Guild Wars 2

I use SweetFX, I use sweet & sharp preset. I think it just smooths things out a little. If you run a high end PC I don’t think there is much difference as I haven’t noticed much since I upgraded. But on my low end it did help make things look better without loosing FPS.

well that my experience with it

Does it really matter? You haven’t been playing, whats the issue? are you annoyed something in your bank has gone from from over 2k to nearly nothing?

Yargesh.4965:

Emmalouise.1763:

Yargesh.4965:

Emmalouise.1763:

I would love to fish, but I would also like to hunt – to kill for leather

Every map ever and Lake Doric

Physically go and hunt and skin things?

Since you physically get them in your bags, yes. Animation of doing so no. To me a trivial point.

hmm its not a trivial point. The OP is talking about a skill being added to the game, we get leather from salvaging random items that are nothing like animals and a random drop in our bag, like you said.

I was simply saying I would like to have fishing as a skill and also hunting. You could hunt and kill for all kinds of things, have it as a mastery if you wish – but there is, skin, bones, skulls, meat, feathers, scales, claws, all kinds of things that could be collected.

yes, I am aware we get these randomly dropped into our bags. Whether in your eyes it is right or wrong and should or shouldn’t be added, it was a suggestion for a side skill, a physical activity to do in game aside from all the other stuff.

You could even stretch it as far as having a guild event/mission to track and hunt a beast, with different difficulty levels by using different sills and tactics, and maybe obtain a guild hall trophy of some kind.

50% name change contracts seem good, I have a few chars I don’t like names of, but I don’t play them enough to justify the cost.

But i am wondering if i should buy one or two in case I like their new elite specs :/

Yargesh.4965:

Emmalouise.1763:

I would love to fish, but I would also like to hunt – to kill for leather

Every map ever and Lake Doric

Physically go and hunt and skin things?

Apple sauce, I expect her to be porky tasting

Danikat.8537:

Just to clarify I do not like that these are in gem store RNG boxes. I think that’s a horrible way to make any item available, new or old, especially when the drops are account bound.

But having spent 5 years arguing that point, both with Anet and with players who complain that they wasted $150 on them and have to spend more to keep trying then act like it’s some great mystery why companies release these things, I just don’t have the energy to do it any more. I can literally run through the whole topic in my head – what I’d post, what other players would post, the fact that Anet would totally ignore it – and know that in the end nothing will change. So I’ve given up.

It hasn’t changed how I feel about them, I have never and will never spend any money (even gold converted to gems) on these things. But I’ve given up arguing that they shouldn’t exist.

As long as there’s idiots convinced they’re so special that the laws of probability do not apply to them and willing to throw their money at the screen to prove it developers are going to keep giving them the opportunity to do so.

But to me that’s a separate issue. I don’t like gambling boxes regardless of what’s in them. But I also don’t have a problem with new players being able to get the same stuff I have, regardless of how I got it or how they got it.

For example when the mini Llama was introduced I entered the Tournament of Legends to try and get one. I had never played PvP before but I was lucky enough to have 4 friends from my (officially inactive at this point) guild crazy enough to sign up with me, we practiced for a week and then it was the tournament. We got through the first round on a pure fluke – the other team didn’t show up. We were absolutely decimated in the 2nd round but I didn’t care – I was literally dancing around the room because I was so happy I’d got my llama.

A week later a friend told me he’d got a code for one at some event and would give it to me for free. A few months later I saw a mention in the patch notes that Anet was going to give PvPers something to do with ‘all those mini llamas you keep getting. Now there’s about 15 different llamas, many of which I’ll probably never be able to get, and the original is considered the boring one that ‘everyone’ has.

And you know what? I don’t care. It doesn’t change the great memories I have of doing that, the gratitude I feel that my friends were willing to be humiliated alongside me for something so silly or the great story I have. I still love using my mini llama, even if everyone assumes I just got it from grinding a reward track.

I won my mini Llama through a competition Anet ran, it was rare back then. then they introduced them to PvP with an easy grind to get them. I just thought oh well and moved on. but like you I know my mini Llama is a little bit more special for me

Tibokio.6482:

Linken.6345:

They probabely removed it since dyes werent account bound and could be sold.

What about people who sold theirs before they made it account bound?

Same as the people that have 3 or more bauble infusions

No it hasn’t made me angry. I started the game 6 months late. When I started it took me a while to realise there was living world stuff to do, didn’t really understand the notifications on the top right of my screen.

I played through the 2nd half of LS1 and it is just a skin tbh, who cares? only the greedy hoarders and flippers are the ones that really care as they have lost out on profits.

