Thread title had me hoping the initial post would be kind, but no. ArenaNet is apparently a faceless robot with the words “crap here” written on it. Big comical arrow.
Encountered the, I guess, quicksand. Couldn’t really identify it because I was stuttering, but people just threw themselves at him until he died. Doesn’t seem too much more difficult.
A net should really look into how their RNG really works, because it seems to favor some players more than others.
I always thought that was just a running joke.
Their RNG probably works in the same general manner as about any other RPG. Be thankful this isn’t Phantasy Star Online, depending on the name you created for your character, you would be assigned a color-coded ID that determined what equipment would drop for you. Want knuckle weapons? Dual swords? Too bad, here’re staves.
This backpack annoys me. At least I had a chance of getting the spinal blade thingie, but didnt because I was too lazy to farm the items needed, but this one takes the cake, and I hate it. Requiring 3 different skills at 400, none of which I have even started, or a kitten ton of money from people price gouging.
I will never get this back item, and its not because I don’t like it. I just will never have the money or skill level to make it. So now I have 4 items that will sit in my bank forever as a reminder of an unobtainable item.
Thanks. This is bullkitten.
From what I can tell, all the components required are a permanent addition. You can make this back piece whenever you want. Oh except maybe the clay. You should probably grab twenty-five pieces of clay quickly, I know at Tier 5 they don’t cost a single copper, probably the same at Tier 1, so just round up a stack of Geodes.
Clay costs less Geodes the higher tier (1 less per tier) but you can only buy it at Tier 3 or higher. Currently, the price of Clay is 8/7/6 per (maybe more Tiers later on).
fewer*
It can be frustrating to wait around or investigate when a Tier 5 Dry Top will be coordinated. A stack of Geodes will cover anyone’s cost, be they frugal or wanton.
Clay is available at all Tiers. The Recipe begins its availability at Tier 3.
Trying to engage him with so few people, I didn’t notice any quicksand, but I think he has an additional AE stomp. It definitely makes melee difficult, I look forward to overcoming this challenge.
Well..I got through the the instanced part in Frostgorge before calling it a night..and here is what kinda has me scratching my head some..
Why does Braham act so weird around his mother, Eir? Like super weird, like he just walked in on her getting dressed, weird? I mean, I get that they’re not a close knit family, but, all the uhmm'ing was kinda odd. Do they have therapy options there in Norn land, cause these 2 need it
Kinda weird to start being buddy-buddy with someone you spent at least two decades having a low opinion of. Especially if it’s your mostly-absent mom.
This backpack annoys me. At least I had a chance of getting the spinal blade thingie, but didnt because I was too lazy to farm the items needed, but this one takes the cake, and I hate it. Requiring 3 different skills at 400, none of which I have even started, or a kitten ton of money from people price gouging.
I will never get this back item, and its not because I don’t like it. I just will never have the money or skill level to make it. So now I have 4 items that will sit in my bank forever as a reminder of an unobtainable item.
Thanks. This is bullkitten.
From what I can tell, all the components required are a permanent addition. You can make this back piece whenever you want. Oh except maybe the clay. You should probably grab twenty-five pieces of clay quickly, I know at Tier 5 they don’t cost a single copper, probably the same at Tier 1, so just round up a stack of Geodes.
I’ve just been playing the game for two years. Despite the price increase, I can still afford a precursor if I stop hoarding materials like I plan to craft three Legendaries.. And Ascended armor/weapons.
I dipped a toe into the Mystic Forge “game”. Decided the Ectoplasm was too precious to waste on a gamble, when it could just be sold (or hoarded for plans on a fourth Legendary).
I loved the boss fight, and Rytlock’s wording had me worried about what could go wrong during this ritual. I wish it had been just a tiny bit more difficult, like maybe a heavy damage-dealing ghost that targets the player.
The open world parts are pretty cool, learned some tidbits about the Mordrem, thought it was funny the mob was being manipulated to help players with their Living Story. Played this episode really hard, more so than the last two.
Super thrilled about completing this new back piece. Instead of roaming Dry Top for saplings, I’ll finish another character’s Personal Story for Foxfire Clusters.
I hope there’s an episode where we’re trapped in some other domain/dimension, I like those in RPGs.
I got a second one immediately after the update. I only wanted one. I feel like it’s a waste to spend it on Sandy Bags, at least not so few, so I’ll save Geodes for another Recipe.
Although, I wonder what could be in Sandy Bag to warrant only so few for a Fossil..
1) Random number generator generates numbers randomly. Welcome to video games.
