Guild Wars 2

So the idea of the heart is to give you a variable option for how to progress. You don’t have to save 5 people from fires and extinguish all the flames. You just need to help out enough to fill in the bar. Once you have it’s done. It makes the X rat quest aspect of the story more dynamic.

Personally I think it’s a good call and was a reasonably enjoyable part of the story.

So I’ve only managed to wander by the mesmer NPC. But I’m trying to find the warrior and the ranger. Anyone know where they might be hanging out?

Sartharina.3542:

Kal Spiro.9745:

It’s all garbage loot. There are no rares and exotics, that’s the point.

Except there ARE rares and exotics. That’s the problem – I ID’d 33 Unid items from a Forged camp, and I received 4 Rare Elonian weapons and 2 Exotic Sunspear weapons.

That makes sense. This is for getting skins. Has anyone gotten an exotic out of these? People keep saying rare and exotics, but the only rares I’m hearing about are weapon skins, effectively.

It’s all garbage loot. There are no rares and exotics, that’s the point. You don’t have to identify them unless you really want to, for some reason. It’s just garbage. Salvage them and sell the mats, or just sell them outright for the people who want them, for whatever reason.

So, unidentified gear is just a new loot item. It’s not actually gear in the same way that chests aren’t gear. You don’t identify them, you talk to heart vendors to open them for a chance at junk, or you can just directly salvage them for components. It’s not actually that big of a deal. Nor what you’re making it out to be.

I want to start by saying, Thank you ANet for a truly fun and not frustrating jumping puzzle. This was the first JP since, basically, the Core Tyria that felt like a proper jumping puzzle, where jumping was the point. It made use a gliding in an intelligent way, rather than just saying, “Ok, start gliding and hope you find the next part of the puzzle, who knows if it’ll work out.” The two checkpoints near the bottom are useful. The lack of them at the top is fine because it’s much easier to catch yourself.

I really appreciated this, it wasn’t cake, but it wasn’t frustratingly difficult and long like some of the other Season 3 puzzles have been. I actually was disappointed it was over when I reached the end, I wished I could go just a little bit higher.

I mean, if you did it for the weapon, that was not a great reason to do it. I did it because the value, based on the gem price ingame, and the cost to purchase gems make the Ultimate edition worth $93.75 before even factoring in the game. So I just bought a bunch of gem market stuff I wouldn’t normally buy, and got an expansion thrown in for free. If the bonus for preordering isn’t that great, fine, it wasn’t factored into the cost anyway.

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Ok, so I actually hadn’t checked out the skins. Now I have and these are right up my alley. I don’t like sparkly and over the top skins. I am almost always more subdued, and these are kinds I would actually consider using. Now I’m a little torn cause I can only get one. So I have to hold onto them until I decide what character I’m going to make and if I’m going to give it to that character or an already existing one.

That’s the advice I was going to give. I have two characters that are the same character. The first was my first character ever, who I built during beta and took screens of the design that I could reference. This would work the same way, but can be done after the fact now.

Djinn.9245:

Kal Spiro.9745:

So I would just like to point out that the fighting cats are the class specific cats. Each cat only being acquirable by a specific class. The entire point of these cats is that they’re PvP cats. That’s why they’re fighting. They’re in an endless PvP match between each other.

What does this have to do with the OP?

It’s more for the people trying to excuse the fighting as just play. These cats are in a PvP match, so it’s more relevant how you interpret that than how cats play with each other. If you consider that in PvP the players are trying to kill each other, then these cats are going for blood. If you consider that despite being defeated you can get up and continue to play then it should be less concerning.

So I would just like to point out that the fighting cats are the class specific cats. Each cat only being acquirable by a specific class. The entire point of these cats is that they’re PvP cats. That’s why they’re fighting. They’re in an endless PvP match between each other.

I’m pretty sure the knowledge comes with the waking. How did anyone know the names of the other Elder Dragons? Jormag and Zhaitan’s minions say their names sometimes, but Primortus’s do not talk at all ever. I feel that because of the weird nature of the dragons and their link to the eternal alchemy the knowledge of them is built into magic itself and so when they wake their names just become known without having to learn it.

I don’t get why the glider is dyeable when there is a backpack, that’s just silly.

What are you using? I have jump on 1 and dodge on 4 on my Naga which makes them the far bottom corner. Take into mind you shouldn’t be doing them at the same time, you have to hit jump first then dodge but in such quick succession that it’s like you do them at the same time. For me it’s a rolling motion with my thumb and it works basically every time.

