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  1. I am trying to get credit for the Help Battlemaster Flintfoot Prepare Trainees for Combat event under Protector of Droknar's Light. I've done the event and I don't get credit. I've done the Defeat Galene the Seething event afterwards as well, and that I have gotten credit for. What am I doing wrong?
  2. Longtime casual player here. Way back at the start of the game, I was a PvE achievement hunter, primarily when those achievements were tied to skins as rewards. Then came LW S2: Seeds of Truth and Dodgy Rodeo, necessary for the Mastery achievement, which is necessary for part of the Luminescent armor, the reward for LW S2 (as I saw it). I tried over and over to get this achievement. Grouped up with others and tried over and over again. Over and over. Frustration built. Over and over. Finally figured out it wasn't going to happen. And then I asked myself, why am I doing the Silverwastes at all if I'm never getting the reward for it? The next episode of LW S2 started and I asked myself, is it worth spending time on this when the final reward is a piece of an armor set I'm never going to complete? The more times you say "I'm not going to bother with this", the easier it is to say "I'm not going to bother with this" again. After getting the glider unlocked, I basically skipped over HoT story; I played through just enough of LW3 to get the mastery points to upgrade the glider. It wasn't until PoF and LW4 that I started getting enthusiastic again, mainly because I never felt I was going to be locked out of rewards because of a stubborn achievement. Still, even then I'd missed enough skins and achievements along the way that there was no longer the same thrill in being a high-scoring achiever or the same sense of missing something when you don't bother to unlock a skin. And here we are again. We have a long and frustrating map meta involving a HP sink that needs to be done over and over, we have a stack of achievements involving "defeat [Enemy] without getting hit by [Attack]" (insert Dodgy Rodeo flashback here), and we have a strike mission. If I put in the time to try to get the meta achievement and any of those ends up blocking me from getting it, then the time spent on the others is basically wasted. Good thing the meta reward is an emote. I'm stubborn. I've stuck with GW2 even when the content wasn't to my interest. I just don't know how many casuals who aren't as stubborn are going to stick around.
  3. I am getting the Error Code 11:1000:7006:1247 error as well.
  4. I've tried, it doesn't work. If it did, there wouldn't be so much issue with the 24 and 28 slot soulbound bags, but you at least have to equip those to soulbind them (I'm still annoyed at that, but not nearly as much as I can at least see the possibility of a logical reason). I've played this game for a while, so I should know better than to assume the game won't pull a stupid fast one and cost me a week or two of mission credit. There was probably some buried unreadable text that said 'soulbound on acquire' on the purchase page that I missed, but it's little stupid frustrations like this that drive me crazy. There's no reason these should be 'soulbound on acquire' instead of 'account bound on acquire', so I didn't think to look.
  5. Can someone explain why Guild Weapons are soulbound on purchase? I bought a couple to use as crafting materials for their shimmering counterpart, and I can't use them because the character with the crafting levels isn't the character who bought the weapons. I already lost the Guild Commendations once when I bought and got rid of the set to unlock the skins, now I'm losing the commendations again because I bought them on the wrong character.
  6. I'm also not 100% upset by this... but that's because I think I see where ANet had the idea and what went wrong with the implementation. The mount skins are analogous to the special dye kits that occasionally get sold. Those also have a random assortment of prizes, and unlike the mount skins, you're not guaranteed to get something new. ANet looked at the dye sales, said "we're going to do the same with mount skins" and tried "fixing" it by making sure you get something you don't already have but the result is account bound. Unfortunately, this removed the reason that the dye kits worked... the reason the dyes work and the mount skins don't is that we can sell the unwanted dyes. Even with the chance of getting a dye worth practically zero (you opened a Shadow dye kit looking for the 400g Shadow Abyss dye and got the 4s gray dye), the risk is still worth it because if you need one specific special dye, you'll likely make enough from selling the other special dyes to get it on the TP. As it currently stands, players with a lot of money can buy all the skins and they'll eventually get the one they want. But those of us with less money (or more attachment to our wallets) have no sure way of getting the skins we want. ANet is unlikely to get my money or my gold for a random skin. If the mount skins could be resold, you'd have the people with gold buy a large amount of skins, take the ones they need, then sell the rest. Their turning gold to gems to buy the skins is a gold sink, as is reselling the skins on the TP. Those of us without gold pay the players that can afford to buy skins in bulk, and we get the ones we want... ANet would get my gold via the person buying the skins in bulk, plus the TP tax for the exchange.
