I have not given up getting one yet, but would only do one of these again if there was some changes. A better idea would be to have a token system, maybe boost the drop of the tokens to 50x of the portals are at the moment and have you need 50 tokens to buy a portal.
I know this would not increase the chance of getting one but at least you would feel like you are making progress on the portal rather than grinding the whole week and not getting anything while someone else gets one with the very first mob they kill. After the week is over there should probably be a way to convert spare tokens into gold/other currency so they don’t amount to nothing as well.
Yes I would still play them, but not as much. Tokens can buy you a lot of rares to salvage for ecto and dungeons are also a decent way to pass time while waiting for a boss to spawn/ whatever else and give decent loot for time spent in them. If they did remove the gold I would only do COF fullrun and SE p1 and p3 purely to pass time, but would not completely stop.
This looks extremely interesting. Very good way to get access to the beta, even if it means I have to farm silverwastes for 5 hours to get in, haha. I wonder if there will be any new content other than what was in the stress test we already had that I didn’t get the chance to do.
I would be happy if they brought SAB back and I would be absolutely overjoyed if they brought back the pavilion with the gauntlet and new achievements to farm there. However, I do see it as fairly unlikely that they will do this as HoT is the most important thing right now for the game and although it will probably be at least half a year or more until it releases (hoping to be pleasantly surprised) it should be worth it because there will most likely be massive amounts of content released there.
I do understand why people are wanting things to do though as my days in gw2 for months have just been dailies and then the same dungeons for hours on end. Something new would really make me look forward to logging on and playing, even if it is just a repeat of old content that I liked.
I am sure that spreading out rewards through dungeons will help people who get kicked at the end, I really don’t see them changing rewards to dungeons except in new dungeons that they may add in HoT. They have been this way for so long and they work so I don’t think it would be a good decision to change how rewards are attained so much that it may ruin the experience for people who like the current system, like I do. Sure, it does allow selling (which I have absolutely no problem with and think it would probably be worse if it stopped because a lot of people would not be able to do Arah without buying (I certainly wouldn’t)) but it would take away the incentive to finish the dungeon in certain situations if it was changed, for example you are in a group with new players who cannot do a dungeon and the experienced player would be much more likely to help them learn the dungeon if all the rewards are at the end than if this system was implemented.
To make gold I run every day AC 1 and 2, SE 1 and 3, and COF 1. Most days if I don’t have anything else to do after that/don’t want to do anything else in game I also run AC 3, COF 2 or 3, HOTW 1 and sometimes COE 1, 2 and 3.
That makes me a LOT of gold, way more than I need to get by and also gives me a nice amount of materials through drops and salvaging. No way could all that be done in an hour, but like people have been saying, running a few of those would be easily possible. I would not recommend AC full run, because of the huge time gate on p3, instead run SE 1 which from my personal experience is the fastest dungeon in the game.
Today I was doing a full run of COE with a party from lfg. Overall it was a decent run and we got all paths done in under an hour, however on every path our elementalist got through to subject alpha for the first boss fight before the doors opened and managed to take him down to about 90% before the rest of us got to the fight. I asked him how he did it and thee was no answer. I am wondering if this is an exploit or if there is a legit way to do this that I just haven’t realised yet. If this is an exploit I will know to leave all runs that someone does this in in future but I stayed for these runs because I wasn’t sure if it was exploiting or not.
If you are not hacking, even if you are reported, you will have nothing to worry about. The report will be investigated and a decision will be made whether or not you are hacking (you were not) and decide on what to do (in your case, nothing). I am sure it is possible he thought you were hacking but you were not so it does not matter if he did.
I only ever play one character, who is a warrior. Of my 2.7k hours in game, 2000 have been on my warrior (everything else has been in pvp only which doesn’t really count because I only did it for the AP). So yeah my recommendation would be to play only one class and focus on getting all the cool skins/full ascended on one character and have loads of gold to spare rather than spending more on gearing up multiple characters. I am not sure why I only play one char, probably just because that is what I have always done but I find it fun still after all the time I have spent on that character.
