im hoping for two sets of achievements old and new maybe we can get the backpiece again from last year and something new too
i got the flaming backpack its my favorite backpack cover hoping to be able to get another this year. i have the hat from last year. cant wait to see what comes this year
im thinking these might be temp ones they did it due to dungeon update ls story much like the dailies last ls update had do teq one day and any world boss the next. so im thinking itll disappear once the ls changes
Considering Prince Edrick’s style, I’m going to guess that he shows up as a permanent LS villain. A Joker type if you will…. Scarlet will fall in love with him, and obey his every command, truly making her the Harley Quinn of GW2.
At least then she’d gain some depth to her character.
i totally agree it would fill her out a bit more something they should have been doing all along
dont always read the patch notes most of the time i skim for what interests me the most. and add 30 events across the game im still not sure which were old or new. when i redo an area a lot of time i miss stuff the first second or third times so on the fourth time i might notice something but still not sure if i just missed it or if it could be new. that area under lions arch bloodtide coast i used to sort of level my guardian there a lot used to do a lot of dailies so i know the area pretty good by now compared to other areas but three days ago i went there and found something id never come across and im sure it was there for a long time just missed it. that how this game is to me. in guild wars 1 i was still discovering stuff 6 years in. so just saying 30 new events in an update i probably wont be giving a lot of feedback if i dont know whats new or not. now if i new something specific was new like holiday stuff youll see feedback from me
I think people are so focused on detail, they sometimes miss the point. The manifesto was about a living breathing world. A world where things happened based on what you did in a more organic way that happens in other MMOs.
You don’t talk to a guy and get a quest and go do something, you see something happening and react to it. That’s really what the manifesto was trying to say. The world is alive.
The problem, I think, is that throwing a bunch of dynamic events in the game doesn’t really give you the bang for the buck. Anet put 30 events in the game back in November and you never hear anyone talk about them. So the idea of making the world living with events was revisited and Anet came up with the living world.
They want to move the world forward. They want the world to change.
Now some people think this means drastic change every week…but that’s not how worlds change. If you visit an area and you come back a few months later, maybe a shop has changed. Maybe a person who lived in a house doesn’t live there anymore, maybe a house has been painted.
Anet is trying to use the living story to change the world. They built up houses on Southsun. The instance for Cragstead has changed several times. Little changes keep happening…but people are expecting like giant crazy changes.
I believe the sum total of all changes over time will evolve the world and I believe that’s what Anet has been trying to do. Little nips and tucks to change the world and make it feel more alive.
see the problem when they released that stuff in november i had maybe 10% of the world done so if i encountered them i didnt know if they were new or old actually i didnt realize the skritt burgler hadnt been in at release and the hidden gardens never came across that one or might have just dont know where it is(have to look it up). if they are going to put in new stuff at least let us know instead of stealth it in and hope people notice. there are still part of the world if they put new stuf in and i encounter it i might figured i missed it the first few times in cause im still finding new stuff i never found the first time.
anets bigest problem is communication something they said at the ama with chris the first time was they were going to do more of it but it seems to me to be less. i do love that they are passionate about the game and they ad new stuff. i think they could ad a bit of quality to the ls but its not bad just could have done a bit more on each chapter. they rushed us through it and made it so herky jerky. if they would have done more chapters filling out the molten alliance letting us explore why they were there more of an investigation finding more clues along the way as we try to bring them down then more chapters building up southsun and making more story behind it. thruthfully what they did in a year could have taken three or more to get us this far. i think they had good ideas behind it but rushed us through it instead of giving the time on the actual stuff. they could have had two chapter just researching the molten alliance there leaders and bases a couple where we hit a half dozen of their bases and maybe a chapter where we did damage to their head base to get info on who was behind them giving us earlier clues of scarlet which would have been better to build her up then se3veral chapters looking in to what groups she was related to instead of one asura sort of explaining what she was part of then having to go to a website to get her backstory. they slowly could have given her info out over several chapters while we were investigating. i personally would have loved 6 months of mystery hunting with a few thing mixed in besides
mad king thorn is my dad and im sick of his favoritism of his other cool son. he can just go kitten off… lol just had too ive been saying mad king is my dad since the first halloween in gw1
I had sorta been hoping for a neat Halloween armor set but I doubt that’ll happpen.
