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FlapYoJacks posted:omething that will be available without much effort Sorry what?
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The food section is 3 days and is 99% just waiting for the timer to count down, it's not actually time spent. The collectible steps aren't that long, you can whack through them in a couple of evenings with some podcasts. The 250 of each map currency are the actual work/time intensive bit, but even then its via the achievements you might well be doing anyway for the other rewards.
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Jul 21, 2023 17:12
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I think expecting the new skyscale collection to be “easy” will be disappointed. I think it’s just going to have fewer time gates and scavenger hunts. It’ll probably cost the same if not more in gold/mats.
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Jul 21, 2023 17:13
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Yeah if they just plop a dragon in everyone's inventory, a LOT of people will be pissed considering how much time/effort it takes to unlock them now. But I'd rather everyone have a dragon than keep what we have. Same goes for student loan debt.
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Jul 21, 2023 17:16
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The world exploration part of the skyscale was the best part.
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Jul 21, 2023 17:22
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Inzombiac posted:Yeah if they just plop a dragon in everyone's inventory, a LOT of people will be pissed considering how much time/effort it takes to unlock them now. no, they're doing it even better, the new collection is supposedly actually really easy but afaik you'll need both collections to unlock all the skyscale mastery skills, you won't get POF ones if you just have the new one lmao
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Jul 21, 2023 17:26
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Everyone complains about the map currency or the collectathon or time gates, but it was playing fetch that nearly broke me.
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Jul 21, 2023 17:27
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Ort posted:The world exploration part of the skyscale was the best part. ^ but people don't like to hear it. All the best stuff in GW2 is the bit where you have to go hang out on weird cliffs and talk to NPCs some dev put a bunch of work into in 2011 and no-one had ever spoken to.
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Jul 21, 2023 17:28
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actually it's not that terrible, i went and checked you'll still want both masteries unlocked, but having only one won't be crippling your bird Deformed Church posted:^ but people don't like to hear it. All the best stuff in GW2 is the bit where you have to go hang out on weird cliffs and talk to NPCs some dev put a bunch of work into in 2011 and no-one had ever spoken to. yeah no poo poo, the collections own
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Jul 21, 2023 17:31
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The collections would have been ok if 2 (or was it 3?) weren't just go to these random locations around Dragonfall to press F.
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Jul 21, 2023 17:45
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I was unemployed for like a month and that's how I got my Skyscale. Not even exaggerating. Make getting the Skyscale easier, but leave in the good parts, like when when there's a baby skyscale, and you play the flute for it. That was super cute and has to stay.
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Jul 21, 2023 17:48
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MajorBonnet posted:The collections would have been ok if 2 (or was it 3?) weren't just go to these random locations around Dragonfall to press F. Did this yesterday. It’s three: - scales of the dragons - administer medicine - eggs You also have 30 public events (one in each area) for four medicinal ingredients.
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Jul 21, 2023 17:49
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Meeko posted:Conjures are in a really weird place where they're predominately used by people who highly value giving their friend a lightining hammer or frost bow or flaming greatsword, and a rework to make them better to use/more viable would by, necessity, ruin them for that purpose. I do like the flavor of summoning neat weapons for allies, so I wouldn't get rid of it completely. My ideal way of reworking conjures would actually try to minimally impact what it does currently (i.e. not messing with uptime or the individual kits) gandlethorpe posted:Conjures should be revamped to be less janky, which would allow them to be a reliable "weapon swap" for situations when your main weapon is not a great choice. Their kits are actually really solid, but they way they work right now just encourages using them like single cast skills with extra steps while also potentially causing allies to be a hinderence. I think making them 2-charge skills with 30s recharge rather than summoning bundles would be the perfect way to keep them essentially the same but infinitely more intuitive. If they still want the sharing aspect, hell, make it summon one that only allies can pick up.
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Jul 21, 2023 17:51
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Skyscale is an awful grind if you approach it as a grind. Don't. Do like, one thing for it each time you log in and see it as a long term journey. You'll get there eventually and it won't kill your desire to play this game in the process. Also for the ls4 mats either the return to achievements or converting eternal ice make that step so much easier. I cannot imagine having done all that before ice was an option, it must have really taken forever. And on an unrelated note this is my first time actually playing during these festivals since they added achievements for them. Dang so many APs!
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Jul 21, 2023 19:36
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The griffon is a billion times cooler, better, and funner than the skyscale. The skyscale is for lazy people, which is ironic considering the grind is awful.
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Jul 21, 2023 19:38
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jokes posted:The griffon is a billion times cooler, better, and funner than the skyscale. The skyscale is for lazy people, which is ironic considering the grind is awful. This is also correct.
