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Kek, kappa .... What?

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Kappa is the Asura that trains pygmy moas for money

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When will verbal abuse be punished?

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Verbal abuse does get looked into – I’ve seen people coming back from a three day suspension, complaining in map chat about their punishment not being ‘fair’ and that they’ve had their ‘Human right to freedom of speech’ violated.

In most cases, if you’ve personally reported someone for verbal abuse via the in-game system, just like reporting bugs you won’t hear of an outcome.

But as others said, don’t just report – but block violators too. The quotation from Just a flesh wound is spot on.

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Should ANet change the Floppy Fish?

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Is the Mini Undead Chicken cruel as well?

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Charr Lore-play as opposed to Role-play

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I love to roleplay, but not the kind of hardcore "/em looks at NPC1 with lust in his heart and asks, “Can you polish my spear, love?”

I’m sorry to say that this is a pretty ignorant view of roleplayers.

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CollectAllTransmuteStonesNowOrWaitForPatch?

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On the official wiki, it states under the ‘Transmutation Charges’ topic that you can obtain them as so:

- Gem Store
- Black Lion Chest (Unlocked)
- Daily reward chests

Converting transmutation consumables into charges. Double-clicking an item will convert it, and the charge will be added to the currency wallet.

3 Transmutation Stone.png Transmutation Stones = 1 Transmutation Charge
1 Transmutation Crystal.png Transmutation Crystal = 1 Transmutation Charge
1 Transmutation Splitter.png Transmutation Splitter = 5 Transmutation Charges

Bear in mind the wiki itself states, this is on a topic that is “still in development and subject to change”.

I tried to find where the wiki got the information regarding Daily Reward chests, but couldn’t find anything. It could be every day like laurels, could be random like stones. I don’t think even if this does change, that it’ll ever be Gem Store only though, so don’t worry about that.

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Mounts [merged]

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I’m against mounts.

BUT

People who are sick of seeing mount topics still reply to them, thus bumping them, making them last longer. :p

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[Suggestion] Swap Vista & Events Around

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Hello,

First of all, I love the new daily system, so thank you for this welcome change. I would, however, like to make one small recommendation.

I personally feel that the Daily Event Completer is too specific, such as “Bloodtide Coast Event Completer” – this is a bit of a tricky one in that we end up in map with huge zergs chasing small events, like 240 people escorting Captain Penzan for instance. In some cases, it makes the event over before anyone can run to it as well.

Conversely, I feel the Daily Vista Viewer is too vague. In that, you can be anywhere in the zone, Shiverpeaks for example, and just press F then move on.

My recommendation is to switch these around. Have a ‘Shiverpeaks Event Completer’ so the Zergs are spread out a bit, and a more specific ‘Bloodtide Coast Vista Viewer’ so there’s a bit of hunting involved, and so that your new daily system still encourages map exploration.

Thank you for your time once again, and I will continue enjoying this great game

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Concerned about Toxic PvP Players

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I’ve been in discussions about this in Heart of the Mists a few times. Once I was blamed for losing a match, just because I was a ranger, and it was the day of Daily Ranger Win – even though I play only Ranger every day in Unranked match.

I was told in Heart of the Mists “You have to have a thick skin in PvP. If you can’t handle a bit of flaming in PvP then you shouldn’t be playing PvP”

My reply was “No – if people can’t lose a PvP match without being verbally abusive to other players, it is them who shouldn’t be playing PvP, not me”

If people have to go AFK, saying stuff like “You deserve that I go AFK” it is actually them being the ‘noob’ or a ‘scrub’ or whatever word they like to use that’s fashionable at the moment, and they are just trying to shift the blame away from them.

Edit: To include the smile at the end.

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NERF Bloodtide Coast Farming.

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I’m usually against Open World Farming, usually because it ends in sour grapes and petty squabbles about who ‘owns’ a champ, or an event, or some ambient creatures.

However, since lately I’ve been doing world completion on several of my characters, I’ve not noticed any form of squabbling in the said area when I’ve been doing the heart, even if I myself have killed the crows to finish the heart there. (I usually just stomp the rats though if I notice a higher population there).

If they are acting responsible and not verbally abusing people, which I’ve seen no evidence of, then they aren’t hurting anyone. Live and let live.

