Guild Wars 2

I find that add to the realism, though.

In real life, if I want to know what’s going on, I have to get informed, too.

At least in GW, there’s only a limited number of sources for info: website/blog announcements (which you get emailed, too…), wiki, forum (in that order) or if you want to save some time, dulfy.

It’s really not that hard.

Well, I knew there would come one living world achievement one day that I wouldn’t be able to get in time.

… and this is it. Or, these two are it.

Oh well. More time for the mini-games, I guess.

Well, I love all three sets, this time around.

This just in,

if you don’t read or at least watch the news in real life, you have no clue what’s going on in the world either.

I don’t understand how so many people have the expectation to be handed everything on a silver platter. Do you have someone in real life read out and explain the news to you, too?

It is strangely addictive.

:)

Lol, it’s okay. Is it working? I wasn’t sure, I got the achievement before the mini-games went live.

They’re just next to the candidate trials swirls, and have the mini-game icons over their heads.

Sirendor.1394:

She became sexy.

I like the first one better :\

Ellen, why you botox?

So what makes a water molecule go through the gate, but not an air molecule? If I can walk through, and if I can chuck a bucket of water through, then the wind can also blow through.

I also assume that the air inside someone’s lung, ears etc. travels with them. Otherwise people would have a whole bunch of immediate health-related issues.

So yes, air would of course be able to travel through… not via “pull”/low pressure, but via “push”.

20.

Weeeeell… I’ve tried with my group of friends (that I run dungeons and fractals with) and we eventually gave up after trying different strategies, different group sizes… we can’t even get close.

Hi guys,

just a quick update. My issue has fixed itself! It came with the Bazaar release and it went with the Cutthroat Politics one.

Since the release of Cutthroat Politics, I haven’t seen artifacts a single time.

So I guess, thanks Anet.

inazuma.7021:

So… which is Boomer and which is Athena?

The one with no gloves is my main. She didn’t know she was a cylon until yesterday. So I guess that makes her Boomer… ?

Bil.6354:

Reading your posts, i get the impression, its bugged for you.

Me too

Bil.6354:

You might try and send a bugreport ingame. I had a problem with my mailbox-full hint not counting, after i send a bugreport it was acknowledged the next day i logged in

I sent a bug report in game a few days ago, but didn’t hear back from them so far…

I mean, I’m almost at 1000 anyway, so if I just throw out light field in random boss fights, I’ll get it sooner or later, probably sooner. I just wish someone at ANet’s would look into it, not for my achievement, but because I assume it’s bugged for other players as well.

Just saw the trailer for the new guildwars.

Moving to China now.

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#Kiel

Eidola.9148:

Ah sorry, didn’t see your other thread…

Heh, nothing to apologize for. I’m glad I’m not the only one!

My wrist hurts :P

Come on people, I think you can do better Show us your supporter portraits!

See attached photographic evidence.

PS: In next week’s surprise plot twist, Evon Gnashblade is a cylon, too.

PPS: #TeamKiel

You mean like when we handed in refugee memorabilia, and audio logs during Flame & Frost? Ahhh… those were the days…

Also, I posted this yesterday
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/cutthroat/Drop-support-tokens-5-at-a-time

Or maybe, ANet, could you release a list of combos that DO count towards the achievement? Because many successful combos (I get textual, visual and audio confirmation that the combo worked) do not count towards the achievement.

So either it is simply broken, or we don’t understand what the actual requirements are.

Please clear it up for me so I know what to do.

bri.2359:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Between rifle #1, jump shot, that elixir gun #4 acid shot, and various underwater skills, I tried projectile finishers, blast finishers and leap finishers…

Ah, I think I see the problem here.

You need to check the tool tips on your skills for the ones that are specifically combo finishers. These are the only ones that work for the achievement.

All the skills I listed are combo finishers. And, as I said before, I have successfully completed many, many combos this way. I get the message on screen confirming the effect (for example Area Retaliation, Area Might, etc.), I can see the effect on the screen (in case of Fire Armor, Chaos Armor, etc.) and in some cases my character says the sentence. The combos work. They just don’t count towards the achievement, i.e. the achievement count doesn’t go up. I don’t know, I’ve explained that several times already.

More detailed info on the skills I used:

• Rifle – Hip Shot – Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)
• Rifle – Jump Shot – Combo Finisher: Leap
• Elixir Gun – Acid Bomb – Combo Finisher: Blast

I appreciate that you’re trying to help, but… I think my problems with this achievement are beyond not understanding how combos work. I am now convinced that it is simply bugged, and many successful combos simply don’t count towards the achievement (as stated in the bug report thread (not mine) that I linked to in the original post).

