Guild Wars 2

I engaged in ERP for 2 Bolts of Damask pretending I was a girl irl.
Completed “Zinn’s Prize Student” achievement just to have the Zinn’s Study Guide book which I keep permanently in my inventory for no other purpose than personal enjoyment. I also always carry with me a full stack of Healing Seed Pods to pop trees, Ascalon Tomes to rain blue fire and Harpy Hormones to annoy people with heart effects)

So while this might be a mechanics issue compared to how Ranger’s Rapid Fire skill could track stealthed opponents if fired before Stealth is applied, there might be another reason.

Chak: they are very sensitive to magical energy, so while their eyes might not see you, they probably have other sensory equipment that could detects stealthed foes.

Frogs: The Nuhoc Mastery track line suggests that the frogs are able to detect stealthed foes (see: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Nuhoch_Stealth_Detection)

I just want a bicycle tbh.
Spins while moving, idle animation is one foot on the ground

The next GW: Beyond episode was supposed to feature Koss and his relationship with Melonni (à la Hearts of the North with Keiran and Gwen) but it got cancelled because GW2.
I like to think that his descent is at the head of the Sunspears, fighting off the evil Palawa Joko, the Scourge of Elona. I guess we’ll know once we get to that continent…

I’m pretty sure GS existed in GW1 time, it’s just that mechanics limitations prevented players from seeing them. For example, the Long Sword skin of gw1 became a gs skin in gw2 (Kymswarden).
Same thing with Gullik in Ghosts of Ascalon wielding a two handed Axe, but we’ve never seen one in-game.

For a stance, I’d agree any named Jotun (no spellcaster though) would be a great candidate.
But legends don’t necessarily need to be associated with a weapon (pretty sure Glint didn’t use a shield, or Shiro swords)

My diagnosis is that you suffer from altoholicism lmao.
But as GW2 is basically Fashion Wars 2, the way I would proceed to choose a main would be primarily based on the Armor Weight. If it is Heavy armor styles you prefer, I feel like Revenant would suit you best as none of the “cons” of your list prevent you from enjoying it fully. If medium, I think you would enjoy Ranger the most because the “too much support” con is absolutely not right, especially the way I play my Druid. If Light Armor, it seems you prefer Ele, however, given the effort you put into your Necro, I think you should stick to it, as gearing a character for a raid can be quite a hassle

They stack, as long as you use them on different items

I’d like to have the Zodiac bow. I know we have a Zodiac weapon set includes GW2, but i prefered their skin back in GW. That and the Storm Bow

Hello, I was wondering if ANet changed their stance on TexMod since GW1. They used to not care at all, but would not provide assistance if it provoked any problems on the player’s end. I just wanted to re-colour some of my Ranger’s pets

Well, as far as PvE goes, Ogre Pet Whistles are pretty cool. Sometimes they summon a Griffon which looks epic af. Other than that it can summon a Melandru Stalker, Black Bear and a Devourer Whiptail.

In GW1 a lot of people used TexMod, where you could manually modify textures of the game (including UI, which was used to facilitate exploration to make unexplored areas more “obvious” to see). That way, I re-colored my Tiger pet to make its stripes white instead of black and it was just soooooo nice. Also re-colored one of my heroes’ Lion Pet in all red to look like the Scarlet Lion from Azur and Asmar fun times.
Back then ANet’s stance on TexMod was “not bannable, but if it breaks anything you won’t be getting support from us either”, I haven’t searched yet for GW2

I recently came across this line from the GW2W that said that Humans possessed superior knowledge in both History and Agriculture compared to the other races of Tyria. This statement seems to hold a lot of sense, and I was wondering if this also applied to Astrophysics. The Asura were underground until recently (250 years, which is about only 2-3 generations considering their lifespan), and I’d doubt they had any interest for the Astral bodies until then.
We know the Jotun were precursors of Astronomy, which is both shown through the Astralaria legendary egg-hunt and Arah Explorable Mode. However, all their advancement came to a halt because of their downfall.
The Humans picked up on it, and were pretty advanced, which is shown in Nahpui Quarters of GW Factions and The Astralarium of GW Nightfall.

TL;DR: Do you think Humans still hold supremacy over the subject of astrophysics or did the Asura surpass them in those 250 years?

P.S.: I’m interested in that because of my character’s RP, in which I made him a Ranger but also a mathematician and an astrophysicist, which in turn he managed to apply to Nature Magic and that’s how he became a Druid

lmao here, since you don’t like his face

I slightly changed the dyes since then, basically replace Charred with Dark Olive for the old look.

