Guild Wars 2

…for a week as I’m on holiday. A country holiday in Devon where there will be no Wi-Fi.

And you choose this week to reveal thief staff!

Still, I love you guys for it being staff thank you!

Frediosz.2718:

There will be no underwater dragon – look as skins from BL and you will notice that there were no underwater weapons skins for a long time now.

Plus Underwater combat requires a total rebuild – so another no.

Deal with it.

I’m not sure what Black Lion skins have to do with actual content. They are just skins – the reason why there are no underwater skins might just be because there isn’t a player demand for them. Not because ArenaNet are doing away with underwater combat.

Plus, who’s to say we won’t have underwater submarine combat against the underwater dragon, in a similar style to how we used airships against Zhaitan?

So I disagree with you, sorry. Deal with it!

Bolbo Baggins.8594:

I normally dont have problems with RP-ers, until last week when 10 of them from a certain rp guild upscaled an event i was doing and contributed nothing. They kept walking around there (Calledon forest, Scrit area with the ruins) for 30 minutes. Had to collect 100 datacrystals to get the event done and kill zilions of skritt.

Oh wow. It must have been a nightmare for you, being forced to finish that event, and all that extra loot you would have had to carry too! My word!

Seriously though, this thread is about someone trying to get into the RP community. It’s not about why RPers are such terrible people to you, so I don’t understand why you had to post this other than to seize an opportunity to have a go at a style of fun you don’t understand.

Achey.3612:

i have chochobo but i’d settle for at least 30 dollars. i know it’s a late thread but…. maaaan…. i like gw2 but i can’t afford to pay 50 bucks for each expansion :T and i don’t want to wait like… 3 years to get the expansion for 10 dollars…. you know?

Stop making your micro transactions you said you’ve made lots of, and you’ll have saved the extra 20 dollars in no time.

Doesn’t matter which interpretation of ‘Roleplayers’ we are if we consider ourself as that at all – what matters the most, and is also fundamental to the game itself – is how we as players treat each other.

There are going to be Roleplayers as characters and Roleplayers as Players running into each other – what makes Guild Wars 2 great is that 99% of the time it doesn’t end in conflict and that is what is important

(Piken Square Roleplayer here)

I visit the bank in DR and instead of making a withdrawal, I am told:

“I watch over this place”
“May Balthazar strengthen you”
“These are dangerous times”
“It’s a soldier’s life for me”

I’m sure everyone knows what I’m talking about! I know this is probably quite low down on the radar, but is there any chance of the Seraph soldier saluting the banker from a little further away? The only words I want to here when I press F there are from the banker saying:

“I’m rich, you know”

sirsquishy.2619:

penelopehannibal.8947:

sirsquishy.2619:

So in short, do not AFK near Mobs unless you want suspensions. Skills automated or not, Pets active or not. Its just not safe.

This is not true – go AFK wherever you are, if you need to go AFK. If you’re genuinely going AFK, they won’t take action.

If you’re going to go AFK with AFK farming in mind, then you will get a suspension. If you’re genuinely AFK, you’ll probably be dead, or probably not in an AFK hot spot, or not with the exact same build as an AFK farmer next to you, or not near a load of mobs that drop sacks that might give linen. There’s so much criteria that the chances of someone innocently being AFK then suspended is negligible.

It’s going to be true until the GMs are all on the same page. Please re-read the rest of the post that you quoted.

I read (and re-read) your entire post and my message still stands. Someone genuinely AFK won’t get suspended.

The only reason why you think it’s complicated is because some people (perhaps yourself too) are still asking for a scientific definition, and about 500 ‘what ifs’, making it a more complicated issue than it really has to be.

It’s simple: Don’t AFK Farm. Go AFK if you need to.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

PvE and PvP has megaservers now so all the unofficial role playing servers no longer exist.

I have to disagree with you. Whereas yes, the Megaservers came into place, people of Piken Square at least, have still retained their identity, even the ones who only RP and don’t do any WvW.

Usually if I am switching zones, I almost always end up in a ‘Piken Square’ shard.

Piken Square is more than just a server, Piken is the people too.

“End game” in Guild Wars 2 is open to interpretation.

Another “I levelled my character with Level 80 Booster” thread. Just use your W key – it’s easier than you think!

I think that taking a Temple should have a reward. Defending a temple successfully should have a greater reward, to stop people claiming ownership of an event over other players.

Only the story is in said ‘time freeze’ – the rest of Tyria is still living.

