Guild Wars 2

I suspected it was for him, but I went for the other other choice.

CrashTestAuto.9108:

Kal Spiro.9745:

You misunderstand, that would all take at most a week. The positive posts would burn out within the first page after the statement, the negative posts and subsequent arguments would go on for a couple pages before business as usual.

Even assuming your prediction was accurate, it doesn’t justify ANet’s behaviour. They’re providing a bad customer service. Just because actually providing a good customer service might not please everyone, that doesn’t somehow alleviate them from that responsibility.

It would take ten minutes for someone who knows what is going on to post here letting us know. That would appease a large number of their customers, and in particular the ones who bought the infinite continue coin who are not receiving a service they paid money for. Even if it doesn’t solve every problem in the world, its common decency.

And if the answer is, “Nothing has changed as of the previous answer.” Would you be satisfied? How often do they need to “update” us, regardless of what the answer is, for acceptable “customer service?” It isn’t customer service, by the way. They don’t actually owe us an answer, regardless of how much you might want one. They don’t owe us anything, regardless of whether or not you feel gipped for a purchase that would eventually effectively time out. That’s why I bought it with gold instead of cash.

Something expensive

It was a limited return and today is patch day. It’s generally best to just assume that any skin you like will be removed on a Tuesday.

Iason Evan.3806:

I really wish we were voting on names that had pictures to accompany the choices. Like, assets were present in the pics to give an idea of the aesthetic. This is like when people post mods for Skyrim or Oblivion but offer no pics to see what you are downloading. I am sure the town you created outside Whiterun is awesome, but I’d like to see the architecture choices. “Aerodrome” screams Aetherblade or Zephyrite to me which I don’t think flows with LA at all. If I am wrong, well at least you can see where my confusion could be justified. If nothing has been decided on yet, then maybe wait until assets are in place to go with the naming conventions so we can see what we are voting on.

I love the idea with voting. It’s great you are giving us agency, but as it stands now it’s like being on that old game show with Monte Hall where we are given mystery choices behind door 1, 2, or 3.

Except there is only one choice. The aesthetic isn’t changing based on the name. No matter what we choose those places will look the same. It is entirely about what we will be naming them, regardless of how they look.

Therodin.2970:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Therodin.2970:

lordkrall.7241:

And would anyone here actually accept a reply that said: “No we can’t add it right now due to lack of resource?”
I find that rather unlikely.

If a dev got on here and said hey guys i just loaded up W1 and 2 to check out how it fairs in the current build and right off the bat i noticed these game breaking problems:1.2.3.
I dont know when we will be able to get to them but thats why w1 and 2 cant come back. i think if a dev did that that mass majority of people here would be gratefull

That is so Naïve it’s adorable. As is the case in EVERY SINGLE thread in which a dev has said almost exactly the same thing about anything in the game the posts that immediately followed would be positive, “Thanks for the update, do your best, we believe.” In short order the posts would start turning, “What are you guys doing? You should have done this ages ago? You’re doing everything wrong.” Things would stabilize with people telling off other people that they told us, others claiming they lied to us, and we’d just be right back where we started saying, “Why isn’t it done yet?”

The best they could do would be to give us an imaginary number for a minimum release time, like they did for personal story changes. That way all complaints and questions get shut down immediately by player that are acting as a personal count down timer. Once the timer runs out they still have the buffer of, “Well it was minimum time, they didn’t give us maximum time.”

You don’t think people have a right to expect service in a timely manner? If the waiter told you your food was going to be late, you’d thank him and probably be perfectly polite waiting but when it continued to not show up you would justifiably start to get irritated.

You misunderstand, that would all take at most a week. The positive posts would burn out within the first page after the statement, the negative posts and subsequent arguments would go on for a couple pages before business as usual.

Moa Chicks have been there. They apparently take a real long time to grow up.

Apolus.3157:

I think Lion’s Arch Aerodrome is better. Simple and clean.

Theo Ashford is the pirate captain from the council who was assassinated in the aetherblade attack during dragon bash, Scarlet wanted to put someone infiltrated in his place but we killed the impostor and got Ellen Kiel instead.

Yeah, I super didn’t care about that guy. And while you could sort of almost claim he was the first casualty in LA, he had nothing at all to do with the Battle and the destruction of LA.

