Guild Wars 2

Hmm .. +300 ferocity from axe-mastery .. doesn’t look that bad for me.
With 100% critical chance that would also be 20% more damage, and you don’t
need full adrenalin for that.

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Ups .. i overlooked that it is of course not on to of the old axe mastery
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Curunen.8729:

I’m of the opinion that underwater breathers should be removed entirely and instead have your normal headgear swap skins when entering/exiting water.

It’s a bit silly to have 7 pieces of armour and runes for every combination you want just to get the 6th tier bonus underwater – and the karma breathers can’t be salvaged as well as not being flexible in stats, nevermind quality.

^^ That is also my opinion .. i simply refuse to buy expensive runes for my green
aqua breathers.

Oh and i wish they were at least invisible if i make my helmet invisible.

So .. 12.000 gold for a set of armor just to change your skins, and where in the end
everybody would look the same ?
And another 12.000 gold for stuff that isn’t even visible ?

Btw.: i can’t remember having changed the stats on my legendarys ever.

Light armor -> embroidered pants
heavy -> atherblade pants

Thats it more or less .. its the revers of the trenchcoar problem on medium armor
only that here we have the “butcapes” hanging on our pants, while medium has
pants without end, but trenchcoats

But it is your comp, else it would crash at everyone.

But since you refuse to belive that and give no further infos i guess you are not
really interestet in getting help and just wanted to flame.

Tip : use only Basic Salvage Kit for blue or green trash.

For harvesting i like Dredgehaunt Cliffs and Timberline Falls

Bensozia.8071:

coso.9173:

we need way more form fitting leather and stuff like that in medium armor, I hate long coats and I have really few options that are different

Catwoman outfit comes to mind.

Or Black Widow ^^
I always like this combination on my heavy chars because it looks simply more like
leather. So having something similiar for medium armor wouldn’t be that bad.

Arioso.8519:

Beldin.5498:

Nope .. Krytan is the vest that my ranger wears on the picture i posted above.

Try again:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Krytan_Medium_Armor_Skin

It’s a trench coat.

Ok .. again : Krytan is the vest that my ranger wears.

Nope .. still not a trenchcoat on my ranger

PistolWhip.2697:

Lambent.6375:

Didn’t they remove the krytan armor from the gemstore?

Now that’s even less non trenchcoat items.

Krytan was a trench coat?…

Nope .. Krytan is the vest that my ranger wears on the picture i posted above.

I asked for screenshots. Do you know how to do screenshots, or do you need a
brief description ?

http://www.7tutorials.com/4-ways-take-screenshots-windows-8-81-using-built-tools

I have 18 characters .. all bought with gold so far. However i will not buy a new one
before HoT is released, because else i will only start another new character before

asterix.9614:

Just boycott the trenchcoats

Thats what i do .. the problem is, there is not much beside gemstore stuff.

Or .. give us Timelord and Angel at least as new classes

ShadyOne.1846:

I get a cabinet file cannot be trusted when trying to install directx 9 and ive tried installing it many ways….same issue.

From what program do you get that error ? Sound like either a virus scanner or
maybe your computer is simply infected by a virus / malware.

The “unable to verify” also sounds fishy. Never heared something like that and also
wonder what generates that error.

Maybe some screenshots of the errors and the list of applications in your taskmanager
can be helpful.

Check with GPU-Z if you see “@x16” at the place i marked on the screenshot.

If you see something else make sure your GPU is in the slot next to your CPU.
If it is reseat the card to make sure there are no contact preoblems.

Just out of interest .. what worked ? Upgrade or just lower graphics ?

Thanks @katubug.6378 for the post and @Zach for making the changes

And yeah .. i have exactly the same problem also with the watchwork sprockets
in my 500 expansion collection.

Out of memory error.
-Reason you have a 32-Bit windows that only supports a maximum of 2 GB per application.
-The real fix : upgrade to 64-bit windows
-else you can only try to set graphics to minimum

chemiclord.3978:

Nah, even World of Warcraft has jumped onto “just buy the latest expansion and you’re good to go.” You DO still have to buy the base game, but you certainly don’t need to buy every single expansion.

This is pretty much the industry standard now. What Arena.net has done (both with the bundling and the pricing) isn’t particularly new.

EQ2 was always that way. Desert of Flame also included the base game and
Kingdom of Skies included DoF and base .. and so on.

Und who would really have a benefit from it when new player now had to pay
50 for expansion + 40 for base game, so that you need to pay $90 to start ?
Only ANet maybe have a benefit from it, but they decided it would be better
not to have such a high price barrier for new players.

I remember 5 year ago or so i should pay $120 or so if i wanted to play WoW.
Absolute a no-go for me.

Acharyn.4738:

darkdomino.9578:

By that logic, I want a refund on the 2nd copy of the core game I didn’t want or ask for.

Did you get it with The HoT+Core package? You should get a $40 refund IMO.
The core is $40. Bundled with the expansion it’s $50, making the expansion $10.

The core was already down to $10 .. and with HoT it will simply be down to $00.

