Guild Wars 2

If you haven’t, this should be posted/noted in this thread too.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Seeing-map-armors-stuck-weapons-or-other-art-issues/first

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Dungeon-Queues
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Dungeon-Finder-alternative-Improved-LFG-idea
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/ATT-DEV-S-dungeon-finder-needed

Related threads if anyone was looking for more discussion on the topic.

After the completion of the Arah dungeon part of the final personal story mission, the series of personal story cutscenes has Zojja floating. I grabbed screenshots of two of the lines she was floating during it.

The conversation takes place after returning to Fort Trinity and gathering with Destiny’s Edge.

I have only seen this occur in this scene. I was playing as a female sylvari at the time.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Player-name-floating-inside-character-head/
I posted a separate thread awhile ago but I figure it may be applicable for this thread.

My friend plays a large male charr and the position of his player name is frequently hovering over his character model. It is noticeable from many camera angles; even more so if the Charr is standing idle and stands less crouched.

I haven’t noticed the same thing occurring on NPCs or other races though.

I think having this may cut down on people asking the same question repeatedly as well. In blog posts people can reference the information pretty easily to share with others.

Sadly, I’d almost expect them to host the Q&A on social media (Reddit, Facebook) rather than their own forum. So, at minimum posting the completed Q&A blog posts here would suffice.

This would be great to get as a weekly update of issues their addressing and new features to come though.

You kinda already have a kill counter in your achievement list. But I agree that a book would be neat. It’d be handy if it listed the abilities of the monsters, since sometimes during combat I don’t read the white text that’s under their names.

Watch them all, even when repeating on an alt character. It helps to pace my play, and adds a “cool-down” moment if it required a jumping puzzle to get there.

Some of the jumping area locations are really pretty. Some of the secret coves my friend and I hung around in merely because of the interesting scenery. Some of my favourites include a secret spot in Diessa where a Charr cub has a secret strawberry stash, and an Asuran lab with many floating cubes with a pool at the bottom that has a champion fishy.

This sounds like a good idea to me. People use any sort of noise they can create to disrupt at times and it’s a shame to have to mute the game completely to avoid it.

If possible to be implemented I think it would be beneficial for certain situations.

According to the correspondence I received from DirectSong, they use USPS to ship the CDs. It’s website is here: https://www.usps.com/welcome.htm

Since based on what you’ve posted in multiple places, the damage sounds like it was visible on the outside of the box. If not, then you most likely have a case that it was damaged prior to DirectSong handing it over to USPS.

It’s a shame you haven’t tried to get a refund.

I inquired about my order via DirectSong’s support ticket system and was able to get a response within 24 hours which answered my question about my order. Apparently there was some manufacturing delays as people have mentioned earlier. It’s a shame they didn’t notify all orders regarding this, but alas.

Hopefully they put the soundtrack up for digital download at some point, since I think its the physical product causing most of the delays at the moment.

Based on what you’re looking for you’ll have to mix and match between the sets.

I’ll disagree that the heavy armour is at all bulky though. Most seems fairly form fitting. Unless your dislike is with the skirts, then I guess you’ll have fewer options.

I’m expecting they’ll release more styles eventually, as they did with the first game but I have seen people combine the current sets in interesting ways. I’d check out the profession forums as they usually have a thread of “post a picture of your X” which may give you ideas.

Shaileya.7063:

Bored guardians have moved many, many NPCs in Lion’s Arch around on Maguuma. Miyani is now missing, the bankers are standing on staircases, repair guy swimming, the guards by the city portals are all moved about, etc.

I dredged this post up to show just how old this bug is and still in the game.

Yeah, people are making new threads about it in various GW2 forums as well:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Can-we-get-some-kind-of-NPC-reset-on-Maguuma/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Griefing-discovered-need-punishment-please/

I’ve never seen someone actually perform the act, just the resulting NPCs moved wherever. Currently on Maguuma all the Dungeon Vendor NPCs are stacked on top of eachother.

