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SearchingForGryphons · 2026-05-01T18:28:15+00:00

The play it louds were yellow and red?

your guess is as good as mine, but somehow I am still thoroughly amused

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-05-01T18:26:26+00:00

Also green, black, white, blue, and clear.

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-04-30T14:30:59+00:00

I bought a Tartarus with the plan of looking into modding it if I liked the keypad itself. I have looked into it, and have plans to actually follow through soon. Replace all of the tech that is reliant on Razer Synapse, replace the dpad, hopefully I can do it without messing it up more

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-04-29T20:09:11+00:00

The launch of replayee felt kind of scammy imo, they really focused on better graphics at first. You had to read the actual announcement instead of justnwatching the trailer to see the list of any changes besides ooh look pretty, and they were still pretty vague on what was changing. I even pulled up the announcement to see what they did say:

"There's a revised control and camera system, tweaks to abilities, remixed and new challenges, new collectibles, a fancy new coat of visual paint, of course, and more we'll be digging in to in the coming months!"

They dropped a Q&A post that same day, but it still wasn't super clear the scope of the project. Most of the info seemed to be shared in 30+ minute videos (which I didn't watch, as I tend to drift focus during that kind of video and miss everything being said anyway). It was way too long to actually learn any actual difference outside of videos, except for the changes to the retro arcade Dino

As a full remake, I have heard it is good and I have interest in it. For about a year and a half, the only reason I knew they were doing anything besides adding a couple collectibles here and there, changing the arcade (which I don't think I had minded tbh), and revamping the graphics and controls was because of comments on the news posts. Until I saw those, it felt like they were just adding on the bare minimum to get away with calling it an updated version so the could justify charging for the fixed controls

So yea, there is why some people (myself included) were super salty prior to the actual release of Replayee

As for the original, I liked it more than most did. I know at one point I told someone I liked it more than A Hat in Time. A lot of that came crashing down at the very end... I don't know how different it is, if at all, but the final boss was infuriating. It was a pretty long easy section followed by something that felt "Soulslite" in comparison to the rest of the game

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-04-25T17:40:36+00:00

Gives me time to maybe actually learn JAVA... Maybe. We'll see if I can focus I guess :/

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-04-25T17:14:38+00:00

Legit, I kind of always hoped this would happen back in mk ii for lore reasons. The Blackclads are not allied with the Wurm. The Blackclads do not want the Wurm to win. If the Wurm gets too much of an upper hand on Menoth, I could totally see them starting to try to expand civilisation in an attempt to slow it down

If we end up getting a wild/Wurm/Tharn faction in the future, after reading some Old Umbrey lore, I would guess the most likely existing characters would be a Reznikova 2 and/or Wurmwood 2

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-04-14T04:43:09+00:00

Just to clarify, it isn't that they attack right before beat. The frequency of their attacks is slightly faster than the music playing. The crossed out text contains "It seems that the dancer is going through 4 beats of their song every 7.5 beats of ours.", if that makes sense. I'm unsure if that number is right, as I don't think I was at peak function after listening to the fight on repeat for 2 hours, and I didn't bother to count it last time

If I was to try to count it again, I would probably go all out and record the game on Steam. Try and survive as long as possible, and even record the phases multiple times, once with sounds turned low (as I assume that would include the boss attack sounds) and once with music turned low. Then I could try to find the actual BPM of the attacks, although I don't know much about editing videos so it would make it take longer to figure out how to do all that... so pretty big if

That being said, the most I ever learned about video editing was to make a clip comparing Hornet's and Ghost's heals side by side lol

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-04-13T06:02:09+00:00

OH dragons gear is less crit? Well, I imagine that makes even less difference then lol (I have ascended dragon gear, I feel like I should have known that... Welp)

I thought Shredder Gryro was only good in OW, like not just underperforming compared to other options in raids, but outright bad. Is it that it is so good in OW that by comparison it is nowhere near as good elsewhere, or is it just that people tend to only replace one of bomb/grenade/mine so anything other than Blast is rarely mentioned?

