Hard Mode Fact Sheet

garethporlest18

garethporlest18

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

[HiDe]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Scutilla
To clarify, she said that'll probably be up within 12 hours- i.e. by midnight Seattle time. Still got a good nine hours to go...
Well if she said she was going to be back after it went live today, midnight is not today so it can't be then.

Dark-NighT

Dark-NighT

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2006

Stygian Veil

Shoop Da Woop [Lolz]

N/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Scutilla
To clarify, she said that'll probably be up within 12 hours- i.e. by midnight Seattle time. Still got a good nine hours to go...
Aww god that's like 7 AM before we europeans get it and i don't plan on staying up that late.

Pwny Ride

Pwny Ride

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

Aussieland

Prime Players Of [OSHA] ~ [dth] alliance. <3

Me/E

i hope thats not the only mesmer buff. Why should be have to advance on a title to get better skills, we're owed them anyway.

But i suppose thats worst case scenario

super strokey

super strokey

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2006

Soviet Canuckistan

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Scutilla
To clarify, she said that'll probably be up within 12 hours- i.e. by midnight Seattle time. Still got a good nine hours to go...
ill be sour if they change hours into days...

IlikeGW

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by makosi
...Or will it be your build which determines your success? Mark my words that mission-by-mission guides with cookie-cutter builds will be up before we know it.

Build Wars: Google Your Build and Win™

Yeah, I'm negative, but it's true.
Sad but true. I'm skeptical because everything hard in a GW game in the past has been exactly like you just described.

Series

Banned

Join Date: Aug 2006

Signet of Paragownage

Signet

For 300 seconds, your Paragon is un-nerfed.

No Casting Time, No Recharge Time

Tide to Go

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

I War Torn I [Torn]

N/Me

WHO WANTS TO CLEAR OUT ALL MONSTERS IN ASCALON REGION!!!....or do the ascalon missions.....ya....those are easy.

Series

Banned

Join Date: Aug 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by IlikeGW
Sad but true. I'm skeptical because everything hard in a GW game in the past has been exactly like you just described.
I really hope they learned that it isn't that fun like that. It sounds like they may have.... but I guess we will see

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by super strokey
ill be sour if they change hours into days...
Hah! Hear, hear.

Sir Skullcrasher

Sir Skullcrasher

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

15 over 50 [Rare]

W/Mo

Can we all just till the Hard Mode is ready?

Kas

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Patience, boys
We waited a long time for it, a few more hours won't make or break it.

savage vapor 33

savage vapor 33

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Regems Basement

The Malevolent Wolfpack [tMw]

Midnight? OR before midnight? when's the update comin? suspense was a horrible invention

eggs0wn

eggs0wn

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

I want it now

Brandon1107

Brandon1107

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

E/

i dont get one thing.

once your lvl 20/ascended is everything like automatically turned into hard mode or do you have to like switch your server?

lucifer_uk

lucifer_uk

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Nottingham, England

The Venerable Truth [TvT] The Venerable Alliance [TvH] [TvL]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tide to Go
WHO WANTS TO CLEAR OUT ALL MONSTERS IN ASCALON REGION!!!....or do the ascalon missions.....ya....those are easy.
Anyone for the Charr invasion force?

Bubba

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

Netherlands

port sledge snow cones [COLD]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Brandon1107
i dont get one thing.

once your lvl 20/ascended is everything like automatically turned into hard mode or do you have to like switch your server?
Maybe it's like traveling between the continents, with the hard mode versions added

eggs0wn

eggs0wn

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Brandon1107
i dont get one thing.

once your lvl 20/ascended is everything like automatically turned into hard mode or do you have to like switch your server?
How do you think we would know? It isnt out yet...

Maybe it will come out in 20 minutes (7 p.m. EST)


Optimism FTW

Dark-NighT

Dark-NighT

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2006

Stygian Veil

Shoop Da Woop [Lolz]

N/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kas
Patience, boys
We waited a long time for it, a few more hours won't make or break it.
It does for me, i mean if it is released in 1 hour im glad, but if its another 4 hours... i can't wait for that because it'll be around 5 AM by then and i'll be missing out the fresh update and all excitement around it

Nah seriously im a little impatient but if they can't make it then i have to settle for that and play tomorrow.

Plague

Plague

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

N/E

I wouldn't imagine the upcoming fix for Mesmers will be limited to Sunspear skills. It would be ridiculous if the only way you could get into a group would be if your skillbar was littered with basically "cheat skills" that are tailored to circumvent the Mesmer's inadequacy in PvE. I would expect many normal skills to also be altered, and the essence of the profession altered in some fashion.

