Guild Wars 2

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Amaimon.7823:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

RoseofGilead.8907:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

They could name it to refer to both the desert and dragon. For that I suggest the name Sandy Claws.

Jack Skellington might sue.

Have you heard that name used before? Because I haven’t heard it. I mean, I just . . . I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good

:P

And we are just supposed to believe there are people with access to technology, but havent seen Nightmare Before Christmas, thats about as believable as the precursor droprate

Perhaps

Or perhaps looking at the bottom of the quote will give a discerning reader a clue….

You mean :P?
I dont really read that as “just kidding” more than “its funny, isnt it”

I am just perplexed we have to farm pips for the leg backpack. I mean, compare it to pve and pvp?
Fractals: complete fractals with challenging conditions.
PvP: X wins, 3 plays a day, X wins with professions, etc
WvW: betray all your loved ones as you look for the outnumbered buff.

Why doesnt WvW have this system? I mean, i get the minimum timegate, but theres no effort, only timegate. Maybe they should have had a collection as well.
-contribute to tier 3 upgrade
-claim 50 camps
-kill 150 people
-earn 50 pips on 5 different professions
Etc, etc

Just a flesh wound.3589:

RoseofGilead.8907:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

They could name it to refer to both the desert and dragon. For that I suggest the name Sandy Claws.

Jack Skellington might sue.

Have you heard that name used before? Because I haven’t heard it. I mean, I just . . . I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good.

:P

And we are just supposed to believe there are people with access to technology, but havent seen Nightmare Before Christmas, thats about as believable as the precursor droprate

The winter thing was a bit of a sham, it was just 1 free box of wintersday items, thats all.
The snow melted before it hit the ground

Fenom.9457:

July 18th, trailer this tuesday. I get overexcited a lot, but this is my balanced between optimistic and pessimistic opinion based on stated credence and how they kept to it. Mar my words. (Unless I’m wrong, then sweep it under the rug because I’m never wrong)

Sigh.. i’ll get the brooms

Karew.2169:

Bags that pop up near your corpse are bags that you already earned while you were alive, right? If so, those should always be put in your inventory with the auto-loot perk. I don’t see what being dead has to do with these bags.

Butt how you are going to pick them up if your dead? Yes, you earned them, and they’re rightfully yours
“_ but how are you going to pick then up there’s no blood pumping oxygen to your brain, to give muscles the necessary commands, to pick something up_”

I also don’t think fractals and raids are very comparable.
Raids are very structured and organized. In retrospect, fractals are very chaotic and ‘random’. So Raids test your overal prowess and ability to react to a series of mechanisms. Fractals will throw you in a black whirlwind of random unfairness and not test your abilities, but rather, your adaptability to utter and uncontrollable chaos. There’s nothing fair or structured about fractals. When I complete 3 full wings of raids in an evening, I can ragequit on T4 fractals

With all the complaints of festival draught in the summer time of the year, because face it; Halloween, wintersday, lunar New year, are like vertebrae back to back, i came with the following idea.

End of June is a day we call Midsommar, or Summer’s Solstice, otherwise known as the longest day (shortest night)
And what better day to celebrate the summer.

The festival will have two components:

1) we befriended the Itzel and Nuhoch I the jungle, as well the native Hylek in tyria, they worship the Sun; Ameyalli.
A) build fires to honour the sun
B) participate in brawls to prove your prowess

2) the zehyrites will rebuild as well. They will hold a festival to recollect materials and gold to build a new airship.

To you, anet, you now have a whole year to make this for next summer, no excuses

Sartharina.3542:

The problem with “The Golden Sun” is that Golden Sun is already a videogame.

Yea, i thought so too at first, but then i thought of a name or title is generic enough you can’t trademark is, add long as you don’t obviously copy it.

