Guild Wars 2

I see you painted in a mustache and eye patch as well.

Texas Gaymers is seeking active people for a good time.

You can be any of the following to join. LGBT or Straight.

We aren’t a huge massive guild but we have constant players on every day and are continuing to grow. We do dungeons, jumping puzzles, wvwvw and have Vent and a website.

You can also apply at gaymers.enjin.com

See you in game!

I would take a strong guess that because of Karma Jugs and Karma in dungeons, Legendaries are even more attainable now.

Thanks for the reply. I was more or less being sarcastic. Tired of the boot when ever I join a party and they notice I’m not on my 80.

That all dungeons level req are 80? I was just informed that no matter where you go you need to be 80 and in exotics.

I have 2 80’s not like I haven’t done the dungeons before.

What is with Elitist mentality?

Unless you are 80 full exotic you aren’t allowed to step into a dungeon.

Is getting into wvwvw based on who ques first or other factors? Me and my friend both wanted to wvw yesterday.

I queued first and he queued about 5min later. We both queued to the same place.

Why did he get in before me?

No I wasn’t zoning dead or afk. Was just standing around in Lion’s arch.

I’d tap it…15

I was noticing that I never see poison stacked. If there is a poison on a mob and I apply mine that stack size doesn’t go up.

Am I still damaging the mob with mine, as well as the other persons poison? Or does it only reset the timer?

How are people translating this?

I’d rather take burning. We have no access to burning. It’s get the biggest % of damage upgrade for each point of condition damage.

Call it whatever you want but I’d rather take burning. I mean elementalists get bleed and poison, so we should get burning.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Like the title says, the dungeons currently encourage players to play them while taking off all their armor. Many of the dungeons contain challenges that are so gimmicky and trial and error, that players are better off removing all armor pieces to prevent them from being damaged in their many tries to get through.

I do not understand why this is designed this way. Its not fun, because it punished players for attempting the dungeon. It punished them by taking their money. It woudn’t be so bad, if the challenges themselves were fun, or if there weren’t the most ludicrous armor repair costs involved.

Players usually enjoy attempting a challenge. They don’t enjoy it if every attempt costs them (a lot of) money, and the challenge itself isn’t that much fun either.

Are we expected to try and try again completely naked until we pass an obstacle?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not venting my anger because it is too hard.

IT IS NOT TOO DIFFICULT!

But it discourages players to have fun, and it discourages to practice at all. And that I am very angry about. Currently I see no reason to ever do a dungeon ever again, and I used to love doing dungeons in other MMO’s.

Am I angry because the game challenges me? No, of course not. What I’m angry about is having to try and recharge a stupid golem suit through a tunnel in Arah filled with insta-kill spiders in the most gimmicky way possible, while trying to keep everyone inside the field and it recharged at all times with all the lag going around, and then get one player to also activate the party speed boost in time. How many fails does it take before the party realises, this is not fun, and not worth the effort?

And what would my reward be after making it through gimmicky-tunnel? Probably another gimmicky obstacle that requires trial and error. I do not enjoy trial and error!

Run AC…Every boss drops 5s and their chest and the last boss drops 15s.

1) We have a mark that transfers our conditions.
2) We have a pretty fast recasting heal that cures all conditions on us.
3) We can turn them into boons.
4) Can’t remember if it’s a skill or signet, but it sends all conditions to a foe as well.
5) If your DS is full DS till you they go away.
6) You can spec so your minions take conditions.

I think we are pretty dam well off compared to some other classes. Do you realize in a big fight how many conditions one can get in 10sec?

Nope. You can’t get them back

Necro…They already have a huge amount of hp.

It’s a RNG…I’m not sure why p[people would go farm 15k or 25k bags for a tonic. People keep calling it gambling.

It’s not gambling have you ever opened the bag and not received an item? Then it would be gambling.

If you bought your bags then it’s your own fault for spending that kind of money.

He dead already. He just manifested himself. I think it will just take him a year to be able to appear again.

it also depends on your server. On mine the event starts and ends because it fails pretty quick because noone is doing it.

They are not “bugged” they are closed. Everyone is doing MK and not the events in Orr that open that gate.

People love to whine. Whine Whine Whine. Not enough cheese in world to go with all the whining in these forums.

I can see it all being repeated accept the Lion in Lion’s arch part. Since he has reappeared after 250 years maybe there is enough energy to manifest once a year.

