Guild Wars 2

It has nothing to do with your individual actions: The instance you are in needs to kill all 3 w/in 6 minutes. You can stay at just one.

Ayrilana.1396:

Enter the portal closest to it. I’ve only done this six times, but of those, this is how it has worked for me. Maybe I just got lucky and it worked out that way so perhaps others could offer their observations. Last night we unfortunately zerged the knights and everyone except for a handful of people were on the same platform.

Even if that works, there is nothing you can do after you get in to re-locate. But I doubt works, because we killed the Knights with a single rolling zerg, and it still got split up.

And there are multiple portals in LA away from the Knights, so it isn’t clear what platform they go to.

Wait…how could you get to a specific (different) platform?

Scarlet looked great with a cow sitting on her head.

NoxInfernus.2361:

I dumped some cash into the Key sale from yesterday, got lucky with 3 complete tickets (for the record I only spent $20.00)

Then you are very lucky, since you spent less than 1/5th of the expected amount for 3 tickets.

Most of the AFK people are either sitting next to the entrance, or hiding in crevices on the edge of the map. I found one up on a remote rock.So they aren’t botting in any meaningful sense, just taking a reduced loot for zero effort.

Oh, and harming all their fellow players…

The statistics of Black Lion chests indicate that a skin that requires 5 tickets would, on average, require you to spend about $175 on keys.

Oddly, these skins sell on the TP for around 60 gold, which is $12 to $15 if you buy gold with gems. How is this possible?

Presumably, lots of people farm keys.

The armor values are on the wiki: (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Armor)

Armor Piece Exotic Ascended
Light Medium Heavy Light Medium Heavy
Headgear 73 97 121 77 102 127
Shoulders 73 97 121 77 102 127
Chest 314 338 363 330 355 381
Gloves 133 157 182 140 165 191
Leggings 194 218 242 203 229 254
Boots 133 157 182 140 165 191
Total 920 1064 1211 967 1118 1271

So for Heavy armor it is 0.0495, or 5%.

For attributes, it is 0.044, or a bit less.

But…that is 5% to both ‘offense’ and to ‘defense’. And then add in weapons, which have a multiplicative effect.

That isn’t quite ‘trivial’ anymore. Whether it matters compared to thinks like ‘knowing when to dodge’ is a different question.

Just try to search for foods…

I don’t remember…didn’t someone say at some point that the whole TP/BlackLion shop was actually contracted out to another development company? Perhaps that is why it never gets worked on. (Maybe I’m thinking of a different game.)

If you were doing this kind of thing ‘for real’, you would clear enemies out of an expanding area, while maintaining a perimeter behind which you could find and rescue survivors. Unfortunately, in this case enemies re-spawn anywhere, so that is not possible. If they had fixed spawn points, you could hve better strategies to contain them.

The Depths were not ‘under Lion’s Arch’, exactly – you could also enter them from Cantha and Elona. So they covered all of Tyria, presumably.

Tom Gore.4035:

Naevius.3185:

A noble, self-sacrificing death, mano-a-mano with a dragon.

Forever immortalized in a huge statue in New Lion’s Arch, with the words ‘Never Forget!’

So you want her to kill the dragon that appears, leaving the players standing in the dust?

Well that would surely be a popular choice…

She would be teamed up with Trahearne, of course.

Season Two: Scarlet Strikes Back!
New, improved Drill Star nears completion…

Meh, everything is easy on a guardian.

A noble, self-sacrificing death, mano-a-mano with a dragon.

Forever immortalized in a huge statue in New Lion’s Arch, with the words ‘Never Forget!’

‘Ley’ lines…not ‘lay’ lines…(one is what you try at happy hour…)

But it can’t be that, because the lines extend everywhere…why drill in that spot? And only one detector triggered green.

I’m guessing an ancient UFO full of dragons.

The upscaling works well if your gear is roughly the right level.

You can get almost two levels per run, between the Tomes of Knowledge (bought with Found Belongings) and the base XP from zerging. And it is a great time to run boosters, because you know you’ll be in action constantly.

I’ve gotten my ele from 26 to 59, and my engi from 67 to 80 already.

