Guild Wars 2

It’s not a bad idea if it’s used as a buffer between 2 permanent contents. In this case:
Game release <—-buffer LS nobody cares about—→ Permanent content with lots of “pew pew” and shiny stuff in it.

I consider LS a huge “hiatus” between perma-content

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And where is that?

I am honestly expecting a Scooby Doo ending…when Scarlet says “And i would have gotten away with destroying the world if it wasn’t for those pesky kids and their charr!”

The above gold/items u can do from multiple areas of the game without waiting for hours for the boss to spawn…getting tactics down….etc etc.

Thrill of the kill yes..i had that too…but after a few kills the thrill goes away atleast for me. It’s replaced by boredom.

PS. If u run any high level champ train for about the same time u run teq..u will get close to double the reward (but indeed no thrill).

Bottom line for me personally…the rewards are to low to consider it a treasure hunt or a thrill to kill. Look at any big mmo out there. Major events/bosses always drop something very good, even unique as in u have to kill THAT specific boss to get item X (almost guaranteed random drop/by class if you manage to take him down). That is what makes people come back to try and try again or kill over and over.

If they plan on making bosses hard..they should also plan on increasing the rewards proportionally. In the state it’s now..for me teq is nothing more then an over-glorified fire element. Literally nothing more. They should start thinking about guaranteed exotic drops if they want the majority of players to even consider an “evolved” world boss as something that exists in this game.

Or he could be the fabled “Awkwardly terrible voice actor that wants to makes trailers look awesome but fails” boss, short for the dreaded “A.T.V.A.T.W.M.T.L.A.F.”. Or so the legend goes.

PS. Don’t think he is an Asuran because of 2 reasons:
- The voice is literally the opposite of any asura (dead or alive)
- The dialogue itself indicates it’s not a friendly voice.

Will be like Teq.

Cool at first….almost deserted after. They can put any number of bosses in this game. The nr.1 incentive for people to actually keep doing them are the rewards themselves. If the time invested / reward ratio is not good…in time nobody will care. Most people can get the reward items teq drops in less then 10 min of playing….i mean come on…2-3 rares? seriously. Salvage crap.

So yes…for me personally (not talking about everyone) this boss is like a temporary content because i know for a fact i won’t do it for more then 3-4 times or so. Just a waste of time for very low rewards. After i finish him a few times it will be like he was never in the game for me. Just like teq. Haven’t went to that map for months. That’s the equivalent of temporary content for me.

Yea i kinda have to agree with u there.

From that “press link” there is only 1 thing interesting. The rest are marketing “bla blas” and stuff that will most likely end up being boring.

Quote:
He reiterated that the living world and expansion-style content are not mutually exclusive, and that although players may perceive the studio as concentrating on living world content in lieu of expansion content, there are teams working behind the scenes on other projects.

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da’hell did i just read?

Some call it Primordeus..others call it Destroyers from GW1…

…i personally like to give it a twist and call it “Temporary Content”… this way ..for the past 10 months i’ve never been let down by what terrible things will happen to Tyria that will “fundamentally shake it from the ground up and down and left to right”. I can go to sleep knowing that the same end-game boss called “Temporary Content” comes back over and over again.

Can’t wait for 2014’s “Temporary Content v2.0”

U think Scarlet is over?

Well i have news for u…she has a sister…and it will occupy 3 story arcs! + bonus content another 3 story arcs about her puberty! Scarlet Wars 2 inc!

Do people care anymore about her motives, considering how long we’ve been dragged doing household chores ?

Are u sure? From what we’ve been told/shown so far Scarlet is the source of the economic crisis and Cocoa slavery in Africa.

There was also strong evidence reported on CNN that Scarlet killed the dog in Family Guy.

I didn’t read anything about the LS content being also temporary. He should have added that because that’s one key issue here. Not only are we not getting a good amount of content that keeps us interested more then a few hours (in which we finish it)…but it’s also temporary. They added a few things here and there that are permanent and just a few care about.

Yes i fully agree. LS is NOT an expansion replacement. It should be considered a BUFFER between expansions. Bad part is the word “expansion” is completely missing from anet’s vocabulary….on the long run that will cause them huge issues.

Truth is they clearly took on a more then ambitious project that they can’t handle anymore i feel. Huge game…huge promises, huge expectations…and a very very small team to manage them all. This or they have very bad project managers.

I have my reserves regarding these new so called “epic…stuff” to come, considering how they treated content so far. They just left me with almost no trust left in what they do.

If u’re talking about the glowing area in the spot u fight Claw of Jormag in his first phase, then that’s been there for a very long time. I remember seeing it last year thinking it was cool.

Yea i can’t find dwayna either regardless of the options i select on TP. Sadly i don’t have a guildie that has the recipe so i can try the buy more trick :/

As others said..it’s a big illusion. They want to give u the impression you have an impact when in reality it isn’t. Rember that all progress bars similar to this one have been the same till now. You had no impact and for VERY good reasons. Here are some:

1. What happens when ppl get bored of making that dungeon over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over…………………..and over again just to fill up a fictive bar? Want to wait 4 months before we barely finish that bar just to finish some crappy living story that everyone is fed up with?

