Guild Wars 2

This weekend was the first time since the update I’ve been able to play any considerable amount. I had 6 chest drops in 7 hours, no keys yet.
I’m not expecting that to change much, and it won’t affect how I play. I’ve accepted that rngesus has forsaken me. :p

As long as we keep this on the first couple of pages, more people will see it. And they’ll all need a place to post when precursor crafting is available. The first person that doesn’t know Howler is buggered and makes it from scratch will probably implode.

Now that this thread and several others regarding Howler are merged, dare we hope for an official dev response? I don’t like bumping threads for the sake of it, but I don’t want this one to get lost in the swarm of other bugs.

I’m looking forward to some new skins. These have been around a while, and it’ll be a nice change. I bet if they start selling Grenth’s Hood or …Bunny Ears… the tone will change and people will ask why they didn’t do it sooner.

It’s a trick, get an axe.
Good reproduction though!

This OP’s description sounds a lot like Fable or Infamous. It’s a cool idea, but not for GW2 please. I like choosing the appearance of my characters, regardless of in-game story choices.

Added suggestion: an optional aura depending on personality choices for being charming (heart – purple or pink), honorable (crown – blue or yellow), or a brute (fist – red or black). The aura options and colors could be controlled through the hero panel.

While I’m glad the general warhorn sound has been updated (not fixed, just changed to be not as bad), the lack of response on this thread is past obscene.

Yes, I knew about the problem with this before I made it, but in three years this has been my only precursor. I have been holding on to some hope that it would be addressed, but I really feel like they’re not trying. All we want is some communication.

Devs read the forums, we know that much. What’s the problem communicating with your player base? Anet wants feedback from players, here it is! 6 pages of feedback, just for you. Now how about giving us some feedback on your progress or plans. Not even a Homer Simpson line like ‘Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.’

I don’t regret the time and effort I put in to making Howler, but I both rue and lament it. Please put some polish on this Legendary lackluster.

A couple years ago there was a youtube post with a Raven Staff, it would fit with the Spirits of the Wild.

I have been looking around for a chat code, but couldn’t find one. I’m really hoping to see some form of this in HoT!

I’m borderline hoarder when it comes to this stuff. I’ve kept all but the Queen’s Gauntlet tickets, they were easy to get. Everything else is taking up bank space, but I can’t bring myself to delete them. I’d love to have some sort of display case in my home instance, in my own house! The house with the chest in it (Salma district, DR) is perfect to turn in to player housing.

Lack of a place to sleep aside, I’d like to keep these items in a display case or something like that; I certainly don’t keep rl keepsakes in the bank, they’re displayed at home where I can see them and remember good times

I’m not a fan of this change. As someone that occasionally farms keys, I don’t like having the option of when I farm taken away from me. With my altoholism, running the story once a week, it will be the end of the year before I use all my birthday scrolls.
For more active farmers, this is terrible. For altoholics this is terrible, especially if you level them all at the same time. It’s basically time-gating the story for some people.
I get it, ANet wants people to spend money in the gem store, and sometimes when the keys go on sale I buy them, but please start to make the rewards worth it. Fewer boosters, if I wanted those there are others sources for them. Unbound minis would also be a nice change, since duplicates are pretty useless.
I really want to know the drop rate of the keys now. Since head start I’ve had less than a handful of keys drop, 3-4 at most. That’s less than 1 per 1000 hours played. And while that’s still worse than my precursor drop rate, it’s still not suitable for anyone.
Suggestions: really raise the drop rate, give us something useful to do with birthday scrolls(that doesn’t involve times or spirit shards), fewer booster related items in the chests, unbind blc minis, and also raise the ticket scraps in the chests.

Yeah, if you stand at the edge of the center well of the mystic forge it turns you in to the thaumanova anomaly

It was trampled by a zerg in Brisban Wildlands, no one stopped to revive it.

No xp, no karma, no loot from kills? And mostly no end reward? Retroactive or not, no thanks. I hope participants get what they want from the merchant, but I just can’t bring myself to do this event. See you in the rest of Tyria

The rewards for these events are way out of balance for the time and effort that goes into them. I don’t need anything the bloom merchants offer, so I’m not saying this because I can’t get the prizes I want. This is a grind, it takes away from other areas of the game, and will drive new players away.
+1 to raise the bloom rewards, at the least.

