Guild Wars 2

The gods of Tyria ain’t so tough. Men defeated one and replaced him with one of their own. Perhaps they have disappeared in the last 250 years because they are afraid of more of their number being replaced?

Don’t worry about me… I won’t grief you. I don’t care for Crab Toss, so I stand off to the side and move a little bit every time the game threatens to boot me. Since it’s every man for himself, I hope this doesn’t anger anyone. (If it were a team game, I would do my best to help, as much as I dislike it). So I take a couple minutes and sort out my Inventory and take the easy Daily Achievement. And I don’t seem to be the only one who does this in Crab Toss. I often stand right next to another player who isn’t participating either.

For me, Crab Toss is the worst of the 4 Activites, and it seems to pop up every other day. I probably like Keg Brawl the best, and it only seems to come up once a week. WHY aren’t they all available every day? We should be able to participate in the ones we like, when we like.

Aeonblade.8709:

They are discussing ways to eliminate the need to craft ascended armor/weapons in the progression CDI threads. Look for a fix for us non-crafters in the next few months I would imagine.

I made it very clear to them crafting isn’t a time sink a lot of people want to invest in, and got a pretty positive response, so look for more ways to acquire the armor/weapons in the future.

You’re my hero. Thanks for the info.

Nury.3062:

“I hate crafting!” “I don’t want to wait for drop!”
So wth you want , 2345675423 ways to get ascended?
Stay with your exotics and leave others that spend time and gold working kitten those crafts to have ascended!
You don’t want another way to get ascended,you want an easy way to get ascended!
I hate crafting,i played tons of mmo’s and i always avoided crafting but i want to get that ascended longbow so i have to craft. I don’t want to see ascended gear becoming the new exotic so the way it is right now is the best.

As I explained, I do not mind putting in some time, effort and money to get Ascended gear. I guess you didn’t read that far. But there should be MORE methods to doing this, and apparently ANet may be considering it according to Aeonblade. That is why we post to the forums… so we can communicate with the game developers. And sometimes it works; sometimes a change is made.

If you hate crafting too, then you should be joining us in expressing our concerns. I for one won’t meekly give in to your “it is what it is, so you’d better get used to it” mentality. If the Developers didn’t want feedback on what we’d like, they probably wouldn’t have this forum.

IBM 386 with twin floppy drives and a 256 color14" VGA monitor. I connect to the Internet with tin cans and a string pulled very tight. I’m getting a mouse next month!

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

If you take a look at his goggles you’ll notice it’s the same glass.

He obviously saw this in the back of a comic book when he was younger, and built upon the idea. (The guy in the picture even looks a bit like Tixx, don’tcha think?)

Dondarrion.2748:

Don’t understand crafting? Well, head over to gw2crafts.net and choose your discipline and either a normal or fast guide. It will take you from 0-400 in 5-10 minutes; then you can work your way from 400-500 so you’re geared towards ascended crafting.

Yeah, that’s the site I used (normal Guide, being careful since I don’t know what I’m doing). I generally go through 2-3 Crafting Boosters to get to 400, so we’re talking 2-3 hours. There’s no way on God’s green Earth you could possibly do that in 5-10 minutes.

Dondarrion.2748:

It’s a step-by-step guide, you follow it without any need of understanding.

And that is precisely why I hate it. I want to learn! I want to actually understand what the heck I’m doing. (And as careful as I am, they still seem to mess up here and there on that website, leaving me to scratch my head to get back onto the correct path and continue).

Dondarrion.2748:

And I have to agree with who said it above; if you’re (not you Hamfast, just “you” in general to those complaining ascended gear isn’t easy to acquire) not willing to put in money and effort, then the top tier is not for you either

I am willing to put in money and effort. I have already shown that by crafting up to 400 in at least 4 different disciplines even though it makes my brain hurt and bores me to tears.

