Guild Wars 2

Are the kites permanently in the store? If not, the kitemaker won’t have much to work with down the line. He does require you to have a store kite before he makes it into a guild one.

Kites of Iron isn’t toooo hard except the vet by the chest knocks you off before you can tag the kite. Bring stability for the tip-top and you should be fine. You can use Dulfy’s jumping puzzle guide for easy step by step instructions.

While it’s laudable for the guild to help, if everyone in the guild wants one (so as to have a mass guild pride kite flight, for instance), then pitching in for each other doesn’t save an individual any gold. It’s still 15 gold per person (on top of the kite itself. I know I don’t want to lose my Sun Kite to make a Guild Kite, so I’ll have to spend 500 gems to get the base model to change).

Even with all the achieve gold coming in, I’m not ready to spend the majority of my money on this. Likely I’ll get another kite some time to hold ready for it later; it’s not a must-do-now thing, however.

I followed this guy’s strategy and got a one shot victory:
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I tried a few different strategies and here’s what worked for me, this was pre any patch so it should still work.

- Pick Boast as your signature move
- Always bluff… if he interrupts it with a belch, belch back and drink water in that order.
- This should keep your own health from dropping as fast as his, with luck you’ll interrupt a heal or two and you’ll go into the next phase with a big advantage.
- Eventually he hits a threshold where he’ll start spamming his signature move.
- Use belch, drink water, drink in that priority unless you can get a bluff in.
- Once you get close to 3,000 or so health use boast.
- Try to time your abilities so you use belch at below 20% health to do a large amount of damage.

If he gets too many belches, or your losing health much faster than him just surrender and try again. It will take some luck but it’s possible and this strategy is simple enough that you can spam games until you get lucky.

They don’t work with the Cat Tonic but they do work with the Plush Griffon and the Doll.

I’m not sure any of my characters ICly care about the election. Though Donari certainly would vote for the human woman, he’s wired that way … However, after reading Sea of Sorrows I have to say Evon fits the position far better once you get your mindset into the Lion’s Arch culture.

That doesn’t mean I’ll necessarily go for him. I like Ellen Kiel (I even share her first name!). But I think he’d be a much stronger member of the Council.

Has anyone found leather or cloth dyes that work with the Radiant?

I agree he was tough, and the less time one has to spare the more frustrating. I did do him without regen, using a posted strat.

I think the thing most puzzling is why he sounds like an Asura.

I followed the strategy someone posted in another thread (search my posts, you’ll see my THANK YOU) and he was a one-shot using that. A bit close at the end but it worked.

Question on the belching, are you watching your own health? You do much more damage if your health is low when you belch, which might explain the variation.

I don’t know, I was just over 6K when they started the daily chest rewards and now I’m closing in on 6500. That’s under a week. True, I’ve been working on the event achieves and I do the dailies to level a character, but I also take time to RP, so the rate seems pretty fast.

Alex, I used the strategy you quoted above. THANK YOU. Last night was sheer hell on him, never could get him. Tonight, I used that strategy and had an easy one shot. On to kite city!

For some reason there are no rejuv boosters in the booster section of the gem store.

Darn, I quoted it to my guild but I swapped characters and lost it. It was something about how I was going to find glory and have it shine.

I did try planting them further away so I’d be in the aoe and he would not. However I don’t normally use banners so I have no feel for the distance. Plus they are on a timer so there’s the running back to him wasted time to consider.

I thought I’d try with banners. He got the boons from them as well, so that’s a wash.

I love the content too but yes, I have been thinking how beautiful the kite city is. The audio adds to it, with the wonderful music, the soft breeze sounds, the creaking of rigging and the cry of birds. I love running around just to experience the scenery.

The door interaction won’t trigger on Tarnished Coast. Friday July 12 7 pm Eastern.

Oddly enough it turned out to be an underground tunnel in eastern Sparkfly. No idea how I missed it all this time (I am 99.99% sure I did get full Explorer before).

I am so grateful to the mesmer in my guild that got me in and up both to the cache and now the kite. I haven’t done that JP since beta, when our server owned it so no enemy action was involved. I do think it’s unwise to put a PvE objective in a place where the more asinine players can wreck people’s fun with malice aforethought, and goes against the manifesto of wanting us to be happy to see other players.

I’d say, however, that a big point against putting a kite there is … how did it get there? It’s a kite that fell from a kite city over Tyria. Skritt thieves or no, getting that deep in the Mists seems rather a stretch.

Darn it, I have Proxemics (and the Hideout). So I don’t know what got added for me since I got Maguuma Explorer long months ago but now no longer have credit.

It probably goes higher but only so much can fit on the panel at once. Me, I have 6K so I’m waiting a few days to see what unlocks down the line as I open my daily present.

Sorry, forum search doesn’t get me the previous threads on this.

I had all region Explorer achieves months ago. Now the new UI panel shows me missing one Maguuma area. I thought it might be the new zone for this patch, but I’ve run all over that and not gotten credit for 167. Was any other area added in the last months?

