Guild Wars 2

Calling the spec “Hammerlock” would have been a better option if they want to stick with the big game hunter route.

The way I see it, saying you are annoyed that S2 focuses on Sylvari, is akin to saying you are annoyed that American History focuses on America.

Overall, this was a good episode, if a bit short and ending with yet another cliff hanger. My gripe is overuse of cliff hangers diminishes the impact. And this makes, what, the 4th consecutive cliff hanger? Overall though, Season 2 has been fantastic.

Necro NPCs getting great swords is becoming an Anet specific cliche.

In fantasy literature, arcana typically refers to the magical or mystical in nature.

It’s kind of like saying Bahamut is not a dragon in real world mythology. Real world rules don’t apply 100% of the time.

Boneheart.3561:

Have you ever spoken to ogres?

Haha, yeah. Half of them are voiced by Claudia Christian who also does the female norn PC and are identical to the male ogres!

Logan is plenty cool. Just check out this outtake clip of him taking candy from a child. (The fun starts at about 0:19)

https://soundcloud.com/arenanet/guild-wars-2-voiceover

Valid points. It just struck me as a bit odd I guess.

While I am unsure 100% if what was in Scarlet’s head was Mordremoth, the limited evidence we have does suggest it. What makes this concerning is so far we have very little to suggest the other Elder Dragons communicate so intimately with those they corrupt, even Zhaitan seemed to pretty much just let his champions serve him how ever they saw fit. This suggests that perhaps Mordremoth is far more intelligent than the other dragons, though we have not had much contact with Primordus, but he seems more the destructive rampage type. It is worrying that Mordremoth seems to be very tactically inclined if Scarlet was just a pawn for him the entire time and not acting on her own volition, as well as Aerin’s prattle to some voice only he could hear. The question is, how afraid should Tyria be of this ED as opposed to Jormag or Primordus?

It actually reminded me of the Drought from GW1 Nightfall.

I actually had issue with the whole “she’s lying” scene. So this lady is dying of apparently mortal, and likely very painful wounds, and her posture says she is lying? Her posture is more likely saying “OH GOD IS HURTS!”

You have a shot at 1-5 obsidian shards from the buried treasure chests in Dry Top also.

KarateKid.5648:

Vol.7601:

I can’t help but notice that the first person to acquire and post the Ambrite Sheet yesterday posted it for 300g.

What a bookah

I’d love to know if any impatient buyer bit.

Still up there as of this post, but shortly after seeing it the first day I did sell one for 15g which I had kind of put up as a joke. Needless to say my jaw dropped when I saw someone actually bought it.

All I’m asking for is warhorns that don’t sound like your character is blowing through a paper towel tube.

First off, you only need ascended for high level fractals. Rares and exotics will suffice for literally every other part of the game.
Secondly, Megaservers broke up a lot of the cliquishness some servers experienced.
Thirdly, WvW Season 2 is over. You just missed it by a month.
Fourthly, you do not, I repeat, DO NOT need to throw money at anything to be competitive, nor has the game ever been like that. And don’t listen to anyone that says otherwise because it is blatantly false.
And lastly, play whatever the heck you want. Mesmers are very viable and desirable in groups as is every other class, assuming it’s not a group of “ZOMG ZERKER WAR ONLY” types.

Hope that helps somewhat. And welcome back.

If Kiel is some sort of villain mastermind, she is better at it than Khilbron ever was considering she has a majority of the player base convinced she is good as well as the NPCs. And if that is the case, then why was Scarlet (according to the forum hate train) so cliche and predictable? Does Kiel have writers that outclass every other writer at Anet? Do they have a separate team dedicated to just Kiel’s arc?

I played a game (can’t remember what it was called, was a long time ago on the PS1) that had white AE circles for allies and black for enemies. They were very easy to see and distinctive without being overwhelming. I keep hoping to see something like that make it’s way into GW someday.

Edit for clarity: The circles were not solid. They were more like the translucent red circles we saw at Assault Knights and Holo Prime in intensity.

Clearly the best option would be charmable Aloe Seeds.

Possibly this track from GW1 which can be heard in Orr?

Uhg. This entire thread is the exact reason I got out of customer service after only a month. Lesson one was pretty much “Customers suck.” Thank you all for making me so very glad I bailed on that job when I did.

You actually just need the WvW season meta achievement to be eligible for whatever ticket prize your server earns with their WvW ranking.

