Guild Wars 2

CorneliusCoffin.3169:

Sometimes when I’m doing a series of lightning jumps I think it registers as falling and resets me at the last checkpoint. Does anyone else have that issue?

Yeah I’ve been having that all day. It wasn’t that frequent at first, now it seems to be pretty common. It happens more when you have speed buffs on though, since you seem to overjump despite it shouldn’t be able to do that. :/

I dunno if its just me getting frustrated with the weird issues I have now but it might also be a issue if you like to spam the 3 key with the grapples. :x But I didn’t start doing that until it started resetting me randomly. >.<

I agree there is something really familiar in the tune. But I also can’t place it, but I swear its a tune I’ve heard quite frequently in my life which would make sense for the melody you think it is similar to. I wish I could tell you what it is, but it is racking my brain as it is.

Hopefully they share it on soundcloud or something maybe. It is quite lovely and would love to be able to listen to it outside of game. (Hey ANet if you released a digital soundtrack of all your new songs on the soundtrack I’d buy it. :P Though I definitely appreciate what you offer on soundcloud on occassion. It is very generous.)

I did find this, which is the bgm (and is beautiful): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0U7f0uupE

I noticed the serious increase in points earlier today as well. xD I always thought they deserved a bit more points, but I dunno. At the same time they boded that it was all just for the rewards and not entirely the points. /shrug

I need to finish up the last little bit of mine but for some reason GW1 will never load for me anymore since I reinstalled. I guess time is telling me not to bother. lol

Dunno if this has just been overlooked by all the hubbub about everything else today.

But I just wanted to thank ANet for finally giving us more mini-pet quaggans. And more importantly, pirate quaggans.

So thanks ANet. <3

(Had no idea where to put this, so delete or more if necessary).

2nd box = 100 badges of honor, and and pvp gear box with a ton of random pvp skins. O.o

Seems the variables of what can drop don’t differ to much from person to person. Thats pretty good to see.

I’ve started rubberbanding too after my 15th race (I really didn’t have the issue before the hotfix patch). Didn’t have the issue all till now. Dunno what happened. Definitely is strange.

I can see it occurring to others to, or maybe my whole game decides it wants to rubberband everything on my screen when they use a skill. lol Glad I gave up hope on getting 1st in Sprint anytime soon. xD

Can use the same skills and everything in the Labyrinth and I don’t rubberband at all though. Maybe I was just having bad latency in that certain race room. Maybe it will be better tomorrow.

I didn’t get any gathering tools. But just a ton of boosters and repair can/revive orb.

They do drop from kills. I’ve gotten my only 2 that way. Seems to be pretty rare though.

I enjoy it. Reminds me of mario kart. I always get hit on the fake pickups. xD

Always get in the top 3 now but can’t seem to stay in first. Usually get owned by someone on the final stretch. xD

Good fun though, other then I swear the lighting grapple fails outright sometimes. Not just in the Sprint though, but just in general.

I’m surprised they do allow the press to put up the content beforehand. But that is partly the point I suppose. They get to try it and write and article or a video about it and it may attract old players back or new players. Some people don’t check in on the games website but may visit game journalism sites so it might pop up.

In Dulfy’s case I guess it just comes down to that she is a big contributer to the GW2 community in terms of helpful databases and guides. In some cases even better then the wiki. Having the content ready at patch launch helps people that just want to get into the fray quickly. That and maybe it helps posting it a bit before and people can read and learn beforehand and her site gets less hammered on patch launch. :P

Posting early might be spoilers, but I am kind of glad that they allow her to do it. I don’t initially look at the guides. I look at the achievements just to get an idea of what to look out for (I do that on any game that has achievements) and maybe look at new items or skins. Doesn’t make me feel any less excited about the content or detract from my exploring. But that is just me personally. I totally understand the OPs point though.

I’ve played a lot of games though that when quests came out or events people were very clueless or close to clueless. Vague information everywhere, etc. People would spend hours till someone wrote a guide for it. Maybe in that sense, ANet saw how bad people struggle when an event is thrown at them and say “here, enjoy!” and expect them to explore and figure out things themselves. Sadly that type of thing is dying slowly. At least in this case, you can kind of avoid it if needed.

It happened also with the Karka shells during the Southsun event. Its really just some strange fluke as far as I know.

Map chat made a joke about they had to start importing Karka shells/Coffers cause they dropped so much. xD

I’d say really depends on the person playing and their build, etc.

