Guild Wars 2

Adding my name to this, just need the Heart and POI for completion but unable to.

Adding my name to this, just need the Heart and POI for completion but unable to.

The main ones for me are.

Blade Shards
Blood Rubies
Petrified Wood
Black Lion Tickets and Scraps
Infusions

There’s really good reasons for keeping the cap and good reasons for dropping the cap. Personally for me though, with having reached the cap fairly recently, I just have no motivation to log in each day now.
I’ve now been drifting to other games when GW2 was once exclusively my only game I played and could spend 6-12 hours each day in game, now without that motivation to log-in every day I can go a whole week without bothering to log in to GW2.
Don’t know if this is a bad thing, but the cap has got me losing interest in the game itself.

Having the same issue here despite completing it a while back on different characters.

I was here for this run too, breakbar broke twice and registered correctly in No-Fly Zone, but Shatterer still took off anyway, and no Smash the Dragon achievement despite all breakbar occurrences were broken.

After being in a previous guild for 7 years in GW1 that disbanded shortly before GW2 launched, I was looking for a guild I could feel comfortable with and really feel like a part of a close-knit group.
Despite having a few personal difficulties with feeling comfortable socially, both online and in real-life, the Modern Family guild and its members welcomed me, when I joined shortly after GW2 launch, and made me feel part of what in essence is a family.

Tried several times in last 24hrs and bugged with the 1 remaining captive still on every occasion.
As mentioned by previous posters, progress with Sunrise tier 1 is halted by this.

same happened to me, only ever done Story path, Jotun Path and Mursaat Path…yet all that is showing checked off is Story, Jotun and Forgotten.
So can confirm doing path 2 will check off path 3, and can only assume by Druinex’s post, doing path 3 will check off path 2.

I could be missing something in your inventory, but I can’t see the 5 Deldrimor Steel Greatsword blades. I can see the 10 of each of the other metal blades, and that you have Deldrimor Steel ingots. but I am sure npc is asking for 5 greatsword blades of deldrimor steel not just the ingots.

Just to add to this

100% Tyria explorer completed
100% Verdant Brink completed – No reward
100% Auric Basin complete – No reward

Very frustrated as not getting the map completion rewards, I can’t progress the Specialisation Collections. Bit of a game breaker for me as at the moment until this gets fixed I am unable to complete the track to obtain the ascended specialisation weapons.
And just important the Gifts (of the Fleet, of Tarir, of the Chak, of the Jungle), which are needed for the new Legendaries.
I have several characters with 100% world completion which will experience the same No Reward bug when completing the HoT maps. And I do not want to buy slots and create new characters just to attain these rewards.

I’m confused, i thought Magus Falls map completion was bugged so unable to complete, hence not getting the reward that is required to obtain the Ascended Specialization Weapon. Or is this bug just seems to be affecting a few like me.

The event to protect Scholar Breandan while he examines the seabed near Broken Spit in the Straits of Devastation, is stuck and can’t be complete.
Have tried on several days but it always seems stuck in same place. And unable to interact with him to obtain the Orrian Pearl trinket, one of the Treasure Hunter collection items.

Apologies if this has already been mentioned, could not find anything in the search.

I just want to add that I have same problem.
Created Mysterious Vine back piece during Dragon’s Reach Part 1
along with the Cultivated Seed.
Both were in my inventory when I logged out yesterday.
Logged in today after patch update, Mysterious Vine back piece still there but the Cultivated Seed has now become a Pet Seed.
Now stuck at progressing with the making of the next stage of back piece.

Don’t know if you figured out how to get Orbs back, but have you tried making sure your Post-processing is switched on to Low or High, I know certain orbs and particle effects don’t show when i had it set to None before

danielrjones.8759:

Since anet seems unwilling or does not care about fixing this. My questions is, would creating new characters going through all the hints again. Has anyone been successful that way? I still cannot understand why they would create a leaderboard, knowing full well there are problems with the achievement system. Says a lot about how they think imo.

I have spent many hours trying this exact thing. Created different class characters going through all the hints again to no avail. Still stuck at 78/83 no matter what i do, despite them all having been completed.

