Guild Wars 2

Randulf Rawhide

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’
Though the streams are swollen
Keep them doggies rollin’
Rawhide!
Rain and wind and weather
Hell-bent for leather
Wishin’ my gal (Eir) was by my side.
All the things I’m missin’,
Good vittles, love, and kissin’,
Are waiting at the end of my ride

That’s just an average Friday night for a Norn

Nah, I’ll let you find that one for yourself

The fights between mobs – seen a stag vs a bear and 3 elementals fight each other today. Gives a nice “real” atmosphere

Also, the strange noises from the bedroom of a certain house in divintys reach..

The tomb of Kilroy Stonekin. May he rest in peace..or mindless charge down spirits in the afterlife

3 a day on average for past week. I had a long patch of time before Xmas where I had none. It’s all luck based, nothing more

I like the Karka too. I know the event was an experiment that went wrong, but I like the zone, I the enemy and their added difficulty. Definitely would like to more of them in the future hopefully with added content for Southson. It’s a very pretty area – Kudos to the designer(s)

My ecto rates have been higher than normal. It used to be dreadful. Lady luck has smiled on me this week!

Great thread. Nice to see something like this on these boards.
Maybe anet could award a prize or gems to the best valentines pic posted here over the next 3 weeks

They stated many of the current ones are unfinished as they didn’t expect players to get them so quick. So yes, expect improved effects on the naff looking ones

No idea when though

The free world transfer ending on 28th was announced last week and has been hotly debated on the forums (usually 1 post a day on it). Really wasn’t hidden from the community I’m afraid

May I suggest a post in the player helping player forum. Put in your server, time available etc. Then give the option of lvl 1-4 of fractals and see if you can arrange something with those having similar issues. It’s a time honoured successful way of doing things in mmo’s when people get stuck and a good way to find like minded others to team with outside of the guild.

A shame your guild resolutely wont help once within a month. I’d have left if I was in a guild that refused to help. Also, yes they said Ascended would be everywhere, but that was 2 months ago – barely a blip in mmo time. It’ll happen, but things really do take a long time to implement I’m afraid.

Hope you finish your monthly

Found it for you
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Everyone-remember-the-smartphone-app

There was an identcal thread further back with a dev reply if you can find it. If I remember rightly, it has been pushed back.

I’d love to see glasses that I can transmutate as armor rather than town clothes. Then my ele can finally look like his GW1 ancestor

There is something in the forthcoming content patches to address it yes.

I’m in the minority and love doing Orr events and exploring, but there’s a large dislike for it due to the amount of risen and difficulty, which is understandable. Guess we’ll wait and see what the devs are changing.

Hope that helps!

Play loads, its a superb game. Play time depends if I’m not working or have a free evening. But I post a bit as well.

The negativity and sounds of doom for the game populate all mmo forums – GW1 had it just as bad and many remember how it “would never last more than a couple of years if that”. All the Funcom ones are perhaps even worse – TSW (an excellent game) is much worse than here and the Anarchy Online (my fav game) only ever had bad postings for a few years and thats been going 11-12 years with a tiny tiny player base.

I’m not saying the negativity here isn’t always valid, a lot is, but a general discussion board like this will inevitably attract more angry postings than positive.

So much good content for them to roll out across the years ahead

Erasculio makes an excellent point – Yes I’d like more skills, but the number on GW1 did make balancing impossible. If you think the calls for nerfs on classes here are bad, it was nothing at all compared to the nerf rage on GW1, but it was just too hard for them to keep up with

Steampunk is extremely fashionable in fantasy at the moment. Love or loathe it (I love it, undecided in this context though), it’s here to stay I’m afraid.

I don’t think lore-wise the story has progressed enough for charr to have Divinity’s Reach as a Home city. From a role playing perspective, I like the idea of your race visiting far off cities of other races.

For me personally, it would be a big lore breaker

I guess the trade off for no currencies would be camping boss respawns for loot.

I sort of agree with what you are saying overall though and it’ll be intersting to see how the bosses are changing with the update, although i’d be (happily) surprised to see anything drastic.

I think there are enough ppl who are playing because they want to play, not just grind money. The game caters for both I guess.

It’s more for social play than anything else Fyre. It gives people a focal point to commune more than anything else. In the first game there were other advantages such as faction gain and GvG. They give any game an aspect not revolved around running around genocially slaughtering a zones wildlife.

Not for everyone granted, but a nice touch

Nothing of note as to be expected within the given timeframe and also because Wintersday dominated the scene and devs were understandably on hols.

Big update coming end of Jan (there’s a sticky with info at the top), worth a read!

Not being a fan of pvp, I can’t really voice an opinion on those bits. Guild Halls aren’t being worked on at this time anyway so GvG prob a long way off if it happens.

Hall of Monuments yes, but much further down the line. It took off in GW1 as a way to extend the games life and because it had built up that library of stuff to put in it. So yes, but no need for it yet.

Housing – undecided here. I think when they do implement Guild Halls, this will negate the need as long as they are customisable. I have personal housing in LOTRO and Anarchy Online. They’re nice, but I don’t visit them anymore.