that would be cool but if it doesnt happen this maybe next year if they see the sugestion
i cant wait til its released i love mad king thorn hes always been my favorite gw holiday person
to tell the truth its all i hoped for same as last years with a few updates and minor tweeks and a little more content…. good for me
reminds me of the gw1 mesmer masks really nothing spooky about it
nope leave the mad king where he is make the prince the one able to roam about and dedicate 4 to 6 chapters of ls to him alone on us trying to stop whats he doing. maybe at wintersday he could be grinch and try to ruin that event
and i agree op keep scarlet out of itlet her die already hey maybe have the prince kill her
ok i like the idea as long as there are the old mode too
my biggest problem is if they dont take their time and do it better it’ll be garbage that we dont want to visit anymore after the ls is done and right now im not sure they can with what they have brought us already. what we’ve gotten is herky jerky stuff that just seems to be thrown together. til they show us they can provide material better id rather they not do exspansions like material
they could give armor pieces even skins we could already make for prizes for completing ls parts. they could give us another alternate way to getting ascended armor. it would be slow take ya six updates to get all pieces of ascended gear maybe more if you dont do all the ls parts
from my estimate what they gave us in a year could have lasted maybe four or five years if they did it right
i always think anet has a awesome job on holiday events. they can only get better. but the ls could have been better if they actually let us investigate stuff especially about scarlet uinless i read something on their blogs or seen their interviews she bland. we should have had a chapter or two investigating about her talking to people and letting them tel us about her. develop her in game instead of just releasing a blog or interview. yeah we know how yall see her if we watch the interview or read the blog but we dont feel that way about her.
the molten alliance there is so much we could have done in that direction. i could see six months of bi weekly update just on them alone. we knew nothing of them and learned so little really. we should be led through investigation of why they formed the alliance. their leaders and their way of thinking through investigation and after three months we could discover who brought them together and devised a way to either break them us or destroy them totally. your telling me they only had one dungeon. they learned those awesome morph skills and we dont know why they were able to do that. they needed to lead us through all that with the ls.
the same could be said about all the chapter. they could have taken three to four months on each chapter and made us a sleuth to bring us a real story. the biggest problem was it was rushed to us without developing it right. to me and others what we got just doesnt make sense but if they took more updates bringing us the info they might have been crystal clear. im not saying stop the bi weekly updates just make each part be 6 to 8 biweeklys and let us figured it out
If anet releases that much content, what if they run out ideas?
their ideas haven’t been that great to begin with. When they start creating good ideas then you should start worrying.
Frost and Flame has been the closest to actual decent content which slowly builds up to a dramatic ending and also leaves a question (mystery) when you interrogate the dredge. That was nicely done. It also allowed you to build a relationship with two new characters who remember you in future patches. The hidden clues given to you by the whisperer agent actual made me interested in what the dungeon might reveal. You learn about the relationship between Braham and Eir, and a bit about Norn culture. The fixing signposts and refugee quests went on for far too long otherwise it would of been an ok start to the patch.
