Guild Wars 2

Of course, I play every day!

“This item can be used in the Mystic Forge since the September 2014 Feature Pack.”
“This mini can be mystic forged which yields 3, 5, or 15 obsidian shards.”
- from the wiki

1 x Obsidian Shard
1 x Mystic Coin
1 x Pile of Putrid Essence
1 x Mini Risen Priest of Balthazar

= Obsidian Shard (x3)

edit: copy paste from the wiki format needed fixing, Wiki has lots of good info in it!

Interesting take Devata. I think we all project a bit when we read. I mostly gave weight to his comments about guilds and friends. I would think a good friends list and a guild to be proud of are something to show for 3 years of effort.

I can see how you have read it, and understand your take on it. That’s all fine. I just hope someones/anyones suggestions here in this thread may provide the OP the helping hand he is looking for to get back the feeling of accomplishment/fun/friendship from this hobby.

Devata.6589:

The only problem with setting goals in GW2, the activity to get the reward usually means grinding (mainly gold), So if that is not your thing then ‘setting goals for yourself’ isn’t really an option.

Compare that to some other MMO’s, when you see a nice mini and set your goal to get it, you might end up doing a dungeon and then you see a skin what sends you all over the world in following / completing some quest-chain, the next item you are after might require you to do a mini-dungeon in some area you have never visited before, then the next item requires you to fight a boss to get a recipe, then farm some mats and make it.

That experience of hunting down items (where the items become your goal) is very different in GW2, and when OP says “Ï have nothing to show for it” I think his ‘goals’ are along this line but then the question becomes if grinding is what he wants to do.

I didn’t intend the goals to be items except for the one thing he expressed in his post, a legendary. To me goals are usually not reward driven but fun activity driven, no need to grind unless that is your thing.

He has many non-reward centered things he can do to get APs.

Maybe I should have posted some examples, like – completing a new jump puzzle, joining a guild and doing guild missions, doing the Hirathi hinterlands event chain from beginning to end, doing all temple runs in Orr in one day, doing every daily – PvE/PvP/WvW every tuesday, complete one incomplete map a day until 100%, leveling and alt, etc.

I used to farm and it almost ruined the game for me. Now I just harvest nodes as I play and sell the mats, mostly mid tiers and make about 150-300 gold a week without even trying. Gold is easy to get if not rushing for it.

My personal goal is always to have fun. Best fun I have in game is helping my guildies with Jump Puzzles and open world events together. I’m not great at JPs, but I know them and we have a blast doing them and laughing together.

I think desiring skins/weapons/gear is fine – until the drive to get them outweighs the fun of playing. I’m not an item hound, yet I have most everything I could want as it comes along with just playing the game.

If one sets one’s goal as having fun, by doing things that challenge you or that you haven’t done yet you’ll be a lot healthier than if ones goals are solely gear based.

And to be less obtuse and more direct I’d advise the OP to join one new guild every few days until he finds one he is happy with. Playing with others always seems to be more fun than the base activity to me with amiable company along.

edit: spelling

I could use a programmable alarm clock. An item I could set to go off after a time I set to launch a big window in game that says, “STOP”.

I’m mostly interested in exploring new maps and encounters. It’s the trip that drives me, not the destination.

You’ll most likely never get anywhere until you set some goals. Pick something, anything and work towards it. That should provide some measure of progression for you.

If AP is a metric you like to use, start there for your goals. use the achievement tab in your hero window to guide you.

If your social circle is waning – reach out, try a new guild or two to find new friends.

I too don’t have a legendary, hopefully with HOT I can start working on earning one as opposed to playing the RNG game. Since you have HOT, that may be a goal for you as well.

I myself had to take a long break from the game due to work. When I returned to the normal world my interest in GW2 was reinvigorated. Nothing wrong with taking a break and coming back as Miss Lana advised.

I’d recommend not using gold as a metric for progress, if you are anything like me you’ll find it comes and goes. I am a sucker for buying new shinies. Gold comes naturally from playing, moreso if you farm (but that can burn one out fast).

If you have fun playing try to think of that alone as the primary value of the game, not abstract markers or pixilated trophies.

I wish you the best and I hope you can find what you are looking for.

