Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure that they are doing anything that’s actually illegal. It may be something that the game doesn’t allow but that doesn’t mean they are breaking the law.

At any rate even if they are breaking the law, and they may not be, ANet doesn’t have police powers. All they can do is ban the account when they are reported.

When you think about it, it’s a strange thing to have named it. Just because something happened in the distant past doesn’t mean that it’s sufficient to name a whole game after it. Lots of stuff happened in the past, some of it important. Why the guild wars in particular? Especially since it didn’t really have anything to do with the storyline of Guild Wars 1.

What I suspect happened is they were expecting the endgame for the original game to be PvP, especially G vs G battles. If they were expecting that then naming the first game Guild Wars makes sense. When it didn’t work out that way they kept the name for the second game since it had recognition value even though it doesn’t fit the game.

There aren’t quests on this game. The events are the main thing you do to level. If you do all the hearts, points of interests, vistas, harvesting and events that you run into you should be at level 15 when you get area completion on the first map.

If you’ve done one map completely, gotten the reward for area completion, and only went up a couple of levels then maybe you are missing the events. Look for them. NPCs who run up to you and say things are one type but talk to all the NPCs that are out there to trigger events. Look for orange circles on the map and waypoints that are contested for ongoing events.

Got a Final Rest as a drop when they were still moderately expensive. Gave it to a friend. The next week she decided she was to busy to play anymore and quit the game.

I log on once a day, unless the connection is bad and keeps DCing me. In that case I log on several times a day, but only after saying a lot of bad words.

The April 15th patch notes will explain that Minecraft bought a controlling interest in this game and is planning to reconfigure the world into little blocks. The sun was the first stage.

With the April 29th patch notes, personal and guild homes can be built by cutting out blocks of earth and using the cubes to build structures.

Dueling will be announce on May 13th but only with environmental weapons. Mounts also will be allowed but only on the computer generated sheep that will be randomly roaming around.

On May 27th the ultimate mount will appear, a cubic version of the dragon Mordremoth. The rider will be Scarlet. (She’s BAAACKK!)

You need to wait for a response from support. They ask that you not make a ticket and then post on the forum about it. If after 3 days you have not gotten a response or if you wish to dispute a negative response, then that is when you post.

As Inculpatus says, you download the game for free. What you pay for is for access to the game, the account. Each account is accessed through the game you downloaded. The difference between them is the login, your email (account name) and password. By putting in the appropriate login is how you get online with account One or account Two.

Unless you are saying you paid but never got the serial number? If that’s it try checking your spam and junk mail. Sometimes they get put in there.

I read a bit in different forums and reditt. Jumping puzzles have to be unlocked before you can open the chest. There is a VIP status known as a Royal Title. Equipment damage unlocks at level 9. Vistas are unlocked. Other stuff.

Edited out screen shot of beta UI as it’s of doubtful accuracy.

They will be completely separate, trading post and all.

As I understand it, its because, for cultural reasons they had to change certain items in the game. For example, they don’t allow skeletal remains in the game and this effects a couple of pieces of armor, such as one of the masks that looks like jawbones. Since the games aren’t identical, they are separated.

Also the way the game is set up has some differences.

Mono.7320:

Lankybrit.4598:

It’s still convenient. Just go to WvW (any map) and take the Lion’s Arch portal there (takes you to Vigil’s Keep).

alright thanks for the tip because i made lvl1 character today and wanted to leave to metrica but there were no portal in Divinity’s Reach

If you were in Divinity’s Reach, there is a portal labeled for LA. That one takes you to the Vigil keep. It’s close to the center of the map, in the garden area.

bluestocking.6148:

My maiden name was DesLauriers, French for “of the laurel”. It’s not even a proper last name; sometime in the mists of history one of my ancestors was rewarded for something and just kept the title as their name from then on.

Like if you changed your last name to “Omnomnomnivore”.

Wouldn’t it be DesOmnomnomnivore? ^^

An alternate way of putting HM in would be to downgrade the individual players more so that they are several levels lower than the surrounding mobs while leaving the mobs untouched except that their loot tables would be changed for HM players.

This would allow HM and NM players to play on the same maps and would not have the additional lowering of map populations.

Deleveling individual players would be easier than upleveling all the mobs, creating separate maps and separating out the players more than they are now.

He needs to update the ticket and tell them this. Support doesn’t read the forums for information.

I suspect it’s gone but the only people who can tell you for sure is support. You will need to contact them and make a ticket. Top of page-support-submit a request.

Actually this thread raises an interesting point. I’ve always thought that the minis were simply scaled down versions of the original. But this suggests that the minis are made completely new each time. That someone has to completely design it even if it’s already in the game.

And putting a female charr’s tail on a male Charr suggests something about the quality control.

So Tarnished Coast, Fort Aspenwood and Jade Quarry.

