But he’s been dead over 200 hundred years. Why bother? They should at least finish out the rest of the six gods before bothering with defunct deities.
Or you can just buy gems with gold. The price is what it is. I also find it expensive, but seeing as I can eventually buy whatever I want with gold I really have no reason to object. Meanwhile, some people have easily spent hundreds or thousands of dollars on gems. Different people have different budgets.
[Balance issue] utility vs trait cleansing
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Ralanost.8913
As a pve player, I find waiting for the 10s auto cleanse is a good way to die. It’s nice to have, but it’s unreliable in it’s timing. I would rather have cleanse on command. I run a signet build which includes renewal and healing spring.
I don’t recall a jp that’s required for map completion. Which map is this?
Breached Wall. Viziers Tower. Not to mention a number of Vistas that have jumping puzzle like paths in order to access them.
@OP: Best bet is to get a friend that likes jumping puzzles and has a mesmer.
Breached wall is a bit long, but it’s also pretty tame.
Compared to things like Griffonrook Run, Scavenger Hunt and many other difficult ones yes, Breached Wall is very tame. Also, finding a mesmer friend or a guild to help out would greatly improve your thinking on jumping puzzles.
As much as I dislike jps, I refuse to use mesmer portals. I used it one time for not so secret, mainly to get the diving master achievement. I prefer to earn things myself. It’s why I feel like I cheated myself a bit for buying some items with gold to make my mawdrey instead of making everything myself since I didn’t feel like grinding out the geodes and waiting to craft the things I needed with the daily cds.
One day I was bored and wanted the poi for the sand dune caverns underneath silverwastes. I think I almost did that jp with no guide on my own. Sadly, I got to a point that I couldn’t figure out how to proceed and I ended up giving up, but I got the poi and 3 chests. So while it was frustrating, it was more rewarding than getting a mesmer portal.
I’ve only used a Mesmer portal on a single JP (Not So Secret) to get up about halfway. The rest I’ve finished on my own, with the only one I used a guide on being Scavenger’s Chasm. But there’s no shame in farming for gold to get what you want, ’cause you still earned that gold.
Sorry, but earning something by doing and earning something by paying for it aren’t comparable. With one you feel an actual sense of accomplishment. With the other, well, you got a new shiny. I honestly hate that so many things can be bought with gold/gems/cash. It’s why I have so little respect for legendaries right now, but fractal skins are much more impressive to me. BLTC skins? Meh. And although it is mostly just grinding, luminescent armor will always have some respect from me. That takes a bit of effort to get and you can’t just buy it.
Honestly, I don’t have any nodes in my home instance so I never visit it. There are more than enough loading screens that I sit through for this game. I don’t need 2 more just to visit my empty home instance.
I don’t recall a jp that’s required for map completion. Which map is this?
Breached Wall. Viziers Tower. Not to mention a number of Vistas that have jumping puzzle like paths in order to access them.
@OP: Best bet is to get a friend that likes jumping puzzles and has a mesmer.
Breached wall is a bit long, but it’s also pretty tame.
Compared to things like Griffonrook Run, Scavenger Hunt and many other difficult ones yes, Breached Wall is very tame. Also, finding a mesmer friend or a guild to help out would greatly improve your thinking on jumping puzzles.
As much as I dislike jps, I refuse to use mesmer portals. I used it one time for not so secret, mainly to get the diving master achievement. I prefer to earn things myself. It’s why I feel like I cheated myself a bit for buying some items with gold to make my mawdrey instead of making everything myself since I didn’t feel like grinding out the geodes and waiting to craft the things I needed with the daily cds.
One day I was bored and wanted the poi for the sand dune caverns underneath silverwastes. I think I almost did that jp with no guide on my own. Sadly, I got to a point that I couldn’t figure out how to proceed and I ended up giving up, but I got the poi and 3 chests. So while it was frustrating, it was more rewarding than getting a mesmer portal.
