Guild Wars 2

0. Search doesn’t work
1. Can’t delete topic – I just stupidly created a topic with a question, then tried to google the issue (because I can’t use this forum’s search, doesn’t work) – found answer. I tried to delete topic by deleting the first post? And now there’s a topic without post. I hope it gets cleaned up.
2. Several of my messages have been deleted. I don’t post much, but when I do I never post insults or crap. The only thing I could think of that could be deleted was my jubilation after watching a trailer to one of Season 2 releases.
I only ask that a reason be provided for deletion, and the text of the deleted post.

Otherwise I’m just frankly insulted.

The search on these forum is abysmal. It returns nothing most of the time, 1 post in best case scenario. I have to google posts on this forum lol.

I very much hope 1-10 personal story is unlocked at lvl 1, or RIP key farming, RIP WP’s challenge, and welcome to ‘I created a new character – what do I do now? :S’

4) company is being sold to Japanese

Thanks for your support, veterans, but we need more veterans (you guys aren’t paying us enough). Thanks again for your support!

Yeah well and I won’t probably be spending as much cash as I was this summer on this game until a change comes out that makes me want to play it.

I have to jump onto the wagon here: I am soooo disappointed with this announcement.
I’m starting to lean towards the mood that no major cool changes will ever happen.

I was very excited for what was coming, hoping it’d make me want to roll a lvl 1 character and have fun experiencing new changes. I was hoping that something would be replayable for lvl 80 characters. Maybe not rebirth, but something added to the game where my 80 must go back and collect lore or something that wasn’t there before.

The changes listed are just.. lacking. Ok, I get better loot. I honestly don’t mind the loot I get now while levelling because it’s all garbage anyway until you get to 80. You level too fast in this game (which is a good thing!) for loot in between levels to matter much. Ok, I get things in chunks now – but as a veteran, really, I know all that stuff, so levelling from lvl 1 will feel almost exactly same as before because there’s nothing new. (As opposed to having to unlock all traits doing game content – that change is awesome, and I was hoping for something similar). I really dislike the change with weapon skills – I love that I have to unlock each weapon, it made sense.

Honestly, after watching WoodenPotatoes GW2 4 years back vid, I was so hoping they’d put some lore in the game. It is still a gaping hole for new players – you might have made it a bit easier to learn the game, but the lore and personal story just as confusing and lacking as ever. A new player will be as clueless lore wise as they are now by the time they reach 80.

So very very very disappointed and sad. Love this game, not saying I’m still not hoping for great things – but very disappointed with this announcement, and sad, that’s all. Waited for it for a week, heh.

“The new Home Portal Stone is now available in the Services category for 900 gems. Players can instantly travel to their home city instance and return to their original location on demand.”

I can’t find it in the store – am I doing something wrong?

Nassai.5346:

I have theory: Rytlock maybe knew that he can cleanse Ascalon from it’s curse but he did’t do it because he knew that without out something charr can fight they would turn against other races and he just wanted to ensure peace. And now when another more powerfull dragon is rising he know that they can’t fight Ascalonian ghosts and this dragon.

Nah I don’t see Rytlock reasoning that way. They still had Flame Legion to fight, and removing ghosts early would mean the Legions could focus more on building up their strength. Plus if that’d be the case Rytlock’ll just get crucified.

There’s probably some plot twist there where they find something out Rytlock can do, and judging by the argument he seems to have with Rox in the trailer, it’ll have some dire consequences (hopefully to the humans :P :P)

Rytlock does his thing and Jennah dies! Tun dun dun. Can Logan and Rytlock ever get past this? No. Logan turns out to be the heir, he cancels all treaty negotiations, declaring war on the Charr! Charr take Ebonhawke, general slaughter ensues.

j/k

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
pees herself after watching the trailer

Ronin.7381:

Who said it was in the center of the whole picture? You practically flew through it. When we get a glimpse of what we believe is the Eternal Alchemy (7 orbs) I didn’t see a tree….

Hm I must be confusing the two then, it’s in the center of Scarlet’s picture, yet not in the eternal alchemy one, correct. Scarlet’s picture may have been wrong or representing a different thing. I thought they are the same thing, I might be wrong.

