Zhed’s dead, baby. Zhed’s dead.
As i said, it’s a glimps into the past. Who knows when they met.
Zhed is dead by that time though, the earliest they could ahve met was about 25-30 years ago, and thats still 225-220 years for zhed still to be alive, not to mention be on an entirely different continent.
Also, i think the purple haired sylvary might ahe something to do with caithe’s secret, maybe she killed her to keep what they found hidden?
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I understand what you’re getting at Mad Queen Malafide. I mean, the Anet’s communication about any changes is basically nill. We have no idea they have done something half the time till long after the fact. I’m pretty sure I paid for armor repairs just the other day too. It’s not a universal swap yet.
And actually, as a new players starting out the inconsistencies do build up. I remember the other week, trying to help my friend and her husband sort out how to do a few fights. Both of them were veteran gamers, but the issue was that the consistency between creatures changes. With the Mordrim we’ve been learning to go ranged on the wolves, close on the squid plants (thrashers?). Otherwise death happens. WoW had a creature once, Anubisites or something like this, which spawned with a random set of abilities. Some of the combinations were impossible to defeat. That meant the raid was over for that week or until a means to go around the creature was figured out impromptu.I don’t really complain about the new goat-dragon with this week’s patch: new creature, new mechanics. However, when the mechanics are arbitrarily swapped it is pretty confusing what is to be done.
Now, could players work together? Yeah, sure, but I’ve quit blaming players a long time ago. If you don’t make your game so that players have to learn to work their brains they won’t have brains. That’s like a parent doing their child’s homework and then being upset at the child for failing their tests in school. “But they do fine at home…”
Any change is always written down in the patch notes, it takes a couple of minutes to read through them at most. And i’m pretty sure you didn’t pay for armor repair awhile ago, since its been about a year or so that’s its free and its not a process that takes time, it was a one time change taking immediate effect.
Really? I always go melee on the wolves (since tehy are pretty kitten hard to get away from anyway) and range the trashers to avoid the gooey path they leave behind and the healing circle on the other one different tactics, that isn’t an inconsistency.
Not quite sure what you mean by mchanics being arbitrarily swapped so won’t comment on that
Or why not simply not damage the armor of players? Isn’t that a more sensible solution? If armor repairs are free, and armor is not needed in the maze, then why damage the armor at all?
if you don’t want to go to repair everytime you get killed in the maze, get naked
doesn’t make a difference.
As for the rest of the game, the repair function is to make dead matter, the more you die in a fight, the more armor breaks. Hence, pushing the players not to die so tehy don’t break there armor and have to face a bos naked.
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This is just so confusing. I’m pretty sure I was paying for my armor repairs yesterday at Camp Resolve.
The design seems all over the place. Now you pay for armor repairs, now you don’t. Now you have magic find, now you don’t, and now every boss drops champion bags which negate magic find entirely. Now we have bosses that have indomitable, and pretty much negate half the game’s combat mechanics entirely! Some items are account bound, some are not, and some are character bound on acquire. Some items can be salvaged, some cannot, even if they are of the same item-type as items that you can salvage (which is especially fun after doing Fractals, and getting that gold item that you cannot sell, thanks!). Some transformation tonics can be traded, some cannot, because they are account bound. Now we have dye drops, now we don’t, but now we do because they still drop from quest rewards. Now we unlock skills as we use a weapon, and now we unlock them with every few levels. Now we buy traits with skill points, and now we have to unlock them by killing certain champions.
-Breaths deeply-
Speaking of which! Veteran enemies, Champion enemies, Elite enemies, Legendary enemies! Some champions and elites take a lot of players to take down, some can be easily taken down solo. I no longer know the difference. Now we have red rings of death that you have to dodge, but we also have red rings that hardly do any damage at all. And now with the living story we have orange rings of certainly death, and we have exceptions where the orange attacks are still painful, but not deadly. And now we have a maze filled with enemies that insta-kill people, for no apparent reason. Want to bet that these very same enemies will not be insta-killing us in the next Living Story chapter?
This game has turned into such an inconsistent mess!
It isn’t really an inconsistent mess though, changes happen and you can learn about those both in the patch notes as well as just by playing and paying attention.
Armor repairs have been free for about a year now, just because you didn’t notice it doesn’t mean it is confusing, just that paying a bit more attention would help a lot of heartache.
All those things were either explained during their respective intro-patch or have been so since the start of the game which means there’s been plenty of time getting used to it all
The reason why champs/elites/etc can sometimes be easier with lower amount of people is scaling. While sure it may seem bit weird that its easier with less than more ppl it also make sense that the more people who are there the harder the boss should be to avoid a complete steamrolling of the bosses.
Red rings = bad, no need to know any more than that, orange rings are just fancy red rings. Whether they kill you instantly or do little dmg still better to avoid them.
Now to the Labyrinth, no it isn’t enough to get to the center with the first flower buff, there is a second near the center path you can pass through to extend it if you really want to get to the center at the very start (bad idea since those wolves come from the center , so better to walk around a bit first) but besides the buff which doesn’t always last long enough, here’s where your skils do sort of matter, speedboosts to outrun, invulnerabilities/dodge abilites to avoid dmg and dodging the wolves works too. A simple speedboost can keep you ahead of a wolf long enough to find another blossom (if you don’t trip or make a mistake ofc)
And no these creatures likely won’t be in the next living story, they weren’t in the story part this week either. The labyrinth is basically a nice minigame you can do after defending those towers and the rewards arent that bad. The little chests gives you greens and T5 mats sometimes T6 mats and champion bags and even a full key for the center. The center gives 3 champ bags a rare and some other stuff which isnt too shabby.
