Guild Wars 2

We already have net neutrality in The Netherlands. And they also do in the USA, they are just afraid they’ll lose it there. Anyways. The issue seems resolved for me now. Anyone still has problems?

Same stuff here. Get stuck in loading screen and then that exact error. Also a Ziggo user here. Has been like this since 2 days. 17th July 2017. 7:0:0:1022:101.

Hey everyone I was wondering if the armor set in this image actually exists in the game.

-Dib

Hey everyone on the forum!

I’m a Guild Wars 2 fan with about 2.5k playtime and would love to be in a raid group that raids 2 to 3 times a week at set times.

I myself have The Eternal title and completed the second wing as well, but now I want to get consistent kills every week without having to spend an insane amount of time looking for people in the LFG tool.

I’ve got a herald, druid, condi engi, PS war and a DH geared with ascended armor, trinkets and weapons.

Hoping there is a group out there that needs me

-Dib

Pure Heart.1456:

Look, this is a very simple issue;
Both from Anet’s point of view and from the players’.
Here’s how it’s going to go down;

1) Anet creates ‘Armour Stands’, sold in the gem store at say, 700 gems per stand, that then appear in your home instance.
2) Players equip these ‘Armour Stands’ with the actual real armour, weapon, trinket and back pieces that they have in their inventory (It goes without saying that the pieces disappear from the inventory and are assigned to the armour stand), also selecting their specializations.
3) In all game modes, players may press a key to ‘summon’, ‘warp in’, ‘teleport’, ‘display’ (take your pick of a word) before them, all the armour stands that they have set up in their home instance. They player may then press ‘F’ over one of the summoned Armour Stands to equip that load-out.

Yes please make more things that should have been features in the core game only to be acquired through the Gem Store. sarcasm

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More armor and glider skins to be acquired in game please. After that we’ll look into the gemstore

I think too much gw1, we already have a few weapon sets from the first guild wars and armor sets as well. If you really want to see so much of the first game, you might as well go play it. I think it’d be better for them to focus on content related to HoT and the second expansion.
I do sympathize with making new content that refers or is related to earlier content/lore though, a lot.

Cantha
To me it would make sense that we get Dominion of Winds and Cantha, not per se from a story perspective, but rather from the perspective of, looking at gw1, what would we get now? I also saw some drops of certain jade weapons in HoT that made me think of a reference to Cantha.
Feels Big(That’s what she said)
More importantly is that I think it would be great if the next expansion would feel like a gigantic chunk of content. Though I understand that GW2 devs also still put out content belonging to the expansion between expansions.
Kralkatorrik
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Storywise I think it probably makes sense the next expansion will have to do with Kralkatorrik. Since we now retrieved the egg of Glint and there will be born a baby dragon, which Kralkatorrik won’t like AT ALL. Meaning we would be going into Charr territory and south of that. So Orr and the Crystal Desert and maybe even the Fire Island Chains since we still don’t know how Rytlock got Sohothin.
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She says it again
Personally I would like to just see more a bigger chunk of explorable area, more new armor skins and a longer story than in HoT.

EDIT: WHY IS MY SPOILER THING NOT WORKING?!

Yes I would say it’s mainly Verdant Brink, LA and boss fights like Dragon’s Stand.

Hey Forum,

today, when I was walking around in Verdant Brink, I realized that I have about 50 fps on both “Best Appearance” and “Best Performance”. Could this be a CPU issue? I have been frying my CPU at 100 celcius degrees for about 3 years without realizing it. Then I put a proper fan on it. Could it be that my CPU is damaged?
I have an Intel Core i7 2600k and a gtx670.

Thanks in advance,

-Dib

I think the system of being able to stat change on armor and weapons is amazing. And since trinkets are pretty easy to acquire I’m not necessarily an advocate for those getting stat change.
But backpieces are a different story. They are often very expensive and hard to acquire. I have a PVT ascended backpiece sitting around doing nothing at the moment for example. And I’m sure I’m not the only one that wants to see this implemented.

Question: “Do you guys look at Guild Wars 1 creatures for reference/inspiration?”

