Guild Wars 2

lmao… um, you can’t do that. Because each individual character can obtain 100% map completion. That in and of it’self yields each character you have at a shot of gaining 2 Gifts of Exploration, aka 2 Legendary weapons that can be made.

You made WPs account bond, you limit yourself to only being able to make just 2 Legendary weapons.

IndigoSundown.5419:

“She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.”

- Adlai Stevenson

I don’t know if that was meant for me, but if it was… why, thank you!

hwpersia.2065:

She is the best person in the whole world

her Husband !!!!

lmao… I love you too, baby… Now stop snooping on my posts :P

didn’t we already determine who E was in Chapter 6, 7 or 8? Forget which one. We met her at the Priory. Ele Makkay?

I just assumed she was E.

I think a lot of this is being taken out of context. I just… wanted to thank Anet, that’s all, and I really didn’t think it would gain this kind of attention. I’m happy that I was able to get my thoughts out there. For some people, this is more than just a simple game. Thank you to everyone who has understood where I was trying to come from.

lorazcyk.8927:

Jaymee:
I know how you feel. Aside from the social aspect, there’s also the accomplishment that comes from the game. You don’t get that from reading books (which I did a lot of). Playing a decent protection monk in GvG (gw1) was the only thing keeping me sane when I couldn’t even pour myself a bowl of cereal, speak a small phrase like “what time is it?”, or walk without help . Feeling completely useless, being able to protect my teammates in gvg was an exhilarating feeling I couldn’t get anywhere else.
It was difficult because my hands and wrists were painful and mostly immobile, and I couldn’t say more than a word or two on voice chat, but I got it done! Except if for some reason the game forgot my password. Then I was late to gvg because I couldn’t type my password Funny to think about now that I’m better. I hope you’ll get better too.

Thank you , so very much for your words of support. Last thing I wanted was this thread to bring out the narrow-minded but… it is what it is. I have Relapsing-Remitting MS, right now, it’s in remission and… things could be a LOT worse if they weren’t. That doesn’t mean I feel 100% fantastic, as I’m sure you know. Especially during the winter season, my system doesn’t respond well to it.

I pay no mind to posts that are… bitter or condescending. I know how I am. I went to school, went to college, I worked… I didn’t want this life, but it doesn’t change the fact that I have it now. I battled myself out of a wheelchair almost a dozen times in the last 10 years, I know for a fact I am anything but… lazy? Or use my health as an excuse. I had to go through Physical Therapy to learn how to walk, learn how to write my own name again, speech therapy when the MS made me lose my ability to talk, learn how to eat and swallow without choking?

People like Chickenooble make me sad, if anything else. People like him/her only show me that they can’t see anything beyond their own logic. They assume a lot, I think. Too much, in fact. At least in Tyria I can do a wide range of things that I can’t physically do IRL anymore. ArenaNet has allowed me to live in a world, though virtual, again… to be able to interact.

I don’t feel invisible in Tyria… I would feel invisible if I wasn’t there. As far as I’m concerned, I earn my right to live in Tyria…

I don’t usually have issues. Maybe it’s different when you’re in PvE?

Chickenooble.5014:

I don’t get the, “I’m disabled and can’t work so I spend all my time playing a video game” mentality. Wouldn’t time be better spent learning something else computer related? It sounds like the OP and others have endless time to sit at the computer, but no time to learn a skill (like programming) which could be beneficial and profitable. There’s a lot you can do from a chair… why settle on leveling your characters when you could be leveling up your life? Be a web developer, a blog writer, a musician with a keyboard and a laptop, paint pictures and sell them on the internet, a graphic designer, a novelist, etc.

Congratulations! You missed the entire point of my post.

Galen Grey.4709:

Jaymee.1560:

Galen Grey.4709:

Jaymee.1560:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Jaymee.1560:

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So what you’re saying is that you’re a real life Taimi, and GW2 is your Scruffy? That’s the best analogy I could think of.

LOL! Um, not quite. Taimi has more of a sassy attitude than I have. I pray to the Six that one day that I reach her level of free sarcasm!

However, I still do stick to my gun that Trehearne has never been properly pollinated, and that is the reason for his dull demeanor, lmao… AND that apparently Rytlock has just a little tooooooooo much fun in the Mists while he was MIA from Tyria… Returning as a whole new class of whoop-*%@!

