IMO, here is how this will most likely play out:
The living story already has a destination, for example, personal story’s destination was to get to Orr, kill Zhaitan.
Yes you do get to pick different paths while getting to your destination but in the end did you change the story? looking at the big picture no.
What you will change is going to be which NPC will accompany us in this journey, Evon or Kiel – yes one shows low morals and the other seems to be a bit thankless by taking all the credit when us (players) did all the work.
Now so what are we really voting for?
like my previous posts stated: Content is what will be impacted the most.
Right now as it stands, the only content we get to pick between is either:
Abaddon Fractal if we pick Evon – more epic due to the 6 god we get to encounter (most likely)
or
Reactor if we pick Kiel
Also to address the decision between Waypoints & Black lion keys
Waypoint cost reduction will only save you at the very most maybe 4-5g over the 4 week period. This can be earned in 1 hour.
compare this to the cost of just 1 Black lion key (Ik, many dont buy the keys but still from a cost prespective you have to consider the comparison)
400gems, if you were to convert gold to gems will cost approx: 13g.
So once again, the real decision is between the fractals, so please make the better choice and lets go with the Abaddon fractal which showcases events that pre-date even those off GW1.
Vote for Evon!!!
Edge, honestly it doesnt really matter what the dialogues of a NPC says.
It is all about what content us players will be able to enjoy down the line.
That is how we need to be making our decisions, not based on fluff.
This isnt about what happened in GW1, you need to get your facts straight.
This is about fall of Abaddon, this is about events pre-dating any content you played in the first game.How is fighting alongside 5 gods to kill a 6th not going to epic?
Pull your heads out of the ground and vote for Evon.The same reason none of the big fights in this game – up to and including Zhaitan himself – have been epic. So if the fight itself isn’t going to be anything special, then I’m voting on lore. And even if we were just voting for fractals (we aren’t), I already know the lore surrounding Abaddon’s fall and I know next to nothing about the events leading to and immediately after the reactor meltdown. So why should I vote for Evon?
The fact of the matter is you can go to Metrica province and see the reactor already in the game, you can also play COE very similary to asuran disasters gone wrong, you can also play the Asuran fractal where you have to run past harpies to fight the boring golems at the end. – There is too much boring reactor/Inquest content already, we seriously dont need any more of the same content, and yes it will be pretty much the same.
Instead, bringing in the first sight on the gods will be far more exciting.
By end of Friday, Kiel was leading by 48k votes, this is quite depressing to say the very least.
Please do not pass up on the most epic content you will encounter in the game.
Vote for Evon!!!!
This isnt about what happened in GW1, you need to get your facts straight.
This is about fall of Abaddon, this is about events pre-dating any content you played in the first game.
How is fighting alongside 5 gods to kill a 6th not going to epic?
Pull your heads out of the ground and vote for Evon.
Never been a cat person.
It doesnt matter who is on the council, you want exciting epic content that showcases a battle againt a god + possibly u get to see 5 other gods ?
Or
you want a boring reactor with asurans runnign around ?
If you want this choice, go play COE, it already exists in the game.
Lets go for something new, fresh and exiciting like battling Abaddon.
#Vote for Evon!!!!
The only thing that should matter is the Fractal choice here, rest is all bull crap.
If you think about that clearly and dont let yourself get swayed by the rest, Evon is the only choice.
Abaddon fractal is going to insanely epic, the reactor is going to be boring.
Dont make the mistake of regretting your choice later on, c’mon vote for Evon!!!!!
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Just to put it out there, I think its not really a “true” successor.
But also need to point out that your 3rd option isnt exactly a Neutral choice.
only 2 of your options say “yes” and the other 3 are basically “no”.
So your vote is not going to net you accurate results unless u were hoping for a vast majority of players to vote one way.
Cyan, the 28 pgs of post here are from people very passionate about the game. They certainly arent going to up and leave but they want to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Also for us to convince Anet to bring back Cantha will require a ton of noise and support.
the next step will be to start petitioning outside the doors of their HQ lol…
ok if Izzy is also on Evon’s side, then its a done deal =D
go Evon all the way!!!
