hey man, chill out, we can’t even use all the european letters. I can’t make my scandinavian names without å (o’) and ø (euh).
So get in line before we take in letters from other countries not even european
the problem in this case is that most dragon minions are perverted versions of their originals. Some still look a lot like their blueprint, others don’t look like them at all, anymore. If you saw Faolain’s second form, would you still have guessed she was ever a sylvari (if you didn’t know her prior form). So I think there are wurms that became dragon minions, but they might not look like normal wurms anymore.
1. Sit through long animation at start
2. Run through instance
3. Break cage
4. Get teleported to 1-2
5. Open the chests
6. Look what else I need
7. See adventuring 101 is still uncompleted
8. Repeat 1-1, break cage again, teleported to 1-2 again.. still no 101.. still 0%
okaaaaaayyy..
EDIT: found the problem, after the third try, I just stayed atop the hill with the big chest. It worked now. First two times I drop down to kill some monkeys while waiting for the timer. So obviously, the game tells you to AFK the timer, otherwise no rewards for you.
Living stories are made for veteran players in mind and are harder than core game. You need to master dodging and your skills and have updated armor and weapons.
This is what I don’t understand – why doesn’t Anet want all players to be able to experience the Stories?
Because if you design your story for the most casual of players in mind, you will lose 90% of your playerbase as they all die of boredom.
“The story” is not the same as “the game”. Most MMOs tell their stories through normal PvE content and separate the truly challenging content into Dungeons or Raids which are ABOUT the story but don’t wall off important parts of it behind the challenge.
GW2 walls off ALL the most important parts of the story (all of the episode ends) behind huge boss fights which lots of people find very difficult and don’t complete.
Which you don’t complete. Please don’t speak for the player base in general unless you have done an assay.
And believe me. Manor d’Caudecus is far from the truly “truly challenging content” . I think some people need to take more time to look at their characters and think “is this enough to get me through the boss instance, or do I need more stability, more conditions. Our maybe more dodges”
I didn’t hear you complain when that boss in zelda prevented you from continuing the game. Or when you
couldn’t kill Crack in the fire temple in Rayman.
Less emphasis on mega guilds and group content. More content for solo and groups under 5.
It’s a MMO bro. Sounds like you’re seeking content typically found in single-player RPGs.
Not a “bro,” dude but thanks. I’m also aware of what an MMO is. I’ve been playing them since UO and every single one has had plenty of content for groups under 5 and guilds that aren’t 100+, so get a new line because that one is long played out.
Bro is a gender neutral reference to refer to someone else. Just like dude. If you got offended by it them you’ve probably spend too much time on tumblr.
As for your point. Is it the purpose of game designers to mimick each other as closely as possible? Or to make a as most unique game as possible? I really hope it’s the latter, otherwise a lot of people will just buy the cheapest game X clone. game A does it is never an argument to say game B should do it. Because game A is not game B
Not sure why you’re talking about hardcore SAB players with infusions because I never said anything about hardcore.
It’s obvious SAB is more popular than raids (by player count) because
1. raids require HoT
2. raids require ‘decent’ gear
3. raids require mastery
4. raids require high time investment compared to SAB
In terms of sheer numbers, SAB will win compared to raids to a high degree of extreme obviousness.
It is indeed obvious if you even stop to consider for one moment what restrictions are in place for players to access SAB compared to raids (hint: none).
I also said nothing about wintersday either so stop making irrelevant stuff up to detract from the point that SAB is played by way more players than raids.
Restrictions:
#294: LIMITED AVAILABILITY. The content will disapear after 3 weeks. For raids, you have the time to train, to practice, to get ready. For SAB you don’t. You have to come now or miss it. If SAB was permanent content I can guarantee you people would get bored of it after a month, and it would be dead’er than dungeons are.
I’m not sure where the argument “SAB is more popular than raids, look at the numbers” comes from
I mean, it would be the other way around if SAB was permanent content, and raid wings were only open for 3 weeks a year. Then you’d use the same argument to cover up raids.
Yes, the mordrem tunnelers, they don’t exist.