I have been drooling over the shattered wings for over 4 years and I have finally been given a change to get them (would have happily done the AP given a chance)

I would love to fish, but I would also like to hunt – to kill for leather

I think you are reading too much into it.

that’s the problem with this world, people try to twist stuff when there is no need tbh.

In the UK its chocolate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Minstrels

You asked ""What if, Guild leaders have the ability to tick a box allowing or disallowing members to multi Guild?""

Here’s my stance on this.

I have my main guild, my personal guild, a friends guild and a raid group guild.

I prefer to be committed to one guild and contribute only to that guild. I am a 100% repper, but at the same time I require a guild to be just as giving back. The guild I am in makes its own content, keeps us involved and is big and small enough to have a nice family atmosphere but remain active.

But at the same time I wouldn’t want to be restricted to one guild, my personal guild has old friends in there and the thought of not being able to have it is odd.

If a guild is having problems keeping members and having people be loyal they need to look at themselves and work out why, its not the freedom of choice that’s doing it as am a member of 4 guilds but main rep 1.

there are most likely loads like me, and you would be missing out on those people. just because we are in more than 1 guild, doesn’t make us less loyal to our main.

Rauderi.8706:

Faaris.8013:

Emmalouise.1763:

I brought ultimate as I saw the 4k gems as a future investment as I would be spending that somewhere in the next year on odds & sodds.

But will you wait?

I didn’t buy the ultimate version because I would probably just spend the 4k gems on character slots and storage within a day, instead of spending like 200 per week. I will probably spend 4k within the next half year, but that way it’s spread out. Spending 4k now would not keep me from spending another 4k in those months ^^

/lowerhead
/raisehand

Guilty as charged.

ok ok – I didn’t wait….

those Living Story 1 boxes came out, and I have always been in awe of those shattered wings (I missed them when i started) So i spent 1.5k on those boxes, but I got the wings, after 4 years of wanting

im saving the rest for mount customisation lol

I’ve played GW2 since feb 2013, I was really gutted I missed out on GW1 back in the day but I would never want to belittle those deserving GWAAM titles from players by puting them on the gemstoree. I don’t think you could ever appreciate the amount of time and effort put into those titles.

I went back and did GW1 whilst I waited for HoT to be released. its hard work. I got 30 HoM points but only due to an old friend having a rare mini that sold for a lot of money, it helped fund some of my armor and weapon purchases.

Playing through the stories is really fun, even if you buy it to this it is well worth the money.

….but you need to let go of those titles and skins and even AP if your not willing to work for them.

I purchased it because since the day I stepped into Tyria (24.02.2013) I was caught, I fell in love and I haven’t looked back. I brought ultimate as I saw the 4k gems as a future investment as I would be spending that somewhere in the next year on odds & sodds.

I am really looking forward to the new mounts, exploring new areas and learning new specs

ANet seem to be bringing back old skins every now and then to discourage this, and quite rightly so. if you decide to purchase as an “investment” then whether the box stays or goes is a risk you need to take

I’d go with that.

I spose it’s now just a waiting game to see how the allow us mere mortals to get the backpiece if it hasn’t been finished.

I get that I had that much time. Still doesn’t change the fact I am where I am and the system is changing. I am praying that I won’t have to redo everything because they change the structure of the PvP leagues and how you progress through them. They have said the new format will be introduced with season 5.

So I guess that’s my worry, I seem to struggle documenting my thoughts on paper:/

The below pic is where I have finished this year.

http://i.imgur.com/SIMI07x.png

I have read on the forum that season 5 has been confirmed and it will be presented with the new changes to your personal progress and the changes leagues and pips.

I have also read that the backpiece will still be obtainable after “the year of the ascension”

Please please tell me all my hard work won’t go to waste and what I have achieved this year. I.e all achievements bar one, wont be totally wasted.

Please please grandfather people into the new system if season 5 is gong to apply to this year.

I could have got to ruby most season and have my backpack by now, but stuff happened so I completed as mch as I could.

The last remaining achievement is: League Elite – where I need to Cross 4 league division thresholds during a PvP season. I’m 1/4 on it and there is no way I can cross over 3 leagues from Ruby.

I really cannot wait for you guys to announce the new changes and how we are going to get the back pack beyond year of the ascension. I just hope all my hard work pays of and isn’t totally wasted

Hiya,

Will this be a non rep guild and what time zone do you run on?

I struggle getting to guilds like this as as most run on European times and their 7pm start is my 6pm and that’s when I get in from work :/

I’m in the UK and available from 7:30 UK time.

