Guild Wars 2

jsut change every condition (fire,torment,bleeds,poison,fear,vunerability,chill, cripple) into swiftness and vigor,

So we could dodge a lot and run away (from the game altogether) in panic… understanding everything that was will probably never be again.

I have experimented with the build only to get stuck at carrions armor with runes of the noble, rampagers trinkets & weapons, sigil of earth & bloodlust and toxic (power or condition dmg) buffs and marjory’s chili. Marjory’s chili will synergyze with runes of the noble. If SoV will ever be updated to something more usefull (which will take forever knowing A-net) you could add it to the synergy by using a signet trait.

At present: using Consume condittions, BiP,SoS,Epidemic and a elite (I’m human and use reaper of grenth often, I like the combination with warhorn 5)

it gives a build which isn’t that powerfull at first glance (1944 power, 1352 condidmg, 54% crit chance)
but with the mentioned food (only marjory’s) and unused Signet of spite you’ll be at 2174 power

It will spike quite some dmg when using the Bip & healing skill for 13 stacks of might for 14 secs and an additional 3 stacks for 28 secs these together will put power at 2834 & condition dmg at 1912

Oh and you can earn another 350 power with bloodlust or 350 condi with sigil of corruption when supported by the specific toxic buff. Why this love for the toxic? Because of +10 condition duration … of course you do not have to use marjory’s chili then I’d probably default to fire flank steak, or super veggie pizza…

have fun

You will not have any toughness in this build however and this will make you truly vunerable for dmg.

Just make Legendary Armor

I would imagine this would be used in a certain way.

Understand, I do not mind the extra bag slots being as they are, available form the TP and I understand why it is so, but I would like it if my character had acces to some extra slots on an unbound moving object. (It could be used to store my food, and my now account bound salvaging tools, the copper fed salvage o matic, buff food & tonics)

And yes if you would get it with bag slots It would also solve inventory problems for people who are still building up their characters, and cannot afford unlockin the last 3 slots on 5 characters (being 400*3*5 gems or so?) maybe make these a litle more expensive get 2 and 2 optional

Maybe it would give people a reason to add these slots to the dolyak. You could ask 600 to upgrade the dolyak slots instead of 400, make a nice skin for it so we could dress it up, maybe even make a (permanent) dolyak kit for exterior/ armor and looks …

Generally I’d suggest:

Transport
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- Slots for harvesting tools (overiding the standard tools in the characters hero screen)
- 1-2 bag slots
- 1-2 additional bag slots (at TP)

Combat & Mechanics
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- Your dolyak should still be killable, and ressable. Dead Dolyak? = no acces to equipment, they always seem to fall on the bag(s) you need…
- You’d suffer a reduction in movement speed while using your dolyak (-20%) using a +25% speed buff you’d be stuck at 100% (= also cap) If you want heavy transport ? NP as long as you’re not in a rush. If you get stuck in a fight no running away this time, cause you want to protect your dolyak.
- Choice for fighting /non fighting like a pet (little dmg), but only vs. predators (stalkers, wolves, arctodurus,sharks, bears and so on) would get aggro on him, “intelligent” enemies (dredge, molten, toxic, flame legion, inquest,skritt,hylek,risen, dragons would ignore him and v.v.)
Even though it should have plenty armor and vitality I’d imagine it being the lowest priority target for enemies: NPC’s, player(s), minions, pets all having a much higher priority. getting in combat would slow the dolyak further…
(I imagine hearing the dolyak think:
If it wants to eat me…well let’s try to make and effort to kill it, If you want to kill my owner, and just take me… well I’m a dolyak and as long as you feed me and don’t eat me?)
- When you need more speed or just no dolyak present: just “send him home” by use of a button, He should be available again next time you go or have been to a city. Until that moment you loose all bonusses you could get from your dolyaks inventory/equipment (so no harevsting tools, or salvage o matic if they are in the dolyak. Also your Dolyak bag slots shouldn’t be available then…

To get my hopes up
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- Maybe even make a (permanent) dolyak kit for exterior/ armor and looks 3 million identical dolyaks would be so boring…, Maybe carrying Guild logo’s on a flag/lance, 1 or multiple (prefferably colorable) armor skins whatever.
- He should have a mask, or something so he can join you on your swim… (Seacow bubble just for your dolyak ;P )

Further usefulness
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In WvW they wouldn’t be really practical unless they could add something.. (carry a siege weapon at 50% speed (want your ballista, arrowcart or catapult moved?) or some additional supplies (additional dolyak(carried) supply ?) If you’d get zerged you should be able to get a new one near the portals… and lose the supply or the siege weapon.
And no: no movable trebs! poor beasts… But you now do know where all the rotten “cows” come from….

