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Next halloween: Ride steve the labyrinthine horror! Jk apart, it is a cool skin, kinda curious to see more festival themed mounts.

Each Festival isn't for everyone and it doesn't mean it's bad if there are some dudes saying it's bad. The devs but also everyone should see festivals as a whole: A festival liked in particular, all loved, only some loved, all hated... each person opinion about the subject is different. And so it is more than suggestive coming and saying "this festival is bad because I don't enjoy it" that because of thoses that some festivals development are stopped abruptly like SAB, standby of 6 years because of hate storm. I don't want any content cut or modified or made easier because it is considered too hard by some. For things that are clearly not. I do enjoy any festival when they are coming back apart dragon bash and lunar new year (just me but not fan of just firing fireworks and participating in challenge/stampede but I do like the rest in them). They do add new weapons skins, a new item associated to the annual achievement, new guild hall decos that are cool, and sometimes new activities: they did add celestial trials, lair of the snowmen, glitches quest, mad king beetle racing... SAB gonna arrive soon and I really hope to at least see 2 new zones. Maybe some goodies too, outfits or whatever. Have to check that holo raptor skin when it comes again. That is the strength of gw2. Don't like festivals? Then go hunting AP, farming fractals, doing some dungeons, leveling up, raid, strikes, wvw, pvp, map completion, world boss, RP, cough cough cough... Wintersday? I think it somehow lack something new, but Toyapocalyse is still very fun to fun, always put snowmens and catapult a different way and testing strategies. The jumping puzzle is quite fun, kinda want a extra expert path, now that I m able to farm expert. Choir bell is nice, but would like new songs added. Also I farm karma so prefer doing orphans or jumping puzzle in loop. I don't do the lair anymore, but was cool first time.

Some more racial-flavored character content? I think the gemstore is doing their best to add them in all kinds of way: chairrs/outfits, even mount skins like that mordrem hound and exo suit/ shiverpeaks sets. There is only three parts of the content that are underused to me: -Racial guild hall decorations. Most of them are currently human. I would like to be finally able to use asura, charr, sylvari and norns assets too, after 8 years, it is an overdue that should have been there since HoT. -More diversity of npcs appearances, and more cultural armor availables. Really, arcane councillors wear peasant clothes that even a lvl 30 player would wear when leveling. Check the wedding outfit for asura male, definitely more ministry/high ranked. There is currently 3 cultural armor tiers but 6 can be made. Also I laugh hard when looking at asura cultural weaponsmith tier 2 that is selling sylvari weapons, a joke!! -Housing. (Before somewhat jump in "nobody cares, will not generate money) does raid generate income? NO . Does fractals makes money for them? NO . Maybe dungeons? NO. Living world? NO apart if you missed release. WvW? NO . PVP ? NO. So yes, they can add housing, minority or not. One of their best income is the gemstore, with its rng boxes and stuffs sold. Housing would allow players to have a home, they can decorate according to any of races, using their racials assets and gizmos and furnitures. House plot would cost gem, 3 maximums, maybe sky/surface/underground. Also, they could host nodes like homes but also npcs like unlocking them in eotn and gates to different types of content purchasable for gems. Those could be coded as lounges passes, that would have scribing station and placable decos. Not everyone wants to be in a guild to use decos. --- Tldr regarding subject: 1-I'm okay with a racial F5 for engineer. Through, what I would like before is them remaking turrets correctly, re enabling to toggle oursekves overcharges, making traits like disabling, piercing or burning ammos also affects the one shot by turrets, and some buffs for them. 2-There is a basic clothing outfit already available for each race. Also there is the wedding outfit that changes appearance based on your sex and race. I think they can create "story choice outfit" that checks what story and race you took and change appearance based on that, so to make statics/synergetics/dawn/shaman/whatever. There is already some on gemstore like dynamics/ inquest exo suit, queensdale academy, attire outfit... and gonna disagree here: for common clothes I prefer it to be armor pieces like the recently made ceremonial bear and raven armors. So dunno, for asura.... lab genius armor. I dunno if they have that much arts about armors, see wiki / concept art. 3-I kept asking about asura having asura turrets, sylvaris having plants ones, norn with barrel ones... nothing happened, nothing changed. Still have little hope. https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/107538/another-request-to-make-engineer-turrets-reflect-your-race 4-Inquest throne, legion stool, verdant chair, lounge chair, Sab chair.. we have chairs, but to me they aren't anything without table or RP. In bjora you can purchase a firecamp for karma, nice little thing. I like chairs, but don't really get the purpose. 5-For racial skills... i have another option, since they are weak, useless and pitiful, why not removing them and placing another profession based skill instead? Would bring more skills for the different professions and choice, as example, laser turret? Shock turret? And then, making another thing completely different: You have a F6 button, transforming your skill bar into only racial skills that cannot hurt foes, but can hurt others players if they agree in return, aka like costume brawl. You can use those skills for RP or brawl and no issues of balances regarding between professions/foes. If even, that is a balance issue, give different visual but same damage for any skill. They can even sale for gems racial skill bars based on the foes and npcs in this game. We have finishers.. why not that?

