Guild Wars 2

Boogiepop Void.6473:

Also it only appears to work on the one map, which makes no sense.

There is only one lv in the mastery that allows you to use the high concentrated energy of the blood stone in the map.

With the first episode, only one lv of the mastery was added. I believe the plan is to add more levels as more episodes are introduced.

Now, why only on this map? It is the only map with concentrated bloodstone on it. If the theories are correct all the bloodstones in Tyria will explode sooner or later… soooo probably we will able to use it in the future. (and more since it is an amazing mechanic)

People are in flux with the recent changes, a new meta will appear, don’t worry. Meanwhile if you are in PvE play every weapon and every utility so you become familiar with the class, this way you at least will know how ele works if you decide to go with another class in pvp and you encounter one.

Ele took a huge blow with this patch, cooldown nerfs ruins every type of build not only bunker or dps.

Does this happen to you too?

There are places with 2 to 3 nodes near each other. When you mine one, the other disappear too?

Is that a bug?

phokus.8934:

I want an animated salt shaker that slowly pours salt out.

You just came up with the BEST finisher idea EVER!!!

Example: Eir and Trahearne Finisher.

Sell them in the gem store, or whatever. i don’t care. But are they viable?

Looks awesome! I haven’t seen a good Trailer from ANET for a while now. Great Job!!!

I read this, and I become rlly sad since no1 lets me do raid with them because I’m a ele T___T.

I have all the stuff from Metabattle, yet it is rlly hard to find a group.

Well… the flower was not Mawdrey after all…

…But HEY! Cheer UP! o/

Apparently with all the fuss around Taimi she started to work on a Tyrian Smartphone…

Witch BY THE WAY… Explains all the Mobile Phone jobs that opened up in ANET a while ago!

Keep up the awesome work Taimi. You have grown from an ignored handicaped asura to a Leader that is now the Boss of your on creators. clap ClaP CLAP

Well… My Mawdrey got squashed by all the other Asuran ppl >___<.

Its good in one way that Taimi is not alone, but I wish I was there to put in order everything and give Taimi a little bit more control.

Donari.5237:

I’m pretty sure it’s just a plant and she’s cracking up from loneliness combined with lack of sleep

It’s wonderful to get this story blog concept going again. I could really hear Taimi’s voice in all that. The one question that I’ve had since we first left her in Rata Novus (Data Novus!) and wasn’t answered here is: what the heck is she eating? Ferns and mushrooms, I guess? No mention of danger from chak, so either she’s got them fended off with the city defenses or she’s found a good way to kill them and eat them.

True… Maybe this is how she becomes a Scrapper! O___O <(mind blown)

Spoiler kind of

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/notes-from-rata-novus-partone/

First of all, I love this kind of posts.

I’m afraid for Taimi, since she is my favorite (Maybe cause she is just like my handicap niece). She decided to hold the development of here golem just like anet did to the legendary weapons (but this is cool, I do prefer how anet has worked since that decision) but for Taimi being alone without her golem means that she has no way of protecting herself…

Now, this sprout she is talking about… is it good… is it evil? Is it… my baby Mawdrey becoming a legendary? Tell me more!

I’m going to be on the look out for this journal entry in the web page.

Keep up the great work!

I know how you feel, but the last HUGE update brought with it a bunch of buffs, after getting nerfs for 6 updates in a row before that, but yeah, somehow I feel like we are headed for another 2 mo of nerfs. Hope I’m wrong >____<\\

To be honest I believe Bunker Ele in fine, not OP and it is not crap either.

But Bunker is just to boring… I have found myself on a 1v2 on a cap in PvP for more than 5 min, just doing a survival rotation while my team beats the crap of the other 3 and get the other caps.

I cant kill no1, and I cant get killed… Repeat this for aprox 15 min, too boring. (BTW, Its the same feeling with Bunker Druid and Engi).

Sooo yeah, I would not nerf bunker, but I would improve other areas that obligate you to select air and fire trait lines or earth and water. This way you would have to be either bunker or dps. No hybrid, since hybrids are OP (good example is the current Warrior meta).

Well, each attunement focuses on an area. That is what is different from other classes.

For example, Staff ele is very healing heavy with water, tank with earth, condi with fire and cc with air.

Now, changing quick between attunements depends on your build.

The Arcane trait line benefit eles that change attunement a lot. But Tempest benefits does that stay a little longer.

