Guild Wars 2

The red is more visually arresting and the sword in the first one looks much better to me as I prefer weapons someone might realistically wield.

One place to look is the Dev Tracker at the top of these forums. I believe they also post on Facebook and Twitter and they weigh in on Reddit, but I don’t use those services so I don’t know how much useful stuff is there.

Or, if I understand your intent correctly, you could use a high level one you like, transmute it onto your current weapon, then keep transmuting that to new greatswords as you acquire them. Remember that transmuting turns two weapons into one weapon, you do not keep the old one.

Colors, not styles! And new eye colors. All “winter themed.” I hope it works on kits previously bought, as I have 4 in my bank.

It took several BWE’s for me to remember it. Now I have a Norn named Altdragg Splitstack, someone having pre-empted me with the 1-g version, and no one in my guild can ever forget!

Heck, just drag the bigger bag on top of the smaller one in the tab. It will swap it out for you and you can save the smaller bag for an alt or sell it or destroy it or even mail it to a friend if it’s not soul bound.

edit: The stuff in the bag will stay there in the newer bigger one. No need to empty it first.

I have the error. I also had this “We’re sorry! There was an error while retrieving the news feed. Please try again in a few minutes. Don’t worry, though, you can still play the game!”

That message occurred a good 20 minutes before the patch, I believe, certainly well before the build was released. I don’t know if it’s a connected problem. I did not try logging into the game at that time because the patch was imminent.

Patching NOW. It’s going live!

I went for the WvW stuff early on, long before I worked on all the PvE zones. I found that during events (Karka, Wintersday) people were distracted enough that WvW opened up a lot. A few dedicated Tarnished Coasters were zerging around the EBG (my last WvW to complete) and I followed them to victory

Mostly you have to just keep popping in to the maps and seeing what’s open that you need to discover. Eventually it will open up.

Actually you can, the gates are just one-way from Fort Trinity if you aren’t in that Order.

My Thief is my RP main, and my Warrior is fairly deeply RPd as well just now. So, let’s see.

Why is my Thief fun? He’s a swashbuckling ladies man, a brilliant charmer, agile, nimble, a con man with a heart of gold. I started him well before the first BWE, using forum RP. Game mechanics support his acrobatic skill (hello, Death Blossom and plenty of caltrop-flinging dodges). ANet said back when they announce the thief profession that it wasn’t meant to be all skulky shadowy assassin types. He’s got the most depth of story and personality of all my characters.

Why is my Warrior fun? She’s a grungy street rat who grew up with a gift for violence. She may not start a fight, but she will always finish it. She’s handy at improvised weapons and brilliant with things meant for the purpose. The game lets her wield just about any weapon there is and I’ve got her in an armor set that covers her and dyes well in dull greys and browns as she won’t wear bright colors. She’s surly, quiet, and acts as the “muscle” for a showy gang.

I think for RP either one will suit. You can make a character to fit the archetype you like best. For game play, the warrior is much sturdier. She just mangles mobs, where my thief is more about dodging and outlasting them. I don’t tend to take the thief in dungeons any more (usually my guardian gets that honor), but he’s my go-to for WvW due to all the get-out-of-danger skills.

I’ve heard you have to go to the Chantry both from Bloodtide and from Fort Trinity to get the world completion credit for it.

If you have a lot of karma you can go hit up the temples in Orr. Check Duilfy’s guide (google for GW2 Temple Karma Armor, sorry, after midnight and I’m face planting so grabbing links seems to have gone past my fatigue factor) for a complete list of which pieces have which stats and runes. 42K karma each. Don’t worry about looks, every single Temple piece is identical in appearance. Do make sure you’re getting the right type of armor for yourself as there’s no sell back and it sucks to lose 42K karma on a soulbound frilly top your warrior can never wear. The Temple does need to be open for you to get at the vendor.

Dungeons are pretty fast as well, you can get 180 tokens a day from one so two days for a chest piece. Each dungeon vendor (found in LA in Fort Mariner) has multiple item sets with different stats, go to the second tab and then scroll down to check which exact piece you want.

If you’ve gained enough gold in game, you can also check the TP for exotic armor.

Annnd if you go to a laurel vendor and check through the tabs, you’ll find ascended jewelery with various stats. It’ll take a while per item to get but you do get a laurel a day from dailies plus a hunk of them (10?) for the monthly.

I have an 80 Warrior and a 20 Mesmer. The Warrior got all that love due to being an RP character. I’m hardly a Mesmer expert. Still, I’ll try to give you some ways to think about your choice.

