Guild Wars 2

I support tradable Fractal weapons, if only for the fact that it’s entirely possible to get given a Fractal weapon that you absolutely don’t want or can’t use. Like being an Ele and getting the Fractal Longbow.

Is your Asura the smallest possible height? If not, you should TOTALLY buy a Total Makeover Kit and make yourself the same height as your mini to further confuse opponents in WvW about who’s the real target. XD

Sounds like we just have a bunch of panicked Asura upset that some “walking tree” is smarter than they’ll ever be.

Gold to gem prices have passed the 4g mark recently though. Still waiting for it to get to 5g before I start selling gems for gold.

Falkor’s theory would make sense, although it’s definitely expensive!

There’s some speculation that waypointing may “stealth reset” the counter, so if you can, try dealing enough damage to get credit for the event, and then move on to the next portal, but without waypointing. Finding a zone where multiple portals are clustered in a relatively small area may help.

Still haven’t gotten this achievement either, for the record.

While I do think Scarlet is a bit of a Villain Sue, I have to say that I love her voice acting.

“Die die die. Die die die, die die.” XD

Also, her Twisted minions are really cool. Whoever designed them, especially the Twisted Nightmares, deserves a raise.

There’s been numerous threads on the Living Story Discussion forum as well as the General Discussion forum about players who feel stressed, burned out, exhausted etc. from the pace of the 2 week release schedule, as well as some players who feel that the rapid pace is also creating a higher incidence of bugs and glitches. I’m part of the former group.

The key here is not that we DISLIKE the updates. We’re all for new content. We just would like more time to digest it all, as far as the first group is concerned.

While Goddess has the gist of it, have some compassion for the new guy, though. I have 5 level 80’s, but I was also disappointed to see that the Queen’s Jubilee/Clockwork Chaos content requires the player to basically have one level 80 that’s visited all or most of the maps (for the Balloon achievement and invasions). The Pavilion/Gauntlet is going to be returning content, so it’s not a big deal, but having limited time content that newer players just have to miss out on is not a direction I would like to see ANet adopt going forward.

You’re not alone, OP. There’s a fair number of us on these forums who have posted similar thoughts. Personally I kinda miss the days of early Flame & Frost when the Living Story content was easily completable in a single weekend, and then you had the rest of the month to get back to whatever it is you were doing. I imagine the people who only have a single main, have done all the rest of the game’s content and have nothing more to do are probably thrilled with the pace of new content, but it’s very draining for those of us with alts or newer players.

It’s also kind of spoiling the anticipation, where people would get all psyched up for big releases like Halloween or Wintersday. Having events that changed the world and put in new enemies was a novelty; now it’s happening every two weeks. It’s lost that special feeling.

No, I do not believe in “exclusivity” for games. I believe that every player should have the opportunity to acquire any kind of appearance they want, either by getting it themselves, or by buying it on the Trading Post. Limited time skins/rewards/achievements are something I am vehemently against, because it discourages new players who joined later, and it creates a feeling of “buy it nownowNOW!” which I find distasteful, because I hate being pushed into making a decision.

Kareth.6572:

Dont you like to look somehow special?

Not particularly. I create my characters so that I find them visually appealing to myself. I couldn’t care less what another player thinks of them. Likewise, I don’t give a Centaur Spearhead what another player is using/wearing. If they’re wielding two Legendaries and decked out in Radiant gear because they like the look, all the more power to them. But if they got them just because they’re fishing for compliments from other players, then I pity them, because then they’re just like the guy who buys an expensive car and then drives around looking for compliments about it. It makes you look desperate for attention, which is probably not the impression you want to make at all.

Hmmm… I wonder if the Fused Gauntlet ticket can be sold now. I still haven’t used that…

Ah, I just found the thread on Reddit. I generally don’t visit there unless it gets posted on the forums here first. You’re right; I won’t miss out on much if it isn’t retroactive; if anything, my poor bank probably couldn’t use the extra burden.

The latest word from ANet is that skins obtained in the past are NOT tradable, and they have no plans to make them tradable. (Presumably their reasoning is “if you got the skin, you obviously wanted that skin and so no reselling”.)

