Guild Wars 2

Atlas.9704:

It is a construct, built to hold back the most terrifying of things.
A dimension which contains beings of great malevolence, total disregard to every life form in this space.
It is Gozer the Traveller, he will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldronaii, the Traveller came as a large and moving Torb!

The Asura tried to communicate with this being using one of the first Asura Gates.
They quickly learned that it was a mistake. One of great consequence.
All of their magic and technology could not kill that which was eternal.
That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die.

So they sealed up that dimension, but someone had to go and peek through didn’t they?!
Congrats, we’re going to be destroyed by a giant marshmallow Quaggan.

best reply i’ve ever seen on a forum ever in my history of being on the internet..you win at life.

It’s clearly outworld. Tyria is in danger of losing their 10th tournament and the greatest warriors need to band together and defeat Shao Khan.

^^^^^^^ This Atlas got it right lol

(just about sprayed my screen with my drink I laughed so hard!)

You’re going to want to learn how to use this.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stability

This reminds of when I was 8ish, and wante to play GTA because everyone else was doing it…

“Ok, I’ll buy it for you, but if you get violent, you’re not allowed to play anymore :o”, my mum said.

I played for a few hours and I got bored. While some kids dont, I definitely did know the difference between reality and a game :P. I just dont like it when people get hurt, and I still dont. I didnt mind shooting people in a game, though.

When I firsted tried an mmo on my 12th, the chat definitely did impact me. People are trolling and badmouthing at you wherever I go, I took it personal and became depressed all the time. I guess it’s just an experience you have to… Experience. When doing something for the first time online, most people expect to find real people, but trolls are just the negative parts of personalities whom hide behind anonymity on the iternet :/. I wouldn’t want to unlearn what I learnt the .

Anyway, yea, let them play warrior.

Thank you for enlisting Specter, but go Air Force while you still can!

Get online now and let’s game! =D

Yes. Every time of experience booster stacks with each other. Food, potions, EXP boosts, guild boosts, banner boosts, and birthday booster all work in conjunction

I’m surprised so many people are worried about chat/the game in general. I would have thought as long as a parent is with them they should be fine.

I may be biased by my own experiences – I started playing computer games when I was 2 (Hungry Horace on the ZX Spectrum!) and played a lot of games I was too young for, I’m not sure if there just weren’t many games for young kids in the 80’s and 90’s or if I was never interested in them but most of the ones I remember – Eye of the Beholder, Darksun, Doom 2, Mortal Kombat 3, Triad, that Terminator FPS, Warcraft 1 & 2, Ultima Online etc. were made for adults and would definitely be 16 or 18 rated these days.

But the computer was always in the main room of the house and one or both parents were always around to supervise. The only actual rule I remember being given was don’t play any game where things die (Doom and Warcraft in particular) during breakfast because it sounds like people throwing up. (And don’t play Theme Park because people actually throw up.)

But we were talked through a lot of things. Including the first time someone tried to chat me up in a chat room (during the week or so we had AOL) and when my little sister discovered that scamming newbies and charging for cyber then logging out were quick ways to make money in UO. Honestly I think it was more effective and helpful than simply being told we couldn’t play those games and pretending those issues don’t exist.

GW2 by comparison is pretty tame. There’s no blood or gore, you won’t see characters with their limbs cut off or horrible injuries and any damage/conditions heals pretty quickly once you’re out of combat. Some of the enemies look a bit gross or scary (if they play a charr – the cat monsters – they’ll start of fighting ghosts) and occasionally a character will die if they get far enough through the storyline, but that’s about it.

Chat obviously varies depending on who is on but the language filter should help a lot and as discussed you can turn channels off. Plus you’ll be there to supervise.

As for what to play I’d recommend avoiding elementalists and engineers because they’re more complicated – you really need to be using all your skills and profession mechanics and have good timing to get it right. Warrior is very simple and the ranger can be too (plus they get cool pets to fight with them). Guardian might also be a good choice because they have very good defensive capabilities.

But if they really want to play something else I’d say let them. It’s roaming around not having a clue what I was doing or what any of my spells and abilities actually did that got me hooked on RPGs as a kid. I didn’t care that I couldn’t get past the first area, I enjoyed throwing around spells I didn’t understand and watching what happened.

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Hello everyone, first i would like to say i am enlisted in the Navy. Will be serving my country proudly soon. Secondly i really would like to know how i can thank Chris from Guild Wars 2 for re-activating my account. Now my main question is who am i suppose to talk so in the future my account is not de-activated, when i am deployed over seas? I do not get a lot of time to play video games, but i do love Guild Wars and any time i get to play i will.

Accounts are never ‘de-activated’ for inactivity. You can play, or not play, as often and as long as you wish. Good luck in your endeavors, and thank you for your service.

