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Committed Executioner. Which is somewhat fitting, since I main a Necromancer and had him as my main character since 2012.
Necro is love.
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Not judging how good or how bad these elites are, but at least they can do variety of stuff. Except Harbinger, just boons and auto attack.
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1 hour ago, Wintermute.5408 said:
You know, after looking at second generation of elites - complex, with multitude of new mechanics, with interesting weapons and utilities... don't you think we've got an absolute short end of a stick with "here's half of your health, some kitten boons and 45k benchmark"?
I have been playing Necromancer as my main character since 2012 and I have to say that Harbinger is the most boring elite specialization to date. Some other profession elites might be worse that Harbinger in usefulness, but they have much more interesting gameplay. Utility skills and traits are are too simple and unoriginal, press a button and get some boons, much wow. Even the elixir skill icons are copy / paste with slight color variations, I really hope those are placeholder images.
It's going to be really sad if I'm going to get a specialization which I'm never going to use in any situation. In current situation I'd rather play Catalyst as my main character instead of Harbinger and I don't even play as Elementalist at all. I don't mind pistol that much, even though I hoped for another weapon. But I think Harbinger needs off-hand pistol as well. Main hand piston does not feel good enough since our off-hand weapons sucks.
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32 minutes ago, Zaxares.5419 said:
Even better, why not allow players to buy a Pristine Eye for something like, say, 500 Prismaticite Ore? Yeah, that looks like a LOT, but bear in mind you get 5 Ore per day if you have the HI node for absolutely nothing, so in 100 days (or a bit over 3 months), you get an item that's probably worth a decent bit of gold.
Did you mean Prismaticite Crystal? That would be a way too cheap with 500 pieces, those crystals drops left and right in Dragon Response Missions.
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SAB bunnies or angry chickens in Stronghold of Ebonhawke.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bun-nadohttps://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Angry_Chicken
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Meh, nitpickers problems. Am I the only one who is fine with this?
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@Fueki.4753 said:Even Dark Souls Series, which many consider not having a tutorial, tells people of the controls.I don't see a reason why GW2 shouldn't tell players how to control it.
Whatever the game is, I still think that it is babysitting. If people are clueless about the controls, they can check and remap them as they like from the options. But that is not the point, the point is that every game should not act like players are stupid and hold our hands all the time. Takes away from the experience to figure out stuff on our own.
@"Friday.7864" said:Well new players are babies, they're absolutely clueless, capable of bringing down entire parties/squads/encounters with their mistakes and lack of knowledge.That's why the babysitting should be done in tutorial, so other players don't have to suffer by having to teach every new player the absolute basics.I don't run a huge guild but I can tell you I'm completely fed up with the amount of explaining I had to do to new players.
CC mechanics are a complete mystery to every new player, while the CC bar is CRUCIAL to some encounters. No part of the game tells people what it is, what CC stands for, what types there are, which skills to use or what happens if you don't use CC skills! You don't do research about CORE mechanics - it's not a fun little secret for people to discover - it's an ESSENTIAL MECHANIC, A MUST KNOW for anyone playing.
I started this game when the game launched, I didn't need any tutorials how to play the game. I learned to play this game all by myself and I definitely didn't need any babysitting. In matter of fact, I had more fun by doing so. I don't like it when the game tells you what to do in every step. The new players you are referring to as babies, they chose to be "clueless babies" so that other people or the game would tell them what to do and do everything for them. I don't blame you for being frustrated to teach new players the game mechanics all the time when they are too lazy to do it themselves, it's their own fault. I have read countless of topics where people were complaining about this game and a lot of time it's all about learn-to-play issue.