You should prolly change the thread title to reflect that you want changes to the pet/character name restrictions rather than word filters, since they aren’t really the same thing as names have additional restrictions than the swear filter does.

“It seems very odd that the game in general is so easy and forgiving, then when you enter dungeons everything is flipped around.”

I’m finding the key to dungeons is having good teamwork and communication. Dungeons where people actually talked to each other worked much better then complete silence.

However! Out of several of the story mode dungeons, AC was certainly challenging for being the lowest level, but I find that Ghosts in general are somewhat stronger then other monster types.

Regardless, if the people you are playing with are completely new to the genre/gaming/rpgs/3D environments, they may need more time with the game to learn their professions better, or figure out good skill combinations or build, or even get a better feel for the controls. Even as someone who has played mmorgs for years, it takes me a significant period of time to get a handle on the controls, but I understand that and adapt for it.

There is benefit to doing the dungeons when you reach the Story Mode levels, but not completing them until you feel more comfortable with your profession may be required. Certainly if you’re “dying instantly” as you say, since that’s implying you don’t even make it to the Boss monsters. I ended up dying several times on my first AC story mode run through, but was able to continue with the party and eventually finish.

You should probably (if you haven’t) post this in the Bugs forum as well. I don’t believe it was intended for people to be able to move NPCs in this manner.

I noticed the stacked dungeon npcs there the other day! The Bank ones are closer to the mystic forge as well.

No thanks. I’ve played two other games with an inspection system and it just lead to additional unneeded friction between players.

You have the option of asking players, that should be sufficient for the needs of play.

Yet when I did a search with “Largos” it came up with nothing.

Fair enough, I’ll look around harder.

Found one of the older threads which didn’t come up in a search here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore/Largos

So there is this random new race of creatures that appear in the personal story, and are present in at least one Dynamic Event. Information that’s on the Wiki so far:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Largos http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Defeat_the_largos_before_it_kills_Ice_Raking
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sayeh_al%27Rajihd

Anyone have further information on them?

If you come down to the bare bones – it might be how they designed the gear to begin with. Certain artists have strengths when it comes to medium or subject matter, so maybe whoever they got to do the concept art for Gear X spent more time on the female set than they did male. This could be something that is unintentional or intentional if there was particular design constraints. For example, it could be that they try to make the male sets not as decorated as the female version in fear of making it too feminine.

Honestly, I feel that male characters get the short end of the stick in regards to gear most of the time. Due to the less curvy shape of their forms, and the conservative nature of the gear styles (much less skin showing), I think it stunts their designs to be much more boxy and generic. The female get a wider range of clothing styles to appeal to a larger audience.

Though, I think this issue is only with sylvari/norn/humans. The asura and charr use similar sets for both genders.

What I do, is subscribe to the RSS feed of the News & Announcements section of the forum!
If you go here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news
Then click the red symbol beside the “Create topic” link, you can add it to your RSS reader, given you use one.

Sadly, it seems the other social media sites end up with additional info and its dependent on ANet posting information here… but I have found this works decently for getting the news as I check my RSS feeds more often then Reddit/Facebook/Forum.

However, this is good for outages and update note listings only – I usually have to look through the Dev Tracker section to find up-and-coming stuff.

The detail on the shortbow is neat with the tassels and what-not. It’s seemingly too close to the brony culture for it to be something that I’d work towards.

Since my ranger is sylvari, the longbow is a better fit and I’d rather work towards that.

I know there is usually references to other media in GW, but this weapon is over-the-top compared to the other legendaries. Which I did find disappointing as I do use the short-bow quite often on my ranger.

Sixxin.1962:

Heavy and light seem to get tons of skimpy options while sub 80 adventurers are stuck looking like nuns on the run.

Oh stop being over-dramatic. Wearing pants does not make you a nun.

For the sake of comparison, here are some images of the human female armors:
Light: http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/9586/lightarmorwithnamesfina.jpg
Medium: http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/4994/mediumarmorwithnamesfin.jpg
Credit to Imaginos on the GW2Guru forum for those.

