Guild Wars 2

They was a really nice Orrian hammer I got as a drop. It was huge, had an irregular rocky shape and dripped water from it. It was called The Orrian Smasher.

http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gw2-orrian-smasher1.jpg

I’m sure y’all already know about this gallery, but it’s worth looking over.
http://dulfy.net/2013/01/20/gw2-hammer-skins-gallery/

I was surprised that we couldn’t replay the personal story. In GW1, you could redo missions and fill out books which could be turned in for experience, money and advancement for various titles. It was a great system which kept people busy. I guess the reason why this game doesn’t have it is because of the branching but I would like them to put in replayability like they had.

I suspect the problem is the Charr. The way they stand and move makes it difficult to match dances to them and still look good. Any new dances would either have to exclude them or be separately crafted to fit them. It’s extra work for a frill when the Devs are busy squashing bugs, balancing classes, or making new content. It’s not that its a bad idea or that I wouldn’t like to see a dance vender. It’s just that I think they have too much other stuff they are trying to do now and small stuff like this are far down on the list. Maybe in a year or so when they aren’t trying to get a new game going smoothly.

It doesn’t sound fair to the people who never played Guild Wars 1 or didn’t get past 30 points. ANet told us we would get certain skins and certain titles. To change the rules now would cause a kittenstorm of complaining from all the many people who would have no access to the new way of getting things. How would ANet possibly benefit from doing this?

1) a lot of people would be angry and complaining. People aren’t going to say, oh it’s ok. In 7 years or so I will get rewards like that when Guild Wars 3 comes out.
2) it wouldn’t cause people to buy Guild Wars 1, as it would take a long time to get the points starting from zero. Plus, they want people playing this game so their concordence (the number of people who log in daily) is high, not going off to play other games.
3) there would be people quitting because of favoritism and giving ANet bad press.
4) this wouldn’t effect sales from people who already have Guild Wars 1. Most of those people have either already bought the game or are not planning to.

So where is the advantage to ANet to do as you suggest? They want you to look forward into playing their new game. Not be constantly looking back at their old one.

For the record, I have 50/50 in the HoM and a GWAMM title and I feel this suggestion is unfair to the majority of players.

If you account was hacked, you can ask for a rollback of your account to that date. You will of course lose everything from that day forward and they may refuse to do a rollback if you give stuff to other people, as that looks like you are trying to get around losing items. Basically you will need to stop playing the game until you get the rollback so that you don’t do anything that would cause then to refuse.

It’s possible for players to either accidentally or on purpose stop the event from proceeding by killing the first wave of grawl that come to look at the snownorn army. If those are killed then they can’t go back, get the grawl shaman and keep the event going.

TL:DR
The grawl army needs to be made invulnerable. If they die the event stops proceeding and Rani stands there until server reset.

Pretty much if you want it, one way or another you have to pay for it. You either drag out your credit card, start farming for money or do without. At least the game allows you to get it for “free” by paying with in game money. Guild Wars 1 didn’t allow this and I suspect most other games don’t also.

Ronah.2869:

I will develop your idea into something more elaborate called:
Surprise Activity

They can add these “suspicious bushes” in all zones all over the places and when you click them, some surprise will pop up:

- 1 to 5 foes will jump from it in a random generated number
- 1 chest will pop up with different goods in it
- you will get teleported to another place in the same zone doe to some asura malfunctioning device hidden in that bush
- you will get poisoned, wounded, etc for a few seconds
- you will get different crafting materials

he more varied surprises will be added to these bushes, the more people will trigger them while exploring. These would be GW2’s “treasure chests” spread around the world and not just in some specific caves/clifs

+1 for bringing up this

Lol. If they did that I would be triggering every bush I came across.

While some of the stuff you get in the HoM is really only better than starter gear in appearance, others are quite nice. The Flaming Dragon Sword, of course but also the Wayward Wand and the Gnarled Walking Stick which are both nice for a necro for example. The Fell blade has dark smoke coming off it and the Living Shortbow is especially suited for Sylvari. Not to mention the titles you can wear.

I don’t think tho that the HoM rewards should be increased in some manner. You got them for playing the old game. This is a new game with new rewards. What we got was enough and a lot more than the others players get.

Yah, if you attract all that aggro, I would use ash legion spy kits and try to work my way to the skill point. It doesn’t help completely if the creatures are hitting your area with AOE, but it’s worth having them as a back up method to drop aggro.

The loot bags I saw from the Skritt were purplish, iirc, and glowed. I doubt you get any unless you do that particular event.

Great idea. Even if it was only was a skin wardrobe per character, where each one was able to collect the only the ones it could wear it still would be an improvement over what we have now. Right now you can either
1) change to a new skin and lose the old one, forcing you to rebuy if you want to change back or
2) store old skins in the bank, which is expensive if you have exotic armor and have to buy a new set for each skin.
The system in place now discourages people from changing the way they look, since they are penalized for dong so.

It would encourage people to buy skins from the trading post.