I could see switching in some pieces with other gear, but full on gear I don’t see it as a good choice. I even more so see it as a poor choice to stack celestial gear, with divinity runes, and then celestial trinkets. I think you’d be a little subpar at best (and this is coming from a person who thinks celestial is not an entirely bad stat set up, I think the accessories work great mixed in with my gear and set up).

Of course this is all without doing the math and actually seeing how much it would affect a character. Will be interesting to see in the future how it plays out though. It might not be so bad as it seems. lol.

As for class, I’d just reiterate as everyone else Ele is probably most proficient, with Guardian and Engi coming in after that. Heck, I’ve ever seen some ranger builds claim they work well, I know nothing about that though.

Some servers run temples. Mine doesn’t, so its pretty bad. Even the two initial outposts everyone used to run the events back and forth are very rarely ever taken (usually I end up doing this in my pass by for gathering if I bother to care).

In reality it seems to be going, if you are just looking for money, its much easier to do a chain of the low level bosses get some guaranteed rares and call it a day (and CoF if you want some more money).

Its really a shame though, I quite liked Orr. Especially liked it when they first kind of “nerfed” the place and lowered the spawn (which wasn’t entirely necessary, but made it more enjoyable) and when they added the bosses to the events, there was still enough people usually to make it possible then. I understand why they had to mess with the event timers and stuff, but meh, its just kind of sad to see it super dead. Its like whatever disease caused Straits and Malchor to be deserted spread to Cursed Shores. :/

Draknar.5748:

Katreyn.4218:

Huh I never died on the Southsun one. O.o Maybe I was doing something wrong but never died on that puzzle.

But anyways, I will say its definitely a change when you take all the diving points up to this point which were easy to get to and no challenge to jump off and then they add this.

After about 20 attempts I told myself it wasn’t worth the issue. But what can you do. Last time I attempted I made it all the way down and landed on the spikes in the well and died. lol. Think that was karma telling me not to bother anymore. xD

The one where you dive into lava? I want to know how you survived that one lol, you are 100% guaranteed death. You can’t even walk into the lava without taking massive damage.

Oh that one. That didn’t count for the regular diving achieve, but yeah it was Southsun achieve. Of course I died to that one. I thought you meant there was one at the top of the geyser one (which I thought there was, but I recalled incorrectly).

Kinda wish they just added this one as a separate achievement instead of tacking it on to the existing one. Even the new diving part in the Four Winds place is a seperate achievement. Oh well, I’ll get my 2 achievement points back eventually. :P

Maybe they should just make a diving category in general in the Exploration tab…maybe they are already ahead of me on that and doing it with the UI update.

/sorry for the ramble.

Oh well, least it looks like theres a billion other things to do so it wont hurt if you just want the meta. My completionist OCD is sad though. Least everything else sounds like a lot of fun.

I like that they are giving a people to revisit a lot of the obscure jumping puzzles (cough not LA cough). So thats always nice, unless you really suck at jumping puzzles. But I have to say that the Endless Battleground jumping puzzle was my most hated (only because of the pvp, and I stealthed a majority of the puzzle only to get camped at the end) when I finally finished all the jumping puzzles and swore to never do it again. And I’m still keeping at that. :P lol

Wish my server would band together and do like a group event of it. But they really don’t even touch WvW. :/

There have been some warnings from others that the scavenger hunt has spoilers for the book. Reason why I haven’t touched it yet, since I haven’t started the book yet.

But I wish they considered that and maybe warned people in-game when they start it. Sadly though, I guess its just something up to the player. You did mention that you were leery about reading them because of that.

Hopefully you can still enjoy the book for what it is despite this though. Its supposed to be pretty good.

As far as closest non-racial chestless armor Pit Fighter and the low-level Karma armor don’t cover the chest fully. Pit Fighter may be more piratey.

Thought there was a norn cultural armor that had no chest, only tattoos. But seems I’m mistaken.

Can look at previews of all the armors here and tells you where you can get them. Might be of some use to you to find a look you are going for:
http://argos-soft.net/GW2ArmorGallery/index.php?sex=0&race=2&color=10&weight=3

When I did it, it was glitchy as hell. No sound (effects, music, voices, etc.), or it would cut in and out. Half my party eventually got knocked into the middle of the ship that was using cannons and I pretty much stood the rest of the fight defending their bodies while they shot cannons like that. Totally broken. lol

Least the cutscenes worked, and that was pretty cool. Sadly I wish I had sound and stuff at the time. >.<

It could of been a lot more combat wise. Sadly it feels rushed. I have nothing against using the cannons, etc. As it makes perfect sense as that was what we were working up to all that time. Just that alone feels kinda bland. Maybe it just felt kind of out of because of all the sound issues I had during the battle. No epic music can really hurt a fight.