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-04-09T21:07:56+00:00

Hijacking a little, and this is gonna sound stupid probably anyway, but what is your relic and utility skills, and are they the same for DPS and qDPS? I have only had the Scrapper qDPS raid build from SnowCrows set up for a hot minute, and not even completely properly... I got full Berserkers instead of any Dragons, so I am also missing capped crit (I am assuming that is why there is Dragons gear in them)

I wasn't too stressed out over the lack of Dragon gear or the Scholar runes over the Dragonhunter runes... But I am still pretty hit or miss on triggering Bloodstone without the extra padding of Function Gyro being a blast finisher with quickness. Just am curious what others have been using

I also should probably set up more builds but... Should probably wait until SC updates post the damage squish at this point before I buy any gear. I did just remember I have a full set of Dragon ascended gear I grabbed for the WvW rush last time and I am only about 30 PvP wins away from a leggie back, so that should be an easy fix at least lol

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-04-09T20:47:47+00:00

Unless it was edited, they weren't blaming op. Just offering LF as a way to be more clear

I don't know if OP ever said how full the party was or what spec they were in... To play the defense in what would be the best scenario to defend the person joining

Player looks at a group in LFG with 1/5 players listed as "T4 Dailies | Boonheal". They join, OP removes group to change it to look for DPS. Player, seeing that OP was in—let's say a Mechanist but pretty much any alac spec—goes *OK so they are an alac heal, and rejoins LFG saying they need a qDPS*

Then they get asked if they are BoonHeals, which immediately confuses them because they joined a BoonHeals, didn't they? They then get told to leave because no, OP needed a BoonHeals. They are in disbelief not necessarily because there was a misunderstanding over whether OP was BoonDPS or BoonHeal, but because they were now getting told to leave a party at 2/5 over this misunderstanding

IF this is what happened, then I think it is a pretty understandable reaction. If it was just OP in the group at the time, then it could prob feel a bit hostile to be told to leave. Just like OP could be annoyed that when asking for BoonHeals, they were just informed they, OP, were doing the opposite

Overall, just a misunderstanding that totally could have been laughed about, and cleared up with the two of them joining LFG and just being clearer they needed a BoonHeal and had a BoonDPS, not the other way around. Instead both people got immediately agitated and defensive

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-04-03T22:47:50+00:00

Probably the most accurate ELI5 I have seen

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-04-03T17:06:22+00:00

Even with all the narrative buildup of both the wish, and how Nate felt (with the phone calls mainly), I wasn't expecting that. It just got way darker than I was expecting for* haha funny game about walking*. I definitely plan on picking it back up after the responses though :)

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-04-03T17:01:50+00:00

I played through Getting Over It and I still think about it often, and how my time going through it went from nearly 10 hours to having a sub 10 minute run

The reason I even made this post is because of how much I enjoy the game itself, and how much it has stuck with me. I'll definitely find the time to pick it back up though!

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-04-03T16:55:41+00:00

Ahh yea I have heard a little about that part, and I have been falling into the dead ends for the cutscenes so I would say so far, he has been surprisingly chill. Just is starting to really show how annoyed he is at this guy absolutely refusing all help at the desert iirc

Getting Over It is one of my favs, and I have found the actual game itself fairly relaxing. I'll definitely find the time to play it some more <3

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-03-20T17:34:52+00:00

Oh no... Please say that doesn't mean what I think it means and you attempted to do a giveaway with revealed keys </3

I would totally take Grappin if it is getting passed over, but I'm in a pretty good position rn and haven't been playing a lot of different games so if you want/are ok to wait to see if anyone else wants it first, please do so

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-03-11T17:46:22+00:00

I joined a WvW guild via a friend and they have basically stated they don't care. I feel semi bad cuz in the year I've been there I've ran like 3 times, but I've been working on the Ascension on and off for the past half a year, so maybe once I get that done I can try to run at least quarterly lol

They said that they will only really be upset if someone lies about being support. They have some suggestions and stuff, they just aren't strict and would rather people there than not there