As an old fart who spent his life in the army I’d say put the game on hold for two weeks, study like a madman and get good grades, resume playtime only when it won’t negatively affect your real life. Two weeks without a game never killed anyone.

Just 2 cents from a graduate of the school of hard knocks.

Good luck with your exams!

I boycotted the boycott by buying HOT. No regrets.

Bought it. Have no regrets. Will be quite happy on release day.

Click the ‘My Account’ up in the header of these forums and if you have it it will be on the first page listing what your acct has open. Hope this helps.

Totally subjective answer follows,

Go Engineer, I have a blast with mine and rarely if ever play my warriors. (all at 80 and geared)

Other opinions may differ. Your best bet is to make one of each and play them a bit for feel and then decide which to pursue if not both! Whatever the outcome I hope you have fun on your new character!

Boring? Not for me. Oh – just level 9 and making judgments lol.

It’s not hard, but surely not boring. You’ve seen almost nothing at level 9. To be fair you should play at least to level 71 to play fully traited, better yet to 80.

I think though even perhaps overly easy for a keen player you will be missing a true perspective on the game until you level up one character fully. I hope you do that and I hope you have fun along the way too.

If you want added difficulty while leveling and faster leveling play in areas 5-9 levels above your current level. It may not be as challenging as you desire, but anti speed leveling comes in at 10 levels over current level.

If you can do try to explore the social aspects of the game as well. Grouping up and Guilds can make things fun. I love helping friends do things I find easy that they find hard and getting help from them with things I’m week in.

As to your last query it will be in level 80 zones where it may get challenging for you. If you stick with the game and try HOT Anet promises harder content.

Hope you find some fun in game.

NekotTheBrave.2013:

Druid hasn’t even been released yet, but I’ll go with that one.

Heck ya!

Thumbs up!

Non nobis, Domine, non nobis,
sed nomini tuo da gloriam.

A very nice welcome to the new players OP. I spent some time in beginner maps too today to see whats going on. The folks I chatted with were nice and appreciative of assistance.

I think how this all works out in part may be our being accepting of them as fellow players who just want to have fun.

sephiroth.4217:

I got about 30+ Risen Priest Of Balthazars

You can mystic forge those.

Only one way to find out – submit a support ticket.

Deekin’s Doom song

If, and I do mean ‘IF’, they are going to do this maybe, just maybe they have crunched numbers and used models to show an increase in revenues, which would mean they get to continue eating and that the game has more cash flowing into creative growth of the game.

I don’t think they’d be looking at this as an initiative to make your life unpleasant.

If they could just go look in their records from City of Heros/Villans and transpose all those wonderful emotes over to this game I’d be supremely happy.

While not all are appropriate to this game it does show what Anet is/was capable of producing when they put their minds to it.

The one I miss most is /walllean. (Man I miss CoX)

