Guild Wars 2

Usually by right-clicking his name in mapchat and then report for botting (I think that’s the best category here). If you don’t have that option anymore, do you still remember his name (as in, exactly, not “Anton McSomethingorOther”, because that might get someone innocent banned)? You can submit a ticket or go through the support option on this site and state the name of the offending player there. Just not in public on the forum.

Probably from the party interface and comparing a profession’s base stats with your actual health pool. He’d know (whyever anyone would actually bother to memorise that) what kind of stats you have on your gear – for profession X to reach hp Y, you’d need Z extra vitality, which he assumed you got through gear rather than through build (or he wanted you to not invest a single trait point in anything other than poer and precision, whatever).

Edit: Ninja’d…
Now that I think about it, does the party interface give exact health points? I use the reduced version and never had any reason to check (mainly because I don’t run any meta builds on any of my characters and don’t give a small rodent’s backside about what the people I PUG with do…).

Rogue of Time.4732:

Red Queen.7915:

Ranged warriors are kind of, well, useless in PvE. And in PvP, fights aren’t as organised as you might imagine. There is no “shooting comfortably from way behind” if you can’t keep the enemy at a distance. And… why would you play a support role to keep one of the tankiest classes in the game from taking damage? I don’t quite understand your reasoning here, or that of your friends, for that matter. If your friends want DDs that can stand comfortably in the back (albeit out of reach of boons), then longbow warriors are the last thing they should be playing, and they are better off with elementalists, rangers or even necromancers. Those classes were made with ranged combat in mind, while the warrior is mainly a melee class.

In PvE, it’s counter-productive to your entire plan if you stick with your warriors, away from the mob, and stack might and aegis and whatnot on them while your DPS (?) guy is face-tanking the mob and receiving no boons at all because you’re too far away. And when you stick together as a group right in front of the mob, the longbow warriors are really inefficient and better off using melee weapons while you dish out boons to keep them from dying (as a guardian or elementalist, for example).

The biggest reason they were looking at ranged Warrior was for survivability. It’s basically my wife and my friend’s wife, and they’re not used to kiting for fifty years while also managing Conditions and micro-managing pets and whatnot – they like things plain and simple. Hit things hard, stay away from scary things. They’re not hardcore gamers – just casual players that want to have fun.

I’m probably the closest thing we’ve got to a “hardcore gamer”… I’ve played a lot of MMOs but never Guild Wars, so I was hoping to help keep them alive while they kill stuff. I know things aren’t really like that in Guild Wars 2, which is what’s causing my problem picking a class.

Well, that makes sense.
But the beauty of GW2 is that it’s not a hardcore game if you don’t make it one. PvE is pretty easy, even on high levels, and even Arah and fractals are kind of easy once you know the mechanics. Playing an elementalist and standing juuust at the egde of your boon radius would give them some measure of safety while helping them kill stuff before it can hurt them, or an engineer who just slows everything down to a crawl before it can reach them. Even better, a staff elementalist in water attunement has two water fields that can be blasted for even more healing than just the personal heal skill, so actually, in a group that’s organised and communicates, this is one of the easiest classes to play in my opinion.
For PvP, if they want to experiment, it sounds like they are prime candidates for turret engineers – little buggers that just place their turrets and hunker down on a point while taking potshots at anyone who comes too close, or rangers who snipe enemies from way behind the actual frontlines.

For your current situation, an elementalist or guardian for you would be a good start, and maybe a little change of tactics so your entire group benefits from boons – that is, never having too much distance between the party members. Practicing this can serve as a slow introduction to kiting. For a change of pace, rangers for the ladies might be good. Pet micro-managment in PvE is mostly “press F2 when it’s available”, and that’s that. A longbow ranger can keep pretty much everything nasty in PvE far enough away, with bow skill 4, utilities and traps, to prevent damage while turning their target into a pin cushion. They’d be out of reach of your boons, but they wouldn’t need them if two tanks keep the beasties occupied.

