Guild Wars 2

What makes you think there will be a rollback? Is there any ANet comment on this or just players working themselves into a froth?

What is your Field of View setting for those? I noticed that I couldn’t zoom in very close to my human until I put FoV on minimum, at which point I got something much like your first picture. If you haven’t increased FoV, try that.

Nothing says the specialization will have the same weapon skills as the base profession. All weapons may have different skillsets. I say wait for the first blog on a specialization so we get some baseline on the amount of changes between regular and spec before panicking that an offhand means just two new skills total.

I had no problem with the eyes. Here’s my first sylvari (these are the best shots I have of her face without going in game to get a new one). I used the sliders to go for a pointy branchy wooden look, like a tree spirit rather than a flower spirit.

Not only that, we went in for a fractal today, got the aether lab followed by Mai Trin … everything’s green in there. Green bars didn’t show up worth squat in those instances.

Donari.5237:

Maybe it’s just how my sliders were set on Donari but the first male face looked much older than most human male faces, weathered and experienced. I’ll try to remember to screen shot it next time I’m in game.

Got the shots. Here’s baseline Donari, same but with the first new male face, and then the new face with “older” hair to enhance the aging effect.

Huh, I always had party chat bubbles. I could click on waypoint links in them right there on the screen without mousing down to the chat window, long before this patch.

Do they appear for squad chat? If not that could be your workaround.

Did you put a space between the " and the – ?

Did you try using sliders to affect the noses? I know the first male face started with a huge nose (Donari has a bit of a beak, but not grotesquely so) and I tested slimming it down. That did reduce the apparent age of the face, come to think of it.

I’d certainly have to fiddle with the teeth on the female charr faces, my current settings had them far too bucktoothed.

How does it compare to people doing the content at level? Downleveling was always supposed to keep you competitive, not superpowered; perhaps this change is meant to bring things back in line to still having to be on your toes even if you’re a geared 80.

(My guild 4-manned CM asura path today and we didn’t notice any problem in the fights. Except that running into the stables turned murderous because the riflemen noticed us even with someone still in cutscene … that was a surprise!).

They are in makeover kits, Victuswolf. If you have a kit you can preview the options without actually using up the kit, so long as you cancel rather than accepting changes.

Maybe it’s just how my sliders were set on Donari but the first male face looked much older than most human male faces, weathered and experienced. I’ll try to remember to screen shot it next time I’m in game.

I’d be happy with the Shadow Weapons if they didn’t have the massive curls of bone. I’m sure those are a selling point for many, I just personally don’t care for over-the-top bone decor. The other bone fittings work well on them for me, it’s the big hunks of bone that look tacky to me. (How the heck would one holster that pistol, anyway?) They are very nicely made weapons, they simply don’t match my aesthetic preferences.

So I’m hoping that black smoky effect will be reused at some point in a more elegant fashion. Because it looks really cool.

I looked at all the new faces. I did like the top Human Male one, as looking older and more seasoned, and the three new Sylvari Male ones as having some serious attitude in the expressions. The third one sort of reminds me of The Flash from the current TV show. Human and Norn females didn’t look different from available base faces beyond makeup and slight eyebrow angle changes. Charr females had something wonky with the teeth (my Charr has teeth jutting up from her lower jaw, but on the new faces the teeth all become goofy overbite things). Sylvari females were ok but nothing sticks in my memory for them. Asura males got one with quite the scar along with yellow pupils, which will stand out far more as a different face.

Some of my issues may come from my slider settings. Someone with far more energy than me might be able to make new characters of each race/gender so the sliders are all at neutral, then check how the new faces look on those. Or maybe just set all the sliders to neutral in the makeover kit; I get too fretsome I’ll accidentally apply the changes to risk that

Have you hit the Log In button? I actually got confused because I usually hit that so automatically fast that I forgot I hadn’t done so when getting this patch. You should be able to Log In while the red bar is progressing, at least I could do so in previous patches.

The Play button won’t work if you’re not Logged In.

