Guild Wars 2

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

You qualify for achievement progression if you have “interacted with the enemy”.

You do NOT qualify for achievement progression if you haven’t interacted with the enemy.

Counts for achievement progression:

• Ghost kills villager (“one of us”)

Does not count for achievement progression:

• Villager scores points for “surviving”
• Villager scores points for “narrow escape”
• Villager damages (but does not kill) ghost with the hammer
• Last villager wins the game
• “Hide in the shadows”
• Ghost damages (but does not kill) villager

Irrelevant:

• Points
• Whether lunatics or villagers win
• Whether you played the game from the beginning or joined late

Don’t know if relevant: (haven’t gotten around to testing it yet, feel free to do so yourself)

• Villager kills ghost with hammer/rifle/chainsaw (I assume it counts)
• Ghost successfully performs “Mad King Says”
• Villager uses item on ghost (torch, spiderweb, goo)
• Any other “interactions” I can’t think of right now

I’m partial to

• Antique Gold (infinitely useful for details)
• Cocoa (best rich brown out there)

I don’t mind the leveling changes for actual new characters, but they’re still annoying to me in other contexts.

The other day I created a new character for a costume contest thing (I didn’t have a female human ranger that I could use for that). I had to level the new character to level 10 just so I was able to put headgear on her. I wanted to spend my time transmuting and dying, not doing Queensdale hearts. :/

Noble count outfit + rascal mask = The Phantom of the Opera which would have been my Halloween costume if it was technically possible.

There’s at least 3 separate costume contests going right now…

Grammophone:

I’m surprised that it doesn’t have the music from the devourer event – it’s my favourite sound in GW2.

ANet, have you considered offering an item that plays moody environmental sounds (both the rolling thunder and the mad scientist lab would work for this) in the home instance? Not an inventory item, a permanent installation. I’d buy that.

:)
Glad to hear it.

I have hit this limitation a few days ago in the weirdest way.

I tried joining a lab taxi and all the join buttons were greyed out, because I “had joined too many groups recently”. Thing is, I hadn’t joined ANY groups all day. This was the first. MAYBE the second if I was still “grouped” with last night’s friends when I logged in.

That’s the only time I encountered it and it seemed glitchy. However, there are good and legitimate reasons for joining a few parties in a short time:

• trying to find a taxi for a boss fight
• joining potential dungeon groups but then finding out they don’t want you, so you have to find another
• joining other players for quick costume brawl
• partying with someone in /map to show them where that last POI is
• grouping/ungrouping for specific boss fights and champions
  Etc.

So I imagine that if you are it would be easy to hit the cap every now and then.

On the other hand, what abuse does the limitation prevent? I can’t even come up with anything. Any ideas?

I think this limitation makes about as much sense as the fact that I can’t send my boyfriend more than 2 in-game mails in a row: none at all.

This.

Also, it would be great if the OP could edit the title to reflect the unknown status of the whole thing.

The suggestion was to allow us to use outfits with armor helmets, not armors with outfit helmets, although if they took the outfit helmets (which are clearly already separate from the rest of the outfit, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to toggle them on/off) and made them available as helmet skins, I wouldn’t be unhappy either.

For example, I know that many players are really fond of the straw hat and would love to be able to wear that with their combat clothes (for female AND male characters).

Let us know how it goes!

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

No Laurels are rewarded for Halloween Daily Achievement completion.

Depends whether you finish the Halloween or normal dailies first. You get one laurel per day, for whichever you finish first.

I have 129 laurels, but I haven’t been paying attention to them so I don’t know if they got stuck at some point or not

vestige.2014:

Fancy winter outfit (m/f) with earmuffs, too. I miss them so much.

Oh yeah, I forgot about those.

There is ways to design fights to be engaging and interesting and ask more of the player than spamming “1”…. without constant knockbacks.

The Marionette proved that.

This is not about difficulty – stacking on the commander and spamming 1 is easier than fighting the fights as they were actually designed to be fought (example, Candycorn Viscount).

