Guild Wars 2

Illecandra.3219:

The original speech was more epic. Seems like they wanted the new one to sound more neutrally inclusive, but it’s less inspiring on paper. Thanks OP for sharing the version some of us never got to see.

Im guessing this in the personal story near the end? sucks i wont see or hear it again though, because i would like to hear the new Trahearne, looks inspiring enough to me though!

Axamana.2960:

I just completed the story “The source of Orr”. During that instance I fight along side the largos Sayeh al’Rajhid. In the very next story instance, “Temple of the forgotten God”, Trahearne introduces me to her as if we’ve never met and this is the first encounter with her.

I’m not sure if this constitutes a “bug” post but the chain of events is all messed up and wasn’t sure where else to post it.

Anyone else notice this?

Its not a bug, Anet messed around with the way the story was and now it doesnt make any sense for the level 70 and 80 questline.

Go ahead and post here though. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/My-Greatest-Fear-Plotline/page/11#post4775466

Its a very talked about thing!

Xander.9024:

You may find this interesting, it has an actual dev reply to your question.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Please-allow-us-to-skip-cut-scenes/first#post4608280

Urgh thats kinda annoying…Thanks though!

Why can you not reset Meeting The Asura from inside the instance? Its quite annoying if you fail the stealth mission piece to have to run out and run back in and watch all the unskip able dialogue only to get to the final fight and screw up. And then have to do it, again, and again, and again, because you screwed up the timing on vorp.

So i ask again, why is there no reset in the instance?

Edit: this is my one and only complaint about this living story episode, the unskipable dialogue and not being able to reset this mission to the start so you can achievements without entering it again.

Keegan.4172:

Can I level my new character in one of the other race’s starting zones? If I can, how do I get there without walking. I’m tired of doing the Asura missions hundreds of times.

Yes of course you can. If you want i will show you how to get from one place to another as i am in game right now and not doing anything!

If not, Well you go the asura portal in ratasum, from there go to lions arch, and from lions arch you go to the other races zone of your choosing!

So my family and i where out waiting for the shadow behemoth to spawn when i spotted this on the back of a warrior in the area, upon being asked what weapon it was he pinged back the guild defender.

Id say its my computer, but since its going on across three different computers at the same time, and each on has different video cards, makes it hard for me to say that.

Jonii.6285:

The LS leads into Heart of Thorns, making it make sense, and it gives context to gem store skins making them more attractive, so why not include it? Please don’t spring more payments on new players when the game was promised to be “buy once and play without subscription.”

Thanks for reading this wall of text! And great job on Season 2!
I just want it to be more accessible.

This game is buy once and play without subscription. You bought the base game, you can play the base game without having to pay for anything, ever. Living story season 2 is much like a micro expansion, and was offered for free, to those who logged in and actively played the game, no wait it was available for free to anyone who logged into the game during the two weeks to one month that the living story episode was available.

Thats very accessible, as all you had to do was log in and load a character, at most something that takes two minutes out of your time. heck you could have done what i did, start the game up before you left for work, and when you get back log in and accept it even if you wont be playing the game.

Also, they never promised that LS season 2 would be free, in fact they said that you would have to buy it if you missed it after its period of being active, they announced this quite a bit before the release of LS season 2 if i recall correctly.

To those players who are new and just starting, well the two friends who just started playing again after a year and a half of being offline went ahead and bought all the LS season 2 episodes because they wanted to find out what happened, and with the announcement they where more than glad to as well. Their only regret is not being able to see anything about LS season 1.

Sorry OP, but im going to disagree with you on it being free to everyone. Maybe bundle it together with the collectors edition of Heart of thorns or something, but not free.

Zombiesbum.3502:

When you have a job and work 12 hour shifts then come back kid. Everything you say is irrelevant.

Btw I’m not blaming anyone else, I’m pointing out that everyone is blaming the people with real lives (not school lives, that is very casual).

I can be a egotistical kitten head too.

Hm Sounds like the job im going into. And you know…, it sounds awfully similar to the job my dad did every day for 20 years, and still does. Yet he still manages to log in, and get the rewards, for you know playing the kitten game. And i dont know how old you are, and you dont know how old i am, so knock it off with the “kid” crap, its annoying and rude and all it does is show how little you care about the responses in this thread, as well prove my point of how much of an kitten you are.