It’s not too surprising having both Tarnished Coast and Jade Quarry mentioned, seeing as they were full servers. Seeing Fort Aspenwood named is more unexpected.

Thank you for the names of all 3 of these servers. :-)

Maybe after death he was sewn together from leftover parts and one of these parts was a female charr’s tail.

I delete a character moderately frequently, 2 to 3 times a month. If the game forced me to completely clean out the inventory that should be an unnecessary hassle. In general, most people are going to do it properly. It’s only the ones who don’t read the panel and its warning that is right there in front of them who have problems. I really don’t think the system has to be completely reworked to accommodate these people. An extra warning at the most.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Astral Projections.7320:

Economics tells you that the market will find the level that people are wiling to pay and it will go there.

That’s only in a market with lots of buyers and sellers (and product, of course), is it not? (Not a rhetorical question, I’m really asking.)

As I understand it, it’s both supply and demand that sets price. There might be only one of an item supplied but if no one wants it then it won’t command a high price. High volume and high demand allow for the equilibrium to be reached faster but it still will be reached at low volume and/or demand, just slower.

You should buy her a copy of the game. She would be invaluable as a leader in dungeons.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JRCye0ur8qc

Spark. Now 9 on offer and the price is 965g68s
Name. Level. Rarity. Min Sale Offer. Max Buy Offer. Supply. Demand
Spark..80….Exotic..965 g 68 s 64 c…..830 g …………..9……….1668

6 additional and a price drop of about 135gold in 9 hours

Maybe the previous price was too low and the market is adjusting itself. Economics tells you that the market will find the level that people are wiling to pay and it will go there.

If you want Gaile to help on the forum you need to include that ticket number. No one can help you on the forum without being able to access the ticket and seeing what happened.

I happen to have one of both of those kits. When you select for hair styles and color on either, you get the options to change hair style, hair color and for all races except Sylvari, the option to change accessory color. (Apparently no Sylvari hair style has accessories so it’s not included in their choice of options).

The colors to change to in accessories are only the ones from the original character creation screen, 21 colors. Those are the colors listed as starter in your dye panel.

I got the goggles on the first try thanks to Ayameflora.5642 (KarMah) helping me to get up there and then showing me where to jump to. Tyvm. :-)

If you delete all your characters you can transfer for free. You might have to wait 7 days from the first time you started playing though as there is a cooldown period and the first server selection starts it.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Server
“The transfer fee is only charged if you have characters on your account; in other words, if your account has no characters or you delete all existing characters first, you will be prompted to select a new home world after creating a new character, free of charge.

To transfer to a different world, go to the character selection screen (using F12 or when you first logon) and select the desired world; you will be logged out while the game makes these changes, which might take 5-30 minutes. You can transfer once every seven days at a cost determined by the destination server population and whether or not you have characters".

So, you can delete your characters and see if you can transfer but it’s very likely going to make you wait out the 7 days.

Also, any items remaining on your characters will be lost if you delete the character without storing the items in the bank. Soulbound items can be salvaged or sold to a vendor.

Sect.8795:

250 Unid dyes that no longer drop from mobs, for an already ultimately confusing legendary to craft.. Ugh..
Guess I could just try to farm the 2500g somehow.. even though mobs don’t really drop anything.. eh.. hmm..

If you are talking about bifrost, the requirement is supposed to decrease to 100 unid dyes.

If you do get banned you can contact support and prove you own both accounts and get it unbanned. After that it will be on record and I wouldn’t think it would be a problem.

I would suggest only small amounts of gold at a time. There is bound to be a threshold but ANet is not going to tell us what the thresholds are as gold sellers can use that information to their advantage.

Skeletonwitch.3280:

Might I know what the name was that was the problem? I’ve reported people with quite nasty names, but still see them play all the time. Just wondering what’s actually considered inappropriate.

Gaile has asked that people not post the inappropriate names in the forums.

You can still go ahead and make a character In order to play while you are waiting out the rest of the 7 days. You will just need to delete that character in order to transfer for free later.

Glad you were able to fix it. Pick a good name and have fun in game.

Lishtenbird.2814:

Rym.1469:

If your worst experience is buying the game, why do you still play it and post on forums ?

The 50$ (30$ if discounted) for 19 months of play was too much of a price to easily forget.

Let’s see.
$50 divided by 19 months is $2.63 a month.
$30 divided by 19 months is $1.57 a month.

I’ll assume it’s the $2.63 a month that you spent that is the price that too much to easily forget, not the $1.57 a month. Wow, I agree. That is pricy and I can totally understand your outrage and continuing to post on the forum of a game that was your worse experience. However, perhaps you can calculate a price per month that is acceptable, play until that time then uninstall and go to another game (and forum).

Cheers. ^^ I hope this helps you in letting go of a game you don’t like and on moving onto a game you do.

