Guild Wars 2

Alchymista.8192:

If u r on guild raid and not on ts = kick
If u r on guild raid with 20 players and 5of them are rangers, 3 mesmers, etc. = kick most of them
If he says he wants u all to go his builds(uniforms) and u dont want to = kick
if u dont like his leading = leave
If u dont like his personality or uniforms = also leave

If u dont like it and dont enjoy even guild raid with hardcore guild where u try hard, just leave

Im going to assume you’re the guild leader.

Have some grace about you, you’re a guild leader. You should feel privileged to have your members, not the other way around.

As for the OP. Its your decision, but I think you should leave this guild. They don’t sound very skilled if they think only a handful of professions are useful, and their attitude towards how they treat members just indicates they’re not worthy of your presence.

Moral of the story: Stop being so cheap, and pull your finger out to buy quality bags, instead of cumbersome “utilities”

1. No greatsword. They’re ugly, the animations are petty bad, and they’re generic, everybody and their mother can use a greatsword. The only reason people want one is because they’re the generic meta weapon among the classes who can use them, and assume Revenant’s will be the same. Or they want it to slap their Twilight/Sunrise on (Which are also ugly for the record.)

2. Sword. From what we’ve seen so far in leaked footage and the trailer, it looks pretty nice.

3. Rifle. Nobody gets to use rifle. Engineers get to use them, which really is their only use, considering Warrior’s got nerfed into the floor at the end of last year. and Thief gets it now, but its still a sparsely used weapon.

4. Shortbow. I feel like Shortbows are underused in comparison to longbows, and Revenant strikes me as the profession that would be a very quick, front line fighter, that would be up in the enemy’s grill, so a longbow doesn’t really suit them in my opinion.

5. Offhand pistol. Rytlock.

There are a LOT of problems associated with the servers. Mainly on the Europe servers.

Quite often, I DC, but all other programs on my computer that require an internet connection won’t disconnect, suggesting its an issue with ArenaNet’s servers.

If you email support about this, some of the responses they give are absolutely ridiculous. I emailed them, and they just told me to close and exit every single program and process on my computer, except GW2. (For those who can’t put two and two together, this includes my security system, therefore opening my computer to viruses.)

I wanted to email them back and say how foolish they were for suggesting that I do something that could potentially put me at risk, but that wouldn’t really accomplish anything, so I never replied.

I tried a few things to try and eliminate the problems, and this is what I came up with.

-Open the ports 80,443,6600 and 6112 on both your firewall and your router. I don’t believe this can cause security issues on your PC if you have a good security/firewall.

-Run the GW2 repair program. If you don’t know how to get the repair program, there is a guide in the Support section of the GW2 website, and theres a guide somewhere on this forum. After I done this, I noticed the amount of crashes significantly drop, from 8+ per day, down to 1 per day, sometimes none, suggesting that if part of your GW2 files become corrupted, it can cause crashes that masquerade as connection/server issues.

Most of the RP’ers tend to congregate in Divinity’s Reach now. GuildWars2Roleplayers.com is one of the biggest, if not the biggest RP website. On there, they have a thread containing the IP for the current RP maps, they also list a lot of events on there.

Ive also seen a lot of RP going on in The Black Citadel recently.

If you have the cash, crafting. By getting all professions to maximum level, you can get yourself a quick 470AP.

punkinkatt.4823:

Sigpaos.2615:

If every open world PvE map shows 100 % (Southsun Cove, Dry Top, and Silverwastes not included), then yes, WvW maps are all you have left.

They all show complete!

Really not looking forward to WvW stuff, but I suppose a few minutes a day won’t hurt.

I hated doing the WvW completion. 2 weeks after launch, I had completed all of Tyria. 1 year and 2 months later, I had completed all of WvW.

Part of that is to do with the fact I avoided doing it because it takes so long, however, a very large chunk of that time is because Boarderlands are absolute bullkitten, and how they’re assigned each week.

As a man, I feel that I am being objectified due to having my right to show skin restricted.

