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So this time I completely left the game and came back in, and it was as it should be in the character select, changed to the Glacial Eye. But for some reason it won’t hide/show using the check box on the hero screen.
Weird.
I used a Fine Transmutation stone on a Rare 80th level helmit I made myself (which is epicly ugly) and used my old, starter ‘Glacial Eye’ as the visual print.
1. It ate the Fine Trans stone.
2. My Glacial Eye is gone.
3. The icon on the newly transmuted item ‘looks’ like it should be the Glacial Eye
4. The name of the new item is “Glacial Eye of [blah blah]”.
However, when I check to display the helmit in game, I don’t see it.
Furthermore, when I go to the character select screen (which for whatever reason demands your characters be shown with their shoulders and helmit even though you de-selected them), I see the ‘old’ ugly helmit look before I transmuted it to look like the Glacial Eye.
Has anyone ever tried to transmute something to that old starter Glacial Eye, or any of the other starter head pieces for an Elementalist (or Mesmer or I suppose this might be a problem with any other starter equipment)?
I did submit an in game bug, was just fishing for some moral support, I guess.
Well, I don’t see a kitten up there?
We’re missing ‘context’. Context is key.
“Fixed a camera bug which occasionally caused the camera to get too close to the player’s backside.”
I am intrigued as to what this was and what it solved?
As long as your guild solution comes in the form as an incentive and not a punishment, I wouldn’t see anything wrong with it.
Bad: You now must be in a guild to login. Well that’s not terribly nice, and alienates some people, and sends a pretty clear message. If you don’t join a sorority or fraternity, you are a GDI, and we don’t like you.
Good: Guild members get free cats! Hey I like cats, but I know I don’t ‘need’ a cat to play. Boy I’d sure like a cat… Hey, anyone recruiting?
Just like exploring requirements for map completion in WvW. My brain knows why they did it. My heart was bummed. Before I threw in the towel, I went and tried it. And, even though I leveraged the free transfers to do it (which I highly recommend, and you don’t even have to get up in the middle of the night to switch, late week morning-before-work switches for NA mainlanders works well), I’ll be kitten if I didn’t get totally sucked into it and end up having a really good time. I still have a lot to learn, I’m mostly focused on following orders, though I have learned supplies and how to fix and help build things (although, I think there are bad places to get supplies from, or something, got yelled at, I need to learn that ).
So, there are positive ways to motivate people to do things without turning them into punishments.
I’ll throw a thank you in as well.
“Fixed a camera bug which occasionally caused the camera to get too close to the player’s backside.”
However…what exactly did this address? I am intrigued.
It doesn’t bother me at all in this game, in fact I think it helps the passive social system quite a bit. People seem willing to loiter around me longer, and sometimes I’ll stalk with them a bit. Safety in numbers, and I’m really squishy.
Everything I’ve done in the game I’ve had help doing it, in one way or another, which is kinda cool.
I seem to get enough stuff.
Maybe so it would work with Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager?
Well that’s a bummer, I’m going to have to come up with a new plan for maintaining my screenshots, as I use them for my rotating Windows 7 (Windows Last?) desktop background on my nice, fat and phat super aero desktop.
Oh Windows 7, we hardly new you. Not looking forward to Windows Ruh-Roh.
“Now hold on you two. New Windows 8 is a floor polish ‘and’ a dessert topping!”
:|
There are some people that play through a game in 30 days or less just because that’s how they play any game, subscription or not (not to mention free pizza). The play, have a good time, and leave rather quietly, maybe some mild suggestions. They move on to the next game. Nothing wrong with that. It’s just how they play.
There’s another group of people that play that way, maybe ‘chasing’ those other people, because they see they’ve moved on, and don’t want to be “so 10 minutes ago”, so they leave. Sometimes they need to justify their actions, so they come out and post why the game will be dead in three and a half hours and we all lose for staying. Off they go.
