Guild Wars 2

Okay the “I haven’t taken leave of my senses” lady IS annoyingly repetitive, but she’s announcing that a steam event is active.

Classes are things a character chooses and decides to train towards. No reason to think being a revenant would be any different and require you to be dead or anything. No one has said Rytlock is dead. GW1 characters could visit the underworld and didn’t come back dead. And we go in and out of the mists all the time.

Anyway I don’t expect low level areas for revenants. This is an expansion, not a standalone campaign like we had with GW1. GW1’s expansion EotN didn’t have lowbie content.

With the expansion you’ll start earning mastery points once you’re max leveled. You can use mastery points to level various abilities or features depending on which ones are important to you and will help you play the content you enjoy.

When people say Rytlock is the “first revenant” are we sure ANet has said this in a storyline way or just a “hey this is our iconic Revenant NPC character. Yay for new class reveal!” kind of way??

Knighthonor.4061:

Rumor is they are getting their own personal story for leveling up.

Considering how many people are planning on insta-80 toming their Revenants this is kind of humorous.

Well a lot of my alts are in the 21-26 range. I’ve been getting the silver doubloons from time to time, but as people have become more aware of getting doubloons from JP chests I’ve noticed a big drop in the frequency of doubloons so I’m almost not thinking about them anymore.

I noticed a drop in frequency when Wintersday started and now they are even less frequent.

I didn’t think about getting more than one spinal blade packs. Given how much those core things cost I’ll hold off on that ambition for now. :P

Thanks all for the info!

oh I’ve been porting people for free when I log in. :P Maybe I should be more greedy? O.o

@Tom Gore would you say the JPs in the higher level areas give more fragments?

Also can’t precursors drop from JPs? Is it the same for all of them?

So you’re not seeing the stealth status on your boon/condition bar?

When you say you’re going stealth is your character completely disappearing or gaining the stealth visual effect where you can see your character’s figured but only vaguely.

Either one is a bug if you’re not gaining the actual stealth status on your status bar.

The disappearing model is a known one but keep reporting it so they can get it fixed. If you’re gaining the stealthed visual without having the stealth status that’s a new bug to me. I sometimes have the opposite where my character fails to gain the visual effect on my screen when I am in fact stealthed.

Hey so I have a lot of alts and don’t get around to playing each of them a lot, so what I’ve been doing is parking them at the Aetherblade Jumping Puzzle to get Blade Shards for the ascended back piece.

But now I have enough blade shards and don’t need to keep collecting more each day, so I’m wondering if there are other JPs people know of that give you worthwhile items on top of the random blues/greens you get each time.

My bored alts need a new chest to daily up!

Okay so one question about two graphics cards. Seems like it’s not worthwhile for running one game, but what about for running multiple graphics intensive programs at once?

I often like to stream movies or run multiple programs at once while playing GW2. I even have multiple accounts and sometimes run them both at once for various things like scouting or using the TP or crafting or just using mesmers to teleport my characters places.

If I had two graphics cards, could I make it so one program uses one graphics card, and another program uses another? And would that make a difference at all?

I’m probably not gonna do dual GPUs, but still curious about possibilities.

Trait/Utility saving please.

So adding a “stance” on a guardian how would that mechanic work? You’re saying you hear it’s just for longbow or all weapons? Guardian does have the F4 skill unused. It’d be interesting but weird to add a totally diff mechanic to their roster of F1-F3

okay that K thing is good to know! I’ll look for a K CPU and go through the manual and search the internet when I put things together.

Alright this input helps me a lot. Thank you all! I’ll have to investigate it all and make some choices.

Seems dual GPU isn’t really that great or worth it from the feedback here. Especially since GW2 is CPU heavy. I’ll look into your alternative suggestions instead.

I will come back with more questions if I need but I do have one so far:

I have a general understanding of what overclocking a CPU is, but I don’t really know how to do it. How do you overclock a CPU?

Traits is really the only big issue I see and they’ve been vocal about working on a better solution.

Another thing that IS weird is when someone has completed everything in an area and the game recommends you go find random POIs like it’s a quest that’s going to help you advance your character through the game.

