Guild Wars 2

Becka Williams.4978:

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Ventari dying underneath the pale tree has nothing to do with it.

We have MET a Sylvari from ANOTHER tree – and he is not evil.
The Sylvari are not dragon minions – they are immune to corruption.

They are immune to Zaithan’s corruption. Why? Have you seen any risen sons of svanir? And, no, WE didn’t meet another sylvari. A SMALL number of people who did the sylvari personal story have. That doesn’t mean it has anything to do with the living world. They didn’t mention the infinity ball when talking about the steam creatures, for instance.

The personal story is valid in game lore – they can’t simply discount it because only some players have experienced it.

The matter of the fact is that we can say with absolute certainty that there is another Pale Tree and that it produces Sylvari and that they are not evil. It doesn’t matter if that fact has been included in the living story or not – it is canon.

Human brains make shapes and images where they don’t actually exist.
So yes, you might see the shape of a dragon in the map, but it isn’t actually there. And for the record I personally can’t see it…

We have instances of the water on the map forming ACTUAL shapes in GW1 where two of the lakes formed heads that were looking at each other – but that was pretty obvious. If they wanted there to be a shape then you’d know it.

EoTM wasn’t designed to take people away from WvW. It was designed as a WvW map that players could play in when the borderlands and EB were full. Obviously if you aren’t in a heavily populated server then you won’t see the effects of that, but for a lot of people this is a very welcome map.

As to lasting effects on the world – did you not get the memo that Lions Arch is being destroyed? Did you somehow miss all of the changes that each living story update has brought? How the story is progressing?

If you want to complain then be constructive about it, tell us what specifically you don’t like and why you don’t like it – and how it could be improved.

I feel like Kanaxai would struggle to exert influence over someone an entire continent away – and I can’t imagine what he would want in Tyria anyway.

Also Uruz – why would there be evidence of a dragon sleeping? Sleeping dragons are not surrounded by minions – we know this from GW1. Kralkatorrik didn’t have any branded around him whatsoever. Neither did Primordius – of course his champion the Great Destroyer was producing Destroyers, but that’s not the same as the dragon itself.

Yeah no. if there was a meta meta from the get go then sure – but there was not.
It’s not about “staying” through the whole story – some people have played all of the releases but weren’t able to do the meta because some of the meta’s relied on dailies and they may not have had enough time. They’ve already been punished for being unable to complete the meta, don’t punish them a second time for not completing the meta meta.

What is the graphics card?
The specs on the website just say “Intel HD” – which doesn’t help a whole lot. Is it an HD 3000, 400?.

But yeah, realistically that is going to be the biggest downfall of that laptop, the rest of the specs are good but an Intel graphics card is going to impact your performance.

Yeah as people have pointed out – they tried this once with the Lost Shores event in November 2012, it did NOT go well. There was MASSSIVE lag. Constant disconnects. the skill lag was insane – you could cast something and the icon just kept flashing for 10 minutes. So yeah. It doesn’t really work very well and they’re unlikely to ever try it again.

kyro.8162:

http://imgur.com/x6srJem

Uh? What is that supposed to be telling us?

Yeah it’s not overly useful – but then it probably depends on what profession you’re playing.

I’m an elementalist so the Sylvan Hound makes absolutely no sense when I have access to the Earth Elemental summon.

epborden.7492:

I really think it would have just been easier to create a native client. I’m pretty sure the only reason they didn’t create one is because they don’t have any programmers with experience on OS X, or not enough to do anything on this scale.

Because the game runs in DirectX on Windows. It’s not as simple as making an OpenGL client – because every single time they made new content it would have to be done for both DirectX and OpenGL – which would mean having twice as many staff and it would be a massive pain for existing staff because it’s something they would have to be mindful of every time they made something new or planned something.

Of course then you might say they could just switch the entire game over to OpenGL since it runs on Windows as well as OSX – but if their current staff have be trained in DirectX and are proficient in it then what? Do you expect them to fire all those people JUST so that you can have a native OSX client? Then there’s the fact that the games engine is based off the original GW1 engine – once again in DirectX.

I know that it would be really nice to have an OpenGL client, but you have to understand that it quite possible isn’t feasible from a monetary or staffing sense.