They talked about “fixing” it or adding to it or something, but it seems to be forgotten or very far on the backburner. I guess there is nothing officially wrong with it, as it doable. Its just kinda funny cause the bosses up to Zhaitan could even be considered way harder then him. Heck, my party wiped on the 3rd boss like two times and no one died on Zhaitan. :/

I think its good that at least it sounds like they want to “finish” the base game before they start adding on expansions and probably never fixing all the current issues.

I’d rather see them take a long time trying to perfect the base game then give me a new expansion. A lot of MMOs just put out their game, then 6 months later an xpac and that hurts the game usually. And a ton of expansion packs (even with no sub fee) can throw new players off sometimes as well.

Even so, they can still add classes, story content, etc later without making us go out and buy a expansion potentially. I’m sure they’d probably try to put new classes to be bought through the gem store though, which is fine really.

All that said, they must make a lot more money in gems then I thought if that can actually be enough income for them.

I play alone a majority of the time. Aside from the occasional dungeon and group content I am very rarely in a party.

One of the things that make me kind of enjoy GW2 more then most MMOs. Is I can still participate in group events and not have to form a party every time. I can just show up and participate and then leave. Works great for someone like me that isn’t too chatty in parties and such.

I have my own guild that has a handful of friends in it when they log in. But I usually prefer being without a guild. Just because the constant chatter in bigger guilds always distracts me. :P And sometimes I end up reading stuff I don’t care to hear about. Like Map chat is a majority of the time lol.

It would be nice if they kept up with the GW1 tradition. But maybe to be fair on the anniversary (despite character age) they might throw everyone a gift. Seems likely they may stray from the GW1 method of going by character age.

Either way hope there is an interesting event for August that may play into the anniversary. Minis are expected for me. Maybe a game wide world buff for exp or magic find or something too. Who knows what they could do this time around.

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

There’s a diving point at the end of the new JP? I never noticed. Also, when I opened my achievements page, I see that they are all maxed out, no new dive point is listed.

Yeah for some reason when they added the new point to the existing achievement some people just got the extra one completed as well. I had the achievement maxed out before the update but I wasn’t one of those lucky ones that got instant credit. :P

Huh I never died on the Southsun one. O.o Maybe I was doing something wrong but never died on that puzzle.

But anyways, I will say its definitely a change when you take all the diving points up to this point which were easy to get to and no challenge to jump off and then they add this.

After about 20 attempts I told myself it wasn’t worth the issue. But what can you do. Last time I attempted I made it all the way down and landed on the spikes in the well and died. lol. Think that was karma telling me not to bother anymore. xD

Donari.5237:

Had any of your characters done the dungeon, Katreyn? I talked to her on my main since he’s my story guy but he’s not my dungeon guy. Still, I had the dungeon finished on an alt so my account has credit. It would be nice to know for those who haven’t done the dungeon at all if they can get this achieve.

I finished the dungeon my main. But randomly decided to talk to Mai when my alt I just made yesterday got to Lion’s Arch. But I don’t think it really matters.

It seems to not be tied to any achievements or story progression (maybe finishing the instanced story with the attack at the most).

I’d say go try it out if you haven’t finished the dungeon or even done the dungeon. Doesn’t hurt to try I suppose.

Mimir.4690:

I’m at work, and can’t get into the game right now, but… Does anyone know if the dungeon is required to speak with her?

Nope! I spoke to her on a character that hadn’t even walked into the dungeon and got the achievement.

Theres some in the Coddler’s cove jumping puzzle in Timberline Falls.

Good thing I have a Facebook throwaway account just for silly stuff as this. +1 Like for me.

Rewards may not seem that big of a deal, but its a chance to give free stuff to community. Maybe one day we’ll get game wide Magic Find/other stat boost days for other holidays in the future. Cause that would be more cool then having to go bother with communal every time. :P

I’d prefer monthly or even every other month to be honest. I think its going to be 2 weeks of first part of an event, then the second part. With at least maybe the first part consisting of a month length. Pretty much the way the whole Dragon Bash thing has gone (not that I like the second half being so short).

Honestly I think a month should happen at least so everyone has the greatest chance they can to complete stuff. Rushing through content every two-weeks is going to get old fast. And its a little overwhelming if something happens and god forbid you can’t get on for a month or couple of weeks.

If they do keep up with the 2-week plan. I hope they pay attention to a couple things about what kind of achievements may be better suited for such time lengths. And how the playerbase reacts and completes content to said time-length and achievements.

