Guild Wars 2

Its an hour duration. And they persist through log out (timer doesn’t go down) like food and other item buffs do.

Vyniea.2054:

They both have a lot of potentials and are already quite fun, but both need serious balancing.

So yeah, lots of potential, but lots of balancing to do too.

I will agree with this.

I almost prefer being a ghost in the survival game just because a) you are unkillable b) can still get points (kills, and scavenging orbs) c) you get to summon a karka; compared to being a regular survivor.

I think they take getting used to and learning somewhat to make them enjoyable. I quite disliked the Aspect Arena at first, but now its not so bad. I had mixed feelings about the Southsun Survival, but it grew on me as well (not sure if it grew on me enought to get 2500 pts in it, but yeah). Same goes with the Sanctum Sprint, I wasn’t sure how I felt about it at first, but then it turned into great fun.

I think adding so many achievements and making a majority of an event minigame based can kill the mini-game for a lot of people. Instead of people just playing for fun they are playing for other means which keeps tension and emotions high.

Out of the 15 races I got two. I was pleasantly surprised, because I didn’t see them go into my inventory after opening the boxes.

I thought it was a bit much at first too. But I guess it won’t take too long. After 15 runs I have like 500~. So 2500 is plausible, but still seems extensive. Don’t really need to complete it for the meta obviously though. Just there when you done with everything else and need something to do imo.

I average about 30-50 points when I don’t bother too hard. I got 110 for winning once though (was my crazy headshot achievement run, lol). O.o

I did it as a Staff Ele and it wasn’t so bad (30 water, and evasive arcana does help though I suppose for those extra heals). Tier 1 and 2 at least. I ahve survived Tier 3 as well but it was kind of rough. Haven’t tried 4 yet.

Honestly the grenades are amazing though. I find it hard to find time to get the mine except maybe once or twice. Flamethrower isn’t so bad.

But at the end, forget trying to kill or defend, just do your best to stay alive. There is enough treasure that you can’t get overrun that way if you don’t die.

But oh boy they need to make it where you know what difficulty you are on and changing it to. Its also annoying its unlocked for both. I started the other factions run at tier 3 on accident. >.< That was rough, and pointless to win since I didn’t have the achievement unlocked.

Edit: On a tier 2 run I did get a random “Veteran” that was literally his name (on Gnashblade one). And he did like mass confusion for no reason. :S Not sure if it bugged on me but never saw him before. Just usually the mortars

TheDaiBish.9735:

I think Cleansing Fire used to be a Breaker, but it was removed when they were shuffling around what skills had Breakers.

I believe you are right. That seems to be what I remember as well.

Interesting. So Cleansing Fire was never intended as a stun breaker? Could of swore it said that on the tooltip but Wiki says otherwise.

Looking forward to the mini-games. Just hope the drop rate on the backs isn’t totally bad…or if it is they are at least sellable.

Getting rid of the BL boxes key drop seemed a little strange. But I guess in reality the ticket system is superior. If you are opening a lot of boxes.

Araris.7839:

L2P, I don’t think I’ve ever been taken down by a meteor storm lol. 1 dodge = safety. So difficult, how will we manage?

As an Elementalist the amount of people I always killed in WvW with a Meteor Shower always dumbfounded me. I know its easy to get caught up in the moment and not pay attention to the area affects but it is delayed enough as it is.

Now if you compare it to GW1 Meteor Shower I’ll take crap damage and stuff for the knockdown of old. :x I’m sure there will be some people not willing to move out of that either. :x

I have also heard that changing maps/zones while having a full mailbox could cause the hint to pop-up if you don’t get it from other reasons. Though I have also heard it can take a lot of changing maps, or just one time, depending if you are lucky. :/

DevilFabio.9136:

Katreyn.4218:

DevilFabio.9136:

I think it’s bugged somehow… I can’t complete the hints because i don’t get the broken armor one… I died like 20 times, i broke the entire armor and still didn’t get it.

