Guild Wars 2

Oh dear, Chris. You didn’t mention a skin locker or other skin management system. Perhaps that can be a swift change to your list?

Here are my clothes-horse necro’s bags, with all the different looks of boots and coats and skirts sorted out by type of garment and then from least to most coverage (those looking for Winged gloves and boots, they are on her to complement her Ascended coat/skirt). I also have over 4 bank tabs full of skins and dyes waiting for the right alt to receive them. Oh, how I’d rejoice to turn all that into a locker and free up the space for other things! I can’t even take her dungeoning because 20 free slots fill up too fast.

Ahhhhh yes, I see that now! I’ve never had to buy them because I get enough from the game and from chests when keys are on sale. Though now that I care about ectos I am burning through my supply.

What are BLSK? If you mean keys, gift one key to a friend then buy 25 keys for yourself at 40% off — much better deal than the straight 20% off of most sales.

edit: My bad, that sale ended Dec 23, though it went on for weeks.

You only get what goes on your hotbars, but you do get skill points to spend. One per level gained and one per skill point fought/communed/eaten out in the world. If you look in your hero panel under the second tab, you’ll see 3 sub tabs for weapons, skills, and traits. You pick which skills to buy in which order (eventually you can get them all) and you can use any 3 of those in your 7-8-9 slots. You get a choice of elite skills for the 0 slot.

You also get trait points, a total of 70, to spend in the trait lines. if you mouse over them you’ll see what each 5 points gets you — each 10 points gets you a major trait that you can choose moment to moment (out of combat) exactly which one to use.

The necromancer sub forums will have suggested builds.

Stat choice is pretty personal. A lot will tell you to do berserker (I believe that is power, precision, critical damage). I generally like to get as much precision and vitality as I can, with power a close follower and toughness just whatever happens to come from gear, though I tend to keep all 4 in rough parity. I am not a min-maxer, however. I have one necro that does a lot of staff, so she gets condition damage. But apparently condition damage is less bang for your buck.

It comes down to personal choice, and it’s easy to change things up if you don’t like how combat feels, at least until you’ve geared with pricy level 80 stuff. By which time you should know what you like!

Perhaps horses arrived on Tyria with humans way back when, but there was some inimical parasite or virus or what-have-you that ended equines.

That carnival set up was there. It’s part of the human storyline “wish I’d joined the circus.” It’s where you start the Grizwhirl investigation.

I am amused that your Medium sample covers so much more than the others. Even in those samples Medium gets “trenchcoated.”

Probably people stacking legendary effects. A video of that was linked elsewhere in these forums. Try googling for legendary stacking gw2 and see what YouTube link you find.

It also makes sense that people would wear clothing that looks like what leaders have. It’s called trend setting. One singer wears an oversized blazer and suddenly all the guys on a city street have that style.

Change a couple of details and voila, you’re wearing something inspired by a trendsetter. The code I linked above has a feather bustle instead of Anise’s skirt. Much as I prefer her skirt to the feathers, at least that’s a change so the NPC remains unique.

I agree that there need to be safeguards against wrongful kicks. But how do we protect rightful ones? If a guild member says “whoops, fire alarm, replace me if I’m not back in five minutes,” and you kick them 10 minutes later to get another guildie in, you don’t really want to be barred from inviting the replacement. Griefers could go afk to hold up the group, knowing they can’t be replaced.

I wish I had an idea for how to make it work other than “be excellent to one another.” I’ll never kick someone who is actively playing and isn’t being nasty, I’ll never boot someone to open a slot for a friend, and I sure wish no one else would either.

*nasty = full out deliberately offensive/racist/insulting, to be clear. I have a pretty high tolerance.

Do I have to pick just three? /whine

I will try …

1) Guild and Player Housing. A robust, complex, deeply customizable system that doesn’t cost you all your hard work if you’re logged out for a while. No mortgage, taxes, or rent. Those are NOT fun. Instanced, because we can’t choke the world with suburbia nor should we have enormous flamefests and community warfare over who grabbed some land first. I liked someone’s comment referencing another game where anyone you give a password to can access your home, but caution that there need to be tiered permissions for what can be done once inside it. Crafting of items for the home. I had so much fun making beautiful rugs in LotRO and watching them sell rapidly at auction (after making enough for my house and all my guildies’ houses, that is).

