Guild Wars 2

I’d like karma gain and any other briefly appearing mid screen messages to be in front as well. It may not be vital information but since it doesn’t show up in the combat log, if you are even idly curious as to how much you just got you’re hosed if you didn’t shove the window aside.

Do you have two computers? I know that family members can play simultaneously from the same house, we have a family of four in our guild that can all be on at once. But they are obviously each on their own machine.

The keys will stay, but not be world wide any more. The achievements likely not. I’d expect new daily achievements tied to new LS content. After all, the daily is used to help get the meta for this event, not to get the meta for the permanent path. On the other hand, the path is permanent so the keys will be needed for opening the 5 chests at the end, thus they shall still drop.

Most of the skins are available ad nauseum at some very low TP prices. I suggest you take a bit of (perhaps boring) time previewing armor off the TP and seeing how the skins repeat. If you can get a skin you like for a silver, there’s no reason to keep a pricier version in your bags for just-in-case.

My first pirate hat, from my first run of AC story? I was ecstatic. Then the darn thing dropped over and over and over, as did the pirate coat. Eventually I learned what skins cost a ton and which are dirt cheap. One time never get again, yes, I clog my inventory with things like that. Infinitely repeatable, I save only if it’s really a good look for that character and s/he will want to costume in it on a moment’s notice.

Justdeifyme said it all except for one thing — your thread title. The “boar’s walk” is a reference to someone triggering the champion boar by talking to the hunter who wants its head. He and his assistant walk into the woods and after a minute or two of that the boar spawns. The zerg waits at the spawn point and alert people in map chat that the walk has begun so stragglers can rush over.

I am also on TC and have 2 mesmers at 80. Tomorrow’s a holiday so once I’ve slept in and moseyed to the computer I’ll be in game. Feel free to hail me and ask for any suggestions. I’m not a min maxer theorycrafter, and I am used to explaining things in ways useful to newcomers. I’ll be happy to answer any questions you have on weapons, traits, utilities, game play, etc.

It might be 1 or 2 pm eastern before I’m in game, to give you a ballpark idea. And I’ll have RP to do once a guildie is on. No reason I can’t have a /w chat on the side though!

I so wish this was on an NA server. You guys are Doing It Right.

As I’m content with all the game sounds and music, I don’t actually know how this works but the game is built to support making your own soundtrack. There have been threads on how to do it, and you can google for it as well. As I understand it, you can choose any music you have to put in for “combat” or “ambiance” or whatever other category, and then it plays that instead of the default game music when you are in those situations.

Check the Audio subforum here to see if it has a sticky or something, I guess.

Falunel’s post should be stickied and every person that ever asks for profession choosing help should be referred to it, imo!

There’s no substitute for trying them out, though. Before beta, I figured Guardian would be the one class I’d never play and Thief and Engineer my faves. Thief still is my RP main and he has world completion so he does all the go-here-no-here-no-there-no-back-to-the-first-spot world stuff. But for dungeons, my Guardian is pure awesome. Mesmer likewise struck me as a “pet class” but it’s actually a caster with some long-lasting spells and choices about when to make and break the spells. And it’s so fun I got a Mesmer to 80 without any RP for her at all, which is a first for me in many years of MMO play.

Though any of the harder classes such as Elementalist and Mesmer will seem more fun once you have the basics down. It’s sort of like driving a stick — I learned to drive automatic, got all the rules of the road down, -then- added in figuring out how to make the car go with a clutch. Try a few on for size, the first few levels don’t take long at all. Then see what keeps you eager to see what skill you get next, and work on that one.

I made 2 keys and no go for me either. I ended up spending 20 silver on dyes to Mystic Forge instead because I’ve been PvEing all day and didn’t want to grind out a PS or Aquatic. At least I got two 13 silver dyes out of it.

You don’t need to min max too much while leveling. The gear gets replaced fast. You might want to alternate which stat you focus on to get a feel for how it plays so you can go for what you most prefer once you’re 70-80. I’m leveling a warrior right now, he’s in his low 20’s, and I am pushing power and precision on him with some vitality via trinkets.

Note: I never feel the need to min max, so take my advice in that light.

I went there at night (local Lion’s Arch night) and it wasn’t doing anything. There might be more factors than time of day.

I know our GM wants an airship guild hall more than any other kind of guild housing.

It’s Braham’s home town.

