Guild Wars 2

what i’d like to see is the armor preview and the actual armor you wear look the same. i’ve got a very good computer and a new video card, i’ve tried each and every possible combination of settings, from ultra to a mixture of different options, but my armor (heavy mostly, but any kind really) always looks better in the preview (H button) than in game, more shiny, with more lights and shadows and stunning reflections. i’ve tried going into different light conditions, during the day or the night, but my armor dyes and reflections never seem to match the preview.
i know for a fact that it’s not just a problem on my side since many of my mates are experiencing the same issue

Wild Mountain Thyme

i know this thread is pretty much old and dead but i’d love if someone could still pick up some request. there are a lot of songs i’d like to see transcripted (either for choir bell or flute) such as

Fairytale of New York (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8)

Eire Anthem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aip-a3qEJ2s)

The Parting Glass (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1se8_-fcxZs)
tried writing it down myself but some notes are missing on the flute so it doesn’t sound quite the same:
654 221 24 45 456665456 11
654 221 24 45 456(21)6 565 44
886 (21) 886(21)
68 65 456 11 (replace the 8 with a 7 if using the choir bell, it comes out much better)
654 221 24 45 456(21)6 565 44

Mo Ghile Mear (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ojy1W6r8L0)

Óró ’sé do bheatha ’bhaile (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VqEtpOdhTE)
tried this one as well
5 5 4565 42
4 4 4441 24
5 5 4565 68
8(2) 68 655

Breisleach (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7cnImIrEmo)

thanks to anyone contributing to this post

P.S. i also tried a simplified version of Molly Malone that works well on choir bell
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45 555 7
56 5487 665 45
14 4446
45 5557
568 758 76 454
chorus:
14 4446
45 5557
568 758 76 454

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Basically:

• How easy it is to attain the Ascended gear?
• Is the balance of acquisition of Ascended out of whack between different game-modes (i.e. Easier in PvE than WvW, easier in the open world than it’s intended game mode [Fractals])?

after playing this game since beta and attaining any best in slot item (for my main and some of my alts) i can give you my 2 cents on ascended gear.
how hard is it to attain? well if you’re a new player i guess the answer is, you’ll never have it. the recipes cost in laurels and gold is way too high and the mats to up your profession are pricey as the economy is going crazy right now, so if you’re new or newish and never had time to hoard tons of cloth and ore you gotta be prepared to spend half a year grinding 12 hours a day and get your ascended armor just the day before they release something better. not to mention that it’s basically impossible to gear your alts with ascended armor (and we all have alts, we love to play something different from time to time, anet should be aware of it)
to the question ‘’how do i progress then in this game if everything takes so long and so much gold?’’ the answer is one and one only. have a credit card. sad but true. i hear more and more people actually buying gold as the time goes by, since there’s no real way to earn it without spending your day on a map feeling like a bot. 1-2 g reward in a lvl 40-50 fractal is preposterous, and so are the account bound exotics which we can’t even sell. add to that that you either break items for luck essences or vendor them, either way you’re losing.
the dev’s asking about the drop rate in fractals. i do fotm 40-50 every day several times, challenging with a guild group, impossible to do with pugs and the reward, if you manage to reach the end, is …. no rings? 4 out of 5 high lvl full fractal runs usually give me the daily pristine and nothing more. hard to see a ring, and generally it isn’t infused. basically impossible to see a weapon box or a fractal skin. not to mention if you reached fotm 40+ i doubt you still need rings, and probably you can get so many with pristines that your alts are all ringed up as well.
ascended items should be breakable, and if not they should have a much higher value (in gold) if sold to a vendor (had i spent 3 hours in frostgorge i’d have made at least 15g. no point running a fractal if all i get is time lost).
i never understood why ascended necklaces and earrings can’t drop in fractals. to me that’s where they belong and it’s imperative they are added to the fotm vendor.
after 6 months we still have champ trains in every server (= mad mindless boring grinding), or trains in wvw (thankfully i’m in a good wvw guild so i get heavy bags from zerging every night, which adds up). we’re still talking about grinding tho, which is not how a game should be played and certainly doesn’t match with my idea of ’’fun’’.
i also don’t consider fun rerunning the same old dungeon (AC, SE mostly) to get soldiers exotic gear and break it to make some money out of the insignias. it’s another way of grinding.
crafting isn’t and never was a way to earn gold. you could reply that selling deldrimoor ingots and other ascended mats is a good way to earn cash, but it’s either i sell them or i make my own armor.
we’ve had a million biweekly patches, anet should have given us the chance to make some profit out of them instead of just getting a skin for a backpack.
i had to accept losing all my progression in fractals prior to the patch, but doing them for no actual good reward is just a waste of my time.
so many people quit cause they felt trolled by anet and i can totally understand how they felt.

