Guild Wars 2

I’ve found this to be a problem as well. You’d have a small group of people holding 1 or 2 forts push the progress up to 80% then suddenly the map is overflowing with people.

This is good on a few breaches because there was enough players to take down all the bosses on several occasions.

However, it meant if you stayed on one map – it took a much longer time to get to a breach state since only 1 or 2 forts were doing 80% of the progress. (in addition to some forts being reclaimed and lost several times)

What I’d like to see is more incentive to stay on one map until breach. I don’t think altering the boss rewards would be the way to go – but providing assistance to players who like working toward a breach. Maybe allowing more stacks of Perseverance or adding damage bonuses to stacks of Perseverance so that dedicated map players can face invasion waves easier.

Redenaz.8631:

I actually prefer the male version, although they’re both a little too close to the Witch outfit, in my opinion.

Kinda a drag when male/female outfits are significantly different like this. They both have their fans, and they both have their fans who would like to have the other gender’s version available.

(Having said that, I think it’s awesome that there’s an outfit that can be earned in-game, and not through the gem store. I might not be a -huge- fan of these designs, since I already own/prefer to witch outfit, but it’s a sweet reward just the same.)

Really agree with this comment. When I first saw the outfits I thought the female version was too close to the witch set, while the male (despite also being a re-work of the witch set) looked much cooler and different imo.

It’s great it can be earned ingame, but it was disappointing that my female character is locked to a certain set – considering the style of each gender’s are significantly different.

I’ve been wondering the same thing. It’d be nice to know what the status on this music is given the other songs provided on Soundcloud were open to download.

Overall, found the beginner’s guide was not very accessible to the viewer base they might be aiming for. If you expect the viewer to know all the ins and outs of min/maxing before watching – what’s the point?

A big negative is that It watched like a school lecture; he only utilized the video to show off item and skill tool tips and then just narrated an unstructured dialogue about the profession.

I would have liked to see more depth of the different styles of play – since PvE encompasses Dungeons, Fractals, Open World, WvW, and Living Story. More focus on different weapon and build options (and why); and possibly – where to start with your builds (including trait distribution) and highlight some which players can play with; saying merely ‘condition’ or ‘damage’ isn’t necessarily beginner lingo.

This is also a “level 80 ranger guide” as well. Since, although some of the advice can be filtered down below 80, it focuses mostly on the armour and runes at level 80.

It does give some idea for what people should aim for, but suggesting that beginners pick up full offensive gear and then “not die” seems like a poor choice. I understand that might be optimal gear but its not practical to some of your audience.

Neither I guess?

Usually my partner and I log in with the idea of completing the dailies (especially when they contribute to a living story meta) however, we don’t necessarily go out directly seeking these. What we do with our playtime is partly decided on what choice of activity (“Thing”) will net us daily achievements in a timely fashion without having to restrict ourselves to particular play.

For example, with the Mad Kings Realm active, if the achievements are generic enough to be done in any zone (kill X mobs, do X events, kill X veterans) we will go there to knock them out in <30min while running around smashing everything.

If the achievements are more zone restrictive (or no living story meta) we jump on alts we are actively leveling and explore a zone which has the easiest/most achievements possible.

Notso.8431:

So I’ve been creating a lot of sylvari characters lately, and I noticed that there are only 5 different physique shapes [male and female], compared to the human’s 10.

Don’t start looking at other options then. Humans have double the number of hair styles as well. All the non-human races have significantly less customization options, which makes me feel there is a distinct human bias.

However, I am glad I was able to make a female sylvari physique. with a breast size closer to a B-cup. It made me so happy.

Therefore, having more options for people who want larger characters would be great too. More diversity!

Siphaed.9235:

One year later -2013- and the Clocktower is no longer a player race against other players. Instead, it’s you pitted against a bunch of floating misty balls. The game is set into the PvE-arena blueprint, so only sPvP gear is shown. It feels less enjoyable than last year because the competition pieces were removed while simultaneously taking out some of the PvE elements as well.
…
So, what’s other people’s feedback on this?
Do you like that it’s no reflective of sPvP instead of PvE?
Are you enjoying racing misty balls?
Do you feel that some of the atmosphere is lost?

