Curse

joshuarodger · Jul 24, 2008, 11:23 PM // 23:23

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Originally Posted by MithranArkanere

YEAH!

Each faction should have its crafter specialty:
- Norn : Chalices
- Ebon: Powerstones
- Deldrimor: Armor
- Asuran: Orbs
- Luxon/Kurzick: Vigilante Insight Scroll. (+Faction/Promotion/Reputation)
- Sunspear: "You are not alone" item: Summons a Sunspear Standard and a party of 4 Sunspear of 8 random professions (One of them always a monk or a paragon) that will stay deployed there for 30 minutes. Useful for quests and missions where you have to 'defend' something. Only one Standard can be active in one area at a time.
- Lightbringer: "Secret" item: Summons a Djinn merchant(Diamond djinn appearance) that stays in the area for 30 minutes, which has the same items available at Guild merchants and can Sell, Buy and Customize. Only one djinn can be active in an area at a time.

That would make things even.

Of course, the scroll would work in a different way with each title:
- Luxon/Faction: +250%
- Lightbringer/Sunspear: +25%
- Norn/Ebon/Asuran/Deldrimor: +50%
Of course, they would increase ONLY single kills. They will NOT stack with boss kill bonuses, nor special bonuses like rampage, etc, and of course, it won't affect quests and won't work in PvP.
So it would be usefull only in Vanquishings and Normal mode area clearings, never with 'specialized runs'.

are you kidding me with all this? aren't there enough shortcuts and enhancements in the game already?

/notsigned for mithran's idea. btw that LB djinn merchant is super weak.

/notsigned for OP's idea. just play the game normally like everyone else always has. there's never been any need for scrolls or consumables or anything like that. of course they make things easier but i think it has contributed to the overall downward spiral of most of this game.

Lady Raenef · Jul 25, 2008, 12:32 AM // 00:32

/signed for the OP idea, however...

When has Anet ever cared about us? They put in grinding for a reason...to keep us on a few extra days until we max the title and never login again. -.-

Sniper22 · Jul 25, 2008, 01:10 AM // 01:10

Ok i tried to clarify the scrolls a bit in the OP. I forgot that titles stop at r8 in NM and not r7. Honestly these titles need to be easier to get and I think this is just a way to do it. I think anet said there were looking at other less grindy ways of achieving these titles, so this could have a chance... I'm not so sure about kurzick/luxon scrolls... thats more than just points for pve only skills because they're traded in for points for alliance/amber/jade/etc.

Lishy · Jul 25, 2008, 06:35 AM // 06:35

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Originally Posted by Sniper22

Ok i tried to clarify the scrolls a bit in the OP. I forgot that titles stop at r8 in NM and not r7. Honestly these titles need to be easier to get and I think this is just a way to do it. I think anet said there were looking at other less grindy ways of achieving these titles, so this could have a chance... I'm not so sure about kurzick/luxon scrolls... thats more than just points for pve only skills because they're traded in for points for alliance/amber/jade/etc.

Yes, I agree.
Some people would rather buy their title and continue casually playing PvE than staying at olafson for weeks for r10 norn.
Do you know how BORING norn point farming is? I just want a statue for my Hall of Monuments!
Surely, there must be better ways to dedicate yourself to the title. Because games are supposed to be fun.
It would also help the hard-as-hell-to-level asura and vanguard ranks

The kurzick/luxon++ would also be a HUGE help in the game and make more sense. Why should you pvp for pve skills?
Do NOT say HFFF! Although legitimate, I do not believe it is ANET's intentions.

Tender Wolf · Jul 25, 2008, 06:54 AM // 06:54

I agree with the dungeon comment (forgot to mention that in my previous post).

If you're in Asura territory and in an Asuran dungeon, you should get Asura points in there instead of Dwarven. That one is easy to get thanks to the snowman lair but the rest are even more of a pain because you can't instantly pwn everything in your path like the snowmen. So why not change the dungeons to correspond with their region?

Also, since there is a snowman lair for easy Dwarf farming, wouldn't it only be fair to add one of those for the Vanguard and Asura titles too?

Sweet Mystery · Jul 25, 2008, 08:29 AM // 08:29

This should be tied in so you only get the benefit when you get XP.... I'd hate to see level 10 slaughters get R8 quickly...

"Oh I'll just max my titles then head to EOTN and buy armor and I am just level 10"....

