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Berserker spec really isn't all bad

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Tom Gore.4035

In PvE, NOTHING is bad. Even if you run naked with an exotic weapon you’ll do fine in open world PvE as long as you know when to dodge. The complaints against Berserker/Warrior is for PvP/WvW where they are underpowered.

I want to see you go do that in HoT solo. Especially in Dragon’s Stand. Good luck and remember to video it.

Did I say solo? The point was that you can hide behind a blob and spam 1 away to your victory with a rifle/longbow. All the metas can be done this way including DS. There’s a reason why I mentioned open world and not dungeons/fractals or solo contents like LS.

You can do that in WvW too. In PvP I guess you can’t because you cannot go into battle without an amulet AFAIK.

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Progression - Masteries - ?

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That’s about right.

Would you have preferred a raised level cap so you could have invalidated all your current gear, just to grind another set of gear and levels to be able to fight the new monsters?

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Questioning Dragon Stand loot phase design

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I was on a map that beat the boss last night, and the game crashed after I looted the main chest (luckily not before), but even though I was in a group, when I logged back in I was on a map that did not seem to have beaten the boss, couple not join back into the map I was on, it gave me an “Internet error” message when I tried, rather than the “map full” message. So basically I wasn’t able to experience this “post boss” map yet. Bummer. GG, ANet.

Sounds like the whole instance crashed and not just you.

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Request Mob Nerf: Mordrem Sniper

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then why not play the suggested “game” and similar instead of insisting to change GW2?

Yes, exactly. For people who didn’t find the content of GW2 “challenging enough” for their tastes, why ruin GW2 instead of playing a more challenging game?

Touche!

I guess Anet listened to the feedback and found that the majority of their playerbase wanted more challenge?

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Heart of Thorn mastery system (NEEDS FIXING)!

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One of the point of mastery points is to challenge you in various ways across Tyria (and the HoT maps). It’s not to have you sit in one place and grind out MP’s. You’re against grinding achievements (only do them once) yet you’re not against grinding Teq (killing him 5 times for 1 MP)?

you misunderstood, the point of this article is about people who hate achievements and dont give a kitten about them, for some of us we just like killing the same thing over and over again!

If your only purpose in the game is to do the daily bosses, yeah then you could complain that you don’t get enough Mastery Points, but other than that the possibilities to gain MPs in Central Tyria are fairly widespread.

You only need 49 MPs for all Masteries in Central Tyria and you can get a total of 80 MPs, so there is a lot of variety to choose where to get them.
You like bosses? Kill Tequatl, the Karka Queen, and Triple Trouble, each gives you one MP.
You like jumping puzzles? Do them, once all done you get a MP.
Do the personal story, every finished chapter gives a MP.
Like collecting armor or weapons? Bioluminescence armor, ascended crafted armor, fractal weapons, ambrite weapons, each completed collection gives a MP
You like doing Fractals? Each fractal has a “sidequest”, a little task, most of them aren’t really difficult you can do them while doing the fractal. Each one gives a MP.

And that were 51 MPs I just listed, more than enough. Some might be a bit hard or time consuming, others are fairly simple. And they cover the whole spectrum of activities in Tyria.

So what you want is not a wide variety of possibilities to get MPs, this is given. You want to get all MPs for just doing the same stuff over and over again aka grind all MPs with a single task and that is plain and simple not how they are intended to be achieved. See what I did? You achieve MPs and don’t grind them.

thats excatly the problem, some of those stupid achievement are time consuming, I have other things to do! I would rather just kill a boss or mobs over and over again! why cant I earn mastery points that way?

I would like to just do jumping puzzles and read lore over and over again. Why can’t I earn mastery points that way?

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Request Mob Nerf: Mordrem Sniper

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The whole HoT area is designed to make sure players never really want to go there. With the confusing layout and long empty paths that get you nowhere. With areas that simply kill you because you have not reached mastery XX in specific line. And the enemies, all those enemies that have godly skills and mechanics never before seen in other game areas. As a player you can feel the hatred from developers, you can sense the joy game designers get from punishing the customers and how much time they have spent figuring out endless ways to make you miserable.

If you feel miserable when challenged, why do you play computer games? Why not just grind FarmVille 2 or watch TV if all you want is to see stuff move on the screen and not having to worry about getting “killed”?

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Questioning Dragon Stand loot phase design

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Yeah it’s a good slap in the face compared to the Auric Basin meta where you can loot the chests at your leisure…

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The "other " new maps

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Also you can just play the story instances and it will lead you through the zones and into Dragon’s Stand.

