Guild Wars 2

Been looking around for good quality images of the HoT loading screens. Would love to have the Auric Basin Loading screen as my wallpaper but can’t find any good quality versions anywhere. Would love the new loading screen to be added to the Wallpapers part of the Media tab on this site.

The Love Among the Weeds section in The Dream I: The Experimental Short Bow doesn’t seem to work when you interact with the book. I accessed it in Season 2 Chapter 8’s Arcana Obscura mission because that mission and one other are the only two ways of getting to the Priory Basement but Arcana Obscura is the only one where the book appears. Unless there is another way to get down there it is appears to be bugged.

I’m doubtful because they’d announce it but it wouldn’t show up in the beta unless they’ve just been hiding it from us. Then we’d get QQ (more than there already is) from either Rangers or Engis depending on who didn’t get to try their class in BWE2. Although, there’s always the possibility; plenty of people didn’t forsee an elite spec this week due to PAX starting this weekend but here we are. I feel like I can’t predict anything right anymore with Anet recently haha.

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That would be nice, especially if they up the party limit for Stronghold, which sucks as a 5v5 gametype.

Not true, 8v8 just turns into a roamfest with 4+ people and feels zergy. I don’t know how long you’ve been here but back when pvp hotjoins were 8v8 it was pretty unfun unless you were the team running around in your own blob. Though its never been tested in stronghold, I see issues with the map size and structure being to linear and lack of supply due to the few bundles of it that spawn in the center. Then the supply would be turned into minions and killed quickly since people would be everywhere because the map isn’t large enough and wasn’t ever ment to be for 8 people.

As for OP, I also wish GW2 interacted with GW1 more as well. I don’t think they’d go any further than cosmetics though.

It is the Daredevil’s unique armor skin it unlocks, just as each other elite spec gives them one new piece of armor and a new weapon.

As most of us should know at this point, this week’s elite specialization teaser is the thief’s specialization which is presumably going to be called the Daredevil, according to what data mining has told us. Most of us also will know at this point that the elite specializations have had minor bits of information data mined out of the client which in turn is revealed to us by the data miners themselves which hasn’t been much of a problem. In fact, I’d argue that it has helped us stay hyped about HoT and increase speculation on just what else we’re getting with the expansion. But after today’s patch it seems Anet at the very least put the descriptions (but more likely most of the Daredevil as a whole) into the patch whereas the day went along, every trait, utility, and weapon skill were mined and shown to the community. Now, the blame can’t really be put onto the data miners because, as their name implies, they’re just finding the data that Anet puts in and tells the community about it. It should also be said that the data miners do have the option to not reveal everything they find right away (something I believe that_shaman has done in the past), but this shouldn’t be something Anet counts on.

Surely Anet would have known it’d get mined out as it has tended to happen every patch they put out, especially since the announcement of HoT, but surely they also would have wanted to keep things a surprise until the Points of Interest on Friday, as well as giving some info to a 3rd party site for a sneak peek on Wednesday. It’s incredibly unlikely that any of the data mined info we got today is going to differ from what we see on Friday either, as it is so close to the official reveal on stream. That point being made, it’s pretty safe to say that our Wednesday article can’t provide anything new to cover other than pictures and our Friday stream won’t reveal much beyond the animations and dev commentary. Now, I do realize that most of the information found today was put behind a spoiler tag, but really, it is not as simple as just shielding yourself from clicking that one reddit or forum post. Upon seeing the link, anyone who wanted to remain unspoiled will have the “privilege” of knowing that many people around them already have the information that they’ve been patiently waiting for. And how quickly after the information is found does it find its way into the various map chats of the game? At the end of the day, avoiding that spoiler tag becomes nothing but impractical.

My main questions are pointed at Anet about why did this info have to go into the client today and ruin their own surprise? Was it just lack of communication between departments or something? I can only guess as I have no idea about their infrastructure. Was it just because the next day there would be an article explaining some details anyways and it just didn’t really matter to them? There would have been little to no consequence for holding it off until the next patch or beta (which would have likely needed a patch anyways).

But I also have some questions for the rest of us as well. Does the rest of the community see this as an issue? I know parts of all of us are quick to want every bit of information revealed to us, hence why we do things like data mine in the first place. Is there value in having Anet properly reveal their information the way they want to or do we deserve to know every bit of it as it is ready?

Sadly I must say it no longer feels like a proper reveal for me, a shame being that Thief is my main and I wanted that excitement that other classes felt on that Wednesday morning and Friday afternoon of seeing what the future of my class was going to be like. But now it’s as if I’m going to see a movie yet I already know the plot and its details; going to a magic show where I know all the tricks already. Anet I hope you handle your reveals a little more carefully in the future.

IIRC I think in the last POI they mentioned they didn’t know when the next POI would air since they’d be at pax so, unless they plan on releasing an elite spec w/o a POI that week I don’t think we’ll see one next week.

