excellent work and id be proud to use these weapons
i think if they would have given her certain human traits we could relate too i would have liked scarlet. sad too say i enjoyed the festivals and celebrations the most and the minigames and game improvements the wallet and such also. the brahm and rox majory kashmeer were good with their intros. i like them a lot. so our friends or heros were well done(they gave them all distinct personalities) the villian(no disernable personality that i can see) and her motives werent
i wouldnt mind more short random stories that dont connect over the arc we had. two chapters that dealt with stopping a centuar revolution or something along that lines. when we finished a chapter or two we knew we did something instead of a year long chapter were we arent sure why we are doing it and what are villian is up too or there motivations although id take your version too op thought id post an alternative idea to help ls story too
Happy that next patch is Jan 21: Why are we complaining?
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im not complaining its giving us enough time to do the wintersday stuff plus enjoy the holidays. scarlets only got four more chapters and they are taking more time to do them and she hopefully gone for good and then a big content update afterwards…all good news in my book. they are going to reveal why she did all she did which might make some of us happy with all the not knowing why she was doing stuff.
actually used my candy cane bow a lot on chars in gw that werent rangers for pulling groups. lots of people had so much trouble pulling mobs so they were handy for my caster chars
op i agree on both items there should a little bit of karma awarded for completion of a path in dungeons and the opening up the temples should be scalable to how m,any are trying to do it either 5 or 100 so they are open more often. i wouldnt mind if they made rewards for doing temples better to compete with the farm trains per hour bring in
at least one just to say i did it maybe up to 5 if i keep playing unless something better comes along
i think for the ls anet got to stop trying to tie everything together. do shorter stories. do a two parter about a new centuar chieftain and end with uis killing him. have us stop a plot to destroy the charr human peace force eliminate the person responsible at the end of two chapters. they can overlap stories but give us meat and bones not trying to link both together. have mini crisis every month ot so. they can stay on the 2 week chapters and if they choose to expand have several link together then but no more personal nemisis garbage or central villians that does soo much. have a chapter where we go to break up a new alliance that could cause a lot of harm if they work together. id like to see more map and use three of four chapter to bring the new map with new vistas waypoints. if they want to revamp just revamp make it the solo chapter no need to have someone behind it. anets bigest problem is they got multiple teams trying to link everything together. if they want to link a few chapter together have both teams work side by side maybe one teams geta 2 week more to work on it at the beginning and one gets two less at end but use both to do the content up. last few weeks should only be polish anyways. no more 1 year plus ls stories make them one to two months each maybe three if they got a great idea. we dont have to chase dragon but maybe something we do in one series could lead to encountering dragon minions which lead to a dragon down the line but have them be separate stories.. see the dragon minions are leading to a dragon but its a teaser for future content we dont know why they are there but suspect jormag activity or another dragon but we got to finish up what(lets say centuar something) we are doing before we go onto it. by trying to link everything to scarlet they dimished her in a sense and tried to make her all too powerful.
tdrl smaller villians and i dont mean asurans. leads in dont have to tie one ls story to the next. make more individual living stories. make exspansion but dont use dragon for reason to expand. centuars creating a mess in magunna could start it where a three or more chapters in middle that lead to dragon. that way they dont think they have to rush to dragon but bring them in eventually.
didnt tixx have a golem that looked like that
the skelk they dont seem to be corruptable that i can see by the dragons and i want allies that have strengths to use against my enemies
My theory is she’s trying to become a god or an Elder Dragon. Considering how much she enjoys manipulating people. Creating/ Infusing different species together. It all makes me believe these are nothing but experiments to prefect something that she will ultimatly do to herself.
thats the first theory ive seen that might make sense. maybe she on a mission to find out what happened to the gods or mursatt and is going to try to change herself so she understands them better and is more like them.
