Guild Wars 2

Super – thanks!

How do I go about purchasing an additional copy of Path of Fire to gift to a friend’s account?

When you waypoint into an area and you’ve already cleared it in the story, it would be nice to choose between “Revisit uncleared map” and “visit post-story map”

Guild Wars for me is an escape and a distraction from reality. I wanted to find a way to say thanks to ArenaNet and a job well done for supporting the franchise, continuing the story in a very fascinating way, and continuing to expand the GW2 world map.

So cheers, Anet! This is a rave for you. Looking forward to the final installment of this season. beer cheers

I 100% enjoyed the story and love the new map. Really appreciate how Anet is moving the story along and for all the continued support and effort that is being put into the GW franchise. Thanks ArenaNet!

My wife and I are about to do HoT – almost done with pre-HoT living world. If you want people to roll with, let us know in-game and we’ll party up.

Wife and I are looking for a casual group – small or mid-size – of people who adult during the day and rock PVE content at night. We play around 7-10 pm Eastern on most weeknights.

We haven’t found time to finish HoT yet, but want to do that soon – we usually do dailies and gathering runs, open world, & dungeons. I’ve done VG, but we’re not really raid ready.

We’ve been left in the dust in the past and are looking for the right fit. Who will give us a chance?

Not sure if this is a common issue (tried to search and didn’t find a lot) but I noticed a significant delay in texture and world pop-in when entering maps (15 seconds before full load) and also when first launching the character selection screen (30 seconds – 1 minute on a blank screen)

I’ve always experienced a delay since I have GW2 installed on a 5400 rpm drive, but they seem to be getting worse while there has been no change in drive performance or latency. Thoughts on how to remedy or is this a server/client issue?

Hi ArenaNet,

Good job on HoT. Having a lot of fun. A little something unrelated, but still on my radar as an active player.

Can you please consider converting the original town clothes, riding hood, and other depreciated styles into outfits?

When the outfit system was implemented, some of these styles were converted into endless tonics instead of outfits. I would eventually like to use these style options again – especially since some of them were paid items.

Thanks,
Kaz.

Thanks for bringing this up – I didn’t even think that could happen. I’ll toss my transports into the bank until they address it.

Bump – anyone know?

Do you still get a hero point each time you cycle through the experience point bar at level 80, or has this been completely replaced? Can’t seem to get an answer from anyone in guild.

Hey devs,

Just a quick note. I can’t provide any crash notes because the game never actually crashes. Occasionally my framerate will drop to ~5 fps, and when I try to exit, the game will freeze and I’ll have to end-task. Other times I play and it’s absolutely fine.

Not much else I can provide. :| Any thoughts?

Bumping. In terms of the Onyx Lodestones – still interested if ArenaNet has thoughts on this?

Update:

Since my last post we have grown to a roster of about 30 members – of which there is normally 10 on per night on weeknights. We have been running bounties, fractals, and dungeons.

Our current structure consists of 2 leaders, 2 officers, guildies, and recruits. Guildies have access to both stash and trove as we use it as a trading and public repository. Guildies can invite others to the guild on their own. New players are promoted from recruit to guildie after a week depending on participation.

We have a TeamSpeak server for VOIP, but use is not required… just there for convenience.

Our guild is LGBT friendly. Small sized, casual friendly atmosphere. Feel free to PM me in-game if you’re interested!

I just wanted to mention that onyx lodestones don’t seem to drop from anything except from certain loot bags. This makes collecting 100 of them a really challenging task unless they’re bought from the TP. I didn’t mind doing this when I was going after my legendary, but many others probably feel the same way.

I’ve been keeping an eye on the number of available supply on the TP, and it has been dropping. The price of lodestones have also been rising as a result.

Will there be any opportunities in the future to gather these rare mats in HoT?

My fiance is having issues downloading this patch (stuck on the last 4 files??). Mine completed at 133 MB.

BAUMP. Also a bit of an update:

Last night we chose our guild logo and held an impromptu help-a-player event, where we jumped onto toons level 20 or lower, joined party with players completing starter-area content, and helped them out. We gave each player we helped 80 silver as a beginning boost and spent the night assisting events in Wayfarer’s Foothills and Metrica Province.

About the Guild: Honored Vengeance is a start-up PvE guild run by myself and Tomahnaa. Our goal is to help new players get accustomed to the game in preparation for the expansion, and also to help others run dungeons and fractals.

We are based in GMT-5 (East Coast), and most events will take place around 7 to 10pm EST. 100% Rep is NOT required, but we’d appreciate the donation of your time and effort.

About Us: We are a husband and wife duo out of New Jersey who enjoy running dungeons, gathering materials, doing Living World content, and generally helping other players complete their objectives.

Where we want to go: We’re based in Tarnished Coast, and ultimately our goal is to become effective in WvW Borderlands. We will eventually be running bounties, rushes, MF boost, etc.

On our to-do list is a Ventrilo server and a website to post events and the like. We will not be hosting a web forum as we want to entice players to communicate more in-game.

Enough about us. How about you? Ultimately we’re looking for helpful, mature players who are patient and enjoy the PvE and WvW content in GW2. We’re looking for new and veteran players alike.