Just to give you an overview of easy-to-play classes for group adventures. But for your current boon and support needs, again, elementalist or guardian would be a good addition to your group.

MrInfro.2501:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Donari is correct. No price has been announced as yet. Nor has it been announced whether or not we’ll be able to purchase the expansion by converting gold to gems. (I know some people are banking on this and are buying gems currently to stock up lol). Personally I figure it’ll be right around 40$ – ish.

As for what’s locked and what’s not after the expansion, here’s what I know thus far:

• The base game will still be available to play. The new content is not mandatory to continue playing it.
• Specializations will only be available to those that purchase the expansion
• Revenent will only be availalbe to those that purchase the expansion
• Mastieries are also only available to those that purchase the expansion
• New chapters of the Living World will also be locked behind the purchase of the expansion (youtube interview, with MattVisual I think. Will reverify)
• Stronghold and new WvW borderland will not be locked behind the expansion purchase. (To not split the playerbase for those play modes)

Thank you for information, this is what I was looking for

And yes, am guessing the price, but I dont think Anet will let money to slip their fingers but they may surprise us

The base game is at 40€ at the moment (sales notwithstanding), it would be really, really weird if an expansion would cost the same amount or more.
I’m guessing (!) it’ll be something like 29,99, because putting the price much higher doesn’t make much sense. If GW1 is anything to go by, it’ll be less than the base game.

Ranged warriors are kind of, well, useless in PvE. And in PvP, fights aren’t as organised as you might imagine. There is no “shooting comfortably from way behind” if you can’t keep the enemy at a distance. And… why would you play a support role to keep one of the tankiest classes in the game from taking damage? I don’t quite understand your reasoning here, or that of your friends, for that matter. If your friends want DDs that can stand comfortably in the back (albeit out of reach of boons), then longbow warriors are the last thing they should be playing, and they are better off with elementalists, rangers or even necromancers. Those classes were made with ranged combat in mind, while the warrior is mainly a melee class.

In PvE, it’s counter-productive to your entire plan if you stick with your warriors, away from the mob, and stack might and aegis and whatnot on them while your DPS (?) guy is face-tanking the mob and receiving no boons at all because you’re too far away. And when you stick together as a group right in front of the mob, the longbow warriors are really inefficient and better off using melee weapons while you dish out boons to keep them from dying (as a guardian or elementalist, for example).

It’s hilarious how the NPE is supposed to ease new players into the game, but at the same time confuses the hell out of them. And anyone who knows what they are doing but can’t turn it off goes into rage mode regularly. Myself included, and I’m rather patient when it comes to stuff that, ultimately, is just a game after all.

I do so hope it gets changed back into something that requires more than the skills and intelligence of an amoeba to level up. At least I think the traits “system”/trainwreck is getting a rework at the moment. It’s the single biggest reason my brand new elementalist has spent most of her time in PvP, and I don’t even like PvP that much. But then I still have to unlock T3 traits I need for PvP builds in PvE (in level 80 areas no less, which this character can’t access because I want to level her up with tomes first to avoid the awful new “leveling experience”) or dump a hundred skillpoints to get them, which I don’t have because my character isn’t even level 30 yet. Gah >.<

I feel you, OP. At least an option to turn it off if one so wishes would be greatly appreciated. I know some things aren’t locked once you have gotten one character to a certain level, but there is still so much that’s locked and makes absolutely no sense to me.

If you bought the game online and received the serial in an email, Delgan is right, it should be there unless you deleted the email.
If you bought the game on disc and lost the code, then it’s probably gone for good.

Don’t worry too much, though, I think I remember someone from staff mentioning that having the serial number isn’t the only way to prove you own an account if you ever do get hacked. But if you’re freaking out about account security, you can start by using email authentication, and regularly checking those settings for old IPs that are still authorised to access your account without confirmation and deleting those you don’t need anymore. Not as fool-proof as the mobile authenticator, but better than nothing.

