I really like it as it is. I don’t understand why other people don’t.
To me, it looks like a table lamp with a shade crocheted by someone who isn’t very good at crocheting. I like the idea of a lamp, I like the animations; I really can’t get past the design of the shade.
Suit yourself, I see it as more of a candelabra though.
400 HP wouldn’t be as bad this time if the leak was true. It showed the trees set up to where the very first things you unlock are the minor traits and 1 major trait in each tier. Meaning that you will very quickly gain access to at least a full 3 traits to equip, even if they aren’t the best ones in the tree.
Zephyr Sanctum is permanently in the game. It’s the wreckage of Crash Site 1 and Ship’s Fall
They’ve had plenty of time to rebuild it. This isn’t the reason Anet isn’t bringing the map back.
Lorewise I’m more interested in figuring out how they work. How can our character select any WP in the world they have been to before and just travel there, they don’t even have to be besides another WP to do so.
I’m really hoping we will be getting 2 new elite specs per class with the expansion.
Not only will this be a huge sink for our extra HP that we already have on characters, but it would also give each class 3 elite specs instead of 2, which means that they would finally feel like actual specializations (eg each class could have 1 support spec, 1 DPS spec, and 1 “random” spec that was good at something unique)
According to the lead dev for material storage, this might be something they can’t undo.
…but I really hope they can. Those items should have been put into the Wallet.And honestly, the Wallet needs a bit of a UI upgrade, if only to sort/separate the various currencies by source (dungeon, LS2, LS3, etc).
Proofs of Heroics were tokens and turned into a currency you acquire by right click —> add to wallet. They’re glorified tokens now, I imagine it’s doable.
Either way, I’d rather have by bank slots and inventory slots free again, especially with a new map token. I boycotted Lake Doric in protest of the continuing clogging of my inventory. That issue has gone away now.
Its doable but they won’t do it. Lindsey mentioned that they were intentionally made into items because “there’s a lot more things you can do with an itemDef than with a currencyDef”
I think the technical limitation with items in the wallet is that they can only interact with vendors, not crafting stations.
I agree with you, but the fact that she thought it important enough to mention says, to me, that they have zero plans to re-implement these as proper currencies and just let us use them to buy crafting mats for the recipes that use them.
My biggest gripe with these nodes is the inconsistency. Yesterday I was running around on the map, got no primordial orchids from the first 2 nodes I harvested, yet the third one gave me 3. Then the next node dropped 2, then nothing from the next few nodes after that. Why?
Eh, as we get more raid wings we’ll be able to get more LI per week (assuming they don’t artificially cap it), so over time the amount of weeks you’ll need to complete every boss will drop lower and lower.
Plus, I think its perfectly fine how many LI are needed for secondary sets of leg armor.
I really like it as it is. I don’t understand why other people don’t.
The more time I spend on this map, the more I love it. Its an excellent map, love the pace of events. If you happen to miss one, you only need to wait a few minutes for it to happen again
If one peruses the Wiki carefully, one can find a ‘cheese’ way to unlock Ancient Magics (without acquiring the first/second Episode). This method may be ‘fixed’ once known to the Devs (if it is not already known and approved of).
Good luck.
I don’t know why you are being so vague, its very, very unlikely that it was intended that you needed to have played episode 1 to unlock the mastery line.
I never understood why the pistol phantasm didn’t use the skin of quip/hope if you were using those. The phantasm has the same weapon as the one you used, unlike some of them, so it should be easy to give it quip/hope.
So, your idea of casual play is to go from 1 farm to another, to another, to another?
That’s not what casual players do.
OK, so let me give you yet another perspective.
A full cycle of login rewards takes 28 days to complete and gives, among other things, the following:
- 20 Mystic Coins (currently worth ~1g each)
- 35 Laurels, with an option for extra 20 from Chest of Loyalty. These can be converted to gold by purchasing bags of crafting materials at any laurel vendor, at roughly 1g per laurel final rate.
Doing just the dailies (2g per day) on top of that and ignoring any materials you gain in the process, you can make 20 + 55 + 2×28 = 131g per 28 days. So the game gives you 4.67g per day for basically doing nothing.
