Guild Wars 2

All you super saiyans think you’re SOOOO great, with your gorgeous golden locks gently wafting in the breeze… Who’s the boss now, huh? WHO’S THE BOSS NOW?!

Haha are a lot of people posting positive things just to prove Vayne wrong? Vayne, I don’t know you, but I read a lot of your posts and you should stop liking GW2 and stop white knighting. The power of everyone trying to prove you wrong will turn the forums into a paradise lol.

Gliding and masteries in general added so much value to my cosplays. Elite specs giving my characters access to new weapons and skins. New class revenant allowed me to make Donatello. I enjoy mobs actually requiring me to use my abilities to survive. Elements of the story were impactful and I thought it was really awesome how parts of the story took place in the open world and NPCs treated you differently if you were a Sylvari. Maps are beautiful. Horizontal progression is a great solution over raising the level cap. Yeah HoT got a lot wrong, but the good is keeping me playing.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I agree with Ayrilana, if an item comes into the game which grants the unlocking of WPs either for the account or for a specific character, and you opt to use it, then you should automatically negate your right to map / world completion rewards.

1) You should get none of the XP normally granted for discovering those WPs, because you didn’t discover them
2) Being able to waypoint around grants a significant advantage regarding both time and effort when clearing a map

Yeah maybe negate XP, I can agree with that. Either way if you’ve already completed map completion and regularly do dailies you’re probably drowning in writs of experience and tomes of knowledge anyway, but still…

Yeah map clearing would be faster but I don’t see how this would be P2W either. Gameplay wise you’d still have to complete the same content anyway. As long as a pre-determined number of map completions is required before getting the item I don’t see why not.

It’s not the size that matters it’s how you use it.

And Zuko knows exactly how to use it!

FASHION WARS!

Wow, for a bunch of people who don’t care one way or the other this thread has certainly sparked a lot of activity lol.

Halo.8976:

Bunch of PYRO jumped from a bridge to their death…

WvW going back to normal, good match-up.

I’m relatively new to PYRO, but my summation of the experience so far…

Following the leader

If Chris Farley could do cartwheels, I can suspend my disbelief enough that a fat man with a giant sword in a magical fantasy realm could kick monster tush.

Titles are not pointless! >:(

Figured out the look I’m going to use when Revenant comes out. TMNT Donatello! Staff Rev obviously

Using a shield as his “back piece” for now just as a placeholder until Anet inevitably gives us a turtle shell backpack. winkwinknudgenudge

Yes please!!!

Got the look for my rev figured out! TMNT Donatello! Just waiting for an actual turtle shell back piece… Hey Anet want my money?! XD

jeezlaweez.6810:

honestly, BDO didn’t offer a gameplay as good as here. And most of ppl are getting fooled by the “OMGARHD, Character Creation” which in fact is pretty locked by the job classes. In the end, an Girl Archer will be pretty similar to another girl archer, unless you put the sliders to the end (which, GW2 can do too).

Yeah I DL’d the character creator. It’s freely available. Moveable/resizable tattoos, all those minute face sections you can shift around, widen/lengthen limbs, shifting the hair around! It was amazing and I wish I could have a lot of those things here, but it did turn out to be surprisingly limiting. Apparently they’re changing from the Korean version so classes aren’t gender locked, but even then each class is locked to a specific base body type. Place is gonna be full of Ian McKellen Gandalf wizards…

The whole time I just kept thinking “I can’t make Yoda with this”, “nor Mickey Mouse”, “maybe Piccolo, but could he have antennae?”, “Disney’s Beast?”

Just having Sylvari, Asura, and Charr available to all classes is surprisingly more liberating.

I’ll try BDO, probably will have fun, but so far not expecting I’ll stay there long.

Ashen.2907:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

I don’t get why so many people are against this. Why not give a transgender character some prominence. I just want it to be a good story lol. As long as it’s a good story I don’t care what sexuality the characters are.

It’s not that people are against a transgender character, it’s that people don’t want a character shoehorned in, for the sake of it.

And you’re all assuming that’s what the OP wants. I’m pretty sure Mr. Penguin wants a well told story just as much as anyone here. Background characters gain prominence in stories all the time, so if an element of the story calls for it, why not Sya?

Its not an assumption. He has said, multiple times now, that it is what he wants. He wants a transgender character focus for the sake of influencing players in real life, with any in game story considerations as secondary (if that) to his stated sociopolitical agenda.

