Guild Wars 2

The Hair change Preview made me realize that it would be a good idea to preview the name change contract so you can check if the name you want is available, and give you the option to buy it on the spot.

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.

Alex Shatter.7956:

Imho the most useless elementalist core skills are

1. Tornado
2. Signet of Water
3. Arcane Power
4. Arcane Shield
5. Conjure Earth Shield

Quick fix ideas:

1. Tornado- ground target instead of transform. Or, if that’s too OP in conquest, make it a summon-able, kill-able NPC that moves around and does tornado things. I would love either of these for WvW so much.
2. Signet of Water- switch the active and passive effects. So, on active, removes damaging conditions. Passive, works as a Signet of Hydromancy.
3. Arcane Power- The 5 attacks are unblockable and un-evadable as well. For freaking perma-evade-block thief, guard and revenant
4. Arcane Shield- Definitely a CD reduction
5. Conjure Earth Shield- Gives classic Diamond Skin (no conditions >90% health) to bearer

1. I really like this idea, but both sound kind of OP, since you would be able to still attack or use regular skills while you have a massive CC spam in a place. Maybe if they add 1 sec reflect when you activate Tornado skill 1, Condi cleanse in #2, and healing blast on #3.

2. I don’t have any ideas for the water signet, since I like it as is. But condi cleanse is always good, and the reason why ppl use the shout with the condi cleanse rune on shout.

3. This would help a LOT, blast ele was one of the first nerf the ele got, and this would make the skill a lot better.

4. You are right again! the CD is too long for what this skill actually does. Part of me want this skill to absorb all the dmg for 3 sec and send it back at the enemy after the 3 sec but I think it could be OP.

5. Best suggestion in the list imo, and it would make conjure wep be used, since quite frankly I think they are boring as hell, and I actually wish they would eliminate them and give them to me as actual wep for my ele. (obviously this will never hap since they would have to design skills for wep/element)

Jski.6180:

Jhoul.6923:

Jski.6180:

Glyph traits needs to give aoe boons and not just self boons i think that would go a long way to helping there use. That and add powerful boons for self only on glyph use such as stab resistances and quickness.
As for the pet ideal i think we will see that as they add in an elite spec for ele maybe a summoner line.

That could work too if the trait would change to AOE Boon.
Although I feel we already do this a lot.

Was thinking more of a alternative to swap boons and aura boons. That and a means of getting the stronger boons on the ele class.

Ohhh, I think I get you. It would be really good to get other boons.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Jhoul.6923:

I made the post for WP, but this I don’t approve, for WP they could add something to compensate the work (like require ppl to tag every WP in a map without porting in one go to get the unlocking WP part of map completion) but just unlocking heart, i do not approve.

His request isn’t that different from yours. Both of you want a substantial part of map completion to be done with the “touch of a button.” It’s only what you are asking for that’s different.

You did not understand my point with WP, you will still have to run to every WP without porting, once you port to another WP the count goes to zero… so you still have to run to each WP for individual maps… actually this would even make it harder and even more mindless… And since you like mindless content I though you would like this idea at least.

blade eyes.2034:

Haha, well I don’t approve of your WP idea. I think there are many WPs in places that doesn’t make sense. Also, like I said, will be pleased with an option to just hide the Hear Quests.

Its ok, we all have freedom of speech

They could add something to compensate the work.

Like require ppl to tag every WP in a map without porting in one go to get the unlocking WP part of map completion.

This way ppl that want the same, mindless content of running to every WP will have just that, and others that have unlocked 100% various times can just have fun completing Journeys with their new alts

Is this a middle ground of both sides?

I made the post for WP, but this I don’t approve, for WP they could add something to compensate the work (like require ppl to tag every WP in a map without porting in one go to get the unlocking WP part of map completion) but just unlocking heart, i do not approve.

Nero.8047:

Only for pull/push or any form of CC?
Hard CC, soft CC or both?

