Guild Wars 2

Maybe a kite cosmetic mount, like the broomstick but you kinda hang underneath the kite?

That would amuse me.

In hindsight, my opening post was a bit melodramatic and over the top. It is frustrating though, having to do things like Spekk’s lab because my…

Brother Grimm.5176:

lack of twitch skill and coordination

makes these time-sensitive puzzles extremely difficult.

Ah well, drama over.

For me:

Warrior, thief, ranger easy.

Engineer, Necro medium.

Mesmer hard.

Ele very hard.

Guardian easy-ish but boring as all hell. Motivation was the hard part.

After much rage (and 62 attempts at Spekks Lab!) I got all the kites at last.

A question though, can someone play another’s game via Remote Desktop? I am guessing however that the game would run very very badly.

Why do you insist on making us play it like one?

I have only a minor disability affecting coordination, I know people with a lot worse, and yet Anet insists on putting achievements at the end of JPs.

Cheers.

And yet others found it remarkably easy, including me, and I am not the sharpest tool in the box.

I guess the only possible answer is for them to make the dungeon with 3 difficulty levels, with ascending rewards, or maybe have it very hard for the first week then an easier mode afterwards?

Finally got Youtube to load the video properly…

That is amazing! Very good choice of song, lots of funny gags and just looks… epic. I am very impressed, in fact it almost makes me want to play WvWvW now :o

Fortus.6175:

hehe, this comes to mind;

http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/aKzgA5Q_460sa.gif

Oh dear god I haven’t laughed like that in a long time. Thank you!

The film I posted is Smokin’ Aces 2, it and its predecessor are two of the most underrated films of all time. Watch them, I beg of you!

Reminds me of…

I approve!

It doesnt really even need skill or teamwork, just a very basic understanding of the game mechanics and the location of the V button.

After hearing about how its ohh so hard, I was blown away by how easy it was, really.

Laser room.

We all piled on top of a box tower to start with, one guy died because (he said) he couldnt see the box tower. We all used ranged weapons.

After that we had 2 guys downed but rezzed in the first slow moving laser part. I got hit with several pulls and countless lasers but never downed. The lasers moved slow enough that 3 of us managed to gang rez the dead dude and all was good.

It wasn’t that hard. The hardest part was walking backwards trying to not get slowed by the box towers. If you walk closest to the inside of the arena, you can dodge the lasers MUCH more easily.

Incidentally the dude that died was also a mesmer with GS, so I guess its best to have ranged weapons which you can use on the move.

Cannon barrage… are you kidding? All I did was walk, see what new red circles appeared, and just moved left or right out of them. Those hits are telegraphed for like 2 seconds before the shot hits.

I went in with 4 guys. A Taiwanese, a Frenchman, 2 Americans and me, an Englishman. So we all have various ping times and response rates.

One guy went down at the walkways with the laser walls, he fell again at Frizz but we got him up and he finished the fight. We wiped at a trashmob and rolled them the second time once we got the hang of their confusion mechanic. Walked through Mai Trin with two guys killed at different times but they were both standing at the end.

I have wiped far more times on CoF P1. The dungeon was interesting, and fun. Unless you go in with 3+ <50 characters I don’t see how you could fail this.

I loved the dungeon

I am a sperg who doesnt have the best coordination skills yet I managed it on the first attempt, so it isn’t that hard. It just takes basic coordination. Challenging, but not too frustrating as long as you have players who have the first idea what they are doing.

The JP is fun and challenging too.

Overall, apart from the slightly boring Aetherblade Assassin achievements, I have loved everything about this Living Story phase.

I managed to PUG it today. Only one person knew the mechanics, but explained them. We all finished it first time.

We did wipe once to trash mobs, thats it.

Well, looks like I can’t do it if I try.

Can never get more than 1 guildie interested. Tried joining PUGs, noone ever seems to be asking for/taking on randoms, at least on DB. Even the AAA guild formed to run it never has more than 2 players on the same server.

I don’t give a hoot about the poor looking monocle that just floats there, I just wanted to play it to see the story. Doesn’t look possible, however.

Sounds cool My guild is friendly but… just not greatly organised

Sure, I’d like to do it but the apparent difficulty (and a lack of a coordinated guild) has stymied me so far.

Adria Zanotti is the character I use most atm.

Medium looks fantastic… on an engineer.

Heavy looks way too old fashioned. When normal armours are lamalar, scale and ornate plate, going back to what looks like panel bashed basic plate chest with fabric elsewhere looks anachronistic for the sake of it. And the castellated C-Cups just look ridiculous. The gloves are nice, thats it.

Light wouldnt be too bad if the corset didnt look like a 1980’s Gobot.

Glenstorm.4059:

Shocked….and appled? :p

That… was fantastic.

Have a +1!

Well, I’d like to +100 this.

Yes, I watched gameplay videos before I bought GW2. However, my first character was a thief and I don’t feel very… thiefy. I was expecting to sneak about on story missions and steal things from an unawares enemy. Or as a warrior to run in and fight mano-a-mano the Big Bad. On an elementalist, I hoped to use my skills to defeat the enemies with powers of nature. Perhaps on an engineer to manufacture items to fight for me.

Yet… there is NONE of this. Every single class is run, attack, run, attack. Enemies almost all act one of two ways – close distance and melee or stand back and shoot.

Basically, I do not feel that the decisions I made when I created each of my characters makes any difference at all to anything. Apart from the small details, I do not feel that ANY of the personal storyline really changes a thing.