Sparks Dawnbringer · Jul 25, 2008, 08:52 PM // 20:52

I would rather they made these account wide that add scrolls.

agrios · Apr 27, 2010, 12:23 PM // 12:23

Im totally into this. Scrolls to double or triple faction gain would be not only moneysinks but also make the title stuff less grindy. Specially the Luxon/Kurzick ones.

Less grind, more fun!

/signed

Elephantaliste · Apr 27, 2010, 01:42 PM // 13:42

gonna be hard for anet to justify replacement of weekend events by scrolls.

FoxBat · Apr 27, 2010, 01:51 PM // 13:51

A much simpler version would be "for X minutes, your shrine blessing grant double faction or title points". This could exclude or not the boss bonuses/random eotn bonuses.

agrios · Apr 27, 2010, 02:33 PM // 14:33

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Originally Posted by Elephantaliste

gonna be hard for anet to justify replacement of weekend events by scrolls.

Who said that? They can stack with the bonus for weekends...

Morphy · Apr 27, 2010, 04:14 PM // 16:14

Grind should die in a fire.

/signed

Kook~NBK~ · Apr 27, 2010, 04:16 PM // 16:16

/not signed

1. With the weekend events, books, and Z-missions/bounties, the "grind" for rep titles has been greatly reduced already. Smart players will take the time to figure out how to best take advantage of these things.

2. PvE skills are set so that they will still be effective even at lower ranks.

3. There's nothing to be gained by watering down these titles. The only thing that will be accomplished by doing so would be to make them as big of a joke as Legendary Survivor has become thanks to Kilroy's Punchout.*

*Does anyone else find it ironic that the fastest way to reach Legendary Survivor is to team up with a Suicidale Kamakaze?

agrios · Apr 27, 2010, 04:41 PM // 16:41

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Originally Posted by Kook~NBK~

3. There's nothing to be gained by watering down these titles.

Yes there it is something to be gained, its one of the most VALUABLE resources in the world: TIME!!

Kook~NBK~ · Apr 27, 2010, 05:10 PM // 17:10

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Originally Posted by agrios

Yes there it is something to be gained, its one of the most resources in the world: TIME!!

I think you left out an adjective there.

Could it be "valuable" or "important," that you omitted? Either way, it doesn't matter, because you're playing a video game!

Yawgmoth · Apr 27, 2010, 05:23 PM // 17:23

Terribad idea. Find some easiest place to farm lots of mobs, which isn't even in EotN and easily gain all 4 EotN rep tracks? What a complete nonsense.

The only way I could see some improvements to those titles being done is by providing some kind of boost item when a character hits rank10 in one of those titles, this should be untradable and boost reputation of your another character in the same faction as the one you have gained rank10 once.

Getting to max ranks in all the rep titles ONCE is perfectly fine and by no means is not any grind at all. But when you have 5 or more characters it starts to become somewhat annoying, repeating the same stuff over and over is not as fun anymore so it could be made faster if you have went through all that at least once the normal way

/NOTSIGNED for making it easier for the first character, it's not hard at all.

agrios · Apr 27, 2010, 05:34 PM // 17:34

@Kook

First, thanks for appointing my mistake. Sometimes I forget entire words while typing fast.

Second, time is very important to me. I dont want to spend it grinding. I dont like grinding.

Ariovist Lynxkind · Apr 27, 2010, 08:01 PM // 20:01

/notsigned.

why? what you are putting forward is effectively what the Norn, Ascalon Refugees, Krews, Priests, etc at the rez shrines already do. I admit it is different for NF (the priests, scouts, etc have only one specific group) it is still not that hard to do, you just need to be smart about how you do it. What is the point of adding another item to the game when it will do what is in place anyway?

End · Apr 27, 2010, 08:08 PM // 20:08

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Originally Posted by Miss Puddles

i don't think you should be able to use a NM scroll in low level areas. in NM you can't get bounties in istan beyond a certain SS level, why should you be able to use a scroll to get around that system? it's there for a good reason.

/signed anyway. a lot of people have maxed these titles already but don't want to repeat the grind on another character. these titles are easy to get already, it isn't about making them any easier. but if we're going to have to grind out these titles multiple times, at least make it go faster!

Make it only apply to kills of foe 2(see the lvls of some wardens in the echovald forest) or higher you or higher (if foes lvl >= (your lvl - 1) then gives points)

on a side note

An idea that makes titles easier and less grindy that I actually like (although the titles are easy enough as is)

/ signed

ightgg · Apr 28, 2010, 04:06 AM // 04:06

We get cons, then mass amounts of candy, then weekends making titles twice as easy to get. Do we need scroll to do that? Just take advantage of the weekend or grind it out.
/notsigned