Srsly tho, Abbaddon is gonna be like 50x more epic than any reactor explotion so to me this is not even a discussion.
28 pages, wow! this thread is unstoppable.
Go Cantha! we want an expansion, even if we have to wait an enitre year.
Take your time if you have to but please give us news that you will start work on it and we will fund it.
Heck if you want pre-sales for it, I am sure u will get over a 100k copies sold within 24 hours if you announced it.
Bring Back Cantha and while we wait for it, please add UW and Fow to the current game.
Some sort of construction has begun, maybe Canthans snuck in the Zephyr ship n made their way to Divinity’s reach and have started building a place to live?
new playable races won’t come before Q3 2014, and that is wishful thinking.
I doubt that they will be introduced as a living story update and currently there is no talk about even creating a campaign.
Valid points from both sides and I feel GW 2 is a good game but it can be amazing.
Where can GW2 improve?
End game + risk/rewards – this is where the issue lies for me.
GW1 had several elite areas: UW, FOW, Deep, Urgoz, DOA.
Rich content and these were so much fun that people still ran them even 6 years after.
Each area also had good rewards, while most were still RNG dependent, yet still rewarding. Each mob had a chance to drop an ecto or a shard or a gem depeneding on the area u were at.
Trash mobs in GW1 elite areas = worth killing.
Trash mobs in GW2 dungeons = skip em, stealth past since crap drops
While GW2 has given guaranteed tokens at the end of dungeon, what do i do when i have a max armor set, do I want to run that dungeon any more?
No the tokens are absolutley rubbish, now i can trade them for ridiculous conversion rates for an exotic to forge 4 exotics to make 1g after the TP takes 15% cut…sigh
end game pve? Cof p1
I wont lie, i ran this dungeon many times over but I am bored of it.
And of all the remaining dungeons in the game
Why does Anet not bring these elite areas into the game?
With the new events sytems, the previous quests can easily be substituted for these areas.
Its been 1 year since launch and all we have encountered is 1 Elder Dragon….
Where are the remaining 5? Are you going to release them 1 every 2 years?
So I have to play this game for 12 years to fight of them?
Guild wars and no guild vs guild available is another troll btw…
No guild halls…
We want permanent content, that a player can repeat.
Also please stop with the annoyning account bound items. Any drops or items acquired by chests should be soul bound on use.
Ori nodes and any other T6 mat notes spawn only once per character per 24 hrs.
What an obnoxious thread, just because of this, I will now vote for Evon.
We need to tie the votes and make anet add both fractals, I hope there is a live counter we cant watch when the voting starts.
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What you did with the soldier weps is not an exploit, its a bug that anet needs to fix.
All Weps acquired by trading in WvW tokens or dungeon tokens should be visible in the Forge window.
Gold Find already will take a heavy hit when they change dungeons.
They have already mentioned that instead of champs dropping gold throughout a dungeon, it will instead now drop champ reward boxes.
Also you will only get gold as a end dungeon reward, since that final reward wont be coming from a boss drop, it will not be an increased # do to any extra gold find.
In other words, Gold Find, which was mostly useful in dungeons is now going to be almost completely useless.
How is this thread relevant to the living story?
or to the BOTFW?
Regarding the topic:
It is useless to you but other might benefit from it.
I for one wouldn’t mind a scroll that gives +10 levels being sold in BLTC.
I hope these Champ reward boxes actually drop something rewarding and not just a blue or a green…
After playing this game a couple of times, I end up wining every time, it gets boring so I usually sit near the finish line and let someone else get first place.
There is almost no difference in the reward between first and 2nd place so I could care less tbh.
Also I love the idea about getting matched against better players, since the 2nd day of the even, I haven’t come even close to losing.
Keep getting kicked to desktop during games
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did you figure out the reason behind this?
I have the exact same issue now…
I load the game, go to WvW EB JP, attack a person and then bam same error.
—> Crash <—
Assertion: !m_buffs.Find(buffId)
File: ..\..\..\Game\Combat\Cli\CmbtCliBuff.cpp(338)
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 2348
Cmdline: -testVerticalFov
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 20681
When: 2013-07-10T22:36:17Z 2013-07-10T15:36:17-07:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:01:50
Flags: 0×1
Find a Mesmer for hire, pay for portal and get your achievement…or learn to jump.
