Guild Wars 2

I would love to have my weapon choices on my screen, only two (or one) useable in combat. Selectable out of combat. Whichever are “popped out” are the ones that can be used at that time. I like to switch weapons, not only to keep combat fresh but because different encounters need different weapons. It’s inefficient to have to open up the hero panel or inventory to get them. If you have gotten a lot of drops then you have to search for them amongst all the other stuff.

Personally I hope they leave the safe zones. My computer can only handle the lowest settings for these events and even then the lag and fps are bad. The fight often resembles a freeze frame disco and would be impossible if it required dodging. I doubt I am the only person with these problems.

Don’t forget the Charr or the Slyvari. ^^ I carefully selected a nice fur pattern on my Charr and a skin pattern with glow on my Sylvari and the armor I have covers them. Both of them needs armor, low level and max, that show them off. Specifically, “skimpy” armor. For the Charr: loin cloth, chest straps, wrist and ankle bands. For the Sylvari: any human type skimpy armor.

I’ve gotten 2 exotic drops total, one while in Orr and one (a piece of jewelry) from the maw. I don’t remember how many rares I had gotten before the change to the chests but it wasn’t very many. The chests are what I am using to get rares for my alts while leveling them and for when they reach 80.

Karizee.8076:

Your elite skills are not locked out, you need to select them when you are underwater XD

Not all the elites. For example, elementalists have 4 regular elites and depending on race, 3 or 4 racial elites. Of all those, only one can be used underwater and that is a 30 point skill. Which means it will be highly unlikely you can get it at level 30. Which also means you can’t select them, you can only select it when you finally get enough skill points.

Sounds more along the lines of dreadlocks, using vines to look like the dreads.

You might make more money by running alts thru the events that give you chests but its at least partially offset by the money you lose while leveling alts in low level areas and the cost of buying armor and weapons. Particularly if you get full exotics for each.

A good question, as there are privacy issues involved. One way to find out is to arrange it with a friend, one to block and then both to check and see the effect of it. If you block someone and they can still see that you are on line or what map you are in, that can be a concern.

I’ve made a storage guild. I don’t rep into it every day but even when I do it doesn’t seem to count. However I admit I had forgotten about the overflow thing and that’s probably part of it. Maybe if I rep briefly while actually out in the game world rather than just in LA, maybe that would make a difference.

Here is a few of what you are looking for, mixed in with other stuff.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Environmental_weapons

The flamethrower is listed in there.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Flamethrower_
I guess you are talking about the one you can get during the Claw of Jormag?

When you combine long cooldowns and elites being weak, it means people simply forget about them. I was doing the champion giant group event in diessa plateau and close to the end realized I hadn’t used my elite. I popped my glyph of elementals, it ran over to the giant and promptly died. My autoattacks did more damage than it. What’s the use of using an elite skill that isn’t elite.

I remember now. There was a thread about this hairstyle and its unavailability during the betas. It’s puzzling why it’s not offered as a choice. It’s already in game so adding it would be a fairly minimal fix.

http://dandyfashioner.blogspot.com/2009/09/art-of-color-what-colors-go-well.html
“Take for example: Blue, Yellow and Red. They form a basic color triangle that will match the colors well. This is why you can wear a navy blazer, a red pocket square and yellow tie with gray slacks or khakis and you will look great.”

For real? Blue jacket, yellow tie, red handkerchief, and gray pants? Maybe I have to actually see this combination but it sounds gawdawful. This piece of fashion advice negates that whole article.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

Also, if you have at least 3 guild members in the party, it will generate an extra 100 influence for each event you succeed at.

Are you sure of this? I commonly play with 2 other guild members over a period of several hours, doing events as they come up, and I haven’t seen this +100 influence boost per event in the guild panel.

I noticed excessive aggro on my ranger. When he was wearing rare knight’s armor in Orr, the mobs would target him and ignore everyone else. Once he got exotic knight’s socketed with ruby orbs, aggro dropped down to normal levels.

It’s definitely a problem when you mix and match different armor sets. The colors often won’t be the same. The coat may be darker than the leggings, for example, even though the dye and the materials are the same. Sometimes you can get around it by finding a similar color, lighter or darker, and using that to make it match.

It can be frustrating to look things up if you are unsure how to find it. I recommend first asking a guildie. If they can’t help you then ask in local in game chat. You should be able to get almost every question answered that way.

Wasn’t that taken out after one of the betas? I seem to recall some wailing and gnashing of teeth concerning it.

