I don’t miss the boosters really so that’s not a big deal to me. Perhaps in the non-seasonal times instead of the current ToT bag it will be boosters, we don’t know that yet. So those that like getting the boosters will still have a way to get those.
I love the guaranteed wardrobe unlock. I’ve long been working on unlocking skins so I have all of the regular dyes unlocked (just missing the new special ones), I have all the basic crafted skins unlocked and I have quite a few minis. The things that are left for me to get unlocked are things that I mostly want.
I wound up with 7 wardrobe unlocks. I got:
Mini Ghost Droobert
2 dyes
4 Black Lion weapon skins, one of which was the Sclerite Longbow (and none are available on the TP for that one).
The wardrobe unlocks encouraged me to finally use my 4th birthday dyes too so that I could ensure I removed a few more possibilities from the unlock table.
Overall, I really like the change and I’m curious to see what the contents are like between holidays.
Here is my giant wish list. I tried to be conservative on what should be added.
General Items
Blade Shards
Amalgamated Gemstones
Vision Crystals
Lesser Vision Crystals
Chak Eggs
Reclaimed Metal Plates
Tenebrous/Shimmering Crystals
Copper/Silver/Gold/Platinum Doubloons
Blood Rubies/Petrified Wood
Gold Fractal Relics
Gift of Exploration
Gift of Maguuma
Gift of the Fleet
Gift of Tarir
Gift of the Chak
Gift of the Jungle
Gift of Battle
Unidentified Fossilized Insect
Legendary Insights
Indigo Mushroom
Clay Bricks
Could have a section for Mystic common forge items
Bloodstone Shard (maybe)
Eldritch Scroll (maybe)
Augur Stone (please. I like to have these on hand when I need them)
Mystic Crystal
Philosopher Stone
Mystic Forge Stone
Mystic Binding Agent
Mystic Runestone
Scribe Things
Crystalline Bottle
Milling Basin
Bag of Mortar
Tub of Wood Glue
Scribe Paper (While it is a crafted mat maybe this could be an exception as I’d think of this as a refined version much like wood planks)
Alpine Lumber Core
Arid Lumber Core
Coastal Lumber Core
Krytan Lumber Core
Ascalonian Lumber Core
Palm Lumber Core
Festive Transom
Rare Flower Seed
Jungle Grass Seed
Ascalonian Blueprint
Feldspar Core
Visage of Kormir
Visage of Dwayna
Visage of Lyssa
Visage of Grenth
Visage of Balthazar
Lucky Draketails (It is used for scribing. Candy Canes are depositable and used for crafting, these should be too)
Pristine Feather
Auric Crown
Essence of Elegance
Bolt of Embroidered Silk
Essence of Time
Essence of Light
Essence of Elegance
Badge of Tribute
Giant Mushroom Spore
Lamp Finial
Tattered Bat Wing
Pruning Shear
Linen Rope (Refined version of flax fiber like wood planks)
Stein of Hearty Ale (only used in 1 recipe so far so it is a stretch)
(The following could go either way. These are the items that drop. I’d lean towards not including them to encourage people to turn them into the guild hall rather than save them)
Yeah, just like regular dailies the Halloween ones’ pop up acts like it gives you AP, but because of the cap AP is not actually rewarded. That has to be one of the most confusing things to people who hit the cap but don’t know a cap exists. At least things like Agent of Entropy don’t falsely tell you that you’ve gotten AP when you haven’t really.
You should, however, receive 1 AP for each Halloween Daily, I believe.
You don’t. After you’re daily capped you don’t get those AP from the Halloween dailies either. I checked that last night as I was curious and those don’t give AP. :-/
And also if the skritt spawns on terrain higher than where the stash is, the skritt just stands there and you never get your loot. (I submitted an in-game bug report regarding this so they should have the data somewhere about that)
The big gold star for finishing story achievements: Do I really have to spend 1k gold to get the circus patron to get the big shiny gold star for finishing the episode? What gives, am I just missing something else?
In response to myself: I discovered that you DO NOT need to buy the Patron pass to get the big gold star. You do however, need to complete the one hidden achievement from Ember Bay in order to get the Gold Star to appear. That is really good to know.