im not going to go into why i dislike her but she could have been better if we were given clues to why shes does stuff. journal droppings with a wish list. something that shows she has a direction not cause she can. i think she should care about what shes done and react to what put her into a disadvantage maybe make us foes that she trying to get back at for destroying her plots. they explain in interviews but they should of given it to us in game a lot of her background. yes if she doing something there should be motive and we should know the motive and be able to understand why she doing it which might lead us to speculate what she might do to achieve her goals. when she just pops in and then leaves it doesnt really give us too much about her or why. and the why is what we are asking the most because without why she shallow
im giving it a 1 /10 mainly cause its cause a riot on the forums and gives me something to read otherwise i didnt care at al. maybe a 2 because i for to rate something
i think if they gave her a personality. she got a background story but a silly personality. if we are to like her we got to understand her in a bit not just she crazy and like to do stupid things combining. until they give out more of her personality that we can relate too we wont like her she generic with what i call a stupid background. this is all my opinion of her. i could understand if her motives were revenge against a wrong done but ive read of no wrong and it seems like she just doing stuff to do it. if they gave more motive for doing crazy stuff i might hate her or like her more but just doing so she can isnt enough. so what she killed someone i dont like she took someone i liked lord faren. i wish they have faren get released and have a big cutscene where he gave info on her out maybe she told him some of her motives and future plans her dreams something. btw has anyone seem hobotron since he disappeared
i totally agree op they should have done this and wintersday without scarlet
i came across the one in snowden but i hadnt been in that area for a while so i was unsure whether it was new or old
maybe part of the next ls chapter just like how kessex was changed before the tower went live. if it is its builds up the next chapter somewhat. to me thats an improvement to the ls but they still got a ways to go to get better
i dont have a pic but i ran into a tower like thing right where it says skradden slopes on the map and it says do not touch but you can touch and it gives you a shock and knocks you down. anyone know how longs its been there? and if someone can post a screenie for me id appreciate if it new
i always find if someone wants to duel you youve done something to tick them off so if you decline a duel attempt they tend to harass you thinking thats the way to get you to accept there request. i can see where champion farming would totally escalate this behavior. champ farmers get upset when someone kills champ early whole group harass person who killed such champ trying to get him to duel. its bad enough now with the argueing in map chat when it happens think how much worse it could be with the possibility of dueling. i totally agree keep dueling out of wvw and yes ive seen some in there it ticks me off when they take space and theres a queue and they arent doing anything to really help there server. i still say set up free arenas or certain areas for those who want to duel. that way i can stay away from it completely. im willing to give a little bit for yall to have it but dont muck up my game. same went for those who wanted harder material.
nope op if they implement open world duals im gone. i never liked them in other games and they are reason i dont play those games. ill go with vaynes idea if anet creates maps for those who want to do it it wouldnt bother me but keep it out of the open world
1)visual stunning. the artist in this company are amazing. best feature i just love going around looking at stuff
2)trading post first game i played with one but i love this feature in a agame
3) character creation they made it better then the original with more customization but retained the original ease of use
4)npc chatter i find i stand around with my char watching npc talk. some chatter is hilarious and the attention to detail in that aspect is great.
5)wvw never been a afan of player vs players battles in games before but i think they did a pretty good job of it although i dont have a lot of experience in wvw in other game. i can play this one and enjoy it enough
Scarlet can be killed – to go to the mists or somewhere else, only to return once a year to release havoc in some form. Doing this resolves two issues. The first is we get to “kill” her off as an on-going villain. It also allows the devs to resurrect her at will, to have her minions/supporters/followers/toxic induced fans to work at bringing her back. in some way.
It wouldn’t the first time something like this has happened, four immediately come to mind, the first being Mad King Thorn. He is technically dead, yet comes back once a year. The second is his son, a new addition to the game, also technically dead but now able to come back once in a while. The third is a carry over from GW1 days (I realise the Mad King is a carry over too), that being Palawa Joko, who technically died but came back. The next is Shiro Tagachi, who again, actually died, but makes a comeback.
So, Scarlet might die, or be killed, but she may not stay dead for long.
no actually i want her to go away not be able to return now and then, i respect thorn and he has a good backstory nothing they did with scarlet is worth returning or saving at all. so when i think kill i want it for good with no chance of return at all. if they do it your way they might as well keep her around like shes doing
actually id prob like scarlet if they did a better job of bringing her into the ls. her character isnt a bad one its they just dumped her and had no build up and we were left scrambling to find info on her. i think if they would have spent time giving clues about her and had us take in an interest in her. we wouldnt dislike her so much. to me it felt like a vanilla villian dump. we knew there was someone but had no clues then they made one up and there she was. they dont provide any info on why she does what she does either. ok i take she a psycho but even crazies tend to have reasons why they do something. i havent seen any reason behind her yet except she likes combining things that dont go good together
totally agree ninjachris. to do something along the line of choosing with not much of a story would only make it worse
usually turn my game sound off so i didnt catch this. i always turn mine off cause when im around other people and they play those stupid facebook games and those annoying sounds it bugs me. guess ill have to turn the sound on for a while til i hear them
i saw him but didnt follow him. dont get a lot of time so i didnt want to follow him at first thinking it might be a waste of time guess i should have nice find op
i want last years wintersday exactly the same with a few new changes but keep the original stuff to do. i didnt get much time to do stuff last year but i think there should also be some new stuff for people who did but the ability to redo the old stuff i want
continuity. multiple updates relating to one story. stop jumping around would go a long way toward fixing. i really thought at the end of frost and flame we should have delved further into the molten alliance with three or four more updates on it. letting us get to know our enemies and new allies through multiple updates. im still all for the two weeks update system(if they wanted to keep it that way) although id make it monthly( it would give them more time to fine tune). less achievements to chase and more investigating. clues that lead us to the next CHapter. i thought the invisible tower that was in halloween update was a good thing . it let our imaginations run wild on what it could be. each chapter should link to the next chapter better with multiple hint if possible. i mean your ideas are good but if they flip flop them around they willl be the same old garbage. i really thought anet has had some good ideas just presented it wrong on the ls
Well at least Cragstead serves alcohol.