Find me where they promise that and I’ll sympathize with you. You may be happy to hear that they’ve said that future expansions will include the previous xpacs they release to not have to isolate new players behind huge paywalls though this was never mentioned to include Living Story seasons (although it would make sense). LS2 was only ever free the 2 weeks it after each episode came out and they told us that would be the way it works at the start of the season. Also if/when they remake and bring back LS1 it will likely be in the gem store as well.

I’ve had solely stronghold checked all weekend and every option when queue pops is conquest. I’ve also tried having both checked but same results. Perhaps I’m just very unlucky.

Anyone else not seeing stronghold come up even if mode preferences set to stronghold only? I really do like the game mode but can’t play or give feedback at this rate.

Stealing into structures or failing to steal due to lacking the range to steal or having no valid path to the target results in the self-interruption of any channeled ability in the process of being cast. The most common instance for me has been on S/P when going to use Pistol Whip: starting the channel before stealing, stealing into a structure (such as a world boss or event structure), and having my channel of Pistol Whip interupted. It seems to break through any channel I can find. This has also been happening before the 7/28 patch and may have started with the 6/23 patch. I’m only reporting it now because I was hoping it was already identified and patched in the next bug fix after the 6/23 patch.

I agree with your thoughts on Staff 2, it really doesn’t feel rewarding using the 2nd attack in the chain, and honestly the revenant has so many skills with drawn out cast times as well. I think staff 4 should at least have some sort of cc associated with it, like knocking foes back (which kind of already fits with the animation). I feel like its use in pve will dumb down to just the condi cleanse and that isn’t needed too often in pve anyways although I suppose HoT could change that. I do like the idea that the rev’s weapons synergize with its legends but at this point it seems almost too specific where you must associate a weaponset with a legend. We’ll just have to see once more weaponsets and legends are revealed.

I think the thing that bothers me about how the revenant plays is that so many skills have cast times and also they don’t have much in the way of granting themselves some of the more basic boons such as swiftness and fury although its possible Shiro/ other traits/other weapons will helps it out with the boons.

Rytlock is such a BA.

..Thats all I wanted to say.

It would at least be cool if they give us the new LA loading screen

As a thief, I beat him today on a P/P build and didnt kill any oozes other than Sub 7 himself, went 4/6/0/0/4 w/ scorp wire, smokescreen, assassin’s signet. I just ran circles around the edge spamming unload and at one point stood still, scorp wired, smokescreened, and finished him off. GL to you

So currently if I’m understanding this right, sigils like the sigil of air/fire namely are procing in aspect arena and I’ve been one-shotting people quite often it seems. Well thats just what I think is causing it. Hopefully it gets patched soon.
Edit: My rock doge is also spawning and one-shotting people
Edit #2: Took off all gear and its still happening, must be something with the new way they do pvp gear

This is probably just a basic hardware question but now that I use SweetFX on GW2, I have to start the game through the SweetFX client instead of just clicking the GW2 icon on my desktop (otherwise, GW2 login client crashes). My question is, is there any way for me to avoid having to open SweetFX every time I launch the game?

So starting the 15th Daily and Monthly AP totals will cap at 10k and 5k respectively. Now there’s one factor that’s making me either love or hate this change and that’s whether or not people have hit this cap yet. If they haven’t then this change is perfectly fine to me (especially if people are far off from the cap, then it’ll be an achievement to hit the cap in itself) but if they have then it’s unfair for those who didn’t grind their dailies and monthlies out everyday since launch. Perhaps I’m fretting for nothing and nobody’kitten either but I would just like to know how close the closest people have come to hitting the cap.
TL;DR – People who hit the incoming Daily/Monthly AP cap already are at an unfair advantage, how close have people gotten?

We need mace so that we can go Moot/Quip. And then swap to our Dreamers. :> It’s a combination of all the greatest legendaries, who wouldn’t want that?

Ahh ok, thanks Autumn for the response. Little odd that you cant talk to them though.

They’re just sitting in the LA jail. Still. With no chat options. I was expecting Canach to bust out like a BA and actually get involved in the story. I’m curious if Anet just overlooked it or what but it’s kind okittenward just seeing 2 npcs in LA without a care in the world.

I got my achievement after doing the living story bit in EotM which then takes you back to the dead end bar. That’s where you should get your achieve and the story picks up big time in there.

Honestly, rank 30 doesn’t take too long to get. I’m sitting at rank 90 and I do not play WvW often. The most I have ever played it was during season one for achieves (and when you know what your doing, it can be quite fun). And I like how making a legendary requires a player to tap into (almost) all aspects of the game. Its a legendary for goodness sake. I only wish there was some sort of PvP aspect to making one. That’ll be the day.

Wintersday is NOT the same as last year. Although I feel most of the features likely will be, Halloween got old very quick because of lack of new content and I feel Wintersday could fall into the same trap. Can’t say I’m expecting too much but I guess we’ll see. Thoughts?