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I will post these here too, these are sunset pictures that I took for photo competition.
1. Black Citadel
2. Charrs are having late night meeting
2. At the next door some charrs are doing research, etc.

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Black Citadel has nice sunset. Went there and took some pictures.

1. Charrs are having late night meeting (note the gravity ignoring rolls on the table XD)
2. At the next door some charrs are doing research, etc.
3. Outside view.

Edit: noticed the rules say 1 pic per person. I will leave the Frostgorge pic for that since it was the first that I posted. These Black Citadel pictures are outside… maybe someone can find them as inspiration or something.

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Spanking some skelks and troll dying on air rune strike.

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Here is picture from Frostgorge Sound – Talabaroop Waves. I am not sure is this morning or evening light. I will try to get better pic of sunset.

The day/night cycle lasts 2 hours with 80 minutes of day and 40 minutes of night.

Second picture is not mine and is not part of this competition. Yesterday I arrived to Queensdale when sun was rising. I spent whole "day " waiting for sunset since I saw that picture on internet. Result is: Queensdale’s sunset does not look like that, there is no redness in the horizon. I don’t know is that picture modified or were things different in beta.

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Is this already over? (I see the that the post saying four days is already six days old). If you already selected winner, I will just bump.

Here are some pink flowers that I noticed just today after daily (and also the view was lovely).

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Gendarran fields, took this today after getting daily done.

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Some actions shots with swords. To get these 3 pictures I took 120 screenshots.

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Here is my mesmer and tier 2 + HoM mask. More pictures of her on my album http://imgur.com/a/Jrie4

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Human T1 and T2 light cultural armor (female)

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Tier 2 is absolutely fantastic. So many details. I love it.

I do not like T3. It looks like it is missing chest piece and you are running around on your bra. I am not fan of the T3 leggings either… too much skin.

Here is my mesmer and tier 2 + HoM mask (more pics at my album http://imgur.com/a/Jrie4)

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Kil's art and commissions =)

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I really like your art style and definitely want to see some GW2 related pictures.

If you want something to draw, I would love to see picture of my mesmer. Here is gallery of her: http://imgur.com/a/Jrie4 I know how hard it is to do art from something what you do not find inspiring, so if you do not want to draw pink spells ect, I understand.

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More pictures. (now you can find all my pictures from album linked on signature)

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Here’s my mesmer Mnemos – I’m at point now where I feel he’s finished:

I saw that on gw2guru too. I really like how that necro mask blends into your skin color. Looks good.

My third level 80. She got full exotic gear at the day she dinged.

What armor is that your char is wearing please? Looks pretty lovely.

Here is listing:
- head: baroque mask (hall of monuments reward from playing original GW)
- shoulder: hidden
- chest: human tier 2
- legs: human tier 2
- hands: exalted gloves (lvl 80 crafted)
- shoes: starter shoes (even tho you can not see them on pic and they seems to clip a bit with socks. I may get human t2 shoes too)
- staff: whisper’s secret staff (from Order of Whispers, but if you have any toon at this order you can user transmutation stones to transfer look for other toons within account)

I just noticed it that gloves do now really mach, if you look closely you see there is gap on wrist area. I liked those gloves (it has nice ring), but got T2 gloves to get rid of the gap.

It is minor change, but here is log in picture with new gloves.

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My third level 80. She got full exotic gear at the day she dinged.

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Orr Changes: Thank you

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Was going to create similar thread, but found this. Thank you ArenaNet for this change. <3

I am leveling my third toon now and first time I have had really fun time in Orr. I had fun even when I was feared and pulled 2 more risens that I didn’t want to pull. Event wasn’t faceroll easy, I was downed couple of times, but rallied. Earlier 4 mobs was certain death and I just had to wait the death to be able to use waypoint.

Now I was able to move around mobs, look good position to attack, create clones, dodge around, shatter like mad while leaving ranged phantasm into safe cleaned places, etc. It was still challenging but not frustrating. Fun!

Once again, thank you.

@Aderon, you could think they they are enchanted by Zhaitan an dgot bigger frame for that. And undead abominations are undead minions of Zhaitan that are sewn together from multiple corpses. Of-course they break easily, it is rotten flesh stitched together. XD

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[Guide] WvWvW/Pve Shatter Cat 2014-04-23

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I am almost max level and wonder what gear I should get for your Phantasm Hybrid build?

