No, Tixx’s airship flies very high. And fast. It is worth noting, however, that we could feasibly make this happen. I’m just not sure we get much gameplay out of it since the airship is too big to fly low enough to be interacted with.
Couldn’t we mount cannons on it to take shots at random bookahs?
I heard that the new NPC commander will be a human guardian. He will constant spam “retreat!”, and will occasionally run back toward the spawn for no reason muttering something about “Jennah”.
what happens if the superior troups decide to not-cap the last supply-camp from the losing server? Just don’t cap it in order to prevent the breakout-events… ?!
" when a team has lost control of all defensive structures, not counting supply camps."
I don’t see why Toymaker Tixx should have to waste valuable Asuran resources giving presents to bookahs who won’t even understand how to play with the toys anyway.
Rifle Engineer 100-0’ing everyone in less than 2 seconds upon initial contact. Most within 1 second http://youtu.be/PJkTMqJOWvU
That video is of a level 80 glass cannon in full exotics, back in September when the game was new, killing people sidekicked up to 80 wearing their leveling gear 5-10 levels below their own level.
There is a reason there are choke points into the center of SM.
There is a reason that Golems move slowly.
There is a reason you can repair broken walls and doors.
The problem with portal is it circumvents much of the design of WvW.
The annoying thing about Engineer RNG is mainly in how different the outcomes can be.
Take the toolbelt skill on Elixir U for example. The 3 outcomes are:
Smoke Screen from Thief that blocks projectiles and blinds foes.
Wall of Reflection from Guardian that reflects projectiles.
Veil from Mesmer that stealths you and your allies.
So let’s say I have the high ground, and I’m grenading people below. They notice me and start firing back. If I use my Elixir U toolbelt and I have a 2/3’s chance of getting a wall that will stop me from getting hit, and a 1/3 chance of making a pretty purple wall that doesn’t help me at all.
If the outcomes are a variation of something that does the same job, then it’s a viable form of RNG. But when the outcome can be something completely different to what the player expected, then the RNG can make the skill utterly useless.
I’m new to IoJ (joined last week), and it seems we haven’t really won much. What’s IoJ’s history?
IoJ has always been in a hard place, originally having to always get beaten by the loser of T1, and now thanks to the implosion of HoD, we have to fight outnumbered in a majority of timezones by their refugee servers.
It usually puts IoJ in a situation were we can’t win. But that doesn’t stop us giving it everything we have and putting up a fight to be proud of. A lot of servers say they never give up, but they have no idea how strong that sentiment is on IoJ.
Was an awesome 2hour siege in SM earlier. Also, someone was building flame rams all over SM when we were under siege wasting our supply…we never found out who it was.
That’s happened now two weeks in a row when a certain server hasn’t had SM at the start of the week.
• There’s a female asura in Rata Sum who talks about a relationship issue with her girlfriend. So, I am assuming homosexuality is fairly accepted in asuran society.
That’s interesting. Most gay characters I’ve seen have been Sylvari due to their lore.
Any chance you could tell me exactly where this Asura is?
I’ve love to read her dialogue.
Sure thing. Her name is Exiffa and she’s on the main level of Rata Sum. You’ll find her close to the Lion’s Arch asura gate.
Finally got a chance to take a look. Interestingly she’s a new NPC added with the last month.
• There’s a female asura in Rata Sum who talks about a relationship issue with her girlfriend. So, I am assuming homosexuality is fairly accepted in asuran society.
That’s interesting. Most gay characters I’ve seen have been Sylvari due to their lore.
Any chance you could tell me exactly where this Asura is?
I’ve love to read her dialogue.
Sure thing. Her name is Exiffa and she’s on the main level of Rata Sum. You’ll find her close to the Lion’s Arch asura gate.
• There’s a female asura in Rata Sum who talks about a relationship issue with her girlfriend. So, I am assuming homosexuality is fairly accepted in asuran society.
That’s interesting. Most gay characters I’ve seen have been Sylvari due to their lore.
Any chance you could tell me exactly where this Asura is?
I’ve love to read her dialogue.
The stairs to the lower gate directly under the giant lion statue have an invisible object on one side that prevents you from running up the stairs on the left, and conversely makes you walk along an invisible platform before falling off when going down on the right.
It’s a very annoying issue when you are trying to defend the gate during an attack.
Mif:
Is there any chance we can get a longer kick timer or new build warning for players in WvW?
It doesn’t seem fair that players AFK in Lions Arch get a 3 minute warning and players in WvW get 20 seconds before they are kicked from the map. It’s incredibly frustrating when you’ve committed resources and made plans only to have the rug near instantly pulled out from under you.
Cameron Dunn, Studio Technical Director at ArenaNet :
Agreed, we should do something better here. I’ve actually been talking with some people about a way to do this – stay tuned.
30 Explosives for the mandatory grenade spam.
10 Inventions for regeneration at low HP and protection when you get crit.
20 Alchemy for a free Elixir B, protection proc on disable, and regeneration with a kit.
10 Tools for perma-swiftness when running across the map and on demand when chasing an enemy.
Grenade Kit is your primary damage dealer.
Flamethrower is for cooking people on the other side of doors.
Elixir U is for huge burst damage.
Elite skill is open, because all Engineer elites are pretty useless.
“Knight” gear for power, crit and toughness.
Cherry Pie for health steal on crit (procs very well with Grenadier’s three attacks and Flamethrower’s fast attacks)
Don’t skimp on the pie. They’re only 1c each on the Trading Post and make a huge difference.
Would it be possible for hair accessories to use to the primary dye color of our current helm when our helm is hidden?
At the moment hair accessories can only be recolored via a purchasing a character makeover. Having that as a barrier really limits you in not only the variety of dye colors you can use, but also stops you from being able to dye your armor to a radically different color on a whim as your hair accessory sticks out like a sore thumb.
I don’t get it. What offense are you demonstrating?
I’m serious; I’d like to know. I love WvWvW, but I hate cheaters.
Use small words, I’m a noob.
Someone transfered server, or used a second account, to waste all of our supply right before we were attacked. That’s why the supply depots in Stonemist Castle are surrounded by useless siege equipment (used to attack doors).
I suspect they were also the person who bought cannons (can also be seen in the pics) to occupy our structural upgrade build slot so we couldn’t buy upgraded doors.
A similar thing also happened the other night at our keep, when someone bought guards and built a useless trebuchet in the middle of Overlook, which took our supply level from 900 to 200 immediately before we were attacked.
It’s happened far too often recently for it to be all coincidental. And the timing has been far too opportune for our opponents for it to be “someone trolling”.
It is worth noting, however, that we could feasibly make this happen. I’m just not sure we get much gameplay out of it since the airship is too big to fly low enough to be interacted with.
