Guild Wars 2

25 Rich Chests opened and I recieved all junk and 1 Mini. I’m not going to cry too much because I just converted what gold I had to purchase them and no real money but it still is kind of ridiculous. Rates like this is why I won’t/haven’t spent what real money I do have on this game. If the drop rate was descent I would totally spend a good $20 for some skins but nope, never.

For the anti-complainers……..
-$20? Oh soooo much money!!! Well considering how much game you get for $60, $20 for a skin is still way tooo much. Some people are out their spending $50+ on gems and getting ganked.

The game doesn’t need a “joystick” update. Go download pinnacle gaming profile or xpadder. Pinnacle gives a free 2-4 week trial and both cost about 15 bucks. Relatively cheap considering how useful they are. Experiment and set everything up how you like it rather then count on Arena Net to give you an update that probably won’t live up to your expectations. And download the Combat Mode Mod as well and the game is amazing with a 360 controller.

I use DS almost entirely for two things. To remove a condition via Shrouded Removal in Death Magic and for Life Transfer for it’s AoE damage. When traited fully in DS you can pop in and out very quickly to remove conditions very fast and add a lot of extra damage while your Staff skills cool down. I never just stay in DS any longer then it takes Life Transfer to finish. The other abilities of DS seem rather pointless compared to Staff skills. The only time I ever do stay in DS for a long time is when I need it to survive and it’s also why I never use all my life force just to deal damage b/c you need it when it matters. If you mess around with your build and incorporate this you will see how much harder your are to kill and the extra damage you put out over time.

Lutheran.9687:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

You’ll have enough to make any two you’d like if you play all five days.

Yet, if I’m not mistaken once Tixx makes it to Lion’s Arch don’t all mini dungeons become available? Couldn’t you in fact continue on to get more then just 2 mini-pets made?

This seems to make the most sense to me.

Thank you for the quick response! The answer makes too much sense and I guess I was just more thrown off that it took so long to happen rather then after only a few days. Kind of feel bad for waisting any of your guys time now b/c I see how many issues and reports you have to deal with each day. TY again and thanks for keeping this game so great!

This is what i’m scared of happening to me right now, just posted that my Mobile Authenticator is somehow disabled overnight and I can’t figure out how/why. Luckily I dont have my CC information saved so I really feel for you right now on this. Still doesn’t mean that I don’t want my characters deleted and everything I have to disappear.

I added the Google Authenticator to my GW2 account about 2-3 weeks ago when a lot of people apparently were having their accounts hacked/stolen.
Every time I have ever started up the game the game browser has needed me to put in my MA 6 digit code to log in but today it’s not showing up in the game browser.
It’s acting as if I don’t have the MA attached to my account but when I still go to my account settings from this website it says its attached and gives me the option to un-attach it.
Should I be worried my account is in jeopardy?
Was there an update today/last night that messed this up and more people are having this problem?
IDK, just wanted to put this out to the community to see if it is just me, and yes i’m going to file a report just wanted the DEV’s to know of the problem in case it is happening to more people then just me.

3,070 Attack
only 4% crit
2453 Armor
24,527 HP

All my armor is exotic atm minus my back piece.
And I still don’t have the runes or sigil’s i want yet so theyre kind of everywhere.
Other then that…
Cleric’s Ring’s and Accessories.
Amulet is Pow, Vit, Cond
Back Piece is Pow, Tough, Vit
Staff is Power, Vit, Cond
My armor is split 3 pieces of Pow, Tough, Vit and 3 pieces Pow, Vit, Cond
For my skills I use
-Signet of Spite for added power and the conditions it applies.
-Signet of Undeath (probably the most important to refill the DS bar as much as possible)
-3rd skill is the one I switch the most.

My Traits are 5, 0, 20, 15, 30, with
-Bigger AoE for Mark’s (b/c I always run Staff)
-Lose a Condition when you go into DS
-Siphoning Health 50% more effective (this trait is whatever for me, don’t have a good reason why I use it.)
-25% Slower Life Force drain in Death Shroud
-Recharge DS skills 15% faster
-DS recharges 50% faster.

