Guild Wars 2

Orion the Cursed.1206:

Solid Gold.9310:

Orion the Cursed.1206:

Upgrade your computer and internet line?

It’s nothing to do with that.

I believe they are working on doing away with culling in PvE, not sure if we will see it included in the next patch.

Culling is really bad in PvE, get a few metres away from somebody and they disappear, or run into the bank for the merchant to appear after you get there.

They could clean up redundant scripts and graphics. Or preload certain things, but bottom line, if your computer cant receive and process data fast enough you will always see a delay.

I have a pretty decent set-up and I have also been playing since the betas- there was no culling at launch that I know because I have screens of people literally blanketing the map.
PVE culling is fairly recent to the extent it is now- I think from round about Jan it got really bad.
They did say the are working on it though so hopefully we will see a fix

Op: I am not sure how much of the game you thought you would see in 5 lvls- you don’t say in which starter zone you are playing, unless I missed it.
My suggestion would be to go to your main city and use the asura gate to Lion’s Arch and from there to Divinity’s reach.
Queensdale is a very busy starter zone with tons of players running around that you can hang out with and there is always help available for asking. It is also mapped in a pretty straightforward manner unlike I find Caledon.

I think you mentioned Elementalist but I am not sure- ele is a difficult class to get the hang of and they are very squishy- since ele’s don’t have weapon swap( you get that at lvl7) I would suggest you start getting really familiar with attunement swapping since this makes or breaks an ele.
Also try a scepter/focus for leveling and a staff if you want to stay at a distance.

You really need to play a few more levels to even see how the different classes work- i suggest you use your 5 slots and make a bunch of different professions to try out.

As the others have said-
if it is between Necro and Mesmer- go Mesmer, they are awesome fun and very tricky and slippery.
I would suggest dagger/ dagger Elementalist though. They are so fast they make your head spin and they are melee death on wheels

i don’t remember ever getting drunk from the brew at the monastery but from everything else i think it has been in since launch- at least for anything made by norns.

When the wooden chests were introduced I used to get random items but for a while now I get rares or the occasional green

My engi:
Starter goggles
Karma coat from Iron Marches
T1 pants
completely random everything else
Ebon Vanguard Pistols
Pitch and Lipstick dyes.

My Sylvari mesmer:
Mix of T1 and T2
antique gold. matte, cream,midnight red, orange frost dyes.
Modnir Staff

I would love more sylvari armours- the karma vendors in Caledon could carry lower lvl Sylvari armours, it would be awesome!
I love my Sylvari mesmer so much I recently made a Sylvari ranger and since my mesmer has been wearing cultural armour since lvl20 I forgot just how bad the human Armours are on Sylvari- urrgh- I love them on my humans but they make the Sylvari look really dull.
We only have 3 sets really and it makes me very sad indeed.

It has been that way since launch- I don’t think they mind that we do it, it has been posted on here enough in the last 7 months, even in the players helping players section.
It also uses double trans-stones

kokiman.2364:

Jrunyon.3012:

kokiman.2364:

Wrong subforum but to answer your question.

No there is none. You have to use transmutation stones.

Yeah, it is unrecoverable

No

Your last answer is not quite true.

While it will be soulbound to the character you use it on, you can use the transmute to white workaround to make it account bound.

This shouldn’t work anymore.

Why? What happened?
I used it the other day because I wanted karma armour for my alt but was to lazy to run all the way to Iron Marches from Plains of Ashford

Rizzy.8293:

Morrigan.2809:

the pic? sorry I’ll resize it

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no the minipet lol

hehehe comprehension fail on my part

yes he is kind of big isn’t he?

the pic? sorry I’ll resize it

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hehe cute!

here is one- I like.
It reminded me of the Oh You meme

Orangensaft.7139:

Angus.7460:

I think there are more pressing issues to be fixed before adding more weapons most people won’t attain.

yeh but we just want to know if we can expect more so we dont make legendaries like Bifrost for a necro just because there is no other dark themed staff ^^

There is always Final Rest- it is not Legendary but it is as necro as it gets.
Also Deathwish and the Pact staff is pretty necro-y.
Now if they added Mesmer staffs I’d be all over it :P

hehehe Fyrebrand that made me laugh and is so true.

We got rid of our friends who think like that years ago after getting tired of being pestered to do things we have no interested in.
Our remaining friends might not play games but at least they know the score.

I find it sad though that if you play games for entertainment you are automatically weird or nerdy- If you are over 40 like me and a woman you are bordering on eccentric.
My revenge is as soon as my friends start talking about hair, facials and cooking shows, I start talking about cool boss fights.