List
afraid (cower) (fear) (scared): Cower in fear, hold stance.
akimbo (wings): Stands with fists on hips looking forward, hold stance.
alakazam: Thrusts out one arm like you are performing a magic trick.
alakazamreact: Flash of light and a pumpkin is left where your character was. After a few seconds, the character reappears, looks around and shrugs
angry: Fists on hips and slouches forward, as if glaring or grumbling, hold stance.
assumepositionwall: Turns around and spreads legs as if getting frisked, hold stance.
atease: Stands in the ‘parade rest’ military position (legs spread out slightly, hands behind back) stance, hold stance.
attack: Gives a charge! type point, fists on hips stance.
batsmash: Hit someone or something with a bat, repeat.
batsmashreact: React as if getting hit with a bat, often used in duo with batsmash.
bigwave (overhere): Waves over the head, fists on hips stance.
binoculars: Gaze through a large pair of binoculars, hold stance. (Issue 9)
boombox (bb) (dropboombox): Summons forth a boombox (it just appears) and leans over to turn it on, stands up and does a sort of dance. (boombox plays music, several different short songs) (SOUND)
bow (sorry): Chinese/Japanese style bow, holds bow stance.
bowdown: Thrusts hands forward, then points down, as if ordering someone else to bow before you.
burp: A raunchy belch, wipes mouth with arm afterwards, ape-like stance. (SOUND)
buzzoff (goaway): Makes a go away gesture.
camera: Hold an old-fashioned camera, and periodically take a picture, repeats.
cellphone: Talk on a cellphone, periodically nodding, shaking head, and gesturing with hand, repeats.
cheer: Randomly does one of 3 cheers, 1 fist raised, 2 fists raised or 2 fists lowered, repeats.
chicken: Character flaps his arms and impersonates a chicken, ends in the “akimbo” stance.
clap: Claps hands several times, crossed arms stance. (SOUND)
clipboard: Write notes on a clipboard, repeats.
coin (cointoss) (flipcoin): Flips a coin, randomly displays heads or tails, and hold stance. Coin image remains until stance broken.
crossarms: Crosses arms, stance (sliiiiiightly different than most other crossed arm stances).
crouch: Squats down into a cat-like ready-to-pounce position, holds stance.
dance: Randomly performs a dance.
dance1: Dances with elbows by hips.
dance2: Dances with fists raised.
dance3: Swaying hands by hips, aka ‘Really Bad’ dancing.
dance4: Swaying hands up in the air, like in a breeze.
dance5: As Dance4, but jumping as well.
dance6: The monkey.
dice (rolldice): picks up, shakes and rolls a die, randomly displays the results (1-6), default stance. Die image quickly fades, so make a quick note of what the roll was!
dice<1-6>: picks up, shakes and rolls a die, displays the selected number, default stance.
dig
disagree: Shakes head, crosses hand in front, then offers an alternative, crossed arms stance.
drat: Raises fists up, then down, stomping at the same time, same ending stance as frustrated.
drink: Character holds a cup and drinks from it.
drum: Beats a large wooden drum.
drumdance: The Tuatha Drum dance.
drumlow: Kneels and plays a small wooden drum on the ground.
Drumlow
dustoff: Character dusts off his hands.
eatdonut (donut): Character eats a donut; note that this and eatfood have potential to look odd when performed on some model shapes such as the Dwarf Star form of Kheldians.
eatfood (eat) (food): Character eats a bit of food, usually a hot dog, hamburger or sandwich; Dwarf form of Kheldians and other “monster” skeletons will instead gnaw on a large bone.
explain: Hold arms out in a “wait a minute” gesture, motion alternatives, then shrug.
evillaugh (elaugh) (muahahaha) (villainlaugh) (villainouslaugh): Extremely melodramatic, overacted evil laugh.
fancybow (elegantbow): A much more elegant, ball-room style bow, falls into neutral forward facing stance.
fishing: Hold out a fishing rod and reel, hold stance.
flashlight: Look around with a flashlight out in one of two stances, either the flashlightup stance or the flashlightdown stance. Note that the light is only on at night.
flashlightdown: Look around with a flashlight aimed below head level. Note that the light is only on at night.
flashlightup: Look around with a flashlight aimed above head level. Note that the light is only on at night.
flex1 (flexa): Fists raised, flexing arms stance, hold stance.
flex2 (flex) (flexb): A side-stance flexing arms, hold stance.
flex3 (flexc): Another side-stance, flexing arms, hold stance.
flip (backflip): Character performs a standing backflip.
flippingcoin: Flip a coin into the air and catch it without checking whether it is heads or tails, repeats.
floatbooks: Places three magical tomes floating in mid-air, and character glances among them and holds stance.
flypose1: During flight, changes flight pose to arms fully outstretched in front.
flypose2: During flight, changes flight pose to one arm in front, one arm pulled back to side, and one knee pulled upward, as if flying to punch something.
flypose3: During flight, changes flight pose to arms stretched forward and to the side in a Y-formation.
flypose4: During flight, changes flight pose to head up and arms pulled back to side, in an “I dare you to shoot at me” pose.
frustrated: Raises both fists and leans backwards, shaking fists and head, leads into a quick-breathing angry-looking stance.
getsome: Turns to the side and pats butt in defiance.
grief: Falls to knees, hands on forhead, looks up and gestures a sort of “why me?” look with hands, goes into a sort of depressed slump while on knees, holds stance.
hand (talktohand): Hold hand out in a “talk to the hand” gesture.
handsup (surrender): Two stances with hands up, one standing and one kneeling.
hi (wave): Simple greeting wave, fists on hips stance.
holdtorch: Produce burning torch and hold it up.
