Guild Wars 2

Wait, what? waypoints in cities are supposed to be free right? why does this one have a toll?

I’m just happy that I can start getting something from champions besides white and blue.

It’s simply a byproduct of movement ability for using a sword, a reinforced shoulder on the ‘sword-hand’ right side would limit the movement ability of that arm. I has very little to do with the shield. Dual wielders shouldn’t have any reinforced shoulders as the swords would compensate for the protection by blocking with the swords.

The reinforcement is on the shoulder opposite of the sword hand as that sword would be protection for that side whereas the other shoulder would be a direct attack point for an adversary (who was same-handed as you) and more difficult to protect with your sword. Shields are only necessary if your armor hinders your movement abilities or projectiles are part of your local battlefield or if your army is made up of amateurs.

Yeah, this bugs me as well, it just means that we can’t actually use all our weapon combinations as all empty weapon spots are filled in with the other weapon set ones.

Also comes with a hitch and contradictory information?

We’ll expand all crafting professions to allow them to reach a new milestone: 500 points!

At 500, crafters will be able to craft ascended weapons and armor. Once you reach 500, a new tier of crafting materials will be available to you; this new tier of materials will be made by combining lower tier materials. This tier is time-constrained, so each item can only be made once per day in order to help give high-level crafters their own economy of items to build and sell that retain their value and rarity.

and then we get the hitch in the next paragraph:
Ascended weapons and armor will remain account-bound like other ascended gear.

So high-level crafters will get their own economy of items to build and sell but they can’t sell them because they’re all account bound?

So I guess the question is what are these items in the first paragraph referring to? the time-restricted crafting materials or the ascended items we’re creating with them?

Tell me what Auto-Attack is? infinite loop. I’m not saying I do it, I’m never distracted enough to not be able to press the bound button on my mouse for aoe-loot but the game already provides an infinite-loop mechanic to spam actions, why is this different and why would anyone assume getting the loot you are entitled to is an advantage over every other player in the game that is entitled to their loot?

Not only is it going to take months to get a set, you have to have the recipes for the finished product as well as the inscription/rune/whatever it’s called.
Got all 3 of those, went to discover a new amulet and find out I have to have the amulet recipe as well.
Time gate + random drop gate + it’s only exotic, not ascended so what’s the deal?

There are 3 recipes, armor, trinket, and weapon. Once you get those, you can make all the time-gated items you want.

edit: nvm. hurray for crafting gates. Yes, you need the finished recipe as well. I think this destroys the idea of crafting but whatever, just wasted some stuff on this and I can’t even recoup my losses and I can’t craft a finished product either. Awesome.

I’ve noticed a bug in the targeting system as of the BotFW update.
Every time I kill something the targeting doesn’t release the dead body and kind of shows that it still has about 5% of its health left.

This is quite annoying as you have to manually target for some time afterward until the body actually disappears.

Screenshot shows a banner that I’ve just destroyed still targeted, preventing me from targeting anything else automatically.

Esplen.3940:

Mist Y.5214:

You could set up a macro to spam the loot key, although I’m not sure that’s permitted by the ToS. Personally I’d just like to have all drops go straight to my inventory.

That’s against the EULA as it gives you an unfair advantage.

No it doesn’t and Anet has already said that 1 action per key is allowed for macros. Auto-loot keybind is already limited to one use per second so it can’t be spammed anyway. Just set it up to attach to the back button on your mouse and have it repeat every second or so.

Anyone stacking might before impact?

I didn’t realize the achievement just stopped counting after 40 but I think I found all 52 of them last night. I scoured every corner and crevice that I could and got into places I probably shouldn’t have and I can’t find anymore.

hmmm event_details.json has a root element and event_names.json does not. I approve of rooting things but these json don’t exactly need it. I root all my stuff out of habit but sometimes it’s redundant.

In jquery

$(function(){
	var event_names = [], event_details = {};
	$.getJSON( 'https://api.guildwars2.com/v1/event_details.json', function(data){
		event_details = data;
		console.info('got event_details.json');
		$.getJSON( 'https://api.guildwars2.com/v1/event_names.json', function(data){
			event_names = data;
			console.info( 'got event_names.json' );
			console.log( event_details.events[ event_names[11].id ].name );
			//                                               ^ .events is unnecessary root element
		}).fail(function(jqxhr, textStatus, error){ console.warn( 'failure in event_names.json:\n\t' +error); });
	}).fail(function(jqxhr, textStatus, error){ console.warn('failure in event_details.json:\n\t' +error); });
});

console output: “Defeat the spider king.”

If event_details.json was an array it would pretty much require an iterator if you acquire the entire thing. If you get each event separately you would still have to use it as an array. event_details as a dictionary makes sense.

