Guild Wars 2

I am born under the pale tree, yet I feel suffocated by the dream, telling me what path to choose. It feels like I am not allowed to have a free will, like I am forced to walk the path the tree choose.
The nightmare is tempting, they’re free, different. Maybe they are evil and corrupted, but maybe the pale tree is brainwashing us.
The nightmare court is intriguing, interesting…
Something new. (and they look awesome xD)
signed- my necromancer…

Mystic.5934:

report for botting!
how likely is it that an actual person is sitting there doing nothing?

To be honest. Very likely.
Some people just ditch their character somewhere and go afk.

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Curae.1837
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Request:
Please draw Sholto with his candy cane hammer. He’s trying to be kitten but is slightly clumsy. Armor can be made up by yourself I’m fine with any kind of style really. Sketches, fully worked out. Anything. XD
Do you plan to use color or just make a line drawing?:
I plan on making a lineart and color it with watercolors
Do you receive/check your PM’s?:
Sure do ^^

Hea there! Thanks for taking the time to check this topic out!

The reason I’m going to take a couple of commissions, well. Long story short: I’m going to have free time and want to draw something different from what I usually do.

So, I’ll be taking 3 commissions.
There are some rules/things I’d appreciate though that apply.
Rules:
-Tell me a bit of background about your character and the personality. We wouldn’t want your fearsome Asura to end up as a cuddly and cute person
-I am allowed to choose whatever material I want.
I’m sorry, some days I just can’t work with colored pencils for crap, other days I can’t watercolor, other days I can’t work on the computer. I will however keep in mind what kind of person your character is and what would suit best
-Screenshots. Clear ones preferably.

Things I’d appreciate:
Screenshots: If you could stand close to an object, to make your character’s face appear in the screen bigger than full zoom. That way it’s easier for me to get the face accurate.
If armor/weapon look is of importance to you, mention it, and please provide multiply screenshots from different angles. Otherwise I’ll have to gues what things look like

If there is something you REALLY wouldn’t want, tell me. If you don’t want your Asura to have a golem around, say so.

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On a sidenote, if there are things that ‘belong’ on your character, but are impossible to achieve ingame, say so. An Asura with a scar over his face, a Charr with glasses, a fierce norn warrior in a tutu. Anything is possible if you just mention it

Examples of my work:
http://debstarr.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d5li4b4
http://debstarr.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps#/d5a59i7

I’m not too bothered by it. I actually like the one where you have to paint the princesses. (Can we have that gun for in Orr… PLEASE! It can turn skritt into princesses, who says it won’t work with risen…)

I insta-killed myself and saved my party on saving the griffons from the princesses…
Pulling conditions and gaining 26 stacks of confusion hurts if you don’t click your own purify soon enough

That’s a great thing to hear Thanks for the heads up!

I’m wondering where you heard that, since I haven’t seen anything about that.
Personally I’d say: don’t believe it unless it’s on the website.

That is awesome
As a musician myself I’d love to have one of those bells.
In between songs in the mini game I’m trying to figure out some songs I play on guitar. Would be so awesome to have a permanent one.

My asura is rocking the candycane hammer…
Along with a wooden sword and a bell focus… ^^’

Personally I think both have some cool skins, and some skins aren’t my taste
The moon-shield from halloween is pretty awesome as well as the staff.
Then again I love the slingshot, bell and candycane

Chamone.6890:

Socram.6587:

You could invest a small portion of the time that you need to rant on the forums to take a look at the “socks and hats.. Again, RNG style.”… never wondered what these are for?

You can turn them in for more giant presents to have another crack at the RNG.

Oh hi, we heard you liked RNG so we put RNG in your RNG so you can gamble while you gamble.

Or you could save them up and by weapon skins directly ijs. No RNG involved there.

I honestly think people are overreacting to much. We can buy skins directly from trading post, and directly ingame.
We get 2 minipets if we play 5 tixx dungeons.
We get a jumping puzzle, a bell-choir and snowball pvp.
And for all those new events, we had to pay… nothing. Exactly. We got it all for free.

Enstein.1829:

It’s not water. It’s vodka.

