But don’t forget Jory and Kas!! I really want to see more of them!!
check the beaches around the Zepherite festival area. Jory stays in full gear, Kas is in a bikini O.O !!!!
Request: Add Taimi riding a baby Dolyak followed by a kitten and of course Scruffy. Cuteness overload! +1000 points if Zojja is there scolding her. 1800-Felicia-Day!!!
We saw her rise to power and fall equally as far. But is she really dead? What about the tunnel at the bottom of LA harbor, that leads to a small boat, and a path leading out to the open area. So ask yourself, could someone as cunning and devious as Scarlet, really be gone? No fall back plan, no way out. To borrow from the HP world, a horcrux of sorts perhaps. The Scarlet we defeated could easily be a clone. We only know what we saw, and what we’ve been told.. Remember her last words “You fools you think my death saves you.. Too…Late !!!”. That phrase plays on many many levels.
It’s fun to speculate anyways.. Imagine Moredremoth rises and on his shoulder, Scarlet cackling madly.. Soooo lest we forget..
She pratically told us she was dead herself, so I would say so. She was merely refering to the drill had reached it’s target.
I’ve probably seen too many villians come back, but even as complicated as the final battle was, it seemed too easy. As brilliant as Scarlet was, and she had no fall back plan. I dunno, couldn’t be that easy. As for villains coming back again and again, Ask any GW1 vet about Shiro LOL But is she dead? We killed the Sylvari that was there, she looked like Scarlet, but was she the real Scarlet?
Scaling is not that unheard of or difficult to work with. IF we know what the parameters are. Having to stumble around blindly is not very compelling. They used a Instanced mechanic in the open world. EPIC FAIL! Bring back overflow, only allow max number of players before opening a new instance. Problem solved.
We saw her rise to power and fall equally as far. But is she really dead? What about the tunnel at the bottom of LA harbor, that leads to a small boat, and a path leading out to the open area. So ask yourself, could someone as cunning and devious as Scarlet, really be gone? No fall back plan, no way out. To borrow from the HP world, a horcrux of sorts perhaps. The Scarlet we defeated could easily be a clone. We only know what we saw, and what we’ve been told.. Remember her last words “You fools you think my death saves you.. Too…Late !!!”. That phrase plays on many many levels.
It’s fun to speculate anyways.. Imagine Moredremoth rises and on his shoulder, Scarlet cackling madly.. Soooo lest we forget..
Asurans do add a great flavor to the world of Guild Wars. I remember Vekk very fondly, and miss his random comments like “I have a theory about the Charr, I think they can be domesticated..”. Or when he lost his father. They must be great fun to write for. The thought occurs, is Taimi the new Gwen?
Braham Eirsson: Did you get in trouble for roaming the camp?
Taimi: No. Yes. Zojja gave me extra calculations as a punishment, and I never got to see Scarlet.
Braham Eirsson: Sounds like Zojja cares about you.
Taimi: No, she doesn’t. She cares about her record. If I do well, it reflects positively on her as my college mentor.
(pause)
Braham Eirsson: So you don’t like Zojja’s college?
Taimi: I was not designed to be in Synergetics. I was designed for Statics.
Braham Eirsson: I don’t know what that means.
Taimi: It means I’d rather make stuff than talk about making stuff.
Braham Eirsson: Oh. Yeah. Me too.
(pause)
Taimi: Must be nice to have a sister.
Taimi: Hey, Braham.
Braham Eirsson: Uh-huh.
Taimi: You wanna hear about the new aetherphaser I invented for my golem? I modeled it after Scarlet’s tech.
Braham Eirsson: Uh-huh.
Taimi: It works just fine, but I have to keep adjusting the gorometer.
Braham Eirsson: Uh-huh.
Taimi: I had to shave down the minious array wheel in order to get it to fit on Scruffy, but I go it.
Braham Eirsson: Uh-huh.
Taimi: Next, I’m gonna make him a panmetric listening device so he can warn me in advance if someone’s sneaking up on me.
Braham Eirsson: Uh-huh.
Taimi: Hey, Braham.
Braham Eirsson: Uh-huh.
Taimi: I like you because you’re big and dumb.
Braham Eirsson: Uh-huh.
Braham Eirsson: (laugh) Shut up!
Taimi: (giggle)
My explanation of why the Queens Pav, fails for me.