I think that there is nothing wrong with watching cutscenes because that is the way you are supposed to run dungeons. I will admit it does annoy me a bit if I am in a hurry, but I would never vote to kick anyone because of it because it is not harming the group in any way (except one of those zerker speedrun groups, which an inexperienced player probably wouldn’t want to join anyways). However if the group asks you to not watch cutscenes you should probably stop, just as they should let you watch them if you ask in advance. To stop any chance of being kicked, you should make your own group and say you are watching cutscenes. That way everybody is happy to be in your group.
I think u can still get it by opening wintersday gifts, the drops will not have changed since the wintersday event. The only way to get the gifts that I know of now though is to buy off the TP or to have the gift tree in your home instance.
Fave title I have- Dungeoneer, because it is the one that took me a lot of effort (that and legendary champion)
If I could have any title, I would have ultimate dominator even though I rarely wvw, because it really shows your dedication to it to get 250k kills.
I respect titles like ultimate dominator, legendary champion, Dungeoneer and illustrious achiever because they are (fairly) rare and hard to get and show your commitment to an aspect of the game.
I think a fun title would be to die a set amount of times. I would have three titles for each 1k, 5k and 10k deaths.
I too think that the daily cap of 10AP is worse than it was before. I enjoyed it how I always put in the effort to get the full 15 achievements from the daily so I earned more from that day than most other people. Now everyone gets at least 10 every single day which means I feel less competitive with others to beat them on AP. I am still an achievement hunter though and always get as many AP as I can however more of my time in game consists of running the same dungeons over and over instead of farming AP, which I enjoy more because it feels more rewarding in my opinion.
Also, has the daily/monthly cap on AP been combined yet/when will it be if it has been confirmed? Because I couldn’t find anything about it myself.
Proposal:
Instead of deleting this stuff, why not just mail your stuff to random people instead? It will make you very popular and likely give you a warm fuzzy inside in the process.
Just a thought.
You know, I might actually do this for people who do need t5 because I like helping people by giving them gold and stuff (I once gave 100g to someone saying how much they wanted a precursor in map chat haha) and I agree destroying them really is a waste so when I get excess of anything not account bound I will probably help people out by doing this. Glad you suggested this because I never really gave what I was doing a second thought.
As far as I know there is no ‘new leaf of kudzu’ they will be completely new legendaries. Because of this you will definitely have to do the collection to unlock the recipe and then craft it to unlock the skin. After that you will get the skin but you’ll probably want to craft the legendary out of it because with all the current precursors there is a much cheaper way of obtaining the skin.
I hope there will be, but probably not because of the fact that there has been almost no water added in maguuma already (dry top only had the diving spot and a tiny bit in the oasis and silverwastes only has a tiny pool in the skritt cave for the diving spot). I really like underwater scenery and the combat is not bad like many people believe. Also, frostgorge sound is my favourite zone because of the massively deep water and the little quaggan villages on the bottom, which just add to the already amazing scenery. If something similar was to be added in HoT I would be very happy although if most people are against it I understand why it may not be added.
I generally just destroy all my t5 after I have a full stack (1000, thinking of upgrading to 1500) of each raw and refined material. I also do this with other really cheap and common stuff because I think it is too much effort to use the TP for things of such small value and when I use some (which is quite rarely) I will regain my store of 1000 very quickly because they drop so much. I know this is pretty stupid for me to do because I am missing out on gold, but other methods earn me more than enough to get by.
222 times completed, something like 2.7k in game hours over just short of 2 years. I only really salvaged to get the achievement maxed to get the AP. I don’t really salvage for any other reason except rates/exos for ecto so I am extremely surprised that mine is so high.
