Guild Wars 2

http://images.reproarte.com/files/images/A/albertis_sebastiano_de/0103-0008_reiter_auf_wache.jpg

that’s nearly the same height-difference like in the picture on the artwork. Taking the perspective into consideration it’s not clear this man on the art-work isn’t riding but standing.^^

Actually it’s fun to tease the mount-haters a bit. Who said mounts need to be to save waypoint expenses. They could as well be town-related stuff.^^

@cesmode: If there will be a time when I have to buy gems to cover my waypointcosts I will quit for sure.^^

Well, I doubt we get horses as mounts, or they would have been announced I think.

Well as they announced we get a “riding broom” and even if it’s “only” the one from halloween event, this technically is something like a mount.^^

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

As I read it, the Quaggan backpack will be hidden in an RNG box… please tell me it isnt true? Please?
cries

From Baby Quaggan Backpacks to Riding Brooms to the revamped Box o’ Fun, you’ll find it all in the Gem Store!

Hm, it’s not stated directely. So I hope not, even though I’m not overly interested in bearing Quaggans at my back. I rather want the broom.

Ah cool, thx Kalrisver and Morrigan.

The Quaggan backpack is from the gemstore. I wonder what happens to liquid karma bottles. Will there be a possibility to get those still or are they replaced by these new tokens?

When I made my Asura Necro I suddenly knew that her name was Xim. She looks like this is her name. And because I was not really familiar with Asuran name conventions I made it a bit longer so her name is Ximepher or short Xim.

Edit: Oh and I hoped this name would make her seem a bit more evil or dark but that didn’t work out at all. She is way to funny and pretty bad at beeing the gloomy necromancer. xD

Rilke Cadmus.6829:

Nope, but I am still kitten that Plunka didn’t set up residence in my Home Instance, I invited her there after all, but NOOO I get Plant Peredur or whatever his name was….

cough I’, afraid that you will never become best friends with Plunka. After all I think you two had a pretty bad start.

At least I had. xD

Besides from all questions about possible or not, I think this arm would fit better as “gloves” than as a part of the coat. This way it would give a wider variety of looks, imo. But it is like it is and I doubt they will change it anytime soon, if ever. As well it would leave a big problem for those who bought the coat for the look and left out the gloves for whatever reason.

I think the only way would be to bring it out as an entirely new gear (like T4 or something).

Lol, I see this as a game. Speculating can be fun, finding logical solutions for some questions which do not get answered directely by the game. It has quite alot to do with immersion, with feeling home in this world and not with somehow confusing real world and fiction. You can call it “nerdy” or what else, but I personally am not taking this overly serious.

I like to see them rather as familiar to Rygel XVI from Farscape. He may look less similar but he definitely shares their arrogance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/farscape/gallery/three/rygel_s3.kittenml

Edit: Why in the name of the eternal alchemy does the languagefilter ‘kittens’ -s html-? oo

http://www.farscape-germany.de/BilderCharaktere/Rygel/Rygel2G.jpg

Narkosys.5173:

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

Interwebster.7518:

I was on Fort Aspenwood, but I switched over to Sea of Sorrows to check. And maybe you are right. It is 6:29 where I live, but quite possible people are still at work in other time zones. Maybe I’ll check back when dailies reset? I was just a little sad because i was surprised to see the worlds so empty.

I am sure that at 6.30 on a thursday people are either still in bed, or on their way to school or work. Doesnt mean the game is dead, it means people have lives :p

Try again in the evening

I am sorry but this isnt a solo game this is a mmo. If there cant be sufficient people on at all times of the day to fulfill whatever type of game experience you want there is something very very very wrong.
Do I even need to remind you a few months ago plinx at 4am had 15 people or that WvW and night capping as a 24/7 game?

Take the rose coloured glasses off and see the real picture.
Yes Please TRY AGAIN I SAY.

In that case I have always played dead games, because there have always been times when you could not find enough people to do everything you wanted to do, while in other times the servers were crowded.

I had great fun in several of them and so I guess it doesn’t matter if a game is alive at your standards.^^

Well, I think the idea of Asura beeing marsupials is not that much likely but how cute would that be! Imagine little Asura babies sticking out their heads of their mothers pouch having highly intellectual conversations while mom is building up a new golem

No there is a third one who only wants the T-Shirt. :P

… dumdidum I should rather leave this thread…hides

TheVirtualFrog.8714

“I tried farming potent blood and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!”

