Guild Wars 2

Linfang.1087:

The sale starts today, usually 9-11am PST

GRR!

Hopefully they will not have “one hour only” things as I will be (hopefully) fast asleep by then.

edit: Citation? I can not seem to find the news.

edit2: doh again! (second of the day, on a roll) AM … (does math) yeah, I will be a few hours late but hey

You pick a skin and apply it to the armor. The dyes are independent so just redo them as needed.

I have no doubt that it will be coming out late in Q3 or early Q4 (although something like ‘tomorrow’ would obviously be better). It is not just a technical issue but a PR one as well. You do not want to deliver a bad product to customers/clients but at the same time you do not want to deliver a late one. December 31 is like a price ending in 99, it just seems like a magical number and 1 day later would have people saying “it is the next year”. If it has to be late you had better have an awfully good reason and game companies notoriously are bad at communicating things like that.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

There is a list of ways to acquire Mastery Points in the Wiki, if you are interested. =)

Good luck.

Thanks, I found that list at http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mastery#Mastery_points … handy. Does anyone know if we will get retroactive points? For example, I would assume the vast majority of 80s have entered every zone and got a few achievements. The other options depend on your playstyle and things like what is considered as a hard champ.

Hopefully slots will go on sale during the anniversary. Not only do I want to bring all of my slots up to 9 but buy 6 more so I can have each race with the three armor classes (for some of the collectors achievements it comes in handy). Yes, it will take awhile to level all of those characters but I will have fun doing so. I can not fathom hitting the maximum number of slots though as I would lose track of who ‘specializes’ in what: sending my Guardian to Orr would produce no joy but my warrior loves it there and has to be the only one so far that will turn around and kill an undead rather than running the other way.

Superfrick.1536:

Notsoperky.4291:

Even 10 gold an hour works out at slave labour..

Oh my gods. This. So much this.

Exactly, while I can believe you COULD do 80g a day in the SW if that was your sole goal it is easier (and more efficient) to just buy the gems. It puts costs in a much better perspective when you start thinking of gold in terms of the RW currency of your country (around a dime a gold w market fluctuations in the US).

In general I salvage everything (except for exotics) then sell stacks of mats when I need a lot of gold fast. Other times it will make more sense to sell items directly though. The SW provides me with most of my loot but do not forget things like bosses, especially ones that drop good stuff: have a timer up so you can take a break to get them then return to the SW after. If you look at all of the game, not just the SW, you can get some serious loot depending on what you do, ever do a champ train all over the map waiting for Teq with 20-30 people?

My main advice is not to sweat earning the most you can in the SW. Just enjoy it there (or any other area in Tyria). Sure, earn what you can, but make fun your goal and any gold you get is a bonus.

Danikat.8537:

… Then you sell everything that’s worth more than the mats (on the TP, never to a merchant), salvage everything else (with an appropriate kit based on the item) and sell the materials too. Basically at the end of it you have nothing extra on your account except the gold and maybe some luck.

If you don’t mind making slightly less profit you can do the easier route of selling everything on the TP that is going for more than the merchant price and salvaging everything else.
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Another speed tip I have encountered actually DOES use the merchant. Some things, like minor sigils/runes often are effectively not worth listing on the TP except for a few of them. You can list them, but between the time you spent and the listing fee you just ate up any profit, especially since there are probably hundreds at the minimum listing price already sitting there. I just automatically dump them on my ‘sell to merchant’ pile. A few blues and greens (unless you salvage them) are the same way: better a guaranteed silver than nothing at all.

When I get done with a SW run I typically have around10 bouncing chests. I park myself near the merchant and just start unpacking and automatically salvaging. If I need more salvage kits they are only a step away (buy 2 or 3 at a time if you have the room). Use a mystic or a master on yellows. Do not worry about skins, salvaging automatically gets them.

If you happen to get an exotic they get special handling of course. How much is it worth on the TP? Do I need the skin? Can one of my characters use this? Never ever salvage them unless you are crafting a legendary any time soon.

Generally the SW are a good way to get mats. Just run from event to event, opening any chests you find on the way. Extra credit for the VW event. When you need gold just sell off a pile (or a good chunk of a pile) on the TP.