 The Icebrood Saga, at least, the first part, introduced this Norn "cultural" set called -Raven ceremonial armor-. In addition of several other nornish skins like -Bear ceremonial armor-, otter enrichement, boreal weapons skins. --- I'm asking, modestly, can you consider adding the following armors as similar 3 weights armors pieces skins (like the two ceremonials one listed before) during an episode/chapter implying largely asura/rata sum/fighting destroyers?  The first one is common, and already wore by several npcs, the second is a concept art for Gixx from the priory: Its armor looks sick, if turned into an armor, can be pretty cool, easy to distinguish the parts. The third one is a concept art for power/hazmat suit but it is made a way, i'm wondering: Why not shrinking the power suits and turning them into an armor? When looking at those three, aren't they seems to fit as light - medium - heavy armors? I created an asura armor using that power suit concept art: 

> @"draxynnic.3719" said: > The Council isn't set in stone - in fact, it's common enough for members to actually _try_ to get themselves replaced on the council - so if it's been a few years since we last heard about the council, a substitution or two probably isn't surprising. Would be interesting to see just how it happened, but I could easily see the Commander just not caring, especially a non-asura commander. Yup, I think this is what disturb me the most, most of my characters are asura, who lived the infinity ball, the transatmospheric device in the council or the flax/rakt/haia tentatives against the council.; and so I would like to know how that new seat or substitution happened. Changing one of your council isn't one of all day thing, if it happens, every asura would receive an holo-letter on their datapad about the new councillor and its role. Especially a commander associated of that race, needing to know to who he/she must speak in case of emergency. Here nothing, he just popped. Also, he say "Don't care of your charrs things, this isn't a battlefield" and then say "Okay alliance with jormag", this new one isn't a light bulb. Since Personnal story, they try to hide the truth to citizens about dragons, and now welcoming a corrupted charr is okay... I just need intel and infos how it happened, just like phlunt staying in taimi lab all this time with councillors visiting it without news about them...

> @"Konig Des Todes.2086" said: > A new council member is 110% expected. In fact, the only members that should be consistent is Yahk (because Inquest _want_ a seat), Flax (who _wants_ control over asuran government - that's his personal project), and the deans of the three colleges (Phlunt, Ludo, and Zudo). This leaves 3 seats to cycle through regularly: Haia's, Bleent's, and Canni's. Vark could have replaced any one of them - or even Yahk, if the Inquest felt the need to replace him. > > It is also pretty clear this is an intentionally new NPC and new member of the Arcane Council, as he has zero similarities with any prior councillor - skin tone, skin pattern, hair color, hair pattern, face, eye color and name are _all_ different. Initially, I thought ANet had brought back another dead NPC. > > And nothing actually says they cannot add a new seat - with new tasks - as new situations, like the rise of an Elder Dragon [right next door](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dragon's_Stand), arises. Just gonna cut the edge of destiny and mispelling parts, as to me only what is IN game matter, don't care of novels or books or stories that are around somewhere. I didn't count bleent, because, he isn't in the council room, but doing oozes experiment. What is my concern, is that there is NO dialogues or talk options, regarding the past events in the council, even their guide tour around rata novus isn't even mentionned! And if there is nothing, and can't buy that that easily. If they add a seat in the arcane council level, even in the normal instance, outside the story of IBS and give lore and dialogues about how he arrived here, then I'm fine; but you can't add a new character like this, without context. Regarding bleent, then here ok, I agree, since it didn't shown a lot, he may have been replaced, by the new one if it matters. Also, this is a personnal nitpick, but it is strange to put those 3 councillors and not even Flax which is the high councillor or Yahk, but anyway, I disliked the story. So yup, it doesn't matter that "changes can happens" but as long they aren't notified, there is no dialogues behind it, putting light on that affair, I'm gonna consider the council to be the same as the one seen in personnal story. That dude didn't even presented itself to the commander nor the other introduced it, I think especially of asura players, who participated in the water machine arc of arcane council, or with rakt and the arcane eye. Some light on its origin and its role will be cool. Even you said it, the members that should be consistent are Yahk/Flax/Phlunt/Ludo/Zudo and tell me, how many of them we saw during story? ONE. Haia, may have been eliminated due to her tentative of assassination, but then, they should have put a sentence for the new one like "I'm replacing Haia"... I will consider that Bleent stay, so that mean, 7 seats. The correct number. Even if things evolves, I don't see Anet adding a new seat model. It is maybe established to have 7 seats, but like this too, no proofs, no hints about that. About your part of "A new dragon arises" it justify a new seat, just no. Asura are too confident, and even the fact that they would go for alliance with jormag doesn't make a single sense. This is because they are so self confident and thinking only of their race instead of others that they got kicked out of their undergrounds, because their former arcane council said they are enough strong to deal with it, no hints that the story wouldn't repeat itself. This is just another bad story stelling, because they just want a plot of jormag = good.

