Guild Wars 2

If you do your dailies, well, daily, by the time you reach level 80, you will be ready to buy your ascended amulet using laurels from completing dailies, which is superior to exotic amulets.

Having noticed Zinn’s Data Crystal and Experiment ZX-27115 when shopping for ascended accessories for my mesmer, I am now stuck between buying either the above (which are pow/prec/vit/crit) or Magister’s Field Journal and Althea’s Ashes (pow/prec/crit)

Since my mesmer already has Distinguished Circle of Logic amulet (pow/prec/crit), would it be worthwhile getting the pow/prec/vit/crit ones on my four other trinkets, or should I just go pure berserker? My armor is basically full berserker, though might plan on getting knights chest/leggings/head.

Apparently, it would be something like 500HP vs 2% critical chance?

I actually have something like this on my mouse, which is basically “when held, rapid fire left mouse button”. The only time I use it is for buying things in quantity from vendors, or selling junk to the vendors, haha.

I would like to know how legal this is as well.

My idea (which I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned, as I have not read through the entire thread) is basically:

1: If you are in a party, add up everyone’s magic find %.
2: Divide by the number of people in the party.
3. Disregard current personal magic find stats for the party members.
4: The new total from the group magic find is now applied to everyone in the party, until they leave party, upon which they regain their personal magic find stat.

Problem solved, and balanced so you don’t get obscene numbers.

Riselight.3695:

Is this because the spawning chance is low? I don’t think so, people just became too lazy to capture the camps, and only want to do the rewarding bit, the queen herself. I have no idea why there is so much laziness, I mean, you get a bonus chest rewarding 2 rares or better, isn’t it worth then to kill a few Karka to help unlocking the event? Or is the GW2 community really made out of leachers who wants a reward for everything they do?

It’s the part where you have to secure all four bases within a relatively short time. For some reason, the bases do not scale down with less people in the zone or particular area.

Plus, there’s the Dragon thing going on too, so not as many people are in the zone. And with the removal of the buff MF/gold NPCs, a lot of people aren’t bothering with the zone anymore (again).

Just wondering, but regardless of whatever build or class you run, be it full DPS or tank or healing or whatever, is it pretty much fine to just make your weapons berserker stats (pow/prec/crit)? For example, if you were a warrior with general mix of knights and berserker gear who likes to use weapons with condition damage such as swords, bows and rifles in addition to their normal weapons. Despite that the listed weapons for that particular class is condition damage, is it still better to just make them berserker and think of the condition damage as a bonus?

Then again, I have heard that double handed weapons especially suffer from ratio penalties when it comes to critical damage (1:14 or something), so a lot of people opt to make their weapons with Knight’s (pow/prec/tough) instead?

I do wish there were more group events which have world/bonus chest, especially ones which have multiple chains leading up to the finale, such as the one in Wayfarer’s at the top of the map. I don’t recall the name of it, but you have to lead two groups to attack a Svanir base. That one could have easily been made a world event, for example.

Troll is one example which shouldn’t be made a world event, as it’s a standalone group event.

I’m in the UK, playing on US server. The lag just hit me today near the end of a CoF run. Managed to finish it, but doing the guild rush was next to impossible due to lagspikes.

Tried rebooting and restarting router, but no success.

This thread on reddit is always good to read, since it has stuff arenanet quoted for people who asked why they were banned for swearing. XD

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/yxx3m/suspensions_for_offensive_names_and_inappropriate/

Zenith.7301:

And when your guild only does missions once a week, and you miss those 2 hours, you’re screwed because it’s not like you can find those replacements in the gw2lfg website like you can for fractals.

I solved this problem by joining a second guild. It just happens that they did their guild stuff on a different day to my first guild.

For many, the notion of WvW has it’s pros in that it’s less elitist, so people generally aren’t going to nag at you yelling to ping your gear and food and if you don’t fit their requirements due to profession or build, they can’t kick you just for being different. It’s the idea of anonymity within a large group which draws in players.