It’s nice not seeing racism towards norn or charr and threads dedicated towards such this year. Players being harassed for their choice of character race was uncalled for last year, but it happened. It was addressed in a manner such that you can still actually see the players you are racing against.

Misty balls was an easier change then somehow getting rid of racists.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

I’ve found that there are actually a fair few decent players, more than enough to quickly fill out a pug, but the problem is that your group tends to fill up with bads more quickly than the goods can join.

How about a personal filter, like so:

1. Add “goods” to your ingame friends list.
2. Ask said “goods” + friends when putting together a dungeon party.
3. Put together party without fear of “bads”

Used the LFG feature to breeze through story modes of pretty much every dungeon. Found it decent for putting together 1-9 scale fractal groups.

Explorable dungeons are hit/miss; have been running TA Up path with decent outcomes. Not every run is perfect, but I’m getting way more dungeons completed now in comparison to ever.

Morrigan.2809:

That really does look like armour much more than a costume.

Question: last year we had the witch costume for female characters and the mad king one for males- does this mean we get a mystery costume for females?

I love my witch costume from last year and I still wear it on my first character

Both the Mad King Thorn costume and the Witch costume were available for both male and female characters.

So, considering there was two costumes last year there might be another – but not because of them being gender exclusive.

Went through the personal story leg “Wet Work”, and both Cinematic conversations would not load properly.

Either the character models would not load in or if they did they were semi-transparent. As well, the text would start overlaying each other and not stay in sync with the audio track.

My partner and I have been running through our personal stories together and we both had issues with this one.

I’ve attached some screenshot of what occurs during the Cinematics. Both of our computer systems do not have graphic issues with any other aspects of the game that we have encountered.

I’m not sure if it works with all profession combinations but – my friend and I did manage to complete The Grove’s Wintersday dungeon with 2 people. Ranger & Guardian.
Previously we did the Halloween dungeon with Ranger+Guardian+Engineer.

It would run faster with 5 people (I assume), but it can be completed. None of us are bleeding edge geared either.

I suppose I suggest trying it first.

Zebulous.2934:

I like my characters to be attractive. I like to put them in attractive clothing. I often feel that less is more…
Perhaps I am being premature; but several games, have had a very noisy groups of prudes. Being so vocal and outspoken they get attention, and as the level cap raised or new content was added, the female armor became more and more Concealing. I do not want that happening here!
…
I don’t want female humanoids to look like blocky robots, nuns, or bigfoot.
By all means let us continue to have large and interesting shaped cleavage windows, bare midriffs, and eye high skirts! Especially in new content!

Agree or disagree?

Disagree – the amount of skin a piece of clothing is revealing is not a direct measure of how attractive/appealing the set of armour is.

I’ve seen beautiful ballgowns and ugly bikinis.

Interesting clothing textures, accessories, and ability to dye particular sections of the armour is more important.

Awesome, thanks for posting a work-around for this. I tried the temp gender swap and it caused the glow to appear as described.

:)

Most of my art is all done by hand so pardon the scans! A have only a limited few that I’ve coloured via PC.

- Sylvari ranger – http://fav.me/d5mydow
- Sylvari styled as a Monster High doll – http://fav.me/d50zk3a & http://fav.me/d50h037
- Sylvari sweeping – http://fav.me/d4um0rk
- Sylvari with a plant bird – http://fav.me/d55qy2s
- Sylvari ritualist – http://fav.me/d56m6o0
- Sylvari ziplining – http://fav.me/d4qwtyj
- Sylvari ranger in action – http://fav.me/d5011p7

I haven’t drawn a complete sketch of my own sylvari characters. Best I have is a doodle I did testing out some of my new markers! – http://fav.me/d5g9l4a

More of my art is in my DeviantArt gallery – http://nefa-aria.deviantart.com/gallery/
Also working on a tumblr, but its mainly old stuff. I don’t mind if you share as long as you post credit/link.

Would rather see an option to disable. I don’t mind it being there, but having an option for others to remove as wanted would be nice.

