ok i actually like the sound of that op and if it goes the way grandel says its something i could get into with several ls stories going in that direction in the next 6 to 12 months. maybe with us doing more intel on the molten alliance to start. a camp destruction of their where we interupt future plans of theres
hope not op itll be another sort of election where we have to show support one candidate over another. dont think i want another one of those scenarios
well i can get excited over this. truly only good news here
Obviously he’s referring to when the Instance Creator leaves….
This is a sticky issue b/c currently we can also benefit from it when we join a PUG of Guildies that we have no reason to trust…. in many cases lately whom will vote-kick you and probably one other “filler” to bring in their own guild members for a free 60 tokens for people who literally did nothing but “be online and show up” to get them. IoW: kicking the instance owner backfires on them and penalizes their SCAM when you’re the player who did all the Story Modes to started the dungeon before they could.
thanks for the clarifycation i dont do dungeon with pug only guild group so never come across this. truly didnt know what op was hinting at
southsun survival will be in the rotation of minigames so we will be able to do now and again and maybe whens its not in rotation they might make it a bit better so its possible
Another question I have: How was GW1 handled in terms of contents? did it have this kind of LS or any expansions. unfortunately I never got to play GW1 and don’t know the details.
they had exspansions not this ls stuff. exspansions wwere actually an new continent full of stuff and could be standalone games if you didnt have the original
you know anthony i like your responses it sounds like the ls may go somewhere hopefully with some meat. dont get wrong i like extra activities(jp, minigames) but weve gotten enough for a bit and they will be permanent rotation which is good. but thwe op is correct
im wondering too
dungeon should not close when there a new patch?
dungeon should not close ..? come on finish the sentence
im just hoping theres no hanging chads in this one
I just want to give my opinion here.
I have read from a couple sites/forums/etc. that a big issue seen from an external view was the fact that GW2 Writing team has grown exponentially from the original writers. Now I’m not saying that is all factual, but it would make sense on why there is contradicting lore here and there, and stories going all over the place.
For example, in 6th grade I had an English teacher who wanted to do an experiment with writing. At the beginning of the class she gave us our first major assignment that would last throughout the entire duration of the class (6 months or what have you).
The assignment was simple. Each person in the class would add on to a plot that was defined by the teacher the first week of the class. The story would be given to each person once every two weeks or so and there were no constraints on where the story might lead.
i.e; A dog was picked up by joe. Joe lived in a rural neighborhood near a mountain. The mountain reminded Joe of bears. The dog was named “bear”. Bear grew to be a big sized dog who grew fond of Joe. Joe got married to Sue. Bear ran away from home to the Mountain. Joe wanted to find Bear but Sue liked cats. Sue bought a cat named Sally., and so on and so on.
The story is all connected but is all over the place with no defining plot. This is what I see in GW2 within the living story currently. The story can be connected and wrapped into a defining plot in the future, but the fact still remains that the beginning of the story was lacking a definitive story line that could immerse the player into the living world.Disagree? We started this living world with the Karka invasion and Canach. Once we drove them back and banished the queen, the consortium started taking over. We were then dragged to a different story about Rox and Braham and the Molten Alliance. Instead of following the original building story line, we got in the mix of another and then were dragged back to Southsun. Though connected by the settlers, the storyline of braham and rox remained left in the open. There was not enough time to build the characters.
The story started about one thing, but after every student had added their section, the story made absolutely no sense and was hard to follow. I wish I could remember the moral of why this project was assigned, but it was interesting to see all the different ways the story went.
ADD: I’m not trying to down the ability of the writers at ArenaNet, because that’s not what I’m saying at all. They have very talented, creative writers in the house and each one has their own unique style. But having them all come up with different ideas and having their own story put in after another, is throwing the lore all over the place. I would much rather see one plot build for a while with a closing before starting elsewhere.
you know what i think you nailed it correctly. i know they have a few members overlooking everything and i think these people need more input and the different groups less.
