Guild Wars 2

i think i’m tooooo late. but i would’ave escorted you through.

SirOrangeALot.3760:

ok so if 5% can finish it and think its fun that makes 95% that can not complete and probably think its not fun at all

i’ve spent like 7+ hours trying to get to the top… i’ve never been able to do it and still think its fun there goes your theory!

if your on my server i’ll be happy to take you through with my level 74

agree agree agreeeee
i would love it if the Inquisition mini-game could stay in somehow.

<resists the urge to say snarky things>

even releasing all aspects of an event at once doesn’t solve it.

Last year after hurricane irene i was without electricity for /2 weeks/, my whole town was. 2 weeks is longer than the whole Halloween event even was.

Even if they had released all the stages of a 10-day event at once.. i still would have missed it.. if they’d happened to release it during the 14 days i was without electricity.

What about when that tsunami hit Thailand? had gw2 been out then, and there been people living there who were playing the game, do you think they should have extended any events going on then… for months? Since some people were displaced a very long time during that?

Games really can’t start picking and choosing which “disasters” they are going to bend over backwards to accommodate.

i know its very hard not to think the whole world circles around you and your life… but there are disasters of various sorts during any month-long period of time, all over the world. Ones that keep people from having electricity or internet access. It would be kind of odd to cater to every single countries natural-disaster of the moment and try to work events in a game around them…

ya know?

Rouven.7409:

The devils horns are nice and the flaming book is superb.

:(

i read that as “flamingo book” and was unnaturally excited! okay! so what if maybe there aren’t flamingos in this game.. and so what if flamingos have nothing to do with halloween….. i was very excited at the idea of having a flamingo book!

i do agree the flaming book is cool,… but a flamingo book would fit my insane-person style better!

i’m also loving it.. even the clock tower.. even though i have wasted 6+ hours trying to do it and still have not succeeded >.<

i really want The Lunatic Inquisition, or /some/ version of that game to remain in gw2 even after the halloween season is over. i didn’t get to play it much, but i’d love to get a chance to play at it more!

i think it would be an awesome addition, in the way Keg Brawl is… i think it should be categorised as something like that… instead of lumped in with sPVP.. But that’s just my feeling!

Anyways.. i really enjoyed the event, i was stunned at how much work must have gone into the event. Certainly there were a few hiccups here and there, and a couple missteps Anet might have made in some areas, but overall i think Halloween was excellent in this game.

Anyways.. i really enjoyed the event, i was stunned at how much work must have gone into the event. Certainly there were a few hiccups here and there, and a couple missteps Anet might have made in some areas, but overall i think Halloween was excellent in this game.Definitely more positives than negatives.

oops! more people responded while i was typing!! … thank you to all four of you!!

trying this again armed with new info!

thanks you two! i will try it faster. i thought (after i got to the second stair case) it was “okay” to slow down, because it seemed the green goo was rising slower… and so i always started taking some time on some of those jumps..

but! i know how i should rush (like i do in the beginning) and kinda act like the green goo is still chasing me even when it seems its not so close behind anymore.

i’ll take the suggests you two gave and see if it helps me get there fast enough to beat the goo!

first, i loved your video!….

but i have a question…

i always die at the “leap of faith” because the platform i’m suppose to land on (that you showed in your video) is covered in the “green goo” already.

is that because i’m getting to the leap of faith “too late”, like.. i’m taking too long to get there? Like does it mean i did the earlier parts of the puzzle “too slow”?

Or… am i suppose to wait a long time and eventually the “green goo” will go away? and stop covering that platform??

oh.. if they are not soulbound i can’t imagine Anet giving the OP another pair.

oh.. if they are not soulbound i can’t imagine Anet giving the OP another pair.good suggestions offered by others though about the OP running it again on an alt

into the void!

but honestly i hope a dev can help you out and get the boots to you

especially if you have the Clock Tower achievement they can easily see you did it… and since i heard those slippers are soulbound, they don’t have to worry about you ‘selling’ them to anyone or anything, even if you did end up with two pairs.

