Guild Wars 2

Was so focused on the ascended crafting and SAB that I didn’t notice this undocumented change!

Well done ANet! Good time to show off that improved Minstrel too.

The flying notes can be seen for sure now, and it leaves a nice trail like footsteps. Could use more improvement when compared to things like Twilight but definitely better than exotic.

Omg I was gonna ask whether if Tribulation Mode would be similar to “I wanna be the guy” and you linked it haha! I would be looking forward to this lol, my friends and I spent months on that game only to give up after two/three bosses.

I guess this we will be expecting to die every 5 seconds :P

But how would you show Legendaries on iWarden and iDefender? Since they use weapons Mesmers don’t have access to. And what about weapons (off-hands) that Mesmers use but phantasms don’t? Would suck for people who have Rodgort and Minstrel wouldn’t it?

Seven Star Stalker.1740:

Quite sure legendaries won’t be changed. Also, precursors will be craftables soon this year, so there maybe the whole, “Im going to equip an ascended till I get my legendary” principle pulled into play. Having said that, this also is dependant on how ascended gear will actually be in terms of visuals and sound effects. I imagine some ascended gear cosmeticwise may surpass legendaries.

Legendaries will be changed stat-wise and quality wise to match Ascended weapons so they remain the top choice. They will also gain the ability the switch into any stat combinations out of combat, this will be a feature that Ascended weapons do not have.

To OP: precursors are most likely to stay as Exotic. They are keeping the RNG method of getting precursors and I don’t think they would allow you to throw 4x Exotics in to get a chance at an Ascended. Ascended will be crafted (and time gated by T7 mats).

I think your actual “participation” and the # of events you complete (maybe the medal quality) affects this. This was further evidenced by yesterday’s invasion daily (complete 1 invasion), where no credit was given if you just AFK or complete a very small amount of events during the invasion.

There were 2 maps that were “bugged” for me – one was Gendarran Fields and the other was Timberline Falls. Both of them I was AFK majority of the invasion, did perhaps 2-3 events each. Both times I did not get the credit.

I went back and just did those two maps, each time I fully participated (did at least one of each event), and I got the credit.

This also applied when I tested out the “invasion daily” yesterday, first time I did 1 event and Akitten through the rest, then participated in the Kill Scarlet event at the end. Did not get credit for the daily. I had to fully participate for the daily later on.

So I believe the # of events you complete during the invasion matters, not sure the magic number is, perhaps just to get a Gold medal or something. One thing is for sure that it doesn’t matter if you are on overflow or not, or whether your team fails.

You know at the start when Rox asked if you’re ready and Braham says that he is but he can’t speak for Frostbite because the little guy can’t even talk?

Frostbite prob wasn’t ready.

Ha thanks! Did that right after and got it first run. OH Swordsmen really did the job well.

Is there a way to get this for Mesmer? I tried many builds and I always end up killing something. My main problem is that even if I circle the arena around the edge, it still spawns ooze next itself, then some attack will eventually kill it.

GS: iZerker annihilates ooze that spawns near it.
Staff: The bounces + clone bounces will eventually kill some ooze.
Sword: melee AoE would kill ooze spawning next to it.
Focus: iWarden annihilates ooze that spawns next to it.
Scepter: too weak and spawns clone next to it, increases its healing.
Pistol: seems to be a better choice, but the projectiles will hit the smaller ooze eventually.
OH Sword: haven’t tried, but maybe iSwordsman would be a good choice.
Torch: haven’t tried.

Any thoughts?

Yep I play alone 90%, since launch. Only time i ever partied was for the dungeon story modes. And I play 2-3 hours a day…I usually get enough social interaction from work so GW2 time is my peace and quiet time. I created a guild for myself so people will stop whispering me to ask if interested to join their guild. I played GW1 and it was the same.

