Guild Wars 2

I bought it but…

I had this flashback to a movie called: How to Get Ahead in Advertising. In it the protagonist grew another head on his shoulder, which started speaking and eventually took over his body.

(I think ANet should look into having that face occasionally say things)

I seriously can’t wait to get my (expected) dye kits to choose a free, high cost dye, or my next choice of a birthday backpack.

If you have gw2efficiency.com you can go to Characters then Show Characters Birthdays and Playtime. That will give you the age of each char in years and months and the exact date and time for each of your chars birthdays and also how much time, in days and hours, till that birthday.

For example my oldest char has for age; 4 years and 11 months ago. The date and time of char creation; Aug 25, 2012 01:39. Then; Next present in 1 day and 14 hours

When wiki wants us to know information is outdated it has this warning at the top of the page
The information on this page does not apply to the current version of the game or the content is no longer available.

If this warning of expired information was applied to the (U.S. historical) word Minstrel it would say

The definition on this page does not apply to the current version of the world and that word usage is no longer relevant.

Devildoc.6721:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

How is something that’s not possible for them to change a “double dip?”

Because it sounds like a convenient excuse to continue selling “improved” VIP portal stones even if you already have one the next one is better and they never update the old ones, so they can sell you new ones every few months.

Are they improved? Except for the Mistlock one the rest have basically the same features. Access to convenience in a small area on a map. What, exactly, is the reason you’re buying multiples of these? Are you buying multiple scrolls to avoid the 2-3 silver wp fee to a map by spending 1000 gems (currently about 297 gold)? Are you buying multiples because the last one didn’t have feature X and you’d have to port to another map occasionally and spend portal time and wp fees if you didnt buy it? Because if that’s the reason, seriously, you’re not saving gold or time that way.

Astralporing.1957:

Did you have a problem earlier on when your elementalist was (most likely) using berserker gear? It’s not like she was a big hulking brute with a bloody axe, after all.

(also, i don’t get what you’re saying about the name being problematic, apart from your character not being a musician. I have never heard of any different meaning for that word, certainly not about anything you seem to be alluding to)

Well, thanks for ruining the word berserker for me….

Berserkers (or berserks) were champion Norse warriors who are primarily reported in Icelandic’ literature to have fought in a trance-like fury,

If you’ll excuse me, I have to go change the gear on my small, slender Sylvari Mesmer now as that name totally doesn’t match her looks, heritage and playstyle of clones and confusion. (At least my Norn warrior is wearing the right gear).

/notserious
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To the OP. The average person thinks singers, not blackface. Blackface was for a short period of time in the US and the word minstrel’s connection to it is forgotten by most US citizens unless its specifically brought up, and probably unknown or long forgotten by the rest of the world.

Edit: kitten filter springs out from behind the sofa and shreds a word once more.

Maybe it would help if you describe the maps to yourself as a group and learn where the groups are on the map

For myself, I use something like this
Ascalon: Charr area, brown maps on far right/east
Shiverpeaks: Norn, white maps
Kryta: Humans, green central maps
Maguuma jungle: both Asura and Sylvari maps, core Tyrian maps on far left/west and maps below Lions Arch
Orr: brown maps in the south

Use whatever description makes sense to you and remember them as a grouped area on your mental map of the world.

While I can appreciate being map dyslexic, the harvesting and vistas dailies are regions not singular maps, so they can’t really put a link for those.

Maybe make a list of what maps are in what regions? This site names the regions: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Region Clicking on one brings up the site with the map names and a picture of the region

Example
Ascalon. Has names of the maps near the bottom and this picture

How is something that’s not possible for them to change a “double dip?”

There’s lots of names out there once you stop wanting the “cool names,” that is, the whatever cool name is hot from current pop culture.

Make a lore appropriate name, check out foreign names, give the char a last name.

I just made a new one earlier. Went through the first try.

Wiping out old names is unneeded and will discourage the return players (and you’d probably not get that cool name anyway. Someone else would probably get it).