Are these supposed to be invulnerable and just disappear after a time? The veterans from the holo projectors are always invulnerable to me and then they just disappear after I kill the normals.

added screenshot, may or may not show up.

artificer and jewelry, one has potions and the other is useful for equipping your character.
Potions will level you up pretty quick and they’re easy.
Artificer has staff, scepter, focus so you’re pretty set with your weapons when leveling and the jeweler has 6 of your armor pieces.

Still can’t and it doesn’t matter what the amount of gold is that I try to convert.

I would like no crafted object to ever be soulbound on creation, it’s pointless.
I would like to be able to upgrade crafted items for guild members instead of having to give them the unfinished weapon and the upgrade item separately to avoid soulbinding the item to me.
I would like to be able to craft ‘the best’ stuff like we were promised – this does not include throwing your hard earned stuff in the mystic forge and having some Djinn craft it for you.
I would like Legendaries to be account bound.
I would like all the other mini-games to be completed instead of creating brand new ones.
I would like more ‘evil’ looking gear and armors, not all of us want to be fluffy skirt wearing death dealers.
I would also like more elegant looking light armors (skin isn’t everything you know).

Chainsaw for the permanent logging tool, Aetherblade inspired of course.

More light armor pants and shirts.

That portion of the map doesn’t exist in the world, that’s why it looks like that.

Dr Ishmael.9685:

They can’t do meta events:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/ID-s-for-meta-event-chains/first#post2064932

Today they can’t, that’s why this is a suggestion and wishlist.

After looking through the events api’s the thing I would like the most for now is a json with meta information and coordinate rectangle of the orange circle – just the starting position is fine.
For example, the Frozen Maw meta has 7? events registered to it. As it sits, I have to track and watch each of those for changes to know if it is even still up which is fine but I have to find each one of them in the event data and know for certain they actually are for the Frozen Maw meta. To do this manually for 1600+ events is insane.

Perhaps just a [flags] with the meta event name in the events data would work as well.
Would be easier if the event_names.json structure was more like:

{
"event_names": [
	{"id":"another random string associated with this event",
	"meta_name":"The Frozen Maw",
	"coords":[x,y],
	"names":[
		{"id":"6F516B2C-BD87-41A9-9197-A209538BB9DF","name":"Protect Tor the Tall's supplies from the grawl."},
		{"id":"90B241F5-9E59-46E8-B608-2507F8810E00","name":"Defeat the shaman's elite guard."},
		{"id":"DB83ABB7-E5FE-4ACB-8916-9876B87D300D","name":"Defeat the Svanir shamans spreading the dragon's corruption."},
		{"id":"374FC8CB-7AB7-4381-AC71-14BFB30D3019","name":"Destroy the corrupted portals summoning creatures from the mists."},
		{"id":"47369FC8-A06D-4D46-855B-5F4A98B84C72","name":"Collect armor scraps and bring them to Rani so he can build a snowman army to scare the grawl."},
		{"id":"F7D9D427-5E54-4F12-977A-9809B23FBA99","name":"Kill the Svanir shaman chief to break his control over the ice elemental."},
		{"id":"6565EFD4-6E37-4C26-A3EA-F47B368C866D","name":"Destroy the dragon totem."}
	]},
	{"id":"yet another id for this meta event",
	"meta_name":"Assault on Svanir's Dome",
	"coords":[123.45,678.90],
	"names":[
	{"id":"FCFF9239-5FEF-47AD-AFF6-930A9EA65767","name":"Help Reztiff Sunderfoe capture the east tower."},
	{"id":"4D50525B-7F28-47C5-A2FB-9A222D6B2E87","name":"Help Shaska Kaldmorn take the west tower."},
	{"id":"CC06F0CC-EDCF-4837-A90A-C7A65D08EFFC","name":"Capture the center of the Svanir Dome."},
	{"id":"3E00E6FC-636E-4E23-B330-0B69B4367BD2","name":"Kill the corrupted leader of the Sons of Svanir."}
	]}
]
}

Everyone just forgot about SAB and the open world holographic monsters for that one already?

Sieg.8439:

If think if anyone is anxious enough to be scared by red holograms in a video game, they’re probably not in a mental state to be playing video games…
And if I saw people running through a shopping mall with holographic wings, I think I’d have different reactions than:
“WINGS WTF—Oh, they’re blue, it’s cool.”
or
“OH GOD THEYRE RED HIDE IN THE TRASH CANS”

Has nothing to do with me and my perceptions, maybe I wasn’t clear. Color Theory and the psychology of colors and their meanings in various cultures and what they do in your brain imply those affects.