While I am sure this will be very good to prevent gold selling and the like, I also think it would be bad for those who like to trade through mail to avoid TP fees. Personally I only use the TP and I know mail trading is not recommended, but some people do trade valuable items such as precursors through mail which will prove impossible after these changes and mail trading precursors is beneficial for both sides provided they both give what they agree to. Again this will only be a positive for me though, so I am definitely not complaining about this!
I will be very surprised if we didn’t have some long term achievements (probably a Morden slayer one for example) but I think they will mostly be short term ones like ‘kill the wyvern’, ‘explore all regions in heart of maguuma’ or even ‘defeat mordremoth’. There could even be LW season 2 style achievements because it looks like there will be more story instances. So overall there will be plenty to do I bet.
Personally I think SW is brilliant and has something for everyone. I must have spent 3 hours or so every single day from when it came out to a bit after vinewrath was released because there is just so much variety there. There’s a huge and awesome jumping puzzle/ badge scavenger hunt, there’s events, there’s vinewrath and there’s chest farm. What ever you enjoy there is some of it in silverwastes and because of that you will find a lot of chest farms and also a lot of event maps. If you end up in a map you don’t like, change maps- there will be a map you like somewhere.
I hope they do another one of these stress tests because I haven’t been keeping up with expansion info for a while so I didn’t have the chance to take part. I am now subscribed to the news letter so I am very hopeful to get invited to take part next time. After seeing all of what has been posted, I completely take back what I have used to think about living story being far better than an expansion! I can’t wait for full release!
I usually buy t6 mats with them. It allows me to slowly make progress towards another legendary without spending anything or I can sell them if I desperately need gold. I have also been wanting to get one of the laurel minis that cost 75 laurels but I cannot help but spend them before I get that many, haha.
If the only difference is the skin, that has to be what the extra cost is (the other ones with that skin were more expensive too. I don’t think the rune will have anything to do with it because minor runes sell for 1 silver at the very most (unless the prices have changed dramatically since I last checked, which I highly doubt).
I think living world gave the game everything it needed, of course some ppl want more than I do (maybe because they have played other mmos, I don’t know) but I really don’t think living world was a failiure, but an expansion will probably make a lot more people happy with the game which is a good thing.
I don’t mind that we are getting an expansion, but I will definitely want living world as well. Not because we might have to pay for HoT or anything but like I have said before, there is just not enough content (no matter how much there may be) to keep me busy until the next exp comes out (which may be another year or two). Personally I loved living world and would be very sad to see it go, but let’s see what else is announced before jumping to conclusions like that.
By the way, where is this trailer ppl are posting about? (didnt watch announcement)
Edit: never mind about the trailer, I found it. I think it looked very disappointing to be honest, but I suppose it would be good for people who care about guild halls, PvP modes and the like. However the end cutscene for point of no return was incredible because it was advertising the story more than anything else, which I all I want from the expansion. I want to see mordremoth in a dungeon, boss fights and more story episodes like in LW: S2 so I hope there is that also but I know that this game was not designed for me specifically.
The revelation that sylvari were indeed intended to be mordrem was very interesting, though I did expect it.
However that cutscene… Wow. I thought the last cinematic for season one was amazing but this one is even better (I thought the scenes of fighting and rivalry between sylvari and others was good and I knew It would be good after rytlock’s ’don’t trust sylvari, they blong to the dragon now’) I can help but think this was advertising an expansion.
I disagree with doing this because it would be even easier for people to just pay real money for long-term in-game rewards. Of course they can do it with gems → gold but this would be worse in my opinion. The pricing would have to be just right as well so as not to upset people who ground for months to get the 1k gold for their precursor. I think precursor crafting is a much better way to have a solid gold value of precursors than this but of course other people may prefer this depending on their style of play.
Looks very good! Camp resolve is getting attacked so that is definitely where those vines were growing toward. Shadow of the dragon back, though it was presented as it was in the cave with the locked door from last episode so likely not a world boss there but in a story instance. The big mordrem wurm thing in the west of silverwastes was shown, maybe that is the wold boss.
