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Chat helped make the thumbnail
Sadly, the youtube play button is right on the mouth of the king, preventing us to see the most important detail of that thumbnail.
And we're proud of it.
Chat was accurate 😂
4:53 My bet is that when we aim fireballs while on skyscale, the game is effectively in action camera mode. Being able to modifiy that nearly invisible dot on the screen will be a very welcomed change.
There's no "effectively." That's exactly what the game does.
This is the 1rd time seeing someone write 14rd
This is the 2st time I’ve seen someone write ‘1rd’.
LOL ... Perfect answer.
Now I’m wondering how you pronounce those…
1rd - Fird?
14rd - Ten Foured?
2st - Twosed?
Engagement! \o/ :D
@@TalonOfoalain 1rd = "Fird", 14rd = "Fourteerd", 2st = "Tworst" (pronounced "toorst")
I don't like Soto as an expansion and I don't think the last patch will change that, so I am looking forward to the expansions end. Hopefully the next one will be better.
Couldn't have said it better honestly.
I liked Amnytas maps and what the did with some characters (specially Zojja), but everything after tavelling to Nayos... could be better
@@WaripoloW agreed
I hope an unannounced improvement is the ability to permanently dismiss/hide the giant notifications and comms bubbles that plague SotO maps.
Yes! Please!
17:33 remember that time we battled a dragon in thunderhead keep? That one felt like a huge battle, we need more of that!
Well, I mean...considering it was LITERALLY "All or Nothing"... ;)
I'm not saying we need our villains to be world-ending threats...but I'm saying we need our villains to be world-ending threats. With Eparch I was expecting something akin to like Azathoth, where the dream became self-aware and all of reality would be destroyed, or maybe Chthulhu where his madness would spread all across the world and force everyone to turn against you, almost like a Mordremoth fully realized. But no...what we have instead is the edgy reboot of The Sorcerer's Apprentice...in spite of the fact those already officially exist in the form of Epic Mickey and...I guess Kingdom Hearts to a lesser extent. Like, come on, guys, you can't just so casually lore-drop the bomb of Nayos being the home plane of the MURSAAT and do NOTHING with that information beyond a casual "meh" hand-wave! That raises SOOOO many questions and I - WANT - ANSWERS! O.o
But people were "bored of DrAgOnS~" Oh, "noo, we want daemons~" From the moment I tried SOTO, I realized it was garbage. Great potential, sure, but shallow and meaningless story. Doesn't even feel any urgency or real threat like the Dragon fights. None. My character was degraded to an errand boy. I just want masteries and upgrades for my Dragon. Don't even need or want the legendary armor. They coulda just easily add an upgrade to T1 legendaries. But I guess they have the budget of a school project -_-
@@joshanonline I'm with ya there. I've been thinking of ways I'd have done the story and, to be honest, I think we could have, and should have, gone darker here. Eparch falls under the sin, thus far, of being a "Tell Don't Show" villain: we're TOLD to be afraid of him, like speaking his name is the equivalent to uttering Voldemort's name in Harry Potter, but even when Eparch first appears, it doesn't really have any payoff...no 'oomph', ya know? I was more afraid of Bangar... FREAKING - BANGAR! At least when this pissy hissy kitty said he was gonna do something, he had the balls to do it! I can't believe I'm saying this, but...RUNESCAPE did this whole idea better with the Morytania Quest-line! Like, seriously, all I was thinking was "this plot sounds exactly like the Vampyre quest-line", because it practically is just a worse version of that. And I have a friend I play GW2 with and we both are in agreement: Eparch's design is kinda...silly, for lack of better word. I kinda imagined him as being like Jabba the Hutt with the way Peitha described him: this massive bloated tick with the stage presence of a looming, towering shadow that could end you before you even knew it with scant little but a flick of the wrist. I imagined Azathoth, I got ASS-of-thought...'raaaay... -.-
@@joshanonline Wouldn't it be cool if they focused on gW1 lore and introduced player hero from GW1 as a bad guy? Maybe some resurrection or something.
