Guild Wars 2

ZeftheWicked.3076:

So where are those new CDI topics?

Starts Wednesday.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/The-New-CDI-Topics/page/3#post3648144

This thread slipped through and didn’t get shut down with the other three.

Eh, it gives me something to do. In the background, way, Way, WAY below the level of active priority. Guild says “hey, World boss about to start” and I go. But I’m not stalking them myself.

I’m trying to work up the will to build a Volcanus. I have nearly all the cores I need, but mashing them into lodestones is just not a thrilling prospect. Ascended Armor/Weapons are just something that pop up once in a while when I decide I have too much Dragonite laying around. Its not like their hard to make if you’e not in a rush. Ascended jewelry is mostly a matter of doing dailies and all my many 80s have necklaces and rings, with a few sporting accessories also.

This biggest delay was banging out the crafting levels – I didn’t need nearly the number of Exotic Items as that requires, so now I have sets of full sets of Exotic Gear siting in the invisible bags of all my low level characters too…

This is just the announcement thread. Dress rehearsal and player-to-player discussion. I wouldn’t assume a Skills & Balance team Dev is reading any of this.

SuperBlunt.7105:

Around 15 relics for each piece of armor.

You’re talking about completely skipping the not inconsiderable costs to gain crafting 401-500, bypassing multiple gold and laurels for the recipes, then sidestepping every single step of gathering thousands of mats and a week’s worth of time gates per piece to just pop right on in at the finishing line and scoop up the end product with a whistle and a smile.

Or maybe compare it to WvW where you can play steadily for 5 hours a day for WEEKS and not see an Ascended Chest before hitting that punch line of “oh, we pick the stats-combo, you pick the slot” even if you do get a near-mythical drop.

75, minimum. 100 pristine relics would not be too many to make a plausible comparison to the other existing paths.

The unending tinkling RAIN of Ascended rings in there has done nothing but skew expectations.

Martin The Brave.8731:

If you didn’t wan’t level cap (Increase) you shouldn’t have bought this game.

Nah. I’m perfectly capable of enjoying it right up until they tell me all my gear is now rubbish, and then the game and I can part ways.

Nikachu.1475:

My norn is finally ready for show

Say hello to Nica Spiritkeeper, guardian who bends electricity to her will, purges her enemies with blue flames, smashes faces in with large, crackling, blunt objects

Holy crap: Mjolnir.

Good stuff, but you’ve got to trim it down. I just don’t see them redesigning the entire profession to one person’s vision no matter how through. I think your 8 best ideas are drowning in a sea of the other 50.

Having one in your stable ready to benefit from any changes/revamp isn’t a bad thing.

If you are enjoying it right now, play. If not, don’t.

The reason is this round of threads is supposed to actually come with a primer and some readiness to participate on the part of the Devs… and they’re clearly distracted by something. I’d rather wait 48 hours for clear weather and a clean lift off than to flub the launch.

If that point belongs in another thread, this thread belongs in another game – because all of these skills are part of a single environment, and don’t just exist in a vacuum.

Its called “hard sell”, and just because it’s not prying money out of your hands right this second, doesn’t mean that it’s not highly effective.

I’m trying to imagine how many gems that would cost.

Less than the number I’d be willing to pay, I’m thinking .

Cheap thrills.

SuperBlunt.7105:

The wurm event for example. I am a TTS member and we do the wurm everyday. We know all strats and execute them during the boss fights, but that doesnt mean we’re going to kill the wurm.

It should tell you something that it also doesn’t mean auto-ascended gear token. It means for any single individual player an extremely rare random stat-combo ascended gear maybe on off Tuesdays in leap years.

The premise of this thread is a challenge that results in automatic, reliable, fully selectable Ascended reward. My feeling is for anything remotely like that to happen you have to absolutely dispel the notion of being repeatable from your mind.

Because no one gives a skritt’s backside what a moderator has to say about art direction, and the Art Director hasn’t the slightest idea this thread even exists?

Clear now?

So? Once they’re solved, they’re repeatable. And the secrets of their accomplishment are transferable via strategy guides. That’s one of the places the Exotic hunt they envisioned blew up in their faces and triggered the whole “oh crap, we have to add another tier”… because people burned through the dungeons, repeating the weakest of challenges over and over until it unraveled the entire concept.

“Not a grind”? I don’t know what the )&#^&$ you’d call a month of laurels per trinket on nine 80th level characters, but re-gearing my stable is NOT going to happen. Yes, the leveling is trivial. Having bashed out 4/6 and occasionally 6/6 pink jewelry on 9 characters, I PROMISE re-gearing for the sake of re-gearing not going to increase the odds of my playing the game or browsing the Gem-Store.

Ascended gear in 20 minutes and repeatable? Never. Going. To . Happen.

