Guild Wars 2

Have we mentioned the holographic pirate stripper enough yet?

No, but if you manage to collect a few of those buggers over the months, and then start a new alt, it might give you a nice little headstart.

… should be called Leifstream.

MinorDetail.9204:

How many patches recently Anet has brought out that catered to the PvP’ers?

There have been PvP activities for almost all of the releases. I think Flame and Frost was the only chapter without one. (Sky Pirates didn’t have a dedicated PvP addition but Dragonball is still up and running.)

But there is something that I don’t understand when PvP and WvW players complain about being forces into PvE for achievements:

I don’t play PvE because the monsters are easier kills (in fact, I enjoy a bit of sPvP here and there). I play it because I am interested in the world, the lore, the story. I talk to the NPCs and immerse myself in Tyria. Players who spend 95% of their time in PvP and WvW are obviously more interested in combat and mechanics than story and dialogue. And that’s fine. But living story is living story. Why would you suddenly want to be included when you’ve already chosen to stay out of the world story?

Ah. I just thought because you said “It felt rewarding to be one of the few”, indicating that it wouldn’t have felt as rewarding if you were one of many who got the achievements.

But, but, but… the Flame Legion , The Inquest, the Dredge, the Lionguard all appeared in the Living Story… and the Consortium has been “around” almost since gw2 launch…

I don’t think you can argue that new factions don’t belong in the living story, based on that they’re new. That’s what living story means: things change! Alliances form, new players appear on the field. For instance, the Molten Alliance did not come out of nowhere. They are literally the Flame Legion and Dredge buddying up.

I would also like to see some specific “old” stuff mixed into future living story chapters (steam creatures and white mantle being on my wish list) but I think that it is a good mix so far.

Yeah, I don’t think any of them had “Tengu” in their title, only in the posts themselves.
You’re welcome!

I spawned pirates on a hologram last night just after reset. I think the consensus on the forums right now is that if you run through a hologram that doesn’t spawn pirates and ignore it, we end up with all the non-pirate holograms (as most players are just running past them now).

So if you actually activate the holograms anyway and kill the holos, the next time it spawns there is a better chance for pirates to pop.

That being said, even with camping holograms there is not nearly enough pirate encounters right now (it might be broken in other ways).

This is how I feel right now :P
So, yeah.

It’s Chinese.

Some of the characters look Korean, but I don’t know whether it is a weird Chinese-Korean mix or whether the Chinese script has words that just also happen to look like hangul syllables…

rfdarko.4639:

If you check on the wiki, there are only 11 different orientations for the tears, so you can just bang it out if its being glitchy. Takes a while, but that’s how I’ve had to do it. I’ve never seen it work properly.

If you check the wiki, it also says that the listing is incomplete. (I added combinations 10 and 11 myself only last week!)

So, yeah, from personal experience, it is very possible to go through all the combinations listed on the wiki and NOT unlock the door.

Like this? https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Karka-Shell/

I used to avoid spoilers and explore new content on my own schedule.

However, I don’t want to risk missing out on stuff, so I don’t do that anymore.

I hate being in a rush to complete content.

But after what happened with the Crab Toss achievements, the broken hologram nodes etc., I can’t trust the software enough to go through content a bit at a time.

GuardianOMS.8067:

Cool, then people can just mass report someone they don’t like or to tie up a GM’s time, just as they’ve always done. That isn’t policing at all. wtf.

And people cannot do that already with the report options in game right now?

Answer: Yes, they can.

QuintWinters.6985:

Griefing should be a bannable offense just as verbal abuse is.

I 100% agree with this.

It makes little sense to argue “just go away for a while or leave the map” for griefing, but still banning people over verbal abuse. You can just as well remove yourself from the game to dodge verbal abuse.

(Even less of an argument as you can block someone from chat, but not from the game.)

But as a paying customer you have the right to play the game on your own schedule, without fleeing bullies, and certainly without paying money for a server transfer (especially as that won’t even protect you from someone who decides to follow you around – thanks to the non-existent contact list privacy settings).

Aeri.5738:

It felt rewarding to be one of the few who managed to get all the achievments.

So your sense of reward is based on many other players’ failure and frustration?

I’m not sure how that makes me feel.

Bubi.7942:

Note that the “candy” at the end of the MF was much bigger then this one and it was also a bit shorter imo.

I don’t think that the MF was shorter. There were significantly more trash mobs (heck, 4 of them before you even got to the actual Molten Facility), the trash mobs took longer to take out, longer paths, 2 bosses instead of one (Horrik doesn’t really count)… AR is really not long, it just takes forever.

