Guild Wars 2

I’ve found that you can talk to the NPC, get the vendor screen up, then take that step or two, click on the station, and bring up its window without losing the vendor.

As to that I believe that in lore all Sylvari “clothes” are grown on them. The cook’s outfit from the gem shop is wonderful, it’s all leaves!

On point, I agree, anything that gets us a lot more choice in town clothes will be great and being able to craft them would be pure fun.

The last choice is best, imo. You get a good look at the weapon and it should be the easiest programming change since they already have the fighting position art.

Hmm, maybe the preview could show you in your current pose, so you deploy weapons and then click preview. It already shows you shapeshifted from tonics, so it does pay attention to your current status.

I and others have been agitating for these two things since beta. They are serious quality of life needs, though I’m starting to put up with the tab issue even though it means I have to choose between seeing RP and seeing guild chat if both are spamming fast.

I still want to be able to see whispers, RP, and guild chat all at once but in their own separate feeds. And I am ok with most of the colors of chat with the glaring exception of emotes. Or rather, non-glaring. It’s an act of willpower to see and read emotes thanks to the dull grey. That color is designed to make the eye ignore it ><.

I proposed this in at least one dance thread. I love waltzing so much. I can’t do it RL any more due to bad arches, but I remember it with great fondness. Ah, having a good lead, until your feet are lightly tapping as the room spins around you …

Yes please to couples dancing.

They just put out a new build and the TP is working again.

I think that’s global just like the TP itself. It’s happening on Tarnished Coast. Monday Oct 15 in the 6 pm Pacific hour.

In general the NPC’s have some really nice outfits. Let’s cross our fingers that anything we see in game will at some point be implemented for the use of players.

WeLoveKanjimari:

My apologies, I wasn’t trying to say there shouldn’t be a toggle if it would really help you. I was nitpicking about your generalizations regarding how money notations are done in the real world.

In game, I think the main concern would be finding room for all those zeros. They may make you feel “richer” but as your wealth goes up, the space it takes up on the bottom of your inventory screen might get prohibitive.

I love everyone in this thread, and support you all. Custom dancing yes please!

Here, I got a picture of my oh-so-shiny armor (made it myself!). It’s even more noticeable in motion as the light shifts across the plates.

http://i49.tinypic.com/9vjuy0.jpg

I’d embed it but the ! before and after as indicated in the Hints list didn’t work.

I figured that was just when I was trying to use Vigil or Whispers gates. I’ve had no problem gating in from the Priory, which is my faction on my 80, though I haven’t tested trying to turn right around and go back rather than coming to the Priory on my way to Fort Trinity from elsewhere.

You also get way more XP for discoveries. Make just one of each component, discover things with it, and repeat. The orange items in your crafting list get you the most xp.

That is a puzzler. Try holding down shift or ctrl or alt while hovering the mouse? I think each time I’ve moved the map or chat box it’s been in the throes of mashing keys while mousing around in combat.

I’d say “already have max bank slots” indicates the poster has in fact gem-bought all available space.

Guild banks can expand beyond the initial 50 slots, and you can buy huge bags for all your characters if you have the gold, so that might help with the space issue. I myself have only begun to collect skins, so it’s not yet pressing enough to toss out all those tonics (I might want to be a Moa one day, y’never know). I can see it looming, though, given my long established pack-rat status.

Out of curiosity, how many bank tabs can you buy? I’ve bought quite a few and still have a little icon beckoning me to pay more gems.

Ick, I hope that’s not a growing issue. Meanwhile try going to a crafting station and using the bank tab there, in case it’s an NPC issue.

Unless you have a real bug, all you need to do is hover your cursor over the right edge of the minimap. When the icon changes (to a hand, I think), click and drag down until a square outline shows up at bottom right. It’ll move back.

I had the same issue with my chat box and discovered that right-edge drag trick as a result.

In that case it’s most likely graphics settings. I get plenty of polish despite trying not to. A guildie recently got Silver Dye and linked it; that looked like it would really shine when I previewed. Most of the pale greys will gleam, and Iron gives a bluish white reflection on the helmet you can get from karma in Gendarran Fields, the engraved helm with a high floating plume.

Try guildwars2roleplayers.com — it’s not an ANet site but it does exactly what you’re requesting.