I’m with the OP on this one.

I like that. It sounds way more engaging.

• Venetian costume ball:
  Noble count outfit (m/f) with mask of the night or regal masks
• Fancypants:
  Noble count outfit (m/f) with monocle,
  noble count outfit (f) with fascinator
• Steampunk:
  Noble count outfit (m/f) with inventor’s goggles,
  Noble count outfit (m) with aviator hat
• Magician:
  Noble count tux (m) with top hat
• Santa:
  Fancy winter outfit (m/f) with santa hat
• It’s cold outside:
  Fancy winter outfit (m/f) with ear muffs
• Actual pirate:
  Pirate outfit (m/f) with Magus’ eyepatch,
  Pirate outfit (m/f) with charr bandana
• Pirate Captain:
  Noble count outfit (m) (isn’t it just the gift that keeps on giving??) with pirate hat, or Magus’ eyepatch
• Satyr:
  Raiment of the Lich outfit (m) with devil horns
• Ninja:
  Assassin outfit (m/f) with headband,
  Assassin outfit (m/f) with hood
• Thing from your nightmare:
  Executioner outfit with phantom hood

Any character at all with glasses. Something something bunny ears. C’mon.

(And don’t get me started on town clothes / hat combinations)

Please read the rest of the thread, your questions are already answered in here.

It just doesn’t make sense to me that they would remove them JUST after adding the collections into the game. The number of players who can afford full sets is probably <1% of the population, and the new deadline just makes sure that nobody can even work towards that as a reaaaaally longterm project.

I used to get disconnected in boss fights a LOT, especially right at the end, even when playing on low settings. The problem was my graphics card.

So when the boss was about to die, I turned around and enjoyed the view of the landscape. That usually helped, if I thought of it in time.

Then they released updated drivers for me graphics card and I didn’t have that problem anymore. … or maybe I bought a new one. … I don’t even remember right now, but yeah, that’s where the problem was.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Shanks.2907:

What I’d prefer to see is anet start designing and selling single pieces of armor. Instead of a whole set, put out a coat or leggings. Make them with the intent of mix and matching, and work off of existing sets to promote the customization we all want. Like the medium magitech leggings. They look great, but have very few options.

Sell quality single pieces for 300-400 gems designed for mix and match, and make more money for less work.

They have (the Lawless stuff), and people complained about that as well.

That’s because the Lawless items look offensively weird, because there is absolutely no context for them in guild wars. So iirc, everybody’s reaction was, “What IS that and WHY”, a lot more than outrage over missing pants.

The toxic shoulders and gloves were also released as individual parts and I recall no outrage. In fact, looking around in PvE, they appear to be quite popular. I see them frequently as parts of matched ensembles.

I have yet to see ANY player with a Lawless helmet/gloves/boots.

Maybe my character talked to Tassi back then and that set a flag that enabled me to now talk to the ghosts.

Mareth.8659:

Are you telling that there are players that want to play that content as it is intend and not a bunch of rushers-suiciders running to the courtiers spawn point just to end the game as soon as possible? Which server is it, because here it’s simply unplayable.

So far, I’ve played around 20-25 rounds of Lunatic Inquisition, and not once was I in a match that was cheesed.

And yes, I think it would be hilarious to play hide and seek with my actual friends…

Right now, only get a specific piece if you like the skin and want to wear it immediately.

At some later point in your GW2 life you will look back and think “Oh, with my current wealth status, these T1 skins are actually pretty cheap! I should pick them up or something!” And that’s the best time to get them.

The skins will count towards two separate achievements:

• <race> Specialty Armors
• Fashion Forward (collect 1000 different weapon or armor skins)

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fashion

If you run low on transmutation charges, I find they pile up relatively fast from PvP, even in “hotjoin” which is the most casual (drop in, drop out) version of PvP.

Reposting from the other thread

Ayrilana.1396:

Can people post the statistics portion of the results (or black out player names) for rounds where they don’t get credit?

