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At first when the event started I did feel it was a bit hard not seeing the path with all the large races around (I am playing the smallest of Asura). I did not complete it but it was in the middle of the night 1 to 3AM and my reaction time was a bit off so I decided to stop. Now that I was fully awake it took me as little as 2 attempts to reach the clock tower, since I knew the path up to half way already anyway.
I can see it be frustrating for less dedicated/more casual players but it’s really not the larger races being the problem. People just try to find a reason for their failure of not being able to finish the puzzle.
The key to success is practice, if you know when and where to jump you’ll most likely breeze through this puzzle.
~ Unknown (world smallest Asura)
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Excuse me, how does one use a speedboost when skills get removed?… ~_~ just wondering
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The only problem I have is Norns & Chars and anything bigger than the smallest Asura.. cause I can’t even see my own Character in this event.
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I agree on both, yes it’s a valid tactic and yes it can be annoying if people do this on purpose cause who needs real tactics if there’s a dead guy telling locations?
The problem is once you are defeated you can stay around as long as you like till the “afk manager” kicks in which takes a while. I think a 5 minute defeat state where you get a forced respawn to the nearest (uncontested) waypoint a good solution but that’s my opinion.
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Guild wars 2 is like reading a book, you do or don’t.
Even though I did pick necro with the expectation to be some sort God of Death and Doom but that didn’t really work out as expected.. :l
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The “real” problem with the world bosses is they are actually more for show than actual experience. By that I mean they form no real threat towards anyone, they just sit there getting hit, do some roaring and debuffing to you but that’s really it. They require no planning, no skill. (I was doing the shatterer at level 38?) besides after seeing it once you pretty much know how all the dragons will be.
So far the only “boss” mob I am a bit positive about is “Giganticus Lupicus”, from the Arah Dungeon. He has 3 stages which makes it interesting and he actually moves around. Sadly enough this boss is only for 5 players and not open world, if it were open world and he gets scaled up for the amount of people around it be a lot more interesting.
Besides that I think Arenanet really should take a look into their mechanics for mob aggression, I see it way to much that 1 person is the dummy that needs to run around with everyone else just auto attacking (Champ Abomination in the north of Arah for example) It takes away the whole idea of the “no holy trinity” as no one really needs to heal at all.
Now about the loot (I think the OP was after this?) I don’t have much to complain as the dragons are so easy the loot shouldn’t be rare at all IMO
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Don’t worry people, there’s no need to make the exotics anymore! They are on the trading post for a cheap 499 gold.
Lol.. no really, you should see these items as long term obtainment, you just need to get the recipes for them unlocked (this is with Halloween themed items), once you unlock those you can craft them when ever you want. Start saving your lodestones.
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From what I’ve seen and heard is the engineer has a skill or something to move npc’s around, this is being abused on everything. I’ve seen all dungeon vendors moved from their place, the bank and mystic forge npc way off their spot etc. I don’t play engineer so I don’t know exactly which skill this might be.
but that’s not really an exploit related to halloween.
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Any chance seeing this?
maybe a “special event collectibles” section in the bank?
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It’s over 9000!!!
back to all seriousness, I’m pretty sure you’re better off using exotics to start with, rares can result in rares, exotic weapons will always be exotics when you forge them. Or am I the only one thinking this and is there some math behind using rares over exotics?
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We just did the first path, took us pretty long and in our opinion not worth it at all, especially since the very last part bugged out (we didn’t get the tokens). After killing the Legendary Jotun Stargazer nothing happened. The gate didn’t go open and that was that. We did some searches around for solutions but we didn’t see any similar problems.
Comparing Arah to all other dungeons it feels it’s either way too long or too much meaningless fights and trash mobs. I did enjoy the Giganticus Lupicus but that’s really the only thing there’s to enjoy in my opinion.
The only thing I could say is avoid the first path unless this bug is a rare occasion. We probably try other paths but once I got my 2 runs for the remaining tokens that’s really the last time we’re gonna enter this dungeon.
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I thought the main point of it was a money sink as actual commanders play WvW with their guilds who already know who the leaders are and the pugs usually just follow large groups anyway.
Yes but the server I am playing on for example has no WvW orientated guilds… so everyone follows commanders by default even when half of them has no clue what they’re actually doing.
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Let me start off saying this is mainly focused on how to and who obtain this status.
At this moment my view on commanders is “People that bought a cosmetic map icon”. The idea behind the 100 gold to get the icon is to show off that you have a reasonable idea of how guild wars 2 and world vs world work, that you promote yourself as an actual leader and have some tactical insight.
The main problem is 100 gold does not really resemble any of this. People grind PvE and jump into world vs world running around with the least of tactical approaches. So why not make it a bit harder to get commander? Just so it’s only worth getting for people that really want to be it in the first place.
My idea is involving badges of honor in obtaining Commander, I think everyone knows why but to clarify; these badges can only be obtained inside world vs world and it takes some effort to get a lot, this would “force” people to actually do world vs world before becoming a commander. Also I wouldn’t mind seeing the level requirement go up as well, this is currently level 11. Would I want to follow someone that did that much in this game? you literally get exp from every muscle you move so getting level 80 really isn’t that much of a task.
How this will be implemented is not me to decide but I would go for a mystic forge recipe, people would still need 100 gold to get 1 part but need <gift of the commander? / 1000 badges or more?> as well.
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Same as Ganzo, the method Sinth describes doesn’t actually work, it’s the part where you log out from the main site (in another tab) before hitting the accept button on the conduct. I did decline at first and normally this would give me the error as well but didn’t this time, so I logged in, accepted and here is my first post.
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