(FYI I have killed, VG and Gorse and escort many times, killed SAB and sloth once)

Hiya,

The time might be an issue for me. I’ve tried a few guilds that do stuff on server time and I found I always missed out on stuff. Although I am logged in 6pm UK time I am semi afk in and out of the kitchen cooking etc. I am free to fully commit from 7:30pm

I would always feel like I’m missing out and it wouldn’t work. This is why I am looking for a guild that works on UK times as when people are an hour ahead I do miss out of core stuff. Sorry

Hey, sounds good, but is ST a US timezone? I’m British:/

I need a new home, but I need a new forever home. I am looking for a guild small enough where people know each other and large enough that there is a decent amount of people logging in each day and most importantly doing stuff together. I would prefer my next guild to work around the UK time zones just so it fits in with my working hours and stuff.

I am fed up with joining guilds, getting to know people then being lonely because people stop playing and play other games, so due to this I am looking for a guild that has been around some time and where the Leaders and majority of the guild only or mostly play GW2 and that a large number of guildies are addicted to Tyria as I play A LOT.

I am old and would much rather be with people aged 20 plus. I enjoy Guild missions and any other social events, I just enjoy being with people and forming friendships, but I also like to be challenging content, fractals, dungeons and raiding, lore and ticking off achievements.

Thanks
Em

I am looking for a UK time based guild so the events and stuff happen after UK working hours.

I would prefer small to medium sized.

I would like it to have a casual attitude with a try hard approach.

So this means to have fellow players that like to do and can do T4 fractals, speed run dungeons but not shout or yell if we kitten up now and then. I like to have a laugh on voip and I can give or take raiding.

When I am not doing the above I am doing other open world stuff. Mainly ticking off AP.

Just looking for somewhere where I can get to know people, be part of their team and progress through the game with like minded people.

Found a guild. Ty

Ha ha. Don’t worry. I was being an idiot. Just realised I had to create a thread

Hey,

Can I talk to one of you later this evening? I joined the site but wasn’t directed to an application form to join?

Thank you

I did use the level 80 boost, oh noes, has it removed my build too?

Lol what a wolly

I am wondering if you could take a look at my account at all? I have both the moot and minstrel collections open, but I am finding it difficult to get indigo mushrooms. The drop rate is very very low for me and I a, not going to be able to farm the 250 needed to finish moot.

I havnt gathered for a while because I gave up, but I people are reporting they get loads, where I am lucky to get 1 drop after gathering a string of mushrooms.

:( if these mushrooms are based on RNG and I don’t seem to drop them I have waisted hundreds of gold getting to t3 moot collection as this is stopping me progress

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/PLS-fix-indigo-mushrooms/first#post6102049

I logged on. My ranger yesterday and found my pets had been reset. My ranger used to have a bristleback and black widow spider for land and a shark and rainbow jellyfish for water. When I logged on my ranger had both a jungle stalker and drake and names were removed?

Oh Nooooes I already had the other one open

I’m dooomed

Thanks Guys,

I will buy the other collection and go mushroom hunting again.

The Moot collection T3

I have invested time and money into getting to tier 3, only to find I need 250 of these pesky stupid mushrooms.

They just don’t drop. I have more chance of getting precursors rain from the mystic forge!

To rub salt in the wound it would have probably would have been more beneficial to sell all of the materials used to get to tier 3 and buy the precursor.

So now I am sitting on a half finished collected that has lost me a fair bit of money just because I need 250 very rare chance of a drop of mushroom.

Please tell me the drop rate isn’t meant to be this rare?

Blaeys.3102:

This will come across cynical, but I think they are just using the “quality versus quantity” cliché to justify the new, much slower, approach to content delivery.

Seasons one and two brought us some of the best content Ive ever seen in an MMO – Molten Facility, Aetherblade Retreat, Guild Missions, Fractals, Southsun, Marionette, Tower of Nightmares, the burning and rebuilding of LA, Glint’s Lair, Drytop, Silverwastes, Triple Trouble, Aetherpath, the fight against the nightmare dragon, just to name a few examples.

So, when they claim that the delay is to improve quality, that is the content we need to measure that quality against (and quantity given the time they are taking, imo).

So expectations need to be astronomical in scale at this point, because they have set the bar really high with the quality of their past work.

I expect:

• multiple new maps (at least 2) that rival Silverwastes in terms of fun/replayability/scale,
• story steps at the level of Glint’s Lair, Fort Salma or the final fight against the nightmare,
• world events on the scale of the LA invasion/reacquisition,
• new guild missions (12-24 of them) that make the old ones feel mediocre
• Multiple fractals (6-12 of them) based on obscure historic events with mechanics and foes we haven’t seen before (ala Thaumanova Reactor)
• World bosses (at least 2) that require the coordination of the Marionette or even Triple Trouble

I expect these things because ANET has delivered on these things – and MUCH MORE – using the old living story model. If they are taking this much more time (MONTHS with nothing new to do) to deliver new content, then that content needs to be a level above the amazing content they have delivered in the past (because of their quality takes more time claim).

