Guild Wars 2

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Run a few fractals and use the tokens from that for the cheapest version of a 20 slot bag. I think it’s 175 tokens per bag. Green items will automatically go to it.

I had it in under a minute first try on my human thief. Tested it on my male norn engineer, nailed it. My asura mesmer fell a few times, partly due to my tendency to steer around people standing on things despite the lack of need to do so. If anyone is having real issues and I’m in game, give me a hail, I left my mesmer there. As long as I’m not in RP or a dungeon, I’ll be happy to swing over and give you a portal.

For those that already have it without climbing the marionette body, that’s because during the marionette fight the vista was up on one of the walls dividing the lanes. It got moved, which is why I first saw its current version today despite having two alts with gold stars.

The best way to figure it out is to click your achievement tab (left side of the hero panel, towards the bottom of the tabs) and review the subcategories. Anything that appeals to you at that moment, go do it! It can appeal for the fun of doing it, or because you’re only 5 bat kills away from a tier, or because doing it will dovetail into other game goals — the reason will vary with the player and the moment.

It seemed easy enough to me, given a few slips on that tricky part from the skinny gear up to the hilt gear. The final part does require care so as not to simply slip off the side. One must steer midair and keep moving forward mid jump.

Glad I could help the others around you, though.

It reminds me of some old-time hood ornaments.

Such as http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/7b/69/63/7b6963bc4831d96fa8408886cacdb9de.jpg

Phadde.7362:

I can’t recall hearing anyone say that adding difficult content would be bad for the game =)

In previous discussions on the issue, I recall some opining that there should not be content the vast majority of the players cannot access. As “difficult” is a very relative term (I can do most of this game but utterly failed at Clocktower after many hours of trying, whereas others found it beyond easy within minutes), where do you set the bar? What percentage of players should be able to manage it when skill is the only obstacle? I won’t go into ping rates, shoddy mice/keyboards/video cards, as those are far too variable from player to player.

The ones clamoring most for truly hard content probably won’t consider it hard enough until no more than 5% of players can do it even with the best hardware in the world. Heck, there were people claiming Liadri wasn’t hard enough. Should ANet spent development time on content only a tiny fraction of their customers can complete? Should they make the time spent equivalent to the percentage catered to? If only 5% of their new content resources goes to the “hard stuff,” not very much will come out of that.

Here’s how I did mine. Aether hat, shoulders, coat, Emblazoned gloves, Sneakthief leggings (the named exotic level 80 medium, such as Zho’s), Predatory boots (cultural .. 1 or 2?). I think something’s changed in the shoulders, I don’t remember them floating like that when I put the look together.

Every profession will end up with 10 buttons you want to use a lot. For now avoid Elementalist and Engineer as they require the most extra button mashing since they make heavy use of the F1 to F4 keys and get frequent complete swaps of the 1-5 skills.

Mesmer is imo the most fun for PvE once you figure out good clone/phantasm management, but also needs a lot of F1 to F4. I’d save that for when you have the basics down. Note I may be biased: of my 13 80’s, 3 are mesmers, I only have 1 each of the Medium Armor profs and an Elementalist, and I have 2 each of everything else.

I would suggest guardian unless you feel a deep need to do large DPS. My first PvE main was my thief; now he’s pretty much for RP and for Living Story, because I tried dungeons on my guardian traited to support/defense and loved the survivability and utility. The weapons and traits you pick will affect your play, but the F1 to F4 keys can be used on cooldown without too much thought (caveat: you will always do better if you use a skill or special button only in the right circumstances — but at least with Guardian there’s less punishment for a “misfire” as they usually do some good whenever pressed). You can design a Guardian for DPS, it just won’t match professions that lean more naturally to that role. Me, though, if I end the fight alive and the monster is dead, I don’t mind that it took a little extra time.

Still, every profession is full of people who think it’s hands down the best and people that can’t abide playing it. Are you sure the Mists trick doesn’t work any more? Did they remove full level 80 settings when you’re in the sPvP area? That surprises me, if so. You should be able to do sPvP without doing any PvE at all unless they completely trashed that core design.

