I just want to note, I’m not trying to flame you HHR, I asked you a legitimate question (though provocative in my wording I know, sorry) but you’ve dodged the question twice now.
What’s the point of reflects if it’s not supposed to work on bosses? Were are they of any real use outside of where it trivializes encounters in the same way it did malrona?
I personally Like to believe that the devs can put 2 and 2 together and know how it will work. “we have projectile walls. And we have projectiles on this boss. The walls will be able to block the projectiles” How can they not understand that it would have worked that way?
Reflects should work exact that way as they work now: Reflecting projectiles. However if a boss just uses projectiles, his damage is nullified. It’s not the reflect’s fault that these bosses are they way they are. But ANet decided to nerf reflects instead of reworking the bosses. And there is nothing we can do about it.
So what about absorbs? All they do is nullify. Should we get rid of these? Gawd I hoping they never do that to harpy fractal. You shouldn’t make something useless because its too powerful you should reduce the dmg it does (or the time its up). This philosophy that Anet has put forth in this update worries me.
So far as I recall, absorbs do work the same way as reflects do. Have you tried to block the attacks which are unreflectable now?
Actually, If you are blocking/reflecting/absorbinginvul/stability and someone NEXT to you GETS HIT without the aforementioned buffs you will fly off regardless. This is why party wide reflects and absorbs are so important at harpy.
As to you boss thing you put farther down, there are bosses that are impossible (or really stupid) to “stack” and press one iron forgeman, trees in TA, p1 boss before Ginvia in hotw, and effigy (Cof p1) to name a few. You can even use reflects on some of these bosses! :O
I just want to note, I’m not trying to flame you HHR, I asked you a legitimate question (though provocative in my wording I know, sorry) but you’ve dodged the question twice now.
What’s the point of reflects if it’s not supposed to work on bosses? Were are they of any real use outside of where it trivializes encounters in the same way it did malrona?
I personally Like to believe that the devs can put 2 and 2 together and know how it will work. “we have projectile walls. And we have projectiles on this boss. The walls will be able to block the projectiles” How can they not understand that it would have worked that way?
Reflects should work exact that way as they work now: Reflecting projectiles. However if a boss just uses projectiles, his damage is nullified. It’s not the reflect’s fault that these bosses are they way they are. But ANet decided to nerf reflects instead of reworking the bosses. And there is nothing we can do about it.
So what about absorbs? All they do is nullify. Should we get rid of these? Gawd I hoping they never do that to harpy fractal. You shouldn’t make something useless because its too powerful you should reduce the dmg it does (or the time its up). This philosophy that Anet has put forth in this update worries me.
Like the title says post your solo ideas! The more silly and ridiculous they are the better! Who knows maybe someone will grace us with a video using these ideas!
Here’s mine:
Any spider champ
Zerker ele
Conjure earth shield as the only weapon
“Listen! I think we have more spies!”- I think many of us have heard this one too many times
“No, your plan is just stupid and won’t work”
thanks Detha real helpful criticism there
and then
“Breeder incoming!” proceeds to do nothing about it.
Yeah, you can relog as long as you don’t leave the party. (But note that if you log off for too long, the game will auto-kick you from the party.) Leaving the party is what causes the instance to get destroyed. Not sure about switching characters.
Swapping does indeed destroy the instance. You can log out and back into the SAME char for any instance as long as you are in a party.
“Oh, look. Freaks”
Seriously why are we helping Spire? She has such a toxic personality.
What is this? What have they done to you?
My sons!
MY OWN FLESH!
dang, i need at least 2 of the same(chest+legs) or things get weird :/
This thread is the perfect example of why this is not true :P
Have you ever seen vigil medium leggings with human T3 medium chest (female).
It’s amazing!
That look is so cliche and ugly, blahk. Vigil medium pants are so ugly! T3 human cultural leggings all the way! <3
I just can’t do open world PvE, I’m allergic to it. I’ve had to turn to PvP to get dragonite. But heh I guess that’s a win for Anet: they want us to use as much as the content as possible. That’s cool I guess, this way I can be frustrated by every content possible. Variety is fun.
Ever try the eotm train? it’s not to bad if your com likes fighting and it goes to your WvW meta! but yeah to OP I +1 this very nice idea.
