Guild Wars 2

Are you using Win7? There is a Snipping Tool on that you can use. Get your image up, click the tool (I have it pinned to my taskbar), draw a rectangle around the section showing the armor. Save As whatever name you want. It will be a smaller file and thus possibly easier to upload.

I’ve done that bandit quest but the various PS disguises you get tend to blur in my mind as to which comes where. I’d guess it’s the same outfit as in the PS in the bandit cave in Queensdale; if so I do not think it is available as player armor.

ArenaNet has stated that no mods are acceptable, not even cosmetic ones. Don’t do it.

You can simulate the crosshair by getting yourself targeted (if grouped).

It will come down to personal preference. AwwGee gave a good objective overview.

I find that Ele has a much higher skill cap than Guardian, or maybe my intuitive skills make Guardian work better for me. My Ele is still 27 despite having been made at launch, while my Guardian is 80 and is my go-to for dungeons. She just keeps on staying alive! Whereas on my Ele I fought 45 minutes through a PS to a boss that I just could not solo. Brought in a Warrior from my guild and he cleared it all for me in 5 minutes. Again, could be my own issues there.

I have a 42 Necro now, much more fun than I expected. She likewise is tough to kill, and there’s no need for any ugly minions at all. Though she’s a cheerful woman who just puts up with the ugliness at need, calling the blood fiend a “balloon” for instance to make it seem less gross, and wears vivid colors. I can see giving her my fairy wand scepter skin …

I’m an altoholic so I say go for it. Besides, you don’t lose -all- progression. A lot of what you’ve done is account bound. My second 80 got exotics much faster thanks to the stuff my main had built up, and leveling alts progressed various achieves.

On top of that, you will see more story, get more of an understanding of what the other professions bring to a fight, and get a fresh perspective on the game.

I’ll admit my altoholism is due to RP, not to wanting to get into the nitty gritty of game mechanics, but I keep finding new fun things each profession can do.

If CTRL SHFT H is too much (as it is for me, I want a faster keypress), you can go into keybind options to set it to something else. I have my UI toggle on F11, nicely near the Print Screen key.

I do miss the high rez option even though I run the game on high settings anyway.

One clarification on the banker, it lasts forever until you use it. Then the 5 days kick in for you to use it until it expires but you can use it as often as you wish in those 5 days.

A bit not-the-thing to RP in WvW though -grins- At least, in massive groups that are RPing rather than fighting.

So here I am listening to Ziehrer’s Hereinspaziert waltz and daydreaming of a glorious evening of dancing … and I realize that with all the tremendous architecture in Divinity’s Reach and environs there is no ballroom. Minister’s Court and the Throne Room have the right feel but have other purposes, and the Throne Room is instanced. Caudecus’ Manor is sadly lacking in the dance area.

Perhaps a ballroom could be added to the manor (if only for 5 people to enjoy at a time after some perilous combat) or, better, inserted in one of the currently closed buildings in the Reach? One something like this
http://www.bugbog.com/images/galleries/vienna_pictures/vienna_pictures_83.jpg

I think also they “take” on the different armor materials differently. The metallics will have more luster on Heavy armor, for instance.

Fractals: Each one counts and you get 3 in a full run, so 3 fractal runs of any level finishes that.

Jumping: Just go to the start of the puzzle. You can check your progress bar before and after to see that it has ticked up by one. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been to them before. The fun way is to go around doing them, of course, but as time is short for the rest of the month, here’s a way to supplement it:

Go to LA overflow. Go to the start of each puzzle. If you get in main, do it again on the same character. Otherwise, get on an alt, repeat. It resets with the dailies, so you can discover the puzzles again the next day with each alt. That will add up fast to the 30 puzzles you need.

I got a lot of them done that way but also followed Dulfy’s guide to find some puzzles I’d never heard of. That was fun!

Hmm. If you’re sure he’ll love it then maybe buy it for him as a late XMas gift, and be handy by voice chat or game chat to answer all his questions as he designs his first character and starts playing.

You can also show him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOYP4ViTYzU which is a fantastic fan video made pre-launch from profession ability clips released by ANet. Regrettably the original cut from before Mesmers came out has been removed by the creator; it was far better paced. Still, this video remains stirring.

The Stalwart coat comes from your Personal Story at some point (fairly early on). I believe that is the only PVE source of it.

I’ve gotten those as well. On today’s I asked them if perhaps they could just block any message titled I LOVE YOU. Though then the bastages will just choose a new header, I know.