Golden sun in Tyria refers to Elona, while in that video game it refers to the Philosopher’s Stone (i really hope they make another game, we now have two stories with an open end)

notebene.3190:

Amaimon.7823:

Im not sure i get your drift.
There are only two raid tabs, one for individuals looking for a group, and one for groups looking for more people.
There are currently 13 bosses spanned over 4 wings, 3-3-3-4.
But some bosses require sharp attendance, like Xera and Matthias, theyre mot often queued in the LFG tool since they require a lot of coordination

Oh boy…

Squad, sorry! Not raid.

Are all squads advertised in LFG? Or can people make squads and hide them?

I’ve been back long enough I should know this, but have been using LFG to find squads to do things like Shatterer, and I’m realizing that maybe there are hidden squads out there maybe that are doing things in other instances of a zone, but you can’t see them to join them?

No, not alls quads are visible, there are two visible and 1 invisible type
> free to join
> request to join
> invite only (invisible)

Donari.5237:

Amaimon.7823:

-Heart of Sands (if the they keep the ‘heart’ a stagnant trait)
-Amnoon Mirage (since all the god-trickery)
-The Primeval Chapters
-Heart of the Desolation
-Kings of Bones
-The Golden Sun (land of-)
-Ascension

How dare you suggest serious contenders that would actually work in this thread full of buffoonery and shenanigans!

(Those are all pretty cool names imo)

GW2: Ain’t no party like a Heket party
or
GW2: Sand in Ossa’s Boots

are those better suggestions?

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Joko’s origins are still a mystery. The Scarab Plague is one theory, but that makes a nearly 400 year gap between him supposedly becoming a lich and his invasion into Elona – it would not take that long to build an army. And dialogue from Sahlahjar implies he came from the north (his normal dialogue talks about his deal making due to grey giants moving in from the north, while quest dialogue and outpost description tells us it was Joko’s armies from direction unstated that pressed him to making a deal), which would naturally be in the opposite direction of Istan where the Scarab Plague took place.

Maybe he needed 400 years, though, we dont know what magic be dabbled in. There are stories in other fantasy universes where someone claims great power, but then they have to recover, or repair their soul, and they wont even notice 100, 200 or 500 years have passed. Or maybe he was a victim of the scarab plague as well, revived later (by own design, or someone else’s).

But he came from the north? Yea, that makes since, the bone palace is there

Im not sure i get your drift.
There are only two raid tabs, one for individuals looking for a group, and one for groups looking for more people.
There are currently 13 bosses spanned over 4 wings, 3-3-3-4.
But some bosses require sharp attendance, like Xera and Matthias, theyre mot often queued in the LFG tool since they require a lot of coordination

I support this, I have a hard enough time getting the wooden chest, even with the dedicated bonus pip.
This way I can earn anfew more tickets with a currency that doesnt reset every week

Been trying to read some wikis, and read some lore from NPCs and books, but I cant find anything of what happened prior to the dimer-anual rule of Palawa Joko.
He appeared one day, conquered three nations of Elona, and ruled for two years.
His undoing was outrunning his supplies, while being taunted by Ossa into a 1v1 battle, which he lost.
However, I cannot find anything (and there might not even be) on what happened before he marched into war with the four nations of elona.

So, while I have fantasies, ideas, or otherwise random thoughts on how he became a lich, or why he thinks he’s a legitimate ruler of elona, nothing’s fact, is there?
My personal thought is that he was a prince or a royal during the ages of the Primeval Kings. He didn’t have right to the throne because he was disowned, or not a firstborn, or whatever, so he dabbled in dark magic. As a result, he became immortal, and killed his entire generation in the plague which ended the primeval dynasty. Then he wakes back up ages later and claims what he things is now rightfully his.
Just a personal thought, mind you, no evidence of any kind.

This is the Scarab Plague I mentioned

-Heart of Sands (if the they keep the ‘heart’ a stagnant trait)
-Amnoon Mirage (since all the god-trickery)
-The Primeval Chapters
-Heart of the Desolation
-Kings of Bone
-The Golden Sun (land of-)
-Ascension

My krewe is also working on projects without me

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

The second is not a bug. It’s very common for tonics to last 15 minutes. The fact that many of us find it annoying doesn’t mean it’s a bug.