And guess what, I don’t need to dodge. My build makes it so that I can constantly be in the boss’ face and wail on them with my hammer. Sure, call me unskilled. But i am playing a ROLE PLAYING GAME, and my character is assuming the ROLE of tank. That is why my gear is VIABLE. Zerker snobs are so annoying, and that’s why it got nerfed.
GW2 doesn’t have tanks or healers. That was the only part of their manifesto the kept. Hate to tell you but you are playing the wrong game…. Also your gear is “viable” just terrible when compared to, oh say, UNDER 30 SECOND KILLS OF BOSSES. Seriously get off your high horse and look at the facts objectively. Your way of playing drags your team mates down. Stop being selfish and help your team with DPS, not being a hammer noob and putting light fields down so my ele can’t might stack. Last note, Zerkers were buffed in non 80 areas (ya know the majority of the game) AND we were hardly nerfed in 80 areas.
Anyone who says the skins are 5% must be lucky. I’m sitting at 500+ runs and have 4 skins that’s about 1% drop rate. The skin grind is dumb when you leave it to rng. Anet plz give us a way to trade relics for skins.
What fractal level are you doing? That’s nuts.
I do lvl 20s and 30s every single skin I have gotten has been in the lvl 20s and my first (and only) ascended box was at lvl 11 >.> and it was knights Q.Q then like a month later I did a lvl 5 run with my guild and got a precursor (for spear Q.Q) Basically I have good rng at low lvls but not the kind I want XD
Rangers in general don’t get kicked right off the bat. If you are using a sub par build (anything other than a melee spotter) you will get kicked. This is because Fotm is not phiw (play how I want) friendly. At the level you are people start looking for the best classes and builds, sadly people think ranger is not optimal (which they arent but it really doesn’t matter at lvl 27 lawl). If you want to get kicked less start running Sw/warhorn + GS and spotter.
I wonder whether there is any person who could in all honesty say that they are not bored with GW2 and who played it since the game’s premiere and have over 10 k AP. I have 7 k AP, I played it since the game’s premiere and I’m bored as hell.
Yes, to foresee your smart aleck answers, I don’t play it on a regular basis nowadays, nevertheless I log in from time to time to meet up with the remainder of the once 212-person guild, which counts only 12 people nowadays.
I do hope they release expansion-worthy content in Season 2, preferably new explorable zones, races, more skills/weapons etc.
I love GW and GW2 and I want the best for the game, although the competition on the horizon looks strong.
Have over 10k AP, been playing since beta, have a legendary and still love playing this game. Oh, and I have played near daily since head start. I belong to possibly the biggest single server guild (woot AARM) so I’m not at a lack of like minded people to play with. Now I’m not saying this game’s end content is fine in fact, I would love better dungeons and rewards for what we have (looking at you fotm/teq/wurm).
Anyone who says the skins are 5% must be lucky. I’m sitting at 500+ runs and have 4 skins that’s about 1% drop rate. The skin grind is dumb when you leave it to rng. Anet plz give us a way to trade relics for skins.
Best ones in game (since I can still spam it infinitely)
“ALL OF US ABANDONED. YOU CAN’T BE REAL. YOU CAN’T BE HERE”
or the famous
“I THINK WE HAVE MORE SPIES”
and don’t forget
“NO. NO. NO.”
Ah, NPCs offering such sagely advise like “what is this?” or “be careful!”
First off many devs read the forms everyday so don’t fret about them not noticing. Second I agree being on a low pop server sucks, hard, but your tin foil hat theory about them want you to move servers is silly. Anet at anytime could have merged servers instead of going out their way to make a mega server (which I am so against BTW). Honestly I would suggest some devs play bronze teir low pop servers. Way too many play on BG/TC/FA/Sos/Jq which are fairly high pop. I obviously don’t know all the employees but from what I’ve seen seems to suggest a narrow view on wvw.
On the same topic Staff Eles and Mesmers are more or less the same. Obvious inferior DPS in dungeons which can only be explained with the label “casual gamers” that play just to have “fun” and using what they feel is comfortable for them.
Right, that’s why almost every speed run meta group includes 1 staff ele, and why two of Europe’s top dungeon guilds are led by folks who main mesmers. Clearly they are classes for casuals, and you know what you’re talking about.
At least you got the bit about staff guards right.
