Just give us back crocodile-looking scaled/swamp drakes like we had in beta, for the love of god! I mean the marsh drake icon is STILL a picture of one! What reason could they possibly have had for taking it out and putting in a boring crud palette swap of the fire drake? Drives me nuts. That pet was the main reason I made a ranger way back when.
I’m 100% with you, if I’m not in love with a character’s name I just lose interest. It has to really suit them and the way I want to play them. I spend hours just staring at the completed character screen trying to think of the perfect name for each alt, its quite maddening. Then I log in and see Leegolaaasssx and Bootylicker and all sorts of stupid stuff and it just makes me shake my head and sigh lol.
I’m all for more festivals, especially if there isn’t any LS going on (or the festival is big enough to allow LS to be skipped for a week or two).
I liked GW1’s Easter event. Perhaps it’s too connected to Christianity (for it to appeal universally) they could make some kind of Spring/Melandru related event?
An anniversary event would be pretty sweet too!
Having a carnival style festival could be a lot of fun too: lots of colour and masks and things.
The festival of the four winds was kind of like a big carnival, did you get to try that? Their ship crashed so I don’t know if it will return, but maybe they just set up somewhere else or get a new ship?
I used to want SAB to return like everyone else, but people have gotten so ridiculous about it that I hope it never comes back at this point. Should the opening of southsun come back for people who missed it? The first halloween? Destruction of LA? Some things just pop up once, are fun, and then are gone. That’s the way it goes.
For every whiner with no sense of fun or whimsy that kittens on the forums, there are hundreds of fans who are having a grand time being an old timey fighter jet and loving every minute of it. This is an april fool’s I won’t ever forget and I applaud anet for it! Keep up the good work and don’t cave and become boring because of a few haters, I can’t wait to see what you come up with next year!
I wish they would at least let minis have a purpose other than ‘look neat’. If you have a mini have them pick up gold and items in the area to save you some clicks, or maybe you could interact with them like an extra bag, they could store 5 or 10 items or something depending on what mini it was. Being able to just pet them or play with them in some way would be fun as well!
Call of the Commissar or Guardian of the Six are probably your best options. Neither are quite buckler size but they are the smallest round shields I have seen. That or the standard ugly little wooden starter shield. If you aren’t concerned with it being round, the golden wing/seraph shields are very small and sleek, kind of form fits to your arm. Best of luck!
I want this so much. I would kill for a way to keep them alive other than transfusion once a minute and regen. Blood of the Master was great in gw1, and sorely lacking here where the minions die so fast in any kind of difficult content.
I love their animation, the only thing I want them to do with hyenas is increase their damage to that of other canines. Its the lowest of any pet in the game by far, its a joke. The hyena ally it summons doesnt make up for it, it dies in seconds when you’re doing anything other than soloing. I always use hyena pets when I can in mmos, I wish I could use the one here too and not be totally kitten =/
That’s a really cool idea, I’d love to see my alts standing around in the bar in my home in DR, or just strolling along the streets. They already add in npcs based on your personal story so it wouldn’t be that hard I bet.
All I want is for them to give us back the scaled drake pet we had in beta. It was called marsh drake then, and still in the pet panel it has the scaled drake look. For some inexplicable reason they changed the model to the boring palette swap of the salamander drake. That crocodile looking pet was the main reason I made a ranger in the first place, I was so disappointed after having one in beta that they took it away on release =( Please Anet, bring it back! You wouldn’t even have to do work, the infrastructure is still there!
Brown bears can remove conditions often and rangers don’t have alot of condition removal abilities. Bears also have by FAR the highest health, and pets and minions are screwed in pvp/boss fights by the red rings and aoes everywhere, so having a pet that can survive for awhile helps. A cat or bird that’s dead instantly isn’t doing more damage than a bear that keeps plugging along. The longbow part is just.. its a ranger. People make rangers to use bows for the most part. Sure it isn’t always the optimal weapon in every scenario but it has one of the only AoE attacks on a weapon that rangers get, and can be traited to have 1500 range so its good for wvw. Also has a stealth and a knockback for some general defense and rapid fire is one of the hardest hitting of all weapon skills for a ranger. Note I don’t use bearbow myself, just playing devils advocate and listing some reasons others might play this way, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are braindead or anything.