I think even the casual players do more than just dailies. No matter what you do, you get loot (which can be salvaged and sold), karma and liquid gold. It is perfectly possible to get 100g in less than 10 days with casual play. If you’re deliberately choosing not to, I fail to see any reason to complain. You’re complaining about your own choices. Only one person has the power to change these, you know…
This does nothing to dispute my point. Going from one farm, to another, to another, to another is anything but casual play.
Anyone that says that is casual is clearly out of touch with the average GW2 player.
As to your gold per day figure, JS made a post a while ago (I’m sure someone on here can find it, or has it bookmarked or something) that said the mean weekly income for GW2 players was something small, like 1-2 gold per week. So while yes, it is easy to get gold in GW2, that doesn’t mean that most players actually come by it quite so easily as you seem to think that they do.
After 1.600 hours into the game, getting full ascended builds on ever char, i find myself having no motivation to play any further. Now i play GW2 every now and then (once or twice every month/3-months).
There is nothing to do in the game anymore. There is no gear progression and doing fractals or raids does not feel rewarding at all. Removing the dungeons was also removing a big part of content and variety of the game. I find myself getting bored from doing the same stuff over and over again. It feels mundane.
Back in vanilla gw2, you had to go through masterwork>rare>exotic, but now you instantly jump to exotic.
Everything gives you ascended, whether it is fractals,raids,word bosses.
And now the game ended up being a fashion contest game, with only purpose of “Looking good” rather “Getting Good”.
Hope with the new expansion we will see a new gear progression system that feels rewarding and hard at the same time. Rewarding and easy is never good.
Are you serious? You have gear progression options available. You can go for legendary weapons and legendary armor.
The options for progression are there, you just refuse to take them.
Yea 2 new elite specs per class is one of the biggest things I want from this expansion. Make them what they were sold as, specializations. Give us options to choose from instead of just having a “specialization” line that is better at almost everything than your core lines are.
They’ve stated they won’t announce anything related to the expansion until after S6, so if you are looking specifically for WvW content coming with the expansion, you’ll need to wait several more months before you’ll hear anything, regardless of what they do or don’t have planned
According to the lead dev for material storage, this might be something they can’t undo.
…but I really hope they can. Those items should have been put into the Wallet.And honestly, the Wallet needs a bit of a UI upgrade, if only to sort/separate the various currencies by source (dungeon, LS2, LS3, etc).
Proofs of Heroics were tokens and turned into a currency you acquire by right click —> add to wallet. They’re glorified tokens now, I imagine it’s doable.
Either way, I’d rather have by bank slots and inventory slots free again, especially with a new map token. I boycotted Lake Doric in protest of the continuing clogging of my inventory. That issue has gone away now.
Its doable but they won’t do it. Lindsey mentioned that they were intentionally made into items because “there’s a lot more things you can do with an itemDef than with a currencyDef”
A – You can move about while using Shield 4 and Shield 5
B – Blurred Frenzy (the evade on attack) is on MH sword, so its not even competing with the offhand weapon slot
C – You keep trying to bring up warrior when I’m specifically talking about chronomancer
D – The alacrity from 2 shield phantasms, while not huge, is also not as little as you seem to think it is
E – You still can’t deny that chrono shield has absolutely huge sustain built into its skills. You keep dodging this issue, because you either cannot or just refuse to refute it.
Elites are better because HoT was designed to provide a stronger challenge to the game, and the devs wanted to shift from the zerker meta that was “unhealthy for the game” (dev paraphrased quote btw). Instead of constantly complaining about HoT elites, you should be fighting to have the devs improve core specs and core weapons and core traits and core slot skills… and to add quality playable roles that players have the option to build for within each profession instead.
Because this game doesn’t need more powercreep, and it could benefit a lot from reducing the power creep that HoT brought
You’re not really paying attention to the entire game are you?
I am, but so many people don’t. They see harder PvE content and just assume that this means we need to embrace and expect powercreep. That is not true. HoT maps, especially now after the nerf last April or whenever it was, are doable on core specs. Is it more difficult than on an elite spec? Sure, I’ll give you that. But they are still doable on core specs. Which means that elite specs could still be tuned down, in some cases by quite a bit, and still be absolutely fine for content throughout the game.
