Guild Wars 2

This is probably totally inappropriate to discuss on a forum intended for a game used by 12 year olds, but why not. This is too hilarious.

I can totally imagine this stuff being illegal in legion-based Charr society, if it truly is a real-life equivalent to catnip. I highly doubt the High Legions will want their troops hashed up while going on a conquest.

If you are a Sylvari, there is a significant difference. The Sylvari player character’s dialogue is different to a non-Sylvari in story instances and open world comments, and they will also be able to hear Mordremoth’s voice in their head periodically. Im not sure if hearing Mordremoth trying to turn you is a thing that only happens in story instances, or if it occurs in open world also.

There is no race-specific dialogue for other races that I have seen, however, there is a very small handful of characters who will remark on your Profession that I have found.

Why do I have to re-download the 64 bit client every time I open it? I closed the game, and upon reopening it, it wants me to re-do the entire download.

Im not waiting another 4 hours for it to download. No.

I think ArenaNet may have been trying to push incentive for Healing Power with this one. Shiro and Devastation have a lot of leeching skills in the same way Necromancer does. Considering Healing Power is a viable stat on life leech Necromancers, they may have wanted the same thing for Revenant, through Shiro.

I do feel the base heal needs to be more though. With 0 Healing Power, its only a little over 1000 healing.

Don’t all conditions go through block?

I don’t use Glint often, because I don’t actually like her as a legend, but when I do use her, I have a splitting headache.

That humming sound is on a frequency that my ears just don’t agree with. It makes me nauseous and makes my head hurt to listen to it for too long.

Herald is just an elite-spec designed to kill the player as slowly and painfully as possible. We have annoying skill bars and glowing disks that induce seizures to epileptic players, buggy and unrelated animations to make OCD players comatose, and subliminal soundwaves to make player’s heads explode.

The note about the Guild Halls being made by the Forgotten and Exalted is wrote on several of the tablets in Tarir.

There no given reason why they abandoned the Lost Precipice and the Gilded Hollow, it simply says “when it no longer served us, we moved on.”, relating to the Precipice, and “Ultimately, we left there as well” on the tablet about the Gilded Hollow.

However, there is also a tablet that says Tarir will one day “no longer serve” the Exalted, and they will abandon Tarir also.

Its likely the cities were built for specific purposes, then once that purpose was fulfilled, they left and built another city for a different purpose. Its said Glint specifically chose the location of Tarir for a reason. I can’t give that reason though, because its spoilers for HoT, and this thread has no [Spoiler] tag.

Although she seems like some kind of cut content, I hope Chrysanthea comes back later on. Im curious if she has any real lore relevance, or if shes just a one-time NPC made for the purpose of the MoM fight.

Oh, I see. The tooltip on the collection should be less misleading then.

It says “kill the Chak Gerant in Tangled Depths”. NOT “Complete the Tangled Depths Meta Event.”

So ive just spent the past 8 hours trying to find a successful map for the Tangled Depths meta, and I actually managed to kill the Gerent, but it didn’t drop my Mistward Helm Casing.

What a joke. The other parts dropped on the first try, so why should this one be any different? Ridiculous. I feel like ArenaNet designed this meta event with the intention of getting the largest amount of hate mail in the shortest time. I don’t care if its hard, but having it on a 2 hour timer is ridiculous. 1 hour, if not less is more than sufficient, especially since this helm casing doesn’t drop 100% of the time, like the other components.

No. All races have the same hitbox size, regardless of model size.

Oh here we go.

Personally, I think Necromancer. Why blind/block/evade the enemy, when I can just absorb damage through my face, without having to cut my DPS momentarily to defend myself, when I can just continue whaling.

Personally, I like Leyline, Priory, Trapper and Glorious sets on Charr, just be aware of what boots and gloves you mix in with certain sets, because they do clip through the sleeves of your chestplate sometimes.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

I did notice the saltwater – a lot of folks did. But while gargantuan minions wouldn’t be surprising, I can’t say that the DSD “doesn’t have minions” as the very first – and most reliable case of his existence – states that it twists water into tentacled creatures. That would be minions.

The saltwater was clearly done so as to keep the DSD’s minions a secret… but honestly, I think it would have been better for them to make a single minion and toss it in.

