Guild Wars 2

If you trust your computer’s integrity and to not get any keyloggers or something. There is programs you can download to use. Like WinAuth. I use it for some games and it works fine.

Other options outside of smart phone is a tablet or iPod touch that offers app abilities.

Took me three months to get my first full set 2 years ago. Gold is much easier to obtain now imo. At least more ways to work on it. Of course you probably won’t see that amount of gold pre-80 or running WvW all the time.

Its more of a time and fruition thing. If you want the skins, you save up for them. Just a personal reward you can set for yourself.

It might sound good on paper to ANet but I dunno. If you look at the market there is some obvious problems there.

Medium armor classes will get leather more often. Prices of leather is already substantially the lowest of all.

Wood based weapons are a a disadvantage as well. Elder wood is badly cheap. There is some grey areas there, but wood still is very easy to get compared to cloth.

Not to mention rares of certain weapon type sell for substantially higher then other weapons. Greatswords in particular. Staves are pretty high too.

I imagine stuff will drop, but a lot less then what you can “use” as a class.

There is crossover in materials needed. But I’ve never salvaged a heavy armor and gotten silk.

Edit: But lets just hope this doesn’t apply to 80s. Its really hard to say. But the entire article was more based on leveling rather then existing characters anyways.

I would say if you played GW2 back at launch before they toned Orr down then the Orr we have now would be like night and day in difference. It was quite frustrating before even if you weren’t trying to run through the map (pull, stun, etc like 3 times in a row, etc.). But Orr is meant to be a pretty dangerous area so I can’t really complain; especially compared to before.

I personally run with cleanses and stun breakers regularly so most CC is not an issue. And I think most classes have abilities that can deal with these issues. I’d say if you are planning on running through an area rather then fighting, just switch up your skills to useful deterrents. Heck even pets and summons are great aggro deterrents if you are wanting to run through populated areas.

I understand your distaste for CC. As in other MMOs it can be even more frustrating. But GW2 offers some acceptable ways to deal. Besides unless you aggro’d a massive amount of stuff, its easier to just stop and kill them if you get stuck.

I think the present is more useful this time; mostly the blaster has a use as opposed to 6+ Queen Jennahs. Booster was always welcome, skill point scroll is fine. But another 20 scroll is just meh. Overall, it didn’t exceed my expectations (which were set pretty low since last year) but it was a little better then last year in my eyes.

I do think the vendor has a greater purpose surely. It would be nice if there was an anniversary mini-event/celebration just for the sake of it. Doesn’t have to be some glamorous thing, just an acknowledgement in game and maybe some activities/boosts. I guess you could count the gem store sale, but that doesn’t really stand out more then usual.

Pretty much the way I see it. The dragon we saw in the dream was just a representation of a dragon. Not necessarily a specific one.

As for it being nature form, same with the hounds, it could be the only way the dream can represent figures: in a nature-like form.

I think when we are given our wyld hunt, it is just assumed that our vision is that of Zhaitan. But personally I think the dream meant dragons as a whole, not necessarily a specific one. It was assumed Zhaitan because he was a known threat at the moment.

But you can push all that aside if you think the writers written that much story in advance. Which is quite possible. So the dragon and everything was intended to be Modremoth from the start. It’s also possible we haven’t heard what the missing piece of this possible puzzle is yet. Obviously mother Pale Tree has more attachment to Modrem as suspected by players.

Takarazuka.3025:

Not sure… I always thought the “birthday gift” was for when you first started playing. Not for the birthday of the character itself. The text for the it says:

Congratulations! It’s the anniversary of your account activation, and in recognition of your last year of heroic deeds in Tyria, here is a gift from us to you. Thanks for playing Guild Wars 2!

So… anniversary of account activation or anniversary of character creation? I thought I had it all figured out and now I am confused ha!

Yeah its a poorly worded mail. Pretty much you get one for every characters “birthday.” So it goes by individual dates of character creation rather then account creation.

I wonder if they fixed the issue with last year and the headstart chars that didn’t receive their gifts on time. My main was in that bunch, so curious if I’ll get it on time this year or a few days late again. As far as /age goes its all normal there.

I didn’t mind it too much at first. But yeah the dialogue should be considered if you want us to replay instances multiple times.