Or is there a region map with the names in white? I am happy to compare and contrast until I see something I don’t have.

Oh I fell, but for a reason, I missed jumps! I’m a sucky timed JPer but I can do this one and it’s way fun. I even hit 9th place. I bet I’ll do better once I read some guides so I understand what the different power ups are for and what it means when “Solar Flare” appears on my screen in pretty letters.

If I didn’t have to go out on errands in an hour I’d spend my evening on it.

When you should NOT TP it:

Your projected profit, less 10% of that profit, is less than vendor. So if you can vendor for 1 silver, and TP for 1 silver 9 copper projected profit, the “tax” on sale will mean you get less than 1 silver. If you have time to carefully compare each item great, otherwise it’s pretty safe to vendor blues above level 30 as they are most all just 1 c over vendor, a sure loss.

I’ve seen a number of people in it, including guildmates. Our GM is in the medium because it’s perfect for his zany engineer. I have the light helm on my asura mesmer now, and my human necro has the light top and skirt and gloves. She doesn’t wear it everywhere, she just has a huge wardrobe and it’s part of that now.

I’d have the female heavy on someone except my street rat won’t wear it and my sylvari guardian has a look already.

Hey, my necromancer is a cheerful woman, into vivid reds and oranges. Not fire, though. She just looks good in autumnal colors. Stereotypical necromancy has a fascination with skulls and darkness but lore here says it’s just another energy system without a “taint” on the practitioners and that’s how I play her.

Though as pointed out just above this, the “standard” dark broody ritual look is well represented in game.

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(I will admit I don’t like them as much when they are so crowded, and because this one is not sticking around I don’t think I’ll get to see it when it is not, so that is a shame.)

Actually, it is sticking around. It’s a permanent new JP.

I wonder if it will still have Aetherblade spawns? And if so, how that will fit into the Living Story lore.

-laughs- The farthest I’ve jumped on my own is the end of that sequence of pillars down under the airship. From there I think I’m aiming for the wrong spot to get up because invariably I hit my head on something I can’t see and my jump turns into a faceplant in the water below. Like I said, I’ll figure it out in time. So happy this is permanent!

I don’t think one can guess what will be popular long-term, people being fickle with flavor of the month professions. Look more to what you find fun.

That being said, I have an 80 necro, an 80 mesmer, , a fifty-five necro (I wanted sylvari cultural armor … and jeeze, the numbers 5 and 5 after the letter a get felined) and a 30 or so elementalist. The two necros have RP keeping them going, the ele had Rp but not in my main guild so she sort of withered, plus felt far too squishy, and the mesmer got to 80 without any rp at all because I couldn’t get enough of playing her once I figured out how to keep clones and phantasms up near nonstop save when detonating them on purpose. I am pure PvE, btw, I’ve done some WvW on my thief but not to the point of understanding strategy beyond following guildies who know what they’re doing.

I have to say mesmer has hands down been the most fun. Plus my mesmer guildies turn dungeons into smooth sailing (partly from being good players, though, not just because of being mesmers. Mesmer takes practice and attention to detail). Future bright? Who knows? Their present is very bright indeed!

The diving platform is a different path from the chest platform. I haven’t yet figured out the path on my own (thanks Mesmers!) — I am waiting for a guild RP run of the place after the crowds are gone, when I shall really explore it. Still, I know if you go to one, you have to go way back down to get to the other.

kny, no one knows how it’s going to work until the devs tell us. So far it’s all speculation, daydreaming, and occasional fear mongering. Hold on ‘til Tuesday, then we’ll know for sure.

I think Rottaran meant tattered rather than buff. Personally I prefer not to run around in shredded garments, but am glad there is a variety out there so more people can get closer to their desired look.

NA Tarnished Coast, multiple reports in map chat of this, it’s been affecting me. Perhaps coincidentally, it began when I entered the bugged Kiel/Magnus instance. I have not yet closed the game to see if a restart changes it, because if I end up locked out of game I would be sad.

I just went into the instance without reading the discussions of it because I didn’t want spoilers. I had the same issues reported above. I also got the pop up error window talking about not being able to reach the login server, both while in the instance and upon exiting. Nervously I swapped to another character and got the same pop up when I loaded in on her.

Is this caused by the bugged instance, or did I just hit a login server crash and thus had better not exit the game?

Excellent, thanks for reporting that. I’ll prod my guild mates to make sure to see her.

Darn, I don’t WvW that much. And it’s been 28 years since I studied German. So I’m not sure what that was?

Jumping puzzles! Go into caves, behind waterfalls, up cliffs and walls. If you can jump up on something, go for it. There are numerous hidden places around the world where if you successfully jump along to the end you get a chest with some rewards in it. Some are bone-simple, some are long, complex, and require split second timing over a series of jumps.

Jump physics: Contrary to your instinct, you can steer in mid-air, and go further if you keep holding down your movement. In fact, if you don’t hold down movement, you plummet in place. Handy to land on a tiny pedestal, terrible if you are attempting a large gap. You can jump around corners. It takes a bit of practice, and is easier the smaller your character is. If you are playing a Norn or Charr you are going to have a much harder time learning.