Didn’t we already have a Guild Chat on this?

sirsquishy.8531:

Dibbelocher.2318:

Sicarius.4639:

Aidan Savage.2078:

Dibbelocher.2318:

Well a better game means more people who will buy the game or stay with the game to buy expansions. Also the content we got for the price of the expansion was quite scarce. Comparing it to the core game that is. So the demands I’m asking aren’t too out of place if you take that into consideration.

They are out of place when you, and other people of your same train of thought, finally understand that Anet’s stated multiple times that all future LS releases, and expanded content will be locked behind HoT. If you dont get what that means, it means that ALL CONTENT from the drop of HoT to the release of the NEXT expansion, you bought for however much you paid for HoT.

and some of the stuff we used to have before HoT too.

True! But how long has it been since HoT launched? It’s getting close to 4 months now. Where is the second set of legendaries? Where is the next raid wing? Where is any new content at all? What are they waiting for? More Gem Store money? Meanwhile all they’ve been putting out is Gem Store items.

all of your questions have one simple answer there, they need time. To build on what they have as a frame work takes time. And as they release new parts to HoT content they want it to be harder, more in line, with their new direction.

But lets not sway here, the discussion is the lack of in game content compared to what is on the gem store these last 4 months.

Yes that’s what it is. They need time, a lot of time. And I think that IS one of the core problems of most complaints they will get from unsatisfied veterans.

Sicarius.4639:

Aidan Savage.2078:

Dibbelocher.2318:

Well a better game means more people who will buy the game or stay with the game to buy expansions. Also the content we got for the price of the expansion was quite scarce. Comparing it to the core game that is. So the demands I’m asking aren’t too out of place if you take that into consideration.

They are out of place when you, and other people of your same train of thought, finally understand that Anet’s stated multiple times that all future LS releases, and expanded content will be locked behind HoT. If you dont get what that means, it means that ALL CONTENT from the drop of HoT to the release of the NEXT expansion, you bought for however much you paid for HoT.

and some of the stuff we used to have before HoT too.

True! But how long has it been since HoT launched? It’s getting close to 4 months now. Where is the second set of legendaries? Where is the next raid wing? Where is any new content at all? What are they waiting for? More Gem Store money? Meanwhile all they’ve been putting out is Gem Store items.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

No matter how ugly you think the stuff in the gem shop is, I can guarantee at least 20% of the community loves it enough to buy it. No matter how awesome you think skin X is, I can guarantee 20% (maybe even the same 20%) will hate it.

There’s just no way to please everyone with skins. Heck, it’s pretty difficult to please more than 20% of the diverse community. As a weird example, I know people are “sick of trenchcoats” for medium armor, but I like trench coats generally and yet I haven’t seen one in this game that I really like — so despite the over supply of trench coats in the game, I’d still like to see a few more.

The problem with the OP’s post is that it assumes that there’s just one view point that covers everyone’s feelings about acquisition of and quality of skins. No question we’d all like to see more and better skins; it’s a huge question as to what that might look like.

Plus, it’s not all that easy to churn out quality skins, especially not in complete, thematic sets. If it was, then we’d see a lot more variety than we already do.

You see, my intention was to make clear that if you just put out 3 armor sets for an entire expansion that there is just isn’t much choice and a high risk of people disliking all of them and getting nothing out of their 50 dollars/pounds/euros in terms of new armor skins for their characters.

And while a scarce amount of armor sets is put out, they happily put tons of stuff in the gem-store.

Naix.8156:

The real crux of this issue is in how Anet has chosen to develop and push the gem store. It’s a much broader topic than just armor and glider skins, and, even though there really isn’t any true pay to win (outside of the power creep of the new specializations, and players without HoT being at a disadvantage in PvP) its starting to feel slightly sleazier all the time.
The irony here is that the more overtly Anet pushes the gem store the less inclined I am to use it. With HoT in general, I feel largely ripped off in terms of content and then I ended up buying a promise of future content. Vayne probably summed it up best with his whiteknight of the week post: “This expansion, Anet said from day one was lighter on content, but it was building the building blocks of the future of the game. New expansions won’t take as long to come out and they’ll likely have more content.” That’s a lot of speculation and as someone who really abhors the pre-order, day one dlc, and season pass business models so prevalent in the games industry; it sure don’t make the HoT purchase give me a warm fuzzy feeling.