does it i didnt know that have to check it out
op i think your right and until they do along that line its going to be grind for your achievements and dont care about it attitude you see all the time
im having the same problems and i hope this post. unable to do anything on the forums at all
nope tixxs(think thats his name) wintersday blimp accidently lands on her and kills her. then all the good people of tyria rejoice!!! fa la la la la la
the burst out doesnt bother me. it was cool last year but it doesnt bother me they didnt do it this year too
this makes me sad panda i did get mine last year but was hoping to get another one for another character
i dont mind that they added more but i wish we could have done the old stuff too. like in gw1 you could do the old stuff and the new stuff they added on each year. yes i do like the hat is an armor skin instead of town hat. thanks nott for bringing that up
One month for events/achievements. If they want to go with 2 weeks, just have some nice patch within two weeks or add a new armor set or something, but not an achievement-based thing.
this is what i think too
i dont care anymore really. i do if i got extra time which seems like i never do. i still do dailies but truthfully i might stop doing those too thinking of finding another game i can spend my money on instead
you know what i think your right it would add a lot of imersion to the story but to do that im sure they definately need more time between to polish the updates. its the little thing that get thrown out when your rushed for time
i can see a lot of complaining no matter whats happens if it ends up failing the servers that beat will complain they beat but other servers so they get penalized in a way. or if it succeeds some servers will complain they carryied other server who didnt succeed. if anet made it so only the server that succeeded moved forward then there would be complaints the world arent the same. people complain its a one day event and they went on vacation that week. still a problem with overflows and people saying hey my server might have won if i hadnt gotten into overflow all day long. i dont see how they could implement it without a lot of complaining. its one of the biggest reason they dont put in much permanent stuff for there ls almost puts them in screwed if you do screwed if you dont
Calling it.
Toxic Molten Aetherblade Alliance.
More like THE ALLIANCE ALLIANCE
no alliance to end all alliances
id like to see each part expanded upon. i felt like we really didnt discover the molten alliance just had a run in with them. the first chapter we had on them was a bit slow but it didnt bother me. then the second we ran into them a bit more and discovered one of their bases and did some fighting and then they werent heard from again til scarlet invasions. they ended up being mysterious we should have had more chapter reflecting on them to get to know them their leaders whereas we could have started getting clues about scarlet. i really think you could have wasted up to ten chapter telling the molten alliance part of the ls. to me they are still mysterious. i think you needed more lead up to parts of your story. maybe while investigating one group you start giving us teasers into the next group. much like what you did with the krait in the next chapter
if we could have found little bits about scarlet along the way she might have been a real interesting villian. otherwise i had to listen to an interview to stuff on her when you could have been spreading that info in different chapter before you revealed. there really needs to be more cohesion between chapters and less jumping around. make a part of the ls become several chapters. im still wondering what is the consortium whats the motivation behind the molten alliance. scarlet really dont feel like i know hardly anything about her but she done so much
you can still tie achievements to the two week period just legthen the time between sections of the ls make them more complete(one two week period doesnt mean we are done with a certain group) and give us more info(why are they doing what they are doing whose their leaders and especially group that dont mix explain why they are working together its got to make sense to use) on the group.
i think the living story has tons of potential and what you gave us could have ben so spectacular it just needs ironing out not be so bunched up. let us investigate a bit more. a few cutscenes in there to give us info we absolutely need to see. if what i heard on the interview about scarlet had been a simple cutscene with some asuran guy explaining it to me would have suited me way better then an interview of a dev on a website. background info should be given to us way inn advance to get us to understand chars better. i hope this helps its all i can think of right now
My only problem with champ train is that it runs 24/7 and they are huge, basically filling the map and more often than not putting me in OF when i just want to kill jormag or SB. The only time i’m able to get into maps like Frostgorge Sound or Queensdale is when America is asleep lol. Although i swear, some of these folks never sleep.
