Guild Wars 2

Danikat.8537:

If you jump off the airship at the end of the Arah story dungeon (and have a revive orb) you actually can see the body.

RIGHT at the end? Like at the pillar? While fireworks are going off?

TO ARAH STORY! Ugh…

If you are a casual, then do not bother with dailies, you do not need the or want the AP, the login rewards have replaced the daily rewards.

Aurora glade!!!!

Best community ever, we even have a mascot, his name is Jadexi and you can always find his Sylvari in the nudes in Lion’s Arch! :P

cheshader.5081:

This escalated quickly.
The thread turned into AMDvsNvidia holywar in 11 posts, lol.

LOL not quite, since I am not routing for any 1 company, just refuting incorrect information.

Tao.5096:

Okay, phrased it badly, since didn’t pay attention because majority won’t understand it anyway, and phrasing it even like that is fine.

So, let’s say it this way – chipset firmware and driver for chipset are crap if it comes to AMD. I do have AMD CPU which perform very good in Single Player games and so-so in MMOs.

If it comes to AMD Graphic cards – thanks to their failures, unstable drivers and software, repetitive mistakes of old ATI, I’ll stick with Nvidia. And just because AMD has MANTLE and drivers became Open Sourced, won’t change my attitude toward them. Cards are good, can’t deny that, but let’s be frank – poor official software support from AMD kills it, at least for me and others.

Using Dual HD7950s for more than 2 years now, no issues.
So I will ask again, when last did you use an AMD card?

So the only reason you think AMD card drivers are bad is because you have not used them since before the HD 5xxx series. Because since then drivers have worked just great and improving even more each generation.

How the kitten did you get there, been trying to break out/in there for weeks but no dice..

Tao.5096:

AMD drivers are crap.
Despite so ossom power numbers and other Shiny things, drivers which are supposed to allow to use such power simply are crap.

That’s about both, GPU and CPU if it comes to AMD.

Also, SLI isn’t really a way to go. Best option is to experiment with Nvidia Injector to find the most optimal setting.

What’s more, it’s not a rocket science, that MMOs are CPU Power Hungry, not GPU.

You clearly have not actually used AMD Graphics cards and drivers for a while and have very little understanding about what allows a CPU to function in Windows, cuz it ain’t drivers, its the chipset / AKA motherboard firmware.

I will gratn that AMD CPUs are currently behind and that in general MMOs, and particularly GW2, does very badly on AMD CPUs, but their graphics cards and associated drivers are perfectly up to snuff.

Lets put this in perspective, despite GW2 being graphically appealing, its way more sensitive to CPU strength above a certain “setting”.
GW2 is completely incapable of making use of crossfire and uses Nvidia SLI graphics cards poorly. However you do not NEED the most powerful graphics rig to max Gw2, however you DO need a powerful CPU with a high clock rate and good IPC.

What is your FULL system specs?

kokiman.2364:

Oh cool are we making up statistics now?

99% of the people who play PvP like MLP
and 80% of the players do indeed look like a charr in real life.

I PvP.
I am an MLP fan.

IT MUST BE TRUE!

SO I guess modern LA is just accidentally(EDIT : Incidentally more appropriate) close to DoW then.

Thanks!

OVER and OVER and OVER with this kind of thread. Leave the dead be…

“⁵ Events can detect that players have not performed any actions relating to the event within a period of time and will scale down the event accordingly.”

Source : http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dynamic_event

Silverwastes and Dry top , the names are in your title.

They are clearly not Orr.

Not to mention that Orr is an event train for MOBSPAWN, SW is definitely not 1. A train. 2. Mobfarming.

And if you think SW is hard, maybe you should change up your glass cannon build or learn to dodge.

Thanks! Seems I need to learn to wiki a bit better.

“The Shuttered Gate in Lion’s Arch is said by its tengu guards to lead to the Dominion of Winds, but isn’t likely to lead directly there as Lion’s Arch is not directly next to the Dominion of Winds, and recently the guards have been refusing to let anyone pass. "

@dsslive

Yeah, there was never an entrance.
Anyway, that border really is quite the stretch though, but I guess that be the limitation of these square maps.

I find it kind of interesting that LA would be literally be right next to DoW (with a connection via the wall), were there close relations between the 2 before the Rising of Orr?

Hi guys and girls.

Sorry just HAD to post this now.

By whom was The Dominion of Winds wall built?

I was in LA exploring it with a new alt and noticed that the wall near Diverse Ledges Waypoint has the same design and architecture as the wall found in Caledon forest that surrounds The Dominion of Winds.

I remember there used to be a exit/entrance to LA from Kessex Hills at that wall, (at least i think i remember ) but never realized it looks exactly the same.
Any ideas why this would be? Or do you think its an oversight?

EDIT : I will add some screens when I get home. At work at the moment and kind of bored.
EDIT 2 : Just checked the LA interactive map on the wiki. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lion%27s_Arch
At a stretch it COULD be a border to the Dominion of Winds… Although now I am doubting there was ever an exit there in game.

Originally posted this in Lore, but do not think that is appropriate.