Then there’s some people that just that really wanted to like the game, and don’t, and are a bit frustrated and post about their frustrations before they go. And sometimes we’re quick to lump them into the ‘never be happy’ group, but really they don’t habitually play like that, and that’s not terribly fair for them to have to listen to us assume they’re part of the “so 10 minutes ago” crowd.
And some people play the game, stay, really enjoy the game, and are vocal about specific problems they feel the game has. Some I agree with, others I don’t at all. I just cross my fingers that the devs listen the ‘right’ things and don’t change the game so much that it’s not what I bought and wanted to enjoy (like FFXIV 2.0).
At the end of the day, it’s all subjective, and everyone has their reasons for high praise and negative comments, and the differences in our posting styles (I’m a rambler) start to muddle the line between fanboys and hater/locusts, where some posts that that seem like a rant really have legitimate points, but only seem like a rant because that’s the poster’s style.
I don’t know. Lots of folks in the world.
Bumping this for truth. There are too many negatives and not enough positives to warrant these points in WvW as part of the achievement.
Negative:
PvE players take up PvP player spots in line.
PvE players in WvW don’t contribute to the purpose of WvW.
Players on low-pop server will have an extremely difficult time completing this – to the point that they may NEVER be able to complete it without moving to another server – which only exasperates the problem further.Positive
You might convert PvE players into PvP players (who will have to stand inline behind other PvE players to PvP as noted above.Vicious, frustrating circle.
I am a positive. I was frustrated knowing I would have to go, so rather than get too far, I decided to use the free transfers to see if I couldn’t get it done. It took me 3 days, but I did it, using the HoD/SVI/E? battle. I’m currently sitting on SBI, started on SoS.
Funny thing happened on the way to the forum…
I love it! I was terrified at first, but I think I’m starting to learn how it works, and when all else fails, I just follow orders. I repaired a keep door from 10-100% after helping turn the attackers away without anyone telling me after everyone left with the supplies there. I’ve helped escort supplies, taken depots with people, it was great fun.
I started my quest for map exploration queuing and then nabbing what I could and leaving, and it ended with me queuing and staying for hours helping out, while I waited to que to other areas.
Now that I’m done, I want more.
I’m on SBI now, but to be fair, I’ll go elsewhere. I should go back to SoS, my real (first) home? Or maybe find another home. Not really sure. I hope they have good organized people like those servers I was on the past few days.
So without that, I would have never tried. Maybe one person converted isn’t worth it, but I’m glad I went.
With 75 % of my friends list not having logged in within the last 2-3 weeks… (most of which hit 80 and got bored) …
I’m interested in this part. Assuming you know they got bored because they told you this was the case, and not a guess, that means you have communication with them, or at least some of them, outside of the game, or at least had their ear when they conveyed the boredom information.
At that time, or now (if possible), it would be interesting to know what they do now? Do they play other games? Do they play another MMO specifically? Are those people in the habit of playing a game for 3-4 weeks and that’s all they ever do, ‘beating’ the game?
I know there are a lot of people that play MMOs like they’d play a stand alone game. Buy the main game, use the first free month to play the base content and do a little PvP, and then that’s it. They can say they played it, some leave gracefully and go on to play other things in the same manner, others feel like taking parting shots as they go, letting everyone that remains know that they are doing it wrong, and clearly they are getting out at just the right time, like it’s a stock or a home?
For those types of people, there really isn’t anything that would change their mind, they played all they are going to play.
That’s why I’m curious as to what those 75% of your friends got bored are doing now and what their play styles are like. I’m more interested in doing things that might help raiders and dungeon crawlers and people who like PvP rankings to stick around. Those folks will often play these for a long time, and contribute quite a bit to the game. Though, I have no idea why I feel compelled to care, I’m not one, but they are part of the community.