Or are you trying to double click to equip and you just keep putting something in your main hand? You can right click the weapon in your bags for a drop down and select equip in off hand, or drag it from inventory to the hero panel weapon slot where you want it.

As noted above, you cannot be in combat while doing that. If you are high enough level to do in-combat swapping, the default hotkey for that is the ~ (just above the Tab key and to the left of the 1 key). It will swap between the two sets you have in the hero panel, with a short cooldown if in combat, no cooldown out of combat.

Any truly long hair (with proper flow physics) would be wonderful. However very few MMO’s manage it due to clipping issues.

As a woman with RL knee length hair, I always wish I could have that in my games. Oh, well.

There’s a human man in some DR taverns that shouts “Shut up now! I can’t hear anything!” I want to punch him, sometimes.

blade.6052:

Here’s my warrior.

T3 Human Cultural Helm and Shoulders
Ascended Chest, Gloves and Boots
Draconic Legs

Superb job! I wasn’t enamored of the heavy ascended but you use it perfectly.

I just hit 80 on a Mesmer and got to gear him up. ICly he’s very Scarlet Pimpernel, so when hanging out he is in vivid petals and utterly obsessed with being fashionable. But when he’s doing his Whispers work, he covers up the flamboyance. I might work on the dyes a bit as it’s somewhat cliche to be all black and dark grey.

Divine helm (includes shoulders), Whispers coat, Aurora gloves, Vigil legs, Aurora boots. I’ve given him a Seraph focus, Priory scepter, and Ebon Vanguard greatsword.

MauricioCezar.2673:

What is a RP ? Role player?

RP does stand for Role Play, yes. You can view the long thread on Megaservers and RP to see what the concerns are pertaining to RPers trying to stay together to continue their story arcs.

Here’s the interview where Colin explained the problem:

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/colin-johanson-talks-dungeons-dragons-and-chairs

It apparently is too large a software challenge for their resources. There have been long threads on the issue, with dev response.

The main solution that should be eminently doable for them is to have a /chair emote that sits your character in a chair (as TESO does) or to have a Chair item that using puts you in a chair, possibly with changed utility skills to affect posture. You couldn’t sit on an existing in-game chair but at least you could sit.

For your latter question: Talk to the helmswoman (inside towards the prow, near the jewelcrafting skritt). One click on her dialogue options sends you to the front gate of the city requested.

All right, I got them! Sorry some are dark, it was game night when I started. I ended up not bothering with the common outfit tonics as you get one just for creating a character and needn’t buy any. As you can see I modeled them mostly on humans, not having any great wish to shuffle them around alts just for screens. I believe this is enough to give you the idea.

Tell you what, I’ll hop in game and get some screens as I have all the tonics still. I’m debating how many refunds to request … should be a project for this weekend to sort all that out.

The huge glow is likely a legendary effect deliberately glitched onto the character.

Not exactly a food, but there is a rare event that spawns near the Priory (on the ledge below the stairs up) and/or in the Iron Marches (I think … I read up on it after I found it in Lornar’s). There’s a very suspicious vendor that sells some beverages that give you the whirly dazzly effect sylvari get when doing the Caladbolg PS quest against the squire. If you find the vendor, make sure to stock up before triggering the event as you will end up killing them.

It does erase the account name — unless you leave the account name there and add a nickname to the end. Just right click on their name in the friends list to see options.

Maybe you mean the Krytan/Profane/Primeval sets that you get a choice of with the upgrade? They’re available for gems in the gem shop, I believe for less than the cost of an upgrade.

It’s been there since the Scarlet invasions began. It was one location of an Aether drop and apparently the anti-Scarlet forces haven’t been miffed enough about it to melt it down for scrap.

Sounds like you made it, hurray! I shall find someone else in need of my aid tonight

There is no portal to LA any more. You could find someone to protect you on the run from Vigil Keep if you wish, and if you’re willing to eat a few deaths along the way.

If you’re on NA I can help you in a bit. Got some RL things to do that will hold me from entering game for about an hour. Go ahead and friend me if you like (and are on NA) and then ping me if you see me log in and would like an escort. I’m in a mood to be helpful tonight.

