Guild Wars 2

I’ll take some of that gold off yer hands, brah.

(Sigh)

…Another Tuesday and no warm Arctic Explorer’s Outfit. Looks like I’ll have to stay indoors during the Wintersday festival.

(It also appears as if Wintersday will only be in Divinity’s Reach again this year too. Booooo! Bad decision, ANet! Wintersday is for EVERY race, not just Humans! Bring it back to LA!)

Bring back Aetherblade armor bundles please!!

Release more NPCs clothes as outfits, there are so many!!!

Please, please, please release this beautiful dress and her HAIR.. I’ve been waiting for them since Beta!!

Talking about PvE enemies, most of them are just standing in front of you no matter what you do. Attack them with ‘Hundred Blades’ and they will just take every single strike instead of dodging away and cover until you finished. Start a ‘Meteor Shower’ and they will just stay inside of the AOE field and wait for meteors instead of evading.

Looking at the newest release, the Sons of Svanir in Bitterfrost Frontier can now one-hit you with a special attack but they’re not evading either. Instead adding power every new release they should get the ability to be smarter and step aside.

Let’s focus on the general aspect of AI here, of course some enemies will be smarter than others related to the lore. But this is more about the technical challenges. Would it be possible to see smarter enemies in future releases?

I would love to see more gem options for home instance. What I miss the most is my own bedroom (I would definitely log off in it every time I could). But cosmetic possibilities are almost endless.

2000 gems for a good looking bedroom for my character? Here you go!

Amaimon.7823:

I mean you can’t do TP business there, when you have to go back and forth between the bank and the TP a lot.

So exactly like old Lion’s Arch, then.

Now destroyed Lion’s Arch, that was convenient to craft and do business in.

I agree they should use old LA on Halloween. The maps exist so it shouldn’t be that hard for them to switch out during Halloween. They could do a cut scene when people first enter where the Mad King gives a speech about not liking the new LA and say “Let’s give this place some character!” then the whole thing shifts dropping the player into old LA.

Indeed, I do think Lionguard Tyrro sums it up perfectly.

It was its own city, not just another generic bright safe and pretty town that so many other games seem to feature as their main hubs. The old LA felt almost like a realistic evolution of how people would civilize the area. The new one seems to have willingly let the slate be cleaned.

IT would seem to me that everyone has pretty much agreed that the Old Lion’s arch was a better choice. I for one agree with that sentiment. The NEW LA reminds me more of a Theme park with some very poor designs trying to make it look like some sort of seagoing city. Strangely I’ve never seen any ships coming into port in LA? I wonder if the rest of the races think like we do and choose to avoid it like some rejected Disney World. Careful kids the rides will kill you – just look at the new Troll Puzzle if the consistent pain to complete isn’t already enough to make you want to go screaming into the depths of the harbor begging Grenth to take me rather than go through that again,

Haha, just discovered this by accident: Lionguard Tyrro on the LA situation.

Djinn.9245:

I’m not sure why people are saying that the Queensdale map isn’t all of Queensdale. Stories that don’t take place within the game probably take creative license in order to make a several-hundred-page book more interesting. Just like any story that is portrayed in different media will not be exactly the same in both media.

The important thing is that the game came first so I’m not sure how you can say it is the game that is lacking.

The question is how big the land is in lore, and that is clearly much bigger than what we see in game. Take a look at https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Talk:Tyria_(world)#Size for Konig’s mention that "Even so. In GW1, Scorpion Wire gave a measurement and I used that to measure the continent of Tyria, and got about 1.5 miles by 2 miles. Presented to devs and got “nope, it’s way bigger in lore.” " — I cannot find a dev comment directly stating this right now but I’m sure they’re out there, as for any MMO.

Did you see Warcraft? Whatever its (many) flaws, it showed Stormwind as a metropolis sprawling much more vastly than in game, it showed Goldshire as a long ride from the city, Elwynn Forest as a true many-miles woods with settlements far away from the seat of human power. That’s the idea here. Kryta cannot in-character be jogged across in a few minutes.

To be fair they had to go a very round-about route because of the charr, Stone Summit and geography at the time. They went from Ascalon city up to Yak’s Bend (which is in Frostgorge Sound) and then all the way down to the northern edge of Lornar’s Pass before going slightly north again into Kryta and then south to Lion’s Arch.

These days there’s a pretty much straight path across the mountains through Wayfarer’s and Snowden.

