Guild Wars 2

So it’s not in game at all, not even in wardrobe? I thought it was supposed to come with this update…

I just wanna see what it looks like, even a small glimpse.

My list:

1. Verdant Brink. First map which i have loved since beta. It is also the best for gliding and the events are fun (especially Wyvern fights)

2. Tangled Depths. Love the variety in both surface and underground areas. Was confusing at first but once I got the hang of it, it became my favourite in terms of looks and exploration.

3. Auric Basin. Very beautiful and the most populated. Adventures, hero points, and the events are all very fun. I wish Tarir had more of a purpose other than being invaded every hour. Would be cool to have a bank and trading post to chill around.

4. Dragon’s Stand. I love how it feels lile the most jungly and wild of the maps, and the darker atmosphere. Not very exploration or solo friendly though.

Yeah I totally agree. Of course there are people saying the challenge is gone, it’s still too much, expac still sucks, etc but I am thinking they are a vocal minority. 250 is a really good balance and means if you ignored central Tyria map completion, you’d still be able to fully unlock your spec with just about half of HoT’s hero points. Not to mention many of those are more soloable as well

Just want to say I’m very pleased that anet listened to the community and addressed basically all of the main complaints in less than a week after launch. I was actually totally ok with having to work for my specialization, but I did think 400 was a bit much (that’s more than you get from doing full world completion :O). For Revenant especially, the elite spec was very important for most builds. I actually managed better than I thought I would with just Shiro and Jalis but I definitely wanted Glint for perma swiftness. This will keep combat in the expansion fresh, and allow us to play as we did in the beta more easily.

The change to population in map instances is also much appreciated, I think this will increase the chance of Tarir defense and other world events succeeding (still haven’t had a map that beat it yet!)

Overall, I’m overjoyed with these changes and just wanted to thank you for them, as there are still many naysayers who now disagree with the changes (it’s a vicious cycle I suppose). Anyway, look forward to raids and legendaries hopefully before the end of the year! Keep up the good work anet!

Charr male.
I have this issue too.

I’ve been running around in Tangled Depths forever trying to find the final zone, Dragon’s Stand. It doesn’t help that TD is probably the most confusing zone I’ve ever seen in an mmo and there’s creepy crawlies trying to eat me every step I take. I heard it was in bottom left of the map but I couldn’t find it.

Where specifically is the portal to Dragon’s Stand?

I’ve been playing on Verdant Brink almost all day so far but I always feel like the map is never full. Is it because there are so many playing that a lot of overflows are created and I keep being put in one? Or are a lot of people leveling their revs or doing halloween events instead of HoT?

I would think that on launch day there would be tons of people and I’d always find a big zerg to follow and do events with. On that big survey on reddit, 80% of people said they preordered so where are these people?

I think that they will continue living story soon after HoT. I don’t think Mordremoth will be defeatable right away when the expansion comes, and living story will continue to build up to a big update where we can kill him. I believe the expansion does come with its own personal story but maybe we only get half of the story at launch? Who knows.

This is just regarding the continuity of the expansion through story though, not sure about fractals replacing dungeons or anything yet.

I will do HoT for most of the coming week, but Halloween for last couple days of month. Halloween isn’t for another week and a bit so I will have time to get the hang of HoT and still able to spend some time on holiday stuff.

Charr! My friend who exclusively plays max height male Norns wanted me to join him, but I gotta stick with Charr because Norn’s face and beard options feel too cartoony and plastic looking to me. I made a white charr for revenant in BWE3 and absolutely loved him. I thought I would be sick of Charr after hundreds of hours on my ranger, but playing a white charr just felt so new and refreshing especially with some of the exclusive makeover kit features. The Glint skill animations were just so perfect and synergized with the fur colour, not to mention the Mistward armor looks best on Charr. I felt like I stood out more as well.

I don’t know where you got 60 from. I heard there would be only 2 armor sets, but with a light, medium, and heavy version of each along with some other skins like back pieces.

I will first use an experience scroll to boost to level 20 and then try to level normally through map completion, but will use tomes if I lose patience lol. I still feel that revenant is lacking skills and some depth, and for most of the time you’re leveling you won’t have Glint… I can see leveling up being a pain honestly.

It just seems so barebones compared to other classes. We have 5 legends, each with only 3 utilities excluding the active usages of each skill. To compare, elementalist has tons of skills which can change into whole new skills depending on what element you’re attuned to. Engineer also has tool kits alongside a dozen utilities not included in the kits.