Glad to see I’m not the only one I guess.

But yeah having trouble with the armor one (thought I had to fully break an entire set of armor to red, but never seen a popup) and as far as finishing opponents I’ve never gotten the pop-up in pvp or WvW despite how many people I’ve finished.

Just a nuisance now cause the little achievement window is all “hai you are missing 2 tasks for this” lol

Edit: Okay, after messing around in the mists area and sparring iwth npcs it finally counted for me. The popup finally happened and I had to click to close it and then it registered. First time it popped I didn’t close it so it didn’t count.
Now to try the broken gear one :x

let me know if you find the way to complete that one

Yep still trying myself. Have done every suggestion I’ve seen: un-equipping/re-equipping broken gear (have heard it can take a lot of tries to get this), talking to repair npc while equipment broken, tried on various characters. Only thing I haven’t done is make a brand new alt and try it, because I can’t afford to buy more character slots/delete an alt at the moment, so I dunno how that works out. :/

Really stumped on this one. lol. Only thing I can think of is that over the course of playing for the past 7 months I’ve gotten the pop-up but never clicked it away so I never got credit…that or its just super broken.

Edit: Was finally able to do this with a low level alt (I even previously tried this on this character). I ended up chain dying in a story instance on purpose so I broke a piece of gear then unequipped and requiped and it worked fine with the popup. Weird thing.

Now to get stupid mail hint that never works.

VOLKON.1290:

You know… I have to admit… I’m tempted like never before to go into sPvP just to try on the different skins I’ve been getting.

And you know what else… that’s freakin’ brilliant of ANet. Absolutely brilliant. Well played indeed.

I go in there to change them and I don’t spvp. Since all the mini-games have been using the pvp outfits lately I decided I’d change it up a bit (though I get like almost no light armor drops from the chests :P).

There is some luck of the draw included in him I think. Intended or not, I dunno. I managed to beat him my first time using the usual method that a lot of people post and is on Dulfy (No silly food buffs/boosters here – didn’t even know about it till after I finished him).

It was also the game I got the achievement for winning by one drink. I was pretty much dead, but low health belch is op.

I tried him again after that though, after I saw so many people complaining about him (this was before the initial “fix”) and I lost the first time, using the same exact method as when I beat him. /shrug

Yeah, I was quite surprised the amount of stuff you got as well. And even the Experience Scroll I was all O.O (nevermind a free makeover kit). All in all, all the achievement rewards have been very nice and rewarding feeling. I cannot complain about them at all.

Just my opinion, but honestly everything sounded really good to me. And gave me hope that GW2 will not fall into the abyss that other MMOs go.

Magic Find – always hated it on gear. Used it as consumables. Glad to see them use it in another way. Its a very odd stat to have in an MMO imo.

Ascended gear/weapons – knew it was coming, was a little skeptical and still a little worried it will be very hard to craft. BUT it may be the last of all the gear progression we will see. At least that is the way they made it sound (Honestly hope legendary gear isn’t after this, but who knows, if it is at least I know thats the last of the last :P). Wonder if it means we can get Ascended backs through crafting or otherwise then. :P

Crafting – Timed stuff doesn’t really bother me. But it is a shame they are resorting to time gating things. But as this game works its not such a huge deal to me. New tier of crafting is nice though. Crafting feels quite dead to me otherwise with ascended lingering around.

Legendaries – The being able to swap stats on it is an amazing idea.

Traits/Skills – Rather see this then new levels to be honest. Just curious how the unlocking will go. If there will be multiple ways to unlock a skill/trait or am I pigeonholed into doing something I don’t want to do (ie. Dungeons/PvP) to get it. Overall, looking forward to seeing more on this.

Dungeons stuff/Champions upgrade/Reward system – Needed.

All the PvP stuff I’ll just leave to more avid PvPers though. xD

Overall, pleased with what I read. What comes out of it we will see.

