Guild Wars 2

At most, it should just be something like the Ele and Rev bracelets, imo. Visible when the weapon is drawn.

I remember a long, long time ago, a few years before Guild Wars 2 launched on PC, NCSoft came into a deal with Sony to put their MMOs on consoles, but nothing ever came of it. Guild Wars 2 would work great on consoles, but at this point I feel like the ship has either sailed or it would just be too much extra work with everything they’re currently doing.

It would’ve been nice to have a balance of kitten, cool looking armour to go with all the TnA options available to femme characters. Sometimes I see an armour set on a man and I’m legit confused as to what it is or if it’s new until I look it up and it’s just a cooler looking version of a set I own.

Outside of Embroidered and Illustrious (sort of) there are no bottoms that are just pants. I usually run around in the pirate outfit to have pants.

Atramentous.1923:

Why would they do that? This is a gift for people who been there from the beginning. Wait for your 5th birthday or deal with it, please.

Community of this game is funny, they would like to have everything easily accessible. Some other dude started bashing Anet in another thread because they did not contain Perma Frost Dye in the present. This is just ridiculous.

It’s not for people who have been here since the beginning, it’s for people who have characters who have been there. My account is five years old, but I won’t receive anything for it. It’s mostly frustrating because some of this stuff is tied to the anniversary achievements, which should be account-based.

Ah, okay! Thank you!

Does anybody know the timeframe during which these characters are purged? According to my API my demo character still exists. In-game, I am unable to use the character’s name (no other player is using it either).

Ayrilana.1396:

Aren’t those achievements based on the account “Birthday”? I’m referring to the ones that give the titles, and most recently, backpack/weapon skins.

Never mind. Just looked it up and saw it was tied to opening your first gift for that specific year. Just request Anet to make those achievements based on the account birthday. I don’t have any issues with it personally as I doubt there are that many players who routinely delete and remake their characters.

Yeah, that’s another thing. I’d even just be happy with the achievements being account-based. I’ve played and supported this game from the start, and I feel like that should be tangibly acknowledged in some way.

(Also, I did try to restore my original character, on a guildmate’s suggestion, but the character was too old.)

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

The game might not have any good way to measure its age outside of measuring the age of the oldest character.

I cannot speak for how difficult an account-based system would be to implement, but the /age function tells you your account age in the second line, “Across all characters, you have played for X hours Y minutes over the past Z days.”, although that is likely based on when the first character is created.

Shirlias.8104:

It would be a scam for ppl who made characters in order to get perma birthdaybooster

In what way would anything I suggested be a scam for anyone?

Also, if it and your shared inventory slot do not show up right away, they’ll be there the next time you log in (so a quick relog and you should be good)

Hello, friends. I hope that everyone is enjoying Guild Wars 2’s fifth anniversary! My only suggestion is that maybe some day they could potentially add a gift or something for account age as well, versus just for X year old characters. For example, my account is five years old to-day! However, I do not possess any five year old characters (yes, I know, my fault. I have a problem with constantly remaking characters sometimes) ah ha ha.

Elite specialisations seem to be their compromise. Each one adds a cross profession skill type. If you’re hoping for a rebirth of touch rangers or warriors with pets or whatever, I don’t think they’re going to blow up their whole system any time soon to implement anything like copy-pasting whole profession skills or mechanics.

Yes, I think a two second attunement cooldown (and a slight increase to sword auto speeds) would greatly improve the rhythm of the spec. As it is now we are slow, awkward, a little weak, and have gained almost nothing that really makes up for losing the utility, support, and sustain of core and Tempest.

Someone mentioned this idea of a trade-off. That’s a cool concept to fantasize about, yeah, but in practice it’s really not what we have here with the Weaver’s ultra high-risk:mediocre reward.

was this for a Living Story episode? I cannot imagine there is a message or situation in-game that would tell you to RE-purchase content you own.

My Elonian Ranger, Lilita Nihanu, made to look like her ancestor.

It looks like at least the northern bit with Prophecies’ Crystal Desert and the Desolation area and what appears to be some sort of Vabbian area, tho over 250 years and Joko’s rule may have significantly altered the distribution of cultural identifiers.