I imagine it could get terribly annoying even with a cooldown of 30 seconds.
A Warrior would launch his foes away roughly every 30 seconds of a fight.
A Necromancer would apply fear which wouldn’t be beneficial for his own AoE’s.

And Revenants would simply gain a terribly powerful anti-projectile field.

So part of improving them so they are useful, would be to add a longer CD. This wont affect WvW and PvE since they only use the trait to mitigate falling dmg, not for the ability, but the activation ability would help everyone in PvP.

Edit: yes, only for push and pull.

Every class has a trait that says something like: “Take less dmg when you fall and activate a skill bla bla bla”.

This traits should activate when someone is pulled or pushed, at least in PvP.

But this is only a suggestion

Jski.6180:

Glyph traits needs to give aoe boons and not just self boons i think that would go a long way to helping there use. That and add powerful boons for self only on glyph use such as stab resistances and quickness.
As for the pet ideal i think we will see that as they add in an elite spec for ele maybe a summoner line.

That could work too if the trait would change to AOE Boon.
Although I feel we already do this a lot.

Largos would give me hope of UW content.

#TheForgottenContent
#WeAreAllSteve

Alex Shatter.7956:

All I’m saying is, if i were to update any elementalist skills, it would be

1. Tornado
2. Signet of Water
3. Arcane Shield
4. Arcane Power
5. Conjure Earth Shield

These 5 are categorically useless and outdated

Why don’t you create a Suggest post for each? Something that I have seen is that even if the devs don’t reply they do read this and rather than throwing down a skill that would help the class we could just write ideas on how to make all of them better.

Edit: This way we can all brainstorm together

Palador.2170:

Jhoul.6923:

foxyroxy.9521:

I bought a mining tool years ago and I love them but decided I’d never buy another one until it’s account bound and not soulbound. For that much money, it needs to be for all your toons and not just one.

They are account bound

Correct, the ones they sell now are account bound. You still have to transfer them from character to character if you want to trade them around, but you can do it.

If you still have one of the old soulbound ones, it’s either the Black Lion Weapon or Armor merchant that can change it to account bound for you. I think you may have to de-equip it first, and have it in your inventory. Try it both ways, I guess.

[Edit] Beaten by a minute. Ah well…

You gave more details, so don’t worry

foxyroxy.9521:

I bought a mining tool years ago and I love them but decided I’d never buy another one until it’s account bound and not soulbound. For that much money, it needs to be for all your toons and not just one.

They are account bound

Michael.9403:

Jhoul.6923:

I’m not talking the whole map. nor POI, Vistas, HPs… just the WPs.

Running from place to place is boring to do Map completion, this way you will have an option.

I would even pay gems/money for this.

Sounds like pay to win to me.
Running from place to place IS map completion. What do you think a map is?

Why not just ask to buy map completion itself in the gem store? Think how much faster that would be……

Uffff, if it where for me. I would remove map completion reward after the first time completed and implement the rewards to the Map participation Reward after that, this way ppl would be required to do events, go to various vistas and poi, etc to get them in the map participation rewards as “map ascended rewards” or whatever name you prefer.

oshilator.4681:

Jhoul.6923:

oshilator.4681:

Jhoul.6923:

This can be gated to only ppl that have done map completion before on all maps an X amount of times, not for new players, or ppl that have never done map completion on all maps.

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Map completion is gated behind actually getting off your butt & mapping.

As it should be.

Ok, you do understand this is for WP only, you will not get XP attached to them and you would still need to do poi, vistas, hearts, etc.

Saying that you can just run around mindless getting the WP proves the point that it isn’t fun after the 3+ time you have run to get them. Witch is the reason I only use my character with map completion in PvE.

My point still stands. You want waypoints? Run to them.

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oshilator.4681:

Jhoul.6923:

This can be gated to only ppl that have done map completion before on all maps an X amount of times, not for new players, or ppl that have never done map completion on all maps.

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Map completion is gated behind actually getting off your butt & mapping.

As it should be.

