Guild Wars 2

What make you think this will be the ONLY HoT beta testing?

Before GW2 was release, there were several pubic beta testing which starting of playing only three races and the last two were follow after a test weekend or two.

Yeah it suck some will missed the first one next Tuesday but so what? Just wait for the next one and hopefully the next one will be more convient for you?

Before you asked on my stance, I can played a little at 11.30 but I working in the afternoon so I will missed the 3.30 one but I’m all clear at 7.30 especially when I’m not working on the next day.

While technically I had always played a character of the same gender as me (I’m a guy) but that all change 2 year ago.

I bought a couple of additional character slots to played the remaining professions which one of them was an Elementalist. I rolled with a Sylvari due to them being part of nature however I was never satisfy with the overall look of my character but I still carry on. Mind you this is the second Sylvari character but unlike the first one I made, I didn’t really like the available faces and hairstyles and it was also limited (this was before the new faces and hair update) so I pretty much used my favour ones on my first Sylvari character.

Once I hit the 500 AP mark to get an total makeover kit, I immediately on him but it still the same result. Thank to that kit, I decided to click on the female option to give it a try and I was able to yield much better result and I easily settle on the apperance and I stuck with it ever since. Heck I even had to buy a name contract to rename her now.

Funny thing is that I kind of end up playing dressed up with her aswell when the wardrobe patch came in as the female light armours were much more appealing than the male counterpart and I end up making quite a few armor combo so I kind of changed her armours every few months!

Come on! Just let me in already! I was at work since morning so I haven’t got much time left to get a daily achievement (too late to do anything at the game now but still got time for just 3 dailies if I can get in before midnight)!

Let see

More hair for Asuran (even with the updated hairs, Asura has still got the least amount of hairs).

More horn for Charr (a ram horn would be cool and that horn that cruve downward does not count)!

More tatoos for Norn.

Speaking of tattoos, I think all races should get some tatoo, just small compared to the norn.

I think they should add a slider for the body type since I’m kind of bored of seeing a few skinny female body and a slightly muscular body. Don’t they know that people can have a belly or just super muscalr?

Same apply for the breast (what?)

Also I would like them to somehow add abit of details on the Sylvari head or make it blend better with the hair to the face. A bland Sylvari head just look too clean.

…try winning Dragon Ball five times!

I want the clockwork nightmare (I think that what it was called?) back, the one when the clockwork spawn in a single map and it become a group zerg fest to complete it!

I don’t care how it was lagging it was for some and unlike some people, I liked being in a zerg. I made some much loots out from it!

That would be my thief since I got a white/ silver outline theme going on with his clothing.
Yes I know the Vigil glove is somewhat mess it up by the outlines are too thick but that was the only glove that had the outline but still look good on it (the crafted leather didn’t look right). Also I know using the human tier 3 mask also suit it aswell since it too got the outline effect but I liked the seeker mask better as the colour match well with the shoulder and the neck area.

Well I did get The Enegizer last week when I used the forge (before you asked, I currenty doing one of the dungeo reward tracks and I put in three dungeon weapons and a forge stone into it). I did wonder why of all days I suddently got it so I guess this anwser the question.

Now if only I can get another one since I was blinded by greed and sold it as soon as I saw the price on it (my eyes were literally £_£) before reading it properly that it was a precusor…

Ok sure I don’t used mace in PVP but in PVP and I suppose I did made one buyer very happy but I would of kept it had I read the weapon properly.

Yeah needing five wins to get a daily achieviement? Are you kidding me??? Having three wins is ideal (althought one win is perfect given if it was part of the new achieviement system)!

Sure the matches only last around 5 minutes for me but given my current win/ lost ratio, it took me ages to just get 5 wins especially when my team decided to leave when we were losing. I can’t blame them really given that there is no loot rewards for playing it in the first place

Also what is it with the seasonal/ temporary achieviement being under the old achieviement system (each 4 dailies are worth a point each and while only 3 is needed for the main reward, you can still do the 4th dailies)? Under the new dailies achievement, it should be doing any 2 of the 4 dailies will reward you 4 points and the laurel.

Lastly this isn’t the case of trying harder to be a better at playing it and what nots, everyone were new into it (I doubt anyone remember playing it from Dragon Bash) so it’s not a case of some people being better than others (just yet).

Maybe I was just unlucky with today matches but I do not see myself improving in the coming days.

Yeah I do agreed that it didn’t seen to be promoted well especially compared to Christmas aka Winderday. Chinese New Year is a real holiday!

How does one interrupted them in the first place as I only got 1 by pure luck alone!

I know it’s the dragon kick but is it only when the other player cast the shield can you interrupt them or does interrupt their trap count aswell?

