Idea for second season: no second season achievements, only the rewards for getting first, second or third place.
About the Living Story’s “story”… (Maybe it’s already been suggested, in which case I apologize).
I would like to see journal-like entries that record the events that the character went through, much like we have for the personal story. It’s sometimes hard to keep interest in the story when we get small pieces here and there, this way it can be more eloquently written/bundled and make the story a bit more interesting again.
Something like this seems so obvious, that maybe a similar thing is already implemented and I just overlooked it. Sorry if that’s the case. (Not talking about the ingame mails that call you to where the living story takes place, although I like those mails from npc’s as well)
I only read the stuff in the OP, not the later schedules, but I loved every bit of it.
Even though it’s obviously just an example of what could be done, I hope Anet reads it and gains some inspiration or stuff to think about.
Btw, I don’t necessarily dislike Scarlet, but the lack of any plot makes every new update a shallow achievement grind. I know that Anet can do way better in terms of stories, which is why I am so frustrated with the current LS.
This isn’t challenging content; it’s badly designed content (the open world tower; the instances were fun, albeit easy).
I completed this meta in about 2-3 hours and I’m by no means a skilled player. It’s just frustrating with all the cc in a cramped place.
Many people like me will not be heading in there again any time soon, so I can see why it’s already a ghost-town in low population servers.
Next time when I was gonna help my friend to the top there where no zerg just a few players dieing. After a few tries running I stopped and told my friend to kill everything on the way up and darn it all how easy it all when until a player ran past us with a huge mob after him and we all whiped thanks to this one dude rushing through.
This. It frustrates me to no end.
Completed the meta, never going back. I did like the instances though, they were fun.
I understand Anet’s position, in that they don’t want to spend recourses on extra translations. Thus, I feel Anet should have just prohibited the use of lyrics. That way, the talent of directing a music video with GW2 material would be the most important thing. Now the lyrics and quality of singing voice will also be a factor, which will probably discourage a lot of talented people. And allowing the music to be modified should be enough to encourage people to show off their added musical genius.
I just don’t like any ‘English or gtfo’ attitudes, which is the vibe I get from some of the responses here (not necessarily Anet’s comment).
Agreed, I need to be earlier with the exploits as well. I finally did T4 on Kiel, then did T4 and T3 on Evon, always managing 2 plunder spawn points active. Of course the Evon achievement bugged and I didn’t get credit for the achievement (even though I clearly completed both T3 and T4). Now there are 3 plunderers spawning with even more veterans that come to follow you up to the armor repair. Sorry for my whining, but this does tick me off quite hard.
So yeah, lesson for the future: learn any exploits early on and be rewarded for it ^^
Same problem here. I first completed all 4 tiers for Kiel, then went to Evon’s instance and completed tier 4 and 3, in that order. After completing t4, it updated to 1/2, but it didn’t update after completing t3.
I haven’t tried doing t4 again, because it’s very frustrating and not as easy for me as it is for some others out there (well, the difficulty is obviously the same, I’m just not that good a player ><).
Hope they fix this.
Still broken…
NA Jade Quarry server; playing from Europe… same error code
Tried to sell something on the TP, it got stuck on “Selling” and I couldn’t buy/sell anything anymore after that. Logged out to try and fix it and now I can’t log back in.
Build: 17121
Error Code: 42:6:3:2158
NA Jade Quarry
Happened to me 3 times so far. Two times shortly after eachother in WvW, but hasn’t happened to me there for a week or two (only got the game for about a month now).
It just happened to me now when I did my personal story and had to fight undead, while under the form of Balthazar. Hope it gets fixed soon.