So it happenend once or twice, which is why you don’t do it often, but you’re convinced there is a pattern anyway? Even though you said it doesn’t happen all the time?

And you said your “sample size” isn’t that large. You know what’s also not a large sample size? The guy who got a precursor from a guild mission and on the same freaking day pulled another one out of the forge. Now I could call this a pattern, but I highly doubt there is one.

There are eleven fractals, not all of which can be first, second or third fractal interchangeably, plus three boss fractals. There are bound to be runs that are nearly identical. Just because I got the stupid hammer fractal three times in a row for second fractal doesn’t mean RNG does this on purpose (which would be the complete opposite of RNG). This isn’t the lottery; chances are your numbers will be pulled more than once in a blue moon. And that ring you got twice… how often did you receive it in total? Because getting the same ring twice isn’t that huge of a coincidence (I have two identical rings from fractals, and I maaaybe do a run twice a month on average. Maaaybe.)
If you try to reproduce this mystery bug, I’d wager you’ll see it doesn’t happen all the time, not even most of the time, even if the circumstances are always identical.

Shiren.9532:

There was a new face in the first trailer (a bark-like sylvari male) and I believe some Living World NPCs have shown new hairstyles, so I expect new hairstyles/faces to launch in the near future.

Not like it matters. Unlike in games like WoW where hairstyles are relatively affordable NPC interactions, in GW2 they are monetised and incredibly expensive.

Well, yeah, so greedy, having us pay a subscription and for meaningless cosmetics like hairsty-
Oh, wait. Never mind.

BTT: There haven’t been new hairstyles and faces for a while, I suppose they are saving them for the expansion. I hope they do. My asura really need something new and fancy.

azurrei.5691:

Red Queen.7915:

Please no. That would defeat the very definition of a “legendary” weapon

Totally invalid as $250 already simply buys a legendary weapon… however, precursor (even if account bound) doesn’t really make sense, regardless.

How about a special ticket for an account bound black lion weapon skin of your choice (for each alt!)? Now that sounds awesome!

Because a few well-off individuals buying their legendaries is totally the same thing as everyone getting a precursor for free…

Why is everyone so keen on bizarrely expensive birthday gifts, anyway? oO Kinda makes me wish there weren’t any gifts at all…

Please no. That would defeat the very definition of a “legendary” weapon (as non-legendary as those weapons already are, this would be plain ridiculous). Precursor crafting/scavenger hunt is coming (confirmed), so it’s no longer a matter of RNG, and just handing them out would be even more pointless. I’d get three in the span of a month, six until Christmas. Why would that be desirable?

Donari.5237:

Red Queen.7915:

Donari.5237:

In all my years of MMOing I’ve never been able to WASD. Not only do I have small hands, I’m generally muscle-memory limited to one key tap at a time, no combos, and while I’m a fine touch typist I can’t reliably hit the WASD movement keys while focusing on the screen during combat. Hurray for the Naga HEX mouse, with its simple array of 6 buttons by my thumb. That covers all movement needs, leaving the keys free for firing off abilities.

TESO is a bit annoying in that I can’t mouse move forward, but at least I only have to hit W and the mouse buttons do the rest. GW2 and TESO both have nice short sets of buttons needed for the abilities as well.

So the Naga Hex is actually useful for people with tiny hands? I’ve been thinking about it, but since our local stores never have it I can’t test it, and I’m reluctant to just order it when it might not be worth it. I’d be so, so happy if this were a gaming mouse I can actually use comfortably.

Yep, it’s not much larger than a regular two-button-with-scroll-wheel mouse. I have it on one of those pads with a gel wrist rest at the front end. My hand’s close to 7" from base to middle finger tip and with the heel of my palm solidly on the gel my fingers reach to the ends of the left/right buttons with my thumb curving comfortably around the side. I rest my palm on the mouse, which meant getting used to how hot it gets over the Razer logo … but I’d say hands in the normal small range will have no problem with the HEX.

