Dragon Season - Lunch with Colin Johanson

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Colin Johanson and Dragon Season conversing is music to my ears; one of my favourite websites and developers chewing the fat over all things Guild Wars 2.

In the interview, Colin and Dragon Season discuss a wide range of topics from guild events to structured PvP. As always, the interview is jovial and filled with some delicious nuggets of information.

You can find the full interview and transcript by hitting the jump.

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      Corner Dayton Giants through the blood sources married relationship, which consists of a large tribe, again led by the strongest warrior. The power of the leaders may come from weapons, magic or any other capacity: but it is always presented through flesh and violence. Corner Dayton Giants will not respect one can not perform his legal ruling leaders. They will kill any lose strength failed or is unable to lead the tribe to prosperity leaders, and then back to a new leader. Of Charles soldiers might after after figuring before going to kill a failure of leadership, to ensure the victory of the clan. Angle Dayton Giants more like a radical beast, as long as a sign of weakness found, will be reflective of a companion to shreds, did not consider the cost of interested family. buy or sell GW2 gold

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     Angle Dayton Giants tend to be isolated to the implementation of gender: men are more aggressive and leadership roles for women is classified into fertility. Composed of a small group of men by the relationship between the blood source, continue to find and destroy the the other angle Dayton Giants in the territory of their family. The internal conflict of the nature of the upper corner of Dayton Giants are going to destroy all of the same family bloodline angle Dayton Giants. Is also because of this, in terms of the angle Dayton Giants protect their female members and children is critical. The brigade will never see the angle Dayton giant women and children, in open territory, because these family members are always hidden very well, and the men would go hunting and food for them back.
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    Although Tyria on the barbaric race has a sense of honor and ethics, but in their society, the angle Dayton Giants inherently is nothing moral character limit. They protect and guard their families, their family, and their territory, and unscrupulous! Angle Dayton giant may swear, but they will lie against their own promises, or make the universal condemnation of the behavior, as long as he that the power to do so can bring their own or enhance his family (or the giant family) can ruin another angle Dayton. Any previous attempt to organizations that want to reach a peace with the angle Dayton Giants have had quite a painful lesson, only angle Dayton Giants have been able to make a profit, angle Dayton giants will maintain the previous agreements. Usually is this: When the the an angle Dayton Giants family limited agreements, just to take advantage of the opponent's time to slowly accumulate their own strength, and soon plans to eliminate those stupid enough to believe their opponents. buy or sell Guild Wars 2 gold
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"I want to worship who? Ha! That I own!"
- Utahein, angle Dayton patriarch
Angle Dayton Giants, the most similar to the things of faith, their lineage, they believe their own blood magic, is a powerful and sacred. The each corner Dayton Giants family will honor their ancestors, and their families can be traced back to a powerful giant, the kings or legend. Many legends about giant kings of religious mythology., And each family will be calling their legendary bloodline to authorize them witness that they have passed the test, and to ensure that they win. Although we can not say the angle Dayton giant is really people worship their ancestors, but they will indeed conquer, and disseminate personal glory, trying to go beyond the ancestor.
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Glitching in Guild Wars 2

 

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Last week was crazily newsy in the world of Guild Wars 2. One might even call it news ilicious. Between a look at the next handful of months, an announcement about guesting and paid world transfers, and a developer lives tream about rewards, WvW, and other stuff, last week was just ridiculously full of information.

We'll be seeing the first bits of all that prophecy come into being on the 28th, when January's patch officially hits, bringing with it, among other things, guesting. The guesting announcement was fairly ill-received, due almost entirely to the news that it wouldn't work between North American and European servers. Up 'til now, you could always talk to folks from the other data center, but you couldn't actually play with them without transferring. Now you still can't play with them without transferring (and you can still talk to them), and people were really hoping we'd be able to do the whole guesting across regions thing. I'm hopeful that it will come in at some point, but I still can't see guesting as a net loss in any way. buy or sell GW2 items

There's a lot of digesting to do with all that news, though, so let's start things off by not talking about any of it.

I got started talking about endgame last week, and that's a topic I want to pursue. I don't really have a schedule because schedules are for other people, but it's something deserving of attention. Dungeons and stuff are cool. Lots of things are cool, actually.

