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Plants evaporate waste liquid through their leaves (this helps them suck up fresh groundwater), and shed other waste in bark and leaves and resins.
Plants tend to recycle chemicals internally in a cycle of photosynthesis and respiration, so there would probably be less waste anyway.
Who can even see them with the hundreds of combo fields and particle effects going off every second?
And you’re not supposed to be looking at the anyway, you should be busy rushing around trying to cram in all your achievements before the next event.
In WvW enemy players are an obstacle, not an objective.
I’ve only every played WoW, WAR, EVE and GW2, but GW2 is the most addictive.
I gave up on WoW and WAR long ago, they got stale quickly. GW2 is more modern than WoW, and better balanced than WAR. I can’t see why I would bother with another 3rd person fantasy MMO ATM.
EVE is just… different. It’s so much slower than most MMOs, but much more involved. With training queues, and sell orders, and long running manufacturing jobs, I can play EVE every few days, or every few weeks, and still keep “in the game”.
Is a potato Sylvari theoretically possible?
Potatoes (the part of the potato plant that you eat) is the root, not the fruit.
Some potato plants have actual fruit (seed pods), but they are poisonous (potatoe plants are actually related to deadly nightshade).
You’d think that to qualify for the Captain’s council, you’d actually have to be a captain.
Both the candidates appear to be land-lubbers. They don’t seem to have much leadership experience, and seem to be too straight laced and goody too shoes. Vote for these guys and they’ll be implementing new anti-terrorist laws everywhere, and spending waypoint fees on free heathcare for the peasants.
They aren’t captains, and they sure ain’t pirates.
I only have a level 50 thief, but I’m certainly enjoying it. Solo, I can engage level 80 players in WvW with a fair chance of winning. I can escape zergs where some of my other characters would get mown down. Shortbow is great on walls, (top or bottom). Poison and smoke fields are great for zergs. Spam-able bast finisher is great fun.
Ranged attacks are a bit meh, that’s the main downside to this class.
One of the things I have noticed is that it’s not just stealth that makes this class so hard to hit. You can heartseeker in and dodge out before most players react. And easy access to smoke fields means lots of misses.
In PVE I’m mowing down risen abominations two levels higher than me, doing skill points and veterans above my level. Often, unless I slip up, I can take out higher level opponents without taking any damage at all. As long as you don’t try and face-tank, or just stand there auto-attacking, thieves shouldn’t have any problems in open world PVE either.
If you pick sword and dagger you can use them on any class except Engineer.
I think rifle is the most limited(?) with only warriors and engineers able to use it.
They really need to look up games like Price of Persia, Assassin Creed, Ratchet and Clank, Tomb Rider and learn from them. Only in the ’80s you were seeing your character jumping like a dummy in its feet, all the rest use some grabbing to avoid near the edge jumping fails
For a game that has so many JP the jumping animations are not the best.
It’s a shame when you look at some of the great animations they have for NPCs, like the way the Krait move.
I have more siege than I can use already. From what I’ve seen Ragnar is right, shortage of blueprints has never been a problem.
Did 25 races and got 2 lightening. Not sure what the odds are but they seem to be about 5%.
The sanctum sprint ones can be got off the TP for a few gold, probably less by the time the event ends.
Farm the crystals while you can, because after the event goes way the supply will be practically nothing.
Because you could all just take turns “winning”, rendering two of the achievements meaningless?
Like the special troll power-up that teleports you to the finish line and gives you three kites from the chest.
And posts about it it on the forums for you.
Sanctum sprint seems to be especially prone to lag.
The #3 skill is especially sensitive, and it will often misfire. I hardly every have trouble with lag, even in WvW, but a couple of my races were badly screwed up by lag.
I suspect there is some anti-hack code at work as well, similar to the problems we had jumping off cliffs in WvW that causes the server to teleport you back or interrupt movement.
JP is designed for griefing. If someone was told to design the perfect map for greifers, the JP would be it. If you go in there without backup you need your head read.
On a non-biological note: the faery king from folklore (Oberon) was often depicted as less benign or even evil, compared to the faery queen.
