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Update: Just switched to the 64-bit client. This issue is still occurring. I also suspected it might have had something to do with Reshade, but I tried loading the game without that and it still happened then, too.
So this has actually been happening for me for a few months, but I haven’t bothered posting about it here yet. But with all the patches right now, it’s a little more inconvenient than usual.
Every time I close the game, GW2.exe continues to run for about 5 or 10 minutes or so. Trying to close it in task manager does nothing. All I can do is wait. Trying to load the game back up again while this is happening does not work, as an instance is already running.
I’ve tried using -repair, but that doesn’t help.
I am also having this issue. I hope it can be resolved soon.
I founded a guild once, with the goal of one day making it democratic. But first we had a predemocratic period. The guild was did very well, for the most part. Then we finally went democratic. We had an elected parliament and a constitution. But few people ever voted. We had raffles for voters, and gave away lots of gold, and people still didn’t bother to vote. And once people did end up in the parliament, they themselves rarely did much.
Nothing got done, and the guild stagnated. People started leaving, or stopped repping.
The few parliament members left decided to dump the constitution and go back to a more traditional guild structure, but the damage was done, and the guild is currently essentially dead.
Moral of the story: Democratic guilds may sound like a good idea, but the average player is too apathetic for it to actually work.
If the Krait are from so far away from Tyria, what were they doing on the Tarnished Coast in GW1?
Javelins? Meh … not really interested in yet another single target ranged weapon.
Doesn’t necessarily have to be exclusively ranged. Some professions could use it ranged, some could use it melee, much like axe, staff, hammer, greatsword. If warrior were to get it, it would most definitely be melee, but guardian would likely get a ranged version, due to their Paragon influences. Ranger could go either way thematically, I think. I’m not sure that spears would fit any other profession very well, though.
But I really want them.
It’s easy. Open up your documents folder\Guild Wars 2, and create a new folder called “Music”. You can create an m3u playlist titled MainMenu.m3u containing the original menu music and put it in there.
You can find more complete information here:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Customized_soundtrack
Personally, I’ve got it set to play the original menu playlist, followed by the music that played on the original GW1 Prophecies main menu, with a few other tracks mixed in here and there as well. You can even make the game play the Maklain the Minstrel version of the main theme. That’s what I’ve got as the final track in my playlist.
One of my best experiences in GW2 was hunting down all the different pets. But I had them all within a month or so, and my hunt came to an end. When the Lost Shores added the reef drake, I was very excited, and I tamed one right away. Then Flame and Frost came, with no new pets. And we still haven’t gotten any since, not even llamas in Dry Top, or arid devourers.
The last pet I tamed, besides the reef drake, was the hawk. Only found in Ebbing Heart Run, a level 60 area. I was still level 30 at the time, and getting to that hawk was a very difficult task. But after numerous attempts, I made it.
I want more pets taming experiences like that. Most pets in GW2 or fairly easy to tame, I want pets that we have to put some effort into. GW1’s rainbow phoenix is a little over the top in its aquisition for my tastes, but the regular phoenix is a great example. Add a new pet at the end of the HoT personal story. Add a new pet that can only be found late in a raid. Jumping puzzles, too. Put pets in areas you can only access with high level gliding. Make it so we can’t blow through all the new pets within a month.
I think it’s very possible that “old as the Shiverpeaks” might not be literal.
It could also perhaps be that Glint’s 3000 years of memories may only be counting her memories after she was purified, allowing her to be much older. That might be a stretch, though.
I’m having this same problem, only I’m in Washington. I do have Comcast, though. Ping has been through the roof, and have dc’d in pvp a couple times now.
I’m wanting to know about this, as well.
I find it very interesting that “th” is still essentially “t h” despite being a syllabary. That makes even less sense than it does in the Latin alphabet. The whole thing clings a bit too closely to the way English uses the Latin alphabet, really. It’s a bit disappointing that they went as far with this as they did, but didn’t go all the way.
Excellent to see it deciphered, nonetheless.