If I choose to help Tonn blow up the Orrian towers, or I lead the artillery against the undead, or I try to retrieve the Krait orb… it makes zero difference. The krait orb is still there, Apatia is not, and Tonn still dies no matter WHAT I do. I feel the game ignores me/my character.

For me, the Personal storyline is quick XP and that is all.

I got the WvWvW one just fine. Well, except for accidentally upsetting an invader when my flamer auto attack went off on him because I clicked him by mistake!

If that guy is reading this, I was the Dragonbrand guy using engie flamer as a torch. Sorry!

Michael Fejervary.8576:

Now while I did make it to the area without a teleport my 2 year old helped me fall off a cliff near the final chests at which point I did accept an offered teleport as I needed to log in order to put my focus on my child not the game.

You need to prioritise better. Games ALWAYS come first

What a nice chap! Particularly since the bugged JP can get people banned.

TBH the rewards aren’t worth it.

I’m not really interested in anything to do with the ‘Sky Pirates’ (like I have seen them to anything aerial!) so I think I’ll leave it.

This is Anet. Doubtful.

Edit:
Yep, just fell at stormy station, bugged POS, back to the start I go.

From the sounds of it, the Sky Pirates dungeon needs a lot of coordination and the guild I am in… just doesn’t have ANY. Its taken me weeks to try and get my Arah story done with my 5th character, and even then I had to do it with 1 guildie and 3 randoms.

From what I have read in other threads, I may as well not even bother with this dungeon.

Is it really this hard as far as teamwork goes, or should I give it a go?

+1 for certain!

I’ve been replaced by my own clone! It is probably emptying my bank as we speak :o

And then I got stuck inside a chest…

I love when stuff like this happens. Adds spice to the game

Win a free night with me if you can explain how this happened

I think the sassy nemesis will be Mai Trin. I foresee a lot more 1 person stories coming up. I just hope they can be groupable and scaleable.

Who was it who invented the constant chain CC in CM? Whoever that was, make sure he stays gone!

I use steal whenever its available. I am traited so it gives me extra initiative, plus another attack I can use while my #3 is too low on initiative to use.

Yeahhh.

Kasmeer’s pet name for Marjory, her very demeanour when talking to Marjory, and her response at going to Lion’s Arch (like she is going on a date!), all suggest a relationship to me. Plus, why else would Kasmeer go to such a shadowy place unless she was doing something she shouldn’t ought to be seen to be doing?

Maybe Faren’s constant attention has turned her ‘vegetarian’? Plus by faking a relationship with him, she wouldn’t care about his flirtations with other women.

Interesting character development.

Aetherblade Monacle?

“I approve”

I unsoulbound my limited edition Mad Kings Tome then deleted the character it was on.

A sad day, but I gotta suck it up. It’s only pixels at the end of the day.

More Dredge. Especially if they become a playable race.

Ah cheers for that info.

Since I have no desire to roll an ugly grey spitball, I didnt know any of that!

Oh I forgot, the free mini pack for those who bought gems… nice freebie!

Ahh fab. Cheers! I never noticed that before :p

Well, its a free event, and any free stuff is already great. I like the holograms, more so after they made them tougher. The fun we had (most of us, the ones that didnt have to stay up late) waiting for the fireworks was cool.

I like the pinatas also… felt there were a few too few of them considering we had to hit 150, but with 8 characters I didnt have to wait for respawn. Those with only one character found them more irritating.

And with Dragon Ball… I finally found a minigame I like. I have always disliked side games ever since GTA VC and earlier, but I like Dragon ball enough to play even though it doesn’t count towards the wings.

My thoughts on Dragon Bash are mostly positive. The only downsides are the cost of Moa racing and a few other small things I won’t go into here.

Something that might help you with your holiday snapshots, ctrl + shift + h hides the HUD

Enjoy the journey!

8 characters, plus 2 I deleted. I can’t remember which order each of my characters joined. Its like they just become totally insignificant once Trahearne shows up.

Its like “Yeah, sorry to hear Seiran/Forgal/Tybalt is dead but who cares?” and gets on with the Pact line.

So… is there any way to find out which of my characters did which order?

OMG I sooo hope the next Living World story deals with the Steam Creatures.

I love those things!

Edit:
Yes I know that there are already Steam weapons. But to actually have a story on them would make me a very happy bunny.

Yeah, and down to 1g 2s on the other before these 3 wins. Ah well, got what I wanted now. Still a stupid price for the event.

…and then I changed character and won 3 of 4…

Don’t I feel like a chump.

You need to do the stupid overpriced event for the achievement which goes towards getting the wings. Thats the only reason I am wasting my time and money on this BS, not for fun.

The event could maybe be fun, perhaps. But not at the stupid price.

Like with the 100k candy thing. They take a potentially good event then muck it up with the details.

5 gold on Moa races. Wins? None. Oh but I finished second one time and didn’t even get an event completed notification.

I guess I am supposed to be cheering for the racers. I am not cheering one little bit.

I am now bankrupt. Gratz, Anet.

I’d love the medium set for my engie but… that jacket flares like it’s a goshdarned dress.

If it was a trenchcoat, I’d be in.

I am levelling all 3 in stages. Theyre at lvl 10 now.

Necro I have not been downed.
Mesmer I got downed once each in story and defeated once.
Ele I got defeated 14 times.

Yeah, I think you have an answer

Yeah, was really looking forward to this. Now… I can’t give a rats bottom. Just seeing the number of candy required is enough to turn me off.

I guess the gold you get from selling the candy in 35 boxes is a decent transfer rate from gems to gold, thats the only boon about this.