Guild Wars 2

Exactly DO IT ANET JUST DO IT!

Scallywag is pretty much the only armor set that has a more skimpy male set than female. Rest is the opposite way – and even the scallywag still shows a lot of skin on both armor sets, while some sets are fully uncovered for female while males wear clunky stuff that covers everything and their mother….

The issue is that are are way too little options for males, 3 or 4 in total across all 3 weights. While females have a selection of bras, crop tops and stripes barely covering anything.
Medium class even barely has any skin-tight armor pieces (also very few. Yes I know SOME exist you guys really dont have list the names, I am fully aware of all the armor sets and my wardrobe is almost filled up with every possible armor sets)
Light has clunky clothes so does heavy. Hiding the shirt would open so many options, and I don’t see a reason why it could not be a thing.

and @ham, where did you get the information about the time it takes to code things like this? As I see a post just like that in almost every suggestion thread “Takes too much time to code, not worth it!”

In general I think a feature like that would be beneficial and I dont see how would it harm anyone at all

Hello my dear fellow Guild Wars 2 players and (possibly) fashion victims!

So here is a burning issue, that has been bothering me and some of my friends for quite a while now.

We’ve seen so many complaints about the female armors beeing way too skimpy while the male ones are fully covered, clunky and (mostly) pretty horrible)

So heres the idea… Why not have the option to hide tops?
I mean… it’s summer, right? People sunbathe all the time…

Why?
Why not? We can hide helmets, gloves, shoulders… I see no reason why we would not be able to hide tops. That would open many new directions the fashion can go into!

Not-lore-friendly? Lets talk about bunny ears, glasses, scarves, flying carpets and mini llamas

“But I dont wanna look at naked norns and chars anyway!”
I’d much rather look at them without a shirt only than fully naked…

Now in all honesty.
Personally I think a very little change like that would be nice, could make characters feel very “brawl-ish” as berserkers, ninja-monk daredevils, crazy-anime reapers and everything you can possibly think of! Share your ideas.
We’ve been asking for more revealing male armors for a very very long time, and we haven’t gotten any at all, this little feature would make everyone who is craving more male skin in GW2 happy!

I guess this suggestion can also apply to female characters, then again they do have a variety of bras to choose from already, so I dont know why would they choose the ugly yellow one they’re wearing anyway

So, I am aware this will probably couse a lot of hate, flames and bumhurt people (for whatever reason), but hey! We all are entitled to our own opinion.

So what you guys thins?

Hello everyone.

A few friends have been nagging me about painting their characters or some Guild Wars 2 themed fan art. So I did and after some thinking I’ve decided to make a commission thread!
So… here we go.

Every single commission is painted by hand on watercolour paper using White Night Watercolours, after they are painted they are beeing proffesionalyl photographed and colour proofed (so picture colours are exactly the same as the original painting)

Each commision is a little bit bigger than A4.

Here are a few Guild Wars 2 themed paintings:
A purple sylvari face – http://imgur.com/J6udaPY
Scarlet – http://imgur.com/0wGgTSV
Asura elementalist (aka Shindalf) – http://imgur.com/ZdBmPyb
Human male necro – http://imgur.com/Zu4X33A

You can check the general style of my art here: https://www.facebook.com/UmraeArt

Comissions take about 3-5 days to complete.

Each commission costs 150g
Additional costs:
+100g for additional characters
One weapon (or a weapon set) is included in the 150g price and some “special effects aswell”

If you wish to own the original painting it is possible if you cover shipping and handling costs which vary depending on country (for details please msg me in-game or here)

I will start working on your comission after I recieve the gold in my in-game mail.

Screenshots of your character (high quality only) can be posted here or sent to me via msg or link.

If you have any additional questions or issues you can catch me in-game, via my FB page or here.

All paintings ©A. Umrae

Thanks for the feedback guys

Keep it comming!