My friend who is brand new to MMOs had this happening to her and it was very confusing for her. You unlock the POI and it instantly tells you to go to some other random POI or Vista. Or you get out of range of the Vista while you’re trying to reach it and it points you to another Vista all the sudden. You start asking, what’s the point of this? They should look into better ways to recommend exploration when main objectives are complete.

Other than that I really enjoy the level up rewards. Skill points could maybe come more gradually instead of in chunks? I really like the other rewards. As an alt-aholic it’s really nice to have progressively better gear given to me for free as I level. Means I have to buy less gear myself as my characters level up.

Hello! I’m looking to build a PC for GW2: HoT and more and looking for some feedback.

What I’m looking for right now:

Right now I’m looking for a durable and quality mobo and CPU that will last for a few years while I upgrade the other hardware over time.

I don’t really know if something special is required, but I heard you can run two GPUs parallel so I’d like to try that.

Here are some previous recommendations I’ve received on a post a while back:

CPU:
Intel i5-4590
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116991

Mobo:
Asus Maximus VII Hero LGA Z97…
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132125

Asus Z97-P LGA 1150…
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1920603

Questions/Needs:

1. I want to run two GPUs, so I’d like a mobo that has plenty of space for two GPUs. So no cramped PCI-e slots. The Hero I linked seems to have a good gap between the slots.

2. How do I find a computer case that fits the mobo I choose? Does most any case fit most any mobo?

3. I currently have two Zotac GeForce GTX 560Tis I was going to use in parallel. Is that possible for this model of GPU? Any recommendations on a newer model for future upgrades?

4. I like lots of USB slots. The ones recommended to me have only a few. Do mobos have ports on them that additional USB slots could plug into or are you pretty much stuck with whatever USB slots you start with?

5. A couple people recommended that specific Intel i5 CPU that I linked above, but if I go with an i7 or something else, how much of an impact would it have on my computers performance for gaming specifically.

6. If I choose a specific CPU first, how do I know if a mobo will mesh well with it. The two mobos recommended to me both say something about a Z97 chipset. Is that specific chipset tailored to the specific CPU I linked above?

What important to me in hardware choices:
I’m not looking to spend tons of money but know it takes a certain level of cost to get quality. I don’t need top tier stuff. I’m no professional gamer. Reliable performance and durability are my main values. Coupled with functionality when it comes to the layout of the mobo. Whatever brands or versions can get me reliability and durability without a huge cost, I want that.

I was hoping to spend $600-$800 on the basics: CPU/mobo/case/powersupply/CPU-cooler. Could go slightly higher if it’s worth it.

Thanks for any input you have to offer!

Yeah you only lose character specific progress.

And if you have anything that isn’t soulbound or account bound you can potentially put it in a guild bank to retrieve after you reroll if you run out of room in your bank and can trust the other people with guild bank access.

To the persons complaining about useless traits, it’s important to remember that the current meta is not the meta of the past nor the meta of the future.

Leaving a pool of options, even if some of them are a bit odd or nìche, makes a good environment for players to experiment with new ideas.

You used to see a lot of heartseeker thieves in PvP, now it’s a bunch of S/D thieves with the exact same build. In another 6 months thieves could be running something totally different.

The meta is always changing, and a pool of extra skills makes transforming the meta natural and interesting.

Scoobaniec.9561:

I want to kill Caithe

Caithe really is a piece of garbage all throughout the storyline. Even if she’s all savior of the universe protecting the egg, she is such a murderous heartless punk all throughout the sylvari storyline missions.

I think there are definitely a lot of signs that they’re moving more and more to account-based unlocks so we could easily expect something account-based when it comes to the new trait system.

And Gaile you should give up on these negative tangent posters and delete any posts that aren’t strictly on-topic, at least on the first page of this post.

When you or another moderator makes a thread, especially one to try and recycle the tainted conversation into a productive discussion, I don’t think you should have to let people to mess it up right away with off-topic complaints.

Since most people only read the first page the first page needs to be ontopic for a constructive discussion to persist. I think it’d be okay if you put some of these initial comments and replies to the initial comments into the recycle bin.

I see plenty of people, myself included, consistently saying we want the stalwart armor back.

The shoulders specifically. They are glorious. I get so jealous when I see people wearing them because the would be the cherry on top for so many of my mix-match medium armor sets.