If it becomes Rata Sum Barmy Balmy Farm Fight 2.0, then yes, nerf it by all means.

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What WEIRD stuff do YOU do in-game?

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One word: Roleplay

What’s so weird about you roleplaying?

I’ll tell you what’s weird: I’ve roleplayed two different characters from two different accounts having a conversation with each other once, just to get my foot in the roleplay doorway. :p

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Compensation regarding scribe/decorations?

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I disagree with the OP too. If you buy a Dyson Vacuum Cleaner from a store at £200, and then six months later there’s a discount on that same model, you’re not entitled to a refund of the difference. And that’s real, not pretend money!!

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[Suggestion] Don't Follow Commander Tags!

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This is more of a suggestion to players than ArenaNet – if you’re looking to do the Mordrem Invasion events for fun rather than to farm the blooms, then I recommend that you don’t try to follow the commander tag.

I’ve managed to do a few events, albeit you get less blooms, but when a commander tag is not around, I get more fun killing the Mordrem, the event is harder and there is little to no culling!

I’ve even gone so far as to not travel across the map to find events, just casually wait for them to arrive nearby, so I don’t end up wasting money on waypoints. Here is a picture of my character Tony anticipating another Modrem attack in Kessex Hills.

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Please Make Map Completion Account Bound

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This keeps coming up – Map Completion is something that is easy to do in Guild Wars 2 compared to Guild Wars 1 – especially now that the WvW maps have been taken out of it.

If something is worth having to you, it’s worth working for.

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Expansion Thread [merged]

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If an expansion doesn’t come in 2015, I’ll still be playing the game.

If an expansion does come, however, I’ll still be playing the game.

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I hope your melee staff works for you.

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Do you really have to create another thread on this?

Seriously, I don’t even care what weapon we thieves get anymore. I just want the reveal to be over and done with.

And by the way, I do care about the profession. I main two thieves in PvE – one for Living Story/Personal Story etc. One for RP. So it was important to me what we got, until this extremely long trite of a Rifle vs Staff war went on for far too long.

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Future Hairstyles in Kits/Character Creation

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Female Human who can be properly bald please.

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Next xpac is called PoF ?!

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Pre-Order February?

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This Community is the worst.

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I disagree with the OP because the community as a whole is the best community in any online game.

However, the OP is right on the part of open world farming. When you get farming techniques that require either failing and event, or a train that thinks it owns events or champs, there’s going to be toxicity.

Open world farming is a bad idea and it brings down the reputation of an otherwise over-exeedingly good community.

But OP: One or two selfish farmers does not equal the entire gaming community of Guild Wars 2!

Most players in Guild Wars 2 are very helpful and polite players, a lot more so than most other games.

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Underwater Combat Needs Fixing

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A separate trait line for underwater combat. Doesn’t have to be 3×3×3 necessarily, but enough to add more variety whilst in the depths. Take current traits for spearguns/spears/tridents away from the current trait lines, and put them in the underwater combat line instead, for example.

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More complaints...

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I thought you were leaving?

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Legendary weapons

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Mike O’Brien:

Looking at the size of this thread, it would have probably been easier if you kept quiet about this and just have people ‘wait’ for quite a while, then there wouldn’t be this huge uproar about it. Just people constantly asking when next one is, similar to the SAB situation we had.

But it was morally the right thing to do, no matter how difficult it was to announce, so Kudos for that. tips hat

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GW2 Jokes

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What’s the most important part of a Kodan’s bank account?

His balance.

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Voices, will we ever get more?

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I really would like to have more voices.

Whats ten more voice actors?

It’d be 40 more voice actors, not ten. Ten for each supported language. It would be nice, but probably not going to happen in the foreseeable future.

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[Suggestions] Gemstore Items

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Skritt Backpack Please.

You bring me something?

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I really don't like killing Skritt

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Don’t feel sorry for the Skritt that you have to kill. They are the ‘bandits’ of the Skritt race.

Also, you can create a Skritt tonic by Mystic Forge using the following Ingredients:

2 x [Mystery Tonic] | 1 x [Slab of Red Meat] | 1 x [Tiny Claw]

You get 2 x [Skritt Tonic] then, each lasts 15 minutes, and you can use certain purchasable environmental weapons if you want to go out and fight with them. I do this sometimes myself.

