Guild Wars 2

You could try the asset pack (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/media/asset-kit/) from the media link on the gw2 main site. They have some other good stuff in that menu as well.

Hey guys,

I have created my own guild back in closed Beta, and have a few friends and co-workers in the guild, preferring to play mostly with people I know IRL for more organized and repeated play.

I am looking at guild halls (specifically for the Ornate Guild Gauntlets atm) and it is looking like even if I DO manage to get a few of us on at once, we likely will not be able to claim a hall or upgrade quickly if at all!

I feel like joining another guild just for access to a hall and its resources is kinda lame, especially when my play is so casual. (sometimes 20 min here or there due to kids and other responsibilities IRL.)

What are my options?

Thanks

Red Queen.7915:

So… what if one does not enjoy dungeons, but killing things? You know, because it’s (insert shocked gasp) fun? :O

The Rowanwoods in Caledon Forest have a herd of raptors that used to annoy the hell out of me when I tried harvesting the lettuce there with my low-level characters. Slay a few of them for me, will you?^^

I might go do this with my Sylvari Ranger on lunch now that he’s 80 adn traited + geared… i hated those things too! ^.^

Dahkeus.8243:

I still periodically type /roar before I remember that GW2 doesn’t have that emote. =(

I know, me too!!

I would still like to see this, hope it can happen one day

I am sorry if my searching couldn’t find this, or if this forum is not the right place for this. (I tried my best really!)

I would like to have an Online Character Viewer, where I can see my characters, their character screen info (map completion, achieves etc) and possibly skills/traits etc from the Hero panel.

It would be a fun way to share (out of game) my character and how i have chosen to play them, with friends that do, (or do not), play the game.

From what I have been reading, this MIGHT be possible through the Auth API?

Thank you in advance for any responses.

\o/ yay!

Any idea when? lol

Hey guys,

I missed the backpack item!

Do we know know if it will ever come back? dev input?

Maxwell.7843:

I

• When lighting the fire after the first burn phase, a shadowy mordrem will appear to smother the flame. You need to kill it, and to do so you need to be imbued with divine fire. It’s a good strategy to kill the shadowy modrem from range, while you are standing inside the divine fire aoe. This way you can then immediately run and light another part of the ring.

This, a million times. This was the missing key to me not being able to solo it! Thank you so much!

BuddhaKeks.4857:

…
Besides them adding not much understanding for the whole world. Everything about their lore is basically just about them. How could it be else, they are just around for not even 30 years. Granted Asura and Norn lack known history too, but atleast it is potentially there. I can see them enriching our understanding of Tyrias past. Especially about the underground and far northern areas. With Sylvari we can at best learn where those Pale Tree seeds come from. That’s the only interesting thing I can think of and it’s not even a very pressing concern on my need to know list.

You miss the key point that the Sylvari are CLEARLY not about the past of Tyria, but the future. Look at the way, and the time they were born, as you state, they are merely 30 years old as a race. It’s very obviously not about enriching the past, but the history about to be made…

Hey guys!

Wanna post my ideal ranger build here, now that the Sep. patch got me back to playing him. No really good name atm, maybe someone can suggest one?

Mostly used for PvE and WvW

I would like some feedback on it, what to change and why.

Thanks!

So…

I was recently given an Amazon Gift Card of a sizeable amount. The problem I run into is that the 2k gem cards are no longer available.

Is there another way i can use this to get gems? For instance, a prepaid card i can then use in the gemstore?

Thanks so much.

Edit

For those that come after… I found some $45.00 (3x$15) and $50.00 GameStop cards that could be useful if you have a GameStop near you. They carry $15.00 gem cards at my local store.

amaranthined.5167:

TRAITS:
Taking 6 out of Fire and redistributing to Water and Arcane: You get 300 power and condition duration from this, the latter of which is nice but the power is unnecessary (the difference between 900 power and 1200 power is pretty negligible, you still hit like a wet noodle) and nothing you get out of traiting into Fire is better than what you get out of traiting into Water and Arcane, especially for the added sustain via condi cleanse and boons on attunement swap.

