Guild Wars 2

Sure sounds like it. 50 to light in one day (one night for working folk) sounds… painful. Good luck to the brave achievement hunters wading through the lag (if open world) or grind (if instance).

Wikis are like people. They are never 100% reliable. Ever.

Gambling is just a lesson in maths. Hopefully all the kiddies see it for what it is and skip it in game and in real life.

Actually I’m just more annoyed they aren’t communicating the requirements so well. When I dropped into Dragon Ball I was fortunate enough not to be in many matches with many AFKers and I found it really fun (odd since I’m a non pvp person)! Got the 20 wins in 25 or so games but stuck around to get whooped a little bit more. There were just some people that I’d try to get and no matter what, I’m the one that died! At least both sides found it funny. :P

William Fairfield.1428:

During my live stream on Friday I confirmed that the Dragon Ball achievements would not count towards the overall. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Ah your live stream which you expected everyone to watch? I don’t mind that they don’t count; in the future perhaps being clearer at the get go of which ones do count or not (on the announcement page itself) would save a lot of trouble.

Also given that Dragon Ball no longer counts for the overall thing called “the Dragon Bash experience”, I guess it means it is not part of Dragon Bash. This leads me to question why the hell is it there in the first place if it isn’t part of the festival? :P

Responses (fireworks/pinata breaking) within the city are delayed by a few minutes (exponential as I played on). By that I mean I managed to press F on 10 pinatas before I did the “whack pinata” action ten times and got 10 candies (at which point I was nowhere near a pinata). Tried to escape to Divinity’s Reach which was a bad move, now I can’t log in as it the load screen takes me to LA -> Div Reach -> LA -> Hang.

Was working fine yesterday.

Do the ones in higher zones drop better loot/gold?

Gambling is simply a lesson in maths. Easiest way to win is not to play.

ANet encourages greed and gambling. Definitely kid-friendly hey. :P

I think it should be if the match ends and you have 0 kills (or did 0 damage during the match) it drains x gold from your inventory/bank account/alts. If all of that is zero it prevents you from entering the match.

Yay thanks Lexy! I figured I was just missing it.

Interesting no staff has replied to even one of these posts (or just posted a general announcement of “yes we’re working on it”). Maybe they’re simply not meant to count?

I see a lot of “begins June xx” but no “ends on June xx” on the info page. Maybe I’m blind? Or does everything end after the effigy lighting on the 18th (which means there’s only 1 day to do/attend it)?

Also with the Dragon Bash Fireworks is that just an open invitation to Akitten Lion’s Arch?

Kain Francois.4328:

Joseph Skyrim.2470:

Oh lookie, another Lion’s Arch festival. Why did ANet even bother to make the other cities if they weren’t going to be used?

Super Adventure Box was Rata Sum.

Touché. Actually I wonder if that’s another reason why I liked that silly box so much.

Here’s another, super simple method for hard mode:
Never WP when dead.

May need to ignore that if party wipes in a dungeon though, unless you are all playing perma-death.

I support this idea.

Oh lookie, another Lion’s Arch festival. Why did ANet even bother to make the other cities if they weren’t going to be used?

If you really want something that makes no sense, where is the reason throwing karka eggs at the karka queen is the only way to beat her? Lazy/bad design? :/

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

On farming in general, there’s a sweet spot that combines good loot with fun, engaging content.

Define “good” loot. Those chests you mentioned barely had enough to cover WP travel. Also is it intentional that none of the pre-queen settlement tasks have no reward? Not that the queen herself had anything worth looting.

Guys, never spend your money on cash shop stuff. It’s just pixels.

It may be “hand-holding” for some, but I also didn’t see any indication of what to do next (other than on Dulfy’s site – seems to be a theme here, if you want to find content go look at other sites). The in-game mail didn’t really drop any hints and since I already talked to every npc before I wasn’t really looking for new stars on the map or whatever.

Next time a quest objective stating: “Go talk to Kiel at Pearl Islet” would be nice. That said the instanced quest itself I found very good.

I am still wondering why we still have to throw it’s own eggs at it? That just doesn’t make sense, nor is intuitive at all. Took Gunnar’s Hold 3 attempts to eventually down one queen when I was on, with having to get all the outposts again in between.

While I’m on the topic of weird stuff, why do those reef riders not kill the partying visitors in the dance hut? They don’t hesitate to attack me.

ProxyDamage.9826:

How does my guardian set things on fire underwater by bashing them really hard with a spear?

Greek fire, stored within the spear and ignited as you strike (Obviously we’re just being silly). :P

Also lol @ LameFox’s answer above!

Video evidence:

Have a nice weekend all!