As we have seen the Durmond Priory has figured out to “channel” and contain the energy. Who says they couldn’t create a gateway to the tower, labyrinth, Mad King himself still. It would just take all year to get that amount of energy.

Or it could be something entirely new for GW2.

Joey.3928:

Whoa. Awesome idea. I like the idea of rebuilding the statue ourselves. It would be like in WvW where you repair doors etc.

Of course how would this work with overflow servers? Does the statue need to get repaired for each instance or just in the main server?

Not to compare to another game but for an expansion in EQ2, there was a giant world event that had us build gateways to the new plane.

Those gates are still the only way to get there.

You had people that had the trade skill build the items to make it, and people who didn’t could gather the material.

Would be great to see something similar.

Keiran.1896:

So, now we have almost seen all the content of Halloween, I’m sure that some developpers are already working on some content for Christmas. So, maybe that if they read a few threads sometimes, we could inspire them? Anyway, I’m just curious, so what you, players, would you like to see in that event?

In Guild Wars 1, it was a fight between two gods, Grenth (death) and Dwayna (life). Grenth wanted to set an eternal and deadly winter on Tyria, while Dwayna wanted spring to come back. We were able to choose our side – yea, even the bad guyz.

Grenth minions were called Grentchs ( http://huntersinsight.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/grentch.jpg ), and they were very good at ruining Wintersday by making trapped gifts and destroying kids’ snowmens.

Dwayna had minions too – snowmens ( http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/thumb/a/a8/Snowman_(smiling).jpg/150px-Snowman_(smiling).jpg ) and their goal was obviously to make Wintersday an happy party.

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Now, in Guild Wars 2, as far as I know, gods have not been seen for a while. But that didn’t prevent Mad King from coming back, so I guess we have good chances to see them again!

The first thing that I would want for Wintersday is obviously Lion Arch being decorated. Snow, garlands, giant gifts, kids having fun, small details, that was the magic of Guild Wars 1 parties!

For the “real content”, I’d love to see an area dedicated to the event, like Mad King’s labyrinth. But we would have to chose our side (Grentchs or Snowmens? ) and all our skills would be replaced by special skills (Snowball fight!) and that would create a huge PvP fight with events like WvW (thought there may be balance problems if a side is overplayed?).

For the dungeons, I’d love to see two mini dungeons like Mad King’s fight, involving killing the boss of Snowmens or Grentchs (so involving chosing your side again).

For items, I’d also love Halloween’s model. Looting Candy Cane Shards (->like Pieces of Candy), crafting Candy Canes, also using gold items (Snowballs? Candies? Ribbon?) and opening Wintersday Gifts (->like Candy Bags).

On Arenanet’s side, I’m sure that they’ll find tons of costumes and hat to sell. Even maybe skins in Black Lion Chests.

So, let’s come back to our main question: and you?

SNOWBALLS! MOAR SNOWBALLS! One of my favorite heart quests is throwing snowballs at the kids. Would love to grief and be griefed with snowballs in Lion’s Arch. Maybe make it a brawl type thing.

RawkFist.1935:

Couldn’t agree more. I have ran this with guildies non-stop. We don’t care about DR, it’s the joy of “Mad King” says + mob slaughter + boss fight + jumping puzzle all in one! FANTASTIC job on this ANet. =)

Lol I have so many deaths attributed to dodging off the jumping puzzle by accident. I’ve died once to the king.

Not a complaint.

He pops in and out but is blasted back down by the dumond priory.

I absolutely love his voice acting. They did an amazing job.

I don’t use any hacking or bot programs. I was in LA and noticed I can zoom out pretty dam far now. Farther then before.

Maybe the camera range doesn’t zoom out after you do Mad King?

It’s probably a shot at the Euro people all up in arms over it. They were convinced they miss something special and miss out on a reward.

Props to ANET for not spoiling what was coming.

Apparently people can’t read or refuse to read. It’s been stated why it’s at the time it is. If people bothered reading some threads instead of making a new one every time, they have found out there is NO REWARD either.

Do people seriously not read other threads?

THERE IS NO REWARD.

You aren’t missing anything. Watch it on Youtube.

The stipulation from Dev hints is it’s PERMANENT so having it multiple times would be silly.

