Guild Wars 2

Unfortunately, we don’t really have enough of these codes to crack them.

There are also two parts of the code missing, and not currently in the game.

A presentation at the one-year mark showed ANet does track this kind of thing. I remember the enemy type that had the most player kills was one of the Risen. They probably have the data; it would just be a matter of querying it.

That said, any discussion of this sort is going to drift towards “Damage Meter” and the necessity of such a thing ruining the game for a lot of players.

Knighthonor.4061:

I hope the land spears/ polearms use same skins are sea spears when they release them.

because I just spent some of my limited gold on Spear skins which I never get to see currently because I never do underwater content in the game.

I hope they dont make them separate skins like they did for Tridents and Staffs in the game which share same models for many weapons.

Due to the way skins work in this game, what you are really asking for is for the same WEAPONS to be used above-water. ANet has no problem with copying skins onto different weapon types and making you rebuy them, as you yourself noted.

Copestetic.5174:

Just out of curiosity ANet, what was wrong with GW1’s loot system? In GW1, you ran specific content for the skins you wanted. Yes, there was RNG, but at the same time, you made plenty of gold doing the runs ( Fissure of Woe, Underworld, Dungeons, etc ) that you’d be able to buy whatever it is you were after in a few days, or a week or two.

There is no effective difference between the system you describe and GW2’s as it currently stands.

In GW2? You spend all your time chasing some kitten with a blue tag getting all these sweet exotic bags. And affter you finally choose to open them all the best drop you get is a kitten Cobalt, and 10 stacks of freaking Mithral and that leather crap that no one wants that I don’t even know the kitten name of.

You are overglamorizing the grind of the original Guild Wars. In GW1, you had a 1 in 8 chance of getting any non-money drop that occurred, the rest being scarfed by your partners. 99% of these were vendor trash; the remaining 1% consisted of imperfect rares that would vendor for, at most, 400g. In GW1, just like in GW2, you were better off salvaging nearly everything you picked up and turning it into raw materials which you could then sell to the crafting merchant.

Run specific content for skins? Maybe if you’re counting Tormented weapons, or throwing yourself at a boss over and over again in the hopes of getting its green. Just try to get a max rare Storm Bow, or Chaos Axe, or Golden Phoenix Sword, or even a max Katana or Tetsubo. Even Elemental Swords were hyperrare until someone figured out a boss you could farm for them. And Guild Wars Guru auction prices for dungeon skins were just as bad as Legendaries are today.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Rare skins are just as farmable in this game as they were in its predecessor. It ranges the whole gamut of can’t-give-it-away common all the way up to consign-your-life-away impossible to find.

WuGzaGenius.5684:

Im trying to understand why people don’t like it or are attracted to SPvP, If you ask the PvP forums they all respond with things like “tank meta” or “MMR / leaderboard structure”.

Why dont PvE’ers and WvW’ers like SPvP??
What could be done to fix* it?

I am not talking about custom or unranked PvP

Impossible to compete. There is no such thing as learning when you are being steamrolled by the competition.

I’ll give you points for innovation, but it looks really complicated and prone to eating expensive items.

I recommend doing at least the most recent LS chapter. You’ll be lost story-wise (and pretty much see some massive spoilers), but you’ll have an idea of what the big announcement this weekend is going to be about.

eyeroll

I’ve a grand idea. Take your strawmans and other Debate Club crap back to high school. Picking at the minutiae of someone’s argument and calling the whole a fallacy does not invalidate it. All it does is muddy the thread.

Rebound.3409:

1 Thread – 11 Posts made by the OP – no relevant message.

I think the message is, “I didn’t like it, and I’m going to relate my experience in the most passive-aggressive means I can.”

Kinda reminds me of the trophy case from Zork

Guardian of Angels.9867:

“Marionette”

All I’ve got to say.
I want it back!! <3

And I hope to never see that grief-ridden crap again.

ebrown.8193:

Veteran Centaur didn’t give credit for me.

The details on the daily tell which three veterans give credit. Each has an event associated with it.

A weapon isn’t Legendary unless it is capable of producing mouth foaming irritation in some people.

You’re confusing Legendaries with Precursors.

Azure.8670:

4038 hours, got a pre in the forge. Dawn, even though I dont use greatswords really.

You will now.

