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Frostforged Weapon Skins - the green gem

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Nice skins, as my name suggests, I’ve been looking for ice-themed weapons forever, especially the torch, as the corrupted wartorch from Jormag’s set of ice themed weapons weirdly enough has a normal coloured fire considering the icy glow on the others.

HOWEVER… please consider changing that super neon green gem on the weapons into something more fitting ice weapons like a clear/misty diamond or light blue or something. The green gem is distracting.

Kudzu and the new legendary longbow

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SBI community is still waiting for bowbear legendary bow which fires out bears.

Cannot attune infused ring of red death [Merged]

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Might be related to rings created prior to the agony infusion update which were grandfathered in with default 5+ agony infusions.

Best Pet Name Ever

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I usually name my pet, regardless of what animal it is, “Emergency Rations”. :o

Greater Call of the Mists in gemstore please

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As title says. Please make the recent Greater Call of the Mists buff which we just had into a booster lasting 1 or more hours like all the other boosters we have (exp/karma/money/speed/etc) and put it in the gemstore.

Stuck on loading map, code=7:11:3:191:101

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Two of my characters are stuck in Harathi Hinterlands; mainly, they cannot be loaded as the loading map screen hangs up with a message along the lines of:

The game client lost its connection to the server.
Please wait a few minutes before restarting the
client and trying again. (Code=7:11:3:191:101)

They have been stuck in there since last night. All of my other 7 characters, as they are not in Harathi Hinterlands, load just fine and can do game content.

Why do Soulbound Runes still exist?

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Random forging of major runes can sometimes give you dungeon runes… which are soulbound on the character which rolled them. When will they be made account-bound instead? :o

Helmets with hair please

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I’m tired not being able to use a majority of the heavy helmets ingame because they made my character(s) bald and aren’t even attempting to hide it with the exception of a few, which either hide the baldness with a cloth of some sort, or extend low enough to hide (almost) all of the head.

Please think about either redoing a few to have a default amount of hair at neck length (since using the normal hairs will clip with almost all helmets), lengthen the helmet at the base to hide the baldness a bit more, and maybe some helmets in the future which sit on top of the hair/forehead Saint Seiya style or something, essentially giant tiaras (haha), fashion over functionality!

Mega Server fully implemented?

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You can tell by looking at your contacts, and at Looking For Group [BETA]. On the right, for Open World Content, if you see (…), then it means it’s megaserver map.

Game Updates: Guild World Events, Megaservers, WvW

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It’s just sad really. I understand the concept behind doing this, Arenanet want more people to play with each other rather than be on ‘empty’ maps, but now server community has literally been destroyed in favour of global/world community.

Running two accounts at once.

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On the other hand, if you can control a keyboard and mouse with your left and right feet, and another keyboard and mouse with your hands, I’m reasonably certain nobody would complain about you multiboxing. In fact, I would like to see a video of it, haha.

Training manual refund?

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I bought them for my younger levels so they wouldn’t have to go buy it later. This was before the trait changes was announced.

And no, it’s not “5 silver”, master is 1 gold and grandmaster is 2 gold.

My two alts who are in possession of them are level 27, so no, I’m not gonna be able to level to 60 just to use them. :o

Will guild limit ever be raised above five?

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Still waiting for it, honestly, at this point, I would pay in gemstore for guild slot upgrade. o_O

Regarding the “commit to one guild”, I’m not in any guilds which require 100% commitment (obviously), however, each one has a different circle of friends inside, with one being my personal guild bank.

Training manual refund?

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I’ve noticed on some of my younger alts, they are carrying Master’s and Grandmaster’s Training Manuals. As these will be rendered obsolete after the patch, is there a way to get a refund for these by contacting support, or maybe a NPC will be updated to accept these back for at least some of the cost in buying them?

Will guild limit ever be raised above five?

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Question is in topic; the last time people asked this was prior to the megaservers thing being announced, so will the number of guilds an account can join ever be raised to more than five?

Feedback/Questions: The Megaserver System: Guilds and the Future

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My main question is “Will we still be limited to joining five guilds?” As it stands, our server community will basically have to make a new guild in other to get enough regulars to do the ‘hardcore’ events (mainly tequatl) so that we can pick our own time to do it on (the purposed tequatl revamp time is two hours later than the time we do it currently, which makes it 3am for me, blargh).

The only shining point is that guilds will have the opportunity to queue up the hardcore events so they can activate it at more reasonable times.

Krytan Same Sex Laws

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I think in Kryta lore, the only time someone would be averse to gay relationships is if one of the pair are expected to carry on family traditions and carry on the family legacy by producing an heir. Or something.

Sharpening Stone Station

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I think people who have expressed interest in them have obtained them, but not crafted them in the hope that one day the recipe materials will be revised some day. Currently, it’s just much too expensive to make for regular use.

