Guild Wars 2

The HoT beta showed a new login music and a very good one at that. There was no indication of other changes though

Camping is something I wouldnt want to see returned. That said I can understand its nostalgia value. I still occasionally return to Anarchy Online and remember some of the social and boss camping sites and feel the twang of the old skool.

As for 3 and 4, it comes down to the action combat, fluid gameplay and the dynamic events system. The gfx used to be a big part, but i am increasingly finding them dated which is a real shame. A big part of why I play is the relevance of all content. Going to Lotro, there is no reward in replaying Moria despite being mind blowingly awesome first time through. Here I can play anywhere in the map thanks to the scaling system.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I always though your characters would be in black and white; especially any named Penguin….

Oh well, gratz anyway. =)

With the laurel headpiece since he appears to be an Emperor as well…

Morfedel.4165:

How many of you have a core class you like to play but not plan on using the corresponding elite specialization?

Edited for several autocorrect mistakes

My tanky Warrior and healing Guardian are where I want them to be – the current elites will not enhance or give them a viable alternative which is usfeul to my style of play or set up. I do have a 2nd warrior with a set up which may compliment the elite more.

Tempest, daredevil, druid and maybe scrapper are viable alternatives to my builds that I can switch into depending on the scenario.

Reaper is the only absolute elite at this stage for me.

Outstanding stuff, much more atmospheric and evocative than it feels in game. I like the South American “feel” your jungle pics have as well – gives it an extra air of authenticity

This came up as a thread last night. Ill repost what I put in tHat one.

If the weapons werent designed with dyes in mind, adding the ability to dye them now would be a huge task given the number of skins and trying to work out on each which bits are dyable. Plus many skins have existing colour variations, such as Ascended, Tequatl and a few others.

Its a nice idea and has been suggested pretty much since launch, but it is unfeasible given the time and resources required and subsequently development of future content which would suffer as a result.

I presume Platinum means the cash shop allows them to reskin weapons through the BLTC chests more easily. Or allowing them the option to just sell say a red version of an existing white weapon.

If the weapons werent designed with dyes in mind, adding the ability to dye them now would be a huge task given the number of skins and trying to work out on each which bits are dyable. Plus many skins have existing colour variations, such as Ascended, Tequatl and a few others.

Its a nice idea and has been suggested pretty much since launch, but it is unfeasible given the time and resources required and subsequently development of future content which would suffer as a result.

A recent dev post said they’d like to do it. That suggests it isn’t in development as of yet, but is likely to be.

If I wasn’t already well aboard the hype train, I’d be boarding it in full flow after this. That was fun to watch.

Haven’t played a worthwhile MMO expac since Mines of Moria for Lotro. From what I’ve seen so far, HoT looks to buck the current trend

My old pc had minor issues with SW/DT and found Verdant Brink unplayable due to the smoke until I turned the gfx down to the lowest.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Yeah, he’ll have to activate/link the code on his GW2 account.

SHould do it automatically, although it depends how it was pre-purchased. I did mine in game and it auto added everything

Endless Soul.5178:

C’mon Lanfear, Don’t Stop Believing.

It’s all about The Journey

If you have pre-purchased it already, then just patch when the expac hits on the 23rd. Nothing else will be required

I like the UW legendaries. Real shame to abandon them entirely. I understand it is additional work, but there are people out there who would make them and who thoroughly enjoy the UW aspects of the game.

It is what it is I guess. Doesn’t stop it being a shame though.

Quoth the Raven….Nevermore!

Even if it isn’t a contest, it’s nice to have something creative and positive on the forums we can all share into. Plus I like screenshot threads, some have been quite inspiring!

Can this become the official screenshot thread for the forum? I don’t used twitter, FB etc. Maybe stickied for the duration of Halloween?

I wont be raiding at least not early on. Im not really a good enough player for them. If I commit to improving my playstyle, Ill jump in as long as the traditional raid toxicity ive found in other mmos isnt prevalent.

I dont have any issue with raids as a feature being in game though. I hope they live up to the expectations of those desiring the challenging content.

1) yes its precursor you make, but suggestions are some improvements to the whole process

2) new precursors from expac are craftable only and account bound.

3) each new precursor is craftable once. So you can make bolt and a new sword if one is revealed plus 1 of any of the other new precursors

At the time they deem everything is ready and patch waffles have been consumed

New map rewards will be a big incentive. Also free to play players. And dailies and boss runs.

They will still be populated its just less shards of the megaserver will exist for each zone.

Not much. When i got desperate, i sold everything in my collections tab to pay for some of the more expensive things – silver doubloons and charged cores.

Maybe 500 gold per legendary on average. It could have cost me less, but impatience took over….

I’ve had this annoying problem which has started up recently of the camera feeling like its juddering when I turn it in some areas of the game. It’s almost like an fps drop, but the fps meter barely drops – it usually hovers around 55-60fps. I noticed it particularly in Frostgorge where the dredge camp is and when I turned, where it crossed where the heaviest steam/smoke was, it really struggled, but again the fps meter didn’t dip.
Silverwastes is also pretty bad, but many other zones are unaffected.

I’ve gone through every graphical option and checked the gfx driver, replaced the mouse and I cannot find what the issue suddenly is. I know it was very smooth only a month or so ago. It also seems to be affecting some other games.

GeForce GTX 745
i7-4790 CPU 3.60 GHz
16GB Ram
Windows 10 Home
GW2 running on approx. medium settings

Any suggestions? Could it just be changes to the game engine prior to HoT?

My warrior with his trusty Moot and SHield will be my first in, untouched by any new traits, followed by my ele who may or may not go Tempest. I am levelling a necro ready to be a reaper pretty much as soon as HoT hits.

