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"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

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Posted by: Elbegast.6970

Elbegast.6970

If the Centaur are smart, they will fall back until both the Human and Krait numbers dwindle and then launch their attack on both fronts.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

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Posted by: Rainiaxe.6298

Rainiaxe.6298

So as we can see, Kessex Hills has been turned into a giant nightmare.
But what about centaurs? They have been fighting with human over Kessex Hills for a long time, but under this situation, will it make sense if they ally with human and fight the kraits? I believe human and centaurs should share the same interest at this point.
Kraits are evil creatures, but centaurs are not, they are just a war-like race. Even Charr allied human against the Zhaitan, so why not centaurs?

"Much more insidious enemy"

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Posted by: Mad Queen Malafide.7512

Mad Queen Malafide.7512

Merciful Grenth, the overwhelming lack of a feeling of dread is almost petrifying!

“Madness is just another way to view reality”
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No male heroes?

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Posted by: Goose.5196

Goose.5196

This is so sexist toward women. I can’t believe people are trying to say that female leads would no longer be good leads if there were an equal amount of male leads. It seems these people are defending the game for necessarily having dumb male leads just so the females stand out rather than female leads who can stand on their own interesting character design. All of the female leads seem to have the exact same personality. They are all flawless/heroic/sexually ambiguous. All of the male leads have stereotypical dumb male personalities. They are either dumb brutes who don’t think before they act (Rytlock) or they are whiny idiots (Logan, Braham, Faren, Trahearne). It is fine for that to be a part of their character, but there needs to be something more about them. They are not interesting. It is about quality, not quantity. I think it is disturbing that a game that you all are saying is a landmark in feminist game design has some of the blandest and 2d female characters. It completely diminishes the achievement. I think if the female characters were more interesting, most people wouldn’t feel threatened by the request for a few more male leads. That is what we should be upset about. If there was one good character (male or female) in the game, no one would be angry, I think.

TL;DR: It is sexist to think that for female leads to be strong, they necessarily need for there to be a lack of male leads. No one would have a problem if there was a single characters (male or female) who was interesting.

I don’t want more things to get, I want more things to do.

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Are the changes to Kessex Hills permanent?

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Posted by: Azure.8670

Azure.8670

PLEASE dont complain about this. Every single thing ANET does people complain. They made an area, low level mind you that no one zergs on and theres no mapchat, into something different. Let the game evolve in peace. This is what we need.

Are the changes to Kessex Hills permanent?

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Posted by: Ohoni.6057

Ohoni.6057

This makes me sad. Kessex was such a pretty zone before and now it’s an ugly mess. First they ruined lower Sparkfly and now this, and they still haven’t given us a restored Orr. Make the game world prettier, not uglier.

Maybe put that Lion’s Arch girl back out there to collect money to replant the trees.

“If you spent as much time working on [some task] as
you spend complaining about it on the forums, you’d be
done by now.”

Are the changes to Kessex Hills permanent?

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Posted by: Jeffrey Vaughn

Jeffrey Vaughn

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Without giving anything away, I will say that the Kessex Hills you’ll see in November (and December, and next year…) is not the same as the one we had last week.

Elite mobs in open world now

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Posted by: MatthewMedina

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This change has actually been needed since launch. As noted, we’ve already been using these difficulty mobs in content, though in a more limited way. That was due primarily to the fact that both species ended up being named “Veteran”, but one was solo-friendly, the other was not, and all it did was cause confusion. There will be more updates in the future to bring the rest of the species at this difficulty level in line with this change.

Elite mobs in open world now

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Posted by: Vargamonth.2047

Vargamonth.2047

It makes total sense to me.
They allow events to correctly scale when there’s a lot of people around without spawning champions that would encourage zerging.

No male heroes?

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Posted by: Panda Shepard.1248

Panda Shepard.1248

Gotta agree with OP, aside from the three he named and some minor norn characters (Not Brahms) there aren’t any necessary/memorable males in this game. (Tybalt was more of a lolxDsorandumApples than an actual character)

Lol! There aren’t any memorable characters from the Living Story AT ALL. It has nothing to do with male or female. The only one that comes to mind is Scarlet and that’s just because she’s so freakin’ ANNOYING.

Right now I’d give anything for a cool character, female OR male. These characters we have now are just forgettable :/ The best characters are Destiny’s Edge from the main game anyway.

About new armor skins and some feedback

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Posted by: Tower Guard.5263

Tower Guard.5263

Is it that hard to make females look like armored knights? Oh my god Anet why would you do that?

When it comes to armor they either mess up the male version or the female version.

/sigh

Finishing NPCs in PVE - Yes please!

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Posted by: Lamir.6702

Lamir.6702

Berserker means that you use Berserker stat weapons/armor/trinkets.

Finishing NPCs in PVE - Yes please!

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Posted by: Bragdras.9572

Bragdras.9572

I would love to have an overhaul to all “sentient races” NPCs to have them to in a downed state where they would help each others up, I really think this could put an interesting spin to dungeons in particular, where instead of going FULL berserker to dps down everything, you might want to have a few control skills to prevent them from helping each others up, they’d bleed out and try to use their #4 like players, of course.

