Guild Wars 2

MarkoNS.3261:

you do realize im not saying remove tp, they could add direct trade along side it,

Yeah but the TP has a gold sink tax to it, so even if mechanically the TP would run along side it, people would be trading anything to avoid paying tax, granted mostly high end stuff, but that’s where it’d effect the economy the most, the tax from Legendary Weapons not being taken out of the economy like it should be.

One thing I would like to add to my list of stuff I want to see that might help Roleplayers is the animations to work again – i.e. at the moment if another player is sat, they are still stood for people who weren’t nearby when the /sit originally happened!

Also, to add to my point about how selectable megaservers might help Roleplayers: It’d help new players more than established roleplayers. Currently myself and Kyra (we know each other both on Piken) have a big friend list so we rarely have trouble. But new roleplayers are struggling to find roleplay at the moment. I think selectable megaservers will help them a great deal, and increase out population if the RP community decides on one shard for the go-to RP shard (if they’re named).

I doubt even ArenaNet knows other than about a week before it’d be out again for a promotional period. My best advice is to keep an eye on the Gem Store, and the Guild Wars 2 website for news. Especially Tuesdays.

As a prediction, I reckon since the Living Story gang (usually dubbed Destiny’s Edge 2.0) are a part of the Heart of Thorns story, they’ll probably do a longer promotional period of all of the character’s skins about a fortnight before HoT release. Just a prediction though.

Megaservers.

Unless you’re all trying to do World vs World stuff together, or some are EU and some are NA, then it shouldn’t make a difference what world they’re in. Just get them to party up with you and right-click ‘Join in..’ with you if they end up in a different megaserver.

On my two engineers, which are both level 80 and 100% mapped, I barely use the actual weapons anyway, let alone a second set. The tools, gadgets and turrets do everything I need.

“Hey Tim? Show Joel how everything you touch turns to Skittles..”

I’m with GuzziHero on this (hi by the way! ^ ^) – There is little to no ERP in Piken Square, at least public ERP anyway. People here know that ERP has to be done in private, and only between consenting adults, over 18. Anything other than that is a big no-no.

Most Roleplayers on Piken are a mature bunch, and do it strictly for Roleplay, not ERP! I don’t know about the other RP servers, but Piken is clean (and the best <3 )

As for Megaservers and RP – my personal opinion is that whilst it is a little harder to find ‘Walk-up’ RP, Guild RP has improved dramatically. When my guild does our regular RP events outside the city, we are starting to see more and more people RP in groups away from Divinity’s Reach, and outside of bars instead of in them!

If anything, megaservers as a whole have IMPROVED RP if you look at the bigger picture, because I’m also seeing people from other servers getting into RP, not just Piken Square people.

/endbigupofpikensquare

Here’s a tip for anyone who is worried about ‘flooding’ or so-called ‘spam’:

I’ve found that whenever people complain about RP (or any kind of chat come to think of it, it’s just roleplayers get unfairly singled out more often than not) most of the time it is from players who have stuck with the default chat channels that ArenaNet give you when you first start the game. I think the default is something similar to ‘Main’ and ‘Combat’.

You can create individual chat tabs, and tick which type of information you can see in that tab. The picture below shows how I have my chat tabs separated to avoid one type of chat over-running another.

I’ve found that realistically, you can have up to five ‘visible’ tabs showing at once. Any more than this and they are hidden (so you have to press the tab key to see it’s header). But five should probably be enough for most people anyway.

You don’t have to stick to how I have it, but I’ll show you what my tabs have enabled as a possible example.

Main: Has /map, /team, /squad, /emotes enabled. If you’re not a roleplayer, turn off /emotes from this one. Good for general PvE, WvW and PvP if not in a party.

Say: Self explanatory. Has /say and /emotes only enabled. If you’re a roleplayer like myself, this is where most of your RP will be conducted.

Whisper: Only has /whisper enabled. You don’t see anything else, no /say or /emote here, so no whispers can be missed.

Party: Has /party, /squad and /team enabled. Ideal for doing PvP or Dungeons, Fractals and Raids when in a team. If you’re a roleplayer who RPs with party members, you can turn on /emotes here as well. Beware though – if you type an emote in /party chat, it can be seen publicly too.

Guild: Self-explanitory. Has all the /guilds I’m in ticked. /g1 to /g5. Again, /emote and /say aren’t enable so you can’t miss a guild chat. Unless you’re on Mac Beta of course when the bug happens where it deletes! >.<

I really hope this helps people. Using chat tabs is a lot more of a friendly way of dealing with your problems than singling out any type of player. Please don’t unfairly cut out roleplayers. RP might not be to everyone’s taste, but we all have one thing in common – we’re all Guild Wars 2 players and we love this game so much! <3

Yeah it’s a combination of both Monthlies and Dailies that’s capped.

