A lot of people complained in the past about a lack of area / monster specific equipment. Stat sets unique to an area (dry top) is one way ANet solved this. Those players probably wouldn’t like losing some of those unique rewards.
They wouldn’t though, because Dry Top remains the only place you can get Amber. As long as Amber is associated with a specific stat then if anyone wants to be a special snowflake then they put amber in their gear to get that stat.
Otherwise I agree with above. The only thing that actually matters is the special skins associated with Dry Top, it shouldn’t be the stat you can get out of it.
I 100% support this. There are more stats and as such more stat combinations than what you’re representing, but so what, there are new mats too. You want boon duration? Snow flakes. You want condition duration? Amber why not? Crystals can still be what’s needed for celestial since they’re a special kind of pain.
Also, they would not need to do anything with the gear people already have because that gear would not be effected by this change. All those sets would still be viable.
The main problem with this, I think, and it’s a stupid problem, is that they don’t have names for all the other possible combinations that are potentially available.
Remember that sylvari are not human so their emotions can be expressed different.
In game it may be shown not so well but after the book I felt classic tragic romance story about two people with opposing goals loving each other that cant be together because of their obligations. And I felt they care for each other with natural, healthy way. With Kasjory I only feel like watching two high school girls with typical high school problems.Caithe and Faolain do indeed care about eachother. But I wouldn’t call it healthy. It may have started out as a healthy, natural love and caring for eachother, but it then evolved into a Stalker/Stalkee situation. Caithe turned away from the relationship, and Faolain couldn’t let it go and started acting like an abusive ex. She stalked Caithe and even poisoned her to try to make her be with her.
The Kass/Marjory romance may have a lot of cheese, but at least it’s not a tale of stalking and abuse.
I kind of feel that both of these are true. Caithe and Faolain are not healthy. Of course they can’t be, Faolain fell to nightmare which totally alters your perceptions and attitude on a variety of subjects. She’s not actually capable of maintaining a health relationship anymore, even if Caithe fell too.
KasJory is also a very immature relationship, but that’s primarily because both participants are emotionally immature. Kas was spoiled, then lost everything and doesn’t really understand how to be an adult. Marjory is emotionally reserved with a rather distant family and doesn’t know how to relate to other people. What kind of relationship could they have but a highschool one? Of course this means that they both have ample room to grow as people and for their relationship to do the same.
I as with you, but then suddenly you had bad things to say about Tybalt who is the single greatest character in this game. The only character I cared about and was genuinely upset that they killed. Our opinions are far to divergent for me to take anything in this article seriously after this point.
Good. See above. No more buying RNG.
That is the best choice, if you’re not willing to put in an investment toward your gambling. You were never guaranteed anything as indicated by all the statements where people bought 5 and still didn’t get anything.
Four it the minimum you needed to have a better than average chance of getting at least one, but even if you bought one right now you still have a less than 50% chance of getting one at all.
If you can’t accept the possibility of getting nothing for your efforts you should not gamble. So you are making the right choice.
I have buyer’s remorse over those black wings I purchased. Now that the hype’s died down I see them as too bulky and unaesthetic.
That’s what I’m hoping for. I bought them for my Revenant, so I figure by the time I actually use them most of the people will have stopped.
40% exactly. I bought 10, got 4 shadow dyes. None Abyss, but whatever, I sold them.
But if you are going for Abyss you only have a 1/25 chance. Even if you buy a 25 pack for 2500 gems, there is a 36% of not getting it. A 5 pack is an 81.5% chance of not getting it.
I have a 4% chance of getting it, I know that and expect not to get it. I just hope I do get some Shadow dyes that I can sell toward buying it. That’s all.
So is getting the dye about getting the dye or is it about hopefully making more gold back than you spent on gems and turning a profit-i.e. gambling-?
I only want Abyss, so if I go for one of these packs, which I’m tempted to give it a go at this point, it would be for that, either to get Abyss, or to sell whatever I did get to better afford Abyss
Noob question: Why do people like / want SAB so much??
Because it was incredibly fun and challenging and had a great reward system, both internally and in skins. There hasn’t been a single content release to match it since launch, with the possible exception of fractals.
Your entire post is 100% subjective and 100% your opinion. I guess that is a valid answer, but I’m just making sure the person asking the question KNOWS not every player thinks SAB is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I personally think the SAB skins are an eyesore and a blight to my eyes in the normal game…..
