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Race.. Grr!

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You might’ve already done this, but whenever I roll a new character I take them into the mists and use the armor closet. You can bring them in as soon as the intro section is done, so it wouldn’t take long to bring both an asura & human in to see what options you like.

You can preview all the armor, mix & match and even try out different color combos by pulling up the trading post and previewing the dyes. The dyes will preview right along with the armor you’re previewing.

By previewing at the closet, you can make sure there’s at least a few looks you would like by end game. This is also really useful for checking out how different armor fits on different body types too!

Question on hard to kill thief in WvW

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Thank you!

Made me want to pick up my thief and learn to play it better.

Question on hard to kill thief in WvW

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Earlier tonight I met up with a very hard to kill thief in WvW, and was wondering if anyone had ideas on the build they might be running.

They used d/d, a lot of heartseeker/deathblossom, dagger storm for the elite. I know they were also using some conditions — two sizes of red circles, a large and a small. I’m not sure what conditions they were, as I evaded or cleaned off them without noticing.

I wasn’t at my best (mesmer) since I had skill bar full of zerg hiding/portaling items, and nothing that would help me in a 1v1. This thief really impressed me, though. This was taking place at a camp, and the thief would kill the vets & supervisor, and I would heal them up, all while fighting one another. The supervisor never seemed to land a blow on them.

Another person came into the fight (on my side). The thief downed them twice (my zerg hiding skills came in useful there, since I could mass invis & res the other person), all the while the thief healed themselves up quickly.

I could get the thief down to maybe 50% before they were able to heal themselves up. It might’ve gone on for a long time, but more enemies came through, and that was that.

Still, I’m curious as to what could keep a thief healing up so quickly and seemingly having a lot of initiative to be doing so many heartseeker / death blossoms. I have a thief, but even when I wear knight’s armor I feel semi-squishy. No way I could take on two people in the middle of an enemy camp, with the supervisor and vets after me!

Kudos to whoever that thief was!!

Play Christmas without friends!

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I’d be nice to have the option to join as a group, or singly. But I would not want them to take away the ability to join by yourself, like they did with the Toypocolypse.

I enjoy jumping into a game without having to put a party together. Even though I would also love it if our parties could stay together while entering an event, I wouldn’t want to lose the ability to play solo.

So yes, I agree… but only if we can have both!

[Merged] Cultural Human T3 Not Exclusive

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@Wintel – Your original post sited the numbers of male vs female players, and told me to “do the math” on what was financially feasible for Anet to spend their resources on given those player base statistics. No matter the wording, that makes it seem divisive: men vs women players, and spending money on what Anet deems that men would want.

You might not have meant to lump people together or used the words ‘target demographic’, but the natural conclusion to your argument was that due to the player base being largely male, it wasn’t worth the expenditure to put money into designing different versions of armor.

In regards to GW2 and armor, I think for the most part we agree. They have done a good job on the armors in this game. I don’t even think of these things as problems, more annoyances. As I stated in my post, I’d fallen in love with the male look for T3 Human, and had been disappointed it wasn’t attainable. It’s not a big problem, not even a little problem. But if we are wishing for things to be different, it is something that I’d wish for.

As far as the original statement by OP, although I personally don’t like the underboob (I can’t stop thinking she’d need double sided tape to keep it there when she moves, but that’s just me), the armor itself is designed with attention to detail and fits into the world of Tyria just fine (in my opinion).

[Merged] Cultural Human T3 Not Exclusive

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2.)Important! Skimpy men armor. If guys get a piece of digital girl candy to stare at, why can’t girls get ours as well?

You can have your underboob, but let me have my undernuts as compensation

Was this a joke or was this serious, I can’t tell.
Firstly, please look up what “genitals” are (in a dictionary preferably) and why any part of them aren’t allowed in standard media.
Secondly, there are a few somewhat revealing sets for males, though it’s not at equal as what females get…

That wouldn’t have been meant literally. She just means, the game needs more skimpy male armor to balance things out.

Although it does make me laugh to try and think of an armor that could pull it off. It’d have to be some sort of crazy bondage armor to pull off only showing the undersides without any thing else more dangly.

I wouldn’t want the more skimpy female armor taken out, but rather, give us more options. Give a skimpy option for male & female, and a more covered (the “male” look) for both female & male.