Coldin.2840:

It’s probably a good thing that a couple of the catchers are a bit more subdued. I’ve been running the Wind Catcher for the last day, and while it was neat at first, I’m starting to feel a bit visually fatigued.

I agree, I’m glad they are different varieties of how strong the animations are.

Not to mention I made this potential disaster to my eyes (all these skins I get gotta go somewhere right? :x):

(There’s a Wind Catcher there, I just suck at timing)

Should be fun. But imagine some degree of karka’s barrel rolling will be involved.

Lex Blackfire.5284:

If you just want the AP, then let it be. You will need much longer for the 500 AP in the HotM as in GW2 for 5000 AP.
Seriously, you need to do almost everything in the game. And there is a lot to do o.O

Pretty much. You could finish the main quests and maybe some other stuff and easily get to 20~ points + in a month or two if you really try.

I do imagine it will be a lot harder now then before GW2 launched. Unless you find people on the GW2 forums willing to help you out with money or items getting a lot of the achievements are very time consuming.

I’d say you are better off just playing GW2 and enjoying yourself then trying to trudge through a game just for achievements.

I don’t use it. Have seen some use it though. Well usually that same one or two people that come first.

Wish I had knew about it before when I was racing to first though, not that I would of used it then either. I just couldn’t understand how people would just get there so quickly even if they were behind me. And not by light travel thing.

Luckily it seems its still a rare few that use it in my experince. But it definitely does not seem intended at all. Most likely an oversight with the way the skills and the level is designed. Just doesn’t seem right to get to the “finish” area before actually crossing the line. But considering it hasn’t been fixed yet I doubt it matters at this point to ANet.

I still seem to easily get first (or get to the finish line first) or otherwise in most races I’ve done lately. Like I said, I still haven’t come across a lot that use it. So getting first even with people doing it, it is still possible, assuming everyone doesn’t use it either.

BaronSolace.6831:

Katreyn.4218:

Though I bet the rucksack is just a reskinned version of the toy bag from christmas. :x lol Hopefully not.

Nope

Wow, thats actually kind of cool.

Looks like the vine/plant part is a lot darker then the southsun cove one. :x I might have to toss in my glowy flower for this, it will probably match my Sylvari better with her grass dye (has red tints in it). But yay for RNG potentially? :/

It’s a shame is a total reskin, but honestly people have been wanting another chance at a flower/nature themed item.

Though I bet the rucksack is just a reskinned version of the toy bag from christmas. :x lol Hopefully not.

I usually have to fully restart the client aswell.

It is terribly annoying. I’ll be chain selling stuff or just browsing the trading post or gem store and close it out for a second. Next time I open it is broken and nothing shows up.

I don’t see my gem count, items I’m selling/buying, cannot interact with any items on the trading post. So same as you.

Can’t really say when it truly started happening. It became much more frequent/noticable starting with the Aetherblade stuff in June. I don’t recall it happening at all during the Southsun event.

Yasi.9065:

Oh god, please not more Boxes

Oh yeah. People drop them all by bank npcs and trading post crap so you can accidentally use them instead of quickly talking to the npc. >.< So annoying.

I appreciate the gesture, but most people just want to trash them because its more wasted inventory space. :/

Amadan.9451:

you say doesnì’t feel like a real mage… who said that “real” mages uses casting times when they perform magics? i always imagined “real” mages to be that powerful that they can perform magic with no words or stupid ingredients, they are just magic vessels. and there is no real reason for them to stand still while doing so

This is how I always imagined it too.

I understand what the OP means but I don’t think it applies to every game/fantasy world. Different worlds (games) have different means of magic. And that goes for more then just magic, but the application of science and other things that has been added in slowly over the years. Fantasy is not so simple anymore.

Is it real money for gems for the time frame? Guessing so. Haven’t spent real money on gems in a while. Hopefully they go for sale soon.