You have been egotistical kitten this whole thread, and each time someone comes up with logical responses to you, you dismiss them by calling what they have to say irrelevant. Congrats. I hope you have a good day, and i hope you can find another game that offers as much as this game does for playing it.

Zombiesbum.3502:

Lazaar.9123:

Zombiesbum.3502:

I think a lot of people are missing the point. When you buy a game, you buy everything that the game adds to it. If it’s an expansion then that is fair enough as the content of those are usually vast enough to warrant the sale of content.

Very false, when you buy a game, you buy the content that it had at the time of release unless it is otherwise stated in legal documentation. Any future content is purely up to the discretion of the developer and publisher.

Except that is was free. Wasnt it? But of course players that actually unlocked it for free are so far up their own kitten holes they are too blind to see that actions like this also may effect them in the future. Let a company extort it’s customers while they say “yeah it’s okay” and guess whats going to happen? More extortion.

Of course a company has a right to sell what ever content they want, but they should also respect their customers and not view them merely as wallets with cash.

The game is fun, but it’s things like this that make me think twice about purchasing from the company in the future. I want to buy the expansion to experience it’s content but I’m also very skeptical of their actions.
(It’s not the first time Anet has made dumb actions ‘Remembers the perma bans, Oh sorry! I meant 72 hour bans, for buying items from vendors’)

I may just say screw the expansion and go play other games, there are other games out there and companies who strive to treat their customers more like human beings.

A company has a right to sell what ever they want. But a customer has a right to voice their dissatisfaction. The people here who are shouting down those opposing views with illogical bigotry should try coming up with logical views rather than the moronic “Oh well if you logged in when you had no idea the game even still existed in a playable state…”.

Yeah, grow up children.

Sounds like you need to grow up, No im not kidding.

It takes at most 3 minutes to open GW2 and let it install and log in and get the free unlock for the 2 weeks or more thats its up for free. 3. Minutes. I managed to do that while i was working a full time job, going to college, and having to take care of my sick dog. If i could manage to afk open GW2 before i leave for work and log in when i get back so to can you. There is no reason for you not to be able to get the free unlock unless you simply just stopped following GW2 altogether, which then its your fault. Not ANETS, not ours, Not NCsofts, Yours. For not following the GW2 releases. For your info, i wasnt even playing GW2 while i was working, i had no interest, id done everything i wanted, and so i stopped playing, still logged in though.

As i said in another very similar thread, My brother who cant even play the game because of his kittenty computer managed to log in when a new story was up and hes so busy with school and homework that he has no other life other than school.

Stop being mad at everyone else and stop blaming everyone else. This is on no one but you. And by all means please, leave, getting all kittened off and mad when its so easy to get for free, is just sad.

Really really want this armor for my necro…also yay for necro threads!!!

Servanin.5021:

So I don’t think Troy Baker or Felicia Day are going to be budget breakers. Maybe if they wanted to get Liam Neeson or something.

Oh…my…god….we need to make that happen!!! Could you imagine a NPC who does the whole taken line? for one of the new adventures in heart of thorns? you have to get his daughter back! xD

You know…i remember way back when the game first came out, i was running around with the charr racial skill equipped….and i swear i heard my character say “The Charr need no Gods” Whatever happened to that?? because it was awesome!

And i agree and disagree, more voices for skills please, maybe not new voices for the cutscenes because that would cost way to much, but new voices for skills at least! that way some variety existed so you wouldnt hear the same line each time you activated the same skill, or have to listen to a warrior group spamming their battle chant…

Arkinos.7245:

Thats how the gaming industry works nowadays.

Fanboys defend bad game design or obviously removed features by telling people to buy the DLC that fixes that.

Except….no one is defending it, the thread that was for the trait changes was and still probably is filled with people hating on the decision to change the traits the way they did. They are fixing it with the Heart of thorns release, and those who are already going to buy the expansion for the things i listed will just get it as a bonus if it not available to everyone, and we may get it for free as it would make perfect sense for them to do so.

