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[Engineer] Trait Clean up.

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its definetely one of the most apparent issue’s

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[Engineer] Trait Clean up.

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As it says on the tin. Engineers are in need of major trait clean up. Examples include needing more than 1 option for Gadget traits, Turret traits needing to be brought together and/ or stream lined, and being able to rely on other trait lines for condition cleanse other than being forced to go alchemy for it.

Put forward your own opinion, examples and ideas. Discuss.

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Carpet Bombing of Divinity's Reach&Aftermath

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clap clap clap.

At first format you chose to use to put your theory forwards with grated on me but about half way in it started to be entertaining and to top it all off allot of the idea’s you put forward are very well thought out, bravo sir, two thumbs up mark of approval.

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Royal pass - advertise them better

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I would have bought this!!!!! shame i didnt know it existed

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Mystic forging for precursors

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So I’ve been saving up gold for precursors and I’m going for the spark. As most of you might know, the spark costs 600g on the market. That’s slot of g. I have about 117 right now and using the mystic forge seems like the easiest way. My options are to get 250 rare daggers off the tp and craft them or get about 60 exotics. With the exotics, every time will give a exotic back but 250 rares is a lot of rares. What do you recommend doing? Thanks

advice in 3 easy steps.

1. save up gold.
2. DO NOT MYSTIC TOILET
3. buy precursor.

(this is based on my assumption that your not a TP tycoon judging by how much gold you have and the way you explain it.)

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Beta, Beta, Beta

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I log on in the evening after work, take a few minutes to decide do I want to go bunker buster or grenadier in wvw, or maybe ill go 4 min CM p2 and 3 for some quick cash, or maybe ill jump into fracs and a quick lv 49, or I could go smash face in tpvp. So while I am deciding what I want to do I come on her read this ignorant post and all ive got to say is.

L2P

EDIT; maybe you should rename the topic to “blah, blah, blah”

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Toxic Warlock?

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or DID they………

XD

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Yes, please, ArenaNet.

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how about a mini that is both hobo tron and digiacomo and plays music and they argue with each other. XD

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Things that kill warriors edge of the mists

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The most dangerous things in the Edge of the mists map for a warrior

1. Gs – Rush (reason charge off the map/cliff/into a hole and die)
2. Sword – Leap (reason, fire yourself of the map/cliff and die)
3. Bulls charge (reason, see number 1)
4. Auto run while not paying attention (reason, see number 1)
5. Dodge (congrats you’ve prob dodge that incoming damage… oh wait you dodged into a hole in the ground… rip)
6. not playing the map in the style of GTA ( the old top down ones )…. you’ve walked into a hole in the ground,…. rip
7. Looking up when you should be looking down…. Mind that hole… nevermind you fell.. rip
8. Not running alot of stability.. ( congrats someone (usually a hammer guard has played golf with your head, and Tiger Wood’d you off the map/cliff/bridge… or into a hole.. rip
9. Holes
10. Cliffs ( I can survive that…. oh nope.. )
Its a fun map tho.

and here ends my warrior review of the edge of the mists so far.

in other words you enjoy watching the scenery, playing golf and trolling the forums.

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-103% Condi Dur on Imm, crip, and chilled

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It stacks with condition duration additively. So someone with 50% condition duration offensively would have their conditions be reduced by 53% (if you have 103% reduction). 100% +duration completely negates 100% -duration. They are not calculated separately.

< Basically this is how it works.

50% is halved, 103% means 0 duration. Since it stacks with cond duration of opponents, you will not be immune to most condis.
Example:
-103% + 63% means your effective reduction is 40%.

nether +condition duration or -condition duration can go higher than 100% therefore the effective reduction above is 37% not 40%.
Finally taking all this into account (6x) mellandru runes are more efficient.

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Massively talks about Scarlets problems

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except you like the other two fail to see the fact that i AGREE with the OP. I have simply been pointing out that the information has and is available even if it is poorly presented and in most cases hidden in text conversation with obscure NPC’s and/ or out of game short story’s (heck even a bloody pod cast gave more information than the game itself lol.) It is for these reasons that i agree with the OP. The other two simply are annoyed that i had a go at there opening posts. Nothing more, nothing less.

Also you probably will not get a response from anet as they are far too busy. All though someone probably has read this thread and will use it constructively to help develope future LS.
Now i have been at this all day. I have shared information as well as locations of said information. Left my opinion on the subject at hand. Had a god kitten ed war with two fellow posters that finally ended with them degrading into insults and over all it has been a very long day. I do believe i will call it quits on this thread and go to bed. What happens from here is of no further concern especially since i no longer wish to further protract a discussion so far off topic as to be looking at it from the back.
I hope you all have a merry x-mas.

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Massively talks about Scarlets problems

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She didn’t graduate from the colleges she just took classes. She didn’t stick around to graduate because she’d leave when she lost interest.

