Guild Wars 2

Amaimon.7823:

Yours is the 395882th time this has been brought up.
Every single time everyone gives praise and hallelujah to the concept of marking minor runes and sigils for what they are: JUNK
And yet, after 4 years, anet still hasn’t even given their opinion on the matter.

As for your second matter, yea, collection items should be trophies, I agree, but I don’t get them very often so I’m not too bothered by them.

Fair enough – I don’t hang out here often but from what you say I shouldn’t hold my breath.

Whilst on the topic of junk related wishes that will probably go unfulfilled I’d like junk to over-ride invisible bags. Again so useless you’d never want to NOT sell it.

S

I have a couple of suggestions regarding “junk”.

1) I’d like to be able to designate certain items (minor runes and sigils) as junk. This would mean that I’d auto sell them to merchants.

2) Items that say “This item only has value as part of a collection.” should also be junk, right? I understand that once you’ve picked them up they’ve been unlocked and that’s all you need.

Thoughts?

Traveler’s! Thank you .. I remember now thinking “didn’t they remove that prefix with the magic find changes…?” but ofc they are just reusing that prefix.

Last night someone “pinged” an item to chat, unfortunately I don’t remember its name but I was a set of glasses/goggles for LIGHT armor professions. When previewed on my asura it looked a bit like these. (real world version)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Gas-welding-goggles.jpg

I asked them where they got it but no reply. Anyone know what that skin is called and how I might obtain it?

S

Oh kittens!

Just realised I never spent my remaining festival tokens… not that I had many left and I still scored a panda and F&F gauntlet ticket… but nevertheless d’oh! :P

The question is will I get home in time to spend them… 5.45pm uk time…? Only A-net knows and even they are probably not quite sure yet.

S

Hello!

Prospective student here. Would love to get better acquainted with dungeons, especially TA, CoE and Arah. Being able to solo at least some of these things (someday) would be great!

I have 6 classes at level 80, not including thief or warrior unfortunately but I see some youtube content for Mesmers and Eles; is that still valid?

Gunnar’s Hold (EU), happy to communicate in game or on TS

Shin

Not quite as quick as I’d like but I do it this way.

• Go to <your server here> borderlands.
• Go to any crafting station.
• Put the stuff in the box.
• Switch characters.
• Go to <your server here> borderlands.
• Go to any crafting station.
• Get the stuff out of the box.
• Exit mists.

Please note that neither character has to lose their position in the PVE world (like they would if you mapped to a town to achieve this for example).

Shin

Daggers (actually only one but I can dual wield the skin thanks to the wardrobe). They look pretty cool on my Asuran ele.

With the “change” I purchased an ascended accessory because as others have pointed out they are fairly expensive to purchase by other means.

Maybe travellers are a bit expensive…? Are they still near 10G apiece? In which case advice on mobility needed!

I not really happy with my Mesmer’s current set up. I’m trying to be condition based with runes of perplexity and various pieces of condition focussed equipment (mostly commonly dire) but it’s not working as well as it should.

I want to completely “re-roll” his set up. My interests are mostly PVE and WvW (zerging and roaming).

I plan to salvage my armour with a BL kit and sell the Runes which will go a long way to towards covering the cost of new gear including (possibly) runes of the traveller (seems to be a popular choice ). In terms of gear stats I have lots of badges of honour and plan to visit to visit a WvW armour merchant OR build a satchel of celestial armour.

So thoughts anyone? Good builds/set ups to use?

Shin

“Dead ppl WP plz!” the cry goes out “I won’t res you if you’re dead”. How many times have we seen that at group events?

I for one am in the “Waypoint if dead” (defeated) supporters club and don’t expect people to res me under those circumstances. I think it would be helpful if the game made a greater differentiation between downed and defeated players. I suggest the following.

• When you are next to a downed player a standard revive (F) prompt appears

• When you are next to a defeated player a RESURRECT prompt appears instead (quite possibly bound to a different key)

• This allows you (if you wish) to quickly pick up downed players without getting bogged down with the slow process of “ressing” defeated players.

(Alternatively you could use “Rally” and “Revive”, I know Resurrect is not used as players are never considered dead in lore. Skills that currently refer to “revive” would need to be changed to “Rally” but they don’t work on defeated players anyway on the whole)

Shin

Radakill.3469:

Cant seem to find a specific suggestion area so Im posting this here:

I suggest elems have a swap slot for an additional weapon, that only works ooc. Seems like a pretty simple thing to add in, and would still be in line with the devs idea of present combat.

This would make a horde of elems happy.

