Ameepa.6793

This and Story

I did hear rumors about people duplicating those thingies. Maybe this time rumors were true.. :P

And even that was not available at launch :)

Sub is not needed or wanted. All it would do is drive people away.

I like the game.

Achie done, so 32 glitches opened and got 10 weapons.

I would like this! Most hammer animations would work well enough for an axe too.

This. No one back then liked the system. It was a a huge nuisance for hunters to stock up ammunition all the time. It simply does not work and is not wanted in an MMO.

Your server does not matter at all except in WvW. In PvE every server in that region plays together. Think it like this:-There is only one server in EU and one in US.-Your homeserver is only the name of your WvW-team. Only thing that would have an effect to the population is changing to whole other region, in your case from EU to US. There probably is more Oceania players playing on US-world.

Options -> Combat/Movement-> Ground Targeting -> Normal

I have never used any title so for me 0 is enough. :)

It was about 1 gb patch

No I am never abosolutely sure about anything. I only know that I did not repeat the whole thing when I got my skyscale things. Can indeed be character related.

Isn't that how it works already? I completed that door puzzle long ago and I'm quite sure I got in straight into the right rooms to get the skyscale stuff.

Indeed, I am kinda disappointed that you ended up "voting" it being a good thing to add strikes to meta since all they now see is that it was a success and they got new people doing them. I'm gonna hold on to my "no" vote and leave the meta unfinished! Often actions are better than just talk.

The easier Strike Missions are much easier than dungeons, much easier than high level fractals (or even low level ones) and obviously much easier than Raids. They are also public content that require no group forming or roles. Touch the portal, get teleported inside, paired with 9 other randoms that did the same, kill the boss, profit. Have you finished the zone meta of Daybreak? Or the zone meta of The Head of the Snake? Those two required killing Scruffy 2.0 and Caudecus respectively as part of the story, required for completion of the zone meta. Remember Seeds of Truth and the Dodgy Crowd achievement? That was pure joy, or not. The game regularly had "harder" instance requirements to get zone meta completion. You know what was almost always the first suggestion? "Get others to help you!". You know what? They removed that requirement by putting the harder instanced content requirements for the meta inside Strike Missions, where you don't have to group up with others. The story of the Icebrood Saga (mechanic wise) has been a total joke so far, so they took away the harder requirements inside the story (even the story itself!) and put them in Strike Missions where you will get others to help you without trying. Dungeons, even Ascalonian Catacombs story mode, are significantly harder than Shiverpeak Pass. And more importantly, they require forming a group. Strike Missions do not, they are public "anyone welcome" content. I have done all those metas you mentioned and pretty much every other map meta too! Including that Dodgy crowd and other ls2 story achiements also! This new meta I will never complete simply because I do not raid or do anything that requires grouping up. It's not about challenge, it's about the format.Haven't done dungeons either.

I too wish they had not made the episode meta require strike achievements too like they never have before. I don't do strikes or raids so this time I won't complete the meta. Originally I was going to skip other achies too because of this, but I do like the map so I ended up completing everything else on the map and drakkar. Left meta at the 27/37 step. I truelly hope this is not the way from now on.

Open world PvE. I don't do raids/dungeons/fractals.

Couldn't have said it better. Agree 100%

I had way more than enough of raiding and forced grouping before GW2. Started to play this game exactly because it had none of that. No raids at all, no forced grouping, no grinding for gear. Very solo friendly with focus on outworld PVE. Was perfect game for me. I made a decision back then that I will never ever raid again in any game. Have been happily playing here every day since launch, doing my casual stuff that I actually like to do. Best game related decision I have ever done. And now comes these news that makes it look like that the game is going to turn into exactly opposite direction. Trying to force everyone to group up, to raid? My decision is going to hold. I will not raid. Remains to be seen how possible it will be to continue playing in meaninful way without raiding.

Krytan Lop, the fat bunny! My favorite!

I had to get this poor mocked creature just to give him a good home! He is happy now!

Indeed, I think map meta achie should be doable by basically everyone who simply is there playing the story and map, without forced group stuff. Them challenging 10 man content should have their own cathegory for the ones who are into that kind of stuff.

Ooh Thanks, I did not notice before that the strike achies too are needed for that. Won't bother with other achies then either since not gonna get the meta anyways then.

I don't use backpacks at all and never use achievement reward armor or weapon skins, but I do use emotes so they are nice rewards for me :)