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Still having this issue, noticed it in Bloodtide Coast as well. Must be a greytext thing then as you guys said. I kind of figured that was the case. Even for an NPC emote though, it comes up quite often, sometimes putting large spaces in the chat window.
Bit of an oddity, but I’m fine with it now that I’m pretty sure I know the culprit.
I’d suggest you turn the sound effects down in Options
After reading your first paragraph and seeing this I just burst out in laughter.
Pretty much. :P
Hahaha! My friend Mike just noticed this while I was leveling my thief.
I fired the pistol and he said, “I love how the casing hitting the ground is totally louder than the pistol being fired.”
I immediately switched characters and stopped using the pistol. That sounds irrational but I found it to be too funny and the thief is only level 3 anyways. I can’t be running around hearing that sound repeating in my head…
Thanks for the info, very much noted.
It’s little things like this that make me love this game. There’s always curveballs to be thrown.
@Soryuju
Thanks for the info, I really would not have figured that out so obviously. Especially the bit about the tooltip showing the wrong cooldown.
“Forced to play with a Greatsword”
So we end up with a discussion comparing damage numbers and clear times between GS and Hammer? Are you KIDDING me?
Every weapon the Guardian has is viable in different ways. The GS is a great weapon for clearing mobs in PvE for sure, I use it all the time. I also constantly switch up my weapons for varied situations and use different synergies of weapons to freshen up the gameplay.
Focusing on a single weapon or weaponset will only make you a limited Guardian.
OP, I would suggest to just go ahead and use your sword and shield. It is definitely not a bad combo. However, I wouldn’t be relying on your sword and shield in every situation.
In fact, if you haven’t already, I would give this guide a read: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-PVE-Guardian-101-A-Beginner-s-Text/first
That guide should clear your mind towards the Guardian a bit and open you up to plenty more options available to the class.
For the time being, I would suggest trying out different weapon switches between your sword/shield and other weapons. I can guarantee after reading that guide you will find a good way to utilize your sword/shield in combat (at least outside of PvP) with specific traits and weapon synergies.
…but if you want to be a trinity healer, go water ele.
Not sure this is sound advice… telling people this will just turn ineffective guardians into ineffective elementalists!
If you want to be a trinity healer, go different game.
Lol a water ele would be a terrible healer anyways. Possibly decent at best. It’s the same situation with the elementalist as with the guardian: doing one thing as an elementalist is only holding back your potential. Hell, it annoys me enough when someone decides to call himself a fire ele and stay in fire attunement all day. I understand the pain of switching attunements but a single attunement as an ele will get you nowhere.
/endofftopicrant
For your guardian, you may want to check out the Guardian 101 – A Beginner’s Text guide: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-PVE-Guardian-101-A-Beginner-s-Text/first
It’s a good read, albeit a little long but you can skip through most parts of it as it might not all be news to you as far as what the conditions are boons are and such. However I can almost guarantee that you will enjoy playing a Guardian more after reading the guide in-depth as it explains all aspects of the Guardian, how they work, what they can do, even suggests good ways to set up traits for your playstyle and interesting synergies of traits/weapons to use for good results.
I found the class to be particularly interesting as there is a pretty good range of weaponry to use, and it’s all technically very viable for use in different situations. He even suggests carrying a good copy of each weapon so you can switch up your game on the fly.
If the Guardian is still not for you, I would suggest trying out the thief as well if you haven’t already.
At the very least I would suggest doing more research on any of the classes you consider playing or picking back up. Often times you will end up learning something about your class that causes you to change up your playstyle for the better and you will have a much more enjoyable experience.
One a side note, if you often feel a bit overwhelmed trying to play a class (the elementalist has to be the epitome of this) you may want to consider changing up your controls a bit. I recently simplified my controls for minimal effort button presses and quick targeting/dodging and I noticed a huge difference in my overall game experience. It’s much more fun to have good controls that you don’t have to think about rather than trying to stretch over and hit 0 for your elite, for example.
I had faith there would be a video for this by the time I got off of work. Great work haha
The point is for the permanent skins to be rare. People would have already bought out the cash shop of all the different skins and just about everyone would have them.
Thank you all very much for your feedback about this issue. We’ve already informed the team about all the concerns expressed in this thread, and they’ll look into it. Thanks again.