One thing I am wondering: is this the finale? Because to me it did not have the amazing look I expected a finale to have, it looked more like ‘just another’ albeit very good release. Maybe it will be the epic finale and they just don’t want to give too much away but we will see I suppose.
That would be a very nice idea- I have an ascended shield sat in my bank doing nothing since I got the Flameseeker prophecies and, as a legendary, has the stat switching so I really will never have another use for that ascended shield (I only play one char) so getting my mats back to make something else or even just to sell I would like.
Favourites (descending order):
Bolt
Kamohaoli’i Kotaki
Flameseeker Prophecies
Howler
Least favourite? Tbh I like them all (I love really over the top ‘look at me’ effects) but if I had to have one as my least favourite it would probably be bifrost.
While I cannot absolutely confirm that it is bugged, it really does seem that way. Back in EotP, it was by far the most common lege for me even spawning 3 times in 1 zone-wide meta. Although I have been mostly ‘breach-hopping’ since then, I have done somewhere in the region of 200 breaches (usually entering the map at 60-80%)in that time and have not seen the annihilator once since Echoes of the Past. I have seen every other lege a lot in that time, with the executioner spawning considerably less that tormentor and demolisher, however some sort of differences in spawn rates is to be expected but for one to not spawn a single time is so unlikely it seems that it has to be bugged.
I have to agree that free play needs to be removed, I just want to do my daily/infinite achievement there and therefore I want those done as efficiently as possible. I understand that many people like free playing but there are other options for that (choir bells going for a few copper each on tp) and also that the activities a designed to be fun, but for some people like myself I feel forced to do things in game I really don’t want to (I admit it is my own fault) just to get some more AP and for people that find the bell choir fun, they will also enjoy playing the songs before the break.
If the free play was removed both the achievement hunters and the people who want to play the activity for fun can both get what they want.
As someone who only plays one character, I can’t really say, but I think what I would do is just craft one ascended set for each char. It’s not too expensive (except for light armour),only a couple hundred gold per set. If you do not have the gold/mats at first I guess you could do what you are suggesting but over time I would craft multiple sets for the added convenience.
I agree if there is a boss it will be in downtime after the breach. It has been suggested that the boss may become available after a successful breach (5/5 boss killed) which happens the vast majority of times now. The effective downtime (which is already way too long in my opinion, as someone who does not do labyrinth) would have to be extended considerably for this to happen though. An alternative would be having it run at the same time as the lab, so people who want to open chests in the lab can do and hopefully due to scaling the remainder would kill the world boss.
I don’t think we will ever get an expansion, but I am happy about that because I would not be able to help myself but grind through every bit of content ASAP which after I had done there would be nothing for maybe a year or more. With the living world I CAN’T grind through everything (I mean the story itself not each episode) and that actually makes me care more about what is going on. I hope they have another 2 or 3 living world seasons complete by end of 2015 but hopefully not an expansion (unless they do the same size LS updates every 2 weeks along with the expansion)
About 2.5k hours over about 550-600 days and I have had one precursor drop. My /age then couldn’t have been over 500 hours. I hope you all get a pre soon with all the hours some of you have put in!
I, although I suppose it is technically just farming events, think that SW is fun and not just mindless zerging. I often farm FGS/ Orr and I get tired of it after a couple of hours and have to do something else but sometimes I can spend many hours in silverwastes farming crests for my luminescent gear that will be released in January and I enjoy it all I don’t really know what is so different about farming SW to farming Orr but it is just a lot more interesting, even if it is just an ‘event train’.
Dry Top, I don’t really know- I haven’t touched it since DR: Part 2 but it was quite enjoyable while it lasted, although I can understand why people could find it very dull due to the lack of large scale events like the breach.
