Guild Wars 2

jheryn.8390:

Ranulf.9285:

I… found Glint’s spawn ugly. In that “We decided that the child of an ancient dragon should be SOOO CUTESY AWW” kind of way. Like, they tried to make it cutesy to pander to easily awed people but wound up making this weird abomination instead, like some Female Humans with the grossly babylike faces.

I also felt the story – as it has been – was pretty weak and the Lazarus twist was poorly done. Guess that’s a minority opinion, though. :B

Um… …wow! So instead of just telling us that you didn’t like the episode, you have to insult those who did. I’m curious. Do you kick puppies for fun?

Oh, no, I’m just extremely jaded towards this game now. Sorry, s’pose it was kind of a low blow to aim at the people who enjoyed the dragon’s aesthetic.

That said, I still can’t shake this feeling like Anet deliberately made the dragon ‘adorable’ to distract people from the declining quality of the game and its storytelling. Just seems like a cheap tactic to me, s’all.

I… found Glint’s spawn ugly. In that “We decided that the child of an ancient dragon should be SOOO CUTESY AWW” kind of way. Like, they tried to make it cutesy to pander to easily awed people but wound up making this weird abomination instead, like some Female Humans with the grossly babylike faces.

I also felt the story – as it has been – was pretty weak and the Lazarus twist was poorly done. Guess that’s a minority opinion, though. :B

Bumping this up! I made my own thread on the subject, after HoT launched, and it’s a relief to see that people were already worried about the swiftness buff long before launch.

At first I was thinking maybe the buff’d only be active when you have the mentor tag on, but I can see how that’d annoy some people too. I don’t mind the buff itself being permanent so long as the yellow trail stops following me around wherever I go(in a city)!

Right! I looked all over to see if I could, but no luck. ;-;

I know this is a miniscule complaint to be had, and to be honest I’ve been absolutely LOVING the expansion so far, but it’s something that I just know is going to bother me for a long time coming if I’m stuck with it!

With the mastery system, after I did glider training I decided to train Pact Commander, AKA the one that lets you be a ‘mentor’ to newbie players with your own little map tag and everything.

One of the bonuses to this is having a permanent swiftness buff in all major cities(Leader of the Pact I), which is nice, but that also means that my character permanently has a swiftness trail even when they’re walking! Obviously that’s no problem for usual swiftness application, but as a permanent effect, it’s already started to bother me a lot.

I’m hoping it wouldn’t be much trouble at all to remove the visual effect from that permanent boon, and I understand that if it was looked into, it’d be VERY low priority.

So, I just wanted to keep this one short; I brought this up a little too late before last year’s Halloween event, but it was recommended I try suggesting it for next(this) year’s, so here it is!

I was wondering if it would be possible to re-introduce the ability to get the Witch Hat skin (Item code: [&AgHl/AAA]) during this year’s Halloween event? Considering it was only available BEFORE the wardrobe/town clothes changes in the first Feature Pack, I think it’s only fair to give those of us who lost/discarded our witch hat when it was simply a Town Clothes item the chance to get it again, as we had no idea they’d become available as armor skins (much)further down the road and many of us wouldn’t have handled them as carefully as we would have if we’d known.

Hope it’ll be possible!

Arenanet, I have to ask… Why? Why do you keep giving roleplayers less and less options?

With today’s patch, you’ve made it impossible to get into the uninstanced Durmand Priory, which me and my guild used as an analogue for the Vigil Keep’s interior, as the actual Vigil Keep interior does not have things like an office or even a barracks. Now we can’t get into the uninstanced version, which severely limits the amount of people we can get in on an RP there, makes us have to ignore all the Priory NPC’s around, and prevents us from using places like Gixx’s office.

I’m just… distraught. There’s also things like the complete destruction and walling off of Fort Salma, which I know was used by Seraph and Mercenary RP groups alike. I can understand the initial destruction of it, which was a very unsettling(in a good way) part of the Living Story. But now, it just seems less and less likely with each patch that you ever intend on restoring the place and opening it back up to roleplayers, who used to use it extensively.

