Guild Wars 2

Gandarel.5091:

Did the Seers use very advanced technology? Nope. From this moment, you can bury your hopes to see them again. Arenanet has a terminator/clockwork/laser-feitsh nowadays.

The Bazaar of the Four Wind would like to disagree with you.

Elidath.5679:

I think I remember an ambient dialog on this topic. Two citizen discussing travel near the Canal WP. One say something like “I could use the asura gate, but I don’t have this kind of money”. Ring a bell to anyone? :S

(self quote because I am bad mannered)

Found it: it was indeed the two NPC the nearest to the Canal Ward WP of Lion’s Arch (the one leading to Gendarran). A male charr and a female human.
It goes like this:
- Human: “What would be the easiest way to DR?”
- Charr: “That would be the asura gate, but it’ll cost you a lot.”
- Human: “And what if I use my natural charm on the gate operator?”
- Charr: “Then it’ll cost you more.”

So, it is said unambiguously that using the gate cost money.
It is also implied that operators can adjust cost on a whim, so maybe the PCs got a special “hero discount” for whatever they did.

colesy.8490:

Don’t take everything you read on this forum as gospel, half the people here haven’t even got a clue what they’re on about and spend more time arguing that I’ve just hurt their feelings rather than the actual content of my posts so just try things out yourself.

You can tell the most profound and true thing possible, if you say it while standing on everyone toes, the only response you will elicit is “You are standing on my toes, stop that”. Even if they would otherwise agree with you.
The earlier you realize that, the earlier people will listen to you.

@Menace: not everyone might like your builds, but at least you go at it with a good spirit. Waiting for your videos

Sword/X + Sword/X has the advantage of always having the best auto-attack of all mesmer weapons available, plus the maximum uptime for BF (best defensive tool + good spike). So it is indeed quite favored. Now, Sword/X + Staff is a nice option when you want more support.
In the ends, it depends mainly of what you want to do in a group.

I think I remember an ambient dialog on this topic. Two citizen discussing travel near the Canal WP. One say something like “I could use the asura gate, but I don’t have this kind of money”. Ring a bell to anyone? :S

Mesmer’s capability depend really heavily on specs. It damages can go from “almost inexistant” to “WTF happened and why is there a mushroom cloud?”. A good shatter mesmer is one of the best spiker in the game, and sustained damage of phantasm is to be accounted for in boss encounters. In PvE, you should have enough survivability to go full berserk without much trouble since there is good defense on all weapon set.
In PvE, you will be looked to mainly for boon stripping, projectile reflection, time warp and portal. Since you can do the first two with a lot of different specs, and the last one is a no brainer, it leaves a lot of builds open.
So, the main question is: which role do you want to fill?
The various build thread should then guide you toward this role (interrupter, boon dispenser, damage dealer…).

Hebee.8460:

Looks like they have decided to change the sacks to a different skin, instead of actually making back-piece skin have higher priority over kit pack. Great

One doesn’t exclude the other, you know.

Aberrant.6749:

MI stealths up to 10, the toss would only do 5. MI also has a 1,200 radius

In about all situation, it would result in the exact same thing (due to the 5 men team limit), with 33% less CD and less cast time. Only situation where MI would be better than Toss Elixir S is WvW zerg battle, but then Veil is better than MI anyway.
So yes, I do fear a return nerfbat

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Mantras shouldn’t lose their charge when downed.

Not only when downed: transitioning between water and ground, or changing area (zoning, leaving an instance…), shouldn’t discharge mantra either.
I don’t know of the feasibility, but it really is a pain when you lose your condition cleanse for going into water, or can’t heal when you spawn in the middle of a DE after leaving a personal story instance.

Because it would be 1s of confusion each second of channeling, so 3s at most. More like a daze, then, but the target still has the choice of powering through it, or LoS/range it.

Xyonon.3987:

Also as mesmer, Sword 3 – 2nd cast is a stunbreaker, but I guess there is no such a note in the skill description, is there?

There is. A bit hard to use given the small window, but can come in handy from time to time.

A Massive Headache.1879:

@Elidath, no I never played that before

For futur reference: Total Annihilation intro theme and some battle musics

Divinity.8041:

Surprised nobody tried making a control mesmer sooner.!

