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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I'm giving the bladed coat a try, in Nilgoow's favorite colors. I don't really like much of the bladed armour sets apart from the light helm because it's a Doctor Doom mask on Asura.
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The medium chest has what Tricks has dubbed the "tittyclaw." 
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Nov 12, 2015 23:31
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The mistward chestpiece is also disappointingly grabby on female alts. Nothing else matches the leggings and my norn guard needs some better duds, drat it
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Bird "the colors don't match". Also dressing up a class you don't play. 
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:The medium chest has what Tricks has dubbed the "tittyclaw." Illuyankas posted:The mistward chestpiece is also disappointingly grabby on female alts. Nothing else matches the leggings and my norn guard needs some better duds, drat it e: Mistward legs work well with Phalanx on male characters. I'm using that combo on my Sunspear Cosplaying Rev: 
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Lyer posted:Bird "the colors don't match". It's Lorikeet's turn to map HoT! 
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Gliding needs to be everywhere else too. I mean, if they're worried it will make cheesing jp's easy just turn it off for those specific bits but holycrap gliding. Yes. Always. Everywhere. For one thing, seeing everyone zoom about would surely promote the expansion to those still playing without it - since they don't get to see it in action if it's only used in maps they can't get to. Leave out updrafts and you can't really use it to get up to places you'd normally have to jump could you? Or make it sink faster I don't know. At least I'd die less loving up that goddamned Caledon JP or dodge rolling off cliffs. People would be out there on all the maps finding places to just glide around. I know I would.
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Tambaloneus posted:Gliding needs to be everywhere else too. I mean, if they're worried it will make cheesing jp's easy just turn it off for those specific bits but holycrap gliding. Yes. Always. Everywhere. The "worst" thing it would do is maybe make some vistas easier to get to in rare cases.
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Kenshin posted:Absolutely. I've been looking around for places where it would break things and... maybe jumping puzzles and some parts of dungeons? Have an area debuff that prevents using gliding in those areas, problem solved. 
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Mercurius posted:It would certainly reduce the number of times I've killed myself trying to glide while I'm in Tyria I've rezzed a few of those poor souls. It will be me one day, I know it.
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Kenshin posted:Absolutely. I've been looking around for places where it would break things and... maybe jumping puzzles and some parts of dungeons? Have an area debuff that prevents using gliding in those areas, problem solved. The problem is less balance and more the amount of work it would take removing/retooling all the invisible walls you'd constantly crash into
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Mercurius posted:It would certainly reduce the number of times I've killed myself trying to glide while I'm in Tyria I've wanted to jump off ledges quite a few more times but stopped just before I did realizing I wouldn't be able to glide.
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Tambaloneus posted:Gliding needs to be everywhere else too In the new borderlands too. I lept off a huge cliff last night thinking I could glide but nope splat.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Playing how I have for the last 3 years has not gotten me even close to the masteries required to do the things I enjoy, like map completion. That's why I have to grind. And I play the expansion because it's a major content update to a game that's been stale for years? You're being pretty ridiculous and condescending towards other people's personal opinions. Sorry, I didn't mean to be condescending. I'm just frustrated because it feels like this argument has been coming up every couple of days since the expansion was first released and I'm still having a lot of trouble understanding people complaining about grinding. The last couple of pages have been much more helpful in that than the last few weeks of argument so that's something at least. I can totally get being frustrated that you can't reach or do what looks like a cool leyline gliding puzzle, I guess the thing I'm having trouble with is that once you've done that puzzle or whatever it is, then you've done it. If masteries didn't exist, wouldn't you just complete the maps once each and do each puzzle and then have run out of content you enjoy? That's a genuine question, I'm trying to understand what's going on here. I do think that displaying mastery ranks is really stupid on a number of levels and absolutely is contributing to people feeling like they have to grind them out. I have a feeling it's especially going to be an issue when raids are out since masteries are important for them. Actually, even if the number wasn't displayed I can see where people are going to feel like they need to grind boring PvE content to be better at raids and that's a definite problem. But I'm actually really enjoying the current mastery system, I like knowing that in six months' time or even a year's time I'm still going to be getting cool new skills and the ability to reach bits of map and do things that I couldn't do before. ETA: Having thought about it for a few seconds, maybe the thing is I don't trust Anet to provide me with cool new skills and bits of map and things that aren't currently in the game at any point in the future, so I'm relying on masteries to do that. But that might be a function of me only having played since January, since I wasn't there while LS S2 was going on and the new maps were released. Maybe they'll keep releasing stuff faster than I can keep up and then I too will be irritated by the mastery grind, who knows. ETA #2: I think part of the reason this argument bugs me is because to me it sounds like people are spending hours doing something they hate in order to experience maybe a few minutes of new content and then have no new content to experience anymore, and at that point they're just going to be even more mad and disappointed that they spent all this time grinding only for it to turn out that they have hardly any more content to access. If that was the trade-off I was facing, I know I wouldn't bother with the expansion at all. I'd probably be bitter about it, but at least I wouldn't be both bitter and wasting my time. Organza Quiz fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Nov 13, 2015 |
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Here you go ANET. Make these into backpieces / shields and I will gladly collect the 100,000 you make on gem sales. TIA. http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/blooms-of-insect-wings-created-by-photographer-seb-janiak/
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Was trying to farm Auric weapon with sPvP track, then realized I should have just farmed Exalted masteries instead. Game's totally balanced.
