Used to mine all metals. Unlimited use.
If it would only work as high as Orichcalcum they would have said “Used to mine Orichalcum and lower” or something like that.
But quartz isn’t a metal
No.
I left the game when ascended rings arrived (although returned 2 months later with laurels) and I’ll do it again if I’m forced to change the gear of all my seven lvl 80 characters.
I’m just genuinely curious what you do on your seven level 80 toons if they are all fully geared out?
- WvW (ninja, although I usually finish defending something and joining a zerg)
- Living Stories (dungeons, puzzles, achievements)
- Achievements (I would like to finish dive master or dungeon master, for instance)
- Standard dungeons (sometimes for special rewards, sometimes for fun with guildies)
- Fractals (I need tokens and more ascended/infused rings – only some of my characters have them nowadays -)
- PvE events and farming (I have a legendary, but… well, I would like to have more
- sPvP (a little, but if I’m bored of all the other things… I go there)… and, finally, leveling my Warrior (lvl49 yet
)
I usually play with my engineer, but since each character has diferrent gameplay styles, sometimes I switch to another to avoid get bored.
I love doing all those things too, but I’ve never had a problem doing them with just exotics, or even rares (sometimes I’m too lazy to buy exotic trinkets). Do you really find ascended gear necessary to do these things? And if not, why quit the game because of their existence?
Probably WvW power creep will force him to upgrade ALL that gear across all his chars, when he starts to notice other people’s full ascended is giving them an annoying edge, forcing him to pick one char only to focus the annoying grind, which will suck for him cause he’s losing variety in gameplay.
Even if someone has only one or two chars. What about multiple gear that compliment multiple builds? Effin nightmare. So effectively, he’ll have a WORSE game than before. Limited in effective builds and gameplay variety, more visibly in WvW.
At some point he’ll get kitten ed and leave the game for good.
Good guess?
Yes, good guess
For me, upgrading my gear is a mere mean to reach my goal: enjoy the game. I only find getting better gear fun the first time – same with leveling -. After that, it turns predictible and tedious and I only want to do it as soon as possible so I can explore the possibilities of my character.
No.
I left the game when ascended rings arrived (although returned 2 months later with laurels) and I’ll do it again if I’m forced to change the gear of all my seven lvl 80 characters.
I’m just genuinely curious what you do on your seven level 80 toons if they are all fully geared out?
- WvW (ninja, although I usually finish defending something and joining a zerg)
- Living Stories (dungeons, puzzles, achievements)
- Achievements (I would like to finish dive master or dungeon master, for instance)
- Standard dungeons (sometimes for special rewards, sometimes for fun with guildies)
- Fractals (I need tokens and more ascended/infused rings – only some of my characters have them nowadays -)
- PvE events and farming (I have a legendary, but… well, I would like to have more )
- sPvP (a little, but if I’m bored of all the other things… I go there)
… and, finally, leveling my Warrior (lvl49 yet )
I usually play with my engineer, but since each character has diferrent gameplay styles, sometimes I switch to another to avoid get bored.
We were stuck there before, we solved it when we found an asura panel near the bridges and we desactivated it. But…
I’m sorry to hear about your loss, but this is a tough lesson to learn. I had to learn it on other MMO’s. How many rares were stolen? I’d like to donate a couple or some gold if it would help.
Thanks for your offer, but it’s not needed! We can fix it, as I said it wasn’t a very good Guild Stash (rares were low level items)
But thank you anyway
It would be nice if we could have a top scores chart as an extra incentive.
This chart could show a score based on baubbles, enemies killed and time spent. Something like this:
Name —- Completion — Score
--——————————————————-
Moto . . . . . .100% . . . . . . 2938
Shinies! . . . 100% . . . . . . 2545
Logan . . . . . . 98% . . . . . . 3010
(Completion would be based on baubbles, as the current achievement)
We could have 2 charts: one for solo-player and another for team player (in that case, guild could be displayed in the chart. Something like Challenge Missions in GW1 —> http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Challenge_mission )
Of course, this would implie that SAB would be permanent
Thanks. I’ve sold it, then
aw ok, lot of thanks for the answer
1. When did you begin playing? (post bw’s)
25th August (pre-launch)
2. how many hours total do you have? (/age)
ehm… more than 400. Perhaps more than 500. Perhaps… (shameshameshame…)
3. What’s your most gold banked so far?
about 30g
4. Do you have a max level character (s)? (number if more than one)
Yes, 2
5. List 1-3 areas / zones / events / tp; where you spend most of your time for income.
I didn’t play for income (that’s why I “only” had 30g )
6. Do you mainly use MF or not?
Only consumables, but not gear.
7. Have you ever got an exotic weapon from a mob? If so, how many and total?
Never (Can it happen? :P)
8. Have you ever got an exotic weapon from a chest? If so, how many and total?
About a half dozen, from FotM chests, and two more from Ancient Karka’s event. So 8. I’ve never had a drop in a temple, or from a dragon or… anywhere else, if I am right
9. What’s the most number of rare weapons you have looted in one day or 8hrs time?
6-7 in FotM. Out of there, I think about 2-3
10. How many rare or exotic weapons do you “expect” to loot in one hour of time?
In FotM, 2 rares and half exotic. Out of there, half rare and zero exotics
11. How many lodestones have you looted total so far? (all types)
1 charged lodestone (again, I think it was from FotM)
12. Do you craft? If so, do you have a 400 crafter? if so, how many?
I had cook, jewelry, light armor, artificer and medium armor at 400. Others were at a low level.
