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Lily of the Elon preview

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I am wondering how crowded it will be. With previous places it was people that specifically bought the pass from the store. This will have a larger chunk of the playerbase having access.

Too Much Dismounting

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It is like you are being taught the opposite of what to do. For example, one of the heart actions is to start fighting while mounted. A pretty pointless action since to get the heart action you dismount yourself. In that case it is more of a strange heart action though as you want to dismount during a fight.

more adventures? really?

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Adventures were not the problem. Some are kinda fun and it’s something else to do in game.

The problem is locking mastries behind them with time limits tanking all the fun out of them and making it very frustrating to do.

Maybe they will not do it this time? I have not looked at the one that was there. I do not mind if they are just another way to get some treasure, it is when they become close to required for things like masteries.

more adventures? really?

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Am I the only person that absolutely hated them in the first expansion?

Path of Fire subforum

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The really odd thing is we do not even have an official thread.

Gordon Ramsey mini-game need to be repeatable

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Down with ALL adventures and do not add more! The most depressing thing I saw on the map was an adventure icon.

PoF Demo - Feedback

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adventures? fail 1
unidentified items not sorting by rarity? fail 2

Well, LS4 in a few months at least.

Unidentified gear - Please No, No, No, Nooooo

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Gonna be honest.. this may break the PoF expac for me. :/

Same here. I liked what I had seen so far and even the unidentified bit looked nice but that was under the assumption that unidentified items would sort by rarity. If it does not I do not see much of an incentive to mine treasure there vs somewhere where I do not need to deal with the identification system. I would even be happy with just 2 colors to id green/below and yellow/above.

Unidentified gear - Please No, No, No, Nooooo

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Unidentified gear, why, oh why? It is a redundant RNG throwback to old style action RPGs that serves no purpose in Guild Wars, just adds to tedium and annoyance. Please remove it from PoF release.

Except it was in Guild Wars since inception.

I like it, personally. Saves space.

Good luck.

but it hasn’t been in gw2 before they introduced it back again with PoF so why?

in core tyria and HoT we didn’t have it and we did just fine..

we also didn’t need to bring it back to life from gw1 imo.. and making them unidentified gear and making us identify them for coins is just no fun..

I think salvaging is enough. I don’t want to have to carry extra id kits in addition to salvage kits..

Cant you just salvage them without identifying?

Yes but you may salvage exotics and precursors, as they can hide in the “green unidentified” objects.

Anet at least make them group by rarity. Please! Green objects (for whites, blues, greens) yellow and orange. Please!

Kitteny! Kitteny! Kitten!!!!!

Anet: if this is true then the color we get REALLY needs to reflect what it is! I am happy getting unidentified (color) IFF that color maps to what the item actually is.

Unidentified gear - Please No, No, No, Nooooo

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yeah i don’t miss identification kits from guildwars1 at all… and in gw2 they are just an additional unnecessary gold sink.. just don’t include unidentified gear at all.. please! leave them identified from the get go :>

Why identify it? As long as rares and above do not mix with the blues and greens I really do not care what I got. It is just salvage kit fodder anyway.

edit: It seems ‘unidentified green’ is not always a green item? Big problem anet! My vote just went 180’ in the other direction!!!!!

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story problems & lily of the enon

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Yes, of course there is no point in crafting anything there but it would be nice to wander around and see what is there. Oh well, next month.

I was not paying close attention but the first time I got the saddle after the heart and was headed through the gate. It was like an obvious zone/instance crossing for a second and I was in Amoon with the green circle to continue next to me.

As to the race you are running between pairs of lighted pillars. Simple enough, but I was a bit lost what to do when we ran out of pillars about halfway around the course. I finally guessed that we should race back to the start but the NPC there indicated I was not done.

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Thanks, the story problems are interesting though. I am not sure how I even broke out before the spiders or why when I went back in I would start at the beginning.

story problems & lily of the enon

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After doing the heart where you put out fires I went to Amnoon. No spiders, No talking to Kasmeer, no story rewards, I just exited somehow. The pass for ‘lily of the enon’ (which was in a shared slot) did not work.

Ok, find the green thing back into the story and do the last few minutes. It took me all the way back to the beginning. A bit more than I intended but of well.

Ok, back to the city and I still can not use the pass. Is anyone able to use the pass or do I have to do the step collecting bounties and such?

when the beta weekend start? in what hour?

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That site did not list a time? I am guessing 9 AM their time today because that is when they schedule almost every launch.

Cute kitty tag vs. real commanders

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I would like to see a map like in second life (and what we see for party members/guildies here). Everyone is represented by a pixel. Commanders would have a different color or maybe the same design as now. People would just flock to wherever they saw a lot of people and vanity tags would go off on their own.