I don’t recall a jp that’s required for map completion. Which map is this?
Breached Wall. Viziers Tower. Not to mention a number of Vistas that have jumping puzzle like paths in order to access them.
@OP: Best bet is to get a friend that likes jumping puzzles and has a mesmer.
Breached wall is a bit long, but it’s also pretty tame.
The worst one’s that are needed for world completion are Vizier’s Tower and the vista in the far SW of Dredgehaunt Cliffs. Everything else is pretty darn easy. I hate jps and I have 4 characters with world completion.
I did crafting once per skill. I will never do more. So yeah, I would love account bound crafting. I could freely delete characters and reroll them if I so chose without worry. As it is now, I have one character that I somehow got to 80 but ended up hating, but has 400+ artificing and 400 cooking. I refuse to do those again so that character sits in DR, only to be used as a bank mule and crafting kitten.
I do want access to all armors at some point, of course. But I really don’t want those faces unlocked. Most of those are very iconic characters and I don’t want to see players running around with their faces.
It’s been going on for years as far as I know. It’s pretty embarrassing. One I need to do is the one in south Straits of Devastation for the Orrian Pearl so I can progress on my treasure hunter achievement. Sadly, it’s always bugged and never works, so I can never buy the item from the event vendor.
Regarding warning the description states that the item is unique .
Anything with this descriptor needs to be more obvious about it. I don’t care if it’s in a larger font with animated rainbow letters. It’s needs a bigger warning than what the game offers currently as I also got burned by this when getting a second trinket.
How is it offensive in the slightest? In any case I like it. The male armors looks way better on Asurans then the female ones would
I 100% disagree. Some of the outfits were made to give the female charr and asura the female version and I think it worked fine and I like it that way better. More than anything, I think we deserve more options. Right now, for armor sets and not outfits, there are no options. You are forced to dress like a guy. I don’t care if charr and asura don’t have mammaries like the other races, they are still female. They should be allowed female clothing options if they want.
That would make me chose burn over bleed which I would consider bad game design. Like I said, every condi has a perk or counter-play. Chills put your skills on cooldown when confused – don’t attack. When taunted don’t move, and so on.
Your argument really doesn’t work. Chills, other than Reaper, do no damage. Confusion is getting reworked to do damage over time in addition to reworked damage per attack. So even holding back on attacking doesn’t prevent all damage. And Taunt is a CC. You don’t have a choice, you walk to the person that taunted you and just autoattack.
If you want to compare burns and bleeds, do it to other DoTs, like confusion, torment, and poison. And doing that, it works. Bleeds are super easy to apply and should stack really high, really quick. Meaning bleeds will do decent damage. Burns, while harder to apply and likely end up having much smaller stacks, will do more comparative damage. But keeping the stack high will be harder, so the consistant damage will be on par. Poison is fairly easy to apply and has the health reduction on it, so likely it will end up stacking as high as bleeds, but do less damage since it has the healing reduction built in.
Overall, it will be reasonably balanced, pending seeing the code working on the live game. We don’t know the specific formulae, but if we go by Arenanet’s word things should work out to be mostly equal.
Depends on what class I’m playing. I absolutely despise underwater combat on my ele. It feels wrong and weak. I hate it. Where as I feel just as strong, if not stronger in some cases, on my ranger and thief.
I don’t want professions I enjoy to make me miserable playing them if I end up having to do a lot of underwater combat. That’s not cool. If they fixed some classes so they didn’t feel like garbage underwater then I would be more for this.
But yeah, having limited weapons and limited utilities makes underwater combat just less interesting and viable.
Basically, bleeds at easier to apply and are easier to stack higher, but in turn they do less damage per stack. Burning will be harder to stack, but each stack will do more damage.
The total stats you got from traits was miniscule. The build variety can easily be compensated by swapping a ring or two. You are blowing this WAY out of proportion.
