Guild Wars 2

Well said Yoh and Stevizard.

They are still looking for that voice actor that will bring the following lines to life:

“What’re ya buyin?”
“What’re ya sellin’?”
“Not enough cash, stranger!”
“Got some rare things on sale, stranger!”
“I see you have an eye for things. Gun’s not just about shoot’n, i’ts about reload’n! You’ll know what I’m talkin’ about!”

I know the merchant hails from Rata Sum… but besides that, not much else is known.

Autumn Frazee.3158:

Thank you for your continued reports, I’d like to update that we are currently working on issues with:

• The ‘In Tune’ achievement
• The map wide Health Display for the three Assault Knights
• The ‘Six Minutes to Knightfall’ achievement
• Assault Knight rewards

Thank you very much.

New build incoming!

Cletus Van Damme.2795:

The top servers won’t have a problem beating it as they can field the numbers, they only need to worry about menders. Lower pop servers or people trying outside of prime time will need to guest… the knights either don’t scale or the scaling is busted.

I recommend guesting until it’s fixed.

Yeah I think this is what I am going to have to do, failed 4 times in a row in Dragonbrand. Blue had 50, Green had 30, Red had 0 from the get go. More people did join as time went on but the result was the same. Hopefully ANET read my previous post.

This latest patch is frustrating. I’ve tried it 3 times in Dragonbrand so far and we have failed all 3 times. We get Blue™ and Green™ down but Red™ ends up having anywhere from 85%-95% hp. We also don’t seem to have the manpower to do it this late in the evening (although this wasn’t an issue before this patch: most likely due to the 50 limit cap and/or the increase in the knight’s stats and/or decrease in our damage in some shape or form).

Typically blue and green get 50 people but red ends up with about 10. By the time both green and blue go down we end up with about 2-4 minutes left on the timer. Killing more than 1 knight won’t add anymore gear boxes. The knights need to be scaled way better for it be possible to get to Scarlet (I’m not even sure how the 6 minute achievement is possible now if you only have 2/3 knights at capacity from the get go).

People are still so entrenched in the B>G>R cycle that people are still waiting at blue or green to at “least” get the end loot since there is almost no chance at beating red: typical Dragonbrand mentality and/or low pop overflows. That is going to make getting to Scarlet way more difficult during non-peak hours… something that was almost never a problem. If nothing gets changed then we run the risk of having less and less people attempting this event which will in turn make it really tough to fight Scarlet.

Hexxen.7216:

FateOmega.9601:

They should made it such that if kiel and evon mini are near each other, they will start to bicker.

That would be amazing.

Agreed. I liked how each of them had a couple of lines prior to today. Maybe they can add a couple of lines in the future. Now each of them just says one line… sad that Gnash just says “I was the favorite” from time to time with such a dejected tone.

I think these are the only 2 minis so far that can talk? They added new lines to them after the election today (I think)!

Kiel: Time to lay down the law!

Gnashblade: I was the favorite…

I feel bad for Gnash! Makes me want to snuggle up with my Charr plushie. Everyone needs a little charr in their life! RIGHT?

A look at the Guild Wars 2 backpack collector’s edition:

http://www.kongzhong.com/chinajoy2013/showimg/20130727/10894.html

And a look at what is inside:

http://www.kongzhong.com/chinajoy2013/news/20130723/10717.html

There are three pages for the last link, just go to the end of the last picture to click on them. It might be hard to see. I want the fans!

Excalibur.9748:

If you don’t kill the third plunderer…the right side will never spawn.

Seems this got fixed about 30 minutes ago.

Fixed a bug in the Candidate Trials which prevented some of the Aetherblade waves from spawning.

It should still be easy for some classes.

Curtis Johnson.8456:

Quick update here too.

Currently scheduled for the next living world update we’re changing it back;
and adding a 0 skill to stop playing the current note instead of double-tap.

Thanks! I’ll make sure to pick it up once the next update rolls around.

More “potential” revenue.

The Kite is so awesome!

The Flute is more awesome!

The Kite playing the Flute would be awesomeness-est!

Conncept.7638:

They put a pretty female human (most popular race) your character has been personally working alongside for months, against a shifty charr (least popular race) in charge of a marketinig company which for many symbolizes the gemstore and ANets recent greedy business practices.

Yeah… they might as well start getting the Elen Kiel version of the upcoming story ready…

Well… when you put it like that. Maybe the Charr can still win with a 90% off the Charr plushie promotion or maybe come up with a new Charr plushie wearing a Quaggan suit holding a sign that reads “Vote for me and I’ll add 321% MF for everyone!”

