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Windows 8.1 and guildwars 2 - interesting.

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@OP I think your gamma and color temperature settings were simply too high/wrong on your old drivers. Giving everything a too washed out look.
Try sweetFX and the texture sharpening for a real change in look.

OS does change game performance and windows 8 in most cases is slightly better. Instead of pointless arguing try Google and can see for yourself

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-8-gaming-performance,3331.html

If you can see a difference of 0.0x FPS then you deserve the crapfest that is Win8.

WinDRM8 is simply Microsofts attempt to kick Steam out of the Market and monopolize all of PC Gaming.
But I guess if one needs to always have the latest(& oh so best) then Win8 is the way to go.

And I´ll believe the miracles Win8 is supposedly able to make the crappy GW2 engine do when I see cold hard FPS and CPU load numbers.
Oh yeah and I´m in the computer industry for a couple of decades too, so where´s MY kitten cookie?

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250 Achievement Points

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Leveling a crafting career.
But that only counts once, right?

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Still no word on Guild Halls?

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Screw guild halls or housing I want a Guild Airship!

I don´t care if you copy D&D Online´s one bit by bit.

Letting us wait for so long for a “feature” that´s in the fracking name, you better make it airborne and with laz0rs!

Here´s an idea for your next 10 living stories:
After seeing how vital Pact Airships proved to be against the dragon threat a call goes out to all private entities(aka Guilds) to build their own.
Effectively creating a decentralized Air Force/Militia.

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Levelling Alt: When to rotate them?

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I don’t want to get one to max level first because that effectively makes me pick a main, and trying to avoid that as much as possible until I find one that really really stands out for me. Right now, my favourite has been whichever I’m playing at the time.

No it doesn´t and the reason no one stands out for you is because you can´t play either of them properly, as expected.

This isn´t WoW or any of the other “Holy Trinity” MuMuPuhRGs.
Getting to 80 only means you can finally utilize the trait system fully, if you have the cash. Grandmaster costs 1 Gold after all, gets a bit expensive with 8 toons. Especially for a beginner.
At 80 you need to start getting familiar with how to play your chosen weapons combo properly.
Or maybe switch to an altogether different weapons set and traits. THAT is how you get skilled with a character.

This isn´t an attack put simply a warning to not fall into a self-imposed trap.

Learn to play literally means that in GW2, not learn to chain your skills like in that other game.

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No more Badges of Honor

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As threads go, this one is pretty useless.
Congrats OP for a flawless troll.

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Cheap Silver-Dye match for Radiant Armor

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Pretty sure ANet doesn´t do intervention like that anyway.
They aren´t the Fed and don´t need to, as this is how a properly unmanipulated market actually works.

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8 months and zero optimization

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What Ryan and Ikcen said.
“Upgrading” from my PhenomII 965(comparable to fx 8xxx) to an i5 3570K pretty much doubled my performance into stable 60FPS and 30+ @LA & WvW.

Planed to upgrade from my trusty HD7750 too, but I´m kinda happy with things now.
And basically I´m afraid to rock the boat, lest this diva-client decides it doesn´t like my hardware anymore.

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This was a bad idea

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Are these jumping puzzles permanent?

Dear god no.
At least after this is done we´ll be rid of the jumping and falling to death due to lag and this engine unable to actually handle jumping properly.

That´s the best thing about 2 week rotation. You don´t have to suffer long through the boring parts.

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Thanks to fellow Sprinters!

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I´m getting really tired with having to jump through all these hoops just so that I can actually craft stuff on my own.

Then have “Achievement” kittens bemoaning the fact that people aren´t good enough (what-the-kitten-ever that means) and don´t deserve some arbitrary “Achievement”.

If somebody manages to “cheat” himself to 1st place, props to him.
Gaming the system this way is much smarter than learning to be the best trained monkey, IMHO.

PROTip 4 ANet:
STOP gating content through an activity that your game cannot handle properly!

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8 months and zero optimization

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Because there isn´t and never will be.
The Devs are hard at work on Open World culling, so they told us ages ago.

I just gave up and got Intel hardware, now I actually can enjoy LA and WvW.

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25% Run Signet Across the Board......OP?

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Meant the portal.

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The Dark Side of Ellen Kiel

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Fake.

;)

A vote for Kiel is a vote for boobies!

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25% Run Signet Across the Board......OP?

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Then I want gate on all my other alts too.

Sorry OP, but no.
As much as it hurts when I fire up my Mesmer.

But who knows what ANet will cook up with the coming new traits and skills.

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Magic Find [merged]

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Oh look… another thread complaining about an issue that doesn’t even exist… Must be the day for that…

You will be compensated.

