I think that’s the Vigil heavy chestpiece, I have noticed people with it in game.
For those going “Cape? What? Where?” it’s not a full flowing cape, it’s belted in at the waist.
Tarnished Coast NA, Piken Square EU, and you can go to guildwars2roleplayers.com to find a lot of community.
edit: RP Made Simple is a great site run by a great guy (I may be biased, he’s in my WoW guild, but everyone adores him). I’m glad you found it!
Yes, there is a Personal Story step in the late 70’s that takes you into that temple.
As long as you have enough bank slots to put the costumes in the bank, any of your alts can wear them. You can also mix and match pieces from different outfits.
All right, I don’t understand griefing RP sessions at all. It makes zero sense. But riddle me this:
Why, in game after game after game, do the griefers think that stepping into the middle of a story circle or a wedding or a guild party and typing /dance is the most original idea in the world? It’s not even effective. They’re just ignorable drunkards that get mentally edited out without any fuss or bother.
It’s puerile and boring and rather baffling. Likely some of those who engage in the practice will think they’ve somehow upset me. When I couldn’t care less, I’m just mildly intrigued by the phenomenon of how every griefer that’s ever griefed chooses this bizarre epilepsy as their medium.
Could be Denim?
There may be a very complicated slow way to do it … go to the Suggestions thread on this and add your voice to the chorus! -smiles- It might have a future effect.
Another note — if you are doing out loud notices of interest in dungeons, change your phrasing every time. Type it out in full, add in emotes, something. There is a draconian anti-spam suppression that after as little as 3 repetitions (sometimes just 2!) keeps you from talking for a while.
Very annoying if your RP character has a signature phrase, I must say.
Some will be sold on the Trading Post, or you could learn to craft it. You can spend karma in Orr at the temples for 42K karma per item. I am also a Thief and went for a full Lyssa temple set, then transmuted the uglier bits.
http://dulfy.net/2012/09/08/gw2-templegod-karma-armor-sets/ will tell you which temples have which stat sets; the look of the gear is the same at every temple.
You can get exotic armor for dungeon tokens as well. I hear one can get a full set within a week if one really applies oneself to the dungeon runs (explorable paths). I’ve only gotten a few pieces for looks so far, being very casual about chewing through content. Check the vendors in south Lion’s Arch (a line of them just south of the big bridge), the second tab in the armor window of each will be the exotic armor so you can check prices, stats, and looks before choosing which dungeon to farm.
This game isn’t meant for speed leveling. It’s not slow, either, there’s no curve after the first few levels. Going from 79 to 80 takes no more time than going from 19 to 20. They only put levels in the game at all because alpha testers got wierded out by not having them. The whole thing’s designed not to care so much about level, though level does gate you to a few things like dungeons or zones.
I agree with Falunel that you should take your time on your first character. I don’t agree so much about speeding up the second one. After all, while some skills you learn translate across profession (dodging, combo fields, basic game play), you’ll still be much more effective if you’ve learned all the abilities, gained all the skill points you can, and understand which utility skill combinations do you the most good.
A few levels here or there, sure. My second 80 got five levels from crafting by accident when I got into the zen of making rings and necklaces. She was in her 60’s, though, so I’d learned how to play her already.
It was some nice stuff, including an account-bound back skin of a present-stuffed sack and a PvP version of the same thing. I don’t remember what the other stuff was but It’s worth ticketing if you were active during the event and didn’t get the gift.
The snow is gone as of a patch, but the vendors and gem items remain until 11:59 pm Pacific per an ANet announcement. Last chance to trade in the uglies or get that elegant dress.
I was RPing and logged out before I gathered together my last few uglies, ah well. I’m not sure I had enough left to get any gifts anyway!
Slight correction, you can see the true level if you are in a city, as people don’t get scaled down there. The only way to see the gear beyond the looks is to ask the person to link what they are wearing.
One thing to do with it, not that I ever get organized enough, is to toss 4 such items into the Mystic Forge and see what comes out. For me the Forge basically returns 1 item of exactly the same quality and value as each of the 4 I tossed in, so I really don’t use the thing. However, with the non-vendor/non-salvage items, you will at least get one item you can trade or sell or salvage.
Any mod at all violates the ToS. You may want to stop using them if you like playing the game.
This has been asked before. Having dealt with it today when a friend was finishing off the Mouth for me in the mesmer’s basement (a PS step), I am freshly motivated to add my voice to the requests to undo the death pan.