I see you also posted about this in Rubi’s post asking what we want to know about a certain Mastery Line.

Neither the time or a place for you bringing up WoW, mate. I mean, it’s nice that you’re happy for another game and all, but perhaps you should try reddit or something instead to bring up other games in the GW2 forums?

This has been for a while.

Unknown when showing online means they are logged in but on Character Selection Screen.

However, I am a little concerned about people who are showing invisible are being displayed as in an area, whilst people who are genuinely offline are shown as ‘Unknown’ – so people can tell when someone is offline or just invisible.

Not sure who this ‘we’ is, since most people I know love doing the Living Story, and myself too. I also personally think we have enough professions and races.

Also regarding “make classes need different button” – you can re-bind your keys in options to have them in any combination you wish.

STIHL.2489:

BrotherBelial.3094:

Ah, yes. I can see what’s happening here. “I keep getting beaten by people running condition builds. Yes it must be the torment and confusion killing me.”

This is a L2P issue. I play warrior mostly, I have 4 of them. So if I can beat condition builds, and I’m not that good, anyone can, with some practice.

I don’t think that is what they are saying anymore then what you’re saying is “Please don’t nerf my builds, I need this cheese to win”

Everyone needs some build to win. What makes one build cheese and another one not?

nexusone.2367:

Since there is also an achievement for it the post makes sense to me. I’m close to the 5th one and I get the same AP as someone who made one twice and I also don’t get a title for it.

That makes no sense to me since I invested more time, more gold, mats and what not to get those. So please buff the original achievement and give it also a shiny title.

Thank you

But – you also have two different skins – someone with two of the same legendary only has one – which is what the title is meant to compensate.

OP: Seriously – clean your computer. It’s not a GW2 fault.

The suggestion just sounds like the OP is sore about something, and wants to take it out on another group of players. The WvW crafting stations fixed an issue to stop players being parked there, preventing other players who actually gaps want to WvW instead of craft.

Parking a character in a PvE area such as at a flax field or a mini-dungeon or jumping puzzle doesn’t affect queues or other players.

My advice to the OP: just get over it. Or purchase a [Royal Terrace Pass] and you can craft conveniently there.

Blurr out your email address in the picture, or remove the image altogether, as hackers can get hold of your account easier if they know what log on email address to use.

Hi,

After loading my thief after today’s patch (16 December 2014) I’ve noticed the flame on my [Incinerator] is not working as it used to. When you unsheathe it, it appears, but then goes out after a second. Then, it only appears briefly again after using a skill.

Has the Wintersday snow made it too cold to ignite properly?

I clear out my block list every New Years Day, with the exception to the one or two people whom I actually remember why I blocked them. I think people deserve a second chance, but they can wait for up to a year in my books. >:P

Basically these threads always equate to this:

Non-Roleplayer: "Give roleplayers a separate channel so I don’t have to see their Roleplay.

Roleplayer: “You know you can make a separate tab of your own so you don’t have to see it?”

Non-Rolplayer: “I shouldn’t have to do that!”

Yet the roleplayer should have to be forced a new chat channel to appease those who don’t want to create their own. And then get called names by RP-haters in the process of the threads.

The game’s been out for 674 days, and I’ve probably spent roughly the same amount in £ (GBP) in gems since release.

I enjoy the game and most of the releases so far, and looking forward to tomorrow’s too.

:)

You can get them from Personal Story lines at level 10 once per week, or from the level 40 “Setting the Stage” and level 60 “Battle for Claw Island” as often as you’ve got characters.

There’s also certain PvP Reward Tracks you can get them from, such as the Jungle Rabbit one.

You also have about a 30% chance of getting one as a reward for 100% completing each PvE zone.

Hi,

For a while now, the renowned event in Fields of Ruin Help Legionnaire Boneflayer crush the Renegades has been bugged, in that there have always been two of the same NPC, the Charr Legionnaire Kelith Bonflayer.

Recently, it seems that he has a small army of Keliths now! I did the event earlier today on one of my rangers, /ip ending in 62 and I counted no less than seven Keliths!

This small army is getting to the three veteran renegade leaders and killing them quite quickly, making the event much too easy now – it was nice little challenge for the area before.

Blackwood.9072:

SOLUTION:

Go to your GW2 application. Right-click and choose “Show Package Contents”
Navigate Contents -> Resources -> transgaming -> c_drive -> GW2
Rename gw2.exe to oldgw2.exe
Rename gw2.tmp to gw2.exe.
Launch GW2.

The launcher will start and will begin the download. I’m downloading now.

Edit: The fix persists through multiple launches.