2. Scarlet…everyone wants her gone as fast as possible. So giving players the ability to have an impact like this would turn out into point Nr.1 above stated.

Giving “power” to people who are not motivated to use that power or are just plain lazy equals nothing. Consider their “player impact” as rhetorical as “democratic vote”

I honestly hope u make the finale of your arch as biblical as possible. So intense and huge it will make me prairie-dog it till it finishes….otherwise it would be the nail in the coffin for me atleast.

Ppl still play ranger in wvw?

I won’t even consider playing S2

I played daily, for the whole season and i get 1 exotic item worth less then 1g on the TP…

A friend who played just the first week to get the key got a precursor.

If this is the kitten players have to put up with for actually playing/wasting their time…to get what? Honestly just go sell your game to a company that actually knows how to reward their players.

Thx for scamming me into investing time into your game…but never again.

Definitely not. An expansion is a huge PERMANENT update. All they did is scam us into thinking we are getting an expansion’s worth of content but in reality, apart from some “it should have been like that from the start” systems they did…there has literally been close to no permanent content in this game. What did we get? Some fractals that only a few ppl still do (compared to the numbers that play this game)…and a map ppl hardly visit. I can’t remember anything else other then those.

However u look at it…it’s not even a mile close to being an expansion’s worth of content.

For ex look at WoW’s expansions and what they add in general..the quantity and quality (and i am saying this as an avid anti-wow guy).

I am more then willing to pay for a real expansion instead of this living world thing they are trying to do. There’s a golden rule in life….nothing good comes cheap….and it doesn’t get cheaper then “free”. U get what u payed for. As long as u don’t pay for any real content, don’t expect to get that content.

OMGRRRRRD..the world ended.

Yes there is a method using this: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Transmutation_Splitter

If i remember correctly these are the steps (i did for my dawn):
1. Get on the character that has the legendary
2. Buy a white lvl 80 weapon of the same type (for ex for dawn u buy a white greatsword from the vendor)
3. Combine them using fine transmutation stone. Select the looks from the white item and the rest of the stats from the legendary. Now your item will be account bound instead of soulbound
4. Move it into the bank and change your toon to the character u want to transfer it
5. Use the item i linked above and u should be able to split it into the legendary item u already had + a white item u bought. After this u can re-soulbound it on your new character by equiping it.

I am sure there are some youtube videos on it also. Check them out to be sure. For me it worked and moved it from war to guard

Word of caution: I did this in the very first day that new item i linked was released. I do not know if it was changed after that.

Ah…well that wouldn’t bother me at all considering how dull everything is in this game and how everything lore is related to Scarlet recently…. It would actually be a major improvement and i would go as far as to say that 1 full grenth set would be the equivalent of a major expansion compared to the bottom-low content we got so far.

Not resembling race god-preferences is the least of my concerns personally.

Norn would make it look massive, sylvari would make it look like a human because it’s completely covered. Charr would look like a char..everything apart from cultural looks out of place on them..what do u expect from a horned tiger? And asura are supposed to be goofy by their nature. So everything would be as it should.

If they actually release the full grenth set that would make it literally the best looking set in this game…worth any class type..heavy/medium/light..and yes i would actually love a good looking set once in a while

Why are u all so desperate to get some ugly looking armor skins (don’t even kid yourself they will be decent) that offer u +2 stats/piece? Is that really such a huge upgrade (from lvl80 exotics) for the huge costs it will have and the stress of meeting those costs?

I know this is a lame thing to do but i will quote myself from another thread:

Honestly this is starting to look like a beautiful game with beautiful concepts, landscapes and potential story telling that was made by a company…………… and bought by another company (in this case anet) that has no clue what to do with it because they don’t have the minds, will or motives to do either the same job or a better job then the company that initially made the game.

Yes, very good post and i actually asked about this several times in the first month after we killed Zhaitan. I really want to see visible changes to Arah and future dead dragon zones. I would love to see a rebuilt Arah with all kinds of races moving there and making it what it once was.

I am absolutely sure the devs could think of a system that wouldn’t effect players who haven’t finished Zhaitan yet. Make it semi-instanced dunno….but the story+trahern clip near the end all suggest Orr should slowly come back from the dragon’s influence.

Sadly, considering how outrageous the story has been so far…i am sure Scarlet will stop it from ever turning back….because that’s awesome story telling and logics by ANet…only the best quality of “random stuff” for their customers. Hell..they can’t even make 1 map correctly (soutshun). However u want to justify it, that map is like a bonus map that just a handful (literally) of ppl want/care about. It has absolutely no place in this game.

Honestly this is starting to look like a beautiful game with beautiful concepts, landscapes and potential story telling that was made by a company…………… and bought by another company (in this case anet) that has no clue what to do with it because they don’t have the minds, will or motives to do either the same job or a better job then the company that initially made the game.

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Neither Canach or Scarlet have had any kind of impact on me…literally a flawless 0. They bring nothing (both of them) that would make me ever consider thinking “wow…this guy again i wonder what he/she will do next, last time was awesome”. Both (especially Scarlet) were boring, no rememberable events and annoying as hell.