howl: Lean back and howl at the moon.
huh (shrug) (what): Raises hands and kittens head in a classical “What?”/“I don’t know” look, neutral forward facing stance.
invent: Character fiddles with some kind of glowing Rubik’s Cube-style device that hovers on its own, repeats.
jackhammer:
jumpingjacks: Does jumping jacks, repeats. (SOUND)
kneel: Quickly kneels on both knees with hands on thighs (looks insanely uncomfortable), holds stance.
knuckles: Cracks knuckles.
laptop: Summon a laptop and a stand for it, and start typing.
Em laptop
laugh: Fists on hips, tosses head back and laughs.
laugh2 (biglaugh) (laughtoo): Another style of laugh.
lecture: Waves/shakes hands in different motions in a lengthy lecture, fists on hips stance.
ledgesit: Sit with legs over the edge of whatever you’re standing on with one of two postures.
listenpoliceband: Character produces the police band scanner and opens its display. Heroes only.
martialarts (kata): Warm up/practice punches and blocks. (SOUND)
militarysalute: Stands in the military-style heads-high hand on forehead salute stance.
newspaper (afk): Materializes a newspaper (don’t ask) and reads it.
no (dontattack): Shakes head and waves hands in front of character, crossed arms stance.
nod: Fists on hips, nod yes, hold stance.
none: Cancels the current emote, if any, and resumes default standing animation cycle.
noooo (curseyou): (that’s 4 o’s in noooo…) Shaking fist.
panhandle: Sits and waves a tin cup around as if asking for change.
peerin: Make “hand binoculars” and look around, repeats.
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plot (scheme): Rubs hands together while hunched over.
point: Extends left arm and points in direction character is facing, hold stance.
praise: Kneel prostrate and and repeatedly bow in adoration.
protest: Hold hold up one of several randomly selected mostly unreadable protest signs.
readbook: Open a book in one hand, read while pointing at words with the other.
research: Pull out book and begin consulting it while making gestures in the air with other.
researchlow: Same as research, but kneeling on one knee.
roar: Claws air, roaring, ape-like stance. (SOUND)
rock/paper/scissors: Plays rock/paper/scissors, picking your choice (displays all three symbols for about 6 seconds, then displays and holds your choice until stance is broken).
salute: A hand-on-forehead salute, fists on hips stance.
score1 to score10: Holds a black on white scorecard up, ranging from 1-10 as specified, holds stance.
screen (touchscreen): Character observes and writes like on a monitor or chalkboard.
shucks: Swings fist and head dejectedly, neutral forward facing stance (not the default stance, same as huh/shrug).
sit: Sits down, legs forward, with knees bent, elbows on knees, and slightly slumped over, stance.
sitbench1: Sits leaning back with legs at almost straight angle.
sitbench2: Sits with right leg crossed under left.
sitbench3: Sprawls out with arms spread out, presumably on the back of the sofa or bench.
sitbench4: Sits upright with legs slightly extended in front.
sitchair1: Sits with hands on knees, legs slightly spread and squared.
sitchair2: Sits with arms on legs, slightly hunched forward.
sitchair3: Sits with hands on legs and legs slightly extended in front. (Same as sitbench4)
sitexecutivechair: Sit with arms at side, as if on armrests, and leaning back.
sitstool: Sit with one leg propped slightly higher than the other.
sittable1: Same as sit
sittable2: Same as sitstool
slap: Slap someone or something. (SOUND)
slapreact: React to getting slapped, often used in duo with slap (difficult to time just right to appear to actually get slapped).
slash (slashthroat): Slashing motion across throat.
sleep: Body goes limp while still standing. Zzz’s appear above character’s head.
smack: Backhand slap. (SOUND)
spraypaint:
stop (raisehand): Raises your right hand above your head, hold stance.
talk: Stand upright and slight bob head as if in a long diatribe. Periodically make hand gestures, repeats.
tarzan (beatchest): Beats chest and howls, angry-looking stance. (SOUND)
taunt1 (taunta): Taunts, beckoning with one hand, then slaps fist into palm, repeating stance. (SOUND)
taunt2 (taunt) (tauntb): Taunts, beckoning with both hands, combat stance. (SOUND)
teabag: Character produces a cup of tea and bobs a teabag in it endlessly. Loops.
thanks (thankyou): Gestures with hand, neutral forward facing stance.
thewave: Does the wave (as seen in stadiums at sporting events), neutral facing forward stance.
threathand (smackyou): Raise hand, as if threatening to backhand someone.
type: Types as if on a keyboard.
victory: Raises hands excitedly, and then again less excitedly, and then a third time almost non-chalantly, falls into neutral forward facing stance.
waiting: Cross arms on chest and tap foot. Periodically check wristwatch, and slice hand through air in an “I can’t believe he’s still not here!” motion. Repeats.
walllean: Casually lean against a wall in one of two postures (looks very odd when not standing next to wall).
warmhands:
wavefist (rooting): Waves fist, hoots and then claps (its a cheer), crossed arms stance. (SOUND)
welcome: Open arms welcomely, fists on hips stance.
whistle: Whistles (sounds like a police wistle), ready-stance. (SOUND)
winner (champion): Fist in fist cheer, right, and then left, neutral forward facing stance.
wounded: Stand in one spot and wobble, as if extremely drunk or stunned. (Issue 9)
yatayata (yata): Make “blah blah blah” gesture with hand and look bored, as if to say, “Is he still talking?”
yourewelcome: Bows head and gestures with hand, neutral forward facing stance.
yes (thumbsup): Big (literally) thumbs up and an affirmative nod, fists on hips stance.
yoga (lotus): Sits down cross legged with hands on knees/legs, holds stance. Works while flying or hovering.

