Guild Wars 2

You might to be confusing diffuse and specular light. Diffuse/ambient light is what you see all around you, while specular light is light photons that are directly reflected off a surface into your eyes, and will always be eye/camera-relative.

That’s why when you look into a mirror, the reflection follows your eye position.

Except for the entire year of Living Story (LS1) that you missed that does not return and is not replayable in any way, then get thrown into the new LS2 with characters that you don’t know and absolutely no idea of what is going on ?

I’m confused as to how you catch up on something that does not exist, besides the obvious out-of-game venues like reading the wiki or watching YouTube.

The Tengu and the Dominion of Winds /sarcasm.

What to really expect:
- Expansion level content (one small map, maybe one new skill, armor or weapon skin)
- Lots of dialog in which you have zero choices
- Unskippable everything
- Still broken Personal Story and Zhaitan fight

Nemitri.8172:

If you are so keen on using them, Warriors get the same bonus toughness when reviving someone, so it doubles up. It’s the vitality/boon duration line.

The Warrior also gets an extra 10% revive speed from this tree, so when using the Mercy runes they revive people very fast, like having inverse poison on them.

They are only useful at Tequatl in PVT gear, and maybe PvP.

I have eleven characters – one of each class, plus some extras because I wanted to play radically different builds without having to switch all the time.

It never hurts to make more, only costs time and a bit of money.

That said, you will still probably want to keep a “main” character, that is min/maxed for especially challenging content such as fractals. Generally something robust at performing many different roles such as the Elementalist.

At least, that’s what a main character means to me.

Stop skipping and kill the mobs. Problem solved.

Whether a game supports surround or not has nothing to do with the game itself, as it is an inherint feature of DirectSound3D when your audio is properly configured from the Windows control panel, or whatever app is provided with your card.

Keep in mind that Creative cards are OpenAL, not DSound3D based. This means that you may not get all features of the card when running DirectX games.

Also, there is no such thing as “artificial” surround on a headset, headphones always fully replicate the illusion of 3D sound when in “Headphones” mode. In fact, buying a surround headset is completely pointless because Human hearing is stereo and you have basically wasted money on a cheap marketing gimmick.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-related_transfer_function

Just let us use water weapons on land already. This will make them alot more useful, and they won’t have to stop making skins for water weapons.

Plus, you know. content.

Because they want each race to fit a specific theme unless you use makeover kits. However, I do agree that the makeover kits should use the wheel.

But with normal character creation each race that you create is limited to a specific color palette for the skin colors, fur colors, hair colors etc. to keep the same kind of theme for the entire race across all “non-ecentric”character types.

ShinjoNaomi.1896:

Careful… pointing out good things about the game… rather then endlessly screaming about every single possible mistake in thread after thread (which is just as often more an opinion then anything else…) will likely get you told something along the lines of ‘NOTHING GOOD EVER COMES FROM PRAISING A GAME!’ by the usual crowd of people around here…

And this post is somehow supposed to be better than such posts, how? I mean, you derailed a thread just to complain about other people.

Besides, I see plenty of praising on these forums, nearly every day a thread pops up praising ArenaNet for what a good job they have done on this game. In fact, I believe that if you fish a little deeper you will find that most complaints against the game are in fact because they keep messing with things that were highly praised.

This game is well loved by the community and always was. If it wasn’t, they wouldn’t be here and instead they would be off playing some other game.

I’m just sayin’.

Vayne.8563:

This is a really bad analogy. Because Harry Potter is divided into books and those books all have different plots.

The first ten levels of your story are initiated by a single question in character generation. To all intents and purposes, nothing that happens in those chapters gets brought up in the chapter 11 plus story, because it’s done. That’s it. It’s finished. It’s final.

Those characters are done and you’re onto something new. The 11-20 story which is something that pertains to a different question in character generation. It’s a completely story arc done. It doesn’t affect anything that you’re doing in the 21-30 story at all.

So you can’t compare this to a set of books that builds on itself, and it’s not fair too.

It’s more like a serial than a novel, and if you’re going to compare it to anything, that would be the thing to compare it to.

