Guild Wars 2

Ah, yes. It’s the little details that bring a world to life. I only recently noticed that my T1 Sylvari Medium Armor Boots glow on the SOLES at night, in the shape of a wild animal’s footprint. I wasn’t even sure I was seeing it until I took a screen capture to freeze the moment. Now that I am certain my eyes aren’t playing tricks on me, I love it. It feels like something special they put in just for me.

…and in keeping with the elemental theme, you will “clean up” saplings with a little Wind-Axe?

I have rarely used the Forge… it is still pretty mysterious to me. (Seems every time I put one item into it, almost every remaining item in my Inventory gets grayed out. Hard to get 4 compatible things to go.)

Anyhow, one time I put in 4 dyes, and it forged one of the same dyes I put into it. So in essence, it deleted 3 dyes. They need to fix it so at least you get something DIFFERENT than what you put in.

Borlis Pass. Can’t they see the flames? Or is all the black smoke and drifting ash obscuring them? I pulled the fire alarm myself.

But it’s too late. Nothing left to do now but sift through the ashes and move on with shattered lives.

Poor Applenook Village (just outside Lion’s Arch in Gendarran Fields) is on fire, and I can’t put out the flames until the Pirate Waves are defeated.

Problem being that the event is stuck on 7/8 waved defeated. Pirates DO come (at a very slow pace), but after 15 minutes or so it was still on wave 7 of 8, where it was when I entered the event.

I came to the forums here to report it, and got sidetracked for about a half hour with replies to other issues. When I re-entered GW2, we were still on 7/8.

Oh, the humanity!

PvP? What’s PvP?

Nope. Never PvPed in GW2. Wouldn’t know where to start, and don’t care to. Good thought though.

xerca.6135:

Are you alone or in a party? Because I have never been able to mark targets while being outside of a party.

Never noticed this… I guess there’s no point in calling out a target to people who aren’t there.

MY problem is that you can’t REMOVE a target once called. It only goes away when the target has been destroyed (and looted by everyone in the party, if applicable) or a new target is designated.

In “collection” events, I run around holding down the CTRL key so the yellow items I need to locate are visible. On occasion I will try to type a message to someone and forget I am holding down CTRL, then accidentally call a target when I type T.

The CALL TARGET command needs to be a TOGGLE on/off.

I just ran into the same glitch yesterday. I purchased 6 Superior Runes of the Ranger, and Transmuted them over different runes (4 Majors of Divinity, I believe, and 2 others of some sort. But I was not replacing Ranger with Ranger, as you replaced Thief with Thief.)

I was able to get screen caps with the mouseover tooltips using a third-party screen capture program, and running GW2 in a window.

I removed all items; armor, weapons, and jewelry. I will let someone else do the math to determine if the runes are adding correctly, but it most definitely shows 6/6 runes when all armor is in my Inventory, and 12/6 runes when all equipped.

Attached are shots with NO armor, with ONE piece of armor, and with ALL armor. I WAS wearing my armor when I transmuted it, since I find that retains my dye colors.

I haven’t seen anything especially neat about the Sunrise special effects. It just looks like another glowing sword to me. The deep space effect in the blade of Twilight is AWESOME. Love it! Like the portals from the Mad King’s Realm.

But the LOOKS of each sword, with their undefined edge, and the not-pointy, toy-pirate-sword tip are not for me. And I totally DESPISE oversized weapons and armors. I need a little more realism in that respect, although I also understand that you need a broad weapon to show as much of the sky as possible. The effects would probably have been better on a shield.

So for peering into the blade, I prefer Twilight, but hate the look of both weapons. But Twilight has an inherent curse because of the name. I don’t wish to be hounded by a bunch of Twi-Hards screaming about “Team Edward” and “Team Jacob”.

Valerie The Valkyrie (Female Norn Guardian)

My goal was to create a Norse valkyrie figure. Blond and blue-eyed (with traditional braids that don’t clip with the stowed shield like many other hairstyles). I consider the shield itself as part of the “costume”, as it gives her the winged look that valkyries occasionally sport in artist’s renderings. The shield is an “Ebon Vanguard Shield” from the Karma Vendor in Ebonhawk. I do not care for headgear on this character (or most females) since it hides the trademark braids. On occasion, I will display the Hall of Monuments “Icelord’s Heavy Diadem”, but it doesn’t look entirely right with this hairstyle. A golden circlet would be nice on her forehead, but there is nothing of that nature for a heavy armor character… yet.