Oh, and have you seen the non-exist venom wurms?
And let’s not forget the Destroyers, yes, no wurm designs there
Sorry for the sarcasm.. I’m tired
but serious answer; there are risen grubs, and grubs are known to evolve into either beetles or wurms. Although these won’t be growing anymore.
I’ll give you there aren’t many, and maybe because of their elemental affinity they’re tough to corrupt. But there are a few.
I personally wouldn’t call it easier, just fairer. I mean, ranged classes never had trouble with the meteor shower. It was mostly melee classes who had to walk away from the bosses, wait 5 seconds with nothing happening, and return to the boss. Now, the six forbids, anet allows the melee classes to defend themselves and you casters lash back at everything that moves..
I would love to see a story raid. An instance designed for complex fights with 10 people. Of course they should have the difficulty everyone can step in to, so not matthias gabrel difficulty. Just something like hearts and minds designed with a complexity that all 10 people need to carry their weight in combat and mechanics.
I am glad that somebody brought the topic on the surface :‘D I actually think that lack of world 3 (eventually 4) is really a big disappointment. I understand that there are more pressing matters to attend to but kitten ,.. What do we get in exchange? Would that “much” of a content mean that expansion will get delayed? or the living world? (ok, maybe the living world) but heck, those “new” maps feel so generic and empty I don’t feel like they are worthy addition anyways.. As this is the type of content that makes the game worth my time and makes me happy to play it (and I know that I am not alone in this) is it considerable to actually involve in project such as this? And if we are in no hope to ever get continuation I suppose why not discontinue the adventure box forever and make an official statement..
The issue is, the map needs to be designed. That means you need a team for the mechanical design. The path. The environment. Etc. And another team to actually make the maps. And then a third team to make the enemies, paths, events. Etc. Yes, these people need to come from somewhere.
Any dev designing an SAB map, isn’t designing a living story, or open world, or fractal map.
Luckily we now know that raids got an isolated team that won’t be infected. Fractals also got their own team, but that team is still open in interaction with other teams, so their work would propably slow down a little
No. On the contrary. It actually tells players to break the bat OR avoid the rain. It’s an extra putin option to deal with the boss. How is your idea different from the current reality? Walking out of the aoe ring and autoattack with a ranged weapon
Btw. Instead of three zones, would you be satisfied with world 3 as a single zone. Slightly bigger than one previous zone (or cut in 2 small zones) with a boss. It would be less substantial than world 1 and 2 but with some serious difficulty you can make it feel as long.
@Danikat. My personal view is that is rather pay 2000 gems for living season 1 in the new model, than get world 3 or 4 for free as a seasonal content
They don’t have to resources to keep up tertiary contend of the game. At least not for big things like this. Production of SAB maps costs on living story, raids and fractals.
Don’t hope for a new world anytime soon. We’re expecting the next expansion (announcement) after maybe 2 more living story chapters. Maybe it will generate enough revenue to upended uppen the resources, allowing them to continue with the festivals. Although I personally prefer to see them continue the Halloween story. Still waiting for a proper bout between Emo mcCringe and king Thorn
If you’re interested in this, you might like the Pyre Fierceshot storyline in Eye of the North in GW1. It concludes with a whole company of Charr chanting, “There are no gods! There are no gods!” I was pleased to see this theme carried forward into GW2, where staunch atheism is a cornerstone of current Charr culture.
yea, but don’t forget that was a time when the charr were having a split because of the so called fiery gods. so whatever one charr said isn’t a universal truth. I think he was more focussed on the titans at that time
Living stories are made for veteran players in mind and are harder than core game. You need to master dodging and your skills and have updated armor and weapons.
This is what I don’t understand – why doesn’t Anet want all players to be able to experience the Stories?
Because if you design your story for the most casual of players in mind, you will lose 90% of your playerbase as they all die of boredom.