I’m in a few RP guilds, most often (almost always, that is) in my main guild that we put together long before the first beta. We have ongoing storylines that began at our beginning, not the game’s, and thus hit launch with established histories and friendships IC and OOC.

We PvE, we WvW, we RP, we write stories for our website, it’s been an ongoing blast.

And, to save you some clicks, it’s Monday at noon PDT per the Release page.

I’m still hoping for a cascade of ivy leaves. I just love the look of that stuff. Honeysuckle is also great for being a lot of leaves with visually distinct tiny bell shaped flowers. And here’s a random thought — bottlebrush. The stuff hummingbirds like. (Maybe we could also get hummingbirds in game, if only as environmental grace notes like the butterflies in some zones. They’re so magical, and having some darting around a sylvari’s head would be glorious).

For now I very happily put the fern hair on my necromancer. Thank you for the work on that and the other styles. I’m looking forward to more face options.

Thaia, way back in beta I did the noble PS and I loved Lord Faren. I was super worried he’d turn out to be the bad guy, having staged his own kidnapping (mild spoiler but it happens in the very first PS step so I’ll not worry too much about it). Then in live play I got past level 20 and … nothing. He might as well never have existed.

But then he came back in Southsun and the Funhouse, and it still looks possible for him to be so much more than the fop he’s seemed all this time. I don’t want him to be my nemesis, I want him to be my buddy, but it would actually fit lore to have him prove false. They did say the nemesis was someone we already knew, which certainly rules out Scarlet.

If you use a Toy while in town clothes, you go into combat stance.

It’s a level 80 explorable* path in the dungeon in NW Caledon, but will be there permanently so you can keep 5 keys aside for the achieve to do one day. The pieces will continue to drop in Maguuma and … another zone I forget … once the event is over. Right now they drop all over.

• dungeons have story and explorable modes. Story is a linked series of missions involving Destiny’s Edge, and to open an explorable path (which is 5 levels harder content) you must have done that dungeon’s story on that alt. You can join someone else’s explorable, though, so you can be in a group in it so long as one party member has unlocked it.

I still have the meter, the flaming book on several alts including one who was 14 at the time, the witch outfit, the Mad King outfit … but I -am- a complete packrat so it’s pulling teeth to make me get rid of anything.

I’d say my most used item remaining is the Mad King scepter, as it’s just the best for costume brawl both in winning and in helping others win. I set out the table and let people pummel me with my own food fight

Now hold on. You want to have to salvage something with the skin you want for a rare chance to turn it into an infinite account wide use.

And if that fails, well, you’ve just trashed a possibly irreplaceable skin. No thanks. Not worth the risk. If it’s easily replaceable, after all, why bother trying to get it in a locker? Drop a couple of silver whenever you want the look.

I do like it though it seems a more year-round thing if it’s just the domino part (the porcelain look -could- just be a pale character face). It looks to me like it might have different dye channels on the left and right sides which would make for some interesting effects.

It seems I have a few, I’ll try to take it down to a few samples (posted in reverse order, sorry):

You can tell you’re done by opening the map and seeing the 100% figure on the left side. Not that that means you’ve seen everything — there will still be hidden areas, NPC chatter, events you’ve missed. Nothing says you have to stay in the zone, though, just look at the level suggestions and head for zones that match your current level. You’re never really done. You can go back whenever and see new things, and you are downscaled enough that you aren’t facerolling the place (though better gear and more unlocked skills do make a notable survival difference). Exploration is one of the most fun things this game offers! She can easily get the game’s price worth just moseying around to see all the pretty places and hidden nooks.

I liked being a healer in WoW. I really like being able to do everything in GW2. Your wife might want to try a Guardian traited to defense, support, and healing, though. Mine is my go-to for dungeons because she lasts so long and saves everyone’s butt a lot. She also rocks the Tequatl fights.

As noted above, you don’t have to be a twitch gamer to do well in dps fights, either. I’m certainly not one, I grew up before consoles taught kids those kind of reflexes. I do find a Naga HEX very handy since I can do all my movement with the mouse and save keyboard stuff for firing off skills.

I think the release mentioned the new improved Clocktower. So I’d expect some changes, if only fixes to camera glitch rocks and perhaps a new voice over since it’s Thorn’s son this time.