@Thanatos and @Connect thanks for your feedback! (both of you)

@Conncept.7638
the whole point of the suggestion was to point out ideas of what can be dome. In a game like this basically everything can be done (with the need of additional developing), and separate armor sets used to be previewable together (you could preview light with heavy etc), the same with cultural skins back in the day, could be previewed on other races, so the models are most likely in game already, just would need a bit of tweaks. Cultural sets beeing used 1/5th of the time? where did you get that information from? Or when/where did anet made that statement? T3 cultural sets are beeing used very, very often and its a popular gold sink also, since many people buy them for the skins etc. And most people also buy the lvl 35 and 60 cultural sets while lvling new characters, couse currently they are cheaper than TP rares or crafting armor yourself.
2 light 2 medium and everyone should be satisfied? Are you for real? GW1 had TONS of elegant armor skins for each class.
It is a suggestion, that might be looked into and not a question “why this isnt in-game?”Thus your feedback is not the most productive one.

@catsunami.8437 yes! very true! and this would also fit under the cultural bracket! couse it seems the cultural charr armor is the only pleasent looking

@Mea.5491 the struggle is real Q_Q

Gryphon.2875:

I agree, apart from this:

Umrae.5124:

5. Costumes?!
I think recently we’ve gotten too many costumes, with even more datamined and too little actual armor sets. Costumes are awesome, and they have as amny fans as enemies. But I think replacing armor sets with costumes is a bad move. We didnt get a new armor set for months now.

Some of us haven’t much RL money, and an investment in an outfit we can use while leveling, and on multiple toons, is more cost effective than a ton of transmutation charges.

I think you misunderstood me.
I’m not against costumes! I think there should be more normal new armors, rather than only costumes
Costumes are great! but a little bit too many of them recently.

As a game that focuses on horizontal progression I think we need a bit more fashion in our fashion! Here are a few suggestions, changes and ideas.

1. Light, Medium, Heavy skins.
There have been many suggestions about this in the past and the most common reply was “Light can’t wear medium or heavy because it will blurr out the classes in pvp/wvw etc”.
Currently we have costumes, culling and the simplified models so why couldn’t we allow ALL the skins for ALL the classes?
Lorebreaking? Lets talk about some costumes and skins… Breaking the lore has never really been an issue with stuff beeing added into the game as long as its fun!
Having all the armors available would give everyone 3 times the ammount of skins to work with, so many new possibilities, options, etc.
Light classes would finally have pants, heaviens woudn’t be too clunky, female could be not as skimpy or even more skimpy and mediums could get rid of trench coats! This would also open many possibilites for role players.

2. Real clothes
We have caps, glasses, puff hats, top hats etc. Why not vests, shirts, jeans, pants, skirts etc? Town clothing as armor? No one uses the tonics of the sets, why not making it normal armors?

3. History!
Where did the time go?
So in GW1 we had a lot of elegant clothing for mesmers, elementalists, skintight necromancer sets, interesting monk and ranger gear. And almost all of those styles dissapeared. Thats a true shame!
Mesmers 250 years ago would wear suits, white shirts, vests, elegant armor etc and now they are left with a bra or a skinny dress. I understand that fashion changes overtime but some people like to wear vintage! Adding the old guild wars 1 armors would be awesome!
Lore-wise? Explosion of Lions Arch unburried some old archives with blueprints etc that Evon Gnashblade sold to armor-makers and now the old styled armors are back!

4. Culture
We need more culture. All of the races have been in Tyria for many many years, except the sylvari. I am pretty sure they did develope more culture than 9 armor sets each? Adding more of it would definitely make it more itneresting. Also allowing other races to wear all of the cultural sets (maybe with some reputation system you can gain with races – a bit like in gw1).

5. Costumes?!
I think recently we’ve gotten too many costumes, with even more datamined and too little actual armor sets. Costumes are awesome, and they have as amny fans as enemies. But I think replacing armor sets with costumes is a bad move. We didnt get a new armor set for months now.

6. Acquisition
I think we need new and interesting ways of getting armor sets. It doesn’t have to be difficult or extremely tedious, but making it interesting.
Currently we have the glorious armor set that is somehow unique for pvp players and that is amazing! Adding more armor sets like this is a great thing to keep players occupired in the goal of getting an armor set… or several.
Few ideas:
WvW based armor sets – 2k Badges of Honor and 50 ranks per armor piece. So at 50 you unlocked gloves at 100 boots, 150 shoulders, 200 hat, 250 pants, 300 shirts.
Random drops from JPs (account bound!)
Guild Commodations – 1 piece for 10 commodations.
Zone-related armors perhaps?