Emissary Vorpp’s dialog during the closing ceremony (source is Closing Ceremony page on gw2wiki):

“Of course. I know of this Scarlet. She earned advanced engineering degrees at each of Rata Sum’s colleges in record time.”

so yeah Hmmmmm try again.

what he says if you talk to him.

“I know she got special dispensation to study at all three Rata Sum colleges.”

here is a link to his entire conversation.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Closing_Ceremony

next time you post please don’t biasedly just cut what only suites you out of part of a conversation. Yes she did finish the courses in record time but they were only special courses the colleges agreed to teach her. so…

“so yeah Hmmmmm try again.”

Well done you completely misunderstood what we were talking about and instead quoted something about her entrance to the schools, not about the degrees in which she received.

Soooo Yeah, Try Again…. and please next time understand the conversation before trying to discredit the poster, and failing.

I believe you need to take your own advice. Especially since if you actually took the time to read my posts you would see i agree with the OP but merely pointed out that some of the information presented is wrong. But please. Do continue to be silly, i wont stop you.

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Massively talks about Scarlets problems

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she was granted “provisional” (meaning temporary or in this case conditional) status in dynamics and later statics. Meaning she was not studying the full coarse work. i have said this three times in this thread all ready. its starting to feel like flogging a dead hoarse with a shoe lase.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provisional

I seriously do not see where or how you get “reduced work load” out of “temporary and subject to change”.

See that little bit in brackets that you quoted from me. it says. “provisional” (meaning temporary or in this case conditional) just like your link, although next time you might want to link an actual authority such as

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/provisional
or
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/provisional
maby even
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/provisional

Also were do i say “reduced work load”????
as a finishing note i can link stupid stuff too. Enjoy.

http://youtu.be/KwpoBROvLuQ

MERRY X-MASS

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Massively talks about Scarlets problems

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she was granted “provisional” (meaning temporary or in this case conditional) status in dynamics and later statics. Meaning she was not studying the full coarse work. i have said this three times in this thread all ready. its starting to feel like flogging a dead hoarse with a shoe lase.

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Massively talks about Scarlets problems

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what he says if you talk to him.

“I know she got special dispensation to study at all three Rata Sum colleges.”

here is a link to his entire conversation.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Closing_Ceremony

next time you post please don’t biasedly just cut what only suites you out of part of a conversation. Yes she did finish the courses in record time but they were only special courses the colleges agreed to teach her. so…

“so yeah Hmmmmm try again.”

EDIT; As a final note I would like to add that all though some of the information in the article is inaccurate and the fact he does not realize why she was chosen to be a Sylvari, it is very well written and soundly hits on the core of the problems with the LS as it is now and many aspects that need to be improved going forward. Overall solid article with a sound an unbiased opinion.

I think you are misunderstandng the quote.

“I know she got special dispensation to study at all three Rata Sum colleges.”

It was to study, not to just do whatever she wanted. As far as I know it’s not normal for a non-asura to study at their colleges, that’s what the special dispensation was for, not to make up her own course work and ignore the structure everyone else follows.

“Of course. I know of this Scarlet. She earned advanced engineering degrees at each of Rata Sum’s colleges in record time.”

She earned degrees, not just course credits. She didn’t partially complete studies, she completed advanced engineering degrees. You don’t get a degree for doing your own pet projects. I think you are confusing her studies with the different masters, and leaving before she completed, and her studies at the asuran colleges.

Of course the writers could just do another retcon (ala GW1, human Gods, blood stones and the gift of magic) and say that Scarlet’s achievements according to Vorrp are just his misinformed perspective and he was just wrong, continuing Guild Wars 2’s trend of hand waving away inconvenient lore from the past establishing Tyrians as poorly informed about their own world and established lore is fragile at best.

According to one of the Wartower interviews Scarlet’s motive for attacking the Queen’s Jubilee was simply that she felt challenged by the Queen’s boasting. Why was the Queen boasting? Because the story needed an event for Scarlet to disrupt (and probably because some concept artist came up with watchwork horrors). Mostly I think they wanted a big flashy event for Scarlet to make an appearance.

I’m really glad the Massively article touched on the handwaving that goes on in the Living Story. Why did the Molten Alliance form? Scarlet’s “silver tongue” diplomatic skills (that are never shown and inconsistent with her visible persona) overcome all of the improbabilities of such an alliance. Where do the Aetherblades come from in such large numbers? Scarlet needs the krait? Conveniently she has a magic rock they want, don’t dig deeper, that’s the bottom of that story. Why is Kasmeer investigating the tower? She conveniently a mesmer of notability (despite that not being noted prior to the tower) with an illusion to dispel. Why are any of Scarlet’s alliances still working for her (they still invade despite her not treating them very well and the post Flame and Frost dialogue indicates the Molten Alliance are close to imploding)? The writers had a check list of things to achieve (she needs engineering skills, smithing skills, asuran college knowledge, poisons knowledge, molten tech, inquest tech, toxic tech) and the story comes off as just that – a check list. The implementation feels like a transparent shopping list and not something that actually tells a story or respects the individual moments involved.

if what you say is true they would have just given her a normal dispensation which is an exemption from a rule in this case being asuran. Instead they gave her a special dispensation which alludes to the fact that there are terms and/ or other limits on the dispensation. Putting this together with the information from the short story that was released at the same time as well as the fact that later the devs elaborated more on it. The fact still remains that she was on a specialized coarse.
Other than this i agree with what your saying. they need to make information more available in game and also make it more detailed and less confusing to gather going forward in the future to avoid the mess that is the current LS.

