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Yeah, I don't know what it is about that zone. I hate when I have to do it for map completion. It has a bunch of extremely nice areas so I dunno why really. Maybe it's all the samey-looking camps.
I can't imagine Adriaa not wearing an ascot.
human onion
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My least favorite zone is probably Kessex Hills. I hate how 3/5 races are funneled into it. It's really boring visually and the enemies you fight are uninteresting.
Ugh, yeah. That one "flows" pretty bad. Huge areas with nothing in them, hills in the way all the time and a "nooks and crannies" feel even tho it doesn't really fit the description when looking at the map.
In general I'm really not a fan of Kryta at all.
Hmmm what are the chances Windows 10 breaks the AHK mouse script for controller support? It gives problems in Windows 8, right?
Also, any zone with centaur is terrible. I do like Kessex Hills mostly for nostalgic purposes. When the game first came out the Bandit Foreman would wreck globs of players. Like, 20 guys all dead. But I was able to solo it no problem so I would run circles in the area grinding events for XP, always including that one for epeen points.
Also, any zone with centaur is terrible. I do like Kessex Hills mostly for nostalgic purposes. When the game first came out the Bandit Foreman would wreck globs of players. Like, 20 guys all dead. But I was able to solo it no problem so I would run circles in the area grinding events for XP, always including that one for epeen points.
Acting like Snowden Drifts ain't cool. Clearly you need to spend more time there.
Jotun all over the place, the absolutely batshit Jotun trading Heart (once you figure it out, it becomes easy and FUN), the Kodan and their Claw elections (getting upset by a Largos assassin which is an awesome fight 1v1)
Interesting and fun Icebrood quests, the sickass destroyed Owl shrine in the south east with one of the craziest jumping puzzles. You go there and learn Owl was literally fucking eaten by Jormag. Shit is metal.
edit: I'd like to see more southsun posters for a new update like this:
or this
Jotun all over the place, the absolutely batshit Jotun trading Heart (once you figure it out, it becomes easy and FUN), the Kodan and their Claw elections (getting upset by a Largos assassin which is an awesome fight 1v1)
Interesting and fun Icebrood quests, the sickass destroyed Owl shrine in the south east with one of the craziest jumping puzzles. You go there and learn Owl was literally fucking eaten by Jormag. Shit is metal.
edit: I'd like to see more southsun posters for a new update like this:
or this
Vigilant Walrus
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I love Harathi Hinterlands. It's a very dense zone that feels like a warzone. the spacious layout is really nice, and the whole chain event with the modnir high chief is fantastic. There is a good flow with many centaur kills. It's my favorite zerg.
I used to love Kessex Hills but grown bored with it in recent times.
I also really like Orr and Southsun. They deserve to be packed.
I used to love Kessex Hills but grown bored with it in recent times.
I also really like Orr and Southsun. They deserve to be packed.
appletoasty
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I think Caledon is my favourite zone. It's so lush and pretty. Maelstrom is good too.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/38e6ef/naked_dungeon_challenge/
Let's go streaking
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/38e6ef/naked_dungeon_challenge/
Let's go streaking
People were saying that it's been a while since the last guild event.
That's right. Thanks you. Man that was frustrating. Harathi Hinterlands.
I appreciate the nice big Meta event cutting a swath across it but it's sooo drab, so much brown. so much centaurs.
I'm game, sounds like fun.
I like Snowden a lot actually (my alts all seem to end up there fairly early on), and I think it's because there's almost a unifying theme if you dig deep enough, but it's not immediately apparent and there are things that distract from it that could have easily made things mesh better.
You've got two Svanir-occupied steads, but there's also one that's been nearly abandoned (Torstvedt Homestead) that's really depressing; only a single Norn and his son remain, the place is in disrepair and they even let their Dolyaks stay inside the stead because it calms them down. The father talks about how everyone has either been killed, left, or "more than I'd like to admit joined the Svanir." There's a big cluster of Jormag's corruption to the north that frequently attacks the other nearby stead too.
There's also a corrupted Haven, which one of the renown hearts deals with by having you light torches to mark a detour around it (and deal with the Jotun the detour passes near). If you look at the world map, it's pretty clear Snowden is part of the trade route between Lion's Arch and Ascalon, and all of the havens and such along the road kind of imply it's importance. The Kodan and Quaggans also have their own fairly substantial villages in the south where they talk about Jormag driving them further south.
Finally, there's the big one that Ash mentioned; the abandoned Owl's Lodge in the Southeast corner. Owl was a minor Norn Spirit who stayed behind (along with Ox, Wolverine and Eagle) to give the Norn more time to escape Jormag, but Owl is the only one confirmed to have been killed (the status of the others are unknown, according to the wiki). Her lodge has been destroyed and the nearby Svanir show up occasionally to desecrate it further.
The whole zone feels like it was meant to demonstrate Jormag's ability to corrupt, and except for a few places (the Centaurs in the northwest, notably, but the Jotun also feel out of place and should have really been Sons of Svanir) it's hanging over everything. The problem is that you have to slow down and talk to NPCs to get more than just a sense of it.
