Guild Wars 2

Deified.7520:

But how knows, theres also a treasure room in lions arc by the frac portals. just a very small cave with a shovel/chest.

I have been by there so many times and just found it today! I can’t quite make out the writing on the ‘chest’. Is it new Krytan? It looks like it is, but I can’t get both a close enough or clear enough view to translate it. If I get close enough, it’s not clear. Looks like it starts with “The”.

Hopefully I can help you out here. Then I’ll explain my build afterwards.

From your example:
– HGH is a 30 point talent in Alchemy that grants might upon elixir use. Link . The person is talking to someone who does not normally use elixirs, and it sounds like he’s saying that before the fight, you could equip elixirs, use the toolbelt skill “toss elixir _”, gain the might from it, then switch your utility slot back to whatever you normally use. Using the toolbelt skill does not activate the CD on the utility slot, so it’s able to be switched out.
– FT is the Flamethrower. It’s toolbelt skill is Incendiary Ammo (IA). Link . Similar to the HGH situation, he is saying you can equip Flamethrower, use the toolbelt skill Incendiary Ammo, then switch back to another utility because Incendiary Ammo’s effect lasts 45 seconds, or until used up.

A Static Discharge Build is a build that uses this trait. It can be obtained with as little as 10 points in the Tools tree. The normal way people use this build is to choose utilities with toolbelt skills that recharge quickly. When these toolbelt skills are used, Static Discharge is activated, and does not have a cooldown, allowing for up to four casts of Static Discharge in a short period of time, in addition to whatever the toolbelt skills do.

CC stands for Crowd Control. CC is any ability that restricts an enemy. For instance, Net Shot immobilizes a player so that they cannot move for two seconds. This is a CC ability. So is Magnet , although this pulls the target toward you. CC can be pull, knockback, stun, slow, blind, etc – anything that disrupts the enemy. A CC build would incorporate a lot of these skills into his weapon set and utility slots.

I will let you read all about TANKCAT in this thread .

Healbombing involves the trait Elixir-Infused Bombs , and usually traits to support it like short fuse and forceful explosives . The player uses the bomb kit to damage enemies whilst healing allies.

HGH has been explained above.

I typically run what could be considered a CC/damage build. In groups: I love rifle, and like to use healing turret, Flamethrower, Tool Kit, and Elixir R. And of course Supply Crate as my elite. I feel like with this setup I am ready for mostly everything. It lacks condition removal (Elixir R has it but on a long cooldown) so if I know I’ll be needing it, I’ll equip elixir C.

Flamenco.3894:

Lately I have been facing a little frustration with the game. This regarding to having many characters.

Anyone else get the feeling that you are somehow compelled to play, let’s say, all 8 of your characters but somehow feel like you want to start again with a brand new char because of how much of a time-vampire it becomes and everything sort of become loose and out of control so that it doesn’t live up to what you are playing for in the first place?

Now I have been thinking of getting a second account of GW2 and just having one character to play through all the content and not worry about any alternate characters.

What are your opinions and views on this and is it a normal feeling to have?

You can delete your characters and only have one to focus on if you can’t simply ignore them. I guess I don’t understand the problem.

May want to get that OCD checked out…

KOLZ.4501:

Flamenco.3894:

I love the gear grinding Mike O Brian. Thanks for telling us about doing a dungeon over and over to get gear that’s clearly better than anything else and that long before release, I appreciate being well-informed.

So…basically you wanna do a dungeon once and get an entire set right?

He sounds like a GW1 player. For some reason, many of those players feel they should have all the best stats for almost no effort. I never played that game, so I don’t get it.

Vinny.6924:

Party chat also gets deleted when you are kicked. Imo it prevents verbal abuse toward other players.

Cant tell you how many times ive been bootes before maw or a final boss for nothing and wanted to give someone in that party a piece of my mind but couldnt.

Why I screenshot the player list before every fractal.

