Guild Wars 2

Abaddon is impossible, in the words of the gods, “he’s broken beyond the form of a thought”. Interesting wording as it means some aspect of him still exists. I think they did it so that they could still do some story involving him, but not have to worry about potential revival plots

• Abaddon’s Fall
• ABADDON’S FALL
• THE FALL OF ABADDON

Khisanth.2948:

While testing it with auto and snap. It seems like it only works around 10% of the time even when things are in range.

The cast at feet issue is just the same old problem where it does that if your cursor is over any part of the UI. That is obviously unavoidable if you are clicking the skill(unavoidable is referring to the cursor being over the UI not the other stuff).

yes, I fear I can replicate it. but only for the skill bar, though, not all the UI. When my cursor is over the skillbar part of the UI, even when I press the number, I hop in place, or fire Symbol straight ahead

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

If you combine "Snap Ground Target to Current Target " with “Lock Ground Target at Maximum Skill Range”, you can get some predictable effects, such as when the target is out of range, the skill can cast at the cursor instead. That happens more frequently with short-range skills, such as Sundering Leap. (It should not happen as easily with Symbol of Energy.)

Is it possible that’s what’s going on for you?

I’m afraid not, even when I’m 100% sure I’m in range, I even tested it by standing almost a dodge’s distance away from an enemy, no matter the settings, one thing I’m certain off is that neither of the two skills I mentioned will ever automatically head to the enemy

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Amaimon.7823:

After their last AMA, I still feel “condoned” is a better word than “allowed” but thats just me, apparantly

I suspect that is similar to the question: “are grey and gray different colors?”, or “if we meet on wednesday, and I tell you I’m moving it a week back, do we meet sooner or later than we planned?”

That is, I see why you would say that, and it’s maybe technically accurate, but practically it’s pretty much people using different terms with the same perception of how they will be read.

“it’s not good, but we are not going to ban it” is certainly within the scope of “condoned” though.

that last bit is indeed exactly what I was aiming at. “data reading only” is condoned for now, but they might increase or loosen up the regulations in the future. They wanted to give the responsibility to us to see where the damage meters evolve to

oh yes, new races
with new voice actors
and new racial armor
and a whole capital with a 1-15 levelling zone
and all new armors
and 20% extra work on all planned armors
and new animations and skill movements

..

I think you get my point

After their last AMA, I still feel “condoned” is a better word than “allowed” but thats just me, apparantly

Healix.5819:

If it’s like last year, SAB will launch for April 1st and last until April 18th, which is where episode 5 will come in.

If they delay LS for SAB then I really suggest anet get their priorities straight.
SAB is a secondary minigame without any relevance to the actual game, I mean,
its fine they have it for the sake of diversity, but it shouldn’t affect their regular
schedules in any way

maybe they feel short, but exploring the maps and doing the events are part of the story. Its kinda our problem that we always rush them.
But the events are realtime, they take place during the story. And in the last chapter they actually told us to do some events before we could assault the fortress

many skills that have a ground targetting, when the settings are set to
snap ground target at target location ignores this setting, and instead,
will always place the target at the location of the cursor.
I haven’t tested all skills yet, but some skills do this, and this makes the
skills very annoying to use in combat.

Confirmed skills that ignore “snap at target location”, and instead always go to the cursor include:
Berserker Utility Skill: Sundering Leap
Dragonhunter Main Skill: Symbol of Energy
Necromancer Utility Skill: Corrosive Poison Cloud

Sigfodr.9576:

DPS-meters like http://gw2bgdm.blogspot.dk/p/faq.html#2.1 are allowed now

allowed is still a big word. in their official wording:
“for now we will not ban the use of information reading overlays because we have not yet set a strict border for what is allowed. We will amend the rights of these addons as they evolve, and want to see where they go. In the future, we may uphold stricter, or more lenient regulation of these addons. We will maintain a set of rules wherein the overlays must function. Those who do not comply with these rules, will still risk a permanent termination of their accounts.”
in short, the addons that only read information are “allowed”, for now

The only case of an “elemental” being put inside a living being resulted in this and this pretty quickly, and that’s a case for a highly magical crystal (for those reading instead of clicking images first: bloodstone abominations).
When you say stuff like that, you force a discussion in one direction. Just saying you put it in quotation marks doens’t mean you’re free to say whatever you like.

