Guild Wars 2

Hey!

I wanted to share my latest video project with you guys as it is a little promo for the game!

“Welcome to Tyria – Guild Wars 2 Fan Trailer”
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ULH8s7fGVA

Everything in the video is original self-recorded in-game footage.

For those who are interested, my total time invest in the video making was about 30 solid working hours (excluding pauses) and I used Fraps to record and Sony Movie Studio to edit it.

Special thanks to the guild Thousand Lakes Alliance [TLA] for bringing me the in-game characters I needed for the video!

I hope you enjoy it. See you in the game!
- Sammpo

Heya!

Me and Delsea spent weeks on writing a Guild Wars 2 song called “Dailies”, it is a parody of Rihanna’s Diamonds.

Then after months of looking. We found a talented vocalist called SilverLetomi to perform it. We hope you all enjoy the results!

Music video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4XELxkY1o

Letomi’s Youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/user/SilverLetomi

- Sammpo

Music video for “Fear Not Twilight”. GW2 parody of Jeremy Soule’s “Fear Not This Night”

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_8sx50pIR0
Download (audio only): https://soundcloud.com/delsea-721946747/fear-not-twilight-feat-jovana

Collaborators:
- Vocals by Jovana
- Lyrics by Delsea
- Machinima by Sammpo
Shoutouts to the wielders of legendary weapons in the video!
- Gadian, Santtux, Casual Treehugger & Rumpo The Fierce

Happy precursor hunting!

LYRICS:

Fear not Twilight
There is now another way
When prices fall
Slightly less you will pay
Unlock all the collections
Do a world boss train and you’ll see
You’ve lit up some little squares
These are your first steps to the pre
Fractals and some old events
Help your scavenging progress steadily
Then open the Trading Post
And see that we all want
Soft Wood and Deldrimor
Crafting for Nevermore

Fear not Twilight
It will be yours someday
It’s a great sword
And with Dusk, you’re halfway
And you can always respawn
Tell the map with the first sight of Dawn
Dawn’s just a heartbeat away
H.O.P.E.‘s just a Sunrise away

Combine your new precursor
Mystic Clovers, and Bloodstone Shard
Runestones, gifts, and ecto forged
With the trophies and lumberyard
Tier 3 Astralaria
Gently grieving in captive misery
Farm a stack of Ley Line Sparks
And your H.O.P.E. is now charged up
Striving for Eternity…
So incrementally!

Fear not Twilight
Unless you’re Free-to-Play
See those footfalls
And the star overlay
And you can learn from the Norns
Just as long as you bought Heart of Thorns
Dawn’s just a spreadsheet away
H.O.P.E.’s just a Sunrise away

medohgeuh.4650:

Account-wide dye

Indeed. It’s annoying to play multiple characters when the game doesn’t support that. More account-wide features like the Wallet we recently got are needed. I think World vs. World ranks should be one, I feel sad for my main when I play WvW on alts.

RenoMiranda.2685:

Arenanet’s president said that they will try to leave the champion farming as it is for now. He said that some people just like to farm and thats the way they play the game and if they patch this players will just find another way to make gold. I dont think champion farming is going away in the bear future

Yeah that was at PAX. He also said that they could do some controlling moves like 24 hour limit to event or champion rewards but that could hurt rest of the player-base.

I still think having daily limit on events and champions could be better than this – it’s tough to just say “If you don’t like it, don’t do it” when it’s clearly the best way of making gold and you can get almost everything in the game with gold.

Anyway, if this gets nerfed people could find a new way to farm like a random veteran chain or something that we can’t expect now.

Some people are against the nerf because they see this as a nice opportunity to get Gemstore items with gold… even it doesn’t matter because the value of the gems depends on how much people are buying them. So it’s always equal fast to get gems if you keep using the best way to farm gold.

So far I like champion farming more than Citadel of Flame, though I don’t like this type of gameplay AT ALL.

In my opinion they shouldn’t have nerfed Karma gains. The problem is that Karma is a currency you keep getting all the time when you play but you won’t have use for it forever – no matter how much you nerf amount of Karma gained from events etc. people will end up having millions of Karma after they don’t need it anymore.

- There should be a way to continuously spend Karma, buying boosters with Karma for example?

It’s okay to nerf Karma gains so people won’t get Temple God Exotic gear just from leveling to 80 but then there’s another problem: Easy-to-get Crafted Exotic Gear. However, that’s another topic.

Hi, suggestion for security in character deletion.

We know when you’re going to delete one of your characters the game verifies your action by asking you to enter your character’s name that you’re going to delete, you type the name and then press Enter and it’s gone.

Issue:

Imagine a weird situation that would probably never happen, but if it could, it would hurt:

- You’re in LAN party (or something like that) playing Guild Wars 2. You decide to leave your character online and have a toilet break (because closing the game for few minutes is silly). While you’re AFK, the random guy that was next to you, can delete your character you were used to love for years, in under 30 seconds.

And there’s account rollbacks only for “hacked” accounts?

How to solve:

- Make the game also ask for your Account Information when deleting characters.

It just feels sad how easily big things can be done… even it’s rare, it’s possible. Thoughts?

I found two ways to solve this problem:

- Make Elementalists and Engineers able to weapon swap, out of combat only, though.
I know this might sound ridiculous but I think it’s annoying to open inventory and/or hero panel to swap weapons when it could be easily keybinded.

or

- Make it so you can swap weapons in combat but doing that every skill goes on full of its recharge time. Advantage? You can wait without having to leave the combat.

Good feature in my opinion. Though this is probably coming to PvP first as Colin Johanson mentioned in MattVisual’s interview at PAX.

Link to the Colin Johanson interview (YouTube):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy7CcwnfUdU

Hello folks, I’m here with suggestion about skins.

Issue:

Guild Wars 2 is giving players alot of new skins on updates but at this point it seems like alot of that potential is going to waste as most of player-base is only collecting one set of skins per character because of the current skin system.

There are many people who would like to collect different looking armor sets (skins) but the current Transmutation-system is blocking it as it combines two items’ stat/skin/upgrade -components into one item (making you lose 3 out of 6 components) and consumes one Transmutation Stone or Crystal.

How to solve:

What I like to see is Dye Mode -type of feature in the game, called “Skin Mode”. So how Skin Mode works is you consume one Transmutation Crystal to save item’s skin and then you have it forever in your “Skin List”. Skin List is used to swap between “learned” skins on the fly for free (like how you do with Dyes) as long as you’re out of combat.

- Transmutation Stones could work on saving up skins that are on lvl 1-79 items (as Crystals are for lvl 80 stuff) or just re-make it so you can pick handful of Transmutation Stones and throw them into the Mystic Forge to create one Crystal.

- Items that are already “Skins” (ex. Wings of the Sunless) would work exactly like Dyes: Double-click to “learn”.

I could really see this working as a viable feature in Guild Wars 2 as it gives players a reason to play through the content to max out their collection of skins!