Warrior is physically tough. I just don’t need to dodge much on her, especially compared to my Thief main who has to be in constant motion. Mesmer is surprisingly resilient and has some of the strongest tricks when downed, so it seems good at getting out of trouble even if it can’t shrug it off to start with. There are Mesmers in my guild that can go through a Project Alpha fight without ever even getting downed.

Mesmer requires a lot more micromanagement, at least so far for me. Tracking clones and phantasms, picking which effect you want when you shatter them, ground targeting for teleports, all that gives it a steeper learning curve. I think Mesmer tends to more group utility in a wider variety of situations, though support Warriors can be highly useful as well.

An obvious point: Warrior wears Heavy armor, Mesmer wears Light. Which type of armor in this game’s aesthetics do you want to look at the most?

I suppose they should have thought it through when they named it, but it’s named for a historical event in game lore, not for actions you can take in game. There was a time in Tyrian history when guilds fought. A troubled time. NPC guilds, though.

Perhaps we should have a thread discussing what name might have made more sense for the franchise.

I’d be for this if it purely were an out of combat swap. Inventories can get cluttered, making it hard to find which particular weapon you’re wanting to switch out. Having a pre-loaded set safe from vendoring etc would just be a quality of life thing, not a game play changer.

I had no friends until college. Well, I did have a boyfriend my senior year of high school, thanks to meeting him in summer school; he didn’t go to my school, though. But he got me into comic books and tabletops other than DnD.

I’ve never been a popular or social sort. However, two things have stood me well: 1) Remember that life gets better. My parents told me that and ooohhhhh how right they were and are. 2) Don’t go -looking- for that special someone. You’ll just grab onto the first one that so much as smiles at you. Simply live your life doing the things you enjoy (for me that was gaming, comics, SF, medieval reenactment, and waltzing). You will be around people that also enjoy those things. And one of them just might turn into more than a friend over time.

I’ve been married over 20 years to a great guy I met in my reenactment crowd. I wasn’t even looking for anyone at the time we met due to getting dumped by someone else and being gun shy. No one in high school would have imagined I’d become a defense attorney with a solid marriage and you know what? I feel not the slightest need to go to a reunion to show them that I ended up with such a good life.

Life gets better. Just let it do so.

I didn’t realize it was a cooldown, but I did notice a lack of credit for doing the same NPC twice in a row.

The best place for dailies seems to be Triskell Quay in Kessex. You get constantly spawning dead fishers to rez, an almost constantly cycling pair of events between the Krait attack on the town followed by the villager rescue from the larder, there’s a lot of underwater stuff to kill and dodge, etc. For veterans, go to Dendatl Grounds in nw Caledon. Open up the cave there using the boulder to the gong, and inside it’s solid Hylek veterans; you can get all 5 within 100 feet or so, plus you have to kill a vet outside to get to the gong.

I guess Duilfy’s guide to spears isn’t up yet but check through http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gallery_of_spears to see what you can find.

I am so glad they finally got the software tweaked to allow this. Now I can buy things!

I highly doubt this game would ever have playable, killable kids. It’s amazing they have kids so visible in the game as it is. Note that all the kids running around are happy, healthy, loved, and well-adjusted. Jarringly so for a world so full of death and looming global destruction. I have to suspend my disbelief when I see all the cheerfully playing littles.

Not that I want to have abused Oliver Twist orphans woven into the game’s fabric. It’s not a horror game! But even if I did I wouldn’t expect ANet to set itself up for the kind of reactions that would come its way when Bad People twisted things.

I’m not sure what you mean. Each zone in the game has a set number of points of interest. You have to discover them by character, not by account. Once you’ve discovered a poi, you can mouse over it on your map to see what it is called, as well as link it in chat to others. You can only discover them by running onto them (or very near them as in the Whispers secret chamber, or vertically straight over them if you are above a cavern holding them though sometimes you must find your way to the same altitude to get the credit).

The main game mechanic reason to discover them is for xp, and if you want 100% world completion you will need all the pois in all the zones as part of that achievement.

Actually, if you are grouped with someone and they call target on you, then you can see your own header. I’m not sure if you can see the title, but the gold star, yes, you can do that to see your own mark of completion.

You can get that helmet in Gendarren Fields. If I recall correctly, I got mine in the eastern edge, the snowy area that you’d think was the next zone over. Though hmm, that is more a poofy plume thing. Try the Vigil Armor set, I think they have the broomstick brush.

If you’re not Vigil, I’m not sure.

If they haven’t fixed it, and you have a thief with dual pistols, you can glitch it to do this:

Sound effects in video are not from the game.

My survivor is intact. If they did the slayer reset to allow for laurel rewards, I hope that any completions from now on will count — as it would be very hard not to kill just one centaur or bandit, etc.

