Lord Trejgon.2809

just for starters: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-wars-2-secrets-of-the-obscure-launches-today/ in earlier blogs they referred to these as "higher tiers of rifts"

Fair about the Amnytas one, if you can actually fail it on skyscale bits, but as far as skywatch goes I saw some very bonker runs full of derps on big scale that still pulled through and succeeded 🙂

I will go on a limb in here and point out that since EoD map exploration gifts are repeatable on same characters. When you finish the map you unlock set of lanterns at pois and vistas and when you interact with all, you get next gift, and they reset.

I am unsure where OP found those "ghost town" metas in SotO - sure I saw a number of low pop maps failing meta because nobody showed up, but most of the time when I see a meta, I see a healthy amount of people running it as well. Btw, HoT metas around this time into HoT release were failing constantly, due to people not having faintest clue how they work, and taking slow to adapt. I am yet to see SotO meta fail to people failing a mechanic....

We will get more tiers of rifts, which most likely will award more essences, just for starters.

I disagree, between the lesser bond of vigor on air mounting, and the buffed spring (launches further up, and refills more of the flight bar) the difference between having both masteries, and having only one is imo considerable.

ESO: overloads your limited inventory with mostly trash, some crown store baits, and also induces fomo because if you are not logging in every day you are loosing out on the only few decent "rewards". More so: BDO: Same reasons - tons of trash to overload limited inventory slots, slightly less on fomo because it allows you to claim twice on weekends if you fell behind (1h has to pass between claims tho), more of rng boxes within the rewards. Arguable, and not truelly proper MMO (more like MMO-lite): Warframe: endless carousel of complete randomness. Outside of specific tresholds (every 50th daily login) what you get is complete randomness varying everywhere from pointless spin at roulette, to some actually nice stuff (doesn't help that the "best" you can get there is literally discount on games premium currency). By comparision in GW2: in current system, you get 5 points for logging in, those points accumulate in their own specific place (no inventory clutter) and when you are ready you can pick whatever you consider to be worth those points for you. You loose nothing but those 5 points of that day if you don't log in, so not much of fomo. And as far as login part of the system goes, there is virtually no randomness involved.

I would love to be able to pick selections separatelly between dailies and weeklies 🙂

oh crap I have first answered the poll and then read the OP 🤦‍♂️ take 1 out of the last option....

the difference made me notice that it was actually supposed to move you u instead of just refilling the bar.

bold of you to assume it would fall 😉

To be fair my initial reaction to seeing the cost of specific astral ward armor pieces was "oof amalgamated essence AND mini-trophy gift?, that's brutal" That being said this will not deter me from hacking at it at my own steady place. As for wether or not the price of ward armors is fair - to make a proper call I would need to see what t1 and t2 precursor collections are. This is a missing chain that may very much impact "fairness" of that pricing.

Is that some SotO spoiler I am not deep enough in the story to understand? 🤔

Considering character still often shouts about being untouchable when activating bladeturn requiem it would be nice to at least have some sort of damage reduction rolled into the skill.

Issue is with that one is that Wizards Vault is separate window to BLTC, and involves none of actually paid stuff. I am still going to roll with them not wanting you to waste AA by overcapping, while not realizing that claiming manually each and every time will be tad more annoying for more users out there.....

sorry for late response, was out of the home for the weekend - I have rechecked and indeed on the written roadmap the table mentions expansion relics specifically, unsure where my memory pulled the rest of core relics bit from 🤔

Yes, Wizard's court called it Beacon of the Ages instead. The movement of the tower was not specifically told about, but Mabon, states that Tyrians called this specific tower "Wizard's Folly" and that was specific tower in specific place, so there is an implication there that it moved at some point.

I have no idea what did you mean here. My point was that the communicator dragon's watch ex-members are using were invented because most in not all of it's members did not posses the ability to use telepathy over the distance that dragon watch was constantly spreading itself. And on a side note, the wizards in the expac alter commanders communicator to pick up their astral telepathy line, which implies that we lack ability of just tapping into it naturally as well.

I think communicator is there specifically because long range telepathy is something wizards do, and "the team" is full of not wizards 😉

I presume the clicking is there so you don't "void" your AA by going overcap by accident. The big flashy red dot on the vault icon is supposed to prevent you from forgetting about claiming them 🤔

The point was to separate "wildcard" bonuses on 6th slot from runes and put it into relics. 6th bonus was then supposed to be changed to have it increase stats. I guess AN went (at least for now) with interpretation that flat increase of movement speed is stat increase and not "wildcard" effect. as for why so many runes didn't have their wildcards implemented into relics, I would presume, can be wrong tho, that conversion took some workload to perform and they didn't have time to do all of them in single update (which is why the quarterlies were announced to expand on both core and soto relics) and yes, alot of runes "wildcard" effects were crap in the first place which is why nobody used them.

amalgamated kryptic essence is one of materials needed for obsydian armor, so yeah getting all three tiers of essences will be needed for that.

Where is that fellow that was claiming that wizards vault will stop new players from being able to get ascended gear to get AR now? 🙃

The only way I managed to ever reduce amount of damage received by the green circle was to get very far away and/or glide, no idea what is the intent of that mechanic, it does not appear to behave like any other green circle in the game so far.

as someone who finished droknars light achievement today: the NPC starting the "root out stone summit agents"-> "defend droknars forge from invasion" often does not show the "talk here to start event indicator". even to root out the stone summit agents have issue with scaling where if people join the amount of stone summit required to complete increase, but the interaction points to spawn them takes eternity and then some to respawn. aforementioned event sometimes fail to aknowledge contribution when it upscales from too many people joining in.