Flame and Frost : starting January 28th

[Nemeon Lion]

For those still wondering about the whole ascended with laureals CEASAR STYLE BRAH BRAH you will be able to trade laureals for ascended rings and amulets. Backpacks will be enabled in a future update. These ascended items will not have an in-built agony resistance but they can be infused.

Which makes sense because the in-built agony resistance is only usefull when doing high-level fractals, at which point you already got yourself an infused ascended drop from fractals anyway.

[nkuvu]

Considering my alternative to this bugged events problem is WoW, where foes just stand there and do nothing... I'd say it's not that bad.

I don't really want to break your immersion, but I believe I've seen you mention this a few times.

The problem is that many (many) creatures do just stand around waiting for you to come along and kill them.

I can go to Metrica Province, and find one area where there are siamoths standing by the water. What are they doing? Waiting for someone to attack. Or the mosquitoes down the way, that might move back and forth but are always there. Or the veteran troll near those mosquitoes, the one that stands by the fire all the time.

Or you could go to Orr, and see all the Risen that just hang out, drooling on their toes until someone's unlucky enough to get close to them.

I'm happy that GW2 has a lot of actual activity. Some things fight other things (Risen and boars/grubs in Straits of Devastation, for instance). Some things have patrol routes. Some things go kill cute little innocent critters. NPCs have paths and they may not be in the same spot all the time.

But overall, a whole lot of things are just hanging out, waiting for you to kill them.


What does this have to do with Flame and Frost? Well, it's-- look over there, a cup of wild coffee! Quick, after it!

[RD]

I wonder if backpacks will clip with armor and weapons. If memory serves, we didn't have back items at launch because they were worried about clipping, right?

[Giggles]

Clipping for everyone!

Do you think the Shadow Behemoth bug will get fixed with this update?

How about a zombie baby backback in the future? Or fart shoes.

[RD]

I'd buy fart shoes.

[nkuvu]

I wonder if backpacks will clip with armor and weapons. If memory serves, we didn't have back items at launch because they were worried about clipping, right?

I was under the impression that guild backpacks were available at launch. Just obviously not as common as the multiple back items we have now.

[Tru Reptile]

Considering my alternative to this bugged events problem is WoW, where foes just stand there and do nothing... I'd say it's not that bad.

Apparently my server is broken, cause mobs most certainly stand around and do nothing.

[Lady Rhonwyn]

But overall, a whole lot of things are just hanging out, waiting for you to kill them.

Ever looked at those Risen? They're mining, sleeping, gardening... I really like how Anet did those. It's the playable races NPCs who are mostly just standing around....

[ghosia]

Or you could go to Orr, and see all the Risen that just hang out, drooling on their toes until someone's unlucky enough to get close to them.

This makes sense, actually. They are dead - well, the un-dead, but still - dead. They do what Zaithan tells them to do. When Zaithan is busy, they have nothing to do. They just... hang out :).

[RD]

If that is the case, wouldn't they just always be trying to murder everyone?