I want the helm, and nothing else involved

Donari.5237:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/lions-arch-construction-nears-completion-new-player-poll-announced/

I’m trying to answer the poll but I’m missing crucial things. Like … what would Festival Plaza look like if I voted for that instead of bringing back the lion fountain? Where will the Aerodrome be? “Apex” only works if it’s at a high point of the city. What will the memorial look like? If it’s a field, then Field of the Fallen works, but if it’s a pylon or wall, that doesn’t. Plus I’d prefer something like “The Forever Stone” over the “Forever Memorial” as the latter doesn’t flow so well.

Aieeee. Uninformed voting is a Bad Thing!

Just names, not visuals. Whether or not the lions statue returns the question is do you want to keep the name the same, or change it to reference that it is the focal point of most festivals in LA.

My problem with Apex Aerodrome is that it doesn’t flow well. Apex bring in a full stop, while Martial sounds better.

I passed on Field of the Fallen because it sounds too Charr and it needs to be universal. I have no idea who Theo Ashford is, nor why I care, so that doesn’t work either.

Ashen.2907:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Ashen.2907:

Donari.5237:

Ashen.2907:

DeWolfe.2174:

Or, it’s a holiday weekend and they plan to go on holiday too? It’s a wild idea, I know.

Honest question here, what holiday ?

It’s Memorial Day Weekend in the US, Monday is a federal holiday. Most private companies don’t have the Monday off (in fact, retailers go into overdrive with sales) but loads of people traditionally do cookouts over the weekend.

For those worried there is no reveal this week, calm down! There is just no specialization reveal. The only “break” they’re taking is from specs. We’re not getting an information shutdown this week.

Here, in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIFkYdG7yoM at 52:40 to 53:15 or so, Rubi says they’re taking a break from spec reveals because they have something else special to reveal and it will need a whole show.

Memorial day is next monday (25th) and the associated weekend is next weekend.

Considering today is Tuesday the 19th, the earliest Monday and Weekend we can have is next Monday and next Weekend. So I’m missing your point.

The person I originally quoted said that we were currently in a holiday weekend. The responder suggested that the holiday in question was Memorial day. I pointed out that such was not the case because the Memorial holiday weekend doesnt occur until next weekend. I really am curious as to which holiday was being referred. Holiday histories are of particular interest to me. I also find interesting how often local holidays are assumed to be celebrated on a wider scale than is actually the case.

You misunderstood. Everyone involved was always talking about this coming weekend since the videos are on Friday.

Therodin.2970:

lordkrall.7241:

And would anyone here actually accept a reply that said: “No we can’t add it right now due to lack of resource?”
I find that rather unlikely.

If a dev got on here and said hey guys i just loaded up W1 and 2 to check out how it fairs in the current build and right off the bat i noticed these game breaking problems:1.2.3.
I dont know when we will be able to get to them but thats why w1 and 2 cant come back. i think if a dev did that that mass majority of people here would be gratefull

That is so Naïve it’s adorable. As is the case in EVERY SINGLE thread in which a dev has said almost exactly the same thing about anything in the game the posts that immediately followed would be positive, “Thanks for the update, do your best, we believe.” In short order the posts would start turning, “What are you guys doing? You should have done this ages ago? You’re doing everything wrong.” Things would stabilize with people telling off other people that they told us, others claiming they lied to us, and we’d just be right back where we started saying, “Why isn’t it done yet?”

The best they could do would be to give us an imaginary number for a minimum release time, like they did for personal story changes. That way all complaints and questions get shut down immediately by player that are acting as a personal count down timer. Once the timer runs out they still have the buffer of, “Well it was minimum time, they didn’t give us maximum time.”

Ashen.2907:

Donari.5237:

Ashen.2907:

DeWolfe.2174:

Or, it’s a holiday weekend and they plan to go on holiday too? It’s a wild idea, I know.

Honest question here, what holiday ?

It’s Memorial Day Weekend in the US, Monday is a federal holiday. Most private companies don’t have the Monday off (in fact, retailers go into overdrive with sales) but loads of people traditionally do cookouts over the weekend.

For those worried there is no reveal this week, calm down! There is just no specialization reveal. The only “break” they’re taking is from specs. We’re not getting an information shutdown this week.

Here, in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIFkYdG7yoM at 52:40 to 53:15 or so, Rubi says they’re taking a break from spec reveals because they have something else special to reveal and it will need a whole show.

Memorial day is next monday (25th) and the associated weekend is next weekend.

Considering today is Tuesday the 19th, the earliest Monday and Weekend we can have is next Monday and next Weekend. So I’m missing your point.

TheGrimm.5624:

Adding all the chef items that can be created to the collections would also go some distance for anyone that does food crafting. I think that alone is a bank tab. Salt & Pepper, Beef Stock, baker dry ingredients, lion tiger and bears oh my. But would also acquire more bank tabs if given that option too!

