Guild Wars 2

EDIT: Never mind, turns out I was experiencing a bug.

Can’t say I’m happy with FMW nerf, cause I main a (completely non-meta in any way) Shout Guard… but I’ll be totally fine with it if they make this skill instant-cast and castable during other actions already.

Pretty please?

Definitely playing:

1. Reaper (leveling a fresh Norn necro just for that purpose)

Possibly trying out:

2. Herald (Not sure how I feel about the class in general, so we’ll see)
3. Chronomancer (The concept sounds fun, but I’m terrible at mesmer)
4. Berserker (Just sounds interesting, concept-wise)
5. Druid (But only on a new char, my current ranger doesn’t really look all that… altruistic)
6. Scrapper (Not sure what it really brings to the class, but I’ll get bored of other specs eventually)
7. Daredevil (Will opt in just to see whether it’s worth dropping S/P for. Or if they fix P/P, I’m a dreamer)

Not touching with a 10-foot pole:

8. Dragonhunter (I have three, THREE different guardians, but this spec just doesn’t seem worth sacrificing a core trait line. Plus, I have no complaints about scepter other than the ugly repetitive AA animation)
9. Tempest (Nothing to do with the community complaints, I just don’t do Elementalist for L2P reasons. Can’t click the buttons fast enough).

Well, bring some CONDITION CLEANSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flavor-wise, in my opinion:

Charr: Engineer (Warrior as secondary)
Sylvari: Ranger (Guardian as secondary)
Human: Mesmer (Necromancer as secondary)
Asura: Elementalist (Engineer as secondary)
Norn: Warrior (Guardian as secondary… or maybe Ranger, they do love their hunts)

Thief and Revenant are for everyone equally.

Guardian is easy. Or at least, it is for me. I have a much easier time playing a Guard than a Ranger or even Warrior.

Elementalist is the hardest class for me to play, hands down. The last time I tried to level one, I got a nasty case of carpal tunnel and still wasn’t very good.

Bolt of Damask, Elonian Leather Square, Spiritwood Plank and Deldrimor Steel Ingot are tradeable, as are some of the components made from them.

Did this chapter yesterday, and the sound of waves crashing against the shore at the beginning was horribly clipped. I’m not sure if it happens anywhere else, but I haven’t noticed it while running around the same non-instanced area (and the clipping is so grating, I’m sure I’d have noticed it).

Personally, I don’t care much about the outfits, and the emphasis on Human gods has annoyed me for some time.

How about Havroun outfits for each of the major SotWs instead? :P

Overheard in Sparkfly Fen:

- Admiral, must you stand right there? You’re hindering my surveillance.
- I am a part of the view, Mate Watt. One might say I’m integral to this scene.
- Perhaps if you got more exercise, you’d be somewhat less integral.
- I say! Jealousy does not become you.

White Gold, Antique Gold, various blue and silver dyes.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Ariurotl.3718:

Gem store armor sets never got a discount. Not even one of them.

The wiki says that last year the zodiac sets were among the discounted items.

Sorry, poor choice of words. I meant this year, of course.

Gem store armor sets never got a discount. Not even one of them.

Pet Skinning Knife now available in the Gem Store for 1000 gems.

Sorry, couldn’t resist. Carry on.

I haven’t done the new one in LA, and Not So Secret was pretty difficult (I never bothered to do it again for the goggles), but the puzzle I had most trouble with was… Spekks’s Laboratory. Because I can jump pretty well, but I can’t jump quickly at all. If there wasn’t another person or two doing it at the same time, and if there wasn’t a ledge in the middle of one of the “segments”, I would never have done it.

You’ll probably get a bunch of replies about minis, but I’m gonna give a more hipstery answer: Whirlwind Attack. It sounds like the character has a turbocharger implanted in his rectum.

Dreamthistle, Balthazar’s and Tempest sets.

Moa.6459:

@Ariurotl.3718: it’s the Noble Count Outfit

D’oh. I could swear it didn’t look like that when I was contemplating buying it. But then again, it was a long time ago and I decided against it.

Doggie.3184:

I think only the Quaggans know of such horrors. So maybe you could call him Foo as well.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t it Krait who were actually displaced by the dragon’s presence and just kinda snowballed into Quaggans, driving them off in turn?

On a side note, what is this skin your char is wearing? Looks fancy.