Also, in many myths the king was absent from the court, or turned renegade or rebel, or fighting with the queen (as in a Midsummer Nights Dream). Sometimes this was related to cycles of nature – when the king is absent, nature is in discord, when the king and queen are together, balance is restored.
Since Sylvari are based on Celtic myth, it could be that the father figure is a less benign tree than the Pale tree, and his absence could be intentional.
Rangers can do all that. But Elementalists can do it all so much better. And with an Ele you can swap from healing to crowd control to DPS in seconds.
Some of the NPCs in this game also lie, cheat, steal, beat, torture, murder and even try and destroy the entire world. And your worried that some of them are racist?
If a fictional murderer is ok, why not a fictional racist? They’re not supposed to be role models. You’re not supposed to emulate them. Please do not attempt to raise undead armies at home.
Stop smoking them and they’ll stop screaming.
Former pirates.
They got old, and rich and decided that legitimate trade was easier, and safer than piracy.
Like most people who took the reigns of power for themselves, they aren’t above a little hypocrisy when it comes to their attitude to other pirates out there.
Ninety percent of the time a warbanner gets picked up by some noob and stowed, which makes them pretty useless.
The ones who point and laugh remind me of Nelson Muntz.
I solo camps all the time, I’ve soloed hundreds and I still sometimes forget to check for the RI buff before attacking.
Any score update? At work for another 3 hours, bleh.
Score update? It’s basically over for HoD. 8 hours into the matchup and basically spawn camped already.
Not much point playing WvW this week; not much point playing GW2 at all for that matter.
Wish Arkham Origins was out.
All women have at least one piece of clothing like that. Dig around in your girlfriend’s cupboard and most likely you’ll find something based on that principle.
That may not be an option for the OP, who has been thinking about Queen Jenna’s dress for two whole days.
Like the title says.
We get options to report inappropriate character names, but not hackers.
Priorities?
Aliens and Starship troopers (and many games like Starcraft) owe a lot to the art of HR Giger. And a lot of his artwork is quite … biological.
Try not to charge in head first to a pack of enemies that use crowd control. Use ranged attacks, pets, illusions etc.
I can think of seven ways to avoid mob knock backs off the top of my head:
Dodge
Stability
Block
Reflection
Stun
Blind
Fear
Chilling an enemy also helps because it will put the knock back on longer cool-down.
And watch out for the big ones, they can spit your projectiles right back at you.
It seems to be buggy sometimes. I’ve had it happen in normal WvW chat after just a couple of non-identical messages. Report it as a bug if it seems out of line.
Always use protection.
I heard a Rumor that in the sometime near future anet is going to merge some servers. IDK if HoD is on that list or not.
They’d have to remove a whole tier. But it seems natural to merge servers if they’re not very populated.
For the millionth time, the servers are all highly populated. Its just that in the lowest tiers 99 percent of players only PVE.
They aren’t going to merge high population servers because of a lack of WvW players.
The server’s are currently down and I’m in the mood for starting trouble.
To all HoD players: you deserve losing terribly to Ferguson’s Crossing right now. While you may outnumber us daily on the battlefield, your entire server is glass and the level of organization held by your zergs is laughable. While Eredon Terrace may not yet have the same community strength that we Fergs boast, they at least work together to utilize what little numbers they have to their favor. The “HoDomination” you once so proudly bragged over was merely the illusion of mindless zerging— where are your fair-weather battlers now, pray tell?
Your “strategic” plays are moronic (Borderlands over Battleground camps, idiots), your community’s strength is hilariously pathetic (that new PvE content sure is exciting, eh?), and the only thing your server can boast over now is the number of players you possess— mindless players, but still players. You don’t deserve to be green, or even blue, within this tier. The only color your players should, and will, have is red. At least then the rest of the higher tiered servers can have a model example of what happens when a server lacks any sense of teamwork and commitment.
So read what I’ve said, get all worked up with, “YOU’LL SEE, WE’LL BEAT YOU SOON ENOUGH!”; it still won’t be enough. Your reliance on pure numbers has put you in a rut that will take quite a few weeks to get out of. Enjoy the Valley garrison while you can— Eredon Terrace will be claiming it back very soon.
Just a hint hod
TOUGHNESS IS A STAT YOU CAN USE ON YOUR ARMOR!wow whoever said that sounds as bad as Ehmry bay, maybe worse
Someone touched him in a bad way.
