Guild Wars 2

I want to say that I have only succeeded TWICE at Robo Thatcher, and both were in overflows.

Delvoire – if you were in my OF (I was Vittai), it was good to battle alongside you Gratz all the same!

I think it a lot of cases, people don’t realise they need to press F to teleport. If you don’t notice it as you run at the portal, you can run through, the notification disappears, and you have to back off then go again. I missed a port one time because of this.

Then you have commanders that sit on the spawn (thats all good) but then don’t shout out that the portal is open and/or go to it. Bad commanders, in other words. Happened to me today where the only 5 people who ported were the last line of defence because the commander didn’t move off the front line or call it.

I think this battle is really fun, win or lose. The fact that the first time I beat it (today) was also my first time at commanding made it even better!

Excellent work, Anet!

Those folks (like one above) who say Ranger is for Range. I don’t see it that way. I see it as in the term range to describe a large area (cattle range etc). It is someone who lives off the land and utilises it to his advantage. A survivalist, or outdoorsman.

I can’t see them ever giving us longer than 1500 range (which we can trait for), and the engineer, mesmer and several other classes can match that. There’s no point asking for more.

For me: sword NEEDS fixing so it allows us to dodge. Rooting is not the issue, it is a chain-of-command thing that will not allow us to make a dodge action whilst another process is in operation. Pets need a power and HP or toughness buff plus a stowability. Maybe if we were able to ‘assign’ a universal upgrade (mark, talisman etc) to them, it would make them more worthwhile.

Other than that, I can’t see much wrong.

I love ranger. Despite the bugs, one runs SB LB the other S/A and either bow. Both are great.

Complication? Magic? Don’t mind being one shot by ambient creatures until you reach high exp?

Elementalist.

Leave engineer till later. That way, when you are bored of the game, you can start one and it will teach you a whole new way to play the game.

Yeah, engineers are awesome.

Hmm, depends on my character.

Solann, Solissa are rangers, so Melandru.
Adria is born of charr-held human slaves so none.
Manya is a warrior, Balthazar for her.
Leveillei, Spachiana and Rhubey are Sylvari… I guess the first 2 follow the Pale Tree, Rhubey has no god.
Vittai is Asura, so probably none.
Brindis thinks she -is- a god.

Personally… none. I don’t like mythological icons.

I wouldn’t know or care, because I wouldn’t be here.

Splugorth Slavers (see pic).

I’d like to see some half-breeds like human-charr, or human-norn. After all, the species are in the game as ‘races’, rather than ‘species’ so interbreeding may be possible. Except for the Sylvari of course.

The skills would not be significant enough, this would not be taking skills away from the current set. Just enough to make our decisions feel relevant.

Just had a crazy off the top of my head idea which I’d like others’ opinions on.

As many other players, I feel a little let down that the choices which I made during my personal story mean absolutely nothing. I mean, apart from being able to buy T3 cultural armours and order armours, there is no advantage to choosing one way or another.

So here is the idea: have a few new skills which relate to our story.

At several steps, we have to choose bewteen a number of options.

Character creation (content of our dream (Sylvari), god which we follow (Human), legion (Charr), forging of legend (Norn), krewe invention (Asura). Also another event which I will leave for now (such as human regrets, Asuran mistakes etc).

Order selection.

Racial sympathy.

Fears.

Which order plan to follow.

What if, at each step (or some steps), we gained a new purchasable skill which related to one of our choices? Even if some were similar or identical but had a name specific to the choice that we made?

Skipping the choices made at character selection, let’s look at the Orders. If you choose Whispers, how about a 3pt skill that allows stealth for 2s? If Vigil, one that grants might for 2s? The Durmand Priory, one that gives fury for 2s?

Fears: 6pt skills which in turn gives for the Demolitionist Tonn chain a deployable bomb that causes area knockdown (like the F-skill that engineers get with Bomb Kit). The Friendly Fire chain could grant a guardian-like shield for 3s. Apatia chain, some sort of Krait poison AOE.

Things like this could help make our personal choices feel like they mean something.

Opinions?

I am asexual/nonsexual offline, and as someone with a neutral genderpoint and NO biases, these are my honest opinions

Caithe and Faolain seem to be an emotional romance rather than sexual.
There are plenty of hetero relationships.
The Marjory/Kasmeer romance feels 100% forced.

It was pretty easy to tell right from the get-go that Kasmeer and ’Jory were a couple. It was being commented on right here on the forums by the first few people who went to the Dead End Bar, just how… attached… the two appeared to be. Dagdar and Eladis, then Caithe and Faolain can be explained away as a way to explain how agender the Sylvari are, but Kasmeer and Marjory are pretty obvious.

The way that Marjory talks to Kasmeer is reminiscent of how your kitten Tracy type detectives would speak to a ‘babe’ in those old black & white movies. That isn’t to say that she doesn’t flirt with men too, but the way it is done just feels so forced and false. When she does this with men, she is trying to tease for fun or obtain information. When she does it with Kasmeer, there is no other possible motive than direct flirtation.