President Obama was a “terrorist” as we can see on the covers of the last donald duck.
Now you will begin telling me how obama isn’t a terrorist, and I can say to you that it wasn’t what I said and you should read my entire post before you start making claims.

although.. for logic’s sake.. why would you kneel during an escort?

“It was 1265 AE, we were preparing to make a move on the great destroyer. The fate of our race, and perhaps that of many others, hung by our luck. We moved deep into the treacherous territory of the burning beasts, when all of a sudden, one of the adventures started kneeling. Then.. I don’t know what happened, everyone started dropping dead, like flies, one by one. It wasn’t long until I felt my own heart skip a beat, and another. The man kneeling there, gazed my way with an evil grin on his face. There was nothing but murderous intent, there. As the strength of the air slowly left my body, my remembered now.. the warnings.. of the kneeling assassin "

Healix.5819:

The content guide is the part of the UI that points to nearby objectives. By default, this includes the personal story, which merges the story UI into it. When you choose to disable the personal story, it only stops the content guide from pointing to the story and thus no longer merges it.

There is no way to disable the story UI for the original personal story, since it can’t be abandoned like the newer stories.

I’m not too bothered by the green text in the corner, as much as I am bothered by the green markers on the map constantly telling me I need to go there. But the fact that there’s no way to hide it all is really bothersome.. surely one dev must have time to fix that?

I’ve set Disable Personal Story on, but it still shows in the top right corner, and a green whirl on the map, and it won’t kittenay.
Can I please have some peace and quiet on me map?

is completing the PS really the only way to get rid the green stars on the map?

Sundering Leap, the berserker skill:
a) does not respond positively with autotargeting.. eg., it doesn’t target anything when autotargeting is on.
b) does not respond positively by placing the target zone upon the target when a target is selected. e.g., if you click on the skill will your mouse, or press the number key, you will always make a hop in place, or leap at the mouse, regardless of your snapping settings of the ground target.

This means you have to manually walk to your enemy, leap in place, in order for the skill to work.

TLDR:
If you click the skill button, you leap in place, regardless of having a target.
If you click the number of the set button, you leap at the mouse, regardless of having a target.
This makes the skill unusable in combat

While I agree a single shard or solid piece is able to show elemental tendencies, we have not been shown a single instance where a bloodstone crystal is able to do so, as a result, I think it’s a bit too farfetched to assume that matthias and caudecus were possesed by bloodstone elementals. Due to the nature of bloodstone crystal I’m already having enough trouble to accept the existence of normal elementals. It feels like anet horseshoed something illogical into the game just for the sake of having something to hit.

I really believe it’s just the mind of the human returning to a primal.. or aggressive state, when exposed to so much power within their bodies. LSS, whatever’s inside caudecus and matthias is not an elemental, or at least, I have no reason to believe such. besides, the bloodstones were absorbed, so would be any magical sentience if there was any. If there was, it propably wouldn’t have been very strong or durable. it would only have been a catalyst to the already rampaging sapience.

The bloodstones lying around in his basement weren’t sentient. The sentient energies that make up elementals are usually formed from lingering or untouched magic that has no place to go anywhere. The crystals lying around didn’t show any sign of sentience. Only when amassed in large concentrations do their leaking energies seem to conjure up magical storms and anomalies, but these as well show no signs of sentience. Just that, energy or magic gone crazy without aim, just random chaos.

Kumouta.4985:

Would indeed be way better to be able to choose our own team.
Braham and Taimi are really the worst.

I like Taimi, but I agree, I’m bored with constantly babysitting Braham. I kinda hope something bad happens to him so we can scold him back into place.. or he can just die, whichever causes the least trouble for us

mykemyk.7456:

Not sure where to post/ask this but is there any talk of a Guildwars 3? A whole new game with different races, characters, skills and gameplay and ,map etc etc. Not just more of the same DLC for GW 2.

If not are there any games like GW2 or WOW to look out for? (not elderscrolls online though)

Sounds like you just want a completely different game, and want anet to stop making gw2 to make that game for you..
have you considered.. eehm.. I don’t know.. playing another game? because it sounds to me that just stopping to play GW2 and just booting something else is what you need.
You want a different world, different story, different races, different gameplay, that means you don’t want anything changed within GW2, you just don’t want GW2. So why are you here talking about it, instead of playing a different game?

