I miss tafu. And they stated very clearly that the reason was because it wasn’t run eniugh and their lore reason was that of the possible scenarios, Fyonna getting to the Nightmare tree before Vevina or Leurent was unlikely. However, I counter that it is highly unlikely that Fyonna could have a prayer of defeating Vevina in the first place… which makes “up” the least likely path.
I never got to play TAFU.
I shall forever have to wonder at what I missed. From what I’ve heard though, the reason why people didn’t do the path was because of the bug(?) that made spawned spiders at the last boss not despawn after a wipe. Since it was viewed as the “hardest” path, people just avoided it in droves. (See AC P2 and CM P2 for similar examples. People hardly ever do those two, but they do the dungeon’s other paths all the time, simply because it’s regarded as “harder”.)
My sympathies to everybody who has this bug. I was fortunate enough to get my achievements before the Megaserver was introduced, but I know how tough the Wurm is to take down, so not being able to get your achievement after all that effort has to be pretty disheartening.
While I do see the point of people who argue against them going in the Wallet as they’re crafting mats, not a currency, I would not be against them becoming wallet bound. It would free up lots of bank space.
Alternatively, let us just merch the stacks (simplest method), or introduce a Mystic Forge recipe where we can combine Bloodstone Dust/Empyreal Fragments/Dragonite Ore with Bottles of Elonian Wine to create karma jugs. Good way to increase karma source while removing excess mats + a small gold sink.
Great Mesmers influence each other’s thoughts?
Hey, that’s the exact same reasoning I had!
After the War in Kryta and the rise of the Ministry of Purity, my GW1 characters decided the time had come to leave Cantha. They settled down in Kryta (where Queen Salma reinstated my Ascalonian Warrior’s noble house in return for his support during the War), and founded a new noble house. Her Canthan great-grandmother was the only Canthan member in the ancestry though, so she favours her Ascalonian heritage as a result.
I’m not going to get into the whole debate about whether 2v1 is right or wrong, but my personal feeling is that ANet is not going to outright block it from happening.
WvW is supposed to be war, and the Spring Tourney is war with an objective; to reach #1. When confronted with a foe that one cannot defeat by yourself, it only makes sense to ally with someone else to bring them down. Hence, the JQ/TC alliance to defeat BG. (For the strategy fans, this is exactly like the Wu/Shu alliance against Wei in the Three Kingdoms games by Koei.)
As the tournament rolls on, expect strategic goals to change. Maybe BG gets beaten so badly it can no longer be in the top 3, allowing SoS to sneak in. Then TC/JQ will gang up on them so they can be in 1st/2nd. And when it comes down to the final weeks, maybe the alliance gets broken as both servers jockey for the top spot. And who knows? Maybe if BG or SoS play their cards right, they could still snatch a top 3 finishing spot.
As a player, I readily admit I’d find a 2v1 quite frustrating when I’m a foot soldier on the ground, but if you step back and look at it all from a wider perspective, the political and strategic manoeuvrings going on is actually quite fascinating and entertaining to observe.
If BG managed to do that with JQ and TC attempting to rig the entire tournament, I would be pleased. On the regards of it being fascinating, the most interesting part to me is that this is literally entire servers. There is a lot of organization required in pulling something like this off, especially something that a lot of their players will be averse to. But there they stand. I would think even such a determined organization would fall at various times to the “red=dead” mentality, it seems nearly impossible to maintain. But once again, there they stand. Never tell them the odds!
Oh, I’ve seen some arguments on TC about the alliance at times. There are indeed a bunch of players who, as you said, ascribe to the “red=dead” mentality. I myself got attacked by a bunch of JQ players on my way to the water camp; roamers are fair game, it seems.
Ultimately I (and I think a lot of other WvW players) don’t intentionally take part in the 2v1. I mostly just hop into WvW for the karma train and my Invader kills; I attack whoever or whatever the Commander tells me to attack.
