Guild Wars 2

Dawnbreaker.6215:

Fringilla Vigo.8594:

DragonflyDusk.6582:

Why is my ranger shooting arrows with out ever reloading?
Where exactly are all the barrage arrows coming from?
How is my mesmer able to clone herself?
Why is it that Warriors can drop banners and make us stronger? Or revive us?
Why can I rub people’s toes to bring them back to life?
Why don’t the people of Nebo Terrace just move?
Why do the same bosses show up every day at the same time to fight us?
And more importantly, why are we all not dead from shooting/stabbing each other all the time at large boss encounters?

You, sir, just stole my arguments ;-)

To the OP: I really can’t believe you brought up that question.

In the world where:
- Guardian can teleport by swinging the sword and heal his comrades by swinging staff

- Warrior can revive dead teammates by placing banner in the grounds, which is produced out of nowhere

- Engineer can jump by shooting rifle to the ground and place heavy mechanical turrets (assumably heavier than the engineer himself) which are pulled out of nowhere

- Ranger can shoot never ending arrows

- Thief can fly on the arrows he shoots

- Necromancer can draw the circles in the distances. By stepping into this remotely drawn circles you will get poisoned and chilled and god knows what else

- Mesmer can shoot the laser beams from the greatsword that somehow spins in the air

- Elementalist can create firebolts raining from the sky by swinging his staff

Is Tequatl that technically couldn’t fly yet flying is really your biggest concern in terms of violating the laws of physics?

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Well yes, because here’s the thing. Those things are normal magic. But Tequatl actually has wings and actually flaps his wings to fly, so I assume that he’s using his wings to fly, not magic. I don’t see him summon a magic carpet to fly or a broomstick, he clearly uses his physical (in game) wings to fly. The wings would never work, you have to admit that.

Ok. Now I understand. there is “normal magic” and “abnormal magic”. And, of course, you are the only one that has power to objectively decide which category does Tequatl belong to and which category infinite arrows belong to.
And which one is acceptable, and which one is abominable.

I really understand where you are coming from and what are you trying to prove, but here you are breaking the basic laws of logic.

If there are some rules that apply to certain world/universe/setting/whatever else, they always apply to literally everything. And they have some logical implications.
So, lets say for the sake of argument, you create a world where literally everyone can bend wood to shape it the way they want it to be. Well, you can’t have carpenters in this world, since there will be simply no need for them.

And if you want to prove that tequatl ability to fly is not acceptable because the laws of physics – well, there’s thousands upon a thousands other things that violate that clearly violate these laws in the game. Go to Caledon forest and see the rocks flying. Is that the “normal magic”. Do they use the flying carpets or other gimmicks? No. What do you think makes tequatl speciapl in that regard.

By the way – carrying heavy turrets and having infinite arrows is “normal magic” but dragons – creatures that in most of the movies/books/whatever else are considered magical creatures by nature – you want to apply laws of physics to them?
Intriguing concept to say the least.

DragonflyDusk.6582:

Why is my ranger shooting arrows with out ever reloading?
Where exactly are all the barrage arrows coming from?
How is my mesmer able to clone herself?
Why is it that Warriors can drop banners and make us stronger? Or revive us?
Why can I rub people’s toes to bring them back to life?
Why don’t the people of Nebo Terrace just move?
Why do the same bosses show up every day at the same time to fight us?
And more importantly, why are we all not dead from shooting/stabbing each other all the time at large boss encounters?

You, sir, just stole my arguments ;-)

To the OP: I really can’t believe you brought up that question.

In the world where:
- Guardian can teleport by swinging the sword and heal his comrades by swinging staff

- Warrior can revive dead teammates by placing banner in the grounds, which is produced out of nowhere

- Engineer can jump by shooting rifle to the ground and place heavy mechanical turrets (assumably heavier than the engineer himself) which are pulled out of nowhere

- Ranger can shoot never ending arrows

- Thief can fly on the arrows he shoots

- Necromancer can draw the circles in the distances. By stepping into this remotely drawn circles you will get poisoned and chilled and god knows what else

- Mesmer can shoot the laser beams from the greatsword that somehow spins in the air

- Elementalist can create firebolts raining from the sky by swinging his staff

Is Tequatl that technically couldn’t fly yet flying is really your biggest concern in terms of violating the laws of physics?

