Manasa Devi.7958

I don't think it's a twitch skill challenge at all. It's muscle memory. Twitch, to me, means reacting extremely fast and accurately to unpredictable circumstances. Maybe my definition is wrong though. The puzzle is wholly predictable, the same every run (desynch bugs and lag excluded of course). It's just a matter of getting a little farther each time and remembering what you did to get there. The wait can certainly be an annoyance. Especially if you're in with people going all the way.

This year, my first run was an immediate success. I guess I'm blessed with good muscle memory. When it comes to twitch, I suck, definitely.

Has anyone given any thought to the possibility that these "too small" instances already have plenty of people going at it alone in them when you're trying to get your 50-man squad there?

> @Player.9621 said:

> i just wish this wasnt a required part to obtain the new backpack because i just dont have the patience for it anymore

> its not fun

You don't need to do it for the backpack. You can just craft the boots instead. Recipes sold by the Lunatic Alchemist.

So every tile of the floor of a maze is labyrinthine? Lamps installed to illuminate a maze are labyrinthine? My uncle used to have a little hedge maze in his garden. Was he labyrinthine at the time? Obviously, the way you use "relating to" isn't the intended way. It's meant in the sense that something relates to the concept of a labyrinth, not a specific one.

That's not what "labyrinthine" means.

> @skaia.9582 said:

> Ever since the update, text on the trading post window has become blurry. It's crisp in all other parts of the UI (from what I could tell so far). It doesn't matter if I have the option checked or unchecked.

I have this issue, and also with text in merchant windows. The option toggle has no effect for me either.

It's no crazier than the name ANet gave it. What's labyrinthine about it?

I got the "unable to gain access to the log-in server at this time" pop-up window right in the middle of doing the clock tower. That attempt failed. :/

Worst case scenario, you can craft another one. If you don't have at least 1 leveled armor craft, it's a very bad worse case scenario unfortunately.

PoF has crates you can buy for a combination of karma and trade contracts.

* Hamaseen for tier 1 & 2 materials

* Cowrie League for tier 3 & 4 materials

* House of Daoud for tier 5 & 6 materials

All heart merchants sell crates of a single one of those categories. You can pick metal, cloth, leather, wood and trophy crates. I'm not sure if they're offering good deals, I haven't bought any myself yet because I'm not in an urgent need of materials at the moment.

> @"Chip H.3951" said:

> > @"Manasa Devi.7958" said:

> > I just let them stack up until the end of the event and then deal with them all at once. It's just a few inventory slots that you're not really reclaiming by dealing with them earlier, because you'll have more of the stuff before you know it. (That goes for all the halloween stuff.)

>

> This. Only thing I'm worrying about clearing is candy corn, and that's because I'm converting it into cobs as I get enough. The rest I can't see any reason to worry about since as soon as I open another pile of bags, boof, there is the exact same stuff again. Once event is over, that's when it will be time to reclaim all that space in my bags.

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The temporary "inventory tax" gets worse every year though. I just counted 28 slots occupied by stackable Halloween bag drops. That's not counting the bags themselves, candy corn and the rare stuff.

> @UrMom.4205 said:

> Curious, the JP is just 10 ap, does it really matter that much? Just skip it and do the other ones.

10? I'm going to get 35 out of it before Halloween is done.

> @Vayne.8563 said:

> > @"Manasa Devi.7958" said:

> > > @Vayne.8563 said:

> > > I just checked out gliders. The basic glider you get with HOT (anyone still use that) has only one channel. Some gliders have more than one dye channel and we've never seen this discussed about gliders. And you know, core mounts look a hell of a lot better than the first glider we got. Pretty sure very few people use the core glider by percentage.

> > >

> > > No, this is optional in the same way glider skins are. You can play the entire game without ever changing your skin. You need gliding. You don't need to be pretty while gliding. Same for mount. They gave us five mounts for almost nothing. In game gold. Mounts that look awesome. They gave us the ability to get some customization on them. Now they're selling skins. It's fine.

> >

> > I just feel they're missing a beat. We got 5 great looking mounts with just one dye channel, and now 5 stupidly gimmicky mounts with 4 channels. Where's the golden middle?

