Guild Wars 2

Soon he will rise…

“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”

LA is next on my map completion list for the toon Im on, I will check it out

There was never any official confirmation Dragon Bash was replaced, only that the Dragon Ball activity moved festivals. I would expect Dragon Bash f it returns, to be re-vamped slightly, maybe replacing zhaitaffy with a mordrem sweet and using a different activity.

Or they may merge Dragon Bash and Gauntlet, which I think would work pretty well. They could market it as a celebration and as a way to keep adventurers trained before the next Dragon battle.

If they do release Dragon Bash….whatever happens….there had better be another song…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eTwqhZag0g

Having not seen the gizmo effect, how does it differ from the liquid chrome plating effect Juggernaut already has?

Understood.

Buy nothing. If you just started playing, waste nothing until you have played a bit more and can decide. It might be a bit of gold to keep you going or invent space or a nice piece of social.

If you just started today, i didnt think u would have access to the gem store so soon? Or does that only apply to the trading post side?

Swagger.1459:

Randulf.7614:

Swagger.1459:

Dwarves are cooler than any other race.

You just won the internet
+1

No, WE just won the internet!

+2

By Ogden’s beard you’re right!

Swagger.1459:

Dwarves are cooler than any other race.

You just won the internet
+1

Sages.3496:

LucianDK.8615:

Sages.3496:

My friend, you may want to delete one of these duplicates xD

Just noticed it, had a website glitch. Attempted to delete it, but the post was bugged. Now it says user does not exist.

Just poke a mod, they’ll get to it eventually. also, as for a dye that would go along with it.. there is a dye page on the wiki with every dye in the game on it if you’re in need of assistance there.

Not really necessary since all the dyes are fully experimentable and previewable from the dye panel now. Dyes react to each material differently, so it’s hard to pin one down specifically without trying each one out.

Agemnon.4608:

I want a guitar themed legendary greatsword called Gita Ingredients would be Maguma burl, gift of music, and part of the T3 quest would be playing Dragon Force or Fall Out Boy with mechanics similar to the bell choir. A cool looking asura with sunglasses, leather jacket, and cool hair would overlook you and he’d become an ascended extra joining Destiny’s Edge 2.0 eventually along with Tizlak (also part of the legendary quest). Tizlak would also play a guitar.

Effects would be a kewl rift if you draw your weapon and trails would have pyrotechnics and music notes. Sometimes when you draw your weapon the asura male elementalist sound file “ready to rock!” will play.

Yeah! Lets crank it up to 11…..Hello Cleveland!!

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Kastiel.1947:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

People are being very optimistic on when we will see the next set. They already told us what we are getting in the march update so that one is out. The next update after that is June, but they already told us most of the june things we are getting, it seems unlikely they’d just leave legendaries out since they are a major draw. So i’d say the June update is unlikely.

The september update is probably a decent guess, though I don’t know if it is realistic or not. It took 3 years for the first 3, and locking them behind a paywall when they said they would be free. I’d guess they will launch the next set whenever they launch the next expansion, presumably in about a year and a half.

I think you’re being a tad too pessimistic , sounds like you have a grudge. Plus they are not locked behind paywall, they are part of an expansion and its content – I think asking to get the content without an expansion is just ridiculous – it’s like vanilla wow players asking to get level 70 and flying mounts without buying TBC. This just how the gaming world works. By the same logic you should be going to Maguma for free as well , right?
If you want to participate in new expansion content, but the expansion . If they hold out till September for the next set of legenderies, I’m pretty sure a lot of people gonna flip, it was one of the selling points of the expansion after all ..

They promised new legendaries as a free update by the end of 2013. As far as I am aware they never made that promise about Maguma so I don’t know why you would expect that to be free. I expected the legendaries to be free because Anet told me they would be free, in 2013…

They also said later that year they had postponed them indefinitely until they could re-work them into a reward system that had changed since the original announcement. They made an intention, they rescinded it a few months late as often happens in all development processes.

Also, the new legendaries were part of the HoT announcement, so yes people will expect them to be free based on that. Whether they will or not, time or tell, but I’d be very surprised not to see most of the remaining skins out before year end. This isn’t like the 2013 situation where they didn’t have a reward infrastructure in place. Now they do and it’s just a matter of work to tie events and NPC’s together for the relevant collections.

Yes. It came back a few weeks ago out of the blue and on sale. All items rotate, its just a waiting game.

Also, different precursors vary massively in mat requirements. If you are looking at costs involved, you are approaching it from a different angle than its intention. Its designed as a long term collection goal, not as a buy to sell strategy..

