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Is there a way to re-get level 1 items yet?

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In your case it is not worth doing unless you already happen to have an extra Transmutation Stone lying around since other methods of getting the skin is cheaper than a Transmutation Stone.

On the plus side, it is worth doing if he also wants to keep the “avenger” name as well.

item demotion?

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It is only possible to upgrade materials into a higher tier.

If you specifically need two cores and you have a lodestone, sell the lodestone on the trading post and use the money to buy the cores.

Best profession for resource gathering?

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Warrior equipped with sword/warhorn and greatsword, along with signet of rage.

Sword has leap, warhorn and signet of rage stack for perma-swiftness, and greatsword has two movement skills.

For sticky situations, you have two stability skills, and one with immune to damage for 4 seconds.

Zodiac weapons and animal appearance

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So, looking at the Zodiac weapons, we see (and know) that Arenanet used the Chinese zodiac for guidelines in making them.

HOWEVER

  • Zodiac Axe Skin (horse)
  • Zodiac Dagger Skin (rat)
  • Zodiac Focus Skin (money)
  • Zodiac Greatsword Skin (snake)
  • Zodiac Hammer Skin (rhino)
  • Zodiac Longbow Skin (bird)
  • Zodiac Mace Skin (pig)
  • Zodiac Pistol Skin (dog)
  • Zodiac Rifle Skin (tiger)
  • Zodiac Scepter Skin (rabbit)
  • Zodiac Shield Skin (human)
  • Zodiac Short Bow Skin (bird)
  • Zodiac Staff Skin (goat)
  • Zodiac Sword Skin (human)
  • Zodiac Torch Skin (dragon)
  • Zodiac Warhorn Skin (rooster)

Ox is missing, and why is some random bird used for the two bows, a RHINO used for the hammer, and humans used for sword and shield? o_O

Norn cultural gear on female buggy

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Since I believe we were encouraged to make a new topic for each new graphic bug, here it is.

Prior to current patches, there was a visible line across the stomach when wearing either:

  • Predatory Vest
  • Wolfborn Leggings

When worn together, the gap would be big enough that you could actually see the background behind the character through the gap.

So, post-patch.

Pic 1 shows when not wearing any top or leggings. There is no line on the stomach.
Pic 2 is wearing Wolfborn Leggings. The line on the stomach is faint, but noticeable.
Pic 3 is wearing Predatory Vest. The line on the stomach is more faint, but is still visible.
Pic 4 is both worn together. The line seems to combine the two together.

Although an attempt was done to fix it, ideally, the line shouldn’t even be there and should show a stomach like picture 1. Hopefully this can be fixed in the next major patch update.

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Same Ascended Items is a Problem? Oh Crap!

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This why I am so afraid to spend hard earned materials. Cause there isn’t enough information about the items. Legendary’s are unique, but many people have copies. Where does it define “Unique” as one pre character?

Thank you for your help

Legendaries may have a unique appearance, but they aren’t flagged as “unique” in the game. This allows one character to dual-wield Incinerator daggers, for example.

Unfortunately, the only place I can think of which defines unique specifically for Guild Wars 2 is the wiki, which isn’t ingame (though you can use the command line ingame as “/wiki unique”):

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Unique

Phantasm graphical bug

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Post-patch, phantasms and clones for a split second when spawning, use the default scholar character before turning into your own appearance. As a result, phantasms now become solid instead of translucent pink.

Pictures attached are:
1 – Phantasmal warden is spawned and for a brief moment, uses the default scholar character before switching to your appearance.
2 – Phantasmal warden apparently forgot to become translucent and remains solid, though she uses phantasm weapons.
3 – Three Phantasms out all solid. Who knows, maybe they might be more viable in WvW and PvP if players now cannot tell at first glance (unless you look at weapons) if they are phantasms, clones, or the player themself.

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Gladiator style armor combinations

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Some norn cultural armor looks decent for gladiator style too. The best way is to go into pvp locker and preview skins until you find the look you want, and then find the pve versions of them.

Create unique Commander identifier icons

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The only one I really want is if a commander is in the same guild you are (and both are representing the same guild), then his commander tag should be in gold.