Um I think he was referring to staff mesmers (which are so bad) but you are defientetly right about staff ele, when set up right.
Well not inside a dungeon but I had to show off my “secret” location and my pretty ranger!
Kensiper again your missing the point. You shouldn’t have to have a specific class list, sure it should be expected to have a variation, but not ‘you need to have a theif/mesmer," which seems to me to the complaint here, which no one seems to have answered if that’s actually realistic or not.
i understand what you mean, truth be told i hated the fact that my group had to rely on stealth to do it effectively, even in CM there will be thieves to solo stealth bomb the asuran equipments,
i totally feel you brah, i started and main a necro, and no one wants me in their party ;_; so i conform like a little babby and made a zerkjerk warrior that everyone and their moms have
No! Don’t conform I love you necros and your wells!
but to note to op if no ones got stealth then youre screwed
Can the instance owner of a dungeon or fractals do this? How about if there is a long queue time for WvW?
Actually the instance owner can leave fotm at any time and repair without going to wvw same for dungeons. The instance only gets destroyed if you switch characters or leave party.
As someone who presently bought a tag and only uses it as either a stand in for guildies or for helping my friends in dungeons (surprisingly they say it helps XD). I don’t think anyone else should tell me when a tag should be used or not. They are great tools for gathering people, especially in pve, regardless of purpose.
30/30/0/10/0 Axe/x + LB is what I have use for fract lately.
For roaming build you can try s/s + gs 0 25 30 0 15 its a mobility build that will let you take camps/dolys easy
You shouldn’t be ranging in fractals (with the exception of a very few bosses) you shouldn’t build around having a LB. The best set up to run is axe/mace+ axe/sword its almost full offense (with one block) only pull the LB out when you’re party decides to range a boss (which once again they shouldn’t do most of the time). If you range in high level fractals while everyone melees that would earn a swift kick from me.
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Welcome to the present! If you plan on hoping on more PUGs for dungeons or anything of the like you better go zerk or go home!
It’s sad to see this mindset spread throughout the community, but oh well each player is entitled to play however he/she likes.
If you wish to clear content with a build of your own choosing/doing and how you want it then you’ll need to find a group of like-minded individuals, because there’s no room for that in the PUG scene.
ArenaNet needs to push out more dungeons like TA Aetherpath, now that’s something fun to do!
I req Zerk meta builds only for TA aether I have never beaten it with non meta non zerkers why? because usually people who are confident they are using meta know wtf they’re doing :P Also many people here don’t have the “zerk or go home mentality” it’s more like “I’d rather not play with people who waste my time,” at least that’s how I see it. I don’t care if you use a scrub build/gear just don’t be in my group and we are fine.
WELLL if we are talking the “best” classes (which is fairly subjective) I’ll give you my list based on importance.
Ele: We are good at nearly everything, we have projectile destruction, the highest DPS (when near a wall), might+fury, we can tank(idk why you would do that :/). There is no fractal where ele is a bad class.
Guardian: the big plus is the aegis condi removal and reflection I cant think of a fractal that they aren’t useful in.
Thief: if you get dredge they make it so much easier stealth is a very big plus
Warrior: High sustain DPS with no downsides and party buffs for more DPS.
Mesmer: before the patch I would have placed this class where guardian is but they’ve received a few nerfs and I’m not currently aware of the meta build. However, they do bring reflects and projectile destruction with some condi removal.
Necros: if played right a necro can do a lot of good mostly with blinds and weaknesses and have some niche techniques that can make certain parts of Fotm go faster. there usefull ness is defiently out classed by thieves though
Ranger: unfortunately rangers kinda suck in fotm. They do have some good skills reflects, small might stacking, buffing DPS, and pushing mobs through defiant to name a few. The problem with this class is the fact that they are much harder time doing well. So if you have guildies who are new or inexperienced (or just plan bad) I would recommend they stay away from this class.
engi: Lowest DPS (last I checked) mostly a condi spamer and I have yet to see an engi play their class right (mostly because hardly anyone plays engi). I would recommend any other class than this one.
So if one wanted to farm a Fractal Sword, what level Fractals would you guys recommend as the best one? 49/50 drop rates seem dismal, so the time/risk investment doesn’t seem worth it.