It’s a bit of a brain-teaser though I agree – as a Piken Square Roleplayer in my mind I consider that Living Story happened – but the news of the disaster of the Pact Invasion of Mordremoth hasn’t reached the rest of Tyria yet.

Others may disagree though as it is a very grey area

I don’t have any problems with any legendary sound or visual effect, even for those wielded by other players.

One sound problem I would love to have addressed, however, is this:

“There’s one to remember me by”
“Hurts, doesn’t it?”
“Take that”

Which is happening when you are being critically hit, instead of when the enemy is.

I’ve given mission control to all members of my guild with the exception of new members.

Artemis Thuras.8795:

Trolls able to click abandon and trigger the timeout?

Well, if there are trolls doing this, I imagine they wouldn’t be in a guild for long if that were to happen. The timer doesn’t last very long.

InsidiousWaffle.7086:

and I’m frankly tired of hearing all of this endless QQ

Not that I disagree with your initial point, but if you’re tired of Q.Q (for whatever reasons) why do you come to the forums? This is where people come specifically to express their Q.Q-ing!

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

And I wish they would bring the Marionette back as another meta event boss, on a long timer like Teq.

Agreed, me too. Maybe not quite the same as last time, since Scarlet is dead. Would have to be possessed or powered by something new for the sake of The Lore. Maybe, Steam Creatures have started to advance their own AI type thing or something on those lines.

Or maybe some Asura decided to tinker and things got out of hand… not like that would be a first

I can imagine that Asura being Taimi xD

DGraves.3720:

and PvE is the grind that people do for funds. .

Eh? This is news to me. I do PvE because I enjoy map completion and levelling alts. I play Guild Wars 2 to kill bad guys and dragon minions, not to increase integers.

mrauls.6519:

Once you do it once you should be able to buy the gift…. Stupid

Why?

• when you walk into a bar and kneel next to a chair instead of sitting on it.
• when you jump the queue in the bank.
• when you’re at the railway station and someone looks at their watch and asks “Where’s the train?” and you explain it got nerfed…

You can bind a key to ‘Next Target’ if it’s bothersome or in an awkward place. To report someone for this, how do you distinguish the difference between one player doing it for laughs, and another player who didn’t realise where they were stood? It’s really not something to report for.

Annoying? Yes. Reportable? I don’t think so.

To be honest, people should not be swearing on the forums in my opinion, even if the word gets censored to ‘baby cat’. Swearing is a very rude thing to do, especially on the official forums, and the fact that it gets censored shouldn’t be an excuse since the intent is still visible.

Some of the ways people speak on this forum disgusts me, they speak to ArenaNet and other players in a rude manner, yet wouldn’t speak like that in a job interview or to their boss, or to their teacher.

Johje Holan.4607:

What about converting Dragonite Ore, Bloodstone Dust and Empyreal Fragments to currency? Now that would actually be helpful.

Unfortunately, though I agree it would save some space, they are an ingredient, not a currency. I think we’d need an actual item to craft with for crafting.

Hi,

Normally I have the option ‘Show All Player Names’ un-ticked to prevent on-screen clutter. However, party member’s names normally still show in blue text.

Since today’s patch though, party member’s names are hidden unless you select the party member now – but the health bar is still visible. I don’t mind if it went back to how it was before, or if party members were included in hidden names – but it looks weird showing a health bar without a name above it!

I’ve attached a picture.

SolitaryPillarist.5740:

penelopehannibal.8947:

How do you know every single one is telling the truth as well?

I have been in party with multiple new players who have had this happen. So when player equips something that just dropped for them it is hard to not see the evidence that they have said item.

However I stated above some players might be prevaricating or exaggerating their experience.

That said, I have come here to see if anyone else experiences witnessing the high level of these drops I am not asking ANET to give me free stuff I am not asking ANET to increase the drops but I am asking them to investigate this as an unfair advantage to new players would be uncool to loyal players who have been here for multiple years.

It isn’t hard to look at the numbers. It is well within their purview to know the numbers of precursors and how old are the accounts receiving a specific (higher)number of items.

Well, I think looking at the amount of precursors on the Trading Post, and seeing the prices haven’t dropped dramatically gives me a good indication that there isn’t a rise of precursor drops in general.

But that said, even if it’s true that newer accounts are getting ‘better luck’ than older ones, this would be malpractice and I doubt ArenaNet would admit it. But I don’t think this myself, everyone’s clients are the same we’re all under one house, one rulebook.