You are really good at putting my thoughts into better words

Felahr.9830:

Dibbelocher.2318:

Felahr.9830:

Gemstore is what you get when your game is FREE TO PLAY instead of having a subscription fee of $20 a month. deal with it

It’s not free to play. Free to play would be no initial costs. My “initial” costs are 100 euros at the moment. Does that sound like “free” to you?

methinks your english grasp is not so good. its a godkitten free to play game. its free to play. playing it requires no ongoing money, unlike, say, world of warcraft. gw2 is free to play. would you like the game to be free to buy as well, and then have mandatory ads ingame and lock exotic and higher armor and weapons behind the gemstore? because anet could do that, you know. they have to make money somehow and since the kittening game is free to kittening play, and they are NOT getting billions of dollars a month in subscription fees, gemstore is how they do that. the only thing locked behind real money purchases is cosmetic items, there is nothing, literally nothing, that is required for actual gameplay or to become a harder hitting character that you cannot get for free ingame. everything gemstore is pretty kitten to make your character look a certain way, and its completely unneeded to be a good player, so i dont know what the hell your issue is, or anyone else who complains about cosmetic and arbitrary things costing money.

It’s kind of funny you manage to insult someone’s English and then fail to use “it’s” properly or write with capital letters when starting a sentence, so let’s stay out of that zone okay? And no I don’t want it to actually go fully free to play. Because yes the game has a free to play option now but those accounts are quite restricted.

I think if you would add up the amount of money they have gotten merely by game purchases they would have about 75 million budget for everything we have/have had/will have. That should be more than enough to not have a gem-store around. But because Anet is always trying out stuff and then throwing it in the garbage can, they need a gemstore.

But here is the thing. They had the gemstore for so long… That their budget is way higher than that. You would expect that they won’t need it anymore for further income.

And even if they DO keep the gemstore, that doesn’t take away the fact that there isn’t enough being created for what the game is without the gemstore.

Felahr.9830:

Gemstore is what you get when your game is FREE TO PLAY instead of having a subscription fee of $20 a month. deal with it

It’s not free to play. Free to play would be no initial costs. My “initial” costs are 100 euros at the moment. Does that sound like “free” to you?

Kastiel.1947:

Yep, have to disagree with OP to a degree- I actually more or less like how things are. Also as you mentioned you can already convert gold to gems, and hence all of the items in gemstore are already obtainable in game.
I say, more items in gemtore! Keep makin them glider skins, also I pray to the 6 Gods that one day they will make the Dragon’s surge visiual from sanctum scramble/HoT story as a glider skin… I would kill for that no matter the means of aquisition. As for in game gliders beside the basic one, I’m pretty sure th legendary pvp back will com with an equivelent glider skin – and I hope the same goes for Ad Infinitum. Also the exalted glider via gem exchange i like only 80-100 gold, a fair price.
I wouldn’t mind more items from in game too though, for example with the stunning artwork of exalted it seems like a shame not to have an armor inspired by them.
In the end, more cash for Anet, more stuff for us though.

Thing is, “just” 80-100 gold for a glider skin doesn’t deserve the word “just” in it. 80-100 gold is equivalent to 1/4th of an ascended armor set or even more.

msalakka.4653:

Would you prefer a subscription instead?

I would prefer for Anet to be more efficient with their resources.

Randulf.7614:

Dibbelocher.2318:

Because if all of these armors looked really good then I wouldn’t mind.
But my problem here is that most of them don’t and instead they make good looking outfits for the gem store.

Entirely subjective. I’m a huge fan of most of the outfits/armours in the store. If people didn’t like them, they wouldn’t sell and the whole outfits in the store wouldn’t be an issue.

Dibbelocher.2318:

And something worse is going about with gliders. The only glider that isn’t in the gemstore is the one you get by default. Why not make gliders to get for completing content? Like raids? Or quests?

Completely agree. I am OK with most being in the gem store, but I would like the chance to earn or even craft say a Guild Emblemed glider for example. Or maybe a couple of bosses drop them as rare loot, which reflects the boss themselves.

Dibbelocher.2318:

So basically the problem is that they are purposefully holding back good content so we will buy more of the gemstore. And that attitude REALLY needs to change.

No that isn’t something that is happening or is there any proof that it is. You can be unhappy with the prioritising of the content or how long it is taking to come out, but the gem store content is not designed by the same team, so will barely impact main content.