2) Increased character animations and emote choices. Having them reflect the personality type generated via game play selections is a bonus. Sittable chairs via objects that deploy a chair for the individual rather than trying to re-code the world to sit in the chairs already there. Dances that make sense for the world, I’m so very tired of RL fad pop dances becoming racial moves, and that can be shared/learned across races.

2a) More variety in character appearance. From creation to kits to earned looks, more more more armors and hairs and faces and weapons and town clothes (assuming the separate town clothes system is kept). Faciliate this with account wide skins a’la the Zenith and Radiant/Hellfire items.

3) Factions/Reps. This has been fascinating because I bet you all can implement it in a non-daily fashion. Zone specific items unlocked by earning karma in that zone, little rewards from escorted NPC’s, dyes specific to Orders — heck, Order specific missions that lead to more rewards. I’ve loved this idea and all the brainstorming that went with it.

The added benefit of that is that you reserve a name for 24 hours after you delete a character, so you have plenty of time to make exactly the look you want, secure in the knowledge your name won’t vanish while you do. At least it worked that way at launch.

I had 5 names I wanted. I created characters as fast as I could click “skip to end” and entered the name. Then through the weekend I deleted and remade them with loving care. I still have the screenshots of those random race/profession/appearance characters to compare with what they ended up really looking like.

You can find out for yourself.

Go to the dungeon vendors. Preview the armor you want. Make sure not to clear or close the preview as you move between vendors.

Then bring up the Trading Post. Search for each dye, and preview it. It will fill in the dye slots on the right side of the preview in order. You can right click any dye slot to clear just that slot if you need to rearrange the dye order without clearing the armor.

It won’t give you one hundred percent control because it sort of picks which overall channel set to put a single dye in, but you can get a ballpark idea of how the colors will apply and look together.

A couple of hints to help you with the jumping physics:

You can steer while jumping. This includes moving forward. In fact you must press forward motion or you fall straight down, no ballistics at all. On the other hand you can jump around corners or correct mid leap to make it to a platform you were about to miss.

Speed buffs make you jump further. Conversely, getting put in combat slows you down and makes you miss jumps you’d normally have managed. So if something shoots you mid-jump, you can be hosed. Or if another player drops a speed buff you weren’t expecting, you can overshoot.

Mesmers who can jump are very good things. They can get to the next part of the puzzle then make a portal, hop down to you, and give you a lift. When I do that on my mesmer it’s for free, but some people charge for it or at least want/hope for tips. Downside: you don’t learn the puzzle. I still haven’t found my way to the top of Aetherblade because mesmers were so plentiful and helpful when it first came out.

You can’t, it’s armor we’ve been asking for since beta. There is an item code for it, likely datamined, that is one code for the whole outfit (warning — only shows on human females, you’ll get either undies or nudity on anyone else)

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It’s too weak compared to the “real” elites to be worth keeping. It doesn’t even work underwater. Its use lies in two factors: it looks cool, and you can use it the moment you turn 30 without paying skill points.

Which are nice, but hardly game breaking or must-haves. Just a teeny benefit of having bought a more expensive version of the game.

You’re likely to get equally mixed answers here. As far as I know it all resets at once. Certainly my savvier dungeon running guildies will comment “we just had reset so we can do any path you want.”

That’s a wonderful and clear post.

One teeeeeeny li’l addition/correction — you say one can play in any zone at or below one’s level, which could imply you can’t go to higher zones. You can in fact go to higher zones, you are just likely to die without friends (or even with them if it’s too big a gap). So if you like to go into dangerous territory to see what’s there and unlock waypoints, it can be done, albeit with difficulty.

Bron, I thought about that. The G1 etc was to make programming easier. Also, tags aren’t unique to guilds, so on the off chance you are in two different guilds using for instance [RP] how does it know which one you mean to post in?

I’d rather have something easier to remember when quickly typing in multiple chats. So if you have a way to overcome the duplicate tag issue I’m all ears.

DarkWasp, the Doctor made that very point in tonight’s special. (Not a spoiler because you will never guess the context unless you’ve seen it).