I’m guessing you mean female, since the comments prior referring to sets in GW1, which are non-notable for the male characters since they look practically like every other male set.

Honestly, since I play sylvari – I just want more coats without sleeves so I can show off my glow more. Whether or not I show my naval doesn’t matter to me. I’d rather see interesting detailed armour design rather than base my appeal of the armour on how much skin is showing. But that’s my two cents.

I’d be happy if they put in profession specific hats.

I miss the face scar patterns necromancers had in GW1.
I guess as a shortlist:
Necromancer – Face scars/tattoos
Mesmer – Masks
Thief – Hoods
Elementalist – Tiara/gems

For some of the other professions like Warrior, Guardian and Engineer, unique back or shoulder items.

Overall, its curious to me how there isn’t replacements for the starter items for certain professions and it would be nice to see more of those at least! I know some thieves who are sad they sold off their starter hood for this reason.

Lady Elvea.2847:

Or did you honestly think I’d post here to complain about DS without having first tried everything else? Without proper grounds for complaint?

Sad conclusion: DirectSong is very unreliable.

ANet needs to be aware of that, so that they can look of other means / additional means of offering their soundtracks in the future. A proper vendor like Amazon wouldn’t hurt.

I was just making sure you were using the best methods of contacting them – as well as providing information for others reading this thread for info, as I’m sure others are waiting for their deliveries as well.

It’s somewhat unfortunate there isn’t more vendor options. I usually try to avoid ordering from international companies on the internet myself. In some cases they forward the import charges to me directly to pay the shipping company as well; it is much easier if the companies just deal with the import fees themselves and charge the fee on my initial transaction.

Kinda expecting an additional import fee for this as well.

Here’s hoping it shows up eventually.

My friend and I have been going along our personal stories together but have been choosing different options. He is a charr, aligned with the Vigil, where I’m a sylvari aligned with the Order of Whispers., and subsequently choosing different fears during A Light in the Darkness.

Tonight we were working through our stories after Forging the Pact: I was on Volcanic Extraction, whereas he was on To the Core.

As interesting as the story content was – a comparison between the two in terms of battle content made me quite sad.

We completed To the Core first. It required that the player character (and all party members) use golem suits to go into the volcano and recover a molten core. So you get to stomp around in a cool vehicle and deal with elemental orb spawns while fighting off elementals. It helped develop some sort of a connection between your character and the asura partner as well, which was great. My friend and I loved it!

Then we did the story component for my personal story, Volcanic Extraction. This involved my character and my partner meeting up with squad members at the top of the volcano and travelling in to relocate a missing team. It used the same zone as the previous mission, which isn't really an issue as its a great volcano zone. Instead of exploring, you turn a corner, and poof! a pile of bodies turn into crystals. You then, turn back around, fight the same monsters out of the volcano and you're done. I commented after completion that the story felt like a let down compared to my partner’s. Although, the personal story moment prior to Volcanic Extraction was a touch more emotional it didn’t have the same amount of gameplay my partner’s had.

I’m not sure how many others are running multiple personal stories and finding the same things, but considering my partner’s story had more elements to it I felt as if I chose the less interesting path.

Anyone else feel this way about certain story line forks?

I found another shot! This one compares to some other human players The Charr ends up with his name in his face where the others have them positioned above their heads.

The phrase: “and. I. keep.” is becoming “ankittenep”

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/audio/DirectSong-Updates/312352

“the combination of the last letter of and, the letter I and the first letter of keep theoretically spell a slang written version of a males private part.”

Nope, according to a google search of the letters that are changed to kitten. It’s a homophobic slur, which relates to a word that rhymes with pyke.

“Since ANet is the party that gives them this business in the first place (composing and distributing the soundtrack), they do have an interest in knowing that it’s not a reliable company. I’m not the only person to have to deal with this.”

According to DirectSong’s about page, it was founded by Jeremy Soule and Julian Soule. Considering the soundtrack is Jeremy Soule’s work, it makes sense for it to be distributed from them, but obviously you can suggest other vendors.