The devs are not going to gut elite specs just for players still stuck in the zerker meta, and who thought the launched profession designs were quality…
Aside from a few “red flag” design issues plaguing the game since launch, it’s time for players to adapt and start championing core profession improvements even stronger.
Who said anything about it remaining the zerk meta? I mean you look at what is current flavour of the month raid build and it’s core condi ranger with core engineer being more complex but more damage.
What I assume OriOri means is to look at elite specs and say “How much of this can I rip out and tone down and it will still be better than most core lines in most cases”. The answer is actually a lot. You could change primal bursts to T2 burst skills outside of PvE and it would still be picked 100% of the time. You could slap a 30s CD on headbutt, people will still use it over everything else. Instead of Arc Divider covering 3 football fields and destroying anything that isn’t a nuclear fallout bunker you could reduce it to 240 range. Instead of Skull Grinder doing all it does it could lose the daze, deal half power damage and it would still be picked for a condi build no questions asked.
That’s just warrior, you could make very deep cutting changes to other elite specs which would make the game much less painful to watch and play while keeping elite specs better than core lines.
Exactly. Even with huge nerfs to a bunch of skills, some elite specs would still be way better than core specs.
There is no reason to continue power creep by buffing core specs to these ridiculous levels. Just start toning down elite specs. Hell they can remain better if they need to, but maybe 10% better instead of 75% better than core specs.
I disagree with showing events for the whole map. I rather enjoy wandering around and then coming across an event that I didn’t think I would hit. But the range at which they show up to you could definitely be increased substantially
@Astralporing – If you are leveling a new character it will show your characters level until you hit 80, then it will show mastery level. I don’t know why, but this is what they decided to do.
For a lot of people its easier/more enjoyable to farm gold and craft ascended than it is to get into raiding.
I’m still salty about the change to buying ascended gear from fractal vendors. That was put in specifically to be an alternative to crafting it, which is why the change annoys me.
Sure I’ll post some feedback for it completely fall on deaf ears.
Map – waaayyy too vertical, get the deisgners to investigate 3D map references/layouts. Make ALL PoI’s visible on the map layers.
Story end – not enough time to get the final enemy down with the mechanics in place, look at expanding that.
Collection – too many and far too vertical using map-only mechanics to get to some of them. Not my cup of fleas.
Jumping Puzzle… WTF?!?! Seriously do you have Josh Foreman designing this for you? It’s a sadist’s dream.Ok you can take your ear muffs off now.
Actually they did have Josh Foreman design the jumping puzzle. I think he designed the general map layout for that matter as well, but not sure on that
It was definitely not leaked by Anet themselves. Its too much leaked too early for them to have done it. If it was Anet I could see it maybe being a single map shot instead of all 5.5 of them, maybe another elite spec icon with possibly 1 elite spec tree. But this far out, especially when they are trying hard to focus on LWS3, there’s no way a leak that big was officially sanctioned.
Crafting ascended armor is the most unwise thing to do in GW2.
How else are you supposed to acquire it now short of just getting absurdly lucky and getting an ascended armor box from T1/2 fractals?
I’ve heard nothing but good things about people’s experiences in the fissure of woe, so I’d love it if we got a chance to go there in GW2
Both of those recipes require closer to 2000 than 1000 T5 leather, so I don’t think its incorrect to say they require thousand*s* of T5 leather. And note, that’s only 1 of the many mats needed for them. All told, it requires a grand total of over 2,000 leather pieces and 1,150 cloth pieces, among various other items in substantially lower quantities, for this single item if you craft the traditional way (with similar numbers, among ~500-600 ore if you use the grandmaster marks).
The amount of mats needed for crafting is extremely high.
I’d strongly consider this a bug. OP you should file a support ticket and see if they can unlock the mastery line for you.
It really should be changed so that its unlockable from any LWS3 map, not just bloodstone fen. There’s no reason to put some of the masteries behind a paywall just because you missed a different episode. I imagine it was just an oversight on ANet’s part.
TW is still useful for covering gaps in quickness rotation, but it would be better if it pulsed every 2 seconds and pulsed 2 sec of quickness at a time.