This is what I want. At the very least the ingredients that are only ingredients and can’t be consumed. Consumable ingredients can take bank space.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

lordkrall.7241:

Arietta The Broken.1875:

I don’t understand why people are happy enough to settle with HoT news as “content”
That seems to be Anets motto right now.

We’ll give them info on HoT and that’ll keep them busy watching a 120s video for 2 weeks. np.

Because some people are realistic?

It’s realistic for Anet to release content 3x slower than every other AAA MMO currently on the market? Seems like it is more realistic to expect a feature patch every 3 months in addition to an expansion every 2 years just like other MMO’s do…

In fact I don’t know of a single MMO other than GW2 that completely stopped all content to release an expansion 9 months later.

How is releasing new content every month, and then every half a month for two years 3 times slower than anyone ever? Just because most of it didn’t stick around? Boo hoo.

They tried one way, and it works for some people and not for others. Now they’re trying it the other way.

Personally I’d love to know what games you’re playing that apparently have massive chunks of random permanent content and regular expansions happening simultaneously. Because I certainly have never played that game, let alone what is apparently a genre of games.

FoRcExVoRtEx.9548:

inb4 someone complains about Zephyrites stuck in DT

You missed it by five minutes actually, it was the very first reply.

Rauderi.8706:

mtpelion.4562:

There are no Nordic peoples in Tyria.

You forfeit all points for presenting a factually incorrect assertion.

They’re pretty much like Hogwort’s points anyway.

Thusly, I award ArenaNet 200 points.

OP: 3, ArenaNet: 200, Kal Spiro: 1

#whoslineisitanyway

Just for that, I deduct 5 from Gryffindor

I recommend only unlocking the traits you specifically want to use. It will be a lot easier, especially if you’re already 80 anyway.

Dawnbreaker.6215:

Kal Spiro.9745:

The reason the Norn are the biggest and loudest drunks, other than being the largest major race, is that their entire society is about being a free spirit and doing what you like. The Charr get drunk with the best of them, but their strict military society doesn’t allow for mindless frivolity in that regard. Humans enjoy their drink, but half of them are too busy just trying to survive, while the other “smaller” half are too worried about appearances to get mindlessly drunk on a regular basis. Asura may enjoy drinking, possibly, but it’s more to drown out failure for an experiment gone wrong than to celebrate. The Sylvari would be the next most likely to experiment with booze on a whole unmoderated level, but generally speaking they’re supposed to be too noble for that, they have a higher purpose and that’s what they’re after.

The Norn have literally nothing better to do, especially if drinking a Dolyak’s weight in beer can be written in their legendary deeds. That and getting mindlessly drunk makes doing crazy, pointless, but ultimately awesome things with a high probability of death a lot easier to stomach.

Nice job, I didn’t expect to see a good answer to my question.

In fact I’m changing my scoreboard to this now:

Me: 2, Anet: 0, Kal Spiro: 1

Thanks, but I’m pretty sure that’s ANet’s point since I’m not doing any more than explaining what they intended the whole time.

It’s unclear where Airships come from. The Aetherblades are Scarlet’s merging of Sky Pirates with Inquest. But since Season one comes after the formation of the Pact it’s possible that the Sky Pirates, which consist of all races (except Sylvari) might be Pact deserters. Of course the story of the Zephyrites suggests that the Sky Pirates were always a thing, we just never knew about them.

Since they still consist of all the non plant races, though, it’s unclear where the inspiration came from. Further more, it’s unclear within the Pact where the inspiration came from. Ultimately, though, I would say airships are a conglomerate technology, and not restricted to one race.

At best humans have hot air balloons, which aren’t very useful in wartime.

The reason the Norn are the biggest and loudest drunks, other than being the largest major race, is that their entire society is about being a free spirit and doing what you like. The Charr get drunk with the best of them, but their strict military society doesn’t allow for mindless frivolity in that regard. Humans enjoy their drink, but half of them are too busy just trying to survive, while the other “smaller” half are too worried about appearances to get mindlessly drunk on a regular basis. Asura may enjoy drinking, possibly, but it’s more to drown out failure for an experiment gone wrong than to celebrate. The Sylvari would be the next most likely to experiment with booze on a whole unmoderated level, but generally speaking they’re supposed to be too noble for that, they have a higher purpose and that’s what they’re after.

