Guild Wars 2

Sligh.2789:

The direction of the game is directly tied to the participation of the hard core gamers in these forums.

Could have fooled me. Other than the quality of life changes we’ve gotten in the past year, pretty much everything they do seems to be the exact opposite of the raving demands and complaints of the forums.

TriggerSad.2597:

Gobhoblin.7582:

Flissy.4093:

A Human Mesmer not in full T3?

ZOMG!!??!1?!@

…there are more of us than you’d think.

Here are my two…

Your male human looks so freaking cool!!! :O

It’s liberace!

skullmount.1758:

panzer.6034:

Just think it some kind of mysterious tower appeared somewhere near a populated area in the U.S. Would we immediately nuke it before we knew anything about it?

yes?

Really? The U.S. is afraid to use conventional weapons on foreign soil when it could potentially spread chemical weapons but you think we’d nuke a chemical hazard on our own soil without any intel? I wouldn’t even buy that in a syfy movie of the week.

ElenaDragon.8401:

What I am looking forward to is Wintersday, and I really hope the devs learned from Halloween that they can’t just repeat a bunch of old content for us to be satisfied. They need to add new stuff. And no ridiculous grinds please.

Good luck with that

There certainly are RPGs out there without a strict level system so clearly the “it’s how everybody else does it” argument isn’t a very strong one. It sounds a bit like someone in 1880 A.D. saying “you’re dumb for wanting an automobile because people have ridden horses for thousands of years”. There were level-less point buy RPG systems before MMOs ever came out and there are plenty of action/rpg hybrids with formats that could easily translate in an MMO paradigm. In fact, it really looks like Anet wanted to do something like this with GW2 but, for whatever reason, they didn’t actually follow through with it.

The most obvious way to do what the OP is asking for is by making skill points the main form of progression. You’d probably have more utility and weapon skill choices for every key than currently exist per class and the only way of unlocking them would be to visit skill point locations on the map, complete dungeons, level your crafting or do any number of other things (i.e. play your way) as opposed to gaining levels that just increase all of your numbers. In this system, you would be able to go to any zone or event with much more flexibility than you currently can since you wouldn’t be artificially gated by a stat treadmill but those with a fleshed out suite of skills would have a definite advantage. This system also has the advantage of letting you explore the zones of the world in any order you want instead of being forced into the same level bands every time you level a character.

Stormcrow.7513:

panzer.6034:

Just think it some kind of mysterious tower appeared somewhere near a populated area in the U.S. Would we immediately nuke it before we knew anything about it?

Maybe, but someone would get inside before two weeks were up…

Is the real-life version protected by some sort of mysterious magic shell too though?

Stormcrow.7513:

panzer.6034:

Just think it some kind of mysterious tower appeared somewhere near a populated area in the U.S. Would we immediately nuke it before we knew anything about it?

Maybe, but someone would get inside before two weeks were up…

Is the real-life version protected by some sort of mysterious magic shell too though?

Nilkemia.8507:

Thinsett.3789:

In what world is the prince a great character? Scarlett isn’t that interesting, sure, but what is the prince bringing to the table?

His voice actor does a pretty good job, his conversations with the Mad King are somewhat amusing to listen to..oh, and that last threat before you seal him back in really feels intimidating, like he genuinely hates you and is singling you out for when/if he returns.

“No. No! Don’t send me back. I swear when I get out, I’ll come for you. I’ll stalk you, burn your cities, eat your flesh. I’ll tear down your world!”

They just didn’t do enough with him, sadly. And everything else was such a grindy letdown after all the good things I read about Halloween last year.

And there’s the fact that he ACTUALLY HAS A BACKSTORY. lol.

Sunshine.4680:

Jory doesn’t seem to have a thing for malibu mesmer barbie.

I was standing there and marjory was calling kasmeer “cupcake”. Considering she’s supposed to be the more gruff one, that seemed pretty telling.

Rhialto.8423:

I hope they’re just platonic friends. That would be much more interesting than just “they’re lovers, that’s why they’re close.”

The only way platonic friends would be more interesting than open lovers is if they had secret feelings that made it interesting/complicated. Otherwise, having a romantic relationship is going to naturally being more impactful on the story than “just friends”.