Miserymachine.7512:

I would slap my mother with a dead fish if they brought back the chainsaw greatsword skin!! Pleasepleasepleaseplease!

Bookmarking this page..

I fully support this bug

I seem to be unaffected though

A guildie and I did it earlier this year on hm and we didn’t bat an eyelid. I should have known it had been nerfed – I remembered it being much harder when I first did it on hm.

WOuld make for an interesting fractal imo

Nice one and a nice story to go with it. Which legendary did you get?

I owe plenty to some of my guildies for their help with some of my legendaries. I even made that epic Dwayna bow as thanks for one persons help….and about a week later she abandoned her ranger for her hammer warrior lol..

The OP stated they can move though

Unless it’s a typo…confusing thread is confusing

She could have been memorable in the right way – her maniacal character worked quite well I thought, especially when you look back with the fleshing out they gave her in LS2. However, the way she was written into the story was poorly conceived and the way she seemed able to do anything and achieve anything just didn’t really make sense.

I thoroughly enjoyed the final fight against her though

Twitchcon it was announced.

Halloween launches with HoT – that has already been confirmed

I wont be jumping into VB before I do Labyrinth. Partly because of bugs, partly because achievements will be come harder as time goes on and partly because there’s no rush on getting into VB.

Gaile announced some old skins were returning. i think she also said some surprises too. Either way it’ll be speculation.

It could also be someone bought in anticipation of the Revenant. The quicky buy price is only down from 4k-3k. Could suggest one or two skins were just bought.

edit: wrote Reaper instead of Revenant. Thanks for the pick up!

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Could be people coming back or it could be that they’re afraid ANet will release it again and that the price will drop way down, so they’re getting the good price while they can.

This seems likely

Since we know the community will use this confirmation to twist recommended into required, will there be any plans to improve the acquisition of ascended?

Alga.6498:

The main reason why I made this thread was, for people who have not pre-purchased the HoT, yet, all though all the Beta Weekends are all over now, what’s the point of pre-purchase it then?

Pre-purchase will give immediate access rather than wait the 3-6 months you just stated you expect a price drop to be

Pre-purchase gives other bonuses beyond the beta. If the launch price is the same (and almost guaranteed it will be) then paying for it at launch gains no benefit unless you are buying from a retailer who part exchanges.

Xbox is a unique example. Any price drop post launch was in reaction to direct competition from Sony or to much lesser extent Nintendo. Sony and MS have long sought to own the market outright, so price cuts make sense from that business POV.

MMO’s do not seek to conquer the market in the same way or at least they use different ways to attract people to it and initial buying price is rarely a major factor.

I would be shocked and baffled to see a price drop around launch. It makes no sense and I’ve not really encountered much precedent for it either. It would only encourage people never to pre-purchase if the price would drop as soon as the game is released.

If it drops in price within the first year of life via Anet directly, I’d be surprised.

This is how all betas work for games. They aren’t meant to carry over since the only purpose is feedback and bug testing – something plenty of players have used it for. If it offered rewards, then it would be an early access and provide an unwarranted advantage up to 3 months before launch.

Plus, rewards change. What if rewards dropped that development and feedback meant that thy were changed? Things would be immensely difficult to sort out.

You cannot have toons on different servers. Your options are;

- delete everything and transfer server for free (not sure if works for NA – EU tho)
- Pay for the service
- Get a F2P account and join them with fresh toons

They are identical in purpose, but fused has better animations imo

Edarkness.7543:

Is there any point in doing a sets for them? On the wiki it says there is a set for each.

Sets exist for completionism only. For example, I got all 3 flame ones for my ele since it made sense for his theme.

Again, I’m getting the bone minion ones for my necro (just need the pick when it reurns) to complete his “theme”.

There is no other reason for sets

RoseofGilead.8907:

All gathering tools take the same amount of time to complete their animation. So, no one gathering tool is better than the other, with the exception of the Watchwork Mining Pick for ore (which is better because of sprockets).

I believe there is an exception. The Consortium gathering tool is much quicker than the halloween or golem in a bucket one. Although these aren’t axes, there is precedent for differing animation times.

Menadena.7482:

Do you mean the gem store? I will look tonight.

Not the gems store itself, players sell them via the trading post

Ah right, well fractals were released shortly after the launch of the game. They are like a series of exclusive short set pieces/dungeons. At the moment, you do 3 random fractals and then a random boss instance (changing to be easier to get into post expac)

The difficulty runs from level 1-50, with the difficulty and rewards increasing incremently. As you complete a difficulty, it moves your account up to the next one automatically, however you can choose any unlocked difficulty previously completed. This makes it very good for casuals or hardcore plyers.

Higher difficulties have a mechanic called agony which is like a health dot, which can only be countered by something called an “agony infusion” which you earn/craft and slot into ascended tier gear. The higher the difficulty, the higher the agony resistance required

As for pvp, there is a new map and you also have an excellent new system of rewards called reward tracks to earn things from dungeons/end game maps without doing those contents.

Also, for casual pve, you have SIlverwastes – a cooperative map which is also part of the most recent story arc, where teams work together to defend forts and fight off bosses and then defeat a big boss at the end. It is also excellent for farming materials.

The new raid is aimed at skilled and hardcore players and is currently being beta tested this weekend.

1) to increase their rarity whilst not making them ridiculously unobtainable (ie 5 tickets like some skin)

2) Getting all 5 skins gives 5 tickets back in return for the achievement collection.

Depends what pve end game content you want. There are raids about to hit and of course fractals will be going up even higher. If you state what you are after it is easier to answer your question.

All I ever asked for…was a /hug