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Legendary Armor: Feedback [merged]

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I am kind of relieved these armors are so totally ugly. I am not real fond of raids and now I have no pressure to do them. I’ll keep working for my radiant which, I think, is far better, even if the medium is still (barf) a trench coat. Of course the last 3000 points are gonna be a bear but that armor set, at least, is worth it.

I still wonder who it is at ANet that says "players are sick and tired of trenchcoats and butt-capes. Hey, here’s a great idea. Let’s put in more trenchcoats and butt-capes.

Tiger back item Chuka and Champawat

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Try the Laurel vendor. He should have a tiger den map for 1 laurel in the achievement section. (bottom tab)

Issues with Grawl Firestone, Suet [merged]

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Same issue – I got to the Chiblains section of the game – I died and now cannot get back. I tried regenerating the elixir (even down to going through the Grawl quest to get the firestone). They didn’t give another firestone and when I got to the heated pool, it said that I wasn’t ready. I can’t get back to kill the monster. Please help. I tried to submit this in game, but the bug system was greyed out.

I usually play with this avatar on the Living World. I would like to continue with her. I appreciate that this is a priority.

In a pinch you can have a friend take the quest and pull you in. Once in the story instanve you do not need the elixer effect active.

ow my eyes! Wayfarer

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In wayfarer foothills the raven jumping puzzle and the area of the mountain immediately around it are extremely bright – I checked with another player who was present and it appeared extra bright to them too.

Patch Today: Key Farming Impacted

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Maybe this was needed to prevent new accounts that were just for key farming – although I dont see any way it will prevent people from having 15-20 new free accounts for nothing but farming keys to make up for the change.

I know they will lose money from me as I usually bought keys just to make up the one or 2 needed for a set of 10 after key farming 8 or 9.

So, frankly, kind of a dumb change

Why are you so cruel...

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Frankly, the huge amount of “beta gear” is just totally stupid since we can’t use it on another toon anyway. what was the point?

Exploiting - Bans and Suspensions.

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Anyone who claims they aren’t aware that doing the abnormal amount of damage using one particular skill isn’t a bug/exploit is full of it. Yes I am shocked they have neither fixed or acknowledged such a ridiculous bug.

When I logged on to do Teq, I did see I was doing a huge amount of damage but, since I had just logged on and the game had automatically assigned the traits to my lvl80 guardian I had no way of knowing what was causing that damage until Teq was over and I could ask around. So, no, not everyone is aware of what is causing their huge amount of damage.

Thanks ANet

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Thanks ANet.

I had already bought a pre-purchase for both my accounts since I have played since beta. The price did not bother me because I felt I got more than my money worth already.

But I was concerned about how it looked to newer players who bought the core game thinking they would need it for HOT only to find out that the core is included in XP.

You made it right and I thank you.

Farming Black Lion Keys | Fast & Easy

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Just a couple of things
1) if you don’t want to run all the way through DR to the crafting station, just pop into WvW as soon as you exit the tutorial – the cooking station is just beyond the stairs on your left and the tp is close in case you forgot to get some ingredient.

2) If you need trans charges too, you can map rata sum in less than 10 minutes and get the last 75% or so from level 9 to level 10 at the same time – a bit longer than doing it all with crafting but worth it if you use a lot of trans charges. And, if you did the crafting in WvW, it’s just a matter of taking the portal to LA and few steps to the portal to RS (only if your toon has not been in LA before – otherwise the WvW to LA portal will stick you down at fort mariner)

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Rime-Rimmed Mariner's Rebreather

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I got 2 from giant winter’s day gifts

Guild Wars 2 April fools 2015 [merged]

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I have really enjoyed the joke – and i would love to keep the assuran flying broom animation. Would it get irritating if it were for more than a day? yes. but for one day it’s a ton of fun. Thanks ANet!

Show me your sci-fi look

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Here are two sets I kind of switch back and forth on. The first is “borg” and the second “post-apocalyptic”

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Preparing gear for Reavent prof

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By that time I’ll have plenty of tomes of knowledge and wvw badges of honor. Planning to pop right into the PvP citadel and get whichever armor/weaps of those stats seems to fit best. Than pop a few trans charges to get the looks i want and Bam, ready to roll.

Missing Outfit from 'Hero: Outfits' window

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Since you have checked all your characters, I would say file a ticket with support. I suspect, since it is a gem store item and there will be a record of it, they will probably replace it for you. (and, yes a similar thing happened to me with my wide rimmed glasses and they did replace them for me)

Best Laurel to gold conversion?

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T6 mats by far

Problem with Extractor (I think)

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The only boss I fought was at blue so must have been a bug. I’ll keep watch and see if it happens again.