Edited for mispellings

DonRobeez.3560:

So you can get the Hero version and in the future when you get more tickets you can upgrade it.

But it is still 300 anyways…
and on the top of that – everyone that earned a chest may get at least one Mistforged version (200 + 100 extra tickets) with winners able to get two.
So, excluding the winners no player can have 2 mistforged versions no matter what.
I understand the idea of getting hero version, but who is going to get Gift of Heroes? I can’t think of any scenario to be honest….

Yes, I’m also wondering what is the point of gift of heroes getting priced for 200 tickets…

Hi Duckgirl – out of curiosity – which timezone do you live in – that will help us to ascertain when exactly the PM with request should be sent :-)
(because I’m positive that you are gonna get flooded with all of the requests)

Best regards

Frin

Morsus.5106:

blakdoxa.7520:

It seems there was some miscommunication here…

I believe they intended it to be one piece but due to how the text was phrased, people assumed it was a whole set.

They really have to double check these things…

Except they give us weapons all along the way. So far I’m at 58% and I picked two weapons worth 390 tokens a piece. Why would they give us expensive items all along the way only to have the goal be less than what we got all along?

Exactly. If one piece of gear was intended than do you really think that 3 pieces of weapons were also intended?
That would be a hell of a twisted logic, of that I’m sure.

Well, this is a big letdown.
I can’t understand how they calculated the rewards, but getting 3 weapons and just one piece of armor doesn’t make ANY sense.
Lets say that you wont to get the the whole set now:

a)It doesn’t make sense to get weapons through PvE. In PvP you may get them way faster.

b)It doesn’t make sense to hunt for the armor in PvP. Running dungeons will get you the full set much faster.

Where is the logic behind it? I don’t know.

On the top of that: For the ones like me, that don’t like to play dungeons (my time is limited so I prefer to jump quickly for some action and leave whenever I must) and need dungeon sets for cosmetic purpose only (I don’t care that much for the gear, I have already 16 characters decked in exotics) I don’t really get why there’s such a limitation.
I am perfectly willing to do all the paths 3 times to get all of the sets, but for god’s sake, if I wanted to get them all the way it is, it would have been 6×3×8=144 full path runs…
If you take one path for 66 games it is 9504 games.

If you take that a game lasts for 5 minutes, it is 47520 minutes.

and that makes… 33 days spend on PvP…

And that is absolutely ridiculous…

Here is the picture that might be a good point of reference. All of the details in PM :-)

FearedbytheGods.8617:

ESO mass PvP looks interesting.

And here we have perfect excuse for the devs to lock the thread…

Deadplanet.3810:

Well this is… disappointing and I struggle to understand it. This would be the perfect time to introduce this feature and it is sooo needed. Certainly lowered my excitement for Season 2 drastically

Yeah, I was so excited to be finally able to play all of my characters with the all WXP i earned and get them all buffs, masteries etc…
And now I am punished for putting my faith in Anet ability to keep their promise.
I lost a lot of faith in you, guys. Instead doing all of the bloody new PVE content that I don’t even have time to consume you could have done something useful for most of the WvW playerbase.
But wait… I forgot about your priorities, didn’t I?

Seriously, could any of the devs elaborate on that?
For the very first time since open beta I feel like I’ve been mocked up. For like 3 months or more I didn’t care which character I play (having 16 total), because I was convinced that they would implement account bound WXP eventually.
And since it took them so long, was promised to run live with EotM, but it wasn’t, I was almost sure that it is going to happen right before the season 2…
But what happened? They reset WXP points instead…
Oh bloody thank you, that’s exactly what I was looking for…

Still no WXP across the account? i was positive it is going to happen today…
This is utterly disappointing…

And here comes the bump for Gandara :-)

Oh, this is the perfect thread for me :-)

I have 16×80 (14 at least full exotics) and my wife has 8×80, so together we have 24 :-)

And since I’m too lazy to combine my character’s bar I’ll just post the combined screenshot of them.