Edit: Now I look at it again (http://media.tumblr.com/7d7d7ca78a4c4e151387175c6f267cc8/tumblr_inline_n8jcgqSIkJ1shxjuk.jpg) Those might not be ley lines at all, but just the rings of the sphere – Tyria – with Pale Tree in the middle. I know NPCs dialogue in game does say this is a picture of lei lines, but NPCs could be wrong too. Or the picture’s wrong. All speculation. Meh. I like the Pale Tree = Dragons = Force theory. I’ll stick with it till game proves me wrong :P

But then why’s the pale tree in what seems to be the center of eternal alchemy? Go figure. I think we might be stuck with sylvari for a while. Bow to your new overlords! (j/k)

Mikuchan.7261:

Arguing about “simplicity is beauty” doesn’t work because it’s not an argument, it’s just how you want it to be.

Yes! Precisely. This is why it’s all theory.

Mikuchan.7261:

The Pale Tree is not the center of the leylines in Tyria though. The center is under the Shiverpeaks according to the placement of Scarlet’s thumpers. https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/122724/drachenenergie4.jpg

That just shows to me there’s an intersection point :P

Your objections are valid, I agree. But Pale Tree being yet another god is just somehow not fitting into anything for me. Human gods look like they might be tied into 7 orbs somehow, but then again why would Pale Tree add to the pantheon? There are no openings left as far as I can see. (Dwayna, Balthazar,Kormir,Grenth,Melandru,Abaddon,Lyssa = 7)

Tyria’s ‘Dragon’ wouldn’t need to siphon anything at this point as Tyria is in the center :P Once it’s out, it would reach out to the center and start sucking it all up. :P

Meh, no point arguing really. It’s all theory. We’ll see as it progresses. But yes I’d much rather Pale Tree be manifestation of the same things dragons are manifestations of, rather than another all-saving goodie god. Neutral force of Eternal Alchemy just makes more sense from asuran point of view ;P

Mikuchan.7261:

I could accept that the Pale Tree could be a “facet” like the other dragons are assumed to be, but in that case they are clearly not the same type of “facet” since the pale tree clearly isn’t a dragon while all the others are.

How is it obvious it’s not a dragon? If dragon is simply a manifestation, a form force of other realms that sucks magic takes on Tyria, then Pale tree might be same force (responsible for Tyria), assuming a different manifestation.
If it was a different ‘facet’ that would suggest Tyria is somehow special and different. Which wouldn’t fit into this picture of eternal alchemy of 7 realms. The beauty of the theory is in its simplicity, and that is that every realm can take the center place if getting the magic ‘core’.

Mikuchan.7261:

Edit: It also seems like the Pale Tree does not have a leyline since Scarlet didn’t probe in the direction of the Pale Tree. Although that doesn’t necessarily mean that there isn’t any.

From the original Scarlet’s picture it did seem there’s no ley line in the center and Pale Tree was apart from the surrounding 6 entities. But after watching the Eternal Alchemy cinematic it seemed to me that the tree was in fact the concentration point of all the ley lines, and looked like it was woven from them, which would make sense if it’s in the center point of Tyria’s ‘magic core’

So WP is back with speculations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Atrl9JIu_8&list=UUYUY9_i44IDNOs_Ja815mlA

And I absolutely love the theory about the realms. (I’m referring to the eternal alchemy cinematic here)
So lets assume for a second that those spheres are realms, with Tyria currently being the dominant one – the one with most magic.

Suppose one of the dragons succeeded in getting most magic out of Tyria. That would plop Tyria to the edge, with another realm into the center.

Then Tyria MUST have a DRAGON to contend for magic.

So I say: Pale Tree is that dragon. Not literally, but dragons being manifestations of certain forces (all theory), pale tree is just a manifestation of our realm’s force, and she’s naturally guarding our magic.

So she’s not evil, but she is basically the same thing dragons represent on other realms. Of course she wouldn’t assume a dragon’s shape as we all know those are bad guys. But ultimately she preaches to us to follow the Dream so that we do not stray from the path, and finish off dragons one by one, putting them back to sleep, thus safe guarding Tyria’s position in the center.

And why wouldn’t we? We live on Tyria.

Pale Tree is EVIIIL. (j/k)

Duke Darkwood.4237:

Gimli.9461:

I’m all about immersion.

Eight people somehow simultaneously holding the same gathering tools doesn’t sound immersive.

