Just started on this char, and cant find a specific answer to this.
Obviously referring to NPCs who do some fighting alongside you such as in the Personal story.
So far Warriors are cool.
Im a lot like you and play very infrequently but have 4 chars at LV 80 and am currently playing an Elementalist, and sadly I find this class hopeless compared to the others I have played. Guardian, Engineer and Mesmer.
I persevered to get to L80, but it wasnt fun.
The Guardian and the Engineer were fun , the Mesmer less so , but all were far better than the Elementalist.
Maybe try a Char that is least like an Elementalist like a Melee type .
Im 66 and been playing MMOs since Anarchy Online, if anyone can remember that.
Heres an interesting question though.
Trying to get one of my friends whose the same age as me into this game , and she hasnt got a lot of dexterity in her hands, so which class needs the least button mashing to play?
One of the problems with houses in MMOs is what to do with abandoned houses.
ie a player builds a house , and then leaves the game.
What happens to the house?
Houses generally take up space in the game world , so abandoned houses need some mechanism to remove them, otherwise the game slowly fills up with abandoned houses after a while.
One method would be some kind of house tax, whereby in order to keep your house after building it , you had to pay an ongoing fee, but most players dont like this concept.
I started playing one simply because Ive played all the other classes.
Im only L25 and to be honest, this class sucks or I do, not sure which.
Far too squishy, and at low levels they dont deal mega DPS, so you die a lot.
Im going to perservere on and hope the class gets better.
Thanks all.
Pity the next nearest waypoint is so far away.
Hope someone fixes it soon.
Been out of this game for quite some time , so cant remember everything.
Mirkrise Waypoint in Brisban Wildlands seems to be permanantly contested, even though nothing is attacking it , and there are no mobs in the immediate vicinity.
Is this now normal behaviour in the game.
Last time I played, 1 Year ago , waypoints were only contested until you wasted all the mobs attacking them.
Id like an inspection option for NPCs , both good and bad.
Not for players though.
The Storyline quests appear to be not that well balanced across differant classes.
Im now on my 3rd character (a mesmer) doing the storyline , and Im only L20, but Im having a much harder time surviving than I did with an Engineer and a Necro.
Even with the Engineer, the quests were extremley hard , but survivable.
Because Im on my 3rd char, Ive got much better gear than previously , but its still continuous death.
The other problem is the NPCs in the storyline who are supposed to be on your side.
They do so little damage, and are so fragile that I wonder what the point of them even is .
How can you tell how much damage , or how much health an NPC has?
This is simple quest where you have to find a missing pilot.
There is a wreck of an airship, and a few mobs wandering around and the pilot is slightly further north of the airship.
The pilots sword is lying on the eastern side of the airship.
The quest intends that you find the sword first and then the pilot, but its fairly easy to do the reverse, ie find the pilot first and then the sword.
If this happens, the quest will not complete, and you have to do it again.
Its not actually clear in the instructions that you have to find the sword first, as the quest merely says look for clues as to the pilots whereabouts.
Ive never seen this happen so Im guessing they cant.
It would be really useful, especially in the personal storyline where you are often teamed up with NPCs to help you.
Its fairly common for the player to die, but not all the NPCs do, but they will revive each other, but not you the player.
Seems a bit odd.
This isnt a fix to the problems that people are having, but if players were able to go back
in the storyline to the previous story, they could then opt to change their choice in how they went forward.
Many of the storylines have choices as to how you wish to proceed depending on how you answer the questions, and this then determines what the next encounter is.
Some of the fights that you have to do are far easier for some classes than others.
This quest needs to be seriously turned down.
Im a Engineer and Ive tried every weapon combination I have.
Its a L75 quest, and I cant do it at L80.
The mouth simply does too much damage, and the NPCs who are supposed to help you are totally useless, all dieing in the first minute of the fight.
Up until here I have managed to complete all the other quests in the story line.
Some were very hard , but possible.
If NPCs are going to be provided who are supposed to help, then give them some survivability.
As it stands they are worse than useless.
Finally got the quest to work.
Had to completely log out of the game , and then restart the instance.
That got the cannon firing properly.
Even then had to try the storyline 4 times to actually get all the way through.
2nd attempt, the cannon worked fine and I killed all the undead assault, but then the quest stopped with no more undead coming, but the quest indicating that I had to kill more undead.
Went everywhere I could go in the instance and killed every Risen I could find but the quest still indicated there were more to be killed, but I simply couldnt find them.
I could see some, but attempting to get to them gave me the “you are leaving the Instance message” so couldnt kill them.
3rd time , things went better and I killed all the couriers, but the Mouth Boss didnt appear.
4th time all worked.
Glad to see the end of that quest.
Thanks for responding.
I cannot see any obvious animation of a shell being fired from the cannon.
It simply makes a bright orange flash accompanied with a bang sound, then goes thru a reloading phase.
Do I have to somehow load the cannon?
I am targeting the ship with the mouse cursor which provides a green targeting type icon which I can move around the ship.
Ive tried aiming everywhere on the ship, but the result is the same .
Alternatively, is it possible to go back in the storyline so that I can choose an alternative way forward.
Thanks.
This quest requires that you fire a cannon at a ship to sink it, whilst at the same time fighting off hordes of undead.
I simply cannot get the cannon to do any damage to the ship.
I target the ship, press button 1 , there is a loud bang and a flash, but the ships health bar
doesnt move.
What am I doing wrong?