Guild Wars 2

I’m evidently in the minority, but I really like it. I hope they do not remove it. That said, I would be fine with a graphical toggle for those that do not like it. That way those that enjoy it can keep it, and those that do not can turn it off.

They will likely be for sale in the gem store later on. Similar to what they do with gliders now. I love that griffon too, and would adore getting my hands on it eventually. I don’t think it’s a flying mount though, as people are suggesting. I think it’s more likely that it might be a hybrid. A mount that functions as a mount, but also functions as a glider.

I love it too, and I would rather it stay. I’m fine with a checkbox that gives people the option to see it or not, but please do not remove it entirely ala the Sylvari pollen effect from beta.

Hear, hear. I play Sylvari and Charr exclusively, and I adored Trahearne. Your post was well written, and I agree. RIP my friend and older brother.

I would love this. I grew used to this feature first in Rift, and then in Wildstar. Heck, even EQ2 lets you save different AA builds and swap between em now.

Right, I adore pretty much everything about that idea. As for models and such, it’s clear work has been going on in the background. Compare Izu’s model in the HoT zones with the Tengu stationed on the wall in old Tyria. His animations are better, his eyes are animated separately from his head, etc. The Tengu in old Tyria are much more wooden, and less animated.

Though I’m biased in all this, I’ve wanted playable Tengu for years. I would even pay seperately just for them.

I would play a Tengu even if they were just released without any personal story, and all we got on em was the living story. Heck, I would even buy them separately ala what EQ2 now does with races. I love them as a race, and have been hoping for years. And yes, I saw the updated models in the HoT zones and how they’re actually animated and such rather than a basic model, and it also gave me hope that we’ll get them for a race eventually.

My thoughts are basically the same. Since Primordus is the dragon that most directly effects them, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Tengu pop up. Either as an in-game NPC ally, or a playable race. The Tengu in Kessex Hills talks about Primordus already having his burrows for his minions under their wall.

As I understand it, if you log in on a vanilla account you will unlock it for future use, just not be able to PLAY it until you acquire HoT. So yes, if you don’t log in while it’s going you will likely have to buy it later, but you can still unlock it with a non expansion account while it’s on.

We had the same problem with the moth wing backpack and glider. Beautiful glider that was dyeable, and ugly backpiece where you’re stuck with a bright red colour that clashes with everything.

Well, when I first did it I understood that bisecting her with the beam was how you drained the skill. What wasn’t readily apparent was that you needed use use countermagic for the beam not to leash and for you not to have the slow effect. The way it’s set up until then counter magic was used to just kill the bloodstones. The elemental’s shields were easily nullified without using it. I think a lot of the confusion is coming from the fact that people are picking up the beam and running it SLOWLY out and hoping to get her in it before the beam leashes.

You need to use the counter magic ability. It makes this fight so much easier, and the one after it is impossible without it. Basically when you use it the beam from the bloodstone no longer leashes and you can run at normal speed. You use it, run outside her circle that she is doing, and then run with her to kill her shield. But yes, use counter magic, run outside, and run parallel to her. Do not just try to run the beam out normally.

Charr player here. If this were an option then I would be okay with it, but I’m against an outright change. I actually LIKE the way my Charr stands. I find it different than the other races and pleasing in that fact. But hey, I’m also for more choices if people want them. Just so long as you leave my kitty alone.

I bought it, but was sorely unimpressed with the(lack of) animation. It feels almost unfinished to me. Very wooden, almost like it started loading and then froze halfway through.

Here’s my other Sylvari. Just because I wanna show off how pretty these gliders really are.

The others are correct. It’s because there are no backpack dye slots. I feel your pain though, my Sylvari has a colour scheme round the same as yours, and the red wings clash something horrid with it. But hey, at least they make absolutely beautiful gliders.

All the GMs I’ve seen have a giant Anet logo over their heads too, but obviously I can’t see the context.. there may have been no sighting of the actual person.