So seems no harm no foul.

But there are “disasters” everywhere in the world.. every day…
every event would have to be delayed… extended.. all the time to be fair to every disaster in every country that has internet.. and players that might potentially not get to experience some part of an event.

During Christmas time, if an event happens, there will be places that get snowed in, downed powered lines.. blizzards… during other times of the year various parts of the world are going to have weather issues that would mean the people living there will end up missing out on things…

i /am/ someone who is being effected by the storm, but /not/ as much as some people. i was worried i’d be fully offline and miss the end of the Halloween event as well… but even when i worried i might miss it i didn’t have the “world centers around me” attitude that the event should be extended for /my/ convenience.

Stuff happens in life. Whether i’m here or not for it, hope the Halloween final event goes off without a hitch and is fun for those who make it.

Ryth.6518:

Can someone tell me how to disable the double tap dodge forward (fell off multiple times because my W key was pressed too quickly)

if you didn’t figure it out yet..

you hit the “gear/cog” at the top left of your game window.. to open Game Menu.. then go to Options.. on the main tab, at the bottom for the Combat options.. the top check box.. turns “double tab to evade” on and off.

lynspottery.6529:

If the rewards contained in the chests were better than they currently are, perhaps more folks would be enticed to purchase those keys. But as it is now, I won’t because of the awful rewards.

oh i actually agree. i would buy keys too, but i feel like most of the contents aren’t really worth it.

Although….. it seems like they’ve added a fairly decent chance to get a second key now, at least in my experience, which makes opening them a little better, to me.

But… i’ve actually never gotten a single piece of armour or weapon from one. Maybe you’re not suppose to, actually. i dunno. i’ve only ever gotten like those ‘booster’ things.. and emm ‘tonics’. Even tonics would be nice to me (as an RPer) if the effects either could last longer… or.. there were more per stack (like a 10 stack, vs 3).

anyway, presently they don’t seem to have a high enough drop rate of .. items i’m interested in.. so i don’t bother with buying keys yet. i save my BLC though, just in case they ever change how they deal with the contents inside

mischwoof.9785:

Hey man, i’m just trying to get my treat bags. If you can’t see, that’s not my problem.

that’s sort of a rude attitude to have too…

yes yes yes yes please!!
so many of my screen shots look ugly because of this ‘halo’! :P

but there are other reasons for allowing people the option to turn it off too (i looked all over settings for such an option – but, ya… it was a no go)

i think the key drop will always be low because the gap between chest drops and key drops are /meant/ to push us to use the cash shop to buy keys.

Remember, this game has no monthly sub. For devs to keep working on a game, they need to keep getting paid in some way.. so, people using the cash shop helps balance out not having a subscription fee, i think!

i doubt they will up the drop rate for keys…. nor do i really think they should either.

BLC /do/ have keys inside of them sometimes. It’s not 50/50, but its often enough so that i’ve gotten several keys from opening other chests.

don’t care about the underwear thing. but… would love it if i could dye my accessory so that i wasn’t basically stuck having to have a forever-purple-theme for my armour. (since my hair ribbons are purple and the colour is stuck forever)

oh! that is great, Verteiron. Love that top one ^-^

i saw a lot of death my first run through of Ascent into Madness!

the second. was just taken while waiting to try the clock tower… again.. and again… and again…

sushihead.9360:

wait, so your chat flickering completely messes you up but 3 giant norns and charr blocking your view is not an issue?

you can turn off your UI as well. That will knock out any chat or flashes on your screen.

