Guild Wars 2

- you can now dye underwear. currently only brown and yellow color tones are functional. other colors will be in a future update.

-all jump puzzles now have increased camera-shake features, as well as character shake features. in fact, everything will now shake all the time. we feel the game is much more epic this way.

xpadder is like 10 bucks.

I used a controller for playing for the first 2 months out of beta to try it out. it was more frustrating that it was worth. the difficulties of note included jumping puzzles, ground-targeted abilities, and where to assign the “swim down” button.

This game is almost simple enough to be all controller, assuming you never open menus, chat, or do anything but simple combat. I just got a wireless keyboard / mouse instead and it’s a much better experience.

for your first toon, just complete maps in level appropriate zones and keep up with your personal story. if the game takes you there, complete it. once you get the mail for a dungeon, go check it out. gather everything you see and craft as you gain the appropriate mats. you will naturally hit the level cap long before your story expects you to be there, and it makes for a nice journey.

for alts, I recommend my wife’s method:
craft as far as you can in chef until you run out of mats.
do the same in jeweler.
get some running skills and find as many waypoints as possible, just running through maps, hitting gathering nodes along the way.
if an event pops up nearby, DO IT. avoid hearts that take too long, far off vistas and poi’s. go out of your way for skill points.

by the time you have explored all the waypoints and kept up on crafting you will be well past 80. then actual map completion on your alt will be a breeze since you have all the waypoints open.

Behellagh.1468:

Speculating is a harsh mistress. I think her name is Loviatar.

He certainly didn’t pay the required tribute to Tymora!

warrior’s rifle isn’t melee!

we did it, after 8 trys, but there is a trick.

stay close to the center
use the boxes to jump the lower lasers
bring plenty of vigor and stun-breaks, and keep moving.
this isn’t timed. just wand everything to death, slowly. staying alive is priority #1

Charr are awesome, what are you talking about OP.

And the Black Citadel isn’t the death star..

guys.

it’s a giant cat toy. I thought that was obvious from the start. (also the underside reminds me of Cantha and that’s awesome)

After taking over leadership of a guild I have been a member of since the young days of GW1, I have noticed a few things that are kind of no brainers to help new players and old alike get more out of their guild memberships and improve communication among members.

Message of the Day – a lot of new players don’t even realize this is a thing. We use this to put up event information and announcements, and people don’t know it’s there. A lot of other games with community management (including GW1) simply had the MotD appear in the system messages in chat when you logged in the first time. Please bring this back. It would make so much communication that much simpler. Bonus for a /motd command to make it appear whenever you want it to.

Representation – We are not a rep-required guild, so we often have allies or others online but not representing our guild. This is fine, but the method of telling apart someone from repping and someone who isn’t is not clear enough. These are already pushed to the bottom of the roster (if you sort it the right way). How about something simple like a line across the roster dividing those who are and are not repping the guild. This way you can tell at a glance, and you won’t try to talk to people who can’t see your chat channel.

Guild Bank – This is something we have to show people how to use. Again, a majority of new players do not even know that this is a thing. Our is divided by rank, and we make use of the text fields to label them as such. Since it doesn’t quite work like the normal bank there is a learning curve here (cannot split stacks or add to existing stacks in the bank itself). It would be nice if there were some notification or icon, perhaps in the guild menu itself, that would show or lead a member to their nearest guild bank. This could work just like scouts showing parts of the map, or those “Show Me” emails you get for dungeon notifications.

With guild halls teased and little other information regarding them, I’m hoping guilds as a community management tool get a lot of qol improvements.

Any other guild features you would like to see to help communicate with your roster?

the fastest way to ascended Trinkets is to do the following:
Guild Bounty once a week.
Guild Rush once a week.
an Even difficulty level 10+ Fractal run once a day.
do your daily, every day. (this should take between 10 and 30 minutes, tops, depending on the dailies)
do your monthly.
20 days and a monthly finished you will have enough laurels for 1 item, and enough pristine fractal relics two more. For every 10+ run you do in fracs, you have a chance of getting one by default from the Jade Maw chest (hence the even numbered difficulty). it may not be one with the stats you want, but you’ll have one regardless.

if you do 20+, your rings have a chance to be infused already, saving you relics down the road.

Things to do with your time, money, and energy:

Go through living story.
Work on getting all the achievements.
Get 100% map completion.
Attain a higher rank in PvP.
Craft all disciplines to up 500 (400 for jeweler and chef)
Craft a legendary weapon.
Gamble in the Mystic Forge.
Reach Fractals level 50.

And if none of this works, you can always send me some of your mats / gold to help me finish crafting my Shadow of Grenth. >^_^<