It is subjective, but I don’t know if I would say 100%. Technically he didn’t say the skins were good, just that the reward system was good. I don’t have such hate for the skins that you do, but I only find them appropriate on an Asura. I actually realized, recently, that all of my Asura have at least one of the weapons, and they looks completely appropriate.
Would you argue the reward system for acquiring the skins was good or bad? Mainly, if the skins were different, would you be satisfied with that system of reward being pushed through to other parts of the game?
There are two aspects to this. Random drops in the game to acquire a non-soulbound skin, but also acquiring currency to purchase a soul bound skin. Gaining special items through a series of paths that can be combined with a skin in the forge to get a different skin.
I would love to see that implemented in dungeons. Run all three paths and get three items that when combined with a dungeon skin, of the same dungeon, give you a new unique skin.
My answer to the original question is: It introduced all the best aspects of last century platformers, and a unique whimsy not otherwise present in the game, while simultaneously maintaining the feel and functionality of Guild Wars 2. Also I love jumping puzzles and it was a huge jumping puzzle, especially tribulation mode.
Kal, I pay a few gems so you can get SAB, now shush and kindly agree.
I 100% agree to you paying gems for me to get SAB. I have absolutely no issue with that scenario.
Based on these anecdotal accounts the data is pointing closer to a 1 to 1 relationship between the chances of a shadow dye and a normal dye, giving a 40% chance of getting any shadow dye per pack.
What if the options were pay gems for sab or not have it come back again?
I already paid gems for SAB when I bought the ICC. So that’s not an argument I’m ok with.
Abyss was never fully black across all materials. That’s why I never tried to buy it. Shadow Abyss is.
Kal, I alt hopped like heck, testing the dyes on a number of armor weights and materials. Some did show the tints, enough that I thought it worthwhile getting them all.
However, I don’t expect everyone to be running max graphics or eyeballing me up close, and the tints are subtle enough that seeing someone run by you won’t give much opportunity to notice “oooh, what lovely hints of purple.”
Fair enough.
I would be willing to pay gems to have a functional SAB entrance added to my personal instance. I would not be willing to pay gems to simply be able to use SAB again.
It is something of a special circumstance in the Asura player instance. If you go out of the area you just die.
I got 8 dyes in my first 20 opened, 0 in my next 5, then I stopped. Just one Shadow Abyss, my only duplicate was Shadow Magenta.
From map chat comments and my guildies’ experiences, it does seem generally more likely you’ll get at least one good one in a set of five than has been true for earlier specialty RNG dye packs.
In fact, thanks to my luck with having Abyss drop, I was able to get my missing dyes off the TP and this is the very first specialty dye set where I have them all. For what it’s worth, I suppose, since most of them will just look black to anyone watching me run by.
On the right materials the color variants are decidedly not black.
I like the logistical gymnastics it takes for people to infer it shouldn’t be fixed because you shouldn’t care.
Somehow its okay that people receive reward and recognition in error for accomplishments they didn’t even attempt and egotistical to want that error corrected to preserve the integrity of the reward system.
These bugged HoM rewards would be like if I was in the Guinness world record book for running the fastest 10k because I drove to work.
That wouldn’t fly in any type of achievement and game and still have people take it seriously. It is not wrong people want thier recognition to be equitable and taken seriously. People are just going to have to deal with not getting free stuff.
I find it interesting that anyone can infer that anyone else implied it shouldn’t be fixed just because they think people who were not directly effected by it shouldn’t care. If something is broken it should be fixed. More so, since it appears that this bug goes hand in hand with being unable to access HoM.
Whether or not it should be fixed, though, has nothing to do with people getting kitten that it exists in the first place, when it doesn’t actually effect them.
I’ve spent hours and hours and months to get 50 HoM points + GWAMM, of course I would be upset when everyone gets it through a glitch. It would indirectly harm me by making my accomplishments worthless, so it’s not egoistic or something to hope that this gets cleared.
How does it make your accomplishments worthless? You did the work to get it, and have had it for all that time, able to lord it over everyone that you do and worked for it. How does it change anything if others were then able to get it easier?
What about the people who just played GW for all that time and happened to have accumulated all the things? They didn’t work hard for the achievement, they just got it because they happened to have it by then. Don’t they also make all your hard work pretty worthless?
The achievement chests dont have to be reverted even if the AP is. The game keeps up with which chests you get. say someone with 300 points got the 400 extra. They would get their 500 AP chest with the 1000 being the next one. When they get the 400 removed, they could keep the 500 chest and their next chest could still be the 1000 chest even if they still only have 300 AP. This would be the best fix for the issue. People who did get them would still be ahead with their chests (until they actually pass the AP number for that chest), but it wouldnt really matter in the long run even if they quit (who cares if an account that isnt used has 400 AP with their next chest at 1000?)
problem solved
That is pretty much how I would expect it to be handled.
