So I really just laugh at the people who are still allergic to WvW for some reason. I can’t understand this “I’m a PVE only I don’t want to touch PVP with a ten foot pole!” mentality. It’s ridiculously stupid in my eyes.
That might just be because you lack empathy and a general awareness of what makes other people tick. Or do you have another explanation for your lack of understanding?
I’m not just talking about the latest update. Many LS updates have been that way. NPCs tell you stuff that’s just an excuse to do something 30 times. Then wait a few weeks for another NPC to tell you why you should do something else 50 times. I don’t consider that storytelling. Rarely, something more interesting pops up, like a dungeon that has some actual plot development while you’re playing through it. Not enough to engage me in the living world story as a whole. 99% exposition and just 1% plot that actually involves the character? Bleh.
These last 4 LS releases are supposed to wrap up Scarlet’s story arc, and they had a huge amount of story content compared to previous releases!
Story? Sure, if you consider heaps of exposition to be story content. I don’t. I’d rather read a book than sit through that. Books have pages that you can conveniently flip, without needing to jump through hoops like clicking through dialogue.
Nothing at all. There’s nothing in the shop that I want that I can’t easily afford with gold or that I consider worth real money. It helped that I bought a truckload of gems in the weeks following release, when they were dirt cheap. It was all I spent gold on.
Lol… It’s only a big part of the game in WvW players heads. It has no significant impact whatsoever on the greater pve world or the pve player base, and forcing them into it will only make them dislike the mode and it’s dedicated player base even more than they already do.
Hey now, I’m a PvE player, and I love WvW, it’s really great!
It’s the place I magically zone into when I need city services without losing my exact location in the “real” gaming world.
An issue I have with the 3rd champion is that unless I play on rather low graphic settings, the bomb graphic won’t load in time for me to see them. It seems as if the bomb graphic is the very last thing being loaded.
I don’t have a particularly slow system, and I can play anywhere with nice graphics and a good FPS, but after a loading screen it sometimes takes a few seconds to load all graphics. Not a problem in 99.9% of cases, but these bombs… it’s ugly. So, I play the marionette grainy and dull. AoE circles on those bombs would certainly help me.
I’ve gotten a couple of weird disconnects in the event that were definitely not a connection problem on my end. In fact, they didn’t seem like connection problems at all.
They happen when I’m playing without any lag, everything is moving, my skills activate, I deal and take damage… in short, everything’s working just fine. Then suddenly, screen goes black for a split second, and I’m looking at the character selection screen. There isn’t any kind of delay or slowdown before or after. From playing perfectly fine to a fully loaded character selection screen in one instant.
When I get back on and mention it in chat, usually there’s a few other people who just had the same thing happen.
The game needs to be able to have barriers that block character movement but not block the camera, and all will be well.
As it is now, anything that blocks a character also affects the camera. An easily accessible place to see how that works, is the Black Citadel. It has a lot of low railings near the command core that you can’t jump over. Walk into them and swing the camera 180 degrees, and the camera will squeeze between your character and the invisible wall, causing extreem zooming.
Also, boss telegraph animations don’t always indicate where its attack is going to land, only that it’s about to perform one. This is especially true for multi-area attacks.
Yes, the boxed-in camera positioning is quite terrible, especially if circumstances drive you back against the edge of a platform. I’m used to playing zoomed out as far as possible, with the camera quite high up. The camera was my greatest enemy at the jubilee tournament, and here I’m again forced to use angles I’m not used to. I can’t get anywhere near the awareness level I feel comfortable with.
The 3rd champion is especially bad. I’ve never seen any part of it higher than its knees, because if I try to, I’m seeing the sky as a backdrop instead of the floor.
Honestly tho, the major issue i have with the plaforms is the camera. It bumps into the barrier, filling your view with your character and obscuring AOE circles and things like bombs.
Its as if ANet didn’t learn a thing from the pavilion cage matches…
I agree, the platform camera is the one thing I dislike about this event. I prefer to play zoomed out as far as the game will let me at all times, and here, it won’t let me go very far at all. It bothers me especially at the huge 3rd champion.
If I need to defend 5 gates, I’m never going to go to one I already defended, regardless of how badly they need me there. It’s not as if I want to do the event more than 5 times.
I can’t say I’m very happy about the long wait between marionette events. It’s annoying to log in to see the living story continue only to have to wait 1:55 before I can.
