Guild Wars 2

GrimmSix.2361:

Using the transmutation splitter in the white sword once your desired character has it will yield a full fledged legendary with swappable stats and all. I’ve done it three times now (can’t decide whether to main Guardian or Warrior).

Oh dude, thank you so much. Not as convenient as just having them be account bound, but this helps me lots. Thanks.

GrimmSix.2361:

The white swap still works, you just need to use a transmutation splitter instead.

But I agree completely, I’d love to see Legendaries become account bound along with a lot of other things.

But I’d have to white swap to an ascended greatsword, yes? Would the ability to swap stats whenever i wanted still exist on my sunrise? these are things i dont want to lose, which would make it easier with just having legendaries be account bound xD come on anet, the time (and for some of us, money) invested into these weapons is surely enough to have them account bound.

Sini.6510:

Sorry to be dense, but what would the exact procedure be? This is something I really don’t want to kitten up.

the procedure for white swapping? you transmute a weapon skin onto the stats of a white weapon bought at a weaponsmith, and the item is then account bound.
example, molten greatsword, exotic, transmute to a white greatsword, it has the appearance of molten greatsword, but it’s got the stats of a level 80 account bound white greatsword. i just dont feel like doing dodgey stuff like this for a legendary though, you know?

Hi anet/community,
i hadn’t thought much on this topikittenil earlier today, when my boredom of my guardian reached it’s peak. I don’t know what compelled me to make a human to begin with, i think it was the t3 armor. I’ve been leveling an asura guardian recently and enjoy the character model/animation/voice files much better. I really wanted to main this new guardian, but my human guard has so much invested into him (highest tier fractal back, sunrise, 5 armor sets one of which is t3, etc.) everything i can replace easily, but i dont really want to work on another sunrise!

My question is this, is there any news/intention to make legendarys account bound? I know people would once do the white-swap trick but since they have ascended stats now, it doesn’t seem at all worth it. Is this something that’s being considerd? thanks!

Anybody know of any groups doing Lich in Labyrinth soon?
Or any scheduled runs? Please respond! No zerg makes it hard!

Blimey. That paragraph about the different types of warfare each of the races used was amazing. I had very clear images in my head of Charr tank covoys and a giant spirit bear.
THIS is the game I was expecting when GW2 was announced, not Scarlet wars.
Shriketalon I am very impressed, I really want Anet to look at this post and see how much of a positive attitude these ideas have brought to this thread.
Thank you so much for the read, I hope we see stuff like this in game.

Don’t worry! Been told the dailies count aswell.

So because I was occupied with personal matters for the two (2) days that the Mad King was around, I’m unable to complete my Halloween meta?
I just want to confirm that this is the case because I refuse to believe that I’ve been shafted like this
Any response is great.

I had suspected that today would bring an addition to the release page for this slice of the Living Story, similar to how the Queen’s Jubilee page was edited to provide details of the actual content a day before release. But nothing so far; it’s left me intrigued but also a biiiiiiit confused. The only thing that has been changed, as far as I can see, is an update about how the livestream is no longer happening. Immediately I thought that the lack of livestream was somehow an addition to the release itself, a seemingly mysterious “problem”. Not only that, but not much has seemed to be datamined (nothing at all as far as I’ve seen)
I’m curious now, has anyone else found it weird that this event has NOTHING to it as far as the release page is telling us? I haven’t seen a discussion thread about it at all.
What do people think about this?

This may or may not be related to Guild Wars 2 whatsoever, but rather Guild Wars the original game (could tie in, who knows).
Basically, the first trailer for the game (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA6vRTFU6JI) is set with Devona, Cynn and Aidan fighting (what look like undead?) in a pretty impressive area.

I’m curious, are there any areas like this in GW2 at the moment? I don’t remember seeing any in Guild Wars 1. I was recently reading about the floating wizards castle and thought of this video, though watching it again now it looks like it’s built on land rather than floating.

So my main question; does this trailer, and it’s setting, have any relevance to the lore of either the first, or second Guild Wars game?

My main question is,
how would the Charr members of the Aetherblades be towards working with Flame Legion Charr members of the Molten Alliance? & vis versa.

Also, I’m curious about the lack of Asura/Sylvari members in the Aetherblades, especially since they worked with the inquest, and (atleast) one of their superiors is a Sylvari.

