Guild Wars 2

Kestin.2368:

Kestin.2368:

Bumping again. This is becoming increasingly problematic, not that it was okay before. Could somebody at least acknowledge that it’s in the lineup of things to be fixed?

I was grabbing some hidden rooms in 2-3 and had to backtrack to a certain spot a few times. The first time, I saw an infantile cloud, except it wasn’t happy and it wasn’t…uh, ejecting a rainbow through its…posterior. In fact, it seemed terrified, if such a thing is possible. It was standing under a flag of some sort, and it was waving its arms at me and shouting numerous speech bubbles filled with a repeated blurry image that looked kind of like a balloon. Unable to interact with it, I continued on my way, and it was still there the second time. The third time, however, all traces of it were gone. I thought it might have been taken by whatever it was trying to warn me about…

What was it that had that cloud so scared? Why was it there? What was it saying? Where did the flag go when the unspeakable forces of evil finally caught up to the cloud? Could I have saved it, if I’d only known what it was running from? Or would it have gotten me too?

(No, but seriously, what was that all about?)

…next time SAB rolls around? Due to the lack of an infinite continue coin back in April, I started out this time with only six bauble bubbles, and there’s no way I’ll be able to get 34 more by the end of September. Will I still be able to buy a Moto next time? (…please?)

I hate how whenever there’s a patch, we get the “your game will restart in X amount of time” message every fifteen seconds. I’ve never seen anyone else even mention this and I find it so annoying. I know the stereotype of gamers and attention spans, but come on…

Back in the days of yore, my friends and I used to run the Kol chain a lot. You might know that part where the wall crumbles so you can get through. Well, said friends told me that the “door” needed to be opened by a guardian. Hook, line, and sinker. For weeks, every time we did that event chain, I would dutifully run up to the wall and start hacking away at what was effectively thin air, until they finally put me out of my misery…

I had it happen when I wasn’t even doing the event. I closed one portal and then went to do my own thing. I didn’t know it was actually programmed in…I thought I was special

SirDrygan.1823:

5. Scarlet is actually Demmi Beetlestone!!! (The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree).

…that’s not funny…

I’m with the “they won’t really kill off such a significant character” camp. Even ignoring their attempts to keep consistency for those who haven’t yet finished the personal story, the consequences would be too far-reaching. Jennah is not only a world leader; she is also the main force keeping the humans and charr from killing each other (most of the time). Without her, the power vacuum would probably be filled by someone who opposes the truce (most likely Caudecus), and that would have to be dealt with posthaste before the resumed war between the humans and the charr leads both races to withdraw from the effort against the dragons, crippling said effort significantly — almost certainly to the point where they cannot win, and from there it’s only a matter of time until the end of the world as we know it (and I don’t think anyone would feel fine).

Suffice it to say, such an event would lead to a long, drawn-out, and inextricably human-centric plotline. And as interesting as it is to explore these kinds of possibilities, nobody really wants that to be everything for the next year and a half.

The Fadman.7058:

Kestin.2368:

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

It’s obvious that war were declared.

In AE 1326 war was beginning?

I… Actually get this reference.

Who doesn’t?

http://gw2-thoughts.tumblr.com/post/57213743309/all-your-tyria-are-belong-to-us

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

It’s obvious that war were declared.

In AE 1326 war was beginning?

PMilkos.9103:

My speculation is she will gather everyone in the pavilion, lock the doors and then command her army of robots to kill every human in the city. We will then try to save the people, she will be lethaly injured in the process and she will eventually die in Logan’s hands, with her memories muddied and asking if she did well…

No, I’m not joking. I don’t know why, but I’m getting some seriously strong Code Geass vibes on this one…

In his hands?

Does she get hit with an asura shrink ray during the battle or something?

All we know for certain is this: he’s hopelessly infatuated with her; she acts more neutral towards him; they aren’t together in any official capacity.

My opinion? If you ask me…well, there’s quite a bit I could say if you ask me. Suffice it to say we’re meant to believe it’s both mutual and genuine, but that’s too easy, and evidence just doesn’t support it. (I do have other thoughts about what the “truth” might be, but I don’t think launching into a full-length headcanon-based essay would be appropriate.)

Tanith.5264:

My top ten predictions:

1. “Thanks to the efforts of (insert NPC of your choice here), we have been able to secure a new trade agreement with the people of Cantha/Elona.”

2. “Logan and I are getting married, and you all are invited to the wedding feast. As the Watchknights have been proven to be somewhat unreliable, security will be provided by our new friends, the White Mantle.”

3. “We have learned the the Aetherblades actually come from a future Tyria which is ruled by—” And at this point she is assassinated.

4. “Your face is funny! Watch the ledges!!!” (Rambling and utterly drunk on skritt beer, her highness is led from the pavilion leaning on a very embarrased Rox.)

5. “CITIZENS! CITIZENS! CITIZENS!!!” (Those of you who remember the original Southsun Cove release will recognize this.)

6. “Zoija of Destiny’s Edge has unveiled what she considers to be the ultimate solution to the centaur problem. She calls it a glue factory…”

7. “All hail UberQuaggan!”