…Which brings us to the 3rd point of explaining why (and it’s a bit more complicated). The MMO gender ratieos are changing, but the dominant chunk of players are still male.

The Daedalus Project was a 6 year study of MMORPG demographics (finished in 2009), with a sample size of 40,000 it found out that 85% of MMORPG players are male across the top MMO’s. Extremely broad MMO’s like WoW had around a ~70-75% male ratio while more specific ones like EVE were 96% male.

You do the math and figure out whether ArenaNet should spend resources designing sets of gear that most of the playerbase won’t be interested in. Think about it from a business and financial standpoint.

The statement above is unfair to both men and women.

You’re lumping all men together, saying they wouldn’t be interested in having a balance of armor. I’m sure a lot of men would like to have their women characters in some of the armor that’s only available to male characters. And they might also be interested in showing off their chest in medium or light armor, and not just in the heavy armor.

You’re also lumping all women together, saying they are the only ones that don’t like the skimpy look. Some women love the skimpy armor! It’s not a matter of men vs women.

Also, just because women are outnumbered by men, and maybe are not the target demographic, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have a voice or should give up stating their opinion. If everyone everywhere just gave up on things because they were outnumbered, there would be no change and improvement.

I can understand they look at the bottom line and that I most likely won’t get things like male versions of armor for female characters, but it doesn’t mean I shouldn’t say I would like to have it.

In regards to this armor, it’s a matter of opinion (personal opinion, not male vs female opinion!) if you like it or not, or find it morally repugnant, incredibly cute or just meh.

@Zero Day — I want to see full kittening WvW commando! The full monty zerg racing down from the hill! Rawr! Really though, I would love a kilt and just a chest strap for my norn guy & also my charr.

[Merged] Cultural Human T3 Not Exclusive

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There are several annoyances with armors in this game. One of the bigger annoyances is the difference between male/female armor.

Personally, I don’t like the female human medium armor. I wouldn’t ever put it on a character, but don’t have a problem with those who love it and want it on theirs.

However! I do love the human male medium armor, and I really wanted that when I saw it. I was incredibly disappointed to find out, as a female character, that armor was impossible to attain.

There are several other armors that do this same thing, most notably some of the new gem armor they released.

I wouldn’t want the more skimpy female armor taken out, but rather, give us more options. Give a skimpy option for male & female, and a more covered (the “male” look) for both female & male.

There are other armor annoyances, such as the designers not caring to make sure more unpopular body types have armor that fit them correctly. I finally gave up and changed my norn to a more popular body type, just to end all the clipping. But that’s an annoyance for another thread.

Disconnects and lag

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I’ve also been experiencing disconnects since the last patch. Just now it disconnected and took ten minutes to connect again. It seems to be happening randomly, but this time was in Queensdale. I’m on Tarnished Coast.

Thank you for Trickster armor

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I love this set too. Only it’s wrong for my light characters. I wish they had a stone that would change the value of armor. I would buy that, and change this to medium! It would be sooo perfect for my engineer. It’s looks like it was made to have some guns at the hip, or a rifle on the back!

Home Instance Rewards

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I love getting things for our home instances, the more the better!

I have a question —

The item is account bound when you get it, but you “open” it on a character.

I’ve opened both of mine on the same character to grow her home instance. My other characters don’t have anything in their instances, but I can take this character and go into any home instance, and she has the nodes there, no matter what land it is.

What happens if you want to delete that character? Anyone know?

Or do I have a bug, and all characters are supposed to have it but only in their own home instance?

[TTS]Tequatl Tickle Squad[OCEANIC NOW TOO]4th

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I’d like an invite too, please!

Tequatl NEEDS a Timer!

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It sounds like Rammie is talking about disliking the 15 minute kill timer and wanting that removed, while the thread is talking about wanting a regular spawn timer to know when the event will start.

I don’t think Anet will be removing the 15 minute kill timers, so it would be really really great if we had a regular spawn time, or even some pre-event that lets us know it’s going to happen soon.

As it is, the most warning we get is a few seconds when the fish heads disappear and that’s only if the previous kill was unsuccessful!

I’ve seen the event fail so many times because either everyone was prepped early but got bored and out of place by a late spawning time, or the dragon spawned early, and no one was back from afk yet.

