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What I could see are legendary glyphs. Especially because Arenanet mentioned lately, that all stats for future legendarys will be needed to be unlocked ingame. But I am afrait the gathering tools themself are a too huge part of their gemstore financing model.

I was really impressed by Mabons death. Mainly because it seems, after so many years, after so many mistakes with Belinda, Blish and all the other unimportant character deaths, Arenanet is still unable to learn, and to improve in this specific part of story telling. I don't understand the rush at all. The last story update was way to short for a 3 months break. Why didn't they simply give Mabon a little bit more screentime with some more story missions.

Why should focus or scepter don't fit a warrior? I did also never expect to see a mesmer with shield, a thief with scepter or a ele with hammer. And yet we got them all. It has always been the purpose of new unlocked weapons for classes to be unexpected creative and to think with their design outside of the box. And I can see why ArenaNet avoids as long as posible to create new weapon types. GW2 is special in the way that every weapon has totally unik skills for every class. If the warrior got 3 totally new, never in the game seen before skills with the scepter, or if he got 3 totally new, never in the game seen before skills with a fan. For the players that doesn't make such a huge difference. They got either way a new gameplay experiences. But for the developers the scepter saves a lot of time, work and resources that can be invested in other features.

The thing is we have a huge problem with the loss of value on the materials in GW2. We are litteraly overflooded by them. Some years in the past mithrill was worth over 3 silver, nowadays only 40 copper. ArenaNet tries many things to reduce the amount of the materials in the game. By holding the special event to throw them in the mystic forge for extra chests, to exchange them for keys in dizzlewood coast, or for provisioner tokens in the SotO maps. The research papers are just another method. The idea behind them is that the players buy always the currently cheapest materials for crafting from the blacklion store, so that the econemy can kinda balance itself out. I can only give you the advice to search for some research paper calculators, that can thell you the currently cheapest methods to gather them.

Just a reminder, now that the most people know what to do, the meta can't technical fail anymore if you join a coordinated squad.

Ah, ok. Thank you for the clarification. Since I had my skyscale for years, I wasn't really able to see that it works exactly that way for new players. But even if so, SotO only players still have to finish this collection to use their skyscales in the open world and at the end of the day that's the most important part for the most players. That is the first time in the history of GW2 that you can level your masteries before truely unlocking your mount.

To be fair, I wrote this before the official release of SotO, and thanks to ArenaNets lackluster Information sharing, we all only could speculate. And I assumed it would be the same case as with the mounts and glider from EoD. But I never mentioned the skin collection, I spoke about the egg hunt and hatching collection to earn your own skyscsle. And even if I couldn't find some official confirmation on the wiki, I did hear from some players that with the PoF collection you can skill PoF and SotO masterys but with the SotO Mastery you can't unlock the PoF ones.

You should start with the legendary amulet from completing all 'return to' achievments in the side storys. And you can buy the legendary weapon starter kit from die wizards vault.

Arenanet did clarify since the beginning, that they can't bring all relics from the start, and that they will add them bit by bit

People are so over dramatic

You can only unlock the PoF mastery with the PoF collection and the SotO mastery only with the SotO collection. So you have to finish both collections to unlock both masterys and get your benefits.

Concratz. ...But the PoF collection stays the same way it is now. There are no changes at all for it. Anet only added a alternate collection for the skyscale and most of its masterys in SotO. If you finish both collections in both addons, your skyscale got stronger in their wall launch and in air rescue they got extra buffs.

The chests won't change their contents tomorrow, or at all. No one can say at the moment what will be exactly required for the legendary armor. But until now, not a single existing legendary is craftable without mystic cloves. So it would be very strange if Anet changes this now. Even if you use your chest for other things, Anet already confirmed that you can get your cloves also with the new system. You also have more than enough time for this, because the armor will be released in the first quarterly patch, i would asume in novembre.

I asume the wizards vault reward system will also be released in August?

I realy don't know why people keep this comparison, when the new system was clearly designed to avoid many problems of the IBS. The designers are no longer forced to cut the second half of a living story, at least 3 episodes, and to replace them with a bad and rushed 'champions' filler, because they have time pressure to make the next addon. You don't get 2/3 of the expansions in August, you get 1/4. The trimestial updates will all be bigger, with new maps, new story parts and maybe new masterys and other extras, even if we don't have many information for later updates at this moment. And all the updates are included in the addon price. You don't have to pay them afterwards, like with LS 2 zo IBS.

