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Fighting cats in home instance

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And that would be player housing, which Home Instances are not.

If we are to get player housing, I, personally, don’t want it in the Home Instance. If Dev time/resources are to be spent on player housing, I want something much different than the Home Instance.

Thus, I am not really motivated toward ‘personalizing’ our Home Instances. I’d rather the resources be spent on making true player housing.

While I agree that if they add more traditional “Housing” I would not want it in the Home Instance, the fact that we have a Home Instance with Nodes, pets, Holiday Tree, etc. makes me think that, unfortunately, if Anet DID add Housing the Home Instance is where it would be. Or maybe what it would be. It seems like adding all of these things to the Home Instance is Anet’s way of making it like Housing.

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

QUESTION about down state.

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it does matter, i would like to know when i have immobilize on me so when im on my ele i dont waist 2-4 seconds of the down mist form not moving. same goes with chill or any movement impeding skills,

Good point.

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

Silly hats. Do you want them?

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I don’t prefer silly hats. However I assume that if Anet bothered to produce one (and the backpack cover, etc. also) there must be a pretty good market for them.

I think that Anet doesn’t really listen to the players when it comes to armor style preferences. We’ve been asking for more non-trenchcoat options in Medium for years and Anet pretty much said “too bad” and gave us trenchcoat Legendary armor. And we even have their official response to that effect in the video about it.

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Fighting cats in home instance

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Perhaps, those that are concerned about such issues, should exercise caution and wait to acquire content. A bit of research beforehand might alleviate distress in the future. (A bit of ‘look before you leap’, so to speak.)

It’s only a matter of hours, if that long, before the information is on the Wiki or Dulfy.

Good luck.

This would seem like wise advise except that Dulfy doesn’t actually describe what the cats do once in your Home Instance, and the only description in the wiki is “Black cat that fights other cats”.

I’m actually REALLY mystified that people are so against the idea of having more control over their Home Instance. Perhaps they actually object to making the Home Instance controllable for this particular reason, but that’s like saying you don’t want someone to invent a way to make your home fireproof because the person who is suggesting the invention wants to fireproof his home against pyro-kinetics which you think is a silly reason. (But…fireproof home!)

Or maybe they don’t want homes fireproofed because it’s a waste of time and money and the easy and obvious solution is to just be super careful about letting flamethrowers in your house.

If flamethrowers were the only way that houses could catch on fire, then this argument would make sense. Just like there are many reasons why having control over the Home Instance would be great. Think about the nodes that are scattered all over in a really inconvenient way – it would be great to have control over the placement. Think of being able to choose a color scheme for the buildings – maybe they would even make holiday color schemes! And of course it would be great to be able to choose which pets you see at different times. Not only to toggle off pets you decide you don’t want to see, but maybe it’s an all-cat month one time, or maybe you want to go with only orange cats for a while.

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

Fighting cats in home instance

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Perhaps, those that are concerned about such issues, should exercise caution and wait to acquire content. A bit of research beforehand might alleviate distress in the future. (A bit of ‘look before you leap’, so to speak.)

It’s only a matter of hours, if that long, before the information is on the Wiki or Dulfy.

Good luck.

This would seem like wise advise except that Dulfy doesn’t actually describe what the cats do once in your Home Instance, and the only description in the wiki is “Black cat that fights other cats”.

I’m actually REALLY mystified that people are so against the idea of having more control over their Home Instance. Perhaps they actually object to making the Home Instance controllable for this particular reason, but that’s like saying you don’t want someone to invent a way to make your home fireproof because the person who is suggesting the invention wants to fireproof his home against pyro-kinetics which you think is a silly reason. (But…fireproof home!)

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

TD meta and LFG commanders

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The other problem with the HoT metas is commanders asking non-participants to leave the map. Yes, I should stop what I’m doing in the middle of an event and go to a different map where the event might not even be happening at this time or will stop in the middle because I have to start over again so won’t be finished before the meta starts.

The HoT metas were a terrible idea.

When the meta starts it causes all current events to fail. That is the case for VB turning to night/day. AB when the challenges start up and TD when the first timer starts counting. If you are in the middle of doing a HP then it continues but there is no problem with finishing an HP first and if you can’t finish in 5minutes then you run into the HP’s time limit anyway.

Yes, that is what I was referring to. Commanders often start asking people to leave the map far before the meta starts.