If you want to hardcore farm skins right now do lvl 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50. right now skins (and ascended armor/wep boxes) from lvl 10+ and there rate is about the same regardless of level. And with the wardrobe system you only need one sword! so just farm what ever level you feel comfortable with (I recommend in the twenties since you don’t get many newbies) .
I just like to say something very important; in order to speak you must first listen. Now Anet spoke with this update and are currently listening to all feedback. This is what good companies do, they listen to their consumers and adjust accordingly. So please keep this in mind.
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When you play with competent players who know the mechanics and can work as a team, it’s not that bad.
“it’s not that bad” Oh, yes, that’s the proper attitude. Defend something that isn’t enjoyable when played right but is some what worse than mediocre. Do you see what’s wrong with that statement?
Dredge fractal is horrible. The only two things I have seen people like about it is “I get lots of loot” and “the last boss is fun.” Compared to all of the cons (clown car, turrets and bombs, gates, etc.) that’s not enough to keep it in the fun category for most people.
Honestly I would rather get rid of the fractal then have anet “fix it.” Every time the devs touch it the make it worse not better.
I told you Polymock arena was off limits!
Also who thinks the prison warden should react to players if they are in there, that would be awesome.
…Did they ever fix this? I haven’t seen anything on it in the notes for the upcoming class changes! My auto-attack keeping me from dodging is getting me killed left and right!
1)turn off auto attacking
2) learn fights(might wana do it with GS at first)
3) use GS or SB offhand for escape/block swapping will also cancel an auto attack chain or animations
4) 3 and 2(the one that shoots you back) are great dodges
5)never use sword if you need max melee. Sword will always push you right up in a bosses face
6)protect me/lightning reflexes/energy sigils; If your like me and tend to over dodge these things will help you
Also the devs said they would do something but alas nothings happened
dungeons:
got reflects in your party?
yes—> S/D or S/F
no—>S/F
Fractals:
S/F
personally, I do not see any good eles using D/F or Staff
Also there is a nice sticky stating the current metas builds for dungeons at the top of this fourm.
I was thinking that, but its way too far up. I tried jumping on it, but just fell through ;p
Could be an unintentional thing? Maybe something got through to live that shouldn’t be there or possibly a client side error. I’m logging on to see it for my self. Either way I’m putting my tinfoil hat on.
Just went in game the platform is not there
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If I remember correctly isn’t that where scarlet stood when attacking Jennah? But I haven’t seen it in game before, so yeah, that’s interesting.
^^^
You are late to the party on this, OP. I agree with Belzebu here.
Did you waste your money? Yep.
But you made the decision ahead of time to waste your money on a duplicate legendary for the looks rather than it’s actual utility. In the end you do still have a perma-BiS with swappable stats, which is worth it IMO.
Not really getting ascended from lvl 0 weaponsmith is cheaper unless you have like 4 different weapon stats you use and a lot of people don’t need that many (dungeon sellers are the only ones I can think of).
Lore wise it wouldn’t make sense to be able to pick the fractal. Now I know most people here don’t care about stuff like that but a few might. Also it’s not broken so why fix it? Oh, and I roll for jelly/ascolon/swamp depending on my party all three are really easy and when you aren’t doing lvl 30+ you don’t care.
Thaumanova rector fractal, lasers of death room: as a warrior you can just defiant stance/endure pain +stability cheese your merry way to the activation panels.
Shhhh don’t tell them that
Also I have never done thuma on 40+ but I figured that was the case. Also I generally don’t get good groups for fractals so ooze takes to long.
Lordhelmos, what you describe sounds more like work than play (as in playing a game). Think I’ll pass.
legendaries aren’t meant for casuals, they were made for those of us who like to grind. There’s still the possibility for casuals to get legendaries mind you, just have to focus on doing certain things. “Work” is just grind that’s you find boring. That’s why you need to find the things that are fun to you and still forward your progress. hell it took me over a year to get one ONE legendary and I am anything but casual. It took me so long because I never directly focus instead I did stuff that was fun to me then got blessed by the mystic toilet.
Path 2 and 3 can be great just people are really bad at underwater combat. Granted some classes are at a bigger disadvantage than others but that’s no excuse (cept poor engis they need a rework asap). I melee P3 underwater(only gotta dodge jellies) P2 you kinda forced to range(mines).