You’ve clearly never known anyone who was afraid of a color have you?
I’m glad you would have a technologically motivated response to holographic objects, that’s nice and normal for a technologically adapted culture. I was just trying to clear up the reasoning behind blue being the holo color of choice in nearly every type of media. In reality however, they start with red and make their way up the color spectrum until they can make true color representations. It’s just sad that the best we’ve got requires a box and is just a novelty item.

We have tanks, APC’s, helicopters, dirigibles(blimps), tunneling machines, golems.
We also have energy, sonic, and projectile cannons, trebuchets, arrow carts, guns, bow & arrow, various bladed weapons, and magical weapons.

Holograms are blue because blue is a calming color. Just imagine if someone was running through your local mall or public space with holographic dragon wings flapping on their back. Since we still don’t have viable holographic technology, it would be a surprise to people, maybe scare some people who are a little bit more anxious.
Using blue you’re utilizing certain psychological responses in people. In this case it would be calming and inviting as opposed to orange or red being more active colors that solicit anxiety and action.

But it probably wasn’t that in-depth of a thought process, blue is just a default color for things like this in games – just look at almost every game that has holographic tech, it’s in a blue shade with other colors filling out the data.

Using dagger/dagger and hitting ride the lightning, when your transformation ends occasionally the dragon wings will disappear for some time or until you stow your weapons or use another skill.

No enemies should ever be culled. I don’t care if I can see a zerg either. Enemies and party members should be exempt from culling period.

Wont work with how Anet designed characters, they had the same problem with GW1 where they didn’t anticipate certain gear that they added later in the life-cycle. Doesn’t seem like they learned much from GW1 in regards to the ‘costumes’.

Anyway, there aren’t enough ‘layers’ to do this, it’s either hair or helmet. But if they do add an additional layer later in the life-cycle, it’ll enable all kinds of helmets, accessories, and hair+[item] combinations.

I would think it would be more along the lines of since it is a drop, magic find gets you more of the coffers, but doesn’t do anything when you open them.

Yeah I was talking about the christmas like horn music on character select, I haven’t heard the soundcloud one in-game yet.

This should be included in the Documentation sticky, you wouldn’t want someone overloading your api’s with 250ms calls now would you!

Most public API’s for larger companies have api usage limits, this should be documented so that you can also update the usage limit in the future when there are hundreds or thousands of apps and websites hitting you several times a minute.

Sorry for the bump but as a developer, this is important info.

While it is a very easy calculation, it is something best handled by the client, it is much less intensive to simply send data and that seems to be what Anet is focusing on with the API’s, just the raw data and that is perfect.

Is there an official download for the music on the character select screen yet? Some of us like to collect game music

Shift and Ctrl are hardbound, you can’t change their default actions at all. Use an extra mouse button if you can.

Best you can do is wait for others to finish bashing them and do them after or get there first. It’s happened to me several times today.

Unfortunately all MMO’s and other inventory having games do inventory replace like that. Some of them have an additional overload window that pops up telling you your inventory is full and has the additional item in the window so you can take it after you delete something else.
Logic is like this: user clicks consumable, open it (rng if necessary), place it in inventory, delete empty container. The delete happens at the end just in case there’s an issue with something and the rest of the process didn’t complete so you still have the item and can try again.

It is a problem of course, but they probably aren’t going to do anything about it unfortunately.

There are 20 things that count as ‘food’ and they’re all alcohol, not food.

The subcategories in the Consumables filter are:
All
Food
Generic
Transmutation
Unlock

Of those categories, there are two that have anything in them. All which is default… and Food. The others are worthless because there are no generic consumables, the transmutation ones could be event skin drops or some potions/tonics, and there are no unlocks that can be sold.

How about we get some subcategories like
Dyes
Food (with food in it please)
Buffs: Potions, tonics, oils, crystals, and other boosters
Skins – which along with some potions should be in transmutations category

We have a daily that wants food but searching for food you have to scroll through potions, drinks, dyes, and everything else in the ALL subcat. of Consumables to get to the actual food items.

Please work on your information architecture ( or hire me ).
I realize that you’re just parsing a database category list, but really? a lot of those subcategories and regular categories can’t even be traded. e.g. Gathering

Container(all, default, gift box), Gizmo(all, default, salvage), Tool ([[crafting]], salvage)
Container has bag drops(loot), armor satchels, and a charr backpack and under gift box it has unidentified dyes. All of those things should be under a subcategory in Consumables.
Gizmo has nothing in it.
Tool has nothing in it.

I don’t know if you have a physical issue or it’s just that you’re not very good at typing, but you should practice typing more often regardless of the game. Touch typing is something that is very important for MMO gamers to be able to do.

At the very least, figure out which fingers you can use reliably and rebind your skills to those fingers or use a build that doesn’t utilize those skill slots actively.

