The problem is largely that people do one song and then leave, or just leave at the end of Fear Not This Night so new people get brought into these instances instead of new ones.
First off, some traits are linked to very specific events which are actually almost invisible to new players unless they google for it. There are not even map markers which might give you a hint about obtaining certain traits on the zone.
For the record, if you click on the telescope icon next to the locked traits, it will show you where you need to go.
It’s a recurring issue, it gets fixed every time there’s an update, then gradually breaks over time.
If you want to play a ranger sans pet, good news, thieves and warriors already exist.
Aren’t you the person that makes the exact same topic every couple of months whining about people “botting” by being afk?
Not this again.
That’s all well and good if you just want a legendary and don’t care which one, or happen to really like Rodgort, Frenzy, or Kraitkin.
But most people want the ones for the weapons they actually use, and you know that kitten well.
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You know you can turn that arrow off entirely if you want, right?
And megaservers were the best thing to happen to world bosses. Before that, on most servers it was “run with the reset zerg or miss out” for most bosses, and I don’t miss that at all.
I hate to break this to you, but if they were armor skins they wouldn’t work the way you (and everyone else who makes this topic) think they would. The armor weights are incompatible, so either they’d have to make three versions of the same set (sold seperately for 800 gems apiece, like the existing armor sets) or they’d lock each outfit skin to a single armor weight.
After leveling a post feature patch character, the only changes I think the trait system needs are to remove trait unlocks from the wubwub and to make sure all the associated events work properly and happen often.
It’s way less obnoxious than elite skills were in GW1, the traits all come from zones about the level each trait tier is unlocked, and a lot of the requirements are things you should be doing anyway (like map completion).
The only thing they need to do is remove trait unlocks from the wubwub and make sure all the events are working properly.
Forging minipets really should unlock them, since that’s how it works when you throw weapons and armor into the toilet.
Is it too hopeful that this means they’re actually working on weapon set proliferation? Marjory (the second necro to get this ‘gift’, the first being shudders Trahearne) has a greatsword (that isn’t Caladbolg which we know has unique skills if you play the right Sylvari path) now and a blowtorch (perfectly themed for an Engineer- and not for thief/ranger) was created?
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ProbablyNecromancer in the charr personal story dual wields Infinite Light which is a sword.
Rytlock uses sword/pistol as a warrior.
Logan is a Guardian.
Crusader Deborah is a heavy armor character who uses an impossible weapon combination (pistol/focus), for that matter.
it would have been nice if they would have just kept releasing expansions for guild wars. this is a decent game, but it isn’t nearly as epic as guild wars was. i played guild wars 1 more than i do 2, and still would if i had anything left to do on any of my characters
In hindsight, yes they could have made it work. GW1 was immensely popular and the expansion model (when in full swing) kept the players playing.
GW1 was a bloated mess by the time EOTN rolled around, iirc that was a large part of why they started making GW2 in the first place.
and players can just teleport/shadowstep/leap all over the place…
It’s amazing what a functional Z-axis allows you to do, isn’kitten
Raptors (preferably Crested or Vulture), Plated Behemoths, and Tropical Birds.
For the record, Dragon’s Tooth is a blast finisher and has the same CD as Maul.
The Tribal armor set and other armor sets that were sPvP-exclusive will be obtainable again at some point in the future. There is no ETA as to when this will happen.
I’ll believe it when it actually happens, because that’s almost word-for-word what a dev said 9 months ago too.
the gun works fine, the 5 skill unlocks once the target reaches 50% health.
Gem prices increase before Anet releases new items because people anticipate it (since it almost always happens on Tuesdays) and start converting gold to gems beforehand.
“or the addition of Pact weapons as BL skins” – what was the last fancy weapon set added that was not a BL skin? That’s how they add special weapons to the game. special armors seem to come from LS rewards, special weapons from BL tickets. the only non-BL set that comes to mind would be fractal weapons from like 2 years ago.
Ambrite weapons, for the record.
So this is just a stealth expansion thread, then.
Sadly there is no way to avoid the majority of it if you are a vet.
