LucianDK.8615

It only shows in other homes if they have 425 for the basic station, or 500 for the bloodstone

Do remember you can gobble unwanted food now, to turn it into ascended food ingredients.

Skyscale by none. Far superior to the griffon, no more endless jabbing space to flap. A godsend. I just cant use the burd anymore.

The skyscale maneuverability is just too good and enjoyable.

> @"Yasai.3549" said:

> > @"LucianDK.8615" said:

> > > @"Yasai.3549" said:

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> > You are cloning greatsword right there, which is our 'scythe', especially with Exordium.

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> Yea :D

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> I want it to be core.

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A greatsword clone will never happen, alas. Revenants and Daredevils already toys with melee staves.

> @"Yasai.3549" said:

> Remove Marks from the game.

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> Make Staff melee.

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> Has Scythe aesthetic when wielded.

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> Make every single Scythe hippie happy.

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> Staff should have loads of AoE cleave, cooldowns ranging from 5s to 20s and lots of Bleed effects.

You are cloning greatsword right there, which is our 'scythe', especially with Exordium.

If you hold an ascended seed pouch and accidentally weapon sap, then its lost and forcing you to recraft it.

Futhermore its extremely easy to accidentally target a plot you already have filled and removing the herb if you are not incredibly careful with targetting it. Even then Ive found that the targetting can be wonky. Usually not a problem with standard herbs, but it really burns with ascended herbs since you have to replant them daily. Ascended herbs really could benefit from a yes/no removal prompt unlike standard seeds.

Theres a big problem here, if you accidentally drop your bundle by weaponswitching, then the ascended seed pouch is lost.

um, you get a free garden plot with the gourmet questline.

> @"Kelly.7019" said:

> From reading the announcement (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/party-harder-with-ascended-food/) a couple days after it launched i was unaware of some things ingame. Obviously i knew i was in for some hurt not waiting for a guide :(

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> 1) Thinking maxing 500 was best i quickly got to 468 and stopped cause i didn't see a clear path of getting to 500 easily. I went back and looked at that gourmet cheevo (which you can't read the last steps to because it's locked, so you don't know that each of the 5 tiers gives you an additional "10 chef progress points" until you've unlocked the full row.) :( which means STOP @ 450!, but oh it doesn't tell you that. (i got to 450 and nothing extra was unlocked- no new recipies to climb higher) So i thought maybe a little higher :(

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> 2) i'm at 494 currently and all i see that's new are basically the consumables... which apparently you need a gemstore purchase of a "Garden Plot" to use?!?!? what! No other professions to 500 require you to use gemstore items to craft things. This feels **scammy** . It would be more helpful to understand if garden plot is necessary, to have red text warning people that the garden plot purchase is necessary to craft these consumable items. (i mean i assume garden plot because i have no "garden"???) or also mention it at 400 warning people you need to purchase a garden plot from gemstore to craft 500 food. ( don' t know for a fact that's true yet though, well c in 18mins.)

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> 3) i assume/ hope at 500 "Ascended food" I will be able craft and won't require mats from the garden plots. Otherwise this has just been a waste of my ascended mats --> spirit planks, deldrimore steel- MY MUHNEEE! on something i won't be able to use!!! >:(

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> edit:

> 4) well kitten . read comment below. me founds something i didn't see before in home instance :D

Havent you noticed that you get a garden plot for finishing the Sylvarri line?

> @"Trise.2865" said:

> Why would a creature suddenly increase in size when bearing a larger rider?

Wow does it, to make mounts seem properly sized to the rider. Tauren for example have BIg mounts to account for their massive size.

Not remotely considerable any more. Cant crit. Pretty much only used for swiftness and a daze option with wh4.

Personally i lean to focus4, as it reliably gives more lifeforce, even if focus5 is unusable in pve.

> @"Substance E.4852" said:

> It's a sad state of affairs when it's the communty's fault for expecting more than the bare minimum, especially when it was to be delivered with an unusual amount of fanfare.

OP is not the indicative of the community with his beliefs.

Well said, this is on par with Blizzard wasting their last Blizzcon on Diablo for mobile.

> @"Frostchant.1523" said:

> I want to note that, we were told to have content "expansion worthy" during LWS. This was giving hope for new elite specs, for example, and stuff to keep us dragged into the game anew. Strikes and build templates aren't exactly expansion worthy.