I think they need to add the Halloween JP on top of SM, once players cap SM, finish the Halloween JP, where the players will meet Lupicus.
Once Lupicus is defeated, the entrance to Obsidian JP should open up, and finally once players get to the top of the puzzle, they can get to the kite.
As it stands now, Obsidian JP alone is super easy, please provide more challenging content.
Like stated above, its an achievement. Some will require you to do stuff you may not enjoy, others might.
It is optional like almost everything else in the game.
As the great Sheldon Cooper said: “We have to take in nourishment, expel waste and breathe in enough oxygen to keep our cells from dying. Everything else is purely optional”
Yet, something tells me that a life that’s reduced to fullfilling the non-optional tasks would be pretty boring, don’t you think?
The point I’m trying to make is: The fact that it’s optional isn’t really a reason for people not to want it to be good and entertaining.
While Im sure Shelden Cooper might have said that, it doesn’t change the fact that achievements will be spread throughout the game.
Arguing this point is useless, a simple “BAZINGA” after I stomp your corpse will suffice =D
Like stated above, its an achievement. Some will require you to do stuff you may not enjoy, others might.
It is optional like almost everything else in the game.
Everything is account bound, you can look at the pictures of the armors that show the tool tip, it says account bound in the recipe page.
I agree tho, the final items should not be account bound, but unfortunately they are…
I hope the new back pieces being released in BOTFW glow in dark just like the fire book back piece which can be used to complete the dark room without going out of stealth.
edit: The Fire book back piece can no longer be acquired tho ;(
If that is the case then completing this puzzle will be a breeze, even for people who don’t like pvp.
It isn’t but it is catered towards the WvW players since its in a familiar territory for them and just unlike the other 99% achievements in the open world.
the puzzle is extremely easy on any char if you utilize the perma stealth fountains located at 3 different places.
Achievements being equally distributed for all player types is the best way to go, which is exactly what anet is doing.
A lot of wvw players can cry about achievements only being put in open world but they don’t so quit crying every time an achievement is added for Wvw players.
The Asurans are finally able to construct portals into Underworld & Fizzure of Woe.
This will be the first actual elite area added into the game and finally some end game.
Call in the exterminator?!!!!
After watching the recent interview and several posts from Colin, this seems a big led down.
Living story approach is pretty cool but for the hundredth time, it is like giving a pacifier to a child who really just wants a new toy.
We want permanent content that opens up new areas, new farming spots, adds more rich end game.
Your main objective behind living story has been to make it seem that the world is changing. Now doing this with a 2 week temporary content does not make me feel this.
Instead, imagine the addition of Cantha, allow us to play 2 new races The Tengu and perhaps another…New cities, areas, build on the previous lore.
New places, dungeons, Elite Areas.
The game is lacking End game – Providing Elite areas such as Underworld, Fizzure of Woe.
More effort provides better rewards, meaning harder content will give guaranteed better rewards.
These are the changes that the game needs today.
I will gladly pay a full price of a new game for an expansion, instead the game is being run by selling minipets and costumes which cant be used in combat….
people will always complain no matter what Anet does, but this is definitely a step in the right direction.
Disagree with the OP.
Dailies and monthlies will allow the newer players to gain the points needed to get to those thresholds quite quickly. They might not catch up in ranking right away but they started the game a year later, what do they expect to have everything starting off?
Removing the AP from dailies and monthly is a terrible idea, also the vets that do the dailies/monthly every day will slowly burn out and that’s where the newer players can finally catch up.
The only relief a new player should get is the following:
All living story achievements should be added to fractals, so they can still be acquired by new players.
Any festival achievements on the other hand will be based on time of the year and the new players can get those when that time of the year rolls around.
That will be the most “fair” system, this will still give veterans something to brag about as their daily/monthly AP count will be far more unless they stop doing them and let others catch up.
Also one more quick point, some achievements like collecting 5 legendary weapons should definitely award more than just 5 AP.