Are you serious? Ascended medium chestpiece. Requires 1,600 T5 leather pieces to craft the traditional way, requires 1,840 T5 leather if you use the new grandmaster marks system.
At this point I think we do need a clarification on what OP means, since 100g is more than a single exotic set, and yet only a portion of an ascended set. So what on earth is he crafting to require 100g for a single set?
@Just a flesh wound – Sure, exotic armor was more expensive in terms of time to acquire the gold back then. I have to believe you because I didn’t play then. But back then it was also supposed to be the endgame gear, there was no ascended to go for. So perhaps if we are comparing now to launch, it would be better to compare exotics now to rare gear back at launch? I don’t know if they are comparable or not, but to me it seems that might be the way to go.
Either way, my initial comment in this thread was to reply to someone who clearly doesn’t understand what casual play is, I’d rather not get too caught up in discussions about what is and isn’t too expensive for an armor set.
That’s a lot lower than I thought it would be. I feel like the most common one I see is 181 (well soon it will be 186)
Maybe he means adding them to material storage? But then, why wouldn’t you add all the different tiers of infusions?
Oh he might’ve. ANet did say that they woudl never add all the infusions to mat storage, because of how many different types there are. Maybe they’re planning on adding 1-5 to mat storage when we get the mat storage update though?
And your point is what? With SB you have even less chance of being hit by those hounds with their telegraphed leap attack and you can use distance to make it even easier for yourself. You can also pull out thieves guild to make it even more easy for yourself. I don’t know how much easier this needs to be made for you and I feel like Infantile Mode SAB would pose a challenge to you with you wiping the sweat from your brow afterwards from such challenge.
I haven’t beat Tribulation mode, but I have beat normal mode SAB, and the final HoT fight, on the first try, as well as a great deal of other content this game has to offer. I beat this instance too, as I noted in the OP, I just died a lot to get there, and I don’t think that’s a fun experience. Again, if you liked it how it is, great, they can preserve that sort of experience as an optional challenge mode, but it should not be the default experience for players who are not particularly interested in challenge.
I call kitten. Judging off of what you’ve said in this thread, there’s no way you were able to beat the final instance of HoT story on your first try unless you just sat and let someone else actually do all the fighting. Both the Eir fight and the Pale Tree fight had more challenging mechanics than this fight did, and you had to do at least one of those.
OP clearly doesn’t know about the options his thief has to regain health.
OP clearly does know the options he has available, and the ones being discussed were either not part of his build at the time, or were not effective enough. Again, the point is not “tips for beating the fight,” as I said in the OP, I’d already cleared the fight, and therefore needed no additional tips. The point is “the fight should have been beatable on the first try, WITH OR WITHOUT ANY TIPS.”
And it was beatable on the first try. No deaths or downs needed. And it was beatable even going in blind.
Bosses requiring luck to show up. Bad design. Especially with putting titles requiring fighting them.
I think its great design. Makes the title take a bit of effort at least. Not just another show up and reap the rewards thing.
I know a person who did it exactly like that (managed to cap all legendaries within 10 minutes of logging to the map, with no effort put into it whatsoever, just as a sideeffect of chest farming). That’s the downside of RNG – it doesn’t require any effort. Just luck.
I’ve never understood why some players like to go around claiming that RNG rewards show effort? No they don’t, they just show luck. There’s no prestige in getting lucky.
Personally I don’t think these bosses were that hard to find, but I was reminded of this when I saw Malediktus’ comment about this being “effort” to kill them. Yes, you could put in effort and farm the map for hours every day until you find all 4 of them. But realistically its just pure luck about how long it takes you to kill all 4.
Take a look at the recent AMA on Reddit. They said they are still working on the changes to sigils (including confirmation that the list has not been changed since we last heard about it a few months ago), want to encourage better group PvP, they like the idea of automated tournaments (though afaik no actual mention of implementing them).
I don’t think I missed anything, but that’s the most recent information we have regarding what they want to do with PvP.