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TD meta and LFG commanders

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The other problem with the HoT metas is commanders asking non-participants to leave the map. Yes, I should stop what I’m doing in the middle of an event and go to a different map where the event might not even be happening at this time or will stop in the middle because I have to start over again so won’t be finished before the meta starts.

The HoT metas were a terrible idea.

Why do you have to do as they ask if you prefer to finish what you are doing?

Perhaps you’re unfamiliar with social pressure of numerous people all wanting you to do the same thing? I don’t necessarily bow to such pressure but I’ve been told I am unusually “stubborn”.

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

Fighting cats in home instance

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I wish home instance was more customizable too but to do so for this reason seems unreasonable oversensitive. I mean you are playing an MMO where you kill animals ALL the time….

So you don’t see the distinction between hunting / killing animals in the wild and not liking to see your pets fight?
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I guess we should give the option to delete the entire ranger class too then if seeing pets fight is a problem.

As I said, military and police bring their service animals into combat situations, yet I know from talking to them that they don’t allow them to fight with their other pets at home. That is the distinction – home vs “work”.

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

Fighting cats in home instance

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As a self-professed animal lover, you have to understand that cats are intelligent creatures. They’re curious about the world around them, and their own bodies. Kittens (and many other kinds of life on earth) tend to discover these kinds of things through play with their peers.

Get a couple of kittens of your own – you’ll notice they do the same thing!

TL;DL: They aren’t fighting for bloodsport. They’re fighting for fun, exercise and hunting training.

This is a game. We don’t need to understand how real cats do things or get some for ourselves.

And it really shows….

You can’t have it both ways. Either they’re pixels in a video game world with different standards, and placing our standards on them is foolish. Or something is appalling by real world standards, in which case you should know what you’re talking about.

Making a big deal over a video game thing, and then going back to say “it’s a game”, doesn’t work because you just reduced your point to its logical conclusion: You’re making a big deal over nothing.

So if you say, the actual behavior of actual cats doesn’t matter, then what does? In-series canon information?

No, I’m saying that I can be irritated by something in my “Home” instance whether it is realistic or not.

Which is an empty argument. People can be irritated for any reason. Whether or not that irritation should be catered to depends on how rational it is. Maybe the color red offends me. Do I get the right to demand resources to get rid of red in the game?f there way to be as inclusive as they can. Well, guess it truly is impossible sometimes.

If you don’t want to have a logical discussion, just say so.

Oh, I do. It’s just that I haven’t seen any to argue with. Like I said in the part you cut out, usually you need some actual frame of reference over an emotional reaction— inherently illogical without.

I’m not suggesting that these cats be removed from the game. People have no way of knowing beforehand that these cats would behave in this manner unless they do some research. Even the wiki doesn’t say how bad the fighting is. From reading the wiki one might think that it WOULD be normal cat play fighting, not knocking each other across the room with loud impact sounds.

Let me get this straight. Knowing what you’re talking about is irrelevant to a discussion, because 10 minutes of googling isn’t convenient?

My comment that people don’t know beforehand is about a person feeding a cat without understanding how it will behave in their Home Instance. Not about having a discussion.

My suggestion is that I would like a means of controlling MY Home Instance. Not just for this reason but also because it is MY Home Instance so it would be nice to be able to control it in various ways.

And this is a game played by US and home instances don’t just apply to YOU. If you want people with limited resources to cater specifically to you, you need a very strong argument.

What if I say, well, you brought back a bunch of cats of your own volition, and you shouldn’t have a right to dictate what they do in that manner? I think you’re abusing them. I don’t think this option should exist at all. Then Anet would have even more trouble.

I’m not trying to dictate what the cats do, not sure where you got the idea that I was.. My suggestion was to have toggles to be able to choose which options are active or not in the Home Instance.

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

TD meta and LFG commanders

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The other problem with the HoT metas is commanders asking non-participants to leave the map. Yes, I should stop what I’m doing in the middle of an event and go to a different map where the event might not even be happening at this time or will stop in the middle because I have to start over again so won’t be finished before the meta starts.

The HoT metas were a terrible idea.

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

[Request] please bring back snek pet

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Curious: why “snek” instead of “snake”? Is this one of these memes where people prefer to call something by a different name because they want to be different? Except then everyone does it so it’s not actually different?

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Fighting cats in home instance

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A question to those opposed to the fighting cats: have you killed any tigers or other big cats in this game? Just curious where the line is.

