Guild Wars 2

hitch yes its a time waster, something to keep those people who completed the story content all on day 1, from becoming bored out of their minds. Current events are always gonna be time wasters, and they actually do have story reference to them.

yep, theres a particularly nasty set of like 6 white mantle near on of the ledges down the hole that just wind up like crazy on anything that flies.

anninke.7469:

JaddynnStarr.5201:

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Hopefully, we’ll see some follow-up about her in the upcoming episodes.

God lets hope not… ive had enuff of leafy salads dictating my storyline and wreaking havoc on tyria… give the asura or norn a chance to now!

But it would be fine to tie up the story arc properly before jumping to new stuff. Untill this thing gets closed, there’s always space for the salad mixing in any future story. Just a short visit would take what – a 2 minutes? We’re shown the head salad is fine, we’re done with that and ready for the next villain or whatever.

I suppose that’s fine anninke, lets just not turn it into the spectacle Eir is. one memorial cutscene is enuff I think, we need to move on and get past all this crap and into the meat and potatoes again. I just don’t like to see resources taken from the rest of the story is all. if it can be done quickly without a lot of involvement and resources drawn out, then go for it.

saying “If” “might” or “could” is now irrelevant. you have stated as much by declaring “which will be the case at some point, obviously, but that is something for the future”. it sounds like you are speculating against an idea but convinced of its truthfulness? why fight against it?

I agree with the handling of it, being decided by 2 members and that whole scenario, but it still does not invalidate my reasoning/point.

I may have miscommunicated on the last part about the dragon slayers. It ties directly into what we are doing even if your choice of topic was meant to be an expression of something else. Dragons Watch can mean this, simply cuz we have already killed dragons, and we are likely to kill more… all the while protecting one that’s growing. All facets of our story are tied to dragons. Our first story… kill a dragon, second story… kill another dragon… now third story… kill primordus…another dragon.

I think you and I and everyone else and Anet all know whats gonna happen here. We are gonna protect that egg from primordus so it can hatch and fight against him.

how can you not understand that Anet stand to profit hugely from this. it has direct link to our wallets. item A gets leaked for patch… player stocks A while majority is unaware. Patch day hits, item A raises in price 1000×. people flock to gemstore CC in hand and donate money to convert gems to gold, to give to Anet(not only in gem purchase, but tax on sales in BLTC) to afford new price of item A.

Christs sake, its like someone in FEMA buying out a local grocery store cuz he knows a mass epidemic is commin and then raises prices when it hits. then the masses going to FEMA to buy food rations to spend at said grocery store… FEMA makes bank, so does informant, and the rests wallets are a little/lot lighter now uneccessarily.

anninke.7469:

Funny enough, I’ve never felt out of control of my story. Not sure why, but I see the Marshal (whoever it is) more as an orgish office ordeal position, so I was always glad I didn’t have to do it. I could just dump all the management mulch on Trahearne’s head (that’s exactly what the PC does) and go do the interesting stuff. Which made me like him even better.
Honestly, saying “Trahearne stole my story and glory” is nearly as strange as it would be if anyone said “Almorra stole my position in the Vigil”.
I wonder how many people will cry bitter tears because they still can’t lead the Pact now that Trahearne is dead.

For the biggest majority of us, its not the fact that he was named leader and we weren’t. And as for the logistics side of things, yes, someone other then the character should be made leader. The biggest qualm about this is the fact he was a poorly written leader. He is perceived as being weak, unable to make decisions, and a worrisome bother in his vocal skills with his constant whinning of “this wont end well…”, not to mention our choice was forced on us to vote for him as the leader (there was literally no other option then to be railroaded in this direction). Leaders aren’t like trehearne. When it comes to this situation this is how it comes off to us… Some tree in a forrest had a vision one day of greatness for another of its tree folk. despite thousands of other qualified candidates that are well more respected, time tested, and proven capable, the entirty of tyria just said “hey, you know what? fug it, well go with that tree thing over there and hope for the best. who cares if we have entire multi national army with generals to pick from… we want that boy over there…yes.. the one with the pointy ears…with no combat experience… and ponty ears…. or leadership experience…. did we mention the ears? ok good… cuz that’s important to us!”

anninke.7469:

JaddynnStarr.5201:

anninke.7469:

JaddynnStarr.5201:

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As i have said before (maybe in another thread), have a monument for them all, but we dont need an individual monument for every single character we have lost, it is immersion breaking and slows down the story too much.

edit: at least Eir didnt take over the entire story… as your attachment has proven trehearne did.

