Guild Wars 2

I can absolutely understand both sides of the argument. Anet wants to adress the criticism of not delivering a “living” world as they promised.
But on the other hand, you also promised us that you would deliver new legendary weapons. And now you said it´s on indefinite hold. Do you mean the same indefinite hold as in terms of fractal leaderboards? Like then you could have at least said, that you scrapped the project and that we should be thankful for the 4 we got. Cause then we will never get anymore.

Until then i am still curious, but also quite sour about this decision

I think there was a Dulfy guide once, but i can´t find it anymore. Besides that, I suggest you try to learn your class, possibly unlock as many heroes as possible and check builds for them.
You can find many team builds here:
http://pvx.wikia.com/wiki/Category:All_working_PvE_builds

I strongly suggest to get your heroes as your main healing/support specced. Something like Discordway could work, but it requires you to have some heroes from NF and EotN unlocked.

But with a good team setting it´s pretty much soloable

No.
/15CharrWarband

So am i correct to assume, that you HAVE to be on some kind of VOIP, to be able to even keep up with the commander?
In a game that doesn´t have that feature built in? Feels kind of wrong to me

I´d love to have more armor that doesn´t clip with the tail or even the hair you choose

GW1: 10541 hours
GW2: 4213 hours

So easily GW1. But that 7 years at the point when GW2 was released. So maybe you should ask in 5 years again. Then you can honestly compare

It would be great if they would re-release this or release an updated version of it.

You can buy +5 AR infusions with fractal relics. The +1 Infusions that drop from the chests, can be refined by an artificer. You´ll need to get your artificer to 100 to be able to refine them.
And these Infusions can only be applied to Backpacks and rings.
For everything else you need to buy the +5 Infusions from FotM or craft some in the Forge.

I don´t care about all of these changes, but i want that option to disable all tags on my map. It´s annoying to have blocked every possible commander i have ever seen and still being bothered by their tags on my map. Those things cover up far to much, started from nodes, PoIs, WP or even your group mates. If you really want them to be visible at all times, then at least make their tags secondary in proirity. That way The tag would HAVE to hide behind any group dots, PoIs, WP, Nodes or anything.
But at the moment i just try to stay away from them.
And yes i know that this may seem like an injustice to many commanders, but you have far to many trolls and attention seekers in your rows. Once that is sorted out i may be able to be convinced to change my view on it.

Heya Gaile,

Reported my Account to be hacked. So far it is under further investigations. Was reported 3 days ago and nothing happened yet. It would be great if you could have a look into it please

Ticket Number: 581571:Hacked Account

Êasiest perma swiftness in the game? That´s engi. Speedykits traited, grenade and bomb kit is perma swiftness

I think the charr would first take Ebonhawke. In terms of lore it is still a ruin. Even tho this is not depicted in the game. But the books describe the walls of Ebonhawke burnt down by Kralkatorrik. So there´s not much that´d stop a Charr army from marching in there for a picnic.

And i am still curious what the asura would do if the Charr would simply take over the gates. I mean how many of those little creatures are there to guard a gate? And as far as we know there´s no central controling mechanism. So i´d say that 2 warbands could easily secure the asura gates to open a way for an entire army to march through.

No. Especially big characters, like Norn or Charr are profiting from this change. It makes their life a lot easier. And perhaps they want to be zoomed in as well, to be able to see the field AND the detail on their armor. Just saying that all these big character players should just suck it up and don´t care about armor and detailing, like you do, is just rude.

The “Show only English” Feature is depending on the client language, not the chat language. It´s the best you can get at the moment.

I agree totally with OP. Myself being a Charr pplayer since launch it gets sad to see all these shiny armors on Human/Norn, somtimes even Sylvari, but we charr get some clunky stretched version of nothing close :S

And towards RoyalPredator: I don´t think GW1 was all the way better with armor skins. And it makes a lot more sense that different materials(cloth,leather,metal) are getting dyed in a bit different way. Even in real life i can use the same colour and the results will be different on these 3 materials.
And there are dungeon related skins, they just don´t drop but can be bought with tokens

Sube Dai.8496:

Living story was a colossal failure, even in revenue terms. They should have just worked on new, unique zones that players could work through at their own pace.

