Guild Wars 2

…I still find my life lacking. A recent chat with my guild leader has made me realized what I needed all these while.

A tuna mask.

Come on Anet, surely you’d like to unleash the inner toro in you too~<3

winterchillz.2564:

There’s no way, a person could miss the newly introduced Arah pt2 bug.

I can explain this!

I had a similar incident in one of my old projects. We were working on project B, an older project A, has been launched to the mass. However while running some programming tests for project B, Yours Truly had made some changes to fix some issues for project B, completely unaware that it was linked to project A and had cause some of project A’s stuff to break.

No one knew because everyone was working on project B. Let’s just say lols happened after.

So yeah, stuff happens.

Anyway, I think these changes should be asked from a perspective of a completely new player after the patch. I think those who at most reached their very first level 5 can also be polled in. As veterans we are already so used to a system that we’re familiar with, the changes may not be our taste. Had this been launched at headstart, I don’t think anyone could tell the difference.

So long as Anet sticks to their word that this would be a no sub-fee game and not holding a gun to my head to play, I got no issues for these changes.

If this new interface means I will never face the ridiculous blank TP bug ever again, I’ll be smiling like a chesire cat till my face is forever glued that way.

I’m more interested to know how TP flipping will fare now given that the important info are a heck lot more accessible now…

Bring it Anet!

I’m not a member of TTS, yet I’ve been consistently joining their runs and getting my wurm and Teq kills. Without membership, then of course it’ll be an advantage to get into TS so you’ll know you have to map hop. They map hop because very so often you get a bunch of people who simply afk, making the run pointless.

They just want people who can respond and know what they are doing. TS is just an easier tool to explain and you can get faster response. Same for wvw. Unless you have one dedicated map chatter who just purely map chat the instructions, which is not very effective since often you have to stop to react to enemy attacks.

I think the centaur archers would usually run away from you to range when you get close to them (at least the ones in Queensdale).

If the attack is a projectile, feedback would work, archers being one of the examples.

great analysis man!

One of the potential fix I could think of:

-tag instance owner
-if instance owner gets kicked, the instance should be deleted and the rest of the party gets kicked out
-but if instance owner leaves via ‘leave party’ option, then ownership would be transferred to the next person

NTDK.4897:

This is indeed a troubling scenario.

I think they should make it that if the instance owner is kicked, the instance is lost like usual. But if the instance owner is disconnected or offline, the instance will not be lost.

Yup, same thoughts exactly.

I would further add on that if the owner leaves via ‘leave party’ option, the instance ownership would be transferred.

The 2 person vote kick at the end of a dungeon is a painful blow, while so far I’ve not encountered such cases, I would not like to be at the receiving end of it.

Also I believe that the party chat interface would be wiped after getting kicked? Would be hard to report that, =\

I rather they keep dungeons to five man instances. Open world events are such lag fest and it’s not so enjoyable at times when the mobs get dpsed down so fast that I couldn’t get a hit in, not to mention those who love spamming visual effects. Also it’ll make it just like another world event boss where we’d have to wait for the respawn timer.

I do not see Anet as being completely abandoning dungeons, it’s just not on the top list as of now. Honestly, I see it as more of an underpromise technique. It’s already a plus that this game needs no subs, so if I’m bored I know I could just drop it, play other games or read a book or something, and jump right back in when I feel like it.

Just because they’re focusing on open world, does not mean they have to make everything open world. Also how is making dungeons open world a way that it won’t be forgotten content? As an instance, at least we have the loop hole of saying ‘this occured in the past’ in a bubbled event, as oppose to it being brought up to speed to follow current events, thus they do not need to rethink or remake the maps/story/quest too hard.

Boneheart.3561:

CeruleanRevolver.6085:

… precursor crafting trial.

I’d rather this be a small scale compared to what Legendary crafting could be. After all, the prestige is meant to come from the unique skin and not the crafting material. But yes, precursor crafting could be just as costly as the precursor itself.

Given the prestige of a legendary, it is likely that it’ll even be on a larger scale than what we’re having now. I’m only hoping that it won’t be a too time-gated material or accountbound only mats. The prestige comes from the effort you put into to getting that unique skin, which most people may shy away from. This is good as not everyone will have it, but everyone has the potential of getting it if they really want to.