Then its something they mustve accidentally put in since i cant for the love of my live think of a reason someone’d build a brick wall in the middle of the road

Dont guardians draw power from “conviction”, like, as long as their belief is strong, is doesnt matter if its good evil, as long as they truly belief in their own actions.
Although I suppose the powers would look differently when handled by different convictions.
The desire to protect, or to support, ir to defend can be considered good.
The desire to avenge, or punish, or judge, can be either good or evil.

Again, this is just my personal take on the guardians function, but I think they draw power directly from the mist, and if you dont drawvthis power with conviction, the power will either go rampant and/or consume you, or will simply not allow it be drawn by you. As a result, guardians can draw raw energy, crystallized energy, or mist flame, and wield it like an extension of their beliefs

And how will you seperate the cheaters, from the “simply noobish” people who just activate it at the wrong times

One the things that I find absolutely ludicrous is that there’s no pip increase for continuously playing at tier 6

Offair.2563:

If the tag sets squad option to “allow members to invite” you could join by right click names/portraits of any member to get in. Or a /squadjoin name.

Yea, /squadjoin is the only reliable mechanic at the moment.
But have tried joining Jinnïæ Æethœlwolff squads?

There is no mechanical difference in the hitboxes, if thats whats bothering you.
Story is only relevant for the first 30 levels, afternthat, all races follow the same path.
Animations of the norn are a bit slower than humans since theyre larger, but are not allowed to cross greater distances with same speed

1. Only 1/3Pprimordial Lillies can gathered in Cursed Shore. The other two cannot be gathered.

2. Theres still a 15 minute timer on the endless embiggening tonic. Since it serves no purpose other than being an annoyance I cannot think of it as more than a bug or an accidental setting.

3 scenarios:

1) I’m trying to group up with some friends, right click their names only give the option to invite them. If I’m not the first I get the error " they’re already in a party".
FIX: if you invite someone to a party, and they’re already in a party, instead, turn it into a join request. (same for squads)

2) I’m in a squad/party and map travel to their map. I often end up on a different instance, and have to join on their instance manually. There is no indication the map was full, or even highly populated.
FIX: if the map isn’t 150 capped, map travel should always include the right instance.

3) I’m in WvW, or a big world-event, and there’s many commanders. I have to open the world map, target the commander, and click “join squad”. Similar problem persists when the commander is gathering a large flock of followers and it’s very hard to target the commander individually
FIX: allow to join squads by clicking on their minimap markers as well, or to create an interface with all active squads (like you have in WvW)

Yes they sets made aren’t very realistic.. they’re completely unrealistic. As a hema sportsman im often bothered by how greatswords look like, or are handled.

But do i want them to be realistic? Maybe a bit more than they are, but it’s supposed to a graphically over the top fantasy game, so I’ll manage

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Well, they are intended to disappear when using emotes, so that part is not a bug.

As to whether anyone else can see them when you are in first-person mode, I guess the easiest way to find out would be to ask a nearby player. I doubt it; it’s probably only client-side.

Good luck.

Its just its erragular behavior that makes me think its overal mechanism is bugged. But on the other hand, i hope they dont fix it, since holding weapons during some emotes give very cool pictures. Im just hoping that since the items can reappear and dont cause any troubles, anet reconsiderz making them invisible in the first place. I can always manually hide the backpack if i dont want to see it, anet doesnt have to force-hide it, if you get my drift

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Just providing information to the other poster (and showing his/her issue is not a bug). =) I think the shield already shows if the backpack is hidden.

No idea about OP’s issue, or exactly what the issue is. I hope the Devs will. =)

The original issue is that the backpack and weapons hide during emote usage, and reappear if you toggle first person mode. That, and that i dont know if when the items reappear, whether or not other people can see them.

didn’t she stay in the realm of torment to “clean up Abaddon’s mess”?

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Well, I’m pretty sure they do.

