Guild Wars 2

uhohhotdog.3598:

You guys do realize they plan on this game going for many more years right?

Let’s hope that they will have the decency of creating new armor sets during those “many more years” instead of making something like this that is nearly unobtainable.

At this rate we will never have those skins. Can we have an achievement reward rebalance like the suggested on this thread or at least more content/obtainable achievement points?

There are players that are maxing out their Daily and Monthly achievements in less than a month. What then? How many years we will have to wait to see those armors in game?

Since the past 130 days all we got were the Lunar Achievements which gave you 56 achievement points. Plus the Black Lion Weapon Collections that gives you 3AP each.

hybrid.5027:

There are a few dedicated dungeon guilds who are always recruiting. I would suggest that first and foremost.

Thank you for your reply but I’m not a guild person, a few guilds that I had contact with would have the guild leader making parties for people to run dungeons and that’s not really my thing, I rather run with the same people often as possible so we can grow together and improve as a group!

Iris Ng.9845:

Hand raise

Pick me! Pick me! Give me a specific time, too.
Edit: I can field in as the second Ele or Guard. I recently stop playing because of lacking a group as well

I will contact you in game

I really enjoy running dungeons and I do that since release with a friend of me. We are min-maxers, we like to be efficient and do dungeons fast as possible, we have fun when things go right and when our group has synergy.

We had a group running for around 4 months, our daily dungeon tour included:

• Arah (p1p2p3p4)
• SE (p1p3)
• CM (p1p2p3)
• TA (up/foward)
• CoF (p1p3)
• AC (p1p3)
• CoE (p1p3).

Sometimes we would also run story modes or any explorable we usually don’t run in a daily basis, just for fun. We have experience in every dungeon path.

However, 3 persons in our group stopped playing Gw2 and the two of us who are left are looking for new friends to keep running dungeons with.

I main a Thief and my friend mains an Elementalist, we would need another Elementalist, a Warrior and a Guardian. We are not looking for solo players, we are looking for people that are highly capable of playing in a team, we will do test runs ourselves until we find good fitting people.

We don’t require you to know every single path, we don’t mind explaining you a few runs if you aren’t as familiar with them. We are always trying to improve. We are not really interested in making speed run records or participating in tournaments, our main focus is to succeed as a group and to make gold.

We will try to run dungeons often as possible, we can run them everyday or at least 3 times a week. We will probably be from different time zones but we can work on finding a fixed time that is good for everyone.

If you are interested in being part of our team you can mail/whisper me in game or post bellow! Thank you for reading!

Could any dev be kind enough to give us any kind of update? It would be nice to hear if you guys have any plans in changing the order those skins are handled to players. The way it is right now it is just a long road without an ending.

They did decrease the number of achievement points handled to players. Let’s take a look at some previous releases from July to November 2013:

• Bazaar of the Four Winds – July 9, 2013 (255 points)
• Cutthroat Politics – July 23, 2013 (200 points)
• Queen’s Jubilee – August 6, 2013 (174 points)
• Queen’s Gauntlet – August 6, 2013 (220 points)
• Clockwork Chaos – August 20, 2013 (195 points)
• Super Adventure Box: Back to School – September 3, 2013 (356 points)
• Tequatl Rising – September 17, 2013 (116 points)
• Twilight Assault – October 1, 2013 (100 points)
• Blood and Madness – October 15, 2013 (107 points)
• World vs. World Season 1 – October 18, 2013 (405 points)

Of all those achievements:

• Total of 2128 Achievement points were available for players to get during that time frame.
• 1336 points were temporary (1912 points if the gauntlet/SAB never returns)
• 216 points were permanent and you can still get them.

