Guild Wars 2

AdaephonDelat.3890:

You need to go to the discovery panel and put a +1 and a Thermocatalytic Reagent into the discovery to craft a +2. You then need to repeat this each time you want to go up (i.e +2’s to +3’s).

Thank you, this is what I was looking for.

(I don’t understand why ANet would make me go through this process again, though.)

When I go into the crafting window, the only option I’m given is to craft +10’s, but that option is greyed out because I don’t have +9’s. What I want to do is upgrade my +1’s, to +2’s, and so forth.

P.S: I hate crafting in this game.

Elementalist is your best bet. Of Ranger, Thief and Elementalist, you’ll find the most utility in Ele. Easy PvE farming, easy WvW farming, easy PvP builds. Dungeon wise, Ele’s are more welcome than Rangers and Thieves, with the exception of speed/stealth clears for the latter.

I started with Ranger too, and I regretted it. It’s a lot more profitable to make an Ele first. I’m not saying that it’s easy mode to play an Elementalist, but for your first class and first run through of the game, you’re going to want a character that is useful in all aspects that can net you the resources to support your other characters.

Short of Ele, just make a Warrior.

Zenith.6403:

Squishy.1965:

I keep seeing so many people say things like “Hmm, I don’t think I’ll buy the expansion because for probably 30$ I’m just getting a new class and a bit more.”

- Have you thought that maybe free time is precious? Why would I spend any money on a game that’s going to be soul-crushing grind that makes me question the meaning of my existence? If the game doesn’t teach you anything and if it’s not even fun, what’s the point? Are you going to tell your grandchildren about that time when you farmed 500 gold and 15k achievement points on a game that no longer exists?

Lol@this and most of his posts.

Anyway, I’m probably going to get it. Never paid for GW2, might as well give ANet something now.

Thobek.1730:

A new race would of been nice but it would be an enormous amount of work. This isn’t like WoW where the armour skins are horrible and are basically low polygon pieces. Even to make the new race fit all the current armour pieces would be such a massive undertaking.

I don’t think people really understand how much work goes into creating new content like a playable race. New zone, New voice acting, New character customisation, refitting armour (and New cultural armour), New living story, New lore, New animations for each class and all their abilities…

Yeah, that’s why we’d pay them to do it…

Evans.6347:

I can’t deny that the news of no new race has me extremely disheartened. While this indeed doesn’t add any mechanics, cosmetic changes are a huge part of Guild Wars.

That said I’ll try to keep an open mind.

Pretty sure Guild Wars only ever had one race. And cosmetic changes were added with new professions and skins. In other words, HoT is following in its predecessors footsteps.

FrizzFreston.5290:

Not sure why I need to quote this again, because looking for information on the Main Heart Of Thorn release pages isn’t that hard. Here’s a quote and link to the source for those who haven’t read it yet.

FYI, It says Maps, which is plural of map. Map being 1 map. Maps being more than 1 map. I mean, come on now. No reason to be deliberately obtuse.

New adventures await you in the heart of the Maguuma Jungle. Confront the growing hordes of Mordremoth’s minions, discover allies from ancient civilizations, and battle new enemies.

• Tackle challenging group content.
• Explore new open world jungle maps.
• Experience new events and storylines.
• Test your mettle in new boss battles.

https://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/en/?_ga=1.251803535.767515840.1350500849#section-heartOfMaguuma

Come on, man. You’re expecting too much from who follow this train of thought:

“Now we’ll talk about all the new, major features in the XPac”
Shows a map
“OMG THERE’S ONLY ONE MAP DEDGAEM”

It’s almost like 90% of the other things that you earn for one character and can be given to your others. This is outrageous.

Human. Because everyone worthwhile in GW’s past was human. Namely me. I’m going to channel my old toon.

Noah.9654:

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

Yes it is better than nothing, but this was promised 2 years ago.

Please add more maps asap, we cannot wait another 2.5 years!

You are not entitled to anything other than the $60 worth of gameplay that you bought (which is about half of your personal story imho). If you’re unhappy with the amount of gameplay, don’t buy the expac or don’t play the game :V

Developers can’t just “add more maps asap”….that isn’t how the company works.

He’s entitled to that content, actually. It comes with the $60.

As for adding more maps, it’s the cheapest and easiest way to revitalize WvW. Especially since they’re doing it on rotation so people can’t get their fill in two weeks and leave. Adding more maps would lead to periodic surges of interest and a healthier overall playerbase and better experience.

Kaz.5430:

Where exactly are you getting the information that classes `lose` anything through the specialisation system? From what I heard, they talked about gaining things (ie. weapons, skills, utilities, traits), not losing them.

Find the post about the PAX after party with dev comments. You will lose a trait line in favour of a different one, and as such “specialize” as a druid rather than upgrade to one.

Torsailr.8456:

You don’t need to unlock the episodes to find the tunnel. All the episode will do is show you exactly where it is…not that it’s difficult to see.