I saw a ANet employee running around with a kite in game, thought i was tripping balls. xD

Edit: yeah purchases http://dulfy.net/2013/07/16/gw2-gemstore-kites/

Hum, maybe I should go back to my monthly gem buying. lol.

Kain Francois.4328:

Some people like the more conservative effects of the Sun Catcher, and the Lightning Catcher seems like a fine “in-between”.

Seems balanced to me.

Yeah this is what I thought. I think all 3 are nice. I want the wind one cause it matches my guardian, but I’m afraid the wind effect with bother me after a while. Still hunting catcher through races though. xD

Doesn’t seem to work for me either. I’ve tried PvP and WvW and done a totally clean finish and haven’t seen the popup. I did the tutorial for PvP long ago but got nothing.

Haven’t ever gotten the pop-up for the armor repair either. I’ve tried totally breaking all my gear to red and nothing.

Edit: Okay, after messing around in the mists area and sparring iwth npcs it finally counted for me. The popup finally happened and I had to click to close it and then it registered. First time it popped I didn’t close it so it didn’t count.

Now to try the broken gear one :x

DevilFabio.9136:

I think it’s bugged somehow… I can’t complete the hints because i don’t get the broken armor one… I died like 20 times, i broke the entire armor and still didn’t get it.

Glad to see I’m not the only one I guess.

But yeah having trouble with the armor one (thought I had to fully break an entire set of armor to red, but never seen a popup) and as far as finishing opponents I’ve never gotten the pop-up in pvp or WvW despite how many people I’ve finished.

Just a nuisance now cause the little achievement window is all “hai you are missing 2 tasks for this” lol

Edit: Okay, after messing around in the mists area and sparring iwth npcs it finally counted for me. The popup finally happened and I had to click to close it and then it registered. First time it popped I didn’t close it so it didn’t count.
Now to try the broken gear one :x

I’ve had the hardest time with Thief, heck even melee Warrior I have a bit of a rough time.

I’m better with ranged stuff. Always have been. So I don’t find Ele or Mesmer very hard. Ele was probably the easiest for me, just because of the variety of skills. Mesmer is a little harder then Ele, takes a bit to get used to how to use your skills effectively though.

Guardian is not so bad, its pretty hard to suck at Guardian totally I think. They have a lot of great surviviability and skills.

I can’t say I feel sure that Necro may be easy or hard. I have leveled a Necro to 51 and I’m still mixed feelings about it.

Make sure you target all the merchants. I couldn’t get it a couple times and it turned out that I was talking to the same npc twice due to them being close together and I was just hitting F without selecting all the seperate ones.

Now if you have done this and still haven’t completed it though then I don’t know what to tell you.

I was having a conversation with a guy one race about this. I told him I didn’t see any correlation between the two but he still persisted to think it was first place that gave a better chance since his friend got a skin the second time he was first place.

I haven’t heard from friends or seen any drop myself after 70~ races so I think its just purely random. But my RNG luck is pretty bad.

Khisanth.2948:

Oh … I think the hammer, mace and axe really missed the mark. The looks do not seem like they fit those weapons very well. Too much of their identify is lost.

This is quite true. I saw someone holding the “hammer” yesterday. At first glance it looked like the staff, he was just holding it with the wrong animation. :/ Of course it was a hammer, somehow..

I think the skins are pretty good looking. Not really fitting for my main, but look ok on my guardian (mostly just needed a torch to match my silly princess wand :x). Overall, I still prefer the warden staff/trident for my elementalist. Though my alts can’t say no to free skins. :P

I never started working on a legendary for my main really. Mostly if I got stuff great, but it ususually ended up being sold whenever. Bifrost is of no interest to my elementalist. It clashes so bad with her. You’d think something made of rainbows would go with anything, that doesn’t seem to be the case. :P

I’d rather use a cheap/common skin that looks good with my character then some rare skin that doesn’t get the desired look. Just my opinion.

I throw myself off ledges or try new paths to prevent myself from getting first. :x Somehow I get in the top 3 still most of the time, unless I really get knocked around.

