Guild Wars 2

Now that Kiel won, guess what have? RNG boxes. As long as people buy them, they’ll stick around.

Also, the waypoint discount seems to be 20%

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Navzar.2938:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

wolfpaq.7354:

Xenon.4537:

I play my alts because they are fun, not because I could reap extra rewards from them.

You realize these “extra rewards” are mandatory to fully gear a character right?

To be technical, to “fully gear” a character you need a lot of Gems, 20 slot bags filling all slots except the first, and one weapon with each type you can use, each stat combination, each sigil . . .

Extra bag slots don’t make you stronger. None of that stuff is time gated either.

Of course they don’t make you stronger, and they’re not time-gated. But “fully gear” implies having everything

And yes, that’s silly and ludicrous. So’s the idea that “fully gearing” your alts shouldn’t require you to put in as much time as for your primary character.

I don’t think most people with alts complain about it because they feel they should reach max strength without having to put in as much time. The problem with time gating is that it simply makes you wait. It doesn’t actually make you put in any more time or effort or something like that. It just makes you wait by having you put in that time in intervals.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

wolfpaq.7354:

Xenon.4537:

I play my alts because they are fun, not because I could reap extra rewards from them.

You realize these “extra rewards” are mandatory to fully gear a character right?

To be technical, to “fully gear” a character you need a lot of Gems, 20 slot bags filling all slots except the first, and one weapon with each type you can use, each stat combination, each sigil . . .

Extra bag slots don’t make you stronger. None of that stuff is time gated either.

Yeah people don’t really look at the suggestions section much. So it’s not a place that will show how popular a suggestion is with the players.

Yep, same problem here. It won’t gain anything as I buy things for karma at heart vendors.

Brother Grimm.5176:

This will NEVER happen for a variety of reasons.

1) Most users of Fellblade do NOT want a Mesmer looking effect on their GS (I know I don’t)
2) ANet will no doubt eventually sell this skin on the TP for gems and this would reduce their market.

On the improved animation, the original GW1 SWORD had a black glassy (reflective diagonal bands) effect on the blade in addition to increased smoke. The GW2 GS needs THAT effect add as well as improved smoke.

How is smoke mesmer looking? This thread isn’t asking for the runes if that’s what you means. Maybe OP should put that in bold at the top? :p

As for me, I don’t think it needs both the old effect and improved smoke, I’m fine with one or the other.

I’m also wondering smoething since I don’t know anything about how this stuff works. If gw2 uses an the same type of graphics engine as gw1, but an updated version, would it be possible to import the old animation without much extra work?

A question about the nerfs: Did the nerf the champion bags’ drops or the drops from the monsters inside the arena? Because if it’s the first, that goes against the point of adding the champion bags in the first place. If they did nerf the bags, then was it the direct gold you could get, or the stuff valued by players?

Also keep in mind that as the event progresses item values decrease, meaning less profit.

Others areas don’t have such a huge amount of champions/legends in one place to farm anyway, so it’d be a bad idea to base it off of this temporary content imo.

OverlordOutpost.5961:

Nick.6972:

Why the hell would you ever complain about too much money.

If you get everyone in the US a million dollars, you just devalued the value of the US Dollar by a lot. That million is now worth a TON less, as well as any money and savings you had before. That’s why.

But the money is being made from the TP, so it’s not giving everyone in the US a million dollars. It’s giving everyone commodities, which are then sold to the rich for said dollars. Money being spread is very, very different from money being generated. Of course the commodities are still lowering in value, but I think that was part of the plan.

I’d definitely like to get the gw1 animation back or the shadows from this. I’d even be glad if it was the shadows on this but toned down. The effect on the current fellblade is just so disappointing you know?

I agree. This is one of the things that actually deserves a title, unlike some other ones out there. (ex. Combat healer and every event/living story title so far besides the mad king’s tower)

Well if you ever decide to try ele again, you can mix in some pvt armor and drop fire to 25 so you can get the water heal. You’ll still have to mostly rely on paying attention to dodge the attacks though (perma vigor helps a lot with that).

Again, the most important thing is denying him the meat and taking it for yourself. It gives you huge damage buffs.

I’d definitely suggest the sigil of battle, that’s for sure.