  7. Krewe Leader Krattz: Now, what can we deduce about their contraption from the debris?Researcher Dodekk: Congratulations, sir. You appear to have ruined a truly devious scheme.Krewe Leader Krattz: At last, you acknowledge my prudence.Researcher Dodekk: The skritt obviously meant to brew ale here.Krewe Leader Krattz: What?Researcher Dodekk: See for yourself. This looks to have been a crude fermenter, and that was a mash tun.Krewe Leader Krattz: I...see. Still, better secure than regretful. Help me repack the equipment.Researcher Dodekk: Yes, sir.I'm always fond of Asuran assistants. The horror of having to work for someone demonstrably less intelligent... Krewe Leader Brij: Fear not, lessers! The specialists have arrived!Krewe Apprentice Liann: I wasn't afraid...right up until the moment we got here.Krewe Leader Brij: How do I get anything done with such feeble minded help? Bah, let's just get to it.Krewe Leader Brij: Is everyone ready?Krewe Apprentice Liann: The arcanopulse matrix seems stable.Krewe Researcher Tyaj: The exocubic capacitor is holding steady.Krewe Leader Brij: A simple "yes" would have sufficed. Now, don't botch the activation. You have no idea how much these aetherovariation modules cost.Krewe Leader Brij: Ready? All together now... Go!Krewe Leader Brij: Oh, and watch out for destroyers. There's a very slight chance they might be attracted to the arcanopulses.Krewe Researcher Tyaj: Wait, what?[Later] Krewe Leader Ambr: Volcano readings stabilizing. Good work, Brij!Krewe Leader Brij: Ha! My brilliance wins again!Krewe Apprentice Liann: Brilliant luck, maybe.Krewe Leader Brij: What was that?Krewe Researcher Tyaj: I think she said something about wanting a duck.Krewe Leader Brij: Liann, if you want to have your own krewe some day, you need to think less about pets and more about work. Now collect some samples for the lab.
  8. Asura conversations with anyone else are almost always interesting, especially when it doesn't go as planned: Bachlag (Sylvari): Look out, sir! There's a charr nearby!Eblo (Asura): Don't worry, sprout. Charr may look tough, but it's an act. all roar, no claws.Backlag: But they're monsters! They'll eat me, won't they? Do they eat vegetables?Eblo: Meat, vegetables, fruit, catnip—but I don't think they'd eat you.Eblo: What? Did you fall off the tree yesterday?Bachlag: Certainly not, sir! I fell off the tree five days ago! I fell off a turnip cart yesterday.Gate Assistant (Sylvari): Your golem is strange. Was strange, rather.Gate Engineer (Asura): You drove it away, you know. I've never seen a golem run that fast.Gate Assistant: I only wanted to ask it a few questions.Gate Engineer: Oh, I know. You guys are full of them.Gate Assistant: Oh, yes. What it's like to be a golem? Does it dream? Does it have a family?Gate Engineer: That was the last straw you know. After that question about turtles in the desert, you asked it about its mother.Gate Assistant: So?Gate Engineer: It doesn't have a mother. It's a golem. You crossed its circuits. I don't know how you did it, but you weirded out MY golem!Gate Assistant: So, you are the mother? Or the father?Gate Engineer: What? Well, I—I guess I... Oh no. You're not getting in my head. You just stand there and help me monitor the gate.Gate Engineer: Am I the mother? Blazing braces, this is what I get for working with the tree children.The Gate crew can have fun even without anyone else to talk to: Graff: Personal log: These norn call me "squab". I presume they mean it as an insult or taunt.Gatekeeper: So, I told him, "New regulations stipulate you must remove your boots and belt before traveling."Gatekeeper (2): And he fell for it?Gatekeeper: Completely. He had to hold his pants up as he entered the gate.
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