I see many Engineers in the world and when I’m on my Engineer I always give them a double jump to say hi.
The class I see least is Mesmer- while I was leveling up my main (mesmer) I think I saw 2 the entire time- now when I hear the signature sound my immediate reaction is where where?
They do seem more popular now than at launch.

I think I am very lucky in that both my husband and I play games and that we don’t even have a TV.
Our main form of non gaming entertainment is to sit on our porch and talk nonsense for hours, play with our dog and argue about who read the coolest book lately.

my, I just read that and we are so not hardcore

I had one Abyss during the rainbow profusion and a couple of Midnight Fire dyes, got White the other day in a laurel pack.
My main wears the Midnight Fire and I live for the day I get another abyss to sell for more than 3 g- I still kick myself
Just bought Midnight Skye (I think) for my new Sylvari, it was cheap and matches her hair exactly.
I love dyes

marnick.4305:

Morrigan.2809:

Logitech G600
it is awesome
all others will bow before it eventually

Considering the G600 is basically Logitech stealing Razer’s design, I’d much rather use the original than the clone. By using a G600 you actually bowed before Razer, not Logitech.

Ahh- I don’t know where you live but here Razer has a very bad rep because of build quality and lack of support- if it breaks you can pretty much toss it because you won’t see it again if you send it in.
Logitech on the other hand has no such issues where I live.

Some of my friends have both and tell me that the G600 side buttons are more natural to use but don’t quote me on that.

I know Naga is a popular mouse- I guess it is a matter of preference.
My husband has a Roccat Kone and he hates my mouse..

And boy do I LOVE my G600.

Victory.2879:

Mushrooms.6158:

In regards to SAB:

I don’t understand why people feel all content has to cater to them. If you don’t like the super adventure box, relax because some people do. It is hardly something forced on you – doing it or not has no real impact on other gameplay.

Arenanet has said that a team of eight was working on it, and a team of three was all that was there most of the time. For those who can’t do math, they have a staff of 300, so three means that for a large portion of time, /literally/ only 1% of the staff was involved.

That was between 3 and 8 devs that could have been working on wvw issues that weren’t out of a total dev team of how many? If 300 is the total staff of ANet, then let’s assume devs make up 20% of that total (not unreasonable, in fact probably way too high), that’s 60 people. Then assume 30 of them work on other games, that leaves 30 working on GW2.

So 10-25% of the GW2 dev team worked on this latest jump puzzle, not the 1% that you try to make it sound like.

With so many ‘live’ issues this time and resources could have been better spent elsewhere on the game.

We keep getting Jump Puzzle 2 additions every time but it took 8 months or so to fix culling (probably because out of the finite resources it was low down the list, just after ‘make 20 more jump puzzles’).

SAB is the ‘new’ content for April, it’s not an April Fool’s joke unless you assume that the joke is squarely aimed at the players as the mental age required to play the new SAB is four- as my neighbour’s 4 year old is proving to him every day. April Fool’s jokes are meant to only be on the morning of April 1st, not last a month.

I guess you don’t like SAB then?
Just a few things: sure Anet does not have 300 devs working for them- we don’t know the number.
To say that we get jump puzzles instead of fixes is just absurd though.

Have you considered that it took months to fix culling because it was a complex issue and has nothing to do with people designing jumping puzzles?
I don’t like jumping puzzles because I suck at them- but many many players love them.
it is a bit of extra content- loved by many that gives you something else to do in the game.
As for the April fools joke- you need to lighten up a bit. there was a post by Colin somewhere that there will be an update for April- no idea where or I would link it.

My guess is that the SAB was made by a bunch of people, mostly in their free time because they love it. Kind of like the Sylvari redesign was done

edit I actually laughed at your mental age of 4 statement, seriously?

Logitech G600
it is awesome
all others will bow before it eventually

Yargesh.4965:

Wife aggro always takes priority.

Don’t forget husband aggro :P
Seriously, I agree with Op- this is why I do not commit to dungeons with strangers because my husband and my daughter takes priority and they have a very developed "instance sense "
Open world exploring it is for me.

PrimeEvil.2067:

Hello again…don’t get me wrong i will have no problem to pay for GW2 expansions, i already am a huge fan of this game but my point is will the expansion packs be lower in price compared to the the original GW2 game?

I have no idea – don’t rule out that you might be able to buy them with gems converted from in game gold.
This has not been confirmed at all so don’t take the speculation too seriously- it just strikes me as something they might do, like you can upgrade to the deluxe edition with gems now.