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Massively talks about Scarlets problems

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They tried to backpedal on that later, outside of the game. But it doesn’t change what we were handed to begin with.

In the short story it says she was granted provisional status in the colleges. This is not a full tuition. She did indeed come out at the head of her class in each subject however she only studied a years worth of materiel in each course.

As you’ll note from the bit of my own post I quoted, I acknowledged that they tried to change it with the story they added later. But, as I said, that doesn’t change what we were handed to begin with. That was our first impression and first real introduction to Scarlet as a character. You can’t undo that.

If they want to retcon her, fine. I wish them the best of luck. But they need to own up to it. We’re not idiots.

Wait, wait. I’ve been yelled at before for apparently speaking for all players, so let me change that. SOME of us are not idiots.
:)

To of the three references i mentioned came out with the release of clockwork chaos. No ret-con required and indeed SOME of us are not idiots.

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Massively talks about Scarlets problems

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what he says if you talk to him.

“I know she got special dispensation to study at all three Rata Sum colleges.”

here is a link to his entire conversation.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Closing_Ceremony

next time you post please don’t biasedly just cut what only suites you out of part of a conversation. Yes she did finish the courses in record time but they were only special courses the colleges agreed to teach her. so…

“so yeah Hmmmmm try again.”

EDIT; As a final note I would like to add that all though some of the information in the article is inaccurate and the fact he does not realize why she was chosen to be a Sylvari, it is very well written and soundly hits on the core of the problems with the LS as it is now and many aspects that need to be improved going forward. Overall solid article with a sound an unbiased opinion.

Given that she’s a Sylvari and she attended all three, it’s pretty obvious that she would need “special dispensation” to attend all three asura colleges. I mean, even asura generally attend only one. Two would be exceptional. All three? Over the top even for an asura. And most outsiders aren’t allowed to attend even one.

Nowhere does it say that she took lesser versions of any of the classes or courses they presented. She got degrees, do you really think the asura allowed her to get those degrees with dumbed down or limited versions of the course work? That they allowed someone below their standards to walk around with the credentials that many of them spend a large chunk of their lives earning? Threefold?

They tried to backpedal on that later, outside of the game. But it doesn’t change what we were handed to begin with.

[Edit] Whoops, sorry. Got a minor fact wrong. She didn’t earn “degrees” from the colleges. She earned “advanced engineering degrees”. That right there pretty much shoots down the idea that she was taking limited versions of the studies.

In the short story it says she was granted provisional status in the colleges. This is not a full tuition. She did indeed come out at the head of her class in each subject however she only studied a years worth of materiel in each course. So between the short story, emissary vorpp and the devs actually saying so. she did not study or indeed have the time to study the full curriculum. To sum it up;

built a golem out of scrap> put on provisional dynamics course> finished the course work in a year> got moved to statics by the council> similar outcome> moved to synergetics> had her thesis rejected> worked with inquest.

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Massively talks about Scarlets problems

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You will just have to wait until January to find out how all her ulterior motives, schemes and alliances come together now wont you. Also allot of what you say is biased, subjective and generally makes no cense. I think you need to go do your homework.

as further proof that your opinion means nothing in the scheme of this thread. In your anger you completely forgot that I have been posting since this threads creation and have included various bits of information as well as my unbiased opinion on the original post. Above I have quoted my response to your original post that you have completely forgotten. You can go off on a tangent all day if you wish but it still does not change the fact that you are in error and diverging from the original topic merely to satisfy your biased views. Once again and finally. I have nothing more to say to you and I also believe you can not contribute anymore information intellectually to the original post. Good day and a merry x-mas

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Massively talks about Scarlets problems

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opinions are not always biased lolz. For example the article that this post is about is an unbiased opinion. Please refrain from making silly remarks in the future and thankyou for agreeing that your opinion is biased and there for worth no weight.

Why would a biased opinion be worthless? What matters is the arguments presented. But there’s always some form of bias involved with any opinion. People have different things they like, and this influences their opinion. My personal bias comes from a growing dislike of the writing in GW2 and videogames in general. And of course a long festering dislike of Scarlet’s character. I liked her at first, but then the story took a nosedive, and now I’m a lot more critical and less forgiving of the writing than I was before. That’s my bias. Does that mean my arguments hold no weight to you?