Yes there is, it’s called a level 20 scroll.
Pets don’t level independently from you any more (thank god, leveling them was incredibly tedious in GW1), so their size is fixed.
Also, I want raptors.
We need more distinction between staffs and tridents, not less!
Tridents have the fewest skins of any weapon type (followed closely by the other underwater weapons), and too many tridents are just lazy copy-and-paste jobs of the same set’s staff (see also: most dungeon weapons, vanguard and lionguard even though they have unique trident skins that are ingame but unavailable, most cultural sets, corrupted, primordus, a few others).
If you want an armor set to “work” for, Luminescent is right there. There’s no need to add grind to Carapace too, especially when the old way worked just fine (and in a rare move by Anet, didn’t screw over people with alts) and still gave you the option to grind for it if you preferred.
The water’s still there, there’s just not any map completion-related stuff in the lowest-level parts (and honestly I think that one heart in Metrica was the only thing there before).
Also, conditions need to work on objects.
Ranger: Greatsword. Fills the same DPS role as sword at 20% less damage and about the same utility.
On the other hand, GS is at least a functional weapon without any of the jury-rigging required to make the sword marginally usable.
Removal of water from PvE began in the last feature patch with the removal of water in all starting areas
That’s a serious overreaction to “moved an underwater heart (a really tedious one, at that) so it takes place on land”.
I had enough problems keeping my pets alive as a ranger, I can only imagine how bullkitten it would be with clones or minions.
It’s not the first time, either. Liadri insta-killed your pet without a kitten thing you could do to stop it, and Anet never fixed that.
Personally I’m relieved that they’ve taken then gloves off the mission reward. Yes I’ve played last weeks story on 3 chars and got all the achievs so I can get the Luminescent skin but it’s still a lot of work to get the full set – a big commitment from me. I don’t want to do that if everyone is going to end up with the skins as well. The harder it is the less people will have it, and that’s a good thing for me. At the end of the day you’ve got to work hard to get nice things
Selfish kittens like you are why we can’t have nice things.
Ugh, so much for any point in taking alts through the story ever again…
The requirements to unlock the majority of Traits are insane. I can’t, for the life of me, understand why this was done.
Almost all the requirements to unlock traits are perfectly reasonable (some of them were pretty ridiculous early on, but they patched that quickly) and in zones about the level you gain access to that tier of traits.
A couple are bugged, but that’s a long-term issue that has nothing to do with traits.
^not to mention that t6 mats for the most part are not targetable due to dr kicking in and rather low drop rates coupled with rng preventing farming. This makes supply mostly based from random drops and not supply created via demand.
You can get 40 or so bags of t6 mats a month guaranteed from the laurel vendor.
For the same reason that Dry Top and Silverwaste do not count as Maguuma for the purpose of the daily. I believe that reason is simply because either nobody thought to, or simply didn’t want to, update old code to include new areas and enemies.
Dry Top has a distinct background on the character select screen, suggesting it counts as a different region from Maguuma (I’ve never done this in Silverwastes, but I assume it has the same one).
Husks, sylvari, Plant Wolves have never contributed to Plant Slayer, not even the ones that have been around for years. They are their own entity. Pretty much the only things that do count are Oakhearts and the like.
I believe thorn wolves and all their variants get counted as Nightmare Court.
If, however, the purpose is to be a long term goal that carries the prestige of being both time consuming and rare, then, yes, there must be a cost intensive aspect.
That is literally what the icy runestones are for.
And don’t get me started on the event Mordrem wolves in Iron Marches that had perma retaliation, and could then buff themselves with regular retaliation on top of that…that was just cheap.
Or that godkitten golem in Fallen Hopes that has perma-retaliation and causes you to take 300+ damage every time you attack it.
Retaliation is just horribly broken when used by monsters in general, since we attack so fast compared to them (simultaneously making it worthless to use ourselves). And boon removal is inadequate or downright nonexistent depending on profession And what does exist is balanced for esports like all defensive abilities (and thus has a cooldown at least twice as long as it should have to be useful in PVE).
