Oh, that jumping thing?
I wouldn’t worry too much about that. There’s just no way that’s not getting fixed. That is like, exploit with a capital E. And people aren’t even being subtle about it.
Why should we be subtle. Exploits are always fixed before in game problems. Also if you arn’t that skilled with skiping in P2 it takes just as long as regular P2. An example of this is not being to log back in after dcing in fotm as all the easy glitch got removed one after another. mossman went from freebee to one of hardest boss in game. They started changing dungeons balance with a moderate dugion AC instead of the easiest one COF. The idea that dugion dificulty needs to be balanced is a missnomer. What needs to be done is the reward needs to be balanced to the difficulty of the path. Take the average time for completion and scale a reward for completing the path. So instead of changing existing paths they could be adding more. Also for infiltration missions(scouts) in COF it would make more sense to hop around a gate then fight your way through hordes to steal the key by killing a general.
Unless another dragon becomes an immediate threat Kragy will be next if for no other reason to avenged Snaff and Glint. We also have a weapon that can one hit kill it or at least know where it is.
Why is the legend of the greatest norn hero who fought the most epic battle with Jormag mono e mono completely forgotten.
For those who don’t know this is the norn who punched out Jormags tooth in single combat. Seeing he couldn’t defeat him he decided to take a Souvenir. the tooth can be seen in Hoelbrak great hall as symbol of Norn undying vengeance against Jormag.
Only time mentioned in game:
“Asgeir Dragonrender. Battle Master, Favored of the Spirits of the Wild, Builder of Hoelbrak. May his legend live forever”.
But the actual legend is never spoken or heard. For norn this is sacrilege refferencing GW2 book 1.
From Wiki:
Asgeir Dragonrender was a norn hero who lived during the rise of Jormag. With the aid of the Spirits of the Wild, he took a tooth from Jormag’s maw and led his people south from the Far Shiverpeaks. He established Hoelbrak, and placed the Fang of the Serpent in the Great Lodge. It is said that before heading south, Asgeir had a powerful scroll with him that the Durmand Priory are now looking for. He is the grandfather of Knut Whitebear, the current owner of Hoelbrak.
How can an epic battle like this never be told. I vote for it to be 4th book. The are going in reverse chronological order anyway.
If u read 2nd book on mind set of elder dragon. Snaff said they are beings fead by an all consuming hunger and hatred of live. An empty void that can never be filled. So he bated the elder dragon Kraggy by being happy and content with his life. And so he died with glint cause the human queen its a mesmerizing kitten. dead elder dragon or human queen which out come would u prefer? What military advantage does ebinhawk provide none. Stupid kitten for going their in first place. I’m the queen let be visit the battle front. I’m surprised how calculating zitain is comparably though.
Do we have any evidence that there ever was a “before” Glint was a champion of Kralkatorrik?
One thing i want to put there is we seen Kralkatorrik only corrupts to make followers not create them. Primordis is only dragon that does so i think so far with destroyers. So to that extent it is possible Kralkatorrik corrupted glint into being a fallower but their is no records of pre preelderdragons rising cause glint helped kill them all. Dwarfs and Dragons are know as the oldest race on terria, hard to have race with only 6 members and no reproduction like to put that out there.
Just something id like to put out there although no evidence.
Fake Power Ups in Mid Air in unavoidable places like between two lightning flash jump pads.
Getting put in a race that’s already started, or even one that’s already been finished.
I got the achievement for myself, I am now trying to win for someone else and it is impossible due to constantly being put into a race that has already started. Have been trying for hours and only got into 2 races that had JUST started before I got in so got 2nd twice -.- Really?!
Players should never be put into a race that has already started.
being in last place has its advantages. Teleports i entered a race 2mins behind everyone else and still got 5th out of 20 people.
Personally, I don’t like overblown “fantasy” so I’m quite happy with it and this game in general.
One of my favourite books is Dune, so I feel like, yes, it’s possible to have politics AND beating people senseless in only your underwear.
Lord of the Rings also contained some pretty “political” stuff, it was just fairly hidden. I like that, too, when a story has multiple “layers” – but I don’t really expect that from a video game whose nature is basically a serial. They try, but the aspiration is to something like “LOST”, not a story that was planned over years and revised as a whole.
And, yeah, like someone else said – this is really not in-depth politics at all. It’s like a high-school election – and I think it will be actually pretty cool if we’re able to do something to influence the outcome.