That’s why I said “a simple dialog line…”.
Just giving some in-story reason instead of the reddit post might have been okay.

Hm, maybe he did take over. I kinda didn’t notice (or mind) though, because I went with Vigil on my first/main charachter and I disliked Forgal quite a lot. The guy seriously creeps me out even now.

(And hey, thanks for actually talking about this with me )

(no problem, its nice to have a discussion instead of a flame fest! )

No I must have missed that in your post, my apologies, as that would be just fine too. My focus was on the thread title, and all the eir hating that i was seeing. I don’t particularly like Eir that much, or braham if truth be told, but trehearne was a different matter entirely for me personally. he felt very intrusive and forced onto me, and then to have him be a leader in name only (as he couldn’t make a decision to save his own life) made me feel he was a coward that i had to tolerate as a commander above me. I agree with you on Forgul, he felt very empty as a character and felt more like a placeholder.

“Couldn’t make a decision”? Oh, c’mon, now I’m getting flamy!
While the PC goes kill this, bring that, do you think the fort just grew by itself, all the machinery, troops and provisions needed no organization? That the plans you got to choose from just popped into existence on their own? That anyone just somehow knew what to do and when with no one coordinating them?
Mordy’s blight! Trahearne is effectively the PC’s undervalued office assistant.
(Am I perhaps biased because of working as an office lady? )

lol ok, flame if you must! yes there is a lot behind the story that is involved in leadership but consider that the vigil, whisperers, and priory and any other race already has generals in place to command their forces and resources. basically what trehearne is tenamount to is a U.N. strike force commander he helps facilitate communications between nations etc etc…

To me that’s like saying we will use 90% of Americas forces to ground and air combat a war, and call the victory for the U.N. yes the U.N. probly helped coordinate and centralize things, but they are by no means the cause of victory. troops of whatever country you send in are the victors, as are their respective commanders. they fought the fight and implemented all the strategy and resources.

to chrono: maybe that’s why we see such a lopsided view of trehearne to begin with. he is present in the sylvari line only. your first time thru a story probly had no mention of Snaff(unless you were playing the asuran line). so the remaining 90% of the community not familiar with that person is not gonna be as close to him(trhearne) as someone who starts out as a sylvari on their first toon, or likeley multiple play throughs. Eir is present from near the beginning of every races story (in the form of Destinys edge) and even with only a small introduction, has been able to fit into the story line with out it becoming the focus. she is only focused in it now, at this particular single moment, as she has died, and will no longer feature in the story. Trehearnes run spanned the entire secondary story… is that not worth anything?

Jaken.6801:

JaddynnStarr.5201:

since it became our mission to take the egg to begin with. yes it rests in tarir under exalted care, but we would be kidding ourselves if you think that we wont have to defend that egg in upcomming stories/missions, or play an intrigal part in its hatching and defense during its vulnerable times. The Devs know the outcome of the story already, and have likely selected names that were fitting for it in specific directions they want to go. but anyway….. there is a connection, whether you personally agree with it or not isnt going to change it.

To Djinn: It most certainly is the primary focus, as i have stated above, we will be tasked with protecting it as it grows and hatches… all of ls2 was about that egg, and i will be surprised if we dont end up doing exactly that.

You are aware that you are contradicting yourself, aren’t you?

snip….