On your post you say “Shatter Cat Hybrid gear: 4/6 BZ, 1/6 K, 1/6 V, Trinkets : Nec BZ, r1 BZ, r2 Fractal tought/crit, T1 BZ, T2 BZ, Wep staff: BZ MH: BZ, OH BZ”

What gear pieces should be Valkyrie and Knight’s? I have done some PvE gear calculations on http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/mesmer/ , but I am still not sure how much toughness/HP is enough and is rising those worth the possible loss of crit change/damage. I have enough money to buy gear from TP, but I am not supper rich so making mistakes in this might push my gear progress further into the future.

See picture below showing what I have currently planned:

Is that anywhere close?

  • 15482 HP
  • 1979 armor
  • 47.71% crit chance
  • 133% crit damage

That is:

  • Effective Power 3564.82
  • Effective Health (EHP) 11784.18
  • Damage Reduction -31.38%

PS: you can not see it on that pic but ring2 is Knight’s (since I do not have Fractal ring).

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[February] Issues with character art, weapons, or armor?

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Human female long hairstyle still missing animation.

The hairstyle used by Queen Jennah and human female player characters was broken sometime after release such that it no longer has cloth physics.

It doesn’t ‘sway’ like every other hairstyle in the game, and is stuck to the back of the character’s neck regardless of animation settings, helmet toggled off or not worn, etc. If the character looks around the texture stretches in an ugly way and looks pretty bad.

The hair essentially acts like a stretchy sheet of rubber between the back of my character’s head and her shoulders. This can’t be right.

Has been reported before, but still seems to be a problem..

This bothers me every-time my toon goes idle.

I have different hairstyle than what you linked. So I will add some pictures to clarify how my toon hair moves (or not move). Hair physics has starting point at the neck/back of the head where it should float downwards, but for some reason on the shoulders there is another “connection point”. Hair bends and stretches unnaturally between those two points(see idle picture).

I don’t know did this hair move differently before, but I think that is it bug, since that shoulder connection doesn’t seem to be point for hair physics/movement (see running picture).

The best solution would be have completely moving hair like this, but it might be too much for MMO: http://youtu.be/WpW6kPBnyQ4

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[February] Getting stuck in the map/seeing map art issues?

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While leveling I found that in Bloodtide Coast there is wall that allows you to walk through it. Seems to be way to go outside the map area.

Screenshot showing the bugged non-wall part and video showing on more detail where it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMY_MXSitS8

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My standard color for my Humans is Light 6

Pics from character selection and in-game.

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How to tell you may need a break?

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I just spent 10 minutes making a post about Treehurt, whatever his real name is, and came to the conclusion Kormir is a better hero proxy than him.

I defended Kormir.
Think about that for a second, nobody loves you Kormir! GAH I need a drink!

You clearly need to watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxmkAoLC6_4

(you only understand it if you played original Guild Wars Nightfall)

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You start to see abbreviations an gaming meanings everywhere; car in front of you is looking for party (LFP), work document talks about RP (was about reference points, not rolepaly). You see CoE, CoF, CM, TA, etc and you instantly know what they are… but alas they are not. As long time World of Warcraft player I still have hard time seeing documents about way of work (WoW) and hear people talking about it: “Lets check wow again” “We need to update WoW”. >_>

I have once said AFK at work when referring colleague who was eating. I was meant to say he was away. Luckily the person didn’t either listen or was also a gamer. Once I almost sent mail with CBA to colleague when I was trying to explain why the thing was not worth of the time. Good thing that I re-read the mail before sending.

These were more of the consequences of long time gaming hobby than too long playing session.

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Rate the Human's Face /10 above you

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Female playing female characters here. Never created male toons on any games. It would feel weird somehow.

-snip-

8/10 I feel that the face looks young compared to body. The body belongs to the full grown woman but something in the face is childlike… it is the cheeks I think. But in the other hand she looks very serious, young but determined to do what needs to be done.

My elementalist after the hair change.

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New look. Inquest leggings, order of whisper chest, AC boots and karma gloves. I am not sure about colors yet (whisperer colors were easy start). Also the weapon is still mystery.

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Build&gear are kind of combination of your personal liking and playstyle.

I use staff with power build. 30/0/0/20/20. Staff generally works better with raw power than with condition gear. Scepter is better with conditions.

