Good job. I did enjoy this very much. Nice cliff hanger at the end and can’t wait until this starts up again. Though I was wondering where Logan was…. he is usually puppy dogging the Queen. Wonder if she is losing her mesmerizing touch with him….lol.
The avatar is dying or the creature she is an avatar for is dying? That wasn’t really clear. Killing off the Pale Tree would mean no new sylvari characters, unless we are due to find another mother tree. We know there are more out there from sylvari ps.
I didn’t find it bad at all. It’s annoying how often the vines evade, which just drags the whole thing out longer, but did it fine. Found it much easier than saving Taimi from the inquest. The only reason I didn’t die on that part was that Braham ressed me… five or six times. Ugh that retaliation golem. The boon can be stripped but it reapplies it immediately.
I’ve been playing on a sylvari character since the second part because it just seemed to be made for a sylvari. There is also no sylvari on the team so it feels more balanced that way.
Just like some people don’t want to use gold for a precursor preferring to forge or wait for a drop, I don’t want to use gold to buy traits when there is a trait quest option. On thief it wasn’t a big deal (the trait is one I’d never use anyway) but for ele it’s blocking an interesting trait. All the other champs can be soloed, it just seems like bad design to put the toughest one on a map where no one is interested in helping.
I’ve opened at least 50 and didn’t get anything good out of any of them. No fossil, no scarf, nothing. Unless recipes that sell for 15c counts as something. Unusually bad luck, I guess I’m lucky to not be that interested in the weapons. I can live without them, but I did want to craft at least one. Cause they are there.
Mostly I want to complain about the patch notes that I also read as meaning there was another way to get the fossils, not a way to get rid of excess fossils.
No. There are billions of original names left, use one of those instead of taking someone else’s name. Or just put accents on random letters until it goes through, whatever.
Question now that legendaries are account-bound rather than soul-bound, and you can do almost everything on any alt and give it to the alt that wants it: what about bloodstone shards? Are they still soulbound? What if you have everything else you need but the alt you want to use it on has no skill points? Another alt can make it and give it to the alt that needs it, right? Or am I missing something.
According to the wiki bloodstone shards are still soulbound.
You can do the step that needs the skitten any character, as the result is account bound even if the shard is not.
I see people (strangers in map chat) begging for money/stuff for legendaries every so often, didn’t know people actually gave them anything. O.o
I’ve made 2 legendaries now and both times had absolutely terrible luck getting (valuable) t6 from clovers. I used 1 clover for 7 and 10 covers for 70 both times. Maybe with the increased cost it’s a better deal now, but ectos have gone up in price too.
Seriously? Whatever you want, or whatever looks best for you. Otherwise it makes no difference.
It looks kind of bad on my female norn due to major clipping issues. (Clips into her body when stowed, like most but not all gs skins.) I still use the skin, of course, but it could be better. If I’d made it before wardrobe/account bound and equipped it on this character, I’d have been very disappointed. So it can make a difference.
I have a small skinny charr, and the aura is clearly visible. Love it on my (female) charr.
I love this game. My second mmo, and the one I always come back to. (Never played wow.) There is enough variety that I can always find something I feel like doing. The big thing is the lack of a gear grind, by which I mean not being left behind by updates and having to farm some particular content to catch up in a constantly repeating cycle. In fact updates usually level things out, and I generally feel better off after, despite being minimally competitive and not market saavy. This is completely unique to this game as far as I know.
I mentioned on the forums that I liked the watchwork pick because a chance at something extra makes gathering fun, and that I missed the dyes from plants. Then in this update we got a new rare drop from trees. I’m sure this was planned before I even made the post, but it still made me feel like my opinions matter and that this is “my” game, if that makes sense.
Yeah, tried it a couple times and don’t see how it would be possible in 15 minutes like people claim is how long it takes them. Maybe if you are doing it with 4 friends.
Oh, one more thing I like about NA PuGs is that I can finish the daily paths of AC P1-3, CM 1&3, TA Up&Fwd, SE 1&3, CoF P1&P2, HoTW P1 in 4-5hr after server reset.
On the other hand, if you look at EU LFG right after reset… its impossible
When does NA has its reset? EU has at 02:00.
This is one thing on the forum that always confused me. Doing things “at reset”. So lots of people farm at 2 in the morning? Can’t be right…
I saw a thread on reddit where someone said NA standard is to skip Kohler, but in EU most groups kill him. When I was still doing regular runs, with complete randoms out of lfg, we always killed him. Without discussion. Most everyone in EU lfg knows the same script for what to do, where to stand, and when to dodge. Some groups are a bit faster than others, but the script is the same. Especially good or bad individual players are relatively uncommon, at least in the “experienced” groups. Most groups I ended up in were competent enough. What is there to discuss? Conversation was largely limited to random chatting, I can’t remember discussing strategy, unless someone was new, then they were taught the script.
