They kind of did force it upon us, by making the instance so freaking long. Honestly, all I wanted to do was finish the quests and enter the EoTM. I do not play this game for character/story development, I play to have fun and make new friends. If Marjory and Kasmeer or Logan and Jennah are sleeping together, that is fine. But I would honestly like more action and less interaction of the NPC’s.
Oh noes! You got 5 whole minutes of character interaction to compete with a possible 10k minutes of action per week. You poor thing.
The best way to keep tabs on the enemy is to infiltrate them. Sides, all we’ve seen of Scarlet since the invasion is holograms.
I think Lady Kasmeer’s going to be revealed as Scarlet, in disguise.
Nope, there’s no way to get it now.
I don’t think pveers should have to do pvp, and I read people saying they’re going to camp achievement zones so they can kill pveers as a great example of why you should never force someone to do pvp, even if you, as anet clearly does, think it’s the best thing in the world. I have a huge problem with the “pound” mechanic, and will oftentimes disconnect, rather than allow it to happen, even if the result’s the same. I don’t like being hunted down when I’m clearly trying to run away, just so someone can kill me, and get a useless piece of loot. I feel like I’m being murdered, and violated. That’s my thing, but it’s still not a nice feeling, and not something anet should encourage by forcing people who don’t want to do PvP into PvP zones. And no, saying “Tee hee, you’re not forced to do anything. Gotta expect pvp in a pvp zone, bag of loot.” doesn’t cut it.
All you have to do to care is know the entire plot arc of season one from the start. Which, I guess, is why a lot of people don’t care.
If it’s red, it’s dead.
And anyone who seriously gets bothered and upset about the aspect of killing another player or getting killed themselves, it’s just a video game. You are not actually killing anyone. If your day is ruined because some scrub ganked you, you really need rethink your priorities and hobbies.
It’s just a video game.
And yet, you’re salivating at the chance to kill them. Contradiction?
Feel free to point out where exactly in my post I was “salivating” to kill PvErs. If you mean “red is dead”, then you are missing the point. You are in a PvP zone, red name is an enemy, most people including me don’t stop and wander what they are doing there, or what kind of player they are. It’s an enemy, and so we fight. Me personally I only ignore uplevels because I know they pose no challenge and I wouldn’t want to waste my cooldowns on them when something dangerous could be around the corner.
Expect PvP in a PvP map m8
Gosh, it’s just a game dude. Why so serious?
If it’s red, it’s dead.
And anyone who seriously gets bothered and upset about the aspect of killing another player or getting killed themselves, it’s just a video game. You are not actually killing anyone. If your day is ruined because some scrub ganked you, you really need rethink your priorities and hobbies.
It’s just a video game.
And yet, you’re salivating at the chance to kill them. Contradiction?
So I can see that new patch is a force us PvE players into WvW…
We don’t know the full story yet, but it seems like most of it won’t even be in the Edge.
I stated this during the Ready Up livestream earlier today, but I’ll repeat it again here.
While we are releasing new story related content with the Edge of the Mists update, very little of that content actually occurs inside of the EotM map. Hopefully that alleviates some of your concerns!
“Very little” is “very open” to interpretation. Especially given that we don’t know how important that “little” part of the story will be.
We had to do one of the boss events to unlock the story and character development in OoM. There’s every reason to worry that we’ll have to face PvP to get to the main part of the story in EotM.
I’m assuming we’ll have to take part in one aetherblade attack in the edge of the mists, and maybe explore it, and the rest we can ignore.
I’ve been reading through the posts here and I think that many people are missing something key here. The EotM update is designed as a way to tie WvW and PvE even closer together then they have been in the past. Anet has made it pretty clear that their desire is to see symmetry between all three game modes. Some ways they are making that happen are by making PvP rewards gold based instead of glory, carrying over skins from PvE into PvP, and adding more PvE elements to WvW (LS in EotM). This next update achieves that goal and fixes the issue of the WvW gueue problem as a bonus.