Rhialto.8423:

Please no, not every pair of females in this game has to be lovers. They’re fine the way they are.

Not every pair needs to be lovers, but when the snarky one is calling other one “cupcake” and there is dialogue about them deciding what color their curtains will be then it’s pretty hard to not to see something there.

Kingmutez.4931:

if its true open world then expect lag up to the eyeball as everyone crowds the tower. Is that what you really want?

Seriously. It boggles my mind when i read people say they won’t do instances and want open world. This essentially translates into “i just want mindless zerg content”.

Just think it some kind of mysterious tower appeared somewhere near a populated area in the U.S. Would we immediately nuke it before we knew anything about it?

Instance or zerg. What’s your poison?

Still like my fem norn out of my alts.

Guhracie.3419:

I have one male character- a Charr. I do not like the male frame on Norns- it’s too bulky and unrealistic.

Giant cat-man with horns is fine but a norn is unrealistic? O_o

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

Heavy = Mini skirts.

I wish.

Diversity is created by the player’s mind, not the designer’s sketch.

O_o

Xae Isareth.1364:

To be honest I prefer the old Sylvari design to the revamped one. The revamp looks more unique but lets be honest, the Sylvari is by far the most ugly race in Tyria.

They look far too human for me. I would have preferred if they were more inhuman instead of looking just like people with salad stapled on. It’s the “star trek alien” effect when you really don’t need to do that in a video game.

Kanto.1659:

Please consider making it a gem store bought item for the duration of the patch!!

You mean in addition to getting for free, right?

Zaxares.5419:

I have no objections to more back skins. I DO, however, wish that we could unlock the skins in some kind of wardrobe (like the Zenith skins) and freely withdraw copies for our use whenever we wanted.

This needs to be added real fast. Like, before ascended armor comes out, fast. I know i won’t even bother crafting ascended if i can’t switch out expensive gem store skins on it without losing a kitten amount of gold re-buying everything.

Obsidian.1328:

It’s not disingenuous at all, that robot “tron” stuff you refer to is new. The Asura used to be a talented, if absent-minded, race of magic-users who specialized in golems. Now everything they do is either a hologram or a laser. The beginning of this game isn’t the beginning of the Guild Wars Tyria. Not by a long shot.

But all that stuff has existed for as long as GW2 has been out. Or are you saying that it isn’t just the wings but the entire asura aesthetic that doesn’t fit?

You’re misunderstanding me. It’s not just the wings that are out of place, it’s everything else you’ve stated. Those flaming armors and glowy backpacks shouldn’t really be in there either.

They make as much sense as anything else existing openly in the world though. I run around and see fortresses made of ice, people that look like they’re made of magma, 50 foot tall flaming wooden effigies, floating rock islands, giant undead dragons, cities made out of glowing plants, etc. All those flaming armors and glowy backpacks actually fit pretty well within the high fantasy context of the setting.

It all comes back to my original point about the hackneyed references to “immersion” that people make. Flaming armors are consistent with a world where there are magma covered guys that shoot streams of flame, people who can make fire swords out of thin air, shamans that turn into fire and anthropomorphic winged flames float around. If you don’t like that stuff, that’s perfectly fine, but it’s certainly a matter of taste as opposed to a matter of it fitting with the world (full of wild kitten flaming stuff) that they’ve given us.

Obsidian.1328:

Umm…but that’s exactly why wings shouldn’t be in the game. Not only do they serve no purpose besides aesthetic value, they make no sense in Tyria. I wasn’t talking about my personal tastes at all, I actually like one of the wing sets. I was talking about how they don’t fit into the world. The things you wear/see/hold/interact with should generally fit into the context of the game.

The wings fit perfectly with the glowing blue magical holograms, “tron” armor and magic robot aesthetic that the asura have presented from the begining. To claim that they have no place in Tyria is to pretend that an entire core race never existed. Idk what set of wings that you like and which ones you don’t, but to say they don’t make sense in the context of pre-existing lore is a bit disingenuous.

As for Teq wings… we have necromancers with monstrous pets, a bunch of giant undead dragons and a whole kingdom of undead humans. Someone having undead wings seems pretty congruent with that established style.