Also, when playing against a different server, players know the other side can’t see their names (well, only if they don’t use report to look up their account name), so the idea of being unable to be trash-talked by juvenile immature idiots who were apparently trash-talked to by their parents since birth and as such don’t know how to stop swearing is also a pro.

Being unrestricted to small teams also appeals to some people – it’s like how raids in other MMOs draw in people (not all) due to their more larger numbers. It’s like playing wargames only online.

From GW1 – four weapon sets. In GW2, we only have two at most. Though with Elementalist, it’s kinda cheating if you say you have four ‘weapon/element’ sets, haha… I also miss Heroes and Henchmen. With them, you feel like a “guild” even when playing alone. I really think GW2 could do with an AI partnet system similar to Phantasy Star Online 2, where instead of making AI replicas of your friends to use as party members, make AI replicas of your alternate characters would be better, and only have up to two joining at any one time. It could be tweaked so if any real people join your party, any AI partners are dismissed.

From City of Heroes – much much more diverse costume creation. Also the ability to move faster than run speed. And fly! 8-man, 16-man, and 24-man teams, I also miss too. It’s not just ‘guild’ stuff, the teams we had with incarnate task forces, we weren’t even in the same guilds, but we had the ability to mesh together perfectly with no problems. Also chat channels, the ability to make our own, and have them active without having to ‘represent’. Ingame ability to search for people to play with. Why does GW2 not have such a thing yet, and why is there a third party website which is doing what arenanet should have implemented either ingame or out of game if they don’t have the tech to do so? Larger AoE caps too – while City used to have no AoE caps, resulting in the ability for a fire tank to herd an entire map of enemies to one location and burn them all to death, even when nerfed, the AoE caps were sufficient enough to still feel powerful. Why on earth does a “shout” ability only affect five targets? I really think the AoE cap should be bumped up to 10 for certain skills.

Personally, I’m against it, but if they do put in a racial change, the following should apply:
1. Your level should be reset back to 1 along with story reset to indicate you’re somehow reincarnated into a new body. Such is the price of reincarnating into a new body, you must relearn your experience.
2. Any previous skill points spent are gone, but you can keep any existing ones not used yet.
3. Trait books will have to be purchased again.
4. There is no refunds for cultural armor; you can either vendor it or transmute it onto common armor to hopefully give to another character who was the same previous race and same type of armor class.
5. Any hearts/skill point/vistas/waypoints/areas already discovered or complete are still complete. So although you don’t have to redo them, you don’t get any exp for redoing them.

Having an order change is tricky, it would probably have to be in the form of quests and even then, possibly after the main story is complete.

I’ve checked on a level 80, and the only medium armor skins available in the last tab from Armor Master is:

Supple Leather (Rogue armor, found in a ton of places)
Rawhide (basically starter armor)
Warden (available as karma armor around level 50 onwards)
Conquest (same as Conquest which is normal karma armor found in Orr)
(pictures all below)

The exotic armor Armor Master sells (which applies to all of them) is Invader’s Rawhide, which is unique to WvW (known in PvP as PvP Mist Walker), but it’s not Commando’s armor. Also, Commando chest will clip a bit on female norn bodies, haven’t checked with other norns. It’s fine on human female though.

So nope, Commando (and only some parts of it) is still exclusive to story reward in PvE.

Online gambling is illegal in some parts of the world, so it would be a tricky thing to work out.

For all transform skills, I’d like the countdown to start when you actually enter combat mode for the first time. If you don’t enter combat mode, then you stay transformed until you either zone, waypoint, or hit the “transform back to normal” button, whichever it is.

This would make them somewhat better to use in my opinion, and allow them to be used for RP if required by the RP community (they just need to remember to not attack any actual enemies with it).

I find it curious that arenanet doesn’t offer any freebie gems for buying a larger number at once as incentive unlike other microtransaction stores in other games. It’s always been a bit odd to me that buying 800 gems for £8.50 is the EXACT same as buying 8000 gems for £85.00. Basically, you will only buy as many gems as you ever need, and there’s no incentive in bulk buying 8000 gems.