A bad investment is still bad. There are other less scummy ways to get money from us. This just feels bad.
What is bad about it? You get more bag space, Anet can keep running the game.
Less scummy way? like a Subscription that people would be making 2739847289 thread about every day demanding “more content nao!” since they pay such an exorbitant fee (12-15/month) for the game..?
I’m sorry you don’t understand what a bad investment is, nor do you understand the value of your own money. And people are still begging for more content now. Living Story wasn’t the best content delivery method and now they are trying expansions. In the meantime, the current game is at a standstill with no new content for months.
On the other hand, I would easily pay 1200 gems for account bag unlocks. But I would feel bad buying it per character as sometimes I get tired of a character and ‘switch mains’ per se. I would feel I wasted money if I spent things on only one character. That to me is a bad investment, especially for the money involved for just a single bag unlock.
A couple of questions.
Do you like the game?
Do you want to continue to play the game?If you said yes to these then you better realise that nothing in the world is free. It’s definitely not free to run an MMO.
A bad investment is still bad. There are other less scummy ways to get money from us. This just feels bad.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Release-Date/first
They will tell you when they will release it. Vendors don’t know.
Last time I saw Final Rest it was only about 4-5g. I don’t know why there is a big deal about it. It’s a pretty nifty skin, but not terribly rare. If it fits your character it’s a nice staff skin to have, but it’s hardly rare or expensive.
Very strange. I just checked and supply is dropping like a rock. From almost 500 to a little over 100, during the last month and a half. I wonder if it’s bugged.
Even so, it’s still comparably dirt cheap at less than 10g.
Last time I saw Final Rest it was only about 4-5g. I don’t know why there is a big deal about it. It’s a pretty nifty skin, but not terribly rare. If it fits your character it’s a nice staff skin to have, but it’s hardly rare or expensive.
In the options menu.
Jumping Puzzles are my favorite part of PvE. The last one they added in the Silverwastes was so cool: long, with beautiful landscapes, easy, a nice expedition to do with a friend.
The “Not So Secret” JP was also fun, in a head-banging kind of way. Unfortunately, I was not around when SAB was a thing. I hope it will return soon.
I absolutely hate the Sand Dune Caverns JP. It’s pretty hard to even tell if you are going in the right direction. I think I got close to the end, but I had no idea how to progress and after about 45 mins I gave up. I don’t like going through an area and having no idea if going up or down is the right way. Literally most of the time I had no clue if I was going the right way or not. If it wasn’t for the haste stations and the 3 chests I got, I would be certain I had gotten lost. But once I got to some wooden landings over a sand dune, I couldn’t figure out how to climb higher.
But overall, I play MMORPGs to explore, have fun and kill things. Yes, JPs can help with exploring, but I don’t find them fun and often if there are monsters there, they are only put there to harass you.
It’s amazingly plain. Final Rest has a kind of scythe like feel to it and it’s MUCH cheaper.
Sorry, very little is prestigious in this game. Legendaries are surprisingly prolific. But honestly, I’m never going to fanboy over someone else’s gear and send them tells asking about it. I will craft my own Foefire’s Essence in time because I too think it looks amazing. I don’t care if no one else notices. It’s for me to appreciate, not to get others to pat me on the back for having it.
Maybe they just play it internally and have no plans to re-release it? Ever thought about that? No sense in needlessly getting your hopes up. Unless you like to be disappointed.
Man, the people on this forum never cease to amaze me.
By how helpful and informative they are? :P
Well, if you have an optimistic outlook on life, sure. Let’s go with that.
Man, the people on this forum never cease to amaze me.
I honestly don’t see a reason. This isn’t a mature game. Our characters never encounter sex. They don’t even have sexual organs. You can make feminine looking guys, you can make masculine women. You can RP your character however you like. But visually nothing needs to change. Do they need to put this into a characters story to be inclusive? I don’t think so. I don’t see this as common in a fantasy/medieval setting. They usually have more important things to worry about than gender identity. Like getting food on the table or not dying to bandits or wild monsters.