Well that explains why my guardian asura can’t swim straight…

@title: If this ruins a whole event for you… wow. Just wow.

@all the people complaining they should remove it / never make such a thing again: You’re selfish.
There. I said it. You’re all selfish.
I don’t like WvWvW
I suck at the timed jumping puzzles
and I’m not terribly good at pvp
I’m sure I’m not alone.

Does that mean they should remove those features? Hell no!
There are plenty of people that enjoy those things, and I stay away from things I don’t enjoy. That’s the great thing about this game.
We’re not forced to do things, we can choose whatever we like to do.

I agree! I spend so much time in there. ^^’ It’s nice to take a break there every now and then from killing stuff and falling down at the jumping puzzle
Then again, I’d also love to see the labyrinth back from halloween

Some of the minigames during events really awesome and would be a great permanent addition to the game imo ^^

spiritus.7983:

it is a picture somewhere with each toy? I wish to know how they look like before I decide on 2 of them

I see them in my colectabiles but… that icon is not enough ^^

I’m guessing we’ll get to see all of them before the event ends in the different dungeons
We’ve seen the Ventari and the Princess doll so far ^^

I’m also a bit annoyed with the fact that I can’t try on different armor types anymore… :/
I usually go to the mists to try on different armor on different races to see what race I want to be. Now it means that if I want to have a character wearing x armor, I have to make several characters, go through the first quest of each race before I can even decide what I want my character to be…
It just takes up a lot of time… making the character, going through the quest, loading screens… deleting, and eventually doing the same quest again. No fun imo.

I hope we’ll eventually be able to make all 5. Is there any place you can see what all the pets will be :o ?

buki.3108:

Oh god why? It’s the choice again… Charmander, Bulbasaur, or Squirtle?

Charmander.

Did it again with another party, This time we filled machine 1 first and we could go further without any trouble.
No idea if that is what created the problem, but maybe that works for others? :/

I’m not sure if you’re having the same issue as my party… We can only see 1 ‘basket’ on our minimap, the full machine. The other machine is empty, there is no icon on the minimap and we can’t interact with it.

Thank you Arenanet!
I already found halloween a lot of fun, but this is even more fun imo ^^
The bell choir is awesome, and a great job on the weapon skins being available without chances through the bltc and the ingame ones too ofc!
Going to take my chances on the jumping puzzle again later…
Can’t wait for the fun when tixx arrives!

np, glad to help.
http://wwp.centraleuropeantime.com/ I find that website really handy when it comes to timezones ^^

I agree with Afro Dude! It’s bice to see that we can get skins both from the gem store and through ingame.
I’m going to save up for the slingshot

CET is GMT+1.
So that’d be 8:00 pm for you

I haven’t had the time yet to login and try. However I think they should have ‘easier’ jumping puzzles for timed events, while jumping puzzles with the difficulty of the clocktower would be great permanent additions…

Personally I haven’t completed the clocktower(although I enjoyed the hell out of it ), I’m just not good enough a jumper to do so. I’d love to finish it sometime but unless it comes back next year there’s no possibility to do so. And from the rage at halloween I know I’m not the only one who’d have loved to try it at other times

Just my 2 cents :P

Awesome! I’d love to see more.

I actually love the jumping puzzles. I also love the fact that some poi’s and skill points are harder to find. It adds to the dimension of the game to me as well as providing me fun. Sure, bugs also have to be fixed, but there are different teams working on different things. What would you suggest that the teams who make puzzles and such go do in the meantime then? twiddle their thumbs?

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

The asura have offered to experiment on the sylvari and determine why they appear immune to corruption, but so far no one has volunteered.

Does the offer still stand, if so, could you elaborate on where to apply?

I personally still enjoy the order missions…
However I do agree it was kind of a let down to see all my characters would follow the same story more or less.
Then again I understand, because voice acting most likely isn’t something cheap, not to mention it costs loads of time.

I hope in future expansions we get more personal story missions that will involve your own culture/area/order more.

I have mixed feelings about Trahearne, I like the voice itself, however I also think he could show a bit more emotion. During some scenes I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d start doing a weatherforcast in between telling me how many people got killed today.