Fair enough, I’m glad it wasn’t meant meanly! Carry on, lovely songs you all are singing

You mention finders maps. I see the wonderful events map sorted by server, but is there a listing of where to find all the skins of individual armor pieces like there was on the old site? That was the absolute best part of a fantastic site, the most useful thing no other site gave.

That aside, this new version is pretty darn sexy.

I know this thread is about character horizontal progression, but I think a little world horizontal progression dovetails with that. It gives us more to see and do. We need some persistence of effects from LS.

One small example: The Aetherblade dungeon in LA. Why can’t we now go behind the waterfall to see the emptied out chambers, the NPCs studying the tech? Why hasn’t it been turned into more living space for an ever-growing trading metropolis?

All these places we’ve found and assaulted need to still be there later, in a progressed fashion. Kessex’s changes are a good thing (though I mourn the pretty zone it was, but that’s part of the impact, bad things happen and things get wrecked). Every LS event needs to leave its mark in notable ways. Sometimes maybe things get prettier instead of wrecked (like maybe Zephyr Sanctum influenced architects and we got some Tyrian areas emulating it). But let the events affect us over time.

I agree it’s hard to make buff handsome guys (for personal subjective views on what counts as that) but it can be done.

One of the nicest Wintersday surprises I could have asked for! I am so linking this in my guild forums.

Yep! Last year it showed up over each city in turn, one a day I think, with goodies handed out to those who attended each one. I think all the backlash against “must be here at this specific time to get something” is why this year it only came to the final city, LA, without any fanfare.

Just look up, you’ll see it. It’s a massive blimp.

It looks to me like people stopped wanting the spore stuff once Wintersday came out and there were new things to do.

Multi chatting would be awesome. I just had a thought on how it could work, too.

Make each guild its own chat channel. Name the channel G1, G2, G3 etc, assigned by the order they are in your guild panel list of guilds. Preferably assign a different color to each one (and hoo boy wouldn’t it be nice to be able to customize chat colors in general, bye bye dull grey emotes!). Allow toggling of each channel the same as we have for anything else like say, em, whisper, party, and so forth.

Then type /g1 or /g2 to determine which guild chat you’re posting in. That eliminates concerns about custom names. You’d want a “G1” or “G2” or whichever to show at the start of each line of guild chat, so as to quickly spot which conversation goes where. You could do it all in one mess, or have individual tabs for specific guilds.

Now that doesn’t allow for a communal channel for people who are members of one guild but not another; still, it’s a start that uses the existing chat system.

One day we’ll have custom channels that people can join for metachatter. One day.

I speak French not at all beyond a couple of numbers and minor exclamations.

I’ll correct one thing I said — exploit means what I wrote, but that’s as a verb. As a noun it can mean adventure or other unusual and daring actions, for instance the exploits of Sherlock Holmes.

Re voices: I like having them even if sometimes I itch to correct the intonation. In the first Claw Island fight, a soldier shouts out when we take a bone ship down, “A small victory. By the Gods, there’s so many of them.” She should be a lot less exultant on the first sentence; it comes across as “Oh yay woohoo we got a small bit of a win there!” Whereas it should be “oh dreck, that turns out to have been pretty useless.”

Anyway I’d rather get a lot more story coming with less voice acting than have the lack of VA resources pinch the story pipeline to a trickle, even though the voices add tremendously to the impact of many scenes.

Argos Soft woooooo! I’d say it’s better than ever except now it doesn’t seem to have the acquisition field to tell you exactly what npc or dungeon or what-have-you provides the item.

I tend not to use red weapons though I have a Bloody Prince Staff skin waiting for the right character to use it and that is the one that jumped to my mind as the best red staff around. Dulfy’s site is certainly the best to quickly scan for what a weapon will look like.

You could try the Ceremonial weapons; they’re gold, but have a red jewel.

Louveepine, your English far outshines my French. But you should know that “caress” means to gently pat or stroke in a loving way. “Exploit” means to take advantage of, usually in a bad way.

I’m looking forward to your ideas, whatever happens in translation.

Hmm, I haven’t changed any names so I can’t answer if soulbound items glitch. I’ll note that the tooltip never says which character owns the item though, just “soulbound to another character.” This irks me because it gets hard to figure out who owns what’s in there …. anyway, no name needs to be changed, so the question is whether changing your name makes the game think you are “another character?”