Copper-Fed Salvage o-Matic - Basic

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Think the best way to fix this is to make it take ONE copper per use, so it actually fits the name… or rename it as Three-Copper-Fed Salvage o-Matic.

Prefixes on transmuted gear

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Suppose I had a “Berserker Cabalist Coat”, and I transmuted it onto a new item which was say, an exotic “Celestial Exalted Coat”.

Please have the new item adopt the prefix (if such one exists, and usually uses a prefix), so the new item would become “Celestial Cabalist Coat”. This way, the item’s prefix would accurately show the stats of the item, rather than it lying outright to the player.

Obviously, for items which do not have prefix names such as Profane Greatcoat, named armor, order armor, and others, they would not show a prefix as usual.

Picture attached is something to make OCD players cry – named berserker armor with celestial stats. Ideally, after transmuting, the item should read as “Celestial Cabalist Coat”.

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create a no-benefit account subscription

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Buying gems helps arenanet team. Nobody says you have to buy gems and convert it into gold, and a XX per month subscription with no benefits is literally buying gems per month and then not using them. Buy some of the other stuff in the gem store like armor skins, or minis, or black lion chest keys or something if you don’t want to make it feel like your outside wallet is helping your ingame wallet.

Jumping puzzle leeching, solved

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After reading the whole thread, I’m of the opinion someone got charged to be ported and is now moaning discreetly about it.

Can no longer preview transmuted gear

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When attempting to preview gear which has been transmuted and sitting in your inventory, what appears in the preview window is the base stat item which existed before it got a new appearance.

In this pic, I attempted to preview the following:

  • Orchid Helm
  • Dryad Epaulets
  • Whispers Garb
  • Noble’s Shoes

And instead, in the preview window, is what the items used to be before I put skins on them.

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I loved Scarlet's Playhouse ^_^

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This is reasonably cool as an instance, not terribly hard and there is obviously some story to come for people who like that sort of thing. On the down side, my positional relay thingy is on my main character, my WvW character, who for very good reason isn’t exactly a DPS machine.

That positional relay thingy is soulbound and I’m not doing those events again to get another one on my DPS necro. Lord Faren has been reduced to soup stock in my personal story line.

Poor Lord Faren, we hardly wanted to know him.

Before you jump to conlusions, how about actually trying with another char?
Maybe you will find out that you can go straight in like you normally would…

While I did the achievements to get the positional relay thingy on my warrior, I found my mesmer was able to open the portal into the playhouse without the positional relay thing in her inventory. Maybe the npc reacts directly to your account being eligible for the mission?

Please be nice to PvE commanders

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Sorry, but you are repeatedly insisting that people who buy the commander tag do it to help out the community when the truth is, it’s more of a status symbol nowadays.

I’ve heard the hilarious stories of people trying to help out the commanders and then suddenly the commander tries to turn the server against that one person for whatever reason, haha.

Having a commander tag does not mean you should automatically be nice to them, and they should be treated the same as everyone else.

Some buy it for status, others buy it for other reasons. Surely you are not stupid enough to believe that EVERYONE is all the same are you? If so wow, just wow and no not that other game…..

Treated the same as everyone else – having a commander tag is not an automatic “be nice to them because they spent 100 gold gained via whatever means”. You treat people the way you treat everyone else.

Note I did not mention how “everyone” should be treated. Personally, I treat them the way I would want to be treated in a MMO game, which is the “golden rule” – one should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself. Also the “silver rule” – one should not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated.

I’m not a fan of the belief “Whoever has the gold, makes the rules.”

Please be nice to PvE commanders

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Sorry, but you are repeatedly insisting that people who buy the commander tag do it to help out the community when the truth is, it’s more of a status symbol nowadays.

I’ve heard the hilarious stories of people trying to help out the commanders and then suddenly the commander tries to turn the server against that one person for whatever reason, haha.

Having a commander tag does not mean you should automatically be nice to them, and they should be treated the same as everyone else.

Character select screen

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Posting to remind devs I still want the character select screen to show 8 boxes instead of 7 since we have 8 professions! It’s unfair to have one profession off the screen! Also an option to pick the order in which they’re displayed instead of whoever was played last to always be shunted to the far left!

Radiant Vambraces don't render when cloaked

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Should note that Radiant (and I assume Hellfire) Vambraces also don’t render properly when a mesmer makes a phantasm.

