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I've started recording our own runs. Each time we're doing everything "right" and still falling short because of mechanics. I do'nt have the energy or willpower to sit through them all and count how many skills she does in a period of time, after my 12th failure in a row. But something has to change at this point. We're all running meta builds, we have our group set up split between 3 commander squads and subgroups of 5 with everything right. We have plenty of CC, mechanics are done well, and we're still failing short. Anywhere from 5% or less left. Most of the time with only one single CC phase in the beginning too. Waste of time at the moment. And I'm someone who loves meta events and primarily only does open world content too. (As of time of posting, 4th video is still uploading)

Failing the meta 10 times or so completely mastered my jade bot mastery track.

Just sat through two very organized groups describing and commanding everything through voice call and map chat. Second one was flawless. Greens went perfect, CC was perfect, portals up from mesmers to portal people back and forth from head to tail...everything was flawless. At 2% remaining she switched sides, tail came up, bubbled + whirlpool. Failed with 1 second remaining at 1% left. This was raid-level group strategizing and to come so close and still fail sucks a bit. The targeting is really hard with all the adds, then constant back and forth, the whirlpools where you can't even help your teammates.. Just a *little* too overtuned.

I have no idea what sound effect you're talking about, as i've never heard of it. I've heard A sound which sounds like the dragon just making a noise but it isn't high pitched or any sort of "boo beep" sound. Have you tried to reinstall?

Understanding doesn't mean it's going to happen though. It goes against what the developers want, it goes against what the game is about. It's like saying "I wish Mcdonalds fries were more like burger king's" - they are two different things and they won't change to be like the other.

With all that said - you can still very much enjoy guild wars with the limitations in mind. We'll never have free flying, but the Skyscale is pretty good at horizontal movement and precision landing. Especially in comparison to the griffon - the griffon has speed, which the skyscale doesn't. Skyscale can land on tiny branches and ledges that e ven the springer can't manage to grab onto easily. Gliding works fairly well in some of the HoT/Ls3 maps and when you combine them with mounts, you get a lot of fun terrain scaling and figuring out different ways of making the land more fun to navigate.

Again, yet another response of -- If you don't like that game,pick your bat, ball, and gloves,and go somewhere else. Brilliant.Just Brilliant. Since you seem hung up on wanting to argue any piece of information given to you as to why GW2 will not implement free flying omnidirectional flying mounts, yes, I'm going to say that if you don't like the way mounts are handled here this isn't going to be what you like. Guild Wars 2 will not implement free flying mounts, no matter what people say or argue about. They don't want that in their game. Their reasoning is very clear - it would break a lot of content and invalidate the other mounts. They want mounts to be based on player skill and manipulation, which is exactly what you described you didn't like in your first post. You didn't like the idea of utilizing two or even three different mounts and masteries just to get somewhere - that's what guild wars DOES like. That's what they want in their game.

Before mounts were introduced, the game had a set traveling mechanic: waypoints, plus by foot. If you could fly over everything just like that, not only would old means of traveling become obsolete, new maps would also no longer pose a challenge at all when it comes to map completion (as verticality would no longer matter). The point of map completion is to thoroughly explore a new map. I would like to ask you one simple question ---How is it that so many other MMOshave implemented flying creatures into their games,without completely destroying their creations? Is this not possible within the GW2 environment?OR is GW2 the great exception to the rule? Propose a flying mount in Guild Wars 2, and there’s an obvious challenge in that its content to date has been designed with players’ feet firmly on the ground.“We knew we had to be careful with how we went about tackling ‘flying’ in the game,” says Cronacher. “If we did free flight it would break a lot of content and invalidate the other mounts, which we didn’t want to do. We had to find a balance of feeling like the flight was natural and fun, but focused on player skill and manipulation, rather than free omnidirectional flight.” They dont WANT omnidirectional free flight. This is what they have chosen for their game. If you don't like it, this game is not for you.

It's not a matter of lore. It's a matter of logistics. Gw2 is not WoW. If you want flying mounts with no restraints, go there. If you want to have SOME semblance of skill and mastery required to fully get the most out of every mount, and every mount that comes out after the initial ones not making the previous ones worthless, then you stick with what we got. https://www.pcgamesn.com/guild-wars-2/gw2-griffon-path-of-fire-secret-design

People are forgetting that the skyscale's hover is more than just people showing off. I use it ALL the time as a "stay out of combat when looking around or waiting" feature. If I'm up high enough, mobs can't reach me and annoy me when I'm trying to do something. Even if that means waiting on a boss or something to spawn.

My Mawdrey backpack didn't reset.

Yeah the confusing thing is how some of the trinkets at least, which were stat selectable and Caladbolg and my mistward set (all selectable) weren't reset. Except for the Ls3 trinkets on one alt which were worn were reset while the others weren't.