Really though…it was a horrible decision but at least they are going to fix it, unlike the personal story which is still screwed up.

Dueling in arenas scattered around the world, Yes. Open world PKing No. its one of if not the main reason i played this game and gw1 for so long.

cranked.3812:

Wait, so they completely botched the game with the trait system (among other things) and now you guys are all paying for an expansion to have that stuff fixed?

lol

Im buying the expansion for: The jungle maps, the new class, the new wvw map, the new pvp game mode and hopefully maps, the lore, the masteries, and precursor crafting. The trait fix is a free added bonus~

Story grants less experience than finishing an explorable path. The amount of exp is also not tied to the daily(so far as i know) as when im leveling characters i do AC p1 and p3 repeatedly. Dungeon tokens are though, and each time you will get less.

Knighthonor.4061:

why didnt they just make them into armor skins, that way people can mix and match.

not like it effected combat any more than outfits do…

They tried that it, it didnt work for some reason, i dont know why. The outfit idea is much better though.

The actual reason was that it created problems with how the camera and the players head interacted with various parts of the game.

Happening for me, and a few of my guildies as well!
Cant even play my engineer right now!! T.T
Note im on FC

Conncept.7638:

Removing the skin barrier isn’t… oh y’know what? I’m friggin’ sick of explaining this every other day.

Mixing light, medium, and heavy armor is not physically possible with the games modeling and rendering engine. Mixing town clothes, outfits, and armor is also not possible for the exact same reason. End of story, no way around it. You want to find out why, google it.

You should have it copied to a text document so when these threads come up, you can just paste it in ^-^

OP i like the idea of the rebirth kit, that is a semi good way around the points anet has used to explain why race and class changes arent possible, however there is one problem. the rewards you get from doing the stories and leveling. Since you now get rewards for those, restarting your character would reset both the story and your levels, and would also reset the rewards gained.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Rauderi.8706:

I was (almost) glad to see it reprised in Caithe’s memory with LS2.

They should really go back and give the charr in this heart visual indicators of where they can “see”, like the asura have in that mission. That would fix the biggest problem with that heart.

That would actually be great! and maybe also change them so they only can “See” in a triangle in front of them like those asura in that mission!

Elegy.2159:

I couldn’t agree more. What’s been said in the past is that Anet doesn’t want to devote the resources to constructing armor for a race few people play. I’ve never read anything from a dev directly stating that, so it could be player opinion for all I know. If it is true that few people play Charr, I bet a whole lot more would play them if they looked a little more polished. I’m hoping that with the expansion (given that Rytlock is playing such a large role) we’ll get some armor that at least fits Charr well.

I mean, come on. This armor couldn’t even protect this poor lady from a mosquito bite, rofl.

Its more of a player opinion coupled with the lack of evidence that anet has tried to do so, and yes, alot of people seem to agree that if the charr where more polished armor appearence wise, they would probably consider rolling them, the other reason they wont play them is well they dont want to be seen as a furry(a huge deal i gather). shrugs i am hoping so too, and who knows maybe anet will surprise us and have a ton of new armors that look rather nice.

Good lord, i dont play human characters but thats just horrible!!! im guessing thats heavy armor right, look like the gladiator armor!? Jeez, My Charr Demon Knight..thing..laughs at that puny armor!

Rangelost.4857:

That’s what I mean by “all armor should be unisex”. I think it’s extremely frustrating in a video game when the same set of armor on two characters looks completely different from head to toe just because one of them has giant bags of fat on her chest.

PS: Sorry if I sound like a complete jerk. It’s party due to my English being self-taught, but mainly due to me actually being a complete jerk.

This i can completely utterly agree with( as well most of you post, just didnt want to qoute the whole thing) its always been stupid to me. Probably one of the main reasons i do not play many games where you dress your characters up because like with this, it bugs me that some appearances cannot be achieved, plus all developers could save time if they you know…used the same armor appearance for both genders.

Uhm, thanks? im not really offended by it, but its not a great way to get your point across really, as soon as people start thinking you are being condescending and or rude to them they really do stop listening for the most part.

Elegy.2159:

Dante.1763:

what if i told you i want to dress like that in real life and i cant? and why shouldnt i as some one who would enjoy dressing that way, be able to in the game on my characters regardless of race.

