Guild Wars 2

Can we tone it down please.. at least in the story mode? There is absolutely no way to actually fail this event (if you die, you just have to Retry from checkpoint, Aerin won’t gain his health back) So why did you make this a drawn out, 15 min long fight?

Demented Sheep.1642:

Although it seems weird to me that necromancers can summon bones and undead out of nothing now. My necromancer doesn’t feel like a necromancer, they’re a summoner with an undead bent. It would have been less random if there was actually the skeleton of something there for her to manipulate.

This can be explained away in one of two ways..

• In the past 250 years, Necromancy has advanced to the point where you don’t need raw materials with you to create an undead minion.. the spell now summons the materials to you and then creates the minion at the same time… So.. every time a necromancer summons a bone minion.. somewhere in the world, a buried corpse disappears..

• You will note, that when a necromancer summons an undead minion, there is a black aura on the ground around where the minion comes from.. This is the necromancer drawing the life force from the surrounding plants, animals, and even people in order to create a minion.

That is how I look at it.. Anyhow..

Loosmaster.8263:

Are we back to dragging up old posts again? Get busy, you have 562 pages worth.

Shove off.. this was my own post. I got busy, and forgot to reply sooner. Unlike some, I prefer to spend my GW2 related time Playing the game, and sometimes forget to check the forums.

draxynnic.3719:

So that might be what’s actually going on. Zhaitan only raises relatively intact corpses,

But we have to remember, that a great many if not most of the risen on Orr are Orrians who died when the continent sank.. ~250 years ago. I find it highly unlikely, if not impossible for those corpse to have stayed intact for that long an amount of time.. Now some might say, well the ocean is cold, But I don’t think that it would be cold enough to prevent decay given that Orr is very close to the Ring of Fire Islands, and is next to a desert (Probably very near Tyria’s Equator)..

Next Question.. How does Necromancy relate to Zhiatan’s Corruption, I don’t feel like the two are related at all. A lot of people I speak to seem to think that Nercomancy will not work on Sylvari because of their plant like nature, but I attempt to point out that at the most basic level Sylvari and the other races are still made of the same chemical components.. Just put together in a different ways.. So Anything a necromancer could do to a human, they could do to a Sylvari.

So.. Thoughts? Could a necromancer stop the decay on a detached Sylvari Limb.. or Transfer life force from a minion or dieing creature into another Sylvari as a form of healing??

Wings.5140:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

1. There are some cases – such as the Daithor the Drill event chain in NE Kessex Hills – that imply that they still are made from flesh and bones. I’ve also seen players comment about Trahearne saying he summoned his minions from the Mists? Though I don’t recall this so take it with very loosely. Magic has overall become far more powerful than in GW1, so I wouldn’t expect it to be the same. But typically I view it as summoning the bodies deep in the ground. However, I’d say this is pure mechanic – one of the biggest downsides of playing a minion master in GW1 was that you couldn’t get your little fleshy army up until the battle was more or less done, and they often died of degeneration before the next battle.

I think what everyone refers to in regards to Trahearne and his undead is the line from the personal story mission ‘Reconnaissance’ where Trahearne states that his minions are unable to be corrupted by Zhaitan because they were never alive to begin with which begs the question of where they’re coming from. I suppose you could argue there’s something to be had in the minions (at least for the skill Bone Minions) popping up out of a black well-like circle.

At the least I don’t think it’s implausible for necromancy to have advanced to the point where the flesh and bone needed for a minion can be created from magic itself when there is no corpse available.

Perhaps they are, as I was supposing, using any available minerals ect to craft the materials needed to craft the minions.. for example.. Bone is made from Calcium and other minders.. perhaps they are just pulling those minerals from the ground…

But this begs the question.. Sylvari are not flesh and bone.. but they are made up of the same base chemicals, Why could their corpses not be used to create those same items that can just be drawn up from the ground??

Its not so much an issue with the enemy names as it is with friendly names.. and its also more of an issue in EoTM when karma training and I can’t spot the bad guy, because even tho I have all names off (Aside from enemy names) I still see EVERY player name near me, you don’t tend to see that in PvE content like the Fire elemental or the Mega Destroyer. at least.. I don’t think so…

So I need some thoughts on the Lore behind Necromancy and the Sylvari.. I have taken on trying to Roleplay a Sylvari Necromancer for the Nigthmare court, and need some input on a few questions I have

1. I know that Sylvari can not be made into Zhaitan’s Minions, and therefor we do not see Risen Sylvari. As I understand it, however, Snaff found that Dragon magic is different from “Normal” magic. Would that mean that Sylvari are possibly able to be affected by “Normal” Necromancy? Could for example, a Necromancer reanimate the corpse of a Sylvari, or perhaps just part of it??

