Guild Wars 2

I didn’t think of that..

There is no maximum number of character slots, from what I have read from at least one red tag on here. Can that be changed?

I think that for ArenaNET to very infrequently release purposefully limited run minis is a benefit to collectors’ long term investment portfolio. Betting on which minis, as new non account bound ones are released, will be limited, adds fun to the collecting process.

They are the latest statement of trust in the mini market. If they are reintroduced in any way, down the road, I feel that it will destroy any remaining value for minis overall.

bri.2359:

I opened 60 BLC’s with the recent key sale and I recall seeing at least 2 of the Caith minis and perhaps a Scarlet one pop out as well. My interest in them was such that I didn’t even bother checking if they were tradable, let alone have any value!
I just sent them to my bank and forgot they dropped until I saw this thread.

I find it quite extraordinary that anyone would buy (with gold or $) tickets for a lottery with odds far worse than the tickets you can buy at a convenience store.

Perhaps because they don’t want the sale to apply? I bought the axe as a gift, the day before it left the store.. The sale is on now, but it would not have benefitted me because of that.

I want to give gifts, but haven’t seen anything worth giving that is giftable right now. I’d give character slots, bank tabs, all that stuff.. But boosters and garbage town clothing? No way.

It’s the same as everything else in real life.. The thing you really want is never on sale

I maintained a complete collection until guild minis came out. Now, I have a full set of group 2, my favourites from group 1, and some of the account bound ones.

So, I like minis!

Definitely in the wrong server. Even in Crystal Desert, I never have problems finding assistance when I need it on tricky skill challenges, etc.

Some worlds, like Blackgate, you might consider almost overpopulated with the difficulty getting into WvW and overflow on world maps.

There is no END to Tyria!

To those who missed my point regarding the patch tomorrow:

I know that it will be trivial, as of tomorrow, to level in Shaemoor. That is exactly the reason that I rushed through it over the weekend – to post in advance of the patch, when it is still has some meaning.

I have a character at level 80 in tutorial, before the patch, and I didn’t hack the game to get it. That is the full extent of my claim.

I used 5 tomes of knowledge (from the WvW chest) but was unaware that they were farmable in the tower until after I posted this, last night. It has been possible to use my method since launch, so I could have done this much sooner.

The screenshots prove that I’m level 80 in Shaemoor because the area only looks like this and has that starting question (see upper right corner) when in Shaemoor.

Thank you for those who sent me their congratulations, I appreciate it and hope that more toons join me in Shaemoor! I think I will use the tomes for the one I was originally working with only alt account

10 level 80’s

1. Guardian (Norn) .. she’s my superhero, leads zergs and can take a huge beating while reviving seas of downed players.

2. Ranger (Human) .. when I’m in the mood to fill Tyria with rainbows and unicorns. Oh, and when I want to have the range of her longbow for Golem Mark II.

3. Necromancer (Human and Norn) .. Easy soloing around PvE with her entourage of minions. Continuous speed buff and death shroud is so much fun.

4. Mesmer (2 x Human) .. portals!

I’ve done world completion three times now, and on each run through I’ve always found new adventures hidden in the sea of chaos which is Tyria!

Originally, I thought it would be necessary to have the banker golem, to transport the necessary tools through your bank. In order to keep this going, my first step was to move all of my bank/BLTC/merchant spawns (from the BLTC chests) to my tutorial character.

Question: Is there a tutorial map on each server (I’m guessing so) or are they amalgamated? I remember seeing “Overflow” during the pre-launch.. ah, such a madhouse was Shaemoor, those were the days!

Conncept.7638:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

It looks like you took your character to WvW and just went back to the tutorial, to me. That is one way of doing it, I guess.

Not possible, neither of the menus to enter PvP or WvW are available until after you complete the tutorial.

And I really doubt anybody has or ever will do this just by killing mobs, even bots. The centaurs only give 3XP each, it takes 87,818,709 experience to reach level 80, that’s killing 29,272,903 centaurs. Assuming you are just ridiculously fast and can kill one a second (I don’t even think they spawn that fast) that’s 8132 hours of play.

Pretty much. I got to level 4, I think, trying to kill centaurs at the spawn point by the first bridge. Even that was insanely tedious. When the level-20 scrolls appears and I learned that the XP never went up, I completely gave up on that idea and started to look for alternatives.

Even at 5XP per centaur, the boosters wouldn’t last long enough for the time required.

Da Sonic.6521:

I know me and a friend made our homage to Legendary Defenders of Ascalon a little while ago (see: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Legendary-Defenders-of-Ascalon-1/first ). Might be what Azure is referring to, not sure.

Don’t mind people saying it isn’t legit, some people just won’t get it.