“I’m not asking for any type of forced sexual preference based story. I’m just asking that a NPC, who happens to be transgender, be included in our party.” -Smooth Penguin.5294

Mii noh theenk u reed 2 gud.

I’d rather not… People complain about grinding achievements for masteries already, and this would just add to that. Also it would pressure me to choose a title for the bonus and not for the title’s “flavor”.

What bugs me is we can’t have any hats. I mean, I can have a hat. But as soon as I give that hat to anyone, it doesn’t matter if it’s my Dad’kitten, Mother’kitten, sister’kitten, brother’kitten, friend’kitten, girlfriend’kitten. They all magically turn into kittens!

And now everyone I know has a kitten sitting on their head and they’re looking rather disapprovingly at me… Nobody mention my hat! :o

As a side note… I really want a kitten hat headpiece now plz…

Yeah it’s like Anet(Courage) making HoT(Mac and Cheese) for customers(Li’l Muriel).

Too much macaroni!

“More challenge!” “Too much challenge!” “More heals!” “Heals too strong!” “More expansion less LW!” “Yay expansion!” splat “We hate expansions… When’s LW?”

BrotherBelial.3094:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

BrotherBelial.3094:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

BrotherBelial.3094:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

I don’t get why so many people are against this. Why not give a transgender character some prominence. I just want it to be a good story lol. As long as it’s a good story I don’t care what sexuality the characters are.

It’s not that people are against a transgender character, it’s that people don’t want a character shoehorned in, for the sake of it.

And you’re all assuming that’s what the OP wants. I’m pretty sure Mr. Penguin wants a well told story just as much as anyone here. Background characters gain prominence in stories all the time, so if an element of the story calls for it, why not Sya?

He wasn’t Sya thrust in to the light just because Sya is trans. No other reason. We still know very little about the people in DE 2.0, we don’t really know all that much about DE, unless you’ve read the book.

And if it’s because he wants someone overcoming adversity, my PC necro did that, she grew up on the streets, she never knew her parents. The first time she leave the city she saves a village and becomes a hero, she has the ear of the captain of the Seraph. Saves the queen, joins a order, rises through the ranks quickly, becomes second.in command of an army, kills 2 dragons. Now if that’s not inspiring I don’t know what is.

Plenty of Sylvari had to overcome adversity too both PC and NPC. If Anet has a good story to tell I don’t see why Sya can’t develop into something more important as well.

But why dose it have to be Sya? Because they are trans? Is that the only reason? Why not someone else. What makes her special enough to be elevated above the rest? I can tell you why. Because trans has been in the media as of late so it’s the “cool” thing to be supporting. That is the only reason. If it was because of just raising awareness of transgender then this thread would have come up asking this when the character was introduced. That is the truth, and you can handle the truth!

Up to Anet to decide. If they have a good story that includes Sya I’m all for it. If they have a good story to tell that doesn’t include Sya I’m all for it. Why do you think if Sya becomes a prominent character it instantly means it’s pushing an agenda? It just means Anet has a story they want to tell that includes her.

I couldn’t care less, if you had read through the thread I’m probably the only one here who has had a family member go through with going from a man to a woman. So I can say with hand on heart I don’t care. What I do care is when someone comes on the forum with out a clue about what that decision can do to a person, a family, just because they think it would be “cool” annoys me to no end. I don’t want to see the impact this choice has on a person and there family be trivialized in a game. You could never do it justice. It’s not something you wake up.one day and decide it’s what you are going to do today. People who are your friends might not be after, family members might disown you. This is a big thing. Sure the same.could be said about being gay. But there are a lot less trans people out there than gay.

But you keep on talking about something you know jack about, because there is nothing cool or hip about it. Want to make a difference to the transgender population, go out there and help the transgender people in your community, a game won’t help people in the real world, no matter how good the story is.

I have a transgender friend and friends ranging throughout the LGBT spectrum. Not family but do you really want to whip out a measuring stick about this?

And I think you’re mistaken if you think media can’t move people or make a difference. I remember a very moving thread started by a physically disabled player complimenting Anet for creating Taimi. Daredevil cheered up a lot of disabled Marvel fans. If it brightens even one person’s day over whatever unjust struggles they have to go through, I think that’s “cool” and “hip” regardless of whatever cringe people in this thread seem to perceive.

