Lesser.6495

This needs to be reverted. There is no QoL in any way, it's the opposite. Two hours were good already. To fill the time from zero my way to go was teleporting to Arborstone, use the lift, fly with a griffon to Echo, use the charges, refill with both batteries and the lift, teleport to Arbor again, use the lift again and in combination with another battery get both protocols to 2h 13min or something. The protocol charge time has already been nerfed in the past so this patch was basicly just reverting that nerf. Using these boons is not because I need them to be able to do events. I use them to shorten things up when I am in the Open World. It speeds things up to finish dailies faster. It even speeds up interactions: opening chests, harvesting resources and so on. Trash mobs will be trash mobs, with or without extra boons. It simply makes it faster. With that 90 second cooldown I will love it, when I travel with one of the mounts, get hit accidently (rushing through a fight between another player and enemies, getting stuck and an enemy takes this oppotunity or you will get somehow in some kind of trap like in Crystal Desert (the wire traps in the casino event or the forged spike traps)) and have to wait 90 invisible seconds when I want to jump into something where I want to use alac or quickness. These boons don't even hurt. Against bigger enemies or mechanics that take more time, it is a one-time-buff anyway because the boons are only triggered when going into a battle stance anyway. The whole protocol stuff doesn't work in raids, fractals, dungeons and even story missions so people have to rely on meta builds anyway and cannot water down achievements in these areas. Without some of the boons, some activities will take more time now and this is NOT quality of life.

I also reached 1k laurels some time ago. I started buying boxes of legendary shards and try to make Exordium. I already built the first two weapons and I have nearly 150 shards in my inventory so Exordium doesn't need that long anymore. When I have 198, I'll craft the remaining two by myself and I am done 🙂 Looking at the crafting costs per shard, the laurels keep my mat storage and my mind in a peaceful state xD

A few weeks ago, when the Season of the Dragons began, I planned to also complete at least some of the LS achievements but some of them didn't work already. I noticed that achievements that aren't visible in the buff bar stayed as uncomplete after doing them like No Tricks in the Episode Entanglement even after completing the instance (some achievements are only granted after completion) while Mess with the Bull worked. I tried some more achievements in the instance The Concordia Incident but they all didn't work either so I stopped replaying the episodes. Today, I tried to get Super Sleuth from the Party Politics instance, eventually with a guide, but I didn't get the achievement after the episode. I don't understand why the progress is blocked (and is seemingly very picky which ones still might work) and wonder if I am the only one with this problem because I don't see other threads with that problem. I submitted another bug report before going into the forums but I assume that bug report will be ignored, too.

Especially with the new skimmer diving skill, Anet could create interesting underwater worlds. Sometimes, the fights can be a hassle and the skills are very limited. Sooner or later, we will deal with the deep sea dragon and I somehow expect actual water combat which needs definately work. Maybe Anet will do that for EoD. I think it was not coincidence that it took until the end of 2016 (LS3, A Crack in the Ice) until we finally got ascended water head gear.

Human noble is a fine substitution. There are some semi-skippable spots that makes it slightly faster. In the first mission after fighting the bandits that attack the party, just jump down where the home garden plots are usually located and run straight to the house Faren is being kept. Defeat the bandits at the house and after that, just jump on the table on the ground floor and press F. Faren is close enough to interact with him through the floor/ceiling.In the mission where you rescue the people in the cave near the water pump you can more or less just walk to the top and kill the leader.In the mission with Cin you can always kill the mobs before he demands your help but, except the situation with the spiders, ALWAYS leave one mob alive or you softlock the mission. When Cin moves to the fort, place yourself about in the middle of the battlefield to attack the "third" trebuchet first (right side) but wait until the tebuchets get their mission marker or you softlock the mission again. Just destroy the machines, walk back to Cin and talk to Logan afterwards and choose Zamon's house.In that mission, look which guard is being chosen by Logan (he will kill that in one hit) and kill the other one. Don't go up the stairs where the guards were standing, choose the other path. This way, you can always skip a tiny bit by jumping. Kill the guards outside as usual and talk to Zamon. The last mission isn't special I think.

I really wish the box at the vendor wouldn't cost 10g and 257 bubbles (which is a play with the glitched aspect though). Especially when several weapons on the TP don't even cost 10g. It would have been much better if the costs would be like 2g 5s 7c and 35 to 50 bubbles, my personal opinion.By the way: I continued to open 3 chests per day since my former post but I got no weapon.

I have opened about 50 to 60 chests so far and recieved 4 weapons, so it is an about 7% chance and decreasing for me. And of course these 4 are in the top 5 of the least value weapons on the BL market (mace, dagger, shortbow, pistol). My 5th weapon will be probably the guaranteed one from the achievement chest :/

I just wanted to post this here but I also know why it "opened itself". When I opened the 8th box after the end of a level, I got the first part of the achievement "Mercy of the Super Adventure" that shows a weapon box with a selectable weapon. The weapon I got was from the 8th box and gives you a random weapon.At least it was the pistol which is one of the skins I definitely want :)