Guild Wars 2

In addition to what is above, there is a way to skip over NPCs to see if they are able to be interacted with (instead of getting a generic line from them once in talking to them). When you hover over them, your mouse icon will turn to a speech bubble.

When in new areas and I want to make sure I interact with all NPCs I’ll just run my cursor over the NPCs to see which ones I can talk to. Probably the closest you’ll get to an icon over them showing they can be interacted with.

Fun, achievements (there are mastery points if you do the whole chain in an area – like doing the whole chain that helps the Jaka Itzel in Verdant Brink), map tokens that are needed for bartering for stuff from minis to skins to pieces for legendaries, drops that can be salvaged for crafting materials, and more content to do besides just running around for map completion or story.

In the case of Verdant Brink, a successful daytime and successful nighttime run can result in armor chests that you can’t get easily any other way. Doing event chains will help move along the map meta event, which can yield you some items only obtainable from a certain boss/fight.

At least, these are the reasons that I do them more often than not, though it doesn’t mean I do every event on the map everytime. Sometimes it’s just doing the chains that I encounter on my way through to other objectives.

In addition to Pepsi: gathering nodes are also per account, so no one gathering at the same node will be stealing it from you (as it is in other games).

When you are in a map lower to your level, you will be powered down to be more appropriate for that zone, though still on the high powered side. You will still gain a good amount of XP by running around lower level zones; don’t avoid them just because you think you won’t level quickly that way.

If you have played other MMOs, there is not much of a leveling curve. It won’t take longer to gain levels the higher level you are.

At least your first time through – explore everything! There is so much story and cool nuggets about the world that is not stuffed into the personal and living stories. Talk to NPCs, explore areas and listen to NPC dialogue, visit Points of Interest, participate in events, and take your time. If you rush through everything you are seriously missing out.

Take the time to learn your class, learn what works best for your play style. Outside of roles for things like raids, play the class however you feel comfortable doing so – anyone that tells you that you have to play a class a certain way is just plain wrong. I also recommend making alt characters of different races and professions to see what they are like and mess around. I have one character of every profession across all races, and a few are the same profession but are able to be played differently enough that I don’t feel like I’m just playing a repeat.

Also I agree with Pepsi on this- if you have questions or need help, ask in Map chat! There are also specific players whose names will appear in chat with the word Mentor in front of it, and can be visible on that map with little apple icons – these are people that are tagged up and willing to help out others.

Yes, it’s able to be dyed.

Done! Easy peasy

I use a mouse by Sharkk – this one if you can find any place that has it - custom weights, finger rests, trigger button, DPI control, and 12 side keys. I paid about $46 for it.

I am extremely happy with it so if any of their other gaming mouse models are as good as mine, then that might be a good avenue to check out.

Thank you for all you have done, Daniel. We’ll miss you! Luck be with you in your next venture

Horia – Welcome to the game!

Patch is live, in case folks have not noticed.

Hear! Hear!

The weather is an unpredictable force and while it is unfortunate that the release was delayed it isn’t as if it was their fault. They communicated to us as best they knew and Stuff Happens.

We aren’t developers and don’t understand fully the scope of how much work it takes to get things going properly again (and those that are were many of the ones who were sticking their noses out and saying it isn’t as easy as hitting a few buttons). Kudos to the team for trying as much as they did in the hopes of being able to get the release out on its scheduled day.

Anet, thank you for your hard work and we appreciate you!

Definitely plan on coming! As well as the questions on whom to look for to get on appropriate map(s), is there a meet up/organization time that we should be aiming for before the start time?

Kyrii – Purple and gold it is, at least for me. Thank you for suggesting that, as I know others would be more than happy to do so in light of the attack. <3

Aha, clarification! I’m never usually on Reddit so I did not see that, thanks for linking it : )

Admittedly, that crossed my mind as well when I read ‘Frozen Lake’. I just can’t come up with any feasible connection between the two.

On the GW2 official Facebook page a short while ago they released a set of images that raised some curiousity as there were three phrases on the pages that wouldn’t have been what I expected:

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13350423_10153828527224209_1465394218766249115_o.jpg
Translation: “Cut stone” and “Layline Energy”

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13403821_10153828527229209_5102076173646037956_o.jpg
Translation: “Ice sheets” “Mountain range” and “Frozen lake”

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13411887_10153828527219209_9091845058610523550_o.jpg
Translation: “Cathedral”

The mention of leyline energy and the cut bloodstone aren’t surprising if you have been following the story of the raids thus far. The cathedral was shown in their post with the Stronghold of the Faithful teaser (and the Keep Construct made of the statues looking like White Mantle Confessors).

