Guild Wars 2

Won’t be unique anymore if everyone can have them, eh?
But yea, generally agree you should be able to customise your features to every possible variety you see in-game.

Just got my T3 chest+legs (Protector’s) last night after drooling over it for the past month but finally giving in to purchasing despite the high cost.

However, I wish the dye option of the cloth/mantle in front/back was 2-part so you could do one colour on the main part of the cloth and another for the fringe… I believe this could’ve given you some awesome combos and more unique appearance considering this is prestige gear after all.

Instead, it currently takes only one dye slot for the entire ribbon/cloth part and then does your selected dye in one darker hue for the main fill and a lighter for the fringe. I’d much rather want for example dark blue/red/white/green fill with gold/silver/white/bronze trimmings, etc.

Just got my T3 chest+legs (Protector’s) last night after drooling over it for the past month but finally giving in to purchasing despite the high cost.
I wish the dye option of the cloth/mantle in front/back was 2-part so you could do one colour on the main part of the cloth and another for the fringe… would’ve given you some awesome combos – instead it takes one dye and does one hue for main part and a lighter for the fringe.. I want for example dark blue/red with gold/silver trimmings, etc.

Considering getting T3 shoulders at some point too, but mix’n’matching my gear setup so this combined with CM and some other bits make up the setup. Not in-game just now, but will post a screenie later

Any new ETA on this?

Or just get over it, OP, and play the game according to ArenaNet’s whims and just mute your sound if you don’t take the dialogue.. to be honest, once I’ve heard certain dialogue elements X times it just fades to background noise anyhow and it’s hardly a nuisance you REALLY want ArenaNet to devote limited and costly dev hours too, right?

yet another ‘i quit’ or ‘you suck’ poster who doesn’t return to argue back but just fuels the fire and negativity of what he perceives to be the majority of the community.

Mods, can you please just shut this thread down, OP might as well just have sent it direct to customer support…

hithlain.4385:

Ok. Because I saw on the forums, don’t remember where, someone supposed to be in cleric armor, but the look was not the same as the draconic set someone showed me yesterday in game. So I guess the guy on the forum has changed the cleric armor look.
As I don’t like the look of the draconic set, it is not “knightish” or “clericish” enough for me if you see what I mean ^^

Yes, most probably transmuted the set to some other armour’s appearance. So Draconic armor for stats but another set for its looks using Fine Transmutation Stones.

One thing is Orr in the past, but do you think an expansion in the coming years will be what happens to Orr after your first personal story?

Not going to spoil anything, but there’s room for developing on that – past Trahearne’s really dull voice summarising what’s going on.

No to account name changes, yes to name changes of your characters.

Account name changes opens a pandora’s box of abuse and all those problems, while changing a character name only changes your char’s name in-game and those who’ve got you in their friend lists, etc. can still see you because they’re linked to your account name. It’s purely a cosmetic name, at least, it should be (even though it’s universally unique and possible to chat with, mail to, etc.)

In a game with such sales figures and a healthy population, why on earth is such a thread even on page 1, let alone top spot, in the official game forums?!?!

Oh, check out the Hammer/Altruistic Healing-style Guardian before you brush aside Precision as an important stat for our class. Another aspect to playing Guardian class

It’s on its way, we didn’t need yet another post for this.

Devs stated previously they had no ETA for the feature, which is bad, all that time you can do gender change (already in shop) but not name change seems like a very poor design choice.

Seeing as they’ve rushed guesting in for Jan 28 update, any chance of official update on whether name changes are coming too?

yep, makes perfect sense… can already transmute between back items, so why not give us guild capes and other capes for visual, cosmetic purposes

SSalp.6423:

If you’re right klicking the tokens, you’ll see a greyed out “Deposit Collectible”. So they’re implementing it. Just wait for update

Cool, wasn’t aware of that, well that makes my suggestion redundant/fulfilled, nothing better

Hopefully the Guild Missions will allow 10- or 20-strong parties?
Not seen any details on it, but surely must be able to be more than 5 in a group for a guild mission?