As I have already stated in this thread:

I could live in the middle of the Serengeti and yet not allow my pets to fight on my property. Military personnel bring service dogs into combat but don’t allow them to fight with other pets on their property.

Whether or not there is violence involving cats elsewhere in the game, these are pet cats in a place that is called my “Home”. Hopefully people can understand the difference.

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

Fighting cats in home instance

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As a self-professed animal lover, you have to understand that cats are intelligent creatures. They’re curious about the world around them, and their own bodies. Kittens (and many other kinds of life on earth) tend to discover these kinds of things through play with their peers.

Get a couple of kittens of your own – you’ll notice they do the same thing!

TL;DL: They aren’t fighting for bloodsport. They’re fighting for fun, exercise and hunting training.

This is a game. We don’t need to understand how real cats do things or get some for ourselves.

And it really shows….

You can’t have it both ways. Either they’re pixels in a video game world with different standards, and placing our standards on them is foolish. Or something is appalling by real world standards, in which case you should know what you’re talking about.

Making a big deal over a video game thing, and then going back to say “it’s a game”, doesn’t work because you just reduced your point to its logical conclusion: You’re making a big deal over nothing.

So if you say, the actual behavior of actual cats doesn’t matter, then what does? In-series canon information?

No, I’m saying that I can be irritated by something in my “Home” instance whether it is realistic or not.

Which is an empty argument. People can be irritated for any reason. Whether or not that irritation should be catered to depends on how rational it is. Maybe the color red offends me. Do I get the right to demand resources to get rid of red in the game?f there way to be as inclusive as they can. Well, guess it truly is impossible sometimes.

If you don’t want to have a logical discussion, just say so. I’m not suggesting that these cats be removed from the game. People have no way of knowing beforehand that these cats would behave in this manner unless they do some research. Even the wiki doesn’t say how bad the fighting is. From reading the wiki one might think that it WOULD be normal cat play fighting, not knocking each other across the room with loud impact sounds.

My suggestion is that I would like a means of controlling MY Home Instance. Not just for this reason but also because it is MY Home Instance so it would be nice to be able to control it in various ways.

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

Fighting cats in home instance

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As a self-professed animal lover, you have to understand that cats are intelligent creatures. They’re curious about the world around them, and their own bodies. Kittens (and many other kinds of life on earth) tend to discover these kinds of things through play with their peers.

Get a couple of kittens of your own – you’ll notice they do the same thing!

TL;DL: They aren’t fighting for bloodsport. They’re fighting for fun, exercise and hunting training.

This is a game. We don’t need to understand how real cats do things or get some for ourselves.

And it really shows….

You can’t have it both ways. Either they’re pixels in a video game world with different standards, and placing our standards on them is foolish. Or something is appalling by real world standards, in which case you should know what you’re talking about.

Making a big deal over a video game thing, and then going back to say “it’s a game”, doesn’t work because you just reduced your point to its logical conclusion: You’re making a big deal over nothing.

So if you say, the actual behavior of actual cats doesn’t matter, then what does? In-series canon information?

No, I’m saying that I can be irritated by something in my “Home” instance whether it is realistic or not.

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

Fighting cats in home instance

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I’m an animal lover and you have no support from me whatsoever. As stated above, cats attack each other as a form of play. Not only that, but no health is being lost by them either (even if it is supposed to be a PvP match). You said it yourself, this is overkill and an absolutely trivial request.

As a cat lover, have you actually seen these cats fight? The cats that fight each other, not the snowball cats? They hit each other hard enough to make a noise. The “victim” often goes flying. This is not how any cats “play” that I have ever seen. The fact that no health is being lost isn’t the issue – it is the noise and visual of the cats hitting and going flying as a result.

About 35 seconds in. (No idea why that big gap is there.)

And the biggest problem is that it is in the Home Instance where you should have some control over your environment. When you acquire the cats, you are given no description or warning that you will end up with fighting cats in your Home. And you have no way of getting rid of them if you don’t like their behavior.

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

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So I would just like to point out that the fighting cats are the class specific cats. Each cat only being acquirable by a specific class. The entire point of these cats is that they’re PvP cats. That’s why they’re fighting. They’re in an endless PvP match between each other.

What does this have to do with the OP?