I KNOW we’re a minority, in fact I’m sure most of the posts from players on here will be laughing at me and roleplayers in general, telling us to ‘suck it up’ or something along those lines, but we care deeply about this sort of thing and it’s upsetting to know that all these wonderful locations are being taken away from us.

I’m not even sure what I hope to achieve from this thread. If an Anet dev were to reply, even that much would be better than more silence. Some kind of answer, y’know?

Gaile Gray.6029:

khani.4786:

DarkOcean.8746:

My immersion is broken when Rytlock jumps into the ghost hole in one of the LS instances! I don’t like seeing my character spaz out in the background!

You mean the hole that doesn’t appear? Last few times I’ve done this the ground doesn’t break and Rytlock just jumps into the solid rock. o.o

Hmmmm… Have you submitted an in-game bug report for that?

Skaigash.4715:

GOSU.9574:

Gaile Gray.6029:

So the animations were temporarily removed to be worked on and reincorporated in a way that allowed them to perform normally in the game but to stop (or maybe change) during cinematics. But getting to a place where the animations could be configured on a more fine-grained basis took more time than anticipated.

So the fact it was officially stated some time ago the animation missing was a “bug” is now officially countered with the fact it was removed.

Was kinda hard to sell that an entire frame set of animations going missing was due to a “bug”.

Yeah, it being a “bug” was very strange. But I could go with Gaile’s explanation; I think it’s reasonable. I’ll take it as one of those “we’re upgrading to serve you better” things.

I don’t know what was said previously, but doesn’t “bug” work in the context of this situation? It wasn’t intended that the animations play during particular moments. They played. That sounds bug-ish to me. (Unless you’re suggesting that their not playing was called a “bug” as if someone thought they should be playing rather than that they were intentionally disabled. That could be a simple matter of misunderstanding, misuse of the word, or miscommunication. It seems rather a minor point to me.

Again, for clarity: Because the animations were not appropriate for the setting, they were disabled. They will be re-enabled when they can operate as intended. We don’t have a timeframe for this at the present time.

I sure hope that timeframe is a long ways away! :P

Ah… Really? The removal of the obnoxious stretching animations was just a bug? Dang. I actually liked my lady characters not moving around so much, and back when they were around I was in the habit of turning my character a bit to stop them mid-stretch because I found it so annoying. :B

I wish we could be able to toggle certain animations, at least. Sigh.

Just a quick question if the constant notifications about the forts in the Silverwastes could be toggled so they don’t spam our chatbox/screen every time one is taken OR lost OR retained. I understand it’s nice to know when one’s in trouble, but it does get irritating to see those messages pop up every minute or less.

Could this be done in a quick patch, maybe?

Gaile Gray.6029:

I don’t know if it’s coming, and it’s probably a really late request for this year’s Halloween event. I do see your point, though. I’d be devastated if I lost my hats! (Old GW players positively cherish their headgear after all!)

If it doesn’t come to pass for this event, why not make a suggestion post after the event, with [Suggestion] in the title? It can’t hurt to get your thoughts on the radar, eh?

I should’ve done that to start with, hah.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for this year’s event, but if it’s no go I’ll definitely do what you suggest. Thanks for the reply!

Now, I bring this up because I’m /hoping/ we’ll be given the chance to acquire the Witch Hat from the first year’s Halloween Event.

Why? Because I feel it’d be nice to give those of us who /got/ the hat back when it was first released, but wound up losing it through one way or another, a chance to snag it again, as now with the April Feature Pack it’s possible to use that skin with armor.

Of course, back then none of us could possibly know about that, so some of us didn’t treat the hat as well as we would’ve and some people(including me) either got rid of it or lost it somehow(In my case I forgot it was on a character that I deleted).

I know all about items having this historical value and it proves how long someone’s been playing and blah blah blah, but I really think it’d be neat to make an exception in this instance. Whadd’ya say, Anet?

graceness.3156:

Probably because she was the one you wanted to live. Makes her death more meaningful.

You know, I thought about that, and you’re totally right. Mostly I was just hamming it up, but I did kinda like that character, and now that she’s gone I really wanna kill the kittens that caused it. Anet’s gettin’ really good at this stuff.