People gearing up to BiS nearly as fast as the manifesto suggested and then leaving the game is not something they’re going back to. It’s just not.

BUT.

What might be possible is a hard mode – a brutally hard hardmode – that gives Ascended gear ONCE upon completion. But even that is still a lot of design work hours for very little player retention. It’d have to be the team-play equivalent of Liadri, only harder, and probably something not far off of a specific location of armor from each of the dungeons + 2 weapons to round out the pool of 8. Custom color or other small visible flourish to make it wildly clear that just displaying the piece is its own reward and bragging rights, and a new title equivalent to “super Dungeon Master” to show that you’ve cleared all 8 hardmodes.

Maybe.

Think of it as incentive to try something new.

Young Somalia.1706:

#DeadEnemiesDealNoDamage

…And this is why we can’t have nice things. Because every encounter looks like a DPS race. Tactics? Who needs tactics? Moar Deeps! Moar Deeps!

Also your implications are hilarious.
> 5 minute escort
> waves of attackers
> kill one veteran out of forty
> it takes YOU 5 minutes to kill a veteran

Of course it doesn’t but not every mouth breather wailing on button 1 can take over keeping swiftness on the runner, either.

There are a handful of places in the entire game where finally, FINALLY there’s a real call for Support – and then the rewards system screws you royally for actually providing it. If you can’t see that limits encounters to bloody juvenile one-dimensional snooze-fests, then fear not: the game’s got you covered nicely.

When you are covering the guy with the Mcguffin, you are moving with them. Yes, you can peel off and bash on a karka for a while to get logged as a damage dealer – the ONLY role the game actually cares about – but while you’re doing that, you’re not doing your job of Support. The game only knows one way of scoring anything and that’s “didja hit 1 enough times?”

Young Somalia.1706:

If your only contribution to an event or world boss is 200 damage autoattacks in exchange for scaling the enemy up, you probably shouldn’t get any loot.

Nothing you did was helpful.

Riiiiiight. Because there aren’t Guild events based around keeping one person carrying the McGuffin alive for 5 minutes while waves of monsters try to kill them. No one who spends the entire time keeping heals and perma-swiftness on them could possibly have contributed to the success of the mission as much as the person who killed one whole veteran out of 40.

ANet should be embarrassed how some of these events only count kills/damage done.

Im Mudbone.1437:

I would absolutely love this.

Sure. The question is would you love missing it 9 or 10 times?

‘the patch’ not ‘next patch’

I think Scarlet is a born rebel, and the moment the voice in her head even hinted that it was the boss of her, she dedicated her entire existence to KILLING IT.

Wrong question.

Are live events desirable? and in many cases the answer is ‘no’. It becomes too much work for too few users with limited repeatability. you offend a dozen times as many users as you please.

The concern has been put forward many, many times. We’re just in ‘wait and see’ mode until the patch arrives or someone there finally decides to spill the beans.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I think I should debunk the idea that Grawl are THAT primitive.

Its one of the Mad King’s jokes . And Mad King Thorn would never, ever lie to us, would he?

I doubt it’s Grawl cave painting , and I still wonder if its more about the dragon we have seen in the Living Story (Tequatl), than any of the one’s we haven’t…

About four hours before I never log in again.

There are ‘deer’ and then there are ‘oh deer!’

I’ll let you work out which ones are level 50 …

I’ve heard Grawl engineers have had a break through recently – they call it “the stick”!

Maybe they just painted it with a long brush?

I still think it’s Tequatl – that part of the Living Story everyone forgets about.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

It’s hilarious that people are actually upset about this.
The less grind, the better I say.

It seems most wvw’ers are against this nerf out of pure contempt.
“We have to do pve things so now you have to suffer through wvw things!”

In my opinion, you should be able to get a legendary in multiple ways. Someone who only plays wvw should be able to get it and someone who only plays pve should be able to get it.

Which would ENTIRELY miss the point of “mastery of all aspects of play”.

Legendaries, more than anything else in this game are NOT “play the way you like” undertakings. They are meant to be “play it all” capstones, and I’d say this and the vision crystals used in ascended gear are a strong sign that ANet is finally figuring out how to make that actually stick.

…Now if they just kill the absurdity of selling Legendaries we’ll be getting to an almost good place…

The most depressing thing about the boss you’ve described is that it would be yet another sack of hit points that responds only to direct damage.

I’m waiting patiently for the boss that can only be beaten by striping its 200 stacks of Defiant before it kills you. Normal damage does NOTHING.

Miguel V.5203:

Flissy.4093:

You can always buy the Desert Rose. It’s just a recolour….

I know but I REALLY want Fervid Censer !

You may get another chance later. Making it so players can access Living Story content later on is something that’s been put to them quite a bit. Just have to wait and see for the moment.

