Guild Wars 2

off the intel website, some further reading https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-digital-random-number-generator-drng-software-implementation-guide

An RNG is a utility or device of some type that produces a sequence of numbers on an interval [min, max] such that values appear unpredictable. Stated a little more technically, we are looking for the following characteristics:

Each new value must be statistically independent of the previous value. That is, given a generated sequence of values, a particular value is not more likely to follow after it as the next value in the RNG’s random sequence.
The overall distribution of numbers chosen from the interval is uniformly distributed. In other words, all numbers are equally likely and none are more “popular” or appear more frequently within the RNG’s output than others.
The sequence is unpredictable. An attacker cannot guess some or all of the values in a generated sequence. Predictability may take the form of forward prediction (future values) and backtracking (past values).

Since computing systems are by nature deterministic, producing quality random numbers that have these properties (statistical independence, uniform distribution, and unpredictability) is much more difficult than it might seem. Sampling the seconds value from the system clock, a common approach, may seem random enough, but process scheduling and other system effects may result in some values occurring far more frequently than others. External entropy sources like the time between a user’s keystrokes or mouse movements may likewise, upon further analysis, show that values do not distribute evenly across the space of all possible values; some values are more likely to occur than others, and certain values almost never occur in practice.

Beyond these requirements, some other desirable RNG properties include:

The RNG is fast in returning a value (i.e., low response time) and can service a large number of requests within a short time interval (i.e., highly scalable).
The RNG is secure against attackers who might observe or change its underlying state in order to predict or influence its output or otherwise interfere with its operation.

PLEASE STOP torturing the poor animal, please , please.

lioka qiao.8734:

This might seem oddly starstruck but…

Gaile quoted one of my posts!

She is not a dev: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gaile_Gray

you will not get decent desktops to run at 60 fps without investing in them

i have noticed DR kicks in really fast, 5-7 events in verdant and no more max xp for gold medals @ events, 12k going down

P.S. no way to get rid of it

didn’t anyone notice the missing N from the word recognized?
and the “log in again to try again” wording ?

btw, you have win 10 update ready

bank tabs galore!
more more more!

on a side note, please stop with the "you know storage issues / coding issues " apology for arena net before they actually say there is a issue,
be constructive, there’s no reason on earth that someone that does not belong to arena net tell us that something is a issue for them.

it’s the 21th century, when someone complains of software issues being impossible to implement we have a problem, especially when the creator of a thing complains he cannot expand and develop it some more.

it’s the new meta, you guys don’t know anything

do the story which award the coat box on another character , that’s how i completed the set, doing the story again , some story’s give the boxes on another char, some don’t , check the wiki, it tells you which

DID YOU PEOPLE DIDN’T KNOW THAT?

(didn’t read all the wall of text above)

@ OP then the world as we know it is over, time to get to work on real life things

i don’t know the armor, but doesn’t it say it hides shoulder armor like the light/medium one from CoF ?
if it does, you’ve been warned

why should views and orientations be present in a game in the first place ?
how does the community know someone else’s orientation and views if that person does not yell out so everyone can hear ?
isn’t yelling out your views and orientations searching for it with a candle ? in this huge wrongly understood “free speech” world ?

why does x have more free speech right and y has the less right not to hear your gibbrish ?

if a salesman polutes your airwaves with his products in front of your house, he’s using his free speech to promote his trash, but you are not allowed to choose not to hear his trash because then it’s called censorship,
do you even realise ?

why only some people are entitled to saying what they want hidden behind the free speech hipocracy and others are not allowed to NOT hear what the aforementioned ones say ?

and finaly, chill out, it’s a game, people are mean, the internet is huge, block and move on

this did NOT happen to me and is NOT related to gw2, but it is with gw1
you know that you have played too much gw when you’re on the street, see a box and say “i have no lockpick/key for that chest”
(chests in gw1 were random on the map, you needed keys , later lockpicks to open them for loot)

15 pages yet no Vayne, where is he ? i miss him, is he on a payed vacation ?

ontopic: just add a custom setting so that players can buy how many gems/gold/whatever they want.

assign aoe loot on a different key and res on another
mine is aoe loot on f
res is on C
problem fixed

so are some minipets , but not every time, and depends on minipet

what Cyrrin.1230 said is true

Is it only my account showing the character “zoomed in” with the feet hidden in the preview , equipment, outfits etc?

with this thing one cannot see the boots when testing different skins

found a link to a database on dulfy, which contains items recently added to the game
it lists these