I did not say bias is worthless merely that it holds no weight in factual discussion. This is mostly due to the fact that biased opinion refuses to take into account information from the opposite viewpoint and is there for unable to form complete and informative picture and in the worst cases such as has been seen from various other people in this post ends up scuing the information incorrectly to fit there views. Like you have done. You are entitled to your opinion however but you should have been prepared to have your opinion questioned when you tried to put it forward in a factual manor despite the bias. Now you can keep hating all day but it does not change the fact that your opinion is in error and even has nothing to do with the original post of this thread. I do not believe I have anything more to say to you on this matter. I wish you a merry Xmas.

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Massively talks about Scarlets problems

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Also allot of what you say is biased, subjective and generally makes no cense. I think you need to go do your homework.

Oh it’s definitely biased, since it is an opinion, and opinions are always biased.

But what doesn’t make sense according to you?

opinions are not always biased lolz. For example the article that this post is about is an unbiased opinion. Please refrain from making silly remarks in the future and thankyou for agreeing that your opinion is biased and there for worth no weight.

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Massively talks about Scarlets problems

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So your saying that the character who has kaleidoscopic fluctuations in emotion akin to a firework accident in a chainsaw factory and has been constantly alluding to having ulterior motives from each of her schemes that will culminate in her ultimate agenda come January 21st >

has no real motives or emotions.

Please do carry on. You have my undivided attention in explaining this.

Also you could find out she was only on special courses in rata sum from talking to Emissary Vorpp IN GAME during the clockwork chaos LS. I do agree however that they need to make information like this more accessible in game to avoid future confusion and ignorance as well as these uninformed forum posts.

She had no motive for attacking the Queen’s Pavilion for starters, that we know for sure. The devs confirmed this. And since then she has been consistently creating random alliances and abandoning them at random every few weeks. Now a lazy writer could easily write this off as “She’s gathering knowledge” but that tends to steer towards the always cheap “long story, magic” answer. And I don’t buy that. You can’t write everything off as magic. You can’t have a bunch of totally opposite factions be part of her learning to create some sort of magical super weapon. That is a poor excuse to introduce a new villain-faction of the month. It’s the Star Trek equivalent of “it was the holo-deck”. There has to be some logic to it, it has to make sense. Even in a universe that is filled with magic, there have to be logical rules to how it works.

We already got a hint of how she came up with the aetherblades. “Asura tech + air magic = Aetherblade”. I’m sorry, is this some sort of a cooking show? You throw a bunch of random things together, and out pops plot-convenience? That equals no motive. There was no point to her specifically going after the dredge and flame legion, or the Nightmare Court and Krait. Why did she create a gigantic nightmare tower that spreads poison in a radius the size of Norgu’s waistline? Was that really needed in order to get the knowledge she needed of hallucination-poisons? Could none of it have been executed in a way that drew less attention, and was less harmful to the surrounding world? I am highly skeptical that we will get a good motivation for all that.

You will just have to wait until January to find out how all her ulterior motives, schemes and alliances come together now wont you. Also allot of what you say is biased, subjective and generally makes no cense. I think you need to go do your homework.

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Massively talks about Scarlets problems

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She didn’t graduate from the colleges she just took classes. She didn’t stick around to graduate because she’d leave when she lost interest.

Emissary Vorpp’s dialog during the closing ceremony (source is Closing Ceremony page on gw2wiki):

“Of course. I know of this Scarlet. She earned advanced engineering degrees at each of Rata Sum’s colleges in record time.”

so yeah Hmmmmm try again.

what he says if you talk to him.

“I know she got special dispensation to study at all three Rata Sum colleges.”

here is a link to his entire conversation.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Closing_Ceremony

next time you post please don’t biasedly just cut what only suites you out of part of a conversation. Yes she did finish the courses in record time but they were only special courses the colleges agreed to teach her. so…

“so yeah Hmmmmm try again.”

EDIT; As a final note I would like to add that all though some of the information in the article is inaccurate and the fact he does not realize why she was chosen to be a Sylvari, it is very well written and soundly hits on the core of the problems with the LS as it is now and many aspects that need to be improved going forward. Overall solid article with a sound an unbiased opinion.

Etheeria (The mad bomber). If you don’t have shellshock your not doing it right.

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Massively talks about Scarlets problems

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The crazy sassy attractive female villain that is crazy and has no real motives or emotions is a big stereotype. So is Marjory by the way, but I like her.

has no real motives or emotions is a big stereotype. So is Marjory by the way, but I like her.

has no real motives or emotions.

So your saying that the character who has kaleidoscopic fluctuations in emotion akin to a firework accident in a chainsaw factory and has been constantly alluding to having ulterior motives from each of her schemes that will culminate in her ultimate agenda come January 21st >

has no real motives or emotions.

Please do carry on. You have my undivided attention in explaining this.