2. Where exactly do Necromancer minions come from? In GW1 you had to have a dead corpse near in order to summon minions, but there appears to not be this restriction in GW2.. so.. If I am standing in Lion’s arch and I summon a Flesh Golem.. Where did the requite components come from??

3. What exactly is a shadow Fiend? I think its the only minion a necromancer summons that is not made of flesh and bone..

4. We see spirits all over the game, and you can talk to them, yet in Marjory’s story it seems special that she can talk to the spirit of the dead boy. Is this something that is normal for anyone, or could we simply assume that in the instances where a non-necromaner speaks to spirits, someone has offered a device or aid to the player? (Every time I recall speaking to spirits its for a Karma Heart)

I think that is all I have for now.. Maybe if I get some replies i will post more questions…

Anyone with some real idea as to why this happens and how to stop it..

Why is it, when I am in WvW, or Edge of the Mists, I still see player names.. even tho I have ALL names turned off??.

Now do I fix it so I don’t see a hoard of names when I’m with a Zerg!?

Please Please PLEASE for the love of the six gods and all things Holy..

Please put a small copper value on Dragonite Ore, Bloodstone Dust, and Empyreal fragments!!

These things drop at such an insane rate, that, even after crafting 140 Bloodstone Bricks, 90 Dragonite Ingots, and 40 Empyreal stars, I have 1,000 of each material in my Collection tabs.. I am SURE that I am not the only person who wishes that I could at LEAST vendor these mats to a Merchant.. Even if it was ONLY for like 7 copper per item..

7 Copper.. is not that much, its only 17s50c per STACK!

Just add “Join in” to Friends lists, and Guild Roster to make it a little easier to meet up with guild members and friends just in case you get split up.

Simple soloution is to group up.. it pools the groups damage in order to meet the thresh hold..

I have had it happen where when in a full group, I only need to hit the enemy once (For ~200pts) to get credit for the kill.. while solo I have to hit it at least 3 or 4 times (and hope for crits) to get credit.

Please allow us to “Join in” on any list we have like Friends lists, and Guild rosters. This would help greatly with the issues of Megaservers and being split up into different overflows..

You already allow us to join friends in PvP.. so why not in PvE?

Updated this post and made it shorter.

Forgot to mention times I play! Most of the time I log in around 19:00PST or later..

Hello!

I am Rizalee, and I am looking for a Guild! Specifically, I am looking for a PvE Guild, with little to no rep Requirements. I have a varied play schedule, and varied interests, so I need a guild with some flexibility with its rep requirements, however, I do spend most of my time doing PvE content.

I have five different Level 80s for Dungeon runs or Fractals!

My Broomstick is Gone!!

Zylonite.5913:

You need server identity to kill the server with the highest PPT. You also need to know which opposition guilds you facing to know what to expect in a fight.

If your server has the highest PPT on the map, then you most likely get 2v1’ed.

I could understand if we had the High Score, or PPT, but I don’t think that was the case… At least I am not 100% sure.. But I think its different from two different Zerges coming in at the same time.. and two servers commanders talking in voip about how to tag team a specific location with a specific strat….

style.6173:

There are a lot of times where we allow an enemy server to take another enemy’s keep. Why? It is more valuable to get a fully fortified keep reset than to win that particular fight.

That is completely different from what I am talking about, that is just letting the other side do the work, then taking it from them.

I’m taking about the two other servers not attacking each other, and only focusing on one side in the fights. I was online for hours last night, and very rarely saw Camps/Towers switch from BG to JQ or vice verse. They only went from TC to either BG or JQ. Another example from last night was when BG and JQ had two zerges hit North camp. BG attacked until they were nearly wiped, then they pulled out and JQ attacked, when JQ was nearly wiped they pulled out and BG attacked..

Thats the kind of thing that requires communication from outside the game.. IMHO…

Is it “working as intended” for servers to be able to work together to tag team one server in their match up??

If it is not.. Why not just make it so that you can not tell what server the other side is from? Instead of using “Blackgate Invader” make it just “Mist Invader” would that not help to prevent some level of “working together” when they are supposed to be at war?