Personally, I love the idea of DSD being the largest of all the dragons, because it’s had so much space to grow in the deepest parts of the ocean, so having a regular minion be the size of a veteran or champion would be interesting, it would also be more mechanically viable if that expansion is also underwater, because theres always more room to space out mobs.

I had a feeling Herald would cause problems for people with epilepsy. Theres a big thread going on at the moment about how over-the-top that disk on the utilities is.

Hopefully this will provoke them to tone it down a bit considering its actually a health hazard.

EDIT: I just realized you meant about the empty utility slots. Mis-interpreted the post. :S

We don’t actually know if any of the names in Tyria have any meaning or cultural significance, so just assume it doesn’t until we know otherwise.

When I noticed that Yassith has an ascended set named after him, I couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow, because I would have assumed that all the forgotten were dead by now, so I was wondering what story relevance he would have.

If he/The Forgotten are coming back into the storyline, I wonder if he’ll be coming to us, or if we’ll be going into The Crystal Desert (if he still resides there.)

EDIT: I thought all the HoT ascended sets were named after story-relevant characters in HoT, but then I realized characters like Maklain got a set named after them, so he could totally be there for the sake of it, or considering Ossa has a set as well, it could be hinting at Crystal Desert. Im probably over-speculating.

Theres been like, a dozen threads on these weapons, and rightfully so, because Anet don’t want to comment on them for some reason.

On the Weakening Strikes trait, theres no numerical value for how much damage reduction it gives, and theres nothing about it on the wiki or build calculators.

Does anybody actually know what the damage reduction is yet? Is ArenaNet aware that it is unlisted?

I don’t think I would be so salty about it if the facets were represented as 3D assets rather than a 2D texture.

I saw somebody suggest the idea of the facets being represented as crystals that float around the player while it’s active.

I’d be on board as well with the idea of having the facets be little crystal dragons that follow round the Revenant on foot or fly behind them, and explode/shatter when the facet they represent is toggled off.

I just commented on a thread, and after posting, the forum has returned me to the thread, and the thread is blank. I have tried refreshing, leaving the thread and coming back, and even closing the tab and completely opening a new forum tab, but its still blank.

I have a feeling this will turn into an ordeal like the Engineers had with those hobosacks.

The fact its there doesn’t bother me, what does bother me, is that Glint’s…disk of eye-bleeding…is neon blue, glows and flashes, is HUGE and bugs out unless you are on perfectly flat ground.

I don’t mind profession graphics unless they detract from my character, which they do. I refuse to use Glint, because every time I toggle that metaphysical Ouija board on, my eye is instantly drawn to that disk, because it its the most saturate, shiny thing on the screen.

As an infographic, its not even that useful. The icons look nothing like the skills when they’re toggled on, and its impossible to see what ones are highlighted when you’re flashing and shadowstepping everywhere all the time.

Give my Revenant her aesthetic integrity back. I would actually pay real life money to have an option to remove this thing from my screen.

Ive heard rumors that apparently Ascended gear boxes don’t drop any more. Can anyone clarify? Or have they simply been moved to a higher tier?

I think Eir got killed off because she had nothing more to give to the story. She had all but faded from the story and Braham had taken over. Correct me if im wrong, but im pretty sure Eir hasn’t had a significant plot point associated with her since launch, and I don’t even think she would have been able to add much to the Jormag arc, unless they retconned something like she had Asgeir’s scroll under her bed all this time or something. Keeping that in mind, if she was still around when we go to kill Jormag, people would be saying “Oh, Eir added nothing to this Norn-themed expansion.”.

In all honesty, I wouldn’t be surprised if Caithe dies in LS3 or the next expansion, because Heart of Thorns tied up all of her loose ends and plot devices. Faolain is dead, her Wyld Hunt is complete, her “secret” has been revealed, and the egg is safe. Provided ArenaNet doesn’t add anything else for her, which I doubt they will, because shes been in the spotlight for a long time now.

as for Belinda, lets be honest, she existed only to give that greatsword to Marjory. “Hi, im Belinda, im going to die in 2 story instances.” doesn’t exactly scream audience impact to me. She was nothing but a sheathe for the family sword.