Problem with Extractor (I think)

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Last night I was working with a bunch of people to get the map to breach. A few minutes before breach I was at amber and, because breach was coming soon, I used an organ extractor. Then there was a call in map chat for help at blue and I ran there. While I was at blue, the breech began and, since I needed organs from plat too, I joined the breech at blue.

At the end of the battle I did not receive an organ.

So, is this because I initially used the extractor at Amber (even though breech had not yet triggered) or was there some other problem? several people at plat said they also did not receive any organs.

If the extractors tune to the fort where you are when you pop them rather than the breech boss you first fight, this needs to be noted somewhere. I wasted quite of bit of time on a map from 0% prep all the way through breech to receive nothing.

Otherwise, there is some other problem with plat that needs to be looked at that prevented it from giving organs at completion.

Thanks

a note on the rime rimmed rebreather

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Just a note about the rime rimmed rebreather because I have not seen anyone mention this but…..if you have it equipped and put on an outfit, the particle effect is still visible. You can even hide the outfit’s headpiece and still get the effect – which I think is pretty cool. Now I gotta get more stack of giant gifts to try and get another one – sigh.

Name change contracts are a bad idea

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Hmmm I guess I did not catch that, the acute accent is accepted but the grave is not. No idea why.

And, no, if you cancel the name change, you do not lose the contact. It is only gone if you accept the name change.

Name change contracts are a bad idea

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The accented i is available in the NA client. I have one toon with the accented i in it. Easiest way is to copy/paste it from somewhere else into the name creation.

I think letters like ä are also able to be used (haven’t tried them) and I know you can do Æ because i have that on one of my toons as well.

Good Job Anet!

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I already expressed my appreciation on another thread but I will say it again here.

I like this part of the story.

Thank you Anet.

My thoughts on Tangled Paths

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I really don’t mind that it was a bit short since it was only two weeks between episodes. And I like the lab. the pact fleet weapons, the option of playing as a fire shooting scorpion. And the explorer outfit looks good on my ranger.

As to my thoughts on the story, I’ll withhold judgement till I see where it goes.

The only disappointment for me was not getting another glove for doing the story on an alt.

Was this update as amazing as the last? No. But I enjoyed it.

Bombs Caithe's Reconnaissance Squad fail

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The Op is talking about the achievement where you have to keep the first two lionguards alive, not the one where you set the bombs. And I also had trouble at that point. There are two patrols that both pass that spot, the are around a corner where you can not see and the one bomb that would be useful there almost never triggers so the lionguards run in and suicide on the mobs.

I assume there is something wrong there with that particular bomb because the mobs run right over it and nothing happens.

I finally gave up and had a friend help me with the achievement. Together we were finally able to kill the wolves without losing a lionguard.

suggestion (spoilers)Final boss in mission

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Yeah, I wasn’t suggesting it was a bug but it was posted on the bug forums by people who thought it was. I just ran around the big guy until he spawned a crystal shield outside aoe – he kind of aims at you with them so if you don’t just stand in one place he will eventually send you one with out the aoe circle. But it was a tad frustrating – still it was fun.

suggestion (spoilers)Final boss in mission

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Could I make a suggestion about the final boss in hidden arcana. I see over in the bugs section people are getting frustrated because the fragility shields spawn inside aoe rings, making it impossible to get to them while at the same time having to kill summoned facets for protection from the light beam. So, could I suggest three things that could be added in that final part of the missions that would keep it challenging without the frustration of simply being unable to do anything until a shield happens to land outside aoe.

1: make all three colors of light active at all times
2: make sure at least two summoned facets are present almost constantly
3: make sure the summoned facets are of different colors and that the color of each is somehow indicated so the player knows which is red, blue, green etc.

That way when the vortex crystals spawn inside a light beam and the crystal shields are inside aoe, the player can kill a summoned facet of another color, run to the correct beam of light and get the protection, grab the crystal shield from the aoe (since they now have protection from it) then kill the appropriate color facet, grab its color aura and run to the vortex crystal/light beam to apply fragility.

Also, this would make sure that all the dynamics from the earlier bosses are being utilized (at the moment the protection from the light against the aoe is not being used because when two summoned facets do spawn, one is useless because it is the wrong color and if you grab the light protection from the beam with the votex crystal in it, you have already killed the summoned and by the time the next one spawns it is too late to use it properly.)

Luminescent Strap - can sell as junk

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Once it is added to the collection you no longer need the item. Go ahead and sell. I like this, keeps things from overloading my pack.

I am Beyond Impressed... Speechless

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Just really love this content. Fast paced, variety, challenging, bosses in the mission that are truly difficult without just adding HP and armor to them, and a tie in to gw 1 finally.

