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I spent most of the day in the new JP yesterday, very fun! More of an exploratory feel, less of a skilled platformer type thing.
And it’s vast! Extends past the current Silverwastes boundary. All those ancient ruins underneath, feels very mysterious.
I also happened to see Mr. Josh Foreman himself in there going after a Golden Coin – it was one where you can take the long skinny cable from the boat to the cliffside, he laughed at us that thought that was way to enter the JP and directed us to the south of the boat.
Big thumbs up for this content, thoroughly enjoyable 
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My speculation is since we are getting 2 pieces of the carapace and luminescent armors in both episode 7 and 8, that they each will last one month.
So episode 7 to launch tomorrow, Wintersday launches on the 16th, episode 8 to launch in January.
Ya I think this would be more likely.
I agree with that. (As a sidenote, I don’t think I’m going to bother trying to collect the luminescent version; it took me some time to realize it, but I saw side-by-side illustrations of carapace and luminescent on the wiki and realized they’re both the same design. I guess the difference is that luminescent is, well, luminescent.)
My guild leader was speculating yesterday that the next episode will move back to Dry Top. How likely is that?
Although they have the same skin, the luminescent set glows in the dark. I’m building the set just for that reason
Hard to say where tomorrow will take us, things are definitely heating up in western Silverwastes.
Yes. If you buy a copy you get a key, you can give the key to a friend and they will register it as their account. Perfectly legit
Greetings Leah, very happy to see you on the team – great work on the last 2 episodes
For myself, I’m still not really connecting with Kasmeer. She comes off a bit too “Reese Witherspoon goes on an adventure with Scoobie and the gang”. Here is the Kasmeer I keep waiting to see:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/c/cb/The_Nightmare_Unveiled_loading_screen.jpg
I do applaud setting her and Jory on the alternate path inside Glint’s Lair, that was brilliant. I could still hear the conversation, but it felt a bit removed from me, it was still my adventure.
I wouldn’t call Glint’s lair a zerg fest. That was a pretty sweet dungeon we got last week.
This thread isn’t referring to instanced content as dungeons, this is referring to your typical 5-man dungeons with story mode and explorable paths, like Twilight Arbor or Sorrow’s Embrace. And, as has already been pointed out, there are no plans for developing more dungeons of this type, given that the team was disbanded.
Hmm, I ran the Glint dungeon with a 5 man group, it was awesome. First we did the Story mode and then we did the achievement mode
Seems the line gets a bit blurry on instanced content. I see players that solo old dungeons and players forming groups for the new LS dungeons. We had the Battle on the Breachmaker raid which was what? A 25 man dungeon? That’s all a raid is isn’kitten A glorified dungeon?
You’re the 2nd person in this thread to say the dungeon team was disbanded yet we are getting all these dungeon instances, do you have a source?
Usually I just read the dev and patch posts, the rest is pretty much pointless arguing and hyperbole and it’s terribly tiresome to have the same convos over and over again or try to combat those trying to sell other games.
The devs have stated on numerous occasions that only a very small fraction of players ever post on the forums, reddit or fansites. I guess like most players, I mostly just play and love the game, only go looking for info when I need it
An amazingly fun game with a wide range of difficulty that appeals to players of all ages and skill levels (although there is a small very hardcore/difficulty focused group of players that believe the game does not offer extreme tests of their prowess).
There is a reason it’s so popular
I think it’s just a flavor item, not everything needs to be about stats
I’ve got all available armors so far (that’s 3 weights of both the shoulders and the gloves in both carapace and luminenscent – all 12 pieces) and there is no horrific grind.
In fact, I have 2 extra shoulder boxes since they pretty much drop like rain in the new underground labyrinth and I have another 3k bandit crests I don’t know what to do with since you also get those in most ridiculous amounts. In total I only spent 1k crests for a pair of gloves since I was impatient to get it done
I can tell you haven’t even tried to play through this content and are just parroting what you heard some other scamp say because there is no grind to speak of here. I’ve only played the new zone maybe 7 or 8 hours since the patch launched Tuesday – if you think this is grind you need to try any other MMO on the market.
So, you were both lucky with the drops (and i mean really lucky – in my whole guild we had only one carapace chest drop so far), and were farming the crests 2h/daily on average (if those 7-8 hours include tuesday and friday – and friday is not finished yet. so, most likely at least 3h/daily). Now, put yourself in a position of someone trying for 10k (gloves, helmet, boots, legs, chest) while not being so lucky and not actually liking this grind. Such a person will end up hating this zone. I know that i am already starting to.
No, hate is playing WoW for 6 months waiting for a trinket drop, grinding the same raid on as many difficulties as you can, over and over and over, week in and week out, because you need that trinket to play the next content. Then one day finally it does drop but some ninja looter swipes it and shards it in front of you. That sir, is a grind.
This is nothing.
I’ve got all available armors so far (that’s 3 weights of both the shoulders and the gloves in both carapace and luminenscent – all 12 pieces) and there is no horrific grind.
In fact, I have 2 extra shoulder boxes since they pretty much drop like rain in the new underground labyrinth and I have another 3k bandit crests I don’t know what to do with since you also get those in most ridiculous amounts. In total I only spent 1k crests for a pair of gloves since I was impatient to get it done
I can tell you haven’t even tried to play through this content and are just parroting what you heard some other scamp say because there is no grind to speak of here. I’ve only played the new zone maybe 7 or 8 hours since the patch launched Tuesday – if you think this is grind you need to try any other MMO on the market.
Sounds like we are getting a Marionette type raid.
It started with a double mesmer team that use to offer a taxi service to the top of the Obsidian Sanctum JP, way back when that was the only way to get siege blueprints
They are not obtainable atm, but that_shaman on reddit did datamine the codes so they should be added to the game at some point.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2lcxim/datamining_chat_codes_and_previews_of_the_new/
Yes, they are gorgeous
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Did you notice that the expanded map is on the carpet in the library?
There’s a rather extensive discussion on reddit about it:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2la158/datamining_new_world_map_of_planet_tyria_showing/
Love. Love, love love this chapter
I just finished the Glint’s Lair instance and man, it was beautiful and it was hard and I died so much but I finally beat it and it was wonderful. Took so many screenshots.
And the new zone is simply amazing. Thanks to all who contributed, players and devs alike – you’ve all together created a spectacular experience <3
Click the small down arrow on the active chat tab header to set your options. A check box is there for Game Messages. Been there since launch I believe