For an inappropriate name, the first time is normally a forced renaming only. You should be able to rename your character and then get back in the game. It’s only with a second inappropriate name that there is a 72 hour suspension from the game.

Have you tried to rename that character?

Maybe. Depends on how you play and whether or not you are still outfitting alts. It took my quite a long time and a fair amount of gold to get full exotics for 8 level 80s. I didn’t start accumulating gold till I was done with that.

To make money you have to farm, flip items in the trading post or run dungeons. If you just wander around you don’t make gold worth mentioning.

You need to say what you do with your play time for anyone to say.

I occasionally do champ trains in Frostgorge. I know Blackgate has one ongoing but since there are so many there it can be difficult to get to each boss in time and to get credit.

What I’m asking is there any other NA server that has a champ train usually up in FG?

Sigh.

I know if I delete them I’ll be sorry but I’m tired of having them filling up my inventory. We better be able to get something decent for them after holding on to them for weeks. >.>

Gaile Gray.6029:

I really don’t know what we can do, aside from the warning we already give, and (I believe) requiring that you input the character name a second time as confirmation that “Yes, I really want to do this.”

I’m pondering the next step: “Are you really really sure? Please signify by [insert some action here.” At some point, after giving warning and making it clear what is involved in the deletion of a character, we need to allow that process to happen. Putting too many hurdles to accomplishing a desired function can make the process irritating and non-user-friendly, after all.

I do want to say that I am sorry that you deleted in error and lost items.

You only type the character name in the one time and then hit delete. Since the warning about losing everything in your inventory is on the delete panel I doubt that making someone type the character name in twice will change anything. If he didn’t read the warning the first time he won’t read it just because he has to type the name in again.

Maybe a different response, something similar to this.

[Deleting a character will permanently destroy any items in that character’s inventory as well as any character-based unlocks associated with that character.

If you understand that you will lose everything in your inventory as well as any character based unlocks then type, I understand, into the space below. Then click accept:

I understand (click accept)

If you are certain you wish to delete “[Character Name],” type the name below and click “Delete.”]

Rauderi.8706:

It’s not the clipping that gets me so much, but the STRETCHING of robes and items that hang. Which, really, Charr armor needs a lot of redesigning. If you run on all fours, why in the name of common sense would you wear anything other than pants??

Ikr. They are wearing skirts in a lot of cases. Some of these leggings also have straps that hang down in front. Imagine putting a dog in a skirt that hangs down to the ground in front of the hind legs. Every step means the hind legs gets tangled up in all that cloth. It’s totally against logic to watch them run dressed like this.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Indeed. I don’t know if I usually play in what is considered ‘low-population’ maps, or not. And that depends on what is current as far as content on that day, as well as the time of day.

Will we even know when we are in a map that is using MegaServer implementation? (Other than the PvP lobby, of course.)

It is a little confusing. If, for example, I want to do Golem and right then my server has a low population map. I see according to the app that it’s on the starting event. When I wp over there, where will I end up? My server’s map with the starting event or some other server’s map?

DISTRICTS!

(Remove guesting and its limits to how many a day)

Instead of the suggested boss timers, maybe collapse all the non-city maps down to a few, for example, 10 permanent maps. Each map has it’s own set of timers going for the bosses and the regular non boss events, just like the current system. The bosses can be started with events just like they are now.

So, I want to do the golem event. I check the app and see its on the containers stage in map versions 3 and 8 and I chose map version 8 from a drop down menu on the UI, like choosing a district in Guild Wars 1. I travel to an open wp on that map and do the event. Rinse and repeat for other bosses.

This allows people to start bosses and events as they come up as they want To chose the bosses they want to do. To find high or low population maps and for people to easily get into the particular map they want.

There still is a problem with large guilds who want to do the hard events. What if they have some way to open up their own district on command with that boss with it’s triggering starting event? Maybe it would require a guild vote and once enough votes have been reached within a certain amount of time they can open the district. Only people in that guild or people they taxi in can access that district and it collapses a set period of time after the boss event is over.

The district method also allows role players to chose maps they want to congregate in. If they all know that map 7 is the favored role playing map then they can find each other easily.

For WvW you keep your chosen current server name and when traveling to WvW you travel and fight there the same as now.

That’s funny. It’s like the little boy swinging in the tree in the JP in WvW. In there for no real reason.

Events like the Maw often have way too many people. Shatterer and Jormag often have too few. Consolidating maps and then making additional instances as needed may solve both of these problems.

However the plans are not yet finalized. They set out a proposed plan and seeing what people think about it. The final plans will likely be substantially different.

While they might make an exception in your case, in general the rule is if “you” deleted it then it’s gone. They can’t tell the difference from you deleting something for whatever reason and another person doing so. Support has only so much time, personnel and resources. This means they have rules about what they will and won’t do.

