Yggranya.5201

> @"AliamRationem.5172" said: > I know WvW isn't for everyone, but one week of diamond participation and reward tracks should net you around 50 transmute charges. I don't know how bad your fashion addiction is, but that many charges lasts me for many months. > > Just FYI for those who may not be aware just how many of these you can earn just participating in WvW! That's nice... If you happen to be willing to play that garbage. On the other hand, even if i got a permanent transmutation charge from it, i wouldn't participate. Only surprise is that anet hasn't tried to strong-ar... I mean "encourage" people to do PvP/WvW much. Although if we believe people who whine how WvW hasn't gotten any updates, i guess anet left it to rot, as it should be. If they ever decide to do some updates, you can expect to get a lot of "encouragement" to participate whether you want to or not.

> @"Westenev.5289" said: > It was the same back in 2015 - you'd finish the level 80 story, then move onto lws2 wondering what happened to Destinys Edge and why you're on a team with a goth, a egirl, a norn Thackery and a zojja knockoff whose voice is extremely familiar if you play other games. Who knows what people think nowadays when you jump straight from PS to HoT or PoF expecting answers. > > Despite this, Lws2 had its moments - cannach and annise were a fun combination, and the dragon fight on the pale tree was pretty cool. But, I digress, I don't see it aging well after having played HoT or PoF era content, and playing it just causes more questions about lws1. > I started slightly before/after HoT released and after the core story i went straight to HoT, and during the prologue where you meet all the relevant characters, i was like "who are these people and why does the commander act like he knows them, like you've worked together before?". Still, even if i got ls2 for free, i wouldn't have completed it since i don't want to play as some other character, and least of all as caithe. > @"battledrone.8315" said: > > @"Teratus.2859" said: > > > @"battledrone.8315" said: > > > hot is awful, and it cost them a lot of players and goodwill.and you will have a hard time finding a player, who likes both core and the expansions. > > > they are basically 2 different games, and that is NOT the correct way to make an expansion > > > about the writing: what purpose was there to take a FLEET OF AIRSHIPS to a HOSTILE JUNGLE? what were they supposed to do there? > > > air interdiction? strategic bombing? yea.... > > > > That was pretty much their plan.. bomb the ever loving hell out of Mordremoth with overwhelming force. > > Mordy threw a vine in that plan though. > > so it was a sneak attack against an unknown enemy in their own territory? do i have to point out how stupid that is? > any competent commander would had refused. any sane person with a sense of morale would had done the same. > it was a stupid and evil plan, and they actually deserved to die. > even spongebob would had done better, we are talking patrick levels of stupidity here Remember how the commander handed the world on a silver platter to an elder dragon after helping it reach never before seen levels of power along with immortality? Yeah, the story is really stupid. Only thing to make aurene less all consuming is a retcon or a hundred.

> @"Mortifera.6138" said: > > @"Spook.5847" said: > > Look, I dont care about cut scenes or voice acting in this case. If I want that, I can watch anime. > > If I wanted rewards, I’d go to work, > If I wanted gameplay, I’d play chess. > If I wanted a soundtrack, I’d listen to Spotify. > > Point is, there’s nothing wrong with wanting story in a game. Nothing wrong in wanting story? True, but why is it required to enter new map? I couldn't care less about WvW/PvP but the story is trash. I have no intrest in listening to NPCs vapid one-liners and the endless comic reliefs, and the "witty banter" replacing basically everything in the story. After all, there is nothing left but "witty banter". Yes, when i play games, i want gameplay. Big shock, i'm sure.

> @"aquafire.2718" said: > > > > @"Farohna.6247" said: > > I'd settle just for a portable repair anvil that can be plunked down much like banners or food :) > > Yes that would make it easy but not fun, You got to think about it from a realistic perspective, a way players can get more involved with there trade and one another, this way of thinking shouldnt just be for just this trade its just the topic I have today but it should be for every trade so they can do something more that feels like they are valued instead of just sitting at a crafting station and hear a sound effect go off you know? anyways not saying that isnt a bad idea by no means just a didnt flavor i guess lol. So you want to make it so that, in order to repair damaged equipment, i would need to trade them to my character that has armorsmithing and/or weaponsmithing instead of simply using the anvil, or pay someone else for that? I'm sure you would find it fun to swindle money out of unsespecting beginners. At that point it would be like real life, so immersion would be guaranteed. Would be terrible for gameplay though.

