Guild Wars 2

Everytime you kill a ghost labelled “Ascalonian Adventurer” you’re really killing someone’s character from GW1 :P

As with Zeefa I wrote a fair bit about where my characters ended up whilst I was waiting for GW2 to come out. Most of mine ended up resettling in Vabbi so when we finally come up against the hordes of Palawa Joko I’ll probably be killing my own ancestors there. He doesn’t seem like the kind of person that would leave the tombs of the dead alone when he performs a hostile takeover.

My Ele however got fried fighting destroyers with the dwarves. So at least I won’t be killing him again.

So far all we know is:
- They have been driven up from the deeps by something. (The Quaggen might know more about them in this case)
- They will be very difficult to kill.
- They are surprisingly fast.
- The event in LA is going to be awesome

Bioectomy.9217:

RoRo.8270:

Pretty sure they removed it because after seeing it 100x it becomes old and nobody double clicks the gw2.exe to stare at a login screen

Oh, yeah, now we just click it to see outdated Caithe artwork.

The old login screen was easily one of the better login screens I’ve seen in the ~15 years since login screens became a thing. Why they removed it is a mystery we are simply not meant to understand, I guess.

I completely agree. My favourite part was actually the little colour coded thing that told me that I got my password right. Even if they just added that to the new login box that would make me happy.

^ If you are an Ele or a ranger, firing AoE at a zerg with just one guardian able to mass-spam retaliation is suicide. That skill suggestion would kill you faster than you can heal.

He’s a pretty prominent character in Destiny’s Edge and he is mentioned several times by NPCs in LA. It’s a good question, Drakenvold. Maybe they are keeping him and the other members of the captain’s council back until a later update?

Though you’d figure he would have been around more for the whole thing with Zhaitan, considering the business with Morgus Lethe.

CroPsychooo.1620:

Essarious Quw.8946:

I already recruited the three people I wanted to play with the most…

Time to build an army of loyal minions…

Did you invite them already or you just told them that you will invite them ?

I already convinced them to buy the full retail game and we run around causing chaos

I miss the old login screen too. It used to go to it when you selected “log out” but it doesn’t anymore.

Be nice if we could get it as an option to toggle on/off.

I was playing it more but lately there has been a lot of whining on Gandara’s map chat and theres only so much “OMG U NOOBS WHY U RUN AWAY” I can take before I want to commit several large scale and very messy friendly fire incidents alllllll over the spawnpoint.

Invisible zergs are still the biggest cause of this. People on lower end machines rush in thinking there are only two people taking a supply camp when the rest of us can see that there are actually about fifty.

I dunno.

Oh and realising that the invader armour for over 14k badges of honour was not a unique skin… that was pretty de-motivational too haha.

I already recruited the three people I wanted to play with the most…

Time to build an army of loyal minions…

I thought there wasn’t going to be a gear grind?

I guess we will have to wait till people have bumrushed through the new dungeon to find out. I had to upgrade everything to exotics just to keep up with the damage of my fellow players and get decent drops, hopefully I won’t have to shell out again on my 80s for this stuff too (but I probably will).

I agree too. The boss was a really fun challenge before and when the music started playing at the end whilst we were still fighting it was a really special moment with like goosebumps and stuff, purely because the boss before that was so hard.

Now its like “oh okay… well this is a nice song but did I even need to be here?”

I am kind of going after the hammer.

I am getting the materials and stuff together but I am not working totally flat out on all night every night trying to do it. I know that I’ll have it before the end of 2013 but I am not going to work myself into the ground doing things that aren’t really fun in order to get it :P

They are worth it in so much as when you spot one you are like “wow that takes a lot of effort, grats” but they don’t really add anything to the gameplay. They’re a social mechanic that lets people know you have a lot of free time and dedication to the cause.

There is a certain NPC from the whispers storyline whose parents show up later on. Since he’s in his early twenties they must be in their fourties or fifties. You can sort of tell.

When you’re not logged in the NPCs are all in a special part of the map we can’t see getting their hair and makeup done so that they always look flawless. Even the Charr.

…

Especially the Charr.

I have noticed that people aren’t very chatty in GW2 compared with the game that spawned it, and its largely due to the way it works. All the mechanics that make the game fun to play also make it hard to type. I love using skills and moving and dodging and rolling around but I keep having to quickly put “two ticks” in the chat when someone asks me a question cos I can’t kill things and talk.