Labjax.2465:

CeruleanRevolver.6085:

Personally I thought the scavenger hunt process is pretty interesting, and for all we know this is Anet testing on the feasibility of a precursor crafting trial.

Gold sinks? I dunno, I spent 100s of gold on skins and stuff, then in the next few days I find myself with 100s of gold to spend again. Perhaps google up gold sinks and understand what it actually is before hating it.

I’d love to know what you’re doing that’s just “finding yourself” with hundreds of gold in a matter of days.

Play the game, :p

Run dungeons, sell drops etc. Comes up to average 10g a day in a few hours.

Personally I thought the scavenger hunt process is pretty interesting, and for all we know this is Anet testing on the feasibility of a precursor crafting trial.

Gold sinks? I dunno, I spent 100s of gold on skins and stuff, then in the next few days I find myself with 100s of gold to spend again. Perhaps google up gold sinks and understand what it actually is before hating it.

Just thought I’d drop these screens I’ve been getting now, maybe we could spot a common problem.

The gems related parts are blank, whereas the buy/sell parts are glitchy with the boxes and stuff.

only the collection tab is fine.

Ok, yesterday I’ve reinstalled the game with a backup dat file and it was working fine.

This morning I’ve loaded it and it was fine. But after today’s patch, it went back to bug mode.

I’ve tried deleting the gw2 cache file, clearing my internet cache, restart pc, restart my modem, etc etc nothing works now.

I suspect this has something to do with the Dragon’s Reach patch as that was when my TP woes began. This is really ridiculous and extremely frustrating, I do hope Anet could look into this as more and more users are also complaining about the same thing.

I have that annoying bug again where the black lion trading post loads up blank for me. I’ve tried clearing cache, running as admin etc. So far I’ve managed to get most of my tabs back on.

However.

I can’t access the actual gem store bit, and I notice my icons aren’t loading either.

I opened up the awesomeium log and saw this line, not sure if it’ll help

[0731/200231:ERROR:ipc_channel_win.cc(360)] pipe error: 232

Help? Anyone? :<

I bet it is somewhere in the Grandmaster level of Illusions trait for mesmer, only which Kasmeer can access to at this stage.

AHA! It took me some digging and braining recalling, but I’ve found the dialogues which allude to it

For the dragon bash one, I guess now this conversation made sense, tho I’m disappointed now by what it really is, however it is strange that Kasmeer was not in scene during that detection part. —-
Lady Kasmeer Meade: Excuse me, Jory. What did Logan Thackeray want?
Marjory Delaqua: Justice, I guess. And he paid in advance.
Lady Kasmeer Meade: Where are you going this time?
Marjory Delaqua: Lion’s Arch. Come along, if you like. I could use your special talents. Besides, Dragon Bash is in full swing.
Lady Kasmeer Meade: (gasp) Thank you. That’s so kind. I believe I shall.
—-

Now THIS is the one that strongly links it to, during Merry Winstersday—-

Kasmeer Meade: I can’t believe she just sauntered into Divinity’s Reach like that.
Kasmeer Meade: Our poor queen. She must be beside herself. Our city, violated.
Kasmeer Meade: This is our home. Are we not safe even here?
Marjory Delaqua: Kas. Darlin’, why don’t you sit down. You’re making my head spin.
Kasmeer Meade: Sit? Are you kidding? How can I sit? We have to do something.
Marjory Delaqua: What do you suggest we do?
Kasmeer Meade: Find Scarlet. Someone in this city knows something. We should talk to people. I’ll know if they’re lying.
Marjory Delaqua: Hm. You better be careful. People will start thinking that pretty head of yours isn’t just for decoration.
——-

I can’t recall seeing such post explaining it, but giving it some thought…

unless the supply is tweaked ingame as well, binding after purchase would just remove supply from the trading post, in which case prices would instead go up due to limited available supply. In this case the market would be dominated by those who have the most time farming, which I don’t find fun at all just to make money efficiently.

And surely, I’m sure there are moments after buying 250 charged lodestones, one would decide that another legendary is cooler and less mainstream, and would love to liquidate that 250 lodestones into gold to buy that cooler and less mainstream ingredient.