Serophous.9085:

EremiteAngel.9765:

2) Wizard’kitten = 200 gems

Man, how did I miss this? I want a wizard’ kitten

Gee golly gosh darned plural and possessive words followed by “hat” and “hit” being censored! Though I would certainly consider buying a wizard kitten myself as well haha.

Oooooh man, the new mystical dragon mini suits my Zuko perfectly! Thanks Anet!

I’ve had Zuko running around with Mini ZuZu cat of darkness and thought that was hilarious, but this is so much more on theme!

Vayne.8563:

What we’ve seen so far, more than anything, is that not enough people over all purchased the expansion. Those who haven’t can’t comment on whether or not it’s hard core enough for them.

Every bit of evidence I can think of seems to indicate people not buying the game in the first place, not just people who think the game is too hard. More than likely too expensive is as much as a culprit as anything.

Yeah, especially given what NCsoft said about not turning as many P4F into B2P customers as expected, I’m more leaning toward this line of thinking as well. People who didn’t buy HoT to begin with have no idea how hard it is.

Please forgive my generalization, but these P4F players were willing to wait 3 years and over multiple $10 sales to get GW2 “for free”, or were completely unaware of the game until it was free. Then they’re told next expansion they’ll get HoT for free and the next expansion will be B2P again. If I put myself in that mindset, willing to wait years for a free game, I’d probably sit tight too. Enjoy central Tyria in the meantime.

Keeping the barrier to entry down at $50 total was a fantastic move in my opinion. But the execution could still use some tweaking I think. Maybe next expansion keep Central Tyria free as it is, but bundle HoT and expac2 together at $50? Maybe with similar veteran appreciation gifts (character slot and outfit)? Then continue that pattern, HoT+expac2+expac3=$50, etc… The barrier remains where it is and people who feel “HoT isn’t worth it” might change their mind if the content is doubled at that point.

Does that sound more fair? Or do y’all think it’ll spark the same drama HoT faced? Current HoT purchasers going “unfair! I paid for HoT 3 years ago!”.

Like a few other people, I feel there are multiple issues at work here too. LW S1 and S2 for example. HoT is like a Star Wars boxset that only contains “Return of the Jedi” where you can buy “the Empire Strikes Back” separately and “A New Hope” is unavailable altogether. If you’ve never seen A New Hope are you going to bother with that box set?

First bundle S2 with the pack and I know the nature of S1 keeps it from being purchasable like S2, but the issue is still a major barrier in my opinion. What if S1 were a recurring year-long event? Each episode treated like a festival event and regularly dropped in, alongside the other festivals we’ve become accustomed to? Having HoT alongside Halloween wasn’t that bad IMO. Then simply continue LW and expansions as they have been doing with instanced story mixed with some open world dialogue like HoT?

I don’t know how much work goes into adapting S1 like that, but that must be easier than rebuilding it all from the ground up? At least more manageable? And I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of P4F players are cycling through their various personal stories waiting to see what Anet does next.

For the people who think Penguin is a troll. Don’t you think derailing a “thank you Anet for showing support” thread into a “OMG look at what this troll is doing” thread is doing exactly what a troll would want?

For the people who go “why doesn’t Anet do something for every other minority group?”. There’s a lot of starfish drying out on the beach. Doesn’t make it any less altruistic if you can only manage tossing one or two back into the ocean. It made a difference for that one! A victory for one discriminated group is a victory towards less discrimination for all. Just let everyone throw the few starfish they can. If they can’t get to your star, stop hating them and just toss the starfish yourself. Everyone’s in this together.

For the “OMG SJW agenda” people… It’s a colored icon. Chill out. Let people celebrate being themselves when they haven’t been allowed to for centuries. In fact join in on the party and have fun, I’m sure they won’t mind more people attending the parade regardless of sexuality.

I don’t care if Sir slippery arctic avian is sincere or not. I was unaware of Anet changing their icon before this thread and I’m glad I’m aware now. And I think it’s an action worth appreciating, so thank you Penguin for posting this and thank you Anet for your generous display of support!

I don’t get why so many people are against this. Why not give a transgender character some prominence. I just want it to be a good story lol. As long as it’s a good story I don’t care what sexuality the characters are.