They were called out, yes. So far that I know of there has been no response.

Sigh, I like the whole living story concept, don’t get me wrong, but whatever happened to the Elder Dragons? I mean… really? It’s been a year since we down Zhaitan and we haven’t heard hide nor hair of the others same some vague rumours. I for one would love some story content that actually led to us defeating one of these, or maybe learning something about them. It feels like all the living story stuff is just base fluff content with a bit of lore heaped on top. I mean, don’t get me wrong as it’s fun, but it’s getting tiresome. If it’s leading somewhere I would like to see where… Otherwise I would love more to do with the Elder Dragons. It doesn’t need to be a dragon that we haven’t heard about. I would even take Jormag getting feisty and we have to beat off a new champion or something. Just something to further the base story rather than side quests.

I dunno, maybe Scarlet has to do with the nature dragon and I’ll end up eating my words. shrugs

I saw this, it frustrated me to no end since every single piece of armour I have is transmuted. It’s kinda irksome to be able to sort through my bank with this bug the way it is. It’s like oh, I wonder what this looks like agai… crap.

ye-es, but they can’t be that much better than a pair of exotics at 80. I havn’t checked their stats, so I could be wrong.

All you need to do, if it works like every other item in the game anyway, is use a trans stone to stick it on a lower level item you can equip. I was using t3 armour on my baby thief that way.

I run through this dungeon rather quickly at least once a day. There are cut scenes, yes, but a lot of the dialogue is done while you’re moving. Or, in one case, during a boss fight (which in my opinion is the best part of the dungeon, love that guy). Even with a pug who is speeding through it you should have no trouble whatsoever seeing the story. It’s a very strait forward, though entertaining, dungeon.

This is what I use. It’s the Leather Coat. That’s literally what it’s called. It has a flap in the back so that the tail clipping isn’t quite as obvious.

Er we had both the glow AND the pollen in the first beta with the sylvari, the glow was broken in the subsequent betas though..

I for one loved it, and it didn’t hurt my system at all. I really wish they would bring it back, maybe with a toggle for those that don’t want to see it? But yeah, I reported the as a bug many a time before I realised it was intended. I used to run around in beta just to admire the effect.

I know the devs said there would be no dragons, but I’m pretty sure this has to do with their followers at least. For instance, the Charr refugees in Black Citadel are telling us how the Flame Legion have driven them from their posts. I haven’t checked Hoelbrak, but perhaps the refugees there are saying the same of the Sons of Svanir?

Is that taking one kit or two? For example. Do I use a kit, switch to male, save, and use another kit to switch back to female? Or is it using one kit and simply toggling genders real quick before saving? My poor little ele looks so dull without her glow.

Yeah this happened to me too, though I just contacted support and they refunded my gems. They just suggested waiting till it was fixed before I tried it again.

Malhanjia.1452:

The kits are slightly bugged, I’ve used two on both my Sylvari alts just to change some minor details but for some reason the glow doesn’t show in the make over tab on my female Sylvari but it does on my male. I had to pick a colour on female, accept the change and hope it suited my tonal scheme which luckily it did.

In response to OP, my main guy has the violet night and a purple dusting skin tone. I used the light blue glow at max, I think it was called River (or similar). Hope this helps

I really like this one.

Sylvari in Beta had a pollen effect coming off of them. It was like the Pale Tree’s effect but much tamed down. If you want to see it you can go to Briarthorn in Caledon forest and disguise yourself as a nightmare court member. For some reason they took it out of the game and it still pisses me off as that was one of my favourite parts of teh race.

I actually agree with this. I’ve played Rift for the last year and a bit and I’ve been spoiled by their patch notes. I would love to see Anet do something similar.

I get a little twitch everytime someone calls the Claw of Jormag, Jormag himself…

Anyway my current favourite champion is the Shatterer… least favourite being Tequatl.

Aye, I have to agree. That’s pretty much what my game looks like.