A few things that I remember about the MF:

• I don’t think any group ever wiped in the MF testchamber – groups (especially PUGs) wipe in the Frizz room
• The MF boss fight had two stages, but if you wiped in stage 2, you would start over at the beginning of stage 2, while in AR you have to start from scratch each time
• Added frustration from players quitting halfway through after missing their chance for an achievement – never happened in the MF

So, what makes AR seem longer is a) the Frizz encounter if you haven’t nailed that and b) the boss fight that takes a minimum of 14 minutes (…) but since many times you’ll wipe, or lose time healing allies and THEN wipe… it feels like we spend 50% of the time or longer just on the boss fight.

I was under the impression that you get 1 chest per 500 AP, so you would get 12 in total. Half of those (for each full 1000 AP) “large chests” and the ones in between (for AP ending in -500) would be “small chests”.

But we will know tonight.

Astralporing.1957:

Ursan.7846:

Simply pointing out that objectively, getting less achievement points have far less significant consequences when compared to not eating or not breathing. Hence (my original point) the comparison of “Getting achievement points in GW2” to "Breathing is optional is quite silly.

Nobody said anything about breathing being optional, so please don’t strawman. Now, everything above the basic needs is a luxury, and optional. Consequences of not getting “optional content” (like warm weather, electricity or basic education) in real life are lowering your quality of life. Consequences of being unable to get achievement points due to a bad design decision lowers your “quality of life” in the game.

“It’s optional” is not an argument. It still makes the game less fun.

I would like to sign this.
Thank you.

+1

/15charrrrr

Arrow.4619:

It is telling to me that at the end of the Molten Facility run there were players camped out on map trying to get one last group in. Tonight on the map chat for LA I saw maybe 1 attempt by people to a group together for AR and there was almost no one outside the entrance to AR – and I am on a very well populated server. If Anet has the stats on the participation in AR they must recognize that they did not succeed this time – and by success I mean players wanting to play their content.

This.

Zaxares.5419:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Zaxares.5419:

While I do like the Hellfire aesthetics, I agree that these new armor skins are intended more for the players who like to mix and match their armor.

I don’t know where you get this from – I am one of those players who always mix and match, and the fact that the new armour pieces can’t be dyed other colours makes them totally useless to me…

Do you never go the other direction and re-dye your armor to match the new pieces?

Not really, no.

I re-dye occasionally of course, but each one of my characters has a certain personality and a colour palette that goes with it – I pick up the armour pieces that complement their style, not the other way round.

Example, the jade pistol / shield / rifle were a good fit for my main (engineer) so I picked them up and then made minor changes to her outfit to round it all off, but only because it was a good fit to begin with.

Another example, the reason I didn’t pick up the unlimited molten pick-axe was because the lava animation didn’t appeal to me for the same character.

And another, the reason I put zero effort into getting a legendary right now is that none of them suit my characters’ styles.

In order to re-dye completely based on individual armour parts, I would have to find parts that blow me out of the water completely; and that, so far, hasn’t happened; and it is pretty much guarantee to not happen with a medium or light armour set that was designed for heavy armour.

All your achievement points count, including the ones you’ve already got.

Zaxares.5419:

While I do like the Hellfire aesthetics, I agree that these new armor skins are intended more for the players who like to mix and match their armor.

I don’t know where you get this from – I am one of those players who always mix and match, and the fact that the new armour pieces can’t be dyed other colours makes them totally useless to me…

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

As many have said, I don’t care if the dungeon is mother hardest dungeon ever, but don’t make it temporary. I sat down at 10pm last night with the intention of getting the last achievement. It is now 5:13 am, and I am still missing it.

Think about that. I just about put in a full days work just trying to get one achievement. I missed an entire night of sleep because in less than twelve hours I will never again have the chance to get the achievement. I looked for a group for over 45 minutes, and eventually standing there in LA thinking, I don’t care.

I feel your pain.

I was lucky last night, and you weren’t. It shouldn’t be like that.

Baktwerel.9108:

I’m surprised that this is the only forum topic about Tengu under the Four Winds section. I mean, come on…. Four winds (which happen to be the tengu houses), bazaar with yet never before seen goods (they have dozens of trading goods in DoW hidden from us) … why wasn’t there a single mention of Tengu yet or at least some guessing topics??

Like any of these threads?

https://www.google.de/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fforum-en.guildwars2.com%2Fforum%2Flivingworld%2Fbazaar+tengu

According to dulfy, some of the content will be here for 4 weeks and some of it for 2 weeks. We don’t know what’s what at the moment, but the patch notes will have that info tomorrow.

I understand that the belching mini-game will be permanent, but that there will be one achievement (I think) that is tied to this living story chapter.

We might also get a sticky post in the future with all the deadlines.

You might find this an interesting thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/Calling-it-now-Male-Asura-next-month

I somehow can’t shake the feeling that the devs are trolling us now.

Oh, right. That makes more sense, and is much less of a problem. I panicked there for a second.

I don’t know why, really, I have no intention to delete my main, ever.

But anyway, thanks for clarification.

Jemmi.6058:

Vahkris.6847:

Would it help if the Wiki sticky at the top had any info related to this…so we can avoid multiple stickies? Or would that not be as much of a help since the title wouldn’t notify you the info is there?