Just like the thousands of others that have it.

It will be your only weapon.

Don’t really care either way. I’ve got enough on my plate.

Astral Projections.7320:

If there hadn’t been rumors of an expansion there would have been the usual amount of negativity. They think they will be getting what they want. Of course they are feeling forgiving. That’s not hypocrisy.

By the way. Here’s the definition of hypocrisy.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hypocrisy
noun, plural hypocrisies.
1. a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
2. a pretense of having some desirable or publicly approved attitude.
3. an act or instance of hypocrisy.

Let’s go with Mirriam-Webster’s definition then, which is what the OP intends:

hy·poc·ri·sy noun \hi-?pä-kr?-s? also h?-\

: the behavior of people who do things that they tell other people not to do : behavior that does not agree with what someone claims to believe or feel

I ran a simulation on acquiring mordrem organs from bags. On average, it would take 16 bags from each boss for most players to get all the organs required for Luminesecent Armor, provided they had waited until now to open them.

The upper bound on the trials was 74 bags, but it is theoretically infinite.

Zaoda.1653:

I remember the countless posts (mostly angry posts – and rightfully so!) about players wanting that mini ghost puppy/wolf/whatever it is, and opening literally hundreds of thousands of Trick or Treat bags (I heard one case of 130,000 bags opened & zero ghostly dog/wolf mini’s), only to still wind up with none.

I have so much empathy for them and couldn’t comprehend their immense frustration with the RNG system. Not to mention all the money AND time they would have wasted.

Funny. When I hear about someone devoting that much resources and effort to something so inconsequential, I start to question their sanity….

Of course, it’s also players with these kinds of resources that have periodically jacked tp prices to ridiculous levels for personal profit.

So, uh, you may find me lacking in empathy.

Cheap skins is my wheelhouse:

1. Do not buy Racial Cultural weapon skins (except Tier 3) from the Cultural Vendors. These are all available through drops, and nearly all of them can be found for cheaper from some other vendor, or from the trading post if you get desperate.

2. For some seriously cheap Norn skins (less than 1 silver), look for a character named Sven in Wayfarer Hills. He has an event you must complete, after which he will run a long distance and become a vendor for about two minutes.

3. Androchus the Hidden, Latera Painstorm, Lakor Grizzlemouth, Vepar Darkheart, Crucibis Forgeweld, Lionguard Nadel, Environmental Activist Jenrys each sell at least one exclusive skin for little karma.

4. PvP remains the cheapest way to get many skins, via the dungeon and regional tracks. It also has the Balthazar track, which gives a unique backpiece, and the Glorious armor sets.

5. Personal Story used to award many awesome weapon and armor skins for free. Now these are limited to the very expensive Faction weapons (Whispers, Priory, Vigil). the Tier 1 chestpiece of cultural armor, and one or two armor pieces that used to be exclusive to PvP but are no longer in the game. Tier 3 Charr Cultural weapons used to be available through Personal Story, but I haven’t investigated it after the revamp.

6. Living Story and festivals often gives out exclusive armor skins for free (sometimes these become available from a vendor later). Currently you can earn Carapace and Luminescent armor from the Silverwastes area; it’s also home to the Welding Torch and more bandit bags then you can shake a stick at (which can give Bonetti’s Rapier, among other items). If you somehow missed Wintersday, the toy weapon skins are available for a few copper apiece on the trade post.

7. WvW Borderlands is home to the Armor Master and Weapon Master. These guys sell various skins and actual armor pieces for a combination of gold and Badges of Honor. WvW has three exclusive armor sets (Diviners, Mist Walker, Heavy Plate).

Some further followup on skinsets: there are several examples of skins using similar or identical models to skins in existing sets that don’t match the naming conventions:

Glyphic: X6-31 Beta (Glyphic Speargun with differing partical effects and color)
Verdant: Rockweed Spire (Verdant Trident with leaves on the haft and different color)
Flame: Flamebelcher (Flame Rifle as speargun), SteamFire (Flame Staff as trident)
Aureate: The Maelstrom (Aureate Staff as trident)
Shiverpeak: OooOoo Shooter (Shiverpeak Arquebus as speargun)
Legionnaire: Gladium Trident (Legionnaire Staff as trident)
Tribal: Drakestrike (Tribal Rifle as speargun)

IME, people are a little too hardheaded to let something like being a complete and obvious copy of another set member be good enough to allow membership in a set when the names don’t match. So, while I might include the wiki skins entries in the same sets, I haven’t bothered with adjusting the membership of the actual weapons.