Ok, you do understand this is for WP only, you will not get XP attached to them and you would still need to do poi, vistas, hearts, etc.

Saying that you can just run around mindless getting the WP proves the point that it isn’t fun after the 3+ time you have run to get them. Witch is the reason I only use my character with map completion in PvE.

This can be gated to only ppl that have done map completion before on all maps an X amount of times, not for new players, or ppl that have never done map completion on all maps.

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JustTrogdor.7892:

Jhoul.6923:

Well, I don’t know if you played the game when repairing had a cost.

They did an election where one of the candidates offered to nullify the repair cost to the ppl that where fighting for Tyria.

She won, and she honored her word as a polititian, hence she removed the cost of repair.

Sooo I do get you, but lore wise you must understand that it is free to the players that are basically the army, but the NPC that are not part of the army don’t get their armor fixed for free.

So yeah, it is not free, Tyrian government is basically paying for it.

Actually it was Evon that removed the repair cost after losing the election.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/say-goodbye-to-armor-repair-costs-and-hello-to-free-trait-resets/

Ellen’s campaign during the election was for a 4 week reduction in WP fees.

(~~~~)>O___O Mind blown!

DaikonSamurai.6714:

You’d still have to complete all the hearts, jump to all the vistas, find all the POIs… So you’d still have to cover a lot of the same ground and the same content anyway. Maybe if it were like the jump to lvl 80 item we got in our free shared slot and only unlocked 1 waypoint in maps so you still had to uncover those maps. I’d be fine with all WPs unlocked though if it required you to have done map completion at least once before. Repeating map completion on multiple characters seems kinda silly to me (especially if you’ve done it 10+ times) and doesn’t really prove any accomplishment so I’d be fine with an item like this.

You get me, that is exactly what I mean, they could even add a requirement where you have to it more than X amount of times for it to be unlocked.

But I consider others that have done more than 3 times martyrs.

This game is fun, but not that fun; and unlocking the WP will still require ppl to play over 100 hours on map completion to get the gift of exploration.

Ninski.5680:

Jhoul.6923:

Well, I don’t know if you played the game when repairing had a cost.

They did an election where one of the candidates offered to nullify the repair cost to the ppl that where fighting for Tyria.

She won, and she honored her word as a polititian, hence she removed the cost of repair.

Sooo I do get you, but lore wise you must understand that it is free to the players that are basically the army, but the NPC that are not part of the army don’t get their armor fixed for free.

So yeah, it is not free, Tyrian government is basically paying for it.

Ah gotcha, that’s a more logical answer then above, thank you.

You’re welcome ^_^

Ayrilana.1396:

Jhoul.6923:

Ayrilana.1396:

Jhoul.6923:

Even if you have the WP, you would still need to do the same boring heart you have done over 5 times.

btw, infinite tools for gathering cost gems, but they save you a LOT of gold of buying tools and the WP you pay to go buy the tools. You get you money’s worth back in a few hours of gathering and after that everything is profit. (If you do the brainless routes of gathering)

Does this give an unfair advantage in the economy to ppl that don’t have infinite tools?

You do not get your money back in a few hours with the infinite gathering tools. They takes much longer than that. Feel free to share the math so I can see how you reached that conclusion because I cannot see how that is possible.

As I said, no part of map/world completion should be bought. Most WP’s will be earned while going for everything else anyway.

Well I made over 300 gold by gathering in less than a month of just doing my daily route (if I would have done mindless gathering I bet I could do more) depending on the conversion I would have paid for it in less than 3 months.

I have been playing since day one… so even if it took me 1 year of regular play time to pay for it while having fun in the game, I have had over 2 years of profit.

You don’t use any profit you made from selling the item you gathered. You only consider the cost of the tools.

I’ll assure you, if the unlimited tool did not give any profit, only loss (considering the cost of everything) NO ONE would buy them.