Seeing there’s a thread on Kasmeer’s portal skills (also I would like to point out that her blink skill is a thing of my mesmer’s envy as well)

What about Marjory’s bone bridge skill? I could ah, avoid many painful moments in Jumping Puzzles, >_>

inb4 Necro/Mesmer JP new meta.

Why are people blitzing through the content in a day? Given that Anet is now made it such that the content is permanent, just log in for a minute or two then log off to play the many Steam games you might’ve bought during the summer sale, >_>;;

I am still much happier with this style of very minimal-almost free content, rather than in other games where I have to cook up about USD13 each month for no content. And mind you USD13 ain’t cheap for some of us (translates to about RM50 for where I’m from, equivalent to a week’s worth lunch money)

The fight isn’t difficult, but the crystal being thrown around irritates me to no end whenever I am meleeing him. It is only helpful when I want to get close to him, but the moment I get to him, I’d disable it and use my normal skills. But it is just precisely when when the crytals are coincidently thrown onto my character, I have no choice but to watch my skillbar switch and I had to drop it all over again so I can resume dps-ing.

Anyway, you can run up the ramp at the back to get to the main platform, he periodically does come back to the main platform. Else bring a ranged weapon. the wurms and mobs are taken care of by Marjory et all.

And this thread shall require this vid to go with. Uh huh uh huh

Imperios.2543:

Yeah, there are societies where homosexuality was not unusual, which is why I stated that it would mak sense for LGBT charr or asura pairings to be free of persecution, but probably not human ones because their society based on cultures that condoned gay people.

Ah but that’s the point, why should it only make sense for charrs and asuras? Why should humans be the exception to this? This fantasy world is inspired by the real world, but much of the rules and cultures need not be carried over (or at least at the whims of the author), and why must it be?

As what some others had brought up, some of us just want to see relationships like that, as just a relationship. And sadly in the real world, it’s not going to happen that soon yet, but we’re getting there.

Brutalistik.6473:

The way I took it and how they wrote it…Belinda probably knew about Majory sexuality for a long time since they’re family. That’s why she did not come off as omg wtf Kuh-Bam!.

Good point there, I looked at it as Belinda dropping in to visit, and immediately picking up that Kasmeer is more than just a friend to Marjory after just getting introduced.

I thought that conversation scene is more suited for a website write up sort, but people didn’t like that direction so I guess they make do with what they can.

My only issue about the ending is the abnormally long breaks in between conversation, and the general awkwardness of it when waiting for a speech to kick in. I too didn’t like how it doesn’t reveal much yet, but it only means there would be more to come. The time an author would wrap up a story, is when they don’t plan to write about it anymore.

I’m keeping a positive feel about this, I do wish we have more story parts to view in the next season.

…..

I can never think of that scene the same way anymore,

Things are unusual only because we are not familiar with it. I would say it’s comparable with how pancakes look like in the east and in the west.

I would implore you to question what is normal, especially if values is not part of the factors to be considered. However I do think people are limiting themselves to too much real world opinion in a fantasy world with giant talking cats and magic eating dragons.

The question that should be asked tho, is how the heck Belinda knows about the relationship between Majory and Kasmeer, unless Marjory had been telling her about, and Marjory doesn’t come off to me as a person who would talk about a love interest to her family, or Kasmeer would’ve met them at one point throughout the year.

As much a shipper I am for Kasjory, I have to admit my first reaction to that scene was…

“YES, /KISS EMOTE SOON, W00T”

Anyway, I see a lot of people claiming that “if it were them…” scenarios, I’d really like to see that happen. The human mind and reaction can be vastly different when they are calm or panicking.

On topic, note that so far no one in the living story actually pointed out that they are of same sex pairing, other than just acknowledging that they are a couple. I imagine with the addition of Belinda Delaqua now, she’s mostly likely going to tease Marjory for having a lover just because she has a lover (speculating from Marjory’s respond when Kasmeer asked to meet them) when she’s over for a visit to check on Marjory’s injuries.

I guess the reason why people think that it’s being shoved in is because a lot of their ambient chatter has been missed out as they were optional. To actually catch bits of these, people usually need to be hanging around there and wait for it to happen. As exciting as it is to find all these hidden gems, Anet seems to be selling itself short for all the details they had put in (and these are temporary) only to have people missed it because they just want to move on to the next achievement. To have all those optional dialogues missed out and suddenly to have an unskippable scene depicting just that, you’ll get yourself a whole lot of /map chat questions about it.