Uhh, What is legendary about being able to shell out 200+ gold on the trading post.
In their current state legendaries are not legendary, they’re just a way for the multitude of players who spend a LOT of time in game to show that they spend a LOT of time in game – or that they can play the TP instead of the game.

You won’t see sandbox elements added to the game – the engine doesn’t really support that, nor is that in the overall goal that Anet has for the game. If you want to play a sandbox then go play a sandbox.

Isgarren is some creepy “wizard” who is kidnapping people and putting their souls inside Golems – at least this is the implied story if you listen to the dialogue around Garrenhoff. (Sounds an awful lot like something an Asura would do…)

Ventari dying underneath the pale tree has nothing to do with it.

We have MET a Sylvari from ANOTHER tree – and he is not evil.
The Sylvari are not dragon minions – they are immune to corruption.

Also, Scarlet definitely isn’t trying to become a God.
To become a God you have to take a God’s power – the only way we know for a mortal to do this is to kill a god – and even then Kormir was fighting Abaddon in a weakened state in a realm in which he was imprisoned.

The only other instance we have of someone ascending to the Pantheon is Grenth who overthrew Dhumm – but Grenth was a half god (son of Malchor and Dwayna) so that doesn’t really help.

@AesirValkyr Southun came about because the Deep Sea Dragon caused the Karka out of the depths and up to the surface – where they proceeded to attack Lions Arch and other ports in Tyria. If you mean specifically what it has to do with Scarlet? Remember Canach and the Fervid Censer? He was able to make the wildlife go nuts and it’s sort of implied that Scarlet used the toxins from what Canach did as the basis for the idea for her Toxic tower.

I don’t recall them ever promising town clothes shops – do you have a source for that?

Also they kind of talked about how they were having issues with those activities a while back – and given that activities have proven not to be a massive player-puller it’s understandable that they may have stopped allocating resources to those.

A game is not a static thing, you don’t just decide what to implement and then implement. They learn things every single time they release content and they have to apply what they’ve learnt to every subsequent release of content – which means things that were planned get cut, or delayed, or changed.

Jormag is 45 years after Primordius. Zhaitan is 54 years after Jormag. DSD is 51 years after Zhaitan. Kralk is 50 years after DSD.

So I would say the 50 is only approximate – although obviously 7 years is quite a bit off 50 xD. But yeah who knows, maybe Scarlet has come up with some way to prematurely awaken him? Maybe he woke up a long time ago?

Maybe the killing of one Elder Dragon allows another to wake up to take its place? Who knows.

The PS4, like the PS3, uses OpenGL for the graphics. GW2 is built on DirectX.
Arenanet won’t even shift to OpenGL for the OS X client – so I doubt they have the resources to do so for a theoretical PS4 client either. Also before someone goes shouting off falsities about the PS4 having a higher gamer base than OS X – you’d be wrong. The PS4’s sales aren’t quite high enough for that to be true yet.

Mortifer.2946:

That’s bad I’m university student too, but I always take my computer to my lodging.

Oh I live at home, so I always have my computer. I just have 0 time whatsoever to play.
I’m an English major so the books really just pile up >.>

I haven’t done that PS mission – so I’m still very much on the death to all Quaggans train.

She’s a parody of lots of things.

Also I wouldn’t go bringing anime into this. Anime, and Japanese popular culture in general, operates on a very different level to Western popular culture. If this were Tera, or Aion or Blade and Soul then I would let you – but it isn’t. This is not a game where people run around pretty much nekkid and are insanely ill-proportioned. A woman in a bikini on a beach does not fan-service make – especially when it fits into the plot. If it were the other way around, where the plot existed purely to show her in the bikini then it would be a fan-service. But it’s not.

Agreed – a University student who usually ends up being unable to log in to GW2 every single semester (which is a lot longer than 9 days obviously -cries-).

Keep your Quaggans out of my game please. They are filthy sea vermin that need to be exterminated asap.

Every time a Quaggan opens it’s mouth the collective intelligence of Tyria decreases tenfold.

Death to all Quaggans. This is all.

(But seriously, I do agree that it might be nice to see Dougal do something – I know that not everyone has read the novel, but I don’t feel like the story of Dougal (really who named him…) ends here.)