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> Anet is more to blame for creating the hype, and making players think "_Hmm...maybe they are gonna work up for all this dishonor_", teasing us with something brand new, and making all the signs on the sky and earth that the announcement is gonna make us fall of chairs, that what they want to say is significant.

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> You just don't make a 36h countdown to say "_here is the announcement that could be simply written down on a blog post, also buy our overpriced merch from our partners, thanks for the support_".

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> Maybe they want to surprise us? Cool, but Anet doesn't know how to read the air; or at least how to beyond they most dedicated fanboys, that were so excited (or they were told to be), at every single god kitten thing. They could let slide more during the event. They could tease us more with content we were looking for. That way, they would spark hope that Anet is working up for their mistakes in the past.

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> Now, people will stop giving a single f*ck about such big events and announcements, if they didn't already. I, cerainly, will, depsite defending Anet for the past 4 years, and ignoring all the voices around, that were telling me, Anet doesn't respect their players as much as they should.

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> During twitch stream, I saw over 35k people watching. After the stream, the chat was burning, almost literally. They had spare time, they spent 45 minutes watching, and felt like it was a waste of time.

Well said, you truly understand why a lot of people are upset with Anet.

> @"omgdracula.6345" said:

> > @"LucianDK.8615" said:

> > > @"omgdracula.6345" said:

> > > > @"Blaeys.3102" said:

> > > > Anet's marketing has always been a bit of let down, dating back to the launch of the game itself.

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> > > > The problem is they are still advertising and marketing like it is the early 80s. One look at the reddit or these forums in the last month would have shown them that player expectations were trending in a very different direction.

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> > > > And the blame for today's reactions fall solely on ArenaNet. The conversations were taking place. The expectations were there for anyone to see (and even react to). What they presented today, while exciting from a new story step perspective, did not take the current state of player expectations into account in any way whatsoever, and - as a result - people are (understandably, imo) disappointed.

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> > > > And saying that players are somehow at fault for those expectations is shortsighted. Again, ArenaNet only had to open their eyes and look at the forums or reddit on any given day in the past month and they would have seen them (and again, had the chance to react to and temper expectations).

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> > > Anet messed up with this event yes. But to act like they markedted this as anything more than a living story announcement is hilarious. The emails literally state "This will be an event to talk about the new living story season."

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> > Do you not comprehend that there could be expectations of unusual additions to a season? Consider Kourna where the Beetle got introduced, or Dragonfall with the Skyscale. And pushed high because of the hyped delivery and no forthcomming expack, to that we might get expansion level features in the LS season.

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> I would say strikes, a new map, more deeper lore, pvp tournaments, and wvw alliances are all pretty good features that go beyond a typical LS chapter. We can keep going if you want to. But essentially saying "well these chapters gaves us a mount so we should have gotten more." while ignoring that you in fact did get more shows you really don't have an argument.

And you are just proving what I am saying. That LS5 is having features not expected of a living season. But is it something to truly garner excitement aka what we had gotten with HoT and Pof? No, not at all. I restate, we are at the end of season 4, and players -rightfully- expected there would be something meaty to tide them over to the end of LS5.

> @"omgdracula.6345" said:

> > @"Blaeys.3102" said:

> > Anet's marketing has always been a bit of let down, dating back to the launch of the game itself.

> >

> > The problem is they are still advertising and marketing like it is the early 80s. One look at the reddit or these forums in the last month would have shown them that player expectations were trending in a very different direction.

> >

> > And the blame for today's reactions fall solely on ArenaNet. The conversations were taking place. The expectations were there for anyone to see (and even react to). What they presented today, while exciting from a new story step perspective, did not take the current state of player expectations into account in any way whatsoever, and - as a result - people are (understandably, imo) disappointed.

> >

> > And saying that players are somehow at fault for those expectations is shortsighted. Again, ArenaNet only had to open their eyes and look at the forums or reddit on any given day in the past month and they would have seen them (and again, had the chance to react to and temper expectations).

> >

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> Anet messed up with this event yes. But to act like they markedted this as anything more than a living story announcement is hilarious. The emails literally state "This will be an event to talk about the new living story season."

Do you not comprehend that there could be expectations of unusual additions to a season? Consider Kourna where the Beetle got introduced, or Dragonfall with the Skyscale. And pushed high because of the hyped delivery and no forthcomming expack, to that we might get expansion level features in the LS5 season.