Also include other info such as how much time was left when you entered the round/map. Were you the last villager to die? You know, questions like that.

Maybe we can then figure out what the consistency is and aee if Anet can get it fixed.

It has already largely been figured out.

This much I know:

You qualify for achievement progression if you have “interacted with the enemy”.

You do NOT qualify for achievement progression if you haven’t interacted with the enemy.

Counts for achievement progression:

• Ghost kills villager (“one of us”)

Does not count for achievement progression:

• Villager scores points for “surviving”
• Villager scores points for “narrow escape”
• Villager damages (but does not kill) ghost with the hammer
• Last villager wins the game
• “Hide in the shadows”
• Ghost damages (but does not kill) villager

Irrelevant:

• Points
• Whether lunatics or villagers win
• Whether you played the game from the beginning or joined late

Don’t know if relevant: (haven’t gotten around to testing it yet, feel free to do so yourself)

• Villager kills ghost with hammer/rifle/chainsaw (I assume it counts)
• Ghost successfully performs “Mad King Says”
• Villager uses item on ghost (torch, spiderweb, goo)
• Any other “interactions” I can’t think of right now

I agree with the OP.

We have a lot of great underplayed (and largely unknown) content in the existing maps, as there’s no extrinsic rewards for players to go and check them out.

Just check out these, for example:
http://www.reddit.com/r/LAExploratoryBrigade/comments/28bz79/lions_arch_exploratory_report_list/

I owuld personally volunteer to give Southsun Cove a complete make-over, a grossly underrated map that, with a few tweaks and additions, could be truly marvelous.

It’s been the main critique around all the mini games so far.

Gryphon.2875:

Wanderer.3248:

Ian.1349:

So, I had accidentally deleted the character I had that had this item shortly after the 2012 halloween event ended. The wardrobe update didn’t include my Mad Memories (as expected). My question is simple: Can I or can I not obtain the Mad Memories this year?

Seriously, did you not read the two posts directly above yours?

ANet should make it available for people who can spell it.

You know.. I just discovered, unless stopped, my Chrome automatically changes “Memoires” to “Memories.” Apparently, “Memoires” is not a real word. “Memoirs,” however, is a real word.

“Mémoire” (with accent and with -e) is French. It translates to “memory”. “Mad Memories” is not all THAT wrong.

“Memoire” (without accent but with an -e) doesn’t really mean anything.

So the first people to misspell whatever this is (probably “Memoirs”) were ANet.

;)

MithranArkanere.8957:

As far as I can tell, they either made this unnecessarily overcomplicated for something that will be around just 2 weeks, or those ghosts were brought back just for flavor, and it’s just a bug in those ghosts’ dialogue that makes the memoires dialogue appear for some people.

OR… the dev(s) who got the maps ready for this year simply forgot to remove them. Which I think is entirely possible.

I’ve played since release but wasn’t online much during the first Halloween (it is pretty much the only thing in GW2 I largely missed), so I would have appreciated the opportunity to make up for it now.

But I was able to pick up the first 3 pages, so at least it gave me something to do for a bit today.

Ayrilana.1396:

Can people post the statistics portion of the results (or black out player names) for rounds where they don’t get credit?

Also include other info such as how much time was left when you entered the round/map. Were you the last villager to die? You know, questions like that.

Maybe we can then figure out what the consistency is and aee if Anet can get it fixed.

It has already largely been figured out.

This much I know:

You qualify for achievement progression if you have “interacted with the enemy”.

You do NOT qualify for achievement progression if you haven’t interacted with the enemy.