It would be nice to have a weapon skin wardrobe also, for that matter.

alfista.6094:

How much are unidentified dyes being sold for at the moment? And could someone give me a rough price for Abyss? Thanx

GW2Spidy is your friend ^^
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/20323 unidentified dye
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/20356 abyss dye

Maybe just change it to not-so-clearly-male as Shirou suggested. It looks peculiar on my female necro. Some sort of large, green and black undead creature that is not obviously male.

I was running alts thru cities getting area completion on them and thinking, what a waste of effort for the Devs to make these cities. No one there except people doing crafting (a very few) or area completion. Except for LA there is no reason to be there. Some suggestions.

1) dynamic events in cities. Ebonhawke, which is something like a city, has a couple of dynamic events and a quest (reading all the books is order to give you an achievement). It keeps you in there to do them. A real city has problems that need to be solved, not just pretty scenery. There are robberies and murders for example that could be solved. Bandits that could turn hostile when you locate them thru the quest line. Something, ANYTHING, to make the cities feel alive and not just painted backdrops.

2) quests. I know the Devs don’t want to use quests in the game, but cities may be one place that could use them. As WoodenPotatos said, the cities feel hollow.

Reditt discussion and video: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/18lkjj/woodenpotatoes_on_traditional_quests_and_feeling/

3) add the mini games that they said we would have, to different cities and give progress to a title thru them like the titles in Guild Wars 1 such as the party title.

4) for the role players, open up some of the houses so people can go inside.

5) add free waypoints from anywhere in the game to the center of any city. Divinities Reach has a gorgeous central area that no one uses. A free waypoint there would encourage people to go there and if others are around to stay awhile. It would greatly reduce the traffic to/thru LA and cut down on the overflows if people were able to stop using the Mists to LA feature and just go to cities directly. It would encourage people to use the other cities banks and crafting tables.

6) add some hearts to each city and make the hearts redoable after a period of time with a small reward of some sort, maybe a token that can go toward buying a weapon or armor skin from a local vender.

Really, it’s too individual. My first was a Ranger and I liked that. My second was a Guardian and I was surprised to like that one better. I wouldn’t have guessed for the Guardian to turn out to be my favorite. You will just have to try them out, maybe in the Mists where you have access to all your traits and skills.

Apparently there is a cooldown between revives. It may be there to stop people from repeatedly suiciding themselves by leaping off high places so that others can rez them.

A good low level spot for revives is the Thaumanova Reactor in Metrica. Lots of dead NPCs in there.

I bought a couple of keys early on. Then after I found out what sort of items were in there and the drop rate, not after that. The keys cost more than the items you are likely to get are worth. I think the most I would be willing to pay, with real money, is about a quarter.

As someone else said on another related thread, “a magic hand comes out of your monitor and slaps you”.

It kind of depends on the armor type. The dyes do vary depending on the type. i know scarlet is very red on most cloth armors. Raspberry is a bright red on my warrior.

Glad this will finally be in game. Great addition to the trading post.

@oxolate
It’s a bug. I was farming exp on my level 59 necro in Wayfarers. I normally get level appropriate exp but on one quest I only got level one exp. I jumped to another part of the same zone, did an event and got level appropriate exp. jumped back to the previous spot and got level appropriate exp.

I didn’t report it as a bug at the time because I was confused. Lol. It’s a bug. You should get level appropriate rewards. The DR is only for material rewards. If it happens again I will report it so the Devs will know.

You sure you have all the necessary ingredients? You might need the holiday ingredients such as all the snowflakes or candy corn. Also, some discoveries require items that are made of others, such as the sauces or pizzas, as one of the ingredients.

Personal guilds, get them. You can buy influence and get bank slots that way to store all your junk. Or you could sell the stuff you will never need/use for money and open up slots that way.

I think it’s cheaper to have multiple banks with 50 slots each than one bank with 250 slots. One bank with 50 slots is about 8 gold so you can get 5 banks with 250 slots total for about 40 gold.

I think I’ve encountered a couple of invisible walls between boulders or a boulder and a wall. It’s not very frequent or something that really needs the Devs to take time to locate each one and fix. Every game is going to have stuff like that. Just go around.

I’m having trouble with this one also. I’ve tried it twice, once a month ago and again a few days ago. Can’t find 2 of the cell door unlocks even after going all over the platform. Reported it as a bug both times.

Infernia.9847:

I too am looking for a torch with a blue flame. So far I’ve found only two:
Warden’s Torch <— I think my Charr guardian is out of luck on this one
Fractal Torch

I hope more are available out there.

You can buy and use other races cultural weapons, just not the armor. For example, my Sylvari Mesmer is using Asuran cultural weapons.

schizandra.4587:

Wait… how do you guys know whether the Sylvari have sex? Was that actually in the lore??

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sylvari
Romance and sex is practiced among the sylvari, disregarding gender between those involved. To a sylvari, love is about inspiration, and it has nothing at all to do with the physical form.

My character is stuck on the low level personal story, Beneath The Waves, where I have to rescue Tegwen from the kraits. My problem is I kill the kraits, get the key, then I can only unlock one of the 3 prisoner cells. I have tried it twice, once a month or so ago and again yesterday. Reported it as a bug both times but I wanted to check and see if maybe it’s not a bug and I am just doing something wrong. I haven’t found anyone else reporting this as bugged. Is there something that needs to be done to unlock the other 2 cells? I go over the platform repeatedly but no prompts appear.