Malediktus.9250:

The day they suspend me for afking without circumventing the afk timers is the day I will uninstall this game.

Today, with any luck. Stop leeching off of other peoples’ efforts. If you were just afk’ing, you’d do it somewhere else.

And those costs are much higher right now. Just try to buy iron…

The DoW could be two areas, a city and a starter zone. Then they would move into shared areas.

Special power ‘Yell down the hall’:
“Hey Joe, found another AFK kitten in LA! IGN is XXXX – boot the kittening kittener.”

Employees have no access to special abilities while playing on their accounts, but they can access a GM menu as GMs.

Curiously, I completed the ‘Re-union of Destiny’s Edge (Not)’ episode while the event is running, and it took place on the current LA map. No one commented on the burning buildings, or destroyed Lion while they argued about how big a threat the dragons were. Very odd…

I’m thinking this indicates we will definitely see at least one more LA map.

I only support the idea of limited availability gear if it is non-tradeable stuff you can only get by actually completing certain content.

But if it is tradeable, the whole idea goes out the window; in that case I have no problem if it comes back.

Leveling. I’m getting roughly 1.5 levels per run from the inherent XP plus buying Tomes of Knowledge from the Found Belonging vendor. Finished my engineer, and have gotten 30 levels on my elementalist. Woot!

The lasers need to zap all the AFK’ers hiding along the edges of the map.

If your character holds the ticket, it is a free port to any city (in two hops), as well as access to all the critical hub stations in close proximity. That’s pretty convenient.

What isn’t convenient is transfering the ticket itself. That would be much improved if the airship was docked at Vigil Keep (with its bank) instead of above the refugee camp.

Maybe Scarlet’s minions lost them? That’s my theory, anyway, and I’m sticking to it.

More Tomes of Knowledge, my good man!

What is it now, account bound until you equip it? Or until you choose stats?

Every trash mob in Orr seems to be primarily designed to be annoying.

For anyone who cares – historical 2 handed swords only weighed about 3kg.

A typical longsword was less than half that.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it matters which discipline you make it with, because it is a ‘choose your stats’ item.

Does anybody know where the inspiration for this armor comes from? I can’t recall seeing any blue-skinned humanoids in the game so far…

World of Airships?

I’d be all over that.

But naval ships would be cool too. Sort of ‘Pirates of the Burning Sea’ in GW2.

Asura pirates FTW.

Makes me wonder about the other PS house in LA – the zookeeper’s with the underground animals. I bet that is still intact as well.

Reveals too much blue…

There is no need to join the zergs; you can wander around by yourself. I actually had fun knocking a huge molten champion down to 75% before the zerg showed up and insta-killed it.

But seriously, it’s a huge map to fight on.

I told my guildies this would happen. Good thing I cleaned out all my keys before the update!

Much as I like this game, I would drop it instantly and walk away if there were to be a level cap increase. It would mean that ANet had given up on horizontal progression, and killed one of the most important links with GW1. I’ve got zero interest in seeing a never-ending treadmill.

Alternatively, let me slot a normal utility in my elite slot, where it would automatically get a reduced cooldown. Much more awesome.

Whispers…the secret society whose members all wear black, red, and gold for easy recognition…yeah, she’ll find it.

Zommoros will re-locate to a carnival tent in Divinity’s Reach, where he will alternate between hoarding junk and selling used Dolyaks.

Edge of the Mists will be the new hub. It will remain a PvP zone, so watch your back while you do your banking…

I also fail to see the problem.

That said, it would be interesting to see the effect if body-blocking were added to the game, forcing people to spread out.

Commandos.

Aajolea.8132:

So why are they still following her?

The chance to loot LA.

Depends on the change. For example, I think the current Kessex hills is UGLY, and would hope it eventually, gets ‘cleaned up’, even if it doesn’t go back to what it was.

I don’t want L.A. to be a pile of rubble forever… but rebuild it out of wrecked airships and I’d be happy.

Ahh, missed the part about being in the bank. Yeah, see if you can revive the characters.

It’s tragic that the Black Lion skins are so expensive. I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen a ‘Scelerite’ shield in the game blinking at me, much less a focus or a pistol.