Actually I think he started to slightly annoy me once the pact was forged.

I also think he could’ve been fleshed out a bit more, but then again, it’s a game, and there might not be a whole lot of room for it.

No real hate, no real love towards him really. x’D

I never really send any messages to commanders in particular. I don’t really WvWvW and mainly pve.
Couple of times seen a commander lead an event. The guy had obviously done it a dozen times before and gave general directions to people what to focus on and when, after failing the event the first time without directions given. Event went a lot smoother then.

I’ve also ran into commanders however who just ran along with events while the group failed a dozen times. Which makes me facepalm.

If you decide to show the tag in pve, at least be familiar with the event you’re running, and give directions if the event keeps failing :/

tl;dr: if you’re showing you’re a commander, act like one and give directions in pve if necessary. If no commander is necessary, don’t show off the tag.

Rustypipes.6238:

I came to agree about the OPness of Deer but to add that they have nothing on a flock of angry chickens.

The angry chickens… .__. me and 2 others once spend 15 minutes killing them :’D No drops but damn we felt accomplished… xD

I want to see a deer vs angry chickens!

Coming from a game where you could buy endgame armor in the cash shop, I don’t see how this cash shop gives an advantage…
72 euro for the “normal” endgame armor, 2000 euros for the “face roll the game” armor.

The boosters are hardly an advantage. I have a ton of them in my bank, none of them gotten through the gem shop, and I doubt I’ll ever use them…
Gem/coin conversion..? It’s not like you get much money for your gems anyways…
Black lion salvage kits? There are various personal story steps that give you a key for a chest…
Extra bank slots? I got 1 extra slot, more because I was leveling cooking than anything else, bought by converting gold…

I honestly don’t see any unfair advantage in the gemstore… It’s not like people who used cash can now one shot you in pvp, or deal more damage than you, or have better armor…

So far I have spend 20 euros on the game for character slots, and I’m happy with it. I don’t feel the need to spend money, which makes me less reluctant to do so when I want to have something I like…

I absolutely loved the hidden gardens. Then again, I love jumping puzzles. ^^’ I’ve done that jumping puzzle several times because I really enjoy it
There’s also some diving goggles there, I recall 2. Not sure though.

Hea, I tried to send you a whisper ingame, but you weren’t online…
Anyways, I’m willing to help, I’m usually online around 7 GMT-time untill around 10 GMT time.
Just send me a pm ingame

Have you tried going to heart of the mists’ pvp-lockers? You can try out a lot of armor there and mix ’n match without actually owning the armor.

And since I had a bored moment, how about something like this(some may have a different pve-name, icons are mostly the same though):
-conjurer’s mask
-nightmare epaulets
-conjurer’s chest
-embroided gloves
-champion’s pants
-outrider’s boots

Conncept.7638:

I don’t know for a fact, but I would bet that capes became out of the question when dodge-rolling was added.

Cap+dodge roll = Hero burrito

lmao xD I can so see this happening now… Thanks for giving me a good laugh!

Ontopic: I’d like to see cloaks added as town clothing. No issues with clipping weapons or burrito hero’s in the middle of combat.

First time I did a dungeon in gw, (AC) we got smacked down by the first mob we approached. Partywiped. Completely.
It took us a couple of minutes to defeat a single mob and people kept dying, if someone was downed, didn’t even have to think about helping them up, because within no time you were laying next to them.

With that first experience I didn’t feel like doing ANY dungeon anymore. Not too long ago however, my guild asked for dungeons and I decided to give it another go. We were with 4 from the same guild and one random who was at the level of the dungeon. We had a blast.

One elementalist in the group had a glass cannon build and died repeatibly, where the guy who was at the level of the dungeon had no problem at all.
Not long after we ran CM, the elementalist had adjusted his build and gues what. He didn’t spam-die anymore.

Give it some time, try AC first with some people you played with before, or who have some experience in the dungeon. After a while it really starts to get better, and starts to become fun.