It's funny; I have exactly one Norn character but I find their lore to be the most interesting of the five races.
I love Mount Maelstrom too, that's one of the zones I'm always very eager to get to when leveling alts. The northern slope of the volcano is just perfect with the lava flows being reclaimed by the jungle... I've seen pictures in National Geographic of places like that and they absolutely nailed it. I also like how dense the jungle feels (parts of Caledon are similar, but the western part of Maelstrom, especially the northwest, is wonderful) and I hope the jungle areas of HoT end up feeling that way.
It's not amongst my favorites, but I don't think I'd go so far as to say I hate it. I like the constant push-and-pull between the humans and centaurs, sort of like a miniature, less interesting version of Orr. There's enough lore nuggets (Holy Demetra, for example, but Seraph's Landing has a lot of NPC chatter too) to keep me interested, and the areas away from the Centaur stuff (Skritt areas in the North, parts of the Southwest) are alright. It's almost a case of the zone's theme being too specific because all everyone remembers of it is "Oh god, fighting ugly Centaurs in their ugly villages everywhere."
That so few people go there and so much of the map is focused on Centaur stuff means there's a lot of little things people haven't seen. I showed Ike the hidden event chain in Hidden Ourobon recently, there's a cool area with ghost Dolyaks and bandits in the east, and a cleverly deceptive event with bandits in the west. Plus, Ghost Wolves is the best Rush.
I like Kessex simply on the principle that it's been changed by the Living Story in a fairly significant way. It's an alright zone with one of my favorite jumping puzzles (Ruined Observatory) and towns (Garrenhoff), and I like the various settlements around the lake, but otherwise, yes. It has a very poor flow and things are a tad spread out for my tastes.
It's not in a particularly mountainous region of the map and everything suggests it should be more lowlands rather than hilly. It might have been more interesting if the Dominion of Winds wasn't there and it could flow straight down to the sea. /shrug
People were asking about this in Guild Chat when I brought it up, sorry for the double post;
Since they're concerned with keeping you informed about the cooldown of skills like this, perhaps this is what the mysterious warrior F2 is about; showing you the CD of the Burst Skill on your second weapon set.
Since they're concerned with keeping you informed about the cooldown of skills like this, perhaps this is what the mysterious warrior F2 is about; showing you the CD of the Burst Skill on your second weapon set.
It's why I tried to clarify and be more specific. It has the same initial depth as conquest; there are a lot of options and counters that you have to consider at the beginning, from rotations, NPC spawning, and the two trebs alone that I'm making the assumption the full undiscovered depth is going to be comparable to Conquest. But you can't disagree that that initial set of options is wide, and the crux of the argument I'm making is that because of all this stuff going on it probably won't dramatically increase the PvP population over the long term. It's because of that depth that people see it as replacing conquest and adding to GW2's eSports potential.
So I'd rather live with a possible 3v3 that increases the PvP population significantly even if it adds nothing to GW2 eSports potential. I put it out there specifically because it wouldn't. Just like the random arenas of GW1 were often just team deathmatch because it was easy to handle from a casual experience, but the competitive GvG had double players and objectives to consider.
And I disagree that 3v3 would unbalance things very much when in Conquest right now it's designed to split people up into 3v3 or less much of the time. And then very few class setups can survive for long in the middle of a big 5v5 setup and the ones that can't would be improved in a 3v3 setup without considerably weakening the rest.
Lucky for me I do understand code speak, lol. I started it yesterday but have only gotten through about 18% of it. The fact that I haven't really studied other AI systems means that I don't have a lot of context of how innovative it is, but the implementation I've seen so far is very intuitive. The first of the four core parts of the presentation is the Infinite Axis System, which just means they can program an infinite number of considerations, or Axis (e.g. how close is the player, what are its health values, how are various allies doing, how close is that wall, is that cover close enough to be worth running to), create a value for each of those Axis using basic mathematical functions to define the spectrum of importance, then find the mathematical product of all those considerations together and use that product to decide which action to do, with that product being able to be changed second by second.
They also explicitly said early on that they needed to design this system with less overhead, which likely means this was one of the ways they gained computing bandwidth to add more conditions (i.e. Poison and Burning) to the intensity stacking pie. The verdict is still out on Bleeds, and I'm wondering how mecessary it would be to have them stack higher when you can spread damaging condition between classes with Bleed, Poison, Burn, Confusion, and Torment. Then again, what happens in situations when you have multiple of the same class stacking the same conditions...
This alone is a game changer for me and how I play Thief.
appletoasty
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No more throwing gunk just to get the gap closer/Thrill of the Crime proc back and messing up fields, yay
Melee staff throwing out healing orbs on the auto attack sounds great, but I'm not sure about the Ventari stance... having to move around an object which all of your skills revolve around reminds me of getting stuck with the Fuckbucket in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. If it moves slow, and there isn't a trait to speed it up, it might be a little annoying. I'll have to see how it works...