I had nothing against the party instance being replayable. I did it last of the 3 since it was no combat. While the dialogue between Kasmeer and Anise was long winded and could of been skipped imo.

The last instance is rough. Get a skipable custscene, but skipping that cutscene makes no difference at all practically. Still have to alt tab and wait like 5 minutes every time you want to restart. Then spam dialogue at the lectern. I did this instance over the course of three days because it was that annoying. :P

Out of the three re-playable ones. I think the instance with Taimi and the waypoint boss was the best of the three. Short dialogue. Pretty straight to combat. Not to mention get the achievements without waiting for the instance to complete.

The pods are pretty interesting. And if you stay out of the middle you can usually safely get the buff to kill them. I couldn’t kill the boss without wiping out all the pods.

But once you get through every stage it becomes easier. That thresher is dangerous though.

I had fun doing this achieve though. ..talk about being on the move. xD

Pod thing was confusing at first in Challenge mode but once you understand that no issues there (Died once in challenge mode cause I fire evaded off the edge of the chamber T_T).

The telegraphs are very easy and the jump thing is almost impossible to miss. Not to mention the party below will tell you what side the dragon may attack on.

I can understand you may not be used to such a fight. But it is a pretty basic boss fight. Easier then the statue fight in the last chapter imo.

Just get some practice and go at it again…the fight isn’t going anywhere, nor are the achievements. Good time to learn something as any.

There should be more options on an item like this, no doubt. Its just the nice thing to do for a game that has a wide array of activities.

Granted doing 5 beginner fractals everyday for a chest with a pristine relic in it isn’t too hard. It’s definitely not an activity I enjoy to do.

I’d gladly throw some WvW badges or Laurels or some other currency, or way to accrue the item. I just think options are always nice when it comes to something like this.

The scavenging up to this point is pretty fun; aside from Firefox shards. But thats one hard item to gather compared to others I already had laying around.

It’s not just dungeon runners that are drowning in Bloodstone Dust after all. :P

Not impossible but it has the same drop rate as the skins I guess. I’ve gotten quite a few fossils and two skins, no kite yet though. Least I can buy it if I ever want to give up.

nassaya.7109:

i saw this thread so i’ll ask here i had 200 chops and 1 cluster. Is this normal or just bad luck? i willing to work for my stuff but it feels out of wack the amout that i got after 200 chops.

Cheers,
Nassaya.

My luck seems to reflect that pretty well. And have not seen it get any better yet.

I’ve resorted to camping a character in Orr since I’m sick and don’t feel like actively playing hard atm. And my luck is still no better. Random is really random. I’ve gotten 9 firefox clusters since patch, farming at least 200 logs a day, usually 300. I’m in no rush but I can’t help but feel it seems off compared to others luck.

MayhemMenos.9120:

Hi, I seem not to be able to get to the waypoint. I am stuck at dry top in the Prospect Valley. Where should I go?

Did you do Episode 2? Been seeing people ask this question a lot lately. So I’m guessing a large amount have missed that episode and it makes it not so obvious.

There is a open house on the right side of the Town of Prosperity, go down the stairs and through the basement and it brings you to the second area. Then just make your way through the rest of the desert to where you need to go.

Overall it seems if you are not playing at peak times its pretty hard to roll anything past tier 3. Just people seem scarce or less interested in trying to reach higher tiers. While its not necessarily an issue at the moment, it could be an issue if you only can play at strange times. :/

If in the long run (years from now really or months) it becomes a scarce map to persist on. I hope they’ll change the merchants accordingly or make the tier system work slower or something where it doesn’t degrade every hour.

I really enjoy the map and the event system. But I know a lot of people get sick of repetition and “farming” so I can’t see it being a hot spot for very long past its usefulness has gone for most.

In my experience I was able to turn Scruffy onto Defensive before clicking the chest over where it spawns and was able to snipe it from the cliff without it ever aggroing me since Scruffy seems to be amazing at attracting aggro.

Of course this is not very good with D/D. But Earth Ele always saves some time too if you need another tank while you heal and get refocused on the fight. And Fire Ele powder if needed for more dps.

Them wolves are evil as melee though. I learned my lesson early on in LS to not run just melee weapons on those guys.

Is it just me or the Iron March sample event still not working properly?

Sure it spawns, but there is no enemy spawns in order to get coated to collect samples.

