Guild Wars 2

When I right-click on my Ancient Karka Shell Box and then click on “equip”, nothing happens.

Is it supposed to be more or less like a storage bag? If so, how do I equip it? (If not, what do I do with it?)

Thanks!

How do I copy the name of an inventory item (e.g., an awesome drop) to chat?

neon.4863:

You can always waypoint away before someone hits you…

Good point. I don’t do that enough.

FWIW, I’m not complaining about being slow. This is the “Suggestions” thread. I think WvWvW would be marginally better if zergs were slowed down just a little, but I’m having a fine ol’ time the way things are.

Topix.6974:

I have yet to understand why we always focus on IOJ in EB instead of BG. Blackgate has everything max upgraded with full supplies. Yet we try and take over SM while Yaks pour into SM from there side. Also as long as they have Klovan, if we do take SM, they easily get it back from the trebs there. …

I could be wrong, but I think that in Eternal Battleground each side has an even shot at Stonemist Castle.

My two-bit opinion is that if you don’t have SM, you’re just an EB wannabe. I know from experience that trebs in SM can make it impossible to hold Quentin Lake and Durios Gulch.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

The only times I get caught by a zerg are when I’m not paying attention.

Good for you!

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Every class has some sort of escape mechanisms, only some of which include moving faster: stealth, clones, snares, other buffs, etc.

If you say so. I don’t have stealth, clones, or snares (although, truth be told, I don’t think snares would be much help against a zerg), and as configured I don’t have any speed enhancements other than a shot of adrenaline, which seems to have a lot more effect on sword swinging than running.

My character is a warrior; I imagine that I’ve turned my nose up at some speed improvements to focus on power and toughness (e.g., I think a warrior with a horn can buff speed, but I’m equipped with a great sword and a rifle.)

I have no problem with other professions and configurations being faster than me. Nevertheless I think that zergs can maintain a higher speed than single or small groups of characters, and i think the game would be improved if this effect were reduced.

Abigor.4952:

What stops every person in group of using swiftness and catching you, it’s basically your loss that you don’t use any speed buff or run around alone=) because same you could do with your partner/group.

If every person uses a buff, then they’ll use the buff and have to wait for the CD. But in a zerg, the folks who can apply buffs chain them together.

It’s just not true that an individual can maintain the same speed of a zerg.

Saulius.8430:

but it is limited. only 5 nearby players get speed buff. with the only exception being mesmer’s temporal curtain… anyone know any other mass speed buffs? (mass like – affecting more then 5 players)…

All I know about speed buffs is that when I’m in a zerg, I can get them. As a recipient,
it looks like one type of speed buff is a shiny line that you can get by running across it; there does not appear to be any limit on the number of people who can get that, as long as they get to it in time.

I love WvWvW. But I don’t like the fact that my character, who has no speed buffs, can never outrun a group if they decide to get me.

I think we’d have a better game if sharing speed buffs was limited to a small number of recipients in addition to being ranged.

Daish is not amused.

(OK, I’m not Daish, but I think that’s what he’d say.)

Even after 1st & 2nd are clinched, there is still fun to be had. This AM (circa 10:00 GMT) I hopped on IoG BL for a bit before work. I won a couple and lost a couple of 1v1 fights, killed a few yaks, and with some buds took a couple of supply camps.

That’s a lot more fun than rolling down the road with a zerg, even much, much more fun than getting run over by a zerg.

I love Trahearne! Honest! He’s earnest, thoughtful, committed, and inspiring, and I’d fight on his side anywhere, any time, against any foe.

Maybe I’m on the wrong thread.

Anakita Snakecharm.4360:

My advice for this mission would be: don’t revive the NPCs. You’ll just rack up more deaths for yourself, and they’ll die again almost instantly because they don’t try to take cover. It’s not worth the risk. Just assume you’re going to have to solo it.

Focus on pulling one guard behind the pillars at a time and dispatching them. When they’re gone, the NPCs should pop back up automatically, and you can throw everything you have at the Mouth.

It’s not an easy mission in any case and you’ll likely die a few times, but that was what worked best for me.

I’m certainly no authority, but I think you have nailed it: Don’t risk yourself to save your NPC buddies. Instead, stay alive, and try to lure the Spectral enemies off into a secluded spot where you can kill them.