I disagree though. If someone got a ticket just because they were very lucky, didn’t like any of the skins, but got one since, you know, why not? But never got around to using it, why shouldn’t they be allowed to sell it? I really do hope that ANet relents and allows non-soulbound Fused/Sclerite/Dragon Jade skins to be sold on the TP.

I don’t have any of the above skins either, so I don’t have a horse in this race.

You were just lucky the first time, Vaya. I’ve had guildmates buy over 3000/4000 coffers before finally getting a Jade ticket.

I’m a little confused though. So the Black Lion Claim Tickets CAN’T be traded in for older weapons like the Sclerite or Fused weapons? Then how have the Fused/Sclerite weapons suddenly been showing up on the TP? Did people just have unused tickets sitting in their bank and suddenly decided to use them now?

Count me in among the people who preferred the old achievement completion sounds.

Cheers. Got any recommendations for a particular map/location with lots of portal event spawn spots?

It’s possible that salvage kits may be changed so that we have to choose what we want to salvage out of an item (similar to how in GW1, you had a choice of salvaging either the inscription, suffix or prefix of a weapon, with a chance that the weapon would get destroyed during the salvage). If we had to choose between salvaging runes/sigils and ectos/MF resource, we’d probably see a steep drop in supply of runes/sigils in short order.

Hmm, that is a good thing to test, Snoflake. Last night when I got credit too I basically stuck to the NW section of Timberline and didn’t waypoint anywhere. The only time I waypointed was after the event was over.

This could make the “complete 5 portals in 15 mins” achievement hard to get though…

I did Timberline Falls last night in an overflow and got credit for it. I arrived in time to help with the First Wave and stayed all the way till the last Wave, including killing Scarlet. (Lucked out when she spawned right on my zerg’s position.)

Based on my experience, I guess we can rule out not getting credit in overflows, unless particular maps are bugged. Other things to test:

1. Do you need to take part in every single Wave during an invasion for credit to be given?

2. Do you need to close portals AND fight off Molten/Aetherblade reinforcements for credit to be given? (Some people I know are sticking purely to just fighting Twisted mobs to farm their drops.)

3. Do you need to fight Scarlet for credit to be given?

4. Does the invasion event need to succeed (players beat back the invasion) for credit to be given?

From what I’ve heard, you can get them from combining any four of the Set 2 minis in the Mystic Forge. (Which Steam mini pops out is random.) However, I’m neither a mini-hunter nor a frequent Forge-user, so take my post with a grain of salt.

It’s a bug. It’s known and being looked into. (I lost mine too, for the record.)

Reminds me of the good(?) old days from Slaver’s Exile where the Stone Summit dwarves would just res each other over and over and over. XD

WTB Frozen Soil!

If I were in Logan’s shoes, I’d be kitten ed that Anise didn’t share her secret defense plan of Queen Jennah with me either, but let’s look at this logically.

Everybody knows that Logan is smitten with the Queen. If Anise had revealed to him that Jennah was actually safely hidden away while her speech was being delivered by a clone, something in his behaviour might have given away the trick. (Perhaps he’s not watching the fake Queen as diligently as he should have been, or constantly looking over to where Anise was standing because that’s where the real Jennah was.) Those are cues that could have been picked up by a particularly astute opponent, which Scarlet certainly was. Logan being left out of the loop, while unfortunate, is a necessary part of the deception because his feelings for Jennah are a risk to him spoiling the plan.

The flythrough cinematic was neat in its own way, but I too suffered the bug where Scarlet’s lips weren’t moving. At least I didn’t see the floating gun, however.

I do agree that the stylised artwork cutscenes at the end of Faren and Jennah were the best part, and ANet should consider doing more future cutscenes in this style.

Just a PSA that the Gauntlet tickets are once again Account Bound. At least now I can put them all into one stack in my bank. XD

Yeah, to each their own. For me, I’m giddy with excitement over the return of SAB. None of the other LS events have come anywhere near to this level of anticipation.

Yep, mine is missing too. Good to know that ANet’s aware of the issue and looking into it though.

