Guild Wars 2

I think they’re just the soul of a person. They share the same model as a shade and a shade is a soul of a dead person. A chaos beast is just the soul forcefully ripped out, which is really dark if you think about it. The body disintegrates and the soul is forcefully ripped out. There isnt even a trace of the body left and then you kill the soul just causing that person to vanish forever.

Yeah the dyes were kind a joy to get. Every now and then you get a drop that you can actually use instead of just those random blue and green items. I got my abyss dye after doing the troll’s end jumping puzzle for the first time, from the bushes at the end. Best reward for a jumping puzzle ever.

I only took one where I swam down into the hole from the breechmaker. There were some odd purple lights just kinda floating around, there was also some small lightning bits on the ground but that didn’t really stick out to me.

So in the video I saw the dev wearing the seer’s top. Which is a skin unavailable in PvE. Is that just because the dev has it unlocked or will there be a way to get these skins now? If it’s just because the dev has it unlocked then the video will be there taunting us forever. “You can get any look you want now! Except this one.”

It’s not necessarily the attack skills, in other mmos the skills you bring into battle determine your build. In this one it’s your utilities and your traits. Telling him to be an ele won’t fix his issue.

The game still has a build system for your character, it just works a different way.

So I have a question. My town clothes (seens below) are sunglasses, a casual hoodie, and riding pants. So since the riding pants are part of a set but you could buy the pieces individually, will I lose my town clothes?

Also will armor be all in where you can only equip sets? Because I mix my armor to create different looks, I dont wear all of one set.

bullyrook.2165:

kylwilson.9137:

phlemhacker.1372:

No offense intended, but why does anyone care? As far a gay rights go, I simply don’t care, but I might care a bit more if I didn’t have the culture shoved down my throat every thirty seconds in virtually every form of media I encounter.

Because the gay community hasn’t had straight culture shoved down their throats in virtually every form of media they encounter.

Why do these threads even exist when it’s clear that LGBT is an absolute non-issue in the scope of lore?

It is a non-issue to you. If you don’t want to hear what other humans think, then why are you on a forum feigning open-mindedness?

That’s not what he said.

He said that it doesnt matter to Jennah. Completely different.

It’s you people that want to push your beliefs in the game and then claim intolerance when anyone disagrees with you for whatever reason.

AlphaWolf.2709:

So the prestige of having a legendary is completely gone. We will see level 1 key farmers with legendary weapons and T3 cultural. Tell me ANET, what incentive do we have to keep playing your game?

Keep pretending you speak for everyone buddy.

Pretty much everyone else has wanted this skin wardrobe for PvE since launch. And please use “I” because you’re alone on this.

Anet has said they will never change orr for the reasons that have been stated, new players still doing the PS.

I didnt know these things existed, this should be stickied and the different race rp guides posted to each race subforum.

Well I recently deleted a character to remake it and then this came. So i’m holding off on leveling it until the update happens, but I sort of wish you were required to do it, as i’d like to on my main.

RedSpectrum.1975:

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

From the outside sylvari look like humans, except plant like. This would include toes.

Fair point but this would also include even more basic things such as a nose as well….and…well….that went out the window

The answer to that question is yes, everything you’re thinking.

It’s even been confirmed.

You unlock utilities skills as you level and eventually an elite skill.

The real thing that you’ll be toying with as you level up to 80 will be at level 11 you start to get into your traits. Which give you small stat boosts but also things like increased toughness while holding a staff, or having a chance to burn enemies on a crit. Traits make your skills behave differently and will be what makes you stand out instead of what skills you take into battle.

From the outside sylvari look like humans, except plant like. This would include toes.

Thobek.1730:

Everyone is saying the Bazaar. Its pretty clear people are itching for new areas to explore.

It’s not necessarily that it was a new area, it was exploring an area in a different way than normal. It’d be ok if they didn’t have the aspects, but it wouldn’t have been as amazing as the map wide scavenger hunt with the new mechanics.