Parties and dancing?! You realize we’ve got a big bad boss on our hands come HoT right? If DBZ has taught me anything about boss fights it’s that we need to spend at least half a season training! Good thing I’ve got Piccolo teaching all the new recruits how to DODGE!

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

I don’t get why so many people are against this. Why not give a transgender character some prominence. I just want it to be a good story lol. As long as it’s a good story I don’t care what sexuality the characters are.

It’s not that people are against a transgender character, it’s that people don’t want a character shoehorned in, for the sake of it.

And you’re all assuming that’s what the OP wants. I’m pretty sure Mr. Penguin wants a well told story just as much as anyone here. Background characters gain prominence in stories all the time, so if an element of the story calls for it, why not Sya?

Not sure if said already, but a Monkey King cloud or Goku’s “Flying Nimbus” would’ve been perfect for the Lunar Year.

And if characters use a “surf” animation like Charr on a broom I’d like to have a surf board “Silver Surfer” style.

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

I don’t get why so many people are against this. Why not give a transgender character some prominence. I just want it to be a good story lol. As long as it’s a good story I don’t care what sexuality the characters are.

It’s not that people are against a transgender character, it’s that people don’t want a character shoehorned in, for the sake of it.

And you’re all assuming that’s what the OP wants. I’m pretty sure Mr. Penguin wants a well told story just as much as anyone here. Background characters gain prominence in stories all the time, so if an element of the story calls for it, why not Sya?

But then one could ask, out of the hundreds of random NPCs in the game, why Sya?

Why not?

GW2 is NCsoft’s best performing title in the western market. Blade and Soul might rival GW2 if their western figures remain the same or higher than their western launch numbers, but that is extremely rare and I doubt it. Even so only having two titles performing strong in the West, they will want to hold onto this market so GW2 isn’t going anywhere soon if NCsoft has a say in it.

Ever since launch the quarterly reports have been relatively stable and comparable to their other titles in the eastern market even though the eastern market has a far higher revenue potential. At least if this site is anything to go by: https://www.superdataresearch.com/market-data/mmo-market/

The revenue in Asia is double all the others combined. Even though GW2 released in China I think the majority of it’s success is in the West. And a title in a smaller market doing comparably to titles in a far larger market seems about as healthy as you can get without being a WoW or Lineage outlier.

If we’re taking anecdotal evidence, every time I do a key run there’s at least a handful of players in the starting instance even far off peak hours for every race (I randomly choose a race just for a touch of variety). Admittedly possibly key farmers as well, but that in addition to seeing simple questions regularly being asked in chat like the location of world bosses in starter zones, questions about daily rooms, questions in EotM and WvW tell me there’s a decent stream of new players, or at the very least veteran players finding new stuff to get into. Either way, plenty of active players for my needs.

There also haven’t been any major layoffs unlike Wildstar, and Colin’s leaving was friendly in nature as they had him continue to work even after announcing his eventual departure and they included him in their AMA at the time. They’ve been building up LS with current events that, even though they are simple, are far better than setting sign posts like how LS1 began and it’s clearly building up to something. Nothing in all of that says the game’s unhealthy to me.

Vayne.8563:

Pretty Pixie.8603:

Interesting to note that the only thing listed from HoT is gliding. Everything else was from before that.

At least one person shortly above you said HoT maps as his thing, so gliding isn’t the only thing.

I would also like to add when I stated “fashion wars” HoT fed into that quite nicely as well. Not just gliding for all my flying characters, but elite specs and the head/weapon skins they unlocked opened up a lot of new possibilities for me. Also the new ranger pets, the mushroom masteries, revenant… So yeah for me fashion wars includes a good chunk of HoT as well.

So I’m going to add my thoughts here since this thread’s title is the most direct. Just tried rev and in my first event encounter I fought a veteran mini boss and just spammed my abilities. I used legendary demon ability 9 (Unyielding Anguish) and a player got mad because he couldn’t hit the teleporting enemy and stood to the side hoping to see the boss kill me.

I wasn’t trying to troll him and after killing the boss I explained myself and I think I’m on good terms with the guy now, but I can see this being a major issue to the overall “you should be happy to see other players” mentality GW2 is known for.

Think Longbow ranger knock-backing foes out of your AoE is annoying? Revenant is going to bring a whole new level of rage on that front. Especially for melee players.