I feel like there's no pattern to the gear got resetA black ice band I had in my inventory got reset.My mirage's LS3 trinkets all got reset. The stuff that was worn that did not reset:Full assassins exalted armor (exotic)Full beserker's mistward set (exotic)(Beserkers) Caladbolg greatsword (ascended)Claymore of the sunless (greatsword) (ascended)Stonecleaver's reaver (ascended)Assassin's focus and sword (craftable ones/ the pearl sabre etc)My chrono's worn trinkets:This: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Call_of_the_Wild_(Amulet)Or this: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Crystalline_BandOr my LS3 trinkets (Black ice band, black ice earring)Nor this: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Althea%27s_Ashes Kinda frustrating, I was hoping to redo my build with more stats available to me now. Oh well.

It's far from being punished. It's not a time-sensitive or restricted thing. It's not like the mount is locked behind this quest which you can ONLY do this week or something.Take your time with it and do it at your own pace. Just because you have to wait until reset to do the different parts of it after a certain point, and then have to wait for the reset to feed it again, doesn't mean you have to rush it. In fact, that encourages you to take your time even more. Split the lists up into bite-sized chunks and it's a lot more fun that way, I think. ... Also the longer you take the cheaper the materials become, whether because you have your own materials (more charged quartz) or because supply/demand changed and made things cheaper on TP.

Day 3-7Skyscale CareFood:Combine 25 Bloodstone Dust, 5 Globs of Ectoplasm, 2 Slabs of Red Meat, and 1 Charged Quartz Crystal to make 1 Skyscale Food.You'll need 12 of these — you can buy from the TP or get the total 300 Bloodstone, 60 Ecto, 24 Red Meat, and 12 Charged Quartz. Take the food to Sun's Refuge to feed the hatchling. Feed the hatchling 3 times. (3/12). Takes 4 days. Progress is tracked as an event bar while inside Sunspear's Refuge.TIP: Stand back a few inches away from the hatchling and your skills bar will turn to an action bar where you can feed, play with, or give treats to the hatchling. TreatsKill any of these creatures for a chance (not guaranteed, but around 20%) drop. Champion versions have higher drop rates. Acquire the treat then return it to Sun's Refuge. Treats do NOT have a daily limit. Spoil that thing rotten on the first day if you want to.You can get most of these in Desert Highlands. You might have better luck in other maps though. Karka - Southsun CoveSand Lion - Desert Highlands (Also crystal oasis - https://i.imgur.com/gmJK07Q.jpg )Iboga - Desert HighlandsDesert Insects (Scarabs) - Desert HighlandsJacaranda - Desert Highlands Note: Up on the cliffsSand Eels - Desert Highlands | Crystal OasisRock Gazelles - Desert HighlandsSand Sharks - Desert Highlands | Crystal OasisBats - My preference: Ascalon ([&BIUBAAA=])Skale - Desert HighlandsSkelk - Desert HighlandsSpiders - Desert Highlands\ Dwarven RuinsMinotaur - Desert Highlands (Highland Jump - west of)Wyvern - Elon Riverlands | Note: If you have HoT, just do Matriarch in VB or find the Wyvern Cliffs. There might be more in Elon but they're a pain to get to. Skyscale ToysBuy these items then return to Sun's Refuge:Hardy Ball - 1 Gold, bottom-ish level of Vehtendi Academy. Look for the collection icon on the map.Bird Whistle - 2 Gold, just across the bridge of the Gladefall Waypoint in Northern Iron Marches. ([&BNsBAAA=])Heavy-Duty Dolyak Blanket - 3 G, Heart vendor to the west of Afgar's Waypoint in Central Lornar's Pass.Used Grow Lamp - Craft it with 400 Jewel + unlock recipe from Dry Top or buy it from TP.If crafting: requires 10 charged quartz crystals , 10 Orichalcum Setting, 25 Sunstone Lump, 25 Watchwork Sprocket Repeat the feeding after reset for 4 days in a row.Most of this info has come from reddit, but I've tweaked it and added notes and such as I went along and did it myself.

Honestly, I recommend seeing for yourself the collection and not reading what other peopl have to say about it. If you break it down into steps it REALLY is not hard at all.Flying around the map to each item three different times? That's nothing.Visiting a bunch of different maps and doing different things on there like, gasp, participating in an event or drowning yourself in quicksand? Not hard.Killing a few monsters to get drops to feed the hatchling? Still not hard. Literally, nothing about this quest line so far is hard. Time-consuming, yes, but not hard. And time is only a barrier if you let it be. If you want to get the mount RIGHT AWAY then sure, rush to do all of the content as soon as possible and whine about the time gates not letting you get the mount right then and there. But if you don't care, then just do it at your own pace. I took 4 days to do what other people did in two days. And I enjoyed myself a hell of a lot more, did other achievements alongside it, meta events, map completion, etc. Take a step back, breathe, and remember it's just a game. Don't go insulting other people who DO have time to play just because you don't. (Not everyone who has time to play is some "sweaty basement dweller" - many of us have jobs, careers, lives outside of the game. We just know how to make good use of our time.)