Karizee.8076:

…Karma vendors in Orr (at corrupted god temples)…

This ^^^

42,000 karma will buy you exotic armor that has stats as good as any other exotic armor. I had over 400,000 karma when I learned this.

The other approaches cited by Karizee work just fine, but I think that buying from a vendor is the easiest.

The only trick is that these karma vendors are not available unless if a group event has recently succeeded in beating the temple boss.

EDIT
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Also — I’m earning gold hand-over-fist by participating in the temple events on the Cursed Shore. This is a welcome change.

Vlawde.1895:

I meant chat in more of a general sense…people asking questions in chat and general BSing. I’ve gotten rezzed multiple times in game, and always say thanks, but am never acknowledged

If you had to be rezzed, then the guy who rezzed you is probably busy.

FWIW, I try to say “thanks” or “ty” or “thank you” when rezzed, although first priority is making sure that I’m not immediately downed yet again. I get lots of “np” and “yw” responses, but it does not bother me when I don’t.

In WvWvW on Sanctum of Rall there is a fair amount of game-related chat.

My preference would be that folks find another venue for extended idle chatter and BS-ing, but that’s more a problem on my guild channel than the public channels.

LegoTechnic.5910:

Towers and keeps should have a torch vendor from whom torches can be bought to burn the dead inside. Let that be it’s sole #1 ability.

We will give you a respectable funeral pyre, so depart from this place at once, shade, and trouble our keep no more…

Makes sense to me. I’ve suggested burning corpses as a new feature to deal with the corpse-as-spy issue.

And you just can’t beat the aroma!

GekoHayate.2451:

To all you SOR out their that may think about Alt-f4’ing, stop it. The fact that you died when you outnumbered your opponents 3 to 1 is shameful enough.

Take your repair bill like a man.

Dude, go easy on the sweeping accusations! I’ve never done that and I’ve never seen a teammate do it. I don’t doubt that some folks on SoR did as you say, but there’s no pervasive culture of sleaziness on our server.

We’re probably over-represented in WvWvW enthusiasts, but otherwise I imagine our population is pretty much the same as any other GW2 server.

Indo.8629:

I think most of SoR are straight up WvW addicts.

After weeks of only doing WvWvW (and only sleeping 4 hours a night), I may be recovering. I’ve had a lot of fun farming for drops in the Cursed Shore dynamic events, and I’ve started doing the sPvP dailies in addition to the “regular” dailies.

I still enjoy WvWvW, but it’s no longer the only thing I do.

Score update, 12:10 GMT

urzen.7096:

score update. looks like this week is over but for fun

At least there is that! The zany thing about this match-up is that whatever the scores, whatever the current population split and time of day, there is fun to be had fighting BG and IoJ.

zastari.1730:

…However, the wAPercent function serves to centralize values around 0.5. While the wAGlickoScore transformation does help mitigate this around edge values in [0,1], it is linear in neighborhoods of 0.5. This seems to split matches into two possible directions of motion:

1) A blowout where one server wins heavily and causes all three servers to be adjusted strongly due to being at the “edge” of the wAGlickoScore transform (see HoD and ET)

2) A convergence as all servers have fairly close to the same score and are normalized near the 0.5 mean value.

Ultimately, this seems to result in a stratification between tiers…

I was wondering if the rating system made it difficult for the top rated server of one tier to get rated higher than the bottom rated server in the tier above (e.g., Blackgate and Stormbluff Isle).

Would Blackgate be hurt because the other servers in its tier have lower ratings than SBI’s competitors?

I love fighting those guys and I’m not eager to see them go. But on the other hand, we’re on track to go four weeks without a membership change in the top two tiers.

where’d everybody go? was it something i said??

thanks, all!

Is it true that there is some chance of getting a legendary precursor by combining 4 exotic items in the Magic Forge?

If so, is there a correlation between the items you put in the forge and what you get out? In particular, if you toss in exotic armor, can you get a precursor for a legendary weapon?

Or, is there a way to improve your chance of getting a particular precursor (e.g., the precursor for a legendary rifle)?

Thanks.