I would like a personal dolyak or another beast of burden.

Make him account bound. Make him nameable. Make him friendly, I do not see him as a combat ally, but I’d like it if he doesn’t stand idle when he’s eaten by bears or wolves….. I do not mind if he’d slow me down a little. He would be for showing off mostly. Maybe customizable with armor or other things…

Prefferably not through BLTP channels but in game, maybe when the zephyrs come back. He would just walk with me , would be an add-on for people to look at, carrying my gathering tools (I know the effects are nice, but I’d like to show them off when just walking around ) And give the beast some bag slots 2 maybe 1 or 2 additional unlockable would be more then sufficient, so we could place bags on him.

-Thinks back to a certain dolyak in a game a long time ago- I miss you Yakkington…

Maybe place some red irisses around tyria to pick and help draw him out? He might like that

Maybe this isn’t feasable cause it could add quite some load to ppls rigs. But I would like it if you’d give it a shot.

If you would lie down he would lie down…

A “neon” clored dye set, like neon yellow, green,red,blue,purple,pink,orange,and white.

It could bring back memories of the chaos gloves, It would be epic, and I want to see somebody running though the mists never ever being able to hide.
Wait put tall mohawks in the hair packages and we could go nice and PUNK
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And I would like a “fractured salvage randomizer”. I would like a kit that would spit out any COMPARABLE material e.g. several copper, some iron , a few platinum, a couple of mitril, 2-3 ori on a lvl 80 sword and possibly have a chance to spit out ori at a lvl 1, just make it random. Of course also for other levels. If this wouldn’t be a TP item make it fractal related, needing tokens to operate or craft or something. the cost would repay itself in having more crafting materials returned, and just the fact of not knowing if you get something or nothing…
Salvaging jewels could give copper, silver, gold, platinum, mithril and ori.
Salvaging wood items the wood logs
Oh, wait just mix them all If I salvage a staff I could get gold ore. WHY not?
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Devils Kit ( wings, legs & hooves, wings horns) reskin and a Angels Set (wings, aureole, garb, sandals, whatever)
I would just pay for an aura and angelic wings anyways.

And Elite Scar Pattern skins! just because! (Necro is Boss) but my guardian needs to fly

Why would you waste money of a zephyr backpack if you can own your own dolyak? If all goes wrong you could still roast him and have a nice barbeque?

My personal Dolyak because farmin’ the cursed shore for mats makes me tired, I’d like some help in transporting the goods. If dolyaks are protected just give me a centaur slave, a minotaur, an ent, or just a golem? And I wouldn’t want to ride him… just as a companion.

-just walking around as Yakslapper with my Yakkingtoon the 23rd -

Hmm this is a mad thread

Generally stacked melee combat gives me more visial input as well… Certainly at walls or other chokes. But I can work around it, by just zooming out.

Generally for people who do have epilepsy and like to play a game:

- Make sure the Brightness of your screen is not too high, this will lessen the effects of flashes.
- Make sure your room is adequately lit, sometimes it also helps to put a normal lamp
behind your screen, to light up the wall, but I guess it´s also personal preference.
- Make sure you’re fit, being tired makes you more vunerable to seizures.
- If you stress to much your chance of seizures will go up, so relax, it’s just a game.
- Make sure you take some rest every 1-2 hours, it will make your eyes and yourself less tired in the long run.
- If you still have a CRT screen: buy a TFT or LCD screen, older screens used quite low refresh rates with 50 Hz and less not being uncommon. This problem with the old CRT screens has been an acknowledged trigger in the past, but nowadays I know very few people still using those old bulky things.
- Use the highest refresh rate possible (Not the FPS: just the refresh rate of the card/screen, most drivers, screens, videocards do this automatically for you).

-A higher FPS can make your visual input more gradual, but effects will still be there, and it will not be substantially helpfull. So no need to buy better GPUs

Even though these measures will not remove the chance of epilepsy activity, I personally find my reactions to flashes a little more acceptable.