correct!…

eh! i’d almost say.. when i do my best… its almost like this “zen” moment. or like “using the force”. i’m not thinking about each jump at all. i don’t even need to see my character even… the few times i’ve got the highest up actually were when a charr was right in front of me. i think their jumps hypnotise me and i just smoothly follow or something! i dunno …

but when i glance to chat and start like ‘half’ glimpsing words it breaks the sort of “smooth” zen needed to get up! ~ but really its like typing… you know.. i mean.. assuming you are someone who can type without looking down at the keys. You aren’t “consciously” thinking “okay what row is the next letter on”.. its like you get into this smooth movement where your fingers /know/ where the letters are. your muscles know, without you having to think about it… same thing happens in the tower after awhile.. you don’t have to think “omg, where’s my character i need to see it to do this!” .. you just.. do it.. without needing to see your character fully. Just like you don’t need to look at your keyboard keys to know where the “o” key is, or whatever, when you type.

(actually there’s two places in the tower i need to stop and think, for a half second every time.. or.. at least i do.. i can’t help it! – but i keep trying to say to myself “stay zen, use the force!” :P )

the ui turn off suggestion is stellar. i don’t know why that didn’t occur to me (when i use it all the time for screenshots)!! thanks for suggesting it.

i’m an asura (and actually the shortest an Asura can be, my height slider is waaaay down) and when i mess up, its not the norn or charr in front of me who’s at fault. i’ve gotten really far up, so i’m the last man standing.. and trust me.. when i screw up its because i’m jumping bad >.< or letting myself get distracted. Nahlx is totally right, minimising chat helps loads. You’d be surprised how often your yes flick over to peek at chat without meaning to…. and you mess up because of just that tiny fraction of a second distraction.

First i’ve always thought it was silly when people use the word “racism” against… well… fantasy “races” that do not exist in real life. It just doesn’t make sense to me. Charr don’t exist. Asura don’t exist. Elves and dwarves and centaurs don’t exist. So real life players (in my opinion) cannot be “racist” towards fictious “races”. Just like i can’t be racist towards the easter bunny.

That said….

i think the mean spirited way some people have been treating Charr and Norn in the clock tower puzzle is wrong. i’ve tried to go out of my way of telling any Charr or Norn that they aren’t bothering me (even though i’m a teeny Asura)! …

i tend to think people over blame the Charr and Norn, to be honest, because its easier to blame someone else for your failure, than to accept that you screwed up because of you. Its much easier to say “well i failed because of /that/ guy! and no because i personally did anything stupid! its all someone elses fault!”

Yes, its a bit harder to “see” where you’re landing when there is a large Charr or Norn around, but…. really, once you’ve run the Clock Tower a dozen times you can almost close your eyes and do the beginning part. You do not need to /see/ your character to make the jumps. If you keep your cam the same distance, and turn with your mouse, your character is always at the same point on your screen… you just need to fix your gaze on that point, and go. You don’t need to see anything.

Overly cautious/anxious people probably feel “uncomfortable” trusting their instinct and jumping blindly, but i don’t think that’s a Charr or Norns fault.

i certainly think it sucks when people are truly mean to someone who chose to play one of those sorts of characters. Light hearted teasing is another story. i’ve seen a lot of that going on. Where no one is really meaning to be hateful, and everyone is laughing and having a nice sort of time. And you can tell everyone is having a sense of humour about it.

Other times it is a bit uglier.

i think if someone really has an issue with a large Charr or Norn the person who “can’t see” needs to leave themself. Exit the tower and re-enter and try to get into a different group if you’re unhappy with the size of the characters in the group you get tossed in! Don’t bully the Charr or Norn into leaving.. just leave yourself if you don’t like it! Least that’s what i think

Anyway i’m sorry if you felt bullied :S

i thought 10 slots is great and i’m level 70 >.<
most of my bags are still 8 slots!

you all are like bag kings or something to have all your bags with more slots than that!! i’m jealous! :P

although i do wish the bag was account bound too.

just had a mail issue here too. about 20 minutes ago. mailed a rare and some other items to my friend, she never got it. her mail was only 9/10 full so she should have got it.. but nada. we’re roommates too so i know she didn’t scam me! i could see she didn’t get the mail.

mine was bugged too, and yet i still felt really excited to see the cut scene!

for me and my friends it was annoying. the connection issue happened /just/ after we defeated the Pumpkin King… and so… we totally missed out on looting the chest. i think everyone was at least able to get the xp and stuff.. but sucked to get knocked out of the game right as we defeat him.

he didn’t appear for me either, but! i still thought the cut scene was exciting and don’t regret staying up for the event.

