Taylan.2187

> @"jaykyew.2934" said:

> You can buy it from the Defense Seal Vendor (Tactician Eirlandson) for 40 Tyrian Defense Seals. He's right next to the faction vendor.

Ugh, you're right. I could have sworn I've looked everywhere. Thanks!

I haven't played for two months or so. Now there doesn't seem to be a way to buy the DMC 2.

As such, I can't progress the mastery track.

Unless I'm missing something, this is a major bug.

EDIT: Solved:

> @"jaykyew.2934" said:

> You can buy it from the Defense Seal Vendor (Tactician Eirlandson) for 40 Tyrian Defense Seals. He's right next to the faction vendor.

Oh man, I thought this was related to the new episode or something, didn't realize it was an old video. xD

There were Tengu in the trailer... Gotta play it soon and check out if there's any Tengu-related news.

If you were playing on a MacBook of some kind, you could possibly buy a second-hand ThinkPad T530 or so for a couple hundred bucks. Even second-hand ThinkPads usually last many years. Won't give you the greatest graphics but if you were already playing on a type of laptop then you can probably endure that.

If you bought an expensive Mac of some sort and aren't so rich that you can just buy a good PC, then that's a pretty sad situation. I guess you could try to dual-boot Windows but not sure if GW2 works well (or at all) on MS Windows running on Apple hardware?

This is typical Apple though: "we do our own cool thing and don't give a crap about compatibility." If I ended up in a situation like this I'd reconsider once more whether I want to support a company like Apple.

> @"V Winter.5371" said:

> So in other words, all I have to do to completely wreck an enemy server is transfer and then hack? Sounds good.

Easy solution: player must have been on that server for a while, or recently transferred together with their guild.

To respond to OP: yes there are good guilds. Well, at least one. The one I'm in, obviously.

Jokes aside, while I have no idea about our skill level (I'm guessing average), the people are super nice. The guy who leads most often is extremely chill, average age of members is probably about 25, and membership is about half-half female/male including commanders, which IMO is a sign of a very healthy community. The only obligations you have to the guild is to represent it and to use a zerg-useful build during raids, and the rules on that aren't super strict i.e. no one's gonna say "no you have to use this exact build" as long as your build is in some way raid oriented.

It's a German/EU guild though.

> @"hunkamania.7561" said:

> > @"kippynonarambo.1726" said:

> > But I've taken quite a long hiatus because people are absolutely awful to one another. My first WvW guild's leader straight up kitten one of my guildies. Literally showed up in her town and kitten her.

>

> showed up in her town and did what to her? lol

I'm asking myself the same. WHAT DID HE DO???

Maybe we shouldn't ask.

Well an expansion has to bring... expansion-level new content. HoT brought us a whole new class, elites, and gliding, PoF brought us several mounts and more elites, what big thing will EoD bring? A new race might certainly be that big new thing, though hopefully not the only.

> @"Tuco.2419" said:

> I'm ready for a tengu race. Just have it squawk loudly for all the voice acting.

>

I feel like this bird is manically laughing at us.

> @"Randulf.7614" said:

> > @"Taylan.2187" said:

> > Did I miss something or does the last chapter still not have voice acting? Because I'm still waiting for that before I do it, haven't stepped a foot in Drizzlewood.

>

> The last two episodes will get their VA when this "chapter" goes live on the 17th

Oh WTF, I didn't even notice there was *another* episode I haven't played yet. xD

Great to hear they're getting their voice acting finally.

Did I miss something or does the last chapter still not have voice acting? Because I'm still waiting for that before I do it, haven't stepped a foot in Drizzlewood.

> @"Randulf.7614" said:

> The problem with invasion angles if they go in open world is that they date badly. I've never been a fan of mixing timelines in map areas.

Totally agree. I only started playing like 3 years ago and those toxic krait thingy things which were apparently part of LWS1 were just... confusing. Imagine you're a new player now and not only have those, but also the Awakened invasions, and now a third kind? Ehh...

Only time I ever used one, from what I remember, was during the fight against Mordremoth's mind in the last part of the HoT story. There was a mechanic to the fight that I didn't manage to figure out right away and died many, many times until I did.

I'm personally still waiting for the voice acting to land for the last Icebrood Saga episode. Still didn't even visit that map.