And if you don’t believe me there is (slightly outdated) video.

Disclaimer : on my pictures there are 17 characters – simply because mesmer is in 2 different sets :-)

First of all:

I think I owe you big “thank you” Friday for your answer. It was one of the best advertisement I have seen for any server for ages. And I’m more than pleased to fight alongside with you :-) For Gandara :-)

Friday.9078:

I’m going to respond because my first steps in WvW were guided by the hands of some of our awesome Infantry Commanders. (btw, we try to avoid using the word “pug” because of the negative connotations it has in PvE and the negative light it might project to PvE players stepping into WvW for the first time – We want to be inviting, not elitist).

It is quite funny to see how some neutral terms become negative, isn’kitten And just to let you know – Im quite far away from the beginner anyways – after they finally implement shared WXP I expect to be around 400-600.I played from the very first hours of open beta, I have 16 × 80 (all professions x 2), most of them wvw tailored with different builds (few tanks, few roamers, few support, few crazy zerkers) so I know a it I guess :-)

Friday.9078:

Our Infantry Commanders are great! Most of them lead fast hard-hitting guild groups but will Tag up often to lead our infantry too and we have some dedicated Infantry Commanders who are simply fantastic. They are experienced and knowledgeable and most of them will be teaching (explaining tactics and play) when they lead too, which makes for very effective infantry groups being fielded by Gandara. I must say our infantry groups are usually a cut above the enemy servers’ and we can usually take on even enemy guild groups and much larger zergs and win.

I’m delighted to hear that. On the low ranked servers it happens quite often that there is manpower, but there’s nobody to lead them

Friday.9078:

Our scouting reports are posted into Map chat so that everyone on the map can keep up with whats going on, so technically you wont “need” TS. It does help to have TS though when a Commander is leading, because it’s easier for them to verbally give instructions and information, but it is by no means “required”. You don’t need to have a mike, just be able to hear what is being said, for example with Infantry groups it helps to hear when and where water fields, statics or veils are being called or which way to turn after exiting a choke point – All quite doable by sticking to the commander like a flea though!

Well, IMHO, except for timing, shouting for particular fields, motivating and implementing some awkward tactics after playing for a while it’s really easy to read what’s going on and it’s really not a rocket science :-) Especially with a bit of knowledge and experience, common sense and a bit of reflexes :-)

Friday.9078:

So if you are looking for play time where you can just join up with the map Commander for the limited time you have, you will usually find one to join and enjoy the fun… or just roam about solo and irritate the hell out of our enemies!

Well, having 3 months old son around cuts my time for GW2 significantly as well as prevents me from using any headphones :-) But no worries, I quite often manage to survive the heat of a battle with wvw guild around me to be one of the last man downed, so I hope I can do my job well enough nevertheless :-)

Oh, and by the way, my wife comes with me in the package :-) But she has “only”
8×80 lvl chars :-)

See you on Gandara :-)

Hello again,
After a consultation with my wife we decided that we go for something that
a)Wouldn’t be too much complicated for you to draw
b)Wouldn’t steal that attention from the characters
c)Would be relatively good match for the chosen poses
d)Would be rather dark and grim, not nice, bright and cheerful (especially that you lean towards “dark” looking characters
e)Would spice up the drawing a bit with the general ambiance

So after browsing all of our screenshots we have found something like that on her laptop.
I know the resolution is kinda crappy but I hope it would be sufficient for the purpose of background – after all its not about the details, its more about the ambiance :-)

Just wondering guys, how are you with pug commanders? I’m one of the guys that just like to roam/join commander, unfortunately no time for for sitting on any vent/team speak at the moment because of real life duties, but looking to forward to move to your server :-)

