“The changes to the Underground Facility Fractal deemed the Dred Fractal are the Legendary Ice Elemental and Dredge Power Suit have made an unlikely alliance forcing players to fight both at once and the Dredge Clown Car now takes 45 mins up from 15 min. Champion Rabsovich has been upgraded to Legendary. Dredge continue to spams there buffs as they are dispel as we did not feel the need to change this mechanic.” We hope you are excited about these changes as we are!
PS No offense Anet but I had to do it!
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These two have potential for improvement unlike Scarlet. If they sit down and really work out the flaws with these two, deepen their personality, make them a little less cheesy etc. I think they really good work out well.
Scarlet needs to go into the trash bin, there is no saving grace unless the Power Puff Girls wish to use her as a villian. Even then, Mojojojojo is more menacing.
Scarlet even with backstory I still feel is garbage and does not suceeded as anything that can be taken seriously. Again as stated many times before, she has failed to do what the Joker ( some versions ) and Kefka ( FF6) suceeded in doing, being comical and actually still be taken seriously.
On top of the fact she is a Mary Sue of villians.
Candy corn elementals and Tixx’s minions – the Holiday Alliance.
LOL but seriously, they would just kill her themselves and take all her loot. Those princess dolls are far more horrifying then anything Scarlet has done.
Viscount shooting out Princess dolls as projectiles, the terror of it!
Deary, that is why you have other abilities that heavy armor people do not, you have a role and need to play that role. Squishy classes are squishy in all games, it is just how it works. If you want heavy armor then you have to play a Warrior or Guardian it is simple as that.
The point I think they are making is armor is actually * useless * at this point in how things are being done. There is a difference of being squishy and a difference of your being one shotted.
For example, if it takes 3 hits to kill me with armor on, and still takes 3 hits when I am naked what is the point then? You might as well just go full glass cannon.
While this may not be the exact case, I think a lot of people feel that armor might be too weak in some cases to having no validity anymore.
Scarlet said something that was based on my personal story about sister, “If only your sister could see you now.”
I have to give some credit for that idea. More of this actually should of been implemented including illusions like humans see Centaurs, Charr see Flame Legion, Norns…. I don’t know… giant bears? Anyways, it would of interesting if this was carried further to a more personal level then it has been IMO. Would of made it a lot better then it currently is. And I mean outside of the instances, not just inside. Like the mobs are all the same but different races see them as different things.
It is actually disheartening the good ideas implemented were thrown to the wolves cause of Scarlet trash of a character : /
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The next LS should be called The Endless Nightmare because of Scarlet never dying and the continuing of the LS following her!
Please let us kill her in the next one so we can move on to something else villian wise…
Meriem, it’s not our place to yell. We’re customers, not a parent reprimanding a child. Some would argue it’s not even respectful then, let alone when communicating with other adults. Also, I don’t know about you, but when someone yells at me, I tune them out no matter how valid their point might otherwise be.
Anyway, I agree we haven’t learned much about Scarlet but we have learned about the other characters so there has been progression of other subplots. Like, I’m curious to learn more about the tension between Logan, Anise and the queen. Plus I’m starting to enjoy new companions more and more. Marjory, Kasmeer, Rox and Braham have been a fun juxtaposition to Destiny’s Edge with their youthful energy and lack of baggage. I do hope that Scarlet’s arc will eventually reveal more about the other tree and how it relates to the dragons. Didn’t they start to reemerge around the same time as the sylvari’s birth?
There must be some connection.
It was an example, the whole yelling bit. That is why I said it was an example and not to be taken as a literal point of the situation,. As a customer I have been told X thing will be done X amount of times and it continues to not be. This has happen with other stuff IRL, not game related.
Some people required to be yelled at why others do not, it actually depends on the type of person, there is psychology behind it. Some you have to stern, some you just have to be friendly and let them know, some you have to express anger and sadly the worse of them all, some only learn the really hard way which various on the situation, ie continue to drive drunk until finally behind bars or badly hurt themselves in an accident.
We’ve had another 4 weeks of (fairly fun) ministories, but there’s still been NO PROGRESS in the storyline. There’s still no PLOT to Scarlet’s Story.
Here’s the point for the story writers: for every piece of content please ask yourself, “How does this fit into the story and how does it advance the plot? What new information am i giving the players to keep them interested in the meta-arc of the Living story?”
If the story writers can’t give good answers to these questions, and the players themselves can’t find the answers to these questions IN GAME, then you’re failing at the PURPOSE of the Living Story.