The mention in the second image of the ice, mountain, and frozen lake, however, throw me for a bit of a loop.

The Bloodstone caves at the side of the Shiverpeaks west of Droknar’s Forge might be an option, but not a clear one considering the amount of geographical change (such as the warming of the area due to Mt Maelstrom) versus the time in which all this activity by the White Mantle.

So I was curious to see what everyone else here thought about what those references might mean…

I can’t make out more than a couple letters, with how squished together they are and overlapping on some. I never could read Asuran script well when it’s in this handwritten sort of way. There may be someone around here able to differentiate the letters better to make out words.

But it seems to be that the whole panel is showing upside-down, I had to flip that around. There are words that are also flipped horizontally so they aren’t even going the same direction…

I am having the same issue. When activating it, the fire wyvern just tends to place the fire field where ever it happens to be at the time and not necessarily anywhere close to where our target is.

If you are referring to the commander champ at the (Blighted/Blighting) Tree in the last beta, the name was Diarmid.

But I do see the resemblance there and Arenanet is not at all opposed to putting references to pop culture and other things in the game.

It at least used to be one of the two suspicious scrappers started a cutscene (the left one, maybe) but you end up having to go see their leader Isola.

Isola is located in the Halrunting Plains area of Diessa and it is indeed her you should be talking to for the key after the scrappers (she will either fight or negotiate with you) before moving onto the second portion of that story step.

There was a bug a while back where Isola, and her accomplice Braugit were nowhere to be found. Check the whole of the Halrunting area and if you do not see them, submit a bug report in game (and make sure to check the box that says it is blocking your progress).

There aren’t really any dyes that are special anymore, where back in the beginning it used to be that celestial and abyss were the Hot Ticket Items because they were as pure white and deep black as you can get and nothing else came close.

Now there’s so many and most of them look alike on most armor that if you can’t afford the dye colour you want you can usually find one that’s similar enough.

But as Mtpelion said, it’s all about the collectors and the people that want to have the full bunch just because they can and the people that sell the dye at higher prices knowing this, thus driving the price up.

Here I have friends that main Elementalists and they loved the Tempest when they got the chance to play it in the last beta and are looking forward to what the result will be when HoT launches…

Can’t please everyone.

There used to be a phone app for the Temple Timer. Whether it’s still available I have no idea.

But if you use Overwolf (a 3rd party overlay program that is allowed by GW2) there is a free app in the store that is a world boss tracker.

dsslive.8473:

Maethor.2810:

Sigh.

If this is indeed the staff it looks like… So much for the comment of ‘no two professions will be getting the same new weapons’.

they never said they wouldn’t give two specs the same weapon.

Could be remembering it incorrectly, but I could have sworn this was said when the specializations were first being mentioned to the public.

Still. Makes the thief and ranger specializations feel less, well, special.

Sigh.

If this is indeed the staff it looks like… So much for the comment of ‘no two professions will be getting the same new weapons’.

Servers themselves don’t tend to matter as much as they used to when the game was launched. GW2 has the megaserver system, so everyone on a map is from a huge mix of servers. The only time server really matters anymore is for WvW.

What you can do, as mentioned by Adae above, is to look for an RP guild (and if you don’t care that much about doing WvWwith them, you don’t need to be on their server unless they require it). The megaserver attempts to group party members and guild members into the same map so long as population allows. It’s easy enough for guild members to taxi people into the same map for RP events and the like.

In PvE it doesn’t so much matter. As you play and learn your classes and how they work, you can come up with different ways to sync build together. You can level together from the start with different races – one of you will just need to be the other. Each race starts by default on their own race’s land and once you complete the introduction instances you can find an Asura gate to Lion’s Arch, and from there take another gate to the starting zone you both wish to start in.

Once a character is created you can preview different armor pieces on your character in the wardrobe (must be near a bank or crafting table to show the skins you don’t have yet). You can also find a list of armor sets here, sorted by race and armor type over on the wiki.

brokenserenity.4638:

Why only human? humans suck i wanted to make a sylvari revenant or a norn….weekend ruined! just joking lol

But seriously why restrict to just humans when eventually all races will be revenant’s, kinda limits the info you can gain before release(especially given the clipping issues certain races have with armor skins) if you restrict to just the easiest race to model guys.

