Guild Wars 2

I’m no marketing expert, so I not going to wade in with my uninformed opinion of how successful or unsuccessful the “make your pledge in public for a chance to win the game” idea will be. But as a Tyrian who (unfortunately) has to spend some time in the real world working to earn some extra coin I can totally get behind the taxi cab video. As a player it made me laugh, not cringe, and to be honest when I’ve described the game to people in an attempt to get them to come try it out I more often than not fall into the habit of speaking like its a real place.

Maybe that just makes me Scarlet-level crazy, who cares, and if this campaign brings in some new players so much the better. There’s room in Tyria for everyone!

Lilith Ajit.6173:

This makes me so mad. When they release ascended armor, why bother, if it will end up being obsolete in a future release?

I wouldn’t waste your energies getting upset about it now, when there has been no other mention of raising a level cap since the quote the OP provided (as far as I’m aware).

As for ascended armour becoming obsolete I’m fairly sure I read somewhere that they stated they would prefer to use an upgrade/infusion system to add any future verticality to existing ascended equipment, but I might have to track down the source. Or perhaps that was just a dream I had…

ttsgamers.com is the NA based guild that usually does Teq several times a day. You apply at this website and they will send you an invite from the newest of their TTS guilds, they whisper those online when they are getting ready for a teq run and if you want to join in you just rep them and head into the overflow they set up.

Hi Poitus

I’m at work at the moment but if nobody else picks this up before I will send you an invite when I get home. Don’t worry about repping, any time you can drop in a say hello and join in with other members you will be welcome.

I would like to see this for those professions that can only have one weapon set equipped (ele and engi) – an out of combat option to swap to a secondary set would be incredibly useful. For those professions with two weapon sets easily available both in and out of combat I don’t see the need to be as great.

You can try this old Dulfy video it’s over a year old but I think it’s still the same run animation from before the recent patch. Try it about 1:20 into the video.

They’re more blue than purple but have you looked at the Mystic weapons?

They have a nice glow detail which compliments Sylvari characters and would go well with the paler aspects of your current armour.

If it’s coin you are looking to send to a friend you can specify an amount to attach at the bottom of a mail. You can’t split coin with alt/drag.

Yes and yes. The boosts now only affect karma gained from events, at least that’s my understanding.

Wardrobe so I can store and reuse armour and town clothes across my account. (Pretty please Anet Saint Nick – I’ve been a very good girl this year…)

I’d also add to Rouven’s reply, mainly in answer to your first couple of questions, that there are some major trait, skill and balance changes coming for all professions around 10th December. So, find your feet again, try some new content and tweak your existing build but I would suggest you hold off making any expensive gear changes (especially crafting ascended gear) until after that patch.

Welcome back – it may seem like some big changes have happened but the community is still as helpful as ever, and you’ll catch up quickly enough with stuff.

I’ve put together a thread on the forum with a list of the most commonly missed areas for each explorer region as well as a list of map completion items added in patches since launch – hopefully it will help others complete these.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Guide-Explorer-Achievements-and-100-Map/first#post3156632

Sorry, it won’t let me edit the above post for some reason but I just remembered that they introduced transmutation splitters that should let you transfer genesis stats and all to another character on your account – here’s an example from the wiki.

“A player wants to pass a soulbound weapon from one character to another on the same account, typically done for legendaries. First transmute the weapon into a white weapon (with stats). This way you get an account bound item. Place it on the bank and retrieve it with the desired charater. Then use a Transmutation Splitter and you get your original weapon soulbound to the new character. "

You can use two transmutation crystals to transfer the look but not the stats of the hammer. Buy a basic white level hammer from an weaponsmith NPC and transmute the skin of genesis onto the stats of the white hammer, this will make it account bound. Now put that in the bank and have it colelcted by the character who wants genesis – they can then use another transmutation crystal to move the skin onto an item with the stats they want.

Transmutation crystals are required for anything that is level 80 (weapons/armour), anything less then that you can use a transmutation stone – both available from the gem store and also occasionally as map completion rewards.

