I totally disagree. Completely. Absolutely. Disagree.
It’s time we stopped treating the disabled as invisible.
It’s time we stopped patronizing the disabled.
Pretending the disabled don’t exist in a “fantasy” setting is ridiculous.
ANet has done a wonderful job of integrating a disabled character into the current story. She is imperfect, sometimes bitter, but fighting back against her disability. She is refreshingly realistic without being preachy. Her presence adds an interesting aspect to “heroes.”
^this. well I’m not handicapped but I still agree :P
besides who the hell pities Taimi? Taimi is awesome! And what she needs the least is pity from anyone.
Then we got the Braham argument. Well I don’t like Braham like at all but that was still a bad point. People complain all the time that women get over-sexualized. Now we have a stereotype male character like that for once and people complain again? Please…
Stopped reading after that. I like Kasmeer (Marjory not so much but as long as Kas gets what she wants => w/e). Sometimes it indeed looks a bit forced but only because you really can’t go any deeper than that in an MMO. And missing emotes are a big problem, too. It looked really weird how Kas was holding her hands in front of her mouth for like a minute when they found Marjorys sister. A bit more “interaction” between characters (at least between NPC’s) and not only in cinematics(and even there they look wrong) would do the relationship between those two a big favor. Right now they are just standing next to each other and are constantly flirting
People actually still think we need mounts in this game?! You know this is not WoW, because that game doesn’t have a convenient waypoint system that this game has. You don’t need mounts, please let that stupid argument die already.
I dont think people will ever stop. They also don’t want to go back to WoW for some reason => thus they try to get the things they miss to be implemented in this game
actually I was confused when i first saw them. they all look different now. before I at least knew I was looking at recipes of any kind. to each their own.
Yeah this is the last event I need too. It was initially the one that was always broken. After the patch it seems it just doesn’t reset after it succeeds once (hence why the Ash legion charr is there as well). And they just progress anyone that comes through so the event never has the chance to spawn.
Hopefully they fix it tomorrow.
hmm I thought so. I was wondering why there was no event when I arrived and just had to walk to the next location
slowly I agree to people who say they should have stayed with instanced story progression. the bugged events and related achievements start to be annoying >.> I want to do them now not with the next story patch(Hello “On swift wings”-achievement) .
solo’ed as ranger. the only annoying thing was the 30 sec fear of the totems which spawn directly on you and the exploding following fireball which basically deals 50%+ dmg to you(although the latter at least is avoidable).
it’s kinda like the fight at fort salma. just concentrate on the mender and every time one dies just deal dmg to whatever has to be damaged(you have to kill ghosts several times to charge the sword and make the statue vulnerable again)
It was fixed, they just forgot to post it.
Got the achievement in few minutes after patch.
^this
I also went immediately to the story instance and got the achievement after talking to all 7 NPC’s (it even correctly failed one time when one of them died right next to me and I had to restart the instance).
The whole thing is documented crazy badly. You have no idea what to do when you get there, that Charr doesn’t give you any new information and you have to ask others what to do. I’ve gathered so far I have to kill some wolf somewhere and I’ve killed one other champion. Can’t this information be delivered to you by the game itself?
No, they want us to discover stuff organically. Or in other words, that’s the excuse they’ll use for spotty patch notes.
actually there wouldn’t be much of a problem if it worked. just run to the green star. going by the dialogue before I guess we have to help the NPC at that location and then talk to her to find out where the next location is(when I arrived I could just talk to her without anything happening). you really just have to actually read what the NPC’s are telling you.
my first thought was that he releases the curse of the ghosts, too. But if it was that easy why would he have waited so long to do it? Why not just release them earlier and finally have Ascalon for the Charr? That’s basically the only thing why I am so surprised to see this. Anyway a nice thing to make people excited for the next patch
I don’t have the problem of delaying the achievements to later. But I definitely want meta achievements back. the current rewards just don’t feel rewarding at all. I was lucky that I needed the points to get to 9k and finally get the helmet(thus at least a little reward) but I would have get there at some point anyway so it’s not like in past with theme-related rewards…
Do people even read? He’s talking about a new SERVER that would have open world pvp, you wouldn’t be forced to ANYTHING!
that doesn’t make the idea any better. other games have shown what open world pvp turns into.
people camp low level until those are done with this kitten and show the kittening campers how to play a real high-lvl character…(in case somebody didn’t get it=> they log to their main and camp the campers for an hour or until those realize how bad they are and go offline. at least that’s what I’ve done with those kittens.)