Now, for those that go back to another game to play, what I’m most curious about there is if that other game they went back to is ‘really’ that much more fun, including modern graphics, combat, whatever…or, do some people cling to this idea that they invested so much time in another game, that if a new game isn’t 10x better and finally solve the unifying theory, they go back to that game because they can’t bear leaving something they put so much time into?
Now, if you were working on saving a marriage, that might make sense to me. But I don’t get it with games. Caveat: If it’s about real, human friends and connections in those games more than the games themselves, then clearly that is where they should be. If those people came to try the game, brought their friends, the friends didn’t like it and really wanted to do what they were doing, then I think the choice is simple there. I have played many games that aren’t the best game in the world solely because that is what friends were getting together to do 1-2 times a week, and it was the only chance I had to keep in touch with them and what was going on in their lives.
Ok, that was long and meandered, as most of my posts do, but I’m always curious about that. When someone says they are bored, and this isn’t doing it for them, where do they go? And I’m ‘especially’ interested in where they go relative to their comments. If someone says, “This failed to innovate.”, and then goes back to WoW…well then…what? If someone says, “This failed to innovate.”, and then goes back to playing stand alone PC games or something on their iPad or back to writing their great novel while they wait for innovation…well…then that makes sense. Because it sounds like you are disgusted with the genre and refuse to play all of them because there is no innovation.
As far as your main point…when I find myself asking that question, I stop playing. If the question becomes one of “Why am I doing this?” then I shouldn’t be. If I can’t figure out why something is fun to me, and feel like analyzing what elements are giving me enjoyment, that is a different thing. Sadly, SWG lost me 2 months in, and it was my fault (although I doubt I would have stayed through the NGE). I put all this effort into factories and crafting and all that, I found that every day I logged in, I was spending 3 hours tending to all my crap, and then when I finished I was kinda exhausted and didn’t want to do any sort of adventuring, it was all a job. So I asked the question you asked, and quit without an answer, because it was asked.
I am, and even started getting into WvW recently and I’m supposed to ‘hate’ PvP. I did not get the memo. Still a lot of crafting and map completing for me to do.
Assuming I complete my crafting some day, I’m fairly sure DEs and WvW will be entertaining for me. Though, I would like to see them introduce some more repeatable PvE content, I suppose.
Having said that, I feel bad for our hard core brothers and sisters that aren’t getting everything out of the game they hoped for. I hope they get rankings, raids, even better gear, I suppose (though I don’t know where they’d use it, being given better stats in WvW because you raid seems a bit off), whatever would make them interested. They are part of MMO communities, and also good contributors to game economies, and many things ‘outside’ of the immediate game (fan sites, guides, databases).
I’m sure they’ll sprinkle some more stuff in over time to get you folks excited again.
I’m fairly certain I’ll be able to get them all, though I was worried about it myself, but even if I manage to do it, I would have to agree. Jumping in any game is not for everyone, but it seems like tying something that requires some skill, agility, and frankly…youth, to an achievement which really should be a bit more casual (an opinion), is a bit harsh.
I did a nasty one today I was worried about at the top of a tower in the big keep in the SW corner of EB today. Jumping from beam to beam up a spiral. Those are rough. Not to mention certain death if you fall (I didn’t).
I think that jumping should have it’s own achievement outside of exploration. There are a lot of jumping puzzles in the game, some in the WvW areas as well. Wrap them up in a meta-achievement. And then a ‘few’ of those Vistas could be toned down so there isn’t any death defying jumping, and you’d be done.
Now, I’m a bit mixed on whether WvW should be included in exploration. If you asked me 5 days ago, I would have said no. Today? I’m glad I went out to see if I could get some, as I’ve been getting a bit addicted to WvW the past few days.
People will still want something to do, something that doesn’t involve retracing your steps 5 times or more, doing the exact same thing every time.
I suppose this is a legitimate concern to a point, but what frustrates me is when an argument like this is put forth about this or any game, that there’s nothing to do, or I’m repeating something and it’s repetitive, and they say they are going to go back to game X.