I do understand the discomfort of some people about the romance tho, just because it’s romance. I think it’s just a matter of taste, some like pure action novels, some like romance novels. Just move on and talk about other stuff really.

you can see other server player names only when they /s or similar, :P

no idea why.

I’m very, very pleased with this update. The whole Marjory recap bit, the wonderful new map for bag farm in the mist…

Only one thing bothered me.

Why it is that I would ask Braham about his mother? O.o;;

If that’s coming from relatives, I’d understand, but eh…this? lol. What do you guys feel about it?

For me, the response from Braham amuses me, but yeah.

I too kinda want cut-scenes to be replayable after you’ve gone through them. Almost like Marjory’s journal, maybe an option to replay certain scenes? Ie moment of peace, advanced warning, and that delaqua investigation piece.

I only think this is fair. Legendary is supposedly a process which takes you to all parts of the game, not just PVE only.

I was annoyed when badges were given out as part of achievement chest.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Hopelessalchemist.4816:

What does sexual orientation have to do with the fantasy genre?

What does any kind of relationship have to do with the fantasy genre? Relationships are an important part of world building and creating compelling and relate-able characters – that’s what it has to do with the fantasy genre.

I’m mighty inclined to say people are opting for relationships to be optional, like in Dragonage/Baldur’s Gate etc etc

It’s more to do with how people approach this living story. Kinda like reading a book. There’s bound to be certain parts of it you don’t like even tho overall you love the story.

frostyraziel.1854:

CharrGirl.7896:

The majority of players don’t really care, or comment on this forum, or even in game about their relationship for that matter.

That’s because the majority of the players don’t care about the living story, since Anet has done such a great job to fill it with engaging and interesting characters that people can relate to. Scarlet already has made a mockery of the story by turning into a Saturday morning cartoon plot.

People just play for the achievements at this point. For them the story is the same old, same old. And this relationship thing is not really helping. It’s probably just turning away some of the more picky players.

Canach is like the best character to come out of the living story and anet haven’t done anything with him for months now.

Canach has some new conversation, he’ll be back soon enough.

Anet didn’t forget about Mai Trin, so I doubt they forgot Canach. It’s just isn’t his time yet.

And actually, what is it abotu Kasmeer and Marjory that people aren’t comfortable with? Had they been a regular straight couple, would it be any different? It’s just love not often

the lovestruck protector shield skin kidna screams all sorts of 7 years bad luck if I break it, >_<

I’m playing a charr, I only wish that I have a line in saying that Rox could join my warband (, but also mentioning that I know that she’s already set on joining the Stone warband.

My poor Reeva and the rest of my warband recruited in my PS, sitting away in Black Citadel when I’ve already killed Zhaitan.

Imo, even if they had been a male/female couple, we’d still give them as much attention as we do now. We’re humans, we love to dabble in gossips and speculations. It’s normal.

I do find the conversation pretty normal really, just that they aren’t hiding it. I have straight friends who kept their relationship hidden for YEARS, constantly evading the question, despite every one of us around them knowing the truth. So Marjory’s comment that they ‘still in negotiation’ isn’t too off. After all, it’s been only 6 months, and they only actually started as detective colleagues. Marjory noticing Kasmeer earlier is probably due to her work as a ministry guard and having involvements in events which of course includes nobles.

This part is probably just bringing to light that relationships such as these is just normal by Tyrian standards, and also adding to the dynamics of these characters. Or maybe…just maybe leading up to the next bit in the story.

Also, I think it’s just a Charr thing to say mated pair, listen in to what some of the charrs say in Black Citadel, you’ll get the idea. Rox asking that is probably her way of knowing that slighting one of them probably means slighting both.

Also Anet, we don’t get a repeat of the DR instance?:< I need to photobomb Marjory and Kasmeer I want to enjoy the scenes again

:O

I just realised, this is wvw in an actual pve setting. Trololololol. D00d, you just had the taste of what a wvw commander endures everyday, XDDD

stack stack stack, build build build, geezus don’t peek, stability necro marks veil etc etc and it’s not all the time everyone will listen.

