Guild Wars 2

PopeUrban.2578:

Yes, but people will be farming parts, not doing the meta event. They designed these maps around doing metas.

Also keep in mind a lot of people are still exploring, doing masteries, claiming halls, etc. Soon that will calm down and I’d wager you’ll start seeing a lot of zone specific LFGs for stuff like this.

Unlike the silverwastes release, people aren’t all funneled in to one place right now, they have lots of options, and many of those are personal goals that seem more achievable so people are going after those first. When that calms down a bit, though, many will be in the same position you’re in “man, I want that bladed chest” and they’ll start hammering LFG and organizing around it.

People also said triple trouble or teq would be totally dead by now, but people run teq every day in multiple instances, and every time TT rolls around there is usually at least one zone LFG.

It really doesnt matter, i want a non RNG way to obtain the thing. 10 maps now that have full tier 4, sure doesnt seem like alot, but the chance to obtain the bladed chest for people who have crap luck is horrible. Thats what this is about. There are players who are just bloody unlucky when it comes to RNG and they could do this event every single day and never see that chest drop for them.

And by doing events, you are doing the meta event. You are progressing the meta event each time an event finishes, and to spawn the airship cargo chests you have to do events. I dont care if they make it cost 2000 or more, but at least offer a non RNG way to obtain it for those who have terrible luck with rng.

Another thing, after doing the meta event 10 times, full tier 4, with 200% participation and getting nothing more than a handful of blues and greens, and some more crowbars, its turning into a waste of time. Its turning into another silverwastes back when i needed the chest pieces for the Lumi armor.

Only difference is, the challenge of some of the mobs with my current build is keeping me entertained, when that runs off though, ill be out of the map, im not going to do a meta event that takes about an hour and get nothing, i get better loot from doing tequatl.

Kill.3458:

Thought it would be like getting the Mad king book from the 2012 festival, how ANet has fallen…

Speaking of that, they need to bring that back permanently.
Its a really neat backpack that should be available every Halloween!

PopeUrban.2578:

Simple game design. To ensure content has legs, that content needs compelling rewards. The bladed coat box ensures that peple, even years down the line, will have reasons to populate verdant brink.

It’s the same logic that went in to the map rewards system for core tyria (which could still use a little buff IMO) or the orr karma vendors, or the silverwastes stuff, etc. They want to make sure all the content has enough longevity that it doesn’t become totally desolate when new stuff comes out.

If you have to play a specific piece of content to get a specific (optional and cosmetic) thing, it’s much more likely that even years after that content is “old” people will continue to play it, even new people to the game.

they could have just made it cost 1000 airship parts then. ive been playing Verdant brinks non stop since the game launched because i enjoy the map, and while getting multiple maps completed havent seen a bladed box. I have 1,758 bladed gears on me however, and the only piece of that armor i even like is the bladed coat on Charr.

Basically, despite doing the map non stop i cant get the thing i want ^^ I dont see why it wasnt added to the merchant anywho, to get it you have to play the map, right? So years down the road if people want that coat they will have to go out there and do the map anyways, right? you cant get it on the other maps, only that map, so to get it, play the map. Right now though it takes alot of work to get it to tier 4, and getting a box with blues and greens…and more crowbars(i have 400 i dont need more) sucks, it isnt rewarding, and its already gotten a bit tiring trying to organize the events >.<

Also: these threads need to be merged into one thread, theres like 4 of these threads open at the moment.

Eurantien.4632:

What does Tier 4 Verdant Brink mean, exactly? All the day time events are done?

Yes. For a chance at a bladed armor box.

Obviously outfits are selling well, or theyd stop making them.

Not working for me, my mom or my dad either.

EDIT: Did what the above poster said, and it finished off the remaining hero points i had in the map, completely.

I had one that i couldn’t get to yet, because of lack of masteries and it got completed as well.

Someone buy it for me? xD Ill love you long time!!!

This outfit is great though! Love the dyeable flames, seen a few cool ones running around today!