Yet, game X usually suffers from the same thing as this and every other game in the genre, and it just “seems” to me like really we are all just splitting hairs. Those of us who tire of playing one developer’s game and like to visit new worlds 8-12 months at a time are enjoying ourselves here, and those that decide to go back to game X are just going back to the same thing. I suppose the rationale being, “I’ve invested so much time there.”, but that shouldn’t be what it’s about, at least to me, I don’t know, I guess I’m just frustrated all the circular arguments from every where.
Now, if the statement is one of trying to find the “new” thing that changes everything, being disappointed, and “not” going back to another MMO because you are frustrated with the genre as a whole, I can respect that. I personally am not looking for such big strides each time I play a new MMO, but I can respect that.
Sorry, like I said, a little frustrated, and not directed at you, your post just became my poster boy or straw.
So tired of developers releasing MMORPGs without basic features that have become staple to the genre.
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I think they’ll figure out how to spread people around more, give incentives for 80s to use ‘all’ of the world to get karma. It’ll have to involve tweaking travel costs and providing some sort of ‘World DE View’, or some way to help direct you to where people need the most help.
But then there is us.
If all we’re going to do is go to Straits of Devastation and:
John: Where is zerg?
Sue: Giant
Fred: Stay after AM for post event
Sue: Chopper
Well that’s on us. I was out creeping along hitting points of interest and trying to get to skill points and such, and came across this ‘huge’ mass of people. I followed them for about 30 minutes. It was exciting for about the first 10, maybe? I don’t understand why ya’ll do that! No wonder some of you come out here and post about how grindy and boring everything is!
I spent 15 minutes last night hanging out in Lightfoot Passage trying to help people with jumping the branches to the vista and rezzing them when they fell. I had a blast.
I haven’t quite decide how I’m going to approach when I mostly need karma, but I suspect I may just roll a dice to decide where I want to go hang out every day, once I don’t really need materials anymore or exploration. Now, I’m still crafting, so I’m mostly sticking to the same areas, though I like to try to do one step of my personal story every day or two. I’m on a 66th level step now, though I might have to stop because I’m only in 65th level crafted greens, so I ‘really’ think of myself as maybe a 70th level character, though I do alright in SoD, just slow.
I’d love to be able to just roll a dice some day, it comes up ‘Harathi Hinterlands’ (haven’t even been there yet), and I just go there and there are DEs happening and at least a few people around to make it work. I think if they tackle getting us all to spread out ‘horizontally’ that would go a long way to helping.
The music is great.
The voice acting is great, some people better than others, if you separate the work from what they are asked to say.
The story itself, is ‘barely’ acceptable (to me), but acceptable. I just think of it as part of the ‘style’ of the thing. The dialog is often times reminiscent of old cartoons that would teach you how to be a good person.
And speaking of style, I totally bought into the ‘puppet theater’ style of dialog. I was sold the first time I saw it in BWE1. No, it’s not as flashy as something like TSW (or even SWTOR), but it’s ‘very’ practical and scalable, and it has its own personality.
Elementalist 80 (but a ‘new’ 80, w/ 39% map completion and only 320ish crafting in my two professions, from that stand point, I’m still leveling, and will be for awhile.)
8/10
-1 for the game, because while there are a lot of things I’d like to see, and may not, and bugs to fix and all that, that’s about all the more it has affected my enjoyment thus far. I’ve had some close calls with that dipping lower because of personal story difficulty, but it seems like after one bad outing, if I sit with it and come back and try in a few days, I’m able to proceed.
-1 for me, because I’m starting to wonder how I got here.
I feel bad for my character every time she’s killed trying to do “Forging the Pact”.
Thanks for the information.
It’s cost prohibitive to me, especially when I keep falling and dying trying to get to vistas, which after dying 10 times, got me thinking I should ask if there was an easier way besides “not being bad”, which is not something I can correct.
