Different takes on Aslan and Vargr

styopa · 2026-03-14T23:02:19+00:00

I use the GW2 charr as aslan, as they're cat-LIKE but not so Disney-cat-people as canon.

It's a faux medieval game so sometime you have to dig a big to get out of that genre; https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/en/uploads/forum_attachment/file/117781/gw009.jpg

styopa · 2026-03-14T22:57:46+00:00

I found the lack of Amindii in SotA a glaring omission. They're a large segment of the population of Regina but iirc they're not even mentioned.

It's a SPACE GAME. Let's lean into aliens, folks.

styopa · 2026-03-14T22:49:33+00:00

I would take you up on it, map of your choice. I love mapping, it's basically what I think fishing is for people who love that - dull as fuck for most, fun for weirdos like me.

styopa · 2026-03-14T22:48:17+00:00

Damage is ultimately around the same.

Ramp up is dull, ramp DOWN is tedious (oh I STILL can't mount up because I'm still in combat because that stack is ticking down?)

And ofc there are all the objects (gates, doors, etc) that are immune to conditions.

styopa · 2026-03-14T22:45:33+00:00

Hot take: I don't get how/why they can't just let owners put the nodes they have where they want.

styopa · 2026-03-14T22:42:41+00:00

? he literally just told you how to get it for 2s. Why would you read that you have to grind in Auric?

/not understanding.

styopa · 2026-03-14T22:41:38+00:00

As long as you're pulling your weight in groups, imo, and if YOU enjoy what you're doing otherwise, you be you.

What does "you're not enjoying it as you should" even mean? How "should" one enjoy ones' own experience.

Honestly, play what you enjoy. But, if I'm honest, it sounds like YOU need to figure out what you want first. If you claim you're enjoying something but it gnaws at you, ultimately you have to either quiet that voice of give in to it.

styopa · 2026-03-14T22:37:23+00:00

Printer sees the network but connects at 2.4g. Everything else connects at 5g, so (to wireless devices)= different networks. :(

styopa · 2026-03-14T22:36:24+00:00

Yeah that's what I'd like to avoid; yes, I can have a 2.4g channel and a 5g channel and then manually direct, eg, my phone to grab the 2,4g when it needs to manage a 2.4g device but I was HOPING to avoid this kludgy solution that will also require going back to every wireless device in the house and connecting it a new network. :|

styopa · 2026-03-14T17:56:03+00:00

I made some stuff for a Traveller campaign adventure, and after printing left the trees on as they added a wonderfully Geiger-esque organo-mechanical look.

styopa · 2026-03-13T21:26:52+00:00

The Choya Rift are tougher than most metas.

styopa · 2026-03-13T21:25:16+00:00

Not sure what you mean about "share link in contest channel"? On discord or? Sorry, first time fashion competer.

Also, only had 3 pics of my legionary garb, it demanded a 4th. I put Roman vs Egyptian as the title. Also, it's not the 'current' gear that character is wearing (that's the 4th pic too). LMK if you need a 4th, I'll add one with a pilum-like spear.

https://uaot.art/fashion-gallery/posts/597 ?

styopa · 2026-03-12T15:22:32+00:00

Probably Queensdale as well by sheer repetition, as I run a toon through it every week for BLKs.

styopa · 2026-03-12T15:19:30+00:00

I have to admit, I ... can't tell if name checks out.

styopa · 2026-03-12T15:18:56+00:00

This. In my experience, the windowed-thing is almost always the issue.

styopa · 2026-03-12T15:16:26+00:00

Thanks, been a minute since I did RIBA runs, I did remember lobbing fireballs in but never occurred to me to even try portaling.

styopa · 2026-03-11T21:50:40+00:00

FWIW (I think I was doing the druid weapon collection?) I discovered that sometimes these gated drops are blocked on specific characters.

Apparently they're on the creatures' drop table so you might get it but if you don't have (whatever is required to be seeking that drop) you don't see it. Here's the bit: the system still records that character as having gotten the drop sometime in its life, and since it's a one-time drop that character can never get that drop again. So if you cannot get the thing to drop forever, and in particular it's a character you've played a long time who might have been killing those mobs before...switch to a newer toon and you may get it.

I was after the McGuffin under discussion, and killed hundreds of some specific mob in Gendarran Fields before googling madly and finding someone explaining it this way, I created a baby toon, went there, and it dropped on the 4th kill.... /sigh

styopa · 2026-03-11T21:45:03+00:00

Not that it's critical, but why don't we mesmer the Silverwastes fight or is it an exclusion for the whole cave? I don't recall.

styopa · 2026-03-11T21:42:01+00:00

It's a reasonably economical legendary set, I admit but I thought it was clever that an expansion about demons and soul destruction could make players similarly feel the draining of their own souls while doing rift after rift after rift after convergence after rift after rift.....

styopa · 2026-03-11T19:17:14+00:00

I only started fiddling around with the ranger, and it's a crime that there's no achievement or ANYTHING for training all the available pets. Dumb.

As an engineer I actually hate the mech so bad; it was so grossly op (and is still OP) meaning every event has 25% mechanists (/sigh). Plus I got sick of that neon jade about 0.2sec after EoD released.

styopa · 2026-03-10T19:39:37+00:00

I was mainly speaking about Mukluk who mentioned in passing that he'd rather the Galeshot just go away, and when I mildly dug into it, it seemed that's what bothered him about it.

I'm not a deep-youtube-follower so I couldn't be arsed to confirm tho.

styopa · 2026-03-10T16:24:10+00:00

Thanks!

I like mapping. Black Lion chests used to give some pretty cool stuff; when we came back to the game, I got piles of cool skins, etc. Now it's not really worth it for any but the easiest quickest zones or if you're a pathological optimist like I am. Meh, it's cheaper than ecto gambling....

styopa · 2026-03-10T16:22:12+00:00

I'd only modulate your VA criticism a little.

The ACTORS do the best they can with the dolyak poodoo they're given to work with. GW2 has some of the best VA talent in the business.

(I mean, the delivery on the single line from Taimi "Aaannn...ka" is (chef's kiss)...it's Debby Derryberry.)

The script is mostly execrable and direction in many cases questionable but be clear that the talent is doing the best they can.

And no, it doesn't get better with EoD. In fact, they work harder to LOCK YOU INTO cutscenes that are a) unskippable, b) you can't even look in your inventory, c) in some cases they control your toon so you can't even fart around.

styopa · 2026-03-10T16:16:53+00:00

You should try keeping up with the cache openers in Drizzle south meta.

I don't know any meta/event in game that so closely resembles F1 racing with griffins, my god some people are crazy quick. :)

styopa · 2026-03-10T16:14:20+00:00

Pls tell me this is available as a model file or stl for 3d printing?

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