Any and all dungeon rewards should be based on what you do, not how far you get by exploiting or skipping content.
People should be more careful and always confirm things before hitting any buttons. I know lag can happen, but really caution is a better solution to 98% of these issues.
It’s a full story instance.
Is it going to include awesome cinematics that are completely unwatchable when using 3 monitors like every other event. If not for youtube I would have even less an idea of what is going on and why I am doing the things im doing.
Original cinematics up to Fractals work just fine… new story event cinematics gives me lovely closeups of random eyes, noses and lips.
LoL….first world problems. Have you actually bug reported this with full system specs so they can fix the issue?
Your setup sounds pretty custom, so they might not even have official word that there is a problem.
It will most likely function like the trade ship from LA to the Cliffs or Southsun. It just sounds like there will be more of them in all of the cities.
What will happen to Jugs of Liquid Karma? Will they stay in my bank or should I drink them all now?
Does it matter, drink ‘em anyways, since now you don’t have to save them for a certain character.
Actually, now that it isn’t character-based…these karma consumables will likely become obsolete. It would make far more sense to simply award a given amount of karma rather than a consumable that serves no purpose.
Actually a consumable is preferred as there will still be karma boosters in game making for guild karma parties the recommended way of gaining karma.
Icy Dragon Swords were in GW1 as well. They are completely separate from Fiery Dragon Swords. I agree that it’s pretty wrong of them to make reskinned 1h Fellblades that look better than the original one.
I don’t think it is fair for the community to think that ANet has to be locked into “no better designs” mentality just because there are unique weapons that you can get in other ways. The game is going to progress whether people like it or not. New skins will be offered. Over time even the legendary weapons will seem not as desirable as the new versions.
Looks are subjective, new designs and items are introduced in ALL MMOs. It’s just how it is, get used to it.
I hear Jenna had invited one of the high ranking centaurs to speak at the Jubilee and hopefully help mend relations, but he had to cancel. He was feeling a little hoarse.
When asked to reschedule, the centaur representative was quoted as saying “Neigh.”
The Sovereign skins are very cool, some of my favorites so far. I’d describe them but I don’t think I would be able to do them justice. You’ll just have to log in and see.
I’d poke you with a rapier for the teasing but my RnG isn’t good enough.
I hope this applies to Fractals as well…as far as I’m concerned it’s a dungeon, just like the others.
There has always been a rifle available for karma that functions exactly like a mesmer portal skill.
More than anything.
- F5-F8 Equipment build swapping – Not usable in combat but allowing for switching of full armor and weapons out of combat with a button press like we had in GW1.
- Meaningful Player/Guild Housing with Furniture crafting.
- Guild party system allowing for 10-20 members to party up and run all current dungeon content at much higher difficulties.
- New WvW Maps – Add Supply zones that can be conquered by severs giving a bonus to supply production on the other three maps.
- Separate PvP, WvW, and PvE Skill/Trait Balancing – This is a must for the future of the game.
- All Weapons For All Classes – Allow all current classes to use any weapon in the game and crack the build flood gates wide open.
- Aquatic Skill Equality – All utility skills should be usable underwater. No exception.
- Heroes added to the game like the GW1 system, allowing people to play through dungeons on their own if they choose to.
Are there polls we can follow?
Where’s the Tyria CNN election coverage?
Where are the FOX News tirades??
All of my characters take the Krytan route up to 70. I just like the Meta-chains better and events fire off fast in pretty close proximity (at least that’s how I perceive it).
After I got 100% map completion on one character, I obviously favored some areas over others and I ignore the other half of the world for the most part.
So what would make me visit those other areas? I like to fight big kitten monsters. I like fast event chains that span the map. I like the idea that players could mess up and lose a chance at the big kitten monster. Some world bosses and some areas have that. But most don’t.
Want me in the shiverpeaks?
Add some assaults on Svanir camps to draw out a legendary shaman. Killing him drops an ice tablet that you need to get to a Norn shaman to translate before it melts. The tablet is a bundle, so other players need to escort across the map. Drop the bundle or get downed and the event fails. The Norn reads the tablet to reveal locations of two gongs on opposite ends of the map. Players have a time limit to get to the gongs and they have a three second cooperative window to hit them simultaneously. The gongs crack Drakkar late and you fight a giant corrupted octopus. WIN!