Ok, looked it up. From the Wiki:

While the shield is being worn on the back, backpack items will be disabled from view until the player enters combat, upon which the backpack will reappear. Upon sheathing the shield, the backpack will disappear again.

Whe’re getting a bit off-topic here, but my suggestion for that problem would be
“Depend showing backpack or not depending on whether the backpack has been ticked on or off in the equipment interface, then show shield if backpack is hidden”

flog.3485:

Amaimon.7823:

Chapter 6 confirmed
Expansion 2 confirmed
PvP and WvW overhaul
New raid confirmed
(Silence from fractal team, as usual)

Where exactly is anet not alive?

When did they say a new raid was coming ?

shortly before chapter 5, they said that there would be a teaser or a hint to it in draconis mons, but I dont know if it will be released with chapter 6, seperately, or with the expansion. We never even confirmed what the teaser was, some say it’s the dead fish-man at the beach (forgot the species name) or the fact that we’re fighting gods and the gemstore updates, meaning fissure of woe.. or something else entirely

In rotational order of the pictures

1) normal
2) starting emote
3) scrolling into first person mode and back

as you can see the backpack and weapons become invisible when I use an emote, but they become visible again when I scroll in and out of first person mode.

Bonus picture 4, 5, 6) holding a weapon before using an emote and scrolling in and out of first person mode. (it sometimes makes for cool emotes when you hold the weapons)
but I wonder if other people can see the weapons and backpacks as well after I scrolled in and out, or if they disapeared at all from their view.

Chapter 6 confirmed
Expansion 2 confirmed
PvP and WvW overhaul
New raid confirmed
(Silence from fractal team, as usual)

Where exactly is anet not alive?

Soooo…. how long until the topic title is changed to “elite specs were the best thing since sliced bread”

Sounds like the data pathway has corrupted, try launching from the launcher in the installed folder. If that doesnt work, do a client repair. But it sounds like theres been a disconnection between vital files

AngelDiscarnate.5489:

Here’s an idea. If everyone’s all about the tickets. What if, for the lower tiers, wood, and mithril, I think it’s mithril… What if you take a portion of the tickets from the end chest and put them in each chest?

Final wood chest gives 10 tickies, no? What if, in the 4 chests, they gave 1, 1, 3, and 5 tickets. And the same in mithril, 1, 1, 3, and 10? Same rewards in total, just spread out a little to give that little bit of incentive all the PvE’rs are wanting.
>__o¿
That way, if they don’t have ‘time’ to finish a block completely, they still get something from it.

+1
+10
+58732747041472511379480465

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

DoctorDing.5890:

Amaimon.7823:

…xpakittenerally…

That particular kitten filter intervention took me a good 30 or 40 seconds to figure out. But it was worth it hehe.

Oh! I was thinking it was generally, but see it is literally. Duh!

Didnt see it filtered…..
Yea, Xpac (protection) literally that

I’m not even gonna bother, as a person with a full time midweek obligation, I can only get the wooden chest thanks to the outnumbered bonus. After that, I can’t get iron (or was it bronze?); the weekend’s over.
so.. I can make 10 tickets a week, if I don’t miss a single weekend, which will happen quite often.. yea.. I don’t think I’m gonna bother with WvW because it’s obviously designed for people without a life beyond WvW

Tryhard Pants.9745:

Would go very nicely with the hellfire armor set, so yeah, that would be cool.

Exactly my point, my warrior is themed as a destroyer, weapons and all, with a mix’n’match of hellfire and Flame Citadel armor

zealex.9410:

cant you dye the wings?

You can dye the glider, but not the backpack. That ones permanently stuck in green fire modus..
I mean, it’d be cool if this was Warcraft, since hellfire (fel) is green there. But here fire is red, so green wings in a red fiery armor just dont look right

Haha, yea, not as sharp as yours, but ive crossed the 45* angle as well

I’m fine with this map, I agree on the mid node.
But the one thing I hate is that I can’t go for lord on condi builds because it takes ages to break a gate (they’re immune to condis)

So we got green wings now, but it can’t be matched with anything.
So, can we please have a set of normal destroyer wings as well, so we can actually wear them?
we can dye the glider, but what’s the point if the wings are red when I glide, and turn green when I walk.