What’s not to get? Doing level 50 is pretty much the hardest level there is in EoTm so far therefore you need the best equipment out there in order to played it.

Think of it like an endgame boss in a RPG, you never wear any mid tier equipment to fight the final boss let alone the starter gears!

Ok sure those rpg game got the best equipment from some chest or monster but in GW 2, you CAN still get the equipment (ascended armours and weapon) for level 50!

Err I already made a thread on it-
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Your-picked-races-for-your-Revenant/first

In saying so, despite what I had typed on my thread, I actually now going to make a female human now.

I had a mess about in the wardrobe with my Asuran character which didn’t give me a good result (the armor proportation are worse on a heavy armor Asuran!) and when I made a female human (I got a spare slot) I had many good armor combination!

The female armours are quite different to a male (the female Barbaric helm look so much nicer compared to the male versions) however female Asuran (and female Charr) only get to used male armorus.

I would assume so and if they do, we would get one character slot to make an Revenant since in Faction and Nightfall we were given two slots to make the new professions.

This is what I got at the moment (they better add new armour sets in the expansion). Funny how I originally wanted the Revenant as an Asuran but the wardrobe are much better as a female human (I didn’t knew the proportation were much worse on a heavy armored Asuran!).

Just to be clear, the colours are not final (was playing as a newly creacted character so I had no access to the shoulder and arm armour pieces) as I have no idea what her colour combo will be (maybe black and orange).

I am still in turmoil with the overal pieces as I prefered the carapace chest piece (I liked the armour part on the next) but there is no similar legging to the carapace (I liked the side skirts). Ok there are a couple but it doesn’t match in my eyes.

Arah legging look ok but it has too much exposed skin for my liking (also I haven’t post the image but an nice alternative to the arm is the arah arm piece).

The story I can see being a problem but using other races in the mist not so much.

I just assuming there is no “races” in the mist per say. I mean once you’re dead, you become part of the mist.

Even then how is a human using a Char hero from the mist is a problem? I’m pretty sure there is no bigotry among the races per say that is unless the Sepertist or Flame Legion can become Revenant but I guessing they will stick to race specificm mist heroes.

EDIT- Now I think about it, maybe they could do something similar like they did with Guild Wars when you take an expansion character into a early/ training mission before the main ones like I took my Assassin into Nightfall first mission (it was count as a flashback/ past vision). Granted that doesn’t solved it per say since I assume you still need to level up the Revenant character at the start than a already level 80 one.

Err how do you know that it’s only one weapon per secondary profession?

Possible as a minigame althought if they were to make the gliders as a minigame, I see it more as a race.

I wonder if the Asuran will be deeply interested with the Mursaat since “Rata Sum” also spell out Mursaat!

So this topic is simple. We’re getting a new profession therefore we will be picking a races for played as an Revenant. Which races will you picked (bonus for mentioning the gender)?

I am too sad we ain’t getting a new race (preferable Tengu) but still I guess it make sence why there isn’t any since Anet would want us to replayed the story when a new character is made instead of jumping into the fray. Remember the expansion can be bought by a complete newbie and not a veteran.

While I would like to bring all of my 8 characters into the expansion (to played the secondary professions) but ultimately I can see myself bring my Char Guardian into the expansion since he is the one I’m using in the living story so far (well mainly him since I used my Asura Mesmer as an alternative when it come to the jumping puzzles).

I don’t have alot of free time as I used when I first bought the game.

In saying so I probably will bring my Revenant into the expansion. He or she need some love!

I will used my tomes and the scroll to level my up HOWEVER I will be doing the story (I assuming you have to complete the main story first in order to played the exapansion?) and some map complection. I’m just making it easier for myself by maxing my Revenant to its fullest.

I’m thinking either soon (or do they intend to leave a huge gap inbetween season 2 and the expansion?) or sometime during or after Summer like when the game was release.

Warmaster Forgal Kernsson, Lightbringer Tybalt Leftpaw and Magister Sieran.

I want to heard how those three are doing!

X T D.6458:

never seen that before, have you tried relogging and trying to look at another catapult? sometimes relogging helps fix these little glitches.

Yup it’s all fine now when I was playing it today.

Paavotar.3971:

I’m playing on windowed fullscreen and if on loading screen I alt+tab to some other program that is fullscreen mode (not windowed) I get all kinds of funky texture loading failure things. Sometimes everyones weapons are funky pink or all the NPC’s are solid chrome, etc. It’s kinda cool, everyone should try it out

PS. So yeah, looks like for a reason or another, your GW2 couldn’t load the catapult texutre and it looks like that. Reseting the game should do it.