Ever since then the living story has been boring…
i so agree they should have stayed on that path and expanded around the molten alliance having us research it more find more stuff and delve into it to find who was head of it then have us kill or destroy the head person and move to next ls story. i felt they could have taken 6 months just doing molten alliance stuff but instead they went all herky jerky on us and realy screwed up a possible good thing. they could have brought us these bi weekly updates and just expand on things about the molten alliance. makes its a series first we find evidence the alliance then get attacked. then we start investigating about them find the first base then the second base after a few updates we find the headquarters. we espinoge a few episodes then decide what we have to do to take them down. then a couple chapter doing what we decided. i think a more linear path would have been awesome
all i can say is dude is sporting some serious bed head
:S Any way to go to hell in GW?
maybe through the mists somehow but not sure only guessing
yeah leave some things just fun why must everything be hard now. these are holiday events you got enough stress this time of year leave the extra stress out of the game
serious how many people dont care anymore scarlet doesnt impress me and yes i read all the interviews everyone talking about and actually ls didnt start til after wintersday might be tixx is the true villian. maybe he really helped her through those asuran academies or the things she did there. sad thing is i could go on and on and it would be a greater tale then anets handed to us so far in my opinion
“Karma is useless”
“Karma has 0 use”
“Karma is too easy to get”
“We have nothing to spend karma on”
“Karma is a waste”I’ve heard sentiments like these for months. That is why we got Karma nerfed. Now it’s not flowing like water, and people suddenly have issues?
Only 10 people play this game and they all were complaining about having nothing to do with karma, right? There couldn’t possibly be players that have not played this game since launch or only play a few hours a week and don’t have millions of karma to spend on nothing.
I have over 5 million karma, never complained that there was nothing to spend karma on, and think that the nerf was over the top and a step backward, especially for new people. You don’t take things away…you give people more things to use the currency on.
I have close to a million myself, and never complained either. I’m with you, I think the nerf was a bit rough; however, obviously we weren’t vocal enough when combating the voices that cried it was useless. Hell, I have a long post in another thread going through how karma isn’t useless, but we weren’t the ones they listened to, we weren’t loud enough apparently.
I’ve even directly asked people complaining that karma has no use for suggestions. What did they want to see added to spend it on. They response? “Its useless” and then tada, it got nerfed. We reap what we sow, maybe not you and me specifically, but hey we get boned too.
you actually right there about karma and a few other matters. i see a lot less people at tequatl now. i think when everyone was complaining i didnt make my voice loud enough saying they would drive people away same with karma. i thought it needed a slight nerf maybe 50 percent of what was given but not as much as they did and i felt they should have brought us more ways to spend karma
naw no exspansion they have trouble filing the world as it is but i think crystal desert would be my choice
One of my former work buddies would start using “kitten” in his habits ever since he heard about this.
its funny i do now too
I swear GW2 is all about the jumping puzzles.
although i dont like them. a lot of the playerbase does
i was thinking a year between dragons(5 more years in my calculations are correct) if game goes on longer(i see lifetime of game at about 7 years anyways) then that there is always potential of finding new dragons if anet so wants to implement them
im a casual and ill probably not do teq but it doesnt bother me as long as i have some way to get dragonite. hey as long as they leave me a boss or two im fine. i dont mind if they change 2 to 4 bosses to make them harder as long as i have that many to do. i mean the teq zone is a little bit unconvenience for me but its ok its not that bad of a zone and if i wanted to finish it on an alt i still can. i dont get this where one person think everything should fit his playstyle balance it out so everyone has things to do if i ever get time hopefully il get my teq achievements so far ive gotten zero ive tried him four times but all those times the overflow wasnt that good i did my part in defending the turret funny thing that was the only turret standing at end of event and it was me and one other guy defending it. nope let them change a few bosses for those who want hard stuff but leave a few for us casuals too please
-Rox[Charr trying for Stone Warband] actually like rox alot wouldnt mind seeing more and learning more about
-Braham[Upstart Norn Hero] same as rox wouldnt mind him getting a makeover
-Ellen Kiel[Lionsguard Captain//Lion’s Arch Council Member]detest her actually i think she too white knightish and needs a bit of bad side
-Moto[Inventor of SAB]dont know dont care
-Canach[Lone Guerrilla Terrorist] id like to see more i think he has good in him but did things wrong. give him another chance
-Mai Trin[Aetherblade Captain]nothing much didnt see enough to care
-Evon Gnashblade[Owner of Black Lion Company]id like to see more about him