But the sheer quantity of over-the-top and out-of-place things in this game is astronomical.

So, yes, it’s immersion breaking.

Yes, the world is chock full of flaming armors and glowying weapons and glowy-rock-backpacks and so on. It seems like wings are perfectly consistent with the established aesthetic of the game then.

Charak.9761:

The full head gas mask is the ascended version, it’ll come when ascended crafting comes either mid November or December

Clearly not the version in the data we’ve seen so far…

Obsidian.1328:

panzer.6034:

Mesket.5728:

for the love of good taste and immersion…

Ugh. I really wish “immersion” was a censored word that got “kittened” out.

Why?

Because the term is consistently thrown around in a pretentious and hackneyed attempt to give some objective sounding validation to one’s personal taste.

The term should be used when talking about consistency in a setting and one’s completely subjective feeling about how that consistency involves one in the fiction’s lore but instead we get people talking about how things that are completely consistent with a broadly inclusive fantasy setting are breaking the “immersion” of the game. Holographic wings and the like are completely consistent with a fantasy fiction that includes magic holograms, glowing armors, magically flaming weapons, giant cat people, little miniature pet dragons, etc. If people don’t like the wings, it sure as kitten isn’t a matter of versimilitude or consistency in the setting and thus should not be an issue of “immersion”, only personal taste. It would like hating facial hair, and despite the fact that it makes perfect sense for there to be men with beards in the game, you claim that “immersion” is broken whenever you see them.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Side note: Anyone else think that Kasmeer and Marjory are lovers? I say so because of:

Marjory Delaqua: I’ve been thinking about Scarlet.
Kasmeer Meade: She can’t have you.
Marjory Delaqua: She’s behind all these crazy alliances. I’d rest my reputation on…wait. What did you say?
Kasmeer Meade: (laugh) I think you’re right. She has all the landmarks of a blooming psycho hag.

Marjory Delaqua: You did your bit, Kas. Go on back to Divinity’s Reach where it’s safer.
Kasmeer Meade: You’re sweet, but I couldn’t leave you here alone.
Marjory Delaqua: I’ll be fine, cupcake. Go on now.
Kasmeer Meade: Mmm, I don’t think so. I would, but to be honest I’m itching to see what’s in that tower. I think I’ll stay.
Marjory Delaqua: Hm. If you insist.

(Marjory calls her “cupcake” – though Jory does seem quick on endearing nicknames, she only calls Kasmeer such, as well as “Kas”)

(less so)

Kasmeer Meade: Marjory?
Marjory Delaqua: Yes?
Kasmeer Meade: If we don’t make it out…
Marjory Delaqua: We will. Promise.

Then there was how Kasmeer says the final line in:

Kasmeer Meade: The moment they break into the tower, we should head down there.
Marjory Delaqua: What’s your hurry? Let them clear it out a bit first.
Kasmeer Meade: This whole place has mesmer magic woven through it. I don’t want to miss a single thing.
Marjory Delaqua: I see. Curiousity killed the cat, you know?
Kasmeer Meade: Meeeow!

And just their overall conversational tone. Kind of makes me wonder if there’s more than just “business partners” and “friends” between them… Which would prove to be an interesting plot development with potential.

On reddit someone post a convo that was in the data but not in the game. They were talking about picking out curtains. It really seems all but officially confirmed now that they are a couple.

Infamous Darkness.3284:

Sorry but I have to jump in here, no the asura do not hit as hard as the norn in lore, the reason they hit for the same amount is for gameplay and balance not actual lore/the world of tyria.

And yet we accept that 2 foot tall people are allowed to be warriors or protagonists? If anything, this inconsistency supports my point that suspension of disbelief is implied the moment you load up a fantasy game.

Iluzija.1798:

Yeah because mindlessly farming for hours on end for a single item is exactly what I bought this game to do. Im no casual player but zerg farming champs or meta events or dungeons is boring as and anet seem to love nerfing gold generated from these. Look at the champ bag nerf now, why should I even bother?

This is a problem with getting gold in the game, not with RNG cash items. Not the same issue.