Still, the principle is the same. Change attunement for what you need and learn the damage skills in each attunement so you can link them.

Anyhow, gl on your journey!

Hi everyone,

Maybe its me or I noticed there is no guide for the Hidden Achievement for the letters that where added in the cities. Maybe its even old and I never noticed >_<.

Yesterday I went to mine in my home instance and there was a letter where the copper, silver and gold is.

It gave a message of some sort of revolution mounting inside Queensdale for us fighting in far away places instead of protecting the queen.

When you brake the letter in the wall, it opens an AP in General Events with a list of letters.

Anyhow, I found this to be really fun.

Here is the thing, the hype is too big and AFKers have invaded ranked PvP.

Please remote it until jul 11, 2016. Of the last 25 matches more than half have had various AFK ppl. I had 1 left for Ruby… now my pips are gone for the last tier.

One match even had 4 other team mates running against a wall!!!

Please remote it or only make it so you can progress in unranked pvp.

Ty!

16 out of 25 matches so far, have been AFK for me.

I only had 1 left for ruby T___T. ONE!!!

And no matter if you report them… the pips are gone… GONE!!!

Q__Q

RoseofGilead.8907:

Sir Mad.1092:

I can’t post a screen right now, but there is definitely a bug with the racial collections (I don’t know about the Emperor’s). I generally go and buy some medium cultural armor in WvW when the Big Spender daily is up, and even though I have the skin unlocked, some (but not all) T1 medium chests do not count for the achievement.

You probably got that T1 chest as a level 20 (I think) Personal Story reward. It unlocks the skin, but it doesn’t count for the achievement.

Than it is bugged, the AP doesn’t say the method of acquiring the skin.

Donari.5237:

Khisanth.2948:

Jhoul.6923:

Khisanth.2948:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Yes, well, if we could all get the Achievement by purchasing only the low-cost items, I’m sure everyone would have it by now. Lol.

It’s Tier 3 that makes it so costly.

The ROI for that is terrible if you are after it for the mastery point.

I did it just because I was tired of grinding Story AP (T___T) for the mastery pnts and I only needed 1 more. It was literally an impulse buy gone wrong.

Uh … you only get the points once from the story. That means completing the story on one character. Repeating any of the chapters on any other character will not get any more points. You seem to have talent for picking masteries with bad interfaces. :P

I think they mean doing LS2 achieves here? Those go to Core MP and do take a while and do need repeats of the chapters.

^—— This is true, I meant S2. Some are really hard, but I’ll get them sooner or later.

Khisanth.2948:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Yes, well, if we could all get the Achievement by purchasing only the low-cost items, I’m sure everyone would have it by now. Lol.

It’s Tier 3 that makes it so costly.

The ROI for that is terrible if you are after it for the mastery point.

I did it just because I was tired of grinding Story AP (T___T) for the mastery pnts and I only needed 1 more. It was literally an impulse buy gone wrong.

Leon de Damasco.8105:

TBH I had the same problem. I use to spend my Badges for the Daily Big Spender because I am working on The Emperor’s AP too.
After 2-3 days doing that I noticed even when my skin wardrove was updating, my AP were doesnt. Then I opened the H > Achievement > Fashion and started to look every tap. I found I just needed 1 differen piece (Chest, Legs, Helmet, etc) of any kind of armor (Heavy, Medium or Light) from each tier (T1, T2 AND T3) per race.
My question is: Why, even when your AP was not moving up, you kept unlooking skills without stop and ask yourself about that?

Well since the percentage is different per tier and I did it so fast, I didn’t noticed until it was too late.

Leon de Damasco.8105:

Oh! I can see you problem there. You need the Charr, Silvary and Asura T3.
Good luck and have a nice day.
Last quetion: Why you hate 174? It’s your unlucky number?

Hahaha!

Is not hate, is just that I wasted all my gold by trying to get this Mastery Point, and I did not noticed the details inside the AP (just the outside description that says 90 unique skins).

Believe me, if it wouldn’t have cost me around 400g I would not even care.

But this hurts… a LOT >___<

I love GW2 and this wont make me rage quit, so don’t worry.