Megalaser does no damage to Tequatl

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As title says, after battery and megalaser defend phases is done and people rush to Tequatl, the megalaser shoots Tequatl out of the sky, damaging him and allowing people to do extra damage to him… only after the Wednesday patch, the megalaser no longer does damage. This means burn phases have now become weakened, as Tequatl recovers with more health remaining until the next defence phase, and thus presenting a much greater risk of failure as players run out of time to defeat Tequatl.

My server generally finishes pre-patch Tequatl with around 4-6 minutes remaining. Now we’re lucky if we finish with 20 seconds or more on the clock.

Several servers I’ve talked to have been reporting the same thing, so it’s not just a server bug issue. o_O

Seriously ? Liberator of Lion's Arch chest

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One black lion ticket would have been nice as a thank you from Evon for saving him from permanently serving Lionguard.

Your character during cutscene...

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In some other MMOs I remember, the game would basically clone your character’s appearance/size and remove your actual character so it could use your clone NPC for cutscenes and the like if interaction was required. Surely arenanet might have the tech to do something similar?

edit – added another dancing pic and jackolope mascot.

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Your character during cutscene...

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… stands around like a lump facing the other way while the interaction between the characters is going on. While this cutscene is great at showing what anet can do (actual interaction between characters) and avoiding the use of two-people-talking cutscenes, your character just stays in place with micro bunny hopping. o_O I’m hoping in future cutscenes your character just DOES something instead of standing to the side like they shouldn’t even be here or trying not to look at the camera and pretending not to exist when someone important is being interviewed like on TV, haha.

After Scarlet knocks Braham and Marjory back with her shield or whatever, your character should have gone from each of the two pairs of npcs to check on them with forced walking/running and emote scripts.

And now I’m gonna face Scarlet with Destiny’s Edge 2.0, gonna use dance book before cutscene kicks in.

(sorry for lowest res graphics, haha)

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missing asura child

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And now you will think of a charr who burps and picks his teeth with a toothpick muttering “that kid’s head really was like a little raisin…”

Scarlet's Secret Lair chests gone

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I talked to a dev in-game and they’re aware of it, but it probably won’t be fixed until next major patch (probably in March regarding ferocity, or earlier for removal of Lion’s Arch event? I didn’t follow up on the exact date, was just thankful it would eventually be fixed), and advised to keep the keys and fragments in bank for now.

Where to rondevu after escaping from LA?

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So characters who chose the vigil get extra bonus if they played their personal story far enough, as they can use the portal to Fort Trinity.

Escape from Lion's Arch - Trailer discussion

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I see what arenanet is doing – they’re gonna destroy Lion’s Arch so no more hub city! Everyone will now have to go to a starter city for permanent residence, and no more easy access teleporting for free! XD

(just kidding)

Ascended drops

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Does the Tequatl thing only apply to the world chest or to the exotic dragon chest as well?

Braham sounds like a jilted boyfriend

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wait. a warband wouldn’t allow a norn in, but I get the strangest feeling that’s going to happen with braham.

Depends on the charr in question, back in the day, Rytlock gave Logan a Blood Legion amulet that symbolically made him a part of Rytlock’s warband. If a human is able to join a charr’s warband (even symbolically), I don’t see why a norn, whose race gets along more better with charr than humans do, can’t.

Infused recipes for Dwayna/Grenth backpacks?

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Considering the cost of creating either of the two ascended backpacks, shouldn’t there be an infused recipe in the Mystic Forge so people can use them in higher level fractals without having to create a second ascended backpack, infusing that and THEN transmuting it?

Need help, gearing a lv80

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Best starter gear would depend on your general playstyle. Something safe to go with is either berserkers (pow/prec/critical damage) or knights (pow/prec/tough) or even a mix of the two. Use level 80 rare armor for now until you know what you want (browse official or unofficial forums for builds to give you inspiration), then get the exotic versions (berserker from CoF/CoE dungeons for example). Your old level 80 rare armor can be salvaged using master/mystic salvage kits in attempt to get ectos.

You are probably safe with using berserker trinkets regardless of build, so if you have the laurels, get an ascended berserker amulet (either offensive or utility depending on if you plan to frequent fractals a lot).

As for tanking, the game generally isn’t designed to allow excessive tanking. Work on your playstyle by adding more dodge rolls in.

Which Defensive Infusion?

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If you got the money, use omni infusions, either of the following:

:3 Failing that, use the vitality ones, I guess, since the more toughness you have the more likely mobs will go after you instead of teammates. :o

Sword/Sword leveling....

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Keep a weapon of every type, and extra one maybe if it’s offhand use as well as main hand, so you can practice with axe/axe, mace/mace, sword/sword as well. Even if you’ll never use them when you hit 80, it’s fun to use them.