I mean, I guess I don’t really care because I’m not playing this game to hear an amazing story. So far, I think it’s serviceable, but I’m not expecting something that makes me stay up all night reading and makes me go, “whoa dudes you gotta read this” to everyone I know.
I love the Whats in the box part of Game of thrones. Sent white walker hand to Jofry.
Another explanation, is that a group of Zephyrites left the original Sanctum to investigate Glint’s death. They weren’t use to the Crystal Desert’s heat or aridness, since they have been living in the clouds, and that’s why they were seemingly near death throughout the trek. Once they collected her crystal corpse, they were going to use it, and its power, to make a new sanctum.
When I read it, that’s what I got out of it anyway. That’s only my personal opinion though. As FlamingFoxx pointed out, the scribe’s note put a huge disclaimer on these story. “Warning!: This story has not been verified, so this story may or may not be true or accurate.”
The part I found more interesting was the, “Dragons consume magic, but they do not destroy it. They hold it within themselves like a sponge holds water. I only hope we’re faster than the scavengers and power-mongers who would use her body to advance their own evil or selfish plots.” part.
We have countless dragon champions and an Elder Dragon dead. Do we know where all their huge magically latent corpses are at? Now that we know their body parts can be used for all sorts of different type of magics, even after their death?
To bad we drained Zitan magic to kill him otherwise he would have been a treasure trove of power to slay other elder dragons. I reference zitain the body found. after u slay him u can jump off the aircraft you used and swim and see his body and other dragon champions u slay during the battle.
things i want to note are:
Dragons are more powerful then gods. We know this because the human gods are cowering in fear leaving the dirty work to us.
Dragons are drawn towards sources of magic
Why isn’t a dragon flying towards Zitains corpse because it has no magic. Why doesn’t a lesser dragon eat Zitain to become and elder dragon.
Why didn’t Kraggy eat Glints corpse it it had magic in it all consuming hunger and all which would have given Rylock time to kill it.
Based on the data mining i think we should investigate the molten alliance first considering they have a dragon backing them. We might get to face Primortis. Vote EVO.
all this is speculation though
What would be cool if they make the worlds events divide on decisions like this. And ultimately worlds can end based on wrong decisions. Fight the dragons wrong they wipe out cities.
One thing id like to point out the char is leader of BLT so there might be some major bribery and discounts we will see if EVO gets elected. I’m surprised the consortium doesn’t come up with a candidate with their rivalry destroying Lions arch and all that with the karka incident.
People are talking a lot about Cantha one thing i want to note is it has a coastline and could have been completely obliterated from when Orr rose depending on geography. Not to mention bubbles. What once was probably isn’t what is now. Dragons drawn to sources of magic if there was any in Cantha it is probably obliterated and occupied by a dragon which is why there has been no word or trade with Cantha.
One thing i want to note though is notice how wide spread flying ships are we got pirates and merchants when the asura was struggling with the concept of flight in 2nd gw2 book not 1 year ago.
I can’t get excited about future living story updates. So far, we got subterranean vermin, beach crabs and now merchants that have a penchant for ballooning.
There is nothing compelling about killing crabs/moles and talking to merchants.
I loved this game 4 months ago but I have learned to loathe it in a relatively short time period. The ‘living’ story is killing the game for me.
About the subterranean vermin the where an alliance backed up by the dragon premortus so i don’t think u can call that a small change in the world. I note the red dragon gates and reference the blue dragon gates in maw which summons jormags army. Was a reflection of growing dragon influences in Teria.
Isn’t this what guilds are for get like 50 guildies and trounce all people in puzzle. put mez on top and port all up. Most active guilds have 100 members so should be easy for a guild to rush the jump puzzle. Just go kick kitten and take names.
Difficulty I feel reflects reward you get in it. Drops and gold reward add up to a lot. Difficulty strongly correlates with squad you bring to the table. It can be done quickly 30mins prosquad but generally done in 45 min to 1 hour. Instead of saying its to easy or its to hard i think question should be is carrot large enough to make the bunnies hop. I personally think it is.
One thing i want to point out of dugion design is it reminds me of molten factory by order of events. Even though the combat is very unique you still.
mobs->Fight laboratory ->mobs->2 bosses at end
If u noticed when she was captured Mia implicated someone was going to kill her and she was screwed either way captured or escaped. With events when are we done fighting outpost and not main army’s of enemies. You would think if they are all around as same time it would cause some major problems. instead of popping up one at a time. Chaos breads chaos in a cascade.
Maybe these are the story mode of dugions they will add latter.
no offence but this would be nightmare if this was placed into fotm rotation. It would be like a 2nd dredge level which everyone crosses fingers not to get. However rewards u get from it really reflect time you put into it.
