Guild Wars 2

Here is a list of Mystic Coin recipes:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge/Other_Items

There is a 3D model viewer for weapons on Guildhead if you want to check them out (although it does not show effects)
http://www.guildhead.com/

Hands down the liveliest playerbase I’ve ever seen in an MMO. 5 months after launch and I’ve yet to login without being shuffled off to an overflow server.

Some zones are quieter than others naturally, people congregate in the areas with the greatest rewards. But otherwise the game is bustling with activity – it’s quite astonishing!

ZaxanRazor.6235:

Nike.2631:

If you are so concenerned that all but exactly 1 possible 24 hour span will have 2 calandar dates associated with it, and you see an announcement that mentions only a single day, there are only 2 plausible conclusions – they’re locking themselves to GMT or they are using the clock right there in the office with them.

Now, lets rub that teeny, tiny bit of logic against previous experience.

Yeah.

That was hard.

Global means that dates should apply to everyone – if they don’t they should be corrected to reflect that.

It’s not easy for Americans to get that, I know.

The brilliant minds at ANet are currently working on a patch that will alter the Time/Space Continuum so that the same date happens for everyone around the world simultaneously.

This new technology will launch when it’s ready.

DaedalusDragon.3754:

You know, we wouldn’t have this problem if our planet was a flat plane! The sun would hit all of us at the same time and hide for the night at the same time! kitten YOU EARTH, WHY ARE YOU ROUND!!!???

Then we would have to deal with the microseconds of time difference from one end of the plane to the other due to limitations of the speed of light.

EARTH, WHY YOU NO ANOMALY IN SPACE/TIME?

Afyael.1740:

I’m honestly not that bothered about WHEN the patch is released, I would just like to see the notes so that I know whether I can start playing on my ranger and engineer again. Usually they release the notes BEFORE the patch?

Admittedly I missed the december patch but for the fractals and halloween patches I seem to remember getting patch specifics prior to release. It’s bugging me.

Actually they always post the patch notes after the patch is launched, generally within an hour or so.

You can find all the patch notes on this forum:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news

It is currently 7am PST on the 28th which means the patch will launch sometime in the next 17 hours.

I will post periodic updates for people that do not understand time zones

It’s 6 am on the 28th here in PST so it will launch sometime in the next 18 hours.

So excited!

Hardly. It is the fastest growing MMO ever made.

Yes!

Very much looking forward to seeing the new areas, GW2 delivers on exploration better than any game on the market.

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

“When it’s done.”

:D

This post made my ele splash

Here are a couple places to preview the armors available:

http://gw2armorgallery.com/human-light.htm

http://www.gw2armor.com/human/male/light_list.php

Protoavis.9107:

Was more attempting to point out that the designers attempted to recreate the wheel so to speak with a lot of armors based on sex rather than attempting to remain consistent within sets.

I would be very disappointed if the guys were running around wearing little tutu skirts like my light armor from Melandru’s temple.

Patience my rabid little darlings. It’s 3:40 pm PST on the 27th right now. The 24 hour window for the patch to launch will start in 8 hours and 20 minutes.

There’s no one-off event so you won’t miss anything.

Guildhead is a real database for the game. Looks like maybe part of the new achievements.

The exotic gear you get from high level map completion, crafting or the corrupted god temple karma vendors is the same stat level as you get from dungeons.

Shufflepants.9785:

OMG WHY WAS I NOT MADE AWARE OF THE EXPERIMENTAL TELPORTATION GUN SOONER?!

(Just went out and bought 250 of them)

You might be interested in some other fun/useful consumables:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/16pcd2/a_guide_to_useful_and_fun_consumables/

Ha, that was great. Love the music choices too.

Patch notes are always posted directly after the patch goes live. You can find them here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news

There is a grind …..for legendary weapons. It’s intended.
People take what Mike O’Brien said out of context.

“Here’s what we believe: If someone wants to play for a thousand hours to get an item that is so rare that other players can’t realistically acquire it, that rare item should be differentiated by its visual appearance and rarity alone, not by being more powerful than everything else in the game. Otherwise, your MMO becomes all about grinding to get the best gear. We don’t make grindy games — we leave the grind to other MMOs.”

All other gear comes very easily in GW2 and you can play all content in blues and greens if you want.

First stage of the fix is in a couple days on the 28th. There’s a dev explanation around here somewhere, basically models will instantly load at a lower resolution, then slowly grow to full detail.

Looking forward to this, it’s my onliest gripe with the game

Nappychappy.7046:

What’s the fascination quaggans? Were they in GW1, or something totally new that people had fallen in love with? Personally I find them annoying.

Because Quaggan.

It’s like pacman grew feet and got personality. Quaggan is the embodiment of everything we love about gaming distilled into a little ball of Quaggan.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/10ilke/how_sigils_work/

Looks like a conflict with the sigils. Not all of them stack.

“Greed is Dangerous” the sign said.
She opened the Waterlogged Chest anyway.
Can’t say she wasn’t warned.

I hope not, WvW queue is getting too long on SoR.

I run the LA jump puzzles everyday. Have recieved numerous rares but no exotic yet.
However my friend got an exotic ring the other day from Troll’s End

Chiming in with Midnight Ice!

It pretty much happens naturally as I do other things (like killing dragons or running dungeons). Same with the monthly, I don’t go out of my way to complete it, it just gets done by playing the game.

I’ve been getting a few BLSK lately from the daily, nice bonus!

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Skritt_burglar

One day a couple friends and I went around to all the known spawn points. We chased that little fella all over Tyria!

Already made one

Slowly working towards a legendary.

Nice vid!
Creative use of the different dyes in the different zones and the music was great.

and Grats!