I don’t wish to have Skritt a playable race, but I would like the tonic to last longer.

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Too many rewards in game now?

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I think the balance is right.

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Just wanted to Know As to WHY WE CANT

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I enjoy map completion.

I’ve almost completed my 8th character with map completion. Just got Cursed Shore, Hoelbrak & The Black Citadel to go.

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What I Expect from the Next Xpac

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All I want is for group content to not be so heavily reliant on taxi-ing people into the megaservers.

And maybe a longer storyline than we had at the start.

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Please, a clear statement re: AFK farming.

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That is really the only option the player has right now to be sure they can safely go AFK in the game with out getting the boot from a GM. Just changing location (in PVE combat zones) or moving to a non-pathed area in your farming spot, is not enough as you may enter combat during your AFK session.

and that’s a bit over the top to place on the player.

This isn’t true. If you need to go AFK just go AFK. I’m sure the GMs (and most players who report) can distinguish the difference between the two.

I won’t report a player for being genuinely AFK. I will report a player for AFK farming though. The difference is definitely clear when you see it.

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I found a workaround to the TP Stalling!

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If you open the Activity monitor and search and close something called cookied (that exact spelling, it’s not a Type O!) and end it, that does the same trick for me, and since it’s called cookied (like cookies) it must be doing sort of the same thing

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GW1 combat

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OP could always go into options and unbind the dodge & jump key, and stand still whenever pressing a skill number.

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[Suggestion] Cash only shop

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We need a microtransaction store with items that can only be purchased with real money.

Why do you think we need it? Do you have access to ArenaNet’s or NCSoft’s accounts or something? We as players certainly don’t need it at all. Only the company would need something like this, and I don’t think you actually know if they need it or not.

I’m sure your suggestion is out of the question anyway, as far as ANet are concerned. Lets leave the financial decisions to, well you know, the actual staff?

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Just wanted to Know As to WHY WE CANT

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but meh when i have 3-10% on my other toons it doesn’t feel as good.

This is the problem with ‘Power’ levelling.

People who ignore map completion as a way of levelling and go to EotM or wherever else have made rods for their own backs.

You can easily get 25% – 40% map completion if you’d levelled via map completing instead of the popular, ‘short term quick fixes’ to levelling.

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Mystic Coins again

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I wish I could spend my useless karma on them.

Buy cloth gloves from heart vendor. Mystic Forge them. Salvage then sell. Then you can buy them.

Sounds far too tedious.

Well, you’re welcome for the tip anyway. o7

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Option to mute someone using Tome ofKnowledge

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It seems kind of like an entitled attitude and nitpicking at this point.

It seems to me you’ve seen someone else on the internet use the term ‘entitled’ and it sounded good, and you’ve been looking for the opportunity to use the term yourself. Nothing wrong with that, except that you need to know what it really means.

The OP isn’t asking for something in an entitled manner. An entitled manner would be “I’ve played 2,000 hours and I still haven’t had a precursor!” or perhaps “Give those players who have earned 30K+ AP a free Legendary Weapon!”

They’ve simply seen something that can be improved upon, and are merely making a suggestion that would benefit all, not the few!

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Banned character name? [Resolved]

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I think certain other names that are short for ‘William’ are not allowed, but I am surprised at this name, never would have thought your name would mean what the Urban Dictionary link is saying. I certainly wouldn’t have reported the name if I saw it in-game (and I’ve reported quite a lot over the past three years!) but I suppose it depends on locality.

As JT said, take it up with CS, it doesn’t seem obviously graphic to me, but as I said, as it’s not common near where I live, I couldn’t comment if you will get a review or not. Good luck though.

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Why mesmer weapons are so wimpy?

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Because mesmers are great illusionists that can defeat any fool who thinks they appear ‘wimpy’.

I can’t think of anything more scary than the thought of someone able to create copies of themselves then shatter those copies at their own free will.

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Obligatory 'best name I've seen' thread...

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My Asura Guardian is Yont Karts.

It’s an anagram.

Nyto Rakts is my hero! :P

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is this a joke?

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hahaha I ninjaed you all.

Is this Thief specialisation confirmed then? The Yamsandjams Elite Specialisation?

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Let us make child characters!

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Virtually everything I would have said has already been said about why I would vote no on this issue.