Wow, I didn’t realize the Charr starting map was so small

That’s level 80 in the Charr tutorial? Congratulations! Thanks for your support, too.

Did you find a way to level, other than the means I suggested? Seeing you with another character makes me think you might have done in the same way as I will be sharing. Yes?

When I first figured out (half) of the means to gain XP, I accidentally ended up with a character that never started their personal story, in LA. Not sure how I’m going to be able to proceed from there, but alas…

Here’s the /age shot. You can see that I’ve played my share of the game.. I’m actually pretty surprised that the number of hours is so low for the individual toon. It is definitely the fastest levelling I’ve done for any of my 10 level 80 characters!

Pennry. I understand the perspective, and I think being honest about it is the only way to go. Without the intention of telling exactly what I did, it would be easy to accuse me of doing something unscrupulous to get this achievement.

It wasn’t “pure” killing centaurs.. I compare it to the original GW1 title, in which you left your character to die repeatedly for countless hours because it was impossible to get XP from the enemies past a certain level.

Both were “workarounds.” Now, there is a “legitimate” way to get level 80 by buying the levelling tomes.. like a “legitimate” way to earn LDoA was adding to GW1 by adding additional quests to the tutorial area.

I have 10 level 80’s.

My advice: Don’t focus on the level up process, focus on the adventure. There is so much to do, and PvP/WvW and temporary instances level you up to 80 temporarily so you don’t miss out.

Relax. Put your feet up. Stay a while!

Happy Wintersday!

/played doesn’t work, but /age on this toon is only 82 days.. you are right, it doesn’t take very long to do it if you speed craft. I only went nuts on crafting to finish before the upcoming patch, otherwise I probably would have been working on it for a few more months.

Not having stories and all the map completions available didn’t help any.

I imagine that’s likely. How many are a) still in Shaemoor and b) not banned for botting?

ArenaNET should be able to do a database query or two, if they are so inclined, to see if anyone reached 80 since the bags were nerfed. If someone got to 80 before that without botting, then I’d like to meet them, because I tried and it wasn’t nearly enough time for me.

Even with the booster and at level 80, each enemy is still only worth 5 XP, so I think it would be pretty much insane to get max level by killing Tamini only.

Crafting is possible using the temporarily released 15-minute crafting tables (account bound).. if you didn’t get them during the Southsun event, you’re out of luck as far as I know.

Also, a new player opened my eyes to the tiers.. the trait books aren’t account bound, so you can buy and send them to anyone!

All said, I did find a way to level outside of the tutorial WITHOUT ANY HACKS.

Once I find out if I’m the first or not, I’ll share what I did.

Thanks.

This toon isn’t my oldest (9pm August 29th, 2012 of course!), so the age isn’t that impressive. I did not know there was a “/played,” I’ll have to check that out.

I reached 245% with the birthday booster. It was the level 20 scroll in our first birthday presents which gave me the first glimmer of hope!

I would like to know what my actual rank # is, not “10%.” 10% is a HUGE range, from the numbers i’ve seen…

Almost at 11.5k is nothing to sneeze at, I don’t mind not being in the top 1000.. it’s still more than almost everyone I have met in the game.

In GW1, I was a 3 time “Legendary Defender of Ascalon” in Pre-Searing.
In GW2, ArenaNET tried to take away every opportunity to max level in the tutorial zone.. so, they gave me a challenge.

…and since it sounds like anyone in PvP will be able to be able to buy their way to level 80 with glory, as of December 10th, I hurried along to create a:

LEVEL 80 Character in the Human Tutorial Area!

Am I the first? Here’s the screenshots to prove it:

Is it only in the green garrison?

I love Orr, and visit as much as possible. When I am able to brig together enough people, the mob loot opportunities are respectable. Unfortunately, event timing was nerfed before there was good data on the effects. Frostgorge Zerg is simple and mindless, like Queensdale.

The emphasis on champion loot boxes leads players to forget that it is possible to acquire much more loot from the mob spawns… Frostgorge has nothing appreciable for mobs.

The biggest loser in Orr is SoD, because it doesn’t offer the same rate of heavy bags that we get in Cursed Shore. Who needs more T5 mats? Not me!

My best idea is to make all three maps into pure level 80 zones and scale up the levels in earlier maps. This gives more variety and challenge for level 80’s, instead of driving them Zerg through the lower level maps.

Is it possible to add a /command channel for a number of commanders to communicate when coordinating multiple groups, which is separate from /squad chat? Will this bring value to coordination?

Personally, I run commander tag only when leading ad hoc and/or organized groups through PvE. It helps significantly when putting together groups for temple runs.