I think (and pray to the six) that this will happen in the rest of the open world. It will just take time. In reality it will take some re-coding of some areas so we couldn’t glide to an inaccessible area. Though in an open world, I dislike ‘inaccessible.’
Gliding throughout Tyria should happen just for the simple fact that the spread of technology is hard to stop. Something new is invented, used, works well, is used by more and more people and in new places. It just takes time.
Even if no one makes it out of the jungle alive, it would just take one NPC crafter to make a giant sun kite with handles on it, and his idea would spread. If he was programmed to make the kite :p
That’s my argument for gliding in all of Tyria

That happened to me too. I was just starting a new beta toon and jumped out of the red fort to run to Amber, and started gliding
My guess is it’s probably just because it’s a beta instance.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I just checked. The only Balthazar backpiece I can find in the bank wardrobe is the Fires of Balthazar backpiece. It’s a PvP reward track backpiece and fairly easy to get. It has the heads of 2 Flaming Dogs of Balthazar.

Blast! I didn’t know that was a PvP reward, I almost never go in there. I guess I got too excited and didn’t check the wiki :/

I really hope they release the remaining wardrobe of the gods! My bet is on Grenth, then Lyssa, since we already have craftable backpieces for them.
By the way (I haven’t seen it posted on the forums but I may have missed it), I recently noticed there is a wardrobe slot for a Balthazar backpiece! I can’t wait to make that one
I’d post a pic or chat code but I’m at work right now.
For the sixth God outfit, if it happens, who do you think ANet will model it after? Abandon or Kormir?

I like the idea of removing the fog and getting some of the key waypoints. Similar to a friend recommending a place you’ll like, but from one toon to another.

I just put some of my favorite images here

This is probably at #1 though!

I was cruising some old posts and saw this for the first time. After checking out the post and the throne room, my first impression was that it looked like a solidified portal.
Then I was browsing some of my screen shots, and remembered this post again. Then I thought – it looks the rock would fit perfectly in the Promenade of the Gods, if there were more pieces. What if it really is a “rock of the gods” and putting the stones back together at the Promenade reopened the portal the Human Gods used to leave Tyria?
Yes, a big string of what-if, but that’s just where my mind took it. It could work but I have nothing to base it on. I did, however, put these screen shots together, and tried to make them to scale based on human height next to the catapult. Please forgive my lack of photo editing software:/

@ Just A Flesh Wound: thanks for providing the info on that! I’ll probably not go for the second key in the story, by the time I get the levels and progress through the story to 40 I could probably repay the first one a few times.

Lol with the game’s anniversary/birthday comes the anniversary of this thread. Unless you have an alt to level, about the only thing to do with them is key farm. Over and over.

The fastest route I’ve found is through a human guardian, raised by commoners, and wanted to join the circus. Takes about 20-25 minutes per key.
Now with the level 30 scrolls (minus two for future revenants)I may do the next story as well, I’m pretty sure that gives a second key.

I doubt they’ll be broken up into tomes, just for the fact they would be giving away 100-???(450 to me) each year depending on the number of alts you have.

I tend to give space while running and fighting. While gathering resources is different, since there is usually limited space. Otherwise I assume people want to see their character’s animation as much as I want to see mine

Offair.2563:

Anet should enlarge warhorns to didgeridoo size so it makes sense to have such a deep sound.

That would be fun for a playable instrument. Add a rain stick as staff, a koala mini, and a kangaroo pet and you have the start of a theme.

Edit: I just realized how off topic that was, so back to it. Please fix our warhorns

I saw somewhere… Forum or Reddit, I can’t remember, someone called the DSD ‘Scleritethin’
That one fits with the old sclerite weapon skins that were released around the time of Southsun.

Don’t worry, you’ll never see them coming, just like the first time;)

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Motorcycles, for jousting. I’m serious.

Moa jousting!!

As much as I dislike the sound, especially coming from Howler, I laugh almost every time my ranger toots it and everyone around can ‘feel the fury’
Next thing ya know we’ll get brown mist instead of white mist.

Maybe they’ll do this with the next set of legendary weapons, since they’ll have to be crafted instead of possibly bought. If I had the coin, I might buy one, so far I’ve only been able to make a now-flatulent Howler >.<
Which I guess is what I get for using the Mystic Toilet so much.
Anyway, having all the legendary items is kind of a big deal, my vote for the title: I Am Legend. (Would have to have the armor too)

Of course it’s coming back!
Heart of Thorns…Mad King Thorn, it all fits.
Oswald was the first one driven mad by Mordy, the second was Prince Edrick. Both were secretly dragon minions. And the mysterious E, he’s really Edrick but we broke the dragon’s hold on him by…barfing Candy Corn on him. Maybe we should try that on the Pale Tree to really break the dragon’s influence. Saves time over a Forgotten ritual :p
/wingnut conspiracy theory

Seriously (if I can be taken as such after that) I hope we get to celebrate Halloween in-game, it wouldn’t be the same.