Take a warhorn to practice using blast finishers, or for debuffing mobs and giving yourself a speed boost, and both range weapons for the times when it’s better to go range, so you can learn how to use either. And a hammer as well, even if it’s lame in PvE!

43 stacks of silk scraps !

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Silk could do with a little price increase, before ascended armor it was sold near vendor value on TP.

It was actually sold less than vendor price, and the highest price you could sell silk at was.. at vendor price. So a lot of people would just vendor it to get the maximum amount of money. XD

Heck, I’ve sold like 6 full stacks of silk to the vendor, haha.

Can't finish FoTM story

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Did you ‘talk’ to the giant glowy ball of light?

Unused exotic fractal weapons untransmutable

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Apparently, the old exotic fractal weapons have now become untransmutable. The box will become red if you attempt to drag a fractal weapon into the second slot.

Picture attached is attempt to do so. Both weapons are shortbows (one is transmuted, one is fractal), and transmutation crystal is being used.

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World bosses in smaller groups

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  • Taidha Covington – everything except the actual fight scales with small teams. Taidha does not scale down to small teams and thus has superior health and damage (she can basically one or two-shot people), and with 10 minute limit, it will be impossible. On the off chance people can get her health to 50%, she teleports inside her home, where players can find powder kegs to immensely reduce her health. However, these only start spawning when she’s at 50%.

Have you tried using the kegs that spawn outside before the gate is taken down?
Near the cannons. Not a suggestion, just curious.

Those only spawn if you fail to take the gate down before the lionguard ship is destroyed, I believe? Then the kegs spawn for you to take down the gate manually. And then disappear when the gate is down?

"WvW Dawn of the Season" broken

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Still bugged, but I finally completed it regardless. Would have been a lot easier if I had that Dawn of the Season one, haha. Making it not count in a hotfix is kinda weird though, you should have reduced the count to 14 achievements as well then.

World bosses in smaller groups

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From what I know of fighting the world bosses in smaller groups:

  • Dredge Commissar – scales to small teams quite well, tends not to use blocks if fighting small teams (but will continue to use auto-tracking confuse as normal)
  • Fire Shaman – while Shaman scales fairly well to small teams, he still hits hard, so might want to go range. His fire ember stages don’t scale well, you will generally spend more time defeating those to reduce the meter rather than fight Shaman.
  • Foulbear Chieftain – scales well to smaller teams. Even the multiple vets you fight will be reduced if the number of players are small. They have a cap of 23 or so if there is a giant zerg.
  • Modniir Ulgoth - scales decently to smaller teams, though Ulgoth will hit pretty hard with fireballs.
  • Taidha Covington – everything except the actual fight scales with small teams. Taidha does not scale down to small teams and thus has superior health and damage (she can basically one or two-shot people), and with 10 minute limit, it will be impossible. On the off chance people can get her health to 50%, she teleports inside her home, where players can find powder kegs to immensely reduce her health. However, these only start spawning when she’s at 50%.
  • The Frozen Maw – scales decently to small teams, though shaman will spawn multiple whirlwinds which can be bothersome.
  • Fire Elemental – scales decently to small teams. Damage remains unchanged, though a smaller number of embers will spawn.
  • Golem Mark II – scales well to small teams. Maybe too well, a small team can actually take down golem faster than a zerg.
  • Great Jungle Wurm – scales decently to small teams.
  • Megadestroyer – scales decently to small teams, though the smaller time might be cutting it close.
  • Shadow Behemoth – scales well to small teams (though you will never fight it as a small team, haha)
  • Karka Queen – never tried it as a small team, so can’t comment
  • The Shatterer – would depend on how small a team you’re talking. If you use the mortars (and defend and repair them with engineer npc if they break), it’s doable. However, people don’t seem to know they have been buffed or prefer to attack on the small hill next to Shatterer.
  • Tequatl the Sunless – does not scale to small teams, don’t bother if you don’t have the numbers
  • Claw of Jormag – scales poorly to small teams in phase 1, the ice wall will take forever to bring down. Mob HP scales to players, I believe.
  • Temple of Balthazar - apparently it will be easier to do the escorting part with morale with a smaller team as the risen scaling system will account for it and not throw as many vets, and no elites or champs.
  • Temple of Dwayna – scales decently to small teams
  • Temple of Lyssa – scales decently to small teams, providing taking the areas to unlock the shrine doesn’t bug out.
  • Temple of Grenth – scales decently to small teams in the Risen priest, but the second part (defend) doesn’t scale to small teams. Two champions will always spawn at set times (not at same time), and a small team will generally not have the DPS to take it down along with the mobs coming to attack the NPC.
  • Temple of Melandru – scales well to small teams. If the priest repeatedly turns everyone into lizards (why lizards?) and heals up, there might be problems. The defend part scales to small numbers and will not spawn champs if the criteria does not reach a certain amount of players.
  • Gates of Arah – doesn’t particularly scale well to small numbers due to champion health and timers.
  • Eye of Zhaitan – never tried this in a small team so can’t comment on it.