My point was the previous episodes give more direction than I have now. It was pretty obvious where to go when I was told it was in a room though. That is the kind of context I’m missing out on.

Thanks. I haven’t played any of the last three episodes, and they cost more than I can afford to unlock.

How exactly do you go about unlocking the rest of the map? The only waypoints I have are Prosperity and the Entry.

Just walls in all directions… The only possible exits I see are a closed Inquest door and a path covered in vines. What do I do?

P.S: The zero direction in this quest is annoying.

Cogbyrn.7283:

Chris.3290:

It was already proven soon after launch that in long-term DPS (greater than 5 sec sustained damage output) that high condition damage was already greater than crit heavy output.
This will just push small scale combat more and more towards condition damage.

Do you have a link to a thread or text snippet where they prove that? I’m curious to see what was said about it. I’m skeptical that it took all the variables into account.

He doesn’t, because it’s wrong. Look at every boss in the game that dies faster to Zerk than any Condi setup. Hell, having even ONE Condi player in your party is noticeable. Having 5 is a joke.

As a Mesmer, this is funny because there was so little incentive to go Power/Crit already. I’d uninstall but I’ve already reduced my play time to like 8 hours a week, usually when I wake up at bizarre hours with nothing to do. ANet, what to heck?

Deli.1302:

Tajz.9826:

Please come and have a tour at NA again I still remember a thrill of them when they were on JQ.

Who would want to play where they won’t get many (if at all) gvgs and will only be fighting pug blobs?

Have to ask them, since they’ve done it twice.

Also, all these people hating on Red Guard and their numbers. Doesn’t really work when there are videos of them wiping you guys when they’re heavily outnumbered. I mean, at this point any engagement where they outnumber you is just faster and more convenient.

I’m sorry, I’ve found someone else.

I agree. Otherwise I expect a percentage of the profit people get from defending an objective I upgraded.

Raven.9603:

the last thing you should ever do for hackers is stroke their tiny kittens to erection with “open letters” acknowledging them.

Yeah, I just want to DDoS them even harder now. I mean… What, nothing, look over there!

Wow, lol. slow clap

Rhaegus.8924:

Aaaand there goes the BG/JQ/SoR thread……closed after 20 posts already with not a single bad word being spoken.

If anything, i think that what WhiteAndMilky.2514 said is the truth. If the moderators wouldn’t be so overly aggressive, they would have 50% less work.

Reminds me of the time i got infracted for saying ‘Hi, nice troll attempt, i give you 6/10’
Boy, the pm i got made me look like a criminal :-p

Some guy posted screenshots of another person exploiting.

If they had moderated it normally beforehand, people might actually know what the rules are.

Rhaegus.8924:

Anyone has any idea why the previous one was closed? lol….

In all likelihood, it was that attention-seeking guy that just absolutely had to tell us how he found a town clothes exploiter.

Still can’t believe how many things are vain.

Arius.7031:

First Darkhaven, then Blackgate… why you beating on us poor Dh AR? Wagon rock!

Thank God they’re back with you guys, BG got tired of being spawn camped all week.

Dropper.9176:

The chosen resolution and music makes this one of the most unpleasant Gw2 Videos i have watched so far.

Yeah, that music. Eugh.

Ah, T2 romance.

All is vain.

The funny thing is ANet barely moderates it anyway.

The threads have calmed down since Season 1, which ANet didn’t moderate during at all. So it’s funny they decided now is the best time to deem too unsavoury.

The good thing is that it seems people are starting to care as little about WvW as ANet does. We might not need that forum anyway!

VOLKON.1290:

You know… the one that sticks out actually was one in GW1. I think it was this:

She Said She Was 18 [GWEN]

Isn’t there a GW2 guild by this name? Coulda sworn.

And, somewhat on topic, there’s a guild with the tag [HPV] and I can never help but laugh when I read it and wonder if the founder realizes.

Aw. All those guilds self-exiling themselves from the forum did so for nothing, then.

akamon.2769:

All is [VAIN]

Someone do it.

Golden.

magikfox.9658:

Crimson Riddles.3892:

magikfox.9658:

MagiKarp.8201:

Great to see everyone running untagged in Oc/SEA Vanguard had some great fights with FB and TKG tonight WD!

I see the meta has yet to infect SoR, please succumb to the untagged/unblob goodness.

<3

I’ve been running with an untagged group for a good part of half a year, and you guys come in and do it for a couple of days and now you guys are changing the meta?

#blobstralians #blobceanicsmakemelaugh

On the brighter side, I am happy that other guilds are getting in on this, especially considering your blobtastic history.

And I think numbers in Oceanic is a fair debate as it has been riddled with the same map blob bs since I can remember. But I mean that’s what you get when the timezone is led by hoards of drunken Americans and Clueless Koalas who don’t know any better.

All SoR does is blob, how else do you expect the other servers to counter you?

That’s such a lame accusation. Is that all you guys throw out? “We’re just countering your blob”. Why don’t you be a man for once in your WvW career and maybe own up to your blobceanic tendencies. All three servers blob equally. It’s a joke to say anything else.