This is its first run in the open world and they are likely more worried about seeing how the class does at its core first over on each individual race right off the bat. Start small, fix the main issues there, and then branch out instead of having a ton of problems all at once.

Well, he isn’t gone for good, he just isn’t in LA.

According to this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/Lore-concerns-with-the-new-Lions-Arch

PeterFries.1057:

Louveepine.7630:

And Dougal? = ( Did he die?

Dougal is fine. He just doesn’t happen to be in the city at the moment.

So wait – where is the entrance to this puzzle?

Do we need to get these keys before going in, or are all four of them along the route within the puzzle?

I have custom playlists of my own, but I don’t even think that I use all 8. But the ones they give cover all the aspects of the game.

But it’s less ‘tracks’ and more ‘playlists’. I do it as an iTunes playlist, saved with the appropriate soundtrack names, and exported into the GW2 folder. So my boss battle playlist is 20 or so songs that will play randomly through the boss fight.

When you want to go back to the GW2 music, all you do is delete the playlist files you put in the game folder and the music will revert back to the standard music. There’s no risk (that I’ve come across) to losing the actual game music.

The one complaint I have is that transition is not entirely smooth nor does it kick in right away. Namely the standard ‘battle’ list – you need to be in combat for more than a couple trash mobs to kick in, and if you don’t stay in combat the playlist turns off. Which is sometimes annoying, sometimes funny for standard fights outside of events and open world champ fights.

There’s very little that can be done about it.

I can understand the OP’s frustration, but as the player isn’t usually doing anything wrong by standing there or jumping around and being generally annoying, there’s no reason for them to get in trouble. When they’re preventing you from completing something, being verbally abusive, etc. then that’s another matter.

While it may not be optimal for location, try using places that aren’t generally populated by players? Find taverns that are off the beaten path to stand in, or places that aren’t generally a part of player traffic, away from common story locations and repetitive dynamic events.

Otherwise the best you can really hope to do is ignore them as reporting them won’t have them removed unless they’re actually in violation of a policy.

I’m sorry to hear about your friend.

A suggestion for getting the word out: There’s a number of GW groups on facebook. I’d recommend joining a few to get the word out (asking admin permission to make sure this sort of post is allowed) or asking friends that might happen to be in one to post about it.

Also, when you take a screenie in game there will be a ‘screenshot saved to…’ dialogue in your chat window with the folder location. Just check that destination to see if they’re mistakenly going there or confirm that’s the problem folder.

I don’t see where having multiple crafting professions and with weapons spread out between more than one of said professions is unfair.

But as it was already said, if you don’t want to put the effort into crafting it yourself, then just do Tequatl every day at reset. There’s a very rare chance for Tequatl’s Hoard to drop and while I’ve never gotten that drop myself, I’ve gotten 3 other ascended weapon chests (note: I’ve been doing Teq almost every day at reset for about 4 months now). Just show up early to get on a good and organized map.

Other than the hoard, the weapon chests are fairly random in terms of what stats you get. You can pick and choose which weapon you want, but it’ll be something like Zojja’s box or Coalforge’s box, etc.

Fomivee.3065:

Well, Divinity’s Reach was once a Divinity Coast.
So this stone might be related to Janthir. (Tablets of Janthir, Fountain of Truth)

But it might also be related to nothing and be just a stone.

Unless the devs are leading a wild goose chase on it, it isn’t just a stone.

I wish I could remember exactly when the interview or snippet was, but it was at least a year ago if not a little longer, but one dev (wish I could remember which one too) said that the stone behind Jennah’s throne was had some significance and was related to GW1. But wouldn’t give any other hints other than that. :/

I prefer Lornar’s pass.

The Priory HQ is located there and there’s more bits of that to explore, including reading books in the library as well as Ogden’s quarters.

It’s prettier, I think (even with the snow). Plus it has the old statues of Dwayna and Grenth that were in GW1, which I find more nostalgic. But both zones have connections to GW1 – Lornar’s for the godly statues, and Gendarran for some of the same villages/locations of older Kryta.