In fact, you missed the threads that popped up protesting the announcement of “account-wide gold”. Saying that magically having the same wallet in everyone’s pocket at once was breaking immersion.

What you are asking for is a convenience, but NOBODY would call it immersive.

“But they DID change that, so why can’t they change this?”

In the end, I think the issue is that these are actual items, and go in a slot that is also being used for NON-infinite versions. The question is, “Can they code this to work this way WITHOUT reprogramming the game from scratch and WITHOUT breaking anything while they do it?” The answer to this is usually “no” – programming is not magic, it has rules. I don’t pretend to understand them, but there are people on these forums who DO know programming, and can back me up on the fact that it’s complicated to make “small” changes, when they’re tied into core gameplay – everything touches everything else.

If it is possible for them to do without more work than it’s worth digging through, then maybe – maybe – this can eventually happen. I put those odds somewhere in the realm of microscopic, though.

…
You consider it non-immersive simply because you consider these items to be unique. I do not. It’s purely player’s choice whether they want to run around believing this pickaxe is unique, or believing there are many copies. I fall into the latter category. In fact I can buy 8 copies now, I’d just have to spend ton of money. ANET should understand no one will, they’ll rather pass them through the bank (unless these are different skins – then I might buy another one), thus this suggestion. This would change nothing, just make it more convenient.

I am a programmer, surprise surprise. Unless you have their code, you cannot state one way or the other whether a change would be difficult or easy. It depends on how they coded that piece, they might have coded it badly, they might have coded it well. I am not making any statements here as to how easy or complicated it’d be to make the change, I am just suggesting they make the change.

RyuDragnier.9476:

…which makes me realize, IF Jenna is aware of all these possibilities, she could possibly be behind the seperatists as well as several other things, just to keep her role as Queen necessary against these ‘evils’, and prove nobody else is worthy of the thrown. Meaning she would be a Magnificent kitten to end all Magnificent kittens in this game.

You, sir, have a beautiful mind.

Jennah is evil! I always thought she manipulated Logan into feeling like he was her one and only champion, basically tying her to him in eternal servitude. If you read the Edge of Destiny novel, after every feat Logan performs with the team, Jennah would send him this mail (almost typed email lol), turning the entire thing around and casting it in the light as if he’s done it for her, and how she relies on him, and how he’s her last protection against all evils.

Thus brainwashed Logan abandons the team while fighting the Dragon, and we all knows what happens.

Jennah doesn’t love Logan, she’s a coldhearted calculating ….h! If she’s behind separatists that’d be so delicious.

Can the infinite gathering tools once purchased come in mail to every character, similar to the 2 week banker etc? I don’t see any reason why they shouldn’t, they are account bound so not like having a copy on each alt changes anything?

I have tons of alts and I keep switching between them daily, and I hate having to go to bank, put the tools in, then out with another char, then back in, then out…

Only thing that would change is me spending less time, and not spending extra 3 silvers to port to bank; which shouldn’t be a huge deal I think?

Oh no. What if the heir is Logan?!
Incest! Burn them alive!

Jennah. The whole set up with her being last known heir of Kryta, but there actually existing someone else who’s an heir but no one knowing who it is (Human Personal story episode when you join one of the orders → listen to NPC talk before you talk to them; Order of Whispers guy states they suspect or know another heir exists).

So – amulet’s showing someone’s face, noone knows who it is.
My guess is we’ll be involved in finding this heir (I really hope it’s not Kasmeer :P – “I love what you are wearing! I must get a dress in those colors”)

Or maybe the heir will be targeted as well?

Trahearne I think fills a role that’d be hard to fill with someone else, so I doubt they’d kill him off. It would mean most likely the orders would become disorganized again, and I doubt that would happen at this point.

It would make sense for Mordremoth to target treaty negotiations I suppose, yet I wonder why Jennah is hinted at as very important. There might be something else there. Is this cause her throne is on a bloodstone shard?

I doubt it’ll be Trahearne, I’m very excited for Jennah to be targeted.
Krytan Amulet showing heir of Kryta => this ties in very awesomely with human personal story, the episode where you join one of the orders, if you listen to the converstaion order representatives are having they say Jennah is the last known heir; and then the whispers agent says ‘maybe’ , indicating that Order of The Whispers suspects or knows that another heir exists.