KestrelGirl.9267:

DeadSurvivor.6157:

As much as I’d like to have some names I have used in past games, I don’t think an inactive person (who may become active at some point in the future) would be happy returning to Guild Wars 2 and find his characters are generically renamed to a default with letters and numbers. I’d be disappointed if that were to happen to me if I left and returned.

Just sayin’, my idea would avoid that. Notice the 9267 at the end of my name? If I were to be inactive for 2 years then come back, that would be added to the end of the names of all my characters (it also ignores character limit). Then when I log back on, I’m mailed a number of name change kits corresponding to the number of characters I have, so I can change all their names back.

If I returned to find I had to figure out new names for my 20+ characters, even if given 20+ kits, that would be a barrier to entry I wouldn’t be willing to deal with. And there are people with far more characters than me.

Dashingsteel.3410:

Yes, it seems we have a divided crowd here on this topic. That is why ops idea is a bad one. Introducing Sya into the adventure would be divisive. Why turn off one portion of your customers just to pander to another portion of customers?

Anet literally does that with every decision/change they make and can’t make any change without doing so.

Guess I could post here too…

Poison Ivy
Ash Ketchum
Darth Maul

Got a few more but looking for thematic locations to screenshot them in.

BrotherBelial.3094:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

BrotherBelial.3094:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

Zynt.5769:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

I don’t get why so many people are against this. Why not give a transgender character some prominence. I just want it to be a good story lol. As long as it’s a good story I don’t care what sexuality the characters are.

It’s not that people are against a transgender character, it’s that people don’t want a character shoehorned in, for the sake of it.

And you’re all assuming that’s what the OP wants. I’m pretty sure Mr. Penguin wants a well told story just as much as anyone here. Background characters gain prominence in stories all the time, so if an element of the story calls for it, why not Sya?

He wasn’t Sya thrust in to the light just because Sya is trans. No other reason. We still know very little about the people in DE 2.0, we don’t really know all that much about DE, unless you’ve read the book.

And if it’s because he wants someone overcoming adversity, my PC necro did that, she grew up on the streets, she never knew her parents. The first time she leave the city she saves a village and becomes a hero, she has the ear of the captain of the Seraph. Saves the queen, joins a order, rises through the ranks quickly, becomes second.in command of an army, kills 2 dragons. Now if that’s not inspiring I don’t know what is.

Plenty of Sylvari had to overcome adversity too both PC and NPC. If Anet has a good story to tell I don’t see why Sya can’t develop into something more important as well.

But why dose it have to be Sya? Because they are trans? Is that the only reason? Why not someone else. What makes her special enough to be elevated above the rest? I can tell you why. Because trans has been in the media as of late so it’s the “cool” thing to be supporting. That is the only reason. If it was because of just raising awareness of transgender then this thread would have come up asking this when the character was introduced. That is the truth, and you can handle the truth!

Up to Anet to decide. If they have a good story that includes Sya I’m all for it. If they have a good story to tell that doesn’t include Sya I’m all for it. Why do you think if Sya becomes a prominent character it instantly means it’s pushing an agenda? It just means Anet has a story they want to tell that includes her.

Just a thought, but with population issues so prevalent why can’t these events be more like Edge of the Mists? A universal, multi-server, ‘infinite overflow’ space where low-pop servers can participate alongside the numbers from high-pop servers? Might solve a lot of these kinds of problems.

Posted this in the Dragon Ball thread, but might as well add it here too hehehe…

Yup! Ash Ketchum has been wearing it since launch! It’s starting to smell a little…

Orpheal.8263:

Titles should work for a Reputation System, hats how they worked in GW1 where we hat reputation due to havign different Factions in the game, providing you basically on how much reputation you collected for a said faction increasing benefits that were basically only useful for PvE only.

Thats how Titles should work in GW2 again to make them more meaningful and rewarding.
also this Game needs alot more Titles aot of unused potential there.
Not to say that this game needs better titles also – alot of the stuff that we have so far aren#t even at all real titles…

Stufff like Been there, done that, Golden, Twice told legend, The be all and end all are no titles to me …

Titles are things like “Acolyte of Dwayna”, Grand Artisan, Professor, Hero of Lions Arch and so on..
Things, that say something out about you and your character, who or what they are.
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This way would I change titles:

Achiever Titles
Wearing the Achiever Title grants you per rank +5% Magic Find, Gold Find and Karma.
So with 50k Ap wearign the Max achiever Title, you would have a Bonus of 50% MF, GF and Karma gain

Map Completion
Renamed from Been Here Done That to Master Cartographer
Wearing the Master Cartographer Title increases the speed for you in which you will gain Map Boni Rewards from doing Events by 25% and doubles the Rewards of the Map Bonis, so instead of gaining only for example 1 Lodestone as a reward, you get from a Map Bonus then 2 Lodestones while you use this title in PvE Maps.