There’s a safe way to buy gold with cash (the gem shop). You won’t get hacked or banned for using that method. How on earth are the sellers making enough money to buy so many accounts? I assume they get banned fast and have to make a new one.

It’s not even like gold’s all that important in this game. Sheesh.

I also would like a way to buy a larger stack of things.

ComplexFears, people can do that anyway, they just have to click a lot. The OP is asking for some way to buy, say, 20 Rice Wines without having to click 20 times. The end result is the same money out and the same stack of 20 in inventory to use or sell on, just without so much carpal tunnel.

Use the central fountain pillar for cover when it’s firing its big stuff off, then pop out and fire at range. Pay attention to downed players and get them up as long as you have cover from the golem. Eventually you’ll wear the thing down.

There is a bit of a learning curve, plus at first your gear may make you more vulnerable to getting downed. I’ve had the benefit of only running them with friends and having Mumble up, so guides as such haven’t been needed. We’ve either figured them out on the fly or beaten our heads against the walls until we got through or had someone that already knew how they worked to give us hints.

Some global dungeon skills will just get better with practice, as well. Spotting and avoiding traps, dodging at the right times, learning what the mob abilities will do to you, etc.

Right now there is a furor going on over the announcement that dungeons are changing so you can’t waypoint rez mid-fight and run back in to help the others. Since many fights do involve nearly unavoidable deaths, the predictions are that dungeons will become untenable and unfun. ANet has said they will also be nerfing the encounters, so we’ll see. Me, I’ve been happy with the run-back-in ability because it’s meant being active through the whole run rather than having to lie there and watch others fight. (While constantly twitching the camera thanks to the death spin, here’s hoping they disable that spin now that we may have to deal with it for minutes at a time).

I see you like the same shoulders and gloves as me! I’m also curious about the boots, I could see my warrior getting new ones if they still fit the overall look.

Here’s Dulfy’s wonderful guide, listing exactly which piece has which stats and at which temple, including stat point totals if you happen to get all of one set.

http://dulfy.net/2012/09/08/gw2-templegod-karma-armor-sets/

Using a guild karma boost, a karma banner, and a karma booster, you can chug your month’s worth of daily/monthly jugs and dungeon karma vials and get -plenty- of karma. Each jug gives you 6975 karma instead of 4K when drunk without bonuses. My Thief got all 6 pieces with karma to spare as I’d been saving karma for a bit before they introduced the jugs, and my Warrior managed 5 pieces with the next month’s proceeds, filling out with dungeon token gear.

I thought they fixed that so you would spawn at the nearest waypoint.

Here’s the look I have for my warrior. She’s meant to be a bit grungy and scrap heapy, but someone gave her a decent cohesive set that still isn’t too flashy for her … anyway, these boots might suit you:
http://i46.tinypic.com/2lscy7k.jpg

They are “Ravaging Splint Greaves of Infiltration” but as I’ve transmuted a few times I am not sure where I got the skin originally.

I am not sure but I -think- that shadows get longer later in the day, so if you have full shadows enabled and see your shadow is very short, you are near noon. Of course it would help figure out timing if there were an actual sunset and sunrise that lasted longer than a couple of seconds.

I’m surprised to hear you say it is all 6 bonuses added. I test swapped gear at one point (with a different rune set, not the example in this thread) and saw my stat go up only by the 5-rune amount, not by 1, 3, and 5 added together. I don’t claim rigorous testing, however, so I may have done something wrong.

That latter won’t work, ANet can check chat logs.

It looks like the nagging question still unanswered is how the tokens will be stored. I assume they will be objects rather than simple numbers on a bar, so as to make them account wide. Given that, I add my vote to having them (and indeed all dungeon tokens as well) be collectible in a specialized bank slot.

I am pleased that the achievement points will buy cool stuff! Even if I could swear that achievements were originally announced as just for fun and not to be used as currency because no one should feel “forced” to do them. Maybe that was in my previous game? Since I happen to like achieving, without feeling any need to achieve every possible thing, this new stuff sounds great to me.

Of course, as they are not yet sure if the tokens will apply to non-daily/monthly achievements, one must be careful not to spend everything the first moment possible. Not only might something more pricey become available once you have the retroactive tokens, more rewards might be introduced for purchase and turn out to be what you want far more than what you bought at the start.

