Guild Wars 2

So today’s POI showed a lot more stuff then I thought it would as well as showing some really cool new areas if you guys saw anything interesting would love to hear…

Argon.1563:

I think its just an overlay applied over the armour. Im assuming that Revenant is just wearing the dubbed “Rytlock armour” all the other Revenants in the preview are seen wearing.

Are you mis-interpreting the Charr’s horns as a helmet?

Possible, but how I’m viewing this its a giant helmet with six eyes and horns idk tho

Eventually….

So I was going over the images in the newest revenant blog post and in the photo of ‘’legendary demon stance’’ the charr had an aura over it in ways similar to necros ds. However the helmet of the character was very different then skins we see now and also seemed as if it was being applied over top the characters armor.
Link to image
https://d3b4yo2b5lbfy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/06331Mallyx-Elite-Embrace-the-D.jpg

I still think there might be a staff, they said hammer will be ranged but in the trailer there was a close up staff looking wepon

I just thought that due to the fact they have been showing off some accessories with auras, at the very least they will include more of theses as rare drops in new hot content

Scoobaniec.9561:

yanipheonu.5798:

I’m still thinking that “staff” was a hammer, if only for length reasons, and the general bashing animation.

Though that may just be me wanting a more martial artist twirl to the martial staff, than just a blunt instrument,

Same here. For me staff is not confirmed. Not as a melee weapon at least. Simple bc these animations with “spear” looked way too hammer like for my taste. Id be really dissapointed if thats a staff.

Also if he get a hammer, i hope its a dps weapon actually.

Personally looked to slim with not a lot of grips plus there are plenty of melee fighting staves ie bo staff

EdwinLi.1284:

I’m hoping they have two-handed sword for Revenant.

Totally a possibility they keep showing him only using one sword

So far threw the glimpse of a dev known by his character name POP and the recent release on tumbler theses are the weapons we know revenant will have if not changed
Dual hand
Hammer
Staff
Sword (quite likely)
Main Hand
Sword
Mace
Axe
Off-Hand
Sword
Dagger
Pistol
Leave some speculation for other wepons

I agree that if howler worked, would be very hard to surpass. They did say there will be new legendarys, but to say only release a few there might be up-rage, an intresting thought I had is that what if wee will be crafting legendary accessories instead and introducing great looking new ascended wepons such as http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Marjory%27s_Everliving_Blade

I completely agree with this, the legendary is a warhorn so I also believe that should be it’s biggest aspect, there are now three other warhorns that do not have a extremely long lasting loop but they all have a much cooler, legendary warhorn sound then our current. Quite curious to see the next batch of legends and how they turn out

I have a feeling in hot they will drop due to maybe new ways of crafting ascended

I swear I don’t understand necors complaining in pvp sure pve is another story but in pvp I find I usually do amazing with my terromancer, never have tried a powermance in pvp so idk

Great photos man

Exeon.4358:

I decided to make howler last night, the draw effects and footsteps work apparently, but something else i noticed is the underwhelming howl which is being canceled out by your own skills sound, I didn’t notice this on past videos, is this new or is it my imagination?

What happened is that people were complaining about it being too long with a sound that resembled a moaning wolf so to try to fix that the devs shortened the howling loop to so short very unnoticeable over your loud skills. What I would like to personally see is a new sound that actually sounds like a wolf , as well as it going on just a smige longer

BassHunteR.7246:

and the night / day effect too..
anet?? anything?

Hopefully we’ll hear something when hot comes out

Exeon.4358:

met.9653:

Missing aura is not a bug, thats how LOD option work, it reduce particle effects when there is to many stuff on screen. Aura from howler, bifrost, fire effect on arm from incinerator or ice from frostfang.

Don’t have this on my incinerator ever, and i constantly do zerg type gameplay.

But a bug seeming to be is that the aura after coming out of such area is nonexistent
Only for certain people tho

OMNIBUS.2913:

Examples of the Mist aura working and not working after leaving a cluttered area(too many npc, players, particles or mix of the 3 will bug it). If you stow your weap and re-equip it will come back. Still a disappointing bug imo.

