Caitmonster.9036

You kind of are demanding special treatment just because you found a pair of easily cheesable jp achievements 'hard' and refuse to run them again for the rewards. Both can be completed in a matter of minutes by teleporting to friends or using mounts. I've even seen tags running people through the Silverwastes jp checkpoints the old fashioned way for completion. It's genuinely not that hard, and the rewards are well worth the inconvenience of running the jps a second time because of some technical difficulties. But hey, you stick it to Anet and miss out on that bag of mystic coins. That'll show 'em. On another note, chiming in to say that all my broken achievements are working. Thanks for the quick fix, devs!

I'm curious, if you don't have the ls2 episodes but join the party of someone who does and play through the instance with them, would it count? Might be something for those players to consider, if so. Then again they might just wind up complaining about having to interact with other players in an MMO. I hope the bugged achievements get fixed before this Rush ends. I'm sitting at 6/8 right now and just waiting for the hotfix. ;v;

Something for completing the Heroic Dragonsblood and Stellar weapon sets would be kinda nice. I don't even really care if a title's involved, but there's some sets that have no achievements to go along with them and it's a crime, especially with some of the legwork that goes into them.

A fellow Laranthir enjoyer? Please take my Heart reaction. The last few updates have been... 'whelming'. But the community's been good any time I've been on the new maps. I just hope the last chapters of SotO slap a little harder.

As someone who has the Enchanted Chest in my home, I am a little sad that I can't really share it with the randos I pull in at reset because it's highly likely that very few have the same achievement. I enjoy sharing my home nodes, it doesn't hurt me to do and I do some other players a solid. I wouldn't mind seeing it changed so that anyone can loot it, but if it hasn't been after all this time I don't expect it ever will be.

I love these pants. The recent series of less flashy, more 'normal' skins has been a breath of fresh air and I hope it keeps up. My engie looks super cozy now with even more pockets for his gadgets thanks to the new skin.

...Very few people actually go for legendary armor for the skins themselves, but if you find it that terrible to look at, you do know that legendary armor can be freely transmuted w/o wasting TM charges, right? It can even be reskinned between different gear loadouts freely on the same character. And you'll never need that specific piece of armor for that armor class ever again on your entire account? This is of course excluding the convenience of the free stat swapping which I'd argue more people are making leggies for in the first place. :V But yeah, how dare Anet try to encourage people to invest in huge QoL in a completely optional WV objective that can just be ignored for a negligible amount of AA. (Realtalk, I'm just happy they removed EoD minidungeons from the WV rotation tbh, glad I don't have to see Spirit Vestibule as a daily again.)

I always kinda viewed SotO as a side story since the Dragon Cycle is over and we aren't staring complete annihilation in the face. Though I do miss (most) of Teen Destiny's Edge Dragon's Watch, there are a few characters I do kinda enjoy in the new story. Frode's alright, Galrath is a jerk and I love it, Zizzel's kinda neat as far as a weird Itzel can be. The fangirl skritt and her emotional support Charr are precious and should be protected at all costs. I really liked Mabon too, but we all know what happened there. As for Peitha, I would love just once that we keep a morally gray character on our side that doesn't just up and backstab us once they get their prize. (Looking at you, Not-Lazarus), because Peitha betraying us would almost be too obvious at this point and those betrayals have been done to death. There is still the finale of the SotO story to consider as well. Could the threat of the Kryptis spread further into mainland Tyria and fully expose the Astral Ward to the rest of the world? (it already is creeping in, considering the rifts). It might be possible we may get our old squad rolling up at the tail end as reinforcements. Or they don't, and we saved the world again and only a bunch of Wizards will know it. I'm curious to see what plays out, honestly. My only hope is the next time we see Braham he's upped his beard game because that thing he had on his face at the end of EoD was just tragic.

I'm not gonna lie, a HoT map with a random 'event' that would have turned the majority of Sylvari hostile/into Mordrem would've been kinda dope. Or if you died in Elona around Awakened you could've become Awakened and fought for Joko. Cool in concept, but I can already taste the pve-er salt from here. Shame I wasn't around for this to participate, it looked super fun as a 'finale' to the beta.

Casuals, before SotO: "We want leggy armor but don't want to do the specialized content to earn it, give us openworld legendary armor! We don't even care if it has effects or looks super basic, we want it for the stat changing!" Casuals, after SotO: "WhErE ArE mY SpEShUl EfFeCTs??!!11one!?" Anet can literally not win. I'm sure if they'd just handed it out for free there'd be someone finding something to complain about. XD

I have a female Asura as well, haven't heard anything different here. On the other hand, while playing through PoF with a friend, my male norn randomly spouted off human female voice lines to Balthazar, that threw me for a loop lmao.

Griffon skins for the skyscale, and skyscale skins for the griffon. Put the Toothless skyscale skin on a griffon and re-enact HTTYD to your hearts' content. The freaking Kryptis raptor, please. The Kryptis skyscale is lonely and would like another horrifyingly hideous friend, and there are now npc unmounted kryptis raptors (Spitemaws?) running around without riders in Inner Nayos. A fern hound jackal would be amazing also. Mordrem wolf was a good start but hot dang would I like a regular fern doggo. More of those coral-themed mount skins like the Jackal we just got in this latest mount set. Those look so cool.

Mercer is Arkk, the Asura NPC from a few Fractals. I don't know if he's played any 'redshirt' Asura though! I only wish that DiMaggio could reprise his role as Canach someday. Mercer's is alright but it's still a rough transition to get used to.

Personally I saw that thing and thought it was bordering on nightmare fuel. Hard pass from me; I'd rather get the unicorn griffon.

The only ones you might get away with merging easily would be the griffon and skyscale as they use the exact same rig just with different stances/animations. Pretty sure the Warclaw also uses the griffon/skyscale rig just without the wings. I dunno, the idea of zooming on a skyscale-skinned griffon does sound pretty cool but I cannot ever see it happening.