I have roughly 50% of each gender. I even RP on an opposite gender toon. The trick is to remember it’s a character, not you!

SpudMan.5041:

I am getting SO BORED doing it because everything is so easy to kill.

Stop doing it then!! :p

It sounds to me that you’ve been hacked – so first of all I recommend changing the password to both your game log on, and also your email address password too (And make sure they are both different passwords too as compromised accounts are usually due to compromised emails).

Then, submit a ticket by clicking support above the website. They might be able to do a roll-back, but you will need to prove ownership of the account when they ask.

I’m sorry to hear of your loss, but hopefully ArenaNet will sort it out for you.

I just used all my 328 scrolls on one character today.

/shrug.

What’s the worst that can happen? I’d actually have to play the game I paid for to get Hero Points for my other characters?

Sazukikrah.5036:

Only two classes can use short bow and their skill assets aren’t very viable in pve or pvp.

I just choked on my coffee reading this bit! Shortbow to me is a lot more fun than longbow on ranger, PvE or PvP. Also, shortbow is great for condi thieves too. :p

Hamfast.8719:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Do you personally own Heart of Thorns? Because as far as I understand, only people who own Heart of Thorns get the HoT dailies, not all players. And this is why it’ll be coming up for you. Similar to how players with no Level 80 characters won’t get Cursed Shore Event Completer.

I was not aware of that. Yes, I have HoT. I made the observation and thought it seemed unfair.

I would dearly love to see more choices though. So many cool new ones.

I agree on that. Having more than 12 slots would be better I think. Maybe a pool of 18, so you’ve got a choice of 6 per game mode would be better.

It’s not like the direct trade didn’t come with it’s own problems anyway in GW1.

Banono.4597:

1 – Bring down the emote range to /say.

2 – Give an option to disable custom emotes (/e /me).

That first suggestion I think everyone agrees with, RPer and Non-RPer alike.

That second suggestion is actually a very good idea, if possible to impliment.

Only the Kodan can teach you about Balance.

Dunno if this is a good idea or a bad idea, but I’ll write it anyway and see what comes out.

There’s lately been a few posts about people wanting a playable race, which has a divided opinion on whether it’s easy to do or not. I personally think it’d be too difficult. I was on the side of those who want tonics where we can still use our weapons, but there’s still some animation work to be involved in that and so forth.

So I was thinking of another direction that might give players a chance to ‘sort of’ play a Tengu or a Largos or whatever, and have outfits as a way of doing it. The thinking of t was that instead of a whole piece, the arms of a tengu would be the gloves, the head the mask, the legs the pants etc. Sizes wise it would work great for human and Sylvari most of all, would be force looking for Norn and Charr, and cute little Tengu for those Asura wearing them. I guess it wouldn’t work for all races, but just an idea I had floating around last night.

Hirasaki.6208:

Why not let players check other players gear. Also allow players to examine other players builds as well.

Hirasaki.6208:

to prevent elitism or something.

You shouldn’t be allowed to snoop on other people’s gear without the other player’s permission. The way we have it now is fine, you can request to link gear and the player and shift+click in chat tab.

I say no to forced inspection, and you already answered your question in the first sentence!

I went to McDonalds with a two headed monster from Tyria. I decided to have mine to take away, but he Ettin.

Asura & Charr aren’t real, they don’t exist so we need to get some perspective people! Also, Winnie the Pooh walks around with no pants. Is he so bad too?

This is excellent news.

This will practically eliminate the map chat abuse people kept getting and the rudeness of very many players in Queensdale.

Like I always said to those players, you may pwn the champs, but you don’t own the champs.

Thank you Arena Net!

ArchonWing.9480:

Being stuck to the crafting station while I watch it happen is like an extra slap in the face.

I’d hardly call it a slap in the face. I’ve been slapped in the face a few times in my life. Never over Damask though.

But seriously, sometimes I don’t understand why some items are slower than others myself, but I don’t think I’d craft so many at once of the things that do take long. The longer stuff tends to be the stuff you make the least.

Jahroots.6791:

This has got to be a free player issue. I feel like everyone else who owns the game is just…above all this.

It’s not a free player issue, since you have to own HoT to have the Pact Mastery line to get the loot whilst AFK.

If you’re doing combat in pants or bare chest mostly for RP, that sounds like a one-time situation to me! Seems a big request for " ‘Charge!’ /em gets stabbed in the bare back by a Centaur. The End." to me!

