Guild Wars 2

Hey guys!

So I was focusing on some achievements today, and decided to finish my explorer ones… I had only one or two areas left, so no big deal. I received my Shiverpeaks one without any issues… However, upon discovering the last area of Ascalon (I had/have 176/177), Agrak Kraal, the counter did not go up. I did receive the message, “You discovered…”. The same thing happened when I discovered the Golemagical Institute in Metrica, no increase of my 165/167.

Can anyone advise?

Thank you for this solution, it worked!

Despite its lack of love from ANet, necro is and has been, for almost two years, my favorite class. It’s the most fun for me and it still isn’t boring after so much time playing it. I still feel powerful and like a good asset to my teams in PvP, and especially so in PvE/dungeons. Like Roe said, it definitely is worth it to me!

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

…or just stay out of Dry Top? I can’t be bothered with the place.

Strangely enough this “feature” was requested by WvW players, for WvW players and from what I’ve seen so far, we’re having no issues with this rainbow.

Then let us disable it everywhere else, because it’s a pain.

I just got this on my necromancer. 0/0/2/6/6, IV, III, IX, X, II, VIII, XII Well of blood, other wells… used well after about three hits, and then entered full death shroud at 6k HP left. Good luck guys!

SRG.3607:

I’m lost, i just had one mail with the 100 additionnals tickets, but that’s all, no chest, no other tickets based on my rank, nothing ?
Is it the same for everyone ?

Go speak with a battle historian and he will give you any additional tickets that you need.

If you haven’t already, submit a ticket to support.

If your account was actually hacked, they can sometimes “rewind” your account to some time prior to the hacking.

Hey all!

I don’t know if a thread has been made about this already, but I’m wondering if anyone happens to know how to get this little guy?

As a disclaimer, it is not included as one of the 5 mini pets in the baby mini pet series in the gem store.

Thanks!

This is great!! Really good job.

As a novice PvP necromancer, I can tell you when I use minions, I suck against AoE damage and 3+ people. But that might just be me.

I am definitely still loving my Necromancer, and I actually somehow feel more powerful than I did before. Even better.

undouble.1472:

Prior to 4/15, Daily Achievements were running the “same old, same old” cycle, while the Monthly was “supposed” to be reduced to (2) instead of (4)————correct? But the login screen was still showing Monthly Achievements needing (4) for completion.

After the mega-update on 4/15, I have NO idea what the Daily Achievement schedule, quantity, or type is supposed to be—————-and the monthly seems to now have reverted to needing (4) to complete————but NONE of the achievements completed prior to the 15th seems to have carried forward.
Can someone (anyone) provide us with some clarity on this?? (If there be such a thing, that is!!)
No place I’ve looked (in the Wiki or on the Forums) seems to have any data on these changes (if there really are any).

Monthly PvP has been added to the overall monthly completion (making the two separate 2/2 a 4/4), at least, that’s how I read it. Having personally completed both the 2/2’s prior to the patch, I now see a 4/4. The achievements previously did carry over for me.

Lion’s Arch has been temporarily moved to the Vigil Keep in Gendarran Fields.

Otherwise, there has always been a bank in every home city (Divinity’s Reach, Hoelbrak, Rata Sum, The Grove, and Black Citadel).

If the skin hasn’t been unlocked yet, the skin will unlock when you salvage it.

style.6173:

Agreed. Most important is adding a bank.

Especially a bank. Now that PvE and PvP gear are the same, it’d be nice to keep my PvP gear in the bank and just access it at the mists.

Uhtameit.2413:

Mimir.4690:

As someone with a currently low rank in pvp, I like seeing all the high ranks I manage to kill during the match. People will rage at at a bad player regardless of rank – they rage because they’re bad.

What? Try to make sense, please oO

People are saying it may have been removed to help lower rank players – so I’m saying as a low rank player, I like seeing the ranks at the end. Also, removing rank won’t keep people from yelling at someone who’s bad at pvp.

As someone with a currently low rank in pvp, I like seeing all the high ranks I manage to kill during the match. People will rage at at a bad player regardless of rank – they rage because they’re bad.

Hey guys!

tldr Have the ability to create custom outfits to help with those who don’t like tonics and can’t mix and match their town outfits anymore.

So in light of the new patch, I enjoy some aspects of it (such as being able to run around as the Mad King in PvP), but like many others, I’m not a fan of the tonic system or the cost to wear my fuzzy panda hat whenever I want. But most of all, I hate that I can’t mix and match my town outfits anymore. So here is my suggestion! I know it’s relatively minor compared to many of the other issues (and it could be easily solved by just allowing us to have each piece separately), but I’m going to go ahead with it anyway.

Somewhere in the hero equipment panel, you can “Create a New Outfit”. In the new window, all of your previous town clothes (sunglasses, hats, etc.) and tonics will be shown. You have the standard 6 slots to attach your gear. Let’s say you only want one piece of the whole tonic. When you move the tonic to one of the open slots, it ONLY applies to that slot – the chest piece, the legs, the feet, etc. And then you can apply tonics to the other slots, or individual pieces like the hats. This probably means you can’t mix/match already pre-set outfits (like the witch, mad king, etc.). Then, you can go ahead and save it as an “outfit”.

