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MajorBonnet posted:You can also spend a silly amount of gold to get a portal scroll specifically for each city and another one for Lion's Arch via mystic forging special chests. This would be nice, I have Elon of the lilly so I jump there with new characters n port to cities. Never knew there was a scroll
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whydirt posted:I think upgrading mat storage from 250 to 500 is one of the best inventory QoL things you can get. Oh yeah that 250 to 500 mat storage one is huge, helps a ton. I'm trying to be better about purging my storage mats, sometimes I forget it's just sitting there gathering dust. Also, the World Boss Portal Device, that's amazing if you're a world boss train junkie/degenerate like me. Great if you have alts and need to teleport all over. If they made a "Teleport to Any Strike Mission" scroll, kinda like how you can select a teleport location at Mistlock, I'd gladly swipe for that.
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The https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_Gate_Portal_Scroll is much cheaper than the lion's arch scroll and still... takes you to lion's arch. So get it next fractal rush.
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Are there any must have mods for GW2 or is everyone rawdoggin it?
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FishBowlRobot posted:Are there any must have mods for GW2 or is everyone rawdoggin it? blish hud is fantastic and incredibly modular
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I'll never play a game if I feel it needs 3rd party add-ons to be playable. Only ever used ArcDPS out of curiosity, but went back to going on vibes eventually (i.e. when it became annoying to reinstall it after every patch)
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gandlethorpe posted:I'll never play a game if I feel it needs 3rd party add-ons to be playable. Only ever used ArcDPS out of curiosity, but went back to going on vibes eventually (i.e. when it became annoying to reinstall it after every patch) This is exactly how I feel about ArcDPS, yes. I'd install it again if we did a goon raid/training and people wanted to learn or know about their performance, other than that, I'm good. BlishHUD is ridiculously good, seems to be more stable than Arc and it's a must-have if you're doing collection stuff like trying to work towards a Skyscale.
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If you're not using the radial mount menu addon I pity your existence
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the dragon ball daily festival achievements are lame. Every match I've played today has started with my team having two players, and the enemy team having four and neither of us good enough to overcome that disparity.
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FishBowlRobot posted:Are there any must have mods for GW2 or is everyone rawdoggin it? Blish is great for all sorts of things, and arcdps is fun to see how much (or how little) DPS I do. It has an updater now, so it doesn't require going to the website again every time it changes.
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The unfortunate thing with the home cooking station is that it's only visible to characters that are level 426+ cooks.
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Abroham Lincoln posted:If you're not using the radial mount menu addon I pity your existence 
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Syenite posted:The unfortunate thing with the home cooking station is that it's only visible to characters that are level 426+ cooks. really? i just checked, and god drat thats stupid
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orcane posted:My keyboard has a numpad, thank you very much Abroham Lincoln posted:I pity your existence
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Oh jeez, this is a bummer. I'm at the final base game story quest (Victory or Death) and I've been getting to know and like Trahearne - he's no Tybalt, but he's cool. And I'm expecting a big finale with my allies and a confrontation and... wait why are these clowns here, hi destiny's edge, why should I care about you when you've spent the entire time off throwing tantrums instead of fighting with the pact? e: and it's a fetch quest! It's always a fetch quest but jeez e2: okay I really enjoy GW2 and some of the main story storytelling has been really good, but that final mission was a whiff on multiple fronts and kind of a perfect example of what the game gets wrong in the base game wrt storytelling. - weird time gaps where things happen off-screen that you aren't involved in that feel like they come out of nowhere (e.g. the new airship and super cannon we used) - character development for characters you don't care about (this is a destiny's edge problem) - everyone celebrates you even though you didn't really do anything? i just stood around while the NPCs saved the day idk this isn't a deep review or anything, I'm just disappointed, and faintly annoyed because I had to spend like 500 minutes waiting for the dragons to quit flying in circles and become targets so I could engage with gameplay. StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Feb 10, 2024 |
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Feb 10, 2024 21:07
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StrixNebulosa posted:Oh jeez, this is a bummer. I'm at the final base game story quest (Victory or Death) and I've been getting to know and like Trahearne - he's no Tybalt, but he's cool. The one downside is they move to having a lot of the dialogue as standing around in the open world while each NPC talks which can be quite annoying later on.