I agree with Taisia, either a timer is needed or a way to start the event is needed.

Tequatl the Sunless loot = Greens and Blues

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That would’ve been nice to know about last week, before I spent so many hours (and hours and hours…) trying to kill him. :/

Guess I should visit the forum more often.

I'm completely broken and lost all hope

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I wasn’t aware there was such an organization/specialized guild group until now.

I rarely visit the forums, except when there’s patch notes and/or I’ve had a bug with the game. After the patch today I logged on to see what they’d updated since the 17th, then decided to look through the forum here since I’d just made my first kill (got into my server when the patch hit!).

Guilds like that are great, and had I known of it days ago I couldn’t saved myself a lot of frustration and many hours spent!

However, I’m sure there are a lot of people like me out there that weren’t/aren’t aware of it. For those people, it’d be nice if some other option was available other than the suggested 1. waiting & failing, 2. joining a guild that is advertised on the forums, and 3. not doing it.

If they can’t do something about the overflows, it’d be nice if there was even some sort of cross-overflow chat system. Then all the overflows could get an announcement that a guild formed to kill the dragon. Programming wise that probably wouldn’t work, but I’m still wishing I’d heard about the guild days ago!

Tequatl the Sunless loot = Greens and Blues

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I’m not frustrated, but maybe a little let down. I have very bad luck, both with RNG and the overflows I end up in. I doubt I’ll go back very often until I can get into my own server more easily.

I’ve been spending upwards of 6 hours in overflows since this began (sometimes much more), and only got my first kill today. Most the time the overflows didn’t even get the 75% box. Finally, after waiting/trying/failing in overflows for 3 hours, the patch let me sneak into my server (yay, patch!) We won, and I got my kill and my… blues. One green. A level 5 opal jewel. And the dragonite ore. The smaller “wiggly” chests on the screen didn’t give much either. I seemed to end up with about five blue cleric spears. Yay, me!

So while I was excited to finally get the kill and my achievements, I doubt I’ll be putting in 5 or 6 hours waiting time for some more blues. Maybe once it dies down, and I can get into the main server easier (or the overflows learn how to pull together) I’ll try again.

Preview on Transmuted Armor bugged

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Thanks! I tried doing a search in the thread first, but couldn’t find anything. I guess I should’ve done a post on the ‘search’ function being bugged, too! ^.^

Mine is still bugged, anything transmuted previews as the original piece. I’ve now noticed several posts about the same thing, so hopefully they’re working on it! Glad you posted one with pictures, wasn’t sure I was explaining it well enough.

Preview on Transmuted Armor bugged

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Preview on transmuted armor isn’t working on my characters.

There used to be a bug where the thumbnail of a transmuted piece of armor had the original thumbnail image in the “sell” tab of a vendor. Now in addition to that bug, preview isn’t working correctly.

When I use “preview” my character shows up in the original piece of armor instead of what I’ve transmuted it into. If I put it on my character, it shows correctly. It is only in preview. I’ve mistakenly sold a cultural piece of armor to the vendor and didn’t realize it for over a day, since when I previewed I thought it was a plain piece of armor. At least is was only a Tier 2 piece!

New Transmute Stone - A Switching Crystal

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I would love a new type of transmutation stone that switches the skins between two items, everything else being equal, and doesn’t destroy anything. Primarily for L80 exotics.

Both items would have to be the same level and type (or just only L80 exotics), and then the crystal would switch the skins between the two.

Why? Because at this point it’s all about looking good while kicking kitten!

Sometimes I’d just like to be able to make my knights gear look like my zerker gear, without having to destroy one of them. Or without having to buy/make a duplicate set for transmuting.

My little mesmer is loaded down with two sets of rampager gear that I don’t use but don’t want to lose (expensive skins!) and two sets of berserker gear (got tired of the human cultural look, but it was too expensive to lose in transmuting!).

It’s getting pretty darn expensive switching things around manually, especially since I have so many alts.

I’d absolutely love it if there was some type of closet where you could put your skins and the stats were separate, of course. But that changes the whole set up of pve/wvw armor, and I don’t see it happening.

A new transmuting stone that switched the skin (instead of transmuting and destroying) would be amazing, and could be sold in the gem shop and put in BL chests, which we all know Anet loves!