Well, I’ll say I’m super bummed I didn’t do any key farming on the 16th. Assuming I even noticed it. More so assuming that it didn’t just give you stupid pointless titles and chests I don’t need, but also gave you access to all the skins and the minis, I’d have grabbed them all and seen how long I could hold onto them.
But I didn’t, and honestly, anyone who did, good for them, I don’t care if they got something I didn’t, it doesn’t bother me.
Prior to the HoM rewards being disabled, trying to use a HoM Portal Stone conveniently caused a client crash. So I think few, if any, people actually got hold of HoM rewards (skins/minis) they weren’t supposed to. It’s mostly just the AP chests.
Ah, then I super don’t care about any of it.
Sorry, but this doesn’t need to be fixed. The LFG update has pretty much cleaned this up since anyone doing a speed run, or who isn’t interested in teaching people how to play, or is just an annoying elitist, will generally label their group as such.
Lvl 80, exp, AP 10k. If you see any of these labels and you have never done the dungeon before, this is not the group you want to be in.
You’re looking for more friendly introductions, more casual introductions.
It’s not a mater of being or not being toxic, it’s a matter of actually reading and understanding what you’re reading.
Well, I’ll say I’m super bummed I didn’t do any key farming on the 16th. Assuming I even noticed it. More so assuming that it didn’t just give you stupid pointless titles and chests I don’t need, but also gave you access to all the skins and the minis, I’d have grabbed them all and seen how long I could hold onto them.
But I didn’t, and honestly, anyone who did, good for them, I don’t care if they got something I didn’t, it doesn’t bother me.
Thats great for different builds, but can you compare like a thief wearing a rabid mask with a sinister shoulders and a carrion chest with Knights pants..ect?
All i am getting for armor is a pvp rune.
Yes, you can. there are three setting in the top right corner. You want the PvE setting.
Well, if you don’t want it, I’d love that Abyss
Not anymore.
No guys, you’re missing the point. Everything in this game is Pay 2 Win cause you had to buy the game in the first place. In order to play the game and have things with which to win you had to pay, so it’s totally P2W.
It’s amusing to me that people see being downscaled as punishment, especially since at no time since the game’s start have level 80 players been downscaling to be made as weak as players who are playing at level in a zone. Higher level toons have always been more powerful even when downscaled, just not ridiculously so. What is the attraction of running around and one-shotting stuff anyway? Maybe ANet should make instanced versions of each zone with no downscaling so that people can go in there and feel powerful?
The bugged form of downscaling some people here are begging for IS a form of punishment. What they’re begging for is to basically negate all the time you spend leveling and gearing yourself by making you as weak as you would be if you had never bothered to level past the zone, gear up past blues, and spend any trait points. Why bother making progression if it’s all negated 100% if you leave the 80 maps?
And please try to read, cause i never mentioned wanting to one shot everything.
Yes, why level past a zone if you’re going to spend your time in that zone? Can you answer that question? Maybe because you will want to go to another zone? Because you want to freely move about the world without being impaired.
I have another question, why do you need to be more powerful than a zone while you’re in that zone?
The downscaling was not as big a deal as some people are claiming. It was significant, but it’s not like it made anyone weaker than they would have been when level appropriate. Since the zone was a cake walk when you were level appropriate, unless you really were just bad, then what’s the big deal? There is no legitimate reason to be significantly more powerful that level appropriate players in a lower level zone. Also, even with significant downscaling you will ALWAYS be more powerful that level appropriate players because you have Runes, Sigils, Traits, and THREE stats per gear piece, unless you have all the stats, which is still more than the level appropriate players have access to.
It’s amusing how some people apparently seem to think you should basically be punished for leveling up, gearing up, and unlocking traits by being made as weak as someone who’s done no leveling whatsoever, is in blues, and has no traits whenever you decide to leave a zone like cursed shore and go elsewhere.
It’s amusing how some people have no idea what their talking about, nor what’s going on, but still choose to voice their opinion on a subject as if it could ever be in any way relevant.
It’s also amusing that some people don’t understand that this game is not about being beastly strong just because you leveled up and is about community and working together, such that everyone in a zone should be at a baseline equivalent before things like runes, sigils and traits are figured in.
It goes on to be amusing how some people apparently lose the ability to play the game at all just because they’re in a low level zone where things are actually still “challenging,” as if anything in this game is actually difficult to kill no matter where it is, nor what level it is.