Vol.5241:

If anet gave you a precursor and 100g

People would still complain

If it came with a postcursor and 1000g and a photo of Colin’s eyebrows… then… maybe… just maybe I wouldn’t complain. Anything less than that and I would complain. First World problems affect me deeply.

lekyii.9856:

Not my video but

Elementalist Solo Dungeon – Aetherblade Retreat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZm7iG0xPwg

Amazing. The music is top notch. ANET should use that music for some future raid boss (or something similar).

I went to GW2Stuff to check out the timers. It might not be exact, but it gives a pretty good estimate on when the last event was done. Some of these haven’t been triggered since the Dragon event went live on some of these servers. Everything is shown in hours except for Jade which did the event about 37 minutes ago.

Servers that have done the event 0-1-2 times since the Dragon event went live:

Borlis Pass 520
Devona’s Rest 521
Eredon Terrace 521
Ferguson’s Crossing 520
Gate of Madness 495
Henge of Denravi 495
Maguuma 426
Sorrow’s Furnace 510
Darkhaven 334
Sanctum of Rall 369

Servers that have done the event once every week or once every two weeks since the Dragon event went live:

Ehmry Bay 256
Kaineng 231
Stormbluff Isle 219
Northern Shiverpeaks 161
Yak’s Bend 137
Crystal Desert 102

Servers that “probably” do the event 1-2 times a week since the Dragon event went live:

Dragonbrand 86
Tarnished Coast 88

Servers that “probably” do the event every other day since the Dragon event went live:

Anvil Rock 52
Sea of Sorrows 58

Servers that do the event on a daily basis (most of the time):

Blackgate 15
Fort Aspenwood 18
Isle of Janthir 18
Jade Quarry 37 Min

So you have 4 servers that still actively hunt down the Queen. You have 4 servers that sort of do it when the oddball guild shows up or when enough people show up during the weekends. The rest of the servers are a lost cause. The chances of you catching an event that “might” spawn every 200+ hours is next to nil. ANET took quite some time to reintroduce us to the island. I hope they make adjustments so that people can go back to it; at least once a day. I’m not sure what would work. Would adding a third guaranteed rare do the trick? Would reducing the mob count/hp/respawn timer down by a certain % help? Maybe adding a MF NPC that would give a smaller buff might help bring people back. I hope ANET didn’t give up on the island. Maybe all the Queen needs is some lipstick while giving her a vuvuzela during her AOE attacks… that might do the trick.

NCSoon™

Expect a pretty high spike when it hits the stores.

Cassius.4831:

We are now stuck in the door before the final boss.

Is it a bug or are we doing something wrong?

Yeah I followed the 3-4 tips given here on this thread. They help to drastically reduce the chances of her getting bugged but it can still happen. Following those tips got me 3 wins, but one of the runs still bugged out. The 3 times (total) she has bugged out for me has been after she passes the door where the jumping puzzle is. I’ve never had her bug out near the console on top of the jumping puzzle like that picture shows… so there is probably 3-4 ways that she can bug out.

Rei Mizser.7651:

It makes the event way too long and tiring

I agree. The most shocking thing is that the ledge is gone! I’m not even sure how that happened. The only thing that really changed (i.e. made more difficult) is that there seems to be more ice pillars.

I am currently guesting on Terrace to help folks out. When the boss went to phase 2 I ended up doing 2 Maws back to back on 2 servers… went to get some ice tea… forgot the ice… got the ice… went back… and the boss was at 85% still. I mean this is easily adding an extra 30-45 minutes for the “possibly” lowest or second lowest PVE server. Dragging it out with the same mechanics isn’t going to be a whole lot of fun to people.

Thankfully it isn’t as bad in Dragonbrand. It might add up to an extra 5-15 minutes depending on the time the event is running. But yeah this needs to get looked at.

DaveZ.5017:

1st time bug: all of us used the jp and start the fight from above, leaving kiel out of the fight and script not triggered.

2nd time bug: I left her to engage in the fight and we engage right away (from above), she survived and got back to her spot and got bugged.

Oh that is not a good sign if can bug out both ways. I really like the dungeon but I’ve only been able to run it twice. I tried early this morning (third time’s a charm right?) and it bugged out with method one.

I just got back from work and I don’t see any new patch notes or any updates from the launcher. I hope they get it up and running later today, this is a very time limited dungeon right? Two weeks!

Same thing happened to us! Took screenshots and sent them over. It takes a while for a PUG to get to the last boss. I hope ANET gives those people affected by the bug a special something through the mail. You never know! Santa might just be working in June! Or is that July?

Loved it. Beat the first boss on our 2nd try. We wiped during the third phase on our 1st run. We beat the 2nd boss on our first try but we almost wiped on that last bombardment. Getting the (light) monocle just made the victory all the more sweeter.

