Guild Wars 2

I wish we can turn off the combat music. I find it annoying. Every time I encounter 5 monsters or being in a large zerg the mosaic music turns into frustration music.

Boss fight music should change, Jeremy Soule composed more than 200 music pieces please use some of them.

Can we please have the option to turn off the Living Story UI and Dailies on the top right corner. People are complaining and think that you guys are forcing them to do the dailies and the Living World. I think being able to hide these will also reduce the cluster on the screen. Sometimes when we came across a random area the top right screen becomes completely bombarded with stuff. And I don’t understand the point of keeping the Living World UI when we have already completed all the achievements for the current Living World.

I hope the kraits summon leviathans out of that tower and blast their way into Dominion of Winds and fire krait magic towards Isgarren’s Tower. I want to see those Tengu flee to Lion’s Arch. Or just something worth it like Guild Wars 1 story telling like seriously… where are the Elder Dragons?

Cantha
Elona
Lazarus the Dire
Seers
Crystal Desert
Kralkatorrik
Primordus
Bubbles
Jormag
Mordremorth
Leviathans
Livia
Sceptre of Orr
Isgarren
The Wizard’s Tower
Remnants of the White Mantle
Deldrimor Front
Dominion of Winds
Blood Legion Homelands
Janthir
Woodland Cascades
Maguuma Wastes
Magus Falls
Blazeridge Mountains
Elon River
Scavenger’s Causeway
I want to explore the known world:

Not sure which server is the most populated but you can pick one of the top tier North American servers:

Blackgate (World vs World)
Sanctum of Rall (WvW)
Jade Quarry (WvW)
Tarnished Coast (WvW + roleplaying)

Superior Rune of Strength
(1): +25 Power
(2): +20% Might Duration
(3): +40 Power
(4): 3% chance to gain Might for 20s when hit. (Cooldown: 5s)
(5): +90 Power
(6): +5% damage while under the effects of Might.

Bugs:

The 3rd bonus actually gives +50 Power like other power runes.
The 6th bonus does not apply.

The bonus 5% damage is good with Forceful Greatsword (Warrior Trait that keeps Might up). I think it’s good alternative for Scholar Runes if you can’t keep your health 90%+ but it’s bugged as the wiki says.

Scarlet is perhaps rallying forces because she wants to harness an Elder Dragon’s power. Scarlet has ties with the Inquest, and probably aware how to harness the power of Elder Dragons. She seems to have enough infantry, siege equipment, and transportation to face an Elder Dragon. She can be really arrogant and head to Crystal Desert to harness Kralkatorrik’s power. This also is a good segue leading to her own death and we can continue properly with the Living Story, and maybe Trahearne is at the area as well and Kralkatorrik kills both of them.

Back to topic. The krait in the preview have the same greenish colour as Zhaitan’s. It could be that Zhaitan is alive but I don’t know if this is true. The story is getting darker as we go. It is rather odd that Tequatl has become more powerful. Scarlet is missing, she left her prerecorded holograms in Twilight Arbor. The krait are building a colossal weapon near the Tengu Wall and two ticks away from the Wizard’s Tower.

Alts are useful in World vs World when your army is lacking mesmers, guardians, etc. Gearing up alts are easy if you play WvW, Badge of Honor is account bound therefore you can exchange them for level 80 weapon and armor exotics. Karma can be acquired in WvW, also before weekly reset sometimes servers do karma trains. For back piece your alt can participate in guild missions for Guild Commendation. The rest of trinkets are available on Trading Post.

The largos do not interact much with the other races. We only get a sneak peek of the most elusive races in personal story and in Guild Wars 1 campaigns.

I think we should be able to transmute any armor regardless of its class (Heavy, Medium, Light). We only need the looks. If we could transmute any armor we can mix different pieces of armor to look nicer. Also I wish that we can transmute our town clothes with our armor, it’s kinda annoying when you enter combat or underwater the town clothes revert to armor. If Arena Net added this feature, transmutation stones will be high on demand and people who spend real cash in Guild Wars 2 can help support this game even more.

What do you guys think, should we be able to transmute any armor regardless of its class to look nicer?

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Krait allied with someone. This is pointblank obvious. And they did so for power and/or madness.