Taken from https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Mac-client-broken-display

I’m wondering how we are able to reach conclusions on a game mode that is not even out yet? Seriously, some of you guys are reacting WAY over the top on this!

CMM.6712:

Wow… from the wall of complain, to the wtf signature, just wow.

Not sure why they think anyone should take their opinion seriously after that signature.

It’s a package deal for new players. End of.

We should be welcoming of new players, not complaining. What kind of message are posts like the “It’s not fair on veteran players!” setting to new players? I’m finding it more and more disgusting the amount of contempt people are ‘showing’ towards new players.

When a new player comes into the game, I would rather them see “Welcome to Guild Wars 2” rather than “It’s not fair these new players getting a better deal than us” it just shoots the wrong message across of people’s attitudes.

If you’re going for ANY game mode then really, think about who you want your character to be, to better fit your own personal play style (i.e. are they a fast shooting character, or a strong hammer wielder, or a mage-type person?) before picking what class fits best for that character.

No point picking a class you don’t like just because someone else says it’s the ‘strongest’ since really, especially in PvE, none of them are the ‘strongest’.

Why take the risk? I say no to macros whether they are allowed or not. If you can’t play a game without using macros (whether it’s Guild Wars 2 or Solitaire), you probably shouldn’t play the game!

With the new Captain’s Airship in Gendarran Fields and it’s pass, I’ve been on and noticed that there are more services on there than the Royal Terrace in Divinity’s Reach, yet they both cost the same in gems.

I think so one doesn’t feel more redundant over the other, add the Activity NPC, a full merchant (the one in Royal Terrace only sells salvage kits up to fine for example) and full guild NPCs etc. It just feels that the 1,000 gems spent for the Airship pass gives you more than the 1,000 gems for the Royal Pass to me. Do I really have to buy both?

I know this seems menial, but when I went to Royal Terrace to use the mystic forge, I wanted to make 5 Mystery Salvage kits, only to find I had to zone back to Minister’s Waypoint and back to get the higher rate kits, and the Royal Pass is suppose to eliminate this inconvenience altogether!

Thank You

One day, you might end up getting a precursor drop from an enemy aggravated by another player. Their loss

I’m fairly sure that ArenaNet ARE listening to everyone. There’s so much information and opinions on these forums, for them to comment on every single one, AND give us answers would be very unrealistic.

They can only give us answers on stuff that is definite i.e. content they’ve finished.

They can’t turn around and answer as soon as a question is ask and say “Yeah, we’ll do this” because they could start working on it, then it not end up working. And what will happen then? “But you promised us!…” people will be shouting!

ArenaNet are not politicians, they are game designers. They don’t want to break promises.

I’m on Piken Square myself, and the RP is affected here too. What makes us great gamers though, is the ability to adapt. Who knows, maybe they will do an RP tag for us. But they’re not going to announce before it’s been made, and I certainly think it’d be a bad idea for them to say “Hey, we’ll look into that idea” and it not happen too. That would break people’s hearts more.

Trust me, it’s better this way! Stay healthy, stay safe, look after each other and enjoy your RP! <3

We have duelling in the form of Costume Brawl. Any other form of duelling in the PvE world – no thank you

Native Mac Client? Now that would surprise me, even though I know they are trying. :P

More patches to come.

FauxFox.7510:

Thank you very much hate to be banned for a bit of fun with emotes

OP, by the looks of it, you have chosen the first answer that you like as the ‘actual answer’ but if you believe it to be true and get caught using such scripts – you are going to get banned.

I know of one instance where a PvP player a couple of years back got banned for using a macro that spoke a phrase every time he killed a player. Small phrases such as “Die Noob” or “Owned” or whatever.

Auto-clickers for opening bags are also not allowed.

PvE isn’t meant to be competitive. It being a fully co-operative mode was one of the fundamental selling points points of the game in the first place.

Did you do a company audit for Mike to come to this conclusion? Who said anything about the staff being rubbish at their job? I’m sure Mike didn’t at least!

Also, did you spot check the fire extinguishers to check they were still in date and the pins intact?

Unseenstrike.2971:

penelopehannibal.8947:

They are not extra achievement points. They are just points that they got ‘early’ as they are still counted towards the cap.

They were got through cheating (exploit), which is unfair, and should therefore be removed.

It wasn’t through an exploit, it was through an ArenaNet fault. And as I said earlier, they couldn’t of got more than 10 or 20 points before it was sorted out. It was sorted within a matter of hours, not days. I was awake and playing during the switchover and went to bed about 02:00 GMT. I got up back online the next day at around 10:00 or 11:00 GMT and people were already saying it was fixed.