Multiple elite specializations>

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No. Take the necro for example. In hot the shroud was changed. In the new one you swap it for other skills. So which thing is what happens? What about the other elite’s skills that are now meaningless if the shroud does something else?

I would love to see people be able to mix and match elites …. the more options the better. Leaving aside balancing issues though the possible problems would be huge and only increase with each expansion. Think of it as getting 9 new professions with each expansion.

Suggestion : Save build + Utility Skills

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Gee! Thanks! Nobody EVER thought of that before!

Hint: The search on here does not work.

Cute kitty tag vs. real commanders

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I just saw one on someone yesterday. Is it a gem store thing or was it added to the commander menu?

If the latter ….. no, just no. That menu should not be for bling.

edit: I looked it up, these things are being used for actual commander tags? I saw it near the home instance in DR so hoped it was just some bling someone was using. Maybe they should set them so they do not appear as icons on the map/minimap as that just invites abuse.

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Hero points respec available?

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I saw somewhere that we might get a different system than doing a bunch of HPs to get an elite. It would be nice, I wanted to explore HOT the first time with the spec meant for it. Not my first experience be grinding HPs. People laugh that it was grinding but to an altoholic it is.

Feedback: Guild Wars 2 Mac 64-Bit Client

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For my Mac users: Is anyone else having issues with the new update. On my Mac book pro GW2 is not downloading or opening for either 64 and 32 mac client. Any suggestions?

Interesting. I have the 32 bit and the 64 bit on different drives, the dat file does not overwrite itself that way (well, 3 copies of the dat since I also have it in a windows 10 VM). Anyway, even though I have been using the 64 bit lately I started the update on the 32 bit and went to watch TV, during it my mac rebooted somehow. Checking in I saw it had done the entire download to the 32 bit and did not seem to be corrupt. The incident was not even a normal boot either as my itunes was complaining the system had abruptly died.

Feedback: Guild Wars 2 Mac 64-Bit Client

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For those looking for the config file for the 64bit – yes it does exist.

Go to /Library/Application Support/Guild Wars 2 and the config is there.

It seems it reads it for some things and not others though. The 64 bit version grabbed my custom key bindings from the 32 bit client but not the fact that I had turned the music off.

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@Menadena.7482: Gamma on Mac is interesting: it affects the entire display. It’s currently limited to full screen due to being in parity with the Windows client.

Thanks, it sounds like apple implemented it at the OS layer for some bizarre reason. Are there plans for us to have more graphical control than we currently have? The defaults are not exactly optimal, which I left alone to not influence any testing data.

The most obvious one I see all the time near the minister’s waypoint (and I suspect in much of DR) when I am going to my bank. All the light colored paving stones are washed out, like the brightness on a TV was turned way up. Can anyone else confirm that one? Late 2013 iMac, 24 GB ram, running from kitten.

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Jon (or if anyone else knows) … will the gamma control be coming to the windowed version? Or maybe we can at least set it in full screen then switch back to windowed to see how it changes the experience?

There are some things that, while maybe not strictly bugs, could probably be improved with graphics settings. For example, areas that are way too bright (I usually see this near the minister’s WP in DR), possibly too dark, or just plain odd (was my hair ALWAYS that colour?).

No structure in this game kinda turns me off

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bug bug bug bug bug ………

No structure in this game kinda turns me off

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At the end of the day however you do NOT have to play this game as efficiently as possible. The vast majority doesn’t.

This times a few thousand. None of my characters have yet to complete a zone (much less the world) and the oldest one is coming up on 3 years of doing this now. I play to have fun, not to meet some arbitrary standard. I may enter a given zone 1 time or 100 times and never think ‘oh, I can not go here because I already unfogged that area on the map’. I just do whatever is fun. Occasionally ‘fun’ is uncovering somewhere I have not been before with that character, but not always.

Can I make a suggestion? Find someone who just wants to explore and team up with them. Then you can follow away to your heart’s content. Plus they will not probably mind having someone to fight alongside them. If you need a way to get started with this just give a shout in your guild or use the LFG tool.

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Jon, what hardware setups are you using? It might be as simple as a physical memory overflow and people are using the stock 8 GB.

Then again, I have managed to crash it rarely with 24. I do concur it seems to happen more often lately though.

Our machines range from 4 to 16 GB of RAM at this time.

It sounds like some of your test machines are on the older side if you get down to 4 GB? Interesting that those can run it as I would expect them to crash before the stock 8+ GB most machines have now.