This is mostly good, clear feedback. Thanks for sharing.
In the future, please ditch the overuse of caps, as that’s not constructive and reduces the chance that we’ll respond. We read this stuff. You’re not posting in a vacuum.
Hi Bob, I do mean this post sincerely as part of it is in response to the player above. While I can understand the frustration of the use caps due to people over using it in emails, games, etc. it they can still be useful when used in the correct manner. I personally use * around such thing because people hate caps but still the same concept.
I feel the poster used caps to emphasis points and to emphasis the frustrating issues that continue.
An example to help clear up more just in case.. What happens when someone contines to do something you ask them not to or to do? You get frustrated etc. and may eventually have to get stern or even yell at them. I am not trying to be mean but I do feel it come to the point where we are really trying to make it clear to you, at least some of us.
Please also keep in mind that while words do have meaning, lack of action makes them more and more meaningless.
A lot of use I know hate Scarlet, some for different reasons then others but she is continued to be used and in the same manner.
For me I have posted about how I feel about her, in short, I like the LS done so far, though I feel some stuff could of been better but Scarlet, and I am sincere when I say this, just ruins everything. She pretty much unravels everything you have built. I really think you are throwing away good ideas with such an awful villian.
I do not feel like I am playing GW2 with her, she just does not work in the GW world, she is just too cartoony/ Your best course of action IMO is that you kill her off as quickly as you can and start with something else. Thank you. : 3
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In what world is the prince a great character? Scarlett isn’t that interesting, sure, but what is the prince bringing to the table?
His personality is far better and hes more disturbing then Scarlet. He sounds like he really says what he means, stalk you, eat your flesh etc. Anything Scarlet says I take with a grain of salt and even with the action behind it, everything is just forced. She does not have the personality to carry through with her so called plans to be taken seriously.
Bascially again, there is being a comic, and being a scary comic to be taken seriously or at least to some extent. Joker suceeds where Scarlet fails.
If you were a wandering hero, from an RP standpoint, and wanted to keep the innocent safe from harm and suffering, wouldn’t you want to go out of your way, even change your intention of killing bandits, to destroy the much more menacing enemies threatening said NPCs you were talking about? I don’t know but it seems to me that doing things with RP in mind you would be MORE likely to go and kill those krait, since they are most definitely the worst problem facing the area.
Of course, if you were roleplaying a Robot and only intended to do the very narrow and specific things the heart npcs asked you to do, you could just do that. Its all about how you want to go about it.
Youdon’t know how I RP so how can you tell me I RP like a robot? If this event does go away to some extent ( all I know is they did say things WILL change, don’t know if worse or better ) I rather do the old content because currently it seems all hearts should be removed and this should be pretty much like Orr is, no hearts and mass of undead but in this case toxic krait etc.
Also I don’t want to kill KRAIT for lot of hearts! Why do I want to kill the same mob over and over again when I rather fight a variety. Also as mentioned in another threat the NPCs don’t exactly act like there is anything wrong such as the bandits and centaurs.
I like to enjoy the world not just grind and kill stuff for loot and points.
Seriously? Most hearts already have a kill mobs in the area componant otherwise they wouldnt be advanceing. The fact that your killing krate instead of bandits does not really make all that much difference in my book. There are very few hearts where an activity is compleatly removed as an option. Heck even your RP example of freeing prisoners is still an option on most of the free prisoner ones I can think of off the top of my head.
I want to fight the bandits eyc. not the toxic nonsense for the hearts. From RP stand point it does not make any sense in my book.
How can it not make sense? When you were there the toxic mobs were running rampant. The locals really appreciate you killing them much like they appreciate people doing other things during more calm times. What, you think a local farmer is going to hate you for killing toxic krait instead of the local bandits (who were killed by the toxic krait)?
The NPC does not mention anything about Toxic Kraits etc. This is addressed in a different thread.
Edit: I just killed ONE witch, thats it just one witch and it completed the entire heart from 0 to 100. I never got to read any dialogue or anything for the Quaggans struggle just a thank you and you can buy karma items is all I got to see. I never had a champ fill an entire bar up. * sigh *
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Seriously? Most hearts already have a kill mobs in the area componant otherwise they wouldnt be advanceing. The fact that your killing krate instead of bandits does not really make all that much difference in my book. There are very few hearts where an activity is compleatly removed as an option. Heck even your RP example of freeing prisoners is still an option on most of the free prisoner ones I can think of off the top of my head.
