Guild Wars 2

Thanks for the reply. I’ve added you to my friends list and I’ll message you if I ever see you in game.

Anyone else on Blackgate looking for some new members?

Server preference: Blackgate NA
Play Type Preference: PvE, WvW, PvX
Player Style: Moderate (Me) and Casual (Wife)
Active Time: Mon-Fri 830pm-1130pm, Saturday 10pm-Midnight and Sunday, 830pm-11pm (Eastern Standard Time) — Pretty much when the kiddos go to sleep.
Voice preference: Seldom use Discord (and other voice chats). My mic is broken. My computer is also in the same room as the TV and gaming consoles so I stay off voice chat as to not annoy the wife. She doesn’t talk in discord and is all-around a pretty shy person.
Social preference: We’re looking for a social/casual guild that is mostly adults that speak English. We’re not easily offended and enjoy jocularity — but, people can go over the top. Blantent disrespect to guildmates is a huge turnoff for us. Trolling, sure. Totally cool with that. Being an kitten isn’t needed though.

Body: Hey all. I’m Chickenooble (or “Mr. Prez” as some others call me) and I’m looking for a new guild on Blackgate. My current guild is on a different server and I’m starting to play around in WvW more without anyone to play with. T_T

My wife and I can rep 98% of the time so be cool with the occasional repping of our storage guild — gotta transfer materials somehow! My current guild has a 100% rep policy and they lost their minds when I switched to another guild for less than five minutes the other night. Not a fan of power-crazed guild leadership that isn’t reasonable. Let that be a warning — I’m respectful to everyone in my guilds but I’m not kissing the rears of any officers because they’re friends with the GM. This is a game to me — I’m not trying to climb some career ladder. I just want to have fun with other like-minded adults.

My wife is the quiet one that runs around and farms stuff in game. She’ll open up once she learns the game more and is comfortable with the guild. I’ll be the one that goes out with the guild for missions, fractals, dungeons, WvW and whatever else. She’s the introvert; I’m the extrovert.

We’re looking for an established guild that has about 20+ active members a night. Social is a must, as is a majority of adults. I don’t like being in guilds with a bunch of kids.

Anyways, if you think my wife and I are a good fit for your guild, shoot me a message here or in game.

Looking forward to talking to you!

Like the title asks — do random mobs drop wintersday presents? Wintersday Gifts, bells, candycanes, food, etc. Just trying to get a feel for how to collect these items while leveling my alt.

When running around Malchor’s Leap, the sound loop for the waves seems to be too loud and everywhere. I’m down by Pagga’s Waypoint and I still hear the ocean sounds. I don’t recall this being the case so I’m reporting it just in case this is a legit bug.

Thanks for the reply. I submitted a ticket and hopefully they can un-screw my screw up. Take care.

Hey all,

I received a four-year birthday package on my character and I thought, “Hey, let’s stop being poor and sell this Shadow Abyss Dye for some money!” I already have that dye unlocked so why not.

Well, I got the dye in my bag, it shows that I already have the color on my account, and I can’t right-click the dye to sell.

Oops!

Is there any way I can get the Jubilant Dye Pack, or at least the Shadow Dye Kit, restored to my Chronomancer so I can at least pick something useful since these birthday dyes can’t be sold on the trading post?

All the Essence of Luck, from Fine to Legendary

I switched maps because of the low-pop message and the event worked. That instance must be bugged.

The event “Defeat the kidnapping harpies before they reach the cliffs” appears to be bugged. Another player and myself have been waiting for 20 minutes and the event hasn’t started yet. I checked the cliffs and that event isn’t started. It’s like they’re hung up somewhere.

All we see if a Harpy Kidnapper swoop down every 30sec. and disappear; no grabbing villagers, no NPC response, nothing.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Defeat_the_kidnapping_harpies_before_they_reach_the_cliffs

If anyone has a suggestion, event interval, or a map that is working please hook me up. I’m bored waiting for this to begin.

Isn’t GW2 supposed to be about the dragons? Let’s go to the far northern shiverpeaks and kick some Jormag rear…

wildmanviper.4351:

He was 2K ahead of me when HOT was release and IM currently at 27,146. My rival is at 27,454 but in 10 days, I might as well say goodbye.

So, if you’re both capped then there is no advantage either way. Removing the cap would remove the cap for both of you… meaning you both earn that 10AP at the same rate.