I love the downscaling, for all the reasons the supporters have listed in this thread.

I just want to note that it is hardly surprising that someone who chooses a forum name meaning “player killer robot” would want to be able to gank everything by breathing on it.

If you don’t have a thief for underwater dodging, there’s a near constant event in northwest Caledon with Nightmare Court attacking a Warden outpost. You don’t have to time anything. Toss a multi-mob aggroing attack and dodge forward through the group a few times. Then clean them up and go to the next group, there are 8 waves of them. I confess I do it on my Thief since he can dodge 3 times in a span of time others only get 2.

There’s also Lt. Kohler in AC explorable, he telegraphs his yank-in with a white glow and a raised white arm. Dodge that and you’ll get a ton of the daily done.

Tarnished Coast has it open frequently. I can’t say how it is this very second, however.

Still, it seems open more than any other Temple on our server.

One trick would be to level a crafting profession and salvage the stuff you make. Not cooking, of course, can’t salvage food.

I’ve just been salvaging every white, blue, and green I got that wasn’t an immediate upgrade (which just meant salvaging my previous piece of gear). I still need around 200 salvages iirc. I suppose if you are doing that and you sell the mats you get then you can re-invest in cheap half-silver items to salvage again in order to cut the costs.

3rd party apps are not allowed and will get you banned. You are allowed to use multibutton mice though and you can map keyboard keys to the mouse buttons, so if your handicap doesn’t stop you from using that sort of support device it might be the answer for you.

Hmm. I got a Peregrine glove to try to be more effective in WoW. It was too much of a learning curve for me since it needed left handed nimbleness and I’m very right handed, but I wonder if it might help with the simpler set of GW2 commands?

http://www.gw2armor.com/
http://dulfy.net/2012/07/21/gw2-armor-previews/

These are two sites with good images of what the armor looks like. There are even more out there. I’d suggest doing searches for GW2 armor galleries, most of which are organized by type of armor, race wearing it, and where to get it.

Could you take a screenshot of the bars? I play a warrior and am not sure what you mean. If it’s just above your 1-5 skills and has F1 at the end, that’s your Adrenaline bar. Hitting F1 uses up the built up Adrenaline and launches a big attack. You can mouse over the F1 icon to see what it will do, as it varies with what weapon is equipped.

If it’s a thick bar over your health area, that happens for any channeled attack. Sometimes it gets even thicker as you get to the middle and then to 2/3, to show you are ramping up the effect; on those, it’s when you’re holding down the key and releasing it at your desired point. If it’s a straight thick bar you might be doing 100 Blades. That attack pins you in place and you can see how long it’s going; you can move out of it at will but you lose the rest of the attack.

Basically any attack that takes time to discharge all its effects will have a cast bar.

I have an 80 of each. To me, Guardian feels the best all around for game play. Not for pure dps, she’s no star at that. But this game isn’t about the dps, it’s about staying alive long enough that the enemy dies instead and at that she excels. Plus there are so many different things you can do just by swapping out weapons and utilities.

My best RP is with my Thief; he’s my main and has been since before the BWE’s. Yet I find myself picking my Guardian for any dungeons or fractals, and in world PvE I have only a few buttons to repeatedly push on the Thief. I do use only him for my rare excursions into WvW seeing as how being able to escape is so valuable to me.

My Warrior is solid for survival (though notably squishier than my Guardian) and my best for dps. She’s also the most straightforward to play game mechanics wise, and thus a bit tedious over time.

I am not a super reflexes player, or a min-maxer. I know my Thief could be more effective in dungeons, my Warrior more flexible in action, even my Guardian tuned better to support and defend. If your skill level is high, the Thief might offer the most interest after all. At my more casual level, the Guardian won my heart. Since before the BWE’s I found Guardian the least exciting profession of them all, that’s saying something!

All three of them made 80 thanks to fun RP, though. It’s all in what makes a character fun for you to play. If you want non-squishy and useful in dungeons, Guardian all the way. /blesses group Stability versus Lt. Kohler

Depends on what you want! I am slowly saving towards the endless cat tonic and the two minis, but all those dyes look yummy as well.

I’d just let them accumulate until you decide you have enough to invest in buying something that interests you. Me, I’m not even getting one a day because I utterly refuse to feel that I -have- to do a daily grind. If my PvE time permits I’ll focus more on completing the daily.

Banana does a pretty good gold on leather and metal. The various lighter greys can do good silvering on reflective metal.

I have noticed my lower level alts get more dye drops for some reason. I seem to really churn the dyes out in my 30’s and 40’s and almost never see them on my 80’s even in scaled down content. I had a great string of dyes on my Necro, really nice colors like Oxblood and the like. Today I just got Far Mountain on my 7 Engineer, though. Maybe I just had RNG on the Necro.