How would such a thing even work? Would it go into your account and kick you out of all your other guilds? Would it have a block that doesn’t let you join unless you drop every guild you’re a member of? What about people with bank guilds? If they’re kicked out of their bank guild then there is going to be a lot of unhappy people. If the guild leader accidentally kicks someone out of their bank guild filled with items and it’s unrecoverable will the guild leader pay the guild member back for both items and the loss of the bank guild?

Edit: this could also be used to grief others. Let’s say it’s a guild with a restricted guild option, however bank guilds are allowed. If people fight and one wants to punish the other, or the guild leader’s account is logged onto by someone else then this feature could be used to kick people from their bank guilds, which may be unrecoverable.

Hazor.3140:

What is this “champion package” that I can’t find in the gem’s store? I just seem to find the outfit alone. I want that exuberant dye kit!

Just removed from the gemstore because of unspecified issue(s).

Copied from the Gemstore thread:
Exuberant dye kit allows one choice of one dye kit. The choices are: Bloodstone dye kit, Vibrant dye kit, Solar and Lunar dye kit, Primordis dye kit, Zephyrite Color Swatch kits (Red, Blue, Yellow, Green).

It’s 2 days and 17 hours (according to gw2efficiency.com) till I get my first 5th birthday present.

I’ll let you know what’s in yours.

I think you can mouse over the map completion UI and the ones not done will flash.

It’s still a bad design, of course, if you can’t tell by just looking.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Hmm. I didn’t get that from the post. He said his PvE Guild was on another server, so he never joined them.

But, whatever. It doesn’t matter, really. Just offering the information that one needs not be on the same server to join, or participate, in a PvE Guild. Except for one Guild, which isn’t ‘based’ on my server, I have no idea which servers the Guilds I belong to are on, lol.

Yah, he said

(Snip)
Truth be told, I always had at least 2 guilds, one for WvW and one for PvE, and wile I did PvE things with my WvW guild, the guildleader of my PvE focused guild was on another sever so.. I never joined them.

if my PvE guild made it a 100% rep, I would have dropped them in a heartbeat and found another PvE guild. Nothing against them personally, but, they were great people, I was just not going to jump servers or any of that to be in a PvE guild.(Snip)

I’m pretty sure he meant that he never joined the PvE guild in WvW because they were on another server. Not that he never joined his PvE guild at all for anything.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

But, there is no reason to ‘jump servers to be in a PvE Guild’, as all PvE maps are shared. A player can reside on a different server and still rep 100% if they so choose. The only thing that servers affect is WvW.

The guy above had a PvE guild (on a different server than him) and a WvW guild. He was saying that if his PvE guild required 100% rep which forced him to drop his WvW guild, then in order to continue to do WvW with his PvE guild he’d have to swap servers, or drop the PvE guild.

For weaver, maybe put the attunement global cooldown every other attunement shift? That would allow someone to get a full set of 5 skills to use rather than 1/2, wait 4-5 seconds then the other half. That really blocks a lot of gameplay and skills combos. Maybe increase the cooldown to more than 5 seconds then to balance.

Yep. That’s probably it for this set of sales.

Type 2 which everyone can access is the gem store merchant express

Type one, which is for the owner only is the permanent personal merchant express

Presumably it’s intentional design that the personal access is personal. Otherwise people could spawn it everywhere for everyone and make the gemstore merchant less valuable.

It’s not like or dislike. it’s that the structure of the game is against it.

The game has 2 data centers that stores account information. One date center in Germany stores the EU accounts. One data center in Texas stores the Na accounts. In order for a player from one region to play on the other, all account information has to be transferred through the internet from one data center to the other. It’s deleted from the data center it was stored in and has to be completely re-sent to return to its old data center. So guesting isn’t an option as only full transfers of accounts allow playing on another region.

Dawdler.8521:

BunjiKugashira.9754:

Strange, I count only 26 weapon skills + 5 support skills. Ok, if you pick 4 conjures, then you get 46 skills.

