Guild Wars 2

That something as simple as this, and a repeated bug nonetheless, has still not been fixed, not even acknowledged, tells me everything I need to know about ArenaNet’s current mindset toward the game.

The Search has not been fixed. Just to make sure this is not just a problem of the search needed exact matching, I just now copy-pasted the title of the last thread I have personally posted in and entered it into the search. With 0 results. (I have also searched for just partial words from the thread title and first post, with 0 results.)

This exact same bug happened before. It was fixed in a day.

Feeling a little mocked here at this point.

All fixed, thanks for the quick work!

Same thing here (I’m a Sylvari, so this is not a Human problem).

I hope this gets fixed quickly, getting the perfect look for my characters is one of my biggest pleasures in this game.

In summary:
- ambient mostly good, cutscenes mostly bad
- Asuras overall are awesome, Charr overall are pretty good, Sylvari overall are mixed but Trahearne’s underperformance overshadows them all, Norn and Humans overall are pretty bad
- the biggest problem is a lack of emotion, and it appears to come from a lack of understanding the context. A few VAs are able to do well despite not knowing any details about their characters or the scene (Steve Blum, for example), but many are’t
- the above is heightened and emphasized by poor timing of dialogue triggers, sluggish cutscenes, and lack of interesting visuals throughout dialogue cutscenes

Redoing the voices is of course impossible. However, working on the last point could greatly improve the overall experience. I mean, for Kitten’s sake, the characters aren’t even looking at each other while they talk half of the time.

The “Take Heed…” lady is horrible. I literally hear her non-stop. She finishes the line, a beat, she says it again etc.

Also, the Crafting, Bank and Trader NPCs need tobe seriously toned down. By the very nature of what they are, people constantly trigger them.

Shadowdawn.7946:

Ten.8421:

Sylvari aren’t some sort of forest elves. They do not fall into the Ranger trope. “Wyld Hunt” is a folklore reference. In fact, since Sylvari are all about being noble, helpful and protective, their most ‘logical’ (or cliche, if you so wish) choice would be Guardian.

Norn are the stereotypical Rangers.

I know that, but hey, I wanted a Sylvan hound. Only way I know of right now is to make Sylvari ranger and pick Fern Wolf in bio. And I didn’t want to be a Norn. For RP purposes, Charr are anything that fits with their legion, Humans and Sylvari can do whatever, though Sylvari Mesmers are very popular, Norn are Rangers, Warriors and Guardians, with some magic users thrown in. Almost no Engineers or Thieves. Asura are obvious spellcasters, with Thieves, Engineers and Guardians next. Almost no Rangers or Warriors, though more Warriors than Rangers.

Just responding to the people implying that the ‘typical’ Sylvari profession would be Ranger.

(I have a Sylvari Ranger myself. I liked Ranger gameplay during the Beta, and I wanted to start with a Sylvari, so it happened.)

I noticed that Sylvari Mesmer are popular too. I guess people like combining flashy plants with flashy butterflies

Sylvari aren’t some sort of forest elves. They do not fall into the Ranger trope. “Wyld Hunt” is a folklore reference. In fact, since Sylvari are all about being noble, helpful and protective, their most ‘logical’ (or cliche, if you so wish) choice would be Guardian.

Norn are the stereotypical Rangers.

I am seeing random looking flames when I enter Venison Pass in the Lornar’s Pass map. I have honestly no idea if this is a graphic glitch or some part of an event I never saw before, so I post it here instead of just reporting it in game. It completely vanishes as soon as I leave the Venison Pass area.

Pretty sure it’s supposed to be a Spirit. You see the same thing when you do the Norn mission where the minotaurs are freaking out because their Spirit is threatened, and they only show up in Norn areas with shrines or mystic places nearby.

The game map is basically a condensed version of the Northern hemisphere, which means that the further you go south, the warmer, the further north, the colder. Exceptions are the Orr zones, which are more and more ‘wet and dead’ as you move south, and the high level charr zones in the north east that are ravaged by the Fire Legion and thus literally melting pots full of lava and flames.

You can get to all the low level areas by going to Lion’s Arch (you can open your sPvP menu, the little crossed swords icon, and enter the heart of the mists and take a free gate to LA from there) and then taking any of the five capital gates in Lion’s Arch to the other race’s capitals. All 1-15 areas except for the Norn one are more or less warm and sunny.