I love this freaking game. Since day one, I have been what many would call (and many did call) a white knight on the forums – passing out praise and arguing against detractors. I do not like the direction they have chosen to go in 2016. It is destroying the living world and creating a boring stale world with nothing new to do.

This claim that we have to wait 11 months between the expansion and living story because they need to up the quality level (over some of the examples I list above) feels hollow and more like an excuse to reallocate developers toward the same tired business model every other AAA MMO uses. It will cost them players – not all at once, but this game was obviously designed to center around the concept of the living story – and they are leaving it behind.

OMG yes, this, I want this! oh and FYI you are not being cynical, you are just stating truth.

He sounds a right kitten lol. Don’t waste your time and money building HIS guild up, make your own.

Daniel.4763:

Diovid.9506:

OanSur.4590:

Does it mean we won’t get any story unless we pay for it ? No new content for a year and BAM – here is the expansion for 40$ ?

We already know we are getting a third season of the living story, we are getting it this year in fact. However, it won’t be starting before the end of march.

Yes, I too was expecting it to come sooner but with them working on the second expansion and on everything else (such as the WvW revamp, polishing HoT, more raid wings, balance updates and so on) I can’t really say that I blame them.

There is a saying about having too many irons in the fire. Maybe Anet should focus on finishing the task at hand (HOT) before spending too many resources on the next expansion. I know thwy wanted money from us, but they could at least give us the rest of the expansion rather than continuing to drag it out. How many new legendary weapons have been released so far? Three…

I agree with this.

I personally would like a proper chunky story to work through. Something to keep me busy. Some stuff to collect to get me something in the end.

I would like a bit of quantity with quality, its not too much to ask for. Maybe something with multiple things for me to collect so I can re-run it with other chars. A bit like the HoT story and collections etc.

I would be happy with a story leading to the next expansion as long as it had a really interesting and jam packed plot. Bit like the GW1 campaigns.

Thanks for this. I also did a stealth edit on my post. My phone changes stuff lol

So we can add this onto the list of broken promises/screws along with fractals, dungeons and WvW.

Happy new year

Sorry, I don’t normally moan, it this is crap

There was a poi video or some other video or blog information before HoT saying decor space would be in the thousands.

Now I just need to find this again.

Guild halls are a big money and time waster, members don’t use them at least allow to to make cool jumpy things for fun without limitations

Hi,

I lost my AP on the day of release too. Without sounding rude ANET, you took away AP I mistakenly gained due to that GWAMM bug, so its only fair that you to give these ones back due to your error.

Thanks

I was so sad when I saw the cut scene to chapter 6, to make matters worse I was on my own and I was unsure who in the guild had or hadn’t done the chapter so remained quiet.

Poor Eir, Poor Brahm

I have lost AP as well

I’m kittened off.

Thanks for your opinions guys.

I am not saying that HoT should be delayed, Hell no! it feels like forever already lol.

But there have been huge gaps in the releasing of the elite spec’s so all of them could have been released before BW2 allowing for the ranger and engi to be tested in BW2, revised and retested in BW3 and then worked on further if needed. All the other classes have benefited from 2 BW.

Instead we will get ranger and engi dumped on us last minute, feedback will be given and changes made and released into HoT without any idea if the changes made are fit for purpose. (maybe they could squeeze in 1 more BW?)

I am a little sad of this

Morning,

I have just seen that a load of the elite specialisations are having more changes made to them for BW3, this is great!

But… I am concerned about the ranger. I love my ranger and I am really looking forward to Druid. But Rangers have not had much love in the game and I am really worried that it’s going going to have enough time to be tested and improved upon as its being revealed last and will only have 1 BW test. I am worried it’s going to be released with HoT a bit unfinished.

Thoughts?

I personally wouldn’t buy it. Yes there is a chance of weapon or ascended box, but a bigger chance getting nothing or a ring.

You can run a 50 in 40mins or so with a group or even less with the more experienced.

Me and my guildies had great fun climbing the ranks and going through the mistlocks, so much fun we can wait to work our way up to 100 :p

Someone once sent me a picture of him holding his little guy. I shall never forget it… As much as I want too.

Probably not. And they need to be acc bound imo.

Frostfang.5109:

It has never worked. Like never eve-ever….

Lol. This. Just this lol. Amazing!

I hate the silence. A tweet to say they know what the problem is and that they are fixing it would be nice.

Im supposed to be leading guild missions at 8pm lol. And it’s the weekend I wanna slob out and play all day lol