I don’t know if this is true, or was just someone messing with people, but it was said that the festival reward of Kaiser Snake skins can be used to claim Crimson Assassin tokens instead.

If this is true, then you’re not and you don’t have to wait a year to get more. If it’s not, then yeah, you can’t get it all.

Are you kidding, that was awesome. I love how much thought they put into this too because of course you have to clear out everything and then make your way back, so they set it up to be able to come back. I had a lot of fun with this one once I figured out how to do it.

So… I spent probably around 3 hours yesterday running W2Z2. I was doing it from scratch without any guides. Yet I founds it to be exceedingly enjoyable, even the monstrously frustrating parts. I hate ice physics so much, but I was totally alright with almost everything else. I was especially happy to skip the gong room altogether.

I expect to struggle through W2Z3 next weekend and finally finish my Tribulation Mode achievements with Tough Customer.

It stands to reason, though, that it would be so much longer, it’s so much longer in normal mode. The entire zone was always entirely too long cause Josh went completely nuts when he made World 2.

You also get a thing in Tribulation Mode that changes all the songs into these covers. They made World 2 Zone 2 much more enjoyable today.

That was a seriously tough trip, but I got my Beedog… cat

Silly me to think there might be a serious post today. Wasn’t even thinking about it.

I have experienced some weird push backs, but not to the degree you’re implying. I don’t know what it might be indicative of.

Sorry, I don’t get this argument. I don’t want to play GW1 and the things in it, so I want you to not provide me with a way to easily avoid acquiring an item, which in this case is to lock it behind an RNG real money method of acquisition. It’s super easy for me to avoid getting, by simply not opening chests.

I mean, what’s the problem here? If you don’t want it you can easily not have it.

Second year in a row for the first time ever. Hopefully one day there will be a world three

Asura are more concerned about intellectual superiority than gender division.

New worlds were never out of the question. Once they actually committed to fixing the game enough to let us back in last year it became reasonable for them to finish the game.

Standard request from day one. Here’s hoping it eventually becomes an actual thing some day.

I managed to get through it my first time through, but it was close and I was definitely concerned about some of my less sturdy characters going through it. It’s nice to see that it might be getting a bit of retuning.

I know I have a very intricate sorting process, so I don’t think this would be useful to me. I have nothing more I could say on this subject

So here’s the thing. You still get all the birthdays, it’s just that two of them are now pushed back. But it isn’t like they won’t happen.

Magic find

I haven’t had much trouble with this. You’re almost guaranteed to die if you take this from the bottom up. But if you start from the top by doing the peach you can get most of the chests solo from the top down.

If you’re really not sure what to do with it I’d be happy to take it off your hands.

I’m happy to stop at Tier 2 The Hunter. I’m not a fan of The Predator. I’ll wait until Rangers get rifles though. I could consider this one if I was making a nautical themed Norn, I think.

reapex.8546:

Kal Spiro.9745:

The problem is that there is no continuity because the Dungeon Story Modes aren’t part of the Personal Story until Arah.

They made Arah soloable because it wasn’t fair to force a dungeon experience on people in order to finish the story. I would like to see the same treatment done to all the story modes, and ALSO to have them integrated into the Personal Story so that you have to do each of them in order at their appropriate intervals of where they would fit into the story.

What I don’t like about making Arah story into Personal Story is that it is no longer repeatable. A lot of players, like replaying dungeon stories. It would be great, if Anet made personal story repeatable.

That would be nice, and I think it’s something they might be working on eventually, but I don’t know.

Jaher Dal.9503:

You mean they aren’t part of the personal story? Every time I had gotten a mail saying to go to a dungeon in game at various times of the game, I went. It led up to the events of the last mission, and it also added to the overall story.
I didn’t know people ignored the letters and skipped them. I really like the dungeons, because the story mode you do as the story unfolds, and the exploration modes you go back to later are the aftermath of what happened in the story mode.

While it isn’t necessarily an issue, it’s become much easier now that the LFG is functional and useful, it’s still a gap for those that don’t necessarily want to do group content like dungeons. I like having my story to myself and while I’ve done all the story modes eventually I did not do them in order and I didn’t do them when they came up. Also, since they’re tied to your actual current level they’re disjoined in that way too. Unless you neglect to level your character ahead of the story, like I am currently doing with my eventual Tempest, you may be able to do the story dungeons outside of when they make sense in the personal story.