This is getting on for 7-8 months now, and with the new leaderboards seeing this achievement stuck with no prospect of it being fixed or even anet acknowledging there is a fault despite several bug reports and forum posts is pretty much annoying me to the point its spoiling the game for me. Either they should let everyone know they are aware of problem and working on it, or remove this particular achievement altogether.

something weird is going on, some people seem to have xx/82 or xx/83.

Anyway, i am still showing on achievements as 78/83, yet in the hints window everything is checked as done. I have even went through them 1 by one to do them all again, yet to no avail. 5 months this achievement has been glitched and not a single response from devs if its even being looked at/

I have lost 180 points in total.
30 Slayer achievements have gone from 1000 to 999, losing 150 total points,
3 weapon master have gone from 5000 to 4999, losing 15 points.
All you can Eat has gone from 800 to 799, losing 10 points
Lifetime survivor has gone from 500,000 to 499,999 losing 5 points.

thats 180 points I have lost from my achievement point total.

Most of these is not much of a hassle to get that extra 1 to complete again. But to get Lifetime Survivor from scratch again a bit of a pain.

pee into the wind blasts in windy cave while holding Bolt.

Just to add to this.

Pumpkin carving has reset to 0/1, and achievement points earned have also been removed from the point total. (as if it was never done and no points gained)
Master Carver however is still showing in the title drop down menu selector.

I tend to agree with Twitchz, I have checked all dungeon light armor, craftable light armor and cultural light armor, and even all the Orders light armor, and can’t seem to find it in the ones I have found.

not sure if this is the one you are on about, but there is a Feathered Armor set you can craft with the Tailor discipline.

Feathered Armor

Hi

I suffer from Aspergers and have difficulty being social in the game with people I don’t know. Throughout GW1 I was in a small guild for 7 years, I got very comfortable with this friendly group and enjoy doing a range of activities with them. This grouping up with them carried on into GW2.
The situation I find myself in now, is since the introduciton of Ascended gear, all individuals from this group I was comfortable with have all but left due to Anets changed direction.

Regardless of what I feel about Ascended gear its introduction has all but broke this game for me as I am now for the last few weeks since Lost Shores, been playing very solo. I don’t mind this as such, but it means I will never be able to do dungeons. This has become necessary if I was to go for a legendary, and is certainly a necessity for me to complete my personal story, which for over 6 weeks now I have been stuck with “Victory or Death” on my screen and unable to finish. All gamebreaking for me if I can’t even finish a personal story, just because I am uncomfortable socially with people I don’t know.

I loved GW1, and have supported Anet through the 7 yrs i was in that game, I was hoping to carry that on in GW2, but I’m feeling isolated and unable to complete simple aspects of the game due to being solo all the time, I am in need of a guild that will help me get away from this feeling. So I am looking for a small guild that are going to be around for the long term and does not impose any pressure on its members.

Hope someone out there in a guild where I could feel comfortable with, and hang around with for the long term, I would be grateful for an invite.

Looking for a one on a European server.

As I was reading this post I was agreeing with a lot and seeing a lot of valid points, and I still agree with a lot of it. But then as I read further I have to take issue with a few things.

I agree a lot of people complain for the sake of complaining, but there are also a lot of people who have valid complaints. I myself have complained about the introduction of the Ascended gear. And I feel I have a right to voice my displeasure and give my feedback, after all I have invested time and money into the game, and time and money invested in its predecessor. And I have supported Anet with a regular amount of my real money in the form of purchasing gems, like I did for nearly 7 years spending in the GW1 store. And I offer feedback, whether positive or negative because I care about the GW franchise and its community.

I suspect a lot of other people who have made complaints in the forum have also invested a lot of time and money, and also care about the game and which way forward its going.

So to brand every person who is complaining as pathetic is no better than someone coming onto the forum to complain for complaining sake.

You even pointed out that you took a month break and you never bought any gems. Yet you feel you are entitled to come onto a forum and take issue with people who have invested more time and money than you, and call your fellow community members pathetic. Is this something new players joining the community would like to see also?

I care about this game, I care about the community. I have invested time and money in the game. So if i feel like I have some feedback to give, good or bad, I am just as entitled to give it, just like you feel you are entitled to brand people who offer feedback pathetic.