The Glint legend for rev is also part of the class’s elite specialization, which are optional for every other class but Herald is basically mandatory for most rev builds (I haven’t seen any popular builds that don’t use Glint). Elite specs are supposed to be a bonus for every class, offering a new weapon and playstyle to keep things fresh. For Revenant, the specialization forms the base of most builds and you will be at a disadvantage if you don’t use it. I also find Glint doesn’t synergize with other legends super well, as your facets are reset if you switch to another legend.

I definitley feel that Revenant definitley needs more skills to add more depth and variability to the class. One way to do this would be with weapon skills, having them change depending on what legend you are using. For example, sword having lots of fast dps attacks if you’re using Shiro and more defensive skills focused on blocking and parrying if you’re using Jalis. Right now, every weapon just has it’s default non-legend skills. For more legends, it would cool to see one for each member of Destiny’s Edge, harnessing the abilities of Rytlock, Caithe, etc.

Now I don’t know a lot about the class compared to some of you experts who have tested the class extensively in every part of the game, but these are just some thoughts I’ve had from playing around in Verdant Brink. I definitley want to try maining Revenant but I feel like it will get boring with so few skills and potential builds compared to other classes.

In the announcement about the gem store transition, it says new and old favourites would be appearing soon. Does this still only mean things that were in the anniversary sale or is there a chance we’ll get things that were missing from that sale, like grenth hood and Krytan armor?

Those are the only 2 items I wanted during the anniversary sale and I was pretty disappointed that they didn’t appear (I also heard Krytan armor was retired awhile ago)
The announcement also says that this transition would give us our last chance to buy stuff from the anniversary sale though, which dampens my hope since my 2 wanted items were not there.

Pazu.8320:

http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgYFXAbkA5Q~

sword/axe. It’s pretty solid damage and offensive group support with Glint.

Thanks, that will tell me what traits to assign. But what skill combos and utilities do I use and when do I use them? It also doesn’t say what legends to use either or what my other weapon set should be. Sorry for being so clueless, I just don’t know how to play this class because it’s so different from anything else I’ve played in mmos. I’m not even sure what role rev plays in groups or even solo play.

I am having a hard time with not only Revenant, but most specializations in the beta weekends because I have no clue what build to use. On my main characters i just follow other people’s builds because if I try to make one myself I have no idea what I’m doing. I’ve tried searching through the forums here but can’t find any good simple builds I can use on my beta revenant.

I am specifically looking for a DPS build because I haven’t been able to do good damage even though Shiro became available. Any popular build is fine though, I just want to be able to do events in Verdant Brink without getting frustrated from being too squishy or too weak.

Thanks.

Most people playing beta will probably not play revenant for the whole weekend. They have very bad dps without the rest of their skills and legends. Combat is too tedious to bother with doing anything.

I only played the class for about an hour to check out their skills and traits as well as trying to get more dps out of it but I couldn’t. Already back to playing my regular characters. Their defensive and healing skills rival guardian’s though, and I love all the skill animations.

When it’s ready

Yamsandjams.3267:

Just a note on lore friendly – Sylvari generally do not have surnames, just a single name. For instance, Trahearne, Canach, Caithe, Ceara, Riannoc, Faolain, Cadeyrn, &c. As such, you might consider only using a single name for your sylvari if you want to ensure that criterion is met, such as simply using “Aethyris”.

Alright got it, edited my post to change that. Thanks!

I’ve never gotten very far with a Sylvari because I think they are definitely the hardest race to find a name for, but I finally want to try again with a mesmer. I want it to be at least somewhat lore friendly, so nothing like George Cloney (which was taken anyway). Most Welsh/Gaelic derived names seem to be taken so I was trying to find some Latin ones. One semi-Latin name I thought of was Aethyris Mystrum, but I think it might be a bit too much of a mouthful and sort of over the top.

My criteria:
-Lore friendly (or somewhat lore friendly)
-Sounds like a mesmer name (relates to words like mystery, illusion, etc)
-One word names are encouraged to stick to Sylvari naming traditions.

If you guys could give me some suggestions, I’d really appreciate it. I’ve always wanted to try both Sylvari and Mesmer but I’m not so good with names for either race or class.
Thank you!

EDIT: Looking for 1 word names, not 2. Thanks to Yamsandjams for the correction.

Hello I made a Charr character today but when it came to facial details I got a little frustrated because my Charr kept moving around when he breathed and I couldn’t properly see the differences in eye squint, angle, etc. So I’d just like to suggest giving me (and others frustrated by the movement) the ability to lock my character in place by clicking a lock icon or something that will stop any blinking and breathing movements so that I can properly concentrate while customizing my character.

I’d imagine it would be pretty simple to implement, so if we could have that it would be great and make making good looking characters so much easier

Thanks.

