Guild Wars 2

Well, my RL name is already in game and he is one of the leaders of the vigil (I felt so nice when I met him for the 1st time).
Lord Rodrigo of Cormoch. You can try to take your conclusions on the impression of the name.

Orangensaft.7139:

where do you have the elementalist sword information from?

i mean is there anything hinting at it?

That_Shaman data mined some info in game and among them he found new skills and some are elementalist sword skills.

Demi.8204:

does that mean that you can only choose one precursor and that’s it?.. meaning only one legendary from the new ones?

Nope, Devs already said you can make 1 of each precursor.
For example you can make an axe a sword and a longbow but not 3 swords.

Belenwyn.8674:

• All new Legendaries and their precursors are not tradeable!

This will change the current market for sure, if didn’t change already.

Cool info, thanks.

Vinsanity.5963:

Dude i bought new runes and i have ascended armor full set , i transmuted cultural armor skin onto ascended armor. problem still existing. When i click black lion salvage kit it looks like unsalvageable. is it bugged or something ?

O.o
You know that salvaging an armor will destroy the armor right?
Even if you could salvage ascended gear, what kind of runes are you using to even think in such a thing?

Upload is faster than the download? Interesting …

Anyway, you’ll have an ISP for sure, maybe not a local one, but some company will “own” the internet you’ll be using and that will be your ISP.

Also, internet speed doesn’t make much difference since the game packets are small, what makes the difference is the latency, the “ping” value.

There isn’t.
Usually if you really like the skin of other player you can just send a whisper asking to ping their gear, most of the time the person will gladly do that, at least I love when others ask me for it

The SB and Axe is what made me say “barely make a difference” instead of “no difference at all”

But as I said, let’s wait for the actual release, currently we know that Revs are just way too strong in everything, 50% projectile reflection uptime, infinite stun breakers, pretty much 100% stability uptime, 1200 range AoE blast with low CD, low CD fire field + blast, obviously it will change.

Windsagio.1340:

50% uptime moving reflect is pretty insanely terrible for rangers though.

If you rely on LB, yeah, you’ll be screwed.
If you can handle yourself with GS or if you are a trapper then it’ll barely make a difference.

As a ranger I’ll say the following, wait for the actual release to see how balanced the Rev skills will be.

Besides, rangers are fine with survival, 2 invulnerable skills, GS have 2 dodges and 1 block, sword have 2 dodges, dagger have a dodge, SB have a dodge, LB have stealth … pick a few of those and be happy.

Vinsanity.5963:

Belzebu.3912:

The the problem is where you put the skin, if you add the cultural skin in a salvageble armor you can still salvage it.

This is gonna cost 6 more transmutation charges right ?

The runes you added to the armor is gone, you won’t be able to remove them, currently there are no rune so expensive that it is worth to buy the extractor, so yeah, it is cheaper to buy a new set of runes and apply the skin to the new armor.

And yes, it will consume 6 more charges.

It depends of your ISP.
Where I work one of our internet lines uses a radio connection, it is just 4MB but the latency is very stable and we never had a downtime larger than 10 minutes, and it only happened 2 times in 5 years.

The the problem is where you put the skin, if you add the cultural skin in a salvageble armor you can still salvage it.

Lil Puppy.5216:

Ah but you would be paying LESS gems to do that Welcome to the micro-transaction economy!

Depends.
I heard that suggestion many times and I’d love to have such feature, I’d only buy the permanent tool sets, the feed-o-matic salvage kit, and probably a permanent-pass IF such feature existed, even if it would also be a gem store item, like a special 5~10 slots bag that is shared among all the toons of your account.

hybrid.5027:

Frostfang.5109:

That makes me hit like a Zerker without the crit.

“Hit like zerker” No. Soldiers is about 40% less DPS. Add in some “extra healing” and you’re hitting like half of a zerker.

I think what he meant is that he hits like a “zerk without the crit”, as in just the no crit hits, at least that is what I hope he meant, otherwise he’s just crazy

Americans and their weird systems :P

In 24 hours system such doubt wouldn’t exist.
00:00 = midnight
12:00 = noon

Yes program that just for both classes wouldn’t be as hard as I imagined, instead of removing the swap and lock the 2nd set for them they would just disable the swap in combat and done, your QoL would be done, but if they allowed both classes (and soon Revenants) to have an extra set that they normally can’t use, it would be a QoL that other classes don’t have.