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Only 1 Legengary armor-set /Account?!

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Depends if there are separate collections for each. I would suppose there is.

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The future (and areas) of the story

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An Asura with that kind of power? Benevolent?

Surely you must be joking?

Have you read Edge of Destiny? Because out of all asura, Snaff is easily the asura I would trust with that power the most.

I started the book but it was really boring so it’s still sitting in the shelf, unfinished.

I still think I wouldn’t trust any Asura in the world with such power

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The future (and areas) of the story

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An Asura with that kind of power? Benevolent?

Surely you must be joking?

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25% Move Speed Annoyance

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Well you can circumvent that with Superior Runes of Speed, but that obviously again is a tradeoff…

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The Jungle Provides - Totems of the Itzel

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Anet seems to know this one is annoying, since they have this text with the open-world totem achievement:

“No, you don’t have to carry them all the way back…”

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"Bubbles" the hidden Elder Dragon

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Are all elder dragons male?
perhaps naming the Deep Sea Dragon “Ursula” would be more fitting.
I still have the dream of a Hanse-like bond of sea- and trading cities like Lion’s Arch and you’ve got to sail from one to the other to protect trading routes and protect the cities from tentacle monsters from attacking and if you fail, all Blacklion-trading institutions (TP, vendors, you can still open chest of course) fail too.

We already know the DSD’s name starts with an “S”. That’s where “Steve” comes from. We could call her “Shirley” of course, if you prefer?

Shirley? You can’t be serious!

Sandra? Sabine? Sally?

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[Spoilers] LGBT Relationships

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The next thing you suggest is revealing Lord Faren is actually gay!

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Guild Hall Jumping Puzzle

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Nah half the fun is finding it myself. Will look for it, thanks

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Berserker spec really isn't all bad

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In PvE, NOTHING is bad. Even if you run naked with an exotic weapon you’ll do fine in open world PvE as long as you know when to dodge. The complaints against Berserker/Warrior is for PvP/WvW where they are underpowered.

I want to see you go do that in HoT solo. Especially in Dragon’s Stand. Good luck and remember to video it.

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"Bubbles" the hidden Elder Dragon

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Are all elder dragons male?
perhaps naming the Deep Sea Dragon “Ursula” would be more fitting.
I still have the dream of a Hanse-like bond of sea- and trading cities like Lion’s Arch and you’ve got to sail from one to the other to protect trading routes and protect the cities from tentacle monsters from attacking and if you fail, all Blacklion-trading institutions (TP, vendors, you can still open chest of course) fail too.

We already know the DSD’s name starts with an “S”. That’s where “Steve” comes from. We could call her “Shirley” of course, if you prefer?

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Fashion Wars 2

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As stated above, if you want to count each armor class then do the same for the base game and the same comparison stands. It literly doesnt matter which way you count the peas.

For what it matters anet themselves call it 2 new sets.
http://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/game/maguuma/

I didn’t do any comparison to the base game whatsoever, so I can call it 10 sets

I don’t really know how Anet can count them as only 2 sets though. At the bare minimum it should be 3 and 1/3 sets.

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Guild Hall Jumping Puzzle

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Wait, there are JPs in the guild hall maps?

And I mean pre-existing ones and not ones you “craft” yourself?

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Shooting Gallery Adventure

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As stated before, any “ranking” in this Adventure is stupid because it’s too random.

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Seriously Anet, Do You Hate Us That Much?

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As a returning player.. I gotta say I was in for a super rude awakening entering HoT maps.

I had a mish mash of gear, in some cases it was zerker, others had hybrid setups. I still got owned despite doding because of the spammed cc’s and long waits of mob immunities/evades and just general swarming.

I play with a pair of friends but often find myself running alone…

The issues I see people post about in this thread made sense to me, I understand why they’re frustrated. Now, for my gear.. I’m in questing junk, I don’t have full exotics. I don’t have a mass of gold and cannot buy ascended. 8 gold doesn’t go very far and this game seems really difficult to make gold, without using your wallet and I’m alright with this. Just means more effort for me to make money to buy gear.

So why are you going for the newest and most challenging content in the game when you obviously have skipped pretty much everything that came before?

Maybe finish your Personal Story first?

Then maybe play through Season 2 of the Living Story?

After that maybe go for HoT content?

That’s how it’s supposed to be played, not popping 50 Tomes of Knowledge and going to battle with rares, greens and blues.

