Guild Wars 2

SeranusGaming.7362:

Amaimon.7823:

world of warcraft did a “remaster” but only for the playable characters. Full HD taurens.. they became kinda kreepy though

You bring up a good point. I’m not sure I could handle the sight of a HD Asura (aka Rat Goblin).

I think they’ll look less creepy than you think. I think their skin is somewhat reminiscent to that of sharks, although.. that’s just speculation. I tried to look if someone made a HD or ultra-realistic asura picture, a lot of great artwork out there, but sadly nothing I can call to this cause

Can you imagine though, GW2 so detailed, so hyperrealistic, you can count the hairs of a Charr furr? skritt, I’d pay millions for a game that detailed

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Amaimon.7823:

I feel like this is only a halftruth. yes, a part of joko’s army are living creatures. but joko wasn’t born yesterday, he’d stop sending living creatures if they became branded. But they would only brand if kralkatorrik or a champion was there. And the undead fall apart rather easily, what are you basing that on? I don’t think we’ve encountered any elonian undead in GW2 or the books, and in gw1 they were pretty sturdy (or capable of good self-repairs)

On the first part:

Non-champions can spread corruption as well, it’s simply that dragon champions spread corruption faster. And undead should be capable of becoming branded as well (there’s no reason why they couldn’t).

There’s indeed no reason why they couldn’t, but also no reason why they would. There are no ingame examples, or in the books, of undeads becoming dragon minions. The only undeads besides ghosts I’ve seen so far are all already Zhaitan’s. And we have never fully established whether or not dragon minions can corrupt one another’s minions. So there’s really no way of knowing whether undead can be branded or not. And whether it’s easy to brand a creature who fights back. If kralkatorrik was fighting personally, or a champion, they’d propably brand them by the dozens, but I honestly doubt a lowly branded can brand another if it fights back.

Warobaz.9543:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Out of curiosity, what major MMOs have “remastered” without releasing a new sequel of the game? I’m not sure how I would even research the question, so I’m relying on other posters anecdotes.

My guess is that this is something that no game company has ever done.

Funcom is actually revamping The Secret World (adding “Legends” to the name).
Same game, same content, updated graphics, updated gameplay.
But everyone has to begin again, no character transfer

world of warcraft did a “remaster” but only for the playable characters. Full HD taurens.. they became kinda kreepy though

Gaile Gray.6029:

That is incredibly lovely! (And how did I not see it until today?)

Thank you for sharing this — it’s beautiful!

Spend more time on the forums, maybe? (wink wink, nudge nudge, know what I mean? know what I mean? say no more, say no more)

Randulf.7614:

Amaimon.7823:

DarcShriek.5829:

I wouldn’t expect it until after the PvP season.

why? since when do either team wait for the other to finish? they’re two different game modes, bud

Pvp and pve seasons have not clashed during ls3 at all yet iirc, i assume to spread content evenly so players arent conflicted between game modes too much.

I feel like this discussion has been had on the forums before, and I think the general consensus at the time was that there was corrolation between content releases in PvE and PvP. It’s not a fact of course, but I think it’s safe to assume if LS3ch5 is done, we’ll get a trailer in the week SAB ends, and the content the week later (IF)

DarcShriek.5829:

I wouldn’t expect it until after the PvP season.

why? since when do either team wait for the other to finish? they’re two different game modes, bud

sophiewhite.3149:

OriOri.8724:

Amaimon.7823:

The warrior’s not.. in the worst spot.. but he’s miles from being overpowered.
We’re rpactically helpess against stealth and enemies with perma-stability or perma-blocks…

…………. really? Because its not like warrior has a signet to make all of his attacks unblockable or anything.

FOR 6 BLOODY SECONDS. your 2 dodges can fill that entire time. “all of his attacks” PUH LEASE.

plus you have to use a second utility skill for stability, otherwise you get thrown around like a ragdoll and never get to cast that signet of power

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Second: there is no “Fort Ebon” – you’re thinking of Ebonhawke, which is indeed a fortified city, but isn’t a fortress by title.

And there’s not really any branded and definitely zero percent of undead near Ebonhawke.

Semantics, I apologize, I was writing that half dozy, I just had the word fort and ebon in my mind.
And that there are no undead or branded near there was my argument for the case they were much more south. if they were fighting closer to Ebonhawke the scouts would’ve seen them.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

That said, undead would be corrupted into branded, and are far from immortal (undead fall apart rather easily), and half of Joko’s army are living humans (and probably centaurs).

