Guild Wars 2

I have these grey stars all over my completed chapters; I assumed that the last 3 most recently active ones stay marked?

Would they get new, separate forum accounts for this? Or would they use their own forum accounts but not be allowed to express any personal opinions for 6 months?

Why is it limited to 6 months with no consecutive terms?

A bunch of responsibilities and restrictions, no perks, may be terminated at any time for any reason, doesn’t sound very appealing to me.

Tachenon.5270:

Avster.1935:

As someone with almost 3000 hrs clocked in my lv80s…this was a refreshing change. Come on now, it was only 1 hour. Was 1 hour of playing as a new character THAT bad?

It was for me. I don’t plan on repeating the experience. If a guildie asks for help, sure, I’ll do it. Otherwise, bah. Humbug.

Avster.1935:

I’d love to see how people will lose their kitten if ANet had Bonus Packs like they did in GW1 ha…

As previously stated in this very thread, that’s ‘hey, bonus stuff!’ and not something that one must do in order to progress through the story. I, personally, probably wouldn’t spend too much time on it, just as I didn’t spend much time on the Bonus Pack in Guild Wars, but a GW2 Bonus Pack would be great for people who enjoy that sort of thing, and I would not be opposed to it.

But this is bonues stuff… You can skip a chapter if you want to and still progress two weeks later…

It doesn’t really matter what we think are legitimate reasons for violence – everybody always thinks they’re on the right side of the argument. And player characters are, by definition, not exactly pacifists.

After what I went through to initially complete my gloves collection, just salvaging them for possible ectos seems like such a waste. I cannot bring myself to doing it. They aren’t even forgeable. I can’t send them to friends as a gift. I can’t sell them back to vendors. I wish I wouldn’t have spent the 1000 crests in the first place – but even then I’d be left with 2 additional ones.

Plus, they still drop from the Nightmare Chest.

Cosine.1786:

Did you fail to read the ‘I don’t want to do the living story in a group’ bit?

I didn’t fail to read – did you?

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Still not ideal for players who don’t want Caithe’s OP skills AND insist on soloing everything, but, like, I’m saying, you DO have options. What is more important to you? Your own skill bar, or being the instance owner?

With that being said,

Cosine.1786:

The living story never felt like it was supposed to be group content

That’s your opinion. I duoed all of the personal story with my partner, and prefer to do the living story chapter with the same group of friends since the Molten Facility.

I’m not saying that either of us are “right” or “wrong” – indeed I believe that we’re the best proof for WHY it is a good thing that living story chapters can be soloed or grouped. There have been instances that forced people to group up, and there have been instances that could only be done solo. Every time somebody felt left out. We criticized both, and ANet listened. Now we have the choice pretty much all the time. Sorry it didn’t go 100% (but definitely 50%) your way this time. Don’t forget though that depending on what’s more important to you, you could still solo, and you could still use your own skills. Just not at the same time. Collectively, we’ve had it worse in the past.

Bodatoda.8953:

We should have had a choice to play either the npc, or our own character.

Play with a friend! \o/

Tachenon.5270:

I’m here to play my characters, not Anet’s characters.

Play with a friend…

Tommyknocker.6089:

Please in the future give us the option to choose, Thanks.

Have you considered playing with a friend?

Manasa Devi.7958:

I cringe at the idea of doing this 7 more times, whereas I enjoyed playing previous story instances with different professions.

Can always play with a friend…

:)

ONE player out of 1-5 party members is turned into Caithe… the others are not. Still not ideal for players who don’t want Caithe’s OP skills AND insist on soloing everything, but, like, I’m saying, you DO have options. What is more important to you? Your own skill bar, or being the instance owner?

:P

Has anybody had any other drops from it yet?

I would advise slowly leveling all your crafts. ANet every so often releases account-bound back items or weapon skins that you cannot get any other way. They may well release one that you like. For me it was the Ambrite weapons. I also crafted various back items, and Mawdrey. So even when you’re not interested in ascended armor, it’s nice to have the option.

