Mewcifer.5198

> @"Eulefant.9624" said:

> A duck..

>

> Since day one I have been saying replace all mounts with a duck

> GW2 lacks ducks, they are neverywhere

>

> 1) Raptor, runs, jumps - a duck can do that, and it wobbles too

> 2) jackal, same - a duck can do that

> 3) Springer, ever see Donald Duck in rage ? yes ! - a duck can jump up and down

> 4) Griffin, flies, dives - a duck can and WONT stop being a duck when hitting water surfaces

> 5) Skyscale , flies, climbs with effort - a duck does too

> 6) Beetle ? - ever seen a duckling roll up ?

> 7) Skimmer - it's a duck in disguise

>

> I already made my alt account into a duck-themed naming frenzie, so I am ready.

>

> To quote Gene Hackman:

> "Duck I says"

>

>

> =)

I am amused at imagining a jack of all trades duck mount.

Players on the GW2 forums: "Put GW2 on Steam or the game will die!"

Anet: -puts GW2 on steam-

Players on the GW2 forums: "Putting the game on steam means the game is going to die!"

I don't know anymore, man.

They are not practically useless. They increase your speed in places where a mount is not allowed and (afaik) can also be used in combat where the skimmer can not.

> @"Sir Alric.5078" said:

> > @"XYLO.7031" said:

> > > @"Ashantara.8731" said:

> > > I like it, but I am not utterly impressed by it. The animations are exactly the same as above water, which is fine, _but_ I am diving **just as fast** with my +20 Swim Infusion as I do with the Skimmer now, so hmm.

> > >

> > > I think I'll stick to swimming, it is more fun and you are always ready to fight or harvest while you're exploring.

> >

> > I totally agree on this point. If you can pass the last step with just swim infusions (which require no mount), then **what was the point of this feature**? Although I am thankful for them adding it to skimmer and got it only a few hours after release, I am underwhelmed that the swim infusions match mounted speed. It needs a beetle turbo underwater or something to separate it from regular swim infusions.

> >

> > One thing I appreciate about it is the sounds of diving into water and rising above water. It's as if you really are swimming and it matches the same sound exactly. Really great job simulating the sound. I also like the camera splash drops. Well done.

>

> Please don't just assume that everyone bothered to get those swim infusions. I didn't, and i'm sure i'm not the only one. ;)

Yeah, the infusions were a pain to get and, last I checked, expensive to buy. Plus they require a slot in ascended gear to use.

Even on my cheap monitor the second screenshot is perfectly fine to me.

I think you are reading too much into things

Relax and consider how to be constructive instead of aggressive.

Instead of berating anet and being sarcastic about the situation you could say something like this:

I worked really hard to get the otter enrichment and I would really like to use it alongside the 8th birthday enrichment. They are both great effects. But since they are enrichments instead of infusions, this is currently impossible. So I would like to suggest you add a way to make one (or both!) into an infusion.

Every once in a while these errors have a surge. I only started getting them last night. They don't usually persist for that long as anet fixes whatever is causing them.

Usually I use copper fed for greens and below, and then silver for rare and above.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Piece_of_Unidentified_Gear/Salvage_Rate#Salvage_after_identifying_with_Silver-Fed_Salvage-o-Matic

This page has a breakdown of average profits for identifying vs straight salvaging and with different salvage tools

I believe it is better to identify the gear before salvaging because you have the slight chance at getting a higher rarity item.

> @"Teratus.2859" said:

> > @"Shadowmoon.7986" said:

> > Personally i think it would fun for a "classic week" event game wide. Where all the e specs are disabled for a week, revenants can stay but they can not play renegade or herald.

>

> That would mess with so many peoples builds and stuff though, you'd probably end up with a lot of players just saying I think i'll play something else for the week >.<

Yeah... Please don't make me play base engi again, my keyboard can't take it.

A lot of people convert gold to gems to purchase items.

> @"Vayne.8563" said:

> > @"Mewcifer.5198" said:

> > > @"Vayne.8563" said:

> > > AP rewards aren't there to entice you to do achievements People do achievements because they enjoy achievement hunting. Adding must have rewards will "force" people to focus on something they don't enjoy. That's sort of the structure of the whole game.

> > >

> > > I don't need to run dungeons because dungeon rewards aren't forcing me to do that. I don't need to run raids because raid rewards aren't required to get BIS gear (like in many other games). The idea that you should do what's fun and play for fun is more central to this game. If you want a specific reward you can go for it, but i find this game best played where I play for fun and see the reward as a bonus.

> >

> > I agree with this for the most part. It would be bad to put anything in the rewards that makes people feel like they need to hunt achievements. Especially since daily AP and LS1 has so many people way ahead of anyone who would start going for AP now.