Morning was the ONLY Zephyrite I wanted to live, Anet, and you she died right in front of my eyes!! Sure, she was reskinned, but still! Why, Anet?!?! ;-;

Don’t trust it. I got the same email just now, and I’m 99% sure it’s a sham aimed at hacking your account or something. Unless an Anet dev says otherwise, I ain’t clickin’ it.

EDIT: Welp, an Anet dev said otherwise, so don’t mind me! :p

(Just reposting this from the thread I made!)

First, I want to say that nearly all that I’ve read about the April Feature Pack has gotten me really excited, and I can’t wait to see most of these brilliant changes implemented…

… However, there’s just one thing that’s caused a pit in my stomach. The changes to Town Clothes.

While I understand a lot of players would definitely use the town clothes more often if they became available as skins/tonics for combat, the changes, from what I’ve been reading, are going to hit people like me hard. I’m a roleplayer, and I have a few characters who use the town clothes extensively, one of which has several outfits I’ve put together for her for different occasions. With the upcoming changes, I’m almost positive most of these outfits won’t be possible anymore, for a number of reasons:

1)Individual pieces, like the hoodies, becoming “tonics” – I can’t see us being able to recolor these if they work like tonics, but rather they’ll have fixed color schemes.

2)The “tonic” versions only useable one at a time – This says to me that I can only be using, for example, the hoodie over my combat gear, and not use the riding pants or boots at the same time. This means I can never use these together again, destroying mix-and-matched outfits.

3)Outfits, such as the Halloween and Wintersday outfits, being “all or nothing” – I use the Bloody Prince’s face paint on my warrior with the rest of her town clothes, which comprise of regular boots, riding pants and a leather hoodie. With this update, it’ll be impossible for me to use the facepaint with those outfit pieces.

I implore you, Anet, to find another way with Town Clothes, so we still have the freedom with them that we do now, as well as the freedom of using them in combat. The current changes will come as a heavy blow to people like me, however many of us there are.

Here’s a few pictures of the characters with which I use the current Town Clothes regularly, to give you an idea of what will soon become impossible.

I’m really glad to see your guys’ support so far, thanks!

I don’t really expect them to make changes in the 19 days before they release the feature pack, but as hedition said, hopefully they’ll take it into consideration and patch it at a later date.

Repair succesful, purple snow gone! Thanks e’erybody.

Alrighty, thanks.

I’m not seeing Gw2.exe in my file, just Crash.dmp, Gw2.dat, Gw2, and Gw2.tmp

Well, seeing as my computer is pretty new, I’m rather certain my graphics card isn’t dying.

Can someone tell me the process of repairing?

Do I have to completely uninstall/reinstall the client to “repair” it? If so, I think I can live with this for now. :V

I’ve noticed since yesterday that the snowy areas I visit (namely Lornar’s Pass/Snowden Drifts) are covered in… purple snow. Any chance somebody knows what’s going on here?

Oh, good. So it’s not just me, then.

Hear hear. Got mine a few minutes after midnight.

There you have it, everyone. It’s just past midnight and all those town clothes are gone.

They put the Wintersday outfit up, at least. That’s something.

Alright, welp… 12 hours until we(apparently) lose those town clothes forever, and still not a word from Anet about why.

I just hope this isn’t as bad as it looks. :l

I’m almost certain that the Wintersday outfit will be available next week, just like the Halloween costumes were re-released a week after the Bloody Prince update kickstarted.

Well… Over ten hours since I’ve posted this, and no reply. I’m almost positive Arenanet’s looked at this thread(I have it in good confidence that they read all the threads they can), so a lack of reply yet probably means we won’t be getting one.

I sincerely hope this isn’t the case.

I am /still/ not seeing the Makeover Kit, too.

I /expect/ we’ll see it on the gem store next week, TechWiz. Much like how the Halloween outfits were released a week after the Bloody Prince update.

Also, great analysis of what’s going on, Kojast. Couldn’t agree with you more!

I can understand that most players aren’t that interested in town clothes, but I /know/ a fair amount of people do… At the moment it feels as if we’re being punished for being the minority, and I can’t imagine at all how keeping those clothes on the gem store is so much of a hassle that they’re removing them, leaving those of us that love them bereft of access to them forever.

