[Sorcerer's Cape]

16 hours ago, babana.7521 said:

something sold on the TP should at least have new animation and not RE USE old animation,

I didn't see you hating on first couple dozen glider skins (all sold in gem store) with exact same animation as base freebie glider....

[I wanted to buy infinite gathering tool set but decided not to because...]

16 hours ago, Mortayia.7651 said:

Design problem, sell solution. This is text book predatory manipulation in regard to cashshop practices.

Yeah but the textbook usually assumes you do both of these at the same time - but the limited use crafting tools were designed with core game, and we started getting infinite ones sold couple years later, which would imply that the problem was not design specifically to sell solution, but that it was designed, because they wanted you to manage your harvesting tools, and later realized they could sell you convenience....

[Soto too thick on masteries points.]

7 hours ago, ugrakarma.9416 said:

you have far more HoT/POF probably due to raids, i don't raid.

there is whole mastery line in HoT that requires finishing a raid encounter to unlock, so if you don't raid at all, it would mean you also don't get to spend serious bunch of hot points 😛

[Does the Wizard tower resting buff match the max level arborstone resting XP buff?]

can confirm it is the same and behave in same way.

[Agony Resistance and the Removal of Daily Login Rewards]

49 minutes ago, Malus.2184 said:

And if you've chosen the incorrect crafting for this? Remember that the new and common player has no idea that a resource such as a GW2 fast crafting guide exists.

then you can always level another crafting discipline - having all of them maxed across the account is a good idea anyway.

[OG Skyscale Collection member]

1 hour ago, Keymaster.7362 said:

To be fair, I wrote this before the official release of SotO, and thanks to ArenaNets lackluster Information sharing, we all only could speculate. And I assumed it would be the same case as with the mounts and glider from EoD.

But I never mentioned the skin collection, I spoke about the egg hunt and hatching collection to earn your own skyscsle. And even if I couldn't find some official confirmation on the wiki, I did hear from some players that with the PoF collection you can skill PoF and SotO masterys but with the SotO Mastery you can't unlock the PoF ones.

you are correct, I didn't notice the timestamps, and thread was marked for me as unread and I was sure I have marked it as a whole as read shortly after soto launch 🤔

I was also not referencing the skin collection, I was refering the "new friend" collection that gets unlocked after training first grade on new mastery, and as one of steps requires finishing the mastery, that awards "astral ward skyscale unlock". Skin collection unlocks some time after you finish this one. SotO skyscale mastery get's unlocked when you get through first couple story beats that leads you into skywatch archipelago.

[OG Skyscale Collection member]

On 8/22/2023 at 4:24 AM, Keymaster.7362 said:

You can only unlock the PoF mastery with the PoF collection and the SotO mastery only with the SotO collection.

So you have to finish both collections to unlock both masterys and get your benefits.

That is not precisely correct - the new mastery set is unlocked before the soto collection, and soto collection requires you to max out the new mastery to complete it.

So if you did old collection, you do not need to finish new collection to have benefits of both mastery tracks being unlocked.

[Sorcerer's Cape]

11 hours ago, babana.7521 said:

I was being constructive, giving a good review of what I thought that cape could have been

"bad cape with wrong animation" is not really constructive, and hardly a review.

11 hours ago, babana.7521 said:

the animation is A REUSE OF  another glider,

FYI there are also skills that use that animation 🙂

11 hours ago, babana.7521 said:

especially when it turns out to not fit the merchandise theme.

This animation (at least it's unbugged form, sorry charrs) fits perfectly with this particular merchandise theme, You just don't happen to like this particular theme. This is sorcerers cape, and clearly inspired from dr. Strange, it ain't superman cape nor batman cape.

[Scan for rifts while the Heart is enhanced - how the hell to scan?]

process of scanning for rifts has been explained to you in Act one - you use the mastery skill of heart of the obscure.

what are motivations and how to use them - concept of motivations is explained by an NPC during the step you are at - she gave you your first motivation item (uncommon cryptis motivation) and it's tooltip explains how to use it - doubleclick the item to receive a buff, with this buff, heart of the obscure scanning for rifts, looks for t2 rifts instead of t1.

 

20 minutes ago, Zebulous.2934 said:

I wonder if it is a rookie writer mistake.  The devs know the story and forget that the plot progression isn't obvious to regular people.
ah well, good luck.

this is a mistake of the type of "ignored all the dialogue" to the grade of "I have no idea how did you manage to progress the story this far"

[Movement Speed rune set should have been a relic. - Not enough variety.]

8 hours ago, Eloc Freidon.5692 said:

The clean solution is change those movement speed bonuses on runes into an actual stat or some other % bonus.

That does not address the side that enjoys having +25% movement speed from runes, and interesting relic ontop of it. Which is what I enjoy as an option as per beginning statement you were responding to.