There, concerns noted. End of thread?
Halloween costumes shouldn’t be rare on Halloween.
They’re not when you go to Lion’s Arch
It’s starting to look like there was only so many people who were waiting on this event to dump cash and get rare items.
Everyone else is in game enjoying the event.
I have a suspicion that ANet predicted so many people would do this on the event launch (and before), so they nerfed the drop rates of skins in order to keep the rarity high.
I dont understand all the hate. You guys shouldve known what you were getting into by investing in chests. I’m having a lot of fun carving pumpkins and costume brawling while youre moaning on the forums about how you didnt win the lottery.
Thanks for your witty comment. That’s not what this is about.
Witty comment? He’s just making a reasonable statement.
Honestly, the thought of dumping that much money into this game just for skins is laughable to me. It is ridiculous, however, that the drop rates are so low that you got absolutely nothing in return. This just goes to show that this system for obtaining rare items isn’t working, and ANet should change it.
It would make the most sense for them to reward players who do invest money in these things with items of at least above average rarity, but also have items with very high rarity that are still attainable.
This way, there isn’t so much of a gamble of getting something or nothing, it’s more of a roll of how rare the items are that you are getting. That might be a bit much for a holiday event though.
I’m just going to leave this here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/halloween/Cash-Gems-Gold-SkinsYou’re welcome.
That’s exactly what I have been telling other players, didn’t know if it was really a great idea though. From the looks of it, it was.
The choices here are simple: try to get skins yourself through BLCs, or buy from those who were lucky.
Unfortunately the players who got lucky enough are selling them for ungodly amounts of gold.
Unfortunately people spent ungodly amounts of money on keys instead of gold.
Besides that, it would be horrible if they were affordable for everyone because everyone would be running around with the same skins.
The actual problem here is the variety of the skins: there is only one per weapon type. Because there are so few skins available, the rarity for these has to be high enough for them to be even unique and enjoyable in the first place.
In the future, ANet should attempt to add more of a variety of items for those willing to spend money on these events. This way, the chance of getting any specific item will be very low, but there will be plenty of other items to get.
If taken into enough consideration, they could add tiers to the rarity, so everyone could have their generic holiday items, and the lucky/rich ones will have valuable items worth something to the community.
I’m just going to leave this here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/halloween/Cash-Gems-Gold-SkinsYou’re welcome.
That’s exactly what I have been telling other players, didn’t know if it was really a great idea though. From the looks of it, it was.
The choices here are simple: try to get skins yourself through BLCs, or buy from those who were lucky.
Guys, these are unique skins. Do you understand it? There will be no other time to get them the next whole year. It’s like legendary weapons, there has to be few of them, otherwise they will be just ordinary thing that everyone has. Their cost is defined by how much of them are available, you wouldn’t want to get that skin if everybody around will wear it, even if it looks cool. Imagine if everyone will run with chainsaws, that would be horrible!
…And I think the thread should end here. That is the point that needed to be made.
except you can try for legendary all year… so its not the same and your not baited into legendary weapons
You completely missed the point and just pointed out a flaw in his explanation. I’m not going to reexplain his point, so I would ask you to read it again.
Guys, these are unique skins. Do you understand it? There will be no other time to get them the next whole year. It’s like legendary weapons, there has to be few of them, otherwise they will be just ordinary thing that everyone has. Their cost is defined by how much of them are available, you wouldn’t want to get that skin if everybody around will wear it, even if it looks cool. Imagine if everyone will run with chainsaws, that would be horrible!
…And I think the thread should end here. That is the point that needed to be made.
I am wearing a hat, Ogden’s is showing me no mercy… I should have expected disappointment.
I guess the hilarity of a mushroom head wore off after awhile lol
That is awesome, thanks for the info.
Jesus need more self-entitled children in this thread
Granted.
Anything that makes people angry during a holiday event is a failure of game design. These events should be a celebration of the game and its community. Please don’t turn these into money grabs.
Don’t know about you guys, but I’m not worried about getting any weapon skins AND I am enjoying this new event content.
I waited the entire day under the assumption
I feel you. Assuming doesn’t ever work though.