Trehearne’s main “thing” was that he was an expert on Orr. Who needs an expert on Orr any more, when Zhaitan is dead, and Orr has been (nearly) cleansed. and from the looks of it, he isn’t very intelligent regarding much of anything else considering he felt that indiscriminately firing artillery into a forest would somehow progress their campaign against Mordremoth. He would have just become a faceless Pact Marshal who issues random orders without having any personality of his own. When he was in Orr, when ever he was talking he would be spewing out assorted facts on Orr, which is interesting for lore-buffs like us, but when all the stuff was going on in The Silverwastes, I couldn’t wait for him to shut up, because everything was “Oh yes, battle plan. MMM yes, I agree. Excellent.”.

Faolain shouldn’t have died, in my opinion. There was a lot she could have added to the story.

I also hope that Garm is still alive, since theres no concrete proof that he is dead yet. Theres still an unanswered lore point regarding him. Hes the only black wolf in Tyria, and in an interview, one of the writers said theres a reason why.

Im hoping we get some kind of a post-story instance, where we can see what happened to all the characters. For example. Where did Kas and Rox take Zojja and Logan, were they ok in the end? Did Laranthir and the Reavers survive? Did Skybreaker ever find her troop? What happened to Beigarth and Occam? Who were the 3 sylvari who became Mordremoth’s commanders? and most importantly, what happened to that Norn Savage?

I doubt players will have a canonized answer to this, so im mainly aiming this question at the writers. Are the wings seriously a thing that happen in Tyria? Like, the Black and White Raven wings, and ive heard from guildies that another set of wings are coming to the gemstore supposedly.

Are these just a fashion statement in Tyria or are there certain professions/specializations that can summon wings? Or are they just fancy gliders designed by the Maguuma explorers who want to look pretty while on a crusade against a dragon?

Off the top of my head, the only things regarding wings we see the professions do is Dragonhunters using their Wings of Resolve to travel short distances, and when Reapers are activating Reaper’s Shroud, a pair of short wings appear for a second or two before fading away. Is it possible for professions to manifest these to actually fly/glide?

What? Celestial, Marauder and Minstrel. 2 of those stats i’d never use on a Thief to begin with, and the other I wouldn’t use because im replacing my Berserker/Marauder stuff with Viper’s.

Who picks this stuff? It makes me wonder if some devs have even played GW2.

I can half-understand Celestial…actually, its a staff intended for Daredevils, so no, I can’t grasp why you would use Celestial.

and Minstrel? Would you run Nomad’s on a Thief? No, because theres no reason to, so why would I run it’s semi-buggy sister-set.

I feel sorry for Ranger. HoT put them in a semi-respectable position, to a degree where I stopped considering them as a joke profession for a few days, then Anet used their Unrelenting Nerf skill, and just wrecked the profession again.

If Anet comes anywhere near my sword, ill be the one nerfing them. UA is the only respectable skill on sword. UA is good, because all the brownie points got put into that one skill during development. The only other things sword has is a boring, generic AA, and a 2 that does no damage, and fires out a projectile that never hits. If I had any other reason to use the other skills on sword, I wouldn’t be too upset about the draconian proposition of them tampering with my #3.

EDIT: I just sat with a calculator for a few minutes. If the nerf to our UA is the same as Smokescales, its a damage nerf of 14% because you hit dish out slightly less UA hits per second. I guess thats not too terrible. I honestly expected it to be a 20%+ nerf.

Ive only had 1 precursor drop, and if anything, it displeased me. Im the type of person who prefers no result over a bad result.

I open a loot bag, The Energizer pops out. My reaction is like “Oh, thats the one thats worth nothing and makes a terribly legendary skin…”

and to make matters worse, the skin I want to use the money on isn’t even for sale on the TP currently, because its so rare.

I run Soldier’s armour on a lot of my characters because I tend to do a bit of WvW, but the rest of it is Berserker.

The damage drop from full berserker really isn’t noticeable, in my opinion. The enemy health bar still drops from full to 0, so I don’t care if its not the top 1% of damage.

Randulf.7614:

People never learn sadly. Have flagged it up for a mod to change the title in case OP doesn’t see this in time.