Hi guys and girls.

Sorry just HAD to post this now.

By whom was The Dominion of Winds wall built?

I was in LA exploring it with a new alt and noticed that the wall near Diverse Ledges Waypoint has the same design and architecture as the wall found in Caledon forest that surrounds The Dominion of Winds.

I remember there used to be a exit/entrance to LA from Kessex Hills at that wall, (at least i think i remember ) but never realized it looks exactly the same.

Any ideas why this would be? Or do you think its an oversight?

EDIT : I will add some screens when I get home. At work at the moment and kind of bored.

EDIT 2 : Just checked the LA interactive map on the wiki. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lion%27s_Arch

At a stretch it COULD be a border to the Dominion of Winds… Although now I am doubting there was ever an exit there in game.

Each episode costs 200Gems though, unless you logged in when the content was live for 2 weeks…

But yes you can play the whole season 2.

Didn’t really like it (story), but the expansion to SW is real nice.

I LOVE SCARLET BRIAR, AND I MISS HER! R.I.P

You and me both.

One Prarie Outpost.4860:

I joined this “Planet Earth Living Story” game late in the 60’s and because I cannot participate in the American Revolution, I find it hard to figure out what is going on… My only source is YouTube and Wiki…

Mind = Blown!

So I am assuming its a build up to the finale. But we won’t be fighting mordy, but his primary minion and this flower plant thing.

https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/540552249777602560/photo/1

The Silverwastes and other Living world season 2 rewards are permanent content and will not be going away. So I very much doubt they would add it to the Karma vendor.

Besides, 10 Gold is easy enough to get.

Instead you should be asking how to get some fast gold.

Hmmm, well I didn’t find any of the unlocks hard to find. But thank you Electro.4173 for clarifying.

You need a specific unlock item to enable the merchant to sell you the leggings.

You can get the item via random drop on the map, its a pretty common drop.

Or you can do one of the achievements on the map to get it, think its the Bandit event achievement, can’t remember the name now, but has something to do with Scrit and bandit event.

If I am not mistaken, the orb that crashes into the center is not Zhaitans orb, but Mordys.

EDIT : Nope its Zhaitan, you are right, then again, the vision could just be a what Scarlet saw from BEFORE Zhaitans death.

Anyway, I do not think the balance referred to is THAT direct, life (plants) vs death, water vs fire, etc.

The unbalance would probably be a wider idea with a larger time frame once the dragons are ALL dead then the effects would be visible.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Maybe… Although Sinister engi can prove you wrong.

Aedelric.1287:

We had no real cliffhanger, the story just stopped abruptly as if someone turned off my TV in the middle of a show.

It did not leave me on the edge of my seat but rather thinking `was that it?´

That seems more accurate…

Just curious, any reason why Knights is not good enough?

:)

Although I do find it strange that it exists in PvP but not in PvE.

Zaklex.6308:

I’m going to guess that most of what we’ve been seeing was already in place or designed/written before she joined A.net and had little input into the story. I wouldn’t expect to see her hand print on anything until after this portion of LS2, or starting with the next set of episodes.

Also, I don’’t think the ending of this episode is what you could call a ‘cliffhanger’…it doesn’t have that suspense to it that most cliffhangers do…I’d almost consider it as being part 1 of 2 of Episode 8, IMO.

Not even a part, not even a filler… This is was so little even an Anime filler would be ashamed. :/

Leah… Why was the previous stories cliffhanger not resolved and barely progressed by this weeks story and basically just another cliffhanger added on top of it?

Its not a story, we basically just got background that was interactive and barely adds anything to current events in the LS?
Do not get me wrong, I love the lore, and getting background on the Sylvari was REALLY interesting, but a 2 week wait and LS “to be continued” for it just does not make sense…
What gives?

Previous cliffhanger NOT resolved and then suddenly its still there.

I will agree completely, whomever spaced and authorized the spacing is kitten bad at storytelling.

The last story portion basically told us nothing pertaining to the story, it only gave us background, background with very little relevance in the current events (where is Caithe is the only reason we did this whole thing, 2 weeks and that? just no…)

So yeah, Leah PLEASE FIX THIS for upcoming LS, we know you can!

Ayakaru.6583:

This post was more intended in the direction that anet designed the thing life five year olds were the main contributors

Here’s a big labyrinth for you. We just found out about the place, but don’t worry, here’s a map, a detailed lineup for your friends locations whom we have lost contact with, an immortal ally who will kill the hall monitor for you and yea.. thats about it. Don’t get lost.. oh right, we made sure you can’t so don’t worry

Sure, the story instance is simple, but its story, everyone needs to be able to do it…

Hell there are people COMPLAINING its to difficult, you can’t please everyone.

But the lab was introduced in the story with the idea of it being an explorable area not difficult to navigate, but difficult to navigate ALIVE while trying hard to get loots.

Thank you for clarifying. I will avoid it then. But thanks anyway.

Xenon.4537 +1 for referencing The Prestige (Movie).

I would LOVE to have some sort of hammer on my Engi, but any functionality that the hammer could have had, is already added to the wrench.

