JPs certainly suck if you are a Norn. The camera control is appalling. I’m happy for JPs to be in the game but I don’t think there should be any mastery points gated by them.
And, of course, most people who have reached that map probably already have an ascended back pack. If they haven’t then they haven’t paid enough attention to the vendors on the preceding maps where you can just buy them instantly (e.g. the Lava Skull Backpack: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lava_Skull_Backpack).
The alternative is to just but one fragment for 1000 unbound magic every day. It takes much longer in real time but takes no playing time, assuming you have enough unbound magic.
Forget legendaries, aim for a full set of ascended. It needs gold and a few time-gated materials but it is not too bad from a grind viewpoint, especially if you are patient.
Apart from that, suffer your way through the HoT maps. You don’t need to get all of the masteries, just a handful will do then get yourself onto the newer LS3 maps. They are much more fun and much more casual friendly.
A solution if you only plan to go to the zone with a single character but if you are an altoholic and can be in the new zone with any of them on a given day. Well, unless you particularly like grinding the initial instance over a dozen times ….
But as soon as all of your alts visited the zone once, they don’t need a scroll anymore because they can use a waypoint, so just rotate it through them and then bank it.
WHAT?? And waste a couple of silver pieces each time?? Are you mad??? xD
Joking aside, I don’t move my toons around much, so I’m not even worried about the waypoint costs. The only reason I’d even consider purchasing teleport scrolls is to gain access to new maps without doing the story (a type of gating that I’m against in principle).
I’m also not really worried about the WP costs but now that I have a few of those LS3 scrolls I do find myself using them to get closer to my target WP for big map hops. You can save a couple of silver. So maybe I am secretly worried about the costs!
I’d really like a reward track for this. I have lots of them but I have no idea which ones I’m missing.
Not a reward track, but if you go the the Hungry Cat Scavenger Hunt Wiki Page, there’s a field at the top of the list where you can enter your API key, and then the list will show you what you have by graying them out, leaving the one’s you still need easily visible.
A solution if you only plan to go to the zone with a single character but if you are an altoholic and can be in the new zone with any of them on a given day. Well, unless you particularly like grinding the initial instance over a dozen times ….
But as soon as all of your alts visited the zone once, they don’t need a scroll anymore because they can use a waypoint, so just rotate it through them and then bank it.
WHAT?? And waste a couple of silver pieces each time?? Are you mad??? xD
I think the average level is way lower than you might think, maybe 40’s or thereabouts.
For every player that works hard to max it there are dozens of others who just play the story and not much else. The average will gradually rise as the LS3 episodes progress ( and maybe the next expansion.
SW is hypnotic and brain-dead farming, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. I’ve spent hours going round and round and round, talking nonsense in chat. I love it!
It has made me rethink my views on verticality. I hated the verticality in VB and TD but I love the new map. The big difference is that it is relatively easy to get around in the new one and you can avoid most of the mobs. Some of the places take a while to find but it does not have the utter frustration of those HoT maps. In VB my initial options were limited to dying by falling to the floor or dying at the hands of the brutal unavoidable mobs.
The final fight desperately needs a 10 foot day-glow luminous mouse pointer. I just couldn’t see the targeted area most of the time.
I’m pretty sure they made the decision based on the salvage thing. It would have been more dev time to convert them to a true currency and chase down all the bugs and loose ends.
Rather than complain about it just be happy that they are no longer clogging up your inventory!
It’s a small QOL improvement. Hopefully they will move on to all those keys, crowbars etc next.
Edit: just read the OP again and wanted to add that your mats storage can be expanded up to 2000 per item (so 8 stacks). It costs gems but you can earn gold, convert to gems and expand your storage without spending RL cash.
Positives:
1. I like it!
2. The big wide open map where you can skirt around mobs you don’t want to engage.
2. I’m loving the new “Spidey” skill.
Negatives:
1. The episode was very short
2. There are loads of ledges and rocks where you are about 1 pixel away from being able to jump onto them. I guess this is connected with the new skill but it’s a bit irritating to keep “trial and erroring” along them until you find the way up.
3. The last fight is a bit annoying. It’s obvious what you have to do but the visual noise and busy busy graphics make it difficult to target things precisely enough so I kept running out of time. I ended up changing my targeting settings and turning the graphics right down to get it done. Probably not what the devs intended!
You can vote for anything you like, they are not going to redo them.
Maybe wait to see them in game before finalising your opinion?
In the meantime, get selling your mats. I’m about 1000 gold richer as a result of the crazy TP prices. Sold half of my T4 mats then cashed in some laurels and sold some more T4 stuff. Easiest gold you’ll ever make.
The bank window is big enough (and I don’t think it can be resized) that I don’t think we’d need to worry about people abusing the system by keeping it open indefinitely.
Bing! You win the prize. People definitely would abuse it. They would open it and then drag it almost completely off the screen and leave it there whilst they farm their kittens off.
As above really but just wanted to add that if you are going to spend money on another copy of the game just to farm stuff you might want to consider just buying gems directly for your main account. All the time spent farming on your second, worse-equipped account cold be spent farming on your main one.
I always use the Norn instance because I am a Norn!
TBH, I don’t mind the layout. I gather there every day and I have lots of nodes so there is a nice logical route around them all and it doesn’t exactly take a long time. I can see that if you only wanted the mining nodes that they layout is not ideal though.
I’ve just spoken to the fish and he says he’s just fine. He’s always wanted to be out of that darned water and he thinks you should save your pity for someone who needs it.
Requiring casual players to complete a raid in order to obtain non-raid related rewards for playing non-raid content is bad design. Raids, in most games, are participated in by less than 5% of the population. Nothing non-raid related should ever be locked behind content that such a small minority of players enjoy.
This. So much this.
I’m not a raider but I’ve tried to raid just to unlock that track. Most groups just kicked me. One very patient group tried and tried and tried and then I left in embarrassment. And, yes. It was the “easy” escort thing. All of the HOT meta rewards award a “large amount of XP immediately” and it just goes to waste for most of us. It’s just daft.
I think it’s time we had an “anything” eater. It could be a Mawdry type thing, or a Mystic Forge type thing or a trader but I hate destroying things. There should be something/someone you can throw absolutely anything at that will give you something else in return, even if it is just a few copper or a random common crafting material. We all end up with an imbalance of something. I particularly dislike getting duplicate recipes that are too common to sell on the TP.
I never completed it originally. Inspired by the new weapon thing I reluctantly went back to it recently. In the end me and a bunch of random folks just kept doing it and doing it and doing it until we won. There was no real pleasure in it for any of us. We just needed to get it out of the way so we could proceed with Caldbolg, which was enjoyable.
I don’t know how that stuff gets through QA. Did they just run out of time and release it anyway????
Of course, is someone is stationary in the game and pressing a button every 15 minutes you could argue that they are not AFK. How often do you have to interact with the game to be “not AFK”? 10 mins? 5 mins? 5 seconds? Who decides?
Just report them and move on. They really are not earning very much at all.
As long as you are not playing at seriously off-peak times you won’t have to solo them. You can trigger them solo just by killing the appropriate things when the gizmo indicates they are the current thing. I recently did this for moa and shark. Once the blood-crazed boss spawns just stick a mentor tag on and announce it in map. Announce it and they will come!