As others said before, the idea is that if you play the story in order, the difficulty slowly climbs up, at a pace anyone is able to adjust to it. If you’re still not dodging by the time you’re fighting the maw of mordremoth.. well.. it’s all you, sorry to say. Every game has a difficulty curve, and practice makes perfect. Maybe you should do events in the zones related to the story you find difficult, so you can get used to the maps. And remember, utulity skills are important, you can’t just auto-attack through the game
I think making them so expensive is their way of preserving the content for the next few years. Now they can completely ignore SAB for 2 or 3 years as people unlock 1-3 skins each time
Did you try to force your personal build through the map, or did you try to adjust your build to the location. Remember, no one build is perfect for everything. Sometimes you have to change weapons or utilities
Maybe I should’ve been clearer, what i meant was that by any definition of a god, to them, it’s just a machine, or a mechanism. Like, en encompassing entity of which “tyria” is a but a single cog. So, yes, god isn’t a very good word, but in trying to relate to it.
Amaimon.7823:
“Atheism is very easy in Tyria as the al omnipotent god doesn’t exist.” Actually, that’s, technically, not what athiesm means.
> Yes, but I didn’t mean that. What I meant was, because the all omnipotent god(s) doesn’t exist, it’s very easy to have atheistic beliefs. I didn’t say atheism is “the god doesn’t exist”. minor detail.
As for the human gods, since we know that humans can become gods, or mate with gods to become half gods, how do we know the current gods aren’t just humans with excessive power? maybe the first few humans were all “gods”, and they slowly receded to a mortal weak state that is the modern man.
Since the last Tuesday patch, we tried Deimos a few times, and we had a consistent bug, even after resetting the instance or coming back with other parties.
We have concluded that the first green teleport will fail with certainty. The green field spawns, we stand in it, the green field expires, disappears, and nothing happens. no teleport, we’re all there waiting for the next green field. This takes about 20 seconds-ish, which means the enrage timer is now effectively short that time since the teleport is guaranteed broken now.
New professions
New races
New armors
Weapons
Dungeons
Long campagin storyline
Beautiful and many new maps/areas
Going to Cantha and Elona
Bring back Paragon, Dervish, Ritualist and Monk.
Atheism is very easy in Tyria as the al omnipotent god doesn’t exist.
Humans and their gods came from another plane.
Charr believe gods are mortal and should be killed to prove they’re stronger.
Asura believe in a mechanical, or non-sentient god, that is “fate” or a prewritten story for the world.
Norn believe in spirits
And sylvari believe in the sun and the mold growing on their feet.
Even the human gods aren’t all that mighty, they’re propably the first humans to exist or something silly like that, for the most part, they just have enough magic to warp reality to make it look like they’re gods.
There are demons, however, as old as reality, such as Rodgort, but even they don’t do much. I don’t think Rodgort ever did more than teaching mortals how to breath fire..
trading in for gems or buying off the TP is not an adventure. and does not give me the feels good feelings when obataining zed skins. right now the only weapons i ever felt good and happy and had the warm feelings in my gut was when i got tequadals hoard. MUST OF killed it 200+ times and got it twice. i was so happy each time. i put work in, i was there beating on the mob day in day out at the end of the day( years) i got an epic weapon. now all i see is get 50 black lion keys open 50 chest of uselessness and clutter and maybe still wont get what you actually want.
MUST’VE
I know this doesn’t have anything to do with the thread and that I’m just showing what a cranky old guy I am, but… please.
I agree, though, I can’t think of a grammatically correct sentence containing must of.
But then again, english isn’t my native tongue, so I might’ve missed a use for it
Considering they had more time to prepare for the next expansion I think it’s fair to expect at least as many in the next, maybe not a lot more, though.
Anet said they create armors and weapons in two styles:
Gem Store team creates armors, weapons, and outfits to be sold in the gem store. This is to make a steady stream of money income.
Then there is another team that also makes item skins, but they make them for adventures. Because of the resources it takes to make them, they don’t make them much. They are reserved for festivals, or special events. Otherwise, they will be connected to expansions or living stories. But mostly expansions. Like HoT gave us a few armor and weapon sets, and so will the next expansion do. A dev has said as much.