/e works as well as /me. Alas, the text it makes is a dull grey nearly impossible to see so it takes practice to read RP chats without just skipping all that boring grey stuff.
You can get to Lion’s Arch from anywhere, not just that gate in the Grove! Simply click the PvP icon at your upper left (crossed swords) then click Go to the Mists. When you port to the Mists you will be in the sPvP lobby and ahead to your left will be a gate to Lion’s Arch. You’ll come out by the PvP gates in LA and need to run across the bridge to the city gates to continue to Divinity’s Reach (which is the right hand gate as you cross onto the gate island).
I’m glad this thread is still going. I’m bad enough at mobility without losing my target every time I move a bit! The right button doesn’t need to do anything but camera work, imo. Left button is fine for interactive clicks.
If you mean the same server, you need to transfer to it at a time it’s not “Full.” If you mean the same overflow, right click their silhouette in the party list in upper left and select “Join in (location).” If you mean in a dungeon, I think you just need to be grouped with them and in the zone with the dungeon entrance.
It was 4 at launch, and has gone up. I am in 4 and temporarily joined a 5th for a special event, so 5 for sure. I haven’t tested beyond that.
TC always has a ton of people! WvW is a struggle right now as we just moved up a tier so we’re at the bottom of the next rung. But you can always find people doing stuff both there and in PvE.
Otoh it’s usually a Full server so it takes a bit to get in. That’s likely thanks to having been picked as the unofficial RP server last April for the first BWE.
Nope, I logged in a minute ago and all was normal.
Ah yes that one in Dredgehaunt, hoo boy. I went to the NPC to start it and he just ignored me and wouldn’t let me read his books. Fortunately someone else showed up at that moment and started it, so in I went. I fumbled around in the dark, jumped poorly, and never found a single trap lever to pull, but was useful in combat since even downscaled an 80 is pretty tough there. Then just as we were on the final boss the server reset was announced! We killed the boss and looted the chest with 15 seconds to spare.
You’ll run into some problems if you try for a faithful replica. One, there are no Dwarves, they are mostly all dead or turned to stone. For the cultural flavor, a Norn would actually be your best bet despite the size difference.
Two, the play style just won’t be the same. GW2 is all about mobility and rotating through roles on the fly. I had a serious disconnect when I went back to my WoW mage (played since the start of Burning Crusade) for the Theramore event and all my reflexes had changed because she couldn’t dodge or cast while moving. Plus GW2 involves rapid swapping between melee and range.
Three, there aren’t really shamans. Though I suppose you could go with an Elementalist, which is one of the harder professions to play well but does involve rotating through attunements for different flavors and utilities of spells. They can’t swap weapons during combat, however, so you have to pick in advance which tool set to use.
I never got my Shaman all that high level. Well, I got her to Outland … but I wouldn’t say I really delved into the class enough to know what GW2 profession would come closest. You could give Guardian traited for condition damage (lot of blue fire) a try.
I’d say my gut answer is to go with a Norn Elementalist, and pick the totem animal that reminds you most of your Dwarf (assuming you RP). Though you might want to make the smallest Norn you can as the larger ones have issues on jumping puzzles, plus s/he can then be considered dwarfish by Norn standards -winks-
Nonetheless applekwisp is correct. They deleted all the beta characters and there was a mad dash for names at launch. Either someone took it by coincidence or else saw you playing it in beta and took it on purpose. I was terribly paranoid and never used my full intended name in beta — always Donari Smiling or Donari Allsmiles or the like.
You could add a last name or a title if you still want to use it.
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Be warned that toughness is at least rumored to be one of the ways to get mob aggro. Certainly in dungeons we’ve found mobs beelining for the player with the highest toughness, which has been enough for me to prefer Vitality by far.
I have now achieved both the explorations and the gold star. I did my best to find things on my own, but once stuck I used
http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/interactive-maps/
and put up the zone map on my other monitor, then carefully compared my game map with the zone map. For the explorations you need to find all the white names, and there are a couple that aren’t on the website. Griffonrook run was one, and the Asura jump puzzle in nw Maelstrom was another.
I also used http://pandemos.org/forums/629668 though when a patch added some locations to the achieve this did not get updated. Still, there may be something on there you haven’t seen. If so, google its name from the list and you’ll get directions (that’s how I found out about Griffonrook).