Based on the website, their best support is done through their ticketing system here: http://support.directsong.com/support/ If you are going to contact them, you should include all the regular information such as order dates and numbers.

When I placed my order, there was a note that it would ship in 4-6 weeks (at least a month). This could mean leave their warehouse within that time frame.

However, I am located in Canada so this may be to cover international shipping – regardless, contacting them is best as they are the retail contact.

" “shouldn’t” + “it” = kitten
“wasn’t” + “it” = kitten "

The filter is obviously trying to enforce proper english.
The phrases, non-contracted are “should not it” and “was not it”; I think in actual sentence use it would be “should it not” and “was it not” or “it should not” or “it was not”

I understand why they turned off loot from grubs, but the message was literally spamming me and my partner last night.

We were working on our personal stories, doing the “Forging the Pact” quest lead to having to clear a fair quantity of grubs. Each one giving us a “disabled” message.

Even with a large quantity of mobs in that instance, I don’t believe either of us would have noticed or been greatly impacted by the grubs simply dropping nothing without the message.

This can be related to parties not functioning properly. Sometimes, the location of players is not updated such that the following may happen:
-Party member’s portrait is black even if they’re in the same zone
-Party member’s map icon will disappear from map when they’re not in the immediate area
-On guild lists it will not show an updated location (example: Player is currently in Lion’s Arch, the guild list may still say “The Grove”)

If this is happening, it will not allow your partner to enter the story with you.

However, if the party member locations are updating then I don’t know

My friend plays as a tall charr. On some occasions, when he’s standing his player name hovers inside of his head; as seen in the screenshot below.

I haven’t seen this occur with any of the smaller races (asura, humans, sylvari). I’m guessing this only happens when the large Charr stand up taller, as its only in my screenshots where the Charr is standing idle.

Of course, clearing the UI makes the name disappear but it’d be nice if it wasn’t in his head during normal play.

It’s available for purchase through Directsong.

http://www.directsong.com/mobile/productdetails.php?productid=2250

Thank you for posting this outside of Reddit.

Scarlett.9256:

And that is saying a lot of such a beautiful game. I can honestly say, that the time I’ve spent in GW2 dungeons have been the most frustrating, least rewarding, head banging, face palming experience in ANY MMO to date. As primarily a PVE player, with limited interest in PVP and exploration, dungeons are by far the content I like to do the most.

That alone, makes this game not the game for me. I wish you the best, the game is free – I’ll try again in a couple months.

If you want changes, kinda have to outline why you feel this way. Saying you’re frustrated with something is fine, but to get them modified to how you want them – have to say more than “these dungeons make me face palm!”,

Is the difficulty too hard for the group you’re doing the dungeons with? Is this because of the boss mechanics? Is there too many mobs to fight? Is it the design of the story/exploration modes? Are you finding the time spent in dungeons is too long? Is it gathering a group?

Fishing is totally something I do to mellow out in games. It’s a great thing to just chill and do.

As mentioned earlier, FFXI’s (revised) system is pretty good, I also am fond of Torchlight/Torchlight II’s methods.

Nope. The scaling is done intentionally (even in these sub-zones as you call them) to avoid high level players disrupting the dynamic events.

I’m pretty sure they monitor the difficulty of every event, and throwing a few players in the mix who are 5+ levels higher then they are supposed to be, would mess the balance for the players at level.

So, I mean, sure! We can just make everyone max zone level and then have reports come in of the disrespectful higher levels coming in and griefing/trolling dynamic events in zone or fast killing heart mobs and all those various fun things those people do.

Armour design wise, it looks more pleasing to the eye with the chest being symmetrical. (since that’s a common human trait to appreciate symmetry, the aspect is brought up in studies on attractive people) Maybe that’s why they changed it rather than the whole revealing/not-revealing/censorship debate.

With the way it looked in the beta, the design made it look unfinished on the right exposed breast (aka. a bad mod job). Actually closing it off made it look less cut out and finished.

Based on the beta pictures, looks like the breasts may actually be clipping it – maybe there was issues given characters can have different chest sizes, which made the armour not “work” properly.