8. “I am pleased to announce that the charr have named Rytlock Brimstone as their new Khan-Ur. In celebration of this, cowtapults will be erected in all parts of Tyria.”

9. "His Undead Excellency Palawa Joko has graciously offered to “repopulate” the lost land of Orr with his own people…"

10. “And now let us welcome our guest speaker Trahearne, who will offer some words of encouragement in these dark times…wait, Logan, where are you running off to? LOGAN!!!”

:D

I legit burst out laughing. Congratulations, you’re my first officially “liked” post on this forum. :P Although I have to say the idea of her marrying Rytlock is my favorite so far.

…4 and 5 are my favori—CITIZENS

I completed every achievement for these games during the events in which they debuted (except the one for winning first place in sprint), and yet now that they’re “activities” and have their own categories, apparently none of what I’ve done counts anymore.

The achievements I should have at least some progress towards are:

Crab-Carrying Competitor
Crabgrabber
Crab Toss Champion

Skilled Sprinter (since I completed Pickup Completionist)
Crystal Obsessed
Speedy Sprinter

Survival Survivor
Ruthless Survivor (since I completed Master Marksman)

Does anyone know whether this is intentional? I do realize I already got the original event achievements, but still, to have all my hard work on those “reset” for the new ones just seems wrong.

Kestin.2368:

Bumping again. This is becoming increasingly problematic, not that it was okay before. Could somebody at least acknowledge that it’s in the lineup of things to be fixed?

Narcemus.1348:

Kestin.2368:

Okay, look. You know those players who are just so ridiculously stubborn that they’ll lie around forever instead of waypointing, even in the most remote or hazardous places, because someone might find and revive them?

His body might be gone, but you’ll never convince me some part of him isn’t still waiting out there. He did mentor Zojja, so he can’t have any shortage of patience…and with a mind like that, he’s probably not even bored.

So there’s no need to despair. Once that area opens up to players, someone will notice the “defeated ally” mark on their minimap and go get him. (I doubt the immediate area is as enemy-saturated as it was during the event.)

Erm… Zojja cremated his remains… And places a jar of his ashes in his old lab… Not sure how you “revive” from that…

Shhh…don’t crush my dreams

DarcShriek.5829:

Kestin.2368:

DarcShriek.5829:

Alleluia.1320:

DarcShriek.5829:

Zaxares.5419:

It seems that the balloons do NOT reset. You need to find 30 unique balloons across the entire world map. This could make it problematic for players with only low level characters.

What percentage of players do you think fit that category?

o/

The game has grown since launch, you know. There are new players.

So what percentage of players only have characters of level 10 or less? You didn’t answer the question, you avoided it. I believe you avoided it because you know that the number of people that fit that category are not enough to be concerned with.

Wow, yeah, they should completely ignore new players. Only the ones who signed up on the exact day of launch should matter. Brilliant. You truly have a bright future in game development. -facepalm-

So your saying that Anet is doomed to failure because of the balloons? BTW I’ll compare my game design chops to yours any day.

Also, no one ever said to completely ignore new players. So the facepalm( how droll an expression) goes to you for your reading comprehension.

So saying that a small (but probably larger than you think) minority is “not enough to be concerned with” isn’t the same as saying to ignore said small minority? You said that it’s not important that new users can’t complete the achievement because they’re too far outnumbered by those who can. If that’s not what you think you said, then I can’t help you.

As for your other points: no, I don’t think ANet is “doomed to failure”, but I do agree that events should be fully accessible to everyone. And I may not be a game designer, but half of running a game is knowing how to treat the players, so I think I’ve got a 50% lead on you right now.

DarcShriek.5829:

Alleluia.1320:

DarcShriek.5829:

Zaxares.5419:

It seems that the balloons do NOT reset. You need to find 30 unique balloons across the entire world map. This could make it problematic for players with only low level characters.

What percentage of players do you think fit that category?

o/

The game has grown since launch, you know. There are new players.

So what percentage of players only have characters of level 10 or less? You didn’t answer the question, you avoided it. I believe you avoided it because you know that the number of people that fit that category are not enough to be concerned with.

Wow, yeah, they should completely ignore new players. Only the ones who signed up on the exact day of launch should matter. Brilliant. You truly have a bright future in game development. -facepalm-

Okay, look. You know those players who are just so ridiculously stubborn that they’ll lie around forever instead of waypointing, even in the most remote or hazardous places, because someone might find and revive them?

His body might be gone, but you’ll never convince me some part of him isn’t still waiting out there. He did mentor Zojja, so he can’t have any shortage of patience…and with a mind like that, he’s probably not even bored.

So there’s no need to despair. Once that area opens up to players, someone will notice the “defeated ally” mark on their minimap and go get him. (I doubt the immediate area is as enemy-saturated as it was during the event.)

I’ve read up on why we can’t guest or party across regions, and it makes sense (as much as anything does to someone like me who barely even knows what a “server” is), but having recently made some EU friends of my own, I’d like to think there will eventually be a way I can play with them from time to time without transferring servers. Are staff minds open to considering ways in which it can be done?