Anyway, the fact that there was no schedule to begin with means I won't be deviating from it in order to bring up a particularly divisive and aggravating subject this week. I know your minds all leapt to him at the word "aggravating," but no, I'm not talking about Trahearne. I'm talking about glitching. buy or sell Guild Wars 2 gold

Specifically, I'm talking about people using broken terrain to "make a fight easier" (although I'm not sold that it actually does that) and similar un-mechanics. It's hard to do many explorable or Fractals runs without running into people who insist on jumping all over an area until they find one exploitable little vantage point.(2)

To clarify, I have no problem with making things reasonably easy. Cutting around a corner to break line of sight so all the golems in a room in the Crucible of Eternity ball themselves up in an obliging group for easy destruction? Fine. Ignoring side boss mechanics like the Citadel of Flame effigy's crystals in favor of raw damage output? Swell. Kiting a boss's buff-buddy away to make the boss fight simpler? Superb. But I tend to look poorly on someone asking if we want to glitch the boss or demanding that we stand on a bit of broken terrain to avoid all damage.

In a way, it's not all that dissimilar to certain mechanics. In the submarine path of CoE, for example, you can pile up on Subject Alpha and avoid most of his gnarly AoEs since he won't drop those on himself. It's kind of a way of avoiding damage, right? The difference lies in the fact that working Alpha into a corner and hugging him to death makes use of the boss's mechanics rather than breaks and negates them. buy gw2 gold

Glitching and skipping seem to go hand-in-hand in most folks' books. I'm not dead set against skipping (in fact, last week I told you to skip the bridge event in CoF, and I stand by that), but I think it's overrated. Unless your group is a well-oiled machine and you have a good idea of where your next waypoint is coming from (and feel reasonably sure that you can acquire it without in-battle deaths), skipping can lead to way more problems and lost time than it could ever save you. Making your way past skipped mobs after getting defeated is a real pain, and can lead (especially in poorly organized PUGs, which seems to be the only time that folks insist on skipping pretty much every mob but the bosses) to the total splintering of a group. Skipping also seems to lead, unsurprisingly, to a much higher likelihood of bugs.(3)

Let's consider, for example, Detha's path in Ascalonian Catacombs. I know that perfectly upright, virtuous folks have had Detha bug out for no reason. I've never had a bug in AC, though, until I was in a group that tried to skip some skelks and oozes right before the final room, and that bug was apparently something that the group had experienced often. We had to restart the instance twice before they gave up and just killed the darn skelks and oozes in the interest of actually completing the dungeon. So while skipping isn't, I think, inherently evil or anything, it's often just self-defeating. I'd much rather fight two "extra" groups than have to restart the entire dungeon. Haste makes waste and all that. buy guild wars 2 gold

Anyway, back to glitching: Like skipping, it's often just plain silly. There are very few truly tedious boss fights in Guild Wars 2 (here's lookin' at you, Nightmare Tree), and those that are seem to be the ones that can't be glitched. As a result, I see folks trying to use broken terrain and get-him-stuck-in-a-pillar glitches on fights that aren't actually all that long or challenging if done normally. The fight with the Howling King takes a few minutes (if that) and poses no real threat to a reasonably competent group, but some folks I partied with the other day insisted on using terrain he couldn't path to.

It's unnecessary. I mean, I know I'm likely some sort of Lawful alignment, so maybe I'm being obtuse about this, but I'm really one of those "the journey is the destination" people. Why make fights boring just so you can squeeze more boring fights into a play session?

I'm sure it has nothing at all whatsoever to do with "more boring fights," but I'm suddenly reminded that I'd like to talk about the Claw of Jormag next week.

Anyway, good luck to those of you who are swapping servers and looking for a new permanent home!
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DOFUS Battles 2 coming April 13th!

     DOFUS: Battles 2 is coming! After the furious Tower Defence action of the original DOFUS Battles, we're flipping the script! That's right, DOFUS: Battles 2 lets you play the bad guy and lead the charge in a new Tower Attack game! Become the master of an army of slavering monsters and school them in strategy... it's not every day you can command an army with just one finger.(1)

    After enthralling nearly 300,000 players worldwide on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, DOFUS: Battles returns! We pick up the story from the first game, but this time, it's from the perspective of the bad guy! You'll have to change up your tactics, because now you're on the offensive!  acheter des kamas sms

    You play as Jeff Stobbs (the first instalment's big baddie), a man in pursuit of a mysterious and powerful artifact: the Golden Apple. His weapon? A tactile Slablet. His ammo? Zaplis that can be used to control his allies. Hmm, sounds familiar? Naaah, couldn't be...

