Transformation tonics with1 hour effects. Useable in combat and no cooldown. (Like the Guild Wars 1 tonics). Wonderful for those who want to play for a while as a new race, different gender, role play as a different person/NPC.
I’ve gotten the impression from what they’ve previously said that it’s not currently possible. That the races and professions are hard set at character creation and they don’t have the tools to go in and change them. They also have specifically said they can’t make changes to your personal story if you choose the wrong path and want to switch (which ties in with parts of the character being unchangeable).
It’s not just a cosmetic change. Races are firmly tied into their personal story, (such as racial sympathy choice which changes the NPCs in your home instance), cultural armor, home instance, racial skills, etc. A race change would mean they would either have to go in and change all that (and they may not be able to) or have races with other races’ specialties, such as an Asura with the Charr racial skills.
I doubt anyone who has taken the time to do Map Completion would be happy with this work around or any work around for that matter hardly seems sporting.
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Yah. That’s proposing that a gift of exploration should be handed out to anyone who can make an alt, run it through the WvW maps, get the gift then delete and repeat as wanted to get another.
It’s not even remotely half the amount of time and effort the people who did map 100% put in.
I think ANet should first of all re-examine the way champs in newbie zones were nerfed out of existence. Was that really necessary to fix the champ train syndrome? What are the better alternatives to keep the Champ-quality Raid available for newbies, and yet prevent veteran players from dominating those newbie zone dynamic events?
One idea (I have not thought this through at all, so it can be a really bad idea!) comes to mind is make the champ event occurrence random, rather than time-based. Another idea is, perhaps in mega-event server algorithm, add something so that lower level characters can elect to be placed on the “newbie” mega server, away from high level characters intrusion. This "newbie’ mega server is not available to high level characters. It’s for NPE experience.
An existing account’s lowbie character, though, may choose this “newbie” mega server.
( I had posted in another thread to suggest “play style choice” such as “Light RP”, “Lore RP”, “Combat Academy”, in mega server selection. This is in the same vein of that “play style choice”.)
In case a new player has an old friend who is level 80 that wants to join him, then they will both be placed on normal server, where the friend can certainly help, but this won’t bother other new players.
I hope all newbies forever can have the NPE we beta players had.
Maybe bring back the champs in the starter zones but only have them drop level 8-20, rare, account bound gear. Something that the people leveling would value but level 80s would have no use for. This should stop the high levels from farming the champs while encouraging the low levels to try to kill them.
Might need to post the IP of the map so people who wp there and it’s not open, will know that either it’s over or they need to guest and try to get on the right IP.
i said before but there is NO issue with timelines, revenants get their power from the mists which touches everything and every time – in the mists, time is nothing (go see the fractals) so why are so many people worried about plot holes in timelines when you’re dealing with something that is timeless – use your imaginations – jeez
So you are saying that Rytlock went back in time to teach us how to be Revenet’s?…
No, something far easier. When he became a Revenant, his power echo’d throughout the Mists, touching the past and future simultaneously, awakening all Revenants to their power.
That might work as a Star Trek type of rewrite of the timeline. ^^
If his becoming a Revenant had a burst of magical energy that spread both to the past and future that caused latent Revenants to appear in the new timeline in the past and the old timeline to be cut off or disappear.
Its not a plothole.
Ingw1 you could complete the Prophecies and Factions storylines as a Dervish or Paragon even though both of those events happened in the past
If you create a revenant you do so knowing that you are reliving the past although your character is grounded in present events.
Just as if you killed the Lich as a Dervish you did so knowing you were reliving the past, even though your character was already dealing with Abaddon.
I still see plot holes with the reliving the past theory.
Did my Revenant go back into the past or is he is remembering what he did in the past? Either way there is still the plot hole of a Revenant before Rytlock.
Is he still in the present but experiencing what happened to another? If he is experiencing someone else’s story, then is he going to be called Commander afterwards? The other people in that story, Logan, Traehearn etc don’t know him because they did it with the person whose story he experienced, not my char so they have no reason to call him Commander.