I also can get queasy from camera issues. Here are the settings I ended up with. They worked great in a CM run in the basement (I was on a human for the run). Try these and see if they help.

Horizontal/Vertical in middle neutral position
Collision and Zoom all the way to the right
Field of View nearly all the way to the right
Enable First Person
Adjust Camera to Character Height

If that isn’t quite right, stop the first person and fiddle with the vertical.

I believe this is a known bug, lots of folks have been discussing it in Map. Check the bug forums. (It may be conflated with the issue that you cannot buy gear you cannot equip, thus impacting getting Order skins).

I really like the idea of adding opening doors to sealed away furnished areas. That way ANet can control access to things that really might break the map but let people see all the cool spots that are just fine other than having an inoperable door.

At the very least, we should be told why these areas are blocked off. I don’t usually ask ANet to tell things they aren’t ready to yet, but this particular issue makes ANet look mean-spirited and dedicated to stopping roleplay. An explanation would let us brainstorm fixes, as we’ve done since ANet took the time to say why sittable chairs won’t work so we could then suggest Toys and the like and stop demanding implementation of interactable furniture as it’s just not technically feasible on this engine.

Unknown. Check the merged thread.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Character-Slot-for-Heart-of-Thorns-Merged/first

You have to put the -StreamingClient after the quote marks and with a space between the " and the -

Then it works.

I ran CM Asura path with some guildies. We could see what was going on in the basement halls!

It seems that in FPV if you turn your camera, your character turns. I was with some guildies in DR looking at the changes and we discovered that panning in FPV lets others see you spinning back and forth. We tested and it affects you whichever mouse button you use to pan.

I saw a post in another thread about people with SweetFX stuck on Initializing needing to delete/remove a .dll file — I told a guildie who was experiencing that and it worked great, she got in game.

I don’t know if that could be your problem given you’re hung on the file download part, but check the tech forums to see if others have found fixes.

Notebene, the trick there is to put your FoV to minimum, then you can get right up to your character’s face. Not so handy for running around, but great for portraits.

If you look in your dye panel there are some new dyes available all starting with “Shadow.” You know “Shadow Abyss” is going to be wanted by many many many people ….

Perhaps they’ll show up as RNG kits in the gem store soon?

My female human standing in Beetletun just shouted “For the Imperator!” — and I could swear it was in the female human voice. Though my male human in Queensdale shouted for help in a female human voice too.

When they start telling us … I truly hope that’s this week. Last week the only blog we got was about the wvw map completion removal, which is surely large news but not really HoT news. Now that they’ve finished their big conventions, I really hope we get T-W-Th blogs like we have before, the last two weeks have felt rather sparse.

That is a fantastic toaster, grats! The fact that it puts the logo on the toast has suddenly filled me with longing.

If the guild has a website you could look at their forums to see the oldest forum threads, perhaps? For instance my guild has posts going back to April 2012 when we formed up in the early days of guildwars2roleplayers.com, so we’re older than the game itself

Mechanically I’m content to wait and see what the shield actually does. ANet has a way of coming up with cool twists on things like that. Until I see otherwise, I’ll expect the shield skills to be fun to use.

Aesthetically, I’m a bit more meh. There are very few shields I like to wield, because they block so much of the view of the rest of my character. Plus they clip horribly when worn, and I say that as someone not very finicky about clipping in most cases (it just looks really wrong to have bits of armor, backpiece, hair, etc poking through one’s nice solid shield).

Besides the blocking of the view, the design of most Tyrian shields is clunky and doesn’t look like something useful in combat, (This is a generalization. I adore a few of the available shields, like Shield of the Moon for my sylvari guardian — sure it has holes, but aegis covers those up, right?).

