Guild Wars 2

Most of the ANet hacks I heard about were because people reused logins from places that had been hacked. I just use KeePass and had it generate new a really strong password, and set up a separate alias email (a bunch of email services let you set up fake emails that redirect to your real email, so there’s no way for hackers to use your fake email to take control of your real email).

It’s terrible that some people resuse insecure passwords, but I don’t know what ANet can do about it.

This is because of gear. There’s nothing ANet can do about that. Unless you are suggesting that ANet take people’s gear away or give them extra gear, and the only possible response to that involves all the /disagree in Tyria.

Put on low-level gear in lower levels if you’re that worried about it. Don’t make the game more irritating for other people so you can assuage some minor, hypothetical worry.

It sounds like the OP’s problem is only the OP’s problem. Here’s a quick way to solve the problem: Don’t use this to travel if you don’t want to. Nobody’s making you do it!

Also, I think we’re seeing a disconnect between lower and higher level players. The waypoint costs don’t scale linearly, it’s a progressive tax. So lower-level players pay less as a percent than higher-level players.

It’s a completely backwards system, because you don’t want low-level players running everywhere until they know what they’re doing. But high-level characters you do want traveling everywhere so that the game feels alive and lower-level/newer players have people to play with. Aren’t people complaining about how some zones are ghost towns already?

So ANet’s system is punishing the wrong people for the wrong thing, and encouraging the wrong people to do the wrong thing. It’s just a wrong headed system.

I don’t think all waypoints should be free. But just adjusting the cost so it scales linearly would be a big help. And the major/minor waypoint idea might be good too.

Yes yes yes. Being able to travel to Lion’s Arch for free would help so much during events, and with people who are trying to meet up. It would also make it a lot easier for higher-level players to get to other zones.

Kushkah.2935:

If you look on the TP for lower level pants, the Embroidered ones are actual pants, kinda baggy but I like em, had the same issue with everything being a skirt lol.. Just look for Mighty/Vital/watever Embroidered Pants.

I tried those, and the harem pants look wasn’t any better for me. Thanks for the suggestion.

Falunel.7645:

http://www.gw2armor.com/sylvari/female/light_list.php

Pretty much all of them appear to incorporate skirts in some way, but there are some that actually have pants underneath. If one catches your eye, you can try researching it on the GW2 wiki.

Thanks, but those are all level 80 exotics. I’m level 20.

Come on ANet. Is it really too much to ask to play someone who doesn’t look like she defeats enemies with her mad pole-dancing skills?

I’d pay actual money for something that looks good and doesn’t make me feel like I’m looking up someone’s skirt. But since town clothes can’t be worn in combat I’m stuck with varying degrees of embarrassment and irritation instead. And most of the town clothes aren’t any better.

It seems like all the ‘pants’ clothing actually turn out to be skirts on female Sylvari. This is frustrating me no end. Are there any pants that look like pants on female characters? Where could a level 20 find/make them?

Thanks!

This sounds great. A few of those don’t sound too hard to implement, depending on how ANet has coded their engine. The NPC chatter shouldn’t be too hard if there’s a variable floating around with the PC name, and there’s got to be that. It might not be accessible to NPCs yet, but that can be worked with.

Instanced events are probably a lot harder than regular events, but it’s a lot easier to control who’s in them so I’d think they don’t have as complex testing requirement’s. ANet’s dialogue system is fairly rudimentary so far, but I think it could handle changing some parts based on race or profession.

The map bonus is a brilliant idea. GW2 is an MMO, and more ways to pull other players in / be pulled into other player’s stories is almost always a good thing. Plus, ANet could use some refresh of the way they get players to play events anyway.
If this was an expansion, I would definitely buy it. Even if it was a couple expansions – maybe 1 per profession, and one for all the crafting professions?

I 100% fully do not support this idea. ArenaNet has a hard time writing their storylines already, the absolute last thing I was is for them to add a delicate, personality-and-story driven questline about a sensitive issue.

If you’re that desperate for NPC romance, pick an NPC and romance them. Remember, it’s an RPG. If you want to build up a love nest in your mind for your chosen group of pixels, go for it! But no romance storyline is going to satisfy everyone, and it’ll only cause a huge flamewar and hurt feelings. Remember, international game! Romantic expectations vary widely with culture.