@@bluestreaker9242 Permanently one-upping villainous threats becomes shallow in itself tho. What it's really about is creation tension - and creating all powerful world ending threats isnt the only way to achieve that.
With how much the expansion focused on feelings and emotions, I'm quite tapped out of feeling much of anything for the 'commander's next big adventure'.
Damn I miss the old writing. Vanilla, HoT, PoF? That was good writing. And I miss it dearly.
So now we know why Muk's messages are left on read. When he sends them feedback the dev responsible just quits.
It was Ben P lol
We in the beetle-racing community, are crazily hyped about the extra guildslot! Gonna be freaking awesome! (More guildhalls to race in, without having to leave/rejoin all the time). At least just one extra slot is better than nothing ❤
Thanks! I have been waiting for the official starting Festival dates for Dragon Bash & Festival Four Winds so I can take those days off from work!
YW, and thank you!
I love the action camera mode. I'm one of the two!
I love action mode so much I use it on my ranged characters too 😎😎😎
Hey I'm the other one! That must mean anyone else claiming to use action cam is lying, then.
might as well make it 3
New ranger pet too - I find it odd they don't include it in the blog at all, it's just a tiny inclusion in the video graphic
Can't help but feel with that awesome palace in the sky and big throne room the end of this expansion would have made for a good raid, perhaps huffed too much copium on that one
When I played the djinn's dominion map for the first time in PvP, I did the side objective (lamp) when it spawned, since I assumed it would be helpful, and was promptly informed by my team mates to just ignore it 😅
I'm glad restructuring is actually coming out this year, and in a month at that. With how things have been going in terms of server pop and matchups it was just getting to the point of frustration for the smaller servers, especially when guilds kept jumping ship. I know solo players are going to complain at "needing" to join a guild now to keep playing with various people, but this should have been done years ago instead of being put off for so long.
Good luck attracting new players in this dead game mode. Only the 12yr veterans and their guilds the only ones left playing once restructuring is released.
Sucks for those of us who run with more than one guild. Now we have to choose.
The Kurger Bing isn’t real, he can’t hurt you.
Yeah, this expac had a lot of growing pains, but Arenanet has shown they've listened carefully to feedback (most of the time) so I'm eager to see what this development update will share
I'm looking forward to the action cam reticule update. I can finally make it bigger, and change the color to make it actually visible for me.
Currently, I have to shoot out a fireball to see where it's pointed, move my mouse and trying again, and repeat the process until I can hit my target.
I wish there is an option to use action cam but when you using skill that can target ground it'll temporary switch to normal cam for that skill placing.
omg me too! I can't see ever where my skyscald is aiming 😂😂 hopefully this change affects the skyscale aiming!
@@Sumatakso I have snaptargetting on to so I can place aoe's beneath me (if i look all the way down itll place onto me rather than the boss) but that also means Ill accidentally throw a revive skill onto the boss even though im looking at an ally, lol.
I was hoping for a preview of the Obsidian T2 😢
I feel yah I was really hoping for the preview
Yeah, how are we a week out from it being live and we have ZERO idea what it is, lol?
I hope that the Action Cam cursors will work when you are targeting the Skycale2 fireball.
Even if it does, there will likely be a speech bubble to block your view anyway 😢
@ 2:12 "Mmmmkay, so that's it..." was my response to the trailer as well. GW2 has been a great game, but the current expac just isn't doing it for me and this doesn't look to change anything. Yet somehow, I still enjoy watching most of Muk's vids, haha.
Lack of rewards is starting to make the game feel more like work and a list of digital daily and weekly chores than a "game"
I hope they start appreciating SOLO players effort a lot more and rewarding it. There is more effort in FINDING a group than Zerging which isn't as fun for me. TOO much content is group effort.
It took 5 days to find a group to do Bounties in The Desolation for the Acscended collections there. I'm not sure why but I logged into dead Crystal Desert maps for a week straight.
You can easily solo bounties with the right build ... weird you prefer solo play but dont know that
The 5th convergence boss is a tunnel
is it only in PvP they reintroducing reward track potions??? not in WWW??
