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quote:The legendary precursor scavenger hunts can vary between being a cool world-tour to some really bizarre and frustrating design choices (having to get events to fail, anet, really?) and I'm waiting until they fix that stuff. There's a pre quest that requires events to fail?
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Stronghold is really loving bad and shouldn't be used as a bulletpoint for anything. Luckily the new Specializations have made the normal, great PvP also great. Also I think that events failing thing was just a misconception that spread around.
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Alteisen posted:There's a pre quest that requires events to fail? No, there's several
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Dreggon posted:No, there's several Wow, that's loving dumb as hell.
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Pretty sure at least one is 'fail event to get npc his home back, then laugh at him' Also I am still a fan of the 'wait until the colossus in cliffside fractal bows, then throw up' one as well
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Illuyankas posted:Pretty sure at least one is 'fail event to get npc his home back, then laugh at him' that one doesn't require a failure, but stuff like killing a shark in timberline required one event to fail that actually completes itself if nobody interferes (and succeeds even more handily if someone does) yeah
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Illuyankas posted:Pretty sure at least one is 'fail event to get npc his home back, then laugh at him' Nope, that's not an event with a failure condition. He will get ousted periodically, and the event is to clear out the ettins or trolls or whatever. You just have to laugh at him while the event is active.
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NapoleonAtWaterloo posted:about month ago this happened randomly when I walked by some guy. That's the hateful idiot playing a female charr who stands around talking to themselves in an agonisingly exaggerated Southern accent all day. 80% of it is about Skritt for some reason. Nobody is ever interacting with them, either.
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Adhesive Gamin posted:We had I think two Asura in a couple of Vale Guardian kills, one of them me without Technobabble slotted, and did just fine on breakbars. If forums user Kes was using it though and trivializing the fight alone we'll have to have words with him about sportsmanlike conduct. One of the first guilds to beat the second boss had 3 asura tempest using technobabble to instantly break his very very very deadly breakbar.
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:One thing I really, really, really dislike in the raid right now, is that the asura racial technobabble, a instant 3 second daze, can trivialize bosses breakbars, which makes me feel like I rolled the wrong race because of one skill I can't use that's better then anything else I have on my classes utilitys when it comes to breaking the bar. If you have an asura ranger you can make it a 6 second daze  The tooltip doesn't change, but moment of clarity still doubles the duration of technobabble. Works in wvw even after all these years. Not fixed will never be fixed. check out my Youtube fucked around with this message at 12:11 on Nov 25, 2015 |
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Mercurius posted:Hey, so, guys I said I'd send dye packs to a while back. I did that, finally. Khora, FriedChickenKnight and Amante check your mailboxes~ Thanks man! Now I need to find some leather chests that tuck in at the waist instead of being huge loving jackets. CLAM DOWN posted:Counterpoint: you'd have to play a loving asura. Playing one isn't as bad as loving one got any sevens fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Nov 25, 2015 |
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Mercurius posted:Hey, so, guys I said I'd send dye packs to a while back... Yay! (Scrambles to find a laptop charger so I can pretty pretty princess)
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I did the grind for 44ish mastery points and then got all but 2 of my characters their elite specializations... and then couldnt figure out the meta events and gently caress nighttime what is this poo poo. Also how the gently caress do you find adventures and WHY CANT I DO THIS ONE NOW? Also fractals. Why are the rewards so bad. TF2-Style keys? Seriously? At least they aren't charging IRL monies for them So I've been logging on for my daily chest progression and that's about it... Is the game fun again yet? LordAdakos fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Nov 25, 2015 |
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Dunno, I still do goomteq just about every day, and Slaw Facts is sorely missed there. As a bonus, the new squad system makes taxiing much easier. The guild hall is also cool and good, if a gigantic gold sink. Personally, my favorite bits of the new zones is just exploring them. There's SO MUCH stuff packed into them, and very little hidden beyond more than updrafts. I haven't spent much time in Dragon's Stand though, since pretty much that entire map seems to be about the meta, with about a third of it locked behind it in some way or another. I mean, it's weeks since launch, and I'm still finding events I haven't seen before in Verdant Brink! I guess my only real suggestion is... Take it easy? Play some events if you want, do some exploring if you want, if that gets dull, go do some base game content and get to know one of your elite specs better? I dunno, I'm pretty much doing what I did before the expansion just with some more zones tossed in. Not feeling like I have to complete/see all the new content right away goes a long way to avoid burnout from rushing through it.
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HoT is frustrating with a consistency that can only be intentional. It screams bad design and worse management. Granted Guild Wars 1 sucked at a gameplay level until Nightfall, and only managed to produce content of a consistently high quality in HOTN.