Apparently noone knows who they are. I really want a look at that amulet.
Maybe Jennah and Logan made a baby? :P And Jennah has been mesmering her stomach away?
What if the heir is Kasmeer. Oh boy Kryta will go down the ….er then.

As for Trahearne, they need someone to fill that role of a person who leads everyone, but actually does nothing as far as you are concerned. If they killed him off everyone’d start bickering again and dragons win. the end.

Takes out her crystal ball
I foresee.. all waypoints getting disabled on July 15th, and not re-enabled until you defeat Mordrimoth.

Immersive runs to your destination are now mandatory! Hurrrraaaa!

An example of notepad using New Krytan font:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/tr6SzA5.png[/img]

I installed New Krytan Cursive on my Windows 7 and changed Skype font to New Krytan. It’s a great way to learn it – everything I type and receive is in New Krytan. Will work with anything else that supports font changes.

So for anyone who wants to learn the language, I think this is a pretty neat way:

1. Install New Krytan Cursive font: (can also get Classic Krytan)
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/new-krytan-font-t10510370.html

- download the files (click the lower smaller download button, first big one is an ad I think) ; the file should be called New Krytan Caligraphy.7z
– extract the .ttf file and double click it (eg I extracted with 7-zip)
– if you are in Windows 7 you should get a window with ‘Install Now’ – install it

Note: No viruses in the zip, you can double check by scanning on VirusTotal.com

This adds a font to your list of fonts. You can now use it anywhere – text editor, instant messager, etc. It just means what you type will look like new krytan, but if you send the text to anyone or paste it here, it will appear as normal to other people.

2. Change Skype font to New Krytan:
– Go to Tools -> Options -> IM&SMS -> IM Appearance – Change Font
– Pick New Crytan from list of fonts

Everything you send and receive will appear (only to you) in New Krytan

Enjoy!

Devata.6589:

What is a lore system?

See description above (which I posted before I saw your question)
To give you some examples:
You create a character, and run through the tutorial in charr lands. You find a book lying around in catacombs: You read it and it’s a story of a human girl that used to lived in Ascalon before charr took it back, mentioning some stuff from GW1.

Another example, in the Black Citadel you find a journal which is an account of an episode from Rytlock’s life (ooo exciting).

Another one:
You fight a bunch of skale lurkers in Metrica province, and upon killing say 10 of them you unlock an encyclopedia entry on Skale Lurkers, where it can give some general info about the creature, but also specify more practical things: for instance that their strongest ability is to go invisible for a few seconds, and that they are susceptible to fire , or something.

Living story example:
When we got into Scarlet’s lair, there were a lot of objects to infer information from. Added to that there could be an actual exerpt from Scarlet’s journal, written by her.
The short stories put up during this year’s living story could be all added to the game as living story episodes come out. You log in, start playing the instance (eg Lion’s arch assasination one ) – and you find a book containing the short story about Evon. Or the story describing where Scarlet came from – that could be in game, under everyone’s noses, instead of on the website.

etc etc.

All these will get stored into Lore storage you have for you to read and re-read later if you wish. It will also keep track of whether you found all the lore available in that instance/map/world.

Just realized how this might be confusing, so I"m going to explain the lore system I’m talking about (the wildstar one).
NOTE: I’m not looking to flesh out a lore system in this thread; I’m just suggesting there be one. So please don’t go wild on details of the system. Or skip this post altogether if you got the gist of my suggestion.

- when you create a character, you start out with EMPTY lore book (codex, whatever, it’s another button like ‘bring up your inventory’ only it brings up the lore storage)
- it’s account wide – ie if one character finds a page, all other characters also have it unlocked;

- as you go through the world exploring, on each map (city/pve/any map) you can find parts of books, or entire books. Once you find them it unlocks the book in lore section (or you might have to find 7 pieces of one book to unlock entire book) – you get notification and you can dive right into reading it while you are still in that location

- lore is organized by:
1. maps (shows how many books you found, and how many are there in the map in total)
or races? or major historic periods/events? maps seems appropriate for ease of fully exploring the lore on the map; but something else might work better for gw2
2. there’s another section called encyclopedia which fills in as you encounter things: plants, ores, places, animals, what have you in the world

So you can think of section 1 as journals, short stories, reports, communications, etc kind of things – something that happened to someone.
And section two more of encyclopedia type – but they both start empty and you have to fill them in by exploring.