That doesn’t really help them out if they don’t know what they’re being compensated with yet.

As for now, I don’t think there is any harm in people/us throwing out their/our opinions or feelings on the subject before anet starts implementing the new MF system.

True, but some are just a bit overly whiny and seem set on hating about every idea that will replace the current broken system.
Mainly I presume, because they have a full set of 4gazilion% MF.
Which I don´t, luckily.
HAHA!
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Can we be more vocal against time-constrants

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I don’t want tedious and boring roadblocks put before me. I don’t want to farm 1000 skelks in order to get 25 powerful blood to forge 1 charged drop of blood essence per day. (which is the worst of both worlds)

Let´s complain how to craft the new stuff when we actually know what ANet has planed for us to do.

And btw, your example is pretty much what everybody is already doing in game.
Running CoF endlessly to buy stuff from the market or other Dungeons for their specific gear.
Orr´s karma gear is actually the only exception to the grind.

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Magic Find [merged]

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No, “MR. Bad-kittenhiney”, it´s because DPS is “always” king, making for very boring game play.

Why? You’d rather have a tank, a healer and 3 DPS instead?

DPS is king because the only role to fill in this game is utilitarian DPS builds. You gear up for DPS and select utilities that fit the fight.

And that’s a good thing. What is boring gameplay?

- Oh look, that boss is throwing that attack, quick we need to step out of the circle/dodge/stun him/press those two buttons at once/use a reflect utility.

And killing of tactical combat with 3 “jobs” to chose from to only be left with one is more interesting how?

I´m not trying to defend the crusty holy trinity either, but killing it completely and just have ´zerker´s DPS left over really isn´t a more fun option.

But that discussion is really off topic in here.

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Magic Find [merged]

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But the bottom line is that right now, I get to choose how much MF I want as part of a tradeoff instead of it simply being a non-choice that improves with play.

Pretty much this(& rest of this post).
Even for casuals it´s simply a must and ANet´s drive to kill it from the gear is to be loudly applauded.
As usual the next blog actually clarifying how they want to do, it can´t come soon enough.
IMHO useless to start complaining before that.

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Can we be more vocal against time-constrants

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Would OP (& the rest) like more “grind-gated” content instead, like the current Legendary fiasco?

That’s a terrible choice. How would you prefer your favorite game be ruined?

Well it is what it is. Munkinman described it perfectly.
I don´t see what can beat timegated content.
It´s a hell lot of better than any RNG carp or the “grind-gated” sh..tuff we have now.

The only thing I see suffering here is the instant gratification drive everybody seems to cherish.

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Magic Find [merged]

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Berserker gear is the real cancer to the game and removing it will be the single greatest thing ArenaNet will ever do.

Why? Too scared to use the best PvE gear in the game?

Wohoo, we got a Bad-kittenhiney over here.
No, “MR. Bad-kittenhiney”, it´s because DPS is “always” king, making for very boring game play.

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[MF] Permanent one time consumables or

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. In the near future, we’ll detail the system we’ll use to replace the existing magic find items.
Our goal will be to have as little disruption as possible to those who currently own items with a magic find stat on them.

I fear this is your only answer for the NEAR future.
I´m not so sure ANet even has finalized what to do with that useless MF stat yet.

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Can we be more vocal against time-constrants

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Would OP (& the rest) like more “grind-gated” content instead, like the current Legendary fiasco?

How about you post a better idea then instead of joining the “Wha-Wha ANet isn´t doing something exactly as I like it” crowd.

I´m glad to read your ideas, as I´m totally out of luck coming up with a better way of creating unique equipment than what ANet is planning now .

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That Abaddon guy and why his fall matters

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I’m sure that the events concerning the Thaumanova Reactor would reveal much more than the fall of Abaddon.

This!

More God shenanigans, bah.
Screw those cowards!
Let them quake in their other dimensional hide-holes, too afraid of getting munched on by some overblown Geckos.

I wanna know what those crafty Asuran Buggers did wrong this time.

K I E L !

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CONFIRMED MA & Aetherblade returning

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I only ran Molten once (maybe twice) and liked it, didn´t even bother with Aether as for me personally it was too hard to try “learning” such a dungeon with only two weeks of lifetime.

Looking forward to both, but what´s almost the best is that ANet hasn´t even started making the 3rd new fractal one yet.
Only once we vote they´ll start design it! Anet not throwing away content. Consider my mind boggled.

Oh and, it´ll be really nice if you guys could stop the circle-kitten-swing of “I´m right-No I”, as by definition I am right and most everybody is wrong. :p
;)

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Which class is most engaging/boring to watch?