As far as human values go, I’m on board with your reasoning. GW2 isn’t just about human values though – it’s about many different (fictional) races in a fictional place.

What Rangelost is trying to impress upon you is that from a development standpoint, it’s simply madness to rework each piece of armor so many times to please such a wide variety of people, especially when it’s contradictory to the lore.

Think of it also from a cultural standpoint. Asura and Charr don’t share the same gender roles and gender-specific fashion folkways that Tyrian humans share with us. Their culture is just entirely different. I imagine that Asura would be concerned that floaty fabric would get caught in machinery, regardless of the gender who wears it. Same with Charr – it would be a hazard on the battlefield.

What this issue is really about is sexual dimorphism – a phenotypic difference between males and females of the same species. The dimorphic traits that Asura/Charr possess are different from humans, but equally apparent. Different faces, bodies, tails, horns. The difference between the sexes is clear, if for some reason that’s important.

It doesn’t make sense to make this an issue about human gender roles, since they simply don’t apply to these fictional races. Lack of conventionally “girly” clothing doesn’t say anything about the femininity of your character (or lack thereof) given that human values couldn’t be less relevant.

I fully understand that believe me, this is a game after all! But also from a development standpoint, if you are going to put a beast race in, you should be prepared to invest some time in making that races armor work properly. I would just like to have some prettier options available to my female charr characters, the butterflys of the luminescent armor for example. the smoother leaves on the leggings from TA, for a few examples.

No the difference in sex isnt important, at least to me, i could care less if its male or female, i have a male charr with pink hair because he got in an accident with an asuran progeny once(my former female engineer xD but the name was not very good name for a female charr like i wanted, so i swapped its gender).

And true they dont have the gender roles, but at the same time, that doesnt meant that they should only have male armor available to them. for an example of another solution im going to continue to use the Luminescent set. For female charr. They get the male, Chest, gloves, Legs, Boots, and helm, but the Female shoulders. that wouldnt be so bad now would it?

There are actually a whole lot of emotes that aren’t available in GW2 that were in GW1, it would be nice to see them all return.

Rangelost.4857

Oh lets get condescending again why dont we… “Well, that’s exactly my point. I get that you want your asura to look like a human Barbie doll rather than a dignified asuran genius” You can be dignified, and look “feminine” at the same time. I dont think you realize just how much time some players put into their characters appearance

I do not want my fictional Asura to look a bloody barbie doll nor do i want my very real 8 female Charr to look like that either. What i do want is more feminine looking armor for Asura(I do not play Asura) and female Charr for those who want it available to them. You really sound so condescending in your posts, you really really do most of the time.

IT IS NOT Impossible to flatten those armor pieces EDIT: Maybe they should rework the chest pieces so they dont have breasts cups instead of just converting it over. which is not i really care about. Im aware that all the armor for human,norn and sylvari has room for breasts to sit in. Im also aware that most armor sets dont have much difference between the two over all, however there are sets that do have parts that are different. The sylvari dungeon armor, for light armor users, the female leg armor is much more smoother and has less spikey things than the male version.

Lets look at the one that got me the most disappointed recently. The Luminescent armor, for light armor wearers(just as an example). The females of every single race get to have cool butterflys on their right shoulder, wait….The charr, and asura do not…they get the male version…. as such i wont be going after these armor sets except to get the ascended chest. i will never use them., there is no point, i like that butterfly, it would be neat to have that butterfly, actually my mother who plays this game, far far more than i do, with 13k ap was looking over my shoulder as i was looking at the armor gallery when it was first released. the conversation we had went sorta like what follows.
Her. “Oh that armor looks cool, i love the butterfly, cant wait to get it unlocked so i can use it on my little asura, she will look cute!!”
Me. “i wish, but it doesnt work that way, you get this version” little pause as i flopped over the male* “as will the charr”
Her. “That..is stupid…why not? it would look so much better”

How do you answer that? i couldnt think of anything other than i dont know, there really isnt a reason that they couldnt convert the butterfly look over. I dont know, but for some armor, and some pieces of that armor, both sexes should be ported over.