In my job I have a constant need to know a client’s bail amount. If it’s $7,000.00, I do happen to note that as “7K.”

This is coming down to personal preference in thought patterns. I don’t want to see huge numbers that I can’t quickly parse. For me it’s easier to gather large groups into simpler units. I may have made it through calculus but I am not a numbers person. 5 gold is easier for me to grasp than 500 silver and much better than 5,000 copper.

I have the opposite problem! My warrior is a street rat wearing scrounged and grungy gear but even when I put in dull browns and greys, the reflections on her plate are blinding. I do have graphics way up. Once I find the right scrappy looking skins I’ll transmute to make her look less polished; still, metal in this game simply -gleams- in any kind of bright light.

I don’t know if anything will glow on its own, though, if that’s what you’re seeking. A matte/glossy toggle as you suggest might help give more customization, which is always nice.

I finally spotted bots yesterday when a guildie pointed them out in Bloodtide. A whole string of rangers with bears chain attacking neutral creatures were running around that large eastern island with a fort on it. Their names were ok but if you clicked to report it gave the account id with names like dja;fdoawdp.3765 (totally random keyboard mash there, not an actual player).

I’m not sure what they gain by attacking wild boars, but idiot behavior like that is a good clue. When I see someone solo acting very oddly and mechanically I’ll ping them with a whisper and also talk out loud at them. If they respond, no report (and possibly even some surprise RP as happened once). Not that I’m a report-happy buffoon looking for people to write up! I usually have something better to do. Only when it gets in my face do I take action.

I’m of another mind on the heavy armor. Maybe a bit sleeker, yes, but it still needs some stopping power against incoming damage. Heck, in an ideal world there wouldn’t be shaped chest cups, just a larger swell of the chest armor. I don’t particularly like giving a blade a guided path into my sternum, I want it deflected away. Same with shoulder armor, some of the raised pieces say “this way to the neck!”

However, I concede the fantasy aesthetic that says it’s more important to show gender than to provide perfect protection. I think ANet’s done a pretty good job of balancing those needs. Just yesterday I found the karma vendors in Bloodtide selling Lion-guard style plate and I think I’ve finally found the look for my warrior. Full coverage while obviously female without sacrificing realism — sold!

I believe the OP means RL merchandise. Hopefully over time there will be more. They did have that poll on which t-shirt design people wanted. I so hope the giant grey 2 on a black shirt won! Because it will be my new favorite shirt.

Steel Series has some peripherals. I got the mousepad (red 2 on white field) only to find that it is significantly larger than my current pad and thus won’t fit my desk setup. Sadness. Also it’s a very thin pad, very floppy. That doesn’t make it bad, just not suited to my needs.

I love the GW2 aesthetic and will happily buy items related to the game if I have a use for them. I don’t need a headset or a new keyboard, for instance, and I don’t drink from mugs … but tshirts, yes, I will buy quite a few of those if they are quality items.

It’s a pretty simple 100→1 conversion, like pennies to a dollar. Do you think in terms of “I have 10,000 pennies, yay!” when you have $100.00? Come to think of it, dollars are pretty simple compared to ha’pennies, tuppences, quids, fivers, pounds, etc.

That’s a highly subjective viewpoint, I fear. I myself am head over heels in love with the realistic designs. I played WoW for 7 years (only just stopped) and when I see the horrible who-would-wear-that-socially-let-alone-in-a-FIGHT? stuff I have to avert my eyes and zoom my camera out.

I don’t want everything glowing and huge and impossible to actually use or even stand up in. While I won’t say I like every set of GW2 armor or weapons (not at all psyched for Twilight or Furnace gear, and those green twiny bramble things that claim to be useful swords can take a hike), I like a much higher percentage of them than I do in what WoW has to offer. I am drooling for the chance to get every single Seraph cultural weapon because I’d add them to a RL collection in a heartbeat.

One person’s awesome is another person’s dull (as you find realism) or tacky (as I find huge things that glow), I’m afraid. The aesthetic of the game is what it is. As well stated as your post is, I hope they don’t listen to you -smiles-.

They may have changed something that allowed this, but my understanding is that you can create another character with the hood, transmute it onto a blue or white hat, put that in the bank, and then pick up the altered hood look on your main character to transmute onto your own gear.