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Most boring: Ranger

Try watching(even playing) a sword Ranger, especially if it´s a skimpy clad female model.
:)

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Captain Penzan: Bravo, ANet

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Getting that stuff together was definitely some of the most fun I had working on the game. Devon gets a big shout out for his help there. He was building the Priory events around the same area. The tie-in with Penzan was an excellent feat of collaboration.

Kudos and congrats!
These two are pretty much my favorite events in the whole game.

Well done.

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Colin Johanson on Twitch tomorrow

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I want to get excited, but at this point for me personally, the only reason I’ll get super excited is if they announce work has started on a new expansion.

I know that is extremely unlikely. I’ll still watch and see what comes up.

And you´re right.
Latest interview with Mike Z tells us that Living story is the expansion.
At least he explained that new races and areas aren´t out of the question.

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Colin Johanson on Twitch tomorrow

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O_o
Whaaargarbl!?!
That said,

*Puts on straw hat

I like your style.

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Quartz availability now and after?

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We’ll have a consistent *under*supply of crystals.

Corrected for you.
Do the math:

  • You can only mine 3 per day(after Zephyr event)
  • You need 25 per day to get a charged crystal
  • 5 charged to make an armor piece

And everyone will want a full set because they are the best gear to build your MF set on.

Profit?

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Hellfire or Radiant

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The Flame armor stuff is the most boring(everybody has it due to CoF grind) and actually jarring to my feeling about the heroic part one is supposed to play in this game.

It just looks too demonic and actually makes no sense(to me).
Radiant it is, even if everybody and their mum runs around with it.

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Announcement that you are working on GW3?

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Bit overly dramatic, aren´t we.
If you “already” have a lvl80 char then make another one and watch you gold melt.

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Anyone else had problems with Zenith?

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Well I got what I clicked.
Though I noticed a something odd, on ever 2nd click on a skin in that window it seems to deselect again.
Not sure if I started seeing things at 2AM in the morning, maybe it´s just a gfx glitch.

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Will old content ever be improved?

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Plain & simple, no.
Yes they keep telling us how there are lots of people still working in Anet and those 4 Living Story teams are just there for our amusement so that the rest can work on the game.
But I´m skeptical.
Especially with NCSoft breathing down their neck mumbling the “E” word (rhymes with Mansion).

I was hoping they would be smart and start using the Living Story teams to cunningly rework existing dungeons, but the last two didn´t inspire much optimism in that regard.

Colins blog is coming some time this decade and hopefully will shed some actual light on this.

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Guide on how to use Lightning Pull!

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The sad part is really that for some reason, those that did understand, did not advice against it, or that their advice was ignored… Either way though, it’s not like they’re hiding with this… Not saying something, is not the same as hiding and it’s not normal to divulge too much about their code in programming.

Yeah, I understand.
Actually I´m not even that peeved about the obvious problem with the current content release that the vid shows.

It´s how these things actually harm us players by seemingly making it so easy for the botters to exploit this game, to which ANet´s standard MO is to nerf the Hell out of every halfway decent PvE activity.
I´ve basically given up on crafting because of the bot induced ANet nerfs, usually one of my main funpoints in a MMO.

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Seems like the designers dont like hammers.

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I´m in two minds about it.
On the one hand I hate the ridiculous “Final Fantasy” swords we have in this game and the Hammer designs are actually more realistic as Sil pointed out.

Still some artistic leeway would have been nice.
And why oh why do the best hammers have to be simply copies of plain vanilla Guardian/Ele skills??

And yay me, I chose the Hammer as my first chest skin. Figuring everybody else will choose Avenger anyway, making it as common as a standard two-hander.
I thought that skin actually looked half decent in the preview, will have to swing it around some tonight.

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How does Gift of Quartz work?

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The charrs is called the Hero’s Canton

So can you only use it if your character is named Jayne?

I’ll be in my bunk.

Far as I see it, you people been given the shortest end of the stick ever been offered a human soul in this crap-heel ‘verse. But you took that end, and you – well, you took it. And that’s – Well, I guess that’s somethin’. (crowd mutters un-enthused agreement)

Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

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Guide on how to use Lightning Pull!

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NO way is this awesome thread dying in a sea of whine!
Dabump and +1 for the shrieks.

Also +1 for Fancia ripping of the curtain Anet is hiding behind.

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GW2 unlikely to get expansions [Interview]

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Be glad that Arenanet is not follow the models of the traditional MMOs or we may not have seen ANY new content at all till maybe Christmas of this year.

That is a non-argument.
Of course ANet couldn´t have done nothing for a year, so that they can release their next expansion pack.
If they would´ve been “like that other” MMO then we instead would´ve seen CRITICAL bugfixes and gasp polish of already released content much earlier.
Instead the very first thing we see is a frikken humongous temporary content release so everybody can be a witch for it seems their favorite Holiday.