Birthday Titles
Wearings the Birthday Titles will increase your Gold Gain as Rewards from doing Dungeons by 50 Silver per Rank. So a currently 3 year old Account will get from Dungeon Runs daily per done Path 1,5G more from doing a Dungeon Run.

Honorary Skritt
While using this Title in Maps in which Skritt live in, will you randomly receive SHINY things from friendly Skritt when talking to them.

Grand Artisan
Adds the chance that you craft sometimes items that you can sell twice per Craft. Unlocks also new Crafting Recipes that you can learn only when you are a Grand Artisan

Exotic Hunter
Slightly increases your chance to get Exotic Loot from Monster Kills

Acolyte of Dwayna
Increases in PvE your Healing Power of your Self Heal by 10% and lets Regenerations on you last 2s longer

Dungeoneer/Dungeon Master
Doubles Dungeon Tokens you receive when playing Dungeons and wearign this Title.
Unlocks new Dungeon Token Rewards you can get only by using unique Dungeon Tokens that you can receive by using normal Dungeon Tokens and a new type of loot that will drop for you only in dungeons when you own both of those titles and wearing one of them in the Dungeons.

Light in the Darkness
Enables you to see alot better in very dark places as you will automatically use a bright magical torch that will illuminate the way for you in very dark places, if you way this title.

Miniature Collector
Enables you to give your Miniatures also names, like Rangers can name their Pets, while usign this title.

Professor
Increases your Account Bonus Exp Gain from Monster Kills by 15% while wearing this Title

Hivemaster
Decreases the Damage that you receive from Chak while wearing this title by 10% and increases damage that you title to them by 10%

Mistwarden
Doubles Badges of Honors you gain from Player/NPC Kills in WvW. Increases you Boon Durations by 10% in PvE while wearing this title.

The Great Reformer
Reduces Gold Costs for you on the Personal Story Faction Equipment Colelctions by 25% while wearign this Title and increases your gold gain by 25% if you sell any Personal Story Faction NPC somethign by 25% while wearign this Title.

Ex Machina
Increases the Damage you deal with any kind of environmental siege weapon in PvE by 10% while wearign this title.

Fatebreaker
Adds the chance to receive new materials from salvagign that you would normally not get from savalging items, when usign this title, like for example at rare chance lodestones when salving equipment of rare or higher quality.

Illuminated Renamed to "Shining Liberator*
Gain a Bonus of more Exhalted Currency when fighting with this title active in the Exhalted Map in Heart of Thorns, which is especialy stronger, when successfully defendign Tarir, where you gain increase the Bonus, if you kill with the title active Modrem with an Auric Weapon equipped.

PvP Rank Titles
Gain Bonus % for speeding up the Process if filling up PvP Reward Tracks, so higher your PvP Rank Title you use by 8% per Rank. So you will get double PvP Reward Track progress when using Legendary Champion.

PvP Class Titles
Unlocks for you unique Class Specific Finishing Moves while using these Titles, that you can use only when havign the title active.

Master Crafter
Gain 50% more Crafting Exp and have 10% increased Critical Chances on Crafting, whle you use this Title. This Bonus adds to the effect of Crafting Boosters, so if you use a Booster, it wont be a direct addign, but a 50% increase of the booster effect then.
So you get 75% increase when having both at the same time, not straight 100% like adding 50+50%

Golden renamed to Piggy Bank
Talk to the Bank NPC with this title on and the NPC allows you a new Option to story money of your account away, Minimum Gold you need to have for this option to appear is 20 Gold. If you talk to the NPC again 1 month later, you will regain you money back that you gave away plus 1-5% Interest.
But think on this good, if you give it away, you wont get it back until 1 month is over …

Twice Told Legend renamed to "Fabulous Legend*
Gain slightly increased Exp, Karma, Gold rewards from doing Events while wearign this title in PvE Maps

The Emperor/Fashion Collector Renamed to Fashion King/Queen
Unlock both of them and wear one of them to unlock for your account the ability to be able to buy new Tier 4 ascended cultural armor sets and unlock collections for tier 5 legendary cultural armors.