I’ve always felt the greatest flaw in the story of this game was the ten level requirement that pretty much had to shoehorn the story into the pattern. That meant writers had massive constraints they wouldn’t have had if they could just “write a story”.

He’s actually talking about the story being horribly out of order now.

You.2103:

So no console gamers here huh? Or maybe you guys just don’t have a nice home theater setup. Splitscreen on one big tv is nice, I’m currently looking at UltraVNC, has anyone been able to get it to stream a game? Steam is doing it with their games now, it must be possible..

It works fine as long as your LAN is 100Mbit or higher. Don’t try it on WIFI. Also, make sure that the PC doing the streaming has enough processing power to handle both the game and the massive overhead of the VNC server without losing FPS.

But then you wouldn’t buy more bags, bag slots and bank expansions.

Guardian + boon duration, Celestial gear and most parties will still take you.

Avoid Clerics and don’t try to be a healer, only a buffer.

Danikat.8537:

Hannelore.8153:

Zoid.2568:

So IRL me and my ex broke up a few days, we were about to get back together and then we started fighting again and now it’s pretty much 1% chance we are getting back together. Well, we had good memories together, but it ended bad.

You could still save your relationship by letting go of whatever is making you fight. Usually just showing a willingness to completely secede is all you need.

Strangely, it is the single hardest thing for Humans to do…

If only it was that easy. My brother and his ex broke up because she wanted him to quit his job as a live sound engineer to do something with more regular hours, in preparation for them having kids soon. He didn’t want to ever have kids and was hoping to progress his career to the point where he’d be going on long, international tours with artists.

Neither of those is an easy thing to let go of.

This sounds like an extreme case and a relationship that was naturally poisoned if one person wanted to have kids and the other didn’t. There’s a difference between having some fighting and having a doomed relationship from the start …

You’re confusing festivals with living story. Only the LS rewards are at the vendor, not the rewards from the various festivals which are time-limited.

Boss week was also not technically a part of LS besides Rox.

Zoid.2568:

So IRL me and my ex broke up a few days, we were about to get back together and then we started fighting again and now it’s pretty much 1% chance we are getting back together. Well, we had good memories together, but it ended bad.

You could still save your relationship by letting go of whatever is making you fight. Usually just showing a willingness to completely secede is all you need.

Strangely, it is the single hardest thing for Humans to do…

Meguuma Wastes is the dried out Meguuma Jungle, thus it no longer counts as such.

This is surely a good idea that everyone will love. (sarcasm)

Who needs privacy anyway?

Yenn.9185:

Conncept.7638:

Yenn.9185:

Conncept.7638:

Mitch.4781:

ipan.4356:

This is the very thing I hate in games like this.

why though? It can help you improve ur skills

No it doesn’t, there is no skill in blindly adhering to a system. That’s like saying filling out forms is a skill or obeying the traffic lights as you drive.

I have several builds I like on each of my characters, and only one build on one character out of all of them is a berserker build, the most ‘efficient’ build. But I am, good with all of them. I used to carry through CoE speed runs on a tanky condi glyph elementalist. I didn’t tell anyone that was my build, as it was none of their business, or yours. Because they would have likely made the same ill-informed snap judgments you and most players would make were they to be given the tools you are suggesting.

Yes, in a ‘play how you want’ casual party. In a zerker only party, I don’t think so. Ofc, if the other party members is unskilled, it wouldn’t be a good run regardless of gear anyways.

Also if your playing alone, in open world for example, I don’t care what build you use. But when start partying with other player, you’re no longer just responsible for your own. What build you use doesn’t just affect you, but also your party members.

It wasn’t always in a casual party, I joined plenty of the all zerker parties, and just lied about my build, and it made absolutely no difference, the clear times didn’t change and not once in the months it took me to get my CoE gear did anybody even notice. In fact I frequently got complimented and friended from my dungeon runs.

Why? No on plays perfect no matter how much they laud themselves as ‘leet’, I often saved those parties when one or multiple people missed a dodge against Subject Alpha. For the few unnoticeable seconds they lost on each run, every 3-4 runs I singlehandedly saved them minutes by averting a wipe. In fact I liked joining those parties, as it insured that I was to be the only condimancer in ANets laughably dysfunctional stat system.