Sorry OP, you clearly dont understand that they set expectations too high. I -restate-, why should Anet strictly follow the format of season 3 and 4? Look at season 1 and 2, completely different from what which came later on in format and delivery. So no, dont give me that we couldnt expect a different format to LS5 due to the hype.

> @"omgdracula.6345" said:

> > @"LucianDK.8615" said:

> > > @"omgdracula.6345" said:

> > > > @"LucianDK.8615" said:

> > > > Anet was squarely at fault here, drumming up too big excitement. Of course people is going to be disappointed when it turned out to be something that couldve been covered in a blog post.

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> > > Yea but it wasn't anything beyond what they stated it would be. All of you are ignoring the fact that the playerbase took the hype generated and overhyped it even more thinking this would be an expansion announcement. Which means very few people complaining have any common sense. We were told an expansion was not planned. We were told that the next living story is what is planned. The email literally says tune in to learn about the next chapter of the living story.

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> > > You are correct that it could have been covered in a blog post. There was 0 reason to do this event. But to say the community did not fashion this annoucement into something more is an outright lie.

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> > I never said it would be an expansion, nor did I expect it.

> > 1: We did not get an expansion at the end at LS4, leading many to think that LS5 might offer more expansion like content to keep people interested. Such as new especs.

> > 2: Especially when Anet overhyped it badly, making people thing the reveal would be BIG!

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> > Yet we got just served with more of the same.

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> > Again, Anet is solely at fault here for mishandling it and creating false expectations.

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> Your first point is again your fault as a community for thinking that. Not once has a living story chapter given us new elite specs or anything expansion worthy. Other than the mount in the last chapter.

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> Did they overhype it though? The email literally states "Tune in to learn more about the next living story chapter."

You still havent grasped what I am saying. Why should Anet be slavishly locked to the previous format of the Living Story seasons? Players got hyped for GOOD reason due to the overblown hype, and thoughts that there might be more than just a copy of previous LS seasons. Its squarely Anet's fault.

> @"omgdracula.6345" said:

> > @"LucianDK.8615" said:

> > Anet was squarely at fault here, drumming up too big excitement. Of course people is going to be disappointed when it turned out to be something that couldve been covered in a blog post.

>

> Yea but it wasn't anything beyond what they stated it would be. All of you are ignoring the fact that the playerbase took the hype generated and overhyped it even more thinking this would be an expansion announcement. Which means very few people complaining have any common sense. We were told an expansion was not planned. We were told that the next living story is what is planned. The email literally says tune in to learn about the next chapter of the living story.

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> You are correct that it could have been covered in a blog post. There was 0 reason to do this event. But to say the community did not fashion this annoucement into something more is an outright lie.

I never said it would be an expansion, nor did I expect it.

1: We did not get an expansion at the end at LS4, leading many to think that LS5 might offer more expansion like content to keep people interested. Such as new especs.

2: Especially when Anet overhyped it badly, making people think the reveal would be BIG!

Yet we got just served with more of the same.

Again, Anet is solely at fault here for mishandling it and creating false expectations.

> @"Knighthonor.4061" said:

> kitten I am stuck between buying Legendary Sword and Legendary Shield. Bolt is lame to me, but the Legendary T1 Shield looks so good, but shields suck so bad on Revenant. I would never use it. stuck in a bind here people

Given that heralds dual wields swords, you can wield two lightning sticks with transmutation.

Anet was squarely at fault here, drumming up too big excitement. Of course people is going to be disappointed when it turned out to be something that couldve been covered in a blog post.

> @"EmmetOtter.8542" said:

> > @"LucianDK.8615" said:

> > Disappointing, had expected far more from the hyped up big reveal.

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> Hyped up? I only saw like 2 announcements and both on the guildwars2.com website. That's not "hyped up"? Hyped up would have been Anet-employees talking about it every day somewhere on the internet and in many different media channels. Where else were they talking about it?

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> The level of features announced today is basically what I was expecting.

You dont get it. The big event, the reveal countdown teaser. The lack of an expack. It led people rightfully to believe that ls5 would be a departure from the usual LS from the past.

Why is it an insult to veterans? not a tall. Look at Wow, they began to give older expansions for free so you dont have buy a zillion expacks to get up to par. Should we whining about that too?

Disappointing, had expected far more from the hyped up big reveal.

Sounds rather underwhelming so far.