Definition of troll.
In Internet slang, a troll (pron.: /?tro?l/, /?tr?l/) is someone who posts inflammatory,¹ extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as a forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response² or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_

While I don’t think you are trolling, I do think you need to first check the Internet or ask your guildies for answers to questions. If you can’t get answers there, THEN you post questions on the forum. Forums are used to answer questions that you can’t easily get elsewhere. A question like, where can I get an exotic hammer, is easily answered either by wiki or your guildies.

The closest way I can describe how I feel about the way they implemented town clothes is this. Lets say you live somewhere for several years and there is a feature offered that you liked a lot and used all the time. Then you move to somewhere else, under the same management. There is the same feature there, and it costs about the same amount of money but it is markedly inferior. So your options are either to suck it up, pay the money OR refuse this inferior product. While some people may be willing to pay my decision was to say no. No money from me until this is fixed. I know my money is only a drop in the bucket but I can’t justify to myself rewarding them for offering an inferior product.

I do the Maw occasionally and I feel that it could use a buff. Increase the number of grawl after the first stage and the Shaman have more health and maybe have ice elementals spawn at the last stage. I usually get at least silver if not gold rewards but not always. Sometimes I don’t get a reward at all. There are so many people there trying to tag a handful of mobs, it’s just crazy there.

Basharic.1654:

Astral Projections.7320:

Basharic.1654:

Buy the new stuff, choose the leather hoodie, buy aviators cap. Equip on Charr.

Bomber pilot Charr is awesome Charr. Don’t believe me? Go preview it. My buddy already has it. I’m waiting to see if anything I want goes on sale this month.

It’s nice enough. But to me it’s not worth spending the money for the 5 minutes a day that I spend in LA, IF I remember to toggle town clothes on, which I usually don’t.

For me that’s the real sticking point. The cost/benefit ratio is to far towards cost and not enough towards benefit. I badly wanted the Mad King costume and I would have bought it if this game had the Guild Wars 1 system. But I’m not going to spend money on something that I won’t use because its main use is in town only. I’m not in town enough to buy an item, that is an in town item only.

I can respect that. But your post makes me wonder, you do know that you can activate town clothes anywhere in the world right? You can literally live in them until you take damage, then the game puts you back into combat armor.

I use my mad king get up to pass the time waiting on my ever-late guild mates, pretty much any time I’m idle, in some JPs, and on long runs. I also like to costume brawl so I have that going for me.

I have any eye towards the new stuff for my second Charr, just to replace the hideous clothes they get.

Yah, I’m aware that I could be doing that. I’m just not interested in continuously toggling town clothes after each fight or falling damage or whatever. I spent 4 years in Guild Wars 1 where, if you put a costume on and went out into combat, by golly it stayed on. You didn’t have to be constantly fiddling around with it. This here is an inferior system and I don’t wish to reward ANet for it by buying town clothes.

Basharic.1654:

Buy the new stuff, choose the leather hoodie, buy aviators cap. Equip on Charr.

Bomber pilot Charr is awesome Charr. Don’t believe me? Go preview it. My buddy already has it. I’m waiting to see if anything I want goes on sale this month.

It’s nice enough. But to me it’s not worth spending the money for the 5 minutes a day that I spend in LA, IF I remember to toggle town clothes on, which I usually don’t.

For me that’s the real sticking point. The cost/benefit ratio is to far towards cost and not enough towards benefit. I badly wanted the Mad King costume and I would have bought it if this game had the Guild Wars 1 system. But I’m not going to spend money on something that I won’t use because its main use is in town only. I’m not in town enough to buy an item, that is an in town item only.

Didn’t you already ask this question?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/where-can-i-get-an-exotic-hammer/first#post1612284

And this post also that you started.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/would-a-fire-hammer-cof-look-ok/first#post1617219

It’s not necessary to make multiple threads with the same question or on the same subject, just update your original old thread if you have additional questions.

What was really fun (not) was figuring out how to get into glitched areas to get extra amount uncovered. Like the ones where you had to send a pet through a portal using a particular skill then jump to it when it had reached as far as it could go. You could sometimes get in between two portals doing that and explore.

I’ve tried the mystic toilet a few times. It’s frustrating and unfun. I hate losing repeatedly, no skill involved and no chance of learning how to to better, and this feels to much like gambling, which I also don’t like. It dislike it so much, it made me decide to not even try for a legendary.