Pretty much once you memorize it and muscle memory kicks in its hard to fight it. I just embrace people slaughtering me with lightning mid-jumps. Always hilarious to me :x

I’d rather purposely make myself place lower then to stand at the finish line and let someone pass me. I think it takes the joy away from them.

I guess the “best” way to do this is if they had a choice between PvE box and PvP. I don’t mind getting the PvP stuff as I need the tokens. :x As for the rest of it I may use it one day, never know.

But in reality everyone could use the general boosters and things, so there really is no difference other then the gear box and tokens in terms of what would classify it as a PvP box or PvE box.

I’m just glad to get free goodies. I can’t complain.

Rey.3261:

http://www.gw2db.com/search?search=kite

:O

Hopefully they aren’t one use items.

Yeah I’ve gotten them from the home node the past 3 days. :S (The 3 normal + 1 charged you got)

Also got it from Sprint chest pretty often as well. Don’t recall getting them from the Labyrinthine ones though.

I’m sure we’ll see it again. If not the molten pick in itself, it’ll be the same idea with a different animation as the LS progresses. Might be a couple months though just because they just finished up selling these.

But then again, they may sell them next week. Never know with ANet. ;P

When I got the achievement I never got the pop up for it. I think it took the timer on the race to finish for it to register though. As I didn’t get it immediately as I crossed the finish line like the top 3 one. But when I looked in the achievement menu it showed up.

But yeah 175 is the “top score.” So it may be more likely there was someone in front of you that got first and left. But I thought that it still showed their names in the score list though.

Strange though if there was literally no one in front of you it looks like it might of bugged.

After reading some of the “tips” in this thread. I will say I finally got first after like 40+ races. Pretty much what I was doing wrong was I never really noticed the emblems on the pickup bags. :x after I was able to distinguish the two (I assumed it was just random for some silly reason) I was able to easily get the buffs I need to pull myself to the front.

Mostly just spammed grounded when going for jumping parts for the rest of the race after that. And the occasional bad pick up. But 90% of the defensive bags just give you grounded it seems, which isn’t a bad thing.

That and my strange connection issues seemed to clear up. Despite having huge lag spikes everywhere last night.

Been letting people get in the top 3 instead of me now though.

JustTrogdor.7892:

I’ll never get this achievement unless I try in the middle of the night and get lucky to race myself. I’m terrible at such things. 5 races 5 last places. So bad I never even finished and got kicked for taking too much time. LOL

Yeah I’ve considered this tactic. But so far no change in the amount of people depending on time. :P Maybe later in the event it will die down.

Zenon.4328:

A few tips:

- Watch which bag you run over, the 2 bag types look different, 1 is for offensive skills and the other is for defensive skills.
- Keep the “Grounded” skill (#6, defensive) at hand and activate it before jumps or when you see the lightning animation starts above your character head, that skill will protect you from the next attack within a time frame.

If you happen to get in a race with me, when I get to the finish line first, I wait for someone to cross the line first since I already got the achievement and there is not much difference in chest reward no matter the race placement. I met other people who do this as well. During one race, two other person and I were waiting just before the finish line for the next person to cross, lol

I wish people were as considerate at this. I was placing 2nd for like 10 matches in a row, but the same 3 people kept beating me always. I was hoping one would be nice and kind of lay back after they won once, but nope, doesn’t happen. lol

I also found grounded helps block the knockback from fake pick-ups. But it is best to save it for jumps. People spamming lighting in jump phases is so bad lol.

I also say RNG has some factor. I always found if I don’t get the aspect buff in the first two or three power up places then there is no way you are going to be first since you don’t get that super long sun travel to blow past everyone. >.<

Kapina.9012:

I loved this whole mini-game….until I was against Adnul. You must be lucky with your bluffing and with his abilities to win him.