Would like an option to disable class summons, like... seeing clones, spirit weapons, turrets, minions, banners, pets.... I say that, because even without particles, all the summons clutters the area.

No. Really, wondered what bottom we can reach, but this is the one. There is already emotes as rewards, instead of being already available since launch. Now, locking makeover behind content completion asking you to do 1000x times boring stuff? If this happens, final nail in coffin, I leave. Paying cash 10€ in my case to have more faces for other races than humans, I m in. But never getting them because of stupid meta, no way.

> @"Ashantara.8731" said: > I'm pretty certain you posted this before... Why again? Just checked, nah. Not in bugs too. I never spoke about the missing "l". Through, I may have spoke about the character itself in my episode feedback. 90% of that post is new, and i want an answer from them.

The only support you gonna get is those new cool decos each return of festivals and #eventually# a guild hall with end of dragons expac (wish for echovald forest guild hall so kurzick) (:p yes yes.... jade quarry if you want too or luxon one)

And what are the proofs that utopia is coming? What it is hinting at currently is Jormag freezing everything, primordius eliminated. And no depths of tyria in sight again. About the eod trailer for me it is clearly aurene speaking to kunaverg. Thought of jormag, but its voice is different than the trailer. About the icebrood saga trailer, only the centaur and sinking corpses part is missing. And frankly, I don t see at all how would be the transition between jormag everywhere and centaurs... There is only two locations where it's centaurs lands jungle and water near it: North of harathi hinterlands and the delta/ maguuma wastes or shiverpeaks (gw1 wiki). And since it is icebrood saga trailer, I highly doubt of cantha centaur. There is no snow in the trailer, it is really a classic canopee/temperate. So more north to me at delta. It can be around maelstrom but again I kinda doubt. So would like to go underground in depths of tyria, and gonna be disapointed if we just stay in surface with 2012 destroyers models. I noticed that many destroyers is insect-looking or use some of their features: Chelicera, dart, clamps, mandibles... So god, just invent new destroyers already! Search arthropods and insects, copy paste picture, add rocky and lava textures on it, add some unusual organ and here you go! (EG: A caterpillar with a jellyfish head like pouch on it s back and four mantis legs) To return to the main subject. I re watched the trailer. And things like humans looking like sparks of light that simply disapear a second later and the sentence of it shouldn't be like this.... I'm still convinced that the deep sea dragon on lieutenants ability is related to dreams or manipulating knowledges. Let me explain, what if, its corruption isn't killing you but is making you feel high or that you are dreaming, that you are living an alternative endless live? In reality, you look like from outside, a mindless minion like risens; but inside you are feeling normal. Also, compared to fire or ice or rotting spreading in you destroying your organs, a psychotropic gas would be non noticable but still has big impact. Kraits and karka were chased. We just know because of a menace in the waters. But, somehow they can't describe it? The crucible of eternity was waiting for one of those minions but somehow it never arrived? The priory can't say it's name? Feel like that thing is doing what it can to stay a mystery. Consider that, what if a giant squid is destroying the earth but, by using its ink smoke it can make forgot everyone about the fact it is here? Citizens wouldn't be a threat to it anymore, and as double bonus they are influenced/corrupted.

