Guild Wars 2

So far, Mordremoth has destroyed Concordia, Fort Salma and Monger’s Sink, while destroying a few dozen waypoints along the way, leaving ugly vines where ever it goes, and there will be more untold damage throughout HoT.

After Mordy is dead, will there be an operation to revert this damage by cutting down the vines, and rebuilding the destroyed areas? While im all for the philosophy of permanent change to world, im just concerned that by the time we finish off the 6th dragon, the world will look like a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with bits of stale dragon paraphernalia dotting the landscape.

Like the situation with Orr, its supposedly being “cleaned up” by destroying the remainder of Zhaitan’s forces, while the continent slowly cleanses itself. Will a similar operation occur after HoT?

We know Anise and Kasmeer are members of The Mesmer Collective and that they supposedly hold the most powerful secrets of the Mesmer profession, which are kept hidden from outsiders.

A lot of players speculate its not really an official thing, and it was only made to give Kasmeer a reason to enter into the Tower of Nightmares story arc, but the fact ArenaNet keeps slipping it into dialogue with NPCs over the course of the Living World patches, its likely it will amount to something big eventually.

Im curious towards if Rytlock is just a base Revenant, of if he has the Revenant’s Elite Specialization active or not.

I think either Jory or Kas dying is a bit obvious, so i’d quite like to think something happens to Kas, so Jory gets really angry, goes psycho “movie monster” mode and turns into a Reaper.

I would also love to see the Chronomancer be used as a plot device to shed more like on The Mesmer Collective. Maybe the origin of the Chronomancer is something the Collective has kept secret, and they feel it necessary to reveal it to defeat Mordremoth, allowing Kasmeer to learn it’s magic.

Can you directly post a picture? My security system claims that website is carrying malicious coding.

Theres plenty of ways to differentiate the cultures, and design purposes of the races. If I put a human building, a Charr building, and an Asuran building next to each other, you think those are the same? Use your eyes.

The fundamental concept of a building isn’t even human to begin with, its just something all living things do. Birds make nests, rabbits dig burrows, humans build houses. They’re all the same thing, and fufill the same purpose, they house the inhabitant.

Asurans are a subterranean race by nature, hence why they build from stone. Kryta has a lot of trees to build with, along with lots of watery areas to collect clay from, hence why they build from stone, bricks and wood. In Ascalon, there are less trees, hence why Charr prefer to build from metal.

Even in the designs of their buildings, you can see why they are designed the way they are, reflecting their culture. Humans build with the intention of a building being luxurious and comfortable because they value those things, while Charr buildings are minimal and functional, to reflect their industrious, functionality-based culture.

and The Black Citadel probably feels “human” to you, because in real life, humans were the progenitors of industry, design and production, whereas in Tyria, that was created by the Charr, and the humans of Tyria see industrialism as a Charr thing when they look at their machines, guns and automated products.

Asuran female’s clothes have breast pockets because…ArenaNet’s budget…but if you want a lore reason: Maybe Asuran females develop breasts while pregnant, so they design clothes with breast areas to cater for that. Charr women don’t cover their breasts, unless its with armour to defend themselves, because again, they’re a race based on functionality: a breast’s functional value is to be a lump of fat on the chest that creates milk to feed young. They don’t have the superficial, sissy value of “Oh noe, hide private parts.”

Sylvari are human to the very bone. Just in-case you didn’t know, The Pale Tree was planted on top of the burial ground in which humans were buried, so when the tree grew, it copied the way in which the human body was structured, which is likely also the reason why the Sylvari think in a very “human” manor…The tree also did this to dogs that were buried there also, hence why Sylvan Hounds exist.

The way in which each race acts is very different to me, based on their drives, and values, so im not sure why you think they’re the same.

Asurans value intelligence, creativity and convenience.
Humans value sociability, comfort/luxury and meritocracy.
Charr value strength, comradeship and determination.
The list goes on.

Obviously the races of Tyria are slowly blending together, because the world is very multi-cultural now, considering the races of Tyria collectively speak and write a single language (New Krytan), whereas hundreds of years ago, they would have spoken their own languages, and even their design processes are becoming one in the way we see The Pact developing technology based upon the influence of all races. I wouldn’t be surprised if eventually, Lion’s Arch was rebuilt in the “Pact Fleet” style using the input of all the races, like we see with the Pact Airships and Pact Fleet weaponry.

