Guild Wars 2

Human: Any profession, all have good lore basis for the human race.

Norn: Elementalist, Mesmer, Thief, Ranger, Warrior and Guardian. Mayyybe Necro for a dark cult, but generally it would probably be seen as preventing opponents/minions from claiming their legends. Engineers would be few and far between imo.

Charr: Necro (perhaps), Thief, Ranger (with restrictions), Engineer, Warrior and Guardian. Sorry but theres no way that body type is drawing a bow effectively plus there are horns to consider for males at least. No Mesmers as Charr tend to distrust trickery, a Charr elementalist who attuned to fire would be strung up on Viewing Hill and whipped to death.

Sylvari: Mesmer, Thief, Ranger, Engineer (with restrictions), Warrior and Guardian. No Elementalist because plants are very vulnerable to environment/climate. Fire attunement would destroy them, as would any ice Water effects. No Necro since they are plant based, what would give them power over meat-animals? Engineer restricted because while they would not naturally have engineering in their culture, Sylvari natural curiosity may drive individuals to learn.

Asura: Shouldn’t be any of the 8 professions at all. Asura have a very distinct and individual scientific culture that doesn’t really match up with any of the main professions. Their alchemagic would superscede all the light class roles, Ranger and Engineer, and their wars would be fought by GOLEMs. Perhaps at a push, Warrior for the Peacekeepers and Thief for their spies. Other than that, most Asura would see regular professions as mere hobbies, not professions.

Ah so its still there. I just must not have been in the right places. Cheers!

On most of my characters pre NPE I got ambushed by a group of enemies saying “Remember [your mentor]? You’ll be with them soon” or something similar.

I haven’t received one of a levelling character for ages. Was it removed? if so, its a shame because that was one of my favourite events in the game.

lordkrall.7241:

Sounds like you have some sort of virus on your computer. Since it is clearly working quite well for others.

I suggest you scan your computer and get rid off all the viruses and then try again.

And no, they shouldn’t and probably won’t remove the encouragement to use available account-security.

Ironic, as it turned up in my AVG as a potential threat.

I downloaded the WinAuth malware (no better word for it) when it was released. I was in and out of the game several times and no problem… until I restarted my PC.

At this point it refused to let me log in and I had to contact support to get the broken junk deactivated.

Now I get bugged every 3-5 times I log in to redownload the garbage.

Please, PLEASE give me the option to give a firm ‘no’ and stop hassling me with it. I will NOT redownload this broken ‘security’ feature!

867-5309. Ask for Jenny.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

You forfeit the challenge if your level is three higher than the personal story recommends.

Had to stop here, because ever since the NPE you’d easily gain 4 or so levels through an entire chapter – especially chapter 1.

Um… nope.

I just took a level 60 through the level 60 storyline (one of the longest sections) and didn’t even gain 3 full levels.

The Exp from PS is a joke, I wish they’d just delete it for what it isn’t worth.

Yeah, too many kitten rules.

I’d go for hardcore rules as…

1. Can only equip armour and weapons you find or buy from open world vendors.
2. Cannot sell on TP, only to open world vendors.
3. If a piece of armour is damaged, it must be discarded.
4. Max 50 item slots (or can only equip bags you gain through play – 4 slotters and PS steps)
5. Must delete character on death, if not revived by another player.
6. Can only use map when in presence of a heart NPC or in a city
7. Cannot waypoint.

We all know the that the personal story is a little dull the second time through, let alone the 10th or in my case 19th time through.

The only real value after you have seen the various story combinations is fast free exp. But even that means nothing now. You can do the entire level 60 storyline and come out of it all at… level 63.

You know what the only value of the personal story is now? Getting the ugly green nag text off the right side of the screen. I wish theyd retune the exp you got for finishing a PS instance so there was actually a value to completing it.

Daharahj.1325:

GuzziHero.2467:

All same-sex relationship storylines continue after the change

Huh? there are same-sex relationship storylines at all? I never found any

Are we playing the same game? Personally I’d welcome more, but I know there would be a firestorm if there were more male-male relationships instead of female-female.