The Norn have literally nothing better to do, especially if drinking a Dolyak’s weight in beer can be written in their legendary deeds. That and getting mindlessly drunk makes doing crazy, pointless, but ultimately awesome things with a high probability of death a lot easier to stomach.

Who said anything about a fair fight? In Race vs Race, fairness isn’t part of the equation. It’s anything one side can bring to bare. Humans still have a few Watchwork Knights hanging around… literally.

Dawdler.8521:

Harper.4173:

If the humans attack there’s a lot of speculation that could be had – what if they use asura gates?
What if they use airships. The norn don’t have those.

Humans doesnt have any more of that than Norn does. The airships came from the Charr with armament obviously Asuran. It wasnt until the Pact brought everyone together that they made it into a usable weapon. Charr also made the tanks and helicopters. At best, Humans got their regular ships. Which, if they are all as well designed as the one that we have seen leaving Claw Island for 3 years now, would tip over and sink if a Norn sneezed on it.

Something I just thought of as well when recalling what I said about allies… Norns would probably have alot easier time getting local allies such as the Sons of Svanir. Sure they are enemies, but they are still Norn and they all know it. In contrast, Humans would probably have alot more problems getting the help from bandits and Centaurs. Centaurs in particular would probably ally themselves with the Norn against Humans… Which pretty much means they are boned.

The Centaur would not help the Norn, they’re xenophobic and hate everyone equally. They would attack both sides if they got the chance. The Jotun would probably act similarly. The only local races that might assist are the Skritt and the Grawl. The Skritt would fight for the better bribe of the hour, and the Grawl would fight for whoever made the most convincing god.

Why do people keep bringing up the Sons of Svanir as if they’re a different people. They’re Norn, just like Bandits are Human, Inquest are Asura, Nightmare Court are Sylvari and Flame Legion are Charr.

Of those groups, only the Inquest would be likely to fight on the side of their race because they actually are under the supervision of their central government.

The Sons of Svanir, though, are still Norn and, like all Norn, consider themselves beholden to no one, so if they wanted to fight for their people or their land, they would, just like any other Norn.

Dawnbreaker.6215:

Arrk.4102:

Dawnbreaker.6215:

Humans and Norn are equally strong, physically. That is because of magic. Think of humans as a more compact, focussed force and the Norn as a more expanded, diluted amount of the same force.

Physically Norn are far stronger than Humans. The lore of both games and the extra material state that.

If that held any truth, and humans were weaker than other races based on size, then they would have not conquered Tyria, let alone the Charr. Heck, if they were like real life, medieval humans, they would have been wiped out a long time ago.

I’ll give you a couple reasons why this didn’t happen. Most of the races of Tyria were not organized when the humans showed up. The Norn were in the Far Shiverpeaks keeping to themselves. The Asura were somewhere underground, maybe. The Sylvari didn’t exist yet. The Dwarves, Centaur and Charr were the major problems. BUT, the Humans had a very potent advantage. They had gods who were willing to directly interact with the world, and who brought them to the world in the first place, so they were invested in Human survival.

With the aid of the gods and simple Human ingenuity they were able to spread. Unfortunately the Charr were divided and so they couldn’t provided a stable defense, losing them Ascalon. The Centaurs were not united and so they were also defeated and pushed out of the Kryta. Whatever lived in Elona and Cantha was just removed entirely. The Dwarves kept to themselves, for the most part, but they also maintained their boarders. Any other races were either wiped out or pushed aside and left the humans alone.

Eventually, though, through infighting and just being over sure of themselves, the Humans became lax. The result was the newly unified armies of the Charr overrunning Ascalon. Then before they could overrun Orr, the whole place was sunk. If not for the Mursaat protecting Kryta the Charr would have wiped them out too.

This shows definitively that the Charr are physically superior to humans. If not for intervention of gods and more powerful creatures all the humans in Tyria would be gone. The humans in Elona and Cantha would probably be fine, though. Despite their extreme physical capabilities and roman military precision, though, when the Norn fled south to escape Jormag, the Charr were unable to match them, and the Norn have absolutely no organization what so ever.

Rated T-Teen

Quit picking on people and let them kill you sometimes?

I would definitely have preferred some of the male Charr horns on my female Charr. Also having more options, whether or not some people would appreciate them is never wrong.

Leo G.4501:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Do you see how massive the tail on the raptor is, compared to the rest of its body? Now, do you see how tiny the Charr tail is compared to it’s massive head, horns and shoulders? They don’t offset. That tail will allow the Charr to keep its balance while on all fours, just like any other cat, but it’s not offsetting any weight.

You didn’t look at the pic from my previous post, did you?