A few problems I see with this:
-Warriors can use rifles
-You buy chests using gems, not real money (buying gems with real money is an optional game mechanic)

I believe in the situations you’re suggesting, the armour/items are either account bound or can be sold at the trading post. In the situation where the item is soulbound, I can see this being more of an issue. However, given you can sell anything you obtain through those methods, you can use the items to make gold.

Alsonia.4753:

You can but they still show up in Guild Chat. It’s not that I hate the person; but they spew so much crap out that it’s headache inducing to sift through for the WvW zones and updates.

Ugh. I didn’t know that the block wont totally filter the person out. In previous online games I’ve played, the block feature helped to tone out the blabbermouths/racists/haters that didn’t add anything to chat.

I almost feel this is a bug with the block feature. If someone is blocked you shouldn’t see any text input from them.

I guess you haven’t found Kileen’s grave/memorial site either… (which is cool when you do find it).

Sadly, I think they mentioned previously that the books were between the lore of the first and the second game. If you hadn’t finished the second book, there is numerous "spoiler"s regarding that as well.

Though, I did not know Dougal Keane was in Lion’s Arch. I shall have to go find him now!

Account bound would be a nice change, however!

I almost wish they were able to be deposited into a guild bank. I don’t WvWvW very much, but feel bad chucking the blueprints. Would be great if I could share with guildmates who participate in WvWvW more often.

I can’t say I’ve run into this problem in game. The guild I’m with is just a group of friends so the tag isn’t common.

However, I know some guilds (at least at launch) had several sub-guilds since they reached player caps. I believe they sync’d up the guild tags the same in this situation.

Currently, I think guilds may be forced to change their tags if they’re deemed offensive. Though, the option for guilds to change the tags voluntarily should be an option in general.

They’ll be adding a feature soon that will allow you to change the appearance of your character. If/when it is added it will most likely be through the gem store though.

Minimap/map party support icons

-Holding shift then clicking on the minimap or map will cause a temporary red circle to appear on party member’s maps
-Holding shift then clicking and dragging on the minimap or map will cause a white line to appear to party members
-Holding alt and then clicking on the minimap or map will cause a ‘personal waypoint’ marker to appear on map. This will stay on the map until you click on it to remove. It acts similar to the story green star icon.

Blackout.5384:

At the moment, unless its a DE champ, there is no reason to fight champion mobs unless you want a challenge. Personally i go from zone to zone looking for certain DE’s, like the fire ele in metrica, or the giant in diessa plateu, and i solo them. Why? Because its a nice challenge, the rewards arnt always great, but i find it fun.
Supposedly though this will be changing in the next few patches to make champ mobs drop better than average loot, perhaps even have special loot tables for certain champs, as anet specifically said they would like to bring back “boss hunting”.

I agree pretty much with what Blackout said. My friend and I go around fully exploring zones and taking on challenges. We occasionally kill champions which are not involved in dynamic events (sometimes they’re in the way of where we’re going) but never seem to get loot off them.

Sadly just a “hey look what we did!” adventure right now rather than getting special rewards for it.

Toble.2968:

Give us all back our accounts and fix the botting problem manually instead so innocent people don’t get their weekends ruined!

So at the moment you’re saying an automated process is coming up with a large amount of false positives. To remedy this, you’re suggesting they do the whole process manually.

Does this mean you’d only want them to ban based on player reports? Since I think with that method you’d still end up with false positives.

Once my inbox was full so the items my friend sent me didn’t appear. Check to make sure yours has space, then it should appear. (mailbox will appear red if it is full, and show 10/10 when opened)

If your friend is mailing you while in party, a fast way to do this is to click on the character portrait, select “mail” and then click on the item to mail. This will not require him to type in a name.

I’m looking forward to being able to do appearance changes in the future. However, one thing I would’ve liked to see is the ability to do two-tone colours (using more than one dye).

Having highlights would be neat, specially with the sylvari. Currently you can only choose for hair accessories with some of the styles.

Trenith.1832:

Sounds like a girl getting rammed.

You guys don’t understand. That video doesn’t display all of her vocals. Some sound EXACTLY like a sexual moan, unmistakable.

You can tell me anything you want, poke at me, whatever. I don’t care, that’s not why I’m here. Outside of the grunts… those sexual moans are annoying, tasteless, and should be removed. Big deal or not.