Personal player rating system

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I am literally stealing this idea from a now-closed MMO called City of Heroes.

Basically, in that game, players had the ability to rate other players from zero to five stars. If you rate them as zero, then no stars show up over their character. If you rate them between one to five stars, then the according number of stars would show up. Players would then use this to make up their own personal system of how to rate players, such as (for example)

1 star – don’t wanna play with them ever again
2 stars – kinda bad player, watch out next time just in case
3 stars – good player, wouldn’t mind playing with them next time
4 stars – in same supergroup/clan/guild
5 stars – on friends list

This is just one example, some people would reverse the order or use the rating system for something else entirely. Each player’s personal rating system was unable to be seen by any other player, since it would save the data in a text file on the player’s computer. There was even a small section where you could jot notes down after right clicking the player so you could note down why you rated them as such, for example, and it would also list the alternate characters that player has played that you have personally encountered.

I would like something like this to be done for GW2 so I could actually remember who I’ve played with. There would be nothing discriminatory with it as each player’s rating system is unique and only visible by that player.

And as always, have the ability to disable the viewing of stars in options if you wish.

Black lion keys from chests

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The Black Lion Chest now has a common chance to drop Black Lion Ticket Scraps and a rare chance to drop Black Lion Claim Tickets,

More like “rare chance to drop Black Lion Ticket Scraps and a super rare chance to drop Black Lion Claim Tickets”.

Aetherized Weapon Skins ticket cost

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Will these ever go back down to 1 ticket price for a brief period or is that it, they will always cost 5 tickets?

How to: Take all of my money

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I want a way to do custom 8 inch models of my characters.

[merged] Level 20 Scroll --> +20 Level Scroll?

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I think what would be fair is if the scrolls work as normal, but if you’re level 21 or higher and use it, it gives 10 levels instead of 20.

How many people can I boon?

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Almost every buff you can think of, if you can use it on multiple people, is five.

There are a few which break this rule, such as Temporal Curtain, which places the buff on the ground for a few seconds, during which as many people can run across it to get the buff. This is presumably balanced by that the buff only lasts for a very short time in the world, the player and other players must make their own attempt to get to it and run across it in time, and that it does not refresh existing buffs.

Hobo Sacks: A Terrible Fashion Statement

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Regarding the gun kits, you could easily get rid of the backpacks there since the weapon itself is being held.

- Flamethrower – add two barrels of fuel attached to the waistline where one would normally carry one-handed weapons.
- Elixir Gun – gun can be standalone
- Tool Kit – character holds wrench in hand
- Bomb Kit – character holds a bomb belt with visible bombs in left hand. Can flap about when moving, but ideally should have more heavy gravity affecting it to hang downwards. Add additional bomb belt to waist.
- Grenade Kit – can be same as above, but loop the belt and make it float a bit more. Add additional grenade belt to waist.
- Med Kit – carry first aid box in left hand by a handle.

That is actually a remarkably succinct idea… Just add an object that you carry in one of your hands, just like the Toolkit, instead of a pack. Remove the pack from the kits that already have a hand-held object attached.
If people want a hobo kit, just get it as a regular back piece. There are at least a couple, and they could turn the kit packs into regular back piece items as well.
Then you could solve the Legendary issue by making it sheathed while the kit is active.

Also, I could have sworn this used to be larger than a mere 4 pages.

As a visual cue, take a look at this picture from “Attack on Titan”. Basically have your equipment stuff for each kit hanging off the belt where you would normally carry one handed weapons. Since there is no “sheath weapons” options for weapon kits, that room is basically free for anything! And then put in the backpack options so if engineers insist, they can fully load out their characters with alternating backpacks and the belt equipment whenever they switch weapon kits, or if they want, remove backpack options on weapon kits so they can always show off their quaggan backpack or whatever regardless of weapon kit swapping.

However, like usual, this involves work on the side, haha.

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There should be race/class based mounts!

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Steam Mechataur’s are larger than Moa’s.

would be a miniature steam mechataur then.

There should be race/class based mounts!

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Ain’t gonna happen, but my idea of mounts would be permanent swiftness buff with no attacks, as soon as you enter combat while still riding it, you get knocked off for 3 seconds (unless you use stun breaker). You can only use mount when out of combat.

