I don;t see the point of making Tengus playable. It would do more harm than good.
5 distinct races (ie, not humans, midget humans, humans with long ears and humans with green skins) is quite enough of a choice already and making a race which looks completely different to other races as models would just make making armor even more troublesome than it is already.
If people think armor looks bad on the charr, just imagine then with thinner bodies, longer limbs and feather tails. They would probably be even worse than Male sylvari in non-racial armor.
I don’t know what you’re talking about, sylvari look great, as for model there’s a lot that kind of shows tengu and charr share the same model pattern. Tengu were initially planned to be playable but were later decided against. Tengu should eventually become playable as they were many many guild wars 1 players who absolutely adored them and they have their own cultures and designs, I see no real reason why Tengu should not become playable. My only qualm with charr in armor is helmets and horns do not go together and it just looks awful.
Actually, if you want to pull technicalities, there have been some new traits because there have been a few cases of traits being merged into one to give way to new ones, while keeping the number of traits the same, and as for new skills, well the engineer has a tool belt skill for the healing, it’s not entirely true to say they added multiple skills, but hey.
Just so we’re all clear, you all know fractals take place in the past, right? We could have a fractal dedicated to glint if they wanted, in fact if it was a copy and paste of the mission where we fight glint in prophecies, I’d be ok with that. But back to topic; it seems far more likely that the dragons are why the gods are absent, and this having 6 eyes being pure coincidence. I really hope it is at least, scarlet borrowing credibility from abaddon would just bring down abaddon, not make scarlet more interesting or anything like that.
Fractals are multi-dimensional. They can be past, present, future, non-existant or a consequence of actions you may take. You could theoretically have a fractal of saving yourself from a wipe as you do a fractal. Or one where you kill a dragon-corrupted version of yourself.
That was already dealt with, it was a misunderstanding of the quote from anet, that all current fractals took place in the past, but then they said the uncatagorized fractal might not be. That still doesn’t solve that abaddon could still be around, as if past abaddon could go to the future, he would have done so, all the gods could, so I still don’t think it’s viable to speculate that.
Tengu are survivors, many had ancestors kicked from cantha, even before the toxic alliance they were dealing with Primordius minion attacks, I’m sure this is just another thing they’re dealing with. I’d be more than willing to assume that they can trade supplies for antitoxins, and if not, there’s always the order of whispers who’d more than likely get involved. This does make me think, though; There MUST be other Tengu refuges, that relatively small area can’t house all the tengu, I’d be ok with them retconning the Dominion of winds to be just one of them, there could be tengu that pushed into the northern shiverpeaks or deeper into maguuma.
It maybe a recycle/rework of some stuff from the abaddon fractal we wont get. Remember how they made us vote for it and the reactor fractal won.
That is entirely possible, but from the way they talked about it, it sounded as though they weren’t going to start working on it until after the election, though, enemy types would be a good thing to work ahead on regardless.
Fractals have to make it this year. Period. We voted for Ellen Kiel and she promised a Fractal. I don’t want to hear any, “politics” as an argument. It was a game decision made by the devs. If it doesn’t come out this year we should get a re-vote because she won’t deserve to be in office anymore and this isn’t a case of art imitating life.
The ascended armor and precursor things are on the top of a lot of people’s lists. The said the precursor thing might not make the cut for this year which is a shame because they have been talking about it since January.
Because ellen kiel is a real life dev working on making the fractal, and they haven’t actually even started working on it. Right…
The krait did exist in Factions (in a way) They were called Naga (same form, same basic professions.) and they had similar appearances. The biggest difference is the origins. I don’t know where the Naga originated, but the krait didn’t appear until the unnamed sea elder dragon forced them out of their preferred environments.
It will be interesting to see what happens next.
Naga are completely different from krait. Naga were not xenophobikittenil the sea turned solid and forced them out of where they had lived, where they had an increase of problems with the other races, nor do they transform/molt/mutate whatever it is krait can do, they also didn’t have a crazy religion where they’d wipe everything out. I would not imagine krait would be too accepting of naga.