> @"kharmin.7683" said: > You might want to review this thread [https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/121390/an-update-on-game-security-and-player-reporting-in-guild-wars-2](https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/121390/an-update-on-game-security-and-player-reporting-in-guild-wars-2#latest) before accusing Anet of not doing anything. I saw that, and so i went and looked at few of the places bots inhabit. Nothing has changed.

> @"Obfuscate.6430" said: > For the reasons already stated. Though truthfully, lately, I have not felt particularly motivated since speed clearing particular grinds has encouraged people to want or need meta builds and party compositions. Just kind of took the fun out of wanting to go for stuff. u_u People do have a knack for taking the fun out of a game, don't they?

As long as i don't need to join one, they can be whatever. > @"AgentMoore.9453" said: > Humans: Good or Bad? In forced multiplayer? Lazy or competitive.

> @"Strider Pj.2193" said: > > @"AgentMoore.9453" said: > > I'm on board, but only if it shows both weapon sets regardless of whether they're 1h or 2h. Then I could have four daggers strapped to me at all times. Or double hammers. Or tangled longbows. > > > > "But AgentMoore.9453, that would look silly!" > > > > _Yes._ > > I just want all of the particle effects for ***ALL*** of the legendaries I have equipped... > > *nods*. Mhm Then people try to feed you to the mouth of mordremoth only to be too blinded to see, and so absolutely everyone will falls to their doom. Then mordremoth will laugh itself silly, so you have time to stab it in the eye. Sensory overload so bad mordremoth explodes. Another easy victory thanks to OP glare.

> @"Ayrilana.1396" said: > > @"Yggranya.5201" said: > > "Community", that's a good one. Community feel would be team work, but since this is an MMO, that isn't going to happen unless it improves/increases rewards, and then you would just get the raid community BS. > > “Community” doesn’t necessarily have to be teamwork nor does it have to revolve around efficiency. Doesn't need to, but will. > > You know, show some "skill" by proving your amazing ability to copy meta builds. > > If it was simply that then everyone would be doing raids. How many players are on the forums looking for random open world builds? How that any different? Oh yeah, just looking up a video on how to do it or you will die is also another one of the superhuman abilities of raiders, along with doing the dance once you've done it a few times. The rest of us less gifted can't even remember our own names after all.

> @"Smoosh.2718" said: > To me these were the biggest sword let downs > >  > And >  > > > Why? The skins are honestly perfect... however they are just too big! The hilts are so long the weapon would be inneffective in combat, or the crossguard is too large making it look rather comical. > > Honestly if they scale down the size of the swords in Gw2, they'd actually be good skins... just they are too big! Most of the swords in-game are like that unfortunately.

"Community", that's a good one. Community feel would be team work, but since this is an MMO, that isn't going to happen unless it improves/increases rewards, and then you would just get the raid community BS. You know, show some "skill" by proving your amazing ability to copy meta builds.

> @"Tseison.4659" said: > A Shiro fractal would be great as well for EoD, or even a Raid revolving around Raisu Palace with Shiro being the end boss of course. If you were channeling legendary assassin stance as revenant during the fight, would you hear him whispering something to you in an attempt to distract you?

> @"AzureShiron.7658" said: > My biggest gripe is, the humans got a human centric expansion, the sylvari got one with a lot of lore and info for them, but the charr and norn have to share their 'expansion'? the charr already get shafted on a lot so this has left a very bad taste in my mouth. The writing has been fairly solid but the previously stated has left my view on the full thing tainted. Thanks to nostalgia, it will probably be human centric in cantha too.