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I'm extremely interested in the setting, charr politics, the nightmare court, and learning more about the dragons so I'm hoping future stuff is about that and less standing around waiting for turrets.
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StrixNebulosa posted:I'm extremely interested in the setting, charr politics, the nightmare court, and learning more about the dragons so I'm hoping future stuff is about that and less standing around waiting for turrets. Since you have excellent taste and are a Charr enthusiast I should also mention that both Charr voice actors were re-cast at certain points of the story due to scheduling and availability issues. I think the Male Charr VA changes at the start of Living World Season 3 and the Female Charr VA changes in the last episode of Living World Season 4. Even before that I think they also messed around with the voice filters on the female Charr VA in Heart of Thorns so you might find it a bit jarring going into that when your character's voice is suddenly an octave lower.
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You will DEFINITELY learn more about the dragons (I didn't want to, but if you do, the story will not let you down  )
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I don't think the Zhaitan battle has changed in any real significant way in ten years (aka its always been awful)
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Meowywitch posted:I don't think the Zhaitan battle has changed in any real significant way in ten years (aka its always been awful) it used to be worse
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StrixNebulosa posted:Oh jeez, this is a bummer. I'm at the final base game story quest (Victory or Death) and I've been getting to know and like Trahearne - he's no Tybalt, but he's cool. I had a similar feeling while going through it with my friends. "Why the gently caress are these clowns here? Aren't they most famous for not killing a dragon and getting tons of people killed?" I think the intent was that they didn't want every player character to be the chosen one like how FFXIV has the player character be a unique special being within the universe, which makes it weird when there's thousands of you. But in the end it makes the narrative kind of weird because you're just escorting the real main characters around. Meowywitch posted:I don't think the Zhaitan battle has changed in any real significant way in ten years (aka its always been awful) They should make a new one. Not to like, replace the story fight; but just as a cool boss people can do. It's really funny seeing that image of dragon size comparisons on the wiki and Zhaitan is like, a fourth the size of the other elder dragons too.
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Nuebot posted:I had a similar feeling while going through it with my friends. "Why the gently caress are these clowns here? Aren't they most famous for not killing a dragon and getting tons of people killed?" I think the intent was that they didn't want every player character to be the chosen one like how FFXIV has the player character be a unique special being within the universe, which makes it weird when there's thousands of you. But in the end it makes the narrative kind of weird because you're just escorting the real main characters around. I'm genuinely happy to escort the real main characters again (Tybalt, Trehearne) but they have to be actually good characters who I'm rooting for. Watching Trehearne finish his Wyld Hunt was really sweet.  That said, treating us as the escorts for the real main characters while simultaneously acting like we single-handedly killed the dragon is REAL weird
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Saraiguma posted:it used to be worse I vaguely recall it being a full 8 man instance maybe??? and it was EVEN SLOWER? but my memory is bad tbf
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It was five man like the other dungeons but I, like many others, did not actually do it until they changed it so you could solo the story mode. To this day I've never stepped foot in Arah again; I even used WvW for the currency to get the gift for The Bifrost (back when each dungeon had its own currency).
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Humerus posted:It was five man like the other dungeons but I, like many others, did not actually do it until they changed it so you could solo the story mode. To this day I've never stepped foot in Arah again; I even used WvW for the currency to get the gift for The Bifrost (back when each dungeon had its own currency). oh! huh! hearing that it used to be a dungeon (and thus the culmination of the destiny's edge dungeon storyline) makes a lot more sense.
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Meowywitch posted:I vaguely recall it being a full 8 man instance maybe??? and it was EVEN SLOWER? Yeah for a while, you HAD to have a party to do it. And your party fell into 1 of 2 groups. 1) no one had done it before and you were excited. 2) Your party members had done it before and it was a "gently caress, im only doing this because i like you, let me see if i can rope 1-2 more people in so we can waste an hour" As time moved forward there was far less 1 and a lot more 2. I think i can remember 2 manning it after the change with someone that had done it before (i think we were both doing alts, but i cant recall ever doing it again on another character) and it was just slow and boring for the both of us. But it used to take an hour at least.