I do hope for a lot of things similar to last year, because that is how tradition works. You repeat things. Maybe with variations, but you don’t completely change it every time. The ball always drops to the shouts of 10-9-8-etc in Times Square at New Years. Macy’s always has a parade with giant balloons on Thanksgiving. People always trick or treat on Halloween, and carve pumpkins to put candles in. (US examples, but those are the festivities I know. Other countries have their own traditions and festivals, with some features that have been in them for centuries).

I hope we get the jester costume that was datamined. My whole guild needs those as a uniform.

Fellyn, the mouse is already so sensitive that I can go across two monitors within a few inches of mouse movement. I cleared off my desk and used a large pad. No good!

I accept that my choice of motion control and desk setup means I will not be able to do the Clocktower. I did once make it all the way to the long spar to the leap of faith, but the goo was too high when I landed. I’ll cheer the rest of you on, though

The racials have always been designed to be less powerful than profession-based skills, so as to avoid people feeling they must roll a specific race to be competitive. That’s not likely to change. They’re meant for fun and flavor, not for min-maxing.

If you don’t have the Southsun, the Desert Rose should still be on the TP and is exactly the same only red and green instead of golden.

8/10, a bump for getting the song “Rosin the Bow” stuck in my head. It’s a title a sylvari might well have. Any minus comes from using more than one word, which is hard to avoid as names get taken.

I am now leveling a male sylvari warrior, and because he’s a side project I didn’t research a name beyond spamming an Arthurian name generator until I found a name I liked that wasn’t taken (I really liked Cador, but apparently so did someone before me) :

Andret

I only go to WvW on very rare occasions, so I’ll answer from the PVE pov — I love it underwater. Then again, I loved it in WoW, too. It’s like flying thanks to the full freedom of movement, and GW2 lets skills take advantage of the z axis. It’s also beautiful down there.

I’ve gotten everything but Ranger, Eng, and Ele to 80. I’d say my favorite underwater is the Mesmer. Low dps? Tell that to the mobs I’m scything away with clones and phantasms and shatters. I solo’d the River Drake Queen skill point in se Bloodtide at level, with vast swarms of her little ’uns all trying to get their teeth in me and it felt -awesome-. That was the fight that taught me spear is for more than fast travel, as I swapped madly back and forth between it and trident.

Thief feels kind of boring underwater, albeit handy for the daily dodge task. Engineer confuses me with how to target tossed weapons (I have fast cast, no lovely targeting circle). Warrior is too straightforward. I’m leveling another one now and not feeling any pizzazz to the underwater combat. Necromancer needs too much melee because too many of the trident skills are close range, though they are fun. Guardian is limited in dps but pretty handy in group fighting with retaliation and blinds easy to hand.

Still, Mesmer makes me -want- to hop in the water for a daily kill count.

Looks like not so much a bug as an editing goof where they decided to change the text and didn’t put in anything but a placeholder. I’d post it in bug forums, though, so they can retype the line when they have time.

Which we had for over a year, y’know. At least it’s something to do while waiting for Mad King — last year we were all wondering what to expect, and then this video came out and we frothed at the mouth waiting for the patch …

One reason I love this game is that it has so few buttons. One reason I quit LotRO was because my minstrel had something like 40 buttons, requiring combo key presses, all useful and necessary skills, and then in an expansion they revamped the class so mightily that I no longer had any idea what did what.

I recommend you play an elementalist or engineer if you want to have to push a lot of different buttons and combinations. The skill in this game comes from knowing -when- to push your buttons, not being a concert pianist.

2 weeks for the Event meta (the backpack and 25 AP), permanent for the dungeon meta and mini.

It’s possible they’ll be attainable the next time the Pavilion opens and that’s why they aren’t on the traders.

This won’t help with the headroom problem but if you hit your toggle UI key it hides the character avatar boxes. You still can’t see the very bottom of your feet but you can see a lot more of your shins. You also can’t spin your character in place with the UI hidden so for screenshots you need to position, toggle, screenie, toggle back on.

I wonder how difficult it would be to have the Asura display higher up on the screen? Maybe with the little “terrain” patch moved up as well, if that’s needed to keep the character from looking ungrounded/levitating?

I love this idea. I love it even more if it makes them give us more town clothes that are actual outfits instead of joke apparel. Still looking for posh slacks, ball gowns, regular boots, all sorts of hats (that don’t shave you), commoner clothes, the pirate outfit from the drunk pirate contest in a Whispers PS, etc …

… and then I’d make a point of doing the minigames even outside the achieve windows just so I could do them while looking amazing!