Birthday Blaster
Birthday Gift
Skill Point Scroll = 5 skill points

see for yourselves
http://db.dulfy.net/item/66961

are these the gifts for the 2nd anniv ?:)

METALROCKS.6097:

i still prefer the older way were we simply could play around with it without getting charged for. the stuff i bought and equipped my character with was part of the game that made it fun. i always like to buy new coats for my female sylvari that match my level so as weaponry but no, now we have to pay for it to wear them.

generally the whole changes they have made are for the worse.

no you don’t
you can still buy new armor with gold and equip it even if u have the skin unlocked

people speaking on behalf of arena net what is or not is hard to do are plenty, everybody pulls out the scarecrow saying “omg it’s difficult, almost impossible to do”
but having no actual idea what that obscure and occult “coding” is, stop that please.

someone who makes a product and is not capable of modifying it is not a pro at it, i would like not to think this is the case at hand.

LE: they have test servers, its not LIVE

you know, it’s actually pretty easy to do, code wise too.

considering you want to change your race you must agree to the following terms

1/ level 80 , personal story finished
2/your personal story is reseted to 0
3/ once you change your race you get no more rewards from the new personal story considering you got it from your last and it makes no sense , reward wise too, you still are lvl 80 and don’t need low level items, key , a few transmute charges you can skip, thus 0 rewards.
4/ just pick another personal story with no rewards, its a 0 or a 1 option in code
5/ cultural armor can have an npc that trades your previous race armor off you and gives you same tire , same class armor

considering people that want race change care much more about the change than rewards, i don’t see why not

hear hear

add same NPC’s as in the air ship ? activity anyone ?

i don’t have that issue with illusions nor clones, they work fine

this is a very bad decision on a-net’s behalf, like many other decisions that they took, example flamekissed cultural t3 armor.

it’s wrong on so many levels, there is a bunch of player kissing a-net tail on the forum, it’s useless to argue with them, and it’s no help in yelling out loud that it must be reverted because arena net considers that the opinions voiced on this forum are a MINORITY and shouldn’t be taken in account ( as the photo leaked from the admin/staff/beta tester’s forum’s says it, it was posted on the forum few months ago and deleted very fast..)

pve players were already forced in exploring the whole wvw , some friend of mine got explore in few months , due to the fact that they couldn’t capture some points.
now we need grind rank?

if now they realised they commited a mistake with adding badges to achievment points and now want to repair that mistake it’s sad by adding r30 it’s sad

OR the possibility of buying your rank with badges from the chest which many might not have, i have specced 4 characters with those badges. and this is a vicious circle..

they proved many times that left doesn’t know what the right does, and do not coordinate in between their departments.

sad. this game had so huge potential

VOLKON.1290:

apocalyps.7106:

gem shop tools have no level requirement volkon, so it’s plausible
i hope they wont nerf them, as i think this aspect might have been overlooked :P
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mining_pick

I know, I’m talking about the people that don’t buy picks from the gem shop though. They do exist after all and you need to take that into account. If I haven’t bought any and I’m using the level 80 picks on my main what would happen with the low level alts?

i now see your point, maybe i’ve rushed in reading your last post.

gem shop tools have no level requirement volkon, so it’s plausible
i hope they don’t nerf them, as i think this aspect might have been overlooked :P
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mining_pick

another find concerning the subject is that it doesn’t work while in the PVP lobby or in Hall of Monuments.
though not ground breaking it’s worth mentioning.

i would be very happy and i think many others would be if they would make the Royal Terrace instanced like Hall of Monuments, so the loading times are cut down, and when you leave it to be sent back at the original point where you used it, just like leaving wvw and HoM.

and the fact that it is instanced would give players with slower pc-s a boost, i don’t see why should we load divinity just for that little place, and if you want to get into divinity make the current gates exits from the instance into divinity.

solving the multiple characters in the terrace problem ,make an npc that gives you account bound, entrance scrolls that do not brake so we can put 1 on each character.
exactly like the HoM stones.

other than these, thank you very much arena net for my personal guild hall!

make it an instance like HoM, faster load times, and we could use the “teleport back to original place” like hom/ wvw does to the char when it leaves the area

juno.1840:

If they make it so you can leave and go back to where you were previously, it would destroy the demand for the convenience consumables like bank access, BLTC trader, merchant,

those beeing cheaper than 1000 gems ….it will destroy them ?
not every casual player can afford 1000 gems for this convenient item.

