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Captain Candiru posted:Dry Top mapchat can be pretty doom and gloom this time of day, now that all the attention is on Silverwastes. Stupid pubbies. The DTOP guild does coordinated dry top runs every Friday and Saturday, one hour after reset, that typically go through two runs up to tier 6, and ends with killing the legendary sand giant to cap it off. Loads of fun and lots of geodes. teagone fucked around with this message at 09:29 on Nov 23, 2014 |
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RIP Buttbot aka The Assmaster
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Nov 23, 2014 10:06
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Bring it back anot.
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Nov 23, 2014 10:10
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Nov 23, 2014 11:40
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Alteisen posted:I miss LS1. Your glasses are rose-tinted. Season One had plenty, and I do mean plenty, of pattycaking trying to get into a good zone, plenty of mouth breathers who did nothing beyond scaling poo poo up to impossible levels, repetitive events involving nothing more than farming, and big finisher events that failed 90% of the time.
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Nov 23, 2014 11:46
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I just wish getting the gloves were less annoying. Oh yes let's rely not only on pubbie competence but ALSO hope for RNG chests dropping the gloves (10 chests opened 1 pair of gloves atm). Or you could grind bandit tokens for hours! Wow so fun! So many people are just lying down and accepting this as "good design" that it makes me furious.
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Nov 23, 2014 12:30
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I don't get the hate, just an armour version of the dry top weapon mechanic. Now they just gotta do the same with Fractal weapons.
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Nov 23, 2014 12:42
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Thanks everybody who helped run me through the Arah story path yesterday!  Even in the middle of celebrating how awesome I am at mashing 1, Logan and Rytlock can't keep their eyes off each other. Sorry, Arus, but your waifu is into cat-men.
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Nov 23, 2014 14:21
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chumbler posted:So it looks like now you only get the carapace armor piece on the first character you run through the living story? Leave it to anet to gently caress up something they actually managed to get right once. God knows what horrors would be unleashed upon the game if doing the living story repeatedly let you unlock a skin and get a piece of mediocre armor for free. What? Making players go through the same LS instances 4+ times was a really loving stupid idea and I'm glad it's gone. They didn't add a better alternative (sPvP reward track and RNG chest lol) but at least we're not fighting the Glint's Lair end boss over and over. And if you think the armor is so stupid, you don't even need to get it! 
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Nov 23, 2014 14:22
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They might add the track when the zone is finished completely, like with drytop.Traxus IV posted:Thanks everybody who helped run me through the Arah story path yesterday! We had two groups do that today, rip.
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Nov 23, 2014 14:31
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Alteisen posted:I miss LS1. I am loving the new zone on my ranger. Longbow is actually a fantastic weapon there. The aoe cripple makes the lunging terragriffs a breeze and the interrupt is great when dealing with leeching thrashers (if there are tentacles coming out of the ground at you, interrupt the nearest leeching thrasher while you strafe around). For pets, I've been using devourers; they have great survivability and back away from enemies while evading underground, so they don't die in vile thrasher poison pools as much as the other pets tend to.
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Visidan posted:
Agreed. I actually enjoyed the Scarlet Hologram fight in the end but gently caress the long-rear end waits and fighting the triple flying buttbots to even get access to that. Even then I'd say the hologram fight still took a bit longer than I would have liked. I don't think I'm alone in feeling that people don't really wanna spend more than 5-10 min actually doing a single fight, regardless of what mechanics are involved. People want to constantly be moving forward, doing more and getting rewarded for their time. Then again I certainly feel like every reward I get equates to playing the game for about 5 minutes a day total no matter how much time I actually put into it :p
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Nov 23, 2014 15:08
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Visidan posted:We had two groups do that today, rip. Bonus point is Traxus attended both. Also passive/aggressive mapchat (yep dude if you're dead dead I'll get a npc up first since you can always waypoint) 
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Captain Candiru posted:Dry Top mapchat can be pretty doom and gloom this time of day, now that all the attention is on Silverwastes. This is concerning for a player like me who tends to play GW2 in spurts throughout the year. I log in to unlock updates thinking that I will be able to easily participate later especially with megaservers filling zones up with a reasonable number of people. I was playing during dry top's release but I have not touched Silverwastes yet. So I guess what I want to know is whether or not these zones are going to be fun when they stop being the newest thing to do? Is Dry Top pretty empty now? I understand that people make guilds to coordinate times that get a lot of people together to do a specific thing but my schedule doesn't really work well for scheduled events like that. It is one of many reasons why I quit raiding so long ago. I want to be able to just log in and "play". Now granted, I am okay with some things in the zone not being easily doable 24/7, but I do want to be able to go to a zone a feel like I can participate in most of what is available and do whatever is involved to earn rewards and so forth. Especially during prime time hours. On the other hand, map chat is often bad and unreliable. I'd like to hear other people's thoughts on this.
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Visidan posted:new pvp mode already. How many times has Anet TOTALLY REVITALIZED PVP without doing this? I think we're up to four or five. I just can't bring myself to care about conquest. The sort of twitchy combat mixed with lots of mix and match options is fun, the game mode is garbage.
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Xavier434 posted:Is Dry Top pretty empty now? No. Unless your megaservered to a fresh zone. You need to coordinate to get higher than a 3-4, luckily you can buy everything at 3. The zones with the biggest population issues are in Orr imo, and it's by having too much population. I think the orr temples should be on timers like world bosses so people can actually do the capture event instead of the boring defense. That's just me though, I can see how it's handy to be able to zone in and buy anything whenever you want.
