human gods left long before the dragons woke up again /also the dragons predate the gods on tyria
funny part is with all the human minds Zhaitan has read. it could have possibly dreamed that xD (well if elder dragons can dream)
been neat if dungeons was like the open world! (events chains/splits/alt at random)
like every run would never see the same events or bosses+the dungeon keys and maps from GW1 /dreaming
i dont really see legendary armor being locked behind raids as a issue its just ascended with stat swapping
but i can see people that WvW being annoyed about the trinkets tho
also i dont care if people think im lazy for not doing >>things they do << xD
i play games for my amusement not theirs.
^^^^ yeah i recall that blog post was more about events chains changing the world /like detrorying pipes and such
i kinda see reduced difficulty Raids ending up like story mode dungeons xD (unless they gave the same rewards this actually worked well in GW1. hardmode just gave you alot higher % chance at the rewards)
i dont really play games with rewards in mind. not much has actually changed for me
i think many missed how awsome the GW2 world was rushing to 80 (my whole guild mentality at lunch was gogogo move move move get to 80!) i seen this same thinking from people out in the open world at the time also.
im honestly not surprised that we are where we are now.
i can see why people would become irritated at Endgame=The Game (i dont want that myself and not why i play GW2)
/IMO a world3 SAB should have came with Raids as a alt thing to do! /or even world2 again!
i kinda agree we do lack the “OMG it’s one of those!” kinda mobs in core Tyria.
champion risen gorillas only thing i can think of off the top of my head. but they never appear outside of scaled up events
I dont care how shiny a reward is.
it will not get me to play anything if im that bored of it xD (RL is a different story)
When you consider how our own history can be inaccurate at times even in the modern age.
it would be kinda strange for a NPC that wasnt alive 200 years ago to know all the exact details of what happen!
you mean Yehuda!
i never saw the goddess/god names having realworld meanings inside guildwars lore
(then you will have to explain what dose dwayna means !)
I dont miss that odd stretchy idle. but i wish female norn had different idle animation from female human :s
/Sylvari MasterRaceIdle
double hp ,double cast time ,double move speed! /so hard!
it actually was easier then normal mode if you understood the mechanics xD
Kinda reminds me of that Sun symble on alot of sunspears armor/weapon
although could just be a symble of the group’s origin /Land of the golden sun
i can kinda see them using pro human as a propaganda tool
I have no interest in raid myself but it dose not bother me theres one area (a tiny % of PvE!) for people that want that type of content (now if the whole game became only raids i wouldnt be happy :s)
Necros didnt seem common/wanted at all in fact alot of the trainers was kinda to themselves/away from the pubic
and Necromancers (PCs dont count!) was almost never among the random ascalon army NPCs
also i didnt say they was Cantha Assassin but just Tyria’s equivalents ( Unless Gron Fierceclaw took a trip to cantha xD) honestly i dont see how its imposible for any of the Sentient races to get daggers be sneaky with magic/steath o.O it would be like Rangers coming from only one area/race
/also i think it mostly mechanical for non-sentient creature. (im sure thos Grubs in NF wasnt really Monks/Paragons xD)
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My theory is most races had similar professions but they just had diffrent names for them
(like Chaot’s may have been what Charr called their mesmer’s)
oddly Mursaat had standard profession names.
I wouldnt be surprised if the White Mantle try to take LA again (although after scarlet both DR/LA should be ready for a attack)
Most of that apply to GW1 one mistake usually ended in a full party wipe /restarting all of the mission no wp/checkpoints
also i wouldnt call the added PvE skills in GW1 “sticking to its guns” (yeah you didnt have to use them but it was expected with pug “plus the title grind”
and taking it slow rarely was something pugs did “unless you get lucky and get nice people but the same can happen in GW2”
had anet used any other word then “Raid” i bet this would have been tottally diffant xD
some things about GW1
(1) there was no heroes till nightfall
(2)you could only enter faction elite missions if your faction guild alliance owned the town
(3)you could only enter UW/FoW if your region had favor /scrolls didnt come till later
(4)DoA had extreme Build exclusion (50% melee miss in one zone+at myllax)
compairing both at the releases of their elite content GW1 was way more walled off
IMO xD
“yes there was changes later on but raids is waaaaaaay less restrictive at its release”
DoA"Doman of Anguish" had lore tied to it (including the first margonite!) but i dont recall this kinda outcry over it.
i think its the word “Raid” that is causing all this fuss IMO
Asura are a race from the depths of Tyria (prolly had very little light source in their erly history) human like gender anatomy wouldnt make much sense :s
Also we dont know how many dragons was or wasnt killed before. for all we know we could be repeating something thats leading to a disaster thats happen before :s
they clearly knew something we havnt realised yet (well at least the forgotton and sheers did)
Anton and Vael makes me think Ascalon had a Assassin/thief/Shadowy like professions all along (prolly as common as necros xD “the average ascalonian prolly never saw them”)
as already mentioned the Ascalon army did have Engineers npc after all.
Also (this is never derectly said ingame “i think”) But i always got the impression cantha assassin guilds didnt want their secrets getting outside their groups
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looks like we gonna have to wait till LS3 :/
can try grayish fur and abyss dyed Scallywag armor
prolly the closest you can get
-or more likely you’ve switched the pricetags between two games ( I can see a 11k hour player spending $100 on a gw2 colletor edition and buying a $79.99 on expac ( or vice versa order))
Nope its exactly as i said GW1 50+50+50+30=180 (i didnt get Eotn at releases)
Gw2 50+50=100 (was including base game+Hot)
(although its abit odd to say how some one spent their money xD)
also i Gold to Gems everything!(didnt have that option in GW1)
I have no problem with raids (long as they never required or become the only new PvE content) its only bad imo if it becomes the main/only way to progress.