Dibbelocher.2318:

To continue on this. Lots of fashion items don’t really have a story behind them or a rather vague story. By making collections or preferably short quests you can explain where these armor sets originate and why they are there in the first place.

It’s clear legendary armour is getting this treatment, however I otherwise approve of the idea for more armours.

The first one was actually aimed at the armors we got in the actual game. Thus not taking in the gemstore into account. Since that’s another pay wall.
I was actually trying to say the armors we can get in game without paying gems are to few in numbers and most of the time look a lot less good than the things in the gemstore.

Well a better game means more people who will buy the game or stay with the game to buy expansions. Also the content we got for the price of the expansion was quite scarce. Comparing it to the core game that is. So the demands I’m asking aren’t too out of place if you take that into consideration.

Yes, hopfully they will reveal more about Rytlock and Sohothin as well. Plus the revenant thing and Rytlock.

Lol metalgirl you obviously just have that opinion because of the oermanent hairstyle ki, if you would get the money you paid for it back you would surely agree. A better change would for them to make an actual barber in-game and they would give haircuts for 1 gold. And then have a timer on it for 24 hours. So that you can only change it once per day.

First of all I would like to express that I understand that Anet needs the Gemstore for income to a certain extend. I would also note that I’m very frustrated at this point and that this will be quite an unnuanced post.

So… We all know and agree. There have been too little armor sets, gliders and weapons to go for in the recent patches. Though this is the case, it’s not exactly what frustrates me. Because if all of these armors looked really good then I wouldn’t mind.
But my problem here is that most of them don’t and instead they make good looking outfits for the gem store.
And something worse is going about with gliders. The only glider that isn’t in the gemstore is the one you get by default. Why not make gliders to get for completing content? Like raids? Or quests?

So basically the problem is that they are purposefully holding back good content so we will buy more of the gemstore. And that attitude REALLY needs to change. Definitely since 3 outfits are worth a freaking precursor with the current exchange price.

I have a few suggestions on how to fix this. First of all, listen to the feedback people give on certain armors, as to know in which direction to go. Personally I love the mistward armor, most t3 cultural armors, exalted weapons, heavy ornate guild armor etc. They just seem to be of higher quality than e.g. The bladed armor sets, which look awfully low in detail and extremely bland and stiff.

Secondly, give us gliders as rewards for doing raids, fractals and collections. Simply take those gliders from the gemstore to do that. You can keep them in the gemstore as well for the people who are too lazy to get them if you really insist on keeping the gemstore.

Third of all, make outfits into armor sets and make them available through cool short quests which will tell a story about the armors.
To continue on this. Lots of fashion items don’t really have a story behind them or a rather vague story. By making collections or preferably short quests you can explain where these armor sets originate and why they are there in the first place.

My character is a noble human guardian with Grenth as god and is part of the Vigil. He also has a sister that served as a seraph. I figured out some nice combination yesterday though with the starting shoulder, the new guild chest and legs and vigil gloves and boots.
That doesn’t quench my thirst for better lore descriptions though.

In my quest to finding the most “lore fitting” gear for my player character I have hit many obstacles. And with that I mean getting info on what’s the lore behind lots of types of armor in the world of Tyria.
An example of an armor set of which is very clear where it came from and what its purpose is/was would be all the faction armor a.k.a. Vigil, Order of Whispers and Durmand Priory.
But many sets of weapons and armor are not really making sense to me at the moment. Lets take the example of the Human Cultural Heavy armor tier 3. It’s the set that Logan wears. But what does it take to achieve such armor? Logan seems to be the only one who has the whole set equipped but you see tons of seraph having the chest and legs equipped combined with the CM armor. So it’s not very clear to whom or what this armor set originally belonged to and this goes for a lot of sets.
To continue on the seraph. In their hall, big statues of the CM heavy armor are displayed. But there literally isn’t an NPC in the entire game that is a seraph and wears the entire set.
My request would be for Anet to give small discriptions on each weapon or armor piece that describes the story of them.
And for them to start making sense with these sets as given example of the seraph.
Because it’s really frustrating to see them keep dumping in weapons and armor in the game with no real meaning.

I tried taking it from the essence of light on top of the jumping puzzle, but nothing either. It probably should be there.