They still could have had gem store items unique to these zones too, and players buy those items if and when they need them.

As it stands I missed most of LS season 1, and I can never play that content again. Stupid, stupid, stupid…

Wait, do you seriously request that they will put the entire game on hold, just because they didn´t know you weren´t playing? And that way you want them to work against a core part of their philosophy, which they used to advertise the game with?

They told all of you that it was a living, changing world. And even if i missed huge parts of the story as well, they listened to players like us and introduced ways of discovering that part of story and lore as well.
And honestly, how strange would it be if we could walk into Kessex Hills these days and still enter the tower of nightmares? Scarlet´s dead, but nevermind, here you go and she´ll trick you once again?

There´s no way they will implement an expansion anywhere soon. Simply because it would make no sense for them to launch an expansion, while a large amount of chinese players haven´t gone through the core game. And they wouldn´t want to be called a discriminating company for launching content only in the EU and NA. Excluding the chinese people now could really break their necks over there.

Taygus.4571:

sinzer.4018:

Spoj The Second.7680:

sinzer.4018:

Interestingly English isn’t actually the official language (im defining official as de jure, i.e. in law) of the UK. There is only one de jure language in the UK and that’s in Wales and it’s Welsh.

I don’t understand how people can be confused at the use of the US flag to designate the English language. This is the case all over the internet. I could understand if you were new to the internet but chances are if you’re playing an MMO you’re not.

Its not confusion of what the language is. Its confusion of whether you are seeing the right groups. I dont expect to see US flags while playing on EU. Its as simple as that. And i cant imagine its hard for them to do a separate and more relevant flag for the different client.

Also from a personal opinion i find the US flag hideous and would rather not see it. xD

Tbh, i’d prefer a simple ‘Eng’ instead of a flag.

Btw, that’s how i see the union flag and st. george’s cross :p

This,
Why use flags at all. Not everyones knows what flag to associate with which country/language.
Just use “Eng”, “De”, “Fr” etc….. and leave the flags out of it.

Yes i think this would be the best solution. It gets quite confusing if you´re playing on EU servers and suddelny see an american flag pop up in the LFG tool.

Leave the chef outfit as it is now!

And it is my favourite race as well. And we do deserve more love and care from Anet

First Logan is a member of the Stone warband, as he got a blood legion amulet from Rytlock.

For the norn storyline, you´re a temporary forced member as you managed to loose their tank. Not necessarily the way to become a “honorary” member

Hannelore.8153:

Kalavier.1097:

Khandarus.2738:

Get used to it, they have flat out said at a panel when asked, “There are just to little people who play Charr for us to give resources too”

Source? Part of the reason I ask is because I see plenty of charr characters running around Vigil keep :P.

Judging by my experience over the last year, I would say only 1 in 10 players is a Charr, and its almost always a male Charr. Female Charr are extremely rare.

Yes Female Charr are rare. But lately i got the feeling that there is an increase in female Charr. At least on Deso

Khandarus.2738:

Get used to it, they have flat out said at a panel when asked, “There are just to little people who play Charr for us to give resources too”

Sadly they keep coming up with this. It´s really disappointing for everybody who play a Charr to be let down like that. And it´s possibly the worst possible PR for the race as well.
Maybe, with a bit of luck, they will realize that one day.

Tman.6349:

Name.9625:

Maybe another suggestion: try running arah p4 with 2 players on characters below lvl 30. There you have your need for protection. But be advised that it may take a couple of hours to get them through the entire dungeon

how many players have made it to Cursed Shores on a lvl 30 char. There are a few professions actually capable of this, but 1 hit on the way you’re guarenteed to die. I would love to do Arah with anyone who is actually capable of making it there with a level 30 char b/c that says a LOT about them tbh.