We got to see the Lion explode anyways! ^.^

i think this whole part of the event was great. Some of you are just big ol’complainers! Don’t you ever look on the bright side of life? And be less fussy grumpy old man “get off my lawn” kids?

i love plushies i’d love that little guy to add to my collection. i’d personally love a hylek plushie too, cause i love frogs. although i suppose a hylek wouldn’t make as cute of a plushie as a quaggan!

As a RPer, i still agree with Cinder.

When i do an event that is “against” what i feel my character would be doing, i just pretend it never happened.

:)

having to kill the adult doylaks made me a bit sad too. i just used my imagination and pretended the adults had something like rabies. They were infected with a disease and i had to kill them to save the babies, which weren’t infected yet ^^ because if i didn’t kill the adults, they’d cause the babies to get sick too, and then they’d die as well. So putting the adult down was actually a ‘positive/mercy’ thing to do.

You’re a role player. you can use your imagination to make it work!

…same for the animal you couldn’t save.. maybe in the story you make up in your mind, the animal was poisoned with some sort of powerful substance for which your character hasn’t advanced far enough to heal. It might even be emotionally troubling for your character to realise her/his ability to heal is not “infinite” and “all powerful”, there are still things your character hasn’t fully mastered…

Kinda like.. doctors have the ‘power’ to heal, in real life, but of course they can’t save everyone, even when they try their best, sometimes their medical know how just isn’t enough to save a patient.

Chamone.6890:

This is a terrible idea. It is complicated, pointless and only appeals to a small minority of players who obsessively collect everything. Please do not develop this.

If the ‘problem’ is that the game makes it very difficult, cumbersome and expensive to collect ALL of the armour skins, the ‘solution’ is not to redevelop significant parts of the game to make it easer. The far simpler solution is don’t try to collect all the armour skins. Nobody cares.

why isn’t the simple solution just.. at least.. let us buy MORE bank expansions than 7?

7 Bank expansions (shared between 5 characters – more.. if you buy extra character slots) is why to few. Its unacceptably low.

i agree that a super complicated system for storing pve stuff is probably a waste of dev time, at least at this point. But… a very /simple/ thing they could do is simply let us purchase /more/ expansions to the bank.

i have 5 characters… which means each character of mine only has 48 bank spaces. That’s completely unacceptable, especially considering a lot of crafting items do not store in the crafting collection (like /all/ the new halloween crafting items, but other things too).

Even if a big new storage system is too much work now. Or would only appeal to a small percentage of players… that’s no excuse for Anet not allowing us more bank space, is it?

Link.4039:

Really hoping for an official response on this. My rifle looks like a water gun :l
I love everything else about the asura except the weapon size. When I made an asura, i was kind of expecting the weapons size to be something similar to Tera’s Popori – http://images.mmosite.com/feature/news/2009_04_05/mmo/popori01.jpg
Now THAT is a bad kitten little critter.

while i played Tera too.. and think popori/elin are cute..
i really really hope GW2 does not go that cartoonie route with asura and give them big huge oversized cartoon weapons :\

a tiny bit bigger might be alright, if people with small monitors are apparently having trouble seeing them.

And.. some position fixing with some stowed great swords would be nice.

Still broken on Tarnished Coast. Same issue as described above.

same situation on the Tarnished Coast server too.

