Guild Wars 2

I play on a low graphics settings and poison circles are not really visible in the water So the only indication is when I see health tick down and icon appear, at which point I have to dodge out right then. Except it takes 2 dodges to get out of the circle, and there’s a good chance there’s another one right next to it. Sooo… dead :P
I guess I need to try to fiddle with settings a bit more? Any way to remove water from the visibility so I could actually see the circles?

I’m just happy that you don’t actually have to defeat Tequatl to get the achievement Poke at the turret (just get on it in off hours), complete all 5 quests, “participate” in a fight 3 times and I can forget about this new horrible dragon thing

I guess the primary inconvenience for regular players will be “Oh I have to look on the wiki for what-was-that-inscription I need” instead of “type name of the weapon in crafting search box”. If you don’t have any alts then odds of needing another copy of exotic crafted weapon for non-completionist reasons are much lower (not surprising, as ANet have been clamping down on anything alt-related — rewards, tokens, wvw rank, fractal rank, all those are discouraging to having multiple characters)

Maybe the reason for this was so that people would log in “daily” versus playing all the time? Pretty much all of the changes recently go for that — you’re supposed to do dailies, “bonuses” degrade rapidly if you overstay your welcome etc.

We should wait until after the Pavilion fun time is over to see the “final” token nerf impact. Given the rate of loot there people certainly are less interested in regular dungeons so “20 tokens for regular run” is meh compared to “get 3 rares during same timeframe”

I can never figure out who will or won’t be stealthed by mass invis. It seems like in 90% of the cases only some random people get stealth and everyone else just continues along So it’s even more useless. Consecutive veils from multiple mesmers seems to be a more reliable way to stealth group.

Re: Jumping Puzzle

Thanks to EB and CD players in Obsidium Sanctum I did it late on Sunday and really appreciate calm and peace (even when I accidentally whacked ranger’s bear on the nose with that stupid torch while trying to lit statue — ANet just wants you to fight in the puzzle, but it all ended peacefully )

Yep, same problem. Especially prevalent when trying to way point — just says login server can’t be reach and the game quits

Look, it works both ways. Having problems on the map? Call the defending force, have lots of people jump in, fight off invading zerg, then go back to whatever they’ve been doing. Should limitation happen, you’ll face the invading trickling in force alone, because main group will be locked into another map :P

There is already queue mechanism, where you can’t really have everyone re-join the same server. So I think hopping maps is fine.

@dragoness They were akitten for all 10 games? Just having 0 kills doesn’t mean anything. I had about 4 games back-to-back when I get killed almost immediately upon spawning by organized opposite team and in a couple I got 1 kill accidentally :P

Yep, I don’t like this madness but as far as I can tell this “stay through 20 games” achievement still counts against the GetWingsAchievement so you can’t expect people to put their heart into something they hate but have to do cause they want the fancy item

Well, if you’re a warrior or a guardian Norn, you can get “Berserker’s Pit Fighter Chest of Balthazar”.
Got it for my Wyradmur, but unfortunately when I was level 70. Now I need to get me some of those fine transmutation stones And probably a matching Pit Fighter’s leg armor too, to have a full set

@Deniara well, then you can’t really have static match-ups for even a day, as wvw population/coverage is vastly different. Borlis Pass, for example, has large time slots where the population is minimal, no commanders are present (maybe one somewhere in Eternal Battlegrounds etc). Does that mean that time of day needs to be re-matched?

I am happy that for at least a week we’re out of “foreven in Ebay/Arock match” though

Didn’t at some time loot bags “followed” you around for some time? Or it could have just been that someone tagged earlier finally got killed, but I think that’d be the best option — bags re-spawn at your location for some time until you pick them up. If you ignore them for prolonged period of time, they go away (so you’re not traveling with a cloud of loot )

Maybe they should add “elite” mode?
There is already exploring/story distinction (small but nonetheless), so just make an Elite mode — no WP use, harder bosses, etc. That way people who are bored with “easy” (for them, but not newcomers/non-pro players) mode would get their wish granted, and for someone who doesn’t spend lots of time training on boss timing or hunting for strategy guides there’s a chance to get through the dungeon. And a chance of doing it with some random players that happened to be on at the time (instead of demanding particular mix of classes/gear)