Human:
Tier 1 (ALL – 18)
Tier 2 (ALL – 18)
Tier 3 (Light – 6)

Norn:
Tier 1 (ALL – 18)
Tier 2 (ALL – 18)
Tier 3 (Heavy – 6)

Sylvari:
Tier 1 (ALL – 18)
Tier 2 (Light – 6)
Tier 3 (None)

Asura:
Tier 1 (ALL – 18)
Tier 2 (ALL – 18)
Tier 3 (None)

Char:
Tier 1 (ALL – 18)
Tier 2 (Mid and Heavy – 12)
Tier 3 (None)

Total = 174

Cyninja.2954:

Jhoul.6923:

onevstheworld.2419:

I’ve been caught out by this too.
It should be reported as a bug, if only to get the wording clarified.

Yeah… its total bull crap! It is not clear at ALL, it says 90 cultural armors, not 1 set for each race/ tear. I got 144 skins right now… and only 72 counted for the AP.

… If I could get my gold back I could invest it again on 1 per race per tear…

I’ll Q__Q for a while. 400+ gold hurt.

(btw, I reported it, so everyone in the future might not go through this if ANET fixes or change the details in the AP.)

No it doesn’t say 90 cultural armors. The exact wording is:

“Soulbind 90 unique pieces of cultural armor.”

There is nothing to fix. The achievement is very straight forward and working as intended. It’s the overarching achievement for the racial fashion achievements. Those require tier 1-3 unique pieces of armor and even have checkmarks next to which piece was already purchased.

The total 90 different pieces of armor are made up of the 5 × 18 unique pieces of each race. While I will agree that the overarching achievement might be unclear as to multiple items from the same tier of different armor weight, one look into the fashion achievement tab should give a very clear answer as to what is needed.

What you can try is to contact support and ask for them to reverse the purchase. They might do that if you haven’t yet transmuted the skins. Then again they migh not have the ability to easily remove unlocked skins from the wardrobe.

Than if this is true, than it is bugger because I have 144 unique pieces and it only has counted 72 of them (6 per tier/ per race), and I did report this to support, ty.

Edit: Counted them, I hate 174

onevstheworld.2419:

I’ve been caught out by this too.
It should be reported as a bug, if only to get the wording clarified.

Yeah… its total bull crap! It is not clear at ALL, it says 90 cultural armors, not 1 set for each race/ tear. I got 144 skins right now… and only 72 counted for the AP.

… If I could get my gold back I could invest it again on 1 per race per tear…

I’ll Q__Q for a while. 400+ gold hurt.

(btw, I reported it, so everyone in the future might not go through this if ANET fixes or change the details in the AP.)

I have wasted over 400gold!!! I’m Really mad.

Here I go:

I need the mastery points so I started to buy culturar armor for the emperor’s new wardrobe AP and Mastery Point.

I bought the armors with the same character but it only counts progress if the character can equip it, no mater if it get soulbound or not…

For example, I bought the heavy and medium armor for charrs cause I have a ranger and a guardian, but since I did it with the guardian it did not count the progress for my druid!!!! and when I came back and bought it with my druid, it act as if I already unlocked it wish it is true, but it does not count the progress.

This happened for every race in the game. Sooo it did not count my medium human armor (because i have a ele and rev human) nor my heavy armor (because I bought it with my ele).

Also with my silvarys, it only counted the light armor. with my norn only the heavy armor and with my asura it only counted my medium armor.

Please give me my gold back and take away the skins… I’m really really mad. FIX THIS!!!!

Can I get Moltres, Zapdos and Articuno… I mean… A fire bird, ice bird and thunder bird… ^_^

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

clone wars.9568:

come to the conclusion having builds being able to be saved makes life harder for the balance teams, Since we’d be playing around with different builds more. And i bet this is the real reason they refuse to allow us to save builds like we could do in gw1.

I can’t imagine that this is the reason. Nearly all the dev responses about build saving include words to the effect of “we’d like this, too”. Plus, it’s not that hard to swap builds now — it’s just annoying.

Yeah, We are talking about saving build, not changing them at any moment. I would say 1 min after out of combat.

Because imagine in WvW being followed and a lot dmg coming at you, getting out of combat for a sec and changing to toughness/healing power/precision… Healing yourself with 1 ability, changing to whatever dps build you had and going back at them… battles would be eternal.

Sooo yeah to Build saving but not to changing them at any moment, even out of combat.

Edit: They could even add an animation for the 1 min “dressing time” you would need to change build.

mbhalo.1547:

Nocturnal Lunacy.8563:

So in order to get all the mastery points for central tyria you have to grind out the living story for them. This is ridiculous.

Grinding them is your choice, you can always play game as usual and eventually you’ll have all the masteries.