As I player with an ele main I support this. A strictly out of combat weapon swap facility would be useful without giving us 40 weapon skills in a combat situation. I’d also find the following benefits useful.

• Extra “slot” for staff or weapon and offhand, puts us on a par with other professions

• An alternative way to equip a staff after a weapon and offhand combo that does NOT result in your offhand being placed somewhere unexpected in your inventory

I think to be fair Engineers need an out of combat weapon swap slot too.

Shin

Hi Anet

Congrats on the megaserver, it seems to work beneficially in most cases, however I have one major issue.

I would like to participate in the Karka Queen event regularly but I work a 9-5 job (uk time) and the event occurs at the following times; 11.30am, 5pm and 2am

This pretty much rules it out for a normal week day since I’m either in work or asleep.

I wouldn’t mind if this was “just another world boss” but this the only one the of three classed as an “extra-hard world bosses” that regularly completes successfully (in my experience).

Can you work out a variation of the rotation (much akin to the way dailys vary in a predictable fashion) to ensure that there’s a bit more variety on the timings please? That way we’d all get to have a go if we wanted one.

As it stands at moment my default “extra-hard” world boss experience consists of racing home from work to be just in time to jump on for Tequatl, finding myself in an overflow and seeing that overflow failing hard.

Shin

Not sure if this a bug or “feature” or indeed if it’s still active, but it has been possible to have racial allegiance with a race you would not normally be allowed. I did this by accident with my Asuran elementalist.

Basically you party up with a character of another race for their personal story when they get to choose a race and choose to accept their outcome as your own. (obviously you must also be at this stage in personal story).

S

Azrael.4960:

Consider how it would affect your character’s personal setup. If you’ve made progress on your personal story for a particular race, then what happens if you change your race suddenly? How is that retconned? This is especially relevant when you’ve made progress in race specific quests

I think it wouldn’t break anything as long as it was unable to be used until after the so called “Order Arc” has been started.

In terms of racial allegiance I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t break anything either. I have a good reason to suspect this; My Asura has Skritt allegiance!

This was achieved (completely by accident) by teaming up with my wife’s Sylvari character for her personal story at the point were this was chosen. I then choose to accept her outcome.

Point being, this didn’t break anything.

Shin

Raelag Arkhen.6347:

Just delete the already given tickets by making those ones useless, give chests to EVERYONE with a new kind of tickets that can be used to buy weapons. This way, those who already got their chests, once or twice, won’t get any advantage of it anymore, and it’ll all be fair!

Actually I’m not sure that I want a weapon. If it’s “just” exotic with a fancy skin then I could buy that with dungeon tokens…

What I can’t get so cheaply is the two ascended accessories (it says accessories, not rings) I will be able to get if I forgo a weapon…

Food for thought?

In any case I was previously in the “just give everyone with the meta a weapon token” camp but this delay has given me time to think about what is actually useful to me.

Shin

With you on this. Also found it rather confusing in aspect arena.

Lishtenbird’s suggestion would work well for WvW (perhaps neutral foes would have to be yellow or some other colour to indicate their neutral-but-hostile stance) and for activities too.

Alternatively activities could work with an “always blue” set up. That is to say that each player see’s himself, his team mates and his objectives in blue and all the opposing ones in red. Strangely enough the other team think they are blue too, it’s just a convention on how the data is displayed on screen. This means you are never confused if you switch sides between rounds!

S

Bolthar.7192:

The game is almost 2 years old! Only what… 2 months left? I think I speak for the whole community when I say this features has been missing for too long.

The cheers of glee that would be made if this feature finally added! The deepest sleeping Elder Dragon would hear us like the Grinch heard the Who’s in Whoville!

That had occurred to me too. Along similar lines I’d like to propose a “can equip/use filter” which automatically filters out anything that can’t be used by the current character.

S

I did this in the early hours of yesterday morning, less than 36 hours ago (I’m an insomniac, deal with it ).

I died on the first 4-5 attempts on what shall thenceforth be called THE DEATH SLIDE, but then I realised I hadn’t got Decent of Shadows (halves falling damage) active. After that I got in fine, although I deliberately landed on some stalagmites part way down to split the drop into survival chunks.

However I did suspect something was different because when I made it to the dark room at the end I thought it was much harder to see, even when I moved the gamma slider.

S

100% this

That had occurred to me too. The simplest case would be to leave them as they are or to make the HoM and achievement skins “free” to reskin to.

Anything that stops them from being free and unlimited use would be doing the players a grave disservice.