Practice in places where you won’t die if you miss a jump. This game embraces jumping as a core value, it’s a marvelous skill to have

As to RP, TC has loads and loads of it. Divinity’s Reach taverns are one place, parts of LA and Garrenhoff and so on also tend to have it. Plus you can go to guildwars2roleplayers.com to hook into a very large TC RP community.

Movement: Yes, not ever even having done consoles, it took me a good bit to get used to MMO movement. A couple of things to know: Holding down both your mouse buttons makes you run forward (or walk if you have toggled walk on, that is a keybind you can set). Twitching the mouse left and right while doing that turns you. You can spin your camera by dragging with either right or left mouse button held.

Hint: In options, click off right-click targeting. You’ll hold target in fights a lot better.

I mostly mouse-move with occasional key taps for short corrections. I have a Naga HEX mouse so the thumb buttons give me strafing and backing up. Combat in this game changes your character facing a lot, so I spin my camera manually to compensate.

Dodging can be done either by double tapping a direction key or by tapping your bound dodge key while moving. Keep practicing. Go to a safe area and just run around like crazy, testing the movement. Remember you can’t dodge that often unless you are a thief, it uses up endurance that has recharge time.

Some will tell you to learn WASD movement. I’m sure it is superior once learned, but I’m too right handed and too stiff-handed. I don’t do multi key presses at once; my left hand hits the hotkeys, my right hand moves me around.

Oh, one non-movement hint: They just added AoE looting. It’s at the bottom of the keybinds, in Miscellany. Once you have a comfy key set to that, any time you’re fighting stuff you can tap that to get your loot from everything within 900 units of you. Make sure you have bag space and that you have auto-loot enabled in options so you don’t have to deal with a popup window every time. The things you loot will appear on the right side of your screen.

I take exception to saying “you have to work for them now, you don’t get them for free.” Ahem. Nearly a year of play might, miiiight just count as “working for them” even if we didn’t know we were doing so at the time. And, mind you, they did say a long time ago that achievement points might one day be worth something more than simple brag rights. (Sorry, I am not sure when they said it, it was just part of the massive information flow I devoured about this game).

Anyway, it’s not for free, it’s a reward for past effort.

Mine is doing the same thing but has both icons open. The top one has 2,850 damage, the bottom has 1,890, otherwise they are identical in tooltip.

Had any of your characters done the dungeon, Katreyn? I talked to her on my main since he’s my story guy but he’s not my dungeon guy. Still, I had the dungeon finished on an alt so my account has credit. It would be nice to know for those who haven’t done the dungeon at all if they can get this achieve.

I’m glad! And I can type 15 more characters to say how glad I am, sure.

I know there is a site that tracks open temples across servers. If you can find that (I found it by googling for gw2 open temples when I needed the Arah vendor), get near the Balthazar Temple and guest over to a server that at that moment lists it as open. Stroll on in, get the skill, and skedaddle.

You can search for runes of the Dolyak separately, or any other rune you want to add. The TP is chock full of runes, sigils, etc.

Yes.

That is, you can transmute any skin you have onto any other item of the same type. You just need a stone each time, or a crystal once you are using level 80 items.

Guardian built right has the least dodge needed, I agree.

Crafting: It’s not just pushing a button. You have to do discoveries. If you only make things you already know how to make, you’ll barely advance your skill. So you have to combine stuff into new recipes. After a bit you learn the pattern for it, so maybe it is sort of just clicking a lot. Still you can’t press one button and walk away. Also it helps to have a lot of mats on hand, which you get by roaming the world (I prefer not to buy more than a supplemental few at great immediate need).

I’ll keep advocating for letting the AP come as they have and starting everyone on Tuesday at the score they have that day. My previous arguments apply, but here’s a new one:

A main complaint from opponents seems to be that newer players can’t catch up, so everyone should have to start exactly equal as of Tuesday. Well … that assumes there will never be any new players after Tuesday! Does everyone get reset every time a new account is made, just to let the new person start on the same footing as those who started sooner?

ArenaNet has to start the points ticking some time. It’s nice of them to retroactively reward those who have previously played the game. It’s also far easier to start with current scores than to try to suss out which points came from what activity and tailor-make a score for each player.

Pshaw, some people need a little help and this game is about helping others.

Shapeshifter, if Mai Trin doesn’t count for your 12/12, and if you are NA, I can try helping you to Mad Cache tonight (maybe around 7 pm Eastern but ping me if you see me in game sooner). I’m not a great jumper myself but I’ve learned a few tricks and come to understand game jump physics so I can coach you, and I know Goemm’s pretty well. Also I have a Mesmer to get you past the rough spots.

Some time today you will be able to talk to Mai Trin (assuming you don’t have to have completed the dungeon to do that). Hopefully that will count as well.

I’m assuming she’ll be in the cage up on the rampart. She’s not there now, though. Drat, I only have afternoon work today so I thought I could do this before heading out.

I checked both on my main and on my character that actually completed AR. The cage is empty.