Guild Wars 2

Asmund the mighty!

there would just have to be certain weapons that cant be dyed, like legendaries.

i still think there needs to be certain dyes that have illuminating effects.

So I was talking with my brother recently about the necessity of new content on this game. Something that would tie in the need for new content and to further hash out some of the game’s original content (i.e. ALL THE FREAKING DRAGONS).

So I came up with an interesting story arc that would be kinda cool.

What if during some sort of easy mission sent out by like… the Priory or rather the Order of Whispers (i’m tired of the priory, they always get the cool missions)… you are sent to do whatever, but in the midst of this, you come across something incredibly important. In a land we haven’t explored yet (new exploreable land area) there are actually hybrids of humans and charr!

This once hidden, but now extremely public find creates an uproar in the black citadel, divinity’s reach, ebonhawke, etc.

This creates a huge civil and inter-cultural war. (bringing a bit of the GW1 feel back) It would even give a potential for a new temporary PvP construct for choosing which faction you wish to side with (human vs human / human vs charr / charr vs charr / char vs human).

While all this is going on, however, the order of whispers is still working on gaining intel because they have information that says this is just something on the surface.

What is really happening is that the Asuran Inquest have, under the influence of an ancient dragon who was thought long lost, created these hybrid charr-humans to fuel this war. The war is a diversion while they create a mean to either give this dragon a new, mechanical body, or create a device to bring this dragon back from the dead or from its slumber.

During this plot the Order, Vigil, and Priory try to get this warring to end in order to unite everyone to take down this newly awoken dragon.

Thoughts? Flames? Apathies?

Just remember, its just an idea, and I’m absolutely sure there are lore loop-holes. But don’t take it personally and get enraged. Its not necessary.

Its basically a timer mechanism. If you dont kill him quick enough the whole rooms floor will be electrified. It also keeps you from being able to just kite him in a circle the entire time.

Guys, this is a difficult path. Anet said it would be difficult. Tweak your toons and get them fit for doing something like this. I finally beat it with a warrior (myself), mesmer, elem, ranger, and theif. So that means all of you can go through this, regardless of your class. No excuses.

Yes, we wiped SEVERAL times. Its hard. again… its supposed to be! But if its beatable, which MANY people have done so far. Then its not impossible, its just challenging. Keep doing it. After a while it will get easier like everything else. I want to kill the clockwork jerk again now because once we got it down, he was a LOT easier. Same with Slick and Sparki.

Its only day one peeps. Just chill out and let it smooth out. And this is a video game where things are coming out live and faster than if it were something like on a console. Expect there to be bugs. Its going to happen and get over it.

Stop freakin out and enjoy the game!

Thanks for those tips guys! We ended doing all of that end we got em!

Were fighting him right now and we can only get him down to about 9/10 of his health. Any tips? What are we doing wrong?

So you’re saying that lions are mythical creatures in Tyria?

There are lion statues in London because there are lions running around in Africa. I said that there arent any in Tyria (the world) but are oddly represented in a city. Your London statement doesn’t hold any water.

Now if there were some running around in Elona, then that definitely makes the difference.

So its come to my attention that apparently there isnt a single Lion in Tyria…

And yet there is an entire city themed after it and armor and weapons with lions forged on them.

How in the world did the blacksmiths and engineers craft things with an animal figure they have never seen before??

I know its somewhat trite… but in my opinion its a bit of a break in Lore consistency.

for those of you who think that 100g is worthwhile, you obviously haven’t played under a handful of the commanders on Stormbluff. Some of the are absolute hacks. They cant lead if it cost them their lives, they lead us all to a slaughter, over and over and over again.

Creating a system that make someone have to actually work for this status, and work for in a way that actually says “im experienced in WvW”, not “i farmed a bunch of crap and now im important!”.

I’ve heard numerous people comment/complain about how unreasonable it is to be able to get the Commander status by just forking over 100g. They say this for three reasons: 1.) there are few who really want to spend 100g on a simple title. Its not that big of a deal. 2.) for those who WOULD want commander status, 100g is quite a bit. 3.) What does money have to do with gaining a title (for that matter when has it ever in any game?)

So me and my brother were brain-storming this issue today and heres what we came up with:

The Commander Title needs to be gotten in a manner that really establishes that role, especially in a role playing context. There would be four components that the player would have to accomplish to gain this (like any other high-level component in this game)

1.) There are 4 battle grounds in the WvWvW instances. Each with its own components for map completion. Have upon each completion a token or medal given to the player. Once all 4 tokens are collected specific to each zone, they must take them to the mystic forge and create a new item intended for the final creation. This would fulfill the “Exploration Component” of the commander status, because every good commander needs to know the lay of the land.

2.) This next step fills what would be considered the “Tactical Component”. The Player must be involved in a number of successful sieges or points held on the map. It would have to be a significant amount to create a reasonable experience base for the commander. This would be awarded as a completed achievement just like any other daily/monthly chest that pops up in the bottom right.

3.) This step would be the “Battle Component”. Pretty simple. 250 badges. Now i know that these can be gotten from certain puzzle chests in the zones, so maybe a different idea would have to implemented, or just keep it that way because who hasn’t had to fight their way to those chests anyways?