S

Rayti.6531:

In case of the spider queen it would have been enough to make it a personal achievement, so that only the person who wants it must not be cocooned and eaten afterwards. Of course that would be a (too) easy to get achievement.

There are already three achievements to be gained just by beating specific champions and a further two (ignoring the knights) to be gained by beating specific champions whilst avoiding a particular attack or mechanic. This suggestion would therefore be on a par with the latter so I’d say reasonably “fair” compared to other events. Crucially it would be close enough to troll proof.

enlightened.5396:

Also an issue with players purposefully dragging menders towards the blue knight to have it heal mid-fight. Again a player admitted he was doing this in map chat.

Personally I’ve been fortunate enough to have not knowingly encountered this but I did see blue’s health spike back up a couple of times so who knows whether that was a chance encounter or deliberately “dragged” mender(s)? The good news is they have removed the menders now.

There are already threads around that allude to people taking up a calibration “slot” at a knight and not participating in the event which is a problem if it “locks out” someone who wanted to actively take part.

Shin

A long time ago on the internet some of us were very happy to read the following… (because we know that people can be kittens (and not the cuddly sort))

Eric: A few things need to be said about the event system here. One of the primary goals when we design each and every event is ensuring that the event is not griefable. The entire point of the event system is that players work together to succeed at events, therefore the only way to manipulate the system in a negative way would be to cause an event to fail.

“Events never encourage player conflict, and never have fail conditions that can be actively triggered by players.”Events never encourage player conflict, and never have fail conditions that can be actively triggered by players. For example, you won’t see any events that require players to be “stealthy” by say, sneaking by some sleeping guards. A player in this situation could quite easily choose to wake the guards up and ruin the fun for everyone. In the case where a player or group of players have figured out how to cause an event to fail, we have been very careful to not make any one particular event more desirable than another.

However a players opportunity to get the No Free Lunch can be sabotaged by someone running in early and getting themselves cocooned and eaten. I have seen people (on Desolation) doing this obviously on purpose…. (which was confirmed by their map chat as their intention)

Another example is during phase two of the Defeat Scarlet’s Prime Hologram… event. A clever/coordinated group can kill the Dynamic, Static and Synergetic holograms at around the same time. Their "reward " for this is that the rest of the event is much easier and therefore they are more likely to succeed. However it’s possible to “fail” the easy approach by prematurely killing one before the others are close to dying. This means that the event will involve a larger number of foes and be more difficult. Again the “power” to do this lies with anyone who cares to do so, either by deliberate action or just failing to read the update notes or map chat.

I believe that unfortunately these two events all too readily provide griefing opportunity so please please please consider how to make future events more robust against the actions of a malicious (or clueless) few!

Kind regards

Shin

Shin Phoenix.9243:

My guess is that LA will change from being a town to an explorable area, although there may well be some “remodelling”/damage caused by Scarlet and co.

I finished LA explorable last night, didn’t take long at all.

S

… aaaaand I’ve just realised if this is the case then I probably didn’t want to complete it at all. Rewards for map completion on an explorable are much greater/better! I’m going to try an experiment on my other characters, namely complete all of LA EXCEPT one or two POIs. Might be a shortcut to easy explorable map completion, might be a waste of time…

(my time, my gamble, feel free to follow suit as long as you don’t blame me if it’s a waste of your time too!)

S

My guess is that LA will change from being a town to an explorable area, although there may well be some “remodelling”/damage caused by Scarlet and co.

I finished LA explorable last night, didn’t take long at all.

S

Is it just me or does the music at the start sound a bit like the FF battle theme?

Nilkemia.8507:

Interesting idea…except for one problem.

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He died at the end of Nightfall, and Kormir took his power. So he’s pretty much all but guaranteed to be a no show except for fractals.

Actually I think….

rhapsody.3615:

The “ala mode” would be berserker, aka Zojja.

Thanks. That’s pretty much what I figured.

I still need roughly 60 Empyreal Fragments but I have characters parked at JPs and hope to do at least one dungeon this week which takes care of that.

I need one more spiritwood plank.

Just need some more discoveries to get up to 500 but I have most of the materials in hand.

S

Wallace MacBix.2089:

The only way I’m sure of is to buy them off the tp.

You may have another way though. Again, I’m not 100% that this will work, but if you have a friend who has the quartz node in his personal instance, go into it with him and you may be able to mine his.

Ah yes, this too, you can team up with someone and visit their home instance and you can use their quartz and/or candy corn nodes if they have them.

S

Sorry but as it stands at the moment if you didn’t get your own node in your home instance already then your main source is the trading post.