You’re absolutely sure Taimi has a more sassy attitude? What you just wrote about Trehearne and Rythlock is pure gold…. Especially your description of Trehearne, funny, intelligent, very likely true and most importantly managed to state completely politely a subject that’s generally always ends up vulgar when discussed. Amazing!

Have a feeling it would make for an amazing experience seeing you and Taimi discussing stuff together

Oh boy… I just pictured me and Taimi sitting at a table over coffee… Someone grab a video camera… so no one gets confused about what was really discussed… lmao…

Seriously though, I feel it doesn’t take much to just reword things you wish to say. I just take that extra 30 seconds 1 minute to think about it and type it out, cause there is no need to be rude or vulgar about it. It is only just a game in essence. Many people just have a habit of saying the first thing that comes to mind, and.. well… it doesn’t come a across with quite the same feel to it.

The fact that I can make it come out funny ta boot, in some people’s opinion, is just an added bonus…

Well then thanks for spending that extra 30s – 1 minute thinking about what you’re going to type. Helps make the world a much better place

Thanks

LOL, make no mistake, some times my mind runs away with me and I type the first thing I think too, especially when it comes to my opinion of Foalain… LOL…

But, you’re welcome.

dubeach.7014:

I understand your attachment to this game The part of this game that I was really attached to was Super Adventure Box, but they keep taking it away!

well, the SAB was not accepted by many people. I was one of them, I never cared to do it cause… I already did it… for YEARS, LOL.

Remember, some of your co-players are people like me, 36 years old or older, maybe younger, who spent their entire youths playing Atari, Nintendo, Sega, Playstation… in a mountain of games that looks like SAB, had NO save option, highly limited in the ways of: You only have 3 lives to live on your quest to save the world… so… die sparingly (LMAO)…

I, uh… since spending the ages of 8 through 23 trapped in these worlds of box-choppy graphics, limited lives, no save options… well… for those of you who love SAB, that is awesome! Here, you can take my 3 little lives and try not to die with them, lmao

Bri.8354:

…and make everybody lose in the process.

I remember back during marionette ANet mentioned how they were trying to push the players to get better at the game, but this “play how I want” mentality has been the largest obstacle when it comes to getting players to improve.

This is especially annoying in open world content, where you’re stuck with a bunch of these players and end up failing what should be trivial content because of it. I can’t count the number of Silverwastes breaches I’ve seen fail because of a simple lack of damage.

With even more challenging open world content coming with HoT we are going to see the same problems unless players drop this mentality and get better at the game.

So please people, stop supporting this excuse for bad play and encourage players to get better instead.

The problem with that is:

1. Some people are going to play how they want, forget everyone else, no one is a better player that JoeBob cause he knows everything and if anything, everyone should be playing the way he does.

2. Some people don’t make a habit of reading mapchat, which I feel is sorta mandatory in the way of…if you want to learn how something is done, there are dozen of people in mapchat, myself included, who take the time to explain the dynamics of a fight.

3. I am finding more and more lately, in Silverwastes that some people do not know what AoE or Cleaving means. They aren’t aware that any character they may be running may be a textbook definition of AoE, or Cleaving. This to me is fine, what’s NOT fine is people seem to automatically assume that everyone knows what those two things are.

I feel that a good player is a player that teaches others. And a good student is a person who goes out of their way to learn.

Until these two concepts are more intensely explored, we’re always going to have issues, but in the end, it’s nothing that I REFUSE to get twisted up into knots over.

ChoclatChip.1432:

You sound fun to play with, just enjoying the game. It’s a nice way to escape… anything life throws at you. Let’s play together someday

We probably already have and you just didn’t know it! LOL.

Galen Grey.4709:

Jaymee.1560:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Jaymee.1560:

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So what you’re saying is that you’re a real life Taimi, and GW2 is your Scruffy? That’s the best analogy I could think of.

LOL! Um, not quite. Taimi has more of a sassy attitude than I have. I pray to the Six that one day that I reach her level of free sarcasm!

However, I still do stick to my gun that Trehearne has never been properly pollinated, and that is the reason for his dull demeanor, lmao… AND that apparently Rytlock has just a little tooooooooo much fun in the Mists while he was MIA from Tyria… Returning as a whole new class of whoop-*%@!

You’re absolutely sure Taimi has a more sassy attitude? What you just wrote about Trehearne and Rythlock is pure gold…. Especially your description of Trehearne, funny, intelligent, very likely true and most importantly managed to state completely politely a subject that’s generally always ends up vulgar when discussed. Amazing!