Edit: Seems to work now. Guess it had to fail so many times for stuff to start spawning.

I’ve gone through 367 Elder Wood logs now. Haven’t seen one. I’m convinced RNG hates me.

But honestly I’m not too upset about it. Sure I’d love to finish the backpiece. But I still have a week on making the foodstuffs and at the same time its a permanent drop from the high tier tree nodes so its not too terrible I suppose…

Yeah this is the last event I need too. It was initially the one that was always broken. After the patch it seems it just doesn’t reset after it succeeds once (hence why the Ash legion charr is there as well). And they just progress anyone that comes through so the event never has the chance to spawn.

Hopefully they fix it tomorrow.

Well it worked after I relogged. But the event at the sample place never spawns. And the ash legion scout is always there to just progress the story. So 4/5 on Events in Iron March.

Edit: Well entire Frostgorge chain went smoothly in one go for me. Which was a welcome relief compared to the mess that is still glitchy for me in Iron March.

6 characters
3 are 80
1 is 100% complete.

I have a hard time having the mindset to do anything on an alt. The reason I managed to get two more to 80 is because I went out of my way to get exp from like daily achieves/those exp scrolls. So they have very little map completion at all.

I wouldn’t say its worth to rush through crafting it/leveling profs for it. Unless you are running high level fractals.

Ascended jewelry/accessories and in some cases back items are easy enough to get. Weapons would be the first priority over anything crafting wise.

But I’d just take it slow and do it as the items come. I don’t forsee anything taking Ascended’s place soon (if ever). So no need to rush or worry.

And overall I don’t think you’d see a noticeable difference between exotic/ascended. Maybe in some areas, but it feels like the difference is mostly on paper rather then raw stats.

As a long-term goal I think its a good thing. Between the range of like making a Legendary. Since Ascended armor been released, I only have almost 3 pieces. Just been making it as I get the stuff. Lack of silk always holds me back. And besides the last living world story gave a free Lesser Vision Crystal, and I was pretty stoked about that. Saved me a lot of time. So maybe in the future we might see as generous rewards to help the patient. :P

I want to get into the system. But overall it does feel worse off. Not only am I getting placed in other megaserver instances than my friends and usual boss runners. Or I s how up to a boss at specific time on the schedule and its already finished or something. But now I’m finding it very hard to do bosses in general. :/ I definitely preferred the boss train compared to this.

I thought the Americas AM times might have more people for bosses since Megaservers. But its still pretty dead at that time as well. And it seems harder to be in the right spot now for what boss everyone is doing. :/

There are some timers showing up on Reddit and such. But I think its just a way of trying to funnel people into the same spots at certain times. Which so far I haven’t seen working. We’ll see tonight I guess.

And the “big” boss timers are absolutely atrocious. I’m glad you tried to make it suck less with potential guild spawn. But I think that has just further complicated the issue at hand.

You pretty much hit my thought process on the head.

I’ve always ran Soldier/Zerk & all zerk accessories. I do run Scholar Runes still at the moment. And Sigils wise using Battle + Bloodlust and notice no difference from before the patch.

Rune of Strength sounds intriguing and I did buy up a set of them pre-patch in case I felt that Scholar runes were not as good. But at the moment it feels very much the same to me. :/

Really the only thing that has affected my build is that I can’t take a Master trait and put it in an Adept slot anymore. Making Water tier a little lackluster for my build at the moment.

Still seems to be occuring for me after updating drivers again recently (totally uninstalled and cleaned and reinstalled them).

Some alarming bugs in Divinties Reach. Its not all the time, and changing the camera angle makes it go away.

Still over this past month or so been playing plenty of other games with no issues that I could see. So it definitely seems to be GW2 only for the time being.

Definitely looks like graphics card is potentially dying but I dunno. Not overheating or anything. Stress tests go fine and performance is great.

Video Card: Radeon R7 260x
Processor: i7 2600k @ 3.40GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte z68AP-D3
8 GB RAM

Edit: Added some more screenshots of issue. This time in Lion’s Arch. 4/16

Edit 2: As of May 25th 2014 I haven’t noticed the issue anymore. I did another clean install of the current drivers (used the AMD clean uninstall tool before reinstalling new drivers). And haven’t noticed the issue as of 2 days now. The most common cause of the graphical issues was Twilight/Sunrise/Eternity. But I haven’t seen it with the couple of ppl I’ve seen use them around me lately. Could be coincidence but I think its possible something was just seriously corrupted with my drivers that manually clean uninstall wasn’t catching.

