Guild Wars 2

Lauren Kamieniecki.6245:

If we can all be patient just a little bit longer then we will have more Gods Walking Amongs Mere Morals in the future… but sadly one of them won’t be me.

Just takes time and dedication. You can do it!

Donari.5237:

I didn’t have to retrieve my rifle after swimming, either. I was on my Thief; I’ve heard that Engineers have been a bit bugged there, and I have heartfelt sympathy for anyone that only has an Engineer and is thus barred from Princess.

I’m glad you mentioned that. I was using my engineer, because he is pretty mobile compared to my other characters. I took my Ranger and breezed through the rest of the collection.

Draknar.5748:

……6 times made you rage quit?

There are far worse jumping puzzles in terms of clearing the start (Skipping Stones for example).

Do people honestly feel like they should be able to get through jumping puzzles on their first try or heck even single digit tries? I’ve done JPs that have taken me dozens upon dozens of attempts, and I don’t find that ridiculous in the slightest.

The difference here is three-fold:

1. You used to be able to enter by simply sliding in. So long as you entered from the right spot, you slid through without incident. Now regardless of where you start, there appears to be some sort of speedbump right near the end of the slide that means instant-death.

2. Failure at other JPs is rarely fatal and rarer still requires you to do a significant run to get back to your entry point. Usually a missed jump allows you to restart at some point in the middle.

3. You also now have to go back and get that kitten rifle, which can happen even if you survive the fall. Taking a dip will remove it.

Victory, or Disappointment! lacks panache, but I think you could get people around here to take up the call.

Azure.8670:

So now I’m thinking september? It won’t come in October due to Halloween I think. It’s been a sold 7 months with nothing new and almost my entire guild has quit. My former friends list, They’re all playing ff14 and don’t care about HoT anymore and it annoys me.

Personally I figured we wouldn’t have it til next year.

Question: If they hadn’t announced the expansion at all, would you and your friends have quit playing?

I’m seeing a lot of what looks like the following:

Lag-induced death. When you’re on an elevated platform, you are at risk of the server re-establishing your position at ground level, which causes the physics engine to assume you fell the distance. The result is usually instantaneous and inexplicable death, plus the confusion between where your client and where the server thinks you are makes players unable to interact with your corpse.

If you’re in a JP or on some kind of ledge, and your connection is bad, you’re likely to see this happen. And lately, it seems like connections are getting worse and worse for everyone. My guess: either some hub sitting right in front of ANet’s servers is having issues, or ANet itself is. It’s been something of an epidemic for several months now, made obvious by the lightning jump in Sanctum Sprint.

The desync can affect you even if you’re on solid ground. This will cause you to be incapable of interacting with objects, and other players unable to interact (i.e. stomp) you. A dodge roll will force the server to resync you (once it processes it). Sometimes you’ll rubberband when you do this. Sometimes you won’t.

JMassa.5732:

Releasing the long sought after White Feather Wings, only to take them away after one day is truly a travesty. This 24hr time window thing is absolute bull. Please bring them back Anet, or suffer my eternal wrath.

Unless your eternal wrath is to angrily shower ANet with cookies, I don’t think it’s going to help.

Kythan Myr.4719:

I know demand raises prices, but it seems more stuff requires this particular lodestone and it may drop the least. In my bank, it is the fewest and I haven’t used lodestones for any crafting. I haven’t researched this, but what do you think? Are things unbalanced right now regarding supply and demand over all the lodestones, or is just that this lodestone is used for the coolest stuff?

Surbrus.6942:

Scholar Runes requiring a Charged Lodestone to craft is where a lot of the consistent demand for them comes from.

While that quote from John Smith is correct on an economic standpoint, it is wrong on a game design standpoint. He’s [presumably] the one who keeps OK-ing more and more uses for Charged Lodestones, which continues to push up the demand while not adding any new supplies of them. People looking to farm Charged Lodestones are then forced into the rather limited areas of the game where they can acquire them, namely CoE (since open world farming for specific materials was nerfed to near uselessness not too long after the release of the game).

Combining two posts here to get the information together.