CassieGold.7460:

Here’s the deal with chef ‘rare’ dyes. It’s not a garuntee of a rare. It’s a chance of anything up to rare. Likewise, if you craft one of the masterwork dyes, you may get a common dye back…. but you won’t have a chance of a rare at all.

Oh, you got to be kidding. >.> I hadn’t made one because I hadn’t wanted to use all those mats, but I assumed from the name (masterwork, rare or whatever) that would be what I would get. What is it with this game and its fetish with RNG?

Do it thru the guild bank. One person puts the money in and the other takes it out, that what me and a couple of guildies did to get us all to 200 gold.

Why, oh why can’t we have costumes wearable in combat? Like this other game I used to play called Guild Wars 1. Maybe you have heard of it? I loved the Aegis of Unity costume, (ok, maybe not the hat). It looked like embroidered silk and, what’s more, could be worn in combat.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/File:Aegis_outfit_f_dye_chart.jpg

And the wiki site with what they had.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Costumes

Of course they won’t bring back the same items. But how about similar stuff?

My guardian and my necro uses the scepter on a regular basis. But probably necro is your best bet of the two. It’s my necro’s main weapon and it’s my guardian’s backup weapon.

Halcyon Havoc.7305:

Noticed it again a few days ago. Sometimes it’s an obvious yawn by a female NPC and it’s spaced out, but other times it is spammed quickly at least 10 times in a row. It’s extremely distracting and loud.

She had a busy night, not much sleep.

It’s definitely designed to be a game for casuals. I seem to remember reading a blog post from ANet sometime before launch, which I can’t seem to locate now, which indicated that they expected there would be people that come and go in their game. To play a while, leave and play another game then come back for updates then leave again. That the game was designed with this sort of player in mind. That’s exactly what people did with Guild Wars 1. Play for a while, leave for a few months and come back. I did that myself.

I can just see it now. Some guy buying an item on the trading post, gets hit by lag and doesn’t realize it. Click (tries to buy but fails) hmmm he says. Click again (fails) grrrr. Click again (WTF! He says, what’s going on?). Click. Click. Click. Success. Goes to Trading Post to pick up. Finds 6 new items, lets say a named exotic costing 50 gold each where he only wanted one. Checks out his bank balance. 5 copper. “Gosh, Gee Whilikers”. He exclaims. “I guess I learned a hard but necessary lesson here. Oh well, back to farming.”

Bonefield.9813:

Lyenyo.2891:

My god, these had to have been made by the most uninspired artist in the world.

Surely they want to make money… give us something flashy !

Most of the town clothes to date have been pretty flashy. I’ve been dying for something that just looks like casual, every day clothing and not an event/activity-specific costume, and the more of that they add, the more I’m likely to buy it.

I did almost hold off, because I think the whole town clothing system could use a rework (along with the transmutation and armor storage systems in general, but that’s a whole other subject). But more regular town clothing is something I’ve been asking for since launch, so they got my money. And I’m really pleased with how it looks on my Mesmer, since it fits his image and personality.

There is nothing wrong with the way they look. But they are only good if you role play or stand in LA for long periods of time. I don’t roleplay and I’m not in LA except at the end of a game period when I am going over my inventory while chatting with friends. If they don’t have costumes that can be worn in combat, then for me, they are useless.

Pirlipat.2479:

Are they townclothes or armorskins?

Town clothes. Useless town clothes.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s just another way for me to save money by not buying items in a failed cosmetic system. Every time I look at the town clothes I remember how much money I spent on costumes in Guild Wars 1 versus the zero money I have spent here. I’m voting with my dollars and if everyone did that, maybe they would change the way they handle costumes.

Lane.3410:

GW2 has to be the first game I’ve played where there’s a distinct lack of skimpy plate armor. My warrior is a Sylvari and it irks me to no end that I can’t find anything (besides Barbaric) that shows off her lovely markings and glow.

sigh Yeah it would be nice to show off my sylvari’s glow with skimpy armor. http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/File:Warrior_Elite_Gladiator_armor_f.jpg

Go to the PvP area and try out different professions there to see which one you would prefer to level. You will be level 80 there with all traits and skills. You will be able to make or delete professions and change gear till you find what you like. Try all the professions. At least that way you can get an idea of which one you will like the best. And it may surprise you. I preferred ranged in Guild Wars 1 but am finding that I really like the hammer guardian here.

