Guild Wars 2

SlyDevil.3952:

Purple Miku.7032:

Dunno I don’t find it funny in the least bit. RIP my sense of humor?

Ignoring the spelling it’s a moderately amusing as a description of the random pugs you can meet, but man that spelling is like listening to nemesis trying to explain a necro dps build.

First I was like Miku thinking “wtf, this should be funny?!”… then I read your comment and it made me laugh so hard

Alright, I already stated the way I see dueling in WvW in general on page 2. But after reading this thread I tried to give those so called honorfull duelists a chance.
So we all know that area near the sentry just north of the bridge to the south camp on every borderland. I see ppl duelling there quite often. So what happened? Conquered the south camp and a dolly immediately started moving to the south east tower. So my wife and I decided to stay with the dolly, trying to ensure its safety. Guess what happened? Duelists around the sentry. A few (think it was 3 or 4) enemy guys on the small hill to the east watching their mate fighting another enemy (so it was red on both sides for us) who had a few guys watching from the other side.
Usually we’d just attacked them, but with this thread in mind, we decided to give it a try and just move a long with our dolly not attacking anyone.
At first, nothing happened. As soon as we were close to the sentry area, out of a sudden those guys from the east hill attacked. Mesmer shatter spike + medi guard burst within a second. So much about duelists and their precious honor.

tl;dr gonna stick to “when it’s red, it’s dead”; if you’re so much into 1v1 duels and can’t stand getting interupted, get yourself a custom pvp arena; you can 1v1 all day long

Smooth Penguin.5294:

There’s a saying that I learned once – “If it’s Red, it’s dead”.

Tigaseye.2047:

Whenever you like.

They are in WvW and WvW is not a duelling arena.

This sums it up completely for me.
I mean, it’s WvWvW. A constant war that’s all about conquer and defense. If someone is into duelling, they should get themselves a custom pvp arena and find likeminded people to battle there.

A little side story I experienced just yesterday: roaming around with my wife in EB, east of SM Castle on our way to our Durio’s Tower since it was tagged. Seeing an enemy fighting one of our guys so we just joined in, bursted that guy down and finished him… just to get some weird flame by our “ally” for interrupting his precious duel. Ofc he didn’t bother to get to the tower and defend it. Those 3 guild catapults would surely have destroyed themselves anyway…
Now ask me why I can’t take those wvw duel guys serious…

Funny, I experienced quite the opposite 2 days ago. Wanted to do a HotW run with some friends and suddenly my fps dropped to 11-12 for no reason. After restarting the client they were back up to the usual 50-60…

May be a similar glitch affects you, though I guess you wouldn’t mind things to stay like they are now

Out of this three, your guardian might make best use of it. But you can also just pick the weapon type of your choice and change the stats in the mystic forge. Recipe is 1 exotic inscription with the desired stat combo, 5 ectos, 1 anthology of heroes and the weapon that you want to change the stats of. Just bear in mind that all infusions/sigil will get lost in that process.

On a side note- everytime someone writes Messmer instead of Mesmer, god kills a kitten

GW2 is serious buisness. This is serious forum. No lick jokes about creatures that aren’t able to lick at all. Nuff said. Move along.

atheria.2837:

The double-teaming in tier1 isn’t JQ and YB… It’s TC and JQ and they have no reason not to be attacking each other with their numbers.

So this is happening on NA aswell? I though the guys from Kodash and Riverside were the only kittens acting like that. Well, misery loves company, I guess, thought that won’t help affected worlds at all…

Dear Arena.Net marketing guys,

I don’t know what kind of qualifications got you into your jobs. I don’t know what they told you at buisness school or college about marketing. In fact, I know very little about marketing theories, hardly scratched the surface it.
But what I do know is, that one should always think before talking/ writing, especially when it touches a term, which has a very negative meaning for many people. Just like the term “free2play”.
I mean, let’s look at what you actually did. You gave people the possibility to try core GW2 for free, without any time limits but with some tight restrictions.
So basicly it is indeed some kind of “f2p” since one doesn’t have to pay a single $/€ to start playing core GW2. But let’s face it, if you’d named it, I don’t know, “unlimited trial account” or something alike and at the same time openly published the restriction those accounts have (not having the players to actually dig it out! That “letter” from the president wasn’t a smart move either since it put all attention to the new “f2p” accounts, hiding the details behind a link most people won’t click in their “omg f2p kitten this kitten!” rant), I take any bet that there had been much less QQ and rants and thus less work for your company. Sure, there would have been a few people pointing out that “unlimited trial accounts” are basically just f2p accounts, but having regard to the restrictions, most people would have been ok with it right away I guess.