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Anyone remember about how long it takes to get through Living World Season 1 & 2? I just bought the HoT/PoF bundle and am itching to get all the goodies but didn’t have any clue what was going on when I saw the first cinematic in Silverwastes. I’m not obsessed with experiencing all the story but it’d be nice to have some context other than a recap.
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FishBowlRobot posted:Anyone remember about how long it takes to get through Living World Season 1 & 2? According to my records it took me seven sessions over a couple weeks to get through Season 1 and nine sessions to get through Season 2 the first time. My second time through S2 took six sessions. That's with me attempting all story achievements and Return To achievements, probably takes less time if you're just playing it for story. (A session for me is usually 2-4 hours but includes doing other stuff.)
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FishBowlRobot posted:Anyone remember about how long it takes to get through Living World Season 1 & 2? HoT/PoF bundle is awesome, I hope you have a blast. There's so much good stuff in there, I can't say much more without spoilers, but you're in for a treat. Did you join the [GOON] guild on NA yet? We'd love to have you and could help with HoT, there's some content in there which is intended for groups/parties and quite difficult to solo (by design).
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Jedah posted:HoT/PoF bundle is awesome, I hope you have a blast. There's so much good stuff in there, I can't say much more without spoilers, but you're in for a treat. Did you join the [GOON] guild on NA yet? We'd love to have you and could help with HoT, there's some content in there which is intended for groups/parties and quite difficult to solo (by design). I got antsy and read some of the Wiki and a summary on LW S1 so I know a lot of what happens there already. Felt like getting to HoT, but turned around and am doing the Living World stuff for now. Maybe I’ll change my mind again at some point. Yeah I got the invites to GOON and SFD, thanks. In as Direbadger(.5389) the Necro for now until I get alt-itis. Warlock was my main in WoW and it seemed like somewhat of an equivalent. Might get into Ranger next so I can have a pet and try healing. I liked healing as Druid and Priest in WoW but it looks like it could be quite different here. I’ve soloed a few of the dungeons and battled Teq a couple times. Definitely want to get in on some of the other endgame PvE when I get more comfortable and try out the elite specs. Hoping it’s not too dependent on split second reactions to mechanics.
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Meskhenet posted:Yeah for a while, you HAD to have a party to do it. any arah path is the absolute worst. it might be fun if it was an open world map and allowed mounts, or was deleted
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tarbrush posted:gently caress Arah You don't like spending an hour+ running through a giant zone and at the end you get an exotic and a few gold? 
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LW1 & LW2 are the low point of GW2 in terms of story content and pve mission design, imo. So if you’re not feeling them, feel free to skip ahead and come back later if you want.
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GW2's and Arenanet's greatest flaw is that on release they really didn't have a good vision on where to take the game next and they fumbled on a lot of ideas that either failed or got half-baked and abandoned before moving onto the next thing, leaving behind a lot of stuff like Zhaitan that was barely tolerable at best but with a clear vision at release could of been (and still could be) designed to be a 10 minute 10 person strike with a 1 person storymode version. I'd say heart of thorns is where the game hit it's peak challenging content (to a lot of complaints from people who don't want that) and path of fire and S4 is where the gameplay, movement, visual design and cinematics hit it's peak even if it stumbled in places. Lest we forget. 
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Okay but in all fairness to them that was at the very beginning of mmo "eSports". It was absolutely a stupid rear end decision, but personally I'm a bit more forgiving vs games that come out in the 2020s with 'esports' as the focus. (it did completely gently caress up priorities and affect the game though, granted) Reoxygenation fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Feb 11, 2024 |
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I do think it's funny that GW2 has followed the original's trajectory in that respect. Both launched with an intended focus of PvP as the endgame with PvE there in good part as tutorial for players to learn the game mechanics. And both ended up neglecting PvP in favor of more popular PvE content.
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