[Dev Update] Hard Mode and Sunspear & Lightbringer Titles
pappayaponta
Sweet! GJ ANET!
MSecorsky
This is totally wicked.
Feathermoore Rep
@Theus - If it sounds lame, dont play and dont comment about it.
At least now there is another reason to go back and play all the old areas and missions agains as well as get special loot!
As for the titles, i'm guessing you'll either have blessings again or along with gold and expertise people will recieve a LB and SS points? That would seem like the mostly likely options.
Oh, the only other question would be do you have to have completed protector before you can start hard mode or can you have a character jump straight into hard mode? If you can jump straight into hard mode, how does the new title and the old protector level.
Otherwise, it looks awesome and worth the wait.
At least now there is another reason to go back and play all the old areas and missions agains as well as get special loot!
As for the titles, i'm guessing you'll either have blessings again or along with gold and expertise people will recieve a LB and SS points? That would seem like the mostly likely options.
Oh, the only other question would be do you have to have completed protector before you can start hard mode or can you have a character jump straight into hard mode? If you can jump straight into hard mode, how does the new title and the old protector level.
Otherwise, it looks awesome and worth the wait.
Charqus
This sounds great! I can't wait
Dougal Kronik
Looking forward to the actual implementation of this.
Well done with having some more of the titles actually give some in game benefit.
Well done with having some more of the titles actually give some in game benefit.
Smile Like Umean It
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Originally Posted by DrD
You heard her it's gonna be out THIS MONTH!
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Within a month is about 30 days.
The end of this month is about a week and a half.
That one word makes all the difference.
Regardless, I think it sounds great and am looking forward to it.
Strange Guy
Woot >_< News is coming out >_< Love it! Hope it will provide much fun!
Thx to Garlie =)! Is it your name? lol! Sound like Garlic!
Thx to Garlie =)! Is it your name? lol! Sound like Garlic!
The Great Al
The replayability of this game just increase by an incredible amount. I loved the northern shiverpeaks, the jungle areas, etc, and I also love playing on my ele that finished the game, but there just wasnt a challenge going back there and playing anymore on that character. Now I get to re-experience all those environments, and be challenged...this is really great.
Prowlinger
I have spent almost 500 hours on this character in Prophecies... can we toggle on HARD mode and off? I don't want to have to roll another character just to do hard mode all again... sigh... (I really DO want to start playing Nightfall soon!)
It would be nice if we could choose to go into hard mode or out of it... or just the hard mode mission for that matter...
Or maybe IF you have the Protector of Tyria (example) then you can access hard modes there... but not before...
Also... good lord please give us more storage and auction houses please...
It would be nice if we could choose to go into hard mode or out of it... or just the hard mode mission for that matter...
Or maybe IF you have the Protector of Tyria (example) then you can access hard modes there... but not before...
Also... good lord please give us more storage and auction houses please...
Horseman Of War
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Originally Posted by Lord Feathers
So for those of us that have done the grind to get a max Light Bringer title will now have that taken away from us ? Yeah I can see where that's really going to make me happy
 I have had to adjust my P vs E game play because of P vs P game changes and balances and now I may have to adjust the titles I have earned because the developers are adding content that should have been added upon the release of the game before it hit the stores ? As much as I like GW, the events they hold, all the past and recent changes have done little but tick me off. You keep gearing this game towards a grind and you will loose your community and player base. There are many of us out there that are not the typical teenager at home with nothing better to do !!! |
You did the grind to yourself, it was not necessary then and it will not be necessary in the future either.
On a side note--- Hard Unwaking Waters anyone?
The Great Al
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Originally Posted by Strange Guy
Woot >_< News is coming out >_< Love it! Hope it will provide much fun!
Thx to Garlie =)! Is it your name? lol! Sound like Garlic! |
Scutilla
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Originally Posted by Shmanka
Dunes of Despair- The almost pure impossibility of exploring the area as well as the NT glitch which is the only sane way to complete mission and bonus.
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Sanctum Cay- The only mission that I can recall where is is just purely impossible to complete both M+B, you either do one and die trying to get the other along with the glitch of activating more White Mantel(infinite actually) from the south island. Thunder Head Keep- When activating the bonus if the party just sits back completely the mursaat just duke it out with each other, does not make sense at all whatsoever. |
xBakox
Wow, this might actually get me back to playing the game. Wootzors.
greenlantern
As long as there something new to do, then I'm happy.
FlameoutAlchemist
Wow. I was kinda wondering if there was going to be something coming about along the lines of lockpicks. I believe I speak for many people who go through areas and can't get into those chests.
Hard mode sounds like a good challenge for me. I'm tired of not belonging to/running a large guild with highly experienced players just to go farm high-level loot from areas like UW/DoA. Sounds like this will keep me and my ungodly number of PvE characters busy for a long time.