Thats what im getting at, do you know how annoying it is to see stuff like that shoulder, and then not be able to use it? For players who want to dress their Charr and Asura in more feminine looking pieces of armor we cannot. At least with Norn, Sylvari, and Human, Both male and female of all those races have armor that looks Masculine and Feminine for both sexes.

The asura and charr only. ONLY get the Male version, so we get very few feminine looking armors. im not talking out right “Girly” If you wish to call it that. But i would like to have some prettier looking armors in game that the charr can get their hands on.

Ive spent more time trying to find armor that looks good for some of female charr, Mainly my elementalist, mesmer, and necromancer than i have playing them.

My guardian, warrior, ranger, and engineer where easier.

I wanted my engineer to look like a mechanic again easy to do. and i wanted my ranger to look like Aragorn met Legolas, pretty, but not obnoxiously so, again easy to do.

My Necromancer, i wanted to make look like a shaman( sorta like this http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/223/5/e/magic_beak__shaman_of_the_wild__by_suzanne_helmigh-d5ao158.png ) which the tribal armor male or female would work for.

My Mesmer, i wanted to make her look like she walked out of a ballroom, Not at all easy to do with the shear lack of feminine armors that Charr get. Which i was very excited about the fancy outfit…until i realized that i had to wear a tuxedo, so that didnt get bought.

And my Ele would have worn the Luminescent set as i use her to do all the stories, and most of the PvE content in the entire world and loved the way that set looked, that is..up until i saw that they wouldnt get the butterfly shoulders, now shes just wearing cultural armor and probably will remain wearing cultural armor as its the only true unisex option available to charr.

I do not want my charr to dress like a human. i want my charr to have some more feminine options available to them, instead of not being able to see some of the more smoother, and prettier armors in the game. EDIT: If you are going to put a beast race in, you should be prepared to invest time into that races armor.

There ought to be, im surprised this kind of thing wasnt investigated more seriously though…

As the Jockum said, take screenshots, Copy what they type, Document literally everything that they do and then open a thread.

Although id love to know how they figured out it was you on the new account…sounds like someone is telling them things..

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

What about this scenario?

You buy the expansion with real currency and get everything.
You buy the expansion with gems and only get things that are not directly tied to the new PvE maps (like the WvW map, some mysteries, etc.)

Sure, if it was like…half or less than half of the cost of the full expansion. otherwise it just would not make any sense.

Rangelost.4857:

Dante.1763, it is impossible to apply the current female version armors to asura and charr female models because humans, norn and sylvari have monkey boobs while asura and charr do not. This means both the model and textures cannot be applied to the asura and charr.

And maybe you’d like to see charr in a dress designed for a human, but I wouldn’t. What makes your opinion more valuable than mine? Or even better, what if I want my norn male to be in a dress? What makes your charr female more qualified to wearing a dress than my norn male?

It just doesn’t add up, and trying to mix your personal culture’s gender stereotypes with the sex of different non-human species isn’t going to win you an argument.

It is not currently impossible, Because the way i understand how the make armor for the charr at least, they just take the human armor and stretch it to fit. So they could do it. which as a 3 modeler, its easier to stretch something than make a entirely new model. its also easy to close gaps in armor too, at least with the 3d program i use.

And your opinion isnt more important than mine anymore than mine is more important than yours, Its just not a nice thing to disqualify someones opinion, which you did try to do. that you dont like, because you dont want to see it. There are those of us who would, so the option should at least be present.

And im aware that you dont want to see it, thats why im standing by the thing that i offered. it would appease both sides, You have it toggled off? You dont see the female armor version on asura and charr. you have it turned on? you do, if they are female!

And what about you mixing your personal cultural? You clearly dont want to even have the Option for it exist in game. what does that say, because its not going to win you an argument either.

This is why these threads always get locked and a new one is made. Both sides are so adamant on that theirs is better that neither side is willing to meet in a middle ground. and those that present middle ground options are ignored.

