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Harrow posted:The most exciting thing about Chronomancer for me when it came out was that it had a +25% movement speed trait. Oh poo poo yeah I remember that! That was huge news back in the day. I also do not miss the days of keeping staff on my ele for the air swiftness skill. Mounts are so good, it's so weird thinking about how things were before them. I haven't actually done world completion since they were a thing but I did do it once before gliding and once after gliding and I imagine it's a similar seismic shift. We used to have to carefully step down from vistas so we didn't die of fall damage!
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Organza Quiz posted:We used to have to carefully step down from vistas so we didn't die of fall damage! And fall damage used to be server side, distance over time, so if you hopped down too fast sometimes you'd get to the bottom and just die.
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I remember doing world completion back when it also required all the WvW maps 
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GW2 mounts really are a hell of a design achievement. Each one feels unique and is a joy to use, and they really do seem to have a lot of personality to them
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Mr. Neutron posted:I remember doing world completion back when it also required all the WvW maps i got wvw map completion before queensdale lmao
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Malpais Legate posted:Yeah I did World Completion back really close to release on my Asura necromancer. Luckily Signet of Locust existed, because I don't remember my necromancer having any easy access to Swiftness. Daggar had a trait that added 25% speed. i wish it was per daggar, and it stacked with locust.... lol
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Abroham Lincoln posted:I think about all the people who've done world completion before owning a skyscale and my bones start to hurt I still don't. I have a Griffon instead 
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Hyperlynx posted:I still don't. I have a Griffon instead 
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Yeah core Tyria is probably the least useful place for Skyscale. The maps are flatter and more open than almost any of the expansion zones.
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Core Tyria is so flat and the hills that do exist are so gradual that I always use Roller Beetle, even after getting my dragon.
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Skyscale to max height from ground level, refill stamina for 4 total dashes upward, Aurene wings off, jade bot glide boost 3, Griffon zoom.
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Skyscale and 'R'
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I mean, if I'm honest it's that I sunk a hell of a lot of time and effort into buying my griffon, so the sunk cost fallacy demands that I stick with it. But I'm not honest, so: griffons rule, skyscales drool!
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Where's my updated roadmap Anet?Ra Ra Rasputin posted:... but it likely did require them to gain years of experience first to design them so well in terms of how they move and just getting the game out the door was a massive undertaking with how much they cramped into every area and fix tech-debt as they went like everything being invisible besides a nametag in a crowd larger then 10 people. At launch I bounced off wvw hard because the mode was hosed up. Group fights were absolutely bullshit because the game wouldn't render all the players without crashing. The first fix was to only draw X amount of players nearby, I think it was like 40. Early zergs meant that you could encounter what you thought was 5 players, but in reality it was 50. You literally would not know until they streamed over your corpse. Then they attempted to fix it by creating the generic armor look. That boosted the number somewhat, but it still felt kind of terrible to not even know how many people you were actually fighting against. The GW2 team has definitely put in the work to fix the technical debt in this game and it works so well for it.
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Yeah, I remember WvW back in those days, you could only tell how many people were approaching judging by if there was a noticeable fps drop or lag when the spell effects were starting to pop off and if you threw some mesmers in the mix with mass invisibility then who the gently caress even knows anymore, I remember it got even worse shortly after launch because they preferred invisible players to crashing players. Then came the Karka queen event.
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"Friday January 27, we'll share an outline of QoL changes coming to WvW on January 31. On February 3 we will have a preview of the next GW2 balance update. Keep an eye on this channel and guildwars2.com for all the updates! For now, here's a little peek at the studio update we're working on..." ...We're going to somehow get yet another year of Scarlet-related content, aren't we? God it's been 11 months please just give me something new.
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Lonk posted:"Friday January 27, we'll share an outline of QoL changes coming to WvW on January 31. On February 3 we will have a preview of the next GW2 balance update. Keep an eye on this channel and guildwars2.com for all the updates! For now, here's a little peek at the studio update we're working on..." Scarlet's twin sister, Crimson!
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Similar to Illidan Stormrage in WoW Legion, it will be revealed that all of Scarlet's actions were for the greater good and that she did nothing wrong. Season 6 ends with her fully revived somehow and palling around with Dragon's Watch.
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Lonk posted:"Friday January 27, we'll share an outline of QoL changes coming to WvW on January 31. On February 3 we will have a preview of the next GW2 balance update. Keep an eye on this channel and guildwars2.com for all the updates! For now, here's a little peek at the studio update we're working on..." Yeah, I love the game still but c'mon, we need...something new 
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I was taking a look at some of the legendary collections to see if I could do some for fun, and did not realize that crafting the necessary items to eventually craft the precursor ends up costing not just more than buying the actual finished precursor off the TP, but often costs WAY more and has been like that for years. 
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Mercury_Storm posted:I was taking a look at some of the legendary collections to see if I could do some for fun, and did not realize that crafting the necessary items to eventually craft the precursor ends up costing not just more than buying the actual finished precursor off the TP, but often costs WAY more and has been like that for years.
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 There, fixed Scarlet for her 2023 redemption Mercury_Storm posted:I was taking a look at some of the legendary collections to see if I could do some for fun, and did not realize that crafting the necessary items to eventually craft the precursor ends up costing not just more than buying the actual finished precursor off the TP, but often costs WAY more and has been like that for years. It's true for the majority of them yeah. But at least Incinerator is like 50g cheaper to craft the precursor than to TP it.
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Mercury_Storm posted:I was taking a look at some of the legendary collections to see if I could do some for fun, and did not realize that crafting the necessary items to eventually craft the precursor ends up costing not just more than buying the actual finished precursor off the TP, but often costs WAY more and has been like that for years. Apparently they used to be much cheaper to do the achievements but the economy
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Is it ever explained at any point in the story how Scarlet has access infinite resources and can just pop in a city sized drill or puppet out of nowhere?
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Is it ever explained at any point in the story how Scarlet has access infinite resources and can just pop in a city sized drill or puppet out of nowhere? Yeah I know I am not using that trope correctly. But as someone who has yet to play LWS1 the bits Ela Makkay told my character and what I read on the Wiki sound pretty contrived. Luggage fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jan 26, 2023 |
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Is it ever explained at any point in the story how Scarlet has access infinite resources and can just pop in a city sized drill or puppet out of nowhere? iirc she bootstrapped her resources through using what she got from the molten alliance to steal poo poo
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Is it ever explained at any point in the story how Scarlet has access infinite resources and can just pop in a city sized drill or puppet out of nowhere? Well the explanation is that she had access to the collective resources of the dredge, the flame legion, the krait, the nightmare court, the aetherblades, etc. Why any of them handed all their stuff over to her was never explained beyond "so season 1 can happen."
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there's like massive cycles of events in core maps that are "drat! these guys who turned out to be brought together by Scarlet sure are wreaking havoc and stealing poo poo!"
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smartest plant zombie (this one is not hard) smartest (honorary) asura who ever lived master of 5d chess, best at everything and 10 steps ahead of everyone at all times also infinitely charismatic so she could convince every slightly evil faction in the game to help her please don't bring her back
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orcane posted:smartest plant zombie (this one is not hard) I sincerely doubt they will. She gets a nod through the Mai Trin stuff and I think that’s it. My pet theory is they’re going to see the popularity of Gorrick, Blish, and Rama and introduce some new characters that are probably adjacent to our current best friends squad.
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