It’s simply a high workload to make, so they need money in return, whether this money is in the gemstore, or the expansion purchase
I tried adding the information to the .exe tag, but but then it says the path is unavailable.
I guess I’m doing something wrong, then, do you have a more concise explanation?
where exactly do I have to put the information?
I get that you love SAB, but it’s not a primary, nor even a secondary part of the game. It’s a festivallish minigame with no bearing to the game itself. As it stands, anet has shown that they struggle with the resources to keep up with the primary game and secondary components of the game. So I’m glad they won’t prioritize a tertiary part of the game for the sake of ‘fun’ if it would cost on the quality of the prior. Maybe the next expansion will generate a lot of revenue so they can afford to mess around with tertiary components of the game.
by primary I mean story: Orr, LS1, LS2, HoT, LS3
and by secondary I mean fractals and raids. (And maybe the current events)
Tertiary would be the minigames in LA, as well as SAB, halloween and wintersday.
What always bothers me more is that when your character dies, you just go back to some waypoint. But this isn’t true for the rest of the people living in Tyria. So whenever a character is killed off in the story, I’m thinking “Why don’t they just waypoint out?”
I do realize it is a game, and it would be really annoying if our characters really died forever. But I find that more jarring than toilets and food and water. And in fairness, since I ’ve a bunch of junk food from leveling up chef, my characters actually do eat quite regularly.
Yeah. If you’re familiar with the Log Horizon books/anime, that’s a hugely interesting concept. Player controlled characters therefore become a totally alien set of people relative to the npcs, who are weak/die for good/live relatively limited lives. Adventurers there essentially dropped out of the sky and are not natives.
Our toons of course were written to be natives, and the way point death-cheating bothered me from a writing standpoint. I just chalked it up to “we’ll they can’t very well delete our toons each time, far too hardcore for gw2.”
There is of course the analog called “the hero’s way” which means that the hero never really dies.
But there’s a lore explanation.
In Guild Wars 1 you were “loved by the gods” by lack of an official definition. But it was explained that the gods were still watching the world, and so they would recover you at their shrines. In guild wars 2 this couldn’t happen anymore because we’re more than playing humans now. that, and I think after Abaddon’s fiasco in Nightfal the gods decided to cut what little ties were left. In GW2 (I think) what happens is that you don’t die, but enter a near-death state. Either you use the last of your strength to “waypoint to safety” or the hole-in-the-pocket can see your vital functions drop and pull you out. In either case, it won’t explain why you’re healthy when you arrive at a waypoint, but as said, the hero is always well and alive
Lazarus does not “need a physical body” because by rejoining his aspects, he makes his own physical body. See back to GW1, where just one aspect was physical.
Makes me wonder… could there be five (weak) Lazaruses about at one time?
But as Ider says: this (and most Lazarus theories) “makes no logical sence, no buildup and no story cohesion but is “surprising”.”
Honestly with everyone reaching for all these theories, it would be more surprising to the populous for Lazarus to not be a fake at all.
That is actually a popular theory, though, that it’s the real lazarus, but because he’s incomplete, he’s “good”
you should propably know the game is not very graphically heavy. My gtx660ti could run it very well. The game runs mostly on cpu, and my i5 thats about 6..7 years old now, is starting to slowly fade, I notice.
how about a new rpg where you have to do all the life-sustaining stuff you do in real life, ingame, in realtime, so you have to focus on keeping a digital puppet alive, while forgoing your own health
Your problem is one sided.
They make a party in LFG, so they have the right make demands of who’s allowed.
If you want to have a party that defies their wishes, then you can make your own party.
tldr; Whoever owns the party, owns the right to tell who’s welcome. Own your own party if you want other rules.
Or in Bender’s words: screw this, I’ll make my own country. With blackjack and hookers.
I think it would be totaly wrong to reintroduce stuff from years ago for people who weren’t playing when these things were available. It’s a good thing that some things can’t just be aquired; that you had to be there to get them. And I’m talking as someone who mostly missed out through lack of attention to PvE.
but thats only assuming they weren’t there playing. What if they were, do they still not have the right?