Summary

I think we need more armor sets. We’ve been getting way too many weapons and too little armors!

Save The Inquest [CoE] has been running a guild event for a few months now called “Run The Inquest”

It’s a very fun, little activity, basically a race… from point A to point B transformed into Asuras without any speed traits/buffs/runes.

We’ve recorded a little video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFuSdUy5G9s

Enjoy

So I was bored and decided to check how much world completion I could get b4 hitting lvl 80.
I’ve managed to hit 98% world completion.
During that time I has 10% xp buff from guild and I did a few events (maybe more than few) on low lvls. I am pretty sure it is possible to get 100% b4 lvl 80 And that will be my goal with my next character!

They do stack!

Got 2 daggers within 2 dailies

Anyone can say anything bout this?

I haven’t bee lucky enough to get 2 of the same skin yet

Yup, what Envy said

Would really like to have an answear to this!

Yes, but they drop now as “skins” so you double click to apply them on an item… no need for transmutation stones.

Like other “skin” items stack on each other, for example, if you have 5 tybalt backpacks they take only 1 bank slot if their not used. Is it the same with the weapons as appliable skins now?

I don’t mean new skins, but the old weapons as “skins” not as exotics without any stat.

Anyone could provide any information?

I love fractals, and I very often do several dailies a day (2x, 3x, 4x etc)… well did b4 the update, after it I will most likely do it aswell, but so far occupied with different stuff. Doing many dailies, no matter how low the chance for the weapons are you obviously get a ton of them at some point… (like my funny collection of scetpers and hammers (those love me ;_;) since I feel bad salvaging them (because despite everything they are rare skins) they take a lot of bank space… so my question is, do the new “skins” stack one on another?

So if I get 3 riffles will they take 3 bank slots or only one?

Thank you very much <3

No, she has to transfer to your server if you want to keep the bonuses.
If you transfer to her server you will only have the influence she gained (the current ammount on her server)

Any chance she is on a different server?

Guild stash and infulence are server wide, so if she is on another one she wont see the bonuses and upgrades you’ve bought and qued on yours.

Beein mean and angry never solved any issue

If I deserved the suspension I’ll take all of it without a word of complaint!

If it was made by mistake, well everyone makes mistakes, can’t blaime them for it, since its a huge community and its hard to keep track of everything and everyone all the time.

Astral Projections.7320:

That’s another odd thing. When someone has an offending name, the first time is is a forced name change only. There is no suspension. When the person first tries to log on, he gets a message that the character must have a name change before he can play. He can change it and then log on. It’s only after that first time, when a person reoffends by picking another offending name, that the 72 hour suspension happens.

And another thing, really, you should have gotten an initial response within 24 hours of sending the ticket. Sometimes it’s sent off the a spam or junk folder. Did you check all your folders just in case their email went in there?

I’ve never gotten a msg bout changing any of my names nor that it was offensive. Yet the msg when I try to log in says “… suspended for use of an unacepptable name…”.

And yes, I always check all the folders when I check my e-mail.

ShadyNZL.9018:

9 characters – that’s impressive…nice names too btw.

Hahaha thank you. But lets stay in the topic

Still waiting for a reply to my ticket. Since my suspension will be down within 24 hours I am only curious now of the reason why it happend.

Astral Projections.7320:

Maybe you were sanctioned by accident.

If thats the case I really hope they can get to my ticket quickly.

Had some nice gaming plans for the weekend and all collapsed suddenly.

Thank you a lot for the feedback mercury ranique.

I will wait for their response of my first ticket so I don’t spam them and go on from there

Kelmen.3896:

Umrae.5124:

@ Kelmen

you’re not supposed to skip them by yourself nor kill them all by yourself, its a thing for 5 people, those skills are helpfull in a group, so if all the refelcts, blocks or group stability is down you can use your reflect or your personal stability so you don’t get knocked down.