Last night, another commander and I lead a group all over Tyria, exploring less popular content (such as Rhand’s dungeon). It was great fun and it only happened because it was easy for people to track us through our tags.

That said, if a commander tag was guild only, I would not have been visible to anyone and no random players would be able to follow either of us.

How about a “hide THIS commander” option, like blocking but not so severe? I know that joining a squad provides access to a single commander.

“Hide all commanders,” too?

Commanders are followed because of the reputations they earn. A bad commander is like a bad boss.. Unless they are paying you enough, you’re not going to follow them.

New minis for gems, recycled content as in-game rewards. Humph.

Character model limit.

Daily Tequatl runs net you 13.5k from consumables plus 4-5 events..

Gems are still the Sam price at launch… Gold is worth less.

What’s too expensive is the gem store products.

Cheaper store prices will result in downward pressure on the in game similar trading post items, which will in turn reduce the amount of gold a player must acquire to purchase these trading post items.. Less demand for gold means players will not be farming it as much, which will reduce the expansion of the total gold amount in the economy.

Yes, no?

If you buy gems with gold, I feel that you either 1) mid a fortune on the trading post or 2) have no value for your real life time. Hopefully it’s the former.

You will need two copies to play NA and EU. You may guest to other servers, but only within your own region.

I’ve got four legendaries, almost every mini (3 jack a lops, Karka) , a few hundred gold, and a loaded materials page.

I still love getting loot, but nothing drives me enough to want to grind for gold. I have bought 3 of the armor skins on the TP for individual pieces that fit within my overall look for each of my 9 level 80’s)

Now, I am doing

A) world completion on all my toons (just finished third) and the enjoyment of continuously discovering new content in areas I’m revisiting, and
B) achievement points and living story completion

(Except for fractals..)

Btw, I didn’t play gold wars to reach my current level,.

Shakes head…

It’s okay for weapon skins and precursors to be ridiculously expensive, but not minis.

Watch the exchange and buy gold, as it lets you get exactly what you want without rolling the RNG dice.

Waiting for inevitable stream of BL key RNG failure complains..

As excited as I was to be able to get this armor for my norn, I appreciate the exclusivity destruction caused by the light armor skin. I have two questions:

1) have you considered release a new skin and leaving first day purchasers with the opportunity to keep the original? I imagine the likelihood of this depends on how many people purchased it.

2) I placed the skin over previously transmuted armor (3 CoF and 3 temple, which I mix and matched lower tier armor skins onto). If we select a refund, when the new armor is released, will we receive transmutation stones to reapply previous skins? I don’t know how a double transmutation works with the splitters… My skin choices were cheap ones, but I imagine some people may have applied over other skin upgrades, which might make this even more complicated.

My thought is that #1 is the easiest solution to #2, but not the one that T3 cultural owners may find acceptable… Which I respect.

Exclusivity exists all over the game, so making it a one day special armor that isn’t resellable, is an option.. Unfortunately, there are opportunities to upset people with any direction AreanaNET goes. This is the first light armor for the norn that I wanted vs. previous skins that I settled on for lack of a personally desirable choice.

If the rework is better than the existing design, it will potentially be even worse for current t3 owners.

How about a feed upgraded design option for cultural t3 owners?

Skinned over previously transmuted armor:

I placed the skin over previously transmuted armor (3 CoF and 3 temple, which I mix and matched lower tier armor skins onto). If we select a refund, when the new armor is released, will we receive transmutation stones to reapply previous skins? I don’t know how a double transmutation works with the splitters… My skin choices were cheap ones, but I imagine some people may have applied over other skin upgrades, which might make this even more complicated.

Early purchasers: I would optimally like to see a chance to keep this style on my norn, though I appreciate that it does diminish the t3 for humans and will defer to that, though with great pains.

Is there a redesign suggestions thread?

Stuttering when you enter a new zone is usually caused by a bottleneck in the memory bus when trying to push a large number of textures into the video card’s memory. Once that initial push is completed, you shouldn’t experience it again. Is the experience most pronounced when you turn around immediately upon loading? When turning, the graphics card is receiving the additional textures of the near area within your field of view, filling up that bus even more aggressively.

I have had the same experience with SLI and non-SLI in many games. Ways to test:

1. Stand still for 10 seconds upon entering a zone before moving
2. Reduce texture map and quality levels.
3. Difference between architecturally complex areas vs simple ones

Good luck!

I’m not sure why overclocking would have affect, unless your system is overheating and undergoing thermal protection speed throttling.

Is there a correlation with the number of people nearby and the stability of your system? Does the stability improve when you turn your graphics letting to their minimums?

Hi Sarah,

Thanks for offering your energy to do help new players into the game!

I was directed to this thread from my Fractured questions – and would love to get into Fractals, with your assistance.