Also you could find out she was only on special courses in rata sum from talking to Emissary Vorpp IN GAME during the clockwork chaos LS. I do agree however that they need to make information like this more accessible in game to avoid future confusion and ignorance as well as these uninformed forum posts.

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ruined one of your only good events for me.

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i got three dwayna and 1 grenth.

MERRY XMAS

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Post your own idea for a fun Gadget

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Portable launch pads.

You can place 3x launch pads that you and ally’s can use to launch yourself between them.

So much win. But I feel it could get really annoying, and it would open up a lot of vertical movement exploits. “And the freaking Engineer put a bunch of jump pads all around the NPC we were trying to talk to!” LOL

I was thinking along the lines that it only moves you between platforms. not any were you want. So you could use it to jump up keep walls and such provided you had been inside to place the receiver pad (does not let you go places you havent been). So there not really exploitable, its more along the lines of efficiency. I dont think they would be tall enough to block LoS to an NPC ether.

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Scarlet not Part of Wintersday!

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Except your ignoring the fact that this living story arc is about Scarlet, it has been for almost a year. She is the main antagonist. Can you be anymore captain obvious.

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Portable launch pads.

You can place 3x launch pads that you and ally’s can use to launch yourself between them.

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Suggestions for A.E.D, transmute and so on.

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Well 120 seconds would be okay as well, the point being its long cast, its melee range and that it gives slightly more than 1 pulse of elixir R (that also cures a condition every second btw). Its a skill to support reviving, not to insta rez them (hence 2 second cast (almost as long as a stomp) and melee range (meaning any cc will prevent the engi to reach its target. In wvw are everyone running thieves with shadow refugee for zerging? Or the trait that lets you interupt a stomp with stealth on you and your ally because that heals as well as preventing all stomps + making you invisible. But a longer recharge would be fine, the situational use of it would limit it anyway, as it should be. And its not 20% with tools.

20% would be instant revive if it hit someone in the same second they where downed in most combat scenarios., but if that is too much go down to 15%.

Whatever, i just find the toolbelt so totally unengaging considering the rest of our cc, and a actual defibrillator mechanic would be interesting.

But yeah, condition removal on downed could go, cast could be 2.5.

(and its 23 seconds with 30 in tools).

The important thing for it is to be more engaging than a simple 1 second melee ranged stun on the profession thats king of cc.

the point im trying to make is you put 20 engies with your ability in a zerg and they all use it on cool down (23 seconds traited) and that’s insta rezzed downed engies, two condtions cured and enemys stunned. so aoe cap of five people with 20 engies is very broken. to sum it up that’s 200 conditions cleansed. 100 × 1 second stuns on the enemy and 20% of downed health healed to up to five downed allys per engineer every 23 seconds if you have 20 engineers. the cast time is not important as that many engineers means group wide perma stability via toss elixir b. Your ability is NOT viable unless it has 120 second cool down at least is what I am trying to get at.

I do agree that the tool belt in its current iteration is a bit meh, yours is just on the other side of the stratosphere is all.

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also your suggestion is way too OP. Basically you want a cone rez mechanic that cures 2 condi’s AND stuns enemies in it for a mere 30 seconds. Traited in tools that would be every 20 seconds. Seriously too OP. An ability of that potency needs at least a 120s cool down or all zergs in wvw would be made of engineers. I think your being a little unrealistic if I do say so myself.

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Based on a piece of concept art I imagine she may attempt to pair up Centaurs and Sons of Svanir:

http://images.mmosite.com/photo/2009/10/09/gw2w31680x1050_centaursY55L68JK38.jpg

It could just be me but these guys look like Icebrood Centaurs.

Those are indeed Icebrood Centaur. I think its mostly due to the dragons simply corrupting everything within there domain however and has nothing to do with Scarlet.

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That alliance makes no sense but neither did the krait and the nightmare court, or the dredge and the flame legion.

!!!!SPOILER WARNING !!!!
FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE NOT TALKED TO THE NPC’S INVOLVED. DID NOT PLAY THE GAME AT THE TIME OR OTHERWISE. BELOW IS HEAVY SPOILERS THAT EXPLAIN WHY SCARLET CREATED THESE TWO ALLIANCES, SUMMERISED FROM INGAME CONVERSATIONS.

They make perfect sense if you do a little research. Scarlet persuaded the dredge and FL to ally as it would be mutually beneficial to them do to the fact that dredge have no magic and FL have no tech. Despite this you find out the alliance is very tenuous do to the fact that the two sides don’t see eye to eye culturally and politically. What Scarlet got out of the alliance was the molten alliance created a new metal alloy that she “aquired”.

Oh really? Your the first person to say this – What was the name of this alloy, where did you find this information?