I stated that I enjoy the options current setup gives, but can understand OP stance as well, but don't see much of a way to "cleanly" satisfy both people with mindset of the OP and people of my mindset. And your response to that, is that clean solution is to shaft people like me 🙂

[Collection of new SoTO lore *spoilers obviously*]

6 hours ago, draxynnic.3719 said:

It gets mentioned in the Waylit Beacon collection. It's easily missed dialogue, though, and it's presented as hearsay from characters who probably don't really understand how the process works for Lhyr or Glint.

oh, makes sense, I didn't do that collection yet so that's why I didn't see it yet.

[Collection of new SoTO lore *spoilers obviously*]

On 9/5/2023 at 9:48 AM, draxynnic.3719 said:

I think Lhyr's splitting power is compared to Glint's facets in-game... but just because an NPC makes the connection doesn't mean it's accurate.

The only connection I saw in-game was the name -split variants of Lyhr are called Facets, and Glint has facets, I did not found yet any in-game dialogue trying to express the connection between Lhyr's facets and Glint's facets.

[Pinches of Stardust]

14 hours ago, Sobx.1758 said:

Pretty sure you can't downgrade pouch, so if you want to get things for pinches and NOT for pouches, then the pouch has not value. So incorrect 😅

I mean if you don't ever intend to do for anything that uses pouches, then yeah I guess, but then for all the other uses of pinches, I get more than enough of them from everything else 😉

 

[[Feedback] Legendary Obsidian Armor]

6 hours ago, Gibson.4036 said:

The road map indicates we’ll get Obsidian armor in two tiers over update 2 and 3. When I saw that, I figured there might be an extra glowy version like WvW armor.

I was interpreting it as two tiers of precursor collections - in same vein they did with raid legendaries.

[Pinches of Stardust]

I will go on a record here that I don't think it makes much sense to do amnytas meta for pinches when same hero choice chest also provides punches, and the pinches it provides is nowhere near the pricepoint of a pouch...

[Do the skyscale nests respawn?]

I think there is one nest in skywatch I looted twice so far with at least week in between 🤔

[What is the point of Bladeturn Requiem (F5) now?]

23 hours ago, Varis.5467 said:

Nah mate, your character is actually referring to your target being untouchable by your useless f5.

by saying I am untouchable? 🤔

[Astral Ward: Do I need to keep it?]

If AN has learned anything from boreal weapons fiasco, one could imagine it should not be required any further.

But me being paranoid and stuff I intend to keep mine until I am done with legendary armor crafting 🙂

[Let's Steal From Wildstar: Jade Bot as Scan Bot]

considering that wildstar is dead, would that be stealing from it, or rather looting it 🤔

[new daily system is not accessible [Merged]]

8 minutes ago, willow.8209 said:

true, but my thread was an odd place to merge a comprehensive list of all the things that didn't work for the other poster. Everyone else was talking specifically about either disability access, or about how the lack of choices in the daily affects them. (Lack of choices in the daily is the disability access issue that I wanted to flag up in this thread. Of course there are others accessibility issues such as those mentioned here and here .) 

Merging is done by forum moderation, and I am unsure if talking about it within threads like that is allowed within forum rules 😕 

[This is the first GW2 expansion I haven't purchased, and I'm sad about it.]

1 hour ago, Danikat.8537 said:

I don't think we've ever had new boons or conditions as part of an expansion

Alacrity arrived with HoT with chronomancer (and was chronomancer exclusive for a fair bit) I am not sure if superspeed was also not added with scrapper in same expac.

44 minutes ago, Sifolstour.3210 said:

And what's your point here, maybe get used to such low standards?

His point there, is that if the list of the OP is "proper standards" then no expac in GW2 history have met them, and therefore he should be equally disappointed with everything since HoT.

[You guys made everything easier. Disrespect for old players.]

1 minute ago, Darklord Roy.2514 said:

Legendaries have better stats than exotics, that isn't an opinion it's a fact. That was the topic his quote was in reference to.

The quote he answered to specifically stated ascended and legendaries having stronger stats than exotics, with legendaries being much more expensive to craft than Ascended due to flexibility the free stat swapping on demand provides.

And before Ascended gear was introduced, legendaries had exact identical (fixed) stats to exotics (which was highest tier of gear at the time).

Ergo, at no point in this game history legendaries being "stronger in stats" was an incentive to go for legendary over cheaper highest tier equipment.

and I mentioned nothing about opinions, so I am unsure why you bring them up here.

[You guys made everything easier. Disrespect for old players.]

11 hours ago, Eater of Peeps.9062 said:

The fact that my gen 1 legendary has better stats does make it valuable, both in terms of play and in terms of expense

It never had better stats in 11 years of GW2s history. No legendary item have. I'm surprised nobody have picked you up on this one yet. 

[As a new player, this game is frustrating and confusing.]

47 minutes ago, Myepic.9320 said:

haha I've been playing Mmos since 2015, this game is just not new player-friendly.

You've played mmos since 2015, but all of the issues you found with GW2 describe virtually every mmo out there?

[Updraft and Leyline break Griffon Flight [Merged]]

I would like to add two cents, than when I tried to get up after swooping with a griffon, and the climb took me through the updraft, I was unable to regain all the height I would normally do - it stopped after I reached end of an updraft. Griffon interaction with those features definitely needs more work.