GuildWiki Jamie

GuildWiki Jamie

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2006

Heroes Of Primeval Eden

N/Me

Anyone else notice those Tomes have the dervish icon on them? weird... I would imagine it would be one tome for all characters, rather than one each.

also WTS UW & FoW scrolls 1.1k!... lol

lucifer_uk

lucifer_uk

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Nottingham, England

The Venerable Truth [TvT] The Venerable Alliance [TvH] [TvL]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by GuildWiki Jamie
Anyone else notice those Tomes have the dervish icon on them?
They didn't a few hours ago, the icons changed.

wetsparks

wetsparks

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2006

My guess is that it will go live at 5:00 pacific, so that the ANET guys can go home and have dinner with their families and then come back to work a little later to work the night away on any bugs.

pieking1

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Mar 2006

I think it was all just a sick joke.

jk

Brandon1107

Brandon1107

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

E/

did they said they were going to add any new skins or uniques??

first thing i'll do with this is im gonna go farming lvl 24 charr at Old Ascalon

SalamandraTheNinja

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

I'm guessing that the UW and FoW scrolls will cost more on the US server.

phaffo

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2006

Icarus Shift

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Brandon1107
first thing i'll do with this is im gonna go farming lvl 24 charr at Old Ascalon
sounds like pre searing!
Charr hunting anyone?

juggalol

juggalol

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2007

Canada,Alberta(from nova scotia)

RoharsRoughNecks{RRN}

D/Mo

hard mode sounds alright

4ssassin

4ssassin

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2006

none

W/E

gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme!!!!!!one eleventy

Seriously though, my smite monk is just dieing for High lvl charr in Flame Corridior.

Craero

Craero

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by 4ssassin
gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme!!!!!!one eleventy

Seriously though, my smite monk is just dieing for High lvl charr in Flame Corridior.
Smiting a charr eh?
http://www.crithitcomics.com/botbanner.jpg

Anyway, Can you imagine "The last day dawns" in hard mode? That priest better get two elites...

Kijik Oni Hanryuu

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

the 7th level of HELL! J/K Somewhere in GW assassinating things

[acid]members of the KAWS alliance

A/

one phrase "LFG...Killing EVERYTHING"

Dzan

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

The Black Dye Cartel

By "completing the campaign" do they mean "mission and bonus" or just finishing the last mission?

Ritual del Fuego

Ritual del Fuego

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2007

CA

Frogs in Winter [FiW]

A new addition to Gaile's chat section of the official Wiki

Quote:
The Elite skill from Tomes will count for the Skill Hunter titles.
If that is the case, why not just make the skill hunter title an account title instead?

TheGuildWarsPenguin

TheGuildWarsPenguin

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Los Angeles, California

Picnic Pioneers

E/

Lol if Anet meant "beating the campaign" is beating every mission at least once regardless of bonus/masters reward. /point and /laugh at people who got ran past maguuma jungles straight to Sanctum cay.

DigitalForm

DigitalForm

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2006

U.S.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordakai


Did I miss anything?
No mention about the afflicted and mob scattering/placement in the Fact Sheet. Nor is there a mention of fleeing healers like there is in Gaile's post so yes you missed something as Brian the Gladiator already quoted.

And I'd like to know what do they consider 'early adventures' ??

savage vapor 33

savage vapor 33

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Regems Basement

The Malevolent Wolfpack [tMw]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kijik Oni Hanryuu
one phrase "LFG...Killing EVERYTHING"
QFT. Clearing out Mursatt on hard mode. :-P Spectral Agony x 10.

J.Kougar

J.Kougar

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

I hate the idea of Elite Tomes, it's going to allow new characters to automatically get skills like Savannah Heat that are actually a bit more of a challenge to capture than other Elite skills, and which are located much further in the game... if you've gotten it with one character or worse yet, if you just spent some Faction to get it.

Sounds like Elite Tomes will allow players who have never worked to play through the harder PvE areas of the campaigns to earn their elites, to just simply have them on a new PvE character because they used a tome and had previously unlocked the skill with a little Faction. At least let the Tomes only be used on level 20 characters, even if they won't be remotely fair to being with.

lucifer_uk

lucifer_uk

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Nottingham, England

The Venerable Truth [TvT] The Venerable Alliance [TvH] [TvL]

R/

Arghhh my bed is calling... where's this flipping update? :O

Zinger314

Zinger314

Debbie Downer

Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

I will never trust an ETA from ArenaNet. Ever. Again.

Seriously. No updated ETA? This is annoying.

bamm bamm bamm

bamm bamm bamm

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Evilsod
I hope Vanquisher doesn't include hidden mobs. I really can't be bothered to walk around every single square foot to find that 1 hidden Aloe Seed or something stupid...
Aloe seed? Dude, this is hard mode.

I'm attacking Omega Seed!

Maybe they use mending.

unknown1

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGuildWarsPenguin
Lol if Anet meant "beating the campaign" is beating every mission at least once regardless of bonus/masters reward. /point and /laugh at people who got ran past maguuma jungles straight to Sanctum cay.
people will explore and kill everything and get to the jungles. for the vanquisher title.