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I did a quick preview of the shoulders when I got them and threw them straight in the bank until I see the rest of the outfit or realise I hate some shoulders currently equipped on someone. Now I see the giant butterfly and I want the giant butterfly.
Coriolanus
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While that could very well be true, and is such a plainly cynical view it warms my heart, if that were their goal they'd never have added the token wallet in the first place.
Which, of course, brings us to the point that they *really* should've already made all of that halloween crap, queen blitz badges, and bandit crests/keys be stored in the wallet. I mean, for fuck's sake.
Halloween, at least, was TP'able. The rest is account bound, so there really is no point besides "lewlz, buy moar bagz".
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
what's so special about Amber fort for loot?
Coriolanus
Banned
5 locked chests right outside it, i guess. People constantly popping shovels there, doing the wall reconstruct event for badges, buying more keys and popping more chests.
Coriolanus
Banned
Why make it instanced for so few people?
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
The rewards in the chest are kinda lame though, save for that exotic bag.
Inventory was bonkers prior to the token wallet. All bag slots unlocked, 20 slot bags and 2/3rd of my inventory was tokens because I was running multiple dungeons back to back. They gave us the wallet but introduced more currencies and other materials that take up space. Bloodstone dust. Everywhere. Blue and green items were added the value of "can be broken down into magic find" to give them a purpose for staying in the game, otherwise we would all be rolling our eyes when we get them.
Rather than a massive solution to the problem, they consistently give short term sporadic fixes for inventory issues / dumps of these influx items (gobbler, maudrey, infinite harvesting tools). A magic wand could be waved that stores it all into a pocket dimension, but I've been convinced since day one that inventory management is where they make a lot of money. It's the one gem shop item other than character slot that is a necessity and not a luxury. And if you have multiple characters you are going to need to keep getting bag slots.
Coriolanus
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The thing is... you don't.
Blues/Greens/Containers are so abundant that even with max bags you'd still have to stop, open crap, vendor grays, salvage 99% of what you get, vendor green runes/sigils, and the like. All that changes is for how long you'll do it. The more bags you have, the longer it'll take at once. If you've less bag slots, you'll simply have to do it more often, but for less time.
The argument for greens and blues being a source of %mf is equally meaningless, given that the bags could just, yknow, give raw luck and mats. Instead they prefer this "buy salvage kit, click on 25 shit items, deposit collectibles, vendor minor sigils/runes" loop which is just shitty busywork and adds nothing of value to the experience. Then there are the dungeon pouches. Why make the bosses drop unstackable token pouches? What is the fucking point? Just make the badges straight lootable from the boss's corpse, ffs. Same goes for the 2-3s money pouches. None of those things are avoidable with moar bags, all they'd do is prolong how long you'd have to do it once you finally hit capacity.
As for the ascended bloodstone and dragonite crap, i just started throwing those away once i hit 100 bricks of each >___>
Oh yeah, since we bitching about QoL improvements that they should've implemented ages ago, they should also move on already and make refinement available in bursts of 5/10/25/50/100 or whatever. Can't see what is the benefit of clicking "craft all" on a stack of mithril and alt-tabbing or pulling your phone out until the damn thing is done.
Blues/Greens/Containers are so abundant that even with max bags you'd still have to stop, open crap, vendor grays, salvage 99% of what you get, vendor green runes/sigils, and the like. All that changes is for how long you'll do it. The more bags you have, the longer it'll take at once. If you've less bag slots, you'll simply have to do it more often, but for less time.
The argument for greens and blues being a source of %mf is equally meaningless, given that the bags could just, yknow, give raw luck and mats. Instead they prefer this "buy salvage kit, click on 25 shit items, deposit collectibles, vendor minor sigils/runes" loop which is just shitty busywork and adds nothing of value to the experience. Then there are the dungeon pouches. Why make the bosses drop unstackable token pouches? What is the fucking point? Just make the badges straight lootable from the boss's corpse, ffs. Same goes for the 2-3s money pouches. None of those things are avoidable with moar bags, all they'd do is prolong how long you'd have to do it once you finally hit capacity.