Ravenmoon.5318:

Its not so hard to teleport yourself to the heart of the mists from virtually ANY spot of the map, even WVW and then get you back to that same spot.
Are you botting?

Do you get back to the same spot? I thought you only got to LA by going into Mists?

HoM Portal Stone sounds like best bet so far.

Rather than the confirmation box, maybe there could be a quick setting that you could enable to make yourself unrevivable?

E.g. you have to go AFK → click F11 for options then check ‘do not allow others to revive yourself’ and if someone comes along, they won’t get the Revive (F) option showing? Ofc, you’ve got to remember to disable it again, but seeing as you’re making the call, it’s ok that the responsibility is yours too?

Hi,

searched the suggestion forum without getting any relevant threads, but don’t hold me to it if it’s been suggested before – I think it’s worth another thread.

Could you add a tab in the bank collections for dungeon tokens?

Having done a bunch of tokens on various characters, I’ve been saving up a few from various places (original dungeons as well as FotM) and they’re occupying a lot of space in my inventory bags.

Seeing as they’re account bound anyway, couldn’t you introduce what you did for rare crafting material, and give us a bank collection tab for dungeon tokens where perhaps the stack size is even 1000? Alternatively, just setup a matrix with several slots per dungeon, e.g.

Tokens tab
AC CM TA SE CoF HW A FotM
AC CM TA SE CoF HW A FotM
AC CM TA SE CoF HW A FotM
AC CM TA SE CoF HW A FotM

e.g. could fit 1000 of each dungeon’s token type (4 rows x 250 stack limit)? I know some people have even more, but yeah, then it’s time to spend some tokens… 250 being a bit short if you’re saving for a weapon at 330 tokens, say, and 1000 being a good limit? Unless ofc you can do anything with stack sizes of certain items?

How about Knight ?
I would like the Spear to come back as above-surface weapon again; alternatively slightly modified and maybe called a Lance… or Pike?

gennyt.3428:

1.People were angry about the lack of a release date because they already spent money and they were still given the “It’s ready when it’s ready” bit.

Yet, now they’re screaming at ESO/Zenimax (or insert other name) to take their money and will throw money their way the first moment they can, whether or not release date is announced. Won’t re-open that entire discussion that raged across gw2guru, but if you pay for a game before a release date is announced and the offer states you may not have one for a while either, then you better suck it up and be patient… coming back afterwards with a scorned, self-entitled stance just makes you look like a fool.

gennyt.3428:

2. People complained about bugs because problems that shouldn’t have survived beta were popping up left right and center and it got worse in the higher level zones, even after “It’s ready when it’s ready.” And I’m leaving the Lost Shores debacle alone.

Any game will have bugs, going into rage and throwing tantrums is pointless. Reporting them and having Anet fix them as fast as possible is only solution, which they are doing a much better job of than other game companies out there.

gennyt.3428:

4. The bot problem isn’t solved, they’re using a different strategy now, one that wouldn’t be possible if a certain exploit was fixed (if it can be).

Try solving it yourself in a day; the botters aren’t predictable, they put considerable amount of effort into ways of cheating the system, but at least Anet are doing a lot to prevent and limit their impact. Remember the game is still in its “infancy” for an MMO..

gennyt.3428:

Anet should take comfort in the fact that people care enough about their product to post AT ALL. In today’s gaming market, players can easily be indifferent and that’s much worse than “negativity”.

True, it’s much better for Anet to receive feedback in the first place, but the players should also be a bit more open to changes that Anet see a need to make. This game is going to be around for many years to come, it will develop and have new systems introduced, but it’s still the same game. Yet when some new element is added, players scream about progression issues, etc. etc. but in the long run I think those changes will just make the whole game feel much more coherent.

Of course, many people beg to differ in opinion, and on a forum the negativity of few always makes it seem like it’s a larger part of the community than what is true. Still the population in the game seems healthy, and lacking concrete sales figures to point at I can only make an assumption of the player numbers still growing.

