Guild Wars 2

They’re not active here (Gate of Madness)

Alright, I’ll put it on my longterm list of stuff I want :P Thanks

Is that a teslacoil staff? Do want!

When I first got the gasmask skin I didn’t really know what to do with it but it’s perfect for my Charr Engineer

Healix.5819:

Loot will always be broken as long as they balance it around the possibility that multiple people get loot, which when zerged, results is far more loot than what the payout would be in other MMOs. Loot needs to scale depending on how many people participated and what scale the mob was at. For example, if 100 people kill a champion, but it’s only scaled for 10 people, then only 12-15 people should get loot. If however 1 person solos a champion scaled for 5 people, they should get 2-4x the loot. As it is now, being undermanned only results in being punished. Unfortunately however, in a previous thread about loot scaling, a dev considered it to be griefing.

I find it incredibly broken that I can stand in a zerg and press 1 AoE skill to tag multiple mobs without any risk at all whereas if I solo that same thing, less mobs will spawn resulting is less loot and it’ll take more time to finish. The end result is that zerging results in more rewards with less risk and no effort.

Simply increasing the loot veterans drop would only further reward zerging.

And who would get the loot? I think it’s unfair to reward some players, but not others.

I do think it would be fair to give people better rewards if they beat champions with smaller groups, for example 3 people, instead of zerg rushing it with a group of 20 people.

Actually, in addition to my previous post, I’d rather fight one veteran than 3 regular enemies. Veterans are easy to target when they’re alone, they’ll just take a bit longer to kill. They can’t gang up on you like a bunch of normal enemies do.

Of course, if they have a bunch of goons hanging out with them, this can make them quite a challenge but that’s more to the clusterkitten of goons and not due to the veteran.

edit: I love this profanity filter

Veterans are nothing more than slightly stronger versions of regular enemies. I don’t see how they should drop better stuff than regular enemies. There’s hardly any challenge in most of them anyway.

I still wish the skin would be selectable from the achievements tab though

LoL has upside-down vertical progression. Every time I start a match I get kicked back down to lvl 1 :P

Ctrl + Shift + H

What I read from your post is that you want to make dungeons harder so only die-hard players can finish them. That would break the game for a lot of people. It’s never going to happen.

I don’t really see how crafting and chests have anything to do with the difficulty of dungeons.

If the new maps were added to world completion, that would mean new players have a lot more to explore to get the same reward as older players who had to do less exploring. Doesn’t seem fair to me.

Oh look, another thread by a bitter person who hates to see casual players getting any rewards in anything.

I think an important thing to realise is that in a MMORPG you cannot be “THE hero”, you’re just “A hero”, along with hundreds of other heroes.

Just think of how many champions that are way stronger than any PC will ever be.

If they really wanted to get people out of a central hub and into the other cities, they’d move everything out of LA except for the Asura Gates.

I still like the first one best. Adding epic music to something silly is always the best.

I simply love your choice of music

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

I hope Evon dies, just to see the reaction of all his fanboys

Either this, or have him run with his tail between his legs.

I’ve said before that Gnashblade is like Steve Jobs. Scrap that. Gnashblade is like Justin Bieber and his fans are Tyria’s equivalent of Beliebers. So don’t be too harsh on them, they’ve yet to discover themselves.

If you get bored of a story line, maybe the solution is to not repeat it 7 times in a row :P

It’s a Tybalt mission, how could it not be enjoyable?

You mean the thing with the pirates? I loved that part. I don’t think it ever took me half an hour though.

IVIUIEI.9631:

Supermannn……..

Flaming Flying Squirrel man

Zepher.7803:

If you get any greens or blues you don’t need to wear or use, right click them and “sell on trading post” you’d be surprised how quickly you can get some cash flow going.

When you sell stuff on the trading post, make sure not to pick the “sell to the highest bidder” option, but match the price of the lowest seller (the second option). It will usually get you more money, though you’ll have to wait for a while for the item to be actually sold (depending on the item it could be sold in a few minutes or it might take a few days – sometimes it won’t get sold at all, then you can take it off the TP after a while and either try selling again for a lower price, or salvage it).

