“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Steve R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”
To quote the great Canach “We are NOT your enemy!” =(
cuddles her many Sylvari This is exactly why I don’t like how dark the storyline is going. Its just too much to be accosted for being a race. There is more than enough of this IRL to want to deal with it in a game. I don’t find it funny or a joke. If you see me in game don’t say that crap to me even jokingly.
I understand if it’s annoying. This was one of the reasons I’d said (back in Feburary last year) doing this story would not be the greatest idea, based on singling out a player race in this manner. Still, try not to get too bothered by it: it’s wasting your time and energy to let it get to you. I say this as a fellow Sylvari player.
Sylvari PCs will be McGuffin’d out of it.
Failing that, they’ll have to start allowing norns to receive pay from Jormag, asura to sign up to the Inquest today, humans to… engage in banditry (frankly doesn’t sound quite as severe, so let’s send them on their jollies to Orr, pre-Zhaitan), and Charr to go all Flame Legion (lore be kitten ed!), or go and get Branded again. Yeah.
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Nah, no need to guess. It’s nigh on unanimous it’s Steve. Or Stevie is good too, IMO.
Love the library. I enjoyed spending time, taking time and reading everything.
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Hi All,
Just wanted to let you know that we will be discussing raiding in the next phase of the Guild CDI. Feel free to carry on discussing here, and just wanted to let you know that i am reading this thread.
Chris
That is fantastic news. It’s great to know you guys are up for considering raid content! Thank you!
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Steve R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”
Chris Whiteside has stated, numerous times, that they’re in the process of hiring more personnel to work on the forums. So, hopefully, things will look up soon and he (and a couple others) won’t be the only ones speaking on the forums.
Raise your hand if you think they should hire me
ducks and runs lol
I’m really sure I read the other week (or thereabouts), someone kinda had you pegged as being in Anet’s employ already.
I personally reckon, with a small bit of training (if that, even), you’d be quite good at handling the forum – whether or not someone agrees with your position on any given thing, you seem quite dedicated, and I respect that.
We just want him be become an A-Net employee because then they’ll force him to not post, lol
Aww, don’t be mean, now! The chap stands well for what he believes in. I don’t always agree with what he says, but he has, seemingly, the courage of his convictions. Gotta have some respect for that.
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Steve R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Steve R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”
Chris Whiteside has stated, numerous times, that they’re in the process of hiring more personnel to work on the forums. So, hopefully, things will look up soon and he (and a couple others) won’t be the only ones speaking on the forums.
Raise your hand if you think they should hire me
ducks and runs lol
I’m really sure I read the other week (or thereabouts), someone kinda had you pegged as being in Anet’s employ already.
I personally reckon, with a small bit of training (if that, even), you’d be quite good at handling the forum – whether or not someone agrees with your position on any given thing, you seem quite dedicated, and I respect that.
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Steve R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”
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Halloween is my favourite, Wintersday a close second. I’d like more time on Halloween, and the same as last year with Wintersday (because I’m one of those deeply annoying people who actually love the real world festive equivalents. And I mean, sickeningly so).
Please give the Mad King his due this year!
Ooh... maybe he’d like to take on Wintersday, too?
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Screenshots tell me OP is having a laugh.
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Steve R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”
There’s no such thing as unlucky or lucky accounts, but we do colour the outcomes with our perceptions. Chin up, anyone in the unlucky boat (I’m with you, honest!) – we’ll have our day. Some day.
Good to keep a positive attitude. But since you mentioned feeling unlucky… do you keep some extra weapons or armor in your bags that you equip from inventory? The reason I asked about “lucky/unlucky accounts” was because of my possible theory that swapping gear is resetting a factor in how good the loot you get is.
On a couple of my characters I do, but not all of them.
Today, after I posted my earlier comment in this thread, I did an event and received a pair of Zhed’s (exotic) Boots. These are actually the ones I tend to purchase for the appropriate characters. I didn’t need them today, however, and sold them instead. This was on my main character, who has one and a sixth spare armours, plus extra weapons for swapping about.
Without wanting to second guess you or be too forward, try and think more positively (perhaps even to the point of ignoring the loot and enjoying other parts of the game), and see if it makes a difference?
Or a nice letter to Anet with cupcakes demanding politely requesting answers regarding RNG.
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Steve R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”
Hello! I have what could be considered a typically unlucky account (enforced because I’m typically a negative person, even when I try hard not to be. The curse of a naturally down-turned mouth? I’m just not sure). I had one lucky week earlier in the year, when the dungeons were spitting exotics at me like they had some kind of intolerance, and -
*dons tin foil hat*
- the joke was at least two other guildies got the same exotic weapon (not armour, you’ll note) at the same time, which is clearly some kind of supernatural occurrence. I’ve not had hardly a bean since, and don’t get me started on precursors...