I have a habit of pressing the start button on my keyboard (take me back onto desktop with the start options are display) especially on long loading time. I guess that could be the cause of it.

Hey, so in my recent WvWvW match, the catapult show up as pink for some reason.

I don’t think this count as a bug as when I asked about it on the map, another person say the catapult seen in his/ her screen was normal looking (wooden and brown).

I was just wondering if anybody else encounter something similar to this. I’m getting a feeling something is up with my graphic card and I really hoping this is an one off thing (the catapult continue to shown as pink when I was in the Vinewrath after the WvWvW match).

Honestly, it could had been any Asura to be the head scientist when it come to experiement the new lifeform Sylvari, Vorpp got the short end of the stick well rather the team decided to picked him to be the head scientist to give him some character development.

Sure there no strong evidence that the Tengu will be involved in the possible expansion but I still like to think they will be a playable race.

I think their reason to get involved can be justify like maybe they finally realise they must get involved due to Scarlet attack in LA. I mean are the guards back to their post outside of their wall in LA (I should check this myself) and probably fell guilty for attacking anybody that went near it during the invasion.

Also people, remember this minipet? http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mini_Tsuru_Whitewing Either this character will get introduse soon or they are saving this character in the future.

The used them for three things-
I used them was when there was a level up daily (which no longer exist). I didn’t had much time to played the game on that day especially when that character exp progress was on the left side than right.

I used to use them to level up an up a new created character but thanks to the new level up system, I lost interest in BL chest farming via a new character.

I also used them just to get more skill points to buy stuff from that NPC near the forge.

These days however they are useless for me.

Schwarzseher.9873:

Trahaerne should be put on a military trial for high treason. Ordering the airfleet to fly on such a low altitude so they can get shot down by the enemy AA and getting boarded by enemy assault teams, this should bring him at least the death sentence.

What make you think it was unintentional from Trehaerne part? Maybe he was a spy or sleeper and betray the pact by leading them to a trap? (Why they fly so low.)
I am having a strong feeling that Treherne will turned on us sooner or later as his general purposed in the game is kind of over know (cleance Orr).

I got quite a few questions at the end of the video (I knew the assult will fail as I felt it will be an oppersite reaction when our character slayed the champion)-

Who/ what and why with the Sylvari and the Mothertree? I break it down-
Why did the Mothertree break away from Mordremoth? Yes the simple answer is like Glint to Kralkatorrik but I think it’s abit more detail than that which lead me to another thing.
I feel that this somehow retconned the Sylvari origin. At the moment my theory is that Mordy was the real being that “planted the seed” during the end of Eye of the North exapnsion from Guild Wars. This in turned had Ronan and Ventari interfered with the Mothertree upbringing which resulted her from astray from Mordy plan. Maybe she had a dream of Ronan family death which she started to feel empathy or maybe Ventari teaching greatly influence her to changed her destiny. I also guessing, knowing that they are nothing more than dragon minions, their kind got nothing to lived for so she used Ventari teaching to give her saplings a path/ purpose in life.

Ok got that out of my head and move onto the other part of the video.
Just where exactly did the Pact ships went to and where did those Sylvari came from? I amusing they are either Nightmare Court, Soundless or the other Sylvari not from the Grove or Mother Tree?
Also this will not bold so well fro the Sylvari npc like Laranthir of the Wild (I wonder how Almorra Soulkeeper will react?).

Lastly, nice try Anet, you don’t fool me just yet as in the video making it out be a proper expansion (new lego). I mean if it was a real expansion, what about our characters that we haven’t played the living story with or does buying it will shortcut those characters to the main expansion story?

EDIT- Ah! I almost forgot about Tanmi? Where is she anyway? I forgot about her whereabout from the last episode.

I think they should be more of the cultural armours. I loved the Slyvari organic armours but it’s plain seeing the Slyvari npc wearing the same mix and match of the three armours (surely the team got alot more sketches of those armours being unused?).

Also yeah at this point in the patches, they should be made as skin at this point since they are useless in both rarity (only rare and not exotic) and stats.

Let see (other than what the above people had mention already)-

You should be able to get/ loots the mats of your choosing than getting the mats you based depending on the mats level (so sick of getting thick leather and Mithril). Better yet, a trader npc to trade in the mats for another mats (yes I know about the forge but you need a full stacks and even then the forge will upgrade it).

The characters you befriend/ were with during the first part of the personal story should be more involved (or possible companions).

Ascended Light armor should have LESS damasks need to craft!!!

Getting more Guild Wars armours (e.g. Kurzick and Luxon) and it shouldn’t be one type only per armour class, ALL should be available (e.g. getting both Nerco, Ritalist, Ele etc for the light armour).