Whoa, if this keeps up, FC will be green next reset. I’m going to be so confused!!! Great work FC.
Coming soon next week – the next unholy alliance. ET/HoD double team on FC. (j/k j/k. I am terribly amused by every conspiracy theory out there including those from my own server.)
It’s not a conspiracy, after last night it was clear FC and ET were not attacking one another.
It wasn’t quite that simple. FC were obviously focusing on EB, while ET were focusing on HoD BL. FC were fighting ET in EB, but definitely making the most gains against HoD, who couldn’t defend two fonts at once. This was unfortunate for HoD, but if FC realises that ET BL is largely undefended, things could easily turn around.
I have seen a warrior rally 5 times using his third downed skill and rejoining his group to kill someone..
I think your credibility is in a downed state.
Only if we can get it in WvW.
Did fireheart rise the other day for map completion, and that zone was really really empty. I think I only saw one other person in the time it took me to complete the whole map. Orr can be pretty empty sometimes too. People seem to prefer the pretty zones.
The whips that you use in the Sylvari storyline are awesome, and probably a bit OP for PvP and WvW since they have (from memory) a pull, a push an immobilise and a stun.
If they do add them it should probably be to warriors first, they are a weapon suited to gladiators and arena combat.
The sooner we get rid of these primitive geographically bound governments, the better.
Pretty sure that the nightmare court are still connected to the dream. They’re trying to turn all the dream to nightmare.
’Doubt that the dragon-Sylvari “link” is a thing either. ANet would be really jumping the shark if they did that. It would kitten off so many players.
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Ranger’s have to be good somewhere eh, they certainly aren’t anywhere else.
But this is why we need underwater stomping.
This. Only make it “spearing”.
And players shouldn’t be able to swim around while downed (it’d be pretty hard to finish someone who could just swim away).
I often wear a rascal coat (transmuted over temple armour). It looks realistic, like something a ranger who’d tracked their prey all the way from the maguma jungle to the northern shiverpeaks would wear.
On top of that I use whispers hood and shoulders, and a mix of cultural for the rest.
Nice close matchup. Its been pretty hectic in our BL. There was a point last night where we edged out FC by a single point. Hope the rest of the week lives up to it.
Jumping off a cliff and getting stuck in a falling loop.
And zoom hacks. Seems like every second tower I defend these days has someone using zoom hacks to AOE the inside.
To paraphrase Monty Python:
“Five shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be five. Six shalt thou not count, neither count thou four, excepting that thou then proceed to five. Seven is right out.”
GW2 got rid of the trinity, we have scaling in open world events, auto-join teams in WvW, but still we have this archaic 5 person dungeon limit that requires pre-made groups. And a lot of kittening about and drama. How hard would it be to scale content for three to seven players?
Also, how hard would it be to implement a queue and just fill up pug groups with whoever queues up. It works for PvP in many games, it works for Starcraft, for LoL, even for Little Big Planet. It even works in real life pick up games on the school ground. Kick off the instance as soon as three players have joined. Add up to four more, up to the first checkpoint. After that start another instance, and so on. It’s not complicated, even ten-year olds can grasp the concept.
Well, assuming your statement is true, I’d be more curious as to why other games don’t also ban this.
Because other games are dumb.
I’ve seen what synchronised multi-boxed toons can do when they all move as one, and they are the most massively insanely overpowered thing you’ll ever see in a game. They can (and do) single handledly turn the tide of battle, and they walk all over PVE content as well.
You really have to actually witness multi-boxers in action to see how devastating they can be. I’ve seen a 4 shaman multi-boxer rip through a dozen enemy players like a bowling ball through tenpins.
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They sound useful for stopping people trolling keeps.
I hope we can put them in water. Lowlands water gate is too easy for thieves to contest.
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I would like to see Ladders that you can use to put up against walls and climb. That will keep players defending what they just capped.
Only if players on the walls can push the ladder back and watch everyone fall off.
I was in Caledon forest once and somehow got pushed under the map by some risen.
It’s all water down there, and a lot of the ground is transparent from underneath so it looks like the whole world is all floating on an endless ocean.