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  1. I've played GW2 on and off (largely off I admit) since sometime around the end of LW1, previously on an old account I no longer have access to and again much more recently on my new account (around end of LW3 on and off), in all that time I never had an issue with any disconnections either storyline or otherwise, perhaps the odd one here and there but you expect that to be the case from time to time. Most recently I've started playing again a couple of weeks ago and I decided to finally give in playing my paper thin Ele and start the story again as a new, more tanky build/character for a better time with solo play in HoT and beyond. Since starting this new character, however, I have had multiple story instances disconnect multiple times, always longer instances! I am currently stuck on the Romke's Map quest and have been literally all day! The clientport workarounds + running and around and using skills during dialogue scenes has helped me get past the spirits of the wild where it kept disconnecting at first, but now it simply won't make it past the last unskippable cutscene. Nothing I have tried from this thread works, fullscreen or windowed seems to do nothing, neither clientport has an affect and I am singularly upset and frustrated. I am having alot more fun playing as my Necromancer (Scourge build in progress) than I did as my Ele where everything felt like a struggle, but now I am stuck and not only am I stuck I am being floored by an issue I have never had any problem with through multiple laptops, ISP's and geographical locations, including this laptop in my previous home, even worse I find out this is a long running issue that has never been fixed with workarounds that are hit and miss in terms of working.
  2. It doesn't really sum up what he's asking for though does it? I mean I appreciate sarcasm as much as the next guy and I haven't been playing close to long enough to even consider going for Legendary weapons yet. However, from what I already know and everything I have seen others say since I started looking at threads, the legendary weapons collections are not the sorts of rewards he is talking about. There is surely a large and fertile middle ground between gemstore bought (the-poor-cant-have-me) items and long form grindy collections. The OP mentions Dark Souls, a series of games that delivers great challenge but very rarely feels outright unfair, where you are often rewarded with new and cool gear for taking (often harder) optional paths. Something similar could easily be implemented here that allows players to gain useful (i.e. not necessarily immediately traded away) and cool items that come with an actual sense of achievement without outright being realistically unachievable by the vast majority of the player base. If even a jumping puzzle has the effect of putting people off and making them feel excluded as the first commenter claims, then the legendary weapons are already doing this to an extreme degree, so why not introduce a middle ground option? Anyone who is put off by any challenge at all (and is already playing unaffected by the LW) will continue to be unaffected. Others have cool rewards (whatever these might be) to keep them interested and act as ladder to harder/more time consuming content. As an aside I will say the challenge I. Talking about as regards LW's is time spent, which is often the biggest reason more casual players don't have or attempt certain things in any MMO. I don't know about the actual difficulty of it any of them, as again it's not something I am even contemplating just yet.
  3. This is such a great idea, I'm not in slightest bit sure of how easy/hard it would be to actually implement, but as you say using existing game modes in a sort of Frankenstein hodgepodge manner is possibly easier to implement. As a huge fan of TT racing modes in basically any racing game - rven awful ones! - this is probably the only way I'd ever be genuinely interested any sort of PVP mode, in general I much prefer the instabced cooperative PVE stuff really. Anything that might convince them to create more races as well would be sweet. Honestly I think I might just have an unnatural obsession with TT modes tbh ?
  4. More info never a bad thing though Kal Spiro :) And actually that helps knowing about the Raptor unlocking key binding universally. Despite my obstinate OCD for my main Ele, I did bite the bullet and do the mission for the raptor on a boosted thief - played with music on loud and skipped all cutscenes ? - to unlock it account wide. So I should be able to do the key binding now, defo gonna have to have full check when I log back in. If nothing else removing the first skill from the space to stop jumping for no damn reason will be great. Plus it will help to investigate why the drift key isn't C as it seems it should be according to all the responses. I actually did manage to shave 6 seconds off the Tropical Valley time in the end, getting gold with 2:34:00 in the end, and that was without drifting because i was still under the impression I couldn't do so yet, and nothing I had tried had disavowed me of that notion. Kessex Hills don't count I know, but that was easy, if frustrating in terms of how on earth anyone has gone faster than 11 seconds. Do the masteries increase passive endurance gain by any chance? I know Big Air does it through tricks, but a passive bonus would probably more easily explain some of the faster times I've seen online. I've seen video evidence of all of them being done Gold without masteries on YouTube, so I will just keep having a go until I get them I think. I have no lack of patience for these things, a veteran of many, many, many hours spent racing my own ghost on endless racing games, from childhood till the present day ?