Hmm… my hands are a bit shorter (which is why I have been using the same model of tiny, tiny laptop mouse for years), but it sounds like ithe Naga Hex might just work.
Thanks for the info, I guess I’ll give it a try in the near future

Paul.4081:

Just like my opinion man but…

New prof. am I looking forward to it – no
New areas am I looking forward to them – no
Will I buy the xpac after the LS/SAB/NPE/Trait content we’ve gotten the past 2 years – no, same dev’s so same rubbish content only this time paid for.

All the additions to GW2 since release to me have been tripe so I’m defo not buying more of the same. I was on the fence a bit but it seems like Anet are still incapable of creating difficulty without taking control completely away from our toons.

Shame, I remember when I got Nightfall from PC World just after Christmas a few year ago and bought Factions after a few hours of play. These aren’t rose tinted glasses btw, they are simple cold hard truth tinted.

“I say the game is rubbish!” = cold hard truth. Uh… what?

OP, we don’t know too much about HoT yet, but I doubt that players will leave en masse because of HoT. Some might simply not buy it, but leave because of something they don’t have… meaning it has zero impact on the game they do have? That doesn’t make sense…

Most of those aren’t NPC exclusive, they are on the wiki under their respective names. And NPCs like Lionguard or bandits wear normal armour sets, too.
There are exceptions, but they usually apply no named NPCs, like Countess Anise.

Then they couldn’t even group, or whisper, or do anything together. Were you bychance already on the same map and just didn’t realise?

It’s been what, half a day? I wouldn’t hold my breath for a response for a few days.

Hm. Then disregard what I said, I thought it was a one-day only thing.

CS doesn’t give you back skins you deleted before the wardrobe. Otherwise, everyone would be asking for a bunch of skins back.

You can certainly try to get on SFR, but the server might be full at this point. You could try to join late at night or at some godawful hour in the morning (like 4am, maybe) to get a spot, though.
The tiers (last column on the leaderboard) give you a rough idea how active/successful (not necessarily the same thing) a server is in WvW. You don’t have to join SFR to get an active WvW server; anything up to Tier 4 (maybe T5) would be a safe bet.

There isn’t much info on that yet, but I don’t think you’ll notice in PvP who has the expansion and who doesn’t, aside from people sporting new skins (if there are any).

Besides, HoT might not be that expensive. Base game is at 40€ at the moment (when it’s not on sale), so HoT will most likely be under the 30€ mark (probably 29,99). Wouldn’t make sense to make it as expensive when it’s nto a standalone campaing like back in GW1.
(Keep in mind that this is not confirmed information, just common sense speculation on my part.)

It’s “coming soon”, the streaming client is not yet available.

Your server choice only influences WvW. Megaserver means that you’ll always end up on a populated map in PvE, with people from other servers, so you’re never alone. If you don’t plan on playing a lot of WvW, you can go wherever. If you want to play a lot of WvW, you can check server ranks here: https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/eu/wvw

Edit: Accidentally linked the NA leaderboard. Sorry.

Classes here can’t be really compared to classic RPGs because GW2 doesn’t have the classic trinity.

Mesmer is a class that’s really squishy, but has options to evade, hide or distract with clones to avoid damage. It can be played melee and from a distance, with conditions or basing its damage on exploding clones near a target. It’s harder to learn than point & shoot rangers or hop in & hit stuff warriors, but has a lot more diversity and a high fun factor, both in PvE and PvP.

Necro doesn’t have much support or buffs (especially for groups), but has good condi builds for PvP, or maybe power necro, if you’re feeling fancy.

For PvE, well, if you want to PUG at some point, just make your own group. This “don’t make X class because people kick those from PUGs!!!111” is… yeah, that’ll end up as a tiny feline on here. Point is, that’s no reason to not make a certain class if you think it’s fun. If people don’t want to join your group because you’re playing a necro, fine, but there will be plenty of people who won’t mind at all.