Ya also heard that bug is going on with frost-fang to thanks for the photos

J envy.5270:

Nightwin.6423:

I believe that they should be more skill orientated to make but even with that they should still be sell-able on tp because it’s fun to see how much it’s worth threw in-game economy but as well if say you’ve mined all your gold threw techniques you’ve learned isn’t that for say also skill…. Here’s a little spoiler of the staff which was loosely confirmed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nd-5b1tsz0

Lol that Raven staff is old news, hahaha i wonder if that will be used or of that idea was scratched off.

Can’t remember where but a forums specialist confirmed this coming

Ya I’ve been trying to create a bunch of forums on this topic cause I’m bummed to, check out this forum there’s also a link in their for an even larger thread on the issue
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Howler-fix/first#post4795120

Logos.6498:

Its lich form, and I don’t understand the bug because sometimes it doesn’t happen. Usually it happens while i’m holding r-mouse button and W+(a or d), the skill is hotkey G and can be interrupted or unresponsive by this.

Ya I have no clue try sending a support ticket threw your options page in game about bug issues, I’ve been playing necro since launch and never has this happened for me

Exeon.4358:

Nightwin.6423:

Thanks for the tip just added that in.

Great, I’m just wondering i keep hearing something about the mist not working properly either, can someone elaborate on that?

As far as I know its working, however I’ve heard that it has bugged after leaving heavy particle areas ie frostgorge sound

That would be cool say if they tuck refuge in one of the abandoned ruins, or maybe what if they’’l be our builders of guild halls and what not

DarkWasp.7291:

Exeon.4358:

Nightwin.6423:

Exeon.4358:

BTW, is anyone able to make some kind of a video to show it’s current “effects” and see everything that’s bugged? especially the day and night time cycle which is easy to show in like AC

I got a preview yesterday with some random guy I saw who had it, should’ve recoded it….
Ya would be nice to see an updated wiki or something on it cause I didn’t know about being bugged till after I made it….

edit: updated the wiki myself removing the part of the moon at night…

Actually it would have been better to update it with notes as “Anomaly night time cycle is currently bugged” there are enough players right now that are unaware of what howler was and it’s pretty sad to be honest

^

Best to let the developers know we care.

Thanks for the tip just added that in.

What is they added wolf footprints…

I believe that they should be more skill orientated to make but even with that they should still be sell-able on tp because it’s fun to see how much it’s worth threw in-game economy but as well if say you’ve mined all your gold threw techniques you’ve learned isn’t that for say also skill…. Here’s a little spoiler of the staff which was loosely confirmed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nd-5b1tsz0

Exeon.4358:

BTW, is anyone able to make some kind of a video to show it’s current “effects” and see everything that’s bugged? especially the day and night time cycle which is easy to show in like AC

I got a preview yesterday with some random guy I saw who had it, should’ve recoded it….
Ya would be nice to see an updated wiki or something on it cause I didn’t know about being bugged till after I made it….

edit: updated the wiki myself removing the part of the moon at night…

BassHunteR.7246:

So..been almost a year on this bug already.. how can we get some atention from ANET on this??
Ideas??

Wee will ride an elder dragon past their place of work and even then they’ll probably not notice us ;(

BassHunteR.7246:

Really? I play this game for 2 years.. i get the enormous luck to drop a precursor and decide…ok lets craft it.. and guess what.. the RNG gods decide that droping the prec wasn’t hard enough…lets give you the buged legendary one…
YaY…
Can someone from anet plz give us an eta on this subject?
Anyone working on this fix??
Im pretty sure if this was a staff of the beloved guards or a twilight it would take 2 days to get fixed due to the crowds crying..
show some love for the warriors pleaseeeee….

And with the new adding of the crimson warhorn with its own very cool sound effect… I feel as if were getting left behind ;(

I’ve been playing quite actively since the launch of the game, a few burnouts here and there. Recently, even with the announcement of the expansion I was thinking of leaving for good. Today however I stumbled across a wonderful edit from a user on reddit showing me just how much I’ve lived threw this game. Sure I may not be the richest player in the game (no where near) but I have had some great moment playing this game and this vid has reminded me of that.

Avster.1935:

What if colored-names are associated with what lvl mastery you are at? #HYPE

Could totally be way of showing mastery rank would be cool if thats true

Another savior, (may not be revenant cant tell) he was seen in the recent POI episode and he is from the great army of POP our true king of tyria. Wee do not know why theses lords have only shown themselves now but wee will be waiting and watching for your next command, leader POP

DingoVad.1945:

Hey guys

Also do you think the meta will have a place for the druid, or will it just be another necromancer? I can´t see what a druid would bring to the plate in dungeons?