I’m probably one of the only persons who thinks so but w/e
I don’t give a kitten how fast a dungeon run is and kittenING HATE every group I see on the LFG-tool with a description like “only zerks”. they increase the time I need to fill my own group because people like the 5 minute dungeons instead of the 10 minute dungeons.
I’d go so far as to ask that the benefit that minis currently provide (Rune of the Ranger) be removed.
AFAIK it is a bug and(/or at least) not intended. I’m actually surprised they didn’t fix it with latest patches. could be wrong with that though.
rune of the ranger is supposed to be the ranger-rune why should it be useful for other classes? well necromancers can have companions but I’m not sure they actually count as companions, too. anyway it doesn’t make sense the way it works currently.
B2T: that would be a horrible idea. arenanet would have to remove minis from the gem store or the game would become “P2W” (wouldn’t be so much with only a few stats on them but it still would be same as actual P2W)
I can guarantee you that people who don’t bother getting the optimal equipment will usually not bother getting those traits and weapon sets, often not even banners.
I was simply saying I don’t believe people with ‘optimal’ gear = good players. And I feel I have just as bad runs with zerker warriors as I have had with players with ‘less optimal’ gear. Which is why I don’t bother asking for zerker PUGs because I don’t feel I’m actually getting anything out of it most of the time.
so true. can’t count how often I have to res full berserk warriors or thieves right next to the boss who hits like a truck in close range… most times it would be smarter to just finish the boss without them because helping them is a waste of time.
but you see, people constantly wanting these three classes is a problem in itself..
^this
if you play on a high level of skill it might be more useful to use the 3 classes but on PUG-level if doesn’t even make the slightest difference.
as someone mentioned before those people don’t even know why you use those classes.
well but it’s less a problem of the game and more a problem of the community. partly highly skilled players are to blame, too, because noobs copy them and thus noobs think they have to run 5x berserker warrior in CoF1 to survive it.
I just wish people would stop being try-hards and just accept that they don’t get on the same level as the people they are copying.
You can’t just do story and open your own instances? Seems like the best solution to me
^this
just force them to do the dungeon with you by opening it well they can still kick you if they have another opener but it’s more annoying for them and really depends on having another opener.
I understand what you mean though. I think it happened to someone I joined a few days ago(I didn’t click anything. the other 3 kicked him >.> ). I’m generally a bit scared after being kicked a few times because I play ranger(people… as if the one minute it takes longer with me than with another berserker sheep would be worth the hassle of waiting 5 more minutes for said sheep).
usually I use the settings in the attached screenshot. every now and then I activate AA but lately it hasn’t been so often.
Are you playing in full screen or windowed mode?
windowed mode
Is your inventory full or maxed out?
goes from full to empty to full again all the time. I couldn’t see any relation though.
Do you play with bags displayed or hidden?
displayed bags
overall the problem is really not regularly. was a few days since I last had it. can’t exactly remember when it was before that though but probably also a few days.
i would have to disagree with OP. having one mechanic to work around makes this a “teaching moment” that has been long overdue in this game. so much of the game is just run up to mob/boss and AA til its dead (because there are so many ways to “skin the cat”). Anet devs realize the main player base has been trained poorly by world bosses and melee stacking….so they are retraining the general masses through the LS (especially with the new mordrem mobs)…………kudos.
Teaching what? Retrain? What are they retraining? This is supposed to be a fun game, and it’s not supposed to be played in any one mode. Giving several intelligent options in order to overcome obstacles, ones that give the player agency in the fight, are better than being depended on a kludge system of slow moving escort quests through minefields.