On the issue of Scarlet, she is undoubtedly annoying and most people find her worthless as a character. I think the biggest cause of this is the fact that players have no real vested interest in what she is doing other then how it effects their achievements or loot. With so much to do in GW2 its impossible to make new content overly expansive because you will run the risk of leaving players in the dust and therefore it has taken many many months just to find out the little we know about Scarlet. I think the reason the developers are convinced Scarlet will be a “good villain” in the end for us is because it will take the entire Season 1 of content for us to understand what has been happening.
If I may add my theory for what happens next. I think Scarlet’s motivations for everything will prove to have in the end been for the best of Tyria. Perhaps the next dragon to be revealed will need a new breed of hero to defeat and Scarlet will have laid the foundation for that with her combination experiments.
I think if they make Scarlet the hero, people will quit in disgust. You cannot make someone that a lot of people hate into the hero. It just doesn’t work.
Edge of the Mists can be entered at any time. It’s just the only WvW map that creates overflows when it’s full.
Thank you Tyler, that brings a great sense of relief. I enjoy WvW, but when I want to do PvE, I don’t want peoples hunting me down because that’s how they get their jollies.
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Hey, thanks for insulting me, Boreas. I guess you’d prefer a stilted “this is my new apparentice, Taimi.” “Hi there” Introduction, over someone just showing up. Do you get introduced to everyone who’s come into your life by someone you already knew, or do people just show up from time to time?
The problem with the Scarlet Story is that Anet thinks they’ve made this grand mystery that’s gotten the players talking. Then they come in and say “I love this theory crafting! You’re all wrong, but I love it!” And they fail to realize that we’re wrong because they’ve held the ENTIRE story for the end. What we’ve got is a 2 chapter book. Frost and fire through whatever the next update after edge of the mists is called is chapter one. Then everything’s explained to us in chapter 2. And then the story’s over. This is boring. They waited 6 weeks to release the living story to make sure they got it right, and nothing is revealed. We just have to wait till the end. If ALL the story’s at the end, we should’ve just gone to the end from the start. You don’t need to have played the living story for the past year, because nothing important has been told to us. I can only hope they’ve learned for season 2. They said they have, but only time will tell.
Why don’t you hold your criticisms until you’ve played the content? At this point you’re all speculating on how it fits together and what you’ll be doing in the next release. We haven’t discussed the details, so most of the assumptions in this thread aren’t correct.
Well, I guess that’s fair enough. But there’s only 3 more releases, and you seem to be putting a lot of weight on to everything fitting together in the end. I hope you’re right.
The problem with the Scarlet Story is that Anet thinks they’ve made this grand mystery that’s gotten the players talking. Then they come in and say “I love this theory crafting! You’re all wrong, but I love it!” And they fail to realize that we’re wrong because they’ve held the ENTIRE story for the end. What we’ve got is a 2 chapter book. Frost and fire through whatever the next update after edge of the mists is called is chapter one. Then everything’s explained to us in chapter 2. And then the story’s over. This is boring. They waited 6 weeks to release the living story to make sure they got it right, and nothing is revealed. We just have to wait till the end. If ALL the story’s at the end, we should’ve just gone to the end from the start. You don’t need to have played the living story for the past year, because nothing important has been told to us. I can only hope they’ve learned for season 2. They said they have, but only time will tell.
You know what I’d want to know – if anything has either been retconned, if there any red herrings or loose ends.
There’s nothing that puts me off more than having some loose, retcon or herring to throw you off base.
For example, I’m expecting to see how this entire storyline ties into the Steam creatures because the portals Scarlet uses are the exact same ones seen with the Steam creatures.
Just an example of something that could’ve been revealed during the course of the story, and not left till the end.
Exactly how do you introduce someone, except for writing them into the story? Everyone has to show up at some point.
The reason why there’s 1 guess out of a thousand is because there’s almost nothing to go on. We have no data points to connect, so we’re just making stuff up. That’s not really what I think you guys want.
I guess my point was, people are guessing because you’ve withheld 90% of the information in this living story till the end. I don’t want to be told the details, I want the details to come out during the course of the story, rather than in a big info dump at the end. Might you tell us what you feel we’ve learned from the living story thus far? From what I can tell, all we’ve learned is that Scarlet can make people form alliances, and she has some sort of plan, and it involves a tree and a dragon.