600+ posts on this simple concept that due to usefulness or popularity as a weapon of choice that some precursors are considerably cheaper than others.
I am literally convinced at this point that Penguin is some sort of robot, since the idea that people want to make legendaries for the weapons their characters actually use rather than just go for the cheapest option (which are all unpopular and mostly underwater weapons) in order to have a legendary is completely alien to him.
Now Pengy promised “cheap precursors,” and he would know full well that this statement, in context, would have to refer to the good precursors, not the junk ones, so I’m just asking what his line is on the good precursors.
We both know it’s “pull yourself up by your virtual bootstraps”.
Anet explicitly said it was coming back in the future, on these very forums I believe.
Are there Sinister Ascended tier recipes yet? The only ones I see on the TP appear to be the Exotic tier variants.
If they don’t exist already as some sort of rare drop (like Ventari recipes were), they’ll probably be introduced before too long.
Losing those skin chests really killed the achievement chests as rewards.
I say implement some sort of token that allows you to unlock a few wardrobe skins of your choice, with a few obvious restrictions (legendaries, glorious armor, fractal weapons, stuff directly from the gem store, high-end mystic toilet recipes, etc).
Take away the “bound on acquire” trait of any item that has it, and BAM, RNG system annoyances disappear.
Precursors. Not account-bound, and some of the most complained-about (deservedly!) items in the game.
I see no harm in making it tradeable, as long as Anet wont pull another Mini Monkey King after a short time.
The mini monkey is how new release markets work. You saw it with the monkeys, the chaos of lyssa recipe. It happens over and over again. Until the market finds stability with enough supply to offset demand the price will be high. Then you see the TP flippers work their magic of helping to slowly bring the market into balance.
always check out spidey or whatever for new items.
That Lyssa recipe never did “balance”, it still costs ten times as much as the other god-themed back item recipes because of how stupidly it was distributed.
Ranger sword is garbage, no matter how beep boop optimal dps it is. I have no idea how this happened, considering four other professions can use a sword and all their skills are perfectly functional, but there you go.
Legendaries work wonderfully as a long-term goal except for the precursor (also to a lesser extent lodestones, which have needed a reliable method of aquisition for ages).
The only gold you should have to spend on making one is the 100g of runestones plus the 20g for the two gift recipes.
What I’d prefer to see is anet start designing and selling single pieces of armor. Instead of a whole set, put out a coat or leggings. Make them with the intent of mix and matching, and work off of existing sets to promote the customization we all want. Like the medium magitech leggings. They look great, but have very few options.
Sell quality single pieces for 300-400 gems designed for mix and match, and make more money for less work.
They have (the Lawless stuff), and people complained about that as well.
I find it amusing that no matter what Anet does with female asura and charr, people are unhappy with it.
Just have the outfits without their own helms (this one and ancestral) use your actual headgear.
To give posters some clarity, Anet released the Zodiac skin which IMO was a bold change. I purchased this one was able to mix and match freely. The skin has a complex design with animation, and is mixable. The decision to make the outfits limited in appearance is by choice.
Zodiac was also three sets that had to be purchased seperately. If they made these outfits into regular armor, they’d each have to be locked to a single armor class or they’d sell all 3 versions as seperate sets due to the work required to make them compatible with armor weights.
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Y’know, I had that ball cap from when the game started. The Wardrobe change somehow stole that from me. It’d be kind of nice if I could have that back now.
Talk to the black lion armor guy with whoever was wearing it.
The huge influx of precursors will cause T6 materials to jump in price. Not just a little jump either, we’re talking 10g+ PER T6 material.
There are only enough T6 on the market to make 20 legendaries. If 1,000 precursors get added today because 1,000 accounts have a birthday, the supply of T6 will be GONE instantly.
I, too believe Anet needs to dramatically increase the supply of t6 mats in the game. Except I’m not just feigning concern and actually think this..
Well it’s called a legendary for a reason. We can’t have precursors dropping like flies for everyone. If they even increased the drop rate a little, the prices would drop.
Oh no, people might actually be able to get a thing they want without paying proper homage to the robber barons.