Sorry if my post is sloppy, trying to rush this. I love this build, seems like I very rarely die unless I do something stupid. The biggest key to the build is use and abuse DS as much as possible. I always just pop DS just to use Life Transfer and get the AoE damage out when I’m surrounded then pop back out of DS to save life force. Use and abuse to remove conditions as well. Try it out or message me in game sometime.

Oh, and I even look like a tank!

Updated: Decapitater… EB Server. Haven’t seen anyone out copying my look yet so thats a good thing.

xiv.7136:

I have better.

I give you: fat Liam Neeson

lol that is awesome, and you have the name!

Just a fun pic. Hopefully some of you will enjoy it! I know I’ve seen Thorr’s running around a lot as well.

Pretty simple, and I know it has been brought up before but can myself and other like minded individuals get some love to add Dueling to the game? Apparently John Peter’s stated before launch that if enough people asked for it they would definitely think about adding it to the game. I’m not requesting it to be added in WvW or anything crazy, just maybe an arena around Lion’s Arch at most so we can duel on the actual characters we play the game with. I loved dueling in EQOA (the PS2 version of EQ). Even if you don’t like the competitive banter that comes from dueling about who is better then who, it is the best source to test out builds, gear and play style. The only negative, especially with how MMO communities are now days is you’ll see even more complaining about there class not being balanced because they lose to “this” class. Hopefully some people will realize their class is weaker vs. X class but also stronger then Y class. Kind of rambling now but I and many others love dueling and I hope enough people will just post a simple “Yes!” to get the dev’s attention.

Thanks.

The Decapitater!

Couldn’t agree more with you Sieg, I’m still unsure why I even bought the Halloween mini’s considering I rarely actually have any of mine out either. Just figured this was the best/easiest solution that shouldn’t have too much trouble being implemented.

Huge turn offs on the current system for how mini’s are used is the fact that they deposit with all of your collectibles, take up a slot of inventory space, and idk for myself clicking on it to “spawn” is always akward.

Simple fix is to make an equipment slow where you can place a mini or your characters screen with a show/hide box for whether or not you want it out.

Good Idea?!?

If you look under your skills each one will have a red bar underneath indicating whether or not you are in range to use such skill.

Never posted on the official forums before and I mostly just follow reddit, regardless everyone is tired of the bot issue. It’s even made its way to IGN now and I’ve always figured once that happens ANET might actually start doing something more extreme to stop this problem which IMO is the biggest threat to GW2’s future. Whether or not you like my idea, I mostly wish to start a serious discussion on how the players can solve this problem. No matter how many employees ANET has they are undoubtedly overwhelmed by how large our GW2 community is when dealing with bug reports to botting while still trying to give us updates to improve the game. It’s time for ANET to implement a system that allows us “good” guys help them solve this issue.

So, originally this idea came to me while seeing a post on the reddit forums where someone posted pictures of a whole group of 10-15 bots continuously attacking a trash mob Chicken stuck in a position where he became invulnerable. I thought it was quite funny and then BAM!!!

If players were given the option to drop some kind of trash mob IE “chicken” anywhere in the game that could not be killed and only be attacked by PC’s (player characters) it could then be used to grab the attention of botters. Then once the chicken is attacked it activates some sort of timer and notification. The notification would have a pop up that asks for you to click “ok” within 2-5 minutes of receiving the pop up to prove that you are actually playing. So any real player who is actually there would be able to remove said timer and be ok. While on the other hand the botter is most likely not actually anywhere near their computer, the timer will complete and the botters account will be removed from the server and permanently banned or even just removed from the game temporarily until the action is reviewed by ANET.

Now this is just the basic form of something I think could really help deal with the bot situation. If something like this can realistically be implemented, IDK. If you plan on just crying and saying something like this is dumb please don’t bother commenting. I only wish to start more ideas from the community on how we could be used to help clean up the game. If you have more ideas please post them and lets start this discussion or if you have an opinion on how my idea should be implemented for example if this trash mob “chicken” should need a requirement to be used. Similar to that of when a guild drops a karma banner. Maybe the chicken is limited to guild leaders who have access to purchase the chicken in their guild upgrades so you dont have 10,000 chickens and constant pop up’s in areas like Orr.