LucianDK.8615

> @"Lottie.5370" said:

> I actually found it to be pretty good with Icebrood Saga. I ended up with spare masteries by the time I had the experience accrued - but I did also play each release when it came out, not all at once (which helped me build a few up). I think there are a lot of plain insights, and quite a few you can get with just a little bit of time (the challenges, one Cold War (or try it daily for 10 days to get your 2nd if you enjoy it, saves you doing something else), story instances... the more I tried to make this list I found that I wanted to list nearly all of them, I truly think this is something they did well this time.)

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> I haven't done any of the weapon collections besides Boreal, not even sure if that gave a mastery. I think the masteries are all quite easy to get, except for Cold War 50 times... that IS a kitten grind. The 5000 commendations went pretty good for me, I just bought the ones each day for materials and did a few metas whilst going for events. The missions unlocked with the mission documents give quite a few commendations, but some of them are REALLY annoying (thank god you don't need them for anything else.)

For cold war you get first at first kill if i remember right. And the second by the 10th kill.

I only noticed the Steel warband belonging to Ryland.

I believe that the smaller amount of mastery points is because of the legion claiming they had too many and wanting something to use them for , or to trade to something else.

I think its pretty sure that the upcomming skimmer mastery is going to require pof mastery points. got 18 spare there.

Op, you havent counted right.

I have everything mastered in icebrood saga. I have 5 spare points, and theres 4 more to get for me.

I bought them as well, not good at jp's. But it was worth it.

Firebrand needed to be downsized, just way too powerful in far too many modes.

> @"Juantyr.6814" said:

> Any idea how to get this back? First time getting it, it just disappeared into my collections I can't actually even use it to get to the event area?

If it has disappeared, make a support ticket to have it restored.

> @"serialkicker.5274" said:

> > @"LucianDK.8615" said:

> > > @"serialkicker.5274" said:

> > > > @"Obtena.7952" said:

> > > > > @"Ben K.6238" said:

> > > > > No, it really isn't.

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> > > > > As a developer (different game, obviously), I'm not going to need to read through someone's defense of a suggestion on a forum to decide whether it's a good idea or not. Either I already know, or I'm going to refer to colleagues who are in a much better position to make a call on it.

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> > > > > What responses can be helpful for is getting a general idea of how popular the suggestion is, but once I reach page 2 and see the same two people going back and forth over semantics, I tune out and skip to the end.

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> > > > If that's true, it's even more important to not be vague in the opening post. In the end, the best we can do should be done if we are serious about our ideas being considered.

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> > > There is nothing vague about OP. It's perfectly clear. We got warclaw in PvE, but it's underperforming in comparison to other mounts. People are asking Arenanet to do something about that. That's all it takes.

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> > Whats so hard to understand about that the Warclaw is -not- meant to be a pve oriented mount? If you start giving it something useful in pve that is competitive with the other mounts, you can be kitten sure about the QQstorm that would be unleashed if you had go into wvw to earn it, because it would feel forced to have it for specific situations.

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> > Anet made a mistake when they allowed it in pve to let people prance around with their new warclaw skin.

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> What's so hard to understand that the mount is already in pve and people ask that it gets improved, so it's not pointlessly rotting there?

Because its made for WvW only. Theres no but here. They simply allowed it so people could show it off with the new skins. It has absolutely zero use in pve and should stay so. If you give it an use, then people will qq about having to do WvW for it.

> @"serialkicker.5274" said:

> > @"Obtena.7952" said:

> > > @"Ben K.6238" said:

> > > No, it really isn't.

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> > > As a developer (different game, obviously), I'm not going to need to read through someone's defense of a suggestion on a forum to decide whether it's a good idea or not. Either I already know, or I'm going to refer to colleagues who are in a much better position to make a call on it.

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> > > What responses can be helpful for is getting a general idea of how popular the suggestion is, but once I reach page 2 and see the same two people going back and forth over semantics, I tune out and skip to the end.

> >

> > If that's true, it's even more important to not be vague in the opening post. In the end, the best we can do should be done if we are serious about our ideas being considered.

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> There is nothing vague about OP. It's perfectly clear. We got warclaw in PvE, but it's underperforming in comparison to other mounts. People are asking Arenanet to do something about that. That's all it takes.

Whats so hard to understand about that the Warclaw is -not- meant to be a pve oriented mount? If you start giving it something useful in pve that is competitive with the other mounts, you can be damn sure about the QQstorm that would be unleashed if you had go into wvw to earn it, because it would feel forced to have it for specific situations.

Anet made a mistake when they allowed it in pve to let people prance around with their new warclaw skin.

Eye of the North is way to large for it to be conivient at all. Sure ive unlocked everything there, but I always go back to the vip area in Divinitys reach

Have to agree about Domain of Kourna. So....flat and unappealing with sandy colors everywhere. Plus a bad meta too. Only saving grace is the roller beetle.

Second is Dry Top for reasons listed earlier.

I must be in the rarity for liking Tangled Depths. Once you get used to all the spots to move to different layers it opens up a lot. Skyscale helps as well.

But Verdant brink is far superior, and I daresay one of the best maps in the game that really gets the metroidvania feeling going.