-Marjory Delaqua[Old-School Necromancer Detective]they had a nice cutscene but othwerwise dont care
-Lady Kasmeer[Partner of Marjory and Noble]not much have i seen maybe they could develop her to compliment lord faren
lord faren add him in cause i mentioned him. i think hes growing as a character. he went to a party animal to a possible hero. i think in the human personal story maybe our chars had an influence on him thats why he tried to be a hero and found out maybe its not what its cuts out to be. i like him a lot and love to see more of him
-Scarlet Briar[Crazy Omnipotent-ish Mastermind]read the stuff about heard the interviews she still blah too unrelated to me. they should have introduced her earlier and maybe had us find her but see her rise to power now shes leader of everything and that just doesn’t do it to me. i would have loved if some action by our players would have caused her craziness but i have no connection to her so i don’t care
There’s something like 5 or 6 dragons still left to fight. I never understood people who said if we fought them so soon in LS, we’d run out. I think it’d be neat if we spent like a year or half a year of releases doing things that eventually work toward defeating one of the Elder Dragons. Maybe with other releases of unrelated nature or “breather” updates mixed in. Each year would knock off another Elder Dragon. What happens when all the dragons are gone? We’ll figure it out when we get there.
i think thats what i want to start happening in ls us to move toward the dragons take a year to get there would be cool. it gives us time and then time to add the new areas time to explore new areas. serious 5 years from now it might be time then to think gw3 cause im sure game engines will improve and time to move to the next one
the election in the game was really boring the only good part was the debate on the forums and the propaganda stuff players brought up. so op dont think it made that any success it was the players spirit who made it sort of good out of game not in.
id love to see them start to move to new areas now and have ls go that way. i love exploring and now ive gotten that part done it seems like the game doesnt have much to ofer me except dailies and monthlies and a few pieces of gear to get but i dont care about gear so ill get that if i get it in time
wouldnt bother me im not a jp person so i skipped it the first time probably skip it again but for those who did it if they want something a bit different im ok with that
i dont mind the skins but give us skins for armor pieces not just backpack skins i like the skins so far but would like other armor pieces so i can deck my whole char out how i want to with diferent pieces. if we keep getting backpack pieces i wont have enough chars to put them on
oh i got molten pick on the wrong char so im definately getting this maybe on a couple chars necro and mesmer
me and the mad king go aways back almost ten years well eight would miss him if he didnt show but i read somewhere that anet are going to redo the holidays events and add extra stuff to them so im sure ill see him this year too the old pumpkin head
how about only make half the dragon hard like that and leave the rest alone. you satisfy both group because they both have half of the events to do. hardcore people do the harder events casuals or easymode people do the rest or those who want to be completers do all of them. win-win-win
teq dead to me already not worth the time to do him really. i dont have the achievement and never will unless i lose both jobs and live off the state
actually op i think its a great review and hes right about a lot of the event
I think that if Tequatl is the standard for difficulty that Anet wants to set for future updates then we’re going to have a bad time in the next year.
I think Tequatl is just a prototype for what Anet wants out of the most difficult world bosses – I suspect the other dragon champs (Shatterer, Claw of Jormag, Megadestroyer), and select other world bosses (Karka Queen, possibly some future ones in higher level areas) in order to make them “raid content” feeling.
I doubt that all world bosses will be put that way, especially starter zone bosses like Shadow Behemoth.
actually i hope your right on it being those ones only and that wouldnt bother me its only certain ones that get a big buff where the other gets small buffs only. so people like me can still do the that we want
I don’t think the fight needs nerfed at all; you have plenty of other bosses in the world to stomp on with a bunch of randoms, so it’s nice to have something different for once – challenging content on the macro-scale, and that isn’t instanced. A big part of what makes the new Tequatl encounter so great is that it requires leaders to step up and help coordinate in an effort to take it down. I’m part of Stormbluff Isle, and we’ve now downed him twice. After a day of attempting it like any other boss, a bunch of us decided to all get together on TS and start coordinating for real. With every encounter, more people joined the coordinated effort, and we went from 90% and started getting him below 50%. Once our plan was set in stone with the squad positions, and people knew their roles, he was as good as defeated. It definitely requires a substantial deal of effort, but the feeling of accomplishment and camaraderie with your server is a genuine satisfaction that I feel’s hard to come by these days. Of course, you also have a shot at ascended weapons, and a very high-value mini at the moment, so the potential rewards are proportional to the effort.