How to keep me in the area and doing other stuff? Add a five to ten minute timer between assaults on the bases so I do events during chain breaks. Make the camps assaulted occur in random order so I am active in the map instead of idling in a hot spot.
I would be in the Shiverpeaks for at least an hour every day. And i’m sure a good amount of other people would too. This was sort okittend of experimented with in Southshore with the Karka queen. The problem with that event was Southshore still has a ways to go before it gets rid of the bad taste it left in peoples mouths from it’s launch event, and the general impression I get from /m is that people just don’t like Karka as enemies.
I’m sure my above example probably isn’t possible given scripting or engine limitations. But it gets the tone across. Every map needs something of that scale, interaction and fragility. Not a tiny meta that encourages either being skipped entirely, or everyone crowding the finale because someone can solo the pre-event with little to no risk of failure.
/signed
Nice…I would love to see this developed for all of the other areas.
“Unlimited” salvaging
This basic salvage tool can break down items an unlimited number of times, but each use costs a small fee. It does not recover upgrades from armor or weapons."
??? What is the point of buying such a thing for gems? We do not need another gold sink in the game.
Yes a rapier would have been awesome, but to be honest it doesn’t fit with all the other mechanical weapons. Perhaps it was pulled and will appear at another time.
BTW….the gun and rifle…OMG.
To be clear, I wasn’t insinuating that the older the style the better. I was saying that the 1920’s style fits much nicer into the game than more modern styles (or the styles that inspired them).
Yes the 1920’s style fits nice with the magical laser cannons as well…
Oh wait…
I’m sorry but the “immersion” argument is lost on me. GW2 is a mix of styles and technologies and that is one of the things that makes the game cool and different. The traditional fantasy or even steampunk tropes are flexed and made new here.
Embrace it.
OH NOEZ ANET ARE LYERZ!!
Seriously people…minor inconvenience for a few hours. It’s build day…you don’t expect some down time? People complain about the oddest things sometimes.
I’d actually say that’s an improvement (depending on how common the chance is for the scraps) in terms of locking it behind RNG. I’d personally still prefer to buy the weapons, but I’m not too bothered, since we have the chance to get them during the Candidate Trials.
Also, dat Healing Surge buff.
I think a lot of players would prefer everything being free, resulting in Anet making no money. But I bet you there would still be complaining!
This is just not true. Anet is a great company and they have made a fantastic game, but I think the majority of the playerbase has made clear that while they want to support the game through the gemstore, they don’t want to gamble.
The gold standard was the flame and frost weapons, no rng garbage, just great skins available for purchase directly. If this had been the case for fused/jade weapons, I would have bought £30 worth of gems probably, but instead they got nothing from me.
This. I would prefer items and skins available directly for purchase and will not spend a dine on RNG. I would have bought Jade weapon skins directly from the gem store.
I miss the character select screens from GW1…they were much cooler then what we have right now.
/signed /double signed
I think if ANet were to work toward anything, I would put this toward the top of the list. The build variety alone would make this worth it.
Would it be tough to balance? Sure…but so is the game already.
There’s absolutely no reason why a necromancer wouldn’t pick up a gun or a greatsword. Elementalist with a rifle or a longbow? Anyone heard of an Arcane Archer…
The more in this direction would do more towards the “Play your way” mentality then anything else. Also, as far as the redundancy arguments go: There’s nothing wrong with a little redundancy, as it helps people pick weapons for style as well as function.
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People that didn’t play HoM have no idea the time commitment involved to get 50 points. It’s huge, expensive and totally worth awarding via GW2.
Those committed GW1 fans are the ones who bankrolled GW2.
Then do the grind then for the 16 achievements without doing the JPs there are 16 alternatives.