We are not the protectors of the egg, however we will protect it if it does become neccessary (which will be the case at some point, obviously, but that is something for the future).

snip…

So yes. Your scenario might come true. That we will be involved in it’s protection, or that the other names are hints towards future storylines. It would be like calling yourself dragonslayer before you even met a dragon in the first place. A big joke or selffullfilling prophecy (which we allready had with the flameseekers, so i guess that ship is sailed)

cut out the unnecessary parts there… my whole point was what you just admitted to and seem to feel like it is inevitable as I do. We will end up protecting the egg. And yes we call ourselves dragon slayers cuz hey, why not… Zaithan and mordy are dragons we have slayed after all… so no, I don’t think we are self fulfilling any prophecy, as we have already killed dragons.

anninke.7469:

JaddynnStarr.5201:

/snip

As i have said before (maybe in another thread), have a monument for them all, but we dont need an individual monument for every single character we have lost, it is immersion breaking and slows down the story too much.

edit: at least Eir didnt take over the entire story… as your attachment has proven trehearne did.

That’s why I said “a simple dialog line…”.
Just giving some in-story reason instead of the reddit post might have been okay.

Hm, maybe he did take over. I kinda didn’t notice (or mind) though, because I went with Vigil on my first/main charachter and I disliked Forgal quite a lot. The guy seriously creeps me out even now.

(And hey, thanks for actually talking about this with me )

(no problem, its nice to have a discussion instead of a flame fest! )

No I must have missed that in your post, my apologies, as that would be just fine too. My focus was on the thread title, and all the eir hating that i was seeing. I don’t particularly like Eir that much, or braham if truth be told, but trehearne was a different matter entirely for me personally. he felt very intrusive and forced onto me, and then to have him be a leader in name only (as he couldn’t make a decision to save his own life) made me feel he was a coward that i had to tolerate as a commander above me. I agree with you on Forgul, he felt very empty as a character and felt more like a placeholder.

Arden.7480:

Trahearne’s death was the most unexpected thing in the story of HoT.
I hoped that this is not Trahearne, but only his clone…

He saved Tyria and I would see the memorial in the Epizode 2.

Rest in the Dream, Trahearne!

It was not, it was predicted and celebrated by alot of people as an end to a terrible character forced on the communitys story. As I have posted in another thread, now the tables have been turned, trehearne has been killed and eir has been thrust upon the story in a major way… only this time, the story wont be continued to be dominated by a crappy character. The story is OURS not that of the NPC’s. we are collectively sharing it with the Guild. And i take issue with all the glory and claims of savior going to trehearne. Yes he was the leader(who completely defered to our choices… something a leader is not typically prone to do), yes he died and opened a pathway… but if the rest of us were not there to find him in the first place, it would have been an utter and complete decimation of tyria. WE found trehearne… who was captured… not making a noble choice to sacrifice himself(until at the very end when he knew he couldnt survive anyways… more a choice being forced here.). He was gang pressed into submission and WE rescued HIM. It was a team effort by all. WE saved the day, not EIR, not Trehearne…

Jaken.6801:

JaddynnStarr.5201:

Dragon’s watch is correctly possessive… we are guarding glints egg, which is in fact….. wait for it…. A Dragon! the name fits perfectly for what we are doing. Yes we are going after other dragons, but our primary responsibility is to infact guard that egg.

Since when?

We were asked to take care of the egg and deliver it to it’s proper place.
A task that was given to us and we accepted because it served our cause.

Now we left it with the people who are actually supposed to guard it.

If anyone in “our group” is determined to watch it, it would be Caithe.

Otherwise, thanks to no further information given, aside from: It’s somehow important , our character has no real obligation to be the guardian of Glints offspring.

In fact, he was never enlisted to that task.
We got the Brotherhood of the Dragon along with Odgen, the Zephirites and nowadays the people of Tarir for that.