There were. It’s just that control mesmer became viable only recently (shorter mantra charge-up, buff of on-interrupt traits, buff of signet of dom…). And it still is useless in PvE and WvW.

Getting lives is easy,
250 takes 30 minutes.
You find this grindy?
You might be nuts!

(Long version: W1 run takes 30 minutes top, yield 7 BB, 3 continue coins and 500+ baubles, translating in 48 CC, 288 lives. Infinite CC and grind are far from mandatory.)

A Massive Headache.1879:

I’ll give you of the games I"ve played, unreal tournament actually stood out from the rest music wise; however, considering oblivion may as well been the same music as skyrim, and guild wars 1 and 2 and some other rpg that I could have sworn he did music for but isn’t on the list I played with music by him, I really wish he would just stop.

EDIT: no, i do distinctly remember morrowinds music, it was definantly nice. and I’m sure KOTOR had distinct music but it was nothing memorable for me.

Total Annihilation wasn’t different enough for you? Or did you not play this game? :S
I didn’t notice it was from the same guy before I read his bio. I must say I wish some of the boss music where more like TA battle music. They really do raise the fighting spirit.

Xaylin.1860:

You might take Mimic for melee block or ranged reflect. But in this area it can be replaced by many other traits and skills.

Just a reminder: mimic combo reaaally well with retaliatory shield. 4s of block gets you a lot of retaliation that no other mesmer block can rival.

Genreninja.8516:

I’d like a shout that reveals. Maybe not completly, but if I use it it’ll give some indication of where the target is. Flash of light, whisp of sound waves bouncing off them, blurred faded unselectable image. it wouldn’t completely cancel their stealth, but give me a way to defend myself and think about positioning. give it a long cooldown if you want, I only wanna use it once per fight anyway.

New trait:
“Echolocation” -> your shouts ping nearby ennemies on the minimap
Awaken your bat sense!

SynfulChaot.3169:

There is, but it only reduces the cooldown. Nothing more. Most classes signet cooldown reduction trait also gives an additional effect. Rangers don’t get that directly. We need to pick up an additional Grandmaster trait to get a secondary effect on our signets.

Nope
Thief and necro are the only one who gets more than flat CD reduction on their signet CD reduction trait.
Ranger is in the norm.

A Massive Headache.1879:

Are you kidding? Jeremy Soule can’t do anything different, I swear I can’t listen to guild wars 2 music as it’s the same thing as the elder scrolls and I’ve gotten sick of that games music. I’d gladly take old jrpg music at this point.

Oh, he can’t do anything different?
Total Annihilation, Unreal Tournament, Otomedius Excellent, Secret of Evermore… Seems pretty diverse to me.

Aberrant.6749:

S toss being more reliable was needed (rng is bad)

I fear a reverse nerf bat when they realise they basically made a better and traitable version of Mass Invisibility.

Totally hyped by the non-RNG access to stability, though. please make it real ^^

I would take those with a grain of salt. Seing “throw Elixir S” (engi toolbelt skill for Elixir S) getting 5s of AoE stealth is… weird. It is basically our elite MI on a 60s CD. Plus all the added benefits of elixirs/TB skills (static discharge, CD reduction, condi cleanse…).
I won’t cry wolf, we will have to wait till the patch is live to see how much of that, if any, is true.

Edit: wrong CD

Overlord.7394:

Most of that time is dying, which at MAXIMUM of EVERY DUNGEON, except Arah (Never done Arah) will take a MAXIMUM of 3 hours

I did Arah a few days ago, with a totally suboptimal group, for kittens and giggles (because I like pain, sue me). 3 fresh 80 which didn’t know the dungeon and not full exo, including 2 staff guardian and a GS mes. Took a whopping 1h30 to run c3, with no wipe. So yeah, five time longer is a totally ridiculous claim from the sole basis of gear. Now, if you are with truly bad players, who don’t even know they have a dodge button (don’t laugh, I met some…), it’s another affair entirely.
I do think GS isn’t nearly as good as sword, but nowhere as kittenome here try to make it sound.

