Guild Wars 2

as protogunner said, the series is called guild wars because the guild wars were directly or indirectly responsible for all the mess the world is in (some can argue they even changed the elder dragons’ behavior), it has nothing to do with the acts of ingame guilds fighting another

Ashantara.8731:

Amaimon.7823:

The Druid’s Essences in the Inquest camp (that is Rata Arcanum) activate automatically, without me giving the command to touch it.

Not just there but everywhere. When you walk across them in a certain angle and at a certain pace, you equip them automatically, which is indeed annoying.

I haven’t had this problem, actually.
When I come across Druid’s essences I noticed a pattern (in my experience)
-if I have a charge already, reaching another activates automatically
-if I don’t have a charge, I have to manually touch the essence
-The essences in the Inquest camp and in the jumping puzzle are anomalous as they activate automatically either way.
I assume that the essences in the jumping puzzle were maybe designed to activate automatically since they’re a primary usage there, and if that’s true, then maybe they accidentally used the same code for the rata arcanum essences

al jahai, Istan!
al jahai, Vabbi!
al jahai, Kourna!

welcome home! (don’t mind the sulfurous wastes, the swarms of scarabits, the sprawling undead, the ilk of Joko, etc etc)

“Elona, oo-u-oo-uh,
Elona, oo-uh,
From the first time
That I saw you
Elona, I knew
That tomorrow would be different
With a lady, like you”

Hevoskuuri.3891:

Amaimon.7823:

A new weapon means:
animations
a tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 racial association
a set for the dungeons, fractals and a legendary.
campaign collections such as the orders,

they cannot make a new weapon without making like at least 40 skins and bulk and promising the bring the full collections later. and what about collections that exist as achievement. New players are going to wonder why the Primal Greataxe, the Chak Greataxe, or the whatever greataxe isn’t part of their collections

Why would a new weapon type have to follow the same rules as the existing ones?

If they are tied to elite specs, they could simply be made available from the zones of the new expansion only, and then just add them to the black lion sets for new skins.

and you think the playerbase is going to sit back with smiles at a weapon that only has a few skins?
I can tell you now, the forums will burn, like primordus himself flew over.
Of course they could leave out some, like the HoT collections
but at the very least the demand will be all the primary set skins

excess laurels?
what?
can you use those words in conjunction? how?
what does it mean?
excess laurels????

but on a serious note, you can buy either ascended recipes, T4-6 crafting bags, or just leave them as is

The Druid’s Essences in the Inquest camp (that is Rata Arcanum) activate automatically, without me giving the command to touch it. This is both anomylous with the normal Essences found elsewhere, and also very bothersome when you try to get keypads to the consoles. When you wield a keypad, and get a little too close to the Essence, the Essence will automatically override the keypad.
Please fix this, other essences don’t automatically activate just by being near, so I don’t know why these do, but it’s quite annoying. The range is actually pretty big, too, so you have to carefully move through the inquest camp trying to avoid all the essences with a big mile around it

Darcwolf.6817:

Wait, there was a story? I must have blinked and missed it.

yes, between the fifth explosion and the 26th flame on the right was a bit of story

my personal speculation is:
Jormag is as knocked out as Primordus is now
We know Braham set out to kill him with, and if Jormag is knocked out, then an arrow that broke of a fang of the serpent might just be strong enough to kill a knocked out ED.
2 premises with subsequent premises can occur:
1) We chase Braham, convince him to stop (unlikely)
2) We chase Braham, fail to convince him to stop, with 2 new premises:
2A) We fight Braham until he’s incapacitated
2B) We don’t fight him before he manages to fire an arrow in the Serpent’s head

1) the end, happy end (I guess?)
2A) Braham will never be our friend again, we may have to imprison him to prevent him from trying again. Jormag lives.
2B) Big kaboom, ED dead, *woosh sound’

I think 2B is the most likely scenario to occur, we’ll be too late to stop Braham from killing Jormag, (bonus theory: Kralkatorrik is (somehow) nearby and devourers all the blast-off magic and goes south to Elona.)

author’s note: this theory is based on the premise that at the time Jormag was equally influenced by Baldy’s machine

step one, earn the primary LI
find a guild that specialises in training and social runs, aka, no LI requirements.
Once you have like 50LI and some KP of one boss, join LFG runs specifically for that boss.
important note here, to be honest. tell them you only have that many LI, but that since you have 5-10 kills work of KP, you can manage in this fight. one party might kick you, don’t get disheartened, another party will take you.