The answer for me is always RP. Though I admit I just have 6 characters (3 are 80), none of them a Ranger, Engineer, or Norn, I might very well start up a duplicate profession at some point if a character concept demands it. RP also keeps me playing my main and engaging him in the world. So many storylines going in my guild! Right now we have an adventure arc shaping up for the next month or so that’s had some behind the scenes stuff setting up for months already.

Heck, RP kept me in my previous MMO for 7 years and only GW2’s superior aesthetic and gameplay pulled me away from people I still consider good friends over there. RP adds so much more depth to any MMO.

I guess I can’t help unless you’re on Tarnished Coast, then. So I’ll take my time about logging in after all ( yes, it’s after 4 pm my time now, I had that whole need-to-eat thing getting in the way …)

Try posting in the Personal Story section as well, that’s where I’ve gone to confirm PS bugs. I’ve never had a problem with Forging the Pact other than it being really long, like 45 minutes with all going smoothly. Still, various PS stages -do- seem to fail in consistent fashion for many people.

It’s bedtime for me but I should be around tomorrow afternoon (Eastern) by maybe 4 pm. Does anyone know if PS instances work like dungeons for joining cross-server? If so I’d be glad to group with you and get hauled into your PS to see what’s going on, assuming you haven’t gotten through it by then. Toss me a whisper in game when you see me online tomorrow (Monday).

One good hint is that you can see a PC name even if they are off to the side and not being moused over, but NPC names show up only if targeted or mouse highlighted.

Alf typo’d! It’s guildwars2roleplayers.com

If you get onto Tarnished Coast there is always a ton of RP to find via guilds or just running across it in the world.

The start of your answer has just been posted at
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/The-Server-Choice-Thread/first#post1194746

I got mine from Direct Song. I wasn’t happy with the customer service or with the extra month and a half delay that meant I got the 4 cd set after game launch when I didn’t want to just sit and listen, I wanted to play. But I’m very happy with the cd’s themselves.

https://www.directsong.com/mobile/productdetails.php?productid=2250

I don’t know if they still have any, signed or not. Thirty bucks is accurate for the 4 CDs, though, that’s what I paid. It does seem really low, I know! If Amazon’s charging a hundred bucks that may mean it’s a private reseller who got it from Direct Song. Or it may mean Direct Song’s page needs to be deleted because they don’t sell it any more. /shrug-of-not-knowing

Abyss, as a rule. Applied to -some- armor bits it comes out much lighter, but those bits tend to lighten any applied hue. Black is pretty close, I believe, but so far I’ve only previewed it rather than getting a 3D multi use from it.

If you mean what less expensive dye is closest, I’m partial to Midnight Yew. It’s got deep green highlights but at a distance does look black.

Godskull weapons might be just the thing for you. They are crafted.

Perhaps just as you use /g for guild chat, you could use the guild tag to pick an unrep’d guild. So typing /TT (commentary) would send the (commentary) to the TT guild.

Customizable chat channel colors go hand in hand with this. Please let us ungrey the emotes, and pick what colors will mean what channels for us! (I’m actually ok with most of the colors, but that grey has got to go, and it seems easier to let the player choose colors for multiple guild chats than to arbitrarily assign colors for a random number of guilds per player).

I had the hardest time remembering that until I realized that Altdrag Splitstack is a fantabulous Norn name. Just remember your good friend Altdrag.

(And if the person that took that name ever deletes the character, give me a heads up? I have a burly redheaded Norn Engineer waiting to draw breath, but that’s the name he needs -grins-).

I don’t know that it’s -more- as such but there are a ton of waypoints and pois in there. You’ll likely die a lot but also feel much more accomplished for doing it so low. You could also take a high level friend to watch your back and rez you at need, of course.

I was a shadow Priest in WoW for years. Necromancer is closest to shadow Priest, imo. Also it’s surprisingly fun to play (I wasn’t psyched for it until I decided I wanted a human female for the pretty Light armors and now I really enjoy her though she’s just level 30). Mind you, Necro only offers some of the same general feel; in its particulars it’s nothing like spriest.

For rogue you’d go Thief, though in GW2 that’s more about mobility than stealth since you don’t permastealth. I had 3 rogues in WoW and my main here is Thief. I come at my characters from an RP perspective, btw, so Donari is in some ways a retread of a WoW rogue of mine, the dashing swashbuckling one.

