Settler armor/weapon Karka shell vendors — Staying
Sclerite Weapon Vendor — Probably will stay for a while and go away eventually
Southsun Supply Crates — Going
Karka Queen World Event — Staying
Consortium/Settler boosts — Almost definitely going
Blooming Passiflora nodes — Staying
Thank You for the response!!
any idea if we are going to have to kill her again to get it? some of us might not be able to because, the people who have gotten the achievement won’t do it again. Thus making it a lot harder to get all 4 camps cleaned out to make her spawn
I wouldn’t worry about that. Even if you have trouble clearing all 4 camps (which I doubt because there are plenty of people still in Southsun) you get 2 rares from killing her each reset (so after the dailies reset people will flock there).
I think the meta-event that leads up to the karka queen is well made, however, the boss itself left me disappointed considering how I loved Robert’s AC changes, but this boss is essentially the same thing as a champion karka (both model and mechanics wise) except you need to throw eggs at it.
I used to run AC all paths a ton. If you are on an US server I’ll add you to friends and, if you are online when at least one of my other friends is on I’ll probably do it with you (though I might ask you to do a 3 path run).
2. but INCREASE the standard deviation of the randomization rolls.
I don’t know. We’ve only seen a few data sets to be honest, so me saying the SD is set to high is hasty. However, I think that fighting a world 2 tiers higher/lower than you should be rarer than what several of these matchups look like.
Animation looks good, however the item itself is bugged. When others see you harvesting with the sickle when you also have the molten alliance pick equipped the sickle is replaced with the mining pick’s model (which btw looks awesome lol).
Edit: Also if you don’t have the molten alliance pick others see the sickle as invisible.
The amulet recipe drops on path 4 only, just so you know. Don’t know which boss/chest though.
Do you know what for sure? and if so do you know if its the same for the other dungeons? i know people who do TA all day every day and can’t get their rng drop.
I’m fairly certain Canach gave several settlers fervid censers and told them to mark consortium outposts (which can be seen from an interaction between Kiel and a Norn after a wildlife attack). The settler’s believed that the crazed wildlife would only attack the consortium, but the wildlife ended up attacking anything in their path to the fervid censers including the settlers. He would probably use the commotion to steal the contracts/kill Noll.
Yes. The Meta event and Karka Queen world boss will be a permanent event added to Southsun, and it’s drop will be permanent as well.
One of the core problems of the island was the lack of events. I’;d hoped to solve that by adding an island wide Meta event and a world boss.
However it is NOT out until next week. We’re actively working on modifying our patch notes.
12 hours later. no change in patch notes.
They changed it 11 hours ago by adding “And beginning June 5…” O_o
Person in my guild was able to make roughly that much per hour using his very fast comp and going asura warrior (shortest start, warrior’s leap attack).
But who knows, he’s probably exaggerating and I haven’t done it.
Yeah, I am pretty sure that this is for colorblind people. I am partially colorblind so I decided to test one of the instances I have trouble telling the red from the ground (cliffside archdiviner) and it was much, much easier.
Added new island-wide meta-event where players defend and liberate the new settlements across Southsun Cove. If players hold all four settlements, merchants will become available with unique items, and there is a chance that an Enraged Karka Queen boss will spawn.
Added new Canach single-player story boss encounter.
Added explorable multiplayer variant (unlocked if you defeat Canach).
Added new single-player instance for the culmination of the story.
So apart from the meta event, this is basically all for now.
So effectively the “live show” ends here, at least for anybody who can´t finish Canach single player or simply can´t be bothered to jump through ANets hoops like a trained monkey.
Karka event is only coming out next week and isnt really part of the living story since it’s a premanent Dragon-like meta-event
I wouldn’t say it isn’t part of the living story simply because it’s permanent. There is a reason for the karka queen attack tied into the story, and I can only hope it provides a better finale than this dungeon.
I’m sure they didn’t intend for people to be able to make ~10g an hour by deleting and remaking characters so this is very likely considered an exploit.
usually they put up patch notes a few hours before patch goes live.
i really hope they would put them up faster though.
Dunno which forums you’re looking at but that’s not been the case from these forums. Unless they’ve been posting to Reddit before releasing it here or something.
By now they should have enough confidence to post earlier especially after almost a year.
The past 2 (maybe 3?) times they have released their patch notes 1-2 hours before the patch went live.
One thing I don’t get is why Anet made the chance of getting a ticket so low, as well as made the crates so easy to farm. As long as a person knows how to farm crates they will get on average, around 1-5 crates an hour (along with a good amount of T6 mats). However, if you buy a crate using gems to gold each crate would be over 4g. Putting these two together I don’t understand why anyone would buy crates over just farming them unless they were pressed for time.