If you don’t want us using these clothing during combat, then simply have any outfit created using a tonic deactivate all combat skills or, like before, you will simply be changed back into your normal armor if you enter combat (get hit). Maybe creating an outfit will cost one transmutation charge, but will be free (like other outfits) afterwards to apply.

In the future, maybe this could be expanded into allowing you to create preset armor sets, but that’s for another day.

Thanks for reading!

(Oh, and PS: Make outfits dyable.)

Sinbold.8723:

I hate to sound like a jerk, Soren, but that doesn’t answer the question, “How long must a player be away from the game for them to receive that listing?”

I don’t want to kick players that have only been gone a month. Vorch’s answer is good, but I’d like some confirmation, like maybe a live stream link or a dev post.

It isn’t the best temporary solution, but while they work it out/you get a source on the date, you can check the achievement point leaderboards and filter by “guild”. If you hover over their points, it should say when it was last updated which tends to be around the last time they logged in.

Why it took this long, or is that difficult for ANet to have added this in game is beyond me.

Actually, I thought they were adding the mega server to the pvp lobby and to low population maps.

Not happy that I’ve lost some of my traits!

mooty.4560:

Necromancers are excellent in PvP play.

They lack evasion skills/leaps/a solid gap closer so they’re a bit pokey in WvW and this also makes them prime targets when outnumbered in a group fight, but they have very strong CC and some hard hitting offense.

I don’t want to sound like a jerk here, but a necro can hold it’s own, so you’re not doing it right.

Agreed. It takes practice, but necros are powerful in PvP. And they do well in WvW (then again, I don’t use a staff in WvW).

[s]I thought I might be the only one.

Happened to me as well. I only have 5 charges in my inventory (checked other characters), and the 2 crystals and about 30 transmutation stones I “converted” disappeared. The 5 were the free ones I received from the TP.[/s]

They’re in my wallet! Check your currency tab.

Timed JPs like the ones for holidays used as an “activity” could be fun. I don’t think it needs to be as complex as you’re making it (time to sign up, etc.), but I love timed JPs and I wouldn’t be opposed to seeing them added permanently to the rotation, or used like PvP (different “maps”, available all the time), and as a competition.

Dhuumfire

15 chars

Frostfang and Howler!

The Kurt.2518:

You have a point, but it’s also important for it not to be too rewarding, because if everyone starts reparing there’s no chance of winning whatsoever

There’s a limited number of hammers available in each lane, so only a couple people would be able to repair at a time anyway.

goldenwing.8473:

Add one more thread on this subject to the long list of threads about this already out there. (I’m a strong advocate for no dueling.)

Forum search is your friend.

Forum search also yields 2 unrelated results for “dueling”.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

No one has any idea, as there is no official confirmation on new costumes or returning costumes.

It is all just assumptions and speculation that people think these are coming back or we are getting new costumes. Without an official response, that’s all it is. And Anet hasn’t responded to any of the threads that have constantly asked this question, so I’m going to assume there is no plan to introduce/reintroduce costumes (as this is something that should of been introduced on day one, not later during the event).

I think the only evidence we have so far is from the patch notes,

Mad King and Witch’s Outfit items have been upgraded to rare status.

Which seems to imply that they will return. I am really hoping for a return, as I had planned on getting the Witch’s outfit this year.

EricGORE.7896:

Mimir.4690:

Ykfox.3825:

You know, considering the patch hasn’t been out even a full day, why not wait and see what happens to the price of the mats in ~24-48 hours?

As for achievements, personally starting to wish ANet would just remove achievements from the game entirely. Everyone is whining about them….

People complain about too many achievements because it feels like they need to do the activity as an AP grind… and then I guess people complain about not enough achievements.

Well the achievement system is here to stay, that much is obvious. It’s kind of ridiculous to implement such a system and then limiting achievements on things. I mean, obviously there’s a balance to be had, but come on.

Oh I completely agree, I was just saying. Anet doesn’t know how to balance. :P

If you don’t remember (or weren’t there) for last year’s Halloween event, then you may recall the many, many posts of people complaining about there being an achievement for completing the tower.

Ykfox.3825:

You know, considering the patch hasn’t been out even a full day, why not wait and see what happens to the price of the mats in ~24-48 hours?

As for achievements, personally starting to wish ANet would just remove achievements from the game entirely. Everyone is whining about them….

People complain about too many achievements because it feels like they need to do the activity as an AP grind… and then I guess people complain about not enough achievements.

Ayrilana.1396:

Dr Ritter.1327:

Ayrilana.1396:

You couldn’t play with friends before unless you happened to both enter the same instance.

you’re wrong, last year it was a normal pve location you could just join overflow with your party

I remember someone trying to join me for it last year and couldn’t so I don’t think so. I was in an overflow like every one else too.

I’m not sure how it was for everyone else, but I was definitely able to do this with friends at Wintersday.