The other issue is the time it takes to kill stuff. Seriously, anet wtf, jormags minions shouldn’t have as much HP as a dragon champ. Funnily enough the most fun I had in hotw was when we pulled both the legendary icebrood’s together and killed at the same time XD.
Hey OP, I agree with your post, but I also understand that some people just prefer to stack. I want to point out a few things:
1) GW2 was advertised as an action oriented, fast paced MMORPG, where skills and constant movement is a must in order to survive (take a look at old commercials for GW2 before release). I sincerely doubt that stacking was intended in this game. In reality, mob AI is simply not good enough in this game, and would gather up easily in a corner only to get butchered quickly. How do I know stacking was not intended? think about how the camera goes ABSOLUTELY BONKERS when stacking in a wall. YOU CAN BARELY SEE WHAT YOU ARE FIGHTING!!!!
2) Players will ALWAYS search for the easiest way to obtain what they want. That includes skipping/stacking on mobs. While it is fine to skip trash mobs (albeit, trash mobs in this game are almost POINTLESS to kill) Im not sure stacking was one of the approved methods. However, in a post made by an ANET employee a while back, they DID mention they are neither FOR or AGAINST stacking. The reason he/she may have said this was because they would make a LOT of people angry if they approved either method.
3) Stacking has (in my humble opinion) dumbed down player skill. I have been in countless COE runs, and every time alpha moves a slight bit away from his corner, the party I am with wipes, leaving me to face alpha alone and usually just solo it. People feel spider queen is super strong if not dragged to her usual corner, yet with skills, proper dodges, and condition removals this fight is so easy I solo her for breakfast.
4) Is not a good idea to post against people that do stack. Those that prefer to stack are usually offended with comments like these, and is only natural, after all you ARE judging their preferred methods of playing. I understand that in some ways they feel that they are being told how to play, and you will not change their mindset the same way you wont change yours. At the end of the day, is up to ANET to decide what is the method of fighting they truly envisioned in their game: whether it is a stack infested game (where corners and walls are the ONLY method to win a fight) or a action and movement oriented game.
1) how do I melee then if stacking isn’t allowed? plz tell me your magics.
The cameras always sucked.
Anet cant do AI.
2) seriously learn what stacking is
3)Pugs are bad and don’t know how to properly ‘sploit the AI (melee OP).
4) I only get upset when people don’t educate themselves on what stacking does, It isn’t to exploit AI its so you can buff your allies. With LoSing(different than stacking) you kill stuff and anet will never get rid of that. It just so happens to be that the AI wont used ranged attacks when in melee, which makes sense. This however makes the content much easier in some cases though it makes it much harder (ie bloom hunger without reflects/blocks). The only problem with stacking is it means dodging is key and lots of players need to L2D.
How about we make all optional/event legendaries and champs drop 100/50(respectively) dragonite ore. I mean most of hate doing meta events right? Why not fix two problems at once? It would make pugs want to do stuff like kohler/cave troll and those of us who kill these bosses anyway now get a nice reward. What do you think? Obviously Anet would have to balance the numbers accordingly, but as long as it stays fairly high it would work.
feels lower, I really couldn’t give any numbers, but it definitely feels lower.
Also, the dredge rate seems way higher.
5 dredge in the last 7 days, I’m seriously crying.
Dredge chance did get higher with the new tier system.
Well, it’s not a fact, just some personal observation, but it seems that when you roll for swamp, the chance to get dredge is really high, while if you have underwater for the first fractal it’s unlikely to have dredge as third fractal.
How often were you able to reproduce this? I dislike UW combat in most characters, but would be willing to endure it if it meant less of a chance of getting dredge.
It seems to be that way for me as well, however that could be pure coincidence. Also UW combat is great. I love ele CC, unless your an engi, then I feel for you. Love not being able to hit stuff, that intended right?
It takes less than a minute to guest to a server where it is open.
How do you know what server is open? Using a third party website? Just so happens that third party website is kittened this fine afternoon. So now what?
http://www.gw2state.com/temples.html
It can be off sometimes but it’s almost always accurate and if it isn’t man up and open those gates.Man up, huh? Literate it up and try reading the thread before posting. These issues were already addressed by me in my FIRST post.