Well, let’s see how I stack up. Here’s my human necro, before I gave her the new piled-up-with-hairstick do, and my human mesmer noblewoman (ICly just a sword and pistol user, not a mesmer mage — but she needed Light Armor clothing to dress up in). Also my street rat warrior, made as plain as possible with setting the sliders to try to match my own dull face. I’d give her the beat up new face but the overly red nose doesn’t quite fit.

Posting them here is actually very simple! Click the “more posting and formatting options” button below the text input box. You will then get more options below the box, including attaching an image. Hit the browse button, select the image from your own files. To post multiple images you then hit Preview rather than Reply. You’ll get the options again, and can browse for a second file. Rinse and repeat until they are all up.

The advantage is that thread readers can easily open those images without having to load all the framing and advertising one gets with PhotoBucket, TinyURL, etc. If you do that, I’ll take a shot at guesstimating some dyes for you. It might take some time since I have to do that silly work thing Mon-Fri and my evenings then are for relaxing, RP, PVE etc

zenleto.6179:

Adiantum Skythorn, on the battlefield and about to visit the bank (they might ask her to take her helmet off). It took forever to find somewhere light enough to get a decent screenie and it still looks too dark for details.

The trick I’ve found is to face into the light. Look where your shadow is pointing and put that behind you. If your settings don’t show shadow, pan around your character to see which side is lit up, and turn your front to that side. This game has a dramatic difference based on lighting angle — I was RPing in a cave with some people the other night and my light minty green leaves were a dull blue on the shadowed side.

I should post some new mix and matches, though the only thing I’ve added now that (some) town clothes can be armor is a Iron’s Tailpipe Bandana on my sylvari to simulate her having lost her fern dreads and growing back her leaves slowly. It’s a good ragged hairdo when dyed right.

I like both solutions a lot. There’s always an annoying amount of inventory management to do during such a swap and you’ve come up with an elegant answer that doesn’t give any advantage other than convenience.

An interim work around is to always equip from the drop down in the item slot in the hero panel. However that’s a lot harder now that we get the stats item rather than the skin item as the name, because you can’t tell anything other than rarity in the drop down. Besides, it doesn’t cure having your dedicated I-use-this weapon getting shuffled around to random places in your bags.

Hopefully that bug will get fixed.

My guild is .. The Jesters. One of us just had a baby and an artist in the guild did the most adorable sketch of a baby in an oversized floppy jester hat. Ever since those jester town clothes got datamined our guild’s been drooling for them. I think Digiacomo … spelling? … was wearing it, though, so it might be like the Anise outfit, existing merely to clothe one NPC.

The only problem is that if it is released to us, now it is not likely to be mix and match. Possibly not even dyeable. And frankly, that removes any great need to buy it. So when you ask for outfits, make sure to ask for them as armor pieces — or you’ll regret having your wishes fulfilled.

I think the OP means the endgame armor you see in creation, not the limited starter dye set base stuff you get once you are made.

I’ve never tried to duplicate any of those, as I like my own colors better (though human female warrior has some gold hues I covet). You’re asking someone to do a significant time-using project here … you should at least screen shot the ones you want so people can suggest possible dyes, then you can go in game and preview those armors from the wardrobe and preview the dyes from the TP to see what’s close. Thus you’d do most of the legwork, merely asking others to help narrow down the dye list to check.

I generally like to use a prosaic name to counter an unusual one. So I’d go with Trinity Jones, assuming you have a female human.

But you want to have the last name mean something, or “sound well” which is subjective. So let’s see.

Trinity Thompson
Trinity Malois (mal-wah)
Trinity Fold
Trinity Masterson
Miss Trinity
Captain Trinity
George Trinity
Trinity Steeleye
Trinity Hawk
Trinity Blade
… and so on. I recommend that whatever word you pair “Trinity” with either avoid being 3 syllables or else have a different cadence to it or you will have something that evokes a sense of doggerel or silliness.

Corollary question: Have wireless mice gotten more responsive? I used one in WoW many many years ago, but swapped back to wired when I discovered I literally could not do the torch juggling achieve without borrowing my husband’s large heavy wired mouse for the purpose. Even my raiding got better when I moved to wired even though I was never a hotkey clicker — but I do move with the mouse and my reactions were just enough faster with the wired one to get me out of fire in time.