Thank you very much for your work. It took a while but I can really see the amount of work. Look at the staff – the effect really reminds me lightsaber from Star Wars and it turned out so well :-)
And I kept telling you that Charr is definitely your thing – he is absolutely perfect :-)
So we have a “beauty and the beast” theme here and I think that dynamics of the picture is one of the best aspects of it. You may see straight away that they fight alongside together.
Funny enough – we’re in the middle of watching Dexter season’s and you chose blood patterns as a background :-)

Thank you very much for your time and skills and we will be watching your thread to see your other work for sure :-)

Actually, I haven’t told you the story behind the guardian :-)
So to have long story short – I’m not entirely happy with the concept of sylvari in GW2 for several reasons.
The main one is that we don’t like the concept of plants behaving like animals.
When I said we I meant my wife (who is biologist) and myself (interested in science in general) – we cannot rationally “buy” this race by any means possible.
So in my little GW 2 universe sylvari would be something else – they are…
Well, I cannot fully reveal what they are because of the concept I keep for the book that I have in mind (that is my project waiting for way too long :-) but think of something that is an object possessed by some “power” – hence the totally black and hollow eyes – because there are no emotions in them. So is my guardian – he isn’t even sentient being by all means of this word – although he appears to be one. He behaves like one. but he is only the vessel of some other power doing the task that he suppose to.

And if it comes to his looks – I was aiming at something really simple, soldier like. And that armor reminding of roman warrior suits him well so I would never change it into something fancy,
Colors correspond nicely with his (bark?) skin features and weapons suits also character well.

The only thing that might be out of place is his hairstyle, but in the beginning I was aiming for the demonic look of that character and… I’m really pleased how it turned out.

I’m not entirely sure whether it helps in the drawing process, but… it won’t disturb it either. At least i hope so.

Bump for Aerin, she deserves that :-)
And once again thanks for your skills and time, I hope you will publish the work for me, it turned out great :-)

Definitely it should be tiger black/orange stripes. or orange/black stripes, if you prefer. Anyways – make him tiger look like :-)

Hope this helps!
And you guessed my identity just right :-)
I’ll write up some more tomorrow for sure :-)

Ok, so here is a couple of screenshots as a reference to my guardian. If you need any more of either him or her, please let me know. Basically I think that him having his shield up, ready to take an attack and her standing calmly would do the trick :-)
Please let me know what do you think :-)

Ok. so here is the challenge no 1.
Go to this post (I’m quite happy with the screenshots there)
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/fangen/But-no-seriously-I-have-no-slots/3578261
And If you are up to it, try to make the full body (or at least uppershot) portrait, preferably with the (might be very simplistic ) background of your choice. You may copy one. You may copy pose on the 1st or 2nd picture or come up with your own.

Once I agree I’ll send you payment according to the one that i promised in PM :-)

Midget.6150:

but I think she has sort of “empty look” in her eyes so I was trying to draw her more… lively

Funny, I was about to say that she became more of a “living person” in contrary to the sort of “wax figure” that I get the feeling off the screenshots … :-)

Midget.6150:

Hey, I live fairly close to Brno! But you sure travel awfully lot

Anyways, here’s the sketch of Natsu’s Guardian! Anything you would like me to change or am I good to go?

Can’t resist to add my 5 cents on that one.
a) Did you take my advice into consideartion? You didn’t make her lips thinner this time. You actually make them a tiny bit thicker which leads to…

b) the character on the sketch looks better than the character on the picture, hands down. And that speaks for itself.

Iona.6307:

Hi, Midget. Out of curiosity, are all of these so far commissions or requests?