BrunoBRS.5178:

CeruleanRevolver.6085:

Aaah, I’m kinda hoping Anet would eventually release some backstory on how these 2 actually hooked up. I saw some interesting digs in the twitter posts and certainly would like to have more of it.

The addition of their conversation may not add much to the main story, but it adds to their character, that we may know what inspired them and what drove them into taking such actions, which eventually roll into the main story as their personalities are built up.

As a person who enjoys digging up info and reading stuff, I’m a bit disappointed that Kasmeer don’t have her own backstory on a blogpost (and honestly, this kinda scares me and having me worried for her, having already grow fond of this coupling).

From my point of view, their relationship isn’t as obvious and isn’t really in your face sort. Bear in mind that girls flirt with each other tho not sexually attracted to each other, and the level of teasing is WAAAY more than these two.

you got kasmeer’s backstory AND how she met marjory in this patch. why would you need it repeated in a blog post?

I did said that I enjoyed digging and looking for info. And sides, it can also be asked why didn’t it get a blogpost then like some of the cast. It’s probably a harmless decision made in storytelling, and readers just come up with all sorts of wild theories about it, :P

Aaah, I’m kinda hoping Anet would eventually release some backstory on how these 2 actually hooked up. I saw some interesting digs in the twitter posts and certainly would like to have more of it.

The addition of their conversation may not add much to the main story, but it adds to their character, that we may know what inspired them and what drove them into taking such actions, which eventually roll into the main story as their personalities are built up.

As a person who enjoys digging up info and reading stuff, I’m a bit disappointed that Kasmeer don’t have her own backstory on a blogpost (and honestly, this kinda scares me and having me worried for her, having already grow fond of this coupling).

From my point of view, their relationship isn’t as obvious and isn’t really in your face sort. Bear in mind that girls flirt with each other tho not sexually attracted to each other, and the level of teasing is WAAAY more than these two.

KyreneZA.8617:

Paul Belz.7351:

Hey guys,

You must participate in the marionette encounter in order to progress to the step where you go to LA. You do not have to WIN the fight, only participate. Once you participated that step should go away.

For clarification please (I don’t need a dev reply, just anyone that knows): Is this after achieving at least one of the “Boss Thumper” dailies, or after completing the whole “Origins of Madness” meta achievement?

I have done the former, but had no idea to look out for a yellow star in LA, so the in-game/universe prompting for the player is a bit… lacking.

If you had actually won the marionette thingy, there will be a conversation between the NPCs to head down to LA. It’s hard to catch the conversation in the early days tho, cos everyone is /cheer-ing

A friend pointed out to me that Taimi’s golem isn’t hollow when you zoom in, there’s a chair and control panels and all…

Is this norm for all Asura summoned golem or is this another hidden gem to look at? I must say this is certainly a nice touch to it!

Not sure if spoiler tag is required, but o well.

About Kasmeer and Marjory

Much of the items people are pointing out are the luxury high end items. Usually these items are rare and inbetween. Assuming each day there are 3 new players deciding that they want it and the item only drops once for a person who didn’t want it every 3 days, it’ll definitely drive the price up as this is a demand>supply type item. Thus if the items in mind are the luxury ones, I doubt limiting order entries would help.

Simply look at Genesis & Crystal Guardian, which used to cost a bomb and now with more supply, the price has already dropped to an easily affordable range which you can farm up in a day. People could set it at a high price, but the champ farm train which is ongoing would only continously add in supply at a rate which is hard for manipulators to control

Flippers only quickens the process of price stabilisation, it closes the gap between buy now and buy order. The good thing it does is taking away bits of money out of the game, as opposed to actual farming which brings in money in form of drops. Both are actually good for the game to keep the economy going. However the rate of money exiting the game is not enough to overcome the rate of money coming into the game, thus we have inflation because we always have someone who have managed to farm more gold, and willing to pay more to buy a certain item.

If flippers do drive the price of items up, it essentially means that you could sell it for higher as well.

I think this game needs more, better looking and desirable NPC sold skins. The price set by NPC would be static, and I suppose players would be less worried about those skins inflating.