Seems like a lot of the GW1 players I encounter in these forums are so DRAMATIC. I never played GW1, so I don’t know what is making you guys this way, but kitten – calm down a bit!

tmorrow.5189:

It was not adequately communicated, far from loud and clear. Nor was her removal mentioned in the patch notes, so it is not clear to me that this isn’t a bug. Three people posting above have already indicated that they are unaware of why Lyns has been removed and I’m a 4th. I can’t see why they didn’t broadcast an in game email about removal of Lyns that would have reached everyone who actively plays the game.

Are you kidding? It was all over the place. I got tired of hearing it over and over again, but I said to myself “well, at least no one will miss it”. Guess there’s always someone…

Acid Bomb is now a blast finisher, able to be used with Super Elixir’s light field.

Are you one of those people who actually thought they were going to take EVERYTHING you love about another game and put it into this one? Impossible to do for an entire playerbase. Did you not get curious when they didn’t telephone you to ask what they should include in their new game?

I mean honestly.

Welcome to marketing!

If I was king, you just try and get me to wear shoes.

Kamahl.3621:

Nascentish.2375:

On the topic of Med Kit, and this is more a general inquiry as opposed to one directed solely at you, is it as good as people say it is? I’ve unlocked it, but I find that it’s far easier to use Elixir H – the whole drop bandages/pick up bandages thing seems a bit awkward to me, and even with the Toolbelt heal, it doesn’t seem to be doing much, where keeping me from getting eaten alive is concerned? I’m probably missing something here, I’ve just had a hard time using it effectively.

Generally, you’ll see engineers use one of two skills in PvE – either healing turret, or med kit. If you have 30 in tools, there’s really no reason to use healing turret over med kit – the 15 second cooldown on your primary heal and additional 3k+ healing from your bandages are typically enough to recover from most PvE hits. That, and Drop Stimulant is one of the prime reasons you take Medkit – it’s one of the only healing skills that comes to mind with a method of improving your damage output. Healing Turret can also heal for a slightly less personal amount, but if you can time it, you can detonate it for a Water field + Blast finisher combo yourself, without any setup, every time! Usually results in about a ~7.3k heal total when you count the regeneration boon it applies, and ~2.3k-ish of that was AoE. It’s less selfish, but it doesn’t heal as much personally – and no stimulant! But the overcharge can work instantly if you double tap your heal skill. Between those two, it’s down to personal preference – although I find it really hard to say no to medkit with 30 in tools.

And a major bit of advice, as another poster said – rebind your utilities. I have my heal, 3 utilities, and elite bound to L. shift, L. alt, Z, C, and capslock (I wish I had another free button dear god anything but this) respectively. It’s not a big deal while levelling unless you’re extensively using a given kit, but when you hit 80, it’ll make things a lot easier since you won’t have to reach your digits across the keyboard.

Yikes – capslock?

No rebinds necessary here. I’m using this:

My favorite part about engineer is that I have no order of skills. It depends completely on what the enemy and my teammates are doing, and where I am able to go in the fight.

Just a few factors off the top of my head:
– Can I safely get close to the enemy(ies)?
– What’s my health at?
– What’s my teammates health at?
– Does someone need revived? Can I do it myself or should I toss R?
– Do I or my team need condition removal?
– Do I need to control or slow an enemy?
– Does the enemy have any hard-hitting projectiles I should reflect?
– Will any of my combo abilities help out my team?
– Is someone else keeping vuln up, or should I?

kRiza krimos.1637:

Aparently killing pirates and trolls is against rules in RL2 =/ And why the kitten aren’t bears droping any loot, bloody DR!

They drop plenty of crafting mats, you just gotta work for them…

I see people out in the world all the time. I’m rarely in LA to see it’s population (or lack of, if that’s the case).

Also gw2lfg.com.

I hope so. That way my engineer can get started on owning every other profession.

I’ve never used MF. Literally never. I’ve had several exotic drops – heavy breastplate, scepter (anura I think?), light armor shoulders, and a speargun (only one I actually equipped). There are probably a few more, but these are the ones I know for sure off the top of my head.

Rounding up to 580 hours played on this character (my only 80 – all others are below 30).