Engel Angel.9076:

There is no way to find anything on this forum other than to make a new post,
and then you get yelled at for not finding the x number of other posts that already talk about your post’s subject.

Well, you can.

https://www.google.de/?q=site:forum-en.guildwars2.com+%22fix+the+search%22

google works a lot better than the forum search ever did.

But it’s still kind of embarrassing that the forum search isn’t working, especially when the ToC state that you must use it.

It would save the support team SO much time if the laurel vendors checked before selling you the same unique ring twice.

Shiren.9532:

Cowrex.9564:

Because Ellen’s name is awesome plus her personality is very intriguing (All the way back from Secrets of Southsun)

I’d really like you to explain this because I don’t find her intriguing.

But Ellen Kiel has some wonderful lines. I find her very funny and relateable in her somewhat coarse way and with her dry humour.

“Have a good day. But not too good!” cracks me up every time.

Shiren.9532:

I suspect the reason Kiel is liked by people is because she is a human female, was the most prominent Living Story character this year and she’s written as a perfect character which usually appeals to the lowest common denominator.

Funny enough, that’s how I feel about Kasmeer…

Esplen.3940:

Are you finishing the combo or dropping a field? I think you have to do the finisher, not him.

I tried both, with various skills each.

bri.2359:

I don’t know what eng’s have for combo finishers, but I got this ages ago on my ranger. Lay a fire trap, trap triggers, shoot arrows through the field. Even with a 20% chance, you get a lot of combos.

Party with classes that lay down fields. Ele’s are good for this.

Between rifle #1, jump shot, that elixir gun #4 acid shot, and various underwater skills, I tried projectile finishers, blast finishers and leap finishers…

For fields, I have light field on the elixir gun’s super elixir (#4), and water fields from healing turrets.

Azraeel.1238:

Did you try projectiles on Necromancer’s wells?

No, I only paired up with a Thief, an Elementalist and a Ranger for this.

I think 2 weeks is too short in general.

I have no problem with new content every two weeks, as long as that means that is is really 4 week sections (such as Dragon Bash and Bazaar) that overlap with other chapters. We would have the same number of achievements, but more flexibility as to when we have the time to actually complete them.

If you MUST have shorter chapters of only 2 weeks, like Sky Pirates and Cutthroat Politics, then please put the harder achievements into the longer chapters and the easier ones into the shorter chapter.

Esplen.3940:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combo#Combo_effects

Thanks for the links to the wiki and other websites, guys… but I don’t think you’ve read my post.

I know how to make combos, and we made a large number of valid, successful combos. It’s just the achievement count doesn’t update.

Welp, it doesn’t work for me either. Sign me up for this bug!

Here’s my detailed description
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Teamwork-gets-it-done-not

I tried again today with a different friend (he was on a ranger) and we tried all possible combinations we could think of. In a low level zone, quite a few of them were killing blows. My count didn’t go up a single point.

But you know what does make my count go up? Boss fights. So I can only assume that it does not have to be the killing blow at all, but rather that only a few combinations work, and the ones I could reproduce between engi/thief and engi/ranger aren’t among them…

+1

Funny thing is, it used to work. It was only half useful because it would only return the top 20 or so forum posts.

The other funny thing is that the Code of Conduct says:

YOU MUST READ, UNDERSTAND AND ACCEPT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS FORUMS CODE OF CONDUCT BEFORE AND BY CLICKING “I ACCEPT” BELOW. IF YOU DO NOT, YOU MUST CLICK “I REJECT” BELOW.

[…]

Use the search function before posting. This will focus the discussion and facilitate a response.

Anyway, google works better than the forum search ever did.

True story, so you don’t have to use your imagination.
Here’s what happened to me in 2004/2005 when I played NWN.

I met this guy in uni. We did homework/study together a few times. He became increasingly intrusive, and I stopped hanging out with him. He then joined forums that I was an active member of (including the guild I ran), joined the NWN server I was playing on and other websites and games. He also showed up at my door uninvitedly and unannounced more than once, despite me not opening the door.

And he did so when he knew I was at home, and he knew that I was home alone (because he saw me online in NWN, and I wouldn’t play NWN for hours when I had friends or my boyfriend over).

I couldn’t get him banned in-game for out-of-game actions, and I couldn’t have him prosecuted in RL because hogging someone’s front door is not a crime.

I ended up both stopping playing NWN and moving houses.

He still sends me occasional messages via boards (all of which I ignore), but he doesn’t know where I live, and he doesn’t know that I play GW2.

But: You might meet your next stalker in GW2. Or you might meet them at uni. And you might find out about his stalking only after hanging out in RL or in the game.

If it can happen to me, it can happen to you.