If you did, you’d be able to make the comparison that the velociraptor’s tail is compensating for its much larger head, neck, shoulders, arms and torso thus the bigger tail while the Charr’s tail might not be thick, but it is still long and only compensating for their head/horns and part their neck. I think part of your misunderstanding is you’re overcompensating the weight of their heads and necks when it’s their shoulders that are actually what’s more weighty due to their quadrupedal nature. Consider a dog. Their weight is distributed among their 4 legs but just because his neck and head are beyond its center of gravity, does that dog run the danger of falling forward without a tail due to its thick neck and cranium? The answer is no because the head and neck aren’t the heaviest parts, it’s the torso, shoulders and arms.

And I’m just going to tell you to do some research on tails and their functions. I don’t have all day to explain weight distribution, fulcrums and other such things.

Also, it feels like I’ve had this discussion with you in the past. Perhaps it was someone else but they had a similar misinformed mindset.

Wasn’t me, must have been someone else. But you’re the misinformed one, and you’re the one that needs to look at your own picture again. How you can possible think the raptor and the Charr are similar is beyond me. The Raptor tail, on its own, has easily as much mass as the entire upper torso. That isn’t the case for the Charr. Their tails are slender. Also the raptor tail is effectively on the same plain as the head. Again this is not the case with the Charr, it’s too low on the body to effectively offset the weight of the head, especially considering how little mass it has. It’s at the perfect location to aid in balance while on all fours, but again, not for bipedal locomotion.

Fenrir.3609:

BrooksP.4318:

The dungeon story goes along the same path as the personal story, while separate in influence it still plays along the same path. So assuming you do the PS as you level, waiting till the end to do the dungeons will still seem out of place.

There is nothing to stop the player grouping for the content at the relevant time (i.e. doing it in order), then going back at max cap to solo them (in order), take his/her time and see the cutscenes.

Tbh there is nothing really stopping someone making a group saying “no cutscene skipping” either, for story mode that shouldn’t be much of an issue.

Anyway, I fear we maybe derailing the thread somewhat.

Or they could just make the story part of the story, make it soloable and scalable, and then this would all be academic, because anyone could just run through the dungeon on their own when it unlocked, or not as they please, without having to worry or even think about it.

Khisanth.2948:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Khisanth.2948:

Kal Spiro.9745:

I love all these, those are much better stats, as if anyone really gives a crap what your stats are before max level, let along at level 18.

Give me account bound level 10 exotic, though, and I will run all my alts through the personal story so I can deck out a key farmer in that gear.

For a key farmer a level 1 or 2 exotic would be much better.

You can’t do personal story until level 10, so you might as well be keeping level 10 gear.

Doing the story steps was never an issue even while underleveled. The main goal is to level to 10 as quickly as possible. If it is a lv2 item with stats 6 levels above that means your lv2 will be “fully” geared for at least up to lv8. That should make it much easier to plow through lv2-10.

A lv10 with gear equivalent to lv8 should still be able to easily steamroll through lv10 content, especially for an experienced player(or just some consumables for additional stat boost). If you are leveling using crafting then a lv10 version might be more useful.

Not sure what you’re doing to reach level 10, but most people don’t need gear to do it.

IndigoSundown.5419:

• Teq: respawn at the Quaggan village, run back, almost always arrive in time to enjoy the event
• Grenth: respawn at Meddler’s, run back, go through pitk area to get there, maybe get there in time to enjoy the event
• VW: respawn at the entrance to the zone, run back, can’t get in, can’t enjoy the event

While I understand the idea of incentive not to die, I can also understand why people don’t want to run back at some events. Teq, though, there’s no excuse.

This is a simple solution for VW, though. Add a waypoint near the event that is only uncontested during the event. That’s really the only one that’s a problem otherwise.

cocowoushi.7150:

Why would you respawn at the Camp if you die at VW when you could respawn at the Labyrinth entrance?? Sure you can’t go back and fight that champ you died on but as long as all 3 die, you get the chest anyways.

That’s a good point, but only if you know how to get there in the first place. Or that there is something to get to. If you haven’t done the story you have no reason to know about it.

Malediktus.9250:

They are already soloable, just takes some effort instead of steamrolling.

They are not soloable to the vast majority of players. Take your elitism somewhere else.

Do you see how massive the tail on the raptor is, compared to the rest of its body? Now, do you see how tiny the Charr tail is compared to it’s massive head, horns and shoulders? They don’t offset. That tail will allow the Charr to keep its balance while on all fours, just like any other cat, but it’s not offsetting any weight.

