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I would say the Skyscale is the most useful and useless mount simultaneously. Why? Grapple! Because there is no specific key assigned to this annoying ability, your Skyscale will grab EVERY pixel in sight and charge the leap ability! -.- Please, can we have a dedicated button for the grapple ability? This would make it USEFUL and not an ANNOYANCE! I'm honestly fed up of flying near something, and my Skyscale randomly grabbing onto it, and wasting my endurance on a 'leap' I didn't want or need. It's a simple quality-of-life request, that would greatly improve the mount.

I really enjoyed the Masteries in EoD, until I hit the last 5 that I needed. I found them obtainable and fun, compared to HoT and PoF. But the final 5 are really annoying me. I'm left with stupid grindy ones that are all stuck behind time-gated stupid buggy events that don't spawn. For example, in order to progress "Character Growth" mastery. you need a stupid evening in Echovald, called "Compete with tengu youngsters in the archery contest". I waited hours for this evening, it finally spawned, I grabbed a bow, and it has 0, yes Z E R O, arrows! Tooltip said "find arrows around the village". Well, I travelled the ENTIRE village and found 0, yes Z E R O arrows. The event ended, and I got nothing, yes N OT H I N G. After hours of waiting, I was extremely frustrated and decided to abandon this stupid mastery and try a different one! Next on the list, The End Of The Celestial Ministry. Yet another lengthy stupid mastery locked behind time-gated buggy events! -.- Got to the point where you need to find 4 stupid flower around the map, every single one of which is hidden behind an event! So after investing an entire afternoon and evening on this, and stuck on 3/4 flowers, I'm done. Here I was all ready to praise the new EoD masteries and how they were fun and found a good balance between difficulty and grind, until I hit the last 5 and retracted my words quickly. :(

Ye one of the recent patches has completely destroyed frame rates! It's really frustrating. Specs: CPU: Intel i9 10 core 3.7GHz (Clocked at 4.5GHz) Liquid cooled RAM: Corsair 64GB GPU: 2x Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX1080 8GB in SLi PSU: Corsair 1000W OS: Win11Pro x64 Display: 2x 32" 4K Needless to say, the specs are above minimum. I used to be able to run 3x game clients on this PC, the main one with max settings, and the 2 extra "alts" with medium settings, and have ZERO lag. Now I can barely run ONE client with medium settings. No my pc does not have a virus. No my pc does not have a cooling issue. No my pc does not need to be be reformatted, rebooted or have the game client re-installed. (I actually re-installed the game client when I first experienced the lag issues). Yes my pc has the latest graphics drivers. No nothing has changed on my pc to cause this. You know what has changed though? Some recent game patches! Hmmm....

Guide: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Minstrel_I:_The_Experimental_Focus Need "swift egg" from 3-Toe Tootsie event in order to craft one of the collection items. I went to Dry Top and participated in events. I asked in the map chat for help killing the moa, and some people came to help. We broke the CC bar, but the mob kept resetting. Why are the legendaries always stuck behind bugged time-gated events?!

Thanks! I was finally able to participate in this event, and saw the Veteran chicken I needed for all of 2 seconds before it was one-shot by a group and I didn't get what I needed. -.-

UPDATE - Managed to finally participate in the first event ( https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Veteran_Risen_Chicken ). But still didn't get the achievement because the chicken got one-shot.

First item "Egg on your face" .... Well, there is indeed egg on my face because this first step is impossible, so my journey to craft has ended before it even began! -.- Wiki: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Egg_on_Your_Face Get hit by a VETERAN Risen Chicken, that spawn from 1 of 2 events. Ok, lets look at those locations: 1) https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Veteran_Risen_Chicken - Doesn't exist, no event ... ever, no chickens, only regular ones SOMETIMES that do nothing to progress the achi. 2) https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Veteran_Giant_Risen_Chicken - Spawns from an event that appears only if the previous event FAILS, which it NEVER ever ever ever does. Why? Because it's tied to an experimental rifle that everyone has to buy for some reason. I've attempted this event many times now, and tried to ask people nicely in open chat to let it fail, as I need an item etc, and as usual the selfish players ignore me. Would love to see how else to get this, but the Wiki is dry.

Ranger & Thief Beta Elite Feedback: I'm very disappointed with both the Ranger and Thief elites. :( Let's start with Ranger... Ranger - Yet another melee spec for a ranged profession. I was honestly hoping Ranger would get Rifle, putting "range" back into "RANGEr". Suggest we rename to melee'er instead. Yawn. Completely uninterested, and back 2x Longbows ... sigh. Thief - Yet another ranged weapon for a melee profession. Instead of sneaking around assassinating people with insane melee skills and stealth, we have a ranged support role to fulfill? Really? Yawn. Completely uninterested, and back to Daredevil Staff (the only melee choice these days for aoe)...sigh.

Same problem

Still working on IBS masteries .... cannot say why, because I get a warning for voicing my true opinion. ;) Current Mastery: "Party Guardian" in Grothmar Valley. 5/6 progress. Looked up the Wiki for information on the event that I need to complete this, Rogue Prisoner, and NO information at all. No timers, no info on how to trigger this event, nothing. Apparently it's completely random as to when/IF it appears! Great, wasted 3 hours in this zone, doing the "meta" events over and over, no prisoner. Again, cannot rant about how terrible this is, because I get flagged. :\

Atempting the "Luminiferous" mastery point now. Completed all the puzzles so far, they were kinda fun. But on the "Lighting the lair" one. I'm almost at the end, and for some stupid reason the map load screen kicks in and im teleported out and at the waypoint. WTF! So, I angrily fly back to the puzzle, now the Raven Gate is inactive. -.- The sheer time wasted faffing around for ONE mastery point, is ridiculous! These are way, WAY too difficult.