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Fashion Wars 2

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10 new sets aren’t enough?

If we had indeed gotten 10 sets, then this topic wouldn’t exist.

We did get 10 sets. 3 Bladed armor sets, 3 guild armor sets, 3 leystone armor sets and 1 mistward armor set.

Sure the sets of 3 sets are thematically close to each other, but so what? They still look different. By your definition the mistward armor set wouldn’t be a set at all because it’s only offered in one weight?

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Purpose of dungeons??

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You still can make money with farming SW etc. No, it was nerfed be cause it generated money out of thin air. Not money that was already in circulation which happens if you get mats and sell it on the TP.

You can still run the dungeons and use the tokens to buy exotic gear.

This guy gets it. Dungeon runs were generating way too much gold into the system. That’s why they were nerfed. Why they didn’t just turn the rewards into more resources that you can use or trade beats me.

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Legendary armor: PLEASE no gold sink!

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You can bet your kitten that they’ll be the biggest gold sink ever implemented in GW2. Mark my words.

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Seriously Anet, Do You Hate Us That Much?

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There’s only one thing that really bugs me… ^^
These rolling devils… or whatever they’re called in English.
While you can simply dodge through them on a zerker thief and run for your life you’re DEAD if you’re on a zerker ele and just forget to throw a meteor into them before your run through. That’d be fine so far…

But as a class that does not have 25 percent movement speed under standard circumstances they’re really getting annoying. Sometimes I really feel trolled. Can’t kill them fast enough on my engi, can’t even run away (not even WITH the 25 percent spec) The only thing that really helps is getting 33 percent movementspeed from gadget, equipping a flamethrower and run for your life.

I mean as a Zerker you have them dead soon enough, but on condi or not to mention on supportive gear like cleric’s… no way. I used to die my way through AB on my rev in asc clerikittenil I was fed up and threw the whole gear into the forge. Now I wear soldier’s – I survive, they die. So I just forget about trying to be a supporter. I won’t get 2 or 3 sets of armor per character either. Too bad I can’t exchange the jewelry and my backpiece but well… even exotics work better than asc cleric’s… O.o

And now that my gliding is maxed out I try to avoid running around on the floor if I don’t intend to fight if I can… :P

The other mobs… well they’re tough, but beatable, or at least you can run ^.^

Funny. My condi grenadier probably had the least trouble of all my characters with the rolling devils, maybe save for the ever-untouchable bearbow ranger.

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Seriously Anet, Do You Hate Us That Much?

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I see a lot of PvE players crying for having to slot some stun breakers and gap closers for the first time ever in GW2.

Do you? What i see is 2 stunbreakers and 3 cleanses being not enough way too often.

Don’t fight 4-5 mobs at once and learn to dodge too?

I have no problems on the 5 classes I’ve now played HoT with (Warrior, Guardian, Engineer, Thief and Ranger). Sure, I’ve died my fair share, but if I hadn’t what would be the point?

People wanted more challenging content and Anet has been listening. Now you will have to actually learn to play the game instead of mouseclicking through borefests.

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Berserker spec really isn't all bad

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I really like the berserker in PvE. Especially with the defiance bars of veteran/champ mobs my mace/shield berserker pwns hard.

Haven’t tried it in PvP yet, but I can already see a lot of problems dealing with the blocks, evades and blinds the other classes have received en masse.

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S/d and Staff with interrupts

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I toyed with the same idea, but seeing that so many mobs in HoT are immune to interrupts a lot of the time, the DPS isn’t really there.

Willing to hear how others have experienced the interrupt build.

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The future (and areas) of the story

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So I’m not the only one to consider the notion that Glint was not actually this benevolent good ol’ dragon mama, that GW1 led us to believe she is? Wouldn’t be the first time Anet used this trope (Charr and human occupation of Ascalon). The thing that I find especially troubling is what Ogden said in ‘Echoes of the Past’ episode of Season 2 – that Glint was well on her way to becoming an Elder Dragon herself. As far as we know, Elder Dragons are not the most friendly creatures in the world. Glint having a hidden sinister agenda would make for a quite an interesting plot, where e.g races of Tyria are essentially used as tools to get rid of the other dragons that stand in Glints way.

If Glint was bent on world domination, she did a very bad job of it given that she sacrificed her life for the possible chance of offing her former master.

Well considering she was clearly able to see into the future, maybe she saw that the only way for her to reach her goal of world domination would be through that sacrifice and her legacy.