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For those having the keyboard problem, is it keyboard layout related.. i.e. is the game switching layouts on your or some other behavior?

When I saw the layout mentioned recently I was intrigued. I had my keyboard glitch on me during the first instance of ep6. Sometime after I noticed my keyboard layout had changed to my Finnish one. Unfortunately I do not know if the 2 incidents were related but knew I had not used that layout recently.

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We are actively investigating the crashing. Unfortunately it hasn’t been easy to reproduce internally.

Jon, what hardware setups are you using? It might be as simple as a physical memory overflow and people are using the stock 8 GB.

Then again, I have managed to crash it rarely with 24. I do concur it seems to happen more often lately though.

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It would be nice if you investigate why we’re alsmost ALWAYS kicked from metaevents maps.

That is almost always a memory issue as there is a surge when everyone tries to get the chest. Aside from major recoding there are two simple fixes, have less memory be requested (ie, turn down your graphics settings) or have more memory available (add memory, quit things you do not need running). Activity monitor is your friend.

No structure in this game kinda turns me off

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Finding hearts is hard? Just open the map and they have icons! There are also icons for NPCs that will tell you where the hearts are if you have not explored the local area.

5 new maps to spread us thinner.

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Maybe old maps can be recycled somehow? Yes, we have megaservers to concentrate people, but eventually you will have less people on all instances of the map than are needed for a successful run of whatever event it features. More solo events? Drop the level? You do not need to do a complete rewrite of the map to make it attractive and/or usable again.

Having issues preordering path of fire?

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My credit card had me verify it. Ok, that was pretty much expected by buying a game close to $100 online. What caught me by surprise though was the original transaction, which I verified right away, was not sent to them again/went poof. I had to go to the page and resubmit it myself while my cc company was on the line to watch it go through.

can we have some waypoints pls?

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I am not quite sure I see the objection. Unlocking WPs is hardly a challenge, it is just monotony. Even if the unlock process was ecactly the same look at it this was. Would you rather spend, say, 2 silver each time you used one or maybe do 1 silver’s worth of work on one of your characters then have it free forever?

can we have some waypoints pls?

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forum bug post …….

can we have some waypoints pls?

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I’m not keen on unlocking WP’s with currency. I’d guess the idea of “use currency and unlock for account” is a test due to the requests to not have to run each alt to WP’s to unlock them. For my preference, I’d hope the test fails. I prefer the old system.

I prefer what we get with the new map. If you are REALLY dead-set against them you get one character-bound WP just by entering the map. Meanwhile if you run around the shore gathering pearls you can then head up to a merchant and unlock an account-bound spot. The big difference is it is *****FREE***** to use thereafter. Say I do not do much and use 5 teleports per day. In a couple weeks that is a gold that I saved. How much do people think pearls are worth? Shrines are a STEAL, especially since you do not need to run around with all of your alts unlocking them.

Can't buy home node from Provisioner Anlana

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yay! I was just able to buy it! In my instance! Thanks anet!!!!!!

Can't buy home node from Provisioner Anlana

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Another reset without having this node? You fixed it last time anet ….

Cannot Use Abilities in Instances

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During the thing where you have to throw bloodstones that is the only skill you are allowed. During the instance facing your fears only one person can do anything, the other loses all of their skills again. There are probably more like this. Intended, but not what I would call good design.

Mac 64 Bit Client Keyboard Issue

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Me to in the grotto instance. The only keys that would seem to work were the arrow keys, I could not even type a text chat. Finally I just quit the client and restarted things and thanked the fact that I did not lose much instance progress.

Reason #1868127389 why I can not stand instances. They are all-or-nothing.

Can't buy home node from Provisioner Anlana

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In Living Story 3 Chapter 6, other players are reporting that Provisioner Anlana sells a home instance node of Orrian oysters. However I and at least one other person in map chat are unable to see or purchase the node from her inventory.

Not on ATM but is that the one near the initial WP? No node showed for me either and I was a bit down about that.

LS3 portal tome window behind inv window

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When you open your inventory and click on the portal tome it opens a window behind it rather than what you would expect, on top of it. On my usual resolution this is just a matter of grimacing, moving the inventory window, and at least being able to use the buttons on the portal window (even though I do not play full-screen). On a laptop though ….

Official Episode 6 Feedback Thread: One Path Ends

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Is there a problem with the tome? It is implemented to pop up a window in the center of the screen. Fine, except you would have at least your inventory window open and it pops up BEHIND that. So not only is it tricky with low resolution/windowed environments for many laptop players it will be completely of no use. Does the tech exist to have it pop up in the front?