Just as soon as I get to the blue zone(steampipe steading) my framerate hits 10fps and it is not because of players, the rest of the island is fine for me.

They could make costume brawl more interesting by having the arena automatically transform you into your ‘gladiator’ form.

I tried testing this out yesterday after I read this and the Kiels instigator is subject to this ‘enhanced mechanic’, the other one is not.

I got lucky and found the spot just before he spawned and laid down all my marks, I wasn’t paying attention to his health or anything but there were only 30 people there and it takes about 3+ minutes to kill him normally with that many, but he died in about 30 seconds.

The blue zone instigator I had time to fully plan out and pay attention to it but it doesn’t work on him.

Unfortunately for the rest of the night we got caught in waves at each location so I could never get to the Kiels one in time to test it more on him.
As far as I could tell, it doesn’t affect the loot.

It seems to glitch the scaling algorithm as if I was the only person it recognized.

{ I was just testing, please don’t ban me. Didn’t have enough confirmation to report a bug on it. }

Ancient militaries preferred right handed soldiers, if two right handed soldiers fight each other, you will almost never be in a situation where your right shoulder is attacked. Also having a shoulder pad on your sword hand (right side) you wont be able to do over head/hand swings with the sword.

If you’ve ever got in a stick fight with a friend you would know all this. With a sword, my right side is protected freeing my left hand for additional functionality such as a shield to protect the other vulnerable parts of my body or for close combat grappling.

So, that is why you only get one shoulder pad. It’s not a fashion statement, it’s a functionality/protection thing.

I (necro) prefer the no armor challenge myself though it is much harder in high level areas.

I got all my chests from the rioters in the Instigator events. They drop the little chest boxes that have rare+ in them and inside that is the supply crates.

It’s not that simple. The game UI is like an overlay on top of 3d content and when you change interface sizes it just tells the UI to adjust by a percentage of the normal value. Since the web browser is embedded into the overlay, it gets artificially scaled down as well – a css change wont fix the problem as the web browser is a fixed size and layout. When it gets scaled down it’s like scaling down a .jpg image with text, the image part looks ok but the text is broken.

To fix this, the game has to tell the browser it has been reduced in size so that the browser is internally still at 100% (and the layout is made smaller) while the game UI has been scaled down by 50%.

It’s a cross communication issue that isn’t as easy as just telling the browser to load a css layout for a smaller viewport because the viewport hasn’t changed in size at all, the browser was scaled down instead with the rest of the UI.

Necro staff #4 takes it off, as does the #4 dagger skill. I attempted to use the Consume Conditions heal but I don’t know if it worked or the burn just wore off as I don’t have to heal that often when fighting him.

The burning is something like [[Burning Sap]] or the like and is a secondary burn type, something else in the game uses it too.

I got my winning crate from a rioter, think it was my 4th crate total.

I’ve noticed that if you stand above the waterline like on one of the rocks that is in the limited area, he will reset on you, there’s also a rock that if you go around it, he’ll reset as well.

It’s a pretty involved event that rewards with loot and a merchant (if you hold all 4 locations) that will trade you karka shells for stuff, will the entire event remain after the conclusion or are you going to take away parts of it?

It seems that it starts with rampaging wildlife (that clue is tucked nicely into a bullet point of the Canach solo instance info btw) and has multiple outcomes.
While I’m here, how do you pronounce Canach? ch as in ‘k’ or ch as in ’ch’eese?

As per https://www.guildwars2.com/en/community-news/a-guide-to-last-stand-at-southsun-cove/
“Four settlements (Point Pride, Kiel’s Outpost, Steampipe Steading, and Camp Karka) are integral parts of trade on the island. If all four camps are held by the players, a special merchant will appear on Pearl Islet to exchange armor for karka shells.”

I like that he’s like the gw1 armor collectors

I would love to know how many recipes I have yet to discover. Once you reach 400 you still have many many more to discover as well as purchase but at 400 you’re effectively done with the craft for some reason but there are probably enough recipes to get you to at least 600.

Just a simple 245/300 next to each of the categories or just the craft itself would be fine.

It would be nice if each of the categories in each of the crafts was properly sorted as well and color coded based on the color coding of the gear itself since someone decided that cutting the text off was a good idea. Some things you have to click on to figure out if it is master or rare or exotic because the name is too long for the unnecessarily small list UI.

Yes. Skritt and Pirates are the most often. They are level 30-39 items (iirc, maybe that’s the copper ones) so if you are between those levels you’ll get them from leveled chests for the gem reward.

Search the forum this has been brought up often enough there’s plenty of info.

It’s already in the game, have you not been to Black Citadel? They have an arena already and it has the traditional animal cages, multiple tunnels for several players/monsters, and even drop cages for the really nasty surprises.

But like most of the activities, it is not implemented.