make henchmen / heroes available for hire for gems.
anet profits
That would be a great stupidity…
I’t s like having a visual disability and still have to pay for visual aids (as if having the disability is not enough) everywhere you need to go…
Do for free or don’t do it!
They could do both. Maybe there is a henchman token people can buy with gems that let them hire a specific henchman (warrior/ranger/ele/whatever) for X time. Then maybe when you complete a daily or monthly or complete a map or use a black lion chest there’s a chance at getting a henchman token.
Edit: I like the idea of being able to get a henchman, but it shouldn’t be something that you can just get willy nilly so that everyone in the game has one at all times.
I’m guessing that all of the story-related content will go away (i.e. instances, events), but there will be leftovers. For instance I think Rox and Braham will stay in the game afterwards. Also some monsters/areas could potentially remain too, like how the karka remain on southsun cove after the karka event.
If you think back to the Karka storylines, players were initially complaining about poor loot. Then there was big final event day with excellent rewards in the final chest. It was such a good reward that anyone who didn’t get it complained. Although the moral could be that players always complain about loot, I think it could also be a case of ‘wait and see’. The good rewards will come at the end not in the middle.
Yeah. The problem with Karka was that the rewards were abysmal initially. Which made people not as excited for the events. It also gave people the notion that doing the final event would not be worth their time. Karka was probably the worst way to handle rewards possible.
Currently the rewards are not that stellar for Flame And Frost, either. And I’m worried we’re going to have a repeat of what happened with karka. Karma is so easy to get now because of the dailies and the bags in dungeons that I don’t think anyone really looks at karma and thinks of it as a reward anymore. ArenaNet either needs to make gaining karma feel more rewarding, or they need to stop relying on it as the default choice for rewards.
When I first got on the raft at the end of the final level in SAB I was expecting it to be something like the battletoads tunnel where you had to like jump over stuff or move or something or else you would lose a heart.
We laid out the entire weapon/item upgrades for all four worlds, so there are still a LOT of things that will be coming with those. We’ve got 3 upgrades for all 10 skill slots.
Can there be an upgrade for Moto’s Breath? It feels a little lackluster.
You have to admit that the whip being able to snag baubles from inside locked chests was an unintended bug. :P I’m more sad about the upcoming change that will make Queen Bee Dogs immune to the whip.
Whip is OP against Queen Bee Dog, since it is supposed to be a mini boss.
From what it looks like on Dulfy, you have to jump around the trunk/root thing that I’m on. I’ve tried like 10 times and I can’t seem to do it. Is there an alternate way to get to the door?
Hi, everyone. The team has been following the spirited discussion about Rox (and Braham). I just wanted to pop in with a note from our Lead Character Artist so he can provide some background information and clarity about the art direction for Rox.
Aaron Coberly, Lead Character Artist
Hey everyone, this is Aaron Coberly, the Lead Character Artist here on Guild Wars 2. I can see that there are a lot of strong feelings about the design decisions for Rox so I wanted to come on and set the record straight. The goal with Rox was to expand the charr’s visual options. She is a young charr so we thought it would be a good opportunity to introduce the cute kitty cat end of the spectrum. This isn’t a change of direction but an expansion of the race. Our goal is to add more variety to all of the races over time and we saw this as a good opportunity to do this with the female charr. The charr are a feline race, which gives us a lot of options—from the grizzled matronly lioness to the strong puma and even the cute house cat. We don’t want to limit our options to just one section of the feline genus. Our designs are inspired by all the feline variety that exists in nature.
Further on down the road, it does mean that if we introduce new faces into character creation, they will include a broader range. Does that mean that this particular face will be in there? No, because she is a main character, but there could be a cute kitty cat style face.
Hope that information helps you all understand the thinking behind Rox’s appearance.
I like the idea of having some more options in regards to race. I think the problem is that since she’s the ONLY charr like this.. so she currently looks out of place.
I think though that Charr purists like myself don’t really want Charr to reach the level of house cat though. House cats are viewed as pets and we would rather Charr designs be based off of cats that aren’t your typical domesticated cat. It seems to me that Rox is mostly based off of the Lynx. That’s fine. I just think that people (including myself) are just afraid that you will overstep the boundary between big cat and house cat.
Actually, it’s funny, while the game was in development I thought the “talking head” idea was kind of lame. I felt that it hindered immersion by masking the environment around the characters.
I’m glad to see cutscenes make their way into the game. It would be nice to have the option to skip them (I haven’t noticed an option to) but perhaps there are technical reasons for that.
This has been a problem for a bit now and I’m getting tired of it. I know that the people who are trolling the world boss timers are people from the other servers in WvW. If people from one server troll another server, that server will troll them back and it will screw up the timers for everyone. Please stop trying to use childish tactics to get some kind of advantage in WvW.