A legendary weapon requires u to play through almost every aspect of the game and should grant significantly higher points – imo, around 20 or 50 AP per wep and if u collect all 5, it should give you additional 100 maybe even 250.
Some other harder AP should also award more than what they currently do.
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This a step in the right direction, very exicited to see the rewards from here on out.
Tie this along with balacing out the Effort/Reward system for dungeons will really put the game back on track.
Nearly 9k achivement points here, looking forward to seeing the new armor, weapons =D
It is actually clealry noted when you run with another character who is running the same mission as your current level that if you choose to accept their progress, this will update your choice and story as well.
So this is actually working as intended, most people just click skip very quickly to read all the notes, i will post a screenshot here next time i run a story with a friend.
Underworld, Fizzure of Woe, Domain of Anguish, Urgoz Warren, Deep.
More than one, but Underworld would be my first choice =D
Lol, your post is quite amusing. Everyone knows the definition of an achivement.
And i understand the model of having limited time content but the post is not asking to hand anyone an achievement, instead giving the new players a shot to re-play some of the temporary content that is no longer in the game.
I personally have every living story ahievement completed but my friend is not so fortunate. So the request is to bring back the temp content in a year or when certain time has passed so these players can check the empty boxes.
What is the answer to this question?
Do they have to wait a year, if yes then that is fine but if they can never get the chance to complete these ever in the future then putting these limited time achievements is a terrible idea.you also can’t get the achievement points from previous monthlies/ dailies. Just tell them that they can do current living story achievements and if they’ll still for a long haul on average they’ll be higher on achievement points than most people, because the very oldest veterans with the most achievement points will probably slow down and not play the game as much as they did before.
See for them its not about being high on the achievement ranking, for them its about having the achievements in the Achivement tabs checked. It might not seem a big deal to others but it is a big deal for someone who is OCD lol.
So all this is very exciting but i have some new friends who came to the game and they are also what you can call “Achievement wh0res” They look at their achivement tabs and asked me one question. “Can i still complete these living story achivements?”
What is the answer to this question?
Do they have to wait a year, if yes then that is fine but if they can never get the chance to complete these ever in the future then putting these limited time achievements is a terrible idea.
Its because dulfy is a sky pirate, she is an NPC that evolved outside the boundaries of the game.
A item that has infinite uses to reset your traits.
You can use a transmutation stone to transmute the skin to a white item, this will keep the weapon as lengdary but convert it from soul bound to Account bound.
Then you move it to the character you desire, use a 2nd transmutation stone, this time get a max stat exotic and transmute again, once again pick the skin of legendary and stat of the exotic and you are done.
On side note, Porthos go back to AB =P
Please close this thread.
+1 to Anet for putting achievements for WvW players, i hope every patch has atleast 1-2 achievements that is located at the end of this JP or possibly the 3rd level of SM.
At this point the achievement points are inflated and a lot of bad players are ahead just because they have no life.
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2-3 hours of COF for 3 days will easily net you 30g. It takes way more dungeon runs to get you a full set of dungeon armor.
So the time it takes u to get the gems for this is actually better than a dungeon armor you grind if it was permanent.
So stop whinining and complaining and get the armor by doing cof runs if you really want it.
Please stop complaining, there is no RNG with the armor set.
If you really want it then either shell out gold or bring out the credit cards, you dont have to absolutlely have it, it is just a skin with no stats.
Underworld Orb
This orb can be used to travel into Underworld as a fresh instance, the underworld would be a replica of GW1 and the quests will function as events.
Fissure of Woe Orb
This orb can be used to travel into Fissure of Woe as a fresh instance, Fow would be a replica of GW1 and the quests will function as events.
Domain of Anguish Orb
This orb can be used to travel into DOA as a fresh instance, DOA would be a replica of GW1 and the quests will function as events.
Deep Orb
Same description as others
Urgoz Warren Orb
Same description as others
These orbs can be a one time use if needed, these areas will provide extremely rare and cool looking weapons but in order to enter, 5 players will pool in their gold – convert to gems and open the instance.
Or someone can spend real $$.
Ofc the skins dropped from these instances can then be sold on TP for profit so these players can make some money back.