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Schpyder posted:Dunno, I still do goomteq just about every day, and Slaw Facts is sorely missed there. As a bonus, the new squad system makes taxiing much easier. The guild hall is also cool and good, if a gigantic gold sink. I think you're being a bit unfair/dismissive to the legit concerns and frustrations, "burnout" isn't why people are pissed and disappointed and not playing. at all. And "go play base content" that we've been doing for 3 years isn't a good suggestion.
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kater posted:Also I think that events failing thing was just a misconception that spread around. Yeah no you're totally wrong, birdstaff at least requires you to fail two parts of a Snowden event chain in a row and then leave a totem alive for an escort NPC to slowly box to death. Also, another birdstaff requirement is winning the first event of the chain so it's even more obnoxious to do. I lucked into a map where a bunch of folks had just zoned into/out of the guild puzzle and the megaserver prompt showed up, so I just stayed put in an empty server and managed to get it done. This after several days of asking/begging/telling people not to finish the events (often accompanied by other players that needed the fail) and getting hosed over every time. It's going to be changed, I'm sure, but it's still so, so dumb.
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I enjoy the new zones, but I wish there was more variety to the event chains. If you go to an outpost, you're running the same event chain every single time. It would be nice if there were multiple chains or at least a few steps in the chain that picked from two possible events for at least a little variety. There's also the fact that it might be difficult to get higher tiers or complete metas when people get too burnt out. For the next expansion, I'd like to see at least a few regular zones. No phases of fancy meta events, just throw in a few zones to explore on my own time with plenty of singular events or chains like in the regular base Tyria zones. I also kind of hope we don't go after yet another elder dragon right away. After fighting modrem non-stop for a year an a half, I don't want to just move on to something like nothing but destroyers for a year and a half. GI_Clutch fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Nov 25, 2015 |
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Yeah no you're totally wrong, birdstaff at least requires you to fail two parts of a Snowden event chain in a row and then leave a totem alive for an escort NPC to slowly box to death. jumping megaservers as a requirement - that's some meta mike12345 fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Nov 25, 2015 |
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I dunno, I like all the new content. And yeah there is poo poo that sucks and so totally needs to be altered, but a lot of it is still pretty cool. Wether it is worth 50 bucks or not? Well it comes with the game now so people who haven't bought gw2 should pick up HoT. I'm not gonna start the was it worth that much to us who already had the game because that convo sucked when HoT's price was first announced. The elite specs I've tried adds a refreshing way to play each class. The new stat builds are sweet, but are very costly at the moment. That might not be bad, but consider that viper outclasses the other condi specs like rabid and sinister. Right now it's stupid expensive to get viper stuff for multiple characters, and for raids rabid alone won't cut it. Like yeah you can go ahead and stick with sinister, but 9 times out of 10 viper is far superior. The new zones are really cool, though the focus on event chains + metas should have been dropped in all but the last zone for more normal maps. With gliding, of course. Still, the ones we got are beautiful, fun to explore and full of poo poo! I also like TD so take that as you will. The idea of the mastery system is really cool, and using them to guage progression into certain things is really neat. They are, however, far too large a time sink. I think the way to go with these is to make the useful stuff early on and easy to get, while making the higher tier stuff only for specific poo poo like fraction skins and not stuff you will constantly use. Make the legendary mastery as large an exp sink as you want, but make something full of good poo poo like pact leader and gliding take a load less exp to complete. As it is now, it's too much exp per every little thing. Raids are kinda like GW1 elite zones and I really want to try one. I've been too busy until now because my job has been, well, busy. Dps checks suck, and really it shouldn't be an issue if not for rage timers. It feels like it could be gating out the more casual players like myself, but again I've not tried it so gently caress if I can say. Also the current way to have someone be a tank is lovely and dumb. I want to use my current strategy of have as much dps gear as I can but allocate a few pieces of defensive gear to offset the mistakes any human can and will make. Like ok maybe have a valk piece or two on a thief who has low HP. Yes if I play like perfect I won't have to worry, but I never like working with the idea of perfection or absolutes. poo poo happens. Guild halls are loving awsome and getting an entire zone is the coolest thing. Yeah HoT isn't 4 maps, it's 6. But you need a guild to be able to do poo poo in the other two. Also not increasing the amount of people a guild can have is poo poo, and not including an alliance system is even more poo poo. I really wanna see the non-cave hall in its expanded glory. Oh, but scribe is poo poo. I wanted to be a scribe real bad, and make cool poo poo for the guild. But nooo, it has to be super loving expensive. Each recipe is stupid, and the poo poo you make has to be processed in the guild hall so it's time gated too. Time gated poo poo chairs guys, another 600g more and we can get the level 75 scribe stuff! Man. Fist thing I did when we unlocked scribe was take my ele and become one. But no, everything is way out of reach and is poo poo. Map completion tokens for a loving globe, really? Sprite141 fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Nov 25, 2015 |
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:One of the first guilds to beat the second boss had 3 asura tempest using technobabble to instantly break his very very very deadly breakbar. Please don't discuss immoral DnT strategies in the thread.