I just got a letter from Marjory about Lornar’s Pass and some Vigil crusaders needing help in Bloodtide coast. My 2 onscreen Living World pointers tells me to go to those 2 places. Nothing to do in LA for me. (And as it happens, nothing to do in Lornar’s Pass either.)
If there’s an instance, I can’t find it, and nothing points me toward it.
All I can do, apparently, is wait for the marionette event to start. I’ve been doing that for half an hour now with another hour still ahead of me. Oh, and I’m in an overflow despite being 90 minutes early for the event.
So far, this update is doing nothing to keep me occupied.
Expect the prices of these precious metal nodes to shoot up to near linen and silk prices when jeweler reaches 500. The addition of these nodes is to help mitigate the inflation since they’re not that common out in the world and aren’t salvaged very often.
If speculation on these metals is correct, you may be able to make a return on your investment faster than you assume.
Copper’s common as hell.
That, and an alt or two parked in places that have several nodes of these materials in a small area will yield you more materials, for free.
Mmm… the thread title suggested to me that something should replace the gift of exploration as a reward for world completion. That, I’d throw a +1 at. The actual point of the thread, I couldn’t care less about.
Please elaborate. How do you cross the presents? Because I’ve been trying dozens of ways to cross those things, but once one player has set a few of them off, it is like they are rigged to instantly kill the next person trying to go across.
As far as I can tell, the presents work like this: one person crossing will set off only a few presents, additional people crossing will set them all off.
The situation where some presents are gone and a group of people is standing around waiting for someone to trigger the rest and get a reset, is actually my favorite time to hop across, because I know I’ll only be looking at myself while doing so.
The one issue I have with the presents is that some seem to pop without the tell-tale tremble sometimes, resulting in annoying failures.
A warning like: “this new upgrade will replace the existing [xxx] upgrade” would be helpful. Infused rings are a bit confusing right now, having 2 different slots that take different infusion types, especially given that most people only ever use +5 AR infusions (versatile).
Offensive infusions only fit into offensive slots and so on. Here pops your problem up. You want to insert a resistance infusion into a utility slot, which is not possible.
No, he wants to put a Magical Infusion (utility) into The Golden Lotus (utility slot) that currently has a Versatile Simple Infusion (omni).
I haven’t yet had cause to replace an infusion in an amulet. I always assumed it would be possible though.
I’ve been doing 2 runs a day almost every day since the update. I haven’t gotten the underground fractal and the thaumanova at all so far, and the aquatic, volcanic, molten furnace and aquatic only once each. I get the urban battleground and cliffside on practically every run. Also a lot of swamp and uncategorized.
Originally, they worked for 5 days. When the golem was introduced as a stand-alone gemstore item, the collector’s/deluxe edition version had its lifespan lengthened to match the gemstore version.
Right, the spinning cogwheel that launches a character horizontally doesn’t work properly anymore, making it impossible to even get into the Not so Secret jumping puzzle.
Last time I did it, I swung the camera a bit too high, and suddenly the ceiling was blocking my view of the floor. Death resulted before I could readjust, lost another game of player vs. camera.
There are dozens of subjects that people are passionate about that aren’t acknowledged by ANet. Why is this one different? My guess is, they realized they did something wrong.
I thought it was a bad move, and I say that as someone who owns several gemstore armors and no light human T3, so I’m hardly in a position to be prejudiced by personal circumstance. I’m glad they’re making changes.
I got it the first time I did those bosses, playing on a greatsword mesmer. It might be bugged and not always give credit for it when it should, I couldn’t tell, but it can definitely be done.
Yesterday in the story group, one of the randoms whined how lame that fractal was, and just as we got back to Dessa’s lab he left the group and the instance.
I saw the rest of the story, went from “Well, that could have been better” to “Awesome story piece! :o”, and then realized why I think many actually hate it in the first place, they think it’s over when you port back. And I know many never pay attention to sound or chat, as some in the party didn’t realize Kiel and Dessa were talking when we entered, either.
So I think even if they stick around, they’ll miss important elements like Dessa’s tone when she says “I don’t… I can’t…”.
When I did the story, only one other player and myself where still in the instance when the Kiel/Dessa dialogue was over and the final story reward popped up.