What you should have told him was;
GW2 random number generator generates numbers abysmaly.
Don’t get me wrong I like GW2 but the RNG in this game is the worst I’ve ever seen. It’s as if they want you to buy gold with money (<—highly likely this) or farm gold instead of beating monsters to get the items that you want like any other video game (at least like any other video game I’ve played).
Welcome to every mmorpg every made in fact every rpg ever made.
I agree somewhat with the “every mmorpg” part but the “rpg” part I disagree. For example when I play Monster Hunter I go and beat a specific boss to get the items I need to craft stuff. You also need gold in that game but not once have I ever had to farm gold. I always had way more then enough.
Same thing for God Eater, Ragnarok Oddysey, Pokemon, Tales of series, etc. Never in any of these games have I had to farm gold cuz it was a better option, mostly because you can’t buy better or rare stuff with gold and you’d earn enough anyway just from playing the game.
Monster Hunter is a perfect example of frustrating RNG. I’d say Guild Wars is tame compared to Monster Hunter, but I did get Monoblos Heart on my first run. Didn’t even want it.
Pretty sure the Tormented gear only got underwater weapons because it’s a set from GW1 that also featured a spear.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they tracked TP and vendor data and found that a very small group of people used tickets or bought water weps and decided it was enough to bother with the time it takes to design and model the gear.
There is no Dreamthistle Spear on the Trading Post.
There is a spear, and a harpoon gun in the wardrobe for Dreamthistle.
I think that Boneheart just meant that the spear seemed to be in high enough demand to exhaust the supply on the tp. (But that by itself doesn’t tell us much about how much demand there is for underwater skins, unfortunately.)
Maybe it was my pessimism, but I implied the demand was absent. Thus agreeing with the notion of ArenaNet not spending effort to construct future underwater weapons for Evon to sell.
It was probably meant to be far more than it ever became and Anet’s movement away from general RP content means they will probably never do anything more with it so they simply removed the whole thing from the Hero Menu to save UI space.
This kind of type invites scorn. Unless it’s mentioned somewhere, I would say it’s probably being worked on for later. A good example of permanently removing something from the game would be Raid on the Capricorn, it’s very much suggested in the patch notes that underwater PvP is no more.
Choosing to believe something for no reason at all is one’s own prerogative but when they don’t touch the system for over a year and the only thing they have down with it is remove the only way to track it, it’s completely reasonable to assume they aren’t going to do anything more with it.
Pretty sure the Tormented gear only got underwater weapons because it’s a set from GW1 that also featured a spear.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they tracked TP and vendor data and found that a very small group of people used tickets or bought water weps and decided it was enough to bother with the time it takes to design and model the gear.
There is no Dreamthistle Spear on the Trading Post.
I want to address the comments about the player character’s knowledge of Mordremoth and how that fits into the story. For some players, this may have felt like it came out of nowhere. Up to this point, the only explicit mention of Mordremoth in the core campaign was on the Teeth of Mordremoth skill in Crucible of Eternity.
Season 2 of the Living World assumes that the player character has completed the Personal Story, killed Zhaitan, and has attained the rank of Pact Commander. It also assumes completion of season 1, that the player character killed Scarlet, and has a friendship with Rox, Braham, and the rest of the crew. Because of the PC’s assumed rank in an organization that deals in fighting dragons, and that such knowledge isn’t really a secret (but isn’t widely known as characters in the world have no reason to openly discuss it until now) we wanted the player to make the call by identifying the dragon in a conversation among friends. In hindsight, there should have been more build up or discovery before reaching that point. Lesson learned.
We want to seed Tyria with lore bits and other items that can better educate adventurous players seeking more knowledge on the subject. Keep your eyes open in future releases. Thanks so much for taking the time to post your feedback regarding episode 2.
I assume that means we know the water dragons name too
Players have seen Mordremoth’s name before season one of the Living Story. The Deep Sea Dragon’s is nowhere. If I remember correctly, the Inquest have no samples of it?
Ah, I was wrong about which ones had the underwater weapons, but I don’t think I’m wrong about the reasons.
It would seem so, as I’ve heard in the past. Although I am seeing quite a number of underwater-related threads being created recently.
It’s the one part of the game I’ve very passionate about, so I have to remain level-headed.
It was probably meant to be far more than it ever became and Anet’s movement away from general RP content means they will probably never do anything more with it so they simply removed the whole thing from the Hero Menu to save UI space.
