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Should be getting the Centaur Relic unlocked soon. *** EDIT: Drat, they failed, didn't see the 8mn remaining mention ***

And even then. Heirlooms are just below those at 90, and jump far above as soon as you ding 91. Head, chest, shoulders, cape, legs are better off as heirlooms. Probably even necklaces, or trinket.

Except those tiles aren't procedurally generated, they're handcrafted. That's what we saw in the vid (if you looked at something else than the alluring female figure used for marketing). The 3D artist building one of the tetris blocks for a village. I assume the houses themselves can differ...

You have an incompressible 15mn per alt per day due to doing the rounds on Garden, Mine, Salvage and the buildings. And as Kreugen implies, if the author of Master Plan decided to shut down his add-on, Blizzard would probably lose at least 5% of its subscribers. I should really stop...

That's probably because they have external funding. The Kickstarter is more to gauge/generate interest than just getting money. Although more money is always good, and put to good use.

The real question is: why do you want a PvE world? You do realize that, for the vast majority of PvP players in GW2, the "persistent PvE world" is, at best, a Lion Arch-shaped lobby where they log in because you're kicked from the WvW map when you disconnect. The only advantage of mixing a...

Because you're still thinking of "there's one rule everyone plays by". There's not. You will have campaigns in which you can't bring your gear (or maybe only a weapon, no armor), and campaign in which you can. The catch is that this "best" gear you bring in from the EK is going to be lost...

Well, that's a given. The game is about the campaigns, not about WoW-type garrison management. You don't even have resources harvesting in EK, so basically, you set up stuff if you have enough resources to prop new buildings or expand your kingdom, manage your stocks on your vendor, and back to...

That's because EK are "easy" to design, and have low importance in the grand scheme of things. The EK are where you store your bragging trophies, your gameplay enhancing trophies (relics; the more relics you have the more choices you have of boons for your next campaign), and where you craft...

It's stated on the Dregs (from Kickstarter page): So, maybe they will change those rules, as Tuco said, but at the moment, that's what's promised.

Fun. Really. Until you throw people at it, and watch them play, you really don't have any idea what is really fun (and keep people around for years) and what's not. You need players, and you need devs watching how stuff unfolds.

It's not a matter of coding, more of balancing. Stuff that looks good on paper and in code sometimes lead to completely bad outcomes when real players check it. So they need a set of workable rulesets as a fallback for launch, and they can then innovate by adding more audacious "rule cards" to...

That's where the system of flexible and variable campaign rules work out. If you're always using a Terminator rules campaign where you drop naked, no relics and boosts, then all your previous campaigns' outcomes do not matter to your character (since you obviously keep your skill points...

They should be more explicit about that.

As every spaceship game is a textbook case for VR, EVE isn't going to get caught behind: Lesson #1: Don't get caught in a Titan's firing solution...

Since there's no real elder game, you need to decide a goal (preferably a long-term one), like unlocking as many weapon skins possible without BL scraps, getting high achievement points, crafting your own legendary, getting all WvW skills, whatever. Then checklist it, and go. This is why I've...

Crafting booster is useful to reduce the amount of components to level. Which doesn't matter much with cooking since it's easy to get them. It is much more important when you're trying to level 425-500 in gear crafting, because you will need lots of relatively expensive/rareish components, so...

Yup. Game (that feature combat) live and die by their combat mechanics.

We need a troll raid. Clearly.

You want insanely fast leveling, take a crafted weapon and full level 100 heirloom +XP gear.

1) You get transmutation charges on a few of the daily login chests. 2) Assuming you have a free character slot, you can create a character, fully map all of a couple cities, and you have your transmutation charges.

It's supposed to come back in 6.2 with Tanaan Jungle.

If you want an absolute flawless and aesthetically pleasing, that looks like it's handcrafted, yea, it's going to be complicated. If you can tolerate a couple weird spots... well, look at the procedural towns generated in Minecraft. That's basically one dev working on it for a couple weeks...

I decided to make full ascended for my Guardian. I'm playing casually (a couple hours here and there, probably 10h/week). I've begun preparing for that in october last year, and that entailed getting to 500 in weaponsmith (2h sword, spear, hammer, I think), armor (heavy armor) and artefact...

Which is why, when I'm looking at a flexible classes/non-classes system, I'm a big partisan of the "collectible skill cards" model. You being with a pre-defined set, then you go out and collect skill cards to slot on your active/passive bar. If you have a class, those skill cards are...

My main worry from the video is that their procedural generation doesn't look enough procedural. It appears to be based on hand-crafted tiles (ref: the guy showing off his village to Natalie) stitched together. This has a double drawback: Not enough variety (the tiles will be quickly...

I had the good fortune of shoving in the bank my last 4 "non-upgrades" from BRF (it's always the piece you don't really want that comes out of the bonus roll instead of the one you're looking for). I think at least 3 of them are going to be used; the 4th has to compete with an heroic HM...

It's been that way since the era of MUDs. Pure marketing: "50 levels" "99 LEVELS! With REMORT!"

Well, usually, you have the choice of which bear asses to collect (for hearts. Events are more streamlined).

That's becauseboobs physics is hard.

My guild is very casual. We usually raid with 15-20. Due to some leftover holidays and whatnot, we ended up with 10 people, including one alt tank. We basically 1-shot everything in Highmaul, even those fights we would normally have difficulties doing and require 1h of multiple tries. And DBM...

It's actually the mistakes and the unintended that makes the memorable. Consider Magic the Gathering. 20 years after, people remember the most broken of cards, Black Lotus. It was a huge gameplay mistake, and quickly limited, retired, then banned from "standard play". Yet it's the card that...

The whole idea is that you should get behaviors that you did not anticipate. If you want only to produce behaviors you plan for, then you simply do scripts. It costs you. A lot. But you're "safe". And of course, every world is exactly the same, and everything respawns exactly the same. And...

The result, however, is as man-power intensive as every quest-based themepark MMOs. The engine is cheap, but you need lots of quest writers. The video of the DE city seemed to hint at basically a Sims-type agent AI. Basically, each agent (NPC) has a set of potential desires (seeks resource X...

They apparently wanted to position themselves as an AI middleware. Just like we have 3D middlewares, physic engines, and apparently we've got voxel middlewares now (voxelfarm). So why not AI middlewares? One of the main problems is that you have very different AI needs depending if you're...

Depending on classes/specs, the usefulness of a secondary stat will vary between 65% of primary (best secondaries) and 35% (worst secondaries). Given that your item has about 1.25 times its primary stats as the total of secondary stats, that means you can get as much as a 15% boost in efficiency...

Yea, and mission caches don't have weapons in them (off-hands, yes. Weapons, no). Note that you can still get a 645/651 weapon easily from follower missions, which is basically your stage 2 improved weapon, so don't bother improving until you have enough Savage Blood for at least stage 3 or...

I said I wasn't very PvP oriented, not that I didn't PvP. I'm more into structured PvP with clear objectives, field of battle movement, etc. rather than corpse camping, ffa loot and the like. That's why I left UO during beta after I saw the griefer heaven it was going to be, while I enjoyed the...

And that's the only reason I am vaguely interested in Crowfall, since I'm not a very PvP-oriented player at the base. But I can recognize the potential of structuring your game into campaigns with very differing rulesets, with the potential of having some stuff that's ok for you. Until you...

It's an area where it's really difficult to achieve balance between having something people look forward to (they need to feel those skills make a difference), without being a massive handicap when you don't have them (because, unlike PVE, you don't have "levels" to segregate your players)...