ANet should focus on bugfixes, event tweaking, and pulling people into Trahearne’s backstory (or something to improve the personal story).

Whoa.

Obviously you’re having a rough time and I’m sympathetic, but dude – if you’re facing away from the enemy, you’re playing the game wrong.

JayMack.8295:

This is as a result of your character undergoing candy corn addiction.

Or there are a guild of trolling Mesmers running around Tyria.

But yeah, I’ve seen it, too.

Either of those options would be great ways to explain this in-game. And we’ve already got the NPC Hit-U-PC trolling guild, why can’t we have a guild of for-the-lulz mesmers? It makes so much sense!

I like the Sylvari storylines, and the Charr storyline is interesting so far. I hear that the post-race storylines are boring and immersion-breaking, so I may just skip those. But yeah, the personal story isn’t perfect for every profession. The main quest of an RPG never is. GW2 comes a lot closer than some I’ve played, and isn’t as balanced as others.

I do wish they wouldn’t underlevel you on the personal story instances. That would address most of the complaints about balance in one fell swoop, and would give players a lot more of a sense of progression and control. Just let players take on the personal story as they are. The downside would be that people might just rely on leveling for story missions, wouldn’t get the dodging/skill-use knowledge they need, and then we’re hear even more whining about how impossible dungeons are (they are irritatingly bad, no doubt, but the whining is so over-the-top).

Not if you have town clothes, a bunch of Halloween items and storing all the various weapon combos for your chars in the bank.

Different people have different needs. I can understand why ANet wants to limit the space-per-account – it’s a flaw of the central database idea that lets you switch worlds/server. Each account can’t have large data needs (i.e., items stored) to make switching unfeasible. It is annoying, though. If ANet would make a town clothes tab just like the component tab, that would help a lot. And then there’d be even more incentive to spend gems on town clothes!

Ouch. What area are you trying to do events in? Are other people in your server having the same problems? Have you submitted bug reports?

ANet wants to solve bugs, but first they need to know about them. Some may have been fixed, but be in testing and that can take forever.

Sounds like a good idea, but remember people are complaining about low populations and how hard DEs are since there are very few people around to do them. ANet has got to find a sustainable balance between too hard and too easy.

IDK, I’m on Henge of Denravi and there’s always been a few people around in Caledon Forest. The mid-level zones seemed a bit more empty I agree.

Underflow sounds like a good idea though, I know lots of people seem to think different areas are fairly empty.

I’ve also seen this, in Caledon Forest. Doesn’t seem to have any other impact.

Gah. I was confused, sorry about that. Thanks for the super quick reply!

Hello,

I’ve completed at least 3 Events, but my Daily Events marker is only counting 1 event. Screenshots below.

I’ve logged out and back in, so it’s not just a display issue. I have taken the coins from the mails in the game. I changed areas twice, and that had no effect. Can someone please fix this so I can get the daily achievement?

Thank you.

Yeah, I don’t think thieves need to be nerfed. Fixing the render bug/lag, that’s the real issue. If you can’t see the thief of course you’re going to thing they’re overpowered, but really it’s a bug. Fixing traits so that they’re all useable and useful would do more than changing the ones that work.

Elementalist – Dusk Cycle

She dreams of splendid vistas, beauty found in deep waters with the whales and dancing on mountains in snow. Stopping to wonder at the leaf, the pole, the dress, the staff – everything is beautiful. Everything in its right place is beautiful. Jumping, climbing, running, springing, she finds a garden of strength in the Asura, flowering might in the Charr, splendid laughter in the Humans and serene wonder in the Sylvari. Every chance is a chance for joy.

The Nightmare Court’s dream is to wrench away the roots of the Sylvari, and she will fight that with every breath she has. The Sylvari are young, and there is time to sprout beyond their roots. The Nightmare Court would destroy those roots before the Sylvari have come to full leaf. She will not see her people wither and die before this premature pruning.

I think Sylvari would appreciate the seasonal aspects of Halloween, and join in with the Krytan /Mad King aspects just for fun. I hope the Sylvari get their own holiday though, maybe in the spring?

There could be a rotational holiday schedule, one for each race. Humans have Halloween, Norns have Wintersday/Xmas, Sylvari do a growth/renewal celebration in the spring, and Charr do something involving heat (fire, explosions?) in the summer. Or whatever. I just really want to see each race having its own special events, with historical ties, etc.

