And also a screenie from a bit earlier; Nowadays it’s hard to even find people for fractals :’(
Hey, there are three people in your list not on the living story
. Fractals will still be there when the hype has died down … I hope (especially since I haven’t done a single monthly fractal on my main account yet ).
Ah, what a pity. If you ever transfer to EU and plan anything like this count me in, I haven’t been in Arah in ages .
I just got it about two weeks ago (thanks to a very nice person from this forum), it’s totally doable as long as you are the one to go into the secret room (and don’t get killed … which I almost managed ).
Oh, and you don’t just get AP for the meta (something I personally could care less about), but a sweet mini clockwork, too
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I actually have a human female … I’m not terribly attached to her, but she’s ok . If I ever made another character, I’d roll Asura over human any day though … I only have 8 of them so far (two eles, no necro), that’s not nearly enough!
Tempting … but unfortunately, I need to be off by 5 o’clock to pick up my youngest from daycare
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I’ve only had a couple of hours to explore last night, and fell off tons of places (I’m definitely not good at jumping, although I improved a lot at utilizing the aspects during the recent festival), but I have yet to find any place where I couldn’t get out of again. In fact, I had a ton of fun trying to find my way around and figure out how to get out of the holes I fell into.
It gets a lot easier (and more fun) though if you explore the place in groups, as sometimes a friend finds a way that I hadn’t noticed despite looking for it for a while. A mesmer companion with portal equiped is helpful, too (well, as long as that mesmer can jump at least … every time I had wanted to portal someone last night, they had found their own way out before I got to the spot where I wanted to set up the portal ).
Oh, a week would be great. I totally forgot to talk the people I had my eye on into doing this with me .
I want mah gurl to be sexy so she haz to wear a short skirt and show lots of cleavage. But I want her to be a mysterious beauty so let’s give her a hood and dye the clothes in a dark color, like Abyss. Oh wait, I’m a sensitive guy so it haz to be purple.
As a matter of fact, that’s exactly how my 8-year-old daughter prefers to dress her Norn mesmer
. Abyss and Midnight Purple on skimpy light armor. She is in fact the only one that uses the Abyss dye, good thing I got it on buy order for just 10 gold .
Thank you so much from me, too! I really had a lot of fun, both yesterday and on Saturday night, and learned a lot, too. I still hope that my habit to kiss the ground so much and often miss even obvious dodges and skill placements (untraited wardens anyone?) is just due to me not practicing enough, and not a sign of old age . But I won’t give up, I’m having too much fun in dungeons right now.
No problem, I only came on around 10:10 your time … like I said, one of my kids woke me up half an hour ago
That’s a quarter past midnight to a quarter past four my time … I should be in bed then, but in case I can’t sleep (again) I’ll turn up for the last one … I’m in sore need of some fun right now
<\3 Why so sad?
Also guys I’d like to plan an Aetherpath run in the next couple weeks, one on EU and one on NA… I’ll post a thread on it when I know when ^^
Loooong story … well, sad to say Aetherpath is (still) involved … but sign me up for your Aetherpath run on EU, whenever that will be, I will be there (if all else fails I can always quit my job, get a divorce and sell the kids so I’ll have time ).
That’s a quarter past midnight to a quarter past four my time … I should be in bed then, but in case I can’t sleep (again) I’ll turn up for the last one … I’m in sore need of some fun right now
Congrats on the chest Pity you did this in the middle of the night though … I’d be available now, but now it’s middle of the night at your place
To be fair, completing the story does award you with a rare lvl 80 weapon of your weapon type of choice, but unfortunately those weapons have stats that are next to useless for most builds (healing power, precision, vitality). They do offer an exclusive skin and (if you’re lucky) some ectos from salvaging
No Rasimir.6239, you are completely wrong…I did not receive a rare lvl 80 weapon of my choice….that would have at least helped the loot. ALL I GOT WERE MASTERWORKS…GREEN WEAPONS!
Check the link I gave … and if you didn’t get your token for a pact weapon for finishing your story, put in a support ticket.
Does that really work? =0
Yes it does
. I just did it recently myself when I wanted to get a full set of dungeon runes for my warrior. I had one of the runes on my guardian, just placed it in the bank, and the warrior was able to put it on his armor from there.
Jeans … now that’s something I need for my norn thief! But more modernish pants for light classes would be a nice change, too. My only human (mesmer) is currently wearing a totally uninspired winged top/skirt/boots without gloves or shoulders, but then she’s got the added restriction that the armour needs to look ok on the green sylvari elementelist, too. Good thing I prefer playing dress-up with my Asura anyway .
Plus its way cheaper.
Actually it’s practically free, since I already have the ascended berserker/scholar set on another character .
Very pretty, Lilith. I really like the new outfit more than her former one (but then I know my taste isn’t representative anyway ).
To be fair, completing the story does award you with a rare lvl 80 weapon of your weapon type of choice, but unfortunately those weapons have stats that are next to useless for most builds (healing power, precision, vitality). They do offer an exclusive skin and (if you’re lucky) some ectos from salvaging .