As for Colesy, I feel sorry for someone who has so much interesting things to say to be so incompetent at saying it (no hard feeling, just stating facts). “Being forceful to be heard” is a joke. Insulting players isn’t “just being forceful”, it antagonize people with no benefit.
Chaos is listened to. Pyro is listened too. Kylia is listened to. None of them come up in thread throwing random insults and broad generalisations. They just have interesting thing to say, and say it in an agreable manner. Learn from them, seriously. We all will gain from it.
And, please, for the love of Kormir, learn the difference between “suboptimal” and “bad”. Those words aren’t synonyms

It was such an important change, some people are noticing it only one month and two forum thread after it happened. Good eyes, guys xD

Depends. For some, bosses being more interesting would be “win” enough. Not everyone is after uber rentability and ears-deep into ectos.

I wonder how you climb that, given it collapse when you get close.
I think it just is decorum, to make sense of why a cart would be where no roads are.

Cotheer.2806:

AFAIK, w2-2, requires dodge-jump to get to the shortcut eagle.
I might be wrong, but that cloud is impossible to reach without it.

In infantile and NM, it doesn’t require dodge jump, though it does help. Didn’t try 2-2 TM yet so I can’t tell there.

Conspiracy theory around RNG will always exist. Since there is no way to prove or disprove “true” RNG, believe what you want.
Just remember that ANet has absolutely no good reason to put a bias in there and apply a good amount of Occam’s razor if it makes you fell better

Patres.4925:

Horrible……

Why? It is the same as crafted inscriptions.

You still randomly get continue coin in JP chests, no change here.

tattoohead.3217:

New Elite Turret
…
~The Tool Belt will teleport you to the turret

I was under the firm impression our elites didn’t provide any toolbelt skill. Did something change sneakily during the day ? ^^’

The dig sites of W2Z1 differ from the one on the W2Z1 preview in the last SAB release, too. Guides from release 1 should be followed only in W1.

The shovel isn’t as good as before, but is still good. Using the hidden dig sites you can get your 250 baubles in W1 quickly enough (W1Z3 get ~100 baubles in digsites before the first checkpoint). So yes you’ll have to “farm” W1 for the baubles, but no it won’t be an extremely long and grindy task. Spread it on 2-3 days doing the whole W1 and you be buried deep in baubles without much effort
Since dig sites are once per account per day now, getting all those baubles in one day would take much more cumulated time, though.
When you are familiar enough with the areas, you can easily get 400+ baubles doing W1 in less than 30 minutes.

Entrea Sumatae.7830:

I can only assume that somewhere in worlds 3 and 4, they’ll give us additional bomb and slingshot options.

It is not just an assumption, since some dev said exactly that during the initial SAB release. It should still be somewhere in the SAB archive.

More accurately, you only need gold to buy the pattern, but you need other items to actually craft the skins. Those items are rewards for tribulation mode which, yes, consume a lot of lives.
I think that’s what you meant, Crise, but I believe it was a bit misleading

RainingPastures.9403:

Thanks for the replies. Guess I’ll get the bag upgrade first. sigh …. 325 baubles…. = x = Anet, reallly?

You can get that much in less that 15 minutes in W1. Check a dig site guide if you don’t know them, you can get easy baubles really quick this way. For example W1Z3 starting area contain about 100 baubles.

Given the coin has no mention of world, that it works in W1 and W2, and that (unlike some would like us to think) the dev aren’t our enemies bent on our total ruin and destruction, I would think that yes, it’ll work in W3.

There is a whole forum section dedicated to this kind of request. Living Story isn’t it

From the patchnote:

Items using a skin will return a base item with the original appearance. Another Transmutation Stone will be required to reapply the skin.

It says it returns a base item, but no mention about what the skin becomes. So I would guess it is lost, but the phrasing isn’t clear enough to be certain.

You could craft exotic 80 equipment (endgame until last update) on a lvl 20 character without any problem. And as far as I can tell, if you get the component, he can craft ascended too. So only getting the raw component would be level gated. Possible, but counterintuitive, I think (remember those rewards are account bound, so no risk of farming them by creating lvl 1 chars).

Seems like your culling options to me.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, in the graphic options panel there are two options : “number of character to display” and “detail level” (or some similar names) that determine in a high populated area, how much people should be displayed and how detailed. It helps alleviate the load on the local machine when there is just too much things to display.
One of the values of the “detail” option is “load everyone else with standard armor”. If you go lower, you can load wireframe only, or even just nametag. Going higher allows for full details, if you computer can handle it. Seems like, for whatever the reason, you get the “standard armor” option while your wife is on the “display everything” setting.

