Guild Wars 2

Both my sylvaris have female #9. It’s a very calm face.

Head: not shown
Shoulders: cultural T3
Chest: cultural T2
Gloves: cultural T2
Leg: cultural T1
Boots: cultural T3

Back piece: Rox’s quiver

So far, I have bought about 50 keys by gems and gather enough tickets for two lovely Halloween weapon skins. I must say that I love the skins and I commit to buy it with real money because I barely have any time at all to farm golds. Farming keys by repeating the story multiple times is boring work. If, let’s say, Anet put the individual skin on sale, each skin would stagger around (10 scraps/25% drop rate) x (1680 gem/25 keys)= 2688 gems. I doubt any of us would be happy. Lower than that price, the weapon would not be as rare and less coveted.

Maybe I have payed more than for what it’s worth of the two weapons, I’m happy with all the extra thrown to me from the chests. The boosters are nice for alts, and occasional dungeon/fractals runs. The hair change packs ensure myself always up to date with any new hair styles and color. The dyes give me some gold and the minis are to collect or forge. No biggie. I enjoy them all.

If you think that 119 golds are too much for 25 keys for the purpose of obtaining a weapon skin then you are right. Each skin costs only about 75 golds on the TP. The extra golds are payed for the other extra from the chest as well, and depending on your luck, you can profit more.

TL,DR; people like me do pay for the convenient service they enjoy. Just because you don’t afford the service, you condemn Anet as greedy; I personally find it ridiculous.

Kristen Perry.5260:

I originally started typing up a big post about explanations and reasons and theories, but I think that they’d get in the way of the point I’m trying to make, so I’ll keep it as concise as I can.

What is:
Glow mask areas remove the shiny effect beneath them in the current system.

The armor glow and skin glow are two different systems. The only control currently possible is through the armor dye of that area.

What will be:
Textures: I’ll get the textures to work like they used to. By this, I mean they can go back to darker and have their gradients as much as I can while keeping the glow.

Dye Masks: I will get them to behave more like the old shapes, but you’ll still see some tweaks because of the glow. I see a couple folks mentioning dye masks being removed. This was unintentional and I’ll look into it.

Glow Shape: I can minimize some of the glow layer shape in the texture so it doesn’t affect the broadness of specular as much. You’ll get most of your shiny leaves back.

What I’m working on:
The glow isn’t as rich and saturated as one would predict. This wasn’t touched and is not a part of the texture or dye files, even though the dye shape is now controllable. There may be a way to get this changed on the shader, but it would only affect cultural armor and nightmare court stuff, not any clothing.

The glow can get to be more aligned to the color. If you dye the shape blood red, it will glow like a traffic light. If you dye it dark red, it’ll glow dark red. If you dye it pink, it will glow pink. If you dye it white, it will blow out so bright. …if you dye it black or dark dark dark, it’ll barely glow if at all.

By dying it dark, you can effectively artificially “mostly turn off” the glow. This is the biggest middle ground while still giving the people who love the glow their choice as well.

Thanks everyone for your feedback on this change. I tried my best to explain this system and what I’m working on, but there are technical elements and nuances that are fairly complex to describe. Note that any changes I could make will not get into the game the next build release. But they may get into the build after that. Now back to work for me. :}

Thanks, Kristen, for the awesome work. I actually have learnt a way about the new glow by changing the whole dye set. But your input about the future work is exciting. If it doesn’t cause much of your troubles, could you please look into the clipping problem by mixing different cultural pants with T3 medium boots? Again, your work is most appreciated. xxx

Note on the picture: I was able to hot fix some of the nuance on the boots by changing the dye. The cape still looks darker than before and the color less “blended”. I wish for more dye channel on the boots and the cape, since they only have two.

My mesmer, the weakest and most beautiful.

^I also follow woodenpotatoes, bogotter and dulfycleric on youtube. They always keep me updated on what to play or what I have missed. So my general opinion is watch all those streams to see if GW2 is one of your cups of tea.

As far as I care ANET has delivered their promise. They let me play at my own pace and I can always find the content that I like among many that they have to offer. My only complaint would be the building lag which I feel recently during the crowded events. But nothing stops me playing from time to time.