Animal choices:
Human – moa
Norn – dolyak
Sylvari – young oakheart
Charr – large devourer
Asura – steam mechataur

Any Plans for Exotic Rebreathers?

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All of my alts which have Gavbeorne’s Underwater Breather have superior runes in them. Not sure why OP’s one can’t? o_O

We need the ability to craft rare and exotic beathers. It would at least make crafting professions have something worthwhile to craft without finding a dungeon equivalent for free.

Dailies - the bane of modern games

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I’m fine with dailies. Takes me maybe 30 minutes or less to do at least five of the options requested. Heck, I even do most of it and then switch to a younger alt so the alt gets the bonus exp!

While laurels isn’t a requirement, it is nice to be sitting on a pile of them while you decide on what to save up for, haha.

Kill Shot WTF?!?

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Kill shot damage is balanced by the fact that the warrior has to channel the shot and stay in position for 1 3/4 sec without moving otherwise it fails. Plus there’s a notable graphic when they do so.

Precursor skin alternatives

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Most precursors have other exotics which share the same skin, but use different names.

  • Tooth of Frostfang (axe) – Corrupted Skeggox
  • Spark (dagger) – Usoku’s Needle
  • The Energizer (mace) – Peacemaker’s Mace
  • Chaos Gun (pistol) – Lyss or Ilya
  • Storm (scepter) – Tsunami
  • Zap (sword) – Crystalline Blade
  • The Bard (focus) – Song of the Numberless Pack
  • The Chosen (shield) – Shield of the Wing
  • Rodgort’s Flame (torch) – none
  • Howl (warhorn) – Windstorm
  • Dawn (greatsword) – Khrysaor, the Golden Sword
  • Dusk (greatsword) – Naegling
  • The Colossus (hammer) – Magmaton
  • Leaf of Kudzu (longbow) – Verdant Bow
  • The Hunter (rifle) – none
  • The Lover (shortbow) – none in PvE, in PvP, there is Feathers of Dwayna
  • The Legend (staff) – Imryldyeen
  • Carcharias (spear) – Dragonfury
  • Rage (harpoon gun) – The Stingray
  • Venom (trident) – Warden Trident

There are a few which do not have alternate exotics sharing the same skin. My suggestion is to allow Rodgort’s Flame, The Hunter, and The Lover to have alternate exotics which share those skins. There is precedent for this already, as all but three of them have alternate exotics.

My suggestion on names

  • Rodgort’s Flame (torch) – Dragonfire
  • The Hunter (rifle) – I Spy With My Little Eye
  • The Lover (shortbow) – Feathers of Dwayna (share same name as PvP)

So the cof 1 nerf is coming next week

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Never played CoF for the gold, only for tokens, haha.

Class Swap for Gems

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Everyone will start rolling warriors to get to 80, swap to a different class, and then complain the new class sucks and want buffs/nerfs for other classes/refund. Also, some people will complain they can’t use their soulbound items as they’re now the wrong profession to use it.

Just kidding, but I bet some people will do this, haha.

Can Flamethrower get Torment?

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If a person is set on fire, logically speaking, would it be better for them to run, or stay still to decrease the pain?

Assume the person is unable to drop and roll (even though you can dodge roll!) for purposes of putting out the fire.

Hobo Sacks: A Terrible Fashion Statement

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Regarding the gun kits, you could easily get rid of the backpacks there since the weapon itself is being held.

- Flamethrower – add two barrels of fuel attached to the waistline where one would normally carry one-handed weapons.
- Elixir Gun – gun can be standalone
- Tool Kit – character holds wrench in hand
- Bomb Kit – character holds a bomb belt with visible bombs in left hand. Can flap about when moving, but ideally should have more heavy gravity affecting it to hang downwards. Add additional bomb belt to waist.
- Grenade Kit – can be same as above, but loop the belt and make it float a bit more. Add additional grenade belt to waist.
- Med Kit – carry first aid box in left hand by a handle.

Celestial blues and greens

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Please add in celestial-named blue and green gear, similar to sentinel blue and green gear. I want to make an exotic cabalist top with celestial stats, but there is no celestial blue or green gear and my OCD will kick in if I have “berserker’s cabalist coat” with celestial stats. XD

New Soldier Profession - Skaald

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Call it a bard. Skaald is a norn thing only really.