The points I make are purely of my own home timezone, oceanic, which I dubbed blobceanic due to its bloated nature of it. NA is a lot more dynamic now with smallman guilds, as are SEA and EU (of course EU, they’re the father of the smallman).

But yeah, your comment is such a cop out. “We’re only blobbing around like this because you do.” And what? You continue to blob against smaller groups because of some vengence you had in the past? Gimme a break. You do it because that’s all you know. Do yourself a favour and talk about something else.

You need a snickers.

lordkrall.7241:

And thus making it much harder, if not impossible, for small groups to do useful stuff?

If you want to make sure that your upgraded camp stays in your possession you have to defend it. Simple as that.

By small groups do you mean one up level? Because that’s how small a group has to be for camps to be even remotely challenging to take.

Prysin.8542:

well, now that it has been made public, with evidence, it should be patched. This is blatantly an abuse of the game design.

Rofl… All places that require rudimentary jumping skills should be removed.

EFWinters.5421:

“It won’t happen.”

- ArenaNet during BWE.

Fix’d

kyro.8162:

Hikisaku.8276:

oh man guys SoR did it again, they killed our 80-man BG blob with only 20 people look

Just counted, anywhere from 38-45 SoR, and around 33 of your guys.

This is sad and funny.

Two PVT Guardians. Kill your opponents with boredom.

Heard wearing Aviator’s makes you immune to crits.

Fannwong.3059:

Although GW2 is another blip in a long list of games, I do hope that it will it be a long blip.

A bloop.

Lol, someone’s mad.

Sorry, BG can’t handle fighting HoD with Anvil Rock spawn camping us every day.

Helly.2597:

Suggestions like this would have no impact on the blobs. If you have 50+ people you don’t exactly need great boon coverage to push in on a group. As with most suggestions of this sort, it would really just punish organized groups which go up against greater numbers constantly. You are taking away something that gives an organized group an advantage over blobs and claiming it would limit the effectiveness of the blob.

Rofl… I was just about to post this and use Agg as an example, but yeah. +1

Radioactive asks the hard hitting questions. More at 11.

Jeydra.4386:

Finally don’t ask someone to leave unless you are willing to pay for the transfer. Are you?

Man, they really rustled your jimmies with that, huh?

Tannith.2960:

Don’t want to sidetrack the thread bur just wanted to clear up some of the things mentioned about the DEYS alliance. DEYS (Death Ends Your Sorrow or Don’t Eat Yellow Snow depending on who you talk to) was made up of [KDS] Keepers of the Dark Side, [RK] Radiant Knights, [HB] Herfolge Boldklub and [MA] Mystical Awakening. We did indeed transfer from EU servers to Blackgate in October 2012, we were never on HoD and were never part of Titan.

Oh, must’ve been thinking of someone/guild else.

I like the snow version better, especially since the snowfall started today and I needed that reminder.

All the Mesmer tears. Many of them my own.

Poxheart.2845:

Peetee.9406:

IRON was also the first dedicated guild to move to NA bracket, RG came later and only stayed for a few weeks.

I don’t believe this is true. I remember fighting against VoTF long before IRON arrived.

IIRC, DEYS and VoTF started off at launch in NA, they aren’t necessarily EU to NA transfers, despite having EU players. DEYS was on HoD at the start, for Titan Alliance (or at least on the server), and VoTF was part of Ascension Alliance.

DEYS/HoD’s Euro-force stayed in NA BG (or at least a significant enough portion), whereas VoTF transferred to EU.

BG’s slow rise from Tier whatever to Tier 2, and probably some other things killed off a lot of those Euros. I know Gin left to greener, European pastures. And RK and HB sort of went inactive before reaching T1. Then Smokee came back and both of guilds started rebuilding.

I think we were still losing T1 until WM came over. After IRON came after them. Then KISS also went to SoR, and Coin went to BG.

I don’t think SoR had a chance with ZDs there, but they could’ve also not lost by such a large margin. I, and all the rational people on SoR, do know that ZDs fought SEA and EU at opposite ends of their TZ.

SleepingDragon.1596:

MagiKarp.8201:

RIOT #1 Guild NA.

What? You serious? No way… I was thinking of Merc. But I won’t tell you which Merc.

Merc, in lower case, is an actual guild on BG, IIRC. So you’re obviously referring to them.

It’s obviously Engineer…

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glue_Shot

Gun game, or an MMO/GW2 version of it where:

You start off as whatever you are,
After every 5 or whatever stomps, you’re automatically switched to a new class, build and gear… (Far-fetched idea, given the amount of programming required for this).

This was a really fun game mode back in the Counter-Strike days. It forced you to use weapons (or in this case, classes and builds) you weren’t familiar with or didn’t otherwise use regularly.

Of course, the further you progress, the more rewarding it is. Ideally because you show competence in many classes and builds. I think if anything else, getting to play something new is its own reward. Might open people up to new classes.