Neeeeiiiigh! Neeeiiiigh!

Wait wait… whack!

Ok now it’s dead.

:(

Seriously though, I love horses. Please don’t kill them.

Also, while it may be going in circles closing this will just make someone spawn a new topic of more of the same.

Undead horse. Dun dun dunnnnnn! (<—- that was supposed to be scary music)

Where do precursor knives drop btw? Not that I’ve seen -any- precursors at all anyway. :P

Hehe no idea, but if they were filled with gas a little lighter than whatever the air in Tyria is composed of and can inhale heavier air / expel lighter air it would make sense.

…

Until you kill them. At which point they should float away like balloons.

Doh. Ok maybe not gas powered then?

Let’s just say you should be glad you can’t smell them. ^_~

alcopaul.2156:

Joseph Skyrim.2470:

Just as a test for those who want the /inspect function – say there’s a new dungeon instance for the living story which is pretty tough, but supposedly upscales everyone to do it. You get there and there are two groups waiting to get a fifth person (because it’s one of those, forced 5 man things) – also you have the inspect function and can see that:

One team is full of level 80s decked out in full exotics.
One team is composed of under level 30s that have maybe greens at best.
You have never met anyone in either of the teams before.

First question: This is your first time running the dungeon. Which group do you join?
Second question: You have run it before and got all the achievements but it’s a pretty good farm. Which group do you join?

Common sense is common sense. But I don’t want to make the group carry me. I must do my part also. I must make my level 80 character geared to perform optimally in the dungeon so all the members in our party are in equal footing.

And they could /inspect that for all they want. At least I did my part.

I see. Now say the lev 80 full exotic group is full and only the other one remains, would you party with them (with your level 80 efficient killer) or just wait until more level 80s show up, because you don’t want to “carry” them (not knowing if they may actually be good players just be levelling their n-th alts)?

More broadly, would you ever party with players who you view as your “lessers” if you don’t know them?

Technically you can, since you can switch in-game gold to gems to buy the space you need. Probably would be smarter to buy extra character slots with the said gems though just to make mules because they can hold much more depending on the bags you give them.

I agree it would be nice to get them via an easier non shop method though. :P

Just as a test for those who want the /inspect function – say there’s a new dungeon instance for the living story which is pretty tough, but supposedly upscales everyone to do it. You get there and there are two groups waiting to get a fifth person (because it’s one of those, forced 5 man things) – also you have the inspect function and can see that:

One team is full of level 80s decked out in full exotics.
One team is composed of under level 30s that have maybe greens at best.
You have never met anyone in either of the teams before.

First question: This is your first time running the dungeon. Which group do you join?
Second question: You have run it before and got all the achievements but it’s a pretty good farm. Which group do you join?

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Because my gear is none of your frigging business.

Well said, and I definitely agree! Furthermore I would like ANet to make combat possible in town clothes, that way I can look like I’m just running around in stylish pants (no shirt/shoes/gloves or hat) but still have the boons of my hidden armor. That would be fantastic.

Those that want the /inspect function should simply make a guild called “flashers” or “l33t dud35” or something and as a requirement for new members get them to ping their gear to prove they are rich enough to be associated with them. Then, just party with that guild as you know all those members have equipment that pass your efficiency gear gate. Shouldn’t be that hard?

I like both, but prefer open world stuff as it readily affects the world instead of being segmented off in a new zone. If ANet wants more “replayable” storylines though as some people are asking then they should lean more towards instanced quests.

Invoker.5462:

Perma death -OR- the dropping of all loot on death, i dont know why, but i feel like this makes MMO’s so much fun for so much longer! Can you imagine how many more guilds would work together so much more seriously, how many people would travel in massive groups, how much RP…. Just the thought makes me kitten. A HC mode of Guild wars 2, where loot tables are quadrupled in favor of the player, and mobs are taken more seriously!

Grr, not sure why i like this, maybe its an immersion thing?

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You should try Wizardry Online then. There’s always a chance for perma-death on dying and running from the kitten ed reapers (who lessen your revive chance by 10% each time they “catch” your spirit) is terrifying.

As a bonus you can also die in some pretty horrible ways – beheading, cleaved in two, etc. ;p

Get yourself to Lion’s Arch (big portal thing can take you there from any of the main cities, you’ll have to look for em.), then find another big portal thing that will take you to Southsun cove. I think it’s got a star on it on the map. Easier to find where to go once there, just follow everyone else. ;p

One time reward, once you’ve got it there’s no point doing the instance ever again unless you’re chasing the other achievement.

Thief – 80

Other characters are below lev 40 and I have no real desire to level them up.