So what do people think of Rox in the game? To be honest it’s not as bad as I thought it was. Still think the eyes could be a little smaller but it’s not a huge deal.
I use the left shift key to dodge. It works really well because my left pinky naturally rests on the shift button. The problem comes when I use the shift button for something that isn’t dodging (like linking or capitalizing) I do a roll at the same time. It’s kind of annoying but I don’t really see a better key for dodging than the left shift key.
Incorrect. Let’s view this from another race’s perspective. Let’s say that a human had 3 arms. Nobody would have any of that. I get the feeling that people who are ok with Rox are people who aren’t huge charr fans. You’d hear outrage on the forums if Anet did this to a human NPC.
I have about 6,200 achievements and I don’t go out of my way to do repeatable achievements. I don’t see my achievement score dropping that terribly much.
From an interview Anet said that they were thinking of branching out to more diverse PVP map types (and how Spirit Watch was an example of one). It seems like the only races represented in the PVP maps are norn, human, and charr. There are no maps for asura or sylvarri.
That got me thinking about a possible asura-themed map. Asura architecture is known for their platforms. So maybe the map could incorporate platforming to some degree. I don’t think the map should be over saturated with platforming because then I think people would get annoyed it at. But some level would be nice. This would be a way to make the map uniquely different than the other maps.
For the objective maybe there can be computer consoles or something that when switched could do some various effects. A couple I can think of off the top of my head is maybe it could disable certain bridges to create bottlenecks, or that the switches could cause some area to become electrified (or perhaps put a trap there), or that some monsters in test tubes are released next the opposing side’s spawn area or something.
Anyways I really think an asura-themed pvp map could be something special.
They should change everyone’s race to be of the “lesser races” like quaggan, hyleck, ogre, skritt, grawl, etc. And then they can have their own racial abilities added.
I think that Rox’s eyes are a bit too big. I also think that her horns don’t really seem to fit her face, but I’m less concerned about that (the horns themselves look cool though). It’s really the eyes that need fixing more than anything.
Sheesh. People will complain about ANYTHING these days. Just be happy we’re getting FREE CONTENT and stop freaking out about one NPC’s face. She’s going to be gone after this Molten Alliance business is dealt with anyways, so you only have to deal with it for another month.
I think the people complaining about Rox’s eyes aren’t trying to downgrade the entirety of the patch. They are just trying to voice their opinion that they’re unhappy with Rox’s eyes. Also, unless I’m mistaken, I see no indication that the NPCs will be taken out of the game after F&F is over.
From what ANet has said, it will be a massive patch over the March and April updates.
I’m not so sure I trust Anet anymore. They said at one point that january and february updates would be like an expansion worth of content and that was clearly wrong. They later changed what they said to just “2013”.
Pretty much everything about him looks cool. Hair, clothes, mace, shield. It all is cool. Seeing as he’s norn though, it would have been cool for him to have tattoos.
When you dual-wield weapons, does it work to have 2 of the same sigil on both of them (like the 60% chance to bleed on crit one) so that you have a greater chance to get the effect (in this case bleed)? Or does only having 1 work and 2 is redundant? Does it only proc on the abilities that the weapon gives? If so would dual-dagger number 3 skill proc twice since it’s a shared weapon ability?
PvE I wouldn’t mind if they revamped underwater combat. Do things like have underwater utility/elite skills to compensate for the lost skills, and have more weapons to choose from than just 2 or 1.
I like the idea of having guild castles or something like that. Something big that the guild can call home. I’d prefer that over player housing for individual players but if they decide to have both then that’s cool.
I think a random timer (with some constrictions so it doesn’t spawn too soon or too long) could work if you display a world boss on the world map for people to see. In general for a system like a random timer to work there needs to either be clear indication like that or have better communication across the server so people can shout out world bosses (or both).
I’m not sure if I’m entirely for the idea of a random timer, but, I am annoyed at being put into overflows. I feel like I’m waiting in line to wait for a boss to spawn.
You could make that argument for a lot of things. Like you can say people who play more get more green gear that they can sell for over 1 silver each. So therefore, should we not have green gear drop anymore? Should we make them give less money? You can say that people who play more can get rares/exotics more often. So should we increase the drop rates on all of those?
Truth be told, everything in the auction house is pretty cheap with the exception of some items (like precursors, some dyes, T6 mats, minis).
I don’t necessarily think boon hate is a bad idea.. but.. I feel like it could be easily handled poorly. Effectively you are punishing people for using boons (which are supposed to help you). So there needs to be a very tight balance on it so that players don’t feel like they can’t use boons anymore. I also don’t want team mates getting mad at me for applying boons to them.
Also if it’s done via traits then I think it would be annoying not knowing who is using boon hate and who isn’t. Since it effectively is a damage buff how will you know if someone is using it? I think there needs to be a way to see who is using boon hate so that you can adjust your playstyle accordingly.