You can buy an upgrade in the gem store (2000 gems, you just missed the sale, unfortunately), but buying a Deluxe Edition will only get you a second account.

Try opening a ticket with CS. They might take pity on the newling and help you out

Though if you like the skin you picked, too, you might just want to keep it for another character. If you like the game, chances are you’ll end up with a character of every armour class anyway.

Sell on trading post it if it’s over ~35s, salvage with yellow kit if under ~35s to get ectoplasm.

Donari.5237:

In all my years of MMOing I’ve never been able to WASD. Not only do I have small hands, I’m generally muscle-memory limited to one key tap at a time, no combos, and while I’m a fine touch typist I can’t reliably hit the WASD movement keys while focusing on the screen during combat. Hurray for the Naga HEX mouse, with its simple array of 6 buttons by my thumb. That covers all movement needs, leaving the keys free for firing off abilities.

TESO is a bit annoying in that I can’t mouse move forward, but at least I only have to hit W and the mouse buttons do the rest. GW2 and TESO both have nice short sets of buttons needed for the abilities as well.

So the Naga Hex is actually useful for people with tiny hands? I’ve been thinking about it, but since our local stores never have it I can’t test it, and I’m reluctant to just order it when it might not be worth it. I’d be so, so happy if this were a gaming mouse I can actually use comfortably.

Linking an account means connecting a GW1 account with your GW2 account.

Again, if you bought a serial code via the website or a retailer, you bought a second account. And if your first account is supposedly already a Deluxe Edition, you received the items associated with that when you first created it. Check your wardrobe if you have legacy armour in there, or create a new character – if said character gets a golem banker, you have a Deluxe Edition.

About the serial number, you’ll need to submit a ticket to CS, tell them what exactly you were trying to do and what went wrong.

Thread deleted in 3… 2… 1…

Seriously, you shouldn’t post/discuss CS actions in the forum.

Gold will be very easy to come by once you can run dungeons. And even if you don’t want to do that, there are tons of other options. In your case, one I would suggest is mining iron ore (sounds about your level at the moment) and then selling it. You get one silver and something (depends, something abround 1s20c is normal) for each piece, so you’ll need about a hundred pieces of iron ore to make your guild. That’s it. Doable in an hour or less.

No need to decide, you’ll have enough gold for cultural once you reached level 35.

You can’t add a new serial to an existing account. You effectively bought a second account. If you want to add the Deluxe items to your first, non-deluxe account, you’ll need to buy the upgrade in the gem store.

Wait for support to answer your ticket?

This post is rather redundant. Being hacked sucks, but be a little patient and wait for an answer.

Isn’kitten I could’ve sworn it said something like “time is running out” on it, so I thought it was today’s item…
Eh, my bad. It’s still in the shop, though^^

A discount on the Deluxe Edition upgrade; 500 gems instead of 2000.

Guardian is nice for beginners, and ranger is easy enough to play as well, but has a bunch of different builds available to prevent boredom. Necro, too, but your friend might need a little explanation if he’s new to MMOs; but necros can be tanky as hell with the right build so he doesn’t die so easily and can concentrate on killing things.

In the end, race is as important as class to keep a newbie interested, since the first personal story chapters are heavily influenced by this choice. Asura are funny, charr more lore-heavy, and norn are either kitten or completely reckless, pretty cool in any case. Sylvari have less action, I suppose, but don’t require any prior knowledge at all.

Okay, dude, that’s not a bug
(Sorry, this is kinda funny^^)

You are using a guide that’s from a month after release. Lion’s Arch has been destroyed in the meantime, meaning that some of the vistas are not accessible by the ways shown in the video, or have been moved to new locations. You’ll need to find a guide that’s more up to date.