What I would like to know is, does their system make them more money than the more relaxed Guild Wars 1 system? Whoever designed it must have thought so but to me it seems like lost sales to them. Why did they think that more restrictions would increase sales?

Guild Wars 1 vs. Guild Wars 1
1) all toons could wear a costume vs. only one at a time can wear
2) storage NPC vs. take up scarce room in inventory.
3) can wear at all times including combat vs. only while not in combat. Which essentially means only in town for most people.
4) set up to toggle on/off automatically vs. manual toggle. Which means most people don’t use town clothes/costumes because they don’t remember to do so in the scarce times they are in town.

The people who set up this system must have thought it would bring in more money per customer. Or they thought people would spend hours doing costume brawl and it would be a major mini game. Since people only rarely do costume brawl, maybe they should look hard at remaking the game to support the Guild Wars 1 system.

They had some really nice armor in that game. sigh
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ritualist_armor
http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/1/17/Ritualist_Asuran_armor_f.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Necromancer_armor
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ranger_armor
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Warrior_armor
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Mesmer_armor
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Mesmer_masks

Go to Orr. Nothing says a wedding like mobs racing towards you chanting, Death, Good! :-P

Tyvm. I use this site and have recommended it to others. :-)

winterlove.6834:

what do you mean by mats? are mats ectos?

Mats (materials) are all the miscellaneous stuff that creatures drop, such as venom sacs, blood, claws, bones, and stuff like ore and wood which are used in crafting. The Tier 5 mats generally average 1 silver plus some copper each. The Tier 6 ones might be as much as 20 plus silver each but they drop much more rarely. When you get mats to sell, your best bet is to sell them on the trading post, matching the lowest seller not the highest buyer. If you are willing to wait for your money but get more, then sell for more than what the lowest seller is asking.

I think it depends on how long you are planning to play this game. If only for a couple more months at most then yes, gamble with the Mystic Toilet. If you plan to play for longer than that then you should do the slow and steady method. The odds are extremely high that you will not get anything if you gamble and throwing all your money away like that can be very disheartening. So, it depends on how long you plan to play and how willing you are to be disappointed.

Definetly keep both ranged and melee weapons available. I often start out with rifle as I am approaching, switch to melee when I get close enough and dodge out and switch back to ranged when my health gets low. Also, like the people already said, don’t just stand there and hit it. Circle strafe around it continuously as you fight to avoid damage.

You might want to watch enigmius1, his Guild Wars 2 videos. I can’t seem to put up a link right now for some reason. But it was called Surviving Tyria: Beginners guide to mobility.

winterlove.6834:

lol people say that but i havnt been able to collect much gold i got all ascalon gear too

any combanation of those stats would be fine get i get it with dungeon tokens somewhere

Do you sell mats you collect on the trading post? Some go for a pretty good price. Try the higher level zones and farm events and mobs. Sell whatever you get on the trading post. It’s quite possible to get good money that way.

Also be sure and party up whenever possible and all of you target the same mobs. Not only do you farm faster but the drop are improved if you party up.

Another thing to do is to find out what mats are needed to craft what you want, get these together by farming or buying and either craft it yourself or get a guild member to craft it. That’s almost always cheaper for the high level items.

I have 5 level 80s and working on the other 3. It’s one way to keep combat fresh if you rotate among 8 different professions. I had one of each profession in Guild Wars 1 also and played them all.

(Tuluum.9638
Honestly, I think the biggest improvement in PvE content in any game will come with advancing AI. Programmers have yet to come even close to the unpredictability and “fight” of a person controlling what happens. Might even be interesting to implement a system where in the large event DEs a programmer, or predesignated player, takes control of the NPC. It could serve as a good placeholder until AI gets to a more capable level. edit: You might even be able to make it a part of the group/party mechanic where predesignated players of the group would take on the roles of the different “big baddies” in the main boss fights of dungeons, fractals, etc. Though, it would be extremely open to exploitation obviously.)

You know, it really would be awesome if the dragons could be human controlled. If they don’t want to pay people to do it then maybe they could have a list where people could sign up for it or guilds could pay influence for the chance.

I think this game could use a tutorial where you actually get taught how to do combos and the various fight mechanics. Right now it feels like too many people don’t have a grasp of how to take advantage of other profession’s skills or how to put skills down for others to use. When people don’t know this then every fight becomes a straight out dps fight with no interactions.

You have to be reported and then a ANet employee checks the reports and decides whether or not to ban. If it was automatic, it could ban you for saying something like reputation, because the filter sees a bad word in it.