As to your idea that a tower defense kind of game would have been better i couldn’t disagree more. There is no reason why everything should be the exact same thing, defend here, defend that, kill those, kill that. We’ve got plenty of that ingame already and its nice to actually have something else to do. I enjoy very much trying my hardest to stay alive as long as possible. My best on my ranger was dieing only twice the whole time (i’m not counting attempts on my thief coze its quite easy with stealth) It’s a nice change of pace and still gives nice stuff to do. You’ve spent about an hour killing and defending stuff, now here you can ust try surviving and having fun doing it. It may not be you thing and thats okay hopefully they’ll add something more to your liking next patch.
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Female norn 1 has an alternative in the black lion hairstyle kit. Human 2 has been transferred to norn female. Human 3 is the only one truly missing, which is a shame beause it’s a good one.
Ya I know that already, but I would like to have these back as they should be back, both for Human and Norn.
Though I am loosing my hope about this…I would love the third one, don’t really care for the first one, but the second one isn’t going to be added to the human females, hairstyles are race specific so they won’t add a norn hairstyle to humans. (even if it was there during the beta)
Well, Human female and Human Norn do actually have one same hairstyle.
Can’t find the picture atm, but check it yourself. :p
It’s a long hairstyle with some sort of thing on her head.And yes, I just love the third one aswell, that’s one of the reasons why I created my main as a Mesmer. I was so sad when I didn’t find the hairstyle or the armor ingame after the Beta.
Totally forgot that one i stand corrected. The second would be nice to be added to humans indeed
Female norn 1 has an alternative in the black lion hairstyle kit. Human 2 has been transferred to norn female. Human 3 is the only one truly missing, which is a shame beause it’s a good one.
Ya I know that already, but I would like to have these back as they should be back, both for Human and Norn.
Though I am loosing my hope about this…
I would love the third one, don’t really care for the first one, but the second one isn’t going to be added to the human females, hairstyles are race specific so they won’t add a norn hairstyle to humans. (even if it was there during the beta)
sorry for bumping my own thread but the recent trailer made me want to say this:
i think the egg might be taken to Glints crystal place. you know, to take advantage of what glint left behind, ion cannons, crystals, egg. in many movies and games, crystals can be used to purify energy into beams (real life as well i guess).
the vision seemed to make that obvious if you ask me.
also, people told me the dragon in the vision that is being deterred by lasers was the shadow elder dragon, but it looks similar to the dragon weve seen in the recent trailer.
[tl:dr] were gonna get egg, take it to crystal place, almost kill the dragon in the trailer, then mordremoth is gonna interrupt us and do something to the egg.
Glint’s lair (the crystal place) isn’t located where the MAster of Peace s heading with the egg, it’s quite far from it really
Abaddon didn’t go insane, he wanted revenge for what the gods did to him just because he wanted to go through with giving the humans magic, whereas the other 5 turned on him and told him no.
That is why he flipped his kitten.
Some believe it is because he thought we needed magic to even have a chance against the elder dragons and he was going to stop at nothing to try to get it to us.
It’s possible the other 5 gods decided that they were going to flee while the dragons were awake and let civilization die and start over, and Abaddon was trying to save us by giving us the weapons to defend ourselves.
Ever been to the realm of torment, I’d say he went nuts alright :P
Except, you know, Abaddon basically made the Realm of Torment his kitten. Yes he was still trapped at the heart of the realm of torment, but his influence started turning it into his own world, all the while still plotting Nightfall and figuring out a way to get back into the mortal realm.
Yeah I mean that he did that to the realm, that is not exactly a sign of sanity is it
Not necessarily an effect of insanity, could very well be intense anger and hatred that caused the realm to twist like that.
I wonder if that’s alluding to something. Glint was a dragon prophet. Was she a prophet simply because she spoke of things no one but her knew? Or because she could actually see into the future?
Could part of Glint’s soul have survived? Hidden within her realm?
Or hidden in an egg that was conveniently kept in stasis
What VitalSuit said, you don’t change map by waypointing, you change map by accepting and lfg and joining someone else or when a request comes up or by relogging (doesnt always work) but yea, next time you want to change map, use the lfg
Another example, would be Nick’s book about the Bloodstone – how could Nick know this stuff? I mean, the Priory had to learn it from somewhere, sure, and it’s plausible Nicholas Sandford could know the Seer’s ties to the Bloodstone and the truth of Abaddon’s gift of magic, but the chances of that are so unlikely even given his travels and ties to Durmand.
The description says “Notes taken by a young Nicholas in discussion with his friend Durmond”.
I’m aware of this. But that doesn’t answer my question of how Nicholas – especially a young Nicholas – could learn things long hidden from human history for centuries/millenniums.
Also: I don’t think Nicholas knew Durmand until after the Searing – he was no longer “young” then.
Depends on your definition of young
anyhow, it’s not completely out of the range of possibilites that his connection with Durmand led him to learn more about this. He was quite the traveler afterall, maybe his travels have led to him picking up some stories here or there are things that not many know off. (God i hope i’m talking about the right nicholas ^^ the one with the dolyak right? )
Yes i know this could be a bit of a stretch, but it’s not impossible.