I did want to address this. I traited into fire, less for the power and more for the various burn/damage boosts in fire, as this build would leave me in earth and fire most often. I would be interested in hearing your argument for the bonuses for Water and Arcane, seeing as how i wont be swapping a ton, and it appears on the surface that extra condi dmg of my own is superior to condi cleanse for incoming stuff.

Thanks again!

amaranthined.5167:

Firstly; I’m not gonna say don’t go condi, but in PvE it’s not ideal, although if you’re just running around solo doing map comp or something I guess go for it? But most groups won’t really be happy if you run this for dungeons or something…on the other hand if you roam with this in WvW you can probably have some fun trolling people.

That being said, I’m returning your build with my fixes and I’ll try and explain my changes, warning this is going to get LONG:

…SNIP…

Take whatever parts of this you like or change it up, just tried to explain all the choices I made so you can make your own decisions about you want this build to be or not to be. Super sorry it got so long!

Thank you so, SO much! This is exactly what I wanted! I don’t plan on running dungeons with this, as I still use staff in groups like WvW etc. This was exactly the reasoning I wanted.

If anyone else wants to chime in on their opinions, the more info the better!

Thanks again!!

Siphou.6837:

Siphou – Elementalist

The kneeling screenshot, where is this?

Hey guys,

I am here to ask for help to fine tune a build, rather than why this build isn’t the best idea. Now that being said, I am totally open to completely scrapping the build for something better if its utter trash.

Currently I have setup what I believe to be a build I would like to try, and play with mostly in PvE and some WvW. I tend to run staff in WvW and currently have full exotic zerker gear, and traited as such. I think (can’t remember ankitten ot in game atm) i have traited full air, 4 arcane, and maybe the rest in earth? This works ok, and i do quite a bit of damage as it stands.

However I find myself running D/D when I am solo (read: practically all the time) and spend a lot of time in earth and fire naturally thanks to my playstyle. Because of this, I want to build a set of solo PvE gear, and a build that I can use when solo general purpose, and return to my zerker stuff during WvW and other stuff.

Here is the D/D Earth/Fire Condi Build I have setup so far, gear included. My reasoning for the gear, was to boost condi damage first (obviously) and then to balance a few things. I went mostly for critical stuff rather than power (maybe that’s bad?) and also went for a mixture of Toughness and Vit for some help in survivability while I wait for condi’s to do their job.

As stated, I want to keep within the theme, instead of telling me that condi builds are dumb. But if you see something i should completely change, to better fit my vision of the playstyle above, please… let me know, especially on the gear and traits. I don’t wanna sound snobish, just don’t want a bunch of replies with, don’t do condi, its overdone!

THANKS!

My two char’s that currently vie for my attention is Human and Sylvari, not really the kind of guy that relates to the char mindset

Threaten is good, but really im just pointing at someone and dragging my thumb across my throat, misses that effect of releasing a nice beefy roar! Unfortunately never played a char

In GW1 I LOVED the /roar emote.

It felt good when giving something your all and just BARELY outmatching an opponent, or that moment of Victory when you are really into the storyline etc.

As an example,

I would love, love, LOVE! to have this emote back, and miss it sorely. Sorry if I missed info about why it wasn’t added, or other threads about this.

Thanks!

I am only level 39, so nothing terribly fancy… But I truly AM proud of how he looks, for not using a set etc:

Here is my lvl 25 ele “Tai Dashan”

I want the option to have a Lion, male or female with male being my first preference. The male lions looked horrible in GW1 but with what they have done in GW2 I know they can bring good ol’ Mufassah back….

I suppose that is a no

sad…

I would like to change the launcher to something less suggestive. I like the sylvari but would like to be able to select some artwork that is a bit less, um… provocative?