Yeah, the rewards are the same. Some choices actually (and somewhat surprisingly) lead to objectively better outcomes, story-wise. But that’s it.

Yes, it depends mostly on material. But the “shiny” effect is more noticeable when applying metallic dyes to metal armor, and natural leather dyes sometimes give leather parts of the armor a more pronounced texture.

Other than that, there aren’t any effects of note.

Rauderi.8706:

You mean I could shove 4 Jennahs into a toilet and get, maybe..

Lord Faren~?

Nah, you’d get an exclusive Crying Logan Mini.

My Sweet Lily.1952:

It renews OS on every application of Fury to you, even if you already have Fury on and even if the Fury comes from an ally.

Thank you very much!

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Remorseless

Does it renew OS when you already have Fury and receive a new stack, or does it only work when you actually gain Fury and you haven’t had it on already?

FlamingFoxx.1305:

What happens if you increase/decrease the head size or the height in the TMK? (Just curious if the issue shows up on all sizes or is specifically caused by something).

I am pretty sure the bug persists. Sadly, I can’t test it right now because I’m all out of TMKs.

What I do know (and forgot to mention) is that the bug remains upon consuming the TMK. In other words, it doesn’t realign facial hair with the face after accepting changes.

All exclusive Norn faces from the TMK appear to be a bit… further back on the model than facial hair, which causes mustaches to float in front of the face. Most noticeable on the facial hair variant with a soul patch that just floats in front of the face when looking in profile.

Considering that TMK is a gem store item that many people actually pay real money for, this really should be fixed.

Adding torch to that trait would annoy me if warhorn isn’t added as well.

I’m just trying to imagine the almighty rage that would undoubtedly ensue from both Eles and non-Eles if that happened. Ele with a pet. That’s scary on so many levels.

Ykfox.3825:

Have you looked at the Gallant set closely? The hilt on the Sword and GS have an Eagle on them. They actually seem rather Norn-like to me personally.

Possibly, and like I said, some weapons (GS and Hammer, mostly) look better on a Norn than on a Human… but the designs are too different from the regular Norn fare. Look at the Wolfborn, Norn and Shiverpeaks sets. The designs are fundamentally different.

To be fair though, Norn and Charr have three unique cultural sets, unlike Asura and Sylvari who share theirs.

(The title is a bit tongue-in-cheek, don’t dwell on it too much)

- The current set is Dwayna’s, obviously Human-focused.
- The set before that was Gallant. Putting aside the fact it’s rather plain, the design seems to be Human. Ironically, two-handed weapons from that set are a bit oversized, and look better on Norn, but overall they look Human-made.
- The set before that was Daydreamer’s. It looks rather neutral, but probably most suited for Sylvari and… well, Humans. Can’t imagine many Norn or Charr wielding those.
- Before that we had the Scientific set, which looks mostly Charr, possibly Asura.
- And before that was Balthazar’s, of course. Human again.

That makes it 3 out of 5 latest sets either themed around Human gods or appearing to be of Human make. The other two are more or less suited for Charr and Sylvari (and maaaaybe Asura). Nothing of note for Norn, except for possibly the Gallant set. Bias confirmed!

Seriously though, I’d like more Asura-themed and Norn-themed weapons. At this rate, we’ll cycle through all Human gods in a few months. Let’s have skins themed around one of the Spirits of the Wild, at least. Or one of the Asura colleges. Hmm?

The OP has picked one of the smallest greatswords in GW2 (same basic model as Cobalt) to illustrate the point, which is rather unfair.

Overall I’ll echo the insofar prevailing opinion in the comments: I don’t particularly want larger weapons in GW2. There is, however, a number of outlandish fantasy-ish GS skins in the game that are not far from what the OP seems to like. Just browse galleries on the wiki.

Those were the cutest mushrooms I’ve ever been murdered by.

Menadena.7482:

I account unlocked it the moment I got it to get the skin however it is essentially an ascended rifle if you look at the stats.

What? It has exotic stats like any other exotic rifle.

I’m mildly annoyed by the fact that all those weapon and armor skins modeled after gear wielded by important (and not very important) NPCs have the names of those NPCs attached to the final item.

I mean, I crafted this rapier and I didn’t see Lord Faren helping. I procured the expensive materials, and even though Faren is probably loaded, he didn’t contribute a single copper. I trained for weeks and months to be good enough to make it. Bet Faren doesn’t know the first thing about weaponsmithing. I spent my own transmutation charge!.. And yet my weapon is still called “Lord Faren’s Rapier”.

