Finalfreefall.8247

> @"The Greyhawk.9107" said: > > @"Finalfreefall.8247" said: > > Personally, I would pay money for a way to skip the Living Story. About fifteen dollars to pass the story and remove the B-team from the map per episode sounds fair to me. > > You don't even have to spend money to skip the Living Story, just don't buy the thing and wah-la. Hah! Well played. I still want to adventure in the maps. I just don't want to get pulled out of my immersion by people complaining at me from a distance. If I can buy a "Black lion cat herder" to manage Destiny's orphans while I help the locals of whatever adventuring spot is handy, I'd have more fun.

Eh. I already use a mount to bypass most of the exploration. They work too well for that tbh. Can't complain about people wanting mastery points when most of us use mounts to skip the actual content. (Wheras masteries are more or less an artificial grind) Personally, I would pay money for a way to skip the Living Story. About fifteen dollars to pass the story and remove the B-team from the map per episode sounds fair to me.

Masteries are artificial content anyway. Convenience gated behind the grind. It's phone gaming without the option to pay. Might as well complete the cycle. Reiterate: Having players grind to make map traversal less obnoxious is _terrible_ game design. "This skill unlocks a new area" and "Without this skill, you have to spend an extra minute jumping up that cliff" are not equivalent concepts.

I can't actually come up with a counterpoint for this that doesn't argue against the gem exchange. It's not a good idea, but a variant has already been implemented. I'd welcome the chance to skip certain (laggy) maps for a small sum. It disgusts me, but I'd welcome it because it's infinitely more convenient.

> @"Loesh.4697" said: > > @"Finalfreefall.8247" said: > > > @"Loesh.4697" said: > > > > @"vier.1327" said: > > > > > @"WindBlade.8749" said: > > > > > > @"vier.1327" said: > > > > > > Rytlock is the only masculine figure of the team, the one that does not talk about feeling and smash dragons, that is for what we came here. > > > > > > > > > > > > Just remember the revenant transformation, it took us an expansion and a whole LS to obtained and explanation. > > > > > > > > > > > > Turlock rocks. > > > > > > > > > > so feeling are not masculine, man can't cry or express worrying about being afraid to loose your friends nooooo.. > > > > > > > > > > What a toxic comment. > > > > > > > > Just a point of view as valid as yours. > > > > > > > > I am sorry I understand something different than you, I suppose that is toxic. > > > > > > Uh, why exactly is your point as valid as their point exactly? you aren't entitled to an equal level of respect for holding a point of view that is frankly a poison to society merely by virtue of it being your point of view. > > > > "You should have feelings" > > > > "But your views aren't valid, and you aren't entitled to equal respect. " > > > > Holy kitten. > > There are views that are authentically harmful to people or groups in society. The belief that masculinity cannot be emotional is, indeed, toxic. Just because I believe that it's important that people are allowed to have feelings doesn't mean that all ideologies must be taken seriously. To be kind to all people inherently means being cruel to others. So... being kind to some people then. And non-uplifting behavior to others. Honestly the fact that no one tried to reason with them and instead went "you're not valid" is shocking to me. At least a little logic. All the great things can be reasoned with logic. To exclude dissent instead of teaching is... religious.

Absolutely. The game has a ton of maps, and a bunch of exploration-based content. It does not have a lot of ways to play those maps without going full altitis. Adding two elite specs would fix most of that and (with content) has a good chance of revitalizing Pvp and Wvw as well. If Anet dropped in a bunch of minidungeons into older maps, that would be cool too. Maybe add a single underground level to an existing map for the final fight. But right now the game needs elite specs. And ffs, don't tie them into the expansion this time! It's cool while we're in the missions but afterwards it just makes our characters look like tourists.

> @"Loesh.4697" said: > > @"vier.1327" said: > > > @"WindBlade.8749" said: > > > > @"vier.1327" said: > > > > Rytlock is the only masculine figure of the team, the one that does not talk about feeling and smash dragons, that is for what we came here. > > > > > > > > Just remember the revenant transformation, it took us an expansion and a whole LS to obtained and explanation. > > > > > > > > Turlock rocks. > > > > > > so feeling are not masculine, man can't cry or express worrying about being afraid to loose your friends nooooo.. > > > > > > What a toxic comment. > > > > Just a point of view as valid as yours. > > > > I am sorry I understand something different than you, I suppose that is toxic. > > Uh, why exactly is your point as valid as their point exactly? you aren't entitled to an equal level of respect for holding a point of view that is frankly a poison to society merely by virtue of it being your point of view. "You should have feelings" "But your views aren't valid, and you aren't entitled to equal respect. " Holy crap.

> @"Hypnowulf.7403" said: > > @"Finalfreefall.8247" said: > > Guild Wars 2 has had a problem of killing side characters by the dozens while the B-team remains invincible. Makes the story a little silly really. Having Jormag kill Rytlock, Taimi and... what the heck, let's throw Braham in there and that would solve most of Guild War's storytelling problems in one strike. > > As a writer, this made my mind segfault three times in a row. Character development is a cornerstone of writing and—at the moment—that's exactly what's happening. So, whenever a character gets any development we murder them? This new wave writing sounds incredibly lazy. Let's just murder everyone for schlocky shock and sleazy schadenfreude, then we can call it a day. We'll make a new round of characters and do the same to them, too! > > I've never understood the hate for the characters, really. I like all of them. Taimi though is especially egregious as she's very autistic in nature so where the loathing for her persence derives from is disgracefully transparent. Oh dude, it got so bad that Anet's nearly run out of (connected to the player) characters to maim or kill. So during PoF, they pulled a TON of characters from Elona and some from other GW1 areas, and added them to the suffering bonfire. This is... yeah. It's very bad. The relatively bulletproof qualities of the B-team only makes it worse.