I know it would be great, my main WvW/PvP class is engineer and I’d love to use some rifle skills OOC in WvW then swap to p/s for the combat, but the class wasn’t designed for that.

Liston.9708:

This is a valid reason, but why not flush the activities of weapon set 1 when you switch to 2 – negating said combos?

Just seems on the surface there should be a way to give you the QOL experience without providing any advantage over what you can do right now….

Because the devs would need to create a whole new mechanic that would apply just to eles and eng, while simply removing the swap button is way more productive.

For balance purposes those classes were intended to only work with 1 set, if they could swap weapons OOC then why not just allow every class to equip as many sets they want but only access the first 2 sets in combat?

You can do what other players do and just carry the weapons in your inv and use them OOC, like in my ranger I use LB + s/a and I carry a torch and a wh, before some fight I open my inv then I equip my torch to make a fire field, equip my wh to blast and get might from the #5 skill and from the combo and finally I equip my axe back again to use in combat.

New meta I really doubt since it still needs time to make cond do good damage, but cond will be WAY more viable in PvE for sure if it is a new feature.

Apparently you are referring to practice matches, those I don’t see problem in people “exploiting” the autobalance.
If you want a stable 5v5 fights but don’t want the pressure of risking the rank of the team mates, play unranked and be happy.

How often do you delete and create tabs?
I also like my tabs in a specific order for specific function, but after I finished my tabs I only had to change a bit once since the game launch, because of the new combat log functions.

Sure it would be nice to just move the tabs instead of create/delete but if the game UI tools works like other languages UI tool, then it would be a hard thing to do for something people would usually only use 2 or 3 times ever.

It will sound a bit bad but … the question is somewhat pointless.
If you are asking for gameplay purposes, then pick whatever you want, it won’t change anything at all.
If you are asking for roleplay purposes, then you are the only one that can answer that since you’ll do the role play so pick what makes you more comfortable.

Yeah, the PSU is totally fine, I like Corsair and 650 can handle the new system.
The GPU will probably handle well too.
So new CPU + MoBo + RAMs will be enough for you to feel a big difference, what BrotherBelial post looks great for the budget.

Any board that runs a core 2 duo doesn’t run any model of i5, so he’ll need a new one for sure.
What could help is to know your PSU.
Also, I remember that when I had a core 2 duo system, my HDDs was IDE so I had to buy adapters, and those are really bad, if yours are IDE instead of SATA I recommend to also get a new HDD SATA3.

I won’t be able to help much with prices since I’m from Brazil and price-wise everything is totally different.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Everything I have seen indicates the Mastery / Experience point bar is either/or and is in some way player selectable while being in some way dependent upon whether you are in HoT maps or old Tyria maps.

Yeah, I don’t remember if it is mastery points or progress in the mastery track, but either way you’ll still need XP to progress your exp bar and it will be used.

I’m a ranger, so I go full zerker, use RF to win and sig of stone when things are going bad.

Actually I have zerker/valk asc trinkets, armor and weapon are asc zerker.

Atin.1237:

So with HoT we will no longer gain XP and instead gain mastery points in our skill bars place, correct?

Nope.
You no longer gain skill point on level up, instead you gain mastery points on level up, but to level up you still need XP, and the infusion will make you level faster.

The thing in actually crafting a legendary are items like the Gifts of Exploration (100% map complation), the gift you need to buy with 500 dungeon tokens and the Gift of Battle (500 badges + rank 14), those you can’t buy in TP.
If those items aren’t an issue then check the Iris Ng’s link

Yeah, people that made the pre-order was guaranteed to play the 3 Beta Weekend Events and also had a 3 days head start in the game launch.

In the end the story/lore will be just fine, a small part of the story won’t make sense to you the player.
What happened that that a piece of the PS was removed because of a bug (My greatest fear plot line), and there is a point in the PS that still assume that you did that removed part, so some characters talk with you as they knew you but you never met in game (you meet them in the removed part) but after a few PS steps those NPC are not relevant anymore and the story moves on without problems.

Actually the market would’t be just left handed players, it would be left handed players with some scale of OCD

Jokes a part, this change seems to be more work than it is worth.
About the mirror the animation, that part is probably not that hard, what would make that task not so simple is the armor skins, many of them was crafted for the current animations and very likely wouldn’t work with mirrored animations since we have plenty of asymmetrical skins, also some weapon skins doesn’t work when mirrored, try to preview an ascendant LB, since in the preview all weapons goes to the right hand but in action the LB is used in the left hand you see that the “guard” of the weapon clip into the arm of the character, so that is yet another layer of changes that would need to be included.