Hello, I’m just looking for some opinions and suggestions on what dyes look best for engineers. So far I’ve been using some dark reds but it’s starting to get a bit boring and I could use something new that possibly fits the class. I recently picked up the warhound karma armour set bought from various merchant in the Iron Marches, so any suggestions for that set would be nice as well

Thanks.

I was saddened by the lack of people as well. I got GW2 because of one of my favourite game critic’s review of it but his review was from the launch days of the game and in the footage it looked really lively with lots of people and looked like it would be a lot of fun. Then when I got the game I saw a total of maybe 5 people in one day while on my first character, and I was playing on a server with a “very high” population according to world selection.

80 levels later I still see only 5-10 people at once while completing zones and it feels like a single player game. When I do a popular event like one of the dragons though, about 30+ show up which is much nicer. Orr however, is void of players when it shouldn’t be. Orr is basically built for large amounts of players, since it has tons of group events and more challenging content.

I am of course talking about PvE when I mention the world being empty, PvP and WvsW have decent amounts of players but I like PvE the most. I hope when the first expansion is released that it will bring more people into the new zones so it doesn’t feel like a single player game, because right now it’s just depressing.

Oh, well that sucks. I guess I’ll just have to wait for an expansion pack for new areas :x

So I’ve found the new living story to be pretty interesting so far and I’ve been thinking about what it might lead to. One of my guesses was to a new zone, possibly the Far Shiverpeaks. The F & F description sort of suggests that the blizzards are coming from the Far Shiverpeaks so it would make sense if in the final part we go there to end the source of the storms.

On the other hand there are also dust storms caused by earthquakes in Ascalon so it could also lead to a new zone, or possibly the appearance of Primordus or one of his lieutenants.

What do you guys think it will lead to, and do you think those theories are plausible?

I tried using bombs but I always have to be in melee range or near melee range to hit enemies because they explode so quickly after being dropped that they blow up before the enemy can walk into them from further away and so I get hit a lot. Is there any remedy for this?

I think for a headshot skill it could have a 50% chance to instantly kill a target if they are below 50% health, or just be a very powerful shot if they’re above 50% health.

So after not being able to get into the engineer class awhile ago I’ve decided to give it another chance and created an engie a few days ago. I’m lvl 22 now and I’ve read many guides and builds but most them are for PvP and WvsW and those that do focus on PvE don’t really tell me how to kill stuff effectively. I keep dying a lot because I have no idea whether I’m supposed to throw grenades at them to pull mobs first, run up and whack them with a wrench or what and have no real strategy. Could someone give me some tips on how to kill mobs effectively and what skills are best for PvE? I’m going for a power build btw.

Thanks.

Did campaigns ever add new zones?

I just recently discovered from reading on the wiki that pretty much over half of the world map hasn’t been released in the game yet, we’re still missing the Crystal Desert, Woodland Cascades, Blood Legion homelands, Isles of Janthir, and basically everywhere else.

My question is how many of these areas will probably only be available in paid expansions and approximately how long can we expect to wait for them? I’d love to explore more of Tyria provided it’s cheap and if the areas actually get released.

Thanks.

Same here, along with everyone else on the Kessex Hills map. I’m just going to play something else until it gets fixed since there’s no point in making any progress if it just gets rolled back every 10 minutes.

7/10, not sure how to pronounce “Craah” though xD

Grimclaw Soulripper

People kept asking me if I watched the anime Bleach because there’s a character named Grimmjow and there were soul reapers in Bleach though I wasn’t thinking of it when I made the character. Was just looking for a lore friendly name for a Charr necromancer.

Yeah I find the story conversations awkward looking as well, but I don’t imagine it ever changing since that would require a lot of work. On the bright so we have the stunning cutscenes that play during the intro after each character creation. The art just blows me away.

Aha, fixed! I thought my account name was the same as my display name ;_;
Entered my email, works fine now.
Thanks!

Update: Ok I was able to change my password this time by just going into my profile, and yet it still won’t work on the game launcher. Strange cause it works on the website and forums fine.

I tried putting my .3187 number after username, same results…

Gaile Gray.6028:

If it’s asking for a character name, then you linked your Guild Wars account to your Guild Wars 2 account. If that is the case, then try using your Guild Wars log-in name and password. If that doesn’t work, the Support Team will be happy to help!

No, I’m pretty sure I’ve never played the original Guild Wars.

I just got the game today and since it’s still taking awhile to install and patch, I decided to create my account and stuff. But when I tried logging in on the game launcher it said the username or password was incorrect. So after a few retries to make sure they were correct I decided to try the recover account option. Then after entering my email and serial number it asks for one of my character’s names when I don’t have a character since I haven’t played yet.

Can someone please help ;_;?
Thanks