I have nothing against it, but from a story and lore standpoint, I don’t feel the game needs to change at all.
The female humans have secondary sexual organs – pretty sure we’re supposed to assume they also have primary ones?
I don’t think there is any need for sexual themes in this game, but marriages aren’t supposed to just be about sex.
The point is, if a Sylvari female, for example, called you over and said her wife had gone missing in the forest and could you help find her, would that be so bad?
I’m straight and it doesn’t bother, or threaten, me.
If I had kids, I wouldn’t think it would upset them, or turn them gay.
I don’t think you can be turned gay, anyway – you either are, or you aren’t (or you’re somewhere in between).
I think you can be given permission to be who you are, but that is a good thing, surely?
If this was about anything else, we would (hopefully) want our kids to realise they could be themselves and not have to try to live a lie.
I think you are getting transgender characters and same sex relationships mixed up. Those are completely different subjects.
I think a big limiting factor in this is Elona covered a HUGE geographical area in GW1 in terms of ethnic phenotypes. Figuring out which to put in would be difficult.
I do agree with the hair though. They have done every fresh from the salon female hair they can and men’s hair is so boring I’m hoping we get some more wild and anime’ish hair like the Asura, Norn, and Charr get.
I hope not. I hate hair that looks that out of place. I hate every single super saiyan charr. It looks ridiculous.
I honestly don’t see a reason. This isn’t a mature game. Our characters never encounter sex. They don’t even have sexual organs. You can make feminine looking guys, you can make masculine women. You can RP your character however you like. But visually nothing needs to change. Do they need to put this into a characters story to be inclusive? I don’t think so. I don’t see this as common in a fantasy/medieval setting. They usually have more important things to worry about than gender identity. Like getting food on the table or not dying to bandits or wild monsters.
I have nothing against it, but from a story and lore standpoint, I don’t feel the game needs to change at all.
Pretty much. I would buy them no doubt if they were account wide. But per character? Never going to happen.
The raging sense of entitlement truly is overwhelming. How can you look at yourselves in the mirror and still spout this? I don’t like revenants at all. I knew the reveal would be pretty much exactly what it is. I’m happy since we are still getting a steady flow of significant information from Arenanet. Some of you guys are simply unbelievable.
[Suggestion] Skill Point Conversion Vendor
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Ralanost.8913
We have pretty much zero details. It will be some new currency. Might have something to do with MF vendor goods. They haven’t really said anything about it.
It’s a bit sad to be honest. Without hearts, zones feel a bit soulless. Sure, there are events happening, but you get a better idea of the story through hearts than you do most events.
What rare materials are you talking about?
I think he means account bound items and currencies like mystic clovers, legendary gifts etc.
What would be the point of trading the gifts? At that point you might as well just buy the whole legendary.
Almost sounds like he wants someone else to do the work and just give him the item.
Can you be more specific? Your idea makes no sense. Casual players can make legendaries no problem. Trading? Why not use the trading post? I honestly am confused by this post.
4 terragriffs at once and I forgot to pack my stability, it’s like PC ping-pong :/
Worst I had was when people abandoned Red fairly early on and there were 8 of them. Literally nothing I could do.
I enjoy sprint. Keg brawl and crab toss are ok. I despise survival. But I would rather do an activity than a world boss (I hate waiting on timers) or do 4 events in a zone.
Yeah, it would be really nice to do that out of combat. It get’s pretty annoying to constantly swap it manually with the hero window.
Probably spent about 500 gold on gems. Not a single dollar though. Total gems I bought over the past few months has been 5900 gems.
Food? Not sure what you are talking about. Anyway, I only collected materials for my gears. That’s it, I didn’t grind for anything else.