I just don’t like that mentality/attitude is all. What if I posted a zerker only party and 4 other members lied about their builds? What now? It wouldn’t be a good run, no doubt. I agree that unless it’s a record run, 1 member running suboptimal build probably won’t have noticeable difference. Just 1 though, what if 2 or 3?

Pot and kettle.

You don’t like the attitude that others have, others don’t like the attitude that you have. This is the endless cycle between “casuals” or “bads” and “elitists”.

They don’t stop to think that maybe how they feel about what others do is also how others feel about what they do. Very rarely does this kind of consideration ever come into play before the almighty kick button is pressed and voted.

Nobody wants to play together anymore, only argue like babies so that they can shave a few minutes off of a run, and it has just become downright awful.

This is precisely why tools like a DPS meter cannot exist.

Character Model Limit: Lowest
Character Model Quality: Low

This is an MMO, not an FPS. Player character models are complex and taxing.

They should make Charged Lodestones savlageable from Dark Matter, the same way that you can get Pile of Crystalline Dust from Glob of Ectoplasm.

EOTM is fine as it is.

This game’s WvW community was becoming too bitter before the introduction of EOTM, and ever since it was introduced I have noticed a “cooling off” as they no longer have to deal with compounding frustrations like queues.

Its a fun little side map, obviously meant to be fun. Its supposed to introduce you to PvP in a way that doesn’t result in you losing a tournament, for example.

No holds barred, is the entire point.

The only problem is you get too many badges and too much WXP.

Just get the stuff that your realm always holds and then wait for the color to change the next week or whatever the current interval is .. its easy this way.

However, beware that a tournament is currenlty active and there are some unfair matchups going on right now, for example our current matchup:
- Jade Quarry 300k points
- Fort Aspenwood 96k points
- Megumma 45k points

I don’t agree with it, but its just how it is.

So basically you want the dungeon rewards for free, while everyone who doesn’t get an endless stream of badges from EOTM farm has to work for it …

A Quality of Life patch is not one that fixes 10% of the bugs from the last one.

Only a few bugs from before 9/9 were actually fixed.

As I posted in that thread, it is unchanged on my newest character. The order is only repaired on my older characters who had already finished the story.

She’s currently at the Arah dungeon phase.

It doesn’t look like they fixed it.

My old characters show the repaired order, but a character that I levelled after 9/9 still shows the new order with the fear storyline missing and everything.

A few trait points into permanent vigor.

He summons an ice elemental, and then you fight it. At least, I think that’s what happens. I don’t remember well because its been over a year.

Something similar happens at Ulgoth, I think.

Put an embellished level 65 jewel in it and the stats will be equal to an exotic karma backpice with an exquisite jewel in it, the main stat even higher.

Its bugged. I have not seen the event up even once in four days.

If you want a DPS meter, “this game is not for you.”

I hate to use that phrase, because it is so often thrown around by “elite” players against those who are more casual or less knowledgeable, but there you go, because it applies to both sides of the fence not just the “casuals” and ’bads".

I for one hope they take this game further and further away from this elitism – there are hundreds of games out there to play if you want that kind of atmosphere. This was not designed to be one of them and it needs to go away.

Stop confusing bad mechanics such as a poor AI with a game meant for DPS. There is a world of difference between lack of foresight and intentional design.

A simple observation: I would rather join a Tequatl attempt than do an explorable dungeon run these days, because the Tequatl attempt is likely to be less toxic. And I run half of my characters in full Berserker DPS builds. You would not believe how often I get accused of doing no damage just because the party leader kept getting downed and needed some people to flame and blame.

Situations like this are alot more common than the elitists think – because they have a blindless to their own behavior and the behavior of similar players.

Don’t forget to include things like Health received per second so you can see how much all the leechers are keeping you from going down inbetween those big hits.

Pulling your own weight is relative. There are many ways to pull weight, and yes while it is true that in dungeons it is generally Berserker gear and a damage build, that is not always the case (for example, at Tequatl its PVT and damage build).