It would be logical to automatically apply it I suppose. But that would also go for karma.

dmGinC.6128:

Which class would be a good choice for a first time player? I can’t help but be attracted to the necromancer

Lol, that’s how I started the first game – and lost my interest in it very quickly. Although luckily for you, necromancers in GW2 are a lot better for single player combat. I have an Asura Necromancer, she’s awesome.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Palador.2170:

lazarus.1639:

I hope both Kiel and Evon die screaming in terror and pain.

I hope Kiel meets her doom in a horrible and terrible way. And then, at the last moment, Evon charges in, catches her foes off guard, tosses the injured Kiel over a shoulder and runs to safety.

And thus begins a long running romance/contest between the two, where they keep track of who’s saved who the most times now. Each trying to one-up the other, neither ever admitting to the growing feelings between them that everyone else can so clearly see.

No self respecting human would EVER romance a charr. For any reason. The very thought leaves a vile taste. The only time a charr is remotely pleasing is when they are rolling around on fire in their death throes.

Remember Ascalon.

I take it that you still kill Germans while shouting “Remember the second world war!”

Darkbattlemage.9612:

cheshirefox.7026:

don’t worry, your creepy stalker “E” will write to you

Perhaps Trahearne is actually this E and the reason he doesn’t reveal himself to the players who have reached the point of the pact formation is so Anet doesn’t have to worry about these players spoiling the personal story for new players and have both groups discuss about E’s identity.

I think E is either Ellen Kiel or Evon Gnashblade. Probably Gnashblade, since Kiel won the election – had Gnashblade won, it would have been Kiel.

Steel Fenrir.2791:

They have reason to be wary of the other races, since their kind had been slaughtered like farm animals by the thousands almost 300 years ago, just for their “feathers”. If they opened their doors, who knows, people might start feather farming once again. Never forget.

If the door were to open and we’d be able to interact with Tengu, and even play as Tengu, I wouldn’t be surprised if there will be a movement within the Tengu like the renegades and separatists you find in Ascalon that will fight anyone who supports the interaction with other races.

Evon Gnashblade is the Steve Jobs of Tyria. He’s full of hot air, like Jobs, leads one of the biggest companies in the world, like Jobs and has a horde of mindless followers who proclaim him Jesus whenever they get the chance, like Jobs.

I’m glad I voted for Kiel, not because she’s so much greater (I did it because I wanted cheaper waypoint travel because that’s what was most interesting for me at the time, and I wanted to know what happened to the reactor – Gnashblade just didn’t offer me anything interesting) but because Gnashblade supporters are just annoying as hell.

I love the lines she says while you’re fighting the Marionette. She actually sounds more menacing than she did when she was Crazy Cuckoo Bubbles Scarlet

He’ll probably be too busy saving his merchandise and his moneybags.

munkiman.3068:

I’m more curious if this is another one of those temporary things that lasts 2 weeks. I mean they burn LA to the ground and over the course of releases it get’s magically rebuilt?

I don’t know if you’ve seen Kessex Hills after the tower collapsed, but I’m sure those bits of tower that are all over the place weren’t there before the whole thing started.

BobbyStein.2315:

Aedelric.1287:

I agree, the dialogue has improved for our characters, it feels as though we are contributing and have opinions. Unfortunately we have not had much interaction with the various characters this time nor was it as entertaining as the story area in the previous update.

Living Story has been very hit and miss, when they do one thing well something else seems to suffer. The Origin of Madness really did have the worst player character dialogue possible.

`Go on.´

Heh. The “Go on.” string used in last month’s release is what we call a “master linked” string. Essentially, the conversation keeps referencing the same text guid to save on text and localization word count. Every month we have a fixed budget, and if changes to any content (like a conversation) come after our lockdown deadline, we have to solve the issue using master linked text.

In other words, while it’s funny that the convo kept saying “Go on” with every transition, it was due to a combination of a tight deadline and limited word count and not a stylistic choice.

