Guild Wars 2

Getting this as well, at least once per cutscene, sometimes 2-3 times. Makes me want to delay doing my PS on this new Sylvari character (came back for HoT) until it’s fixed. Tried changing various audio settings, even did a full-reinstall of the game in case it was a corrupted sound file, no change.

Hopefully we’ll get an official acknowledgement of the issue soon, though looking back I see threads about this issue stretching back two years, so I’m not sure if it’s a bug that keeps coming back, or one that’s never been fixed.

2 years ago

FFXIV handled this real well I thought in that the armor didn’t really change in appearance much from one gender to the other. If something was a chainmail bikini on a woman, it was also a chainmail bikini on a man.

Norbs Elementalist. He fits right alongside Norbs Guardian, Norbs Thief, and all the rest.

My creativity is boundless.

TheDaiBish.9735:

Why is it with ponies?

That part is confusing me.

Ponies make things 20% cooler.

It might be his cat playing.

Gehenna.3625:

So, people are upset because of a hat?

Am I getting this right?

Apparently it’s a thing now.

I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

He’s trying to make her I think:

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111102195358/fairytail/images/thumb/b/b7/Erza_Anime_S2.png/247px-Erza_Anime_S2.png

Are you kitten me? You can’t even write kitten? Kitten this kitten, kitten kitten puppy kitten right in your pony.

Zenyatoo.4059:

Ok, found some pictures

Thanks for finding the pics. I went ahead and did a video showing the folding animation. It’s hard to see with all the arm movement but you can pick it out eventually. The little cogwheels on the hilt constantly rotate.

http://youtu.be/vyZkx6kEOK0

Wreck.2634:

Norb.4253:

Zenyatoo.4059:

Norb.4253:

ThiBash.5634:

The Order of Whisper daggers supposedly fold when you put them away…

O.o

I’d like some confirmation on this if anyone has em – if so I’d consider actually buying the things now.

I dont have them, but I can confirm the folding/unfolding.

basically the blade has like 3 segments on it, when you draw them, the blade unfolds to its full length. When you sheath it, it folds back up again

Huh, cool. I think I’ll actually pick up a pair now.

Thanks for the info!

Can you post a video/pic when you get them?

Sure, I’ll get something up tonight or tomorrow.

Zenyatoo.4059:

Norb.4253:

ThiBash.5634:

The Order of Whisper daggers supposedly fold when you put them away…

O.o

I’d like some confirmation on this if anyone has em – if so I’d consider actually buying the things now.

I dont have them, but I can confirm the folding/unfolding.

basically the blade has like 3 segments on it, when you draw them, the blade unfolds to its full length. When you sheath it, it folds back up again

Huh, cool. I think I’ll actually pick up a pair now.

Thanks for the info!

ThiBash.5634:

The Order of Whisper daggers supposedly fold when you put them away…

O.o

I’d like some confirmation on this if anyone has em – if so I’d consider actually buying the things now.

80 Elementalist (D/D mostly)
425 hours / 305 deaths (1,730 W3 kills)

I don’t feel like I’m working harder than other classes to achieve the same result. For me, swapping attunements constantly just feels natural and has kept combat interesting from level one. I took a warrior to 80 but after rolling this D/D, I have a hard time playing alts because none of them (save engineer) fit as comfortably as my ele. I feel like I should be doing more when I’m playing them, my fingers feel too idle during combat.

Playing the ele reminds me of playing Magicka – the better your muscle memory and speed the more you’ll get out of it, at least when it comes to D/D. I find myself attacking larger and larger packs of Risen and soloing bigger and badder champs just to see if I can, and in W3 I feel comfortable roaming solo or in a group/zerg.

QFQFASA

I was doing 20 arcane for awhile and got used to the slightly slower attunement cooldown, so I’ll probably be going back to my old build (0/10/10/30/20). I might play with 10 more into air for Bolt to the Heart since I’ve gotten used to not having 10 earth, see if that 20% is worth it for wvw.

D/D btw.

I bought 10 keys to open BLC during the halloween even, and 10 consortium chests this time. I won’t be buying any of these chests anymore for future events, I’d be better off converting to gold and just buying what I want.