If you’re exotic or ascended doesn’t really matter that much, what matters is that they are the right getup, viper, zerker, etc.

A good guild to get started with would be RTI.
(rti.enjin.com if the direct link doesn’t work, for some reason all my links work except the links to enjin, did anet block that site or something?)

just seeing it tells a whole story,
he tried to swim in here, hoping to find strong prey/trophy, got caught in the boiling see, didn’t survive
flashbacks of friends and family as all slowly goes black

PyrateSilly.4710:

Amaimon.7823:

The pokemon argument applies here
there are like 80 pokemon you want to use, but you can only carry 6
now, then, what was the point of the other 74?

Because not everyone wants to use the same 6. Others will use different ones depending on what is needed to fight for each gym. I take stock of whats on the gym and then decide which of the 6 I want to use. Options are good and we will have more options with more elites.

see, that’s good reasoning, one pokemon won’t invalidate all the others. well.. to some extend, some will see more daylight than others, but hey, can’t all win

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I’d certainly prefer no time limit. And if that’s not realistic, I’d like to know why.

There’s probably some point to it, otherwise none of the combat-enabled tonics would have a time limit.
(For what it’s worth, snowball doesn’t have a limit, but Endless Gift does — it might be the difference between transformations and other sorts.)

but if it has a timer, someone must’ve entered code for it, right?
then they must’ve actively made the decision which we experience as negative but won’t tell us why. If for that matter, if there’s a 900 in the code (I bet codes work in full seconds, but maybe it says 001500) can’t they just easily uppen the number?

edit: embiggening tonic

I would’ve worshipped the gods in the GW2 universe since they’re a lot more real than in ours, (actual avatars and working prayers)
But if they were to stand in front of me, killing my friends, threatening the balance of the world, then they’re no longer gods, just demons

but I assume she’s outside the reach of power now, I think she’s just accepted defeat and lives on a farm in the Ember Bay now. I doubt she could rally a new army after the last fiasco, you have a whole lot of convincing to do, and need a natural +25 on charisma to pass it

this may sound dumb but.. have you checked if the recipe’s already unlocked?

phys.7689:

your opinion assumes poor balance. elites were supposed to be technically better than core.

not quite, they weren’t meant to be technically better, they were designed to be different, to have a new or unique play-style.
it’s not about being strong or better, but being significantly different. It’s because we have access to both the core set and the new skills, that using the new skills means you can enhance the core skills.

while I’d like some more emotics, especially the ones we had in gw1 that don’t work in gw2, I don’t think anet should prioritize it over anything else.

Some emotes I’d personally like to see is a “snicker” (which means a less over the top laugh), “terror” where you drop to your knees, “roar” which speeks for itself.

but then again, these things are what we call bijouxs, nice to have, but they’re not actually useful for anything, they’re fancy nice-to-look-ats

first I’ve heard of it..

A new weapon means:
animations
a tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 racial association
a set for the dungeons, fractals and a legendary.
campaign collections such as the orders,

they cannot make a new weapon without making like at least 40 skins and bulk and promising the bring the full collections later. and what about collections that exist as achievement. New players are going to wonder why the Primal Greataxe, the Chak Greataxe, or the whatever greataxe isn’t part of their collections

my wild guess is that the remaining hero points can just be used fine, maybe the ones will be again a little more expensive, like maybe 15HP per challenge, and then cost like 90 instead of 60 for a full track.. like that.. or something

Ookamikun.6472:

The tube near the Mariner WP only goes to the south, but most of the action happens at the eastern area of the Savage area.

ye, but there’s another thermal tube just up the hill. you can tell from the map I linked a few posts up

The pokemon argument applies here
there are like 80 pokemon you want to use, but you can only carry 6
now, then, what was the point of the other 74?

