Matt H.6142

Some of the buildings looked like they used GW1 assets. It’s consistent for the region, but they’re not the great ones we’re used to.

Certainly play as a charr. Several dialogue changes. Meeting Imperator Malice was great. Loved the thought for “events” during the metal concert.

Kas sounded a bit off in her cub event as well.

I’m happy enough seeing it implemented in the story instance like it was. If it lends itself to a world event experience too, all the better.

Think of it more as a level-up. Happens all the time in Metroid. You’ve earned a mount that can handle everything we’ve faced so far, but desert animals need more training against Jormag breath. The cold is a new element and already you need a thaw elixir to even enter the worst of it.

I’ll bring it back to giving the player an experience they don’t literally hop over, at least not at first.

Bitterfrost shows we can’t stand the worst of the cold without a thaw elixir, so putting limitations on the norm isn’t out of the question.

Points of losing something you’ve earned. You gotta put snow tires on your car. You can hate on the weather, but you have to adapt to new situations.

How about it unlocks after the episode? The battle of Winterfell would have been a lot less of an event if a raptor just double jumped through the horde invuln.

> @"ScyeRynn.4218" said:

> So basically, we have to earn what we already earned just to play in specific zones of the world we may not even return to after the mission? I think I'd prefer something actually good for masteries.

Weren’t much for God of War series then? Maybe we just get a case of amnesia eh?

Mounts have certainly changed the way we take in content, and maybe not always for the better.

In the new region, to feel the threat of the cold, perhaps we should train a new mastery to regain use of mounts. Where the icebrood kodan become a threat again with their whirlwind attacks, and foes popping out of ice blocks add to our perils.

The flavor of it would be we are training up their cold resistance, and perhaps this should be tiered as we get closer to Jormag, and the temperature keeps dropping. They are from the desert after all.

In this way, after a time, people can use their mounts again and use them as they wish, but are richer for the experiences.

I'm hoping as we head north we could have the hot spring quaggan path to the hot spring again in Bitterfrost Frontier. Right now they get stuck at the closest brazier, and will even freeze into ice blocks right there instead of at the spring when the corrupted storm takes over.

I know it's been a couple years now, but ya know, world polish. The map is still quite active.

This was certainly the best bit of world building that crafting has given. I don’t know that the crafting level boosts were necessary. With it maxed out once again, there’s one less incentive to craft.

The void that would need to be filled without it. RL is quite uninteresting even if you consider yourself with an “active” lifestyle. Where are my dragons!

The water dragon spheres may just be water and ocean as written in the bio. I’ll give it a nod. Some of the fleshed out spheres are a bit too metaphysical to be of any consequence, but fleshed out they are, and my OCD can chill now.

I was very happy to read the whole thing and gladly welcome its continuation.

Do you think a Saga will bring Kessex Hills like changes to maps that change them permanently. Would it be more in POF maps or core?

Could this philosophy in development maybe bring us Gandara?

> @"Nebilim.5127" said:

> Please apply the guardian changes to wvw ONLY, pve does NOT need those nerfs, firebrand support is barely a usable profession in there, punting because of wvw isn't healthy for the gamemode, and the class need every bit it can do to stand up to the other supports, druids will be forever the offensive buff bots, but let guardians have their boon coverage. In matter of fact, i think you should revert some of the cooldown nerfs to the tomes that were applied to them last few patches because i'm sure it was done because of WvW. So please, take great consideration to not needlessy hurt the class there.

Lots of quickbrand requested in Fractals still. The group questioned if it made Tempest obsolete.

I was just thinking after yesterday we’d hear a call for this, especially with the free T-shirt today.

It sounded like Matt Mercer to start but is it actually the new charr female VA? It was quite female by the end, but the androgyny is cool.

Agreed. I’m looking forward to these long requested places, and expanding the world. The game just keeps getting better, and love the new cinematics. There will be story content for years to come.

I for one thought “strikes” was made for me because I can’t get into playing with Discord.

Christmas shopping for me just got very easy with the merch.

(Submitted in Game, here for others as a warning.)

I bought the food form item from Plikk first and have closed her window and gone to my home instance before buying the gas infuser, and it appears now she won't sell the gas infuser because the achievement has its final item complete, even though the second last one was skipped.

I had bought the second item as I thought the first item was the immersion thing still.

Caution to others, buy these items in order.

RESOLVED: Having (a second) sous-vide meat does indeed make the vendor window open and allow for the second item to be bought.

I’d get it if it was my machine if it was always the same, and I’ve had the same machine for 7 years with a change to the graphics card, but if I can get 20 secs, why would it sometimes be 2 minutes? I’ve always blamed the stream from the servers. Isn’t that what the map_state_stream means? Is it maybe a setting I should change?

There’s a never used spell breaker skill with it as well. I suppose it would trigger boon loss though.

Had some amazing load times yesterday. Amnoon loaded from launch in only 20 seconds. I often get 2 minute loads.

It was also just Friday it hung for 3 minutes and I decided to re-log to get it to load.

How was it for everyone else?

I have the map load info switch in my load these past few months like I hadn’t the 6 years before because it was getting bad waiting for maps to load.

A wiki note for this update points out a sneaky update

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Suspicious_Traveler

Feel the chill?

Why bring the mood down for the anniversary?