LEFT: Adventuring Gear

Shoulders: Conqueror’s Mantle (Guardian starting gear selection)
Torso: Gladiator Chestplate
Gloves: Heritage Gauntlets (Hall of Monuments)
Leggings: Stag Chausses (Norn Cultural T3)
Boots: Dolyak Greaves (Norn Cultural T1)

RIGHT: War Gear

Shoulders: Conqueror’s Mantle (Guardian starting gear selection)
Torso: Primeval Warplate (Gem Store)
Gloves: Fire God’s Heavy Vambraces (Hall of Monuments)
Leggings: Eagle Chausses (Norn Cultural T2)
Boots: Draconic Boots

Yes, I have TWO sets of starting shoulder gear (I like the Conqueror’s Mantle!). I created a second, disposable Guardian and had them TRANSMUTE their Conqueror’s Mantle. That changed them from Soulbound to Account Bound. From there, Val could use them as her own. In the same fashion, my Engineer wears TWO pieces of gear that are only available to starting characters (who get one apiece).

ALSO: Aside from Heritage Legplates (from the Hall of Monuments) which are VERY nice, these two leggings are about the only ones that don’t make Val look pregnant. And valkyries just don’t have time for child-rearing.

I have an Asura named “Professor Knowitall”, and my Guildie has one named “Mighty Mouth”. Those seemed appropriate for Asura.

I dunno if it’s available or not, but I thought a male Sylvari should be named “Pete Moss”.

My Ranger’s dog is named “Air Biscuit”.

Traditional “knight-style” plate armor look, with a touch of Charr savagery. No dresses. No excessive decorations. No highly polished, unused, ceremonial look. This guy means business, and he looks like it.

Helm: Primeval Warhelm (Gem Store)
Shoulders: Heritage Pauldrons (Hall of Monuments)
Torso: Primeval Warplate (Gem Store)
Gloves: Fire God’s Heavy Vambraces (Hall of Monuments)
Leggings: Heritage Legplates (Hall of Monuments)
Boots: Heritage Warboots (Hall of Monuments)

tyrswrath.1753:

The one thing I really don’t like in the current ranking system is that you can be against the same servers for weeks on end, despite the weekly reset.

That’s my gripe, and I only care because I am a PvEer who only wants a chance to get my World Completion done. But we’ve not only been up against the same servers (with the same results) for the past 6 weeks, but for 5 of those 6 weeks we were the same color.

Edit: Make that 6 out of the last 7 weeks. (Sigh).

GUARDPOINT DECIMUS WAYPOINT (Plains of Ashford) is listed as contested for no apparent reason immediately after the April 18th update. No events nearby. Killed all foes in the area. Nothing frees up the waypoint.

Yes, it would be cute. And FINALLY a way for your minis to keep up with you!

But I would HATE constantly picking him up by accident while trying to loot a body. It’s bad enough when NPCs are tagging along and a chat screen pops up when my intent was to gather booty. (Don’t get me started on accidental harvesting and reviving! MAN it is hard to stop reviving without accidentally dodging and wasting endurance!)

Maybe only in town? Or maybe a check box (like the display/don’t display checkbox for headgear) to hold them instead of the multifunctional and overused F key.

I’m sure they’ll add new armors from time to time. They did it in GW1 with each paid add-on installment.

My main concern is something for my Ranger that isn’t another bloody trenchcoat or poofy-sleeved shirt. Something similar to GW1 starter armor for males. And the Elite Druid outfit for females (which would show off Sylvari glow patterns nicely!)

Wow… where to begin?

I fight like heck to get back up when downed. I’ve gotten pretty good at it, though some Professions are definitely better equipped to revive than others. But it’s a great feeling when you can come back from the brink to at least get away with your skin intact, if not turn the tables to victory.

I’m guessing yours is a WvW issue. I solo PvE a lot, and don’t have the luxury of “buying time” until help arrives. There is rarely any help. And I can’t begin to imagine what sort of mentality it takes to think peoples goal when they go down is to annoy you.