Sifu.9745:

Chasind.3128:

I love the new human set of hairstyles & faces. Love, love love.

What new hairstyles and faces are you talking about?

They’re not in the makeover section with the stars, they’re actually new defaults, so they’re at the end of the list, rather than the front.

It only took four years and a MENA themed expansion to get some black hairstyles for humans ¬_¬

That said, these, and the new faces, are fantastic! They’re not half- kitten d either, they actually took the time and effort to make them really high quality.

The only real aspect that I find to be an oddity is that on the brushed out styles the hair is actually two tone, with the second channel being the accessory colour, so I can’t make it as dark as I would like. Assuming they’ll be adding more colours to that swatch, it won’t be a big deal. Otherwise, this is great! And they are free defaults!

saalle.4623:

“They are also not lore friendly and help ruin the immersion. "

And bunny ears are lore friendly?[/quote]

There were mounts in the original Guild Wars, so idk what is not “lore-friendly” about them or what lore prevents a person from getting on top of an animal and riding it.

I don’t have any real qualms about his characterisation. Isn’t he the youngest member of our group, after Taimi? Some of what he says is right. Outside of him acting like my sylvari couldn’t possibly understand loss at the hands of an elder dragon (seriously?), I think his petulance and desperation worked. I don’t think his arc is going to be satisfactorily resolved in this next episode. Like, he might wake up Jormag and that leads into the expansion or something, but I can’t really see how they’re going to tie it up in time. Anet is juggling too many plot threads with little to no pay off. Which works as an ongoing story, but they need to put in better hooks instead of constantly rolling out huge unresolved developments and mysteries.

What I do have a problem with is everyone dumping all over the PC. It’s unnecessary and doesn’t really move the plot in any meaningful way, beyond a throwaway line the PC makes about feeling bad that literally no one wanted to join their guild (at that time).

More. Curly. Hair. Period.

More ponytails. More black hair, particularly ones that aren’t just afros or cornrows. More beards.

Nusku.3941:

zectra.6978:

Isn’t the 2nd one (basically) the Balthazars Regalia outfit? https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Balthazar%27s_Regalia_Outfit_human_male_front.jpg

The horns maybe but not the whole outfit. Actually no, it’s not.

That’s the Agent of Balthazar costume from Guild Wars. I do hope they release those original GW God-themed costumes (https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Costume). They were all pretty amazing.
For Guild Wars 2 they opted to use the Dervish’s Avatars (below) as costumes. Only two of those left, if they continue to release them!

magick archer or bust

What on Earth do people have going on in their lives when their entire day is consumed waiting for a relatively minor update for a game to go live? To the point where they’re enraged and feeling like they got “strung along”?

I checked here a few times to see if it was up, but I don’t understand how people are buggin’ over this. Like, I saw the update wasn’t live so I did…other stuff. Heck, I even played GW2 for a little bit since…it wasn’t down.

Waiting an extra day for some extra story quests is a little disappointing, but far from the travesty and debacle a lot of people here are making it out to be. Especially because it was literally delayed by nature. They tried to have it up, but it didn’t work out that way. I get the feeling that people would still feign outrage at this even if they were given a play-by-play. There is no official time window for releases, but I feel like they said enough about their situation and efforts from between the average release time and when they finally realised they couldn’t get it out today. I’m also pretty sure the outage affected more than just their ability to push the update for this game out, so I think it’s all pretty understandable.

TheFantasticGuy.7206:

Alga.6498:

Underwater dragon… which means underwater battles! Yaay!
Finally some underwater combat in underwater, since we barely get any underwater stuff at all these days in underwater!!!!!
Ohh.. did I forget to mention it was underwater?

Ha. Given how few weapon and utility skills actually work underwater … What I suspect is that Steve is going to surface and go on land so that we don’t have to go underwater.

That and the fact that they aren’t making underwater weapons anymore

not super detailed, but if anet every gives me a magick archer I will be the happiest ele in the universe

something like this maybe
Unlock weapon- Longbow
New Skilltype – Arcane Symbols, changing effect depending on attunement
New Mechanic- F5 expend Profession Specific Resource to use a powerful skill or transformation based on your current attunement

idk, Magick Archer?