If this happens it will be the most amazing thing ever. If it does, I think it should happen in a cutscene involving mordy rising from the ground and everything (what I really want) or possibly in a story step, but I don’t have any ideas on how it would be effective to do that.
I will really try to not expect this I case this is not what happens, but with the new teaser pics being in a jungle setting (and it is more than likely they will be for the season finale which I suspect will be a VERY long chapter with loads of content, given the length of the current episode and the one before that) I really can’t help but hope this will happen- if it does this season finale will be every bit as good as the season 1 finale which was incredible.
There’s 2 near amber fort now and one just east of that- I am thinking that they will have something to do with the season finale, how I am not sure yet but I think lots of smaller vines may appear from them and cover the whole area in mordrem vines, but that is a bit if a wild guess. Nonetheless I am looking forward to seeing whe some more will appear. Also, I wonder if they will be limited to silverwastes or maybe some will go to dry top/Brisban if the finale will be really that dramatic.
I sold the hunter when I first got it for 400g and I (even though it’s over a year since I got it) am seeing it at almost 1k gold and know I should have been much more patient. Also I spent over 800g (almost all I had) at once on the MF to try to get zap…. I got absolutely nothing worth mentioning and to make it worse I realised I could have just bought it off the TP at about the same price!
I think it will most likely end with a fight against either the shadow of the dragon or the big mordrem plant at the west of silverwastes, maybe both. I also think they will be made into a tequatl-level fight with their own set of achievements and possibly a title for getting them all. Story-wise, probably something on glints egg or caithe, but I don’t really know tbh. Also I will be extremely disappointed if we do fight or even see mordy by the end of the season- I think it would be most effective to have something like 1 year build up with a dungeon at the end when we finally do see him, of course that is just me though and I am sure a lot would like to fight mordremoth sooner rather than later.
I don’t really know why you think the new living story bosses are boring (though if you mean the end boss of tangled paths I can understand). They have been a huge improvement over for example personal story bosses which were just ‘dps until dead’. The Aerin fight was good, so was the statue fight and the terragriff boss. The shadow of the dragon was VERY good and they all had mechanics that were interesting and none were just hp walls. On another note though, the mordrem predator in this release WAS just a wall of health and wasn’t very fun, but that is the exception rather than the rule.
I think it’s because flameseekers is one of the more subtle legendaries and it’s supposed to be a nice skin with no obvious effects (only real effect is when you activate a skill a page turns) and there are loads of legendaries that have big footprints and trails on your attacks (sunrise, twilight, bolt for example) so it is nice to have one that is not so ‘in your face’ in my opinion.
I was wondering about this too when I saw the second one appear. I wasn’t sure if the first one had always been there when I first saw it but I was 100% sure the second one wasn’t there a few days ago so I also hope they do something interesting with this. I also am pretty sure they will add a third one in the next few days before the patch, maybe even some will appear elsewhere, who knows?
I have had many awesome moments in game since I got it so it would be really hard to choose the best, although I have to say the most epic feeling I have had in game was getting my first legendary (bolt) I would seriously just stand there swing my weapon to see the lightning for a few days after I got it.
Also these were good:
-Having The Hunter drop for me from a normal mob in wayfarer when I must only have had like 300 hours in game… Sold it for 400g though which was not much but it was like 10 times what I had before it so still good
-Discovering chaos crystal cavern by accident
-A lot of the scenery (dry top oasis, labyrinthine cliffs mainly)
-Getting my chest and title every 5k AP
-Killing liadri after about 40 tries
-Killing triple wurm first time
-Marionette
-Cutscene after killing Scarlet on the breachmaker
Wow I really didn’t notice that! I can just see us defending the lanes from mordrem while one at a time go up to get that plant/wurm looking thing. I wondered why that wasn’t a boss fight this time but it’s fine by me in the next episode.
I really would like another marionette style fight because I thought it was very unique at the time so I hope that this is going to be one.
