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Lordkrall, on 13 June 2013 - 03:57 PM, said:

Because if we were all like you, my well esteemed nemesis Lordkrall, we would do nothing but sit on our hands and praise ArenaNet. Undeservingly too.

At this rate people are complaining about trends, not about what the Dragon Bash puts on the table. Which isn't much by the way.

Clearly this preview image:



Indicates that there's not going to be a dragon festival.

I think the hint was in Faren's talk about judging Divinity’s Reach Fanciest Cat competition.  Clearly there's a brewing civil war over the event.  But I think we'll find that the Mursaat are behind it, ultimately revealing that the last remaining aspect of Lazarusthe Dire is posessing Chauncey von Snuffles III.

Lordkrall, on 12 June 2013 - 10:09 AM, said:

Coffers is an example of RNG, and no shit a percentage of any community ever will always whine about something, but whether or not those complaints are valid is another story. For 3 updates in a row Anet has added new features with decent content (remains to be seen in this update) with the shitty RNG cloud hanging over it, molten weapons, sclerite weapons, and now jade weapons. The content is decent, no one complained about molten facility, no one complained about southsun getting revamped, why is it so bad to tie the rewards that people want into the content itself, rather than having content on one hand and lottery boxes on the other? It's as if the real game is throwing money at GW2 while content is just a bonus...

Or they could make engaging content through which these desire-able weapons may be delivered. But who am I kidding, there's no room for enjoyment in MMOs these days given the superlative paradigms of work and reward. Players obviously need dangled rewards and there must be obtuse, time-consuming, un-engaging and oh-so redundant obstacles between the player their reward. This is content... or that's how it's being sold anyway. Oh and since GW2 is so graciously F2P, players are encouraged to throw indeterminable amounts of wealth at lottery boxes to obtain their rewards. We have to feed the devs that give us this content, after all, so they can give us even more content!.

I know this because I logged in against my better judgement to experience this content. Ignoring the shinies that for once piqued my interest, I did so in hopes of seeing improvement in content design that should have been there after 8 months of developing the game. If I had known that ANet's current idea of content is competitive grinding (of all things), a poorly tuned mini-game, and straight up gambling, I would have saved Tuesday night doing something more productive. I wouldn't have even humored the thought of obtaining those for once well-designed seasonal cosmetics. The game they're used in isn't worth the amount of work its content requires of me.

Marjory Delaqua

Using the powers of anagram, I find Jade Quarry and the letters o, a, l and m left over.

Prepare your thinking caps! It's Whacking Day!

davadude, on 09 June 2013 - 02:53 PM, said:

Hmm, good point.  But what's to discuss about say, the horns of the dragon?  It's a free helmet and we know what it looks like.  Nothing to speculate about and there's nothing to argue/complain about either.  The backpieces will probably be similar in difficulty to obtain as the southsun's backpieces, and the voucher's for the mini will probably be fairly difficult to get... but doable.

As for the candy, it will probably be plentiful and (relatively) expensive the first few days (since people will want it for the back item) but will decrease in price as people get the backpiece and realize they have much more than they need.  I'm thinking about the halloween candy corn here btw.  But I guess that started at 20c, thought it was more than that.

I can see why people are talking about the coffers the most, since rewards from the boxes are the most frustrating to obtain when you actually want them.  And the weapon rewards have recently all been account bound, which means you either get lucky or you don't.  Honestly, I'm frustrated for a slightly different reason than most, I actually got a schlerite ticket but I couldn't sell it or the weapon I chose with it... and I didn't even really like the skins.  I got the axe for my necro as it seemed the most fitting, but I don't even have an exotic axe for my necro because I hate using it.  With how rare the tickets seem to be, I'm sure I'd be 20g+ richer if I could sell the ticket.

Heh, and that is why the coffers are what's being talked about, I was able to type as much about the schlerite tickets as I did about all the dragon bash rewards.  And I'm someone that's actually really looking forward to the dragon bash, and I enjoyed the new southsun content a lot!  There's just more to say about the rewards from the boxes.

For fun.
The top three may be optimal, but my best times in dungeons occur when I'm with people I like.
I've had a lot of fun in groups full of immature thieves talking smack all run.


If you were the sort of person who regularly misdirected mobs onto your buddy for a laugh in wow, there's no need to worry about class choice.
If you were the sort of person who booted players from your super elite guild for time wasting when they did the above, chances are you're more focused on optimal setups and doing things fast.

I love my Asura mesmer and all of my color combos. Now if only I could do this in actual combat (the MASS hysteria!)

Was able to finish my shiny right on my birthday, pretty awesome day.

I finally feel like I finished my mesmer:

After playing the TP for a bit, I got a look for my mesmer alt:



Not sure about the colors, though, but I tried to find something, that matches the swords, without favoring either blue or red too much. Also it had to fit the skin and hair color as well as the mesmer theme ^^

Sylvari cultural is pretty hard to dye, at the moment I'm using Ocean, Midday and Lava with some Sea Green on the legs and Indigo on the foot. Since it's my alt I'm pretty limited in dyes, unfortunately (why can't dyes be unlocked account-wide )

Also, why do sylvari tend to have their eyes closed on most screenshots?

It was hard getting a shot that makes casters look uniquely their class, but a little rapid fire printscreen yielded this little gem for my necro, Lyla Loste

BEHOLD THE HORROR

My Necro. I'm a huge fan of armor combinations.

<3





I am so happy right now.