Guild Wars 2

Perhaps that was an indication of where one would enter the new map. I’m not sure it’s positively indicative of anything…one way or the other. Either way, it will be new content, and the new map will likely come either next week, or shortly after.

gw2skills.net or intothemists.com are both good skill calcs, and both (I think) up to date. They’re very useful for figuring out potential builds.

If you do WvW, gw2score.com or mos.millenium.org are both good sites for keeping track of timers and scores.

Other than that, pretty much just what RlyOsim listed. Can’t think of any other sites that are essential atm.

Edit: More in-depth, Dulfy is a must-have for info on new content as it comes out. Pictures or videos of new cash shop stuff, dev livestream notes, patch notes, guides on living story/event content and achievements…I always rush to Dulfy on patch days to check out the new stuff.

I’m just thankful ArenaNet didn’t answer this question for us.

First, let’s start with this image:
http://a1018.g.akamai.net/f/1018/19022/1d/randomhouse1.download.akamai.com/19022/images/A_Storm_of_Swords/valyria.jpg

Yup, Tyria is actually next to Valyria (http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Valyria). Particular notes of interest about Valyria:
-“A common racial characteristic among Valyrians appears to have been purple eyes and hair of silver-gold or platinum white.”
-“Valyria is said to still hold many treasures from before the Doom, such as Valyrian steel blades and items of magical power.”
-“Valyria was ruled by its dragonlords”
-“They were called dragonlords because they could ride and control dragons”
-“Dragons were discovered some five thousand years ago by the Valyrians in the Fourteen Flames, a ring of volcanoes on the Valyrian peninsula. The Valyrians mastered the art of raising dragons and used them as weapons of war to carve out a massive empire”
-“It was destroyed by a cataclysmic event known as the Doom of Valyria”

So, Valyrians have purple eyes. Arenanet added lots of knew purple eyes after gw2 released. Valyria contained items of magical power and general sorcery. This is also true of Tyria. Tyria was ruled by dragon lords who could ride and control dragons. Where were those dragons discovered? Valyria. Valyria was destroyed by “The Doom”.

What is the Doom of Valyria?
-“The Doom of Valyria is the name for the cataclysm of an unspecified nature that caused the collapse of the Valyrian Freehold which had, prior to the Doom, been prospering for 5,000 years.”
-“The cataclysm hit the Valyrian capital city Valyria, fragmenting the land surrounding the city into numerous smaller islands, creating the Smoking Sea between them. the Freehold was annihilated in a single night of fire and storm, with great earthquakes and volcanic eruptions laying waste to the empire.”

What could have caused the Doom?
Primordus – “Primordus was the first of the Elder Dragons to awaken in Tyria. Primordus’ original resting place was in a cavern deep underground, where it was assumed by the asura to simply be a statue emitting a high amount of magical energy.” (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Primordus) Primordus’ characteristics are similar to fire, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
Primordus must have awakened, in turn destroying Valyria.

Did the Doom take place prior to the events of gw2? Or is that in the future?
I think the Doom took place way before the events of gw2. From the wiki on Primordus, “It is claimed in the book titled The Elder Dragons that Primordus’ previous awakening is the only one still known to history.” So, Primordus awoke, destroyed Valyria (including the humans), were defeated or put to sleep by something else, and were forgotten. Next, the human gods brought humans to Tyria (back? or new?). “the Six Gods arrived on the world and brought the humans with them, but from where is not known.” (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Six_Human_Gods) Also, about the human gods: “Their age is also unknown, but it is known that the current pantheon as a whole is not the first, and that they have not been on Tyria as long as the Elder Dragons.” (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Six_Human_Gods)

GW2 has it’s warts but it’s the best game I’ve ever played, hands down.

If you really want to save gw2, make a backup copy of all the files, especially after each update, and either put it in a cloud server, or an external hard drive. Its also a good idea to regularly make backup images of your OS just in case you need to restore anything.

Also saving in Gw2 is limited to your character progression and inventory. But this is done automatically, and off site, so there is no need for you to do anything to save your progress.

GW2 seems to be doing fine. It’s in no need of saving at this time.

Anet communicates just fine. The problem is too many forum posters like to twist every thing they say in to promises carved in stone and then scream “UNFAIR” whenever the posters wildest requests don’t come true. Personally, I wouldn’t let the devs post on this board if I was in charge of Anet. There are too many people on these forums that are just looking to start a fight with the devs.

You’re still asking for new content by virtue of upgrading, adding onto, or improving those game elements. So you’re not asking for developers to not make new content, you’re simply asking them to devote more time to the content you feel is important.

Okay….you basically say that anyone who disagrees the game needs to be saved should shut up and sit in the corner. Getting pretty tired of some of the people in this game that feel they are entitled to have something done “their” way. I love the game as it stands. Many I know that do as well. If you really dont like the game I just have to wonder why you are here at all.

There should be an option when you click on the cog in your chat box saying “Show German only”, tick that off and you’ll see chat from all clients (French and Spanish clients included).