It’s more for the people trying to excuse the fighting as just play. These cats are in a PvP match, so it’s more relevant how you interpret that than how cats play with each other. If you consider that in PvP the players are trying to kill each other, then these cats are going for blood. If you consider that despite being defeated you can get up and continue to play then it should be less concerning.

Oh, I see.

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Maybe OP is referring to the cats that throw snowballs at each other and occasionally you. I dunno, seems realistic to me, but I’m alittle concerned about the snowball sticking to the paw fur and causing a misfire, perhaps even a tightly packed snowball hitting another cats eye at the right speed, but in all honesty how tight can a cat really pack a snwball? Other than that, whatever they have to do to get through the day, that’s their prerogative.

No, there are new cats that fight with each other directly – snowballs aren’t involved. I linked the wiki page with all the cats earlier in the thread if you would like to reference what all the cats do.

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Anyone can change guild bank labels

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There should definitely be better Guild control. People shouldn’t be forced with a decision to limit all guild members because of a few or put up with this behavior.

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TD Event Issue "Take the young beetles on...

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This event bugged again last night. This time, even though I was able to complete the event the last time I did it by running around above the Beetle Herder killing chak, it didn’t work on this event. Me and about 7 other people ran around killing every chak in the area above, around, etc. and the event was still stuck at “chak left: 1” for about a half hour before I left.

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Elite Specializations - were a terrible idea

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Issue with ES being better than core class is mostly created by players themselves.

Because there’s meta.

Of course. If there is something that is “the best”, what person would say “I don’t want the best, I want something that is less good than that”?

Certainly there are a few people with strong enough personalities to go against the Meta and have a character they want that does something different. But most people won’t do that.

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Fighting cats in home instance

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So I would just like to point out that the fighting cats are the class specific cats. Each cat only being acquirable by a specific class. The entire point of these cats is that they’re PvP cats. That’s why they’re fighting. They’re in an endless PvP match between each other.

What does this have to do with the OP?

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As a self-professed animal lover, you have to understand that cats are intelligent creatures. They’re curious about the world around them, and their own bodies. Kittens (and many other kinds of life on earth) tend to discover these kinds of things through play with their peers.

Get a couple of kittens of your own – you’ll notice they do the same thing!

TL;DL: They aren’t fighting for bloodsport. They’re fighting for fun, exercise and hunting training.

This is a game. We don’t need to understand how real cats do things or get some for ourselves.

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

What is this ghost?

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Elite Specializations - were a terrible idea

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The main thing I think was a waste in Elite Specializations is the Specialization weapon. I think I am only bothering with them on 2 of my characters: Rev and Guardian.

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Fighting cats in home instance

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Instead of telling the OP their opinion is wrong, why not simply address the idea of allowing us to control our Home Instance? If you don’t think it’s a worthwhile effort, that’s your opinion. But why would you try to tell someone that their opinion about something is incorrect?

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The cats are play-fighting (with snowballs); there’s no hissing, no damage being done to the cats, no blood, etc. My real-life cats do the same kind of play-fighting (sans snowballs because we live in the south). I think it’s cute. That being said, I wouldn’t be against an option to toggle on/off certain animations or actions in our home instances.

If you look at the wiki page, there are cats that simply fight other cats, not with snowballs:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hungry_cat_scavenger_hunt

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I wish home instance was more customizable too but to do so for this reason seems unreasonable oversensitive. I mean you are playing an MMO where you kill animals ALL the time….

If cats acting like cats offends you, this game and real life, might not be for you.

So you don’t see the distinction between hunting / killing animals in the wild and not liking to see your pets fight?

So seven, you allow your pets to fight with each other all the time or think that’s fine? I guess that’s your choice but I certainly don’t think it’s fine.

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Elite Specializations - were a terrible idea

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I don’t see a problem: usually you get bored after 3 years of the same core professions, so it’s nice to play 9(10) different ones the next couple of years…

It would be nice if it was only one choice. But as it was said, if someone offered you a sandwich vs $100, that’s not really a choice.

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Well, I guess I’m a fool, because I feel I have lots of options. With the new expac coming sometime in the next 5-9 months, I’d expect at least one more elite spec and more options.

Just curious: how many level 80 characters do you have and how many of them do you purposefully run without Elite Spec? (Purposefully i.e. not just because you haven’t unlocked the spec yet.)

Only my Engi is not running Elite spec.

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If you look at the health bars, you will see that none of them are being damaged; they are “fighting”, not fighting. Cats play with each other by jumping and clawing on each other. (Heck, my cat likes to do that with me, even after training.)