Honestly, if you are going to take the time to compare something on the scale of an ED to something similar from another game, Final Fantasy 10’s Sin is the best place to start as Sin is basically on the same power scale. On top of this, they made bloody well sure the player understood very clearly how awesome Sin’s power was. By the time you actually face it, you pretty much wonder if it can even be defeated since every attempt to that point ended in either utter failure, or a short break in it’s destructive rampage (Which is not really a success, IMO).

I had kind of hoped they would have gone along that line for the Zhaitan fight, personally. Hit the dragon from various sides to bring it down, weaken it, then finish it off from up close in some fashion.

My point is, I do sort of agree with the OP, they really do need to do a better job of making us understand the threat these creatures pose instead of just telling us “be scared of that thing. it’s big and mean.”

How do I “casual?” Let’s see, first I put on my WW1 era pilot goggles, grab a bottle of rum, log in, select my warrior, and run dungeons and fractals half drunk while screaming into teamspeak. Somehow my guild doesn’t hate me yet.

Cores only add a colored glow (red, blue, or green) after the ascended piece is crafted (straight ascended has a yellow/orange glow). There are thousands of cores on the TP for very cheap, so that is the easiest, and currently only way to get them now that the event is over.

Plot twist, Taimi was actually the Static Assault Knight all along.

So, after a very successful Knight event, the people at green ported up to Breachmaker, and stand around waiting for holo prime to spawn when we noticed something odd. A dynamic hologram is already active, shielded, and at 80% health. We think, “oh, we can just avoid that side of the room.” This works. At first. Then she becomes mobile and starts AoE spamming us. Things went horribly wrong from there. needless to say we did not complete the event. Then my game crashed, though I suppose that is completely unrelated.

As you can see from the attached images, this was not how first phase of Holo Prime should function.

My ranger who started out as a loot mule until I realized she was actualy really fun to play. Chest is medium guild armor, rest if Priory.
Not shown is Lionguard Longbow. Dem tassels.

I kind of feel like we are underestimating just how corrupted Orr is. Sure we reversed the continuing corruption. But Zhaitan (the lore version, not the actual in game version) was immensely powerful and one would assume the corruption at the heart of his domain runs deep. For all we know, it could take anywhere from a week, to a hundred years to become habitable again. As for the undead, just remember how many thousands he threw at us and how many we found in Orr. The undead will likely linger on for awhile, especially while who knows how many of his lieutenants are still out there.

The Ebonhawke weapons all looks amazing, especially the staff.

I theorize that if you shaved a dolyak you would be left with a funny looking horse.

aspirine.6852:

But are menzies and dhuum considered elder gods?

Unsure about Menzies, but Dhuum predates Grenth my quite a bit if I am remembering my GW lore.

The problem with this theory is how often certain mantles of power of been passed to new gods (Abaddon > Kormir [who was a mortal in every sense of the word]/ Dhuum > Grenth) And then you have Menzies and Dhuum who still very much exist even if they are…contained. And Menzies, for all his mystery, is still very much god like in power as we saw in the Realm of Torment and the Underworld with vast legions of shadowy minions. So, in actuality there are eight god like beings currently in existence that we know of, possibly more that just never had the motivation to make a power play in any realm a mortal can visit.

Bandits riding centaurs throwing Scarlet at dragons!

Honestly, I liked the feedback method they employed during the beta where after events we had the option to state our enjoyment levels of each event or story mission right there in game. That seemed like a powerful tool and it boggles that they have not made further use of it.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I don’t agree that the third floor is anti-social. If anything, it encourages commanders such as myself, to revive everyone, and leave no one behind. The third floor pretty much demands that players work together, and move as a group. That’s a good thing. If people leave players behind, then that’s simply a poor strategy on their part.

This on so many levels. If I see people that have died on the way up, I frequently pop my commander tag and start reviving them, as there is generally quite a few and by the time I am done, we more often then not have a zerg milling about waiting for us to start moving. Seems many people can’t figure out how to work together without the magical blue dorito to congregate at.

Just to point out to all the doomsayers, Everquest, yes one of the grandfathers of graphical MMOs as we know them, still is quite lively with casual and hardcore players and a new expansion (#18 I think it is). If you are really worried about some next big thing killing off GW2, just look at the old MMOs that are still around releasing content every few months. WoW coughing out another expansion will do little to GW2.

Fun fact, the story reward light Commando armor leg piece looks like MCHammer pants at least on female sylvari. Pretty freaking stylish.