I think it’s just a case of it being the highest demand. As far as actual drops, these got an increase thanks to Dust Mites. If players focused on non-event mobs out in Silverwastes, we’d see more supply. CoE tends to give out cores, while the Mites give actual lodestones.

> What happened to “Play your way”?

It was willfully misinterpreted and kittenized by a few hundred different players to mean any variation of, “You don’t get to dictate to me what I can and can’t do!” Welcome to the fold.

Red Queen.7915:

Also, never heard of battle mages…?

Yes. That was my favorite armor spec from Factions.

Zaoda.1653:

If we do get sword or warhorn, I simply won’t use the ele specialisation.

You don’t need to use the weapon to use the specialization.

Astralporing.1957:

Spectrum.4985:

- Other stat conversions (a power to condition damage conversion will not benefit from the power from a vitality to power conversion)

This bonus definitely should not benefit other conversions. This is to avoid the circular conversion problem, where stat A gets a bonus dependent on stat B, but at the same time stat B gets a bonus dependant on stat A (or a longer chain that ends in a stat effectively getting a bonus dependant on its own value).

This is not a problem if the bonuses are multiplicative.

While we’re on this subject, did we finally stick Robert Trinitie back in his grave?

Epros: Okage

Evil King Stan: Okage

Lillyguilder: From Lillehammer, Norway (for a scandinavian feel), lily guilder (i.e. a florist) and the phrase “gilding the lily”

Clementyne: The absolute most wrong name I could conceive for a hulking green fuzzy male monster, a play off of Gossamer from Warner Brothers cartoons

Constantine: after the emperor

Palladia: from palladium (the metal), which is derived ultimately from Pallas Athena

Skorzesy: after Martin Scorsese

skullmount.1758:

Kal Spiro.9745:

SAB is moving to Lion’s Arch, it’s the new center piece in place of the lion statue.

A guy can dream, right?

That would be awesome. Why didn’t they put that on the survey…

I’d rather they kept it in Rata. It’s not particularly well situated, but it gives the city a unique feature.

Using a skill for its intended purpose shouldn’t be against the rules. It’s the encounter itself that needs to be fixed.

In-game, it’s been 1-2 years since they went down, fighting zombifying minions, no less. That time has to be accounted for. We can handwave the claim that they were killed was a lie, but that doesn’t explain why they never returned and resumed their lives, if that were possible.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Sariel V.7024:

You have one option, and I doubt it will work: open a ticket with Support and ask them to send you an account bound copy of a particular skin that you have earned and are currently drooling over.

Why would you want to punish support like that?

Hmm. Take care of customer complaints. Their job. I’m seeing a connection. A nontenuous connection. Something they have done before for less deserving circumstances. I don’t see it as a punishment. It’s more like a…. hmm.. what’s the word? Responsibility? It may be one that occasionally sucks, but it’s one that they have committed themselves to doing. I tend to go light on ANet, but I still expect them to hold up their end of a bargain made.

I understand that this isn’t a fix. This is definitely a stopgap measure. But it’s one that Support has demonstrated they are capable of doing, it’s a quick enough fix (compare wardrobe and HoM points to rewards chart), it resolves the problem permanently for those involved, and it makes people happy.

I already stated it probably wouldn’t work, and that’s being bourne out by the few that have tried ;(

ElforTheLandStander.7052:

Many of the things purchaseable through the Karmic Converter have very dishonest descriptions. Trophy Bags, for instance. The description reads: “Contains a [Shard/Core/Lodestone]”, but they often contain a Pile of Essence instead.

A pile of essence is a type of lodestone. There is one each for each kind of elemental and dragon. Essence is for Zhaitan.

GeekDavid.2786:

You forgot the shiny halo over their heads.

Got that already for pillaging LA.

Probably by not counting them unless they are unhidden, just in case someone is bored enough to count all the available slots.

I’d like them to add back some of the options for dailies that they removed. I like the ten AP for three items, and I generally do more, but I support more choices. What was the reasoning behind taking them out, anyway?

Firelysm.4967:

We need solution to fix JPs and make them farmable, i enjoy jumping, and i feel i should be rewarded a little bit more for what i enjoy..

Some require boss fights, which require no special mechanics to kill it. Why shouldn’t i be rewarded for running JPs ?