Maybe you’re lagging? Try doing it at off peak times when its not packed in there. Buy some expensive food/crystals/whetstones/etc that is best for your class, and then just get the pattern of the aoe down. Once you’ve got that memorized it becomes so much easier. Plink her with a few attacks and hopefully apply condions, run to safe spot, attack, run to safe spot, over and over. Cure crippled if she gets to you. If you have some kind of signet speed buff use that. You barely even have to dodge once you get the pattern down. Hang in there you’ll get it!
It’s all about getting the pattern of the big aoe down, once you do that its a piece of cake. I did it in my normal MM setup with staff. Just laid down marks and kept running, used flesh golem to knock them all down a few times and blood fiend to heal up on quick recharge in the few seconds before they got instajibbed. Took awhile but doable.
I don’t see how anyone could argue the new system is more fun or rewarding. You used to get something every level up, a reason to keep going. Now levels might as well not even be there until 30, and then only sporadically after that. I thought it was fun and had a nice balance before, the way it is now just seems like a huge step backwards and makes no sense.
I’m surprised no game has had a different languages thing since Everquest. Just one of the many things that made it so amazing. I know people now would think its a pain in the kitten , but it really added to the immersion that you see a troll or high elf or something and not be able to immediately understand them. Only after hearing them talk for a long time would their phrases start to make sense in bits and pieces as your language skills rose.
Hmm weird. Usually on the birthday of your character you get a level to 20 free scroll. Must be a bug, I’d contact support and see if you missed out on your freebies.
This seems to have happened to all transmuted items. Keep the skin but now just display whatever generic thing they were transmuted onto’s name and lose any flavor text. Very disappointing.
Good lord. I’m surprised the cap is even that high, I mean how could anet reasonably assume anyone in their right mind would make that many characters? I thought I was bad having one of each class lol. Are you leveling all of those to 80?!
Get ready for 100 people waiting for the boar in Queensdale. Thought he went down fast before? You haven’t seen anything yet. I feel bad for people with lower end computers or slow internet, if every map is going to fill to the max before a new one is generated it’s going to be lag city everywhere for some people.
Armor is Sentinels with Dolyak runes can also use Lich runes for more minions.
Weapons are Sentinels as well Staff and D/D with bloodlust and battle sigils on them.
Jewelry is Soldiers with crest of solders if not using Ascended.
Troll?
I hope so…
Why a troll? Not everyone enjoys playing brainless berzerker dpsdpsdpsdps specs. I have a full set of ascended apothecary gear/weapons I use often and it works great (others for certain situations but I enjoy that one the most). You don’t do any dps when you’re dead. I think its fun to have so much healing your jagged horrors actually regen from mark of blood and never die. Not everything has to be about min/maxing, maybe he just enjoys a tanky spec.
All I want is for them to put back in the original marsh drakes like in beta, they were the ‘scaled drake’ crocodile looking model. The graphic on the pet list is still that one for crying out loud. Just put them back in! That was one of the things I was looking forward to most. Sigh.
Ha! I remember you talking about this before in some post (mostly I remember adorable glasses picture). This should open up all kinds of new fun looks for people!
I feel your pain! I missed Kasmeer’s staff the last time too. It really sucks the way they do it with the limited time one day specials but I totally understand why they do that. If you can get something whenever there’s no big incentive to buy, if its only there right now people tend to snatch it up. I know I’ve done that before…I got 2 of Marjory’s daggers just in case I wanted to make a thief one day and omg would never have a chance to get the coolest daggers ever again if I didnt act now! Then felt like an idiot for doing so. Well played, Anet, well played.
You’ll likely need 3, it won’t let you change a name to one that already exists. Unless you’re willing to change a letter or something to save some gems =/ Or you can contact support and they might help you out, since you just want to swap the two but thats doubtful.