> >

> > I am an achievement hunter and I am only just now getting close to 20k points. I would have a lot more if I did dailies regularly instead of just whenever. I like racking up those numbers, but I also enjoy the process of completing achievements.

> >

> > But another set of armor skins as rewards wouldn't harm anything. And would be a nice bonus to people who hunt AP.

>

> The real bonus for people who hunt AP is the one no one ever talks about. And it ends up being better than an armor skin, which is hit or miss. You might like it, you might not. I don't like the hell fire skin and so it's not a motivation.

>

> But those gold finds and those magic finds and karma boosts and XP boosts all add up. I get stuff done faster than people witihout my achievements. Sure I might be only getting a percentage more gold or a few more rare drops when I kill stuff than another player, but, I kill stuff constantly. All the time. And that stuff adds up. It adds up to alot. I'm sitting on over 39k XP and when I level a new character or a new mastery which I often do by killing, I level them much faster. it'S much better than a skin I may or may not use, because no matter what I do in this game, I'm going to be killing something at some point.

That is a good point, I hadn't thought of all the boosts you get. Permanent account-wide bonuses are pretty sweet.

> @"Court.7180" said:

> > @"Mewcifer.5198" said:

> > > @"Court.7180" said:

> > > > @"Anirri.4156" said:

> > > > > @"Court.7180" said:

> > > > > So let me get this right... WoWs next expansion is including Ray Tracing, has DX12 support and is 16yrs old... GW2 took OUT voice acting, still uses DX9 and is half WoWs age at 8yrs old... So I guess when i'm twice as old at 76 i'll be better looking and more efficient??

> > > >

> > > > Remember they removed VA for now due to covid. MOST voice actors don't have the equipment at home NOR are paid enough to just rush out and buy it. As for comparing wow to gw2, I advise against it. Wow may be "bigger" but it lacks tons of polish. I play both daily but I prefer gw2.

> > >

> > > This was never a WoW vs Gw2 comparison,

> >

> > > WoWs next expansion is including Ray Tracing, has DX12 support and is 16yrs old... GW2 took OUT voice acting, still uses DX9 and is half WoWs age at 8yrs old...

> >

> > How is that not a WoW vs Gw2 comparison?

> >

> > >What I am saying is the excuse of COVID19 stopping GW2 from voice acting, or regular patches and expansions isn't cutting it

> >

> > You very clearly have no intention of looking at the facts of the situation. GW2 is not "stopping" voice acting. It was only delayed because most of the voice actors did not have home set ups. Voice acting will be coming back, starting with the next fractal and they will be retroactively adding in the missing voice acting from the releases that did not get it from covid.

> >

> > GW2 is also getting regular patches and will be getting a new expansion.

>

> People like you on forums are exhausting.. in that whole section on WoWs _TECH_ and Gw2 _TECH_, Its clearly not a WoW vs Gw2 conversation, its a _TECH _discusion. Other wise I would ujst talk about the actual games themselves not the game _TECH_ being utilized.

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> You very clearly have problems reading and not putting your own spin on things. Not one statement claimed they were taking out voice acting for ever.. It clearly stated that they "took OUT voice acting." The timeline in the discussion should have indicated to you that all of the aforementioned was time based and of that time being the current actions, neither past nor future.

Yes... I am the exhausting one here. Clearly. But *please* bear with my poor *problems* and explain yourself further.

It was a tech discussion.... in which you compared the tech of two games. That is called making a comparison between the two games.

That would be like me talking about how many playable races WoW has compare to GW2 an saying "It's a race discussion, not a game comparison".

It does not matter what aspect of the games you were comparing, you were still comparing the two games.

As for one's putting their own spin on things, you are the one who heard (I paraphrase here) "Our voice actors do not have home set-ups, and we do not want to risk their health by having them come into the studio, so we will be working with them to get set-ups and then get back to recording, in the meantime we will not delay releases on the content. It will get the voices added in once we can get the recordings done" and took that to mean "Anet is removing voice acting. Covid is just an excuse. Anet isn't giving us more content."

You clearly are grasping at straws to find as many faults as you can with Anet. I don't know what is going on in your head, and at this point I don't think I ever will.

Sayonara

> @"Court.7180" said:

> > @"Anirri.4156" said:

> > > @"Court.7180" said:

> > > So let me get this right... WoWs next expansion is including Ray Tracing, has DX12 support and is 16yrs old... GW2 took OUT voice acting, still uses DX9 and is half WoWs age at 8yrs old... So I guess when i'm twice as old at 76 i'll be better looking and more efficient??

> >

> > Remember they removed VA for now due to covid. MOST voice actors don't have the equipment at home NOR are paid enough to just rush out and buy it. As for comparing wow to gw2, I advise against it. Wow may be "bigger" but it lacks tons of polish. I play both daily but I prefer gw2.