I would like to see something like:

https://d2vn94glaxzkz3.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/wallpapers/GW2_RangerWallpaper03-1280x1024.jpg

https://d2vn94glaxzkz3.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/wallpapers/HumanBonusWP02-1280x1024.jpg

https://d2vn94glaxzkz3.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/wallpapers/GW2_EngineerWallpaper02-1280x1024.jpg

or even:

https://d2vn94glaxzkz3.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/wallpapers/GuildWars2-01-1280x1024.jpg

Is something like this possible?

Before people start flaming me for my opinions… just know that I am simply asking if this can be done. If it can great, if not, I would like to see it. I really don’t want to get into a conversation about values, or modesty.

Thank you.

GrimShade.8091:

That’s kind of a drawinian aspect of the game isn’t it. A-net sells you gold and it’s pretty safe. Gold sellers buy the gems off A-net trades for gold and sells it to some dumb guy, then steals his account. Had this guy just bought the gems from A-net in the first place he’d be fine!

seriously though A-ney has a lot more to do right now than deal with the gold sellers. We the community need to stop buying from them as we don’t have to anymore.

Exactly,

Stop putting money into their pockets, and they will go to other games….

Vexus.5423:

This complaint is just a phase you are going through as you withdraw from other MMOs. In the other MMOs, the bosses did 1 shot you, every-single-time, unless you were the tank. But because there was so much control over the boss, and because the boss was a scripted fight where you just needed good reading skills to learn what to do before going into the fight, you felt like he wouldn’t one shot you because all the fancy glitter kept you busy dodging fire.

It will pass, this thought of how it should be, and GW2 does it better.

Sometimes it’s hard to see the target – I will give everyone that fact. However, it’s not impossible to see who he’s attacking, or his ‘back’. You then have the option to switch to melee and go in and hit from the back, allowing almost all attacks to be inconsequential to your more damaging melee attacks. And then when he faces you, you have the ability to dodge away, switch to your ranged weapon, and position yourself better to get behind and melee again.

It’s not stand-still-and-tank or stand-still-and-dps. There are ways for you to improve beyond that stagnant gameplay. The current mechanic where you get 1 shot is, in almost every case, avoidable, and the only reason it doesn’t seem that way is because you haven’t learned that boss well enough yet. It will come in time, and you too will learn how to ‘get out of the fire’ GW2 style.

I cannot think of a better response to this… seriously. Vexus has said it perfectly, and for the sake of just posting “+1” I wanted to share my agreement with his post…

I also think that people play too far zoomed (at times) to see the tells of bosses. I get the mass of players in events, but that will subside as players naturally spread out a bit i think.

MuttinChops.1045:

Xiphoideus.3149:

Bel Geode.8129:

This sounds like a classic case of “working as intended” to me. I am pretty sure that this happens to prevent botting and gold farming. I could be wrong but I am almost certain that this is intentional.

If that is the case then I welcome this. So you can farm a bit but discourage botting and gold farming. I hope that is the way it works so that “normal” people with a full time job can also proceed in the game and not only players with 6-8 h daily logins. Good choice by ANet

That is poor logic. Are you saying that someone who plays a game avidly should be penalized because they have a lot of free time? If I spend 6 hours playing a game while you spend 1 hour playing the game every day, why should I be on the same plane or level as you? That is not how a game should be built so I doubt that was the reason for the increasingly lowered drop rate. Also, a “full time job” doesn’t mean you can’t play for 6-8 hours per day. I know plenty of people ages 35 and up who are friends of mine with full time jobs who play this game for 6-10 hours per day. There are more then 40 hours in a week, what you do with the other time is up to you.

Its about NOT playing the game to farm. You get some pretty good drops for the first 30 minutes or so, after that? Move on… play the actual game. Come back and farm some more later, or farm somewhere else. Play the game for the game, not the farming…

ecwoodrow.7034:

There’s actually three of those in Lions Arch, and more in other locations.

foams at the mouth and falls out of his chair

seriously….

I am so excited i’m trembling right now… I NEED TO PLAY NOW! This is why I love this game….

OK… so I’m not trembling, but you get the point

I would like to see the in game mail monitored on a very low level by GW2 staff. If it contains something in the body that tips them off to Gold buying? Have a human review it and flag the account that sent it. Ban them permanently next time.