Well on the topic, the minion master build I run in sPvP kills turrets and the engineer that goes along with it easily. So MM wins that Also I can’t always beat more than one player at once but I can stay alive for a good deal of time while I get pounded on.

So I can effectively neutralize two or three enemy players in sPvP by wasting their time while my team takes care of capping other points or taking out the other members of the enemy team in the meantime.

There was already a thread about this. Dev feedback in the thread said they are looking at options to solve the hobosack issue.

Does Trahearne ever show up in the persistent world or only in the story? There are many characters that I think they can’t kill off because they exist in the persistent world or as part of personal story stuff.

Wolfheart.7483:

Vegeta.2563:

I think telling the difference from armor type is a big issue as well. Maybe some little symbol in the corner of each item.. like M for masterwork L for legendary, ect..

….or they could hover the cursor over the item and see what rarity a piece of equipment is.

If you aren’t colorblind you really aren’t in a position to tell colorblind people to just get over it with a comment like that.

There are some workarounds but if you think colorblind people should just hover over all the gear and read the details would YOU like them to take away the functionality you have to see a gears rarity WITHOUT hovering?

Wouldn’t it be annoying having to hover over every drop instead of just knowing if it’s an exotic from a glance?

They added some other new UI elements that are optional to toggle on and off. It would be nice if they could have a UI accessibility team. I would like to be able to toggle some features myself that bother my eyes.

They could add circle options for AoE that show a different line pattern instead of a different color and/or a ring that comes up off the ground so it’s easier to differentiate from the terrain.

Colorblindness is only one visual issue that affects some of the playerbase. There are plenty of visual issues that make the game troublesome to play. They say they try to make the skills really easy to read in sPvP so you can react to them, but I can’t tell what the hell is going on with my eyes. I don’t know what’s supposed to be obvious but most skill activations aren’t obvious to me. The heal skills are the only things that are extremely obvious and that’s it for me.

Another elite skill. I like the Mistfire Wolf. It’s a fun treat for my underlevels!

Knowing a new trait system is on it’s way I’m hopeful it will be wonderful. I have a lot of alts that I’ve made post trait-change who haven’t got a lot of traits. I was going to try and get them all to level 80 before HoT but getting them all full traits on top of that… I’ve got 15 alts…and counting. :P

I’m just wondering if it will be worthwhile at all to try and unlock traits for my lesser played characters before the new trait system comes out.

In that upper boat bar in Lion’s Arch where the secret entrance to the Order of Whispers is the NPCs talk about Lion’s Arch always bouncing back from disaster and always becoming something new and better when it does. Something about not dwelling on the past too, I think.

Lion’s Arch will be different for sure. And I’d say based on what they’ve learned over the past couple years they’ll make it an even better and functional hub town than it was originally.

aerial.7021:

Mo Mo.1947:

DO YOU EVEN PLAY THIS GAME!?!

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Uhmm I guess I do..

ed: 6.75hr a day for those mathematically challenged.

So you play the game like a full time job and you think you’re being subjected to grinding?

You’re experiencing burnout from playing the game way too much and blaming the game for it.

It’s your choice to play the game a ton and it’s your choice to save up your bags to open them all at once instead of opeing them a few at a time as you get them.

The bags of useless loot is a problem and they need to change their loot system, but it’s not grind to open loot bags. And no I haven’t ever opened up 250 bags at once because I never let my stacks get that big before opening them.

I open bags while I’m running somewhere, during downtime when a group is forming, as a break from what I’m doing to get some downtime. Opening bags is annoying, but it’s not grind.

The way you’re playing the game is giving you burnout. It’s not the game’s fault that you can’t manage your playtime in a healthy way.

The game has no mandatory grind. If you are grinding, it’s because you like to grind or you want special cosmetic and prestige items that grinding rewards you with.

I like to grind sometimes too. But I can always go do something non-grind when I don’t want to and I’m never required to return to grinding.

Perhaps so! Or, since they are devs, maybe they just modded themself to lvl 81 for some reason. Make it easier to test something. Early on in the video I saw another dev run up to the charr character with a flamethrower and they had a red name above their head.

There are a lot of seasonal and storyline items that are no longer available. The items for the colored ascended blades, the scarlett headpiece, tons of weapon skins. There’s no promise that any of them will return. They may just be a reward for veteran players.