What i would LOVE to see is armor DESIGNED for Charr, NOT stretched human male armor, which is what we get now. armor DESIGNED for Asura, NOT stretched human male armor which is what we get now. But its to much work to do that, and when the races had their own forums, it was OFTEN stated in the charr forums, that more players would play them, if they had armor DESIGNED for them instead of just stretched. AND if they had SOME more feminine looking armor. If ANET did that. and made Charr and Asura armor, fit comfortably and look proper on them, and NOT stretch them, these threads wouldnt pop up so often.

Rangelost.4857:

Dante.1763, I won’t go into details about how insulting saying “dresses and skirts and the color pink are feminine”, but I will state that it is wrong, and should absolutely not be exemplified, let alone become a standard for non-human races.

What we don’t want is future armor sets to be available to asura and charr in the human female version. Those versions are simply not designed to fit characters with a body shape without prominent breasts.

With your idea, however, not only would ArenaNet have to design a third version (so you wouldn’t be getting what you want to anyway), but only one sex from two races (in other words, only 2 characters out of 10) would get the option to get an alternative design option. That makes no sense on both a developer’s and a player’s point of view.

You’re gonna have to get your definition of “feminine” rectified. Pants are not masculine, skirts are not feminine. Asura and charr females are very feminine as it is. They just happen to have different cultural standards, which is a breath of fresh air I don’t want polluted.

Im sorry its insulting? what if i told you i want to dress like that in real life and i cant? and why shouldnt i as some one who would enjoy dressing that way, be able to in the game on my characters regardless of race. IM Sorry that offends you! You wait, im not. I want to dress my Charr in dresses, because I Like dresses. And yes actually i do want them to have the outfits available to them. SORRY that offends you again.

Its not my fault that arena net got lazy and decided not to design armor properly for the charr. and lets face it, they did. Cutting and pasting has never worked ever.

And its not my definition of Feminine, its theirs, because they dont put “Female” armor on charr and asura, they get the “Male” version, not a “Unisex” verison. And as i said, i want to be able to wear dresses on my charr, because i like the way they look. Despite what you think.

AND another point. they wouldnt have to design a third, they would convert both the male and the female armor over, like they already do for the male, and allow the player to choose if they where male or female. AND it does make sense to me, because there are some that do want and SOME like YOU who dont, and so the option should be present.

Rangelost.4857:

Because players don’t get a choice. When we equip a piece of equipment, the armor skin that shows up is the one and only version that was made for the character model.

Those of us who don’t want asura and charr females to suffer from human gender stereotypes are against the idea of basing armor models on sex alone.

The most worthwhile suggestion so far was to make all armor unisex, and if the devs want to make a skimpy and/or skirty version, both sexes should have access to it. These threads wanting to enforce human culture on all races in the game are regressive.

ETA: Using armor to identify a character’s sex is the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard. If you can’t tell the difference between a male and a female asura/charr, you haven’t been paying attention. This isn’t the kind of behavior that should be catered to.

And what about those of us who would like to see more female armor choices for charr and asura huh? Not because they have breasts, but because i dont know, we want dresses? and skirts? and other clothing? are we to be ignored? because thats what you are saying, ignore the people who would like to dress their characters more feminine like. and well thats just not right.

Unisexing does not = male in real life, but thats what it means in game. Again, not right and slightly annoying. And unisexing everything isnt the solution, and its not likely to happen either.

Converting both male and female armor for charr and asura, and and allowing the players to choose in the hero tab which version they want to wear is though. Little harder to implement but it would save everyone trouble in the end. Those who dont want feminine looking armor dont have to wear it, ANET stops getting these threads suggested to them, The players who want feminine armor get to wear it. Win Win Win id say, minus development time of course. Still i think it would be worth it in the end.

Im gonna agree, polymock please!

JSemar.5821:

I beg to differ. Skills were all different bud I was an avid pvper and had many builds all different. That is why I never got bored.

I beg to differ with you, i played for 7 years and alot of the skills were extremely similar to other skills. Its why i only had 2-4 builds per class, i didnt need to swap out that much for pvp

HOW DARE WE WANT TO DRESS OUR CHARACTERS MORE FEMININE!!! Jeez. I wish i could i put my asura and charr in dresses. I dont want to run around in guy clothes all the time, i have to do that enough in real life. I stopped buying armor from the gem store all together because of not having differences between the two genders. I dont care if they are unisex race. If i want to wear a dress i should be able to and if i want to wear a suit i should be able to. I want my butterfly pauldrons. i want the fancy dress from the fancy outfit.

