Wintermute.5408

It's ok, I prefer to beat souls out of people anyway. Just need to put in effort.

Well. I guess it was only a question of time before final branch of Bioware is put into the grave. It's like every major publisher or studio is on a quest to replace their human staff with literal apes -_-

Just out of curiosity, what did they pull this time? I left SWTOR after disaster of 4.0, but it seemed to recover from that kitten-show.

To the same HT CM that's supposedly the hardest piece of PVE content in the game? Sure m8. Smooth curve.

I think there's a difficulty gap with this one. Strikes are supposed to be EZ training mode. That's fair. Then the CMs, my impression, were meant to be normal raid difficulty. Which most of them are. That would make the current 4 strikes into a proper full wing content-wise. Instead we get a CM that's above raid CMs in difficulty. I'm not against that kind of content as long as there are no practical reasons to do it. But I honestly think this level of difficulty should be reserved for strikes under "nightmare mode" or something, while CM strikes should be within the difficulty range of normal difficulty raids. Then again, looking at raids and fractals, anet isn't familiar with difficulty curve concept anyway.

Path of Fire will be MUCH more value for your money. The mounts alone are game-changing, and overall, it's the better expac of the 2. Only get EOD if you're really into 10-man PVE endgame content, because, frankly, it's the only part of the expac that's genuinely good. There's not much content in it to hop onto otherwise.

I've played them pre-nerfs, and I honestly don't remember them being that bad. Maybe Dragon's stand. i recall all of them had a decent enough amount of loot to gather even if meta failed.

kitten. No. Sitting through EOD opening, and the cringe-worthy asura "romance", was already horrible enough. Anet can't write characters. Even the moderately not-terrible stuff, like Jory/Kas romance, is just boring, and has no impact or depth to it. I'm not playing emotional counselor. I'm a motherkittening commander of a motherkittening pact, the slayer of dragons. And that's where the game reaches its narrative heights. Which aren't that high to begin with, let's be honest.

Finally, we’re happy to confirm that we’re working on the next story update for Guild Wars 2, including a new map set in the Cantha region. That's from their studio update. Sure, they might call it differently, like they did with IBS, but it's still living world content structure.

Amazing game design by anet to provoke this. This is literally the first case in game history where I can recall players hiding from each other, and having clash of interests with folks just exploring -_-

Man, I thought necro community to be masochistic. But taking your class and asking for one of the worst clas mechanics in the game is so... warrior, really.

You do realize that quickness harbinger of all things has more DPS than power reaper? And don't get me started on reliability and scourge. This is a joke.

I mean, maybe queen is into them. We have a running joke with friends that all the mesmers in story are lesbians. Because most of them are anyway.

Hey, a complaint as legit as any.

Just to clarify. The original question was "but what of those who paid for the episodes if they go free on steam". The answer, IMHO, should be "nothing", just like how it was with vanilla transition to F2P. Maybe comsetics - sure, why not. https://imgur.com/a/o1aGf5f

I mean, I'd be up for cosmetic freebies. Otherwise, I really don't see how this is different. If anything, the number of people who got episodes for free on their releases is probably more than those who scored vanilla refunds.

And what happened to those who have paid money to get vanilla game? Right, nothing.

To be honest, they don't need to do anything to EoD. Most of its problems are map-contained. As long as devs can iron out map design, they can just make a new LW map proper and move on.

Ok, let me try one last time. After that, I swear, I'll give up replying. Our unfortunate conversation chain started with argument on raid legendary collections. Not full legendary craft - collections. For some reason, you attribute a lot of "sense of pride and accomplishment" to those collections. The case with said sense is, usually, the feeling of exclusivity and being better than those lowly scrubs. However, let's examine the ways by which you could get those unlocks before the "infantile" mode even was a thing. 1)You could get hardcarried, while being actual bottom-feeding trash. I've run my share of wildly different trainings, and often we had a guy that clearly didn't "deserve" the unlock from Xera or even Dhuum. They still got them, legit way, because that's the rules setup by anet for most of those collections. 2)You could ask your friends/guildies to do the same carrying for you because you're just good friends. Surely that's a "legit" way to get unlock, that doesn't involve either blatant leeching or price tag? 3)You could just buy a carry run. Which - big news - is also perfectly within the game rules, and there is no viable enforcement to be made against it. Even if anet goes kitten mode and bans raid selling - what's going to stop me from randomly gifting a guild with mystic coins, and then them randomly deciding to invite me for a run? 4)Then there is a case of just dying during the boss fight, without intent, as normal people do from time to time. Now, tell me, did any of those ways to get collection unlocks diminish your sense of pride and accomplishment? Oh, they did? Too bad I guess, because all of them are perfectly legit, while demanding close to 0 effort from person doing them. Less effort than emboldened mode does. Do bear in mind, that those collections actually require full clears from them, one way or the other. They WILL kill Deimos, Xera and Dhuum, or they won't get kitten from respective collections. And they WILL learn mechanics, which is the endgame of this whole thing. You are asking to punish people who were scared away from raiding to begin with, because they "aren't worthy" or something. Yet there are so many ways to get the very same things with even less effort it's not even funny. Or do you think you personally are in position to dictate who gets what in the raid based on their "effort"? Sorry m8, you're playing a wrong MMO then. And yes, disabling achievements is punishment, which would set up amazing starting ground for newbs if people like OP had their way. "Oh, you cleared all 7 wings in emboldened mode? Still not good enough for big boy raiding, you casual trash, gtfo and get REAL 69 thousand KP". Yay.

RIP LI groups. Long live banana raiding.

I really don't want those devs touching necro any more. I'm perfectly happy with my classes safe and hidden in balance limbo, thank you very much.

It doesn't matter whether you agree that it's fine or not. Raid selling is reality. Within said reality, there are no grounds to give a kitten if bunch of noobs actually get to clear an "easy mode" raid and get rewards for it. And "easy" should really be put in quotations, because, thinking on it, Emboldened will make Statues of Grenth so much fun...

This guy gets it.

I just disagree it was any kind of "achievement" to begin with. Leg armor/ring itself? Sure, it requires consistent clearing, and it's not something that can easily be done just on emboldeneds alone. Collection unlocks? Nah. You could literally pay your way through most of them. Which, within the context of this fantastic thread, turns into a question "who the kitten cares anyway".

There is no ahievement in legendary gear unlocks. You could pay and get carried by the sellers anyway, and get your collection done. Or just hit a floor mid-fight and still get "clear", as I did with Q1. Muh crowning achievement. If people aren't able to do mechanics, they will never clear Sabetha/Deimos/Dhuum/Q1 no matter how big of a buff they get. If they can do mechanics, they are half-way there anyway.