Just like the first halloween or the original SAB. It was something different and unexpected.

I have never heard anyone mention Forgal, except to say he was sort of bland.

Insulting Sieran however, thems fightin words. Screw your washed up apple salesmen, Atleast Sieran developed as a character during your time with her.

Aedelric.1287:

People say Forgal and Tybalt are amazingly well written characters, no one ever talks about that Sylvari one, you know, the irritating one that you do not know the name of. This to me shows that it is not just the character but the race at fault.

You mean the one I mentioned by name 4 posts up? Sieran?

I don’t see anybody ever mention Forgal but I atleast see people bring up Sieran. Not as often as they should but a lot of people probably never met her. I mean really who looks at the priory when choosing an order and thinks it sounds exciting? Not even me, but I ended up loving it the most out of all the orders.

It’s already been said in the PS that a dragon knows everything its minion’s know. That’s not a theory, that’s fact. No arguing that point.

SonOfJacob.7396:

I’m wondering if doubling the boss armor at the same time as halving their hp would stop people complaining about zerker set up. Or some variation therein.

The problem is that some game objects dont take conditions, the whole watchknights being immune to conditions through half of the fight thing which wouldn’t have been an issue if the knight changed modes randomly instead of when they got to a certain point on health and even then conditions just made it so you could dps better, and that having nearly the most toughness I can have, somewhere around 3k, it makes it so one of these big world bosses will 3 shot me instead of 1 shot me.

So really other stats don’t give as big as an advantage to be worth it, not when you can have a zerg of zerker players that can just do a quick dps and the big boss can’t hit them all so you get revived instantly if you go down.

Sinbold.8723:

But I agree it was a disappointment. What shocks me to the core is that no one at an Anet LS planning and implementation meeting ever asked, “Why should the players care about Scarlet when they have no connection/history with her?” I hope they’ve learned their lesson with this. Remember Tybalt? Everyone loves him. Why? Because we were involved with him (and he was well written). We were never involved with Scarlet (and she was poorly written). Yes, one is a good guy and one is a bad guy, but its the level of involvement here that is the key.

That’s not it at all. Why does everyone remember Tybalt and not Forgal? By your logic we were involved with him too. Yet there’s a line that separates the two even though they share the same purpose (Forgal is your Vigil partner if you wernt aware). I mean you knew Tybalt for less time than you knew Scarlet if you think about it.

You met Tybalt and instantly fell in love, you met Scarlet and instantly hated her. History with the character is nothing, you didn’t meet Tybalt until you joined the order, you didn’t even know he existed before that point.

What makes these two characters different though? Tybalt has a few personality quirks that Scarlet didn’t. Making him seem more human and relatable. Tybalt was an old agent who hadn’t been on the field in ages and was happy to just get out. You can relate to that situation. Just like I could relate to Sieran’s urge to explore and happiness at finding something new. It’s not your time with a character that makes a character, it’s making them seem less like a robot and more like a person. Give them likes and dislikes, hopes and dreams, even give them something they’re afraid of.

Scarlet was focused on nothing else but her goal, nothing else mattered and she was clever enough to apparently pull off the impossible, and we can’t relate to that because none of us are that perfect. Really Anet can still redeem Scarlet if they show us who Ceara was, they could add a touch of realism to the character.

BOT4W. Being able to zip around the entire map like that was amazing. All the different little things you could interact with to spawn events, and the entire map was one big jumping puzzle. The attention to detail in that update was amazing and I hope we see more of that quality.

Also I made the same thread and like 7 people responded to it so may you have more luck than me.

We’ll probably never know because everyone demanded that we drop the Scarlet story arc.

Ithilwen.1529:

Pyro, I think you are one of a small group that does very well with Mesmer. My experience has consistently shown that the class is badly under powered and that Warriors, Guardians and Engineers can consistently out heal whatever I can dish out.

