Guild Wars 2

~Real puzzles, that you had to use your brain to solve. Puzzles that needed actual cooperation to get through.
~Things that changed, (sometimes when you changed them) and then stayed changed.
~Actual human being running NPCs, that you could have real conversations with, and even shape the dynamics of the game. Story that you could become personally invested in, and it mattered.
~Exploring places and never having to kill a thing.
~Learning history and lore as part of the gameplay, and not just a random dev aside.
~Being able to be immersive in the world and its lore, without having to be ‘role playing’.
~A ‘home’ that was truly personal and customisable, that you could invite many people into.
~ No leveling, no stat maxing, just pure exploration and discovery.

Why is it that Plains of Ashford doesn’t have a World Boss with a chest? It is the only racial starter zone that doesn’t.
The Asura get the Fire Elemental, the Norn get the Maw, the Sylvari get the Jungle Worm and the Humans get the Shadow Behemoth.
Just seems odd, to me shrug

Okuza.5210:

OTH, there is one aspect of the naming where I agree with you. I wanted to use Ø (Nordic O slash) in one of my Norn names and the game doesn’t allow it. This is despite permitting many MANY other alt-coded symbols in names, such as accented and umlauted characters. I suspect all it would take to support Ø would be to just remove the line of code that currently prohibits it.

Yes please. My Norn’s name really needed the Icelandic þ, and it wouldn’t let me

I’d like a hotkey to change it. And could we pretty please not change back into our armor if we fall? Drives me batty.

This has been a plea that has gone out since the game started, and people discovered their lady asuras didn’t get the cool skirts and bows and frills.

I don’t quite see how it would be against the lore for the female asura to have feminine armor. Doesn’t have to be (non-existent)cleavage baring or something ‘sexy’, just something that looks different than the males’ getup, that says ‘girl’.

You can’t say they don’t have anything feminine in their style, because look at all the hairstyles the girls have with bows and ribbons- so they do fashion things to make the genders look different.

And the ‘they don’t show skin’ argument falls apart when you look at a female asura wearing the light Vigil , Feathered or the PvP Masquerade armors; the heavy Pit Fighter Pit Fighter Exotic and Gladiator armors, all of those have the chest bared to show off the Buff Male Chest- they’ve just been shrunk down for the asura model.

The rubber banding is new for me- it can happen even on falls where I wouldn’t take damage.

It didn’t seem to be working for me yesterday, either, even on a flat surface.

I’ve had this happen from both large (JP in Metrica Province) and little falls, anything where youo would normally take damage when you land. You fall, get the land kerthud animation, then stand up with no damage. But when you take a step, you get the land kerthud animation again, and take the damage.

I saw there was a few threads on crashing while in WVW, but this is a bit different. I can open the WVW window, but when I click join, the whole game goes poof. Has been happening since Tuesday, monday I was in WVW just fine.

Having been a part of an MMO that had actual living story- with live actor NPCs, and when something happened to the world, it stayed changed, the OP has it exactly right.

The only way you can make a true Living World, is by having the courage to not only add new content, but make story based permanant changes to existing content, that are based not only on NPC experiences, but on what the players do.

Maybe it starts small, like there being a drop in bandits in Queensdale, because we keep killing them all off… but a new threat replaces them. Maybe the effects of the Thaumanova Reactor meltdown start showing up in random other locations around the world.

Or go bigger- the Svanir Shaman at the Maw comes up with plan B, since we keep thwarting plan A… The Shatterer brings in backup… The Priory actually manages to hold Dredgehaunt for a few days, instead of 20 minutes, and finds something major.

Or go truly dynamic… and have something where the first set of players to do it (like defeat a boss, or open a new area), changes the world for everyone else. A random band of adventurers triggers a landslide, but now there’s a whole new area to explore? That’s living story.

Does it mean some people will have acheivements you can’t get anymore? Or have to do something different than before to get? Yup. And that’s part of what makes it living and dynamic- things change over time, which means needs change, and goals change.

If ANet has the guts to do something that unique, it would make the game something really special, and not (as much as they have succeeded in pulling it away from this reality) just another RPG that we happen to be running around in at the same time.

cool, thanks

I have upgrade componants that are supposed to go in unused item slots- marks, talismans, jewels, etc- so they should be universal. But there are items with unused slots over in my trinkets, that won’t let me put anything in them- my Mad Memories, a couple of rings… They show the unused slot, but when I try to put anything there, it just mouseovers red.

What am I doing wrong?

that could be it, my monitor tends to be heavy on the blue, I could easily be mistaking females for northern.

I’d really like to know more of the quaggan backstory, beyond ‘krait drove them out’- more of their pre dragon culture, how hulking out (quaggan bash!) became a social embarassment, that sorta thing.

(Can you tell I grew up around anthropology?)

