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How to begin Path of Fire story?

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PoF is not yet released. You will be able to access the story on september 22nd.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

PoF - naysayer's feedback

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exactly, its even more like 3/4 but the point is, the map is boring, flat, uneventful and there is no point in running around twice. There is nothing to explore after the 10 min on the back of a fast moving raptor. I saw it all.

Totally agree with this, my hope is that this was a very scaled down preview. If the new maps don’t offer more than this on release I see no point at all in going there, if I want bland and unengaging stuff I have the Tyria core maps.

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Need Scribe Help *SOLVED

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I have the proper scribing level (L53), I have the material, I have War Room restoration 1 done. I just can not figure out how to craft the Guild Banquet Schematics.

What am I missing?

Do you have tavern restoration 2?

In due time, all will serve the asura.

Legendary weapons sigils replacements...

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Rune swapping for legendary armor is part of its release state. It was not part of legendary weapon release state. People bought and received legendary weapons in their advertised state. You are correct that legendary owners have spent more…and they have received everything they paid for.

If more dev time, great or small, is going to be spent on one tier of endgame (ish) armor the I think it should be added to all.

By that reasoning, I take it you want anet to revert legendary weapons to exotic quality? After all, they were exotic with fixed stats from the beginning.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

Critters in Guild Hall

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Make it even seedier, allow us to place bets on who will win the fight!

I like the way you think!
Since we already had betting on the moa race, it shouldn’t be a problem to implement.

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Expand the Orders

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<Character name>: I do too, and I’ll always be ready to lend a hand. It’ll just be outside the system.

There’s the opening we need. It doesn’t have to be the order you joined, as the official Pooh-bah we have gained the trust of all three orders.
I thought the order part of PS felt rushed, we gained rank far too quickly, and then we concentrated on the pact, forgetting the separate orders. Should anet revive them and flesh them out a bit in current events or LS, I’m all for it.

Like Illconcieved mentioned, our mission was to unite the three orders together, why would we now favour one over the other?

I feel like ArenaNet only made us go through the ‘important’ missions, the ones where we gained ranks. If we were to go through proper protocols for gaining ranks, we’d basically be doing several missions, each with unique dialogue and considering the 40 voice actors for the player characters alone (10 for each language, one per choice of race and sex), that would simply be beyond budget. They could have gone with a traditional style questing system to do that, but the whole point of GW2 was to avoid that from the early stages of vanilla development. I agree that gaining ranks went by too fast, but I’m not sure it could have been handled better unless ArenaNet had Blizzard level budgeting.

I never said anything about favouring one over the other.
What I said was that we have the trust of all orders, thus a new mission would work regardless of order. I felt that the order arc was a bit rushed and therefore a mission or two where you learn more about the order(s) involved in that particular mission would be nice. Now that I’ve clarified this I’ll let you go back to whatever you were doing. Enjoy

In due time, all will serve the asura.

Expand the Orders

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<Character name>: I do too, and I’ll always be ready to lend a hand. It’ll just be outside the system.

There’s the opening we need. It doesn’t have to be the order you joined, as the official Pooh-bah we have gained the trust of all three orders.
I thought the order part of PS felt rushed, we gained rank far too quickly, and then we concentrated on the pact, forgetting the separate orders. Should anet revive them and flesh them out a bit in current events or LS, I’m all for it.
In due time, all will serve the asura.

Critters in Guild Hall

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Great idea! It would make the halls seem more alive
Oh and I wouldn’t mind a little add-on in the arena where you can have captured dragon minions fighting each other to the death.. It’d be great fun to watch mordrem take on risen or branded! Why not spice up your weekend with a fight between the risen priest of Grenth and stavemaster Adryn.. they’re critters too, right?

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No Easter event?

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The super adventure festival goes on until april 20. Personally I think it makes little sense to have 2 festivals at the same time. If you think an event is needed, why not organise an in-game event? they tend to be quite popular

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1 year in Tyria =?

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See, ANet never had their logic in their bright side. Some people tend to go deeply into the meaning of matters and as I never been thinking on this, it appears that it is just another scenario when the company just did not think over the things. Another example is the dome around DR which could be seen only from DR Story mission or from Lake Dorik, not from DR or Queensdale… wish more people were like you and me, believing that the small details are important!