In general I think the Living Story is too fast-paced. I’m really craving a good 2 – 3 week period where NOTHING happens and we can just get back to exploring the world, doing activities, dungeons, fractals etc. for a few hours a day without worrying that we’re falling behind on farming gold, completing achievements or what-have-you. The holidays like Halloween and Wintersday were fun because they were UNUSUAL. Now every two weeks it feels like there’s another big crazy “festival” we have to take part in.

We need some down-time, ANet! You can’t keep people on an adrenaline high all the time; it burns us out.

Unfortunately I have to agree with Erasculio’s assessment here. Whenever any new content comes out, it doesn’t take long for the min-maxers (call them “grinders”, “exploiters”, whatever, you know the type of player I’m talking about) to discover the way to get the most profit in the shortest amount of time. They then do this activity 24/7, which forces other players to join in for fear (sometimes well-justified) of being left behind.

Sprinkling incentives throughout the world is nice, but it doesn’t solve the root cause of the problem. (And unfortunately, the only way to fix that is to have every kind of reward in the game be “easy to obtain”. And then people would get upset because everybody has a Legendary and all the titles and they don’t feel unique and special anymore.)

@OP: I’m glad that you support the ability to purchase skins on the TP (because I agree that this was a FANTASTIC change), but I sympathise completely with your position. Someone on this forums (Geotherma, I think?) spends hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars buying up all the “exclusive” skins via gems converted to gold. If I were someone in his shoes, I too would be quite peeved at spending all that money on something I could now obtain a lot more cheaply.

Be aware that some players have reported not being able to put unused skins they obtained prior to this update on the TP.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

What an amazing update.

I concur. This is a fantastic update.

Now if only ANet were to include a way to get skins like the Jetpack again… -HINT HINT-

It seems that weapon skins obtained prior to this update, but are still unused, can’t be sold on the TP. This is probably an oversight and should be brought to ANet’s attention.

You’re a member of the Test Krewe then, Esplen?

If the Digital Deluxe edition also “contains all items from the Heroic Edition”, I very much hope it IS retroactive then.

Well, well, well… This is interesting to know if I ever have some spare level 50 green daggers lying around. Although, I’m surprised that the person who wants to hurl tons of green weapons into the Forge doesn’t just put up a buy order for level 78 Green weapons in the hundreds. I swear I merch dozens of level 78 – 80 blues/greens every day just because they’re so common that buyer interest is negligible.

Fused skins, like the Sclerite skins, are account-bound on acquire, I believe. Didn’t you think it was odd that there were no Fused or Sclerite skins for sale at all on the TP?

EDIT: I retract my statement. I just saw the posts below showing that new skins from the BL Weapon Vendors can be traded on the TP. That. Is. AWESOME!

It may be that only the NEW skins are tradable, although personally I think that’s an oversight and any unused skins from the initial release should be tradable too.

^ That theory could also explain the possibility of how new Elder Dragons might arise. An Elder Dragon might be slain in battle with another, but their Champion survives and escapes to hide somewhere. In time, the Champion consumes enough magic and grows to become a new Elder Dragon, perhaps assuming the mantle and powers of its predecessor. There might have been more or less Elder Dragons at any particular point in history, but it seems that 6 is the “optimal” number for how many Tyria can support at a time.

Perhaps Anise has developed feelings for the Queen herself and now regards Logan as a rival for Jennah’s affections?

For once I actually agree with Trahearne. XD

Still stuck at work, but all of these comments are giving me the feeling that this is like Lost Shores all over again. :/

I never farmed Deadeye myself, but I saw the nerf coming. People have reported being able to farm hundreds of gold from Deadeye (and Subject 7, before him). It was only a matter of time.

What ANet appears to have objections to is players being able to amass large amounts of wealth in a very short period of time (and let’s be honest, 10 seconds to kill Deadeye for 10 silver is a very short period indeed). That’s a LOT of new money being injected into the economy. By contrast, the zerg farms in the Pavilion were nowhere near as profitable, given that it takes about 5 – 10 minutes to kill one of the Legendary bosses, from which you only get about 4 – 5 silver and chances for rare loot. Then you have to wait another 10 or so minutes for them to spawn again. Even the CoF speedruns were nowhere near this profitable (although I didn’t like the idea of them either).