It feels – totally – like fanservice. I’m all for mixed gender/race/species relationships, but the way this is played out feels awkward and contrived.

Kasmeer is a totally airheaded space cadet bimbo, Marjory is an over-sultry for it’s own sake anachronism.

Apart from that, Marjory just feels completely out of place in this game. I don’t like her, I wish I’d never seen her, and I don’t care if she gets destroyed.

Of course, Julius and Augustus Caesar are responsible for the extra 2 months in our calendar… but it is the Gregorian Calendar system that makes 7month (September) into the 9th, 8month into the 10th etc.

Considering that the old Tyrian calendar had 360 days and now has 365… well, I just kind of figured that Tyria rotates at a slightly slower speed so the days are slightly longer to compensate. This would make sense of a planet at a different stage of its evolutionary lifespan than Terra, and/or of a different mass and speed.

Personally, I’d have preferred it if they had stayed at 360, how much more interesting and immersive would it have been if our characters got their birthdays on a 360 day calendar not 365? But then a 365 reinforces my opinion of Tyria being a counter-Terra or alternative-Terra.

Pshaw, they’ll be having ‘leap years’ next!

Everything.

Buying gear multiple times. Getting all equipped with Ascended is near impossible. If you want multiple builds for each one, it means LOTS more money.

Having said that I have 10 80s and dont regret any of them. Just dont expect ever being able to have all ascended builds.

I would like to be able to dual wield pets as said above (maybe have one an ‘offensive’ skill pet and the other ‘defensive’?) but to be honest… for open PVE I don’t know why everyone rags on them.

I have 2 level 80 rangers. My female is bowcaster only (SB/LB – considered a flawed build) with 30 in Beastmastery (seen as a poor trait line). My female just mashed through the PS up to the Arah finale using pick up blue and green armour between levels 72 and 78.

I don’t know Jack about WvWvW or PvP since I have zero interest in those aspects of the game, but I prefer to take my bowcaster to dungeons ahead of any and all of my other level 80s. She’s usually the last to die. I’ve solo’d champions with her including the (lvl62 I think) Champion Fluffy.

Fixing the sword would be a nice move however. How many times I have been thrown out of combat range by its leap, and downed because it didn’t let me dodge? A hell of a lot. But there the weapon is broken, not the class. It HAS to bind, otherwise the AA leap would be constantly throwing you out of contact with the enemy, but it still has to be fixed.

Being able to have 2 pets (or even 2 plus your starter, since you can have 800 minions) would be a kitten good start.

theguildless.1386:

GuzziHero.2467:

Rares salvaged with Master kit to ectos obtained.

No they haven’t stealth nerfed salvaging…

Check if there rares you’re using are at the appropriate level.

facepalm

I just hit 70 on this character…

Move along folks, nothing to see here.

(seriously, I didnt know they had to be 80 plus. Now I feel like a right bluetit)

Rares salvaged with Master kit to ectos obtained.

No they haven’t stealth nerfed salvaging…

[edit: didnt realise the lvl 67 and below items dont drop ecto…]

I have a problem.

As soon as I saw the giant watchknight, I thought of Margaret Thatcher.

HELP ME.

Ooooops Svanir. Sometimes I mix words round when I am rushing a thought. Aspergers is fun!

It just seems really odd that the Charr have travelled so far from their own lands, stretching their supply lines across many miles, to fight an enemy which isn’t a direct threat to them (right now) rather than insisting on taking on Kralkatorrik first.

Something I just cannot get over regarding the Charr.

Asura have 1 known enemy in their land – Inquest.
Sylvari have 2 – Nightmare Court and Risen.
Norn have 1/2 – Icebrood/Sons of Sylvari (the two are not always in each others company)
Humans have 3 – Centaurs, Seperatists and Risen, though the Risen are small in number and far from DR.
Charr have 4 – Flame Legion to the north, Branded/Kralkybabes to the east, Renegades to the south and Ascalonian ghosts within.

So why have the Charr assisted humanity/Sylvari with destroying their dragon annoyance (Risen) when they are in full knowledge of the fact that now humans have only Centaurs as natural predators. This leaves humanity in the enviable position of holding VAST swathes of farmable land plus facing a reduced threat from Zhaitan. They could easily eliminate one of their other foes – the Seperatists – by uniting with them and turning on… the Charr.

This would leave the Charr COMPLETELY beseiged.

Fighting Zhaitan first is darned poor military strategy from a race that prides itself on being militaristic.

You can’t have a pretty Sylvari?

I disagree.

How about the crotchless panties (or so it seems) on female light starter armour?

Run up a hill and see the texture tear :p

I dont see why 8 should be a limit.

Actually, I’d love some sort of screen where we can see all of our characters at once

Mine is taller than my min sized Asura. Looks like a power suit. Really pleased

Ty Anet!

Oh, I’m glad that the extra armour plate hides Sparkles’ cross strip of blue that made its ‘eye’ look like a crucifix. That really did irk me, but its perfect now.

