Confirms that what we got is going to be what we will keep getting. Rehashed weapon, rehashed mount, rehashed guild hall decorations. I feel like the price range of an indie game is well picked. What’s provided is not specifically bad, but one gets ones money’s worth.

Okay, Dobby is a free fucking elf.

Unid greens are already at 3+ silver, charms are closing in on 5g,

Heh, good tip. Why do you have two copies? And can you run both at the same time?

I swear to God the longer it goes on the more I’m convinced that the fight was about GW3 or something. The limits of their heavily modified GW1 code become more apparent the more you start recognizing the patterns, and every year it gets worse.

Heh, fair enough.

Taken at face value it really doesn’t look good, to phrase it mildly, does it? Work/life balance has been the argument for change since 2012, fucking hell of they still don’t get it right. There hasn’t been a content drought since Season 3 under the old management, and if SotO is what NCNet manages to create with a dev pool as big as the one that created Season 4, then may God have mercy on their souls. All signs point toward End-of-Life milking mode, but I’ll wait on their next buy-to-play Living World snippet for my final verdict. Maybe they surprise us.

Eleven more weeks to legendaries. Sigh.

Kind of, though with a coordinated effort to give it a bit more credibility. Scary.

Hmmm. I could continously heal max damage at the training golem. As a Harrier Rifle Chrono. Though it was stressful and pretty close sometimes. Heal Mantra not for mantra heal but for clone generation was a twist I did not expect. Pretty clone starved.

Aura trait is useless without staff and there are no alternatives. Does Anet really expect us to swap back and forth? Nonsense, I’m not going to lock myself out of my heal skills for nine seconds.

Boons were fine. Regen, prot, alac or quick. All permanently up.

Got the rezz trait up as well. Might as well take Feedback since utilities are kind of free. Soooo…Feedback, MI, Aegis-well whatever it’s called?

Mirage Ambush AoE heals, but offers neither alac nor quick. Sooooo…staff/rifle?

Portal has a 1,2k range. Porn. But only one charge. Still porn.

I’d assume that Chrono jail will still be real with potentially Mirage as an option and Virt for memes.^

Edit: well fuck me up the arse. Staff Memestrel works just fine, no rifle needed. Gonna test it on Affliction 100.

Edit2: Staff/Rifle Memestrel is going to be an absolute fucking monster. Can’t be arsed to live without uber rezz? Fuck Mantras, camp rifle.

Forged with Fire is a 5min meta that pops every hour and has an easily completed heart attached to it.

Skleton crew and shoestring budget. I’m reconsidering their block change by the minute. Maybe it actually was unintentional, but at that pace it’s just going to be kept as a feature. Until they “fix” it ten years later like they did with Temporal Curtain.

Yeah I would’ve noticed. I think I knew what was going on. If a super fresh map spawns right before the meta starts, the meta…doesn’t start. I’ve talked a bit with my current Archipelago squad and that behaviour has been confirmed. So, yeah, make of that what you will. Has a right feel to me.

Weird.

Yes, I specifically checked the wiki Event Timer to really doubly make sure, there was no meta going on. An entire squad stood there baffled. I checked again two hours later and 0 meta squads. I’ll again personally join the map again later and check it a third time.

Yeah, it’s much more interesting that way and a curious thing that you don’t find those numbers anywhere anymore. It’s also from interest that almost the entire 2014 numbers are during a complete and utter stop of content deployment. Almost 12 month of absolute 0 content updates in favour to rush out HoT. And it still had better numbers than everything that came afterwards up to EoD.

Though it’s revenue . Squeezing more out of less players can highten the revenue as well, and Anet got nuked from orbit by NCSoft pre-EoD.

Hear, hear. I’m pretty sure there are like five OG fans left that actually enjoyed the concept of a casual open world MMO. The most bizarre thing is that Anet actually managed to take off by not competing with WoW and instead pandered to an entirely different consumer bracket.

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Yeah, it’s mostly me being a pedantic prick. It just boggles my mind to fuck people over for blocking some twats. What the fuck kind of bizarro clown world bullshit is this. Imagine a room full of adults going “yeah this is fine”. Breaks my mind.

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Switching from big social open world bosses to strict coordinated instanced content. Drastic spike in difficulty in favour of a shift away from chill casual content. General WoWification like trinity and quests quest-like achievement-structure. Didn’t go over well with the playerbase, and took them almost ten years to barely recover from it, if one is desperate enough to use the drought numbers as a bar instead of the pre-drought ones.