Drawing Guy.3701:

Are you saying the physics of cloth is tied to the armor type and not the skin itself? While I question that due to outfits interacting the same no matter the armor type (it could be that they’re a separate function, but wouldn’t that mean they can break that out for general armor skins?), you’re right in the fact that I don’t know how much coding is involved in the separation of armor skins and their ties into armor types. It could be that this request is impossible…. but I still would like Anet to look into this as it would so massively increase our options. Of course this has to somehow be a popular enough thread on an extremely active subforum that mods/devs take a look at it before it’s shoved into oblivion…

He is, and thats exactly what anet has said.

And it doesnt surprise me at all. Nobody wants to see heavy plate mail acting like a flowing wedding dress, as funny as that would be…

I for one like the fact that armor types are limited by weight. the amount of work it would take is also probably a limiting factor, but i dont think its needed.

I noticed this last night, thanks for opening a topic. Its really annoying!

WOWWWW and i thought the bifrost was a bit excessive!!! at least i had all the bloodstone sitting around, but thats insane! :O

can we have separate key bindings for the lean techniques too? i hold down my W key all the time and doing that actives the lean, it took me awhile to realize what was going on and why i wasnt gliding for as long ;-;

Majic.4801:

Do NOT post SPOILERS…

Thank you for reposting that <3

Dont dare nerf these zones, its nice to actually have a risk of death if you arent careful.

Also if you wish, after you train gliding tier 1 i will show you the fire wyvern

I recently finished Silverwastes and Drytop, both of which where also supposed to get rewards and didnt get a reward. I do hope these can be rewarded retroactively ;-;

Woah, kitten you got the sword i wanted for my ranger xD

Grats though! It is really cool looking!!

No thank you.

/15charrs

Well, im enjoying my druid now, so id say +100 and im enjoying playing with all the builds to see what works! Cant wait to do the same on my alts too!

I wish theyd bring back all the regular armor you cant get ;-;

Im looking at you studded leather shoulders. Im looking at you..

Unloveableone.6082:

100% rep guilds are the only real guilds tbh.
I don’t care about joining a guild for some bonuses or other crap. I want to be part of a community that is close.
kitten near impossibly to find that in GW2 thanks to multi-guild system though.

Im glad you enjoy that honestly, but for me, after the multiple guild deaths ive been through i no longer want that. Guild deaths caused by the leaders of the guilds, and their friends, multiple guild splits that i ended up either having to choose or leave.

I know there are other people like me out there too.

If you want that, keep your 100% Rep guild, its not a bad thing at all and it should never go away. But the option for players like me should be out there too, and both can exist cooperatively.

I think Inculpatus Cedo and Pope Urban summed it up pretty well actually.

Plus its nice for players like me, who as stated in another thread about this exact same thing, have friends who do various different activities and don’t enjoy doing other activities. I have dungeon friends who only do dungeons and fractals. I have RP friends who only do RP. I have my family which isnt interested in either of those things.

Now i can chat to all of them at the same time, so yay!

I see nothing wrong with this. I can now take part in both my Roleplay guilds at the same time and coordinate events through guild chat, while at the same time talking to my family guild who dont understand roleplay at all and thus have no interest in it. I can also talk to my dungeon guild and arrange dungeon and or fractal runs while talking to everyone else in my other guilds, without missing out on any conversations..

This is a good thing. Sorry you dont like it, but its about time this was done, now i can feel like a part of all my guilds. Not everyone i play with is interested in the same thing, and to get them all in a guild together wouldnt work, theyd never rep it.

Silverkey.2078:

The game has been on for less than a week. Is it that bad that you haven’t “yet” gotten one of the few new armors released?

You do realize it will take some time before the next new armors are released, so a-net have to make sure not everyone gets it immediately!

Not really bad! Its just kinda annoying doing all that work to get it to tier 4, with all the broken events and bugs that prevent them from working period to not get anything worth note when you finally do manage to get to tier 4 ^^

It takes alot of coordination and hard work to get it to tier 4, it would be nice to get something worth that work at least guaranteed the very first time it happens, after that leave it up to RNG, but the first time much like with silverwastes you should get a chest piece.