I think that BG might still be able to get a 3rd place finish if they take steps to knock SoS out of contention. Currently SoS is well placed to come 2nd due to it dominating the second tier Gold servers every time it gets put there. But if BG gets knocked out of the top 3, and then SoS gets constantly crushed by JQ/TC in its new spot, maybe BG could end up taking SoS’s former spot as the flip server.
Something I’m wondering; the people calling foul on TC and JQ. What do they expect to happen? Mass bans?
Yeah, that’s the other reason why I doubt anything would happen. What could ANet actually do as “punishment”? Revoke their points? That would cause a skritt-storm among players on the servers who, say, completed their meta by playing solely in EotM (something which ANet said multiple times was something they designed the meta around), and who would now rightly feel cheated out of their rewards.
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Ouch. Report it as a bug to Support and hopefully it’ll get fixed soon.
This is the non-boss Fractal, yes? I’ve been experiencing this too. Good to know it’s not just me.
Indeed, they are not. However, it’s also important not to let it get to the point where they DO become game breaking.
If the Watchwork Pick came back at this point AND the bonus remained, I’d seriously consider upgrading my 5 Molten Tools to the Watchwork Pick. I do a lot of harvesting, and all those spare Sprockets could come in handy either as additional income or as raw mats for fueling my journey to r500 crafting.
This thread is nice for the suggestions for cheaper dyes that look very similar to more expensive dyes, so kudos for that.
As far as colour selection though, I say just go for whatever you find aesthetically pleasing. If you want to make your Necromancer pretty pastel pink and wield a Princess Wand, go for it! Don’t give a skritt about what other people think; it’s YOUR character and you’re the person going to be spending the most time looking at it, so make something that YOU like looking at.
Can’t help you as I’m from Tarnished Coast, but I hope you and the mystery Charr/Quaggan ranger find each other!
Oooh, that’s a nice idea, Astral! The Flashback NPC lets you redo any of the past LS instanced content, which has a reward chest at the end. Taking a page from SAB, these chests drop tokens and have a rare chance to drop a sellable version of past LS skins. Otherwise, you can accumulate the tokens and trade them for an account bound version of the skins.
With the introduction of the Wardrobe, I think there’s a much larger market for people wanting to “collect them all” (or at least as much as they can afford) too, so it could prove a useful activity/gold sink for the game going forward.
ANet did hint that we would hear the Marionette battle music again, although we don’t know if it’ll be the Marionette itself or whether it would just be re-used in the future.
Would love to fight the Marionette again though. Best Living Story boss battle, in my opinion.
Ehh, I wouldn’t say “never”. I’m thinking there will be another reconstruction effort (completed in time for the next Dragon Bash) that gives ANet a superb opportunity to suck up those excess Blade Shards and other materials from the economy.
Heck, I bet that the player base has enough Bloodstone Dust to rebuild LA entirely out of Bloodstone!
Ouch. Hope this bug is fixed soon.
And while they’re at it, hopefully they’ll fix the “That Had to Burn” achievement too that’s been broken ever since Tequatl got beefed up.
Sigil of Geomancy works too. (Basically, any sigil that has an effect on weapon swap.) This bug affects all Activities, not just Keg Brawl.
As a side note, if you die to Bleeding in Keg Brawl, you have no way of respawning and so are stuck being dead unless someone resses you or you disconnect due to inactivity.
It’s not exactly new. People have been tripping themselves to death down slopes ever since launch. Just be careful where you leap in PvE; in WvW, you learn where are the safe spots to jump down after a while.
Yep, what Khisanth said.
I have zero interest in town clothes, but I always support more cosmetic options for players, so /signed.
That would depend on whether the increasing price of gold → gems actually drove more people to start buying gems with cash. I’m not convinced it did to a huge extent. In my experience it’s more likely that people who buy gems with cash would have always bought them with cash; they are cash rich, but time poor. In contrast, the people who buy gems with gold are time rich, but cash poor (usually, but not always). If gem prices get to the point where they simply couldn’t keep up anymore, they’d stop buying gems and either leave the game, or complain about prices on forums.