This kind of type invites scorn. Unless it’s mentioned somewhere, I would say it’s probably being worked on for later. A good example of permanently removing something from the game would be Raid on the Capricorn, it’s very much suggested in the patch notes that underwater PvP is no more.
So i finally made the 1h sword and shield, but i was looking through the wiki and cant find any underwater amber weapons- are these weapon types just not available? and if not will they be added later?
Some weapon skins don’t have underwater variants, possibly because they’re not very popular, and thus aren’t worth the resources to make. I THINK all the bltc weapon skins have underwater variants, but the “free” ones don’t, but I’d have to check to be sure.
The only Black Lion weapon with underwater skins is Tormented.
Oh, apparently Dreamthistle, too.
So basically, our character is just as observant as the player. She comes to an Inquest mega-lab that experiments with dragon energy, sees plant-based sectors and the Teeth of Mordremoth buff (magic, ain’t gotta explain). Or even just being Commander of the Pact, surely the Whispers agent took some Inquest data and shared it.
I can imagine her not explicitly revealing she knows the Elder Dragon’s name, instead not being surprised when encountering a speaking Mordrem/corrupted Sylvari that drops the name for the first time.
Destiny’s Edge killed Zhaitan. That in itself is a monumental feat. What’s wrong with having a second guild tackle Mordremoth?
Well, if you step back in GW1, the first heroes (Menhlo, Cynn, Devo & co.) were part of every story in the game (some time more directly in the story, otherwise you could take them with you on your journey). So I don’t see why DE should stop after defeating Zhaitan? They even did it after they tried to stop Kalkatorik and failed.
One thing that bothers me if that we put so much effort into regrouping them via the story of the dungeon just to see them disband again at the end of Arah… I mean, come on, you could put more effort into your characters, no?
Gotta say, as scary as a Lich and Vin Diesel x10 are, I’m reluctant to compare them to an Elder Dragon and their minions.
~Expansion pack (Cantha, Elona, maybe a new one we haven’t seen in gw1 before)
I know what’s a great idea! Let’s not explore the rest of Tyria and just go to a different continent. This totally isn’t about a desire to re-experience my past in a completely different game.
I’m with you, brother. ArenaNet, stop reaching for the sky, original ideas are dumb. Just do what already works: using the traditional MMO template and fading into obscurity.
My friend got Dawn, but she wanted Dusk. She’s sitting on 1100g because she would rather buy the Legendary than put up with Map Completion (specifically Tasks). She calls this game “kitten tier” every time I mention it, while playing XIV.
As others have said, she’s Asura. And she’s still a kid. AND she’s obsessed with Scarlet. Plus, seeing the Eternal Alchemy for oneself? That would be like a real life human being offered the chance to meet God in person. It’s not surprising that she did what she did.
What IS surprising is that the PC and none of the Biconics took steps to ensure the kid was properly supervised. :P
I instinctively moved my character to bar her. I am not an RP’er, but I do remember not appreciating the risks she took earlier with activating Scarlet’s defense systems.
a dragon is awake. there are dead bodies scattered all over dry top. the story elements and events continue to be subpar. we are fighting recycled giants and chasing after tornadoes carrying chickens for bits of rocks and sand to up the level of rewards so we can (yet again) craft more loot. that’s pretty meh for a aaa game with a talented team of developers and a great budget.
i don’t know about you, but the content and storytelling has been less than stellar. sorry, but engaging storytelling is not one of anets strong suits and that can clearly be seen from the onset with the personal story and the battle against the dreaded zhaitan. if you were to remove loot and achievements from ps and ls, hardly anyone would participate in the content or story for content and story sake.
i’m glad you like it enough to be aware of what’s going on, but i’m not alone in saying that i still feel completely disengaged at this point. ultimately, i’m asking for more meaningful and engaging content and story if they have 3/4 teams of people working on pumping it out every 2 weeks. that’s it. not much more to figure out or niggle about.
Apparently, you’re not very familiar with GW2 lore. There’s more than one dragon awake, there are currently 5 dragons awake. The first one woke up 200 years ago. All their lives, these people have lived under the shadow of the dragons. Under conditions like that, a sense of urgency can’t possibly exist.
4:30 AM
You hear loud banging on your door! It must be the cops, someone is dying, or the house is on fire!
You jump out of bed and are at your door, which is ten feet away, in almost two seconds!
“Wake up, time to get ready for school.”
Repeat this for three years. Any amount of yelling or frantic crying will not move me, now. My sense of urgency has been kittened, so now I am slow to act. On the plus side, I take that time to kitten what could be wrong and how to deal with it reasonably (if anything is wrong in the first place).