Now let’s take a look from July until today:

• Gates of Maguuma – July 1, 2014 (33 points)
• Dry Top – July 1, 2014 (114 points)
• Entanglement – July 15, 2014 (45 points)
• The Dragon’s Reach, Part 1 – July 29, 2014 (60 points)
• The Dragon’s Reach, Part 2 – August 12, 2014 (100 points)
• Basic Collections – September 9, 2014 (72 points)
• Rare Collections – September 9, 2014 (213 points)
• Black Lion Collections – September 9, 2014( 39 points)
• WvW Fall Tournament 2014 – September 9, 2014 (9 points)

Of all those achievements:

• Total of 685 Achievement points so far.
• Only 352 of those were from the Living Story Season 2 vs. the 1336 (1912) Achievements from Living Story Season 1 during the exact same time frame.
• I am aware that we are missing the Halloween release but I doubt it will make much of a difference.

What Arena Net did so far was tripling the permanent achievement points handled (Total of permanent points of last year: 216 vs. Total of permanent points of this year: 685 points). However, they reduced the total achievement points players can gain to 1/3 (Total of last year: 2128 points vs. Total of this year: 685 points).

Rambodacious.7495:

Thread Summary:

Those who reject the OP’s suggestion are stating:

- No one deserves the full armor set unless they have 33000 AP’s.
- If Anet wanted to award the full armor set at 18000 AP’s they would have done so.
- Very few people should ever be able to have the set.
- AP’s should allow players to stand out.
- Anet shouldn’t have to create new rewards for the AP system. The current rewards are the only ones they will ever make, so adjusting the rewards to allow the first set at 18k will remove the reason to acquire anymore AP’s

Proponents of allowing the first full set to be unlocked at 18000 AP’s are stating:

- The length of time required to obtain one set isn’t worth the reward
- Only a handful of players will ever have the set and this content was created to be enjoyed by players
- New players are at a large disadvantage because of how easily AP’s were obtained early on in the game’s lifetime
- The AP system, over the course of the game’s lifetime, will always expand and Anet will ultimately have to create new rewards, so adjusting the time frame of obtaining the first set won’t reduce the content needed to be added to the AP system
- Anet didn’t award the first set at 18k when the system was initially launched because the full set wasn’t created yet, so they couldn’t have
- AP’s will still allow players to stand out via titles

My take: Bump the thread until a red response comes along.

What I am proposing wouldn’t require Arena Net to create any new rewards, it only changes the order that the existent rewards are awarded to something more logical. The way that the system works right now is very weird because you can acquire 2x Helmets, 2x Gloves and 2x Boots before you acquire the first Top and Bottom parts. All my suggestion does is change the order which those rewards are given to players. It will still require players to have 36k AP to earn both sets. Besides that they won’t need to worry about creating new rewards anytime soon, a player will only acquire the full set of Pinnacle Weapons by reaching 60k AP.

A player that starts the game today is able to obtain 9034 achievement points. From those 9034 achievement points, 673 have been added in the past 4 months (counting since Season 2 started since the way that ANet is handling achievement points drastically changed). That player can also earn 15000 more points from Monthlies and Dailies, however it will take over 4 years to reach the cap. If it continues at this rate it will take that player around 13 years to obtain a full Radiant and Hellfire armor set and all Pinnacle weapons. (You must also consider that achievements like Yakslapper, and a full 50 HoM points are included in those 9034 points).
Existing players that play since release already have an enormous advantage because in the beginning of the game dailies gave out way more achievement points than they do now (that is why the top players on the ladder board already have their daily capped), they had the chance of doing all the temporarily achievement points from Living World Season 1 and all the old festival achievement points. And back then, achievements gave out way more points than they do now as you can clearly see the difference in the WvW Seasons, the first and second season gave out 300 and 405 points respectively and this one going on right now only gives 9 points after completing everything.

Hello Lilith,

On the Scooby-Doo Cosplay, I am Velma and Daphne (Daphne is a mesmer clone, I dressed up as her, made a mesmer clone, and then dressed up as Velma). On the Powerpuff Girls Cosplay I am dressed up as all of them! They are all mesmer clones and my character is hidden behind Blossom taking the screenshot. I made the asura version because a Reddit user requested it.