Oh, there could be very long essays written on this. But let me try the super short version.

RP isn’t provided by the game, though the Charm etc option might be something you go for based on your intended character.

RP is writing a story in collaboration with other players. Preferably you keep it consistent with the world (don’t write a Jedi in Tyria, write a Mesmer). Imagine writing a novel — don’t you want to know something about the characters, their motivations, who their families are, how they’ll respond to various situations?

In RP you can pick a few key points or write a detailed month by month history of your character as you prefer. Then you write them and have them react to how others are acting based on their personality. You can have elaborate plots that take months or years to resolve, or just have an evening of chatting.

My main RP guy in GW2 is a nobleman who found out when he was 8 that he was adopted, and decided he didn’t have to play by noble rules. He essentially ran off to join the circus, though it’s more complex than that, and picked up all sorts of interesting skills (he’s a Thief, in game mechanics). He’s a womanizer, egotistical, theatrical, extraordinarily nimblefingered … whereas RL I am a 48 year old monogamous woman who gets winded going up 2 flights of stairs and I am a defense attorney with deep respect for the law.

RP lets us explore other personalities and social interactions. It adds a dimension and longevity to the game beyond just getting the dailies in for a few more pixels. The reason so many are upset about the megaserver’s impact on RP is that when you could guarantee you’d always play with the same set of people, you could “stake out” a server to gather on and know you would find the usual suspects in the taverns or forts around the world. Over the time since launch many groups have created story arcs akin to braided novels, with individual stories weaving together into a communal consensus reality as to the politics and story of the world. Now with the megaserver, it’s very hard even for those guilded together to get into the same “instance” let alone those that socialize together on a regular basis without using a game mechanic connection. I know a sylvari guild that hosted weekly gatherings at the bar in the Grove, for anyone to walk in on and join. Things like that can’t happen if the servers won’t put those wanting RP together.

In short it’s more than just 3 options, it’s as many complexities of character as you wish to imbue, from pattern of speech to physical mannerisms to phobias to level of “goodness.” And it only works when you do it with other people, though certainly you can let your chosen persona guide which story or dialogue options you select (my Thief used the “kiss” line in the Dead End post-Scarlet, and to my mind he was asking Jory for one, not teasing about the one in the instance).

I thought it was Clawr?

It would be better for players, worse for ANet profits. Note, though, that this part is exactly the same functionality before because this is NOT a wardrobe, it is a streamlined transmuting locker with the benefit of not needing multiple copies of an item to use its look. The only substantial difference is it costs 3 times as much to alter the looks of a sub-80 piece as before.

You can wiki for bats. Let me see, where did I see a pile of them today …. I don’t recall, darn it, but it was dense with them.

You can head to the Demongrub Pits in SE Queensdale for a few, I know that.

Rolling up my sleeves and wading in …

I’ve never seen a mount in game that really appealed to me. They’re silly, or animated poorly (seriously, Blizzard, horse’s front legs don’t look like humans in a horse costume), or chunkily rendered. They take time to use, block views (or doors or mailboxes). I have a horse in TESO and with all the stopping to gather ore and plants and wood I might as well just run.

While I’m sure ANet would do something innovative if they stick to the “what’s not fun about this game mechanic? Away with it!” policy, it really really really isn’t going to be needed in this game world. Just because everyone else does it doesn’t mean we have to! Let the fantasy be different, hey? Like … Earth has seasons. So any fantasy setting has the same ones. Until you get to GoT where it’s summer for generations, until winter comes. Explained? No. Interesting difference? Yes.

Oh no, Danikat … you’ve been wrecking your bag space for far too long. They added crafting straight from the bank in … I dunno .. the first few months of the game. And there was much rejoicing.

Tonics: Yes, if you don’t want to shuffle it around via the bank, each alt needs a copy.

Outfits: You don’t need to save them, they are unlocked in your wardrobe on all your alts in the “Outfits” section and can be applied that way. Remember that they lose any dye customization if you swap to a different outfit on that alt. Check your available outfits before dumping one from inventory, though, to make sure you actually have it registered in the wardrobe.

