Something tells me he’ll return during Wintersday. Maybe Festive-Tron, or Scrooge-Tron.
I agree, though, it’s nice to see light-humoured returning characters every now and then.
They need to create a dedicated place for GvG. Implementing it into the PvE maps just causes problems.
If you’re a member of a large guild and have been with them sometime and don’t want to participate in GvG, how do you stop it? Not represent? So they get punished and can’t reap the rewards of Guild Buffs because their leaders want to GvG but they don’t? Do you make it a majority vote in a guild to enter a GvG or not? If you do, this still isn’t fair to larger guilds. If they have 400 active members, and 210 vote yes and 190 vote no, then 190 are then forced to either not represent or have to engage in fights while they explore designated maps. Do you then only count votes of those online at the time, or is there a voting ‘time-limit’ before the GvG can even begin?
How do you then stop people dodging fights by just not representing? Two people from (x) guild are running towards me from a distance? I’ll just quickly not-represent. Even if you’re out of combat, you can still do this. There aren’t a lot of enclosed, easy to ‘jump on’ areas in this game, and people in a GvG are going to be paranoid and looking around when it looks like an un-favourable situation is heading their way.
It just causes far too many issues.
I agree they need to do GvG – they do. But they need to dedicate and invest in making it an actual feature with its own area/maps instead of lumping it with another game type.
This is what the Living Story timeline is beginning to feel like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY_Ry8J_jdw
The downward white arrow is New Krytan for ‘P’.
It’ll be for the ‘Power Glove’ we get in either world 3 or 4.
They have a small group of people working on capes in their free time at the moment, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll definitely implement them at some point.
All the stuff in the Boss category of achievements is permanent. The stuff under Living World isn’t.
I thought it looked like Caithe, too. If it is Twilight Arbor, I’m not against a Living World revolved around TA or any dungeon/revamp.
It causes people to mass do it for 2 weeks, and you get a large amount of feedback in those two weeks on how it is – like how there’s a mass amount of feedback on Teq atm, instead of anything else they may have lumped him with.
I imagine there’ll be a bit of open world content to go with it, too, if it is about TA…about the nightmare court, maybe.
No amount of challenge will matter if the event can never fail.
Remove the timer? Ok, maybe, but the event needs to have a fail condition or, as I said, no amount of challenge will matter, and they intended this to be a challenging open world piece of content.
The timer freezes when the ‘Defend the laser’ event starts (with it’s own timer). If you succeed it, Teq becomes vulnerable for a period of time (takes more damage). If you don’t, you get a tidal wave to the face.
As soon as the Defend the Laser event is over, the timer to defeat Tequatl unfreezes.
No, he doesn’t spawn every hour like Scarlet’s invasions did.
i heard for this first week or 2 he will then it will go back to normal
He spawns similarly to Scarlet’s invasions in that he creates an overflow, but they’ve never said it’s every hour.
Read both dev responses.
No, he doesn’t spawn every hour like Scarlet’s invasions did.
I think they plan on making Zhaitan more epic, too, in the future, but still – he’s a dungeon boss. You’re going to have to throw logic a little bit out of the window here when all it requires is 5 people and a load of NPCs to kill him.
Do keep in mind, though, that the majority of the last parts of the PS involve weakening Zhaitan. He’s not at full ‘strength’ when we fight him.
I don’t think they’ve been removed. Granted, I very rarely if ever hear it now, but that’s because I rarely find people using it. I used to hear it most often when bots used it during the epidemic of 2012.
I think they’ve just made it a very low frequency chance of triggering. The same’s true of Mesmer mantras. They take a lot of using them to trigger the voice line. I’m sure I heard it at least once a couple weeks back.
Either way, yeah. A frequency slider would be nice but I’m sure it’s on a really low priority list, so if it happens, I doubt it’ll happen for months if not another year.
They should either remove WvW from requiring 100% map completion or keep it as is. Adding a paid method to skip it is just being greedy.
Except there’s obvious patterns and a viable way to do it. If it weren’t intended, they would have made it a LOT harder to get through, i.e. having to abuse the engine to get past…which you don’t need to do. It’s just timing and careful movement.
There’s more evidence that you’re meant to be able to do it than there’s not. There’s also death traps on the platform AFTER you exit the shortcut wurm that you can only reach by completing it. If they intended no-one to beat it, they wouldn’t have put traps on a platform you can only reach after completing it anyway.
There’s also a really logical reason as to why they didn’t allow the eagle. It’s harder to make more difficult than the wurm is and the world 2 zones are significantly larger. The eagle cuts out a huge part of zone 2, and the wurm doesn’t cut that large a portion out of zone 2 of world 1.