For my charr I would love /roar and /purr.

Right, I know I started a topic on this already, and I’m sorry for doing so again, but I contacted support and they told me to start a thread, so here I am.

Sylvari pollen is bugged, and has been since release. It shows when you wear a disguise such as Nightmare Court, but not on your character normally. Not sure what to say about this that I haven’t already said in my thread in the Sylvari subforums…

This is one thisn eq2 did well with the Iksar eventually. Originally the tails all clipped through armour/mounts ala Charr tails, but they fixed it and now the armour either has holes or sorta sticks to the top of the tail looking much more natural.

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=490135&post_id=5450444

The Iksar on the left is how some of the armour looks with tails, the Iksar on the right isn’t actually a bug but the tail curling down and between the legs to be more realistic with the cloaks and not clip through.

They even made it so tails curl over backs of the mounts instead of sticking right through, though that isn’t an issue here.

Like I said, I tried to get a picture but it just is so subtle that is doesn’t come across well. Anyway, here is my little Ele in her Nightmare Court disguise, it’s the glowy stuff puffing off her. The picture doesn’t do it justice though.

Soo…. I tried to get some screenshots but the event is subtle so it doesn’t screen well. However, for those that wish to see it there is a heart in Caledon Forest that transforms you in the a Nightmare Court member. Take your Sylvari to that heart and wear the disguise. You can see the pollen while it is on, at least I can.

Yup, same here. My ranger is stuck, but other characters can log in fine.

Yeah I bug reported it. What’s even stranger is that if you back up they’re the right way. :P

Nythaenae for my ranger and Tyrvaenal for my mesmer.

This is my little Dusk girl.

Go talk to the Pale Tree in the Grove, it was kinda like that but toned down a lot. She has Super Pollen, we had the baby version.

catqeer.1954:

i never saw it and i was in all 3 beta weekends

It was only in BWE3 and in subsequent stress tests, and even then it was only if you were zoomed in far enough. If you were zoomed all the way out it didn’t show on you, or on other Sylvari.

Odd thing about taking it out. I originally thought it was a bug since you can still see it in certain situations, least you could when I did the quests. Both the quests that gave me disguises (nightmare court and human bandit) showed my pollen, it was only when I was my beautiful self that nothing shows.

I didn’t have issues with it on my computer, but I can see where others would have. Simple fix though. Make it like shadows.., if a person want to see it turn it on for all characters, if not leave it off for all characters. That way everyone is happy, those that hate it and those that love it.

Title says it all, where’s our pollen? Is it a bug that it’s gone, is it intentional, is it coming back? It was small, but one of my favourite things about the race.

For those that don’t know, Sylvari in beta used to have a particle effect around them, similar to what the Pale Tree has now but toned down as to be more subtle. It would gather about you when you stood still, and poof off you when you walked. It was beautiful, and I miss it.

Also, even if it’s not full delete your old messages. I was having this problem as well even though my mailbox said it wasn’t full, deleting messages helped and the backlog flooded in.

Why would they take it out? It was one of my favourite parts of the race. I’m still clinging on to bug since I see it in my nightmare court disguise. If anyone has any official news whether this is intentional I would love to hear it, otherwise I’m running the latest beta drivers on an Nvidia 570.

No, I mean the pollen. You could see it in Beta, I can see it when it sticks me in a Nightmare Court disguise or even a human bandit disguise, I just can’t see it when my character is normal. It’s a sorta sparkly cloud that flakes off you when you walk. Hasn’t been in since release. I hope it’s a bug and that they didn’t get rid of it…

The illumination is bio-luminescense, completely different.

Ello, Sylvari pollen is bugged, and has been since headstart. It doesn’t show up at all, which is a shame since I rather liked it. What’s even more odd is that it shows up when my character is put into a disguise that is humanoid in nature for a quest, but not on her normally. Can I please have my pollen back? Pretty please?