Guild Wars 2

Scythe doesn’t seem very thiefy to me. It lacks a certain subtlety. It’s a big too one ended to be elegant. Pretty to look up, but a bit too over aggressive on the swing in use.

Maybe they could give us daggers that look like the midget ninja 1 handed scythe things. Sickles. Whatever. I mean, the tiny sickle. Not midget ninjas.

We survived the Revealed thing. We’ll survive everything else.

Because, thieves.

We’re not mad or crazy. That’s only some members of the Inquest.

Fuzzion.2504:

But pancakes are nice. and Canadians are fun

I hear good things about poutine.

Draknar.5748:

Making all of the jumps is on you though.

Yep, that’s how we get through it. Remember why you failed, execute better next attempt. Eventually, you get all the way to the end.

Why did you pick an asura?
My progenitors discovered that love was the simultaneous utilization of biology, chemistry and physics.

I haven’t taken a shot at it yet, but I will say this. Sometimes it’s fun to just roflstomp a bigger bad. I’m still laughing at Hulk vs Loki, all this time later.

Fuzzion.2504:

Usagi.4835:

Ouch, JQ. What is that? At least 10 alphas and 5 omegas in our third lol. We’ve been outmanned all day so have fun!

Its a public holiday for much of asia today. So thats why

They had SO. MUCH. FUN. to share with us they needed the golems to help them carry ALL of it to us!

Thanks for the happy times JQ

Nickthemoonwolf.1485:

You ever think about unstacking that timezone YOURSELF? Dont hurt other tiers just to fuel your T1 arms race… If you want to be less bored try seeing it from the other servers point of view.

I disagree with this notion. Each server is what it is and I don’t think it truly matters how they got there, homegrown or transfers or a mix.

I do not believe the T1’s can “harm” the other tiers. People are free to go where they will, for their own reasons. If WvW is a person’s primary goal, sorry, if WINNING WvW is the goal, then maybe transferring could be the best path.

For everyone else, we just try to do the best we can with what we got, and hopefully have as much fun as we can, even in hideous defeat. Maybe I should say, especially in hideous defeat.

The Tier 1 servers have no responsibility towards other servers, much less Tiers. Take that thought and apply it to players. We get people walking yaks, standing sentry, all that. No one makes them do it, they choose to. I’m thankful when it happens, occasionally do it myself. Helping your server can be how someone has fun.

Someone should do this. Someone should not do that. Sometimes, it’s more effective to do a thing yourself than it is to hope someone else does it. That’s getting a bit off topic, but my main thing is that only you can choose what you’re going to do.

Unless you’re very persuasive, it’s a waste of time to try to unstack Tier 1, whatever that would take.

PS: BG, JQ, feel free to take a 4 day vacation from WvW effective immediately. There’s like lonely beers, women,and men in Lion’s Arch.

SFShinigami.2015:

Welcome to the last 5 months of being JQ, SEA and NA… Accepted what we couldn’t control and had fun fighting when we were on.

This is an admirable attitude that I wish more people shared.

On Sunday, we mentioned that Texans linebacker Brian Cushing called the Houston fans who cheered Matt Schaub’s leg injury “barbaric.”

“It was ridiculous,” cornerback Kareem Jackson said. “...When things are good, they ride the bandwagon with you... As soon as things get bad, they boo and do all the other stuff...”

Now THAT’S bandwagon.

dabomb.4056:

Just curious, how much of a number would you consider a blob?

Whatever number it takes to catch and down me.

Sometimes, it’s even one.

I tried making two in TA Exp and it didn’t credit.

Chris.3290:

A tier 1.5 server is such an odd thing.

I’m pretty sure TC is an odd thing, regardless of Tier.

Sovereign.1093:

I think not everyone is familiar with the bruce less reference where he refers to having a broader perspective. Hehe. ^,^

If Bruce Lee were on sentry duty:
“Gates… don’t hit back.”

Oh. Those two were just bathing? Ah.

kevkelsar.9507:

You missed the part where I said one person in our party got the achievement while the rest of us didn’t.

Yes, I did. Sorry about that.

Maybe he was only mostly dead?

Miracle Max: Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do.
Inigo Montoya: What’s that?
Achievements!

Hicks: I wanna introduce you to a personal friend of mine. This is an M41A pulse rifle. Ten millimeter with over-and-under thirty millimeter pump action grenade launcher.

Gorman: 10 millimeter explosive tip caseless. Standard light armor piercing round...

Let me dream, Space Marine!

WAAAAAAAAAAAGH?

kevkelsar.9507:

We killed all but four of the crew, the four in front of him… Please, explain how that isn’t bugged.

Lucky.9421:

Portions of the crew can be defeated before engaging the foreman (aka getting Spur to turn hostile and attack), but you must avoid killing a complete row.

OK that is basically what all we needed. Thanks for the detailed response.

You left a portion of 1 row up and killed all other rows.

Sovereign.1093:

I just like to play. It doesn’t matter how it is done as long as it is fun from my point of view since that is the main reason why I do and continue to play wvw.

I wubs joo, Sov.

You know what you’re doing with the finger. The one that points a way to the moon. Totally not looking at the finger. I’m not making this any better…

Chris.3290:

TC is at the point where they will not feel any deficiency in NA unless facing T1. In all honesty I think their NA vs JQ is only lacking in their PuG to hardcore ratio.

My feeling, in my casual solo roamoness, was that JQ still had more people around. But yes, I agree that when you saw JQ, they were more probable to be hardcore than bardcore, spoony.

Getting paid and/or not getting killed can make ya overlook a lot of fine details.

Thank you for the reply, and the clarification; the uncertainty and perceived silence, or perhaps indifference, was even more frustrating than thinking you should have gotten the achievement half a dozen times but didn’t.