I feel like this is only a halftruth. yes, a part of joko’s army are living creatures. but joko wasn’t born yesterday, he’d stop sending living creatures if they became branded. But they would only brand if kralkatorrik or a champion was there. And the undead fall apart rather easily, what are you basing that on? I don’t think we’ve encountered any elonian undead in GW2 or the books, and in gw1 they were pretty sturdy (or capable of good self-repairs)

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Amaimon.7823:

Rasimir.6239:

There’s a major holiday coming up around the 15th/16th of this month in large parts of the world, which might be a reason for ANet to not release a new update at that time. The 25th sounds like a much more likely release date for the next episode.

Do you mean Easter (Ishtar, Påsen)? Sunday isn’t a working day regardless, monday maybe, but that’s just 1 day delay

It’s worth considering that while some folks do observe the religious holiday, a non-trivial part of the playerbase probably have what amounts to a “free day” on which they have nothing to do other than play games — thanks to religiously driven days off in an increasingly secular set of societies…

Yes, but that propably won’t affect anet having a day of on Monday (if they do that)

Long story short, they’re propably the least sexist race beside the Asura.
Asura: Got brains? you’re good to go
Charr: Can you wield a weapon? you’re good to go
Sylphari: What’s a gender?
Norn: there may be some appropriate classes for you, but for the most part, we welcome everyone who wants to make a legend, or wants to tend to the spirits.
Humans: some real world stereotypes are in place, but even among the humans sexism is very low. Males and Females are equally present in most fields. I’ve seen plenty of female soldiers, worked, etc, and male “caretakers or social field workers”

that, and half the crowd around is most likely just AFK’ing there

Djahlat.9610:

Amaimon.7823:

Sister Saxifrage.7361:

Amaimon: really? Palawa Joko can deadlock Kralk? Dude’s been hitting the gym since the days when my GW1 character busted him out of a wooden statue head.

I don’t think deadlocking means what you think it means.. or if it does, I don’t think you know the size difference between joko and kralka

I think he knows precisely what it means given the satirical tone of his comment fam

On a serious note, though, I don’t know exactly how they are stalemate, but I can consider that Joko’s immortal army just keeps getting back up until the bodies are damages to a point of no repair, and kralkatorrik has an infinite supply of literally every living creature.. so they just pump out minions until one is exhausted

The warrior’s not.. in the worst spot.. but he’s miles from being overpowered.
We’re rpactically helpess against stealth and enemies with perma-stability or perma-blocks…

zoomborg.9462:

Would be refreshing…unfortunately Anet would need to make sure that it runs on every single pc of the respectable customers. Otherwise it would make the game inaccessible to a lot of people. Only way to do that could possibly be with next expansion by announcing new requirements half a year before release.

I don’t remember which one, but there was a game that could be downloaded with 2 different graphical engines, but still play online together. Maybe something like that would work. A “current” model, and a “Full HD” model.

On another aspect, Core NPC’s are quite outdated. When you look closely at the NPCs in towns and capitals, their faces are quite low-res, compared to the faces of players and Post LS2 NPCs

Rasimir.6239:

There’s a major holiday coming up around the 15th/16th of this month in large parts of the world, which might be a reason for ANet to not release a new update at that time. The 25th sounds like a much more likely release date for the next episode.

Do you mean Easter (Ishtar, Påsen)? Sunday isn’t a working day regardless, monday maybe, but that’s just 1 day delay

you know, for lore reasons they’re gone.. but the labyrinthine cliffs still exist.
We could have a new area: Forsaken Cliffs.
Some Zephyrites survived the crash, and we saved them in Dry Top. Now they went back “home” to make to rebuild, but it will be a very sad place. Very few zephyrites, mostly wrecks, and a very gloomy atmosphere. That would be a lore-friendly way to return. But we wouldn’t have the “nice” labyrinthine cliffs anymore

Sister Saxifrage.7361:

Amaimon: really? Palawa Joko can deadlock Kralk? Dude’s been hitting the gym since the days when my GW1 character busted him out of a wooden statue head.

I don’t think deadlocking means what you think it means.. or if it does, I don’t think you know the size difference between joko and kralka

Zaraki.5784:

I am really hoping it’ll come out before the end of SAB.

I hoped that LS3Ch5 would just come when it was finished, but it is my fear they will wait for SABane-of-my-existence to finish

Chameleon Dude.1564:

The first one won’t happen because of last year’s tribulation run selling, the other two are pretty nice though.

The first one will be fine, the grace period won’t mean you can join a group that’s been inside for over half an hour.