Vigil pants and the Ascended armor are skirts but relatively short.

mahri.8410:

Hi. I have a simple question that probably everyone is asking. The CDI was live for some time. Everyone is suggesting. So far, what actually got implemented in game due to CDI topics ? What was the real impact of the CDI on the game?

The Living Story CDI looks to have had a number of effects on the pacing and delivery of the current arc starting about 2 months after the thread closed. we’ve seen signs they’re tinkering with the Commander’s tag after the close of a thread on the same.

We know their Living Story episode development cycle is about 4 months long. Other groups may move from concept to push-to-Live faster or slower, but basically you always have to expect a bit of a gap between the thread closing and any sort of visible impact.

Still, drawing those lines between input and result is something they’ve said they need to better incorporate into the process.

Its not the dress dear, its the rolls…

Ok, I want that animation as an elite skill that does a 14-hit cone attack.

If you wanted to see people’s heads explode, you could make the dyes bought from the Black Lion store be account-wide and the ones we find in the world remain per-character.

I might actually buy a few of them then without massively perturbing the market.

I have 7 level 22-32 alts parked at a magnificent chest. I generally get about 1.2 silver doubloons per day. I sell them all, so I’m doing my part to provide supply and meet demand .

The chest always drops 2 gems (including marks) in the right level range, so I also periodically go and combine ALL of the marks in the mystic forge and that spits out more doubloons.

Xeno Mezphy.3145:

And that’s when we all realized it was Zommoros talking to Scarlet the whole time…

This theory fills me with glee.

Have we seen any Risen plants?

Have we seen any animal-based Husks?

I don’t think the Sylvari are immune to the corruption of Zaitan for any more mystical reason than they lie outside its purview.

When you hit best in slot, anything after that is for entertainment value, no matter which slot. It’s arguing that Orichalcum nodes should start dropping food because you have a full set of exotic armor. If there’s a blatant problem with the fractals its that they’re too easy to finish, not that there is an end to the rewards.

But if gold is simply the must-have currency of “do whatever and take it anywhere else”, would being able to sell those 20 slot bags help? The component to craft them is 10 gold (not even counting other mats) so they should fetch a good price, yes?

OOooo. I like.

Chaos.3597:

I believe that Fractals are not as rewarding as dungeon paths. In that case I suggest adding an additional daily reward chest for each successul fractal with lesser rewards:
- 50 s which would be 2g in total for each tier, 1-10, 11-20 etc, instead of 1g after all 4 Fractals.

Which Dungeon gives you a shot at direct ascended gear drops? Which Dungeon has 20 slot bags at its vendor? Do we really have to make a comparison of core, lodestone, and exotic armor drop rates between dungeons and Fractals? Does everything have to be the same to be worth doing?

Fractals have been anointed by the Devs as THE 5-man activity for several best-in-slot rewards including bags. Its probably not crucial that they also yield masses of coin . I really think the intent was for Fractals to be the home of apex predators who had moved beyond chasing after gold.

nethykins.7986:

Genuine question: Anyone explain to me the reason for this thread if the discussion is to start at a later date?

The first post could have easily been the only post, and it be stickied.

Think of it as a dress rehearsal, or maybe the previews before the movie .

Still tinkering with colors, but I found a new sword I like

I tend to think of Charr culture as “non-absurd Klingons” rather than “samurai”. Basically a warrior/military-oriented culture with a strong honor code that skips the utter stupidity of most Klingon stories by recognizing the importance of logistics – Ranchers aren’t as awesome as a line troops, but the culture doesn’t squat over them and take a big dump, mostly because an army deprived of its food supply is no longer an army. Its a pack of starving bandits. Seeing non-warriors treated in terms of the value they contribute to overall military readiness is actually quite refreshing.

The other defining characteristic of the charr is summed up by some dialogue in the back corner of their starter zone discussing what to do with the local skelk population… “We’re going to do what Charr always do with a bunch of fresh meat: train it to fight as a unit.” You see it time and again in their zones – Charr will attempt to train just about anything as a fighting auxiliary. Battle cattle for the win.

Oh… you mean visually. Sure, You can make them pretty samurai. Browse the “ceremonial” weapons in the TP. The swords have a nice curve to them.

I have two Level 80 Warriors, two Level 80 Necros, and will have a second Level 80 Guard and Mesmer soon enough.

A set of gear for a build is a set of gear no matter which character its on, so I just pick builds to go with the character and use them in the role I think suits them best. I swap builds by pressing “log out to character select”…

clint.5681:

As much as i liked the Heros/Minions in GW1 it destroyed the need to be social and play with others.

Some of us consider that a feature, not a bug .

I don’t want to pay for their incarceration. Cane them and move on .