As far as I can tell, Scarlet turned out to basically be The Illusive Man from Mass Effect.
Both of them were paragons of their species, easily mastering a wide and diverse range of skills and abilities. Both of them operated very much outside the norm, ignoring conventional wisdom and following their own path. Both had a moment in their past where they came into contact with something ancient and powerful which changed them forever. Both created powerful organizations that answered only to them through which they used others to achieve their goals. Both tried first to fight against, and then to control that thing they had previously encountered, before ultimately being subverted by it and used to achieve it’s ultimate goals. And both were ultimately put down by the hero after what they believed to be their greatest triumph, which was in fact their greatest betrayal of their people.
The similarities are kind of striking.
Whoa. When you put it like that I can definitely see the similarity. I still feel like a kitten for killing TIM, and now I do for Scarlet as well. Of course they do to try kill you over and over, but I kept hoping for both that you’d be able to sway them into becoming your ally eventually. They were fascinating characters and their respective game universes aren’t quite as interesting without them around.
It’s not a question of damage. I’ve gotten loot on my lvl 40 alt doing almost no damage, my main necro also doing crap damage thanks to the condition nullification, but failed to get loot on lvl 80 berzerker gear ele pumping out tons of damage. Repeatedly.
In addition to 20 levels of moar power, the tengu get a damage bonus for firing down at a location. Drop a penny off of a tall building and it can kill a man (it’s a science fact, don’t question it)
I’ll question it. A penny at terminal velocity has a force of barely 1 foot pound. It wont even break the skin if it hits you, but it will hurt, and leave a penny sized bump on your head.
An arrow moving at terminal velocity? That will go through a metal helmet, through your skull, and out the bottom of your jaw, or it will rest somewhere in your intestines if it goes through your neck…..I could see that dealing 50,000 damage.
Yep. They did it on Mythbusters and its totally non-lethal unless it hits you right in the eye or something.
I think it’s a good idea, I miss the days of your class actually meaning something and having extreme differences between classes. GW2 is so homogenized it’s not even funny. More diversity please!
I’d save the key pieces, you never know with anet, alot of old stuff tends to pop up again on vendors or new events later on down the line. But it does seem to be gone for now.
Yeah this is nothing but bs and speculation, I’ve done lane 2 many many times with a MM necro and a ranger and the pets don’t cause any issues. They might trigger a mine sometimes but theres tons of mines for the boss to hit, and a player runs into them just as often as a pet does.
Alot of lower level food, and most vendor bought food, is only 10 minutes. Conceivably, someone could eat 25 of those just eating 1 when it wore off in a pretty standard evening of playing. Although I agree its not exactly something that would happen as you go about your business like most of the dailies.
Yeah I really don’t see what your complaint is, there is a plethora of great looking light armor. Tribal looking, evil looking, arch-mage looking, priest looking, and any other archetype of wizard you could possibly want. I can’t really think of a look they don’t have covered with a bit of creative swapping.
From a design perspective, there is a real lack of variety in male scholar armour. A lot of the silhouettes are effectively the same as what you get in your starter armour. Medium armour has similar problems.
What about the Priory and Order of Whispers sets? Those are quite distinctive looking. That Whispers set just screams earth mage, the crown on the cowl is awesome, and the Priory one looks nice for your all purpose hooded wizard look. Or the Arah armor, great for necromancers. I dunno, I always thought medium armor was the worst, especially for male characters. Would you like a trenchoat, a trenchcoat, or perhaps…a trenchcoat? Heavy is the best, but light always seemed to be in a pretty good place to me.
Yeah I really don’t see what your complaint is, there is a plethora of great looking light armor. Tribal looking, evil looking, arch-mage looking, priest looking, and any other archetype of wizard you could possibly want. I can’t really think of a look they don’t have covered with a bit of creative swapping.
“Chickens peck and chickens munch,
Chickens cluck and chickens crunch,
Chickens flap and chickens croon,
Chickens on the table soon!”