I would gladly pay the 700 gems again for a red version.

Jayne.9251:

Amaimon.7823:

Sarika.3756:

Amaimon.7823:

Sarika.3756:

Amaimon.7823:

Chaba.5410:

Amaimon.7823:

if you’re not rank 3000 by now, there’s no way in seven realms of oblivion and the gazing abyss behind it that you can complete the wooden chest in one week.

No need for the hyperbole. I finished Silver on an account with rank 780 in 6-8 hours of WvW by getting either 3 pips per tick (2 for rank, 1 for third place) or 8 with outnumbered buff.

Except when youre on a skritt server that is just active enough to never have the outnumbered bonus, but inactive enough to always fail, so im cursed with 1 pip per tick, meaning i have to sacrifice my entire working week for getting the wooden chest, and thats just ridiculously disproportionate

I have a level 150 ish alt on a server that’s often in third place. I can expect 3 pips at a time, one for rank, one for placement, one for loyalty. I usually get the wood chest at the end of the first nights guild raid.

I don’t see how getting wood on a low level account can take an entire work week. Where is my math wrong here?

Your math i’s stuck where you get three pips and i get one pip

Ok. There are 100 pips in the wood chest.

At 1 pip per tick, that’s 500 minutes. Assuming that you only get one pip per tick the entire time.

500 minutes = 8.33 hours.

That’s a little over 2 hours a day for four days.

Do I think that’s too much time for the wood chest? Yes.

But that’s not an entire work week, unless you work a lot less in a week than I do.

Do that for one week.
The next week, you’ll get the loyalty pip, which will get you 2 pips a tick. So 250 minutes, or a bit over 4 hours. Now you’re down to 2 2-ish hour runs, again assuming only 2 pips per tick.

If i work all week i have an hour, maybe 2 in the evening. I dont always want to dedicate all my evenings to one game, much less one game mode. 8 hours on a weekend day is also harsh, i want to go out with my friends on the weekends.
In pve i can do bits of things, the rewards pile up.
In pvp i can do bits of things, the rewards pile up.
In wvw i can’t do bits of things because only complete things are rewarded and then reset.

Now that I think about, wouldnt it make sense for the pips to reset every 4 weeks with the matchmaking, rather than weekly? Just like the pvp track resets per season and not per week

Dear me, seems you’ve made choices that are good for you. Why should the game be changed to match your personal choices?

You can still earn pips, just at a slower pace. And that’s your choice.

I earn pips at a slower rate, and that is FINE, it really is. I agree, less time played should be less reward.
>HOWEVER<
Unlike PvE and PvP, you can’t earn slow rewards in WvW, you can only earn it all, or nothing of it.
90 of 100 pips doesn’t mean 90% of the reward, it means 0% of the reward
1-99 pips = nothing
100 pips = the full reward

this is my problem, if you cannot make the minimum hours anet wants you to play, which is 500 minutes a week, you get ZERO reward, not a fraction of the reward, not a slower progress, you get nil, nada, zero, negative.

PvP, I can do 3 matches a day, I can do 20 matches a day, it will change the speed at which I progress the path of ascension.
In PvE, I can do 1 fractal a day or them all, I can choose to kill 1 raid boss a week or all 13, I will earn fractions or all of the rewards,
but in WvW I cannot choose do some work today, and some work next week, no, you have to do a complete track within the allocated time or you get NOTHING and you can kiss the door on your way out…. so…. yeaa….