Ignoring conjures, where are you getting the extra weapon skills from? Last I checked an ele has 4 attunements with 5 weapon skills each, ie 20.

I’m going to guess from the dual attack skills for the new elite, the Weaver.

Linken.6345:

Sucks to be you just a flesh wound but.
Still people saying well you have a higher price becouse of Vat when not all countries have vat.

You pay what your state say why cant I pay what my country say?

Edit
If I buy from steam I dont have to pay vat, if I buy from ebay my credit card take out a fee to convert to pounds or dollars or yen.

So why do anet have to have digital river doing it when my bank is already doing it?

Maybe not now you don’t pay taxes on Steam, but I wouldn’t bet that governments will continue with this. For example, UK closing tax loophole on Steam game downloads

Edit:
Sucks to be you just a flesh wound
Errrr, we both are paying taxes. You with VAT and me with state/local. So… that comment applies to you also. EU prices look so much higher because the taxes are added up front to the total price. US prices are before taxes, and so look lower. The taxes don’t show up until purchase.

That would be pretty cool. Do enough events/dailies and get enough scraps of Mastery to combine to get one Mastery point for that area.

I’d like that.

I also got a HoT alt account. The taxes for it was $2.02, making a total price of $32.01

Pifil.5193:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Rong.5470:

Linken.6345:

Yes please point me to a way to buy with dollars without vpn and I will do it gladly.

:’c

Dear Arena Net, just let us pay for American product in American prices – in USD, what is so strange, then no one will feel ‘scammed’ or whatever.

Will you then also pay US taxes that are added to with purchase and that don’t show up on the price listed?

My taxes for the Ultimate added an additional $6.60 to the total.

So $36.59 in total then, that’d be €31.11 at current exchange rates, so it’s actually currently more expensive than the euro price.

I got the Ultimate, $79.99 plus $6.60 in taxes to make a total of $86.59.

Rong.5470:

Linken.6345:

Yes please point me to a way to buy with dollars without vpn and I will do it gladly.

:’c

Dear Arena Net, just let us pay for American product in American prices – in USD, what is so strange, then no one will feel ‘scammed’ or whatever.

Will you then also pay US taxes that are added to the purchase and that don’t show up on the price listed?

My taxes for the Ultimate added an additional $6.60 to the total.

Edit: a major difference between the two is EU has the tax added to the listed purchase price and the US tax doesn’t show up until purchase.

Because I’ve played gw for years, both the original and this one. While there are some things I might not care for I’m still going to play the game and I want to see the new maps and progress my chars. And I’m not going to want to sit on the sidelines playing the old content while everyone else is playing the new.

If mounts are locked behind an expansion (as they are) then removing wps punishes all who don’t have that expansion. This is a suggestion that ignores all the f2p accounts, new accounts with PoF but without a level 80 and a mount yet, and accounts without PoF.

While this requires an out of game site, you can go to gw2efficiency.com and look over your wardrobe there. It’s possible to see item type only (such as only longbows), locked/unlocked only, the prices, by name (such as Antique) and clicking on individual ones gives extra info and clicking again sends you to the wiki site.

Hyrai.8720:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Hyrai.8720:

i feel like noones getting the idea behind “open world pvp” in gw2.

i mean… i understand that a majority of PvE players doesn’t want to get bothered by PvP going on around them, but what if we get:

1. an “auto decline” function -> you don’t get bothered by PvP-invites if you don’t want to
2. no-pvp-zones – just like there are no-gliding-zones etc.
so people cannot disturb other players during important events by dueling each other

i really don’t see why PvE-players would be bothered by open-world-pvp under those circumstances.

btw:
the argument “implement PvP in PvE -> also implement PvE in PvP” is absolutely invalid.
1. only jealous children would argue like that
2. there’s already PvE in WvW
the thing is: you’ll get bothered by people playing the intended mode just like Open-PvP-Players would get bothered by people playing PvE around them

1. only jealous children would argue like that
I’m arguing for parity not out of jealously but to show how PvE (real PvE where PvEers can’t be attacked) in PvP and would be harmful to that gameplay. Just like dueling, which is PvP, is unwanted in PvE and would bring unwanted elements to PvE.
(Nice hominem attack by the way)

2. there’s already PvE in WvW
If I can get attacked and killed by other players it’s not PvE. Its PvP.