I feel that because I am not allowed to wear revealing clothes within an online game, I am being exploited and used by society to appease their view of what a man should be. This is done by forcing me to wear head-to-toe platemail armour, and therefore satisfying the sick and twisted view that men should be knights in shining armour. I find this view objectifies me, due to reducing me to a mere fantasy object to satisfy women’s imagination.

To ensure our society stays fair and equal, I believe my male characters should have the right to purchase, wear, and flaunt the Lord Faren brand of speedo, feely, and proudly in public. Even in winter. I argue this point because currently, female characters have access to many revealing armour sets such as the Lady Kasmeer brand of underwear, the Sailor Moon/Magical Girl cosplay, which all female light armour characters are given upon character creation, and the T3 Medium Human Cultural Armour Chestplate.

I fight this battle so my character can show their best assets, just as female characters can. Please support the masculine movement to abolish misandry and build a fairer society for all people, regardless of gender.

It will either appear when they formally release the Revenant, or it’s profession icon, as putting up the new forum would reveal it’s icon. We already know the icon, but since it was accidentally leaked, ArenaNet won’t acknowledge that we know its there.

a massive, massive loss. Nearly 50g loss.

Luckily I only done it for about a week, then I stopped.

We are completely unaware. The devs have been abnormally quiet about this topic, when its actually probably the most important thing to let the players know so they can organize finances and such.

3 of the 4 GW1 expansions gave character slots. Eye of The North did not, as it was the only expansion that didn’t release a new class.

So no word from the devs so far. I have gems ready for HoT’s release. If they don’t give us a new slot, I can buy a slot. If they do, I can buy something pretty.

Astral Projections.7320:

Well for role play purposes, the story of a Charr prostitute slave might not work. If they are like the big land mammals, they likely go into heat and then at most, once a year. If they have long lived dependent cubs, it may only be once every 2 or 3 years. Since the males see the females as sexually attractive at that time, they may be completely uninterested in female Charrs at other times. By making a female Charr with a prostitute back history, your likely applying human sex roles to them, not Charr sex roles.

While I haven’t heard anything about prostitution among the Charr, they do have sex with strangers/people they’ve just met for enjoyment purposes.

and theres no evidence that Charr function like animals, having a heat period, in fact, theres more evidence to suggest the opposite. Just because they have fur and a tail, doesn’t automatically rubber-band them into the “animal” category.

Considering particular story events take place at designated points in time, certain Charr dialogue with each other suggests they’re willing to have sex all year round, and the fact the entire female Charr work force doesn’t take a few months off during the point every year to have cubs. Considering how they’re culture is structured, its highly unlikely for the same reason, as it would significantly diminish the amount of ground troops they have for battles. If they did have a heat period, and had to take a particular point of every year off for heat/birthing, their society would be structured differently to allow that.

Sorry for derailing thread, but this is a speculation that comes up a lot, and people just look at all the evidence suggesting against the idea of heat periods, disregard it, and go back to the idea of “Fur + tail = animal = animal sex logistics confirmed”, when its likely a lot more complex than that, fortunately.

Weindrasi.3805:

Ultimately, if some RPers see ‘Harlot,’ and assume I’m a doofus who doesn’t understand charr lore, that’s fine by me. Most charr would see Asynda and consider her a doofus too XD

I think they’re more likely to look at it and think “Ah! Erotic Roleplayer! run away!”. Unless its one of those bordello guilds, which I think theres a few of now. Asynda would fit right in.

and Asynda sounds like a totally all right Charr name. Although a lot of people think “If an NPC doesn’t have the name already, it doesn’t count.”, ‘Asynda’ follows all of the naming conventions for female Charr, and it even sounds Charr. and its nice when people create their own names for characters that are believable. It alleviates from the onslaught of “Rytlock, Bonfaaz and Kalla” which feels like everybody and their mother has a Charr character named like that.

I really don’t want Greatsword for my Necromancer. I get that some people might have characters who suit GS, but my Necromancer doesn’t suit it, at all.