So may be you’d like to take my advice- next time think before acting and never underestimate the power and wisdom of common sense. And you won’t find the latter in any marketing book nor will it be tought at school/college.

Best regards
Nash

P.S.: I don’t mean to offend someone by any means, if something above sounds a bit harsh it’s probably due to the fact I’m no native english speaker. But I feel that the way this big change got published wasn’t your best piece of work, since most of the inconveniences were forseable and thus preventable with a little more effort put in it.

Though it’s been some time I went through 39 on my way to 50, iirc it helped a lot to just pay attention if something near you just died. If so, dodging right away should get you out of the explosion range since they blow up with some delay. As long as they didn’t change something with some patches, this should do it.

Part 1: as long as you’re not after some record times, it doesn’t matter much as long as everyone knows the encounter and what the class he plays can contribute.
Part 2: play what suits you best

Additional note: if you don’t know something or are curious about a certain thing come to the forums and ask, there’s a bunch of great people here with deep knowledge about all classes; going to metabattle and blindly copy&pasting builds usually doesn’t end well.
Playing a guardian in fractals myself, the key is to adapt. Always carry all weapons and change weapon sets and traits (uh, sorry, “specializations”…) depending on the encounter and you’ll be fine.

Quarktastic.1027:

Nash.2681:

The 2nd IS $250 better IF you plan on playing anything else that’s a bit more demanding GPU wise or if you like to use the laptop for watching videos and other multimedia stuff. If it’s only about GW2, I’d stick to the first one, since the 940m GPU is roughly as good as the GTX660m I use (and most things run fine on high), the CPU’s are pretty close together and, which is quite important, has the much smaller native resolution. You can check and compare CPUs/GPUs here if you want to.
Another thing to keep in mind- both laptops have pretty slow HDDs built in, your loading times ingame will probably quite long.
Besides some QoL things like the keyboard, you should worry more about stuff like cooling and maintenance possibilities, since those are the things that mostly affect your gameing experience and the longlivity of you laptop.

I’ve never given laptop cooling or maintenance much thought, though I’ve never had a laptop overheat or fail on me. Keyboards are much more than a quality of life thing. Extended periods of gaming on small, uncomfortable laptop keyboards can lead to severe hand cramps, and worse, long term nerve damage.

Well, since you seem to be content with a $400 wallmart machine, I assume you don’t play that much on a laptop at all, so I’m not surprised that you never had any heating issues or such. But be asured, if you consider computer games as a hobby and play for several hours if you have the spare time for it, heating becomes something to think about. Being able to clean the fan(s) without breaking warranty seals and without having to disassemble half of the laptop is golden.
And I really don’t get that keyboard problem. I play exclusively on laptops for 11 years now, rpg’s, sports games, fps, strategy games, and I don’t have any problems with my hands or wrists. Still I can imagine this would be different if I already had somekind of previous illnesses concerning my hands or if I’d used something below 15,6", but let’s be honest- if you intend to play on a laptop more than 15-30 min a day or type a lot, you won’t go sub 15,6".

The 2nd IS $250 better IF you plan on playing anything else that’s a bit more demanding GPU wise or if you like to use the laptop for watching videos and other multimedia stuff. If it’s only about GW2, I’d stick to the first one, since the 940m GPU is roughly as good as the GTX660m I use (and most things run fine on high), the CPU’s are pretty close together and, which is quite important, has the much smaller native resolution. You can check and compare CPUs/GPUs here if you want to.
Another thing to keep in mind- both laptops have pretty slow HDDs built in, your loading times ingame will probably quite long.
Besides some QoL things like the keyboard, you should worry more about stuff like cooling and maintenance possibilities, since those are the things that mostly affect your gameing experience and the longlivity of you laptop.

theoutsider.7849:

dboylolz.3916:

dlonie.6547:

dboylolz.3916:

It’s probably a cultural issue, I’m also used to winking implying sarcastic superiority. In general I despise the emoticons being used at all because they are extremely ambiguous to the situation.

Interesting. It means the exact opposite here, and in this case I (in the US) took it more as “what I just said could be taken harshly with the wrong tone, but I mean it kindly, friend.”