13. Do you sell your looted crafting mats? (specify optional)
Only if I was full of them
14. Do you feel your return, (in terms of items, completion, income, etc) for your time, has been worth it?
Yes, until The Lost Shore patch. Because loot wasn’t epic but neither necessary for fun. Now it is
15. In ONE word, what needs improved most; from your perspective?
Ascended & infused must be equalled to exotics in terms of stats (or removed). And FotM loot must be reduced to spread people.
I’m playing less because I feel that last changes make max stats gear unreachable for me.
I was trying to raise all my characters to level 80 (I have 8, one for each profession ). I knew it would be too hard (and expensive) to get the best gear stats for every character, but I found it possible.
Now, with the new tier, I feel that farming and grinding is the only way to reach my goal. I feel I’m being punished if I’m not playing Fractals of farming T6 materials.
Also, as a GW1 fan base player, I feel betrayed because the game is going against the original philosophy. So, when I play, I feel like somebody in somewhere is laughing at me.
So… now I’m playing less than before. Although I haven’t still done some things I would like to do (Some puzzles, for instance)
I’m very disappointed with this new gameplay. I have purchased every GW released game (prophecies, factions, nightfall, EoTN, bonus pack missions, GW2). But If ascended aren’t removed, I’m pretty sure I’m not going to purchase the next one, sorry.
P.S.: English is not my native language, I hope to have expressed my feelings properly
I expect arenanet draw back about creating ascended items with better stats than exotic items. The rest of the patch seems truly awesome to me.
P.S.: I really hope they consider it :S
My humble review:
- Book quests: They were simply great, although I felt sometime the compass didn’t work properly. Sometimes it was activated but there weren’t suspicious locations around. Or they didn’t trigger properly, imho. So I’ll give it 7.5/10
- Reaper’s Rumble: Very nice DotA miniPvP. Although I’m a PvE player, I enjoyed it. Anyway, I think it was a bit lack of rewards. I’ll give it 9.5/10
- Tower clock: Pure madness. It’s flawless for me. I’ll give it 10/10
- Inquisition PvP minigame: Sorry, but I didn’t like it very much. It was very easy to avoid inquisition, and it was very hard to find villagers. I think villagers need an extra pressure, like a reduced map or a good health degeneration that force them to walk into inquisition members. I could win with a villager doing almost nothing and rewards aren’t very good for a game with 15 min. duration. So I’ll give it 3/10, sorry.
- Labyrinth: Nice place, but only useful for farming for 3-4 hours. After that, you’ll only take crap, so you will focus on chests, avoiding all other events. Anyway, it was very fun. I’ll give it 8.5/10
- Mad King Dungeon: Awesome. It was perfect for any level. Anyway, I would add more “Mad King Says” curses. They are only a few at the beginning. The loot was very good. Perhaps too good if you compare it with Labyrinth or regular chests/events. I’ll give it 10/10
- “Mad King Says” event in LA: I liked Rock/paper/scissors! . Anyway: I’ll give it 9/10. 10/10 if you give us some place to save our clothes
Done with all my (eight) characters.
Dungeons mut be greatly improved, seriously.
- Minions are like tanks: as someone said before, they have a lot of hit points Today I made Crucible of Eternity and my party needed a lot of time to kill a technologist from the Inquest. I don’t know how many hp he had, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t less than 500k (I think it had about 1M). It was like hitting a door in WvW without a flame ram
- Minions do really high damage: ok, that’s good for me… but only if I have a real chance to avoid it. I like a lot the giant champion in the charr village. In fact, I think he’s one of the best bosses of the game. But in dungeons, sometimes you found 4-5 minions doing the same damage and you can hardly hit them with a proper strategy without being killed.
- Rewards: rewards are… well, the most unbalanced thing I’ve found. For example: you are lvl 80 and you are going to play Ascalon Catacombs in history mode. You are going to find harder minions than playing in Orr. They are harder that Zhaitan minions, but the reward is… worse! You are going to get blue-green items as if you were killing spider hatchlings. And finally, as reward, you will get a low-level yellow hat… with the same design for all the dungeons!!
So these are the three main reasons because I don’t like dungeons in Gw2. I’ve played Crubile history today, because i heard about some rebalancing, but… I’ve only found tanks and deaths, for a very small reward: the final yellow hat (salvaged for an ecto), a superior golemancer rune (ok, this is good, but I need 5 more to get a set and I cannot sell it in the market, so it’s useless for me) and a bunch of white-blue-green items.
By the way, I’m not crying about difficulty. I like a lot HM in GW1. I got Legendary Vanquisher title and I made all dungeons in HM. Torment minions, Aatxes… they were hard, but more enjoyable in my opinion
P.S.: I hope I’ve expressed clearly my opinion, because I’m not English native. Sorry if some parts are hard to understand :S