I like how everyone’s assuming that the Sylvari would be losing that sort of a fight. Open world pvp gogo! Come at us bros!
4 races against 1, and the total sylvari population was only 15% of the playerbase according to that infographic. So unless the Sylvari can pull a battle of thermopylae you are all gonna die!!
not sure how you intend to even hit us when we’re riding a dragon and having a good time!
Remember what happened to the last dragon? If not, Arah Story path. =P
Could do a sort of LS2 boss room A.K.A. capcom boss blitz, fight the fun bosses one after another or one a day for a daily.
Not a half bad idea. They did something like this in another mmo (probably more than one, just one I remember) and it was a fun filler until more story and large-scale raids came out.
Maybe this could be integrated into the fractal paradigm? Shadows of old enemies forming in the mists? That gives you the option to basically do hardmode versions of the old bosses too.
I like the sound of that.
For LS2 specifically, I wouldn’t mind seeing something in the the chapter selection panel that lets you instance directly to an unfinished challenge. A smaller, tighter instance that would exclude chatter, get to the fight, and end once the achievement triggers. It might not even need to load most of the NPCs at that point, so mapping them into it wouldn’t be necessary. In, done, gone.
Charr, Humans and Asura against Sylvari, Norn and (New Race) Tengu?
Factions would bring a very interesting feeling in the game
Nooot really, no. Far too many other games have factions, and their divisions and conflicts are always incredibly contrived in the face of large, global threats.
Reason people dislike Trahearne is because he just suddenly appears in the lesser races personal stories whereas for sylvari master race he’s there from pretty much the start.
Actually, it’d probably be more offensive to other Sylvari.
“Oh, hello again, Trehearne! So glad to be working with you again in as a part of [my order].”
T: “Hello. I am Trehearne, a scholar of Orr and necromancy.”
“I.. know that already. Remember, I got you the awesome sword Caladbolg as a part of my calling from my Dream? You.. don’t remember that, do you?”
T: “This won’t end well.”
Also some of the dislike towards living stories have probably been because of their focus on terribly written Sylvari characters.
Fixed.
While I find the lack of involvement by other races to be an irritant, I can definitely feel foreshadowing in the heavy influence of Sylvari because of Mordremoth. There’s a lot of potential in it, but I’m not sure I trust the writing staff to do it well. :\
I’d love to see Trehearne grow as a character, but he’ll likely remain a stale figurehead of the Pact.
Canach can do so much more than be some chaotic evil, mustache-twirling eco-terrorist. Instead, he seems more likely to betray Anise and laugh maniacally.
Scarlet… sigh. I’ll admit to liking her at first. But, she was just too g’dang Mary Sue for contrived plot purposes. A weedy Joker with less personality.
Caithe, even in with Destiny’s Edge, is limp and melancholy, so seemingly put out by doing good for good’s sake that she may as well just flop Nightmare and get it over with.
Faolin’s descent into evil took, almost literally, three lines of dialog to explain. Her fall should have been stretched out much more, but instead, we see her as an already psychotic personality with no redeeming qualities at all (or any reason for Caithe to love her).
A lot of people are complaining about the zergs destroying events, but this really isn’t a problem with the event daily. The problem effecting players is to do with downscaling. At the moment downscaling is so ineffective that a level 80 can one hit a low level mob with its weakest attack, and this shouldn’t be happening anyway let alone on the event dailies. All that is happening is the event dailies are highlighting this problem even more, they are not the cause of it.
The downscaling problem should not be a reason to fix the event daily, the event daily should be a reason to fix the downscaling problem.
You’re (mostly) wrong …
The events in low level zones do not upscale … so there’ll always be 8 grawl to kill on the second stage of the Shaman questline. Now have 60 players and 8 grawl …
Even players of the appropriate level can kill a grawl in 3 – kittens so there’s no way that all 60 will score. And – even though you might enjoy self flagellation – if ANet really would not make a difference between a true level 6 and a downscaled 80 they’ll never have to worry about the megaserver because you will have an easy time of fitting the remaining players on one server.
Just so you get it – a true level 6 has less than 10% crit chance – if you’d truly want to downlevel you’d have to take away all traits that enhance cc – rendering all sigils that proc off critical useless – forcing all players to use different weapons to use in low level zones, readjusting their builds whenever they go to low level zones.
I think that’d be enough for most players to say goodbye to GW 2 – I know I’d do it if ANet would really implement this. If I would want to play a level 5 char I’d use a level 5 char and not play years to get a level 80 + full ascended equipment + very, very expensive sigils and runes, thank you very much.
Edit: Why the heck does “h i t s” get’s changed to kitten when I type hits?
Edit: Oh I see – kitten s where 5 is seens as a substitute for s … more great programming
It’s basically the same problem as the pre-events for Fire Elemental. You’d think they would fix the scaling, but they haven’t. So yeah, event scaling is terrible in many cases, and the daily quest zones aren’t fit to handle it. I don’t overly mind daily zone events as a daily, provided that 1) dailies actually happen, and 2) the zerg is challenged enough by scaling that they don’t just sit around doing nothing. More mobs, more elite ranks.
(edited by Rauderi.8706)