I was with a big PuG trying to kill the Priest of Malandru. We’d wear him down a bit (70-80%?), he’d turn us all into critters, and by the time we could resume the fight, he’d be back at 100% health.

We went through about 3 cycles of this when I got a call that I had to take, which went on for half an hour or so. By the time I got back to the game, he’d been beaten, and the next stage was completed, too.

How’d they do that?

EnoLive.2367:

bare with it till February bud big things are a coming

Play nekked! I do.

Did IoJ lose some Korean or Oceanic players? They normally have overwhelming numbers starting around 10:00 GMT, but not so much today.

Numbers or not, they still managed to take Valley from us. Lots of good fights this morning in EB with both BG and IoJ!

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http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA shows the following score, which it says it says is about 2 hours old.

Team / Score / Income
BG / 133444 / 325
SoR / 99246 / 180
IoJ / 74499 / 190

Dear Hunter.8365:

…Oil is useless because of AoEs being able to hit it…

I look at deploying Oil mostly as a chore— I believe you need to get that out of the way before you can get mortars and cannons.

But once in awhile, if you are alone in a tower with Oil and a small band of bad guys tries to knock down your door, you can give them one kitten of a welcome.

TL;DR: It may not be useful often, but when it is, it’s great.

Roo Stercogburn.9671:

Siege in supply camps… good fun. Makes assaulting the camp fun. Makes defending it against muppets… profitable…

This^^^

Also — keeps camp from a quick flip, so it can be useful if you are outnumbered and want to slow down your opponent’s upgrades.

Not that I’m anything like a spokesman, but I recommend Sanctum of Rall. We have been in tier 2 for weeks, there are lots of good fights whether we are ahead or behind, and this week I have never had to queue.

Yet another plug for http://guildwars2hub.com/features/editorials/80-things-do-level-80

Check out http://guildwars2hub.com/features/editorials/80-things-do-level-80, you might find some things that interest you.

Finally got this. I’ve only done it once, so any conclusions I’ve come to may be based on over-generalization, but it looks to me that the “even t” that has to happen is that sometimes the way to the Arah dungeon is open, but (more often?) it’s not. If it’s not, there is little point in hanging around.

It helps if you have discovered the Arah Waypoint, because it can be difficult to fight your way to the Narthex, which is where you’ll find your way to the dungeon’s gate.

I checked it out when I noticed that there seemed to be more vendors than usual around the Arah Waypoint. When I blundered into finding the open gate, all that was left to do was spam chat until a team of five players was assembled.

This was my first dungeon in GW2. Unlike SWTOR, it’s easy to regen and stay with the story, at least in story mode, so you don’t need to worry about “wiping”.

In fact, during the story I disconnected. When I logged back on, I was given the option of rejoining the group in the dungeon, which was a relief.

Diabolus.9243:

Hey I am from IOJ (ND). Just out of curiosity, can I ask why SoR loves Pangloss when they should not get it…? I mean they always try to steal it from us when they should get other towers or supplies. I would understand if it is strategically right but.. I think they always just want it for the sake of getting it.

Dunno, but it’s not far from the ogre camp, which provides extra guards for a depot near us…

Speaking for myself, I don’t have any special affection for the place, but you gotta love the weird and unexpected Candide reference.

Daedalus.3954:

:| me no gusta.

At the risk of being a pedantic kitten-hole, shouldn’t that be

no me gusta

??

Nethril.7413:

…My previous server would actually yell at people for upgrading towers because it slowed down how quickly the other side could flip it…

Yikes! That is obscene. I’m glad you found a better server.

The last few days I have had tremendously good luck finding giant pearls for the quaggan weather stations. Did ArenaNet change the density?

Could I please have a score update? The latest on http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA is 4 hours old.

Can’t wait to get home and jump back in!

HayJulay.5207:

Obed.7629:

Mif.3471:

IoJ working hard to hold a fresh SM.
Absolutely disgusted by the actions of our rivals….

http://i.imgur.com/dQ6rQ.png
http://i.imgur.com/BZ8Ez.png
http://i.imgur.com/6rIbq.png

I don’t get it. What offense are you demonstrating?

I’m serious; I’d like to know. I love WvWvW, but I hate cheaters.