Nappychappy.7046:

People loved the game they paid for and beta tested, that game no longer exists.

Hmm, that’s odd, I login to GW2 and play it every day, still the same game

Ofc, just don’t get your hopes up and don’t get angry when/if the option to play dwarves doesn’t come around.

Not sure here if you’re suggesting King Jalis Ironhammer and the Vanguard aren’t stone, but they are. They become transformed in EotN, and even Ogden is stone now but somehow not so connected to the others he needs to pursue the same goal. But all the others are vehemently fighting the last of the destroyers and Primordius, and as I’ve read every account so far by ArenaNet, gone in the depths. And I’ve not seen them backtrack on the dwarves so far; the king and his vanguard are in the depths ever since end of EotN, Ogden remains above ground – as seen in GW2. Sounds very final and unrecoverable to me.

1) Kodan
Can’t wait to see these playable, love the Kodan!
2) Tengu
Assuming these make it in at some point, looks like an amazing race.
3) Veldrunner(Centaurs)
If GW2 proceeds into Elona, centaurs could become playable as the veldrunner pride features as part of the resistance to the plague that has befallen Elona.

Agree with those saying Dwarves cannot possibly become a playable race. I remember Arena.net employees stating the dwarves became extinct since GW1, but if you see the cinematics of EotN, you’ll see they say no such thing.
Ogden remains above ground telling the story and refuses to undergo the transformation of the rest of the collective to begin with, but reluctantly does so eventually – and you meet him again in GW2 in Durmand Priory and quests.
EotN cinematics also state King Jalishammer and the remaining dwarves pursued the Destroyer into the depths to continue the fight, and this fits right in with what Ogden says in the dialogue in Durmand Priory. But he alone remains above ground, and this setting does not open up to possibility of a sudden flourish of dwarves above ground as a playable race. It would take a considerable amount of backtracking on the lore so far on Arena.net’s behalf, too much imho, to suddenly have the dwarves return.

Think your energy is better spent requesting some other races playable, Kodan, Tengu, Quaggan, etc.

Offline leveling has been tried in other games, e.g. Age of Conan, and should only serve as proof to any other MMO that it kills off activity in low-level zones (ofc, not a big issue if you’ve got downscaling like GW2 but on the other hand rewards there are not on par with level 80 zones so no one goes there other than completionists) and also you get lots of people who can quickly max level an alt and haven’t got the clue how to play their class which is a grief to people trying to do dungeons.

crouze.3078:

If it doesnt get dark… they could remove the day /night cycle in my opinion.

+1 to your OP suggestion, would definitely like to see the nights darker. Make stuff as dark, or even darker by choice, than Skyrim.

And agreed, makes little sense wanting to keep a day/night cycle when you hardly notice the difference running around in the world.

OEM gw2lfg.com into GW2! No, seriously, do it!

Seriously, that site works like a charm and Anet don’t need to invent a different wheel, just let us do this from within the game.

Haven’t searched very well then – lots of topics on it and it’s coming, we just don’t know when…

Either with a check option to ‘do not display again’ or remove the box altogether and instead flash a yellow star icon in the minimap once you zone to the overflow.

You know how you get the circling highlight if you mouse-over on your personal story… make that kind of brief highlight in the minimap to indicate you’re in the overflow.

Gaile Gray.6028:

You’re right about the name/gender thing. We’re actually thinking about letting players know about that in one of our Knowledge Base articles, that with the Total Makeover your character would remain Pretty Polly but look like a football player.

Any info on whether the Name Change Contract will be featured in the content update at the end of January?

lynspottery.6529:

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

Sligh.2789:

To hear you say you cant replicate it means that what you are doing has no relation to what the players at large are doing.

Exactly my point. It’s not showing up on any of our test servers, it’s only showing up on a Live server, with varying populations/unpredictable players, et al. So we haven’t been able to determine what’s causing the bug. Like I said, I added some failsafe measures so it will fix itself if it ends up in a bad state, but I’m not sure WHY it’s ending up in a bad state.