Edit: Oh, and I get out plenty. It truly is a matter of taste in my opinion.

Everyone has a right to their opinion as well. Saying that “we don’t understand” just because we don’t agree with you is not contributing positively to the discussion either.

xiv.7136:

Not all noises coming out of a woman are sex noises.

All this proves is that you watch too much naughty things on the internet, when men grunt while lifting heavy objects you don’t instantly think of naughty noises.

Sounds like a women’s grunt to me as well.

Spamming any sound will make it sound weird and out of context.

Thanks other rangers!

I dusted off my Axe/warhorn combo (after seeing it listed here several times) the other night for some PvE play. It is pretty fun, I’ll be using it more often.

Still using shortbow, will probably still use longbow in PvP though.

NoOneShotU.3479:

As a casual player I like multi-guild. I haven’t found any guild with enough for me to be loyal to. So my suggestion to you if you want people to represent,

1) Add more value.
2) Find out why they aren’t representing.

I’m in two guilds right now. One for WvW/Pvp, and when I do those activities I represent. When my RL friends are online and we want to use guild chat. (because I’m in TS with the first guild) I represent them.

If I’m pugging and instance or something, I’ll represent whoever I’m chatting with, because it frankly doesn’t matter. It’s a PUG. If you want me to represent, run the content with me.

You may think people are telling you to kitten off because they are immature, but it might be you aren’t really adding enough value.

From my experience, this is the usage the multi-guild system was designed for. A player can have different guilds with different focuses and switch between them when participating in the events. It’s the same thing that happened in the last mmorg I played with multi-guild ability.

Usually people end up with a social guild, a pvp guild, and a dungeon/endgame event guild. They swap between them based on what they’re doing.

Forcing guild loyalty is a player driven aspect of the multi-guild system it wasn’t designed for. Guild members shouldn’t be treated as influence gatherers, if you want them to -only- represent you that’s your prerogative, not the games’.

“This was not the case in GW1. There was a clear improvement on the aesthetic quality of the 15k armour vs. the 1k armour. Most of the FoW armour looked absolutely stunning (Ranger was the one exception due to being the only set that wasn’t symmetrical, though I realise that lack of symmetry bothers me more than most and obviously you can’t please everyone at the same time even IF studies show that humans are visually attracted to symmetry… but I digress).”

I’ll have to disagree there, in contrast to the 15k armour the Obsidian sets were pretty bland to me. Elementalists had some weird bodysuit, ditto with Necromancers but now with spikes! The only set I thought had some design merit was Ritualist.

The armours did symbolize a great deal of work, and weren’t as common as the other sets, so I could see the aspect of the work involved adding a layer of appeal.

Overall, I find a larger variety in the female character armour designs in GW2 than there was in GW1. However, I usually pan most of their male armour designs as being boring since they are more conservative than the females in many cases.

I guess the real question is, what is it in an armour set that makes it legendarily awesome looking to you? what are your choices as the best sets in guild wars 1 (outside of FoW armour)? what are the best from guild wars 2?

I can understand the people wanting new skins, but just saying you want “better” ones makes it hard for them to design it.

With all my characters I tend to carry every weapon they have skills for – which is silly because with my Ranger I mainly just use shortbow & longbow.

I guess I like having the longbow for distance and AoE, while I use the shortbow for condition stacking.

What weapons combos do you use? What weapons do you carry with you?

Toilieban.1409:

Nefaria,
Due to errors on Arena Nets side we are now suffering without being able to party with friends, nor participate in wvw.

I don’t understand why you feel the need to post here and attempt to abuse people.

I was trying to provide information to help people understand the situation but if you class that as abusive I shall refrain from doing that in the future.

I hope you’ll be able to play with your friends again soon.

My human necromancer, Nefa Aria.

My engineer! Kymiko. She’s in the Hall of Monuments’ leather set.

In dungeons/story instances the warning is longer (20 minutes) than if you’re in town or in a PvE zone.

Wipp.2786:

Last time i checked they said “after Nov. 1 you will need to wait 7 days to use server transferrs again”.