>

> This was never a WoW vs Gw2 comparison,

> WoWs next expansion is including Ray Tracing, has DX12 support and is 16yrs old... GW2 took OUT voice acting, still uses DX9 and is half WoWs age at 8yrs old...

How is that not a WoW vs Gw2 comparison?

>What I am saying is the excuse of COVID19 stopping GW2 from voice acting, or regular patches and expansions isn't cutting it

You very clearly have no intention of looking at the facts of the situation. GW2 is not "stopping" voice acting. It was only delayed because most of the voice actors did not have home set ups. Voice acting will be coming back, starting with the next fractal and they will be retroactively adding in the missing voice acting from the releases that did not get it from covid.

GW2 is also getting regular patches and will be getting a new expansion.

I doubt it was an intentional price difference.

> @"coso.9173" said:

> Blows my mind when some people say it's right to have the price of 1 mount be the same that for a full AAA game.

What AAA game costs only $20?

> @"Coeruleum.9164" said:

> > @"Smoosh.2718" said:

> > It was on this day that minions and pets were never seen again in PvP

>

> Why? I want minions/ranger pets/elementals/illusions to be balanced in PvP and WvW, not for people to just keep killing them and getting up.

I do not see how this would balance pets/minions.

> @"Yggranya.5201" said:

> Weapons? Why not bare-handed?

Yes. Please let me punch dragons to death as an asura.

> @"Vayne.8563" said:

> AP rewards aren't there to entice you to do achievements People do achievements because they enjoy achievement hunting. Adding must have rewards will "force" people to focus on something they don't enjoy. That's sort of the structure of the whole game.

>

> I don't need to run dungeons because dungeon rewards aren't forcing me to do that. I don't need to run raids because raid rewards aren't required to get BIS gear (like in many other games). The idea that you should do what's fun and play for fun is more central to this game. If you want a specific reward you can go for it, but i find this game best played where I play for fun and see the reward as a bonus.

I agree with this for the most part. It would be bad to put anything in the rewards that makes people feel like they need to hunt achievements. Especially since daily AP and LS1 has so many people way ahead of anyone who would start going for AP now.

I am an achievement hunter and I am only just now getting close to 20k points. I would have a lot more if I did dailies regularly instead of just whenever. I like racking up those numbers, but I also enjoy the process of completing achievements.

But another set of armor skins as rewards wouldn't harm anything. And would be a nice bonus to people who hunt AP.

Highly unlikely. The population of people who would want to play on such a server would be too low to sustain it.

> @"DirtyDan.4759" said:

> > @"Mewcifer.5198" said:

> > 3 require you to craft weapons (luckily not a whole set since that would be over 100 gold each. Ouch.) and 3 require instanced group content. And a whopping 5 require you to grind 5000 commendations in drizzlewood each.

>

>

> You don't want to do solo content, you don't want to do group content and you dont want to spend gold.

>

> What is Anet supposed to do in your opinion? Put them into the log in rewards?

>

I do not know where you got the idea that I do not want to do any of these things. I play pretty much all aspects of the game. (The only thing I dont do regularly is sPvP since my teammates aren't online as much anymore) That does not mean that I can not find fault with the way some content (in this case: mastery points) was implemented. And you are obviously missing the point of this thread.

> @"Dark Red Killian.3946" said:

> They could add areas to existing cities where you can “duel”. Talk to an NPC to sign up, you could have a crowd gather to watch, take bets if you want. This could make certain cities feel more immersive. Could even have achievements tied to it.

This is the only acceptable way to implement PvP in PvE. Essentially a copy of the guild hall arena placed in a new map.

I would not be opposed to them changing the core maps back to what they were at launch (assuming there isn't any achievements currently in game that require the new maps)

> @"Court.7180" said:

> Regardless of the accuracy of the numbers.. I just want something different.. I'm sure we all long for it.

> Know what the most enjoyable part of this game is for me? When a bug happens! Like the times when a npc does something unexpected and we all joke about it. Most recent was when ARC spawned not in the middle of Shattered at the end, but enough off to the side that it threw the whole mechanics of the fight off. Everyone cracked jokes on how ARC just got tired of the games monotony too, so he decided to mix it up a bit.

>

> Why can't a npc just decide one day to get out of the dungeon and bring the raid to us for once? The answer is simple: No ones looking at revolutionizing MMORPGs anymore it seems, no ones looking to bring a new AI to the genre. They all bring the same static systems to the table and wonder why the genre is struggling. They all want the money but don't seem to understand that we as consumers only get wise to their schemes.

So my understanding is that you want Anet to make GW3 and includes artificial intelligence that is so complex it will revolutionize gaming in its entirety.

That seems... a bit far fetched, to put it lightly.