That would be a great Norn dance! I really do want more traditional dances for all the races rather than modern pop, but then I did vintage dance for years.

The human Shuffle is almost ok but would be much classier as the Charleston (admittedly that was also modern pop .. in the 1920’s. But it has the distinction of being something one can do solo, in pairs, or in groups, and an MMO dance has to be something that doesn’t need a partner).

Which leads me to another dance emote idea I’ve wanted for a while, fiendishly hard though it would be to implement: couples dancing. Some way to hook two people together in a swirling waltz step with the inviter controlling the travel direction but the invitee able to stop at any time. Maybe if not traveling, they could be doing a little grapevine in place, then back to skirt swooshing spinning as they move. The same idea could extend to polka, tango, schottische, lindy hop, swing … ’scuse me while I drool.

I like this plan except for one weakness. People that post the same suggestion that’s already been addressed multiple times in many a thread aren’t going to use Search or read the sticky. Even if they do read the sticky, they’ll still post in hopes of changing the devs’ minds (on the “no” responses) or hurrying them up (on the “yes” ones).

So it won’t stop the spam. It will, however, give a way to shut down an answered suggestion thread. A mod can link to the sticky and lock the thread.

/eyebrow

Not all my characters can raise just one eyebrow, but Donari spent years practicing it. It would be great to not only have it for flavor text, but actually get the animation of it!

And, as always, any emote will be MUCH better if the text color is visible rather than a dull washed out grey. Let us see what people are doing, please.

Per this item on GW2Guru, you may be in luck.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/70104-new-items-coming-soon/page__hl__%20makeover

I believe such a thing has been datamined, per this post:

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/news/824-new-items-coming-soon/

Agreed with both of you. It’s not just mounds. I’ve had problems hitting giant tentacles in Orr when standing next to them, Dredge transports, catapults, Centaur wagons … pretty much any large yellow-tagged object that needs wrecking is hit or miss (so to speak) as to where you must stand to even connect a blow.

Since as a dagger/daggerThief my bigger damage attacks make me leap about, I can’t even find the sweet spot and stay there to bash the thing.

Katz.5143:

Lotro – I liked the instanced neighborhood as a concept but upkeep was just annoying and decorating was pretty limited compared to eq2.

Yes. A hundred times, a thousand times yes, upkeep is annoying! However housing is implemented, it will suffer hugely if people must pay rent or lose the house. ANet has made this a fun game, a game one can play a lot or a little and not lose anything by taking time away. That design philosophy needs to extend to housing.

It’s not even the money issue. It’s having to remember to log in and click the buttons to pay the upkeep. I get annoyed enough dealing with bills real life (automatic payment for car insurance, electricity, MMO subs, etc has been a blessing), I do -not- want to worry about them in a game.

As to the housing itself, the more customization available the better. LotRO’s instanced subdivisions is a great way to pack in ever expanding personal housing. It also has a lot of textures to put on walls and floors but when it comes down to it there are only a few hook points to put one’s decorations and a whole lot of wasted floor and wall space. I know there are database issues with more complex setups but the more we can move that sofa just three inches left and turn that houseplant only a tad, the more objects we can place in whatever configuration near each other we like, the better.

Letting players craft decorations will also be a winner. In LotRO I learned to make rugs, really pretty ones. They were a sure seller at auction, after I’d made all the ones for myself and my guildies that we could use. Rugs, furniture, paintings, lighting, tilework, wood paneling, house plants, all of that can become a thriving part of the economy.

+1

ANet offers so much fuel for RP. While there’s much more they still can do (e.g. sittable chairs and all the other things requested in RP threads), it’s clear they do support it and want people paying attention to and immersing themselves in the world’s lore.

A sub-forum for this on this site would be lovely. In the meantime take a look at guildwars2roleplayers.com which is a site with thousands of members dedicated to GW2 RP, including sub-forums for character profiles and critiques as you have requested.

I’ve been yearning for this on my karma-starved alts. Oh the pain when I see a 300 karma item I can’t buy as an upgrade when I have thousands of karma elsewhere! Conversely, it costs far more karma than I’ve seen in one place to get even one big-ticket item; being able to collect it across all my alts and save it up would be great. And if I spend it all on that one thing, then it’s gone, so it’s not like I’m double-dipping.