> @"Teratus.2859" said: > Sounds fine to me. > Nolan North is a popular and respected voice talent. > Before you start with the "find someone so much better" stuff do note that he also voiced Mordremoth, Palawa Joko and Rhoban in the game too. > > > The Commander is supposed to be sort of a bland stand in for the player to some degree which is why the writing in this game and lack of choice on our part often gets criticised. > The Commander isn't a character like Taimi, Braham and Rytlock are.. they're us and that's a really hard thing to relate to when we have to follow a set in stone story like this where we don't get much in the way of a choices.. especially when in today's gaming industry there are such high and common demands for voice acting not to mention how every player has a different opinion or ideal of what/who their commander is. > > This is also why certain elements of who/what the commander is are also never discussed in the game.. such as romantic relationships and sexuality etc > Commander has to be bland so more people can relate to him/her.. so that people can fill in the blanks with their own traits that they want their character to have and this can vary heavily even between different character's a person makes. Solution: Stop paying exorbitant prices for VA, save a ridiculous fortune and use it to make a better game. How could people "relate" to a bland moron with no choices who follows blindly to what someone tells them to do regardless of their position/title, common sense, and even if the commander would say "that's a bad idea" it will be hand-waved as if the commander said nothing. The usual jargon by Taimi. If saying nothing leads to the same solution, why even bother opening your mouth? Spend that money somewhere else. Only slightly above a blank slate character that are in other games, but not by much, and only in the sense that they are more a character than just a weapon pointed at the next doomsday threat. Although they all wield the commander like a weapon regardless. I actually want to know how people can "relate" to that. Sound like the usual BS, like people "relate" to a **genocidal** villain as long as they have a sob story. Pfft...

If i could turn them off, i would, and it would be beautiful. If i don't buy the next expansion, this issue had nothing to do with it.

> @"Blood Red Arachnid.2493" said: > > @"Yggranya.5201" said: > > > @"Blood Red Arachnid.2493" said: > > > > @"Teratus.2859" said: > > > > > @"kharmin.7683" said: > > > > > > @"Teratus.2859" said: > > > > > > Personally I wish they were toughter on this though and players caught using bots and hacks like that are never allowed to come back to the game. > > > > > > They deserve to be perma-banned. > > > > > > > > > > > They never reveal the actions that are taken, but I'm pretty certain perma-bans do occur. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Positive that perma bans are rare and usually only done for extreme cases. > > > > I'm pretty sure most bans are x amount of days/months which really isnt much of a deterrent for people willing to use 3rd party hacks. > > > > They pay a subscription for that software so getting banned is not going to stop them using it over and over again. > > > > > > > > > > That is... not true. If you've ever gone digging into the history of these forums, you'll find a graveyard lying just below the surface. Every once in awhile I'll go looking for an old post of mine, because occasionally I'll say something smart that I want to reference. Each time I do this, I'll come across a years-old thread full of names that I recognize, but haven't seen in awhile. Some I like, some I hate, but whatever reason I decide to click on a name to see what they're up to, only to see those dreaded red letters and a last post made years ago. > > > > > > We call it the memory hole. We're so inundated with media that we don't realize when somebody has dropped off the face of the earth. We don't see these banned people, largely because they aren't around to be seen. > > > > It is completely true. If botters who are so obvious that a person who has never played a game before would realize that they surely can't just stand there all day, every day, and that reporting them is useless, then there can be no other explanation. Obviously anet doesn't give a kitten. I mean, i should have been permanently banned from these forums for a while now, but that hasn't happened yet since the reported posts are automatically removed, which means that the "moderators" are just bots as well. No one at anet cares one bit. Only way to get banned is being racist/sexist or something else obvious, and spreading it around a map for all to see, and even that isn't a certainty. Otherwise, nobody wants to remove a (hopefully) paying customer. > > I was referring to permanent bans being rare. People assume they're rare largely because they aren't visible. Also, the moderators aren't bots. They have a few stock accounts that they pilot to hand out moderation. They copy/paste from a script in an attempt to make the moderation as impersonal as possible. But make no mistake, they are people. Well, botters for sure are immune to perma bans. Especially since, if they even ban the account, it will be just an account that funnels profit/materials to a single account while anet gives the perpetrator a pass. Then they just make 10 new bots. Heh, would explain them having similar names and all being in the same guild since they are made by the same person(s), but that's obvious. You could say "it's not as easy as that" but that's BS. If they'd put effort into it, they could end it. They just don't. Don't worry, that is the norm in game developing. "Think of the savings!" If real people are actually looking through the reports and respondin appropriately, why am i still here? After (at least) five bans, i would expect to not be allowed to come back. Also, many times there has been nothing "offensive" with what i said, as anyone would know if they looked through the posts. Since the post got removed, i assume they simply glaze over it and automatically send a reply without caring. I mean, you could report this and it would get removed for speaking about moderating. Give it a whirl if you feel like it.