Arcadio.6875:

It’s a bit awkward that Arah story is the final part of both the personal story and the dungeon story. It would be nice if the dungeon story was made soloable (by your average player, not just by good players) and merged into the personal story. The problem is that the personal story isn’t very repeatable. You either have to make an alt or join someone else’s story. They need to make it like LW S2 in which you can repeat old story steps. Just make it so that in chapters where you make a decision that will affect the next chapter, you are locked into the decision you made the first time around.

This could actually help them in that regard. The reason they haven’t been able to make the personal story repeatable is because you make choices in the personal story that have a direct impact on the rest of the story. They’re working on technology in HoT that will allow those choices not to mess everything else up, so that they might be able to implement it.

The story dungeons, though, don’t effect anything. So they could use them as placeholders in the greater story replay feature. Or they could set up the dungeons outside the main story so that when you play them they just unlock and you can run them whenever you want. Either way is an option, since the feature doesn’t actually exist yet.

The answer is yes. For very specific event types it should force people to respawn. There isn’t time to res at Tequatl, and doing so it just taking up DPS and potentially getting other people killed. The same goes for Vine, any of the previous Living World events that were introduced, and will likely be introduced in the future. If this was a thing there would have been much fewer problems with many of those events. And will continue to be fewer in the future.

It should, though, only work within the confines of the event itself, and only for those big events.

Zaklex.6308:

In all honesty the story mode Dungeons are OPTIONAL, they’re not integral to the Personal Story what so ever and don’t even need to be done for a cohesive story for your character. What those SM Dungeons are for is getting Destiny’s Edge reunited for the battle against Zhaitan, nothing more. If you can some how manage to weave them into your PS, all the better for you, but they leave out nothing in the end and you really never have to do them at all(as I have never done any of them on Live, other than the Victory or Death). They are barely related to the Personal Story as is, if they were more intertwined I would agree, but in their current format…no.

There are two reasons this is not true.

The first is that in order to unlock the explorable dungeons you have to do the story dungeon. While you can still join a group that has already done it and unlocked them, that still means it had to have been done at some point. So not optional entirely.

Second is that the personal story involves Destiny’s Edge. The first chapter of your person story involves one of the members of Destiny’s Edge somewhat mentoring you, most just you hanging around them for a while doing stuff while they watch from the sidelines. Then, at level 30, you get to see all of Destiny’s Edge come together, get into a massive fight and break up, apparently irreparably. Finally, at level 80, you come to Arah and they are a fully cohesive group and working together like a team.

Without the story modes of all the dungeons before then the transition from the team at level 30 to the team at level 80 is nonsensical. AC shows Eir trying to make things better with Logan and Rytlok and shows Rytlok’s attitude about what happened. CM introduces Logan’s feelings for Jenna, why he left the team, and Zojja’s feelings. TA explains Caithe’s situation with Foalin, which is further delved into during LW Season 2. SE gives the entire breakdown of Destiny’s Edge. CoF reunites Logan and Rytlok and helps to restore their bromance. HoW restores Eir’s confidence in herself. CoE Logan and Rytlok help Zojja get over herself and the loss of Snaff. After all that, when you get to Arah to find them all finally able to work together like they used to it make sense. It’s all part of the same story, especially since you are directly involved in all of those events, so it should be part of the personal story and as such played personally.

Unless it’s ascended, or has really good runes in it, don’t even worry about it. Just sell it or salvage it. The wardrobe has any appearances you’ve unlocked, and the same with dyes. So just strip, sell, salvage and delete. Make sure anything that’s account bound, like gathering tools and inventory bags are in the bank. Other than that, it doesn’t matter.

It’s interesting, but I’m not convinced. I’m concerned about slow attacks in modes outside of PvE.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Kal Spiro.9745:

I’d rather have a greedy merchant who IS a tactician than a wannabe soldier who takes credit for other people’s work in order to gain position. Kiel has no skills, and has consistently failed at every job she has ever had. Evon, on the other hand, has succeeded and even thrived despite having his wares stolen, his company gutted and his storefront destroyed. He’s doing so well, despite that, that he even stopped charging for repairs.

What has he done to show he is a military type tactician? He might have prospered with his merchant job but running Walmart and making money doesn’t mean he can make sound tactical decisions.

You should look into his background. His running the BLTC is just a front for his actual job in the Ash Legion.

Wiki says it was a front to extort protection money from the government of LA and he was just one member of it. He took over by killing the head person in a fight and founded Walmart the BLTP. I don’t see anything there that shows any military tactical ability.