Really well done,

Now, gotta go save some cows and forts and stuff

Woot!

Gaile, give the devs some cookies.

Not under my command

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I am not sure if this is a bug or intended

A friend and I were going for the numc achieve. And about halfway through the two NPCs we were supposed to protect either disappeared or got stuck. – in any case, they were no longer with us, making this achieve pretty easy. If this is how it is supposed to be, that’ s fine, but it seemed a bit odd so I thought I would post, just in case.

Pre-release teasers for today's patch!

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And yet another long coat for rangers. Bleh. Probably won’t bother with this one.

Thanks for the work on gem exchange

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Thank you for the custom feature. It happened faster than I expected and that is nice.

Yes, I too would like a little more control over how many gems I wish to convert. But I am willing to wait since you listened to us and have made a good start. And if it never happens, I can live with this.

Thank you again.

Gem redeem button disabled

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Real quick question, however. Are there any spaces in your code? With the last few cards I got I have had to enter the spaces between the groups of letters/numbers in order for them to work.

Why I am disappointed this patch

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OK, I really hated the gem exchange but they listened to us and, if I understand correctly, we will soon be able to select how many gems we want. If this is true, it will be an improvement over the old system in which you had to enter the gold you wished to spend and then tinker with the amount to get the right number of gems. If this happens then I do not consider the time spent working n the gem exchange wasted – it will be time well spent in the end.

I’m not thrilled by the lottery but I doubt it took much time at all.

Yes, the minis are reskins but I happen to like the new candy corn coloring and the black kitten better than the old. And, frankly, there are too many minis in this game anyway.

On top of that we got batwing potion and maize balm, both of which are a blast and a wonderful loot drop rate in the labrynth.

So barring the initial problem with the gem exchange, I am far from disappointed with this event – it was a job well done.

Halloween dailies not counting toward meta?

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I think that repeat dailies do not count. If you did the “carve five pumpkins” yesterday and then do it again today it will not count. But if you do one that you have not already done once it counts as and achievement – at least that seemed to be the way it worked for me.

Lets talk about the new Gem conversion [Merged]

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Ok, guys. Some of you are unhappy about this change, I can see that. BUT… quite honestly, most of you are sort of (I hate to use the word) ranting (sorry!) instead of offering suggestions.

I assure you, the team leader told me not 15 minutes ago, they will listen to suggestions.

  • Does that mean you get everything you want? Probably not.
  • Does that mean you should suggest something? Yes, of course! Because they’re expecting player input.

So you want lower increments? Think it through and present a suggestion! You want XYZ in the interface? Post that idea. You would rather see something else? Post what you think about that other thing. Please don’t get into the whole “I’m going to kick the devs and their little dogs, too” because it’s not doing you or us any good at all.

I’m not here to apologize. I’m here to communicate and right now, the communication is coming in without a whole lot of substance. Over to you for suggestions and constructive input!

Firstly, the anger is justified because it was a bad change that only a little thought on the part of the devs would have prevented.

Secondly, suggestions have been made that do make sense:

1: add smaller increments (say, the ability to get 5, 25, 100) gems

or 2: give us the ability to specify how many gems we want and see how much gold that will cost (admittedly the old way of having to play around with the gold amount to get to the specific number of gems required was clumsy)

both of these have been made multiple times. Since you wish us to give feedback and the feed back has been given, please address these suggestions.

In the meantime I will submit a support ticket to exchange my 7 useless gems for silver and will do this any time i have left overs. i will also submit tickets anytime i want to purchase just 5 or 10 gems. And i will resubmit the tickets until I get a satisfactory result.

Lets talk about the new Gem conversion [Merged]

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Hey there,

Here are a few tidbits from the team:

  • A lot of newer players had trouble with the interface. That doesn’t apply to you, you’re veterans who have been around the conversion block a time or two. But newer players will benefit from the updated system.
  • The goal was to make the Gem Store more like other shopping experiences, and if you think about it, there is more of that feel to it now.
  • You may be surprised to know this (I know I was) but very few people bought gems at smaller denominations than the first one offered in the new system. That’s not to say they never did, nor that there wouldn’t be the desire to do so. But overall, the current options were selected based on player purchases in the past.
  • The team is going to listen to your feedback and, if and when it’s practical and desirable, they can look towards adjusting the new system to better meet your needs.

So please keep your thoughts coming on the new system. Feel free to make suggestions but please, keeping them constructive would be very much appreciated.

Very simple – type in the number of gems you want and it tells you how much gold you will need to spend.

That was the only fix needed to the old system.