I’d check the Griffon Run jumping puzzle. That’s one place I can think of.
It’s not a bug.
There’s a high jump crystal right next to it. It’s probably intended.
You kidding?
In real life, it’s way past ascended. It’s god-like.
Bacon should definitely be an ascended food.
I don’t necessarily think that releasing them at the same time was a bad idea.
I think that basing the playtime of SAB compared to April’s release is a bad idea. There’s scarlet invasions that happen at random now, champion farming, and ascended weapons. I agree that ascended weapon materials (particularly ethereal fragments – if SAB were the most lucrative way to get them) would have people playing SAB.
Still, I thought it was pretty standard that if you compare two sets of data from different time periods, you try to logically figure out why, rather than just go ‘less people play it.’
I waited one year, so 2 months (or less) is nothing for me.
It’s in beta rollout for 1 week judging by the wording in the announcement.
It doesn’t matter if you pay money or not – you’ll still have the 7 day cooldown.
You’re going to have to wait 2 days, delete your characters and try again.
Yeah, I’ve been experiencing it for about a month.
It only happens in LA for me, though. I’ve yet to have it happen anywhere else.
However, the actual stuck on a waypoint bug seems to happen to me anywhere.
Really really do not think they’ll create legendary armour anytime soon.
They’ve all but confirmed that some form of legendary trinket will be released before 2014, though.
As for new legendary weapons…yeah, when it’s ready.
All of which they’ve shown us on the Tequatl Rising release page is permanent.
Whether or not they’ve got some story related stuff they aren’t telling us about, which may be temporary, we don’t know.
Nah, if anything they should be giving him praise because hopefully they’ll change their policy on how often and how transparent devs can be with us.
Besides, he didn’t insult Anet in his blog in the slightest. He’s just telling the truth. He’s even said he’s been with them for 10 years and finds them supportive and great to work for.
However, the fact they would stop Josh from posting as much as he did without giving us the reason why is not being that supportive of him. Had he not made that blog post, most of us would be thinking he no longer cared about what we think because he just stopped posting here. They should be encouraging their employees to talk with us more often, not encouraging them to talk to us less often and if he gets any type of punishment for that blog post, I’ll be disgusted with how Anet has treated him.
World 3 hasn’t been released yet. The genie is just a preview of it.
I remember reporting it bugged in the betas, but I can’t remember which one.
But yes, it feels like there was a dynamic event there at some point (that possibly contested the waypoint), which they removed but didn’t remove the mobs spawning.
Which is still ridiculous in terms of writing.
“This dragon who’s been terrorising us for 100 years is finally defeated!!”
“Shouldn’t we check if he’s actually dead, though?”
“…nah.”
As far as I’m aware, they give no lore to whether they even attempted to check if he died but couldn’t for (x) reason. Having said that, the Orr tokens seem to imply he has.
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It’s been in the game since the betas, yeah.
It’s either been overlooked or they deem it a low priority fix.
I’m not a language expert, so I’m interested to know: if something has no defined gender, what would you use instead?
Right now? Gambling with the mystic forge, getting extremely lucky with a drop or outright buying them for a lot of gold (depending on the precursor).
Before 2014: a guaranteed way to get the precursor you want – most likely by crafting but not definitely.
Sometimes I wonder (if this is indeed accurate) if they release these on purpose to get opinions on what we think. Then again, I suppose that’s why you put leaked in inverted commas.
Thanks for posting. Some interesting changes in there.
Yeah, it’s a bug specific to it announcing Timberline. It’s happened consistently since the SAB patch.
I check Blazeridge first now whenever Timber is announced.
I’ve just read it.
I actually agree with the OP. We shouldn’t be quiet about this – it’s ridiculous.
Josh posting as often as he did and being as transparent as he was (I’m not expecting ANet to tell us every little secret) was great to see in this forum. I’ve read through his forum posts, and none of it came across as the company being incompetent or him trying to get ANet into trouble.
It was refreshing to see. We all make mistakes – we’re human. It was great to see him being honest.
I won’t be surprised if this gets locked but I just wanted to put my thoughts here before it does. Don’t make your employees afraid to post, ANet and don’t treat them like children whose posts have to be approved.
Make it clear what they can and can’t say before they get reprimanded for not knowing.
I feel like I’ve missed something.
I’m still expecting a claw of jormag change.
His fight is slightly more complex than we currently have for the other dragons sure, but he still has no failing event and it’s still a matter of standing there and spamming 1 to win.
It took me about a day of non-hardcore playing to get 250 of them at least.