In addition, this is a game in which people take “pets” into combat, sentient frogs fight each other, one of the playable races experiments on semi-sentient rats, and some Earth-like animals routinely go after other Earth-like animals. If you love animals so much that it hurts you to see them behaving like animals, this might not be the game for you.

Your Home Instance is supposed to be your Home instance, not some random part of the game.

But your answer is suck it up or leave the game? Wow.

I agree that there should be controls to allow you to turn on or off any of the things you have added to your instance. As the OP said, it isn’t possible to actually experience these things inside the instance until you’ve added them.

Interesting interpretation of my remarks.
First, no, the home instance has never allowed us to customize as we like.

I said “there should be controls to allow you to turn on or off any of the things you have added…” In other words, yes I know and am asking for that ability.

We can add stuff and some NPCs appear as we complete parts of stories, but it’s not ours in the sense of having much control over it.

Again, I think the OP understands that since the thread is about how he can’t control his Home instance and I certainly understand it since I said so.

Second, the OP is saying they can’t stand to see animals fighting.

…in some place that is called his “Home”. I could live in the middle of the Serengeti and yet not allow my pets to fight on my property. Military personnel bring service dogs into combat but don’t allow them to fight with other pets on their property. I don’t see your point at all. O.o

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If you look at the health bars, you will see that none of them are being damaged; they are “fighting”, not fighting. Cats play with each other by jumping and clawing on each other. (Heck, my cat likes to do that with me, even after training.)

In addition, this is a game in which people take “pets” into combat, sentient frogs fight each other, one of the playable races experiments on semi-sentient rats, and some Earth-like animals routinely go after other Earth-like animals. If you love animals so much that it hurts you to see them behaving like animals, this might not be the game for you.

Your Home Instance is supposed to be your Home instance, not some random part of the game.

But your answer is suck it up or leave the game? Wow.

I agree that there should be controls to allow you to turn on or off any of the things you have added to your instance. As the OP said, it isn’t possible to actually experience these things inside the instance until you’ve added them.

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day and night

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Other games that have mechanics which depend on day or night often have a day / night indicator on the UI. In GW2 weather often makes it difficult to tell, so such an indicator would be great IMO.

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[Suggestion] More than coats please.

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Obviously it’s vitally important to be able to recognise professions (or rather armour weight classes) by their silhouettes in competitive modes that’s why the exclusive armour sets for sPvP and WvW are… not trenchcoats but in PvE where it doesn’t matter at all it’s trenchcoats out the wazoo!

That recognisable silhouette stuff was some kind of z-list jedi mind-trick.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mistforged_Triumphant_Hero%27s_armor_
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glorious_armor_

Yea, it’s a mystery why Anet does a lot of the stuff they do.

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[Suggestion] More than coats please.

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Lol, apparently Anet says “no” if you look at Legendary armor and the video they released.

I’m curious why they would follow this approach, while everything else in the game is the opposite. Any race can play any class, you can mix skills, weapons, skills, armor, skins, dyes, it’s basically GW2’s main pitch. Play as you want.

And then they say thieves have to wear coats and not skirts? I mean, this doesn’t affect play style, combat or anything else other than looks. And if someone now says it’s about immersion, I’m not buying it. A trench coat wearing thief can wear a quaggan backpack, a wizard hat, sunglasses and glide on a carpet from One Thousand and One Nights.

Can you link to that video please, I want to hear it with my own ears.

btw. there are lots of thieves wearing the Viper’s skirt and underboob top, so that “trench coat” way has been broken already. I really can’t believe a dev said those stupid things about class silhouettes.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/142369535 Interview with Paul Ella at about 35:34

This is where it was brought to my attention:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/6h444i/legendary_armor_dev_stream_excuses_and_dishonesty/

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[Suggestion] More than coats please.

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Good luck on that request. Apparently they want the weight classes to share silhouettes, not that that makes a lot of sense.

Well, that’s what was said in the video, but I wonder if that Anet developer was aware of all of the different ways that characters can end up looking nothing like their "class silhouette. Including a small number of pieces of armor in that same weight class. And of course the numerous Outfits that Anet prefers to make over Armor.

I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt that he didn’t realize that the “look like your class” horse has already left the barn and he is just closing the door after it.