Sollith I think you’ll find many blind people don’t play MMORPGs, at best they play MUDs. :P

Vlad – not to worry, this fight is not a requirement to advance the story (my wording in first post was bad, sorry) – it just shows how Kiel captures Canach by making use of an idiot to do her job for her (us). Also, Canach spills some beans on his grand schemes.

If you and your wife decide to retry here are some tips:
1 – the red mines will not explode unless you literally bump into them or Canach does his “detonating bombs” move – keep an eye on the chat log. Bumping into them is survivable. Canach detonating them (or you detonating them wrongly) is not.

2 – When you first enter, there’s a pillar that goes to the roof to the left of your view. To the right of it (from that view) and right beside it is a “bomb” mine. Use “2”. Don’t worry about any of the other mines, just avoid them and play merry-go-around using “2” on that one device and try keep Canach on the opposite side of the pillar to you – he’ll be dumb enough to wander into it while trying to get around the pillar.

You don’t even need to scan once you know what mines are where.

3 – If he arms the mines you have 3-5 seconds to get near the short climbable stones where he starts. There’s a safe spot there, just stand in the water. There’s a bigger safe spot in the further pool, but will make your run to and from the pillar longer.

4 – While the bombs are coming back (yellow) just run around the pillar again. Don’t worry too much about Canach hitting you. You’ll survive even if he bumps you into a mine.

Maybe I had the pleasure of fighting him while he was bugged with a karka in his epidermis. I simply posted my findings when I did it, and I didn’t need to hide long or run far to get him to reset. Back of the cave behind him (or even just on top of the short pillar, not stealthed) was enough to lose aggro/make him regen.

In the end I just made sure to stay unhidden and in range of his dash attack (just roll to evade) so that he wouldn’t forget I was there.

Actually if it’s the “alt” cycling thing that’s the issue then maybe they should only allow 1 character to be created per account every 24 hours/7 days/whatever time buffer.

Also thanks Njordfinn for the reply.

Dear ANet, thanks for giving a single player instance to progress the story. Next time could you make it so that we can actually use the skills our characters have in the rest of the game rather than some gimmicky everyman device?

For the Canach thing, hell – you could have let us temporarily play as Inspector Kiel for the whole thing and it would have been the same. Actually why didn’t she and her charr lackey just go ahead and capture Canach? They didn’t need to have any special abilities or any combat experience. All they needed was a mine detector, many of which were already in the cave (like right beside them)? :/

Also, can you let our characters ask how much we are being paid to do a task before doing it? Some of us aren’t as noble as the rest. ;p

Chatbox methods may work for solo instanced stuff but I can see how spam trolls can make that hell easy for grouped content.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Players were exploiting it by deleting and remaking characters, so we made it based on your entire account.

Edit:
Due to the reward being so high, and the upscaling for the living world, this was seen as being bad.

How much exactly do we get now as opposed to “before”?

Fumbler.1384:

They showed up at Southsun. Found out there was nothing really to do there, and then left.

Even dead folk don’t like being tossers. Crab tossers that is.

Meluna.1764:

He ran after Lost Shores and is still on the run until we capture him. The Lionguard is just the city police of LA. Since LA is run by the Captains Counsel, they answer to that. Canach doesn’t respect their jurisdiction either which is why he slipped off.

Voice over at the end is buggy. I heard Canach but not Kiel. So I still don’t know how he is pronounced XD I expect a hotfix coming in.

Ahha, thanks Meluna. It does go to show that when we defeat someone, we really should do it permanently [every time], otherwise they come back angrier, on god-mode and with crabs. o_o

Rebound.3409:

I am a glass-thief and had no issues. I failed twice asking no advice. Once because i didn’t see the scanners on the ground (lolnub) and the second because i didn’t realise canach could manually explode all bombs in the area so i got caught.

Thief is easy..u have stealth to get out fast and speed buff.

Hehe you would think so but not in my case (bad player). Speed Buff yes, but stealth? Man he did -not- like me stealthing. Without fail if I stealthed he just went “Oh! He’s gone. Time to regenerate my HP.” This happened to me around six – nine times before I finally went ok, I can’t use stealth then.

The only time he didn’t drop aggro and regen is when I was downed and used the smoke bomb stealth. No, for that one he patiently waited to kill me – even chasing me around when I would relocate with the other downed skill. :P

Also thanks to everyone else who wants to nuke the island! Glad I’m not the only one!

Took me 30 minutes (and many deaths). I’m lousy, but I still agree that it was a very slack / lazy instance.

blackgoat.5172:

Pizz.3698:

Some lame dungeon to appease the casual crowd with easy content.

