Randulf.7614

There were two vendors - the Crystal bloom was the one this was tied to. Then you speak to the the third npc with the orange marker over her head for the tier rewards I say rewards, but you missed nothing of note

> @"Stelawrat.6589" said: > > @"Teratus.2859" said: > > > @"Linken.6345" said: > > > > @"Teratus.2859" said: > > > > > @"Cobalt Flame.8056" said: > > > > > We apologize for the confusion around the timing of these two events. To clarify, there is a one-week gap between the conclusion of the Crystal Bloom event and the beginning of the next event. The next event, mobilizing the Ebon Vanguard, will begin on December 1. If you haven't received your rewards from the Crystal Bloom yet, be sure to collect them from their representative in Eye of the North before December 1. The Ebon Vanguard is the only other faction event for this release. There will be more faction updates with the next release, arriving after the Wintersdsay festival sometime in the new year. We will be communicating additional information on Faction Event timing in the coming weeks. > > > > > > > > Thanks for the clarification. > > > > > > > > I have to ask though, will anything from the crystal bloom event be missable? rewards, skins or achievements etc? > > > > Will these faction events go into some kind of rotation at a later date so people will be able to complete them if they miss them the first time around? > > > > > > > > > > You can buy every reward with tyrian defence marks. > > > The achievements are tied to the drms not the faction, only thing the faction dailys did was give blue currency to advance the community goal bar. > > > > I'm pretty sure there is an achievement or two tied to each individual faction as well, that's why im curious. > > I'm just wondering if people who don't complete it now will not be able to later. > > I assume they will be I just wanted to be absolutely sure about it. > > For players who are progressing through the game content in chronological order, who have bought all of the expansions, all of the LWS episodes in between, is this content comparable to LW S1 in that it will no longer be available, so if you want to experience it, you have to do it on release? No as far as we can tell, only the global contribution events are time limited - ie the bonus tier rewards. The content itself will be permanent

There was a huge thread asking for Russian localisation last year. It didn’t even get acknowledged so given their previous statements, I think we can rule out any other localisations in the future

> @"Vancho.8750" said: > I'll laugh my kitten off if the Vanguard thing ends up being a grind on the current DRMs and there are no new ones. I’m thinking the same

> @"Cobalt Flame.8056" said: > We apologize for the confusion around the timing of these two events. To clarify, there is a one-week gap between the conclusion of the Crystal Bloom event and the beginning of the next event. The next event, mobilizing the Ebon Vanguard, will begin on December 1. If you haven't received your rewards from the Crystal Bloom yet, be sure to collect them from their representative in Eye of the North before December 1. The Ebon Vanguard is the only other faction event for this release. There will be more faction updates with the next release, arriving after the Wintersdsay festival sometime in the new year. We will be communicating additional information on Faction Event timing in the coming weeks. Whilst it remains a disappointingly low amount of content, thank you for the clarification. The additional information will be welcomed

They addressed this during the post-release Q&As - it's because at that particular time, they want players feeling like they had to grind for such an expensive, long collection. Personally I think it should be down to the players to decide if it is just achievement points as a reward, but they made a fair point

Not without relogging and a lot of luck Otherwise you need to taxi via a group. The game has no other way

Support are usually good at checking for these things and restoring if it’s deleted or not dropped at all for some reason Alternatively you could try - start a new toon through the story - Select a different path you haven’t unlocked yet - Try the instance again The chest drops the other 2 items for the other choices as well, so it might trigger a new chest if you unlock them and perhaps even drop the tack as an added extra.

> @"zethra.8491" said: > > @"Randulf.7614" said: > > Each banner collection can only be unlocked by a different toon - it's affected by the decision made at the council about who to support. So yes, you would need to run through 3 different characters and make 3 different decisions in order to unlock everything. > > > > If you haven't unlocked this collection, then you will need to do it on a different toon and vote for "asserting its independence". Then when you complete Crystalline Memories on ANY toon, it will drop the item > > pardon me if it wasn't clear,..I've unlocked "Amnoon Indepedence" and collected 13 of 14 items. > I'd like to know how to get This missing item. mentioned above ( didn't get it by replaying chapter ) Ah OK, no it wasn't clear. Search thorughly for 'Glint's Crystalline Chest' in your bank and inventories. Failing that, try a Support ticket

Each banner collection can only be unlocked by a different toon - it's affected by the decision made at the council about who to support. So yes, you would need to run through 3 different characters and make 3 different decisions in order to unlock everything. If you haven't unlocked this collection, then you will need to do it on a different toon and vote for "asserting its independence". Then when you complete Crystalline Memories on ANY toon, it will drop the item

> @"BadHealer.3608" said: > > @"Healix.5819" said: > > > > Is this for real or some sick joke? There are no new DRMs and no patch today (unless it is late ... maybe?!) and no new "community event" for this week? > > > Yes, it seems that we failed to reach tier 5 and the story wont progress. Well, maybe they lock later into it or maybe they are to busy with something else. > > It would have only been a week early if reaching T5 was going to affect it. Next week is the usual release cycle. > They did promise WEEKLY new content At no point did any promise get made, esp one about weekly content. Such misinformation is not helpful in encouraging better dev-community relations

Would it still work with mounts as a novelty?