I’m not the most experienced, but I finished hobby dungeon explorer ages ago, so that’s hundreds of pugs right there.
I think people who play other genders are creeps (unless it’s a game where you have no choice. Then it’s fine. Or if you get some bonus out of it like in Fire Emblem)
Lol! I don’t understand people who have more than one character of the same race and gender. Two female humans? But they have the same voice! It’s too weird. But there aren’t enough races to play all classes without playing both genders.
I play and love every race but asura. I hate the way they windmill their arms when they jump cause it makes me feel like I’m going to fall. I made one and played through asura personal story for the ap, and then deleted it.
Ranger was my first character and if I absolutely had to pick just one, still my favorite, even though I only play with her in eotm now.
Only one level 80? Personally, I have not really enjoyed any class except for the first one I played/leveled before hitting 80. Get to 80, gear up, and then you can really compare the classes. Trying to decide while leveling is going to be tough because you are missing so much information. Gear and traits are important for the experience.
You can buy all of the points, the problem is getting the resources. If you have gw1 ectos, plat, whatever, you can buy everything you need including pay people to run the content for you.
Getting the first character to 20 and unlocking all the areas/campaigns asap is what I recommend, as a new player your best source of money is zcoins which are rewarded per character for completing dailies.
I’m not patient enough to binge it, but I don’t bother with all of the side achievements and whatnot. I just do the stuff that doesn’t require use of dulfy guides because I’m lazy.
Haha I know. I played through both parts when they came out, but that was it. I may binge on the unlocked achievements at some point? Right now I just don’t care and haven’t bothered to do any story instances more than once on the same character.
Because the proof of one legendary is that you are, you know, glowing with a brilliant aura and leaving sparkly footprints all over the place. With the wardobe you can now appear to be dual wielding when you actually only have one, because it looks exactly the same.
I guess it comes from people playing each class (most likely playing all rather poorly) and then making a list with their experiences. Like, I believe ya when you say you did some dps test and found guardian was at the top, but my guardian takes for flipping ever to kill anything in comparison to any of my other characters. I saw a guard in a dungeon once who killed things faster than I would have thought possible. Should have asked him for tips…
I do wish it looked blue from more angles, though I think you being colorblind is the big issue. The effect in the last pic is a deep lovely red. For me it looks red most of the time, and I only get to see the blue from certain relatively rare angles, like when going up a steep hill.
I don’t want them to re-release the skins, though I guess it isn’t that terribly important to me. I found out yesterday that the only gw1 skin that I really wanted while I was playing it but never found/couldn’t afford actually IS available in gw2 and goes for a mere 3g on the trading post. I immediately bought the kitten out of it, of course. (Froggy <3) (I actually did have one drop in gw1 but with prot stat so I couldn’t use it. Torture.)
The armor and weapon skins are really nice to have, especially when leveling as they are free to apply. For that reason alone, I don’t expect them to put them in the gemstore, at least not any time soon. Whether they would also allow people who bought it unlimited free use (no precedent for this afaik), or try to keep it only free for those who earned them, it looks messy.
Finally a ponytail for human male. Been using the side bang look (also makeover kit exclusive) on mine cause it was the only one I found tolerable. Going to see how the new hair looks on him as soon as I get home. But I also want the new ponytail for my female norn… And my human female could use a makeover too. Do the kits ever go on sale?
Enemies that punish you for auto attacking and encourage active boon stripping? Like we needed more incentive to not play ranger…
the retal only pops if you don’t interrupt their (very obviously animated) howl. and rangers have tons of interrupts: longbow, shortbow, greatsword, axe offhand, canines (wolf is on-demand, but probably not fast enough unless you use quickness), and probably more.
Not true, even if I interrupt the howl they still get the buff 9/10 times. I played through with pistol whip thief and most of the time trying to interrupt it just didnt work. With other mobs the timing on interrupts is very generous, I find, but those dogs? Nope nope nope.
The wolves howl you can interrupt, even if they get a short burst off, it significantly reduces retaliation.
Oh, I see. I didn’t notice the difference in duration, because I was just bursting them down anyway. For me this made no difference whatsoever, one stack of retal vs 5 stacks is irrelevant. Trying to interrupt the howl really is entirely pointless. I was kind of hoping it was just bugged but obviously not.
How did she manage to do two weeks of dailies without clicking on that giant green thing? Both times now I clicked it as soon as it popped up without even thinking about it. It’s enormous and sparkly. And right next to the daily chest. I can’t even imagine being able to resist clicking it for two weeks while logging in every day.