Though I really enjoy the LS for what it is. Just worried that this content stream may scare a lot of people away. Or maybe its going the opposite route and scaring people into staying that are OCD about missing content. :P lol

Crovax.7854:

Katreyn.4218:

Anyone else feel like the textures look pretty bad on the gloves and stuff? Like it seems really faded and low quality compared to the chest. :/

Maybe thats the way fire stuff usually looks. I dunno. lol

The only “new” gear in this picture are helmet gloves and shoulders. The rest
is cof.

Well thats what I was saying. The helm and gloves quality looks different then the chest. I guess its just because its a different set. Things don’t universally match in the dye department always.

Sorry for the confusion. My english seems to be bad today.

Anyone else feel like the textures look pretty bad on the gloves and stuff? Like it seems really faded and low quality compared to the chest. :/

Maybe thats the way fire stuff usually looks. I dunno. lol

But yeah, never been a huge flaming equipment fan. I like flashy stuff as much as the next person. But flames are pretty commonplace and not that interesting. Especially when paired with “black.”

Hopefully there will be more variety in the future for skins. (Need more leafy/Nature gear :x)

Coldin.2840:

Levetty.1279:

Hopefully they add a way to remove those Hylek’s that are stinking up my home instance and replace them with Quaggans (or Kasmeer Meade).

You have Hylek in your home instance?

I wonder if there are Skritt in mine?

I have a random quaggan hanging out in the pool in mine. Only story npc that is still in there. lol.

I don’t mind that the dailies give points. Actually it makes the whole leaderboard thing seem ridiculous. I’d rather they keep the points for everyone and get rid of the pointless achievement leaderboard. But I fear it may be quite the opposite now.

That said, I’m excited to see what comes of this. Hopefully the reward tiers aren’t ridiculously high. As in only the people that are like top of leaderboard can attain at release (10k points). Hopefully they are a lot more reasonable. Looking forward to it at least.

Event page says a “miniature model” if the picture is anything to go by I don’t think its a pet. Just an item to be able to travel back to the ship at any time after the event is gone (probably reusable similar to the journal we got this past event).

Hopefully it does at least mean that we will get permanent additions to add to our “home” regardless. Glad to see they are putting that empty instance to use though.

Reminds me of the node gathering crap in Aion. I say crap because Aion got to a point I found annoying. xD One node isn’t an issue though.

Maybe eventually we can get a free travel a day to our Home Instance then? :P I can dream right.

I was pretty happy when it used lightening. What I was hoping for. xD

So my ele uses fire and lightening, and waters plants. It feels fitting a bit.

It honestly just seems like glass to me, at least thats what I felt like it was. Like blown glass objects. Glass can be produced naturally if there is enough heat in a area with a lot of Silica though. So I guess its possible. But that feels out of the Sylvari’s area of production as far as crafting goes.

Of course they are some Sylvari that are armorsmiths and weaponsmiths and such so I guess there is a chance they could work with molten glass.

I dunno there is a lot of other jumping puzzles in the game that can result in death. So it doesn’t seem too out of the ordinary. Even on low level ones like the Caldeon Forest ones in the Sylvari Starting zone.

It would be nice (but probably will never happen) to have some way to not have to pay continuously on the waypoints or gems for the revive orbs (I have to mention them cause someone would >.>) if you do die alone though. I guess it partly promotes to do it together with someone, but that obviously is not always an option. /shrug

I died a handful of times on the new JP. Mostly from attempting that boggling dive into the well. But I can’t say it feels any different then many other achievements or jumping puzzles I’ve done up to this point in terms of death ratio.

Just my two cents.

I like them all except for the Koi cake personally. Just never been a condition food fan.

Dragon’s Breath Bun, Dragon Roll and Cupcake are great for general soloing for me. Krakachocolate is good for dungeons. I don’t really use Dragonfish candy that much but its still not bad for me.

My chef main has been lazy for cooking lately. So always happy to have a ton of free take-away. Kind of wish there was some lower level food though for my alts though.

Really strange they changed the price on these. Actually not really, cause people would just farm the jp and vendor it. :/ Can’t have nice things these days I swear.

Its a little glitchy or something. Sometimes your diving goggles come off when you phase through the wall. And I’ve also had them come off halfway down (not dying). Still haven’t completed it though since that was the only time I didn’t die…haven’t bothered to make my way back up again. So wouldn’t surprise me if something caused the achievement not to trigger.