Of all the things that might have confused player, the gem exchange WASN’kitten

As for making it like other shopping experience, as a single guy, I am used to having to buy a bag of carrots or potatoes and only being able to use 1/3 of them before they go bad and I have to throw them away because stores don’t offer 1 person amounts of many things. So if you goal was to make the gem store as miserable as grocery shopping – you hit the nail right on the head.

And what the heck am I supposed to do with the 7 gems left sitting on my account at the moment that I can’t use and can’t turn in for silver?

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Lets talk about the new Gem conversion [Merged]

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I was spending between 35 and 100 bucks a month on this game. But lately, the only things to buy have been outfits and now managing gems is going to be so clumsy i can’t get rid of the extras easily or buy a few with gold if I need to.

Given that there has been very little actual game development (just bits and pieces of a “living story”). No new armors. A tiny bit of a new area opened up. And now the gem/gold exchange has been made unworkable – I don’t really see any reason to continue to support this game.

Most of my friends have already quit.

Guess I’ll just enjoy the old free content we have and forget about the gem store entirely.

Lets talk about the new Gem conversion [Merged]

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Absolutely ridiculous

I like to buy gem and hold back a few for character update kit or something. Now in order to do that I have to multiple exchanges of 100 or 50 at a time instead of a single exchange.

Other times i have bought keys with gems (stupid i know) and have been maybe 5 or 10 short and bought those gems with gold. now the minimum is 400 at a time?

This changes is clumsy, badly thought out and just plain stinks.

Raiment of the Topless Charr/Asura

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Actually I think the real problem isn’t the actual physical characteristics of the race as much as when a person goes to the trouble to make a female asura or charr character, they would like it to be distinct from the males – otherwise why bother with gender. In most armor and outfits there just isn’t any real distinction and that is disappointing regardless of the species.

Raiment of the Topless Charr/Asura

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Actually this has always confused me.

Charr, who are mammals and should have teats or breasts of some kind – don’t.

Asura probably should have some kind of milk producing organ (unless they are reptiles) – don’t

while Sylvari, who are grown from pods and emerge fully grown and have no need of milk – have got breasts.

On topic, however, there are a couple of outfits that give the female charr and asura the female costume (wintersday and ancestral). So I would bet we see a patch in a couple of weeks that gives them the female version of this one too.

souldbound should be transferable...

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I don’t mind some soul binding but the amount of it in this game is really frustrating. I am getting really sick and tired of story/level rewards being totally useless because you can not salvage them, sell them (even to vendor) or transfer them to another character.

At the higher levels, not only can’t you use the reward items but receiving them doesn’t even unlock the skins in you wardrobe.

I mean, seriously, what is the point of getting level 60 rares that you can’t use? I would rather get nothing.

At least let us take them out of the bank with other characters so that we can combined them in the forge.

Upcoming outfit

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Here are a few more screens of the Lich costume: http://imgur.com/a/FrbR8

Oh man, my toon “Lady Donna Matrix” can’t wait for this to go live.

Mystic Forge Bug?

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When I decided to go for a precursor I started including one or two level 76-78 exotics with a couple of 80s to pretty much guarantee I would get an 80 exotic. didn’t work all the time but I did get 3 precursors for half what they would have cost me to buy. Might still be worth trying.

Is this a trap email?

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Also. ANet will never warn you ahead of time that they are shutting down your account. They would do it and then communicate with you after, if at all.

so if you get an email telling you your account is going to be suspended or limited, it’s a fake.

Redeem

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Did you include the spaces when you typed in the code? For some reason the new batch of gem cards require you to include the spaces between each group of digits although the old ones did not.

Some items missing wardrobe slot?

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I don’t think the trooper skins being missing is actually a bug. Since they have the same skin as the CM dungeon armor, I suspect it was intentional that the story rewards not unlock the skins.

This video sums up the game for me

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great video – lousy update

since we are stuck with this...keyfarming

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OK, a key is still given as the reward for last of the level 10 stories so the big slow down to key farming is hitting level 10 before we can start the story. So, since we are stuck with this, what suggestions do you have for getting to 10 the fastest way?

So far I did the heart quests lvl 1-10 in queensdale and a couple in ashford. It took less than an hour to level to 10. Obviously it was my first time through and will go faster as I get used to it. But surely we can find ways to speed it up.

Suggestions.

Voting with my wallet

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Yeah, I was spending 30 dollars or more a month on this game. But, honestly, I don’t see any real reason to invest any more at this point. I especially liked creating new alts – no point now.

"Leveling as a Reward" Experience Crippling!

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yeah pretty much epic fail patch – can’t even bring myself to get enough interest to do my usual teq kill tonight.

This patch is terrible

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Yeah I’m really disappointed in this whole mess. I see very little benefit in just slowing everything down after 2 years instead of actually improving the game.