No its not a plot hole because it’s not part of the plot.
The whole thing in GW2 wasn’t you going to the past, thats how I’m explaining it.
It was non-canon. In other words it wasn’t part of the actual story.
If Rytlok is the first, and your human characters starts in DR to beat Zhaitain its a totally non-canon experience.
I’m afraid I don’t understand how if my guardian does the personal story, it’s canon. If my Revenant does the exact same thing, it’s non-canon. That rather sounds like special pleading to me.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Special_pleading
“Special pleading is a formal logical fallacy where a participant demands special considerations for a particular premise of theirs. Usually this is because in order for their argument to work, they need to provide some way to get out of a logical inconsistency — in a lot of cases, this will be the fact that their argument contradicts past arguments or actions. Therefore, they introduce a “special case” or an exception to their rules."
In this case there are logical inconsistencies that appear. One type is if my new Revenant does the story line and another if he experiences as a past situation. If you say it’s non canon for him but not my other 8 chars, that also needs to be explained how come when he does it, the rules change for him when nothing about the story changes when each char does it.
What they did in gw1 for characters of different campaigns was say “the events that took place happened before you came here.” or was it after, I don’t know, but that would be a convinient way to to this
Probably, and then sort of gloss over and ignore any logical fails.
Ok, so I should farm nodes and dungeons. I tend to get a lot of useless crap, that only sells for 80 copper. Should I just salvage these instead of selling them, and THEN sell the materials, or just keep the materials?
What I do is salvage the blues and whites and the light armor greens. Any other greens I put in the mystic forge in hopes of a rare or a light armor to salvage.
I’m sorry to tell you, but I’m afraid not. They do not do rollback accounts for any reason besides being hacked by an outside computer. They are unable to tell your problem from someone deliberately doing it.
The reason why is, people will lie and try to scam.
For example, let’s say I make a Legendary worth 4k gold. I give another person that Legendary and all my gold, mats, all valuables then delete my chars. That person equips the legendary so it’s in their wardrobe and uses the gold and mats to craft and buy stuff. I then contact support and say that someone else did that. If support rolls back my account, they put another legendary and all that gold and mats in the game. The person who got all my stuff claims innocence so they can’t be punished with an account rollback.
Repeat this scenario hundreds or thousands of times and it’s a real problem. So they have a rule, no rollbacks without a hack.
Its not a plothole.
Ingw1 you could complete the Prophecies and Factions storylines as a Dervish or Paragon even though both of those events happened in the past
If you create a revenant you do so knowing that you are reliving the past although your character is grounded in present events.
Just as if you killed the Lich as a Dervish you did so knowing you were reliving the past, even though your character was already dealing with Abaddon.
I still see plot holes with the reliving the past theory.
Did my Revenant go back into the past or is he is remembering what he did in the past? Either way there is still the plot hole of a Revenant before Rytlock.
Is he still in the present but experiencing what happened to another? If he is experiencing someone else’s story, then is he going to be called Commander afterwards? The other people in that story, Logan, Traehearn etc don’t know him because they did it with the person whose story he experienced, not my char so they have no reason to call him Commander.
The Charr city is located in the old Ascalon region. Now there was a quest called, Into the Unknown in that game in that area of the world. That’s obviously a wormhole opening to that Guild Wars 1 map.
I suggest you step away from it and contact the authorities. It needs to be imploded before the gravitational forces suck the Guild Wars 2 game into it and we all reappear in Guild Wars 1.
Imo, the Asura need to be questioned about this. I doubt they are innocent.
I hope they thought up something clever because I can’t think of a way that doesn’t cause a plot hole or problem somewhere
If level in old map with the Zhaitan story line, will they be a Revenant before there are Revenants?
If no Zhaitan story line, how will the story line handle the other chars being commander and the Revenant not?
If level in the new zone: iirc they said it’s all level 80 maps. So, do they have a map “in the mists?” If they level there, will it be hordes of Revenants and only Revenants running around there? How do they keep that map population up enough later down the line when only a few people are making a Revenant? The map will be almost deserted.