 Really, next step of monetization, skills themselves.

SAB but it isn't supported a lot anymore and that s sad and infuriating. I only like halloween and wintersday because it is easily farmable and you can make gold from them. Remove the farms and thoses festivals are nothing. Whereas SAB, still no world 3 and 4 that may be awesome and why? Because backlash and hate storm? No sense. So no, I expect at least z3-1 and z3-2 when it s coming back. This is the only unfinished festival right now, liking or hating it it has to be finished.

> @"Danikat.8537" said: > There are already some NPCs who use gem store items. For example there's at least one NPC in Lion's Arch going around on a broom (and not just during Halloween), various chef NPCs wearing the chef costume from the gem store, some of the Olmakhan on Sandswept Isles use gem store skimmer skins, and I'm sure I remember seeing kodan (possibly in Bjora Marches) riding the Dzalana Ice Scale raptor. Some of the Sentinels in the Dragonbrand wear the Sentinel outfit from the gem store too. Oh, and lots of Pact soldiers use the Pact Fleet weapon set, which is one of the black lion sets. > > I'm sure there's other examples too, those are just ones I remembered while writing this post. > > There's also still some NPCs wearing combinations of town clothes which are impossible for players since they became outfits. It has to checked, but chefs, sentinels and pact soldiers already had those skins way before those skins were released on the gemstore imho. I do agree on sandswept olmakhans and bjora kodans. If you stay in core maps, it is rarer, firstly, you will see no npcs using mounts. So no mount skins showcases. Secondly, essentially commander krewe is using some outfits, or even lunatic guard/sentinel wearing one for the sake of saying it. (Yes I noticed the broom npc) As example, see that lunatic guard outfit, the lunatic guard have been here since launch (2012), somehow, it came on gemstore only the 27th october 2015. But we can do an exercise going into each map and counting how many gemstore skins we see, not a lot. I think you do have a point, we see more of those kind of gemstore skins on latest LS maps. To continue on the subject, I noticed an effort from the gemstore team to try to give some context or fluff when making a gemstore news release page. Some turn of sentences and infos in the gemstore disturb me: For the mounts skins it is called "mount adoption" and they come from a "stable" on some outfit pages they say they are "commisioned" for those factions. Even the name of the items. I just think it is weird to have no lores behind them, but maybe it is just me.

 Wishlist for next year! -Another mount adoption licence with Exo-Suit Skyscale. (see above) -Inquest Exo-Suit helmet made into a separate head skin. -More armor pieces in the style of Scarlet grasp/spaulder. -Seeing new lounge passes based on each race, charr outpost, sylvari encapment, norn moutain lounges with hot sources.... would offer fast travel to dungeons.

Even if droprate of volcanic stormcaller would be affordable and a good step, wouldn't care because of that heavy smoke particles hiding the weapons themselves? There is no point. If so, just make smoke-made weapons... The time-reward ratio is bad, for the same time you can earn way more in fractals. Dunno who balance content rewards but it is a real mess right now, for the same time you aren't rewarded the same way. I know that DRM wouldn't be that repetive if more differents paths followed by npcs. Like 3 instead of one, one chosen randomly when starting. Can't really speak about prismacites, since I don t like the dragon slayers weapons. Would like more unique rewards, now it's ebon vanguards, and they sell the same skins you can buy for karma in ebonhawke.... cheap. Also, there should be more morale boost tiers if you go beyond objectives. And even, they should be instead, called reward boost. The more you work during the mission and faster you do it, the more you earn. Last boss can easily only have half of its health. Not enough events. Really, if it was properly done, it would allow 10 players in them, 5 doing the hunt for the greater destroyer, 5 continuing defending the frontline against waves of elites rank foes using if they want environmental weapons.

I do like the arts too. But brawler, for engie, meh. And ranger with hammer? Wow. Nice work with the art anyway.

Definitely want alchemy based engineer, like a plague doctor. Basically, currents engie specs are: core=turrets and kits "jack of all trades". Hot=mechanics Pof=laser and light manipulation So maybe bioengineering with poisons imbued weapons and flasks. Cybernetics would be a way too.