> @"Danikat.8537" said:

> > @"LucianDK.8615" said:

> > > @"notebene.3190" said:

> > > I think you have to be level 2 to use it, so you can’t bypass the opening of the game, it would seem.

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> > It is possible to bypass the opening instance. You just need the home portal stone and a shared slot or the free 2 week bank golem to get the home portal stone from the bank. Use the home portal stone, but do not go into the green glow, but head to the 'exitdoor' for your home capital. And voila, you are in the capital, and having completely bypassed the starting experience.

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> > Less risky with a shared slot tbh, no risk of forgetting the stone on the new char when deleting it.

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> Doesn't that break your story though? I heard that's why they disabled all the other teleports in the starting instance - if you exit that way the intro story step doesn't complete and then you can never continue the personal story on that character because there's no way back into that instance.

It does not, there will be a green arrow to go back to the intro. Which is located in your home instance.

I am glad they did not add a dedicated swimming mount. We got enough mounts as it is already.

> @"notebene.3190" said:

> I think you have to be level 2 to use it, so you can’t bypass the opening of the game, it would seem.

It is possible to bypass the opening instance. You just need the home portal stone and a shared slot or the free 2 week bank golem to get the home portal stone from the bank. Use the home portal stone, but do not go into the green glow, but head to the 'exitdoor' for your home capital. And voila, you are in the capital, and having completely bypassed the starting experience.

Less risky with a shared slot tbh, no risk of forgetting the stone on the new char when deleting it.

Sounds like the Ascalonian-Leader finisher

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Permanent_Ascalonian-Leader_Finisher

Though I cant fathom why it would be used in Dragons Stand. But check it out in the finisher menu, as the image doesnt do it justice.

There is no role the warclaw can fit in general use for pve. We have 3 land mounts already. And if you make the warclaw neeeded for anything in pve, its a can of worms, as you essentially force pvers in wvw for it. I well remember all the angst that happened when the warclaw was introduced, every wvwer lamenting pvers in their gamemode.

I think its pretty clear that raiding just isnt a profitable direction to develop in when so few actually sees and does the content. It was for that reasoning that wow added LFR, as the alternative was no more raids.

Agreed, the fight against the Claw was quite overhyped. Drakkar was better by miles.

The warclaw have -no- role in pve. Outclassed by both the raptor and jackal. Its wvw and should stay wvw

Leyline gliding is super useful, theres leylines in various maps in the living story seasons 3+, as well bounce shrooms.

Leyline gliding is used in hot to reach hero points that is unreachable except with mounts or a friendly mesmer portaling you.

Northern Drizzlewood have leyline gliding options.

And theres more than enough hot mastery points to get everything if you have the whole of ls3. I have everything hotwise unlocked, and x21 spare hot mastery points.

They said Reapers does not need any more tradeoff due to that we lose access to Death Shroud. Plus Reaper's Shroud already decays faster than Death Shroud.

Death shroud decays with 3% in all modes except pvp which is 4%. Reaper's shroud decays with 5% however.

> @"Hannelore.8153" said:

> > @"LucianDK.8615" said:

> > Any newcomer would get nothing out of those bits of ls1 that was hacked out. I werent around for ls1, and these visions felt pointless. Theres no need for newcomers to play these at all.

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> Those visions are literally the first time you meet Braham, Rox, Frostbite and Canach. It may not mean much to you, but to many people it at least explains why they suddenly show up in LS2; many newbies assume they are from Fractals instead.

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> And they're heavily incomplete. Those were just four missions out of many, and some of it was open-world.

They mean absolutely nothing because theres no context with it. What is going on in those missions? Thats why I find them pointless, they should have restored all of ls1, instead of serving bits and pieces. And we dont know if we get more at all.

Any newcomer would get nothing out of those bits of ls1 that was hacked out. I werent around for ls1, and these visions felt pointless. Theres no need for newcomers to play these at all.

> @"Kylden Ar.3724" said:

> > @"Ubi.4136" said:

> > The snipers don't add anything to the map. It literally is just a harassment mechanic, which is very poorly designed and annoys players. It's like the knights in Bloodstone Fen that had like 5k range on a dismount attack. It doesn't add "flavor" or difficulty, it's just annoying. Hopefully Anet will notice that and make changes like they did for Bloodstone.

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> It's there so the PvE players can get that real "WvW lite" experience with Deadeyes being a pain in the kitten kitten.

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> (Yes, I just wrote it kitten kitten, we already know it would have converted what we all know I wanted to say)

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> > @"Fueki.4753" said:

> > > @"sitarskee.5738" said:

> > > I was wondering if those snipers actually do anything because I keep seeing the thing when they're zooming at you but they never kill me.

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> > They shoot you for 3k.

> > That's about half of my Skyscale's HP.

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> Which is totally not aggravating game design right? That thing you ground out for weeks at the end of the last LS season? That thing that you all loved? We made a map where it is nearly 100% useless.

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> Buy Gems! /s

Skyscale is not useless. Im getting around just fine. You need to learn to use the Dash properly, combined with the mount stamina refilling ability. Dashing makes you evade all attacks during the dash. Plus we have recieved the mount stealth power, 8s on 30s cd.

Uncategorized is the only truly argh inducing on the list for me. The others are tolerable.