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Aesis posted:Was trying to farm Auric weapon with sPvP track, then realized I should have just farmed Exalted masteries instead. Game's totally balanced. Pretty sure you can't do that anyways, the AB track is not repeatable.
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malhavok posted:Pretty sure you can't do that anyways, the AB track is not repeatable.
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Organza Quiz posted:Sorry, I didn't mean to be condescending. I'm just frustrated because it feels like this argument has been coming up every couple of days since the expansion was first released and I'm still having a lot of trouble understanding people complaining about grinding. The last couple of pages have been much more helpful in that than the last few weeks of argument so that's something at least. I can totally get being frustrated that you can't reach or do what looks like a cool leyline gliding puzzle, I guess the thing I'm having trouble with is that once you've done that puzzle or whatever it is, then you've done it. If masteries didn't exist, wouldn't you just complete the maps once each and do each puzzle and then have run out of content you enjoy? That's a genuine question, I'm trying to understand what's going on here. i reckon cos he found this cool thing and he wants to do it, but he's 'not allowed' because he doesnt have X mastery which is really only useful in super niche situations so he could spend a long time grinding it out, just to do this one thing, and maybe two or three others. but that's not worth the time the problem with that JP is that ley line gliding isnt required as a necessary part of how the puzzle works, but an artificial part - they could easily just add a couple extra shrooms to make some jumps possible, or even some ley line shortcuts, but instead you either have it or you can't do the JP
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Who can I whisper for an invite to UNTZ? I have both guys from the OP but haven't seen either of them on. Fair warning, I'm terrible at PVP.
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Organza Quiz posted:Sorry, I didn't mean to be condescending. I'm just frustrated because it feels like this argument has been coming up every couple of days since the expansion was first released and I'm still having a lot of trouble understanding people complaining about grinding. The last couple of pages have been much more helpful in that than the last few weeks of argument so that's something at least. I can totally get being frustrated that you can't reach or do what looks like a cool leyline gliding puzzle, I guess the thing I'm having trouble with is that once you've done that puzzle or whatever it is, then you've done it. If masteries didn't exist, wouldn't you just complete the maps once each and do each puzzle and then have run out of content you enjoy? That's a genuine question, I'm trying to understand what's going on here. I admit I'm flabbergasted at being asked why I'm irritated about having to grind PvE events for weeks to do a jumping puzzle, or why I don't like repeating content past the point that it stops being novel and interesting. So what if it means the new content takes 20 hours to "complete" instead of 400. I'm not getting any more value out of those extra 380 hours except I guess it distracts me from thinking too deeply about how I'm spending my youth. Guild Wars didn't used to be a blatant skinner box. The only thing you had to grind for were legendaries, which is why I have never gotten a legendary. It's why I'm not playing this game in the awful state it's in. I don't have a group of GW2 buddies I love to play with that can make it tolerable. Or rather, I did, and they all realized that HoT sucked poo poo before I did and bailed.
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Ok guys don't use the new elite specs in esports or you are a bad.
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I dig that spelling of "incompetence."