Mail with support tokens vanished [Merged]

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This happened to me also. I know my mail box was full, since I’ve been trying to get the ‘mailbox full’ hint achievement. Still didn’t get the achievement, and now lost the two emails. Figures, lol!

Aetherblade Retreat PUG-Friendly Finder!

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I’d like an invite too. Haven’t made it through the last boss yet, so right now I’d be happy just finishing it!

05/10/2013 NA Tier 2: DB/FA/TC

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My asura wants to play! Score update time!!

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I want to teach people Twilight Arbor

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I just ran across this and had to reply, especially after seeing that last post. I can see my name, lol! (Rienke)

Although not new-new to TA (I’d guess maybe 8 to 10 times, mostly on the up/up path, a few f/f and once f/u), I really appreciated your leadership on that run. I’d caught on to some of the tricks before by imitating the others I was running with, but it was really nice to hear what should actually be done, why & where. I learned a few things, which I always like.

Plus, it was really nice to be with a group that was pleasant and encouraging, rather than sniping at one another. All my runs have been through the lfg site, and this was one of the best groups. At the time I didn’t know you were looking to help people through the dungeon, and I remember thinking how refreshing it was to have someone go out of their way to help (especially when Klem joined).

Thanks again!

Arah Vets grouping together to do Arah Runs

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If this is still going on (helping those with no Arah experience), I’d love to join.

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Professions: Ele, Thief, Ranger, Mesmer, Engineer. (Been doing dungeons on the ele)

Ele: D/D, Staff ; Water/Arcana ; switch attunements often, auras & boons
Thief: D/P, Shortbow ; Shadow/Acrobatics, DPS gear
Ranger: Longbow, Sword/Warhorn or Axe ; Zerker/Knight gear
Mesmer: Scepter/focus or torch, Staff ; Condition build with all condition armor, but working on getting zerker set to retrait between WvW & dungeons. Have zerker greatsword & sword, and some pieces of gear already.
Engineer: Condition build with p/p, Condition/Toughness armor

Experience: No Arah experience.
Time: After 8pm pacific is best, but sometimes can get on as early as 5pm pacific.

Other: Have done fractals, TA & AC. Quick learner, and willing to take advice before & during dungeons. I’ve mostly been doing dungeons on my ele, switching manually between d/d and staff as the situation warranted.

Will retrait or update characters to better serve the mechanics of the dungeon if needed to!

Whispers leggings ruined

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I’m also hoping this was unintentional and it’ll change back soon. Wish someone would give us an answer. The red looks neon compared to the other colors on my sylvari thief

If it doesn’t change back guess I’ll be looking into a transmuting it. Too bad the fine transmutation stones already were on sale, guess I should’ve invested then!

Teleport Hack in Jumping Puzzle

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Sometimes I think things must look different from other people’s screens. Two days into the puzzle I hadn’t made it into the box yet, but while jumping someone accused me of using a portal hack. They said it looked like to them I was disappearing without jumping or falling.

In general map chat they told everyone to report me, to which I immediately responded with a ‘hey, I’m here and a real person!’ They still didn’t believe me. I don’t mind if they reported me, since it wasn’t until two hours later that I actually made the box & got the prize for the first time. I’m sure anet would be able to check and see that I’ve only opened the chest once (didn’t try again after I finally got it!)

Still, it was a little disconcerting to be accused of hacking/botting/farming when really I’d been putting in a lot of effort into beating that kitteny puzzle! (not a great jumper, but persistent!)

Option to Preview Armors Outside Our Profession

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Agree – this is very annoying! I want to be able to try on outfits for my alts without actually having to make room in the bank, sign off, sign back on, look, then go back to my other character again.

I also like taking one character into the mists to look at the locker, and plan future looks for all my alts.

Please change it back!

Jumping Puzzle Feedback [Merged]

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I like the jumping puzzle, though I haven’t completed it yet and I’ve been trying for hours. I’ve actually reached the end four times, but twice I died on edge of the open present and twice I jumped into the present and got a flicker of the end screen but then was sent back to the jumping puzzle.

It would be nice if the wait time could be shortened, either by separating those that have finished it from those trying, or some other way. Also nice would be if knocking down people with snowballs could count towards some type of holiday achievement, so you could be working towards something during those minutes.

The setting is beautiful and I liked being able to watch people as they ran the course, so pluses on both of those!