However according to the wiki they also appear in the Sanctum Sprint end chest. Can anyone confirm if that’s still the case?

S

Sooooo…. after a lot of work gathering materials and levelling up my Artificer it seems possible I might actually manage to craft an ascended weapon in the foreseeable future.

I’ve decided I want a staff for my elementalist main character.

My question is this.

What stat combo should I aim for? What stats are considered “a la mode” among those who do fractals or dungeons? What about PvE etc?

As someone who plays occasionally it’s a big “investment” and probably the only legendary/ascended scale weapon I’ll get, so I want to do it right (or at least well advise).

Thanks

S

I second this… but I’d like to take a moment to expand on the idea.

As I’m sure most people know you can get to LA for free from anywhere in PvE by going into WvW (or PvP) and exiting via the Lion’s Arch Asura gate.

Lion’s Arch provides gates to the five “home” towns around Tyria. You can then travel to previously discovered waypoints in those towns for free. (via Gate Hub Plaza way point if you wish).

The reason I don’t do this more often is my PC/network/some other factor makes each individual hop take a long time. I often just map direct to a WP in a town even though it “costs” me money simply because I want to be playing the game not watching loading screens…

My suggestion is this …

Why not make travel to any previously discovered WP in a town FREE? It’s effectively free for those with faster PCs/connections/more patience already. You’re just levelling the playing field for the rest of us.

I hope that’s an interesting thought

S

Having the issue on my recently created Asura Warrior. In my case however the upper of the two icons appears to be greyed-out.

I know the skill has an alternate sPvP version but this doesn’t really form a full explanation imho.

S

Question: What do Biggles, Charles Lindbergh and Randall (Time Bandits) have in common?
Answer: The heartfelt belief that an aviator’s headgear is something one should wear when going on an adventure.

Question 2: Where in Guild Wars 2 can we find such dashingly attired adventurers and rakish scoundrels?
Answer: In towns, not being particularly adventurous, because that aviator cap is town clothing only.

So please ArenaNet, in the name of the Queen, the gods and afternoon tea, can you make the aviator cap available as a combat clothing skin? I for one would certainly consider sending some gems your way for doing so.

Over and out

Shin

PS I know it’s called the “aviator’s cap” but it was attacked by an overzealous kitten!

I got the same response. I suspect they don’t want to open up the floodgates for “I clicked on x by accident” type requests… :S

Same issue here. First choice would be hellfire for my elementalist. I thought that wouldn’t work and “settled” for radiant for my guard instead.

Like you I’ve submitted a ticket and will wait and see.

I notice you can get a second round of vambraces from the achievement point chests, but that won’t happen until 12k points and I’m a LONG way from that.

S

simply put

I think the contents of invisible bags/boxes should be “hidden” when using the mystic forge.

rationale

The invisible bag feature is presumably meant to help you protect yourself against accidentally merching something you wanted to keep. Surely if you want to keep it then you don’t want to throw it in the forge either….? Just a thought. (remember you can always juggle something into one of your other bags for exceptions!).

S

Bug on preview of new Vambraces skins.

Item preview indicates new vambraces are for “heavy” armour only.

When I was going to choose my Vambrace skin I previewed them on my elementalist main character. It informed me that the Vambraces were “Heavy” and unusable by my profession. This was a real shame as the Hellfire ones looked brilliant. They would have been my first choice but I ended up getting the Radiant ones instead as I thought would look good on my guardian.

I’ve since found that they are NOT tied to armour class and hence regret my (misinformed) decision. Can you?

a) Fix the preview bug
b) Take the Radiant Vambrace reward skill off me in exchange for the Hellfire? Please?

Thanks

S

On a few occasions I’ve joined a dungeon group on the understanding that they would be doing one or more of the explorable paths. This “pitch” if you like was the whole reason I’m interested in doing it in the first place. However as the group has gathered more players the predominant desire has changed to doing story mode instead.

I then have two choices. Either;
1) Whine about it/be an unsporting kitten and leave.
2) Stick with the team and help get them through it. Hey maybe they’ll be interested in doing an explorable afterwards…? (and maybe not)

Personally I’ve favored the second option but I can’t help but think that I’m missing out. I wonder if you’d be able to make some tokens available for those circumstances?

For example: What if a character that re-runs the story mode gets tokens provided the group includes a first timer? That would have experienced dungeon runners falling over themselves to help newer players which I think is a good thing.

Alternatively just give some tokens for the story mode full stop. Granted it’s easier so feel free to give less!

Just my thoughts!

S