My guild is getting better now with people talking more, but honestly the only times I’ve had an actual conversation with someone through this game is when we were both stood in a city or a safe part of the map doing nothing.

Yes please! Or if not an NPC a special chest in our personal instance that is a bank for town-clothes only.

I have the same series card and the same crash, for a while it was ONLY happening in GW2 but now it’s spread to my other games so long as I play on anything other than the lowest possible graphics settings. I think it’s an issue with the Catalyst Control Centre and no amount of faffing and fiddling has managed to get it to stop crashing other than playing all my games with ugly graphics.

Honestly playing on the lowest settings is depressing given how well this card used to run. It’s an ATI issue not a GW2 one.

Arah isn’t accessible on Gandara again. We have a few guild members who missed our run when it was unbugged last week who have now been waiting 3 weeks to finish their personal story. It’s frozen at the point where Anchorage fell, and there’s still a few pact npcs by the contested wp.

Siege monkeys get the most badges.

Which they use to show off.

Welcome to LoginWars 2

Though they mostly fixed that. Kinda.

Ele’s are awesome to play! The learning curve isn’t that bad, but you will probably have to dodge the most out of all the classes so get ready for that. Deffo don’t unbind double tap to dodge as most people suggest you do, as if you can’t control where you roll as an elementalist then you’re going to end up full of holes.

Here’s hoping you find an awesome server.

I had WAY more fun with Whispers than with the other two so far, several times whispers missions have -actually- had me in stitches. Though in terms of the orders themselves, I would probably have to say that the Priory stuck with me the most.

The Whispers didn’t feel as much like a secret organisation as I thought it would, so where I expected to be spying and getting involved in the subtleties of political intrigue and dragon secrets I was very quickly in the pact and no longer being sneaky. The Priory missions were however exactly as I thought they would be, and I wasn’t left feeling like there could have been more there.

So yeah… Whispers for comedy value, Priory for actual content.

The one thing I take away from this thread is: rediculors.

I don’t have any trouble with rangers on my guardian, wall of reflection means rangers have trouble with me

Gandara would like some more Americans. Preferably ones that are a little bit thick skinned cos some of our residents can be a little prickly. We’re pretty good at the early morning zerg but need people to fill in the blanks and keep our night-owls company with their other-side-of-the-Atlantic charms and anecdotes.

No… you can see up skirts. Regardless of gender. They must have missed this one.

:I I spent the best part of 80 levels looking at my guardian’s knickers, I like playing her so much more now I have Draconic.

I was on vent and the person I was talking to was part of a zerg taking a keep, there were about five sylvari AND a human warrior using a greatsword all getting hit with an arrowcart.

I honestly couldn’t stop laughing.

OMG! That’s terrifying.

She’s like a risen kitten sylvari.

Rurik Mode
Run ahead and aggro all the things in a hotheaded rage, leading to your party fail their objective and refuse to res. Whilst active your aggro range is increased 100% and even passive mobs will want a piece.

Take one for the team
Run into battle without any backup and die from a sudden random avalanche caused by a dwarf riding a drake. There’s no real good reason why you’re there without backup, but the avalanche will confuse and stun your enemies enough for your team to run away to safety in Kryta.

Kormir’s Sacrifice
Teleport to a downed enemy and absorb their powers, enabling the person who actually killed it to qq for the rest of eternity about how you stole their godhood.

Thedenofsin.7340:

1500 dynamic events

25 working in any given week.

Hahaha this.

I can name about ten per zone (and at least two bugged per zone), but when I did completion of Timberline and some of the other later game areas there were so many stalled or bugged events I couldn’t actually tell you how many chained off them. Some zones I went through on my main were really interesting with events going off left, right and centre… going through them again with my reroll and they were all bugged or couldn’t trigger and I did entire maps without a single event.

Well, the pact has already started fighting Jormag in Frostgorge Sound. I think we’ll be getting a new NPC with a vested interest in the conflict however, probably a Norn or a Kodan. I don’t think that Trahearne’s wild hunt will truly end until Orr is a land of nature once more. If his presence continues beyond the introduction of the next arc of the personal story (and it will probably be quite a good arc too) then I will be very surprised.