The Information regarding all of the above could be found by talking to various NPC’s through out F&M. You could also talk to the Molten alliance prisoner’s during the below event to find out the tenuous nature of there alliance as well as the first whisperings of Scarlet.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rox:_Avenger_of_the_Dispossessed

The Alloy never received a name. It is simply mentioned at various points that it is what the Molten alliance make all there hybrid weaponry out of and also that the mysterious stranger from the city (Scarlet) has it also. Most of this info can be found in the world or on the wiki if you simply look for it.

That that was so long ago, with zero followups, I suspect Anet just forgot about that plot point.

well people were assuming that there was no point to the molten alliance. I simply corrected the assumption. Scarlet also got what she wanted out of it and moved on and we broke there offensive so no follow-up is needed.

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That alliance makes no sense but neither did the krait and the nightmare court, or the dredge and the flame legion.

!!!!SPOILER WARNING !!!!
FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE NOT TALKED TO THE NPC’S INVOLVED. DID NOT PLAY THE GAME AT THE TIME OR OTHERWISE. BELOW IS HEAVY SPOILERS THAT EXPLAIN WHY SCARLET CREATED THESE TWO ALLIANCES, SUMMERISED FROM INGAME CONVERSATIONS.

They make perfect sense if you do a little research. Scarlet persuaded the dredge and FL to ally as it would be mutually beneficial to them do to the fact that dredge have no magic and FL have no tech. Despite this you find out the alliance is very tenuous do to the fact that the two sides don’t see eye to eye culturally and politically. What Scarlet got out of the alliance was the molten alliance created a new metal alloy that she “aquired”.

Oh really? Your the first person to say this – What was the name of this alloy, where did you find this information?

The Information regarding all of the above could be found by talking to various NPC’s through out F&M. You could also talk to the Molten alliance prisoner’s during the below event to find out the tenuous nature of there alliance as well as the first whisperings of Scarlet.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rox:_Avenger_of_the_Dispossessed

The Alloy never received a name. It is simply mentioned at various points that it is what the Molten alliance make all there hybrid weaponry out of and also that the mysterious stranger from the city (Scarlet) has it also. Most of this info can be found in the world or on the wiki if you simply look for it.

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That alliance makes no sense but neither did the krait and the nightmare court, or the dredge and the flame legion.

!!!!SPOILER WARNING !!!!
FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE NOT TALKED TO THE NPC’S INVOLVED. DID NOT PLAY THE GAME AT THE TIME OR OTHERWISE. BELOW IS HEAVY SPOILERS THAT EXPLAIN WHY SCARLET CREATED THESE TWO ALLIANCES, SUMMERISED FROM INGAME CONVERSATIONS.

They make perfect sense if you do a little research. Scarlet persuaded the dredge and FL to ally as it would be mutually beneficial to them do to the fact that dredge have no magic and FL have no tech. Despite this you find out the alliance is very tenuous do to the fact that the two sides don’t see eye to eye culturally and politically. What Scarlet got out of the alliance was the molten alliance created a new metal alloy that she “aquired”. The Toxic Alliance is a very similar situation were the two sides have come together as it is mutually beneficial even if there not buddy-buddy. Scarlets ulterior motive for this was to do with the results of her experiments at the top of the tower of nightmare’s.

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Where is the next update notes?

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OMG. Scarlet stole Wintersday. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

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It may not be the best Zerg build but I like to play in small groups/roaming so I just use that same build for everything (0/30/10/10/30 btw)

I call hax. You have put 10 more points there than you should have. You may need to edit your post.

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My bunker bomber build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcQQJAqel0pSX3zSiF87ISoC2noH6Hl5YfeIXPIEC-jkCB4iBkWAhkGkEBITqIasVhFRjVJjIqWpEzcjRr2uDIGAmA-w

Uses “potion of karka toughness” for nourishment. (+150 toughness)

Very tanky. After you get your stacks and get your might going (switching to med kit every 10 secs.) The damage output is also very good.

This build also requires a banner warrior.

how so? ive never needed one, this builds pretty stand alone.

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Best ratio of classes?

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100% thieves is best

ive seen this done before. 25 thieves. each party puts a target on some shmucks head.
that guy gets insta-ganked the zerg disappears into the mist. realpy’s targets, repeat. Lolz to the commander who gets picked out of his zerg.

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attack on the fort

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Sorry, but what is this thread about exactly?

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My bunker bomber build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcQQJAqel0pSX3zSiF87ISoC2noH6Hl5YfeIXPIEC-jkCB4iBkWAhkGkEBITqIasVhFRjVJjIqWpEzcjRr2uDIGAmA-w

Uses “potion of karka toughness” for nourishment. (+150 toughness)

Very tanky. After you get your stacks and get your might going (switching to med kit every 10 secs.) The damage output is also very good.

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[Lore] Scarlet and the Reactor. It fits.

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I think you’re missing the point: it doesn’t matter where Scarlet fits or where they forcibly try to fit her.

