Kal Spiro.9745

PoF didn't bring anything to the game that didn't already exist with HoT. If the game couldn't keep your attention after Hot, it's unlikely to draw it back now.

Generally speaking the mount can't do enough damage on its own to kill anything. Even powered up. I can see it working with a bunch of people, maybe, but it's still iffy. Generally speaking Lucentfir is right. After using the skill there is a built in delay because you have to kill the mob, get out of combat and then mount back up.

> @Tekey.7946 said:

> The whole discussion about mounts seems to have shifted 180 degrees since Path of Fire.

> In the old forums there were lots of people opposed to mounts **in general**. As well as people who said they're alright with mounts as long as they're **pure cosmetic items**.

> Or if they add the common **25% or 33% speed buff** - to get rid of the signets in your builds.

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> Other than one thread (which dealt more with the griffon in particular), I couldn't see many people that are opposed to mounts anymore.

> I know there are several people who first thought mounts weren't a good idea but then changed their minds about it when they saw them (because of their special implementation and abilities in GW2). But I don't believe that **every single one** of them (hundreds or thousands of people) **drastically changed their minds** about them and no skeptics remained.

> There were people who didn't want to see mounts at all and now we even have a griffon being able to fly infinitely if you do it right. Did they leave the game? Did they just accept it?

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> This is not a thread to discuss the features in general since they're already fully implemented now.

> I just want to undestand the shift of opinions that happened within an **extremely short amount of time** - I just can't explain it by myself.

> **Are there still any mount skeptics left?**

I was one of the people that was against Mounts. I still am against mounts. But I realize now that I was, and am, against mounts as they exist in other games, which is to say, nothing more than a cosmetic speedboost. What we got are far more than a cosmetic speedboost. We gained special terrain breaking abilities. Super high jump to bypass areas indiscriminately. Leaps and teleports to vastly change how we traverse the world. The ability to ignore water. The ability to fly, or effectively fly. This isn't just a way to run fast. It also isn't a scenario where the mount is representative of the person/character, it's representative of the need at the moment.

I'm happy for this. I'm also a fan of the enter combat mechanic, which takes it another step from being just a cosmetic speedboost. I will say the mounts heavily remove the value of character speed off of mounts. But for the utility granted it's a trade I'm willing to make.

There is an egg that spawns next to the Itzel on the south side, it's much lower than the others. If you jump off and catch yourself at the last moment you can make it the time limit. There must also be on the north ridge because I got it from that side. The key is to not spend much time in lateral movement and to spend the majority of vertical movement falling.

I'm not sure how terrible that ping is, but if you can't hit the key as soon as you see the bar change from chain to blue and also have it happen in that instant, then that would definitely impact how easy this fight is. If I had any kind of lag there is no way I could ever have gotten through this fight. I was unwilling to do anything fancy, just walk backwards and wait for the break bar while auto attacking. Pretty sure my pet did most of the damage.

I haven't actually reached Vabbi yet

Sorry, this was WAY too complicated. This fight is garbage easy.

Don't bother tracking thing, don't you fancy moves. Don't worry about your build or your buffs.

All you need is a CC skill, preferably knockback, knock down, or stun, that is available in under 20 seconds.

Watch his break bar

When it turns blue immediately hit him with your CC, it will break his bar and he won't drain until the next cycle.

Commence DPS

At roughly 25% he freaks out and stops moving then gains swiftness, or superspeed. In any case he chases you faster if you're kiting him, but he's just as easy to kill and if you're doing enough damage you'll kill him before his next attempt to drain.

I will qualify this by saying I was using bow on ranger so I spent the entire time walking backwards. But at the speed of walking backwards he was fully incapable of hitting me even once. As long as I broke his break bar every time with longbow 4 he never healed and the fight took no time. I never used Longbow 5 and I only used Longbow 2 when he was stunned from break bar

> @AstronomyD.8235 said:

> I'm not sure why I'm posting this, but...

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> I need some advice to why and if I should continue play this game after 4089 hours across all characters. My issue is that I'm not at good at this game. I don't participate in raids, and high level fractals because I'm not good at the game. It is not my goal to be top a tier GW2 player but I really enjoy the story and the world of Tyria. Playing Path of fire, make me feel so weak and vulnerable as a weaver (berserker + soldier trinkets) that I wonder why anyone still calls me the commander. Do anyone else feel the same or is it just me that is not capable of enjoying the northern parts of Elona?