Fire to burst in, Earth to get them down and start the bleed, Water to support the rest of my party. I don’t use air as much as I did in beta, dunno why.

I’m specced into Water, Arcane and Earth.

My guild have a habit of making the squishy ele pull aggro.

If a transfer costs about £20 in gems then yes it would dramatically reduce the number of people who keep monkey-hopping their way to the winning team time and again.

Currently Gandara is up against Ring of Fire and Underworld, because we’re in the lead we’ve had an influx of new commanders, guilds and players. The commanders coming across are a joke, they’re much worse than our natives and many of the players are not jelling with the existing community well either so we’ve got some social problems :I

I am trying to do spoilers but its not letting me XD Basically don’t read beyond this point if you want all of the sylvari story to be fresh to you. Okay seriously now I am going to say a thing. There is a mirror that pulls those who try to use it directly into Orr, it seems unlikely that such an item would be unique. And are you sure Jormag’s corruption isn’t physical? Turning beings into living ice seems pretty physical to me, as does the corruption of the Svanir infested territory in the shiverpeaks. Certainly Kralkatorrik’s initial zerg was all about physical corruption too but don’t forget that his former champion Glint was ALL about the mental corruption. I’m still not sure whether she was good or evil as she was more than willing to let us walk right into a trap with the lich. I went back and did the bonus for her lair after that on principle.

There is an NPC in the Fort Trinity instance AFTER you kill Zhaitan (aka the real end of the story) that lets you sell crap for tokens. He’s in the bit you can only gain access to through the personal story.

Trolls definitely leave a body when they die in guild wars, however Zhaitan’s corruption doesn’t just affect the dead. Yes raising and mutilating corpses is his primary way of gaining new minions, but there are several personal story quests that imply that he can also corrupt the living.

I’d link specific Wiki pages here but since the game is new I think they’re trying to avoid being spoileriffic so here’s the abridged version:
- In the human personal story you discover that possession of an Orrian artefact can and will corrupt you into a servant of Zhaitan.
- It is implied by NPCs out in the world (the ones that talk to each other when you walk past) that the plague given off by Orrian corpses can make you sick, and turn you to Zhaitan without killing you.
- In the midway point of the personal story you find out that the breath of both Zhaitan and it’s more powerful generals can corrupt perfectly healthy living beings immediately.
- It is also implied by NPCs that living things are taken to Orr specifically to be corrupted. This is supported by part of the Sylvari personal story involving an enchanted mirror.

It is also possible for both Jormag and Kral-whatsisface- to corrupt the living. No matter how much bigger, stronger, smellier or healier (I know it’s not a word but eh) you are, if you come into contact with an Elder Dragon without some sort of backup you are going to be corrupted and become a problem for the player character.

EDIT to remove end of game spoiler.

Neither he or his sister fit the bill imo.

URGH the weather in WvW. I love the dynamic and that you can send storms against particular keeps, but a blizzard rolled into AB and I couldn’t see eff all, ended up getting trounced haha.

It’s a game changer to be sure, and I would love to see it more in PvE but I dunno how well it would go down.

Is Zamon meant to be Elonian?

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I tried my best to make my characters look like their GW1 counterparts so the sister arc was a bit of a letdown.

Gem prices are rising because people are stocking up on gems ready for the Haloween additions to the gemstore. In the same vein fewer people buying gems for cash are selling them because they also want to wait and see what costumes become available, since supply is so low the prices are getting a bit stupid.

This is going to happen everytime a seasonal event comes around so remember to stock up in the good times in future.

Nope no glitch, it’s markedly easier. I started in the headstart access and was one of the many to first zerg my way across Orr… The missions were genuinely challenging and I respected their difficulty, even more so when partying up to help others complete them just made them even harder. They were fun though, not stressful.

Now its like… Trinity is so easy that it’s honestly depressing. It honestly took me the best part of an hour to complete it the first run through and it felt like an epic struggle, granted most of that was Trahearne getting stuck, but still! It was fun. And as for the eye! Well he was a tricky little kitten and I enjoyed the feeling of victory having taken him down, but eh. Faced him on my guardian a few days ago and its just such an easy fight now. Yeah he has his tricks but I didn’t feel like it was a desperate struggle.