I want to fight the bandits eyc. not the toxic nonsense for the hearts. From RP stand point it does not make any sense in my book.
… is the area does look really neat besides the bandits and centaurs not making any sense. Also the fact it effects the hearts and may be a perm change to the area is also bad.
I actually so far do like where this is going though not completely sure about the whole Krait alliance. Regardless I know this will all go down hill if Scarlet is involved. There is zero redemption involved for that character. It is sad too, I like the Molten Allaince, I like the pirates though I thought they could of been implemented better ( I didn’t care for the Dragon Bash Crash ) and even this seems cool but Scarlet ruins it all.
I feel like the person writing the story for these allainces is not the same person making Scarlet.
x.x
… the living story interfers with them unless you done them all already. So far with these events I had to becareful of what I kill and where I AoE because sometimes these mobs count strangley towards the hearts or stuff gets mixed in.
I want to do what the heart intends me to do like kill wolves, not kill toxic tree people!
Like for the Scarlet Invasion quests mobs might be mixed in with the robots so I couldn’t AoE and now this Tower of Terror some of the mobs have no relevance to the hearts but are still counting like go kill Ettins yet killing tree people and kraits are counting towards it?
I like to do and play out how it suppose to work. Thank you!
I am killing Toxic mobs and it is counting towards the hearts and if this event is going to go away and the area be more normal again I don’t want to waste my hearts for doing things that has little or even no relevance to the heart.
Like one is to collect truffles or something and kill Ettins. It has NOTHING to do with the Krait even the normal ones and the stupid toxic ones count towards the heart. Ughhh.
They need to put a reset heart thing in this game since the completed hearts do have a phasing element or something to them, ie I can’t just go and do xtra after its completed. Like if I wanted to role play and free more prisoners I cant because they vanish after the heart is completed.
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… I am getting shot with toxic blasts with from one side from tree and fish people, and the other side I am get shanked by bandits and centaurs. The bandits and centuars seem to be completely unaware of anything…they must be phased into normal Kessex Hills! It like one of those nightmare shows or twilight zones… only I can see the gates of hell!
Anet really messed up with the timing on this and the WvW :/
Wow, nice solo man. I’ve read plenty of time, late at night, people saying “we can’t do it just leave it” when we had like 20 people.. this proves them wrong.
I also keep seeing everyone say “Don’t range him or you heal him, stay melee” what’s with that? How does attacking from range heal him? Whenever I go melee range I die in seconds, though I was playing on my level 25 Necromancer.
I don’t know the exact mechanics of this boss but I do know of another game where certain bosses are actually much harder when you have more people as in 5 people have a much easier time then 40 people and that is not an exggeration because I seen it myself. Maybe how he scales makes his life leech OP? I knowSsignet of Locust is terrible unless you have 4-5 targets around you and its actually then another heal skill.
No offense to you but people wonder why bosses are given timers.
With the bug, if it somehow favored players, ie earn gold fast, items etc. is nerfed pretty fast. Hurts players and they are slow if ever fixed it. Look a the Queens Gauntlet when they tried to fix it though still people manage to pull it off.
They NEED to do the thing that WoW did which was very sucessful which is phasing so we can do both the old and new area and still give the living world feel.
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In case you didn’t get the message. No.
Phasing is not a good thing.
Care to explain why? I can understand the emphasizing of know but you took this too far and explained nothing. PERMANENT is the lesser of the 2 evils I am sorry. I rather not lose content. Phasing gives the option to do old content.
Other then the great job they did with the Bloody Prince I talked about in another thread… this year was a real dissapointment… I expected A LOT more story to develop this year and more adventure.
The thing that got me is one red posted how excited or something of what they got in store for us this year for Halloween and I am like… ok.. deception much? * sigh * It is really depressing… too busy building that stupid Scarlet garbage, polishing that kitten as hard as they can in hopes it will somehow be so shiny you might think its a diamond for an instance instead of kitten cause they try to blind you with the shine!
Perfectly great character here, Mad King along with another perfectly great new character, the Prince and they just let them slip away…
Someone needs to tell Anet the polished kitten quote and how this applies to Scarlet.
That Humans, Asura, Charr and even Sylvari can play GW2 without Scarlet. That Scarlet will be lost in time, forgotten like a bad memory never to resurface!
If there is one vote that I wish was held, would be to vote Scarlet out of this game!
When she is gone and lost like old content being erased by the newer content, I will be happy and that will be the only content that I will enjoy being seen written over.