But in case you missed them here are some:

Eladus and Dagdar (Green Knight sylvari story)
Caithe and Faolain
Marjory and Kasmeer

There’s a few more that I can’t remember right now.

All genders of characters and NPCs are swapped to the opposite.

All same-sex relationship storylines continue after the change

BeckaPL.2670:

Why don’t people who don’t want to use the SMS validation just use the verification code version? It doesn’t involve your phone number and the notifications still don’t show up. SMS isn’t their only two step security

If you mean the PC version… see above. Because it is buggy and gets detected as malware.

Seera.5916:

Not everyone has a smart phone or unlimited text. And if your IP changes like some ISP’s have a tendency to do to people, the texts from the SMS can eat away at your text allowance, if you have any.

@GuzziHero: Do you have a smart phone? If so, would something like the Google Authenticator work for you? It’s not computer software, but it doesn’t require your phone number. And you don’t have to remember a key unlike WinAuth does from what I hear.

I have a ZTE ‘Kis’, if that counts as a smartphone I have no idea. One of those Android thingies.

Could I use Google Authenticator with the GW2 authentication?

Kordash.2197:

GuzziHero.2467:

eisberg.2379:

Why don’t you want to use the SMS? Extra security is actually a good thing.

Because it is buggy as all hell.

I installed the PC version, worked fine till I restarted the computer, then locked me out of the game.

I wont install malware.

The SMS authenticator doesn’t make you install anything…

Winauth?

Oh the phone version. I dont want to give my phone number to anyone. Also, if I have 2 accounts how does that work?

eisberg.2379:

Why don’t you want to use the SMS? Extra security is actually a good thing.

Because it is buggy as all hell.

I installed the PC version, worked fine till I restarted the computer, then locked me out of the game. My PC security picked it up as a potential threat.

I wont install malware.

End of the day, whilst I am a staunch / militant atheist, I really don’t have THAT much of an issue with it. No more than I have with the ankh on almost anything to do with guardians.

There are many cultures who use cross symbolism, and many subcultures within them which use their own version of those. A cross is one of the simplest possible things you can draw, so they turn up in many different places around the world, totally unconnected to each other.

If the ones in GW2 had a little man nailed to them then I’d have an issue – till then, game on.

I DEMAND 5000 gems, and the immediate reinstatement of SAB to make up for this mistreatment of me, a loyal player.

How DARE you introduce new players into the game, even with restrictions, without compensating me?

After all, all I have received is 3 years of playing the best RPG ever made, lots of fun times and involvement in a fantastic community of players!

GEIF ME STUFFS NAO!!!

(j/k)!

McViolin.8547:

Shouldn’t we be speaking Brazilian if we’re welcoming the new F2P players?

Or on EU, it should be Russkiy

XAXAXAXAXAXAXAXA

What was the gift?

WE MUST KNOW!!! O_o

Everything sits too low on Asura. Theres about 3 GS in the game that don’t floor clip. I can’t use any backpiece at all because they all sit too low and look ridiculous.

I thought you meant a pack, as in backpiece, that was a minion.

How cool would that be, perhaps a rotting quaggan backpack that pulses as it ‘breathes’, and drips necrotic fluids?

You could get some scenarios like the Monty Python Hungarian Phrasebook sketch.

“My hovercraft is full of eels!”.

Kitty. In. Dress.

WHY CAN I NOT UNSEE THIS O_o

Just as I grumble, I shall praise. Thanks for fixing it!

Allegedly fixed! Come join me on NA to give it a whirl!

Here’s a post by a dev on the situation, hidden in another thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Personal-Story-Restoration-update/page/8#post5350146

Oh right, cheers. Sneaked into the restoration update thread, a lot of people havent seen it.

Its been 2 weeks now and not even an acknowledgment. sigh

For the moment I have found the solution to the problem for me. Playing Engineer makes it easier (its my fave class).