I agree, this is just.. bad logic.. bad design..
I mean, yea, people want the sword and show they are willing to pay for it.
But what happens after you pay for it, and still don’t get it?

These complaints are why they made the Shared Inventory Slots.. you’re really not gonna get anything better

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Amaimon.7823:

congratulations

I wish I could share in the joy, though, but I’m still waiting for a full party of 10 people who know how Matthias work…. It’s the last one I need, and I’m well over 50 parties of trying now….

…sounds like you might significantly benefit from finding a guild to raid with, instead of random parties. Even if it’s just arranged more or less the same way, it’s a more consistent group of people who can actually learn from their mistakes.

I’m already in RTI, but so far all raids we attempt evolve.. or rather, devolve into training after a while. I’m looking for a serious (hardcore) raiding guild, but most won’t take me unless I have 250LI or 10+KP on every boss, so missing matthias is then out of the question. If you know a raiding guild that’s less strict, please, I’m all ears (no asura joke)

quote=6544777;Alga.6498:

Where’s he?? Why are he’s not destroying Tyria like the other dragons?
Is he chilling out at Blood Legion Homelands and wait till Primordus and Jormag finishes off each other?

More likely, the Crystal Desert (the Blood Legion Homelands is where he woke up, but he flew south from there)… or maybe somewhere beyond. Remember, Tyria’s only one continent in a fairly large world. Kralkatorrik could be destroying Elona, or the charr lands east of the Blazeridge Mountains, or some other place we’ve never heard of. Just because he’s not bothering us doesn’t mean he’s not bothering anyone.

The elder dragons are not about destroying Tyria, they just move to wherever is a lot of magic to consume, and they will wage war or destroy anything in their path. Essentially, to them, we’re the leeches or parasites in the way of “their” magic, and what we consider destruction to them is just digging for food. They’re at the top of the food chain.. well. 2 of them were, and they’re acting like it

Short synapsis:
Kralkatorrik wakes up shortly before the events of GW2 somewhere 5-10 years I think.
He flies south causing the Great Brand (a large purplish brand or scar on the world, leading all the way from north ascalon to the crystal desert)
Kralkatorrik had a fight with Destiny’s Edge in the northern regions of the Crystal Desert, which was a disaster > cue personal story.
Hereafter Kralkatorrik flew further south to Elona for whatever reason, where he is now in stalemate war with the No Life King Palawa Joko. Where he is exactly is just speculation, but propably between the Desolation and Fort Ebon. The guards of the walls of citadel Ebonhawke see no activity of branded or undead within close proximety, so he’s propably closer to the Desolation.

I enclosed a picture to get a rough idea of his movements. It’s not 100% accurate, but there are no details other than rough mentions.

Nebast.7631:

Amaimon.7823:

Nebast.7631:

I’ve had this bug for every adventure achievement so far but all other achievements are fine.
have you remained at the chest for all the other instances of the adventure achievement?

I have since now

Ah was hopeing you hadn’t and would be able to verify that it happens the same way with the other zones.

Could give it a try, I’ll see if tonight has a daily adventuring 3-n

eeehhhh……………………….
you haven’t played since launch.. so .. 1 day?

then you missed.. eeh.. fractals.. gearing and traiting overhauls.. 4 years of seasonal events, including living story, expansion, etc……

eeeh… I don’t even know where to begin.. but yea.. a lot.. A LOT.. has changed..

But if you only played 1 day.. why suddenly coming back now?

I believe in hexed accounts, I can’t believe that after being a loyal patron of anet, I still haven’t found a precursor. (just kidding of course)
But I have been lucky in other aspects, so I guess I can’t really complain

it would also be a way to completely destroy the content as all purpose and sense of accomplishment will get smeared out like 1 spoon of butter on a million slices of bread

Stressful Agony Box.. why would an extra be any less than that?

congratulations

I wish I could share in the joy, though, but I’m still waiting for a full party of 10 people who know how Matthias work…. It’s the last one I need, and I’m well over 50 parties of trying now….

wow! it took you 25 minutes? then what are you complaining about, some of us took two hours.. you should be celebrating, not complaining

Nebast.7631:

I’ve had this bug for every adventure achievement so far but all other achievements are fine.
have you remained at the chest for all the other instances of the adventure achievement?

I have since now

you have a 40-slot bag? so.. a second bag slot? you want an extra bag slot

Ramoth.9064:

the feature is already available, its called guild wars 2 wiki

Sorry, slowest I could find so quickly

oh wow.. I’ve not yet seen that anywhere.. but I think what happens is, you spawn inside the wall instead of on top that platform. I dunno why it happens, but it explains the violent camera.