It would definitely benefit dedicated players who have been spending $ for gems. I would get a lifetime membership. I just did a tally of my ANet Gem receipts in my email and I spent over $700 already in gems since launch. I still average about $35 monthly for GW2, and I don’t plan to stop this game any time within the next year or two. $15/month means the $200 is paid off in a bit over a year so it’s not a bad deal for me at all.

Paul.4081:

Palu I’m Magumma. Maybe ANet could and should immortalise you like Borderlands 2 did for a player. Make you an NPC or something.

Actually ANet did this in GW1 for Rosa Salvitas: She was renamed to Sadie Salvitas as of the April 18, 2013 update in memory of the Guild Wars player Sadie Massa Kiss (nicknamed Sadie), who passed away from cancer in March 2013. She actively participated in Pink Day in Lion’s Arch.

To OP: All the best to you.

Looking for one open on NA, thanks in advance!

Reading the mail and watching that cinematic reminded me a lot about Death Note.

You know…L, M, N…

Now who’s Kira?

Just want to say that I get this bug here and there as well. It usually goes away upon restarting the client.

Also like to point out that from my experience, it only starts after changing zones. I’ve never seen this bug start out of no where during gameplay.

Just dropping in to agree! The right click is the big problem. Most of us are used to turning the camera with it and it often clicks random allies during a battle when I didn’t want to switch targets.

There is also that initial phantasm hit, from either iDuelist or iSwordsman.

If you watched his vid on multi clone shatters you’ll see that sometimes he starts with a Diversion x3-4. This will instantly give the target 15-25 stacks of vulnerability. He then does a quick 4x MW+Sword 2 combo for big damage (Leap + Mirror Image).

Another tip is dropping a chaos storm before the leap+burst to get few boons which will also add to your damage.

Last and not least, there are food items which you didn’t account for.

Just another living story segment – it’ll probably feel like Flame & Frost: Prelude, except on a sunny beach instead.

You can wait a bit to see the full patch notes, or view the key features here https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/may-14-2013/

Counter Blade is not bugged anymore, inflicts 5 stacks of daze when traited. Not sure about I-Riposte.

You can check out Osi’s shattercat WvW guide – one of the main specs uses sword/sword. It’s a great burst with decent defense.

^I actually didn’t know that, thought 2x Force would be 10% not 5%…big thanks wow.

Thanks for the Sigil of Night tip! Was going to get 2x sigil of the Night but I guess I’ll stick with a sigil of Fire + 1 Force/Night.

Hi I’m trying to see which combinations of these sigils will generate the highest DPS. Lets say I have full Berserker gear so I have enough crit chance to proc the fire effect every 5s cool down. I will also dual-wielding.

Would it be better to always use one Sigil of Fire/Air with Force/Night on the off hand? Or would my damage be higher to have two Sigil of Forces? What about when it’s night time and I can utilize two Sigil of the Night?

Thanks in advance

Ashley Segovia.8276:

The 404 error is a little odd. To anyone else experiencing this issue, please try clearing your DNS cache. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Press and hold the Windows key and press the R key. This should bring up the “Run” dialogue box.

2. In that box, type “cmd” without the quotes, and click the “OK” button. A DOS window should open.

3. Enter the following command below and press enter: ipconfig /flushdns

This should clear your DNS cache. You may need to perform this command a few times.

If neither of the above methods work out please let me know!

If the issue persists your ISP may be providing old DNS information. Some ISPs take longer to update this information. You could also try using a 3rd party DNS service like those available at http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ or http://www.opendns.com/start/ . NCsoft does not support these services, but there is information on configuring them at those sites.

Just tried this last night and it fixed it!

Thanks for compiling! Very excited for the mantra buff and maybe signets too.

Air is great for mes due to our lack of swiftness. Centuar is also a good rune for longer lasting swiftness, but Air’s crit damage and proc beats that IMO.

If you simply want to see big numbers on your screen, Scholar and Eagle are the strongest runes. You may also get Ogre for stable damage.

Ya I think this is computer based, not browser or account. The calculator looks fine when I search my character using my work computer, but no matter which browser I use on my home computer it bugs out like the screenshot you’ve attached.