Agreed, the past three years of fun has been worth it, and having some new players will renew some aspects of the game for me. It’ll also remind me how much fun I had at earlier stages; how I lucked out and found the way to the top of a jumping puzzle(Hidden Garden) the right way and without falling; how it took me forever to find the underwater poi in Kessex Hills (before the Tower of Nightmares); the epic diving board that was in LA(my first dive in early beta )
Some players won’t get to experience all of those places, I’m happy I was there for it! I’m looking forward to jumping from the highest place I can find and gliding my way down, though I still miss the death scream my asura let out while falling :p I’m looking forward to being able to craft precurors because RNG=bad for me, and I’m looking forward to adventures with new players!

I’ve always hoped to see the junk items turned in to something useful. Such as taking a stack of broken lockpicks, some ectos, a mystic binding agent(crystals, stones, wine, or thermolytic) and maybe mithrillium ingot into the forge for a black lion lockpick. Probably won’t happen for keys, but would be great for turning junk into creating materials.

I’ll go for the party horn if it summons a swarm of Queen Jennah minis that attack with birthday blasters.

Lol and there’s the pattern! Thorn and Briar will be followed by Husks and Tendrils!

I’ll miss the fountain too, but I’m sure something will be coming in its place. Though that plaza seems to be a target so who knows. How many times was the fountain trashed? Scarlet, the mad king, I can’t remember if the Karka destroyed it.
If you rebuild it, they will come. To smash it. Next it’ll be Mordry or his minions. And they’ll take the mad king’s route to LA, underground. So much for better defenses :p

Anet really is showing how much it cares for its fan/player base with this lack of…anything. 8 blog posts in two days about how they’re making things “better” but absolutely no response while thousands of people are screaming for answers. The only forum post by anet staff has been an unidentified moderator, closing a thread that was asking for answers. Yeah, they care.
/forum

There isn’t much left unsaid on any side of these arguments, but I haven’t seen it mentioned that the pre-purchase includes beta access. Do we know when that starts yet?

Yes, I’m a bit outraged at the price, bundling, and extra cost of a character slot. I’m in the same boat as everyone that’s played since GW1 launch. But this is pre-purchase, not launch. If you want the extras – title, finisher, etc. then this is probably the only chance. For those. There will be more titles, more minis, more…all of it. There just won’t be another beta access. And I’m fine with missing that for this price.

Come time for HoT launch, the price will drop, and hopefully be sold on it’s own. The expansion itself should be no more than $40, just by the look of the guild halls and their roles in the world. But this MUST include a character slot.

The way this is going though, it looks like ANet is going to lose more people than it gains through sales. The least that could be done for people with a free copy of a game we already own, is exchanging the core part for 1-2 slots and a Survivor title, everyone not buying HoT, even at launch, can be on the future Pact Memorial at the jungle crash site. ;p

Does anyone know what will happen with the scrolls of knowledge?

That was how it used to be, before the addition of the wardrobe. It was all mix and match. Then…. It wasn’t. Outfits were given their own tab, and we were given transmutation charges instead of stones. I’m sure you can still find the debate thread over that one.

Yeah, the island was pretty useless in the past. Scarlet went over it, the Karka went under/around it, and the risen went through it. Which is why it needs the defense upgrades that the city is getting. A few turrets, (maybe) an airship, or even an asura gate for emergencies.
These were all set up at Camp Resolve pretty fast, no reason the island can’t be fortified as welI.
And whether it’s through a boat or a gate, it could be attached to LA like Dawnside Quay is to Rata Sum.

Though it would be funny to see a centaur dance

With Lion’s Arch under construction, and being upgraded instead of just rebuilt, any word if Claw Island will get some upgrades? I’d also like to travel there outside of just two story instances.

I wish I could say the same. During the opening event in LA I could barely attack once every few seconds, forget skills 2-9. My pet wouldn’t respond, and I was being attacked by invisible enemies. Invisible until I was downed anyway.
Same thing happened in Caledon Forest at the Morgan’s Spiral event. Right now I’m hoping Noll will show up again so I can make some progress.