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Kajeesus posted:What? Making players go through the same LS instances 4+ times was a really loving stupid idea and I'm glad it's gone. They didn't add a better alternative (sPvP reward track and RNG chest lol) but at least we're not fighting the Glint's Lair end boss over and over. And if you think the armor is so stupid, you don't even need to get it! Running through the living story even with its awful bosses is still better than just flat out having to grind in a lovely zone with incredibly frustrating overleveled mobs. Edit: And seriously, have they said anything about outfit dyes resetting on logging in or out, by cutscenes, or seemingly whenever they drat well please? chumbler fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Nov 23, 2014 |
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I love Dry Top 
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I'm sure whenever Season 3 comes around with a new structure of content people will be pining for the good ol' days of Season 2 and its super fun content. The circle of life.
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chumbler posted:Edit: And seriously, have they said anything about outfit dyes resetting on logging in or out, by cutscenes, or seemingly whenever they drat well please? Sounds like something I've seen complained about before since release, on rare occasion. Not sure.
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Also: I like Dry Top, too. Just not as much as Silverwastes. It should be noted that, at least in my experience, I still see easy tier 3 or 4 in "empty" Dry Tops. If events get done, the bar fills up. I'd even tentatively suggest that the bar fill amount from an event scales with the players in the zone. The huge chunks getting filled in during my visit this morning were unlike anything I ever saw when almost every event was getting done at all times every minute. With coordination you can probably still see tier 5 and 6. Captain Candiru fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Nov 23, 2014 |
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I like both new zones. They're fun. They also should redo some of the older zones. Some of the hearts are pretty samey.
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My hope is that they circle back to a number of those older escort events and add the "revive X before timer runs out!" states instead of a total failure (or just perma-laying there until someone wanders by) if the NPC you're trying to escort is fragile or likes to stand in red circles.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I love Dry Top 
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This is my feitsh.
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Gaile Grey is currently discussing the bugged fractals weapon collection with players on the official forums. The collection has been in since the September Feature Pack implemented them, but it's bugged in a few different ways: 1. It's a hidden collection, which doesn't appear unless you've already completed it. 2. When it does show up, it's listed as a Flame & Frost achievement. 3. The weapons don't indicate that they're collectibles until you already have all nineteen, but 4. The only way to actually open the achievement page is by right-clicking a fractal weapon. Also, the only reward for completing it is a total of 10 AP. All in all it's everything one would expect a fractal weapons collection to be. 
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Gaile Grey is currently discussing the bugged fractals weapon collection with players on the official forums. Almost as if Anet doesn't want anyone to do fractals or something. I do not object to this decision.
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 Today I got my seventh level 80.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Gaile Grey is currently discussing the bugged fractals weapon collection with players on the official forums. Any word on the like four other bugged collections?
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MacBook Air Gamer posted:Any word on the like four other bugged collections? http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hero_of_the_People http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fine_Wining http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Brewmaster http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_Master are the four Gaile is referring to the QA leads.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Gaile Grey is currently discussing the bugged fractals weapon collection with players on the official forums. You could leave the word fractal out of this post and I'd know it was about fractals.
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SlothBear posted:You could leave the word fractal out of this post and I'd know it was about fractals. It's exquisite really.
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How many people even are there worldwide who have finished that achievement. The last time I ran the numbers on it, it would take something like two years of daily runs.
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tirinal posted:How many people even are there worldwide who have finished that achievement. The last time I ran the numbers on it, it would take something like two years of daily runs. Well, it has been two years... 
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Where's my achievement for getting duplicates of all the fractal weapons you don't want and none of the ones you do want?
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Various Meat Prod. posted:Where's my achievement for getting duplicates of all the fractal weapons you don't want and none of the ones you do want? i won this, you get another fractal speargun
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Totally out of nowhere, here's the SweetFX configuration I've been using for GW2 lately, since I found all the existing presets kind of garish and nauseating, even when they tried not to be. It's a modification of Sweet, Subtle and Sharp, designed to get SMAA, along with a clear, detailed image and better light effects while keeping the coloration faithful to the original and not making the whole thing look like some hosed up HDR drug trip. Here's some comparison shots. (Open in new tabs so you can switch between them at full resolution.) The sharpening filter is particularly noticeable on surfaces like animal fur which were previously kind of smeared into solid colors. There are details on skin I never knew were there before. Charr and Sylvari will see the biggest differences.   Another effect that really jumps out at you is the way light plays across certain surfaces, particularly reflective points on armor, and on bodies of water. Even without animation, you can kind of see what I mean here.   The sharpening filter slightly degrades the SMAA, but not tremendously. You can get some pretty nice scenes out of it.   If you've never used it before, the SweetFX configurator is here. Point it at the folder with your game .exe via the menu on the left, load the above configuration .txt via the menu on the right, and select Save New Config at the bottom to make it active. Scroll Lock turns SweetFX on and off by default, so you'll know if it's working or not. If you end up using this preset, or any preset that adds AA, disable AA in the GW2 settings. Also: SweetFX posted:After latest patch, the game needs a split install of SweetFX So copy those over from the folder you extracted the configurator to. Additionally, can I just say that after typing all this, I really wish they'd called it something other than 'SweetFX'. I mean it looks terrific, but I'm pretty sure this has made me retarded. Fendahleen fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Dec 7, 2014 |
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Traxus IV posted:Thanks everybody who helped run me through the Arah story path yesterday! I do not remember this cutscene and now I'm sad.
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It's the final cutscene that also involves you and the crew doing the victory strut towards the camera.
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