For what it’s worth: I greatly enjoyed this episode. Pacing, story design, mechanics – it had a bit of everything and was a nice change. I can’t really put my finger on why I liked it so much, but I do remember saying that I did in party chat after the first two chapters. The 3rd one with killing Nekthi was a bit heartbreaking though.

Even today, some people define “good” as “based on compassion” and “bad” as “selfish”, and others define “good” as law-abiding and “bad” as the opposite. These people often clash with each other. Doesn’t sound very black and white to me!

Basharic.1654:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

But if you don’t like this (which you’re of course entitled to) then just enter somebody else’s instances (they’re all on LFG plenty) and your skill bar won’t change at all.

I know you are trying to be helpful, but I don’t think it’s an adequate solution to say that if I want to play my toon in a single player instance, I need a party . . .

YOU call it a single player instance – I call it a story instance. If you want to solo it, you can (just as you can solo a dungeon path) but that doesn’t mean that it is designed to be played solo. For instance, getting the sneak achievement is easiest if both door panels are operated at the same time – by 2 players.

Let’s just be glad that these story instances can (unlike living story content in the past) be soloed, duoed, OR partied… – and these instances added some variety too, allowing players to play as themselves OR Caithe.

I have been very critical of ANet’s design decisions in the past, depending on the occasion of course, but in this case, we really DO have all the options.

But I guess ANet can add all the options and choices and some players still aren’t happy Then such is life.

Been in the queue for 15+ minutes, got a prompt for a match 4 times, all three times it stopped after 8 out of 10 check marks.

This would be marginally less annoying if I could still DO STUFF while waiting, but now I’m forced to stand around in the PvP lobby… which, in turn, wouldn’t be so bad if I could believe the “average queue time” of 4 minutes 16 seconds… :/

Edit: I got into a match after 20 minutes. I’ll have to go back to hotjoin for dailies, for now. :/

No kidding, I have 3 glove boxes “left”… :/

Whips for everybody.

I saved up between 7 and 10 of each “body bag” before the patch and got almost all the required parts.

Also, I’m sure when the next chapter is released (2 weeks from now??) we’ll get white extractors for both spleens and bladders.

But but… those were EVIL centaurs… uhm uhm…

Probably using one of Caithe’s skills, our instance owner got himself stuck in a prison pillar and we had to start over.

… so now after doing the challenge mote and aggression thing, can confirm: pistoling down the champs is quite boring.

It’s not just annoying, it’ downright unusable.

Quick question: has the Big Nightmare Chest loot table been updated to include pants or boots, or is it still just the gloves?

Thank you.

Alga.6498:

Well, it’s a cute add-on. Although I’d like to see more birds options..
Don’t get me wrong, but it’s kinda useless… sure it does look good when you get a bird-mail from someone, but I doubt people are looking around for players and say ‘’[i]OOHHHH, HE GOT A MAIL…!!!! HOLYY CRAAP~ PURE AMAZINGGG!1111’’[/i].
No for real, cute add-on, but useless in my opinion.

Exactly like finishers, and they don’t get all the hate. :P

I respect your opinion but feel the opposite way.

I am playing my own level 80 day in, day out, and I found it refreshing to (in a memory, which is hardly the norm – it is one hell of an exception) be able to use Caithe’s (OP) skills.

And then I didn’t get to play her all the time either as I was with friends and we took turns starting the instances, but I will be back for sure so I can play through all instances as Caithe.

In my opinion, there’s nothing wrong with switching things up a bit every now and then.

But if you don’t like this (which you’re of course entitled to) then just enter somebody else’s instances (they’re all on LFG plenty) and your skill bar won’t change at all.

poisonality.8972:

you have got to be kittentin me. all of the great ideas thrown about that the devs probably already had thought of but was told it was a waste of time and resources, and this is what is eventually added.

what a joke

I think you’ll find that everybody considers something completely different a “waste of dev time”. Including you, apparently.

ANet put cosmetic items in the gem store? IRRELEVANT FLUFF! WHAT A WASTE! ANet put useful items in the gem store? PAY TO WIN! SCANDALOUS! ANet put nothing at all in the gem store? No revenue = no new content.

So, I don’t know. I don’t think the latter is what anybody wants.