I will add to the previously mentioned points that if you notice, every single Dynamic Event that surrounds children (Such as Kari in Kessex Hills or the Cubs in Plains of Ashford) do not have the possibility of an NPC child dying, and for good reason.

The last thing I want to see is a child PC (whether mine or someone else’s) in the defeated state. I’m almost certain this wouldn’t be a 12+ game by then.

This is of course, in addition to all the other reasons people have already said.

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A golden opportunity wasted with spec

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It still can be called commando, except it’d still be wielding a staff.

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Please, a clear statement re: AFK farming.

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how about the auto loot mastery is ONLY active in dungeons,fractals,WvW,raids and disabled in open world. problem solved

The ‘fix’ needs to be a fix that doesn’t punish innocent players (in the case of your suggestion, virtually everyone else except the AFK farmers)

Giving suspensions to offending accounts should be a clear enough statement to players to discourage them from doing it.

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vote to reverse the steal targeting changes

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+1

Please let me “Thrill of the Crime” my allies in PvE.

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Concerns about ANet development behavior

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There’s a Summer Quarterly update just round the corner.

not being rude but how do you know?

1. Anet has said NOTHING about a release date or any relevant information for the summer update

2. While it is logical to expect anything on tuesday (the end of pvp league) there is a chance nothing will happen

3. there is that leaked italin article saying that LW will come at the end of summer

Because it wouldn’t be quarterly if it wasn’t. I have faith they will stick to the quarterly deadline, which is 3 months after the last one. LW in the Italian thing (which as far as I’m concerned, something could have been lost in translation by the interviewer) might not necessarily be part of the Quarterly Update.

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Thief needs rifle, not melee staff

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The term ‘clutching at straws’ is starting to spring to mind with these ‘Thief gets rifle’ threads now.

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Ranger gets staff, thief gets rifle

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It’s not quite 100% that thief gets staff, but it might as well be.

To me that looks like a spear.
But imo i don’t think the thief will get a staff tbh.

Except Spears usually have points at the end.

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This game need good active fishing

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It’d make sense if there wasn’t underwater combat implemented in this game, but since our characters can dive in and attack any fish they want with a harpoon gun with accuracy, why would they then want to sit on the edge of a lake dangling a rod waiting for something to bite?

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HoT Infraction Points

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I dont have to explain anything to anyone, just answer the question if you can, if you can NOT than dont waste MY time and your time with all this blabbering.

Clearly Anet stated that by buying HoT you will also buy GW2 but how can i buy GW2 if i dont get the GW2 features. That is a plain simple logic, i hope it helps you.

Your rudeness towards the other player in the first paragraph is starting to show your true colours. That person replied to try and help you understand our perspective – in that, why is it so important for you to know about infractions, if you don’t plan on breaking any rules in the ToS? If you don’t want people to ask you this, then perhaps you shouldn’t be asking your question in a public forum.

Secondly, having no infraction points on an account is not a feature of Guild Wars 2! Fraction points are ‘awarded’ for bad behaviour. Having zero infraction points is for good behaviour, not simply for buying the game.

The free GW2 part of the HoT expansion is for new players, so they don’t have to buy two separate packages, so it’ll have no bearing on your account if you choose to add the HoT part to an existing account.

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"Taken" names

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Don’t know what you’re talking about, since you originally mentioned letting more than one account share the same character name, I’ll put forward another problem:

What if someone trolling the real Thomas Baxendale, making homophobic or derogatory remarks towards people, took screenshots and deleted his or her character, then posted the images through several social media websites? Or sent said pictures to Thomas Baxendale’s friends saying “This is what he’s like when you’re offline”? How would right-clicking to find their account name solve that then?

Please.. just no. Let us keep things the way they are when it comes to character names. It’s the only fair way to do it – first come first served. Unless you’re permanently banned for cheating or being abusive, you shouldn’t lose or have to share your character name.

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Scrap TP and let us set up Trading Stalls

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I think this is a great idea. Whilst we’re at it, we should also have the XP per mob divided between who helped to kill it, move our characters with point & click, and also instead of having Vistas, Waypoints, POIs, Renown Hearts and Hero Challenges determine map completion, the whole map should be pixelated and we don’t get 100% until every last pixel is discovered!

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