Guild Wars 2

Lunar New Year inspired me to go back and make this piece; inspired by fresh adventures in Cantha.

I hope you all enjoy!

https://youtu.be/XiU3eBGAyAs

- Corvus

Gaile Gray.6029:

This is great! Love the images AND music!

Thank you Gaile!

<3 <3 <3

Shattered Steppes

With the newly revamped Shatterer, I decided to pay respects to the beast itself and the area it calls home.

For many of us, The Shatterer was one of the most exciting things about Guild Wars 2 before release and during those first few steps in Tyria.

I hope you enjoy!

- Corvus x

I’ve received no map completion rewards from any of the maps added since launch, despite them all having 100% completion on my account :C

BillFreist.1527:

Play normally, any additional progress you make won’t be lost. Any additional XP from rediscovering the same POIs and waypoints will also be retained once your characters are fixed.

The current plan is to repair all affected characters during work hours on Monday. I finished doing several tests and passes against the game databases to ensure we know who is affected and what they lost.

Those affected should be receiving an email in the next couple days with information on how this restore process will happen. For those that don’t want to wait for that email, the process is pretty simple:

We plan on temporarily blocking access to your game account. During this time we will perform the repairs and run some quick tests to ensure everything went smoothly. I don’t expect this process to take longer than an hour or so.

I’m also doing my best to ensure that those affected are compensated for the inconvenience this has caused. No promises on what that entails, as I have no control over that.

-Bill

Can I ask if anything is being done about the people who have achieved map completion but haven’t received any rewards? I have Verdant Brink, Auric Basin, Dry Top, Silverwastes and Southsun Cove completed but have received no rewards for anyt of them – will that be fixed in this update?

- Corvus

I composed a piece inspired by the unwavering efforts of the citizens and communities of Lion’s Arch and in celebration of it’s recent rebuilding!

I hope people enjoy!

https://youtu.be/Z3TNcuH_euE

Eexa! This sounds amazing and I’ll definitely try and make it to the event.

As for the raffle, I’ll take 19

- Corvus Darkhand

Paradox.1380:

Hey Corvus! I never heard of you before (which is a shame on me cause wow I love your composes videos!) but thanks to this post I found a new person to subscribe to! I won’t be entering a t-shirt contest since I couldn’t wear it if I won it (they never go to my size) but I think that is a cool thing to do and I just wanted to let you know you earned a new sub from me today out of your sheer awesomeness.

Wow, dude! Seriously, thank you so much. It means a lot that people enjoy my content – I don’t do it for any other reason than to entertain and inspire other people who share my love for this amazing game.

Gaile Gray.6029:

What a lovely thing to do. Please note, all fulfillment is on Corvus’ tab. (So I hope he doesn’t have to send to some distant shore with a £75 shipping fee. )

Seriously, Corvus, it was great to see you at Rezzed. Loved the chats and the thoughts you shared! What you’re offering to share is a very kind thing for your fellow GW2 players! <3 !

Aw thanks Gaile! It was amazing to meet you as well – you guys know how to party, haha! And hey, you can’t put a price on delivering somebody a little bit of happiness!

Some of the comments on the video are amazing already – this community is astounding and it’s so clear how much this game and its universe means to everybody <3

Gaile Gray.6029:

Guhracie.3419:

I love the GW2 community.

BTW, I just bought a Shatterer figure the other day, to add to my GW2 Shrine.

Fancy sending it to Edinburgh? :P

I was down at Rezzed and had a really great time and I want to give something to the people who couldn’t make it to there and couldn’t get to PAX.

I’m sorry if this is a little out of place, but the video isn’t monetized and I just want as many people as possible to have a chance at getting something they otherwise couldn’t.

Unfortunately, I was unable to steal hundreds of T-shirts, but I did manage to grab a couple!

Details are here: https://youtu.be/cYNNJvId70g

There’s NO need to subscribe or share or anything like that.

If you’re at work or something and can’t watch the video, all you need to do is comment there with your answer to the question “Why do you love Guild Wars”.

It’s open for a week and to everyone – regardless of where they live.

I know it’s a kitteneesy but we all love this game for a reason!

On a week today, Friday the 27th, I’ll look through the comments and pick my favourite and the most sincere answers.

Good luck and have fun!

Seeing as gaining levels will reward you mastery points instead of skill points, if you have a track enabled; do you think mastery points should be rewarded when using Tomes of Knowledge?

I personally don’t think so – I think it’d make it too easy for people to farm up their progress in what will essentially be the endgame progression for the game.

Wanna give a huge thanks to Maclaine for taking the time to talk to me! Hope you guys enjoy!

Thanks for your favorites! Super cool hearing what other people like and it’s reminding me of so many that nearly made my list!

Hope you guys enjoy! I was a little under the weather when I made this, haha.

http://youtu.be/2iBOUwmv3C8

Hey guys! I made a video talking about my favorite parts and features from the past season of the living world!