Ayrilana.1396:

All they really need to do is provide some quick explanation that you need to train your mastery first before you can unlock the mastery with mastery points.

So if I have gliding at, say, 50% I can not use a glider at all?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

It’s simple enough to understand once explained, but it’s not intuitive and it’s a different system from what people have been using the last 3 years. If they haven’t been following the forums or blogs they could easily have no idea at all what to do. While I was explaining it to my friend, map chat was explaining it to another confused person. This system is different enough from the old system that ANet might consider having an NPC in game with a repeatedable cutscene explanation of how it works. They could tie an achieve point and maybe a small gift of some sort, nothing big, an omnomberry bar or something like that to have people go there and see the cutscene.

That would be a great idea! Right now it is ‘uh-huh, I think I understand’ but I do not have the mastery stuff in front of me anymore to go by. Some way of ‘this does this and that does whatever’ would go a LONG way to helping the explanation, especially if it also included shots of the UI somehow rather than someone just talking about it. For example, the people in the SW saying to get items and cause your armor to glow is a huge hint of what to do, unfortunately it would be nice to go further (do I mystic forge everything? does it automagically happen? Do I even need to keep the original rares?). A concrete set of information would go a long way when I have the UI in front of me, especially if they can demo the UI in the cutscene.

I think I understand how things work now but am not sure. The bar increases with normal xp (they were talking about that in the POI)? When a bar fills up you can spend points on a new bar? It would be nice to know how we get those points though as the blog was a bit vague on that point. Or did I totally misunderstand it? How does the first bar open or was it open before I even did anything (and what if I do not want flight as the first bar I fill up)?

For example, Do I have to earn the xp & points in Maguuma Wastes or can it be anywhere? I would prefer to throw the elite specializations at my normal stuff.

Sorry, I tend to learn better visually so when I do not have the UI in front of me it is a bit harder to work out what is going on.

The opposite may be handy as well. I have been leading new people and they went ‘squirrel!’ and did something like a heart rather then the event I was leading them to.

I am thinking of one object I use in another VW where we do a Relay for Life event. Twenty four hours on the same track going in large circles. It allows there to be a leader and other people can hook on and follow. The leader can also use an auto-walk function (which is handy for talking or whatever) but it is slower than the pace you can walk at normally. Some function like that in GW2 would be ideal and the slower pace would mean you would not use it unless you needed it. The leader would have a debuff so it would not be as much of a cheat.

Beldin.5498:

Menadena.7482:

Are you counting your mats? If you hit a lot of events, chest trains, and such you will get a bunch of exotics.

Like that one .. from the last 300 bags i’ve open i have gotten ONE exotic.

Doh! Bad typo! Bad! I meant rares when I said about exotics. You will get exotics as drops now and then though but I never salvage those (side note: you will get them in the rest of Tyria as well). Even level 80s average 2 or 3 gold so you may as well keep it unless it is a dup of something or you really want the mats you only get from them.

I typically get a rare about every event or two when I am going through what I got it the last SW run. Rares are certainly where it is at for salvaging though unless it is something super-good. Usually an ecto (or more if you are lucky) and depending on the market those are around 40s each. The major sigil is another 3 or 4s. Any other mats (especially t6s) are a bonus.

LunasaPrismriver.4321:

Don’t do the maze unless you have tons of keys for the big chest, don’t do chestfarm, don’t do vinewrath. just jump from breach to breach. 3 yellows + bags for 3-5 minutes. salvage them, sell the ectos. looking at the prizes being at about 39s per ecto though, I wouldn’t sell them until they get back to about 42-43

The first time I did the SW I was SUPER lucky so maybe they are referring to that?

First I tagged a legendary without realizing it, it was just another monster to me, albeit a big one. Boom, title.

Not knowing about the VW event I ran down there because I could see a big circle on the map. I did not even go inside but killed a monster outside. Boom, I got the big chest inside because everyone was running there (I did not know about the 4 little ones near it or the champ train).