I don't really remember GW2 mentioning CC or crowd control anywhere, so the issue is made up by players. I understand that new players might be confused when people are telling them to use "CC" skills, but I would not blame the game for not telling it. That is easy to figure out as well; "oh I used a skill which applies stun and the break bar is going down? Cool!" Though I guess I still somewhat agree that it should be mentioned somewhere.
editThis is my own opinion, but I don't like it when people can't or does not want to learn the game mechanics. Takes away all the fun from us who likes the challenge. Like HoT maps got nerfed when they were "too hard" for some people. Then the certain boss fight in PoF which was "too hard" and it was patched so it is easier to beat. Sure I lost to that boss fight, but I adapted to it and changed my build and beat him in my second try. The real issue is, that some certain people does not want to learn, whatever the rules are. Then the same people are complaining that the game is too hard and "why didn't you tell me that?".
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@"Friday.7864" said:No one is talking about babying people to the point where you tell them which key to press to move forward or anything close to it...Dodging, CC and the importance of using different skills should be properly demonstrated though!
Telling people how to use dodge and crowd control skills is babysitting. Why people can't figure out stuff by themselves and everything has to be explained from the start? Learn while you play, and selling lvl 80 boosters is stupid idea since then we have lvl 80 players who does not know the base mechanics. If you were referring to me and have any literacy at all, I said I was exaggerating with my "press x to do something" example.
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I don't think that new players has to be hand fed by the game too much, it takes away all the fun and excitement to learn new stuff by yourself. Guild Wars 2 is already easy to learn and casual friendly game. I hate this trend in gaming that games has tutorials like "press space bar to jump" or "press 1 to attack", this was exaggerating example, but I bet you all got the point. Games are made too easy so they can be targeted for larger audiences, aka bad or casual players. That is just bad business and makes an assumption that players are stupid.
If some people are too ignorant to learn anything by themselves and want game developers to give them everything on a silver plate, maby games are not meant for you then. Or then they have to play easier games which does not require thinking.
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@"Stormcrow.7513" said:Really sorry to necro this but I can't seem to get GW2 to work with DoF. Using Reshade atm with P912Pxy. Anyone ever get it to work or is there still the problem of the netcode not allowing DoF injectors?
I'm using "MatsoDOF" and "LightDoF_AutoFocus" + "LightDoF_Far" combination with GW2 Hook and it works pretty well and does not disturb gameplay. I'm using my own settings for them.
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It's fair in a sense that as a Longbow Ranger you are not really effective with close combat for example, greater range does not always equal as being better than something else.
Like IndigoSundown mentioned, some professions does some roles better than others. Range does not have anything to do with it most of the time.
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@Kossage.9072 That was really interesting to read and you had some good points. I actually own Guild Wars Factions and Nightfall, but never got that far in the story, it was back then when I was young adult while trying to find some games to play. Never played a Norn character either, so that Garm part was new for me.
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@Dawdler.8521 said:I am pretty sure Garm, Eirs legendary ranked dire wolf who gets his name from the Norse word Garmr/Fenrisulven, would be quite confused if you started to call the boneskinner the same name. And maybe a little insulted since he's practically a member of Destinys Edge and you just said he's an enemy boss.
Okay, that was funny. Good that Garm does not speak Tyrian or common language.
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@Inculpatus cedo.9234 said:That's all you took from the discussion?
Ok.
I didn't find anything else interesting in the summary. I don't have time to check the 2 hours long video or transcription either. But I still find the resemblance funny for everything what I wrote or noted, so in another universe that might be true. Heh heh.
@The Greyhawk.9107 said:Norn aren't exclusively Norse based, their culture also takes some influence from Northern Native American, their shamanism/nature worship being a big example.
So yeah, the Boneskinner IS based on the wendigo.
That I can figure out by myself that they are influenced by different cultures. Though ravens are important part in Norse mythology.
For everyone. This is just my own rambling, so don't take me too seriously. More like fanfiction than anything else.
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@"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said:Here you go: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Chat_-_Episode_95
Sure, it was called Wendigo at one point of development, but I think they had a good reason not to call it by that name. Wendigo is from North American folklore and does not really fit the Norse mythology. Though Wendigo and Fenrir has similar abilities, quoted from different site: " While in the wraith world, Fenrir is capable of using shadow strike, an attack which allows him to teleport to his enemies' location and quickly kill them, as well as easily navigate over the terrain. The most important of Fenrir's abilities is his power to strike fear into and dominate his enemies, allowing him to access a whole host of opportunities." Just like the Boneskinner does.