At the end of the day, if everyone was coming onto the forum saying the game is perfect, then Anet will not be able to take anything from that.

I also feel bad about what new players make of the complaining, but I also feel bad what new players make of posts like this attacking other community members.

But other than the issue I have with your attitude to people submitting feedback OP, a well written post, and agree with most of it.

100% medal is just for the character you achieved it on.
Although the “Been there, done that” for uncovering all areas can be displayed on any of your characters.

@sjrm

Thanks a lot

I have a couple silly questions, well not silly to me as I have no experience using an xbox controller on PC, but it may seem silly to those in the know.

I’m thinking about giving this a go, not to replace my keyboard and mouse, but as a backup when I start getting the mouse cramp.
But my questions are these, can I just attach the xbox controller via usb to PC with a play and charge kit?
And heres the silly question, does the controller need to be on? For example the green light showing on the guide button.
The reason I ask that is because my xbox is fairly near my PC, and i dont want the controller to be switching on my xbox everytime i want to use it on PC.

Yes, although its still installed and I have done everything I wanted and needed to do. I can still pop in when it takes my fancy.

Things I miss
Gameplay – Having goals and being able to do them goals without the worry that my maxed gear will shortly become obsolete. Actually knowing what goal to go for, for the same reason, always logged on and had some goal to go for, now I just sit on GW2 wondering whether its worth going for this, that or the other just to find it will be obsolete by the time I get it. Basically I miss the pure Horizontal progression, I knew where I was and knew if I took a lengthy break for personal reason I could come back without feeling I was left far behind and need to grind to catch up and can just enjoy the many things to do in the game without worrying about increasing my gear stats.
I miss the solo friendly feeling GW1 had too. If there was parts of the game you didn’t want to group up for you didnt have to with the Heroes/Hench facility. In GW2 I am forced to group up and PUG in a party with random peeps to do dungeons and even my own Personal story. However I do prefer the open worldness of GW2 where you can just help other people you meet (without having the feeling I was forced to help or join)
The community – it was less stressy and less anxious, no segregation due to mixed progression, no elitism (coz grinding shows your awesomeness more than skill right?), GW1 seemed more sociable and less bickering.
Builds/Skills – The freedom of being able to mess and experiment with a multitude of builds without the need to spend everytime I wanted to change a build. Plus collecting the skills and capping the Elites.
The Guilds – Probably my biggest miss. I loved the guild structure, the guild halls etc. I played with my guildmates for nearly 7 yrs, we became like a family. There feels none of that in GW2. Guild mates and friends from GW1 have all but left now due to recent ascended addition.

Edit: forgot to add
Communication – Miss how the devs communicated everything clearly and often. For example patch updates and game changes. Just at the moment we don’t seem to get any clarity from the devs with regards to patches and updates. Too much vagueness and kept in the dark.

22 hours attended across the whole 3 day weekend doing all phases. Tried logging in 10 mins before main final event, was getting a server error. Continued to try for a good 90 minutes then gave up, so couldnt even get into the final event.

Did not attend final event/No Loot/No mail

I wasn’t expecting anything since I didnt get in to the final event itself. But seeing how some people have got rewards several times and some people receiving via mails for not even logging in over the weekend. I do feel a bit aggrieved that I will probably not get anything despite participating for 22 hours over the whole weekend negating lag-fest and bugs and helping others, when others who didn’t even log in have received a mail. Just because the server couldn’t log me in for that one tiny window of the whole weekend I will no doubt get nothing.

I’m finding it extremely difficult not to quit even though i really don’t want to leave.

GW1 was only game I played for the last 7 yrs, and spent 5 of them years looking forward to and preparing for GW2. Along with my guildmates.

Since ascended was introduced this changed things for me if not in a direct way but has changed my gameplay experience.

I suffer Aspergers, and the group of friends I played with over the last 7 yrs have all but left GW2 now, friends i was comfortable with. Now I am basically playing the game solo, even more so as the population has been funneled from the open world to FotM. I cannot even finish my personal story due to this. And suffering from Aspergers I find it difficult to start begging people for help to do DE’s in a sparcely populated Orr to get Arah opened and to start LFG to finish story. This is why I never do dungeons, and the game seems to be heading in the direction where dungeons is the only Endgame.