Edit: Oh noes, ninja’d :O

Also, just don’t use any salvage kit on any item. Cheap ones are enough for whites and blues (greens better go to the vendor), but for yellows, you’ll want a yellow salvage kit. Ideally, you also have a Black Lion salvage kit for exotics with expensive runes and sigils, but those are from the gem store and/or Black Lion chests and you might not have any of those handy.

I’d second ranger and guardian. With the ranger’s pet as a tank of sorts, you won’t need to do much combo’ing or chain skills to stay alive and dish out damage.

Coat and gloves are Vigil heavy, too, and the boots are probably Vigil as well.
No idea about the shoulders, though.

Maybe it’s actually the fact that your drivers are up to date. Sometimes, one set of drivers just refuses to work with a single program; not the norm, but it happens.
Can you reinstall an older driver and try again? See if it helps?

Probably not gonna happen. Aside from the fact that it doesn’t happen all that often that you absolutely need to chat to all your officers at once while you PvP or run a dungeon, what would you tie this channel to? Default officer rank? So what about custom ranks?
There are so many options for chat in this game already, it should be totally possible to figure this out, and if you just create an officer guild an go talk there in private.

Not sure how you deduced that from afar, but since GW2 can only work with so many threads at once, unparking cores it doesn’t use at all probably won’t help…

Who would even-
You know what, nevermind, I know people who totally would do this…

Though I love how HoT is listed as more expensive than the base game

Woah, that’s a lot of cash for a laptop oO

First things first: Is the laptop a must? Because for that kind of money, you could get an amazing desktop PC and a laptop to carry around to uni or work or whatever on top of it.

That said, what is this laptop for, exactly? Only GW2 (probably not)? Other games, too? If so, which ones, and in what way do you play them (highest settings, for hours on end, modded to hell and back…)? How long is this laptop supposed to last?
Because there are very few scenarios which justify buying an Alienware laptop (ridiculously overpriced, imo), and knowing a little more about what you intend to do with said laptop might point a helpful soul into the right direction.

Google gives me three possible laptop models from your description, so it’d be helpful if you could post the exact specs here for reference.
The models I found should be enough for okay gameplay, though. That is, they meet the minimum requirements, a little higher in fact. Though I could be mistaken, because none of those models comes with 4GB RAM.
A good start would be disabling anything you don’t need in the autorun menu, and not running anything in the background (except a firewall, or course). Then little stuff, like turning Windows Aero off, or, in-game, turning effects off that you don’t need – number of detailed character models, reflections, shadows, stuff like that.
Additionally, checking your temperatures like Riku said is always a good idea, especially with a laptop that’s juuust above the minimum requirements and has no extra cooling.

Try posting in Players helping Players, with a budget, what you have now and what you want from a new PC. This is rather vague and probably won’t get you any useful answers.

I’m a huge fan of elementalists, definitely a great class to play, and very versatile. Some say it’s hard, but I find it hands down the easiest class to play in this game and still get results (as in, good DPS and survivability, and not relying on godawful pet AI to do PvE content solo).

As for race… humans are boring. They’re everywhere, and GW1 was all-human player characters fighting against the charr, so that makes the charr even more interesting.
If you want some wacky fun in your personal story, try asura, their personal stories are hilarious^^
Besides, you have five character slots, so nothing is keeping you from making more than one alt at a time

Armour is tricky, since there are no reliable sources for scraps. You can farm certain mobs for stuff like rags to salvage into craps, but that hinges on luck.
If you are willing to buy the additional leather and damask you need, you could also farm for spirit wood and deldrimor steel, sell those and then buy damask and leather with the gold, because you can farm metal reliably.
Other than that, you can convert karma armour into scraps, too, but that requires karma farming if you don’t have enough already.

I doubt it ever did that. No skill point node in Tyria gives more than one skillpoint. Like Rayti said, it grants you one skillpoint and then fuses quartz crystals, that’s it.