Mystic Starfish.2586:

You can mix between armor classes, but you have to get helm, chest, gloves, shoulder, legs, boots, of each tier, which would be 18 unique pieces. If you got all three T3 chest pieces, that counts as one piece toward the achievement.

I didn’t realise that it didn’t count armour class in its ‘unique-ness’ calculations – I apologise if my response was misleading. I would have read the wiki as I could get six individual pieces of T3, be they one of each armour piece or some of the same pieces in different armour classes.

jazzllanna.1278:

What if you get the Heavy, light, and med chest/legs only, does that still count as 6 pieces?

I think that will work, the achievement tooltip talks about soulbinding 18 unique pieces of armour – so as long as you aren’t duplicating any (ie 2 heavy T3 chests) it should all count as you described.

Yeah just one full set. So for example you could get Heavy helm, chest and legs, med gloves and shoulders and light boots all from the Norn T3 collection and it counts as your ‘full set’ of T3.

You can mix and match between armour sets and cultural levels to get the achievement. Be warned though, for each culture the total is actually 18 individual pieces for the full achievement – so 90 pieces for the Emperor title.

Edit: Thanks for the clarification JustTrogdor – the full achievement will require one full set of each culture level (1, 2 & 3) but they can be a mix of armour classes.

It’s level 500 for ascended, 400 is the level for crafting exotics (and account bound legendary ‘gifts’). Ascended are the only ‘non-tradeable’ items that you can currently craft at 500, but there have been hints of precursor scavenger hunts and new legendary items which may require you to have a max craft also.

As for chef, at the moment there is only level 400 on cooking and everything you can make is tradeable, with the exception of legendary gifts. Who knows if they will venture down the route of ascended food items? Or indeed make Chef responsible for additional legendary related gifts at 400 or 500 level crafting. Your guess is as good as mine.

Glad you found it so quickly – and as you’ve found Cubular Fells you should try out the jumping puzzle there, its a good one

You don’t need to visit Labyrinthine Cliffs for the explorer achievement. Check the commonly missed areas listed in this post and if it isn’t one of those follow the advice in the post above it for tracking down the missing area.

I can’t link as I’m on my phone but there’s a post further down from this called Guide: Explorer achievements and 100% map which has a list on the 3rd post of map content added since launch. Hopefully that will solve it for you.

Edited for link.

If you haven’t played in nearly a year are you sure that the one set you’re missing isn’t one that’s been newly added such as the ones added here?

Map Completion Content added since launch
[Key: POI – Point of Interest; WP – Waypoint]

March 2014 – Wreckage of the Breachmaker (POI & Vista – Lion’s Arch, Sanctum Harbor)
February 2014 – Lion’s Shadow Inn (POI – Lion’s Arch, Postern Ward)
January 2014 – False River (WP-Lornar’s Pass)
October 2013 – Haunted Nolani (WP–Black Citadel); Thunder Ridge Camp (POI-Kessex Hills)
June 2013 – Second Aetherblade Site (POI-Gendarran Fields); The Dead End (POI-Divinity’s Reach)
March 2013 – Angvar’s Trove (WP–Snowden Drifts); Rugnar’s Steading (POI–Wayfarer Foothills); North Nolan Hatchery (POI-Diessa Plateau)
February 2013 – Langmar Estate (WP-Plains of Ashford); Proxemic’s Lab (WP-Brisban Wildlands)
January 2013 – Shipwreck Rock (WP-Cursed Shore); Dire Shoal (WP-Straits of Devastation)
November 2012 – Macha’s Landing (POI–Lion’s Arch); Consortium Gift Shop (POI-Lion’s Arch)

Other changes of note

January 2014 – Lornar’s Pass – Maw’s Rise POI was replaced by Marionette’s Landing (as part of the Origins of Madness Living Story patch)

If anyone else can think of anything else that needs adding to this, through your own experience or advice in previous threads please post below and I’ll edit. If people think it would be useful please link this thread to any new explorer/map completion questions posted on the forum.