Make it toggelable for the asura and the charr, that way those who have problems with their characters getting dresses dont have to see them, i dont care. but i want to wear more girl looking clothing on some of my 8 charr characters.

Zera Allimatti.2541:

That’s not an exploit, that’s just a good use of regular game mechanics. It happened a lot in GW1 with so many different skills available: eventually there were some skill use combinations that were nothing like what the developers imagined was possible (55 monks and necros, anyone?) It’s the same as the feedback trick with the jungle worm in Caledon forest. It’s not an exploit, really, just an unplanned/unintended possible combination of certain skills and mechanics.

And those uh…got nerfed pretty hard..it took awhile, but they got nerfed. same should happen with this, or well any of the bosses. they should be bosses…not stack in corner for 5 seconds and walk off..

Yea its still two people, it says waiting for someone to second when you try and kick someone still (tried it out in a guild party)

I thought it was still 2….but maybe im misreading the box…its been an awful long time since i needed to kick someone

For some reason i keep picturing the jax and daxter hang gliding challenge in game three? i think at least, you have to hit gusts of wind to stay up etc, pretty challenging the first time you do it if you dont know where the gusts are, but after that it gets easier. Should be fun i think! except for people like my dad, who have no reflexes what so ever.. Wait this just got even better

PorceleinEve.2973:

No that’s not true, it doesn’t work like that, i misunderstood the post. the areas are only 2, new and old. So you got pretty much the whole game divided in 2 regions and you can lvl up masteries on them 2 regions. One of them is what we got today. So it’s pretty big and expansive, you can’t honestly call that a grind.

I never called it a grind though~ it was never going to be a grind to me, ive always done things when i want them and when i feel like doing them. It still stands though, if the game is divided in to half, they might do something like a “Kryta Master, Ascalon Master, Orr Master, Shiverpeaks Master” The possibilities are really endless for the things they can do in the old vanilla GW world, which im hoping for sure they take advantage of !

PorceleinEve.2973:

“Each Mastery track is tied to a region of Tyria—they must be unlocked with Mastery points gained in that region and can only be trained in that region.”

from their blog post… so if you want to raise a specific mastery you’ll have to be in a specific region, doing again and again and again stuff that grant you experience in that region, otherwise no cigar. Not much different from running a raid, only you can possibly solo it (we don’t know yet) and you’ll get the desired result in the end, but we don’t have a time estimate on how long that will be, not with higher tier masteries requiring more and more experience gained.

This is not such a bad thing. Gw1 had this, and it worked out fine, i was hoping that the Masteries would be like this actually. And from their blog post, you gain experience to that mastery just by gaining exp, so it doesnt sound to bad.

PorceleinEve.2973:

So, you don’t grind a raid now, you grind a zone, you don’t have rng to hope/fear you"ll get lucky/unlucky, and eventually you get what you want. don’t sound all that different from gear grind to me. specially the grind bit.

and let’s not forget that each mastery point is unique so you can’t use a point gained in another area to unlock any area’s masteries, only the specific ones tied to the area you got the point.

The potential of the system and the ways it can go catastrophically wrong are staggering. They’re running on good faith right now, but if they don’t get it right, the blowback will be amazing. I so so so hope they’ll get it right. I like the game a lot.

Not really a bad thing with this either in my opinion!

hey you get rewarded for playing the game past level 80 now, all you have to do is spend time in a zone! which im sure quite a few of us do anyways, without rewards, as it is now.

I personally will randomly just spend time in a zone for long periods of time if there is someone interesting to talk to in map chat. So being rewarded for that, aside from having an interesting conversation partner, not a bad thing in my book.

This is asked for about as much as Spears for land usage…I wonder if they will notice and do it!

Enough sarcasm, im with you here, i havent touched any of the 10 characters i have that need to do their personal stories after level 50 because of how many plot holes anet created when they re did the story, poorly it might be added.