Thoughts?

Nalora.7964:

Venirto.4208:

I don’t think that getting to the top can be even considered as jumping puzzle. You have only 3 jumps (which are painfuly easy) to do, the rest is just automatic transporation with lightning element.

I do not jump. I have hands that are deformed and crippled, and have yet to find a way to make my hands work with any jumps even with assists with any predictablity. I have not managed to even make the first jump in the Zephyr Sanctum, despite trying and dying and losing lots and lots of cash waypointing to get up.

I was kind of hoping there was something for open world people this time around.

So the short answer is yes, you must be able to jump.

Thanks.

I hope this doesn’t sound offensive, but you type very well for someone who can’t move the character to a position and then press ‘1’ due to a deformed hand.

If you HATE jumping puzzles, maybe GW2 isn’t the game for you.

Sunrise
Gift of Mastery – completed
Gift of Fortune – completed
Gift of Sunrise – currently have: Gift of Metal, 33 Charged Lodestones, 250 Orichalcum ingots, 250 Cured leather things, and 160 Ascalon tears and 50 gold coins to my name
Still don’t see myself getting that precurser though! :P

I’m not entirely sure what this is about. What is a charge back? I sometimes get gifted gems when my Aunty is over and she uses her credit card to buy them…Am I at risk of anything?
By closed account do you mean the Guild Wars 2 account? Because if that was closed…all the time I’ve put into that game and the community…I’d be really upset

This is one of those patches that has the community so revved up that I’m so surprised they aren’t designing T-shirts for it. (In game T-shirts for town clothes, or even IRL ones).

#TeamGnashblade #WeWantEvon

Well I’m sold on Evon. I want that Abaddon fractal.

Also, I hope ArenaNet sorts out the issues with Aspect skills before adding an entirely new mini-game surrounding them!

I’ve started a few threads about these issues but haven’t received any dev response. I tried for hours to get the crystals and ended up just asking an American friend of mine who happened to play a Mesmer to portal me to everything. However, the only achievements I am literally incapable of getting on a competitive level are the Sanctum Sprint ones. While in the open world you could have someone portal you everywhere to avoid the rubber banding + ridiculous mechanic involved with aspect leap/jump, you can’t do that in the race. I actually had no issues with SAB or Dragon Ball, nor do I ever have any latency issues in the PvE world or in Tournament pvp, but in this sanctum sprint race, i just can’t do anything. I can’t use a skill because I get banded back. I can jump to any of the platforms because the server thinks I’m falling and i jump back to a checkpoint.

This is ridiculous.
I really think it’s time a Dev looks into this. I know they are aware, there is a Dev in my guild who I have spoken to about this very issue. They know it’s happening.

“We appreciate your continued purchases. Please contact customer support to confirm your identity before making additional purchases”
What exactly does that mean? I go to customer support but there doesn’t seem to be anything related to that issue. Help, please.

Anything being done in support of those who’s latency is preventing them from being competitive in Sanctum Sprint? It’s not really a test of skill right now so much as a test of how long it takes before you go insane.
I’d like to complete all the BotFW achievements but right now I will never get first place or top three, due to unsupported servers. I don’t know what can be done, but that’s why there are devs.
Response, please

Let it be known that it is getting to the point for me that I am starting to offer gold to everyone participating to let me win just so I can be done with the painful experience of lag. Ofcourse no one responds, but the fact that I’m willing to do that now must say something.

Starting to get a little bit on edge about this now;
What is being done to assist oceanic players in getting the achievements in Sanctum Sprint?
At the moment it seems everyone in Australia, at least, is having severe lag issues in the mini game.
I’m not going to go on with how I consider people who have already won and gotten the titles that continue to demolish those of us who are clearly struggling due to latency are griefers because it’s not the general use of the term, but if we all had equal footing in this that would be great.
So yeah anything being worked on? Small patch tomorrow, maybe? Anything to assist those of us outside EU/NA who don’t have a top tier internet provider in completing all the content that their ABILITY allows them too.
A Dev response please <3

The issue with lightning pull seems to appear in the open world too, though. Unless that’s how they designed it. But basically I always overshoot by what seems like a ridiculously long distance when trying to aim for very small platforms.