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Jul 21, 2023 19:40
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The skyscale was a mistake from a design perspective because it steps on the toes of the other mounts, rip springer completely obsoleted by a flying mount that can jump higher and dismounts into the griffon without the need of a mastery cooldown. If you are going for skyscale just rip the bandaid off and open a wiki or addon and click on the 90 or so macguffins the collection wants you to pixel hunt for and just chill at the time gated parts.
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Jul 21, 2023 20:46
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Springer has a great dismount skill. It's much faster at scaling mainly vertical terrain, even if those aren't common. It's also great for getting starting height for the griffon when there's nothing nearby to climb. Edit: Oh you did mention the griffon thing. Yeah griffon's probably better now that air dismount exists. But it can still get going faster in a pinch, where as it takes a bit of time for skyscale to reach its apex. gandlethorpe fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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Jul 21, 2023 21:48
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Yeah for just hopping up things springer is way faster, the cc dismount is useful in all sorts of situations, and it doesn’t stick itself to any surfaces if it comes within ten yards of them. Not to mention griffon launching. I still use springer all the time.
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Jul 21, 2023 21:56
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I just started using taco yesterday. Why the gently caress haven’t I been using this since the beginning? 
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Jul 21, 2023 22:02
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FlapYoJacks posted:I just started using taco yesterday. Why the gently caress haven’t I been using this since the beginning? blish hud is almost strictly better fwiw
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Jul 21, 2023 22:36
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FlapYoJacks posted:I just started using taco yesterday. Why the gently caress haven’t I been using this since the beginning? To anyone else new to GW2 or anyone doing the Skyscale collections specifically, a mod like Taco or Blish Hud makes a huge difference with the locations of collection stuff all marked on your screen & map. And in general, there are marker packs (that should work with either hud mod) that'll mark basically any other map collection or open world scavenger hunt related thing. Blish also has other useful tools like timers/scheduling modifications for world events and mechanics in raids. And for anyone concerned about ANet's opinion on tools like this, its basically the stance of not caring as long as you don't do something abusive. Marker tools have never been an issue, but I think they get upset if the mods are either used to harass people (like calling people out for having trash DPS) or replacements for things like build management tools. (They wont know if you use it, but from what I remember, at least one mod tool had build swapping stuff removed from their mod per ANet's request) Saraiguma posted:blish hud is almost strictly better fwiw
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Jul 21, 2023 22:43
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I think they should have just had the 1 "fly around dragonfall looking for 2px wide objects" collection, doing it 3 times sucked but I liked the rest of the process. I just want to know why tf griffon was so exceedingly expensive. If they knocked the cost of that down by about 3/4 it'd be much fairer given how versatile skyscale is (I do love griffon but you hardly ever see ppl with one lately). I also have "opinions" on the starter maps/core maps and the fact that you're trotting around on a mount now that nobody else in the world has. I think if it were up to me I'd introduce a "core" mount that was like raptor (maybe without the leap?) and give that thing to ALL the npcs you have to fkn escort anywhere (looking directly at you Sergeant Jeyne who walks slower than any npc and stops any time you're like 3 steps ahead despite insisting they can look after themselves). Like make it less weird that "Here's a dinosaur to ride out of absolutely nowhere!" happens at level 10. Give a mount to everyone, f2p included, from some quest on the starter maps and sell more skins anet c'mon do I have to do everything?
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Jul 22, 2023 00:48
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I do not think for a second that a noticable chunk of the population would quit if they made skyscales easily obtainable with the next expansion. There's what, 10,000 NA players? I doubt you'd have more than 100 people ragequit over that change. Inzombiac posted:But I'd rather everyone have a dragon than keep what we have. Same goes for student loan debt. I dont think saddling everyone with student loan debt fixes the problem, but im no economist.
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Jul 22, 2023 00:57
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AmbientParadox posted:I do not think for a second that a noticable chunk of the population would quit if they made skyscales easily obtainable with the next expansion. There's what, 10,000 NA players? I doubt you'd have more than 100 people ragequit over that change. I found the griffy expensive (for me at least i"m always broke af in game) and skyscale annoying but I'd be stoked (happy) if ppl got both cheaper / easier somehow bc it means new players can come join us on all the maps they're needed/useful on etc. We can all join in on the hover parties above major meta's & zoop about the place during treasure hunts (which, imo, there should be more of in the core game maps). The only problem I have with adding even more mounts is that I'm running out of numberpad buttons to bind them to and going broke buying skins all the jolly time.