Hahaha, can I have one of these for my asura?

Edit: Hm thought about it. Text is to long or she is to tiny – you would need a magnifying-glass to read it

Solid Gold.9310:

I would like to know when this is being introduced.

I want to transfer to a higher populated server, mine is dead as a doorstop.

So why don’t you do it right now? Looks like people are panicing somehow. I don’t know you could change all the time and somehow many did not seem to bother but just they mentioned it you get alarmed and run away. strange…

You can go to a higher populated server through the guesting system if your server is actually that low populated. You only can’t play WvW on that server. That’s how I understand it.

I am definitely happy that the guesting-system will come along with this. The only reason for me to change server would have been that I want to play with friends from other servers but with the 7 days waiting time I never did because that would have left me stuck on one server for that time even if I wanted to change only for one evening or so. If it comes along with a transfer-fee for actual servertransfer I don’t mind at the moment.

I really wonder if a not-downscaling-option would be actually used that much. I mean considering that you have all the disadvantages that come along with that in MMOs usually. (Like no loot, no exp, no karma whatever, or at least significantly less.)

Yes because it’s dead. I’m putting him/her to rest I’m not killing him/her in the first place.

I like Orr. Nothing moralisticly doubtfull there. Everything running around in this area is dead anyways, no reasons to bother wether you should feel bad about doing what you are doing or not.

As for the rest of the world – hm there are several things which make me close my eyes and say “it’s just pixels”.^^

I wonder how long it would be actually “fun” to onehit everything in a lower level area. From my experience there is no reason at all to go back to a lower level area once you have done all quests or are not that keen on the leftout quests. (Which means you go back for the quest and not for the experience of beeing the ultimate hero.)

Most lower level areas in other games are more or less empty or filled with people in the fitting levelrange. If there are higher people they have a reason to be there like a special skin or something. And several of those are often enough playing out their advantage over lower people by killing the mob before anyone else can do it etc. I personally don’t know anyone who goes back constantly to an area where he can onehit everything only to feel stronger.

So it might be fun once or twice but then it’s pretty much pointless.

MrMacAndCheese.3907:

Also I’d like to make a point here, as everyone is bringing up the option to Knock on a Door of a Sepratists Hideout….

There are other options, one of which is TALKING to the Sepratist, being diplomatic. And in doing so, you and the npc both will see where the npc’s rage is coming from, where the motivation stems from, but yet, they reconcile and repent due to your counseling.

I think this point is just as important, if not more, then the right or wrong of kicking in doors.

Indeed, I did the quest not knocking at any door, if I remember rightly.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Since Anet created the lore, if they say Asura are mammals and they reproduce similair to humans then that’s the way it is, period. And it’s not impossible, don’t try to apply real life logic to a fantasy game

Do you have a source? I only found a statement saying that they give birth the way humans do. That does in my opinion mean they are live-bearing. It does however say nothing about if they are really mammals.

This is not a private person sending out those messages from his private playing account. At least I assume this. So banning them – what the forum crew prolly does anyways – does not hurt those sellers at all.

Just report this message.

Well but this game has an age restriction at 12 if I remember right. So the case that your 3 year old likes to watch this game can not be used as an argument against several features. You can not bring your 3 old to a movie for 12 year olds and say it has to be apropriate for your son and appropriate for your style of education.

However I don’t think completely naked chars are necessary in this game. And for me there is a difference between naked people on the beach -who I don’t mind at all and complete nakedness in a game.

Weren’t several people mentioning that you should not put too much logic on armor stlyes? To protect them completely and to cover your belly and legs would be very sensible in this case too. :P

I really had to add this :

I personally got nothing against “revealing” armor, but I don’t want my char to have to wear it. For example the masquerade set is awesome but I can not imagine my mesmer going out to kill something in this outfit. More options for every taste would be really cool but I think they only have certain resources for their skin-designers. So I would rather vote for “sexy” but not to skimpy armorstyles instead of wanting A-Net to make everyones char look like he/she is from some strange B-movie action film.