1. Strangers from the Sky
2. Voyage to the Bazaar
3. Ascent to Zephyr Sanctum
4. Diverse Trader
5. Grandmaster of Om
6. Sanctum Sprint
7. Parachute Pilferer
8. Kookoochoo the Incredulous
9. Poor Man’s Kite
10. Kite Bombing
11. Colossal Kites
12. Like Clockwork
13. Crowd Favorite
14. Crystal Obsessed
15. Pickup Completionist
16. Lessons from the Sky/Speedy Sprinter/Sanctum Sprinter/Kites of Iron/Kites of the Night/Best. Dive. Ever.So yes you have a lot of options. The sky crystals aren’t JPs they are easy to acquire with very little jumping at all. You mostly have to be creative with your 3 abilities. Sanctum Sprint is easy as well and it doesn’t involve jumping except a few vertical ones (which isn’t complex). Best dive is easy to acquire and even if you aren’t that great there is a video by Dulfy that makes it easy and do know Dulfy doesn’t like JPs either but she managed to acquire these achievements. Kites of Iron is easy and it is simply jumps (something I know most people do in this game already moving around). When it shakes just pause and take your time. Kites of Night is easy too and the kite isn’t located at the end either. As you can see you can easily acquire 16 achievements and if you don’t mind grinding then certainly you shouldn’t mind having to try a few times instead of just getting the first time for some of these. Kite Bombing just requires some drops and jumping small gaps very easy to acquire the achievement.
Pretty much it is easy to acquire 16 achievements and for different people it might take more time because you might fail a few times or you just need to put a bit more effort (trial and error). So in a sense you can grind your way to it.
Lastly, the node isn’t mandatory at all it gives something for those that complete the achievements. But if you don’t have it you will just miss out on a few quartz per day which isn’t a big deal. If you wanted the boxes you can always grind the other materials to trade it in and you are willing to grind. On top of that, you can only make one charged per day and most people have an excess amount of quartz around.
I think you didnt do it, 50% of thing you posted are in jp ! ;/
Ding ding ding…I love how people that can do or enjoy jumping puzzles just assume other people are wrong for not liking them.
This last update for LS is over 50% required jumping. Without doing the jumping puzzle part of it, you cannot complete this LS content.
To be CLEAR…I’m not advocating removing JP from the game…just don’t hinge new content on it.
I agree that I’ve really had it with all the jumping puzzles taking center stage with LS. I don’t mind that JP exist, I just don’t like the fact that 50 AP requires it from the last update.
It’s crazy how people can get so upset with rewards…even when ANet can decide how to reward players however they want. Achievements are rewards for things that the players have achieved.
I beta tested & played GW1…You know what I achieved? Funding of the development of GW2.
You’re welcome.
Thanks ANet for the points, the nod, and for both great games.
Looking through the later chests in the achievement panel you can see what is coming which is good but I noticed that the weapon skins are the same at the later tiers as they were at the earlier ones. Will the other skins show up later, like the torch, etc?
Contact support and see if they will give you the gems/gold you spent on the items back.
he didnt spend any gold/gems
he opened one of the new chests but complains that the pvp items are souldboundI know.
Complaining about free stuff… geez.
I know…trolling without reading…geez.
Contact support and see if they will give you the gems/gold you spent on the items back.
he didnt spend any gold/gems
he opened one of the new chests but complains that the pvp items are souldboundsolution is simple:
if you put them in pvp locker you can take them out with any other char and they will be soulbound to the character who takes the items out of the pvp locker….
you can then put them back to the pvp locker to give them to another character.
I’m assuming that the locker is in the pvp lobby, right?
I’m “complaining” because there is no explanation of what this stuff is or why I got it…and it should just come as account bound if it is actually account bound.
put them into the pvp locker and they will be account bound…
Sorry, I’m a dufus when it comes to PvP…where would that locker be?
What is the point exactly in giving chests for achievements that give completely useless items that are soulbound. I opened the chests on my guardian and was rewarded with a set of PvP light armor, and a PvP molten longbow both of which are soulbound.
Really? Is that a bug or just a bad joke?
Compete in the Sanctum Sprint for a chance at one of these
three special back items, representing the Aspects of Wind , Sun,
and Lightning.
Directly from the release page. RNG for the “win”
Two weeks is too fast, mainly because Arena Net isn’t testing these patches enough. The last one Sky Pirate was the buggiest one yet and most of the bugs still haven’t been corrected. I would much rather have content coming out every month or two with little or no bugs at all. You can put out new content as fast as you want but if it isn’t tested enough than, you will get bugs that break the game. Slow down!!!! More testing lest bugs!