Without giving anything away, I will say that the Kessex Hills you’ll see in November (and December, and next year…) is not the same as the one we had last week.
Phasing! PHASING!
I find it pathetic you have to BUY a vendor item to deal with thieves. They need like 2 classes with stealth detection skills.
If you are talking about the stealth trap, then I think that is the most ignorant thing I have ever seen. Stealth trap is intended more for large fights, where mesmer viel and Mass invis can change the tide of the battle. Using a stealth trap to fight a thief is nothing more than selfish and a waste, but if that is what you think is -required- to beat them, then go ahead.
No the issues is with thieves and how easy the move through WvW. And calling people ignorant is an easy way to start a fight. I would suggest you tone down you hostility.
What vendor item stops them or anyone from moving through WvW? your post makes no sense at all.
I am not going to elaborate since you really don’t want to have a civil discussion.
If the yak is being guarded by people, then yes it should take either a group or a skilled enough player to kill the guard (player) to kill the yak. I don’t disagree with buffing yaks, however if no one else is near the yak it should be soloable. Even with the guards (NPCs), around 2 guards shouldn’t be too difficult for people. (If it is you can always get practice at the north supply camps)
It is more then 2 when you get the convey or I think I saw more then 2. I just feel they are sort of just pointless and I hate pointless stuff. Everything should be useful and especially if you upgrade it. Wall upgrades are amazing, guards are not. Basic guards are one thing but upgraded guards need to be more lethal. There is little punishment if any other then repair costs if a player sucides into a Yak or anything else.
The Argent Dawn in WoW was sort of a joke for those who did play WoW XD I told someone that in game and they responded, " Have Mercy."
I wouldn’t mind seeing something done about how useless the upgrade is, however increasing their own ‘ability’ would defeat the point of yaks and sentries, and to some extent the idea of solo-capping camps.
Yaks are intended to be their defender’s problem, and it shouldn’t take more than one coordinated person to kill a yak unless the server is willing to defend them. Same with sentries, if you increase guards in general than sentries are going to get effected, and guess what they’re actually intended for solo players and small groups.
I didn’t play wow… so sorry I don’t know what that last part means, but I do want to conclude saying that: “I just feel WvW needs more team play and less steam rolling.” shouldn’t even apply to yaks, they’re for small groups so that zergs don’t have to worry about them.
People just sucide kill yaks. We had this problem just last night. Yaks actually need more HP in general so it DOES take a group to kill it and the group guarding it.
I find it pathetic you have to BUY a vendor item to deal with thieves. They need like 2 classes with stealth detection skills.
If you are talking about the stealth trap, then I think that is the most ignorant thing I have ever seen. Stealth trap is intended more for large fights, where mesmer viel and Mass invis can change the tide of the battle. Using a stealth trap to fight a thief is nothing more than selfish and a waste, but if that is what you think is -required- to beat them, then go ahead.
No the issues is with thieves and how easy the move through WvW. And calling people ignorant is an easy way to start a fight. I would suggest you tone down you hostility.
I find it pathetic you have to BUY a vendor item to deal with thieves. They need like 2 classes with stealth detection skills.
It might help of the guards weren’t useless vs small groups and roamers.
They are pretty much flies and the real reason is the upgrading them is pretty much pointless and a waste. I am not saying making super insane guards, I expect zergs to slaughther them but when it comes to roamers and small groups, they should be able to hold their own to some extent. It also help if the escorts for the yaks required a group rather then a roamer or a a few people.
I just feel WvW needs more team play and less steam rolling.
If I were a developer I’d make all the guards like the Argent Dawn ones in WoW at the Chapel in Plaguelands…
Both the Aether Blade and this armor look like poop for female cloth.
Yes but they still make permanent changes to the world such as no more hole in DR as example. LIke if one day they wish to cleanse Orr as a LS they could still keep old Orr and by doing the story you phase into the new one etc.
So we can keep the old content and still do the new content and not have the old content permanently erase the new content * if * this is indeed permanent. Even if not it still would be very viable with other things like the Queens Gauntlet along with future content. This I felt worked amazing with WoW because it did indeed make it feel like a living world and not lose content at the same time.
They NEED to do the thing that WoW did which was very sucessful which is phasing so we can do both the old and new area and still give the living world feel.
If there even is a second part. Source please?
There is a 2nd part because you can not currently do the Mad King Says achievement. What else it might entail I do not know but with all the hype they gave us if this is indeed it, I don’t know what they were trying to hype about…
I have to admit I had concerns about this whole adding family members/sidekicks etc. idea cause it has been done terrible most of the time in any movie, game film etc. But I have to say he was done really well IMO and the irony is they are both are crazy but each other thinks the other ones in the wrong.