Hard mode sounds like a good challenge for me. I'm tired of not belonging to/running a large guild with highly experienced players just to go farm high-level loot from areas like UW/DoA. Sounds like this will keep me and my ungodly number of PvE characters busy for a long time.
Ouchie
Sounds good so far but I was hoping for a bit more information
I like the lock pick idea - will we get another chance at boardwalk games before hard mode comes
will chests being opened with a lock pick still count towards treasure hunter's title
will lock picks drop or be bought
What change will hard mode bring to the current protector title
will the skill title changes go into place at the same time as hard mode
Will the unlucky title track affect lock picking in a negative manner
will there be a bonus or masters part to hard mode
Will there be any Easter Eggs for Easter
I like the lock pick idea - will we get another chance at boardwalk games before hard mode comes
will chests being opened with a lock pick still count towards treasure hunter's title
will lock picks drop or be bought
What change will hard mode bring to the current protector title
will the skill title changes go into place at the same time as hard mode
Will the unlucky title track affect lock picking in a negative manner
will there be a bonus or masters part to hard mode
Will there be any Easter Eggs for Easter
Coridan
reallly hope that you can toggle it off and on...and what happens if you are in a mixed group?? can someone sabotage the whole group by having their "hard mode" on while the others have it on normal? or will it take what the "leader" has for the whole group?
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And i really don't like the fact that the Lucky title plays into a benefit of the game...I have lvl 1 lucky and unlucky and don't feel that it should really have an affects on the game play since it was earned by buy xxx tickets and going afk in one of the rings all weekend...atleast with the other titles you have to be there to get it. Drunk, sweettooth, in fact all of the titles you must be actively doing something...
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And i really don't like the fact that the Lucky title plays into a benefit of the game...I have lvl 1 lucky and unlucky and don't feel that it should really have an affects on the game play since it was earned by buy xxx tickets and going afk in one of the rings all weekend...atleast with the other titles you have to be there to get it. Drunk, sweettooth, in fact all of the titles you must be actively doing something...
c_ras
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Originally Posted by The Great Al
They probably wanted to wait til it was almost done to release the info. If there was a super cool idea 4 months ago that everyone loved, and then they realized that it couldn't be balanced or implemented right, everyone would get pissed. This way at least we know pretty much what is going to be included.
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Again, I'm more than thrilled and very anxious to find out more and get going on this Hard Mode when it comes out. Whether it be another month or a year, it doesn't bother me, because I have plenty to do in the mean time
Good Job ANet. Keep up the good work.
Acehigh
This new feature sounds wicked,looking forward to it
Only thing that troubles me is that hard mode wont be as hard as DoA,otherwise i can probably see rits,mesmers,assassins etc get no use at all because noone will want them in teams
Kedlai Everwinter
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Good to hear some news come out of the dev camp, tho'.
Amorfati87
It sounds like a blast, and I'm very grateful to Anet for giving us more free content.
However, I do hope that the new 'Hard' Mode is not like DoA, I hope there's a bit of strategy to it. Like a Thunderhead Keep. Doesn't matter what build you bring to do it as long as you have decent monks and work well together, you'll be able to pull through.
I hope they just don't put 200 high level enemies in one place and call it a challenge. 200 high level enemies that pull as one freaking group I might add. I also hope they don't employ gimmicks like, all squishies through gate, warriors use recall, necro's sacrifice themselves to death and get rebirthed on the other side. I don't know about anyone else but I find that kinda retarded.
But even if it is I'll still be here to play, guess I'm kinda retarded too.
However, I do hope that the new 'Hard' Mode is not like DoA, I hope there's a bit of strategy to it. Like a Thunderhead Keep. Doesn't matter what build you bring to do it as long as you have decent monks and work well together, you'll be able to pull through.
I hope they just don't put 200 high level enemies in one place and call it a challenge. 200 high level enemies that pull as one freaking group I might add. I also hope they don't employ gimmicks like, all squishies through gate, warriors use recall, necro's sacrifice themselves to death and get rebirthed on the other side. I don't know about anyone else but I find that kinda retarded.
But even if it is I'll still be here to play, guess I'm kinda retarded too.
Smurf Minions
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Originally Posted by Acehigh
This new feature sounds wicked,looking forward to it
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And ofcourse i'm looking forward to it, as always with nice updates
Esprit
I look forward to this.