I think you missed Colin’s comments about the testing teams and how this new content is being developed and how they can crank out so much in what is perceived as such a short amount of time.
Content updates have been split into various teams and each team handles a specific update. This means that those updates are being tested for months before they go live. Bugs will slip through…testers are only human.
You find a bug, report it by typing /bug in the chat interface.
If they add new armor skins, please do not allow whoever designed the sky pirate armor to do it. That is the worst stuff I’ve seen in a game…ever.
+1 for allowing people to remove UI elements from their screens. Choice is good. No choice no good.
Remove achievement points from dailies and remove these points from total count!
100% sign
Another 100% here.
0% Here. Points are points.
100% agree with the 0%
Points are points…don’t punish how people play just because you don’t play that way.
To me, though I am sure ANET would FERVERENTLY deny it given their documented stance on Map expansion, this is absolutely SCREAMING that a LARGE Map expansion is coming soon and the area to be expanded into will Sea of Sorrows.
Map expansion does not include opening up previously inaccessible areas of the current map…which is a lot. South Sun was revealed. There is a high probability that there will be more reveals as the living story goes further.
People need to remember that you might get lvled up to 80, but your gear is still lower level so you will have a harder time if you try these instances with lower level toons.
Lvl 80 content is designed for lvl 80 toons.
Oh look, people complain about instances always being group content so anet fix it, and then people start complaining that the single player instances aren’t group instances. They just can’t win.
The issue is not that they add instances…its that they do not allow player choice in how they play the content.
This is an MMO. If I want to play through this content with friends/guildmates, I can’t. That is the wrong design. Party members should be allowed into instances…just like every other instance.
It’s too bad the Jade Longbow is locked behind the RNG wall and not just available in the gem store.
I would have bought it outright.
There was just a new update, about 10 min ago. Only 8 are now needed.
Great, thanks for that.
After the Dragon Ball confirmation in this thread:
Since those achievements apparently do not count towards the event achievement, does that mean that the Moa racing achievements are now required for the event wings? I’d rather play dragon ball then waste all my gold on Moa racing…
I have 12 characters across two accounts. I would be willing to pay as much as 800 gems for one of these skins. I sat down last night and figured out how many skins I would actually want to buy across all my characters. Some I wouldn’t bother, some weapons I don’t think are that great, but I arrived at 12 as the total number of skins I would be willing to buy if they were sold directly.
That’s 9600 gems I’d be willing to purchase and spend to be able to buy the skins directly. How much will I spend on RNG boxes with a 1 in 100 chance at a skin? Zero, nada zilch.
Most people probably wouldn’t buy 12, but a think exponentially more people would buy at least one than will be willing to chase a skin via the rip-off rng boxes!
These things make no sense, have never made sense and have likely cost the company $100 million of lost revenue since launch.
Not to mention all the bad will they generate and the fact that a portion of people who are willing to spend $50 to $100+ on RNG boxes, only to fail to get the skin, will never spend another dollar on the game again.
Brilliant people they have working on the gem store…
This is my point. I agree with you, that NCSoft has lost revenue from me based on these RNG only skins. They might make money on the RNG boxes, but they would also make money on skins in the gem store.
I’d drop 400 gems on a skin
I just wanted to post my support for ANet adding the weapon skins for all events as a direct buy option in the Gem Store. I would buy them directly and think that you should add them to the shop just like you did for the Wintersday event skins.
The Jade skins are good enough to buy directly and I could see myself buy at least two of them, maybe even three.
I have no interest in RNG however. If you want my money, add things to the store.
If you agree, please post your support.
I love how people can’t just get something without assuming there is some dark motive.
Thanks ANet for the thank you and please ignore all the complainers. We will keep supporting you.
Yeah…dropping 50s on a race is not gonna happen. Why they made the races so expensive is beyond me. They at least should have made it like normal racing where you can bet in tiers. I’d bet 5s or 10s just for fun.
I’m wondering how you get the Shatterer Wings (Not the RNG 100k Taffy ones).
ANet said you get them by completing a meta event…but what?
Most quivers are ascended item drops from FotM and there was a recent quiver skin available for a limited time in the Gem store.
My launcher will not patch. It is just stuck with an error message saying “Connection errors detected. Retrying…”