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Guild Wars 2 - ArenaNet Celebrates the Griffon with a Secret Path of Fire Mount - MMORPG.com
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Guild Wars 2 - ArenaNet Celebrates the Griffon with a Secret Path of Fire Mount - MMORPG.com
The cat's out of the bag: ArenaNet put a secret hidden mount inside of their latest Guild Wars 2 expansion: Path of Fire. Now that everyone everywhere is getting their Griffon, we caught up with the designers to chat about how and why they decided to keep this one a secret.
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GW2 doesn't have a gear grind or even a function to show off how much better your gear is compared to others. If you want to accomplish something, gather a complete set of Hellfire or Radiant Armor by earning achievement points, or try raids and make legendary armor and weapons. Then there's WvW and PvP ranking and PvP tournaments. That's about as prestige-y as it gets without going back to a gear-treadmill MMO.
I personally love what they did with the griffon. There were leaks beforehand, but once the official mount reveal happened, many people thought the griffon had been scrapped during development. So it kind of was a surprise to everyone, even those who had seen the leaks. The mount itself seems a lot of fun, and I am going to enjoy working towards it for quite a while. Considering that I am not selling massive stacks of materials to get the 250 gold in a day or two, the other mounts will have a lot more time to shine, which is probably pretty good. It should keep me excited about Path of Fire up until the release of Living Story Season 4, and beyond.
I agree that GW2 is all about fun for me. I've been with the game off and on since the start and only one of my characters has a legendary, just did it to see what it was like. I usually sit on around 500 gold on average so doing the quest wasn't a problem.
The only thing is they should have had more waypoints. Limited waypoints wasn't needed to get people to use mounts more, imo.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Its better to stay silent then to miss inform ppl.
I believe most everything in the story except i have my own thought/s.
I believe it went down as stated but the final verdict was based on a simplistic idea that if people see and get this mount immediately,it would equate to more sales.
They were right in their first assessment,stuff in game SHOULD and ALWAYS be earned not used as a cash shop or baiting sales of any kind.I have said this over and over and in all games,i am not just picking on GW2/Arena.net.
So bottom line,is their entire story,reasoning was perfectly sound,the end result was not.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
I have a secret,here let me tell you ..lmao.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Like Batman's surprise identity . . .
Misinformation? That guy absolutely nails the problem that people that a bunch of people that don't enjoy the game, have with it.
Charlie Sheen and Harvey Weinstein were doing a better job hiding their disgusting secrets to the public than Anet was on their Griffon mount. True Story.
The lack of the Trinity is good, imo, because it allows you to break free of the same old boring "every healer uses this build, every dps uses this gear etc" and always "Oh, this is a healer class, and these are their only skills, and they use this weapon" - it's filled with variety, with different roles being able to filled by almost any class in a different way.
Some people in this thread have also never experienced or tried Raids, because you absolutely have fail states where the whole group will wipe if you are not on top of your role, your build, and the mechanics of the fight. And it's not a zerg of 50+ people, it's a group of 10. Healers, Tanks, and Buff Bots, different types of DPS - all necessary roles that have different mechanics depending on the Raid.
If you expect to play an MMO and have everything done and accomplished within two hours of logging in, then no, GW2 is not the game for you. God forbid you have content to still participate in even after years of playing it to keep it new...
But for real, if you don't like the game, that's fine. People have different tastes. But don't misinform people about it.
but you get nothing of value from it as gw2 is just an achievement hunter game.
if people are happy getting a skin, title, achievement or something that has no progression in an mmoRPG then sure.
you can raid in almost any other mmorpg and actually get the same and more