Have a feeling it would make for an amazing experience seeing you and Taimi discussing stuff together

Oh boy… I just pictured me and Taimi sitting at a table over coffee… Someone grab a video camera… so no one gets confused about what was really discussed… lmao…

Seriously though, I feel it doesn’t take much to just reword things you wish to say. I just take that extra 30 seconds 1 minute to think about it and type it out, cause there is no need to be rude or vulgar about it. It is only just a game in essence. Many people just have a habit of saying the first thing that comes to mind, and.. well… it doesn’t come a across with quite the same feel to it.

The fact that I can make it come out funny ta boot, in some people’s opinion, is just an added bonus…

Guys, come on… look, I didn’t make this original post just to come off as if I am using my health problems as an excuse… because I’m not. Because of my MS/CP combo, there are only about a million things I can no longer do due to my physical setbacks. I can’t even leave my home without someone with me for my own safety.

I am only stating the good that Guild Wars 2 has done for my life, and how I very well could be in a way worse circumstance than I am now if I didn’t have the game to keep me occupied.

Please, don’t argue… I know as long as there are two people in the world, there will always be two different opinions. I just wished to thank all ArenaNet has done for me over the last 2 and a half years, and even over the last 9 years, as I’ll count Guild Wars 1 into the mix.

For my life, in my personal set of circumstances, this game has been a blessing for me. That is all. It gives me something to look forward to each day aside from taking a crap ton of medications and fighting to retain what little physical independence I have.

This is not meant to be a debate on who could be doing what to improve their lives.

Orlando Bloom… maybe?

lmao

ShinsVortex.3175:

my recreation of opie winston from sons of anarchy

LOL!!!

I probably have some blame in this.

I am a severe Ascended crafter… Every 2 weeks or so I must refill my reserve (guild bank) with 3-4 stacks of each material needed. And this I will buy on a bid.

Although, I do feel the needs to bonk someone over the head listing 1 piece of the item at the top bidder’s asking price. Talk about throwing people off and lunging them into buying almost 3 times the price when our bids are being bought in stacks.

Neb.4170:

Empathy has never been the strongest impulse. Add in the total anonymity and distance of the internet and you get that kind of thing a lot.

Fact is, most players/people won’t understand, nor will they try to. You’re far better off just ignoring it and keeping the ones that do around.

2c

Oh and here’s to hoping you get a Scruffy golem at some point in the future.

Only Taimi can do Scruffy any justice. Besides, she has better hair than I do, lmao

LOL, thanks guys… I guess my husband has a point, this could be used as “therapy”

My husband also think, as he too now plays GW 2, is that… this is good for me in many ways may of which I posted in my original comment, but he believes that it is keeping my mind active.

This wouldn’t be the first MMO that I have been dubbed – “The Crafting Queen” and GW 2 is no exception. He believes that, with the amount of crafting I do, from jewelry, to armor, to all out ascended material gathering, he thinks this helps keeps the mind functioning… instead of… sitting dormant, as it would if I were watching TV, so he says, and… now I actually wonder if there’s any truth to that?

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Jaymee.1560:

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So what you’re saying is that you’re a real life Taimi, and GW2 is your Scruffy? That’s the best analogy I could think of.

LOL! Um, not quite. Taimi has more of a sassy attitude than I have. I pray to the Six that one day that I reach her level of free sarcasm!

However, I still do stick to my gun that Trehearne has never been properly pollinated, and that is the reason for his dull demeanor, lmao… AND that apparently Rytlock has just a little tooooooooo much fun in the Mists while he was MIA from Tyria… Returning as a whole new class of whoop-*%@!

LOL, sorry, couldn’t resist

This always burned my butt…

I’m a 36 yr old female and just when I think I pretty much know all the in-game lingo… one always comes up that leave me – “Uhhhh…???”

Personal story, we’re in Orr, okay… I get that, I’m good… go through the story line and of course… a fight happens but… every time I hear:

“Galina Edgecrusher: She deserved better than this. Hekja was a pill, but she was our pill. Let’s tear this place down.”

Um, what does that mean? Cause I feel stupid for not knowing everytime I do that quest

What is OP? I’m sorry

do Kari Walgren, Felicia Day, Troy Baker, Steve Blum… I wonder, do they also play this game just to hear their voice over work? hehehe

If anyone of us were Voice Actors… I dunno, if I was, I probably would play the game just to hear how lame my contribution was, LOL

Donari.5237:

It’s all connected. The champions are the mobile parts that can actually go out and hurt people, under the Vinewrath’s direction. Cut them down and the flower’s impotent.