My devourer pet would certainly carry me through all the battles if she can evade AOE dmg, lol.

It took me 4 hours for a normal mode run. Now looking back, I actually think I had some fun out of it

• (The flute songs are insanely awesome, btw)

They are such a lovely addition; I totally did not expect it. But again, ANET always sets me beyond thrill with all these new features. I’m very grateful for all the work you guys did. Please keep it up, but don’t burn yourselves out!

Your friend and fan,

For World 2-1, check this out http://www.youtube.com/user/phatchico?feature=watch
They are fairly straightforward and require no return. There will be two bear dungeons that you have to clear, but if you’re comfortable with them, it nets you quite a lot of baubles from digging locations and chest. Enjoy! :-3

^ I second this experience. I have tried both method and acknowledge that we absolutely have to make a dodge jump at this step. I’m usually far better at “run off the ledge” jump. On a side note, after numerous failed attempt, I tried to scout an alternative route, but sadly there is none :-(

Anet, please keep the difficulty- or even increase it, it’s fine- but make a world as short as W1-3 or W2-1. Please make it so that we don’t have to spend 4-5 hours for nothing.

I feel for OP. I spent a good 6 hours yesterday trying to complete both Master of Baubles and Secrets at the same time. When I finally finished the jumping and flute sequence to get the elite skill, I thought it would be over… But no, the last jump for the last bauble is even more difficult and frustrated the hell lot out of me. I was on a verge of tears because I kept trying desperately, refusing to give up my previous hard work (more than 4 hours already) while under pressure of time as it’s past my bedtime already. I finally got both achievements out of pure luck but both of them leaves such a bitter taste in my mouth. My rant was mostly on the numerous difficult jumps back to back of each other, combined with the very long run that if I failed one jump, I have to restart all over. Another issue is the requirement of a dodge-jump and an about-face-in-mid-air jump on a very tiny ledge that makes my character slip off the ledge most the time (or hit the wall and fall to doom). The last annoying bit is I have to figuratively glue myself to the computer for hours on end without break, because Masters of Baubles achievement requires me to discover every baubles in one full (long) run.
All in all, it really makes me hesitated in trying the next world. So much work…

Work is getting in the way. That is my only reason.

I put my thumb on both key C (dodge) and Space so that the joint rests on the Space bar and the tip of my thumb lightly on the dodge key. When jumping, I time it like a normal jump with W as forward. The extra pressure on C allows a perfect dodge timing just right when the character is in mid air. Hope it helps.

I spent a whole sunday to complete world 2-1 & 2-2 in normal mode and their respective achievements. The bauble one is surely difficult on the first try but only as much as when I first tackled the frog boss alone. I’m sorry about OP’s frustration but this challenge is hardly a chore but worthy of an achievement.

For W2-z2, you may learn dodge-jumping and get the shortcut eagle. On the eagle, just stay behind his head, tank the first three waves of owls, drink health potions three times, then repeat until the eagle drops you to the very last boss. Easy, huh?

OP, it is a bit frustrating to play SAB at first, especially when you can’t receive any advice from a group. Try watching the video guides available on youtube. It would help a lot.

I disagree with the OP’s statement. In my case, it probably takes me a whole afternoon to finish a TM zone. On the other hand, with practice, it only takes a couple of hours a day to get approximately 17 bauble bubbles from normal mode. In short, I can get a blue weapon skin easily after 3 days of casual playing. In my opinion, even if you have 28 green or yellow weapon skins, they are still highly valuable to people like me who probably ever get them after wasting a lot of time. Besides, I don’t have any problems with not getting ALL the weapon skin set. Ain’t hoard every shinies with the current limited bank space.

Then I must have not checked the chest carefully. To me it’s all chest or no chest.

Just like lottery. Limited rewards and you cannot really name a price to luck.

Guess what. I was expecting a token in a wooden chest then I got a shiny exotic dagger. It’s a pleasant surprise.