Cycling through the inventory is the part that tests your skills. Two things, you are either calm enough in battle to cycle through it or you just can’t put too many stuffs in your bag (I normally use only sharpening stone, so I don’t even need to switch).
Flasks? I googled “Monster Hunter Flask” and I get only the flasks with Monster Hunter design. Again, I don’t understand. I am sorry.
Potions??? The one that recovery your HP? If you are using potions, you are doing it very wrong. One hit from the boss = mission fail for me. I don’t take hit. I dodge every single attack.
Combat buffs? I never used any consumable combat buffs.
Yes, you should focus on your character, not what you consume during fights. Ideally, you don’t even need to consume anything, except sharping stone.
Come on man, I clearly stated that some of the things you mentioned were from my World of Warcraft days. Please read thoroughly before replying.
For the Spinal Blades (the one I got really frustrated with because I want them so bad), how do I get to the TA Atherblade path?
As for S2 (for Mawdrey), how do I buy only 2 episodes? The only thing I see on the black lion is the whole season.
Thanks all! You’re getting my hopes back up!
Each chapter is 200 gems. The sale has all chapters for 320 gems. It would be silly NOT to go with the deal and get all chapters at once. The Twilight Arbor Aetherblade path is a dungeon. You need 4 more people willing to do it with you. It takes more effort than the average dungeon, but it does give slightly better rewards and is the only reliable method of getting spinal blades currently.
I am pretty sure you can not get all 8 chapters for 320 Gems. It is more along the lines of 1280 Gems for all 8 with the 20% discount.
Ah, didn’t notice it was adjusted based on what parts you own already. My bad. So for me personally it is just 320.
Yes it is annoying when dungeon groups do that hence why I only dungeon with my guild unless I am desp for tokens (extremely rare). Speed running dungeons in any MMO I find annoying, but GW particularly lacks basic mechanics to prevent it and as such, the culture you decribe applies.
As for MH. I tried. 2, 3 and 4. I really tried. Each time myself and my friend convinced ourselves there must be something about it to make it so popular. But the controls, just so hideous. Just utterly unsuited in every possible way to the game it was tied to. Each to their own though, I long since realised it just isn’t aimed at me and decided to leave it to those who appreciate it, Here in GW2, the ease of play is a breath of fresh air after a long day at work.
I have GW1 and TSW and some other games if I want a more challenging system to play. I think it’s refreshing GW2 has taken the approach that it has. And I don’t think they are yet anywhere near done unlocking its potential either.
Yeah, that is really annoying. I wish there are more new players.
Huh, another comment from someone that don’t like MH. That really surprised me.
No game is loved by everyone. Every game has players who hate it. Most players fall somewhere in the middle of love it and hate it.
And people read your long *post because you took the time to section it out. It wasn’t a huge wall of text.
I understand that, but MH is one exception. I have yet to hear any bad reviews about MH, until today. Anyway, I respect others’ opinion and that’s why I started this post, to see what others think.
I personally hate huge wall of text, so I did that. I want my readers to read them easily too.
I like how some other games handle action combat a bit better. There are a few things about MH that I just can’t stand. I hate consumables. I don’t find them worthwhile to gameplay. I don’t like wasting resources on them and I don’t like wasting time to gather for them or make them. MH is pretty consumable heavy. I also think MH movement is a bit too deliberate and slow. As ridiculous as some of the weapons are, it tries too hard to be realistic. It’s why I like TERA and Dragon Nest combat better. It’s faster and gives more freedom of movement.
That said, I appreciate what MH stands for and how it has inspired other games, but I like the games that are iterations on MH, not MH itself.
Consumable? I don’t remember using any consumables in MH. I love grinding materials to make new gears in MH. I like Tera and Dragon Nest combat too.
How can you play MH and not use consumables? You never use potions? Anti-toxins? Sharpening stones?
Now you mentioned it, I know what you mean by consumables. I didn’t play MH in English so I can’t link it when you say consumables.