Annoying =/= evil. Just someone who u want to get rid off so u can see of your day to day job. It’s like meeting someone on the street that annoys u with his pressence and dunno how to get rid of him.

This whole Scarlet arc was a major disapointment to me specially coming from GW1. I can’t recall 1 evil character in GW1 that wasn’t memorable in his own way or interesting. Scarlet is the equivalent of an agro Moa…u just want to run away as far as possible till it deagros and u can run faster again. Nothing more.

Oh this is priceless….did u people actually expect it to be any good under the condition that devs stated on their stream (when the voted winner was announced) that they really wanted to do the Abadon fracture? If you really want to do something with all your heart yet are forced by a third-factor to do another thing (in this case broke people’s desire for less teleport fees)…it’s only logical, normal and expected that u won’t give it all u got to do something else. Anyone would do the same.

You get what u vote for… IRL also. Enjoy your 5 min “yet-another-asura-experiemnt” content. Can’t wait to see a “Scarlet or Dragons” vote, scarlet offering less teleport fees and dragons offering dragons. Guess what u broke ppl who can’t afford 1 silver will vote.

That request made his motherboard facepalm itself so hard it broke itself.

Dude…..really? overlooking the WP? … really?! COME ON!

We also have lives…. but we are just better at everything we do

if u have aoe looting on, u could go near the wall where u died and spam F to pick it up. If u can get to innert again atleast.

I got a precursor from one

JaredKincade.9761:

I thought Merc left because they weren’t getting support of BG’s NA?

Now your saying we do overtime? Crazy.

No, the problem is EVERYONE underestimated what BG was capable of, including BG. Go ahead and blame ZDs if it makes you feel better, but we all know deep down they alone don’t make up for the score differences.

I think someone bet on the wrong horse.

So true…. U literally made the wrong move and did not have faith in your server’s powers. Blame that on yourself..don’t start making up stuff just so u can compensate your bad decision. You are not only lieing to yourself but also lieing to your guild/pugs etc by repeating that. Instead of accepting the truth and fixing your problems u just take the easy way out, blame others and not fix anything.

Also…b’please….. we have just 1 queue atm in your servers most powerful timezone and we still push u back. Actually i can’t remember a day when we had queues at this hour. Maybe monday and that’s it.

U banged at the gates….and the gates replied…in full force, united, dedicated and believing that we will win if we keep on fighting like on day 1. Deal with it.

U are looking at the future while u are having major issues in the present and no clear resolve for them in sight. Keep doing that, we keep winning.

Yes the trailer is absolutely gorgeous. I am not a big fan of fractals, maybe never will because they become dull very fast…but i have to give props to the guys who made the trailer for it.

Hope to see more in the future.

hah… i’ve totally missed that.

Thx for that Khani

Are they 1 time buy? or daily?

This ^

All in all… even tho we beat SoR pretty convincingly, having a server like SoR fall like this (mentally) is NOT good for T1 matches. Nobody wants that….not BG..not JQ. We want good matches not bad ones.

Hope they get back on their feet and atleast put a good fight with JQ.

Caith did something to her like steal her bf on facebook. Pretty much the whole plot of months of boring

I remember reading an article earlier this year about ANet’s plans for this year. They included new legendaries. Any word on them? have they been postponed? If yes how much?

Thx in advance.

A picture showing an EB full-double-server desperate push…

Now a screenshot of the reality behind it: http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/3105/m4kb.jpg

PS u are loosing your gari soon…queue fast.

Also this thread is like making self-mockery of your own situation. Every time i try to read the first post…the image that pops in my mind is this:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XU9x8G7khv0/SgtLwPTD5AI/AAAAAAAADPI/Q-Se1E5V2K4/s400/nintendo-nerd-king.jpg

I also don’t like some myself and agree with your. Some seem rushed in without thinking.

Camp crusher i agree it would have been nice 75 not 100

Castle in the air i think it’s a bit to much and it forces you to stay on 1 map for a very long time…am still in doubt about this one

Demolition expert is one of the dumber ones i was talking about being rushed….and the problem rises from the rule “you have to use a siege”. This ruins everything. As you said…it makes ppl with no specialization in rams go and take rams..thus making ramming longer..thus making the whole group weaker. This is REALLY NOT GOOD! seriously not well thought out. Any explanation they come up with will not hold it’s ground against the reality of things. Why not make ppl that shoot the door for a considerable amount of time, get the achievement, regardless of the method?

Mist merc….meh…i honestly think u could have come up with better ones…but let’s put it in the neutral zone this time

Defense restorer. VERY BAD again…this only encourages people to uselessly spend supply when not needed or even worst as i’ve seen countless times since this started, take supply from keeps when they are upgrading. VERY BAD. It should have been just random “supply spent” for example… “Spend 500 supply on repairs or siege weapons” This would have actually been more useful making players actually bother to have as often supply on them as possible, for siege weapons. You would have encouraged learning…not like now just blind pickup repair and when attacking 0 supply. This one is as dumb as demolition if not more.

Sentry and supply as the poster said to high. I think 150 would have been ideal.

World ranker to high…i don’t get this one. Should have been 30.