Who knows, the Flames of Kryta might foreshadowing some darker content that is approaching :p

Did we discover all the new skins already? I know dulfy had a list, but it was incomplete at first.

I’m an ele, so this is what I did. Spec into arcane and fire. Grab elemental surge, arcane wave, and arcane power. Use a +40% Condition duration food. Grats, now you can perma chill the dog. While keeping him chilled, run around and eat the meat. Doing this will keep him weak and make you very strong.

Of course you can also use other things like immobilize, stuns, and kd as well. I went s/d zerker when I did it, but I guess you could go something else, like d/f for more snare and a bit more mobility. Lightning flash also helps as the 3rd utility, but be ready for the 5 sec stun/daze (I don’t remember which it is) when you pick up the last meat.

Should have just had a giant Balthazar instead of a big hawk :p

Sometimes deadeye’s mines are invisible from culling as well T.T

and apparently sometimes the bosses don’t despawn, so you can’t use that ring or you end up fighting two bosses at once.

If it’s mainly gold from TP, it’s not so bad from the game. That would mean the wealth is just being spread as richer players buy up rarer materials from the market.
It’s high amounts of npc generated gold that’s more damaging imo.

You don’t actually have to farm tickets, you can buy them by buying the sprockets.

Esplen.3940:

Navzar.2938:

And baubles from the super adventure box :p

But you can only gain more if you carry less than 250 (or 500 with the purse) ingame, which would actually make the wallet hurt SAB.

Actually you can gain more if you store them or put them on other character, but I see your concern. Bauble bubbles then

Go to the new farm. Be happy you got it.

Character slots are cheaper than bank slots for extra storage

RoRo.8270:

still trying to figure out how we are suppose to put the regular fractal relics into the forge now…

How I hadn’t thought of that, and I have some stuff I need to infuse too. If someone figures it please post it.

As for pristine relics, I do think they should go in. After all, if you have fractal relics, that means you probably have pristine ones as well.

The Boz.2038:

…what?
What is this about?

There’s a new sigil that heals you and nearby allies on weapon swap.

You don’t know if heals enough to be worthwhile on an ele, so I’d wait on getting one. Since it probably doesn’t scale, it may be better for classes that have a hard time getting decent heals while we stick with sigil of battle.

And baubles from the super adventure box :p

Reclaimermaster.4107:

Sagramor.7395:

Are you sure there’s no Ascended stat allocation that corresponds to your trinket+jewel setup?

I don’t believe that there is. I run soldiers trinkets and clerics jewels.

Couldn’t you run a mix of soldier’s and cleric’s trinkets for the same results?
Anyway, if you convert to gold t6 bags should have a better rate than dyes. When I did it, I got around 40s per laurel after TP taxes

Glyph of Renewal: Improved the readability of this skill so enemies can see it more clearly when players are casting it.
Magnetic Wave: This skill is now blockable.
2 small nerfs, one being to the least used weapon.

Tornado: Added a duration skill fact. This skill can now be used while moving.
Arcane Retribution: Increased the duration to 30 seconds to be consistent with Arcane Power.
1 slight buff, 1 decent buff

and arcane power is 4 critical hits.. i don’t know when they changed it to 5

It was always five hits since it started counting attacks, but in the distant past it was just 100% crit chance for 5 seconds.

edit: If arcane retribution still used the old arcane power, then yeah, I’d agree on it being a buff.

Tachenon.5270:

Icy cold Coke in an 8-ounce glass bottle, back when they used cane-sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup — man. That was the stuff.

Gonna guess I voted somewhere between 100 and 150 times. Just a guess, though.

You can still buy that coke, but it’s more expensive since it’s usually imported from either Mexico or Canada, though I’m sure some American companies still do it. I think it’s usually about $24 for 36 twelve ounce bottles.

I voted somewhere between 200 times and 250 times.

I actually prefer things that don’t home in. When it comes to aoes, it would ruin common situations where you’d be able to hit more targets by having the center point in an area without enemies.

It also makes the game more thoughtful and skillful imo, and thus more fun.