EDIT: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Free-World-Transfers-Limited-to-Once-Every-7-Days/first#post579275

Based on responses here, players assumed that transferring on October 31st (or late October 30th possibly) would make them exempt from the time wait increase as they already had a cooldown timer.

It did change over on November 1st, as the day/month cycles are done based on the GMT timezone.

Hierofan.2415:

Of all this discussion we can only notice that 1- Sylvari have genitalia
2-They only appear similar to humans

Sylvari having genitalia isn’t a surprise if you know about real plants. Since actual plants reproduce they do have sexual organs. Infact! There is a whole wikipedia page on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_sexuality

Sylvari having nipples could be explained by human mimicry, but their lack of nipples would make sense from a plant sexuality perspective, since they would probably not nurse their children.

The aspect of Sylvari covering themselves is a culture/social thing and not related to whether or not they have nipples. Actual human cultures have differing positions on whether it is acceptable for women to walk around with bare chests/certain level of clothing so Sylvari probably have some sort of social norms in regard to this.

However, Krait having boobs/nipples/bikinis is just weird but typical for fantasy environments I guess.

The swords are great for my monthly trek into WvWvW to gather my required 50 kills. The icons help indicate where the action is, so I can pop down there and participate.

If you’re looking just to swap the bag for a new one, you can drag the new one right onto the other without having to empty and manually remove it.

I personally swapped the F1-F4 keybinds to be ctrl+1-4. Since I played a game prior which used the alt and ctrl as modifier buttons, I found it easy to transition into.

However, if you prefer mouse buttons your tip is full founded. How many buttons do you usually bind on them?

Javen.5289:

I love the green outline. I think it’s perfectly subtle and helps a lot to figure out what’s selected.

It’d be nice if this outline disappeared when you hide the UI. Currently it sticks around, which is somewhat annoying when you’re trying to take a UI-free shot.

The technique people have suggested is making a new character with the same options. Then you obtain a white headpiece item, transmute the skin of the starting item to the white headpiece. This new headpiece can then be transferred back to your original necromancer.

Since the biography items are soulbound initially it can’t be traded immediately.

Came across NPCs from this guild while exploring Lornar’s Pass. We knelt at the Grenth’s Statue (at the Grenth’s Door skillpoint location) and an NPC jumped out and attacked us. See attached screenshot for the NPC name and some dialogue.

Earlier in the zone we came across an active event where we had to take down several members of this guild. I don’t know where exactly in the zone this was, but it was near the Lamentation Waypoint I believe. I forgot to take a screenie.

chakkaron.8549:

Even worse is that i got a response from a ticket saying it would be shipped in 5 days, but that was 10 days ago!

The response I got was five business days, which will therefore include only Monday-Friday.

I sent in a ticket regarding my order, as I ordered on the 29th of August. Got the response that there was some manufacturing delays when I posted a ticket October 9th. It was then shipped October 15th, and I received it October 23rd (Canada).

Overall, yes I got my soundtrack eventually. It has a signature and is in one piece.
If you’re having issues/concerns with your order, contact DirectSong!

Blackwolfe.5649:

Component: Shows any item that is a component for another, for example a consumable that is also a component of another cooking recipe.

I would also like to see this. Currently, the filters for crafting levels hide recipes of components used in higher level recipes.

They changed the frequency of harvesting Vanilla Beans in the Oct. 22nd update.
“Increased the chance to get vanilla beans from herb nodes in the Tarnished Coast and Steamspur Mountains.”
http://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/info/news/Update-Notes-October-22-2012/first#post506037

I’m guessing the change was not large enough to address your concern?

It’s all Guild Wars 2 music. The track listing can be found here:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Soundtrack

I’m also disappointed there is no instrumental Fear Not This Night.

Sylvari necromancer in Ghosts of Ascalon was Killeen.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Killeen [Book spoilers]

She was actually questioned in the book about why she practices necromancy. I don’t have the book on me to quote directly, but the gist of it is that death fascinated her since the Sylvari did not have extensive knowledge in that area. So she was mostly studying death, rather than “worshipping” it as necromancy is occasionally depicted.

In Guild Wars 2 scope, necromancers in general are seen to just study “death magic”, rather than it being an art on its own. Asura treat it as just another type of magic.