Mmm, okay, impotent, but not dead… This raises some questions then, cause unless I KILL it… in my mind, it can always return.

It seems to be that when we all got to do Vinewrath, I’ll assume Vinewrath is the huge pretty purple/pink flower.

However, I noticed, Lanes 1,2 and 3 are only going in there to kill that lane’s assigned Champion. Never once in all the time I took part in it did I see us actually killing the BIG purple/pink flower.

Am I losing it or something?

LOL, I’m sorry, I just got a funny thought in my head, okay…

I mean, look at all the new kids who moved in to the Tyrian world… (on the left)

They all want their own room…. Their own place to call home… but… denied a collectible slot… sniffs

Foxfire Cluster, Dabloons, Bandit Crests, Geodes… SILKY SAND (hello…) how about the Luck too? Oh, and…. Fractals Agony Infusions? Cause ya know, I put some luck in my bank in case, I need to break Bloodstone Bricks…. all of these things do not have a collectibles slot. I have a very huge bank inventory, many panes, as far as space, but most of it is being used. What happens when I run out of space?

I’m not trying to be rude, but the collectibles have still got slots for new items not released yet, okay, they’ve been there a while, and I’m patiently waiting the new ahead involving those things but… it’s getting to be a bigger headache for the items we do have that we can’t put anywhere else due to being Account Bound/Soulbound restriction…

I have to agree with this one. My husband and I, utterly disappointed at Halloween when we both bought the ling spooky dress… (which was AWESOME btw) and when we put it on our Asuras… what the heck….? I mean, really…

When I previewed the Carapace armor on my Asura, I rolled my eyes…

JUN YANG.4328:

To Edgar: the reason i am here the say that is i still have hope for Anet.
i like GW since first launch 05, i stop played that until got news for gw2 release. its a really good memory.

well i wont have the physical number of player losing. only Anet will know. and i dont want to explain to anyone why i got that feel and argue about it.
the only thing i know. Anet ONLY reply positive fee back.

i wrote enough for this post. no matter Anet’s staff see this or not.

Lets hope Gw2 have better future and long lasting.. good luck Anet

I really wish you would just relax, sweetie…

Vayne.8563:

Guild Wars 1 didn’t have an official forum. That makes a huge difference.

You’re right… and after discovering this game’s forum and being a veteran visitor of it for 2 years, I’m rather glad they didn’t have one.

I’m just curious. Why do people keep making posts like this?

It’s… dreary and depressing.

Anet ran GW 1 for years. Years. That game system not so far apart from GW 2 in the way Anet makes their money. Breaking all this down in to detail is certainly something I have never given any thought to when I play this game and I am pretty sure many others never gave thought to it either.

Why?

Cause we’re too busy enjoying the game.

But on a regular basis I come here to see someone posting a economic threat about all the things they dislike about the way Anet runs this game.

I don’t get it.

It’s a game. Enjoy it.

From my personal experience in 14 years of MMOs, if any one particular player can not be pleased, no matter what the game company producers, they never sit in one spot for long. I even have several friends in GW 2 that cut in and out of my life cause when they get bored, they move on to another game, yet eventually, they always return.

I see no evidence that ArenaNet is losing players so rapidly that it is threatening the longevity of this game.

For GW 2 and it’s elder: GW 1 being a MMO to play with no monthly fees, I think this game is fantastic. I couldn’t ask for anything more than that. Any money that I do sink into this game is only sunk into it by choice, not by force.

I really wish some people would stop holding ridiculously high standards on their chosen MMOs. To say it’s redundant would be a severe understatement.

I’ll one-up you on that note, how about this: Go in your home instance to get the chest and the friggin thing keeps changing locations. Annoying much?

GW 1, of course…. I’d always imagine before GW 2 release, that I would walk into my Hall of Monuments, after Anet clearly stated it would be in GW 2, and find all my Tormented weapons old and… dusty and… yeah.

Instead, I walked in the HoM and… Ugh…

Does… this also mean that you deleted your Sylvari toons, cheeseball?

Guys, I don’t mean to be rude or anything but for the picture I had provided above: If you do not see that red ANet logo on it and try to get Anet to make their trademark on their mail more pronounced, then… you’re probably not paying attention.