Photonman.6241:

Beldin.5498:

Ashen.2907:

Beldin.5498:

Ashen.2907:

GW2 Doesnt have the Avengers in it.

Its not hypocrisy to think one thing is worth $15, and that a completely different thing is not worth $50.

And the Avengers have not Hank Pym in it .. so the last movie especially wasn’t
even worth $1 for what they did to the whole story about wher Ultron was
coming from.

You have made an excellent point.

I am very much looking forward to Antman. I think I will buy extra tickets with the money I dont spend on HoT.

Even in Antman Henry is NOT Antman .. he is played by Michael Douglas who is
70 now. I’m not really sure if that movie either will be worth anything.

I think Paul Rudd will be replacing Pym as Antman, so Pym would still be the first Antman but is retiring.

Yeah .. for some reasons they simply seem to hate Hank and Janet for the movies.
I will instead better watch Avengers – Earth’s Mightiest Heroes again ^^

Ashen.2907:

Beldin.5498:

Ashen.2907:

GW2 Doesnt have the Avengers in it.

Its not hypocrisy to think one thing is worth $15, and that a completely different thing is not worth $50.

And the Avengers have not Hank Pym in it .. so the last movie especially wasn’t
even worth $1 for what they did to the whole story about wher Ultron was
coming from.

You have made an excellent point.

I am very much looking forward to Antman. I think I will buy extra tickets with the money I dont spend on HoT.

Even in Antman Henry is NOT Antman .. he is played by Michael Douglas who is
70 now. I’m not really sure if that movie either will be worth anything.

Ashen.2907:

GW2 Doesnt have the Avengers in it.

Its not hypocrisy to think one thing is worth $15, and that a completely different thing is not worth $50.

And the Avengers have not Hank Pym in it .. so the last movie especially wasn’t
even worth $1 for what they did to the whole story about wher Ultron was
coming from.

Nibi.3572:

I seriously don’t understand why the core game comes with it

at least let me give the core game i just now got again to a friend

Its quite normal in good MMOs that expansions inclued all previous content so
that new players only need to buy the last version and not everything that has
been release before.

I mean who would really wants to buy 10+ different games to start with a longer
running MMO ?

jknrich.1549:

So will there be a big difference in dungeons and so on. We will start seeing lfg saying ascended only.

Anyone know if that extra 5% is gaming changing for pve and wvw.

The 5% difference is only compared to exotic. In the end a full set of ascended armor
gives a character 1-2% more damage. After that change it will be 2-4% more then.

Everyone has to decide on his own how game changing that really is.

Dante.1763:

I wouldnt mind having Footsteps in the shape of music notes, i actually at the time thought it had them. I wouldnt do an Aura. Maybe make the music notes a bit more noticeable

Maybe something like the bard auras in EQ2 ?

Albadaran.1283:

This has been happening a long time with ore nodes. They appear for just a second on the minimap, than disappear. One time I was near enough to actually SEE the node appear: it was a raw candycorn node. Than it vanished.

That are candy corn nodes .. total different story than trees that change their position.

Tiger Ashante.1792:

I’ve been noticing disappearing/appearing nodes for months now, if not for at least a year, especially in Orr. And often i see candy corn pop here and there. It pops up and instantly disappears. i was just in straights of devastation the other day and one candy corn popped right in front of me then disappeared.

But even today in Malcor Leap, i saw an Ori node keep flickering on and off. Its not that i mined my limit (not that i was aware of any limits either) i just loaded into the map and hadn’t harvested any. this is not the first time i’ve seen this either and in most cases it happens with Ori nodes.

If you really want to harvest a lot, you should do that in midlevel zones because
stuff like platin, iron, hard wood and seasoned wood will give you the most money.
T5 wood and mithril simply is not worth it.

Ori and ancient wood were always limited.

My biggest concern is that the damage difference from berserker to knights, soldier
or celestial now gets bigger. At the moment if you wear armor with those stats
and the rest zerker its around 12-13% less damage .. wonder how much it will
be after the change.

Healix.5819:

Beldin.5498:

Nope .. the only non T6 nodes that have DR is mithril. I quite harvest a lot T3 and T4
mats with multiple chars on multiple IPs and they have never dissapeared.

It’s per character. Also note that when I said “area” I’m not referring to the entire map. I’m not sure how big an area actually is, but I’d guess it’s based on this. You’re basically only allowed to gather X amount of Y within an area every ~hour.

You can do the same thing with farms. Gather only some of them then hop instances. You’ll see all the nodes, but only allowed to gather however many that originally remained, then they’ll all vanish.

Farms are on a 24 hour timer like rich nodes or orichalcum/ancient wood.
Mithril is also on a 24 hour timer if you have harvested whatever the maximum
is, after that you can also not harvest mithril on other IPs of the same map.

Everthing else you can harvest more or less endless beside the fact that there
is the normal 1 hour respawn timer.

And yes, of course its all per character .. one of the reason i have 18 characters

Candy Corn is a different thing. The nodes are simply still there but are hidden and
sometimes the hiding mechanism simply lags behind the render thread or whatever
and so you see them shortly and then the disappear.