It is mentioned in the wiki that the northern quaggan are the blue orca coloured ones, and the southern quaggan are the seafoam green ones, but I also have been noticing another rather interesting difference.

Northern quaggans wear ‘clothes’, those elaborate beaded harnesses and hats; while the southern quaggan go bare. Now, you could write that off as a regional thing, the ones from the north developed the style, the ones from the south didn’t, easy peasy.

Except… so far, all of the quaggans (that I’ve observed since I started paying attention) with some sort of authority- guards, varanoses (varonosii?), Pastkeeper, etc- are northern orca quaggans in beadwork.

Which makes you wonder, could the stated lore be (gasp) wrong? What if the colouring and clothing indicates social status or caste of some sort?

Or, what I assumed before I saw the north/south thing- age? With the spots being babies, the pale seafoam being adolescence, and the daarker orca colouring being adulthood.

(My cynical brain says, they just keep using the orca quaggan models for important quaggans, without thinking about it… It try not to listen to my cynical brain, it isn’t very interesting.)

Jenny gets stuck sometimes, and won’t leave :/

In the last few weeks, I’ve had two sigils come out of boss chests be soulbound (not account bound) right away- it is a little odd, and it would be nice to know if it is intentional or borken

It managed to trigger on TC tonight, but one of the people said he’d been there most of the day trying to make it happen.

The last few alts I’ve run through this story mish, after you kill Blightgast, and are supposed to go around talking to the various leaders about zomg we won there’s a Veteran Risen Captain that spawns in the middle of the courtyard. Because there’s so many allies around that were fighting just moments ago, he’s massively overpowered, and it feels like he has an extra large aggro range. The result being, if you can’t manage to tippietoe past him on his loop, he’ll come after you, and trounce you. I ended up at the checkpoint twice tonight, just trying to get up to Traherne. :P

I still get a ‘forbidden’ message hitting that site, but Argo’s does nicely as a replacement, thanks!

(although, just for the help, could you put a key for all the little symbols? I can get most of them, but I’d rather not guess )

This is bugged in Tarnished Coast, as well

Yes, please (again, since this is maybe the third or fourth thread I’ve seen on the subject since the game started! Good to get it noticed again)

Heck, even when you get a bunch of people in to kill the RCC (with attendant dying like flies) , the event still isn’t guaranteed to trigger- after 3-4 times of being in on killing the Captain, I have yet to see the next step.

Avatar.1923:

Eleri Tezhme.3048:

As a member of a family “guild” of 5 people

dude! your guild is 5 people! its a party size! the WHOLE GAME can be 5 man….

too funny ….

And yet, somehow, we’re never all online at the same time… so I’ve only done one dungeon. Sheesh!

Hmm, I may get one of these for my poor Sylvari. I gave her light blue eyes at character creation, but theyve been black ever since

As a member of a family “guild” of 5 people, I fully expected to be unable to play the guild-specific content, specifically because of the “Guild = Many People” concept that is built into the game. Guilds with lots of people get more done faster for less work per person, small Guilds take longer, and take more individual investment.

It doesn’t mean that I’m not dissapointed, I think there should be content for smaller guilds proportional to the larger guild offerings, without the smaller guilds having to shell out ‘extra’ gold in order to have the same rank as a larger guild, but I wasn’t expecting to be able to play like the big kids.

ah, good. I read through the patch notes, but I missed that part. Just checking!

Is the list that you can choose 5 from going to change daily, or are we just picking 5 off of the same list? Because what is there now is almost nothing like the daily rotation we were getting.

I was going to put mine on my Asura, and it wasn’t the size that bugged me so much (although I do think they’ve got the scaling for most ‘fit to Asura’ things dialed too small…), as the fact that it doesn’t sit between her shoulderblades, it is at her waistline, so the little quaggan legs are kicking her in the tush. Look at where it sits on all the other races- looks like a backpack. On an Asura it looks like a weird fanny pack. Pleeeassseeee scoot it up a bit? Pretty please? (And make it a bit bigger.)

Yeah, I’m not sure what started it, haven’t really fussed with many settings since starting that game- besides some keybinds, and trying to get to to go fullscreen on a second monitor. Is just odd. shrug

I’ve been getting ‘A with a tail’ (an ogonek for you linguistic types) in place of spaces and commas (Lordie is it annoying in Metrica Province, because it shows up in every. space. in. golem. speech.), and ‘E with a tail’ in place of &. Has anyone else seen this, or is one of my Polish ancestors trying to reach me from the beyond?

Grrr, it edited out the special characters. Fixing that

I think Jeffrey means once per day, per character… cause I ran two alts through the swamp Monday, one in the am, and one after lunch (but before server reset) , and both got chests. Then again… I could be smoking banana peels

Right now, the armors in a category all look about the same- Light armors are mostly floofy, Medium armors are mostly trenchcoats, Heavy armor involves lots of plates and huge shoulders. It would be nice to see this shook up a bit, I think you can still convey the concept of light/medium/heavy without holding to a specific layout.