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Mastery points are the same for HoT whether they come from the expansion maps or the LS3 maps. Considering that you have to max masteries from both to get XP, I don’t see why there needs to be a distinction.

Because the point I was making is that one needs to collect a bunch of adventure MPs to complete HoT.

I agree that they’ve done a good thing by having more MPs available on the LS S3 maps. But, it’s not enough (yet) to offset the mistake made in HoT. (“Mistake” is in my opinion.) Plus, it requires playing through LS S3 in order to complete HoT. That just feels wrong.

You will never completely complete HoT without doing adventures. Depending on what you consider being complete anyway. But since Adventures ARE a part of HoT, and you’re talking about “completing” HoT.

It will always be, “I completed HoT! …except Adventures.”

In your opinion. I could also say that you didn’t really complete HoT until your character has actually been in every little space on the map. Obviously neither is counted as completion in any “official” way so it doesn’t matter.

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Mastery points are the same for HoT whether they come from the expansion maps or the LS3 maps. Considering that you have to max masteries from both to get XP, I don’t see why there needs to be a distinction.

Because the point I was making is that one needs to collect a bunch of adventure MPs to complete HoT.

I agree that they’ve done a good thing by having more MPs available on the LS S3 maps. But, it’s not enough (yet) to offset the mistake made in HoT. (“Mistake” is in my opinion.) Plus, it requires playing through LS S3 in order to complete HoT. That just feels wrong.

Also, players who are in HoT will feel more MP pressure until they get to the LS3 maps. And if they don’t look up Mastery Points they may not realize how many will be available later.

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Lol, apparently Anet says “no” if you look at Legendary armor and the video they released.

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

Problem solved with Astralaria Collection III

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Could also have been a lag issue.

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Forced Rezing in Group Boss Fights.

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What kind of mob is this, that takes longer to kill than reviving a dead person? Maybe the one doing the reviving has some different (and more important) issues if it takes him longer to kill a mob than revive a person.

Way to turn my point into “L2P” lol. That wasn’t my point. If I’m running along and I see a dead person, I might stop to rez them. If after I start rezing a mob decides to attack me, I shouldn’t have to stop rezing and kill the mob so I can start rezing again.

With the WvW implementation you do not have to stop in that situation. You will continue ressing. If you decide to stop ressing and try to resume again then you would need to get out of combat first.

I don’t understand your response in regard to my quote.

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Worst Guild Wars 2 Map?

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2. Southsun Cove: Nothing going on here except the occasional Crab Toss activity for the daily.

I assume that’s not a troll, but I’m surprised to see anyone feel theres nothing going on in Southsun. There’s actually a lot on this map.

Maybe you don’t belong to a guild that runs guild missions?

I think this is the answer. I also don’t belong to a guild that does anything in Southsun. When I go there, if it is not a daily map (hardly ever), there is usually no one there doing anything.

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Question about collection

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If you follow all of the steps, you will 100% get the Legendary weapon. I recommend looking it up on the Wiki for details, and also reading some guides so you can try to do things as economically as possible. Don’t follow any guide blindly tho as it may be old information. But pay attention to hints and tips that may help.

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The meaning of "Game"

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It may have been your opinion you were trying to express but it came across as fact.

Which is irrelevant. In a debate you argue on the merits of your opponent’s statements, regardless of whether those statements are a opinion, statistical fact, or a vociferous diatribe. Squabbling over whether a statement is a opinion or fact is the argument of a plebian incapable of mounting intelligent discourse.

I grow tired of how many threads get derailed by petty arguments over trivialities.

It is anything but irrelevant because you just more or less repeated what I said. It doesn’t matter if he thought he was delivering an opinion, it came across as a fact. In other words, the merit of his actual statement. Also, debate is oral and even there inflection and voice tone play a part.

And you grow tired of it but it didn’t stop you from adding to the derailment. Because honestly, what did YOU add to the OP’s topic?

/popcorn, keep trying to have the last word son, this is entertaining.

Exactly how I keep trying when this is my first reply to this person?

RIF

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It may have been your opinion you were trying to express but it came across as fact.

Which is irrelevant. In a debate you argue on the merits of your opponent’s statements, regardless of whether those statements are a opinion, statistical fact, or a vociferous diatribe. Squabbling over whether a statement is a opinion or fact is the argument of a plebian incapable of mounting intelligent discourse.

I grow tired of how many threads get derailed by petty arguments over trivialities.