Really bored of seeing 25% of the people in the event just camping the entrance or standing around doing nothing. It makes the event drag on. While we do all the work and these slackers reap the rewards. Socialism 1-o-1 I guess :\

After completing 6 runs back to back, I was done with this event for the day! After someone here suggested using the Skimmer mount to get it, I did just that! I completely ignored helping my team complete any objectives, and sat there on my mount most of the fight waiting for the beam, and evaded it and got my achievement! Didn't help the team, sadly, but hey, selfishly achieved my goal! Great. Now onto "Skritt Hot" and that one you cannot use the mount! And this one is even MORE ridiculously grindy! Firstly, you don't know where the TINY circle will fall, so by the time you walk/run/sprint/leap or whatever over there, you're hit by the falling rock! Objective failed. -.- Sigh.....Just did one ruin, got 3 dodges. 25 are required, so that's over 8 runs just to get ONE more mastery point.

Bug 1) Evade the attack from Jormag, see "evade", get zero credit towards "cooler than cool". Bug 2) Attack Primordus when he is vulnerable, the game automatically scoops you up and flies you there, you press the "special action key" but sometimes it puts you too close and you die from fire damage. You have NO control over this!

Feedback: These mastery points are far too difficult to obtain. They are extremely "grindy" and often locked behind timed events, as well as requiring multiple completion of said timed events. A good example of this is the "Cooler than cool" mastery, that I've been working on all day today. I've successfully dodges only 15 out of 25 required attacks, due to many varying factors. Such as, dying, getting stunned at the wrong time, dodging the attack (including seeing "avade") and not having it count towards progress! Each attack is only featured in the event about 3 or 4 times. The Public event is every 2 hours. This is a good example of forcing players to endure endless frustrating, unenjoyable hours of grinding a buggy event (with no rewards, because you get it once per day). And in the end, you're doing all this hard work for one single mastery point. Hardly a fair reward for the effort involved! I personally need 18 mastery points still, and am stuck with no progress because of the sheer time requirements involved and grinding. It's incredibly depressing and demoralizing, and completely sucks the fun and joy out of the game for me.

A better question is, why aren't there any "obtainable" mastery points from this? :P

I've enjoyed the Icebrood Saga, except for how stupidly impossible the masteries are! Seriously. [RANT] Watch guides, look up information JUST to fathom how to get one stupid mastery point that takes hours and hours and hours and hours of grinding timed events over and over and over, while trying not to get one-shot from every single OP mob (even while wearing PTV gear!), just for one measly stupid useless point! [/RANT]

This map is worse than Tangled Depths, and that is saying something! I hated the stupid map from the moment I stepped foot in it, when my story progress brought me to this nightmare zone. I remember trying to get around and progress my story, while getting teleported around repeatedly as the zone events unfolded. It was extremely frustrating. Sadly, the Skyscale mount collections are in this zone, so I was forced to endure many more hours in this nightmare! :( In order to reach the "free" skyscales that you can use, or the collection items, you need to swap between mounts. Unfortunately, because you are in combat 99% of the time, this is impossible! Kill the mobs? Yeah, a squishy player should take on 5-10 beefed up OP mobs, while you agro everything in sight because the mob agro range is like 1 million or something. I hate this zone, the mobs need a damn nerf on their agro range and also need to thin out their numbers a LOT.

To say that the mobs and events in the new zones need a nerf, is a galactic understatement! I am fed up of being practically one-shot by everything, then having to trek the 5000miles back from the nearest waypoint. Who's bright idea was it to put so few waypoints in the maps?! I am fed up of trying to get the Griffon mount, which is tied to huge group events, and only 5 people turn up :\ Great, thanks for letting all the other players get this mount because they were in the right place at the right time to get said event. I'm tired of camping the ENTIRE DAY for one event!!!! Also, why bother giving us mounts when you spend the entire time walking anyways?! Because you're constantly in combat and dismounted from the OP mobs that 2-shot your mount! Yeah, I really enjoy having to kill every mob in the area just to mount up, it's fun ... not. -.- Someone told me this would get better with the Jackal evasion mastery ... well, it makes NO difference at all! I'm still dismounted all the time. Maybe if we could mount IN combat, this wouldn't be an issue! I also was forced to give up on a Mastery point that required some "rare" items from killing certain types of mobs in the zone, because one of these items simply WILL NOT drop for me! I've spent over 90 minutes on this now! I asked in map chat, and a lot of players replied saying it took them on average 5 minutes per item!!! Why does it take me over 90 then? Killing the SAME mobs in the SAME areas?! How is that fair? No the item is not in my bag, or bank or on another character, I've looked.

Vista "puzzles" are about as fun as a kick in the balls! I'm fed up of having to look up video guides on every vista I encounter because it's not possible to figure out without spending hours on it! Gotta go 50miles North, take a random hidden portal that takes you 300 miles East, to get the vista that's nowhere near either of these points! -.-

Griffon Mount Collection: Awesome idea, putting a really nice mount as a bonus. However, the collection is rediculous! Why? Because of the required Legendary bounty that is impossible to complete without a group! The legendary event is the last collection item. I was so happy to see the bounty on the boards, grabbed it, went to the location and wasted 10m sitting looking at a mob I cannot kill! Fun. I tagged up, spoke in map chat, listed in LFG, I got ONE player show up. Needless to say we couldn't complete the stupid event on our own. I'd like to see this item removed from the collection.

Dislike having to wait to unlock a specific mount from a later zone for a Mastery Point in my current zone. I absolutely HATE having to use that stupid "springer" mount to jump up places, especially in story instances like "Power Kesho" story instance. I am disappointed that Ranger's still haven't gotten any new ranged skills!