As you have five character slots and leveling is fast, give a go at any profession you want and get it to level 10 or so before settling. I know that before beta I had zero interest in Guardian and it turns out to be one of the most fun for me. Necro is also proving fun now that I have one (made her just so I could have a human female in froofy clothes, but RP has made her an interesting person and the profession’s a lot sturdier than I anticipated).
My take on the professions – entirely subjective, so you really do want to try for yourself:
Elementalist – very squishy, takes a lot of skill to make effective. Uses “stance dancing” rather than weapon swap. At higher levels (both character and skill wise) very handy for aoe and cc.
Engineer – complicated, using kits and turrets rather than straight up skills. I think. I thought it would be my second favorite class but I gave up before level 10 due to boredom and frustration. Otoh my guild leader is Engineer and loves it and completely outdoes my Thief in dungeons.
Guardian – Unkillable. She’s my second 80 and her journey there was so easy. I have her traited for defense and boons. I’d call this the easiest profession assuming the player has MMO skills learned such as how to use hotkeys and how to read tooltips to understand what a spell will do. Recently I did a fractal on her; we got the Dredge one, and when I had to stand in place on a pressure plate so someone could unlock the control panel, and most everyone was dead, I was able to fend off endless waves of dredge without a single dodge.
Mesmer – I’m still just level 14 on mine. This is one of the more complicated ones, taking situational awareness and good judgment on when to use what resources, but a good mesmer can survive a very long time. We have some in our guild that can get through Project Alpha fights without even getting downed.
Necromancer — All the conditions! I’ve found foes just melting away even without a lot of skill on my part. I expected squishy and I got the sturdiest cloth character I’ve ever played, albeit still in the low 20’s. There are many options as to how to play a necro and all of them seem strong (though I’ve read some opinions that using minions is silly).
Ranger – by all reports this class survives very well. Pets are easy to come by if you just go where the juvenile versions are and click on one. Pet AI is still in need of work. I played a Ranger in beta for a bit. I have never been fond of pet classes, though, so that was enough to convince me GW2’s version wasn’t different enough to entice me. Still, they can do interesting things with weapons that don’t fit many preconceptions of a bow-using beastmaster.
Thief – My main. As I’m not much of a PvPer this may have been an error; in PvE I don’t feel nearly as effective or useful as with my Guardian. But RP demanded Thief and in that regard he’s awesome. Thieves are very mobile, very good at ducking damage or getting away from it. They don’t offer a wide variety of conditions and have to trait to help with boons at all. Properly played (ie not by me!) they can dish out a large amount of damage so long as they keep moving and don’t let anything hit them. You’ll want good circle-strafing and kiting skills to make the most of the mobility.
Warrior – very sturdy. I have one at 70. Not as tough to down as the Guardian but a warrior can dish out a ton of damage; my Warrior at 40 was doing twice the damage of my 80 Thief in the same dungeon. Perhaps the simplest profession for a new player to get the hang of. The skills all fit into a solid grunt in armor with physical weapons, though I do have some issues when weapon swapping and having the same key number do opposite things in terms of where my character moves.
Perhaps those bored with the game but wanting to keep playing it (an odd mental dichotomy) should look into the RP part of the MMORPG. Once you’re writing a collaborative story/improv theatrical production, the world of Tyria becomes a very rich place indeed. There’s action and adventure (DE’s, jumping puzzles, etc), there’s character development, there’s a braided novel that you are affecting. There’s plot!
I’m very interested in what’s next for my characters. I got my 100% gold star on my main yesterday but he’s hardly done for. There are major plot events waiting for him.
RP may not attract everyone as part of game play, but for those who embrace it games last years rather than months.
Oh, it’s not “has to patch.” They’ve released new content nigh monthly, and it’s been extensive. New lands, new events, new items. While they’ve been fixing problems as any MMO must on a constant basis, they’ve also given us amazing holiday stuff, minigames, costumes, massive battles, evolving story …
There are people unhappy with the implementation of the new content, true. There have been bugs and connection issues and the like. But almost no one has complained “this should have been in at launch.” Because really, the Halloween madness or the Wintersday extravaganza wouldn’t have worked in August!
I think it’s a -great- thing that they are doing so much highly creative ongoing stuff for us, expansions worth of content for no subscription fee. Jan/Feb promises even more.
What profession are you? I have found that Thief is wonderful for zipping through Orr, using stealth and shadow refuge to commune at skill points (very few of them are combat ones; I did need friends for those), and dodging/caltropping the mobs as I nab pois and wp’s. The Temples can be under Risen control and still have all the exploration points available if you have a way to survive running through the undead. I just finished Straits today mostly solo.