Ayrilana.1396:

TheNecrosanct.4028:

Ayrilana.1396:

TheNecrosanct.4028:

Ayrilana.1396:

No. What I meant was that if you have all WP’s unlocked on a character automatically, you can never get map completion or world completion credit on that character.

A very short and simple question: why?

Because you’re paying to have a good part of map/world completion done for you. Why not just ask for all of it to be done? Besides, you’ll hit the vast majority of WO’s when doing map completion anyway.

It’s nowhere near half the objectives you need to obtain for world completion. It’s about a quarter of the total needed. In this situation, after automatically unlocking 486 WP’s, you still have to manually unlock 226 vistas, 189 hero challenges, 652 points of interest and 303 heart quests. Especially the heart quests will require a lot more time and effort than simply getting WP’s across a map. What you’re saying is that you want people to get nothing for the effort of doing the other 75% of world completion.

Having said that, I do not endorse OP’s suggestion, though. I’ve unlocked world completion 9 times (4 times when the WvW maps were still a part of it), and I’ll do it all again when I feel like it or need it for something. It’s a journey each character makes on their own. Call it immersion, but unlocking things automatically like this feels like nothing more than a technicality, comparable to people only playing content for the rewards and not for the content itself. Besides, running around in core Tyria maps and unlocking all WP’s (or at least the most important ones, that get you to the places you want to be able to go) doesn’t take that much time.

When did I ever say that it was half? What I’m saying is that people you paid to have the waypoints unlocked should not get credit for map/world completion. You either earn it completely or you don’t.

I’ve done world completion 13 times with half of them using the maps that have efficient routes. I’ll probably update them now that we have gliding and because I disagree with some of the paths. Anyway, my point is that you automatically get all of the WP’s when doing the other items needed. I think I’ve said that once or twice in this thread already.

I see 13, and I almost puked. I want every Legendary and the fact that I have to do map completion for every 2 legendaries give me pain all over my body.

There should be a way to get the gift, without getting the map completion of every individual map.

BTW, I have deep respect for you (for real) I have done it a few times and I just can’t anymore.

Btw, this is a good idea for a video. I will see what I can do.

Ayrilana.1396:

Jhoul.6923:

Even if you have the WP, you would still need to do the same boring heart you have done over 5 times.

btw, infinite tools for gathering cost gems, but they save you a LOT of gold of buying tools and the WP you pay to go buy the tools. You get you money’s worth back in a few hours of gathering and after that everything is profit. (If you do the brainless routes of gathering)

Does this give an unfair advantage in the economy to ppl that don’t have infinite tools?

You do not get your money back in a few hours with the infinite gathering tools. They takes much longer than that. Feel free to share the math so I can see how you reached that conclusion because I cannot see how that is possible.

As I said, no part of map/world completion should be bought. Most WP’s will be earned while going for everything else anyway.

Well I made over 300 gold by gathering in less than a month of just doing my daily route (if I would have done mindless gathering I bet I could do more) depending on the conversion I would have paid for it in less than 3 months.

I have been playing since day one… so even if it took me 1 year of regular play time to pay for it while having fun in the game, I have had over 2 years of profit.

Well, I don’t know if you played the game when repairing had a cost.

They did an election where one of the candidates offered to nullify the repair cost to the ppl that where fighting for Tyria.

She won, and she honored her word as a polititian, hence she removed the cost of repair.

Sooo I do get you, but lore wise you must understand that it is free to the players that are basically the army, but the NPC that are not part of the army don’t get their armor fixed for free.

So yeah, it is not free, Tyrian government is basically paying for it.

Even if you have the WP, you would still need to do the same boring heart you have done over 5 times.

btw, infinite tools for gathering cost gems, but they save you a LOT of gold of buying tools and the WP you pay to go buy the tools. You get you money’s worth back in a few hours of gathering and after that everything is profit. (If you do the brainless routes of gathering)

Does this give an unfair advantage in the economy to ppl that don’t have infinite tools?

Well, I said I would buy it, but if it where for me It would be for everyone.