Commonly missed and newly added explorer areas

Krytan Explorer
[Includes: Divinity’s Reach, Lion’s Arch, Queensdale, Kessex Hills, Gendarran Fields, Harathi Hinterlands, Bloodtide Coast and Claw Island]
Queensdale – Demongrub Pits; Beggar’s Burrow; Windloss Delves
Gendarran Fields – Provernic Crypt
Harathi Hinterlands – Hidden Ourobon; Ourobore Caves
Bloodtide Coast – Momoztli Grounds
Claw Island – Claw Island has four points of interest and this map can only be reached by undertaking your personal story at level 51.

Maguuma Explorer
[Includes: The Grove, Rata Sum, Caledon Forest, Metrica Province, Brisban Wildlands, Sparkfly Fen and Mount Maelstrom]
Caledon Forest – The Rowanwoods; Dreamdark Enclave
Metrica Province – Inquest Outer Complex; The Serpentwind; Calx’s Hideout
Brisban Wildlands – Proxemics Lab (added Feb 2013); Aurora’s Remains
Sparkfly Fen – Verarium Delves; Shimmerstone Cave
Mount Maelstrom – Dierdre’s Steps; Magmatic Conjury; Ungent Den; Cubular Fells

Shiverpeak Explorer
[Includes: Hoelbrak, Wayfarer Foothills, Snowden Drifts, Lornar’s Pass, Dredgehaunt Cliffs, Timberline Falls and Frostgorge Sound]
Wayfarer Foothills – Shamans Rookery; Doldenvan Passage; Cragstead (added Mar 2013)
Snowden Drifts – Angvar’s Trove (added Mar 2013)
Lornar’s Pass – Griffonrook Run
Dredgehaunt Cliffs – Ulukk’s Hunger; Forsaken Halls (added Oct 2012); Tribulation Caverns; De Molish Post
Timberline Falls – Sector Zuhl; Tail of the Serpent; Lair of the Coil

Ascalon Explorer
[Includes: Black Citadel, Plains of Ashford, Diessa Plateau, Fields of Ruin, Blazeridge Steppes, Iron Marches and Fireheart Rise]
Plains of Ashford – Langmar Estate (added Feb 2013)
Diessa Plateau – The Wurm’s Gullet
Fields of Ruin – Last Stand Shelter
Blazeridge Steppes – Agrak Kraal
Fireheart Rise – Rebel’s Seclusion; Vexa’s Lab

Orr Explorer
[Includes: Straits of Devastation, Malchor’s Leap and Cursed Shore]
Straits of Devastation – Zho’qafa Catacombs; Sea of Elon
Cursed Shore – The Artesian Waters

Posts to do with regional Explorer Achievements and 100% Map Completion crop up all the time on the Players Helping Players forum. So, I thought I’d put together a guide which covers some of the more commonly confused aspects of map completion vs explorer achievements as well as commonly missed and newly added areas for both. Much of this information is available from various wiki pages but I hope the community finds it useful bought together into one post.

The difference between 100% Map Completion and regional Explorer Achievements

100% Map Completion – requires you to visit every point of interest, vista and waypoint and complete every renown heart and skill challenge in the following areas:

• five racial cities and Lion’s Arch
• 25 explorable zones (Southsun Cove and Labyrinithine Cliffs not included)
• four WvW maps (Eternal Battlegrounds and the three Borderlands – EOTM not included)
• The Chantry of Secrets

Rewards – 100% map completion rewards you with;

• 2 gifts of explorations
• A star next to your character’s name in game (viewable by other players)
• An account wide title Been There, Done That
• The Map Completion Account Medal on your character select screen

Regional Explorer Achievements – requires you to discover/unfog all of the white-named areas in each of the maps of a geographical region.

• It has nothing to do with points of interest, waypoints, hearts, etc. It is only about revealing the areas named in white text on your map.
• Each region is made up of a number of maps and includes at least one city map. This guide provides a breakdown of which maps make up which regions and also includes all the white-named areas on each map that you are looking to discover.
• These achievements are account wide; each character can discover an area but it is only counted for the achievement the first time. If you are searching for missing areas I would recommend you use the character with highest % map completion on your account.
• A lot of the white named map areas don’t contain things necessary for 100% map completion so it is completely feasible to have 100% map and not all of the explorer achievements. Likewise, you can have a explorer achievement completed without having visited or completed everything you need for map completion in that area.