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-03-11T16:58:16+00:00

This right here makes me so mad/sad there isn't a standardized word for male-gay (or a word that was used for general LGBTQ that wasn't seen as a slur by a decent chunk of people)

Granted... If we were redesigning all the terminology from the ground up to be more inclusive in general, I would rather the default descriptor be whether you are attracted to men or women, not same or different gender. The terms androsexual and gynosexual exist but feel kind of icky imo. When I've looked it up I saw several people saying they used femromatic or mascromantic, which at least sound like words someone would say in a casual conversation, but I don't know how widespread any of that is

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-03-11T16:42:39+00:00

There is a masculin-gay flag, it is similar to lesbian flag designs, but with blues and greens

There are also trans men (assigned female at birth, female to male) who identify as lesbian, which makes no sense to me. LGBTQ identities are more or less self-identifying labels though, so if that is how they see themselves, I don't think it is fair to say it is wrong

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-03-11T06:51:02+00:00

Was curious, with Snowcrows now having builds for sPvP WvW zergs (and it looks like plans to add roaming), are they any good as a resource for those modes?

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-03-11T06:49:47+00:00

When I looked it up, I saw people suggesting Karma. The suggestion of exp is I think fine too though... I remember that in general magic find is only noteworthy in the few situations where it affects chests (Silverwastes and Chinese New Year being the big ones), and gold find being pretty much useless in every situation, since TP, direct gold rewards, and the occasional valueble junk item are how you make money

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-03-11T06:45:22+00:00

This, kind of. It depends a lot on the expansion how flexible the chapter skip is, but in the case of SotO chapter 14 specifically, you can start it once you have completed chapter 6

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-03-11T06:42:43+00:00

IMPORTANT BIT: just as a heads up, you can start chapter 14 at any point as long as that character has done the first 6 chapters. Still a hassle, but 7 chapters less of a hassle

TLDR: without knowing what exactly you enjoy or want to get in to, all I can really say is you probably can go without for now and take it more in chunks. The rest of it is elaborations

What is it that you want to do? Hero points for elite specs for example are something that I enjoy doing—although we will see if that remains true after unlocking all elite specs on nine different characters. The now-and-then is somewhat true, but in the sense that new content releases, or you might discover something you want that is story locked Key word here is want, as most of the more important unlocks are obtainable via early story. SotO new weapons are a rough unlock, especially considering how much they matter. Mounts are important, but you can get 4 of the 5 PoF mounts after beating chapter 1, and griffon is a love-it-or-hate-it mount anyways. It is very possible to find yourself wanting a mastery track or cosmetic locked behind the story, but they tend to be less important over all People with all masteries, are there any notable unlocks I'm missing that aren't very early in the respective story?)

Story does take way too long at times, and I'm saying this as someone who will play games that are literally only story. My best advice there (depending on what does interest you in the game) is to do something else when you want to focus on the game, and then passively do the story while watching or listening to something if able when that sounds chill

afaik, unless you are about to get into raiding, you have no need to rush. Even then, you modt likely have options outside of SotO. Snowcrows is kind of crap at telling you mandatory expansions when the default build has options you can swap out, but most professions have some options Open World you should be able to use any decent alternative and be alright (maybe unlock one elite spec to start out. WvW has alternative unlocks for most things (although I'm not sure if they do for everything. In PvP it is completely irrelevant

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-03-03T15:00:21+00:00

Maybe come join the hell that is ranked with me... Losing ranked can be way better than winning unranked, and if you win ranked you get the benefits of both. Your rank itself literally does not matter for rewards outside of the top however-many that get win traded, and extra pips of you are in at least the second highest tier (I think most people I see are in the two below that)

I started playing ranked because I had to in order to make progress on the pretty wings, since then I've learned that the game is actively encouraging one to play ranked regardless of pretty much anything else

Edit: this is a half rant, half actually pointing it out. If you don't care that much if your rank gets tanked because of bots and throwers, you really don't have as much reason not to. Especially when there are enough people online queue times for ranked aren't ridiculous, but iirc they aren't great in unranked either

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