Guild Wars 2

It’s interesting how its worded as “unlocked” instead of " purchased"

I hope that it’s at least a complete back like the sclerite back so i don’t have to make/find/buy another high level back to put the skin on

There are people who choose to work on dailies and get points instead of doing other things to get points. These people shouldn’t be penalized just because some people prefer to pass on dailies/monthlies.

I’m not familiar wiht the lore, but is the Crystal Desert supposed to a rainforest instead of a, ya know, desert?

The other day in wvw, I saw a norn with a comically large mustache drop a snow man on top of someone and then put their disco ball mace away in order to do the carlton dance on the corpse. Trying to say that a chef outfit is somehow immersion breaking is pretty ridiculous at this point.

wookiee.4631:

Potentially Tengu? No, couldn’t be. Then again, the Aetherblade retreat is pretty close to the Shuttered Gate. Maybe a connection there? Probably not. (But, man, do I wish it would be.)

BTW, how big is the Tengu area? There’s a gate in Caledon and in LA, and a wall in Kessex. Seems like it would be a wonky shaped area.

Have you seen the map of the dungeon? It’s actually completely within Tengu territory.

i have a bunch of greens and the green is use is… “green”

Sometimes when i read posts complaining about content being too hard, i can’t help but think that this game has essentially trained players to expect everything to be a cakewalk. When one optional part out of an entire set of content actually requires patience, learning and coordination, people want to rage quit because its not the cakewalk the game has lead them to expect.

I saw this coming from a mile away. They make a meta event with hordes of the toughest mobs and the toughest set-up for the boss? People are going to go do 3 other bosses in teh same period of time with only a fraction of the hassle.

Giving the option to buy a whole set OR a la carte just makes the most sense. Anet gets more money since more people buy and more players are happy.

Aaaaand, if no one raises the issue (i.e. complains) then Anet may never know this is something people want.

1. I always think its funny when people post “you guys complain about everything” when it’s not even the same people complaining about all the various things that people complain about.

2. It does seem sort of dumb to force people to buy a whole set when i’m sure there are plenty of people who would have shelled out money for a piece or 2 but decided on buying nothing instead. I probably would have picked up a set of gloves or shoulders if i could have bought them separately but at 800 gems, i’ll just have to pass.

Crovax.7854:

panzer.6034:

My group stacked in a spot on the wall where the lasers couldnt hurt us and burned the golems down.

would you mind making a screenshot or just telling me where the spot is?
just finished the dungeon but i assume that makes the extra achievement a bit easier

It was in a slightly recessed area where the light-up read-outs are on the wall. It took us a couple of tries and a lot healing and protection spam to keep us all up, but we came out on top. Not exactly and easy win scenario but with the right classes it’s easier than dodging around.

My group stacked in a spot on the wall where the lasers couldnt hurt us and burned the golems down.

TheMagickDoll.7594:

You are fooling yourself if you think the true value of these items are because of its rarity. Its not.

Of course rarity makes it more valuable. Notice how the dragon wings have gone from selling at 80g when Dragon Bash first came out to under 10g now because they are far, far less rare? They’re appearance hasn’t changed but they’re decreasing rarity has drastically undercut their value.

On the other hand, i’ve literally had people yell at me in game, jealous of my jetpack. Why? Because people value something that’s rare that they desperately want. Of course rarity adds value to aesthetically desirable items.

ColinJohanson.2394:

As for the jet pack, those specific rewards are intended as limited rewards you can only earn during that time, thus making them valuable. It wouldn’t be fair to the people who did earn jet packs for us to bring them back, and suddenly undercut their value entirely.

I hope this applies to expensive holiday items too. It would really suck for those who spent over 200 gold on a rare, limited time item only to have it come back and flood the market.

Really, you could call any force that isn’t a sovereign nation “terrorists” if you wanted to since, in our modern vernacular, its become a completely hollow buzzword. Molten Alliance = terrorists. Canach = terrorist. Aetherblades = terrorists.

You basically either try to run through it and get it over as fast as possible, causing it to feel like a grind, or you do it casually as you explore that map, in which case it completely feels like forgettable non-content. Either way, its a stinker as a mechanic.