in that case, they need to nerf borderlands too

permenent instant repair cannister like salvage-o-matic ? with merchant cost for armor ?

please make it instanced like hall of monuments, it’s becoming in Lions Arch 2

MAKE IT INSTANCED like HoM and it’s all fine

it doesn’t salvage as rare anymore and it is not outlined yellow, since the wintersday update, any word about this from a-net, maybe in the live stream which i didn’t catch ?

let’s nerf every skill in the game, then we don’t have anything to complain and cry about on the forums.
Kill shot is the laziest skill on that rifle , you can even “dodge” it if at a certain distance by moving 2 paces sideways.
everyone getting powned by a skill at times , be it a upscaled wvw char or a full exotic one comes on the forums to say that skill is op and should be nerfed, play that class then see what’s op and what’s not.
backstab had it’s day , some months ago , on the forums , of “omg that skill is op , must be nerfed”

learn to cope with it, if we nerf everything , we’ll end up watching the stars on discovery.

just look at this guide to get at 400 to 500 weaponsmith
http://www.guildwars2hub.com/guides/crafting/guild-wars-2-weaponsmith-leveling-guide-400-500

no fresh character can get that in it’s normal way up to 80.

Vayne.8563:

This is pretty much the truth. Anet does seem to lack some common sense. I’ve spent a lot of time working with writers and artists and, while some are certainly rooted in the real world, many have their heads in the clouds. I’m wondering if that has something to do with it, because it is a company of “creative” people.

There are times in my life when dealing with artists and writers that I have to take a step back and take a deep breath, and remind myself I’m living in a completely different world than they are.

I’m guessing theirs might be better. lol

outstanding, you’re outdoing yourself. congrats

didn’t try to craft those 3 things , it’s not visible anywhere.

well the screenshots talk for themselfs

http://i.imgur.com/uyGYot5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ToITAWb.jpg

this achievment does not exist, atleast for this month

PvP

Trebuchet
Bombard clustered enemies or demolish buildings with the trebuchet! Press and hold “Fire Trebuchet” to shoot further.

Finishing Opponents
User F to finish off your downed opponent!

PvP Glory and Rank
You have gained a new rank!
Talk to a Glory NPC to spend your earnings!

PvP Joining Games
Join a PvP game by talking to the PvP Browser NPC, or join tournaments through the Tournament Master.

PvP Returning to Lobby
To get to the PvP Lobby, open your Hero Panel, go to the PvP tab, and select “Go to the Heart of the Mists.”

PvP Returning to PvE
To return to PvE (Tyria), open your Hero panel, go to the PvP tab, and select “Leave the Mists.”

PvP Tutorial
Now you’re in PvP!
Your traits and skills are preset, but you can reset them in the lobby while out of combat. You also have PvP items and armor, and you can get new items from PvP vendors.

WvW

Learning about WvW
Not sure what to do?
Speak with the Instructor (near your starting location), and they can tell you many useful things about World-versus-World.

Discovering WvW
Your world is engaged in a fierce battle for power in the Mists! Press B to see how your world fares against the enemy, and to see current bonuses!

Score
Taking and holding objectives will score points over time. Open the Scoreboard B to view the current state of World-versus-World.

Supply
Use supply to repair gates and walls. Also use it to build siege engines for defending or assaulting objectives.

Traveling to WvW
To join the battle, click on [Go to World vs. World] and then click on the name of the map you’d like to fight in.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hints

i have 50/50 HoM since a very long time, and i can tell you the investment in time and in game money was huge, me and other gw1 players feel that the reward for 50/50 HoM is a joke.
but as i see on the forums there are no complaints like the threads that emerged after the 500 AP award by those that do not have HoM

leaderbords are a joke and missunderstood by the OP in my opinion

this is how i see it

a list of people which shows each one’s availability to invest time in the game , grind the points away and play 24/7

and NOT a leaderbord in the real meaning of the word leader that shows the skill and ability of the player

putting it plainer = get a bot and do some macros and leave your pc on for 1 year . he will be top 1 player ( it does not involve skill or ability it involves time which frankly isn’t LEADERY, right ?)

thats that, this should proove (explanation with the bot) that leaderbords are
“cosmetic” to say the least

these things put aside a-net can do a simple thing

i bet the database is somthing similar to SQL or might be SQL orientated, even MS excel knows of a command named “if”
a-net can do the if comand in the following way

if account x has HOM = account x has hom points invisible on the leaderbords
must be able to get it working in that manner, i just put it plain.

i would not start QQing and i’m sure many other players with HoM wont QQ about not having those 500 AP on the leaderbords.

that’s that.
am i right gw1 players ?