I have a PTV support shorts build GS guardian (Twilight/Sunrise) with 3500h on my clock. My home world is Crystal Desert. I will PM you my main account name.

My time zone is the same as server time, I usually run 9:30PM-midnight consistently plus whenever else I can. Closer to 9:30 is best so I can be ready for Tequat at 11:02.

Thanks to those of you who have made some great suggestions, including people to run with! Pixelpumpkin, all great input here.

A few people have stressed to me the need for voice chat, so hearing that it isn’t everyone’s experience makes me feel much better. I don’t mind listening to a teamspeak channel: I have experience leading a part of the TTS Tequatl defense – responding in chat to people speaking in voice.

Gnat, I’m not saying that I don’t like Fractals, but that I am fearful of missing out something that I will like.

As I’ve done my share of TA, CoF, AC and even some good ARAH runs, I understand that finding a good team to play with will make short work of the runs, and playing all 3 in a row won’t be an issue.

In my “4 event” experience, it took the group about 2 hours to get to the 4th event (I didn’t know it was a short boss run), so you may imagine that I was feeling a bit exhausted by that point. When Fractals were first introduced, I thought I remembered hearing about lots of grief with players not finishing the entire group of 3 run and hurting the rest of the team… I don’t want to be that person.

I listened to WP’s latest youtube video about Fractured, and learned a lot from this thread. It gives me some confidence that, especially with the upcoming changes to some of the existing paths, the experience will be much better for me.

I’m short some dungeon paths, but other than that I’m pretty on top of all of the content, including the jumping puzzles. So, to have the opportunity to run Fractals .. and make no mistake, I am encouraged by the rewards.

BTW, I have Sunrise -and- Twilight on PTV support shouts Guardian, so I won’t be squishy

Anyhow, thanks all – I will talk to Sarah and have already responded to the private message!

I think I’m like level 2 or 3 in fractals, and I think that rolling back people who suffered through the original fractals is mean.

Looks like some awesome stuff here, but each time I’ve tried fractals, I’ve ended up not loving them because:

1. the bonus fractal was a hindrance, I wanted to be done, not given more to do
2. I don’t have enough friends who play the game regularly to make a non-pug team
3. I don’t like the need to use audio chat. (I do well running a northern defense team for tequatl without a microphone)
4. I would much prefer to do one at a time instead of 3, so I can make less time commitment.

(please keep in mind I am on quite often, so it’s not about being a casual player .. eh hem… 11k AP and 3500+hr 9 level 80s 4 legendaries)

I am a PvE lover.

Sure, “fractals may not be for me,” but I am sad that I am missing out on the content.

I went from Win 7 64-bit to Win 8.1 and..

1. got 2-3x increase in frame rates (dual 770 gtx’s, but it was a completely underwhelming upgrade when I was still using Win 7)

2. never a crash since, whereas I used to turn off all graphics and pray at every character intensive event.

I guess we have a big hit-or-miss here… for me, it’s a huge + hit. I’m sorry for those who are finding it a miss and hope you get the same experience as me soon enough.

I let my custom arena lapse.

Going by the GDC presentation of how the world servers system is virtualized and the cloud is able to spawn and despawn virtual systems as needed, the idea of saving a custom arena being a cost issue makes no sense. One row in a custom arena database should be able to pop it in and out of existance, as needed.

Log-wise, if a custom arena is not being used, it’s not going to be filling up some storage space with log files.

If this isn’t how the custom arenas are deployed, then the method of deployment needs to be reviewed.

Whether custom arenas are well implemented, from a game perspective, is another story..

.. but having to keep paying to maintain it felt too much like a subscription cost for me.

The token system makes sense, but not the expiration.

Since [fixed] it is working great. Thank you!

Unstack TOTAL-1. The first blueprint is garbage, the rest you can sell.

I’ve got Sunrise and Twilight, and I wield them both on my Guardian, Aurora Wonderland.

I like having them split because I can choose which colour I want, at any moment. The idea of getting what the time of day gives you never made any sense to me.

The only reason I would (currently) craft Eternity is so that I would have an un-soulbound, and therefore sellable weapon.

On that note, I completely support the idea of having unique design for Eternity, if I can’t just have a switch to go back and forth.

Right now, having two weapons lets me have two completely unique sets of stats and upgrades at the same time. Perhaps this is what Eternity needs, to really be worthy of what it comes to be produced?

This proposed design is awesome.

I want a weapon that is more legendary than what I have right now…

Hanako.1827, please call your doctor for a renewal of your prescription.

Thank you for the method of converting soulbound tools to account bound.

Three runs with a group… solo is doable, but group was silly easy.

Confirmed that one my second pass through, I got the mini .