Gerrvid is dead and in the room with the Veteran Fleshgrazer already.. the Fleshgazer is invulnerable/immune to all damage. and Gerrvid is apparently stuck dead and unreviveble.

a dev has already said in another topic we don’t need the book for the next parts of the halloween story so don’t worry. i’ll try to find where the dev said it though, so you can see for yourself.

broken on Tarnished Coast server too, it looks like.

Surely others besides just us have run out of storage already too >.< or perhaps we are the only packrats!

my eyes hurt from gw2 as well until i went into Options and the Graphic Options and turned off “Depth Blur”, once i turned that off it stopped whatever was hurting my eyes.

might not work for you though, but thought i’d offer a suggestion.

i want to be able to buy more expansions to my bank.

i have already bought all 7 bank expansions and am out of bank space. It’s really hard because i have 5 characters sharing the bank space, so that really doesn’t give much bank space for each character.

i do realise it is possible to craft 20 Slot Bags, or buy them but they are huuuge amounts of gold, and i personally don’t have the ability to craft them myself yet. Even though i do a fair amount of “gathering” resources and stuff.

i’m wondering why there is a limit to how many bank expansions we can even buy anyways. If its a way for Anet to make real money, why would they want to prevent me from giving them more real cash, by disallowing me to purchase further expasions?

i can’t even buy some of the new things i want out of the money store because i have no more space to put things >.< So there’s no point to buying anything new!

It seems counter productive to limit the amount of bank expansions a person can buy, doesn’t it? If i want to give them $500 USD to expand my bank loads of times, what’s the purpose of restricting it?

i admit i didn’t play regular guild wars, so maybe this game has always been limited bank space? i dunno… but….. i need more room! i imagine others must wish they could buy more bank expansions too.

NeedsFoodBadly.2671:

For example for Christmas, everyday you could 4 presents from under the tree and they would give random event items, usually consumable type boosts/potions/etc.

They had quests that could be done by anyone in a relatively reasonable amount of time with a reasonable amount of skill

err isn’t that basically what the “trick or treat” bags do? And you get way more than 4 of them each day in gw2 just by killing normal mobs in your regular every day questing.. andthey contain “consumables (boosts/potion/food)” that give you boost xp or boost stats for a set period of time.

Also, so far we’ve gotten devil horns (for no effort) and the book/backpack (which doesn’t take very long to get at all).

so sounds like gw2 is doing even more than that other game you mentioned.. ya?

gibzy.7329:

There has been a ton of new costumes added with this patch. How, I ask, how are we meant to store them? Especially considering that each costume consists of about 5 pieces…

storage in this game is a huge problem. i have bought all 7 bank expansions and i still do not have enough storage space to save all the costumes/weapons/ and armour looks that i want >.< (plus some crafting materials are takin up space too – but mostly its gear)

ya know, compared to humans asura /are/ kid sized (actually they are smaller than human children! – probably human toddler sized). so the fact that their weapons look like “kid’s toys” makes sense, doesn’t it?

how big of a weapon can a human-toddler sized warrior hold??

BrunoBRS.5178:

Space Monkey Pilot.7135:

here here! I private dueling system or private arenas would be amazing!

see? this i can back. something set in a separated place, away from the crowds, preferrably in the mists, with a whole system to back it up. not a duel request button you can press anywhere.

So you don’t support any way for two casual friends to “privately” duel without a crowd of people around?

So me and a friend can just mess about and fight each other without embarrassing ourselves in front of “hardcore” players?

BrunoBRS.5178:

and the city’s chat flooded with people begging for duels, and random duel requests popping on the UI every other minute.

Never seen that first thing. Sorry you’ve been on crappy servers in games.

the second thing does not happen if you go into your preferences and select “Auto decline duel requests”. the same way in preferences you can select “Melee Assist” or “Auto Loot”. There is typically a place to select “Auto Decline Duels”. When you do that /no one/ can pop up duel requests on your screen every other minute.

BrunoBRS.5178:

and considering lion’s arch is the hangout place for absolutely everyone, it’s where the crowd would be doing said duels.