You can add to that books that lie around as you do personal story or living story – if you missed them, you don’t get the info, replay. Some might be very obvious – lying right there for you to unlock and immerse yourself into the quest much more if you read it right away. But you have to have the info of how many total there are in the instance.

Hope this makes sense.
So you can see it’s not about being lazy, it’s about having lore in-game, in big quantities, organizing it, unlocking it, having it there as you encounter things, having it there for later for you to reference and go all nostalgic; having it there in quests for more immersion.

Blazing Liger.1236:

So….basically, instead of exploring on your own and finding things out within the game, you want Anet to puke out pre-digested lore ‘books’ for you to read because you’re too lazy to go out and look for it yourself?

People above already clarified my position pretty well.
So no, it’s not me being lazy, it’s me wanting to do exactly that – “exploring on my own, and finding things out within the game”. It’s just what I find is 3 sentences, where it could be pages of lore, which already exists on wiki. And again like above poster mentioned, somethings aren’t at all catalogued within the game.

You could for instance take White Mantle. You can only find out about white mantle in gw2 in couple ways, off the top of my head:
- by picking the Parents story line on human
- by doing a heart in Brisban which, upon completion, if you talk to the heart guy again he will tell you their mission is about White Mantle; also talking to scouts walking there gives you tiny bit more.
There’s probably couple more places they are mentioned.

But none of this goes into the story of White Mantle, and there’s so so much! I watched youtube videos on WoodenPotatoes channel, and that channel is where I get most of my lore tbh. I can’t just go start reading entire wiki – it’s like reading encyclopedia. Would you go read book about Pyramids or Egypt right now? Probably not. But if you were inside the Pyramids or near them, you’d probably be more inclined to read about it then.

There are so many things in GW2 which have rich history (which GW players have played through) and none of it is in game. It’s just a shame.

And yes I suspect they probably will never add this. Hopefully whenever GW3 comes around, Lore system will be something every mmo has So they’ll have to put it in.

Cyanchiv.2583:

I don’t believe all lore related things should be part of the normal map exploration, or achievement line, because it wouldn’t be fair to players who don’t care about the lore at all. They make just enough of it part of exploration and achievements so some players have direction when seeking lore, and not too much so some players don’t feel ‘forced’ to participate in it.

They wouldn’t . They whole reason I mention wildstar is because their lore system is great, imho. What you have are lore books/journals/articles in an organized lore codex which you unlock as you explore, and can read at your leisure. I do not suggest making this part of map completion. You would be able to completely ignore lore as a player, or get books to get the unlock lore achieves – and never read them.

However this lore system would provide a whole different immersion level for an explorer gamer type. Right now all you get is 3 sentences per interaction in the living story, or personal story, and while it summarizes the story ok, it still feels like regular shallow mmo story due to low volume / lots of action ratio. Not to mention you can never go back to that dialog.

Now with the lore system like wildstar (sorry, I know, gw2 forum, but why not borrow a good feature or at least look at that feature to see how they do it? I’m sure they will or already did.) – half way through a quest they dropped a book, which you don’t have to read, but if you do read it, you are immersed on a wholly different level because it’s a whole page describing current events.

I’m really enjoying it.

Yes there are explorer achieves and plaques and whatnot, again, low volume of lore. And it is exactly because there’s a whole forum dedicated to lore, and massive amounts of lore in gw2 wiki, and they do write short stories for christ’s sake! (which never make it into the game) This is exactly why I want a lore system to be able to experience this fully in -game. It is wasted right now on most players, they never see it, and immersion breaks if you just google it, for me at least. I guess it’s me reading the lore vs ‘my character’ reading and learning the lore. While I might be knowledgeable, my character is dumb as a .. whatever you think is a good comparison.

Even wildstar has it. And I hate that game. I hate everything about it.
Yet I play it – only because it has lore system.

I wonder, are there really so few players out there who enjoy exploring the world and finding lore, and reading it? Because I did search on ‘lore’ in this forum and came up nada (maybe the search is just bad).

Anyway, lore system – would also provide a way to get those short stories into the game, more achievements, more reasons to explore the map; would just add more depth (on the lore side) to the game and make all of us explorer bartle types out there oh so happy. (or at least me)

Pretty please?