Armor: top to bottom
Dyes: from top-left slot, going clockwise

Head: Daredevil’s Scarf (Charred,Deep Pine, Deep Pine, Gold)
Shoulders: Druid’s Shoulderguards (Charred, Enameled Legacy)
Chest: Bladed Jerkin (Charred, Pine, Enameled Legacy)
Arms: Carapace Vambraces (Enameled Legacy, Charred, Butter)
Legs: Carapace Leggings (Enameled Legacy, Charred, Latte)
Feet: Krytan Boots (Charred, Charred, Midnight Olive)
Staff: Yggdrasil

bask in my biooty

lmao you necro’d a 5 months-old thread.
to answer your question, yes it was

I’m also a regular commander on DS, and really the players are getting more and more responsive to commands, which is always nice!
Only problem I’m always having is people running to the Stavemaster/Axemaster/Blademaster before killing the Thornheart during escort phases :P
I also love to spice up the squad chat with conversations and jokes and whatnot, to make the whole event feel not as numb as it might be

To OP: the first few chapters of Ghosts of Ascalon has Dougal Keane decrypting some old Asuran laboratory (Zinn’s if my memory is corrrect), but that’s the Ancient Asuran writing system that involved mathematics in their texts. It was still a very good book in my opinion.

Einlanzer.1627:

I like Dreamer and Kudzu also also, and I’m a guy. I think this whole weird machismo of “I’m a dude so I can’t like flowers or colors” in our culture needs to go.

So happy you said it, was wondering of I was the only one that was taken aback by the machism in the OP

Ranger : i giggled at the “if you don’t know this you’re probably a ranger” for LB #4.
Add Glyph of the Tides, it’s a kb, Glyph of Equality is a stun, Celestial Avatar #3 is a daze, and you get an aoe daze when switching to staff with Primal Echoes.

Yes you can change, your upgrades get saved, your decorations get stored to place in the new GH, and YES, you do have to pay the 100g every time you want to start an expedition to claim a GH

I want them to stay as they are. They are minigames, nothing is mandatory in them. Doing them is a choice, so I think Gold medal should stay hard as it is. Personally, it took me a good hour and a half to get gold at Target Shooting, and that is exactly what I wanted ; the feeling of achieving something. Others are super easy to get, like Tendril Torcher or Salbage Pit. Some should stay hard

It’s not intended, it’s a small bug that also happens to me even though I don’t have the Pact Mastery Autoloot

So back in GW1, there were those strange pedestals scattered around the Maguuma Jungle. With HoT, it has come to my attention that these may be related to the Exalted. So apparently they were created 200years or so ago, contrary to what we were told in the blog post (300yrs), so I’m not sure if there is even a connection between the two.
The dragon rune on it really leads me to believe they are.

Just want to read an expert’s opinion on those.
(runes attached below)

Happy ANet Birthday Gaile!! ???? (idk if emojis work here but wtv, it’s a cake emoji)
BRING BACK THE FROG

I mean, I get what you mean but Norns totally don’t worship the human gods :/

I’d do Guild Commendation Trinkets. 5g each is reasonable, and all you gotta do is follow religiously your guild’s mission schedule

I support the idea, however I think it would get more attention/be more relevant in the Ranger sub-forum

Nobles crash site is hilarious, and also that part of the mission where you try to find the disks that Taimi placed around Auric Basin. The recordings REALLY made me laugh, I replayed the episode just for that, oh my

Totally irrelevant. Rytlock was a Warrior pre-HoT, and was seen wielding a pistol.

Can you not? We’re barely recovering from Halloween parties, it’s way too early for this please.

But seriously, idk. Since I guess lore-wise, not every Revenant summons the same Legends, then summoning a Revenant Legend would act as a proxy to the Legends he/she could call upon (probably more powerful ones, since he’s a “Legendary Revenant” maybe an Elder Dragon or a Giganticus Lupicus?)

Randulf.7614:

NA and EU or just NA?

Both, it was answered in a Guild Chat

All hail Gaile and the long-forgotten The Frog.
And the Mad King too but not as much.

Never thought about that, it’s actually a super cool idea! I did think that a Guild Hall is a bit too vast and needs to be filled, and I don’t think decorations are enough

Wth dude, put a spoiler tag in your title. You just freaking spoiled to me that she’ll make a comeback.
Seriously, not cool.