Depends on the type of sigil. Here’s a good explanation.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/10ilke/how_sigils_work/

Colin answers questions on guesting, previewing items, guilds, raids, party size, dungeon content, drop rates, personal story and cities.

http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=31615

Dradiin.8935:

Karizee.8076:

I buy gems whenever they do something cool that I like. My most recent purchase was on the announcement that culling is being removed on the next patch on the 28th – yay!

Bought a nice big batch for that one

LOL while its great that they made you happy about talking about fixing culling you might want to go back to that article and re-read it, they are not confirming that fix will be on the 28th, in fact they didn’t even state it would be removed completely, just that its getting worked on.

This is what was said:

WvW: How is the fight against culling going?
It is a huge project that involve us basically rewriting the entire way how models and assets load.
Jan update is our first major improvement – models that appear near you will first be a low res model that act as a placeholder until the whole character is loaded in. This will fix those “invisible” characters that appear next to you that some of you are currently experiencing.
Next major step is how do we show more models and more things happening on screen. We are doing a lot of internal testing and it is looking very promising.
We are going to stay away from doing massive open world events with hundreds of people until we get culling fixed.

http://dulfy.net/2013/01/19/gw2-colin-johanson-mmorpg-livestream-transcript-jan-18/

So yeah, I’m pleased as punch

Can you imagine if the player had turned himself into furniture or a member of the Inquest?

OP, you must be feeling all kinds of silly right now. Here’s a link to all the tonics so you can familiarize yourself with them

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Tonics

I buy gems whenever they do something cool that I like. My most recent purchase was on the announcement that culling is being removed on the next patch on the 28th – yay!

Bought a nice big batch for that one

I think it’s a combination of the two. For instance, Tarnished Coast has coordinated blackouts to allow other guilds to transfer to their server.

You will find the butterflies and daisies forums under:
Fan Generated Content
Linksville
Players Helping Players

The mods are quick to move things to their appropriate forums (thank you!) so really just a handful of people with an agenda here. It’s the same names over and over, don’t concern yourself too much with it.

Ecto rate has always been .95 for rares, if you were getting more than that the RNG gods were smiling upon you.

Seems pretty random to me. Best run was 7 in a row with 1 or 2 ectos, worst was 6 in a row with zero.

Mirta.5029:

critickitten.1498:

Karizee.8076:

Keiran.1896:

Karizee.8076:

GW2 is more popular that WoW (in the West, they haven’t launched in China yet)

World of Warcraft: around 10M monthly subscribers.
Guild Wars 2: 3M box sold.
See what you compare…

And no, WoW’s population is not 70% from China. :P

Sure it is, that’s why they only sold 2.7mil copies of the Panda pac.

Erm, no….

They sold 2.7 million copies of the “Panda pac” in the first week of the expansion’s release. They’ve long since passed that figure.

GW2 on the other hand only JUST passed 3 million, a full four (almost five) months after release.

WoW is far, far more popular and I can’t even believe anyone would try to argue otherwise.

WoW reached their 4 million mark 2 years after release. Give GW2 time, especially having in mind that GW2 growth stabilized at 30 000 hard copies a week, making it stable, fast and good growth for an MMO.

It took WoW a full year to hit 1 mil subs when it launched.
GW2 now has the title of the fastest growing MMO ever.

I see my dungeon tokens now have a “Deposit to Collectibles” option but it’s grayed out.

More bank space incoming – yay!

Keiran.1896:

Karizee.8076:

GW2 is more popular that WoW (in the West, they haven’t launched in China yet)

World of Warcraft: around 10M monthly subscribers.
Guild Wars 2: 3M box sold.
See what you compare…

And no, WoW’s population is not 70% from China. :P

Sure it is, that’s why they only sold 2.7mil copies of the Panda pac.

Transfer back to your old server, your stuff is still there

GW2 is more popular that WoW (in the West, they haven’t launched in China yet)

Your guild and gbank stays on the server it was created on.

D’awwww!

You folks should get the Jar of Harpy Pheromones item from Blazeridge Steppes for your pics!

SledWrecker.6738:

I could maybe talk everyone into switching to a different server if it didn’t cost money… Hmm.. I smell a refund

It’s currently free to transfer realms but that’s going to change with Guesting on January 28th when there will be a fee.

As for your friend, keep trying, it’s possible to get in. Try after midnight and before 6 am.

Minion of Vey.4398:

When they say orr I’m hoping they mean all of Orr.

Cursed Shore is fine imo, mob density wise. Just isn’t bad at all for roaming to the various popular events. You’ll pick up some agro and…it just doesn’t matter

Straits and Leap are the ones that need adjusting. Especially Malchior’s Leap, one of the most obnoxious zones I’ve seen in an MMO.

Mob density does depend on what events are currently active, that could be a factor in why you percieve a difference between Straits, Leap and CS.

Ok, thanks for the info!

(I deleted the post)

Open your Options tab and set the Camera Rotation Speed slider all the way to the right.

Pretty much the same as any other game.

Do dungeons (gw2lfg.com is great if you don’t care to join a guild)
Work on a Legendary weapon http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Legendary
World bosses and meta events http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Meta_event
Complete achievements (open your hero tab, the last tab has all the cheeves)
Fractals are crazy fun! http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractals_of_the_mists
WvW http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World_versus_World
sPvp & tPvp (accessed through the Heart of the Mists)
Crafting and trading through the Black Lion Trading Post (you can learn all 8 crafts on 1 toon)
Explore builds and weapon combos. Learn how to make an effective team for w/e activity you like.
Collect gear for builds or transmuting.

That’s just off the top of my head, I’m sure there’s more