You are lucky. In general the greatsword is one of the most utilized weapons for power builds out there. Warrior, guardian, mesmer and ranger, all of them can use the greatsword in their endgame builds with e specs. My personal favourite of this four is the mesmer. But if you can wait until your first e spec, or until SotO is released and you can unlock all e spec weapons for the core class, greatsword necro is without a doupt the coolest play style.

I asume ArenaNet treats the Skyscale the same way they treated the raptor and springer. You can unlock them both with EoD, but in this way you can't use their masterys. And even if you buy PoF afterwards, you are still forced to play until the point you would "unlock" them, to skill their masterys. If you want to skill your EoD raptor, you have to finish the first PoF Story chapter. If you want to skill your EoD springer, you have to spent 1 gold to the desert highlands heart. In this way, even if players unlock the skyscale in SotO, if they want to use the wall climbing, the midair mounting and the rift flying puzzles, they are still forced to finish the LS4 collection. And particularly without the wall climbing, the skyscale is only mediocre.

No, I don't have this Problem at all. But I am a person that has 27 Charakters, 3 per class. So i can easily split all elite specs and their builds between them up. Sine the build slots and the equipment slots cost 300 and 400 gems, and per 800 gem character slot you get both of them twice, in most cases this is the cheapier way.

I highly asume, this decision is a direct response to WoWs Dragonflight. If Blizzard starts to copie so shameless from ArenaNet, they can't rest on the laurels of their old mounts any longer and they have to show, that GW2 is and stays the superior dragon fly mmorpg.

I wouln't mind a generell texture update for base game. Not only for legendarys, also for other weapons, armors, the open world and also the characters themself. If i compare the fur of my charrs with the texture details of the newest armors, I could cry.

The drummer in Club Cannach is a member of Metal Legion from the Grothmar concert.

Yeah, it is your right to have this opinion. And i am sure, there are many other people who thing the same. But aesthetic likes or dislikes are always subjective and in no way meaningfull to say if other people could like this content or not. What is about all the other points i did mention?

I personally believe there are two main reasons why EoD has been reviewed so mixed. 1st. The people expected a Guild Wars 1 Factions 2.0, but ArenaNet decited to change Cantha totally in the 260 years difference. You have to be okay with the cyberpunk aesthetic. 2nd. The people are spoiled from HoT and PoF. Gliding did totally change the playstyle and our mount system is the best in the world of mmos. But you can set the bar only that high and ArenaNet simply can't outperform themself in every new Addon with innovation. All i can say, I personaly really enjoied EoD, up to this date. Even if it is not perfect (but neither are HoT or PoF). The story was great. Saitung is a fantastic first map. New Kaineng is for me the prettiest of the maps, but the events are repetitive and boring. Echowald was aestheticly the most lackluster, but has by far the best events and interesting activities. Dragons End is mainly a meta map. In the past it got a lot of hate because of its difficulty. But nowadays the people know the mechanics, and as long as you join a sqad it's a no-brainer. But not everyone has the time to spend 2 hours on a single meta. Dragons stand from HoT has the same problem. Generally every Meta in EoD is still activly done (in differnce to PoF) EoD has by far the most after credits activities, thanks to lovely side quests in arborstone with Snargle Goldclaw, Majoris sisters, Ramas ancestors, Canachs club and so much more. But none of them has nearly as much impect as the griffon in PoF.

I asume this is the this years april's fool event, especially because the achievment is under the festivals category.

I mean... yeah, i was also a bit disapointmet about how short this story update was. But don't you think it's way to early to judge already about the new, not even existing system? This didn't had anything to do with the new 'mini' expansions. The actual chapter is only a epilog of EoD, it foreshadows the next main villian and buys Anet a little more time to change their company structure for the future. And no one ever said, the new mini expancions wouldn't include new ESpecs, Masterys or other totally new interesting stuff. Story in expansions and only fractals and strikes in the 1 or 2 years in between is a shockingly bad idea in my personal opinion.