Oh sure, maybe he patented the design. Though it’s more likely that was also someone else’s design that he paid for. Well, he can’t have it. And I’m not giving Belinda my greatsword either!.. umm… no innuendo intended.

Very happy about this, I wanted the torch and the sword for my sylvari guard for a long time now.

Bye warden weapons.

Just logged in to do the dailies. Haven’t noticed any bugs. Mildly ticked off about the Mirror Blade nerf though. :P

Champion wasps in Fields of Ruin are hilarious now, stacking poison like crazy.

suffish.4150:

By far my favourite character is Rytlock, and I like him 5x more just because of his ‘you cant trust sylvari, they belong to the dragon now’ line.

I genuinely don’t get how this line made you like him more. It is a) a sweeping generalization (you could even say “borderline racist”, but it’s kinda silly to go there when we’re talking about pure fantasy fiction), and b) definitely untrue, unless ArenaNet forces all sylvari players to be buddies with the Mordrem in HoT, and that’s extremely unlikely.

Azure Prower.8701:

Tybalt.

I like Tybalt, but sometimes I wish there was a choice of a different mentor for the Order storyline (and Priory, too), when I’m playing characters that don’t fit well into comedy-rich stuff happening early in the storyline in my head.

As for the favorite character… Rikkiti, of course!

Sigmund Freud would have a field day with this thread, he really would.

Menadena.7482:

Linken.6345:

Im happy to see warhorn get used by more classes tbh, who else then necro and maybe ranger really use it frequently?

If any weapon needs to be used by more classes it is the rifle. About the only class that uses it is the engineer because on the warrior the longbow is better.

Short bow needs some love too. Rangers tend to dismiss it in favor of LB POWAH, and I’ve only ever seen Thieves use it as a speed boost…

Boo! Tempest blows!
…
Get it? Warhorn? Blows?
…
I don’t even care which weapon it was going to be, but come on, can’t pass the opportunity to make a terrible joke.

Ayrilana.1396:

Thief is the fastest or it was before the trait update.

That was my experience, yes. I was running P/P and once I hit lvl 60 and unlocked Ricochet, map completion got both very quick and very easy.

I have no problem with “Retreat!”, actually. The logic behind it is that the char is giving swiftness to allies so that they may escape. Maybe not the best choice, but I’d say it makes sense.

I can think of two traits off the top of my head that are in dire need of renaming.

A particularly groan-inducing one is, of course, Elementalist’s Burning Fire. You know, the fire that burns. As opposed to… wait a minute.

Then there’s Guardian’s Zealot’s Speed that somehow survived for so long without being renamed to… well, literally anything else. The trait has got nothing to do with speed, and it hasn’t for a very long time.

Then there’s Warrior’s rifle skill Aimed Shot that is… shot from the hip. It’s literally the only Warrior’s rifle skill (well, with the obvious exception of Rifle Butt) in which the character does not actually aim. Call it “Reckless Shot” or “Crippling Shot” (on second thought, that already exists) or anything else, but right now it’s just silly.

Male human faces are extremely disappointing in general. 90% of them look very young and handsome in a JRPG protagonist sort of way, and the rest are seriously ugly. I think there’s only one male human face I actually liked, and it’s a makeover kit exclusive.

The aforementioned 90% don’t look like they can grow a decent beard anyway. As for the rest, they need as much facial hair as possible to hide all the ugly.

Seriously though, more options are always welcome.

Evolved Poobadoo.

I am growing more and more convinced that “on-crit” voice lines (such as human male’s “Here’s one to remember me by”) are triggered when a mob hits a crit on me, not vice versa. I seem to hear them every time they take a chunk of my health.

I have no proof whatsoever, it just feels like it works that way, although lines themselves, like the one above, suggest the opposite.

Am I dreaming this or are they bugged?

Automatic AoE on target is the one thing I want most in this game. Admittedly, I’m just not fast enough for quick AoE skill use. I openly admit that. I’m not good enough to use the AoE system to full effect in battle situation, cause it takes me too long to use any of the currently available modes effectively.

So I have to use weapons and skills that don’t rely on AoE. I can’t play staff ele or staff necro, and I’m definitely not playing Dragonhunter in HoT.