Yollm.2951:

There is a clothing glitch that allows one to see their character model ‘naked’ in a ken and barbie sort of manner. Their pants are just typically too high up for it to be seen.

Seen here: http://imageshack.us/a/img11/6458/bellybuttonasura.png (Cropped some bits just in case.)

Thus, live birth. Also, if you’ve seen the in-character model of progeny.. they are very, very small. And you can be amazed by the complexities of childbirth and all the adjusting that can, and needs to be, done. But that’s beside the point.

gg you shouldn’t look at them when they are shrunk in their school. Usually they are not big but still half an adult asura? joke

And I still like my lizzard idea And yeah afaik reptiles don’t breast-feed their offspring so this question would be magically solved. They get fed mushrooms and loads of lessons on astrophysics and golemancy.

http://suite101.com/article/snake-reproduction-live-bearing-and-egg-laying-a304911

Lol, I just started a Norn-Thief because of the skins.

However more variety would be highly appreciated – for light armor too pleeeeease. I couldn’t find any armor I liked for my mesmer.

“Best” is such a subjective thing. WoW is not THE best game. It may be the most popular. GW2 is not THE best game, even though it is for me. All that this or that is THE BEST game is pretending that there is only one playertype which has exactely the same wishes and needs. But there is not.

You can compare things like graphics or certain features or the press can hype one game as THE BEST but for me as a player that does not mean that this or that is the best game overall and for everyone. I personally count GW2 as one of the best MMOs that I’ve played because it fits my expectations I have on a game. For someone else this may be pretty much different.

What I am talking about is a whole society not only dedicating themselfs towards science but researching a greater thing/principle which lies beyond perception and is explaining the world as a whole. In a world where gods really existed with proof this is a pretty strong believesystem, I would say.

How do you know they have bellybuttons? I still think they are lizards. Livebearing lizards…. With ears

Honestly many posts are just bashing. Either bashing the game or bashing other people for not liking the game. Unfortunately there is not really much productive about that.

How about ignoring a negative post someone doesn’t not like or about giving proper arguments. It’s really sickening in many cases that a discussion so often gets personal like blabla you are only angry in RL or you had a bad childhood or you are nothing but a spoilt kid or you want everything handed to you for nothing or whatever. It would be really cool if people could leave this aside because I suspect in 99% people know nothing about the person they talk to.

Edit: I’m talking about negativity this forum in general.

Toxyn.9608:

As a bonus, this would open up three times the amount of armor skins to mix and match. The “battlemage” appearance would be made possible. Warriors could mix in some medium armor for the nordic look. Thieves could wear light armor robes for the “cloak and dagger” flavor.

Aside from all balancing issues that come with your question in general I would really like to have a possibility to get the look of other armor-classes’ armors.

Hm, for me it’s

3 – 4 – 1 – 2 .

To compare that cost/entertainment ratio with different kinds of entertainment is always a bit biased. First of all you are not taking the whole costs for that entertainment into consideration. Going to the movies does not cost you anything beside the movieticket and the bus or whatever transport you use to get to the cinema. To play a video-game you need to have at least a computer, plus energy etc. You can use this computer for other things too ofc, so it’s not the whole costs.

Secondly you can buy a video-game or go to a movie and not enjoy it. This time you spend your time and money and in both cases it’s pretty much wasted because you didn’t get the entertainment you wanted. You would not say “oh this film was horribly boring but at least it was long.”

What you can compare is the amount of content with other video-games and I think GW2 has a pretty good ratio on that. About the quality vs quantity thing I would say it is pretty much a matter of taste. I personally enjoy GW2 quite alot still after many hours spent in the game.

But especially Higgs Boson is often refered to as the “god particle” Just to point out that there IS something religious about research too and what Asura do is a kind of dedication towards finding an explanation about the world as a whole.

How would you think their believe in the eternal Alchemy is not determining their lifestyle. They devote quite alot of their time to research it’s principles.

The word religion is sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system; however, in the words of Émile Durkheim, religion differs from private belief in that it is “something eminently social”.³ A global 2012 poll reports that 59% of the world’s population is religious, 23% are not religious, and 13% are atheists.⁴

(as a part from Wikipedia)

By that definition you can see it as a religion imo but not as an however hierarchical church or a ritualist cult or something.