I can see how it would be a really fun mini-game, akin to roller beetle racing in GW1. However I don’t see myself achieving anything with it as I can’t be competitive at all; everytime I use a skill, I rubber band back to where I first activated it. Alot of people seem to be having the same issue. I don’t have lag issues anywhere else in the game.
Is this being worked on?

I bought $10 worth of gems about half an hour ago and when the gems didn’t appear I thought I must have misclicked or something, so I bought another $10 worth only to not receive those either. Is there a bug going on at the moment with the gem store? Has the money been taken still? Any help would be great!

I can’t really be bothered reading 5 pages of the same argument being said over and over again, so I’ll break it down.

Daily achievements stay. Just because new players have a way to get those achievement points, doesn’t mean hardcore players don’t. If a player is so hardcore at AP grinding, they’ll do the dailies each day too, and thus the gap will stay. Unless said hardcore player stops logging on each day, in which case why do you care if someone you don’t know, on a game you don’t play each day, is working towards a goal you have already achieved?
The progression system should be there for everyone.
Think about it this way; these newer players who, to some people are so scary due to the thought of them getting AP from dailies, will take A LONG TIME to get a large amount of AP for the rewards…unless they do the dungeon/living story achievements as well, etc., in which case…then they are a dedicated player and should be rewarded as such anyway.
I’m having trouble trying to wrap my head around the elitism.
I think it stems back to the idea that if you have something that most people don’t have, you’re cooler, people look at you, people will give you e-attention with pm’s saying “omg that sword is so cool how did you get that???”,
If that’s what you really care about then stop playing online games and start collecting antique art.

Here’s the definition of Achievement.
a·chieve·ment [uh-cheev-muhnt] S
noun
1.
something accomplished, especially by superior ability, special effort, great courage, etc.; a great or heroic deed: his remarkable achievements in art.
2.
act of achieving; attainment or accomplishment: the achievement of one’s object.
3.
Heraldry. the full display of the armorial bearings of an individual or corporation.

Dailies achievements are achievements that people need to work towards achieving.
That system will not change, it should not change, it is not broken. Get over yourselves.

Faerun.3091:

I’m actually against system like HoM. In HoM all the cool items required a lot of points, meaning if I see some cool item and it says “you need 8k points to get this”, I’ll be extremly dissapointed. I have nothing against using achivement points like currency, since that way I can get what I want, not what they give me, if you get my point

welcome to progression. what would you do if the game gave you everything for free the minute you logged on?

lordkrall.7241:

Canakun.8031:

They wouldn’t need to hotfix at random points like this if there was a weekly scheduled maintenance.
Also I have no idea what you mean by 3 hours. We got a 1-2 hour warning then got kicked out of the dungeon 30 minutes later. I know it’s a hobby for a lot of people on the forums to passive aggressively tell people they are wrong, but that’s not what I started this thread for. Thanks!

I don’t think you actually know what a hotfix is.
A hotfix is something that fixes a specific issue that can’t/shouldn’t wait until the next scheduled patch.
I am also rather sure people prefer this model to the “lets take the server down for half a day each week”-model.

I did a dungeon yesterday, we got a warning about patch being available within the next 1-2 hours, after sometime we got information that a new build was ready and that the game would restart in 3 hours.
I assume it was the same for all dungeons, but might be wrong.

I know exactly what a hotfix is. Shh now.

lordkrall.7241:

So they should wait with hotfixes then?
Hotfixes are stuff that NEEDS to be put into the game asap, they can’t really wait for that scheduled weekly time to apply them.

I also find it quite weird that it would take you more than 3 hours to complete fractals, which is the time you have after a patch is live until you are auto-kicked.

They wouldn’t need to hotfix at random points like this if there was a weekly scheduled maintenance.
Also I have no idea what you mean by 3 hours. We got a 1-2 hour warning then got kicked out of the dungeon 30 minutes later. I know it’s a hobby for a lot of people on the forums to passive aggressively tell people they are wrong, but that’s not what I started this thread for. Thanks!

Too many necros. Finding it hard to cope these huge condi builds as a guard in tpvp. Any one have any suggestions on how to cope?

