Hard mode?

Reading the titles menu.

You will earn Protector of Elona once you complete both primary and secondary objectives of all 20 missions on teh continent of Elona. And the title Guardian of Elona when you complete them again on Hard Mode.

Only seems to have been updated on characters who don't already have the Protector title for the continent, also the same for Tyria and Cantha.


It just seems this change isn't listed on Guild Wars' homepage.

Wait, what?

I wonder how 'hard' the mission will be compared to the original.

Level 60 bosses doing quadruple damage?

My bets are on either more damage or more enemies (or both?). If it does include more damage... things are going to get extremely when it comes to Ele bosses doing 1000 damage per spell.

You're right - I checked on different characters who are at different stages of the title tracks. Seems if you have Protector already for any of the continents, you do not get the "guardian/hard mode" message for that continent on that character.

And how is it going to be possible to kill a boss that is doing 1000dmg PER second? The party will be wiped out before it can even attack. gg

The other thing is, how on earth is "hard mode" accessed??

Ok.. serious.. we need to straighten some things out.

New Guardian Title- It is not yet obtainable by anyone. (People who had 20/20 before this, and people who get it now.) It has not yet been implemented. I know this because before todays new title I had 18/20 Elona completed, and after the update, I did the last 2, and theres no option for Hard mission, or a new title.


(This is after I got title, after the update.)

Elite Skill hunter Title- Yes, a few more people will get this, and then all 3 and then maybe even get KoaBD, BUT do you not think Anet will add another one after that, for 15? or 20 titles max? (Since there staying towards Anchor Man, I would suggest the title to be "My Guildhall smells of Rich Mohagany.") Lol!

So re-cap, I covered the Elite skills titles, and the new titles.. oh yea, People seriously, you are overreacting.

Brokenmonkey.


Gailes Input..."I don't know, not for a while, but not too long, either. I will check on that and hope to have a more defined answer this week.

It will be cool, folks. It will be optional. Nobody's titles will be devalued, not at all. And no one--no one!--is being forced to participate!"
I justwanted to keep my post all together and organized.

"Hard Mode" better not be a fancy way of saying "time-based hard achievement". Time-based masters/bonuses are the worst thing to happen to PvE missions. All they encourage is a high damage party over any sort of finesse play style.

Prot Spirit/Shelter, Dazed, interrupts, Life Bond/Barrier, "They're on Fire!",KDs come to mind, but that's just off the top of my head. And he said 1,000 per spell, not per second; HUGE difference.

1000 per spell/per second, - it's still a rather large "OWWWWWWWWWW"

Other thing is; would this "new" title see the return of the pug or kill it entirely??

Backfire, mistrust, guilt, daze, KD, migraine, panic, power block, spellbreaker, obs flesh, and THE LIST GOES ON.

I'm almost thinking that a 55, or even just a Me/Mo would solo such a boss in seconds.

The tombs shadowform assassin could probably solo it in one or two rounds.

Piccy:

Technically no, lol.

They haven't listed it in the updates section of the Homepage and it hasn't been implemented properly (existing protectors don't see any change), it also seems to be incomplete as there is no way of actually doing Hard Mode.

Basically... Anet buggered something up.

While i'm liking the idea of impending Hard Mode on missions... it's likely that they'll put absolutely no thought it in at all. Like decreasing time limits to achieve a masters or something stupid that will achieve nothing but pissing people off.

If it does include damage boosts (or environment effects maybe?) then the chances are things are gonna start becoming cookie cutter again. Dasha Vestibule is almost impossible without a Broadhead Arrow ranger or a Power Block mesmer. If it misses, chances are the boss would wipe your party in 1 second rather than the 3 seconds it achieved the first time i did the mission...

Dude I feel your pain! I thought that searing flames actually had to have you on fire first to do damage. Whatshisface let one of those fly and wipped everyone but us tanks -_-

Seems like the title change is a preview of things to come. Excellent!!

I'm not sure I see what's wrong with either of those options being favored for that mission. There's nothing wrong with needing to adapt to the challenge at hand.

So like hoe does this work. Do we get an option if we want to do the hard mode thingy or not? What if you wanna help your friend on a mission and the hard mode thing happens lol.

wrong thread? or am i missing something?

What a pathetic attempt to get people to play the same old boring game over again. Oh and thanks for making all my protector titles that I worked so hard on pointless! Lets see protector titles on all my chars 100 of hours playing to achieve this flushed!

Wait, so does this mean that we have to beat it in hard mode for it to count towards Kind of a big deal title?