Hehehe nice post.

If anyone annoys you in whispers, peoples, I highly recommend the great feature GW2 provided: Right click the name and ignore the kitten . You are playing games for fun, just remember that.

I also highly recommend the easy interface for filtering out map/say/etc channels: had to turn off map channel when playing southsun survival once because a few people decided we now shall farm it and were trying to tell everyone what to do. General drama ensued: you’re kittened, get to the camp fire – I want to play this the way I want – you’re kittened – etc. Not something everyone wants to be a part of, for sure.

It’s real simple:

Timer’s there to make the game stressful and not enjoyable, and thus to make you love it more.
We already seen games do this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hxf-jb8f3Q&list=SP561514793F6CB99F&index=3&t=0m15s

Because we all know that people want to be stressed and under pressure and racing to get that loot while playing their games.

Who cares that you want to pee, you gotta kill that thing first! Your bladder can burst for all you care.

Living story, appearing for a few weeks and then disappearing forever, brings that level of pressure to a new level: you’re stressed out 24/7 about your game as well, on top of your job.

It’s a quantum leap in gamer acquisition and retention strategy.

All hail The Timer.

So I’m very not clear on when this things spawns.

They said, same as Scarlet, so I wrongly assumed it’s on the hour.
IS it still on the timer as it was before the patch?

I see ppl say ‘you will see an update in upper right corner’ same as scarlet.

So..

Teq spawns ~every 3h? and my only way to see he’s spawning is to notice that sentence in the upper right corner change within a ten min window, and hope that i’ll get an overflow with enough ppl to kill him?

Waa?

Again an event I can’t get to most of the time? Balls to it

I did see some yellow letters telling me Scarlet’s attacking in Iron marches. Would be nice if same thing was there for Teq, in your face big yellow letters.

Right now I have no clue.

Cannot find an answer to this anywhere:

will chance of getting essence of luck be greater for green items than blue?
will chance of getting essence of luck be greater for salvaging higher level items?

Thank you

So my invasion canceller is stuck at 7/13, and my friends of fire and frost isn’t advancing at all, stuck at 0/2.

Meaning I can’t get the completionist because of the bugs.

Great

I did the scarlet invasion in Fireheart rise twice now both in overflow and my achieve still says 0/2

Squirrelfanatic.5679:

I would be more than happy to pay for new areas that could bring back the thing that made the game interesting for me in the first place: exploration.

+1

I’m gonna go play Skyrim! Weeeeeeee

Agreed, no back story behind scarlet so far => why should I bother?
GW2 seems to have turned into a ‘join a zerg and run from champ to champ’ game => boring, mindless and annoying. Not to mention if I didn’t have a new computer I wouldn’t be able to play this content at all.
More timed events => more annoyance.

I’d prefer:
All maps spawn invasion => less players on each, more challenge, more tactics required
Instead of Champs only dropping rewards, every event drops a reward => solo as well as zerg play encouraged, to each his own.
FOR GODS SAKE give us the option to turn off other players effects! I can’t see anything.

As things stand right now, I"ll play gw2 to see what living story brings every two weeks, other than that since I explored the entire map, I’m off to better games. And even the living story might not hold me here for long, it’s much too shallow so far.

Are the armor skins from The Sad Tale of the Ravenous (order of whispers, human) – see picture attached, available anywhere in the game??

Or the top?

For Medium armor (ranger)

Thank you

Well the second option is for it to assemble itself All you’ll have to do is find the book and interact with it (which you already do), upon which it’ll be copied and added as a collectible to your inventory.

Once you get all the pieces it’ll piece itself together and added to your library.

The added bonus here is you can read the full book without running around by going to your library, as well as view all the books you found, and all the books you only found parts of.

Here’s a thought for introducing short stories in-game and motivating players to look for lore bits:

We already have books in-game (eg Ebonhawke, around 20 volumes scattered around)

So do the same thing, only upon reading the book the player can ‘copy’ said book and deposit it much as he does his collectibles.

Upon finding all the pieces of a given book (because lets face it, the 20 volumes in ebonhawke are just one book, or rather one short story), we can do:

a) Player goes to his bank, collectibles tab, new Library/Historian section, and arranges the found pieces. If he puts two consecutive pieces together correctly they merge. Repeat the process until you get entire book => upon which you get an achievement.

b) Pieces merge automatically or just are stored in collectibles until all are collected at which point they assemble into a full book.