Build
I do not like that I need to take only signets/cantrips/glyphs as utility to make my build work. I want to change spells according situation. I run with this build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhImmbwx0gjDAEFmgS4BBMkQRxM7A
Utility skills are totally optional, the build above shows what I run most of the time in Ascalonian Catacombs (stability for Kohler hook/Graveling scavengers, Flash for OhNoes-situations, etc). Take what you like, build is not depending about having certain skills on utility slots.

About the traits, as you can see I took 30 Fire for 300 extra power.
- Internal Fire (10% more damage with fire) is kind of easy choice.
- Pyromancer’s Alacrity is also important, 20% cooldown reduction will take Lave Font from 6 seconds to 4 3/4ths a second.
- Pyromancer’s Puissance will let you keep up stacks of Might while attacking. One might is 35 power at lvl80, that stack can go to 25 on long WvW fights. That is 875 extra power. On dungeon bosses I usually hang around 14 stacks of might. All spells cast while attuned to fire will add stacks.

Then I go to Water to get some vitality, this will boost my HP pool and give some support to dungeon group.
- Cleansing Wave will heal 1,302 at 0 points and 1,602 at 30 points. I have only 20 points but heal is still a sizable amount.
- Vital Striking is there to deal extra 10% damage when health is above 90% (note this boost is not limited to any attunement,)

Finally Arcana gives me +20% boon duration and also allows faster attunement swaps due recharge rate boost.
- Elemental Attunement is easy pick, it applies a boon based on the attunement you switch to, which just general synergizes well with each build.
- Blasting Staff just makes AoE staff abilities bigger (this includes your healing areas).

Gear:
Head, Shoulders, Chest, Legs, Gloves and Boots are Power+Toughness+Vitality aka Soldier’s gear. You can get these easily from Ascalonian Catacombs (AC) dungeon and you will also get some money with those runs. Power+Toughness+Vitality is good gear to start with, after you get more familiar with instance/boss mechanics you can swap your gear to more damage oriented and return to this “balanced” gear when this are unpredictable.

My Back Item is same Soldier’s prefix as other armor, you can get rare back from TP. Mine is Soldiers Spineguard. it cost ~80silvers when I got it from Trading Post. Exotic back piece can be purchased with 5g from Guild Armorer, but personally I rather go with rare until I get Ascended item with Fractals of the Mists (FoTM) dungeon tokens.

Armor runes are
- 2x Superior Rune of the Monk. these you get with AC gear
- 2x Superior Rune of the Water, craft or buy
- 2x Major Rune of the Monk (you get plenty of these from AC)
As you can see I have picked these for boon duration. Longer might, fury, swiftness, etc.

I have +Toughness. +Power +Precision Necklace aka Emerald Orichalcum Amulet of the Knight. Rings and Accessory are currently +Power +Precision +Critical Damage aka Berserker’s, tho I change these to Emerald ones when I know I will face tough boss.

About weapons, I have
- Berserker’s staff with Superior Sigil of Force (+5% damage) it is nice and easy bonus without any hassle. I mostly use this on dungeons that I already know.
- Shaman’s staff from AC with Superior Sigil of Force. This is for hard hitting bosses and new encounters.
- Shaman’s staff from AC with Superior Sigil of Energy (Gain 50% of your endurance with attunement swap, 9sec CD). I got this for Crucible of Eternity (CoE) boss that likes to throw stuff at ranged. So I need to dodgle a lot.

I do not have any points on Earth line that is why I go so heavily to +toughness with gear. In places like arah I rather survive than deal a bit more damage before I get downed/defeated.

Below you can see my stats:

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I like this armor combo quite a bit

I like that too. Nicely done.

My Norn Ele – lvl 80 … do you like the outfit?

I also like this combo, dramatic.

Here is mine. Third set with mix of Soldier’s and Berserker’s gear with 2x Rune of the Water, 2x Rune of the Monk and 2x +20% might duration rune.

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Wonderful thread.

Here are some of mine: first 3 are landscapes taken with /sleep emote and last 2 are Yew year and Wintersday pictures.

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Happy New Year to all from Gandara. Here are some pictures of fun I had with random people in LA when one charr dropped fireworks for us.

