I’m kinda glad they’re only available in the kits. It would be unfair that new players get to pick these hairstyles while the people who created their characters at launch get shafted.
The only viable build with the staff is support/healing.
Besides anyone who thought “dps all the way” left ele a long time ago.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but this is how the ascended armor is going to look on charr.
Heavy: http://i.imgur.com/ygwTZGS.jpg
Medium: http://imgur.com/KteuoJ0&kiAgPJm&wa1zxQL#1
Light: http://imgur.com/KteuoJ0&kiAgPJm&wa1zxQL#2This is no longer an issue. this is an insult. I CAN SEE MY BLOODY KNEES AND ELBOWS. What the kitten is this Arenanet? Why the kitten did you even have the bloody idea of making Charr playable if you are not going to put the LEAST EFFORT into armor design?!
This is just bullkitten. Nothing more. “We fixed the stretching by making your plate armor shrink after doing laundry.”
You have to keep one thing in mind, on a big suggestion like this, the update if anet decided we were right, would take at least around half a year to make with new textures, code, animations, etc. On top of that by now, they probably already have the updates until april of next year done and slotted, and are already working on other things.
You do know they’ve had dungeons in most of the LS right?
Mad king’s realm, Tixx’s airship, SAB, molten facility, aetherblade retreat, and scarlet’s playhouse. (and SAB again if you want to count it twice.)
So you went a month without a new dungeon at the most; the horror.
PvP constantly gets balance updates (read nerfs if you play PvE), it has got new maps every once in awhile, and all the minigames in the events, save for 1, have been PvP.
WvW, i’ve said before, what do you really do to it? Changes are nice and everything, but what could you really add to WvW that would add anything new to the experience. WvW needs to be entirely reworked IMO, but that takes time and one simple update won’t do it.
am I the only one who was made physically sick by the swirling waters? that’s all I want changed
You don’t know the half of it. If you jumped outside of the boundaries, there were lots of things constantly spinning around in the background, it was actually kind of disorienting and I lost where I came from at times if I didn’t look at the map to see where I was and what direction I was pointing.
They need to make sure that they remove the Elementalist passive speed buff trait whilst inside the Clocktower.
Or allow everyone to retain their speed buffs inside. Either one is fine by me.
Got a lot of abuse from people accusing me of cheating on my Elementalist last year.
Well the clocktower was time based (hehe), the water always came up at the same speed even if someone was ahead, so a speed buff wouldn’t affect it.
I agree the daily meta achievement is a bad idea, if they add to the meta that’s fine, but people should be able to get the meta without having to even touch the daily.
I myself logged in exactly the last day I could have started to get the wings.
My works fine. Make sure they’re in the correct folder and the names are case sensitive. Though mine are in a wpl playlist.
The gifts of exploration come in your in-game mail. So yeah there’s no chest.
Check that your mail box isnt full. Also check that you are completely done, including all the WvW maps.
The clocktower should stay the same, it was fine. The clocktower wasn’t only a JP, it was a race.
As for being able to see where you can jump, nah. I mean yeah the clocktower had that problem, but it was part of the charm. and now if you do a JP, you can tell the difference between watching a person who has done the clocktower and who hasn’t. It made you better at the game. If anything they should increase the difficulty, but i’d be happy with it how it was. Maybe a hard mode for it…
LIke said above, ele is useless in Spvp, only used for support in WvW, and in PvE you can make it work, but it’s nothing someone can’t do better.
Members of the community have already expressed their distaste for the way this character was written and presented. She is fine on her own, but don’t make me see her every time I want to do fractals. Keep her in the living story and let her go no further.
Members of the community have already expressed liking the way this character was written and presented. It’s harder to find anyone liking Trahearne.
From reading these forums (just look at the plethora Scarlet-Sue and no-not-Scarlet-again threads), I’d say those members of community are a minority. Even is some people like the idea of Scarlet, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone actually approving the way character stories and lore are presented nowadays. Writing and presenting the lore of the living world is probably the reason why so many people have issues with Scarlet in the first place.
I agree that it’s hard to find a less likable NPC than Trahearne, but Scarlet does make a close second.
THe number of people supporting kiel on the forums were a minority but a majority of the playerbase liked her better.
