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This is the heart of this game: open world content. Whether we're rushing metas, events, bosses, as long as the content is OPEN, you'll get good reviews overall. Closed content makes for a game that serves a few. This game was meant to be open. Core Tyria was structured to be that way. Go back to your roots, devs. Open world is your bread and butter.

Screenshot each step of creation.

If they hide it, I want it hidden in combat too so my character will look like she's blocking with her forearm.

If just for exploration, a dolphin like Flipper with a Jessica Alba familiar.

Turbo Shark with boosts like beetle. Asura tech.

OP, I agree. After farming for the latest mount, I realized I was on a specific node NAMED after the CURRENCY I was farming, but failed to gather said currency from many nodes.

TL:DR. Difluorite node should give you difluorite.

If it is an RNG node, please rename to RNG node so that I know that I will probably not get what I want.

I trust Gorrik as an Asuran researcher took the time to learn how to communicate with Skyscales so that he could ask what our story mount skyscale identifies as.

Either that or he checked to see if the skyscale had a dongle or not.

If the skyscale had a double dongle, we can safely assume the skyscale is an Apple iPhone.

I actually like the idea of an airship for travel on the World Map in general as opposed to mounts which travel inside a particular map. Maybe not the Terran Battlecruiser but something more like the Highwind or Ragnarok from a certain, long running Sony RPG series.

> @"eldrin.6471" said:

> I finally finished this horrendous collection .long boring and tedious is how i would describe it.Can only hope we do not get a repeat of this.This mount i refuse to buy skins for.

There are skins? If they dangled them out early as incentive, I may have bought 'em. Since getting the mount after the first week of release, I'm over it. I can't bring myself to care about them either way. There were suggestions for other mounts and skins for them, but they weren't taken seriously. They just pattern skins off of the ones they had before. So we can expect things like primeval, awakened, starfall, arctic, fire, electric, exalted, forged, etc.

I want an American muscle car themed beetle skin, but I know it won't happen.

Gorrik: Never underestimate the ignorance of the masses.

Gorrik: Am I supposed to anticipate the neuroses and paranoia of literally everyone around me?

Zildi: No need. It's dying; we ghat it!

Skritt @ Bloodtide: Glad you're here. Don't want to end up undead lunch like dredge burrow people.

Kian @ Sandswept: Stay out of my cabbages! These outlanders, trompin' around all willy-nilly.

Rider of the Sky. It's also the title of a Eurobeat song.

I voted Largos because I want an underwater turbo dolphin mount comparable to the beetle on land. Lol. That and the assassin culture of Largos is much more interesting to me than Tengu.

We could temporarily fight while riding on Aurene. I thought the skyscale would be like that but not as strong as Aurene's blast in the latest episode. I was wrong when I noticed we we got instead.

Revealing armor? Nope. Guild Wars 2 has the largest selection of wrestling boots in any MMO. I know only one set of female shoes that look like shoes that don't cover the ankles whatsoever (Aurora?). All the "heels" are wrestling boots with heels, not something you'd want with a dress. There's only a handful of skirts and most bottoms come with a butt cape so that they're less revealing. Compare this MMO to a typical Korean one and you'll see a VAST difference.

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/77557/dragonfall-map-completion-8-26-forums-told-me-skyscale-was-bad-edition#latest

Map Completion video of Dragonfall shows strengths and weaknesses of the mounts. The Griffon and Roller beetle were used most for speed around the map. Bunny and skyscale were only used in very specific situations.

After playing the Meta with its bosses and timer at the end, there is no way a skyscale can compare to griffon on the Dragonfall map in simply making it to each boss and beating each boss. It's too slow. The video clearly shows the griffon's speed supremacy in the air.

Nice pylon turns with the roller beetle. :) You really know your mounts and the griffon was clearly superfast in the air. It was those niche situations where you needed to gain altitude fast from a lower position to justify the skyscale's need. Though it may have been possible with bunny, it was quicker with skyscale only if the user knows the limitations of the height gain and green bar loss. Thanks for the demonstration; nice clip overall.

They already reducing time constraints considerably so that should be enough. The mount itself needs a buff. I want everyone whose after this mount to go through the trials of getting it. Equally. =)

Unicorn, four-legged wall sticking for the lels. Already ideal for the hover.

As an early acquirer of the mount, I trust we will get a Unicorn skin which I will adopt on day one should it happen. It goes well with the hovering and you already have rainbow animations from the Legendary short bow, The Dreamer. Now I do know sticking onto walls may not be an actual unicorn's forte (they don't really exist anyway) but I trust the team can make it happen even if it may be a comical, yet delightful sight to see a unicorn sticking to a wall on all fours.

After acquiring it at 10:30 PM EST Wednesday evening, I passed out. When I came to, I decided to max out the mastery at Dragonfall. That meta was awesome! The optional bosses are also great and made it a huge loot farm. If I did the meta on an alt, I would not have enough space for all the loot.

The meta and bosses afterwards are best done with Griffon and Springer for sure. How could the Skyscale even keep up? I honestly thought this would be THE map for it.