...they’re a myth! Invented just to torment me, because I did something heinous in a past life, or something.
*tin foil hat off*
There’s no such thing as unlucky or lucky accounts, but we do colour the outcomes with our perceptions. Chin up, anyone in the unlucky boat (I’m with you, honest!) - we’ll have our day. Some day.
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Steve R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”
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Deathblows
. Maybe shatterer picks a guy up and eats him, of the shaman/elemental sucks them up in to the vortex to spin around for a while before being flung over a nearby ridge, etc. This would make the fights far more thrilling. “Oh crap, look what it did to fred! I’ll avenge you fred!” In addition, having a “corpse clear” mechanic…
“Huh huh huh, the dragon ate Fred. Noob. " (/jk!)
Really like this idea.
If there’s just one thing that can be done at any of the world bosses, make it so the dead are ported to the nearest waypoint available. If this is done by them being eaten, excellent – just allow us to kill particle effects so we can see the spectacle!
Conversely what if random players were selected to land the final blow with an amazing and heroic animation similar to the ones we see in games like skyrim or dragon age?
Yeah, that would be epic too. A nice touch to bring some smiles, perhaps. Again, however, let’s have the ability to kill (or at least partially deaden) particle effects so we can actually see this stuff.
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Steve R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”
I’m always up for taking vengeance on behalf of any quaggan (Homes for Quaggans!), but it’d help to be able to see the video. Please! Make it so.
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Steve R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”
I’ll post this here too. Direct quote from Colin, for those of you who think and truly believe it wasn’t broken:
Yeah we thought so too. After tens of thousands of usability testers and interviews with players who tried Gw2 and left leading up to China launch both in NA/EU and in China – we learned we were wrong.
Honestly, we were kind of shocked how many systems, downed included a surprising number of players just didn’t understand. For downed, we tried a downed tutorial, building downed into the level 1 tutorial, etc. We found after usability testing with numerous different groups, the best rate of people learning and understanding it came from having it be layered complexity and the solution we went with above. Intuitively that wouldn’t have been my guess either initially, but we found people understood it better this way than all other options we tried.
This same level of testing led to the other changes as well. At the end of the day the biggest take away I’d say is: all of us, especially people who go to a reddit to discuss a game, probably know games (and Gw2) really really well. We have millions of users, and a tiny % of them frequent game forums or reddit. Just because all of us, me included, learned those systems well and thought it was all really easy doesn’t mean we are the norm
That last sentence says it all, really. Thanks for posting that here, Vayne!
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There’s been some interesting things mentioned in the thread. I like the idea of the Shatterer bombarding players from the air - after all, each one spends a good time flying about overhead; seeing what it can unleash from above sounds great. I also like the idea of the beastie having mobility over the ground, so it’s not a total piñata. I don’t even mind the idea of siege weapons, but I think they’re best left in the hands of the Vigil and players could perhaps use that pre to collect fun things to use as ammo (NOT cows). I usually like my illusions to perch on the Shatterer’s nose, but I’d not object to a devourer fastened on up there. A version of the cattlepult could be fun. But not with cows.
Above all, it shouldn’t require too much co-ordination between players, and it shouldn’t outstrip the level appropriate traits available (not so many for the level 50 character these days). I hate the orange circles, to be honest (orange angers me), but they can be seen, so if there’s AoEs and whatnot, that works. And since we see them a lot in boss fights these days, they should be somewhat familiar to newer players and old alike. I don’t know how much of an issue they’d be with the purple haze in the area, but I should think that could be tweaked if necessary - the orange colour, not the purple haze. But use mechanics familiar to the average level 50, encourage a gentle learning curve, and don’t have it so the event can fail if some players have either a bad day, different skills or senior moments.
As an aside, regarding Tequatl: I miss the old lazy bones version. I don’t hate the current incarnation, however, but I would’ve had him retreat/play extra dead after the initial lazy bout, and have him "escape" to a cove just south of Sparkfly (possibly behind that hill he first jumps on), where those so inclined could go after him, perhaps using the launch pads currently in situ on the beach. It’s not a blocked off raid instance, it’s just a little further out, having the same sort of event as it is now, just tweaked to make sense. With suitable rewards for each event, natch. And he can still fail, and have an effect on the coastline if it was thought acceptable. This wouldn’t necessarily cure the waiting time to get in, however, and I’m too tired to contemplate that now.
