Guild Wars 2

I have a guildie from our guild [GAF] that I’d love to meet and he lives in California. We’ve been friends ever since before GW2 launched, and he taught me everything there is to know about the game before I ever played. I would document the entire experience for ArenaNet!

I think this definitely needs a fix if ANet doesn’t know yet.

Hot on the heels of the Symbolic Avenger trait, we have our new contender:

Communal Defenses in the VALOR Line gives Aegis to everyone within range, not up to a 5 target standard.

Using this and Shattered Aegis means that you can do insane amounts of damage to world bosses (if everyone is stacked), upwards of 30+ hits on a target, and if you’re specced to do Zerk damage, you do insane damage.

A picture of my combat log is below.

Getting “not allowed to connect” when sending a message to forums@arena.net.

We missed you tonight! We were on for some hours. See you tomorrow night Colin!

Yes one more thing – the inscription on the Dead Stop shield is much too small and/or blurry to translate correctly.

Can I get confirmation from anyone who has looked at this in great detail whether or not it is a real sentence or just gibberish?

As a New Krytan translation scholar, I find it very annoying to have script in the game I can’t deduce the translation of.

http://www.twitch.tv/gwendabella/b/463564222 Stormbluff Isle kill

Woo we did it! Check out stormbluffisle.com

Or reddit for the pictures. We did it guys!

I’m currently running this. Come get your achievements!

THE LOST BEARDS
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ArenaNet’s November 2013 Content

Return to Southsun Cove once more, to find hair lost by various helms and hats, stolen by the Consortium! Join Magnus the Beardy-Handed, as he realizes with his facial follicles stolen, his hands are the most covered furry parts of his body! Enjoy this new hair-raising content where things get too hairy for everyone involved!

We should start a hair collection drive for the lost beards by this helm atrocity.

What about just new skins to commemorate you did the content? That would be more awesome. Something to show off “I was there.”

That is indeed correct. You will get one guaranteed rare drop per boss per account per day. You still have the chance to get pre-cursors/exotics/rares from the regular dragon chests every time you play an event. It is just the guaranteed rare drop that has been restricted.

This is Martin’s quote. RAW, not including the “chance to get” from the guaranteed drop actually nerfs the rate. Since rares were guaranteed out of the chest, it was pushing the drop rate of exotics higher than normal. Now things will be back the way they were, and exotics will go up even higher in value.

I am hoping they will be working on making sure that the chests will not extend off your screen if you haven’t gotten them yet (currently, they show up next to each other)

Martin, I am assuming other events will be updated so there will be many other places to get rares, ie Megadestroyer, Fire Shaman’s loot fixed, etc?

Martin Kerstein.3071:

The only thing that will be changed is that the guaranteed rare drop will now be account bound. Everything else remains the same. You will be able to open the regular event chests once per day per event per character as before. You will still have the same drop chances as before.

@Martin: does the rare from the account bound chest have a chance to be exotic or a precursor as well, or is it just a rare, permanently, now?

When the rares were tied to the event chest, that means it was higher on the loot table and pull exotics out (see: Final Rest being uncovered). Does this mean it will be harder now to get exotics at all like it was before the chests were changed in February’s patch?

Please don’t merge this thread, I want this to be solely based on the STATS of the gear, not the GEAR themselves. This is a DIFFERENT topic than that mega thread.

I understand why Ascended gear has been introduced, but I don’t understand why the STATS themselves have gotten higher.

Why would ArenaNet make a problem for their players and themselves for having Ascended gear have higher stats?

This requires WvW players to do currently Fractals to get the “best” gear in the game, and it makes a whole “haves” and “havenots” issue come up. Exotics were available in a wide variety of areas, and I can get them pretty easily.