So you want to collaborate on ideas on how to improve the existing guide? Because I'm sure plenty of people will be happy to pitch ideas. Better content guides and UI improvements have been suggested for years. Like I said, I'm not being snarky, but your opening post was a bit... odd As for ideas, I for one want to see a better - perhaps even 3D - map for HoT. Especially Tangled depths

Forgive me, I'm not trying to be snarky... but what actually is your idea? I see "better content guide" but I'm not really seeing any detail about the form that takes

> @"Sarpan.9074" said: > > @"Linken.6345" said: > > > @"Ashantara.8731" said: > > > > @"radda.8920" said: > > > > 10 DRM will come after these 3, and I already want to throw myself from a bridge after having only done 3. > > > > > > Oh my... Where did you read that information? I hope it's not accurate. 10?!? :cry: > > > > > > > This is really one of the most annoying and ridiculous things I've done in the game. > > > > > > What's even _more_ ridiculous is when groups are asking for LI for this type of content. :lol: > > > > I can understand that if you want to get through cms smoothly, I usualy do it with 3 other friends so we only get 1 pug. > > No need to ask for li then. > > I'm in the dark here. What is "li"? Legendary insight - a raid currency used to buy legendary armour and often used as “proof” of your experience

There are things to bear in mind - Anets team has changed. It lost a lot of employees and no longer has a Game Director. - Anet have been dropping communication levels since the SAB world 2 fiasco in 2013. Apart from some collaborative threads in 2014 and the work of Gaile gray later, communication is not something they good at or interested in. - All mmos suffer from inconsistent design decision and regularly drop things for new ideas. I cite LOTRO as a classic example - GW2 does receive a lot of content. The issue has never been a lack of pve content, but the quality has dropped because they’ve never really found a way to deliver consistent living story with the team size they have and deliver expansions. - the episodic format hasn’t really meshed with delivering a rich story, rather short and often underwhelming snippets jammed into an arbitrary release cadence - they clearly do not have the team size to deliver living world and expansion like they used to. - the game is 8 years old and not a AAA game. The fact it still has new content and a healthy player base is a testament for the things they have and still do get right. I’m as critical as anyone with their direction and rubbish communication and the Saga has largely been a let down for me. But we need to temper it with the age of the game and the declining size of the team. Its best is long past, but we still have a great game to play even if it never realised it’s potential.

> @"radda.8920" said: > > @"Astralporing.1957" said: > > > @"Blocki.4931" said: > > > Stop assuming the absolute worst. > > > Trust me, it can _always_ get worse. > > > Don't tell me scarlet will resurrect? > They did say EoD was the culmination of what was started in ls1 ;)

Yeah it seems fainter for some reason in chrome. It’s not a problem but I noticed the issue too Prob vanilla messing with stuff as always

> @"Linken.6345" said: > > @"Infusion.7149" said: > > > @"HotDelirium.7984" said: > > > Can I formally request all these Dragon Response Missions get a QA glance-over: > > > > > > 1) Fixing the Champions LFG to create parties instead of squads. > > > 2) Prevent the allies from constantly dying so fast. > > > 3) Allow the DRM to begin once all 3 mini-goals are completed. > > > 4)If we disconnect inside the instance allow us to get back inside the instance. > > > 5)For specifically Gendarran Fields, can you place 2 of the stationary allies in more strategic areas instead of where they are? > > > For the Norn allies: the jaguar and raven norn shaman are mostly out of the enemy's path. Also, since we fight the boss at three interludes, maybe allow one of the shaman to come and assist us during that interval. > > > > > > Thank you for your time! > > Re: your points: > > 1) The parties thing is especially problematic. Also even if all 5 people are in Eye of the North it is possible they do not get the popup for private instances. > > 2) Even playing full on healbrand the allies die almost instantly. > > 3) Either make it start and lock the mission once the mini-goals are finished for private groups or offer more stat "morale boosts". The reason for public missions to not start once the mini-goals are complete is possibly to make sure the party is filled. > > 4) disconnecting is an issue > > 5) The allies are more or less useless for all the missions if you have CMs on > > 5 from what I seen the only not useless npc is the veteran watchwork knights. Scarlet knew she was onto a winner when she nicked them

> @"videoboy.4162" said: > I didn't even know you could get help from the Norn. I've seen the Asura, Crystal Bloom, and Seraph only. They turn up in Gendarren as “the shapeshifters”

> @"Infusion.7149" said: > Not sure why anyone is surprised that the next episode is not out. The content schedule was already out on the website. > > The way I see it is the trade-ins are bonus content, the marks were even under the Bonus Event tab under achievements. It's not the next episode people are asking about. Each Chapter is stated to have content released in stages. Because there was a 6 day timer, the Ebon Vanguard is in the achievements listing for ths Chapter and because the story seems to imply to keep an eye on "new events" at the NPC, people logically assumed that when the 6 day timer expired we'd get the next section of Chapter 1, not Chapter 2

It seems we were, yes. If only Anet could maybe... communicate how this works, then it would save incorrect guesswork on our part Free build template on Friday though and a hat skin I can't decide is utter genius or the stupidest thing I've ever seen

> @"Junkpile.7439" said: > So how i get these volcanic stormcaller weapons? Wiki says that box can drop from "Bronze Rank Chest" at end of Dragon Response Missions. I still haven't got any. I think they are mega rare drops

Lounges are useful but I'd say their need to get has reduced since Eye of the North has come out. Yes lounges can have a few extra vendors (and vendors don't require "unlocking" first), but I'm not convinced they are worth the cost compared to access to EotN which has almost everything you need, plus access to current instanced content

Copper works like a basic. Silver o matic works like a rare Yes unbreakable tools work on everything Shared storage is very useful albeit very highly priced (imo) for a single slot. Material storage expanders are essential space clearers. I have up to 1500 stacks atm and it is a game changer for me