Mind if I ask where you’re at? I think you’re EU, are winks considered snarky to most of Europe? These sorts of differences fascinate me….and they’re really, really useful to understand!

I live in Norway, and the fact that you experience emoticons in a complete other way does make sense to me. I’ve heard from several Americans living in Norway how unwelcoming and unsocial we can seem. Prime example is people sitting on the bus, people will go out of their way to not have to sit with a complete stranger and having to engage in a conversation.

I honestly think it might derive from the law of jante which is still situated in Norway after quite a long time.

The law of jante for those unaware.

Does anyone ever voluntarily sit next to a stranger in bus or train if there’s still other free seats and or standing spots available?
I’m german, I’m not gonna claim generalizations about my people. What I will say is that we/I generally enjoy more direct and blunt forms of communication, and as such, to give my take on the topic we all keep talking about, an in my eyes (read this) passive aggressive sentence full with falsehood and ending in a wink might be considered a taunt.
I answered in bluntness, which may likely have been unappropriate, but that’s how we roll, you know.

Guess I ain’t german anymore :o (well, whenever someone asks me where I’m from I always answer “bavaria” anyway so I won’t complain ). Preference for direct communication whilst using sarcasm/irony and/or using emoticons to soften rather harsh sentences don’t exclude each other imo

dlonie.6547:

dboylolz.3916:

It’s probably a cultural issue, I’m also used to winking implying sarcastic superiority. In general I despise the emoticons being used at all because they are extremely ambiguous to the situation.

Interesting. It means the exact opposite here, and in this case I (in the US) took it more as “what I just said could be taken harshly with the wrong tone, but I mean it kindly, friend.”

Mind if I ask where you’re at? I think you’re EU, are winks considered snarky to most of Europe? These sorts of differences fascinate me….and they’re really, really useful to understand!

EU Player here and I’d understand said emoticon exactly as you would. But there’s one thing to keep in mind- it might be valid to say “we in the US”, but EU =/= EU. There are more or less big cultural differences between european countries, so I won’t claim to speak for every EU player. E. g. someone from portugal might interpret one of your sentences differently than someone from finland.

1. Move cursor over the minimap
2. double tap the hotkey for the desired consecration (by default either 7, 8 or 9)
3. enjoy the consecration pop-up at your position

Jerus.4350:

Nash.2681:

Jerus.4350:

I’ll be happy to pass along your channel….snippedysnipsnip

Just another proof that Whisk(e)y is a reliable source of wisdom and insight.
No kidding, this is one of the very best walls of text I’ve ever read on this forum, simply because it’s so true in every way.
Kudos to you good Sir.

Now where’s that kittening bottle of 16 yo’ Lagavulin again…

Bring me that bottle! I drink cheap costco Kirkland Canadian Whiskey (tastes better than Crown Royal), but, then again, I have a tolerance that’s unhealthy and expensive

There you go
Imo this lovely piece of water has one of the best price-performance ratios ever

Jerus.4350:

I’ll be happy to pass along your channel….snippedysnipsnip

Just another proof that Whisk(e)y is a reliable source of wisdom and insight.
No kidding, this is one of the very best walls of text I’ve ever read on this forum, simply because it’s so true in every way.
Kudos to you good Sir.

Now where’s that kittening bottle of 16 yo’ Lagavulin again…

better than nothing

totally not appealing

already enough range options in the game for those that like to play half to fully afk, why add another…

Fermi.2409:

A k CPU will be the same temperature as the same non-k CPU at the same clockrate. It’s when you start overclocking that temperatures go up. For example, my 3570k doesn’t even go over 60 when it’s stock but at 4.6 GHx it starts pushing 80 while in games.

So that means that a K running without turbo @ 4GHz should be as hot as a S version running with turbo @ 4GHz? In that case the normal 4790 or the S version shouldnt reach the top temperatures a K would get? Did I get this one right?

@MoMo: thanks for pointing this out, though as a “long-time-laptop-player” I’m well aware of this issue Only thing that bugs me everytime I need/want a new machine is catching up with the latest hardware developments :/

Thanks everyone so far!