That’s like calling the forgotten krait.
Oh. ok then, so I was still suffering from a misunderstanding. So if fractals could be about the future… I forget the relevance. I mean yeah the mists can be past/present/future, but if abaddons power was absorbed, would he be able to go to the mists and come back? that just seems like poor writing.
I could have sworn there was an official statement from anet that all the fractals take place in the past. As for factions, yes I liked the asian theme, but I don’t care for anime. we were essentially chosen because we were the heroes of tyria. There was more depth in shiro than a majority of npcs in nightfall, and it may have been a lot of flashbacks but that makes for a more entertaining game than reading the wall of text from an npc. I kind of feel like the writing style of nightfall is spilling over into these living stories and it’s atrocious
yeah they originally said the past then doubled back and said past present or possible futures( probably to cover all ground so they can keep it creative). But yes i mention the fractal not as a current thing but just a oddity that they would do a Abaddon fractal and now were seeing these trademark 6 eyes. Im not holding my breath or anything, just curious notion cuz like you said , it could have just as well been glint, but it wasn’t. why Abaddon specifically?
OH, I missed that they changed that. Alright then. thank you.
I could have sworn there was an official statement from anet that all the fractals take place in the past. As for factions, yes I liked the asian theme, but I don’t care for anime. we were essentially chosen because we were the heroes of tyria. There was more depth in shiro than a majority of npcs in nightfall, and it may have been a lot of flashbacks but that makes for a more entertaining game than reading the wall of text from an npc. I kind of feel like the writing style of nightfall is spilling over into these living stories and it’s atrocious
I still don’t understand why everyone disliked factions story so much, to me, I loved factions and I thought nightfalls story was awful, in terms of characters and actions, and it retconned so much. My favorite part of nightfall was Palawa Joko, because he was the one character actually fleshed out and made interesting, and the desert had neat mechanics.
Just so we’re all clear, you all know fractals take place in the past, right? We could have a fractal dedicated to glint if they wanted, in fact if it was a copy and paste of the mission where we fight glint in prophecies, I’d be ok with that. But back to topic; it seems far more likely that the dragons are why the gods are absent, and this having 6 eyes being pure coincidence. I really hope it is at least, scarlet borrowing credibility from abaddon would just bring down abaddon, not make scarlet more interesting or anything like that.
Of course there are going to be bugs.
You guys must not be reading the same blog I am…
See: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/
Some quotes from there:
“and discuss in more detail some of the systems you’ll see in the second half of 2013.” <- Specifically stated we will see these things in 2013
“We’ll begin regularly adding new skills and traits to the game for each profession to expand your characters and builds! You will be able to earn these new traits and skills by unlocking them.”
-Specifically stating these will be NEW skills and traits, not reworks and balance.
“These skills and traits will be designed to be balanced with the existing skills/traits we currently have in the game, and will simply compliment and expand the range of abilities and tactics available to each profession.”
- further proof these will be new skills. Also the new healing skill does not fit the requirement of expanded range of abilities and tactics to each profession.
“On top of this, you will (emphasis mine) also see new legendary weapons and new types of legendary gear in 2013.
-straight up promise of new legendary weapons in 2013.
“The addition of new skills and traits on a regular basis will of course mean expanded variety of abilities, builds, and tactics in PvP as well. As these additional skills and traits are added, they’ll be automatically unlocked and available for competitive PvP”
-in case there was any doubt that the new skills/traits they mentioned have not been added this further confirms it.
“adding new map types, adding the ability to gain legendary weapon skins in PvP, providing additional rewards…”
- legendary weapons in PvP is indeed in there too
And finally they do say:
“As always, the content above is subject to change as we test and iterate on these systems.”