Here it seems that for some reasons simply the function that places the wood on
zone creation was triggered again.

I have 18 chars, and already 13 now have 65+ .. the system is at least 100 times better
than the current where my last characters really only had the traits for my standarf
farming build and nothing more.

And of course i expect that everything will be reset. On the one hand sometraits
are quote different, and also it gives you the chance to not take skill you never
have used, if you have not the full 465 points already.

Healix.5819:

It’s DR. If you harvest too many of the same type of node within an area, all nodes of that type within that area will vanish. You can easily trigger it by hopping instances and gathering the same area over and over.

Nope .. the only non T6 nodes that have DR is mithril. I quite harvest a lot T3 and T4
mats with multiple chars on multiple IPs and they have never dissapeared.

Had that 3-4 days ago in Timberline Fall. There was a real nice spot with a lot of
t4 trees .. harvest it with all my 18 chars for maybe 1.5 hours .. and suddenly the
most of trees were away or changed their position. It was still the same IP and also
the platinum nodes were still at the same spots.

The god thing is that GW2 at least starts real fast, if you compare to most other
MMOs. Starting AION or Tera for example seems to take ages compared to GW2.

From my understanding it makes sense to NOT spent more points then really needed
at the moment and wait for the changes, since i think everything will reset after that
and you need 465 of the new points to have all skills and traits.
400 you have if your 80, for the other 65 you need to do skill challanges, you look at
your map if you have 65 or more .. if not try to get at least 65.

Eldiora.5836:

Least liked is Dredgehaunt Cliffs (because I HATE Dredge – yes I am permanently damaged by the Dredge fractal for all my live.

Haha .. that is my most visited zone maybe beside Timeberline Falls. Such a great zone for farming wood and iron and also for leveling because there are so much quick events and also yellow mobs to level with exp-boosters.

I mostly just ignore all those dredge areas ^^

Its mostly a problem where your GPU is freezing. Make sure its not overclocked
and if you have NVidia try older drivers.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff570087%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Craft another bow, transmute Dwayna Skin on it, problem solved.
Its really not worth bother the support for such small things, since they also
normally not replace non-cashshop item that people delete / destroy-

Yeah .. for light armor there are only emroidered pants, for heavy only aetherblade pants
and for medium there is not much beside krytan top, if you don’t want to have some
sort of buttcape or trenchcoat.

Please more of something like this :

mcwurth.2081:

everything loads slow now.
character selection screen

Yeah .. the character screen really annoys me, since i have 18 characters and it
takes very long now until all the faces are shown

Hm .. what did they say ? Normally they give back stuff that was bought with gems.

I remember long time ago with Win-XP that there were drivers for my lan-card
that killed my connection.

So yeah .. as said before .. have you also updated you lan drivers ?

IndigoSundown.5419:

As someone who gets to things at my own pace, I dislike the DT/SW zone models. ANet seems to be adopting a content model based on requiring lots of players to complete objectives. When a lot of people are moving on to the next area (e.g., after they’ve gotten the current hot gewgaw), the zone becomes a wasteland with no hope to complete it. This can be seen sometimes in DT now. This is a phenomenon that is similar to what one sees in other MMO’s with dungeon/raid content — the older hotness is abandoned in favor of the new hotness.

Also that game design leads to something that ANet normally wants to avoid :
more toxic behaviour

Normally people don’t care much about how others play in the open world, that
makes it such a nice community there .. however in silverwaste where events more
often fail people also tend to make other players responsible for that because they
are “bad players” or whatever.

I like more flat areas where you don’t always have to walk 50 miles to get to a point
that is only 5 meters away on the map. I also like to see for a wide distance.
So i prefer mostly the Shiverpeaks zones like Frostgorge, Wayfarer Foothills,
Timberline Falls and Dredgehaunt Cliffs

Also those silvari / asura jungle zones are the exact opposite, and i dislike them
the most. And sadly HoT seems to be full of that stuff .. just zones that are a
total nightmare to navigate,

Yeah .. write a ticket. A friend did the same a while ago and got his gathering tools
back after maybe a week.

I don’t even know why you need high framerates on a webpage. What especially does
a high framerate change on a webpage ? Even the cursor is not blinking in and out
30+ times per second.
We can talk about load and reponse times of webpages .. but FPS ?

What i have noticed is also that it now tooks very long until the character select screen
has loaded when you logout. First its a black background and also the faces of my
char load very slow when i scroll through them (i have 18 chars). So i have always
to wait quite some seconds until i can select the correct character.

Relair.1843:

Everquest 2 had amazing crafting, it was a whole mini game you had to play. You could get critical successes and critical failures, so cool. One of the few things I miss from that game.

On the other hand .. most people today would also call it a grind i think.
Crafting a profession to max with all the harvesting and so took nearly as
long as leveling the adventure class to max ^^

Was however funny in the beginning when people could actually die at the
forge if they don’t get the counters right

I also blame EQ2 for beeing such a big fan of harvesting