Defeating Self Doubt

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You need to go to the visions and press F, it will cleanse the debuff and stun the clone. I fought it for 2 hours before figuring this out lol.

Thank you so much for this. I wish they would make this clear in the game. But Haha anet.

Also an icon will pop up, click it and aim it at the clone. It will not score a hit on the clone when it is down though so shoot between when it is getting up and when it is shooting at you again.

First mission problem. Justiciar Araya - OPE

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I wasn’t a fan of this either, but one tip – u can fire the bloodstone at an inactive glyph.

Finally reached the map after 2 shaky instances. Hoping we get on track at some point. We’re veering off again and it still doesn’t feel like we’re starting a finale episode yet.

What? We have to go through 2 bloody instances before we get to the map?

[Suggestion] Next Gen console port?

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Curious if the team has given serious thought to porting to the next gen consoles?

The reason I ask is due to yet another series of big names coming over TERA, Black Desert Online, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, Etc etc yada yada the list is growing every year.

Question: If you build the game for consoles during the development of the next expansion wouldn’t that cut costs?

Additionally. The information is basically the same for what the character owns and what it has completed. Would we see a port with the ability to bring our toons over that we already had?

I do not know about the other games but at least in ESO the pc world and the console world never cross. You have to choose one or the other, no porting or the like.

I vaguely recall a dev statement years ago that consoles were not in their plan. We just finally got a real beta for macs and even that is not polished. Consoles would be a whole new major development effort.

Can we destroy Lion's Arch again?

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To be quite honest, new LA is devoid of all emotion and also devoid of all logic in its construction.

The old city felt like a city. New LA is pretty but feels absolutely nothing like the harbor and economic powerhouse that it’s supposed to be.

The BLTC is supposed to be a no-nonsense business center – the Lionguard and their grit, and the very real possibility that things like pirates are part of the world and so on in the story portrayed this excellently and really fit well. New LA looks like a place people would retire to. Unlike beautiful monuments which mourn the losses caused from major battles/attacks, there is no sense of respect to the fallen, no sense of real personality, behind the new LA. It honestly looks like the designers were perfectly happy with the total annihilation of a large quantity of people and infrastructure as an excuse to make HappyLand: the place where everything is pretty and safe.

Exactly, Lion’s Arch is like the touristy parts of a capitol city all gathered together. The stuff you would normally expect in a working city (services, shoppes) are spread out and not convenient to each other in most cases. Even things like Disneyworld have a better layout.

How do you 'save xp' for upcoming mastery?

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You do not. Although you can do mastery points in the other zones now.

Character slot limit increased for the 25th?

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The limit is silly. They are literally throwing money away. I know there’s more than a few people with full character slots.

I’m stuck at 69, the fact that there are people with 70 shows it’s an artificial limit.

Of course it is artificial but that does not mean they do not have a reason to max it out. For example, the number of groups (the same as guilds, although used for all kinds of things) you can be in in second life used to be 10 and now is larger. In that case they have been careful each time they increased it because the more groups someone is in the slower another piece of code ran. I would not be surprised if something much the same was at play in GW2.

Scythe, 6K gold

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Don’t have this skin unlocked nor have any in storage or for sale. That said I prefer things like this not be made easier to acquire. You want things of value out there like this. if anything would also like to see more ultra rare drops that have limited numbers out that in which people might get lucky to see as a drop. There needs to be things of luxury value in game for people to try and acquire.

Completely disagree. It is basically artificial scarcity.

If this were the ultimate skin, worthy of the best legendary, then I could see price wars over it. As it is it is only expensive because there is no other option that even comes close.

Look at it in real life. It would be like charging a trillion dollars US for, oh, a broken mood ring. Something whose sole virtue was nobody was bothering to make it anymore. (now someone will google and prove it is still made, not the point though)

Can't wait for the CD Mastery Points

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People seem to misunderstand my topic, my point is not that there should be an exact number of mastery points, but rather, that the excess doesnt get wasted.

Not possible while keeping to the design that was explained above. If the “surplus” mastery points can give you something you’d want to have, they are not surplus. If not, they are wasted.

This.

Me, I’m happy to have some “banked” MP. When new Ancient Magics come along, designed to enhance play in the new map and episode with which they are associated, I don’t have to go into a holding pattern looking for the points to buy the new tier. A surplus is far better than a deficit, especially when they take up zero inventory room. It’s just a number in one’s Hero Panel.

Exactly, whenever I want to learn a new mastery level in something I am always happy to find I have a few points already towards that cost. If the price is a hit to my OCD by not having 0 when there are no more masteries so be it.