The value of an item ultimately depends on the supply than can be found in the world. Remember when Crystal Guardian or even the mini tequalt was sold for 150g a while back? As time goes on and supply kept coming in, it has fallen to about less than 20g. If Anet really feels that a certain price of an item is too much, they could easily tweak the drop rate. However I foresee that this would make it less desirable of an item since everyone could easily get it by then.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Every time you finish a complete set of Fractals (3 Standard Fractals + 1 Boss) you will receive the daily reward, restricted by account, which is consistent with other dungeon rewards. Each 10 levels of Fractals has it’s own daily reward. So if you played level 1, 11, 21, and 31, you would receive four daily rewards.

Does this mean I cannot use another character to gain a level 21-30 chest if I had done so for a previous character? What will happen to those who purposely levelled an alt so they can chance at 2 daily chest of the same fractal level?

Rhialto.8423:

panzer.6034:

Rhialto.8423:

Please no, not every pair of females in this game has to be lovers. They’re fine the way they are.

Not every pair needs to be lovers, but when the snarky one is calling other one “cupcake” and there is dialogue about them deciding what color their curtains will be then it’s pretty hard to not to see something there.

I haven’t seen the dialog about curtains, but the other stuff just seems like things really close female friends would say to each other. A close friendship often takes more time to form than a romantic attachment as well, so there’d be more opportunity for story along the way.

Besides, there’s precedence for a Bogart-type character like Marjory making same-sex friendships. Just look at Rick Blaine and Captain Renault in Casablanca. Two dudes who don’t really like each other all that much, but go from having a mutual understanding to a sort of friendship by the end of the movie.

romantic attachment can take just as much effort to work too, so depending on how the storywriter plan it out, it can be more interesting. So long as it’s not a Twilight-ish romance, shudders

I’ve never watched Casablanca, but seeing that Kasmeer and Marjory seems pretty comfortable with each other to start off this living story, perhaps the other direction would be to have them become enemies.

Then throw in romance in the mix.

inb4 FaolainXCaithe version human.

I don’t see why not something more than friendship could be developed between them, if storywriters want to torture the minds of speculative players, they could potentially drag it out to a couple more living stories.

I dunno, so far from my awesome selective reading skillz:

bi-weekly release of living story
Champion rewards
dungeon completion reward (tho I’m not too happy about this)
account magic find
crafting DID went up to 500
ability to set stats on legendaries
wvw map change

They were all implemented, along with some nice extras I didn’t expect.

Oh and that ‘the content above is subject to change as we test and iterate on these systems.’ Obviously the lot of you have never done real business before eh? There’s always that tiny little clause somewhere.

I’m still really happy with this game, no sub fee and gem purchases are up to my own fancy. I’m only sad that their legendary revamp did not include enlarging the Predator’s footfalls, :<

Out of all the living stories to date, I love Marjory and Kasmeer the most (cetainly hope neither one of them gets killed off!). Marjory’s voice is just too sexy to be removed from game.

Oh, and I’d sure like to see an official confirmation that they are lovers! Or at least a progression to that, A snarky necro and a cheery mesmer…think of all the potential fanfiction and fanarts!

Then again, relationship between females can be utterly intimate yet non-sexual or of a romantic nature. Calling each other pet names is not a rare concurrence especially between girls who are close. Kasmeer could just be worried about losing her friend if anything should happen (whether loss by way of death or to a psychotic salad), and Marjory could just simply enjoy having her company wherever she goes (and also, always good to have a mesmer around, hohoho!)

Just a copy of a post I had made in another thread till someone directed me to this thread, just to add my exp here

I just started on this event today, got the holographic comm from Vorpp and participated in 3 invasion in 3 different maps (Blazeridge, Sparkfly & Harathi). Killed everything that I see is related to the event. Got crashed out but got back in to continue killing and was around at the end of event to get the rewards thingy at end

My achievement tracker for the Portal invasion Closer, Invasion Canceller, and Worldwide Invasion responder are still at 0%. What’s up with this? If I could get the reward, I should be getting the achievement count too.

I just started on this event today, got the holographic comm from Vorpp and participated in 3 invasion in 3 different maps (Blazeridge, Sparkfly & Harathi). Killed everything that I see is related to the event. Got crashed out but got in back to continue killing and was around at the end of event to get the rewards thingy at end

My achievement tracker for the Portal invasion Closer, Invasion Canceller, and Worldwide Invasion responder are still at 0%. What’s up with this? >:(