Depending on which server you are on ( NA or EU ) Im always happy hanging out. Im mostly a PvE player though and you will either find me in Lions arch, in a fractal run or hanging out with the family. I can leave my comander tag on if you like, so Im easier to find
Im on North amerian server on FA

Sarah

The hint is a harsh and fickle mistress.

In seriousness, I have no idea what the trouble is, then. This is probably obvious, but have you tried sending an eleventh, so that the mailbox overflows, rather than just being full?

Hrm.

I have 10 in-game mails in my inbox from my daughter. The hint is unimpressed.

You might want to specify if you want to match the pink of the flowers, the green of the body of the bow, or both. ^^

I suspect while many people remember the name of the particular skin color they picked, they are not going to know the names of what colors best match the bow unless they happened to have picked that color. You best bet is to get a clear picture of the bow and refer to it during character creation.

He asked a simple question, he doesn’t need a lecture. Who are you to judge him? Lol

Warrior mate, give them a Hammer or Greatsword and they’ll have tons of fun.

Fay.2735:

I think the only thing in this game that could be scary for young children are the risen which are essentially walking half decaying corpses I feel most of the rest of the game is pretty child friendly in the shock department. Sure people are dying but my little mario guy/lara croft died plenty when I was younger and I never thought it was overwhelming.

I think you are mistaken here. I have worked a lot with young kids and each and everyone is different. Kids dont have our perspective on the world yet.
Jostein Gaarder made an excellent way of explaining. Imagine, a familly with a young kid and dad in the kitchen sitting at the table and mum baking eggs (with her back too the table. Suddenly dad starts hoovering in the air and does a flip flop in the air. The kids reaction is that he starts clapping his hands and laughing bout it. It’s dad, so it must be safe and dad always does funny things. But when mum turns around she is terrified and drops everything. The reason is that mum learnt that people don’t flow in mid air. Kids are in the process off learning.

You can only imagine walking undead to be scary cause you have learned that walking undead are scary (thank you hollywood!). For a kid a rampaging golem or a giant spider can be as scary or even scarier. The thing is that you never know what is going to trigger fear at a child. Also it is different for each and everyone. Therefor my advise to only let them start playing when supervised. As a dad of mum, your presence alone helps in feeling more secure. Besides that when it happens it is a lot easier to have a talk with your kid straight away before the fear moment sets in and becomes a phoby.

Here, I’ve whipped up a guide to the various chat settings that might come in handy for you. There’s no way to lock chat, but if you use these settings, you can keep it more or less turned off and out of the way.

Tweak the settings, then test drive it a bit in the starting areas to see what kind of experience your kids might be in for. As long as they’re not actively searching for the chat box and settings, I think it might be all right. (And why would that? There are monsters to fight!)

Use this guide to cross reference your world map – the areas are listed in the order they appear on the map left to right, top to bottom.

There is one new area in Brisban Wildlands, at the site of a guild puzzle called Proxemics Lab – top lefthand corner. Other commonly missed areas in Magumma are;

Aurora’s Remains in Brisban Wildlands.
The Rowanwoods in Caledon Forest.
Inquest Outer Complex ,The Serpentwind and Calx’s Hideout all in Metrica Province.
Verarium Delves in Sparkfly Fen.
Dierdre’s Steps , Magmatic Conjury , Ungent Den and Cubular Fells in Mount Maelstrom

Don’t forget to double check the cities as well, The Grove and Rata Sum.

Politeness aside, the question is, “Do these mobs do significant damage to me or can I ignore their attacks long enough to get this player on their feet?”

If that answer is yes….kill first, rez later. Best thing to do is ALMOST kill a few (switch targets before you kill them) and if the downed guy isn’t an idiot, he should be trying to Rally from the ALMOST dead’s you left them.

The normal response for a rez is TY.

That’s an interesting point, as I killed 4-5 mobs standing right next to the body and the person presumably could have rallied off of any of those if they wanted to.

If I see someone downed next to mobs, I would still clear the mobs first. Reason is if they have half a brain, they will be targeting one of them to rally off. If they end up dying instead, its not my fault. At least you revived him after he died, and he is a kittener for not thanking you for it. If there was an uncontested WP close by, I wouldnt have even bothered. My policy on rezzing is: do it if you feel like it, otherwise don’t. For instance a lotta baddies dying quite frequently in CoE cause they dont have the timing down.. I’ll ignore them and DPS the boss down. otherwise i’d spend the entire fight rezzing kittens who keep getting downed 24/7

Phenn.5167:

That, and T3 glow is ONLY on the coat and pants.

Ah thanks for the clarification. Hmm, it can’t be my character’s skin glow because I have that on max, but having glow only on coat and pants makes sense. Kind of lame how it’s not all pieces though :-/ all tier 3 armor should at least give some glow, considering how expensive the pieces are :-(

Do the daily Blood and Madness achievements, they count towards your mini. However, you must accomplish them before the 11th.