I’ve been kittening and moaning about townclothes since my first post, so I put in a refund ticket for stuff I bought in gemstore, and it was taken care of under a day. Even though I never spent a penny of real money on the gems they made me feel like a valued customer. I got like 6 emails telling me about what they were doing to work on it.

And they even let me keep my tonics!
Thanks guys.

I have to say you guys out did yourselves with the water balloon bucket. I must have spent close to two hours throwing water balloons outside of the trade post in Divinity’s Reach. It was most have I ever spent playing a costume brawl match.

Great job guys.

To be honest, I’ve always loved the Festival of the Four Winds and that airship. I love the aspects and the fact that the Zephyrites are one of the only throwbacks to GW1 lore (Glint’s protectors). It was one of my favorite releases last year and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed spending time in the zone again this year.

When I saw the trailer begin with the ship though, I knew. And it felt like a punch in the gut once the first explosion happened.

That is one feeling I never experienced in Season 1. So if this type of emotional impact is something Anet is striving for in Season 2, then I am ALL in. I am already connected to and care about the story/what happens.

Anyone else feeling similar?

darkace.8925:

- DE 2.0 sucking all of the air out of the room
– “Collect 150 drill fragments from the rubble in Lion’s Arch” achievement
– a whole lot of bugs
– “new items in the cash shop!”.

^Lots of posts like this no matter what

Hello,
I just wanted to say thank you for arena net team. Thx for looking over and creating such a good game, thx guys, keep up the hard work, it’s increadible! I’m sorry if it’s considered spam but i think we sometimes need to show our passion for this game and keep our minds possitive.
P.S. sorry for my english skills XD

I’m not listening to all the forum naysayers.! Anet has never let us down. At least not me-looks amazing, awesome and I just don’t know what I’ll do with myself till next Tuesday. The music is so powerful and touching, the artwork incredible. They totally know how to put things together. Ahhh yes, I’m a fangirl, to be sure. Not one bit ashamed to admit it! I may have even got a tad choked up too. Yes, there’s a tear!

Beautiful . . . As an office worker i can say this a a perfect gift to relax and start a good week .

Thanks guys, GJ

. . .please if you haven’t visit . . .

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/lions-arch-lament/

OH KITTEN THAT’S AWESOME! I’ve always regretted not flying over to Leipzig when they had the GW1 Factions Championship there. Will try really hard to go to this one!

my beloved bunch

Guardian – Mesmer- Warrior – Thief – Ranger – Necromancer

Sell all you got, you’ll have enough money for your precursor.

/Endtopic.

Champ bags don’t have precursors in them only unique exotics

The way I see it you have 2 options:

1) Go back to GW1. There are still large numbers of people there (mainly on the American districts) still endlessly speed clearing UW and FoW over and over and over again as they have been for years now.

2) Do dungeon speed clears in GW2. That seems to be the equivalent. It’s not as reliable because this game still gets balance updates which can affect speed clearing builds/groups but a lot of people do it.

The gem for gold exchange is represented as a self-regulating economic system. If the amount of gold needed to purchase gems is increasing, that means that more players want to pay gold to get gems than want to pay gems to get gold.

The OP proposes imposing an external control. This system would benefits players who wish to convert gold to gems by capping their max cost regardless of supply and demand. It would also work to the detriment of those who want to convert gems to gold by capping their potential gain, again regardless of supply and demand. This proposal is inherently unfair — and I say this as someone who has no interest in buying gems to exchange for gold.

Another solution might be for ANet to provide more things for players to spend gold on. This could entice more players who have discretionary income and who don’t have time to farm to buy gems to get said gold. The downside to this idea is that a portion of the player-base already thinks there are too many things to buy with gold.

So, gift the game to people who don’t have a lot of time, but do make a lot of money?

Forgive me if I am missing something but the moderator in one of the two links you replied with MisterBang just brings up “no match-up threads please”

I think Goonzu’s idea is a great one which deserves consideration and discussion.

You’re still low level so you shouldn’t be worrying too much about money. But your best ways of earning gold are as follows:

1) Dungeons. Right now only AC is open to you but you should run at least one path a day. This will earn you a guaranteed 1g+ a day in addition to tokens and other loot.

2) Gather everything. Everything you see. Things like soft wood and iron in particular are very valuable. If you plan on crafting, save what you gather; you’ll be glad you did later. Otherwise, sell on the TP for good money.

3) World bosses. You won’t get the bonus rare chest until you’re level 80, but right now you can still earn lots of loot, karma, and xp doing the bosses and their pre-events.

4) Map completion. Each map will give you bonus gold, xp, materials and loot on top of everything you get from doing all the hearts and other points around the zone. Rewards will increase with higher level zones.

Doing all of these is a sure-fire, steady way to earn gold, materials, karma, and to level up.

Anet placing new skins on gem shop only make gem increase in value. There is more demand for them and not enough supply into the gem market. People who buy gem are usually for their personal consumption and not usually traded for gold. Gem price is going to go up and up. More and more people is realizing that.

Giving the extra 100 tokens was such a good call. I’m really happy to see ANet recognizing when their players are upset and actually doing something about it.

Major props to Devon and the rest of the WvW team for pulling this off and giving the players something to be happy about!