All in all, a great gain with minimal effort and time. If I knew about the 4 little chests and the train I could have made more. If I had extrapolated all that out to 8 hours it would sound impressive As much as I like playing the SW though (my ranger just LOVES it) I would go crazy if I farmed it for 8 hours straight.

As I said before, if I was doing it for the gold I may as well save myself the pain (maybe, yknow, play a variety of regions, enjoy the day or read a book) and buy some gems to convert as 1$/hour barely buys me a diet coke. I am sure most people that can afford a game have that much discretionary income. Selling mats is where it is at though. Any time my gold balance dips too low I just sell off some ecto or a rarely used mat.

Are you counting your mats? If you hit a lot of events, chest trains, and such you will get a bunch of exotics. Say the number of ectos/exotic is 1. After each of my runs I wind up with several rares, which then get salvaged. Maybe, call it 200, ectos is unrealistic but there are all those other mats.

Think of it like a boss train that never ends. I laugh when a daily has SW events because I always wind up getting credit there for events I did not even realize I was in!

I am not sure I would spend my entire Saturday trying to get 80g though. While that sounds like a lot it is in the range of 8 USD. When you think of it in real world money that is like a large latte in an expensive coffee shop. I would prefer to play to have fun and not stress too much over how much gold I have: if I need more I can just buy it with gems.

Yes, once HOT goes live we can answer things. A lot right now, especially with the masteries, is so vague that nobody knows exactly what will happen. Even with the beta weekends we can not really say because things can and will change.

I wonder if we will get another blog post or something outlining masteries in a bit more detail as things get firmed up? It would go a long way to clearing up some of the confusion out there right now. For example, with the big trait changes we knew 80s would have enough points to unlock everything. We have no real idea with masteries if most 80s will already have unlocked all of the mastery lines or if not what they will need to do.

Yes, I like helping other players too. It is why I bought a commander tag before the mentor tag we will now have. The blog post was a bit vague on the details of mastery points and mastery lines, hopefully some of the things will be common high-level group content (fight a boss, take a cathedral) for us more casual players who do not feel an urgent need to get every single vista or single-handedly take on one of the VW champs. If not they would be getting away from the ‘play your way’ philosophy and akin to if the restricted the game to PVE-only, PVP-only, or WVW-only: no matter which you picked quite a few fans of the other 2 would be upset.

It sounds like you will get some points for completing some parts of some things, even if you did not do all of it. For example, they referred to chapters of living stories: 4 of my characters have completed the battle for ft trinity, however only 2 of my characters have an interest (yes, I give them all different personalities) in doing anything at all in Orr, and that is mainly when they get bored. I thought it was in this thread, maybe not, but someone said that, while 100% world completion would give you all the points you could do, say, 50% and get half of them.

For me the most important line will be being able to mentor. I am probably going to be having so much fun with things like specializations and a new class that the new regions (which is the only place you can use most of the lines) would be far down on my todo list.

Ayrilana.1396:

Menadena.7482:

I thought you got mastery points for each time you leveled after 80? If not, I hope they have mastery points throughout Tyria as not all of my characters will enjoy maguuma wastes as it is already.

You don’t. You’ll start out with a fair amount of Tyria mastery points if you’ve done world completion and finished the personal story. There may be other points awarded retroactively as well.

For Maguuma mastery points, finish the LS Season 2. There may be additional points for finishing all of the story achievements.

I certainly hope there are other ways of getting the points! I was not here for all of the LS (and did not especially like the ep I got partway through), typically consider my PS over once Ft Trinity has been captured, and highly doubt I will ever get 100% completion (there is always one annoying vista or POI). A way to earn the points for those of us not “hardcore gamers” please?

Monk Tank.5897:

Why not just buy the commander tag? Isn’t this a bit redundant? Is this just a PvE free commander tag?

Maybe to annoy those of us who bought one for 300g specifically for PVE mentoring?

Seriously though, I can see three use cases (plus subcases) for any sort of a tag in PVE. Identifying mentors, showing who is organizing an event (it is handy to just tell people the party with the blue tag needs help rather than explain where they are) and wearing it for bragging rights. There are also minor cases, like doing a champ run and telling if everyone is at the champ yet before hitting it.