Combat Healer
Lets you revive faster in PvE while wearing this title and gain protection while you revive.

The Sunbringer
Deal increased Damage against Undeads and receive lesser Damage from undeads, whiel wearign this title.

Great Jungle Wurm Slayer/Wurms Bane
Unlock both of those titles and deal increased Damage and receive lesser Damage from Wurms of any kind while wearing one of these titles.

Killer Queen
Deal increased Damage against Karkas and receive lesser Damage from them too while wearign this Title.

Hall of Monuments Titles
Enable to to use Title Specific Finishing Moves while using the Titles.
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Omnomnivore
Increases the Durations of Potions while using this title by 5 Minutes

WvW Titles
They all do count towards an overall WvW reputation WvW Exp Bonus System, that so more WvW Titles you gain, so more WvW Exp will you gain.

Each unlocked WvW Title will give you +5,889% more WvW Exp
Currently 17 titles = 17*5,889% = + 100% more WvW Exp if you have all current Titles

Wintersday Titles
Increase Wintersday Rewards so more of them you collect, while wearign one of them

Halloween Titles
Increase halloween Rewards so more of them you collect, while wearing one of them.

Minigame Titles
Increases Minigame Rewards while wearign them.

Hero of Lions Arch
Have an unique Heroic Aura, while being in Lions Arch while you have this title on and randomly receive daily random gifts from Lions Arch NPCs to which you talk to which you defended when Scarlet attacked LA, which is their way of thanking and honoring you and your bravery.

SAB Titles
Gain increased Bubbles when using the titles when whever SAB will come back …

The Blazing Light
Unlocks a unique Finishing Move you can use only, when using actively this title.

Silverwaste Titles
So more you get of them while wearign one of them, so higher is your Map Currency Reward Bonus and so higher your MF Bonus on the Map.

Golden Child
Unlocks a unique finishign Move you can use only when this title is active.

The Eternal
Unlocks a unique finishing move that you can use only when this title is active*

PvP Tournament Titles
Unlock unique finishing Moves that you can use only when havign the titles active in use.

Trail Blazer
Unlocks a unique HoT themed finishing move that you can use only when using actively this title.
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Thats what id do with the current titles, to make them more meaning ful, while alot of others would add something unique visually to the game in regard of special finishing move designs.

Noooooo… I don’t want to be juggling titles every time I decide to do something different in game.

As someone whose entire roster of over 20 toons are pop-culture references/cosplays, I do often find exact names are already taken. That being said I’ve always found satisfactory names just by adding their occupation, title, or various other descriptors.

For example during the beta weekends I tried out revenant and after playing dress up decided I could make an ok looking ninja turtle. I managed to reserve ALL 4 TURTLES just by adding their family name “Hamato” (like Hamato Yoshi, so Hamato Leonardo, Hamato Donatello, etc.) . This was after the beta weekends in the middle of the HoT hype train and a couple seasons into Nickelodeon’kitten reimagining of the franchise which is still going strong today. Even if those names were taken (which I was expecting) I would have adapted with something like “Blue Leader Leo” or “Party Dude Mikey” or “T M N T Raphael”.

The same extends to any name. Want to RP as Bob? Maybe Bob is a bartender so you could call him “Bob The Bartender”, “Bartender Bob”, “Bob Booze”. Point is there are near infinite ways to name the same character. Just think beyond the name alone.

kolompi.1287:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

And yeah a lot of people are waiting for SAB. That would bring people back.

SAB is not GW2 though. It’s a separate 3d platformer inside GW2. If people would come back just for that, that would be hilarious irony.

Well, I didn’t mean we’d get launch numbers back. But it was very well received and you’ve gotta admit a lot of people wanted it for a long time now yeah?

Also agree. People wanted more dev interaction, Anet delivered. Glad they were so transparent and hopefully people stop being Chicken Littles and actually make some constructive discussion out of this.

Any group of people who will exclude you over a handful of digital currency were never your friends in the first place.

The guild system is changing drastically with Guild Halls so if possible wait to see if that changes the situation, but if you are forced to choose I would stick with my IRL friends if I were in your shoes.