The only thing I can think of is a new profession with basic, non Revenant skills, that level in the old map, has the Zhaitan story line, and transforms to Revenant after level 80 in the new map. I have no idea what they would call it though. If they call it Revenant, there is the problem again about being a Revenant before Rytlock. If they call it something else (before the transformation) it will confuse all the people who don’t know this and are looking for Revenants in character selection.
It doesn’t make sense for revenants to do the whole personal story to kill Zhaitan. I believe that if you create a revenant, you will just start in the new Maguuma map and you won’t have access to the Zhaitan storyline.
I was thinking that. But it makes a plothole if your char at least doesn’t have the option. You get called Commander in the game and the Biconics call you boss and follow you because they know you as the Commander of the Pact and one of the main people who killed Zhaitan.
Yah. 25% speed buff. I would buy one so I could drop my utility skill for that and slot in a different one as well as change out any traits that give speed buffs. It would be like having another utility skill or trait.
Maybe they will make a new heavy armor class, but it’s not named Revenant at that time. You level it to 80 in the old maps then go to the new maps. There you will have an instance where you are transported to the mists. You will be transformed into a Revenant and when you leave your character class name is changed and you have the new Revenant skills.
There is a problem with people dueling and getting wrapped up in their capes, causing them to lose the fight.
Thats why we first need horses that can wear those capes and duel each other in the open world. Horses have much longer legs, and so they don’t stumble over those capes all
the time ^^
They tried that. There was however an unfortunate incident involving a horse wearing a cape and the Charr cattlepult that resulted in several fatalities. Lawsuits followed and this feature was removed.
I think by now, all horses have been beaten to death anyways.
Giraffes as mounts then .. even longer legs .. even less chance to stumble over their capes ^^
We already wiped them out. Haven’t you noticed? Go into any norn settlement or leatherwork area and you can find their hides, but there are no giraffe to be seen anywhere!
There are however other animals in the game. Dogs, cows, deer, etc.. I see no reason why capes couldn’t be brought into the game so they can wear them. This would be a really good fashion accessory for Ranger pets.
It would have to be optional as some people don’t want it, they like unlocking waypoints. In addition, it almost certainly would mean that the accounts that get this will not get any more Gifts of Exploration, meaning they won’t be able to craft additional Legendaries.
There is a problem with people dueling and getting wrapped up in their capes, causing them to lose the fight.
Thats why we first need horses that can wear those capes and duel each other in the open world. Horses have much longer legs, and so they don’t stumble over those capes all
the time ^^
They tried that. There was however an unfortunate incident involving a horse wearing a cape and the Charr cattlepult that resulted in several fatalities. Lawsuits followed and this feature was removed.
I think by now, all horses have been beaten to death anyways.
That’s just cruel. Horses should only be beaten after they’re dead.
I was so shocked by his post that to get that image out of my mind I logged into the game and stabbed 25 wargs with my sword and shot bolts of killing energy at 12 hyenas and 7 wind riders.
I don’t know about sPvP, but I’ve leveled 9 chars to 80 and my experience is that I’m overleveled by the time I start then finish a level appropriate map. Even the starter maps on a new char.
I thought my new account was locked out of PvP then I found out about the PvP portal in LA next to the WvW portals. Going through it unlocks PvP for all chars on the account. They can enter PvP using the crossed swords icons after that as soon as they get out of the starter instance.
You get 8 tomes and around 140 writs each 28 days if you do the 3 dailies. That comes to about 15 levels a month. Get a month’s supply and use them for fast leveling.
That’s assuming you don’t PvP. You get levels much faster if you PvP.
Yeah I didn’t count any PvP daily tomes, just the tomes for the daily log in and the writs earned by doing 3 dailies.
You get 8 tomes and around 140 writs each 28 days if you do the 3 dailies. That comes to about 15 levels a month. Get a month’s supply and use them for fast leveling.
There is a problem with people dueling and getting wrapped up in their capes, causing them to lose the fight.