Use small words, I’m a noob.

Someone on their side decided to eat up their supply in Stone Mist to build random rams. That way they wouldn’t have any supply when they needed to defend it. A few of us in SoR noticed it when we took SM at one point last night as well. Its poopy.

So the bad behavior is that when SM was facing imminent capture, a player spent as many of the supplies as possible?

If I’m right, then this is not an exploit and not bad sportsmanship, but a valid tactic. It’s called the Scorched Earth strategy (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth).

If I’m at a supply depot or tower being overrun, and defense is hopeless, then if I get the chance I stock up on supplies and buy a quickie improvement, mainly to diminish the reward that the attackers get.

This is no less fair than killing yaks.

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If this was a fake account wasting supplies of supposed teammates, then it is absolutely reprehensible and the player should be banned for life if caught.

Mif.3471:

IoJ working hard to hold a fresh SM.
Absolutely disgusted by the actions of our rivals….

http://i.imgur.com/dQ6rQ.png
http://i.imgur.com/BZ8Ez.png
http://i.imgur.com/6rIbq.png

I don’t get it. What offense are you demonstrating?

I’m serious; I’d like to know. I love WvWvW, but I hate cheaters.

Use small words, I’m a noob.

Snow White.9680:

There is an event chain that needs to be completed in order to open the gates allowing access to the dungeon. You must also have your personal story completed in full to be eligible.

As far as I know, the only task left for my character’s story is killing Zhaitan.

Where does the event chain start?

I have not found a way to get to the Arah Dungeon from the Aray Waypoint. I presume I’m starting at the right place? How do you get there??

Thanks.

Way to go, SoS. Keep it up, guys!

Maybe I’m just not a PvE type of guy, but so far the Lost Shores experience for me is being sent to interact with unresponsive NPCs. It has been much less than fun.

I’m disappointed; I was looking forward to trying new content. But the price to get there is too high or I’m just too dumb to figure out what to do.

I’m not convinced that timing your captures is all that good an idea. If you refrain from taking a camp because there is too much time left in the interval, then you are allowing your enemy to resupply and providing him the funds to reinforce his towers and keeps. Conversely, you are denying your own side the chance to replenish supplies.

I’ve seen improvements take over an hour to complete because of the lack of supplies.

HabibLoew.2590:

This is just a reminder that WvW matches roll over at 00:00 UTC and are thus not subject to daylight savings time. So, if you’re in a region that participates in daylight savings time then the matches will now roll over one hour earlier.

0:00 UTC on the dot? Not that it matters, but a week or two ago it was at about 0:20.

Could someone post a score update, please? I’m sitting at work, dying to get back into the fight, and the score at http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA is five hours old.

Thanks!

CharliePrince.2071:

Jeheil.2516:

Any update on current scores on the doors.

…Sanctum of Rall afraid of Sea of Sorrows and only plays “to beat Janthir” aka finish 2nd…

I appreciate that it can be frustrating with SoS holding and expanding their lead, but your statement is simply not true.

Speaking for myself, I’m trying like the dickens to keep the supplies coming to our towers and keeps, and also keep supplies from getting to my enemies. Sometimes that means fighting greenies, sometimes it means fighting the reds.

Grudging props to SoS for their relentless fight; props to IoJ, too, for keeping things interesting.

GavinGoodrich.1382:

What’s really interesting about this matchup is that each server has it’s own peak time. Not just one, but three! For IoJ our strongest is our oceanic/korean/etc so for us late-night NA players it becomes a game of “dusk till dawn” or “survive the night” etc etc. It’s real exciting, less of a “well soon as we go to bed this is all gone” and more of a "we just need to survive UNTIL bed then our cleanup crew can log in. And each server has their own version of this, so it’s a real thrill all the time now.

That explains it!

My TZ is EST; I like to get in an hour or two of WvW before work. I noticed that IoJ had really high participation on EB at 11:00 – 12:00 GMT, which would be 8:00 PM to 9:00 pm in Korea.

Despite SoS relentlessly increasing their lead, this match has been a heck of a lot of fun.

The millenium site predicts an exact rematch next week: http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA

@Tortun, Who Doesn’t Have Much of A Clue

Me neither, bud, me neither.