Zogyark.4597:

Amos.8760:

Zogyark.4597:

Sorry guys if i don’t answer pms in game but I’m at work right now, I usually do zho qafa at around 5:30pm eastern time, I’ll be on then doing the event chain, I have no problem with the event wether its just me or 10 people just show up and I guarantee we’ll get through it. Fergs crossing is the server, send me a pm here for an inv to guild and we’ll be sure to do the event tonight a couple of times

Heh. I can’t always play at that time, but hopefully your guild has some folks in it that can do it earlier in the day, or later at night (eastern). Send me an invite when you’re able

Yeah I understand, well you know Fergs Crossing is the farming server for this event so if other people are on they would do it but I can’t be sure right now :p, I will do it later today for sure in an hour or so with whoever is on and people on that specific server.

K. We left it stalled at the second abom. I’ll hop on at 5.30 if I can.

Zogyark.4597:

Sorry guys if i don’t answer pms in game but I’m at work right now, I usually do zho qafa at around 5:30pm eastern time, I’ll be on then doing the event chain, I have no problem with the event wether its just me or 10 people just show up and I guarantee we’ll get through it. Fergs crossing is the server, send me a pm here for an inv to guild and we’ll be sure to do the event tonight a couple of times

Heh. I can’t always play at that time, but hopefully your guild has some folks in it that can do it earlier in the day, or later at night (eastern). Send me an invite when you’re able

ReallyItchy.1630:

VorZorV.5127:

Here’s what I’m taking from Jeffrey’s comments today (btw thanks Jeff!):

He stated: “I’ve seen some posts that have correctly identified the specific event/boss”.

Keyword is “some”…note that he used it instead of “many”. (Refer to graph below)

I think we can safely remove the bigger guesses such as Zho’qafa Catacombs and Shadow Behemoth, and instead focus our attention on the less mentioned events such as Statue of Dwayna, the High Risen Wizard or Fire Elemental.

I’m going to go with the Risen Priest of Grenth. He’s the final open world event/boss in the game, and it seems to fit his loot table. It’s not an easy event and I’ve seen it fail many, many times (only completed it once myself).

If anyone wants to examine 14 pages of posts for “some” events…have at it!

Towards the start of the game grenth was defeated constantly on most servers, along with the High Risen Wizard. I’d say even with all the people farming Zho’qafa for the past couple months or so, it’s still been completed less times by less players than either of those two events.

Where are all these Zho’Qafa farms occurring? Been on three servers today begging in map chat for help on this event. I am currently on the server where a guild claims to be farming it, and we can’t get ANYONE to help. It seems like this hardly ever gets done. So please inform me where these farms are taking place so that I might help.

Ferguson’s Crossing: Catacombs event is up and the pact team is dead on the second abomination. Hop on over and let’s finish it!

Just bringing this current. We’ve got about 4 people and could use some more!

Zogyark.4597:

Zho Qafa is not as farmed as you think, except by those who think final rest drops by this event. Most people don’t even know how the whole spawn works and how long it takes to spawn, you’ll be surprised you can actually farm this event repeteadly with no timer (15 mins on a chopper is all you have to wait.) but no one does this or knows it.

Like I said I’m in a guild that’s farming the catacombs as much as possible in Fergs Crossing, so guest that server and see if you can find people doing the event. Send me a pm here if im not on in game for an invite to the guild. We need a larger sample size to determine if this is the place or not, besides you get a lot of exp and can usually complete most of your daily doing the event.

Zog – I whispered you in-game a few times, but I think you’re afk, so I sent you mail. If you see this, invite me to your guild!

I got an exotic off of the actual Eye himself – not the chest from this event. The Stingray (speargun) – perfect for my engineer

Death Reincarnated.3570:

Osculim.2983:

cinemapaula.8673:

I dunno.. since reviving seems to be accomplished via gentle groping, Im sure many of the employees would enjoy it thoroughly.

In this case i have to add another one

Dodge sexual harrasment lawsuit 0 /1 (0%)

Since we can rotate dailes, my addition is:

Engage in non work-related “duties” with 2 customers and don’t get caught by the boss 0/2 (0%)

Sorry dailies are not allowed to be fun.

lukemorley.8602:

Ok some good news eventually!!! I think the disheartenment in a few of the posts after my response had a knock on effect, topped with my QQ PM to him, xD sorry Jeffrey, had to find out someway or another ;-)

Now we have a confirmed location! we just have to decipher which one! from all of the posts!! have a read!!!!

brb, editing my earlier posts to include every event in the game! /troll

Also – from your screenshot – do I dare ask what eroticats is?

