TheOrlyFactor.8341
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"Rumors of my incapacitation have been grossly exaggerated."
Decided to try to make a bit of an effort to post more around these parts (and make more productive/positive posts in stark contrast to my prior posting history). Used a guide to (re)make Zojja as close to her in-game appearance as possible. Her specific eye and skin colors aren't available so I'm working with the closest colors available based on a guide I used on the archived forums.
If I can stop being distracted and/or losing my muse to volatile mental/emotional instabilities I plan on doing a series of stories involving her and my other GW2 OC's.
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In what little time I played a Human female character (before I deleted her and rerolled her into an Asura female) I thought her voice was just fine.
The Norn female voice used to grate me a bit but over time it's grown on me and is actually quite fitting for my Pact Commander character.
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I'm also getting constantly disconnected from the game so you're not alone.
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I'd rather see an Asura-themed expansion than a Charr-themed one so I really like this.
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@Biff.5312 said:I have found that by instantly blocking obnoxious people in map chat, it's pretty easy to pare down what you're seeing to eliminate the garbage. Usually it's only a couple of people being annoying. You might be surprised how easy it is to get it to an acceptable state just using that tool.
Now if only we had a block function on the forums. :(
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@derd.6413 said:didn't anet say that a marriage system is off the table.
I sure hope they did.
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I would pay for a Home Gatherer Gizmo, would you?
Nah.
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I've also been having the same issue with regards to logging in today. It takes forever to actually log in, then load up into the game if it doesn't disconnect me first after super long loading times.
EDIT: It seems to have gotten better since this post.
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I can't find the song that plays upon entering Desert Highlands and Jahai Bluffs so here's my favorite track from Guild Wars 2.
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All I'm gonna say on the matter is that when I come up with names for (most of) my characters I try to go by their appropriate racial nomenclature based on the lore provided by Anet. I'm not gonna share them because I have 30 of them.
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@kharmin.7683 said:OP, do you realize why they make them this way? Can you imagine the chore it would be to make helmets show every combination of hair style, color, ears, horns, etc... ? I get the complaint, but the time/resources just aren't there.
This.
Don't get me wrong. I'd also like to see more armor that lets Asura ears flop around freely but I'd rather Anet prioritize that time/resources into other things, like keeping within the Living World release cadence.
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I always wondered what that song was called. Thanks @Maria Murtor.7253
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@Donari.5237 said:
@TheOrlyFactor.8341 said:@Tekoneiric.6817 said:I'm glad they fixed the one POI but The Consul's Tomb POI cost me a Teleport to Friend and I didn't even get a key from map complete.While I agree that it would be nice for Anet to do the same for The Consul's Tomb POI like they did for The Hammer's Hoard POI, there are more efficient, guaranteed, and less grindy ways to get keys.It's not necessarily for keys. You also get 25 map currency, which at least in Jahai is very handy -- meant it only took me a few days and learning a very efficient map completion path to get 750 currency for Requiem skins. I don't know the Keep well enough yet to know what I want out of map completion there but that currency has to be handy. And some people are completionists.I definitely agree. For me, map completion is a combination of completionist goals as well as for character story/role playing reasons. It's nice to get rewards from doing map completion but that's not why I do it.
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@Tekoneiric.6817 said:I'm glad they fixed the one POI but The Consul's Tomb POI cost me a Teleport to Friend and I didn't even get a key from map complete.
While I agree that it would be nice for Anet to do the same for The Consul's Tomb POI like they did for The Hammer's Hoard POI, there are more efficient, guaranteed, and less grindy ways to get keys.
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@Gop.8713 said:I don't really see how this is an issue. Map completion is being tied to events in the map. If you don't want to do the events, the items that give you map completion are tradeable on the tp. So players have multiple paths to achieve the goal of map completion and one of those paths is actually, y'know, playing the map. So where's the issue? It's not like some nefarious players swooped in and scooped up all the available items leaving the rest of us with no ready means for acquiring more. I'd say this choice represents a lesson well learned, so kudos to anet :)
If you actually read the thread you'd see that many people have brought up why this is an issue.