I hope this is of use to others.

@TPMN
Regarding Dwayna (temple event in Malchor’s Leap), I seldom do Dwayna as an event, I prefer balthazar (if it’s done), and melandru. I’ll have a look, I did the event before and I must say I haven’t notcied probelms before.

I just want to be very short about this. I have been an epileptic for 15+ years now after I suffered minor brain damage because of trauma and I have fotosensitive epilepsy.

Where:
In the Colossus fractal above lvl 30 (31,32) I’m noticing white flashes during the endboss fight. These flashes are triggering a minor seizure (partial seizure).
This is the only place in the game where I noticed this until now, and my uneducated guess is: This was part of the update, I did quite a few fractal runs before, and never noticed anything like it.

Dangers:
Epilepsy is a common neurological condition found about once every 125-150 people.
Fotosensitive epilepsy is quite rare, less than 1 of every 20 persons with epilepsy suffer from this specific problem, but I find the effects similar to strobes or camera flashes (or lightning). Partial attacks can generalise leading to tonic-clonic attacks or heavier attacks can occur just because of this trigger.

General consequences of seizures:
Memory loss, lowering or loss of consiousness, chance of injury, muscle aches, secondary damages to property and self (due to falling and low consiousness), and in extreme rare cases even death (I do not want to be a kitten, but the chances of SUDEP are probably the same as a precursor drop ingame, which is almost nonexistant.)

Fix: Change the white flashes to something less intrusive which is still well noticable but not dangerous for me and others.

Hope this will help me and others. Also I do not think the game would benifit from this post when the issue is adressed, so I do not mind you closing the thread after measures have been taken. But please do adress the issue.

PaxV

A Dual wielding class?

Dual wielding Swords:
-Warrior
-Mesmer

Dual wielding Axes
-Warrior
-Ranger

Dual wielding Maces
-Warrior

Dual wielding Daggers
-Necro
-Elementalist
-Thief

Dual wielding Pistols
-Engineer
-Thief

Proffesions not capable of dual wielding:
-Guardian
- ….?

Of course than makes some class more proficient at dual wielding, being Warrior with 3 choices, and thief with 2 types but almost all professions can dual wield at least 1 type of weapon…
And seeing NO class can use ALL the weapons, this should be about right for now.

Thief does gives some bonusses for dual wielding due to it’s inherent skill mechanic. But that’s just my interpretation, also If you equip 2 weapons like 2 axes and you get recharge reduction or damage boost for axe , this will go for 5 skills when dual wielding….

Who know what will change in the future, maybe warriors dual wielding Greaswords
Nice to have a splitter for your eternity around

also an emote helps. But I’m using other runes now as this will be a true pain in WvW and PvE….

NeedCoffee.1402:

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

An update:

-CPU: 1x Intel i7 3930K 3.2Ghz (stock) hexcore (w HT: 12 threads)
-GPU: 2x Nvidia Geforce 780 GTX (Yes, it could be SLI-ed) 3Gb

Game setting: Windowed (maximized on Screen 2)
Display Resolution (Screen2 1920*1200, Screen 1 1920*1080)
Graphic Settings (Best FPS/Best apperance)

FPS Value: (NON -SLI (!))

PVE 45-198/22-108 (low values at events, high value with environment alone)
Cities: 79-192/15-125 (guess bottlenecked by network and others, 15 is at bank when moving and looking out, normal 38 at bank, 125 near claw portage)
PVP : N/A
WvWvW: 18-145 (Highest/Highest settings)

Will check this for SLI… later

- edit: (ADDED SLI VALUES)

FPS Value: (SLI values)

PVE 100-218/44-125 (average 70-90 best graphics) (low values at events, high value with environment alone)
Cities: 97-170/25-125 (average 33-42 best graphics) (the average value is Lions Arch at the bank, other cities are 15-25 FPS higher )
PVP : N/A
WvWvW: 34-144 (Highest/Highest settings)

Setting were tested with an open mind in my head, max results are mostly in cramped spaces, dungeons, alleyways & corridors etc.

Added:
-> New drivers (327.23) does improve on former stable versions. only thing I noticed sometimes an armor skin is dropped in favor of a faster FPS, it’s corrected within fractions of second normally (happens mostly on turn etc, on high/ultra settings)
-> At clean install I selected not to install the 3D drivers, as I have no 3D screen nor goggles, and it also seems to improve speed,.