I think I could be Ok with the “All or nothing” if we can still get the Boots, Gloves and Head items to play with. I mean as it stands right now, the Chest and Legs of most costume items are one piece already… Unless it is only a chest item.

I think you should just leave the individual items alone. Like the Khaki pants and the different shirts and hoodies.. At the very least, Create “All or nothing” sets with the tops and bottoms in all combinations so that it is possible to get the same look we had before…

Sorry Anet, but if this goes live like this, I am going to demand a gem refund on EVERY Style item I have purchased. My Pirate Outfit, my Witch outfit, and the Khaki pants and Cherry Blossom Shirt, Sunglasses as well.

I purchased these items to be town clothes, not armor skins.. if that is the case, I want my Gems back, because I will not use them as armor skins

Hey! Thanks for telling me how to get those achievements I thought I was never going to get!!

Joking… Joking… I saw those achievements, and I looked at my RAM (my Boyfriend stole/borrowed 4gigs of my ram!) and the lag I have been getting when in LA for the last two events, and just said Fook it.. I’m not even going to try them

WilliamDaBloody.2591:

The problem is: if you run to quickly at her you will be pushed back over and over again. Just dodge the first few circles (or run around them) and then there is enough time for the finisher.

Once I did this, meaning not go there as quickly as possible but let here do the first three attacks I had no problems getting the achiev.

Anyway, this achievement sucks…

I was attempting this on my Guardian, I tried the GS #3, “Retreat” + Judge’s Intervention, dodge to the side Ect… 4 times.

Then I waited.. I let her get her first three attacks off, then hit GS #3 and Spiked her no problem.

Any Ideas when this Teq bug is going to be fixed?

Zaxares.5419:

At least now we know the name of Mr “Squooshed Face”. Thank you for your service, Private Drax Tinderstrike. /salute

I don’t think Drax is him.. Drax was on Harbor Detail, So he would not have been posted near the bank

Yea.. The lighthouse.. I Really hope that father “bear” turns up alive.

I think the Best/Worst part of this Update is the missing NPCs… The ones you remember hearing for the longest time, and now they are gone, and you don’t know if they will be back.. and even if they are.. they won’t say the same things anymore, and you won’t even know if it is them or not because they were just nameless people…

Like the Salad joke Asura, the Skritt who was late meeting his girlfriend because he was being De-flead.. or the Charr who quit the Asuran guild because they were tougher than on her than an Iron Legionnaire..

~cry~

I hope they just add a cheap Value to them.. like say 5c or something so we can at least sell them to a vendor.. They should do that to ALL account bound items like that.

Danikat.8537:

Maybe to most people not playing at all is preferable to not doing as well as they might on ‘their’ map.

That is just something I don’t get.. If your not going to help.. Get out of the zone completely, leave it to people who want to win reguardless of “home” server or not..

Why would you not want to reward the people who actually worked to open the gate in the first place?

Argh..right in the feels..

Serously.. Made me tear up

It is probably too late to work this into this update.. but perhaps the next one…

If you guys ever do another Living story that has a location locked till an event is completed.. Please make participating in that event part of getting into the zone each time.. I was waiting in Gendarran Fields for the zone to open up again, and I see about a dozen people Auto-running into the gate.. As the event started this didn’t stop. People were fighting and dieing to get the event completed. Once it was completed tho, people who had worked to get the event done got stuck in overflows because of all the people who were auto running into the gate.

Can you fix that? Perhaps have the gate when its inactive port people a short distance away from the gate, or when the event ends have the gate create a Blast field a short distance infront of it that stuns players for about 15 seconds.. that way people working to complete the event have a shot at getting into the event on their home servers??

Zaxares.5419:

I think that Rytlock will officially welcome Rox into the Stone warband, and then put her on “reconnaissance” duties that allow her to keep adventuring with Braham and the others. After all, Rytlock and the other members of his warband rarely do anything together anymore, according to Logan’s dialogue; they are all high-ranking officers of the Legions, and their responsibilities means they wouldn’t have the time to personally see to every incident themselves.

Right, because welcoming her into the warband would also make her not a Gladium. It removes that shame from her. Given that all the other members are all High ranking, busy, Charr she would have to be given mostly solo assignments anyhow, so why not.. Its a perfect plan.

Siobhan.5273:

Then perhaps they should not “invoke” TTS and we when conversing about an issue such as the one we’re speaking of? If someone is going to speak as if they come from a position to do so, I’m not going to go out of my way to verify their authority to do so. This is something guild leadership should take care of.