You guys want pretty scenery? Allow me to delve into my collection! The picture order also pretty much follows my first character’s path through the world.

(It should be noted many of these shots were before the game was fully optimized so please excuse less than perfect quality. Uhg, they looks so…old now.)

As someone that has played MMORPGs since the early days of EQ1, countless single player RPGs, D&D, and a load of other games that involve leveling, I can say with certainty that the leveling system in GW2 is easily one of the best (No hell levels being a huge +). For once in a game I did not worry about my level, as just doing the content available at each level was enough to move me to the next area. It’s not a grind, in fact it is a rather organic experience. Instead of grinding my face off for days to enjoy the game, I got to enjoy it with the very first tutorial instance.

Now, you could bring up games like EVE, but that also has leveling. You are skill gated behind sometimes MASSIVE time sinks (Marauders come to mind) so that style is no different. Heck, even Minecraft has levels now, not that they really mean much outside a few spiffy mods, but they are still there because people wanted them.
People have mentioned FPS games in reference to level-less games, how many FPS games have levels today, levels that dictate what weapons you can and can’t use? How many of them are multiplayer?

Just to note, almost every level-less RPG I have played was kind of a disaster in implementation. A bit like communism: Looks great on paper, put it in practice and everything falls apart.

Just to clarify, even the original Guild Wars got it’s name from a war that was over by the time the game took place lore wise so it really was Post Guild Wars and this is Extra Super Duper Post Guild Wars 2 Ultimate Extra Overness Edition. If Anet uses that title for GW3, I don’t even want a check, just a character in my likeness voiced by Claptrap.

Thobek.1730:

someone posted this on the GW2 reddit page – worth posting here. Its not good when a trailer can be poked fun at this much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ATf2gOW7w

This was hilarious and would have made for a great official trailer. This was comical in that cartoon way Scarlet’s personality has shown.

My overly clothed Norn guardian.

As someone that has spent 10+ years in trinity based MMORPGs, I have to agree with Chopps. Besides, there is no real reason to have it in this game, given the mechanics.

As someone else stated above, emp shards are easily obtained from Queensdale, but also check out Hirathi Hinterlands. QD has 7 chests, and HH has 5 or 6.

Oddly, there are a ton of emote commands that neither return an error, or seem to do anything which would suggest they were planned, but never fully implemented.

After quite a bit of tinkering and more gold wasted than I care to admit, this is the heavy armor set I ended up with. Looks rather smashing with Ebonhawke weapon skins!

Heavy Plate Helm
Stag Spaulders
Guild Heavy Armor chest
Radiant Gauntlets
Vigil Leggings
Eagle Greaves

Dyes are Iron, three shades of red, Butter, Harvest Gold, and Gunmetal

Every time someone says “Shadow Knight,” I can only think of an Iksar with the Greenmist. Nothing could ever be as bad kitten as that, sorry.

Really? Cartoons can’t be dark? I would like to draw Transformers:Prime. It is easily one of the darkest shows I have watched in a long time and I watch Walking Dead. And I am twenty seven. Disproved your entire argument. Now to tell you why it is even further incorrect.

Besides, GW2 already has a pretty grim storyline. World on the brink of disaster. Monolithic dark god-thing with an army of undead people, animals, and even plants preparing for a major offensive. Oh yeah, and there are betrayals. Sure, not to the extent of Khilbron from GW1, but there are some in there. So, I must ask: Did you even pay attention to the story?

But…We just got a level cap increase. Three crafting skills go to 500 now! They filled their level cap quota, time to move on! (We can hope, right?)

My favorite people are the ones that follow any grammatical based statement with a declaration that they have no need to communicate like an intelligent human through text based mediums. Makes me chuckle every time.

Eddard.2930:

Vulpis.8063:

OTOH…how about ArenaNet let the races kludge together something that allows players to visit a dreamstate or spirit realm or some such where these events are eternally active? That way new players can see a recreation of the event (and more importantly, get the achievements and loot from it! ;-) ), without having to keep them active world-wide. A Tyrian version of Paragon City’s Ouroboros, if you will..

Neat idea. Or they could make a library in LA. If you take out a specific book about a past event you can read about each event … but instead of “reading” about the event, you could play through the event and get the rewards.

This is actually a very similar method used for the bonus mission DLC from GW1. You went to a special scholar NPC and picked up a book which transported you into a mission as the story’s main character. It was pretty awesome.