Elites are better because HoT was designed to provide a stronger challenge to the game, and the devs wanted to shift from the zerker meta that was “unhealthy for the game” (dev paraphrased quote btw). Instead of constantly complaining about HoT elites, you should be fighting to have the devs improve core specs and core weapons and core traits and core slot skills… and to add quality playable roles that players have the option to build for within each profession instead.
Because this game doesn’t need more powercreep, and it could benefit a lot from reducing the power creep that HoT brought
You’re not really paying attention to the entire game are you?
I am, but so many people don’t. They see harder PvE content and just assume that this means we need to embrace and expect powercreep. That is not true. HoT maps, especially now after the nerf last April or whenever it was, are doable on core specs. Is it more difficult than on an elite spec? Sure, I’ll give you that. But they are still doable on core specs. Which means that elite specs could still be tuned down, in some cases by quite a bit, and still be absolutely fine for content throughout the game.
I agree with you, sort of. 100g for an armor set really isn’t that much considering the high price of leather right now. I mean hell that’s not even enough to craft 2 sets of exotic armor. Yes, I know that there are better ways of acquiring exotics, but this is mainly meant to show that 100g worth of crafting armor doesn’t get you far anymore in GW2. Wanting 2 sets of exotic armor doesn’t exactly make you a non-casual player. Yet that would require more than 100g to craft right now.
And I also disagree that casual players can’t want ascended, or that wanting ascended makes them not a casual player. This is a very fashion oriented game, if you want ascended skins then you want them, and the only way to acquire them is to pay to craft them.
You could sell them on the TP, or bring them to the vendor in the fractal lobby and promote them. But they aren’t a currency, so I can’t agree with adding them to the wallet
While its not particularly fun if you need an entire stack, you can at least go out and earn your lodestones through map bonus rewards. You can’t do that with MC at all, and no map bonus reward includes leather
I mean yes its a bit overtuned imo, but I hope Anet look at why people take it so kitten often. Its because their alternatives aren’t even worth considering. So just nerfing take root won’t do anything but make the base problem worse.
Since you can salvage things from your material storage and not from your wallet it is a good thing they are there.
For the last time. We do not need the ability to salvage these currencies to obtain unbound magic! They can receive the pristine fractal relic treatment, where you use these currencies to buy a box that gives you a random amount of unbound magic. This technology already exists in the game!
The problem of them taking space in your bag has already been adressed why does it still trigger you so much? Besides some of them are basically crafing mats so it makes sense for them to be there. It would be cofusing to have half in the wallet and half in the bank.
That’s the thing, in my opinion the problem has not been addressed. As soon as you hit 250 of these currencies, your storage will be full and it will start piling up in your inventory again. This isn’t a solution to the problem.
Maybe.. just maybe..
YOU SHOULD EITHER SPEND THEM OR STOP GATHERING THEM!
you’re making a first world problem a nuclear war
seriously
If you don’t need them THEN WHY ARE YOU GATHERING THEM!?
If you do need them THEN WHY ARENT YOU SPENDING THEM!?If your bank is full, and you have no intention of spending them, THEN STOP GATHERING THEM
I don’t gather them. I hate wasting inventory space on what is, essentially, a currency with a different name. Doesn’t mean I can’t disagree with a poor design when I see one
Elites are better because HoT was designed to provide a stronger challenge to the game, and the devs wanted to shift from the zerker meta that was “unhealthy for the game” (dev paraphrased quote btw). Instead of constantly complaining about HoT elites, you should be fighting to have the devs improve core specs and core weapons and core traits and core slot skills… and to add quality playable roles that players have the option to build for within each profession instead.
Because this game doesn’t need more powercreep, and it could benefit a lot from reducing the power creep that HoT brought
Seems like you got a little too quick hehe (I’ll see myself out)
Yea, I think that a 3 month window between ep6 and the next expac is pretty short. I wouldn’t mind a longer one that filled the gap with more current events, a holiday, and possibly some fractal/PvP/WvW (inb4 lol wvw never gets updated) updates. That would give them more time to build hype and beta test/implement feedback.
“100g you earn in a few days of casual play.”
That is utter kitten.Is it? Doing dailies gives you 2g for 10-15 mins, if that much.