I see arguments within the forum flying back and forth with regards to VP and that whether the increase in stats matter or not. This is not the issue for me and I suspect others. The fact it has been introduced has had an impact on other areas of the game, from fragmenting the community to funnelling the population from one area of the game. And yes I am concerned that if i do take a break from game for any reason, will it be worth coming back if I am so far behind on the stat I can’t catch up.

Plus, I find I am logging on without any goals. Before i had a plan to aim for exotics on all my alts, maybe even go for Triforge. But with not knowing exactly the direction the game is going I have no idea what will or won’t be obsolete by the time I have attained something. So I am wandering around a pretty deserted open world, doing daily’s wishing I could even finish my goal of completing my personal story, and trying to figure out what goal should i aim for and coming up with nothing.

Like I have said, I really don’t want to leave, I have invested a lot of time and money in the GW franchise over the years and indeed the last 3 month. And if I can get a sense of what goals I can go for without being stuck on a neverending power creep, and manage to get into a new circle of friends within the GW community who that I can feel comfortable with and have no pressure applied onto me and help each other achieve goals. Then I would be happy to stay. At moment I feel stuck between a rock and hard place, I dont want to leave but the direction the game is going its making it difficult for me to enjoy staying.

I hate the personal story, not because of the plot, but the fact that I have been stuck at the same point of it for several weeks now and I am unable to finish it.
I wasn’t fortunate enough to rush through game content in first couple of weeks so by the time I reached the last step, I cannot progress due to having to rely on a population in Orr to clear the DE’s to open the gates of Arah, and then having to rely on getting a group to do the dungeon. I don’t have that much of a one instance time sink to hang around in Orr in the hope people are there doing DE’s and then hanging around to group to do a dungeon that apparently takes a while too.
And unless something is done to get the playerbase attracted back to Orr, this will always seem to be the case of being unable to finish my “personal” story.
This is pretty game-breaking for me, I cannot enjoy endgame stuff knowing I can’t complete the “personal” aspect of the main storyline part of the game due to relying on others.

just like the Personal Story aspect has already died since a lot can’t get to finish it as those funneled to FotM are being unsociable towards the open world

Anyone remember the PVXWiki and the insane amount of different builds to try?

I just checked, i still have it as a bookmark, it was a heavily used site for me.

I don’t care about ascended gear, or should i say I don’t care about becoming a grind monkey to achieve it.

What I do care about is the future of the game I have waited for a few years for and the impact ascended gear is having on it.
Forget all the arguments about how much of a stat increase there is, the fact is, this is having an impact on other aspects of the game as a whole, whether you personally experiencing now or not, because eventually you will.

The community is fractured and segregated due to it. I haven’t experienced an overflow anywhere other than LA since Lost Shores, unlike getting overflow on a daily basis prior to ascended being introduced in majority of places i went.

I, like some didn’t rush through content in the first week and complete everything then whined about there being nothing to do, which now Anet seem to be appeasing to this playerbase. Meaning I and other casual players face a lot of empty zones, which ok most are soloable, but when you take into consideration that some people cannot even get their “personal story” finished because there is noone around to do the DE’s to get Arah opened, noone around that is interested in Arah it seems, so noone around to get a group going for the story mode.

This is just a small example of the impact occuring, and its hasn’t even been 2 weeks since FotM and ascended was introduced.

So no, I don’t care about ascended gear as such, I care about the detrimental effect its having on aspects of the game and where this may lead in respects to the future success of the game.

I however have faith in Anet (based on the good stuff they did in GW1, but this won’t hold forever), so I am hoping they are aware of the different impacts and will come up with some solution to keep everyone happy.

I’m quite fed up with regards to this, 6 weeks now I been stuck at the last stage of my personal story not being able to progress because either the DE’s to get to Arah are bugged or there is no population around (more so now that openworld is largely abandoned by people farming FotM, who was it that said Gear Treadmill won’t have an impact on other aspects of the game).