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So I definitely came here with the intent of saying, "No, stop and give me your stuff." You know, like you do. But this isn't the appropriate place for snark, cause this seems like a legitimate call for help.

I've been playing this game since Early Access. I reached T2 fractals this year. It wasn't something I cared about. I still haven't played every path of all the dungeons. I've not been in any raids. I've never PvPed in any matches. I've only been in WvW long enough to get the JPs and the world completes because I did that before they made WvW unnecessary. Not playing hard core doesn't make you a bad player. You've put a bunch of time into the game, I assume because you enjoy it. If you enjoy it, then continue playing. Don't stop unless you don't enjoy it anymore. You don't seem to need high level play to enjoy it, so don't let it bring you down.

So, this is a pain, but all you need is one power that does any CC and recharges fast enough. Don't worry about DPS. Just keep hitting it and as soon as you see the break bar CC. It will never heal itself and you'll win. Easy peasy.

> @Vladish.3940 said:

> Personally I am never getting jackal of the griffon mounts. In five years of CASUAL gaming, I have never been over 2g mark. At this point I don't know if I will be even able to afford a skimmer :/ Not everyone is interested in fractals or raids, or farming. Some of us only play story elements, and I mean, exclusively those. And there is nowhere near enough gold to be made there.

Wow, I consider myself a casual gamer and I'm grumbling about not exceeding the 800g mark.

Make use of the trading post. You might be surprised what things are worth. All yellow quality gear is 30sp. Most orbs are 20sp. Several lodestones are worth a lot. More unique HoT mats are worth a significant amount. Level 60 Crests are worth 20-30sp. If you've been collecting any of these, and not just vendoring them, you could easily have 5gp and not even know it.

I get the argument against, but the truth is, Meta Events are proper endgame content. A map with a handful of unimportant dynamic events is not endgame content. Playing through the story over and over on different characters is not endgame content. HoT is endgame content. Silverwastes is endgame content. As fun as they are, racing around the maps on mounts is not endgame content. Individual tough mobs with semiunique mechanics is really not endgame content either. Working together with a maps worth of content simultaneously to beat a final event is quality endgame.

Jackal isn't necessary for any of the story content, so the story doesn't pay for it. It's a optional mount. Though, it probably has the most important mastery, evade while movement ability. Probably more important than take less falling damage.

> @TheRandomGuy.7246 said:

> So because some other companies had bad launch that means that it is acceptable way of doing things?

Yes, they are actively seeking and combating bugs and crashes, and have been since launch. They are iterating like mad and updating the game repeatedly. This is very acceptable. They could have pushed go, finished the day and gone home and come in on Monday to find out if anyone was able to play the game over the weekend. That's not the experience you're having. This was a clean launch. The first major hiccup didn't happen for over a day after launch.

The thing you guys seem to not understand is that it is physically impossible for them to anticipate all eventualities. They tried as best they could with internal testing and then again during the beta weekend events and the two stress tests. The fact that there were no major crashes to the patcher and the game at the moment of launch suggest they did a good job with it. But when thousands to millions of people suddenly have at it, no limited release is going to adequately account for everything that could go wrong.

This is very acceptable, and encouraged.

Yeah, I was able to log in same day, that's an improvement over innumerable expansion launches I've been part of. Haven't had any crashes from story. The game wide crash is the first time I've been kicked out and that was over 24 hours from launch.

So far this is a pretty quality update.

I guarantee that this is far more expensive than a Legendary because the Legendary journey isn't for a Legendary, it's for a Precursor. Once you have the Precursor you still have to go through the effort to get a Legendary.

I have the dagger precursor thanks to the legendary journey. I don't save my gold in a reasonable way to eventually buy a precursor or legendary. But I can accumulate the resources I need to gradually work through the process. It took me almost two years to work my way through the four stages of the Legendary Journey, but I found it enjoyable and meaningful. I also appreciated the Precursor I got out of it far more than if I'd just randomly found it in a chest, or even if I'd bought it.

He's looking for a slider position when making a character, presumably to make a Scarlet clone.

The one thing I liked about the old forums is that I could navigate it at work and it didn't automatically look like a game forum. So much for that.

So, I'm going to assume this is already a rehash, but I just found out about this change and I'm more than a little annoyed to find that for all intents and purposes I've never been on the GW2 forums before. Sometimes having the slate wiped clean is cool, but even my signature is gone, and apparently I'm not allowed to have one yet. Seems a bit rude to me.