My only hope now is that they don't force its usage.

I really fooled around with the thing but so far I think it would be best for: recording beetle races from a set point and slow exploration of maps. It has that great fire blast thing upon dismount, but I don't see the practicality in it if you're moving slow enough for ranged enemies to abuse you from the ground. By the time you reach your attack point for your skyscale to fly by, you may have already been dismounted by mobs who aggro from Lake Doric no matter where you are: Cantha, Elona, the unending sea, etc.

Going back to the entire collection and process to get the mount again, I will reiterate that it isn't really worth it (meaning the mount should be much more than what it is to justify the process). I had to make it fun for myself. For me, I used my beetle to make it enjoyable. Unlike people who had stockpiled all the materials and map currencies, I didn't have much. I only have one absolute advantage: many many many alts (and tenacity). I use this game to test design looks I want to implement for other things so it just turned out that way. All but 2 of my characters are max level. So I spammed hearts.

In the Domain of Kourna, I spammed the supply transport heart from Faren's position to the camp. With Roller Beetle, you can make the round trip in less than a minute, 40 secs or less if you take an ideal line.

In Jahai Bluffs, I spammed the southern heart where you chuck a shard at the dummies. My characters all weren't positioned there so I used the Sun's Refuge portal and stepped out into Jahai. From there? Roller beetle to the heart avoiding brand storms and branded all over the place. Fun racing.

In Thunderhead, I spammed two hearts. One to rally troops where I used roller beetle through that narrow corridor from the forge. Then the most fun heart I did was the fishing (reminded me of SAB w2z2, lol). The fishing itself wasn't the treat though, it was getting there from the top of the mountain. Of course the Roller beetle is the fastest way down since I found several routes which were intended by the designers that were full of magic to collect between ramps and jumps as well as an achievement where after the downhill run you hit a specific ramp to splash into the ice fishing hole. That was a nice surprise. I started picking out landing points after that for my beetle lol.

One of the worst things that happened as a result of the collection are the no effort, almost entirely afk commanded Dragonfall maps who are only doing it for the minimum requirements for the skyscale. Please just run the full meta, people will be in and out regardless.

To those who are wondering about mounts, it would serve you best to go after the griffon over the skyscale since it is useful in many more situations than the skyscale, even on the Skyscale's home map for the awesome meta they have there. For me, it really is a vanity mount and people are already using it afk in town.

#donewiththis

The overall reset timegate affects many parts of the process, not just one. To add to that one overall gate, we have several other gates: farm gate, craft gate, gold gate, collection gate, jump gate, episode gate, boss gate, res gate, kill gate, charged quartz gate, etc. There are people who can defer to gold at some points of the process, but not everyone is a whale.

I may not be done with the thing myself, but at least there's no RNG gate that I know of. That would have been an epic fail. Nightmare scenario: RNG black lion chest mount. Picture that and the current situation doesn't seem as bad despite the ridiculous high cost in time for low benefit skyscale.

Again, I do not think you get what you pay for in the skyscale: the mount isn't worth what you put into it. Legendary collection should have legendary reward. Many of us don't mind the work if it is worth it. It just isn't. Only getting it as a vanity mount for afk by next month maybe early August since this journey really isn't that engaging, either.

If we could raise it like pokemon or monster rancher instead of the current system, maybe it would warrant the time investment but it isn't a new system at all. It's a series of collections that does not introduce a new element to the game.

> @"Faaris.8013" said:

> But what all this for? A dragon mount that cannot even fly and has no advantage over other mounts in combination. Unless there is some surprise that makes it a flying mount, I will prefer the griffon. And all the stuff that we do for the Skyscale is a bit overkill for a mediocre item. I did Aurora and think it was worth it. So far, I don't think the Skyscale is worth the effort.

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> In other News: Suicide rates in Divinity's Reach are exploding.

I agree.

The DR suicides are Dwayna's REAL agenda. She actually wants a blood sacrifice. Kek. Elizabeth Bathory is her Champion.

I would like to take a step back and look at PVE mounts (not Warclaw) since the release of POF for comparison's sake looking at the cost, reward, and overall practicality of each mount.

All mounts require the collection of mastery points so I won't go into that. So for one thing, nothing mount-related is free: PoF must be purchased so there is a minimum monetary cost to be a part of the mount riding population. After doing a little story, you get the raptor, a basic mount that can canyon jump after leveling it up. Cheapest one, minimal cost. Not a mount I use all the time from a practical standpoint nor for fun at least for me. Worth it? Yes. Need it to get bunny.

Bunny, by far, is the most practical mount: I use it for collections to the present day. It gamebreaks the previous expansion and even enables you to skip and shortcut around some core game PVE content. Cost? Leveling up Raptor and one heart. Total steal.

Skimmer and Jackal similarly just need the previous mounts leveled up and one heart mission completed. However, I would argue that both of these mounts were gimmicky and only useful in maps that used their specific abilities so they were purely PoF mounts. You can use them elsewhere but they're not as gamebreaking as the bunny.

