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9 minutes ago, Kodama.6453 said:
Is this one actually conscious?
I didn't encounter it personally in gw1, but It strikes me as just a mindless beast.
I don't think a legend needs consciousness for the Mists to create an echo. It just needs to leave an impression.
After all, the Jade Maw certainly did leave one.
And checking the icon most likely to be the revenant one does seem to have mandibles, or at least something similiar in my eye.
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32 minutes ago, Andovar Edoras.2143 said:
They simply need to offer better rewards and people will swarm to it. Bad reward = no motivation.
Not even a unique legendary armour with custom transformation effects and huge QoL that was in development for ages was enough to bring a majority into 10 man instanced content. It was merely enough to bring some people in that abruptly quit raiding after getting their reward, no longitivity.Rewards don‘t turn content into fun content, the content itself must be fun from the start.
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1 minute ago, Astralporing.1957 said:
Oh, it was enough to entice players into that content (as can be seen by gw2efficiency statistics of LIs, with visible cutoffs at 150 and 750 LI range - the amount for first and all 3 sets). The problem is that it was a significant number as far as raid community was concerned, but still not big enough to keep raids afloat. Oh, and, also, as soon as those people got what they wanted, they immediately stopped raiding.
It was never a good solution longterm anyway.
Yeah, i edited my post adding „most“ to players, mistake on my side about what i wanted to actually say.
But yeah, the LI cutoffs just make me interpret it as those players not raiding out of fun.
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8 minutes ago, Endilbiach.4132 said:
Problem: I detest raids on every conceivable level. They've destroyed or damaged the community of every MMO I've ever played, and I'm very tired of seeing them. Therefor, no matter how enticing you make them, I will not take part.
Not even a exclusive legendary armour with stat swapping QoL and transforming skins that took ages to create was enough to entice most players into that type of content.-
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9 minutes ago, Ashantara.8731 said:
There is a thread dedicated to fishing. Why not use that one?
Because fishing is only a part of this post, an example of an activity that changes the general flow of how the game is played. Similiar to racing.While I don‘t agree with OP‘s strawman argument about „only pressing 1“, I share the sentiment that most of the GW2 content has a samey feel to it. I‘d even go further and say side content like fractals and raids is also more of the same.
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10 hours ago, Astralporing.1957 said:
I think they did mention alliances then.
Yeah, MZ did mention them during the reveal. He just called it World Restructuring.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Icebrood_Saga_announcement
In a interview shortly after that, he also mentioned that swiss for PvP had to be done first, before they could continue working on Alliances, as work on the swiss system would be part of World Restructuring.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/guild-wars-2/pvp-raids-world-restructuring-
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8 minutes ago, phokus.8934 said:
I'd like a scepter but wouldn't mind a dagger either.
Where's the greatsword crowd?
Right here! I still think it's going to be a GS.
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Just waiting for some more information. If nothing is announced that i vehemently dislike it‘s going to be the ultimate edition.
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4 hours ago, Fueki.4753 said:
That looks like the Revenant eye with bug mandibles at the top and bottom to me.
Maybe the legend is a Mantid.
I, for one, welcome our new insect/myriapod overlord.-
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Kurzicks and Luxons were forcefully integrated into canthan society under tyrannical rule.
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7 hours ago, ugrakarma.9416 said:
if they make the "boat"/skiff usable on all Tyria, it can be huge.
I think they mentioned that it is usable everywhere in the old zones in the stream. I‘d need to check again to be 100% certain, though. -
Will most likely get the ultimate edition, to answer your glorified whine thread.
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6 is definitely Rev, it resembles the Revenant symbol. It does look like the head of an insect, mandibles and all.
My best guess here would be The Leviathan, a centipede boss from GW1, as legend.
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Going with Ultimate for now, unless they show something i completely dislike in the coming months.
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The NPC with a greatsword fighting the Naga is Anja. She represents the player character since Icebrood Saga and is a guardian, so i doubt it is a new elite spec.
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Looks like a one-eyed centipede head to me.
Leviathan legend?
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I'll just share this anecdotal twitter thread from Linsey Murdock, from the time when she left to work for Riot (most likely on their new MMORPG)(click on it for the full thread) :
It is mostly positive, with a positive outlook on the future of Arenanet. I'm not sure if this is what OP is looking for, as it is already months old and only anecdotal. Who knows how other/current team members feel.
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I'm happy they do stuff like this.
Small details like this make the world feel more immersive when building a completely new fantasy world. Stuff like this isn't new to Anet: Krytan, Charr markings with meaning, dwarven runes etc. show me that they care about their worldbuilding.
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I honestly don't count Dragonstorm and Marionette as OW events. Similiar to what that_shaman said I think of them as large scale instanced content, another new type after DRMs/SMs/Raids.
I'm pretty sure Cantha is going back to OW-Maps.
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1 minute ago, Gotejjeken.1267 said:
Yeah I'd rather them work on WvW over raids.
Yep, that'd be cool. Let's hope they really ment it when they called WvW a cornerstone in one of their recent blogs.
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*Your deciding factor in buying the expansion.
I'd rather have ANet spend resources on something else.
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Nice to hear that public is here to stay!
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4 hours ago, Astralporing.1957 said:
Some do indeed (although in this case it's more about achievements, since the loot is even worse than the original Marionette had). Others simply prefer a personal challenge, not a challenge that is primarily based on difficulty of herding cats. Or, to be more precise, a challenging content that takes practically all the control over success out of your hands.
People that are in it for challenge like to think that they had a significant impact on success or fail of the fight. In Marionette encounter, they usually feel that only when they fail. It's not a very empowering feeling, quite the opposite.
That's why I'm in favour of a implementations of jump pads or teleports between the platforms. Then your personal skill has more impact. It seems, however, that some of the "difficulty"-crowd are even against that, as it would make the fight less difficult (those are the ones my original comment is about Zephire.8049).
The public version is fine imo, but the squad one is "difficult" for the wrong reasons, as you correctly stated.
So the dissonance between the people that want to keep the marionette as is for "difficulty" reasons and the people that would rather have a better balanced encounter with more personal responsibility, but can't have it due to the first group, is hilarious.
Give in to the first crowd, as in keeping the marionette the way it is, and I doubt the content will survive long term, give in to the second one and the first one will start to cry about content getting nerfed because of the "casuals".
E-spec legend speculation
in Revenant
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Most of the current legend lines have dissapointed me and barely tell any lore, so having a centipede screech into my ear wouldn't be so different from having Glint roaring. We also don't know if it is unconscious, Leviathan Mind enemies were a thing.
I'd also rather not want some random lore tidbits like: Oh, see those Tengu? I united them! That peace fell apart quickly. Everything I've done was in vain!
Or someone asking me if I've learned about the limitations of my strength.
It would be more interesting to me to have some new race instead of just another canthan human who's endgame was dying to the first one, Shiro. Shiro himself could already fill the role of the one telling the interesting lorebits with new voicelines. He did ask about Cantha and the Empire, after all. I mostly see Togo ending up as some ghost npc still walking around Tahnnakai Temple.
At least the icon seems to resemble a crawly thing more than a human ¯\_(ツ)_/¯