Oh, a test server. Hmmmmm…. perhaps your test server is setup differently than the live server?

Maybe setup the same way, but experiencing entirely different usage and stress than live servers so not probably getting the “overload” that can cause events to fail/lock and objects to malfunction?

Just dying to see the moment in a future personal story where Trahearne once again quips ‘This won’t end well’, and dies…

Pact needs a new Marshal, oh hey Commander, let’s promote you to be the hero from now on

Ashes.6418:

Quality over Quantity.
Gw2 might have 500 hours of value in it, but that doesn’t make it a better investment than an interesting and engaging 3 hour movie. At least there you’re likely to find a good story and some character development.

I surely hope that you would’ve had the self-discipline to quit GW2 if you’ve not enjoyed most of those 500 hours. Or maybe you’re just sadistic inflicting yourself 500 hours of pain and boredom?
If you’re in a 3 hour movie that sucks, chances are you walk out after an hour…

Nor.2057:

Name Change Contract

/Signed (why would you release gender change w/o name change…)

Just hoping the name change comes with January release, honestly it can’t be too much of a technical complexity.

1. Something that will bring people out of FoTM and back into the open World. I want to go back to other level 80 areas and do events, but theres no there anymore. They’ve killed the world on purpose.

This too!
Make open world events rewarding again – it sucks that FotM is the only place guaranteeing great loot these days – why bother with all those awesome zones then and the other dungeons. Add more rewarding loot to the other dungeons so that in addition to the tokens you get there you also have a chance to get ascended items or rares or more frequently rare materials too.

Just a check, when you swim up to it, you mean inside the Krait cave deep down, right?

If not, did you notice the PoI icon gets a downward arrow once you get close to it? It’s down there where you find the Krait Witch event and the Quaggan prisoners, not above it in the coral reefs.

Any chance the community can get a preview/teaser on game fixes coming with the January update?
Seems like the huge Jan/Feb expansion they initially promised us got delayed to Feb/Mar in favour of fixing the core of the game for January. So what is being fixed/improved this time around?

Maybe set people’s expectations right – I’ve got a sneaking suspicion there won’t be anything worth of new content / game updates but more focus on bug fixes, etc. to ensure your platform can take the bigger updates in Feb/Mar. If so, it’d be nice to give people a heads up asap so that we don’t wait until end of January with high expecations of stuff like Guild improvements, new skills, etc. and only get fixes to what’s already there.

More specifically;
- adding missing armors/weapons/recipes?
- fixing broken events?
- anything new guild-related?
- anything new skills-wise?
- revamps? classes? dungeons? loot?
- guesting?

Quench our curiosity please, don’t let us die like kittens

I think you need to see the Guardian subforum and Brutaly’s long thread about the Altruistic Healing guardian. Lots of good pointers there!

Agree with OP, and while you’re at it, Anet, please also allow disabling the circles/highlights around creatures.
I would much rather play without every single mob having a vague, red highlight around them. I can very easily tell if they’re a mob aggroing on me. Never saw the reason why those highlight silhouettes were there in the first place and they’re rather just making the beautiful world of Tyria uglier.

It’s fine as it is btw.
Do not change so that you pay the listing fee once and then can lower the price indefinitely until you find a buyer. I think that will “destroy” the economy much more than the existing solution – which doesn’t.

majorkong.9073:

So what’s the harm? Stuff doesn’t sell? Because my stuff sells almost always and in a reasonable period of time.

Ditto and agreed.
It’s only when some idiot undercuts by 20+ SILVERS and then gets a whole lot of people start over with 1c undercutting that things can go wrong and stuff won’t sell. But if you pay attention to market swings you can then even just wait it out and the going price will yet again rise to what you originally listed for. Just makes your transaction a bit more long-term than you initially had liked it to be. Or you have to cut a 5% fee from your profit and re-list.

tobschge.1948:

Some ppl don’t care about listing fees. There are ppl with over 45000g out there…

Surely evidence of someone having exploited their way to riches, no? Unless they’ve got gem purchase orders to match that sum of gold?