it’s not an Anet issue, it’s a backbone issue affecting providers used by Anet. they can’t do anything to solve it. last time it happened it was caused by a big power outage in USA around new york. you just gotta wait til providers and power companies restore the network

this problem is affecting ONLY players from EU having their home servers in NA.
i’m having the same issue as many other players (check gw2 facebook page for reference). the issue is about guilds appearing as empty, with no upgrades, no members, no gained influence.
if you use the lfg tool you’ll also notice a ‘’network error’‘.
as far as i can tell it’s not an issue related to Anet or our clients, it’s most likely a backbone issue caused by some major power outage.
we have to wait for providers to fix it, it’s not the first time that happens

Whenever i talk to someone, guildie or random player, i hear them share my own feelings about the living story: basically a 15 days grinding fest that brings nowhere and gives terrible rewards (a gift node for corn or crystals is a fairly poor prize to spend my time on).
I’m sure occasional players like that kind of content but real players, those who spend 4 to even 12 hours on the game, feel kinda scammed by such little patches and desire something more consistent.
yes you did add ascended weapons (which most of the people are not happy about) but they are for the small elite of players who can afford dumping 200g into upping their crafting and another 50 to 60 g per weapon – even a rich player who wants to gear up alts would have issues affording different weapon sets/stats/combos according to the situation (think of a guardian or warrior in pvp, wvw, pve with a guild, pve with a pug etc).
at least ascended rings and backpacks were easy to get in fractals, earrings and necky not quite so tho, especially in a wvw guild which doesn’t have time for guild missions. from there you just went downhill adding the super expensive weapons. i personally ended up making multiple legendaries for my main rather than ascended stuff. why since it’s more expensive? because i can change stats on the fly and your trend has been to update them to the highest (ascended) standard, so chances are you’ll do it again next time you add more powerful stuff.
sadly i’ll have to spend my gold in ascended gear crafting once you release it, but i think new players will be highly disheartened when they see the amount of resources they need to be at the top of the game (also having the best gear doesn’t really matter since dungeons are still the same and the improvement on weapons stats/dmg is negligible in most of the game aspects – except maybe sPvP). in addition to that your living content doesn’t help at all about having more gold to afford all those upgrades and keeps me busy with achievements for maybe 1 day and a half, after which i got nothing to do once again. the concept of ‘’grind it till they nerf it’’ applies to some of your living content provided there’s something to grind and you don’t get sent into an overflow. it helps a bit with money making for a couple weeks, but still you yourselves stated this game would have been different than others grinding-wise, and i’m not seeing that at all (ever been to frostgorge or queensdale to a champ farming zerg? after a while you just want to uninstall the game cause it’s so boring, yet it’s your best option to get gold/karma). in a game that isn’t meant to revolve on farming there shouldn’t be farming zergs (the zerg also followed the living content during the last months, moving to southsun first, then pavilion and finally scarlet invasions, probably getting ready for whichever dungeon you’re adding tomorrow. your TA path 4 has been farmed for the first few days, now no one cares anymore. boredom is spreading out and the 15 days patches (along with revamping old world bosses aka giving them a couple more skills and a ton of HP) look like something you throw in here and there to keep people from realizing you got no real patch in your pockets.
new content should’t be about revamping, or pumping up existing stuff. why? because this is a game and it’s supposed to be entertaining, not frustrating. old players nowadays log in, do the daily (or wvw for a few hours), do a couple explorable paths ignoring the annoying ones, go to frostgorge and start farming for hours on end (with the occasional 5 hours spent on completing all the living achievements at once the very first day they come out). doesn’t it look like a redundant job to you? worse than going to the office every day. wvw is a bit more fun (if you are on a decent server) but could you really spend all your day in wvw every day of the year pressing 1 in a big group cause skill lag will get you killed if you try to use any other skill? we really really really need lasting consistent content.