Have a nice day.

Greatsword cannot be used unless you have the Reaper Elite Spec active, so you don’t need to worry about how legendary greatswords mess with Life Blast. As for how it will effect Reaper’s Shroud, we don’t know yet.

CodeHavoc.7926:

Quick question on when HOT shirts and other merchandise will be available for sale? I get jealous when a dev gets to sport a cool shirt and I’m stuck with nothing.

Tons of HoT themed stuff was handed out at PAX East and EGX Rezzed earlier this year, so we know it does exist, its just not commercially available. It’ll come…eventually…

I would quite like it if we could get the wings as a back piece, so Dragonhunters who want them can have them out all the time if they want to.

I also want Reaper’s Scythe as a Greatsword skin. Gimme.

They have a lore reason to keep it the way it is – Apparantly, the “cleaning of Orr” isn’t instantaneous, its a process that takes a long period of time, and Zhaitan’s forces didn’t immediately dissipate upon his death, explaining why his minions still live.

Realistically, it could take decades for Orr to cleanse itself. I think Orr will just be left as it is, with the backstory narrative of “Its slowly cleansing itself”. Considering GW2 could potentially last for decades, its all covered. If anything ever happens to GW2, and we go to a GW3, then if ArenaNet makes a time gap between the two games, THEN Orr will be cleansed, but right now, they have a valid lore reason to leave it the way it is in GW2.

So far, the only place ive found that stocks gem cards in-store is PCworld. GAME stocks them as well, but only online.

Ive decided I want to go back and play GW1 to do the Hall of Monuments, but ive never played GW1 before, but im not sure about what basic choices I should make prior to beginning.

Does it matter what profession I choose? Ive been debating on choosing Necromancer for my GW1 character, because I main Necromancer in GW2, and i’d quite like see where my Necromantic brethren came from 250 years ago.

When I unlock subclasses/secondary class, is there any good way to tell which one I should select?

Should I do the campaigns/expansions in any particular order? Or should I just take the obvious route and go in the order in which they were released?

I was going to buy the GuildWars Trilogy and EoTN so I can get my HoM points, but after hearing about this bug, I think ill wait a while.

Is this the artist who did the Chronomancer and Dragonhunter concept art?

I don’t think theres anything wrong with Warrior’s dual swords, its the issue with the GW2 PVE elitist groups that run round only using Axe MH and GS.

If you want to use dual swords, use it, and tell them to know their place. Nobody has the right to tell you what build to use. I myself use dual sword Warrior in PVE and have absolutely no issues. Conditions are also getting buffed in HoT, so even better.

I don’t think Revenant will have dual swords, because it hasn’t been given any other dual wield weapons (yet), but I think Sword/Axe on Revenant will be a popular direct damage combination.

If you had 2100g to throw into the toilet, you could’ve just bought it.

Vindicator
Conqueror
Vanquisher
Illuminator
Purifier

While I don’t want to degenerate into a trinity role, I want it to have enough group support to appease the PVE elitists. I myself think Necro has great group support if you know how to use it, but the higher end of the PVE players still insist its bad.

So why don’t we change that? Give Necro Specialization an elite skill that will grant 25 stacks of might to 100 players in a radius of 1200. That should please the elitist scumbags.

I think the main concepts of Paragons will be present within the Guardian Spec, but considering the Guardian is basically a combination of a few GW1 classes, it could be called something different, so maybe Paradigm instead of Paragon. (Paradigm and Paragon are synonyms for the same word.)

Agreed.

ArenaNet should only use RNG for petty drop tables, like T1-6 crafting materials and such other things, but major items should be obtained via the collection system, or other system in which the player can 100% obtain it after a certain amount of things have been done (Example: Carapace armour.)

I sat in The Silverwastes, every day, for 7 days, and I didn’t get a portal drop.

I did however, get a Precursor drop, so it was worth it, in a way I wasn’t intending.