   Jeff Stobbs understands that a good offence is the best defence. Gone is the ''Tower Defence'' game play of DOFUS Battles 1; it's time for Tower Attack - a new, innovative and original concept from Ankama.

    27 battles against a variety of characters from the 14 DOFUS classes and over 20 different monsters.

    20 monsters to tame and control by solving the 20 corresponding Sokobans (those Japanese puzzles, you know?)   kamas par telephone

   More than 50 pieces of equipment for your allies Transform your Gobballs into Cyber Gobballs and kit them out to make them even more powerful!

9 DOFUS zones to explore (or re-explore...?)
1 unique story; a totally wacky parable based on a story well-known amongst iPhone, iPad and iPod users... revisited and revised Ankama-style.
1 entirely new and innovative type of game play! Discover the RPG aspect which led to the success of DOFUS BATTLES... but forget Tower Defence; this time around, Tower Attack is the way forward!
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Game of the Year Shortlist: Diablo 3

The 70-hour itch.

Before we knew it, December was upon us and all the games had arrived in stores in time for everyone to buy them as presents. We've got the reveal of our Game of the Year coming after Christmas, but for 24 days starting December 1 we'll bring you a new contender for the title. Please note that these games are in no particular order, but feel free to speculate on where they might appear in our final list.



Martin Gaston, Reviews Editor

Click click click. Diablo 3 has disappointed many, but it didn't disappoint me. While I think Blizzard is trying to solve an unfixable problem - you can't play Diablo 3 like an MMO, no matter how hard the developer tries to make it like one - I found myself clicking away for 70 entertaining hours. Then I moved on to something else. I will return for the expansion pack, when it arrives. Call me oldschool, but that's how you're supposed to play this. Patching in 100 additional levels doesn't do anything for me, but pressing the right trigger and watching an entire room full of nasties pop into mist certainly did.

Matthew Nellis, Video Producer

Some people complained that Diablo 3 didn't have enough end-game content. These people with multiple level 60 characters and over 300 hours of game time may be in the minority but they are also crazy.

Some people will pay the same amount of money for a game which is literally four hours long. And has crap multiplayer.

But I digress; launch server issues aside, Diablo 3 is a fantastic game. My monk is a complete bad ass, being able to switch from full tank to full DPS in one quick config swap. I last left him specced for 'magic find' so that my hardcore Demon Hunter can be a little better equipped and I won't be afraid to play him. If you haven't tried hardcore mode yet, I thoroughly recommend it. The adrenaline rush when you fall to a sliver of health is unlike anything I've experienced. The flipside to this is the sheer anger when you die because of server lag. Hardcore isn't for the weak of heart.  dofus Acher      buy c9 gold

The spoof ruler, 10 nirvana skills CD is benevolent

        I was a small T, just like the wild a walk, the morning secretly number under their own guardian skills in the wild, secretly discharged their guardian 10 nausea skills.
NO.10 healing hand
Away from home encounter guardian, finally own all the skills he residual blood. At this time the healing hand. In my heart, I could not help but silently scolded a reset cd your blood, my skills have not reset the cd it! He hung up and guardian hit, residual blood, yet Xie Hui, risen! Skills in the past, ate the impact of volume! Dp, full of blood, and then I hung up. The future can not do this job! To return to the blood to say in advance that I may leave some skills. Skills, your blood is full, this is not entrap my thing!
NO.9 comrades protection
Game, then worse, a play, but a group of good Gayfriend. So often the team stroll in front to a guardian, a Heals. Full skills seakill Heals. How Heals blood out off you can not afford to! The comrades protection you let me play guard or fight Heals guard play a the Heals plus blood, Heals fight can not afford the blood. Well, do duct Run.
NO.8 capture
Encountered guardian, crippled blood, well, I Run, a pull! Break my heart, and you do not want to play with you dragging me back, this is a difficult one! Originally sister and Heals good are cotton, a pull, sister is Guaipao to! And Gayfrend go out, met a man, just tab to Heals. Pulled past black and white. Point you pull, do not point you pull!
NO.7 Mirage
Go out with star bow star and Gayfrend kill, encountered a guardian, pro stealth to his side. I rub directly into their own Mirage family killed and bow to pull out! Others small to kill you fight, fight, however, by a cloak, but also had time to run it, the Mirage directly with out.
NO.6 Jianfeng
Encountered the attack burst guardian, nothing was shot down, nothing downing fall, finally encountered a magic anti-guardian of the, I thought this bully you. Knocked down, this skill, and sent his five meters, a jump put direct dual plug.