PvP players already have WvW. They already have sPvP. They already have guild hall arenas. They don’t need PvE too. That’s our area. (And if they do get PvP in PvE then for fairness sake ANet should give PvEers the ability to go to WvW to farm nodes and kill mobs with complete immunity from PvP).

so after reading several of your posts, your core argument seems to be “fairness” for PvErs ind PvP and PvPers in PvE.
so..
why do PvPers(WvWers) have to deal with “harmful PvE” on their “territory”, while real PvE is completely seperated from any kind of PvP? Thats not fair at all

PS:
please be so kind and don’t cut off the essential parts of my quotes

Nope. I see my argument went [swoosh]. So I’ll restate it.

The core of my argument is that just as pure PvE added to WvW would be unwanted and harmful to that gameplay, adding PvP to PvE is unwanted by PvEers and is harmful to PvE. The two don’t mix. One is competitive and the other is cooperative. By “asking” for PvE in WvW as a rhetorical device to get a negative response I was showing how the flip side of asking for PvP in PvE is also an unreasonable request

The reason, I think, that you can’t see that adding PvP to PvE is unreasonable is because you’re a PvP person, so you don’t see that mixing the two is harmful to PvE (even though I bet you can see that adding pure PvE to WvW would be harmful to that gameplay).

Haishao.6851:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Haishao.6851:

Duel would be fun. That and free-for-all open arena are the only type of pvp I find fun.

Open arena are fun to play in or sit and watch people.

We already have duel called costume brawl in the game and no one get harassed by “toxic” people because of it. The same thing with our skills and character model instead of a disguise wouldn’t be different. And would actually be more fun.

Then, those wanting to ‘duel’ already have the tools to do so. Or, maybe the fact that so few people duel with tools that are somewhat balanced shows how unpopular dueling would be. Who knows?

Then you have no reason to be against it. They’re costume brawl but with our skills and normal look.

Costume brawl is definitely unpopular and you cannot pretend you don’t already know why since you’ve read every threads about dueling and it comes up every time.

Mounts are unpopular too :^)

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Some want dueling, I want the ability to kill vets and stand on monuments for dailies, and harvest nodes, without being killed by a passing WvW player. It can even not show on the total war score, just my UI daily completion.

It’s as fair a swap as this game will allow, so it makes sense.

The argument is that dueling won’t bother non duelers then my killing vets and standing on monuments won’t bother WvW players (and again, don’t have it progress the WvW war score). If dueling is allowed then this should be allowed. Fair is fair.

To duelers who don’t like this idea, I say. The shoe pinches when it’s on the other foot, doesn’t it.

The shoe definitely doesn’t pinch since you’re completely off track, comparing orange with apple while going from one extreme to another and making little to no sense, once again.

Asking for PvP in PvE.
Asking for PvE in PvP.

Fair is fair.

Haishao.6851:

TheOrlyFactor.8341:

In turn, Anet should open PvP and WvW up to the PvE players, have it where they can farm and RP and do events/achievements in PvP and WvW maps without having to worry about the PvP/WvW elements.

Also the same should be done for raids, dungeons, and fractals too.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I agree with TheOrlyFactor

Dueling is fine in PvE if in return I’m allowed to turn off PvP in WvW and run around farming and killing the mobs without being killed or attacked.

What’s fair for one is fair for the other.

WvW isn’t duel. It’s open world PvP.
If people were asking for PK then your idea would maybe make sense.

Some want dueling, I want the ability to kill vets and stand on monuments for dailies, and harvest nodes, without being killed by a passing WvW player. It can even not show on the total war score, just my UI daily completion.

It’s as fair a swap as this game will allow, so it makes sense.