Fashion Wars, WvW, AP hunt, EotM, dailies, key farm, TP, LW/LS whenever those are out, festivals, SW, World bosses… and more but I don’t care to continue listing lol. Plenty for me to do still.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

What bugs me is we can’t have any hats. I mean, I can have a hat. But as soon as I give that hat to anyone, it doesn’t matter if it’s my Dad’s ‘hat, Mother’s ‘hat, sister’s ‘hat, brother’s ‘hat, friend’s ‘hat, girlfriend’s ’hat. They all magically turn into kittens!

And now everyone I know has a kitten sitting on their head and they’re looking rather disapprovingly at me… Nobody mention my hat! :o

As a side note… I really want a kitten hat headpiece now plz…

I always preview first before posting and fix it so there aren’t unnessary kittens in my post.

Dad’s ‘hat, Mother’s ‘hat, sister’s ‘hat, brother’s ‘hat, friend’s ‘hat, girlfriend’s ’hat. They all magically turn into kittens!

And they all thank you for fixing their head attire!

I just used my tag to mark event locations when I ran across them for a daily and someone got mad and called me names. It happens no matter what you do. Sometimes you can turn it around for some fun though.

In EotM one guy kept backseat commanding saying “you didn’t get scorp form?! What a idiot commander!”. I was leveling a new lvl4 and took scorp form and just ran with the zerg goin “yeah, bunch of n00bs. Y’all don’t stand a chance without me! I learned from the best backseat commander NA! I have scorp form!”. Then every time we killed a tower lord I was like “phew, good thing I’m in scorp or else we NEVER would’ve capped that!”. Or if I saw an enemy zerg coming I’d be like “Zerg inc! Don’t worry guys I got dis!” “SCORP!” then inevitably get run over. Then back at spawn be like “OK guys, it didn’t look like it, but they must’ve all had scorp form cuz they murdered me…”. Then when we were blasting through a wall our commander was like “Alright, Hamato (I was on a Hamato character) you know what to do!”. I was like “YEAH SCORP!”. As just one scorp I only made a few dents so I said “uuuh… I could use some help from some catas… XD”. And everyone seemed to have a good time with that. Except the backseat guy who I guess left.

So, sometimes you can turn it around and make it fun again.

bobo.5702:

Free accounts are Free to play with restrictions of GW2 core game

P4F! Git it rite! lol

Bomber.3872:

What most of the hardcore fanboys and new player still don’t unterstand (look at the other posts here):
Anet could give us a lot of new maps if anet wouldn’t waste so much ressources every two weeks on a new bltc set + costume + glider + some other gemshop item.

And what you don’t seem to understand is the team making all those pretty gliders, weapons, costumes, minis, etc. are probably all artists and animators designing skins to already existing mechanics. They probably have no expertise in figuring out how mobs attack/defend, nor interact with each other or the players, nor design maps and how events take place within their space. Heck, they very well might not even be the same artists who make the trees, rocks, wildlife, etc. within those maps. They might be solely costume and weapon designers and throwing them into a level design team would have little to no value.

So long farewell!

Jhoul.6923:

DaikonSamurai.6714:

You’d still have to complete all the hearts, jump to all the vistas, find all the POIs… So you’d still have to cover a lot of the same ground and the same content anyway. Maybe if it were like the jump to lvl 80 item we got in our free shared slot and only unlocked 1 waypoint in maps so you still had to uncover those maps. I’d be fine with all WPs unlocked though if it required you to have done map completion at least once before. Repeating map completion on multiple characters seems kinda silly to me (especially if you’ve done it 10+ times) and doesn’t really prove any accomplishment so I’d be fine with an item like this.

You get me, that is exactly what I mean, they could even add a requirement where you have to it more than X amount of times for it to be unlocked.

But I consider others that have done more than 3 times martyrs.

This game is fun, but not that fun; and unlocking the WP will still require ppl to play over 100 hours on map completion to get the gift of exploration.

Yeah, multiple map completions would work for me too. I think as is, it just punishes altaholics and hinders getting to your friends and guildies with alts. An item like you describe would promote people playing together and make purchasing additional character slots more palatable imo.

Schwags.9821:

Did hawkman with the new black wings

I see your Hawkman and answer with Hawkgirl!