NO.5 Lord God
Back to the blood, less pc, to increase the upper limit. I fight or not to fight each fight all tangled hit 75% when his blood can not afford to also become full also rise up! You let me play or not to play!
NO.4 blocking
The lazy and did not come out and demonic sister encountered a magic anti guardian immediately regret the death. Magic resistance was also open blocked. Put our crowd inside cruise to cruise! See beautiful sister go pro next!
Of NO.3 Dark of the disciplinary
The great difficulty Today group a team of buddies and they pushed! Collective fire aimed guardian. Skills down his wave of what DOT but lost a lot of my own, weighs! Dare nausea point is not! And damage absorption and anti-injury, also twice a dp carve! No wonder every time inexplicable is anti-death.
No.2 double
Finally find our home Modao buddy heap more buff in your body, and when ready to focus gunfire, a double, not to mention just heap buff it, even plush gone! Saying you minus 50% to 50%! Nothing you also to a lifting of all the negative buff! Click your skills!
The NO.1 skills cd guardian
A team of guys ready to intercept and saw a guardian, everyone on the ah! Any grudges against the revenge, no hatred help any grudges against the newspaper! You resist we forbearance! Your anti-wounds we endure! You invincible we endure, we can stand full of your blood! You heap buuff of no we can stand! But you can not resist over, against injury, anti-injury finished invincible, invincible finished full of blood! You gently press a few keyboard happy a few clicks of the mouse, but pro our skills Burongyia, they are going to scrap blue to by hand! Slaving wave skills according to finish, you also put that drinking water!
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Saying the game Well, one really to play does not go on, even a vocational skills again God, he can not be God, however a group of friends!

Magic Star Dragon Emperor copy of misunderstanding, an increase of injury control blue tips.

Say Injuries:

I can clearly tell you the full buf3200 increase enough the Dragon Emperor general law enforcement is not very preached, so you only need to land gowns + cuisine 3200 increase is enough, more is a waste, do not listen others say 3300 is necessary to heap so high, completely useless, might as well go hit the spiritual force.

About the output:

Before I remember was explained in detail that is very specific meaning that output in two phases, with Bai Jie with no Bai Jie, sometimes put read long skills, not when put read SMS with Instant , also remember to put the first flame dissolved the Dragon Emperor skilled workers can close the air-conditioning, this is not recommended if the unskilled and when you play Dragon Emperor mobs set of points in, then the magic 26% open.
These are not very important, the key is to control blue.

Cuisine places gowns this must unskilled novice then four or five skills + a magic Frostsaber This will affect output.

About the Dragon Emperor Modao Total follows several substantial back to the blue opportunity.

, 26% of card three waves of thorns, strip restraint back to blue, the need to strip the macro.

Second, after atomization knock recovered crystals, 5000 Blood 5000 Blue.

Vitality exchange, this should be noted that if your team is bad mobs pull must be careful with this skill Do not wait for your blue bottom and then, there are about 3000, when the exchange + vitality + Double If your team is good mobs to pull, did not hit the output of the team when, in the first wave of atomized.

Can just skilled Frostsaber do not have, it is not, we have a soul absorbed, this skill is recommended to stay in the last re-use.

Another point: Guardian leakage strange, this is normal if you are surrounded by strange remember to move your position, 5m + on the line, do not stand to blame the front does not move!

Even Magic or bad team, because the population base is too great in plus 3.0 that has been prevalent in the culture of the Dark Road.

Only one point no matter what seeking group when we must say: I is 3300 + skilled repeatedly pushed to violence Magic.