Malcastus.6240:

It isn’t a good thing that you are dependent on EA. I wonder if there will ever be a time where people can make a good PvP build without going into arcana. I don’t approve of mandatory traits and traitlines is what I’m saying..

I actually agree with this, but I don’t think nerfing EA is the way to go.

Yamsandjams.3267:

I wouldn’t be surprised if they just make the other one at a later date. Sound like they at least had some preliminary planning done for it, would be a shame to just waste it.

They said they won’t be making both.

Elbegast.6970:

You are incorrectly assuming that all who voted did so with the fractal as a primary motivation. Not everyone who voted runs fractals. A percentage of those players don’t even know what a ‘fractal’ is.

The fractal was Evon’s major selling point.

Each fractal is relatively short if done well, so I think the 3x champion drops should help replace the lack of end gold bonus.

dcypher.2590:

I just fail to understand where people get the idea that trinity = sitting in one spot spamming moves. Granted, maybe in vanilla wow and eq that was the case, but there are a plethora of bosses that require you to do more than simply spam buttons and stand still. I am not saying you should like the trinity, but at least be plausible, otherwise you just sound biased.

Because the point of a tank is to draw up all the aggro to keep the enemies off of everyone else. So the better trinity works, the less people have to move.

So whether or not that’s the case, that’s what people classically think of when you say trinity. A tank gathering up the mob, a healer or two using all their spells to keep it alive, and the rest standing there showering the enemy with dps.

Fractals are getting the champion loot bags, but I don’t think they’re getting the end gold.

iCryptik.1496:

LOL. Long live Ellen!

Oh the sweet, succulent tears from the opposition of a successful pirate victory.

Was that necessary?

Azure Prower.8701:

Aeolus.3615:

Do something productive?

Read a book?

What is this book you speak of?

New item. Double click it to learn a new skill.

I thought fractals weren’t getting this?

hplee.2839:

Dr Ritter.1327:

Dardevilmon.6702:

lupercaleb.6041:

the majority of the community obviously didn’t play the original guild wars and are all bandwagoners who think the 2 in GW2 is just a dragon

Or they arleady know what happens in whit abbandon and now want some new lore that is as quoted by devs stongly attached to gw2 lore.

the guild wars 2 lore sucks though compared to guild wars 1

go back to Gw1 then..see ya

You don’t pick a game based solely on lore.

Because she would have had a landslide victory. The fractal was Evon’s major selling point, so it was probably given to him to try to equalize things.

Zacchary.6183:

That’s what happens when certain politicians uses silver lining on their support tickets.

They win?

TehPwnerer.7215:

How is the community becoming divided at all a good thing?

It will encourage large scale migrations to pvp!
Now that we all have a bone to pick with each other, we’ll start splitting up into teams to we can kill the rival faction.

Spendingallmytime.7249:

Navzar.2938:

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Glad to see this was wrong.

Glad to see it’s right.

The game lied to me ><
Never again will I trust a herald.

250 years later in 2013, history from 1763 and before is still mostly the same.

Balthazerg.5307:

is Abbadon fractal still happening? please someone from Anet needs to answer this

It is not.

Newsflash for people saying this is GW2 250 years later. Most lore is about the past. Especially vital dragon lore, which is also over a thousand years before gw1.

Meriem.3504:

Katran.9186:

Tears everywhere

• cups hands under your eyes * Keep crying plz, I need more Ascalon Tear tokens!

Jokes on you, my character is Elonian.

Yeah, I already resigned to Evon losing (though I kept voting for him), so if it just went right with the herald the first time things would be better. The false cheers and crushing spirits was unnecessary.

Fallout.1798:

Navzar.2938:

The human gods are extremely relevant to GW2. That should be easy to see.

Unfortunately we have seen very little activity from the gods since Nightfall happened in guild wars 1. Perhaps however with the defeat of Zhaitan and the cleansing of Orr, they may return to a more active role and we can learn of why they disappeared. My personal guess is its related to that the elder dragon took over and corrupted their home, Arah.

No I didn’t mean their current activity, although they did have a bit in locating the heart of Orr, but rather the direct impact of their actions on what’s happening in game and their strong presence in the lore we’re presented with.

P.S. I will look for those polls out of curiosity, thanks. Feel free to link one if you have it on hand