At first my ele seem to be scared of them, then I got bomb and at last we see rare occurrence of human+sylvari sync dance. XD

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Legendaries [[Questions, lots of them]]

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I have been doing a lot of research but I’ve become even more confused; I want to get a Legendary weapon, not any weapons, but the staff (because Elementalists is my profession) …

Staff is also my chosen legendary. I created picture of what I need to make things a bit more clear for me. I will add it here.

I asked a question to someone but they told me you can do “Fractals” . I made my research and didnt find anything helpful about fractals, here is one of the many places i looked into: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractals_of_the_Mists

You need Obsidian Shards for legendary and you can get those with karma or with Fractal Relics that you get from fractals. People may have suggested fractals to you due good amount of salvageable stuff you get from there, but please note that to get legendary you still need to do much more than just run that instance.

I know this will take time. I just go slowly and do not grind myself silly. After all, what is the point of having legendary if you hate the game after non-stop grinding.

This is what you need for legendary staff (same stuff is on picture, I just collected everything here)

Farm or buy from Trading Post:
250x Globs of Ectoplasm
750x Pile of Crystalline Dust (3 stacks of 250)
250x Pile of Radiant Dust
250x Pile of Luminous Dust
250x Pile of Incandescent Dust
250x Vial of Powerful Blood
250x Powerful Venom Sac
250x Elaborate Totem
250x Vicious Fang
250x Armored Scale
250x Vicious Claw
250x Ancient Bone
250x Unidentified Dye
100x Opal Orb
1x Superior Sigil of Nullification

Things you need to get/do personally:
500x Shards of Zhaitan from Arah
500x Badges of Honor for Gift of Battle from WvW
100% World Completion for Gift of Exploration
100 gold for 100 Icy Runestones (from vendor)
200 Skill Points for 1 Bloodstone Shard
525 000 karma or 3750 Fractal Relics for 250 Obsidian Shards

77x Mystic Clover ~ gamble part
The Mystic Forge has a chance of producing Mystic Clover, using:
1 Obsidian Shard
1 Mystic Coin
1 Glob of Ectoplasm
6 Philosopher’s Stone (Skill Points)

The Mystic Forge has a chance of producing 10 Mystic Clover, using:
10 Obsidian Shards
10 Mystic Coins
10 Globs of Ectoplasm
10 Crystals (Skill Points)

Assuming that both recipes have the same chance to produce clover, the average cost to obtain a single clover:
3 Mystic Coins
3 Obsidian Shards
3 Globs of Ectoplasm
1.82 Skill Points

So the average cost of 77 Mystic Clovers would be:
231 Mystic Coins
231 Obsidian Shards
231 Globs of Ectoplasm
141 Skill Points

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Style ~ what do you expect, want or hope?

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I didn’t even remember capes/cloaks. Does enyone know why we don’t yet have them? In original GW they were holding guild emblems. Is it just animation problems or something else?

I like this idea, but it should work like this with every armor class, but I have no idea how it could be done with current armors.

I would also love more fitted armors for Medium, and armors that have better seaming…. Light armor seams well at the waist allowing for easier mixing and matching but medium armor has way too many “chest” pieces that run from wrists to ankles making 1 “piece” of armor dominate the look of the character.

Also the particle effects idea on armors… how about legendary armors? ._.

Some more steampunk outfit pictures, those would fit for engineers I assume. Tho the second one has dress/skirt, should have pants.

I also added picture of hair system from tera that was there to prevent hair clipping. The idea of it is that if armor has collar that would clip with hair, there will be “updo” on hair with that armor. This should be optional feature aka you should be able to disable it if you do not like it. I know that some people do not like that their toon is modified by armor.

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Am I the only one who hates Risen?

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Why are the risen so much harder that you would have to change your build just to fight them alone? Now dont get me wrong, I can fight 1 or 2 risen and sometimes even that is a risk depending on which risen it is, but you get 3 or 4 and its pretty much lights out. We are talking about open world here. We aren’t doing raids here, so these last 10 levels should not scale as badly as what it is. I dont even like Orr, but I am trying to finish out my story and of course its forcing me to be there.

There is actually change; those last zones do not have hearts and are fully run by meta events aka “take this altar and soon it will be contested again” Those zones are “enemy territory” and when moving solo you need to be either fast or… uhm…. ye… you need to be fast. Kill fast or run fast… and die slowly on cc chains if they get you.

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Here is my story of emo rage about risen/orr:
With my elementalist I had spent most of my time on wvw and I also dinged to 80 there so I had no idea of pve end areas.

