I want to ask them why Scrapper got ZERO attention.
The irony is that I was going to buy the episode to unlock this but a guildie warned me about the harvesting situation. This combined with mining jade fragments in LD and sometimes getting zero jade really kittenes me off. No way I will spend gems to get a map that is even worse.
TLDR: Anet doesn’t want our money
Honestly if you were on the fence I’d suggest it. Bloodstone Fen is such an alien map and pretty fun, you will get Blood Rubies from other means if you follow events around and there’s still people there. It’s my favorite LS3 map still.
I wouldn’t try to do anything right now honestly. Especially if you are on NA servers on the US East Coast. Many issues all around.
Me too. Can literally do nothing. I can load in fine but then I get disconnected if I try to zone somewhere and if I somehow manage to zone I spawn in weird places then d/c.
Yes this is bug that’s been here for awhile now and it’s not just in Season 2, it’s happening in the original Personal Story as well.
This has been a problem for many people for awhile where in Living World Season 2 missions and even in the original Personal Stories allied NPC’s will rarely, if ever fight with you. They usually end up just standing around doing nothing when they should be following/engaging in combat with you.
So is there any progress on this bug?
The default reward for that easy meta in AB is almost comical in how many chests there are and how many items you can get so yes it’s still very worth it.
Crafting 0-500 is easy yes, then you get all excited to craft that Ascended Armor Set you did it for only to be slapped in the face with ridiculously strict time gates.
Sorry guys, you have to wait on me forever until the game gives me permission to craft this gear. The height of fun. /s
Hey A.net, why don’t you try to make Crafting actually fun and interesting so people want to do it rather than a time-gated annoyance minefield that people will try to avoid at all costs thus reducing the need to try and force people to level it up in the first place?
Also yay yet another currency to keep track of
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Lots of people could pull off the disguise, but who can absorb all that bloodstone energy? It’s a pretty short list, if we stick to the people we already know.
Personally, I think it really IS Lazarus. Or, rather, 80% of him. The attempt to reform him worked, but part of him is missing. That would explain why he’s as powerful as he is, and yet acting much different than people expected him to. Maybe it’s even been replaced with something else, something that mellowed him out some.
That is my take on it as well. It also explains why Caudecus was so shocked to see him in Out of the Shadows. I think he expected his sabotage to completely destroy the ritual and it didn’t work.
I feel like a lot of you are misunderstanding why people are upset. It’s not the delay, it’s that people feel a bit strung along with statements like “a little later than usual” and “slight” when others are saying they’ve known it was a real possibility it wouldn’t come out today. That’s why most people are upset.
I give zero kittens if ppl think they’ve been strung along. Anet thought they’d get it out. They ultimately decided they couldn’t. They kept updating us as they made progress until they finally called it. Even if it’s a day or two late, that’s still “soon” in my book.
Frankly the amount of entitlement among some people is absolutely insane. At least all these entitled kittens can go rage chat some more in an AB multimap for another day. [/Brightside]
Ah yes that old yarn. It’s entitled to be upset about anything to some people I guess. Funnily enough it’s the “defenders” that are acting the most childish in their responses and yours is a key example of that.
I feel like a lot of you are misunderstanding why people are upset. It’s not the delay, it’s that people feel a bit strung along with statements like “a little later than usual” and “slight” when others are saying they’ve known it was a real possibility it wouldn’t come out today. That’s why most people are upset.
False hope is worse than just being told “Hey guys it might not make it today but we’re trying.” Either option will induce rage but the latter will fizzle out quickly.
Was it that hard to say this earlier? You’ve really wasted so much of peoples time and energy by not saying this earlier.
You should have said this before!!!
Maybe you should’ve made this statement about 4h ago ,speaking as an EU player
all of you should re-think what you saying…. for kitty sake… make a game…. try to make it stable for world wide , realese patches every 2 months with content… and then complain….
Your Kitty saltiness is boring… whiners and cry baby all over forum because patch didnt go live today… end of the kitty world… be happy that servers are still running and u can play the game.
Mike’s post implies the problem was pretty dang severe but all messages were things like “just a little bit later than usual” or implying it was always just around the corner, that’s why many players, especially EU players have a legitimate gripe here.
I don’t think DR will be destroyed really. A.net tends to shy away from shocking world map changes since Season 1. I remember reading it’s an issue and part of the reason why Kessex Hills is still a mess as if things just happened.
I’d actually enjoy big shocking events more… at least that way enemy reworks and other things can be implemented way easier…
Me too honestly. It would put a lot more weight behind these big story happenings, that’s for sure.
I don’t see Lazarus involving himself in this event. He’s already stated that it’s beneath him.