Not sure what just happened, but it seems cool.
#TeamLostPrecipice

Please change it back. I simply cannot, for the love of God, understand WHY you would change it, it was perfect as it was. Fine, the damage was over the top, but why change what isn’t broken?

The game is Rated for General Audience, 12+ in some countries, and in some instances the game goes borderline with the content. I’m in favor of darker content, but I can live without, and it’s not necessary. There are a bunch of weapons in-game with skulls, even an eyeball scepter. So for legendary weapons, really I don’t see it happening

I’m happy about the changes to the way engineers can spam their #1 AoE on kits, cuz that means we can also spam our #1 AoE on CAF and I was seriously concerned about the health of my keyboard/fingers :p

Rezzet.3614:

yeah lets make it easy for rangers to exploit their 2000+ range longbow shots, as an engineer the only worthwhile good thing it offers is being able to hold number key and auto toss nades wich should be implemented to the core mechanic as a whole

Why the pessimistic saltiness?
They didn’t change anything to range whatsoever, just improved the way we ALL use our ranged skills, and Joel SPECIFICALLY made some tweaks JUST for engineers (and arguably Druids’ Celestial Avatar Form) . Not even ranged, hell they improved on melee combat as well, so really your post really sounds like a crybaby’s tantrum.

Stay mad.

We already know there’s a hidden pirate cave behind a waterfall in Gilded Hallow where we can decorate it to act as a lounge of some sort, or a bar, or whatever we want it to be. So to answer your question, yes there is at least one, and I’m expecting that there are many many hidden areas in them :p

Definitely Lightfoot Passage Cave in Straits of Devastation. I really like the “pocket of nature amidst the corruption” vibe. And all the vines crisscrossing the cave are really cool. Plus it’s a haven for animals :p

Puck.9612:

Fluffball.8307:

Someone told me it was an alpine wolf. I didn’t even realize different races got difference starting pets since I’ve only ever made human rangers. :O

They’ve got that now but I’m pretty sure they used to have the regular wolf, I think the starter pets were changed around a couple years ago.

Norn starter pets options have been Raven, Snow Leopard and Alpine Wolf since the earliest of betas lol they never got changed (except Humans who had Juvenile Jungle Stalker, replaced by River Drake)
The only place to get a Black Wolf is in EB

Maybe not Solarbeam, if not only the color on it, but surely #2’s projectile as well as the Wisp it creates will be modified. Also #3, might transform you into Raven Spirit while you cast it instead of a wisp. I don’t see #4 getting modified, nor #5 (or maybe replace the flower wall by a line of stacked spirit feathers??)

@DH : you kinda started most recent threads and I agree with drax that the observable pattern in any discussion you partake in doesn’t invite for further exchange.

My guess is that the staff is a reference to GW1’s Nevermore Flatbow, which most likely was a reference to the poem (both in appearance and in name) http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Nevermore_Flatbow

xadine.7069:

I kinda hope we gonna have to finish some “quest” to unlock elite spec tbh, even though I’m dying to play my reaper

Same here. I’d like my character to have a little backstory that would explain how they acquired all these new capabilities, not just suddenly walk into the jungle an tadaaam you’re a druid now, gg

Pretty sure they’re Lioness. At least, that’s what they look like both IRL and in GW1

Weird, I was under the impression that they specifically removed Spirit Unbound to make Gyros feel more shiny.
I’d like Spirits to either Follow us around OR get their Range increased, to something similar to what it was back in GW1.
The only use they have is on stationary bosses, anywhere else is a waste of a utility skill slot

Daniel Handler.4816:

Djahlat.9610:

Daniel Handler.4816:

Djahlat.9610:

Daniel Handler.4816:

Djahlat.9610:

Daniel Handler.4816:

As to another point you made. The ritualist spirits were made from lightning. Guardians have zero access to lightning. Guardians make everything they do out of a blue white or flame.

Oh. My. Kitten. God
I’m sorry but after that i just can’t take anything you say seriously
Props for making me spit out my tea while reading though

Your derision adds nothing to the conversation.

In gw1 ritualists used lighting and the spirits were composed of lightning. We know the later because when they ruptured they cause lightning damage.

We know guardians make everything out of bluewhite light/flame because that is what they do in the game and in the books. And thats what monks did in the game and the books. They are clearly able to synthesize the ability of other magic bases with the light manipulations of monks.