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Who would be the new playable race?

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I’m pretty sure the Tengu are the strongest contender for a new race at this point – if there ever will be a new race released. Now they’ve got the professions covered with 3 × 3 different armor classes, so a new race in the next full expansion wouldn’t be that far-fetched actually.

I just hope we don’t have to wait another 3 years for that to happen…

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Exalted Mastery disappointment?

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“The finest treasures withing the Forgotten City” are 1 rare, 10 Aurillium and a blue. Those are the finest treasures that Tarir has to offer an “honored” ally.

That’s about all they have left after making the mortgage payments on their solid gold city.

Have you checked gold prices lately? It’s cheaper than any other ore in the world, save for Mithril (see the pattern here?).

Those gold coins in your wallet? Each one of them is apparently made of approximately 100 clumps of gold ore, or 50 gold ingots.

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Jewelcrafting: Defunct Craft?

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I’m holding to my gold and silver hoards for exactly this reason.

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Seriously Anet, Do You Hate Us That Much?

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I see a lot of PvE players crying for having to slot some stun breakers and gap closers for the first time ever in GW2.

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"Bubbles" the hidden Elder Dragon

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I think the biggest problem with DSD’s threat is that Zhaitan pretty much already did what a sea monster would do – disrupted seafaring and drowned the coastal cities.

I’m curious to see what Anet can come up with that would feel fresh and not a Zhaitan copy.

Of course if we get proper nautical zones and boats (!) it doesn’t really matter if the threat perceived is already familiar.

Boats… that would be awesome. Before HoT I would have said not a chance, since there were no moving platforms in GW2 before the helix. Now that they’ve shown it can be done in the engine, and done pretty fluid, too (no pun intended), I’m pretty optimistic that we could get moving vehicles like airships and boats where we can actually stand aboard. Steering them ourselves? Well not getting my hopes up about that yet

EDIT: And the decimation of Pact’s air fleet would be a perfect excuse why we would be using boats instead of airships in the next expansion/season.

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The new Ebb sword skin.

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More hints that we’re going for the DSD next. It’s looking pretty much like a sure shot already.

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Fashion Wars 2

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Yeah there are plenty of new armor skins in HoT.

…wut

10 new sets aren’t enough?

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Creating Hero Point Trains

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Most of the champion HPs can be soloed with a good build. I agree it’s not easy, though, and for most builds with enough DPS it’s one slip and you’re dead.

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Fashion Wars 2

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Yeah there are plenty of new armor skins in HoT. I would wager the sales numbers for Transmutation Charges are up quite a bit.

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Lets talk half breeds...

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Relations sure. Breeding no.

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Divine Fire?

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Rox having it would have been a really neat touch, but since she’s a bow user we’d never see her use it, really, unless it was called for or she took up a sword or axe mainhand.

Maybe she would find a way to set her arrows alight with divine fire?

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No Reward for VB map completion?

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If the character has already 100% map completion for central Tyria, you won’t get map completion for HoT maps. Bugged and hopefully fixed soon.

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Monthly Sub Please!

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Yeah. Gold is your biggest hurdle for progress anyway and you can solve that by showing your wallet. Throw in 10 bucks a month for about 100 gold extra you can spend towards whatever you’re going for (Ascended or Legendaries mostly I guess).

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Chest of Loyalty for Legendary in HoT

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Clovers are by far your least problem when crafting a legendary. Trust me. Money you will need on the other hand. Lots. Of. Money.

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Now that the dust has settled.... Masteries

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Hey when you release a full-priced expansion with just 4 new maps, 1 new class and some other minor stuff you need to have some grind in the mix, right?

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Raids...

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So when are we getting raids? Normally when you buy an expansion you get everything at launch.

Umm… nope. WoW is a good example of delivering many expansion-tied raids at a later date.

The first Raid is probably coming next week, so hold on.

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Divine Fire?

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I’m pretty sure we stomp the Mordy dream boss with divine fire. At least the animation heavily suggests so.

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ANet - My Wintersday Wish

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My wish is the Shadow Assassin outfit back into the Gem Store. But perhaps not very thematic to Wintersday…

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Chest of Loyalty for Legendary in HoT

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Ascended mats or Laurels. Depending if you’re feeling lucky or not.

With the current price of the Ascended mats vs. T6 mats the favor seems to be shifting on the ascended mats choice.

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bigger team?

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And how much money have you personally contributed monthly to maintain their “bigger team”?

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