Counts for achievement progression:

• Ghost kills villager (“one of us”)

Does not count for achievement progression:

• Villager scores points for “surviving”
• Villager scores points for “narrow escape”
• Villager damages (but does not kill) ghost with the hammer
• Last villager wins the game
• “Hide in the shadows”
• Ghost damages (but does not kill) villager

Irrelevant:

• Points
• Whether lunatics or villagers win
• Whether you played the game from the beginning or joined late

Don’t know if relevant: (haven’t gotten around to testing it yet, feel free to do so yourself)

• Villager kills ghost with hammer/rifle/chainsaw (I assume it counts)
• Ghost successfully performs “Mad King Says”
• Villager uses item on ghost (torch, spiderweb, goo)
• Any other “interactions” I can’t think of right now

That would have been super useful for me when I first started exploring the maps…

I might give this thing a try. I wouldn’t mind mapping out the world under various aspects, such as

• Places to go with your super jump gun
• Places relevant for roleplaying scenarios
• Places marked by the Tyrian Explorers Society

… but I don’t want my character to be Big Mama June, I just want her to be not-a-fashion-model…

kitten .9460:

Is this outfit temporary or can I wait for them to fix the gold to gem and price to go down?

We don’t know.

I assume it’s temporary, but when they remove stuff from the gem store, they usually give at least 7 days’ note, so you can still pick it up then.

1. Constant running I don’t know about you guys, but my character waypoints. Maybe she was supposed to be really fit when she did map completion, but now, uh, not so much.
   Sumo wrestlers have a LOT of muscle mass and are constantly in physical training, and yet they manage (on a strict diet of constant “over”-eating) to retain their fighting weight.
2. RP: Some of us roleplay characters that are not out adventuring 24/7, but are scholarly types or commoners or fat nobles or whatever, and would like our character’s bodies to reflect that.
3. “Fat”: There is a LOT of gray area between “athletic” and “fat”. I would like to be somewhere in the middle (what I call “normal”), but even though I made the “fattest” human possible, she still looks like a fashion model with her skinny arms, long legs, and supertight butt. It feels like on a scale of 1 to 10, we get to choose from 1, 2 or 3, and I would like to be a 5.
4. Clipping: There is also a lot of grey area between the least skinny human female and the skinniest norn male. The norn male body works without the dev having to adjust the male (human) outfit overly much (if at all), so why would that be an issue for female body types? Besides, some NPCs (female norn) already HAVE plumper bodies that lie outside of the character creation slider scale, without any clipping issues.

It randomly happens (it happened to me once, too).

I assume it is the same bug that also causes people to not be transformed into charr in the Ascalon fractal, sometimes.

You’re correct!

We’ve reported it before, so far ANet hasn’t said anything.

I would love more body types, personally.

Some of the NPCs are, in the words of another forum user, “adorably plump”, and we can’t have that. :/

Zaxares.5419:

I completed the Back in the Box achievement last night and I was awarded the 2 Candy Cobs correctly. Hope you guys manage to get it sorted. :/

Hm. I haven’t done that one yet – the candycorn that I accepted but didn’t get was from finishing the meta.

I would love the dress for my female Asura and I would love the tux for my female human. I would appreciate a toggle option, but I would also be okay with buying the outfit twice if the “female” and “male” version (or let’s just call it the dress and the tux?) were sold separately.

I believe you – the same happened to me, and I took screenshots to back it up.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Reward-candycorn-cob-not-in-inventory

Or the fact that if you manage to evade the ghosts for the duration of the game, the achievement won’t progress (it requires you to “interact with the enemy”)

About clipping… Yes, it sucks, but I’d still rather have a chance to mix and match with potential clipping than no options at all.

If ANet released these as armors, but with a disclaimer (“designed to not clip with itself; mix and match at your own risk!”) I WOULD uy the majority of the armors.

And I have bpught 800gem armor sets befoe just to get the gloves, or just for the shoulders….

Again: different people want different things.

Just release a toggle option, or two separate sets. Everybody would be happy.

It’s not so hard.

Just a quick post because I want it on record that I personally don’t care about exclusivity AT ALL. Happy to share.

Wanze.8410:

People, who trade in those skins, would be able to pick up a box, then a couple of months later be able to choose, which weapon they want (obviously the most expensive one). Not sure, if that is a good change or not.