I’m having a really difficult time with this, and rather than discuss my person views on how something that is ‘personal’ should play, I’ll maybe try soliciting for some strategy help.
I’m an Elementalist. I’m 74 (not that this matters), wearing a set of green 65th level ‘Winged’ I made for myself. I created yellow Godskull weapons for myself (Staff, Wand, Focus, Trident). I mostly have Power, Precision, Condition on my items.
Fire: 20
Air: 5
Earth: 5
Water: 24
Arcana: 10
I usually run with a Staff, though I’ve been trying to practice with Wand and Focus, and sometimes play with knives for fun. I ‘love’ how knives look, but I can’t make them, so my quality is usually pretty far behind, plus they are pretty up close and personal compared to the staff and wand. I mostly flip between Fire and Water. I can do a barrage of Fire up front, or sometimes when I get my health back I can flip to Fire for a bit then back to Water, but that can be dangerous with more than one thing on me, unless I have good running area, which I don’t in this encounter.
For my extra abilities, I carry around:
Signet of Restoration
Mist Form
Signet of Water
Signet of Fire
Glyph of Elementals
Any tips or tricks that might help me through the encounter?
Thanks.
Quest: A Light in the Darkness
Objective: Follow the Pale Tree through the vision of Orr.
Class: Elementalist
Level: 73
As others have stated, getting constantly stun-locked by 3 things at a time, plus not being able to kite effectively with exploding chickens and bulls in close proximity makes this considerably difficult for those of us trying to enjoy a personal story on a level that is, well, personal, rather than extreme competitive duress.
I wouldn’t mind leveling slower. Having said that, I craft, a lot. It seems like every time I just get done with one set of armor, I’m a level or two past needing the next set, and it just keeps exponentially increasing.
Not that I ‘have’ to always make my own stuff, just that I like to, and I don’t complain about it, per se. It is what it is.
Just, offering a different perspective from someone that’s now 72 and feels like they should be 40.
That’s funny? It doesn’t seem to filter the word “healing”?
I still haven’t learned how to use a mystic coin.
I’m the type of person that likes to wear something different, on the fly, every day, multiple times a day. I constantly change my dye.
I think the way Transmutation stones work is completely cost prohibitive, as they become permanently attached, and you have to not only go find another base piece to use to change a look, but you have to spend money on stones to make the changes.
Something like dyes, whether you are content with those you find through drops, or spend in game money buying them in the TP or use gems to buy packs, at least you are given something that you then learn (and character based is fine, I will concede that point of income generation to you, it’s acceptable), you now ‘know’ that dye, and you can apply it to what you are wearing on a whim.
I think once you destroy a piece of armor with a transmutation stone, the ‘look’ part of it should become just like a dye, and you just ‘know’ that look, and can apply that look to a piece on a whim, any time you want, with no transmutation stone required. Character based is fine, keeps the stones as a source of income.
Plus, you still need a stone to learn the piece the first time, and you still need the stone if you want to move the augments from one piece to another new base armor piece.
But applying a ‘look’ to a piece of armor should only require a stone the first time, and then you just know that look.
It’s killing me not being able to change what I’m wearing on the fly whenever I feel like it without, of course, building multiple ‘sets’ of armor, which is ridiculous on a whole other scale.
And yes, it would have been nice to just have a system like LotRO or Rift, but honestly I’m fine with your system, and understand how it feeds into the cash shop, but it’s a ‘bit’ over board, and I think with that small change in my suggestion, the system could remain mostly intact.
We just need to be able to learn just the ‘look’ as if it’s a dye, to be used over and over again on a whim free of charge, just like a dye we know. Stones will still be used to ‘learn’ the look (still burns the source armor), and stones are still required to move ‘augments and stats’ from one piece to another.
Once you have created a character, is there a way to go see the list of servers and their statuses and relative volume again?
Edit: sigh Never mind, I see it, just never went looking. Guess that makes me two-for-two in the last two days.