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Wind, Lightning, or Light themes are what we need.

https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/0478aBotFW-screenshot-04.jpg

Molch.2078:

Canakun.8031:

Molch.2078:

Canakun.8031:

Hunter.4783:

1) Full zerker is bad. Aetherblade Strikers say hi
2) Condition removal = good, especially when getting those 5 stacks of confusion mid WW cast. Time to dust off those soldier runes eh?
3) Shelter = good, no need to elaborate on this

So please, keep these 3 points in mind the next time you run that dungeon so us “nub non zerker” guardians don’t spend 90% of the time rezzing you, kk?

Since when were guardians that didn’t run full zerk the noobs?

Since ever. And they still are. Damage > all in this game. One dungeon won’t change that.

Derrrrp. No. That attitude only works in very specific situations (Cof1 being an example).
Most fights in this game are designed to be prolonged experiences which means surviving is the most important thing. Zerk guardian is probably the dumbest thing I’ve heard of, really, due to their small health pool, especially in this dungeon where surviving is 70% of the mechanics in most of the fights.

I run CoE/Arah p1-4 in full zerker gear on every class. Five man, duo and solo. Your CoF1 argument is invalid.

Please stop saying zerker is a CoF1 only thing. It works everywhere just as good. If you survive in zerker as good as in knights as good as in pvt, whats the point in not running zerker?

When did I say it was a CoF1 only thing?

Molch.2078:

Canakun.8031:

Hunter.4783:

1) Full zerker is bad. Aetherblade Strikers say hi
2) Condition removal = good, especially when getting those 5 stacks of confusion mid WW cast. Time to dust off those soldier runes eh?
3) Shelter = good, no need to elaborate on this

So please, keep these 3 points in mind the next time you run that dungeon so us “nub non zerker” guardians don’t spend 90% of the time rezzing you, kk?

Since when were guardians that didn’t run full zerk the noobs?

Since ever. And they still are. Damage > all in this game. One dungeon won’t change that.

Derrrrp. No. That attitude only works in very specific situations (Cof1 being an example).
Most fights in this game are designed to be prolonged experiences which means surviving is the most important thing. Zerk guardian is probably the dumbest thing I’ve heard of, really, due to their small health pool, especially in this dungeon where surviving is 70% of the mechanics in most of the fights.

I hit huge dps on mobs with the following set up. try it out.

Knight’s armor, weapons and accessories.
Runes of the eagle.
Superior sigil of force on GS.

20 – II, VII
15 – VI
0 -
30 – II, VIII, IX
5 -

however for WvW i prefer full PVT gear (but i guild zerg)

Asking for a discount on centaur spearheads is how to pick up the ladiesss.

Hunter.4783:

1) Full zerker is bad. Aetherblade Strikers say hi
2) Condition removal = good, especially when getting those 5 stacks of confusion mid WW cast. Time to dust off those soldier runes eh?
3) Shelter = good, no need to elaborate on this

So please, keep these 3 points in mind the next time you run that dungeon so us “nub non zerker” guardians don’t spend 90% of the time rezzing you, kk?

Since when were guardians that didn’t run full zerk the noobs?

The recipe is account bound, the food buff itself is trade-able.

On topic.
I was very much aware of the recipe’s existence when I bought coffers, however when I didn’t get one I just thought that it was RNG (I got a ticket and was happy).
Thank you, Anet, for compensating us for the lack of Recipe’s in Coffers. Especially when alot of us spent our actual money on the gems, it’s good to see you care for your consumer base.

As for the OP, you aren’t entitled to anything. If you want something from an RNG loot table, then go ahead and get gamblin’.

Welcome to WvWvW

I put the Ankh-shoulders you can choose to start with as a Guard with the heavy set and it looks awesome.

It’s important to disassociate lore from game mechanics, else you will come across as overly pedantic.
If realism is what you’re looking for, a fantasy based MMO is not what you should be playing.
/thread

zallis.2138:

no cantha they said. though they also mentioned that if we really really want it, they will do it

we really really want it.

Theo Ashford is the descendant of the Ascalonian Ashfords.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

MakeitNeil.4561:

Well this topic was supposed to be a fun way of sharing ideas. Not harping on ideas. I know that a lot of what I say won’t become a reality. But this thread is solely based on the sharing of interesting ideas. And at that note, you, Sir, are out of line. I am going to ask a GM to close this thread because we are now completely off topic. There is no fun in that.