LithePanther.5027:

I have to say on my warrior a thief downed me and I managed to down and kill him while downed

Then well played to you :P ^^

I don’t think it’s a bug. And I don’t think it has to be ‘fixed’.
Every class has advantages and disadvantages, and I really doubt you’d be able to win if you’re downed already.
Not to mention, a thief can stealth when he’s downed too, and backstab when downed.(or whatever the skill was called then. Never really payed attention…)

Yes, I also play(ed) a thief, but I also play other classes(main mesmer). Whenever I get downed I’ll ofcourse do what I can to kill someone, or at least dish out as much damage as I can.

If there’s a thief and he stealths, well played. It means I most likely wouldn’t have stood a chance anyway, seeing the thief still had a stealth/initiative left at the end of the fight. Which practically means I didn’t play well enough.

Yumee.2063:

Thank you for your replies, I adore them to death too also spend a lot of silver on the Quaggan tonic, duh.
If anyone is interested, I could make a tutorial for them ^.~

do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it!
Those quaggans are adorable!
I have some fimo-clay myself, but unfortunatly I never know where or how to start… A tutorial would be awesome

I’d love to have guild-halls implemented in the game.
The idea with furniture within crafting sounds good too, maybe guild-halls should feature guild-specific quests too. This could reward a special currency to buy guild-related goods.

I don’t like the renting though. I’ll explain at the bottom of my post why.
My suggestion is a onetime payment to get a ‘basic’ hall, with options of upgrading for different things.
basic hall – Quests that earn you a special ’guild’currency. Doing the quests you can earn a bit of exp, maybe karma along with the guild-currency.
upgrades:
-Crafting stations
-Banker/TP/Guild-related npc’s.(armorer and such)
-npc with items that can be bought from guild-currency.(think of ‘fun’ things, to ‘useful’ things. Per example special tonics(fun), to mats(useful/maybe account bound?)
-Asura portals to major cities
-Asura portals to the 3 factions(must have done so far in story-mission to use)

How would guild-currency work?
It’s aquired through guild-quests. Everytime you earn influence it’s added to two things:
-personal
-guild
Personal is what you earned so far. Spend some, and it goes down. The part that goes to the guild is always the maximum you earned so far. The part that goes to the guild is added by each member and won’t go down if someone spends their own currency.
So say I have 1000-1000 currency and I spend 250. It’ll be 750-1000.

The maximum currency can be used by the guild master(or those allowed by the guild master) together with materials and gold to upgrade the guild hall. Some upgrades will cost more than others. Some upgrades will require different materials.

Now my reasons why I don’t like ‘renting’ a guild hall:
The bidding-war that will occur. Top tier guilds will have the halls while smaller guilds, or less wealthy guilds get left behind.
Giving out gold as a reward isn’t a good idea either. I’ve seen this happen in another game, however the system in place was called territory war.
Only the biggest and richest guilds were able to bid, smaller guilds couldn’t afford it.
The guilds who held a territory would get x amount of money each week, and had a chance of receiving an item that sells for 25x the price they got per week.
Result: Richer guilds got richer, the market infl-. well. Exploded. Richer guilds got richer and poorer guilds got poorer, being unable to compete.

Do I think every guild must get a hall?
No. But I do think every guild should have to possibility to get a hall even if it takes a while to aquire one.

@Frosty

As I matter of fact I tried plenty of times as a kid…
I agree it would be very difficult. x’D
Then again I also wonder how my character can go so easily from slaying centaurs to fighting champion-giants and dragons… But that’s just me ^^’

How about making barehanded fishing some sort of minigame that does require some practice to be good at? And maybe use things in the environment. An abandoned net, maybe there’s a dagger laying around?

I would also like fishing ^^
Some ideas.
-fishing with bare hands in the water. You aquire a raw fish that can either be used for cooking(crafting) or can be used on a fire(there’s plenty of campfires around) to make an item that can be used to consume for a small buff that lasts per example 10 or 5 minutes. (I also think its stance we can’t eat strawberries without cooking)

-using a rod. Either permanent, or one time item. Can only be used at ‘fishing-spots’. CN be aquired from fishers for a small fee.

Why I would like to see this and why it would fit in?