Storage bank for the tonics like how the mats and pet got their own storage.

SFR need to be less aggressive when it come to EoTM!!

Jumping Puzzles should be an instance like map and its layout change according to the character race. Seriosuly how can a Norn or Charr runs the Troll’s End jumping puzzle???

The champ weapons should no longer be drop in specific chests. Example, Crystal Guardian can be drop in any chest than just the three chests its currently reside in (yes it will be it will be alot rarer so make them all having higher drop rate)!

I apologise if this was mention already (I haven’t got time to read all 34 pages!) but I want to see an extreme/ ultimate makeover time which this version allow you to change your character race! I regret making a Charr guardian instead of an Asura and having a Asura engineer instead of a Charr and also a Norn Warrior instead of a Norn Nercomancer!

Yes I know I can just delete and create a new characters but come on, my characters were created on release day and I ain’t got time to travel them everywhere in Tyria!

I know they will never make the said item given to the choices we made in the first part of the stories (personal story) unless that progress was just a quick button click on the decisions to take.

Strange, I view myself to be AP obsess (as I typed this I got over 22100) and yet I am not fully obsess to do those repeatable dailies on Winterday despite my obsession.

I guess I just view those repeatable as “optional” achievements, something I can choose to get it or or not and I can lived that I ain’t invested my full time into it despite I will earn more from it

Granted I am doing the repeatable dailies except snowball fight and toypolaypse since most are parts of the Winerday dailies thus I am still getting it at a slower pace.

I liking it so far but in saying so this is coming from a player who does most if not ALL of the daily achievements (the only ones I don’t do is the dungeons related dailies).

To those who don’t like the new update, try doing the PVP AND the WvWvW dailies on a daily basis (getting the daily defenders is the worse as it depend if the commander is good and if the zerg is large enough) as it’s pretty much end up being a chores especially when I aim to fill 2 ranks bars per day (well it’s varies depending if I got alot of free times or now). Doing all three game modes takes hours when I have other stuff to do.

This new update saved alot of time from my end and it making it less of a burden for the better.

Lastly yes I fully aware they are not making up do the daily as it’s up to me if I want to do it or not.

So this is something I had notice for a while now. When it come to these living stories event, the Vigil and the Durmon Priory are involved but what about the Order of Whisper? I mean look at this-

Vigil-
Their HQ temporary become “Lion Arch” when Scarlet conquer Lion Arch.
The Tequatl update introduce Warmaster Narru
The Triple Trouble introduce Warmastesr Zepp, Yipp and Xutt (how wasn’t the Whispers not involved in this considering this event happened right on their doorstep)
Even before the Living Story season 1 and 2, they are involved against the Dragon Champion Claw of Jormag and The Shatterer.

Durmand Pirory
They introduce us their library in Echoes of the Past living story.
Three new members were added in Dry Top
Explorer Campbell was introduse in the Ghost of Fort Salma mission.
They assisted Majory by temporary given them their foundings from Scarlet past events.

Order of Whispers
???

Maybe I am mising something, the Whisper are so good at hiding and being secretive, I had completed forgotten their members or their involvement in the living story so far. Seriously does anyone remember or know any new Order of Whispers NPC introuduce in the stories so far so I know for sure we haven’t been hanging out or visiting their base.

Seriously anyone on Anet who are reading this. Can you please consider having the Whispers to be more involved in the upcoming living stories or introuducing a new minor LoW NPC or two?

Their involvement would of been perfect back in the Tower of Nightmares event like they were the ones who infiltrate the tower before us and provided intel in the infrastruture and had hid long enough from the Kraits and Nightmare Court eyes.

Sure they operate from the shadow but not so much that we didn’t know they were involved in the first place!

Who else is bum out for their lack of involvements in the stories so far given that they were the first Orders I joined up for my first character (they speciality suited my human theif).

So does anyone know if the shoulder chect reward per character has remain intact in the previous living story?

I was trying to redo the stories again with an alt but I got sidetrack and redoing the stories again with no shoulder chest reward is not worth the time even when the other loots are decent (my alt is only at the second mission start the start of season 2 LS).

You do know that Rylock is wearing a Seer Mask right?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Seer_armor

Any light armours can wear the Seer armor which none of them are Ritualist (Necromancer, Elementist and Mesmer).

Honestly I would prefered for them to put a cap on the amount of daily achievements you get get per day. I mean while there are 12 available, once you get 5, no more achievements will be given but the overall daily rewards will be 10 instead of 5.

Yes I know they are not making us to do the dailies but some of us are achievements hunter (or are driven to get the big reward from reaching the 5k mark) and they are so time consuming.