I think the dome can’t be seen from queensdale since it’s a starter zone an thus locked to 1325, since that’s the year when you start playing. This is just my personal theory though.

As to the cycle.. over a period of 24 hours there is in total 15 hours of daylight, 30 min each of dawn and dusk, and 8 hours of nighttime. I think anet considered the fact that this is a worldwide game and decided to chop it up in 2 hour chunks, otherwise some people would always play during ingame daytime, others would always play during ingame nighttime.
Also, since there are events tied to the day/night cycle, those events would only happen once per day if they hadn’t used the 2-hour cycle, which would be inconvenient.

Edit: We think alike, castlemanic. I like it

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wanderer's Intricate Gossamer Insignia

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You can only buy that recipe if you own HoT. It is account bound so noone else can buy it for you.

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What is this thing?

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Does anyone know what this thing is?

There’s no lore to support it, but for me that is the ghostly afterimage of every anet employee who were proud of what they’d made and then made the mistake of looking at player comments on this forum after a release. The image is their reaction carried through the mists into the game.
But as I said, only a theory, there’s no evidence. Unless we can get Gaile to let something slip..

In due time, all will serve the asura.

[Suggestion] Epic Quest for Epic Breather

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only if they expand the water areas in wvw, so I can kill regular quaggans. The risen ones taste bad, I wanna try the other kind.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

Can we have a skritt on a helmet?

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Wait.. skritt shout that too? but.. but..

oh my.. I’m a skritt.

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Chaos of Lyssa

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no, trading post is the only option.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Recipe:_Chaos_of_Lyssa

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Multiloot

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Some people are upset, other people are happy. This happens every time anet does something. You can’t please everyone.
Personally I haven’t been in AB after the nerf, I see no reason to go there anymore. I am however glad to see there are other people who still do the meta so that new people can experience it. Carry on and have fun all

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What I Expect from the Next Xpac

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I expect nothing. So far all we have is their word on the fact that they are working on a new expansion, and frankly, for me, their word is currently worth less than dirt.
If they release a new expansion, I’ll take a look at what it contains after a few weeks when they have had time to nerf everything in it.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

I wish we got to play this...

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I doubt Dougal Keane will ever feature in the game beyond his appearance as an NPC standing in LA, although it would be nice to have him with us at some point.

There is a possibility considering that Gullik occasionally visits Killeen’s grave ingame.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

recipe:chaos of lyssa

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It was a rare drop during the crown pavilion festival. Right now you can only get it from the trading post.

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Obtaining Gift of Battle

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I can understand that someone doesn’t like wvw. I’m not particularly fond of it either. I spend about 95% of my time in pve, and do wvw dailies only if the pve ones are too boring to live through. (I don’t do pvp, I’ve tried, not my thing)
Now unfortunately I also like legendaries. A lot. So since the change I’ve done the reward track for GoB 3 times, because if I want my new shinies I need those gifts.

But wvw is boring you say? I agree, but I made a new little cute asura, tomed him to 80, and decided that this time I wouldn’t get his elite in pve, I’d do it with the wvw proofs, just to see how that method works. (Turned out that it was easier than constantly begging for help with HoT HPs btw). I was in no hurry, but made sure the GoB track was active, and when I unlocked the last elite skill I also had 2 GoB.
So, just a tip on how to make it a little more interesting.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

System (What went wrong.)

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This is the most hilarious thread I’ve seen in a long time! Reporting Anet for making updates to the game – best attempt at trolling I’ve seen in years

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Asura and Krytan Language

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" …little is known about the race before their surfacing outside of their regular contact with other underground races such as the dwarves, dredge, and skritt – the last of which they view as a threat. " https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Asura

Your guess seems to be correct

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Caithe. (LVS3 Possible Spoilers)

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As I see it Caithe is just acting like she always has. Her personality changes little through the books, the sylvari personal story etc etc. She sometimes regret some of the consequences of her actions, but never the actions themselves. “Act with wisdom, but act!” pretty much sums her up.