Sounds like you need to step your game up.

I’ve never had problems getting names. Maybe you’re just being too generic. Get creative.

So I just tried creating my account in the Guild Wars client. I entered my key, entered in my PII like name, address and whatever else, and then was asked to enter my e-mail address twice and a password twice. There were four checks next to the criteria on screen leading me to believe all was well, but I was given an error, “The password you have provided is incorrect. Please check your password and try again. (Code=011)”

I shouldn’t have an account or password for this game… so, what gives? Any ideas?

Ah, gotcha. Didn’t know I had to create a separate account. Thanks for the knowledge. <3

Hey everyone,

I just received the Guild Wars Trilogy (UPC: 875646000703) and I was hoping to tie the game to my ArenaNet account. It appears as if Guild Wars doesn’t recognize my GW2 Email/Password as my ArenaNet account.

Anyone have experience with this setup and account linking?

Energy pistols/rifles like Levvi’s Detector, Pact Shotgun and Super Hyperbeam Alpha (to name a few) sound like there is an explosion launch the projectile, similar to how a normal bullet would be fired from a shotgun or rifle.

These types of guns in the game should have different sound effects. I think the Phantasmal Duelist (pistol offhand #4 for Mesmer) has the perfect ‘pew pew’ sound for these guns.

Also, the projectile animation of white smoke with the white line… yea, let’s just switch that to a blue lazer beam.

How long does it take you to find your frequently used WPs on a map? Not long, I’m assuming. Now, you have to weigh the level of effort requires to change the UI and implement this change just to save you a second of your time.

No.

Clearly this player is Sylvari and is admitting Mordremoth is in their head.

Lydah.5296:

legenduu.4372:

level cap would completely screw the economy

How so?

Inflation. It would make things even more expensive than they already are and the hill to purchase would be even steeper for new player.

I’ve played in high-level raiding guilds with other MMOs and I normally hated level caps or new tiers of gear. Both erased months (or years) of effort on any of my characters and made them irrelevant. To get each of my characters competitive for setting server-firsts I had to invest more time than I wanted to, ultimately leading to burn out and uninstallation.

I didn’t feel that anxiety with the approach of this expansion and I don’t feel that dread after playing it. I’m still playing my level 80 classes and they’re still as fun and challenged by the new (and old) content. I don’t have to spend weeks getting them leveled or geared for new zones.

And I kinda like grinding bars. Guess that’s why my mesmer looks like a stripper.

NTDK.4897:

it does.

if you have more than 2 not full stacks, you need to click compact a few times.

Interesting. I had two stacks of silk — one with 14, the other with 17. I hit compact and it didn’t stack. I’ll try compacting more next time. Thanks.

Am I the only one that thinks hitting ‘Compact’ should condense stacks of stackable items?

Thanks Zero, I’ll hit you up in game and see what you guys are about.

Any others out there?

So what is a Rhand? In English (or any other language that I know of) Rhand has no meaning. Font does… and I understand what a ‘Font’ is but ‘of Rhand’ seems to imply that Rhand is a place or person… it would be tragic if they just made up a name and didn’t give it any real basis in lore.

You know, I’m rather tired of hearing about guilds and their nanny-state rules. Whether it’s reprimanding people for talking about stuff someone might get offended by, getting upset that they’re not being represented 100% of the time, or mad that someone isn’t signing up on the forums and/or FB page… it just seems there are too many ego-tripping guilds out there. “I’ve talked to the counsel and we’ve decided…” is some of the stupidest stuff I’ve heard in a video game. No, your counsel is nothing more than a bunch of nerds who take this game too seriously.

Are there any guilds that exist for just socializing without all the hierarchical non-sense that too many guilds employ these days? One, preferably with all adults who have lives, would be ideal since kids (and adults without lives) are annoying.

So, if your guild isn’t some up-tight mess of strict dictatorship, isn’t easily offended by [insert something that may offend you here], is full of adults who act like adults and just likes having more people to talk to on a regular basis… then shoot me a message. Just looking for more of an active social group.

I find the name ‘Font of Rhand’ to be very odd since ‘Rhand’ has no other meaning (that I know of). Is there someone in GW2 Lore with the name of Rhand? The Wiki doesn’t say much about it…

This is awesome. I’m totally going to pull this just to troll people at FE times.

