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AngelWJedi · Feb 14, 2010, 06:06 PM // 18:06

heh some are cute some are OMFG what ran that over ugly. but thank you to the people who posted the pics.

Dont Nerf The Perma · Feb 14, 2010, 10:00 PM // 22:00

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Originally Posted by Gun Pierson

As for the mystery thing...I hope it's a donkey that shits ectos.

that made me choke on my soda and roflcopter

revelation · Feb 15, 2010, 12:26 AM // 00:26

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Originally Posted by The Josip

That's what I thought in the beginning. Then I got bored and started to use summoning stones and occasionally other consumables.

It's not a matter of "can't win without them", it's just that it tends to be more fun and adds variety. Also, can speed up the killing and save time.

I look it this way: I use the summoning stone, waste cash for something that I could have done without it. So why not just sell it every time and in the long run I'll have more gold and buy something I really need

jgs18 · Feb 15, 2010, 01:29 AM // 01:29

Was hoping for another el summoning stone,except availiable to lvl 20 chars but the stones are in ok addition imo

Lord Dagon · Feb 15, 2010, 02:41 AM // 02:41

maybe they will come up w/ something better next year. xD

also we still have at this point 2 more festival finales. who knows.. we might get something beeter for those of us who are loyal and are gonan stay up to 3am(est) for all the finales xD. so who knows, we might get somethign good xD.

Coraline Jones · Feb 15, 2010, 07:08 AM // 07:08

I don't understand why ArenaNet seems to think that people want more summoning stones when they have such limited usefulness.

There are so many other consumables that provide better benefits and have almost no restrictions on their use. You can load up on consets all day as long as you have the gold to pay for them.

Despite that almost every consumable out there has no restriction in PvE, ANet wants to limit summoned creatures by having the nearly silly Summoning Sickness which pretty much kills it from being used in any serious party. A summoned creature can die within 10 minutes if you run into some bad luck. For me, the most useful summon that I've ever seen has to be the Mercantile ones, just because you can use them to sell loot or buy ID/salvage kits, and they don't even fight (or do much of anything) if you're using them right.

I don't know why they don't just go ahead and get rid of the useless Summoning Sickness since the game is easily run with gimmick builds even without the stones. Even if people do start buying the stones up and using them on speed runs... Who cares? At least it's junk that people have to craft and spend money at a NPC to get, and it'll actually serve as a modest gold sink.

Daesu · Feb 15, 2010, 07:32 AM // 07:32

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Originally Posted by Coraline Jones

I don't know why they don't just go ahead and get rid of the useless Summoning Sickness since the game is easily run with gimmick builds even without the stones. Even if people do start buying the stones up and using them on speed runs... Who cares? At least it's junk that people have to craft and spend money at a NPC to get, and it'll actually serve as a modest gold sink.

For the same reason why you can only have 3 PvE skills per skill bar. It pushes you to party with other players.

This is how ANet makes sure that H/H teams are nerfed relative to human teams, which can carry a total of 24 PvE skills per team rather than just 3. Summoning sickness is just another way to promote partying.

Turbo Ginsu · Feb 15, 2010, 07:39 AM // 07:39

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Originally Posted by Daesu

This is how ANet makes sure that H/H teams are nerfed relative to human teams, which can carry a total of 24 PvE skills per team rather than just 3. Summoning sickness is just another way to promote partying.

Lol. I'm sure it'll work just as well for them as all the other things they've done to promote it. TBH, all they really need to do to promote party play, is add their own anti-noob code, which automatically loads a bot and takes over controls at the first hint of "Teh sux0r!", not unlike their already added anti-farm code and the super secretive (But there nonetheless) anti-fun code and the soon to be added anti-moldbreaker code..Just for those types who'd like to be different, or run builds the purists don't like...

karlik · Feb 15, 2010, 08:49 AM // 08:49

I do use summon stones now and then - not needed but speeds things up and some do look cool. But Nic gives me so many that I gave away a ton to low levels for halloween and wintersday.
So I'll use 'em, and they are kinda cool - but I can't argue with people who don't like 'em.