I made a few other Cosplays, I will post them later today! I hope you like my entry so far

Cheers,

Lua

Dear Regina,

I have already ran over 3000 paths since my Dungeon Master, I am looking foward to see a new dungeon, something fresh. I miss the days when we (me and my dungeon groups) had to spend time figuring out how to do a dungeon, I want to have that feeling again. You can even reutilize mechanics that are good, mix those with new ideas and create something different. Two years have passed and I believe that we deserve a complete new dungeon (Story + 3 Paths).

Cheers,

Lua

ProtoGunner.4953:

Nelict.7589:

I think it’s time for us, the community, to ask for more. It’s a gem store outfit. This is unacceptable. My problem is that designers knew about the horrific clips if you don’t wear a helmet and yet, they decided to go on and put it up for real money (for some players) instead of holding up a few weeks to fix the issues. I am really sad for this. I am sad not about the outfit, or any outfit, but with the whole idea of putting unfinished and badly designed things on gem store/game. I want to support them, but I will never support lazy and unfinished projects.

PS: Images are from http://dulfy.net/ and from dulfy video – GW2 Ceremonial Plated Outfit and Belinda’s Greatsword Skin : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owVa_uekeEo

Can’t see any clipping on those pictures you posted. Do you mean the hand that is inside the armor? Well, that’s in almost every game with different armor styles. Can’t see a problem here.

If you can’t see the clipping on those pictures, check this post I made and you will clearly see the clipping issues.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Generally, I think people overact about those small clipping issues. GW is really the only community so sensitive toward clipping. You can find this in almost every game because it is very hard to fix. Anyway, I don’t even see clipping as a problem, I just ignore it and think it’s a part of games since the first games with polygons appeared.

Also the stuff like the ‘new human female walking animation’ – I watched a video and haven’t even noticed a differfence, even after watching it several times and reading a description.

Really, just stop with all the complaining and enjoy the awesome armor skins we receive from Anet.

I made a post on the Game Bugs Forum and I really don’t think it is a “small clipping issue” as you can see on my screenshots. And this issue is very easy to fix, they could remove the neck ornament or even make it part of the helmet so when you turn the helmet off it disappears too.

Lighthammer.3280:

I don’t see a problem with it.

I see a even bigger problem with this. Female humans don’t have that hair choice!

Haha

Hello,

I just wanted to report that the new Gem Store Outfit (Ceremonial Plated Outfit), glitches with 24 of the female human hair styles (see attachments) because of the neck ornament. I really love this outfit but with so many glitches we don’t have many choices if we want to use it without the helmet. There is any chance this will get fixed?

Thank you for your time!

Hello Lilith,

I used Assassin’s Mask, Shoulders and Gloves, Illustrious Guise, Sneakthief Leggings and Sandals. I used a variety of darker tones (Dust, Dusk, Pitch, Black, Abyss, Graphite, Enameled Crimson and Cherry), to preserve the dark ninja theme and at the same time avoid losing the details on the armor textures. I also used the Ceremonial Dagger Skin because of the matching hilt wrap. I hope you like my entry! Thank you for making a contest again, I had fun working on this look!

Cheers,

Lua

SAB! SAB! SAB!

hannah mee.7925:

Hamfast.8719:

I will see if I can tempt my brother to join the GW2 community, and failing that I have a few other possibilities in mind for that account.

Sorry to hear about your uncle.

And uh…if you need any suggestions…I’d accept the account. I know someone who’d love it.

Yes, me too! The reason why I was so exited about this is that I know someone that played Gw1 for 8 years and could never get a Gw2 account!

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Alright: The Winner(s)

There was only supposed to be 1. Only 1 darn it! But I had to reward 2 other people.

1st Place is Hamfast. I mean…. That swimming with whales may not have been fashion heavy, but it is now my wallpaper. It’s amazing. Thank you. But all of your awesome pictures were great, and I think you ought to have a website dedicated to Bubbles’ travels.