I would just like to see OTHER ways to get Ascended gear. OTHER types of effort. Crafting makes me want to throw my computer off the roof. This is supposed to be a game… you know… fun. And the GW2 guys always said they wanted us to be able to play the game our way, and to get equipment in a variety of ways so people weren’t pigeonholed into one play style. Time to give us other play styles to earn Ascended gear.

What’s wrong with that?

StinVec.3621:

Anyone else discover the reason for how Tixx is able to wear human male cultural armor when he is an asura? Tixx should have his clothes removed against his will and human males should be in an uproar over their cultural armor being used on a non-human even if it is an NPC.

To paraphrase George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”: All NPCs are equal, but some NPCs are more equal than others.

I hate crafting as well. Try as I may, I just don’t understand it. But I would like some Ascended gear. That means I’m mostly out of luck with the way it’s being handled in the game right now.

Waiting for drops is not an option. First of all, I want the piece of armor that I choose, with the stats that I choose. Not something random. Second of all, I almost never see Exotic drops. How will I ever see an Ascended drop? So drops are out.

Crafting? I never needed it before. I was always able to get what I needed from the TP. So I never did any until very recently, and that was because I was tired of leveling my Alts. And ya know what? It still only gets me 8-10 levels to craft to level 400. It’s not really as efficient as I see people saying. And despite having done this at least 4 times (using step-by-step instructions from Internet sites), I still don’t really have a handle on what I’m doing. It just doesn’t “click” with my tired ol’ brain. I find it extremely confusing and boring. Even with step-by-step instructions, I would dread having to use this method for getting Ascended gear.

So yes, we need other methods of getting the Ascended gear that we desire. RNG is prohibitive, and Crafting is not for everybody. Us non-crafters are being left out of the hunt for Ascended gear.

An Siorai Tharian.4516:

Age is of no consequence to Asura. Only brains.

Brains? But, but… I’m blonde! …Oh, poo! Is that going to count against me?

Hmm…

I haven’t even filed a lawsuit yet, and Tixx is offering me all of this. What does that tell you about the validity of my case? Should I take the presents? Should I file? Or should I trade it all for what’s behind door number three?

Danikat.8537:

You can rename the pet to anything you want and when you do the prefix disappears.

Most people give it an actual name but if you wanted to you could just re-name it to Stalker or whatever if you wanted to.

Oh yes, I’m quite aware of that. Unfortunately, if you like to change up pets often, the game doesn’t remember their names. Many Rangers get tired of renaming after awhile, and you see a lot of “Juvenile” this-and-that around town all the time. Which is annoying if you see an animal in the distance that you want to capture, and you run over to it only to discover he’s already someone else’s pet.

Ah, I see ‘em now. They’re labeled “Stalker”. I guess a Melandru’s Stalker without the stripes. And no juveniles aside from my mini pet.

GW1 never had a nice fully-maned male lion either. Not like the statue in LA. I would really love to see one of those and be able to charm one for a Ranger’s pet. But with their insistence on retaining the “Juvenile” prefix forever, I doubt that will happen since juveniles don’t have full manes.

They really need to change “Juvenile” to “Charmed” or “Pet” after a Ranger takes it for his own.

WatchTheShow.7203:

There are lions in WvW eternal battlegrounds. Bottom left hand side of the map where the large keep surrounded by water is. Go check them out, I was surprised

I searched all over that area, and couldn’t find anything. Could you please post a picture? I don’t want to accuse anybody of doing a little lion…

(Disregard the little lion in the picture. I’m pretty sure he’s my mini pet.)

What…? It’s only been 2 months. Has everyone forgotten about Mad King Thorn already?

I also like Fiona Hastings, the beehive lady in Queensdale. (“You thought you could get your paws on my sweet, sweet honey, didn’t you? But I know people. Dangerous people!”) I think she’s related to Merle.

Bandits are not the human’s primary enemy. Bandits are an inconvenience. But Humans are at war with the Centaurs. Both foes exhibit some of the silliest “last words” dialogue in the game, though. (“Nice one!” “I’m going to get you…” “You got me!” “Your victory will be short-lived!” etc.)