Rewards – Regional Explorer Achievements reward you with achievement points (that is all) between 20-25 points per completed region.

How to identify what you’re missing

Missing Areas for 100% Map Completion? – hints and tips

• Check that you have visited and 100% completed all six cities.
• Check that you have visited every explorable map. One that can be easily missed due to its isolated location is Fields of Ruin.
• Check the list below for additional locations added since launch.
• Open your world map [M] and hover your mouse over the name of each city/zone to see a pop-up of current completion for that area – check they are all 100%.
• If you honestly think you have visited and completed everything and have still not received your rewards for overall completion – revisit the Chantry of Secrets, enter the instance and have a good run around the inside. Time and time again players report that this is what triggers the release of rewards for them (don’t ask me why!).

Missing Areas for Regional Explorer Achievements? – hints and tips

• You do not have to revisit maps in order to check which areas you have already uncovered (don’t waste the waypoint costs) – just open your world map and zoom in until the white-named areas are visible. Use this guide to cross reference your world map – the areas are listed in the order they appear on the map left to right, top to bottom. Use your character with highest % map completion to do the check.
• Look for ‘fogged’ areas within a map, particularly if they are surrounded by unfogged areas or are at the edge of the map but protruding inwards as if there should be something there.
• Make sure you double check the six cities – they count too.
• If you are only missing a small number of areas within a region try using the list of commonly missed and newly added areas below.

Use this guide to cross reference your world map – the areas are listed in the order they appear on the map left to right, top to bottom.

There is one new area in Brisban Wildlands, at the site of a guild puzzle called Proxemics Lab – top lefthand corner. Other commonly missed areas in Magumma are;

Aurora’s Remains in Brisban Wildlands.
The Rowanwoods in Caledon Forest.
Inquest Outer Complex ,The Serpentwind and Calx’s Hideout all in Metrica Province.
Verarium Delves in Sparkfly Fen.
Dierdre’s Steps , Magmatic Conjury , Ungent Den and Cubular Fells in Mount Maelstrom

Don’t forget to double check the cities as well, The Grove and Rata Sum.

Welcome Novaroad, invite sent – looking forward to seeing you in game.

@graceness – those six skins are for the different components of the whole set (helm, shoulders, chest, gloves, legs and boots) not six full sets of the armour to reapply multiple times.

After the initial application of a skin you will need to use a transmute stone or crystal to move it to another piece of armour after that – so if you use all six pieces and then decide you want the same look on a different set of stats you will need six transmute stones/crystals.

I wouldn’t have thought they’d have given a storage space for cobs and other refined halloween mats in the collectibles if it wasn’t going to be a reoccuring item. Whether the Bloody Prince mini will be available to buy in future is another question, but I’m fairly confident that cobs will not be replaced by something different.

I would suggest you don’t do that, fairly sure flooding support with ‘reports’ would count as abusing the report function.

21. You may use the Guild Wars 2 reporting system within the Game to alert the company to in-game issues such as inappropriate behavior, offensive names, the perceived use of a “bot,” or other misconduct. You may not use the Guild Wars 2 reporting system to inflict harm upon or harass another player, to submit false reports, or to cause undue load on our servers. Individuals who abuse the reporting function will be investigated and will face possible account suspension or account termination.

Terms and conditions of use

I think you can redeem them with the Black Lion weapon specialists upstairs in the Trading Post. Make sure to check all the tabs on their window – they have a variety of stuff they vend.

You can create a key bind for walking in your options menu (F11).

Firstly, I love your name but will have to shorten it to Panda for now

My guild is cross server and cross region, so we have some people on both sides of the regional divide, sharing the same chat even if they can’t share the same game space (Anet I still hate you for this!) But because of that it means we can have people online when traditional NA downtimes exists.