Edit:

…

Well, that was easy. Snipers have decent tells on theit attacks, as do the cavaliers/mini bosses. Once I was on a class I know well, it was a nice little story instance.

Blude.6812:

Read the whole thread—there was an acknowledgement on this page
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Personal-Story-Restoration-update/page/8
" BobbyStein.2315:

An update for those near the end of their Personal Story: The Victory or Death fix is undergoing testing currently. I don’t have a release date to share at this time, but I do want to let you know that things are in progress. Thanks for your patience."

Too bad he replied there instead of the bug thread though.
Bottom line, regardless, we are still waiting.

Ah, thanks!

Every time they fix something they break something else.

2 weeks and not even an acknowledgment.

Emtiarbi.3281:

GuzziHero.2467:

Absolutely impossible to solo for the average player. Guess thats another beta weekend wasted for me then.

I’m an average player and i was able to finish the first part of the history alone.

I tried on Revenant (because I despise ele, necro, mesmer and guard professions) and couldnt down anything.

Absolutely impossible to solo for the average player. Guess thats another beta weekend wasted for me then.

I’m trying to play the instance that comes with the new beta weekend but the mordrem menders are impossible to kill. I can’t even get one to half health before it suddenly reheals itself to near max hp.

Storyline level 80: Cathedral of Hidden depths.

Find a way into the cathedral (first Abaddon Shrine):

The green circle in this area does not disappear, and the shrine does not allow you to pull the lever to begin the first temple orb battle.

Reloaded game 3 times, still bugged. Cannot continue story.

Edit:

On investigation, I picked up a Coral Shard in the area. This then allowed the shrine to be activated.

Yeah, my EU account is on Piken. I still find that there is a more ‘businesslike’ attitude and a lot less random friendly chat on EU compared to US, and a lot less of a community attitude there.

I’m running on my EU account today and… near silence in all the racial city map chats.

Nothing but (non-English) guild adverts and PVPbank ads.

Currently I am on Piken Square which I guess has probably the most diverse language variety of all the EU servers, thanks to being the unofficial RP server.

US server seems to have Americans, Aussies, and many Asian players, most of which have English as a primary or at least strong secondary language. Most of the time, map chat in anything other than English is not tolerated, and anyone speaking Spanish or Portuguese gets smacked down pretty quickly.

From my experience on EU servers, English is the primary language followed by Russian and Polish, then trickling down through German, French, Spanish and other western european languages.

Maps do reach capacity more quickly on US servers than on EU, but even so, whenever there is someone nearby on US it is very rare for them not to res you if downed, whereas it seems more like a 40/60% chance in favour of ‘will not’ res on EU.

I might have to start keeping a tally for a more scientific approach.

Danikat.8537:

I get the impression from your post that you don’t live in Europe, so you’re probably in a different time zone and I wonder if that makes a difference.

I am English, living in England. I do see the Aussies in the morning and Americans in the evening with a lull in the middle of the day. EU is of course pretty quiet during work/school hours so that could be part of it.

napooz.1986:

I also have account on both EU and US. I also have noticed huge differences between players there.
On US I see players small talking all the time where as in EU it is mostly quiet, or just talking about tactics to be used or other important game related stuff.

I like EU players more. On EU it seems players focus more on the game itself than being over social and friendly etc. Before anyone loses their mind for such rude comment – I did not mean to insult anyone. I play this game for sake of playing a game, chatting comes after it.

This is very much the impression I get as well. EU seems a lot more ‘serious’ than US where people just chat for the sake of it.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

It could very well be perception, rather than reality. A lot more people are playing at any given time than most of us realize. Are you comparing peak US hours to peak EU hours? Could it be your specific home worlds instead of EU vs NA? — despite megaserver, players tend to be grouped often with people from the same few servers, except when there’s a world boss or a 4-event daily specific to the zone.