FINALLY a real SPVP UPDATE, im hyped
ITS BEEN YEARS WTF
I'm not a big spvp player, but I feel you. The lack of new features, arenas or game modes in spvp looks harsh. When was the last time they added something? 2019?
My biggest complaint about wvw restructuring is I don't want to lock myself into a specific guild or matchup. I have friends across multiple servers and guilds. I'd rather have a popup at the start of each matchup to choose who I want to be paired with so I can choose based on matchup and who's still playing gw2 at the time. The option should be "match with your current server or match with this guild"
This will literally kill the dead WvW scene. Only the old vets and their guilds gonna play this game mode.
That is a top tier thumbnail.
I thought ANET said that earning any new relics after what were provided in the last update would require completion of some in game missions/events/stuff.
They make skill passes every couple months but they still have underwater mechanics that are barely half baked to the point where whole class mechanics aren't even viable....meh.
*sigh* wish I could still play GW2. Can't log into the old email account, and for the life of me I can't remember my old password. this is the only sauce of GW fix I can get nowadays :(
Mukluk, I'm a relatively new player. I love the game, have completed all stories(bar living world, working on that). I love the game and the casual nature of a lot of the content. DO you believe SOTO was the start of the end to the GW2 as it is? Do you think these SOTO updates just prove that the focus internally has shifted to either some big EXPAC for GW2(to go with wvw full release) or do you think they are further along the GW3 dev than initially thought and SOTO is the second last expac we will get?
I hope so, gw3 is long overdue.
They are working on GW3. The problem is, it will still take yrs to finish it and there's no guarantee if it will be a hit.
"chilling fog no longer chills enemy players. But heals allies for a small amount for the duration"... Okay, so instead of chilling your enemies, they swapped them out for grocery store mist sprayers
"I disappear in to the produce mists..." X3
I honestly dislike the mini-expansion change. I feel like I'm buying an unfinished Early Access game and I just don't like it. Especially when I end up not even enjoying one of the major features when it finally releases half a year later~ the Thief Axe that was last-minute changed to be obnoxiously loud.
Fully finished Xpan + LS was much more enjoyable but looks like I'll never see more Cantha. If they want more money they can sell Swimsuits or something. 😆
I logged in a couple months ago. Did the first part of new soto content and was never able to will myself back to that chore lol
Wish they would've at least gave us a glimpse of T2 Obsidian armour.
You have to do a little thing to upgrade your legendary armor to make it shiny. AKA spend 400 gold per armor piece.
As one of the two people who use action cam, I was very surprised that it hasn't been completely forgotten about, lol.
Right now Inner Nayos lanterns are easy enough where you should do it b4 the update. We also don't need 100% map completion to do the lanterns and 1 poi is stuck behind an event that is semi random, always a chance they put a lantern in a similar situation later after update and right now all 43 lanterns can be done in 20 min or less if u know there location or use TacO or Blish Hud.
For pug convergences I do almost daily and half the time people don't read map to spread out properly or read about the boss mechanics we warn them about and die kinda quick. Personally it really will depends on the group because I've had 1 pug fail, a couple close to 30 min and some under 20 min and those sub 20s we could maybe do the cm convergence.
Think ANET will make an expansion about not the-end-of-the-world in new lands? Will they finally refresh central Tyria? No and no, but we can dream.
Action camera reticule and colors???? Does that mean we'll finally be able to make our skyscale's reticule visible????
Here's hoping
I love how they didn't address the match making que in pvp being controversial or even adressing blatant win trading issues among top players. Its like they gave up on that game mode as a whole to push wvw content
no one does convergans pirate squads now tho seems like a stupid idea
I wonder if the reticle change will affect the skyscale fireball skill as well?
I hope so. Especially when I'm on a Norn character, it is hard to find the dot on the screen.
It is interesting that they said there would be two ranger pets with Soto and this would make 3. Not complaining mind you, though a pet with stab, while in pve would be really neat, wvw for sure could make already tanky builds just mind numbingly boring to fight.
"Chilling fog no longer chills" sus
4:53 x'D I actually love it's in the game though; I use it once per year with longbow ranger to kill that enemy or treb on the wall in wvw that would otherwise be obstructed, but with target mode you can shoot the corners or any part of the hitboxes......... If you are extremely pro you should be using it more actively though, for example when other shit like fences obstruct your ranged shots ...