I hate this kind of talk, it stinks of elitism. It’s a game, it’s supposed to be fun. people should be able to play their own way at their own pace, and not how any one person thinks it should be this way only. Options are good things, intelligent options even better.
sry but he has a point. even if there were more options the majority would simply take the easiest one. and that would be probably “just ignore everythign and DPS it down”. that’s why they make thigns like these.
and the fight was fun. it finally was more than “just go afk while your auto attack finishes everything”. best fight in a long time. actually the last one I had this much fun with was Liadri in the crown pavillon after they finally fixed the domes this year
In the beginning it was regularly. now you probably have to organize it(kinda like gold pavillon) because most people are already finished with the map/achievements and thus there aren’t enough players.
Well I think the achievement rewards are not “good” for a while now. the last achievements by which I felt rewarded were the ones in the FIRST crown pavillon(I didn’t play the last few months though. So it might have been better in the final fight against scarlet). But the rewards of season 2 are even less “fun” than before. I hope they change that soon. I don’t really want more geodes, lockpicks and a few kittenty green items.
Well at least the zone achievements give a good amount of AP. still need a few to 9k(and finally the skin)
The minions are week and pathetic. Not only are they hard to keep alive along with yourself, you introduce an achievement to not let one die. Its like a fat kid told not to eat a slice of cake in a bakery. It is near impossible without help.
this is simply exaggerated. I agree to the point that the minions die fast but that’s only because the wolves are stupidly strong (everywhere). The achievement isn’t that difficult though. Just “ignore” the mini boss(every once in a while you have to attack him or he won’t die) and concentrate on killing the wolves. The second a minion spawns you have to switch to its enemy. Majority plays as Berserker anyway so it can’t be that hard. Even any other DMG build should be sufficient. At least when you have exotic gear or better. The only builds I could see having problems would be bunker/support builds. And you yourself get basically no dmg at all unless you don’t dodge the red circles.
Anyway it is FAR away from being impossible while playing alone.
I finished it yesterday with my ranger solo. Knight chest, leg and head gear. Rest was Berserker(also no ascended item).
On a side note: the minions always spawn at the same locations in the same order. Knowing that makes things a lot easier/more predictable
Hmm majority of the jumps is easily doable with the 15 seconds (it also stacks if you collect another crystal). Well, a few jumps are quite difficult. Especially the achievement jumps. But I guess that’s intended.
The story related ones really shouldn’t be a problem though. I really can’t think of one which you need more than one move in those 15 seconds.
Don’t get me wrong. I totally dislike the fact that they are limited(they were so useful for exploring before >.> ). I just don’t think (even for the average player… seriously I think it’s a minority that has problems to get the few necessary jumps right) the timer is a problem for progressing to the needed points. And achievements shouldn’t be served on a silver platter(time limits are the easiest and most common way to increase “difficulty”)
She’s a member of the race that raises itself to be as hilariously arrogant and overconfident as possible. It would be a “stretch” for her to care about safety at all.
^this
and I don’t even think they don’t care about safety. They just take the risk for the sake of more knowledge.
I think if they try to think of how the story is continuing and tell what happened until now for that matter then it can spoil people who haven’t played through the story yet.
so the spoiler warning can make sense in some threads.
auto attack of the warrior longbow, barrage of the ranger longbow, quick shot(the dodge shot) of ranger shortbow. can’t remember any other skills right now but I wouldn’t be surprised if she had another shortbow ability
I got a lockpick and a few geodes of them but all in all they are a waste of space. if you at least didn’t had to collect 10 of them first… just lower the chance of the “rewards” and let me use them one by one. this way I wouldn’t have a wasted slot on my inventory.
Ok so I bought guild wars 2 because everyone says how great it is and everyone says how it is so much different then any other mmorpg because of no boring quests but I feel like I just go to an area do all the “hearts” (which seem a lot like boring quests to me) and then move on to the next area. There was a few cool bosses here and there but for the most part it was walking around the map finishing “hearts” so am I playing the game wrong is there a better way is there a way for it to be more enjoyable or maybe do I just not like the game as much as some others I did get to level 80 and I thought it was not bad but not as good as most people say it is but that was a long time ago so I thought I would try a new character but I wanted to see if I could make it a little bit more enjoyable.
Thanks – Fexal
well at release and the time after it was different. there were dynamic events EVERYWHERE. Once one was finished the next started relatively soon or another event had already started elsewhere. Now there are simply not enough players in all maps to trigger the events anymore.