Skin acquirement needs to stay hard

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While the fractal weapon skin box is a great idea for higher levels (I know someone who has spent months doing fractals in attempt to get specific skins), I’m also for the option regarding a vendor to help convert fractal weapons into fractal skins, after seeing it done for infinite gathering tools.

It would also help let people decide if they want to salvage them (if they have a surplus amount) in attempt for ectos and dark matter, or convert into skins for storage space (as skins are stackable).

Confusion on new infusions

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I barely understand the wording myself. Let’s look at the exact wording.

Agony Resist Infusions:

To assist you in your ventures into the mists, a new agony resist infusion slot has been added to all infused rings and backpacks.

  • All current infused rings and backpacks will start with a +5 agony resist infusion (this replaces the +5 agony resist that was previously on the item itself).
  • Players will be able to find +1 agony resist infusions commonly in the fractals after level 10.
  • Artificers of at least 100 skill will be able to combine two infusions of the same level with a Thermocatalytic Reagent to make an infusion of the next level. For example, you could take two +2 infusions, combine them with a Thermocatalytic Reagent, and create a +3 infusion.

So, let’s use the three items as examples:

  • Fractal Capacitor (Infused) backpack – has innate +5 agony resist and an empty infusion slot
  • Althea’s Ashes accessory – has Versatile Simple Infusion slotted with +5 agony resist
  • Ring of Red Death (Infused) ring – has innate +5 agony resist and Versatile Simple Infusion slotted with +5 agony resist

So presumably after the patch, if I have the wording correct, since all ascended items have an offensive or defensive infusion slot anyway, a second slot will be added to infused items in a similar fashion to two handed ascended weapons which have two infusion slots.

So, with the three examples above, they now become:

  • Fractal Capacitor (Infused) backpack – has unknown named infusion slotted which gives +5 agony resist and an empty infusion slot
  • Althea’s Ashes accessory – has unknown named infusion slotted with +5 agony resist
  • Ring of Red Death (Infused) ring – has unknown named infusion slotted with +5 agony resist and Versatile Simple Infusion with +5 agony resist

As +1 infusions will be dropping, I am presuming that the +5 agony resist infusions will still be on sale using relics to purchases?

Account Bound tools <3

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Just noting that while account bound tools cost 1000 gems now, your soulbound 800 gem tools can be exchanged to account bound for FREE (other than the tool, of course). You don’t need to pay 200 gems to convert it into account bound or anything like that.

"WvW Dawn of the Season" broken

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Still bugged for me, it was never awarded.

Claw of Jormag event lag back again

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For a little less than a week now, it seems the lag for the Claw of Jormag is back again. Many players are experiencing frequent lag during the event (especially in phase 2), and constant disconnections. This does not happen during Tequatl when the map is hardcapped with the maximum amount of players allowed, nor during the Karka Queen event (when there is just as many, if not more enemies and players around in a small area).

Condition Catastrophe

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The only thing I can think of, which I’m not sure if it’s even doable, is to make conditions tick faster. That way, stacks go down quicker, and damages enemies faster, allowing new stacks to be put up? While it might work for small teams, it doesn’t solve world events though, haha.

What is wrong with Fire Elemental?

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I think the main problem with Fire Elemental is the embers it summons – while some of them can be killed, the majority of them are IMMUNE TO DAMAGE and throw tons of fire and blinds all over the place as well as changing into fiery whirlwinds for automatic damage over time.

Exotic gear for 80 level

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If you can’t get your group to go dungeoning, then there is the LFG tool where you can find random people to do the same dungeon you want to do.

If you haven’t done so already, buy some rare armor to wear in the meantime, and do Citadel of Flame with the LFG tool to earn tokens for berserker gear. It will take a short while as you can only do each path once a day for maximum tokens, but you can buy each piece with the tokens bit by bit.

Once you have your exotic gear, your rare armor which you bought off the TP can be salvaged for ectos.

Marjory developing into Mary Sue?

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Is there ANYONE in the Guild Wars 2 cast who isn’t a Mary Sue?

Lord Faren.

Marjory developing into Mary Sue?

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Logan is arguably the best in the game (lore) at running away and people don’t call him out for being a mary sue.

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Don't fight Svanir Shaman, currently bugged

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Currently, it seems if you take part in the Maw event and fight the Svanir Shaman, at his death, the client will crash preventing you from logging onto the character who took part until the world chest and shaman corpse have despawned.

New Content Causing Crashing

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Same as well, cannot retrieve character from the map the Maw takes place in.