No they were not. Lightning was there only because it was the only way Ritualist could be directly offensive (as opposed to offensive through spirits or weapon spells). It’s also to mention that the closest profession in GW2 to Rit is Ranger.
I also don’t remember Ranger spirits vanishing away with lightning emanating from them when commanding them to sacrifice themselves. The Destruction spirit, or the Storm Spirit for GW2 Rangers are the only ones who inflict lightning-based damage by themselves.
Sure Rupture inflicts Lightning damage, but that’s just to make it fit with all other offensive Ritualist skills. I don’t know where you got the idea that the spirit itself was composed of lightning.
Again, basing yourself off Game Mechanics to establish false lore is totally flawed.
Also Monks don’t manipulate light, that’s more of the field of Mesmers and illusion-making. They afflicted Holy damage, which is completely different from Guardian (unless speaking about a Human Guardian whose faith resides in the Gods)

What are you even talking about at this point “lightning was there because it was the only way ritualists could be directly offensive” wtf. There are multiple energies in the game they didn’t have to pick lightning. Then you imply that the spirits of ritualists are the same as rangers.

“Breathe life back into the fallen. The miracle of rebirth…”

A flash of blue-white light surrounded Mordakai, and his body disappeared from the ground.

some things I say are not just based in game mechanics.

Ritualist Spirits and Ranger Spirits are the same, they even have the same wiki page, they just serve different purposes

Oh my lord. You are drawing lore by whether something is listed on the same wiki page? Ritualists spirits are from the underworld. Nature spirits are from nature. You refuse to consider lore that is from outside of the game and yet you use a wiki page layout as your proof.

The wiki page thing was added to further prove my claim. Although a Wiki page holds more weight Lore-wise than some game mechanic, but as you wish. If you want, then, just take a look at the Tablets of Wisdom in the Shing Jea Monastery. Spirits are the same.
While Ritualist forces them to make them do what he wants them to do (hence why the “BINDING ritual”), the Rangers spawns them and they’re neutral spirits (which is why they affect both allies and foes alike)
Also while Ritualist summons spirits that are the embodiment of Emotions, the Ranger will summon spirits that are the embodiment of Natural Forces. Both, to my knowledge, come from the Mists, given that they are SPIRITS.
Another strong correlation between Ranger and Ritualist could be the Ranger’s #2 Downed Skill ; Thunderclap, which can easily be associated with the Ritualist’s skills like Channeled Strike or Spirit Rift. Arguably, Lightning Reflexes also is a reference to the Ritualist’s Channeling Magic skills

Daniel Handler.4816:

Djahlat.9610:

Daniel Handler.4816:

Djahlat.9610:

Daniel Handler.4816:

As to another point you made. The ritualist spirits were made from lightning. Guardians have zero access to lightning. Guardians make everything they do out of a blue white or flame.

Oh. My. Kitten. God
I’m sorry but after that i just can’t take anything you say seriously
Props for making me spit out my tea while reading though

Your derision adds nothing to the conversation.

In gw1 ritualists used lighting and the spirits were composed of lightning. We know the later because when they ruptured they cause lightning damage.

We know guardians make everything out of bluewhite light/flame because that is what they do in the game and in the books. And thats what monks did in the game and the books. They are clearly able to synthesize the ability of other magic bases with the light manipulations of monks.

No they were not. Lightning was there only because it was the only way Ritualist could be directly offensive (as opposed to offensive through spirits or weapon spells). It’s also to mention that the closest profession in GW2 to Rit is Ranger.
I also don’t remember Ranger spirits vanishing away with lightning emanating from them when commanding them to sacrifice themselves. The Destruction spirit, or the Storm Spirit for GW2 Rangers are the only ones who inflict lightning-based damage by themselves.
Sure Rupture inflicts Lightning damage, but that’s just to make it fit with all other offensive Ritualist skills. I don’t know where you got the idea that the spirit itself was composed of lightning.
Again, basing yourself off Game Mechanics to establish false lore is totally flawed.
Also Monks don’t manipulate light, that’s more of the field of Mesmers and illusion-making. They afflicted Holy damage, which is completely different from Guardian (unless speaking about a Human Guardian whose faith resides in the Gods)

What are you even talking about at this point “lightning was there because it was the only way ritualists could be directly offensive” wtf. There are multiple energies in the game they didn’t have to pick lightning. Then you imply that the spirits of ritualists are the same as rangers.

“Breathe life back into the fallen. The miracle of rebirth…”

A flash of blue-white light surrounded Mordakai, and his body disappeared from the ground.

some things I say are not just based in game mechanics.

Ritualist Spirits and Ranger Spirits are the same, they even have the same wiki page, they just serve different purposes