Nice post necro…

The best option for a custom figure would be 3D printing. There are methods to “extract” models from the game files then save them in obj format. For example that’s how data miners find and render models of new armor before the armor is even released. Then you send that obj to a company that does 3D printing, or do it yourself if you have such a printer.

There are some applications out there that take a model in obj format, then make it “suitable” for 3D printing, because models obtained with the extraction method won’t be print-friendly (usually).

You want it; I don’t. Allowing people to buy & sell on the go means traders don’t even have to launch the game and pretend to be part of the community.

I’m a big fan of trading in this game; I think it should remain in the game.

Vyriis.6258:

Can tell for yourself just how different they are lore to mechanic by reading the “Edge of Destiny” novel and then going to play the areas they go through. Ebonhawk to Ascalon takes them several days/weeks and is a hard journey. Where as we can walk from Cursed Shore to Frostgorge Sounds in less than an hour with little to no danger.

Every time I go to the Dragonbrand I find myself thinking of that. To them crossing it was a massive undertaking, if I remember correctly they were hoping to be able to do it within one day because they didn’t want to be there in the dark, and just about made it because they were attacked in the middle. It’s the same for the Sentinels in the game, they spend ages carefully planning a trip into the Brand and make a big deal of crossing it without using their bridge.

Meanwhile I’ll often zig zag across it several times in an hour without really think about it, until I remember the book. Sometimes I cross it just to get to a gathering node, or speak to an NPC.

But distances seem very inconsistent in Lore. In Chapter 4 of Tyrian Travels Vikki says she crossed the Krytan border at twilight and got all the way to Shaemoor in the same evening, just as the moa keepers were putting the flock to bed. That’s all the way across Kessex Hills and the southern half of Queensdale. I just timed it and (going around Viathan Lake) to the west, which is the shorter path it took me 8 minutes to reach Shaemoor Garrison and another 3 to reach the moa ranch. That’s following the roads and without a speed boost, but also not stopping for anything, whereas Vikki apparently spoke to several people. The timing fits the story but doesn’t fit at all with other lore, where just part of that (like going from Altar Brook Trading Post to Claypool is apparently a long journey).

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

So…mechanic-wise, yes; lore-wise, not so much, is what it seems to be.

It is exactly this. Just imagine, if you will, that Tyria is the Americas (North, Middle, and south). Let’s take a chunk of that, Frosgorge to Orr. Now imagine walking from Hudson Bay Canada (Northern edge of Frostgorge) to Cape Horn Chile (Southern edge of Orr). Not such a fun walk to make, nor explore fully, in the time most people would be willing or able to put into a game. Not exactly practical. Thus shrinking down of what would otherwise be massive expanses is needed for reasonable gameplay. So, as said; Mechanic wise it is the entire map. Lore wise these areas are massive beyond the scope.

Can tell for yourself just how different they are lore to mechanic by reading the “Edge of Destiny” novel and then going to play the areas they go through. Ebonhawk to Ascalon takes them several days/weeks and is a hard journey. Where as we can walk from Cursed Shore to Frostgorge Sounds in less than an hour with little to no danger.

So…mechanic-wise, yes; lore-wise, not so much, is what it seems to be.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/thumb/e/ea/Mini_Festive_Golem_light_animation.gif/148px-Mini_Festive_Golem_light_animation.gif Please Bring back *********( Mini Festive Golem************ Been waiting for years for the mini festive golem to return to Tyria. Please make my Christmas, and have him reappear to bring joy to players who have been waiting for his return. Big Hugs if you can

Djinn.9245:

All of the “lesser races” are annoying in their individual ways. But they try to help the best they can with the fight against the dragons.

I can tolerate Skritt, i love the tengu, the kodan are cool, the hylek.. well.. theyre hylek, im fine with them.

The quaggans are like..
Dev: “who threw this perfectly good design in the trashcan.. it got a little mold on it, but im sure we can still use it”

All of the “lesser races” are annoying in their individual ways. But they try to help the best they can with the fight against the dragons.

Quaggans are pretty much like panda’s. They are big, fat and cuddly, but are also the dumbest being ever. These meatballs can’t do anything on their own (much like Trahearne) without getting killed, trapped or enslaved (again, much like Trahearne) and I am really wondering why they aren’t extinct yet.

Kraitkin > Slushydoo

I don’t like them either. There’s not enough garlic in the world to make them likeable