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Steve R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”
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While there is some essence of truth here, it doesn’t explain his ....
Technically hers, but I’m not going to be a pedant today, oh no.
I’ve had a disconnect yesterday where I did log back in further away, so I know that can happen. But the incident which I referred to in my OP wasn’t a disconnect (well, not one that booted me out of the game and gave the error message that seems to be doing the rounds of late).
I had no sense of lag, no sense of being near one of the ramps or anything particularly squiffy - a fence was between me and place I died.
However, given the lag spikes that have been plaguing the game (DDoS fallout, mayhaps), I’m relatively happy with the "game thinks I’m somewhere else" theory. I just have no idea where it thought I was - I’d been in the crafting area, running around in a circle, away from any dangerous bits, or so I thought, at least.
Thanks all for replying; guess there’s no definitive answer here (the above mentioned theory seems the most likely, however), but interesting to hear the possibilities.
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i have mine zoomed all the way out. you could have it zoomed in a tiny bit, and still have it zoomed out pretty far. Just gotta find the balance for it. Also look at the animations and stuff that the boss is doing, or what the mobs are doing. If you are having trouble fighting the vines in a group, try and lure one away and fight it solo. Also bring A LOT of condition cleanse.
And remember to follow the advice of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDfu124a78M
You know, it wasn’t so much of a problem fighting the things as much as it was not actually seeing what I was doing because of walls (making it a little harder to see telegraphs on occasion). Some of it was just plain bad on my part, regardless, too, and that’s okay. Still, like I said in my other post just now, I’ll likely have another go and see if I can get the camera in a better spot so that doesn’t happen.
Thanks for your response there!
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I thought this was incredibly kitten my first try as well – I got frustrated and quit that time); the constant AoE was a bit too much. Moved a couple of traits around, not sure if that made much of a difference, except that it allowed me to kill the add-ons a little bit faster. Not very much but still. But anyway I have a tip for those who are having serious trouble with this:
The most important thing during my second try was that I found a spot that was relatively safe for fighting the add-ons without worrying too much about the dragon’s AoE (save the full chamber blast and ONE attack, but the latter only if you were closer to the center of the chamber), and attack the add-ons at range. I mean, so much of the fight IS about avoiding the AoE and killing stuff simultaneously that it’s best to find a spot where most of the AoE doesn’t reach.
Anyway: position yourself out of the harm’s way and it’ll be a lot easier to deal with!
This is pretty much what I did in the Barradin statue fight as well, come to think of it.
You’re right about that, for sure – find the best spot for lurking and retreating to tends to be something I like to do – I think I likely failed to find the best spot in my dragon fight, although I did have a couple of places that seemed to work. But I experienced that bit where you get hit even if you think you’re out of the danger spots. I think I might give this another go and see if I can’t fine-tune it – because despite being awful at it, I think I actually had some fun.
Now if I can get the camera to work for me, I’ll be laughing!
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Steve R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Steve R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”
Leaders do actually meet for summits, but it did feel a little bit unwise to have them all meet in this manner, even if it seemed necessary at the time. I wonder if it’s possible to use other means of communication - holographics, basic sound relay. I like to think the tech is there. But that’s just me.
As for Taimi, I disagree with kids being in such situations, no matter how smart or creative they are (mothering instinct kicks in and goes all Ripley). It’s been shown that Scruffy will not take every beating that comes its way, and despite Taimi being so, so intelligent, she does not have the wisdom which comes with age. She’s currently min-maxed in that respect. She doesn’t have the dice rolls in her favour. She cannot be considered responsible due to being a kid; she’s not capable of making adult decisions, and the episode showed that, and her childishness, perfectly. Phlunt was a total kitten, mind, but he was right to take the device. The stereotypical arrogance of the asura may prevent his full credit to Taimi or even worse, but I recall mention she’s on good terms with Zojja, and if you’ve played the asuran personal story, you’ll know she’ll not let anyone get away with anything nefarious when it comes to the inventions of others. Honestly, though, I don’t think it’s too different to keeping a trust fund which a kid receives upon adulthood.
Now, to ensure Taimi grows up to be a sensible adult! Over to you, er... Braham.*
Oh.
*facepalm*
*To be fair, he seemed to grow up a little this time, was quite sweet to see.
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Steve R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”
Actually now that it’s lunch time, waffles are over. Time to reheat that leftover pot roast.
By the way, the patch notes are live and the update will be as well very soon.
Can we replay lunch time, so those of us who missed the waffles can pick up some waffle achievements?
(have been out of the game for a little while, and just caught up on the last release earlier today – quite enjoyed it, so looking forward to this next part!)
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