If you could manage a vendor API I would love you forever XD I’ve already scoured the merchants on the wiki, but they remain incomplete, and certain items in the API that SHOULD be connected to vendors are unknown or missing in-game.

Not this again.
takes a drink

azizul.8469:

what’s social media ?

It’s an electronic means of avoiding real communication with people.

You may have a point there. At any rate, you’re already aware that sitting in one place doing the same one event isn’t helping, so break the pattern.

Tachenon.5270:

Maybe she is/was a monk. ;-)

SPOILER BELOW

Also — what does it take, exactly, to kill a sylvari? Caithe stabbed her through the… what? Heartwood?

Probably more like a bell pepper

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

SPOILERS If you haven’t finished the latest episode yet, stop reading, there be spoilers ahead.

During the end cinematic of the latest episode, we can see a lot of sylvari going completely crazy and attack the pact. Including lionguard and pact members.
This is shown once again in the cinematic that follows immediately after.

Now I wonder if this will affect our Sylvari player characters. And if so, how?
While I doubt our Sylvari PC’s would go crazy and join Mordremoth, I really hope there will be at least some effects. Maybe hearing soft whispers from time to time or some graphical effects on the edge of the screen. Or simply being treated differently, like we saw happening to Canach.

I hope that there is at least something. It would be weird and disappointing if our player characters (and caithe/trahearne) are completely free of corruption for no reason other than plot convenience.

I find this an interesting idea (though it could get annoying). But how long would you want it to go on? Surely we’re going to kill Mordremoth at some point, story-wise, but effectively, he is permanently in the game, just like Zhaitan and the Risen.

naiasonod.9265:

If I take a bite out of a red sylvari, will they taste like cherry starbursts?

…LET’S FIND OUT

I was going to make a bad salad joke….

but now I’ve got something FAR worse in mind.

Vayne.8563:

Anet makes it so that you are more center stage and people complain that we’re too center stage.

Not much Anet can do about it.

I think in this instance, those grumbling can understand why it is done and can focus on the proper cause.

Leo G.4501:

Be thankful you didn’t see the original before the cut. In the original, they do stuff like bow at your feet and eat your poop.

breaking the NDC is gonna cost you

Aaron Ansari.1604:

Revisiting this now that the season’s over…

• What is the consortium up to?*

Not answered or progressed.

Not entirely. They’re investigating the remains of the Tower in Kessex. Evon also invoked them in strong-arming X-Tron into becoming a spy.

But you’re right. We’ve mostly got a lot of mysteries on our hands.

Jaken.6801:

With Season 2 comming to an end and the conclusion pushed back to next year, there are these nagging questions on my mind:
- Will we get a conclusion at the end of S2, or is it only a setup for things to come?

Hate to tell you this, Sparky, but this story doesn’t conclude until six dragons are dead.

The polearm version is called a Military Fork

Konig Des Todes.2086:

It’s stated by a Mender NPC in or around The Grove that their “bones” are made out of wood.

So yes, sylvari have bones… made out of wood, not that white, brittle stuff.

Bone is one of the strongest substances in nature.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Piece of advice to the writers. Not everything needs to revolve around the dragons. Your world begins to look very two dimensional when almost every single piece of lore we have in game in some ways ties back to the elder dragons (The Mursaat, The Seers, The Dwarves, Scarlet, The Gods…). We get that they are the big bad and are super important, but too much of one thing gets very old. You’re also tampering with lore that a lot of people love and making it seem rather trivial because you know what ‘dragons did it’.

Unfortunately, there’s a very large, loud contingent of players who kitten and moan any time something non-kill-the-dragons comes up in the story. They want their plot spoon-fed and perfectly linear, with no distractions. Most of them are wondering why we aren’t on our 3rd dragon already.

Justin ODell.9517

I haven’t PvE’d in quite a while, usually just to open containers that were incorrectly set not to open in the lobby.

Kinda sad when it even gets under the devs’ skin. ;D

I suspect I know what happened.

Were they equipped or stowed in a bag?