It is anything but irrelevant because you just more or less repeated what I said. It doesn’t matter if he thought he was delivering an opinion, it came across as a fact. In other words, the merit of his actual statement. Also, debate is oral and even there inflection and voice tone play a part.

And you grow tired of it but it didn’t stop you from adding to the derailment. Because honestly, what did YOU add to the OP’s topic?

Oh really? So you and Djinn took the OP’s statement “This is ANet’s understanding of game” as an indication of his mystical mind-reading powers? Truly?

I mean, I’m not the brightest bulb but it seems to me the post was easily understood and required no clarification: The OP is salty he lost in PvP and then got his butt kicked in PvE, too. Now he’s on the forums complaining about it.

Was that so hard to understand? kitten .

No, I asked where Anet had stated that. If Anet had made that statement I would like to know. I honestly don’t understand why some people get so hurt that someone asks for more information when someone makes a definitive statement.

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imho the stark lack of armours since release is a major part of what makes the game stale,
we all look like we did 4 years ago for the most part…
we’ve had a couple of new sets but generally once you’d got your character looking as good as you think they could 4 years ago…they stayed the same.

i hope the crystal desert Xpac comes with LOTS of armours, a plethora of skimpy, sexy and bulky, protective armours!

give us a reason to go around collecting them!

Idk if that is possible – HoT came with Bladed armor…

Dont forget leystone armor

Omg, I did forget – thanks for reminding me

lol

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Forced Rezing in Group Boss Fights.

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Another solution: disable revive of dead people while in combat just like in WvW. Now there is no reason for dead people to wait for a revive anymore.

I disagree with this. There are other times in open world that it’s nice to rez a dead person because maybe they didn’t WP because they don’t have a close WP yet. And there are classes that have abilities that allow them to rez while being hit by a mob so why should they have to kill the mob first and get out of combat if they want to stop and rez someone?

What kind of mob is this, that takes longer to kill than reviving a dead person? Maybe the one doing the reviving has some different (and more important) issues if it takes him longer to kill a mob than revive a person.

Way to turn my point into “L2P” lol. That wasn’t my point. If I’m running along and I see a dead person, I might stop to rez them. If after I start rezing a mob decides to attack me, I shouldn’t have to stop rezing and kill the mob so I can start rezing again.

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

Did You Succeed at Ley-Line Research Event?

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I succeeded for the first time yesterday, after a couple of fails. Yesterday, I decided to not collect any ley line pieces but only focus on damage. We were only about 10 people, I play Power Daredevil, and I believe that my decision to only do dps helped quite a bit. In the former attempts, I did both, hit a few times, then collected ley line sparks, and so on.

With the dps output my Thief has, I can wipe all mobs there except the golem champs quickly. I also had cc skills ready, and I saw that the other people who were in the event knew how to destroy that breakbar too.

I think the event fails when too many people collect stuff instead of killing things.

Yes, I see that is part of the solution: kill things quickly.

Thanks everyone for all the helpful responses.

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imho the stark lack of armours since release is a major part of what makes the game stale,
we all look like we did 4 years ago for the most part…
we’ve had a couple of new sets but generally once you’d got your character looking as good as you think they could 4 years ago…they stayed the same.

i hope the crystal desert Xpac comes with LOTS of armours, a plethora of skimpy, sexy and bulky, protective armours!

give us a reason to go around collecting them!

Idk if that is possible – HoT came with Bladed armor…

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

Forced Rezing in Group Boss Fights.

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Another solution: disable revive of dead people while in combat just like in WvW. Now there is no reason for dead people to wait for a revive anymore.

I disagree with this. There are other times in open world that it’s nice to rez a dead person because maybe they didn’t WP because they don’t have a close WP yet. And there are classes that have abilities that allow them to rez while being hit by a mob so why should they have to kill the mob first and get out of combat if they want to stop and rez someone?

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol

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There are more than enough HoT mastery points to skip adventures altogether. There are 185 HoT mastery points available with an excess of 48 mastery points. You can get a max of 30 from adventures.

In addition to the 31 MP from Adventures, don’t forget the 12 MP from Raids (which Anet admits are only designed for 10% of players). There is also 1 MP from an event that is bugged to may or may not appear (Defeat Mayatl the Fierce). That doesn’t actually leave a lot of leeway…

it’s this luck based mystic toilet that we’re all so sick of flushing our money down. -Salamol