op i think you are correct. i even read everything on websites and the in game mail and i still had a question or two that i had to figure out
i like the game personally but i agree with you on one point the karka need to go. they kill too many people in the game and can kill from quite a distance
yeah i could sit 8 hours a day in lore and try to figure it out the connections but hey i dont want to write this book for them i just want to read it. they dont connect enough dots out in the open so every thing is disfigured.yeah i know others have speculated and done what i dont want to do but this is a story and it should show me these connections. so i sit when i play and think why am i doing this garbage its not going anywhere to me and i dont care how many times i hear its connected it isnt to me. good books give you hints where your going. even lord of the rings you knew you were going to go to mordor rather early in the book didnt know how you were getting there but you knew where you were going
those stinking skritt burglars
to tell the truth i hope in a future living story episode if gnash wins he does do something bad and we have to get evidence to remove him. it would make this more of a story. i still want to have a bit more about the molten alliance. it almost like they completely disappeared now. i know the stories are related but having stufkittend of drop of the face of tyria isnt good so id appreciate if brought them back from time to time to continue on
all im hoping is loser has to walk the plank. one less person taking credit for my actions
id like to see it but the only problem would be eles with the four attunements and engineers with the bombs and grenades. they(eles) would have so many skills it boggles my mind and engineer it almost seems like a waste if you got grenades and bombs to have all those weapons. as for the other classes. id love to see then expand on them like that
i wish they would have given an experience scroll instead of the 20 level thing whereas a level 1 would have gotten to level 20 but someone level 40 would have goten 7 level a level 80 one or two levels with the skill points. i would have used something on my level 20 to get a few skill points but instead used it to make storage room on my level who ill prob delete sooner then later. he was level 5 cause i dont play hes more of a storage char really
the biggest problem with ranger they are outdone in any role by other classes so unless your soloing dont expect a lot of groups to like you. their dps is way lower their support isnt great aoe isnt great compared to other classes. you got a casual guild who dont mind taking a min or two longer to do stuff rangers ok
you know anything to liven it up a bit cant hurt it
i disagree a good story expands on what it did already we havent seen any update on the molten alliance its like it completely lost or dropped. ok whats going to happen in southsun now or the aetherblades. nope we are going into an election. yeah it sort of brought around from the other parts but im sitting here wondering what happens to the other things that happened and thinking hey we might never know. this plot is thin in my book. id love to see way more with the molten alliance(a story arc that takes us back to find more info about them) and how the settlers make out. give me substance not this thin sauce. i mean this a a living story make it a sort of story not something that dances around and vaguely gives something to tie into the next part of the story. they could have done so much more but it seems to be filler(not real meat) to just keep us playing like the dailies and monthlies and now achievement chests
im thinking they could do a facebook or website update every day. and great idea op hope they do something like this
yeah i can say apples and oranges are connected but thats doesnt mean they taste the same or im your going to like them both the same. Before i buy a book i get a general idea whakittens about by a review or back cover giving a glimpse into the book. i wouldnt buy as book without knowing what is in the covers. i might expect fantasy and get non fiction instead.
To me so far the living story is a bad book that just shifts back and forth. this game been out almost a year and i feel like they still dont have a clue where its headed. which im my opinion is bad for the game looking for its niche in a soon to be bigger mmo crowd
actually this was the way i hoped they introduce new ascended gear crafting and drops and not one way or another. i see a huge raise in lower level crafting materials seeing as they stated you be able to combine those into the new crafting materials needed to craft these items
actually i think you are right and i think its something they could put in saying the living story is headed toward such and such dragon. dont have to give a timeframe but for the general population of the game at least it would feel like the living story was actually going somewhere. i think the living story needs a true direction and let us experience how we get there it could take 6 months or nine to get there. right now it feels as we are adrift without any regard to where we are going
1.) I used MF gear a lot (in open world but not dungeons, look at my sig)
Honestly, it’s a great move. It makes me less squishy since I can wear my normal DPS/tanky gear. AND it’s account bound. So I can farm with any character I wish.
As for compensation, I don’t know exactly how they’ll remove an item completely from the economy, but I could see them giving us a fixed number of MF consumables. For example, for all rare lvl 80 MF armor, you get 10 MF consumables. For all exotic lvl 80 MF armor, you get 50 MF consumables
2.) I really don’t see why they would prevent current users from utilizing that feature
They could also allow a unique stats switch similar to the one they want to add to legendary weapons but one you can only use once. For example you could turn your MF armor into berzeker, rampager, knight etc… but once you’ve chosen you can’t change it anymore.