Do not install drivers if you do not need them, Gw2 does support 3D viewing, so if calculations are made according to gw2 programming: your fps will suffer due to needless calculations! These drivers are installed default using nvidia installer!

this might be the most interesting post in this whole thread.
1. he’s rocking the current number one motherboard for extreme gamers, overclockers, and enthusiasts. socket 2011 seems to be Intel’s choice for supper expensive processors.
2. he has noticeable fps gains when sli is enabled? is this because of the two x16 lanes on the rampage extreme?
3. he has the word “stock” next to his processor. did that mean no overclock? because 144 fps in wvw is sick. even if he’s by himself in a jumping puzzle.

1 Maybe its one of the nicest motherboards, but I do not use all the features. I have no need for some (bluetooth for example, and I am no true overclocker) The 40 PCI-lanes make thing quite a lot simpler though. But the true trick is understanding you get a PCI-E 3.0 ready set, and windows 7 is not. So all people who are thinking they are using PCI-E v3.0 probably are not… at least not on Windows 7, Windows 8 should have native support….
2. Yes that SLI rendering will make a difference, certainly if you do not use the 3d drivers for the 3d-vision goggles. Normally you should get some improvement, you can render 2 frames at the same time wich will improve calculating a on card 1 and showing b on card 2…
3. Stock means 3.2Ghz. Like the box says, with a turbo up to 3.8Ghz like the box says, I have a mid range dcooler, and It will kep it cool so I can play at 3.8Ghz (!) continiously
4. I’m not counting 120 players, I look at the normal framerate using F11 in zerg fights, and in the end: ift will drop a little more than the opriginal frame rate noted above, but the difference with complete full EB zerg fights and the watch I kept a watchfull eye, I do not get below 30, ever.
Oh just a last remark, screens will not show anything above 60 FPS, and if they do you eyes will not go over 25-50 FPS. Only difference is that images will look smoother in 60 hz then they will in 30
Lastly if you do manually put you computer on pci-e v3.0 with windows 7 and you get a new driver, you’ll have to do it again. Yes, you will… Each time. And it sucks, thank Microsoft AND Nvidia for the lack of support. I do not know how ATI does, but I guess the same.

An update:

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

Hardware Spec:
-CPU: 2x AMD Opteron 2376 2,30Ghz (2 x quadcore)
-GPU: Sapphire ATI 6870 1Gb
-Tyan Thunder 3600B S2927 A2NRF-E (Nforce 3600 Pro Chipset)
-16 Gb 667Mhz ECC-REG (Kingston)
-WIndows 7 64 Bit SP1
-HDD C : OCZ Vertex-4 256Gb SATA3 (on SATA 2port) (Windows/Programs)
-HDD D : Samsung F1 Raid-Stripe 2×750Gb (swapfiles/userfiles/programdata)
-HDD E : Samsung F1 Raid-Stripe 2x 1Tb (Other…)

Graphic Settings (Best FPS/Choose/Best apperance)

FPS Value:
PVE 37-52/26-35/12-20
Cities: 42-61/35-56/16-35
PVP : N/A
WvWvW: N/A

Game setting: Full Screen (on Screen 1)
Display Resolution (Screen1 1920*1200, Screen 2 1920*1080)
Graphic Settings (Best FPS/Choose/Best apperance)

FPS Value:
PVE 35-75/27-44/22-38
Cities: 35-61/35-56/16-35
PVP : N/A
WvWvW: N/A

Normally I run:
Medium with blur and High-res char & Best textures when windowed and
when full screen giving me 25-45 FPS depending on theamount of objects on the terrain
Best appearance without fxaa filtering & T+S reflections giving me 30 FPS almost constantly without VS
It works OK on a 5 yr old workstation.

