Guild Wars 2

Extraordinary Gentlemen [EXG] is an multinational PvX guild on Desolation (EU). We have been here since the dawn of GW2.

It is the ambition of EXG to foster a gaming environment which puts a strong emphasis on community and gaming skill. We have players of all types, from casual to very dedicated gamers. Many of our members have forged connections beyond the GW2 sphere. The majority is online during European prime time at roughly 20:00 CEST.

Regularly we do the tier 4 Fractals and the good old dungeons. As a community driven guild, we help not experienced players to get up to speed. EXG has led some of the first re-vamped Tequatl kills. At the other end of the spectrum, we help each other for achievements in Bloodstone Fenn. Moreover we have a weekly WvW Desolation roaming event and we PvP from time to time. Last but not least we still do the guild missions weekly.

We do have members who raid regularly in PvE raid-guilds. However we are trying to set up a non static guild group for weekly PvE raids. Just like with tier 4 Fractals and dungeons we help people whom are not experienced, but that does not mean you can free-ride. You have to pull your weight. Even though we are a PvX guild, we do take PvE raids at a quality only matched by Raiding guilds. This means that de facto everything should be meta in terms of (builds,gear,food,tactics and rotation).

Trial periods are 3-4 weeks, with full membership granted at completion subject to compliance with the gentleman’s code of conduct, and of course, you liking what you see!

www.exg-gw2.com/forums

If you are interested , contact one of the staff below in game or via our forum for an invite.

Banjo / Banjo.4781
Bjora / mithrile.9137
CookieMonster / Eventyret.6537
Haszim / Haszim.2471
Shigure99 / Shigure.2918
Sonic / Sonicdog.3142
Wezzy / Wiz.1543

Extraordinary Gentlemen [EXG] is an multinational PvX guild on Desolation (EU). We have been here since the dawn of GW2.

It is the ambition of EXG to foster a gaming environment which puts a strong emphasis on community and gaming skill. We have players of all types, from casual to very dedicated gamers. Many of our members have forged connections beyond the GW2 sphere. The majority is online during European prime time at roughly 20:00 CEST.

Regularly we do the tier 4 Fractals and the good old dungeons. As a community driven guild, we help not experienced players to get up to speed. EXG has led some of the first re-vamped Tequatl kills. At the other end of the spectrum, we help each other for achievements in Bloodstone Fenn. Moreover we have a weekly WvW Desolation roaming event and we PvP from time to time. Last but not least we still do the guild missions weekly.

We do have members who raid regularly in PvE raid-guilds. However we are trying to set up a non static guild group for weekly PvE raids. Just like with tier 4 Fractals and dungeons we help people whom are not experienced, but that does not mean you can free-ride. You have to pull your weight. Even though we are a PvX guild, we do take PvE raids at a quality only matched by Raiding guilds. This means that de facto everything should be meta in terms of (builds,gear,food,tactics and rotation).

If you are interested , contact one of the officers below in game or via our forum for an invite.

Trial periods are 3-4 weeks, with full membership granted at completion subject to compliance with the gentleman’s code of conduct, and of course, you liking what you see!

www.exg-gw2.com/forums

Banjo / Banjo.4781
CookieMonster / Eventyret.6537
Sonic / Sonicdog.3142
Wezzy / Wiz.1543

Sird.4536:

Below the vendor option is another option like a conversation (green text). Click on that.

Thank you so much! You are a space saver ^^ I appreciate it. Thank you.

I have double mini’s in my account but they don’t seem to appear at the magnetite shard vendor to sell. How do exchange them for double shards?

MO, I like you attitude less talking more shipping. Which is the same moto I use when I work.

I am pretty happy with convenience and pricing.

1. The item makes me want to play my alts more. All my permanent contracts, copper salvage kit, and terrace pass can now be used by everybody.
2. Because I can now easier play with my alts, the game. Now I am more inclined in gearing them up full ascended as well.

At first the pricing looked a bit steep and scratched my head, but making inventory management on all alts so much easier is definitely worth it.

27 Please! Thank you for the chance ^^

That Guy.5704:

Text bug http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3aq3bd/from_the_preview_stream_you_need_ascended/csew5rz

Thanks!

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear (weapons and armor) next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ
(Edited to clarify weapons and armor)

The press client requires an ascended inscription / insignia, which one is true?

http://i.imgur.com/OsH2brA.jpg

Short answer: no.