Unlock weapon- Longbow
New Skilltype – Arcane Symbols, changing effect depending on attunement
New Mechanic- Power Shot, expend Profession Specific Resource to use a powerful skill based on your current attunement, leaves a unique symbol behind
General- Sustained dps with some support options

I want a magic archer more than anything, but we’re likely to get the 1h sword bcuz it apparently has work already done on it?

Mostly my favourites from GW1 that would bring a little new flavour to each weight class. Necromancer Obsidian- particularly the femme set, Luxon and Kurzick (elite or 1k) Ranger and Monk, and Elite Mesmer Rogue (pls…I need pants for my scholars. Charr Hide armour is…probably not coming back…

As long as they start adding some GW1 items as in-game rewards, I hope they do add them. Having them be cash shop exclusive is kind of frustrating

Whispering is the OG tactic

All that really needs to be done is to put a toggle or option to cycle interactions on the interact prompt. Other games do this.

Gehenna.3625:

This stormbow doesn’t look much like the original one beyond the basic shape. What made it look different and cool in GW1 is completely gone in this version.

It looks like the Storm Bow from Guild Wars with additional effects. The original Storm Bow was just a recoloured stoneshard hornbow to begin with, no a unique shape or anything, so the only things that made it look ‘different’ was the lightning effects and the blue glow, both of which have been translated over to Guild Wars 2.

I would LOVE the necro obby armour as a light armour skin or outfit.

I think most of the legacy skins look great. Ice Breaker and FDS/IDS crossed over really well, and this Storm Bow looks amazing. It looked cheap and weird in GW1, tbh, though it WAS cool. Reaver axe was kind of disappointing (too small!), all the other regular GW1 skins look pretty much the same except a handful of Tormented ones. The Zodiac weapons kind of suck. They don’t have the darker bits for contrast as the original and kind of look like rubbery toys in GW2

Getting this error nonstop after the last patch. Chain disconnects are not fun.

I think this is a regional thing. ‘Staffs’ seems like a U.S. thing, while ‘staves’ is more common in the U.K.? They’re both correct. Also, ‘stave’ is another word for ‘staff’.

So retail sales went down? After they made the entire core game free to download and play?

I can’t see how adding a race could really be bad. It might slow down stuff like adding armour, but it’s not like their flooding us with new gear to begin with. As for lore, I don’t see how giving them the regular personal story would be a problem. Guild Wars 1 basically allowed characters to time travel/view visions of the past to play certain missions (such as early Prophecies missions for characters from Cantha, since their story starts halfway through the Prophecies one). There really doesn’t have to be any complicated in-universe explanation for it. Or, they could just start them somewhere else. Like, if they are xpac exclusive, give them their own brief little story zone.

Actually, I hope either Primordus is neutralised, involving some power play from Lazarus. Either his more ‘noble’ calling is ’helping us defeat it, or he intervenes anyway to take the power when Primordus is felled, setting up HIM and his White Mantle as the big bad for the expansion. The last one focused on Sylvari…this one could focus on and flesh out the humans and all their struggles and aspects.

I really, really want these ancillary antagonists to become primary, albeit temporary, threats. Palawa Joko, Lazarus, etc. I hope the game doesn’t fall into a pattern of ‘kill dragon, plot, next dragon gets ants in its pants, plot, plot, plot, xpac, kill dragon, ad nauseum’. I don’t want to wait eight years or whatever to kill all the dragons before anything else gets major focus.

It probably won’t happen though, since Primordus’ increased activity will probably lead to the Tengu being moved to action, and out of the Dominion of Winds (for us to play ? ? ?).

CMM.6712:

Just adding that is annoying to get the pop up after you have completed the achievement. Please stop.

Yeah, it should stop being repeatable after the AP cap

It should have prompted your friend to accept your progress as his own. If he missed the prompt or left the instance or something prematurely, that could be a reason.

I heard that Tengu were originally planned so I hope they had enough finished to continue and release them.