They do have priorities however, and I’m sure it will be factored in soon. Meanwhile, wear a hat to cover up your phallus.
Yeah pretty much. That initial login surge was enough haha
How much would that end up costing in buying keys?
Dear god
Really, you cannot say they weren’t prepared for this. This place is absolutely blowing up. The people on these forums need to calm down and learn some patience.
I’m wondering though, if I’m here with all these people in the overflow LA, what’s the normal LA even look like? LOL
Do you need help realizing what is going on right now?
It’s just a login error. Nothing to worry about bud
DDoS Successful.
Just noticed in the patch notes that this update is very heavy on new Black Lion Trading Company (gem/cash store) items. Considering how much comes from chest, everything is leading back to the gem store. Seems this is a big part of their Halloween patch… Disappointing.
Agreed , I mean you’d expect them to give you lots of fluff costumes and keys for free since you pay a monthly sub fee.
Yeah it’s really ridiculous. I’m seriously considering canceling my subscription.
Disappointing? You can get all of this without paying for anything,
On you again bud. This is a relatively new game, there will be issues, player beware. But yeah, look around for some halloween decorations if in doubt (and you should always be).
Here’s another money saving tip… when the Christmas event comes along, make sure you see Christmas decorations before doing anything, ah… ‘Christmasy’.
Haha this same thing is going to happen on Christmas and everyone is going to whine again. Really, where has all common sense gone?
I’m….losing….sanity
I’ve noticed this too. The custom playlists are awesome, but this issue can kind of take away from it.
This leaves a huge hole in commerce and crafting.
Please add Player 2 Player (Confirmed) trade.
I think the point here is being missed. PLEASE ADD SECURE PLAYER TO PLAYER TRADE.
Such a great game, but how did they forget about such an important feature?
I personally like the idea as far as customization goes. I could see this being allowed for the next sequential size of armor (Light/Medium/Heavy). For someone who wears light armor, they can use a Fine Transmutation to use a medium armor look. A warrior could possibly go for a medium armor look as well.
I just could not see an elementalist wearing full heavy armor in this game. It might actually get confusing seeing three different armored professions all wearing one type of armor, or at least parts of it. I’m not against the idea, but it’s hard to see it happening.
I do understand that adding weapons would be a lot to do, seeing as multiple professions would be using each weapon, thus creating new skills to balance out among the professions.
However, if the developers do plan on adding any new weapons at all with expansions and such, that would be cool to look forward to.
There are already plenty of weapons to use though.
Very nice fit with the Skyrim soundtrack. Thanks for the work you did putting the playlist together, I ended up being able to setup the playlists you created within minutes of reading your post. Very awesome addition to the game.
Since the game has already been released, and I doubt that they would add or change the musical score of the game, I believe adding in additional custom playlist options that can be triggered by specific areas would be great. I hope that wouldn’t be asking too much of the devs.
I would say possibly add a playlist option for every major area or major city. This would probably be a lot. Considering that we may not be able to fill every city and area with a good song, the music could default to whatever playlist would normally play for the area.
I noticed this too. I have to ask, do either of you use simulated surround sound? I have a Xonar DG soundcard which can output 8 channels to my headset. I remember hearing something about sounds being played through all of the speakers in actual surround sound setups, and I’m wondering if this is the same case, causing the volume to be much higher.
My main complaint is not only that, but the cutscenes are SO LOUD even with settings turned down very low. I’m starting to think that the dialogue volume has nothing to do with these cutscenes.
You make a good point. I do think that they have a suggestions board on here, not saying that this post is misplaced but I really think this is a good suggestion.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions
Regardless, I’ve noticed that this game in general kind of tends to do things like that. For example, I would have expected a Charr character to be a little more fearsome, bloodthirsty, insane maybe. I do understand that this is an MMO, and it’s designed to be played by a large audience, including a bit of the more immature audience that might be offended or scared off by heavy gore or violence. This game is rated T after all. However, I wish the characters weren’t so soft in nature.
Honestly, I would have laughed at any Legionnaire that made such empty threats to me.
This doesn’t degrade my thoughts on how great this game is though. The gameplay speaks for the game overall, and I can’t complain too much, but that warrior adrenaline crap is a little annoying, lol.
Also, great movie. How tall are you?