I’ve seen this suggested more than once. It seems very useful for many people so I certainly hope it happens. However, as I have noted before, it shouldn’t be default necessary to remap keys every time you make a character (I happen to like the one set of keybinds I’ve set up and want them to be global to all my characters).

Perhaps there should be an option in keybinds to click “Save to (dropdown list of character names with All Characters as an option).”

I know that on my charmer, NPC’s comment “You seem friendly.” And my Ferocity Warrior got to shove a mild-mannered man off a diving board into a pond of hungry skale. SPLOOSH. I died laughing and then my Ferocity minded guildies had to go boot him into the drink as well. I’m sure many more little fun things like that abound.

Sounds like your Thief is fuel for RP, especially as you don’t want to actually do combat via chest shape.

It’s wonderful that a dye says “you already know this!” in the tooltip. However, it doesn’t tell you if you know it on an alt. That would be very handy when deciding whether to buy a dye, or if one should sell a nice one already known because all the alts have it (e.g., I like Iron so much all 4 of my played characters have it, but that’s the only one I can be sure all do).

So maybe at the bottom it could say in red “Known by Name, Name, Name.” I suppose that might be an issue if people get 20 alts but for those of us with a handful, it would save a lot of logging in and out. There are too many dyes to memorize who has what.

This is an excellent idea. It spurs me to something vaguely similar regarding dyes .. -goes off to post something in more appropriate spot-

laughs I thought of it because I have armorsmithing and had to break up sets in the mail.

If you look at the recent blog, the devs want all the player characters to be heroes. They design the story and the world from that assumption. Nothing stops you from RPing things darker, of course, but they have specifically asserted that necromancy is not inherently evil in Tyria, just another use of magic.

I’m sure there’s good database reasons to limit the number of things that can be mailed. But it seems six slots would be much handier than five for mailing a whole set of armor. Is that doable?

In a way there are types of damage. Conditions! I’ve found creatures immune to Poison, and I suppose there may be some immune to Burning or Chill, etc.

I guess your sword could have chances at inflicting Chill.

I haven’t had any issue with this, but then I do most of my movement with the mouse. So I just hold both buttons down and push forward. Down I go.

I’ll have to try that longer-term listing strategy, Drake Phoenix. Right now I look at the lowest seller and if it’s not a lot higher than the vendor price, I’m vending. I do wish the listing would warn about that 15% as it’s not obvious at all that you will be losing even more beyond the listing price. Besides, I’m not a numbers person as a rule, I can’t quickly look and see if I’ll end up with less than vendor price earned even knowing the 15% is coming.

Also as others have posted, bids below vendor price shouldn’t be possible (unless it -is- possible to sell to those bidders? I dunno, I’m not a big market trader in any MMO ever).

Once they add Preview I’ll use the TP a ton more, I am sure.

And AveryFarman, another non-obvious thing, it doesn’t matter what server you are on. The TP is game-wide.

As someone who does not PvP often I can’t really comment on your first point other than it seems like a nice idea to always show your character as he/she last appeared in game whether that be in PvE or PvP (hey, log out in town clothes, see them on the screen … I like!).

As to the second, here’s a work-around for you. It won’t help with wallpaper or with seeing your feet but if you just want the character part and are using Win7, look for the “Snipping Tool.” A friend told me about it and I have it pinned to my task bar. It turns your whole monitor pale and lets you drag a cropping rectangle around whatever part you want. Snip, save, and you have an image. Great for showing chat moments or balancing out a screenshot that has your character offset or clutter at the edges. I’ve used it to get shots from the character select screen, usually by Snipping a screenshot rather than trying to snip at the right moment as the image moves. Come to think of it, I’m not sure the image does move while in Snip mode … I will have to test.

What if they made minis a different category from collectables? Add one more item to the drop down list, which is plenty short anyway so there’s room, and click Deposit Collectables or Deposit Minis.

I like the equip-slot idea as well, to save out just that one special mini, but most of the frustration would vanish by changing their “tag” in the deposit option.

I’m puzzled. If I dye a piece of armor and then put it in my bags, it remains that dye combination even if I dye something else differently and then swap them out. Dyes have been permanent per piece for me.

Now, a -new- piece will need manual dyeing and I like that as the same dye configuration looks wacky on different armor styles with different color field layouts.

They did this for the BWE2 closing event, and then again another time. It was pure awesome.