But that’s getting off-topic. As far as the Sylvari go, I still can’t look at one without wondering if he’s some kind of spy sent to watch me. You know… a plant.

Happy Wintersday from Lion’s Arch!

(My 2013 holiday greeting card)

Wow. I had been looking forward to this for a whole year and now I can’t get the frame I want for my endless tonic? (Not to mention the other ingredients).

This is a month-long festival. Come on, guys… you can still re-introduce them!

Puh-leeeeze!

This is at least the third time I have had to report this bug. It might be Borlis Pass only?

The NPC chatter in the Queensdale Hunting Lodge is missing. I first reported it several months back, and it got fixed. Then I reported it just a couple weeks ago, and it got fixed. Now it is gone again.

Please fix it permanently this time. Thank you.

(Perhaps it’s not being addressed at all? Maybe it’s just getting restored whenever we download a new build? I dunno. But the silence is deafening.)

Helpful Asura took Quaggan to Thaumanova Reactor. Makes Quaggan all glowy like Krait. Humans will like Quaggans better than glowy Krait again! Quaggans are saved! (But glowy Quaggan feels a little ooOOoogy inside…)

Investigator BooOOooblz: Quaggan concludes Humans want to be fooled into thinking glowy Krait is good, even though glowy Kraits work with Scarlet.

Chief Investigator: Quaggan sees Humans are blinded by shiny things. Humans are much like Skritt.

Investigator BooOOooblz: What will Quaggans do?

Chief Investigator: Quaggans can only hope Humans decide they like Quaggans better than Kraits. Quaggans must make more Quaggan backpacks and more Quaggan hats for Humans. And if possible…

Investigator BooOOooblz: What is Quaggan thinking?

Chief Investigator: If possible, it wouldn’t hurt Quaggans to learn how to make Quaggans be glowy.

Glowy Kraits welcome Quaggan to stay in guest accommodations. Quaggan thinks perhaps not. Quaggan swims away.

Krait said Krait don’t know about art. Glowy Krait definitely have art much like Quaggan art.

Krait tower is gone, but Krait still there. Quaggan wants to see if glowy Krait are nicer than normal Krait. Glowy Krait welcome Quaggan with an escort.

Quaggan worried. Sneaky Krait has made friends of Humans. Now Humans place Quaggans amongst decorative crates for Wintersday.

I was down to my last doll-tector, and this years’ Wintersday festival was almost upon us. I had better hurry! Final stop: Hoelbrak.

I am not particularly affected by the cold, mind you. But I was a little concerned about all the snow. If I got too much in my joints, I could stiffen up. And if it was too soft to support me, I would probably fall through up to my neck. I was torn between being slow and cautious of my footing, and having to complete my task in a hurry.

I made a compromise. I began my search amongst the great wooden halls and walkways, so the snow was not an issue. With luck, I would find any missing Toys there, and not have to risk a less-than-smart trek into the snow drifts. Decks and halls would spare my folly. Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!

No such luck. After completing a preliminary sweep of the Great Hall, I got a ping on my doll-tector; pointing out into the snow. I opted for caution over speed. Stepping out, I was relieved to find that I didn’t sink very far.

I tested each step as I went before putting my weight on it. I was being led up towards a thick clump of snow-laden evergreen trees on a hill. I studied them closely as I approached, but couldn’t see anything underneath the dark cave formed by the slumping boughs. I made it to the perimeter, and parted the needles with the tip of my popgun. Snow fell from the branches, but most of it missed me thanks to my caution. I ducked underneath and went inside.

It was a Toy Griffon, coated with ice. That could be a problem… I hadn’t figured on having to carry another Toy. But obviously I wasn’t going to get any cooperation out of this fellow. I scratched my head and gave the situation some thought.

Hmm… I was on a hill. I tried moving the Griffon. He was not overly heavy. Apparently he hadn’t been soaked all the way through when he froze. Maybe I could simply slide him down the hill? I tried. At first he wanted to tip over, until I found the best balancing position. Then he began to build up snow that caused drag. I had to keep clearing the excess away. If I hadn’t been on a hill, I might not have been able to get him back to a Norn hall. But after I struggled him up onto a boardwalk, he slid along almost like he was on ice skates.