I would never, ever put myself through this again though. I used to find The Silverwastes fun, I no longer find it fun. I now hate The Silverwastes with a burning hatred, and I genuinely hope I never, ever have to go back there again. I spent 7 days doing content I hate, for a portal I never got, when I could have been playing content I do enjoy, or preparing my characters for HoT.

I think the only reason the whole “Sylvari date whoever they want” thing to provoke the relationship of Caithe and Faolain was just to point out the fact no LGBT characters existed at the time in popular games, whereas now, a whole multitude of games have LGBT characters.

I think a lot of the issue with people saying “We want LGBT characters”, comes down to the fact, most characters in the game haven’t even stated their sexuality. People are assuming all characters who haven’t displayed their sexuality are heterosexual, which simply might not be true. For all we know, Rytlock could be gay, which is why he hasn’t had any cubs despite being a slightly older Charr, and Jennah could be a lesbian, which is why she hasn’t produced an heir to her throne yet. We simply don’t know.

Its something I come across in RP quite a lot. A lot of people say to me “What sexuality is your character?” and I reply. “Who cares, until he wants to date somebody, nobody needs to know.”. Its the lore writer’s business concerning who-likes-who, and until they want to throw us that information, who cares.

On a side note, as a gay male, I do enjoy seeing homosexual couples in my media, because a man and a man, or a woman and a woman is what I see as normal, so I get that silly, warm “awh, thats cute”, feeling when I see homosexual romance in media because I can relate to it, whereas that doesn’t happen to me when I see a heterosexual couple.

On the topic of “Why is there no homophobia in Tyria”, I think the denizens of Tyria are a lot less wimpy than the people in the real-world. Considering they’re facing a potential apocalypse via Elder Dragon, I don’t think they really care about what gender their friend is into. They have bigger things to worry about, whereas people in the real world, have too much time on their hands, to formulate ways to be nasty to eachother. and take into account the vast majority of characters we meet in the GW2 storyline are soldiers in one form or another, and generally soldiers are more focused on reaching their goal (in this case, killing the Elder Dragons), rather than being focused on who they’re achieving that goal alongside.

Tygor Mindflayer in the Black Citadel says hes over 90 years old.

Besides Tygor, the eldest Charr I could find was Nox Darkheart, who died at the age of 67. Weather Nox died of old age or in battle is unknown.

As many of us know, Chronomancer was the “class that never was” of GW1. It was intended to be added, but got cut, so maybe they’ll integrate that into the lore of the GW2 Chronomancer, by setting it up as some super-rare branch of Mesmeric magic that never saw mainsteam use, due to being sealed into the Heart of Maguuma, where nobody has been for over 250 years, then the player character goes and finds it, and learns to control it, becoming a Chronomancer.

The Black Lion items (Bank Access Express, Merchant Express, Revive Orbs, Instant Repair Canisters, etc, etc) do not stack if they come from different sources.

So for example, if I get a Revive Orb from a Black Lion Chest, and then I get another from the daily login reward chest, they will not stack with each other, and im forced to leave them in separate stacks.

ArenaNet just tweeted what looks like a picture of a Guardian with a bow.

This week’s Elite Specialization?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CELHAUUVIAAVsGN.jpg:large

Image link, because its been posted in a file format non-comparable with the forums.

Nobody knows yet.

There are less options now, but more viable options.

I would rather have all the possible builds be viable, rather than only half of them be viable, with the rest being shrugged off as “joke builds” or something along those lines.

Rym.1469:

I believe that most are so starved for new content that they will do everything, even for the beta.

This is my reason. It exists, therefore I am obligated to play it.

Warrior – ?
Guardian – Longbow or Shortbow (Spotted in footage of the new WvW map)
Revenant – ?
Ranger – Staff (Officially announced)
Thief – Rifle (Spotted in trailer)
Engineer – Hammer (Spotted in trailer)
Elementalist – Sword (Datamined and spotted in trailer)
Mesmer – Shield (Officially announced)
Necro – Greatsword (Officially announced)

Using Mesmer/Chronomancer is a bit of a bad example, because all of Mesmer’s core specs are pretty bad, while Chronomancer is an obvious choice, so im sure nobody will have any issues with sacrificing a traitline to activate Chronomancer.