I’m playing on a 3 year old laptop with an i7 3720QM (at least I think it was that cpu, can’t check right now since at work) and a GTX 660 and it already handles GW2 quite well on high settings. Though I do feel some dps drops in larger WvW battles and having played on BWE, I reckognized that HoT will probably stealth-increase the required hardware (just as they did back in the GW1 days with Faction, Nightfall and EotN). And since I wanted to get a new machine anyway…

@BroBelial: concerning laptop GPU’s there indeed happened a lot, as Belzebu already said. The selected GTX 970 comes with 6GB non-shared DDR5 RAM, so as long as we talk about GW2 I’m not worried about the GPU at all.
@BroBelial&Belzebu: say hello to Asmodeus and Luzifer, will you?

What I’m really curious about right now is- can anyone confirm how much or not G-Sync is noticeable in GW2 or games in general? All I’ve seen so far is the promo-video from nVidia and well… it’s a promo-video, ofc it looks good there and makes perfectly sense but it’s still just a promo-video…
Oh, another note- if I should go with a G-Sync setup, I’m thinking of “only” going with a regular 4790 or the S version for thermal reasons, since I read quite a lot about the K version getting quite hot :/

It’s indeed a desktop cpu since I decided to get a XMG U705. It’s set up on a clevo barebone that offers the possibility of using desktop components inside a laptop
Unfortunatly I can’t give a link with the above setup already selected, just the page where you can configure the machine: http://mysn.co.uk/shop/xmg-u705-gaminglaptop.html

At first I wanted to go with the Xeon E3-1231 v3 processor, since it offers the best price-performance ratio by far. Unfortunatly it’s the only processor out of those available that does not support G-Sync. So I went with the 4790k, since it’s not that much more expensive than the other 4790’s while offering much more power.

Hey guys, I’m about to get a new laptop (yes, laptop, I’m well aware that a desktop would have a way better price/perfomance ratio, but I got my reasons for getting a laptop, so plz no discussion about that), now I’m curious how well this components would handle GW2. I’m also going to play the new Star Wars Battlefront on it.
Here are the specs I’m currently looking at:
• 43,9 cm (17.3") Full-HD (1920*1080) Non-Glare IPS
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 6144MB GDDR5 with G-Sync
• Intel Core i7-4790K | 4 Cores| 8 Threads | 4,0 – 4,4GHz | TDP: 88 Watt
• 8GB (2×4096) SO-DIMM DDR3 RAM 2133MHz HyperX Impact
• 250GB m.2 SSD Samsung 850 EVO (MZ-N5E250B)
• 500GB / 8GB SATA-III SSH 5400U/Min Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD (ST500LM000)
• Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265 (incl. Bluetooth)

Any thoughts? Something that doesn’t fit in? Any input appreciated!

Well, farewell, have fun in EOS (whatever that is). So… I can has your stuff?

Since there’s no official “plz give your BETA feedback here” post yet, I start my own topic. Feel free to add your very own feedback or may be all the feedback threads will get merged together, idk.

So what I did this weekend myself was testing the Revenant, Necro Elite Spec (Reaper) and ofc a bit of the new map. I also talked to friends and guild mates about their opinions, so some parts reflect only what I was told (since I know they never use the forums).

A Performance
It seems that the system requirements for the HoT map got “stealth increased”. Though this is nothing new, back in GW1 FPS went dropped with every addition to the game (Factions, NF, GW:EN) already, still I hoped for a policy change in GW2. Just for comparison: Playing on high settings, I usually get somewhere between 30 and 60 fps in the open world and in dungeons/fotm, noticeable fps drops only occur in large scale WvW battles and big and crowded world bosses.
On the Beta map however, fps were constantly around 20, often noticeably stuttering.

B Visuals/Design
The map itself (at least what I explored) looks… ok’ish. Jungle settings just aren’t my favorits, but that’s a personal thing. What I really dislike is the mass of tight paths, small cave like places, with green stuff hanging from above etc. Not so much for its esthetics, but for its inconvinience concerning camera handling. Even with the latest camera improvements I was regulary more busy with adjusting the camera than actually paying attention to what was going around me.

C Combat
Didn’t spend too much time fighting, but all in all nothing special. Mobs still melt, but I feel one has to pay a little more attention about tells and enemy boons/specialities, which I consider a good thing. I also enjoyed having the orange area tells for incoming AoE attacks, though a guildy of mine complained about the mix of red circles and orange areas. She felt it just too much bling bling to watch out for, with the red circles sometimes being hard to see when they overlap with the orange areas, Same goes for the orange/red lines from snipers. She suggests an “either or” solution. May be there’s a chance to simply remove all red circles and put in the orange area markers instead just like you did with bloomhunger back in the days?