We drew some looks from the night owls, but were unhindered as I slid my burden up to a hearth to thaw out. It took some time, and I had to rotate him occasionally, but before long life returned to the Toy. These guys are quite affectionate, you know. He cooed, and rubbed me with the crown of his head, and flew all over the room in his joy at being animate once again.

Finally he settled down next to me, and I patted him on the head. I fished into my bag and drew forth the doll-tector. Putting it in his beak, I flipped the Return switch and watched him fade away with a smile.

A job well done! I was quite pleased with myself. Then it slowly dawned on me. How was I supposed to get back? I just used my last doll-tector! Once again, I had to slap my head in acknowledgement of my stupidity. Oh, well. No biggie. Tixx would be here soon with this years’ Toy deliveries. I could hang out in Hoelbrak for awhile.

Then a fluttering noise attracted my attention. The Griffon doll flew up and landed in front of me. What had gone wrong? Did the doll-tector malfunction? No, wait a minute. This was a different Griffon; his collar wasn’t the same color. What did it want with me?

He cooed for my attention, and stretched his beak towards me. He was holding something. I reached out my hand and took what appeared to be a letter. I opened it and began reading.

It was from the Ventari Toy I had sent home from Rata Sum! It seems he was doing well now, and wanted to thank me. He said Tixx had something special for me. Then the Griffon nuzzled me and held out another object in his beak.

He dropped a scroll into my hand, wrapped around something. I unrolled it, and something very similar to a doll-tector fell out. I read the scroll.

Clawfford

Consider your assignment complete. You have performed excellently under difficult conditions. I am assigning you to Toy recovery duties permanently, and promoting you. The enclosed item should make future endeavors more efficient.

Well done, Commander Clawfford!

Tribune Tixx

I looked at the object that had been sent with the scroll. It looked like a doll-tector, but the switch was unlabeled. I flipped it, and was enveloped in a brief swirl of glittery light. Nothing. I hadn’t gone anywhere. And yet, something seemed different.

I scratched my head in puzzlement. And something felt different. Quickly, I ran to a nearby mirror and looked at myself. He did it! He did it! Tixx had changed me! I was real!

I was alive!

Strong warrior! Mighty wizard!
Powerful necro! Noble knight!
Aren’t you all just a bit afraid
Of a little bug bite?

I apparently will never have a Legendary weapon that I want to try for. Why? All the stooooopid “special effects”. Not everybody likes ’em.

They recently made Legendary weapons pretty flexible, being able to reselect it’s stats when not in combat. Now they need to have toggles for individual special effects.

Footsteps? Worst of all. Some are really obnoxious now. Give us the ability to toggle them on or off. (WvWer’s might especially like this, since sometimes they scream “Here I am! Target me!”)

Auras? Wow. Bifrost’s isn’t too horrible, and at least it isn’t on when sheathed. But then I saw some people with the “Howler” warhorn. The fog aura was so thick it looked like Pig-Pen from the Peanuts comic strip. I spend lots of time and effort making my armor look nice. The last thing I want is to hide it under a cloud.

Weapon swooshes – like the black streamer left by Twilight. It’s not so much that this looks dumb (just a personal opinion), but more that it can block your view sometimes. Not good.

So please… give us OPTIONS on what effects we wish to display. Otherwise, many people will never try for what otherwise is a nice looking weapon.

I was staring at my doll-tector bag, trying to hear above the din of the Super Adventure Box. Was one of them pinging? Then a voice next to me was drowning out any chance I had of hearing anything. “Huh? What?” Apparently I was being addressed.

It was a Ventari doll! A dirty Ventari doll. A dirty, tattered, battered, and slightly smelly Ventari doll. Had it been living outdoors all year? “Please, commander Clawfford…", it was saying. "Can you help me? I need repairs, and I need a family. It is Wintersday, you know… I have been out in the cold too long.”