I HOPE they will give me credit for the ascended shards I've previously ground out on ascended armor... but I doubt it :(
YES! Customizable reticle babyyyy! Action camera enjoyers, assemble! \o/
may 14rd?
Hopefully they buff flamethrower this time and a buff for mortar as well as turrets cuz I'm so fucking done with having to rely on nades all the time. FUCK THE NADES I'M DONE WITH IT
Personally I find the new expansion model to be just less value for more money.
1:51 [video] 'win the throne _or_ lose everything.' well, we expunged not one, not two or three but *six* elder dragons and an alleged god (Balthazar). we should be able to dispatch this 'midnight king' fellow, right?
I genuinely wouldn't play GW2 if it had no action cam, so I'm happy it gets some love.
still hoping we can get multiple guild halls.
The trailer is probably longer than the story content -_-
Wait I thought the action camera was fire. Oo man have I been doing it wrong all this time.
I really hope they won't make Peitha actually turn on us to proclaim herself a better mastermind than the big bad mastermind just after the drivel we've been through Inner Nayos of how "not all Kryptis are cruel and impulsive selfish demons who feed on emotions and their own kind".
Existence of a centuries-old secret order which got half its key figures possessed on a bad day (the other already missing) is already hard to digest as it is without dubious stakes of ending a centuries-old conflict we've just happened to weigh in.
How do you pronounce may fourturdth
No new strike missions? Man, feels bad
chilling fog what ta fogggggg
Yeah they nerfed a lot of the defensive capabilities into the ground. Chilling fog doesn't actually work when you have a boonball spamming stability, so it's pointless. I suspect that the name will change like every other nerf also came with name changes. I suspect this tactivator will be called healing fog now. In short, Anet wants you to fight zerg v zerg and every other scenario is fooked. And for Convergences... I'm confused why you were talking about challenging OW stuff. Convergences are not OW stuff.
Need More Roar Lore
what the heck is up with chat, that thumbnail hahahah. kind of sad i missed being there to witness the making of.
I hope there's an WvW grouping where all sides politely let people farm camp control and just let each other take over for easy reward track farming. lol
A reminder that I got a week to finish my obsidian armor….😅
Is this the first time in EVER they actually said "pvp update" in a post or am I dreaming?
We all know that hizen gonna solo that new fractal and im waiting for it XD
Action camera user here, I still don't understand the jokes and hate towards it, its fantastic
Soto hands down is the worst expansion
Started out cool, with nice serious horror vibe, but then instantly tanked. "Demon" world and Kryptis design was huge disappointment.
If you dont use action camera mode you are doing it wrong.
I prefer your rewards than gw2's
Really lost trust in anet to deliver on a new fractal(plus CM) after the mess Silent Surf started out as, and up til now still has party wiping bugs.
I hope this time it at least has more of the 5man fractal hallmarks, and not 10man content hallmarks. Wish I could be lokking forward to it, but I'm just not
I want them to focus on group content, but focus on how to bring it to the players.. If you bring back raids make a way so that so many new players can experience it. The convergences are just instanced meta maps.. I love big and epic metas.. But I also love grouping up with 10 or so other people and doing something.. Even if its easy content like some of the Strikes. A copy and paste expan would be highly.. just annoying. 2 Strikes/4maps/1 new fractual.. we need something else.
Arenanet is notoriously bad at creating a good narrative. They always f it up SOMEWHERE. So I have not much hope in that regard.
Need new weapons
Focuses for everyone
I really enjoyed Soto. Can't wait to see what they have planned for the next expansion. So exciting! 🥰I wish one day they'll bring some underwater themed story/world or more monster plants..yes pls, at least one mini city/chapter 🥺
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Underwater story huh. They might have to redesign everything in water combat lol. It's actually mediocre. Imagine the underwater fractal boss, players willingly avoid it in dailies + recs because of how ridiculous it is. Don't get me wrong, the fractal map itself isn't bad, it's fairly interesting but the combat is the issue.