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> So wait for the next pack and get more dye channels there, and don't buy this one. They didn't miss a beat. They made halloween mount skins for halloween.

I certainly won't buy it, but the unless they're fast, I won't get the next one either because I feel another extended break coming up. I'd rather have basic stuff sooner than weird stuff I don't want. It might even help keeping me around longer.

I just let them stack up until the end of the event and then deal with them all at once. It's just a few inventory slots that you're not really reclaiming by dealing with them earlier, because you'll have more of the stuff before you know it. (That goes for all the halloween stuff.)

> @Vayne.8563 said:

> I just checked out gliders. The basic glider you get with HOT (anyone still use that) has only one channel. Some gliders have more than one dye channel and we've never seen this discussed about gliders. And you know, core mounts look a hell of a lot better than the first glider we got. Pretty sure very few people use the core glider by percentage.

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> No, this is optional in the same way glider skins are. You can play the entire game without ever changing your skin. You need gliding. You don't need to be pretty while gliding. Same for mount. They gave us five mounts for almost nothing. In game gold. Mounts that look awesome. They gave us the ability to get some customization on them. Now they're selling skins. It's fine.

I just feel they're missing a beat. We got 5 great looking mounts with just one dye channel, and now 5 stupidly gimmicky mounts with 4 channels. Where's the golden middle?

Great for new players, and even old ones like myself for whom it has been so long ago, it feels like fresh new content.

It isn't awarded when you only attack him while gliding. I don't know if that was the case here, but if it was, that's easy to work around.

> @takatsu.9416 said:

> I disagree. The mounts we got were free and the BASIC mounts.

Really? I had to buy an expansion for them.

I hope they add some good general purpose mount skins with multiple dye channels. Silly gimmicky seasonal skins I'll be bored with after a few weeks are a no sale.

> @"Hyper Cutter.9376" said:

> > @"Mina Ion.7852" said:

> > True, but also remember that you have mounts in PoF which you didn't in HoT. And both raptor and jackal allow you to run right past mobs without too much difficulty.

> You say that, but forged in particular will kill your mount from under you 99% of the time when you pass them.

More like 1% of the time if you have Jackal mastery 4 and use your mount's movement abilities correctly. Raptor jumps through practically anything because of the evasion, and skimmer can evade so often, long and easily, it's bordering on the ridiculous. Griffon is bad against ranged attacks if you're flying too low, and springer isn't great against anything, but who uses that to cover distance?

Something terribly counterproductive happened to the effects overload with PoF: bosses have started contributing to it as much as players. It's a sad state of affairs that I can often only see what kind of creature I'm fighting by looking at its portrait when I have it targeted.

The whole event chain just plain sucks. It's horrible. The environment is annoying, the action up to the final 2 bosses is boring as hell. The regrouped zealots don't even fight back. It's just an uninspired CC+DPS check.

The final 2 bosses are a total disaster. The effect graphics are insane. Usually in boss fights, it's just the players making a mess, but here, the bosses contribute as well, and they contribute big time. Whatever special attack kept making me small and lose 90% of my damage output, I couldn't tell. It happened every time I moved from ranged into melee as the Forgotten's immunity changed. I had and still have no idea how to avoid that, because I couldn't see a thing. It probably didn't help that the hydra was on top of the forgotten for almost the entire fight. I couldn't even see the forgotten. Try and split them up? With 2 almost full squads of people on them? I don't think so.

There was no joy after we won, just a desire to log off and be done with the game for a while.

> @Ojimaru.8970 said:

> Does everything in the game have to have a purpose for them to exist?

No, but options that are "traps" cause frustration and that's something you'd want to avoid in a game.

I got my gloves, done with this forever, I hope. I'm not doing this again until they introduce another guaranteed exclusive drop that I want. They can increase the general rewards tenfold, a hundredfold, and I'm still not doing it. This is the most annoying, unfun activity I've yet come across in the entire game.

> @Kheldorn.5123 said:

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> Whatever you choose, specialization collections are optional, not required to play the game.

Thank you for that amazing insight. How about this one: "This game is optional, not required to experience life." I hope that helps.