The point is that she’s a terrible character. She’s annoying. She’s one-dimensional. She has no defining traits. She’s a Mary Sue and the Scrappy Doo all wrapped into a blanket of terrible. She shouldn’t exist at all – so by extension she doesn’t fit anywhere.

If people don’t like the story and the characters, the writers have failed. Not the audience. Audience is the judge and the jury, and my verdict, for one, is death.

Plus, I’ve seen paper napkins that were stronger than GW2’s lore. Does it really matter if something fits with a story that’s not there?

And this biased nonsense is why I am done here. have a good day folks.

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SCARLET and the reactor doesn’t fit, Ceara and the reactor fits, for t to make sense it would have to be before she got into the machine that turned her into scarlet. as she supposedly found the answers to everything and went bat crap crazy, so she must have ad this knowledge before hand, its a shame this is not represented.

She worked with the inquest before she got into the isolation pod, hence she gave them the advise regarding chaos energy before then. (shame they went and duffed everything by tampering with dragon energy instead.) The scarlet you see in the fractal is actually the present day scarlet hijacking into your fractal to see what happened herself. Not the past scarlet who was Ceara at the time.

It’s funny how people trivialize Scarlet’s accomplishments by saying: “but she didn’t learn all of it”. Fact is, she still learned more than even Asura do in a fraction of the time. Does it matter if you only study 3/4th of Medicine (which takes a decade at least) if you do it in just 1 year? No, of course you’re not a mary sure then…after all, you didn’t learn ALL of it…

I’m so glad many of you have enough imagination to enjoy Scarlet’s rediculous story because I certainly didn’t.

You say, you find scarlet annoying?
That she is horribly written?

She is Brilliantly, made and here are the following reasons.
1# She distracts you each time from her real goals, by using the Alliances.

You don’t care how she formed the alliances right? Basically you’re saying that if North Korea and South Korea made peace and attacked the USA tomorrow, it’d make perfect sense?

she did not master anything actually. Here is the proof.

http://wartower.tumblr.com/post/60458277036/this-lorespecial-is-about-scarlet-briar-the-evil

through research we also find that the course work she studied in rata sum were heavily simplified introductory course’s tailored for non asurans. She is hardly as smart as an asura this one pod cast alone defuncts all claims of Scarlet being a Sue. Im quite tired of repeating myself now so I think I am going to call this post quits. Too many people with biased views who do not do enough research to back claim’s.

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Fractals will never be GW2.......

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What’s your problem?

Don’t like fractal? Don’t play it. End of story…

By no means fractal is something that one has to play in order to be competitive. Every bit of ascended gear you can get there can be achieved elsewhere, but you won’t need it anyway since it adds very few stats if you don’t care the agony resistance.

Fractal has some big issues right now, I can totally agree with that, but saying that it must be gone forever? Don’t be ridiculous..even if 1 player liked it, it would have been a nice add to the game, since it has no impact at all on the game of those who don’t play it.

I really hate to be so categorical on the forums, but there is a limit to the crap one can read while staying silent..

True that. I am starting to pull out of the forums because its becoming a den of troll’s and naysayers. Very little constructive is actually said here nowadays sadly.

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Ever since Fractals came out it created problems and a lot of players left this game because of fractals.

Everything related with fractals…. it always creates problems.

How many players play level 30~50 fractals? probably 0.0005% of all gw2 community.

When will Anet realize ppl dont like fractals…….

My conclusion is Fractals must be gone forever…Fractals will never be gw2 it never was and it never will be past and future~ period.It must be gone……

The best contents of this game was “The Tower of Nightmares”….it was by far the best MMORPG contents ive ever played. that is wat i call GW2.

Is this a troll post? your saying only 17.5 people play 30+ fracs and making lots of assumptions because your not happy?

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We Do Not Like Scarlet Briar

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I am not crazy for scarlet but do not hate her ether.

The next person who says “Scarlet did it” however better give a very detailed explanation of what “it” is because quite frankly no one knows what she has up her sleeve and its getting annoying.
Also the term Mary sue is getting thrown about to much. reality is she is not one.
here.

http://wartower.tumblr.com/post/60458277036/this-lorespecial-is-about-scarlet-briar-the-evil

An in depth discussion about scarlet briar with the story devs. Makes allot more sense than most of the biased drivel in these Scarlet hate posts.

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Ill give people that she’s kitten annoying. But I dont think her plot or story is bad

Indeed.

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On my phone so this will be quoteless and appear to be fragmented thoughts….

I have become apathetic towards the L.S. As it seems to have dragged (especially the grindy parts) on and Scarlet and her story have seemingly been poorly introduced to us. The Pale Tree imo should have had an option prior to this update same with the Asuran in Rata Sum (screen shots in another thread) and the Charr and Norn, especially after she made her first showing to us. Marjory or one of our other contact’s should have had us speaking with people when it was realized she was a threat and behind the shenanigans . Some detective work for us instead of out of game source and grind mob smashing. Scarlets dialogue is weak for such an ‘overly achieved’ character i.e. “Die,die,die,die,die!” The Odd alliances between different species should be explained… Mia Trin???