I would like Anet to keep it as is. Again, there’s plenty of other bosses in the world to stomp on, and it would cheapen the effort so many others have put in to succeeding in the encounter.
the only problem is anet has stated they are going to do future revamps of the other bosses to make them like tequatl. so soon we wont have that option if they are as bad as teq. if it was him and maybe one or two other it wouldnt bother me id do something else like you say
i dont want a main focal point like the turrets in the teq fight being where you can win or lose at if the wrong people get on them and dont know what to do. maybe make them so they get rid of all brandedness only and if your on them your helping your team stay unbranded which in turn gives your more dps on the shatterer. have a lot of his attacks turn people branded. have vets attack the turrets sao they have to be defended. a power source being defended isnt a bad idea or you lose all your canons and turrets. with canons being a big dps thing on shatterer himself. with his attacks make them aoe shots(that make people branded) so its better for people to spread out all around him. make regular attacks do nothing so everyone must use a charzooka. thats all i can think of that way damage is done through charzookas and canons batter must be protected or you lose main way of getting rid of brandedness and ability to lose canons and turrets used only in keeping people out of branded state which when you anything you heal him.
ok so that last chapter wasnt the end that brings me a bit of hope they may rescue the ls. they should have had that interview on facebook and put a link on gw2.com. thats half anets problem is they dont get that info out which makes more sense to the ls then other
i dont know i never blocked anyone figured op knew what he was talking about. so im pleading ingorance on that one
The recent addition of LFG & Solo Q have proven to me that, if you whine loud enough, ANet will change what you want changed. Unfortunately, little niceties like a useful chat log or a functional guild pane seem to fall by the wayside in favor of the vocal minority’s knicker-twist of the week, though the chat log and guild pane affect everyone.
I was playing some GW1 the other day, and I was struck by how good the chatlog was there compared to here. Clearly ANet knows how to do make a good one, I just don’t understand why they haven’t done it yet.
i said that right from the start gw1 chat system was way better. they could have just brought a version of that one no need to make a new one
id love for them to fix the invisible issue but op they need to implement a account wide ignore feature. when i log in invisible i just want to play by myself leave me alone
indigo im going to say im a tweener too the other bosses i like better now that they are a little harder and hope they keep them that way. the wurm for one is just right imo for me. im also i like decent reward compared to time spent involved ratio since i tend to be timed constrained in game time that is. i can troll the internet for hours but in game i only get an one to 7 hours a week. thats why youll actually see me here on the forums more then in game which is sad and makes me a sad skritt. i dont want to be a quaggon. i dont mind a bit harder content easy stuff bores me but i have to go with my time versus reward ratio but i try to do new stuff when i can. i did teq but the time versus reward effort just doesnt make it worth it for me so youll never see me there so on that i hope they dont revamp all the bosses leave a few for types like me. maybe wurm jormag or sb(i really like sb) and fire elemental and make the other hard for the elites to be happy
ok op i agree more time to do event better reward needed i agree
i think a few of the dragon needed a buff sb and the wurm and the elemental. i know sb its tough to get to sb when you try to do pre events and the wurm and elemental just went down rediculiously(may have spelled that wrong) fast. even the shatterer felt like it was too easy. maybe better rewards should be asked for so we time versus reward thingy doesnt get screwed up. go from auto rare to auto exotic
i agree op its backwards and bugs me to know end. id prefer to know what a guildy said last minute before i switch chars compared to random world stuff