For instance, why did she want Queen Jenna? I assume that’ll be revealed at the end.
Why did she want Mai Trin to replace the assassinated captain in lion’s arch? Revealed at the end. How did she get the xenophobic Krait to team up with the insular nightmare court? Revealed at the end. Where did the Marionette come from? Revealed at the end. What was the point of molton alliance invading ascalon and shiverpeaks? Revealed at the end. Where do the aetherblades come from? Revealed at the end.
You can reveal parts of the mystery without spoiling it. Stories should solve mysteries as you go along, not withhold them all to the end. Maybe some of them have been, and I might’ve missed it, but I feel like I’ve been following the Living story for the past year, and I don’t feel like I know anything.
I getting tired of all these:
“Just wait until the end”
“all will be revealed soon”
“it’ll all make sense in the final chapter”it’s like some cheesy who-done-it novel we have to wait until the final few pages when the detective pieces all the clues together. I thought this was a high fantasy story.
Guild Wars was never high fantasy to begin with. It is a much more down-to-earth world, with lots more tech then your usual random world filled with magical elves and whatever else.
And I thought that piecing together bits of story is exactly the interactive content the LS needed
We have to piece it together, there’s almost nothing to go on. Everything’s going to be revealed at the end. So why don’t we just skip to the last chapter, and read the wrap up?
It’s Omadd. So there you go.
I’ve seen better evidence support intelligent design.
The only truly bad voice actress in the game is the one in Ascalon Catacombs that says “your plan is stupid, and won’t work.” I think that’s an awful line read. She shows up during the fire shaman world event, and she’s marginally better, but not much. She only has one line there, anyways.
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Anet has said that any legit email from them will NOT contain links. If you get an email with a link, and you’re really worried, do NOT click on it. Go to guildwars2.com by typing it into your browser, and then go to the support area. Send in a ticket, and ask if your account is under investigation.
They had 6 weeks. If they couldn’t get it done by then…
Here’s what I want: hardcore players to get new content. What you want: take content away from casuals and rework it into hardcore content. Which seems fairer?
Yeah, if you want hardcore content, perhaps this isn’t the game for you.
You want to play JQ? You realize they’d crush you, right? You want to play Kaineng? You realize you’d crush them, right? Where’s the fun in that for Kaineng?
I think they should make NEW content for that, not take away old content.
ArenaNet should rework all the zerg world bosses and make them into organized raid encounters instead. Just look at Karka Queen and The Shatterer. That’s 100% zerg and a lag fest. It’s not fun.
These two new bosses are really fun, especially Twisted Marionette. Wurm is very hard but also fun when you have enough people to do it.
TL;DR: Rework zerg lagfest world bosses.
TLDR: make content I like, and take content that other people like away from them. The hardcore players matter more than the casuals.
Actually, the more I think about it, the better I like making the marionette a Maw type fractal end boss. I think it’d take a lot of work to scale it for 1 person per lane as opposed to 20, but I think it’s doable.
Here’s the thing: Scarlet’s invasions were made permanent. When was the last time you did one? I didn’t think so. Eventually people will lose interest. And it takes too many people to finish the marionette. I bet by the time it goes away, she’ll probably be beaten 1 time out of 5. Making it a fractal’s a possibility. It’d be hard, but I guess they could scale it so that one person can defend the lanes.
Don’t worry about it. As I mentioned in a different post, the TTS Guild will analyse the encounter, and beat it. We’ll then provide some tips on how to go about it.
I’m glad you consider this to be TTS’ personal boss.
Unless you’re in tier 1, who cares what the PPT is?
Anet should just let my server win all the time, and just leave out the whole “competition” thing. Why should anyone be allowed to play at all, when they might actually be able to win, and force me to work hard in order to keep them from winning? It just isn’t fair.
I try to ignore the fact that i never get to try tequatl since its patch.
