[Tempest class, New to the game]

On 9/8/2023 at 11:37 PM, AliamRationem.5172 said:

The painful weaver comment makes me sad.  So sad, in fact, that I decided to bring back an old build and update it for SotO.  Introducing the same old Trailblazer build from years past, with a new coat of polish!  3.2k armor, 21k health, but capable of over 25k DPS in actual solo gameplay!  But if you still decide weaver isn't for you, a build like this should be easily adapted to tempest or catalyst and whatever weapons you choose!

I loved playing weaver, i like moving! (power, never tried condi like your link) but since I mostly did pug fractals and strikes it was painful, because you just couldn't get the groove going since nobody was giving buffs. Found myself too often having to switch to tempest to carry the group more.

It's probably a lot easier now as more classes can give buffs as a side effect. 
Currently revisiting all with a cele kit just to get my head around the options now that you can mix and match weapons.

[Ridiculous latency spike issues]

It's most maps today, and the map chat is full of frustrated peopleThings just hang up for 3 to 10 seconds then back, as soon as there is damage to calculate especially if there is AOE or ambient damage to players.I know they have acknowledged "some" but it would be really helpful if they told us what we can report to help, because they must be losing players daily over this

[The Departing]

I have tried too many times, and the mission is rather long and there's nothing to do in most of it - it's to the point where I would rather go mop the kitchen than face that story again :(

[Any way to get through The Departing without being disconnected or glitched?]

I would assume that most people go through no problem, but for some of us, it just disconnects at the very last step "listen to joko" "tell him i need your army i dont need you" then I assume something must load/trigger, but for some bug it doesn't and we get disconnect message. Therefore the "has achieved story step" tick is not reached (and neither are the mission rewards). start over, same thing happens. over and over.

So by checkbox I think we mean that there should be a way for support to establish "yes, they played through" and then "trigger" whatever progress tracking happens (and ideally the rewards).

Alas in the game interface there is no way to report to support "I am stuck in personal story"

[Any way to get through The Departing without being disconnected or glitched?]

a friend in party? I might have to try that. But they can't do anything in that, can they, so I need a very nice friend as it wastes nearly an hour of game time.

[The Departing]

Still haven't been able to go past this either. Radeon R9 380.Does anyone have any insights if trying on another character helps? or a different computer with different hardware?

[Official Mount Adoption Feedback Thread [merged]]

So much entitlement. It's only been A DAY.

They could have trickled the skins as "single buy" - starting with the simple ones that are just "more dyes" and every few weeks releasing slighly more complex ones. Many would buy the "simple" skins if that was all there was, and then 4 weeks later a set of more "complex" ones and one and on etc... People would have paid 400 for many skins over time, probably bought a dozen or more.

They chose to make them all available at once which I think is cool. More diversity.

But once they did that, they could either make the super fancy skins very expensive (people would complain there too, yes?) or try something else. I think Arenanet tried to think of a mechanism that would feed mount skins in the system slowly, give people something to look forward to over a bit of time, so as to not have the same mount for everyone at the same time. They came up with this one. Giving people things to look forward to and grow over time, as people are always complaining there's not enough new skins etc.

I'd say give it time. Right now they are all on tickets but I suspect perhaps the plan is to have the option to buy single mount skin, perhaps as time specials.

"If I can't get exactly the skin I want right now I will quit the game" - seriously? But you would have paid 400 for the 4 dye "simple" skin if that is all they had released. But somehow just knowing there's other skins you might not get makes you fume? How vicious everyone is over skins when mounts are so great? This is "fear of missing out" gone mad.

Just wait, there will be more ways to get them eventually, I am sure!

Disclaimer: I am not a gambler and I am not a completist so I can resist many of the sink mechanics in games, like mini collections etc.

I love this game and I really respect that they try to get their income without selling distinct in-game advantage. So I now and then buy gems and spend them. Roughly twice a year, in a way I do it instead of "subscription" to keep the machine running. It's still cheap comparing to all the steam games I would buy if I didnt remember I am so hooked on GW2 I don't play them. GW2 remains a cheap gaming hobby.

I maxed out on useful things and I don't fancy wing skins (they make it harder to be precise in flight, usually) or outfits as I like to mix and match for originality, but I have bought some outfits, skins, and I even bought keys once or twice. I bought 2 mounts. Got the simple ones but not upset, i can dyes to match my characters and that is already fun. Though I might wait until I have the griffin to get more than a couple.