D Masteries
Can’t say much here, system doesn’t seem very intuitive, I somehow unlocked the first step of glidermastery by accident, no idea what I did to do so. Gliding itself seemed like a nice gimmick, but nothing to spectacular. Future will tell wether it will be a nice feature or an anoying “must have” I guess.

E New Class/Elite Specs
Reaper is visualy quite appealing, though the scythe in reaper shroud is a bit too much for me. That oversized handle just looks stupid imo. Maybe you can lower the handle a bit and increase the blade instead?
Playwise I got along with it quite well, though GS skills feel very sluggish. I guess the masters of theory-crafting can give better input.
What I miss is the possibility to get the old DS while still using the GS. Maybe you can tie the RS to the GS while still granting access to the old DS when using another weapon, so we can switch between RS and DS by switching weapons?
Another thing that was weired- there’s one particular kind of veteran enemies, unfortunatly I forgot the name, which looked like some mix of a rhino/triceratops/stegosaurus/turtle. When I used RS 5 on them, a HUGE ice crystal appeared on them, filling the whole screen and literally blinding everyone around (not the condition blind, more like watching a flashbang in RL). Dunno wether it was the chill or the stun or the combination of both, but that should definetly looked into.

Revenant… I’m a bit torn. I somewhat like the style and the many possibilities offered by the combinations of different weapons and legends, on the other hand, the damage (yes, used zerker everything) felt quite… meh.

Just my 2 cents.

Discussion about the build itself and its pro’s and con’s aside- nice video, enjoyed watching it!
I got curious on which server you play on since you mainly fought guys from A…ugury Rock (which explains the countless 1vX encounters :P ), fortunatly the chat revealed it close to the end.

So cheers to a fellow FSP fighter, glad to have you on our side and good hunting!

P.S.: that guild chat at ~12:00 mins is golden

1. OMG a recent red post in the dungeon forums!!!

2. On topic: given the few informations we have it really seems that there won’t be any benefit in doing more than 3 fractals a day, a 1-20, a 21-50 and a 51-100. That’s playing 3 levels, getting 3 rewards. Spent 30 mins on it, now wait for the daily reset. Not really appealing imo. Therefor I strongly support sprhavkdogi.9408’s suggestion with more reward tiers and increasing level randomness.
Or at least make it “semi-random”, like (using the example above for lvl 71+) “start with a static level, followed by three more fractals. Whenever you finish a level, your party gets to chose from 2-3 randomly chosen levels”. Pretty much like we already do in explorer dungeons.
Example: starting lvl 77, static fotm is swamp. Swamp is done, everyone clicks “ready” → new pop up window with a fuse on top appears on screen, asking everyone wether to proceed with Molten Facility or with Ascalon. Party members make their choice, the selected map starts. And so on.

I’d be fine with 100-250 relics for a skin IF there will also be the possibility to change or trade double skins. If it will still be possible to get the same skin over and over again with offering nothing but saving one transmutation charge then nope, 20-50 seems totally fine to me.

Any info about how long you can get the mini? Since I use e-mail authentication I’ll have to set this whole 2-step-authenticator-thingy up, something I definetly don’t want to do in a hurry. So if I install during next weekend, will I still get the mini or is there some tight time gate?

Saiyan.1704:

Majic.4801:

Ezrael.6859:

The accuracy of your Shortbow and Longbow are nothing in comparison to how abysmal the Scepter is in terms of velocity and tracking.

So does that mean “obstructed” errors for professions other than Guardian are somehow unimportant?

Not quite following the logic there.

Scepter attacks are incredibly slow to the point where we want every molasses death orb to hit. Zealot’s Flame can be a single burst attack that, more often than not, can determine whether or not we win or lose a fight.

Other than that single knock back skill, Rangers do not have that issue as their skills are fast, trackable, on a relatively short CD, and your heart doesn’t skip a beat every time your potential 4k Zealots Flame gets “Obstructed”.

Apologies, that’s ofc totally different than getting screwed potential ~10k rapid fire bursts completly over and over again, just to get burst down in return. How could I miss that apparency…

Alright, gonna leave this topic so our special snowflakes can keep feeling special

Done. Mostly play my Ranger in WvW. Having every kittening arrow shot while standing/moving on plain ground popping “Obstructed” is just the same.
Is it anoying? Yes it is. VERY anoying actually. Should it be fixed? Yes, most definetly. Is this issue something exclusive to Guardians? No, definetly not, sorry to disappoint you.