I think the really hard decision will come with Elementalist/Tempest, because pretty much every PVE Ele will choose Air/Water/Arcana, and all 3 of those are quite integral core specs, so it will be quite hard deciding which to drop when becoming a Tempest.

Just did my 25th VW run in in an attempt for a portal.

Have I proven im a “loyal” player, ArenaNet-Senpai? Can I have a portal now?

Teutos.8620:

I feel you.

I would also appreciate another method to get into the beta. I don’t have ANY farmluck.

Same. My RNG luck is horrific. Ive been grinding for so long, I actually had a colleague come up to me during the week, and ask me if I was a meth addict, because my eyes are bloodshot and red, where ive been playing for too long.

Apparently my thousands of hours online, hundreds of pounds spent in the gemstore and help in beta testing the original game doesn’t constitute me as an active, “loyal” player (which is insulting as kitten.)

Now ive been grinding every day for nearly a week in SW, trying for this infernal portal drop, rather than playing content I enjoy. SW was fun when it first came out, but after spending nearly 200 hours in there for my Bioluminescence Achievement, I literally wanted to get on my knees and cry when I was told I had to sit in there to grind for a beta portal. Dry Top, I never enjoyed, it was annoying and confusing to navigate, and it just never appealed to me, so I wasn’t going to go there at all.

Just let us pay to get into the beta, like we did for the original GW2 beta, because this is just ridiculous now. Take the money, and either use to develop HoT, or pay for the daily coffee. I just want a guaranteed beta slot, because all of these nasty RNG systems are beginning to grate on me.

Ive always seen caster characters in games described as “Tempests” to be storm mages (Water+Air/Lightning magic), so maybe its a hint that instead of singular elemental attunements, Tempest will wield combination attunements.

So instead of Fire, Water, Air and Earth, we’ll have:
Storm (Water+Air)
Lava (Fire+Earth)
Sand (Earth + Air)
Steam (Fire+Water)

Or any other elemental combinations people can think of. Smoke(Fire+Air), Mud (Water+Earth). Who knows.

While I agree with your point, because many people need to stockpile money in advance, it categorically will not be more than £50, because that was GW2’s original price, and its just not possible for an expansion to exceed that price.

Just tuck £50 away. If anything, it will inflate your interest percentage while it sits in your bank, during the wait for HoT.

How I see it is: This is the 1st week of Specializations. There will be 8 more weeks of specializations, then E3 is immediately after, where I personally believe they will drop the price and release date of HoT. There is 56 days in those 8 weeks. Save £1 per day, and you’ll be set for HoT by the time E3 comes.

I wouldn’t call it a second health bar myself.

Using Continuum Split is more of a way to negate death memorially, with a small chance to turn the battle round. I think its more comparable to a Warrior using Endure Pain just before its about to die, in which time they could stun me and heal up. The same applies to Chronomancer.

and like Rob said, using Continuum Split/Shift is a double edged sword, in the sense it carries a high cooldown, as well as the fact the Continuum Rift can be destroyed by enemies, which will automatically activate Continuum Shift.

Not so much a second health bar, more a “Im going to avoid death for a few more seconds, hoping I can heal.” style tactic, akin to Endure Pain, Unholy Sanctuary, etc.

I noticed also, and said on the Twitch chat, but its probably a coincidence, and even if it isn’t, ArenaNet won’t admit to it, because copyright.

I looked around a bit, and couldn’t find out who made it. Anybody know who painted her?

Does anybody know which of the ArenaNet artists painted this majestic emissary of a shield-barer?

I had this concern also, which is why im going and doing skill challenges in advance.

400 points from 1-80 in the new system, plus the ~60 required for the remainder. No problem, just get level 80 on all your chars and do a few maps worth of skill challenges.

I think that Forceful Greatsword and Berserker’s Power could have been swapped, so people can choose the weapon they want to spec for in the Grandmasters, but I feel that they chose to put Forceful Greatsword as a Master trait, to get people to take Berserker’s Power (Because the other 2 GMs are useless to GS users), to encourage the use of Arcing Slice, because currently, nobody really uses Arcing Slice, and just lets their Adrenaline stagnate and do nothing, and from the livestream, I got the feeling they want to encourage people to use their profession mechanics (EG: Encouraging Warriors to use Bursts more, Necros to use their Lifeforce more, etc, etc.)