Your implication that the problem must simply be that I am a bad player is arrogant, nasty, elitist and dead wrong.

well if you’re not a bad player, then it’s your build as mesmer is THE 1v1 class. Unless you’re fighting an engineer underwater, it’s really hard to lose.

Anet is pretty against pay to win. I would be shocked if they did sell traits on the gem store. Especially since it’s already been said you can either hunt them down or buy them from the class trainer.

Lunchbox.6970:

I know that a VERY small percentage of the people who play GW2 actually read the forums and then a very small percentage of those people actually post on the forums. With that said, it seems the majority of the people who do post on the forums have nothing good to say about the game…. SO WHY ARE THEY PLAYING IT?!? Go find a different game to play if you don’t like this one and stop being toxic and unhelpful on these forums! If ANet isn’t living up to your expectations, then leave, nobody will miss you, including ANet.

Well first of all, I would if I could. In a heartbeat. Drop this game like a bad habit and go play FEZ. FEZ however shut down, all versions of it now, so I don’t have the option to go back.

Second of all constructive criticism =/= bashing on the game. I do enjoy GW2, not as much as I enjoyed FEZ, but I would have left long ago if there wasnt anything I enjoyed. Even those people who complain about the game all the time that are still here, there’s something they enjoy too. They just want the game to be better, and more in line with what they want. How is anet supposed to know that unless we tell them. Maybe anet decides that our constructive criticism isnt for them or whatever, but we atleast told them what we thought which is the important part.

I know the forums don’t represent the majority of the playerbase (as evidenced by the kiel vote which only myself and like 2 other people on the forums voted for kiel). And sometimes people don’t know what they really want, as evidenced by Scarlet trolling us at the end, Braham not caring, and people on the forums getting upset that Scarlet didn’t tell us her plan after that. They seem to forget they’re the ones that told anet to drop the Scarlet story as soon as possible.

The important thing for anet to remember in the future is, people dont necessarily want dragons, they say they do but that’s not what they’re after. They’re after a compelling story. Even if they wont admit it since most of the bad parts of the PS shine brighter in their mind than the good parts, it had a lot of good parts. Both pre and post orders. The PS represents better storytelling to them and it had a dragon. Scarlet even wore me down after awhile. While I didn’t write her off at her first appearance as most people did, eventually she got a little ridiculous for me (It was the toxic alliance, I couldn’t see the krait outright working with anybody willingly). Just don’t forget about us, the people that loved those little sort of filler updates in there. SAB, BOT4W and the holidays.

You know I missed the point where mesmer became the worst class in the game. Apparently i’m playing a terrible class and don’t even know it. With the best elite skill in the game (time warp), lots of support utilities, really 2 class features (phantasms/clones and shatters), condition removal rivaling the necro, ability to spam clones with the scepter (Which is your main 1v1 weapon btw), condition spam and escape skills with the staff, damage avoidance skills with the sword, stun with the pistol, a great long range weapon with the greatsword with cripple to make sure targets dont get away.

Obviously you can’t use all these weapons and skills at once but take your pick, you have a ton of options. If you arnt winning 1v1s as a mesmer, it’s not the class, it’s you.

I dont even use shatters at all, my fingers never touch those buttons and I kill things just fine. Guardians, warriors, thieves, whatever. If they’re alone they’re dead unless they run as I don’t use the greatsword.

If you payed attention before release, anet didn’t want to remove the holy trinity for the sake of removing it, they wanted to change the combat system from something that games back in the early 2000s used that we’re still using today because no one wants to try anything new.

That system works until your players get a taste of a more advanced system, megaten or FEZ (the mmo not the stupid platformer), and then after that it’s really hard to go back to having no control over your character in combat, basically having the game decide your fate for you. Especially after FEZ in which getting hit in combat is entirely your fault, all damage is 100% avoidable and battles between players of equal skill could take awhile (Or in a few cases be so evenly matched that the battle never ends).