Obstructed! A GuardianEveryone weilding a ranged projectile weapon in WvW Story…

Fixed the title for you. You’re welcome!

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

WILL YOU STOP NECROING EVERYTHING ALREADY I CAN’T HANDLE IT ;-;

Amen. +1

£1500? Shouldn’t be too a big problem getting a good laptop being able to handle gw2 for your buck. MSI and Asus have quite good gameing series.
I’d also like to agree to the other posters about Alienware being totally overpriced. You’ll get the same power for way less money.
If buying online outside of the UK is an option for you, you might want to check http://www.mysn.co.uk/
It’s a medium sized german company offering a wide range of costumizeable laptops with excellent maintainability and they’re known for great customer support. Got my own machine there 2 3/4 years ago (payed 1.250 €) and it’s still running well (including GW2 on high settings with no fps issues, thanks to an i7).
Though I have to admit, I don’t know how well they handle orders from foreign countries, so you might want to send them an email with all your questions before ordering right away.

Carighan.6758:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Yeah, condition damage is actually good. You heard it here first. Here’s why:

Overall damage output is comparable or better

You do realize that this is true and an absolutely basic requirement for DoT effects, right?
You trade in “instant effect” to gain more damage. That’s how DoTs work. That’s their most integral upside, that they do more total damage. And in turn, they cannot bring someone down right away, they need time to deal their damage.

I’m baffled that this is supposedly a bad thing.

The issue here is the risk vs. reward. To do decent direct damage you are forced to go melee since that option offers considerably more damage and grants you access to all the needed shared boons (might, fury, etc.) and still forces you to wear glassy gear to pull of your dps.
On the other hand, most classes (most, not all) can stack their conditions from range, making fights considerably easier.
Though I admit, this is no new issue since the rewards for players showing a high skill cap still are laughably low (e. g. same chance to get a pre for killing a yellow moa in queensdale aswell as for soloing lupi).
The only difference was the time they needed to get content done. Now boosting the damage of the PHIWs while still sitting at the same low risk decreases their time investment to get content done, thus lowering the gap between them and those who already tried their best to improve and get better.

Wether that’s a bad thing, well, everyone will have to judge that for themselves.

Thanks for contributing Narrrz.7532. I really like your idea and consider it an excellent addition to the whole suggestion! Great example of a big QoL change that can be done with a clean design and comfortable usability. Cheers!

If I’d care about owning an ugly-but-ultra-shiny-and-glowing-mob-smasher-tool I’d probably had to spend a kittenload of gold on the TP, since I never ever had one drop (and prbly never will, since I tend to only get valuable drops when they ain’t valuable anymore. Has been like this in gw1 aswell… e. g. elemental swords. When they were somewhat valuable- solo farmed elona elementals hard- never had one drop. Then prices dropped hard to insignificance- guess who suddenly found one elemental sword after another…).

Since gw2skills.net updated their editor and made it pretty much the way I’d love it to look ingame, I just leave an example link here: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQBYAAAQY4AA-e (if you’re not familiar with this site: you have to toggle to the specializations view by clicking the button in the middle)
Now make it with all specialization lines visible at once (including a blank bar for the upcoming elite specs) and adding a checkbox to select and de-select the desired lines would be a huge QoL improvement imo. No matter which you tend to remind better, be it patterns or numbers, this design would work just fine.

cough Ofc, saving templates would make all of the above quite obsolete, or at least much less to care about… cough

Pop up box (at least for fractals) always appears on the bottom left nowadays for me and everyone I met ingame so far. Inconvinient, but nothing to get kittened about
Also, you will always see your personal reward level in the box, no matter what level the running fractal is. E. g. if your personal reward level is 50 and you join a fotm level 21, your pop up box asks you to join a lvl 50 fotm…
If there’s no pop up box at all when there should be one, you have to force a loading screen. As mentioned before by others, either use a distant waypoint in LA or go back to the character selection screen (which ever works faster for you). If neither nor helps, ask for a re-invite to the party.

About proper lfg usage: writing “casual” is always a good idea while you’re still learning. Being open and honest generaly works best. Something like “casual lvl x run, still learning, teachers/mentors welcome” should work. You might also consider finding a helpfull guild that welcomes new players and is willing to teach you the basics.