Keep in mind in game your character will look different depending on the lighting conditions around her (sometimes drastically so).

Toggle the light switch a few times, look somewhere else between changing skintones so your eyes don’t start to glaze over all the differences, and take whatever looks nice to you.

(My own redheads are all dark skinned, because that’s how I like it. If I wanted realistic, I’d go outside )

Warrior, no doubt. Equip Rifle and Hammer, put signets in your right side slots, and you will kill most things with nothing but your autoattacks and take only medium damage (because the Rifle is ranged, and the Hammer is all about stuns).

Ranger is also comparatively relaxing to play, but only as long as your pet has aggro (and is alive). As soon as you are the mob’s target, you will be running and dodging and kiting like you get paid for it, and on top of that, you have to manage your pet, which is extra buttons to press again.

Had the quest text talk about the Alchemical Weapons, and the Trebuchet being built intermittently, when the workers weren’t drinking (literally).
Then the quest text changed to boarding the ship to Lost Shores. No actual event happened. At least Lost Shores seems to be working?

Crystal Desert Overflow

I don’t, because we don’t rank members in Gamut.

But we are also not going to see guild cap at any point in the foreseeable future. Are you running out of space in your guild? If you have a forum or some other central hub, you could write a notification that you want to clean up the roster, and for any active members to please send you a quick one-line per mail next time they sign in the game. Then you give it some time (a week, couple weeks, a month, whatever seems appropriate) and kick whoever didn’t send that message?

There is no reliable way right now to tell last login (and even if there were, logging in is not necessarily the same as actually being active), so you’ll have to use some workarounds.

Why are you calling them character when you’re not roleplaying/acting them?
Why are you calling them avatar when they’re not a representation of yourself?

All words we use for those little fake 3D people are only marginally accurate. And all of them are as old as MMOs. Just because you never heard them before doesn’t mean they weren’t around since your Dad watched the assassination of Lord British.

Interesting. It’s definitely possible I was in combat too when I got those ruined chunks.

However, I am in combat a lot when I gather (mobs are really protective of their nodes!) and never got ruined chunks, fibres or wood before or after, so something’s off about it either way.

Yeah, no, Raf.

This happened to me as well this weekend, and I immediately checked my tools when I got the ruined chunks… they were Ori tools as they should be.

I didn’t report it because I was busy at the time and it was just three chunks (didn’t run into any Ori nodes after that)… but if others have it happen, it’s clearly reportworthy.

You’re correct, players from an NA homeworld and players from an EU homeworld players cannot run dungeons together.
I am guessing that depending on what homeworld you are on, you get sent to a dungeon server specific to your region (NA or EU) when entering a dungeon, but I don’t think there has ever been an official statement about the reason that I could quote you.

Uh… Caithe is a single individual who has a ton of issues due to her painful past experiences.

The Nightmare Court are a purposefully twisted, evil faction that you battle wherever you find them.

How you can read out of that that the Sylvari race is just a bunch of ‘Hannibal Lecter’s is beyond me.

I call them “my creepy stalker” and really hope they’re not spying on me in the hotsprings.

Honestly, I don’t know what’s up with the nameless Herald thing. Getting letters from my mentor works perfectly fine, and seems way less creepier.

To ‘appear’ and to be ‘born’ doesn’t mean the same, but whoever wrote the official wiki entry apparently assumed it does.

If you want it corrected, I would think you best message the Wiki team. If nothing else, they may at least get feedback from Ree on this.

Did you check your inventory? You get a mug of ale to drink for the skillpoint when you click on it for the first time, but it happens to quick and quietly that it’s easy to miss.

Lighting in different areas at different times of day has a huge effect on your textures (i.e. hair, skin, clothes). The Human and Charr areas for example have more yellow tinted lighting. Take your character to one of the snowy Norn areas and she’ll look very different. Nothing you can do about that.

However, not all armours behave the same way under the same light when dyed. Chances are you will find armour pieces along the way that look more like you want to them under all lighting conditions.

Try them all. Seriously, nearly every player I know has started with “Well, in other games I like this, so I’ll take something similar!” and ended up with “Holy kitten, I actually enjoy this class I never expected the most!”

Alternatively, figure out what exactly it is about Shaman that you enjoyed. Putting down totems? Being a hybrid? The spell effects? The look?

Engineers put down turrets, and Rangers can put down Spirits. Guardians are somewhat hybrid-ish, Elementalists have flashy spells. Light Armour comes closest to Shaman armour (as far as I remember it), especially when you include Norn armour.