LE : please let’s finish this QQing , it’s useless, time QQing would be better invested in the game

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

apocalyps.7106:

tahlkora, mhenlo, livia , stefan, …and er… what’s her name, the monk that everybody blamed in pve gw 1 for deaths ? never, ever kicked me.
too bad a-net scrapped the idea of heroes/henchmen..

Well, heroes and hench arent needed/wouldnt really work for open world play. But I’m definitely with you on the whole ‘my hench never kicked me’ thoughtline. I’ve suggested a couple of times that they implement heroes for instanced content. You’d need to earn them Nightfall style, and they’d only be available in say…dungeons, but it would open those things up for more people I think.

i didn’t mention but i was thinking of heroes for instanced play only
this beeing a dungeon related problem

tahlkora, mhenlo, livia , stefan, …and er… what’s her name, the monk that everybody blamed in pve gw 1 for deaths ? never, ever kicked me.
too bad a-net scrapped the idea of heroes/henchmen..

http://raidwarning.com/guildwars-2-election-banners-armor-weapon-skins/

stop the worthless QQing over a few hundred points
1/ it’s a game
2/ it’s another marketing thingy
3/ it’s exactly how it was for new players of gw2 that got the game cheaper than players who got it from beta , because it was on offer by arena net back then and the same QQing was there too, “why should someone else get ……(you fill in the dotted
line)”
4/nobody cares about any leaderboards
5/ it’s a reward for those who played gw1, who invested money in campaigns, character slots, skins, expansions , mercenery’s and so on.
6/ it won’t toppel the game
7/ it’s not paytowin
8/ nobody cares about any leaderboards (again)
9/ everyone will get all the skins from the achievments eventually
10/ it’s JUST A LOUSY CHEST
11/ qqing doesnt help

12/ and final – stop beeing childish, i bet younger kids understand this and “older” ones (30’s ? ) don’t!

stop the QQ.

very good question which needs considering
maybe making a special npc in some instance when you reset your character wich will refund you with a token to buy your new race’s cultural armor so that people will not get gold back rather the equivalent armor.

I know it has been proposed again and again by the comunity and a-net stated that they are not considering it but i have a proposition that might be doable and interesting.

talking from my perspective, i want to change my charr engineer into a human one
the way i see it can be done is this:

change race only becomes available after
the storyline is complete
you reach level 80
and buy “race change stone” (or whatever) from the gem store
and of course you get to keep lvl 80

and it should work like this

it should reset all story specific options to 0 so you can choose them again
the story now becomes doable again but from the perspective of another race
you will not get rewarded in experience and items which you normally get because you got them in the previous story.
items, armor and all those little details don’t need changing because we have the experience of name change contracts so it clearly works

thus we will not “loose imersion in the storyline” as some might say and it will satisfy a number of player while getting a-net their half :P

ofc with some brainstorming we can find the best way to do this, and from the point of view of programming, well i know definitely it’s doable the only thing left is the will to do it.

any toughts ?

Misiek.7325:

apocalyps.7106:

don’t worry the next guild wars will have 1 skill on your bar and that skill with auto-attack, that’s what the comunity want’s

So if i understand you correctly adding mana would at last make combat interesting like wow combat, right?
So standing in one spot and spamming few skills while pushing one more button from time to time to drink some mana pot would be somehow better than what we have now?

If anything gw2 combat system is one of the best i’ve seen in mmorpg, and one of the best aspects of this game. If they started to change it for more wow-like-feel people would just leave.

no you don’t understand me correctly, my point was that this combat system, as active as it is it for simpletons, i never played wow, am an gw1 player and in that game there were no mana potions, you had regen.

so i am not a supporter of introducing mana in the game at this stage, it should of been done at the begining, it wasn’t done, it’s ok, can’t change now.

if they would of made a cross between number of skills from gw1 (or at least half of them) mana system and mechanics of the skills, and gw2 combat , like dodge, jump , ect. that system would of been more suited for this game, from my point of view,

why abandon projects that worked this i can’t figure out on a-net’s behalf.

don’t worry the next guild wars will have 1 skill on your bar and that skill with auto-attack, that’s what the comunity want’s