I’m all good now and I’ll even start buying gems again as thanks.

I had a nightmare of a 3 hour Arah run. Sometimes it’s faster to kill everything than it is to try to skip mobs, repeatedly.

Once you’re familiar with the Aetherpath, I would have guess it’s about an hour run. Some faster, some slower, but hourish.

The high ground in the EB jumping puzzle > Obi Wan over Pre-Darth Emo.

I got it 2nd attempt after the 1st one wiped with only 6-10 mobs on the far end of the room. So, I’m not sure it’s a majority that’s required.

I try to stand where they can’t hit me while I’m hitting them.

Bringing up bandwagon is bandwagon. It’s never my server. It’s always a different server. Bring up something else that’s beyond your control.

Where a guild was before a matchup is irrelevant, just as irrelevant to this week as where you think they’ll be next week. There is only the present week and its result. You play, you try, you deal.

Crush your frenemies, see the dolyaks driven before you, and hear the lamentations on the forums.

There’s even one heart mission thing for the dredge where you’re piloting a mining suit with radio comms built in.

There’s a safe spot for every new pattern once the panel is activated.

ilr.9675:

Ayrilana.1396:

.... Just learn the patterns and yo can.

STOP

TALKING

Listen to yourself for a minute ....
Do you people even understand the average person’s pain-tolerance for stuff like this, not to mention the social-barriers attached to it requiring 5 players every single "try"?

Listen to yourself for a moment.

If you get to the Bzzt floor, you go to the row of floor panels near the control. It is safe. Then the starting area goes safe after that. Once you get that far, you stand there and look at the floor until you notice the pattern, how the safe areas move. That will take a few cycles. Minutes.

If you really want the achievement, that’s where it starts. You see the opportunities. You use your skill and judgement and get to the safe square. Repeat it. I happened to take 5 days to get it right, when I got it right, finally.

I find your lack of faith in the average player interesting. Also, at worst, you only have to get yourself to a platform and then park. At worst.

Edit: What social barriers? I play this so I don’t have to get my social on. Sheesh.

Edit 2: Requiring 5 players? Social? My gods, if they suck, leave the party and find another one. I mean, unless you got kicked or something.

Yeah, I suppose everyone, at least the 4 on the lil raisey boxy things, can get it. All you really have to do is take your time and learn the initial safe areas, then watch the pattern until you see the opening to get to the boxy of your choice. And use skills to support that.

Mine involved Shadowstep back to the start, then Shadowstep close enough to boxy to hop on it while the floor wasn’t zappy.

Take your time. Seriously. And if you bzzzt, then volunteer to be the draggy holo pully boom by the door person.

Usagi.4835:

WyldKat.4712:

Chris.3290:

...then you might as well go fully over to dark side.

Candles!...Only 1 silver each...

That is extortionate. I think I’m going to undercut you and sell my tea candles at 95c each.

Mine are TC candlesticks. Stick and wick, and nothing else that rhymes with -ick.

Usagi.4835:

I thought most Magummybears...

It sounds a lot nicer than Magoomba. Best. Nick. EVER! For today.

My first and main is a P/D thief. My first alt is a condi-necro, scepter/warhorn and staff.

On both sides of the coin, for me, the matchup always depends on how the initial engage goes off. If the thief can get in and stay, win. If the necro can get any distance or takes charge early, win.

Play a thief for a bit, and you’ll find yourself hitting stealthed people with necro marks a lot more often. It’s just seeing things from a "where would I go" perspective.

Chris.3290:

...then you might as well go fully over to dark side.

Candles! Get your candles here. Only 1 silver each. Light up your life. Give yourself hope. To carry on. Fill your nights with song. All that. 1 silver. Candles!

What was before, and what will be, are not now. Or candles.

This is sort of refreshing after Liadri and SAB Master of Baubles snafu.

Thieves can also save an Elixir of Heroes steal item for the Invulnerability. ^^

Newman.6847:

I think most of the mobs need to be alive when the boss dies.

When I got it, we cleared until there were 6-10 mobs left on the farthest side of the room. Then again, we did wipe the first attempt, and I had to do the solo thief thing for the last bit of boss health bar, but it counted that time.

It seems just a tad twitchy, this achievement.

Actually, everyone CAN get it if they all avoid the bzzztness.

Aliatis.7836:

The secret is: DO ALL WRONG! DONT BE PRO!

We pulled him after clearing most of the room, 8ish mobs left on the left. We wiped.

I managed to finish him after the rest of the party was down on the 2nd go around, and we all scored. Go figure…

There’s a few threads, nothing definite about what’s causing it to not trigger.

No official word that I’ve seen either.

Candy candy candy!

Thorquist.8126:

What you have to do is to lure the boss as far as possible from his crew and kill him without killing MOST of the crew

Just did it. Did not work for us. *shrug*

Ameepa.6793:

Worst living story update so far for me. I don’t do dungeons so an update with only a new dungeon path and nothing else does not offer much to do :P

That’d be an awesome update cuz I’d only be in WvW having fun.

4 times thinking I should have it now, PuGs every time too. Hrm.

Hopefully clarification comes faster than it did with Master of Babs in World 2. Which was never, right?

I think this is much better than the last few updates. Much shorter than SAB. Yes. Very much so.

coronaas.4362:

Which clearly means that one of the requirements is to have me in your group.

So, you’re going to be backed up worse than Teq overflow ever was?

Brtwrst.9312:

We just got it.

The remaining 3 players killed him and resurrected the 2 AFTER the boss was dead. We then engaged and killed the remaining ~10 mobs and got the achievement.

I’ve done this twice. No achievement either time. W. T. Boo boo kitty.

I’ve always done it with Sparki out first. Key is whoever is the ooze person(s), at the moment, to be aware of that and move it to the oil spots.