I’ll just delete them if they’re taking too much space. I’m not going to craft 250 bricks just because I can.
Still, yes. They are abundant. I’d rather they reduce the amount you need to make a brick and reduce the amount you get from champions.
I have no problem with criticism and I’m sure the devs realise that forums are always going to attract negativity more than positivity.
Where it starts getting stupid, though, is when it’s not at all constructive. When I see posts like, “these devs are incompetent and should hang themselves.” or, “I demand you do (x) or I’m gonna quit.” is when it crosses a line. If someone spoke to me like that physically face to face, their complaint would be lost on me immediately and I’d ban them from having anything to do with my business. Their money means little to me if they have the social skills of a gnat.
Also this ‘the customer is always right’ that gets spewed around needs to go away, too. Quite often, they’re wrong and I’m not going to give in to demands of a customer if they’re being completely unreasonable. You’re talking to other human beings and you are equal to them whether you want to admit it to yourself or not. There’s no excuse for treating them like they deserve less than you do. Of course, there are those that do this on purpose for their own entertainment, and while I just feel sorry for them, it’ll never stop while anonymity exists.
That said, there isn’t a terrible amount of that here. Sometimes people get passionate and cross into levels of hyperbole, but I think most of the threads I see are mostly constructive with a little bit of frustration mixed in.
Yes, there’s a very good chance of both.
Chance that they’ll be here in the next year? Maybe not, but Colin recently said they have small team working on capes in their free time.
He wasn’t almost downed by any of those teams naturally. ANet helped the third group get his health lower than 25%.
Without ANet’s help, they probably would have struggled to get him to 75% like the rest of the groups that day.
Anyway, I’m not sure if this is their answers to raids or not, but in a recent interview with Colin, he pretty much said that it was very unlikely they’d raise dungeons above 5 people because they felt it was the right number for co-ordination and not having to look for a bunch of people to start.
Whether his attitude towards dungeons applies to all instances, I don’t know.
If you want to be the boss of condition damage, then go Necro.
I haven’t levelled a Necro, personally, so I can’t comment, but I found thief really boring to level up and in general to play in PvE. However, I’ve had a blast playing a thief in WvW and sPvP.
My Mesmer wasn’t boring to level up, but it took a while for it to get good. It seems they scale a lot better when they’ve got all their traits unlocked. They’re wanted for PvE and WvW, though their role seems a bit different.
There is a Necro roaming WvW build in the Necro forum, I believe (I can’t link it, I’m on my phone), so a Necro is viable at roaming, which would make conditions a lot more useful. The problem with condition damage in large scale battles like zergs at world bosses, is that you become less and less effective the more people there are damaging a single target as conditions cap out. This is less a problem in WvW. I’ve encountered quite a few Necro condition builds used against me in WvW, but that’s owing to there being a lot more than a single target in large scale battles.
I think i’d try out a Necro and a Mesmer if I were you, but if you definitely want a condition build, then go Necro.
@Talyn – I think you misunderstood his post. He was saying his Engi and Guardian are built for high crit damage. He typo’d ‘are’ with ‘ate’.
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I think the only one that fits the least is Asura.
I’d place Sylvari, Charr and Norn in my top 3, though.
I’m hoping it will, personally. I liked the original world 2, but I get why it was made easier.
Josh has already confirmed he won’t make the world 3 and 4 zones as long as world 2’s, which I think will help. People will hopefully appreciate the difficulty more if the worlds are shorter and have less buggy mechanics.
Still, so long as Josh and the SAB team introduce new mechanics unique to each world, I won’t mind too much.
Following the old tropes of classic platformers, I’m expecting a lava zone, which I think will bring its own difficulty. If they can pull a mario and make the environmental objects around huge for one zone, that’ll be appreciated (kinda like the Wintersday jumping puzzle).
I’m also expecting some projectiles from walls that fire fireballs at you, and some form of environmental hazard that rotates and takes some jump timing to avoid.
Thanks Angel for taking the time to respond to this thread.
Er, were you hacked?
Or did support actually tell you they gave you a level 80? I didn’t think them being able to give you a level 80 in the live game was possible.
Ree pronounced it with a p (despite it not being there) before the game was released. I assume he wasn’t called Teqpuatl at some point, but maybe he was.
I call him Tequila, though, like a lot of people.
I can’t tell if this is meant to be a dig at Mini Mr Sparkles and you’re trying to compare adding professions to a mini, or if you’re being serious.
If you’re being serious, I think it’s a bad idea.
Even if it is every hour for 2 weeks, it’s less exhausting than invasions. At least there’ll be a 45 minute break if he fails.