Beetle for me is the most detailed in gameplay design since you can drive it grip or drift and it completely changed the experience of the game itself. I tip my hat to the beetle design team because they brought back racing and Tony Hawk into one mount. Racing was implemented throughout the game just for this mount. I just go into my own world hopping ramps and drifting circles around the Crimson Wurm area of Bloodtide coast before TT for the pure pleasure of it. It is not a practical mount and has it's own gimmicky wall break barriers in PoF but it has all the fun factor points above all mounts at least for me. It's the only mount that immerses me in this game. Cost was the completion of some story and three sets of collections. It was worth it.

Griffon, I would argue, had a fair cost at 250 gold and a series of collections which were quite enjoyable. Nothing matches bunny in terms of bang for buck, however. The Griffon was a game breaking mount that made you rule the skies anywhere. It has an excellent fun factor and like the beetle, it lets you re-experience the world in a new way. The bunny still beats it out in terms of vertical ascent since advancing upwards from the ground up a mountain is not griffon specialty, air speed dominance is. Griffon is fun but not as frugal in terms of cost. With the griffon, you truly get what you pay for.

So what is the Skyscale in this spectrum of mounts? I like that it can hover and can stick to walls; if anything, it's unique. However, it has the highest cost of all mounts in terms of time, collections, and mats (I don't know the exact mat cost because I only just hatched my baby skyscale Suction Cup). Is it the most game breaking and most practical and most fun of all mounts? No. If it requires the most effort, it should be the best mount hands down, no question, even replacing something of the previous mounts since it is the largest time investment and collection investment. I've used the temporary one and was not impressed. I primarily used my bunny and griffon, which is a testament to their practicality, for collections and could only find one mastery point and one story point to justify a mid-air helicopter hover trademarked by the skyscale.

I can't say about the future but this skyscale is too gimmicky and not as practical as bunny or griffon to the game itself to justify a cost in time and collection that is greater than all mounts in the game so far. If this is a legendary mount with a legendary level of cost over all other mounts, it should have a legendary gameplay experience, and it plainly does not. There will be no races on this thing like they introduced for the beetle because it is too slow and doesn't even hold a candle to griffon.

This is the biggest miss of all the mounts because what you put into it doesn't give you something better than the mounts you already have. I will get the mount, but I'll be honest: I'm only doing it to use mastery points I saved up for it. The low value of the mount for the game in terms of practicality/fun and what you have to do to get it is absurd; It does not justify it. I only see it being used as an afk hovermount, nothing more.

> @"Girbilcannon.8259" said:

> Hello everybody, Just yesterday my guild bank was raided by an officer right before he ditched the guild and blocked everybody in game and on discord. Keep in mind that this was not just a normal member or even a new officer...he has been an officer for at least 6 months or so and waited until we had a good amount gold and valuable items before taking action. We reached directly out to Anet for answers, and they were kind enough to hit us with the good old "We don't get involved with guild politics" speech. Though it is not what we wanted to hear, we have an amazing player base that helped us get back on track in less than 6 hours. That is nice and all, but the thought is still on my mind...what about the person who did the crime? Will he do it to another guild? Why does Anet not take action against players who can pull of a slick crime like this?

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> What do you all think about this kind of situation and the GMs pretty much saying "You're on your own"?

> Do you feel like Anet should step up and take actions against these thieves if presented with a clear case and plenty of evidence to go with it?

This is really unfortunate. I think it IS theft and that it should be dealt with at some level by an authority figure.

I can also see the difficulty in handling a much larger guild. I have no need to or desire to ever run a guild larger than 50 people let alone 500 or a multi-slot guild.

My best experience is being an admin for a small guild of 22 people. With only 22 people, we gathered enough funding, mats, and manpower to fully upgrade a guild hall, experience all of core Tyria together, and other things here and there, and learn to trust one another. It's been 5 years and to this day our guild bank policy still stands: if you take something you have to give something. Sometimes it fills up and our guild leaders tell the most active people to just take things if you need it. Then the rest of us say, "no no no, someone else might need it" and no one takes anything because of that attitude. We were fortunate we all held the same value system: giving is better than receiving.

How do you prevent such a thing? I think a interview for your future admins is necessary; I also agree with the other poster who mentioned asking around about people. An interview is them tooting their own horn. Find out about that person through other means. What values do they hold?

But this one was trusted and sat for 6 months as admin only to steal? That's as selfish and wicked as they come. To be totally honest, that's just LAZY. This game has SO MANY OPTIONS to make gold if that was that person's issue. If they do it to sell gold for real cash? Damn that's also really terrible. Because then you have to blame an entire industry of gold and item sellers (the buyers too are to blame).

I really can't imagine both leading a large, multi slot guild nor just being an admin. The risk multiplies with the size. Do you really know every single member?

When it comes down to it, it's not your fault and I totally hold the thief responsible.

Stealing is wrong no matter what the situation.

The upside is that you have a community of people who are willing to stick around and recover regardless.

"Glad you're here. Don't want to end up undead lunch like dredge burrow people."

-Refugee Skritt @ Bloodtide Coast

And the classic:

"You ran from skritt!"

-Any enemy skritt you run from lol