We are off, doing whatever the world throws at us at the moment. If I remember it is a self proclaimed god and some firey firey dragon.

since it became our mission to take the egg to begin with. yes it rests in tarir under exalted care, but we would be kidding ourselves if you think that we wont have to defend that egg in upcomming stories/missions, or play an intrigal part in its hatching and defense during its vulnerable times. The Devs know the outcome of the story already, and have likely selected names that were fitting for it in specific directions they want to go. but anyway….. there is a connection, whether you personally agree with it or not isnt going to change it.

To Djinn: It most certainly is the primary focus, as i have stated above, we will be tasked with protecting it as it grows and hatches… all of ls2 was about that egg, and i will be surprised if we dont end up doing exactly that.

anninke.7469:

JaddynnStarr.5201:

I know its slightly off topic, and maybe what some of you may not want to hear, but he was vastly unpopular with the community, and I think Anet sensed that and moved focus towards Eir. There wasn’t hardly any chatter about Eir being disliked.

I believe that is because she was hardly kittening involved unless you played Norn. From what I read here and there, I understood some players were angry that Trahearne stole their glory or something. Well, Eir did nothing like that for sure; you see her like 5 times in the whole PS (unless you play Norn).

And I’m still not able to get over my character (a Sylvari, had Trahearne around and helping ever since awakening) having to see Eir as such a close friend just because she was unimportant enough to not get disliked by players (or because the devs like her better or whatever really). That first part of s3e1 just mages me gag. Either I play a character who’s a complete moron or he is a liar for telling those friend-lines only to be able to start a lame named guild with Rytlock. Both suck, however I’ll probably have to go with the latter if I want to cotinue playing. I don’t like playing moronic kittenheads.

A simple in-game dialog line about how for some reason (be it the whole turned Sylvari mess or the PC feeling too bad for killing him) we could not go to Trahearne’s funeral or even have a short visit in the Grove to tell the Pale Tree what happened and see how she does would be fine. Definitely, especially if instead of that we got only a reddit post saying “oh, but you didn’t really care for him much bla, bla… pacing, bla… get over it, we don’t care”.

edit:
One of the reasons why I simply can’t see Eir as more important than Trahearne to my PC. For kitten’s sake he barely knows her!

see, this is where the tables have turned. You dont like being forced to lose your races mentor, and have another thrust into the spotlight over top of yours. That is exactly how the rest of the community felt when trehearne was forced onto us… I understand you loved trehearne above the rest, but you are still vastly underestimating the connection the rest of the community may have had with Eir. Not to mention her son braham whom we have been adventuring with almost this entire time. As i have said before (maybe in another thread), have a monument for them all, but we dont need an individual monument for every single character we have lost, it is immersion breaking and slows down the story too much.

edit: at least Eir didnt take over the entire story… as your attachment has proven trehearne did.

It scales terribly. with just 2-3 people, it does ok, any more then that and it takes about 40 per person to finish it off, and thats “IF” baigarth doesnt get dementia and wander around unresponsive for 10-15 seconds at a time.

You think server pop is low now…. introduce this and you will almost single-handedly destroy the game and you will only have 3 total servers to fill….. if that. revenue would drop so hard shareholders would likely throw a fit. the only reason SWTOR has what player base it has is cuz its the only starwars based mmo on the market. if SWG was still around or it didnt have iconic ships and sabers, that game would be deader then planetside 1. subs always restrict accounts even if they dont start out that way. if this game goes sub, then you might as well move over to SWTOR….

Behellagh.1468:

Since all messages pass through ANet’s chat server, doesn’t make whispers harder to track than say.

And again, they don’t use F2P accounts even to advertise and they never will because of the restrictions. Much easier to buy new accounts with stolen credit card info or player’s legit accounts that got compromised to do their work. Any “you must be this tall to ride” restrictions isn’t going to slow them down one bit.

That’s one reason ANet now go after their customers by following the gold which means not showing how ANet is detecting them to early because it will be worked around as soon as the RMT shops realize it but instead ban hammer the RMT accounts en masse and take gold and items purchased by players through those accounts away.