Screw that, I’m discussing with you, not a kitten post history.
Not in this topic you’re not.
Might I suggest you find a friendly necromancer and start looking for the right topic for this? :)
The topic’s about influences in Scarlet’s forging of her alliances. We were discussing the believability of her forging/maintaining these alliances, and I’ll keep discussing if I so please (provided a moderator sees no issue)! For some reason, you’re afraid to answer a question you clearly should’ve ignored rather than be conflictual.
The back-story articles don’t seem to dismiss her Mary Sue-ness. If anything they enhance it, which brings me to the second half of her unlikability/why I don’t like her: her exceptional scholarships we’ve never heard of.
Your perspective?
Well, everyone knows I’m an ANet apologist so why should my perspective matter in this? I don’t think anyone wants me to go into it . . . again . . . just to reach the same conclusion . . . again . . . that I don’t know what I’m talking about and think ANet can do no wrong.
So, my perspective? I already gave it. “She wasn’t a Villain Sue.” If you want answers more than that, my post history is open and you should still be able to find the discussions in there.
Screw that, I’m discussing with you, not a kitten post history.
In a logical situation, the survivors would’ve banded together and either lynched Scarlet or done as Marshal Trahearne would: moving on!
She was established as a Mary Sue when you first meet her. At least for me, that was half the reason I didn’t like her and half of what made her unlikable.
I didn’t see her as a Mary Sue after taking a step back and looking at the whole.
Unfortunately, ANet did no favors by adding a lot of material in places the players wouldn’t naturally look – in a short story released on their page. Then in some not-usual dialogue, along with a lot of “rumors” about her which started to surface which later turned out to not be 100% factual.
But by that point, everyone had already determined she was a Sue and that was that.
“Dialogue”?
The back-story articles don’t seem to dismiss her Mary Sue-ness. If anything they enhance it, which brings me to the second half of her unlikability/why I don’t like her: her exceptional scholarships we’ve never heard of.
Your perspective?
Despite the snark and thinly-veiled insults, I’m sure anyone will listen to you.
Whatever criticism you may have included in your posts, it’s well-disguised as a spit in the face.
sorry that you read it that way, but you’re wrong. i provided a fair and honest assessment of things without the sugar coating.
Please take a step back and look at what you just typed. The fact that you had to type “sugar coating” should be a red flag.
Despite better judgement, I’m trying to help (minimally) you structure your critique. You may have an actual issue to discuss, but it just looks like an attack.
That is the font of most Scarlet-related issues. Any more addition (like her ability to keep together these flawed alliance despite their staggering losses and her totally incompetent skills at leadership) to that makes the story even more nonsensical.
I didn’t phrase my point well in the post above: I don’t doubt that Scarlet did as you suggested (killing all dissenters), but in a world where the story would make sense — god forbid — she couldn’t inspire the kind of loyalty to continuously keep these once fully independent forces in their place (no matter the retribution or the seductive allure of false promises). They would rebel and break up… or better; join forces one last time to rebel and punish Scarlet for the defeat she dragged them into.
What did she promise them? I know the krait were in it for the prophets, catching a glimpse of a well-dressed lie. The Molten Alliance was just flat-out better firepower?
Despite the snark and thinly-veiled insults, I’m sure anyone will listen to you.
Whatever criticism you may have included in your posts, it’s well-disguised as a spit in the face.
In a logical situation, the survivors would’ve banded together and either lynched Scarlet or done as Marshal Trahearne would: moving on!
She was established as a Mary Sue when you first meet her. At least for me, that was half the reason I didn’t like her and half of what made her unlikable.
Or i use the money to buy a useless mini that i will never use.
I refuse to pay x gold for a yellow item that i nearly never use.
Either they give us proper exotics that we can also craft with all stats and also
give us the checkbox to hide them, or they simply remove them and let us use
the normal helmet instead.
Shouldn’t you be angry after they’ve had the chance to not do it? I believe this is the first update to introduce a set of skins that are Exotic and craftable. But since we’re nowhere near a body of water, you’ll probably have to wait as long as the underwater fans for an aquabreather Exotic as they are for Black Lion weapon skins.
Were they testing the water with Tormented? Do ho ho ho ho!
Follow a lone lunatic who forced me to cooperate with those stinking charr*/*dredge, and led us to a greater defeat than the one that had forced us into this miserable alliance in the first place? (Death of the generals and war minister of the dredge regime, death of Imperator Baelfire, the Burnt warband Tribune, and the destruction of their newest superweapon for the Flame Legion.)