Kahlan.5609:

Ursan.7846:

Anet stated already that this one-time event won’t have anything to do with achievements.

What about items?

Read through the other 200 whining posts about it. NOTHING IS BEING GIVEN.

Everyone is so up in arms. Anet said their peak time is when they are releasing it. From what it sounds like it’s one time because:

1) There is no reward
2) It sounds like it’s a permanent change

You don’t receive anything from the event. Im guessing there will so many people it won’t even render proper to view it all.

Look at all the Korean European games. They have their games events and times set there timezone. Hmmm who’d of thought that a US company would do the same thing.

Really? You can’t please everyone. ANET is a US company not Asian or European. Get over it.

Sera.6539:

Also, if you have a Necromancer, you can effectively lower the amount of coordination needed from 5 to 4 torches. A minion can help distract (as it will be invulnerable to hits (it won’t attack either) on the north most torch.

Discovered that by accident yesterday. Was standing up there so I’d only aggro 2 instead of 3 and I was invulnerable.

I would but since I deleted my original town cloths awhile back before realizing i can’t get anymore i can’t test it.

Safari.3021:

just as a comparison:

Yesterday myself and a guildy did some eventing together around cursed shore

She ran with 0 magic find as an elementalist
I ran with 225% extra magic find as a trap+sword/horn Ranger

In 90 minutes she got 3 rare drops, I got 11.

Do your own test, same events, same amount of time, If the extra amount of rare drops, 15s each at the tp is worth it for you, then stick with it, if not, return to your TA armor. I didn’t really notice any significant difference in drop quality until I breached the 130% mark in extra mf, any less than that and you may as well stick with the TA armor.

If I’m honest, I’m considering swapping my mf armor for something else with more stats, I’m a little bit squishy atm, especially after the last patch and the changes to penitent/shelters and wondering if the loss of mf and a gain in vit/tou stats on the armor pieces (a loss of 18% mf) would be worth while.

225% extra mf:
6 pieces exotic explorers 6×3% =18%
5x Pirate runes 50%
1x Travellers rune 10%
5x exotic accessories = 5×7% =35%
1x exquisite gem in back slot = 4%
travellers weapon 3%
25x stack of luck 15%
guild boost 10%
omnom/lotus fries 30%
mf booster 50%

This sometimes increases to 235% if i find a guild banner about.

Give me a few to find it but I’m pretty sure I read the past 60% magic find benefit take a huge nose dive.

I know….PLEASE change it I might be drunk and not get to enjoy it fully 10am tomorrow will be great.

KK THX!

Anet can’t please everyone. These threads are getting tiresome. Doesn’t matter what time they release it someone will be unhappy about it. Get over it.

Haven’t run TA post patch. Im more curious as to the worms range. They already had ridiculous range to begin with.

You mean the made it so his aoe does the actual intended damage?

Looking for a solid group of people to run Arah. I need path 1 and 4 for my title. It’s painfully hard to find anyone willing to do 1 and 4.

I have Full exotics and am 80 if that matters.

Well from the sound of it neither one of you have done story quest. Fort trinity is in the Straits of Devastation. Your personal story takes you there. If you haven’t been there yet just wait till you get there on your story.

If you have completed the story go into Fort Trinity and head towards the air ship. There is a door on the left you go through before airship ramp, it will pop up window asking if you want to enter.

That’s why I only play craps.

Tailors can craft the ruins of the mad king. You look at them? Their pretty nice

Can you guys either add a zoom option to it or make the character farther back in the screen.

I have a Sylvari and 100% of staff are cut off at the top, some tridents and spears as well.

Thanks

I was looking at the updates and information on the event and have a question now.

I don’t purchase items for real money from games. I will however convert gold to gems.

My question is before I do this will they costumes in the actual gem store be the same next year or should I convert all my gold to gems and get them now? Anyone know?

Well can’t confirm for you since my Sylvari has always had red eyes. They are still red in the event so I’d agree you have a graphics issue.

God forbid your hand isn’t held. I’ve played quite a few MMO’s I hate hand holding. Where the challenge in that. There are plenty of MMO’s that you can click the quest and it will even run you to the location.

Having to explore some is refreshing, I wish there was more of it.

What’s a game based almost entirely for skins.

It’s called Granado Espada. Look it up. Sure there are other aspects to it, but mainly it’s for the armor and weapon looks.