> @"shippage.1983" said:

> reported for posting vallun

What's the story behind this, did he make a lot of people mad? :D

Very nice video explaining rotation:

Err, yes, that's one of the things a thief is SUPPOSED to do in PvP, as they fill in the "roamer" role.

A roamer (like thief) has very high mobility, which means they can quickly run to enemy point, decap it, and return to fight. This way, the enemy team misses out on points they would otherwise be getting during the fight.

This also forces the enemy team to have someone go there to recapture the point, which takes more time than to decap it (have to stand on it longer). Of course, the roamer should time this action well, because if she/he does it right before someone from the enemy team respawns and can run to their home node anyway, then the roamer just wasted time. Or maybe without their help their team will get wiped out, which would also be terrible...

On the other hand, if you anticipate that whoever from the enemy team is about to respawn would lose against you (the roamer) in a 1v1 duel, then you can both decap the point and kill the respawning enemy while you're close to their home, which is two stones with one bird, although you have to weight that option against going back faster to help your team...

I'm new to PvP but these are principles you can read about in any basic PvP guide. The question of where each player should run at any given point in the match is called "rotation" and it's one of the most important things to win. Decapping enemy nodes is a standard part of a roamer's rotation.

Meh, didn't seriously use traps, and don't use preparations, so I have no hard opinion, although I did very much enjoy running a condi trap meme build for a while. Did some ridiculous poison and bleeding damage but mostly didn't work well on players, just NPCs.

I like the concept you described. (Though I would find it highly cringe-worthy if they called it "ronin.") However, like others said, daredevil already does the brawler thing when you think about it, just with a staff instead of a sword, so it might be too similar?

Maybe I'd skip it if I was WvW-only but I also play the story so I'll buy it. I also barely spend money on diamonds which makes me feel like a freeloader, so I'll gladly put the money into it. :D

I'm most annoyed by how ridiculous the difference between female and male Norn is. You can make the male characters look like a yoga ball but the females all have to be nicely thin of course! Either allow players to make female Norn characters with Zarya-type butch physique, or synchronize the appearance of the male characters to the female variants so they look less like Santa Claus and more like a tall giant. No reason for the double standard, just seems like basic sexism.

And before someone starts insinuating things, I'm a thin straight guy who's quite fond of thin female characters, I just genuinely think that the double standard is unfair. ^^

I found the trailer to be a bit underwhelming, to be honest, and difficult to understand, but here's my analysis after re-watching it carefully. I like the voice acting quite a bit on second reflection...

The trailer represents a conversation between two characters, female and male. The female voice is revealed to be Kuunavang by the male voice, and the male voice is then the mysterious new character mentioned by the developer on Twitter so we don't know who it is.

Let's analyze the conversation itself.

> Kuunavang:

> This land... it's a monument to mortal resilience. They built new lives upon the very thing that sought to end theirs.

Taking into account especially the intonation of the second sentence, in my opinion, she is expressing a great admiration and amazement towards mortals. She is greatly impressed, inspired, and sympathetic towards them.

> Mysterious voice:

> Mortals are little flames -- brilliant, hot, then gone. Those who face eternity easily forget what a lifetime means. What an ending means.

While it sounds like this character is also inspired by mortals to some degree, towards the end it sounds like that in his opinion, mortals *need* to meet an end. Presumably not just a personal end, but an end to a whole era. He thinks that mortals, by their nature, ought to be destroyed and reborn. Presumably, this means completing the Elder Dragon wake/destroy/sleep cycle, i.e. the mysterious voice is of the opinion that the EDs should be helped in destroying the world, coz The Nature Of Things aka How I'ts Meant To Be.

> Kuunavang:

> You know it doesn't have to be this way.

This further confirms that what the mysterious voice aims for is something which... the mortals would rather not want to happen. I.e. suffering, destruction, The End. Since Kuunavang is sympathetic towards them, she doesn't agree that this is how things ought to be.

> Mysterious voice:

> No Kuunavang, it does. They need me.

His voice is very decided. He is convinced that "helping" mortals meet their end is the right thing to do. That they *need* this. It's a bit like when a parent physically punishes their child and defends it by saying "the kid *needs* that to grow up to be a disciplined person" or something, you know?