I personally call tequatl tiki, as I pronounce the first syllable in tequatl the same as the first syllable in tiki.

Sera.6539:

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

The real question is what would happen if Scarlet was human? What would the community’s reaction to her be then?

Apparently humans are the most played race in GW2 already and really theres not that many examples of a good sylvari character in the game already. So some players already don’t like the sylvari. Their only interaction with a major character sylvari being Treherne and Scarlet. Scarlet’s first problem was some people didn’t give her a fair start, her second problem was she just seemed kind of too perfect, graduating all asura colleges, forming impossible alliances, etc. The third problem was she kind of started getting better at the end but by then everyone already wrote her off as a mary sue.

It really depends on what you mean by major character. Caithe is also a Sylvari, and has a presence in the dungeon story, as well as some parts of personal story (if non Sylvari). She also still maintains an air of mystery from the living story.

I don’t see Scarlet graduating all colleges as too far fetched. Sylvari are born with knowledge already accumulated from the dream, so it’s possible that there’s just been a good build up of information she’s had access to already. It’s just that she’s the one who was curious enough to bother. Many Sylvari feel content staying at home.

I was typing that with the assumption that most of the player base is not sylvari. But for examples of good sylvari I was talking about Sieran, Gavin, and from what I hear Malyck (Though I havent played that story).

Mijo.3274:

How many noobs pretending that their low skills are not the problem lol.
Mesmer are actually pretty good, i think only elementalists and rangers can complain right now

Rangers are actually pretty strong if played correctly.

The real question is what would happen if Scarlet was human? What would the community’s reaction to her be then?

Apparently humans are the most played race in GW2 already and really theres not that many examples of a good sylvari character in the game already. So some players already don’t like the sylvari. Their only interaction with a major character sylvari being Treherne and Scarlet. Scarlet’s first problem was some people didn’t give her a fair start, her second problem was she just seemed kind of too perfect, graduating all asura colleges, forming impossible alliances, etc. The third problem was she kind of started getting better at the end but by then everyone already wrote her off as a mary sue.

Meh even after you figure out the ‘joke’ it isnt that funny.

Also it is: A person from Piken, Desolation, and Baruch(Dont recognize that name for a server but whatever) meet up. The player from Desolation says “We killed Tequatl in under 6 minutes.” The player from Baruch says “That’s nothing.” The player from Piken says “We killed Tequatl in under 5 minutes.” Again the player from Baruch says “That’s nothing.” So then the player from Baruch says “With all the players went sent over there we didn’t have enough to do the event ourselves.”

Or maybe he just really wanted wanted some eggs and he accidentally typed it.

Ashabhi.1365:

TL;DR:
Of course they’re going to rebuild. I just hope they take their time with it and do it right.

THe lion’s statue was destroyed in the first halloween update, they fixed it over the next few patches in steps. Just thought you might like to know they’ve already done something like that.

warbreaker.8154:

I’m kind of laughing at the “anet needs to stop catering to the majority” connotations in some of the comments here. They’re a business. Are you for real right now?

Look, I hated the epilogue. I thought the writing, pacing, and characterization was trash. I thought that the dialogue options were unfunny garbage. I even thought it was inappropriate to be acting like everything is sunshine and rainbows when there’s a kittened off elder dragon yelling at us to get off his lawn. But what is with all of this pearl-clutching in this thread? “O-oh nooo, Scarlet was a person tooooo!” Yeah, a person who killed thousands of civilians and woke a kittening dragon. Some people’s deaths deserve to be celebrated, because the world is objectively, in a measureable way, a better place without them.

There’s a difference between being disappointed at the loss of a brilliant mind (possibly the most brilliant the world has seen), and saying she didn’t need to die; and some people are making the case that she didn’t need to die.

By the end of the LS, Scarlet wasnt herself, she had gone completely crazy. She may have had to die but she was a person at one point that lost her mind to someone or something else. It’d be a different story if Scarlet was acting completely by her own will but we already know Scarlet had a voice inside her head ever since she came out of Omadd’s machine and she lost the fight.