Sometimes, it can be the smallest things that make us enjoy a class.

There really is no ideal map. The Orr maps give you quick kills, lots of events and decent gathering all in a tight space, but have no variety. The starter area maps have huge enemy variety, decent gathering, but few events and are somewhat spaced out (and of course you will get less EXP and less well-selling loot on the side).

If the loot and EXP matter to you, I suggest popping into an Orr map for anything but kill variety, and once you are done with all that, take your free port to LA (through the Heart of the Mists) and run out into Gendarran Fields to finish up kill variety.

If the loot and EXP don’t matter to you and you just want to be done as quickly as possible to get your karma, Metrica Province is indeed a gold mine of mob variety, can have enough events if your timing isn’t bad, plus pretty decent gathering on the way.

Keep in mind that even if the a healing field doesn’t affect the downed player themselves while they are downed, it sure as hell helps out anyone who revives them, plus it helps the player as soon as they are not downed anymore. So if you don’t need the heal yourself, it’s never a bad idea to place it on a downed player.

Personally, I feel more like a Marksman on my Warrior, despite the smaller range. Not only does the rifle pack a bigger wallop, the animation are also much more interesting. Heck, even with the Longbow I feel more like a Marksman than I do on my Ranger, thanks to the cool skills.

Overall, when I play my Ranger, my weapons feel more like tools, while on my Warrior, my weapons feel like weapons.

She’s a Norn, wearing Norn Cultural.

The Helmet’s Tier 2, the Rest is Tier 3.

I have asked (via /whisper) numerous people in the game what armour they were wearing and every single one of them has responded. It is really not that scary. Just be friendly and to the point (so they don’t feel like you’re wasting their time). “Hey. I like your armour. May I ask what the shoulders are called?”/“Hello. Your dye scheme is really cool, what’s the yellow shade called?”
Takes less time than hovering through an inspect menu, plus it doesn’t matter if they’re running/porting away in the middle of it.

Yes, Destiny’s Edge will be there to kill Zhaitan.
Killing Zhaitan is your last story step at lvl 80, and requires you to run the Story path of the Arah Dungeon in Orr.

If you want to experience Destiny’s Edge’s story leading up to that final dungeon, you have to run all the other dungeon’s story paths, starting with Ascalonian Catacombs.

Are you sure the maps are actually dead? For one, GW2 maps are bloody huge, and the higher your level, the more you have available, thanks to the downleveling system. Which means players are substantially more spread out than in many other MMOs. For two, those many other MMOs have taught many of us that mapchat is an obnoxious collection of pointless arguments (the famous ‘Barrens Chat’, anyone?) and so, many players deactivate mapchat on principle.
Without the function to check the number of players in a zone, it is difficult to impossible to tell just how many people are actually playing with you.

That said, it doesn’t really matter in the end why you end up all alone when playing, it matters that you do. Joining some active guilds may help you out there (remember you can be in more than one). Also, just transferring to a higher pop server, even if you managed it, is not guaranteed to help… rather, try finding a server is reportedly active at the same times you generally play.

Personally I find the Norn events funnier and more varied, but the Charr events are quicker and more… tightly designed. Also, Norn areas are far more vast, while Charr areas are kinda crowded.

So it depends on what is fun to you… taking your time and doing quirky quests about booze, or killing lots of mobs and progressing quickly.

I did it just yesterday on my server, but I saw a lot of people in mapchat saying it was bugged for quite a while before that, so you’re definitely not alone.

I live in Germany and play on a US server. I have zero problems. My FPS are in exactly the range they should be for my computer specs and unless I am in a super crowded area (like Lion’s Arch, especially on weekends), I don’t get any noticeable lag.

However, I do have problems getting any sort of groups together for dungeons or group events because I don’t play during the server’s prime time. So you may want to follow the above poster’s suggestion and check out the guilds on the EU servers on gw2guilds.org to see which server has a high English-speaking population.

eXs.6210:

see… this is your problem… you come in here and imply that only LGBT people are friendly and social… I’m very straight and I love socially chatting with random people for fun… but you’ve made the assumption that you’ll only get that experience from the LGBT community… I would assume that the LGBT community would be above making sweeping negative generalizations about others since… you know… but apparently you’re not… I’m actually offended at this and its pretty hard to offend me…

I suggest you actually read their post properly.