Black Metal · Feb 15, 2010, 10:40 AM // 10:40

totally underwhelming but not suprising

sorta like the 3rd straight dragon mask

glacialphoenix · Feb 15, 2010, 02:27 PM // 14:27

Not unsurprising, really. Actually, outright expected considering the wording on the website; still, it was nice of them and it's not like we had to go out of the way to get it.

That being said, I'm flooded with summoning stones from Nicky and this, and I don't know what to do with them. (I tried to burn them on snowball farming during Wintersday and Wintersday Redux but evidently my boyfriend and I have accumulated so many we didn't manage to finish them.)

Verene · Feb 15, 2010, 03:53 PM // 15:53

Eh. I don't mind summoning stones. They can be handy when vanquishing.

I do have about half a storage pane of various types of summoning stones, though. Probably will not use them all up any time soon.

Kaleban · Feb 15, 2010, 04:16 PM // 16:16

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Originally Posted by Daesu

For the same reason why you can only have 3 PvE skills per skill bar. It pushes you to party with other players.

Wrong. The reasoning is that PvE skills are quite OP compared to most skills, so its more of a power creep balance than anything. And even if ANet WERE trying to push people into partying with human players, there is the huge problem of about 90% of the game being a ghost town with no human players to party with.

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This is how ANet makes sure that H/H teams are nerfed relative to human teams, which can carry a total of 24 PvE skills per team rather than just 3. Summoning sickness is just another way to promote partying.

No, again its an artificial and stupid means of power balance, and has nothing to do with partying. If ANet wanted to promote party play, they'd start looking at the three hero metas like Discordway and Sabway, and look into ways to nerf those. Its the fact that H/H is so effective and customizable, and generally faster and smarter than players in PvE that makes it more attractive than PUGing.

Daesu · Feb 15, 2010, 04:24 PM // 16:24

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Originally Posted by Kaleban

No, again its an artificial and stupid means of power balance, and has nothing to do with partying.

A power balance? A power balance that doesn't work if you have 8 players in your party. Unless you intend to be in one explorable area for at least 8 hours!

No, it is meant to nerf single player teams against multi player teams, encouraging players to party up. In the same exporable area, as long as your team does not have a living summon, a 8 player team can use a summoning stone every 7.5 mins on average while a 1 player team can only use it every 1 hour. That, is the effect of the summoning sickness.

Since each team can only have 1 living summon from a summoning stone at any one time, but summoning sickness is a character effect, not a team wide effect. Summoning sickness would, of course, effect single player teams more than multi player teams.

Shadowhaze · Feb 15, 2010, 04:39 PM // 16:39

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Originally Posted by Verene

Eh. I don't mind summoning stones. They can be handy when vanquishing.

I do have about half a storage pane of various types of summoning stones, though. Probably will not use them all up any time soon.

Same here. Nick likes giving me those...lol.
They are handy, but I'm overloaded on them. The event stones were a nice lil surprise that they didn't have to do and they're pretty when you use them.

tmakinen · Feb 15, 2010, 04:51 PM // 16:51

Summoning stones may serve some function but so far I have been unable to find one. I think that I popped one once and failed to be impressed, so currently the stuff is almost as coveted as kidney stones, something that just clogs your system and is a general PITA, or in kidney stones' case, about five inches higher up.

Not that I'm complaining or anything, it's free stuff and all.

Neky · Feb 15, 2010, 07:19 PM // 19:19

If I'm correct, they don't give party pts, so, pretty useless.

EPO Bot · Feb 15, 2010, 10:14 PM // 22:14

I really like the snake model. I would pay a lot for that mini. In 2013...

BenjZee · Feb 15, 2010, 11:09 PM // 23:09

Snake oo, atleast they put some nice little effort into the animals that arn't in Guild Wars. Look at the horse and monkey awwww
Though i can't help wonder Why they didn't make the rooster a giant version of the little chickens/rooster birds on shing jea island. Wasn't too impressed with dog either, i know you want something magnificant but they shoulda made a giant version of the pug from the shing jea arena.

Anonymous IXl · Feb 16, 2010, 12:19 AM // 00:19

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Originally Posted by braxton619

honestly, could easily be a costume. I doubt it would be summoning stones.

Since they added costumes a new mode in the game.. They will add more.

You are the weakest link! Good bye!