I am disappointed too. For a long time I want something physical of GW2. I can not get my hands on either collectors, or the shatterer statue.

Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Boxed-Editions/first#post5156159

First I want to say its a high quality skins and worth the price regardless. However I think it will sell more if it has a more if the whip animation is more visible. But that is something the micro transaction team and the artist(s) have to decide if its worth the recources.

Also I really don’t know where to put this thread:

• It is a suggestion.
• It could be a bug.

But I rather refrain from double posting so I just leave this here.

Complements on the design of the skin!

Also good work on the animation! Too bad its hard to see on a normal speed.

If the animation speed is slowed down a bit its much easier to see!

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/37lpww/chainwhip_sword_in_slow_motion/

https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=GW6L11gM0IU&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsyGaP-FU1cg%26feature%3Dshare

Would you be so kind to reduce the animation speed?

Edit: or shorten the animation.

I don’t know how much work this is, and if it is cost effective to do so. But it would definitely be fun ^^

If I understand it correctly it simply boils down to:

• Other classes have similar dps but; more armor and more damage mitigation / recovery options.

I really loved the ideology.

“Elementalists are multi-faceted spellcasters that channel elemental forces, making fire, air, earth, and water do their bidding. What they lack in physical toughness, they make up in versatility and the ability to inflict massive damage in a single attack.”

The ele is not worth it anymore for skill to reward ratio. They have the lowest defense and health pool in the game, if the damage is getting nerfed what use is there to play ele?

The elite specialization tempest should be something good, or ele will just be the forgotten profession. Its still decent in terms of damage, but not when compared with other professions. I don’t like the direction the balance team take the elementalist, especially for PvE.

Some suggestions:

• Make the adept air trait ‘’Ferious winds’’ depending on precision instead of healing power.
• Elemental attunement as minor trait in Arcana.
• More or higher damage multipliers in Fire and Air specializations. To compensate for the loss of dps.

Blude.6812:

One thing, I wouldn’t use the the buy gold competitive edge argument. Many but lots of gold legally from the TP with real money (gems) and gold to gem exchange.

I don’t think you really understand what a competitive advantage is.

Gold sellers tend to be cheaper then buying gold trough gems the legit way. So you get more gold per dollar/euro/ruble spent.

Edit a 2014 graph of black market exchange rates and official ones:
https://www.gw2tp.com/blackmarket This is my favorite TP site.

Since nobody is saying this, I am just going to say it:

Chris Cleary, thank you for motivating the RMT policy and its implications. It took probably a lot of thought to have this kind of elaborate explanation without jeopardizing the security team effort.

I personally like the new policy changes and can’t wait to them in force, because I feel other players who got away with buying gold have an competitive advantage over the normal player. This will be less likely to happen when the policy changes are into force. So again thanks!

Nope. (Playing actively since GW2 pre-purchase release) But I wish all who did good fun!

Some of my guild-members did get in though. Too bad we cannot play together, but they can share the stories since there is no NDA ^^

Ramethzero.3785:

Wooden Potatoes thinks it will be a sword. That classifies as a rumour, yes?

TY I did not knew he thought a sword, while I watch all his video’s + the Visual Wood podcast!

I must have missed it. Do you have a source of the video? <3

Flydragon.7146:

Im not really interested in Beta testing (Closed beta has been announced), But I DO wanna know when we can pre-order the Xpans. Im sure to grab it!

Does anyone know of any info on this?
(I know its soon to ask but Im impatient, sorry lol)

I think that info will come after the closed beta test.

Based on feedback a release date and pre-order date will be announced.

I hear rumors from PAX East new weapons will be:

Rumors:

• Engineer – Hammer
• Mesmer – Shield
• Ranger – Staff
• Necro – Greatsword
• Thief – Rifle
• Guardian – An bow
• Elementlist – No new info or rumors , can anybody help ?

Me and others best guess is sword. Still, I like to know if there are new rumors from Pax East. ^^

Profession themed mail carriers.

Guess I am one of the few who cared. Thanks for reading though.

Gaile Gray.6029:

I shared this with the team. Thank you all for your wonderful and generous comments!

The team earned it, and can be proud of themselves!

For me personally what I liked the most is:

All those lore lines in text, and actually more dialogue with audio.
Especially from that character near the end of the episode!