A dragon knows everything its minions know. The dream is a shared consciousness between all sylvari. While it’s not necessarily a hive mind to control all sylvari, information is shared in someway that’s not quite clear yet.

The dream behaves kind of like what we already know of dragons.

Knowing what we know about Scarlet’s plans, she wanted to be free from her destiny, whatever that was, but didnt agree with either side, the pale tree or the nightmare court. Why or how would a dragon do that in the first place, even if the pale tree was the dragon’s champion and the dragon reclaimed it? The last thing a dragon would do is free its minions.

So the voice in Scarlet’s head must’ve been telling her to wake the dragon, because waking the dragon seems to be the complete opposite of her original goal.

Then theres the words of the pale tree in the short story. “By attempting to understand the forces that make us, you will unleash them.” Maybe the pale tree was talking about the sylvari when it said us, and then Scarlet ended up unleashing a dragon. The pale tree cut off Scarlet from the dream to avoid Scarlet directly corrupting the dream. I don’t see anything else the words could mean at this point.

Sylvari are most defiantly originally dragon minions, the pale tree happened to grow without the influence of the dragon and once the dragon woke up, it had no more need of Scarlet. Who knows maybe that was Scarlet’s dream all along, she dreamt of waking a dragon and wanted to avoid that fate but by trying to avoid her fate she made it happen. Remember we know that the pale tree doesnt control the dream, it just oversees the dream.

The real curious thing here is that asura gates, which are based on dragon energy, can cut a sylvari off from the dream, just for a second or two, but we know trying to corrupt a sylvari just kills them. So synthesized dragon energy can disrupt the dream, and actual dragon energy kills the sylvari, while that doesnt prove or disprove the sylvari being dragon minions, it’s a curiosity and will probably end up being a plot point at some point.

There really should be a few more personality categories but I completely agree these should affect our dialogue options in conversations and should affect our emotes and idle animation as well. I dont feel that being sympathetic to Scarlet would be covered in any of the current personalities and really the joking seems out of place for all the current personalities too.

The personality should be decided upon character creation, I mean we currently have a choice that gives a small boost to one of the three but our character should be whatever personality we want from the start.

Behellagh.1468:

If the OP means the titles you can have on display along with your name in public view, yea, like ANet needs to police those as well. That goes along with custom artwork for guild banners. Exactly how long would it take for some guild to have a giant kitten as their guild emblem? Till the end of the day when it’s first allowed?

I can’t see custom titles being added.

They can do the megaten thing where you get a selection of words and you can put them in any order you want.

Come on dont you want to be an volunteer emissary of the mad carver?

A lot of the forum community seemed to be tired of her. I do get not wanting to joke about it from an RP perspective though, it’s a shame anet didnt give us that option.

Hopefully in the future anet will give more options and the living story will be more dynamic. For instance my main has never met taimi, instead of pretending like she knew me she should have introduced herself or something. Though she’s the type of person that would make jokes like that, atleast to ease the tension. My Sylvari on the other hand, respected Scarlet in an odd way, because they really wernt that different and wouldn’t joke about her death.

Like was said earlier, you’re focusing too deeply on the E. Anet likely did that to throw people off who it actually was.

Another place can easily be made into a center of trade, I mean it just takes a few new asura portals, which the asura have to rebuild anyway. Why not Divinity’s reach? Or Hoelbrek? Lion’s arch was rebuilt the first time because the old destroyed city was a hiding place for pirates that made a city there eventually, that’s where the captain’s council came from in the first place.

Though speaking of that, where was that whole “Ship capable of defending lion’s arch” thing?

Faren sort of makes sense. Why is he the only person in the PS who isnt a member of DE to show up again? He’s a noble so he would be well connected and have lots of contacts.

I said during the event that lion’s arch should be a crater after this event is over, i’ll still stand by that.