We have members who are obsessed with completing personal story, not only their own but other people’s as well, Arah story runs are common thanks to our friend Dax. I personal love the living story and make sure to be familiar as possible with all aspects so I can help people who jump in and out of the game.

Anyway, I think you may like us so here is our advert and here is our website.

Hi there Egon

I belong to a guild, Legion of Honour, the majority of whom are on TC but we do have other server member and members on EU. Our interests range from PvE, Dungeons, WvW and general socialising. We are built around being opening and supporting to anyone who needs help so we have no rep requirement.

Our branch on TC is fully upgraded for all guild missions which we run at least once a week in alliance with another guild on the server. Anyway, we may be the relaxed and friendly group you are looking for. Here’s our advert and here’s our website.

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

I wonder if the connection would suffer if I’m playing on an US server from the EU

From my experience there is not problem with connection at all. I live in the UK and play on Tarnished Coast, but I will add that I have the advantage of a good city centre internet connection, not sure if rural users would have any problem.

If you buy gems to pay for a transfer you can keep all your characters. If you want to transfer for free the only way is to delete all your characters (make sure you strip them off all accountbound valuables first) and start fresh. Your bank and wallet transfer over intact but you will loose access to any guild upgrades you had on your original server.

At the moment the item that originally held the sigil of force will be destroyed in the transmution.

Hello Frozen Carnage

Not sure if you’ve found a place to try out from the responses above but I thought I’d leave our guild details here as I think we match much of what you are looking for.

Legion of Honour is a casual, friendly guild. We have core members who are on everyday and others who drop in as and when their life allows. The majority of us are based on Tarnished Coast but we do have members across server and if you don’t want to transfer to TC the potential is there for you to build up and oversee the chapter on which ever server you reside on. We also have a few players based on EU servers so region isn’t restricted.

Here’s our guild advert and here’s a link to our website and I hope you check us out.

It is a permenant change as the new scraps/claim tickets can be used for all future event release weapons. If you want black lion keys your best option is to alt farm them from low-level personal story.

A friend got in to TC within the last hour, so it does happen.

The game does provide a clue if you hover over the locations in the list, however from the Guild’s perspective they would probably prefer people use Dulfy to identify the correct location and get to it as quickly as possible to ensure successful completion of the Trek mission.

Treks are a timed mission and can be expensive if you are waypointing around the place trying to solve the clue. They also offer no player reward for completion, only merits for the guild, so most people don’t want to take the extra effort to solve the clues for themselves.

When we run them we run them as Aria describes – calling out where we are going – it can get a bit hectic in guild chat though!

yes, both architecture 1 and 2 are prereq’s for the first stage of the guild bank (guild stash) so all in all you are looking at earning or buying 2500 influence and it will take you 4 days in ‘building time’.

To get the second tier of bank will cost 20,000 influence (2 weeks build) and for the final tier 30,000 (2 weeks build).

POI’s don’t count towards explorer achievements – for that you are looking to reveal all fogged areas of the map. Check for missing white-named areas.

Edit: This page should help http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/User:Bluestone/Explorer

Cloud.5312:

No to mention… Who the hell is his father ? Only time will tell…

Borje the Sun Chaser

Click on the little ? in a circle that is on your main menu options at the top of the screen. It will show you the different hint categories and the ones you’ve completed will be ticked – look for the one that isn’t.

Welcome back Bio, lots of us are still around and active and there is always room for one more. Just give any of us a shout in guild chat if you have any questions about what’s going on in Tyria this week.

I wouldn’t call this a festival, in the sense that we will see it return year on year. It’s not common to celebrate 11years of a monarch’s rule – perhaps Jennah might have a 15 or 20yr Jubilee celebration, if she is still in power? But I’m doubtful this will be a regular event on the Tyrian calendar.

Whilst I realise that is the case Esplen, not every player will and I was just giving another option to ice cream which tends to be more expensive to craft or buy from the TP.

Esplen.3940:

Note: Ice Creams give +5% Karma, unlike other foods.

A little off topic but just for information Kralkachocolate Bar also provides a +5% karma boost. The vendor relocated next to the LA laurel vendor after Dragon Bash finished.