Don’t worry, there will be a new costume.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/bam/Bloody-Prince-s-armor/first#post3000972

When, I’m not sure.

eisberg.2379:

locoman.1974:

They’re adding an arena section near the entrance to the EB jumping puzzle so you can duel and do GvG fights there. We’ll have to see how it goes.

BTW, I agree on having arenas on cities for duels, there’s already one in the black citadel (The Bane, that according to lore is used by charr to settle disputes by fighting, so it’s good lorewise), and according to the novel Edge of Destiny there should be one in Lion’s Arch as well (there Logan, Rytlock and Caithe were fighting to pay off their sentence when Eir, Zojja and Snaff found them).

There is already a spot for dueling in Lions Arch ,there is a spot with a red fence around it, it looks like the Arenanet symbol.

I always assumed that spot would be used for mini-pet duels (considering there are two mini-pets in there). It’s a little too small for player-player dueling.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

here’s another problem with open world dueling: how does it affect combat with mobs and can that be exploited?

ie: could two players start a ‘duel’ to escape combat? can they use it to avoid combat in the first place, bypassing large groups of mobs?

if it’s restricted to a designated area like the one in the Citadel then that would be fine: the only ppl who have to interact with the system are the ones that choose to do so and it doesn’t impact anything else.

but at that point, how is it that different than just doing it in an sPvP Custom Arena or the new WvW area they’ve announced?

I’ve also seen the argument that events scale to the number of players in the area, so if players are dueling, will those numbers affect the scale of the events?

I don’t see why open-world dueling needs to be added. Dueling in a specified arena, sure.

Flash.6912:

Halloween was more hyped last year than this year.

Because it was our first event. :P

I see people talking about Halloween this year pretty frequently in game. Probably one of the most anticipated events what with how Living Story has been going lately.

Slither Shade.4782:

is it possible yo enter the dungeon and see which poi’s have not been turned on yet? then overlay the poi’s with the paths. idk just an idea

The POIs reset every time you restart an explorable path.

(I’m pretty sure)

Were you at the event last year?

Because this is exactly what happened – there were doors scattered all throughout Tyria, and you would knock on the doors and trick-or-treat. One of two things could happen – you could get candy (treat), or a mob of Halloween-themed enemies will spawn (trick).

As a Guild Wars 1 fan, it would make me very happy if they brought back Nicholas the Traveler.

This is great! Awesome work. Captured the fight perfectly.

I hope to see some more in the future, such as a video for Mad King Thorn!

tenniswood.8534:

Thank you for the response. That sounds like a lot of fun. Who exactly is the mad King? Is he evil or is he kind of a comedic character?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mad_King_Thorn

A bit of both!

And last Halloween, let’s not forget the Mad King Clocktower Jumping Puzzle, the hardest JP in the game to date that will be making a return!

While I appreciate this idea of “collaboration” between the team and the community, I won’t believe it until I see it… And the track record is not proving positive.

They should take living story elements (not all living story content – TA updates, Tequatl, or even holiday events like Halloween, Wintersday, and the Jubilee as these are either permanent or come annually) and create fractals based on these elements. While they may not be exactly like the events, they could at least give players a sense of the story behind those events and a bit of the gameplay, introduction to those characters, etc.

I really want the black ones. They’re the only weapons that look good with my Necromancer.

Time to farm ores!

Doing it with other players made this jumping puzzle much more fun. I also completed it first on my norn. It wasn’t always about seeing where you were going, but eventually just memorizing the motions. A lot of players dropped off of the puzzle within the first 30 seconds. The only thing I would change would be the reward.

Yesterday, a rather large group of people went to Southsun and the karka queen was successfully summoned. It didn’t take very long, actually. However, for the players, including myself, who showed up either when she spawned or shortly before, dozens of people starting talking about not making it to the queen because of the karka hatchling mobs. Those things are simply ridiculous and why I don’t go to Southsun.

I haven’t had any problems with the LFG tool so far. There were a couple of times where me (and I play a Necro) were placed in groups of only Warriors and Guardians, but again, we never had any problems and all runs went smooth. Great experiences with it so far!

I do wish that you could merge parties if you have a listing on the tool, however. Earlier today, I was in a party of 3 for a HotW p2, and I saw an ad for HotW p2 that needed 3 more players. I needed to delete our ad to merge my party with theirs. Not a big deal, but would have been more convenient to just merge the two since the numbers worked without having to remove my advertisement.

I don’t think a gear check feature needs to be added. Players can just as easily ask everyone to ping their gear (as mentioned before, Anet needs to add an easier way to ping gear rather than doing each piece individually) before starting the run and kick anyone who isn’t qualified.

Oh man, I want this for my necro but she has the molten alliance pick… If only I could get a one-time use unsoulbound thing to give that pick to another character and not waste it.

Charak.9761:

TA Explorable Level requirement: 55

On the main page: “A NEW, LEVEL 80 PATH IN TWILIGHT ARBOR
Party up with other players and join Caithe to work your way into a secret facility hidden deep in the shadows of Twilight Arbor. Take out guards, puzzle your way through tricks and traps, and bring down the monster at the pounding heart of the stronghold.”