No axes. I don’t like the aesthetic of axes, they’re like a more cumbersome version of a sword, mixed with a dagger, that only moves in one direction, and doesn’t stab.

Staff ranger. I dislike the fact that ArenaNet immediately thinks everybody’s Ranger is a hippy who spends their time practising nature magic, and methodically planning the best way to violate plants. I won’t even specialize my Ranger, because I dislike the theme of the druid so much and it’s staff. Some people like to design characters outside of the cookie cutter generic stereotypical version of each profession.

Rifle got nerfed towards the end of last year, so they’re not going to re-buff it.

I think the demo is only playable at PAX East in Boston or EGX Rezzed in London. As far as im aware, they haven’t announced any other locations where it will be playable.

I don’t have a name for my Revenant yet, but she’ll be a female Charr.

As part of the Charr’s involvement in the battle against Mordremoth, the Black Citadel deployed a load of warbands to take part in the battle. Her warband was one of these, and at some point during the HoT arc, she unlocks her powers as a Revenant. (Not quite sure how, considering we don’t even know how the Revenant comes to be.)

This might sound really weird, but im interested to see how tall each of my characters are in comparison to each other.

Is there anywhere in-game I can sit them up against a notched pole or anything, or is there any other way I can compare their heights?

The whole point is that its going to be new, and immersive. I get to experience new zones, with new content, with a new profession. Its going to feel like day 1 of GW2 all over again. That opportunity doesn’t appear often in games. For this reason, I will have to sacrifice your enjoyment at the beginning of HoT, so I can have mine.

Your request has been politely declined.

(and you never know. I could end up getting a grip on Revenant pretty quickly, and helping you take down all the new bosses and events. If thats the case, we can all be happy.)

Too much human. I would like to see at least 1 legend to be aligned with each of the playable races. not race-locked legends, but just a nod to the playable races. Ill be pretty upset if my Charr Revenant gets shoehorned into siphoning power from a bunch of humans.

Humans – Whoever. Take your pick. Nearly all major characters are human.
Norn – Asgeir Dragonrender
Sylvari – …Somebody. Ventai maybe?
Asura – Snaff
Charr – Kalla Scorchrazor/Pyre Fierceshot

I managed to get the repair program to work. It stopped giving me errors for the rest of the day, but continued again the next day.

Both.

On the day of release, ill advance my Revenant to level 80 with tomes of knowledge, then ill go to the jungle, and explore it, while learning how to play Revenant.

I played a Witchhunter in Skyrim also.

Ice Bow Elementalist isn’t a bad idea, but the Ice Bow has limited uses before it has to recharge, so you won’t get much use out of it. Ranger is you’re generic pet class. It also has the ability to use magic to summon even more allies. (Oddly enough, this build, referred to as “Spirit Ranger” is very popular, and effective.)

Ranger sounds like it would be more your cup of tea. Also, its a user of Medium Armour, so it will be easier getting the witchhunter look.

The only ones an ArenaNet employee have explitly stated are the Ranger’s Staff, and the Necromancer’s GS. Otherwise, the rest are speculation and/or ones we’ve seen footage of in the trailers.

Some of the ones we’ve seen in the trailer are absolutely undeniable. (Such as Mesmer’s Shield), but there are some that are in debate, such as Thief’s Rifle, which was spotted in the trailer, but people argue it could be an Engineer with the rifle.

Rognik.2579:

Give her time! She’s the forum community manager, not the one in charge of character slots. Nor is she psychic, to my knowledge. When we have an answer, she’ll post it here.

She might not be psychic, but shes good at interrogating ArenaNet staff. Im sure we’ll have an answer soon.

I dislike Trehearne, but not for the generic reason of “He stole my glory”, because quite frankly, I prefer playing as just a regular soldier among the forces against the dragons. Makes me feel like less of a mary sue character in the game.

I dislike Trehearne just because of his character. He annoys me. I also think hes a terrible leader. Quite often, he makes decisions, and I think “Bad idea, doing something like /this/ would be better.”, and just because, he talks too much. When those airships go down, I hope he gets crushed under the debris.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Sounds like fun, Argon. Hope to see you there.

