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100% agree, I’ve said this many times
Josh, Justin, and Evan should get some awesome bonuses from ArenaNet for taking the initiative to engage their community at such a level. I’ve been one of the loudest complainers about how little discussion happens between players and devs, and these three are always the silent exception to my complaints.
Can you imagine how much less disconnected the playerbase would be if more devs were this active? We might even feel like this game has a future.
Whoever told you Warriors, Guardians and Elementalists are the only viable classes have a very narrow view of the game and how to play it. I’m guessing it came from a tryhard that considers the majority of the game taking place in Dungeons….
FTFY :P
Competent dungeon runners will tell you that all 7 PvE professions have a place in dungeon runs. The “heavies/eles-only” crowd are typically farmers who rarely leave AC/SE/CoF
Which is amusing, as those dungeons are pretty trivial for any party comp @80s in exotics.
And it’s buried above, but OP mentioned that it was a WvW comm who made that statement.
But my staff hits all of the mobs at once!
Personally, I like having the sell quantity default to one, but I’ve been doing some more active trades lately where I need to slowly bleed my supply into the TP. Having it default to the max quantity was annoying to me because (on rare occasion) I’d end up listing hundreds of items rather than just one, meaning I’d have to either (a) crash the market by flooding supply, or (b) eat a 5% loss by pulling the accidental listings.
What I’d like to see personally is:
- Default quantity is one.
- A “Sell Maximum” button to conveniently increase to the quantity to min(stock, 250).
Worst case scenario with this approach is that you forget to hit “Sell Maximum” and have to spend 3 seconds adding the remaining stock to the listing, with no gold loss.
Worst case scenario with defaulting to maximum is paying a potentially large listing fee for nothing.
Fully agree that the actual revenue (i.e. total price minus listing + exchange fees) should be displayed somewhere explicitly. That would be a very nice QoL change.
Anyway, just my 2c
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Mines gonna be an engi. I have some gems left over from a server transfer to get another slot, just waiting until I get bored again and feel like learning a new class
Do you already have all professions?
Hmm….can I get a vague clue as to the whereabouts of the pineapple tree? (feel free to PM if you want to keep it off the forum)
I miss the old flower mapbreak. Exploring off-path in TA is so much fun, it’s probably the prettiest dungeon IMO
Thanks for the info. We ended up just pulling in a fourth to finish.
That video is awesome, so cool — makes me want to do some exploring
RIP TAFU
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P.S. Braham’s sanctuary bubble does basically nothing, make him put a protection symbol instead or something
It gives you stability so the attacks don’t interrupt the channel. That’s pretty useful
Just some general feedback about the bosses in this last season.
The Good:
Moving away from the DPS-and-dodge design that has dominated the PvE scene is a nice change of pace. Not that the old design was that bad when done well (see: Lupi), but having more active, mobile encounters is fun too. In this last episode, I found these elements of the encounter to be particularly nice additions:
- A wide variety of AoE attacks kept mobility important (sorry necros). The various attacks from the dragon, the bomb-blossoms, and the earthquakes meant you had to pay attention to everything around you.
- Having to tank a hit or two while channeling to light the walls encouraged non-zerk builds.
- DPS wasn’t really necessary for the actual fighting, which synergized well with the above point.
- Alternating between modes to advance the fight was wonderful: Collect light, channel flame, protect flame, fight boss.
I’ve noticed a lot of these elements in fights through the season, and think it’s a definitely a step in the right direction. I’d like to see a nice mix of these more active encounters combined with Lupis in future dungeons — that would make my day.
The Bad:
Too easy: no reset on wipe, OP rezzing by NPCs, actual fight went waaay too fast. Ofc, this is LS so the bar is necessarily lower than it would be in a dungeon, but I’d love to see a more challenging version of these fights in future instances.
The Ugly:
This is my biggest complaint, and the reason I’ll never enjoy these encounters as much as I’d like to: Accessibility.
Yes, the encounters are replayable. We can absolutely play them as many times as we’d like, and even party up to do it. But doing so requires spending an hour or more hopping around the map and clicking through dialogs to advance the story to get at the “interesting” bits. This has prevented me from playing any of these LS encounters more than once or twice.
I work; my playtime is limited. I don’t want to spend an hour speed clicking through dialogs, hopping around the map, and repeating puzzles just to do a 10 minute encounter. It’s not worth it, and poses a significant barrier to replaying (and thus fully enjoying) the content.
So my suggestions:
- Add subchapters to the story journal. Let us jump right into an encounter we want to play. This will make the replayability of these lovely encounters so much more enjoyable.
- Add a hard mode. I understand the current design is to add challenge through the story achievements. But a lot of those are just tedious OCD goals, and once you’ve done them, the challenge is gone. My suggestions for increasing the difficulty without much work on your end: (a) Reset the fight on wipe, (b) don’t provide resbot NPCs, and (.c) increase the damage and health of the boss a bit so it would take 3 or so rounds to finish. This last point would be especially interesting for parties in the last episode, as some players would need to be tanky for lighting walls, while others would need DPS for burning down the boss. Sounds fun to me
- A daily gold reward (something like 35s seems appropriate for a single encounter) would encourage people to add a few of these instances to a daily rotation.
In short, keep up the good work — the PvE encounters are improving, but need more challenge, reward, and accessibility.
Thanks for reading :-)
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Personal story is your character’s storyline that culminates in killing Zhaitan in Arah story mode. Living Story is the two seasons of episodes that have been put out since launch.
Not a big deal, but I was a little confused at first when I saw this thread
stop posting this kittenty videos , no one cares that u waste ur life in this game
We’ve missed you Conaywea. Your hateful nonsense is delightful.
Now a question for you — are you drunk, or just really immature? Or some VGM-like mental illness?
Just curious — sometimes it’s hard to tell
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