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New Account Restriction

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Just look at it as more time to scrape together the 40g it will cost you to list the item on the trading post

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Legendary weapons

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there’s really no point in asking anet quetions in this thread. MO dropped the news, didn’t like the responses he got and after that not a single anet representative has written in the thread. Why? I don’t know since I don’t work for anet (thank the Eternal Alchemy for that) but their lack of interest has convinced me that it’s exactly that reason, lack of interest. They simply do not care.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

Eternity skin update?

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A massive +1 on this! I wish they’d make this happen, but since there’s no legendary team they’ll never even consider it..

In due time, all will serve the asura.

How could my armor go from 80 to 70?

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According to Dulfy’s database, the mist walker armor comes in 3 versions, lvl 60 (Vigorous), 70 (Soldier’s) and 80 (several stat choices). http://db.dulfy.net/search/mist%20walker
As far as I can tell from the wiki, if your character has reached lvl 80 the lower lvl armors are no longer shown by the vendor, though the wiki is a little vague here so I’m not absolutely sure.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

When will LS3 part 2 come out?- Predictions [Merged]

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Either 3rd week in September, or up to the third week in October.

If what the Devs have previously stated holds true.

Given anet’s history, I expect them to release episode 2 sometime around march 2017 since the holiday updates and other stuff will come first. It will probably not be entirely complete so they’ll add the finishing touches around june 2017. After that they’ll need to focus on the next expansion, so there’ll be a short break in releases, not very long though, only about 9-15 months.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

Vets refuse to help or even apple

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I have both tags, but nowadays I never tag up. I’ve tried to lead in HoT, but it’s like trying to herd cats. I can generally stand most abuse, but the combination of people ignoring everything I say and then yelling all kinds of stuff at me when the event fails eventually eroded my interest in trying to lead.
I admire the rest of you that still tag up, you’re all good people and deserve more thanks than you’re probably getting.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

Spirit Shards gated behind Raid Masteries

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I took my semi-main to bloodstone fen on release, he doesn’t get spirit shards. then I switched toons and did dailies in Tyria, and he gets spirit shards. I’ve never been inside the raid, but have the rest of the masteries done. Either it’s a bug, or it doesn’t work on the new map, or.. something else, I guess.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

Heart and Minds [Final Story Step Bugs]

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They have your money, why should they care?

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Localization in Russia

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A bit related to OP, a bit off topic – I have a question. If Anet were to release the game in russian, would the game be allowed for sale i Russia? It has LGBT content, most notably in the personal story. Not trying to derail or anything, just curious.

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*Speculation* Blind Optimism

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I expect LS3 will contain 25 min story, 12 glider skins, 4 BL weapon sets and 6 outfits, and possibly, very possibly, a gem store sale on instant repair canisters, in incremental releases over 9 months.
My wishlist for the next expansion is.. oh, let’s see.. no, nothing.
I fully expect the next expansion to contain 1 completely new fractal, a promise to reinstate the legendary team (don’t worry, they’ll never keep it), a complete remake of the trait system and scrapping of the mastery system (after all they did state that they intended to add to it, ie a clear death sentence). Oh right, and more glider skins!

In due time, all will serve the asura.

Legendary weapon Theme Idea

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I like your idea. Maybe if they one day reinstate the legendary team… oh well, maybe in GW3.

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(Suggestion) Crab Meat

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I agree – I never understood why they created a drop clearly suited for cooking and just made it a junk item.

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Weapon skins

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Those doors are only open when the skins are available for purchase. Right now, anet wants you to buy other skins, they’ll reopen the doors later this year. They are open 2-4 times/year.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

Gift of Battle Feedback [merged]

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Personal experience:
I read the patchnotes but forgot about it until I finished the leaf of kudzu last week. Lots of misuse of kittens and even cats later, I dusted off my wvw ranger (yes, ranger, I don’t claim to be sane) who’d been in storage for 2 years, and and spent a few hours being pounded into the ground by BG. The next day I did the same, and on the third day I got my GoB.
I got sick of wvw 2 years ago and hadn’t set foot in there since, but I really wanted that bow, so.. I still don’t like wvw, but I’m ok with spending a few hours getting a gift of Battle by doing some battles.

on Anet’s communication skills:
This was a rather big change and all we got was a few lines in the wvw beta section months before the change goes live… Anet, all the kittens in this and similar threads, it’s up to you to find new homes for them. Your track record lately is a long list of pr-disasters and your reputation steers all ahead full towards the reef of massive ineptitude. Please change course soon, before you slam into those rocks.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

Confused about "sale" on Gem Store..