I will try what Ashley suggested when I go home tonight.

Most people would agree that Mesmer is rather boring to level until level 40 or so. I personally didn’t since he was my first character so I had no comparison.

If you read around the forums you would probably know that Mesmer is pretty top tier in end game. We are great in solo PvE, events, dungeons, all sort of PvP.

I never played Necro so I’m not going to try and give you potentially false information.

I think it’d be pretty awesome to make unique models based on these characters’ GW1 armor. Most of these characters (if not all) wear unique armors in GW1 so it would add to this game’s current lack of end game armor models. They’ve already made many weapons based on GW1 weapons like Emberglow and Unspoken Curse, so I don’t see why they can’t do it with armors.

Of course this won’t be high priority on their list of things to do…so I don’t think you’ll get a “confirmation”.

Yep I bought the pick with cash…also bought just about 90% of my assets using the gem to gold feature.

Honestly considering how much I pay for my coffee every morning and all those after work happy hours I go to…spending ~$10 a week on GW2 isn’t all that a lot.

I bought the CE box, and approx $300 more on gems so far. I really don’t have much time to play so most of the time I buy gems to convert to gold. Only real gem store items I’ve bought were the bag+bank slots, the new pick, Valentines bouquet, and ~5-10 minis/keys/dyes here and there.

GW1 was a different story…pretty much bought all the skill packs and pet unlocks, all costumes that ever came out lol.

Dhampyr.2104:

Leuddian.3057:

Probably more meaningful to make it so that clones only spawn when the dodge actually evade an attack.

No offense, but this is just silly. Ever notice what happens to the clone when the mes actually evades an attack? The clone eats the attack and is instantly butterflied. Absolutely no point to DE if it’s nerfed in this manner.

No offense taken Ya I notice that too, I think if it does change DE to that then they would have to make the clones invulnerable, or even better – spawn a clone that does a dodge roll immediately. This way the attacker would actually see the real Mesmer and clone both rolling and would need to figure out which is the real one.

And no, some dodge traits are fine to work without evading an attack, like Ele’s drop and roll and thief’s remove cripple. I think the whole point of dodge is for defense – these offensive traits, coupled with high vigor time, simply encourages the players to just roll for the heck of it. I don’t think DE is overpowered at the moment – I just think it defeats the purpose and encourages bad game play.

It’s not in the game. It was probably a prototype version of Veil or Mass Invisibility. A lot of these skill previews came out before or during beta. From what I noticed from other skill previews…Blink, mirror image, portal all had cast times. The sylvari summoned two phantasmal duelists simulataneously, that fired with like 2 second cooldown. Oh and all the mobs had like 1/10th their real HP and A.I.

Probably more meaningful to make it so that clones only spawn when the dodge actually evade an attack.

You would be using the staff for support in a power build, and for survival. You can see osicat’s shattercat build for lots of good Staff/Sword-x burst build gameplays. The staff is mostly used for dropping a chaos storm to debuff the enemy and buff you while you switch to sword and do your 3-3-2-f1 combo.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-WvWvW-Pve-Shatter-Cat/

Jski.6180:

They said it last month when they brought her back with out a key. How much warning do you need?

Key words: last month.

They had no announcements whatsoever on any of their main communication sites. All they had was a paragraph under “World Polish – General” in the patch notes. I for one, don’t read every single word of the patch notes since it’s so long.

I admitted its the players own fault for not reading the patch notes. But they could’ve done a lot better at communicating this. It wasn’t a bug fix or something minor to be put into fine print and say “I told you so”.

They will revamp the less flashy legendaries. In the current state, Rodgort’s a lot better than some of the other legendaries that don’t even have effects.

Darxio.5672:

It was not poorly executed. They even brought back Lyns on purpose so active people can dump off their commendations, with fair warning that she will be removed again.

Be grateful you got Lyns back for a second chance as it is. We didn’t get the Wintersday Vendor back.