Congratulations! WHich one did you kill out of curiosity. Have to admit, seeing Shattere for the first time, hunting him north and then joining a group to kill him was a great expereince for me

That makes sense to me, cheers Interpol

Great stuff

Unable to rez if players in combat (think he meant wp here). Did he or didn’t he? There’s a big diff betweent he 2 and clarification may be needed.

Thanks for the look ahead

It’s a nice idea, but wont +1. Like as said GW1 exists so I can just go there to do these dungeons. And they aren’t spectacular enough to repeat here. I’d rather just see better rewards in existing dungeons

I enjoyed it. Certainly better than the disjointed stories from gw propecies and gw factions, which still remain some of the worst story telling i have seen in an rpg.

But yes, prob wrong forum for this topic

I think it boils down to what you want from the game? Apart from each new prof I start, I just enjoy exploring the world, re-doing DE’s in diff zones, throwing in the odd dungeon or casual wvw session. Maybe a bit of self induced grind. It kinda has everything, in a casual sort of way. Maybe that’s the thing. Don’t try to look for things, just pick it up now and again and find something like that to get stuck into for a short session.

Personally the game suits me perfectly and I have other mmos going to cover what GW2 doesn’t fulfill

Luck change I’m afraid. My fractal rate at rares is and continues to be almost nil and my ecto salvage rate is about as random as it ever was.

Other than exploration, GW2 Wiki has a list of them

Cheers Screaming

Clovers have been my only area of very good luck. I had a 40% success rate with 10x recipe and even got 20 corrupted lodestones on one failure.

GW2wiki says its an Armorsmith recipe, but the recipe says tailor in part of description and then armorsmith in another part

Can it be used by either before I start lvlling one
Thanks!

Aha thats what that i love you message was. I hit delete instead of opening..looked suspicious..

Ill report the next ones..thanks for the heads up!

Understand your pain. Im not a wvw fan as i dont build pvp chars and consequently i usually get owned and the gain for my weap has been grindy here. However, legendaries should reward for all aspects of the game and the badges do represent that in their own way.

The way i looked at it was that these legendaries were meant to be a long term goal, therefore just doing the jps every day for a couple of months before i log, was a reasonable trade off from my perspective

I do agree with sarabi tho about rewarding objectives as well as kills

To be fair to Izzy, wasn’t exactly a probing interview..

I can kinda see their logic on capes vs backpacks. I like the backpacks and also the guild armor and weaps, but the fact that so few wear them shows how little attachment the community at large has for them Vs the old capes.

WoW has had years to sort it’s core systems out. GW2 has had 4months. I’m not guranateeing it will change on here, but that’s the current reason.

This is something that has been discussed at extraordinary length – well worth going back a few weeks to see when this was being posted on the forums every day and you should see plenty of discussion.

In summary though, Anet have stated through a Q&A that in hindisght to release fractals as the only way to get this gear was an error and there will be more ways to obtain ascended going forward. No time time frame has been set, although we have content patches in Jan/Feb/March which may or may not address this.

Personally I have ignored Ascended. Not because I don’t agree with it, but because it isn’t in any way required to play any aspect of the game competently. A well geared toon is no sub for a skilled toon after all

Where’s it coming from? If it is from DirectSound, my last CD from them was over a month. Worth it in the end mind.

I have had lots of fun on my Warrior dual playing with eles and engies from the guild.

I’m not very good on my own elementalist, but seen some very powerful ones in dungeon runs when played right.

I think this is an excellent idea. It could either be attached as a description to the weapon or there could be NPC’s at say the Priory who’d detail the history of each weapon. Maybe even a book in the Priory library for each one.

Forums as a faceless form of communication by their nature attract more negative than positive posts. I think most people accept that now, especially on gaming forums.

Doesn’t necessarily mean what they are saying is wrong mind, it’s just the way it is put across isn’t as friendly/constructive/patient as it should be. I believe there is a sticky at the top of forum to this effect.

I agree, it does seem odd to have increments at all when theres no discount for bulk buys like in other mmos. Id happily second the suggestion of more for less!

A for sure. The basics are there, it just needs a larger pool of skills to make more tactical choices from

I found, and completed the Kessex Hills one. Got the normal jp achievement, but never the monthly. Odd

Exactly as Wasabi says

Off to test it now on an old JP

LOTRO uses a 4th support role very effectively and the trinity works there incredibly well. But it also deisgns excellent instances to compliment it.

Should the trinity be re-formed here? No, in my opinion. There are plenty of good games that use trinity for those who want it. That’s the option to please the other spectrum.

GW2 is trying things out, it hasn’t perfected it yet, but as many of us keep saying, it is just too early to call it a failure or doom its future. There’s a long way to go before it can get things right. I also echo the calls for a larger skill pool and may be that is all that is needed.

It’s good the trinity issue has caused debate mind, I’m sure the devs had hoped that would be the case. They were unlikely to perfect it from launch and they are undoubtably relying on continued feedback/constructive criticism from the community

NatureBlade: The destroyer/fire Dragon is called Primordius.

I agree tho, I’m looking forward to thsoe dragons too. Kralkatorrik could be an epic fight given his size, if they get it right