I only use consumables (if I ever need to) provide by the mission, except sharpening stones, which I will buy from vendors. So, I have never actually “collected” them.
Don’t you need to collect stuff for recipes for the food at the city? Still, MH is VERY clunky how it handles consumables and having to cycle through your inventory mid combat to find what you need is silly. I guess I just got burnt out on consumables as an idea and a mechanic from early World of Warcraft days. You have to have flasks (expensive as sin), potions (for use in every important fight, in Vanilla there wasn’t a limit to one per fight so you just had to wait 2 mins before tossing down another), food buffs, reputation/world buffs (felwood plants) and anything else they could come up with like items to use for combat buffs. I would rather focus on my character than what my character is eating or drinking mid combat.
Eh, it’s fine with me. Only thing I wanted on that list I already got.
For the Spinal Blades (the one I got really frustrated with because I want them so bad), how do I get to the TA Atherblade path?
As for S2 (for Mawdrey), how do I buy only 2 episodes? The only thing I see on the black lion is the whole season.
Thanks all! You’re getting my hopes back up!
Each chapter is 200 gems. The sale has all chapters for 320 gems. It would be silly NOT to go with the deal and get all chapters at once. The Twilight Arbor Aetherblade path is a dungeon. You need 4 more people willing to do it with you. It takes more effort than the average dungeon, but it does give slightly better rewards and is the only reliable method of getting spinal blades currently.
Spinal blades are still possible and so is Mawdrey. For mawdrey, you specifically need Dragonsreach parts 1 and 2 out of Living Story season 2. For the spinal blades, you can do the TA Aetherblade path or get some from the Aetherblade fractal. With that, you can use the MF to make more if you get sprockets from the pick or TP.
Yes it is annoying when dungeon groups do that hence why I only dungeon with my guild unless I am desp for tokens (extremely rare). Speed running dungeons in any MMO I find annoying, but GW particularly lacks basic mechanics to prevent it and as such, the culture you decribe applies.
As for MH. I tried. 2, 3 and 4. I really tried. Each time myself and my friend convinced ourselves there must be something about it to make it so popular. But the controls, just so hideous. Just utterly unsuited in every possible way to the game it was tied to. Each to their own though, I long since realised it just isn’t aimed at me and decided to leave it to those who appreciate it, Here in GW2, the ease of play is a breath of fresh air after a long day at work.
I have GW1 and TSW and some other games if I want a more challenging system to play. I think it’s refreshing GW2 has taken the approach that it has. And I don’t think they are yet anywhere near done unlocking its potential either.
Yeah, that is really annoying. I wish there are more new players.
Huh, another comment from someone that don’t like MH. That really surprised me.
No game is loved by everyone. Every game has players who hate it. Most players fall somewhere in the middle of love it and hate it.
And people read your long *post because you took the time to section it out. It wasn’t a huge wall of text.
I understand that, but MH is one exception. I have yet to hear any bad reviews about MH, until today. Anyway, I respect others’ opinion and that’s why I started this post, to see what others think.
I personally hate huge wall of text, so I did that. I want my readers to read them easily too.
I like how some other games handle action combat a bit better. There are a few things about MH that I just can’t stand. I hate consumables. I don’t find them worthwhile to gameplay. I don’t like wasting resources on them and I don’t like wasting time to gather for them or make them. MH is pretty consumable heavy. I also think MH movement is a bit too deliberate and slow. As ridiculous as some of the weapons are, it tries too hard to be realistic. It’s why I like TERA and Dragon Nest combat better. It’s faster and gives more freedom of movement.
That said, I appreciate what MH stands for and how it has inspired other games, but I like the games that are iterations on MH, not MH itself.
Consumable? I don’t remember using any consumables in MH. I love grinding materials to make new gears in MH. I like Tera and Dragon Nest combat too.
How can you play MH and not use consumables? You never use potions? Anti-toxins? Sharpening stones?