GW2 build #latest: 15977

I bought a new PC after 2 HDD fails and an actual lightning strike somewhere in the very close vicinity of my house (probably on the house, it fried my computers network port and the sound(card) sounds strange. Luckily no further dmg and strange to say the least the other network adaptor also on Mainboard, part of the same chipset,
still functioned , but nevertheless:

-CPU: 1x Intel i7 3930K 3.2Ghz (stock) hexcore (w HT: 12 threads)
-GPU: 2x Nvidia Geforce 780 GTX (Yes, it could be SLI-ed) 3Gb
-Asus Rampage IV Extreme (X79 Chipset)
-32 Gb 1866Mhz (Corsair Vengeance)
-WIndows 7 64 Bit SP1
-Standard Scythe Mugen 3 Rev B (Air)cooler
-HDD C : OCZ Vertex-4 256Gb (on SATA III port) (Windows/Programs)
-HDD D : WD Velociraptor 250gb (on SATA III port) (Swap/User)
-HDD E : WD Blue Raid-Stripe 2x 1Tb (SATA II ports) (Other…)

Game setting: Windowed (maximized on Screen 2)
Display Resolution (Screen2 1920*1200, Screen 1 1920*1080)
Graphic Settings (Best FPS/Best apperance)

FPS Value: (NON -SLI (!))

PVE 45-198/22-108 (low values at events, high value with environment alone)
Cities: 79-192/15-125 (guess bottlenecked by network and others, 15 is at bank when moving and looking out, normal 38 at bank, 125 near claw portage)
PVP : N/A
WvWvW: 18-145 (Highest/Highest settings)

Will check this for SLI… later

- edit: (ADDED SLI VALUES)

FPS Value: (SLI values)

PVE 100-218/44-125 (average 70-90 best graphics) (low values at events, high value with environment alone)
Cities: 97-170/25-125 (average 33-42 best graphics) (the average value is Lions Arch at the bank, other cities are 15-25 FPS higher )
PVP : N/A
WvWvW: 34-144 (Highest/Highest settings)

Setting were tested with an open mind in my head, max results are mostly in cramped spaces, dungeons, alleyways & corridors etc.

Added:
-> New drivers (327.23) does improve on former stable versions. only thing I noticed sometimes an armor skin is dropped in favor of a faster FPS, it’s corrected within fractions of second normally (happens mostly on turn etc, on high/ultra settings)
-> At clean install I selected not to install the 3D drivers, as I have no 3D screen nor goggles, and it also seems to improve speed,.

Do not install drivers if you do not need them, Gw2 does support 3D viewing, so if calculations are made according to gw2 programming: your fps will suffer due to needless calculations! These drivers are installed default using nvidia installer!

-I honestly do not mind the footprints, they fit the weapon more then the trail.
-The trail was also ok but I just like the footprints better,
-I also like the color changing and most of other changes.
-I do not find the old the trail ugly but having all effects back and these added would be to extreme.

And to be honest I only want the glow back when it’s stowed, with this remark:
About the purple glow at night…. I would have liked it better if it would have been a slight “bluish ice” type of color, purple is kinda mesmer, and I use my legendary on a celestial clad ele, with regal or sapphire or whitegold, mithril and icing colors, no pink at all here. I’m saving to get an ascended health-based skin to put over my zerk dagger with the ele cause I hate the red…. It really doesnt fit my image I’m working towards

Else I would have saved me a lot of trouble by just buying a mesmer set for my ele…

Two tries on and I finally got it. so it’s about 2,5 hrs of the same drinking game….

I noticed and found a regularity.

This is nearly impossible? Very difficult no problem, i enjoy a challenge…

But I’ve been at it for 2 hours straight. It is not worth the effort, if it is at all possible… I have 1 “elite skill”, but he can use his indefinitely. If this would have been for coin I probably should have taken out my scepter and blown him into kite scraps… And he’s raving at me for being a cheat when I fake a drink… My ele has had so much to drink now, she should be comatose by now…

you’ll need 5 emeralds to make the ring and you’ll need 5 at all times, your ringsinitial upgrade emerald is “free”, so “you’ll waste 1 when you upgrade placing the ruby.”
totals: it ‘ll be 6 * 2 ori ingots for the filigrees, 6 ecto’s, 5 emerald orbs, 1 ruby orb, 2 ingots for the band and 2 for the setting, for a grand total of :
16 ori ingots
6 ecto
5 emerald orbs
1 ruby orb.

and you upgrade it, infusions are only for ascended items, which have an (now) integrated upgrade which is unchangeable….

Get’s you a nice jewel.
I should be correct but i’m doing this from memory, I could be off 1 ingot (band could be 3)

you can get it by buying the rich dragon coffers from the TP. It was (my guess) forgotten in the RNG list for those coffees and didn’t drop. Arenanet was so nice to send it to anyone who had bought the coffers to make up for their mistake,

I do agree that less (10-20) saffron would have been enough… it’s a nice buff but since most ppl frown upon celestial for a lot of reasons (not max dmg capable, a jack of al trades but master of none etc.) it’s overpriced.