But this temporary vacuum you have created has created a lot of issues with the game’s stat ceiling and the players have to essentially re-gear to be the “best” stats and kind of contradicts ArenaNet’s philosophy for the game currently. It could have been easily:

A) Ascended gear used only for Fractals
B) Same stats as Exotics
C) WvW can’t let you use Ascended gear

I just would like to know from ArenaNet personally why stats had to have gone up on Ascended pieces.

typically mondays will have bugfix patches yes, so most likely tonight near midnight PST.

Still no sightings yet? I know some of you have seen them…

I know a lot of you out there have seen them since the patch, and I want to fully document this “fight club” group that seems to be out there.

Two of the documented places so far have been in Lornar’s Pass, and Fireheart Rise.

Lornar’s Pass: Northeast of Guutra’s Homestead Waypoint.

Fireheart Rise: ???

Please post locations and impressions below, and I will add them to the documentation.

Well. Wow. That really changes some fundamentals of WvW! I bet this was a decision not discussed lightly at ANet.

I’ve gotten almost all the items from this event so far (the skins, the minis, etc) but the one item I’ve seen on gw2db.com is Mini Spooky Mummy that I haven’t seen in the game yet.

It’s a blue mini that is in the game but not anywhere obtainable. Is it a failed mini experiment, or is there more to the story?

I honestly think choice of god at the beginning should give access to a special elite or utility.

Thanks man. I think the state of the racials for Humans is really abysmal. I would like in general racials to be stronger overall – comparable and unique to other skills, but not overpowered. I mean, why not? They can only be used in 1/3 of the game anyway, why not make them unique and awesome? I understand the Elites are cool, but they are on a huge recharge.

@Mizorie: One skill does not make the rest of the racials appealing, though. They need work, especially to make people think about using them instead of regular abilities.

And another point I’d like to make: other races have the options of using these in their builds because they bring unique things to the table – however, the human racials are so bland and uninteresting that the majority of humans use only one. My Asura and Sylvari friends use theirs in place of others, it’s really annoying to look at my racials and not even want to buy them.

I propose these racials get revamped:

Prayer to Dwayna
(Just a heal at 30rc? Not very strong at that? At least give us or allies regeneration when used.)

Prayer to Kormir (Kormir was the new human god of Justice. this should be some sort of Smiting spell instead of a condition removal.)

Prayer to Lyssa (This one is decent, 12rc with random conditions and boons. The only problem I have is that it’s kind of weak – the boon and condition disappears right after use. Perhaps have a dual nature to it? Press once for three boons on yourself, Press twice to swap your boons to conditions on a target? It would fit the nature of Lyssa very well.)

Cantha Expansion

Katana – 2H Sword based on quick, single target strikes.

1 – Sword swipe, 1 again – Sword swipe, 1 again – Sword swipe with 2s of quickness. Makes it like 2H Greatsword in that you get it for a short duration that only can keep up by spamming 1.

2 – Sheath weapon, gain swiftness and protection. While this ability is up, you can’t attack unless you press 2 again. Pressing 2 does an Iai strike where you deal 100% critical chance attack on an enemy, and damage is double your crit% damage. It’s one hit, so make it count!

3 – Bladeborn Defense – Blocking manuever, reflect projectiles while slashing the air repeatedly (melee version of Sword 3)

4 – Redheat Slash – charged ability. longer you hold down the charge, the longer the attack burns the enemy, increases in damage too. great for when someone is immobilized.

5 – Dashing Burn – Tap it once, teleport to the target and burn them, tap it again, dash to the target and burn them again. Makes for a great double catch if someone gets away from you the first time.

My level 80 Guardian. Vigil gear mixed with T2 Cultural shoulders. Mystic Claymore exotic weapon.

I honestly think an Avatar of every god would be amazing. I don’t use the utilities as a Guardian (much better options) and I’d like something amazing like an Avatar of Kormir where you get to lay down judgment to all (would fit with guardian really well). Just something more amazing like the Golems Asura get. It feels like they designed the racials for Human first, then later on races got more interesting racials and they forgot about Humans.

I was middle-class with unknown parents. Seems to be the best storyline.