So, how about freebie gems the more larger amount you buy in one go?

Using the PvP locker to preview armor is probably better than checking sites since the preview will use your own character, so you can see how it looks. Remember to change your colours as well or carry some dyes to preview. Sadly, you can only dye an entire set of slots at once, not each one individually.

Regarding draconic armor, my warrior likes using the legs and gauntlets only. The rest is taken from other parts. Bear in mind draconic at least looks okay. The crafted exotics for medium armor… ugh. XD

Seeing the pink (well, that, and the choose profession screens at character creation) made me make my mesmer female. XD Of course, I was going to since it was going to be a re-creation of my illusionist from City of Heroes, but if they chose a more neutral colour for the power auras, maybe it might have been better for people to choose the gender of their mesmers, haha..

There was a couple of jokes about how the warrior was the only class to not get a single nerf since live hit until shouts were reduced to five targets… and that was part of a global nerf which hit all AoE skills in every class, haha.

Wrydan.2510:

Im still holding out with the rumor that Monk will make a reappearance as a martial arts class though… and also, Paragon is still a possibility since the game’s original code supported non-aquatic polearms.

Monks in almost all fantasy games (both game and board) either wear light armor or none at all, haha.

I like the idea of Paragon returning, since that would fit the soldier archetype which both Warrior and Guardian are part of. Others could be Knight, Gladiator, Cavalier, Crusader, Blackguard… but not sure which of those could be simply another culture’s way of saying Warrior or Guardian, haha.

Ones I hope I don’t see – Samurai (as part of Canthan expansion), Dragoon (‘dragon’ knights considering the bad rep dragons get in GW2?)… and Assassin, because Thief pretty much took all the moves from it already, unless you put in the chain skill mechanic which Assassins had…

If you haven’t done so already, I would recommend changing both your account’s password and the email’s password it is associated with. Actually, both of you should do so, just in case someone else has access to your account.

Still, it seems odd that your accounts keep getting flagged for illegal use of bots and the like. While I am not saying you are doing such things, are you leaving your characters idle in areas which might not be such a good idea to do so, and stuff such as stripping their gear so in the event you get attacked, you don’t need to repair armor? I’m not sure if it’s only related to this game, but one of the first things any player will think of on seeing a naked character who is not at a diving location or in a city is a bot who’s been attacked one too many times.

If you have swearing issues and require people to hear them without getting into trouble, I would suggest using something like teamspeak or something, as arenanet is unable to moderate actual vocalized swearing.

Bear in mind you will have to convince people to use the voice program of your choice, however.

Daecollo.9578:

What about Stalwart/commando medium armor?

Commando Jacket for adventurer professions is only available via personal story mode at the moment (around level 70 or something).

In the time it takes for arenanet to decide on this (so far, they’ve said no to it), it may be better just rolling a new race and profession if you don’t like engineer that much. To be honest, I don’t see them ever deciding to allow characters to swap professions, much less races until at least a few years down the line.

Regarding clothes, remember you have other choices, though you’re somewhat restricted to male only gear on some items. There’s a coat or two which is only available in story mode, for example (Commando’s Jacket), which definitely screams “engineer” to me – I found it on my thief, and bankmuted it over to my (at the time) level 10 engineer to use, haha.

I’m disappointed, there’s no gangnam style dance in it. You get three dances, but the animations are REALLY short, nothing like the normal cultural dances.

Here’s hoping Volume 2 is much better. :o

Maybe if the boon hate one counted conditions as well as boons, would it be better? Should still count unique icons though as normal.

You do want to do CoF for berserker weapons eventually (pow/prec/crit) if that suits your build, as the cost of powerful bloods required to make them (5 each) is ridiculous.

I would however, recommend finding non-elitist teams to do it, such as guild members or friends. This is much the case for any content – it’s always more fun to do it with friends or guildies rather than randoms, though you can find many random people who will happily play normally rather than the elitist types.