Noticed it myself when I was leveling another character. I just complete the maps and barely get to the level the map indicates. I see maybe about 5 events during the whole time I need to complete the map(with my first characters I had to stop doing events to be able to complete the map because the events were just coming up all the time). It’s really different now. I was completing Bloodtide Coast. I started at lvl 47 or 48 and finished on lvl 53. I even collected a kittenload of logs and ores in several rounds through the map. Yet I only got about half the levels the map is “intended to give”.
Well there’s enough stuff to do besides completing maps though.
Anyway, all of you guys saying that there should not be a feature that allows the request of certain classes.. I ask why?. If it’s your party you should be able to request whatever you want.
yeah… not in guild wars. if you want certain classes make a guild and go there with those people. at least then it makes sense. but with 4 random people without any communication it doesn’t make a mentionable difference between 5 berserker warriors and 5 random classes. actually it’s less annoying with 5 random classes because the berserker people mostly are noobs who just copied the build somewhere because it deals most dmg in theory.
seriously if you are looking for a certain setup in your group then go there with an organized group.
This is really annoying. Hope they fix it soon. Also when you walk to the area those NPC’s go to you see ALL SEVEN OF THEM lying dead on the ground in front of the portal they are supposed to walk through. maybe that’s the reason the achievement doesn’t trigger? But it would be weird if the achievement only unlocks as soon as they went through the portal because the icon disappears as soon as you start the last part of the instance and by that time not all NPC’s necessarily went that far already.
I have just done the Fort Salma instance 4 times (after having completed the storymode obviously) – twice as the instance owner and twice as an assisting party member. Each time I had one or the other or both of the ‘Butterflies and Viscera’ and ‘Sheltered from the Rain’ icons still on my buff bar at the end of the instance, however I have still not received credit for the achievements. It’s getting a bit annoying having to repeat it over and over and not getting credit for it.
I’ve done all Fort Salma achievements solo today. Achievements unlocked the second I defeated that thing.
On swift wings in the other fort doesn’t work though.
You can complete it after you finish the instance. Instead of leaving go around the map and resurrect them, they appear on the map, you also must talk to them for it to count.
If you are in a party then the number scales up from seven.
does not work anymore. as soon as you go to the final location the achievement just disappears as if it failed.
And besides you are the leader of the group. Without you the group wouldn’t even exist. Maybe not even be alive. So ‘Boss’ is fine. Sounds cooler than ‘friend’ or stuff like that.
In what way are you the leader of the group? There’s been neither leading nor following with this group, ergo “boss” doesn’t fit naturally. Sure, you’ve made a few decisions, but those decisions amounted to a mother asking her six year old child if they want Count Chocula or Frankenberry cereal for breakfast.
you totally ignored the rest I wrote.
without “the boss” the group wouldn’t even be there now. you brought everybody together. thus you are the leader of the group.
what decisions do you expect to make? this is an mmorpg not a kittening sandbox game…
I actually like it. Remembers me of Saints Row. And besides you are the leader of the group. Without you the group wouldn’t even exist. Maybe not even be alive. So ‘Boss’ is fine. Sounds cooler than ‘friend’ or stuff like that.
I think her death was premature.
She was an interesting character that we barely got to know. We didn’t get a chance to really care about this character. I just feel that her role in the story is unfinished.
this is basically it. I mean I still wouldn’t like it if she dies after being introduced properly but the way it is now is even worse. Why even introduce her if you gonna kill her next episode anyway. There would be no difference if we just arrived here and found her like that without having seen her in the first episode.
If you want a proof that he still doing biased and inaccurate tests, than this video is good. Otherwise not.
As Wasbunny mentioned, Necromancers utility or the lack of it is the real problem in group content, not their damage output.
to be fair => usually that is not the argument people tend to make when they kick you (no matter what class you play at that time). well most times they don’t make any argument at all. they just kick you. but I guess you get the idea.
I really wish they hadn’t beaten him. Seriously, now the metric for this is incredibly difficult not impossible to ANet. The thing is to the average open world zerg this is impossible.