That’s why something like this would be completely useless and unwelcome.

I play with all classes with varied gear, including zerk on half of them, in a great variety of situations in the game and I can say that it is impossible to generalize.

You should read the dev posts on this forum. Trial accounts have already been locked out from messaging anyone who does not friend them first …

They should seriously rename the game to Autohit Hero by this point. All changes since release have basically been to create larger and larger zergs in PvE and WvW. I know that they want that “epic” feeling but its just getting plain stupid now.

Honestly I prefer the new textboxes over 11111 spam from last season.

They really need to learn to extend the new content though. It seems like they put all of this effort in for something that you play in a few minutes. ANet is experienced at alot of things, but they are terrible with creating effective filler.

They can fix alot of this by moving dialog around between different episodes. For example, move the introduction of Sayeh to the Source of Orr. The dialog would not have to change or be re-recorded, because it is already present in the Temple of the Forgotten God and would just need to be moved.

EDIT: SPOILER
Similarly , Elli also claims that you-know-who is already dead in this mission even though the missions containing Elli occur during chapter eight.

Steinpilz.5078:

Electro.4173:

Most of the new faces are overly cutesy (and for the males, overly feminine) IMO.

That with the male faces is true.
No idea why A-Net did create such faces for male Asura.

Because for a long time males have been complaining about looking like gremlins while the females get all of the nicer facial options during creation.

Now, both genders can look exactly the same, with only sounds differing.

Malice.8439:

Hello.

As someone who partook only sporadically in the first season of the Living Story, season 2 makes no sense. I’ve been able to read a few short explanations that summarized season 1 – however, I start the first part of the season 2 story and am told to “go meet my friends”, and there are five characters I’ve never seen before. What’s worse – they treat me as if we’ve joined forces and saved the world together, but since I never saw them during my personal storyline, I assume they are all from the living story.

May I suggest you introduce a video or a quest, perhaps, where we can catch up? Or perhaps just add dialogue to these five NPC’s, “Oh, hello [Player Name], remember when we did X over at Y? Ah, those were the good old days, eh?”.

Does anyone know a good place to read up on these people (and everything else that happened during season 1) without spoiling too much of season 2?

They have said that they want Living Story S1 to return in a playable form, they just cannot do it right now due to time constraints and limited resources.

If you want to know everything that happened, some players documented the entirety of the Living Story on YouTube. There you can find videos of pretty much every single update from last year, both gameplay and story.

In the past year we have seen alot of requests for a variety of content. Some of the most consistently requested content is for the highlights of LS season 1 to return, such as the Twisted Marionette boss, which were removed for little reason.

Players have also been requesting raids since the game’s launch.

My proposal is to kill two birds with one stone: The addition of “mega”-fractals, which would essentially be 30-50 man content designed to be completed in an instanced area that anyone could enter, effectively allowing players to complete historical events such as The Battle of Lion’s Arch as many times as they please.

We’ve already been shown by the existence of EOTM that creating large, complex and instanceable maps in the mists is possible. My proposal is just an extension of this system to adopt some FOTM concepts , allowing large numbers of players to relive historical events, except on a much grander scale.

This type of content could even be tackled by small to medium-sized guilds.

This would also provide a way for the FOTM concepts, such as Agony, to be introduced into a larger, more casual PvE population, thus giving a larger application for ascended gear beyond FOTM runners and WvW maxers.

It would be too confusing to new players. Slippery ice doesn’t make sense.

(Logic)

But then you wouldn’t be buying bank expansions, slots, and bags…

Personally, I would love a heavy class that uses water weapons on land.

Spear:
Direct damage, Immoblize, Cripple. Melee but extended range (130->195)
Harpoon Gun:
Pulling and general CC. High range (1200).
Trident:
Conditions, similarly themed to Elementalist. Medium range (900).

The class mechanic could potentially be a mana bar (since no class in GW2 uses one), that would work similarly to a mix between Warrior’s adrenaline, Necro’s life force and Thief’s initiative, allowing the use of four extra skills (F1-F4) only after the bar has been sufficiently filled by using skills 0-9 from the skillbar that inflict CC.