Anyway, so far I’ve opened 46 farmed crates and have only gotten a portable forge, a focus skin, and some karka slaying potions. But meh, I can’t really complain since all the farming has netted me about 80g in mats.
You can’t pick between the consortium and the settlers (except for a boon) story-wise because you are neither on the consortium’s or settler’s sides. Rather, you are trying to help out the lionguard/Kiel by quelling violence between these two groups, stopping wildlife attacks, and finding out why these wildlife attacks are occurring.
This is not much different from having the weapon skins drop from the mobs themselves, but at a rate as low as the crate drop and getting the ticket in the crate combined. Fact is that you can in fact get them without using the gemstore which seemed to be the point of this thread. I agree that they should be tradeable however.
The Southsun Shore stuff will not be like the previous Flame and Frost stuff in regards to how time-spanning it was. We’re a separate team than that one, and we have been working on this content while you all were playing F&F content.
Our story will last a month and then be over with, and as a result is more condensed. We’ve been listening to the feedback on F&F, and tried our hardest to adjust where possible. So our temporary content will last just the month, but we are making some permanent changes to the island that will persist after the living story bit is over.
Sounds awesome, thanks for the update Robert.
Is the Southsun story going to be all at once (like Flame and Frost The Razing, where we had all content at the start) or gradually emerge (like Flame and Frost The Gathering Storm, where there were new lost and found items each week)?
It’s always been the other way around. While MMOs are selling, they generally don’t launch expansions. Expansions are what you launch when you need the influx of money.
Many of them seem to put expansions onto a regular release cycle.
WoW even starts making X-Pac 2 now about 6 months before X-Pac 1 goes live. EQII has them like clockwork, but I don’t follow it well enough to know details. Guild Wars 1 had them about once every 6 to 9 months for the first 3, then had the fourth some time after and called it quits.
City of Heroes had two, period. City of Villains shortly after launch, and then Paragon years later.
There doesn’t seem to be a predictable pattern.
For GW2 it will be a bit of a balancing act.
We know there are 2 other confirmed continents. There is a fourth continent that never hit anything live anywhere and has never been mentioned in in-game lore so it could be scrapped or anythinged.
But for the other 2, they HAVE to come out or some point or their lack will hurt the game. But coming out too fast could also hurt the game.
They have to find that perfect point where the fans have nothing left but to demand it, but haven’t started quitting over it yet.
I’m obviously not talking about WoW, because WoW doesn’t have to worry about sales falling off. They fell off to 9.1 million subscribers last year..do the math at 15 bucks a month and you’ll see that WoW is in a class by itself.
Guild Wars 1 also can’t be counted, because the entire marketing plan wasn’t based around subscription prices or even the cash shop. The marketing plan of the game was about bringing out new expansions in a fast manner.
But there are hundreds of MMOs out there, and the cycle, even in WoW is always that the player density always falls off as players finish the old content. They stop logging in. They wait for the new content. Guild Wars 2 has a similar traffic pattern when you see the monthly stuff released, for a few days to a week, traffic gets mad busy, then slows down again until the next month’s patch.
But most MMOs don’t have monthly content patches. Most of their big patches are all done at one time, with the idea of bringing people back to the game. It’s a balancing act for most developers.
You can only make a certain amount of content in the time you have. You have old content out there that people are going through. Enough of the people get through all the content, they get bored and move to other games. You don’t want to release a patch too early because you don’t want to waste it. You want it to have maximum impact…because you can’t make another patch with a small staff soon enough to make more people log in more often. And that’s what it’s about for most MMOs, getting people to log in.
So the population drops, an expansion brings them back, which is what most MMOs are looking for.
acctualy wow was on 9.1 now its on 8.3 they keep droping as well just google u will see
At last report, the last one I saw, WoW was back up to 10 million. This was in Blizzards last quarterly report.
WoW is down to 8.3 million subs, just make sure you are looking up Q1 2013. But this discussion is getting a bit off topic.
I find it a bit odd several people are seeing this report as Anet being in dire trouble. Of course the sales are going to be down, GW2 is buy to play; the main source of revenue is the box purchase. We’ll get a much more reliable number of how GW2 is doing by looking at this information over the entire year.
I agree that heralds are lacking a lot of purpose other than guiding people who accidentally erase their mail, but I also really enjoy how information is be given from a bunch of npcs rather than from just one herald (though I’ll admit this information was rather limited in Flame and Frost). I would prefer that heralds act more like historians who provide lots of lore information that players would potentially know if they knew the lore, yet could get less lore savvy players involved if they so chose. An example for Flame and Frost would be providing background information on the Flame Legion and Dredge. So while heralds provide lore information, npcs directly affected by the living story would tell more specific information about what is happening in current world.