Just think this part of the storyline wasn’t well thought out, if you didn’t rush through it in the first few weeks when there was zergs in every area, then you end up in similar situation as me, hitting a wall where you’re relying on DE’s not being bugged to get to Arah, and there actually being a population there to do these DE’s. And then you have to group up in a PUG (if you’re lucky) to be able to do the dungeon.

I haven’t bothered doing any of the personal story on my other characters, seems no point as there is no way to get to the end and finish it with relying on too many factors to even get to start the final event.

Hope Anet add some new content or rewards in Arah to entice people back to the area, so people who haven’t completed their personal story can at least have a fighting chance to do it.
Or even better, move FotM gate to Arah, that way Arah will never be closed (unless bugged)

Gaming background

This is hard without giving my approx age away, but it all started with the Atari 2600 console when i was 6
I got into playing text-based adventures (interactive fiction) and strategy games on the ZX Spectrum, loved playing Lords of Midnight and Doomdarks Revenge.
My rpg gaming didnt really begin until the Amiga, when i got into Eye of the Beholder 1&2, my first PC experience with RPG’s was MUD, Baldurs Gate, NWN, Daggerfall, Morrowind and expansions.
GW1 was probably my first MMO i got into from the day of its release, I avoided all the other big named ones like WoW and co. because of the elitism and all the hamsters who have little manhood issues who need to grind bigger stats to be able to say “mine is bigger than yours”, I stuck with GW as it was more of a relaxed atmosphere and community with a bare minimum of elitism and gating goin on.

GW2 Love/Hate
Difficult to say. I been excited since the moment i heard this game was in the works from other guildies when i was busy eating a pizza while standing in Temple of Ages in GW1, so much so I put in extra time in GW1 to gain 34 maxed titles and 50/50 HoM points, so I could have everything possible to bring into GW2 from GW1.
So maybe my expectations of the game was set very high, and to be fair for the first couple of months the game played out to expectations, I loved it.
Every single day I logged on (prior the end of Lost Shores weekend) I was always seeing an overlfow, regardless where i was visiting in-game. But since that weekend the only overflow i ever see is in LA. And all i see in chat is gating spam.
I used to love travelling around doing dailies, exploring, and bumping into and joining players, but now I may as well be playing in my own instance, I hardly bump into anyone now in openworld as most the population sitting in LA looking for groups.
I just feel the atmosphere of the game and the community has changed, and not in a good way. Regardless what side of the fence people are on with respects to the new Tier, its obviously had a detrimental effect on the openworld population.
Plus my in-game goals have changed, I was looking forward to filling me alts with exotics, maybe even doing some dungeons to get other skins, but my motivation has seriously dropped because I am concerned all the effort and gold i did to max my main and alts has been in vain, and I am unsure of what goal to go for at the moment as all goals except the FotM tier stuff seem obsolete.
So as far as Love/Hate for GW2, massive Love til the Lost Shores, now I don’t get too excited to logging in now, huge difference to GW1 as I always had a reason to log in daily in 6 yrs in that game, GW2 has damaged my motivation after 3 months. I was buying gems with with real money on a weekly basis to support Anet, until the changes that Lost Shores brought came about.

Edit: for typos

I agree, I don’t mind missing these one-time events as long as its just something like a cut scene, but to have such a small window of opportunity for people to take part in the finale, and then reward some of them with pre-cursors just stinks.

This as well as the 180 degrees Anet philosophy has soured things for me, especially if they insist on having these one-time events where they rewarding people, taking place at the same time on a Sunday, then some of us who have work comittments during these very small windows of opportunities will never be able to participate inone of these reward receiving event.

I’m just saddened and disappointed by this whole thing, in fact very upset.

When GW2 was announced I bought into the whole ethos Anet gave about the game.
Its not just the monetary value of purchasing the game i feel cheated out of.
Its the 7 years of my time i put into GW1, 7 years of money I pumped into Anet with the purchase of all the expansions and stuff from the cash shop.
I even pumped hundreds of hours more time to grind out the 50/50 HoM to be prepared for GW2, on the back of Anet promising no vertical progression in GW2.
And in the first couple of months of GW2 I spent a fair amount of hard earned money in the GW2 cash shop.