I don’t get it, though, my point is: the bags don’t contain anything of special or unique value. They contain 3 random objects that are also individually tradable. For the same effort, they could also add a buytoken, that when clicked, immideatly adds 3 random T6 mats to your inventory. What I’m trying to say is, they’re functionally identical to bags like Bags of Stolen Goods and similar. Just a bag with random crafting materials that aren’t acountbound. Just for the sole reason of coming from laurels they made it acount bound. The market won’t change from this. I mean, all that will happen is that most likely someone will buy 100 bags, fetch an average price, and get the bags on the trading post for that amount. That’d be no different from taking out the items and selling them individually.

The crafting bags, like this Heavy Crafting Bag one, are all acount bound, and for no real reason, actually. They only contain 3 T.VI materials, and they are all normally tradable contents. When I’m on my alt, I have to open the bags, and send 2 mails to get it all over, instead of just sending the bags.
It’s not a big issue at all, just a minor inconvinience that I never why was made in the first place

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Oh! I must get around to reading those stories! =)

They are short and (imo) fun.

• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tyrian_Travels:_Chapter_One
• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tyrian_Travels:_Chapter_Two
• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tyrian_Travels:_Chapter_Three
• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tyrian_Travels:_Chapter_Four
• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tyrian_Travels:_Chapter_Five
• https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tyrian_Travels:_Chapter_Six

(Apologies for the spam of links: neither the wiki nor guildwars2.com has an index/ToC or even a category specific to just the stories.)

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:ArenaNet_content
As an alternative, this link takes you to all ‘fan art’ of anet themselves, Tyrian Travels are listed there at [T]

at least 1 member in your party needs to have cleared the instance before.
But I don’t know if having it cleared includes the achievements tied to the fractal.

DoctorDing.5890:

They should sell patience in the gem shop.

they should upload the patience with the patch notes as things go live, and why would they hide new patch notes inside older patch notes?

I love them
something’s changed
something’s added
something’s removed
nothing happened and anet just wants to leave us in suspense

only abaddon knows what these phantom-patches contain

could it be this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnO0D9TWm6k

Propably the new shield. They should ban people who make the shooshadoo, or who have SAB tools, minis, or Mini-tron backpacks

DarcShriek.5829:

Warlord.9074:

Except Queen Jenna isn’t real, its Anise, who also is Livia.

She’s also Lazarus!

all part of a Skritt conqueror’s plot!
there are no millions of Skritts. There is just one god called Skritt, and he’s a mesmer, and he made up the entire Skritt race, as well as all the human gods and the Eternal Alchemy to fool two races into servitude

my gripe is mainly that I click join, after which the button immideatly turns grey saying I’ve tried too many times.. even though I only just booted the game

1) easy classes to start with

• I’d say, warrior for a melee class, as well as either necromancer or elementalist as a caster class. Caster classes have more peak performance, but you’d be able to do fine if you’re willing to practice a little.

2) spec/elite spec

• well, if you go warrior, it’s mainly swing the swords. Warriors are all about mobility, never stand still, never target your enemies, always keep them in range of your swing.
• as for the casters, well, it’s really just practice.

(swing the swords is a technicallity, swords are relatively bad weapons in this game, but they’re ok if you’re not aiming at peak performance. Greatsword with either hammer or mace+shield is considered the strongest combo with the most mobility and utility)

3) For your time range raids are possible, but difficult to manage, I’d reccomend the dungeons or fractals. Fractals can be as easy or difficult as you want them to be.

4) qT is a famous group for testing builds and finding optimal routes. http://qtfy.enjin.com/

5) practice, practice, pray to abaddon for hidden knowledge, and more practice.
thats really it. Don’t start at the top. Don’t want to start at the top. When you get started, focus on clearing the story normally. After that, go to the temples to get some nice exotic armor of your preferred build. Then do fractals or dungeons or whatever. Never be afraid to ask for help, look in the LFG tool to see if there are parties doing stuff that might favor you.

matthias is not an example of an elemental being put inside a human, where did you get that idea?
he’s a human corrupted by bloodstone, thats someone 100% different, caudecus is the same setting, bloodstones aren’t elemental creatures.
Yes, we can see bloodstone elementals in the Fen, but thats again, a different kind of thing.

