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Eltoasto posted:Haha the Nightfury recipe is insane. If you want something unique and have a ton of cash, here ya go http://dulfy.net/2015/10/28/gw2-nightfury-halloween-shoulders-recipe/ I already got an unopened endless brew bottle and a tattered bat wing from bags. Now to consider selling them as the price spikes or building the shoulders myself... vvv  Do I want to be a spooky princess or do I want cash monies...?
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xZAOx posted:Any suggestions for gathering trick or treat bags? Preferably something that is fun and not some dumb farming technique. You can get between 5-10 per Clock Tower run if you grab all the chests when they respawn and you get to the top each time. Takes about a minute or two per run. You get around 12-15 per Ascent of Madness run too, plus a chance for unique materials. That's about 5 minutes per run. The best way is also the most boring/grindy, which is joining a Labyrinth train and doing doors. You'll get a bag every couple of enemies, and they'll be dying fast with a sizeable train. Plus you can get the large bags from the bosses too.
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Well, I guess that explains why asscended gear will be required.
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Agent Kool-Aid posted:there's literally nothing about the raid that requires highly specialized roles Yes but does it require ~*~ASCENDED ARMOR~*~?
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CLAM DOWN posted:You're all the worst. Happy anniversary!  e: Hello, person trolling through my posts in the thread! This was the last post made in the thread before I started working at Arenanet! Just thought I'd let you know. Pseudoscorpion fucked around with this message at 08:05 on May 15, 2016 |
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Hey thread, we have an AMA going live on Reddit RIGHT NOW. We're trying to be more transparent, so check it out: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/48zlyd/im_mike_obrien_here_with_gw2_dev_team_ama/
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Tivac posted:That said, Mo seems real into being more transparent. That wasn't always true, so hopefully it sticks around and lets folks stop feeling so burned/ignored. For sure. He mentioned he wants this to be a semi-regular thing and I really hope we keep doing it! (Also hi Tivac I'm the new tools idiot that sits right behind you o/)
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Magres posted:If people are interested, I'm planning on doing a teaching raid on Sunday at 6pm PST to teach people Spirit Vale. Only hard requirement I have is that people wear low/zero Toughness gear if they're not the tank. It's a mechanical necessity. If you don't have a low toughness set of armor, grab some exotic Berserker gear for power DPS, Sinister if you're condi (Viper is ideal but is annoying to get), or Magi's if you're healing. Sign me up, chief!
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On account of Daylight Savings Time screwing with reset (and thus GOON guild missions) we'll be bumping back to 7PM PST so we don't conflict with guild missions
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shrach posted:LFG. We're supposed to believe that renaming the tab for "dungeons" to "dungeons and raids" and then having one subcategory for all the dungeons and renaming all the other old dungeon sub categories into raid bosses would be a multi-month job. That's either true or a lie, really not sure which would be better. Not gonna lie, even before I started working at Anet this has always been a sticking point for me since it shows kind of a fundamental misunderstanding on how software is developed. Let's say I give you the task to write a program that outputs "Hello, world!". Pretty easy, right? This is usually the first program people will ever write. You can do it in one line of code, in some languages! Now let's say you're upgrading to Hello World For MMOs, where you send every online player the message: -It must support being consumed by up to one million players at once. -Every player must get it at about the same time. -It can't put any undue stress on the servers. How frequently is it being ran? It might be okay if it's just once a day, but what if it's once every minute? During peak hours? Will you need new hardware to support it? -It must support non-ASCII characters for players in locales like Germany, France, Mexico/Spain, China, etc. -Any outward-facing text needs to be professionally translated into German, French, Spanish, Chinese, etc. -If a player has chat hidden, do we want to unhide chat so they can see it? Do you even send it to them? Do you display it as a UI pop-up instead? -The packets need to be encrypted so malicious players can't sniff them and learn how to send spoof Hello World packets to other players. -Everything above needs to be QA tested to hell and back to make sure things don't violently explode when it's made live. Every above step will have some assumptions made to it, or perhaps some clever engineering to make it run better. Instead of sending "Hello World!" to every player, you can just store that text locally when they patch and just send a message saying "Please display the Hello World text." Hey, cool - instead of sending 8 bytes, you send maybe just one or two! Hey, good job, you improved the bandwidth usage fourfold on your end at a minimal static cost (around 8 bytes) to each player. Then a few months pass, requirements have changed along with the game, and you learn you need to rework it to send arbitrary messages to players. Whoops. You can't store arbitrary messages on each player's machine anymore because that would take approximately infinity bytes to store every string ever, and so you'll need to rework the system. That means you have to go through every one of those requirements again to make a new and improved Arbitrary Hello World For MMOs system. Believe me, I totally understand the sentiment. It's super frustrating as a player to see that the end of the day, nothing significant appears to have changed, but just because the end result looks close to the original doesn't mean there wasn't a significant amount of work on our end to actually make it look and feel like it did with those new features too. Edit pages later: eh, probably no one is gonna actually come back and read this, but I didn't get that he wanted to keep the functionality the same as it is now - I figured that also implied adding the squad UI. It's not trivial to change strings, I swear!