Story was amazing. The new zone is amazing. Overall, I’m loving the new zone and the enemies, but there were a few things I feel are lacking.
My couple of gripes:
Bloodstone Rubies & Petrified Stumps: Please put these in the wallet. Pristine Fractal relics also used to be a physical item, but you solved the issue of them being a salvage item by adding a vendor option to receive a bag of the salvaged currency. Please add a vendor option to trade the rubies/stumps for a RNG bag of magic that will give you the same chances as we do now. I’d like to be able to play the new zones on multiple characters without taking up more bank space or remembering to move the stumps/rubies to a new character.
The Jade Armor Heart: Killing the Ether towers don’t always count towards the heart and killing the vet jades count for two little progress for how long they take to kill. This heart overall feels like it takes forever to finish compared to the others.
JP Checkpoints: I wish that the Jumping puzzle checkpoints gave you a buff similar to the one you get in the silverwastes puzzle so you can visually see and check that you indeed hit the checkpoints and did not miss one.
Bosses that give stumps: Each of the bosses that come up should award at least 1-3 stumps daily. Now that I know the Jade Boss or the others do not award stumps upon completion, I just won’t do them unless it’s a daily. Since the stumps don’t go to my wallet I’m reluctant to bring other characters there so unless the stump currency is a reward, why should I bother with the other bosses?
The big gold star for finishing story achievements: Do I really have to spend 1k gold to get the circus patron to get the big shiny gold star for finishing the episode? What gives, am I just missing something else?
Why does the point always have to be a circle? What about a square or a rectangle or an octagon…perhaps giving the point the same amount of area, but in the form a different shape would give way to some new strategies on how to cap/hold/take a point. Most traps are circles, so if the point were square shaped, there would be some wiggle room around traps/aoes in theory.
I have not gotten the fractal tonic, but my husband has gotten two and two of my other friends have each gotten one. So they do still drop (just not for me).
I made that mistake once too. I put in a support ticket, explained the situation. They had me destroy the weapon I bought on the wrong character and they sent me a replacement via mail that I could then pick up on the correct character.
I agree, there’s no reason these need to be soulbound. Account bound is fine for these.
I hit the cap not too long ago. Still do dailies because of the 2g. It’s dumb because in game when you finish dailies it still acts like you got 10AP, but you don’t because of the “hidden” cap. Other repeatable achievements actually show 0AP gain when you do them again.
The historical problem was when each daily gave AP separately that “forced” AP hunters to do every single daily and that did take hours. Now, we don’t have to do all of them to get every AP possible just the 3 easiest ones and that takes a couple minutes.
I would like the cap removed….or the new achievements give more than 1AP. The amount of AP we’ve been getting from new achievements has been pitiful.
I thought I heard that the Zephyrite Color Swatch dyes were not bound, just the special kits were account bound. I never picked one of those to test it, but I guess not? Perhaps someone with a “useless” kit could try it to verify.
I don’t press F5 on my keyboard, I actually click that skill in the UI.
Mhm, I’ve tested that and it turns out there is a corellation with clicking on the UI and the weird behaviour of CA. I’ve rebind CA to a different key and it looks like it works perfectly fine, but if i click CA on the UI it cancels it o.o
Interesting…I may have to see if I can find an unused key and rebind it and see if it still happens. It doesn’t always happen though, just sometimes. It’s odd.
I thought I was crazy or doing something wrong, but yeah this has been happening to me too. Sometimes it cancels instantly, sometimes I’m able to cast one skill then it cancels and sometimes it doesn’t bug out at all.
I don’t press F5 on my keyboard, I actually click that skill in the UI.
A couple friends of mine and I killed all the lvl 81 harpies for the failure event so I could finish that collection. That was sometime last week though, you’d think the event would have happened again unless they stopped the event from happening until they figure out why the mobs were lvl 81.
its a valid complaint tho. lots of posts ask for some way to just pvp, literally youse guys vs us guys (or gals). just let us battle, forget all this capping pts, respawning, mobs to fight. but anet constantly creates maps that include various pve elements, u can’t deny that.
it could have some fun to it, at least its different, but it doesn’t address the fact that lots of players just want to pvp, or player vs player. not pvpve. again, i’m not 1 who is 100% against pvpve, it has its merits, but it would be nice to have a real way to pvp w/o all this extra stuff going on
You mean you want more courtyard maps? I thought Courtyard was disliked by most (I know I hated that map).