The last story even mocked us by saying “you’ll die if you touch the water” so I wouldn’t be too worried about the breather for the coming 25 years

this is nice and all.. but

it doesn’t acount for:
the boss fighting back
the boss moving around
you moving around
you having to dodge attack or do stuff for mechanics
your allies giving you ALL those boons with zero fail perfection

I think tengu are the most propable if ever, but another cool suggestion would be palawa joko’s undead as a playable race

two words, thermal tubes.
You can get from the submarine to Rata Arcanum in a few seconds if you’re willing to jump in them:

so here you go, a map, please forward it to everyone who says the map is hard to navigate.
Thermal Tubes take you literally everywhere
I know there’s one more thermal tube in the north, but it doesn’t lead anywhere signifcant

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Amaimon.7823:

I asked for this feature several times since launch, and gave suggestions of organizing events as well, but I have yet to see proof anet has seen any of the topics at all

I’d guess part of that comes from the tone, suggesting that they owe you a personal response for making suggestions about how to “improve” their game while not having any skin in the game. You know they are, like, hiring people to work full time on making it better, right?

Anyway, you won’t get proof they saw your idea, and even if something similar is implemented, no credit … if they saw it or not. (In part because when you suggest things here, you explicitly give them to anet, and when you suggest them anywhere else the developers are required to not look at all…)

rather antagonistic, I just meant that I’ve been mentioning it since 2012, and during AMA’s, but since no dev has even talked about event accessibility in general, I doubt it’s on the table at all. It’s not that they didn’t reply to the topic, but that they’ve never talked about event accessibility in general

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Interesting. I would not have pinged Joko as the mysterious benefactor.

This raises a couple questions (how he knew of Zinn and the asura, how he got that powerstone used in R.O.X. and what, exactly, it was) and adds in a very important new point about Joko: This is the first time players are told that Joko had any interest outside of Elona.

chronologically speaking, when did Joko even have the chance? I mean, he was released during Nightfall, right after which the heroes move back to tyria to investigate the earthquakes. All this time Joko should’ve been focussing on reclaiming the Bone Palace and rebuilding his forces, I can’t think of a window of time for him to go to the Maguuma to trick Zinn into making golems to kill world leaders.. I mean, it would help agenda for world domination, but I don’t think he would’ve moved that far ahead when he only just got his palace back

Sometimes when you’re done being launched by the Oakheart’s Essence, the glider doesn’t work. This mostly happens because you touched the ceiling or a wall, and are being shot straight down. At this stage your character is unresponsive to everything, so it’s not just gliding that work, but rather, all control is lost. Worse is, it sometimes causes falling damage, too, which usually kills you

Mickey Frogeater.1470:

I suspect that we will unmask multiple Gods in Episode 6(namely Melandru who’s hinted to be allied with Balthazar due to the vine that helped him distract us and Grenth).

What vine? and who’s speculating that?
first time I heard we and grenth were distracted from balthazar by a vine.. when was grenth next to us, when was there a vine.. what are you even on?

do you think we’ll ever get to buy an unbound magic node? just one of those floating bubbles floating somewhere in your home instance, one for every map, so you can get 6 bubbles floating in a corner somewhere

Primordus is knocked out, (not asleep or dead, think of it as unconsiousness by fatique)
Jormag status is unknown, I guess we’ll visit him in the next chapter
Balthazar is dispersed, not dead, he had a spectral body in the volcano which we destroyed. It’s still the real him, so he won’t be coming without effort, but he’s not dead

community effort or not, I’m often surprised at how fast this goes, because sometimes they announce a cat, and within half an hour after the patch its on dulfy, I wonder if it’s because they’re announced, so people make a char filled with all kinds of food, and then visit the cat in the hope something fits.. ?