Edit: June 7th. Seems I spoke too soon. Seems to have started up again. But not near as frequent.

Hmm, the T3 gloves used to have an issue with the texture turning white/red after swimming. Reported it over a year ago and it got fixed a couple of months later.

But seems it has decided to break again with something new. Very strange indeed. I don’t spend much time in/out of water lately so hadn’t noticed.

I guess this shows that Mini Magnus has a crap drop rate.

Only have gotten a endless green tonic. Which is probably my first “rare” drop from these events since launch. :S

A lot of the titles were unnecessarily grindy in GW1 imo. But with the way the game was set up in the long run it was beneficial to the game. It kept people playing for years, when most probably would play significantly less after finishing the campaigns/dungeons.

I do wish there was more titles in GW2, but hopefully it is something that will come in time. I was hoping the Living Story would implement a lot more titles then it has so far though. I guess they don’t give so many titles because they give us so many achievements to do instead. :S

Joopy.6547:

I used to get headaches from eye fatigue playing games on a monitor. After an hour I could really feel it.
Many people mentioned to buy Gunnar Optics but I don’t want to spend money on those and I hate wearing things on my face!
I found a free program called f.lux which adjusts the colour of your monitor depending on the time of day. Ever since I started using it I don’t suffer from headaches or eye fatigue any more.

I don’t want to post links as I do not know if it’s part of the forum conduct but google is your friend

I have to second Flux as quite a great program for free. I have used it for over a year now and my eye strain/headaches from extensive computer time has gone down significantly.

While resting the eyes is still very benefiicial, this program definitely cuts down on the glare that you get, especially at night. It might be a little strange at first, but you get used to it quickly.

As for having headaches from LA event, I can’t say it feels any worse then usual for me. It is VERY red, for sure. And I think the red/darker atmosphere plays up the effects on all the spells going off. Which could put out more glare to strain your eyes.

Either that or just take more frequent breaks and close your eyes when you can during the 10~ min down time.

By the regular schedule till March 4th.

Yeah it has some sparkles, but it is definitely transparent for me. Could of swore in some screenshots I’ve seen it looked more gold. But it is definitely dependent on the map/lighting of the area you are at.

Hopefully they look into this, as well as fixing the potions for asuras/afrosuras.

The exp is good if you can get the kill credit. Similar to the way Queen’s Jubliee worked.

Pretty much as a undergeared/low level player I feel you benefit better by joining a party and sticking with them. Since you have more people doing damage for you, you aren’t losing out on a lot (exp and loot wise). Because otherwise you are just struggling for enough damage usually. Also, if you have a character that does lots of AoE damage to get tags you can benefit as well.

I noticed this as well. I thought it was maybe my mouse double clicking, but it does indeed get stuck until you click a blank spot. Kind of annoying, but not unmanageable I guess.

Tome of Knowledge was a easy choice for me. Got my third alt to level 80. Quite thankful to see the tomes in PvE cause I never had enough glory earned to buy any in PvP.

I did buy the Ascended recipe too, just in case. But nothing else was really needed, as I still have a ton of Obsidian shards from karma.

Well if you want them, you can farm for the selfless/thoughtless tonics for 250 heirloom pieces. Can farm the rubble piles daily or spend a lot of time doing the events for the group bonus bags.

Other then that, either for money and entertainment I dunno what else you can do it for. I always see overall that LS content is something new to do in addition to the normal routine. /shrug

Ferguson’s Crossing has been bugged all day. The Group complete event pops up, but no bag is rewarded.

Miasma counter is always max as well despite the time. The counter for civilians does seem to reset though.

It seems with this and Lawson you really have to make sure you kill a veteran or two. And even if you get the exp it might not even be enough to give credit for the event.

Doesn’t help that the npcs just continue to run so its very hard to get credit if you want them to live.

Best I’ve found is just focus on killing the first group so you can get some potential credit. But it took me 5 times to finally get credit. The more people the more you are fighting for some credit it feels.

Good luck.