Black Regent.5897:

What really irks me is that people will gripe about things like this that basically just boil down to “WAH! I want the reward but I want it now and without having to actually do it because I don’t like it!”

I don’t think i’ve ever read anyone actually say anything that resembles that at all. I have heard tons of people say they want a reward for doing something interesting or challenging in place of mind-numbing grinding and/or RNG.

It’s like these people never played an MMO before. OMG! You have to tap F next to a couple of pinatas that respawn quickly and reliably in one place! So terrible! I mean… you LITERALLY have to break, what, 6 Pinatas a day each day to get the achievement? That entails breaking all the Pinatas in the area of the Mystic Forge once a day! I can’t be bothered with such a horrible burden! It would take almost a full minute to do that! And if I wanted to do all the Pinatas in Lion’s Arch it would take me a whole FIVE minutes! THE HORROR!

No one in any thread i’ve ever read has complained that breaking pinatas is too hard. Plenty of people are complaining about it being lazy, boring, non-content filler though.

For all those saying “you can’t complain because it’s free”, come over to my place and i’ll give you a free haircut… but you’re not allowed to complain about it because it’s free.

The way the karka queen is designed has insured that it will hardly get activated anymore since you need either massive amounts of people freeing up all the settlements at once or a coordinated zerg playing wack-a-mole for an hour. feel lucky if you get that chest more than once a week from now on.

sidestream.8712:

The Majority wouldn’t chose even the biggest norn available, so why make them even bigger?^^ Just for the record that the females COULD be nearly as big as the males, but only ten people out of a 10000 would build a character like that. Makes no sense to me.

Ever look around the internet, or just deviant art, and see how many people really are fans of muscular women? I’m not convinced that in reality its any more niche than all the furries that are catered to in any number of games.

Its unfortunate that the most optimal way to farm holo’s is to wp around solo and grief the kitten out of other players instead of cooperating. It stands in stark contrast to rest of the game’s content, where having more players cooperate is usually more optimal.

I was under the impression that endgame was about the aesthetics of you character since there isn’t much else to achieve. The biggest investments (time/money/effort) in the game are the legendaries and high-end mystic forge weapons which are purely aesthetic endgame goals. As the living story rolls on, there is hardly any new gameplay content being added and yet the weapons skins are always a big deal to a lot of the community since they stick around and enhance players’ level 80 toons. It just sucks that you can’t have any set, realistic expectations about getting any of the new aesthetic endgame content when it’s acquisition revolves around gambling or an indefinitely long grind without any guarantee of progress or success.

If skins are not content, what reason is there to play once you hit 80?

The big difference is that you need a huge zerg to even get the pre’s done at all with karka queen.

CETheLucid.3964:

Oh. Okay. Can I live in your world?

Are you serious? If you saw that female norn standing alone, you’d never have any idea that she wasn’t human.

seriously. we barely made it and that was only because there happened to be some extras that joined at the end. doing all the pre-events requires a bit too many people doing too much under normal map population circumstances.

CETheLucid.3964:

panzer.6034:

Slaunyeh.9852:

I was, literally, shocked when I went to Divinity’s Reach and realized that my character was, like, 8’ tall.

Yeah. It very easy to forget that you’re supposed to be a superhuman giant when you have the exact body type of a normal human female.

Yeah, but you are as such. You’re experiencing culture shock. Hoelbrak will make you feel fairly normal. Because you are, among norn.

Outside of there and perhaps the Black Citadel, you’re a towering mighty character and standing next to an average human or an asura will make that readily apparent.

Yet I get culture shock in Hoelbrak when i stand next to a male norn since my max-sized female norn has normal human proportions and he inexplicably has 8x the body mass. Heck, i’ve stood next to human males in heavy armor that looked more bulky, despite being slightly shorter. When you look at a male norn standing alone, he looks like a massive beast, but when you see a female norn, she looks like a regular human.

ghtchill.7613:

Oh wait a few more…is what we had in mind?

I think we can go bigger!