I chatted with guild and googled the place to go for gear. That area was lvl 75 pve Temple of Balthazar. So there I ran, with my staff and berserker gear. As you can imagine, I was dying no matter what route I took. The thing that made it even worse was the fact that most of the waypoints were contested so I started from the Fort Trinity every time. So, QQed to map chat how awful this area is… only to get some nice chat with people how they manage to run around there. I gave up with temple, run some AC to get +pow+vit+tough gear and bought daggers.

Yesterday I was taking Temple of Balthazar with 4 random people and got last pieces of my +pow+vit+tough gear. I still like to run with staff on dungeons/wvw and I swapped to it also on temple, but when I solo I run D&D
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I know this wont help you since you are ranger, but I was just trying to explain that those Orr areas are kind of raids. They are not as solo friendly as other pve areas but you can survive.

Now I hunt the risen for the anger and frustration they caused. They do not see me coming, but they most often see me leaving.

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Style ~ what do you expect, want or hope?

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How would you want your armor and weapons to look like? What details would you like to see?

Note; I didn’t create this thread to complain current armors. This is just for the sake of style, art and all the fun things that we love to create / see.

I would like to see a bit more steampunk style with medium armors and more pants with light armors. Also hats, I want to see more hats and hair with hats. I added some pictures to illustrate what I mean. All pictures below are random internet findings, not mine.

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We got Balthazar temple today and I got last pieces of +pow+vit+tough gear aka I finished my “all around” look. I normally use staff and swap to daggers only when soloing stuff on Orr.

The other one is my condition gear.

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Photoshop oil paint screenshots [from Reddit]

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I just saw these nice pictures on Reddit an thought to share them.

These are done with Photoshop CS6 Oil Paint filter. This is how you do it:
- Go to image -> adjustments -> vibrance
- Put vibrance up to 100
- Go to filter -> oil paint
- Put shine on 0

Orignial reddit post: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1529d2/lets_share_photoshop_oil_paint_screenshots/

Note, these are not my pictures. There is more behind reddit link. Too bad I don’t have CS6 I would have created some too.

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Merry ScreenShots

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Lovely pictures people.

I only have some LA pictures.

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Oh, thanks for telling. Checked 3 pages and didn’t find any thread. Moving to that thread then.

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Post your best Wintersday screenshots

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Post any Wintersday related pictures here: sceneries, events with friends or random people, your awesome costume and armor colors. Anything and everything. I want to see it all.

Here are just some pictures from LA.

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Lazy Kai's Guide to PvE/Leveling Guide Update

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Hi I am very new to mesmer… and i was just wondering what weapon is this build for?

Greatsword, read the post and you will see.

Kaiyanwan: For lazy build you have loads of reading. I like your build so I made rotation picture & link.

Build link (forum doesn’t allow “;” on link so I can not link build with gear, see OP’s post for runes, etc) : http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQJAxdlwzipXUzqGa9ICqHaH29dkU0apWJF42FC

Lazy mesmer rotation picture:

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My low level mesmer got gold from main for T1. Now I can use all transmute stones to maintain that look while leveling. Currently I have around 60 basic transmute stones. XD

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Finally got enough gold to get Human T3 chest and shoulder. Rest of the armor is Duelist. Loving it.

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Screenshots: Adventures in The Lost Shores

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It is so beautiful. <3

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Screenshots: Adventures in The Lost Shores

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Karka hatchling on my face xD

Almost same look and same experience, but at least I can see.

As you can see, my thief has nerves of steel. Also landscapes and two event pics added.

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Let's see some thief pics

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My thief, I think she tries to be ele. Second and third pictures are with charr T2 bow that I just got for look.

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Screenshots: Adventures in The Lost Shores

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We went to see the new instance just for fun / to see what it looks like. There was only 2 of us but we finished the underwater minidungeon part… for our surprise, normally we are not good at underwater fight. Instances look really good and have interesting mechanics (in some of them we clearly saw that 2 was not enough, we just wanted to see them).

Some pictures from our adventure. Loading screen, killing the jelly (lvl50 ele kites, I cc and dps boss), then we were charrs (why I am almost naked as melee toon) and final picture is just pure madness that I know that at least one guildie will love.

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Will more powerful gear make you play more?