I’m in-game, able to log in just fine. Trying to join my friend’s FOTM run, which is partially finished. When I get the pop-up, and click join, I get the error message in the title.

EDIT: I can go into FOTM just fine on my own, but when I’m in his party, joining midway through, I’m not able to. Tried in both overflow and normal Lion’s Arch.

Josh Foreman.8250:

Amos.8760:

‘Scrybe’ is probably intentionally ironic,

Scrybe is my internet handle.

AH, I see. I thought it was a joke about the Scribe’s poor spelling.

Khisanth.2948:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/easter-eggs-and-references/1464678 apparently there are messages on gravestones …

None are unique to any one grave, and don’t appear to give a clue to anything. Here they are:

Went to Shaemoor and translated all the gravestones. Most of them have nothing, others had the following:

If you read this
you are standing
on my head

Grenth bless the soil
Grenth bless the stone
Grenth bless the silence
So leave me alone

I took the time
to stand in line
to best a mighty foe
but boredom struck
I’m out of luck
and now I lie below

Where’s
my resurect*
portal?

Tomb of the
Scrybe* (The grave that the Lady in White goes to says this on it, but it is not the only one that says this.)

This
Guy
Is
Dead

I told you
I was sick

Rest in Peace (in a banner)
I told you I was sick

*These are misspelled on the stones, I translated them here exactly. ‘Scrybe’ is probably intentionally ironic, but I have no answer for why ‘resurect’ is misspelled.

zetaflux.9614:

Another little Professor Yakkington Easter Egg. On the back of his gravestone in Ebonhawke is some writing.

It translates into “I told you I was sick.”

EDIT: This message also appears on the night shift at Lurka’s Lab gravestone also in Ebonhawke.

EDIT: 2 I found another message on the back of a gravestone in Ebonhawke. This one says, “Grenth bless the soil, Grenth bless the stone, Grenth bless the silence, So leave me alone!”

Went to Shaemoor and translated all the gravestones. Most of them has nothing, others had the following:

If you read this
you are standing
on my head

Grenth bless the soil
Grenth bless the stone
Grenth bless the silence
So leave me alone

I took the time
to stand in line
to best a mighty foe
but boredom struck
I’m out of luck
and now I lie below

Where’s
my resurect*
portal?

Tomb of the
Scrybe*

This
Guy
Is
Dead

I told you
I was sick

Rest in Peace (in a banner)
I told you I was sick

*These are misspelled on the stones, I translated them here exactly. ‘Scrybe’ is probably intentionally ironic, but I have no answer for why ‘resurect’ is misspelled.

PopeUrban.2578:

Interesting exercise:

Convert laurels to real world cash value.
Look at how much stuff costs on the laurel vendor.

Ascended amulets are about $600 bucks, which is a pretty nice necklace by any standard.

Also, break down the time to complete your daily, then divide that by twenty bucks. Laugh at how little you get paid compared to your actual life.

Endless mystery cat tonic $2000.

WORTH IT.

Isn’t RP just a form of improv? I don’t RP (tried it for one day – too time consuming), but I don’t see why it’s awkward and juvenile…

Why do I feel like there is more to this story…

If there is a server or guild officially or unofficially dedicated to something, people will show up just to grief them. Usually they don’t even have a problem with the activity itself – they just want to grief, and will go where they can do it most effectively. I know about this sort of thing – I was an officer and then leader of a WoW guild known for its Christian values. We had people who would create a fake online profile, spend a couple weeks in the guild pretending, then wait til no officers were online and grief guild chat saying the most horrible things. It’s sad really, that these people have nothing better to do with their time.

Anwar, if you don’t mind doing them on another character, save them for an engineer. When you have a rifle equipped, the #5 skill Jump Shot is pure cheating for jumping puzzles.

stopped reading at

Draven.7210:

stopped reading at

Gasoline.2570:

How hard is it to grasp an idea that thousands by thousands are playing the same game and not a single

and I repeat

A SINGLE person has found it yet? It’s obvious as hell at this point the devs are making fools out of all of you.