I think it will be a long time before we see a full paid expansion.

PrimeEvil.2067:

Hello there community you’re feedback has been very helpfull and usefull…and i wish honestly a huge thank you to you all.

About the expansions i have a question, since when i bought GW2 and they say in the game box and even in several web sites we only have to buy the game once all the rest is free right? So when expansions will be launched how they will be available to players? By free download in the web site or we will actually have to spend money to have expansions?

I think that by free they meant no subscription after you buy the box and also the free monthly updates that we get.
They did say that they will be focusing more on adding to the core game for free rather than make you pay.
However they will probably bring out paid expansions on a long term basis- Not frequently but think of it as a new installment on an existing game kind of like you would have in a single player game.

zenleto.6179:

I still have my account open though I haven’t been back since I started playing this. I suffered some sort of horrible lag problem. That said, I really enjoy it otherwise. I love the gameplay and the multiclassing. Plenty of soloing, plenty of grouping. Elves…

Lots of people like it and lots of people don’t. It’s been through the same sort of forum arguments that GW2 is going through. Probably still is.

F2p if you want to try it out.

F2P if you want to spend a fortune unlocking content that is only available for VIP’s
Yes I am one of those who hated it and I had a sub.
Even with the sub it cost me.
My husband enjoyed it though- I disliked it so much that I promised myself I would never play an MMo again.
Hehe here I am.
It was and probably still is very popular though, so try it if you are interested.
It is an extremely good looking game even with it’s age.
Artificer was also fun.

Where did you get hoods for an ele?
I would love more armour and weapon skins- half the fun to me is finding the perfect look for my characters more diversity would allow for more individual characters.
Add hair and faces to that while we are at it

The game is only 7 months old- I am sure we will see many many more skins and customisation options down the road

Timothy.7204:

I am an adult and do not like this. I tried it just now, and it was as I figured. It was not even fun in the slightest.

But I see that some of the weapon skin rewards are pretty nice looking and would look good on an Asura. They need to make them available outside that mini game for the mature people who refuse to play something so childish.

But then again I always have been baffled as to why Minecraft is so popular. I have the exact same feelings about that game. I also never have liked the Mario brothers games, ever.

Next is Arenanet going to add checkbook software in the game, so we can do our finances? Thats how ridiculous it is.

Since you don’t want to be playing something so “childish”- buy the skins off the TP- they are cheap.
I’m 41- I like minecraft, it is an extremely creative game- my husband doesn’t but he plays a lot of BF3 which I hate.
Different people like different things, calling content childish because you don’t like it is just silly- a lot more silly than the SAB.

No elves please- night elves and blood elves will come next and from that it is just one small step to Death Nights…..
I love the races in GW2, sure they are somewhat familiar because they do match the familiar fantasy staple at least a bit.
They are an original take on it though and they are very well done and fit the world perfectly.
@ killcannon: Prince of Thorns was awesome

No jumping- rooted casting – no dodge and all instanced.
I wanted to try it in Nov, bought all the packs on two accounts…
Really pretty though, with awesome armour models.

Stark.1350:

They said they’re adding it in the next SAB update.

there is an update?

Lady Dragon Blade.5986:

Can’t you let the fans of the true game pick what they like to play on and let the little silly kiddies have their old school junk. I love GW2 not old school if I wanted old school I would play Nintendo.

Kiddies or old school? The people who remember this form when they started playing games are not kiddies I assure you.
It is just a holiday, fun event- ignore it if you do not like it, BTW I found the toys from Winterday to be much more murderous than the 8 bit critters. Those dolls stil make me twitch.

You can generally find all the news as well as patch notes for each patch here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news

Every month usually has an update round the 26th, so yes you can expect more of them. The next one should be at the end of April

Can’t help you with the books sorry but there is a lore section on the forum here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore.
They have some interesting discussions.
Hope this helps

Welcome OP!
GW2 only launched 7 months ago and so far has seen no expansions- i think you might be referring to the monthly updates.
Gw2 will not end any time soon
Enjoy the game.

gimmethegepgun.1284:

I see what you did there.
This is the daily mount thread, isn’t it?

I love how the Op went from people not liking SAB to- ta-da mounts!
OP may I suggest you play the game a bit more and keep an open mind?

Calae.1738:

Arenanet has a strange way of designing challenging content. You can solo the whole dungeon.