You don’t only have to learn to play your class but also point out to other clueless party members that they can help making it easy, it’s not kittence you get the hang of it.

if this part required “coordination” of 5 ppl to pass through it, it should be a boss challenge part, not on the mobs.
and this coordination practically won’t work properly.
times that I can get past it, is when I don’t need to execute any of my “ranger” skills over this, but other class is doing it.

Harpies are “Elite” mobs, which have been stated to need a small group of players to kill, so it’s not like you are supposed to solo through them!

You didn’t fail your job if you damaged the harpies or gave your team some buffs or support!

Umrae isn’t a drow character. It means faithfull in drowish.
So I’ve used a word of that language.

Its also a name used in 2 books of the “War of the Spider Queen” serie, names of minor plot characters. That appear twice in the whoel serie and die right after they were used, kinda “NPC” names.

But if that would be taken as “Reference names of copyrighted or trademarked characters, materials, or products” then every single Jon Snow, Deanerys, Harry Potter, Elrond or any name in elvish from LOTR should also be suspended for an unacepptable name!
The nickname Umrae has been with me also in GW1, so I’m using it for over 4 years now with anet, and I’ve used it before in different games, it never coused any issues.

I did submit a ticket and waiting for an explanation.

So yesterday I was kicked from the game, I was sure it’s a normal disconnection, so I try to log back in and whats what I see:

“Your Guild Wars 2 account suspended for use of an unacepptable name in violation of the User Agreement and Rules of Conduct.
Access will be restored in approximately 71 hours.”

So I started thinking, which of my names is unacepptable!
Maybe someone can shed some light on this, this is a list of my character names:

Umrae Lullaby
Umrae Symphony
Umrae Harmony
Umrae Rain
Umrae Storm
Umrae Spectrum
Umrae Delirium
Umrae Paws
Umrae Hysteria

and the 2 guilds I’ve created

Sensorium [SnM]
Dragons And Dragqueens [Fab]

My first though was the SnM part, so I’ve asked my guildies over skype to check if anythign was changed – it wasn’t. So I guess thats not it.

Dragqueens? Considering that we have a lot of homosexual story characters I highly doubt that a comedy act proffesion could be the reason of a suspension (considering its a bank guild that I visit once a month (if even) ).

My character names? I honesty don’t see which one could be unacepptable or offensive in any way!

The guilds and the characters have over half a year already, some of them are up since first day of headstart.

Any thoughs on this?

I did submit a ticket (request #33715) but so far no response to it!

@ Kelmen

you’re not supposed to skip them by yourself nor kill them all by yourself, its a thing for 5 people, those skills are helpfull in a group, so if all the refelcts, blocks or group stability is down you can use your reflect or your personal stability so you don’t get knocked down.

You don’t only have to learn to play your class but also point out to other clueless party members that they can help making it easy, it’s not kittence you get the hang of it.

SAB goes this Tuesday or stays 2 weeks longer?

Thanks
I’m off to do them then.

If Southsun Sruvival goes into the weekly mini-game rotation will the achievements be still doable then? Because I am not sure if I should bother with them this weekend

There are several good looking armors for males!

Just try out different things, mix and match and you can come up with some interesting stuff.

“Sexy” is a matter of perspective.

pmnt.4067:

Umrae.5124:

Guild mission activation control
I don’t mind it the way it is atm, just don’t give the rights to morons :l

You missed the point and/or are not aware of the following bug: The mission control right only controls the right to activate a guild mission from the guild panel. That’s okay for bounty and treck (they start immediately), but activating puzzle, challenge and rush only unlocks a ~5hour time window where the mission can actually be started. In that window, anyone in the guild can actually start the puzzle/challenge/rush with the ~15min time limit.

Never done those, so wasnt aware of that

vove.2768:

and give bonuses for people who join in middle of the match and stay to the end (either their team wins or not) to encourage them for staying.

This is actually a grand idea!