From the fractals ( I haven’t done it yet) but Did Ceara say the “teaching” line or did Scarlet? Did Scarlet say the death and destruction lines or did Ceara? I am curious as if part of what Ceara seen in the alchemy was herself back at the T.Reactor? Just an idea.

From the Tower of Nightmares cut scene did anyone else notice she made more of a hissing noise or just extended her s’s more? Before she left. Not sure if her prior speech patterns were like that or not. Are the krait under some sort of spell or toxin, since they glow green and the Nightmare members do not, as far as I have noticed.

The “do not touch”, I plan mapping/finding those Thursday night/friday morning unless someone else gets them done. Anyone know if there is just one per area or more and are just randomly found?

I am truly hoping that the writers do give us a wow of a ending, as they mentioned it was.
Perhaps when I check with the pale tree and asuran councilman maybe some better clues will pop up as to what she is trying to avoid….or create as she has probably lost her mind.

Thanks Treeline for making this post, almost a bit of an ugh having her in another area, but it does go with the new lore and Ceara/Scarlet’s story…. hopefully it will turn out well.
In the books does it say what year the reactor blew? If we had that information we could almost put a time line together of when she started doing all of this from when she awoke from the pod. Least make it more linear for some of us…

seems like others posted while i was typing away.
*http://wartower.tumblr.com/post/60458277036/this-lorespecial-is-about-scarlet-briar-the-evil

I agree with this. Very informative post looking at both pro’s and con’s of scarlet. That podcast was a great find. good job all round.

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I could go on but the simple fact that i had to point all this out simply shows that you know nothing about Scarlet because you want to hate her to much. If she was really such a villain sue…

It’s Mary Sue not villain sue: “Mary Sue stories—the adventures of the youngest and smartest ever person to graduate from the academy and ever get a commission at such a tender age. Usually characterized by unprecedented skill in everything from art to zoology, including karate and arm-wrestling.”

Read what you just wrote, factor in the character being less than 24, possibly a teenager, and tell me it doesn’t fit the description.

1. Mastering multiple asura schools when even geniuses Snaff and Zojja only did one fits the above description.
2. Firearms and Artillery are apart of war machine engineering which is fairly
obviously what the Iron Legion specializes in. She spent 2 years in the Iron Legion learning how to use them (and it probably included maintenance and creation).
3. “She spent a winter learning metallurgy as an apprentice of Beigarth the Smith,” Direct from wiki. She only spent a winter there. She spent 2 years with the charr, where she learned about engineering and weapons.
4. With the amount of insane Asura we’ve encountered in this game, Ommad never needed Scarlet to begin with. Considering he’s “Headmaster Emeritus of the College of Synergetics”. He doesn’t need a Sylvari. And the entire point of the Isolation chamber was seeing into visions of the eternal alchemy. There’s hundreds if not thousands of asura who’d sacrifice themselves for the honor of it.
5, 6, 7. That’s exactly the problem. She’s a Mary Sue character behind every event in the LS.

A Villain Sue is what you call an evil Mary Sue. look it up. A Mary Sue describes a heroine.
Marksmanship and ordinance are not part of engineering. “Engineering is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to design, build, and maintain structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes”. They belong in the area of military expertise and training.
Indeed i got the two time frames mixed up. apologies. Does not change the fact that she did not or want to master ether discipline. Asegai was a sniper and demolisionist not an engineer.
Ommad did need Ceara because as a sylvari she is hardwired into the pail tree which as we learned from the the short story is connected/ part of the eternal alchemy.
Just because a villain or hero is recurring does not make them a Sue. If this was true iconic villains such as the joker from batman, or lex luther from superman, or james moriarty from sherlock holmes would also fall under this catagory. (and before you bring it up. a male mary sue is called a marty stu or villain stu.)
You have to many presumptions in your post originating from a biased view toward the character.

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Kiel voters - Happy?

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Ye, i am pretty happy. i am interested in finding out what that anomaly was and what happened to the sample the inquest took before the explosion happened.

EDIT: i also enjoyed fighting the new member of the subject family subject 6. brought back memories of fighting subject alpha in CoE and subject 7 in QJ. the repulsor puzzle was also nice return to the old days of dungeon puzzles in rpg’s and the final boss fight was really fun. Plus the place looked stunning.

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You mean 20 points not 30. It was an adept now its a master meaning you have to spend 10 more points if you still want it.

Ive got this ready to go come december 10th for roaming.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcIQJAqelIq6d3zyuF17ISIFFG+B6RdpXj4HFyFbB-jkCBohBkWAhkGk8GI5rIaslhFRjVJjIqWpEzcjRr2uDQKAI2VB-w

EDIT: might use mine instead of boots. we shall see.

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