The thief looks adorable, and you can never have to many Asura (unlike human female, where the one I have is already one too many ). Personally, I like the second colour choice (cinders?) better. I think it’s the contrast, the first one is too close to her (?) skin colour.
edited to say, that my daughter prefers the first one, because to her eyes the greenish tint of the second one doesn’t match the jacket.
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What do you want from dungeons in the future?
New skins, new minipets, new crafting recipes (craftable minis anyone? ), new tonics and/or toys to play with .
(yes, I know, I’m a filthy casual at heart )
On the mechanics part, I prefer mobs that aren’t easy to brute-force your way through but go down painlessly if you pay attention to them. I’ve seen so many pug groups go down to for example Leurent and his fellow knight in TA forward because no stability/aegis/blind/evade/whatever, while in groups that do pay attention to that the whole fight is quick and easy.
I also wouldn’t mind a puzzle (or even two) in each dungeon path (a dose of ta aetherpath for each new dungeon … just not the whole dungeon, as it severely limits the number of people I can talk into going in there with me ). I actually enjoy that kind of thing, but I can understand that many people don’t .
What I don’t enjoy and would rather not see in the future is events where you have to kite around (or hide from) enemies during a time gate (adds at the accolyte event in cof1 come to mind).
Which one’s better? I think I prefer red.
Definitely red. It’s a much warmer (and friendlier) colour combination. Personally I’m just not fond of cold colours .
I started with ranger and played that as main for the longest time due to the simple fact that I was determined to not getting side-tracked by my altitis again (I’ve had like 50+ characters across different servers in the mmo I played before this one).
Eventually, once the ranger had finished world exploration, I tried a warrior, since I wanted something different (I had always played tank/healer/support in other games, and never a dps class), but to this day the class just doesn’t click with me (even though I have finished world exploration on the warrior, too).
Third came an elementalist, and with it the deeper understanding of game mechanics and lots of fun with combo fields and similar tools. That character quickly became my most-played one (and is to this day, even though I haven’t played her a lot lately).
Next to 80 was an asura mesmer that started out as a funny experiment (I had started and failed a couple of mesmer characters before that just didn’t hold my attention). Somehow, this time the class finally got to me, and I had so much fun with the mesmer (on an alt account … long story), that my fifth character to 80 was another mesmer (not asura unfortunately) on my main account.
Sixth to 80 was a guardian (I like world exploration, and getting to know different classes ), and seventh and latest 80 is a thief, although I’m still not totally sold on that class.
Personal favourites to play right now are:
1. mesmer in all kinds of content
2. melee ranger in dungeons (I just recently rediscovered the class and character and have a great time with the build I’m learning)
3. elementalist for the complex gameplay, although I don’t play her a lot at the moment
4. guardian, which I have not mastered yet, but find more interesting to play each day
I’d say try them all. Only you can say what class really holds your interest. The “feeling” of how the class plays is very different between the classes (while you can pretty much get any content to work with any class), so it’s mostly a matter of personal preference.
Oh, sowwy, Ras! And you better have some good excuse for being offline tonight! We had to pug our level 21 and level 19 fractals and I was hoping you’d get online.
Were you one of the people who didn’t help her with Aetherpath?
Nope, I was only once in Aetherblade path and I will never step in there again. c:
Excuse? goes off to find the book of excuses from long-lost days of roleplaying a kender Does being grumpy count as an excuse? I didn’t get online until well after 8 and was only on my other account … remind me to give you the account id when you see me online.
And you should reconsider about Aetherpath, once you understand the encounters it actually is a very interesting and pretty enjoyable path. I’ve only been in there three times myself (at least my main account has the mini, but I’d love to have it on this account, too), but would actually like to go there more often, if only I’d find people to go with me. Same as Arah really, a very interesting dungeon, but I only ever get a group for it every few months, and don’t know it well enough to dare to pug it sigh.
Back on topic, I guess the main problem really isn’t the rings, but the fact that you hardly ever get anything more exciting. A simple vendor in the fractal lobby that would let you exchange your useless rings for anything, e.g. 1 ring for 1 pristine relic (that way you could exchange 10 useless rings for 1 stat combination of your choice) or even one regular ring for a vial and one infused for a glob of mist essence, that would certainly make those ring drops much more bearable (and people like me who don’t even have rings drop all that often still get the chance to drop them in high-level fractals).
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I pic up my laptop and bring it to them and say “make it go”, " I will fix dinner while you are at it"
I definitely need friends like you! I can fix computers, but I totally don’t like to cook .
Back on topic … I didn’t get more than a couple of quick runs of CoF p1 done last night (one per mesmer/account). You know you are pug’ing when your melee mesmer is the only one getting through that path without being downed (the other four were all warriors ).
I did manage to get a second character on this account to 80 last night, a thief (that I don’t know the first thing about playing properly, like most other classes ). I guess it’s time to more seriously learn to run the other CoF paths, CoE, and maybe even Arah, so I can get some proper equipment for the poor thief. Currently my dungeon tokens are barely enough to get her a shirt and maybe half a skirt to go with it .