They have nowhere implied that only q’ueer people are social. They are asking for social people and also would love to meet some people who identity as LGBTQ.
Your assumptions are baseless, and overly hostile.

Beyreva.8769:

Every race becomes “human” and suddenly grows some hero’ish tuberculosis. Norn stop boasting about how great/strong they are; Charr stop being ferocious and militaristic; Asura drop all of their arrogance/evilness; I haven’t played any Sylvari past level 11, so I can’t say how this transition goes, they stop being “I love everything”?

Sylvari are actually the only ones (besides humans, I guess? Wouldn’t know, don’t play humans) where it didn’t feel jarring. Since Sylvari are all about being noble and good and punching dragons in the face right from the very beginning, and also have the philosophy of letting whoever has the most experience lead (which makes Trahearne, who has spent years in Orr, the obvious choice), the storyline actually works fine for them.

(Not that that means it’s enjoyable… instead of feeling out of character, it feels like there is no character development at all.)

Frankly, from lvl 30 on, it goes steeply downhill in writing quality for everyone. The order representatives are the only saving grace for a while, but once you are done with Claw Island? Forget about it.

Splash images like this are often drawn by concept artists way before the actual game design or by artists who don’t actually work on the game and only have basic instructions like “draw some plant people doing gardening”.
In the case of GW2, it’s likely the first, since ArenaNet does pretty much everything in house these days. So don’t put any meaning in the loading screens. They’re just supposed to give you a general atmosphere.

Personally, I find Warrior and Necromancer to feel the most different from each other, but of course that depends to a degree on how you play them. I run my Necro as an AOE ‘tank’ (wells, staff and daggers), while on my Warrior, I enjoy switching weapons all the time, but prefer the Rifle and being strong against single targets.

Yes, Crystal Desert is the unofficial GSSM (or as more people know it, LGBTQ) server. You will find many many q’ueer-themed guilds there. However, Crystal Desert is full most of the time, so moving there may not be an option.

From my own guild, I also know that a lot of us are on Tarnished Coast. Tarnished Coast is the unofficial RP server, and RP servers tend to have fewer of the ‘lol ur gay’ jerks as well, so that’s probably why.

Keep in mind that if what you are after is chatting in game, you can do this cross-server. So you can join any guild, even if its main server is not the same server as yours, and you can guild chat with them, in-game mail, whisper them etc. You can even run dungeons together, because dungeons are on their own server instance.

Don’t buy anything until you are 80.

Now that Karma is so easy to come by through Daily and Monthly Achievements, you can stay perfectly well-equipped with the green gear from the Heart Vendors (and your Personal Storyline if you are staying up to date with that). By the time you run the Orr maps that don’t have Heart Vendors anymore, you will start getting rare drops from mobs.

Okay, seriously now: probably because nipples are little bumps in the middle of an otherwise smooth area, which is a whole lot of intricacy to form with leaves for not a whole lot of effect.

http://www.gw2armor.com/ This site gives you images and sources of all armour styles in the game.

You may be thinking of this or this ?

The GW2 codes are regionlocked for the sake of purchase and registration, so you will not be able to buy a code for your US friend while in the EU, sorry.

Maybe you could get another friend in the US to buy the game in your stead, and you pay them back?

Go for map completion. Then go for map completion of all other 1-15 maps. You will level so fast, it’ll give you whiplash.

(I’m serious. Map completion will shower you in EXP, for discovering, for running into events on the way, for gathering on the way, for hearts, for the completion itself… and on top of that, you will feel like you are working toward an actual goal.)

You have 24 hours after deleting a character in which that character’s name is untouchable by anyone but you. That’s how the system first worked (including dev responses saying as much, though I can’t give you any links or screenshots of that at this point) and there has been no indication of it having changed.

You’re not obliged to do anything. Think about what you enjoy the most in the game. If the answer is ‘looking cool’, and you like how Sunrise or Eternity look, sure, try for the Legendary. But if you prefer doing things that cost gold (rolling alts, doing lots WvW, etc etc), don’t feel bad about selling it. You put exactly the same kind of risk into getting it as everyone else, you have nothing to compensate for.

None, I don’t gamble with real money.

I had a few keys that dropped in game and got enough tonics and boost out of it to gamble the forge chests a couple time… sadly, no luck on the skins whatsoever.

Someone in my guild carved a Tybalt pumpkin.

We are all hopeless geeks.