Gaile Gray.6029:

It’s a good feature, and yep, something that players suggested in the past. Whaaa…? You’re thinking there should be other options? Seriously, let’s start a list.

Mine:

• Skritt
• Fire Imp
• Ice Drake
• Frog

I’d also love seasonal carriers, like a ghost at Halloween or reindeer at Christmas.

I know this isn’t everyone’s “thing,” but I love the idea. Heck, I’ll be sending more mail just to see the little guys.

Animals, of course:

• snow owl (c’mon)
• crow/raven
• exotic bird, kittenatoo <— would buy
• raccoon <— would buy
• flock of bats
• underwater animals

Plant stuff:

• Pale Tree seed pod sailing down
• Toxic Alliance seed pod

Machinery:

• golem drone <— would buy
• charr helicopter drone
• watchwork drone

Special / events:

• zephyrite parachute/kite (keep this in mind for the next bazaar maybe)
• holographic dragon (Dragonbash)
• flying beedog (SAB /o/) <— would deffo buy

In my opinion, those that are already available in game as environmental creatures (birds etc.) don’t even need fancy custom animations. Just use their usual bird swoop and make them a little cheaper or something.

I say!

Just waiting for my golem drone now ;D

Kiriwar.7382:

I didn’t even know there was a carrier pigeon until it was pointed out to me that it apparently delivers mail. Maybe I’m blind?

Have you never received a mail while underwater and wondered about “suddenly underwater bird”?

Well, predictably, I am really glad.

YES, they used dev resources for this.

NO, this is not a bad thing. Cause this will generate more income which can then be used towards more dev time. All the while we have stuff to play with.

This makes about as much sense as custom finishers, and I don’t see people criticizing those a lot.

I fully intend to customize my mail bird on a per-character level, depending which ones get released.

Well, good. Options are good. Voluntary cosmetics are voluntary.

Well, I think the splish-splash is kinda fun!

In the latest story instances, the instance owner is transformed into Caithe (and gets their skill bar replaced). Every other party member gets to keep their original skills (both weapon skills and 6-0).

I can use my weapon skills fine; I cannot, however, use any of my kits. This will make achievement hunting somewhat awkward for me, as that’s where all most of my damage and cc is.

I vaguely remember that this used to be an issue in the Ascalon fractal at some point, but was fixed…?

Well THANK YOU ANet

Behellagh.1468:

500 salvaging sounds a lot but I easily get 30-40 items a night, mostly blue and green. Of course I have a copper-fed kit for those so I don’t run out of salvage kits in the field.

Like I said, or buy a few hundred salvage items on the TP, salvage them all and sell the mats back. Minimal loss and there go hundreds of salvages in under 5 minutes. No actual playing required.

I’m not a fan of the lipstick, but other than that, I like this very much.

Dear OP, you can finish your monthlies in under 5 minutes:

• buy a stack of salvageable material from TP
• salvage
• sell the mats back to the TP at a very small loss
• if necessary, repeat

There’s your monthly salvages, you’re sorted for this month without even touching events or champions (or jumping puzzles, which, like other players have said, are in fact PvE content).

PvE only players cannot complete Monthly.

cannot

Which should still be fine, seeing how this event chain is bugged absolutely everywhere

On a related note, after winning <I honestly don’t remember how many> wurm fights, finally, FINALLY, the wurmicidal achievement triggered.

Chest or no chests, I’m never going back.

There is some general (moderate) douchbaggery going on in PvP, but only sexism I’ve experienced in 2.5 years in GW2 is when people assume I’m a different gender based on GW2 being a video game. Which I then correct and somebody learns something. Shrugs. Honestly, the GW2 community is pretty great.

ananda.5946:

Natural looking hair for human black female. Maybe something like Astrid from Fringe.

Super beedog pet.

I endorse more hairstyles that go with darker skin tones, anything from black hairstyles to Indian.

I played around 10 soloQ this week and they were all 5v5 till the end. One of them, my team lost pretty hard, and we had a complainer on the team who called everybody amateurs, alas, no one quit.