Yeah I know, but he wanna lead White Mantle and I don’t think so he will just stay and look when White Mantle’s members become Caudecus’ minions. He could show his power among White Mantle and perhaps he would change a course of the battle. He could show to the Commander, that he has truly changed.
Anyway he said this before Aurene’s birth and now he is working with Marjory in the some way.
Lazarus, it is really weird, appears when something horrible is happening to us. When the Commander was surrounded by White Mantle’s members, he suddenly appeared and saved us. When we were surounded by Destroyers in the Egg Chamber, he appeared and he really helped us.
He helps us when we need help. He is like Caithe- they both are full of understanding and they wanna show that they are useful.
But we will see, anyway I would love to see Lazarus who burns Caudecus’ minions. That would be awesome!
I honestly suspect Lazarus is shadowing us constantly. Remember that Mursaat can be invisible whenever they wish to all but people with the Gift of True Sight. We don’t have that.
I don’t think DR will be destroyed really. A.net tends to shy away from shocking world map changes since Season 1. I remember reading it’s an issue and part of the reason why Kessex Hills is still a mess as if things just happened.
More daily variety would be welcome. The “cycle” is boring as heck right now.
Me too because my achievement progress for it is eternally locked and teasing me so close to being finished.
I wish A.net would do something about that.
http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki
It’s a database of various builds and ideas for builds. Dig in!
If you love it, play it. Don’t worry about what everyone says. I’ve tried playing a class I didn’t find as interesting or fun just because people wanted me to and I was pretty miserable doing it. Never again. :P
I know they don’t have infinite money or resources but nearly every suggestion I see made someone has to bring up the fact that it’ll be “too costly” or “too hard” and sometimes even A.net themselves have done so. Does anyone else get tired of hearing that?
It makes them look bad in my view, like they can’t seem to do anything worthwhile in a decent amount of time and the fact that players seem to push that narrative is really troubling to me. It’s a tricky line to walk I admit… I dunno. Just get sick of hearing how things people want would be too hard etc. Most things worth doing aren’t easy. :P
Reasons aside, some of these characters need to be gone in some way or another. “Character focus of the month” just to keep these people in the story is getting tiresome to me. It needs a sharper focus on a few people. Long open stories are suffering from the need to fill some imaginary character quota.
A lot of world bosses need an update but who knows if they’ll ever actually do it… probably some excuse or another why they won’t.
Can we get the Winter Solstice Outfit as a standalone please? I really wanted it but at 2000 gems for the pack it was stuck in was too much for an outfit. I had zero interest in the rest of what was in there.
I still wish we would have the Abaddon fractal… I’d love to see more human-gods into GW2, specially the fallen god, Abaddon.
Will never not be salted about that. I’ll never understand how people could vote for a stupid Reactor Fractal over something like literal Abaddon.
If you can’t beat them join them lol I made the biggest Norn possible and named him JP Blocker. Best thing I did last winters day.
This year you should name him All JP DJOY (Defensive Jumper of the Year)
MY question is why waste your time? Not really worth it unless you still the mastery stuff……
Because it’s a fun map? I play it because I enjoy it. Don’t really care about the rewards honestly.
Use LFG and join a squad. There are always groups running Dragon’s Stand. Every time I’ve went there, no matter when I went, I’ve always found a group. I’m on NA by the way. I’m sure EU is similar.
The irony is that that Norm is really wishing they were human sized because jumping on that race is a nightmare. My Norn ele has been known to fall off ledges just because I’m jiggling around trying to get the camera to show me the next jump.
This is the truth. I had to switch to my little Human to finish the Wintersday JP after hours of frustration last night.
Anyone else not tear down his letters? Guys? >.>
Wish they had just made it like Mad King’s Clock Tower where everyone else is just a wisp-thing.
Solid Ocean needs a major revamp in the worst way. I dunno how you could make a Jade Sea area so boring but they did it. Every time I do it we just bypass all the mobs without fear and then suddenly a boss.
Naked People have no rights in this game. What a travesty that befell us today.
I hope they offer it separate before this ends. I was really looking forward to getting it but I can’t justify 2000 Gems for a pack when I only want the outfit. I dare to dream though!
Considering it’s locked behind yet another 2000 Gem Pack that I care nothing about. Why can’t you offer the outfit separately at like 700-800 Gems? Please? :P
I cannot believe that it’s almost been a year a half from beta weekend and we still have the same bugs.
How can they expect anyone to have faith in any new content if they never fix the old stuff.
Yeah it’s reaching ridiculous levels at this point.
I’m partial to Norn because it’s all I use really but the Charr animations are superb.
Upon finishing a Fractal this huge box pops up right in the middle of our screens and is really annoying. I know it can be moved but really, isn’t there a better way? Make it smaller or keep it locked in place wherever we initially move it?
It’s a small thing, I know, just a thought.
