Guild Wars 2

But as I stated above on those 2 accounts the achievement and collection have NOT been completed. However the reason the chest might have disappeared is that the collection has not been unlocked either.

Problem is that the 2 accounts I do jumping puzzles with have NOT completed the “For The Children” achievement and thus should get the chest. Also none of the items in the missing chest are the ornaments needed for that achievement / collection.

The Weyandt’s Revenge JP in Lion’s Arch gives a splendid chest for completion. Before yesterday’s updates this chest gave 5 items one of which was another chest. This other chest contained one of 2 soulbound items that were worth either 1 or 10 silver. It seems this other chest is no longer in the splendid chest making this JP less rewarding. Was this an intended nerf or a bug????

Just wondering what a “normal” reward for these events are. Reason is I got 5 blooms and a chest for each zone. If this is “normal” (non-bugged) than it is far from worth spending 30 minutes to do.

In every announced elite specilization, except for the dragonhunter, the minor adept trait explicitly states it gives you the new weapon, skills, and profession mechanics. However the dragonhunters minor adept states “The guardian’s resolve has further increased, allowing virtues to be manifested as physical aspects.” Either that description is incomplete or something else gives you the weapon and skills.

Thinking about the setup of wiki pages for the zone rewards and have a few questions about them. Will all zones have the same number of different zone rewards? If so, will there be a simple daily rotation where every certain number of days the same set of rewards come up across all zones or will there be some randomness to it. For example each zone has 4 different rewards and on day 1 you get the first reward, day 2 the second, day 3 the third, day 4 the fourth, and then on day 5 the rewards start repeating from the first. Also using the API will there be a way to determine the rewards for the current day?

Now some questions about mastery points and mastery experience just for my personal enlightenment. Are mastery points world wide or will only Central Tyria (CT) received mastery points be used for CT masteries and only Heart of Thorns (HoT) received mastery points be used for HoT masteries? The same goes for mastery experience – will the experience gained in CT just be for CT masteries and the experience gained in HoT just be for HoT masteries. If they are indeed fully separate will you be able to have 1 mastery track open for each place and the game will automatically apply the experience received to the correct mastery track?

Just a few things to be aware of for the beta starting tomorrow.
- You will not be able to play in any of the HoT new maps.
- If you create a character in the beta slot you will not be able to keep any rewards or drops you get on that character for your regular account.
- If you create a revenant you will only be able to use the 3 legends and 4 weapons already announced for it.
- You will be able to play PvP Stronghold with the announced Mist Champions.

So if you want to play Stronghold or test out the revenant in familiar surroundings this may be the test for you.

My only question is if you do a daily or world boss with a revenant will you be able to do it again with a regular character and get the reward to keep.

Any hero points you have left after getting all the core specialization’s traits and skills can be used to get the elite specialization’s traits and skills in HoT. There has been no announcement on how many that may cost, but probably less than the 189 hero points that are currently needed for world completion.

My highest number of “left over” hero points after getting everything currently available with them is 212. This includes points from hero challenges outside of the world completion (WvW, Dry Top, Silverwastes, etc.).

The elite specialization is just another trait line, skills, and an associated weapon added onto the core specialization’s interface. This means adding it will be the same as adding a core specialization trait or skill, which you can do presently in the game. There should be no more learning involved than what you already have to do to get a core trait, skill, or weapon.

I am pretty sure you need to buy HoT to get the elite specialization’s traits, skills, and weapon. However once you do that you will be able to use them anywhere in the world.

Just have a question that I would like an Arenanet answer to:

If we do dailies or world bosses with the revenant first and get the rewards will we be able to do them later with a non-beta character and get the rewards to keep?

Roy Cronacher.1576:

…exotic gear…given multiple sets…also have an assortment of runes, sigils, food, and utility buffs…

Just wondering how all this stuff will fit in the 20 slot starting inventory bag given new characters.

I am just wondering if the revenants made will be instant level 80s or will we have to level them up. I can see a point in letting them level to test any problems with that, but that will make WvW or any high end PvE content unplayable unless we use consumables to level them. I’d rather not do that as I am saving the consumables for when HoT goes live.

Also wondering if they will be able to bank anything they receive from playing that isn’t soulbound. Would hate to play a revenant for the content that I would play with my normal characters and lose out on all the loot from it.

For some of us quick access to the guild bank is more important than the mystic forge. This rules out parking characters in Lion’s Arch over any of the racial home cities. This could be easily rectified by adding a guild bank NPC next to the regular bank NPCs in Lion’s Arch like it was pre-Scarlet. Even better would be putting a guild bank NPC somewhere around the crafting stations (which can be used as banks) and BLTC.

Satenia.9025:

How accurate is this list? Does this include all the baseline changes and such? There seem to be a few previous traits missing, so can we assume that those have been discontinued?…

There were no baseline changes mentioned in the original post, so we do not know what was finally decided on. If a trait was not mentioned it will no longer exist as a trait, but it could have been made baseline.

I have 8 characters at level 80 with every trait and skill unlocked. They all also have at least 400 skill points unused. Will they be grandfathered in with all skills and core specializations unlocked? Also what type of “crafting material” will I be getting for all the unused skill points and will there be a choice involved on which “crafting material” I get?