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Regarding dervishes that don’t worship the human gods, there are the White Mantle Devotees.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/White_Mantle_Devotee
(Note that the image is inaccurate, and they did indeed wield scythes)
Perhaps they weren’t “true” dervishes, since they didn’t worship the humans gods, but in general, if it worked for them, I think it could work for Charr.
Just secularize the profession a bit.
(double posting for lulz)
Just had a thought and looked at the Realm of Torment map
Both it and the trailer design has a diamond within a double-circle centering the designs.
It was revealed some time ago that alchemy circle-like designs are used for maps of the Mists. This may be a map of Tyria from the viewpoint of the Mists (or a map of Tyria within the Mists), perhaps.
I was getting a bit tired of people comparing the RoT map and the Eternal Alchemy vision (I’ve seen people go as far as saying they’re identical…), but this actually sounds really good. I can definitely go for it being an Alchemical map of Tyria.
Steve. DSD’s name is Steve.
Its so totally obvious …
You can’t fool us, Saventis, the true DSD.
Yeah, this arc has always been a bit goofy since you can only take one path, but all 3 outcomes show up in the final mission. I think some of the NPC dialog is trying to fill in the holes.
I’m fairly certain this is the case with the entire personal story. Every branch of it happens, even if your character doesn’t participate in them. Some other nameless character does it instead.
It saddens me greatly that story was removed, but it makes me happy to see that I’m not the only one passionate about this. Hopeful, ANet will see that the story MATTERS to us players, and then do the right thing and revert all the changes.
I’d rather they sit down with the chapters, two pots of coffee, and figure out how to smooth it out even if it means cutting things or having to go beg VAs to get back in the studio to shoot more content and adding things.
I don’t understand why people were so attached to the Fear storylines. They weren’t all that impressive. Only one of them had any real value to the story as a legitimate threat. The other two felt entirely tacked on and super rushed.
Apatia swims around and gets captured. Or she goes for the caravan, gets captured, and you do all the work to accomplish the mission without her anyways. She literally accomplished the fewest things in the story arc she appears in of anyone in the entire game. Faren is more useful and memorable than Apatia.
Tonn’s story just had no closure. It’s a buddy cop drama where you have to sit through a bunch of dad jokes, put together a special explosive to accomplish the same effect as a single trebuchet attack on Claw Island, and then he just vanishes. Dead, apparently. From the explosion? From the Krait? Did the undead get him? Who knows? He’s just dead now. How is that heartbreaking? It’s just confusing.
If they actually want to rework the fear storylines and make them relevant, then by all means, but I’m certainly not torn up about losing either of those two.
This is interesting, because I’ve seen you ingame before, and you were in the ANet guild.
I think this may be the first time I’ve actually been upset with a change to this game. The loss of keyfarming is disappointing, but I can shrug it off. I’m not upset with anything else about this feature patch. It may not be as big as the last one, but it’s enough for me.
But this? This is abhorrent. I’m glad I’ve already done the personal story three times and already experienced all three different fears, but I want to experience that again on my other characters, and I want everyone who hasn’t done them yet to do it as well.
This is like how Fox handled Firefly. Bad ANet. No.
A functional main story this long after release should be a priority imho.
Well, it used to work, it only became bugged very recently.
I’ve done it before on another character.
Working on my third run through the personal story, and just made the mistake of choosing this option over the other one. Oops, now I’m stuck.
IIRC, it plays the track titled “The Seraph”. Which, to the best of my knowledge, isn’t ever associated with the Seraph in game.
I think someone either screwed up with naming the track, or with deciding where the track plays.
I mostly agree with this topic. I can’t stand the over-the-top weapons, such as the fused skins. But I also think going too realistic can be a bit boring.
My favorite weapon skin in the entire game is probably Khrysaor. Perhaps it’s not the most realistic thing in the world, but it’s definitely far from stupidly stupid, too. I’d like to see more weapons like it.
I also really like Bonetti’s rapier. The Ebon Vanguard skins are nice, but the coloration on them can be a bit hard to work with at times.