Gasoline ate lunch here:

You made the mistake of bringing a weapon to a spikeroot fight.

Randulf.7614:

There’s more discussion with a dev post in
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Guild-Missions-revealed/first#post1439878
For ref

Nice – I especially like the part about more difficult challenges. I’m getting tired of fractals!

MMORPG: Will there be more choices now than what we’ve seen cycled so far? Are there going to be dailies that direct us to certain zones or areas too?

COLIN: Absolutely! This new choice system comes with two benefits:
First, it allows us to add much more specific achievements to the rotating daily lists of options. We could ask you to go score 5 goals in keg brawl or complete 3 jumping puzzles as one of the achievement reward categories, since they are now optional, rather than mandatory.
Second, it allows us to send people to specific parts of the world and ask them to do things there, where before we could not do that because they might not be high enough level to complete that specific achievement. We could ask you to kill bosses in Fireheart Rise, or hunt down frogs in Sparkfly Fen if we wanted to in order to help drive stronger player participation in the open world and further strengthen the living world experience. (Don’t worry, we won’t do the frog thing!)
You’ll see new selectable achievements in our late February release, and we’ll continue to add new types and options down the road as the game expands and grows. It’s likely rather than having a unique rotation each day of the week; we’ll expand to have a unique rotation every day of the month to provide even more variety and a more diverse gaming experience. Of course, some achievements will be on the list multiple times over the course of the month.

MMORPG: One last question: do you guys sleep?

COLIN: We’ll stop to sleep when the game is the best possible game we think it can be. We’ve seen the population of the game steadily rising lately and we’re not going to sit on our butts and congratulate one another, we’re going to try and build on that momentum and make the game even better. There is so much coffee in Seattle no one can sleep anyway.

MMORPG: Thanks for chatting with us, as always!

COLIN: Thanks very much for having me; it’s always a pleasure! Also, thank you to all the GW2 players out there who follow the MMORPG.com website.

MMORPG: What sort of rewards can guilds obtain by completing them?

COLIN: There are a number of new rewards available from this system, from items specifically for players who complete the missions to rewards and upgrades for the guild itself. Guilds have a lot of new unlocks and really great bonuses they can purchase as a result of completing these missions. For example, you can purchase cheaper waypoint costs for your entire guild while the bonus is active.
Personal reward options vary from luxury goods and new types of items, to fun guild related stuff. One example of a personal reward you can buy I think is especially fun is a transform that turns you into your guild’s banner. It’s perfect for taunting enemies from the walls of a keep in WvW and reminding them who just stomped their face!

MMORPG: Can we touch base on the Two-Team PVP stuff? I’m not huge on sPVP, so consider me a layperson and speak to me in small words about what it means.

COLIN: It…is…more…gooder.
Slightly less simplified: two teams fight, we have ratings that track how well the players do, and the game uses matchmaking based on those ratings to determine which teams fight. In the future, we’ll use those ratings to show the best PvP players in the world based on their rating on our leaderboards.
This will allow new players to compete in PvP and get matched against other new players so they can learn the game against like skill levels of competition. This also means really skilled players have something to play for – their rating/bragging rights – and will get matched up against players of similar competitive skill and thus have better matches.

MMORPG: Okay now for: Daily achievements! I’ve been doing the new dailies, well… daily, whenever I login. But I’ve really been looking forward to this system. Can you explain how it’ll work?

COLIN: The new system will allow players to specifically pick from the list of daily achievements and complete the achievements they’re most interested in to earn their daily reward. We haven’t finalized the number, but it’ll be something like “do 5 out of 9 on the list to earn your reward.” If you decide you want to do more achievements from the list, for each additional achievement you do past the fifth, you’d also earn some bonus achievement points for your account. This is totally optional though.

MMORPG: Let’s talk about the Guild Missions now, as I know my own guild is going to be stoked about them. Can you give us some examples of how they’ll work, and what they’ll be about?