At launch, and for the subsequent year, we had amazing armour sets, that could be mixed and matched with any other armour in the game, and dyed freely.

Then we got “outfits” that couldn’t be mixed with other armour sets and had crippling restrictions depending on your race and gender (Example, female Charr/Asura getting shoehorned the male versions.)

Now we have the Balthazar outfit…an outfit that cannot be mixed with other armours, an untextured neck, so the head floats, and 50% of the outfit cannot be dyed (the fire texture). and a red panda made of cardboard.

I wanted to dye the fire texture white and give it to my Revenant when she arrives in HoT, but no, looks like that won’t be happening. I wasn’t overly bothered about this being an outfit that cannot be mixed with other armours because it looks good as a whole set, but colour-locking it is a joke. Whats next, outfits that cannot be mixed with other armour sets, and are completely colour-locked?

Harsh, yes, but since launch, the quality of gemstore items has been decreasing, and it needs to be pointed out.

How nice, a person who isn’t even aware of the beta gets chosen, while so many people who regularly play and invest money into the game don’t. Good job, ArenaNet.

Theres a big thread about this, and some random dev replied who nobody had ever heard of, but rather than posting anything constructive, he was just being obnoxious and sarcastic about everything, so it just shows that ArenaNet isn’t willing to talk about it on a public scale.

Taking that into mind, I asked Isaiah Cartwright about the issue at EGX, and he gave me an actual reply. He said he likes to watch the in-game economy, and he does recognize that Elonian Leather is too cheap, and Bolts of Damask are too expensive to produce. He never said how he would change that, but the fact he sees theres an issue with it, just shows that there is the possibility for it to be changed.

Considering ArenaNet want to go down the route of specializations for profession progression, does this mean Revenant will be the last profession to come into the game, with all incoming additions to the profession system being via specializations?

Arikyali.5804:

I theorycrafted a mesmer build, and so far it has been one of the most disgusting, awful, condition-inducing – cheesefest kill-almost-everything builds I have ever played. It basically eats everything.

I’m selfish and don’t wanna share this build.

I to, have created monstrously powerful builds (not necessarily Mesmer), that the “meta” players haven’t discovered, because they’re still fumbling round with their “optimized” GS Warrior builds, which I choose not to share, because im evil.

(On a side note, I also created a condi Mesmer build for a friend to use in pvp, and its overpowered. Ive never beaten her Mesmer with that build to this day. Note to self: Never share powerful builds.)

Knighthonor.4061:

ronpierce.2760:

Invictus.1503:

Alexandrovitch.2765:

So, will the revenant be able to use the Greatsword?

If the data mine is correct and all there is then the answer is thankfully NO

I don’t know. I feel like with Shiro being confirmed, I have a hard time believing they won’t have a sword offhand, but I guess you never really know. Time will tell!

But He used Daggers not swords.

On a logistical level, his weapons were daggers, but they were modelled as swords. I suppose its like saying something like “Charrzooka isn’t a rifle, its a cannon.”. What something is, and what it is modelled as are two different things, and considering how GW2 weapons work differently to GW1 weapons, swords are the best fit to re-create his character, because they face forward (GW2 daggers face backwards), and they have the length to recreate his blades, whereas most daggers in GW2 are short, stubby little things.

Female Charr.

All my characters are Charr, so its an obvious choice. Female, because then ill have 4 males and 4 females. Equal roster.

Disappointed about Ventari. Obviously ArenaNet’s way of carrying on SylvariWars2

They could have picked any other character, and they pick some meaningless fodder NPC who only appears twice, and is known for planting a tree. The two kids who used to play behind the LA bank are more worthy of being legends, due to actually doing something with their life (encouraging racial tolerance).

Jora, Pyre, Gwen, Kalla, all would have been more meaningful than Ventari.

Electro.4173:

Why would they ever put this into the game when they know dataminers exist. I don’t even understand.

Unless the beta isn’t running on a different version of the client, but that would be an… odd choice.

Because of how the game is produced, and many other games, they can’t introduce all the files all at once, because it will cause huge issues, so its better to install it piece by piece over a series of updates, so it doesn’t cause an apocalypse or something.