That being said, the mysterious voice is also rather calm and kind-sounding, only a bit ominous at the end (together with the close-up on a dragon's eyes) where he says "they need me." So I'm not sure how much the story will push on us that he's simply Evil. It could be that the story will leave it ambiguous whether he might actually be right and/or paint him in a very empathetic manner. Then again, in the story so far we've already had several characters talk ominously about how bad it would be to kill the EDs / prevent them from completing the cycle, only for Aurene to magically fix everything and the Commander to just keep going the same route... I didn't get the feeling so far that ANet seriously wants to go the route of "killing EDs actually revealed to be super bad and Commander did massive mistakes!" But maybe they'll still switch to it.

Summary:

1. I don't know what exactly it means that mortals "built new lives upon the very thing that sought to end theirs." I don't think it's relevant though.

2. Kuunavang wants to help mortals continue the Glint Way (or some other way) of ending the cycle of destruction and rebirth because it causes too much suffering to mortals, while Mysterious Character wants the cycle to complete because he's convinced it's The Right Way. This will probably be the main plot of the expansion. The name "End of Dragons" is probably an allusion to the fact that we're almost done killing all EDs now, with Mysterious Character being the last obstacle. So again, main plot is about finishing off EDs to end the cycle. Not sure how Aurene fits into that though.

I believe Jormag will be dead soon but don't know how DSD and especially Primordius fit into this story. The voice could simply be DSD, or its champion, which would make sense. (Last surviving DSD trying to complete the cycle of destruction?) But what's with Primordius then?? Finishing him off in some LW season would be super lame, even if there was time for a whole new LW season after Icebrood is over.

Don't know if this is just a theory or also empirically supported but I've heard that no downstate can turn group fights into more of a numbers game where the bigger group becomes all the more likely to win, because the moment the smaller group starts losing people, the number difference gets all the bigger.

> @"Erdem.6213" said:

> Emmm is all WvW matches same like this? on/with other servers? or is it just me unlucky to be in Dzagonur. It is literally unplayable, unbalanced and unfun, only one thing good that is you are always outnumbered so more pips but why...

> https://prnt.sc/u0gdri

That image on itself doesn't really prove anything. It could be that one server has a night-raid whereas another dominates during the day. I've seen it enough times that the points looked like that in our favor, for a few hours during night which is when I often play, and we still lost the match because that was the only time we were getting points...

But yeah, sometimes you have a server clearly dominate the match and in that case, what the others said...

From what I can tell this is exactly the same as the regular Superior Sharpening Stone except the duration is 1h instead of 30m. The cost to create it is same as creating a Superior Sharpening Stone, except you use 1 regular Superior to create 5 Potent Superior.

Why then is the TP cost barely higher than the regular Superior? Shouldn't it be about 2x the price? Especially given that ascended food lasts 1h, I'd have expected that these are a lot more popular.

I must be missing something?

> @"Khisanth.2948" said:

> > @"Taylan.2187" said:

> > > @"Khisanth.2948" said:

> > > > @"Turkeyspit.3965" said:

> > > > > @"Khisanth.2948" said:

> > > > > Meh ... if this was before the ascended food it might be useful but you can have a slightly better buff that last 6x longer for 20s

> > > >

> > > > Hey! 20s is like 13 waypoints! Not all of us have top of the line self-driving limo-Golems y'know.

> > >

> > > more like 4 ...

> >

> > Wow, who pays 5s for WPs. Anything more than 2-3s I get around by using an LWS teleport tome or going to LA from HotM and porting to one of the racial cities.

>

> with the time wasted with all that I could have chopped a bunch of trees/mined a bunch of ore that is worth more than whatever saving it might have given

Sure about that? Using an LWS tome is instant from anywhere. Maybe 10 seconds to look up on the world map which LWS map is nearest to your destination.

Going to HotM is also instant, after which you port to the HotM WP (no cost) directly aside the LA portal, then port to the Gate Hub WP (no cost) and run up to one of the racial city portals. Unless your PC takes a long time to load cities, it shouldn't take more than 30 seconds I guess.

It's a micro-optimization for sure, but if I save 4 silver, it's worth it IMO. :D

EDIT: I benchmarked it and it took almost exactly 45 seconds to get to a racial city via HotM->LA->GateHub. Let's say this only saves me 2 silver. That's about 25 seconds for 1 silver. For 1 gold it would be 2500 seconds = ~40 minutes. Crap. xD

I guess I'll just stick to using LWS tomes or HotM->LA travel for closing continent-size gaps.