Tips I can give:
-Always start with ability #4.
-Try to keep your health up till he reaches 60% health or so.
-Use the special ability you get from the guy in the Grove (the one that reduces damage from 3 drinks.)
-Use the special ability when you have no other way to avoid his special ability, and try to make it so you use abilities #3 and #4 when his special is up.
-Always bluff when his special ability isn’t up. This is the part that requires luck, if you are unlucky, he’ll call your bluff and then instantly use his special, which means you are pretty much done for.

The good thing is, the last opponent is easier than he is.

Pretty much what I did and it worked like a charm. Beat him my first time. Thanks for the tips. Bluffing constantly when his signature is down was the key for me. That and using belch every chance I got. It was a close tie at the end, but that powerful low health belch took him out.

And yeah the “grandmaster” was a chump. Easier then Maggie was for me. xD

Now to find players willing to chain farm 50 games with me. >.<

I think a lot of them work well. The twigs are definitely probably the most interesting to me, but I can’t seem to make a character it “fits” for, though I have seen a lot on others that look very nice (I especially like it on males). And the ponytail and bobs look great too. It all depends on the sylvari. Honestly if I was going to say the “best” was in terms of fitting with the race I really think the one Bruno posted works great for females of any class and design.

Oddly enough I don’t use any of them. xD I use Caithe’s hairstyle. Just because I enjoyed the way it dyed and glowed. It can either look leafy or flowery depending (mine looks leafy).

I only did the required 30 (2x bags each).

Mostly Quartz. But I did get one celestial recipe. Got two fortunes (5 scraps) from killing mobs around them though. Haven’t seen any fortunes drop since though.

I will agree that in general the drop rate of fortunes are not at all like the coffers were. Which is kind of disappointing. But there is a handful of ways to get the skins and recipes so I guess its not a huge deal.

Baskets in general feel harder to farm anyways. Not as many on a map. And the ones you already visited show up on the map. So chances are you’ll have to change zones frequently instead of staying in one zone(may be what they were trying to do). Not to mention the daily timer is just kind of strange. Not like Quartz isn’t easy to come by. :/

I’ve ran about 40 races now and have gotten quite a few rares but no skins. I’d try a bit, especially if you are going after the crowd favorite achievement, and if you don’t want to run it anymore then buy one.

LkPr.5014:

Keep the crystals in an invisible pack if you have one. You only need to keep 1 stack on you and they will never be automatically deposited

Pretty much exactly what I did.

But I will admit I thought it was pretty inconvenient. But I guess its assumed that everyone has at least one invisible bag (the alternative of not being able to deposit collectibles is a bit more annoying then making/buying a bag imo, so I can’t complain). Still would be something nice.

Though, except for crafting tables the game doesn’t ever seem to recognize anything that is automatically in your storage that I can think of.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

We are also discussing this in this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/bazaar/Kiel-vs-Evon/first#post2383390

Frankly, my vote is on Evon. He seems like the kind of person that gets things done.

ANet one step ahead always. xD Should be interesting.

That would be a cool living story concept. Have a campaign and let the players vote for NPCs the staff has designed (propaganda and all). Though I don’t think the voting could run very long because it would hamper their ability to keep making content relating to the on-going story if they don’t know who will win.

Of course, not sure if council members are voted in and ANet may already have the story planned out for that. But it was a nice idea at least!

Canakun.8031:

The issue with lightning pull seems to appear in the open world too, though. Unless that’s how they designed it. But basically I always overshoot by what seems like a ridiculously long distance when trying to aim for very small platforms.

Yeah that is the one issue I had with lighting pull was initially in the open world. Just doing the scavenger hunt it happened a lot to me. I brought it up in another thread. But not many people mentioned it.

I just noticed it occuring more in the sprint as well. Thats when the issues with the speed became apparent. But in open world I had nothing on me that increased my speed that should cause an issue.

Hopefully ANet will look into the skill and see if they can make it a bit more accurate. Or at least tell us some scenarios that may be causing it to act up so.