Of course they will ally themselves to

The Bazaar of the Four Winds was great and has some lore from GW1. The Zephyrites are Elonians and Canthan descent iirc. The Zephyrites grabbed Glint’s magic before it goes in the wrong hands. They created the Zephyr Sanctum and flied it with the aspects. Theres an NPC’s talking about the dragons that are not all evil like Glint at the very back of the airship.

If the krait obelisk could shoot beams, it should shoot at Isgarren’s tower or Dominion of Winds walls.

panzer.6034:

Exosferatu.2961:

panzer.6034:

Exosferatu.2961:

Did they mention that they are giving out more weapon skins? No.

They also don’t mention that there will be an instance to fight mobs in. Care to bet if that will appear next patch?

Kessex Hills is an instance itself LMAO. The areas in Guild Wars 2 are instanced already, that’s why there are portals and loading screens when you enter them. Every area is also perfectly resembles square. Keep your gold to yourself and I’ll keep mine.

So you clearly understood my point that having a story update without weapons skins is about as likely as having one without instances. Gotcha

There were no weapon skins in Cutthroat Politics, Skypirates of Tyria, and Flame and Frost: Retribution.

lordkrall.7241:

Why would it be a “poisonous plot twist” when it is something that is quite logical to do?
Krait are not stupid, and they would do anything to make their Prophet return, and I don’t doubt they would use Nightmare Court in order to achieve that if necessary.

Again, the krait will enslave and kill any other species on sight. Despite of them being serpentine like the Forgotten, they are not friendly at all. And “with the help of the Nightmare Court” that is just wrong. It could be like you said they used them as slaves and not allies.

panzer.6034:

Exosferatu.2961:

Did they mention that they are giving out more weapon skins? No.

They also don’t mention that there will be an instance to fight mobs in. Care to bet if that will appear next patch?

Kessex Hills is an instance itself LMAO. The areas in Guild Wars 2 are instanced already, that’s why there are portals and loading screens when you enter them. Every area is also perfectly resembles square. Keep your gold to yourself and I’ll keep mine.

It is possible that the krait’s prophets are the leviathan. “It is a weapon” maybe because it can summon leviathans.

lordkrall.7241:

Exosferatu.2961:

It is impossible lol. Don’t believe that editorial. The krait will never ally themselves with another race. Nightmare Court is not even mentioned on the official release page.

It is however mentioned on several other sites that reported the review, and usually those sites get more information than the preview page at first.

It is fully possible that they would ally themselves if force to it or see the possibility of returning their Prophet or something like that.

If so, this will be another poisonous plot twist in the lore and the story is going incredibly wrong. Scarlet had a secret base in Twilight Arbor but that did not mean that she allied herself with the Nightmare Court. I don’t see the krait allying with the Nightmare Court at all.

Did they mention that they are giving out more weapon skins? No.

Buy legendary weapons with gems! It’s an awesome way of donating for the game.

It is impossible lol. Don’t believe that editorial. The krait will never ally themselves with another race. Nightmare Court is not even mentioned on the official release page.

The past living stories are really lighthearted and now it’s getting dark. I like the transition.

Serelisk.6573:

Exosferatu.2961:

The Elder Dragons can’t come near Black Citadel to devour Bloody Prince Thorn. They will get torn to smithereens by Charr siege weapons.

This is a gross overstatement of Charr siege weapons. If they could kill an Elder Dragon by themselves, they wouldn’t have signed a truce with the humans. The only reason the Elder dragons hasn’t wiped Tyria out over the last year is because ArenaNet cannot develop at a pace, with any kind of quality, the events one would intuitively think an Elder Dragon would force on the world.

Krlkatorrik alone is supposedly many times the size of the Black Citadel. The city is only the size of his neck, let alone the rest of his body. And just by flying through the air, he created a battlefront not seen since the Wall of Ascalon built by the humans over 250 years ago.

Shooting Kralkatorrik’s neck is enough to kill him.

Serelisk.6573:

spoj.9672:

Its not scarlet. Its obviously the krait witch or something doing the narration. Sounds nothing like scarlet.