Agreed Lion’s Arch would likely end up being “the place” where dueling groups would gather. But not likely “right around the mystic forge” like costume brawl is.

The duel rings would end up happening out on the beach near Sanctum Harbor. Or on the beach near Fort Marriner. Or possibly right within Fort Marriner itself, since that’s near the portals that exit the pvp zone.

“say” chat does not seem to go that far, so the spam from text like “so and so defeated someone in a duel” would not infect all of Lion’s Arch.

Dueling generally works this way.

You are standing around at the gate of a city and you get an alert on your screen (a bit like the ‘Would you like to Group?’ alerts we have now in this game) that says “DinoDoll would like to duel you? Do you accept? Decline?”

Then you pick accept or decline. If you pick “accept” the game gives us both a count down 3… 2…. 1… fight! then our fight starts. We fight each other til one of us dies (typically there is /no/ actual armour damage or death penalty for this death)

Once one of us dies.. the game spits out in chat “BrunoBRS has defeated DinoDoll in a duel.” .. then the game takes us /both/ out of duel mode.

While we are in duel mode with each other no one else can hit us. Its not a “free for all” like costume brawl is. Its just between us.

Also. Typically a game with this mechanic will have an Option in your Game Settings that allows you to /automatically decline/ ALL duel requests. So you will never get “spammed” with people asking you to duel, because you will have selected to /never/ accept duel requests. They will all be declined without you doing anything.

BrunoBRS.5178:

costume brawl: proof that dueling should never be implemented in GW2.

don’t get me wrong, i love costume brawl. it’s hilarious and chaotic. but it’s only fun while it’s done for mischief and kept as an isolated, temporary activity (namely, you only see it happening in lion’s arch, where large groups of players brawl). dueling would spread that special effect spamfest to the entire map, everywhere, all the time.

not to mention the rendering issues. in costume brawl, it’s harmless, but if you’re one on one against someone and you can’t see that someone anymore, how does it work?

You saying that is proof you apparently have never played an MMO with dueling. Because what you predict will happen doesn’t actually happen.

Every mmo i’ve played that has dueling ends up with people who really enjoy duelling finding an out of the way place to duel each other. Usually sort of “unofficial” dueling groups gatherings start happening in out of the way places where the fighters will have lots of clear space and line-of-sight.

Because for one, duels tend to be 1 on 1 things. you don’t WANT to duel in a big crowd of people standing on top of each other. you can’t SEE the person you’re dueling that way. you need empty space to fight right.

Costume Brawl does not work how dueling works in any game i have ever played.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ha-mK0OjlT8/StAj9Y6XIUI/AAAAAAAABDU/VzT2TnY5TwU/s400/chp_street_fight.jpg
That is sort of how it ends up working in most games i’ve played, people who want to duel form these little ‘rings’ in out of the way areas. the fighters go in the middle and fight. Everyone else just watches.

zaxziakohl.5243:

What backpack? I want a backpack! (feels lost and confused!)

After you do the “scavenger hunt” that starts in Lion’s Arch (where you look for the ghosts)… you return back to the Asura that originally started the quest. You show her that you have all.. emm.. 5 (or is it 6?) parts of the story in your inventory.. and the Asura puts them all together for you and then you get sent a book/backpack in your Mail.

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not sure if i should’ave put that behind spoiler tags. the book was already mentioned so i don’t think i spoiled anything..

just make another character if you’re level 80 already that means you got to level 80 in under two months, you can easily do it again i’m sure.

You also had the option, before picking which Order you wanted to join, to google the orders and find out what the significance of each choice had on your character’s future. i did!

Also if you’re not putting money into the cash shop i’m not sure it matters if you “keep playing” or “stop playing”, you’ve already paid for the game, you’re not really “going Anet a favour” by continuing to play without contributing any more real life money into the game. Just the cold truth about business.

i suppose they could add a cash-shop option to change orders…

though i think it makes more sense to re-roll.