You made a ticket so all you can do at this time is wait for an answer.

Hmmm. A second account does have its uses. Extra storage for one. Mailing money and items between two accounts is sometimes useful. Farming ori, ancient wood, rich nodes, etc… is useful if you have multiple level 80s. You can have one account on a NA server and the second on an EU server.

You can have one account as your main and the other for the storage and miscellaneous reasons since you already have the 2 accounts. I doubt it’s worth buying a second account for these reasons, but if you already have it you might as well take advantage of it.

I’ve seen this request before and the answer was no. They don’t have the tools to take a character from one account and put it in another. Plus there are other problems.

Here is an answer for Guild Wars 1 and while not completely relevant it covers some of the same points.

https://forum.guildwars.com/forum/forums/accounts/2-account-merge/page/1

“We have very clear responses when players ask about this subject: We cannot merge accounts. The programming for each account is too complicated to allow us to simply “mash it all together” into one account. What about account-based titles? Access keys? Creation dates? Whose guild and alliance affiliation does the account assume? What PvP name? What about account violations? It truly is not possible to merge accounts.”

Many of the problems are the same. Account based titles. Account creation dates (what happens in a merged account when you type /age in chat for example). Serial numbers, which is kept? Is a new one made? Account violations. What if one account is almost at a stage to be banned and then the procedure to ban is finalized after a merge but the other is squeaky clean? What if there is a problem with ownership of one account but not the other? All cause problems with merging 2 accounts.

Imo having the bosses spawn once at a time with hours between any one boss spawn is going to have a couple of serious drawbacks.

1) it will promote the zerg. Everyone who is doing bosses will wp to boss A, kill it then wp to boss B, kill it then wp to boss C, and so on. They do that already to some extent but since there are more than one boss at one time and on different servers, the zerg doesn’t stay together for more than a couple of bosses.
2) if people are playing at fixed times for fixed amounts of time then they will see the exact same bosses day after day. They won’t have the easy access to all the bosses.

What I think ANet should do is have at least 3 bosses spawning in a time block. With 3 bosses at a time to go to it will give people a better chance of seeing each boss within their play time frame and also break up the zerg in a natural manner.

@ZudetGambeous

Idk if you’ll be able to cycle through and get unlimited amounts. It may keep a running count per area map. For example, I run my alts through FG daily. Even if I were to guest, I’m still limited to 2 ori and 2 ancient wood per character for the FG map. In other words, once I get the 2 nodes of each on one FG map I can’t then guest to another FG map and get another set of nodes. It’s a fixed hard limit to the number of nodes each character can gather.

Now other nodes, such as iron, silver, etc.. may be different. The orichalcum/ancient wood seems to function more like permanent rich nodes. Once you gather a permanent rich node on a map you can’t guest and gather it again until after reset.

I wouldn’t mind if they added a lesser title (with no Gifts of Exploration).

For fully exploring PvE only, a silver star and some sort of title such a Been to a Lot of Places. Anyone who then wants the gold star, the gifts of exploration and the more prestigious title can go explore WvW. The PvE people can be content with the lesser title.

When deleting a character there is a notification on the delete panel which says:

Deleting a character will permanently destroy any items in that character’s inventory as well as any character-based unlocks associated with that character.
If you are certain you wish to delete “[Character Name],” type the name below and click “Delete.”

So, it specifically DOES warn you in the delete panel that it will permanently destroy any items in that character’s inventory. If you didn’t read the warning that was right in front of you, what else would you have them do?

I think it was on September 13, 2013. I don’t recall seeing any posts saying why but it appears to be tied in with the introduction of Essences of Luck and with Ascended crafting.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/2013-09-03

*Drips of Liquid Karma from champion loot bags have been replaced with Piles of Bloodstone Dust.
*Open world bosses, temple bosses, WvW keeps, and castles now drop Dragonite Ore in addition to their regular loot, which can only be earned once per day per location.
*Dungeons, minidungeons, jumping puzzles, WvW camps, and towers now drop Empyreal Fragments in addition to their regular loot, which can only be earned once per day per location.
*Daily and monthly achievement rewards now include Essence of Luck. To offset this, the amount of karma earned from daily and monthly achievements has been reduced.
*Event failure no longer rewards karma in order to encourage players to succeed at events.
*Liquid Karma dropped from dungeon end chests have been replaced with Empyreal Fragments.
*Ascended weapons can now drop anywhere ascended materials or other ascended items can be found.
*Loot dropped by the Karka Queen has been improved; she also has a chance to drop Settler’s inscriptions.
*Sentinel’s inscriptions can now be purchased from the guild vendor.
*Salvaging exotic items now produces Globs of Dark Matter.
*Salvaging fine and masterwork items now produces Essence of Luck.
*Salvaging Globs of Ectoplasm now produces Essence of Luck.