Increasing the speed that it descends at would be great too. Wouldn't replace the griffon's nose dive at all because that goes head down in a spiral, this goes straight down and just 'floats' down. But it floats down way too slowly and takes forever to get off of it JUST so i can re-mount up. Mounting and switching mounts from any other mount to each other works nearly flawlessly, especially if you have gliding or the bond of faith. But the skyscale is clunky with demounting as well.

No you're not the oddball out, I imagine a lot of people are enjoying it and it's good for me and others to hear that perspective. It was late and I had just finished what I thought was a lot of the collection only to find out I hadn't even really made a dent. It took the wind out of my sails and I was admittedly frustrated, but I don't mean to rain on you or anyone else's parade, and I'm sorry if I did at all. Nah you're fine :) I have heard a ton of negativity around reddit and the forums about the timegating and the duration of the quest etc. I can understand the frustration with the timegate- I think it would've been better to shift the time gate over to the 1st and 2nd day collections and split those in half rather than time gate the food. It took me 4 days anyway, but I was also doing other stuff along the way, stopping for bounties or events, stopping to write or take pictures for other people etc. I spent two days to do the first 3 collections, then another two days to do the second part. (The one I just detailed above). But I think the whole quest is really fun, and making me laugh because I can just picture Gorrik coming up with all these crazy ideas that just might work - after all, we're trying to grow a dragon. So we're taking this egg through all of these different places and doing all these things for it, including but not limited to sacrificing ourselves to fire, ice, drowning ourselves underwater and quicksand, being swept away by dust devils and branded tornadoes, struck by branded lightning... Challenging our own fears by facing heights and all kinds of things. Some of the pics I had fun taking...

I just ended up going to the place where FIre Ele spawns at to get my rezzes in. A few minutes of rezzing all the NPCs and I was done. lol

Maybe I'm just the oddball out, I'm enjoying the whole thing so far. I'm not rushing it, taking it a little at a time, exploring along the way. Doing some achievements here and there that I might've forgotten about in the past, picking up extra POIs/mastery points, etc. I find the game is more enjoyable if you just make it fun and get progress done along the way rather than grinding it out.

So Day 2 info all compiled and organized...INFO: Gorrick is no longer in the usual cove. Instead, he's at [&BJMLAAA=] inside an instance called Sun's Refuge. From here on out he will always be here.Every part of the quest has icons to show you where the thing is at, like this: https://i.imgur.com/qe5FHh6.jpg Start: The Blood and Life first steps must be completed to acquire the buffs to get credit for kills/revives. Pick those up from Dragonfall and Divinity's Reach first. After that, I recommend picking up the first step on all maps.After that, they can be completed in any order. All first steps:The Nature of Blood: Dragonfall (x1) [&BN4LAAA=] General AlmorraThe Nature of Life: Divinity's Reach (x1) [&BCMDAAA= ] Priestess of DwaynaThe Nature of Growth: The Grove (x1) [&BLoEAAA=] Teacher. Omphalos ChamberThe Nature of Spirit: Brisban Wildlands (x1) : [&BHUAAAA=] Amaranda the Lonesome. Venlin Vale, Brisban (https://i.imgur.com/mt7ZrEY.jpg)Courage in the face of death: Straights of Devastation (x1) [&BO4CAAA=] (no NPC)The Nature of Fear: Lornar's Pass (x1) [&BOYAAAA=] OrsonThe Nature of Ice: Frostgorge Sound [&BIUCAAA=] Frigid PawThe nature of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth: Domain of Vabbi (x5) [&BHQKAAA=] Zagonur cliffs in Vabbi. https://i.imgur.com/seuWglT.jpg The following assumes you have done the first step of each before continuing:Skyscale of FearGet hit by a brandstorm (Domain of Vabbi, Jahai Bluffs, Dragonfall, etc)Teach a class at Vehtendi Academy [&BA8KAAA=] in Domain of Vabbi (requires this event (https://is.gd/o99aKo)Get attacked by chickens at Ebonhawke in Fields of Ruin [&BD0EAAA=] ((https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Angry_Chicken))Blazeridge Steppes (the walls south of Lowland Burns Waypoint where the Shatterer event is, up the wall. Requires springer.) [&BE4DAAA=] Skyscale of WaterNtouka Pond in Domain of Kourna, all the way at the bottom [&BEwLAAA=]Flooded Castavall in Bloodtide Coast [&BK4BAAA=]Derelict Delve in Desert Highlands (requires completion of Rune-Locked Doors achievement) [&BNkKAAA=] (https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune-Locked_Doors) Skyscale of FireBlack CitadelMount MaelstromHearth in Domain of VabbiDerelict Cave in Desert Highlands Skyscale of IceDerelict Delve in Desert HighlandsThunderhead PeaksBiterfrost Frontier elementals or Claw of Jormag Event Skyscale of EarthQuicksand in Crystal OasisQuicksand in Dry TopQuicksand in Elon RiverlandsQuicksand in Domain of Vabbi (one next to Necropolis) Skyscale of AirGet knocked down by a Dust Mite Twister (Dry Top or North East Domain of Kourna)Hidden Garden jumping puzzle in Mount Maelstrom (Access it through one of these events: Hidden Garden Keepers)Brand Tornado in Jahai Bluffs Skyscale of LifeRevive +3 alliesRevive +6 alliesRevive +9 allies (Recommended in Thaumanova Reactor at Metrica Province) Skyscale of BloodKill +25 enemiesKill +50 enemiesKill +75 enemies Skyscale of GrowthBrightwater Inlet of Desert HighlandsNecropolis of Domain of VabbiElon Flow in Elon RiverlandsBonestrand in Desolation Skyscale of DeathExile's Rest in Elon RiverlandsBone Palace in DesolationTomb of Primeval Kings in Desert HighlandsChampion's Dawn in Domain of Istan Skyscale of SpiritCentral Brand Scar in Jahai Bluffs, where the fake joko event happensAncestor Tree at Ruined Procession in Jahai BluffsTarai Ossa shrine at Deadlock Sweep in Elon RiverlandsProphet's Fall in Desert Highlands Skyscale of CourageCamp Resolve in Silverwastes - East of the waypoint in the little hub thing.Joko's Sky Garden in Domain of VabbiPact Command in Dragonfall - On the airship.Defeat your doppelganger at Augury Rock in Elon Riverlands (event: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Path_to_Ascension)