Been getting insane skill lag lately, dunno if it’s related to what’s happening with the rest of you but it is a recent thing and nothing has changed on my end.
I’m waiting for the moment when Rytlok, Logan or Zojja tell Braham, “You didn’t even know your mother,” and I know that would probably drive some points home for him.
My money is on Rytlock. I imagine he wouldn’t have much patience for the sniveling salt dispenser we just saw. :P
Please give me an option to kick kitten out of Braham.
Only if we can have the option to do the same for other members we don’t like (for me Rytlock and Caithe would be on that list of folks I want to beat around).
As much as I hate Braham’s whining he does have a point though. What’s the point of making a new guild when the other members of Destiny’s Edge are still alive in some capacity? Unless Anet ultimately has plans for Zojja and Logan that don’t involve DE or they plan on killing the two off, I think they should be carrying on Eir’s legacy instead of making a new guild.
Ultimately I’m getting sick and tired of this Lost-esque style of storytelling where more questions get dumped onto questions we already have and few of those questions barely get resolved. I want to know what’s going on with Zojja and Logan that goes beyond a line of dialogue from Rytlock. I want to know what’s going on with the Pale Tree outside of the updates we got. I want to know what’s going on with the Nightmare Court after Faolain’s death.
I’m sick and tired of Anet dragging their feet on these things.
They are trying to do grandiose storytelling in the span of a few 30 second “conversations” and it’s not working at all. They need to figure out a new way of doing things and I agree they need to stop going down new storyline paths before they tie up old ones.
After thinking a bit more I’m starting to feel we need at least one Chapter that is HEAVY on story and maybe tying up some lingering loose ends and light on exploration or the “new map” stuff we’ve been getting. It sounds crazy to most I’m sure, but I’m starting to feel like the storyline is just an annoyance to get out of the way asap and that the maps are the stars here.
It’s probably sacrilege to say that in regards to an MMO though. :P I don’t think it would hurt to go back to an old map to push some storyline along and get things finished before diving head first into more open threads.
Ironically the highlight for me was actually seeing Braham be a complete kitten to the commander.
While I do think we needed the option of just downright punching him in the face, I did like the fact that he confronts the players selfishness by saying cruel lines such as “your the only one that gets to kill dragons now?” in a very harsh manner it gave him enough layers to make you think of him as a friend whos comradeship is fading.
Its clear he misses his mother, its great that hes got this revenge complex, what does concern me is that you’re only half committing to that plot point.
Heres a tip as a guy who writes for fun and roleplays for kicks.
If your going to commit to it, stick to it, dont be afraid to take things too far, dont be afraid to be exciting and cruel to your characters, or to the player.
Make me care about Braham, make me care, that his revenge streak is going to get someone close to him killed (Like Rox) which will probably redeem him and send him into a spiral of depression all at the same time. Make me reminded of the time I watched Sieran die as Rox throws him out of harms way, and gets killed in the process.
This kind of cruelty would be amazing, it’d really make you remember Claw Isle the most brutal way imagineable, watching Braham be the reason for the death of his best friend.
This would break him, allow the commander to rebuild him, and make him come back after the fall, letting him be a likeable hero once again, probably going back to being Taimi’s surrogate guardian.
Speaking of character depth:
Dont be afraid to make characters evil, snide, cruel, or downright heartless towards the commander, especially ones that could fall or turn evil. Villians are fun when they come from former heroes, especially ones you cared about.
Seeing Jory turn on you with Lazarus was exciting, seeing Braham do the same is intrueging I like this story because I like watching DE fall apart, not because its tragic, but because its interesting, progressive, it moves the plot forwards.
Our companions are not just machines we can order around, they have lives, ideals, choices, sometimes those choices and ours just clash.
I like that way of thinking, it lets them feel more human.
We cant always “control” our friends and perhaps to some extent, we shouldnt. Yet at the same time I also think theres another bit of character I really want to see in all this.
I want to see the commander go dark side, proper, dark side.
Not just Sylvari Mordrem mind trip, but actually give me the option to do some questionable things to my subordinates to “force” them in line, for example, threatening to destroy Taimi’s work if she refuses to do as I say, or threatening to make sure Jory can never see Kasmeer again if she refuses to cooperate with me.
We dont need extremes like murdering them, or torture or something sadistic, but those things that could make us decide do we want to sympathise with our allies, or use them, should be a choice.
We are the commander, a world saviour, a protector, and sometimes, a necessary evil.
We are allowed to take extremes to save the world, even if it means we are never thanked or never loved for them.
So I do hope, A-net, moving forwards, you will show us that the commander is as human in personality, regardless of race, as any other character in the setting, and capable of making as much heroic choices…
As questionable ones.
That’s the problem right there. All of what they do so far is one-sided. It feels like they are so in-love with their characters that they don’t want anyone to challenge their perfection, not even the player character. It’s starting to get insulting and ridiculous.