Then again I’m also on Tarnished Coast which has plenty of Orr action going on even now. If you are free to transfer and can find an opening on TC (usually full), you might want to try. Be advised it is the unofficial RP server so you may well see people talking in character, though less of that in Orr given the difficulty of typing a coherent long sentence while in constant combat …
Correction, there is a ghost near the house with her body up the hill. It took a lot of rinse and repeat but the heart was doable with just her. Gold star is mine!
It would still be a much more fun heart if it were fully working, though.
Correction, there is one working ghost. I had to cycle her three or four times but I got the heart and my star. /happy
I just posted this in the thead specific to the broken heart but I’ll note it here as well. I didn’t think a broken heart would be why I didn’t get my gold star before New Years!
I thought I’d get my gold star today, Iron Marches being my last zone and more than half complete, but this bugged heart will clearly prevent that. Tarnished Coast Sat Dec 29th, no ghosts of any sort except for one just hanging out at his body.
Today this is happening in every BC instance I enter as I explore. Over a silver to get out each time ><
Any 3 of those plus a bottom-tier dust makes your Wintersday Quaggan. Who sings.
Beyond that I suppose you could assign them to alts and keep them in invisible bags so you don’t have to do a bank swap if an alt wants the mini out.
I have never wanted a million buttons. I find the Naga HEX (which I purchased right after the first BWE last April) is just right for how I play GW2. Though since I mouse-steer I don’t tend to lift the thing unless it’s going off the mouse pad -stares at Clocktower puzzle with a baleful gaze- I love having my move keys on the mouse so it’s a thumb-shift to strafe or dodge.
It’s had an odd issue lately where it starts to drag and catch on the mousepad. I’ve detected little black spots it seems to be leaving that are the source of the hitching. Putting my steelseries pad on top of the thicker foam pad I prefer seems to have stopped that.
You can only use the skin once, but you can re-transmute the dagger to the next one as needed. If you want 5 different daggers with that skin at the same time, you have to get 5 skins.
I am at 165/166, have everything from various web guides (which only list 165), and don’t see any fogged areas in the various zones or the two cities. I even just did the Tears puzzle.
I am at a loss as to what one Maguuma area I am missing.
It is still possible to move to Tarnished Coast, if you hit it just right. We had a guildie accidentally move to Borlis Pass when trying to help her mom get into the game one week before Wintersday began. Even in the mad crush of people playing the event’s start, she was able to transfer back not long after her cooldown was up.
So I’d suggest starting your daughter on a good server, but checking during low usage hours for the next few days to see if she can be transferred over to TC before you take the step of leaving TC yourself. Heck, today might be a GREAT day to do it while everyone’s off doing XMas!
Well, OK, I laughed as well! But the OP seemed to want us to be disturbed, and in the spirit of giving, I was!
I stand corrected. I have not been lucky enough to get even a single everlasting one let alone a many-in-one tonic. So yes, the pricing does become baffling other than the relative rarity.
I see what you did there.
… I sort of wish I hadn’t …. That IS disturbing.
And she’s a Ranger — I just did that same escort today and realized you had a pic of an NPC. So it’s presumably medium armor, but sadly unavailable to us regular PC sorts.
It’s always about the RP for me. If my character’s engaged in plots and has an ongoing story, I’ll happily level him or her and invest in dyes and RP clothes and exploration for adventures.
Game wise, I’ve found my Guardian simply wonderful to take to dungeons. AC explorable just melts with a lot of Guardian support. I still take my Thief for my monthly 50 WvW kills because running away matters a lot to me in PvP -grins-. My Warrior’s pretty sturdy as well. They all have a lot of RP going right now.
Mostly find a way to join in with others. You’ll enjoy any of the professions more as part of a team.
It’s not town clothes. There are almost no clothes-looking town clothes at all. I’m scanning through some armor image sites for Light/Medium and not finding it yet. It certainly could be mix and match but that top is distinctive and I haven’t spotted it.
/keeps looking
Maybe you can’t control which form you get with Toymaker’s? I don’t know what the cooldown is but if you want to be the dolyak and you have to keep using the tonic a while for a chance at it that could be annoying. I’m thinking for RP situations, here, as a friend gave us some great RP by showing up first as a doll and then as a ventari and playing them both to the hilt.