Acehigh
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Originally Posted by Smurf Minions
Why no ritualists? Shelter works wonders at high damage. What do you think about the "hard" mode in the tormented worlds. It's already hard there, you won't survive without a good supportive backline there at hard mode
And ofcourse i'm looking forward to it, as always with nice updates |
Now i dont go into DoA myself,its just takes too long,but do u know of many rits that have completed DoA compared to monks? Just food for thought
Ritual del Fuego
Great news. As for how to toggle to hard mode, I'm thinking there will probably be "hard" districts and "normal" districts where the henchies will be different levels and you don't have to worry about people selecting the correct mode before going into an area. Just a thought...
tyche7
This news gave me the happies!
PyrAnkh
Great, they bring this stuff now i got 46.189 lightbringerpoints. Been farming my ass off for that last title for KoaBD....pffff
legendel
sounds good to me, i love the lockpick idea, just let us know whats happening, as its happening next time, (please)
ps any news on the elite skills title front Gaile?
ps any news on the elite skills title front Gaile?
Skyy High
Wow, we knew they were going to implement hard mode for missions, but we're getting hard mode for all explorable areas too? =D
I'm highly looking forward to everything Gaile said. Can't wait. =)
I'm highly looking forward to everything Gaile said. Can't wait. =)
Milennin
Woot, can't wait for hard-mode, sounds like best update ever.=D >___>
VitisVinifera
in true anet tradition, holding features back until the next chapter is readying release, and doing so in very vague terms
this has all the trappings of 'grind' and equating challenge with huge mobs of overpowered creatures
this has all the trappings of 'grind' and equating challenge with huge mobs of overpowered creatures
kitsune23
Really looking forward to this.
MirageMaster
There was hardly any new info >_>,most of it we all knew will be there.I am suprised they are bothered with rebalancing at all.I'll judge it when i get all the detailes first not that i like doing THK in hard mode >_> not even talking about DOA.
Saraphim
I like the sound of most of this, it certainly gives more replay value.
Not entirely sure why a primarily AFk title (Lucky) should benefit anyone while chest running though, but not particularly bothered as I've never afk'd for Lucky, and can't be bothered investing gold in chests that rarely bring back a value of more than the keys I bought.
Not entirely sure why a primarily AFk title (Lucky) should benefit anyone while chest running though, but not particularly bothered as I've never afk'd for Lucky, and can't be bothered investing gold in chests that rarely bring back a value of more than the keys I bought.
prism2525
oh good. finally a real challenge from the charr out from the defend ascalon quest. hope rurik will not be lvl 10 there XD
Also, will Gwen show up somewhere in hard mode??
And yeah, more storage is never wasted with the community.
I'm usually the kind of guy who hates losing, so hard mode frightens me slightly. However I wanna get out of this mentality of mine hehe.
Also, will Gwen show up somewhere in hard mode??
And yeah, more storage is never wasted with the community.
I'm usually the kind of guy who hates losing, so hard mode frightens me slightly. However I wanna get out of this mentality of mine hehe.
Desbreko
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Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
Rather than simply staying with the general set of changes and rules we'd originally intended, we're also adjusting creature Skill Bars throughout the game to make the fights more interesting.
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The comment about AoE scattering makes me wonder if it'll no longer happen in normal mode, but only in hard mode. And I can't decide if that would be good or bad.
jaymat
cant wait to do thunderhead keep on hard mode
Craero
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Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
Hi, there,
We're also adjusting creature Skill Bars throughout the game to make the fights more interesting. |
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Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
Beyond all of that, we've also realized during the course of development that these changes give us the ability to rebalance several things in Normal Mode that players have found too challenging or unpleasant. For example, we're altering the death explosions of the Afflicted creatures in Factions, creature distribution in particularly difficult areas, monsters scattering away from area of effect spells, and healer creatures running from melee attackers indefinitely.
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Monsters being set to not run from AoE? Finally I can use cyclone axe without everyone and their brother running away.
Stopping PvE healers running away forever.... Would love not having to chase that stone summit priest halfway across the map while he's happily spamming mark of protection.
Sounds very good, hopefully.
xis10al
I like most of what was said, except for the lockpicks running off lucky/treasure hunting titles. While I agree with it running off the treasure hunting title, the addition of lucky to that seems a bit off. I understand, truly I do. But I consider myself a hardcore PvEr and spend much time taking several characters though all the games, thus I save my money. Now you're telling me that in order to raise my skill with the lockpicks, I have to wait for another event and spend my time standing in a circle spending my hard-earned cash on a lucky title?! I know that it won't change, but I wanted to voice my opinion on this one.
Jetdoc
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Originally Posted by Gaile Gray
We know that, in essence, it is currently not possible to get the maximum ranks of the Sunspear and Lightbringer titles. When we released Nightfall, our plan was to not allow players to max out these titles until the implementation of Hard Mode.
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After your Hard Mode changes, will it be possible to achieve the maximum ranks in these titles?