ANet hasn’t been nerfing the TP because the TP in itself does not inject any new wealth into the economy, which is what they’re most concerned about. Rather, TP flippers simply move wealth from other players into their own pockets, losing some of the coin to taxes in the process. Since the flippers actually help make the TP more efficient in its (hidden) secondary goal of acting as a gold sink on the economy, ANet isn’t going to do anything to them.

(Whether or not the concentration of wealth in the hands of TP barons is a good thing or not is another discussion, however.)

Yep. It’s a bug and they are aware of it and looking into it.

Sylvari also don’t seem to age. They can also have all the sexy funtimes they want without risk of pregnancy and STD’s (well, mammalian STDs, at any rate).

With regards to your 3rd point, it’s after the Clockwork Chaos release is finished that these invasions will slow down. So expect them to pop every hour for the next 13/14 days.

That said, I do agree with your first two points that it’s quite a bit of time investment for casual players. It also basically screws over anyone who doesn’t have a level 80 character and all the maps unlocked, meaning that newer players basically have to sit this one out.

I do like the look of the new GW2 Zodiac weapons, although I agree that I preferred the aesthetic of the GW1 Zodiac weapons more. I have no objection to this new style though.

I’m more pleased by the fact that it seems these weapons (and the Aetherized weapons) are available permanently, meaning any player who wants them can steadily save up for one.

The citizens of Ebonhawke view themselves as Ascalonians though, not Krytans. (In fact, some members of the Ascalon Settlement in Gendarran Fields still think of themselves as Ascalonians, even though they are technically Krytan citizens.) It’s a bit of a strange mix between geopolitical interests and cultural heritage, like how if you are of English heritage, but your family moved to India and you were born there. Although India is for all intents and purposes your home, your parents’ attitudes and the fact that you look quite different to the Indian locals means you’d probably think of yourself as English rather than Indian.

Nobody knows for sure, but like you, I’ll be hanging on to my Gauntlet tickets. Be aware that, since the Pavilion and Gauntlet is going to be recurring content, it’s entirely possible that the tickets will not be vendorable and you can just re-use them next time.

Up to 42 tickets spent on Liadri so far, but I’m noticing a steady improvement in my performance!

1st ticket: “You’re going down, Lia- whoops, mistimed the dodge out of Shadowfall.”

10th ticket: “Woohoo! Finally got her to Phase 2! … kitten , those Shadowfall circles are bigger now.”

20th ticket: “Dammit, I don’t have enough dodges! I can’t stay ahead of the circles! Dammitdammitdammit!”

30th ticket: “I get it now! You actually need to move in small circles on the border between two of the zones while hitting Liadri! I can do thi- Oh, kitten you, Cosmic Orb!”

40th ticket: “Got Liadri to 50% health for the first time! I might be able to do this with a little luck!”

Aaaaand now the Pavilion’s locked out. XD Guess Liadri will get to sit smugly on her throne for another few days.

They can stay as long as the Aetherblade Champions have a rare chance at dropping Aetherized weapons.

Totally agreed that we should be able to replay past content. Obviously, stuff that appears in the Living World (outside of festival stuff like Halloween, Wintersday or the Zephyr Sanctum) should disappear when they’re not around, but I don’t see the harm in putting in a “Herald” NPC (yes, that guy!) in your Home District that says, “Hello! I’ve been chronicling the story of your adventures. Would you like to review a particular chapter?”

“Yes, I’d like to see the:

a. Story of how we defeated the Molten Alliance
b. Story of how we captured Mai Trin

etc. etc.

You and your party then get sent into an instance where you can replay the content, including getting chances at appropriate loot.

From a bigger perspective too, I’m actually getting a bit tired of the Living Story. It feels a bit like we’re being shuttled from one story to the next with no real opportunity for a break in between. It’s different from how it was during Halloween and Wintersday last year, where the festivals were massive and exciting because the open world was relatively quiet and static in between.

Now it’s like there’s tons of new content to do every month, so it’s lost its novelty, but at the same time, you HAVE to do it if you don’t want to miss out. It’s a bit like being on a constant adrenaline high; it’s exciting for a while, but if that becomes the norm, then it just becomes exhausting.