Id push for passive heals food and guardian and ele counter acts blead and burn. I took no damage from 12 stacks of bleed. which will allow u to stack boss more.
Also mez staff 5skill give protection so only mia is hit from 2nd in commands attack would also help
I still say passive heals are way to go for this dugion combined with condition removal make it relatively easy. It is easier then arah by a longshot both in length and difficulty. If golums didn’t get block from small laser everyone would say that this is so easy instead of it is so hard.
I’d like to point out and easy strategy to do this easily. Max out passive heals. have guardian and elementalist food and individual healer booster too if u can. Through doing this you can be healed on the move which is necessary in this dugion. This will allow you to live through the cannon fire and also the lasers in the two bosses. This allows you to get hit with small laser with out dying which helps a lot.
All damage in this dugion is condition burn, bleed and confusion so if you have condition removal then you take no damage and relatively easy.
I have done it two times this way and health was always at 100%. Found it long but super easy.
Also soloed first boss for 1 hours till golums pulled me into center of laser so it is doable.
It is not bad enough where i feel it needs to be nerfed. Maybe decrease time of last cannon fire 1min 50secs is a long time to doge kinda annoying more then anything.
Building parties to do specific tasks is fundamentals of dugions which is why pugging making random squads will never be easier then a guild squad. My method above will make it substantially easier to do.
What I’ve learned from playing gw2 is that Zhaitan is a totally weak pathetic excuse for an elder dragon. He got taken out without almost any effort what so ever, which is why gw2 story has one of the worst endings of all time. So if the other elder dragons are as weak as him Tyria really has nothing to worry about.
But I’d say that Primordus is the strongest out of the elder dragons.
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To say Zhaitan is weak is understating what it took to soposidly kill him, he had over 1k dragons as strong as teq and it took fleet of over 1k flying battleships with artillery cannons he had. He only supposedly died cause we shot off his wings and he fell over 1mile to the ground. If claw can survive his fall Zhaitan should be able too not to mention he is made of flesh not ice so should be less brittle. He also fell into a misty area so no body was recovered. To my knowledge Zhaitans death has not been announced. Dragon bakitten self is to give courage to face the dragons and not to celebrate Zhaitans death. Also the point of my story was mostly the purification of Orr to destroy undead army and not really the battle with Zhaitan himself. If then mass produced the battle suit used in one of the missions the armies of the dragons would be nothing and all that is left is the battles of dragon them selves.
-I don’t think you can say that Zhaitan is dead or weak though.
-People think Zhaitan is the youngest because he can not corrupt living things like others Elder dragons though you cant say age reflects power nor territories concurred.
-Only way to compare elder dragon power is if they fight each other which will probly never happen until we are all dead cause we are literally in center of all elder dragons awakening. So they will fight us before they fight each other. I reference Reign of Fire for behavior of Elder Dragons i think it is appropriate. The Cycles of dragon: “They awaken, they consume everything they can, then they consume each other, then they sleep”.
I think the reason candy prices are high is because food u can get with them is worth getting and since jawbreakers are a number of candies their prices arn’t dropping as much as people expect. after event ends no more cheap wings will drop from coffers so why can we expect price to rise to cost to manufacture again?
I really like the helm on my Asura guardian. In previews, it looks especially nice if you use the Flame and Frost dyes, which really highlight the details and shading.
I cant tell the difference between the two pictures how one is an inprovement of the other
What a twist it would be if nightmare court are the good guys and the dream and the central Tree is a Dragon. Proof is in that all Sylvari are connected to the tree share a hive mind like the dragons. Nightmare courts recruiting statement “The Dream is a lye” which most dreams are. Proof is the world is a nightmare with dragons rising in retrospect the current reality is a nighmare. Though the leader trying to kill glint is a define contradiction to this theory. additional proof Sylvari are spawned by the tree like the dragon minions from the dragons. All this is subjective and has no supporting proof in lore.
I think pirates are in charge of lion’s arch their by naming themselves privateers. They support their own piracy deeds in the name of the city. Instead of spending money on a party you would think they would invest money into the towns infrastructure so it isn’t destroyed every time a disaster comes through. It is a city built on rotting and destroyed ships. Now that the dragon directly attacking it is dead maybe we will see some improvements.
I was wondering if there was a forum for the translations signs in New Krytan for when new events are released. Motivation behind this is a lot of new signs are added for new to advertise new events. I was wondering what they say.