to tell the truth you are the one who has a right to complain i do the champ train myself. i dont care if someone kills a champ without the train i/we just move onto the next one but for those who get put into overflow due to the train i do feel for because you wanted to do a dragon event and cant
i actually might have liked her if they fed us tidbits about her from several ls stories. they could have started back in the molten alliance. reason i hate her is mainly cause they sprung her on us and made her kind of a huge thing without building her up right
Well the first bit of LS was I think the most successful one, it took 4 months to end and brought dungeon which everyone loved. Why not make same thing with just UNLOCKING Dominion of Winds. For example first update would be “Secret of Tengu” that will tell us that Tengu have some giant problem in their dominion, a war maybe with some dragon minions, bubble minions, and some of them are evacuating outside of dominion. then would come “Treasure of Tengu” here you would go to search for ancient weapon somwhere at the edge of the world, maybe near Orr, that was used by Tengu to kill these minions but somehow over centuries it got lost and recently a seeker reported it, here’s the dungeon, this weapon is being kept locked by NORMAL pirates. Third would be “Dominion of Winds” Here we would be allowed in dominion of winds, but restricted to parts were dragons minions usually attack as Tengu are still trying to figure out how the weapons work. In this chapter we help Tengu around Dominion of Winds and guard them against dragon minions. In the final update of this chapter “Monster of The Depts” We kill one of the champions of bubbles in an epic dungeon. Here 2 months of LS, no scarlet, no crap, all the content that people would LOVE. After this update we continue working with Tengu in their Dominion plotting further plans of getting closer to bubbles.
this is what ive been describing and trying to get out how they should do the ls. great idea and i love how you had it run over several two week periods with it ending with an area exspansion. well done and i think this is how all updates in the future should be along these lines.
i actually agree teaser that lead to more investigations in the next ls story. maybe a way to expand each chapter over multiple updates the one update then next update we get next chapter doesnt seem to flow and i think the teasers would help with the flow
Relax. They just need one outstanding story (e.g. Livia), or outstanding world event (e.g. organized Centaur invasion against Kryta) to bring back the fans. Just one.
actually they need more flow and more time to put into these content updates. its a story but its disjointed and need a bit more ironing maybe they should have spent more time with each chapter(each chapter in reality being three or four updates) taking a month or so. each update(every two weeks) bringing us more stuff to do toward the chapter end before they moved onto(giving us more info on the the threat and about each part) and gave a us a bit more stuff in game that connected each chapter together. as for the overall picture i think they did an adequate job. it is a story if you find all the connecting pieces. they could have expanded more into the areas giving us more info about the molten alliance and/or aetherblade more intro into scarlet before we saw her. if we had more info to understand why they formed and group maybe we would feel more passionate about fighting them. the only thing is the holiday should remain the same. holidays should be more of like a break from achievements and living story for everyone
I’m still of the consensus that permanent content would be cool to have, however I could see how it would start to take up space, and as the OP has suggested if we were given an ample amount of time to complete the living story in a casual manner then I think that more people may enjoy it, I know that is my biggest frustration is the 2-week time frame to not only complete the achievements if you want to do them, but immerse yourself in the content, if it had a small story, or a dungeon, jump puzzles, you want to play those while they are here at a casual pace. More people would be able to enjoy the content if it wasn’t out of their reach.
im think the space issue could be handled by expanding territory it doesn’t have to be big areas all at once but a new zone or two where this stuff ends up permanently. i think that how it could be handled a new area(or zone) every three months or so. leave parts of the zone unacessable til we get to that part of the ls
huh not sure what your talking about or where your going
i felt through out the year we had too many loose strings and if they would have taken more time with each part and pulled tight those strings we might have had a decent living story. i look at each chapter and still can think of so many questions that didnt get answered thats why i think they could have put several chapters into each part all besides the festival stuff and given more details about the various groups and let us figure out why they did what they did.
from what ive gotten from other sources and thanks goodness for other people digging 90 percent of it up for me(those who tried to explain connections in the ls in other threads). they might have had a good overall plan but failed to really deliver it to us and i think the biggest reason was time. they wanted to get to the end fast and really didnt give us enough info in the middle to keep us interested. i think if anet understand what im talking about the ls can get to be awesomeness. i still have faith in them they just got to be more patient which is something i always felt anet always needed even way back in gw1
There should be infinite axe that has chainsaw on it and whenever you chop a tree leave smoke behind, and some spiders spawn
thats would be so cool