Please clarify if the spoilers were for the previous episode 2 weeks ago or the coming one? I don’t want to spoil the next one…

And some skills allow to outrun them, Engi – Super Speed.

You can also dodge them, so vigor regen is useful.

Not to mention there is an existing mechanic to avoid damage completely.

I do not see the problem? Even without the existing mechanic, there is skill involved in dodging, outrunning (cooldown management) and watching the minimap for the VERY clear red icons.

STILL a skill based event. Stop the kitten.

And to get to the central chamber before running out of the invulnerability buff.

Grab first flower on the left then go down that corrider turning right, keep right and run ALONG SIDE the central corridor that goes straight through, there are flowers to the left and right all the way to the middle, just keep right and you can enter via the BACK of the central chamber.

Again, STOP THE KITTEN.

Jaken.6801:

Yeah, but for some reason they are not able to fix the giant holes in the bridges that are already there.

Seriously, who directs the reconstruction?
First clear a path, build shelter, repair the mainroads, clear the rubble and rebuild.

But noooo we need a lion head themed tiki bar, instead of a functioning, non make-shift, infrastructure.

Come on LA, you are attacked so often already. Get in gear.

Remember that we tried to collect money with the Zeph festival and Queens gauntlet?
Could be that they are short in funding, they are definitely short in manpower after the attack.

Not to mention we have no idea how much time has passed since the attack. So chill…

Too many ways to prove the image to be shopped.

Even if you hadn’t, 7600AP and 300% luck would mean you farmed like MAD to get to that kind of luck, which is your own fault.

We can dream, right?

I support this idea, and trait swapping as well, even if you can not do it in WvW once you leave your whole base. It would still be a nice to have, SOOO much effort to swap them for a dungeon vs living world vs WvW, at least PvP is separate.

Zaklex.6308 is funny. LOL

Anyway. Yeah I took a while to notice these… Been watching LA coming to life instead and just mindless farming Silverwastes.

Lets see what happens with todays/tomorrow(depends where you are) patch.

LA is being rebuilt, there are new bridges, some repaired or rebuilt buildings(partial), even the wildlife have returned recently.

Look around instead of just running to and from your destination as most people tend to do.

I hope they do not reuse last years like they did with Halloween…

“Something Has to Change!” And yet you complain about minor inconveniences?

Geez some people…

Kitten all day long…

Factions was released almost 2 years after the original Guild Wars.
Its now been 2 years GW2.

Stop being impatient.

Kitten I have had enough of this kitten subject.

No promises!

Welcome to GW2! I am sure you will enjoy it!

Where you from?

I will be messaging you in game as well, since I am on AG as well. Let’s hope I do not forget.

Hi there.

1. Yeah, I also joined the game in late Season 1 during the Tower of Nightmares event.

It was pretty difficult to get all the information to form a coherent story. BUT I will say this, its VERY much worth it to find out more.
There are some videos and other content you can check to get an overview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liUBhhD1Q_M

Little gap in story, the attack on LA, then :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH2JGRkopyA&list=UUP_FgMqOxp_VsM0UfrL-DxA

A timeline on the wiki, you can obviously follow the links for more info.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Timeline

The story really is worth researching and caching up on.

2. Difficulty is there for a reason, its level 80 content, so everything is up to snuff.
Condis are easy enough to deal with but you HAVE to spec for them with utilities and traits.
Also getting level 80exotic gear is kind of a must for any level 80 content.
Finally what class and build are you running?
The new content is SUPPOSED to be difficult for glass cannon builds because Anet is trying to encourage more build diversity.

3. Yeah crystals are buggy, especially if your ping is higher than 100ms.
Sandstorm mechanic is intentionally limiting. Story and events are tied together from LW season 2. They are trying to avoid instancing, which most people agree with as it adds “world scope” and a bit better immersion.

4. Its an MMO, things break, especially in GW2 because they update and make changes so often. If you find a problem, report it via the ingame bug report and hope that it works after going in again.

So yeah, I REALLY would like to encourage you to play it through, its really worth it if you can invest yourself in the story.

Foefaller.1082:

No, I’m pretty sure not even then: the main characters of the Ghosts of Ascalon book ventured into the Brand at one point, and I think there was a line about how the sylvari member of the group was the only member that was at no risk of being corrupted while crossing it.

The more we go on, the more it seems likely the reason Sylvari can’t be corrupted by seemingly any dragon other than Mordremoth (and only then if they are Soundless) is going to show up very soon, and is going to be related to where the seeds Ronan found actually came from.

Well well well. I really need to read the books. A shame they are impossible to get here… And I am not an ebook fan. Eyestrain and all…

Thanks for the reference!

@Zonky

The problem is not over-analyzing, its that you do it without ALL the information, or without considering all the information.

Simply put your view of the world could be completely wrong. So can mind.

Now if you provided a detailed list of ALL the strong females vs all the strong males, THEN I would engage in debate.

But i still do not agree with your view SO FAR… Prove me wrong…

I know the feels…

Not sure what they were thinking here.