People should be coming back to it due to how fun it is, not for the daily goal they had set up.

I have been able to get most of the past LS achievement lately escept for the first living story, Zephr’s Ascent and the jumping on hay after that one.

Seriously WTF ANET? Why must you punish us Char and Norn players when it come to Jumping Puzzle??

Sure while I got the past achievements done thank to LFG (some people are back on track trying to get past achievement done) but for this achievement alone? No Mes is that helpful enough to redo that jp unless he or she is getting paid at the end of it ().

What’s not to get? The general tatic to this is pretty much being on the offensive and distract the other team right at the start.
The only time I see this being utalise is in Forest of Niflhel and Skyhammer (althought the forst is more effective at this) since there are two doors at the base, one toward the nearest cap and the other toward the other team base.

This what usually what happened when the tatic apply when that person who rush to the other team cap-

1. The team capped it and went to the Svanir or Cheiftain, that person start to decapped it thus losing their point right at the start. Granted a person can come back to fight that person.

2. Someone was there to guard it so a fight ensure which will depend who will died first.

3. More than one person defend it and it is the same at above.

Granted to fully utalize this tatic to the fullet, the player pretty much got to have a high survival skill or to tank the other player. In another word, a good player.

All in all this tatic served to distact the other team and making them gaining less point right at the start.

I was in the hot joined sort of matches (not solo or team matches) but in saying so I did volunteers alot (how do people not know you get 25 points more for autobalance while still keeping the wining side 500 points?). So the autobalance is not counted toward the capped per say so it is kind of like excess points?

Also yes when I mean getting the capped limits, I mean getting both the end track champ chest and the weapon chest (or dungeon armour at the final track).

So today I was doing my usual spvp runs but today was different. When I was about to reach the last ranks need to put me into the caped limit, it already capped me out.

I know I wasn’t at 20% already because my cap start at the beggining of the first track and end at the end track reward (at the champ/ weapon or dungeon chest). Does the amount of wins/ lost of amount of played are a factor into the capped (before you asked, I was having a winning streak but I drop out into a losing team at the last played since I figure I can saved some time since I didn’t needed 500 points to get the final rewards)?

I’m just wondering if anyone else encounter this or is it some kind of a bugged? Keep in mind that this haven’t happened in the past weeks (starting at the beginning of the track and end at the rewards) until today.

Let put it this way, before the Patch Cobalt was like 6g and after the patch it had increase to 9k and something similar with Arc. I know this since I was thinking of buying those two before the patch. Ok that doesn’t sound much but I pretty sure the other unquie exotic weapons and items needed for the collection achiviement did skyrocketed after the patch.

Yeah I fed up with the majority of it being trendcoats. The only thief like armours I can get for my thief is mainly sneakthief, Inquest, Human cultural tier 3 and Koda which is too limited for me.

My ranger on the other had got no problem with my current wardrobe setup (Drake helm, prowler shoulder, ascended chest, arah glove, sneakthief legging and inquest boot) since he kind of look like an actual ranger in some military fantasy army.

In saying so heavy armours got it the worse while I think Anet are bias toward light armours (which come in ALOT of range).

Wow, I didn’t know we were complaing that much to warrant a gaming site to picked it up.
Heh someone over there make a good point in the comment. Remember that manifesto trailer when one of the team say how boring it is to swing a sword over and over again. Guess what, that’s what we are exactly doing in the dumb down start of the game now!

So if I read this right, we can get two keys at the lower level, one at the level 10 mission reward and when the character reach level 20?

I admit that when I bought a new slot for the purpose of key farming, I actually end up loving a female Charr thief (she look great and has sassy dialogue).

What I guess I’m saying is maybe it isn’t a bad thing if I decide to quit key farmning.

Also if it’s longer and harder to level up, well those Tome of Knowledge will come in handy now but they won’t last for long (you used them faster than levelling up normally)

So chances are, you have preview the new armours exclusived in pvp? So what do you think of it?

I think heavy looked ok, medium is the set I liked the most despite it’s more warrior/ heavy looking and light is my least favourite.

Overall, while the armours are kinda cool but they are not desireable for me to set my reward track on it (right now my pirority is to complete the dungeon armours and weapons achievement, how the heck did I missed out one armour piece in Arah???).

EDIT- For those who don’t know how to preview it (under bank/ craft inventory, go to the outfit and type “Glorious” in the seachbar above it) here is the link on GW2 wiki-
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glorious_armor

It’s not a total screwed over. It just means you have to buy a whole bunch of orrian jewely boxes again which is not a bad thing unless you’re low on karma (since openning those does give a chance of lodestones).