Tuna Bandit.3786

Beetle Races took me some practise to get Gold and the Golden Scarf on those, but once you have it under control, it's fun to do. I'd say medium hard. Griffon, people really need to learn how the griffon works. Once you master that, and figure out that the Griffon is a true flying mount, those adventures are a lot easier. I'd say medium hard, but by FAR the most fun mount Jump Puzzles I do enjoy them, but as for content I do consider those the hardest of the 3. For Skyscale you have first off all the achievement that gives you "Ruler of the Skies" Look up Skyscale Rider (requires a fully trained skyscale) not hard, just time consuming There is a Skyscale Adventure in Grothmar. South-east of the map you see that water part called "Kralkatorrik's Emergence Zone" Right on a cliff on the north end of that lake is the Skyscale Adventure. Few notes: - Although it helps, it is not required for any beetle race to do the air stunts to make gold. Quicker recharge just makes them easier in some cases. - To get the gold time for the Golden Scarf, that can also be done during a race. The one in Snowden being tight to get the gold time might be the prime example of where a race can help (round 2 and 3 are a flying start lol) - Speaking of a Flying start (Both Griffon and Beetle races are perfect for this) You can have a "rolling" start. You know when you roll up to the adventure, the window pops up right? You can then quickly hit enter and off you go. Some people are so good in timing that, that they actually come in full speed, precious time won on the start makes your life a lot easier. You can get gold on all of them without doing perfect runs. I recorded all beetle tracks and all griffon tracks and specially in the beetle one, where I do Maelstrom, I got seriously stuck twice, and still got gold. Use Bond of Faith when you have it... helps a lot (I save it for when I run into problems mostly)

I regularly run Deadeye Glass Canon build with zergs and cannot remember being ridiculed, laughed at or chased away. Maybe there is a difference in the squads on the server I run, compared to your server, but where I play, they understand the value of the thief, in whichever spec it comes. What you experience, is more a squad that - in my humble oppinion - is too stuck in their blob ways to recognize the value of the Thief, or any other "less popular" classes for that manner. A good commander sees someone on a class and gets creative thinking how they can use that class, rather than "I don't need that class - go away"

Comparing the cost of gw2 - the ease on getting Transmutation Charges - the ease on getting selfstyle hairkits... to for example the yearly cost of playing WoW... No brainer

The only thing that is broken with barrage is the fact it goes through structures as well. It would be more acceptable to a lot, that it would be stopped by rooftops etc, and not go straight through it. (specially stone/wood) Also remember barrage does not complete when you interrupt the ranger.

I am not a huge fan of the male character's voice, and therefor switched to mostly using female characters. However it had nothing to do with the quality of voice acting, but more to what I personally find pleasing to hear while I play this game. And that is partially the problem here, it's personal.

It is boring and repetative. I have times where I do not step into WvW for weeks. It's like playing the same story instance every single day. There is hardly any variety in the gameplay, the participation system is punishing and most maps are so numbingly boring that it becomes hard to motivate yourself to get out there and do some Roaming. The contradiction from Anet as well. We all know that Server Reset is one of their big money makers, yet the gamemode that makes them so much, is utterly ignored. I find that, to be quite honest, a HUGE insult to their playerbase.

They know this is cheap copy/paste content that most of us are extremely dissapointed in, so in this way, they artificially try to keep this sub par content alive. Which is obviously not working at all. Without a group of friends, they are the same as Strikes: dead for the average player. I am extremely dissapointed. These new DRMs are... Not even worth mentioning.

Griffon is for me still the prevered mount over the Skyscale. Considering it's the only true flying mount (when properly used) it is VASTLY superior over the Skyscale and gliding for long distance horizontal traveling in the air. However they can work together beautifully. Same with updrafts we have in some maps, works great together with skyscale or griffon. Once you master the abbility to mount mid-air, it all makes sense. Skyscale helps you to get up high, but has a worse glide-ratio than gliders. Once you wonder too far from where you start, it really starts to decent fast. That is where gliding brings you further, and the Griffon comes to life. The Griffon is capable of true flight, something neither gliding or the skyscale has. I do not see a need for changes myself. Not as long as a Griffon can gain altitude on its own. (when fully mastered and properly used) Part of me likes the idea, but as one that finds the Griffon already one of the best mounts out there, I do not see a need for it.

Yeah I don't see how saving 5 minutes a day effects the economy. It's supply and demand - I cannot get more out of my home daily because I can only farm it once The only reason it might effect the TP is if more people decide to farm their home due to it. But considering the small amount of time saving, I very much doubt that.

There's one tip I always give anyone that doesnt have s4 yet and plans to get it. Make it a habbit to try to get into a daily full home farm. Takes a few minutes, tons of people around inviting guests and a good way to start the Material grind before you own s4 or Bjora. On my main account I got the skyscale done when released and its good to see that the time gating has been taken care of. Furthermore knowing what you need upfront can prevent sudden roadblocks in grinds. After getting the skyscale, I didnt use my griffon for a while, but by now, I rediscovered it. That came due to a few youtube videos that showed me how amazing the Griffon is as only true flying mount It is in sheer unit speed the fastest (with Beetle as close second) and when done properly, you can travel entire maps without loss of altitude. The skyscale is a bit a "springer killer" in my oppinion, and a handy mount. But is misses the sheer fun of racing through the sky, diving under a bridge on top speed, to then pull up again. The Skyscale is a very practical mount.

It's indeed been asked many times before, and yes it has been ignored by Anet systematically, but for the record: I fully want this. Stop the disconnects during unskippable cinematics Stop the constant frustration from doing extremely long instances all over again while you were 1 click away to end it. Stop the "most likely problem is router settings" lie Actually start fixing your old content.

My responce on this topic: *sigh* You wanna know what kind of other classes' toxic builds I run in to as a thief? Do you?

Although I like emotes and welcome new ones, making them the end reward of a meta (as with the /shiver) is a pathetically cheap action from Anet.

Any class can be viable. ANY class. Just the wannabe elites that copy Snowcrow's groupbuilds (Not solo builds) scream that some classes are bad I mean fractal t4: NO thief! thief is useless in party in t4 fractals! Can someone call Hizen and tell him that, while he solo's t4 on any class (including thief) on CM? IGNORE Snowcrows as the poor standards for Meta Builds. IGNORE the wannabe elites with their uneducated demands in their groups and their false assumptions on classes. ANY class is viable.

Same here, grind them for the masteries and achievements, then turn around and never look back at these. Poorly implemented, predictable, copy/paste work. Not a single real developer was involved the 3 missions so far were 3 times same thing. Professional studios should NEVER resort to copy/paste, yet here we are.