Okey. I saw that one but I wasn’t sure if it was up to date. Many thanks, all!

Hey all,

I wanted to experiment with my character build, gear, gems, etc. and I was trying to find the most up-to-date resource for this. The few websites I looked at all appeared to have subtle differences between them and I’m not sure which is most accurate.

For pre-built builds, or a template/character builder (for level 80), which websites do you prefer?

Whenever I post an item to the trading post, the displayed position on the list will jump to some random location rather than just removing the item from the list and keeping the scroll-bar at the same position. Although this isn’t a game-breaking bug, it does make using the TP more difficult since each post I need to re-find items.

Ideally, the position on the list would be based on the scroll bar on the right, and keeping that position between TP posts would make sense. Why, when scrolled to the bottom, would selling an item reposition me to somewhere in the middle of the scrollbar?

I’m convinced this Asura face model was intended to be Lil Wayne…

Thus, “Little Lil Wayne”

eisberg.2379:

Chickenooble.5014:

Totalkill.8014:

110gb between 3 people who use it alot, it sucks

So happy to live in the USA…

There are a lot of services with in the US that still have a very low data cap.

So happy to live in the first-world part of the USA…

Totalkill.8014:

110gb between 3 people who use it alot, it sucks

So happy to live in the USA…

Arnox.5128:

…else I feel I’m just gonna start dying all the time and be worthless.

The second half of this quote is accurate.

If playing Elementalist is too hard for you then pick one of the the other seven classes. No one said you had to hold your hand in the fire if it hurts…

segman.3560:

Press the arrow on your chat tab, mark “game messages” info.
Now when youre friend goes on or offline you’ll get the yellow message on your chat.

You need to have a guy on your friend list to make this work.

Got it. Thanks man.

Is there any way to get a message in the chat log that says, “Friend logged on/off?”

New players are introduced to a bunch of characters in Living Story 2. Their history and experience with the player is never really explained. There should be some ‘recap’ that explains what happened in Living Story 1. Perhaps show some cut scenes… some text… something. Also, in-zone “historians” would be a cool addition to talk about the environments before Living Story 1 messed everything up.

Historian guild please?

One of the biggest points of the game is exploration, is it not? That’s why there are more events randomly about in unknown locations instead of Renown hearts. If you make “leveling alts” easier then you’re taking out one of the largest components of the game.

My wife just came back to GW2 since a prolonged hiatus since the week of initial release. She unlocked a lot of in-game hints during that time but those hints won’t re-appear on-screen now — and she really could use them. She knows about the hint menu but there’s a lot of information and the hint system worked better as it slowly fed relevant chunks of information instead of a giant in-game guide of “this is what you need to know.”

Is there a way to reset the hints for an account?

I think you’re lazy. You should do your missions on a different character if you already unlocked that WP, or communicate with your guild which missions they intend on doing in advance of mission time so you can get the necessary WPs.

I don’t get the, “I’m disabled and can’t work so I spend all my time playing a video game” mentality. Wouldn’t time be better spent learning something else computer related? It sounds like the OP and others have endless time to sit at the computer, but no time to learn a skill (like programming) which could be beneficial and profitable. There’s a lot you can do from a chair… why settle on leveling your characters when you could be leveling up your life? Be a web developer, a blog writer, a musician with a keyboard and a laptop, paint pictures and sell them on the internet, a graphic designer, a novelist, etc.

I’ve recently returned to GW2 after a year-long hiatus and I see that things have changed. Should I bother trying to get World Completion now that Lions Arch is destroyed? My character is level 50 and I’d like to get the pretty badge next to Barack Charrbama’s name, but if it’s not possible with some maps being obliterated, then I’ll continue working on destroying the in-game economy.

Bumping for great justice~!

Hey all. The guild I belong to, Empire of Ra, moved from Northern Shiverpeaks to Blackgate. We were on NS for several weeks and we spent our influence on a guild bank and other perks.

Flash forward to a week ago… we transfer to Blackgate and now we don’t have any of our upgrades. What’s worse is the guild bank is gone, and it appears that all the items we had in it are gone as well.

What’s the deal with this? Is this a design issue and, if so, how come? If this is by design, is there a message that my guild leader failed to see, warning that everything will be reset prior to transfer? If this is a bug, is there any way we can get some restoration or influence refunded? If the items are lost forever, I guess they’re lost forever…

Thanks in advance for any information regarding this matter.