The purpose of reactivating her was so people can dump off their commendations?

The Wiki says:

Her trading functionality was disabled between Wintersday 2012 and January 28, 2013. When she returned, she no longer offered Black Lion Keys for 285 Captain’s Council Commendations.

Was it stated why she was disabled? Why didn’t they just remove her fully instead of disabling her?

It was poorly executed. The amount of notice given for wiping a currency should be a lot more than inserting a paragraph into the patch notes.

What if the February 26 patch notes said “All dungeon token vendors will be removed late March, liquidate your tokens now”.

No further announcements are given, then March 26 patch comes and you find all your tokens useless.

I’m not saying this is all ANet’s fault. It’s the players fault for not reading carefully. But ANet could’ve done a lot better job at communication. I follow them on Twitter and Facebook and Dev Tracker and no hint of removing Lyns.

There are people who might have took a break from the game and came back recently, or there are people who just forgot, or simply didn’t read that huge wall o’ text that is the patch notes (why would this warning be in patch notes anyways, should be a separate announcement by itself).

Donations toward the rebuilding of Lion’s Arch will continue to be accepted until late February, at which time Lionguard Lyns must return to her normal Lionguard duties. Liquidate those Captain’s Commendations while you can.

OK shame on me for not reading that one paragraph in the January patch notes. So does this mean she’s never coming back? If the commendations are useless then they should’ve given a better notice in game or at least compensated us for it.

Pretty sure I rather get commendations than wasting gold at the mystic toilet though :p

Max Durak.1358:

But why? Can anybody explain why ANet did this? It was such an easy way to get top exotic weapons, gathering and salvage items. And what should i do with 1000 Captain’s Council Commendations?

My guess is whoever made this version of Lions Arch (with all the refugees) just didn’t put Lyns in? It’s like Wintersday…but she was at least present during that period, just dysfunctional.

Seems like the refugees drove away Lionguard Lyns. Miyani also stopped selling Donation Packagings.

Whelp…wanted to get that mystic forgesmith daily today…

EDIT: My fault for not reading the Jan 28 patch notes more carefully. Seems like they did mention the removal of Lyns in those notes.

However I want to discuss if this was sufficient communication on ANet’s part for removing a currency from the game.

Just wondering if I will be able to dual wield two Bolts or a pair of Incinerators? The description doesn’t say Unique but if anyone knows for sure please let me know.

Doing rescuing the castaways and protecting the Quaggans events west of the Claw is an easy way to get 10, within few minutes. Also comes with aquatic kills and daily events.

Their productions pretty bad, one of my friends got the disc 2 of GW2 soundtrack as GW Nightfall…

I personally waited 4 months since day of order to receive my CDs, and I had to contact support many times. Sometimes their support can take up to 3 weeks to respond to your ticket.

Oh and, their product quality is terrible, the box had scratches and was bent, no plastic protection, looked like something used.

Same goes for The Minstrel.

Iron Mines of Moladune’s infusion runs were always fun. GW2 version: Bringing Spectral Essence to the Seer will allow players to obtain an infused ascended armor of choice.

Fractal happens every 10th level as a bonus stage, reward from each can only be obtained once per character.

Might as well add Ring of Fire and Abaddon’s Mouth infusion runs too.

Got mine this week…approx 4 months from time of order.

Yep ordered mine mid-September, been going back and forth with a support agent who decided to close my ticket after offering me a free digital soundtrack for the wait. I gave them the name of the free soundtrack I wanted three weeks ago and they still haven’t replied.

The order invoice has disappeared from my account so I don’t know…feels like they can just ignore me forever and I can’t do anything about it.

After trying what you mentioned above, I was able to complete the hint using the following way:
1) Order your pet to attack something.
2) Let it “die”.
3) Kill the monster.
4) As it is “ressing” itself (the red bar is regenerating), press F4 to switch to the other pet.

Hope that helps.

That was a good read. Good job!