The bar could fill up faster when a CC skill is resisted, for example when dealing with Defiant on bosses or when facing players with Stabilty in PvP, and subsequently the F1-F4 skills would be used to counter and punish CC resistance.

This would be hard to balance, but create a whole new dynamic… unfortunately, it also defines an actual role, which is forbidden in this game. :P

Mattargul.9235:

Fyrebrand.4859:

Allelya.6830:

Quoting Brother Grimm “running proper builds”

They said we wouldn’t have to worry about cookie cutter builds. That’s all there ever is. It’s this build or you’re bad, get out. Really sick of this mentality and the fact that the game requires it.

The game requires it? Or some random guy requires it in his LFG dungeon speedrun listing?

I second this question. Lots of builds are viable in that the accomplish a goal, like killing MOB. Running a dungeons with 5 condi necros can get it done. 5 zerker warriors will likely do it faster, but the 5 necros can do it.

So, it’s less the game forcing bland builds, but rather certain parts of the community, isn’kitten

Conditions do not stack beyond certain limits, so five condition necros would clear five times slower than five Berserker warriors. Its okay to extrapolate, but make sure that its at least a comparison that is in the same league.

Yes you can clear any content with any class and any build.

Should you do it ? No. Because after a certain point its not even fun or interesting, its stting at your keyboard watching a boss’s HP go down five times slower than before. It has not made the battle more engaging, the boss still just has a massive HP bar, and players will still be dying in a single hit to undodged attacks.

The problem is not, was not, and never willl be classes or builds. Its the mind-numbing PvE in this game and the fact that no role other than DPS is needed because all content ends in a boss with massive HP bars and one-hit kill abilities.

Speedrunners do it for efficiency. But everyone does it just to get the thing to die while they sit drinking a coffee, chewing gum and pressing 1 repeatedly.

And that’s just dungeons, open world is downright unspeakable.

We definitely need render distance limiting, you can see way too far in this game, and it makes me lag in jump puzzles with high altitude and whatnot.

Skill effect reduction isn’t needed, they just need to obey culling settings. Currently, projectiles and skill effects do not honor whether the player is actually visible to you or not – they are just always shown – which is a major source of lag.

Would also like for AoE skills to be autocastable on current target.

Avoid playing it for now, not only is it chopped up and makes no sense, but something is horribly wrong with the difficulty.. Some missions chop you up and spit you out even if you are already a fully traited lv80 with Exotics, while on the other hand some of the biggest bosses die in 20 seconds – faster than they can even speak – even if you are on-level for the mission and wearing the crappiest gear and build.

ANet needs some time to completely rethink it. Here’s hoping they actually do …

How strange, someone else asked this exact same question, with the exact same picture, in this exact same forum only a day ago.

pessimist.7294:

I would be careful about storing things in a personal guild bank. In case your account gets hacked the support wont refund anything which was stored there.

This. Always use your personal bank for important items.

Aiglos.2907:

I dislike many of the new changes to leveling… but you know, the free boosters, kits and random pieces of equipment are pretty cool. We never had those before, so I think that there are positive aspects to these changes

Don’t know what game you play but we definitely did get free boosters, etc. before. Some people have entire banks of them from level-ups, PS, and dailies.

shinjin.3924:

I never say im pro with hammer :P i just tryng it a lot but i notice that is rly far away good than most of weapons,in damage and in cc :| maybe is me but i find it rly useless atm.

The hammer is one of the best weapons in the game – at CC. not DPS. In most situations in a setting such as PvE you don’t need CC, but there are some battles (e.g 2man dungeons) where it is an absolute life saver and there is no substitute.

Not to mention its power in PvP and WvW with the confusion trait.

That said, the adrenaline nerf did hit hammer alot harder than the other weapons. I would like to see a new trait added that increase your adrenaline gain (as a mutliplier) when carrying a hammer, like some kind of brutality bonus.

Unlike other weapons the hammer is completely dependant on the F1 skill.