Given the multiple cases, a mentor tag makes sense. It can tell new players who is there to help them. Hopefully it is not abused though, although the fact that almost everyone will have it probably reduces the chances of that.

If it does get over-used by players not wanting to help others a case could be made for some sort of a debuff when it is on. Presumably you will be helping players just starting (and thereby in low-level zones), so any build that can handle a zone over 30 without dying every 5 minutes would not have problems losing a few percent of some stat when the tag is turned on.

Basically think of them as one and the same based on what they said. While it will undoubtedly involve a new client for everyone most of the changes are server side.

I am on a mac but I keep GW2 and any other large games on a secondary drive. They do not benefit from an SSD as much but they do not eat a lot of space on it either. Anyway, in most program installers you can set a different path. For user apps I typically do d:\program files when I am on a PC.

I have only ONE suggestion at the top of my list. Get rid of the kittening throttle!!!!!

The scammers have ways around it, like hopping accounts. Meanwhile, party and guild leaders keep hitting the throttle after we have messaged gasp 2 players. If I am trying to distribute a needed item to my party ASAP I do not want to play the (send)(wait)(send)(wait)(send)(wait)(send)(wait)(send) … game.

Yes, I can use multiple people to send to but it is MUCH easier just to select a person and click the ‘mail to’ menu option.

Why do you need a developer though (who only rarely even see this forum)? You have other players of this game giving you ideas and you are dismissing us all because we do not work for anet I guess?

I would love it if they looked like ANYTHING else, give necros some choice. As it is right now they look … ick. Not to mention there are so many of the exact same ones running around.

How about upgrade extractors and keeping stacks of the other sigils? They cost though so you might want to plan out what you will do more so you do not use as many of them. Those have to be some pretty expensive runes and sigils to justify the cost though.

There are a few people who have space problems but they are in the minority. Just like I quickly have space problems with any desk I have in RL. In both cases it comes down to inventory management. Do I really need my notes on a project I have not done anything with in years? If maybe yes, I should (not that I do) put it in a file rather than have it cluttering up the pieces of paper I do need.

In GW2 buying 20 slot bags and not buying bag slots I have plenty of room. Even carrying every weapon type possible, various odds and ends like boosters, and any specialty equipment I average around 30 slots/character. If I wanted to use different armor sets for each mode in the game I would still have plenty of space to do that. Plus space left over for drops.

If 100 slots will not do it for you for some reason the answer is pretty simple: buy more bag slots. I momentarily thought of doing that to give myself a space buffer for unpacking things but when I saw how much it would cost (and that it was not for all my characters) I decided it was a luxury I could do without.

What is the advantage of letting it fail? I want that karma vendor up there so I can outfit new 80s with exotic armor.

While I know the arguments against keeping stuff, and there are very good reasons, it means things like the beta weekends do not present a good test of how I use GW2 day-to-day. If I normally am doing a boss fights who would I send the beta test weekends, the character than can keep the rewards or one that can not?

I am not sure of what would be a good solution. Just that it is not making a representative test.

Moony-

People have been offering you all sorts of concrete suggestions and their experiences with each one of them. Why not, oh, at least consider them rather than insisting on a solution you came up with before you even posted? There is no use offering suggestions if you have determined your answer (presumably more space).

moony.5780:

just a question..how many of u r maining 1 character for 3 years now in gw2? and playing everyday like 1h?

Umm, why would I want to do that? I have each character ‘specialize’ in something then design their build around that. Changing characters (and possibly teleporting to a waypoint) takes not much longer than changing armor and making sure you changed everything to the right set.

Uggh … the suppression system. When I am in a party I hand out needed potions to members. I have yet to fail to hit the suppression system no matter how hard I try. That is only with 4 people.

The frustrating thing is it was designed to stop spammers and scammers. Both groups can get around it anyway.

I can see back when the PS how this would have made a good idea. That you would need something to push you forward from essentially being a trainee to being a commander. Given the outcry though, or at least a widely expressed fondness for the mentors, that anet could accomplish the same goals through another means.