Though I have to say for now I am disappointed outside of the Blood Prince for the most part with Halloween :/ I hoping it will really pick up with the 2nd part of it.
I never did the area yet so just wondering when I do decide to, I try to ignore that isn’t there yet!
if by saying “obsessed” you really mean “disappointed” – then yes.
No, I am saying obsessed because people apparently feel the need to spam about her in every single thread, even if the thing talked about might have nothing at all to do with her.
Just look at the pre-Blood and Madness release threads, Scarlet is spammed about in more or less every single one of them.
It is just extreme blood thirsty hatred, to say obession is an insult to us, too weak of a word!
Hm?
First it was apparently data-mined (which was never supplied) and now it is suddenly Anet saying it?It doesn’t really matter which “proof” people use unless they actually give links that PROVES what they are saying.
I don’t know nor do I care, my points still stand 100% because they do not relate to any specific event, just her. It will show Anet how much we hate her even if the info is wrong just because we hate her that much the mere thought makes us angry!
And yet there is still not a single post that actually proves that Scarlet have anything at all to do with it, so can we please stop posting that as a fact until we actually KNOW?
Someone said it was confirmed by Anet, I don’t know but regardless all my points will stand until the day she dies and is erased from history.
As far as everyone bashing on Scarlett goes, she’s not to blame for this. Bad story telling is one thing, but no amount of good story telling can save this mess of an achievement mindless grind the the new events have become.
Scarlett herself isn’t even all that bad a villain, she acts maniacal and insane but if you read the story on her (which committed the crime of being posted in a website instead of in the game) she has a reason for being so. There’s a mysterious past to her with something she experienced no one knows about which gave her a reason to be the way she is.
What makes the players feel this horrible pain with the game they invested their time and money (and faith) in isn’t Scarlett herself, but that it’s become so boring and the story so repetitive.
Scarlett is somewhat cliche but isn’t terrible.
Now if they decide they’re just gotta staple Scarlett into every mess they come up with, then she’ll become nothing more than an annoying pain on everyone’s sides that every players just despises having to deal with again (the aetherblades are becoming GW2’s Team Rocket).
Instead of doing this they need to make sure they create Scarlett’s own story and true motive behind her actions, propelling her main plot instead of shoving her into all kinds of filler content.
She is terrible. The Joker, Kefka and Mad King were all successfully comical yet evil characters.
I was just about to make a thread saying I had high hopes for this event until I saw Scarlet. So this event is nothing to look foward too other then to ruin another human area >.>
…….Clockwork Invasion was Merely a Setback….
It was probably was a test or motivation to show her prowess that she can upstage a major ruling race. She probably knew the setback was coming, because even in the Scarlet Playhouse instance she was not trying very hard to kill us. She was merely toying with us, because in someway she got what she wanted. Attention, and the clockwork mechanisms she hijacked from festival. The problem is you can’t tell that she is actually doing this or not. Only vague interpretations of it.
You completely missed their joke, it is a WoW reference.
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Well at least there is someone else out there that has read the short story Anet released. I agree she is an amazing villain! Most of those who don’t are just uninformed (which tbh is the fault of Anet because of how they keep these stories in a separate place from the actual game). Thanks for the rehash for all the people out there that want to say “Scarlet is the Joker……hahaha hurp hurp.” Although I don’t think that this part of the living story has anything to do with scarlet (besides the glow in the obelisk that suggests something like asuran tech is holdin it together), I think its going to be a great story!
She still terrible and the Mad King needs to burns her while his son bleeds her. It isn’t just her back story, her character is just terrible and failed to suceed is making something that is threatening also comical. I expect to see her in Power Puff Girls, not GW2. Again as stated several times outside this thread, the Mad King is comical but also evil and actually disturbing, Scarlet is not. Mad King was a sucess while Scarlet was a failure in the category of Comical yet evil and serious.
The halloween zone is empty at primetime on SoS, its a terrible terrible zone. Those bosses dont scale at all for less than a full map zerg.
That is thanks to them starting WvW league around halloween time….
It wasn’t like this last year that I recall. Those skills are just plain auto win, you either run unable to grab anything or you do the command and STAND STILL channeling it so you can just die…
Is it me or is there music missing during Lunatic Inquisition which is what really kills the mood for me. It is just silence!