Making the guild panel a social panel
Great idea!
Communication from officers to members
This has been suggested several times, and I’d really like seeing this in the game.
Guild mission activation control
I don’t mind it the way it is atm, just don’t give the rights to morons :l
WvW and guilds
I don’t do wvw so I won’t comment on this
Events and guilds
Could be interesting, but I’d like to see this suggestion expanded a bit more to post some feedback!
Last logged in
I don’t even know why this isnt in the game yet, this is the most needed tool for guilds, I run a very small guild with hardly 30-40 members and yet it is a pain to remove inactives, I can’t imagine the 400+ ones…
Calendar with alerts
A fun, yet not that much needed feature if the guild social panel would be up.
Guild achievements
I’d say no this. It’s purely another huge disadvantage for small guilds that don’t have all the missions. It’s hard to run small active guild anyway, since everyone wants to do the missions, and with few people it takes a long long time to unlock them. Giving achievements to guild missions would make it even harder, and would definitely kill several small guilds.

Mist Y.5214:

Umrae.5124:

I was inspired by a few friends who play only ONE class, do literally everything with it and simply love it, I think those people should be rewarded

Did I misunderstand your suggestion then, or would it in fact require people to play EVERY profession extensively in order to get full rewards?

This would make everyone happy, since rewards are class related.

People that focus purely on ONE character could most likely show off their devotion their class much faster than altoholics (like myself!).
So that hardcore engineer will run around with his title and super rewards, showing them off!

Altoholics and achievement hunters will have another goal to accomplish.

But yes, to get all rewards, titles and achievement points you would have to play every class pretty much a lot! Probably something impossible to get within a year or two, due to the ammount of things to do and time to spend on that class / character.

And up again

And bumping this thread up for more people to see

Armors would be amazing!

Thanks for the feedback so far, keep them comming

-reserved for possible suggestion-

Class related achievements - these offer A LOT of variety, and several more can be added, these are just suggestion how I would see them, forcing to switch builds, check different possibilities, etc.

Warrior
- Shout 500 times (1p)
- Summon 150 banners (1p)
Guardian9/b]
[b] – Summon 50 spirit weapons (1p)
– Heal allies for a total of 1 milion health points (1p)
Engineer
– Place 100 turrets (1p)
– Create 200 explosions (1p)
Thief
– Hide in shadows (use invisability) 100 times (1p)
– Apply venom to 100 targets (1p)
Ranger
– Charm all pets (1p)
– Kill 100 enemies in a range of 1000 or higher (1p)
Mesmer
– Create 150 clones (1p)
– Teleport 50 people (1p)
Necromancer
- Summon 50 minions (1p)
- Apply 500 conditions (1p)
Elementalist
- Change your attunement 100 times (1p)
- Kill 50 enemies with AoE attacks (1p)

POSSIBLE REWARDS

- Maxing all the titles would give you a Master Genius/Legionaire/Paragon/Phantom/Illusionst/Shadow/Hunter/Magus title.
If you unlock both the Master and Champion title (from spvp) you’d achieve a Legenday (name) title (for example LEGENDARY PHANTOM I think this would be something many people would aim for!)

Item rewards (once again these are only suggestions)

Everlasting tonic
Warrior: Would put you into Rampager mode
Guardian: Would turn you into one of the spirit weapons (random)
Ranger: Would turn you into your currently equipped pet companion
Thief: Would make you inisible (only ooc ofc)
Engineer: Would turn you into a mobile turret (random)
Elementalist: Would put you into Mist Form
Mesmer: Would summon 2 clones next to you that would copyy our moves and emotes (3x mesmer dancing /o/ )
Necromancer: Would turn you into one of your minions or plague form (random)

Mini pet
Warrior: Mini warbanner (?)
Guardian: Mini spirit weapon (one of them)
Ranger: Mini pet (one of them)
Thief: Mini thieves guild member
Engineer: Mini turret
Elementalist: Mini tornado
Mesmer: Mini clone
Necromancer: Mini Flesh golem

Weapon skins
I have no idea about this… I think they should be given as a ticket to summon a merchant whenever you wish too that would give you a weapon skin for every weapon usable by your proffesion, or one weapon you can choose from (perhaps ascendand if they are ever released) from all weapons your class can use.
I don’t really have ideas how the weapons could look like, mayby some suggestions?

Special effects
Now again, something special, unique for every class, making it epic!
A necromancer could get the scythe that shows when you use staff skills or wells as a permanent addition to your weapon (?)
Elemenalist could get much bigger elemental bracelets, depending on attunement and making them not dissapear after hiding weapon.
Engineer could get a tool that would make kit backpacks hidable.