What if your mentor was injured during the escape? Because of that they had a desk job instead of being in the field. Occasionally they would inspire you to do something that would make them proud or congratulate you on something. They would be like the sage person there who you always wanted to impress. It would have the same result, if not more so. It would also be a perfect counter to Treaherne hollowly saying ‘good job’ if you knew you were making your former mentor proud and placed more importance on that.

For example, beyond my initial 4 characters none of the rest have done the PS beyond picking an order. It is not that they can not do those steps, but I could not knowing that each mission was one step closer to their mentor dying. In that way the mentors still exist for those characters but do not for my initial ones.

DarkChaos.4326:

It seems all the time when I go to the LFG tool I see the descriptions reading “No Necros/Rangers” or “Meta only” almost all the time excluding dungeons like AC which everybody seems to know.

I put listings like that in the same class as guilds who have a 100% rep requirement (especially in PVE). If I am that upset I can always contact them but usually there are plenty of other guilds who do not need to stoop to that level.

Sorry, but I can not feel any sympathy for someone who tries to tweak specs so much that they HAVE to have the optimal setup of armor with them at all times so carry several full sets. If it is that important to have several store the extras in your bank (or carry one extra set if you want, I am guessing you do not make up what you will do that day on the spot) and get a bank access card since you are not swapping modes every minute. As I said I carry all possible weapons for my characters. I also carry everything needed for where those characters specialize in (my chars that are primarily SW have keys, shovels, and so forth, my teq chars carry undead killing potions, etc) plus any other random stuff like boosts and several salvage kits. I rarely break 30 slots used, leaving me plenty of space for unpacking and mat storage.

Are you playing all 5 character slots? If not, I would recommend doing a custom build for each mode (or half the modes if they each carry an extra set of armor).

The vendor also does not sell the pants unless you complete a frustrating cpapter of the LS. I have found I get them easily, 3 so far. I destroyed one so will open that one next in case I need it as a mystic forge ingredient for luminescent.

eduardo.1436:

I would love to have a mini golem assistant, it would fit perfectly with my asura engie. Please Anet? Maybe it could be a 24 hour purchase! those are always good

That is (whatev)-o-tron. Hero-tron, ho-ho-ho-tron, etc and is already a mini.

I never could understand the problem with using a set time zone. Whether that means GMT or just where the company is. Not counting daylight savings it is not like the number of hours to add and subtract changes from day to day.

For example, reset for me is my local 8 pm and will not change until the clocks do later in the year. If I want local time I just glance at the digital clock most computers have somewhere.

Yay! I play other things with chat logs and I have lost count of use cases. Everything from ‘what nick did so-and-so use’/‘what was it they said about xyz’ to using it with a radar to list who was near me during an event (and, by extension, who might want to know about similar ones in the future) to even a way of doing a proof-of-concept about how people with low vision could interact with a virtual world by piping the log into text-to-speech whenever a line was written to it (ie, tail -f).

Behellagh.1468:

The same thing I do every night ….

TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

Also the dailies, some exploration, some crafting, some trading, maybe a dungeon depending on guild members/friends online when I am.

LOL! I was thinking about the same thing.

“What should we do tonight brain?”
“Teq!”

I loved the dailies last night/today. I had a third of them done before I even had time to look up so I just had to go to a few resource nodes and an easy vista. Here I was thinking I would have to skip my dailies because I had another event elsewhere at the same time as reset … I was just a few minutes late because walking down the pipe in the starter Charr area does not exactly require a brain drain.

I did not mind them doing what they wanted. In fact that is why I left, so they would have an extra slot for taxiing. They clearly were not interested in defense since they were so quick to kick players who joined after I said it was a defense party. So them insisting at the last minute they were THE defense party for north hills just caused confusion because they never had been before that point.

By kicking from a party their advantage was an extra slot to taxi people. Of course those slots would have become less and less over time if they did not keep kicking active defenders. The defenders of one area being in the same party brings many advantages: calling targets, seeing where everyone is running, communication, and even sharing resources at times (I try to have extra potions of undead slaying on me for my party, other people will do something like rez a bonfire near them). BTW, the reason I knew there were people there I have fought with before is I referred to being the solitary member of a defense team the night before as a warning and at least one person replied that they had seen me do that.