It was -somuchworse- in Factions.

After Danika… everything is better.

I get where you are coming from though, and after waiting so long for the game I was disappointed at several areas of the story. Particularly the lack of flow between sections, each one seems to forget not only about the one before it but about everything you’ve done, and at the end of the game I was seriously doubting Trahearne’s sanity after he frequently introduced me to people I had personally recruited and saved.

“Meet these two sylvari and this special artefact that you personally recovered with the help of an asura who now refuses to leave your personal instance. Don’t mind me whilst I just take the credit and pretend you weren’t even there or that I didn’t even send you to go rescue them to begin with. Also who are you? Since I gave you a title I’ve completely forgotten your name AHAHAHA” ¬_¬

Humans certainly don’t seem like a declining race. If this was the writer’s intention it’s not been communicated very well at all. Certainly human society is in decline, with only two of their nations* remaining in the small corner of Tyria that we get to explore during the launch version, but there were other human lands further afield and maybe even lands that we never even got to hear mention of let alone visit.

Then again humanity has been written a more than a little unfairly in Tyria by Arenanet. Humans are equally as smart as the Asura if provided with the proper education and tools, but are often written off as bumpkins or buffoons. I think the temptation of a fantasy realm is to show all the things that do not exist as being better than humans and the real world, when really our race as a whole is much more advanced than the writing team give us credit for.

Where are the human geniuses? Where are the philosophers, the philanthropists, the industrialists and the engineers? Where are the inventors of the teleporters once used in Ascalon and Elona well before the time of the Asura. Where are the explorers and fearless merchants who would sell their sisters for 250e and a rare minipet? :P

Humans aren’t as in decline as the lore would have you believe, but they aren’t getting a fair writeup. The release of GW2 seems to be: the Charr and Sylvari show. Maybe things will change in further expansions.

*Ebonhawke isn’t part of Kryta. They are allies with Queen Jennah but they are a separate entity.

I tend to get the most badges when Gandara is against the Spanish.

Its a horrible and stressful week but at least there’s no shortage of people to kill. Standing behind a gate spamming AoE and Cons at attackers works very well if you have someone with you to ramp up the damage. Just as many bags as on siege. Works best for Ele and Necro tho.

Or if you log out when downed you’re dead when you log back in. That’ll discourage it entirely.

Mesmers…

Unless they have map completion. I love that little gold star letting me know which one is real and which one is not :P

WTB heat vision goggles :P

As an ele I can spam bleeds and cripples around me when a thief goes stealth to do the same damage I would if I could see them, or I can full on mist form and perform a tactical retreat.

As a guardian I can hide inside a troll bubble until the stealth wears off, and spam my AoE type things.

I’ve yet to figure out how to do it on my other characters.

Maybe not bigger maps as it takes long enough to get back in the action as it is, but definitely more maps. Maybe smaller maps with high value objectives to encourage intense spvp style combat or another EB style map with some different mechanics and styles of play.

But please, no more jumping puzzles. o_o

Fenes.6013:

Oh, yeah – more arabic/african/egyptian inspired looks would be great.

As it is I had no idea when I started playing that Kryta was not a generic british fantasy country.

It’s more European than British. There isn’t enough blighty or heads on spikes :P

Oh and frills! There aren’t enough frills.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

jebidiah ubershiet.2580:

rata sum also happens to be built on the ruins of an ancient civilization that no one seems to know the origions of. hmmmm…what kind of ancient peoples might have had a great city full of pyramids and such that would have been somwhere in that regeon…

Orrians are known to have had a presence in the Tarnished Coast. They are also known to be very magical.

Nothing says the civilization who built the ruins were ancient, just that the structures were run down by 1079. Given their location, this could have happened within 100 years easily.

I am glad you think this. I don’t think the structures were Orrian but I do think that whoever lived there was fed to the bloodstones before the Mursaat moved into Kryta.

As for being on topic… Anet have said that they have some plans but that remains to be seen. The fact that the Isles of Janthir are on the world map though suggests that there is a possibility (if only slight) that we will get to go to the Mursaat homeland at some point.

PLEASE give Guardians the spear on land, Arenanet.

/excited :: How are we supposed to weird people out when we encircle them at random? I mean /dance works okay but the GW1 /excited was perfect!

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