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Anet uses the word “sale” both for stuff on sale and stuff that returns temporarily.
A “sale” in the gemstore is therefore not always to be interpreted as “lower price”.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

What bothers me about the post-release maps

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I disagree with OP. I have never had any trouble with fewer waypoints in the recent maps, especially not in the HoT maps since gliding and wallows makes it really easy to get around there. I rarely find myself on an “empty” map, and if I can’t do something alone several helpful people are usually just a map chat away.
Oh, btw, taking the forts in SW is quite easy to do solo, luck has little to do with it.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

7.5k Hrs... IMO worse part of gw2 QQ rant.

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With all these threads complaining about map completion, I wonder if I’m the only one in the game that has the patience to do multiple map completions.

Nope, I’ve done it on 25 of my toons. I find it relaxing to just clear a map or two after a long day.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

Legendary weapons

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I strongly believe that we will in fact entertain you. We’re a team of people who love the game that you love, and are working on things we’re confident you’ll love. But I’m not here to convince you of that, and I wouldn’t expect you to take my word for it. You can make that judgment in April, and each subsequent time we ship. I will work to make you happy, and I’ll do it by making you happy with what we ship, not with what we promise to ship.

Mo

So, no legendary longbow to work towards, and now you nerfed my reaper.
It is now april, and I have made my judgement.
I am neither entertained nor happy. Since you’re confident I’ll love what you do, I’m forced to utter those dreaded words: “we need to talk”.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

Celebration Tomorrow

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I may be overly dense here.. but what exactly is the celebration about?
I thought this was supposed to be a standard quarterly update.
Or is it going to be a celebration of the fact that something, no matter how insignificant, is going to be released by anet?
Not that it matters, really. I don’t use reddit, so I’ll never find out. I’ll just log into the game tomorrow to see how Mike will delight me.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

Those ungrateful Zephyrites!

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With their precious cargo delivered to Tarir, the Master of Peace has sold them to anet and everyone who is able to work is currently churning out code for the next expansion. The people unfit for work are left stranded in Dry Top, trying desperately to save some “crystals” from the inquest before withdrawal sets in…

In due time, all will serve the asura.

I DID IT!!!!!

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I wish you all the luck you need!
Especially since you have an asura necro – their summoning comments are hilarious

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Upcoming changes in Spring Quarterly Update

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If I’m not wrong, those aren’t all the april changes we’ll get, but simply some tweaks to prepare players in advance for what they should do or not do until then.

Please keep in mind that one or more announced features may be suspended indefinitely at any moment.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

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Next Quarterly Release Date?

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26th April – 4 months exactly from the 26th Jan ;-0)

That’s three months

I’d also lean towards the 19th, but it’s all speclation until Anet officially anounces a date.

Actually it’s all speculation until the client starts downloading.
but if I have to pick a date, I’d say “soon”.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

List one thing you love about GW2

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No trinity, that was the thing that made start playing this game and I still play for that reason.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

Legendary weapons

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It’s done. No point in arguing anymore over something that won’t change.
I gave anet money, I got some features, grindy maps, a useless guild hall and an admission from the game director that I shouldn’t trust anet’s announcements.
Fine, I acted on trust and got burned. The lesson is learned, in the future my money will go to less shady companies. Will I get burned again? Possibly. Will I get burned by anet again? Nope.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

WoodenPotatoes latest video!

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The april release will decide the outcome of this PR disaster. If the release fails to convince people that the future will be better, the disaster will continue. It makes me sad, but I have a nagging feeling that they won’t be able to salvage this, assuming they’ll even try to do so.

In due time, all will serve the asura.

No more content for Non-HoT players?

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LS2 gave 2 new maps that you can access without having LS2 unlocked. It is possible that they plan something similar for S3, but only time will tell.
If new maps are coming there is probably going to be gliding involved though, so it might effectively lock people out.

In due time, all will serve the asura.