Yes ok, bugs need fixing. But you have to get trough great lengths to even be able to break out. So I don’t know why you would not just leave it there.

Why was the spot you could break out of the map patched?

It does not hinder anybody, nor does create gold.

It was one of the few things where I can make total strangers happy with by porting them up, giving them one of the nicest views of the city.

I really don’t get why you would want to take that away.

One simple but elegant solution for both parties could be lowering the minimum of from 400 to 100 gems.

The nature of gem prices is in hundreds of gems, I never found myself getting less than 100 gems. I like nice looking numbers. Buying directly 100 gems with the new layout is my personal most optimum.

Behellagh.1468:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

If Anet is going to let this kind of insider trading continue then they should consider locking all sales on the TP until patches go live.

I shouldn’t need to “know someone” in order to get collections done.

Insider traders: get karma converter for ~300g

Not insider traders: now costs >1000g

For those who don’t know, guides to all collections and what you need were posted last night by people who had “special access” to the patch. All the items used for collections have since been bought out and relisted for 100x the price.

A number of video previews went up over the last day that talked about collections extensively including showing some of the items needed to complete. So for those who subscribe to those youtube channels, they got a head start. Dulfy’s collection guide went up yesterday as well, listing some the items needed.

It’s not like it was secret. Sorry you didn’t get in on at. I didn’t either but I don’t care. I’ll just collect them when they drop. And then sell it for filthy lucre to someone to lazy to find one themselves.

A difference in 5 minutes can mean 50g per item difference. This is why it needs to be released at the exact same time or shut down the tradingpost for 24 hours when the NDA expires.

Or take a quote from Dulfy. So much this.

Or you know, don’t let the videos release pre-patch or cancel the previews all together to make it fair for everyone and all the fansites. Getting tired of playing catch up every patch.

In other words don’t release anything that can influence the tradingpost, or release it via an official channel so everybody is informed at the same time.

Playing catch up takes a lot of the enjoyment out of the otherwise great patch.

I know content creators like Woodenpotatoes, Boggoter Mighty Teapot and Matt Visual which I am all a fan of need content to prepare for great video’s to get us more into gw2. So what you can do is split content in tradingpost effecting and non tradingpost effecting. And only let the latter be previewed. This is easier said than done, and easy from a standby perspective.

But something needs to be done about playing catch up every time.

Maybe one simple but elegant solution is to take off the trading post x time before and x time and after patch?

Ark BladeSteele thanks for explaining, I will read more on that!

And my excuses to moderating staff for cluttering the forums.

Off topic:

Hope we get some kind of compensation for the bug. theory crafting is a really expensive hobby of mine. Need other source of income for now :p

Thank you for linking Nouvel!

However this is about daily dungeon reward not daily achievement!

I get no daily reward even if I wait a day between doing the same dungeon path.

Can a developer please respond if this is intended?

Getting traits is very alt unfriendly and discourage me from leveling an alt.

1. In terms of opportunity costs, if you are level 80 you can get more money than a under levels alt. The player already misses out on money by definition. However the new trait system made it even more difficult to justify leveling an alt. While leveling an alt can be good for the economy because you spend gold on gear and looks.

1.1 By doing time consuming quest the leveling process takes longer so to reach your goal: end game content
1.2 The quest system could be justified if there was a real alternative but there is not one. The prices are just too kitten™ high. Which returns me to my starting point.

This new trait system discourages me from making alts and spending money on them, and so keep playing level 80’s I currently have. My solution roll back to the old trait costs to 3g for all traits. Simple but effective.

Wanze.8410:

I dont think so.

Man you you got such dry humor

Still hoping for the hood as well. ^^ Especially with upcoming wardrobe…pretty please?

I don’t see any harm in at least doing this for the endless mystery tonics.

That would be fantastic so I can always be a glowing lamp. :p

Thanks for the heads up I had 3 laying around ^^. Had forgotten I had them.

Thanks for the discussion all ^^.

I really hope arena net will add the daily npc.

Behellagh.1468:

Surprised that the Royal Pass didn’t make a bigger impact. I guess the various “warnings” about the RT missing the Daily Event NPC and those that insist that account bound convenience items should automatically be accessible by every character without need of transfering it, soured it enough to keep players away.

Please allow me to defend myself. About royal pass warnings.