Good luck with your survey and please do let us see your results.

I think I have seen her, once some time back. Sorry, dont remember the location (wiki says Obscura Incline area). Iirc she was standing against the area border surrounded by her rabbits. I remember because I spoke to her but there wasn’t any event connected to her or anything and I thought it was a little strange. So I would try to go all along the border and see if you run into her.

Found this question in wiki which may reference the location.
[edit] snrif’s rabbits
anyone know if these have any use, he is at the other end of the lake north of hydrone unit waypoint. —Mistress Denna Grey 84.106.87.77 17:59, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Picture of her I found. http://evil-is-relative.deviantart.com/art/Snrif-and-her-Rabbits-328270219

Yah. This title badly needs to be modified in some manner. All the others are reasonable but with only 3 giants in the game, 2 of them champions, this is going to take a long time to accomplish. They either need to lower the number required, increase the number of giants (and be regular mobs or no more than veterans) or make risen giants count. The game is going to end up with 1000s of people camping the spawn site of the giant in the Diessa Plateau, trying to advance their title. And won’t that be fun.

There are a lot of posts about the Mystic Forge, aka the Mystic Toilet. While some people are lucky, others have poured literally hundreds of gold worth of materials into and lost it all. It’s recommended that you set a limit on the amount of money you are willing to lose and not to exceed that. That way you won’t get to the end of a session with it and be penniless.

The gathering tools also need to be area appropriate. That is, copper for the 1 to 15 area. Iron for the 15 to 25 area, and so on. Most merchants sell them and a fair number of heart NPCs will sell one type, like axes, for karma which will save you money.

Oh my gosh, the costumes they had in Guild Wars 1. Beautiful or funny AND wearable in combat. I want that back.

And it doesn’t always work for me. Sometimes I have to drag several times before the option to split shows up.

I wasn’t having problems (I’m in Texas) but the people I was with, from the Detroit area, were. They were having lag and one was kicked twice from the game. Maybe it depends on where you are from?

Also, you said today. What time period was that? The time my guildies were having problems was about 6pm CT.

It’s possible to leap over the buildings into the Salma District. When you do that it is no longer restricted to 5 people. There are a few open houses in there.

The way I got in there I got on the pathway to the vista near it, used a speed boost and a leap skill and leaped over the nearest roof.

I seem to recall that being in a group increases your chance of loot. That a certain amount of damage as to be done before you get a chance for loot to drop and the damage from party members to the same mob adds to your own.

I’ve noticed in Orr, the difference between the amount of loot I get when soloing and when I partied with random people doing the same event.

ANet should make this very public to encourage people to party up.

I agree with this. I have started using the events in this area to quickly level my alts and there are not enough mobs for the number of people there. I do usually get at least silver so that hasn’t been a problem but its hard to even tag the mobs as they are overwhelmed by the number of people. It’s a fun area and great for leveling alts so I wouldn’t want it nerfed in some way to discourage people from being there.

I miss the eternal tonics we could use to change into other people/creatures and still be able to go out into combat with them.
A friend and I used to do things such as team up, both change into Jora and both take Jora as a hero, then all take a team of 4 Joras and other heroes into combat. It was funny to see.

Vol.5241:

what’s the skin like? sellable?

My guess is it just has a regular starting staff skin. It’s not listed in the Dulfy weapons skin gallery.
http://dulfy.net/2012/11/13/gw2-staff-skin-gallery/

My Ritualist armor, especially the Asuran which looked like feathers. I would dye it blue and it looked like I was wearing long blue jay feathers. sigh They had so much more varied armor in that game.

Well this is a new and annoying development. Some people will actively look for ways to bend the rules to grief others. What I would recommend then, if you are alone and want to afk or just check the TP is to go to the Mists to do that. You will return to the same spot when you hit Leave The Mists. A bit of a bother but better than being griefed like that.

LithePanther.5027:

Hm. Iirc it’s somewhere in the chat settings but i’m not 100% on that

Kk. Guess I’ll look at chat settings next time I’m on. Looks like a nice option. It would be better than checking the guild roster or friends to see if people are on.

LithePanther.5027:

They need to be on your friends list

And then what? Do you select something in chat options?

I sell my unidentified dyes. I used to identify them but with such a large price difference you are better off selling them and then buying the ones you want. The chance of getting lucky and finding a high value dye is too low.

I believe what you were doing sounds like player skill, not an exploit. ^^ I would consider an exploit to be if you found a gap in the mechanics or pathway, not kiting them using your skills to the best advantage.

Whoever designed the armor in this game reeaalllyy likes long skirts with the front part open and trench coat type armor. It’s not that the look is bad, it’s just that there are so few other options. The lack of variety is boring. Too many sets of armor look the same.

They would probably make these items account bound as they don’t want people converting karma to gold. However that sounds like a good idea. The drop rates on these items are awful and there aren’t enough uses for karma right now.