As to organizing well in advance there are non-afk people there early. It is better to get them in a party/turret before they do AFK so there is not a scramble to fill those places at the last minute because nobody knows if they will do so. Yes, you can have organization at the last minute. I have had RL things cause me to get there right when Teq was spawning. It is by no means ideal though.

While they did make it confusing at precisely the wrong time and in the process make me look bad that is not my primary concern. It is whether these individual people were all just puppies or if they were another teq troll guild forming by purposefully causing a mess of the organization going on. It is not just a matter of one or two bad eggs, it is ALL of them voting unanimously and fast to kick anyone who joined thinking it was a defense team (then saying the spot was ‘reserved’ for someone to be taxied). This is further supported by their running around the entire time and constantly firing off skills with big earth shaking effects with not even a skelk around, like they WANTED to annoy/disrupt anyone nearby by acting like spoiled brats. Like I said, this smells like a budding troll guild that just does not have the resources yet to spawn teq early. In fact, it was because of those anctics that I wanted to get enough defenses/turrets filled as fast as possible in case they did just that.

moony.5780:

unluckily all ur solutions decrease my fun extremly much…bcs i run around in pve for 20 min..then 20 min in wvw..then 10 min in dungeons..then again wvw 15 min..then again pve 20 min
so…going to the bank all the time..i will spent like 30 min just at my bank (what i already do…)

edit:
and..if i find out the build i choosed for wvw is just bad today..bcs im not in the mood for that build…..then i need use again 5-10 min to get back to a bank (mainly in LA since i dont go to EB) and this is just annoying

and having more bagslots will not hurt new player
and..pvp dont have all runes and sigils and not all armor stats combies (like 20% zerker 20% cele 60% knight) and no food buffs..which makes a huuuuuge difference.

PVE has a bank.

WVW has a bank.

The PVP lobby has a bank.

The only modes you do not have access to a bank at are fractals and in an activity. If you REALLY need a different set of items before either of those you need to go through LA anyway so stop at their bank.

Problem solved. In addition to my normal stuff I keep every possible weapon combo on me at all times. Most of my characters rarely break 30 items so plenty of space for loot.

I am not sure what the issue even is? I always see labels above chests and the like.

Teq … anet took away most of the fun long ago. Now the whole world just feels like grinding.

Yes, I have been organizing Teqs daily for awhile (even with the multiserver system I would place good odds that there were people there that knew that). If I was confused and in the party they were doing this to I can just imagine what people not in the party thought. They made me come off as having some feud over who was doing defense when they had made it VERY clear they were only concerned with having a taxi.

Maybe they think it is easy because they have never seen it fail before? These bosses do fail and I have seen it (sometimes firsthand when I disconnected). They only SEEM easy because people start organizing well in advance (whether it is there or offline) and know what will happen if they do not.

I agree people AFKing or actively working against the event should not get any loot. Especially since RNG can wind up giving little (or bad) loot to people who give it their all. I am not sure how you could measure that though. Not damage as that would bias towards people who were using damage-causing skills that lower level players do not have.

Does anyone have any ideas how this could be done?

I started setting up a defense team as normal (north hills). Someone partied and had 3 people already partied coming in from another server. So I immediately called out we were full. Then someone left. So I called that we needed 1 more and someone joined. To have all of them vote to kick that person from the party. It quickly became clear they were using the defense party as their own personal taxi party for their guild and did not want anyone joining that was, oh, trying to do defense.

I left them to do that and formed an actual defense party for n hills. Just as we were about to start the event (I had been updating ppl on our status constantly in map chat) they map chatted that anyone not in their party was not the north hills defense team. Whuh? I explained to them we were on the same side but I had never been clear on what they were doing.

South hills still needed a team so we decided to do that instead since it was the fastest solution to the problem of no team up there. In party chat everyone agreed we did not trust them to purposefully not take a dive. We decided to keep an eye on them, even knowing we would be hip deep in champs in a few minutes.