It’s not just about getting out of a zerg mentality, it’s that several parts of this encounter are critical failure points.
1st: The turrets. 6 people essentially control your fate in phase 1. If they are not chain cleansing the zerg DPSing and buff the zerg DPSing.
2nd. His Mechanics render certain classes/builds useless. As a ranger I rely on my pet for a good portion of my damage. Too bad my pet gets 1-2 shot by Tequatl. People in Berserker’s gear have 2/3 of their stats being useless while DPSing him. Get Soldiers gear you say? Why should anyone have to spend 10-12g just to fight one boss when the chance of success does not hinge on that one person alone.
3rd. Coordination. They killed Tequatl by using communication from a program outside the game. Last time I checked, the game is supposed to be balanced around the content in the game, not 3rd party applications. Saying people need to use TS to communicate to beat content is bad content design. Just because this is a requirement for WoW does not mean it should be a requirement for open world content.
That’s enough of my rant, and I hope I get proven wrong by people banding together to uniformly defeat this epic encounter by the power of friendship and love! That’s not going to happen. The community is rapidly getting polarized and unless SOMETHING is done about polarizing the community you will get a content gradient in which certain servers are the servers to defeat the hard content, and other servers are ghost towns, just like WoW.
sadly I have to agree to this. I really loved the early “dragon” fights when the game released. you had to watch your step but were able to finish them. then they got nerfed because they were “too hard”. I can stay with my lvl 15 twink in any aoe of shadow behemoth and won’t die… that’s just not right -.-
now arenanet thought they have to make world bosses harder. good idea. I really like that. but this fight is not possible unless you get to the zone like 3 hours before the fight starts. otherwise you will end up on an overflow server and definitely fail the event. and even if you manage to get on your server it’s not given that you manage to kill him.
I’m really curious how long people will try to kill him. I want the Mini but this fight is just a waste of time. even Liadri was more fun. and she wasn’t fun at all.
joined club a minute ago! worst content ever. if there wasn’t the mini I would have stopped trying after a few tries. took me around 30 in the end.
well my build:
warrior
0/30/0/10/30
mostly items with condition, precision/strength and armor or anything similar +superior rune of infiltration. only exotic gear
melee weapon for phase 1(and the 25% ms speed) was axe/sword in my case.
longbow for phase 2
didn’t specially skill for that fight but it came in handy that I had so much condition damage and found the bow appealing lately. just dot that kitten while running in the circle permanently. used prayer to kormir and “shake it off!” to get rid of the cripple. didn’t turn out so great except in my last try. usually it just removed the wrong condition and I died… signet of stamina for the increased dodge regeneration for both phases.
I really hope arenanet doesn’t consider this was a good fight. like I said in other threads today the camera was the only problem about it. totally lost control of the fight every time when I switched to phase 2 because I had to look for liadri’s leap, illusions running through the room, the empty spot so that I don’t die instantly and all that while my camera fought against me…
1. No idea, but presumably they will still be valid to be fair to the people who spent gold+sprockets buying them.
2. Anthony Orden has confirmed that the Gauntlet achievements will still be completable when the Gauntlet returns. He did not confirm directly whether the mini would still be available, although logically it should.
I really hope so. the camera in the dome is too much for me right now. If there wasn’t that mini I wouldn’t even bother that fight anymore.
the camera is your worst enemy in this kitten… the fight itself is not so hard. it’s just that kittenign camera that doesn’t show you what you want to see thanks to the dome around you.
What I don’t understand about the arena design is why it isn’t the same as the place where you fight Scarlet. That’s a perfectly open, viable floor plan that wouldn’t screw you over.
^this.
as soon as I have the kittening mini I will never ever enter that dome again. it is just so annoying.
edit: so. 30 tries later I managed to beat her. kittening dome will see me never again unless aernanet changes the camera
yeah do something against this stupid champ farm. I was part of 8 invasions now(thanks that we need to take part in them to gt back into the content of last patch…) and were able to only finish 4 of them. the other 4 were with a big part of kitteners who only farmed pirates the whole time and thus the event failed.
if you go on this page https://buy.guildwars2.com/en/ and move your cursor above “suit of legacy armor” you will see that it is just the shop armor you get. also only one set and not all 3.
no reason to complain about at all. if you played at release you could have get that armor for 1-2g. even a few months after it only were 5-6g.
interesting for me though would be how do I get the armor? and is it like the item of the shop (one-time-use) or more like the achievement-set/HoM-items?