The reason I warned people :

I and some friends where really disappointed to see the daily activity missing. If the airship only gives ultimate convenience why bother buying the royal pass?

It was known to Arenanet a long time ago that the airship only had the daily activity, so this is not just an error.

Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/The-Royal-Terrace-is-Still-Lacking

So I felt no other option than to warn other players. All the info had been out for long nothing was done about it. I understand GW2 has a lot of great things coming up <3, so of course their priories lay there. I strongly felt this would be forgotten.
So I had to make a thread during the sale,where it has the most effect and attention. Even though this could cut into the short term profits of (still) my favorite game company. Because aside from the royal pass daily npc I a very happy with GW2 and Arenanet way of handling the game.

But in the end its for the better of a player base making an informed decision. Because they don’t feel a sour surprise like I did. Which make them at least not disappointed so they are longer happy and potential customers for other gemstore sales., and potentially buy more.

Malediktus.9250:

Would be great if daily activity npc would be added to it

I do hope so <3

To me as a non-programming knowledge player (so forgive me if I am wrong).

It seem to me that it is just a minor thing to do, when fixing the way point just add the two NPC’s there and be done with it.

From an economic perspective I really don’t get why you would want to differentiate between the passes. It only devalues the convenience.

Behellagh.1468:

Well the Black Lion NPC is a free waypoint away in DR. I’ve always thought that by packing those few extra NPCs on the airship was a mistake. Both the airship and terrace should have been identical.

The Black Lion Weapon NPC is free to teleport to … but still its a convenience item, not a variable cost minimizing scheme.

I agree those 2 extra NPC’s on the airship is a mistake, both the airship and terrace should be identical in terms of NPC’s

Behellagh.1468:

It’s always been missing so it’s always been a portal trip to Lion’s Arch, now Vigil Keep. It’s not a “new” inconvenience.

The inconvenience was there from the first release of the royal pass.

However new buyers could possibly assume from the airship pass that the Daily & Black lion NPC is also at the Royal Pass while its not there.

Its just a PSA for people buying the Royal Pass today to tell what they are buying.

Even though the Royal Terrace is one of the most aesthetic appeasing areas, it misses one NPC for ultimate convenience: Daily Activity (The airship does have one)

(Edit: also no blacklion weapon npc)

Just as a bit extra information for new buyers today.

(For the record I only have a permanent royal terrace pass and a limited airship pass. I still have my hopes up that this NPC will be added. But I just want to warn it is currently not there.)

In my humble opinion the selectable stats & an account wide unlock skin is enough for the legendary to feel truly legendary.

WvW Commander Training Event by Rox IV

As a last reminder!

This is not exclusively for commanders. Anyone who wants more info on WvW is welcome to attend. We will start the session in Desolation Borderland and switch borderlands as necessary.

Location:Desolation Borderland
Time: March 22nd 14:00 GMT+0
Duration: Approx. 2 hours

There is a ton a material to cover, so we will stick to essential knowledge and if time permits move forward to more advanced tactics. Here will be the topics covered:

- Preparing your group/zerg for battle
- Engaging the enemy
- Offensive and defensive siege tactics.
- Borderhopping and playing the PPT.

Hope to see many of you there!

P.S. Although this training is from www.exg-gw2.com ,all guilds are welcome!
You never fight alone.
Posted in Desospeak forums: www.desospeak.com/forum/m/17273994/viewthread/11610108-wvw-commander-training/page/1

Thanks! Does anyone knows when you can not buy the potion anymore is it 2 or 4 weeks? (counting form patch release ofc)

How much time to get Halo /Horns potions? I really want to halo but I am busy with school.

Vol.7601:

Well the guild mission would have to violate lore rules. All guild missions are open world. You would have to come up with a system to explain why Scarlet’s UFO & weapon are still there.

It’s better suited for a fractal. Just make the waves easier and convert the champs to buffed vets/elites.

You are right! I was only thinking mechanics wise.

Although I think they will have to change a lot more if they would have to put it in a fractal than if they would make the Marionette a guild mission.

You could solve the lore problem. For example stating that there where due an error a mass production on test dummy versions of the Marionette is produced.

I think the boss and lore around is such of good quality.

The proposal is simple: Turning this boss into a guild mission with only 2 or 3 lanes as guild challenge.

What are your thoughts?

2nd photo of the same character & armor with different lighting. So you can see the actual armor more better. More contrast.