Rodgort cost me virtually nothing, except where my impatience took over

Sky.7610:

Yargesh.4965:

You may be a little bit wrong assuming yearly releases of expansions.

When they shift attention from living story to expansion, it took them 1 year to produce HoT. Is it not fair to assume they will replicate that?

Yes, except they already stated LS3 and WvW are the next big content focuses. So they haven’t switched attention to an expac yet. They might well be laying early seeds for it through LS3, but an expac wont be this year. At best we may get announcement before the year is out, although perhaps more likely we will hear this time next year.

Anet have been known to change direction year on year. How 2016’s quarterly system works for them will be the depending factor. They have already stated workload balance is their biggest challenge and they are hoping this system will work better for them and consequently us.

The high density of smoke effects will also be pulling back your fps. I got a new pc, but although its 60 fps in some areas of maguuma..when i hit smoke filled sections, its a bit of a chug.

Personally I think not. Anet have made great strides to distance themslves from underwater content, although I was surprised to find a large amount under Tangled Depths, covering a great deal of the map.

Given Anets new way of being more efficient with their maps via things like verticality, I think it is possible we could see a biome in a map given over to underwater. I’m not certain where they will include this though. The Deep Sea Dragon provides the obvious opportunity, but it’s doubtful Anet will commit so much to rehauling underwater combat and content for this to be possible. If we encounter the DSD directly (A big if), then I suspect there will a lot of island and coastal incursions.

I hope I am wrong though. I’d like to see it personally, but I think a full map/(s) given to UW would be unwelcome given the mixed reception the verticality of a jungle got.

Wouldn’t an easier solution just be to remove the story mode requirement as a pre to doing explorable. I’m not sure people really care about the linearity of progression here and those who do will do it in order without being forced to anyway.

Depends on the 4 stat combo and the situation. Viper in my opinion is very much worth it, but then I’m used to spreading my stats across 4 using different armour sets. Whilst I may not be meta or always optimum, Ive still found great success in the things I do in game.

It’s all about fitting what you gain/lose with your playstyle and set up. Really isn’t a right or wrong answer imo

Most Guild Halls in MMO’s I’ve played in usually are, it’s just that the GW2 ones are so over the top in size, with no reason to fill that space, that they seem emptier.

Guild Halls are status symbols – something to show a Guild’s progression and occasionally a place to have Guild meetings. But, they rarely serve any actual purpose – GW1’s GvG was a good example of where it utilised a GH well and tactically as well.

That castle in the sky in Kessex? The one nobody is allowed in for all these years?

Some say its just there to add ambience, to look pretty
Some say it adds evermore mystery to the World.

Some of us know the truth about what lies within those walls…

Im in EU I should then add

It is fine in game atm. Might be a login server issue

+1!

The designs are probably long since finished. Tying them up to collections, events, vendors, npcs etc and ensuring they work this time and don’t require failed events or fights in map chat…that will be taking considerable time.

I too am disappointed in not hearing anything, but I can understand where the delay is, especially if they are working on the big WvW update, new LS3 stuff and all the other behind the scenes projects no doubt going on.

Not bad at all. But I have seen better for Iron Man. Sadly the screenie is on my old PC for the player I saw dressed as him. We fought Jormag side by side!

Still a good attempt though!

You have invoked the spirit of a Quaggan God!

That’s why they added in the consumers – to prevent deleting. Both the dragonite and Bloodstone dust are currently in game to get right now

Also why are precursor collections “too expensive”? Mine didn’t really cost me anything and as for time spent, they are meant to be very long term goals anyway.

Tarn.1374:

Greyrebel.7492:

Tarn.1374:

I’m not sure what it’s called, but the simple piano tune you hear in Hoelbrak/Shiverpeaks.

hoelbrak and shiverpeaks use 3 or 4 soundtrack , i think the 1 u have in mind is bears spirit or the last half of Call of the Raven

Norn Theme beats everything
(i think its the tribal drums XD)
though Fear Not This Night is certainly great too
my favourite from HoT was The Itzel it’s pretty perfect for jumping around the treetops with frog people :-3

i like those too well first1 is called The Saga of the Norn

Well, whatever it is, it’s played quite a bit in Hoelbrak and the Shiverpeaks. It’s really nice. Perfect example of how something simple can really create the perfect mood for an area.

It is a decent piece, it’s more of a title piece than capturing the atmosphere of the Norn or the Shiverpeaks. There are some amazing ones from GW1 which they brought over which captured the mountain spirit better (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUe64FtLs3U). This is still a great epic piece though.