This is a good point, unless the plan to have each race have this profession named differently?

Norn – Skaald
Human – Minstrel
Sylvari – Bardd
Asura – Rhapsode
Charr – Scop

I dunno, haha!

Token Wallet! Thank you a-net!

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I’ve finally found a personal game breaker

All my alts are separate, I want them to keep the coins and karma they earn. The other stuff sure but not that. Doesn’t look like there’s any options

I won’t be logging any characters on after the update. Sorry fellas, don’t like raining on parades but I felt I should put it out there

Think of your characters as part of your personal guild, and they pool their resources and fame together.

Granted, it delves into your own personal lore and background role-playing, but that’s how I always viewed my characters, even if I don’t RP.

Open world Duels [Merged]

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How I would want it to be implemented (because I’m not reading 19 pages of trashtalk to get at the posts):

- When initiated, a glowing banner drops from the sky and lands roughly between the two players and starts a 3-2-1-FIGHT countdown. There is a radius of 1000 units, so from one end of the circle to the other is 2000 units. If a player steps outside, they have a ONE SECOND warning to get back in, otherwise they immediately lose. Can also work as a ‘ring out’ function. Want to avoid that? Stay close to the banner!
- Duels last for 2 minutes. If there is no clear winner at the end, then it goes to judgement time, and works out a winner via health left, number of attacks attempted and landed, successful dodges, etc.
- Both players will be set to the same level as the zone area they’re fighting in, even if higher or lower than the zone (such as higher levels normally being set to +1 of the zone they’re in).
- Both players will be immune to buffs from outside players or party players. In fact, both sides will have stuff like might and swiftness buffs removed as the fight starts. Food and drink buffs, not sure on that. Probably be removed as well.
- In options, have ability to ignore duel requests.

New Soldier Profession - Skaald

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Sounds like a bard – and traditionally, bards are an adventuring lightly armored profession, haha.

Account Wallet... I love this!

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Just drink them now, you know it’s coming.

I’d rather ask anyway. XD

Actually, I’ll PM one of the devs and hope I get a response.

edit – bah, ColinJohanson’s PM box is full. XD

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Account Wallet... I love this!

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Are they going to unify dungeon drops into one currency?

Very much doubt it, it would make everyone just play the easiest dungeon to wear other dungeon gear.

Account Wallet... I love this!

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All of your tokens in your inventory and bank will be automatically added to your wallet after the update goes live

Sorry I don’t have any screenshots of the wallet, you’ll just have to wait until next Tuesday.

Just to quickly extra clarify, you will need to log in with each of your characters for their items to be deposited into the wallet. It won’t auto grab everything from all of them.

Can you confirm if our jugs and vials and whatever of karma will be safe (as in, they won’t be auto-consumed), allowing us to use karma boosts before we manually drink them for extra karma?

Orr Temples and Karma vendors!

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You should probably find out what days guilds will go do temple stuff on your server if you need temple gear from vendors.

Alternatively, use this site http://www.gw2state.com/temples.html to see which temples are open on whatever server, and then guest on it.

Corruption or Bloodlust for an Ele?

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From what I can tell, people use bloodlust over corruption regardless of builds due to well, condition stacks in any sort of team play (even if just two people) potentially being erased by each other (an enemy can only have up to 25 stacks inflicted on it, any surplus wipes the oldest one out of the queue, regardless of who put it on the enemy). So, people would rather up personal damage so they would do better damage. Bloodlust works better when attacking objects too.

Max number of clones/phantasms?

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Always three, as soon as a fourth is summoned, an existing one is destroyed (which may explain why you sometimes happen to see four). Regarding shattering damage, I think there is a trait to make yourself emit the shattering effect as well whenever you shatter your clones, but not sure if that applies to damage as well.

Flute broken due to note interruption changes

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Like how you can use F1 and beyond for weapons, why not use that same sort of function when using an instrument for octave changes (for F1, F2 and F3), with F4 being “stop playing”?

Can i still get fervid censor

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I brought the desert rose off the TP for 2g50s.

Weapons before Professions

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Every class needs main hand and off hand swords. It’s the most typical fantasy trope.