Yup pretty much..8 maps now that have done tier 4 and nobody has gotten it once.

This would have been the best expansion to bring it back too!

captaincrash.6528:

So you beat the base game and think you deserve all rewards in the expansion?

They arent rewards, sorry but they arent. Rewards are the new armor skins(which i despise the fact that they gated the bladed armor behind the meta event, but ill live with that because i know that as players figure it out they will finish it more often.), rewards are the new weapons skins, rewards are finishing the story.

Playing with new skills arent a reward.

captaincrash.6528:

Dante.1763:

captaincrash.6528:

Heart of Thorns is getting nerfed already? It was so nice having long term goals in the game, please don’t give in with absolutely everything. The elite specs were fine the way they were…

if you hate people who have alts, sure it was.

No, I think it’s fine for people with alts, it means they put significant time and effort into a particular character, and were rewarded for it. Even then, getting all the Hero Points a second time was made easier, since the Masteries are account bound, not character bound.

Ive put in the time thank you <3 fully mapping 14 characters was enough. I sure as hell wasnt going to do HOT 14 more times just to get a bunch of alternate skills(read, alternate) skills. They arent even “Elite” its just an alternate play style. Now though i have an interest in doing HOT on several other characters.

captaincrash.6528:

Heart of Thorns is getting nerfed already? It was so nice having long term goals in the game, please don’t give in with absolutely everything. The elite specs were fine the way they were…

if you hate people who have alts, sure it was.

Yes yes yes yes yes, thank you thank you thank you.

Between the empty maps i keep getting thrown into and this, ill be done with HOT in about a week(Finish the story if it doesnt bug out on me and call it goo) and go back to WoT, Starmade, or more than likely Fallout 4 when it comes out due to not caring anymore.>.>

I am not running /all/ my toons through HOT just to play with the new elite spec. i was hoping..oh so hoping to run my necromancer around and explore tyria as a Reaper, my engineer is in the same boat, both of those specs sparked my interest in playing them, but for such a high and long time to get them, i lost it all.

Browrain.7346:

It took you 3 years to beat the mad king jump puzzle? I can’t imagine how long some of the harder PvE jump puzzles must have taken you..

Ive done all the PVE jumping puzzles, most pretty quickly but i cant do the clock tower, so that doesnt mean much.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Drow.2081:

Exactly how could they fix this without making it a handout?

Cut the number of hero points required in half, to 200, and cut the value of the hero challenges in Maguuma (and the costs of getting them in WvW) in half accordingly. Also retune the HoT hero points to be doable solo.

Now, earning all the hero points in core Tyria is enough to unlock your elite spec (and I emphasize “earning”, because people seem really keen to devalue the time and effort put into map completion), or you can unlock it in the new maps while ignoring central Tyria altogether, or do it in WvW, or use whatever combination of those methods you wish.

Fully expecting this thread to get merged.
But this is what most agreed on in the other thread would be reasonable as well.

Seera.5916:

Astralporing.1957:

Tantrika.2840:

Some maps have areas with no points of interest or anything else in them. Those areas are required to really complete a map too but not calculated in the percentage. I had it happen to me in one of the core Tyria areas, don’t remember which one though.

That’s only for the exploration achievements, not for map completion.

By the way, there are supposed to be now map completion rewards for silverwastes, dry top and southsun. They are not rewarded retroactively however (and they definitely should).

Oh? I finished the last POI after HoT launched in Southsun Cove and got no reward.

Edit: Just found it in the patch update for HoT. I’ll be submitting a ticket in the morning.

I did this for drytop and silverwastes today, guess ill be submitting a ticket as well.

I just wish we could get the book from the first Halloween…please anet…

/a player who was running to the person to finish the book off and got booted to updated

Oh, and has anyone figured out the whole crafting of those shoulders yet?

captaincrash.6528:

The new look is better I think, it displays relevant information, not whether you got characters to level 30. Though an option to change to the older view wouldn’t hurt.