EDIT: a bloodstone crystal is a crystallized form of magic that leaks from the bloodstones. It’s able to become a sentient anomaly, but what matthias and caudecus absorbed wasn’t that. I highly doubt it’s still possible to absorb bloodstone after it’s become an elemental, you would either break the magical sentience, or absorb it along with the crystals

Since they pertain dialogue and story, being able to choose characters would mean they have to write 1*n^y stories
where n is the party size and y is the individuals you recruit
are you going to pay for that resource?

MrAtlantis.2740:

Thank you everyone. Someone has helped me gear-up in game. No need for anymore replies!

FAKE NEWS. WE’RE BEING SILENCED BY THE OWNERS OF THIS THREAD!!

consider whether you have the following sets optimalized:

• does the prefix of your armor support your type of damage, or damage at all?
• do you use buffs, I can really recommend For Great Justice combined with Signet of Fury
• do you use an appropriate weapon type:
  -Greatsword: fast heavy damage
  -Hammer: slow heavy damage with CC
  -Axes: fast medium damage, aimed at group combat
  -Swords, fast medium damage, aimed conditions
  -maces faster, weaker version of hammer
  -shield, no damage at all obviously
  -warhorn, utility tool
  -torch: condition aoe

try some foods as well

Sephas.8793:

Sarpan.9074:

So, you’re getting letters from Blaine after feeding him? I haven’t gotten any. Am I misunderstanding this?

No you are not. I got one so far, but I fed him a while after release.

the mails are set on a timer to go after you fed him
I got my first mail.. maybe 4-5 days after feeding? and the second about a week later, don’t quite remember when exactly

• human beards as there aren’t any yet
• Charr horns
• norn tattoos, prefeably focusses on the facial ones
• Asura ears
• sylvari facial foliage would be cool

most of what you suggest would be pay to win
especially the ingame currency part.
Laurels are a driving force in crafting ascended and legendary gear.
Given, you can get the resource without spending money, but its pushing the pay to win boundary a little too hard for my liking.

Map completion is also fine, but then it shouldn’t game with a gift of exploration, as that’s tied to legendary crafting.

And race changes simply aren’t possible, see the other thousand threads on this matter if you want the details

Narcemus.1348:

It could be that the creation of the Bloodstone required blood to be created, which is why it required blood to re-seal when it came to Doric.

We know it doesn’t require blood to maintain the bloodstones, the power just came directly from the souls and magic, as in GW1 they just sucked the life out of the people.
But indeed, maybe controlling or making the stone requires blood.

Rognik.2579:

I don’t think Evon Gnashblade and Ellen Kiel can put their squabbling aside to be running the kind of secret organization E seems to be running. I’d be especially surprised if Gnashblade had anything to do with it considering how human-centric most of his actions have been.

EXACTLY, it’s inconveivable for us to think they could breath air in one room.
hence the perfect couple, because no one would look for E in them!

In it’s most raw form: it’s a sentient spirit of magic, that accumulates a body of any one kind it can react with. it can’t posess a living creature, but maybe it can make like a golem of flesh or bone

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Amaimon.7823:

that anet doesn’t have any kind of testing group we’ve known for years. The game would look very different if they had like a testing realm (or something)

https://www.arena.net/ — no current job openings in the QA department, but they have one. Perhaps you would like to restart your thesis?

I stand corrected:
that anet doesn’t have any kind of testing group that shows up at work we’ve known for years. The game would look very different if they had like a testing realm (or something)

Rognik.2579:

Amaimon.7823:

I’m not not talking about a shard, I’m talking about a full on bloodstone
A 50 meter radius giant disc with red glowing patterns and giant spires of bloodstone crystal. A grawl’s gotta be enticed by it.

I disagree with that. Bloodstones may be 50 meters in diameter, but they’re embedded in the ground. Grawl are attracted to tall objects, such as the crystals in Ascalon or statues like Badazar or Chokocooka, but would look at a rock in the ground, however large intricate, and look down on it – both literally and figuratively. So if one of the bloodstones were found by grawl, I’m pretty sure they’d just move on without desire to worship it.