Same as Wendigo, he causes fear on his pray and strike upon the victim when it has driven away by despair. Sure when you Google search images of Wendigo, you can find similar images like Boneskinner, but the most common "sight" has been a human like creature with fur.
Developers had a really good reason to change the name, the model is still really good.
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I wasn't too sure if I should post this in Lore or General discussion, but I'm pretty surprised that this matter haven't been discussed yet (at least I didn't find any topic and I was not going to search from 100 pages of finds relating to Boneskinner). What is the origin of Boneskinner?
We all know already that Norn are based on Vikings / Norse mythology and rightfully so, The Icebrood Saga narrative is written in old Norse. I didn't actually pay much attention to it, but recently I played Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and the events / boss fight against Fenrir goes just like in Guild Wars 2. He gets stronger in the dark, he is afraid of light and we use it to our advantage. Even the creature model is really similar, though this is still an artistic decision. In Hellbalde Fenrir is visualized as a boar, but in the game he is mentioned as Garmr / Fenrir. Sometimes called as Hellhound. Boneskinner and Garmr / Fenrir shares the same fate basically, Boneskinner guarding Sanctum Arena and Fenrir guarding Hel's gate. There are other references too, such as Fraenir of Jormag is named after Fafnir, a dwarf who became a Dragon.
https://i.imgur.com/8pLhwvS.png
This is just my guess, but I think Jormag's voice actor is female, because she is pretty much influenced by Hel (daughter of Loki). Did you know that Hel is the ruler of Niflheim, a realm of primordial ice and cold?
I like Norse mythology and stuff related to it. I love in games how developers take inspiration from it.
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@Rasimir.6239 said:Are you on EU or US? If EU I'll gladly team up (tonight or tomorrow night) and grab the song/open the way to the glitch (not sure if I have the song unlocked on this account, but I definitely have it on my main account).
I'm fine. I know how to get things done, but I still hate that map with passion. Thanks for the offer though.
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@Rasimir.6239 said:Did you learn the correct song? Just playing the notes doesn't help if you haven't learned the song yet. You can check GW2 Efficiency if you're not sure about it.
I see. F*** my life since I hate W2Z2 so much.
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@"Rasimir.6239" said:Try this explanation over at reddit. The second picture was the one that helped me find the right place.
Alright, I was at the right spot, but my flute does not open anything :(
No wonder I could not get it since my flute does not work.
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@Ashantara.8731 said:What am I supposed to do? Get the pickaxe? How exactly?
Jump on the last ledge and forget about the pickaxe, it's behind the waterfall and you can shoot it with slingshot.
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@Rasimir.6239 said:It is, but you can go there in infantile mode. Look out for a place where the rainbow ends and a path of clouds (the non-rainbow way) comes up from your right. The closed mouth is just past that point.
I feel pretty stupid, I just don't get it without a picture. There are a lots of closed mouths I can't open.
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@Ray Koopa.2354 said:
- W2-3: Follow the hard / long path up to the beginning of the section with the many icicles, spiky floor, and push blocks. Use your flute to open a closed mouth (332331) and use the only working portal inside of it. It'll lead you to the inside of an earlier mouth where several stalagmites are placed you have to hit one after another to keep the path going (use a slingshot from the right heights).
I don't have any idea where that place is since I never finished W2Z3 fully. Is that before the Yeti?
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Okay so, glitches are pretty easy to find when you follow the leads from Unintended coursework. Can be found in any mode.
For W1Z3 you have to climb up the hidden tree and the end. https://i.imgur.com/YnIz1Bx.jpg
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@Xenon.4537 said:Ok I found the first glitch in zone 1 and when I destroyed it, the chest spawned at the end. Neeto!
Are they easily visible?
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Don't know how well known these bags are, but you can already make account bound 24 and 28 slotted bags.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sturdy_Boreal_Duffel