If you do CoF and CoE before you meet DE in LA you get to see them making up before you even see them breaking up. It’s disjointed.

This has come up before from time to time. I know, I’ve argued it before. But I’m doing Light in the Darkness on another character and once again it comes to the fore.

The personal story is about how the player character’s rise to power and also the story of Destiny’s Edge. The problem, though, is that Destiny’s Edge isn’t in the personal story except for once at level ~30, again for a glimps at ~60 during A Light in the Darkness and finally at the very end.

The scene during the brief level 30 mission is a lead up to the story told by the first half of Dungeon Story Modes. The short glimps during Light in the Darkness is a lead up to the later half until the final Personal Story mission and final Dungeon Story Mode in Arah. The problem is that there is no continuity because the Dungeon Story Modes aren’t part of the Personal Story until Arah.

They made Arah soloable because it wasn’t fair to force a dungeon experience on people in order to finish the story. I would like to see the same treatment done to all the story modes, and ALSO to have them integrated into the Personal Story so that you have to do each of them in order at their appropriate intervals of where they would fit into the story.

It would tie everything up better, it would make the whole story, especially the very end, make much more sense, and it would introduce all of the dungeons to people that otherwise might never have done them. It would also make people more invested in those characters for events that occur in HoT. The only downside is whatever amount of resources it takes to reduce difficulty scale to solo and integrate it into the personal story. I have no idea what that would take and since it seems like it must be easy it’s probably anything but. I’d still like to see it happen though.

Slowpokeking.8720:

drunkenpilot.9837:

You would have a leg to stand on if you paid a premium for immediate access to this specific patch on this specific day. You did not pay such a premium as one does not exist, therefore you are not entitled to anything.

You bought a license to play Anet’s game. That entitles you to the ability to play the game. Servers are up, you play the game you paid for. GG.

I paid over 100 bucks for the game, HoT and gems, without the money I wouldn’t be able to experience the update. Especially HoT was quite expensive to buy and the final fight was still buggy till this day. So every HoT players deserve something because of the bad service?

Yes, but you already got ALL of the content that money paid for… perhaps minus a bunch of legendary weapons. None of the Living World content is included in that “expense.” It’s free for anyone who has the game.

Slowpokeking.8720:

Kal Spiro.9745:

You’re right, you have to right to say whatever nonsense comes to your head, no matter how undeserved. Just like we all have the right to tell you that you don’t deserve it and that you’re not going to get it. We also have the right to inform you that the things you think are true are not accurate nor reasonable.

What do you mean undeserved? Anet doesn’t have to spend any money, just click on their program to deliver ppl some gem or item. This does happen to quite a few games I’ve played.

I mean we don’t deserve something extra because they couldn’t get the update out. It doesn’t matter how little effort is involved. Our having to wait a day isn’t a reasonable cause for a reward. We aren’t losing anything by waiting a day, therefore there is no need to compensate it.

Slowpokeking.8720:

drunkenpilot.9837:

Just stop.

Why? I paid money to buy the game and gems, as the customer it is my RIGHT to speak out when circumstances like this had happened.

You’re right, you have the right to say whatever nonsense comes to your head, no matter how undeserved. Just like we all have the right to tell you that you don’t deserve it and that you’re not going to get it. We also have the right to inform you that the things you think are true are not accurate nor reasonable.

kinjiro.3251:

Mea.5491:

I DON’T EVEN NEED STUFF FOR FREE, JUST PUT THE AETHERBLADE ARMOR SETS BACK TO THE GEM STORE AT FULL PRICE, PLEASE! I’ve been waiting for them to return since FOREVER!!!

I need the medium and if they could please re-release Marjory’s Dagger that would be great. Not wanting free just wanting a chance to purchase said items.

So that’s three of us. If I understand anything about these forums, I’m pretty sure that means it’s a majority

I just want the Aetherskins returned to the BLC so I can buy the light set. Release the set to make me happy A-Net!

I almost broke 800 for the first time during Halloween, but then I spent over 100 on something, I’m not even sure what, probably some skin, or possibly for gems for some skin. I was then gradually getting back there and probably would have made it from selling the daily 16 golden envelopes until I spent another 50 gold on Icy Runestones to make the Grenth backpack.