All I’m seeing is people saying that because Kiel isn’t any good this means Evon would be better. But just because one person is bad doesn’t mean the other person wouldn’t be worse.

Just being a Charr makes him more qualified for war than most humans. What makes him a better candidate is that he has succeeded and thrived in everything he’s done. Everything he has physically done, the vote was out of his hands and doesn’t count. Kiel just steals credit at the last moment from those who do succeed, while failing at everything she tries.

There are Charr that do maintenance work and Charr that tend herds as well as Charr that work in a store selling things. These activities do not show an innate ability to plan military tactics. A Charr can be good at one on one fighting and still be awful at planning out a coordinated defense. One does not follow the other.

A person can thrive at everything he does, but what he does can be irrelevant to fighting a war and planning to defend against an invasion. Running a shop and blackmailing people can be signs of thriving, but they are not signs of innate military ability.

If you knew anything about Charr culture you would know that every one of them learned about war and tactics since they were cubs and have lived that their whole lives. Every single one of those clerks, merchants and herdsmen was a soldier long before that, and until they were reassigned or every one of their friends died, fighting is what they did.

Purple Miku.7032:

I don’t understand why people don’t just solo it if they want to o.O

Like, what’s the point in complaining about any of them besides AC and Arah story gates? All of the other ones are easily soloable on every class, AC story gate is actually soloable on any class with a leap or teleport too. Those two I get, but I don’t understand what the problem is for the rest of them.

You can either solo them now, or just post an LFG saying “story, no skipping cutscenes.”

Now, if someone still kicks you from your story mode even after you state that in your LFG ad, then we have a problem. At least give it a try.

Just like some people have trouble with Jumping Puzzles, despite others thinking they’re the easiest thing in the world, not everyone can solo dungeons just because you can.

Leo G.4501:

Kal Spiro.9745:

While all of this is partially true, it’s not anatomically correct. They’re bend too far forward. Their center of gravity is way off and those tails aren’t remotely big enough to fix it. Being hunched over like that is fine, but the back of their neck should be past their butt.

Basically their posture would be as if you bent forward about 30% at the waist and just held there all the time without letting your butt push back to offset the balance.

What’s your background regarding anatomy?

You do realize that Charr are standing on their toes, right? That is inherently pushing their center of gravity forward, which is why it looks like they are ‘hunched foward’. Try standing on your toes. You’ll be hunched foward a bit because you’re shifting your center of gravity from over your heel to over your toes.

If their necks were ‘behind their butt’ as you say, they would fall backward just like if our necks were ‘past our butts’. Well, perhaps not fall backward, but they’d be even more wobbly than if we humans would be walking on our toes.

Basically, I think you’re completely wrong about your analysis.

I actually stand on my toes a lot, throughout middle and highschool I did it more often than I didn’t. I liked to pretend I was a Raptor cause Jurassic Park was new and cool.

It does not cause you to lean forward. It does make it easy to wear high heels, though.

You don’t seem to understand how balance works at all. In order to be bipedal you need the weight distribution to be even in all directions. The reason their necks should be behind their butts is because their heads are so far forward. This would give them a question mark sharp ? allowing for even distribution straight down. Basically their heads are huge, and as such the weigh a lot. Too much for them to effectively balance the way they’re currently shaped.

Minigrump.4961:

here is an idea. instead of HoT, an expansion’s worth of content with just Super Adventure Box

I want SAB themed elite specializations

Khisanth.2948:

Kal Spiro.9745:

I love all these, those are much better stats, as if anyone really gives a crap what your stats are before max level, let along at level 18.

Give me account bound level 10 exotic, though, and I will run all my alts through the personal story so I can deck out a key farmer in that gear.

For a key farmer a level 1 or 2 exotic would be much better.

You can’t do personal story until level 10, so you might as well be keeping level 10 gear.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Kal Spiro.9745:

I’d rather have a greedy merchant who IS a tactician than a wannabe soldier who takes credit for other people’s work in order to gain position. Kiel has no skills, and has consistently failed at every job she has ever had. Evon, on the other hand, has succeeded and even thrived despite having his wares stolen, his company gutted and his storefront destroyed. He’s doing so well, despite that, that he even stopped charging for repairs.

What has he done to show he is a military type tactician? He might have prospered with his merchant job but running Walmart and making money doesn’t mean he can make sound tactical decisions.

You should look into his background. His running the BLTC is just a front for his actual job in the Ash Legion.