O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O.
This is brilliance.

I mean sincerely, thank you for this. You deserve an award.

I don’t think “overly sensual” is what they were going for with Jory’s voice. She’s meant to sound like an old timey detective because she is a parody of Sherlock Holmes….

As to Kasmeer’s initial appearance being in a bikini – they were on a beach, the plot was about the Consortium trying to set up a resort blah blah blah, so I don’t think it was that unreasonable. If you want to argue that a woman in a bikini is fan service then I strongly suggest you don’t ever go to a beach xD.

They speak in the “common” language (aka English).
New Krytan, Krytan and Ascalonian are only written languages – they’re still spoken as English.

Obviously Asura, Charr and Norn have their own languages – but we don’t see them spoken in game apart from a few words and those races have all used the common language for quite some time.

Final Rest can only be acquired from a Demonic Chest – which is the Shadow Behemoth Chest. Yes you can buy it on the trading post – but you can do that with every weapon and the person who put it on the TP had to get it from the Shadow Behemoth in the first place.

There is no other creature or boss or chest that drops Final Rest. Check the wiki if you like. Then there’s the fact that originally when the game launched it was not actually in the in-game loot tables which Anet hadn’t realised, meaning that they repeatedly said it dropped from one boss and that somehow nobody had got one yet – then when they did put it in the loot tables people started getting them from SB, and that is the only place they were getting them.

Considering he has been painted as a bit of a misguided hero – he’s definitely going to be helping. They’ve kind of lined him up to be a good guy and his most recent dialogue sort of indicates that they have bigger plans for him. They aren’t likely to kill him off because at this stage that wouldn’t really be either shocking or sad.

>.> yeah but that’s getting a bit silly.
Also Grawl tend to paint/worship things they can see/that exert their power over them. So I don’t really know why Grawl would be painting a dragon that it’s very unlikely for them to have seen – and I don’t think their artistic talent is good enough to just invent it and then do a creative painting.

Robert.4197:

Since Anet has been silent on this, how do we know with 100% certainty that they use the cloud servers and that they are being DDOS’d?

Because all NCSoft products are being effected by this and it would be a remarkable coincidence for GW2 to have issues at the exact same time and be using different servers – especially when they’re owned by NCSoft…

I live in New Zealand, so I -think- that means my times are exactly the opposite to yours, e.g. 3pm for me is 3am for you xD.

As Kalachris points out – it’s NCSoft’s servers, Arenanet doesn’t have a whole lot of say in the matter.

Also it’s a DDoS, it doesn’t matter where your servers are, they aren’t impervious to an attack if someone decides to do so…

The key will depend on where you’re from (different countries have different keyboard layouts).
It should be whatever key is next to “1” on your keyboard – for me it’s ` and ~ (if I hold down shift). <— Definitely works on an ele.

But can you paint in the middle of a cave roof by standing on the walls? Pretty sure you can’t unless you have super long arms – which Grawl do not. Nor can they fly.

Um, last I checked Grawl don’t have the ability to walk up walls O_o?

Scarlet could easily have stood on one of her tables or used her red vines to paint it somehow?

You can add me in game and if I’m online when you’re doing it I’ll be happy to join!

Swagger.1459:

FlamingFoxx.1305:

that’s just lazy and stupid.

the same could be said for not having an auto loot option, non customizable ui, poor in-game reporting features, ascended gating and crafting vs credit card legendaries, plethora of other poor decisions…

I guarantee that if there were an option you would use it, particularly in wvw.

The UI is minimal and non-invasive. The in game reporting features function just fine. There is no ascended gating because the entire game was created with Exotics and legendaries in mind – ascended and legendary are by no means necessary. If someone wants to buy gems with money and convert it to gold then go ahead – it doesn’t give them any major advantage over anyone else.

I don’t think it is a grawl drawing… Grawl aren’t tall enough to draw on the roof of a cave and their paintings have never really been that intricate.

Not to mention I’d be super surprised if they managed to get through a cave of Ice Wurms and past the troll that sits outside the entrance.

Umm. Final Rest is unique to the Shadow Behemoth….

I do agree that having somewhere we can view the models would be cool. Some of them are absolutely gorgeous and the detail that has gone into them is amazing.