End Result:
Achievement for finding all pages of a book
A book stored in players collectibles he can read at his leisure

I would prefer a) way, that way it’s like being a historian and putting the pieces together

I think it’d encourage players to seek those out as he/she will get achievements for them. And collecting a personal library is just great fun for me, I love the lore.

Also, items like quill and paper and ink could be introduced that you have to carry around to be able to copy a book. Like ‘Historian Kit’.

Got this idea after watching one of the last WoodenPotatoes videos, on the shortstory about Rytlock and Rox

I picked an arena with 1 person there and i’ve been waiting for 15 min , and still waiting.

I’m sick and tired of events where u have to stand around waiting. Cut it out Anet.

Uhm ok, I went through all the karma vendors and the pics of light leggings including ascalon, fireheart, and all of ore, and all of them have a skirt on top of the pants.

I am talking about tight pants like thieves/medium armor ppl have. No effing skirt on top.

If you can link a single light item of light pants that are tight and have no skirt I shall be infinitely grateful.

Give us the tight leather pants skins for casters!

I want my mesmer to wear tight pants.
As things stand right now, I only have the balloony Alladin’s girlfriend pants sadness

Can we have the option to turn off other player’s equipment/weapon effects?

Why:
My fps drops 30 frames when a Zenith staff is running around spewing lights all over my screen. It also hurts my eyes and is highly annoying.

Now every 2nd player out there is going to get a zenith skin and I’m frankly not looking forward to the game completely losing its realistic look and turning into anime pretty lights christmas party.

A bigger issue is providing an option to turn off other player effects completely (meaning skill effects). You (Arena Net) in fact do not support players with older computer systems at all. I bought a new machine 2 weeks ago and believe me game’s great and fast now. Before however I couldn’t participate in large events such as the Maw in 1-15 Shieverpeaks area because I would lag so bad the mobs would be dead before I could land a hit. Neither was I able to do WvW at all when more than 2 players were around me. Thank god I have the 2 grand to waste huh?

Now this issue has been brought up A LOT (too many effects and can we please turn them off), and frankly I don’t understand why this option (to turn them off) cannot be provided.

All other mmo’s I played had the option to:
a) show my effects only
b) show party’s effects only
c) show all effects

Thanks

Yes please remove, this is ridiculous. I get this msg too often, both when i was spawned couple seconds late into the race, and when i was spawned on time.

Especially frustrating when I just spawned a second late, got first, finished first, and go no reward. Thanks a net again. This plus the fact I can’t complete obsidian sanctum achieve due to connection/crash issues.. anything else?

and again. this time a bit further into the puzzle, on my way to first well. I guess I can’t do that kite achievement then. Thx arena net.The game never fails to annoy me no matter how hard i try to enjoy it.

Same problem here. Zoned into Obsidian Sanctum, headed from the waypoint a few steps, boom crash

Same issue just now. I demand my 10 gold retribution.

Azura
Engineer
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They really should’ve given everyone a local personal instance of the tower (kinda like story line instances) . The wait time took longer than doing the actual thing. Took me 2.5h to beat it sigh.

I was just wondering how much this event has cost you so far in terms of in-game gold and real money for gems?
– 450 gems, 5 keys, haven’t used them yet, doubt they’ll yield anything

Has it been (or will it be) worth it to you?
– complete waste of time so far. googling most of the time for what to do, really

What is the one item you really wanted from this event? Did you get it?
- I wanted some fun, no I didn’t get it. I don’t really care about items much. I wasted lots of time though running around doing scavenger hunt, and getting a completely worthless reward for 1.5h of my time.

What was your favorite part of the event?
- none

How has this holiday event impacted your willingness to invest in future events/expansions?
- I’m not going to play at all, because all this has been so far is a waste of time – even getting into the Halloween Zone is randomized, which is completely inconsiderate of people who have jobs. Want to get to Clock tower? Spend 2h running around/googling, thank you.

Are you having fun with the event and game in general?
- Had fun with the game for a month, not anymore: prices on trade post are crap, cooking as profession isn’t rewarding at 400, bots all over the place, spending hours on it doesn’t feel rewarding => game fail.

What are you dressing up as for Halloween!?
I’ll skip this one :P