But it does narrow down the chat options to have to sift thru thus making man power used to police it very minimal. its the same with stolen accounts, eliminating and narrowing it down, steering their direction makes eventual outcomes predictable and easier to combat. And yes it will slow them down. Im not sayin dont go after the buyers, by all means, continue that, but there are soooo many other ways to begin to combat this in addition to it.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

JaddynnStarr.5201:

I dont think so, theres no getting around the lvl restriction without dedicated time. doing it this way forces the old paid for accounts to be the ones having to make the advert and subject to ban. thus forcing them to create new accounts with said restrictions. Overall making it thousands of times more time consuming and less profitable for them to operate. Restricting them to /say keeps it all local and easily trackable. Also preventing them from contacting you all over tyria. How do you propose they will quickly get around this?

The amount of posts/ticket queries about compromised accounts has surely seemed to go down since P4F has been on offer.

I would hate to think something would be implemented to cause the nefarious practice of compromising accounts to rise again.

Thats like saying “here, take my son so you wont take my daughter…” That mentality yields a win to the RMT companies everytime.

I dont think so, theres no getting around the lvl restriction without dedicated time. doing it this way forces the old paid for accounts to be the ones having to make the advert and subject to ban. thus forcing them to create new accounts with said restrictions. Overall making it thousands of times more time consuming and less profitable for them to operate. Restricting them to /say keeps it all local and easily trackable. Also preventing them from contacting you all over tyria. How do you propose they will quickly get around this?

RyuDragnier.9476:

JaddynnStarr.5201:

here is my reasoning… we lost tybalt, Eir, Trehearne, our respective faction commanders, and countless others during LA’s destruction etc… While we all have attachments to our favorites, they couldnt possibly do a cutscene for every single person you are personally attached to. They chose Eir cuz braham is still a part of the story and intrigal to the next part of it. the rest got honorable mention at their respective deaths.

This is why I want a monument on Claw Island, one we can actually visit in an instance, that pays memorial to all those who have fallen so far in the Dragon War. A list of names of those fallen during the march and battles of Orr and the battles of Maguuma. Or at least the big names.

I can see a singular monument for all involved, but i don’t think it would be prudent to make one for each major member that died. it would take too much time and disrupt story flow I think. Immersion would be lost . Another reason I think Eir was selected for the cut scene was because it was fresh in our minds. At least for me that is how it felt. I know its slightly off topic, and maybe what some of you may not want to hear, but he was vastly unpopular with the community, and I think Anet sensed that and moved focus towards Eir. There wasn’t hardly any chatter about Eir being disliked.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Hopefully, we’ll see some follow-up about her in the upcoming episodes.

God lets hope not… ive had enuff of leafy salads dictating my storyline and wreaking havoc on tyria… give the asura or norn a chance to now!

Dragon’s watch is correctly possessive… we are guarding glints egg, which is in fact….. wait for it…. A Dragon! the name fits perfectly for what we are doing. Yes we are going after other dragons, but our primary responsibility is to infact guard that egg.

here is my reasoning… we lost tybalt, Eir, Trehearne, our respective faction commanders, and countless others during LA’s destruction etc… While we all have attachments to our favorites, they couldnt possibly do a cutscene for every single person you are personally attached to. They chose Eir cuz braham is still a part of the story and intrigal to the next part of it. the rest got honorable mention at their respective deaths.

Behellagh.1468:

Do you really want that in the general game client? Is reporting and blocking them so inconvenient to you that you are willing to make the game inconvenient to every legitimate player cause that’s what you’re suggesting.

yes i am, its not just a matter of MY convenience. It hurts the overall economy of the game… so much so, that Anet bans for its use. new players don’t typically just whisper random passerby’s ( not saying a relatively smaller few do tho), they ask questions in general chat. restricting that to say may not give them the instant immediate response that a map chat might, 9 times of 10 there are players close by willing to answer a question or two. Thus prompting for an interaction that may result in friending…

well consider what we are dealing with… bloodstone and unbound magic. could be that the bloodstone breaking apart is releasing spirits it held. after all, in a magical sense, blood is used to steal or store ones spirit. Seeing as how it has broken open, you could determine that the spirits are being released that were contained?