No time restriction/can do all in one day if desired: Part 1: Collect 21 scales scattered around the map (Dragonfall)Part 2: Do 10 events in each lane to open up the volatile magic vendor for that lane, and buy the item that's used to create medicine for the sick skyscalesAchievement names to track progress:Cutting WeedsLife in the UnderworldPutting out FiresPart 3: Find all the sick skyscales and give them the medicinePart 4: Find all 21 Skyscale eggs scattered around the map (Dragonfall)Wait until next reset Part 5: Saving Skyscales (not 100% sure what this is yet as I have just gotten to this part - but it seems to be something about going from various places to get things for the eggs)Wait until next reset Part 6: Raising Skyscales (Not 100% sure on this part either but here's some of it from what I can see:Giving the Skyscales a treat:You collect treats from mob drops around the PoF maps(?). Playing with the Skyscales:Purchase toys from various vendors.You'll also need a Grow Lamp which is an additional 10 charged quartz, though it can also be purchased on the TP Feed the SkyscalesMake food by Combining 25 Bloodstone Dust, 5 Globs of Ectoplasm, 2 Slabs of Red Meat, and 1 Charged Quartz Crystal to make the Skyscale Food. You'll need 12 of these — you can buy from the TP or get the total 300 Bloodstone, 60 Ecto, 24 Red Meat, and 12 Charged Quartz.You can only feed them 3 times per day - so you'll need an additional 4 days to complete this part. Continue feeding them for 4 days, then wait until next reset...The rest is unknown still (Edited for formatting)

Also having that issue, I submitted a ticket now just waiting. I was trying to just buy $10 worth.

Your videos convinced me to make a mirage, after having played a chrono for the past 5 months. It looks like a lot of fun XD Now to just learn the playstyle/rotation/how to not die etc.. Love seeing someone doing the open world stuff :D

I found that I had more than enough points for everything too, but I can't remember the specific order I went in to get them all. Just a lot of exploring, running around, seeing where I could jump to etc. If I wasn't sure, I'd look up the area and see if you needed a mount at a certain mastery level to get there. But otherwise, join HP trains/MP trains if you're tired of trying to find them yourself. I actually had enough points even without doing any of the story past the very first part to get everything up until griffon. By the time I did the story and ran around the maps with a friend to get what I was missing, I had enough to max out griffon and every single mount completely. It was pretty quick, compared to HoT maps where I've finally maxed out both gliding and mushrooms (complete with ley line gliding and adrenal mushrooms) and still have a lot to go until the rest of the paths are done, even with the points from having LS2 and LS3 completed. If you're stuck trying to get to a mastery insight, just ask in map chat. No luck? Log out to character select and log back in, ask another instance. Ask on the forums, on reddit, on discord. Ask your friends or guildies.