The most sure fire way to do this is to craft. By the time you’ve gained about 5 profession levels, you get the achieve, as well as a lot of crafting skill. (Unless they’ve changed that. I got the achieve by accident on a marathon jewelcrafting session many months ago).

I’d be leery about posting gold amounts. It’s like “hey hack me!” Not that I have ginormous amounts, the only reason I got Golden was because a savvy TPing guildie loaned it to me a couple of months after release and I sent it back to her within 30 seconds.

Something very fishy about this guy. My thanks to you all who are noticing his antics.

I think they might not be. Our guild has some members that are based on other servers and they have complained about lack of access to the bank and inability to do guild rushes because they can’t interact with the banner.

That is, the upgrades will still be there but you might have to actually be mained to the server to use them. I don’t have a definitive answer, however.

twnoble.3976:

-Norn
-Male
-Guardian

Pit Fighter’s Leggings (and some others)

Hi guys, I’ve noticed this issue on my character with a couple of different leg items where, for some reason, the armour doesn’t appear to be skinned to the ‘dynamic rig’ and wont conform along with the legs when I stand on uneven ground. As you can see in the screenshots, whilst running and jumping it’s fine, like I say, its just that dynamic standing animation when one leg gets lifted up that causes the problem…

Good catch. I’ve noticed that on male human within the last week as well, mostly in PS cutscenes where my guardian’s leg keeps showing through the armor skirt. Here’s a sample, just a bit of leg showing through the browner area as I wasn’t trying to screenie the bug, just happened to catch it:

I just had to edit a post because I used a contraction. “It is hitting you” didn’t make it, when I used “it’s” rather than “it is.” Oddly “it is hitting” works when you’d think the feline filter would yowl because the space between is and hitting makes it think I’m dodging it.

I had that happening on Wednesday, not quite as much as you but I was doing a Teq fight and it was a roulette wheel of people dc’ing and getting tossed to overflow only to get back in to main when someone else dc’d. I had multiple crashes in a day when normally I never crash at all.

Yesterday I was fine, so I figured they’d fixed it. Apparently not if it is hitting you

Nicely presented. I’ve only run the place once, late last night with a skilled guild group, one of whom had done it before and was an able leader on Mumble. So this wasn’t a PuG — but I think I can add a possible tip for Clockheart.

We were having problems with him because the hologram kept showing up on the far side of the chamber. He ended up backed into or even stuck in a corner. We decided to give up on the mechanics and just fight him there, letting the stacks build and using dodge and stability to get past the slams, then focusing all out on him. This started when he was around 50% and worked pretty darn well.

So if the PuG has issues while the fight is mobile, try the above. You don’t need to assume people know the animations, just tell them what they are. Besides, if you are using this as a backup plan, they’ve had a chance to see the animations and now you can say “when he does x, y is about to happen” and they’ll know what you mean by x.

And here I was enjoying following a Bifrost carrier in the Queensdale zerg because I was running through rainbows that were subtle shimmers in the air. They cheered me up without giving me a headache or blinding me from my path.

Admittedly I have High settings. It’s possible lower graphics settings can’t see them?

You can get Explorer while missing pois, as it comes from finding all the white named areas. Map completion, requiring all hearts pois vistas wps etc, can miss some white areas that don’t have any of those in them.

So mouse over every map area and see if it says you’re missing a poi. And check Chantry again, you might have gone in the instance but not pushed up against the secret Whispers portal to get the poi inside (that one won’t show up on zone name mouseovers).

You’ve just had bad luck. Though I’ve noticed I fairly often don’t get ectos even with a Black Lion kit. On the other hand, I did get 3 ectos off one item yesterday. Many seem to suggest you check the price of an ecto. If it’s higher than the item’s price, salvage, if it’s cheaper, TP the item and buy the ecto with the proceeds.

Re trading: You can send items and money directly to other players, but the game has no safeguards against scams. So you have to trust the other person to send his/her side of the trade. On the TP you can’t see who is selling or buying stuff, or pick who gets your particular items, and even after the “expected profit” there’s another hidden cut taken out. I just sold a Zodiac axe skin for 61 gold, paying a listing fee, and what I actually collected from the trader was 55 gold.

On the other hand you can put your stuff up and let it sit and later on have a nice surprise stack of coin waiting for you when it finally sells, without having to make sure the buyer’s on line. For more, check the Black Lion Trading subforum, where the people that actually work the market for a profit discuss how to do so.