“Whoa, fella! I can help you, and you can help me too.” He was looking at me with unconcealed delight in his eyes. “See this Toy Golem here? He doesn’t have any hands. He needs you to help him get back to Tixx. And then Tixx will make sure the both of you get repaired and find a happy home”.

“Oh, I’ll do anything, Commander Clawfford! Just tell me what to do!”

“It’s simple” I told him, reaching into my doll-tector bag and handing one to the Ventari doll. “Just hold on to the Golem. Then flip the switch here labeled Return. It will whisk you back to the Toymaker for repairs and reassignment.”

They aren’t designed for it, and I may have been mistaken. But I could have sworn I saw tears developing in the dolls eyes. “Oh, Commander! It has been so long! I’m going home!”

“No”, I told him with a smile. “I can’t send you home. But I’m sure the Toymaker will see that you get there soon”.

The Ventari doll waved, and flipped the switch. In a rainbow of sparkling colors, the two Toys faded away, and I turned back to the Asura gate. “Commander Clawfford”, I chuckled to myself. I liked that!

I eventually became inanimate as the sun rose. Just because I was in a dark cell and couldn’t see it doesn’t mean I am not affected by it. And when I reanimated again, I was in a trash can. What good fortune! The Peacemakers must have poked and prodded me and finally decided I was no longer “alive”.

I was much more careful this time about being spotted. I still had my gun and my bag of doll-tectors. Now I just needed to make my way back to the Super Adventure Box. Since I had a fix on the Toy Golem, finding him was no issue. Remaining semi-concealed was what took me so long. But I eventually made it back.

The proprietor was there. He was on one side of the box, so I would have to try climbing up the side facing the dropoff over the city’s edge. In actuality, there was a small piece of a courtyard below my climb. But I am lighter than most people, and there is quite a bit of wind at the altitude at which the city hovers. I stood a fair chance of being blown too far out if I lost my footing.

I am no nimble-footed rooftop thief from the big city. My feet are made of wood, and I was climbing on stone. All I had going for me were small hands and feet to squeeze into cracks and crevices. But eventually I reached the peak of the Super Adventure Box, and scootched myself to within reach of the Toy Golem.

“Easy there, little fella” I said nervously, as I braced against a gust of air. I had a nice view, but I was entirely too high up! Dropoff on one side. Proprietor on the other side. I had only one option remaining. I grabbed the golem tightly, and jumped forward off the roof. I hit the ground and tumbled backwards into the entrance of the Super Adventure Box.

Strange! What was this place? What does it mean “Insert Coin”?

And just like that, I was kicked back out again. I had done it! I was safe, and I had the golem!

My ears perked up. What was that sound? The Super Adventure Box is a noisy contraption, but did I just hear another one of my doll-tectors?

My next destination was the floating city of Rata Sum, home of the Asura. I went to the Lion’s Arch transfer gate and was just stepping through when I thought I heard one of my doll-tectors pinging. Too late! I had already gone through the portal.

Had I really heard something? I had never thought about Lion’s Arch as a possible location. But why not? Even though it is not one of the cultural capitals, it is the main cultural hub. And Tixx did spent most of his trip there last year. I smacked my head for my stupidity. I would have to return to Lions Arch when my task here was complete, and expand my search. I drew forth a doll-tector from my pouch and set to work.

The needle pegged at the top! I was in the immediate vicinity of a Toy! I looked around. I looked some more. I looked again. Nothing! Where could it be?

Rata Sum was hopping with activity. Not just living beings wandering about, but beeps and boops and pings from machinery. Lights of all sorts. Golems and… golems! Of course! My target must be a Toy Golem, hiding in plain sight!

With this revelation, I renewed my examination of the area, and sure enough, I soon spotted him. Smack-dab on top of a remarkable-looking machine that the proprietor was promoting as the “Super Adventure Box”. He looked like an integral part of the device, so I was not surprised that nobody had noticed him.