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They are not adding WOW like gear tiers that make old gear useless.

This is quote from News and Announcements:

Our Studio Design Director Chris Whiteside just posted this:
“I’d like to respond to concerns players have raised about ascended items. Please keep in mind that we’re releasing this as one portion of a massive November update that introduces and improves many aspects of challenge, progression, and rewards. With this and upcoming updates, we view ourselves as introducing large amounts of content with supporting systems and features, akin to an expansion pack, building on Guild Wars 2 through a series of live releases. So it’s important for us to be able to add an expansion pack’s worth of progression and rewards to support that content.

Our goal is not to create a gear treadmill. Our goal is to ensure we have a proper progression for players from exotic up to legendary without a massive jump in reward between the two. We will slowly add the remaining ascended gear items and legendary items in future updates to allow people time to acquire them as we add exciting new content that deserves exciting rewards. We will not be adding a new tier of gear every 3 months that we expect everyone to chase after and then get the next set and so on.

Ascended and infusion rewards will be available in both PvE and WvW over time, and be made available through all sorts of content around the world including existing content. PvP will remain unaffected to ensure our intended PvP balance going forward. We are also working on other reward and progression systems for the game that tie into current and new content and features. As you know we care very much about your support and opinion and are listening intently to what you say.

Finally we look forward to hearing your thoughts on the upcoming content, and we will ensure we share our thoughts with you on the experiences we share in the Lost Shores."

Chris Whiteside – Studio Design Director

Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/A-message-from-our-Studio-Design-Director-Chris-Whiteside

If you read it, it clearly says: We will not be adding a new tier of gear every 3 months that we expect everyone to chase after and then get the next set and so on.
It is just one level of gear. If they had that since release no-one would have been worried.

Just like legendary items (which will gain Ascended-level stats when they release Ascended weapons), Ascended items are items of prestige. They are meant to give the most hardcore players a good and challenging goal to work towards, while not breaking the game or seriously gating content in any way.

People say that this is a step towards WoW in progression. This is ArenaNet introducing a perfect solution to catering to casual and hardcore players, without creating any sort of rift between those two player types.

Also note that Ascended gear lacks slots for players to choose runes, gems, and sigils (when weapons come out). This means that despite Ascended gear having slightly higher stats, they’re less open to customization and are likely to not even replace exotics in many scenarios. I imagine this is why they are introducing the rings and back slot first, because it will not take away runes/sigils from people.

TLDR: I’m happy with new free content that we will get. I will not start running one instance over and over to get Ascended gear as fast as possible. I’m still exploring the world with friends who are slowly moving to GW2.

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Lets talk about that GW2 Article on Gamespy

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Good to hear that there will be improvement within the next few weeks.

I have still noticed some really clear bot groups on Gandara-server. Here is video example of them in Sparkfly Fen (UI disabled due code of conduct rules): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPvr4Sqf5CI

I tried to report as many as I could, but it is hard to notice which ones you have already done.

Suggestion: player names that you have reported appear different color or has small icon for a while. Something to make it easy to see who you reported and who not even when they pile up.

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Seeing map/armors/stuck/weapons or other art issues?

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Armor issue with Weapon placement.
Medium armor “Duelist”-pants missplace one-handed weapons inside character’s tights with Female Human. See pictures for comparing to Human T3 pants, which place weapon correctly.

I got the Duelist set from TP for my lvl60 thief, transmuted it to my Rascal armor, but sadly these great pants do not handle one-handed weapons very well. It would we wonderful of Duelist pants would handle weapons like Human T2 pants do. See attachments.

Race: Human
Sex: Female
Class: Thief

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- First one shows Duelist vs Human Cultural T2 difference on weapon placement.
- Second one shows how this issue looks on Hero panel and also includes listing of all equipped items (only pants were changed when taking difference pictures aka the first attachment picture)

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FOV (Field of View) Changes Beta Test - Feedback Thread

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I made i little video showing water reflection problem. Hopefully it helps.
Here is the video link: http://youtu.be/TV2BhlNtG0M

Other than that it looks good. Sometimes I have got nausea while playing, since I tend to jump around on cities while chatting with friends on vent or waiting them.

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Pictures of the Skins - Post Them Here

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Let's see some thief pics

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My little thief, she is street rat and doesn’t know who her parents were, still she is ready to help Tyria… and herself if/when there is opportunity for that.

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