America.9437

ah i see your problem. yor expecting nothing. and nothing is something. so you get disappointed when that something which is nothing occurs. it better to have no expectations rather than to expect nothing ? also, something something and land wars in asia when death is on the line. memory is foggy and im out of iocane powder.

Unfortunately Anet crossed that Rubicon by adding mounts. Anyone who played WoW back in the day knows what was lost when flying mounts entered that game. EoD should have been the flying mount expansion. Im glad Anet has finally figure it out. In fact, I'd make a map or xpac with no "core" ground. Just and endless loop of space bent in on itself due to xyz plot device with various cloud city oasis scatterd about. But my ideas take time to ripple through the matrix. So i take what I can get.

I bought the Macaw wings last year with real $ cause I was like "those are cool". People getting them for free this month in no way affected my purchase. Zero. In fact I'm happy. Good on Anet for that! So why the drama for Skyscale? Perhaps Anet could rainbow color it so yall stop complaining.

name the 4 things there's 2 requirements: 1) its as easy to obtain as the raptor was for PoF 2) its not a discounted version of the current skyscale so name the 4 things or admit that you are wrong or willfully obtuse or intentionally trying to gaslight. its ok. ive been wrong thousands of times in my life.

"a lot of requirements" making the new skyscale obtainable in the intro and making it functionally on par with current skyscale is "a lot of requirements" since when are 2 things "a lot"? edit: like if 2 things are "a lot" your mind is gonna be blown with the number 3

what im saying is this: if those that have the skyscale now will have lets say a flying speed factor of 1.0 with the new content and if those that Dont have the skyscale now will have lets say a flying speed factor of 0.8 with the new content unless they go back and grind the old skyscale content for the extra 0.2 well then thats a "nah dog, nope"

im just sayin if the streamline isnt as streamed as raptor was for PoF, im not buying if this "welfare" version of skyscale is a g imped version of the current skyscale, im not buying i am content to go spend my time and money elsewhere so i'd like to know now and not be baited and switched

It wasn't given away, it was integrated into the beginning of the story. So if this new collection they require us to go on takes more than 1 hour to get that mount or somehow isn't integrated with the story, its gonna be a "nah dog, not doin it" for me.

When they say "Streamlined" it better be as effortless as getting the Raptor was in PoF.

I wonder what they mean by "Streamlined". If it is as streamlined as the raptor was if PoF, I'll buy the content. If its gonna take me an a boring achievement/collection hunt that requires hours and hours to obtain, forget it.

1) do we Need flying mounts for this content 2) am I going to be given one if #1 is true 3) if I am given one will it be a kitten version of the skyscale or griffon? Cause if it reaches #3 I'm not buying the content.

I'm 50 years old. I was just casually playing this game. I was not expecting too much; just to have an ok/fun time doing simple things. I love GW2 because I like to play computer DnD games(been playing DnD computer type games for like 35+ years). I love the art in this game so much. Like I really love the GW2 setting. I like the feeling of having a 3d avatar and doing swords and sorcery. And I really love the action combat in GW2; except for the mob aoe spam which made me feel like I needed permanent dodges, swiftness and quickness. But, I hit my limit with Sanctum Scramble and it has broken me. LoL, I raged quit and uninstalled the game. (Didnt delete toons like when I rage quite WoW. I'm never ever playing that game again. That game is toxic. LoL) I had everything I needed for Glints Bastion on my Revenant. But I just needed Bronze on this stupid adventure and I just couldn't do it. I spent a lot of time on this game (2.9k hours), playing it unoptimally because I rarely/never grouped up for the harder contents. I never did a single raid, strike or fractal. I did the dungeons when core Tyria was a thing; but I rarely did them cause I just could not stand the toxicity of instanced content (in this or any online game). I can't get group kicked out of a map for gathering herbs so I just stayed in my lane. I did the metas if they just so happened to coincide with what I was doing; but I didn't map hop and seek them out. If the meta failed, its was not a big deal cause honestly the rewards weren't really what I was seeking. The only time I actively grouped up to play was for unranked PvP; which I found extremely fun for a daily distraction from the solo grind. Occasionally I'd 1v1 and come out on top; but mostly the fights were lost before they started, lol. So I just settled for support builds on my warrior. I didn't mind supporting other people, found it actually kinda fun. I know my limits and don't think of myself as Billy Bad - kitten; those days are gone if ever they were a thing. I also didn't expect Legendaries. Those were beyond my skill set. I would just go about my singular tasks, doing things here and there, occasionally helping downed people or others who needed help with hero points. So I settled for crafting ascended gear which took a lot of time when playing the game 99% solo. I saved my gold (had 500ish) for mats for ascended crafting. I spent my gold on those volatile magic shipments to get the lower tier materials and occasionally bought lower tier mats off the trading post. But rarely did I spend more than a couple gold on the TP per day. After I discovered that each profession had opportunities to get cool looking ascended skins I made that a goal for my toons. I got all the warrior ones for each xpac; i loved the warrior and it was my main. I got the thief ones for HoT and PoF. And I was just casually going about on my Revenant trying to get Glints Bastion when I ran into this adventure. I was able to craft ascended shields (and heavy and medium armor) and with the exception for my warrior in pvp, I didn't really use shields on any of my toons. I just wanted to casually get this skin cause the others were fairly easy to get and within my skill set. But this adventure had switched something in my brain and I felt like I was no longer having fun playing GW2. The skill ceiling on that adventure is too high for me and its made me question what the hell I was doing with my time. Then I got to thinking how the heck I was going to get the other ones for the other professions cause they probably require other adventures; ones that I've failed and abandoned any hope to complete. Almost all the adventures in HoT are far above my skill ceiling; yes even bronze adventures. I don't think GW2 is for me anymore. GW2 was fun and I had a fantastically good time with the xpacs and all the living seasons. I think the devs got the open world difficulty just perfect in End of Dragons. It reminded me of core Tyria back in the day; when blue, green and yellow gear actually mattered and leveling to 80 felt like an epic adventure. But I think its time for me to move onto to other things. TTFN.