The paranoid part of me is wondering if they’re now waiting until there’s a lull between new gem shop content before releasing the makeover kits to increase gem sales during which would otherwise be a low period.

Someone is always going to be left out, what Anet is trying to do is make the one-time events available to as many people as possible. This time I’m going to be missing out, but that’s ok. I know it’s just a game and the best time for me may be the worst time for someone else.

Besides, if Halloween was any indication, the one-time event is likely a cutscene of some kind followed by a DE, and that DE (or something similar) will probably run a few times for the rest of the day.

Gisei.5749:

Acension.9270:

Gisei.5749:

If they add in-combat weapon swapping, that would double the number of skills we can use, which is idiotic in every sense. I wouldn’t mind out of combat switches, but other classes would also need access to a similar feature for a 3rd or 4th weapon set.

And Elites, I pray for an elite I can use. As it is now, I don’t actually ever use my elites, ever, at all, not even occasionally.

we already have out of combat weapon swapping, we just go into our bag and change our weapon lol. So why would they need to add out of combat weapon swapping?

Because according to popular opinion, investing two seconds of one’s time in opening your bags is an unacceptable hassle that should be removed as soon as possible.

Am I the only one that doesn’t open my bags? I just hit “H” and the weapons I need are in the upper left corner. A quick double click and I’m swapping between D/D and Staff in an instant.

As far as what I hope for the patch, most of what has already been stated. Some fixes for skills, RTL especially (either give us an ability to cancel it/explode early, add evasion to it, etc…), and that’s about it.

The 5-point minor traits for each of the elements will linger for a bit. So for example, 5 points in water grants Soothing Mists that regenerates health every second. The Lingering Attunements means that Soothing Mist will linger for a bit after you’ve already left water.

Gisei.5749:

Really the same number of key-binds any any other profession. Binding your 5 fire skills also binds the 5 skills of every other attunement. So, 5 key binds in all…

The Ele involves a lot of stance dancing and heavy skill usage. Mastering these makes it one of the best, if not best, profession in just about any situation.

This.

I played a warrior to 80 and switched to D/D Ele. I can do everything I was doing on my warrior and more – and the combat hasn’t once felt old or stale. Then again, I like a fast-paced playstyle that rewards precision.

Heck yesterday I went out and was soloing champs in Frostgorge for fun and for practice. I could probably have done that with my warrior just by rifle kiting, but it wouldn’t have been as fun for me as dancing attunements and juggling combos for ten minutes.

Vexrm.6134:

What does “Highest Common attained level” mean?

For example we have five players P1, P2, P3, P4, P5.
P1 hasn’t done any.
P2 and P3 got to LVL3
P4 is on LVL2
and P5 is on LVL6

Will the dungeon be LVL1 (since P1 hasn’t done it yet) or LVL 2 (Four players have either completed it or done it, thus a vast majority) LVL3? (3 players, a majority, have done it or ready to do it).

I think I can rule out LVL6, but I’m not sure.

This isn’t a huge deal, I’m just curious how it will work.

Edit:
Also, if I’m P5 in this situation and run it with this group on LVL1 do I count as LVL7 or do I count as LVL6 still? Either way there are issues I see, but both ways can be worked around.

“Highest Common attained level” means exactly that, the highest level everyone shares, not a simple majority, everyone.

You could think of it as scaling to the lowest common denominator if that helps.

dimgl.4786:

This made me LOL SO HARD

On the flipside, someone is 3,800 G richer.

Lemons are account bound, someones just showing off.

Sounds good to me, looking forward to it.

Maybe they’re going to have a lemon party.

I’d love to see fishing at some point, traveling around the world getting various fish to use in cooking or trophies – sounds good to me.

There’s already a thread about this on the BLTC forums, but the short answer is yes – both appearance/gender/name changes are coming…they’re just still being worked on. They’ll likely be in the gem shop.

New update looks good, looking forward to the new stuff!

GG Arenanet, your game is now RUINED.

You can skip the blog post, I won’t read it. I don’t need “details” or “facts” to know in my heart that this decision has single handedly made this game a WoW clone. I trust my gut and my gut tells me that not only is it time for lunch, but GW2 is now ruined forever.