I was left wondering how such a good artist vanished from your radar? :-)
And I’m also guessing that Askeptykal for sure has been locked in his basement by mistake or so…

Wow, I’ve been to Czech Republic 2 days ago :-) That was Jicin and Brno. Luckily, I didn’t get shot by Rumcajs :-)

Midget.6150:

Natural beauties surely But a serial killer and mentally unstable necro… sounds worthy of a story or two…

All of the characters I’ve created have “personalities” and some story behind them in my mind… I’m an old-school roleplayer, it’s hard to get rid of some habits :-)

Midget.6150:

We’re on the same boat then! But don’t worry, I think you’re a bit harsh on yourself regarding that matter Sadly enough I probably wouldn’t understand your native language :/

Unless you are Polish there’s a good chance that you wouldn’t understand a bit of it :-)

Midget.6150

your and your wife’s characters are absolutely beautiful…

Especially my psychopatic serial killer – Norn warrior and my mentally unstable Charr necromaner They are incarnations of beauty for sure :-)

Midget.6150

And thanks again for this huge post, I can see why your ex-guildies would wait for this

Nah, I’m pathetic using English, I’m only decent in my native language :-)

Hi again Mid.
And yes, that is a very pleasant surprise. Especially that I just finally managed to find somehow my hotel in Belgrad without working GPS and driving through whole Serbia based on (faulty) directions from google maps. I got copletely lost at least twice but I finally did it :-)
And voila, something to cheer me up after the stressful trip :-)
It’s so funny that you are waiting for my opinion, because… last time it happened quite often on my ex-guild music thread that my guildmates were waiting particularly for my opinion on presented music just because… I used to have a lot to say on the subject and… my opinions quite often were pretty harsh :-)

But coming back to the subject – yes, we both like them very much.
I generally like your semi dark-comic style (which was arguably stronger in your, ha ha, asuran mesmer) and how it leans more towards realism with our girls.
What you handled extremely well is:
-The interpretation of all of the armor details – they came up from boring, blurred pixels back to life
- Lighting… how did you make an impression of white on my mesmer being more white than the white background is beyond me. Whichever way it was done – result is really impressive.
- General outlines of the face and the silhhouette – It is absolutely flawless.

Well, I wouldn’t be myself if I didnt find anything to point out – but don’t take it as a criticism – rather something that I simply noticed and what might be simply indication of your stale rather than anything else. So its not something that I would like you to change – I’m just more curiuos whether you do it because you like to have it that way or simply it just turned out the way it is.
And these 2 thing I’ve noticed –
a) The characters are generally “darker”. Not only by color, but also by the expression.
b)You tend to make their lips thinner (which may explain above) as well as the rangers nose .

On the other hand though – the mesmer’s eyes look way more attractive than on the screenshot provided.

Overall – very nice job indeed and once I come back home back to my desktop I’ll commision you for sure – and I’m eager to see the results.

Once again – thanks for your time and skills, I’m absolutely honored. And I’m sure the portrayed girls are very grateful as well :-)

And I’m looking forward to see more of you :-)

I strongly disagree to sign any agreement of disagreement on that subject

Iona.6307:

Holy… these are phenomenal. And yes, asura are best.

I may lean only towards first of your statements, Iona ;-)

Well – same question has been asked literally 3 days ago. With really bad results. Quite a few people recommended to go 50 gold or more… The artist followed that road with no requests for a day or a day and a half and… gave up.
Examples on this forum shows that sometimes you need a bit of patience (Xandra was quiet for a day or two and now she is closed most of the time), sometimes you need to adjust yor price to the demand (poor duckgirl :-)) and sometimes you need to tone down your expectations (few examples here and there with price simply too high for the final effect).
So the only good advice I may give you – maybe start off with the price that you think is fair and adjust it versus demand.

duckgirl.8769:

Hello! I am back! Here’s Hero’s portrait, working on the rest as fast as I can!

This would be one of your best… That EMOTIONS on her face… It is something special indeed…

We really like it!
You might be Midget by nickname but you are quick as a snake and giant of quality :-)
It is just weird to see my mesmer without make up and lighting… It changes her face so much… Almost like in reality :-)
We are really curious how would you handle Margot’s eyes (that’s the ranger) and Calypso’s make up plus lighting (so she may get her cheekbones back :-).
So we are waiting impatiently for the final effect :-)
Thank you again.