The point of the game is to make players work TOGETHER – that’s why there are no factions (WoW/Aion style). So yeah, not going to happen. The Sylvari are NOT dragon minions – they’re immune to dragon corruption.

Seriosuly? You just press it once after battle or ocasionally during battle.
Autoloot does not require you to be standing over the loot – you can move around and leave the bags sitting there then hit the autoloot key to get them from a distance. You definitely don’t have to spam the key… You don’t need a complete keyless autoloot – that’s just lazy and stupid.

I do agree it’s kind of annoying and is a massive oversight on Anets part.
The entire personal storyline is soloable – the final mission should be too.

I understand that they want people to group up – but very few people are interested in doing story missions – especially Arah. They aren’t something people re-do because there is no reward for doing so and it’s pretty difficult to get a group of 5 people together at the same time who all need the same story dungeon.

The big suggestion I can make – find a big guild and see if there is anyone who hasn’t done it yet or is willing to help – it’s really your best shot.

Good luck!

A lot of the bosses do have special drops – they’re just really rare.
e.g. Tequatl drops a unique Wing backpiece skin.
The Shadow Behemoth drops Final Rest, a really kick-kitten staff.

Personally I think there is a lot of good looking armour in game – there have only been a couple of armour skins released on the gem store and none of them have been overly impressive.

I’ve stopped attempting – but when I was my server (SoS which is one of the more populated serves) never had enough people doing it to take on all three wurms. We generated overflows constantly for the Marionette, but nobody was interested in doing the Wurm because the difficulty to reward ratio is just ridiculous.

If you remove the bronze chest then NOBODY except the really organised massive guilds would do it – you have to address the major problems, which is the number of people needed, the time it takes, and the difficulty.

Dark Jericho.8609:

What’s this about a dragon that’s under terrain/map glitch? I’ve never seen or read about it until now.

I know that you can see Zhaitan’s corpse if you glitch under Orr – but that’s not particularly noteworthy or surprising.

The god’s didn’t take on humanoid forms – the way they look is literally how they look.

The giganticus lupicus are implied to have been wiped out by the Elder Dragons during the last rise – not in a war, just because the Elder Dragons are near unstoppable forces.

As Kalachris points out there are a LOT of inaccessible portals/closed gates in game. They’re basically there so that at some point further down we Arenanet can open new zones without having to alter existing zones to make room for portals/gates. They’re basically future proofing the game

Uhh, you have never seen bubbles – bubbles is not in game – at all – not even in map glitches.

Also I feel like I need to clarify that Elder Dragons are different from regular Dragons.
Elder Dragons – Zhaitan (the only one we have seen so far in GW2), Primordius, Kralkatorikk, Jormag, Mordremoth and “Bubbles”
Dragons – any other dragon e.g. the Claw of Jormag, The Shatterer, Tequatl, the dragon in the Sylvari Dream, Glint etc.

Kamikae.9536:

I was really hoping they would have this fix out for the weekend. It’s sad that we have to wait another 4 days before it’s even possible to get the update.

I really wish there was some way the Guild Wars 2 Mac community could show ArenaNet that we are committed to them if they will work WITH us. Plus we can pressure Transgaming to put out a 64bit Cider almost all Intel Mac’s I know of are 64 bit why in the heck are we still running a 32 bit wrapper from Transgaming,and why aren’t they all over the OGL update it’s not like Apple just sprung it on them the other day and said Oh by the way here’s a bunch of new OGL stuff weeee.

~Pants Heavily~

There’s my rant for tonight

Because they’re the only service like this that caters to companies looking to easily bring their game to mac. Moving to 64bit would require them to do work – right now they know they can leave things how they are and not lose a single cent for it – because they’re the only place a company can go unless they’re willing to create their own native OS X client. SO pretty much – transgaming = corporate greed, both Anet and their customers kind of lose out.

It would be problematic having it in game/
The Charr are steampunk and cyberpunk kind of clashes with that, and the Asura’s Golems are meant to be very technologically advanced s- Cyborgs would make Golems redundant.

Ok right, I thought so but I’m too tired to distinguish between jokes and stupidity >.> (I don’t think you’re stupid though DBM, I appreciate your sarcasm).