edit: to move humongous list to bottom of my comments.

Make gold without much rng effect – harvest nodes – sell on TP. Enjoy the game as your harvesting.

Basic mats from nodes sell well on TP.

Use gold to buy that special shiny you want.

I mostly play ranger and engineer. I am greatly looking forward to trying out their new forms, but I can be patient.

I don’t think there is any sort of conspiracy at hand. They’ll be ready for us to test when they’re ready.

Patience is needed.

Why aren’t we wearing more wigs??!

Oh, misread. Carry on.

“Stoic”

I immediately thought of this Monty Python bit when I read the title…

View skit

The one thing that made my BWE experience problematic for me was the inability to chat with my guildies during the event.

I can understand not wanting guild representation from beta characters affecting guild progress, but is their any way that beta characters can be made to represent and just gain guild chat functionality in the upcoming BWEs?

Being able to use guild chat on our beta characters would be awesome!

Cnoath.7946:

On the issue of toxicity, I never saw it. It may just be the time I played (prime time AUS) but everyone seemed pretty chill about it.

That was before megaservers too, so it may have been quite different between the servers as well.

I for one am glad they got rid of those trains.

They bred so much toxicity on the maps they took place in that I think anyone playing back in those days knew or should have known they’d eventually be blasted out of existence by Anet.

Blaine Tog.8304:

I don’t hate him. He’s just boring.

and long-winded!

I think part of it may just be a matter of him being in the story episodes too much in the final chapters. He is most definitely not as interesting as our faction mentors.

I quite agree. The old ‘skill point’ blue chevron was much easier to discern on the maps. I wish they would go back to some brighter coloration.

I do, usually by means of a sigil of speed on a weapon unless I can trait a speed boost. It’s cheap and works for getting around maps fast.

You can also change all your old combat boosts to new thew type or acquire the new type and use for 1 hour speed boosts if doing a ton of non-waypoint moving. I’ve never bought them and still I have close to two stacks of those things in my bank.

Moving at normal speed doesn’t bother me too much unless I’m opening up maps on a new character or trying to keep up with my group.

All in all I’m quite happy with the game as it is with regard to movement speed.

More open world stuff would be great, not totally bored but much is getting stale.

It’d be cool if they revisited the old maps to change some the standard map events for newer ones to indicate the passage of the past 3 years while still maintaining play-ability for new players.

I have hopes HoT will be big enough to keep it fresh for a bit and to allow some time to pass as I play it so I forget many older map events so those too will be more fun again when I do return to them.