Thief has a number of WvW advantages, though as I have never been much of a PvPer my ideas on that will differ from devoted combatants. I really like the whole running away from the fight ability

I know there are some dye pages that give you an idea of the hue of each dye, though you can’t tell how it will look on your armor ’til you check. You can go to the site with item codes, though, and spam those in game to preview them.

Oho, I missed the note on the door when I was doing it, I was just lucky enough that some others came in while I was fretting at the NPC’s lack of response to me. They triggered the event so I could get in along with them.

I guess they saw the note!

Iron is a reasonable semi-black as well. Banana does really well for gold tones, along with a number of yellows such as Lemon. Illumination and Redemption are also lovely.

Icing for White is ok depending on your armors (it’s pretty darn white on the medium Nobles’s Coat, for instance) but once you get actual White the difference is remarkable.

If you can accurately scan text, cool! Otherwise I agree with Jayne that a screenshot is your best bet. Set up a tab that only has, hmm, the loot messages and maybe /say, then go somewhere distant enough or instanced so no one will /say near you. Loot bags until your chat window is nearly full, /say Screen One or something similar, screenshot. Rinse and repeat.

Then you can go to the screenshots and use the Snipping Tool (if you have Win7) to crop down to just the chat box if you don’t want to work from raw screenshots.

An exportable chat log would be so useful for you and for many others, too, especially RPers that would like to quickly post adventures.

Log in during the early hours of a weekday morning. Keep refreshing or reloading the server choice screen until TC is at High. Pounce.

The only place to get a lot of them easily was the special black lion boxes on sale during the event. I got a good stock that Friday, not realizing they’d almost never drop in actual combat … I don’t know how many I have but I don’t seem to be using them so send me a game mail and I’ll see what I can spare.

If you have a lot of transmute stones, you can transfer the skins. If the skin is still a skin, any of your characters can take it out of the bank to use.

You could try Warrior then. They have a lot of support thanks to banners and other utility skills but they can really dish out punishment. I personally enjoy Guardian more but I’ve never been desperate to do the most dps.

I hear that armor skins in the gem shop are on sale today. I wasn’t too thrilled about them but some time ago I bought the Primeval one and once I applied it to my Guardian I realized that I just needed different shoulders and gloves and I had her look nailed.

The first use of a gem shop skin requires no transmute, you just apply it directly to the target item. After that you have to do standard transmute stone stuff. A few shots of how it can dye (note I am using Ascalon shoulders and Inquest gloves because I didn’t think the skull motif worked so well for me):

http://i50.tinypic.com/20zxws9.jpg
http://i45.tinypic.com/x6bssk.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/2ekryg4.jpg

When did they change that, Mercury? I had a guildie use the white-item transmute trick to get faction skins within the last week or two.

Amaterasu, the trick (if it still works) is to transmute the skin onto a cheap white item of the same type. Bank that. Then take it out on the alt and transmute the skin onto that alt’s gear. You can’t swap stats like that but you can swap looks. Note that you will lose the statted item so you’d best have replacement gear for both alts ready to go.

Guardian should work well! I am also an older player (47) without console game twitch reflexes. I also enjoy cloth caster support in other games. And I adore my Guardian, for all the reasons others have listed above.

I’m on Tarnished Coast too! Feel free to add me to friends and ping me for aid. Sometimes I have a lot of RP or PvE going on, sometimes I’m asking in guild chat if anyone wants me for stuff and if not I’m just doing filler activities, and at the latter times I’d love someone to call on me for help with stuff.

Guardian is about as survivable as it gets, imo. I use scepter/focus on mine, with sword/shield for variety. My dps isn’t huge but with my traits and utilities it’s very hard for me to go down let alone be defeated. I can support my friends and save myself even in really long fights. Outliving the opposition is the key in GW2, hey?

Guardian is 80; I have a Necro at 27 or so and she does tend to melt faces and recover her health easily mostly using staff at that level. I’ll have to see what happens in dungeons.

My Thief is 80 and is my main, yet while he can live through a lot when I dodge and stealth a lot (and is super for flitting through Orr), I don’t think I have him spec’d out right or maybe I just don’t play him that well. He can live a lot but everyone else seems more effective in the dungeon fights. Otoh when I have to go into WvW for the monthly he’s my choice. Running away is a useful skill there! And shortbow gets me aoe.

I can’t answer to Rangers and Engineers, I tried them in beta and found them to involve too much micromanaging for my tastes.

Ah, that makes sense, I’ve only seen it on Norns.