Is it really that much work to add a few lines? I wouldn’t have guessed that, but then again, I have no idea how things like this work on a technical scale – I can guess but I don’t know how you guys did it.

So that raises a question, how is dialogue saved in the game? I’m curious about how GW2 operates under the hood now.

They’ll just lock her up for future exposition.

Funny that the soundtracks for the first game are still there :/

I bet it’s actually Smaug who’s coming for the gold Hobotron collected during Wintersday.

I personally love the pistol, but since I don’t even have a single Black Lion Ticket I doubt I’ll get it anytime soon

Lilius.9850:

Here’s my warrior

What set is this?

ekylok.2410:

too bad, so sad…i did apologize for that earlier

When you wrote your “apology” you hadn’t posted the topic yet, so you still had the option to change the topic title. You chose not to do that, hence your apology is insincere and that’s just not nice

My Asura Necromancer:

- Skull mask
- Shadow mantle
- Masquerade Raiments
- Shadow gloves
- Priory leggings
- Shadow shoes

mausi.4873:

kitten , guess my krytan armor is gone then lol

thanks guys

You can try to contact support and see if they can restore the item with your krytan armor, or maybe give you the skin again. It’s worth a try.

What do you mean? If you mean the C.L.E.A.N. 5000, it goes through the reactor plant during the fire elemental pre-event, then during the fire elemental event it gets wrecked and appears back at Rooba’s camp again after that.

I believe it’s a one-time skin, though by using transmutation stones/crystals you can transfer the look to another item if you want to.

ceno.1584:

I think if they added the option to “Target nearest hostile” instead of just “target nearest” Would effectively fix this issue.

Indeed, just make auto-targeting non-hostile mobs optional through a setting in the menu or something

Mickey Frogeater.1470:

Have any of you noticed the voice at the end of Guild Wars 2 – Our Story So Far sounds different from the Scarlet we’ve known?

Are we even sure it’s Scarlet and not the Personal Nemesis(who according to ArenaNet was someone we knew and since we didn’t know Scarlet at the time the Nemesis is obviously not her)?

Could Countess Anise, Queen Jennah, Kasmeer and the voice whispering into Scarlet’s head all be the Nemesis in disguise?

If so how is she/he going to make it personal? Kill Destiny’s Edge maybe? What does she/he mean by playtime? Is she/he drawing Scarlet on a goose chase after her for her/his amusement?

Sounds like Scarlet to me, also, if you’ve read Scarlet’s journal, you’ll have noticed her way of talking is different there. This also goes for the holograms that taunt you during the killer marionette, she doesn’t do crazy psycho Bubbles anymore like she did before.

thaooo.5320:

Tengu will get cosmetically ignored just like charr, and to a lesser extent sylvari/asura.

Tengu will end up with heaps of clipping armours/hairs/accessories/etc, and they’ll never get fixed up.

Just how bitter is your life, for this to be the only thing you have to add to this thread?

Volstag.6371:

THE END IS NIGH!

She’s going to reroute all the Magic into LA to summon the Elder Dragons to beat each other up, then Nuke them with Mari and break magic! We will then have to restore magic with the bloodstones, because the imbalance in the world will have it start to fall into the Mist and be destroyed. Restoring the bloodstone and returning magic however will also rise the dragons again.

And then GW3 will be announced :P

Sharvis.9085:

Traveller.7496:

But honestly, do you guys feel that leveling LA would be a “world-changing” event they keep promising? If GW2 had Searing of Ascalon – type of event, that I would accept, but just a makeover for one town doesn’t cut it after all this hype.

In terms of a simple makeover, no. But there are ways it could be done to give more oomph to the events, such as the destruction causing the Tengu wall to collapse allowing access into the Dominion of Winds.

This. Please let it be this.

There’s a chest after all the dialogue, yes.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

But once we save her from her madness, we could put to good use an ally with a genius such as hers. I’m telling you now, Kiel is the bigger threat.

Oh my God, people are still going on about this? Get. Over. It.