You’d probably like this map done by that_shaman:

https://14fe37a8b5d5fceb089e31b9a7f79f5718765f34-www.googledrive.com/host/0B9mf4AAIMRl1TTdER0Y3NV9IOEE

First off, unless there is a very specific thing you wish to do that requires certain stats (or somewhere like PvP/WvW), you don’t NEED beserker gear and scholar runes. There are people that have the opinion where if you don’t have x gear you’re not doing it right, when that doesn’t hold any truth to it. Get the gear to go with the build that you are happiest playing.

I have 10 level 80s of varying professions. I don’t PvP/WvW much but that’s something that you can look into. There’s working on map completion if you want to have a legendary weapon in the future. Crafting you’re working on, which is great if you want to get some achievement points, craft for profit, craft legendary stuff and ascended gear for higher level fractals.

There’s completing the personal and living stories, if you haven’t kept up with those (if you intend on getting the expansion when it comes out and haven’t done the most current living story, I would highly recommend picking that up and working through that). Tied with the last LS is also working to get the luminescent gear from the Silverwastes (plus there’s plenty of events for karma, champ fights for drops, and chest runs). If you like gear hunting, then there’s trying for the ambrite weapons stemming out of Dry Top, and starting to gather materials for a legendary weapon.

My own Necro – I’ve been working on doing Tequatl at reset every night in hopes of getting her a Sunless weapon eventually. That will be my ‘wow’ when I get it! Her gear, I can’t remember the name off the top of my head as I’m at work, is high in power and condition damage. I play around with some PvP in the practice arena, do map completion, dungeons, unlocked traits for the hell of it, join up with an EotM zerg, and I’ll take a night here and there and follow a boss timer for all the big boss events around the maps for more karma and loot. Then there’s working things for achievement points (slayer deeds, jumping puzzles, fashion collector, other collections) for AP and the like.

So there’s plenty to do, depending on what your fancy is and what you want to get out of it

Zommoros

/15char

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Maethor.2810:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

I believe it’s the Asura personal story if you choose to join the vigil. Don’t qoute me on that though.

It’s part of the Asura’s level 30 story arc where you help the three orders. If you choose Batanga/Whispers she’ll take you there.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Protest_Too_Much

True but I was talking about the secret base in Gandarren Fields, not the secret base in Kessex Hills

Point. Difficult to tell which you were referring to with both being talked about

But you are correct about Gendarren! After joining the Vigil as an Asura you get to go to the spot below an old farmhouse in the northwest area of Cornucopian Fields.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rakt_and_Ruin

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

I believe it’s the Asura personal story if you choose to join the vigil. Don’t qoute me on that though.

It’s part of the Asura’s level 30 story arc where you help the three orders. If you choose Batanga/Whispers she’ll take you there.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Protest_Too_Much

All of my character names are generally race-appropriate, though I only have RP background for one of them (but have yet to actually do any RPing in game).

Inis – My Sylvari, which follows their celtic naming theme (means ‘from the river island’ but all my other preferences were taken).

My norn – Signe Grimsdottir, Herja Ivarkin, and… well I forget their last names as one I don’t play often and one is currently a placeholder for the revenant (and I’m at work so I can’t check) but those are Eira and Gudra respectively. Gudra is a play on the Valkyrie name Guðr.

My Asura is named Ankka – Many Asuran names to me are Russian in feel (when they don’t sound like sound effects) so I picked something in that line, as well as something with a vowel ending as many female Asura have.

I don’t have a Charr any longer but when I had one I did pick the last name with the warband naming convention. My human names tend to be rather normal, and generally are names I’ve used in tabletop RPGs before or are names yoinked from books. Malja Varick, Izebel van Verin, and Wynne Everheart being old names, while Molly Carpentter and Magiere Massing are from book series >.>

I should be able to make it. I don’t know if I will be able to spend the whole time there depending on how long it goes (that’s 11pm my time, and I have a curfew on myself on weeknights so I don’t end up dead the next day at work) but I can at least start off present.

Well, I’m certainly interested in helping out where I can.

I don’t know exactly how I’d best be able to contribute, but still. I’ve got some experience in running and playing tabletop, and can possibly toss in some thoughts for stories or try to help do some writing at least.

I don’t personally remember any reference to his death but I would assume that somewhere along the line he was killed in combat. But with the Dwarves all (except Ogden) underground fighting, there’s no current way word would travel back up to the surface to have notified anyone of his death. If they were communicating at all with the surface we’d have more of an idea of what the state is on the fight against the destroyers, I’d imagine.