People who played a lot of fractals are used to things being over once they’re teleported back to the observatory. Some leave immediately, after a “gg” or “bb”. The end of the story is placed awkwardly, and easy to miss. I’m pretty sure a lot of the people complaining that they still need to do the story after doing it once or twice didn’t get credit for it because they missed the end.
My problem with Scarlet is the huge disconnect between the events we are to believe she set in motion and the presentation of the actual character. I can’t for the life of me suspend my disbelief enough to accept that some ridiculous, annoying clown makes all of that happen.
Because they never show how she does arrange all her enterprises, we have to use our imaginations to fill in those gaps. I can’t. I can’t see that character arrange anything more elaborate than whoopee cushion pranks.
Imagine for a moment, if you’ve been following Game of Thrones, Tywin Lannister being portrayed by a bumbling Peewee Herman. Or Darth Vader being portrayed by Rowan Atkinson in full-on Mr. Bean mode. That’s Scarlet.
The problem isn’t the lore, sure, they inserted Scarlet into asuran circles in a story on the website. The problem is that Scarlet doesn’t fit the role. At all.
It’s poorly implemented, I agree. There should be either respawning checkpoints or waypoints. Also, the hot room should be closed off in storymode. There’s no point in going there, and going in there anyway only results in people with no prior knowledge dying and leaving.
Sylvarri came to life long long after the fall of Abaddon. It wouldn’t make sense unless she has a DeLorien.
She wouldn’t have to travel to the past to be there, she could just go into the same fractal we’re visiting. If Dessa can take us there, Scarlet can probably do it better, because she’s Scarlet. She could go there and completely derail what the GW1 lore lovers want to see. Just to mess with us. Because that’s fun.
Still no waypoint/means of respawning without having to either log out or have the rest of the group sacrifice themselves (both options are ridiculous). It’s not as if you can actually res anyone stuck in that horrible burning DOT room.
What’s the point of that room anyway? We never went in there while finishing the storymode instance. Is it only used when you come across the fractal in a normal run?
op, there wouldnt be a wave of kield supporters spamming i told you so, because they don’t care about fractal, they voted for Kield because of WP costs, Every one of us who actually cared about fractal voted for Evon. if abbandon didnt meet peoples expectation, then reactor will simply not either.
Nonsense. Plenty of people who care about fractals voted Kiel. I care about fractals, I just don’t care what piece of lore they’ll make into one next.
And that would have been the Abaddon Fractal. Kiel don’t understand business. She only knows how to fight. What Evon could have done far surpasses Kiel’s abilities. So if you voted for what the candidate would have done for you in the future, IMO, you might have short changed yourself if you voted Kiel.
Who cares about a fractal that no one has ever seen, one that doesn’t even exist? Not me.
Who cares about story when playing fractals? Stories down there are tiny, insignificant snippets with a few fights thrown in.
Since it is content meant to play more than once, quality of the gaming experience is the only thing I care about. And because I couldn’t (and still can’t) see the future, I didn’t know which fractal would turn out the best.
So I voted based on the only criterion that did affect me: WP cost vs. cheaper keys. I do use WPs, yet I never have bought nor do I ever intend to buy keys. The simple fact is, a handful of silver saved on WPs did me more good than cheaper keys I wasn’t going to buy.
In hindsight, all the teeth gnashing by the losing side’s supporters has also been rather amusing, and now I get to occasionally play an asura without having to really play one. What’s to hate? I stand by my choice.
Assuming this baseless assumption is actually true, this still shows nothing. If people liked fractals they would play it. Instabilities will probably only make it more challenging. They are hurting the people who enjoy it, to please those that don’t who will just leave two weeks after.
I think you’re underestimating the number of people who’ve regularly been playing fractals at modest levels for a long time. Those people will be motivated to play the new content just like they’ve been playing the old, and they’re quite happy about some refreshing changes.
Like I’ve said 1000 times, that majority being catered to will do it for two weeks then participate in the next LS content, so the anet team can go back to ignoring fotm for a year.
Even if all of that is true, the number of hours that the new contents will get played in that two weeks will be several orders of magnitude bigger than the number of hours that would be played at the current high-levels, ever, if no change was being made.
If I gave you an honest answer I would get infracted immediately. Let’s move on, shall we?
I would get infracted too if I wrote what I honestly thought about all the baseless things you’ve been writing about me. That’s why I’m only asking questions.