Same happens on Seafarer’s Rest server. Corrupted Shield spawns too low in terrain to be targeted.

Anet devs – just logon during the event on one of the named servers and you’ll see how annoying it.

Better yet, stay online for duration of entire Jormag event and suffer the horrible sound bug which generally happens towards end of phase 2. I still think it’s a case of just too many simultaneous sounds, effects, animations, etc. taking place.

Fyrebrand.4859:

Q: What’s the fastest way to Divinity’s Reach?
A: Enter a battle and grab hold of Logan Thackeray.

lmao!

Think he refers to those ‘Special Loot Bags’ you got in your inventory as dungeon completion reward. And based on their caption, the reward was not at all living up to expectations… some random green kitten that went straight into the mystic forge. Honestly think I recall getting a yellow out, so paid off in the end, but felt like a tiny slap in the face getting 3 greens after completing Arah story.

Explorable mode.
Also running around with +mf gear when farming the corrupted creatures in Frostgorge, that’s where I got my first 5… heard about RNG and diminishing return but thought that it would reset after a while.
Tend to try farming a while, long enough I should have chance to get one lodestone, then do something else, etc. and not try again for another day or more…

Will probably just have to do more FotM given the January changes…

Don’t know about you but I keep hearing GW1 soundtrack in-game most places I go, ofc the GW2 soundtrack is there too. But I think the GW2 soundtrack is very nice too, but I can see your point on in it being kind of same-y. But the soundtrack is still very nice and has some really nice pieces from time to time.

But when you go through the Norn areas and get the GW1 soundtrack from EotN, oh man, so nice!

Agree with Sollith, if I could make a wish for a future region, it would be a Krytan high-level zone.

I don’t know, base it around D’Alessio Seaboard and a pocket of the White Mantle attempting a resurrection where you could assist the Shining Blades once again. Would love to see the Mursaat return in GW2, why not put your Agony and Infusion to the test in a new lvl 80 zone?

But as OP stated, love the Norn areas, Shiverpeaks FTW

OK, I need quite a few and other than burning all my gold on the TP for them, I’d like to try farming for them…

I had some success in Frostgorge Sound initially and got 5, but that was mid-December, and now I’ve not seen a single one drop in ages. I’ve done Jormag event, I’ve ran HotW dungeon (though I got a glacial core) – but the corrupted cores/lodestones are nowhere to be seen.

Can someone please suggest a place to look – other than the TP – my gold is reserved for T3 pieces

Remember the statement after the karma weapons exploit by Chris Whiteside?

“This is a first and final warning. Moving forward, please make sure you that when you see an exploitable part of the game, you report it and do not attempt to benefit from it.”

I believe those who got banned for exploiting this time had it coming, whether it was 50, hundreds, thousands of times – and yea, they’re all just as bad exploiters. Cheaters gonna cheat, exploiters gonna exploit, best get rid of those who always try to profit in shady ways. And come on, like you didn’t figure it was an exploit, how dumb are you now presenting yourself as??

It seems the sound bug has changed character too, usually I would get it and could just mute the gw2 application in the mixer and play on. Now it causes my client to crash, and when this usually happens at huge events where there’s lots going on, it can cause some serious grief… like the 2 crashes I had last night after 30 minutes fighting Jormag, and of course, relogging after the 2nd crash Jormag had been defeated and the chest was gone.

Blocking issue, Anet, sort it out!

I thought you’d know someone by their account name if they did that to you.

Example;
moirweyn.9872 aka “Honest Guy” scams me… and renames to “Another Honest Guy”… I’d still see him cos I’ve got moirweyn.9872 on my blocked list, right?

I’m pretty sure I’ll remember that account name if I got scammed, seeing as that’s the unique account ID in this game anyway.