When you go down, do you give up right there and let your enemy finish you off? Or do you kick and scream and do whatever you can to keep him from having the satisfaction?

And there’s nothing magic about the 2nd skill. For some Professions it damages foes, for others it distracts or diverts them, or whatnot. The point is, that all someone needs to do is participate in killing one foe to Rally. Locate the weakest guy in range and do your best. Find a white-text bunny. If a downed enemy finds some way to fight back, you can’t blame them for trying everything at their disposal.

And punishing someone for using a skill? Excuse me, but are you completely bonkers? Seems to me DEATH is a pretty good punishment if they fail to use it “right”. (And who are YOU to decide if a skill is being used “right” or “unskillfully”? And how in the world are they supposed to program the game to recognize that?)

No, my friend. The downed state is cool. Rallying to come back and win is awesome. If you don’t like it when people fight to delay you from finishing them off, that’s YOUR problem. I’m betting you don’t go down meekly either.

Achievements in the Hero Panel are broken up into “Tiers”, so until you are working on the final Tier you never know what your final goal is.

(Thank goodness we can display any 5 Achievements on the desktop now, where it shows TOTALS and not TIERS!)

What’s the point of the Tiers anyway? Just so you can earn Achievement Points as you go, and not only upon completion? WHO CARES? Achievement Points don’t do anything for you anyway as far as I know.

So PLEASE show us what TOTALS we need in the Hero Pane. Keep the Tier system if you must, but display our final goal.

I was happy when I killed the Nageling Giant a tenth time, to max out my Achievement. He is the only giant I know that counts towards the Giant Slayer Title. Imagine to my dismay when I realized I only completed TIER ONE, and need to kill him 990 more times! And for what? Darned few Achievements actually earn displayable titles.

Yes, a tooltip on the mini-map and the big map that tells you the destination on mouse hover. I suggested this waaaaaaay back in the Betas. Rata Sum is still super-confusing until you run right up to jumping-through distance.

I was swimming merrily along underwater – didn’t hear or see any of the telltales because of the burbling water all about me – when WHAM! I got knocked back from a sonic periscope right into aggro. I was laughing so hard I almost lost control of the fight. I think they’re sort of fun. Something DIFFERENT. And as far as I’ve seen, they don’t have any positioned so that they mess with your ability to get Vistas or waypoints or POIs or anything. And as has been said, when the Living Story has run its course, they will go away. Just learn to work around them until that time.

-1, lazybones!

If you want to play a different race, then what is so hard about CREATING a different race? Use that $50 to get more character slots.

Part of playing another race is EXPERIENCING it from the very beginning. You want to skip all of that because you would rather throw money at it than put in more time and effort. Well you will appreciate that character a heck of a lot more if you have to WORK on him than if you just BUY him pre-leveled.

Roman Legionary is 100% right. It would be a HECK of a lot of work for them to institute your suggestion, when you can have the character you want right now anyway. You just have to (gasp!) WORK for it like everyone else.

…and then there is THIS lovely number I discovered when I picked up my new Order of Whispers Leggings today. Those unsightly panty lines! (Human Female, Light Armor, Order of Whispers Leggings + Conjurer’s Robes).

Race: Charr
Sex: Male
Armor: Chef’s Boots (Town Clothes)

I’m pretty sure the Chef’s Boots aren’t supposed to do this:

I presented this elsewhere before, but THIS is where it really belongs, so here it is. My female Sylvari eyes went bonkers when I used the Total Transformation Kit. Thank you for fixing my glow, but now I look like Marty Feldman. I bought ANOTHER kit and made the Iris Size larger, so the amount of white around the iris is not as noticeable, but it is still disconcerting.

Race: Human
Sex: Female
Armor: Combinations of LIGHT armor

This has been around awhile. Certain LIGHT ARMOR creates a visible line along the back of a female human. Some chest armors and some leggings are worse than others, and some combined are pretty bad. The Embroidered Pants are particularly troublesome as far as leggings go, and the Conjurer Chest piece is rough amongst the tops. Put the two together, and YOW!

(Try putting the various tops on WITHOUT bottoms – and vice versa – to see which ones are the main culprits.)