You’re already rewarded for running JPs. If you want them to be ‘farmable’, bring different characters. Each has a crack at the chests along the way.

But you probably mean ‘farmable’ as in ‘dumps vast riches per single run’. Except for a small handful, JPs are easy. Most are short and have no monsters; some of those that do encourage you to run past them. They don’t need to gift a guaranteed rare/exotic every time you do them. Even if you couldn’t park a character or get a portal, that would still devalue the returns you get from them.

Hard to say. I know at least one expensive forge skin is being made into a drop, but that’s the extent of what I know. I figure these new precursor skins on old precursors are going to have problems at delivery time, whether we lose something we already have, we lose access to an old skin, or we don’t get the new skin if we had the old one or its legendary unlocked. There’s too much that can go not our way, and ANet’s track record on skin unlocks is checkered.

KorbenDallas.6729:

lol these forums aren’t strong on satire detection.

It’s not just these forums. I don’t know how many times I’ve linked Poe’s Law since I stumbled onto it, but it remains true.

Seems like you missed out on the story that happened between GW and GW2.

The Great Destroyer that was killed in EotN was not the real ringmaster. The driving force behind the Destroyers was a dragon named Primordus, and the Great Destroyer was just his lieutenant. Killing it set Primordus’ plans back a few decades, but eventually he rose from his slumber and returned to his plans of domination/destruction.

The dwarves had already turned into stone in EotN, and the transformation was one-way. They dedicated themselves to fighting the destroyers. 200 hundred years pass between GW and GW2, and as Waar said above me, Primordus is either winning the fight or has finally won. Thus some of the destroyers are reaching the surface. The dredge seem to like mining in places where they can be found, which is only speeding up the process.

I thought this was already the case. I definitely remember hovering over a stack to find the amount in it.

I consider 20 gold a BFD.

Those AREN’T in the API. It’s a manipulation of the chat tag system.

I commend you on your creativity while simultaneously wondering what monster you have wrought XD

reapex.8546:

They’re fine with people doing that, otherwise they would have removed the option years ago.

“Being amenable” to something and “tolerating it because you made a mistake and it’s too late to do anything about it without looking like an kitten” can look mighty similar.

xKratos.4758:

Now, to the white knights and fanbois.

You just lost your moral highground.

takes a drink

skowcia.8257:

No, its not a problem. Just look at Ele. It wont happen cause dagger/sword would be silly.

Thief 1: I admit it, you are better than I am.

Thief 2: Then why are you smiling?

Thief 1: Because I know something you don’t know.

Thief 2: And what is that?

Thief 1: I… am not left-handed.

[Swaps weapons from D/S to S/D]

Thief 2: You are amazing.

Thief 1: I ought to be, after 20 years.

Thief 2: Oh, there’s something I ought to tell you.

Thief 1: Tell me.

Thief 2: I’m not left-handed either.

[Swaps weapons from D/S to S/D]

Stubie.5834:

Can we please get some cool Rifle skins in the gem store? I see all these other weapons that are bad kitten but never a rifle. Maybe like Scarlet’s Kiss? Purtty please!

Pretty sure that one isn’t coming to the gem store ever.

TheDaiBish.9735:

Valento.9852:

Where did you see that it will be removed?

http://www.dragonseason.com/activity/390/

In order to make this change, Antitoxin Spray has been removed from the game.

More than likely a hoax. Antitoxin Spray may go away, but it won’t be Dragonseason breaking the news.

With apolgies to the great Kevin Kline:

Whenever someone uses the word, “Strawman,” my kitten begins to twitch.

Solori.6025:

Valgar.9576:

Hey everyone

I’m just interested in the most expensive item you have looted

A girlfriend…and now she’s account bound. . .

But not soulbound? Seems like a bug.

Wuselknusel.4082:

Now Josh, please do as I instruct:
Sincerely, a former diehard fan of your game.

takes a drink

micheal.8793:

TLDR: The game knows I earned certain rewards, why are they not auto unlocked in the Wardrobe?

The wardrobe has a certain set of mechanisms for determining unlocks, and having thrown away the skin before the wardrobe came into being pretty much eliminates them all.