Hurtful much I main a necro lol but hopefully our specialization will make us a little more special

Lord Hammer Hand.4815:

http://seemslegit.dk/precursors/ all hail pop aka colin lol

YES

saventis.1485:

not that its really anything we havnt seen right? i mean we saw the ability’s he used in the trailer as far as i can tell

But wee saw it in action, but also learned their off-hand and I saw what I believe to be them channeling something at the start. Ya not much but its fun getting hyped for hype reasons lol

Donari.5237:

I don’t think anyone should blame Pop. It’s clear in all the POIs that they are showing the active game world — just look at the particle dance parties that accrue as people find out where the pov character is hanging out — and this just happened to be an internal server. With hundreds of employees, it’s unlikely they all track what’s going on in POI or have any idea where it’s being filmed. Pop just went in to playtest in the starting area of HoT and it happened to be when a whole lot of folks were watching.

Ya and cause of his accident wee get a first glimpse of a revenant

Sukrin.1280:

As the one who did put up that reddit post a couple days ago, I agree that these effects need to return for sure. It couldn’t be too hard to work around the coding for it. I would like the howl sound to be louder of course, the crescent moon is an absolute must all night long with the sparkles for the starry night effect. The ghostly wolf projection is okay for now, but an increase in how long it stays in the air would be awesome.

As of right now, it’s effects are subpar, and approximately half of what the other legendaries offer… Like I mentioned in my reddit post, my Frostfang I made a few days ago is so much more unique and the effects are much more prominent than Howler’s effects are.

Ya saw your post on reddit I was really bummed to hear that it was removed because recently after completing gift of mastery and fortune I chose to build the howler because I loved the moon effect. I wish hopefully also that they include maybe a similar effect in the day

After watching the video for a while, I believe that it’s in fact a dagger he’s holding in his off hand. It looked like a warhorn in a few scenes but if anything just looked like a pearl reader dagger. Also while watching it seemed like the sylavri holding the rifles were thieves so possible specialization

They said once your level 80 and you own heart of thrones it will change to your mastery level

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

baconcupcaxe.4208:

Am I mistaken. In some frames, I see Pop nameplate showing level 81

You have to remember that in HoT, nameplates show your mastery rank, not your level.

Could wee assume that maybe you start off at lvl 80 for mastery and work your way up?

Probably a forum already on this but… POP in the newest POI was a revenant and it was quite funny because when the host realized this she was quite nervous. Also seemed to have some very cool looking skills

Wee already have seen the new legendary raven staff which is more earthy with that cool raven. Hopefully they will all be very cool and earthy.

Wish that there will be barley any waypoints, which could be possible seems like they were experimenting with this with ls maps. But to get to the best and hardest parts of the new maps you have to survive

That would actually be pretty cool, such a dark element. Maybe a new event scheme where every so often sylvari get corrupted in cages a rampage threw out LA. Unlikely but could be fun

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

Personal thought:

1st: I have 11 level 20 scrolls and, 79 level up scrolls (I used 60 before that to try and earn some money at it, wasnt that good) so I do not really need it.

2nd: If Revenant starts at level 1 (Wich I hope and guess) I would level it from scratch so I can learn the class from A to O.

Lore-wise it could work with a level 80-class that Unlocks once you get an old class to level 80 but as level in this game (IMO) is meant to be as a tutorial I think it is a ver stupid move.

I’ll take over from O-Z

Arche.7326:

Siobhan.3582:

Accounts flagged for original beta (BWE’s) will be in beta for this. Anyone that created accounts after launch will be in a lottery for invites..

And where did you get this info?

If this is true….. Praise the rng gods to hopefully get a ticket

I never use my right mouse button, unbind it if you don’t want to use it

It could totally work if they come from the mists, it would be an even bigger plot hole loop if a new race was introduced but anet know wee want a new race but what about a hole new class that functions like a race, take death knights for example W.O.W. Would be awesome to see this happen

I was wondering if anyone else knows, is the beta test exclusive to entertainment writers/attendees of the event on February, or will there be say a weekend for all to get their hands on the beta testing