Not sure if they are a budding troll guild or what they were up to. Who uses a defense squad as a personal taxi for their guildies then tries to kick out people who joined to actually do defense? To top it off causes confusion by claiming to be the defense team when they had never given any indication of such before?

Kronos.2560:

Very true, wish I could give a date of when. But it’ll be a while, they could come out with different colored ones too before expansion for all we know.

Different colors would be nice as they would prevent everyone from having black wings on them. It would also be great if you could match your outfit to the wings (I am guessing black wings do not look as good on someone who is wearing different shades of whitish colors).

Thaddeus.4891:

From 1 to 80 you receive enough Hero Points to unlock all the core profession. Eliste Specialization should only need around 90-100 hero points based on current cost and you get more than 200 hero points from doing a complete map completion. So you should only need half a map completion to unlock all your profession at the expansion. Which imo is fair since most people can reach half a map completion pretty easily even with alts. If it need a full map completion it would be such a pain in the kitten on alts.

Yes, 50% is doable, especially since it is even less by doing skill, err, hero challenges. You can get a bunch of those by just doing the low-level challenges, either by yourself or by the fact others nearby will join in for the point as well. I just hope whatever points we had after unlocking everything during leveling comes back for unlocking the elite stuff.

FrostyBou.5491:

Yeah, I confuse my guild all the time due to the fact I don’t have a main, and tend to swap chars for different things. I’d love it if you could turn on something that showed the account name like the timestamp.

Same here. When I am asked which character is my main I respond with a puzzled look. I would say all are (although some I like better than others) but it all depends on the situation. SW? Ranger, no question. Anything in the shiverpeaks? My engineer. Teq? My elementalist or my mesmer. It must confuse my guild like anything as I can be talking to them in one character one minute then change to another (although I try to give a bit of a warning).

Currently people try to get off the shard as soon as they see that guild. Which means any organization they were part of (like being a turret person or a member of a defense team) suddenly is not filled.

edit: It also affects other shards too. We had an entire defense team running from them. They disappeared from our shard too and I am guessing they saw someone with the tag.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Interestingly enough, some people use deposit, but don’t use compact. So having them combined would kitten some people off. Not me, since I do typically hit one and then the other when I’m cleaning inventory (unless I’m sorting), but I have seen / do know people that don’t use both options intentionally.

I would complain. I like to leave a bag open at the top so drops will go there rather than getting mixed with my normal gear. I also put certain things in certain bags (exotics not currently equipped here, everything else there) and do not want any holes because something got used up (like a salvage kit) automatically filled for me. I NEVER use compact. If people want to add it as an option, fine, but still allow me to deposit all my mats without automatically compacting.

Crashes on my mac too that also came down to graphics settings and cider errors. This is not exactly a pokey machine either! While support was great I was never told (and it seems nobody told them) this was a known issue. Fortunately I am in IT so was able to diagnose the cider issue, I can not imagine what non-geek players do. Even with graphics settings at the minimum I can still crash now in then when things get REALLY populated. I would put this a higher priority than getting the expansion even as I would LOVE to be able to max out my graphic settings again! Although “complaining” I am down to the 50s when PC users are yelling about the FPS drop in Teq or whatever gets some priceless responses.

Loxias.2375:

I run everything on ultra with NVIDIA injector pushing everything at max antialiasing & anisotropic settings, game looks amazing lately, but even so Teq maybe drops me to 35fps worst case from a typical 50-70.

It’s your CPU, not your GPU, that GW2 utilizes, so if possible and you can safely do it, OC your CPU,RAM & voltage.

Which is frustrating. People blame it on the fact that I use a mac but look at the specs: a 3.5 GHz i7 with 24 GB of ram and booting off of an SSD. If I did not say what OS it was people would just assume I had a PC with good specs. I rarely break a 50% CPU load though, even with GW2 and all my usual stuff. It My troubles with GW2 are all because of the aforementioned bug.

My main annoyance is it is not laid out like normal cities ot even other ones in games. You have a small residential area then most of the services have wide spreads of land between them. Normally services cluster together around a high traffic area (like a WP).

Yes, some larger guilds do do that.