In the video, they mentioned dark allies, which is why I don’t believe it’s just the krait

It is just the krait and other krait tribes. The krait are extremely xenophobic compared to the dredge, the flame legion, and the grawl. This serpentine race will enslave and kill all other species on sight. They show no mercy. The krait however don’t know what they are doing with that magic. They will draw the Elder Dragons who feed on magic.

Scarlet on the other hand is missing. She left her prerecorded holograms in Twilight Arbor base. I would say that krait is allied with Scarlet but I did not see any steam punk dangling around the krait tower.

US-Blackgate’s Temple of Balthazar has been cleansed 10/21/2013: 6:02 PM PST.

The Elder Dragons can’t come near Black Citadel to devour Bloody Prince Thorn. They will get torn to smithereens by Charr siege weapons.

The tengu look good as witch hunters. Pistol and dagger spinning in their hands.

Dark Catalyst.1028:

Wait, what? Why would they release a manifesto for public consumption that is not crystal clear and requires “interpretation?”

What was stated was the selling point for the entire game for me.

Because everything does not always go according to plan.

Crawford.4135:

I think the new Ascended gear is just horrible. I don’t know what they were thinking when they came up with it. The Ascended weapons are so dull so I expected the gear would be worse. I wasn’t wrong.

You’d think for something you have to actually work hard for would have something creative, but I was wrong there.

That is just the stuff that was datamined. It is nothing. We don’t actually know what will get released.

I had the same feeling. I wanted pure PvE. I did not want to be part of WvW but after my world completion I got sucked back into it. World Completion just gives you star beside your name for everyone to see and 2 Gifts of Exploration (getting a legendary is not an easy task)… meh.

I enjoy WvW but I can’t get in because of the hour queue. Hopefully, Edge of the Mists comes soon.

To Tumult, I think that’s not the way you should address Arena Net. Post constructive criticism and not just “that’s all they really care about.”

They remove their content later and you can’t ‘watch them later’ unfortunately. Just like in the old days when there were no VHS, CD’s, DVD’s, and BluRays, people had to tune in if they really want to and were invested to it.

Lucky.9421:

I think it is more sad that 99.9% of TQ spawns are a wasteland.

Yup.

Wait, what?

Sirendor.1394:

• Spears:… not in-game yet

Spear is an underwater weapon.

Skirmishes and fighting a pack of mobs trigger the combat music in game. It’s so repetitive and annoying. Can we please have it removed from the game. Save the epic music for boss battles, large fights in WvW, and dungeons. Combat music destroys the relaxing ambient music. At least give us an option to disable the combat music in game. I loved the music in Guild Wars 1, the music does not get interrupted by combat music and I wish it’s like here in Guild Wars 2.

Ashabhi.1365:

Necro:

A true Minion Master build…

One in which we could actually heal our minions instead of watching them die and re-conjuring them.

I kind of miss the old MM build in GW1…kind of…

and for Elementalist, I agree with an above poster about some way to mitigate the double cooldown.

Transfusion now heals more for minions / allies.

Click the link for ‘heals more’ to see developers’ demonstration.

incognito.4019:

<—- Waiting on ESO…. anyone have game suggestions for me? after 1.5 k hours logged there just isn’t enough end game here for me to even bother coming on weekly anymore.

Elder Scrolls Online is so bad. Tedious monster encounters. Awkward PvP. Stiff character animations. Quests are traditional. Even if it’s still in closed beta, the cities are easily packed, it’s like a cattle farm because it’s one server worldwide. It’s too bad Bethesda did not let Todd Howard lay hands on ESO. It’s like a slap in the face for Todd Howard, he’s been developing since The Elder Scrolls: Arena.

Neilos Tyrhanos.5427:

Feralnex.4071:

I don’t like WvW and I have to grind all achievemnts but I don’t want to

Wait, you have to grind all achievements?

Who on earth is making you?!

Haha. For some reason, people force themselves to grind like the OP.

Living World is like a television show back in the days. You will miss a lot of ‘episodes’ if you did not tune in. That is the downside for a casual gamer. They want their audience to tune in at least every two weeks. I log in everyday since they decided to release content every two weeks. I hardly miss anything and I love their content they put up without needing to pay for expansion and monthly subscription. If we compiled all the Living World update since Lost Shore up until now, we have ourselves a content worth of an expansion.