The cats need to be given food in order to get them to your home instance..
But I’m honestly confused, how do people figure out what to give them.
I can look them all up on the wiki or on dulfy, but without any kind of ingame information, how did the wiki and dulfy get it?
are these achievements designed for to be datamined or something?

also because he wanted any potential weapon against the elder dragons. Aurene was still potentially useful, then

I also would like to be able to exclude achievements from showing up on the suggestion tab, because ever since LS2 started, it’s been Get the Gold and Coin Collector at the front page, and I kinda want to see some other achievements for a change. I don’t plan on finishing those

one word, thermal launchers
I too was getting lost constantly, didn’t know where to go, I couldn’t for the love of my life figure out how to get to Rata Arcanum, but then I discovered that the thermal tubes were actually placed pretty well. You can get to the topmost layer of the map in a few seconds if you start at the submarine

I asked for this feature several times since launch, and gave suggestions of organizing events as well, but I have yet to see proof anet has seen any of the topics at all

Stitch.1794:

Amaimon.7823:

During the recordings, Zinn makes a statement that getting tricked by Joko was his lowest point, but I’m having some trouble imaging a point in time where an asura in vicinity of the Maguuma interacted with an undead lich in Elona. When did this happen? and what did Joko trick Zinn for?

When we first encountered Zinn in GW1, he had been tricked into making 3 golems to assassinate the princes of Vabbi, which leads to his trial and exile. It was never revealed who he made the golems for, but Joko was certainly someone who would want the deaths of the princes.

I never knew that.. I replayed gw1 EotN several times.. gonna have to look it up, but it already happened before gw1, then it should be on the wiki > off to wikiland

no, we took in his own magic, tuned it, and fired it back at him. We essentially killed him with greed and gluttony

During the recordings, Zinn makes a statement that getting tricked by Joko was his lowest point, but I’m having some trouble imaging a point in time where an asura in vicinity of the Maguuma interacted with an undead lich in Elona. When did this happen? and what did Joko trick Zinn for?

I don’t know why, I guess I just grew up in a world where gating is the most normal thing ever, and that complaining about it is just silly as it only slows you down as you go through the gates..
I guess it’s just my childhood, then..

That would be a loose end from 250 years ago, it wouldn’t have much to do with the modern age.

ArchonWing.9480:

And go through hundreds of confirmation prompts….

If they have a salvage or comsume all, I don’ think there woild be a problem.

you can drag the inventory so the item in question is right atop the [yes]
then you set your mouse scroll button to (click) so that every roll up is the same as 1 mouse click (these are legal macros)
then you just scroll to quickly click through. It’s what I do to open large stacks of bags and everything

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I don’t know, I don’t have trouble finding events simply by running around. I never find the compass all that useful, so it feels like it’s working the same as always.

It’s not so much that I can’t find events, I can run around and run into events. But the point is, I feel like a headless chicken running around waiting for an obstacle to run into, I can’t see “hey, there’s an event over there, so I’m going there”, now its “hey, lets run in this direction and maybe I’ll bump into an event”

Ayrilana.1396:

Oh. You’re referring to the compass/content guide thing?

yes, I want to be able to find events, not wait for someone to call them out in the map chat, since that rarely happens

I wasn’t ever really bothered too much by it until now
Lately in season 3, but especially in chapter 5, we see that hearts make it impossible do events.
EVERY SINGLE DAY you have to do all 4 hearts IF you want to be able to see events on the map. If you don’t do all 4 hearts, you simply will not where and when events are without physically being there.

So I wonder if it’s a bug or a design disaster?

I want to know when a meta event is going! I didn’t rescue enough people? I didn’t kill enough inquest? too bad, no events for you.

Why can I disable events as a setting, but why can’t I disable hearts as a setting..
PLEASE, please, just let me see the events in the new map without having to spend half an hour to do all 4 hearts every day……

I agree, I played the instance on both Human and Asura, and must say, I’m a little sad there’s no special dialogue for them. Taimi treats the Asura commander as a skritt in terms of intellect, and the Human commander wasn’t very surprised to see one of it’s gods.
At least in HoT the sylvari got some special treatment..

ArchonWing.9480:

Faaris.8013:

ArchonWing.9480:

Considering 250 would just purchase a single item, it is not really something that material storage would make a big difference on. I have 750 for storage, and it’s filling up.

What are you waiting for, just spend the berries/rubies/shards…

I don’t have enough unbound magic….

but if you have excess S3 trophies, you can consume them for the missing magic