I want the title to be taken literally. It's about time aurene disappeared.

> @"Blood Red Arachnid.2493" said: > > @"Teratus.2859" said: > > > @"kharmin.7683" said: > > > > @"Teratus.2859" said: > > > > Personally I wish they were toughter on this though and players caught using bots and hacks like that are never allowed to come back to the game. > > > > They deserve to be perma-banned. > > > > > > > They never reveal the actions that are taken, but I'm pretty certain perma-bans do occur. > > > > > > > Positive that perma bans are rare and usually only done for extreme cases. > > I'm pretty sure most bans are x amount of days/months which really isnt much of a deterrent for people willing to use 3rd party hacks. > > They pay a subscription for that software so getting banned is not going to stop them using it over and over again. > > > > That is... not true. If you've ever gone digging into the history of these forums, you'll find a graveyard lying just below the surface. Every once in awhile I'll go looking for an old post of mine, because occasionally I'll say something smart that I want to reference. Each time I do this, I'll come across a years-old thread full of names that I recognize, but haven't seen in awhile. Some I like, some I hate, but whatever reason I decide to click on a name to see what they're up to, only to see those dreaded red letters and a last post made years ago. > > We call it the memory hole. We're so inundated with media that we don't realize when somebody has dropped off the face of the earth. We don't see these banned people, largely because they aren't around to be seen. It is completely true. If botters who are so obvious that a person who has never played a game before would realize that they surely can't just stand there all day, every day, and that reporting them is useless, then there can be no other explanation. Obviously anet doesn't give a fuck. I mean, i should have been permanently banned from these forums for a while now, but that hasn't happened yet since the reported posts are automatically removed, which means that the "moderators" are just bots as well. No one at anet cares one bit. Only way to get banned is being racist/sexist or something else obvious, and spreading it around a map for all to see, and even that isn't a certainty. Otherwise, nobody wants to remove a (hopefully) paying customer.

> @"Brokensunday.4098" said: > > @"draxynnic.3719" said: > > > @"Brokensunday.4098" said: > > > > @"draxynnic.3719" said: > > > > > @"Yggranya.5201" said: > > > > > > @"Linken.6345" said: > > > > > > > @"Yggranya.5201" said: > > > > > > > Guardian? How about warrior hammer? By the time you've used all CC abilities on a group of enemies, any other melee weapon would have killed them and the next group, maybe even more. Same for maces. In PvE, they have no purpose except to break the defiance bar. Good? I guess, but i would rather use them exclusively. Besides, warrior has more than enough CC utility. Not like the bar is high enough to require more than that since they are designed for groups, and the cooldown is so long on the bar that you'll have the skills ready again before it can be broken again. > > > > > > > > > > > > You havent played fractal 100 cm I see. > > > > > > > > > > Yes, i have not, and never will. Still, if it's good in one thing, that doesn't mean it's any better in the other, now does it? > > > > > > > > Guardian has the second highest number of weapons after Warrior. It can afford to have one or two that have specialised uses rather than competing for the role of top glass cannon DPS. > > > > > > Staff is utility, shileld is utility, focus is combo damage and utility, mace is utility mostly, hammer is supposed to be damage and utily but is lacking the damage excluding the skill 2. > > > Guarian need a change on gammer because even as an “utility” weappon as is right now is mostly useless outside of some super rare ocassions. > > > > > > > Hammer is tanking and crowd control. With Writ of Persistence, you've got pretty much permanent protection and healing, which makes it very useful for situations when running sword, greatsword, or axe will mean you don't have the durability to remain in melee with whatever it is you're fighting. > > In reality you will not tank nor heal much with hammer even runnin kitten the chain is supper slow to practically use it, is even a dps loss just auto attaking with it, as a cc weappon banish is too predictible and the knockback weakens your dps more, ring of warding is decent but it lack damage inside the ring to force people of running out of it or making them waste their stab. > On pve i can see how i can work as a tanking weappon but again guardian has sooo much more ways to do that and even better ways of doing it rendering the weappon useless, and on pvp is just not competitive you wont hit with autos and hammer 2 are supper predictibles. Extreme risk medium reward is the weappon as right now. Yeah, wouldn't it be nice if the CC actually made sense? Like, why would i EVER want to launch/push an enemy away from my limited melee reach? So dumb.