2nd Place is Lua. The picture below. OMG. I love it. Good fashion and great pose. Awesome.

3rd Place is… Tom Yzf. For the adorable little wizard. And the neat graphics. and the shameless using my screen. I love it.

Hamfast, I’ll be sending you the game key in a minute. Yui and Tom, message me in game. You have 400 gems worth of gifts that I need a list in order to send.

Thank you for all of the entries! I love doing these contests. I love the uniqueness of everyone’s fashion. Be on the lookout in particular for more dungeon oriented contests, as well as a potential art contest in the future!

Yaaay! Congrats everyone and thank you Lilith ^-^. Makes me happy that you like this one! I had one of my friends that is an Elementalist spamming his skill on the background until I got the right shoot! This contest was fun, thank you again!

Edit: This is my current wallpaper, /u/uguubear made it and posted on reddit (http://redd.it/12d0is)
This is her website: http://uguubear.tumblr.com/image/34620453287

One mesmer, multiple outfits!

Thank you for the compliment! Makes me really happy that you like my screenshots! And Lilith is right, I am sure you can do just as great or even better!! I want to see more screenshots too!

Hello Lilith,

Those are few of my favorite screenshots. I also have an imgur account where I post some of my armor combos. http://lualulua.imgur.com/

I hope you like my screenshots!

Edit: I’m sorry if I am posted too many!

Edit 2: I decided to add some info about some of the screenshots!

• The first screenshot I took inside the Omphalos Chamber, I fell a few times and died but this screenshot made the time I spent there worth it!
• The second and third are from my guardian, in Cursed Shore.
• Fourth (Queensdale) and seventh (WvW) are from my ranger.
• Fifth and Eleventh are pictures inspired in Earth and Fire attunements
• Sixth: I love how afraid my character looks in this one! That is how I feel whenever I enter a fractal (I am not too experienced in Fractals)
• Eighth is a picture I took with two other friends.
• Ninth is my obligatory bunny screenshot, I love rabbits!
• Tenth is a necromancer inspired picture!
• Eleventh is a picture of my thief in the Black Citadel, right now she is my favorite character, had to add a picture of her!
• Last two are from my mesmer, on the first one I wanted to give her a noble outfit and on the second one I was looking for an angelical look!

Many of those screenshots I relied on the help of my friends to take them, just wanted to send them a special thanks!

If you have any questions about the armors I used in any of the screenshots, feel free to send me a PM or a whisper/mail in game!

After completing the Living Story update, I decided to check on the Racial Leaders to see if they had any new dialogue and it made me extremely sad. Because of the following reasons:

• The Avatar of the Pale Tree is hurt on the ground while every other NPC in the Omphalos Chamber behave as they did since game release.
• Queen Jennah and Anise have the exact same dialogue since game release. Anise doesn’t mention anything about my friend Kasmeer in any of the recent events.
  Whitebear doesn’t even interact with me.
• Smodur has the same dialogue since release, and behaves so differently than he did 2 weeks ago when we helped Rytlock. He doesn’t mention anything about our missing friend.
• Apparently my character doesn’t even recognize Plunt, even after our interactions during the past weeks.

I know that those are small things but I believe that those little details make a big change. They didn’t bother updating any of those dialogues since the new Living Story. It simply doesn’t feel as “Living” to me.
I know that ArenaNet can do a better work, they did great in other aspects of the game, open world is awesome, full of details, full of small dialogues and things to discover. There’s a small story behind the Durgar’s Homestad point of interest and it is an example of the small details that make a difference. I wish that the “Living” Story would have more of this.

• Imgur album with the Racial Leaders dialogue: http://imgur.com/a/5mCF2#0
• Video showing the little detail at Durgar’s Homestad point of interest: http://youtu.be/oAbMBd4WC98

Even after all those dungeon runs, I can still have fun running dungeons with my friends. I also really enjoy dressing up my characters, just like Lilith!