I’d rather vote for a moderator to just delete the thread entirely. Its just outright spitefulness, spoiling something like that.

Kasmeer really wasn’t a focus in HoT. If anything, I felt ArenaNet were trying to keep her out of story instances as much as possible, because they had nothing for her, this time round. She’ll probably get more of a focus when we get to a plotline about her and Jory, or The Mesmer Collective. They have more than a few plotlines to expand her with, so I felt Braham and Canach could have done with the attention this time round, since theres less character development opportunities for them in the narratives.

I have Soldier’s armour, Zerk weapons and Zerk trinkets.

I just had an unbound set of soldier’s gear in the bank that got leftover after my 500 armoursmith, so I just gave them to the Revenant. The damage isn’t even that bad. People over-exaggerate when they say using anything but zerk will hamper your DPS.

Ascended gear is only available from crafting, or drops.

The only exception to this is certain pieces of ascended jewellery, which are bought from vendors around the world, but the trading post holds no ascended gear.

Its not an armour set, its actually a mix-and-match of several armour sets.

Helmet: Glint’s Gaze (Blue) (This is a gemstore item)
Shoulders: Herald’s Shoulderpiece (Do the Master Herald Achievement to get this)
Gloves: Mistward Warfists (Do the Mistward Warfists Collection)
Chestplate: Priory’s Historical Chestplate (Buy in Lornar’s Pass If you’r a Priory Member)
Leggings: Mistward Leggings (Do the Mistward Leggings Collection)
Boots: Protector’s Boots (These are T3 human boots.)

When the Dragonhunter (The Guardian’s 1st Elite Specialization) was released, ArenaNet said it’s main inspiration was in-fact the idea of Witch Hunters.

Personally, when I think of a Witch Hunter, I always imagine them as a character who fights from range. I describe my Skyrim character as a Witch Hunter, and he uses a longbow, interestingly enough, Dragonhunters in GW2 use longbows as well.

Like Sagramor says, Thief could suit the idea of Witch Hunters as well, especially since you come from a D&D background. Personally, ive never played D&D, but their Witch Hunters are described as assassins, which Thieves are meant to be.

By the time you’re at the point where you want to build a legendary, you should know how crafting works.

Warhorns have never, never, never been craftable by anyone other than Huntsmen, so why would there be an exception for Howl, and even if there supposedly was, why would you even risk it? It takes 2 minutes to change character.

Would it not depend on the character?

Because the Revenant’s magic is white, does that mean the character’s favourite colour is white? No. It can be whatever they want it to be.

A Necromancer can be a patron of Lyssa if they want, in the same way a Revenant can devote to who ever they want. I think the whole associating gods with professions thing is a bit odd and pointless.

rchu.8945:

still works pretty well for me, but I think as a community for this new class we need to brace ourselves for a nerf, because I think it will happen, given Anet’s track record.

There’s plenty call for it in the PvP sub forum:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Rev-sword-3-No-counter-play/first

Considering Unrelenting Assault is the only skill in the Revenant’s kitten nal that does more damage than a dust mite being thrown at the target, if it gets nerfed, I wouldn’t be surprised if lots of people put down Revenant for good.

They could just make it so that if the first hit misses/gets blocked, then all 7 will miss, so the Revenant just gets the evades, and the opponent only has to dodge once, at the correct time to negate the entire attack rather than dropping it’s damage.

The next dragon will be a long while off, but its most likely going to be Kralkatorrik. Trehearne was originally planning to go after it before it was agreed by the world leaders that Mordremoth was a bigger threat, and after you kill Mordremoth, you can meet Rytlock at the top of the helix in Dragon’s Stand expressing his joy over Mordremoth’s death, before suggesting that the Pact Commander could go after Kralkatorrik next. Which would make sense considering all the plot surrounding Glint and the egg.

Theres a few things that point to Kralkatorrik, however, it could easily be Primordus. Remember that Taimi, as far as we know, is still down in Rata Novus, reading the Novan’s data on Elder Dragons, most of which was research on Primordus, so she could publicize that data, which may provoke an incursion against Primordus.