If you did read the thread then let me say the following: just because it's not an issue for you doesn't mean there's no issue.
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While we're talking about POI's locked away behind something, as far as I know The Consul's Tomb POI is only accessible via the story. If you try to take a character that hasn't done the story to that POI, you can't reach it.
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@Warscythes.9307 said:
@TheOrlyFactor.8341 said:@Warscythes.9307 said:You can buy the plate items off TP for accessing the POI, pretty sure that's all you need unless I missed something.Huh. I didn't know this. Guess I'm gonna have to get back in game and check this out.Don't buy it now, the bottom part is like 6-7g on buy. Wait for people to farm this a bit before buying it.Good point. Thanks. :)
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@Warscythes.9307 said:You can buy the plate items off TP for accessing the POI, pretty sure that's all you need unless I missed something.
Huh. I didn't know this. Guess I'm gonna have to get back in game and check this out.
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Gonna have to agree with OP on this. I got around to doing map completion after the story and I was only able to get the last POI because there was a Mesmer offering ports to the POI in question (always tip your Mesmers, btw). Having to wait around for meta events just to do map comp isn't fun. It wasn't fun back in the Orr days (it still isn't fun if you're doing Core Tyria map completion) and it's not fun now. The only difference between Orr maps and this map is that people still do Orr map metas on a semi-frequent basis. Unless Anet has some long term plans for this new map then getting map comp done will be very difficult when the next Living World episode drops.
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@Plexxing.2978 said:
BOOM!
You're the hero this game needs.
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@Strider Pj.2193 said:
@TheOrlyFactor.8341 said:@Danikat.8537 said:Wouldn't an official Discord be basically a second forum but with far less options for Anet to customise it?At least it would actually have a block feature. :^)Because looking away from a post is hard?Yep, just like showing restraint and not posting snide comments like yours is equally difficult, it seems.
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@Danikat.8537 said:Wouldn't an official Discord be basically a second forum but with far less options for Anet to customise it?
At least it would actually have a block feature. :^)
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In reference to other communities I'm a part of (which aren't that many since I don't play a lot of games), I'm going to have to say that things are mixed in terms of how "great" the community is. If you're playing with friends and/or a guild, you're going to have a much better time than someone who's running solo in anything. Also, like others have said, the more cooperative nature of the game does eliminate more toxic elements but they still manifest themselves in other ways. Overall, I think the experience is better in game than it is in online communities.
Additionally, online communities for this game, like the forums and the GW2 sub-Reddit, aren't a reasonable metric to determine how "great" a community is because most players don't actively participate in them. Most are playing the game and will likely never set foot in such communities, which I don't blame them for because nine times out of ten I often regret posting and even browsing those communities. Based on my experiences, the forums usually amount to non-constructive/deconstructive complaining about the game and multiple threads asking for the game to be like every other MMO on the market while the GW2 sub-Reddit is mostly flavor-of-the-month memes and clique-like nonsense that you either conform to for upvotes or get downvoted to oblivion.
Between those two, there really isn't a more middle ground, level-headed community for this game, which is a shame. It's either one bad extreme or the other and that, in my opinion, hurts the image of the game.
tl;dr - the community in game is a lot better than the online/forum/sub-Reddit communities so long as you're playing with friends and/or a guild.
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@"VAHNeunzehnsechundsiebzig.3618" said:sylvari cultural is all you ever need...
Nah.
Charr Players: How does your character feel about the alliance with Flame Legion?
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I don't have any Charr anymore but the one that I did have fully fleshed out before she met an untimely demise would have been happy to see those old wounds healed since, like Crecia, her parent(s) had ties to the Flame Legion and she, like Crecia, was an Elementalist.
She'd be less thrilled, but not surprised, to know what Bangar is up to though. She had a feeling it wasn't if but when he'd pull the stunt he did.