> @"Grand Marshal.4098" said: > Aurene kinda Mary Sue. Unless Anet pulls a fast one on us and make her fall to Jormag momentarily, it will be pretty clear that she cannot be manipulated, is immortal, will most probably absorve the majority of Jormag and Primordus' powers and that's it. If I am being honest, remove Aurene from the story and you raise the stakes even more! How will the tiny humans and co deal with those Elder Dragon beasts? How far will they have to go to find a solution in the face of doom? There, already a story much better than having a DrAgOn ScioN absorb Balthazar, eat Joko and be the weakness to Kralk. > > She exists to sell plushies and be the mascot of the game. Her only meaningful reason for existing has been dealt with (and it was mediocre) so with no purpose to serve she now exists as an 'ally' who is invicible thus far and overshadows the efforts of tyrians. Remove the dragon, make a story. Easy. Baby aurene is one of the most disgusting thing i have ever seen. It not the actual appearance (although obviosly not a baby dragon. Eyes got smaller when it grew larger, cause "logic") But the fact that, as you said, it's only made to sell with the cuteness. Which is to say: Working as intended. I doubt it will die though. At most it would just leave to an unspecified place to do...something, which would be better than having an all powerful being just conveniently be somewhere else or otherwise indisposed at the time the commaned need to do heroics, because if it is around and willing to act, it will just one-shot every threat. Ugh...

> @"nopinopa.4861" said: > > @"Yggranya.5201" said: > > > @"nopinopa.4861" said: > > > For now, there is like one person corrupted by Aurene, no? > > > > Aurene gets inside the commanders head. It's convenient when it can say that it's your choice like it was (supposedly) for that moron, caithe, when it isn't. It's already too late. Also OP, you aren't yourself, that's why you "care" about aurene and have helped it reach immortality and power above everything on tyria. Now you can just wait for the inevitable. > > She called for us a couple of time and that's all. If that is "getting inside the head", then Taimi is getting in our mind more often and effectively. It will be interesting to get more of the dragon corruption. Yeah, cause someone using technology to send their voice to a device attached to your ear is the same as a creature invading your head at any time, anywhere... > @"Maria Murtor.7253" said: > > @"Yggranya.5201" said: > > > @"Maria Murtor.7253" said: > > > You may wanna refresh your knowledge about Dragons, Magic and the balance of the world and visit Season 3 of the Living Story again. > > > > If "balance" is handing all power to a single sentient being that now can save or doom at its leisure, then i guess. Thst's not what i would like to happen though. > > You know the alternative. Back to the Stone Age. Hey, better than being a slave to the whims of a being so far above everyone and everything that you have no hope.

Could be better about allowing solo play. Could be much, much worse about enforcing it on the unwilling.

> @"Maria Murtor.7253" said: > You may wanna refresh your knowledge about Dragons, Magic and the balance of the world and visit Season 3 of the Living Story again. If "balance" is handing all power to a single sentient being that now can save or doom at its leisure, then i guess. Thst's not what i would like to happen though.

> @"nopinopa.4861" said: > For now, there is like one person corrupted by Aurene, no? Aurene gets inside the commanders head. It's convenient when it can say that it's your choice like it was (supposedly) for that moron, caithe, when it isn't. It's already too late. Also OP, you aren't yourself, that's why you "care" about aurene and have helped it reach immortality and power above everything on tyria. Now you can just wait for the inevitable.

> @"xan.8936" said: > I personally like to get the most from my money and experience everything in whatever i do. Me too. Since playing PvP would make my experience worse, why would i ever want to participate in that? Why do you people assume that people who avoid PvP have never tried it? I know exactly why i despise it, no more testing is required.