It’s harder to farm them than it is to buy them for 15sprocs (get from TP) and 20s. Ideally a lot of people out there have more than 10g o_o. But yeah, if you are low on monies, it will take time. I just find it harder to actually farm a ticket than to just farm money and buy it.
I didn’t say it’s not easier. you just don’t make tons of gold in a few minutes. yeah you could go dungeons and all but even dungeons take their time.
To get the Liadri mini you just have to defeat the final boss of Queen’s Gauntlet. You don’t have to have five gambits active.
Ok that’s good then. It still doesn’t sound easy but at least it sounds like it might be possible for the majority of players.
Seriously, WHY should this even need to be possible for the majority of players? It’s suppose to be the most challenging battle in what the Devs specifically stated was the most difficult PvE combat content they have ever developed.
The world needs ditch diggers and despite the story making every player a hero, there should be content that some players just aren’t good enough to complete (rest assured, I’m one of those that likely can’t).
well I agree that there should be hard content but at least don’t make it temporary available. I hate it if I don’t have enough time to make every achievement and I have the bad feeling that it is like this with that fight. make hard things permanently available and make temporary things at least possible. it doesn’t need to be easy but it needs to be possible. But with only 5 people being able to win the fight before patch release I’m really disappointed. it only can mean that it’s way too hard under these circumstances. you need to farm tickets and then also only have one month time for it.
Getting tickets the easy way should cost at most 3g for like 20.
still you need time to get tickets. doesn’t matter if you farm tickets or gold for tickets.
To get the Liadri mini you just have to defeat the final boss of Queen’s Gauntlet. You don’t have to have five gambits active.
Ok that’s good then. It still doesn’t sound easy but at least it sounds like it might be possible for the majority of players.
Seriously, WHY should this even need to be possible for the majority of players? It’s suppose to be the most challenging battle in what the Devs specifically stated was the most difficult PvE combat content they have ever developed.
The world needs ditch diggers and despite the story making every player a hero, there should be content that some players just aren’t good enough to complete (rest assured, I’m one of those that likely can’t).
well I agree that there should be hard content but at least don’t make it temporary available. I hate it if I don’t have enough time to make every achievement and I have the bad feeling that it is like this with that fight. make hard things permanently available and make temporary things at least possible. it doesn’t need to be easy but it needs to be possible. But with only 5 people being able to win the fight before patch release I’m really disappointed. it only can mean that it’s way too hard under these circumstances. you need to farm tickets and then also only have one month time for it.
OK I’m gonna ask this here because it was a problem in the last content too. Is every achievement possible no matter what class and style you play? It doesn’t sound like it and I actually don’t want to get another full gear just for achievements(especially not after the change of dungeon rewards…).
also I don’t really want to play a berserk face-roll warrior. But like past patch it seems like it’s the only way to get the hard achievements(speaking of warrior because it’s the class I play most. obviously you could play any burst heavy class).
ahh thanks. now I know why I can’t get that meta achievement was wondering if arenanet is going to add more achievements as soon as the event continues. wouldn’t be the first time if I remember correctly.
and yeah. that’s a good idea. it’s really confusing if you have finished all achievements and still need a few more without knowing where to get them.
why go back to lower Tiers? I solo’ed Tier 4 with my warrior 40 times in 1 hour. It was so easy…I wish they had more Tiers…Is this what they call challenging Tier 4? My warrior also solo’s fractals level 60 without any gear equipped. He runs Arah all paths in less than 30 minutes and for a break he goes to WvW and eats some of those zergs with red names on their head for snack….I have 12k achievement points and this game is too easy. I want a buf that disables leveling so that I can solo the game in level 1 character…
PS. I am trolling….:)
you nearly got me but realized it as soon as you mentioned fractals
well they can still kick you if they have another opener but it’s more annoying for them and really depends on having another opener.
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