Ideas for DE Bosses:

• Stacking conditions based on proximity to DE Boss. Based on the boss, the condition might effect melee or ranged players more, and it’ll force the players to constantly move outside their comfort zone to shed the condition and force weapon swaps.
• ‘Enrage’/Fail timers. I think DE Bosses should feel more epic and should have a chance of losing, like when that alligator ate the fisherman. The battle was much more tense when you’re trying to jocky the health bar against the digestion bar. If the timer scales with the difficulty, that would be perfect. There needs to be more risk of failure, and that failure could result in everyone dying and the boss going on a rampage or some other equally bad state.
• Larger AOE. DE Bosses should have devastating AOE abilities that do massive damage to the bads who get caught in the red circle.
• DE Bosses need more CC conditions because it’s currently way too easy to evade and escape.
• Bosses should have more invulnerability periods where conditions need to be met (dispatching adds, firing world weapons, collecting materials to keep X alive, etc) before the ‘shield’ is dropped. If the boss regenerates health during this time, that’ll force the players to have some urgency in completing the task.

ArenaNet made mention of some Dynamic Events being more rare than others, but I thought it would’ve been largely based on whether a specific condition had been met prior to triggering. If there’s an NPC screaming, “Hey, I need your help! There’s a giant Hommajigobbity”, and upon talking to that NPC, you don’t pick the, “Good thing I’m a Hommajigobbity slayer!” option, then the event might not trigger… and if no one likes fighting Hommajigobbities, then it could be a long time before that event runs.

As for automatic events which fire every couple months based on some near arbitrary value… hard to say. The game hasn’t been out but a couple of weeks.

The Guild Wars 2 website needs to have an Armory available so we can see key stats for our guilds, home worlds and characters.

Home World Ranking Page
- There needs to be a ladder so we can see the current standing of the different home worlds. The ladder would show the ranking of home worlds. At the top of the ladder you should see the most competitive home worlds, and they should be grouped by their current battle grouping. If the user clicks on a WvWvW match, they’ll see a summary of the match in the window: How long has it been going, score, pie chart, captures, etc.
- Home worlds should have historical information tracked and graphed. We should be able to see how a specific home world has risen or fallen over the course of a period of time. I think this would be enjoyable to see how, from match to match, which home worlds climbed the ladders and which fell. This could be easily represented on a linear chart, where along the bottom you have weeks, and the side you’d have positions. A home world can be tracked this way. Also, users should be able to toggle some home worlds on and off.
- Home World statistics would be nice to see on a website; approximate population, peak times, etc.

Character/Display Name Page
- Implement a Blizzard-styled ‘Armory’ where players can show off their achievements, feeds, stats, gear, builds, skills, and whatever else.

Guild Page
- Display guild roster
- Display upgrades, guild messages, etc.
- Enable additional features if the GW2 account is logged into the website, such as a discussion forum and guild bank management.

Some features that I think should be implemented in game…
- Some sigils increase magic find, burn duration and other stats by a percentage, but there is no where which tells us the hard number that’s being augmented. All these obscure values should be visible to the player via a ‘details’ window, like in Diablo 3. Hidden for most people, but crucial information is still there for those who want it.
- Allow players to view the profile of other players.
- Allow face-to-face trading or collect-on-acquisition for trading items.
- Allow players to send themselves gear, gold and gems.
- Make joining dungeons easier for groups.
- Release a higher-resolution texture pack so some places, specifically in the snowy mountains, would look less blurry and globby.
- Add dueling.

We’ve been told that there is a ladder for the different home worlds and that players will compete against home worlds that are of similar ranking. Unfortunately, there’s no way of knowing how all the home worlds rank against each other unless individuals were to report the standing each week, and even then, there’d have to be a bit of guessing involved.

Some ideas for this feature could include…

• List of home worlds, sorted by descending ranking value, where every three rows would have the same background color to show representative matches.
• Ability to see specifics on a given match — historical or current — so you can see the same information you’d see if you brought up the PvP screen. Include a timeline feature, you could see the changes, by interval, for a given match…
• Line-graph, or table, which shows the rise and fall of a home world from match to match. Graphical representation would be great as a means of motivating a home world to do better or climb to the top.

If there’s a website that’s already tracking this in an accurate way, I’d love to have a link!

Thanks in advance.