I’ve seen something similar happen with JP chests, namely the one in Not So Secret. If you tried to get it by logging in daily, it would usually require more than 24 hours for the chest to reset, unless you changed your server. Doing that would cause it to appear.

That won’t help you get a reward for an event that you’ve already finished, since the chests are tied to the server you finish them on. But making sure you’re on a different server ( /ip ) before you start might help insure that the credit from the previous day’s encounter gets wiped.

BTW, it should only take about 15-30 minutes of playing elsewhere to get rid of DR.

Some new, but disappointing, info:

I got through the Ascalon Regional PvP track, which awards Legionnaire skins at the end. Unfortunately, it doesn’t include either of the two missing Legionnaire skins (Legionnaire Harpoon and Gladium Trident). This is a little odd considering the spear item is called Legionnaire Harpoon Skin.

I posted a suggestion on the PvP forum to update the items. Maybe it will get some traction.

History says no. The vendors in GW2 rarely, if ever, hang around after the next patch. Hope you got all your ugly wool stuff turned in.

BACKGROUND:

There are several skins that went AWOL at the introduction of the Wardrobe back on 4/15/14. Most of these were aquatic weapon skins exclusive to PvP. The PvP reward tracks have given a possible means of recovering these skins through their intended play mode, but for the most part, there hasn’t been much synergy between the current weapon skins on offer (Ceremonial, Tribal, Legionnaire, Etched, dungeon) and the skins that are missing; Shaman’s Etched Short Bow is the lone exception that I know. However, there are two missing Legionnaire skins that could be substituted into Ascalon Regional reward box, where they actually belong, and this could be done without creating a new reward track to include them.

FIX:
The items needing remapped:

Legionnaire Harpoon Skin (item ID 65403): Currently uses skin ID 5216 (Legionnaire Spear). Change this to 4984 (Legionnaire Harpoon)

Legionnaire Trident Skin: Currently uses skin ID 5130 (Legionnaire Trident). Change this to 5167 (Gladium Trident, identical to Legionnaire Staff)

This would be a quick fix and would make some wardrobe addicts a little more happy

oxtred.7658:

Bearbow the hobbit?

Bearbow Baggins. BRILLIANT

He’s scaring some kid.

What are you on, and how can I get some?

Don’t get people’s hopes up. ;D

Thorfinnr Sleggja.1209:

Essence of Chaos(Account Bound on Acquire) – Double Click to Consume. Gives a bow with the Ithas Longbow Skin applied the white glow similar to a Chaos Bow. (This bow can no longer be equipped until Essence of Lightning has also been added. )

Essence of Lightning(Account Bound on Acquire) – Double Click to Consume. Gives a bow with the Ithas Longbow Skin applied the Lightning Effect.(Prerequisite: Essence of Chaos must already be applied to this bow.) This unlocks the Stormbow Skin in your Wardrobe.).

You may want to rethink this, unless you want only people that have completed HoM requirements to have access to the skin. Ithas Longbow is an HoM exclusive.

Not a bug. Several gem store skins are flagged as HideUntilUnlock.

What you define as a pattern is arbitrary. The numbers don’t care. In the grand scheme, 0123456789 is as random as 9999091250

These used to be available through Personal Story. I don’t think that’s true any more.

The set can be crafted now via Leatherworker as the new leveling equipment, but it requires a lot of ectos.

Cheapest way is with karma:
406 Legionnaire Bladechipper Bladechipped Hat
364 Legionnaire Sleekfur Gunner’s Pauldrons
539 Helo Murkhaunt Riveted jacket
301 Braxa Scalehunter Devourer Handler’s Gloves
462 Centurion Truthbringer Mortar Team Leather Leggings
315 Kennelmaster Warsnout Warhound Boots

Ashen.2907:

Sariel V.7024:

Wetpaw.3487:

2) Anet has steps for harassment.

We had a wonderful illustration of that on reddit just yesterday, with a screenshot of a GM suspending someone for ‘months of harassment.’

Months.

They got right on that, did they?

Just out of curiosity, where in game was someone able to get away with barassment for months ?

PMing you.

Wetpaw.3487:

2) Anet has steps for harassment.

We had a wonderful illustration of that on reddit just yesterday, with a screenshot of a GM suspending someone for ‘months of harassment.’

Months.

They got right on that, did they?