Equip all my alts with the best equipment possible.

Anet have stabbed those who trusted their word on no grinding in the back and simultaneously taken a huge dump on those with alts.

I didn’t buy the game to be left grinding forever.

I find the changes pretty much pointless to be honest. Neither for nor against them.

Best guild housing ever – Crimecraft. We got pole dancers :p

TBH Anet hates people with alts. I should have just stuck to one character since the developers don’t want anyone playing multiple characters, or so it seems by their actions.

We dont NEED anything. We dont need the game. But it would be nice

I like slapping babies.

Plus, I am working on my 10th character (a ranger) and have played for over 460 days… but I am still finding things I never knew about before. It still feels pretty fresh to me.

Morrigan.2809:

Very impressive!
I agree and my Necro is probably my favourite character to play – I adore her.

I play axe/warhorn. scepter/dagger + wells on her and I love how when she twirls her little hand death happens

I play a little against the grain, axe/dagger and staff, or axe/dagger and sceptre dagger. I weaken with axe and my little army goes marching in. Managed to kill all the final mobs in the Reaper of Grenth mission without aggroing the boss using them, so I could deal with him without adds! And I love the staff, when the shadow scythe appears on it.

If I was ever going to try for a 0-80 with no deaths challenge, I’d take a necro without question.

I once tried to Fraps myself defeating Retribution on an lvl 50 with all 50 Rare gear, but forgot that you only get a couple of minutes record time on the free version.

Necro 0-80 with 7 deaths. Absolute death machine.

Because it is deathly boring, plus I am no good at quick thinking and coordination due to Aspergers.

Raging at the screen doesn’t interest me.

Just a visual bug on my end. Everyone else could see them.

But dang, it looked so sweet fighting like a brawler, and shows that it wouldn’t take much to create a brawler class for GW2.

How I wish there was an option to hide weapons

I admit that I would like an honest answer about this:

When Flame & Frost was written/released, did the GW2 writing team actually know that Scarlett was behind it, or was that retconned when her concept came along? Likewise Aetherblades.

Seems to me that several LS episodes have been hastily packaged into the Scarlett plot.

Got my first WC with my first chara in a fun fashion.

Died 3 times naked running to the SP on top of the cottage near the top left in an enemy zone. 4th attempt, I jumped up there to find an enemy sitting on the roof.

He came down to get me… and promptly fell off

Problem is, it interferes with dodges and other attacks. I try to get away from an opponent before he downs me, stupid kitten sword sends me right back.

Its a shame because the animation for the AA is superb.

Please stop it!

An Siorai Tharian.4516:

Yeah but none of those villains you mentioned actually has a legitimate claim to immortality, (well except Mumm-Ra I suppose). Unlike Voldemort, or Sauron for example. Or heck, even Jadis. Scarlett gets a pass because she doesn’t actually fight us, or hasn’t yet. She lets her minions do all the work and runs away to wherever her battle fortress happens to be located.

Immortality doesn’t matter. She is just another Saturday Morning Cartoon villain.

I guess the problem really could be that since GW2 is largely played by adults and not kids, we cannot overlook the flaws in having a do-anything, go-anywhere enemy that cannot be placed or defeated. The issue is with our cynical minds, not the character.

To be honest, I don’t hate Scarlett much. Yes she is a bit dull and seems to be able to do everything and get away with it. But I could say the same about Mumm-Ra, Cyril Sneer, Miles Mayhem, Evil Edna, Finella the Witch etc.

They are chief antagonists, they are meant to come back again and again, to be indefatigable and persistent.

I don’t think half of the people who ‘hate’ Scarlett actually go. Its just the current bandwagon to jump on. For that matter, I don’t even give two hoots about Trahearne.

Hate: ascended gear and how it was implemented
Love: the best combat system in any MMORPG, especially the lack of trinity.

My characters are tired of sleeping rough on the streets of Divinity’s Reach!

Homeless adventurer. Please help!

Character slots, royal terrace passes and transmute splitters.

Ah, it was at the anniversary sale that the skins were re-released. Pfah!

But the items listed are only for one day. Does this mean we will see other sales over the weekend? Transmute stones on sale would be nice (I need some!) and were there not some re-releases of limited skins last year?

Hahah got my 1st birthday gift from my 3rd chara yesterday, I if’d and ah’d about getting another chara slot. I held off.

Today, 25% off chara slots! Boy am I glad I waited

Dr Ritter.1327:

Over 20 new achievements including “Touch all Scarlet’s Pillars” for 5 ap

Beeswax added as new crafting material for latest gear progression level: Scarlett Approved . Each item will require 1500 Beeswax and 3000 Unobtanium, dropped only from BL Chests but will grant 300% boost over Ascended gear. Plus the ability to just walk away from an entire group of enemies at will.

Announced:
Entire world going Super Adventure Box styled, and title to be changed to Super Guild Adventure Wars Box.