-from an RP-perspective. It’s strange already IMO that we can’t eat strawberries, raspberries, etc.
Say, you are traveling with your group of adventurers. Or your warband. Night falls and you start to get hungry. You build a camp near the water, drink water and. Fish. Oh wait, kitten I can kill undead, trolls, ettins… But catch a fish… Nope…
So the party goes hungry…

-gameplay perspective: it could give a small buff, lasting per example 10 minutes. It could scale on level so the buff always gives more or less the same effect for each level.
If you don’t cook the fish it could maybe give a debuf for a couple of seconds.
I already mentioned that I think it’s strange I can’t just eat a strawberry I just picked.
Besides that, it would give the critter-tuna’s a use.
This could also be extended to other critters like rabbits and birds.

I don’t think this would really hurt the gameplay. As a level 400 cook I don’t see how this could hurt the cooling profession. The buffs aquired will be much less and last shorter.
I might’ve missed things here. But it’s just an idea

I personally wouldn’t call that grinding…
Events are (with a few exceptions) quite short, they’re fun to do, and give a nice reward. Not a grind to me.
Dungeons are imo a lot of fun to do and don’t feel like a grind at all. Especially not when you go with some friends and have teamspeak on… it goes from fun to hilarious in my case…
Grinding to catch up with the storyline… never did that. I go around the world, explore, do the hearts and events I encounter and before I notice I’m over the minimum level for my story already…

Grinding for me is killing mobs over and over again, because it’s the only way to get something. Be it levels, be it money, be it drops.
So far I haven’t felt the need to grind, because there’s other and more fun ways to get whatever needed.

1. 19, female

2. I always enjoy a good storyline, however gameplay is more important to me. The amount of fun I have doesn’t depend on how much fun I have, though it can add to it.

3. I am always more interested in individual characters. While single characters can be shown to be actual humans(or whatever race they are) and show different emotions, have more complexity, etc. I find big groups usually consist of a couple of characters that are somewhat interesting, while the rest are cardboard cutouts…

4. I view my characters as a seperate entity. Although I don’t ‘act’ like my character in per example my guild, I find it fun to approach things differently on different characters and make choices in the game based on what they’d do. (My characters are all based off a story I’m writing)

5. In the open world I like to see my character completely different than from the story. (my characters would never become a commander of some sort…)
Due to some ‘set’ things in the story it’s sometimes something the game determines, when given a choice it’s something I determine.

6. It is different indeed. The ultimate goal is getting to know as much as possible about lore, different area’s, different races, cultures, motives, and so on.

7. I feel it fits in the rest of the game.

8. I hardly even think about it to be honest. And since there’s also different options to choose from it’s also fun to play through the story multiply times.

9. I feel they’re quite well done together. At first you start out as a ‘nobody’ and just help around your own people, find out more about yourself and people close to you. Later when you join an order you start to become a key-figure in the world.
I haven’t done much dungeons yet, but I feel they’re well done, although sometimes somewhat confusing in what’s going on in the cutscenes.

I hope this helps ^^

I would LOVE a lore-book. I already read the 2 gw novels and enjoyed them thoroughly.
I’d buy a lore-book in the blink of an eye.
Rp is also something I enjoy, although I don’t do it often. However I’m always interested in different worlds and history.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
My female squeaking warrior is now a guy. Finally don’t have to be annoyed when using a greatsword anymore

Ziggurat.8261:

Since it is taking this long to implement it, I am starting to think they are planning to implement new character hair/face etc. This would of course prompt more people to get the kit when it arrives.

That said, it might not be true. It’s just my guess.

Since it’s taking this long, I gues I’d be quite dissapointed if that weren’t true ^^’ Although I’d still get a kit x’D

I too hope they’ll bring this feature out in the near future… Been hoping that it came along with the halloween update, then lost shores…
Hope they can iron out the bugs they said there were with them are ironed out soon…

This guy has quite a bit of plausible ideas. It’s about 20 minutes in which he only talks about that town and the tower…

I haven’t played gw1, so I didn’t know about any kind of background about the castle untill I came across that vid… It has always been one of my favourite towns though. It’s an… interesting place.

Here’s Krytan Debs for those curious.