Race: Charr
Sex: Male
Armor: Heritage Pauldrons

As you can see, the shoulders float in midair now. Dunno if it’s due to being enlarged, or what (as someone else pointed out with his non-Charr character). But they need to sit down on the shoulders again where they belong. (The “unattached” in the rear look is what has kept me from ever buying Gladiator shoulder armor.)

I can also confirm other reports of one of the dye channels on the Heritage Warplate being stuck on SALMON color now (or something ugly like that).

As long as you have the picture, note my greatsword. Pretty much all Charr back-sheathed weapons need to be rotated a little along the long axis to un-bury the left side from my back. The left guardpiece is hidden under my backbone no matter what weapon I use or what armor I wear. You can even tell that my bowstring cuts through my body.

I walk through that area constantly in fear of a dam boulder falling on my head.

Is THAT what it is? I’ve had weird characters invading my text since day one, and figured it was a “reinstall the game to fix” sort of issue. I am not about to make my UI smaller though. It is hard enough for me to read as it is now.

Here’s a screen shot example. Note the accented E in the description of the Skritt’s abilities (seeming to take the place of “and”), and the funny A’s within the letter from Rytlock (that seem to be visible beginning of message and end of message placeholders between the recipient and sender’s names. The character name is “Clawfford” obviously, not “ClawffordA”).

Report the bugged event, and then play away! You have done your civic duty, and it is not YOUR fault it is bugged. If ANet has a problem, then maybe they’ll learn to patch bugged events faster. The way things stand now, you’ll probably have up to a week before they address it.

You are doing WORK to earn your drops; you aren’t exploiting a glitch where a merchant is selling something valuable at an extremely low price, or anything like that. In this case, you’ll probably get tired of the grind after a little while, and/or fill up your Inventory fast and have to leave to find a Merchant anyway. Go for it while you have the chance.

They care about hacks. Enough to ban my friend / guildie as a bot with no proof. (Never any information about where an accusation may have come from.) She DOES farm a lot, and is online a lot. (Stay-at-home Mom with kids out of the nest.) And she doesn’t communicate much because she is colorblind and has difficulty reading the chat.

So naturally she’s a bot.

It took her daughter a day an a half to get her reinstated.

I pointed this out to them waaaaaaaay back around Beta Weekend 2. All they did was make the sun in Kryta about 75% smaller. I don’t know what effect this is going to have on daylight savings time.

With a backwards sun, and a little teeny-tiny “N” as the only direction indicator on the mini-map, I can’t find my way anymore. (And that silly little “N” is constantly concealed by event markers, blue Commander arrows, storyline stars, etc.)

There are several spots in which the game does not retain my preferences.

- I created a chat tab called “Guild” and set it up to talk on Guild Chat. Ever since the last big update, it defaults to SAY Chat every time I log on instead. My Guildies have the same problem.

- My Achievements display on the desktop keeps minimizing. I thought they had this fixed when they first began allowing choice of Dailies, but it didn’t last long. It closes just about every time a new event pops up. Please retain my preference of having it stay open.

- I ALWAYS view my dyes by HUE. It always resets to viewing them by SET. Please retain my preferences! I have a rather large dye inventory, and Hue is the best way to find the ones I want.

- While you’re at it, how about fixing the glitch in the town clothes that doesn’t allow you to toggle headgear viewing preferences on/off? It was kinda mean selling discounted Aviators Sunglasses to people who can’t display them.

- The updated Hero menu contains more information now, but my preference is to have a NAME next to the stats, not an icon. It is extremely unhandy having to hover my pointer over a mystic symbol to know what it means. (Sorry… this one is not really in keeping with my subject. But it is still a problem that needs to be addressed in my opinion.)

The “can’t change your town clothes headgear display status” issue still hasn’t been fixed.

So what do they do?

Big sale on Aviators Sunglasses!

Nice.

That’s probably related to my problem…

I also have a “Guild” tab that I keep set to Guild chat (although I monitor other chats as well, not just Guild).

After the latest update, my Guild tab defaults to SAY chat when I log in. I betcha if you enabled “Say” as well as Guild, then it would do the same for you. (And I bet that if I disabled everything except Guild, then mine would behave the same as yours.)