But yeah it definitely is supposed to count towards the Diving achievement. I maxed it out a while back too, and now its missing the one.

edit: My last attempt at getting that perfect dive I managed to land on the spiky vent bit in the well…thats an achievement in itself. xD

Apparently not.

At least you can sell them for 70s to a vendor if the stats don’t appeal to you.

Edit: welp, the 3s you get now. :x

At least you can sell it (for a nice price) unlike the Mad King’s Slippers, which I for some reason still have…

Some parts were difficult. Mostly aiming with the boosters and pumps. That and the chance of death after a certain point.

Personally, I will agree this is not one of their harder ones. But thats not bad. Its nice not to have to work against a timer sometimes and whatnot. A lot of people still have trouble even if some people don’t.

I enjoyed it all the same.

(the diving goggles on the other hand. I easily got up. But yeah…coming down not so well. xD)

It would be nice to eventually be able to make/get a ascended backpieces without doing Fractals (sure you have the Sclerite one, but I’m talking all stat options). I just got tired of crap drop rate in annoying Fractals so I gave up on finishing the backpiece myself. But I guess they want to keep it in Fractals for the time being.

trickfred.4097:

Shemsu.8721:

Molten facility was fun and epic but not hard

That’s exactly what temporary content should be: fun and epic, but not excessively hard.

Let this dungeon be hard when it becomes a fractal (as they have been hinting it will become). While it’s temporary, it should be doable by an average group with any class composition. Think of it as advertisement for the future fractal.

My thoughts exactly.

I have nothing against the current dungeon. But for LS content it seems like a bad idea. MF was perfect for a LS dungeon imo; not too long, boss took maybe a wipe or two to figure out and didn’t last 15+ minutes, could take lowbies with you and not hurt the group.

I was expecting a dungeon not a raid-like encounter.

MithranArkanere.8957:

It’s not long if you do it properly.

This battle is the kind of battle that should stay for an Explorable path. Not the kind of battle for a temporary battle with achievements.
If anything, those achievements should have been put on hold until it’ a fractal, then put them as part of the fractal.
That way people can retry instad messing up the fight to get some achievements.

Now half the parties I get either die because they are trying to get the achievements and so do stupid things, or try to convince you to cheat the achievements and getting them by logging out while the rest of the party does the stuff.

This is the kind of battle that must be learned.
And there’s no time to learn when there’s an expiration date on the content and people is freaking out to get the achievements before they are dragged by heir families on vacation.

Exactly how I feel. Its a good dungeon. (I do agree the boss fight seems to drag out, mostly because of the barrage segments seem way too long; especially the second one, maybe I’m thinking of the third one…they all kind of ran together after a while.)

I think the dungeon is well made, but I also think its not what we should be seeing for “story.” With the current difficulty its quite hard for people that are boosted up to 80 to do this; they don’t have the gear and potentially don’t have the skill for this level of dungeon. But it is temporary content with story. Granted they have other things they can do. But the biggest issue I have with it, is it potentially cuts you off from talking to Mai to hear the end of the Aetherblade segment of the LS. I say ANet may be better off making two difficulties: explorable and story. I think difficulty wise, Molten Forge was perfect.

The achievements just kind of make it all even more frustrating for some.

If something really catches my eye or its an uncommon setup I do.

I find a lot of the time its just the same gear I’ve seen over and over. I guess thats the problem with not having too many armor skins at the moment.

Amun Ra.6435:

What are the exact stats on this food? Someone said 5% boost? That would be a significant boost.

From the ones I found on the TP:

45 Power, Precision, Vit, Toughness, Healing, Condition dmg
5% crit
20% magic find
10% experience

30 min buff

The stat combinations are pretty questionable to begin with for most classes. At least Sylvari is like all condition damage.

I guess they looked at the fact that most people would rather transmute them on the stats they want then to actually bother making the stats appealing. Since they aren’t about the stats in the first place. Making it Exotic at that point I guess isn’t really worth the time.

I solo a lot. Most of the game anyways. Cause me and my friends have the most conflicting schedules ever.

Every time I go into an MMO and know I won’t be around friends (I’m quite terrible at making new friends, anxiety and all that). I just accept that I won’t be able to do group content.

Grouping up for dungeons and stuff though isn’t really a huge deal to me, most of the times PuGing works out great for me; this dungeon isn’t one of them though it seems lol.

But it would be nice if in the future they would make scalable dungeons instead of scaling low levels up to 80 (its doesn’t help if the dungeon is really hard, a scaled up level 80 in low level gear is not going to survive easily unless the rest of the group is 80).

I think the capability is there to make dungeons more open to everyone. Especially if story related. But they like using this way better, so /shrug.