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Tambaloneus posted:I found the griffy expensive (for me at least i"m always broke af in game) and skyscale annoying but I'd be stoked (happy) if ppl got both cheaper / easier somehow bc it means new players can come join us on all the maps they're needed/useful on etc. We can all join in on the hover parties above major meta's & zoop about the place during treasure hunts (which, imo, there should be more of in the core game maps). The only problem I have with adding even more mounts is that I'm running out of numberpad buttons to bind them to and going broke buying skins all the jolly time. I can't help you about the skins, but I can't recommend the radial mount mod enough. Only one hotkey you need to remember.
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I found that mod kept causing crashes, I recommend just regular hotkeys with shift/crtl+letters that have good muscle memory and get used to swapping between mounts in under a second.
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Jul 22, 2023 02:40
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Reinstalling gw2 on the new computer, how bad the the signet trait nerf screw power reaper? Can I still faceroll?
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Demon_Corsair posted:I can't help you about the skins, but I can't recommend the radial mount mod enough. Only one hotkey you need to remember. Was there a link posted to this mod that I missed?
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Jul 22, 2023 03:23
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Reaper is one of the top facerollers at the moment in all content.
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Jul 22, 2023 03:24
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I'm playing through Ice Brood Saga, and I can't help but think the initials IBS are very apt for this content.
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ComradeBigT posted:To anyone else new to GW2 or anyone doing the Skyscale collections specifically, a mod like Taco or Blish Hud makes a huge difference with the locations of collection stuff all marked on your screen & map. Blish is not a mod, it's an overlay. It interacts with the mumble API built into the game. It's not like arc dps, which actually injects itself into the game process. They can't really ban it, and can't disable it without removing the mumble API. Arc dps is explicitly allowed, btw, but does modify the game, so might cause crashes after patches until it gets updated. This isn't final fantasy, you won't get banned for calling someone out for trash dps.
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There’s a lot to unpack on the subject of calling out someone for having trash DPS. It’s pretty complicated. Let’s assume we have a newer/casual person who isn’t aware of arcdps (since it’s not an official anet tool) or maybe doesn’t know how to install it, or set it up yet. They downloaded GW2 and just want to play the game. That description covers a huge population of players. How are those folks going to know if their DPS is trash or not, if they have to go through all these extra steps and external websites/tools just to find out? I guess you can base it off how fast your enemies die in comparison to others, but even that can be influenced by many factors, like having open world buffs, food, boons, party support, etc. Anet just hasn’t created a good environment for players to test their DPS in-game. There’s the training golem you can use, but you must know to find it and how to set it up properly. There’s no daily or no quest line emphasizing the importance of using the golem, or a quest line focusing on your group support/DPS for doing end game stuff. They aren’t helping teach players class rotations or how to maintain their boons. Taimi isn’t talking about quickness or alacrity, you know? So before calling someone’s DPS trash, please realize the game has already set them up to have trash DPS or poor boon uptime. Unless we’re talking about CMs, or experienced groups/raids, high level fractals, that’s a different player population - different conversation. Regardless, whether it’s hardcore or casual players, Anet needs to implement an in-game DPS meter and boon table. The entire community would benefit from it.
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Jedah posted:Regardless, whether it’s hardcore or casual players, Anet needs to implement an in-game DPS meter and boon table. It's never going to happen. Hell, not even WoW has an ingame dps meter.
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I highly recommend binding Numpad numbers for your mounts. Especially before getting Skyscale, being able to easily swap from Raptor to Springer is great for mobility
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Jul 22, 2023 12:58
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Yeah I'm not saying you should call out trash dps, just that you won't get banned for it. And while what Jedah says is true, a dps doing less dps than supports is not fulfilling their role. Which in open world, who cares? But in group content they should probably be told, and should probably not be accepted in an experienced pug unless everyone is ok with carrying them.
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Jul 22, 2023 13:01
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Guildenstern Mother posted:Reinstalling gw2 on the new computer, how bad the the signet trait nerf screw power reaper? Can I still faceroll? signets don't work in shroud now  swap to the raid build and you'll do more damage, at the cost of your soul (lucky you can steal other people's souls)
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Been a little while but I'm coming back to brush up before SotO launches. I see my the faceroll power mechanist build is now listed as legacy (and all the recommended dps builds are holo again) on snowcrows. Did they finally bust my beautiful jade boy?
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Power mech is still a faceroller for any open world content, but if you want top dps with low effort you got to go pistol/pistol condi mech and uses about as many buttons as power mech. It's still more then enough dps for any low effort raid or strike content that isn't pushing for world record clears. Ra Ra Rasputin fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Power mech is still a faceroller for any open world content, but if you want top dps with low effort you got to go pistol/pistol condi mech and uses about as many buttons as power mech. what does the pistol/pistol build look like? i've been running an LI mace/shield mech build that doesn't do a lot of dps but it seems to poo poo out healing all around me
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