Every class could also get an animation coloring tool (I know this would be probably a hell to implement) but I know several guardians who don’t like blue, yet they are forced to have blue skills, same with pink mesmers and green necromancers

So what you guys think? Post some feedback and suggestions/ideas.

First I’d like to apologise for the countless typos, spelling errors and grammar mistakes that you’ll see here. If you want to grammar-kitten this post send me a PM with a corrected version and I will edit it)

So…
I was inspired by a few friends who play only ONE class, do literally everything with it and simply love it, I think those people should be rewarded! Also rewarding dedicated players and all of those hardcores out there who would do all this with several classes

So heres the basic idea:
Adding achievements, titles and rewards specific to each class, several achievements would be the same for every single class, some would be different.

Heres a list of achievements, rewards and possible titles (all is discussable, so feel free to write down your suggestions, feedback and constructive critique)

Each class would have a separated tab in the achievement panel, so it’s not clusetered together.
After each achievement I will write a few words of comment and possible ammount of achievement points earned.

Achievements common for all classes
- Finished Story mode as a/an (class name)
As simple as it gets, finish your story with a class, finishing it with all 8 classes for achievement hunter will be rather boring, but hey! It’s not supposed to be easy and fun! (would reward 10 achievement points, since you get several other rewards while completing the story)
– Explore 100% of the world as a/an (class name)
Once again something that most people do only once. This would also make more people explore maps (for achievements) and would possibly make some places a tiny bit more lively. (would reward 20 achievement points, 1 at 10%, 4 at 25%, 5 at 50% and 10 at 100%)
– Finish all dungeon paths as a/an (class name)
I don’t think this needs any explanations? there is a total of 33 paths, including story modes. (this would reward 10 achievement points)
It will also add a bit more variety to all the awkward parties that want only 4x war 1x mesmer (for a little bit at least)
– Finish 100 dungeons as a/an (class name)
This will also add some variety to the dungeons, we should see more classes doing them and people beeing less picky about what they want to see in the dungeon runs.
(10 achievement points in total, 1 for 10, 4 for 50 and 5 for 100)
– Achieve Personal Fractal Level 30
Since its supposed to be challenging and a true master of a class also has to conquer fractals! Level 30 isn’t that hard to achieve, yet might be rather difficult for unexperienced players, also requires a little bit of devotion in getting ascendand gear.
(would reward 10 achievement points)
– Finish 200 fractals
Before getting to lvl 30 you will probably have this unlocked, if not, have some fun in there (would reward 10 achievement points)
– Achieve Rank 20 in World vs World
A true master has to experience every bit, and since wvw seems to be a part of pve
(would reward 10 achievement points)
[b] – Kill 500 enemy invaders in WvW
Would reward 10 achievement points
– Equip a full armor set
Something easy, equip a full armor set… 1 weapon, full armor set and all accesories. (would reward 1 achievement point)
– Unlock all weapon skills
Doesn’t need explanation (rewards 1 achievement point)
– Unlock all healing, utility and elite skills
As above (rewards 1 achievement point)
– Achieve level 80
Would reward 1 point.
– Play a/an (class name) for 500 hours
To make it NOT as common and easy to get, showing devotion to a class, hardcores cang ett his pretty fast, casuals will have to play quite a while to get it, but its still doable. (would reward 50 achievement points)

I agree.
Having it account bound on use would make it trully legendary!

Just to rephrase my question…

Can I use the ticket several months after the event is done? ‘Couse I plan to keep it untill I have a character that theme will fit the gloves. So I dont want to redeem any of them (’couse I dont know the class of my "flame-ish character to be created once).

Or do I have to use the ticket to get the gloves within the event time?

Hello there,

I totally love the gauntlet design, they are really, really pretty, but I don’t really have a character they would fit (yet) so I decided to just keep the ticket and use it when I’ll find a character that the gloves would fit on.

So my question is:
Can I use the ticket whenever? Even if its several months after the event?

Umrae Hysteria
My lovely Sylvari warrior