Also some players actually have lives, school, work, uni, uni and work (I have uni and 2 jobs) and dont have the time to farm queensdale champs, dungeons or whatever zerg fest living world content there is to make any kind of meaningful profit in the time given to them. Oh you could say “buy it after the event” yeah that would be fine and dandy but they seem to like putting up the ticket amount required for the skins by a large amount.

So you don’t want to spend time playing the game in order to get it through in-game means, but you don’t want to pay real money either. Sounds reasonable…

Have some kind of crafting system so people can meaningfully put effort into gathering items towards their skin of choice, and NOT on the level of the stupid candy corn.

These items already exist. Items like Volcanus or Mjolnir. And guess what? They’re at least as much of a grind to make as any other skin is to buy. In fact, it costs far more gold and takes way, way more time to make one of these craftables than to use gold and buy an RNG box weapons skins off of the TP (as long as you don’t wait a year for the price to climb).

Don’t force your players to spend rl cash for things… let them out right buy the skins on the gem store.

What? So you don’t want to spend rl cash, but you do want to spend rl cash.

Please stop thinking along the lines of “Omg its so rare and only I can have it no one else is allowed it” and think about other players.

You don’t want to play the game to earn the gold to buy it, you don’t want to grind for it and you don’t want to spend rl money. I’d rather have the current system where i can work for something that not everyone has than have them hand them out without any effort.

DarksunG.9537:

“it’s normal & logical to expect men to be loggers rather than women for physical reasons”.

Which completely ignores the fact that if a specific logging camp works fine with more women, it doesn’t need someone bringing men in just because they’re men. It’s pointless affirmative action. There is no need to force things to conform to our expectations in a fictional tale when it can already operate fine without them.

So would you agree it’s misguided to make a fighting force half women when men are far stronger, faster, have more endurance, are physiologically wired for it & killing off the women means the end of the species? How is that not equally artificial? See, the problem here is you are picking one side over the other as “artificially-injected” without a logical reason. That’s the only reason I have an issue with it.

What game are you playing where this is remotely relevant? In GW2, a 2 foot tall asura hits just as hard as a 10 foot tall, 800 lb norn. Any race and gender can make a competent warrior in this magic fantasy land. You can buy that, but then having more women warriors is beyond that pale? The reason injecting more males into the story at this point is artificial, within the context of this thread, is that people want them just because they’re male, not because more people of a specific gender are actually needed to tell a fantasy MMO story.

You think MEN are artificially injected into these kinda of stories? I’d like to see the logic behind that.

It’s not a matter of “these kind of stories” since these kind of stories almost always have male heroes. It’s a matter of a specific game that already has a set of protagonists and a plot line. If you post in a thread demanding more males (or more gays or more black people or whatever demographic), you’re trying to inject something into this specific story for the sake of meeting an artificial quota that didn’t previously exist, when forced affirmative action isn’t required for interesting stories or characters in the first place. If some good characters are male, that’s great, but we don’t need a special agenda to represent specific genders.

It would be like having an office full of women that runs fine and having you come along and say “we need to have more men in this office” and when i tell you that it’s not necessary you come back with “why do you have a problem with men in offices” as a general statement. It’s a non sequitur.

completely unrealistic

Good thing that this isn’t a concern in fantasy fiction or this game wouldn’t have magic or dragons or asuras or golems or a million other things that are far more unrealistic than women being heroes in a disproportionate amount. If you’re suspension of disbelief is stretched thin by having more female protagonists then men, then i’m not sure how you put up with 99% of this game.

Iluzija.1798:

Yeah screw poor people how dare they be entitled to the same things as us posh snobs, I’m just waiting for anet to ban poor people who never use the gem store.

Maybe “poor people” should play the game and buy the items with gold. No one is forced to buy anything with real money.

Made a new set with some pieces from the new gem store armor. I think it’s pretty sweet.

DarksunG.9537:

So you’re saying it is factually untrue that:
men identify with men more than women
men play video games more than women
men are physically suited to war

Because that’s exactly what I said in that quote. If you can prove to me that any of these is factually untrue then I might believe I’m just arbitrarily choosing.