Awesome cut scene. Shame it couldn’t be done with the Karka as well. Put a Karka in one of these and you’ll be set.

Stephane Lo Presti.7258:

Hi everyone,

We’re aware of this behavior for the Dragon Bash meta-achievement and are looking into it. Thanks for your patience !

Thanks for the update! But these 1st world problems are nerve wracking! I might have to go outside! Worse yet I might turn into one of those fast fit running zombies from the upcoming movie World War Y…. or the unimaginable… I might turn into Brad Pitt if this doesn’t get fixed today. Honest!

Ballistic.4531:

100.000 * 5c = 500.000c = 50g
They are 60g now so I don’t think they will get any cheaper than this… Which is too bad, I really like these wings.

If it went down to 2c, then it would only be 20g. No worries, it seems that these are slowly going to get flooded. At the moment there are 2 wings being sold around 40g.

Thanks ArenaSkyNet.

:)

Hedge.8760:

Yup, you need to make about 138.8 taffies each hour for 24 hours for 30 days to afford a pair of those wings.

This is insane. But the other poster also added that they are selling for less than 60 gold at the moment. So what gives? Are people getting them from the rich coffers? I’m a little shocked that they are not priced around the jet packs or higher. Does that mean that the drop rate is low, but not that low? I’m just wondering.

One of the best things ever made! Doesn’t beat Pong… but comes pretty close.

Saving Private Quaggan

28 Quaggans Later

Shawshank Quaggan (starring Morgan Quaggman)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Quaggan

moonstarmac.4603:

The major map bosses, ie: Shadow Behemoth, Maw, Fire Elemental, Commanders in Ascalon, Megadestroyer, Temples, and Dragons are affected.

It is once per day per character.

Thanks! I was wondering which specific events got changed with the latest patch.

Yeah for the example given, you can do the Maw event once per day per character. At least it isn’t account bound. They also removed the lvl limit on that particular chest. For example, on my lvl 33 alt I got 2 rares and one exotic… a lvl 80 ice flame thingy. I wonder what other world/boss events got changed as well.

Yeah it seems the Maw you can only do it once per day per character. Switching to another server or doing it again will not yield a treasure chest. Physically it is there as an “invisible” box, but you can’t loot it. Now I wonder if it is per character per day or per account.

Yeah I would like to know which world events/bosses are now going to be limited once per day on looting the chest at the end of the chain. Is it once per character per day or is it per account?

SadPanda.

Yeah I would like to know which world events/bosses are now going to be limited once per day on looting the chest at the end of the chain. Is it once per character per day or is it per account?

SadPanda.

No reward sadface.

:(

It is fun, but it seems I can’t go again! I can log into the game fine and join a group as well. But once I click on the instance and try to go in the game crashes. Tried it already 3 times and I keep crashing.

Sadface. Are the rewards repeatable on character alts?

Thanks for the update. I can’t wait!

Thanks for the update.

I loved the event! I can’t wait to see what future events ArenaNet has in store.

>(^.^)<

@Baddestchica

Thanks for the compliment! I used mainly the Adobe Master Suite CS5. I just got CS6 a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve barely have had time to play with it. I also used SWF Decompiler. Don’t think I’m missing another program.

@Archduke

Thanks ArchDuke!

@Leon

Thanks for sharing! Ah see I should have done that and made an attachment.

@Moxxie

Very cool! I love the background colors you chose.

@Madara

Thanks for the compliment and thanks for sharing.

@LoomDart

I think I had one video, about 20 minutes long that showed you how someone made a signature with motion from start to finish. He did use several premade templates though and 3 Anime pictures for the transitions. I’ll try to see if I can find it again and post it here later this week. It is sped up though since it took him quite a while. I wish there were more videos like that.

Very awesome stuff ArchDuke. I love Arthfaèl and Cyon’s look. Thanks for sharing!

It could be pictures or a video! It does not have to have sliders. I wonder if the BBCode will be updated to use stuff like youtube. O:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NqiJp5UAC4[/youtube]

EDIT: Those aren’t the names I actually used for my characters. I was just being silly and used them as placeholders since I didn’t want to give out my actual character names. Hmm… maybe I will update my signature with my actual characters now that the game went live.

I’m on the DragonBrand server. Enjoy!

Post your Guild Wars 2 signature right here! It’s fine if you have one that isn’t GW2 related.

Here is my primary signature:

[img]http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/3783/gw2finalambrosia.gif[/img]

Here is my secondary signature:

[img]http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/1798/bnssummoner.gif[/img]

(^.)