Rata Novus is probably my favourite maguuma one, followed by the main HoT theme which stirs up the correct sense of urgency. Auric has some great tunes too.

There are some from GW1 which hit in LA and other places which really stir the nostalgia too. Sands of Kryta when it hits for example. I also miss the sad LA music from the time LA was destroyed.

PlagueParade.7942:

Idk. The amount that is being put out in such a short time span I mean that shield jumped from about 10-20 to 90+ (peak was at 100+ earlier today) in a couple days? That seems more than just a few people offloading for gold. And it’s not just putting them up for sale at 1k gold they’ve been sold to for 500g+. And now I am seeing the Scythe going in the same direction. You don’t think Anet may have decided to resupply them since they didn’t have them out this past Halloween perhaps?

Re-supply who? Or from where?

I have successfully MF vipers on weapons and I know others have on the armour.

Looks like Gendarren Fields is you farm map of choice today. Or at least until the changeover tonight

I only ever farmed mats to make stuff not to sell, so couldn’t tell you the best way to make gold. HoT will def have changed things though, what with new materials from the jungle and easier to obtain mats from map rewards.

For viper…2) by a long way imo

of course, if you have the mats to make fulgurite, then I’d suggest using both methods

Proper fishing I mean. With a rod and bait, linked to a collection. Collection items can either be used in the guild hall or unlock a meta item for the guild hall.

Or we could add fishing and add our catches to the guild hall!

Emiko.3217:

Just wondering if the legendary sword Magdear (sister sword to Sohothin) will ever been seen again. Eir brought the shattered sword out of the Ascalonian Catacombs and gave it to a norn weaponsmith to have it reforged for Logan. Ever since then no one else have seen the sword.

It belongs to the dragon now…

The lore forums were filled with complaints over the many, many unused and loose threads from the stories still yet to be touched upon. It would be interesting to have a genuine discussion between the writers and the community on how they compose stories and situations and try and get to the root of why they leave so many things untended.

It’s almost as they write things knowing them to be throwaways to set up something else, forgetting that many actually pick up and take notice of all these bits. Which as an attentive audience is how we should be viewing these things.

I misunderstood your post. I thought you meant a new concept in all mmo’s, but I see you mean this one specifically

Cobrakon.3108:

You can bet your bottom dollar that if something is popular but hasn’t been released in an mmorpg, they are probably holding on to the concept to have something interesting later down the road to help extend the life of the game. That’s my guess anyways.

Dyeing weapons is not a new concept though.

Judging by how there are same skins, duplicated in colour and that they would have a lot of work to implement dye channels in every weapon, I’d be fairly confident that this is not a feature they will add.

Dragon Stand is the fourth and final map in Heart of Thorns.

Ah right. I should have full permissions, so I’ll go have a look

cheers for that

I just made a simple table after reaching level 25 of scribing, but it doesn’t appear to have gone into either inventory or guild decorations. When I go to the tab, it lists 0 and now says level 175 scribing.

Any ideas how this works?

Respect to Gaile…there for over 15 years!

I can’t stand to be in a company for a year before I move on lol

By the Power of Grayskull………

….I’m def getting one….

Arlee.7038:

Randulf.7614:

It is bugged, however beyond the achievement it is simply not necessary to break his bar. His storm isn’t dangerous at all, so what incentive is there for people to break him once their achievement is done?

You get triple damage done to him after his bar is broken so the fight is over that much quicker if you do break him.

In itself is an excellent feature…however he’s completely killable without that with very little effort from the groups. So again, no one feels it is necessary to do so

The healing crystals show how a mechanic can incentivise a group. If players don’t wake up and organise here, it can cause an unexpected downfall.

Perhaps the lightning storm can insta kill or causes an earthshake to launch players right out of the valley so they have run back. It just needs a reason for it to exist in the fight that makes a genuine difference to whether it fails or succeeds.

It is bugged, however beyond the achievement it is simply not necessary to break his bar. His storm isn’t dangerous at all, so what incentive is there for people to break him once their achievement is done?

I think sonic finally collected too many rings

There aren’t really “formal channels” for requests beyond forums, social media etc. However, you could write a letter directly to them. Their address is easy enough to find.

I’m not sure if it is worth replying guys. That cat has a look in its eyes that says it will rip his face off any second….

Agony resistance is only for fractals. It has no use or effect anywhere else in the world, whether it is events or bosses

I’m not sure what you are asking about the +4, since the sentence makes no sense. However, the extra stats are meant to be very small to prevent any significant power gains. They are just a nice bonus and not intended to be anything else.