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At this point Anet would have been better off raising the level cap. MMO players are 100% fine with entire zones being restricted, but they appear to short circuit when a zone is restricted in a piecemeal manner. You have creatively bankrupt WoW-style heat map world design to thank for that. For the record I think GW2 was in desperate need of an Alternate Advancement knockoff like the Mastery system, but it should have been solely for cosmetic or QOL stuff. Grind eleventy jillion XP and you can unlock the Elite costume piece, or a different color for your Mesmer Shatters, or Autoloot/Autosalvage/Auto-consume Luck, or 12 various colors of Mentor Apples, or special titles, or passive particle effects. Put all the current mastery stuff behind story completion, where it would actually make some goddamned sense. Or hell, just put gliding poo poo behind the main story, and have totally separate quest lines for the frogs/exalted/toads(?). Granted that would probably be too much  for ANet.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I dig that spelling of "incompetence." Income Panties 
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The mastery xp requirements seem like a half-hearted attempt to pad the play time so their $20-30 xpac feels like a $50 one.
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All good, I'm getting a weird and strong deja vu right now and don't really want to argue this again at all, but it's all good dude, I get what you're saying and I'm glad my example helped.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I dig that spelling of "incompetence." See also: "specializations".
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AmericanGeeksta posted:See also: "specializations". That's actually the correct spelling, as it's British English.
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boho posted:a different color for your Mesmer Shatters. I would buy so many gems if they put this in the store.
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It's like trying to explain something to a child who keeps asking "BUT WHY?" It's just a different frame of reference. Some people don't play games for fun. Some see the purpose of playing a video game as staking out a position in a hierarchy defined not by how good your grades are, or how much money you make, nor even by how hot your wife is or how many friends you have, but by how much time you spend playing that game. Nothing but every second of your time is required to excel within that hierarchy, whereas at most other pursuits you might also need some effort or skill. Arus, nice, popular guy that he is, is being awfully polite by not calling you a hosed up retard in response to your blithe condescension but I am not that polite. I hope you get a massive hemorrhoid that pops while you're grinding spiders or whatever and you bleed out at your desk. I'm not saying that to be mean. For your sake I hope that you die quickly, doing what you love while you're young and have no regrets, rather than in forty years wondering why you spent all that time playing Guild Wars 2.
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at the date posted:It's like trying to explain something to a child who keeps asking "BUT WHY?" It's just a different frame of reference. Some people don't play games for fun. Some see the purpose of playing a video game as staking out a position in a hierarchy defined not by how good your grades are, or how much money you make, nor even by how hot your wife is or how many friends you have, but by how much time you spend playing that game. Nothing but every second of your time is required to excel within that hierarchy, whereas at most other pursuits you might also need some effort or skill. Arus, nice, popular guy that he is, is being awfully polite by not calling you a hosed up retard in response to your blithe condescension but I am not that polite. I hope you get a massive hemorrhoid that pops while you're grinding spiders or whatever and you bleed out at your desk. I'm not saying that to be mean. For your sake I hope that you die quickly, doing what you love while you're young and have no regrets, rather than in forty years wondering why you spent all that time playing Guild Wars 2.
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at the date posted:It's like trying to explain something to a child who keeps asking "BUT WHY?" It's just a different frame of reference. Some people don't play games for fun. Some see the purpose of playing a video game as staking out a position in a hierarchy defined not by how good your grades are, or how much money you make, nor even by how hot your wife is or how many friends you have, but by how much time you spend playing that game. Nothing but every second of your time is required to excel within that hierarchy, whereas at most other pursuits you might also need some effort or skill. Arus, nice, popular guy that he is, is being awfully polite by not calling you a hosed up retard in response to your blithe condescension but I am not that polite. I hope you get a massive hemorrhoid that pops while you're grinding spiders or whatever and you bleed out at your desk. I'm not saying that to be mean. For your sake I hope that you die quickly, doing what you love while you're young and have no regrets, rather than in forty years wondering why you spent all that time playing Guild Wars 2. 
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CLAM DOWN posted:That's actually the correct spelling, as it's British English. But, but, I'm MURICAN. In other news, DH PVP is silly amounts of fun. Blender trap for dayzzzz.
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at the date posted:rather than in forty years wondering why you spent all that time playing Guild Wars 2. 
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Why does that exact conversation occur so drat often
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Why does that exact conversation occur so drat often Because people like Kes I guess.
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AmericanGeeksta posted:But, but, I'm MURICAN.
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