That’s probably [URL=http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Grenth_Hood_Skin]Grenth Hood Skin[/URL].
It was temporarily available @ gem shop, but isn’t currently. It might come back one day for a couple of days (my guess would be around Halloween), but no guarantee on that.

€: Highchu was fast

I strongly support this, an option to disable groundtargeting for consecrations would be nice.

They said it does and I think someone on this forums already confirmed it actually does. All upgrades (runes, sigils, infusions) get destroyed, you even have to re-skin your changed armor/weapon.

Interesting, looks like our brains work totally differently (100% no offense!)
For me, it’s way easier to remember a number scheme like 60026 with attached roman numbers to each line (never had to write any build down for any of my 8 toons) than the position of meaningless symbols, even if it’s only 3×3.

So I conclud thus far:
- there are people considering the new trait line display being more comfortable and easier to remember than the old one
- for others it’s easier to remember some number schemes
- so my suggestion to “add an option to toggle between “new school” and “old school” looks” seems to be a good compromise
- everyone seems to agree that having all 5 trait lines displayed at once and selecting the needed ones via a checkbox or sth. alike would be an improvement
- being able to save and reload build (thinking of a drop down menu above the trait line window similar to the “select stats for your item” for quick changing) would be a superior solution for everyone

Hey Jon, besides all that balancing and bug fixing, are you guys also aware of this ?

Btw., what made me ponder yesterday was, that even though I didn’t see any significant difference in the number of my stats, i felt like dishing out way more dmg. Example: my wife and me decided to have some WvW fun with our rangers. Quickly set up a build being quite close to what I played before, checked my stats, reckognized that Power, Crit. Chance, Lifepool was all about as pre-patch but boy… my actual damage was way higher than before.
Had one funny situation with a thief running up to us, stealthing himself while still being out of range. Sneaked up, 1-hitted my wife… just to get insta-downed after half of my rapidfire. That was our “wtf happened to all that damage” moment

Yeah, you got my point. Even though we got less traits now, it took me much longer to get an overview and figure out what would prbly suit my playstyle than with the old, pretty much self-explainatory (pre-NPE!) system back in the old days.

Hey folks,

though it’s way too soon to make a final statement about the new trait system (or specializations, what ever it’s named right now), I want to suggest a QoL change.
Right now what you see is a flood of colors and symbols.
What I’d like to see is a more clean approach, using a clearly reckognizable symbol for the trait line and for the adept, master and grandmaster traits them good old roman numbers. Since there’s still no way to save builds, I feel changing / adapting builds would be more comfortable this way (at least for me it’s easier to remember a few numbers than some symbols that look like some piece of Picasso).
In addition, having all 5 trait lines being visible in the window on the right with a checkbox allowing you to select the three lines you want to use (if three are selected already and you want to change one, you have to uncheck the one you want to drop and then you can check another one).
Thinking about sth. like (taken Elementalist for example) :

…………….. I – IV – VII
[x] Fire…… II – V – VIII
…………….. III – VI – IX

…………….. I – IV – VII
[x] Air …… II – V – VIII
…………….. III – VI – IX

……………… I – IV – VII
[ ] Earth…. II – V – VIII
…………….. III – VI – IX

……………… I – IV – VII
[ ] Water…. II – V – VIII
…………….. III – VI – IX

…………….. I – IV – VII
[x] Arcane. II – V – VIII
…………….. III – VI – IX

I hope you get the idea. Any chance this will happen? Or may be just add an option to toggle between “new school” and “old school” looks?

Whenever I have the need to see that fluffy-chubby-cuddly-kitten, I simply use my endless cat tonic, reroll until I’m that adorable piece of fur and be happy
And if that’s not enough there are Sir Chauncey of Snuffles III, Zuzu and the Orange Tabby Cat standing by in my mini-collection, ready for summon

Hate to quote myself, but since my question got ignored for several pages, I’m gonna repeat it:

Just for clarification- did I get the blog post right, that pre-purchase continues until July 31st?

Gaile? Regina? Anyone?

Just for clarification- did I get the blog post right, that pre-purchase continues until July 31st?

Benson.9063:

Taku.6352:

June, 23rd, 2015

• You can now salvage your unused ascended rings, accessories and amulets to bloodstone dust.

source?

I think it’s an ironic attempt on an educated guess.
If it shall become reality though, I would be a) not surprised at all b) disapointed as hell c) angry that they didn’t come up with that “solution” at least 1 year ago….