I find “Dungeon Master” even better than the green arrow as a soft target indicator.
Nothing screams illusion/style/subtlety/mindgames like a FRIGGIN CHARRZOOKA.
Because it was difficult to balance their servers to handle too many players in too many areas at the same time. With FOTM and the ascended carrot, they’re now all in LA. More predictable, easier to balance, just allocate more resources to LA overflows, there’s no one anywhere else.
In a way, it made GW2 more like GW1 than ever: thousands of players in dozens of instances of the town hub spamming the map chat, and once you leave town, you only meet NPCs.
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8/10, love the fur/sky matching colour schemes. And not charr-related but with the arid landscape and the cat-like female charr, it has a distinct Elder Scrolls Khajiit look.
Here’s my cat having a nap by the docks in Lion’s Arch after some serious partying:
I’d have put 8/10 to the elementalist, since i can’t have enough of charr-based puns.
For Oro Blanco, 5/10, that’s an armour-based nickname, not the name that was given to this Charr on his birth. Too easy. You don’t get to choose your name, as one particular member of my Charr stable knows too well…
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Our Charr had the misfortune of being born during the visit of an asuran commercial delegation well intent of selling some of Rata Sum’s latest inventions to the Black Citadel. One of those inventions was a customisable stone carving golem that they managed to push into the Black Citadel Birth Register on a free trial (the golem would deactivate itself after 30 days). As our black and red ball of fur was born, his proud sire went on his merry way to declare the birth of “Ragnar” (voted most popular cub name at the time by ‘Furball Magazine’ that year).
Unknownst to him, the Charr Stone Carver’s Guild, incensed at the possibility of losing their contract of exclusivity with the Birth
Register, had been plotting the demise of the asuran invention. Having captured a random passing-by Asura, they managed to convince him to give them basics in golem operations in exchange of showing him the way to the Bane PoI which he needed for his 100% map completion. With this information, the CSCG then sent a young-but-promosing novice to sabotage the golem, telling him it was his mandatory
initiation quest, and throwing an underleveled piece of gear (unusable by his class) as a reward should he succeed – which he did – to disconnect the pattern input console from the CPU (Carving Processing Unit).
As our cub’s sire entered the Birth Register at 9:28AM (it officialy opens at 9, but that’s only when they start to have their coffee, and if you’re unhappy about that, have fun trying to make that point to the public sector unions), he was the first Charr to declare a newborn on this fateful day. After filling out the paperwork and waiting patiently for the union-mandated coffee-break, he then spelled “Ragnar” to the Birth Register attendant, which entered it on the golem’s pattern input console, before activating it to immor
talize the new member of the Charr society in the beloved Stone of Births.
Now, Asuran technology, when well-designed and quality controlled, has lots of failsafes and redundant mechanisms to avoid embarassin
g failures. But due to the then economic hardship, the latest Rata Sum budget had felt it wise to drastically cut spending on public research, leading to a number of underfunded projects. In order to meet the deadlines, the typical process was to hire more Ph.Ds and
getting them scared enough of not graduating that they adapt to 2h sleep per night. The downside of course, was that though deadline
s were met, QC was generally thrown out of the window.
As fate would have it, that happened to be the case of the stone carving golem, who, unable to detect the presence of the pattern inp
ut console, produced the corresponding (and correct) error message, just not on the correct output. And there, in the hallowed Stone
of Births, it engraved “Keyboard Not Found”.
As one can imagine, the cub’s sire was not impressed. Multiplying the letters, administrative forms, petitions and other bribes, he f
inally had, to his great shame, to admit defeat. It is said that even on his death-bed, he was still cursing as to why good Charrs had died in droves pushing back and vanquishing the Flame Legion when “All we had to do was send them the Black Citadel Administration, if they weren’t on strike, and Flame’d have surrendered”.
This is the story of a cub that grew to be known as Ragnar only to his closest friends.
This, is the story of Keyboard Not Found of the Blood Legion.
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Maybe someone has an ubur use for a skill I think is useless.
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Veil — never use because if I want it I take mass invis instead.
Veil has a massive advantage over MassInv: it isn’t limited to 5 targets. In WvWvW, it’s a big big difference. Cast in front of a tight melee train about to charge, it makes an entire raid disappear, and only reappear after half the opposition is dead. With the culling problems, the stealth is even longer than what the tooltip says.
So yes, in WvWvW at least, Veil is a major game changer.
Talking about hitting maps hard, Piken got it hard on their own map tonight too! Some absolutely EPIC fights tonight. I’m glad we, Gandara, managed to finally get that hills keep and even some of your north towers/
The Hills battle was good fun. You got pretty unlucky on the first battle in the lord room since for some reason, the waypoint was uncontested, so after you wiped us inside, we could just respawn at the entrance of the room…
Not that it delayed you for too long mind. couldn’t do much to stop you on the second go.
Thing is, in wvwvw at least, it’s the same button as to pick up a lootbag. And due to the pace and the chance that you’ll die a horrible death or just run too far away and miss out on the (inferior) loot, you get used to hit ‘F’ as soon as the brownish-orange ‘Press F to…’ dialog appears. Without reading what it said or thinking about it. Brain goes “orange box! hit F!”.
99 times out of 100, it’s a lootbag, but every now and then i find myself wielding a banner. Or a flaming sword. I curse after the former and giggle while wielding the latter.
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It was unlimited (#, not range) previously.
The patch notes once said “limited to 5 ppl now”.
Another patch note then said “priorize players over NPCs and pets”.
And if people don’t stop mentioning that it is a useful trait, next patch note will say “Restorative Mantra can only apply once every 15 seconds”.
- Portal nerf. After nerf. After already bloody annoying to use nerf. Would it be so difficult to tell the sPvPers to go back to their LoL or DotA and stop balancing skills for boredome, aka, sPvP? I don’t want 60-90s CD on half my skills just because – oh noes – someone died! 30s CD (max!), 5 teleports limit, done. Let me actually use my abilities
30s CD, self-only. Give us back our skill, and cut short the portal bombing/exploit whinge.
How disappointing. I was expecting a pack of perma-stealth thieves camping Omnomberry-gathering spots in EB to deny the opposition access to food.
For start, I would love to see pet’s names remembered after pet change.
Would really like that too.
Speaking of which: Early hours of Monday morning killed a Kodash player just north of Speldan in a 10v10 ish and his Guild tag was (VII)…
Please tell me we don’t have another *Rene*G*ade guild fighting against us..
Lol, no, it’s a different guild, though it seems to be moving a lot between the various german servers. I remember asking them the same question to “our” VII back when we played vs Drakkar Lake.
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Yes, the star is sometimes visible even through keep walls. Until there’s a way to switch it off, there’s no way i’ll complete maps on the mesmer.