I wasn’t even aware the Desert Rose was available in any capacity for months. Why is there a sudden complaint about this among many discontinued items?

Your post is a bit more tl;dr than it needs to be but I like the idea.

Seems you’re basically just asking for a “Convert skin to transmutation charge” feature. They would just have to only add this feature to gem store skins and it wouldn’t cause issues with other skin items.

I too have bought a few gem store skins for only a few of the pieces and now have a bunch of skins sitting around unused on my storage character.

I also have a couple sets I’ve bought for later use by characters that I haven’t leveled to 80 yet so they’re just sitting around using up space.

If they replaced primary shareholders with limited-term loans so companies could have startup funds without being squeezed for cash later on these kinds of issues wouldn’t come up.

Then companies could reward it’s employees rather than rewarding people who have nothing to do with business operations.

If you’re feeling squishy and your teammates aren’t holding the aggro for you, something you could try is a minion master build It’s fun and easy and there are plenty of traits that will have your minions taking conditions for you and giving you life when they attack and all that kind of stuff.

You get dungeon tokens from the PvP reward tracks? I thought you just got one piece of armor or sometimes a couple chests to select weapons from.

Well if you note that some are easy or cheap to acquire, it’s a great option for people who are new to the game or otherwise low on cash. That way people can enhance their characters weapons without spending lots of gold on every weapon.

Or if they just want to enhance their non-80 characters without spending too much on lower level gear.

Oh! I was busy trying to read the names of the enemy NPCs he was fighting! I’ll have to watch again!

Plenty of sigils are just waiting for you to find a use for them. Having an open pool of sigils leaves room for experimentation so people can find new ways to play the game.

Am I missing something? Has the OP actually experienced the new gliding system first-hand?

How is OP qualified to have an opinion on something they haven’t actually tried out?

Pop? I just watched the POI number 15 to see what you were talking about.

I saw like 2 seconds of character selection where a white-bearded character face was there and a new class symbol was showing… Didn’t see a character name on the selection screen and the female host gave zero reaction while they waited for the player to select the charr and load back in.

So what the heck POI are you talking about? Is there another that isn’t up on youtube?

The first time I ever gamed all night, I was doing the first PvP weekend in Tombs in GW1. My fingers went unresponsive a few hours in and I had to numbly poke a message to my team that I couldn’t play anymore.

After a while my hands got better at being durable and my hands have kind of molded to the keyboard/mouse. Now I can game all day but my hands get really sore if I do pretty much anything else intensive with my hands >.<

Healer specialization. Has this been a rumor going around? I like it. I’ll have to level up my Ele!

I’ll make my revenant, run to the end of tutorial, use the experience scroll and tomes, grab prepared armor from storage, and run into HoT while spamming skill point scrolls on my way.

After that I’ll run around like a chicken with it’s head cut off like all the other Revenant players who won’t know what they’re doing.

Alternatively, I’ll do all the aforementioned preparation and run into WvW instead. Mass Revenant blob tactics will certainly win the week!

I’m all for body diversity in the game. Let’s have it, please, ANet!

If you think it’s making the game too cheesy, even if it’s not an “exploit” that would get you banned, go ahead and report it as an AI issue or something.

High level bosses shouldn’t be underwhelming if we don’t want them to be.

What is this really about? You just need to ask people on the forum for playstyle advice if you’re having trouble soloing most PvE content. Dungeons are specifically meant for groups, and other things like world bosses are meant for groups also.

Most of PvE should be solo-able. Instead of asking broad questions, what issues specifically are you having with soloing PvE?

I haven’t seen one thing yet that implies you can’t play HoT solo.

Yeah but none of that is grind, phys. I’m still not sure what aerial is thinking of. Opening things in your inventory is not grind. :P

Yeah I’ve only done the storyline as a sylvari. I kinda wonder how the dialogues are different as a non-sylvari.

Some people are wired to worry about things constantly.

In this case, the OP is deeply worried about a hypothetical situation with hardly any information to go on either way.

Let’s start asking questions, wait for the answers, and not worry so much.

If Arena.Net has disappointed you so often that you are really that worried, GW2 just might not be the game for you. Don’t expect your waffle-iron to make pancakes.

We mesmers will just help you to each milestone. :P