Me and 2 others have got tickets to go to Rezzed.

Just out of curiosity, will there be a bit where we can ask questions to the devs? if so, are we allowed to know which devs will be present? I would quite like to prepare a list of questions to grill them with.

With the grenade barrage skill on Engineer, Quip causes the grenades to turn into ribbons.

When I saw that, it felt like I was in a magical girl anime.

In theory, yes. In practise…not always, but sometimes.

The idea is, we know there will be a decreased amount of content coming into GW2 in the time between LS2 and HoT, so if players know the release date, they can easily think “Well, im gonna take a break until HoT comes, because im not missing anything.” but if they don’t know the release date, they will stay around to see what information comes up.

I personally, am sticking around anyway, to prepare my account for HoT. Clean out the bank for all those new items, get all my characters into ascended gear, ready to receive those juicy new skins, and maybe find a guild, if I can find something stable.

Ive enabled all the ports in both my router and firewall, and it still keeps on disconnecting me with error 7:.

If its not Error 7, it disconnects me with a “Network error” despite the fact my internet is still connected and functioning.

Im at a loss now towards why I keep disconnecting, because I can’t see anything wrong on my end.

EDIT: I keep trying to run the repair program, but it crashes part of the way through.

GW1 =/= GW2.

Mesmers don’t have the same profession mechanic they did in GW1, does this mean ArenaNet has to up heave the whole profession, so it follows some sentimental congruency? No. It can stay the way it is.

Tiffany.8576:

I think the bigger question is: why did you feel the need to censor your skills? =P

He probably doesn’t anyone stealing his build.

Yet he didn’t censor the Mistfire Wolf…flaunting it much.

azurrei.5691:

A good general rule to follow is unless it is a zone that has a world boss chain (like Wayfarer Foothills – Frozen Maw) then don’t bother with the zone event daily unless you feel like spending 8-15s porting all around to try to get tags on an event. For today’s daily, I just went into EotM at a reset and finished the daily in < 10 min and earned gold instead of losing it…lol.

I do EoTM for dailies also when time/waypoint money consuming dailies turn up. Gets it done in a nice time. I think the WvW dailies are probably the most well thought out. They’re a nice balance between time required and difficulty, whereas some of the PVE dailies can be a bit excessive.

We know they will be a locked weapon profession, like Elementalist and Engineer. Its been stated multiple times by devs, but their utilities are still up in the air.

Personally, I think it will be a pool of utilities to swap in and out, because if they don’t get that, they’ll easily be the most restricted profession in terms of what they can do, and it will be a profession with no use for Skill Points.

Astral Projections.7320:

that_shaman said he has datamined new faces and hairstyles. Hopefully they will be out before the HoT.

I knew he had datamined them, but did he ever post them? I haven’t spotted them anywhere yet.

I don’t like it myself. There are lots of purposes towards why people don’t want to represent, and I feel that a lot of guild leaders fail to respect that.

Somebody might want to join another guild to do a specific activity such as boss hunting or roleplaying, which will require them to represent once in a while to partake in those, or theres the simple reason of: Guild member doesn’t want to be in guild chat that day, deal with it.

Its possible that they disabled it because its a demo/beta version. Because its a new profession, and they’re testing lots of new things, they know they’re going to die a lot, so they probably just disabled it.

I either want customisable skills, with few legends, or LOTS of legends, and locked skills. (I think 7-10 would be an acceptable number of legends if they locked the skill customisation.)

I wouldn’t think Mallyx/Jalis would go very well together. I personally would pair Mallyx with somebody else, because Jalis’ heal removes conditions, which in turn will cause Mallyx to lose power. I’d pair him with somebody who’s skills don’t remove conditions.

They don’t announce them, we just find out when the blog post drops at the start of every week.

So far, this is what we’ve had, in order. Adventures/Maguuma then Gliding/Masteries and now Revenants.