However, as I type this out, I realize it’d be a very skritt thing to worship a big Shiny in the ground. And I fear very much the next time we find a bloodstone that it’ll be infested by skritt.

They may be embedded in the ground, but they have magical shiny patterns
and not to mention the bloody huge crystals growing out of it.
https://wiki.guildwars.com/images/f/f7/Bloodstone_Caves_Level3_Bloodstone.jpg
This one looks like a proper altar. As for the skritt.. I don’t know if glowing stuff attracts them as much as shiny stuff. Maybe yes, maybe no. I don’t think the bloodstone rune itself is shiny enough for them, but maybe the leaking crystals are..

now that I think about it, I always just kind of assumed that the bloodstone crystal was leaking magic that crystalized, hence it’s called bloodstone because it’s magic is tainted with life (or soul, or whatever you call it), but it may also be called bloodstone because it was sealed with Doric’s blood. (but then why did the gods call it bloodstone before Doric’s passing)

that anet doesn’t have any kind of testing group we’ve known for years. The game would look very different if they had like a testing realm (or something)

Taimi may be smarter than the average asura her age, but snaff was smarter than a krewe of his own field

Arden.7480:

Ok I am gonna change my predict for the date of Episode 5:

SAB will be on March 28 or April 4, it will last 2 weeks- April 11/18.
PvP Season 6 lasts to Mai 1, so Episode is going to be on Mai 2.

Mai Trin is twins?
wow, quite the plot twist
*wink

quaggan have no continuity. they dont belong in this world and should be used as cannon fodder at the earliest convenience

there is one way to get 3d models yourself.
There is software where you record your position in an area with bland walls. Then you look at yourself from various angles.
This however would only work for players as getting a creature inside a simple cubicle without fighting and running around can be nigh impossible

Ayrilana.1396:

Amaimon.7823:

Ayrilana.1396:

Amaimon.7823:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

The Devs have stated there won’t be any new Worlds for SAB, but that they planned on releasing it yearly as a Festival (of sorts), (with the new items usually released with Festivals each year).

I guess I’m fine with that, I just hate to think valuable resources would be a wasted on something that’s not even secondary to the game

What resources though? Assuming nothing in the game engine changed, all they’re essentially doing is “flipping a switch” to re-enable access to the SAB instance.

If you remember from a couple years ago, someone had logged into a trial account, which they used for SAB a year or so before that, and was able to play it to a degree. It’s still there in the game.

Making new maps, new bosses, and new enemies, like they did last time.
That takes a lot of resources. As I said, I’m fine with the flip of the switch, but they shouldn’t chain a dev to play the an orchestra on the content

Where did I say that they would add a new world. SAB last year was no different than Sept 2013 other than the addition of the collections. They could certainly release episode 5 at the same time or after it which I think would only be two weeks later (April 18th?).

didn’t last year have an extra map, something with ninjas and a storm wizard. I remember the previous version of SAB ended after the waterfall, after the frog fight

One dev said specifically warriors who became revenants ‘during’ the HoT story.
It was just one dev, during a youtube ama from at the time, so it may not even be
absolutely reliable, even if it came from a dev.

Rognik.2579:

While I don’t have any hard evidence, I’m pretty sure there are some physically attractive traits for asura, but they aren’t necessarily the primary source of attractiveness. They frequently discuss the size of asuran ears, so I’m certain that factors in somehow, perhaps as an indicator of how intelligent an asura is (even if it’s a false association).

I don’t think asura love lives are explored that often. The Dynamics college personal story discusses a bit about an asura who loves another, if I remember the story properly, but it’s been a long time since I’ve played that line, so I don’t remember much about their relationship except that it didn’t really have a happy ending.

As for the original question, which I don’t think was ever answered, asura seem to age at a rate similar to humans. When I asked a similar question months ago, I didn’t really get an answer other than that, either.

if I understood it right, the average age is
Charr > Human > Norn > Asura
Sylvari are simply too young to consider, and the age of the Charr might be heavily influenced by the fact they’re warmongrels, or live on junkyards scrapping in the oil and metals. Tends to get in your blood system.

It’s funny how Asura do age the fastest though. I don’t know the exact numbers, but at least within two years after birth an Asura is at school, like a pre-college.