Well done! Desolation should be ashaaaaamed

As a bonus you can now equip those PvP items while in the Mists and they will be what you are wearing in any activity such as Sanctum Sprint. Don’t worry about deleting the default items you have on. If you ever want to sPvP you can get fully geared and runed for free while in the lobby.

This game is wonderful. It’s given me so much entertainment, friendship, and fun. The CDI makes me think it’s only going to get better.

Thank you, ArenaNet people — and thank you too, GW2 players! Without great people to play with, there’d be no point at all.

I felt like both dolyaks were on the move a lot (Tarnished Coast) until Marcello got bugged and wouldn’t reset. Now people are nervous about getting him walking and any time I see an escort going it’s almost certainly Ho-Ho-Tron.

I just did that path for the first time two days ago (got me Dungeon Master at last!). I had a quick moment to see the telescope scene before the PuG leader left. It looked cool, a lot of swirling interstellar mist with stars in. I didn’t know to look for anything special, though.

Are there any comparative videos of before/after?

I love the Tequatl one!

I’d love the Twilight one too if you didn’t use “gay” as a pejorative Maybe “dumb” would scan well enough as an alternate?

1) Yes.

2) You only need the specific profession. I have Tailoring at 500; my next highest is 451 or so. I’ve made a coat and skirt for my necromancer and am planning the backpiece once I get 1500 silk scraps.

2a) You can however use the mats crafting to help level another profession. I need 5 each of bricks/ingots/stars and I’ll have my 451 alt make those to get some skillup.

I left out costume brawl because only the toy is used for that. I see brawl happening a lot in LA and DR, but I’m on a large RP server.

The current CDI thread contains many ideas on improving/replacing town clothes.

Regarding the OP, I agree. Better organization made more sense than flat out removal. I’m really hoping we’ll be getting a whole slew of new and interesting items to make up for losing the ones we had available. I toggle to town clothes all the time, at least when I have options that look like real outfits my character would wear.

Oh, I saw the whole dialogue, I just didn’t screenie it.

What does the envelope look like? My husband brings in our mail and he doesn’t always hand me mine if he thinks it’s junk ><

There have been posts of lingo before. The best way to learn it is to ask when you hear it. For the two you mention:

zerg — a large group of players fighting en masse to just roll over opposition
OP — in a forum, the original post. In discussion of mechanics, overpowered.

More specifically it’s Pacific time (US West Coast). It will change an hour one way or the other twice a year at Daylight Savings swap.

I’ve never found specific rocks to jump on, but I don’t just run, I jump forward in a series of bounds and that seems to get me off the rock before it crumbles.

Go to your Hero panel. Click the little top hat icon at the top. You will see a different outfit. You can hotkey set a toggle to go between armor and town clothes. The town clothes can’t be used in combat and tend to be more citified cloth outfits. Occasionally you can get more via the gem store so as to expand your wardrobe.

Andrige: You touched on the dance book. I don’t think dancing’s been noted in this thread. It’s not a major part of horizontal progression but yes, YES. More dances! Preferably ones that fit the world rather than being imported current fads from our world.

LotRO had something where you could go learn other races’ dance steps as part of a festival. The dances fit, too, like jigs for the Dwarves. That would be a start. Then we could have Book of Dance style hotbar alterations so we could change up the steps in an individual dance.

(Which reminds me of another thread where chair items were proposed, using one would plunk you down in a chair — be it a throne or a stool or a recliner or a tavern chair — that appeared when used. No need for interacting with game world assets not designed for it, and you could get hotbar skills to pick your seated pose).

Go look at Tier 2. On male sylvari it’s a robe. Only problem is the whole middle area is an undyeable blotch based on your skin tone; my lemon-skinned vari gets a dull brown there that won’t blend with any vibrant colors.

Cesmode, that’s what this polymock is that everyone speaks of. Apparently GW1 had it? So everyone keeps hoping their minis one day will battle in the polymock arenas.

I don’t know how to get -any- item in sPvP other than from PvE achieve chests … that being said, I note that the Phoenix armor showed up in the locker a couple/few weeks before it became a gem store release, as did the flamekissed etc. And gem skins give you an option to unlock them as a PvP version when first using them.