I chose to invest a lot of time and money into GW1 as it provided the one thing most other MMO’s didnt, horizontal progression. Otherwise I would have chose another game at the time if I wanted vertical prgoression(ie WoW)

I continued to invest time and money in GW1 because Anet had promised GW2 would be horizontal progression and absolutely no vertical progression.

This change of manifesto and ethos less than 3 month in the game has just knocked me for sideways and I have lost all interest and love for the game. In fact I have lost all love for the genre and certainly lost trust in Anet.

So i reckon i be firing up my PS3 or xBox and just lark about on some non-indepth games from now on.

I understand there will never be a convenient time for everyone, and like i said, if its just a cut-scene being missed out on then thats ok.
My point is some of us will miss every one-time event if the timing of all future one-time events will be the same time on a Sunday.

I like the idea of these one time events making the world to feel realistic, but mix it up with the timings a bit, don’t have every single one-time event exactly the same time on the same day of the week. Other than ensuring some people will be able to at least catch a couple of these, doesn’t it add more to the realism if these one-time events weren’t the exact same time and day all the time.

I am sure Anet knows when their servers have the highest population, but I am struggling to see that a Sunday lunch-time (evening Europe) is higher than say Saturdays throughout the day or evening

I understand all the stuff happening on the Friday and Saturday can be considered optimum times, but I am struggling to see how a “one time event” to occur noon PST (20:00 GMT) on the Sunday at the end of the weekend is considered optimum.
If this is going to be the standard time for the “one time events” then I am hoping its just going to be a cut-scene and nothing more important that i will permanently miss out on every single event.

I have to agree, if Anet are going to run every one of these 1 time events at the same time on a Sunday (noon pacific time, 8pm gmt, the end of the weekend), it means i will miss every single one of them. Surely having them more in the middle of a weekend, at some point on the Saturdays will mean more people will be on and able to attend them.

Never missed a single finale in GW1 as they occured several times thoughout the final day, but looks like i will have to miss every single one in GW2

It’s really starting to get annoying that some people are trying to validate the cash shop by comparing it to a casino or lotto tickets.
Yes, we all know casino’s have games of chances, we all know that lotto is a game of chance. And we all know buying BLC keys are a game of chance.
But is everyone missing the point?
This is a video game with a PEGI rating of 12, and an ESRB rating of T, “real money” gambling should not be encouraged in a game with these ratings.

“Titles in this category may contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, blood, simulated gambling, and/or frequent use of vulgar language.”

This is the official stance on titles with these ratings, the key here is “Simulated gambling”, a substantial portion of people buying these keys were buying them for the chance of a skin, and probably wouldnt be interested in buying the keys for any other reason, this is an encouragement to “real money” gamble in a game that is not ESRB or PEGI rated to reflect this.

I understand why people are getting angry at the whining about feeling ripped off, but i also have sympathy for these people. It essentially wrong for “real money” gambling to be in a game of this nature, and attacking people who feel ripped off serves no purpose. People have a right to be feeling upset over something that should not be in the game. Keep the gambling to “simulated ingame gambling”, this game is wildly and legally available to 12 year olds here in the UK, did PEGI or ESRB realise real money gambling would be involved when ratings were given?

The odds of receiving a skin were never given, although I suspect most people knew the odds were fairly low, but there was a lot of people parting with hard earned cash without having the fullest comprehension how much of a gamble this would be.

So please folks, if people are feeling ripped off and need to have a rant and a moan, let them, don’t flame and attack them. At end of the day they were duped out of their money as no information from ANET of how much of a gamble this would be.

The difference with Lotto, Casinos, Horse Racing tracks, are that they are regulated, and are obliged to provide the odd’s and probabilties, and also age restrictions. So comparing GW2 to these is way off the mark.

This is a game available for purchase from 12 year olds, that encourages real money gambling with no regulation and no information on odds. People have the right to moan.

I been a long-term Anet supporter, and have backed them verbally and also with purchases for years now, and I will probably continue to back them. But no more with my money as I cannot support this philosophy they have introduced into the cash shop.

And I would suggest those that are angry and upset at feeling ripped off to lock their wallets up too as at the end of the day this is a game for entertainment purposes, and if being ripped off is souring your experiencing so badly, then do what I am doing, spend money elsewhere.