I couldn’t just toss the golem a doll-tector and tell him how to activate it. Toy Golems have no hands. And this fellow was also very near the edge of the city cube. I could try to climb up, but one wrong move might send me plummeting over the side. I would have to be cautious!

As I stood there pondering how to proceed, I became aware of a voice. “There he is, Peacemaker. He’s interfering with my business! Get him out of here!”

It was the proprietor. He was pointing me out to an officer of the law. I turned to flee, but ran right into a couple of deputies who were standing behind me. As a Toy, I am not supposed to fight with a living being, so I couldn’t resist as they picked me up, took me into the bowels of the city, and locked me behind a force field.

The Black Citadel. I like this place! It feels kind of “homey” for a Toy Soldier. Except…

What am I supposed to do with this Candy Corn man toy? It keeps mutely following me around, and it’s creepy. I don’t want to send him to Tixx; that’d be a waste of a doll-tector. I guess I’ll just have to let him follow me around until I can figure out what to do with him. My assignment continues.

Hmm… not much at the Citadel in the way of Toys. I wander for hours and not a peep. Then just as I am about to leave, I get a reading!

I run in the indicated direction keeping my eyes and ears peeled. Soon enough I happen across a Fahrar. The cubs are practicing their night reconnaissance, and smack-dab in the middle of the group is another Toy Soldier like myself! Well, not quite like myself. This one is missing his head.

As I approach, the apparent leader spies me. “Looky here, boys!” he says. “Another test dummy!”

“I’m no test dummy, dummy”, I retort. “I’m here to find some missing Toys that haven’t found their proper home”.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, knot-head. This guy came to me fair and square last Wintersday.” He said, gesturing towards the headless soldier. “He talked back to his superior, so I knocked off his head”.

“Hmm”, I pondered. “Perfectly understandable. I wonder why my doll-tector seems to think he needs to be returned to my Tribune?”

“Well he’s been the perfect recruit ever since then” replied the cub. “The only problem with him is that we need to lead him by hand everyplace since he can’t see”.

I perked up with that revelation. “Well then that’s the problem!” I said. “He isn’t properly fulfilling his role. I need to send him back for repairs, and then he’ll be returned to you”.

I stepped towards the decapitated doll, but the leader stepped in my way. “Oh no you don’t, varnish-head! We need him for practice! Even though he’s blind, we can whack him all day with our practice swords, and he doesn’t mind.”

A tough problem! These youngsters needed their target, but Tixx didn’t want any imperfect Toy placements, and this Toy was sub-par without it’s head. Then an idea occurred to me.

“If he had a noggin, he would be a better target, wouldn’t he? He could dodge your attacks, and you wouldn’t need to lead him around. Repairs would be complete by this Wintersday. If my Tribune replaced his head with one that didn’t talk, he’d be prefect, wouldn’t he?”

The cub leader considered. “Well, yeah, I suppose so”, he agreed. “But we would fall behind the other Fahrars without him. We can’t spare him even for a few days. We need a good target that doesn’t talk back!”

“Then I have a deal for you” I said with a smile. “Men, I want you to meet Cornwall”. And with that I thrust the Candy Corn man towards them. They gathered around him, with wicked grins spreading across their faces.

I put the doll-tector into the hole in the Toy Soldiers’ neck and pressed the Return switch.

Nope!

(Quaggan dives into water and swims away.)

Quaggan greeted warmly by Krait. Quaggan invited to dinner with Krait leader.

Quaggan still very suspicious of Krait.

Quaggan sees Krait gathering information about Humans. Quaggan must find out why Humans seem to like Krait. Are Krait nice now?

Quaggan goes to visit Krait village. Krait village took a lot of crates to build!

NPC chatter at the Hunting Lodge in Queensdale is gone. (“This lodge needs more killing.” “More gutting too”. “When I was young they called me Bug Hunter”. Etc.)