The chat window no longer retains my preferences.

I typically use GUILD chat, on a tab labeled “Guild”. I also have a tab labeled “Party” that defaults to speaking on the PARTY channel, a “Map” tab that defaults to speaking on the MAP channel, etc.

Ever since the latest update, every time I change characters my Guild and Party tabs revert to the SAY channel. My Map and Say tabs each seem to retain the correct channel. Only my primaries, the Guild and Party tabs seem affected. My Guildies report the same issue.

DreamOfACure.4382:

Well, unlike you, I have other priorities in life. So my play time is limited. I took the time to write this thread, because it is important to me.

Haha! You are so funny, my friend! “Other priorities” he says! LOL! “Play time is limited”!

Your footprints are all over this forum every time I log in. Click your name and you’ll see you have 21 pages of forum comments. I counted FIFTY comments on the first page alone (lengthy and well-presented for the most part).

If you don’t have enough time to play the game, I THINK maybe I know where you can find a few extra precious minutes. ;o)

Anyhoo… the new system doesn’t bug me a bit. Still getting the dailies done in about the same amount of time. Just seeing a little different scenery for a change.

If they allow this, then ALL weapons will need to follow suit. I wish I could pass on my old weapons to my Alt characters when I obtain a new one.

(In a semi-related note, I haven’t done many dungeons, but at least twice they gave me a reward armor piece that was instantly soulbound to me without my ever having equipped it, and not even sellable to the merchant. All I could do was trash the thing. Some “reward”. Is this usual for Dungeons?) “Soulbound” … Thpppt!

I am sure the “Ascalonian Slayer”, “Maguuma Veteran Slayer”, etc. are in response to concerns that certain regions have been getting all the traffic and others are being ignored. Now – if only for a day – people have a reason to revisit places they may not have seen for awhile. And the areas are broad, so you can play at lower or advanced levels of difficulty depending on what suits you. I kinda like rediscovering old haunts instead of doing the exact same runs every day. If we could choose from ALL the goals, I would probably just pick the things I could do the fastest every day, and be incredibly bored.

But then again, if I could blast through my dailies real fast I might be able to devote more time to other areas again instead of feeling obligated to getting that out of the way first. Finishing the Daily has become the overriding priority, and I haven’t been able to work on my Alt’s storylines the way I’ve wanted to get them caught up.

My poor, poor Sylvari female!

I bought a Total Makeover Kit that made my glow disappear. I WAS refunded, and bought another Kit to use when they get fixed. (This is a well-known bug). But it also messed up my EYES! They no longer look the same direction. Has anyone else noticed this? Look closely…

Opening the new Kit, my glow slider IS all the way off. And my eyes look FINE in the Kit Preview. But I don’t want to commit to my changes until I hear that the bugs have been addressed. ANet, won’t you PLEASE tell us when fixes are made?

Tiers, schmiers! Why do they list achievements in tiers anyway? What’s the point? It just keeps you in the dark of what your ultimate target is. Thank heavens for the UI that gives me the straight poop!

In GW1 I could always find game update notes. They helped keep me apprised of skill changes, bug fixes, etc. Where can I find this for GW2? Occasionally there is a link to a blog post from the Welcome Screen, but I can’t locate an actual official web page.

Specifically, I have a female Sylvari that fell victim to the no-glow bug with the Total Makeover Kit. My gems were refunded, but I still want to get my glow back. The bugged Makeover Kits have never been removed from the Gem Store, and I have no idea where to go to find out if they have been fixed. It would be nice to know whether or not they supposedly work now before I apply changes with my replacement Kit.

(The EYES were also messed up by the kit… they no longer face the same direction, although in my replacement Makeover Kit they appear normal.)

I would also love to know things like when the announced Trading Post Preview is actually proposed to finally take effect, and where to go to find ANYTHING associated with the “Flame and Frost” story. I have found extremely little content for something that has been talked up for several weeks now. One event I stumbled upon to plug steam vents, and fixing signposts and collecting refugee mementos for a collector who gives nothing in return. That’s all so far. And the “influx of refugees” consist of “camps” of about 4-6 NPCs that say nothing helpful to give you any idea where you can go to find a little action. Thpppt!