The game is supported by people spending in the cash shop, flaming and attacking people who are pumping money into the cash shop is not constructive. So when someone is ranting about feeling ripped off, give them a bit of support rather than attack, as this game will only survive as long as people are spending.

that feeling when you attempt Spekks laboratory and your internet connection is playing up and rubber banding at vital jumps making you fall in the lava and die, and repeating it over and over again just to realise you have only one set of armor and its now destroyed.
So a sheepish run to the nearest repair dude wearing nothing but your big weapon gives you time to think that best try that jumping puzzle naked, its cheaper.

I don’t know about the USA, but I am sure this sort of pay real money for a gamble encroaches several gambling regulatory laws here in the UK. Speaking as a former (and still recovering) addict to gambling this certainly falls in the gambling bracket. And working in the gambling sector myself I do have some knowledge of the gambling regulations here in UK.

In game item and gold gambling at the mystic forge is one thing, but this is real money people are gambling with. So packaging on the game needs to promote that there can be real money gambling involved and a clear promoting of gamble helplines/sites.

I don’t mind spending a silly amount of money on guaranteed items, I have done already so far, but I am highly concerned that now theres a “pay real money for a gamble to attain items you may or may not get”, and especially when you consider the impressionable age some of GW players are.

You can argue that yes you are getting guaranteed items as each chest you bought a key for will yield some items, and people have had the choice to spend real money on these keys from day 1. But introducing an element of gambling for added extra items brings a new level of encouraging people who may not have been inclined to buy chestkeys before to part with money in the hope, not guaranteed, of receiving something back. This is gambling.

I understand the rareness and unique of items I see people mention, but keep this sort of RNG gambling to in game items and gold, not real money. I will continue to support Anet with my money for things i am guaranteed to get with a fixed price, but I am disappointed and very much concerned that real money gambling has been introduced.

I use games like GW2 as an escapism from my everyday real life problems, like work, stress etc. And part of working in the gambling sector i see and hear a lot stories of people who have no self control, and I carry these with me in my everyday life, but to see real money gambling for items you may or may not get despite how much you spend encouraged to all ages and walks of life in a “casual” game really flashes those red bulbs of concern for me.

Apologies if i have rambled and repeated things, just finished a 12hr shift through the night and a bit zonked.

well this would make more sense, apart from i have killed quite a few of these, yet my Giant Slayer still says 4.

So either something gone buggy or them Veteran Risen Giants actually get counted on your Risen Slayer achievement, or whatever its called.

either way, 1000 giants veteran or champion still seems a way lot compared to the other slayer achievments

And i have indeed killed the Kol Skullsmasher and the other Giant champion 4 times.

I will have to test out and see which is getting added to what achievement when i get on later.

I was looking at my Slayer achievement list earlier and I’m still a bit gobsmacked with the Giant Slayer achievement, all my slayer ones are roughly into 3 figures progress now, and my Giant slayer a lowly 4.

Am I right in thinking there are only 2 killable Giants in the game at the moment, and both are champions that can take anything from 5 minutes to 20 minutes to do each depending on how many people are around to help out, which with them both being in middish level zones there aint many.
So for this achievement you have kill one of these 2 or combo of both 1000 times at say 15 minutes each. Thats 15,000 minutes, not accounting for the wait time for the DE to trigger (and hoping there are people around to help), thats a bit out there for 1 single achievement when compared to all the other Slayer ones.

I suppose its a challenge and a goal to go for if I get bored with doing other stuff, but still, this achievement just seems well out of place.

i would just like the option to be able to see you own nameplate bubble info. Asked 2 different people if mine was showing and one answered yes and one no, so i still don’t know if its showing. I may just go to wvwvw before they fix this bug and see if i get easily targetted from miles off, seems only way i can find out if it is showing.

you can also transmute the rune from one armor to another

my bad, i read your list as ones you got. Give me a shout anyway if any of the 4 i have you dont have.

I have the following that you don’t seem to have on your list, they just sitting in my storage gathering dust

Ophil Nahuali
Fire Drake
Seer
Charr Shaman

I already have my 50/50 HoM points so not really looking for anything in return, so you can have them if you wish.

let me know so we can arrange a time and place in GW1 for me to give you them