I think he is talking about repeating 20+ the same story until he get a AP for the mastery point. Is the same as repeating the same adventure to get gold for the mastery point.

It is a pain that means to an end. But for me it is unnecessary, but without it the game would be too easy… Sooo idk, I decided to stop getting mastery point for a time to rest and concentrated on pvp.

Hopefully I will have renewed energy to grind the story and adventures once more later.

I wish we had Underwater Build separate from land Build (Traits and Skills).

I wish all gliders where dyeable… but then again that would ruin the wing sales for anet.

Yargesh.4965:

They are not humans, straight backs are not a sign of authority.

Actually… Yes.

In GW1 they where the enemy and had straight backs, they where more aggressive and other races feared them.

In GW2, they joined other races in a diplomatic and domestic way… and got a curved back… they are like puppies now…

… Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE my Druid and DH Charrs, but they are like puppies.

I love my chars, but being bent all the time make them feel like domestic pups and not strong warriors. A straight back will give the feel of authority.

I hope Steve fills LA with water… that way we can sing ‘Under the sea’ with our instrument in LA.

Muusic.2967:

Limiting what you can sell an item for on the TP based on how much you originally paid for it wouldn’t solve anything. More often it’s the conversion of an item to another that results in a profit (i.e. Salvaging rares for ectos) but that’s just one of hundreds of examples.

I would however like to see some kind of monitoring of the purchasing practices done by what I call “psychic” flippers. These are the ones that somehow know for a while before a game patch that there will be a sharp increase in the value of an inexpensive item and then slowly over the course of a week or so purchase large amounts slowly so the price doesn’t spike until the patch is released. I am seeing this becoming more common and I suspect their “psychic abilities” are somehow being assisted.

Transforming items you buy in the TP to other items and selling them is not flipping and yes idk how some people get info of changes before they happen.

Khisanth.2948:

Oh … and this will fail to work on any item that is stackable like crafting materials.

true… back to the thinking table.

Khisanth.2948:

There is already a mechanism in place to mitigate flipping. Taxes and listing fee. The item also needs to have a decent balance of supply and demand.

This wont affect supply since flipping is done on the existing supply. They literally buy the supply and sell it again for a higher price.

Ensign.2189:

I don’t think this actually does anything, and would require massive amounts of server resources. It’s not realistic from a technological perspective.

I don’t have access to the data, so I don’t know what is or not viable. That is for anet to analyze.

Now, if this is addressed, botting will be reduced for hackers that use stolen account to do the flipping.

And for the guild that centers their economy by flipping the market… Well that is the main problem, and drop rates should be addressed. I believe that if you do Guild Missions you should make the items required to do the Scribe craft.
Edit: I say this, because the person in the guild that does the Flipping must be bored and burnt like crazy.

Everyone have made good points, its good to know the perspective of others. Ty.

Hi everyone. Hopefully we can get the opinion of ANET here. This is meant to be as respectful as it can be.

Idea:
Maybe a tag can be added to items you buy in the TP.

Mechanics:
The tag will contain the information of how much did you pay for it and the date the transaction was effected.

Then add a condition to selling in the TP where if the date in the tag of the item is less than a month it wont allow you to sell it for more than what you bought it for (that way you can sell the thing you buy by mistake).

Purpose:
This will not eliminate flipping but it will mitigate flipping since people are going to see that actually gathering the items will be more profitable than flipping the TP, also even if some employee tells someone outside they will have a month to mitigate the impact in the market.

Anyhow, this is meant to recompense the players that work for things instead of buying stuff and inflating the price in the TP.

Sooooo…. Pros, Cons and future Opportunities:

Pros:
- Leaks from employees of ANET wont impact the market as much.
- Hackers wont see it that viable to use the stolen account as bots for flipping TP and selling the gold.
- More people will actually play content for the rewards.
- If you buy things by mistake you can still sell it for the same cost it had.
- (Add your own in the comments)

Cons:
- People will actually have to work for things
- A lot of flippers will be mad.
- (Add your own in the comments)

Future Opportunities:
- By more people working/playing for different items they need, ANET can improve the drop rate of different items in a fair way.
- (Add your own in the comments)

Sorry for my bad English, and I hope people aren’t annoyed by this.

Trepidation Lost.3469:

Jhoul.6923:

https://www.amazon.com/Guild-Wars-Heart-Thorns-Online/dp/B00ZSF6ZAG/

Here you go, 35 dollars special on amazon. Go buy it. Anet deserves it with every free thing they have given.