My first post in this thread and I’m out of line by explaining your questions and answering your request?

Gotcha.

Trying to think of a word to describe MakeitNeil.4561.
Can’t.

Siobhan.5273:

Canakun.8031:

niwaar.5631:

They actually went out of their way to say the achievements for Case Closed do not count towards the meta. So yeah… Why shouldn’t we complain?

Furthermore, its about choice, and fun. There simply is none in there now.

Wait, so you’re complaining that you had to do the Dragon Ball achieves even though you hated it, and now that they’ve ‘removed’ (they were never there) from the meta you’re complaining that you don’t have enough choice?
Wow.
The choice is to just not get the shattered wings. If you want them, do the task necessary to get the reward.

They were never “not” there.

There was another post from an ANet employee that them not counting was an “issue”:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Dragon-Bash-Experience-achievement-bugged/page/2#post2215764

Stephane Lo Presti

French Community Manager

Hi everyone,

We’re aware of the issue and have been working on a fix that we hope to push at the beginning of next week.

Then, we’re told:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/dragonbash/Achievements-9-done-only-counts-as-7/first#post2229781

William Fairfield

Game Designer

During my live stream on Friday I confirmed that the Dragon Ball achievements would not count towards the overall. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

I dunno about you, but I don’t dig up live feeds for information. We look at what is posted in threads here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs

and maybe this event forum.

Wait, wait, wait…
So he didn’t enjoy the achievements, and originally they weren’t counting towards the meta, which was a bug, but he’s complaining now that they’ve been officially removed from the meta, even though the meta has been decreased to 8 instead of 10?
Some people just need to complain about stuff, I guess.

Also the difference between “they didn’t count” and “they didn’t count because of a bug, but they should have” is really very minimal and I’m sure there was a better use of your time then correcting something like that.

Rebound.3409:

Don’t really care about how u get them as much as i do about how they look…..and they really are …..how to put it in nice words… “less then compelling” multiplied by about “over 9000”

There are tons of better looking sets in the game. Sry but the design is just ugly and not worth to stress yourself over how u get them. It’s just a stretch-suit with cogs duck-taped to it. Just my opinion.

Your opinion on the sets was really constructive and I’m sure a lot of people have taken something away from reading it, thank you!

To the OP, I believe they are going to come out as Gemstore sets (that’s something I heard) and will cost gems similar to how the Primeval/Krytan, etc. armor sets cost now. Either that or it will be something tied to the new temporary dungeon that’s coming out though that seems less likely to me (especially since we get a set of shoulderpads for the jumping puzzle).
That being said, the update notes said something about rewards being added with the event that we can obtain (i forget the exact wording but it sounded like it was a reward that everyone got.) maybe that’s the armor sets? We’ll have to wait and see

I enjoy that dredge are portrayed like that, but I can understand how it could be REALLY offensive to someone from Russia.

Maybe it was just a small GL? Who knows, maybe their short/tall is much more literal than what we think of it.

#Shingeki no Kyojin

I frown at this thread.

I thought the average gamer just accepted the invisible wall dividing game mechanics and story telling.

Haven’t read all the comments so i don’t know if its been said or not but,
I read somewhere that Lion’s Arch was originally an Elonian settlement?

Even if that’s not the case, lions were a common animal in Elona and Kryta/Elona had ships running between the two quite frequently.

niwaar.5631:

They actually went out of their way to say the achievements for Case Closed do not count towards the meta. So yeah… Why shouldn’t we complain?

Furthermore, its about choice, and fun. There simply is none in there now.

Wait, so you’re complaining that you had to do the Dragon Ball achieves even though you hated it, and now that they’ve ‘removed’ (they were never there) from the meta you’re complaining that you don’t have enough choice?
Wow.
The choice is to just not get the shattered wings. If you want them, do the task necessary to get the reward.

I didn’t know they were ever included in the meta? I got them day one just because I genuinely enjoyed the activity (Anet can’t please anyone),
also I don’t know why I have to keep telling people this, but there are 11 achievements you can get towards the meta without having to do Moas/Dragon Ball anyway. Not only that but they’ve changed the total amount needed down to 8 achieves. Just because you can’t get it today doesn’t mean you can’t ever get it. Be patient.