You can’t block anyone, but you can report them. Presumably the e-mail will be reviewed and proper countermeasures take by ANet. There is an exclamation mark in a circle at the bottom of your e-mail. Click it for a report dialogue box.

Please give us 1 hour to restart and get new builds instead of 3 minutes. This has a couple of advantages:

— People in the middle of events, personal storylines, or dungeons can finish them. (Well… it depends on how far you are into a dungeon).

— Downloading and reconnecting will be faster for players since not everyone is doing it at the same time. (There have been times in the past where I couldn’t reconnect and download right away due to all the traffic.)

Currently, a person can restart any time before the countdown timer expires. Ever since I figured that out, I have had no problems restarting immediately and getting back online promptly since I am not battling the other people who wait for the clock to force a restart. (Changing zones also forces a restart.)

Anyway, it would certainly be more courteous to give us a greater warning period. We had a 1 hour warning once before (by mistake?) and it really saved me from having to repeat a lot of hard work.

I never read about the 100% drop promise. I have definitely had numerous instances of not getting credit where credit was due. No reward from Champions is one. (YES I did plenty of damage to them!)

Also, the Giant at the Town of Nageling seems to be the only Giant in the game that counts towards the “Giant Slayer” title track. I have battled him 3 times and didn’t get credit the last time. (Yes again, I did plenty of damage and was alive when he fell. Never any loot from him either.)

And is it a new thing that you can be alive and extremely active during a whole Boss battle, but if you are in the defeated state when he dies you don’t get a reward/chest? Because that has happened to me and my Guildies too.

Thpppt!

I never knew anything about a Dynamic Event. Sometimes I can just walk up and use the Cattlepult. But if NPCs are yakking, all bets are off. Wait until they are done and try again. (If I recall, you see the word “Cattlepult” in yellow text under the thing when it is active, and nothing if it is currently unavailable.)

I discovered a bugged event.

At 9:39 PM I told a newcomer in “Say” chat that it was bugged.

I was still in the area fourteen minutes later at 9:53 PM, and repeated my message to another player (for which I was thanked).

Eleven minutes later at 10:04 PM I was suppressed from repeating my helpful message a third time. I tried changing the message up a little several times with no effect.

I was unable to say ANYTHING until 10:36 after I had left the zone (AND the server – I was in the LA Overflow).

I was hardly spamming. (I ASSUME this is the reason I was lip-locked for half an hour for daring to say the same thing more than three time in a 25 minute period.) I am annoyed by idiot spammers as much as the next guy, but this is RIDICULOUS!

Please re-evaluate your spam suppression system.

Hmm… I’m not a WvWer, so I don’t experience that one.

More people are catching on to using WvW as a free route to LA instead of paying waypoint fees. I bet that will become a pain eventually too, not being able to get right into your WvW fun because of tourists passing through.

Make waypoints free AFTER you have 100% completion of the zone. It can be a reward from the Tyrian Explorer’s Society. It also kills the argument that waypointing around spoils exploration, since at 100% the area is thoroughly explored.

Edit: DOH! You beat me to it, Frostflare.

I don’t have too many game interruptions. The “Your game will restart in 3 minutes” thing is annoying if that’s what you mean. It kills a lot of events and dungeon runs. But it doesn’t come up that often. What other interruptions do you experience? A small weekly update when I log in doesn’t bother me a bit.

MY SOLUTION: To fix the “restart in 3 minutes” thing, they need to give you an HOUR to restart. That way not everyone will be logging out and back in at the same time. Most people will have time to finish what they are doing. (It’d make for faster downloads too, since the whole community won’t be trying to get the update at the same time.)

It was nice during the Betas when they saved most patches for late night. (Yes, I know late night means nothing in a worldwide community. But a more REGULAR time for patches would be less annoying than having them pop up at unexpected times.)

I’m thinking NO on things that are more than cosmetic items or temporary buffs or things like that.

ANet gave us fewer than 8 slots to begin with (the number of professions) so that those of us who wanted to try them all would have to give them more money. If they discount it now, I will scream bloody murder for a refund. I don’t mind you having a silly pirate outfit that you got for a special sale price. But a whole CHARACTER cheaper than what I had to pay? THPPPT! I paid full price for more Bank space too. Don’t even go there.