You have said that the Elite Specializations will unlock at level 80 and have reward tracks. Just wondering what will advance that reward track – hero points received before level 80 or another form of currency.

I’ll try to find an uncontested Balthazar for those that still need the skill point there. Will let you know my results about 10 minutes before we meet in Malchor’s Leap. If I find one will stay there and anybody that needs it can party with me. Looking forward to tonight.

Another question:
Under the upcoming update will it be easy to tell how much personal story will need to be done to satisfy the daily personal story achievement?

I have eight level 80 characters currently and only one has completed all of the personal story. Two more are within a few steps of completion and the other five are ready to go to Claw Island for the first time. Will the 7 uncompleted personal stories have any changes at all (either to the journal or rewards)?

On a side note: I just wonder if this update will stop the personal story level 10 BLTC key farming. Guess I will find out after the update is released and I create a character to farm. Hopefully the new personal story journal will come with those 10 levels rewards shown, so I don’t actually have to do the 10 levels to find out.

Edgar – Just wanted to suggest the following linked website for completion maps and steps for all the zones. If you have 2 monitors you could have the map on one while running the game on the other. I use these when I am working on completion solo and it works out quite well.
http://www.postcount.net/index.php?pageid=tdwindex

Oh and just to let you know Norton Internet Security says that the website the maps are on is malicious, but I have never found anything wrong with the map files. Neither Norton or Malwarebytes have ever found anything on my computer after using the maps either.

Mapping Mondays always start at 6pm server/PT (9pm ET). We had some megaserver caused issues last night, but the majority of us got Frostgorge Sound map completion within 3.5 hours.

Overall I like this a LOT, but do have 3 concerns.
- The lesser concern is how about those players that are on less populated worlds because their computers / networks won’t handle a larger number of players?
- The second concern is something that I see frequently when running with a group mapping. What happens when populations go up, but hearts DO NOT scale? Every Monday I run with a group of 10-30 players mapping a zone. Almost every week we run into hearts that take forever, because they do not scale for group size. Either there are insufficient enemies to kill (unless an event pops that helps) or insufficient (player destructible) resources to gather.
- The third concern is something I usually see during weekly group temple runs. A temple is bugged (usually Melandru) or just has a long time to reset. Using websites we usually can find one on another server and can guest to get that temple. What happens when there are no longer servers to guest to?

Just read about the new trait points that will be introduced in the update that will be coming on April 15th.
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“…We’re condensing trait points so that each point will be the equivalent of five of the old points. This means that at level 80, you’ll have 14 points to assign instead of 70. You’ll start acquiring points at level 30, when the adept trait tier is unlocked, then you’ll earn one trait point every six levels until level 66, when you’ll start earning two trait points at a time…”
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Just trying to figure out how this will work!!! Below is the only way the numbers come out to 14.
Level 30 – 1 point
Level 36 – 1 more point
Level 42 – 1 more point
Level 48 – 1 more point
Level 54 – 1 more point
Level 60 – 1 more point (6 total)
Level 65/66? – 2 more points
Level 70/72? – 2 more points
Level 75/78? – 2 more points
Level 80 – 2 more points (14 total)

Also wondering about means of unlocking major traits.
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“…Major traits will now be unlocked via traits guides, a new in-game item. Double-clicking on a trait guide will unlock its associated trait. You can find trait guides by completing specific content in the world, like story dungeons, minidungeons, WvW, personal story, specific bosses, and discovering certain areas on the world map….”
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So if we are on a character that has completed all their personal story the trait associated with that guide has to be bought?

I experienced the original poster’s bug yesterday, but have had many other porting bugs into Lion’s Arch since the Escape From Lion’s Arch patch went live. I frequently got ported to Lion’s Arch just inside the Bloodtide Coast portal when trying to come in using the Asura Gate at the Priory. I also have been ported to the same place when trying to enter from Gendarren Fields. Once I tried to enter from Bloodtide Coast and wound up just inside the portal from Gendarren Fields.

Just wondering what form of karma you get for the audio logs. I turned in 3 of these and did not notice any form of karma being given. Is it karma going directly to your toon or an item that gives karma when used?

I figured out the answer by myself. You get 100 karma going direct to the toon. Since the logs are soulbound that means that each of your toons could get 5000 karma a day if they found all 50 periscopes.

1 vs 1 will be available via custom arenas when they are added. They will cost money, but there will be no queue for them.

From the Guild Wars 2 Facebook page:
“Dear GW2, not going to yell. I just need some help, haven’t heard from you in a while. Starting to think you only want me for my body. Please review my ticket, Reference # 130108-001210. Call me, I miss… ‘Us’.”

Posting this from Alex Floyd on Facebook:
“…the problem is that they banned my account due to stupid paypal reasons and they won’t even let me access the support forums Could you please post in the thread and ask them to take a look at this ticket: [Incident: 130102-002813] , I would really appreciate it.”

I love what you have done with armor previews, even though it should also be available for the trading post.

However the weapon preview is not very good. Either get the weapons to show properly while wearing armor, have the ability to not show armor while previewing weapons, or (possibly best of all) just show the previewed weapons in the fighting position.