Used to be a 4min fight. Im a soloist and dont want to rally a server to fight something that used to be easy. Im not influential and my server races to camp in other servers. What am i to do if bosses may continue that design platform.
Somehow the teq guilds and anet are ok with this outcome. Rest of us in the dark.
RIP home server bosses PUG
TTS is happy with it because it makes them special.
I think these Gem Store items are reasonably priced for the convenience they offer.
What convenience is that?
(spoilers: I spent 16 gold and got 250 each of gold, silver and copper. Total time to mine this from the nodes? 3 months. Total cost to buy nodes? 60 gold. You make the call!)
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All you have to do to avoid paying to waypoint home is: go to wvw, wait for that to load. Then, take the asuran portal to lions arch. Wait for that to load. Then waypoint for free to the asuran gates. Wait for that to load. Then enter the asuran gate for the city you want to go to. Wait for that to load. Then waypoint to your home instance for free. Wait for that to load. Then go into your home instance. See, it’s simple!
The price of these items avoids them being called out as “pay2win”. If you want the convenience, well there you go, but you’re not going to see any in-game advantage by purchasing them.
I find the prices quite satisfactory, even though I am not going to buy them.
They’re not even that convenient. You’d be better off turning the gems into gold, and buying as much copper, silver and gold ore that gold will buy you then mining 3 of each per day for the rest of the game’s life.
Teq gets killed every day multiple times on multiple servers… Some like it some don’t…
So just because some players don’t like it there shouldn’t be any more bosses like Teq?
Get over yourself!!
I don’t like JPs, so should I go around in the forum going on about it? No I will continue to ignore them and let the people who like JPs enjoy them….
There is so much to do in this game why complain about stuff other players clearly enjoy?
Just because you like teq, that means there should be more like him?
Get over yourself!!
There is so much to do in this game, why complain about stuff other players clearly enjoy?
Expect the prices of these precious metal nodes to shoot up to near linen and silk prices when jeweler reaches 500. The addition of these nodes is to help mitigate the inflation since they’re not that common out in the world and aren’t salvaged very often.
If speculation on these metals is correct, you may be able to make a return on your investment faster than you assume.
Copper’s common as hell.
The player base mostly hates Scarlet. However, the writing staff loves her. Guess who wins? (spoilers: not the player base)
Does your server do every single teq spawn? Or just the few after reset? I defeated Teq once. Waited around for an hour, beat him with seconds to spare. And got blues and greens. I decided then and there that it wasn’t worth it.
Why should we put in effort to do something we don’t find rewarding or fun?
I heard there was an asuran being added to the Scarlet Story. Presumably, that’s who’s voice is on the trailer.
So, the nodes are available for each and every character you have or just limited to one account per day?
Once per account. So they cost money, and are worse than the in-world nodes.
sigh… all this hype about the final four releases, fist patch back from a long break and what do we get? Two boring world bosses that will either be to hard and abandoned like the new Tequatl (the most poorly designed epic failure in ArenaNet history) or something like the KarKa Queen who is easy yet no body gives a kitten about it because of its location and effort involved to spawn it.
I honestly was expecting something good in these final four releases, did they learn nothing from the epic train wreck that was Tequatl 2.0?
Transfer to JQ
Teq is downed 3 times a day, and kakra is downed 3-4 times a day. After reset JQ has 3-4 overflows that all down Teq. (you will need to show up an hour before spawn to get a spot in a competent overflow)
I agree they aren’t the best design, especially for small servers, but they are done daily if you are actually looking to do them and not just complain. Hopefully this new boss scales better so we can do it with 20 people or 200.
Teq spawns 12 times per day. Your server does it 25% of the time. Other world bosses are done probably 70-80% of the time.
Yeah, as far as I can see, these nodes are almost completely worthless. For 400 gems, sure. For 800? No. They don’t reset, so they’re once per day, and only 3 ore per. Anet, tell us, why do YOU think this item is worth 10 dollars?
Hooray, now we can just pick the easiest class to level, get that to level 80, and then class change over to something that’s harder to level. Meanwhile, we have no idea how to play our new character, but hey, who cares about that, right?