I don’t mind trying to create a central post out of that thread with at-a-glance info.

I think one sticky thread in the Living Story sub-forum called something like “Start and End Dates” would work. It could be updated at each event with start and end dates for certain achievements.

I think I would prefer the end dates in the overview sticky at the top of each chapter, but at the end of the day either of those options would work for me.

Thank you.

All your achievement points count.

HELLruler.4820:

Dungeon progress is bound to the toon, not to the whole account.

Wait, what? If I delete my main, I lose my dungeon achievements?

I’m not too taken.

• I’m not interested in wearing heavy (looking) armour on my main characters (engineer and mesmer)
• I’m not interested in yet another lava-based armour: between CoF armour, SE armour and the the molten gauntlets I think we’ve covered all the angles of that style
• I’m not interested in armour that I can’t die to go with the rest of my set, especially when I’m forced to mix & match. According to dulfy.net these armour pieces can’t be died, although that may have been the preview only and changed for the live version

But I feel like I’m the winner here: less pressure for me.

lordkrall.7241:

Most (all?) temporary things HAVE been posted with their deadline, on their preview and/or patch notes.

Yes, and you have to go through various pages to find them all.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Deadlines always seem to create confusion for players as currently there is no single one place to find the info.

Every release there is some players that manage to not find the info… but they come to this very forum looking for it.

The guides say that some of the content will be available for 2 weeks, and the rest fo 4 weeks, but I haven’t seen what’s what.

I think we should sticky the deadlines.

Brutal Arts.6307:

dulfy.1493:

This means that you can only mine that character’s home instance once per day per account.

So I can mine my other characters home instances as well or once I mine it on Character A’s instance the node is used up for characters B C D etc instance?

You get ONE ticket as reward for the meta-achievement. You can use that ticket on any ONE of your characters, and that character can mine their home instance once per day.

I like the ideas in this thread better than the ones in the preview so far

Crab Toss is no longer available (you can try entering the arena for yourself) but the devs said that it might make an appearance again in the future.

Dragonball will also be removed, but as Dragonbash is a recurring festival (right?) I’m sure it will be back next year.

I agree with much of what you said, you’re really in the same boat as many of us.

In regards to this, however…

EdgarMTanaka.7291:

I can’t even see the capture of Mai Trin since I haven’t compleated the Dungeon, I got a mail saying where to go but when I get there, there is nothing…

… my boyfriend and me were able to speak to Mai Trinn before finishing the dungeon. She’s in Fort Marriner. The letter shows you where to go, but it doesn’t tell you to go and look upstairs. Take the stairs up the wall and walk into the tower; that’s where her cell is.

The short answer is, if you want to use the gathering tools on several characters, then you’ll have to buy several of them. Otherwise ANet would lose out on money.

See also: this thread. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Account-bound-endless-harvesting-tools/

I actually like this jumping puzzle – some of the jumps are rather creative, and the dark room adds some interesting aspects.

The only thing I absolutely loathe is the gargoyles that knock you off and that I find very, very, very hard to time my dodgerolls properly for.

The combination of the gargoyles, the difficulty finding the stairs leading up in complete darkness, and the risk of PvP encounters has led me to now do this JP anymore, which is a shame, because I do really like the rest of it.

So, last night, we did the dungeon, finished the boss fight, and bam, both my boyfriend and myself got disconnected. After reconnecting, we could join our party in the dungeon again, but we were (of course) placed at the dungeon entrance. There was no way for us to enter the boss room again (the door remains closed and NPC Kiel is no longer available on the outside to let you in) so neither of us could open the chest (or try for the Airship achievement).

When you disconnect after the boss fight (I assume also during), then you can’t get back with your team and/or get the chest rewards.

This could have been fixed by

• opening the door to the room after successful boss fight or
• placing a waypoint inside the boss room after successful boss fight

It would be awesome if you could keep possible disconnects in mind in future dungeon designs.

shrugs I liked it.

I have no problems with a good chunk of the story taking place in LA, as it is all the races’ mutual capital city (so to speak). And the last few living story chapters have, for the most part, taken place in Southsun Cove as well as Shiverpeaks and Ascalon (including Charr and Norn NPCs and their respective capital cities and new instanced locations). So it’s all fine with me.

I agree that taking some of the story out of LA and into the other cities is a good move though. I’m happy, for example, that we had to go and find Marjory in Divinity’s Reach.

I think it is now the Asura’s and Sylvari’s turn though for the next chapter(s).

Achievement Deadlines

Deadline reminder: Tomorrow.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/skypirates/sky-pirates-deadline-end-date

It would be nice to know the time of day, but no info… to be on the safe side, I aim to do all the things I wanted to do by Jul 8…

I think it ends tomorrow. There’s a thread here somewhere in which someone quoted some official source. Err, I have to go look for it.