The “MMOs are male oriented and so we need to have more males” argument is completely circular. It’s like arguing “we need more male doctors because being a doctor is a male oriented thing”. It’s not some immutable fact that these thing MUST be that way or even SHOULD be and in the context of a video game or work of fiction, it’s the completely mutable, arbitrary decision of whoever makes video games or fiction.

You seem to say that women must be war heroes for their roles to be equal or acceptable. That war being male-centric is untrue/artificially-injected or somehow misguided.

It’s misguided to inject a certain demographic into a story just to have more of that demographic when the quality of the writing and the characters is what needs to be addressed more than anything. It’s affirmative action when none is needed.

I can’t get over how you think that having male warriors is having them “injected into it” & yet having female warriors is somehow more logical. How does that make any sense? That’s like saying I’m being unreasonable if I say “logging is male-oriented”. what?

You can say that logging is male oriented all you like, but when a particular logging camp happens to run fine with more women than men and you feel the need to step in and add more men just for the sake of having more men… that’s misguided and missing the whole post-gender goal that we could be aiming for. Instead of letting people be people, you’re making affirmative action gender quotas and drawing gender lines where none are required.

In a game about war i don’t think there is anything wrong with expecting a majority of the fighters be male. It’s logical. period. I like good female fighting characters. ie: Ripley is an effing bad——.

And that’s fine. If the game had more male leads from the start, no one but a rabid few would have batted an eye since it would have been like a million other stories out there already. I certainly wouldn’t have said a thing.

The thing is, if the stories are good (not saying that they are) and the characters are well-written, it doesn’t matter if the characters are male or female. People are talking about gay characters in other threads i’ve been reading and it’s the exact same idea: It’s cool when different groups are included in stories but they should never be added just to meet some artificial checklist of demographics, and that includes males. At this point, if you’re adding males in just to meet some made-up quota you are “injecting” things in via affirmative action when the story is perfectly fine without such agendas.

Idk about more wings but i wanted the option to look like a kitten buddhist deity since launch:

http://dekaronglobal.wikia.com/wiki/Wings?file=Item_Wings_102_Incar_Magician.jpg

Mesket.5728:

for the love of good taste and immersion…

Ugh. I really wish “immersion” was a censored word that got “kittened” out.

Saviourslave.6715:

Just because it’s on the tp does not excuse the primary means of obtaining it, it just allows you to deal with it better, which I cannot believe could be accepted as a healthy game or business mechanic.

Sure it’s a healthy business mechanic. They make money from people who choose to gamble and people who don’t can buy the weapons with in-game money, just like every other RPG ever made.

Saviourslave.6715:

I do wish the weapon skins could be earned instead of bought as well, but honestly I’ll take anything over Black Lion chest rng. I don’t want to have to resort to gold farming for literally every high quality weapon skin out there, I’d love the feeling actually earning these magnificent skins through gameplay, not repetitive zerg farming or dungeon rushing.

It would be nice if they could find some other in-game way to get some new skins. Dungeons and money seem like the 2 primary ways atm. The RNG boxes will always be there though, since they need the money.

Mif.3471:

The solution to sexism is not sexism in the other direction, it’s equality.

Or make good characters and write good stories regardless of gender without having to meet an artificial quota of a specific demographic.

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

I’m not a misogynist, but you’re not going to believe me, Panzer. You’re obviously the type to make hasty convictions.

Do you see the irony there? lol

Not that I blame you for the action of jumping at me, this is a pretty sensitive topic and I admittedly used stronger words than were necessary.

Can you see how it’s very hard not to find misogyny when someone claims that a woman who shows her body cannot be taken seriously? That’s a classic example of how women are often misogynistic to other women in our society; women judging other women based on how they dress.

I want my Nornfem character to have armor that wouldn’t result in her dying to an accidental scrape in the fray. I get that most people don’t pretend to hold their MMO character to any standard of realism, but for those of us that do, there should be options.

I think others have covered this. There are MORE options that cover your body for heavy armor than skimpy ones! The options are there! You’re in luck!

If that angers you, deal with it.

Not sure why you think i’d be mad that people want conservative armors. I get miffed when people claim that a woman can’t be taken seriously based on her clothes, however.

One of my personal complaints about female armor in this game is that so many of the pieces look big and kitten on males and completely puny on women. You should be able to make a big, built woman with big, kitten armor.