They did have a discount on them a month or two ago.

They’ve implemented the Guesting feature, I am told. You don’t have to transfer to play with your friends, just Guest over to their server. There are some limitations on using this feature.

1) Many many times but max rewards only come once per path. That’s 60, plus any wondrous bags ones. So 180 a day.

2) Account bound and bankable.

My friend went back in after the patch. Either his bugged part (the missing crew to rescue) was fixed, or it was a complete kitten moment for us back when we were trying that PS step, as he found them floating -at the top of the ocean not down in the depths where we found the one guy in the stone-. BODIES FLOAT. As he said a number of times upon finding them.

Anyway, he can now continue his way to Arah.

I think it is when you see the white text EVADED! that you get credit. I got it pretty quickly by accident at the Nightmare Court assault event at the .. arrgh, forget the name, the waypoint in Caledon north of the Hylek cave puzzle. I dove into a group of mobs, they all went “we hate you die now” and I dodged through them. Several evades at a time from that.

I am a Thief, though, so I get tons of dodging.

Sorry, all of each had to be completed. I had all of it except for 2 combo kills and suddenly everything reset to the next set of dailies. I am glad to hear the combo thing is removed since I did a zillion combos both on my necromancer running solo amongst group events and on my thief in a party of 4 and only got 8. I did want my first laurel

The dodging one is tailor made for my thief except other people keep killing my pulls before they can attack me. I’ll have to go off alone for that.

And on reviving allies, it works on NPCs.

I suggest you join this thread
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Not-revealing-clothes-for-female-plox/first
which is on the very first page of the Suggestions forum right now.

It’s not a shame thing at all, actually. At least not for me. But emotes carry far further than one could actually see the action or “hear” the spoken part. I have a ledge I like to use in DR at times. Emotes from people on another ledge way the heck over the other side of the ramp carry perfectly when says do not. It makes it harder to follow the flow of the local RP.

Sometimes you want the distance, for coordinating a large gathering. Most of the time the say range is plenty fine. I’d be happy if /e and /say had the same range, to wit, /say’s current range. And also if emote text had a visible color! /rant vs. grey.

I do dream of an MMO where /say and /e take heed of intervening windowless walls so that if you couldn’t hear the chat were you physically in the world, it won’t render for you. That’s a high level of programming complexity, though.

Marnick, it’s PayPal not Paysafe that is implemented. Fine by me as I use PayPal anyway, but others might prefer another option.

To clarify, there are two types of PvP. World v. World with large groups of people working to control towers and keeps and supply points, and Structured PvP which is similar to WoW arenas in that you have a smaller map and five people on a team.

In WvW you are kicked up to 80 on entry but you don’t get any traits and skills you haven’t learned already and your gear will be pretty low. You can level in WvW, though, but the rewards will be PvE ones. Higher levels will definitely help in WvW, they just aren’t required to get in and learn the maps and how things work there.

In sPvP you are 80 with all traits and skills unlocked and any weapon and runes you want to apply (at least lowest tier ones). You don’t level there but you can make any class you want to get kicked up to 80 and try it out. You can’t pick your team mates for a match unless you are doing the paid tournaments, I think (I haven’t done sPvP at all since the one time I tried was in the first week and the system was down).

In my opinion you are missing out on a lot if you don’t do the PvE part of the game. If nothing else, it really helps train you in what all your skills do and what weapons feel best to you. But the game is made for people to do only what they want in it, with bonuses as incentives rather than requirements to do it all.

One to try is Pastel Winter. I have Primeval myself and while in preview all the colors come out flat, with reflections that becomes a good pale blue akin to a baroque ceiling. I do gold trim but you could mix in a slightly darker blue for the AC effect.

In fact, playing with some dyes, you might like Breeze for the main field, Pastel Winter for the trim, and Blue Rose for the cloth sleeve part.

The Explorer achievement refers to opening all the white named areas (some of which are VERY hidden, like Griffon’s Run). As Lexy says, scan around your map and check if you have every listed area from the site s/he linked.

Oh ok! That coat is the exotic temple gear from Orr, any temple will sell it for 42K karma. Different stats/runes per temple. I can’t see the mask well enough to say, especially as I don’t do face-covering masks as a rule, but almost any medium mask will cover the nose and mouth. The gloves look basic enough. Can’t see the boots, but Outlaw boots give you a trim look, and … can’t remember the name but high end crafted boots are trim but with some extra detailing at knee and ankle.

I also can’t see the shoulder well enough; it looks like a fairly basic one, though.