Guild Wars 2

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Sinikka.2794:

Phoenixlin.8624:

A waste of wall of text.

Rangers with pets are bad for lane 2’s boss, there is no exception. Elementalists with an elemental also bad for this lane; but still elementalists > rangers ^^

I have never, ever gone down in Lane 2 as a Ranger. Or had a platform fail because of me.

Same here. I’ve only done the puppet event as a ranger, and I’ve done the chain 2 boss several time. I’ve never been part of the group that didn’t kill it in time…

People are continually complaining that it is the easiest boss, yet also continually failing at it. So, they seek to put the blame at everybody but themselves.

(but it also shows why the setup of the puppet events is horrible: one person can ruin it for the entire map)

Not really. One single person might be horrible at a particular boss, but it takes more than that to fail. People not paying attention to which boss is up, people yelling for a rezz instead of porting, other people obliging them and rezzing instead of fighting… the list goes on, take your pick. it’s hardly one persons fault.

Also, I’ve been running a ranger with assassin’s gear for a while now, doing just fine in a variety of setups. You just have to know what playstyle is best for your particular situation at a given time, and adapt accordingly. It’s hard enough to figure this out as it is, especially if you’re a casual, and all that hate in the map chats doesn’t help. I, for one, get the strong urge to suck on purpose whenever I have a few such individuals on my map. Yes, I’m a petty person. But sometimes, ignoring those twits just doesn’t do the trick for me.

Plus one on this request. I love the shattered dragon wing backpiece, but I can’t decide whom to give it to. So it’s rotting in my bank for now.

Just make it accessible through the achievements panel, is all we ask. Would save space until we really want to use it, too. And save us hoarders from agonising over throwing away that darn slickpack skin or not T_T

T1 and T2 cultural weapons don’t have unique skins. T2 sylvari weapons can be drops and thus purchased at the trading post, for example.

I used to wonder why they decided to cut the dye option for weapons, but then again, we have so many weapon skins to choose from, I don’t think we really need that option. It’d be a nice gimmick, but I don’t think it should take any kind of priority over actual game content or anything.
Before I can dye my weapons, give me back my Dervish! ^^

natzmc.2895:

America is just as comfortable with death as the most of the player base. If you want to look at countries who are less tolerant about violence in video games feel free to ask an German or an Australian about their experience and compare what they have to deal with to your point of view. Make sure to ask them whether they think their censorship is necessary.

Also the reason anet use the word DEFEATED and not DEAD is because we are not dead because we can be revived, either by player or by waypoint. Death is finite, and clearly what we experience in the game is not.

Thank you. I forgot to mention that. The amount of censorship we have to deal with is downright ridiculous. Games and films that are 18+ getting edited because adult people supposedly can’t deal with it? Laughable. Can I just say “purple blood”?

Excellent point about the dead vs. defeated thing. It’s simple logic. Also, raising the dead is for Zhaitan. We wouldn’t want to end up as his minions, would we?

kta, can I just point out that a) film and video game are two completely different things that may or may not borrow from each other, but don’t have to be the same, and b) that we are talking about a fantasy world here, so your real-life experience, while valid, does not have to apply here.
Again, its a borrowing thing. Of course, it’s based on what we know, but at the same time, it’s different, so, America/Europe differences aside, you can’t expect anything to be a certain way.
As for Trahearne, he was chosen for his position precisely because he isn’t involved in any of the Orders’ business. He’s not a high-ranking member of, say, the Vigil, so the Order of Whispers and the Priory don’t feel like the Vigil is given preference over them. If you had paid attention to the personal story, you would have noticed. The other reason is his Wyld Hunt and his experience with Orr that came from pursuing it. He knows his way around Orr, so he was a better choice than, say, Doern Velazquez. In short, he was the best choice.