I think Fire Emblem tends to have a pretty good balance between realism and fantasy when it comes to weapons and armor, and I would love to see some skins with that sort of feel to them.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/MarthFE3DS.png
http://www.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fe_awakening_marth_thumb.jpg
http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/15/151939/2203813-ephraim.png
http://img1.ak.crunchyroll.com/i/spire2/8ab787ee5c317a0303c85914eb6348d71400851782_full.png
http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120213184932/fireemblem/images/0/0d/Hasha_roy.jpg
http://static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080206011524/fireemblem/images/d/db/Fess-ephraim.jpg
http://static.zerochan.net/Tiamat.%28Fire.Emblem%29.full.54153.jpg
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130506033614/fireemblem/images/b/b8/Alm_%28FE13_Artwork%29.jpg
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100602204003/fireemblem/images/c/c3/Myunit_m.png
Lots of reasonably realisticish looking weapons and armors that still manage to look distinctive.
Destroyers don’t count as elementals, either.
The Risen get their own slayer achievement, specific to Risen. If/when we get around to fighting more generic undead (Palawa Joko), those will not count toward the Risen achievement.
Moral of the story is that dragon minions are special. Maybe they’ll add a Mordrem Slayer achievement in an upcoming patch. But so far, only Risen have one.
Regarding Rytlock’s ability to lift the curse, where is it said that it must be lifted by a descendent of Doric, as many seem to be assuming? All I’m able to find is that it must be the “rightful king of Ascalon”. Doesn’t say human. I’m sure the Charr feel Ascalon is rightfully theirs, so a Charr king may very well be able to do it.
Except that the Charr don’t have a Khan-Ur anymore.
Could this video be implying that Rytlock has finally declared himself Khan-Ur?
Yes, like how you had to find all the chickens in Kakariko Village in Ocarina of Time! I approve.
Further to that, it’s likely that Mordremoth can only corrupt plants, all the minions of his that we’ve seen have been some kind of plant creature, be it husk or flower or fern hound.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Mordrem_Wolf.jpg
That is a dead dog that has had plants attached to its nervous system. The dog itself is not corrupted, however, and is merely being used as a puppet by the plants on its back, so it’s kind of a gray area, really.
Perhaps you mean this map: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/24yoea/map_high_resolution_map_of_planet_tyria/
Which is a recreation of the one from the Chantry of Secrets.
You are right, hell, appearently we have stars being born in accordance to Elder Dragon risings. Which again goes to show that the fluctuation of magical forces can do weird things in the universe of Tyria seemingly completely unrelated. Who is to say that no magical events effected anything we are debating and blaming on bad writing? It is the point of “magic” to be mystical and unknowable in its potential, even so dragon energies/chaos magic.
Just had an interesting thought regarding the stars thing.
Maybe it’s not the dragons waking that triggers a star to be born, and instead is the other way around. Those stars are going to be quite distant, and by the time Tyrians see them being born, it will have actually been born long before. But maybe the newborn starlight finally reaching Tyria triggers the dragons somehow. If that is the case, however, there probably wouldn’t be a new star for Mordremoth, because he was awoken artificially.
Maybe there’s a connection of some sort between the stars and ley lines?…
All of that is, of course, assuming the information regarding stars being born is from a Tyrian point of view, rather than a universal one.
Make this happen, ANet! Just let us give them hats, and make their F2 be “Stab 37 times in the chest”, which kills people.
I am completely okay with the idea of characters being an unreliable source of information.
I am not okay with the idea of devs being an unreliable source of information.
This is a question that I have also pondered. I don’t really have any good ideas for a subtitle, though.
On a somewhat related note, I’ve also often wondered why they chose to make the “2” dragon symbol be red instead of a more Zhaitan-ish color and design (obviously still keeping the 2 shape). The current red logo looks more like Primordus, both in color and design, which isn’t really all that relevant currently. They could have had a different dragon themed logo for different expansions (or however they end up releasing other dragons in the end).
Regarding the giant rings everywhere, I believe they used to form domes. A few of the smaller ones that are still more or less intact have glass domes around them, with the rings forming a framework for the glass. So I think it’s reasonable to assume that the larger ones used to have glass as well.
But I hope we someday get a Fractal or something that takes place in pre-Cataclysmic Orr. Or a Guild Wars 0.