They could just make it so you cant whisper till lvl 30 except to people who have you on their friends list and only use the /say chat until20. that forces you to spend alot of time in the game and allows you communication with those within a small area of you at least.

So heres what I have noticed so far… yes I have seen dulffy’s guide and find it lacking.
When the device says a certain mob is active, it becomes active on all maps it is tied to. It can be summoned on all those maps at the same time if players are actively killing those mobs on all the other maps as well. generally the crazed mob spawns when the secret quota is reached and spawns in the area of the kill that reached the quota.

wtheck is up with all these necro posts lately???

so…. tell me again why we would need to store gold? we have an unlimited purse that keeps it for us already. and trust me… no one has reached the limit to what the purse can hold, and nor will they ever. I am responding to specific answers about using it to STORE gold, not TRANSFER gold….

I think OP is talking more about particle effects and things that give off light. Yea we have a few in all elements, but there are tons in fire and give off flame or heat waves etc… Would like to see air armor that has crackling lightning coursing thru it, or water armor that reacts like jelly when you move etc… I think that’s more along the lines of what the OP is getting at. Maybe some earth armor that has little rows of stalagmites that ripple through-out the armor etc… I understand that is difficult to do, which is likely why you only see fire in the amounts that we do.

Spoiler alert This map is bigger than you think. There is more to the map. I was flying to an armor event a few days ago and ended up landing on a little area that looked like opened up into a future area of the map. It goes down REALLY deep. Could even see a few NPC's that were already staged in some areas for future release. At some point it allowed me to fall off the edge and fly super far below the normal map area and you can see the next sections of the map.

I have noticed that a lot with the new maps… its feast or famine. Cant tell you the number of times I’ve been fighting for my life, and just wanted to stop fighting cuz it goes on forever. Would be nice to see some new explorable areas. When I think of this concept, I think of the Deidre gardens. Pretty place, not a lot of combat, but some… places to explore and discover. or the rookery…

LordGinder why did you necro a 3 year old post?

Bellatrixa.3546:

sophiewhite.3149:

and china isnt a race

No, it’s a country. However Han Chinese is a race and 92% of China’s population; what I would imagine most people think of when they hear someone described as Chinese. I think it’s possibly time to drop that part of the discussion though so’s not to prevent derailing the thread or something being said that will get it locked ¬_¬

But yeah I agree with Seera’s point that a filter would just be bypassed by them as -shock horror- they’ll have access to it and immediately find a work-around. At least with the ads being blatant and the punishment for RMTing being well advertised, if you fall for the bait you get what you deserve with no excuses. Also it’s much less punishing on the eyes than having leetspeak spammed in chat to bypass a filter…

I think you are missing the point here, theres a difference between china and chinese. Unless he/she used the word chinaman etc… I did not see that in their post. nothing said was indicating race, only the conglomerate of a country as a whole. Race is not an issue here. If one says “things are cheaper in china” one does not infer that a race is whats being discussed in the comment. To do so shows extreme oversensitivity I think. I do agree with you that the race discussion needs to stop, as it should have never been brought up in the first place.

Seera.5916:

JaddynnStarr.5201:

The Last Hobbit.6492:

Gaile Gray.6029:

…!

I’ve got a huge blocklist of RMT spam-bots and I can safely say that you’ve banned them all.

However, while you say that they pick a new name, every single whisper I’ve had since 2012 has been for the SAME WEBSITE. It’s the one that rhymes with GvG Rank. You could have blocked that string of characters ages ago.