Disciplina.3501:

Event name: Join the Ash Legion of Tawny Ridge in stealth operations
NPC name: Fina Duskmaker

This is the most stupid thing you have to do in whole game. Boring and interesting as my grandma remembering WWII. A lot of people are bored with this event and just give up on this map. Just delete it. Thank you!

(to the poster who asked, you have to sneak to each flag and try to make it through the Ash legion camp without being spotted by the Ash Legion scouts)

How about No?
That is by far one of the most unique hearts in the game, in my opinion. No other heart was ever as fun for me to do as trying to get through that camp, and get every single flag and each time im out in that area i save that one for last just so i can mess around.

if you think its truly so boring though, go right at the start, theres a way behind the tents with a good three to four flags nearby that you can get without being spotted.

And i would love to hear your grandmas stories about WWII, But i suppose you are a troll and dont really have a grandma with wwii stories.

Hmmm I wish there where more skins like those two, as right now we have so many dark, firey, and steel like weapons. I wish they had more light weapons like these two, and the other joke legendarys. I love them, i hope the new legendarys add some new ones like this.

psizone.8437:

I personally don’t want free content, I’m going to pay for the darn expansion and I’m looking forward to it, but blindly spewing hate towards people that might not buy it or can’t buy it and saying they’re not entitled to ask for something that could prevent them playing their current base game experience is just as bad, if not worse than asking for lots of free content and being “entitled”.

Going to butt in here, Hes saying that to people who are dead set against buying the expansion for whatever reason, not those that might not buy it or cant buy it.

Im neutral on this, im so used to traditional expansions in any genre that it wouldnt bother me in the slightest if this was locked behind the expansion. However, at the same time, there are people who wont be able to play WvW anymore. In the end, they may go the way of GW1 though and other traditional expansions where “If you dont buy it, to bad”

Darkness.9732:

Anet has only introduced 1 pet in 2 years and half.
That only pet that was introduced was thanks to a previous developper called Robert Hrouda who was basicly the only developper who played ranger activly.
Just for info Robert was fired by Anet.
Since that moment nothing good happened for ranger.
So guys start loosing all your hopes now just to avoid to be disappointed when the expansion comes out.
No pets will be added I’ m 100% sure

Im fairly certain that rangers got quite a few substantial buffs in the past couple months.
And in the past, with GW1, ANET has added new pets with new expansions and the individual games of Nightfall and Factions, so there is always the possibility of new pets being added in HoT.

From the way it sounds, the masteries will be more “Needed” to deal with the bigger enemies, while giving you extra bonuses on dealing with the smaller ones. You may or may not need them to do the content, but if you dont have them the content will be extremely hard to do. And as electro said, you will be out in the jungle already so the grind shouldnt be to bad, maybe.

The older areas that are supposed to be getting things probably wont be needed to deal with the enemies out there, as Anet would have to redo the entire game and all the old zones to be retroactive with this new expansion, which if they do ill be really impressed.

This sounds like a problem with Telekom and while Arenanet can sure switch providers, who says that the new one wont be worse? Another game i play swapped servers after a year of complaining from the players, and the new one has turned out to be worse lag wise than the old one.

lordkrall.7241:

And yet it was only the user base on the forums that took notice of it (more or less) and not even close to all of us reacted with the massive rage that some of you did.

The vast majority of the players probably have no idea whatsoever that there have ever been talk about this before it gets implemented with the expansion.

Well, i do know that more than a few of my guildmates who dont come to the forums, have long talked about how cool it would be to have precursor crafting, it was and still is a highly requested feature that i see thrown around in game, more than tengu, more than polearm weapons. players want legendary weapons, and for the vast majority they are out of reach.

Im not surprised its going to be locked behind HoT though, it is after all a expansion, and i would have been shocked that it would be available to everyone, then again im used to typical expansion from games like TA:Kingdoms, Sins of a solar empire, Warhammer Dawn of War…where unless you buy the expansion you get nothing, so its not to much of a disappointment.

Donari.5237:

There is no indication that gold will be able to buy it. It’s most likely real world cash.

I thought i had seen somewhere that it was confirmed to be in the gemstore as a purchase, might be imagining things though

And thats why my guild hasnt done Jormag on our boss runs for a while now! Its to frustrating trying to do!