I don’t think we’ll ever see scythes, unfortunately. There are already 3 scythe skins available as staves, not to mention the fact that necros are able to turn any staff into a scythe.
But spears should definitely happen, I agree. (and great axes, crossbows, and possibly whips)
Regarding your zweihander comment, they look like zweihanders because they literally are. It’s German for “two handed (sword)”. Aka greatsword.
That being said, I agree that most of the greatswords in this game are too over-the-top. My favorite is Khrysaor, but I’m too cheap to buy it. It’s moderately realistic, without looking generic. Skybringer’s all right, as well. But the legendary greatswords? No thank you.
I think they could probably be added to the black lion weapon specialist for 5 (or even 10?!) tickets. It’d make them be available again, but with a high cost so that they are still a bit special.
That gate came with the first wintersday event, it was used to enter Tixx’s workshop.
No, it’s the Polymock Arena gate.
While penguins are pretty awesome and I would never, ever be against the addition of penguins, the aquatic pet I would really love to see is a rayfish (manta ray, stingray, eagle ray) not the manta ray in the game, which looks nothing at all like the real life animal which is amaizing. Would be the perfect compliment to my shark, instead of the silly jellies or ugly armorfish.
As for an acceptable choice or already ingame creatures I could agree to the deepsea scorpions, they are pretty cool.Anyways… penguins would be acceptable too.
I want all of those. I would probably have a penguin as my main aquatic pet, and a manta ray as my secondary one.
Make it happen, ANet! We haven’t had any new pets since The Lost Shores.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Tengu this confirms that they aren’t from maguuma but it also shows they are not only from Cantha – so if Tengu would become a major part of the story wouldn’t it effectively be when we head to the far shiverpeeks as this would mean they have an opportunity to reclaim some of their lost lands – but it also doesn’t mean that they didn’t eventually have a perch in the maguuma jungle either – so who knows
Actually, that page confirms nothing of the sort. In fact, it explicitly tells you that there were Tengu in the Tarnished Coast, which is part of the Maguuma.
I also seem to remember something about some Quetzal still hiding out deeper into the Maguuma than we can currently visit, but I could be mistaken with this bit.
I agree that Metrica and The Grove seem to lack their own distinctive themes, and that should be remedied. However, the tracks you linked would not be good choices at all. The first one is the Asura racial theme. Each of the races has their own racial theme, distinct from their city themes, that plays during character creation. Maybe it’d be good to hear those put into the rest of the game in certain spots, but making it double as their city theme would be just as inconsistent as it is now.
And the second track you listed is not actually titled The Grove. That’s a fan title from before the real title was known. That track is called The Tengu Wall, and it shows in the way it sounds. I personally suspect it’ll be used as the Tengu racial theme (or possibly city theme – but not both) whenever they become playable. It currently doesn’t ever play ingame, but that makes sense, because there’s currently virtually nothing Tengu related ingame.
Royal Terrace … we had Royal Palace in Cantha near Kaineng city.
That was Raisu Palace, and it was technically still in Kaineng City, not just near it. I don’t recall it ever being described as being “royal”, Canthans tend to prefer the term “imperial”.
There’s a royal palace right in the middle of Divinity’s Reach, too, you know. Occam’s Razor, and all.
Guys, there’s a big difference between in game lore and what actually happened. He never denied that it was the Canthan district in the real word past, he just said that it’s not part of official lore because it was changed before release.
Except there are still several references ingame to it having once been the Canthan District (in addition to the Arts District). So either there’s a retcon happening only just now (it did not happen prior to release), or there’s some misinformation coming from this dev.
That said, there are some screenshots on Reddit of what’s hiding beneath the tent, and it’s definitely not Canthan anymore.
It’s basically a large round structure using the same typical Neo-Krytan architecture that can be seen in the majority of DR. It’s almost definitely the location of the new Royal Terrace, which is basically just adding LA functionality to DR. Which I find extremely disappointing. We’ve got LA for all those things. And it means the Canthans won’t be getting their district rebuilt. I don’t get disappointed with ANet very often (green “rainbow” jellyfish, Sky Pirates patch, that’s about it), but this is a big let down.