At first I wasn’t even aware that the reward track is non-repeatable. Now the naming confuses me even more.

queues up for commission

pdavis.8031:

It’s semantics really. But which sounds cooler? Tangled maze? or Tangled labyrinth?

Although there is a slight difference between the two, the term labyrinth has more of a darker connotation then maze, thus the reason for the name.

Honestly? My opinion:

• “The Mad King’s Maze* or even “Mad Maze” is cooler, because alliteration. (P.S.: it really is the “Maize Maze” )

• “The Nightmare Maze”: same, for the same reason. (-mare / maze)

• Labyrinthine cliffs – sounds fine (better than “maze-like cliffs” anyway)

If it was the “Lollipop Maze” I might prefer “Lollipop Labyrinth”. Maybe I would have used the world “labyrinth” for “Lunatic Inquisition”. Maybe I would use “labyrinth/layrinthine” in the context of a laboratory or library.

“Labyrinthine”, “tangled”, “twisted” etc. are all more or less synonyms, so it wouldn’t be that difficult to find just the right word, both under semantic (labyrinth vs. maze) and style considerations.

Personally, I think for both the Mad King’s Labyrinth (maze) and the Nightmare Labyrinth (maze) ANet chose poorly.

Ayrilana.1396:

Since when did collections become short term goals rather than long term goals you get by just playing the game?

Where is it written that they are supposed to be passive-play, self-fulfilling long-term goals rather than something players actively and deliberately work towards?

Sure, I could just play the game and would eventually complete the trash collection without even trying… But the same cannot be said for the Dwayna collection. I could ‘just play the game’ for a decade and none of these would drop.

There’s a PvP reward track for fossilized insects, too.

Ayakaru.6583:

Labyrintial definition:
An area of disorentiation without the ability to navigate on eye

IF you argue “definition”, a labyrinth is actually supposed to have only one path.

The thing ANet designed is, by definition, a maze.

Zaxares.5419:

Ayrilana.1396:

I completed it last week.

What was the last thing you consumed though, Ayrilana?

I’m at 18/19 myself; the only thing still missing is the Omnomberry Ghost, which I’m holding off on since it’s a discoverable recipe and I’m waiting for r500 Chef before discovering any of those.

I didn’t craft anything for this collection, I’m pretty sure I just bought an omnomberry ghost from the TP… I think anyway. No, really, I’m positive. I haven’t chef’ed since Mawdrey.

Edit: Yeah, just remembered, I also just sent one of each of those to my boyfriend via in-game mail. I’m sure that you don’t have to craft anything yourself, just consume.

I completed my set:

• medium gloves from story
• heavy gloves from bandit crests
• light gloves from PvP reward track

There were days when I didn’t even step foot into the Silverwastes – and now suddenly I have 2000+ bandit crests (and ~50 keys) left with nothing to buy (by which I mean, I have all the skins and recipes and can use these leftovers towards whatever appears next).

Keep in mind that there are still other ways of getting the glove skins (nightmare chest, PvP). The PvP track also drops bandit crests I think, so you effectively get more than just 1 skin from completing it once.

Also keep in mind that finding a good or even great Silverwaste map (LFG) seriously reduces the grind.

And IF you want/need to crunch it, you can run around and tag as many events as possible instead of defending a single fort, and bandit crests will pile up twice as fast. (Not to mention that you will stumble across more bandit chests.)

Lastly, keep in mind that in the next two updates, there might be even more ways to get the remaining skins – some might be obtainable from the story with alts again, or may be achievement rewards, or something completely different.

So I think there’s a lot of options here, so you don’t necessarily HAVE to grind 10k bandit crests.

There have been quite a few occurrences where new features were implemented and were using events, mini-dungeons etc. that had been reported broken since release (for examples: the skritt baskets and the hylek mini-dungeon, or the potions that were supposed to reduce damage from certain enemies but did the opposite). It would be fantastic if when new content is planned, someone from ANet would just search the bug forum for the names of involved events, mini-dungeons and items.

You have several thousand dedicated and thorough testers here, and I think it is safe to assume that we have found almost all the bugs already through thousands of hours of playtime – and reported them. Use us.