So based on the fact this new class can call on him, I would assume that even though they were turned to stone that their souls do go to the mists upon destruction.

Oh let’s see…

Jurah
Cynn
Jora
Livia (if she’s not still alive >.>)
Vekk
Kalla Scorchrazor

That I can think of right now anyway.

If I remember correctly corruption is sort of a conscious effort on the part of the dragon. Just because it’s part of a dragon doesn’t mean it’s going to seep corruption. If that was the case then the Zephyrites would all be corrupted from getting crystals of Glint’s corpse and the scholars in the Priory would be corrupted from Zhaitan’s tail.

For the Fang specifically, making a weapon out of it isn’t likely to happen, at least for a good long time. The lore surrounding it (other than its acquisition) is that the one who manages to damage it is the one that will bring Jormag down. So far no one has managed to ever do such so it’s pretty safe to assume until someone figures out how to damage it, making a weapon from it isn’t going to happen.

Though the image of the whole fang itself being catapulted is pretty funny…

Serophous.9085:

Could be wrong and necros (and other professions) may be able to use different weapons, but I think Marjory is going to swap to the new class soon. As for Rytlock, well, the sword did belong to Rurik, it went back to the mists with Rytlock behind. Chances are he caught up to it, found Rurik, and Rurik embedded himself in the sword, hence the power up (or allowing Rytlock to access its full power).

Based off what has been said in previous interviews and such, the likeliest new class will be a heavy armor wearer (to even out the numbers), and it’s been said that they eventually want to make all weapons available for all classes. So could go either way.

On the Rurik thing… I would find it hilarious if you happened to be right about that, and that’s what allows Rytlock to lift the curse of the Foefire (I believe what’s said is “in the hands of the rightful heir of Ascalon” but hey, what if being IN the weapon works too?). /crackpottheory

Torsailr.8456:

May I suggest a reward for them?

Place a book in the Priory (or some other) library with the translation and have it attributed to Titus and Konig’s characters as authors?

Ooh, I think that’s a lovely idea!

There’s a passage about Ossa from the Nightfall Manuscripts that end with:

“Turai and his followers then began a great pilgrimage, marching north into the Crystal Desert, where the gods once walked among men. His loyal entourage erected temples, raising pillars toward the heavens… but Ascension eluded him. Instead of everlasting life, he found the torment of eternal living death. In ghostly form, he still walks the earth. Many of his followers died as well, and their ghosts have remained in the Crystal Desert.

[insert another paragraph on how he is viewed by the people and about his descendants]

As for Turai, he maintains his vigil over Elona, guiding others who follow the path of heroes. Scholars of lore know of him as the savior of Kourna, the man who single-handedly defeated the Scourge of Vabbi— but for many, he is simply the Ghostly Hero, a champion who stalks the troubled wastelands north of Elona, eternally ready to stand beside its heroes."

So as for the Ghostly Hero in GW1 that’s in the desert, yes that’s him.

From what I remember he could free himself of being bound to earth if he helped heroes obtain Ascension, which he did successfully do with the PCs. I don’t remember if we had any confirmation after that in that he passed on to the Hall of Heroes or some such. I haven’t played through Ep. 8 myself but I do suppose that Ossa could be acting from his place in the mists for this episode, no longer tied to the Desert.

The sign on the gate reads “Autopsy Lab, Do Not Enter” so one can assume that is what its primary use is. Other than that? I have no idea. Obviously that’s where they’re poking and picking apart things.

The tubes could be extracting energy from the tail, since we know (thanks to the Zephyrites talking of Glint) that the corpse retains power. They could be trying to figure out how to harness that. On the opposite end, there’s the possibility that those tubes are keeping the tail “alive” as it were. Keeping the tissue from decaying further so they could continue experimenting on it. There looked like Asura tech so really, it could be a number of things.

I can’t say much about what the other stuff might be at the moment as I’m at work and all of my screenshots are at home.

All I do know is I want to poke around in there >.>

Yep. I didn’t think specifically Diagon but I did happily exclaim about the Floo use

I posted it on the reddit forum too but the letters we see in front of ‘kept’ were being guessed as NTO and NTS as possibilities. After staring at the blurs myself for a bit I think it’s also possible those three letters are ‘ETS’.

Thanks to his head blocking it it’s entirely conjecture but… it’s also Abaddon’s temple. Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s ‘Beware _________________ secrets kept’.