As for “make the player care” and your issue with feeling disconnected from the whole LS: That’s what comes with playing an MMO. In a single-player game, you are the one and only hero. You have a cause that no-one else has, and you are the only one who can save the day. In an MMO, you share that cause with millions of others, so the open world content at least (not the instanced personal story) has to be designed to include all those millions of people.
Then you seem to ignore the fact that your character is part of the world that’s being threatened, plus you apparently have already completed the personal story, so you have business with the orders as well as the Pact and are an all around accomplished person. Now someone like Scarlet comes along and tries to kill everything in her path; would your character just sit idly by and let her succeed? if so, your character is a… yeah, I don’t have a word that won’t get transformed into a kitten here. But you know what I mean. In this case, being someone who can stop a threat (to your home and maybe imaginary family no less!) should be reason enough for you to intervene.

EDIT: And to list a few American films that are exceedingly violent.
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Saw
- Alien
- Crank
- The Expendables
- The Nightmare series
- The Halloween series
- Anything by Quentin Tarantino
…

Need me to go on?

So. This bit, you don’t have to read, I’d understand if you stopped because you won’t like it. No-one’s forced to listen, after all.

Regardless, you should realise that America is NOT the centre of the world. And neither is Christianity. So claiming that a game designed for millions of people from all around the globe should be changed to fit the world views of a specific group of Americans is simply preposterous. I said it before, and I will say it again: Tyria is a fictional world and as such is not subject to the rules and world views of the real world. BUT, and this is important, you don’t have to play it. I won’t force you to read my books where premarital sex is abundant, people get killed a lot and morally questionable choices are made. Anet will not force you to keep playing Guild Wars if you decide you don’t like it anymore. You’re free to leave, as are those kids you mentioned that are “upset” because of the LS content.
It seems like you fail to see that this is an issue of personal taste and, in some cases, personal maturity. I’ve been playing violent video games and watched violent films since I was twelve and I grew up all right. My brother, who is just as avid a gamer as I am, tentatively started exploring those same games when he was about sixteen. Differences in personal preferences. Take a group of a hundred average eighteen-year-olds and have them watch Funny Games (since you mentioned that already). Some will get up and leave, some will keep watching but be uncomfortable, some will enjoy it for the violence and some will enjoy it for the fact that it’s a well-made film. Same goes for, say, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Crank, Shining, whatever. What you think is appropriate for you or any young children/teenagers you know is one thing, what other people think is appropriate for them and/or their children is another. The world is not one huge padded cell, and it will never be, thank god for that.
The key is learning to deal with it and respond to things that bother you in a mature way instead of yelling for someone to fix the mean stuff or take it away completely just so you don’t have to see anything you don’t like. And if you do, you are free to get up and leave.

I think in this case, it’s the composer that needs to be contacted. He’s selling it (or not, as the case may be) more or less directly through his own company Directsong. I tried to buy it, but alas, I was too late for a physical copy, and now there isn’t even a download option for some reason?

It’d be nice, though, if someone could officially contact Soule on his potential customers’ behalf (seeing as the ticket system over at the Directsong homepage appears to be terrible). I guess that would have way more impact than an endless trickle of tickets and forum posts.
And there ARE a lot of people who are basically begging for a way to throw money at someone to buy this soundtrack instead of heading over to YT each time they want to listen to it. Or afk-ing ingame to do so. Neither of which are ideal options, especially for those among us who listen to the OST while working, but would love to be offline to limit distractions ._.

CaboSoul.1204:

Mistro.3059:

By crafting about 13 exotics I hit 450, with some being non-discoveries. I bought the inscriptions pre-patch for about 3 gold per, now starting at 5 gold+ per. At 450 you can craft the time gated materials, no real reason to get to 500 right now anyway, it’ll take 10-14 days to craft the whole thing and by then you will likely be at 500.

If that’s true then how are there people that already have several ascended weapons crafted? I thought you needed to be at crafting level 500 to craft ascended weapons.

That’s simply not possible. Are you sure it’s ascended gear? Because if it is, it’s probably a bug.

Not necessarily, no. When you played the game as it should be played, you gathered enough mats to get to 400 already. By then, you should have a character at 70, minimum. Then go to Orr and join the champion farm train there. That’ll get you the materials you need, and when you chop and mine along the way, getting to 500 should be easier than you think.

I’m having the same problem, does anyone know how to fix this?