The chest reward depends on your event level I think. I got the hat at silver the first time through, then 10 ToT bags on silver. When I got gold I got 25 ToT bags. Doing the same emote more than once helped with the gold.

I think what people are talking about is being able to zoom out farther than we can now. That won’t impact being able to zoom in close – it just means that people who like zooming out will be able to. If you want to stay in close you can, other people are just asking for their favorite zoom distance to be supported also.

This sounds like a really good idea. A similar thing for town clothes would be equally awesome, I’m already forseeing running out of space for that and I’ve unlocked 2 slots in the bank already.

Also could special event collectibles get added to the collectible storage in the bank? That would make a lot of sense and be really helpful.

I didn’t see the chest, just because it was covered in brawlers. Try looking all around the area where he disappears and watching for the F option to popup.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Act4 is finish, i got the ach and title. Where is the mk dungeon entrance promised?

ZudetGambeous.9573:

PlagueParade.7942:

I have to ask. Why are they removing the Ascent to Madness dungeon anyhow? Why not keep it till the event is fully finished?

Because it doesn’t make sense to celebrate the defeat of the mad king and his prevention from returning to Tyria if the portal is still open and you are fighting him.

Thanks for the Awesome event Anet, can’t wait to check out the party tomorrow night

Happened to me also.

Thank you! This saved me a lot of time

Hm. Not sure I understand why the book stats are lazy – they wanted a backpack that anyone could wear, so they couldn’t make the stats too crazy or people would be screaming about balance issues. It looks really nice, and helps with the Halloween look.

I’m not a huge fan of jumping puzzles, so I didn’t spend a ton of time in the clock tower.

I loved it. I wasn’t able to do everything, but that’s OK. I was able to do most of it, including some really fun stuff.

The only bummer for me was that there was a level requirement on the Mad Memoirs books because of the areas you had to go through. I was helped by a really kind group of people with the last page of the 1st book and stopped there so I could have fun with the rest of the event.

Hopefully the Mad Memoirs come back next year. I think it could work lore-wise and it was an awesome way to get new players interested in the world and seeing how players work together.

Yeah, that one’s bugged. Try logging out and logging in again in case it’s just a display issue?

Gendel: I think you’re sadly right that some people would say that.

@everyone else – I and most of my coworkers got hit by Sandy. Some didn’t even lose power, all the ones but 2 who did lose it got power back before 5 PM EST. I think Sandy’s a huge problem for property, but the casualty list is still pretty low as far as I know. I think people blew this out of proportion a bit and I completely agree with ANet not postponing the event.

I liked the Mad Realms minigames – hopefully they come back next Halloween. I can easily see the Mad Realms stuff returning every year since it’s a separate setup and can be re-enabled, and the content available in Tyria changing. I think that works lore-wise too.

At least some of the stuff can’t return, since this is the Mad King’s first reappearance in 250 years and a bunch of the stuff is tied in with that.

I do hope the Mad Memoires returns though. I really want the burning book, but I’m just too low-level to collect the pages. Got the first book, though.

Top thread stickied on this forum.

We want to give you a heads up about Phase 4 of the Halloween event. Phase 4 will start at 9:00 AM PDT/16:00 GMT on October 31, and will run until we publish a new build on November 1 (which will be sometime after Noon PDT/19:00 GMT).

Once Phase 4 starts, the Ascent to Madness dungeon will no longer be available – but you will still be able to enter the Mad King’s realm, including the Labyrinth, the Clocktower, Reaper’s Rumble and Lunatic Inquisition.

Also make sure that you will “Attend the Party” in Lion’s Arch once Phase 4 starts, and do not worry: It is a non-stop party, so swing by any time you want!

Happy Halloween.

Attend the party isn’t available yet, that’s the Act 4 event

I’m on Henge of Denravi and really haven’t noticed a lot. Seen a few gold sellers and one ranger-bear train, but nothing really obnoxious.

They’ve said they’re working on it, and it’s only been 2 months or so since the game launched. Plus, the huge Halloween event and all the other stuff going on.

I think ArenaNet got a bit taken by surprise with botting / goldfarming with GW2. But they’re working on it so I’m not too fussed.

Enter all the activities through the Labyrinth boatman. I don’t think entering the through the people scattered around the world counts.