This is in Borlis Pass. All was fine Dec 7th in the AM EST. By evening it was gone. All silent. This has happened before, and that time it seemed to be only Borlis Pass, although I haven’t guested anyplace this time to see if it is broken elsewhere.

When the Sylvari armors were changed to accept dyes differently, I was upset at first about having to re-dye everything. But then after I took the time to do that, I liked them better. The were more flexible in what colors you could use, and the glow was better.

It’s been a little while since I’ve been on my Sylvari Ranger, but he T3 coat seems to have reverted to the old dye mode.

What happened? Is this a bug? Will the new (good) dye scheme be restored? Or did crybabies make them put it back to the old inflexible way it was originally?

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

At the moment movement in huge battles is discouraged for all the looters because there’s a relatively big chance to leave some loot behind (in case you don’t spam the loot button all the time, which you shouldn’t during a battle).

The suggestion: increase the range of the aoe loot, so that you won’t have to loot manually as much.

The less feasible solution would be to notify players who leave the area, what loot they left behind – like in GW1 when leaving an area. I see that this is much more difficult to do, since loot disappears after a few minutes and the zones are MUCH bigger now.

I’m fine with the range as-is, but if they want to increase it I wouldn’t complain.

And there are times I wish people would spam the loot button more often. For example, fighting the Shatterer. You are standing mostly in one small area for the whole battle. Many times we kill his minions and people don’t pick up their loot, so the bodies don’t disappear. They begin to pile up all around blocking my camera view. I have to constantly fight to find a new a camera position to see where to target my ranged AoE’s. And as I mentioned, there’s a relative small area in which most of the participants fight.

Who remembers the Grentchies in GW1? Running all around LA racing to destroy presents before you can bring them to a little kid? (Best part of Wintersday! A shame they removed them.)

Wouldn’t the Skritt be perfect for that role now?

You can’t have everything … where would you put it?

Lilith Ajit.6173:

They’re for sale in the store Hamfast!!!!

Awesome! Thanks for the heads-up!

They get an A+ from me on all of these little guys! I have armors for most of the various cultural regions (Sylvari, Human, Norn, etc). I think maybe I’ll get myself a mini for each region as well!

My beef with the personal story is that you need to gain several levels between each episode. By the time I do so, I have lost track of the storyline.

I have taken to leveling my Alts without doing any storyline. Once I hit level 80, I will go back to the beginning and do them back-to-back, so there is some continuity.

Just PLEASE don’t make them RNG-only, like Foostoovoo. I want an opportunity to actually get one this year.

Redenaz.8631:

I have a renegade toy to report. I recently stopped by a…restaurant…in Divinity’s Reach for a drink with some…business…associates of mine, and this noisy little golem kept following me the whole time, beeping and booping and generally wanting to be loved. Lady Kasmeer wanted to take it home with her, but the blasted thing seems bent on following me.

I’m afraid that if I don’t get rid of the little barnacle soon, my crew are going to name it, and then I’ll be the bad guy for not liking the thing. Or, worse, the missus is going to get attached to it, and then I’ll have to put up with its incessant noise all day and all night.

HELP

Sir,

I have given special doll-tectors to numerous individuals around Divinity’s Reach. The golem needs to hold it, and then the Return switch must be activated. This will return him to where he belongs.

Are you perchance a sailor? (You used the word “barnacle”, and you have a crew – although that part might make you part of an Asuran collective). This particular model of golem is a Toy, not designed to get wet. Please use caution.

If you wish to pin a note to him before sending him back, my Tribune can check to see if Lady Kasmeer is on his “Nice” list this year. Perhaps something can be arranged.

GuzziHero.2467:

[[good start to the thread, and it ended in a train wreck. Ah well ]]

Thank you so much for your insightful and helpful critique, Simon Cowell.

After 3 weeks, this thread has averaged over 20 posts per day (many long ones) and nearly 2300 readers per day. You yourself added to it a dozen times. And even though the initial participants have moved on, it is still growing. (Much thanks, Arikyali, Ashabhi, and company! I am still reading! Keep up the creativity!)