Yeah, that’s why I said only WP, that way you would still need to do map completion of everything else.

Felahr.9830:

Jhoul.6923:

In Vanilla GW2 there is a race underwater in some of the last chapters.

I don’t remember the name of the race but they are really exotic, even more rare than the exalted by now.

They should come back soon, I miss them, but since there will never be a UW update that wont happen soon.

the Largos?

Yep, they look powerful and awesome I want them.

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

warbignime.4610:

Am I the only one wants Dwarf?

Yes. You are.

No, you are not the only one, but then again I want an Under Water Race

I’m not talking the whole map. nor POI, Vistas, HPs… just the WPs.

Running from place to place is boring to do Map completion, this way you will have an option.

I would even pay gems/money for this.

Oh well, I just wanted to share an idea, ty for your feedback.

DeanBB.4268:

So your brother “GoldSellerOne” sends a text to your account when he sends you 100g. How does that help if Anet is flagged to ignore family accounts?

No, ok, let me see if my English doesn’t fail me.

In real life you can add security to a bank account, in the form of a text.

What the bank does is send a text each time a transaction is made with the bank account to the owner of the account with the information.

This way if the owner did not make the transaction it can tell the bank account and possible breaches can be prevented or undone.

Now the family stuff is more of an additional security question.

because it would send a txt to the account for the transaction, just like a bank account.

If the person that receives the txt did not make such transaction, he/she will be able to contact anet, to cancel transaction.

BTW, this is for when a security flag is raised.

Still, a family security would be good to further protect accounts.

ok, is just that I saw a forum post of someone that got banned for sending stuff to his son’s account.

Sorry for my english, but what do you mean? Adding a message in the textbox saying something like “sending X to my brother’s account”?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Please-fix-Scepter-Animations/first#post5283717

Well I had an idea after getting scared of sending stuff to my brothers because I might get banned.

My idea is to add a feature where we can link accounts as family. That way you can send stuff to the linked family accounts without fear of getting banned. Or you can send a text to both account that says to the sender "Did you send X to recipient " and to the recipient "Did you receive X from the sender " when a flag is raised.

Gold sellers would not use this because they would leave a trail of linked accounts that would trace to the original account.

I will try this too… This is an awesome detail!

Kyzonu.7504:

an asura calling in a charr warband? a sylvari turning into a bear? a charr praying to lyssa?
no thanks…

What’s wrong with an Azura that earns the respect of the Warband?

What’s wrong with a sylvari learning how to invoke the spirits of the wild? In a certain way sylvari Ranger do just that.

Also, The gods are real in GW2, so what would prevent a Charr to have a particular experience with the god Lyssa? Making them use their free will to believe, just like any creature with free will can in the real world.

All the examples you gave sound like incredible story lines inside the world of GW2.

In Vanilla GW2 there is a race underwater in some of the last chapters.

I don’t remember the name of the race but they are really exotic, even more rare than the exalted by now.

They should come back soon, I miss them, but since there will never be a UW update that wont happen soon.

Yeah, once demand goes down, prices will follow. meanwhile I’m making lots of gold by farming wood ^__^ until demand slows down.

They could add a Racial Mastery, allowing to use hidden vendors for each race and unlocking the racial abilities

Well… for elementalists the only weapons that actually use them in the animations are daggers, warhorns and focus. Staff and Scepters are not that well animated, just a lot of particles and flashy lights.

I don’t want to apply conditions, I want them to Strip Boons to enemies, instead of giving boons to allies, which we already do a lot.

Sarie.1630:

My wish list:

Revenant: After the HoT story I would suggest that a Trahearne Legend with Greatsword seems quite likely (although probably not my favourite), perhaps with a larger amount of hard and soft crowd control abilities mixed with protective support.

This is poetic, I LOVE this idea, although I hate Mr T. this would be really cool.

reikken.4961:

on the other hand, celestial is good for being the tank at VG
but that’s about it

This was the exact one I wanted to do as a tank, jet they did not allowed me.