The argument is that dueling won’t bother non duelers then my killing vets and standing on monuments won’t bother WvW players (and again, don’t have it progress the WvW war score). If dueling is allowed then this should be allowed. Fair is fair.

To duelers who don’t like this idea, I say. The shoe pinches when it’s on the other foot, doesn’t it.

I agree with TheOrlyFactor

Dueling is fine in PvE if in return I’m allowed to turn off PvP in WvW and run around farming and killing the mobs without being killed or attacked.

What’s fair for one is fair for the other.

Why not just have the gemstore sell a level 80 boost with a map completion gizmo for vanilla Tyria (where using this gizmo disqualifies that char from getting a Gift of Exploration).

You’ll get a char of your desired race, level 80 and the vanilla map completely explored. (You’ll have to get any other maps on your own) without ANet having to muck around with your Hero Panel and all the bugs that can come from that.

I’m thinking the OP has it completely backwards. He says mounts are useless. imo, it’s the opposite. They’re useful, maybe too useful as they are now. Once they get in the game it’s going to be very few people who own PoF who give up that speed boost and go without. The ability to cross a map at speed and get to events and get back to events after death will be a big advantage. And then there’s the ability to outrun and outjump past mobs. Also is the ability to get up on things above our current reach or requires a lot of effort.

No, they are far from useless.

DeceiverX.8361:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Serophous.9085:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Serophous.9085:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Waypoints are faster.
Waypoints might be faster but unless you’re not planning to move away from the waypoints then you’ll need to run from there to where you’re going, or use a mount. And mounts are faster than running. A lot faster.

Mounts make you move twice as fast!

Btw we doubled the distance between locations…

Faster mounts accomplish nothing?

Not really. Those mounts are so fast that crossing from the bottom of the map to the northernmost point we can reach was a very short time. In fact, I was thinking they make that large map seem too small because they cover ground so quickly.

Then they only re-did a problem they were having before. Remember WHY waypoints were becoming more scarce? So dying had impact in a fight. So you couldnt just bull rush a boss with death after death.

So even with the few waypoints in the area, with the mounts, its better to just die, WP, run back with mount than worry bout surviving or rezzing people.

Back to square one

And remember, it’s not just the new expansion maps that will have mounts. It’s all the maps, including all the vanilla maps with their many waypoints.

Goody. That makes the content even more trivial. Any new players wont be able to make it to events in time unless they too buy the expansion.

That’s possible.

Remember I said that I was thinking the mounts are so fast that they make that large map appear small. It could be a problem, for example, with daily events where all the riders can move at super speed to event location and all those without PoF struggle along behind. It’s also a problem if maps now seem too small no matter how big ANet can make them.

I’m not sure what a good solution would be at this time though. They are in game. They can’t be removed, but maybe a nerf to speed is something ANet should consider.

I don’t understand why they couldn’t just give them a static 25% speed boost and call it a day.

No need to constantly stack swiftness on builds which don’t have it (as the new elites probably won’t since HoT’s did) accomplishes easier transportation and the most-demanded part of it all: just the aesthetic of a mount.

I still am not fond of mounts because I think it’s unnecessary clutter and prefer enjoying the scale of the maps rather than just getting past some arbitrary gate to go superspeed.

I’m beginning to think that you’re right. That they should have had the max of +25%

Don’t get me wrong. I love superspeed on the mounts. Watch me race across the map! Watch me speed past all the mobs who don’t have a prayer of catching me! Fun fun fun!

Flying is great for one person but bad for the game as a whole and I’m thinking that superspeed is the same. Great fun for the individual player. But it makes the biggest map tiny and the mobs even more irrelevant since you can sprint past them. Even the Hydra which was trying to firebomb me on my mount couldn’t touch my speed as I went past.

Serophous.9085:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Serophous.9085:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Waypoints are faster.
Waypoints might be faster but unless you’re not planning to move away from the waypoints then you’ll need to run from there to where you’re going, or use a mount. And mounts are faster than running. A lot faster.

Mounts make you move twice as fast!