Scarlet as a character is fine, I do like her. But she doesn’t need to be responsible for everything. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar (also the only time you’ll see that used in a non dirty context).
You know i’m fine with her being there, as her sylvari name before she decided to go by scarlet (which still isnt explained why), but I do agree she shouldn’t be the reason it blew up.
Maybe scarlet saw the steam creatures there, so after she started building an army, she thought the best choice was to try and make them do the work, as they were already built and from another reality so no one would notice a large collection of golem-like workers going missing.
Let anet focus on the weaker classes like ele, before they give the hard to already beat thieves a way to stay out of your range so you can never kill them.
Also no, it’s a terrible idea and would break the game unless anet made it really suck.
So I have a question to arenanet, how do you expect these massive events like scarlet invasions or tequatl to be done by less than a full zone?
Scarlet invasions for example, I went to one after the event was done, we had somewhere like 30-50 people doing the event. Big shock, we didn’t have enough people there, we didnt have any farmers that I noticed.
Now it’s happening with tequatl, we do not have enough people there fighting to actually succeed with the event. Even with no one akitteng, we didn’t have enough people to defend, do turrets, and dps.
This happened with the pavilion, this happened with scarlet invasions, and after boss week is over, no one is going to do tequatl, opting for the easier dragons. Maybe these events are supposed to scale down and it’s not working, but currently these newer massive events are not possible with less than a full zone.
The first and third one look like the ascalon fractal. The second one looks like the blizzard.
Reminds me of when I jumped off the clock tower and looked around below. There are actually three clock towers in that one instance. The one you see from the lobby, the one you actually jumped up, and a third one which i’m not sure what it was used for but I assume it’s the room with the chest.
It’s that the delivery is super strident and overly jocular/swaggering.
Haha, but that’s what I love about the female Norn voice. It matches the animations perfectly, which is basicly being as buff as possible. Just look at that staff pose compared to humans.
The Norn female has full control of the staff and look like she could knock you down by just inhaling extra hard.
The Human female hugs the staff like she’s about to poledance around it.
The Mulan comparison is pretty much on the spot, because to me that’s exactly how the Norn community is. The females are truly trying to match the males in… err… buffness.
You can also compare with characters in certain Futurama episodes… Death by snu-snu!
But that’s how we, as humans, view the society. We’ve had that history of men viewing women as inferior.
To the norn, none of the males view females as inferior in any way, they’re all equals. The females don’t have anything to prove to the males. All children are brought up the same way, male or female.
I like Scarlet, I think she is funny. /shrug.
Hope she gets to make more appearances.
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Yes if anybody likes scarlet they have to be an employee of anet because no one would ever like something you don’t like.
No because the armor is all made for humans and then scaled down to fit, and humans don’t have the toes on the side of their feet. Maybe the cultural armor will do it, but that’d be all.
How dare anet try to do a plot that’s not solved in one month. By now anet must feel like they cant win.
“Give us a story that lasts longer than just two weeks!”
“We’ll give you a villain that will stay here for few months while we develop her and tie all these different plots together”
“Man this villain again, why can’t anet give us something new that we havent seen before?”
You guys have no right to talk. Orr is much easier now than it was at launch.
omg, can we STOP with the Sylvari? getting SO SICK of Anet’s Sylvari swooning.. on top of them getting all hot & bothered over all things Sylvari (the 2nd least popular race) We have to deal with Scarlet, the most annoying character ever, AGAIN?
Everyone seems fine ignoring the sylvari completely in the LS because of the PS. Humans have got most of the LS content centered around them, stop being so selfish.
If lunatic inquisition stays around for a month, i’m fine with that. I had to tear myself away from playing that minigame to complete my book for my alts on the last day of the event.
Trahearne’s purpose in life is complete. He has no reason to ever come back in the story unless maybe if you’re a sylvari (Which he is introduced earlier to sylvari in the first place), that isn’t good enough for you?
I dont really care about him one way or the other. But in my mind Sieran will always be the person in the PS who represented the sylvari. She’s atleast the best example.
Genies and Djinns are the same thing. Though Genies usually refer to the good ones while Djinn is used for the evil ones. So yes he would be a genie as he doesnt seem to have a plot to steal your soul or anything.