A lot of people have enjoyed what they read here. Many people have gone to great effort into adding to our fun. We have created (to the best of my knowledge) a new form of entertainment here. We had no guidelines, but we learned as we went. It’s not perfect, but it’s not a contest for you to judge either. So please take your flippant remarks elsewhere. Comments like yours are the real train wreck at the end of all our fun and hard work.

I am tired of seeing my Achievements Points data displayed by tiers.

Yes, I know we get Achievement Points with each tier as we go. That’s great. It lets us gain APs constantly instead of in big occasional lumps. I’m fine with that. Good idea.

What I want is to see my TOTAL progress displayed, not my progress in the current tier. (I almost never care about that.)

I know that I can get that information by mouse-hovering over certain spots. But for me the current tier info is useless. I would much rather have the info for my TOTAL Achievement objective displayed.

Please give us

A) the option to display totals instead of current tier

or

B) both figures. Example: Monthly Successful Events 17% (66% T1/4)

(This translates to 17 percent total completion, and 66 percent done with Tier 1 of 4.)
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And while you’re at it, since you seem dead-set on forcing us to have all that text in the upper right corner, could you PUH-LEEZE make them retain the drop-down state in which we put them? It is terribly aggravating for the closed ones to be opening, and the opened ones to be closing on their own initiative all the time!

Mine would obviously be my Warning Buoy! thread, which started as a little tongue-in-cheek humor, but grew in less than three weeks to over 430 posts and 47,000 reads.

Redenaz.8631 led me into developing my game character as a mermaid that needed to be captured in order to make the shipping lanes safe.

I had great fun, but my favorite part, the part that made me laugh out loud, was an early contribution by NoxInfernus.2361 who paraphrased Quint’s introductory speech from Jaws:

*Y’all know me. Know how I earn a livin’. I’ll catch this bird for you, but it ain’t gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin’ bluegills and tommycods. This lass, she’ll swallow you whole. Little shakin’, little tenderizin’, an’ down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that’ll bring back your ships, put all your businesses on a payin’ basis. But it’s not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand gold, chief. I’ll find her for three, but I’ll catch her, and kill her, for ten. But you’ve gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don’t want no volunteers, I don’t want no mates, there’s just too many captains in this city. 10,000 gold for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole kitten thing.
- Capt. Quint.

*with apologies to Stephen Spielberg, Peter Benchley, & Carl Gottlieb

It was the perfect post at the perfect time. My hat’s off to you, Nox!

This has been brought up many, many times. I would think it’d be an easy fix. But since we’ve never seen it addressed, I can only assume it would throw the whole game out of whack.

The sun and moon go across the sky in the wrong direction, and they are different sizes in different zones. This also spoils immersion, but it can’t be fixed or it would throw the whole game out of whack.

My Sylvari has “lazy eye”. My Human Female Elementalist and my Norn Female Guardian have visible lines around their midsections, but fixing that would throw the whole game out of whack.

My compass only has a teeny-tiny letter N indicating north, and it is practically invisible. Making it stand out and adding the other 3 directions would only throw the game out of whack.

Early on, Human females developed a side-to-side wobble when they ran, and now they look like a windshield wiper. But fixing that would probably throw the game out of whack.

The oldest suggestion in the forums is to add search filters to the trading post so you can display armor based on whether it’s Light, Medium, or Heavy. Apparently that’s impossible without throwing the whole game out of whack.

People post bug reports in the GW2 Discussion forum instead of the Bug Reports forum. Sometimes that gets fixed.

Sorry. Just venting. Gotta do that sometimes. It just seems that the simplest things to fix are never fixed. And every time we have a new update, tons of other little things pop up.

EDIT: I see what the filter did to you there… “it spoils the immersion a bit.” And then you said “Cheers”. Even with the line break between “BIT” and “CH eers”, it thought you were talking about a female dog, and turned it into a kitten.

Oh, yes! Gonna get me that puppy dog! (Unless he’s RNG… then I’ll be lucky to even see him.)