Doing a Silverwastes meta or one of the HoT map metas can take 1-2h and give you 30-50 champ bags. Take a conservative estimation of 15s per bag, that’s 4.5-7.5g.Not to mention you could ride the champ trains in CS and FGS. Last night I went to FGS and spent ~1 hr there. I assure you, it doesn’t get any more casual than that. I ended up with 60+ chests and there’s also the map rewards (t6 mats, charged lodestones and giant eyes).
Not to mention you can go in Bitterfrost to harvest ~50 winterberries in ~20 mins. Every winterberry can be consumed for ~20 unbound magic, which can be converted to (conservative estimation) ~25c, meaning around ~5s per berry, ~2.5g in total.
I fully understand it is easier to complain, but it doesn’t make said complaints valid.
So, your idea of casual play is to go from 1 farm to another, to another, to another?
That’s not what casual players do.
Legendaries are absolutely luxury items. And ascended really has nothing to do with this conversation as they don’t require mystic coins or T6 leather.
changing stats is not a luxury, its a utility.
a luxury item is an item that has a direct relationship with its demand, ie its more desirable to rich people.
caviar, pearls, a lamborgini.ascended and legendaries are desired from the moment you hit 80, regardless of wealth, because they are best in slot. and legendary is best in slot forever, for all situations.
people think that luxury and neccesity are the only two classifications of a good, but they wrong. just cause you dont need it to survive doesnt mean its a luxury.
a car is not a luxury if the normal course of your life, it is in your best interest to drive
an exp booster is not a luxury item, it has the same demand from a rich person and a poor person.
it seems the primary use of hardened leather is making insignias which are worth less than exotic armor that dont use leather to exist.
essentially hardened leather is the material of altering your ascended items stats. which is apparently a lot more common than it used to be. probably because of raids and possibly a more difficult open world.
there is no longer one size fits all, and items can be shared among charachters.regardless of wether you think its a luxury or not, for some regular players its an item they will need later, that they dont feel should cost as much as it does, so they keep it, so they wont have to try to farm it later, or pay market value.
They are luxury items. Its the skin people want, and (AFAIK, correct me if I’m wrong) at the start of the game they didn’t even have the ability to stat swap. That was added later to add an incentive to spend the huge amount of gold it took to get a leg weapon.
You missed the point by miles man.
A small source of alacrity isn’t gamebreaking, but its tied to the chrono line. Why should any other mesmer spec get access to it when its specifically tied to the chrono line? Answer me that.
For the sustain, you completely ignore it. I wasn’t talking about the damage you deal with shield (I seriously don’t even know why you brought up damage from offhands), I was talking about its sustain. And its incredibly high. 2 blocks, a quick way to get 2 phantasms up, alacrity, multiple sources of slow for enemies, on top of a huge source of AoE stun from Shield 5 is an incredible amount of sustain. Too much sustain to give to a full offensive spec. Way too much.
Well yeah I’m a Mesmer main and my Glamours(TW) that used to spread random conditions now grant resistance and super speed plus timewarp effects ten people now.
Chrono is a tank/support role in raids and my skills were changed to reflect that ignoring how it effects other modes. Thus I have to fall back on to racial skills for my condition builds because mass wastes time and the other elites are counterproductive to torment and confusion.
You are cherry picking really hard here to scapegoat raids. The change to remove glamors giving random conditions came before raids. The change to timewarp was stupid but it wasn’t a raid only decision, WvW also played a role in that.
For proof of Changes – https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2015-06-23#Inspiration
SV release – https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/enter-spirit-vale-on-november-17/
Can’t blame everything on your favorite scapegoat. Please stop trying to. No one here is going to deny Anet and balancing is as good as the NFL and handling Social Issues.
tw effecting 10 ppl was a bad change?
Yes, because during the same patch they changed how quickness stacked making TW overwrite existing quickness stacks. If that wasn’t bad enough, by reducing the number of possible stacks TW itself became even more garbage as quickness stacked upto 5 times but TW pulsed it 11 times. So you’d guarantee you overwrote everyone’s existing quickness stacks and duration with a smaller value.
That’s a separate change/ TW affecting 10 people now is a good change to the skill. The way quickness stacking works was a separate issue and had little to do with this.