So all weapon skins of one set would even out in price over time and all be the same price – what’s bad about that? Does a trident HAVE to be cheaper than a greatsword? If that’s the worst that can happen, I completely don’t see the issue.

/Shrugs.

Zaxares.5419:

Indeed. My suggestion to them was that if space is an issue, then restructure the way the skins are given out.

1. Instead of having each separate skin listed there, combine them all into a single Weapon Box (e.g. Fused Weapon Box, Lovestruck Weapon Box). You open the box and you pick the skin you want.

2. Consolidate all the different Weapon Boxes into categories. For example, you can have a “Season 1” category for Fused/Sclerite/Dreamthistle skins, a “Festivals” category for Lovestruck/Halloween/Wintersday skins etc.

You now have saved a lot of space, and you can still keep all the weapon skins permanently available.

Would work perfectly for me.

The only “downside” I see with weapon crates is that you wouldn’t be able to preview all the weapon skins when talking to the NPC, but as we have access to those previews through our own bank, this is kind of a non-issue.

(Although I suppose it would be easy to add a dialogue option to the BL Weapon Trader NPCs that allows you to open your wardrobe.)

As for removing skins at all… I said in another thread:

• I am okay with festival-type skins only being available during the actual festival, but recurring once a year – Lovestruck, Dragon Jade, Wintersday etc. weapons.
• I am not really okay with arbitrarily removing the other weapon skins. Who does that serve? It means that 1) ANet will sell fewer BL keys as the skins people would like to pick up for their character (for instance Dreamthistle) aren’t available, and might not return. And b) ANet JUST introduced the collections – I hope they didn’t assume that players just had hundreds of BL tickets stashed away to buy entire sets (at 5-7 tickets a skin!!) with a sudden 2 week deadline.

Yeah, like I said, the memory only came back the next day, but that’s what we did last year.

calyx.9086:

These arguments. Can anyone point to an in-game female Asuran or Charr NPC who is wearing a dress?

Maybe that argument would hold SOME amount of water if player characters had access to NPC outfits, that for Asura include tunics and such, but we don’t.

calyx.9086:

It strikes me as this is a cultural thing, and that the females of these races just don’t wear dresses.

Secondly, yes, every person is to some degree a product of the culture they grew up in, but as individuals, we can make the decision to step away from cultural uniformity. People do it all the time. So in an MMO**RPG** we expect a degree of freedom there – control over our own character.

In many cases, it is much more fun to play a character that grew up outside their supposed culture, too.

WE tell everybody that GW2 is an amazing game because when it gets boring, you can just leave it for however long and return at any point in time. Revoking people’s post privileges based on in-game activity seems wrong.

Secondly, there is a lot of people who are not playing the game because something or other changed (and shouldn’t have) or didn’t change (but should) – and many of them have stated that they would love to play again if one day x or y or z happens. Why should they not be able to partake in the discussion? They bought the game, same as everybody else.

Thirdly, when I spent 2 months in hospital, I was unable to play, which only meant that I read/posted in the forums all the more.

Ayrilana.1396:

Posted this in another thread. I’m not sure if you saw it and responded yet.

You don’t need to make any kills in order to gain credit for participation. You must however use a means to interact with the enemy side to gain the Chest or Splendid Chest. The total points are not relevant to any acquired Chests or Trick-or-Treat Bags.

What does that mean for a villager that successfully hides and “wins” the game? The point of being a villager seems to be to avoid interacting with the enemy as much as possible.

Also, “narrow escape” / dodging ghost attacks doesn’t count as interaction with the enemy then.

All this being said, the achievement text says “x matches played” – not “interacted with enemy in x matches”.

So if the game encourages players to NOT interact with ghosts and then punishes them for it without explaining why, I’ll continue to assume that it is a bug… :/

I’m in there right now, and the last survivor of the last match just complained that he didn’t get achievement credit. He was turned into a ghost, but only just before the end of the match.

The next game I was turned into a ghost but made sure I didn’t get any kill. Had 55 points in the end from early surviving/narrow escapes. No kill = no achievement credit.