Btw we doubled the distance between locations…

Faster mounts accomplish nothing?

Not really. Those mounts are so fast that crossing from the bottom of the map to the northernmost point we can reach was a very short time. In fact, I was thinking they make that large map seem too small because they cover ground so quickly.

Then they only re-did a problem they were having before. Remember WHY waypoints were becoming more scarce? So dying had impact in a fight. So you couldnt just bull rush a boss with death after death.

So even with the few waypoints in the area, with the mounts, its better to just die, WP, run back with mount than worry bout surviving or rezzing people.

Back to square one

And remember, it’s not just the new expansion maps that will have mounts. It’s all the maps, including all the vanilla maps with their many waypoints.

Goody. That makes the content even more trivial. Any new players wont be able to make it to events in time unless they too buy the expansion.

That’s possible.

Remember I said that I was thinking the mounts are so fast that they make that large map appear small. It could be a problem, for example, with daily events where all the riders can move at super speed to event location and all those without PoF struggle along behind. It’s also a problem if maps now seem too small no matter how big ANet can make them.

I’m not sure what a good solution would be at this time though. They are in game. They can’t be removed, but maybe a nerf to speed is something ANet should consider.

Serophous.9085:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Waypoints are faster.
Waypoints might be faster but unless you’re not planning to move away from the waypoints then you’ll need to run from there to where you’re going, or use a mount. And mounts are faster than running. A lot faster.

Mounts make you move twice as fast!

Btw we doubled the distance between locations…

Faster mounts accomplish nothing?

Not really. Those mounts are so fast that crossing from the bottom of the map to the northernmost point we can reach was a very short time. In fact, I was thinking they make that large map seem too small because they cover ground so quickly.

And remember, it’s not just the new expansion maps that will have mounts. It’s all the maps, including all the vanilla maps with their many waypoints.

Waypoints are faster.
Waypoints might be faster but unless you’re not planning to move away from the waypoints then you’ll need to run from there to where you’re going, or use a mount. And mounts are faster than running. A lot faster.

They do nothing new.
They allow you to jump over gaps, jump high up and glide over water without having to look around for an environmental object first. If there isn’t an environmental object nearby then you can’t perform the leaps or glides.

It’s not a realistic approach.
Riding animals was realistic for thousands of years and mounts are still used today in preference to machines in some places as animals can go where machines can not.

They don’t fly.
Probably just as well. Flying is great for the individual player but can cause trouble for the game as a whole. WoW Devs have come out and said they regret adding flying mounts to the game and they’ve spent the last couple of expansions locking flying out till close to expansion end.

gw2efficiency.com also can help you keep track of the ones you’ve done.

Under Navigation then Home Cats

It will show a panel with the food required. Mousing over each gives the name of the food and the name/decription of the cat. Clicking on one gives you the wiki site.

Edit: and the panel shows which ones you’ve gotten.

I bought one just because.

I’ll never use it because the cost to make is far higher than the cost to buy the food.

Maybe it has to do with level. Maybe at or below a certain level you don’t have harvesting unlocked so the home instance nodes don’t show. What level was your alt in DR and what level in BC.

No, but if they left stuff behind you can loot it.

Might be bugged. I don’t use tail sweep until I’m in melee range as it didn’t seem to work at any distance.

Menadena.7482:

I am wondering how crowded it will be. With previous places it was people that specifically bought the pass from the store. This will have a larger chunk of the playerbase having access.

Since it’s not a separate instance but part of the map it can only have those who are in that map shard. It won’t have everyone going to the same one unless there’s only one version going with insufficient numbers of people to start a second map.

Ranger with a tanky pet is the most survivable. Let your pet hold agro and you pew pew at range.

Feathered Raptors, with dyable feathers.

most of Scandinavian is too cold for most animals, blame the bushmen of Australia.

TiL that the bushmen of Australia are to blame for Scandinavia being too cold for most animals.

It’s amazing the info trivia one can pick up from the internet.

If you want least played and a challenge then I’ll suggest Engineer.