I kinda miss the skintight bodysuit for Elementalists from GW1, or the bodice & skirt that the Dervish had.

Yes please. Especially town clothes that fit in world. Aviator sunglasses are cool, but I’d rather have some of the outfits I see in DR

/swoon complete with the dramatic hand to forhead and fluttering eyelashes

yes please, especially when you aren’t wearing the glove that match the jacket- there’s lots of clipping.

It would be really awesome if the character select screen also showed which part of their Personal Story each character was on. I like keeping mine running at about the same rate, and having to log each one in just to check their status is kinda a PITB.

ooh, yes please

I’ve been fine with the new dailies. Most of them I can complete, without partying, during the normal course of play, I just have to make a quick check and see if I want to be joining events, or tracking down vets or whatever. It isn’t that much more work, at all especially since I don’t have to scroll through the hero panel to get to them.

Thaumanova Reactor is perfect for kill variety and healing, crafting takes all of a minute, maybe. Even combo finishing isn’t that bad. Hang around events with other people, you don’t have to be partied with them for the combo to count, your kill just has to go through their field. Follow an elementalist or a staff Necro around if you want to be really sure to get it, they have fields galore.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

The pink could just be from Unending Ocean quaggan (aka “southern quaggan”) which when grown are either pale/gray or dark blue in color – whereas arctic ocean quaggan (aka “northern quaggan”) as adults are orca-like in color (back is black, belly is white).

Ok, now I’m going to have to go look, because I coulda swore I’d seen the seafoamy green quaggans and the orca patterned quaggans in the same village- I’d parsed it out to quaggans with ornaments, and quaggans without. Hmmmm… (err, Hooooo….)

Quaggan, Skrit, Kodan, in dat order

I really miss Heroes myself. I am extremely gun shy about partying with people I don’t know, even in GW2 (way too many times being yelled at…), so despite having multiple characters over level 45… I’ve never done any of the dungeons, or Fractals, or any of the other things that you have to have a full 5 people to do. Having Heroes I could bring along, or even ones that I had to hire to use for X amount of time, would be helpful.

Runiir.6425:

Iruwen.3164:

PS: the game is not abound hunting items and grind. This should have become clear by now…

Ascended gear/legendaries/crafting/dungeoun token system/badge of honor system…thought you said this game isn’t about grinding?

Or the worse offenders, clovers of luck, and precursors.

All those things are optional to the gameplay. You can live without them, your game experience is not dependent on having those rewards.

If you’re one of those people that has to have the rarest shiniest armor and goodies out there right now then, yeah, you’re going to grind to get them, but that is your choice, not something forced on you by the gameplay (like a dozen and 2 other MMOs). It is only a grind if you make it about grinding.

Back on topic, do NOT get rid of level scaling. It is awesome, it means that no matter what level I am, I can spend time playing with people who started after me, without diminishing their experience, I can take my characters into low level areas and still have a reasonably fulfilling time there, and I never have to feel like I’m slumming it.

To store all our town clothes and costumes and accessories and zomgquagganbackpacks.

Pretty please?

you can see threads & comments by X user by clicking on their name.

I think the search engine has broken. I was searching in the Game Bugs forum for a thread I had been reading earlier this week, and I kept getting 0 results on any of the key words. So, just to check I typed ‘mesmer’ into search… and came up with only 2 results. It is almost like I isn’t seeing a large chunk of the forum

I’m glad to see this resurface- I’m still of the mind that the best way to handle this is to have a limited number of slots for making a dye account bound, rather than soul bound. Anet could still bring in some money selling slot expansions, & people could save their rare ones.

jumps up and down waving arms frantically so Anet will notice

Bubi.7942:

And: there is a chest on the end of the Hylek puzzle (if you are talking about the one in Caledon forest).

Is there now? I did it with another person quite a while ago and there were no goodies. Mebby it was bugged at the time.

With all the talk of new content and rewards and such, I’d like to request puzzles that are actual puzzles. Not jumping puzzles that reward hand-eye coordination, not minigames like Polymock that need strategy or timing, but actual sit down and have to solve something puzzles.

Make me solve a complex set of levers to open a door to a treasure room. Have a chest locked by a code, and leave clues for it around the room.

Like the Champion Hylek minidungeon, where you have to figure out the light patterns. That’s a puzzle. A simple one, but it requires observation and thought to solve (And there’s no chest at the end, FOO!)

It would make me a very very happy person if the bots could all be smooshed where we can see it. With a ginourmous cow finisher maybe. Or a huge Pythonesque foot.