id support this wholeheartily allow a change to what stat they want and only a one time thing
love the kite laughed my butt off runing around with my asura and the kite
i heard from my dog the other day the precursor scavenger hunt wasnt going in til they make the home district be something real and guild hall are real then we can wory about ascended armor probably when its ready which im beginning to think means we arent working on it so dont get kittened of about it
overthrow both of them let the grawl have a counsel spot they are still waiting in la for something since getting kicked out of the homeland,,, and everyone here complains there isnt anything permanent in these patches. well the grawl are looking permanent
thanks deified for fixing that i was going to mention it but didnt have time. thanks for all the effort putting it out. some of the answers surprised me
the grawl were right all the refugee should have stayed in la. all hail the might right grawl let them have counsel spot instead of kiel or evon whom in my mind are wrong for the position. i vote now for grawl leadership
i hate jp with a passion but they are optional yopu can do other thing. it would hurt if there a few more other type of achievements but i dont mind if there are some jp achievements some people love the jp’s
voting for evon hes smarter then kiel hes got a thriving business that suckers in too many people who buy rng
wow something you actually got to earn with time and effort. i truly have no problem with it seeing i have enough to get the first but will take me months to get the next
what grim said in a didnt do or null response i didnt do the aethblade achievements mainly cause i didnt think i could accomplish enough to get any reward. think i ended up with one achievement total by not trying any but most had to do being imn jp’s and i cant do them for the life of me. thank good ness for portals when i can get them
congratz on the 52 that to me is quite a feat seeing ill be lucky to get 40
oh thats what that was for i was like wtf
Regarding challenge, yes it’s nice to have a chalenge i agree, but on a living story dungeon? If it was a dungeon like arah i would understand.
But people want the achiev
We had a guild group and good comp too (2 guards, 1war, 1 mes and 1 nec)
after 2 hours we had to quit because we had to do other things.
the laser boss is fun i agree, took a couple of whipe to understand.
the mobs are easy to defeat with the group we had.
But the final boss is hard and with aggro being wierd we could not rez because she would shadow step to you randomly.
The barage is kinda long, sure you can position yourself but sometimes you can’t.
And yeah, even if you get scaled up to 80, you have to be lvl 80 and geared.
I think it’s too chalenging for a living story dungeon.
i agree if this would have ben a permanent dungeon keep it as it is but temp content needs to be a bit easier
couldnt e be evon gnashblade of bltc. serious he has stock in what happens in la and anything happening with the consortium should he take an interest in. so im thinking the myterious e is evon
i think anet is still feeling themselves out and have no clue where they are really going with the game. its like they sit around and are saying to themselves now what? to me the living story was something to spin the wheels til they figured out where they are going
i actually think we will see all the group get together united against us. i think they are united now but the attack so far are just trying to see the allied forces defenses are and they are deciding where to start the all out attack but for now they are trying to throw distrust at the allies. maybe by having thing like the char rep dying by a human on human lands causing more charr to join the flame legion
Just a quick question, where exactly was it stated that ascended weapons would be releasing this upcoming patch?
just want to ask again where did you see ascended weapons would be released i havent seen it stated yet.
im assuming that they will be but im hoping im wrong
i think you see why logan doesnt trust the other factions of the human goverment in the human stories. looks like to me there is a bit of competition going with one group or two trying to remove the queen
and i think the mind behind the both alliances are the same it looks like the enemies of the good factions are united against the bad to me
i think the holidays months will repeat but with more stuff will be added(much like holidays in gw1 was done) but in the other months we will get new living story content like we are geting now how they tie them together is up to the crew working on it i guess
did it on my level 10 warrior wasnt that bad only problem was had to switch to higher level to get to that quaggon though, i think he was level 45 and i didnt get leveled up there
had a a friend who changed real life plans so he could get the achievement but due to miscommunication he wasnt able to get the achievement. he put off real life stuff so he could get it but due to the fireworks not going of at the right time and they went of at dawn(which was never stated) after that time he missed them. he tried to do it according to anets schedule but missed them due to their miscommunication. so yes i think they screwed up and people like him deserve this achievement and prize
i love my mesmer and i swap in weapon that arent im my swap list all the time depending on situation. i regularly use gs staff and sword and focus depending on where i am and switch in sword /focus a lot of the time during midbattle so i always have my bag open. i just think mesmer has more then two weaponsets(i usually only find one or two on other clasees i want to use in certain places) that i use regularly. i find the class takes more watching and awareness then any other class
my whole take on the torment thing was to give different build to classes that didnt have a whole lot of options. i felt there by adding torment to weak lines they give the player the option to play a certain class a different way then normal. i dont think any of the classes will be op like everyone thinks just more variety