Yeah, it seems odd to give rangers another ranged weapon when all they really have is 1h sword and greatsword (and dagger, I guess ). They do say "revenant will be the first profession to use the staff as a melee weapon in Guild Wars 2" though... first, but maybe not the last?
Seems like a shot in the dark, but here's hoping.
We did see the Druid in the trailer during the announcement shooting something with his staff, so maybe not?
A lot of the staves actually in the game will look weird wielded as melee weapons, particularly the ascended ones.
Just hoping the idle animation is the staff one, so I can feel good about making a Charr Revenant
But I better get cracking on a name, cause I still haven't found one for my Thief
Just hoping the idle animation is the staff one, so I can feel good about making a Charr Revenant
But I better get cracking on a name, cause I still haven't found one for my Thief
I dunno what we saw; it looked like he was shooting vines along the ground, but his pet was also charging at the same time too. We'll have to wait and see, I guess, but maybe it's a mix of ranged and melee.
A lot of the staves actually in the game will look weird wielded as melee weapons, particularly the ascended ones.
Just hoping the idle animation is the staff one, so I can feel good about making a Charr Revenant
But I better get cracking on a name, cause I still haven't found one for my Thief
Actually, that raises an interesting point; Melee Staff is probably going to require a whole new set of animations. If they throw Melee Staff to another class, that gets more mileage out of the new animation, right? Eh, that's a little tinfoil hat-y, but it's something. =p
Hmmm, I was planning to go Female Norn Revenant, but I'm not sure of their staff animations... hmm.
Gonna be honest. I'm not really liking the sounds of the Ventari legend skills. I thought Revenant was going to be all about legend swapping and be dynamic through 'stance dancing'. But this Ventari legend doesn't seem conducive to that kind of play style. It also seems really clunky. First you have to activate the legend. Then you have to activate the skill. And then you are effectively rooted while you use the actual skills. Eh...
I will withhold final judgement until I see it played and maybe play it myself. But this doesn't sound appealing at all.
I will withhold final judgement until I see it played and maybe play it myself. But this doesn't sound appealing at all.
appletoasty
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Where does it say/imply you're effectively rooted? The leash range for the tablet disappearing is probably bigger than you think.
Ventari sounds like it'll be mechanically similar to Orianna from League of Legends and she is ridiculously fun. If this feels like Ori I might be more interested in revenant than I was before, but they're two very different games. We'll see.
I guess they want to emphasize that Rangers are masters at ranges? I kid.
The Ventari Legend for Revenant is essentially one big minion/turret skill set for them.
Then again, I haven't tried the Revenant at all yet.
The Ventari Legend for Revenant is essentially one big minion/turret skill set for them.
Honestly, this is a general problem with the Revenant already. The weapon sets they've shown tie very well with a single Legend each, but you only get to bring one weapon set. So much of the time your weapon will be really good for one Legend and okay for another, or just pretty good for both at best. I need to see more synergy between weapons and different Legends.
Then again, I haven't tried the Revenant at all yet.
It could just be a weapon skill (2-5). Guardian hammer 3 shoots a projectile for the immobilize even though the autos are melee.
Article on Revenant Lore: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/hidden-arcana-role-playing-the-revenant/
I hadn't at all thought about the ramifications of actually calling these past heroes back into existence to see how the world has changed since their death. What will Ventari say about the Sylvari? What happens with Sylvari Revenent?
I hadn't at all thought about the ramifications of actually calling these past heroes back into existence to see how the world has changed since their death. What will Ventari say about the Sylvari? What happens with Sylvari Revenent?
S/F or GS is fine for leveling.
And at 80?
GS/Staff will be my new build once they push out the trait changes. Symbol Guardian will be a glorious thing
Vigilant Walrus
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I had no ideas your legend would be talking during your adventures.
Can you use a Legend with any weapon or doyu have to use the staff only with Ventari?
Can you use a Legend with any weapon or doyu have to use the staff only with Ventari?
You can use any weapon with any legend.
I worry about the weapons being "preferred" by legends and not having synergy with other ones like Proven was talking about.
Yeah, it's definitely something to watch out for. So far we know only two Staff skills; one is a cleave attack at the end of the auto-attack chain that generates health orbs and the other is a leap/knockback combo. So far both of those sound like they'd mesh with normal gameplay regardless of which Legend you're using.
Besides, we kind of have that now; certain weapons are better suited to specific tasks, even if they are 'off-spec'. It's going to be more dramatic with Revenants since you're limited to one weapon and two pre-determined utility setups, but I'm hoping the skill design is flexible enough that it doesn't feel too compartmentalized.
We'll have to see. There's still two more Stances left (Shiro and Glint, if That_Shaman's data is correct), not to mention more weapon choices (MH Sword, OH Dagger and Shield). Dunno if that includes their Elite Spec options or not either.
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