I am also curious if these are permanent or not. I kind of assume they are permanent because 250 heirlooms is pretty time consuming, and it is a account bound item.

Still I would think they would put if it was permanent on the item description.

After rolling back drivers I haven’t run into the glitch yet today; hopefully I haven’t spoke too soon.

I did also follow your device and disabled those services.

I know not everyone can go with rolling back drivers or using older drivers in general. Since some games are stingy. So hopefully AMD/ANet can figure this out.

My first experience with it was kind of crazy. Since it seemed to trigger a lot for me off of effects the first time it trigger was in LA event, and someone used the super adventure box nuke finisher. All that white and red made for a crazy light show of infinitely stretched effects. I eventually alt tabbed for a second or two to look at my temps and things. But when I tabbed back in it was fine. Second time was effect of my chars Fervid censor, I had an infinitely stretching white/yellow line coming off her back. But it cleared itself up in like 10 seconds.

I did put in a survey for the driver. So hopefully we aren’t alone.

Just started having this today. I did update my drivers recently, as I hadn’t updated them at all since installing card so I was behind. But now I get the weird glitchiness.

Have had this card since November with no issues up till today. Being the first day I played GW2 with the new drivers.

First thing I did was look for overheating, cause mine looked alarmingly like a dying video card since the aspects that were glitching had red behind them. But it cleared up fine for a while. Till I noticed it on a couple other effects in-game that wasn’t red.

Considering rolling back the drivers to see if that changes anything.

Priceless. Thanks for the laughs. xD

I’m with FlamingFoxx here, I don’t think we’ll see the puzzles go away.

They may just become harder to get to then they are now. It seems to be a waste to just get rid of them.

Definitely cool looking. Would like to see some longer more “formal”-esque hairstyles anyways.

I always imagine caster characters wearing more formal hairstyles to go with their clothing. So I don’t see why that shouldn’t extend to Sylvari as well in their own way. :P

P.S. I wonder how much effort that took to do IRL. And lots of hairspray I imagine. xD

I’m sure any Sylvari player will agree with the drastic need for new Sylvari armor. There is roughly 3 sets for each armor type. Not much to play with there.

I know they need to keep putting out stuff that all races can use. But I’d love to see some new options eventually. :/ With the range of possibilities I think it would be hard to fail to deliver if the option ever arrives.

But yeah, even so it might not even need to be full sets but more pieces. Like the toxic spore shoulders/gloves were within the range of possibilities.

To be honest no. After experiencing the game without subs. I could never justify paying for subs for a game anymore.

Sometimes I work a lot and have no energy/time to play for days, if it was like the old pay-sub days I’d feel terrible to only play like 3 days out of the month I paid for. Thats also a reason I supremely enjoyed a hourly subscription fee that my first MMO had, sadly they got rid of it after quite a few years.

I feel much better knowing I can experience the game at any moment without having a paywall blocking me, or wasting my money because I don’t know how hectic work is going to be a month in advance.

I have nothing against their relationship, its really nothing surprising or new. We’ve had foreshadowing of it loosely for a long time.

As far as anything bad happening, its possible. I hope they don’t kill one of them off, but its likely to happen. Or at least they get separated/one is missing for a time to help fuel the story line.

Either way, I’m just glad to see more character and story to these people we’ve been helping for a while. I’ll be glad to see more about Rox, etc in the future too.

I get an error saying the game servers cant log me in and says its a firewall issue. Really strange error for me. When trying to portal/use the UI to get into the EoTM that is.

Yeah started seeing this last night. When I had done lane 5 before but never seen.

The champs would just teleport over the barricade, or at least that is what it looks like. Just instantly on the other side of the barricade. Quite strange.

Was a ANet person on our lane when it was happening, so maybe he made note of it.

I think just that the large majority has died off and doesn’t participate often. Especially after they do it their one time a day. On my server its not uncommon that we have to just stack the first lane, or first and second because not enough people to clear it all out.

I think the people that have experienced it a lot have gave up or guest to more populated servers. So a lot of people you run into is new to it, at least in my case.

Haven’t seen a overflow in a 3 days now coming in at peak times. :S

Its a shame though, because I really like the fight. And do think it brings the community together. But people are impatient and its easy to get upset when you constantly fail on lane 2 forever. >.>