Ah, but did you buy gems out of pocket as well? Though, to be fair, if you did buy gems, odds are you bought them because you used them to obtain something you got enjoyment from.
i didnt include it because its mostly optional (not needed to play the game!)
also GW1 had a in game store (since 2006 xD) (also kinda lost track of the stuff i bought in GW1 store :s)
This whole thread is really no different then asking “was HoT/GW2 worth it”
anyway
In this specific case though…. whats your $:hours play ratio to determine if worth or not?
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GW1— 8k hours (with a very long 10hour AFK limit xD) cost~180$
GW2 —11k hours (mostly playtime short/rude auto kicks) cost~100$
I clearly got more value/fun out of GW2 (but this only apply to me i dont speak for any1 but myself)
i remember a past interview saying thief was a new profession that was only mechanically related to cantha assassin
that stuff is so hard to find now :s /i dont even remember what site it was on
(honestly i wonder if that’s even still true now)
(if we look at Eotn charr+vanguard. tyria already had a shadow/sneaking like profession of its own) (clearly the Charr Shadowblade/Avengers wernt related to canthan versions for example)
At the time prophecy was a value for the money (over 10 years ago!)
still such an awkward comparison pretty much like you saying a gumball is worth $1 and me saying its worth 25 cents.
i think you missed something in my post! (in the end its really preference)
At the time prophecy was a value for the money (over 10 years ago!)
but i find way more to do in base GW2 in PvE then Prophecy (only Fow/Underworld (assuming your region even had favor of the gods xD)
and Hot held my attention longer then Faction (I stopped playing after a month even though it was 49.99 at releases!)
to me GW2 has gave me more for my money so in the end its really preference
(Really i enjoy both games because i cant find anything like them)
well its isnt named BrightMidNoonDayRise xD
/leave the sword alone i want it as it is :s
That game is soooooo overrated! (and sooo unfair only one life :/)
thief is a oddity IMO it mechanicly borrows so much from assassin it would make adding assassin redundant.
but its supposed to not be the same as assassin in lore
although it would make more sense to not know to me
it would be like knowing who or where the 1st RL warrior came from xD
Really in the the end its about the same alot of GW1 unique items didnt have alot of value to them (well to me GW1 items had no value because i wasnt willing to sit around town to try to sell them xD " I rather be actually playing!)
although i will say i have made more gold simply playing GW2 vs farming in GW1
i have overall enjoyed my GW2 experience.
i prolly wont return to GW1 simply because there isnt anything new to see.
(also i hate not being able to move for casting/attacking)
i dont really miss the build system only a hand full of the skill was useful (i dare any1 to make a build with “Scribe’s Insight” xD)
maybe the guards was supposed to plant them at some point? (although that would be a very silly plain for a elder dragon xD what if all the guards was killed :s)
if the protection was that way shouldnt they die if mordy tryed to corrupt them?
i think mordy cant corrupt them becuse they already his minions. i think the pale tree did something to give them free will (somehow didnt give them mordy’s will/orders) and this is why mordy have to play mind games to win them over. the dream was prolly the pale tree’s back up plain in case she die (she is a inmoble tree after all)
I think all the Prophecies bosses was random (its why i hated elite capping in it :s)
also there was some group variations. even if there are no quest active in a area at all
(like 2 monks mobs or non at all)/played to much gw1
Not all of them, only about 12 or something (rough approximate guess)
Way more then that even the bosses without elites didnt always show up (did alot of farming xD) actually i only recall Maw the Mountain Heart having a consistent spot
(and the mission only bosses but they dont really count as explorable mobs IMO)
too bad Mountain Heart Poi is gone now that was a neat thowback touch to GW1 :s
I think all the Prophecies bosses was random (its why i hated elite capping in it :s)
also there was some group variations. even if there are no quest active in a area at all
(like 2 monks mobs or non at all)
/played to much gw1
Rata Novas is deep but its prolly not That deep if it getting light from the surface with cables (its possible to have really long cables.but the resources req for one group of a refugee race would be alot IMO)
i have a theory that maybe when a dragon is asleep it up to the champ to pass along the dragons will/orders? (like how the destroyers became disorganized when the great destroyer was killed in eotn)
@echo….The only differences is that they respawn in gw2 without having to reload map ( not really that big of a deal) and in gw2 they don’t drop unqiue items ( a big deal)
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How odd i recall people treating the boss green drops like unwanted junk xD
i like this ideal+i wish all the tonic cloths was made into outfits!
(also some way to mix outfits with each other even if its only head wear/shoulders) i know i know lots of work xD
Isnt this kinda a preaching to the choir message? (like any1 that has linked their accounts prolly has/will/may/never/is logging into GW1 xD)
Pft the Charr would prolly still wanna kill it! (or give it a nasty pedicure!)
Seem like the dream helps them resist mordy’s call
IMO till we learn exactly how the Pale Tree was freed (we clearly dont have the whole story) we can only guess why her children are so different from other dragon minions. (well besides the fact dragons make control/minions in different ways xD)
Safe spot? i have actully seen more downed/defeated people on that platform then the rest of the room xD
buffing its health will not change much IMO
i though you only have to wait out the 5min pre o.o? the other pre just have a “must be done before the timer is up” kinda req.
I have to say of all the races the Norn female voice could really use a Re-Do :s (mostly the knockbacked/cc related lines)
We can assume the same people that made King Adelbern tomb brought Rurik’s sword back to Ascalon xD (somehow)
(I kinda saw what logan said in AC as more of a light insult)