Aside from the last event of the chain you can solo it and getting two people is not that hard. In addition that site has NEVER been down for me I have to use it daily. If it’s not open on any servers go to the the one that says attacking and do the event. It doesn’t ruin accessibility anyone can do the event. So what if you have to do the event? It doesn’t take a lot of time and if you don’t have that amount of time why are you playing in the first place? It’s like saying Fotm lvl 10+ isn’t accessible to you because you invested the time to get to that level.
In addition that website has never gone down for me and if it did I’d use another one, Google is a thing after all. Don’t forget other games you have to use third party sites to know when certain things are happening or when they should happen. I don’t see this as an issue and I have no idea why you do, what would you suggest? A system that ques you up for a dungeon(which the community will hate on forever)? Another intrusive UI element just to see when events pop cross server(which I’m sure there’s an app for)? This issue is a minor inconvenience at best and because of that it will never be addressed as we don’t have a dedicated dungeon lead anymore. That’s why I say man up because there’s no point in complaining about it since nothing will happen.
It takes less than a minute to guest to a server where it is open.
How do you know what server is open? Using a third party website? Just so happens that third party website is kittened this fine afternoon. So now what?
http://www.gw2state.com/temples.html
It can be off sometimes but it’s almost always accurate and if it isn’t man up and open those gates.
Three for the uncategorized fractal
One, if everyone is melee range of a harpy that harpy will never use its knockdown. This means most parts you don’t have to worry about getting knocked off. Some harpies however like to agro even if you don’t hit them (or cleave hits them) those harpies can attack you with knockback if you aren’t melee with them as well. But don’t worry that really only happens towards the end of the second harpy jump segment.
Secondly If you have stablity/invul/reflect/absorb and the person next to you gets hit with the knockback you will get knockbacked. #splashdamageOP The only thing that will save you in this case is dodge.
Lastly if you try to skip you AGRO EVERYTHING, seriously, don’t do this. The reason why is the people behind you will get agro from all the mobs you agro and it will never go away. That’s why I kick on site if I see some kitten do that with out warning.
I know the regulars here probably know this but a ton of pugs don’t
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Also you can do that hot reactor room thing in thummanova, some classes can do it with two coolant cores and some can do it with one. Thankfully more and more pugs are doing this (ooze takes to long).
It’s been a while since i did the Dredge fractal and i don’t remember any problem with it. What it is that needs fixing?
Well, eh screw it, just play dredge at 49. After you kill the 40th dredge from the clown car you’ll see. In addition, most Pugs SUCK at dredge making it even longer than it needs to be. Basically it’s one fractal that can easily double your run time.
Done 3 lvl 38 runs in the past three days all of which have given me UNinfused rings. Something is seriously broken I don’t even get any rares from the boss chest anymore
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This isn’t new, someone found this place several months ago. It’s in caledon forest and requires some map breaking skills to get to, unless that’s changed. I think Anet has made some touches up looks better than the last time I went there.
Elementalist still have the worst survival and they are a light armor class. My main is a Warrior and i have a Necro, Ele and Ranger alt at 80. My Warrior is superior in PvE content.
The Elementalist need a huge buff in survival. They have to sacrifice too much survival to be able to do damage or they have to sacrifice too much damage to be able to survive. Same with Ranger as well. Elementalist still has one of the best supports though. Necro is close to Warrior imo.
Edit: The Evade on Burning Speed is a good buff to Ele survival.
Warrior is easy as hell, ranger is also easy if not running the proper weapon. Necro is pretty easy as well and ele? Easy as well, just run S/F with cleansing fire and rock armor this will keep you up in most situations. Most people who die as an ele built them wrong or dont have the right skills for the dungeon. Ele is a class that thrives on different weapons and skills. Doing AC? icebow and FGS. doing ascolonian fractal? staff. Doing cliffside/grawl fractal? condi heal. Doing TA? S/F + cleasing fire. I think you are just having a L2P issue.
Except now Lanthir (Who’s in LA right now) calls you commander no matter what point you are in your personal story. This might be a bug but I doubt it, it’s time we move on new players or not.
But the more important note is can we still here “NO NO NO” 15 thousand times?
Yes we can
Confirmed after the patch.
“No no no. We should go to the armory. That’s where Zadorojny is likely to be.” x1231231241
Welp this patch is 10/10 for me.

Confirmed after the patch.