I play a burst scepter/dagger build that has 25 stacks of might, 4000 attack, runs cof regularly and is more sustainable than any zerker warriors in a speed run. I don’t think ele needs more power buff (for dungeon). My advice is to try out different build

Also the new area that contains guild puzzles.

I vote for engineer. My bf seems to enjoy it more than his necro. His preference are warrior, ranger and engineer.

I only know of fractal and zenith torch have blue flame. Sorry

I got cooking done in within 20 mins with under 2 gold. I couldn’t link you the guide here. But look up a guide that uses “all heart materials”. The beauty of this method is you don’t have to go do the heart quests. Simply go to Labyrinth cliff and round up all the necessary mats from the karma merchant. The rest is not expensive at all.

Jewelry and artificer are the next cheapest but still 4-5 times more expensive.

Edit: it’s the guide mentioned above.

I remember last time there was a daily achievement for making a combo and it wss ridiculously difficult. The combo has to be a finishing blow and tbh I don’t know what else could have triggered it. What I did is to run dungeons with my ele and do a lot of self combo beside team combo. I got mine before I even care about it.

Krytan armor!!!

It is in an autumn red area north west of Phinney Waypoint.

GW2state.com <= the answer to your question lies here.

This one: Guild Heroes Banner 10% doesn’t stack with any of the rest. It says so in the tool tip.

• Being in a good coordinated guild having a voice commander
• Having a good field commander around (e.g. Coolet wink)
• No drama, no bratty comments, no rage quitters, no kitten attitudes
• No lopsided matches (15 vs 50? ugh, that is strongly discouraging)
• Improve the current lagging issues

Gilded, for CoF runs.

Since when do people play WvW for Achievement Point? Such backward thinking…

If you mean “change” the weapons, not “swap” between weapon sets, you can get an equipment box. Weapons and armors usually get collected in these boxes first before they are full.

My easier suggestion:

• Go to Heart of the Mist
• Try different combinations of amulet (gearing) and weapon sets and traits, a.k.a. different builds. They are all free.
• Go whack the training NPCs. I personally love the char warrior.
• Whack more than 1 NPC at a time.
• Find your favorite play style.
• Now go to a PvP game and smack people.
• If you like what you are doing, it’s good, you’re likely to find out your build.
• If something seems missing, try doing a research in forum and re-adjust the build.
• Now go back to PvE and find the pieces of armors and trinket that you want.

That pretty much sums up how my bf got 8 of his characters ready. He is a quick learner, currently a WvW farmer and a tPvP player

I just finished my 30/50 pts recently with a bare minimal wealth/effort needed. Here are what I found best for me:

• Start with getting both Faction and NightFall campaign. It is so beneficial in skills and gold wise, and greatly reduces the grinding time.
• Do make all 8 characters, even if you don’t use all them. In 1 year, they will give you 8 birthday minis.
• Get a ritualist character in Faction. It is just too OP in PvE. If you and your wife can be both ritualists, consider vanquishing, hard mode stories and dungeons 99% done.
• Complete quests and progress your Faction campaign until you get to Kaineng. Then, at level 10, unlock the path to NightFall and from there progress to Eye of the North so that you can get as much heroes as possible.
• Your ultimate party will need: 2 ritualists (players or Xandra), 3 mesmers (Gwenx2, Norgu), 2 necromancers (Olias, Livia), and Koss (because he is such a tanky hottie!). I suggest you two become ritualists to save the pain of acquiring the ritualist heroes: Xandra during tournament of Eye of the North (hard), and Razah until almost endgame (hard and lengthy). It was extremely difficult for a solo player to get 3 mesmer heroes ( I paid for a mercenary one), but with two players it should be easy. Your team build should be this: http://gwpvx.gamepedia.com/Build:Team_-_Glint%27s_Heroway or variations of this build.
• It is advisable to get your secondary profession necromancer and/or mesmer to unlock the elite skils for your heroes.
• Eye of the North buffs your characters to level 20 and it has most of the necessary elite skills so you may want to finish it first, then Night Fall for Norgu, then Factions because it is short and gives a lot of gold rewards and access to Jade Quarry.
• When your characters are level 20 and the above team build is finish, consider this order:
  • Finish the campaign Factions, Eye of the North, Night Fall, Prophecies (4 statues)
  • During it, remember to get the prestige pets Rainbow Phoenix and Black Moa while equiping a CHARM (ranger) skill (2 statues). You don’t have to be a ranger, have your hero a secondary ranger and micro it.
  • Get your first prestige armor, the earliest is Sunspear, at 60 plats (1 HoM point)
  • Do the Black Moa Chick quest, which gives you 1 HoM pt for unique pet
  • While doing the quest, finish Sorrow Furnace (1 statue). Your team build should cruise through this with no problem.
  • Get a Luxon/ Kurzick guild. Grind Jade quarry, donate the faction points to your guild (x2 progressing points), get your titles to tier 4, then switch to the opposing side (2 titles). Or gather enough amber and jade for at least 1 set of Kurzick/Luxon prestige armor (1 HoM point)
  • You will need to choose between 5 prestige armor sets or 5 prestige weapons. I lost count of which one is cheaper, but you don’t have to do both to get 30 points. The cheapest armor sets are Ancient, Norn, Vanguard and Asuran (40 plats each, since you don’t have to craft the head piece to get the statues)
  • Farm 10 Clothes of Brotherhood, 5 Stolen Sunspear armors and 5 ancient armor remnants to clothe 20 differents heroes. With the pets, it should give you at least 7/8 HoM points.
  • Do the War in Kryta chain events for at least 1 Oppressor weapon. Grind the dungeons to get mat for at least 1 Destroyer weapon. When the Wayfarer’s Reveries quest comes back in August, finish it for 1 Tormented weapon, don’t miss this yearly chance. You can buy two more from players.
• As for minis, it will be difficult to get 20 of them as prices are currently inflated because of no supplies. Whenever possible, buy at least 1 purple and buy the rest white. Check map chat, some nice guys will offer them for free
• If money is a problem, then slowly walk yourself down the road to get enough titles/statues for the Honor branch. They take longer time but you may like them more than I do. The less grinding statues are the ones for completing Elite Mission, hard but excellent rewards.

Again, Ritualist is ridiculously OP, ugh… I strongly advise new players to start with Ritualist and research both the SoS and Soul Twisting builds.

To OP: feel free to give me an in-game message (in GW2), I can help you with some extra materials

P.S.: Consider selling all Black and White dyes you get as drop. They are a good source of income.

P.S.2: Don’t forget to turn blind eyes away from those exclusive, shiny and pretty prestige skins (Chaos gloves, etc…)

P.S.3: Zaishen keys are ridiculously expensive. I’d rather sold them than buy them.

It is an 8 minute run and 1 minute between the matches. I do 15 runs per day for the loot bag and a chance for the skin. It is fun but not a productive way for golds.

Rifle warrior berzerker and full signets can one shot an unsuspecting light armor character for 11k. That is how my friend makes a living in WvW.

If you are talking about pvp skins coming from a chest. Place them into the pvp locker will turn them to account bound items.

Our wiki is managed by both players and ANet so the info is correct most of the time. A while ago ANet also called for a wiki ambassador who would get access to pre-release info in ordet to write articles about them in time. It may explain how they got this info beforehand.

Except for #3 skill glitches when there is lag, it was much easier to jump with the aspects than normally by itself. I found that to reach a sky crystal there are more than one way to approach it. Once I found the right path, the jump was usually safe and easier than it may have looked. I like the beauty of think-outside-the-box this puzzle offers.

You can also cheat death by wp quickly during falling. It can save you the hassle.

kRiza krimos.1637:

I would like to put into consideration fact that our characters are heroes, knights and wizards, that are supposed to do heroic stuff not go from fair to fair and gather candies.
Seriously, dragons are ravaging land, world is on brink of destruction and whats going on in meantime is festival after festival.

Living world looked promising when F&F story started to unfold, but it turned out to be achivement chasing, and smalltime drama. Those events are not world changing, they barely leave a trace. If you look at Wayferer hills after F&F was over there is nothing changed about that place. Yea some refuges got to LS etc. but you cant see or feel any impact it had on world.