Got all the tricky ones now but devourer queen which is very buggy and the champ grub in eternal battlegrounds. I actually saw that the queen was up the other day (!!!) but it spawned very far from the pre events, not anywhere near a wp, in a hard to navigate area, and it was gone before I could figure out how to get to it. The way I got the other ones was to just park my character in the area and log in periodically to see if the event was active. Going to try with devourer queen after patch, for the grub no idea. Probably just need to figure out how to solo it, being in wvw makes it harder (much harder) to find people to help with it. They are all doing wvw stuff, not killing the grub. It’s also the only map on my server that generally has a queue. I haven’t even bothered to ask for help, cause I know I’d get told to just buy the trait.
tbh, I feel the gemstore tools need more of an advantage than just animation, and all tools should drop something extra.
Yes!! I bought the wwpick last time it was on sale and I LOVE it. Gathering is fun again, like it was before the unid dyes were removed from the drop table for plants. I have two other unlimited picks that are kind of pointless now though. The only reason I haven’t asked for a refund on the gems or to convert them into wwpicks is because I’m hoping they will be changed to drop something extra too at some point.
I open pretty much every account bound container on a lvl 55 character. For the boss Blitz chests in particular I don’t know if it is ideal. Opening champ bags at 55 has a lot of pros (can still get lvl 80 exotics and T6 mats, everything is worth salvaging so I get more luck) and one con (rares don’t salvage into ectos).
I haven’t opened enough bb chests to know if they work the same as the champ bags, ie still have a chance at lvl80 exo. Earlier in the event I noticed opening them on lower level characters would give low level bags, but at some point I forgot and got exotic bags on a <30 lvl char. So maybe they changed that. Lvl 55 gave exotic bags either way at least.
Haha, to remove all DR would be insane. If you stop playing for awhile, you see how extreme the DR really is. When I first started playing my necro again after about a year, I was getting more rares from trash than greens. 6 rares, 1 green, in about 20 min in Sparkfly Fen. Did a dungeon today on my warrior after about a week of not even signing in on her, first boss dropped two rares…
I’d say edge of the mists (big fun for pve players imo), but since it’s actually your friends trying to get you in, I don’t know. If playing with friends won’t convince you, I don’t know what would.
Both, but mostly equipment scaled to your level. I just open all my champ bags on a lvl 55 char for linen/rugged leather. I still get lvl 80 exotics doing this, though I miss out on the rares which are scaled down (so what I mean is no ectos from the rares).
As long as you are getting enough power on those key runs to convert everything, I guess it would make sense. After I posted I saw a screenshot of someone getting like 5 of them from one blc.
I have to admit I don’t really see the point. If you want a different booster just… buy a different booster? Instead of buying another item to turn your undesired boost into a better boost, an item which costs almost as much as a brand new booster anyway. Or am I totally missing something?
Note that I don’t think spending an insane amount of gems to free up a single inventory space is any sort of advantage at all. If you have 10 strength boosts and 10 armor boosts, you need 2500 gems to convert them all into super boosters… right? Madness.
Whatever it was, converted all my gold to gems as soon as I saw this thread. Little late but still got a great deal, saving about 50g. It’s already gone back up to not worth it only one hour later.
I use food very rarely, if someone else puts a tray down near me I grab it. Tried it once while leveling and found the 20 min time limit on that low level food way too annoying.
I don’t care if other people are better then me cause they ate food, and would prefer to have it available for when I do want a boost. It’s very optional.
If people were still saying “which one first” in mapchat yesterday morning, and they were, I don’t really see how not catering to the zerg would help anyone. You’d think they would give up, get bored after 2 weeks, but no. Unfortunately no.
You have to wait 30 sec? Never seen that before but he will very often refuse to take a ticket. If someone else just went in, went out, or talked to him. Just try again.
Or the queue may be full? I got no patience so I’d rather ran around or come back later if it looks full. But I don’t think the queue at each arena is unlimited.
Same, or sometimes Sanctum Sprinter. The only other title I really want and would be really envious of seeing on someone else is Yakslapper, but I saw the thread where someone broke down what you’d have to do to get it. (Was 37 years of fulltime yakslappin iirc)
Save them. The festival is probably going on for another three weeks, and last year they added new rewards midway through. Even if they don’t do that again, you will still be able to use all your tokens on T6 mat bags after it’s clear nothing else is coming. (Which is what I’ll spend all mine on if nothing else comes out… and they don’t do anything about the gauntlet chances to make them more fair/reasonable.)
You can create them using a different crafting discipline. So if you have armorsmith at 450 you can make your bricks and then make a tuning station with artificer at 425…