Prinsesse went to Honor of the Waves wearing her favorite winter outfit to visit her Kodan friend. She loves hugging Kodans but they don’t look so happy about it.

Head: Wintersday Earmuffs
Shoulders: Vigil’s Honor Mantle
Chest: Magician Coat
Gloves: Apprentice Gloves
Leggings: Cabalist Legs
Boots: Aristocrat’s Shoes

Thanks for the answers

I really hope they release those again anytime soon! So I don’t have to pay 3k gold for one ^^

Hello everybody,

I am very interested in the Permanent Hair Stylist Contract and I really wonder if Wikipedia is correct (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Black_Lion_Chest_), under the everlasting items I see those contracts and I don’t know if you can actually still get those items from the Black Lion Chest or they just forgot to update. Does it get soulbound once you use it for the first time or is it always account bound or does it stay unbound even if you already used it before?

Since it is not my first Map Completion, I started doing my WvW completion much earlier and yet I finished my regular map completion before WvW. Every single Vista and POI is always available for players, they don’t need to wait 12 weeks or longer until the server gets the right color or to wait until the server can build a zerg of 100 players to take the Green Keep of a Tier 1 server. To complete one map outside of WvW usually takes two hours, could even take less if you have a small group of friends with you.

I am not “crying” on the forums. I just think that the current color rotation system is wrong, ANet will never find the perfect balance for WvW. People will always transfer to the winning server and other servers will always lose. All I need is ANet to come with a solution for the Color rotation. I want to be able to be Green/Red/Blue often enough that WvW completion isn’t such a burden even if you are on a losing server. I am not only speaking for myself but for anyone in this situation and I know quite a few.

To be fair, they should give 1 Gift of Exploration for finishing WvW and another one when the regular PvE areas are finished instead of giving two Gifts of Exploration once both areas are done.

Hi XeRauS,

I have the same issue as you do and a few days ago I made this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Can-t-finish-Map-Completion-because-of-WvW/first

Since the reduction of the WvW match up (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/wvw-matchup-variance-reduction/) and the WvW Season 1, the colors haven’t changed much, so it is a little bit harder to get those Vistas and POIs. Especially because the colors are related to the ranking of those servers, if your server is always winning it will always be green, if your server is always losing it will always be red.

The main argument on this thread is: WvW Color Rotation at the moment is terrible for who wants to complete the map.

The worst to complete without being the right color is the Eternal Battle Grounds, especially the keeps. I would really like to hear from a Developer if they have any solution incoming because if we are really going to have those Match Up Reductions (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/wvw-matchup-variance-reduction/). WvW Completion will be nearly impossible for some servers.

I am not talking about only Sea of Sorrows, but even if you are on a server that is Green for too long it is bad. Doesn’t matter the color, neither the server. Staying on that color for too long is terrible for Map Completion.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Azure Prower.8701:

I am from sea of sorrows. I have map completion. Your argument is invalid.

aye, i’m in sea of sorrows since 3 days before official release and i have 100% map completion for all 4 WvW maps.

sea of sorrows have some decent WvW guilds.
we do hold the stone mist castle from time to time.

it still depends on which servers we are matched up against though.

I also have Map Completion myself since a long time, this is not my first Map Completion. However, with the recent changes (WvW Season 1 and now the match up reduction) we are NEVER green.

Stone Mist Castle is no problem, we have this everyday! Try getting the Green Keep without being green, and the Green Keep has a Vista that is basically a jumping puzzle having the walls open and stealthing in doesn’t help (yes! it is not a POI like some are saying on this thread)! We do need color variation or WvW is a very huge problem to Map Completion! If they can’t give us the color variation at least remove such keeps (green, red and blue keeps from eternal battlegrounds) from map completion.

Some of you seem to not really understand the reason why I made this thread.