I go in, try to join in.. “Go away we have enough you’ll make it scale.. Go stand with the rest in the middle..”. I’m not a wallflower, I came to do my part, according to them my part is to sit in the middle and don’t bother them. Too many or not enough was the rule of the afternoon it seems. After over an hour of the bosses resetting because it took so long I left, as did most of the others. I really enjoy the Festival, but the QP, well it could be removed today and I wouldn’t care. I understand that isn’t very fair minded. I guess after all the anger, and hate talk and complaining in the QP it left me in less than a charitable mood. I don’t know what constitutes a failure in Anets mind but in mine, the QP is. IT brings out the worst in people. Why was it made so difficult? This is an MMO, but they only want groups of 10 to 15 on each boss? They add mega servers then make content that requires small groups. Doesn’t make sense. Even the pros I see in chat in the keep etc.. said they were leaving game. They said they have given the game too many chances. They could have made it competitive but not impossible. The Aspect festival is so happy and inviting, the QP.. is horrible.
I’m no Fanboi but I find myself seeking her out and Jory and Kas. The dialogue is wonderful. It’s funny I didn’t care for this festival last time, now I’m loving it. Go figure LOL It’ll be sad to see it go, but onward !
1 Watch the story
5 kill all the bosses in boss blitz
1 Flying Dolyaks
1 Sanctum Sprinter
1 kills in aspect arena
1 wins in aspect arena
1 Buy some boxes
1 defeat bosses in the gauntlet
1 defeat bosses with 1 gambit (pick fire and range the quaggan)
1 kill some bandits (you will get this when doing the boss)
1 kill some pirates (you will get this doing the boss)
That’s 15, one more than you need, and it doesn’t require you to suffer the boss blitz 10 times or require you to get all of the crystals (annoying even with a guide). There are three more achievements to max or killing mobs, and you can do those if you don’t want to touch the gauntlet.
Enjoy your panda or other goodies.
Sanctum sprint is not so hard, forget the timer and grab all the crystals etc.. You get an ach for it.
“Dicimus, quare adteritis” (We play, therefore we grind). Trust me I’ve played mmo’s with far worse grinds. SWG quests stopped at 40, and you had to grind to 80!!
Don’t get caught up on the hamster wheel for Ascended. It’s marginally better, and simply a fashion statement at this point. A noob in Ascended can be beaten by a Pro in masterwork everytime. Pool expert Willie Mosconi could beat people using an umbrella. Pro is pro, it’s not the armor that makes you win, you do.. Most people with ascended gear bought it.. or so everyone thinks anyways. lol
The thought occurs, the weapons and armor are designed to fit the largest characters then sized via the software based on character height etc. Ever notice temple armor (medium) makes humans look like Paddington bear and the Norns look fine in it? I guess it’s easier then making a few sets of each.
The armor, weapons and to some extent the flamboyant skills, are Anime driven.
If that were the case, wouldn’t our characters be screaming out the names of every skill? o.O
Please don’t give them any ideas. I can see it now, we wear red robes and yell “backlash wave” (inuyasha). My reply meant to say the armor and weapon styles seem to be influenced by Anime. Over sized swords etc. Seems all mmos do this. Really breaks western immersion though.
The armor, weapons and to some extent the flamboyant skills, are Anime driven. That won’t change. NcSoft is an Asian held company and that is their prime market. There are some “normal” looking weapons on the cultural vendors. For example: The Ebon vanguard has very nice looking weapons IF black and gold and silver match your motif. The new outfit system can lend itself to help if it is tweaked a bit. Funny some of us where standing around wishing we had the armor skins from Guild Wars 1, in GW2. I really miss the Kurzick armor!
If I use a skill that reacts “better” or hits “Harder” when there is a certain condition on the mob, do I need to inflict the condition and follow up with the second skill that works better with a condition, or can anyone start the condition and my skill will take advantage of it?
I personally would love to play as a centaur. I know the limitations and such in regards to centaurs being playable, but if they could make it work, I’d be ecstatic. Plus, I really like how centaurs are portrayed in Guild Wars lore. They’re not your typical centaur in terms of looks, and I think that’s cool. Very unique! There really isn’t enough games like this where centaurs are customizable and playable.
If only… :\
We had a Centaur hero (Companion) in GW1 named Zhed he was an ele.
Nope, completed it tonight. Prior to tonight it was at 98%. The last point was underwater if I recall correctly, under a destroyed structure. Was that the recently added poi?
I just wish there was a way for it to feel more “Real”. Now the game is like a 9 to 5 job, we show up clock in do our shift and go home and watch TV. meh.. boring
We need a villain race in game. Like in a galaxy far far away, sometimes you just want to be Sith. LA/Bioware said they were blown away by how many players chose the Dark Side at launch. We have Charr, but they are on the “Good Side”. Either we need a new villain player race or possibly have a split between Sylvari and the other races because of Scarlet. Have a real civil war.
Thoughts? Sometimes I just don’t want to wear the white hat, ya know?