Foreeeeeeeever!

I have no problem with this

Gaile Gray.6028:

We will offer character name changes through the Black Lion Trading Company/Gem Store in the future. It’ll be a while, I think, but it is coming.

I know you probably can’t answer, but is there any sense of how long “a while” is? I’m only asking because if we’re talking next year, I’d just as soon re-roll and level another toon to 80 with the looks and name I want. If it’s sometime in the next couple months, then I’ll wait.

People just haven’t seen us much yet so our abilities are strange and foreign. Once more ele’s figure out D/D how to use it effectively, our opponents will adapt. Kinda like HB warriors, at first they were intimidating and everyone cried for a nerf or went and rolled one themselves, but after awhile you started figuring out how their abilities worked, and then how to counter them. Now HB warriors are somewhat of a joke, unless they’re in the hands of a truly skilled player (which is how it should be IMO).

I’m mostly happy with it.

I can live with MF but I wouldn’t be sad to see it go.

Dungeons I think need some improvements, some unique reward or incentive other than tokens, but I believe they’ve posted they’re working on that (Karma was the first step).

I would like to see some way of attaining a specific Legendary precursor that is not purely RNG, otherwise I’ll just be grinding and saving my coins and hoping the price doesn’t go too much higher than it is now.

It was an alt, a character just for fun. A whimsical creation that was fueled by typical male fantasies, attractive and with revealing clothing so that one could admire her “assets” in all their glory. My main toon is always a male, alts can vary.

Little did I know that the class itself would be so much fun (ele), I’d drop my main 80 Warrior and switch full time to this pretty and petite yet deadly flower. So now she’s my full-time toon, also 80, and just waiting for me to spend my gems and swap gender/names with the warrior.

Please, an update, any update! A timeline, something! I could have leveled another character to 80 by now with the looks and name I wanted, and I almost did exactly that except decided to hold off after we got that teaser (when the items were made available but then pulled out). I figured it wouldn’t be long after that.

This isn’t just a problem with my in-game appearance. I’m afraid my main being a girl is starting to bleed into real life. I’ve inexplicably started to sit whenever going to the bathroom, I now have 25 different pairs of shoes in my closet (they were all so cute I just had to buy them), and haven’t missed an episode of The View in two weeks. THE VIEW.

I’m scared, Arenanet. So very scared.

Logitech G600 – It’s like the NAGA, but better IMO. Keypad feels nicer with inclined thumb buttons, you get a third mouse button for your ring finger (index and middle are on the standard left/right buttons), and the mousewheel can be pushed both left and right for two more buttons.

1 – 6 : Default, but using the mouse side keypad with thumb
Shift 1-4 : Attunement swaps, shift pressed with left pinky, numbers with mouse thumb
Q, E, Z : Utility skills
Shift-Spacebar : Elite
Third Mouse : Dodge (right hand ring finger)

Mousewheel click : Call Target
Mousewheel Right : Weapon Swap (for other toons obviously)
Mousewheel Left : Highlight objects

Took a warrior to 80 first, really enjoyed it. Tried out Dagger/Dagger and haven’t looked back. I can do everything my warrior was doing, and more, and have more fun doing it! There hasn’t been any situation in PvE or PvP (W3) where I wish that I was on my warrior or another class – yet when I play alts I’ll often find myself wishing I was on my elementalist!

D/D
Sigil of Battle : Same reasons Minoru mentioned – attunement counts as weapon swap so you can stack might easily.
Sigil of Fire : The damage proc is decent and AoE on your target, and with a high crit goes off all the time.

I’m contemplating getting a Sigil of Bloodlust or Perception and putting it on another dagger to swap out to build stacks with before going back to Fire/Battle.

I’m a man trapped in a woman’s body.

Halp, Arenanet.

Halp.

I have 5lbs of candy corn arriving today so I can complete my Monthly Achievement.

Is it not permanent? The achievement for costume brawl champion is listed under “Community” and not “Special Events” – which made me think it was just going to be something in game.

Just adding my voice, this is something I’m excited to make use of and was hoping would be bundled with the Halloween update.