Agreed, the primary reason for a “main” is to have someone that gets your resources when those are limited (e.g. the gas mask which only one alt could have before the Wardrobe came, or ascended gear, etc).

I have 12 80’s, and am close to my 13th 2 guardians, 2 warriors, 2 necromancers, 3 mesmers (the nascent 80 is one of the 3), 1 elementalist, 1 ranger, 1 thief, 1 engineer. Plus 2 low low low alts that are not going to get leveled. My thief is my main for RP (and for LS) though the guardians are getting a lot of face time; one guardian is my main for dungeons and fractals; the rest are rotated in as RP plots require.

Since your alt descriptions don’t include personality, I’ll guess you don’t RP. That means you really just need to go with what gives you the most satisfaction in play. Mesmers are very fun, and very useful in dungeons, same with guardians though you aren’t likely to get dps satisfaction out of the latter. In world PVE, Mesmers are great at long distance tagging. But every profession has something to offer and someone who will tell you it’s the best one to play. Go for what you can most naturally do (for instance I find Engineer highly awkward with having to use utility keys instead of weapon swap).

And have fun!

That’ll teach me … guess I should have quoted the OP even though I was the very next reply. The OP was complaining he couldn’t meet his Norn friend because he was an Asura and didn’t know how to find Rata Sum nor could he get to LA now. Also he wondered why his friend couldn’t join a PS with him despite being in his party.

You also could make a second account to play on the other region, though then you won’t have all the account unlocks from your first account on the new one (dyes, skins, achieve points, account bound gear, shared bank and wallet, etc).

Of course she’s flexible, she has a fish tail.

I so miss the instaswap to town clothes. I could be in my leather trenchcoat, click, poof I’ve shucked it and am in a vest/shirt/trousers that clearly I was wearing under the coat! I could dress to fit the mood of a scene, from rough and ready to highly formal, with dyes to extend the wardrobe even further.

And yes, I could carry a winter toy to be my fancy walking stick without looking ready to beat away pickpockets.

LA is no longer the hub. But if you take the portal out of your racial city, it’ll take you to Vigil Keep, the new hub, with portals to the other cities. Rata Sum is just south of where you start in Metrica Province, I believe. If you have trouble finding it, click the crossed swords PvP icon and select Go to the Mists, then use the portal out of there to get to Vigil Keep.

For PS invites you have to be in the same zone to get the popup.

You probably saw images from before April 15. Back then, in the good old days, we could mix and match our town clothes. We couldn’t wear them in combat, but they were great costumes for being in, you know, town.

I don’t mind the hidden nature but I live in fear that I’ll hit Compact Bags instead (it happened once) and undo all my careful sorting by category and location. So I have to spend extra time carefully positioning my mouse, and if I -do- compact in error, well, there’s 15-30 minutes of fixing that. (It happened on the alt with most every variation of Light Armor carried in her bags, sorted by type of garment and going from skimpiest to fullest. I need that if I’m quickly tossing an outfit together for RP).

There is no free key unless you didn’t yet pick yours up, I think. I just checked. As to the kitten, ick. I was sorely disappointed with the white one and remain fed up enough with the town clothes issue that I’m not spending cash in the store for a pet I’d want latex gloves on before touching. It looks greasy and deformed. How can Anet do such magnificent canines and such clunky felines?

I do not refer to the Radiant/Hellfire/Zenith, but to the chests we used to get that were full of pvp skins. I had certainly anticipated something similar would still be forthcoming, but I just looked at the next set of chests, and there’s no equivalent.

Sadness. It seems like a nice bonus to the chests, getting skins. Maybe ones I already have, maybe something new … Oh well. Less pressure to work at getting those points.

At least there are -some- viable, realistic sized ones. Cobalt and Ebonblade and Kymswarden are the best.

I’ve also done a lot of fencing, when much younger, as well as reeanactment from Vikings to Victorians and beyond. Any time a game offers me armor and weapons that actually make sense, I’m full of joy.

If I ever EVER do a legendary, it sure won’t be one of those bizarro giant slabs that are the GW2 greatswords.