In GW1 we often go on our separate ways so no wonder we had never been to where Devona, Cynn, and Aidan were in the trailer.

The krait build obelisks and its stone found exclusively and rarely on Tyria’s ocean floors. I don’t think an obelisk is buried in Viathan Lake. If the krait are just unearthing an obelisk they need to dig around it and they do not need to cut trees and let us hear the stuff they are building from distance. It is possible that the krait have dug underwater tunnels to bring this type of stone from Unending Ocean to Viathan Lake. The krait are seem to be launching an attack to the Dominion of Winds or if they are confident enough, they will attack Divinity’s Reach.

I normally play PvE and World vs World. Yesterday I tried to get my A Stomping Good Time achievement in sPvP. I did not know I was supposed to capture a point and one guy told me to “Capture the point you idiot.” And my experience in sPvP is kind of like the community of Call of Duty where people are quite friendly.

But how can there be an ancient krait obelisk buried underneath a shallow lake though? The krait are originally from the abyssal depths of Unending Ocean.

I want an anticlimactic death of Scarlet. Like Scarlet was trying to get the krait to her team but instead the krait kidnapped her (which explains why she wasn’t in her secret base in Twilight Arbor) and sacrificed her on top of their obelisk. After Scarlet’s death, a krait then walks by her corpse and wears her wig. The other kraits now worship whoever wear Scarlet’s wig.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Tiger.7506:

Skill > Gear.

You can play all part of the game with exotic.
ANet got burned by players acquiring exotics too quickly
“ascended gear is to be a bridge between exotic and Legendary”

This logic is flawed.

Two players with the same skill -> better gear wins.

What is your point in defending this?

And what kitten gap between exotic and legendary, that gap did not exist before they introduced ascended items… (unless you talk of a time gap in getting your hand on a legendary, which was meaningless statwise…)

Skill matters.

I’m a fan of difficult jumping puzzles and The Mad King’s Clocktower is my favorite part of this update. I wish they add more hardcore jumping puzzles in game like SAB: Tribulation Mode and the Clocktower. I’m going to miss the Clocktower…

Think of it like in real life. For example: you already have a car that is functional but you want a fancier looking car so you have to ‘grind’ and ‘farm’ more $$$ to get what you want. You don’t need to force yourself to get what you want; you can be content what you already have.

The krait will never unearth a krait obelisk in Kryta, zwierz. 250 years ago, Kryta was filled with undead, wildlife, and beaches. The krait recently came to Tyria (continent) during the wake of the deep sea elder dragon.

I’m really curious what Arena Net will do to Viathan Lake. I keep coming back there. It’s a good place to put a giant boss and tons of meta events like in Straits of Devastation leading to Temple of Balthazar.

1) Items should be all account bound. I think it is reasonable to make all items to be account bound. Players worked hard getting geared up and getting skins. There will be armor limits like light classes cannot wear heavy armor as always.

2) We need more super dynamic living world changes like in Kessex Hills. It does not matter if it is the next living world update or not just put them there. I think it’s fun to speculate and read other players’ theories and lore on forums. I really love what you guys did in Kessex Hills!

3) The story in living world should be more darker like Kekai Kotaki’s art. Make it a journey just like in Guild Wars 1 – it is a good way of unlocking new zones in Tyria. Put intriguing plot twists like the White Mantle turned out to be evil.

4) Please make a forum section for Roleplaying here on official forums. Roleplayers and lore tellers will definitely like it.

5) Add piano and violin on gemstore! We have flute, bell, and trumpet, we need more instruments. They are fun to play. I myself play flute all the time in game just to entertain people. I’d imagine an orchestra in Guild Wars 2!

Well, guys. We know Scarlet is missing. She left her prerecorded holograms in Twilight Arbor. Where is she though? She was probably trying to bring the krait to her team but instead she became their slave and soon-to-be sacrificed. Scarlet’s death could be really random be like Rurik’s.

There is a conversation between AUX-1 and Maddox. Kari, AUX-1’s mistress is missing. Maddox sent out a search party but could not find her. Kari might have been captured by the krait or she is invisible and currently investigating Viathan Lake, she is a mesmer after all.