I do want a return of the clock tower I dont even need it to be changed.
I also want lunatic inquisition to return but i’m a bit afraid if it does. The minigame not only had no unique rewards, but had no achievements. This made it so anybody who was playing it was there to play the game. And the game was only a game if nearly everyone knew what they were doing. If achievements are added to it it would become plagued by the achievement hunters.
Besides that i’m excited to see what new things anet can come up with.
Sieran was just adorkable and is my favourite mentor (by a sliver), some however find her obnoxious.
Forgal is just awesome and kitten, though some find him stereotypical
Tybalt is just Tybalt. I’ve yet to find someone disliking him
I dont dislike Tybalt, but he’s just not as good as Sieran.
Well the risen used to be stronger and more numerous in Orr. It fit the area well.
Yeah but I don’t really like her, Tybalt is just perfect.
BURN THE WITCH!!
Thats more time than i’ve played the game on my account, and i’ve played since head start 3 days before official release.
I found the flaw in your way too long theory. YOU assume Zhaitan is dead but all other players that have not finished the Personal Story don’t quite see it that way (so your theory is based on a kittenumption).
The LS saga intentionally NEVER assumes that it occurs after the end of the existing Personal Story because not all players have yet completed it. This does lead to plenty of confusion and questions as to the direction the LS is actually headed.
As stated by a lead content designer, the living story (starting with Southsun and continuing with everything after it) picks up after the end of the personal story, at which point Zhaitan and Tequatl are dead. The personal story has been completed in the world whether or not you have personally done it.
But that doesn’t make sense. As seen in the queen’s jubilee apparently Rytlock and Logan still hate each other, even though they’ve kissed and made up. Even though that was an illusion, how Logan reacts to the illusion proves that.
The dodge jump works 100% of the time you do it correctly. If it didn’t work, it’s you messing up the timing (Which needs to be perfect).
nope, it DOESN’T work 100% or it wouldn’t have been necessary for me to make this topic in the first place
So besides the fact that you’re perfect and cant ever mess up a timing that needs to be precise to the second, you’re really complaining about something unintentional that somebody discovered on accident? (Me by the way)
If by any way it doesnt work correctly, it’s because they never intended for it to work in the first place. It’s a harmless and helpful bug that anet decided to leave in.
transmute the item on to a white or blue item (The idea is that it cant be an item that can be soulbound). This will make it account bound. Then you simply more it to your other character and transmute the stats you want onto it again.
If you transmute it to a green, yellow, or orange, that will make it soulbound so you have to transmute it on the character you want to have it.
The dodge jump works 100% of the time you do it correctly. If it didn’t work, it’s you messing up the timing (Which needs to be perfect).
ele
necro
thief
warrior
engineer
guardian
ranger
guardian
mesmer
Ironically my mesmer became my favorite, even though it was the last class I tried. Though I was trying other classes to test them out instead of being bored with the other classes.
Tea-Kwat-ill is how I say it.
Though I just call him Tiki for short. Good ol’ Tiki.
I’d be really excited to see this issue finally acknowledged, being forced to wear cultural or nothing as a Charr is pretty ridiculous, as is almost every single piece of gear being designed for humans. There are 4 other races in this game, why not start adding more armour based on their cultures too?
Because LS every two weeks. No one cares about small changes like that.
Except the majority of the posters in this thread, and the plethora of Charr and other races voicing their opinions in their specific race forums. Also everyone who participated in the Charr Armour rally in Lions Arch a month or so ago…
Unless by no-one you mean 13%+ of the community.
Living Story updates don’t change the fact that new armours are constantly being worked on, (different teams and all that) we are simply suggesting that those people take the extra time to make sure it fits Charr and if possible, build armours that suit the culture of races other than humans sometimes in the future.
Sarcasm. Internet.
Though really all races are in the same boat besides human, which the armor are modeled after and is for. Charr and Asura both have clipping issues with armor. Besides that, Sylvari and Norn cultures do not match the human armors. While maybe not as important as charr and asuran armor clipping, it still shouldn’t be ignored that all the armor is, is resized human armors.