i had a really high opinion of the map when it first came out. but anet must have reached their goal for satiating gold farmers and the map got nuked. they should have left the rewards alone. upped the keys or decreased the chests. make the breather masks work once per hour purchasable via lots of karma and only karma. a single meta run would yield half the karma needed to purchase a mask for the next run. without the mask, no run. this way, you get awesome rewards for doing the meta once per day. if you want the awesome rewards again you have to farm karma (ie help other players). its not hard to design incentives for grinders and people who only log in once per day. just make the grinders farm karma to earn a token(breather mask or other map restraint). everyone wins. and there are smarter ways to remove crafting materials from the game besides making a person spend them as "currency" for an key that yields less currency than just selling the crafting materials on the Tp. it seems like anet jumps through lots of hoops when they should just cut to the quick.

The rewards are so bad from doing this map, I'm not even sure if its worth the time to do it once per day.

The entire game revolves around farming gold. So much so that they need bots to keep the trading post prices manageable. Green UIDs have gone down in price so much that only 60ish silver separate selling a stack on the trading post vs vendoring. But then again I get like 250 of em on 2 runs. So thats like 2.5gold per hour. Lame.

The rewards for this meta are terrible. I did 2 runs and got about 12 rare uids from it. Fishing sucked to. Got nothing from it but yellow and green fish. Used the correct bait and zip, zilch, zero. They let people farm gold for a couple weeks then killed it. Strange game.

LoL. 250g could be 10 cents and I still wouldn't do the transaction. Although I did find 5 cents in the parking lot yesterday. Yeah. I picked it up.

Ill collect the eggs because its nice challenging fun exploratory content for me. But no. Im not spending 250 gold on a mount. Not gonna do it. Nope. Id rather just give Anet $20, go buy a skin for roleplay reasons and go about playing openworld stuff like a noob with 2.76k hours. I hardly ever use the wiki unless its to find out how much of a grind something is. Then I nope out. If the wiki shows simple efforts, ill take the simple rewards.

2.76K hours. Two sets of ascended armor and 10 or so ascended weapons. No legendaries. Not even going to attempt. I get purple items dropping all the time. I just put them in the bank; why not. Never done a strike or raids. Don't want the drama. Around 425g. (just saving to craft my last set of ascended armor when I get the last 40pts finished in tailoring) Nope not even buying that griffon for 250g. Roller beetle. Have no clue how to unlock it. Skyscale. Have no clue how to even go about getting that. Seems kinda pointless. I enjoy unranked pvp and running my 10 characters through different open world stuff. I like trying new builds with exotic gear. Dont really even use my ascended armor much.

You bought into the facade that is "progression". In WoW and most mmorpgs what the game is really doing is dividing the player base into have and have nots. Its designed to give you the feeling that you're missing out from the group; a deep primal fear of the human psyche. Scarcity of virtual items in all these games (GW2 included) is an curated illusion because with one line of code you could log in and have every virtual item given to you. The scarce resource is your time. And that is what every competes against. Your time verses their time. GW2 divides their player base just like WoW. They gotta pay their bills and feed the beast system that governs meatspace. Its just that in GW2 it really doesn't matter as much because their are only 3 tiers of gear: exotic, ascended and legendary. GW2 is kinda sneaky though because they divided their player base by the type of content people like to do. So players at most can only divide themselves into who has exotic or ascended. Instanced group content is what you are looking for and the virtual rewards that come from it can be just a grueling a grind as WoW dungeons and raids. Why? Because they optimize the instances towards gear stats. There's lots of gear stats. Which is why everyone in that scene covets legendaries. The ultimate win condition. You can change stats on your gear and share gear between similar professions. Meaning that you've won the gear-race and can enjoy any content for the pure enjoyment of the content. WoW always has you chasing the next illusion. In the end they're similar because both companies are competing for your time and in-game you are competing for every other players time. Time is the currency in all these games.

Not sure what my ping is at while playing. I've done some tests like setting my gfx to all low as well as all high and I get lots of lag on either setting. What does affect it is turning player names and npc names off. But I only have to do this when groups events like this have what looks like hundreds of players. lol. I played it early today with around 15ish ppl on my platform and that really helps. Although I still need to burn 2 dodges to get into that circle. If I dont have 2 dodges Im downed. So yes, most often there is 0 time to react. I feel like sometimes i have to play with permanent quickness and swiftness just to be able to react to all the aoe spam. dodges are worthless most often. That feeling is most noticeable during the story boss fights. If i make one wrong step in those ballet dances the boss fight is done, over, its a fail my way through it and that makes me frustrated. I just make one wrong move and pfftt, its gotten to the point where i dont want to do the story bosses anymore. wish i could just press a button and skip those fights. edit: i think maybe ill just stick to pvp unranked matches for my group content (i enjoy em) and just participate in the meta boss fights if by happenstance im in the areas.

I got a better one. Much much better spinning. Edit: Might this be a gem store bestseller? Spin and change outfits. That's quality armor!

one of many but yes, that circles's. though i like to sort my inventory while doing it. ya know. salvage some identified unidentifieds for the mats. sip my beverage. ya know, just casual open world play.

You complete me. Hmmm. Im looking for my wife, but you...you!...you fine madame...you complete me!

lol. thank you Dr Leo Marvin. that's what i tell myself and that's what keeps me playing the fine game. baby steps to the circle. i can do it. baby step to 4 oclock. <rocks back and forth>