Notice however they say the content, not the timing is subject to change. Therefore we can reasonable expect these items to be in game by the end of the year. I’m sorry if expecting the devs to deliver what they promised makes me some sort of entitled whiner… but I just consider that good business practice.
yeah, that was posted in july, and if you followed the forums, you’d know they mentioned set backs.
its not a dungeon, its another room vector, like queen’s guantlet
That part actually has me skeptically excited, I liked the pavilion a lot, the solo fights were fun and the zerg below was able to decide on two bosses and then go back to farming destroyers. The bosses were neat though and it wasn’t too uncoordinated of a zerg with there being only 2 bosses at a time.
I very much doubt the tower will be anything like that, but the foundation of it has my attention.
Also. considering the current poor writing and lack of a lot of character development, would you really want them to sully the gods?
well, they do give some reasons already why the gods went away, the dragons consume/absorb magic and that could pose a serious threat to the gods. Also http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Abaddon go to gallery, best Abaddon pictures not used in game. I really feel we will, at some point in time, probably distant future, that we’ll see other gods minions, like Menzies the Mad’s, Dhuum, Abaddon minions maybe; let’s all be honest, who doesn’t want to see a return of titans and dryders. I feel gods minions would be a nice return, BUT ONLY! if they’re written well and executed properly, otherwise it could feel very sloppy and be seen as just a crutch for living story.
This thread seems to be largely about entitled whining. They can’t add new traits when they still need to rework the ones that are currently in for starters, and the things that won’t be in by the end of the year they’ve already talked about. Some of the items on the list, like pvp legendaries, I don’t believe were ever even given an actual deadline. and Wintersday has always been december into january content. and there’s been no talk of fractals so I’m sure that’s still at least on track.
Heavy metal/rock in a game where OSTs are completely contemporary classical? I cringed so hard when I listened to it.
Trying me things is nice but some things just cannot be tried. Like toothpaste sandwiches.
I completely agree with you, the music is quite out of place.
I’m ready to be disappointed. I really think you all need to take a step back and quit taking things so literally, of course it’s not a dungeon, like cof or coe or arah etc. It’s an instance like molten facility or aetherblade retreat, which are very dungeon-esque, it sounds like it’ll be interesting, but I’m not holding my breath.
And on the other point the op made, I would have to say they’re really focusing entirely too much on the cash shop, new armor and stuff is great, just shoulders and gloves is questionable, to myself at least. However, with how this game is proceeding to be, I don’t feel comfortable giving them a dime more.
please NO! The game is so buggy, more than half the time whenever I evade the fear attacks I get stuck in place, unable to move or use any skills and only recently discovered the only way out of that is to use an emote, hitboxes aren’t exactly there for some thing, and it’s extremely unfair in design.
actually the pumpkin on the teleporter seemed the most logical, unless all the pumpkins work to give you a pumpkin, the only one I have any sort of consistancy getting a pumpkin from is a single specific pumpkin in the south, and it does have a unique shape and face.
I finally figured out why it bugged me, it’s like they want marjory to be a lame Leslie Nielson. or give her a lame Nielson line
Yeah, for mesmers and guardians who are already great at cleansing via utilities it’ll be be a nice addition, but outside of that, I can’t see 1 profession really wanting to use it outside of toxic alliance, and maybe guild bounties.
Marjory is secretly related to the Thorns
Hey I was almost close. thank you dulfy
I’m just guessing but based on prior events and such, like jubilee stuff require a stack of cogs, that this is a lodestone, stack of spores, orichalcum ingot, and glob of ecto. I could be wrong though.
Problem is, they ARE squishy. It’s just, in my opinion, a colossal waste of time.
well, I don’t think they’re intended to be squishy.
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.
You can get a rifle that doesn’t replace your item slot by doing the following:
1. Get a hammer and smash one of those faces that pop out of the walls to get a boulder.
2. Take the boulder to the south and throw it at a pumpkin hanging from a tree to get a pumpkin. It can be tricky to hit them (for me anyway)
3. Take the pumpkin to any of the portals on the north, south, east, and west intersections and slam the pumpkin on it.
4. Take the now Jack-o-Lantern pumpkin to the Mad King and talk to him; your default weapon set will now be a rifle with 2 shots, and a knockback.