It is now 8 years later, and I would feel a lot happier in game if I knew that I can protect myself from people like that. If I block someone on facebook, they don’t see my online status. I can’t think of a good reason why GW2 should behave differently.

And me.

That is a wonderful drawing!

I would absolutely get one for myself, but after DuckGirl’s portrait and cough Dragon Coffers cough I sort of need to give my bank account a little time to regenerate.

For the record, I think 15 gold is justified.

Remember when we handed in audio logs during Flame & Frost, and we could hand in a single one, or 5 at the same time? The refugee mementos had it, too.

The support token urns need this.

I’m getting carpal tunnel syndrom from dropping every single token in there separately.

The camera is a problem, not only on large characters.

I have massive privacy concerns about the contact list, and I typed them all out very thoroughly before, including examples of gaming life seeping into RL that have happened to myself before and other people I know.

Buuut the thread was deleted, and I’m really too tired to explain the same stories and concerns every time.

If you’ve never had a stalker in RL, good for you. It does happen to other people, though.

Duke Nukem.6783:

im surpised i didnt hear anything from anyone on this its such a simple and helpful addon

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/A-sell-back-feature
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Add-a-brief-sell-back-time
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Sell-back-Option
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Sell-Back-option-PLEASE
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Sell-back-maybe
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Can-we-get-a-sell-back-option-or-at-least-a-confirmation-box-for-karma-purchases
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Karma-item-sell-back

generalraccoon.3857:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

I like her hair.

This. The very same reason for me!

In retrospect, I think I should have given that a little context.

Helen Kiel looks very similar to my main. Same hair, almost the same colour too, faces are not that different. Could be sisters! (If sisters shared hair styles.)

So when I bump into the NPC, this tends to happen…

/say Kiel! You look amazing today! Love the hair.
/point

Jumping pads, the stuff of my nightmares since the SAB…

Soooo, I am stuck at 976 kill combos (need 1000 for achievement) and I can’t get the number up anymore. My boyfriend and I sat together today and tried different combinations between us. I was on my engi and he on his thief. Couldn’t make it work! Now I don’t know how I got up to 976 in the first place…

Can somebody clear up for me what exactly you need to do to get a successful kill combo?

• Does the combo have to happen at the exact same time as the killing blow?
• Does the count go up for both people involved in the combo, or only the one with the combo finisher?
• Is any combination of a combo field and a combo finisher valid for this?

I know that certain combos only trigger 20% of the time, but we created quite a few successful combinations (as per the text flashing up on my screen), even when we tried to time it so the combo would happen on the finishing blow only.

There’s this: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Achvmnt-Teamwork-Gets-It-Done-No-credit, but I wanted to check whether we’re doing it right before I post in there.

That’s what it looks like when you lag out.

Your client is trying to perform the skills, but the server doesn’t respond, so it just cycles through the animation that usually happens before the skills trigger.

Yes, it’s clearly your connection that’s laggy.

I also have a connection that randomly lags out when new content is released, must be coincidence.

And southsun crates.

You always get the normal chest reward for active participation, but the bonus chest with the guaranteed rare (or exotic) item starts dropping at level 40.

I like her hair.

Here’s mine, I’m sure you can do better:

Duke Blackrose.4981:

If, for example, it takes player x longer to get the homeland support achievement for Ellen than it does for Evon, more support will be given to Ellen, regardless of the player’s intended choice.

But it doesn’t – the achievements are very balanced. Doing a dungeon run, or your dailies, or events in Ascalon/Kryta takes exactly the same effort for either candidate.

So while some people will go for all achievements, including representing the candidate that they don’t support, they will simply cancel each other out.

datosh.6275:

First of all. This is a mix between a suggestion and a question to the community.

So… yesterday I decided to do some of the exploration achievments from the general tab with a friend. We started with the new “History Buff” achievment to get some lore and decided to do some more. In the end we did like 10.
The one achievment – where by both agreed that it is insane to hide such things – was “Vexa’s Lab”.

So my question and my suggestion…

Question: Are there more hidden “awesome-epic-mega-super-dupa-mini-dungeons” like Vexa’s Lab in GuildWars2?

Here’s a list of mini-dungeons. Some have boss fights, some don’t. They’re all different.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mini-dungeon

As for their “hidden” status… I really like that. I was months and months into my GW2 experience when I stumbled upon one, much like you did. I was delighted that there was content for me still to explore even when I thought map comlpetion left no stone unturned.

It was even later when I randomly found a crystal and visited Oola’s lab for the first time.

Some things have to be hidden so people can find them. Just think how boring Easter would be if the Easter bunny just left all your chocolate eggs in the chocolate drawer for you instead of hiding them behind sofa cushions and potted plants.