Edit: Also this should be in the living story section rather than general
They specifically stated when the dungeon was closing on April 30th, the day the patch released.
“This achievement can only be earned during the epilogue, which starts on Sunday, May 12 at 12:00pm Pacific and remains active until Thursday, May 16 at 12:00am Pacific. You can earn this achievement by interacting with a bonfire in either Lion’s Arch, Hoelbrak, or the Black Citadel.”
The champion fire elemental can summon 2 normal adds with a certain skill. They die pretty quickly but the champion can end up summoning a bunch of them if you don’t have much AoE.
By the way, where is this ‘epic group event’ you’re refering to? I’ve seen epic group events in several places in GW2, including the Maw and the Fire Elemental.
This is part of the problem with the demands for stuff that isn’t a 5 man dungeon. The Maw is a joke. Jormag is a joke. The Shatter is a joke. All of the soloable mission are a joke. Anet has shown a distinct lack of ability to make epic, challenging and tactical experiences other than in 5 man dungeons. If you have an idea for something epic that they haven’t already tried and failed at, that would be great.
Temple bosses and several guild bounties have bosses which have somewhat tactical group fights (more tactical than a lot of the non-revamped dungeons at least).
Positives:
– The mobs had a wide-variety of mechanics that made them feel unique from other creatures and didn’t have massive amounts of health.
- The two boss fights were very well done. The Weapon’s testing facility boss didn’t do much damage but it was interesting nonetheless. The final boss utilized a lot of what we learned throughout the dungeon and completely changes based on who you kill first.
Negatives:
- I didn’t like the dungeon layout, it felt very linear and had too few waypoints. In most of the dungeon team’s dungeons they add quirky little things in the middle (CoF bomb run, AC defend Detha, CoE bomb defense, etc.) and I felt that this dungeon lacked that variety. It seemed that they made these really well developed enemies but decided to just have players engage them in a straightforward fight rather than adding interesting environmental mechanics to complement them.
Overall very well designed dungeon mechanically. Would love for the dungeon team and the Living Story team to work together in the future with the dungeon team thinking up the dungeon layout and both teams working on the bosses.
Should take your current gear into account, but I’m lvl 80 so I haven’t actually tested out how well it scales. They did a pretty good job with the upscale in the mad king dungeon (MWF is a lot more difficult that Mad King though; not saying it’s super hard though)
Wished I had gotten the game earlier so I could have played the Flame & Frost parts but since I am a lowly level 31 I would just get killed in seconds in the level 80 lands of Flame & Frost I hope they do something like it some time else.
Since it seems they go away after a certian time.
You get upscaled to lvl 80.
Dungeon was very, very well made. Wish it was staying longer >.>
Perhaps by unique they meant V/P/T gear and by replayable they meant the daily Azurite nodes?
Edit: Beaten by less than a minute >.>
It makes no sense to me to add V/P/T gear to the game in such a time-limited manner. The only thing I can think of that does make sense would be if all future Living Story dungeons will also have Azurite nodes?
Saying that that would add a load of new, unique equipment would be a bit cheap though. Kinda like if they dyed the Seraph Weapons blue then said it was a brand new weapon set!
Edit: I unmangled my quotes.
I agree doing that would be kind of cheap. IMO the holiday team/teak that designed this dungeon seems to give out the worst rewards for doing the content (ignoring the time that Halloween chests were bugged and plummeted the exotic market) but creates the best content (which is fine because ultimately fun>items for me) . And who knows, maybe molten gloves will look amazing and turn you into Primordius or something.
Kholer is supposed to start with 2 adds, however, usually when I run the dungeon he doesn’t immediately summon more adds. If you are having problems with the adds I suggest grouping them up at the start and focusing them down (necros are the ones you really shouldn’t ignore since fear can mess up the dodge needed for Kholer). I don’t tend to have problems noticing the dodge (but I melee so there’s that) but stability/reflects work against it so maybe the group could use one of those skills when they see the windup such that people don’t need to get the exact dodge time down.
Also thought it would for an entire month. Possible reason might be a May 12th update that, like the Jan/Feb, is a prelude to the next living story (though tbh if this is true they should hold this off since time spent in a finale is more important than time spent in a prelude)
Since almost every GW2 player knows that tradeable super weapon skins won’t be an available drop after today I believe the market has already adjusted O_o.
Edit: But I’m not logged in so who knows, maybe it’s shot up while I was typing this.