So lets say in the worst case scenario they completed all 10 monthlies within those hours – 100 AP points. That’s them finishing their cap 10 days earlier than you.

I think ArenaNet have bigger fish to fry than this I’m afraid.

It’s threads like these the reason why more LGBT guilds are needed, not less.

Yeah if you’ve unlocked gliding on one character, who has been doing HoT quests for example, your newest character whom you’re levelling or mapping Central Tyria with from scratch can start gliding from level 2, as soon as they’re out of the first Personal Story instance.

Frezzy.9658:

people were passing by and laughing and we had great time

You’ve got to understand that not everyone shares the same sense of humour. Clearly not everyone was laughing that you passed, otherwise you wouldn’t have got reported.

I didn’t report you, but I would have if I saw that. I once saw a guy norn whose name was a reference to the falling of the Twin Towers – and his guild name too. I reported him, he then changed it to something similar and I re-reported him. Not everyone finds that kind of thing funny, which is why they have the naming policy.
:)

I don’t see the point in using underwater weapons on-land when we now have two classes with melee staves. Maybe have throwing staves, but that’s about it.

Plus, what would the image be like when someone lands a critical hit with a Kamohoali’i Kotaki and a shark comes up from the soil?

A chance to get into the Beta Test of a game is not working for free. It’s playing a game before it’s released, without having to pay for the moment of the game you’re currently playing!

Let’s not go calling The United Nations just yet!

wrathmagik.3518:

Then they should just disable it for free to play accounts.

It is disabled for free accounts already, and paid accounts without HoT. It’s one of the smaller incentives to buy HoT in the first place.

All you have to do in GW2 is press F to get your loot until you earn your masteries. Other MMOs you have to stand on top of it first, where there’s a risk you’ll miss some good loot you didn’t see needed picking up.

If GW2 including everything that every other MMO had, it wouldn’t be GW2 anymore.

I’ve been alright in most Bandit Boss battles. There’s never really a wipe until the Legendary Executioner, and for me at least, that was during early days. Happens less now since people are cautious and know it’s dangerous.

If you were talking about the Executioners I can understand your point (though still wouldn’t agree), but just the champions? Nah, they’re about right for me. Fairly easy, managed to even duo one of them.

Should be on Tuesday’s Halloween patch

Edited because I was wrong. November as quoted by Inculpatus cedo below, who is very knowledgable

Miku.6297:

I see a couple of extremely anti and unproductive posts against RP, however a “mob force” is exaggerating a bit. I play GW2, I Pve, PVP, Wvw, and RP. I would love to see a channel or /command function for roleplay.

While I do agree it would be giving roleplayers “special” treatment to make a channel or command for them to use to RP, I really don’t see how it would be a negative change. Why are you so against such an idea? Why is it such a big deal to type /rp instead of /me? It would be just as easy to use, non roleplayers could keep emotes on, and it’s a heck of a lot better then blocking people!

I still haven’t really gotten an answer on why you are so against something like this. /rp (all the same functions as /me but not tied to all other emotes). Yes RPers would need to change the two letters they type from m and e to r and p, but I really don’t see that being a game changer for anyone xD

Sorry, in amongst all the other posters who call RPers ‘nerds’ and ‘special snowflakes’ and make accusations that we have inappropriate liaisons with mordrem in the middle of Divinity’s Reach, I have kind of forgotten my point half way through typing my reply to you. Apologies for that.

What I mean to say is, we don’t need two different types /emotes. Mainly because the emotes of RP affect very few people, but also it would be needed a lot less (and there’d be less complaints too!) if the range of normal emotes was reduced back to how it was.

I suspect most people who complain about RP emotes are the ones that are crafting/using MF in the Royal Terrace to be honest. People’s emotes from the Ossan Tavern there can bee seen.

I’m not actually particularly against that idea of a second ‘emotes’, but I just don’t think it is particularly needed either, especially if the /em range was addressed. A new ‘/say’ channel though (i.e. where our characters’ dialect is done), is definitely not needed. It is mostly that which I’m against.

Edit: Lets not forget, it’s not just RP emotes that are seen at far too wide a range. In-house emotes such as /dance and /kneel and /sit are also seen from too far, which could also do with being addessed.

I’m yet to meet a player in-game that wants capes, yet weirdly it’s a regular topic on these forums!

“Sought after names” like Gandalf & Jon Snow? How about picking something a little more original?

I disagree that names should be wiped. ArenaNet are kind in that they understand that sometimes someone might not be able to log into the game for a while, or want a break from GW2 etc so they don’t do it. Probably never will.

Also, you can never be 100% certain these characters haven’t logged in. They could be coming online as invisible, which won’t show up on your system of checking (I’m assuming you’re adding them to your guild to see when last logged).