Above all else, we’re looking for someone who has a drive to help build a healthy no-drama guild. If you’re that person, shoot me a PM or mail in-game!

My fiance and I log in as much as we can to find nodes in Cursed Shore and complete dailies. We love to play GW2 together. My fiance was initially positive about the change, and I was initially negative. I wanted to write a comment about it here, but decided to abstain until we could perform a few dailies and evaluate how it affected our play behavior versus pre-patch.

After this past week we’ve both feel the changes have changed gameplay for the worse, not the better. We’re playing a lot less now because the daily objectives feel more modular, and I’ve developed a terrible habit of logging in for the reward. If I’m “just not feeling it” to do the daily objectives, I’ll just log back out. We were also interested in having long-term goals, so we thought the monthly objectives were a great part of the game.

I don’t think the dailies the way they are now help coerce casual gamers like us to play more or play harder. The event completion in certain maps can be difficult due to the sheer number of players completing event objectives. We simply don’t have the speed or the skill to keep up with others. Event completion ends up becoming frustrating and takes a long time.

That said, we like the new diversity of daily objectives such as vista viewer and new gathering objectives and hope to see a lot more of them.

Regardless, we like that the devs are continually making adjustments to the game to make the gaming experience more enjoyable for all. We’re hoping that they manage to find a balance in the new system they’ve implemented.

You can’t get refunded for services you have already used – that includes items claimed by in-game mail but not deployed in-game.

Unrelated, but just a thought… Key farming is technically cheating to get items. “Technically.”

QC testing for various races = 0 hours.

Pretty weak reward system, and weak update in general. A couple friends and I played the Pavilion events once. Won’t be going back to do more.

New Jersey here. My and my fiance were sitting here for hours trying to download over Verizon FIOS.

Adding the IP/DNS to the hosts file worked like a charm. Thanks. Major +1’s and kudos to you sir.

The downed skills in a PvE environment seem much weaker and less balanced than other classes – mainly because there are very little aggro mitigation skills to prevent mobs from bashing the stuffing out of your squishy body. For example, the downed stealth skill gives 2 to 3 seconds of stealth, which is barely enough time for an enemy to turn and run toward someone else.

This has probably been glossed over ad nauseum in the past, but I’m opening this thread up to suggestions that Anet can look at and take into consideration in the next round of class balancing.

Almost all MMO’s now incorporate a diminishing returns mechanic in some form or fashion.

If we’ve accidentally deleted parts of a paid-for costume set in the past, or regrettably deleted them to make room in our banks, will those parts of the sets still be accessible to us in the wardrobe, or are we S.O.L.?

People complained about not having anything to do with their karma, and therefore karma gain from events was nerfed.

Instead of nerfing karma, why not incorporate more incentives for players to spend karma on, and buffing karma gain from events? There are an almost limitless amount of aesthetic and performance options that can be incorporated into the karma system such as armor re-tuning, dye purchasing, and so forth. Increasing karma for non-champion events will also give players more incentive to do events other than farm champions… which (lets face it) practically everyone is doing now and damaging the diversity of game play.

I’m getting the same issue.

Yes, you’re right. 345 on line C should be on the middle octave.

I tried to indicate pacing as best I could without being overly complicated.
(0) = skill to go up one octave, (9) = down one octave

a: 3-45-8—-2-34.
b: 5-67-(0)4—-(9)6-78—(0)2-3.
c: 3-45-8—-(0)234.
d: (9)55-(0)3-22-3-22-4-321(hold).

Hi community. I wanted to share my daily musings with you. The Game of Thrones theme song notes (actual notes) go something like this: G—-C, D#-F-G—-C, D#-F—D. F—A#, D#-D-F—A#, D#-D—C. Unfortunately the horn only gives us Do-Re-Mi notes, so we can’t incorporate sharp and flat notes into sound production. Even if I change the key, its difficult to hit the right notes, so this won’t be note-for-note. Here it is.

(0) = skill to go up one octave, (9) = down one octave

a: 6—2, 456—2, 453(hold).
b: 5—(9)5, (0)435—(9)5, 876(hold).
repeat a
5—(9)5, 34312(hold).

If anyone has anything better, feel free to share.

Spotted three more bouncing around the map today. One of them with the tag [bone]. Seems like they like to exploit resources in lesser populated areas of the world like the Shiverpeaks. Info:

Dredgehaunt Cliffs, Tarnished Coast, 1:20pm EST.

Spotted a person blinking in an out of resource spots:

Lornar’s Pass, Winterthaw Snowfield

Tarnished Coast

Date and time of day, plus timezone:
12:06 PM EST on May 7, 2013

Actually, not being able to log into the game is progress. They probably took the login server down completely to address the issue.

“We don’t go to Orr.”

“One does not simply level in Orr.”

It took me three days to form a group to do Crucible of Eternity on story mode. It’s now proving impossible to do CoE in explorer mode on a regular basis (to gather tokens). When will we start seeing these dungeons begin to scale based on team numbers?

Any rough ETA on when this service might be implemented?