Bazompora.2635:

Ardid.7203:

It doesn’t even matter if Norn and Humans have a common origin or not.

What matter is that Norn and KRYTAN culture are different. Different enough to have clearly distinguishable aesthetics, and therefore, different enough to need separated hairstyles.

As I said before, this doesn’t imply hairstyles shouldn’t be re-utilized across different playable races. It just imply Anet needs to make the effort to adjust some details here and there to make any re-utilized style properly localized to the culture which will use it.

TLDR: No matter geneticsNorn and Krytan cultures are different. Hairstyles should be shared across races as long as each one is properly adjusted to the new user culture.

You would have a point, if not for female dreads and war paint, facial tattoos and shaved heads on both men and women originating from Krytan culture,

while only body tattoos and braids — not dreads — in addition to their always unshaven heads were known from norn culture.

Wow, Krytans used to be pretty diverse and had a unique (in the game) aesthetic. Then again, Kryta used to be subtropical before it became a generic North American/European looking fantasy land

The default keybind is “-” and it can be rebound under F11> Control Options > Skills > Special Action. I

I think some of them should be shared (like the short cut in the norn hairstyle kit!!!!!!!) but a lot of the norn hair seems more culturally appropriate for them. Also, the new human hair they added looks a little strange on them. I’d rather they do new (and far, far more needed styles, such as curly hair!) styles than share all of them.

Taimi is a progeny, so that’s why she is so tiny. We’ll never be able to play as progeny (characters this tiny would cause problems I think, as far as visibility n stuff, in addition to the logistics of armouring them), cubs, or human/norn children. We do get to play as bb sylvari tho, who are four years old at the start of Out of the Shadows =)

The two Dragon’s Watch ppl got new looks. One is already available in the shop. I’m guessing hers will be next episode (or sometime in between). Can’t wait to see Kasmeer’s (who doesn’t appear to know how to use dye) and Braham’s new looks. Can’t remember is Rox got a new fit as well.
Either way, Destiny’s Edge outfits were all cultural armour and all of Dragon’s Watch (pre-DW naming) had all their gear on the store, so it’s probably going to be a gem purchase.

I thought Lazarus was fine. He wasn’t a DEM because he didn’t solve anything for you. Caudecus was gonna slip through our fingers anyway (unless you thought the build up to him and this LS was going to be resolved immediately) the only difference is that you would’ve been the one to kill the white mantle fodder (it’s not like the 10, 20 or so that popped up would’ve been a real threat). In GW1 he was kind of a kitten too.

As for his ‘resurrection’, he has been confirmed to be the only mursaat survivor of the Flameseeker Prophecies because he split his energy/magic up and reformed himself later. That’s from GW1.
Edit: For some reason, based on what I’m reading (haven’t gotten that far in it so idk the specifics), the raid story seems to contradict this?

As for his sudden appearance, idk. I’ve expected him to show up since before HoT. Heck, I predicted that it would be him from the moment I set foot in Bloodstone Fen, and was a little validated when it was revealed that someone absorbed all the magic.

Yeah, Rytlock was kind of goofy in this, but, especially according to the novels, he really isn’t out of character or anything. The only real wtf moment for me was him tripping on the trap at the end. Other than that he doesn’t come off as any weaker than previous portrayals. Maybe a little distracted and irritable. Nobody’s perfect.

Almorra offering you the title of Marshal is no different from what you do with the pact in the personal story, living story, and HoT. They talk and talk about how it should be a neutral party, but you make all the decisions and literally command the pact. Even if the ‘neutral party’ thing was a serious dealbreaker, literally no one would care that the commander who actually led the pact to victory against two elder dragons got promoted.

[NA] Ehmry Bay

Hallo everyone. If anybody could gift me a makeover kit, I would very much and gratefully appreciate it. That is all, thank you for your time.

Edit: Got a makeover kit. Thanks for any consideration =)

So you want to make them facets, but with mobile combo fields.

I think it would be interesting to have something like WvW where you can’t rez in combat along with the instant downed state. It’s cool and all, and I’ve had some clutch victories that were pretty awesome because of it, but I’m not really sure why it exists.