Listing which charater it would belong to would definatively be handy certain with the 8 characters I have now, should the gear belong to an deleted character I could just identify it & destroy it… instead of holding on to it forever or having to relog 8 times to check…

And I agree fully account bound is enough…

with warrior I must say It would possibly be 23 and 28 secs because of the fast swap trait. and with rune of the warrior 23 and 27… after first use…

yes but you use 2 offhand wepons to do so? and if they are on a 25 second countdown, you’d be able to knockdown them twice for 2 of 3 seconds each but the both would be unusable for how long? 23 seconds and 33 seconds… Yes they would be usable quite close to another again, but then you’d be running into weaponswap cooldown…

Just a few thoughts:

I have a Necromancer, I often use Scepter/Dagger and Dagger/Dagger. For this I have 3 daggers and a scepter.

When I use a different set for example Scepter/Dagger and Dagger/Warhorn all my skills are usable when I switch weapons.

But when I use S/D and D/D my dagger skills on the offhand set are NOT refreshed when I switch weapons.

When I started though when I possessed only 2 daggers and a scepter, I just thought : the dagger is probably still on cooldown, but now I have 3 I wonder why. Effecively it’s not worth to equip 2 times the same weapon in the same type of slot (be it main- or offhand) unless you’re talking about sigil space or stats

I’d say this would be most usefull with regards to the offhand set: I can also see changing it for all weapons could lead to abuse (warriors using 2 greatswords with 2 times sigil of battle for example) or other builds using 2 similar sets.
But when the first set is used the second would come available without cooldown but on weapon switch back to the first one you are still confronted with (running) cooldown from that moment on…

You do not have an alternative weapon equipped (Say you’d be running Cof Speedfarm you probably wouldn’t care if you’d be able to do 2 times the amount of hundred blades when you’d be able to switch withing 5 seconds) But when running a dungeon where switching on the fly is necessary you’d probably be in a world of hurt…

My Question: Why is it not okay for me to have recharged skills on my duplicate off-hand set when I do carry the all the physical weapons needed for a 2nd set. I know this will cause the game to become more fast and deadly, but then again, why not? I payed for the dagger, a person running different weapons does get all recharged skills? So why not me too?

Hear! Hear!

The Final Rest Animation has been modified!

Oh great gods of Arenanet, thank you for listening to your humble user(s)!

To all other posters in this thread:
Thank you all for posting your opinion in this thread, without you this beautiful change wouldn’t have happened.

Now that we received our suggested change I’ll close this thread for now.

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Draco.9480:

I just want ‘em to change the skills of necro staff cuz it’s freakin’ 4 marks which making it boring. I want some scythe attack swing, scythe wave, scythe storm, or dark laser.

This is a suggestion but rather off topic… Maybe you should start another thread regarding your opinion as stated above.

We will battle on to get the scythe bane (I hope I name this right) in the correct place.

I understand we are just 6 ppl now but the general opinion seems to be the same…

Would a Arenanet programmer please move the scythe animation?

Pretty Please?

For those 5 people and me?

Glad to see 2 people agree with me, but I still wonder why ArenaNet in all it’s wisdom and with all it’s power decided to change only this animation. WHY?

Oh, Great Programmer in Digispace, please explain this to me, your humble user….

If things make it so it cannot be changed at all… then let it be so, but please inform me.

I have a question regarding Final Rest:

- Why is the necro staff skill 1 “scytheblade animation” on a different position compared to ALL other staves in the game?

I think it’s a beautiful exotic, and I like it as a carried weapon but I cannot get over the fact it has a different animation in the game then other ‘normal’ staves while playing necro. Most staves get a scythe blade. SO does Final Rest, but in a different position then where it is on the staff? It really goes against my idea’s how it should look and I find the animation strange to say the least.

I hope the animation can move up a bit to where it should be… Then I know why I spend 18 gold on it again for my necro after I got one for my guardian.

I.M.H.O.: And the blade turning black would be enough warning you’d be dealing with a necro, so would the black hand spawning from it.

Guess what…. I can’t log in…

Friends tell me GW1 is also offline.