I’m just curious about something, why the spoiler tag? it’s just a cat..

there are 3 types of god:

Malicious: They either will harm you without good reason, or they will harm you when not worshipped.
Obnoxious: Exist, but don’t care much for the world. They just do their own thing. Sometimes humans will get caught up in the consequences.
Justful: They will neither punish or bless anyone without proper interaction. They will simply ignore the humans that don’t worship them, or will evil.

It’s not a biggy, but a feature I’d like, to be able to preview a reward track so I can see the actual number of clovers, or the number of tokens, or anything else in the chests.

not really a list but:
Overlays that do not impact game function
Addons that only read data that is already visible in-game

What is not allowed:
Macros
Addon’s that read “invisible” data
Addon’s that read data on others that’s not already publicly visible.

Roxyn.7140:

SAB is the only thing that gets me and my friends back to GW2 but it gets harder and harder to justify even that each time we come back and there’s still no new additions. In my opinion they struck gold with SAB and not prioritizing it over other content is a mistake.

Then maybe you should look for another game that is in SAB style? I mean.. if SAB is the only reason to play GW2, then maybe there’s no point in having a GW2 acount and just look for retro games on Steam or something?

Xillllix.3485:

Amaimon.7823:

I personally think WvW wasn’t that good a content.. it seems to be a mindless zerg fest where the other zerg is also mindless, do we really need more content for that

No, that’s why we need a overhaul of the current content. They need to fix kitten (servers, rewards, scoring, tournaments, eotm, etc).

A third borderland would be nice however, but only if done with that overhaul.

An overhaul for WvW would be good, but just adding more maps will only spread the zerg like butter, that won’t help. We need like a good big overhaul, or nothing, no point in wasting resources on a half measure here

We used to kill ourselves enmasse by kneeling in the fountain, but this stopped working since sometime this week. I don’t know if it is a bug that we can’t anymore, or if it was a bug that we could, but could we please have it back?

Slowpokeking.8720:

Amaimon.7823:

the problem in this case is that most dragon minions are perverted versions of their originals. Some still look a lot like their blueprint, others don’t look like them at all, anymore. If you saw Faolain’s second form, would you still have guessed she was ever a sylvari (if you didn’t know her prior form). So I think there are wurms that became dragon minions, but they might not look like normal wurms anymore.

Faolain was dragon creation like all the Sylvari.

yea, we know

Xillllix.3485:

- SAB worlds 3-4-5-6-7-8
PLEASE DON’T
- WvW Overhaul that isn’t a lie
I personally think WvW wasn’t that good a content.. it seems to be a mindless zerg fest where the other zerg is also mindless, do we really need more content for that
- GvG game mode replacing PvP
Not replacing, but I’d love it as a mode
- Fixed trait system and complete rebalance of all the classes and skills
I don’t suffer at the moment
- New PvE maps with actual indoor places to explore and dungeons (not just landscapes for farming)
That would be nice
- Open world dueling
No, we got PvP for that. People who want to fight other people shouldn’t do that in PvE

personally, I blame the playerbase for the aviator disaster, not anet. Anet made a fun joke, that was planned well ahead of time, and the playerbase was just softer than a wet banana when it came to understanding humor in a game and something in the real world..

hello anet,
I and some of my friends have been wanting this:
tonics for conditions.
Or at least the visually prevalent ones. They shouldn’t apply the damaging factor of the conditions, but just the visuals. Like a crippling tonic will make your character cripple, walk slow, and have the crippled walk animation.
We’re willing to pay gems for this, or go a mile for any ingame currency. Is this at all feasible?

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Amaimon.7823:

the game tells you to AFK the timer, otherwise no rewards for you.

Waiting out the timer seems to be a common theme for SAB (and, I suppose, realistically hearkens back to its 8-bit roots, even if it is tedious).

ye, but isn’t it strange that if you leave the hilltop you still get teleported to the next zone after half a minute, but you don’t get the daily progress? That makes me think the daily is registering that you’re next to the chest during the time-out, and not “have broken the cage”

there are some bosses where they prefer ele(tempest) over other DPS.
These mainly include Gorseval and Matthias for clearing of fields, and Slothasor for the non-fear trait that Sloth casts after waking up

zealex.9410:

Amaimon.7823:

I think the patch notes are good, though, they show they listen to our concerns.
They mentioned the beards so we know they know it’s a real issue.

was the beards the only concerns we had?? xD i honestly expected to see nerf to rev in this patch xD

I was just giving 1 random example, I ain’t gonna copy the entire patch note here