If they did all this and let us as players have more choice in how we react, then that would be fantastic. Or if they can’t do that due to effort required, at least let our characters show growth as well. Right now we are literally the same character we were fresh out our first introductory mission and it’s wearing incredibly thin. It honestly feels like they are taking HUGE steps back from the development we saw during Heart of Thorns.
Cool! I was gettin’ hungry. >.>
Why don’t you use your official forum for that instread of a third party website?
Because Reddit is a vastly superior medium for that kind of discussion compared to a forum.
Unless you ask/say something the mob doesn’t like then it gets downvoted into oblivion with zero chance of a Dev seeing it.
Honestly I’m adoring your more recent releases. Took me a minute to work out some of the mechanics for the story missions, but everything (except initiating Aurene on the Ooze Generators) was pretty intuitive. Wished the ending cutscene was longer if I am honest, but I think it was a good way to end the story.
Loving how the characters are branching out into their own storylines. Seems like our character is finally being challenged at having to work with people and their personalities. Marjory and Braham are both super headstrong, so it makes sense that they’re working on their own now. I’m excited to see if the next LS focuses on Kasmeer.Keep up the great work Anet!
Being challenged is alright but not when your character just sits there and takes it. Interesting dynamics come from when the “challenging” goes in more than one direction.
Honestly and this is just me personally, but I’m close to giving up on the story entirely in this game. LS3 started off great and has steadily declined. They try to cram these emotional moments into 30 second one-sided “conversations” that you have zero control over how they go and the “character” they are forming for us is ridiculously lacking in any self-respect to defend themselves from unwarranted attacks such as the one we saw today. It seems everyone is allowed to get frustrated and angry except us and it’s kinda annoying.
I don’t understand how they go from us showing frustration with Caithe in Bloodstone Fen and expressing ourselves in a firm but not hostile manner to being everyone’s doormat. It doesn’t help that Braham being hostile to us outta nowhere feels like forced drama and not natural at all.
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Liked the new map, though the story was a bit barebones here compared to the other ones. Braham…if you wanted to make us hate him enough to kill him off, you’ve done a perfect job of it. Please, if you continue with this, let him fail and then let the commander punch him onto the ground and then tell him the names of everybody who has died since Claw Island who played a role in the story…to hit home that we know better than anybody what it’s like to lose people. Because right now he’s insufferable and I quite literally want to kill him off.
That’s another thing. A.net is having Braham act like we haven’t lost people close to us. We’ve lost many friends on the way, including our closest one in Trahearne (who we had to kill personally). Like Trahearne as a character or not but he was placed as our character’s closest friend throughout the story.
On another note, it seems like Rytlock has taken the role of closest ally or maybe even Caithe considering how she seems starry eyed with you right now because you forgave her. It also seems like Rytlock is the only “adult” in the group.
It makes sense, Rytlock already had to deal with Snaff, so he has cooled down significantly on that front. Which makes me wonder if they’re trying to pull a Rytlock with Braham, with him having to come to terms with the death. He may be projecting blaming himself onto us, even though it was nobody’s fault but Faolain’s.
Caithe we only really forgave I believe because she went through all this crap to protect the egg, so she wouldn’t betray us on that front. Plus if Aurene absorbed most of Mordy’s power, technically she’d be able to control Caithe if necessary.
A big concern of mine is that I feel like A.net is trying to tell too much story and introduce nuance in too small of packages. These small instances and the lack of any agency on your part in terms of choices and dialogue really detracts from what they’re trying to put across and we end up with stuff like what we got today.
I’m not fully done with current episode but I do have to say ..I don’t like having to talk to the npc’s when there’s a massive group of people around. It kinda breaks immersion since you can’t even see them due to the sheer amount of them. On top of that it creates such incredible lag.. I’ll attach an example of what I mean exactly.
God yes that too! There has to be a better way. :P
Liked the new map, though the story was a bit barebones here compared to the other ones. Braham…if you wanted to make us hate him enough to kill him off, you’ve done a perfect job of it. Please, if you continue with this, let him fail and then let the commander punch him onto the ground and then tell him the names of everybody who has died since Claw Island who played a role in the story…to hit home that we know better than anybody what it’s like to lose people. Because right now he’s insufferable and I quite literally want to kill him off.
That’s another thing. A.net is having Braham act like we haven’t lost people close to us. We’ve lost many friends on the way, including our closest one in Trahearne (who we had to kill personally). Like Trahearne as a character or not but he was placed as our character’s closest friend throughout the story.
On another note, it seems like Rytlock has taken the role of closest ally or maybe even Caithe considering how she seems starry eyed with you right now because you forgave her. It also seems like Rytlock is the only “adult” in the group.
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