So here’s hoping they design a few new shields with mesmer specs and light armor in mind, so people don’t avoid the weapon just because it clashes with their dress

I’m still fond of the shot I used in https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Why-We-Need-Sittable-Chairs-Picture/first#content

But I don’t think the technical limitations on environmental interactable chairs have changed, so all we can really hope is that someone in ANet has noticed the various suggestions for deployable chairs people have made over the past year or two. My favorite remains having a Toy that when used seats you in a chair (possibly there could be a few types of chairs, though the more individual Toys you have the more you’ll want a Toy Wardrobe for your account). It would give you a changed hotbar to let you have different seated poses.

Certainly not a “major feature” so I could see it sneaking into HoT without early ballyhoo.

Over time you’ll get better at the dodging. I say that as someone with very little in the way of twitch reflexes. I did have to get a Naga HEX mouse because I couldn’t coordinate high mobility with skill use all on the keyboard.

I’ve leveled at least one of each profession to 80. I would say my lowest amount of dodges come on my support-built guardian (she does minimal dps, though, so killing things takes a loooong time) with scepter/focus and tons of purifying shout utilities, followed by my staff necromancer with the blood fiend healing minion to semi-tank.

You still need to at least move out of bad things, but the dodge itself comes into play less often when you have other ways of stopping attacks (Guardian aegis via the F skills and the Retreat! shout is excellent for that, along with Focus 5 which absorbs 3 hits). Not to mention Guardians can survive the ill effects of missing a dodge more easily than others might.

You might find guardian amazingly fun. I know I did, it went from my “never gonna play this” (pre-launch) to “doing a dungeon? Lemme get on my guardian.” Her dps is laughable but she’s often been the last one standing and has even finished fights when the boss was low enough when her friends took dirt naps that it wasn’t rude to make them wait and watch her slug it out.

Mesmer clones/phantasms can save you from being targeted enough to reduce the twitch dodging needed, but mesmer is reportedly harder to deal with leveling these days given the current trait unlock system. I didn’t really play mesmer until I was comfortable with mobility and dodging anyway, so I can’t say how it feels as a newcomer to GW2 gameplay.

No matter how minimal you make your twitch dodging, however, you will still have to do it. Eventually it won’t seem so hard, I promise, as you learn the tells and the timing and what must be dodged and what can be soaked.

Nearly 1 am for me now but I’ll be around during the afternoon tomorrow (eastern time). If you don’t have help by then ping me either in game or in a PM on these forums and I’ll toss an alt your direction to get you through it.

There may be different aesthetics and head-canons going on here. As I understand Tyrian necromancy, it’s not necessarily dark and evil, and the minions aren’t trapped souls, they’re soulless flesh constructs animated by the necromancer’s will. To me they’re plenty ugly; I do wish some could be more benign like the rather adorable shadow fiend.

I don’t demand cuteness and rainbows, but neither do I feel the need for bones and goo everywhere. Death can have some dignity.

That said I rather like most of the links you provided (bone fiend looks too generic to me) and would have no complaints if those changes were made.

Nope, I’m referring to the second one where he’s not waving the sword and saying Rawr. I do think he’d be a good little margin figure to add an amusing grace note to more images.

Did you catch the followup with the new keep design and that Charr looking so dejected because he couldn’t run around the back of the keep any more?

A full video of the panel presentation is at http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-12-first-gameplay-of-guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns-world-vs-world-desert-borderlands-map at the bottom of the page.

I found a site that has the whole presentation in a video as well:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-12-first-gameplay-of-guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns-world-vs-world-desert-borderlands-map
(video at the bottom)
And in the closing video, 34 minutes in to the whole thing, it looks like a … cow? … gets trebucheted at a wall.

In Unearthed Arcana you can reset individual fights with the challenge mote near where you enter the fight. If such a mote is not available, you need to drop out to character select and then log back in. If you have a super slow character load I could see that being a pain, but for me it’s maybe 10 seconds before I’m back at the start of the instance ready to fire it up again. Much less a pain than finishing the whole instance and only then returning to the purple star entry.

No idea, their word for when was “future.”