Do you need one? (I am asking as someone who has only played about 10-15 levels on an ele not because im being sarcastic…)

When I join an event and people are doing this, I report them. Not only do I report them, I encourage others to report them, then I get mobs to kill them. Seriously people, why play a game if you aren’t going to PLAY the game… The only reason I can see for people to do this is to show off to others that they have a high level character (who cares) or to steal accounts and bot farm/sell them. I hate bots…

wacko.7543:

Really? If you have to ask, you’re in the wrong game. I see too many carebears posting qq threads already.

Yeah…. qq more…. qq cause you’re either trolling or just a bad MMO player.

PvP is the name of the game… do it, or find something you can cuddle with somewhere else.

Wow. I feel that this kind of response is a bit harsh.

I personally dislike PvP. Never have liked it. I am not extremely competitive and really am sick of the elitist attitude that I find in most other MMO’s (including GW1) when it comes to trying out PvP. All too often, people spend far too many hours playing a game just to defeat others, and then laud their own accomplishments while attempting to cut someone else down for not reaching the same level of skill (read wasting their time on something that does not truly accomplish ANYTHING for them.)

I have a real life, with real accomplishments that occupy a majority of my time. Therefore, I don’t have the time (or care to spend it) on learning how to competitively play. Truth be told im not great at PvE for the same reason. That’s ok, I am not planning on winning any awards, or impressing anyone with how well I can defeat a character in a virtual world with my strategy and button pressing…

I come from a PvE background and will probably end up trying PvP in GW2 simply for how it is designed. That being said, people are going to play how they want to play. I agree that people who have rushed to “endgame” are complaining at times about things that they don’t even really understand. GW2 is a different MMO than any out there. There is a LOT of things to do, even at level 80. Dungeons (from what I understand) are good “endgame” content as well.

I agree that PvP is probably where you should spend your time if you have run out of things to do, but throwing names around like “carebear” and telling people to “QQ some more?” How about we be a bit more mature, and respectful of one another?

You can use /m to talk to everyone on the map, /s to someone local. Go here for more info

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chat_command

What Gorgrim said was accurate, I play on my home computer and my laptop on the go. download the setup file, run it, once it starts downloading the files kill it. Copy your .dat file from your original installation location and restart the game .exe. You should be golden. I don’t think there will be a “hacked” issue with playing from multiple locations as you have your authorization, if there was, simply email the team and boom, you are back in. Don’t worry to much about being flagged as hacked if you are the real owner!

I think both options have merit, but the second I can see them leaving for the sole purpose of being different from other MMO’s. They WANT you to ask. It garners communication and community. This is at the heart of GW. That being said, it would be optional to use it, so I can see your point.

I think there are some interesting thoughts. I want my pet to be an extension of me, not just a dumbed down ai version. I wish i could flag my pet like the heroes in GW1, I wish they had more than a single controllable skill to use in battle, and I wish that there was some sort of evolution. Would love to see some of these things implemented! All in all though, im just happy to have a companion

IMO, get over mounts.

You have Waypoints, Asura Gates, and the Heel-Toe Express. Devs spent a lot of time on GORGEOUS scenery, enjoy it.

I melee with my ranged character. I play a sylvari ranger and use my longbow for opening combat. Soon after that I am using my longsword and dagger. Combat is WAY more realistic in GW2 IMO. In a real fight, im not going to just stand there and get beat unless the person is WAY weaker then me. I am constantly moving and dodging, just like in a real life fight. I have issues when i get mobbed by multiple enemies but RARELY in a 1v1 fight. I usually can melee down a single enemy (not always vetrans) that are 5+ levels higher than me. Its not easy, but its doable.

With bosses, you just gotta keep moving… the less you get hit, the less you will die.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Anti-farm_code

In my opinion, its awesome. It discourages botting and makes you go do something else for a while. GW2 is about SO much more than gear and items. Go find a vista, go watch some cut scenes, go res someone for Melandru’s sake… farming gets boring after a while Keep the economy clean…