Similarly, it would be nice to have certain npcs (just a few, in dungeons only for example) trying to stomp downed players, only their animations would be much slower, again, adding more reasons to bring a few control skills.

Now by “sentient” I mean enemies that you would not come as surprising to see them “fighting for their life”, all the humanoid-like enemies like bandits, inquest, sons of svanirs, nightmare court and flame legions would all be fit canditates for going into “fight for your life” state and helping each others up and trying to stomp, while animals, wildlife and minions (risens) would simply die as they do currently.

Of course, the key difference between a player being downed and an NPC being downed would be that enemy NPCs would be unable to res straight up dead ones, unlike players.

A way to not make this too present in open-world could be to not have this feature active on enemies below veteran level, too.

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"Finish Them!" in PVE -- no, please?

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Posted by: Madora.9340

Madora.9340

Problem is, they ARE squishy. It’s just, in my opinion, a colossal waste of time.

Then keep bursting them down. They do die if you keep hitting them, like in WvW too.

"Finish Them!" in PVE -- no, please?

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Posted by: A Massive Headache.1879

A Massive Headache.1879

I like it, it kind of enforces that the enemies aren’t exactly squishy, also lets me show off my dolyak or wolf finisher, and it’s not like it’ll ever be a majority of enemies, just some types here and there. though I do see how this could become annoying fast.

Why Scarlet is amazing.

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Posted by: Astralporing.1957

Astralporing.1957

If i wanted to do a summary why she’s such a cartoonish cliche villain and why it would be better to just forget about her, i couldn’t have done it better. Thank you OP.

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Collaborative Development: World Population

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Posted by: Caliban.3176

Caliban.3176

Please provide accurate numbers about actual WvW population and not just server population and base transfers on that. I believe that would already go a long way.

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I was really excited for this patch...

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Posted by: Nilkemia.8507

Nilkemia.8507

Looks like we’ll need to get a Searing Cauldron to do some proper cleansing..

I was really excited for this patch...

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Posted by: Leohart.4610

Leohart.4610

It’s ok, at this point I’m used to disappointment. Sorry for setting my expectation bar too high.

I was really excited for this patch...

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Posted by: Jeff.4680

Jeff.4680

…until I found out that it’s been confirmed that it’s Scarlet again. Like seriously..the Krait are supposed to be Xenophobic??? Why Anet…just WHY?!?

Please kill her already and move onto the older, interesting lore.

Sincerely,
The majority of the playerbase

From the smallest blade of grass to the largest mountain, where life goes—so, too, should you.

Krait Obelisk Shard

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Posted by: Nike.2631

Nike.2631

Beats the slickpack skin as a meta reward by a factor of about eleven-thousand.

“You keep saying ‘its unfair.’
I wonder what your basis for comparison is…”
- Jareth, King of Goblins.

Krait Obelisk Shard

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Posted by: Mathias.9657

Mathias.9657

Revisit locations… all I did was go to the queensdale nearest skill point thing and commune.

Back to WoW, make GW2 fun please.

Tower: instance for asc. armor? UW of GW2?

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Posted by: wasted.6817

wasted.6817

There’s literally nothing in the ToN trailer to get hyped about. No hints that’s it’s a dungeon, or that there will be ascended armor as a drop. It can be anything. It can be 15 seconds long story instance, like the recent one with Bloody Prince.

15,000 Candy Corn for a 20 Slot Box

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Posted by: Coldin.2840

Coldin.2840

I’m not sure what Arenanet was thinking with this one.

It’s 1,000 candy corn to make one Candy Corn Cob. And it takes 15 Candy Corn Cobs to get a 20 slot Halloween Pail.

At those costs, it’s far easier to just farm 10 gold and buy a regular 20 slot box outright.

Coldin – Thief – Sanctum of Rall

Is Anyone Else Excited to finally...

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Posted by: ZudetGambeous.9573

ZudetGambeous.9573

Yeah the amount of silly content that has made its way into this game is really sad. I fully expect to get to the top of the tower and meet scarlet in her clown costume doing something absurd though, so I’m not getting my hopes up.

Unbalanced Heal Skill

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Posted by: Dand.8231

Dand.8231

OMG! This new heal skill I know NOTHING about beyond a catchy advertising blurb, and isn’t even in-game yet, is clearly O-kittenING-P!
This will be the DOWNFALL of GW2 foreverz!
/overreact

Ooor….. we could all, ya know, settle down and wait a week? Lord.

Change to the Clocktower; no parties allowed.

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Posted by: Mistress Elemental.3750

Mistress Elemental.3750

I think the primary reason they made it PVP was to make all PVE speed boosts and such not work.

Change to the Clocktower; no parties allowed.

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Posted by: Zanshin.5379

Zanshin.5379

Yeah boosts are disabled as soon as you enter pvp. That’s the reason. They don’t want people using the speed boost.