Translations can be found in wiki on how to convert New Krytan to English
The idea of Karka mystically appearing out of thin air is ludicrous. Not to mention the tremendous lag it produces having max players/partical effects going off then suddenly add an unknown number of spawns. I say unknown because the culling doesn’t even render most of the Karka, I only see masses of suddenly downed players.
Another thing Anet needs to do is test these events on average machines that most of their player base are using. Not everyone can lay down ten grand for a gaming machine. I don’t mind a difficult fight if I can at least see the rendered opponent and react without slide show effect.
Karka are like crabs so they should be able to burrow out of the ground like dredge. And it is their homeland we invaded so they should be able to ambush us. also stealth in GW2 is not entirely unheard of.
Most people saying fractals are to hard make them easier. Anet doesn’t want people at 50 fotm yet by AR they give us but people still have gotten up to 80. And time in dredge is compensated by a tone of drops at least 40-50 heavy bags. Swamp and water needs a lot of coordination and know what to do can take a long time if u don’t which is why they seam short. People new to fotm actual roll to avoid swamp just want to point that out.
Saying something is to hard or to long isn’t something that needs to be fixed just reward needs to be adjusted for time it takes.
And comparison fotm bosses to dugion bosses is reasonable both in difficult and length of time to fight them, that there should be a coin drop from them. Also all dugion bosses give coin drops not just cof.
As far as rewards the fact u can do a whole level 40 fotm with out getting a single rare i think is a mistake. I think rewards really only increase for daily with fotm levels an aparently intrinsic MF.
why not have a randomize torment match up system that lasts 3 months an picks to server by the end and hands out rewards to top ranking servers using same match set up we had previously winners move up in rank. So server score resets every 3 months or different time interval and randomized matches are made.
It will molten alliance are not defeated yet. Mobs on map where just scouting parties and We only killed a outpost of scientists. So we never even fought their army yet and dragon backing them. So pick will probably return when that happens same with consortium scife.
95% of bosses can be done in 5-10mins so difficulty shouldn’t be made easier. If anything they should be made harder there are to many positions u can attack boss without being attacked back. This will increase ecto prices though that can be a +/-. Also, If you die usually people will rez you unless they are all dead like at grenth.
I think this should more focused on suggesting fotm levels to add and not on rewards. However, I think that the chest rewards should scale better drops at certain levels like new wvw system.
The repetition is what makes it less fun. Have like for every 20 levels have different set fractals to do. Fotm was made from an accident during south sun so a similar accident can occur somewhere else.
Since fotm seams to show time travel properties. I’m looking forward to a Battle for Glint fotm where we can see snaff alive.
-Also bring back drops to Ice fractal please
-coin drop from bosses like dugion bosses
Isn’t there already a trait that increase toughness when under the effects of a condition. So isn’t this just moving to another trait or increasing its effect.
What would be really cool is if this is just the corrous of the song and they incorporated lore into the song about battle against the dragons and grows longer year to year. Historically lore is mostly told through songs before books. If there was a lyric contest I bet there would be a lot of support from all musically inclined players.
I am told lore is missing from GW2 by alot of GW1 players thought this would be good way to introduce it.
Would it be wrong for people to try to make their own verses here to add in to the song?
I think the beats are 16/10/7/7 for those who want to try
What would be nice is if the defend event on June 5th dynamics, if you fail the mini game is removed and the resort destroyed. If you succeed they are permanent additions and the resort continues to be built up. This would mark the servers as the clearly different worlds that they are. Force players to fight for content would be nice in my opinion.
With the reference to one time content for May release. The hulking monstrosity come out one June 5th with a waves of crazed animals which would not be a may release. If the hulking monstrosity→ crazed karka queen, this is very reminiscent of Ancient Karka event which is why people think a one time event is coming. But just wondering because the comment is about a May release does it also relate to this event that is coming in June.
So finished collecting all 10 samples and 25 achievements to get scarlet back peace however steam sample didn’t get counted as being completed. Proof is in the attached screen showing 10 completed but one incomplete. Sent in support ticket for it. If this bug was already posted I apologize.
I have gotten 12 fractal skins from fotm 20+s including a greatsword for my first fractal 20. I have done somewhere between 1000-500 fractals. After the an update the one where they allowed re-entering for dcing there was a noticeable decrease in fractal skin drops for frequent fractional (dc use to mean fractal fail cause cant re-enter). I was wondering if A-net can comment if they balanced the increase in completions with a decrease in drop rate. This is an observation from a very small sample though and i was wondering if there was any collaboration of this within the community.