The new Capricorn map sounds neat and while I’ll miss the underwater portion as that was my favorite map, I’m looking forward to the new map.
if u think courtyard is an actual tdm map, then u really are clueless. main reason being actual tdm don’t have respawn with a point based win system. its a tdm… when everyone on 1 side is dead, the other side wins
You originally asked for a map with no PvE elements, not a TDM map. Courtyard is a PvP map with no PvE elements.
Certain sylvari armor glows with your body glow color and that’s why your armor is glowing too. If you didn’t pick a body glow color during character creation, I believe that gold color is the default. During character creation you can turn off the lights to see what you look like at night. There is also a slider to adjust how bright the glow gets.
You glow at night. Some instances are at a set time. So if you go into Twilight Arbor, it will always be night time.
its a valid complaint tho. lots of posts ask for some way to just pvp, literally youse guys vs us guys (or gals). just let us battle, forget all this capping pts, respawning, mobs to fight. but anet constantly creates maps that include various pve elements, u can’t deny that.
it could have some fun to it, at least its different, but it doesn’t address the fact that lots of players just want to pvp, or player vs player. not pvpve. again, i’m not 1 who is 100% against pvpve, it has its merits, but it would be nice to have a real way to pvp w/o all this extra stuff going on
You mean you want more courtyard maps? I thought Courtyard was disliked by most (I know I hated that map).
The new Capricorn map sounds neat and while I’ll miss the underwater portion as that was my favorite map, I’m looking forward to the new map.
I came here looking for help with Brisban Liberator, having exactly the same problem Dreamwolf has.
I didn’t have a problem with Hawke Liberator just now. Glad I didn’t have to deal with hilariously powerful level 81 mobs.
And, once again, I am 1 shot by lvl 80 harpies during a lvl 38 event.
While it is possible to complete the event with the lvl 81 haripies (they were all lvl 81 for me). It isn’t easy and you have to have several people with projectile blocks, reflects and having multiple people with sylvari seed turrets helps as that appears to be the only way to get those suckers to bleed. It took many deaths but I got this event done. It does need to be fixed though.
The event in Zinder slope (Brisban) doesn’t appear to be going at all though so I can’t even bash my face against stupidly high level mobs to brute force it.
Apparently this doesn’t count for the defend version of the High Wizard. I just participated in the defend event where the High Wizard was killed (and I helped kill him). Tried playing the song right after he died and then again after the event succeeded. No collection progress was made.
I would like to say I also encountered this. Combine this with the fact that people are now unwilling to let the event fail even when asked, and this is impossible for me to complete.
I lucked out and caught it first thing in the morning and it had fallen overnight, but this does need to get fixed. So I finally got mine finished at least.
Thanks for the help. I’ll give that a go.
Yes, I was trying to do a HoT recipe, I’ll look into using the Mystic Forge, but will I not still have to craft the insignia… the expense piece?
All you need is the exotic insignia to change the stats in the forge. It’s way cheaper.
The 2 skill needs to stealth you with the decoys and the 3 skill needs evade frames. Additionally the fact that you have to double dodge to avoid the krait is BS. You can dodge and get the evade frame, but if you don’t dodge again you still get sunk. A single dodge should do it.
I just don’t join groups that ask me to ping my gear/LI on join. I join the groups doing the fights I personally have done and know and I’m honest if we get to a part where I’m less familiar.
I don’t raid often, but haven’t had issues with groups. Sometimes the groups are bad, but hey, extra practice. I’ve only left a group a couple of times because it was just terrible.
At least we’ve figured out what on our end is making the game crash….now they just have to figure out on the code on why moving those slots makes the game crash.
For this tier of the precursor armor I would vote no. Do not change it.
However, before people are able to get the Tier II armor I would seriously look at it in terms of how odd it looks. Make the chest pieces unique and feminine, but without the emphasis on boobs.
Regardless of what you do though: Make sure that helms don’t remove asura ears or charr horns and that coats/pants are properly fitted to accommodate charr tails. YES, extra work will be required to make those modifications, but if you’re going to have races that do not conform to the standard humanoid model you need to do that work.