This thread on reddit might be useful reading. Or in some cases, might just be hilarious reading.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/yxx3m/suspensions_for_offensive_names_and_inappropriate/

The only macro I have is a button on my fireglider mouse next to the left and middle buttons which simply when held down, simulates mashing the left button as fast as possible. I use it when selling trash to the vendor, haha.

Wethospu.6437:

20 25 0 10 15 (if you plan to have lots of boons, like play with Guardians)
30 25 0 0 15 (traits for both GS and Axe)
20 30 0 0 20 (traits for both GS and Rifle)

Pick damage traits.

I’ve been using a build which has 30 points in Tactics for ages. Actually, would be easier if I just list it here:
Strength: 10 V (berserker’s power)
Arms: 25 V (rendering strikes), VII (crackshot) or X (forceful greatsword)
Defense: 5
Tactics: 30 I or II or IV or V or VI, VIII or IX, XII
Discipline: 0

The parts which are “I or II or etc” are so I can swap weapons when I feel like it and not lock myself to choices, or stuff like using warhorn and removing conditions every time I use it, or if I’m using shouts instead, make them recharge faster. I generally use this build for everything barring PvP, which I don’t have any interest in. I have full knights exotic (first exotic gear made), and a full set of temple armor with soldier stats. I suppose I plan on making berserker gear some time as well. Weapons are standard berserkers, though my sword, rifle and bow are rampagers. Trinkets are heading towards berserkers as well (have two ascended items, the rest are mastercrafted as I don’t feel like making rare or exotics only to upgrade them to ascended down the line).

I’ll probably switch out 5 points of Arms into Defense to test the new Dogged March trait, but not much will change from removing the points, since it really just benefits my bleed weapons or if I play in teams with people who use bleed conditions.

I fully admit to not really looking at other builds for months, so I don’t know the current player choice. Do people really not like Tactics anymore?

I blame my City of Heroes days for turning me into an altoholic. Back in that game, I had SIXTY PLUS characters. 14 of them were max level, and all incarnates (their word for beyond max level endgaming).

In the background, working how they’re all related in some way to each other is also fun as well, and helps serve to foster interest in the characters.

In GW2, the choice of creation is much more limited, but even so, I have 8 characters, which is one of every profession. If Arenanet ever decide to release any others, then my number will increase. XD

What about when people use offensive global or character names and you give a temporary ban along with a method of changing the name? Surely something like that could be worked on, barring the temp ban part? :o

Was originally going to go for a ninja look, but decided to just go Kurzick theme mix, haha.

I wanted to do something other than the dress looks almost all other elementalists go for, so went canthan themed and since I decided on double daggers as the main weapons, going ninja seemed almost obvious, what with the magic spells being explained as using ninjutsu techniques (yes, I can see the Naruto people, haha). However, the clothing wasn’t available, so decided to throw in a bit of gothic using the cabalist coat and then decided to roll with it.

I did like that Braham bringing up a point about his people – they’re hunters first and foremost – not an army. Thus, they failed against Jormag, and they failed against the combined armies of the Flame Legion and the Dredge.

I did wish they had a bit more survivability as per usual, especially in the dungeon. It’s a little lore-breaking that they spent most fights unconscious. Isn’t there a way to make certain NPCs get increasing toughness and resistance to conditions the lower their health is, to make an impression of “they’re on their last legs, go help them”.

Alternative, give them a dodge evade like how some enemy NPCs can do it.

xvalkyrie.6742:

His hair is the only thing that bugs me. I’m not a fan of the pink emo thing over one eye. :P

He was probably a hippie living it large with his pops until the invasion happened and all his drinking buddies were taking away, giving him a reason to go emo.

Maybe. At least he has more excuse than the typical krytan teenager.

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

The new Molten Weapon Facilities dungeon will be available for a limited amount of time only.