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I'm happy the notes have been relatively well-received, although I do wish we had done something in addition to the notes (discounting SAB, of course). We had a big ol' list of ideas internally and there are more than a few that were hysterical that didn't make the cut. But a few of mine did! Baron Von Pigeon posted:A Leeroy Jenkins joke in 2016. That's that patented anet humor we all know and love. Like this one. 
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Baron Von Pigeon posted:I don't want to hurt the feelings of whatever anet employee it is that posts in this thread that took credit for that patch note. I get it, humor is subjective and I'm a big stupid sourpuss. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who enjoyed the joke. But even if it's a one off parody of a really old joke it is pretty much the equivalent of if they made a Chuck Norris joke but used the name Rytlock Brimstone instead. It is beyond dated. Man, I ain't care. Different strokes for different folks and all that.
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Magres posted:there was a 1-up sitting in the middle of a bridge and every time she touched it it killed her instantly There's an insta-kill dart trap in the arch right before it
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Mystic Mongol posted:I've been asked to share a lore leak for an upcoming Guild Wars 2 storyline: Back during the Lion's Arch Invasion event Scarlet had impregnated Lord Faren, and she'll be returning shortly as her reincarnation, Faren's daughter. Hew new army will be mainly monsters and soldiers from the fractal dungeons. DELETE THIS 
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^E:f;b -snip ranger aa- There's also this: LA Aerodrome Pseudoscorpion fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Apr 15, 2016 |
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I know a lot of people are sad about SAB ending soon. Don't worry. At least a few of my peers are sad too:  Bonus Higgsraid Crew chilling at the top of the Tower of Expensive Frogs: 
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CLAM DOWN posted:Happy patch day, thread 
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CLAM DOWN posted:Someone paste the patch notes here for work krew tyvm quote:WORLD POLISH
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Magres posted:Also wrt greatsword, something that's really nice about it that you'll probably come to love eventually is that the 3 and 5 skills both move you faster than you can actually run, so it's a fantastic weapon for getting around maps. Pssh, look at this guy who doesn't have sword/warhorn permanently stapled to his secondary weapon set.
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nickhimself posted:I was really excited to play t4 fractals until I actually got into one. Dying immediately really sucks and I don't know exactly what I'm supposed to be doing as a warrior to avoid the deaths two seconds into a boss fight. The build on metabattle recommends using the berserker heal but that poo poo's so unreliable. Blood Reckoning should be fine for almost all encounters, except for those that have a lot of sustained damage and few enemies (e.g., Mai Trin and that's basically it), in which case it's up to personal preference if you wanna take Healing Signet or Defiant Stance. Healing Signet's also a solid choice - you lose out on a fair bit of damage, but you gain a ludicrous amount of survivability in almost all situations. What some people don't realize is while Blood Reckoning does reset your burst skill, it also gives you a 10% damage-dealt-to-healing buff for something like 5 seconds afterward. Berserk-F1-Blood Reckoning-F1-Thousand Blades should be more than enough to take you up to full on a single target, and you don't even need 1k Blades if there are more than one target - just the second burst skill should be plenty to bring you to near-full. You should also be more concerned with staying alive rather than trying to play ~*~*~OPTIMALLY~*~*~, because as we all know your DPS is 0 when you're dead anyway and it's not like there are enrage timers in fractals. This can mean things like swapping out your offset for a longbow or even running a shoutbow build in fights where your melee DPS uptime isn't going to be great anyway (e.g., Bloomhunger, Mai Trin, Jade Maw, final boss of Chaos). tl;dr: Blood Reckoning is probably fine, take Healing Signet if you don't think it is, don't worry about dumb crap like maintaining Stick and Move uptime and focus on staying alive, even if that means swapping your greatsword for a longbow.
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I just got back from dinner with Magres. Poutine pics incoming. vvv jeez at least timg our dumb faces 
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dad on the rag posted:Bank tabs, character slots, and 1%er passes on sale. I plan to join the Trump club so which is the best pass? Hot Take: I like the Noble's Folly pass because unlike the other ones it's in its own instance so it loads super fast.
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Reddit is constantly frothing at the mouth about ~*~*~RAIDS STORY~*~*~ but there's almost literally no actual story content. The closest thing there is is the Xera/Lazarus Wing 3 stuff, and even then, literally everything is explained as a part of Season 3 Episode 1. Raid if you want to raid. There's no story of relevance.
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Two of my jokes made it into the patch notes. I'm quite pleased with myself.
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I'm embarrassingly terrible at the Fashion Wars meta  Flame Legion wannabe Charr elementalist.  White Human Female Meta Pirate Thief  Bonus Guardian in my comedy "C'mon, try to kill me for that one achievement" nomads WvW armor Pseudoscorpion fucked around with this message at 02:09 on May 31, 2017 |
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Erdricks posted:Also, oakheart's reach (a mastery you can unlock with ep 5) is incredible. It's basically a batman style grapple that will attach to any surface within 2000 yards or so. Only works so far in the ep 5 map, but totally worth the effort. And the guild hall! 
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CLAM DOWN posted:They look instant in the videos so far, but even if there was a delay it would be worth it, look how cool they look Yep, mounting is instant, which also makes it quite easy to swap to another mount as well, just like changing your skills. Also,  SHILL WARS 2 ALERT Please buy the expansion, I like eating. END SHILL WARS 2 ALERT
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