By the way, since this thread is made in regards to heavy armor, that’ll be what I’m referring to. Light armor and medium armor is for mobility and I really couldn’t care less about how open those two types are.

How does that make any sense if we’re talking specifically about the perception of women? If a woman is wearing skimpy clothes and wielding a greatsword in a fight, that’s cool, if she’s a mesmer? If a woman is wearing skimpy clothes and wielding a greatsword in a fight, that’s not cool, if she’s a warrior? Why the arbitrary double standard about what women wear if they are all going to run up into the same lethal conflict?

I get that you want to be able to wear your armor to the moot and still look stunning. The option should be there for people who want to look like that, but the artists are making almost strictly cleave-y gear now. I had to think outside the box just to find armor that actually appeared to function as armor.

I bought the Aetherblade heavy set that was recently put out and that covered my character head to toe.

VOLKON.1290:

In other words… Scarlet really got under your skin.

Good job ANet.

It makes me think of a work-place cafeteria that consistently servers horrible food. “It gets under you skin. It must be good!”

Mastruq.2463:

panzer.6034:

The problem with making updates that come only once a month is that a lot of people will be bored after a week and they’d end up having mini updates every 2 weeks to keep people interested all over again. Remember, they arrived at their 2 week schedule based on the number of people who stopped logging in about a week or 2 after an update.

Does their statistic account for the people that stopped logging in because of the 2 week schedule is the question.

Last i heard, they were saying that the amount of people logging in had been steadily increasing since they started their 2 week rotation. That was around last August, if i remember correctly.

Doggie.3184:

It is indeed something I’ve wanted for a while. Something more Assassin like, when I don’t enjoy the current medium armor face masks.

panzer.6034:

I have a sneaking suspicion that it will be the rare dungeon drop, ala the jetpack and monocle.

Hope not. ;/ Ran that dungeon 398293842938432 times for that thing and never got. Eventually just completely lost interest in its existence instead of buying it.

If you really ran it that many times, you’d have the money to buy it, no problem! [i ran it like 20 times and then just bought it off the TP]

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

Maybe you’re the kind of woman that prefers to show herself off and defy the laws of decency, but some ladies would prefer to look and be taken seriously.

Ah. The classic “i see some of a woman’s skin, i know longer respect her” stealth-misogynist faux feminism.

Weindrasi.3805:

How do you assume that just because we don’t want a woman with boobs hanging out all over the place, we must want a burqa? We don’t want burqa’s, we’re just sick and tired of female characters being turned into sex objects and treated as playthings for men—instead of actual soldiers who need protection.

“Women with boobs hanging out all over the place” is just as wildly misrepresentative of what your opponents want as “burqa” is. Feel free to come back to the boards with an argument once “boobs hanging out all over the place” is a real thing that is happening in the game.

WhiteRose.6934:

The reason why people think you want a burqa is because everytime an armor set, in any MMO, is revealing it instantly is attacked for being ‘out of taste’ and blah blah blah. 20 armor sets will then be released catering to your desires, and when one more is released that’s revealing it’s back too “OMG every female armor too revealing”.

Having 95% of the heavy armors being super conservative will never be enough for some people.

DarksunG.9537:

males identifying with male characters in a male-focused form of entertainment about male-centric activities? Oh NOES! they MUST be hate-mongers!

Lol. “Male, male, male” is what you’re telling me here. All these things must be preconceived as “male”. You’re proving my point beautifully.

Besides, i never said anything about anyone being a hater-monger or misogynist or whatever. It’s just facepalm-inducing for people to clamor for male affirmative action in a media that is traditionally male dominated to begin with.

I suggest you listen to a little girlwriteswhat & read some Warren Farrell before you start making your own mythology. Farrell has particularly interesting insights in that he is a feminist. Your “privileged” remark holds little water in the light of history.