That is because it was fun not challenging- I liked the fact that I could solo it.
You can always choose a more difficult mode- I stuck with infantile :P

This is really really cute

I love GW2 and I think it is a great game.
I like the world and I enjoy exploring it, different classes make for a whole new experience, heck even just a different build is interesting to me.

I like the fact that I can set my own goals and that I can play as much or as little as I have time for and still have fun and achieve what I want.

I seriously love the combat, it is so fluid and I like the fact that we do not have a trinity- imo it makes for more interesting situations because you can adapt and switch roles very fast.

I feel we need a bit more variety in skins at this point but I enjoy getting the perfect look for each of my characters.

I like the community in game and have met some great, fun people.

Those are my thoughts on the subject and yes I have been playing since the Betas

If your friend plays very aggressively he might not be very suited to Mesmer, Mesmers are sneaky- he sounds like he would enjoy a d/d Elementalist.
As for a Mesmer leveling up- keep in mind that Mesmers only really come into their own after level 40 or so.
He could try using a GS/staff weapon set since those are great for leveling in pve.

My main is a Mesmer and I loved her so much I made a second one.
Originally my husband leveled his ranger with my Mesmer and we made an awesome team- very good synergy between the two classes.

I have an Engi at 80 as well and that might work well with a Mesmer too.
The two things a Mesmer lacks somewhat is speed and AOE.
Engi is not as tanky as a Mesmer but they give great AOE support.

I hesitate to ask but why do you want the chests this much?
What is in them that you just have to have?
I really am curious.

It doesn’t glow on female light- sorry

This would be awesome sure but I don’t know how practical, since no profession exists in a vacuum.
You can’t focus on balancing one profession at a time because it would then be adjusted again when you get to the next profession and the next.
The professions need to be balanced with each other in mind., while keeping the unique flavour of each.
I do think that more resources should be devoted to balancing/ given a higher priority.

But, but…
they are awesome!
It is one of the most fun and harmless things in the game.
People costume brawl while waiting for a boss, or dance nekkid but that is another story

yup- that would look awesome on my main

Mungrul.9358:

You know what would look really good?
If you look at Final Rest’s main staff body, it has a lovely black and filigree silver pattern on the shaft.
Without the gargoyle top, that would make a gorgeous staff, very reminiscent of the classic magician’s wand with the black shaft and two white ends.

That would indeed look great and I would give up my Imryldeen for that- oh and make that silver ends

Make them drop in the world and trade on the TP.
Make them available for gems.
Other than that no thanks.

Sericenthe.5310:

I like the Human Tier 1 Cultural Staff and the Ghastly Staff from the AC Vendor. Either of those are very well done, and have nice but understated effects.

The Caretaker Staff? Yes that is indeed awesome- i use it on my ele I love the little glow at the top.

when I logged in last night I honestly thought this was a bug.
And the titles are huge- I want to see player names but I really don’t want to see titles- I don’t get why they changed the way it has been since launch.

This just clutters up the landscape- so what if you are a combat medic- so am I, I just don’t want it shoved in my face.
At least give me an option to turn this off.

Ameepa.6793:

Morrigan.2809:

I am not a huge fan of flashy weapons with dripping particle effects and prefer more elegant, simple and detailed skins.
The best pistol skins I have found are the Ebon Vanguard Pistols and they are honestly not that great.
On my main I use Imryldeen/ Khrysoar and I love them to bits, the detail on that GS is just astounding.

Have you checked the Lionguard pistols? They’re quite nice

Hehe I have them too- used them from lvl 45 and yes the are very cool.
I still keep them as an alternate set but after 35 lvls I needed a change.

I have felt that staffs are lackluster until I stared playing an engi and OMg what is wrong with pistol skins in this game?
There are none that are even halfway decent looking- at least not that I have found.

I am not a huge fan of flashy weapons with dripping particle effects and prefer more elegant, simple and detailed skins.
The best pistol skins I have found are the Ebon Vanguard Pistols and they are honestly not that great.
On my main I use Imryldeen/ Khrysoar and I love them to bits, the detail on that GS is just astounding.

The hearts, Poi etc on a map are just there to keep you in the area of DE’s.
Sure you can complete them get the zone reward and move on to the next zone but the DE’s are where it is at.

Stop rushing trough a checklist, it is not fun at all.
As Vayne said- if exploring is your thing forget about the map and go explore, it is fun even when you are 80 and you always get to see new things.

Is this only on medium armour?
My game is still updating so can’t check.
My main has been wearing Whispers light since Sept and I will really freak out if this is true- report it- let’s all hope to the six it is a bug.