BTW guys, please try to get it right.

It´s GUILD AIRSHIP.

I don´t want no boring Hall.
That thing better be airborn with lazors for making us wait so long!

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New achievement interface: I don't like it

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Oddly the word disaster is what comes to my mind when I think about the old “interface”. I routinely scrolled around to find my kitten dailies or where the frack the current living story achievements were.

At first glance this one is at least easy to read.
Though it still doesn´t have the option to turn off the Achievement Spam all together.
Very much hoping for that. Those eyes simply need a 3rd state, as in crossed out.
So that upper right of the UI gets cleaner.

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Achievement point question

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There ought to be a separate guide to the new system, clear, authoritative and written by Anet, the same as all the other links for the New Living World content.

Not really.

It´s so confusing right now as you´re only shown your future 5 chests. I guess once everybody gets their 500 chest we get to preview what´s in the 3000 one.

What I´m wondering right now is if the chest comes with the new daily.
Only 36 more minutes to find out.

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Achievement point question

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Well I´ll wait with my “OMG 500 Chest is bugged” whine-thread till tomorrow then.

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Too Much Temporary Content Can Only Harm GW2

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You’ll also see some of the content previously noted as “temporary” return permanently to the game in the 2nd half of the year.

We’ve said all of this before, but I think it’s good to just put that message out more frequently so everyone understands where we’re going.

Please just release your blog already, preferably with the announcement of Fractals getting the Molten&Aether Dungeons added.

People keep arguing about the same stuff over and over again.
We really need some clarifications yesterday.

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Achievement point question

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OOH! I thought that was the 500 chest we got today!
So the 500 point chest with the actual permanent account rewards is tomorrow?

So that´s why nobody has the permanent bonus.

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Anyone excited?

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I’m excited that the two new armor skins for medium MIGHT not be trenchcoats.

They probably will be though.

HEH!
+1 for you good Sir.

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Ask me questions about the Basics of WvW

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Will we ever get to see enemy character names(account names *gasp) or even get kill mails?
You managed to make what should be the most intense PvP experience about as exciting as sitting in a bus driving back and forth between stations.

Giving the faceless enemy at least a semblance of character would help somewhat I think.

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Why temporary content is good for the game

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Temp content (as implemented till now) is simply killing this game.

Here´s how:

  • Vital Dev resources are diverted from polishing dungeons and open world bosses to create content that gets thrown in the bin shortly thereafter.
  • A casual sees that he again has missed a cool skin or only has a day left for the grind and simply doesn´t bother with it. Gets disgruntled with the game.
  • A normal player is entertained for an evening then notices yet more grind coming his way for the rest of the event.
  • The hardcores camp the release, trying to find every exploit possible.
    As they know very well ANet again rushed the content and surely overlooked something obvious again. Then go back to fractals and COF1 farming to buy the new BLT shinies.
  • The Devs are ecstatic as they watch all the shiny game activity & store metrics and can proudly show the bean-counters that all is well.
  • NCSoft is nodding benevolently and funding Wildstar(aka. WoW in space).

What could turn around this ship heading for the cliffs is if ANet uses these 4 new Living Story teams to retroactively fix every single dungeon and boss encounter in this game before dumping another Southsun Cove on us.
But from what I read in the Interviews, there´s a very small chance of that actually happening.

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Why cant you dodge whilst jumping?

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Jump.
Shoot 3 mobs (quickly loot with AOE looting on).
Activate Rocket Boots in mid air.
Reload your gun.
Dodge the tree you were about to hit.
Quick Jump Shot to get above the tree line.
Unfold Experimental Gliding Kit.
Warning: Experimental Gliding Kit has a 20% chance to explode each second. Why? Because engineers blow stuff up all the time.
Due to Experimental Gliding Kit being bugged you have to log out in order to land. Or wait until it explodes.

I keep throwing money at my screen but nothing´s happening.
Give me this OZOM game nau!

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Anyone excited?

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I can wait .. and see.

After 8 months of deleted content and hype that amounted to sorely needed bug fixes and gameplay polish, I need to see some actual improvement to get excited.

Not just some mysterious innuendo and Wallpapers.

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why is it always back pieces

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Please confirm: Molten Dungeon coming back?

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So after reading Colin´s latest announcement, are we getting the much praised Molten Alliance Dungeon back. Probably as new addition to Fractals?
And what about the Aether Dungeon?

(Bump if you care)

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Content available for a limited time

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Have an upvote.
Now that you explained the world to me I can sleep well again.

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