I would like to have beard on asura, there's an artwork for Gexx of Priory and he has a goatee. What I would be for is more face styles.

The DSM have no replay value, will become another forgotten content. Disapointed with the story.

> @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said: > > @"hugo.4705" said: > > So sensed to wait for january? So big disapointment; don't see how the pace is faster... Next missions in 2 months.... god, was hyping so much for today! Thought there would be a content drop every 2 weeks... u_u well dunnno what I expected. But not gonna redo again and again those three missions until january. It a new content named Chapters and I already hate it. > > > > https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-icebrood-saga-champions/ > > > > In the weeks between releases, each chapter will continue to evolve with new content and ways to play. => LIES ?! > > > > Now the treachery you uncovered in the north has left your allies shaken, and you’ll need to rely on the bonds of trust between you to survive what’s coming. > > => Everyone is now dumb, jormag is life, jormag is love. > > > > Dragon Response Missions, which can be tackled solo or in a group of up to five players. In these encounters, you’ll head to invasion points to shore up defenses and protect the area from rampaging dragon minions. Work together with allied reinforcements to neutralize powerful dragon champions—the ultimate threat at the heart of the assaults. => Ultimate threat? Lol > > > > What all the promises of stunning events implying the community and remembering the era of LS1? No big community votes like the election of kiel. Smaller and smaller rushed, unfinished nourishing and content rich releases... The downfall is so big now. God what happens since the orriginal beautiful universe with the core maps, skippable artwork dialogues, dungeons and real living story? It just can't be serious, letting the players with nothing until next update two month later? Is it that, the cost of making Cantha expansion? If that is chapter 1. I'm scared of the 3 other chapters. > > > > AND SO, if I understand well, WE CAN'T PROGRESS THE MASTERY UNTIL JANUARY?!! still no dragon crystal 2 OH BOI > > It's not been 2 weeks, so....perhaps there will be a change next Tuesday. I do hope so next thuesday, if not, another thing like the chaotic speak to bangar achievement, that thing wasn't even regular. For the last dialogues I don't even remember how much time we waited for it. But the next episode is when, january 2021? so it is likely to come mid-way in december. It came the 17th november if i assume next episode is 17th january, so 17th december. And next week is the 1... so dunno I'm doubtful about next week too now -_-

But the thing I'm more upset about is: Why removing the contribution event? If they perfectly know, there isn't any new content, why not letting the players reach that fifth tier of that contribution events? It feels very weird it just stop and poof. Nothing to do. At least adding the crystal to progress mastery? /shrug

Gonna be a huge calm in the storm... 2 months...

bah they don't even tested the story. Calling a councillor Vark whereas there never been any councillor Vark.... Vark and Yahk there is a difference. Also it needs boosting by a lot the rewards, and make doing the challenges more more rewarding too.

So sensed to wait for january? So big disapointment; don't see how the pace is faster... Next missions in 2 months.... god, was hyping so much for today! Thought there would be a content drop every 2 weeks... u_u well dunnno what I expected. But not gonna redo again and again those three missions until january. It a new content named Chapters and I already hate it. https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-icebrood-saga-champions/ In the weeks between releases, each chapter will continue to evolve with new content and ways to play. => LIES ?! Now the treachery you uncovered in the north has left your allies shaken, and you’ll need to rely on the bonds of trust between you to survive what’s coming. => Everyone is now dumb, jormag is life, jormag is love. Dragon Response Missions, which can be tackled solo or in a group of up to five players. In these encounters, you’ll head to invasion points to shore up defenses and protect the area from rampaging dragon minions. Work together with allied reinforcements to neutralize powerful dragon champions—the ultimate threat at the heart of the assaults. => Ultimate threat? Lol What all the promises of stunning events implying the community and remembering the era of LS1? No big community votes like the election of kiel. Smaller and smaller rushed, unfinished nourishing and content rich releases... The downfall is so big now. God what happens since the orriginal beautiful universe with the core maps, skippable artwork dialogues, dungeons and real living story? It just can't be serious, letting the players with nothing until next update two month later? Is it that, the cost of making Cantha expansion? If that is chapter 1. I'm scared of the 3 other chapters. AND SO, if I understand well, WE CAN'T PROGRESS THE MASTERY UNTIL JANUARY?!! still no dragon crystal 2 OH BOI