I’d love to start a super nice and positive discussion about what we super enjoyed and what we hope to see more of in the future!

So here, take my list – in video form!

Spoilers: I die about 5 seconds into it

I talk about my favourite parts of Season 2! I also blow myself up and just generally be ill. Hope you enjoy!

http://youtu.be/2iBOUwmv3C8

My Sylvari necro!

Also has the Shadow of Grenth backpiece.

islarose.7356:

Sithaco.4673:

I love how they seem to focus on fixing problems that no one here has heard people complain about, rather then fix the problems people are very vocal about.

Preach.

A thousand times THIS.

So I made this piece after the crash and fall of the Zephyrite ships in DryTop. It’s to represent the sadness of the people but also the urge in them to reform and deal with this attack.

I REALLY hope you enjoy it and any suggestions for future compositions would be amazing!

I recently composed this piece entirely while under the influence of Caledon Forest’s charm and beauty and I really wanted to nail that wondrous feeling of walking through a wood.

I hope you all enjoy it!

Reddit already gave me some excellent feedback and I’m really keen to hear what everyone says!

Thank you so much!

- Corvus

It was brilliant! I was speechless and had so much to say at the same time!

I looked into a couple of things that weren’t fully addressed and it made me even more excited for what’s next!

I laied out a couple of things that should be explained in my video review of the patch, if you wanna check it out? All plugs aside, I’d love to hear what people thought in response.

Yeah, I actually feel pretty kitten special for having been there. It’s gonna be something that’ll be referenced to in the future and we literally made Guild Wars history!

The Hero of Lion’s Arch title might be quite common just now but see a year from now, we’ll feel pretty kitten awesome for being able to show off that we were there, reclaiming the city!

Hahaha, yeah, I laughed at the time too! He’s a good character like that – a typical Norn! I just thought it was a strange decision, I suppose!

Thanks for the feedback on the video and I’m glad you enjoyed it and I really appreciate it

Posted this about but I’m basically wanting to make more Guild Wars friends as nobody I know really plays the game, so I made a channel and I’ll be posting reviews and thoughts and little silly things I find in-game.

So here’s my review of the patch and my ideas of where the future will take us!

Please do get involved!

Really wanna get talking to people and socialise with other players as I don’t know basically anybody that plays. I thought making channel would be a good way to do that!

So here’s my review and speculation on where ANet could maybe go!

Be sure to jam your ideas and thoughts on the patch – I love chatting with people about it and not that many that I know play the game and I wanna branch out and socialise with other players

The Dragons stand no chance! I’d love to see Primordus rise with a wee Quaggan backpack.

Yeah, I think that’s a solid plan. I made use of mine for a while but sometimes I wanna do other things and so half of them go to waste, which is a real shame.

What with the tendency of people around about now to talk about new playable races, me and a friend were talking about potential new classes to go along with any new races they decide to add.

We started thinking about what needed covered and there really wasn’t much we could think of, so we began going through new weapon ideas to see if classes could be based around any we could come up with.

One idea which interested me was of a boomerang type weapon.

Skills 1-5 applied traits to the weapon with a theif/necromancer/warrior type bar being strapped to F1.

F1 would fire the weapon and depending on how many traits you applied, the metre would go down, acting as a cooldown for releasing further powered up shots.

For example, using skill 1 would apply a fire fuel to the boomerang. You’d press F1 and it would be shot at the enemy and apply burning as well as dealing damage. Since only 1 effect had been applied to the boomerang, the metre would only go down a little.

If, say, you’d applied all 5 skills (fire fuel, barbs for bleeding, chilling fuel, poison and something like vines for binding), the metre would go down entirely and you’d have to wait for it to be recharged enough to use again at one of 5 stages: 1 for a single skill, ranging to 5 for all of them.

I quite liked it and it spun on to go into other weapon ideas and therefore more classes. Say a blend between Ranger and Theif, Tengu-style, able to use this weapon, dagger, axe, sword and shortbow or something?

I’d be interested in hearing more ideas anybody could come up with.

My Sylvari Necromacer!

Grenth Hood
Tier 2 shoulders and legs
Tier 3 coat and gloves
Ralley shoes

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Doesn’t work for me (the video, I mean). Don’t know why.

Ah, strange! It’s just a video of an elementalist in Divinty’s Reach doing that thing where you skate around because the running animation isn’t showing properly :P

I play on a medium-high populated server on a great PC and with a solid internet connection but I still occasionally get weird graphical glitches. These don’t bother me whatsoever, as you have to consider the scale of the project ANet are running.

However, I’ve been hearing of these glitches and strange texture errors a lot more recently and was curious to see how much it affected the game for people.

As for those amazing animation error ones, you really need to just jump in and make the most of them :P