Guild Wars 2

You are right, they are mixed up. That is for the masterwork versions of the equipment but the fine versions are named properly.

I’ve noticed this a lot too and it seems to be happening more frequently. One especially annoying one was at a skill challenge – I think it was Plains of Ashford, Lake Adorea where you have to defeat an engineer and its effigy. While attacking the effigy with a melee weapon it would sometimes try to step back away from me but it was up against a wall. This would cause it to become invulnerable and regen its HP then I would have to start again. This happened a few times until I switched to a ranged weapon and stood back, that way he wouldn’t try to get away.

I thought the same way about the stealth finishing kills until I read this thread. It seemed very cheap that they could do that and they very often did – I am constantly finished off without even knowing anyone was around me. However, after reading that other professions can do similar things with stability or other defensive skills it does not seem so bad.

That being said it is still much more exploitable for a thief since they will always have a handful of stealth skills that they can use at almost any time whereas for other professions to get their equivalent protection they must equip specific skills that often have longer recast timers.

Hello everyone!

Would anyone be kind enough to tell me how tournaments work? I looked into them because they are part of the monthly achievement but I couldn’t find much information about them. When I spoke with the tournament NPC I only had the option for a quick free/paid tournament that asks for a roster. Does this mean I have to make my own team for it? I heard that there are scheduled tournaments as well, is that what people take part in? When do they happen? It doesn’t sound like many people care for the tournaments how they are now but I wanted to give it a try if I could.

Thanks to anyone who answers.

I hope that 1v1 isn’t a priority for the developers. A /duel function would be fine for a quick way to test out a build with a friend but to develop a structured 1v1 system should be a long off idea if anything. The game is called Guild Wars – as in combat between teams. The professions are made to work together and do it well.

I’m not a fan of the trebuchet myself. I don’t mind the idea of it but it is way too powerful how it is now… in the right hands at least. It fires rather quickly with incredible damage and destroying it is nearly useless with the repair kit. One match I played was against the trebuchet queen… she was decimating every flag and when I ran to take it out she just ran away. I thought she didn’t want to fight without her siege engine but I learned differently. Seconds after destroying it I hear the announcement “The enemy has their repair kit!” because she made her way to its spawn point while I was destroying it and moments later it was back in action.

Adjusting the reload speed, accuracy and/or the repair kit respawn time would make it much less of a round-winning superweapon.

I didn’t play WoW at all and I didn’t play GW1 all too much so I’m not certain what you mean by ‘arenas’ but GW2 definitely could use some more S-PvP game modes, as long as they are team based.

This game is all about how you spec your character. If you focus too much on one aspect then of course you will have vulnerabilities. It sounds like you think too highly of yourself and have the mindset that if you are beaten by a player that it must be a flaw in the game. If you find a weakness in your character that often gets you killed then a readjustment is in order, or perhaps a different profession would suit you better. There isn’t one profession/build that can be almighty or else everyone would take it. Part of being a skillful player is knowing your weaknesses and preventing others from exploiting them.

Also, I can only hope that one on one PvP isn’t a concern for the development team, especially not at this point. The game is called GUILD Wars – team battles is the focus. If you don’t want to be part of a team and only want to kill other players to make yourself feel good then this isn’t the game for you.

I like the downed state in PvP. It’s frustrating sometimes of course but it helps make the game more unique. If you spec your character appropriately the downed state can be a great advantage to you. For example the guardian has many skills to help reviving teammates as well as empowering his own downed state. This gives another avenue of specialization in character building, something I really like about this game – you can’t have a character that excels at everything.

My only complaints about downed state is the imbalance in downed skills between professions and that thieves can finish off downed players while under stealth (or at least they appear to for me, but that could just be my laggy connection).

I agree with that, the mail is great but a player to player trade system would be a great convenience as well. For now if you are worried someone will swindle you then use the Trading Post instead of mail.

I agree that fractals shouldn’t be part of the monthly achievement only because they are meant for level 80 characters. I know it will scale up lower level characters but it doesn’t make them near as good as an actual level 80 character so not only will it be that much harder for a lower level character to complete the achievement but also hard to find a group that will take them along. Dungeon runs as part of the monthly isn’t a bad idea since they are a big part of PvE.

I’m impartial to having the WvW kills as part of the monthly as well since WvW is a PvP activity and there is a PvP monthly achievement as well so why not have this objective in there instead.

Some form of player housing is always a good idea, personal or guild. There is a clock in the game but it is default to off. In the settings under General Options → User Interface: In-Game Clock can be set to Server Time or Local Time. It will display the time in the bottom left corner of the mini-map.

I just checked on some mining points I collected from last night and they were still exhausted however I’m not sure how long they normally take to replenish, I don’t think it has quite been 24 hours. This was in the Gendarran Fields region.

Can you still see the exhausted nodes where they should be? They were there for me and someone else was able to collect from them… although they were swinging an axe at a silver ore vein.

I started playing when the Lost Shores update was introduced so I can’t comment on how it has changed from before that but I never thought that drop rates were low. I repeatedly fill my bags with all sorts of equipment and upgrades and such while completing a region. However, I am level 49 now have never once received a rare weapon or higher from anything I have done. I’ve defeated a handful of champions and most veteran monsters I happen across but have only ever received masterwork gear at best from them and their chests.

There seem to be a few types of items that are categorized properly on this. The sigils only show up when the sub-category is set to ‘All’. Food also only shows up when the sub-category for ‘Consumables’ is set to ‘All’ – setting it to ‘Food’ shows only drinks.

Also, since I needed to search through all of the consumable items to find food to buy I had to go through a lot of items listed with 0 available. Checking “Show only available” did not remove them from the list.

November 29th this NPC is still not working. He is in the Altar Brook Trading Post of Queensdale.