Wiki says it was a front to extort protection money from the government of LA and he was just one member of it. He took over by killing the head person in a fight and founded Walmart the BLTP. I don’t see anything there that shows any military tactical ability.

All I’m seeing is people saying that because Kiel isn’t any good this means Evon would be better. But just because one person is bad doesn’t mean the other person wouldn’t be worse.

Just being a Charr makes him more qualified for war than most humans. What makes him a better candidate is that he has succeeded and thrived in everything he’s done. Everything he has physically done, the vote was out of his hands and doesn’t count. Kiel just steals credit at the last moment from those who do succeed, while failing at everything she tries.

CETheLucid.3964:

Crimson Clouds.4853:

I recall the same topic being debated a few months ago, a fellow forum-goer posted something along the lines of this:

Charr, due to being quadrapedal creatures (for the most part) have their spines joined to the backs of their skulls so they can see directly forward when running. This means when they stand up on two legs, they have to hunch over and curve their necks in order to still see straight forward.

Bipedal creatures have their spines join to the base (underneath) of their skulls. Try sitting/standing on all fours and look straight forward- it strains your neck somewhat and is pretty uncomfortable.

This is the reason why charr are hunched over when standing- it is more “natural” this way.

And with this said, charr are pretty much perfect anatomically. They’re supposed to hunch like that.

That’s a comfortable neutral position for them when they stand on twos.

They can stand perfectly straight up, it’s not hard, but the human analogy would be like trying to look straight up all the time.

You could, but you’d look like a giant snob/doofus with your nose in the air all the time looking down at people.

Flame Legion do that because they have a superiority complex… and may or may not painfully mutilate themselves to achieve a permanent posture in that position.

The High Legions are like “well, kitten that and kitten the Flame Legion”.

You’ll see player charr and non-FL charr stand perfectly up during a salute or in certain animations, and they look pretty awesome when they do it.

In the same way humanoid races look pretty cool when they counter an attack with their GS and pole vault off their GS into the enemy’s face.

That’s not ‘normal’ posture they’re using in the process, but it’s pretty cool watching it happen.

You wouldn’t expect them to hold that position in everyday life though.

While all of this is partially true, it’s not anatomically correct. They’re bend too far forward. Their center of gravity is way off and those tails aren’t remotely big enough to fix it. Being hunched over like that is fine, but the back of their neck should be past their butt.

Basically their posture would be as if you bent forward about 30% at the waist and just held there all the time without letting your butt push back to offset the balance.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Kal Spiro.9745:

I’d rather have a greedy merchant who IS a tactician than a wannabe soldier who takes credit for other people’s work in order to gain position. Kiel has no skills, and has consistently failed at every job she has ever had. Evon, on the other hand, has succeeded and even thrived despite having his wares stolen, his company gutted and his storefront destroyed. He’s doing so well, despite that, that he even stopped charging for repairs.

What has he done to show he is a military type tactician? He might have prospered with his merchant job but running Walmart and making money doesn’t mean he can make sound tactical decisions.

You should look into his background. His running the BLTC is just a front for his actual job in the Ash Legion.

We all know it takes a couple seconds to transmit from one gate to another, it’s not instantaneous transmition. The gate failed immediately after the last dolyak passed through. Evon couldn’t have even gotten to the other end in that time, so he couldn’t have been the cause of it closing.

What Evon had, though, was the forethought not to wait and make sure his mission was completed. His mission being to escape and secure his assets. Evon didn’t get elected, therefore Evon was not responsible for other citizens. Take in mind I say other citizens, Evon is also a citizen and nothing more.

People claim he should have been putting other people ahead of himself. Why? If he should have, then what about all the other Charr citizens trying to escape? Why should Evon have made sacrifices yet any of these other people shouldn’t have? Elen Kiel and the Lionguard needed to make sacrifices because that was there job. Where was Elen during all this? Safe on our skyship, that she stole from us after we beat Mia Trin and she didn’t help at all, waiting outside the danger area. The only reason she even showed up was to pick up Magnus because he’s her meal ticket.

I feel like this is problematic, specifically for higher level areas. This would basically require scale scaling, the higher the level the less mob HP is increased as a result of scaling until it isn’t changed anymore at max+ levels.

Otherwise, in order to make low level scaling function, you would make major endgame events unplayable.

I wish there was a reliable way to get the scythe skin from Halloween. I barely have 100 gold, I can’t even approach affording 2000 gold. I so wish I had bought one when they first came out, but the necromancer staff effect didn’t superimpose the blade so I didn’t like it, but now I want one for my eventual Revenant.