On reddit it was posted that someone from anet has said that the chances for tickets to drop from RNG has been raised for this event.

is there a link to mention of the armors? i’ve only heard of the helmet and back pieces

You sure make way more money for your time invested with the instigators. If the 200% magic boost leaves, so will most people from southsun

I got 25+ achievements in the Southsun patch in about 2 hours without using a guide because all the clues were right there in the achievement panel telling you where to go. For the island scan location, i had to ask in mapchat if it was on the island or by it (which didn’t matter since you only needed 10 locations for the flower piece anyway).

I suppose having the clues handed to us was a step up from Lost and Found but it still didn’t make the hunt any more evocative or engaging as much as leaving it as a chore list to be done for a prize. The main issue i’ve been having since the beginning of the year is that most of content is something i feel i have to endure in order to get the reward i want instead of something i enjoy doing for the sake of gameplay. The Molten dungeon is really the only exception to this. I really want to see compelling, challenging and interesting activities and dungeons added instead of piddly solo instances, buggy minigames and monotonous scavenger hunts.

I see there being a super hard time getting this done once the living story arc is over and everyone leaves the island again. When i joined the map, we played wack-a-mole for and hour before the queen even spawned. I could have done multiple other bosses in that same timeframe and know there are people with even less patience than myself looking for boss chests.

My prediction is that this ends up like a lot of the temples in orr that are always contested with bosses that are almost never fought because you can’t get enough of a zerg to make it happen under normal circumstances.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

The karka you’re expecting is likely the Karka Queen, which iirc, doesn’t show until June 5th?

Guess not.

I’m sticking by my original theory that there was supposed to be a karka makeover with black/eyeballs/tentacles and they just couldn’t get it together by the deadline.

Vajra.3914:

There is a chest in the middle of Driftglass, it is invisible but it has collision, still u can’t open.

Thats the event chest left from the karka queen

panzer.6034:

Pinatas of dragons for us to bash

Called it

Slaunyeh.9852:

I was, literally, shocked when I went to Divinity’s Reach and realized that my character was, like, 8’ tall.

Yeah. It very easy to forget that you’re supposed to be a superhuman giant when you have the exact body type of a normal human female.

I’ve read on reddit that dataminers have found more human and norn hairstyles in the data that may be released in the future.

Danikat.8537:

I agree, the rainbow unicorn bow is such an immersion breaker when the rest of the game takes itself so completely seriously…

I can’t tell if this is sarcasm.

Thanks, cthulu

They already said it will be a permanent repeating thing, like all the other world bosses

i was kinda wondering if the crazed karka queen was going to look like the old lost shores one or be a mutant remake.

I got the sclerite backpiece the day it dropped and when i saw it i expected that at some point we’d run into black-shelled, tentacled mutant “sclerite” karka. So far, the only place i’ve seen the same tentacles is in the karka hive with no sign of any lovecraft-touched karka in sight.

Do you think maybe all the angry karka were supposed to get a graphic overhaul and at some point but the skin got scrapped as the content was rushed out?

Why was the mine detector mechanic designed so kitten -backwards? In order to get the mines to detonate and hit the boss, you need to disarm them despite the NPC telling you that using a different skill actually detonates them? Who thought it was a good idea to make this so confusing and backwards?

Tigera.2916:

And that is how to do it… quite different to how people have been saying you have to do it. (use the wrong skill to trigger the mine when Canach is next to it) Something tells me that Anet didn’t make it clear enough.

Seriously. It was completely opaque as far as how to do it right. In order to detonate the mines and deal damage to Knoll, you don’t use the skill that actually detonates them, you use the skill that disarms them… how asinine.

Its not that there shouldn’t be single player dungeons, its that there shouldn’t be kittenty single player dungeons.

Most likely, it lasts for 2 weeks. We get the solo and group content today, then the new world boss karka next week and in 2 weeks it wraps up.

Oh, and i predict chests with RNG weapons that everyone will complain about

Pinatas of dragons for us to bash

The problem is that it’s human (gamer?) to take the easier route to the same reward. If you make a solo version and a harder group version and they both give out the same reward, people are going to grind the kitten out of the solo version. We saw this with SAB where people eventually gave up running it as group altogether and where grinding it on all their alts solo. If there is an easier mode and harder one and they both give out the same stuff, its a huge waste to even have the harder one at all because people will grind whatever is easiest (CoF) and avoid the harder thing with the same payout.