It’s been a few years since i studied sociology in college (i dealt more with race and authors like Cornel West anyway) but, if i recall, the jist of Farrell’s ideas regarding gender was essentially that it wasn’t so much a matter than men had power over women but that they each had “roles” in society. In the context of myth and western storytelling, men are the ones that have an overwhelming hold on the hero role as analogous to what we would see in an action RPG. Women of power exist in myth, but their role is generally different. The idea that i’m “making [my] own mythology” in order to favor more men as action heroes than women is completely laughable. I doubt Farrell is going to materialize a bunch of mythologies out of thin air that prove that women hold a “hero” or “warrior” role to an equal degree as men. He’d say that women DO have power, but that power has nothing to do with video game depictions of women as heroes…at all. When it comes to giving a spotlight to video game and mythological protagonists, men are clearly in the position of privilege.

Ultimately, the game simply doesn’t need men injected into it just for the sake of them being there. It just doesn’t require them to tell a story. We don’t need affirmative action to help the imagined plight of the under-represented male action hero.

This whole thread is a big facepalm. Lets all sit here and pretend that the entire history of male empowerment and privilege in mythology, books, movies and society at large never happened and then demand that we make up for it by arbitrarily injecting more male heroes into this game. This is some bizarre form of affirmative action where we must force the privileged and more commonly represented demographic into a story without any solid, compelling reason to so.

i’d salvage it.

The problem with making updates that come only once a month is that a lot of people will be bored after a week and they’d end up having mini updates every 2 weeks to keep people interested all over again. Remember, they arrived at their 2 week schedule based on the number of people who stopped logging in about a week or 2 after an update.

In a single player game, you might spend a lot of time grinding money in order to buy a really cool looking weapon. In GW2 you actually have the option to do just that, as in any other game, if you don’t want to gamble. If a skin were 60g at a vendor, hardly anyone would complain but it seems that if that skin is 60g on the TP then there is some sort of mental block on the part of some of the community.

BoogerSammich.7189:

Buy it off of the TP

Unfortunately, this is the correct answer. This game has literally devolved into “zerg farm for gold, buy from trading post.” Rinse, repeat.

To be fair, it’s been about buying event things off of the TP since the first update.

I was worried about this before this patch launched:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/Nightmare-Tower-aka-More-Glowy-Blue-Kitten/first#post3119689

In a previous thread, i pointed out that if you see a ton of blue greatswords in a zerg, you can’t always tell if they’re the:

- Ascalonian Catacombs GS
- SAB GS
- Corrupted Avenger
- Zodiac GS
- Aetherized Nightmare GS
- Cobalt

and so on. I think there’s a few a left out. And these are only the ones that give off a bluish particle effect appearance, not simply a blue sword. When we talk about glowing blue backpieces, that a whole other matter too since you have the holo dragon wings, kitten dragon wings, factal capacitor, SAB back, wind zephyr, etc….

Too many glowing blue particles in general.

Dempsey.8760:

Also I believe The list of green weapons are as follows
sylvari cultural
SAB Trib1
Jade Dragon weapons
Special Tequatl ascended weapons
And I believe a couple other stat specific ascended weapons.

Only one of those glows green though. Sylvari ones have a blue blade too and the teq ones are mostly black smoke when wielded.

Electro.4173:

The Dreamthistle weapons are blue and watery because Krait are water-related. The weapons represent the Toxic Alliance.

The funny part is that they don’t even match the Toxic Alliance though. The Toxic stuff is all green or yellow. Heck, the krait themselves are glowing yellow! Why make something blue yet again when you they could have made something that actually matches the enemies they put them on??

skullmount.1758:

VOLKON.1290:

I’m going to get one of those and walk around L.A. asking everyone: Are you my mummy?

Who for the win.

Teege.4623:

panzer.6034:

I have a sneaking suspicion that it will be the rare dungeon drop, ala the jetpack and monocle.

Yikes, good luck to us all then.

God I hope this isn’t the case. If they do, they need to make it drop a lot more, especially if they’re gonna remove it from the game like the jetpack/monocle.

Buy it off of the TP. I expect to pay something around 40g if this does end up being another jetpack/monocle situation instead of getting lucky enough for it to drop.

If it ends up being a story bonus, you saved some money.

Me too. Got gold on the event, got 25 bags. No mask in the chest.

I have a sneaking suspicion that it will be the rare dungeon drop, ala the jetpack and monocle.

Meh. In a way it’s nice since i can just skip this set entirely.