From day one, I have always seen that red logo, always.

Mitha.7039:

Please tell me this will have SOME effect on those of us who chose to play Sylvari…

Obvously, those who chose to play Sylvari, in my opinion, cannot be affected but Mordremoth’s influence…

I just don’t see it happening, again, from a previous post I made, Free Will is the one detail that is keeping all (if not most, definitely the player controlled Sylvari) born of the Mother Tree out of danger from Mordremoth’s influence.

Mad King Thorn. Ossa’s voice was supply by the same man who did Mad King Thorn, I believe… which in turn, unfortunately makes me have a hard time taking anything Ossa says seriously.

sorry…

Magnalian.3067:

Why is everybody ignoring the fact that Canach and Caithe seem unaffected by Mordremoh’s influence? Heck, the trailer for Heart of Thorns even ends with Destiny’s Edge 2.0 claiming they’re going to fight Mordremoth, and Canach is among them, cheering.

However Mordremoth’s influence is supposed to work, clearly there are loopholes of some kind, loopholes that probably all the player characters will be using to keep a clear head.

Ehhh, I don’t think this to be loopholes… unless by loopholes you mean what Mordremoth didn’t take into account.

Silverwastes last night, at least the map I was on had a huge discussion about all this.

My additions to this conversation included how, okay, Sylvari were meant to serve Mordremoth, but, a fine error on Mordremoth’s part… The Mother Tree was born with a season of Free Will. This I contributed to she was raised with Ventari’s teachings. With these teaching being all she knew during the time of her blossoming, in her Free Will, she was swayed to followed what Ventari taught BUT… she CHOSE to do this. There is the flaw in Mordremoth’s grand plan.

I also offered, but like Glint, Pale Tree obviously went rogue from her destined path to serve the dragon…

Now we all love Glint… and all accepted her for who and what she was, the choices she made… why does it seem hardly anyone else is not drawing a parallel here between Glint’s choice and the Mother Tree’s choice.

But wait… anyone who steered their personal story in this direction knows, it was confirmed another Pale Tree creature exists… Malyck was not evil, he had no recollection of the Dream because he did not come from the Mother Tree, but a 2nd Tree. He awoke in Brisban Wildlands, immediately the Nightmare Court tried to lay claim to him. Trehearne confirmed this.

After we helped him, he vowed to fight off any evil doing Nightmare Court Junkie… he simply had no memory of who or what bore him… but he was in no way evil or a mindless slave.

Hey Becka Boo hugs

I did it 3 times so far… 2 wins, one fail, I mean all I know for sure honestly is that once I get my third Box… I don’t intend to do the boss again… I’m rather disappointed withthe way ANet did this.

They knew we’ve wanted the coats since day 1… and all this time, making it attainable through the vendor… to now defeating a world boss to get it?

I can’t help but feel the intent of Spite in all this….

BoobyDaBunny.3802:

Jaymee.1560:

I AM a Sylvari, dagit… I am NOT evil! hmph!

Of course that didn’t stop the scope of Silverwastes contemplating the extinction of my species…

(sobs)

How dare you!

-hugs- I am not a salad but I will stand up for you my leafy friend and all the good Sylvari of the grove!

Those Nightmare court need to go tho…. -sharpens blade-

sniffs I thank you, Bunny… I truly do, I mean… I’m purple… with… with… with… pretty glows of pink at night, got me Minstral and… Mists weapons….

I, while being Sylvari… am a 500 TAILOR!…. (Jaylaleigh, btw)

sniffs I mean no harm to my fellow Tyrians….

I AM a Sylvari, dagit… I am NOT evil! hmph!

Of course that didn’t stop the scope of Silverwastes contemplating the extinction of my species…

(sobs)

How dare you!

Look where the book of “Ice”-something is, it’s in the center of that. I know I went around for 30 mins before I found it

roflamo… LOL!!!

Ya know… The Durmond Priory sure is a noisy place for being a Library as of Episode 8…

Okay, lemme start again. I have the Lumin Leggins on, but because I redyed them, I cannot get it to go back to look the way those 3 NPC’s look in Silverwastes, the ones who wear the armor set. It glows but in some sections shaded, when I first got the armor pieces, by default, they looked that way too, but I redyed them, now I cannot get the original coloring back. See what I’m saying now?

He is a she, and no, she’s wearing Lumin armor…