(edited by notebene.3190)
I decided it was important for me to work on my crafting. I’ve ‘mostly’ put my story on hold while I’m working on that, and Lornar Pass is the last zone I did a Map completion on (bringing my total to a whopping 4, and 3 cities).
I’m 65th level, I’m working on gathering materials to make myself a set of green 60th level (maybe that’s even 65th?) set of armor, because it’s fun. My artifice is ‘really’ behind, and I’ll need to complete 25 points before I can even make the green items. When that is done, I’ll meander into a zone that will have the next level of materials and pick away at that.
When I reach 80, which I suppose is when I’m supposed to look around and wonder what I’m supposed to be doing, I’ll have all the same things in front of me then that I have now to do. Finish crafting, go back and finish hearts that didn’t get finished while I was looking for crafting materials (invariably, hearts and DEs get completed, as do skills and vistas and all that other stuff…when I see someone heading somewhere with a purpose, I can’t help but be curious and see where they’re going, and I end up getting something done…it’s a fun way to see the world).
I tried WvW, and I am ‘not’ a PvP player at all, but that was really fun, and I imagine I’ll go back. I just need to figure how to filter finding someone to ‘follow’ with some good battle plans vs people who just declare we all fail and are ‘bads’ and why I’m wasting a perfectly good spot that could be going to someone else who wants to WvW…not a terribly inviting crowd sometimes, those folks.
So I guess I won’t see the difference much, I’ll still have the same things to do. I’m sure we’ll get more horizontal content as time goes on. One thing that will be fun is that because of down leveling, they could introduce 5 new zones across different level ranges, and that will be 5 new zones of content to play. I wish they figured out how to reward people playing in down leveled zones a bit better, with respect to buying things from heart people, but I guess that’s what karma is for.
I’m sure they’ll do things like reputation as time goes on. We’ve only been playing a few weeks.
Well, if there weren’t any coherent thoughts in there, or I posted a response to the wrong thread, I’m a bit under the weather today and groggy. Only 3pm, but I think I might have to throw the towel in for the day and make some soup or go to bed or something. :|
Where you have to go to the bank or a vendor, when your bags are full.
Woah, woah, woah….what?!
My bags get full and I don’t have to go anywhere? I’m missing an important feature, what is this!? Is this really true? I can just bank and sell standing around out where I’m farming for crafting mat… I mean, working diligently on hearts and DEs? (side note: I am a bit surprised that ‘farming’ and ‘crafting’, and I suppose ‘healing’ are not replaced with ‘kitten’ :p)
How do I do that?
Press “I”, click the gear icon in the top part of the bag inventory, and click “send materials to bank” (or something like that), I will automatically send all your crafting mats to your personal bank.
And dont forget you can also sell all your junk with one click too when talking to a vendor.
Thank you, and …
Wow, I’m an idiot.
I suppose the suggestion forum is for game things, and you don’t really seem to have a web site suggestion box, so I’ll risk putting here with a ‘suggestion’ preface.
It would be nice if either ‘Back to Top’ went a ‘bit’ higher so it was ‘over’ the bread crumb, or if you put a copy of the bread crumb at the bottom of a page of posts (under the page numbers).
Yes, my mouse wheel works, so I can click ‘back to top’ and then roll the mouse wheel to expose the bread crumb, then click back to the forum I’m reading, but…
…like I said, it’s not a ‘bug’, it’s a ‘suggestion’.
Where you have to go to the bank or a vendor, when your bags are full.
Woah, woah, woah….what?!
My bags get full and I don’t have to go anywhere? I’m missing an important feature, what is this!? Is this really true? I can just bank and sell standing around out where I’m farming for crafting mat… I mean, working diligently on hearts and DEs? (side note: I am a bit surprised that ‘farming’ and ‘crafting’, and I suppose ‘healing’ are not replaced with ‘kitten’ :p)
How do I do that?