That video is showing an oposit view to many asuran merchands. Usually at least in the german language version they greet you with “There is no profit in the eternal alchemy” Which could be a blasphemy as well, but still.

Honestly, I am against shady marketing practices, but this 24 hours sales were nothing of that sort. All conditions of the deal were pretty well known. You knew that rate of the reduction and it was exactely this rate. No shady 90% discount sign on an item which was not sold usually and therefor has no certain price or stuff like that. The time of reduction was made clear – 24 hours and thats it. There are no other retailers who might sell cheaper, so this deal is not forcing you into a purchase that might be not as good as it looks. And you are able to buy each one of those items for the normal price afterwards.

You can complain that the timelimitation for the sale is a bit short, but that has nothing to do with tricking someone or such things. (Beside from a “normal” manipulation which comes along with a discount anyways. But that would mean they should not have any discounts at all and I personally would not be happy with that.)

Yep that actually IS something I worry about (can’t find a less strong word atm xD). And I personally do not mind one or two items, but by time there will be a bunch of them and like I understood their statement it is only the beginning of a “slight” powercurve (whatever that’s supposed to mean). And what I actually fear is that this whole ascended-issue turns into a grinding feast, but I still hope that they find a sensible compromise between people who play alot and those who play not that much.

Well for me it was not exactely easy to max my professions because I collected the mats myself. You can argue that you can buy all mats via tradingpost, but that is what you can do with many other items too. If the game does not have to be reduced to playing the tradingpost or running one particular dungeon other ways to obtain stuff have to be equal to those ways.

I do not know if it’s hard to run the fractals, but I thought the game was about fun and not about “work”.

If you agree with us why do you argue with us then lol.

Look, we are turning in circles. What I am talking about is mainly trust. Usually there is a certain way in games to acquire the most powerfull items. It’s mostly dungeons. This game promised to be different. Now they introduce a more powerfull item which can be obtained only through dungeons. You argue that the difference doesn’t matter but it’s still there. And they already stated that they were introducing more items as well. So the difference will become bigger until it might matter. Like we already said there is no real reason to increase the stats on ascended agony resistance would be enough. So there are no different means for higher stats, especially no means to aplly those higher stats to the world ouutside the fractals.

And ofc they could come and say “hey most powerfull items can be obtained only by dungeons, we just changed the rules.” but that would not be the game I bought. I could now go and leave the game like several people did. But I still want to believe that I can trust the company that they make the best stats avaiable through certain ways. And that’s it. The rest is useless arguing.

A tank is the worst example for a fancy verhicle someone can give. But it’s a perfect example for a very powerfull verhicle.

So they planned Ascended to be more powerfull? (Note we were already discussing that Exotic stats could fullfill the same purpose.) Then we come back to the fact that it has to be at least avaiable for everyone otherwise we would have several inequities. Everything might work perfectly well for any other game, not for this one because it was sold with a certain promise.

I am contradicting your tank whatever example. You changed topic in between. First it’s a tank then it’s just a unrecognisable difference then everything is fine because (like I said several posts before) they gonna implement it anyways. Still they don’t have implemented other ways yet and that’s it what the TO is complaining about.

As for your example there is no need for ascended at all if they implemented the agony resistance into exoctics. So the way would be exotic->infused exotic and no ascended on top which is at least like you claimed not really better than exotic. So a statdifference would not be needed at all.

That point got discussed now already for ages. It remains as a fact that stats are higher, no matter which small percentage and that more items will be implemented. If the statsincrease is that low, there is no reason to implement that higher stats at all. But they have done it and so if they want to keep their promise they have to implement it in other ways of gameplay.

I do not like it either that legendaries can be bought/sold over the tradingpost and I think it actually cheapens that special hardcore-whatever item if it can be acquired not by playing the game but by earning gold in whatever way.

Well in this case I got to contradict you. It was the promise that there would be no second class play-style that there would be no endless gearprogression that made me buy the game. To abandon that principle would be betraying their original promises, so if I wanted a game with only ONE way to acquire the things I need I could play any other game out there. To expand it to this (admittedly strange car example) there was the promise, that there would be no tanks avaiable and that you would not have to join the army to drive the most powerfull vehicle.

They promised ascended would be avaiable through different ways and so I hope they find a good way to implement it in the game.