Thats why we first need horses that can wear those capes and duel each other in the open world. Horses have much longer legs, and so they don’t stumble over those capes all
the time ^^
They tried that. There was however an unfortunate incident involving a horse wearing a cape and the Charr cattlepult that resulted in several fatalities. Lawsuits followed and this feature was removed.
all that co ordination would not happen…..as someone has already suggested there are easier and better ways to spy already in use…. the co ordination is a barrier
Teamspeak. Free to download and already in common use.
What if the server had a number of people (who are on teamspeak with most of the other WvW player on that server) put on the buff, run to different areas and report and the server uses that information in their plans?
They could rotate the spy duty between several groups of people who play regularly. They could offer incentives to non WvW players to do a run and report.
You might want to check with the WvW players about a free spy session per week available to all players on the server and whether or not this is game changing.
in that case spying already happens and tbh it would take 3/ to 4 minutes to get anywhere interesting and report back and opposition moves so quick in wvw that spying for 1 minute per week is not a big issue
600 seconds is 10 minutes, not one.
What if they rotated the buff between the players? Once one person’s buff falls off, another one starts and they use teamspeak to coordinate this.
About spying, many WvW players use a voice chat such as Teamspeak. Many servers urge their players in WvW to get on the server channel so disabling type chat won’t eliminate spying in your suggestion.
The population changes from full to very high then back to full as people move in and out of servers. Your friends happened to see it when the population went down. The only thing you can do is continue to watch for it to drop or wait until ANet changes the max cap level of the servers, which may be a while.
You can still play with your friends in PvE and PvP. Server only matters for WvW.
Astral my point is being able to access sPvP and Wvw at early stages was a means of leveling, transport to other citises. This was the fastest way to those cities. Now you litterally have to hoof it across the zones? to say LA? Unacceptable.
Yeah well it does take a few minutes. I’ve did it my new alt account that I bought this last sale. To my city, to the portal to LA, across the LA map to the portals. Go in and out of both portals. Done.
It is a bigger problem with new players, true. But those people don’t normally know about this option anyway.
Even if you got the ok somehow to change it, which you won’t as based on current rules, normally they don’t let you pick the new display name. They look it over and make a new name based on the letters of your first display name (prone vibe, for example). So you could easily get something that you really dislike.
Imo Boneviper is a perfectly fine display name. Certainly no worse than a bunch of others I’ve seen.
There are several old gw1 pranks that would be fun.
1) everyone turned into a mini pet
2) the stick figure model April fools prank
3) the inverted player/mini pet sizes
(Forum is being stupid about multiple pictures, so I’ll just post one) >.>
The restrictions go away pretty fast if you play that account. I bought one alt account and that have leveled 2 chars to 10 and that particular message is gone. If you have a personal guild bank already, it can pick up and deposit 3 days after joining your guild (with restrictions).
As mentioned, ppl popping out of thin air and mining probably is parked alts.
But lately Ive seen “dead” ppl on the minimap, and when I run over to res them, they are underground, directly under the node. Only thing showing is the top of the players name.
Probably wouldnt noticed if it werent for the dead player sign on the minimap.
Didnt think much of it at first, but one time there was another node real close, and when the dead player disappeared from the first node, a dead player popped at the other, under it, and nothing to see above ground.
Yah, the dead people underground are bots. If you notice, it’s hard to get their character name and report them, which is probably why they are doing that. If you can’t get a name, all you can do is report the area, the day, IP and server time and what is happening.
Try imagining this. You are looking for 2 tags on the map. One is blue. One is green. The background is green. Which tag will you have trouble finding?
Commander: come to me, green tag!
Everyone: where??
The trading post also is used as a necessary gold sink and if its not enough through that, then they will need to put it in somewhere else, perhaps the armor repair or increase in prices for supplies like salvage kits or harvesting tools.
In other words, if there were person to person trading like you suggest then you would still have to pay through some other ingame tax. So since there will be taxes, why should they put in a system that will avoid the current taxes?