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-The good guys had no idea the Karka were about to invade LA, or even what they were.
-We have been fighting against the dredge and the flame legion for a long time
-We had no clue who canach was until he started causing trouble
-We had no idea the aetherblades would attack before they did
-Anise made it very clear that she didn’t know how to strike at Scarlet, so she set a trap for Scarlet to fall into, and Scarlet did.
I don’t get your point. We can’t take action against possible criminals because they haven’t done anything yet. You cant be guilty of a crime you didn’t commit, or that we have no way of proving you even thought of.
I’d be really excited to see this issue finally acknowledged, being forced to wear cultural or nothing as a Charr is pretty ridiculous, as is almost every single piece of gear being designed for humans. There are 4 other races in this game, why not start adding more armour based on their cultures too?
Because LS every two weeks. No one cares about small changes like that.
I know what you mean dani, when I start a new character I always visit the pvp locker to figure out which armor set I want, and don’t worry about my armor appearance until I can get the armor skin I want.
Anyway my ranger uses T2 cultural but my ele uses vigil. I dont think it’s not lore friendly to use other armor.
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Personally there have been about ~10 locations where I preferred to use the dodge-jump. I’m not sure, what the design philosophy is behind the dodge-jump, and if you think this usage is legit or not. The jumps above the bell is one of the locations I think the dodge jump was really really helpful if not necessary.
The dodge jump is never necessary. Me and QA make sure we do all our test passes without it.
Odd because in W2Z2 I ran into a jump that it seemed impossible without the dodge jump. I even went back and tried the jump with a normal jump and couldn’t make it.
Also you say you dont have any jumps required with the dodge jump but some jumps in W1 of SAB did require you to take advantage of the fact that you could fall off a platform for about half a second and then jump, to make the jump. Specifically thinking of one in W1Z3. It’s still the same concept that you’re having us use a bug in the game to progress.
engineer kits are very good if you use them correctly. Part of the reason engi doesnt have weapon swap is because you have 3 weapon combinations to choose from.
Ele on the other hand… attunement is a bad system in place of weapon swap. since we’re still locked into short, medium, or long range.
I noticed the same thing. I was doing world 1 yesterday to get some achievements I never did, and most of the dig spots were changed. Which is a shame because I could use those extra baubles since they’re very scarce in world 2.
I’ve noticed baubles arnt as plentiful anywhere anymore. A whole lot seem to have been removed from world 1, though it’s still way more than i’ve found in world 2.
I personally think people are just too used to expansions. They’re used to having all this content at one time available. So anet tries to do something different than expansions and nobody likes it because it’s not the general way of releasing content.
The LS is still a new system and anet still needs to work out the kinks in it. What players like about it and what players don’t like about it. It’s not fair to say it’s all bad.
As for QA in the updates, it probably makes it easier. Instead of saying you have every nook and cranny of this expansion to test in a month; they say you have every nook and cranny of this short update to test.
I hear a lot of people say the LS is awful, but then I hear most people say they like specific updates. SAB was great, flame and frost was well received, sky pirates was good, I loved the bazaar, people got invested in cutthroat politics, the queens gauntlet was good and challenging, and I like the idea of invasions and the play house was a fun dungeon, even if it wasn’t hard. (Not counting Mad King and Wintersday since they existed before the LS in its proper form but I loved them). After you get though those good updates you realize, those are most of the LS updates. The only ones I didnt list are the two southsun ones, which I didn’t get to participate in for one reason or another so I can’t speak for them.
So if most of the updates are good and well received, how is the living story a bad medium?
The things that bug me about the female norn voice is that it sounds like a girl doing their best impression of a male voice, and they always sound bored saying any line.
Seriously go up to a girl and ask them to do a male voice, you’ll get something close to the female norn.
+1
I’d probably end up buying all the skin sets if this was ever changed. Should do the same thing with infinite gathering tools (just “withdraw” them on any character whenever you want)/misc other items as well.
I would pay more for an infinite gathering tool I can use on any character.
Yeah this’d be nice but I doubt they’d do it, that means they dont get as much money in the long run.
As long as you open the chest you get the hot air balloon explorer achievement credit anyway, so it isn’t really a big deal.