@@xodarianxo I was trying to be funny. 😂I only said that so that people would have some real reasons to complain about the game 😂I believe it would have some great potential, yeah combat is not great but it's not terrible terrible either, just seems unfinished. Most players avoid it even in pve, even thou there are some beautiful places in game. Also it would be nice to have the legendaries put to use and the design they started. I keep seeing this gw3 nonsense going around and ppl nit picking at everything, while other aspects of the game were left unfinished like.... dungeons. 🤷♀Feels bad they were overthrown by fractals. I've seen players in WvW that played really good on land and when baited in water they didn't know how to play which is always funny af to see. That's how much the underwater combat is avoided/overlooked. 😂
May 14rd lol
I feel like all modern media is written by children for children. Where did all the people that wrote natural sounding, adult appealing dialogue go? Makes me sad...
They can't make stuff like that anymore cuz it's considered too offensive to a small % of the population.
Imagine if nayos wasn't real and pethia was just fucking with us with mind games. Lol she makes us mass murder everyone at the wizards tower and she walks away like a boss. The end. We lose.
"it was all just a dream"
@@MuklukCZcams hey is the realm of dreams right! 😂
And Peitha isn't real either, she's really a risen mesmer, like Labwan the Deceiver, carrying out Operation Shell Shock 2 at the direction of Zhaitan, who released only a portion of his magic to fool is into thinking he was dead. We never did see his body. The undead dragon is still a threat!😮
I'm actually hoping she turns out to be the villain. I mean she's been non-consentually harassing me for so long already with her intrusive whispers.
2:35 react to yourself with potato filter. how's your british accent? 🤔
Woah I'm early af
I hate that zone with the story. You HAVE to do events to continue the story. Nothing like being forced to do something you have no interest in or care about.
Just gonna come out and say it: Anet needs to pull up their socks regarding scope and size of the next "expansion"
Let's be real, SOTO is a paid Living World. That's literally all it is. Even IBS is larger than than SOTO IN ITS ENTIRETY in both feature and content. Now I'm not ungrateful: I know previous LWs were released for free and we should be having a chuckle that we got as much as SOTO has given us for half the price of a normal expansion in today's market but come on Anet, you can do better. Please do better. Doing better is how you knock your competitors out.
And as for additional systems SOTO brought us: Weapon Mastery is a scam. It should have been given to players without needing SOTO. What's next? Unbound Espec Utilities? That's low hanging fruit for Anet but I smell its rotting stench coming from a mile away. What else... right the Rift mastery and such. Just extra fluff content. So what SOTO really brought us is a way for openworld players to farm a Legendary Set. It's a Legendary Set locked behind an expansion.
Again, Anet you can do better. Please do better.
Last time i checked I was playing GW2 not Diablo 4.
Just more of the same. Big bad die, heroes live.
I'm gonna be honest SOTO has been so boring and not that great I'm not that excited for the update.
Arenanet needs to hire a new video editor. That was a horrible, amateurish promotional video
gw3 when? gw2 ded
They are working on GW3, GW2 has over 100k playing all the time, far from dead
@@JROCThaGreat Anet doesnt release the data. Steam has 3K players on right now lol
@@Oakyforgot where I saw it, the other day. But it’s the middle of the day right now and late at night else where. Game would shut down if it was 3k concurrent 😂 I also doubt that anyone plays it through steam, I didn’t even know it was a thing
@@JROCThaGreat mmo population has gw2 at about 180k active players, which sounds about right honestly. Also the gw3 thing was a bad translation from the meeting, there is no gw3, though that doesn't mean they can't be working on another mmo, just not a direct sequel to gw2 is all.
@@JayRandomness07They literally said gw3. Don't lie just because you don't wanna lose your legendary junk.
Who the feck plays without action camera? What are you, console players? Ridiculous
Possible guild wars news.
Proceeds to open the obvious guild wars 2 news.
I record a lot of these on stream and some of them aren't very newsworthy and I just toss them. I kind of let that thought slip out as I hadn't read the news yet.
10:54 Laughing then quitting Anet is wild 💀