COLIN: The guild mission system is a really exciting advancement of our event system, and for guilds worldwide. The system allows people in a guild to work together to unlock guild upgrades that allow them to go on missions together. These missions can be kicked off by the specific guild that has researched that mission, but once they are activated, anyone can jump in and participate to help the guild finish the mission if they wish. The missions are designed such that some components of the mission can only be completed by the guild themselves, but each of them has aspects other players can assist with as well, so everyone has something they can do during the mission.

Effectively, this system allows guilds to literally create content across the world for everyone to experience. When one of these missions is created, often times you’ll see a banner with the guilds name and emblem that created the content. This serves two purposes. It’s a great recruiting tool for guilds to find players by having them join them on missions and if they stand out, inviting them to the guild. It also means guilds will really gain notoriety on their world; you’ll get to know the guilds creating this content and those guilds will become more famous and important in the community.
There are multiple categories of guild missions that a guild can kick off, and within each category there are numerous different challenges to overcome worldwide.
To give an example, one category is the guild rush. When a guild creates a guild rush in the world at one of the rush locations, a timer begins and the rush has to be completed X number of times within the allotted time in order for the guild to succeed. If the required number (or more) of players complete the mission before the timer runs out, the guild gets a reward which can be traded for guild-wide bonuses. Anyone can help the guild get their reward by joining in the guild rush and trying to complete it, but the rush doesn’t end until the timer runs out, so everyone can get a chance to complete it even if the minimum requirement for success is surpassed.
For personal motivation, anyone who completes the rush at least once will receive a personal reward regardless of if they are in the sponsoring guild or not. Also, anyone who was in the guild that kicked off the mission receives an extra different type of reward, which can be traded in for a new category of personal guild rewards that can only be earned through the guild mission system.

MMORPG: Will there be guild missions for PVP, WvW, dungeons, or will they all be in the open world?

COLIN: On the initial release of this system, guild missions will be PvE only, and will occur entirely in the open world. The goals of this system are to help make guilds more well known on their world, provide larger motivation to join a guild, to help drive players to every corner of our open world where they will run into other players and build stronger social experiences, to create a much larger diversity of content in our open world, and to allow players to specifically create content in our world for everyone to experience.

We’ll continue to expand this system in the future and add additional guild missions within the categories provided, as well as look at options for new categories of guild missions as well. We haven’t ruled out the possibility these could expand beyond PvE, or beyond the open world, but for now our major focus is on strengthening our open world experience as much as possible and making the living world of GW2 truly shine.

Thought you all might like to read and discuss:

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/7133/Guild-Wars-2-Februarys-Flame-and-Frost-Update-Detailed.html

Here’s the copy/paste:

MMORPG: Let’s start off with the Living Story. Where will the small changes we saw in January lead to in February? The steam from the mountain in Wayfarer was pretty ominous.

COLIN: World-narrative wise, February continues to build the fundamentals of this story to provide more hints and growth to this storyline as it builds into the core components and takes off in March and April. The steam is indeed ominous, and some players in our community have already managed to figure out some really good information about what’s coming… While others couldn’t be further from the truth. Now they just need to figure out who is right!
This concept of a living narrative, a truly unique storyline that drives the story of Guild Wars 2 and helps change the world on a week-by-week basis while introducing new content, is a big part of where GW2 is going in 2013. This really takes the concept of a living world to the next level, where there is a unique storyline playing out in the world that drives the story and narrative of Tyria. Much like your favorite TV show, we hope as we expand the scope of living stories as the year goes on, you won’t want to miss each new release to see where the storyline or your favorite characters are headed. This concept, and the evolution of the potential of the living world, is something we’ll be building on much more as the year goes on.

MMORPG: Does the Spirit Watch PVP map have anything to do with the Living Story? Can you share the design philosophy on this one?

COLIN: In over-all theme, yes, the norn are tied strongly into the storyline occurring in Flame & Frost, and this map has direct lore ties to the Spirits of the Wild which the norn follow.