Whichever way one feels about the blocking feature (which is a very common thing on the internet), the fact is, it’s already in place on GW2. You can already block someone and not have to see them on local or map chat. The staff are clearly in favor of allowing us the option to block out people we don’t want to deal with. So the fact that it doesn’t work in guild chat is most likely not intentional.

Bumping again. This is becoming increasingly problematic, not that it was okay before. Could somebody at least acknowledge that it’s in the lineup of things to be fixed?

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Any preferences and/or limitations on characters, settings, themes, etc.? I know you guys are all wet-blanket lore-hating cutscene-skippers so I don’t want to make my entry too esoteric for you! I also don’t want to make it totally angsty if you’re more into silly stuff, or vice versa. That would just be awkward. So…what do you want from me us? What are you looking for? The world must know!

Now, I’ve been reading up on this whole election business, and I have to say I’ve got a question on my mind. You all busy yourselves with endless debates on benefits, drawbacks, even personality when it comes to the candidates. And that’s all well and good; it certainly helps to keep those of us whose information senses aren’t so keen up to date. Some of you focus on the leadership aspect of the job, others on the tactical necessities of a position of power in such a major domain, and in general, this forum has managed to hit on many key points of consideration.

But I ask you: what about stability? How many times, in the past year alone, has chaos emerged in Lion’s Arch? How often do things fly out of control, only able to be put back together by quintets of fighters and adventurers with mutually contradictory and yet oddly similar backstories? As players, chaos means content, and that’s great for us. But as citizens, do we really want that all the time? I doubt we do.

So I, for one, won’t vote for a candidate based on their promises of cheap commodities or flashy fractals. I’m going to vote for whoever I think will keep this city on an evon kiel.

Yeah, it can get pretty annoying. I’ve already reported it here.

It’s been months, though, so I’m kind of worried they forgot about it…

Bumping this up because it’s still a problem. Debating whether or not a third ticket would help.

Explorer Hekja became Risen in Estate of Decay, so we know at least Zhaitan can corrupt female norn. We also find out, in the early norn quest where you become a minotaur, that Sons of Svanir don’t have any women around to reproduce with, so it’s not likely that they become sex slaves.

I think the most logical answer to this question would be that they just straight-out die, but the question is still why they would be killed instead of turning to icebrood, and whether it’s mental, physiological, or just Jormag being a misogynist.

Kudu is clearly an engineer, yet he wears light armor.

(No, I will never let this go.)

He’s not dead, he’s just too cheap to waypoint.

Those of you who were around in October might remember that eating too much candy corn caused your character to projectile vomit. If I recall correctly, you had to eat about 50-100 pieces at a time for this to happen. These seemingly innocuous dragon-themed candies, however, induce violent regurgitation after only eating five or ten in a row.

And by the way…just how much of it is there? The candy corn was mined from magical candy corn nodes, so it was essentially infinite. But this time, there are no nodes. Tens of thousands of citizens are hoarding it by the hundreds, and it never seems to dry up. How could they possibly make enough to keep us all up to our ears in it for an entire month?

Now, in the spirit of the occasion, let’s consider another matter entirely. Zhaitan’s body is still around somewhere in the ruins of Arah. Exploration teams regularly traverse the city, and I can’t imagine they’re too happy about the stench of twice-dead dragon. So it’s not hard to believe that somebody, somewhere, finally decided to do something about it.

But how on Tyria does one dispose of a corpse of such great size? Where does it all go?

I’ll tell you where it’s all going. It’s being made into candy and handed out to unwitting revelers as we speak. It’s no wonder they can’t seem to keep it in their stomachs for long!

Apparently, this also applies to the /me command. If someone on my block list is near me on the map and wants to say something to me, they can simply format it as an action and I’ll be able to see it in chat.

I don’t know if it’s just guild chat that’s bugged or if it’s anywhere else as well, but I can still see what people say even when they’re on my ignore list. The first time I tried was a few months ago, though sadly I can’t remember exactly how long, and I sent in a ticket then. I also sent one in a few weeks ago. The issue still isn’t fixed, and I would really like to be able to chat with my guild without having to “hear” people who grate my last nerve but aren’t breaking any rules…

I’ll vouch for Karu. I’ve been in voice chats with him, we’ve run dungeons together, and he’s helped me get some vistas. Whether it’s his profession or his nationality, he was apparently banned without any investigation, as any number of simple checks would have proven his humanity.

I know there are a lot of actual bots out there, but reports still need to be looked into.

Blue did this, Bedinar! Be proud to be blue!

Ah, the greatest coup in history in all its glory. I wish I’d been there for the whole thing, but alas, I was exhausted and had to get some sleep before class. Yet I shall forever cherish the memory of my own role; forgotten by history, and rightly so, for it mostly involved goofing off on Skype and repeatedly failing at a vista.

Congrats on pulling this thing off, you guys. Ingenious and amazing…just crazy enough to work. And congrats to Commander Aseres on her 100% world completion, finally achieved through this cunning plan.