Those options have been added to WvW quite a while ago, and to PvE with Clockwork Chaos (so not 2 monthes ago, just 2 weeks, but the symptoms totally fit).

World 1+2 yield 12 BB, +standard baubles to convert. You can get the skin you want in the horrifying long time of 4 days. Overreacting, much?

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

I would. If I had something better than that ugly skirt my ranger has now. She’s a noble! She needs some noble cloths, not some skirt that is worn by the peasants…

You mean, something like a noble armor?

PS: before I get flamed, I know it is an armor, not townclothes. It is a joke. Thank you.

Except the coin doesn’t make anything easier. If you fail at jumping, you’ll still fail with the coin. You’ll just be able to fail longer.
Then, the SAB doesn’t give any advantage. it is a piece of content here for itself, completing it won’t make you “win” anything more. You won’t kick more butt in PvP/WvW. You won’t run dungeon faster. You won’t get an ascended weapon as reward. just a skin and the satisfaction to have completed a challenging thing.
So no, it’s not P2W.

Balderaz.3859:

I was running through it with a good friend of mine I opened we got right to the last section of zone 3 in world 1 and my game randomly disconnected now I cant rejoin to finish it with him. That is a real kick in the teeth. If you get dc’d from it due to an internet issue it should allow you back in.

Not sure they can tell you have internet issue. And if they could, and did what you say, people would just DC voluntarily to piggiback to the end, and there would be no reason in the end to prevent joining in the first place.

RedCobra.7693:

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Backpieces are still missing. I bet they go into jewelry.

yeah lets make my extremely hard earned ascended fractal backpiece obsolete wooooo

Not necessarily. They could allow crafting of backpiece by leveling up to 500, but no ascended one, just exo.

Azo.5860:

and i couldnt spec that whom i give shatter order to my clones, but they killed by fields(or with somebody else) while running on the target, do clones still trigger of confusing combatants, Debilitating dissipation and crippling dissipation to radius 240 to 5(3) targets? anyone approve this ?
wiki confused me that shatter does not trigger them anyway in that situation?

If the clone successfully shatter, it doesn’t trigger “on death” traits. If it is killed by any other mean, it does. It really is binary.
So in your case, since it isn’t the shatter that killed it, confusing combatant do trigger.

EpicHedgehog.1754:

The illusionary leap clone is extremely unreliable, especially on slanted surfaces.
OH GOD…. i mean ARENANET! Please fix that skill

Call-out to ANet is against the forum code of conduct, and won’t help an already well-known issue to be fixed any quicker. Thank you for understanding.

EpicHedgehog.1754:

Blink- sometimes it teleports me at the same spot where i was (mostly when i’m runing while casting it) = no teleport, and im NOT talking about places in the JPs.

Not specific to Blink (sadly). All TP moves (Lightning Flash, Infiltrator’s Arrow…) does that, it has to do with the pathing. It might even be the same problem as iLeap.

I don’t know of any karma-bought exo recipe, but an answer would be nice indeed for the others (giver, celestial…).

Edit: at least for celestial, we are safe, as described [url=https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/sab-bts/Exotic-Discovery-s-Reset/first#post2736668]here[/quote]
No reset for learned (instead of discovered) recipes. It makes sense, since the aim is to makes us discover them again. And you don’t discover celestial stuff.
We can guess it goes the same for givers items.

smitske.4912:

1 finisher every 7 weeks isn’t too much work I assume?

Assuming something is simple never is a winning move.
Plus, it works as an incentive to keep winning (like some of the most prestigious real world trophies).

I’d rather keep the confirm box. The masterwork being more useful as salvage doesn’t mean I suddenly want to always salvage them
The option toggle suggested by Nike would probably be the best middle ground.

“Real men wear pink” – Dan Hibiki, truest man ever.

When you are confident enough in your virility to kill ennemies with pink butterfly and totally enjoy it, who would laugh? Besides you, I mean? :P (it is mandatory to laugh maniacally in those circumstances, mesmer code of conduct)