You’re in luck, though, because you have proof that you had the skin at some point in time, and it’s account-bound. You can make a case to Support about giving you a copy of the skin since you deleted it. Your chances are pretty good.

On a side note, the backpack consumables entered the api recently. Not sure what exactly that means, because I’ve been holding on to my green one for forever.

Chickenooble.5014:

So what is a Rhand? In English (or any other language that I know of) Rhand has no meaning. Font does… and I understand what a ‘Font’ is but ‘of Rhand’ seems to imply that Rhand is a place or person… it would be tragic if they just made up a name and didn’t give it any real basis in lore.

Might be a tribute to a player or guild.

DresdenAllblack.1249:

Agreed on Kanaxai though, that dude was facemelt hard.

For some reason I keep thing they mentioned old Noxxie back when they introduced the Revenant. He would own.

The following pages have a ‘most commonly missed’ section:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Kryta
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ruins_of_Orr
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Maguuma_Jungle
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shiverpeak_Mountains
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascalon

The content guide will point you to areas you haven’t yet explored in the current map; it’s that compass-like arrow in the upper right corner of your screen (it also places a hiker-with-walking-stick icon on your minimap in the direction of the closest unexplored area, if there are any on the current map). You can limit what it points to in Options.

As for maps with lists of areas, wiki.guildwars2.com should be more than adequate. Many’s the time I’ve blown up their maps to full and compared them against the in-game map to find wayward hearts and POIs. If your game map is missing area names on the wiki map, then you haven’t been there yet.

shogei.8015:

You do realize they don’t need to completely finish HoT before release date, right? They need to have the Revenant, the specialization and masteries frameworks, the first 1-2 areas and probably guild halls. Everything else can be released on a Living World type cycle of every 2 to 4 weeks.

Stronghold and the WvW changes are outside of HoT and their release dates need not be linked to HoT at all.

They better have the dragon ready. There’s going to be some tryhards that want to say they finished HoT in 3 days.

IndigoSundown.5419:

I attribute that to ANet’s desire to cater to those asking for more challenging content. I don’t see that at many of the old world bosses.

So:

• Players ask for harder content
• ANet makes harder content and puts it in the persistent world where anyone can show up
• “Hard” generally means “possible to fail.”
• Not surprisingly, “anyone” does show up
• Sometimes events fail
• No one says, “Oh, this is harder and we asked for harder, so we failed this time.”
• Instead, they say, “We failed and didn’t get our stuff!”
• Then it’s, “I blame <insert scapegoat>.”

So, how much of that happened with the change of Tequatl and adding the three-headed wurm? Players still fail both.

Kal Spiro.9745:

I want the skins, but I want them in red. I want a red focus for my necro and red daggers for an ele I still have yet to make. Unfortunately red is World 3.

If they’re going by order of rarity color, red (magenta) will be world 4. Orange should be next.

ProtoGunner.4953:

My point was people will always complain and they wouldn’t play SAB anymore (unless you are a hardcore fan) be cause there is no additional content. The kitten begins anew: they moan there is no additional SAB content.

I would. I only went through trib mode once. I want to expand my green and gold themed weapons.

This seems to be an issue with a lot of events connected to that collection…

Keeper’s Staff recipe (180g at the time)

I used it, so now it is worthless.

At the other end of the spectrum, you have some people who faked their deaths.

DresdenAllblack.1249:

I have 8 80s, and on each one I played through the entire personal story. Not once in the eight times through LA did I ever notice Tracy McGrady or whatever hanging out with his kid in a building shaped like a phallic symbol.

He was a permanent fixture of the southern end of town. He gave out speed boons if you managed to wander his way. He’s the type of NPC that is otherwise faceless and easily forgotten, like a named merchant.

I think the appeal lies in the fact that we identify with him to some extent. Grady was just a citizen, not military, not a member of one of the orders or the lionguard, and probably ill-equipped to take on Scarlet’s hoards. Despite that, he gave his life to help evacuate his neighbors and warn off any incoming merchants away from the harbor. He was not someone that had to remain – he had no one to answer to and he was in over his head. At his level, you didn’t see many examples of heroism.