  5. Ah that's awesome, didn't know about the race laps counting, that would help alot for sure. Kessex Hills is crazy stupid, I managed to get my time down to 11.7 seconds and apparently that's only 17th today, I don't even see where any more time could be shaved off tbh ? I'm getting that impression so far, that the masteries help alot for fastest possible times, but aren't necessary for gold. Plus I've finally managed to get the drift down, it isn't the C key for whatever reason, but at least on the Kessex race I have it down now. See if I can use it on anything more difficult though haha
  6. I have tried using C to drift, as it has been mentioned multiple times, but to no avail whatsoever. However, interestingly when I got to Kessex Hills as part of my map completion kick and found the really short TT there I tried pulling back with the S key as well as right with D for that series of 3 goals on the really tight first corner. I had tried the same thing to little real effect at the corner straight after Toxal Bog in Brisban Wildlands, so I wasn't expecting much. This time, however, it basically drifted round the corner, I'm not sure it was exactly the right thing but it let me turn that corner fast enough to get my time down to 14 seconds. Considering going back to Brisban to see if I can improve upon 2:34:00, thing I can easily if the same trick works. I will obviously need to the masteries to get my best possible times, but I've two gold's without then so far, so I will keep trying as I come across them. It's gonna be a long while before I get my own beetle anyways, since I am mentally incapable of doing story missions out of order, it actually hurts me ? Once again thanks for all the information, it has helped alot :)
  7. Yeah I think you are both right actually, it's not a mastery, but I still don't seem to have the option to use it in a race on the rentals, certainly there is no obvious indication of which key it would be if it is available. Suppose I could try them all one lap just to see. But I'm inclined to believe that the key binding will become available when I actually have my own one, as you say Donari. I'll find out eventually for sure, untill then I'll just keep using the other races to see if I'm just being dense lol Cheers for all the info guys :D
  8. That is all very useful information thanks indeed :D It definitely seems as though you can't drift using the rental beetle, I could just be being dense and I have missed it completely but I don't think so. I'm guessing it's because I do not yet have my own beetle. Nonetheless this is great to know for when I do, even though I managed in the end to get gold on the Brisban track without drifting I will absolutely be aiming to get gold on them all, and lower my times as much as possible once I have my own beetle and maxed out masteries for it. So the info is much appreciated :)
  9. OMG, got home and logged expecting to spend another fruitless hour or two trying to gold Brisban with the basic rental beetle, so no drifting or the endurance regain from tricks etc. 3rd try, 2:34:00! 6 seconds faster than I had managed last night out of nowhere!! Btw, thank you Randulf for all the extra info on the courses, will defo search out the ones you marked as easier at least :D
  10. Yeah that root corridor really screwed me a couple of times. As did the bandit mines before the big jump. Honestly I think if I could drift and save time on the sharp turn after Toxal Bog I'd already have it done. So I should wait for the the drift for sure.... But I have endless patience with these sorts of thungs. So I imagine I'll be grinning like a madman while venting frustrations at a bullshit root collision for at least a couple more hours when I get back online :D Thanks alot for the list :D Gonna have fun trying them all, even if gold is a hopeless endeavour until I have my own glorious beetle :)
  11. Hmm definitely thought that the masteries were going to be necessary by yesterday's experience. Are there any tracks do you think were gold is doable without the drift? Since last night I've discovered the Brisban race is or at least was considered one of the harder ones. And cheers I'll certainly do so if I struggle with it at all :) Ya already thought of the boosting before I press start strat haha
  12. Wasn't sure whether to post this in discussion or players helping players, if it needs moving then my apologies. Ok so I'm a returned player, been playing again for about 2 weeks now. Though as the last time I played was sometime around the end of LWS1 I feel like 'new player' is probably a more apt moniker. Rollers obviously weren't a thing back then, along with many other new features I am discovering as I make my way through the story content. Recently, as in the last couple of days, I completed the Torn From the Sky mission in HoT and finally unlocked masteries as a result. Since experience gaining was no longer useless I figured I'd take a break from pure story progression and start going for some map completion/meta events/world bosses etc as a break - conveniently allowing me to accrue Hero Points for unlocking my Elite Specialisation before HoT proper as well. And it is here, wandering the lush Brisban Wildlands that I came across my first - and so far only - Roller Beetle race/TT. Always been a sucker for TT's, even a poorly made TT mode can grab me and keep ahold for inordinate lengths of time tbh, anything that mixes that Mario Kart feeling (however slight) with my fantasy MMORPG's is an instant winner in my head. I have a couple of questions though. Firstly, out of pure curiosity, are the gold standard times the same now as they always were? Secondly, I fully intend to collect and max out the masteries for the Roller Beetle - will try and do the same for as many mounts as I can over time, but the Beetle is now my priority haha. However, as I have a hardwired OCD inability to do story content out of order it's going to be some time before that happens. So all my many attempts yesterday were done on a rental Beetle with no drift or big air endurance boosting (things I looked up in frustration at not reaching gold haha), after I would say 40 maybe 50 tries I managed to reduce the time to 2:40. I still think I could shave time off that, maybe lower the graphics to boost my FPS or something, but 5 seconds would be a big ask. My main question then is this, am I likely to hit that 2:35 without the aforementioned skills? And are there any other tracks that pure practice and the ability to do the same course over and over and over again without losing the will to live will suffice to grab me the gold? Or should I just wait till I have my own glorious, glorious beetle?
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