Wut? I’m trying to get the issue fixed, it’s not just mine.
That’s the thing: it’s not an issue. It’s something that was known about and intended by the developers.
Weird, why does the other siege not go through walls then?
It doesn’t go through walls, it goes over walls. Big difference.
But when I place my other siege on the same spot as in the vid in the OP it does not hit anything but wall.
Whats even weirder when I placed my ac at the same spot last week it did not hit the treb. It did not do so for 2.5 years, so I kinda doubt that Anet intended to do this and ignored it for 2.5 years.
Is that because it couldn’t reach, or because you couldn’t see the Treb? Cause I kind of bet that it could reach, but you couldn’t effectively target the Treb before.
So black is the new black? OK.
Black was never the black, because black is dark purple.
And – I miss new Horns!!
Why don’t se get the third option? We get new faces and new hair, but what about the third option?
Humans and Nord have beards, give us new beards. Asura and Sylvary have ears, give us new ears. Charr have horns, give us new horns. I’m not even asking for three, just give us one of each per set.
And new tails please!
Tails has never been an option. There are only two tails, the Male tail and the female tail. They, more than anything else, are what define the two genders.
And – I miss new Horns!!
Why don’t se get the third option? We get new faces and new hair, but what about the third option?
Humans and Norn have beards, give us new beards. Asura and Sylvari have ears, give us new ears. Charr have horns, give us new horns. I’m not even asking for three, just give us one of each per set.
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I absolutely do not like the Charr faces. If they could be colored individually, that would be fine, but it doesn’t look like that’s the case.
I really like the scarred Asura Male, but the only character I would put it on wouldn’t work for it.
The humans and Norns all look the same to me.
I like the Sylvari looks.
These are all so close to each other… can you even tell the difference between them outside of the super brightened preview screen?
The leather armor I wear on my main doesn’t take colors normally. It’s a lighter fabric for some reason. Black shows up as a dark purple. Midnight Fire is a dark red. Even Abyss is only a dark grey. I’m using Charcoal because it’s the closest thing to black that isn’t tinted to an actual hue that I could afford. Shadow Abyss is the first color that is legitimately black for the whole thing.
I have a similar situation on my Norn. Her chest and pants are from two different sets and they react to color differently, such that I’m stuck with her main color being grey because I have to use two different shades to gain the same color throughout. Shadow Abyss removes that problem by being the same shade of black regardless of where it is and what it’s on.
Unfortunately, though, I can’t afford one, so it really doesn’t matter for me.
Shadow Abyss: The Newer, More Expensive Midnight Ice/Fire/etc. etc.
Call me when they release a black that is just black that obscures all textures.
“Jet Black”. “Darkest Darkness”.
“Shadow Abyss”. lolz.
Mmm, I miss my pure black cape from Ultima Online.
Long story short, im not happy with the idea i spend ages crafting ascended gear to backtrack to an area I enjoyed while leveling to feel like I am wearing leveling greens….
If this is what you are experiencing, then gratz to ANet, they’re finally doing it right. This is exactly what you should feel like in a starting zone, because in a starting zone this is BIS gear.
People refuse to buy outfits because they will look exactly like other players. Hmmmmmmm. So you either care so much about what other peoples idea of a good looking/themed character is that you don’t want to look the same OR you care about your own look and its needs to be original?
That dwayna back piece, that t3 norn/human, that legendary…. i could go on. Someone will always have the same look as you no matter how unique you think you are at designing.
Having an item in common is not the same as having the same outfit. I have never seen anyone in the same outfit ANY of my characters wear. I have seen MANY people wearing the same individual items that all of my characters wear.
The uniqueness comes from how those individual items are put together.
My appearances are different because I’ve put them together differently from everyone else. This is impossible with Outfits, though, because there is only one way to put those together. That is a major problem for me, as well as it is for many others.
It has never made any sense to me why ANet did this. The outfits used to be in pieces, they should have been left in pieces. So what if there is clipping issues? Let us customize ourselves how we please. If the clipping looks bad we won’t use it, but that shouldn’t stop us from having the option.
Not about the game, I love the game.
Just bought some shadow dyes from the gem store. The first time I’ve ever bought dyes. I thought I was going to get some cool shadow dyes. I got 4 commons and an uncommon and I had all but one of them already. I’m don’t mind range for things that are in the game, and black lion chests which are an advertised crap shoot, but I thought I was going to get shadow dyes not ones I already owned.