HA I KNEW IT! Thanks man, I was just afraid that it didn’t have collision and that I would drop down. Thanks a bunch! Gonna try out right now!

So I’ve now arrived at the last collection in which you have to collect light. In one case it asks you to go to the top of the Second Aetherblade Base a.k.a. Not So Secret. Now I’ve tried using the illuminator on all 3 top platforms but I just won’t seem to get the part of the collection confirmed.

Any tips?

So part of the deldrimor ingots turned out to be for the second tier already. Since the weapon parts are part of the collection for some reason in this part.

So, this is the first Legendary I’m crafting. From the moment Arenanet revealed they were going to do Precursor Crafting I decided not to buy Dawn and instead wait for the expansion.
My first reason was, I hoped that it would be a bit less expensive. Since there would be going effort in completing collections I expected the hours would go in there thus making the precursor less expensive.
I wouldn’t mind if it was actually the same price because I thought the collections would be fun.
Well I was wrong. And here is why.

The First collection was fun, just doing some events, completing a fractal. I totally thought this was going to be amazing. Until I completed my first collection and got the first recipe. It required 30 deldrimor ingots and 10 elonian squares plus some WvW and PvP stuff that in total cost me another 50 gold. In total this first tier was 250 gold.
At this point I was already getting suspicious, but 750 gold in total didn’t set me off too much.

So I continued with the second collection. Now the second collection is literally 40 deldrimor ingots, over 6000 mithril ingots and even more stuff I haven’t gotten too yet. It just lets you flush down all the money you have into this Master Weaponsmith who should at the end give you a recipe.

So here I am… about 450-550 gold further and I don’t even have the second recipe yet. So the question is, will it become worse? Will this all turn out to be not that bad?

I don’t know. All I know is that these kind of things make me want to kill myself. And if I end up spending over 1000 gold I will just go into full depression mode…

So please Arenanet read this and realise you’re making these collections way to expensive….
The worst part is, once you have invested money into the first recipe, YOU CAN’T GO BACK. You have now spend 250 gold on the old version of dawn but then fried in a gigantic microwave.

I will keep you all up to date.

I do like the idea that Grenth isn’t this super anti healing person etc. Because he actually was the one who allowed us to resurrect.

Can you guys give me a link where it is mentioned that Grenth is a god of justice? Can’t seem to find it on any of the wikis.

I finally found out why I chose Grenth: “Grenth is the god of darkness ice and death. His acolytes know that the world between worlds is thin. Death does not frighten me. Even the darkest nights comfort me because Grenth watches over me.”
It just appealed a lot to me and suited me well. “Death does not frighten me.” And at the time I felt it was a bit simple to just pick the godess of healing and life because I played guardian.

First of all, thanks for the insanely quick replies, really appreciated! And there are some very good ideas out there already, thanks a bunch!

So 3 years ago I made my character “Jake Von Loch”, a human guardian… Blessed by Grenth. To this date I don’t know what was wrong with me when I chose to let my guardian be blessed by the god of darkness, death and ice. Instead what would be more logical was Dwayna.
To this very day it annoys me that I made this decision and I can’t seem to wrap my head around the fact that a guardian can be blessed by Grenth.
The fact that this is possible in character creation must suggest that it’s possible for a class which is into supporting and healing, be blessed by a god of death within the lore. But then my question is, how?
How is this supposed to make sense? Because it really doesn’t to me. So why does Arenanet have it as an option?
Could anyone come up with some loophole in the lore that a guardian can be blessed by grenth or e.g. a necromancer blessed by dwayna or a warrior blessed by Lyssa.
It would definitely make me feel a lot better when my character actually fits into the lore and doesn’t have this weird twist to him that makes him impossible to be a realistic character.

Thanks in advance,

-Dib

Yeah anet screwed up, did you guys get

• Crash <—*
  Exception: c0000417

too?

I’ve got the exact same thing, eversince that patch I can’t get in and all the help I get from the support is: Make a shortcut and type this in the command line, and nothing helps.
THat’s what I got from it. thing part that keeps coming back is this one:
Exception: c0000417

—> Crash <—
Exception: c0000417
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 7628
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 003B0000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 46613
When: 2015-03-20T22:03:00Z 2015-03-20T23:03:00+01:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:00:09
Flags: 0