The out of order thing is during the Personal Story.
Living story S1 and S2 are in order and those assume that you finished your PS since both pass after the events in the PS.

So, if you go and finish your PS now, a few things may make no sense near the end but the Living Story will be just fine.

They created the racial skills intentionally inferior to make them to be use just as flavor skill.
Allow all races be able to acquire the other racial skills would make the only purpose of the racial skills irrelevant.

DragonflyDusk.6582:

I remember when people believed Tequatl was impossible.

OH you made me remember when people complained how AC was nearly impossible to complete and it should be nerfed. Oh the old times!

Rauderi.8706:

I also remember when the starting zone, level 1 bosses would down players in a single hit.

Specially if you were an Asura and ended meeting FE, it was a death machine, killing zergs of players, so different from now.

Iason Evan.3806:

A.) Warrior looks to have a new “F” skill. Is that something added to Warrior or is that the specialization?

Likely to be a specialization thing, but who knows?

Iason Evan.3806:

B.) Rangers still seem to have their primary mechanic of having a pet with the Druid Spec./Shouldn’t the pet be gone?

Not really, what may happen is that when you become a druid the pet mechanics be different, but you will still have a pet.

You can’t have all the things. Like I have Frostfang, the footprints is great but it doesn’t give any aura, Quip have a nice aura but no footprints, Predator have a nice aura imo and a small footprint.

Or maybe Anet didn’t finished it and the mechanic isn’t in the code yet.
Try to hold the “complains” after the specialization announcement.

Yes you can, it was stated that if you don’t like the specialization mechanic you can revert at will to the default class.

It will hold true for the current maps and dungeons, the meta may change for the new contents, you can see that cond damage and a bit of survivability is pretty useful in the Silverwastes compared to the rest of the game, even though zerker is the meta.

Halvorn.9831:

Belzebu.3912:

Half true, software only RNG are not truly random, but recently I learned that you can achieve true random for a software using Hardware RNG

Therefore even a pseudo-RNG does not pose any problems. This issue simply does not exist.

I totally agree, I just wanted to add that info
Such devices are used in cases of safety, for example a software only RNG requires some seeds to generate a number as mentioned before, knowing the seeds and the algorithm used in a RNG one could make a software that predict with a huge margin of success the results of a RNG, but since that isn’t the case here, the current RNG is no issue at all.

Sure it isn’t, I barely notice any difference in my ranger with or without my asc set and I don’t do fractals at all, but we need to set some goals in the game, right?

Sorel.4870:

Vague Memory.2817:

Software RNG are not truly random, it isn’t possible to program real randomness, however they are generally good enough to fool us.

Everything you stated there is true.

Half true, software only RNG are not truly random, but recently I learned that you can achieve true random for a software using Hardware RNG

That is what I’m doing, I got all the materials needed for an ascended heavy set, now I’ll wait a bit after the HoT release to see if the pve meta will change or if a new stat combo appear or any other crazy thing.
So yeah, I recommend you to wait for HoT to finish the asc set.

The problem is in yourself, you need to apply RL lessons in the game. You are spending more than you earn in things that you don’t need and then you complain that you can’t buy what you “need”.
About 5g/day is a VERY good amount for someone that is just playing the game and not actively farming gold, so all you need to do now it control yourself and just buy what you need for your legendary, and nothing else besides occasional food resupply.

Nice to meet such legendary artist

Yes, I also think that the legions looks a lot like the armed forces, but like in RL we have jet pilots in the Army (normally from Air Force), heavy vehicles in the infantry (normally from Cavalry) and so on, so we can find Blood and Ash Legion engineers, even though Iron legion are the main ones.

1 – haha it really made me smile.
2 – Yeah, dueling would be nice
3 – There must be at least 1 dueling topic per page right now … besides the merge dueling topic, mods can only be as fast to merge them all.

I think that Lishtenbird is right, but currently the answer is “When it is ready”

The PS from lvl 30 to 40 you do some missions from all 3 Orders, but the last one actually decide which one you’ll be, so before that you can pick to help the Order of Whispers (“Shadow”) but in the end you accepted the Vigil mission along with your fiance.

Go to Silverwastes my son, and there you shall find the path to the open world gold