Well we just escorted a lvl 23 ele and a lvl 25 warrior to cursed shore. If you know the ways and have a mes or a thief to escort them, that´s pretty easy. But even without you just have to kill everything on the way.
And of course in there you need a lot of patience

Try ele. You get a lot of skills and you get a really decent knowledge about some of the game mechanics. Plus you should find a spot in nearly every dungeon/FotM group

Maybe another suggestion: try running arah p4 with 2 players on characters below lvl 30. There you have your need for protection. But be advised that it may take a couple of hours to get them through the entire dungeon

I can see why this new system may make sense to some people, but let´s be honest: Hpw annoying is it, that you have to preview every piece of gear linked in the chat? Only because the name of the item in the chat doesn´t match the appearance.
This is basically a QoL thread, that confuses a lot of people, me included, and i still think the old system was better in that way

In the Ghosts of Ascalon there is Gullik Oddsson, who is getting beaten up by a female Charr Ember Doomforge quite badly. Yes he might be drunk at this point, but even with an axe as a weapon, Ember is said to gut him and Gullik is just saved because of the sylvari Killeen intervening.
So i guess that a 1v1 between a Charr and a Norn is always dependant of the situation. And we can´t really predict an outcome

Check your audio settings mate. There should be a slider for Dialog Volume. Turn that down and you won´t hear NPCs and Players saying anything. This might help with your problem, unless you´re going through the PS again, then you may have to turn it up again with every cutscene :P

I support the point of OP

It´s the most awesome feature of the update. Imagine being in a country, but wanting to play in a completely different language with people from different countries. And then Anet puts you into your home country servers. Aweful

Well it seems like this is going to be solved now with the new chat option. Thanks for that Anet

Halvorn.9831:

Name.9625:

Halvorn.9831:

Algreg.3629:

Name.9625:

Well i am a native german, but i have always stuck to the english speaking servers.
The current possibility of being put onto a german server is very much against my interest and therefor i see it a bit different.
At least for the german speaking part of the community i can say that a lot of them seem to ignore any languages except for german. Even if people group up with them and try to get them to speak english they refuse and ignore it.
It my have been that it was/is the same for french/spanish communities, but i can´t tell because i can´t read those languages.

I second that, the day I will be forced into a german speaking environment by IP is the day I will quit. As for our countrymen in international groups and maps: EVERY german has english as a first foreign language right after elementary school, the trend is even going younger. Ignorance is no excuse here, it is just arrogance.

I have to disagree with you.
1) It is not the first foreign language for every pupil.
2) Claiming that people are to arrogant to talk in english itself is quite arrogant; I am able to fluently speak english, having worked for an english company for several years, knowing a lot of english people, I am the guy doing english translations in my company. I chose to play this game because it is available with a german UI, I chose to play on a german server because it is my mother tongue. I cannot see something arrogant in there, only something self-identifying.

Well i am speaking about the servers that were not marked as German Servers. And out of the same reason you chose a german UI, i decided to go with an english one. And i always stayed on the english/international servers. Tho with the new update i am put back into megaservers crowded with germans.
And i can´t say that i like that.

Which can be summed up easily: both of us do not like to be forced into an environment we originally decided to stay away from. ANet failed on both of us.

They most definitely did. And with the current state of the megaservers i find it absolutely outrageous that i would have to transfer over to an NA server to get back into that kind of community i want to be in. Not only considering the costs for transfering 2 accounts, but also the lag.

Halvorn.9831:

Algreg.3629:

Name.9625:

Well i am a native german, but i have always stuck to the english speaking servers.
The current possibility of being put onto a german server is very much against my interest and therefor i see it a bit different.
At least for the german speaking part of the community i can say that a lot of them seem to ignore any languages except for german. Even if people group up with them and try to get them to speak english they refuse and ignore it.
It my have been that it was/is the same for french/spanish communities, but i can´t tell because i can´t read those languages.

I second that, the day I will be forced into a german speaking environment by IP is the day I will quit. As for our countrymen in international groups and maps: EVERY german has english as a first foreign language right after elementary school, the trend is even going younger. Ignorance is no excuse here, it is just arrogance.

I have to disagree with you.
1) It is not the first foreign language for every pupil.
2) Claiming that people are to arrogant to talk in english itself is quite arrogant; I am able to fluently speak english, having worked for an english company for several years, knowing a lot of english people, I am the guy doing english translations in my company. I chose to play this game because it is available with a german UI, I chose to play on a german server because it is my mother tongue. I cannot see something arrogant in there, only something self-identifying.

Well i am speaking about the servers that were not marked as German Servers. And out of the same reason you chose a german UI, i decided to go with an english one. And i always stayed on the english/international servers. Tho with the new update i am put back into megaservers crowded with germans.
And i can´t say that i like that.