Two of mine, that now look as I have wanted them to. My Thief is set to wander, and hideout in the high country. My Mesmer’s look is patterned after a female Paragon in Guild Wars 1. She’s Norn and rather striking in her new outfit
For anyone hoping they will remove the mega server system, it simply will not happen. If the developers went to their superiors and said it should be removed, they would more than likely be terminated. Why? They created it, spent all the time and resources developing it, were paid etc. To now say it is a bad idea would appear to their supervisors as a them having a lack of knowledge and ruin their confidence in them (devs). They will defend all the changes to the end. I’ve only seen one major roll back in an mmo, and it was causing the game to become majorly unstable server wise. Even then it was tweaked and re added, to everyones dismay. It’s Anet’s sand box, we just get to play it. Stay or go, play or go away, it’s all the same to Anet. Look at the financial reports from Ncsoft, GW2’s figures fell drastically this year, over last. They have their ideas and are going ahead full steam.
My advice is do like I am, and play something else for several months, if/when you come back, you won’t remember how anything worked and won’t care about the changes.
Seems to me the bulk of the changes made in this update were to boost the economy. Less people doing WB’s means less rares and exotics on the BLTC. Which will make them worth more. Then players will need to buy gems to own an exotic item. Anet wins, we lose.
I sat down and thought about what is bothering me about this update. It’s the smoke and mirrors aspect of it all. Instead of a new segment of the living story or a new expansion, we were given a new slant on the trait system, skills etc and then told “we’re listening, please let us know..” which is double talk since we’ve been asking for new content and have been ignored. We asked for broken quests, events, etc to be fixed, and have been ignored. We asked for an open dialogue, and we.. you get the picture. The recent update was designed (in my opinion) to distract the players and give Anet something to fiddle with. Meanwhile we are being ignored yet again. Players I hung with that always had good things to say about GW2, said their goodbyes and went back to other games. They said Anet had all the chances it’s going to get. I guess I’m gone to, the really crazy thing is some of my group went back to a pay to play game, they wouldn’t stay and play for free.
I’d prefer new content, and expansions. What does everyone else what? I keep hearing the changes were highly requested, yet I’ve never met anyone that asked for them.
I know a lot of people are upset with some of the changes, but try and understand the reasons from the developer point of view and allow for some things to be readjusted as necessary.
some of the changes that people aren’t liking will possibly be further tweaked with hotfixes, just give it time.
The best you all can do is provide calm and detailed feedback like some have already been doing. It is possible that they had overlooked some things and all of you will do a better job at finding the issues than a small team would be able to.
Reinstalled SWTOR, Heading back to a galaxy far far away. MTFBWY
It’s forced socialization, they want players to group and ask for help. Every mmo tries it and fails miserably. I think Anet hit an icy patch and can’t get the game back under control. Guess I’ll go dust off my light saber again.
I’ve tried it more times than I care to admit, and unless I stumble on a group that has progressed beyond the totem segment, it ends with the totem. I’m tired of trying and going to quit trying. I came to this game to enjoy myself, that is not the result. The camps are full of angry players, complaning and logging off. I’m just tired of more and more disapointments. It really feels like what the players want doesn’t matter at all. We want new content, not and update that just reworks existing content to the point of utter confusion.
As it is now, if you destroy the totem before the Shaman arrives you end the event. Sooo people run up ignore warnings destroy the totem and run off laughing.
Joy..
Patch notes:
•Svanir Shaman Chief
•Once the boss is activated, a message will appear in the meta-event UI indicating that a powerful Sons of Svanir Shaman has been spotted in the Maw. If the event chain that involves protecting Scholar Brogun as he investigates the grawl tribe is not active at this time, it will begin immediately.
•Scholar Brogun will only wait five minutes for player assistance, instead of forever.
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•If Scholar Brogun dies and is not resurrected by a player for a total of five minutes, the event chain will fail.
• * If the event to destroy the dragon totem has succeeded when the boss is not activated, Scholar Brogun will declare victory and return to Krennak’s homestead without fighting the shaman. *
After reading all the concerns, I feel the new mega server system was neither wanted by the players, or needed by the players. I say to Anet, listen very closely or accept the full blame for this being a world class bad idea.
The focus of Anet should be increasing in game revenues, while maintaining the playerbase, and enticing new ones to join.
Samuel, this mega server system sounds a little like the district system in GW1, is it based on that? Just wondering. Also why not simply add more servers? This really could turn out to be a case of “Don’t raise the bridge, lower the river..”.
how does adding more servers help any issue? low pop areas are low pop areas, more servers make low pop areas less populated, and this will help that in making low pop areas atleast medium pop with people from every server, if anything to achieve this effect they’d need to remove some servers and merge those
People on low pop servers can always guest on other servers.
