Guild Wars 2

Kristen Perry.5260:

I’ve noticed for faces, most requests are at the end of the spectrum… folks seem to want pretty or creature, not as much in between. Interesting. Out of curiosity, why not? The race was designed to live in the in between. Any thoughts? :}

We’re here…I’ve tried to pick all my sylvari with “blended faces.” However, in just about any aspect of life the “middle ground” people rarely make much noise. Folks with more extreme views are generally more vocal. Just my opinion, after 50+ years on the planet. Don’t discount us!

Picked up “Braham’s Armor” for my mid-level guardian, and she felt the need to take it out and put it through some paces—stretch the fabric, check the lacing…make sure nothing chafed.

http://youtu.be/a0H_mGkO9no

Less than 60 seconds long, but I like some of the screen shots.

Queen Jennah will have a wardrobe malfunction (I mean really, just look at that gown!), and then the new robotic queen’s guard will kill all the members of the audience that “looked.”

Now that we have seen that it is possible for us to replay the cinematic scenes (Marjorie’s story), how about a few more?

Specifically, I’m thinking the final “Victory or Death” celebration scenes. It was a big deal getting to that point in the story, and I’d like to replay it. Especially since the first time I did it, I didn’t drop group first, and all the cinematics and text were for some other person’s character since they had started the instance. Not realizing I’d never be able to do it again, I accepted the rewards, which finished the instance. My first character is very sorry she’ll never see her “victory walk” with Destiny’s Edge.

It might also be fun to watch our “birthing” instances…and I’m sure there are others.

Thanks for listening.

Thank you CrazyLegs for a good post, and good follow-up comments.

I’m one of those who, for a few reasons you’ve listed above, is feeling like I won’t be able to finish this meta-achievement. Considering that the ore node is linked to the meta-achievement, this is the first time I’ve felt left out in the game. I don’t really pay attention to dailies, monthlies, etc. If they happen, cool. If not, I still had fun.

There is a lot of content I know I cannot do for various reasons. That’s ok. I don’t expect to climb mountains or go bungee jumping in real life. We aren’t all equal, and I don’t need to do all the same things that other players do in the game. However, I play the game with MY characters as the hero. The stories are written that way. I don’t play to be fodder for others to beat time and time again in a race. MY hero being locked out of general content/generally available reward because I can’t see a green targeting area, or I move slower and can’t make the timing for jumps, etc. just doesn’t sit well.

Now, I’m just hoping that ArenaNet has some other option available to those of us that couldn’t get the “home node” because not only will there be people that couldn’t finish this achievement, there are going to be new players in the future that will not have a chance if this is the only option. Perhaps the next living content…perhaps through gems in the store—not as satisfying as earning it myself this time around, but hopefully there will be options.

I really wish I was recording all my attempts. I don’t see how he can be “random” considering the number of times Adnul uses belch against my healing. He mirrors my opening move EVERY time. That’s not random. After the first 3 attempts, I started watching…he has mirrored whatever opening move I use each and every time. Depending on the skill, it may or may not matter in the long run, but there is nothing random about the opening move.

I do not think he should be able to announce his signature move with X amount of time for the next drink. FAR too often he’s gotten his bluff up without me having enough time to change my next skill.

I have used Dulfy’s guide, I’ve tried all of the signature moves available multiple times. I’m beginning to think that not all player characters are created the same, and there is something not right about Adnul’s program.

Someone tell me we get the achievement for his part after X tries please? If so, I’ll keep going, otherwise I’m done with Adnul. I thought this would be one of the under-achievements I could get done, since I can’t hit the bazaar jumps and have yet to complete the race before it times out. That’s ok, I won’t be able to do it all. I understand challenge…after 55 years on this planet, I understand the idea of trying and failing at something until you finally figure out how to do it well—that is called “learning” and “practice.” But this is recreation, and hours spent on something with a random generator I cannot seem to beat is just silly.

The problem is ANet put PvP content under PvE for achievements. This was doomed from the beginning. PvE’ers are used to working together, this race won’t break that training.

Each argument has validity:
-it’s PvP content, so we should just let others fail if they can’t do it
-it’s a PvE achievement, so we need to work together

I suspect that after this weekend, most folks will have gotten the achievement if they want it, and there may be more “real” matches in the offering. The content is only a few days old.

