Guild Wars 2

Latter half of August.

1. The current Living Story is already leading into the Jungle, but not all the way. Given story progression, they’ll likely put in one more step truly setting up the world for it’s expansion. Which under the current speed at which Living Story is added and the time an arc takes, everyone will have experienced by August.
2. The pacing of information releases regarding the expansion, with the class specializations in particular, means they’ll have everything announced for the expansion explained and covered by the first half of August.
Then they can hype it up for a couple of weeks and release.
3. The beta tests are up. Meaning the game is largely done and now they’re just fixing things and rebalancing classes. That’s usually a 4-6 month process in content of this size. Meaning they should very well be done in August
4. Common gaming industry release date conventions state that you have the most succesful first week income (a week in which critics and reviewers look at your income to determine if you flopped or not) if you release in late summer/early autumn (i.e. August) as the weather becomes less pleasant to be outside in. (Unless your game is aimed at hardcore no-lifers, who’ll want to be online instead of with relatives over the hollidays, then you want to release in November. But GW2 isn’t that kind of game.)
5. Their previous release date was in August.

So August.
The release date is in August.
Enjoy your summer everyone!

Hi everyone!
Thanks for taking the time to read this. ^^

So, I was loking at traits on my Elementalist. And I found there are a lot of +5% and +10% traits that could potentially be used at the same time.

But, I (admittedly, only recently) learned that for instance +5% sigils don’t stack. And that stuff like movement speed increases only counts the highest one.

I was wondering if the case is the same for damage percentages. But after 4 hours of scouring google and these forums, I’ve found nothing on the subject.
But it looks like I could get all of these:

+10% on burning foes (Burning Rage)
+10% from an elemental attunement (Internal Fire,Air Training)
+20% when the target is under 33% health (Bolt to the Heart)
+10% from being within 600 range (Stone Splinters)
+5% against bleeding foes (Serrated Stones)
+10% when endurance is full (Enduring Damage)
+10% when above 90% Hitpoints (Superior Rune of the Scholar)
+10% from Sigil of the Night
+5% Superior Sigil of Force

Which, under perfect conditions, makes it +90% additional damage.
You can see why I’m looking into it, right? ^^’

So now, what stacks, what doesn’t?

Am I just doing +10% untill the target is under 33% health, when it goes up to 20%.
Or am I going to be obliterating everything I touch?

Some insight would be very much appreciated

Heh, I realize that LeCreaux.
Like I said, I’m not using it right now. I was just wondering if it would be allowed.

My best guess is that it shouldn’t be. But if it is, I might retain usage of my index fingers by the time early onset artritis kicks in from the frantic spamming of grenade buttons. :P

Also, that is a really nice mouse, so 3 cheers for the awesome wife you have!

That does not seem to work of me. :x Are you sure that works?

Edit:
I normally play with ability 1 also bound to the scroll button, (not throwing by scrolling, but by clicking the button down). Seemed to me a pretty pleasant way to play as it allows better movement while throwing. Also less troublesome hand placement than spamming 1 while also needing your fingers to press WASD and 2-5.

But here the main concern is that I can perform multiple actions by just pressing 1 button. Which I believe is against the ToS. But on the other hand it’s technically pressing the same button very fast automatically.
So a bit of a grey area there.

Hi there!

Hoping to clear something up, before I get banned or something.

My regular mouse died and I’m using an old one, Trust.. Predator I think. It has a Rapid Fire button on it. It’s designed for Shooter-games where it gives 3 short left mousebutton clicks so fast that it fires exactly 3 shots and nothing more or less.

Great for halo, but I’m worried pretting the button might be against the rules here. As it’s 1 button firing off 3 actions.

I’ve pressed it while holding the engineer’s grenade kit, and if I hold it down, I just keep tossing grenades where the cursor indicates.
Now I’m not one to look for exploits, the game isn’t all that complicated to play. And if it’s not allowed, I’m absolutely fine with that. But it is making the grenade kit less fingercrampy lol.

But it might still be registered as 3 button strokes. I just don’t know. It’s not really a program, but it is a third party.. “thing” I suppose.

So, just to clear this up:
Am I allowed to use this button or not?
Would love to get an official ruling on it. ^^’

Edit: Obviously I’m not using it now, untill I get a green light. Just figured I’d add this before some one calls me a cheater. :P

Hi ^^ Last night I made a topic and it apparently got moved here. The cache removing thing didn’t solve it for me. But oddly enough, running CCleaner while the TP was open somehow solved the problem.

I checked if it worked yet. It didn’t.
Figured I’d do something else instead and ran CCleaner and Bullguard Antivirus.
I let CCleaner remove browser history, cookies and all that sort of stuff.
When CCleaner was done, I tried again, since I’m kind of desperate for money and have gems laying around. And this time it suddenly worked.

For people interested in trying the program, it’s Piriform’s CCleaner. I consider it a must-have if you’re like me and live online :P

Hope this helps ^^

Hi there! Thanks for taking the time to read this

So, in short, I have no gold but a lot of gems and nothing in the gem store that I want/didn’t buy already. So I figured I’d turn one into the other.
But when I press the “buy” button to get gold for gems on the Currency Exchange tab, the button gets pressed, the screen goes dark-ish and the gold and gem pictures up top sort of pulsate/flash.
But nothing else seems to happen and both currencies remain unchanged.

I tried relogging, rebooting and waiting 24 hours, on advice of my guildies. But this hasn’t really fixed the problem.

Is this problem just on my end, or are more people experiencing this? And does anyone know a fix?

Any help would be very much appreciated. ^^

Thanks!

Aww :x Guess I’ll have to find some new looks then.

Thanks for the quick answers guys ^^ Appreciate it

Hi there! I’ll try to make it short

I made a full set of ascended armor on my Human Necromancer. When I was done I noticed it’s Account Bound. So I figured I could use it on another character as well. Which is awesome of course. ^^

The problem is, I used transmutations to make the gear look different, and I’m not sure on how that works with switching characters.

My main concern is that I put the human racial looks on the armor, and my Elementalist is a Charr. What would happen if I make my Charr wear it? Will the Racial looks drop off, or would it look like Charr racial armor? Or would I just not be able to put it on? For all I know, I might even be able to make the gear look different on every character, with no cost or issues as I move it from toon to toon. But I just don’t know. :x

So, does anyone know what will happen? Maybe from another forum post or perhaps even personal experiences? I would really hate to waste my transmutation charges on testing this. They don’t come particularly cheap ^^’

+1
Would love to duel people.