TTS leadership can not be expected to monitor the posts and comments of all their members. It is up to the reader to always take what is said with a grain of salt and realize that anyone can say they are a member of TTS, or that they represent TTS, and this may or may not be true.

You have to do the event in Lornar’s Pass, and Bloodtide coast.

Oh.. Duh.. facepalm

I somehow forgot about the Aetherblades

So.. Looking at Scarlet’s Planned alliances.. We can see various races she planned to try to get to to ally…. Aparently the crossed out lines are failures…

The Problem is, I can’t identify two of the races on her list..

Coldin.2840:

Rizalee.4593:

? – Sylvari

Clearly it will be a reformed Scarlet. :P

Gods I hope you are wrong..

Fungalfoot.7213:

Yeah, the achievement should pop if you succeed in clearing your platform while dodging all attacks. It’s completely ridiculous that you have to rely on a bunch of randoms to succeed in scoring what is ultimately a personal achievement.

I think this would be the best fix.. At least limit it to your own platform.. Especially when I have seen runs where some platforms have 8 people and others only have 2, causing a guaranteed wipe on the 2 man platform.

Its the New Destiy’s Edge…

Rox – Charr
Braham – Norn
Kasmeer and Marjory – Humans
Taimi – Asura

? – Sylvari

Was it ever stated why the Developers decided to Archive the Dynamic Events, Personal Story, Suggestions, and Match-ups Forums?

Where are we supposed to submit related posts now?

Or, just add a number rating to each of the sliders used in character creation, so you can just wright numbers down and then recreate the character that way..

Suggestion 1: Please add an NPC to the game that will give/sell players the starter town clothes if they delete them..

Knowing that if you delete the starter town clothes you can’t get them back has caused me to hoard like 3 set of town clothes in my bank, I don’t want to delete them because what if I decide i want to move my town clothes from one toon to anohter? They wont have any town clothes at all?!

If you add an NPC that sells those clothes, then I could delete the ones I am not useing right now, and then buy new ones later if I want them back.

Suggestion #2: Make town clothes Account bound, so that I only need to keep one set aside, and I can just create and delete a new character if I need to get a new set of town clothes for some reason.

I’m not sure if this has been said or suggested before, but would you lovely Devs please consider making all the PvE Guild Boosts have the same time duration (perhaps 3 days for each one) like all the WvW guild Boosts have the same duration?

As a guild leader its very troublesome to to manage guild buffs when they have different durations. For example, my guild would love to be able to, on Friday morning, activate all the guild’s buffs for the weekend, and not have to worry about them for the weekend.. as it is.. to get our guild buffed up for the weekend, we would need to build Two Gathering boosters, one magic find booster, 3 kill xp booster, 3 karma boosters, and 3 gold boosters.

So my question is this.. Can we make managing a guilds boosts and upgrades just a little bit easier? Make them all last the same amount of time… So guild leaders can focus less on what booster needs to be built next, and more on playing?

I have tried WvW, but it seems like I can never find an aggressive Commander to follow who is taking towers and such… Sigh

I have only ever seen one Karma Train in WvW. When do you usually see that happening, Thursday Nights/Friday Mornings?

Do your Daily each day.. then do Fractals, then use your Karma and Fractal Relics and laurels to buy the Shards that you need.. That is what I am doing..

My Personal level is 28 and I run levels 1-10 as many times as I can with a Birthday Booster and/or Karma Booster and that gets me about 10-11k Karma per run.

Other than that.. Event Chains would be the only way I can think of otherwise to get Karma…

I suppose that is going to be what I have to do..

Well.. I suppose my issue is not “fast” so much as “Consistent” So I can pop a booster and go at it, secure in the knowledge that I’m not going to end up standing around for hours at a time wasting the booster..

I’ve been trying to find a way to farm karma (Working on a Legendary) .. Ive Tried the Queensdale train, but it is very very disorganized, and I only got about 200 Karma per event…

I keep hearing something about Orr, but the last time there was a good farm there was before they fixed Plinx.. Unless (Anet) didn’t mess with the Penitent Path/Shelter’s gate/Jofast’s Events?

Any tips would be appreciate..

I said something like this a while back and the idea was to give players a feeling of actually getting a reward, instead of something that just magically appears on the right side of the screen..

How lame would the daily feel if you only got 1 item from it? Some days all you get for the daily is a Mystic Coin, Essence of luck, and Karma item. If you didn’t actually receive the karma/Essence items it would feel pretty empty..