Maybe I’m over exaggerating, and they’re not being removed but just being converted somehow… Still, like I said, I’d really like to hear a direct explanation from Anet.

Well, the Roleplaying community uses town clothes extensively, so I can’t imagine they weren’t selling anymore /period/. If they’re turning them into skins for all classes you can use in combat… I suppose that’d make sense, but I’d still like to hear it from Anet.

So when I looked at the gem store soon after the update, I noticed that essentially all of the Town Clothes are going to be gone by next week. Appalled, I looked at the release notes and saw that “The Style category of the gem store is being streamlined”.

What does that mean? How is it being streamlined? Why does it involve getting rid of the town clothes that are currently in the store? Will we ever have access to the current clothes again?

As one of those people that highly values town clothes, this is making me really nervous. Please, Anet, can you clear this up for me(and whoever else might be asking the same question)?

Regardless, I wouldn’t be surprised if Anet stuck with waiting a week like they have been for quite a while now.

I sincerely would’ve liked the chance to get that old scythe skin for my necromancer, but I can see where Anet’s coming from by not bringing the old skins back. It’d devalue the rarity of the skins and make the prices come crashing down, and people’d get mad about that, especially those who spent like 200 gold on a scythe skin only to find out if they waited a little longer it’d only be like 20.

I seriously want Anet to put them back on the shelf. If anything it’d only mean more money for them, so I fail to understand what the problem is.

“Every patch that has introduced costumes/town clothing did so on day one. Not half way through the patch.”

Actually, that’s untrue. We’ve had times when new costumes/armor from the Gem Store came out a week after a patch, like certain town clothes and those new armor skins.

EDIT: That said, I’m dreading that next week will come without any new or old halloween outfits. I hope that’s not the case.

Yeah, I was also seriously hoping to see them up for sale again, and am genuinely confused as to why they aren’t. I’m hoping we might get them next week, but I’d /really/ like a confirmation from Anet as to whether or not they’ve decided to make them discontinued, which would seriously stink. It says on the release notes that they’ve been “upgraded to ‘rare’ status”, so I’m worried if that means they’re not releasing them ever again.

This is just regarding the third Female Human hairstyle, which is /wonderful/, but I was wondering if it’d be at all possible to offer the same style without the flower? A quick yes/no is cool for an answer, I was just hoping it could be done.

I completely agree with this suggestion. I think it’d be a great change to the chat system and would make it easier for a number of people to read what’s there with the minimal amount of fuss.

It’s totally cool if I bump this, right? ’Cos I am. We need these skins for PvE. >:L

I can’t tell you how often I’ve wished I could get these shoulders for my thief in PvE. I mean, I’m appalled that Anet hasn’t said anything about this, and I feel like we deserve to know if we’ll EVER get the full Stalwart/Tribal/Rubric sets in PvE. I don’t to PvP at all, so that makes it extra irritating for me.

In fact, I recently opened a PvP achievement chest the other day and got [PvP Stalwart Shoulders]. Lemme tell yah, I was pretty much raging about how Anet couldn’t have just given me a PvE version of that instead. :P

I really hope I don’t have to wait until August/September for it. I mean, if they already have it in the system it seems stupid to hold off for so long. :V

Hur hur.

Ultimately I just want that classy yet relatively practical outfit for my thief already. :B
Also I have no doubt about the price spike. Always happens when neat stuff hits the TP.

We know the school uniform outfits are coming, what I’d like to know is /when/ are we getting them? I’ve been waiting from week to week out of hope of seeing them show up on the TP, but so far it’s just disappointment. Could I get at least a vague ETA, or am I “just going to have to be patient”?

This is just a quick suggestion, and I’m not sure how possible it is but I figured I’d ask…

… I’ve noticed that having Post Processing set to “low” or “high” adds irritating outlines to characters/objects if you target them, and adds permanent outlines to guildmates/party members. While I’d be happy to just turn post processing off and remove them, this also removes the lighting effects and such that come along with post processing.

I’d really like to not have to give up the lighting in order to remove character/object outlines. Is it possible to make outlines optional in the future, instead of just being forced when post processing is turned on?

It does look pretty nice, but that’s not the subject here. :p