THIS…. I have a hard time believing they really do crack down on these guys, cuz ive gotten the SAME message from the SAME website spelled EXACTLY the SAME, for the last 4 YEARS. Its almost like they have a backroom deal to get a cut of or something… you cant sit there with a straight face and tell me they couldnt block this crap with any type of filtering or what have you. The same thing happens…. Xhdsfakdjf sends me a message, i block and report, then Dksjdh pops up 2 mins later sending me a message… using the same spelling and url address as they did 4 years ago, with the same hastily typed keyboard smashed names.

They put that string in a filter list and they’ll change the message and bypass the filter.

Nothing ANet does will prevent gold seller spam. The only thing that will is running out of customers.

So what is your answer then? just do nothing? Seems to have worked the last 4 years hasn’kitten Giving up cuz its a daunting task is not the answer either. Give us these 2 options. One, give us a button to reject any whispers from people not on our friends list. You don’t HAVE to use it, but the option is there for temporary relief at the least. TWO, our own chat filters would be a dang good option, as the sellers couldn’t possibly combat the millions of individual combinations of strings we can use.

Another option for the block button is maybe to use pop up announcements when you get a whisper. Here’s how it would work. you enable the block feature to keep anyone not on your friends list from sending you a whisper. Then whenever someone sends you a whisper that’s not on your list, a pop up or some other notification would ask you if you want to receive messages from <name>. If its someone you recognize, click yes, if its not, click no. to keep it from happening over and over again, put a check mark in the box to not receive notifications from this user again.

The Last Hobbit.6492:

Gaile Gray.6029:

…!

I’ve got a huge blocklist of RMT spam-bots and I can safely say that you’ve banned them all.

However, while you say that they pick a new name, every single whisper I’ve had since 2012 has been for the SAME WEBSITE. It’s the one that rhymes with GvG Rank. You could have blocked that string of characters ages ago.

THIS…. I have a hard time believing they really do crack down on these guys, cuz ive gotten the SAME message from the SAME website spelled EXACTLY the SAME, for the last 4 YEARS. Its almost like they have a backroom deal to get a cut of or something… you cant sit there with a straight face and tell me they couldnt block this crap with any type of filtering or what have you. The same thing happens…. Xhdsfakdjf sends me a message, i block and report, then Dksjdh pops up 2 mins later sending me a message… using the same spelling and url address as they did 4 years ago, with the same hastily typed keyboard smashed names.

I think its funny in that quote that O’Brien says 1000 hours of play isn’t considered grinding. No one can play for a thousand hours and just naturally acquire what is needed to make a legendary. It takes playing very specific content over and over again to get said craft items.

second issue is with someone saying the cost to craft nevermore pre is 1100 gold? that person is smoking dope. To buy every item even at lowest offer prices is well over 2000 gold. Hell, the amalgamated gemstone alone is 600+gold for just ONE of the items! The only way your doing it for under 1200 gold is if you are waiting months to make the ascended mats and GRIND AB for the lost hero chests for the amalgamated gemstone.

This game is ALL about the grind… no if ands or butts.

wouldn’t be so bad except cc’ing them doesn’t work much of the time. I run a guard that has 2 big cc’s and a LB 5 skill that only works on 20% of bars it seems. still cant take down the sentrys without wasting 2 mins waiting for cc’s to recharge to use them again. Ive adjusted my tactics around it, but its still annoying as kitten to be sittin there idle waiting on CD’s to take out a target that’s not even hurting me…

you guys realize… you are just giving them information on how to target you for micro transactions for gemstore purchase items….

So… DH LB skill 1&2 and spear of justice…. all say 1200 range. skill 1 actually hits at 1200 range… skill 2 will not hit past 800 (I can hit target with auto attack, but the second I use #2, it says out of range) and spear wont go past 800 either (same as above, says out of range). Either fix the text on these, or make the range what it says it is….

Did some testing on DH the last few days. It seems the number 1 skill, Puncture Shot has a range of 1200. It seems to stop at 1000. The number 2 skill, True Shot has a range of 1200 as well, but seems to only go 800. Anyone else want to test and confirm please?