Very nice summary! I had skipped the Sky Pirates update, so it was nice to catch up on what I missed. You did skip over Wintersday, though.
I’m pretty sure there are actually only a couple unused tracks. Most obviously being The Tengu Wall. Which I feel should remain unused until the Tengu & Dominion of Winds is added.
In fact, there are several tracks ingame that aren’t on the OST. And I’m not talking about GW1 tracks, there are a lot of new ones for GW2 that have not been released.
That said, many tracks don’t play in the appropriate locations/events.
For instance, “The Seraph” – I’ve heard it a few times ingame, but never in any context that actually relates to the Seraph.
And “Scales of Issormir”… does not play when you fight Issormir.
Why does “Lornar’s Pass” play in Lion’s Arch?
Why is there Echovald music in Southsun Cove?
These are the things that need to be fixed. With all of the tracks from GW2, Prophecies, and EotN available, the track options are all fine. The issue is where the tracks are playing.
Where can I find music that plays on Southsun Cove? Did they release it anywhere?
https://soundcloud.com/arenanet/sets/the-lost-shores
You can click on each individual track and download it as a .wav file.
Then you can convert that wav into whatever format you want using whatever program you want (like Audacity, which is free), if you want.
Southsun Cove does play some music from the OST, as well, though. Which can be found on directsong.com.
The more time I spend with it the cooler I think the new model looks. Perhaps the whole rainbow name is a misnomer, but they could rename it a Green Jellyfish and it’s such a nice change.
I don’t mind the new jellyfish skin, but, what they should do is make this new skin a new species called green jellyfish and give us a proper rainbow jellyfish like the one shown in the concept arts
In the beta, the new “Rainbow” skin actually WAS used for a juvenile green jellyfish.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Juvenile_Green_Jellyfish
http://www.guildwars2-pets.com/species/jellyfish_Green_Jellyfish.html
I agree that the juvenile green jellyfish should be brought back, and that the rainbow jellyfish needs to get the proper skin from the concept art.
To be honest, I don’t really use any jellyfish anyway, but the new skin just feels like a cheap way out. :|
Agreed. Everything should be able to be dyed. Back pieces, weapons… But back pieces would probably be an easier start.
I doubt weapons will ever be dyeable, because look at the human cultural weapons, then look at the CM weapons. They’re the same except for their “dye”.
That said, back pieces definitely do need to be dyeable. I almost bought Rox’s quiver, but decided against it because it’s got ugly “dye”.
If back items hypothetically become dyeable before the quiver disappears from the gem store, I’ll buy it. Take my gems, ANet!
And of course, I need to make my Fervid Censor be blue.
For both Guild Wars 1 & 2, there are several songs that have never been officially released.
Some examples include the instrumental version of Fear Not This Night, the extended version of Here Be Dragons, Uzolan’s Mechanical Orchestra, and a track that played in the Crystal Desert in GW1. And there’s much more than those, too.
Most, if not all, of these can be found on Youtube, or be manually ripped from the game files, but the quality is inferior to an official release.
Seeing as the ArenaNet soundcloud has recently been posting all of the post-Soule music in lossless format, and even posted a Soule Wintersday track that was in GW1, I’m wondering if there’s any chance of more unreleased tracks someday being released.
I just can’t get enough Soule (and Diemer, Chappele, and LePard).
This is the concept art of the Rainbow Jellyfish that was promised by ArenaNet to the people who unlocked it through their HoM. You might want to use that for guidelines on how it should have looked.
This.
I want the rainbow jellyfish to match its concept art. I do not want the beta juvenile green jellyfish to replace it. I’d rather see the green jellyfish replace the blue one than the rainbow one.
Ideally, though, the rainbow jellyfish would match its art, the blue jellyfish would remain the same, and the green one would be re-added to the game.
Edit: The green jellyfish even had a unique skill in beta, poison whirl. Don’t waste its non-rainbowy skin that looks nothing like the rainbow jellyfish concept art on the rainbow jellyfish.
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I would love to see the old login screen brought back. I don’t like the current launcher (or launchers like that in general), and the old one was simply amazing.