Mork vom Ork.2598:

Algreg.3629:

Name.9625:

Well i am a native german, but i have always stuck to the english speaking servers.
The current possibility of being put onto a german server is very much against my interest and therefor i see it a bit different.
At least for the german speaking part of the community i can say that a lot of them seem to ignore any languages except for german. Even if people group up with them and try to get them to speak english they refuse and ignore it.
It my have been that it was/is the same for french/spanish communities, but i can´t tell because i can´t read those languages.

I second that, the day I will be forced into a german speaking environment by IP is the day I will quit. As for our countrymen in international groups and maps: EVERY german has english as a first foreign language right after elementary school, the trend is even going younger. Ignorance is no excuse here, it is just arrogance.

This is not true. You can still pick Latin or French as the 1st foreign language in a lot of schools, then continue with e.g. Spanish as the 2nd. And some decades ago it was possible to get your Abitur without ever attaining a single English lesson.

Also there are a lot of people aged 30+ that play this game. Their last English lesson (if they even had any) is decades ago and let’s be honest, if you never use a foreign language outside of school, you forget it very fast.
Being forced to speak a language they don’t know or hardly remember makes most people feel very uncomfortable or embarassed. Especially when there was no need to do it before the patch.

Well I tend to disagree. I am located close to the french border, so my first foreign language was french in elementary school. Tho with the approach of the 5th grade i was taught english up to my A-levels. During that period you usually have the choice of another foreign language.
What you mean is the situation when you approach some of the schools that teach greek/latin from grade 5 and then switch to english on grade 7. Tho during my school time english was taught on every school in the entire country.

And for the point that some may had their last english lesson 15+ years ago i can´t really say that i am sorry. If they don´t understand english while playing with the possibilities of encountering non-german speakers, then they have more than one reason to learn it. I generally find it hard to believe that some people here in germany don´t understand or speak any english at all. It may be broken at times and very very basic, but it still gets the point.

But i stand with Algreg here, the day Anet is forcing me into a native german Megaserver i´ll stop playing. Even in GW1 i was already not playing in the german parts of the game and i deliberately continued that in GW2.

Krait Witch
/15 Charr Warband

Well i am a native german, but i have always stuck to the english speaking servers.
The current possibility of being put onto a german server is very much against my interest and therefor i see it a bit different.
At least for the german speaking part of the community i can say that a lot of them seem to ignore any languages except for german. Even if people group up with them and try to get them to speak english they refuse and ignore it.
It my have been that it was/is the same for french/spanish communities, but i can´t tell because i can´t read those languages.

Grenadier
/15 Charr Warband

Dragon´s Tooth
/15 Charr Warband

Troll Slayer
/15 Charr

Elite Skill

/15 charr

Deactivated Dredge Mine

Rava Skrittcoat

Hafdan The Black

One of you needs to transfer over to the region of the other. Sadly this restriction keeps a lot of players from guesting over and playing with their friends.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Flissy.4093:

The issue was it was an “improved” (subjective) version of Human T3, for cheaper & usable to all.

Exactly. I wouldn’t mind having cultural armor available to each and every race. After all it’s CULTURAL armor, and NOT RACIAL armor.

Lonami.2987:

(No one has 15 characters, 3 of each race of each weight).

orly? I have 17 characters.

Lol yes. You´re really trying to tell me that an Asuran Ele can be part of a Blood Legion Warband CULTURE?

Seriously? There are reasons why those are called Cultural, because it does mean that it is separated to the cultures available in each race. And if you check for the names, they give pretty much of a cultural name for each of those groups.

Yahala Scribepaw

If you need karma you can either hop onto a train in WvW/EotM or do Fractals approx 10 lvls below your reward level.
For gold, i´d say The FGS Train/Queensdale Champ Train depending on your lvl
Otherwise you may want to run dungeons and possibly the meta event train

Remember that MF only afects the drops you get from Monsters. So no chests or champ loot bags will be affected by it.

Ember…. burning so nicely in the air

Fractals are designed for lvl 80 characters. And you should be level 80 when you enter them in PUGs.

Kaboomium