I only noticed because I was firing at a champ, and my number 1 skill kept hitting it, but number 2 was always missing…

I drop a fair bit of money on this game. Too much to mention without getting embarased… But that is ending as of today. Been forcing myself to plod on thru boring events, endless farming of metas to open other achievements etc etc. Its just not as fun anymore. I think they focused the rewards a little to far out, and gave nothing to the short to mid term reward areas. I’m not saying we need the best rewards now, but what they currently offer doesn’t hold a candle to how it should be. Filling my inventory with crap isn’t the way to reward players. Nothing in HoT really draws you into the story or atmosphere. It feels rushed and detached

No offense razial, but its true… it is very hive minded and even with bot checks, if certain opinions are not mimic’d, they get downvoted. Anytime you have a general populuos with the ability to limit what others say and voice, you no longer have an unbiased community… it is forever tainted with bias. And the reason it gets Dev posts is because the current opinion is Anet can do no wrong there. which leads me to believe other nefarious things are being done there with the support of Anet (such as review rigging etc).

Reddit is not an authority on what players are actually feeling and doing. All Reddit is is a group of internet peeps that hold multiple accounts to try to control popular opinion on things to fit their view… any schmuck can make 500 accounts, log in and quietly downvote anything to oblivion making it look like “community standards”… Any forum that allows others views to not be seen and heard is no “voice” for the community.

I haven’t quite been able to put my finger on it yet, but something is certainly different about the game. I dunno if its the atmosphere or community feel, or just the game design in general. All I know is, it isn’t the same, and its not what I like. Things feel pressured, urgent but at the same time it feels like its going to take forever to accomplish things too. Maybe that’s it by design, just seems like everything is long term with nothing to sustain it in the meantime. I dunno, I been trying to work on things slowly, but feel I have no sense of accomplishment. It just feels like “long haul or bust” if you know what I mean.

My experience has been different. When HoT hit, I unlocked all my elite specs except for scrapper and Herald right away(but i did open them before I went mushroom hunting). It wasn’t until a week ago that I started collecting the mushrooms. the very first one was on my Dragon Hunter(and it dropped the mushroom for my DH’s bow). The next day i tried it with my Dragon Hunter again, and it didnt give me anything. So I logged into my ranger, and went to get another one and it gave me the mushroom for my rangers weapon. At that point i assumed that you had to log onto the character that you wanted the mushroom for, whose elite spec you had unlocked. And sure enuff the next 4 consecutive times that I swapped toons it gave me the coresponding mushroom to the elite spec of the toon I was currently on.

Fluffball.8307:

It’s pretty hard to complain about your bags overflowing with loot though. It is annoying, but it’s also anet throwing wads of gold at us. I’ve made obscene amounts of gold since HoT.

I dont see how you have, as alot of things, especially exotics, have dropped from 3-4 gold each to around 1-1.5 gold each… blues and greens have taken a good hit too.

Maybe it is their interpretation of what a ragon sounds like in miniature, comming from your bow string? Just venturing a guess here.

Doug Whisper.2465:

I suspect ANet testing player acceptance of pre-made characters with Rev. Instead of give us build template down the road, they might give us a few pre-made characters from metabattle.com.

makes sense… will be the only way they can push ESL into the limelight and be fair… will be easier for them to clean up and balance… And I dont like it… if they go that route I will be looking for other entertainment options.

Ahh ok, I understand now, thnx for the info.

xbutcherx.3861:

I have a full tower with ASUS Motherboard – ATX, LGA2011-v3 with a I7 5820 6 core, 16 GB DDR-4 2800mhz, RAID SSD samsung and GTX 970 running 5600×1200 triple monitor.
GW2 looks awesome on a surround environment hitting 100 FPS +.

Thats weird… all the specs Ive seen on the GTX 970 say max res is 4096 × 2160. What card are you using that goes higher then that?

yep… your pre purchase of hot that you now hate… is going to a super finite player base of elitests that are laughing all the way to the bank. Enjoy your stay here at ArenaNet!