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

According to Blondie, expac #2 will be “Losing to Time (Lot)” and LS #4 will be “No Peace of Mind (PoM)”

Once we killed a dragon, but it was reborn
Soon turned out, had a Heart of Thorns
Seemed like a dead thing, only to find
Mucho mistrust, jungle’s gone behind

Once I knew a god and he was divine
Soon found out he was Losing to Time
It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind
Mucho mistrust, Balthazar’s gone behind

In between
What I find is pleasing and I’m feeling fine
Tyria is so confusing there’s No Peace of Mind
If I fear I’m losing because it’s just no good
You killing like you do

blondie?
you have a source on this?

Sarika.3756:

Amaimon.7823:

Sarika.3756:

Amaimon.7823:

Chaba.5410:

Amaimon.7823:

if you’re not rank 3000 by now, there’s no way in seven realms of oblivion and the gazing abyss behind it that you can complete the wooden chest in one week.

No need for the hyperbole. I finished Silver on an account with rank 780 in 6-8 hours of WvW by getting either 3 pips per tick (2 for rank, 1 for third place) or 8 with outnumbered buff.

Except when youre on a skritt server that is just active enough to never have the outnumbered bonus, but inactive enough to always fail, so im cursed with 1 pip per tick, meaning i have to sacrifice my entire working week for getting the wooden chest, and thats just ridiculously disproportionate

I have a level 150 ish alt on a server that’s often in third place. I can expect 3 pips at a time, one for rank, one for placement, one for loyalty. I usually get the wood chest at the end of the first nights guild raid.

I don’t see how getting wood on a low level account can take an entire work week. Where is my math wrong here?

Your math i’s stuck where you get three pips and i get one pip

Ok. There are 100 pips in the wood chest.

At 1 pip per tick, that’s 500 minutes. Assuming that you only get one pip per tick the entire time.

500 minutes = 8.33 hours.

That’s a little over 2 hours a day for four days.

Do I think that’s too much time for the wood chest? Yes.

But that’s not an entire work week, unless you work a lot less in a week than I do.

Do that for one week.
The next week, you’ll get the loyalty pip, which will get you 2 pips a tick. So 250 minutes, or a bit over 4 hours. Now you’re down to 2 2-ish hour runs, again assuming only 2 pips per tick.

If i work all week i have an hour, maybe 2 in the evening. I dont always want to dedicate all my evenings to one game, much less one game mode. 8 hours on a weekend day is also harsh, i want to go out with my friends on the weekends.
In pve i can do bits of things, the rewards pile up.
In pvp i can do bits of things, the rewards pile up.
In wvw i can’t do bits of things because only complete things are rewarded and then reset.

Now that I think about, wouldnt it make sense for the pips to reset every 4 weeks with the matchmaking, rather than weekly? Just like the pvp track resets per season and not per week

Im thinking of Golden Sun, since thats what Elona was called in gw1; the Land of the Golden Sun
But might get in trouble with Camelot if they name an xpakittenerally that

I dont think I even can doubleclick at all, i press alt tab, and then as long as i hold alt i cycle through open apps with tab or click once on the right tab

I do would like mounts for wvw though , since it sometimes takes aeons to catch up to a commander on the other side of the map
Of course you can’t mount in combat and it will be cut off if you enter combat

Sarika.3756:

Amaimon.7823:

Chaba.5410:

Amaimon.7823:

if you’re not rank 3000 by now, there’s no way in seven realms of oblivion and the gazing abyss behind it that you can complete the wooden chest in one week.

No need for the hyperbole. I finished Silver on an account with rank 780 in 6-8 hours of WvW by getting either 3 pips per tick (2 for rank, 1 for third place) or 8 with outnumbered buff.

Except when youre on a skritt server that is just active enough to never have the outnumbered bonus, but inactive enough to always fail, so im cursed with 1 pip per tick, meaning i have to sacrifice my entire working week for getting the wooden chest, and thats just ridiculously disproportionate

I have a level 150 ish alt on a server that’s often in third place. I can expect 3 pips at a time, one for rank, one for placement, one for loyalty. I usually get the wood chest at the end of the first nights guild raid.

I don’t see how getting wood on a low level account can take an entire work week. Where is my math wrong here?

Your math i’s stuck where you get three pips and i get one pip