Magnificent – The way you handled lighting, The suggestive background and my personal winner – details (look at that tail… If that isn’t impressive I don’t know aht is)

The good – general mood of the picture, armor details, dynamic scene.

Could be a bit better – My usual – face. I think that the angle is a bit unnatural and in real it woul have been slightly different. But don’t mind me, I might be wrong :-)
Over all really good job:-)

And another few with one of my wife’s rangers. I hope you will have fun with them!

Ok, so here is a couple of screenshots for Calypso Vigo. All of the details in PM :-)

Hi Midget, if you are still considering drawing some characters. would you like to have a look at my characters? Simply browse my previous messages and you will come across army of my and my wife’s characters. I would be honored if you find any of the toons interesting and worthy your time and skills .

Considering all other artists prices in here and the quality of your art I would say that I wouldn’t go below 30g and I wouldn’t go above 50. I think that would be fair price, but in the end the pricing is totally up to you.
If you go to low you will end up with never ending wave of customers (see duckgirl’s case) and if you go too expensive you may find it hard to find any.
Just my 5 cents.

Invertation.4293:

Lifedragn.2975:

I’m considering doing commissions for people that are willing to wait a really long time lol.

Time is of no matter, so long as we know you’ve not dropped off the earth in between. At the very least, I promise you my interest

Count me in :-) I’m also not in particular rush :-) And since I’m omw to get broke, it will allow me to raise some funds :-)

Askeptykal.4138:

Fringilla Vigo.8594:

Well, that is probably the best work for Askeptykal I have seen around.

I’m developing a reputation around here, it would seem >_>

It is a pretty amazing piece, I already told Life I’m considering getting a print done and hanging it on my wall.

As a one that is slowly getting addicted to this part of the forum it is really hard not to notice you :-)
Some goes for other couple of guys that are here on the regular basis (Iona, Lilith Ajith and a few more).
I guess were gonna compete for a slots here and there :-)
Beware, I’m having a big army at my disposal (together with my wife were having 24 fully leveled up characters ). On the other hand, dressing them up the way we want it is slow and time consuming process :-)

Well, that is probably the best work for Askeptykal I have seen around. And it might be your best as well :-) But I might be biased, I am always on the “beauty” side of an art.
Would you ever do the contest again? Or commissions? I would love to see more of you :-)

All of the details in PM and I just uploaded a handful of screenshots that might be of help here

Well, since you asked for constructive criticism, here’s my 5 cents:
I’m not entirely sure that chest proportions are the same that on the model.. :-)
But you know what? Somehow you managed to make her face and hair more beautiful than the in game model. And that is really great. And I like you “impressionistic” style. It works well.

I can’t wait to see the result of your work on my character, if I get chosen.

If you do so, please shout at me for more quality screenshots of any chosen character.

Best regards

It looks really good for what it is, but…
You asked for constructive criticism – so there it is.
This is mirrored image, is that correct ? I mean – both halves are identical. It wouldn’t be much of an issue, since it is… how did you call it? Boring frontal pose? But…
If you have a close look on lighting source, you will clearly see that in both eyes light comes from… different angles (because of mirroring sides)
On the other hand – great job at shading and despite of frontal pose, you caught dimensional aspect of character really well.
Proportions are perfect and the face is really realistic.
Over all – really good job, waiting for more.
And I’m still foolishly hoping that you are going to exercise on one of my characters :-)

Nah, i think you are all wrong. This is what a man diving in a pool filled with milk would see. And the realism of it is absolutely stunning.

It’s…very whitish, for all i can say :-)

Well, if you feel like drawing any of my or my wife’s characters, we would be honored and delighted to see the end result :-)

I’ll post here all of our characters, if you would like to have a closer look at the any of the characters, just give me a shout either here or on private forum.