I don’t think WvW is next, because ArenaNet announced that those attending EGX Rezzed in London will be given a preview there and then, and they’ve just done Revenants, so I suppose they won’t want to do Specializations next, to avoid having profession based content 2 weeks in a row. Its likely going to be Guild Halls or the challenging content next.

I personally think it will be the Challenging content, because Jon shown us the Legendary Wyvern in the Revenant POI stream, to possibly hint that it will be coming up next. (Even though I don’t think he was meant to show it, judging from Rubi’s face. You go, Jon.)

Theres a big tooltip telling you what Taunt is if you hover over it. I doubt people can get confused considering its wrote across their screen. All they have to do is use their eyes if they’re confused.

Yes. Only characters created after September 9th 2014 will have to go through the new, and terrible trait system. Your Elementalist is safe.

I agree, its starting to get ridiculous now, and people who are too unintelligent to google things before idly posting their baseless assumptions on the forums, are posting dupe threads, and its annoying. Every day, waking up to see the same threads, over, and over and over.

and there will be 5 traitlines for the Revenant. On the livestream, Roy said its just unfinished.

I suppose it depends on what legends its running. Jalis can give itself huge damage reductions, but it pretty much negates all of it’s offensive power in doing so, due to energy costs, so I suppose eventually it will just fall over and die if it decides not to change. Sheer DPS can break through it probably.

I’d imagine Mallyx being dealt with by either two scenarios: Constantly boon strip it with Thief or Necromancer so it’s own conditions eat it, or it panics in battle, presses all it’s buttons, and debuffs itself to the point where it shuts down via Weakness and Blind.

Miltek.2104:

Argon.1563:

Although they never explicitly said this, they made it sound like they will be locked, and unchangeable, but there will be loads of different legends to cater for loads of different styles.

From all speculations there will be 4 Legends for revenant. There are 3 Traitlines: one for Mallyx, second for dwarf and third is profesion mechanism. So it’s obvious that last 2 Traitlines are made for another 2 Legends (offensive and healing).

I think they could possibly shoehorn multiple legends into 1 traitline if they change a few traits to make room. 4 legends seems a bit restricted to me. I would’ve liked a 5th legend for mobility, because the Revenant was rumoured to be as fast as the Thief outside of combat. I also would have liked something really unique to just the Revenant, because currently, all the legends seem to be rip-offs of other professions.

What does it say? a new weapon.

Its not a weapon that doubles up a rubix cube, you equip it and kill stuff with it, the same as every other weapon. It’ll probably have locked skills like all other weapons.

Theres a few instances of NPCs referring to scents, however, its pretty rare because the player can’t relate to it, unless the player has smelt something similar in real life.

If you talk to the bartender in the Three-Legion Cohort tavern in Smokestead, she’ll tell you about how Iron Legion engineer customers always smell “rank” after their shift. I can relate. I use a workshop with lots of machinery quite often, so the smell of burning, sawdust, metal and sweat have become quite homely over time. I like it. I think i’d fit in with the Iron Legion quite well.

Personally, I would like it if all professions were given unique animations for their weapons. Revenant seems to have unique mace and hammer animations, so why can’t everybody have unique animations?

Although they never explicitly said this, they made it sound like they will be locked, and unchangeable, but there will be loads of different legends to cater for loads of different styles.

Leave it to dulfy. Good job guys.

Im just a bit concerned with how Revenant will effect other professions. Jalis seems to be Guardian on steroids, and Mallyx has a lot of skills that are disturbingly similar to Necromancer.

Ive also seen a few pictures of the traits, some of them are really overpowered, such as:
“When swapping legend (the equivalent of weapon swapping!) Break out of stuns”
“When you activate a stun breaker, gain fury.”

Considering they’re allowed to swap legends every few seconds, Revenant is essentially immune to CC, and has perma-fury. Seems a bit overpowered, but its beta, hopefully it will get nerfed into something more realistic.

I think its time to retire.

Mallyx’s healing skill is literally a carbon copy of Consume Conditions, with the added bonus that it grants Resistance. I didn’t get to see all of the utility skills, but I feel like it could potentially wreck this profession if they don’t significantly change things in HoT.