Before that though, I want to see a build-up story again, like Scarlet and Aerin with Mordremoth, I would also like to see the impact on the campaign against Mordremoth reflected in the world. For example, funerals and services for those who died, and celebrations (The return of Dragon Bash, hopefully.)

I also want a lot of lore surrounding the Elite Specializations and The Revenant. They could fill up a whole Living World season if they did an episode for each elite spec and how they came to be, and why.

Laranthir and The Pale Reavers went to Dragon’s Stand after finishing their buisiness with Skybreaker, they just don’t make an in-game appearance again. But ya, more characters should’ve come back.

I wonder if The Pact will stay together after this, or if it will disband and the 3 Tyrian Orders will act independently again. Im also curious to see how the world leaders who dedicated forces will react after they find out about how many supposedly died. Keep in mind that Jennah and Smodur pledged forces from the Seraph and High Legions to the campaign against Mordremoth that remained separate from The Pact, but you never get to see any of them, so im assuming they’re all dead, or off-screen.

I was laughing like a maniac when he died. He gets killed by none other than me using his own sword. Simply excellent. When Trehearne said “kill me.” I was shouting at the player character to just stab him already. PC wasn’t that hesitant when letting Tybalt die.

I felt more sorry for Faolain. You can tell Caithe was at least a little bit upset. Although I think burning that deformed corpse of her’s will let out a lot of the grief.

FLiP.7680:

Audio settings
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But then I can’t hear myself harassing PUGs with choir bells.

I have a suggestion on how to sort this out. Its a bit of a far-out, trend setting idea, and it might shock some people, or offend those of light heart.

…Why not just put the facets in the boons and conditions section?

Seriously. Why do we need a visual representation? Its immersion breaking, it bugs out unless the ground is PERFECTLY flat and just overall makes me want to avoid the Dragon Stance. Even as a visual indicator, its no good. The icons are so small, you can’t tell what facets are active unless you squint your eyes at it, and when you’re in combat, it just bugs out because you’re blinking and shadowstepping all over the place. and for the love of god, WHY is the disk NEON BLUE? This skill effect is is upstaging my character, who should be the main focus.

Remove it please. Its intrusive and ruins the visual appeal of my character.

Facets is just an auditory and visual mess.

Intrusive, immersion-breaking graphic, annoying sound effect. No. Sort it out please. These 2 things together are why I refuse to use Glint. I just stay with Shiro and Jalis.

I heard that it comes from the Laurel Vendors, but nobody has been able to clarify it.

All off the non-trenchcoats are the hardest to get armour pieces. (Glorious chestpiece, Charr T3, etc.) So if this legendary follows suit, it should hopefully be a non-trenchcoat.

I just glided to the right, landed on the cliff face, then used Glint’s powers to climb up the cliff and walk across the top, then I glided down to where Ruka was.

For somebody who eats a lot of salad, Mordy sure is overweight.

No wonder it was so easy for me to kill him, he couldn’t move fast enough to get out of the way of my blade.

The monster who murdered thousands in Lion’s Arch via Scarlet, dropped the Zephyrites, brought down the Pact Fleet and made me treck through miles of jungle looks like a furry who hasn’t washed his suit in a year. My eyes were wide with “Who the hell is this.” when Mordremoth revealed himself. Just, no.

Lome.8239:

The title implies Eir’s fate, not Garm’s.

Simmer down, cowboy. Yeehaw.

That title implies nothing about Eir. and even if it did, theres already half a dozen threads on the HoT forum that in the title that just blunt, flat out say “[Spoilers] Eir is dead.”, but I haven’t seen you in there flaming them.

Lome.8239:

You post a spoiler warning but heavily imply the spoiler in the title anyway…

Where in my title does it say “Garm is dead.” any idiot jumping to conclusions will think hes dead, which could be a possibility, but there could simply be a plot point in HoT regarding Garm. From that title’s point of view, anything could’ve happened to him. He could have a new master, he could have lived, and gotten lost, died, been captured by Mordremoth, all manor of things, and none of those are expressed in the title.

The thread has to have a title. I could simply make the title “[SPOILERS] Garm” if it would make your day any better, but it still implies something is up in the air regarding Garm in HoT, therefore is spoilers in your opinion.