Not change persay, just have small arrows that you can toggle between them is all, shouldnt be to hard i would think unless the UI uses entirely different coding.

I like it, dont get me wrong, but it tells me all the information i already know, and one i dont care about at all(WVW rank), a toggle would be nice is all. so there isnt much of a difference.

Not needed(to bring the other back) for sure though, would just be nice to have them all.

Can we have them both, how about that, those who like the new look get to see it, i personally liked the flags and stuff on my screen.

If i was to review the game, id give it a 5… BUT if the HP where different it would be an 8 or a 9….

Getting locked into place when opening Airship Cargo boxes. been killed by the quick spawning mobs more than once now because of.

Aerwyna.2541:

Dante.1763:

Aerwyna.2541:

logan.5846:

Archy.1046:

Most of people who like expac are playing expac.

Then why are the zones so empty?

Mine arent :o

Mine are.. mine are entirely dead…all the events are empty, and its not giving me the option to move maps ;-;

Aww, mine are wonderfully populated.

I wonder what thats all about :/

Party me pwease so i can come to your maps then ;-; i just want the bladed chest piece xD

Aerwyna.2541:

logan.5846:

Archy.1046:

Most of people who like expac are playing expac.

Then why are the zones so empty?

Mine arent :o

Mine are.. mine are entirely dead…all the events are empty, and its not giving me the option to move maps ;-;

simplesimon.2084:

Why hide from your guild. If they talk to you just say you don’t feel like chatting tonight.

Doesnt matter why, if you are invisible you shouldnt appear, anywhere.

Whats really good, is most people dont even KNOW about the map tiers.

Nah i kinda agree, gating the bladed armor box like this was a bad idea…especially when an event bugs, and wont work on any map you get into!

Never had problems with the wyvern though…

Every map ive been on today has been one event away from a full tier 3, but nooooooo one event breaks, and there goes another chance to get my bladed armor ;-;

Seriously though, i just want the chest piece, should be buyable at the merchant like the rest of the armor.

Maybe the pets should just be there. All the time, then rangers wouldnt stack there constantly. Now that i know though, ill be heading there to get mine >.>

Argon.1563:

Can you please delete threads that have spoilers in the title?

Somebody just posted a thread, and although it has [SPOILER] on the front of the thread name, it still spoils what happens to Mordremoth at the end of the expansion. Delete it, please. Ive just had the fundamental end of HoT spoiled to me because some arrogant kitten couldn’t keep himself to himself.

So..if it has [Spoilers] dont read it..

Can agree, across multiple maps and days its broken too.

Dashingsteel.3410:

The mastery system, raids, legendary journey, new achievement points, new maps….. This is the endgame.

Elite specs being overpriced at 400 hero points when they are not even elite. This is not endgame but it could be the end of the game for many. Hopefully Anet will fix this and the game I love will flourish.

Welp, i was writing the same thing, so this!

Outpost: Pact Encampment
Sylvari Incidents solved.

The third and final one, rescue the sylvari from the vigilantes isnt spawning. It shows the event has started, but the vigilantes dont spawn in, and neither do the sylvari themselves.

Can i please have a bladed chest piece, anet, please? I was so close to tier 4 this morning, and this was the only event not done

Edit: This isnt just one map either, i joined one of my guilds on a different map and it didnt spawn there, joined another guild and it was broken on that map too.

So…the same thing that happened to howl, has happened to the dreamer, just in reverse. Well ANET thank you for making up my mind, ill be selling the dreamer and buying infinite light or Dawn. </3

MOXs resting place? xD

Tora.7214:

exactly, i think that comparing the “price” of getting the precursor this way or the mystic forge way is losing the point behind the mastery completely, the idea is that you could chose to gamble/buy “or” find the collection items “yourself” (not buying them) and see a slow, but sure progress toward your goal

Precisely! And im honestly already planning out which legendarys im going to work on first, i dont even have the mastery yet, but i knew it would be a slow steady thing, exactly how i play the game as it is.