Some WvW matches are simply unfair. My server and FA tried to take the Green Keep for more than 4 hours and we broke many walls down, we killed many players but we simply couldn’t cap it, neither reach the vista. Yes we had the keep open for longer than a hour (both walls) but we simply cant beat the size of TC’s zerg.

Unfair matches are not a problem when they are temporary. However, with the recent changes and the WvW Matchup Variance Reduction it gets silly. I simply can’t hope that next week will be better. Especially since the same unfair match up we had last week remained this week… That is not encouraging. I honestly don’t feel like quitting doing the things I actually like to do in this game to spend all my online time in WvW for one single Vista.

I did not leave my WvW completion for the last minute. I have been doing it since a very long time, even earlier than I started the other parts of the map. Getting that keep is taking longer than it took me to do 301 hearts, 511 waypoints, 725 points of interest and 265 vistas.

I am interested in a developer’s response because if they really want to reduce the match variation they should also take out WvW from the map completion or at least require less from it.

Whoopmeister.7493:

i think u need to recheck tbh , as the first jump is free , i forgot if there is a cost after the first one , but i managed to jump to at least 3 servers b4 , and didnt get charged for any , but that was a few months ago ..

It was possible very long time ago, it is not anymore. Now you always get charged when you change servers and the price varies depending on the population of the server, high populated servers are 1800 gems and very low populated servers (that doesn’t exit at this moment) are free.

I have been waiting since 12 weeks for my server to be Green (I am on Sea of Sorrows) and since then we have only been Red and Blue. We don’t have enough players to take the Green Keep in the Eternal Battlegrounds and that is all I need for my map completion.
With the recent changes (WvW Matchup Variance Reduction), I wonder how many years I must wait until I can finally get the Green Keep that I need. Is it intended to be like this? I would like to hear the answer of a developer because I fear there is also many other persons in the same situation as I am.

Hamartia.3421:

Meteorlogicus now has ANNOYING footsteps that I are visually distracting and disorienting.

The purple night time effect looks like crap.

I feel like I should be able to sue you. I put so much work into this kitten thing and now I honestly don’t want to use it. If it wasn’t “Ascended” now I would begin using a different skin.

First step:

Remove the awful footsteps.

Second step:

Return the old trail

Third step:

Remove purple night-time effect.

Third step:

Make it look right when sheathed like it used to.

I really hate you for this, honestly. This sucks.

That’s EXACTLY how I feel. Thank you!

The weapon is EXTREMELY bugged. They spent 5 minutes working on it, I mean… Destroying it. If you log in and out during the night you can even have the trail back. Not to mention that you can see the white clouds bellow the dark clouds during the night, they just added a kittenty dark effect on the white ones. Its just so cheap and horrible… so disappointing!

jinxy.8457:

I hate the new Meteorlogicus effects. The footfall looks bad, they just look like random lightning sparks coming out of the ground and the theme doesn’t really match the model of the scepter. I would love it if it had puffy cloud footfalls instead.

I prefer the current look even if it doesn’t have footfalls… i like the blue/purple trail on the end of the scepter when you run and its now gone :(

Please anet, consider changing the footfalls or changing the effects back!

You are so right, I would rather prefer no change at all than this. Those footsteps are so unpolished, it looks like they didn’t make it with the same love as the other footsteps for other weapons. The cloud idea would be at least something different and would match the concept of the weapon.

The trail of the Meteorlogicus was something unique, very pretty and gave it an special detail to the weapon, what is the point of removing it in the first place? The trail represents the wind, showing that the little sky of the Meteorlogicus isnt static but something dynamic.

I love purple but, why purple on Meteorlogicus? I do never see purple at night… If they would like to make day and night effect, they should add a bright sun to light the weapon during the day and a full moon and stars during the night.

I am not a big fan of footsteps but I would rather clouds like you suggested than those on the video. They just look extremely cheap, I honestly don’t see that as an improvement. They are just making the weapon ugly.