No thanks. I’d rather return to maintaining order among the rebellious workers spitting on the glorious moletariate*/*rally behind a powerful hierophant who will fill in the power vacuum left by Baelfire with my new fire magic*/*sonic weapons than follow that accursed twig into the unknown. I don’t care for her goals and she’ll be drilled open*/*burned when my comrades*/*shamans show Tyria and all its vermin real power.
Scarlet: And now you’re dead. Next! You, do what I tell you.
Hello everyone! So I bought GW2 a few weeks back. Been loving the game deeply. So I just reached Lv80 last night with my Warrior and I have a few questions.
What do I do next? As in, what gear do I go after. What weapon? I intend to run both PvE and PvP (WvW) deeply.
I’m not sure about the current economy. I have stacked 80g or so. Is that really low? I have no idea since I see some weapons go for like 3k gold! (One is called Twilight which is really nice!)
Dungeons… How do I even start with this. Everytime I got to the Level to start a dungeon I tried but people just wanted “80s and Exp people”. How am I supposed to learn it then? There are not many groups available already and the only few there are, they just want experienced…
Mesmer! I’ve been thinking of making a Mesmer. They look like a very unique class (Been playing MMO’s my whole life and never seen something like it). How “wanted” are they? Are they any good?
Thanks in advance for all the answers and help. Have a good day!
Do whatever you want. However you wish to play, tank, dps, healer (do not recommend on Warrior), support, that’s your choice, nothing will bar you.
If you have access to the LFG (‘Y’, under Friends), you can advertise that you’re looking for a group, or wait for a group that isn’t so restrictive to advertise.
Don’t worry about gold, ever. Frugal player or big-spender, it’s not fun worrying about gold and that’s not what you’re here for.
One of the most annoying parts about Boss Blitz was the uplevels who’d scale the fights up but not be of any particular help because they’re wearing low level gear and don’t have the traits and possibly skills to be able to lend much of a hand. It was a complete pain to fight Boom Boom with half the group there being uplevels who are just making the turret harder to kill while supplying a quarter of the DPS that they should be bringing.
Additionally, the living story content comes after the personal story in chronology, so really, they should be doing the PS first. It was only fair to allow taking part in the previous season because it was temporary. This will be here forever, so there’s no rush.
As for:
Makes me wonder why they don’t implement a feature where people “upleveled” based on the zone.
Let people who just get the game jump right into the action in the new areas instead of make them level if they so choose.
So they can get annoyed and angry that the game is too hard because they just got it, don’t know what they’re doing or how to play their classes, and rushed into content with terrible gear and no traits or skills against swarms of enemies?
Yeah, that makes sense.
To clarify, Mordrem are terribly dangerous, they would tear through a low-level like paper. Then there’s the Dust Mites causing Blind, so many defeated bodies at Sand Giant..
Exactly… that was when the story still had a believable direction.
Even when things were looking up they hated each other. All their facilities were destroyed, their highest-ranking officers killed, their plans foiled, goals further out of reach than before, massive personnel loss, slaves escaped…
… and five months later they are back in full power, still together, but more witless, goalless pawns of Scarlet than ever, appearing all over Tyria with an invasion force that exceeds that of the Pact’s entire military and navy several times over. And afterwards they still appear during the sacking of Lion’s Arch.
I imagine when your boss is killed and the one that forced him into the alliance tells you to do something (you being a desperate villain), you’re like to do it. Even better, without the direction of your higher-ups, as a grunt, you’re more susceptible to influence, be it a threat on your life, or a promotion.
All of the Living Story takes place after the hero has killed zhaitan. You’re bound to be level 80 by then. So just go play the original story all of the way through and you’ll definately be 80 before you even get there. So if its story content you’re after, finish what you’ve got going first.
Last LS season many people played the LS even though we hadn’t killed zhaitan yet. Didn’t make a difference to me. I have 2 80s that have not killed zhaitan yet, but I am playing the current LS with them. Still doesn’t make a difference so I’m not sure why they changed it to level 80 now.
People want to play what their friends and guildies are playing. Cutting them out of that participation because they aren’t level 80 yet is not a good strategy.
You call those “friends” that won’t come to a low-level zone to play with them?
All I’ve done is just enjoy the game, no grind, no farm (either one immediately makes me sleepy). If I wanted, I could sell the extra crafting materials I keep for a second Legendary and purchase a precursor right now, to craft my very first Legendary. I’m also keeping components for a third Legendary.