I currently have 740g 86s 12c
Which is a far cry from the 2500g minimum I need to get the Scythe skin for my Revenant

None of the above
They don’t go anywhere.
They continue to eat the food you bring them.
The only one that can be specifically identified at a glance is the Ranger, cause it has a frog

Xiahou Mao.9701:

Kal Spiro.9745:

I personally recommend playing a Ranger and bringing a pet with you the whole way, leveling it to 20 also. Make sure to pick up M.O.X. along the way. With a bunch of random minis, a level 20 animal companion and M.O.X. you should easily have enough to get all the armor and then some.

M.O.X. requires you to have all campaigns unlocked, so a player with just Prophecies and Eye of the North wouldn’t be able to acquire that hero.

Ah, I didn’t realize that. I had them all by the time I reached that point. I thought he was just part of EotN

Final bit of information. You don’t need any tapestries to get the first three points. You don’t even need access to HoM in GW to get them. You don’t even need to be level 20. Linking the accounts gets you the three. Technically you don’t even need EotN to get the three, but you do need it to gain access to HoM in GW2.

Just having the minis doesn’t get you anything. You need to place them in the Monument. Until the statue has been added you don’t have anything.

RoseofGilead.8907:

JustACat.1086:

Noob question: is there a way to control what henchmen do?
Is there any official forums forums for GW? I feel uncomfortable asking questions here. :P

No, you can’t control what your henchmen do. The only thing you can do control-wise is use Hero Flags to tell them where to stand; if you mark a spot on the terrain or mini-map with a Hero Flag, they will stay on that spot until you remove the Flag.

Now, Heroes have skill bars that you can customize based on the skills you have unlocked on your account. You can also tell Heroes to be Passive (not attack), as well.

Eye of the North Heroes give you a lot of control over their skills. You can tell them not to use certain skills and you can activate them yourself when you want them to go off.

The original companions don’t let you do kitten, but then they basically had no skills anyway.

I"m late to the party, but if all you want is the army buy Platinum, it’s Prophecies and EotN, then find someone willing to dump a bunch of minis on you. Hit me up and I’ll give you whatever I’ve got.

You’ll need to actually play Guild Wars for a while cause you need to actually get to EotN which is level 20 content. Then you need to play a bit of EotN to “activate” the Hall of Monuments. Once that’s done you can actually place statues.

I personally recommend playing a Ranger and bringing a pet with you the whole way, leveling it to 20 also. Make sure to pick up M.O.X. along the way. With a bunch of random minis, a level 20 animal companion and M.O.X. you should easily have enough to get all the armor and then some.

Liewec.2896:

ShinjoNaomi.1896:

Liewec.2896:

Valento.9852:

I remember a dev said once that the outfit model is altogether and they can’t separate meshes, the head is the only exception as it’s separate.

which is nonsense, because before the wardrobe update many of these current outfits were in sections.
such as Mad King’s Boots
Mad King’s Coat
Mad King’s Gloves
Mad King’kitten

here is the old town clothes UI for the Fancy Winter Outfit showing nice separate parts complete with their own icons:

Yes… the -old town clothes- outfits that they originally made for the game before the revamp… You remember, the ones we couldn’t go into combat with.

what is your point?
i was showing that outfit pieces are infact very capable of being modular,
because seven of them already are.
“outfits can’t be separated” is just one of the myths/excuses that we’ve repeatedly debunked.

His point is that back then, when they were made modular they were not made often, just like armor pieces are not made often now. In order to make them mass producible they had to change how they made them and that change caused them to no longer be modular. The Outfits literally can’t be taken apart anymore because they don’t fit right. They don’t break up correctly.

I dunno. I have lots of characters, most haven’t completed the personal story. Two are currently running through it at a level appropriate pace, others are already 80 and going through it. I only have two that are fully up to date on the story. I just recently completed Citadel of Eternity’s three explorables, and I still have several dungeons to work through. I’m up to 14 or 16 in Fractals. Only one of my characters has map completion. I am working my way through my first Legendary doing the Legendary Journey, and I’m finishing up step two of four. I only have a handful of ascended gear.

I’ve been playing since early access. So really, just do what you want. There is a lot to do. Some people seem to disagree on that point, but there is a lot to do in this game.

The best I can say is that this has already happened once, expanding skills sets across the classes into healing. I am not sure about into elites. They didn’t do a complete job, but it has happened, so it’s possible it could happen again, and maybe be more thorough.

So sell on the trading post?

I think I actually managed to make a slight profit. Make sure to sell the food on TP