LamaFc.4269:

Great (and I mean GREAT) guide. Too long to stay on forums though so I edited and formatted this guide in MS Word to print from Google Drive. It’s 45 pages (1 blank page for notes) and is nice to have laying around as you try to get your first Guardian leveled up.

Guardian 101

• Original author credit embedded in file.
• This is a .docx file not .doc (It can be read in Google Docs but is not compatible with all versions of Word/Office [I use Office 2010])

Thanks for all the hard work Valerie!!!

This is great, and the sticky helps. I know nothing about wiki’s except that adding it to the GW2 wiki would allow for others to edit it as changes happen in the future. Not trying to take it away from the OP, but sometimes players move on and then their wonderful content is lost in a forum purge or becomes obsolete because no one can edit it.

I wonder how much trouble it would be to use the word file to create a GW2 wiki page?

I don’t know that I’d agree with the term “grind” but both the holidays have left me feeling left out.

I know this is an MMO, and I do often do group content. However, I find there is very little in either of these holidays that I could do enough to complete an recipes, mini’s or other rewards.

*The jumping puzzle is too frustrating—old eyes, old reflexes. After 20 attempts to get past the first snowflakes, I gave up. Not fun.
*Tixx’s toyshop is group content, and depending on the group can take 15 minutes or 45. Unfortunately, if it’s going to take 45 I need to plan for that (for other personal reasons). So, I just don’t bother grouping up for that.
*The gift boxes on the landscape are nasty. It’s a freaking holiday give away, why should they be as difficult as they are. Yes, I can run away, but it’s also getting dangerous out on the landscape with all the tiny toy meanies left over at box locations that take forever to despawn. Between people running for their lives, and people just getting the gift and running, there are more tinies out there than boxes.
*sPvP—again, more group oriented, I just seem to die a lot, not fun.
*Bell choir…same as the puzzle, with a group component. I get something for trying, but it’s also sort of depressing to fail so often.
*Snowball fights are ok, but again, younger reflexes on others for targeting make it so I’m mostly sitting on my butt stunned.

I don’t need to do all the stuff, that’s ok—but the bar has been set pretty high for all the holiday stuff to require quick reflexes and/or other people. I’d like to have seen just one or two activities that were in the spirit of the holidays, didn’t offer a huge challenge, that I can fit into a schedule that is relatively tight. The rest of the game is so “schedule friendly”—get in, work a few hearts, maybe catch a dynamic event. The holidays seem out of place being about challenges and group content.

Just let me collect some holly or carry gift wrap and turn it in for a lower return, but give me something that can fit into a reasonable time frame, and that I can succeed at without wanting to heave the keyboard out the window. For now, I’ll just keep abandoning gift boxes on the landscape. Sorry folks, for leaving those nasty things behind, but that is a lot of work for little return, and I’m just tired of the tiny mobs.

I believe different professions have different color schemes for skin even within a race. Your particular profession may have difficulty finding skin, texture and glow colors to get “white.”

If you have a spare slot, try starting a sylvari in different professions to check the color palates—unless my eyes are really weird, they are different. I believe the “scholar” professions will have the lighter colors.

For a game with “guild” in the name, the guild management tools are wretched. Great ideas have already been posted. I’m just adding weight to the number of posts to help show that these issues are important.

For those of you checking the buffs by hovering over the icon…this may be the problem. Open the WvW page from that icon and check the buff list.

My guild icon lists the buffs on hover, but my WvW icon does not. However, on opening the page I see the buffs.

Now the question becomes is the icon hover just not working and I am receiving the buffs, or is the list on the page a myth…

[Note: I’ve been on Yaks’ Bend since 20 minutes into head start and never changed servers]

I’m another with all female characters. Last night I was taking screen shots so that I could go back later and submit bug reports with the text (as suggested). There were at least 12 screen shots by the time I got done catching up on the personal story lines, and I didn’t have time to transcribe them.

Things I noticed:
-It happens approximately every other speaker change. One of the speakers will have the audio, the next won’t, repeats.
-It more frequently happens with the NPC’s, although it did happen to my character once.
-The animations do not stop entirely…they will still gesture, but the lips stop moving. One time an NPC froze up completely while her dialog was going on.
-One time the wrong NPC was on the screen with his text lines while audio from one of the other NPC’s played. During that time, the visual NPC froze in place.

There is nothing particularly special about my characters. They are at various levels, classes, races. None of them is equipping any Gem Store armor skins or using special items beyond what has dropped on the landscape or been purchased off the Trading Post.