I get that some people don’t have/won’t put the time into a game, but I’m just so tired of these crappy, easy mode “MMO’s”. Does anyone make a truly epic, work you’re kitten off for real rewards, game any more? or has WoW ruined the genre for all time?

You should look into Wizardry Online. It’s free and might be your sort of thing – stay on GW2 as well though. It’s nice to play something “mellow” alternating with something “omg I want to kill myself and the universe”ish.

Cristobal.8640:

What would you do if you were a settler, btw?

I sure as hell would either fight to the death or run asap, certainly not keep working…

See, if all the people were “settlers” then I’d probably side with them. However the “proud” races of Norn and Charr (lore wise) are here as refugees, aka cowards who ran away from their home when a few dredge and flame legion showed up.

And I don’t mean the ones who fell back to Hoelbrak and the Black Citadel. These people fled all the way to Lion’s Arch and beyond, leaving the rest of their kin to deal with the molten alliance threat. Yeah. Way to go.

Most (all?) consortium are asura, sylvari and human – as are the ones on “vacation” who I’m sure weren’t dumb or desperate enough to sign any contracts. Well… maybe Faren did.

For the benefit of my fellow thieves out there, I know most of you aren’t silly enough to be exploded by Canach numerous times (like me :p) but for those that are here are a few tips:

Do not get knocked down. It’s pretty much game over when you do, because our downed skills cannot get you away from… well anything these days, leaving us to rely on rallying via throwing knives like madmen. Unfortunately Canach is a slippery god-mode lettuce so that won’t work. :P

If you do die, don’t forget to pick up a mine detector and don’t rush back to try reach him before he heals. You can’t, even with speed buffs. Even if you do he’ll only be slighlty frazzled.

That convenient rock structure in the middle of the lake? Don’t climb up it. He’ll regenerate.

Don’t go to the very back of his cavern. He’ll regenerate.

Don’t use stealth or the shadow field thingy. He’ll regenerate.

Don’t use thieves guild and run off. Once he’s done with them he’ll regenerate. Also, they’ll probably get hit by mines.

Don’t steal from him, it gives you a stealth item. If you use it at a bad time (i think when he detonates) he loses target and will regenerate.

Basically don’t be a thief. Don’t be whoever you were outside the instance, who the whole game teaches you to be. In here you just have to be the smiley face in minesweeper, and don’t try it if you’re not in a state to remember which bombs are which. ;D

Side notes:
Is there execution in Tyria? If so why is Canach still alive to begin with? Lionguard must be incompetent. Proof: Lionguard people let a random merc do their job, also the lionguard answer to pirates. Lol.

Also ANet, having NPCs converse half voiced (Kiel), while the other it purely text (Canach) is not a good look. Basically I thought to myself you were too cheap and couldn’t hire a voice actor. Feels very incomplete and half-posterior-ed.

Can we nuke the island at the end of the story pretty please? Complete with consortium, refugees (aka cowards) and the karka all together? It’s the only way to be sure! ^_~

Treadstone.2564:

But concerts and football games don’t have storylines to them. This game does.

Imagine if you missed four or five episodes of a TV show that you’re really into, and you want to catch up, but they have been destroyed forever. They’ll never be re-aired or released on video. Wow.

Or imagine a series of fantasy novels in which you have a limited amount of time to read the latest chapter before all copies spontaneously burn to ashes.

“I started reading Game of Thrones, and the first four books were great, but the fifth book doesn’t exist anymore. They’ve moved on to the sixth one. The fifth book was only around for two weeks. It was temporary.”

I can just imagine Rickon Stark (youngest of Eddard’s kids) being annoyed that he can’t take part in the final part of the Baratheon rebellion against the Targaryens because he hadn’t made his character yet when those events took place and now argues with the old gods and the new to make a time loop so that that battle can continue to happen, along side the day to day life at King’s Landing, the numerous weddings, and the battle of the Blackwater at the same time so he can take part in all of them, knowing that no matter what he does it won’t change the outcome but he doesn’t care. At least this way he gets to experience it.

Reading about it or being told about it afterwards isn’t good enough you see. He has to live it. Does that sound about right?

Sorry Jia, I’m still sticking too having each “zone” instanced if they decide to have replayable. A truck load of mobs will generate server lag regardless if you see them or not. Maybe the asura gates can travel back in time? :P

So you can have for example:
Wayfarer Foothills
Wayfarer Foothills (Molten Alliance)

Don’t think it’s going to be worth the cash for ANet to have the extra servers though. But hey, I’m sure there are more creative dudes on the forum than me who may have better ideas?