Go Excy! Go!

phys.7689:

if i say theres a ton of reasons does the weight of the reasons have to equal 2000 lbs?
If i say something killed the fun, do i have to provide a body a motive and an eyewitness to the murder?

In these forums the answer is unfortunately yes.

The forums have gone bonkers! I was just reading this and all of a sudden the comment window opens and I can’t get rid of it so I’m typing this in explanation of why this is even here in the first place.

My apologies.

Find a guild whose company you enjoy.

The social aspect of doing things with friends has been a great way to keep things fun and fresh for me.

Welcome back and have fun!

As a mainly ranger player I think this idea is great!

It could be a whole new line of revenue for Anet through their gem store and maybe we rangers could get a pack too!

I think a crows/ravens/vulture/condor skin pack could be cool for Necros.

I’d love it if my Asuran Ranger had a Golem skin to cover his pets.

Awesome Idea!! – now its time to steal a bit of it and post a similar thought in the ranger sub forums!

Racial pet Heros – Asura get a Golem, All the rest get a companion of same race.

Have them all be equal in skills and stats.

(All I truly want is for my asuran to have a golem companion that’s always with him )

They are already gargantuan! The fantesyesqe humongousness of them is insane. If anything they need to be reduced in size and bulk. Wow!

OP have you ever actually held or swung a real sword? I know its a fantasy game, but come on – were pushing the extreme limits of that in weapon size already, any bigger and they have to reclassify this game as a superhero genre game.

For anyone drinking “Kool Aid” the title should be , “Never trust Jim Jones’ , they’re murderous psychopaths”.

That idiomatic expression always takes me back to the sad day my congressman died in Jonestown along the despicable murder of all those children.

edit: I think it’s very important we remember to what that idiom references every time we see it and not use it flippantly.

The one thing that I’ve been so looking forward to in these Beta Weekends is trying out the elites for Ranger and Engineer.

Those are my favorite classes to play and I’m super interested in giving my feedback on them as that is where my previous heavy playing experience lies.

Please Anet, sooner rather than later!

edit: to add smilies

A schiavona, any other of many other types of basket or mortuary hilted swords.

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I don’t doubt many of you have real issues,but not all computers are the same. I’ve had absolutely no issues running the game on Win 10. My upgrade was fast and smooth.

I hope you all can get your issues resolved, but I just wanted folks reading this to know that not all outcomes are the same.

My machine is an OEM HP with an ATI video card.

Pay to win – not at all.

It’s easy to gear the way you want with the best gear simply by playing the game. There is nothing that one needs to buy to be geared with that is superior to gear acquired through regular gameplay/crafting.

Cash for gems for gold simply speeds access to the same stat gear everyone else has access to as well as skins (no effect on gameplay) and fluff. You could say its “pay to speed to end gear”, but that’s not a very long trip and everyone arrives at the same destination.

No it is not P2W. Your assertion is laughably incorrect.

What’s flawed in your approach OP is that there are “Vets” in the Beta-have bought HoT crowd.

How Anet might vet Beta comments is their call – they’ll have data on who folks are if they care to differentiate between groups within the HoT prepurchasers commenting on the beta. Who started the game in head start, who plays regularly, who ranks how in this and that, who played through all of the GW1 game/expansions, who spends money in the gem store, etc. They can sort it however they wish if they wish to do so.

It sounds to me like a long tirade to get what others have paid for without ponying up! If you want to participate it’s easy, buy in.

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

As someone else has stated, how do you determine who a veteran is?

Ask to see a certified true copy of his/her DD214.

Zalladi.4652:

Also, if you managed to put your ascended armors into the bank before the copy, they aren’t even limited to solely exotics – allowing you to re-create your regular characters exactly.

Awesome Idea – I’ll have to do that next time! Thanks!

As other have said no it’s not possible, however you can do what I did by creating a doppelganger of your existing character.

Just make a copy of your regular char – its easy to do and just limited by exotic gears provided (ie those tasty ascended gears won’t be available).

“Queen Jenna’s shoes” – need I say more!

I’m all for this, even asked Gaile Grey about it in game lol. Most shoe skins don’t fit my three toed feet!

Lets air out those feet!