4.) This would be the “Financial component” lol. Make the player still have to pay somewhere between 25-50 gold for a particular token. Since we would already be doing quite a bit of work for this, 100g seems a bit too much at this point.

So at this point the player would now have (what i’ve decided to call them) a Battle Honor, Tactical Honor, Exploration Honor and Financial Honor. The player can now take them to the Mystic Forge, drop them in, and receive their shiny new Commander Book (or perhaps they can be given to a certain person instead of having to go through the forge).

Some side ideas that we also had about the commander position:

A separate chat line that only commanders can access. When the commander types something in, anyone on that team sees it but will see it in a different color, so as to differentiate the commanders orders from the other player’s complaints

Also, perhaps a potential weapon that the commander could have, or a battle flag that they can equip or drop that when with a group they can drop/use and it gives them boons to help in the siege.

Thoughts? Disagreements? Would love to hear your ideas!

The one ability that i find myself rarely ever using is the WhirlWind Attack with my warrior when my GS is equipped. The only time i do is if i need to get out of the front, otherwise i find myself accidently using it on occasion and it screws up my attack patterns.

Anyone else see this skill as a problem?

yeah, but that also takes up useful bag space that you could be using for your mats.

Armor: Medium

Weapons: Torch, Pistol, Dagger, Shortbow
New Weapon: Whip(!)

Primarily a mid ranged support style class.

Utilities that would involve shouts, speed boons, and AoE targeted crowd control. (among other things that i cant think of)

I cant quite think of a particular special ability for it yet, though. (like the warriors burst, or the thief’s incentive)

Thoughts?

whats your build? maybe i’m not playing him right, lol

Been playing as a warrior since the start now. I enjoyed playing him while leveling but now that i’m 80 theres just nothing exciting about him anymore. So yeah… i can use the most weapons, and I have some flags to choose from and utilize those as a support class.. but… wait… what? a warrior as a support class?

no.

This is the problem. Warriors are supposed to be tough. They’re supposed to be feared (and not just run away until someone can use their cc). Warriors have become another class of “glass cannon” but cant seem to do the dmg that a glass cannon would normally do.

I think they went for such a balanced approach that now the warrior is just a confused class.

Plus i dont have much fun with him. There is no magic based behind any of his attacks. i would honestly like that. granted i know its not in the lore for the warrior.

i dunno… i guess im just ranting. Anyone else have any other, more cohesive, statements about why they are dissatisfied with their warrior?

You definitely have a point there. And i was actually not aware that there were others affected by this outside of the US. I thought it was a hurricane that started in the ocean and made its way to us. The difficulty of living in America is that our media often has a narrow scope of things and only focuses on itself.

The only reason that i brought this up now is because this is the first disaster to happen while GW2 has been around. (i didnt play GW1, so i dont know its dynamics).

And in response to it making people think they have done something, when they have done nothing. That is precisely why people can make donations through the gem store. Its honestly no different than McDonalds saying “for every purchase of a big mac, 5 cents will go towards such and such a fund”. Do people actually think they’re making a difference? No. Its McDonalds that is making that difference. They were going to buy that big mac anyways.

And i would also like to point out that America is not some stingy country that doens’t help out other countries when they need it. There are SO many humanitarian efforts out there that stem from America that are always helping out. Also, dont forget about the 950 billion dollars that were sent to help in the relief of the Tsunami in India of 2005. And that was just from our government alone. That isn’t considering all the other American based companies and humanitarian efforts that made substantial donations.

However. The response to this topic is definitely turning more in to a political one than a simple idea to help people in need. If you think its a bad idea, then consider it as such. If not, do the same. But no argument needs to continue because its counter-productive. Neither of our opinions will sway the ultimate decision of Anet.

I was thinking about this last night and thought that it would be a pretty cool idea to create some sort of dynamic event to help in the hurricane relief.

Heres what i’m thinking:

Across all of Tyria every monster has a potential to drop what would be called a “Relief Token” for a particular amount of time (i was thinking approx. 1 month). These tokens can be turned in to certain representatives in major cities such as LA. When you accrue a particular amount of tokens, you will get something in exchange (some sort of gift. perhaps a BL key, boosters, and rare chances to get skins for something, etc.).

The relief comes in here: ArenaNet promises to donate a set amount per token that is gathered. Perhaps 1 cent, maybe half a penny, or 1/10th of a penny. It all depends on how it breaks down to how much would actually be gathered in total. You wouldnt want to break the bank on this, but you would also want to have it be a substantial amount to actually help in the relief.

You could also create the possibility to purchase said tokens from the gem store, where a particular percentage of that purchase would go to relief. I say that mainly because you would have to try to still stay above ground on this, but also that the tokens being purchased are going to create a certain amount of donation as well. The purchase of the tokens would have to be made upon the actual purchase of gems, however, with real money. Not with gold. This is in order to maintain the greater potential of donation for the event.

There are still a lot of kinks that i’m trying to seek and figure out, but I think that if you guys were to endeavor on this you could definitely think-tank those out.

I think its worth considering! This could also bring greater publicity to ArenaNet and Guild Wars 2 seeing as no other MMO has done something like this, and it shows AN as having a humanitarian side!

Thanks for giving my suggestion the time!