Oh well, lesson learned. At least I bought the gems with gold and not real life money. I would be seriously kittened off then.
There are 25 options, 10 of which are the new dyes. So you have a 40% chance of getting a Shadow Dye, and if you’re hoping for a specific dye you have a 4% chance.
RNG is RNG. I was looking at them too, but I know I wouldn’t get anything good. Even if I got one of the Shadow Dyes, the only one I might want is Abyss because it’s the first absolutely pure black dye across all materials, it would not get me even half enough to actually buy the Abyss version.
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I’ll do it the same way I did Guild Wars. I beta tested it and got a taste for a small amount of the area I was playing in. I also got a taste for how I wanted to play my main. Then I played the actual game and did the personal story. I didn’t get spoiled for anything and also came into the game knowing how to play it.
Human, because I have three Sylvari, three Charr, three Asura and two humans. Also I dislike Norn.
I would rather see a return of the Marionette to a new dungeon. Or a Tequatling of some of the other world bosses. Events that require groups to interact in a meaningful way that isn’t just a zerg, but that can also include zerging if that’s what you’re comfortable with.
I also think that’s what ANet wants, and the direction they’re going with.
Between now and HoT launch there is yet a lot of time, and if preparing SAB means that HoT is delayed by a couple of weeks due to some of the devs preparing SAB, I think it is completely worth it. Lets face it, they haven’t announced the release date yet, and if they were to release HoT in late August vs early September, it wouldn’t matter which date they chose, as the difference from now until then is minimal between the two.
To get to my point, spending some resources on SAB would give the playerbase an incredible amount of content compared to the devs needed, as it could easily make months fly by as we wait for the expansion to launch.
Conclusion: A few devs working on SAB as a side project would barely affect HoT as a whole, but make the time until launch so much more enjoyable that I think it would greatly benefit HoT and the whole game in a bigger perspective.
April 1, two weeks away.
It only took 7 Devs to make world 1 in the first place.
Really? do you know how long it took them?
That I don’t recall. Josh told us all about it, but I forget.
I honestly don’t understand anything that is being said. I’ve never experienced this. In my experience people like that jump ship the moment things start going wrong. Perhaps I’m just joining less unpleasant pugs because I read the LFG text.
In any case, I support anonymity until the kick is completed. No matter what the conclusion was. If one person tries to kick someone and everyone else denies it, I want to see that. If someone tries to kick and the vote passes I want to see that too.
I don’t understand what I was seeing. Basically the camera changes allowed you target things you would not have been able to see before, but obviously could target with siege? I don’t understand why this is a bad thing. In a way you’re playing WvW like an RTS, which is kind of awesome.
The key to fixing this, if it actually needs to be fixed, is not to revert the camera changes, but to alter the targeting ability of siege. Obviously. Possibly also alter where you can place certain types of siege with respect to enemy keeps.
Between now and HoT launch there is yet a lot of time, and if preparing SAB means that HoT is delayed by a couple of weeks due to some of the devs preparing SAB, I think it is completely worth it. Lets face it, they haven’t announced the release date yet, and if they were to release HoT in late August vs early September, it wouldn’t matter which date they chose, as the difference from now until then is minimal between the two.
To get to my point, spending some resources on SAB would give the playerbase an incredible amount of content compared to the devs needed, as it could easily make months fly by as we wait for the expansion to launch.
Conclusion: A few devs working on SAB as a side project would barely affect HoT as a whole, but make the time until launch so much more enjoyable that I think it would greatly benefit HoT and the whole game in a bigger perspective.
April 1, two weeks away.
It only took 7 Devs to make world 1 in the first place.
Or they could just not bring it back at all, ever. Please.
I will never understand this. I can understand and accept people not liking things that I love. I know this is a thing because other people love things that I don’t have an interest in nor enjoy, like PvP. But why would you seek to actively block other people from accessing a thing they love just because you personally don’t enjoy it?
What kind of person makes the mental connection that since they personally dislike something no one should be allowed to experience it?
AC, P1, final boss attack changed from line to cone. Width unsure but animation is unchanged.
I’ve been playing since early access. I have taken a couple of breaks in that time. The last one was for all of Season 2. But now I’m back and working my way through that story, and I’m even taking a break on the story to level up some more characters. I’m making Maudry. I’m doing dungeons. I’m still maining the same character I made on the first day. I’m playing the game a few hours every day, which is about as much time as I have in a day.
So no. I’m not bored. When I get bored I take a break. But no game currently available to me is keeping my attention as well as this one.
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