I do get what you are saying, but that is what expansions bring in a MMO. Why would ppl buy something that won’t give them additional alternatives for their characters build? And diversity gives us the opportunity to make stronger builds.

Soooo, take advantage of the special in amazon… but it, enjoy it and join the fun. ^_^

Funny thing is i have HoT, i get what youre saying but it was a waste of time reading it.
HoT brings content, why have this pretty big part tied to raiding(pretty essential for WvW people), to hide the fact that there is actually no real reason to raid? that shows lazy design and poor thought then if its only benefit is having access to the best stats for amulets and trinkets. ’^__^ sarcy mor-on.

What will be a good reason to play?

There is non, drop the control, burn the computer and start traveling.

If not there are more MMOs in the world go find the one that makes you feel butterflies in your stomach.

https://www.amazon.com/Guild-Wars-Heart-Thorns-Online/dp/B00ZSF6ZAG/

Here you go, 35 dollars special on amazon. Go buy it. Anet deserves it with every free thing they have given.

I do get what you are saying, but that is what expansions bring in a MMO. Why would ppl buy something that won’t give them additional alternatives for their characters build? And diversity gives us the opportunity to make stronger builds.

Soooo, take advantage of the special in amazon… but it, enjoy it and join the fun. ^_^

Hey guys/gals, let’s make a list of pets to be hopefully added in the future. We all get that everyone want a ranger that is pet-less, but anet said that will not happen. Soooo, let do a jolly list of missing pets that we want to see in the future.

I will start:

I just noticed they are no apes in the pet list. No Monkey, chimpanzee, gorilla, etc.

What kind of Print would I like in the different merchandise?

Taimi’s Diseased Robot holding the ley line cable with the Quote: “Some Heroes Hold Doors, others Hold Lay Line Cables”

^_^

Gaile Gray.6029:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Lol, my answer was too long…too many ideas for small items.

Totally with you there, Ic. I helped formulate the list, and I think it’s pretty good. However, I confess I could have gone a little nuts, you know:

• “Guild Wars 2 wine glasses: red, white, champagne, cordials!”
• “Beach towels and goggles!”
• “Formalwear!”
• “Charr slippers!”
• ….

:D

SLIPPERS!!!!!! I saw this after I did the survey… How can I add this awesome idea.

Pyriall.1683:

No, financing limits future ele weapons.

BOOM!!!

Drop the Mic

I feel your pain.

What I decided to do is ask in the map chat for active/friendly ppl that want to rank up in Conquest together and I go as a party, if someone afk (it has never happened yet) the party kicks them out.

LadyHawk.5319:

I loved playing my condi warrior in pve. But thanks to the nerfs in the name of balancing pvp that effects all realms of the game, my pve condi warrior is shelved. Now, I just float between my others (and I have all classes, etc) and have no true favorite currently. Everytime I do, another “balance” comes along (in the name of pvp) that shelves my then-fav pve class. I give up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4jxmrv/pvp_class_tier_list_5172016/

S Tier

Elementalist – The nerfs to Elementalist with the patch were minuscule and don’t really affect the Elementalist’s spot as the best team fighting sustain class in the game right now. You’ll see an Elementalist on pretty much every competitive team, currently.

Warrior – Before the patch, Warrior could be handled by proper rotations from a Mesmer, which also brought more team utility. It was still very underrated, but with the recent nerfs to Mesmer and Druid, Warrior is going to be a core role in pretty much every competitive team.

My main before HoT was Elementalist, but after HoT my main is the Scrapper.

I did not know that by checking the search for friend I could check for name availability BEFORE buying the name contract.

Thank you for informing me

Rauderi.8706:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Jhoul.6923:

btw, why do female human and norn have sexy undies while males have boxers… I want sexy underwear for my male characters, like a speedo or a boxer briefs.

Also chars look silly with underwear, they are hairy, let them naked, all their privates will be covered with hair… this way we can do cosplays of Red XIII from FF7.

How do you know their private areas are hairy? They could be hairless in that area you know.

You haven’t been peeking into the Charr barracks again have you?

Note the afformentioned Scallywag legs a few nudges up in the thread. I got a rather brow-raising surprise when I first started gliding with them. o_O

I’m laughing so much right now

I haven’t peeked in the barracks, but if they are not hairy, remove the crappy underwear and cover them with fur.