I’m sorry you deleted all your alts It will be much harder for you to unlock traits right now, as they changed it to require either open world achieves (like “Lornar’s Pass Completion”) or a pile of money + skill points per trait. Alts made before last April’s feature patch were grandfathered in to full unlock just via leveling, except for the 5 very top grandmaster traits that were added.

They have said they’ll be changing the trait process again, but we don’t know when.

I don’t know if they do laptops but I was nearly 100% satisfied with the CyberPower PC I bought (and am using now). It would be 100% if they hadn’t left a paper disk inside the unopenable fan casing on the liquid cooler fan, which occasionally starts buzzing and rattling like a dying insect. Also when ordering I had a shipping date, when receiving order confirmation that got bumped 2 weeks or so and I was trying to get it before TESO came out … barely did get it in time.

But the computer itself is very nice, they were communicative in email, and I got to choose most all my components and case. If they do laptops, I’d consider them a trustworthy source.

If you mean the hammer, mace, and axe the revenant wields, look for any stream of the demo where someone spent time on the hero panel. All the demo revenants have them.

My thoughts:

- Oh, that would be cool, necromancers would enjoy that.
- But wait.
- Big flappy wings (any flickering motion, actually) make me queasy when I can’t move my camera away from them, eg at the bank/TP
- TESO sorcerors have flappy winged minons and until bank interaction hid everyone around you it was painful to use the bank.
- Ele fire minions with the wings are really annoying

So … would be cool but I’d ask that they not be summonable in towns, or at least not near banks/crafting/TP (to allow for RP in other spots).

As Electro said, sylvari skin color is in the hair. It changes stem colors and shading.

I was neutral on the suggested change at the start of this thread, but now I do think hair kits should include skin color, for all races. It still doesn’t let you swap gender, face structure, musculature, and so on, but does fit the theme of the kit.

Mostly it will show you effects. You won’t see legendary footprints in preview, and I recall some weapons that I didn’t realize left trails or had other effects beyond a bit of glow until I equipped them.

But it’s one heck of a lot better than using galleries.

Ravinsild.4637:

What’s CDI mean?

Collaborative Development Initiative. A brainstorming session between devs and players on a focused topic. Originally the threads were in General Discussion. Now they’ve been moved to https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/cdi and I hope they will continue even with the primary dev voice in them departing the company.

One or two of them dissolved into flame fests, but some were long lasting robust intelligent debates on game design.

I love this suggestion. I want this to happen. My bags and bank want this to happen. My RP scenes need this to happen.

Please make this happen!

(I know it’s been suggested a number of times by a number of people, but this one is nice and thorough).

Actually what’s going on is you got Chapter 8 for free for logging in during its active period. Chapters 1 to 7 will be 200 gems each to unlock (though then they will be unlocked for all the alts you ever make), or you can find someone who has them unlocked to take you through the story, though you won’t get the achieves or be able to do interactions in the instances.

When you do unlock them, you can play them in any order you like. You’d have to abandon progress on your current chapter to do so. If you want to do the achieves associated with the chapters, you must first complete the chapter on an alt, then use that same alt to do the achieves in a second run through.

I’d offer to shepherd you through the story so you can decide if you want a full unlock but I have a splitting headache right now I can’t commit to doing anything for a bit.

Seyiwaji.4082:

I don’t know 1 game in which you can fight underwater and fish. It doesn’t work together.
As said in a previous post. You can fish every time.
Go underwater and grab the fish yourself.

Not that I like fishing in WoW, for reasons I’ve stated more than once, but WoW has both fishing and underwater combat. You can’t fight the fish, you have to stand above the water and equip a fishing pole, preferably at fish pool nodes. But you most definitely can fight underwater in WoW, they even have a whole underwater zone full of things that attack you.

The main problem with fishing is having to hover one hand over the mouse waiting for a random moment when it’s time to hook the fish. Sure that combats bots, but it brings the rest of your game play and socializing to a screeching halt. Getting timed buffs as you do in WoW only makes it worse, because you need to cast as often as you can or you’re wasting your bait. So no taking time to type to your guildies for the five or ten minutes of the buff!

Blech.