i agree with Jordo. The current system is in the lines of ‘Ok, you play your other characters daily, but we’ll give you some tomes over this time so you can skip another character to a higher level.’
And I rather like that
I do dislike the fact that you have plenty of useless levels now. Basically between most later levels, there is absolutely no satisfaction in a level up. Even if it was just a really minor thing, being able to spend a trait point for a minor boost made you feel somewhat stronger.
Now level 67 is just the same as level 68 and 69 and 70 and 71. Sure, you get stronger, but they never show you those numbers anyway.
As far the owls that litter the World, do they need to be infinitely spawning? They aren’t difficult, just annoying. The owls add no additional challenge, they only serve to make the game less rewarding.
The owls are not what they seem.
I hate it when people are mysterious, trying to intrigue me. And succeed.
Despite the fact that the “prestige” skills are fairly easy to get (at least the King Toad ones), I think you’d be surprised how many people do not want to put in the effort to get them.
Farming world one for baubles is mindless. Doing trib mode requires dedication and concentration. Many won’t bother.
Finally, the skins themselves aren’t all that popular either. You know, they’re kind of out there and complement almost no armor (luckily, it does work with magitech armor).
after 63 views and counting apparently no one does, I apologize to all those kitten by this but heavy should easy beat light classes regardless of build. OR op profession.
And finally, lets be honest. Most complains are from kitten key farmers. If they leave the game I can assure no one is going to miss them.
Actually, out of the plentiful complaining topics on this matter, I have seen little complaints about key farming and much, much more about the tediousness of it all.
Ugh, the constant beating around the bush is tiresome.
Again, the fight itself isn’t the problem. Nobody is argueing that Teq can’t be beaten. The fight itself is just poorly implemented and has no real place in the spirit of the game.
No boss encounter, especially a world boss, should require you to join certain guilds and in fact bypass regular gameplay by deliberately setting up overflows for the select few who get invited in. And no, the chance of beating it by going about this the “normal” way for world bosses is abyssmally low.
But I’m just repeating the same old same. I would like to enjoy the new bosses, but the way things are looking right now I’m not getting my hopes up.
I like a challenge, but for that I first have to actually be able to access it.
Skill challenges remain as they are on the world map, for what I can tell. Only they’ll give you hero points now.
So really, I think you maximize your outcome by getting as many unspent skill points as you can get by then, as those will likely all turn into shards, while also giving you hero points.