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Sprite141 posted:Raids are kinda like GW1 elite zones and I really want to try one. I've been too busy until now because my job has been, well, busy. Dps checks suck, and really it shouldn't be an issue if not for rage timers. How can you say what GW2 raids are like if you haven't done one...
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CLAM DOWN posted:How can you say what GW2 raids are like if you haven't done one... Ah. I meant that I view/consider them as such.
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I'm glad I played at release and then took a two year hiatus. Now I can slowly finish base content and S2 poo poo. Maybe by the time I'm done and ready to wander into the HoT zones they will have been patched into enjoyability. [/hope]
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Magres posted:Lol they had the wildstar dev team develop HoT this is something cletus made up that took off Anyway, I like the expansion well enough. I'm having fun with the new elite specs, particularly reaper, and find gliding pretty enjoyable. But the maps being so oriented towards the meta events and not just wandering/exploring freely like the other ones has been a turn off for me, they feel much more restrictive and the sense of openness and freedom is one of the things that first really got me to stick with the game. I am going to continue to play because I do still enjoy it for the combat and dressup and I love the goon/sfd community that plays, but I wouldn't be heartbroken to never play it again.
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boho posted:HoT is frustrating with a consistency that can only be intentional. It screams bad design and worse management. The worst minor HoT design decision is that gaining Mastery XP just stops after the bar is full. No rollover onto the next level, XP earned just vanishes into thin air until you click the next track, whether you've grinded one extra mob or 1,000,00 XP, all vanished. Well that's not so bad, as long as you get notified that you've finished... nope. No audible cue and no visual cue aside from the small as gently caress blinking light in the corner and a full bar you look at never, since before there was no need to worry about a bar, you just did poo poo you wanted to. Zero sense of progression and actually halting progression. How the gently caress can you lose sight of the core reason any MMO/game/human psychology works.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I think you're being a bit unfair/dismissive to the legit concerns and frustrations, "burnout" isn't why people are pissed and disappointed and not playing. at all. And "go play base content" that we've been doing for 3 years isn't a good suggestion. I'm not dismissing them at all, I understand people's frustrations, I just don't share them. I'm just sharing my experience and what I like to do. Not everything is about you, man. People liking things you don't shouldn't be taken as some sort of personal affront against your tastes or something. Basically, what I'm saying is lighten up a bit, you seem to be taking anyone disagreeing with you about HoT really personally, as if those of us who enjoy it for the most part so far should just stop having fun because you aren't.
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Colin Johanson posted:As an engineer main, this remains one of those things I'd love to see addressed...But the reality is we need the bulk of our own internal engineers (coders!) to continue to focus on stuff like our major WvW overhaul right now we've been working on for over a year that's much higher priority for the game over-all. From here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3u7bo1/no_hope_for_legendary_effect_on_engineer/cxcqyvo If that's true I'm pretty excited!
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Generic Octopus posted:It gets assigned to a random other track. Well that explains why it felt like it was vanishing, XP being dumped into a track I don't even want. Still awful design.
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PartyCrown posted:this is something cletus made up that took off That joke is likely to outlast Wildstar itself.
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Schpyder posted:I'm not dismissing them at all, I understand people's frustrations, I just don't share them. I'm just sharing my experience and what I like to do. Not everything is about you, man. People liking things you don't shouldn't be taken as some sort of personal affront against your tastes or something.  I'm not taking anything personally and not taking it as affront, you and others are really misinterpreting me. Not arguing with you, thanks for explaining what you meant.
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Kitty Fantastico posted:That's the hateful idiot playing a female charr who stands around talking to themselves in an agonisingly exaggerated Southern accent all day. 80% of it is about Skritt for some reason. Nobody is ever interacting with them, either. YEP! he talked to me for like 15 minutes without me saying much of anything. I think he actually counted the banners, 153 is weirdly specific.
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Baron Von Pigeon posted:If you have an asura ranger you can make it a 6 second daze Druids also have that one Glyph that is a large AoE, instant, very short cooldown 4 second daze with Moment of Clarity. So make it 10 seconds.
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