As for the ascended bloodstone and dragonite crap, i just started throwing those away once i hit 100 bricks of each >___>
Oh yeah, since we bitching about QoL improvements that they should've implemented ages ago, they should also move on already and make refinement available in bursts of 5/10/25/50/100 or whatever. Can't see what is the benefit of clicking "craft all" on a stack of mithril and alt-tabbing or pulling your phone out until the damn thing is done.
You just outlined the heart and soul of the MMO genre.
Coriolanus
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theMrCravens
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I think we're waaaaay past that original concept.
They've been going all around with their design decisions since launch.
(casual one day, grindy the next, back to casual afterwards, grindy again)
edit: and the addition of Ascended stuff was a big FU in a way. I know some GAF like it, but still.
i heard that ascended were added because people wanted fucking grind.
( as if dungeon tokens werent enough already, not to say other mystic forge stuff)
i wish instead of grind, we got stuff trough challenges. like, to get lich set you'd have to fight lich bosses in mini dungeons, or even open world events.
just like in queensdale where you get that 6-slot orange bag.
( as if dungeon tokens werent enough already, not to say other mystic forge stuff)
i wish instead of grind, we got stuff trough challenges. like, to get lich set you'd have to fight lich bosses in mini dungeons, or even open world events.
just like in queensdale where you get that 6-slot orange bag.
Coriolanus
Banned
They've started to move in that direction with the ascended stuff you can get from completing LS cheevos.
now how do we ask for this?
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Get Kotaku to write an article.
Kos Luftar
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We can tell Colin that he better fix it or we won't play with him anymore.
You have my greatsword!
Coriolanus
Banned
More like a butter knife, rite? #lol
anyway
from the anet twitter
Yerp, that is rytlock.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
why is he blindfolded
does the mist make you go blind
does the mist make you go blind
I once got a "We'll fix that" from Colin after I forgot he was in the party when I was fucking around in chat with Soph at 3wurm. It's not fixed and I haven't played with Colin for ages.
Go to Plan B.
Kos Luftar
Member
Whats not fixed?
Coriolanus
Banned
Imo they'll fuck around with Destiny's Edge, trying to make those asshats more interesting. Seen nods in that direction with Caithe going harsh as fuck, which hints at a corruption and possible redemption arc, and now Blyndlok.
This is already a very highly upvoted reddit post and I agree
top comment mentioning "geodes etc." too. If the interface needs to be fixed the item could still be abstracted out (i.e., who cares how many you have until you're looking at the vendor to spend them?)
cool alright, we can figure stuff out on our own if necessary
ah point of no return is the next release it seems
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
hahah, jokes about Rytlock going Thrall and becoming a shaman is flying
pls anet don't do it
pls anet don't do it
Soph and I were moaning about our builds (conditions and crits respectively) being crap against structures, the wurm head we were headed to had plenty of them.
Kos Luftar
Member
What in the fuck are you saying?
Coriolanus
Banned
On a thread about leaks from the chinese version
We were going to the crimson wurm head to smash eggs.
It's how I get 77 pontos a day
pretty sure they were doing triple wurm and weren't as effective as possible due to using condi and high crit builds.
A couple traits for Elixir Gun also boost Flamethrower, just FYI. I thought that was kind of cool that I could swap over to a support role quickly without any major retraiting.
https://soundcloud.com/arenanet/sets/guild-wars-2-living-world-season-2-episode-5
The Gathering of the Pact is fucking awesome music. DAT INTERLUDE
The Gathering of the Pact is fucking awesome music. DAT INTERLUDE
LumpOfCole
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Rytlock becomes a Rytulalist
Cantha confirmed
Cantha confirmed
1 more for Spyware to level.
Kos Luftar
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It's already there. It's called an engineer.
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