5. The shot abilities can only be used once each, then you have to reload them with a Mad King’s FeastHope this helps!
That doesn’t help at all. we’re asking about the secret rooms, not the shotgun.
To have them be one dimensional Xenophobes would in fact be WORSE writing. No group can be that one-dimensional in all dealings.
Just to quote this. The krait are painted as one dimensional xenophobes, and while not very creative, that’s what they were explained as, that’s how they are perceived, and now we’re getting something that goes completely against it. On the brightside, if you want there to be some dwarves that aren’t stone, you just might be in luck.
There is one in the east, it makes them look like they’re kind of off the map. No clue how to get into it. someone told me you have to throw a boulder at he wall somewhere.
The really nice thing is after using blunderbuss skill 1, it’s a knockback on a 3 second cool down. and yes, the mad king feasts do reload it.
Has anyone found the secret rooms in there yet?
Thieves can still essentially spam that one spear attack that makes the invulnerable.
calling someone stupid isn’t “dehumanizing”,
yes it is
let me guess, you’re mad at Kormir because in game mechanics she didn’t do anything (to prevent having a Rurik or master To Go in nightfall), and because you wanted to be a god. Let me guess you ALSO wanted to be a councilman (god what a boring position that’d be) and a commander of the pact?
no i would rather the person in charge and, the one getting god hood were not god awful “Characters” who come out of field with little back story take credit for all I do and have bad voice actors who cant convey a single emotion.
also nice of you to assume that i think like that and start insulting me(sarcasm)Scarlet isn’t that bad, I actually like that she didn’t pull the stereotypical
ill stop you right there she is a stereotype no scratch that she is worse a rip off of Harley quin with zero hint of any motivation out side “LOL ME EVIL” all the wile anet destroys already established lore to shove her in to make her look more “cool” it comes as lazy writing and, it needs to be stopped.
Actually Trahearne and Kormir both had plenty of back story, you must not have paid attention. Trahearne knows how to fight dragon minions, maybe not himself, but to lead a fight, yeah. Kormir lead the sunspears, and while she may have triggered the one thing, the gods chose her, so tough luck. I’ll give you scarlet is poorly written, but that’s about as far as it goes.
EDIT: and the more the give the Mad King Thorn lore, the more he becomes a character who’s simply “lol, i’m crazy, lol i’m evil” but people still love him
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I will tell you the same reason that I have been saying for both Trahearne and Scarlet why I dislike them, they are both more scholarly types with knowledge in specific areas who would make great advisors or researcher ect in those areas, yet they are placed in the role of a commander of which neither one has any experience and they do abysmal jobs at it huge wastes of life, have you seen orr, there is no front line it is a scattered bunch of semi fortified position that form no front line from which to push forward or fall back to. Did you see scarlets invasions? these were even worse then Trahearne’s tactics. “hmm maybe if I send in enough troops and have them land on my enemies weapons we will dull their blades or they may just get bored and give up…”
edit: also I never had a problem with Kormir
Uhhhh, orr is still pre-zhaitan’s death, Trahearne is incredibly qualified for combating zhaitans minions, he’s studied them all his life. Scarlet was explained as an all around genius of all things.
The scarlet explosion gift was pretty funny actually. the first time, but no need to send one to every single character on my account.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aria_Venom
low level thing, but I guess she was made for a make a wish foundation, so I guess that explains why she’s so strong. I’ve done that event a few times
I don’t know what your definition of decent is, she’s just kind of there, and as a Guild Wars 1 player, I will not accept any terms that say she is at all a worthwhile villian.