I’m sure there was a lot of people who had precursors drop between August 2012 and February 2013 as well. Everyone only had the game for no more than six months then.

If you want a serious answer from the Devs, I suggest you submit a ticket to Support by clicking the link at the top of the screen.

Also, try to calm down and remain constructive before you do so. You’re not the only one having similar problems.

My ideas for roleplay support are as follows:

• Selectable shards.
• Convert clothing tonics to outfits.
• More beards, horns, Asura ears, tattoos etc.
• RP-Based title, such as ‘In Character’.
• Make up for stuff like black eyes, broken noses, cuts to face/body etc. Or perhaps have masks that do this in the style of armour pieces.

As Kyra pointed out, she doesn’t have much trouble with the shards, and usually neither do I. But sometimes there is difficulty determining which is the ‘real’ RP shard when asking a friend for a taxi. With selectable shards (like a drop down menu, perhaps give them a name) we RPers can all say ’let’s always use Shard X for RP’ so no RPer is left behind. Also, it’s kind of embarrassing having to ask for a taxi anyway, whether it’s for RP or PvE.

No thanks.

You can set the nicknames from your contact list of both friends and blocked people, by right-clicking their name in the list.

Regarding gold sellers – it’s safe to delete them off your ignore list once they go offline, because that offline is usually the permanent ban they get, and they never come back. Obviously, if you want to play it safe, keep them blocked, but I delete them after a short while just to keep the list one page long (if I can).

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Speculation says they’re aiming for the 10 year anniversary, but I’d be shocked if that happens given recent events.

Hasn’t the 10 year anniversary been and gone?

Endless Soul.5178:

With all these threads complaining about map completion, I wonder if I’m the only one in the game that has the patience to do multiple map completions.

You’re not the only one. There are plenty of people who have done it multiple times. They’re probably just too busy enjoying map completion to entertain the forums. It’s fun, a great way to level a character, earn karma, a little gold, maybe transmutations charges or keys, all rolled into one game mode.

Instant world completion threads are the new Mount threads it seems. I wish there was a gif of someone bashing a globe with a stick.

I doubt it will happen, for the same reasons as why we’ve not go it in the first place. To quote Gaile:

Gaile Gray.6029:

I want to change my display name

• This is not a service that is available, either through a purchase or through Support. Unless there is a specific privacy issues — that is, you used your real name or your email address for you in-game and forum display name — the name is permanent. If you fall into the small number of people who did use your real name or email address, contact Support for assistance. Please do not write Support asking for exceptions, for they will not be made.

More about Display Name Changes

There are very good reasons why we do not offer the changes as a service at this time. It’s important in any game — and especially in an MMO with the high number and visibility of player interactions — to create a “personal history” for an account. I don’t mean your in-game “personal story” but a history of your account as viewed in the game.

If we allow changes of display names, a person who has been harassing another player will be hidden from that victim’s sight. A person who has built up a reputation for cheating, or botting, or doing other breaches of the UA, becomes invisible to those players who were aware of the issue and were awaiting action on the matter. Several other factors of “individual accountability” can be negated by simply hiding behind a new display name.

I take on board things like typos in making a name. But assessing the difference between a change and a correction can be difficult, and at this time, we’re holding firm on the “no changes” policy. There are two reasonable exceptions:

• An offensive name will be changed — once — and it will be changed by a GM using an anagram system, so the user does not get the privilege of choosing the second name.
• A display name will be changed to prevent the disclosure of personal information. For instance, the display name is the player’s real name or even email address. We have improved the account creation process to make it clear how display names function, and we even have expanded the User Agreement to accomplish the same objective. If players know that your display name is actually displayed in the game and on the forums, they’ll be less likely to use a name that poses a security risk. If they know that using an offensive name results in a randomly chosen name, they’ll be less likely — one hopes — to choose an unacceptable name.

Some of the same arguments about display name changes also applied to character names, but as you know, we made that option available when the feature could be properly developed. At some point we may make a feature available that allows a player to change his/her display name, but if we do, I am confident it will take into consideration all the risks of those changes, and address them effectively.

In the meantime, and with all due respect, we will decline to change display names unless they involve one of the two exceptions cited above.

From the topic: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Name-Questions-Please-read-merged/first#post2087181

As far as I know, you’re not forced to use SMS authentication. I don’t have a mobile phone at all myself, so I don’t use it. I only have e-mail authentication myself.