Back in the days of City of Heroes, there was a zone called Ouroboros where players could replay old content and stuff which had been removed from the game, such as an entire zone which was removed for story reasons. Have Arenanet thought about doing anything similar so players could replay old content?

The new Rox’s Quiver Set, it’s not close enough to the body, especially when viewed from the side, on both NPC and player models.

While this doesn’t affect characters, I would still like to post what I see are considered errors with NPCs and their weapons. I’m not sure if this warrants its own thread, but eh, it’s still art related, kinda.

1. Logan using a mace in CoE dungeon. Picture 1 is related, was nabbing a shot of me with Logan and then realised he was using a mace. Lorewise, he is meant to have used a hammer prior to joining the Seraph, afterwards, he used his brother’s sword. Unless there is something I missed plotwise like he dropped his sword into the lava rescuing Rytlock or something, he should still be using it.

2. Doern Velazquez from the Order of Whispers. In the splash animation welcoming you to the Order of Whispers, he, along with everyone else, are wielding Whisper’s Secret weapons (in particular, the Whisper’s Secret Greatsword). See picture 2. HOWEVER… every time we see him from then on, he’s always wielding a human cultural tier3 weapon Seraph Greatsword.

Broke my rule of “no trenchcoats” because this just fitted my engineer.

Yes, I’m a boring human, haha.

While the guesting ability allows people to go to other servers temporarily which is great and all, I really would like to visit my friends on the European servers at times (since I’m on an American server).

While it was deemed to not be possible when guesting was put in (see this link) I had hope maybe Arenanet might have found a method of possibly allowing it for the future. Is it being worked on at all, or is it just a case of “if you want to play with people on servers which aren’t guestable, go transfer”?

Do map completion of the Orr maps and pretend it’s your reward, as you’ll get two exotics for each one.

CookMETEnder.7582:

Wait, isn’t the character human? Is he a Norn? Can’t tell honestly haha..
Also, how would he be using both Char and Norn cultural?
Sorry, but I’m a complete noob to transmutations and skins haha

Only cultural armor is limited to races. Cultural weapons can be used by any race.

Looks like the feet are Nobleman’s Legguards (dungeon armor from Caudecus’s Manor).

Hands are, hrm… sorry, I can’t tell. Best way is to go into pvp and preview all the heavy armor gauntlets and work out what the pve version is.

So, looks like this got looked at again.

Basilisk Venom skill: No longer immobilizes targets in addition to stunning them.

So on top of a one second cast time, and it only turns them into stone for 1.5 seconds and venom duration for 30 seconds… despite turning into stone, they can now run away? I’m not sure what it means, haha. Can someone explain to me just what changed?

Rather than having the NPC Deborah, I would like to steal Phantasy Star Online 2’s partner system so you could pick any two of your OTHER characters on account (not friend characters, would take too much work), to join you in a party. They would be artifically boosted to your level, but are wearing whatever gear they had before you turned them into AI partners. They would be controlled by AI to attempt combos, and attempt weapon swapping if appropriate. If a real person joins your party, then the two AI members are automatically dismissed.

To balance it out, AI partners have their health doubled to reflect that they have stupid reaction times for dodging or avoiding attacks, but have their attack strength halved or more.

Someone (not me!) would argue that karma defines each character’s actions in the world.

But I would like the option of pooling every characters’ karma together.

I don’t miss the chain pulls the Risen would do on me. XD Pulled down, half second, pulled another way, half second, pulled yet another way… having all Risen able to do them pulls was a bit too much, haha.

There’s some Canthan themed weapons, but no armor yet. I’m not letting it stop me from making my ninja elementalist, double-wielding Usoku’s Needle.

… Yes, I’m aware historical ninja never used sai! XD

Anyone remember the literal waistcut line Vigil Leggings would give to female bodies? While the recent patch fixed this, it actually introduced it over to the Norn cultural tier1 leggings, Wolfborn Leggings. Wearing it with certain clothing increases the gap.

Hoping this gets addressed and fixed, it’s kinda distracting, just like it was with Vigil Leggings before it was fixed.