EDIT: i never really understood the Trahearne hate to begin with. I can understand similarities between him and kormir, but at the same time, the backgrounds were not comparable at all, Trahearne is perfectly qualified and, while not seen, it’s more than just heavily implied he’s earned that; not like he just went off and poked at a locked away gods magic construct thing.
people hate trahearne because he’s even more useless than a pile of wet firewood, he will constantly steal your credit and others ideas, while dieing to a common chicken as a legendary Npc,
he’s like magister tassi from the second part of the halloween story where you have to re seal the mad kings son, but for the entire story.
But that’s not really true, if you look at the entire game, there is only a single npc I can think of who is worth a kitten , that one woman who can solo that one champion centaur, but if you read what they said about Trehearne, he actually earned his position.
I don’t know what your definition of decent is, she’s just kind of there, and as a Guild Wars 1 player, I will not accept any terms that say she is at all a worthwhile villian.
EDIT: i never really understood the Trahearne hate to begin with. I can understand similarities between him and kormir, but at the same time, the backgrounds were not comparable at all, Trahearne is perfectly qualified and, while not seen, it’s more than just heavily implied he’s earned that; not like he just went off and poked at a locked away gods magic construct thing.
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I completely forgot about livia. I hope we see her again.
But as for the krait, still seems really dumb that krait would work with anything, unless they’re being tricked. Also wasn’t Briar actually just a new name she gave herself after the one thing.
Those weapons are so clearly NOT any skin currently in game it’s ridiculous. For reference, these are warden weapons http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Warden_weapons
the weapons the krait hold are not.
I very much doubt there will be a new dungeon. Maybe an instance with a chance for those skins as drops, but tokens just seem very unlikely, as that would also mean a desire for new armor. I don’t think anet really likes designing new armor anymore, as we’ve been given lots of shoulders/gloves/helmets but not really sets, other than the new ascended armor set that’s been linked around.
I think we havn’t got any new armour because designing them takes longer than the release schedule allows. They did say they’re also working on bigger projects in the background, it’s unlikely, but this could be one of those bigger projects. The setup to it was more elaborate than other LS updates in the past.
You do make some very good points, designing armors does take quite a bit of time, and you never know what their bigger projects could be. I guess we’ll find out though.
I very much doubt there will be a new dungeon. Maybe an instance with a chance for those skins as drops, but tokens just seem very unlikely, as that would also mean a desire for new armor. I don’t think anet really likes designing new armor anymore, as we’ve been given lots of shoulders/gloves/helmets but not really sets, other than the new ascended armor set that’s been linked around.
I will admit, necros kind of by pass a lot of my problems with underwater combat. But still, necros alone won’t get me to say the system isn’t in need of revamping.
Probably more due to mechanics, not very many people are enthused about underwater combat, and for good reason, it’s clunky and the flow of combat isn’t very good
And enter ArenaNet’s design philosophy:
“If players don’t like it, we ignore it. If players like it, we fix what isn’t broken.”
Just because players don’t like something doesn’t mean it should be avoided. It means the opposite – they should work to improve it, and a content update focused on underwater stuff would be the best time to work on improving such.
well, that kind of brings up the question of “how do they fix it?” as it is, underwater combat is VERY slow, moving in too harsh of a direction to where you’d really think you’d still be shooting the target causes you to miss, inability to aim aoe, sink/float seem to ignore stability(at the very least defiant), and needing a seperate hotkey to swim down when space is swim up. My issue is that, other than maybe the aiming thing, none of those are bugs, that’s just how they designed it.
Probably more due to mechanics, not very many people are enthused about underwater combat, and for good reason, it’s clunky and the flow of combat isn’t very good
Nightmare is nightmare court right? scarlet isn’t nightmare court. she’s on her own. The only credit I can lend is that the order of whispers does use a disguise to trick the krait into thinking it’s risen messing with them for one of the task hearts.
Doesn’t he also give retaliation to the minions he summons? which doesn’t help btw.
I’ve heard this, but if so, it shouldn’t affect how much dmg we deal to him, it would only deal dmg back to us players, which wasn’t to much of an issue.
Oh, so he’s just out healing all damage and not draining everyone to death? I haven’t seen that happen yet then. My apologies.