For example, several people I know with multiple accounts chose alternative home worlds and they believe that their main account’s home world is much more friendly in terms of rezzing, map chat, and so on than their secondary account’s home. Whereas the people who have main accounts on that same world report that they think the community is super friendly.

In other words, it could just be the accident of who you have been running into, combined with the human mind’s “skill” at remembering examples that reinforce our impressions (and ignoring evidence that contradicts it).

Selective cognizance could be a factor. I’d like to think that it doesn’t affect me, but perhaps it does. I generally don’t engage much socially with the playerbase in whatever game I play, but there could be a preconception of hostility or at least reduced acceptance when I am in the less familiar surroundings, aka EU as opposed to US.

When I started playing on GW2, I was on Desolation and found helpful advice whenever I asked for help in map chat, but as often as not, I would be lambasted for ‘spamming’ map chat with questions. This was my first MMO adventure game, so I of course had a lot of things I wanted to ask. All-in-all, I found Desolation to be helpful with a few less pleasant people on.

Then I moved over to Dragonbrand and there was far more random and unsolicited chat going on. Any hostility tended to come in the form of mild trolling rather than outright curt responses.

It is possible in my case at least that those early aggressive interactions on EU have caused me to have a pre-defensive mindset when I go onto EU.

That’s a good point Vayne.

I’m trying to get to the bottom of this, I’m not trying to insult anyone either, which is why I don’t want to think or feel that EU players are ignorant when they most likely are not.

Does having a broad mix of languages create disaffection at a subconscious level? Is there an element of belief that the respective lack of communication due to the language diversity in the EU means that one would not receive verbal appreciation if one does help another?

Well, I am English so technically I would be disparaging myself, but well done on scoring your internet ego-point.

I have 2 accounts, one on EU and one on US.

I have no idea why but the EU community seems to be far less cohesive and helpful to one another than the US. Sure you will sometimes get help if you ask for it in chat, but more often than not, EU map chat is dead. Noone calls out events (even if you ask for them as part of daily) hardly anyone bothers to res, and the community, while not hostile, just doesn’t seem to care about each other. Mention any of these points in map chat, however, and you can expect to get lambasted.

On the US server, if someone downs there is usually a flood of people rushing to res you. One of the happiest sights I see in GW2 is “Too many resurrectors” when you go to help someone. I very rarely see this on EU servers, ever.

Why is this? It just seems that EU players are more ignorant but I want to think differently. There is certainly a very different attitude between the 2 regions. It seems every time I play on EU, something happens that makes me regret not having logged into my US based account instead.

Thoughts on this?

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

Ranger : Jaffa cake , Biscuit or is it a cake? (commonly found down the Biscuit aisle) mistaken easly for something that it is not , ether way when eating one oddly leaves a satisfying taste of fulfillment but then it hits you.

you ate too many and are now feeling a little off , though you’ll never forget how good it was to have eaten the Whole packet.

Cakes, it was proven in court.

http://www.kerseys.co.uk/blog/jaffa-cakes-cakes-biscuits/

“But the key turning point was when McVitie’s QC highlighted how cakes harden when they go stale, biscuits go soggy. A Jaffa goes hard. The case was proven.”

Shield Master says ‘Hi’!

How the heck do you get Shield Master achievement?

That dude looks a little pale. He needs to get some sun

Nice job, he looks great!

Just like healing skills and some elites. They just bug out and dont fire.

Issue resolved. Thank you, GM Zero and the Anet support team!

I’m back!

Many thanks to GM Zero and the Anet support team for speedily rectifying the issue! They removed the 2-step authentication for me.

I think I will try a mobile authenticator next time.

Hah, managed it with 9 deaths (2 totally avoidable)

Black Citadel, Diessa, Wayfarers, Snowden, Gendarran, LA.

Danikat.8537:

I hadn’t seen this at the time but mine would have been easy: it took me to the Black Citadel.

Thats where I got taken to. So now I am trying to get back without using the LA portals from any racial city.