Whole stroyline feels patched together with not much sense like its part of bigger story chain. Sadly it has come down to playing minigames for shiny skins, whole living world story is in shadow of new skins and minigames.
At least thats how I feel about it recently, I would really love to see some content that will shape Tyria and leave trace, not some holliday resort drama and new egzotic marketplace of thousand deaths by falling…

You fail to see that all the living stories so far has a perpetrator behind the scene who will surely come back with a BAM!!! Meanwhile the world is still living and enjoying their little happy daily lives.

Like things with Tybalt is not dark enough… the wars in the open world are not dark enough, centaur v.s. human, ghost v.s. charr. And the Halloween lore pretty much reminds me of Games of Thrones.

I may have the gold but I won’t waste my gold on a Commander icon. I’m not up for the task and I know its pressure. I’ve seen a lot of frustration when pugs don’t follow the commander. Yes, bad commanders will be blissfully ignored. Average commanders will be asked to turned off their icons as to concentrate the force on a map.

100 gold is what you pay for commitment, like when you pay for a driving license. Everyone can drive, but not all can drive a community/school bus.

Well, we Kaineng can always step back to let TC and FA settle your lovers’ quarrel. As much as I hate to be a third wheel, I look forward to great fights between three servers and a wonderful matchup thread ahead.

Hugs to both FA and TC,

Name: Iris Spellsinger

Approximate Age: 24

Affiliation: at one point, a hero of Shaemoor, then a friend of the Seraph, almost get recruited to the Shining Blade. Upon learning of her past, decide to join Order of Whisper

Race: Krytan, with a heritage of Canthan

Profession:
An elementalist per se, she has a 9-to-9 job as a medical practitioner of a prestigious guild. She often plays with the thought of quitting her current job to become an adventurer. Yes, she should have enrolled the Priory in the first place. The decision on the Order was, well, impulsive. She didn’t really advance her rank in the Order after all. Still, Iris never becomes an adventurer. Her guild needs her, and that is pretty much the reason of her life and her existence.

Appearance
A tall girl with pleasant features. Her hair is soft and black. Her eyes are round and lively. Her smile is comforting as she is a gentle person at heart. Once a noble, Iris used to wear exquisite gowns wit long train and intricate gems and details. Since she took her job, she pretty much transform her image with a plain cotton shirt, a belted pants and neatly tied work boots. Her noble childhood friends probably won’t recognize her but well, Iris wouldn’t be bothered. She still keeps her lovely gowns for special occasions, especially when she is invited to tea by the Queen.

History
Iris inherits a noble last name from her adoptive parents. They passed away not long before she became of age. She missed them dearly but was always weary of her true parentage. Later on, she discovered that her true parents were spies for the Queen, who eventually met their demise without any helps. Even though, Iris decided not to blame anyone for the incident, she still felt bitter towards her parents’ blind loyal to the Queen. She took the chance to leave Divinity Reach by joining the Order, on a spur of thought that the Order could bring her closer to her parents’ murderers. However, the Order’s objective was something bigger; they were after the Dragons. Disapproving the way The Pact fought the Dragons, especially after the loss of her precious mentor Tybalt, Iris lost interest and joined the Mist war. Here she found the place she truly belongs.

Family and Friends
Iris met her fiance when she joined the Mist War. They also ended up in a same guild afterward. Their bond stays strong through the turbulent time of peace and war. However, sometimes, Iris wishes that her fiance wouldn’t nag her so much about her busy job. After all, she is the one who patches him up after every single fight.

Quirks
People may notice that Iris is very attentive and tolerant. She always has her orange tabby cat named Will around and keeps his treat in her quaggan backpack. In fact, Will makes her calm and dissipates her annoyance.

7/10 The heavy makeup archetype somewhat conflicts with the elegant and relaxed aura that your character seems to portray.

Here’s mine. I aim for a combat-ready appearance with a casual attitude. This girl takes frills lightly, but would go distance to be perfect in battles. Her puffy eyes are to show many sleepless night she spent in WvW. A bit nerdy as a sidekick. How I wish Anet would change the townclothes glasses to armor skin!