Now my life is empty
Nothin’ to live for…

- starts crying softly with head down on his keyboard -

I read on and found this has to do with the Superior Rune of the Afflicted, and death nova (confirmed), and or other deaths at the exact moment of downing (to be confirmed).
The on-downed deathnova, could kill your enemy/enemies, leaving you stuck.

Guess this ends the thread as the cause seems to be located. and the solutions are easy, and there is an concrete bug.

Superior Rune of the Afflicted can and will cause moments where the player suffers a permanent downed state, leaving him unable to move.

Workarounds:
- Log-off and log on again
- /dance Emote (this one wroks didn’t try others)
- Removing/Replacing the 6th rune
- Kill another foe from the place where you standing as they respawn or wander to close. You will re-rally…

-closed-

Verified, I also posted this once, And how typical, I’m ALSO using runes of the afflicted. and the deathnova thing I cannot verify directly, but If enemies die of ANY blleds venom direct dmg at the moment I go down, the stuck thing happens…

/dance will get you out though

I hope this works as I am not that technical. Here should be the picture:
Note the aegis sign at the yellow arrow. I am the standing Necromancer, seen from behind.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/818/gw001at.jpg

Most of the times I have damaged the enemy 11 to 12 bleeding. so enemy death is almost simultaneous with mine. If the difference between my & enemy death is more then 1 second nothing matters, but I’m wondering if simutaneous or near simultaneous deaths can and/or already have been verified to cause this.

I will try to provide a screenshot after the next occurence…

I have experienced this problem over 5 times now. I get in a fight, and get killed at a moment where my enemy isn’t dead yet but dies within a fraction of a second after me. Most of the times I don’t even see the game switch to downed state, but I do get the message: ’’Rallied’’.

Nice I survived, but only 1 problem:

I cannot move.

I can use spells (also on keyboard), I can use my mouse, I can attack enemies (when defeating them the downed state is broken, nothing else seems to be affected).
If nothing spawns, I have no further option but to logout and re-login. If nothing else happens I can sit and watch the aegis symbol for over 30 minutes. being able to do everything but move. I can switch weapons, use traits, select skills, change weapons carried (not the “`”) but in the hero screen. I can do anything except move (& jump). I see jumping as a move.

Has this been an issue for anyone else?

(I play a Necromancer)

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Hardware Spec:
-CPU: 2x AMD Opteron 2376 2,30Ghz (2 x quadcore)
-GPU: Sapphire ATI 6870 1Gb
-Tyan Thunder 3600B S2927 A2NRF-E (Nforce 3600 Pro Chipset)
-16 Gb 667Mhz ECC-REG (Kingston)
-WIndows 7 64 Bit SP1
-HDD C : OCZ Vertex-4 256Gb SATA3 (on SATA 2port) (Windows/Programs)
-HDD D : Samsung F1 Raid-Stripe 2×750Gb (swapfiles/userfiles/programdata)
-HDD E : Samsung F1 Raid-Stripe 2x 1Tb (Other…)

Game setting: Windowed (maximized on Screen 1)
Display Resolution (Screen1 1920*1200, Screen 2 1920*1080)
Graphic Settings (Best FPS/Choose/Best apperance)

FPS Value:
PVE 37-52/26-35/12-20
Cities: 42-61/35-56/16-35
PVP : N/A
WvWvW: N/A

Game setting: Full Screen (on Screen 1)
Display Resolution (Screen1 1920*1200, Screen 2 1920*1080)
Graphic Settings (Best FPS/Choose/Best apperance)

FPS Value:
PVE 35-75/27-44/22-38
Cities: 35-61/35-56/16-35
PVP : N/A
WvWvW: N/A

Normally I run:
Medium with blur and High-res char & Best textures when windowed and
when full screen giving me 25-45 FPS depending on theamount of objects on the terrain
Best appearance without fxaa filtering & T+S reflections giving me 30 FPS almost constantly without VS
It works OK on a 5 yr old workstation.

GW2 build #latest: 15977

Hi there people!

It could be anything but I received 3 set’s of swindler pants now, mostly in 15-25 and 25-35 area’s and they have an inventory icon of a glove… I play an sylvari but she still has 2 legs not 5

It’s just something minor and I’ll see it change, or my character might just grow out of it. It is not a fluke which happened once this is the 3rd time I noticed it.

Could someone confirm this?

Thank you for the great game.