As for design philosophy, the concept behind this map is trying to add a strong “capture the flag” style element to our PvP rotation. As we look to expand the number of maps available in the game, we’re trying to push the envelope a bit on what can really qualify as a “secondary mechanic” for one of our core conquest maps. We may even allow these secondary mechanics to become more core to the map rules where it makes sense to do so.
We want a fundamental shared system of scoring and gameplay that’s easy to understand across all game types in our capture points and how they contribute to score. This makes the game more approachable and easy for newer players to learn and understand, which can help us build our core PvP community due to ease of accessibility. However, we also want to expand the scope of secondary mechanics to have them really provide a more unique gameplay experience on a map-by-map basis. By capturing the Orb of Ascension (flag) and returning it to one of the capture points, we’ve taken the core concept of our capture point and turned it on its head a bit to add a CTF element to GW2.

Just read:

MMORPG: Okay now for: Daily achievements! I’ve been doing the new dailies, well… daily, whenever I login. But I’ve really been looking forward to this system. Can you explain how it’ll work?

COLIN: The new system will allow players to specifically pick from the list of daily achievements and complete the achievements they’re most interested in to earn their daily reward. We haven’t finalized the number, but it’ll be something like “do 5 out of 9 on the list to earn your reward.” If you decide you want to do more achievements from the list, for each additional achievement you do past the fifth, you’d also earn some bonus achievement points for your account. This is totally optional though.

MMORPG: Will there be more choices now than what we’ve seen cycled so far? Are there going to be dailies that direct us to certain zones or areas too?

COLIN: Absolutely! This new choice system comes with two benefits:
First, it allows us to add much more specific achievements to the rotating daily lists of options. We could ask you to go score 5 goals in keg brawl or complete 3 jumping puzzles as one of the achievement reward categories, since they are now optional, rather than mandatory.
Second, it allows us to send people to specific parts of the world and ask them to do things there, where before we could not do that because they might not be high enough level to complete that specific achievement. We could ask you to kill bosses in Fireheart Rise, or hunt down frogs in Sparkfly Fen if we wanted to in order to help drive stronger player participation in the open world and further strengthen the living world experience. (Don’t worry, we won’t do the frog thing!)
You’ll see new selectable achievements in our late February release, and we’ll continue to add new types and options down the road as the game expands and grows. It’s likely rather than having a unique rotation each day of the week; we’ll expand to have a unique rotation every day of the month to provide even more variety and a more diverse gaming experience. Of course, some achievements will be on the list multiple times over the course of the month.

from http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/7133/Guild-Wars-2-Februarys-Flame-and-Frost-Update-Detailed.html

Aroxisas.2416:

neithan.9750:

I enjoy the new daily system since it varies. Dodger is easy in WvW, especially in seiges.

Anyway, I don’t really grind to get the daily done. I just play like I would normally. After a bit of playing I’ll notice that I’m missing a few things, then I’ll steer what I’m doing towards wrapping the daily up.

Yes, you opinion is right from your perspective, and I really wish if they could make the system where dailies would be hidden until you do them to 50% in order to make dailies less grindy.

If I’m correct, you can leave the Daily thing minimized in the corner while you play if you like. I think it starts out that way. ‘Mystery Daily’ is a good way to get people angry though.

Dailies aren’t bad right now. I usually do them on an alt I’m leveling for the bonus XP. They will continue to improve them.

Doomguard.5094:

Great, another suggestion to add raids and mounts, how original, like we haven’t heard that a thousand times already, you people should just go back to playing wow if you really insist on having that.

Great, another suggestion to go back to wow, how original, like we haven’t heard that a thousand times already, you people should just go back to playing GW1 if you really insist on being closed off to suggestions.

Doomguard.5094:

Great, another suggestion to add raids and mounts, how original, like we haven’t heard that a thousand times already

That’s the whole point of a consolidated ‘top suggestions’ thread.

Screaming Cantaloupe.2308:

6. They stated no mounts ever.

I’m tired of people incorrectly stating this. Do you have a source for this information? Because everything I’ve seen says things like they won’t be adding mounts in this patch, etc.

Why do we need to refer to such sites as Twitter and Facebook to get critical information on this game? By all means, send out info using those sites, but put a copy on these official forums as well!

You have to assume Anet is monitoring this thread, and would let us know if we were way off base. Only thing to do is to keep thinking up leads and trying them out.

The game could use a lot more of this sort of thing if you ask me!