They’ve said they wanted to have a game that changes over time and the events actually impact the world since before launch, they need to prove they’re willing to do that though.

The problem with that is what if anet decides to go a different direction with it?

Well the pact is made up of the vigil, the priory, and the order of whispers. I saw order agents and vigil soldiers helping people get out of lion’s arch. The priory has never been the order to be on the battlefield but all three opened camps to assist citizens that fled while you took care of Scarlet. What more do you want?

Lindbur.2537:

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

Yes dungeons are different than regular PvE, and need to be balanced differently but generally every player in a dungeon has an idea of what they’re doing. Fix the main PvE zerging mentality and you fix the dungeons. Besides that at some points in some dungeons the number of mobs are arguably way too kittening many (Like 4 out of all the dungeons), nothing is wrong with most of them; it’s all the players.

First of all, although you state that dungeon PvE is different from regular PvE, you pretty much ate your words when you said fixing zerging would fix dungeons. This doesn’t even make sense, you explicitly say one thing, but imply the opposite. You also state that every players in dungeons have an idea of what they’re doing. Using this statement, can you explain why every single day I get miserable failures in my pug groups that clearly do not have any idea of what they are doing? I find it very hard to take your argument seriously when it’s based on unsupported assumptions instead of facts.

I said that nothing is wrong with the dungeon itself, it’s the players and their mentality on how they’re playing the game. If you change that, then suddenly the dungeons work properly.

but generally every player in a dungeon has an idea of what they’re doing.

You see that word right there that you cut out? That changes what the entire sentence means. Instead of the sentence meaning every single player out there knows exactly what they’re doing and you’re the problem; now it means usually you get good players and dungeons go fine but sometimes you get people that mess up and that’s what we need to fix.

Dynamic events is how you get the most experience in this game. Anet expects you to do a mix of fighting, events, crafting, exploration, and PS to level.

I personally enjoy the exploration.

Ethics.4519:

Lindbur.2537:

I think my eye cancer just skipped straight to terminal.

Hurry, stack and you’ll be saved from the eye cancer!

Quickly show me your 20 player zerg in a dungeon.

Yes dungeons are different than regular PvE, and need to be balanced differently but generally every player in a dungeon has an idea of what they’re doing. Fix the main PvE zerging mentality and you fix the dungeons. Besides that at some points in some dungeons the number of mobs are arguably way too kittening many (Like 4 out of all the dungeons), nothing is wrong with most of them; it’s all the players.

If you don’t like my idea for a solution, and the current system is broken, by all means give me your better idea.

Awesome now I can be Elsa from Frozen, Anna from Frozen and Elsa with her hair down I assume will be incoming I assume. Soon™

Does The Anomaly create light? It seems like it would but I don’t actually have it

You’re always going to have those people that abuse the game mechanics, stacks and whatever.

Your ‘fixes’ wont actually do much. Anets fixes havent really been fixing it either.

Really a boss’s AOE should ignore the 5 player cap that players have (It’s fine to keep that limit on players), all damage should be buffed and then the amount that toughness reduces the damage should be buffed as well(As well as having a base level buff so toughness will make it so I can take more than 3 shots as opposed to 1 from a boss).

That will eliminate stacking and flush out the bad players that can’t dodge. The good players that can dodge effectively shouldn’t be punished because of the bad players.

All AOEs should become unblockable, so the only defense is to not be standing in them, as long as they arnt giant circles. Anet seems to like to balance reaction times around some sort of passive speed boosts that most classes have but as a main mesmer, I do not have such a thing and it’s unreasonable to ask me to give up my weapon swap for a speed boost.

That should solve the immediate problem of stacking and bad players counting on the stack to save them.

Heck maybe even give a player 15ish seconds after they’re defeated and if they no one starts reviving them, it instantly makes them waypoint to their nearest uncontested waypoint.

Finally PvP and PvE should be split, changes to one shouldn’t affect the other as changes to PvP can break PvE or the other way around.