Her cheerfulness while singing that song amusingly contrasts to the nearby moaning of doom and gloom by the adult Quaggan refugees currently staying at Fort Salma.
I love that girl! I always stop and listen to her. One of my favorite npcs, such a catchy little tune. And you’re right she’s just so kitten happy about killing those chickens with war going on all around her lol. Cracks me up every time.
Or how about granting the Necro retaliation when a minion dies? And none of this ICD hibbity jibbity either; it would already be capped by the number of minions you could have out.
Edit: of course this assumes the trait would also be made an major/optional trait instead of a minor deadweight trait for non mm builds.
Problem is that many MM builds can already reach full retal uptime because of Axe 3. Obviously you wouldn’t take it if that is the case, but I’d prefer to see more playstyles supported.
As it is now, the only really valid MM playstyle is to have expendable minions that are used for their various uses, and then it isn’t a big deal when they die. If you aren’t using minions as expendable tools, then you either probably aren’t a full MM, or aren’t optimized.
I’d like to see a few other playstyles supported. One of them that this could help support is one where the minions are kept alive. Turn Protection of the Horde from a selfish trait that makes the Necro stronger, into something that helps keep the minions alive, at some cost of making the Necro weaker. Like in some MM builds in GW1, where the Necromancer could be very weak personally, but keep their minions alive very well (at the cost of weakening themselves, especially through health sacrifice and taking DoT’s onto themselves from minions).
Now that is an idea of yours I can finally get behind! Have death nova/reanimator for people that want suicide bombers and have PoTH give toughness and pulsing regen/prot or something on minions at the cost of putting weakness on the necro for people who want them to be more pet-y and stay alive. Win-win!
Have anyone actually tested if minions can or can’t siphon using the SOV active?
Nope =( Which is ridiculous, that was the one awesome use I thought we might get out of this, a way to heal minions that are spread all over the place and won’t fit in a well of blood together or are out of transfusion range. Sigh. Seems a really curious design decision to me.
It’s ridiculous that minions can’t trigger it, that was the one useful thing I was hoping for =/ Finally a way to heal them up a bit when they get really spread out all over the place. Alas, dreams crushed yet again, thanks anet!
This is really going to be annoying. I won’t be able to take Minion Master, minion hp buff and staff CD reduction, ugh. Can’t function without those 3. Hopefully they get creative and merge Protection of the Horde in with the hp buff or something. Really wish they’d put the staff cd reduction as an adept in another tree too.
The problem I have with zerker gear, is that everyone keeps preaching it, Yet I do not wear it, and notice the amount of damage the group loses from “me do um big leet damage” being downed. Then we lose more damage as I have to stop and get them up.
Non-Zerker gear gives you a higher margin of tolerance. But its not true that zerker = downed all the time. Good players will manage to stay alive in zerker. There are players better than me who keep running dungeons as zerker thieves and rarely get downed. I am not that good but on my zerker warrior I am doing very good and am quite often the last man standing (not like thats a feat, warriors are faceroll). Some people will not manage to stay alive even as warriors. It all depends from a player. That being said, as far as I can tell content is tuned to be completable by zerkers. Good player will run new TA path as a zerker and will manage well. Which means that a good player with zerker gear will always be a best option. That is a design flaw of this non-trinity system.
With the Tower of Nightmares at least they seem to be moving away from that a little, making it much more beneficial to have some defensive stats. You can’t say zerkers are fine in there, I’ve seen way too many be downed in practically one shot on the bosses and from the exploding plants and stuff. I’m sure the very elite players manage but for average players they get rocked in there. Hopefully there will be more of this kind of content in the future so gear will be a bit more diverse.
I don’t know if anyone is familiar with the anime “Bleach”, but the relationship reminds me a lot of that between many Captains and their Lieutenants.
Yeah I got a definite Yoruichi/Soi Fon kinda vibe from them. Also regardless of their relationship at least they have some personality and are fun to listen to unlike 99% of the npcs in the game – your tragically sacrificed mentor in the personal story being another rare exception.
