Guild Wars 2

Tangentially related, since the wardrobe update, they’ve changed more item names over to reflect the skins (temple armor being the major example). So it looks like they’re investing more in the system they just put in rather than looking to change it.

I’d turn my weapons into massive cardboard boxes. Let the pvp experts figure out my tells from that.

Rauderi.8706:

Or if you wanted to be more rigorous about it, Mystic Forge:
Again, 250 “amber fragments” + 250 silky sand (or geodes, just thought of that) + the skillpoint wine bottle + 50 Thermo components from the craft vendors = 1 prized bugthing for making amberite weapons.
…or 250 geodes + 250 sand (500, the numbers don’t overly matter) + etc.

First week of the first episode, there was a forge recipe on reddit using ambrite and quartz. It wouldn’t produce anything (disabled) and when I checked it last night, it had been removed. If it was legit, I’ll bet this would have been the result.

Balth tapping Malchor? I suppose I could see that.

I’ve been working on the same problem since late April (with the same goal in mind). The information is mostly correct.

Nearly all the underwater weapons are PvP variants. The Shiverpeak Skewer is available from a heart merchant, if I remember right. The rest are not.

Rhendak’s Trident is a regular Flame Trident. The one you want is SteamFire. This also used to be the name of the skin.

The Etched Short Bow (the one you’re talking about, as opposed to the previously-named Shaman’s Etched Short Bow) had a lvl 20 masterwork version available…. SOMEWHERE. I suspect an event merchant. It was the only version listed in the API, and it was recently removed.

Sonder the Seller should have the unshattered version.

Be ready with your heart medication.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

BardaTheHobo.9752:

I’ve said this once before and I will say it again; nobody should get to wield a fiery dragon sword without knowing who Prince Rurik is first.

Know who he was AND survived his LEEEEEEROY moments.

At least getting an IDS is significantly easier in GW2.

Sephas.8793:

Nate Anabe.6091:

First thing that popped into my head whe I saw him hanging there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujQ-nMc0WGE

wth did I just watch?

An excerpt from Wizards, by Ralph Bakshi.

Theftwind.8976:

HyruleanHyroe.1473:

By the Gods, a challenging game? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

Challenging? The puzzles are linear, find point A and get to point B. The ONLY thing stuff like the current living story challenges is eye to hand coordination. The majority of the Achievement points granted in this Living Story are dependent on it, not on anything challenging such as thinking.

Only some of the puzzles are linear. Quite a few are multilinear. In addition, several can be shortcut. The greater challenge seems to be using your eyes to judge possible paths and not relying on videos.

Sweetblue Huntress.9856:

On a related note, when I received my reward after Belinda died and I’m feeling sad watching Kas and Jory cry, there goes my character:

<cue maniacal laughter> Mine, alll mine!

I actually cringed.

To be fair, there are enough players salivating over Belinda’s sword that this would work perfectly if they received it.

takes a drink

Mutual respect…. clearly some PvPers could take some notes. ;D

Poor guy.

As I post in pretty much all these threads, Anet’s keeping him busy with other stuff. It’s his job, after all :/

I imagine he’s encouraged, though, but can’t really get our hopes up for things in the future…. it seems to be the Anet way of not being beholden to ‘promises’ made rashly, by not letting even the rumor of new things get started at all.

takes a drink
-1 for mounts
-1 to hit

Zayd Akira.1942:

Great Idea. We can then make them do tricks, and have people come in and watch for money.
We’ll call it… Seaworld.

Netflix’s next big hit: Blackfish 2 – A Fantastic Tale of Slavery
“2 Flippers Up! Coo!” – Festivoo
“A most excellent film for engendering pity and sympathy with any woman!” – Lord Faren of Divinity’s Reach
“Stop flapping your jaw on me and move out!” – Vitas Quickeye
“I love quaggan. Taste like barracuda!” – Oratuss Kolossuss

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Malchor isn’t a “whiner” really, but a hopeless romantic (though not so hopeless if he has a son… which he wouldn’t know about). He went insane with love, and it is more of a tragedy than him being a “whiner”. People make fun of it because of modern society and all the jokes and insults that are of rather poor taste around emos and goths (I cannot speak about all, but the emos and goths I’ve known in my life were very fun company, and not in the “make fun of” means either). And despite the constant jokes, Malchor isn’t emo..

We call him a whiner because of all the moaning he does when we’re trying to browbeat (and just plain beat) him back to the Temple of Dwayna. Many’s the time I told him to shut it. Never works XD

Erukk.1408:

Maybe Malchor had the pleasure of having Dwayna’s oh face as being the last thing he saw before he went blind?

Being a transcendent polymorphological cosmic entity, maybe in that one instant she lost control and let slip she’s really more along the lines of The Goddess of the Black Fan than Lenneth Valkyrie.

Or the pleasure of the union seared his kitten off.

Ayakaru.6583:

It seems we have a second sculptor?? Please do enlighten.

Was he on the grassy knoll? Malchor didn’t leap, HE WAS PUSHED! What did King Doric know, and when did he know it?

My guys started out as fan characters for a different game and were adapted into GW2 with no special background story in mind, since that would require specifics I hadn’t delved in to. Mostly I’ve been trying to match their look and not really worry about lore.

takes a drink

We should preserve him.
In alcohol.

…
…

What? It’s what he would have wanted!

CaptainVanguard.4925:

I give you a reference from Season 1, Tower of Nightmares.

It was no joke when Jory had a somewhat sadistic, and cruel delight in overflowing the toxic tower with her toxins she laughed manically and made a point of how she was going to keep putting toxin in it until it couldn’t take anymore.

Jory is “not” a good guy, you need to realize this.

Of all the members of the Biconics Jory has the most connections to dark things, she saw questionable rituals being done when Mendel died, do you honestly think she hasn’t studied or been fascinated by them?

To paraphrase Patrick Jayne, “On your first day as a necromancer, you’re given a pile of texts and a corpse. You don’t do this kind of thing without losing a part of your soul.”

You’ve heard of phototropism? This is thaumotropism.

Can’t be him. He had enough cash to pull a Kenneth Lay.

Jerus.4350:

Starfleck.8392:

Taimi has a mount!!! I demand fair and equal treatment.
(tongue in cheek)

Anyone who purchases a mount will get perma cripple.

I’ll drink to that.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StuffedIntoTheFridge

Ronin.7381:

Lethalvriend.1723:

If you haven’t yet, check out the trailer for Origin of Madness, it’s clearly a dark voice talking about her. Whether it’s a dragon or a person.. who knows at this point, it are assumptions untill we find out more.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/january-21-2014/

I’m still debating with myself whether that voice is legitimate or just meant to make that video seem mysterious. ANet after all is trying to “sell” (in the figurative sense) these Living Story updates to the audience. Adding a foreboding and deep, spooky, voice just adds to the appeal they were going for; get people asking questions about Scarlet in the hopes that the conclusion would give us answers while knowing full well it would only stir more. Hard to say until we hear Mordremoth for ourselves.

EDIT: The voice does sound peculiar in terms of what it’s saying. “You all don’t have to die but if she must, she’ll kill you.” Until we meet Mord though, we’ll see.

You guys may have seen this thread,; it delves directly into who’s narrating and has a note from Ms. McCoy.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/The-narrators/first#post3714328

Wanderer.3248:

And Aerin doesn’t seem that well organized.

A Patsy is better that way.

takes a drink

Sounds like that exact issue. When you lag in an elevated area, you’ll often be counted as having traveled to ground level when you regain control…. which means instant death by the physics engine if you aren’t standing on a solid pillar that connects to the ground. Real pain in any JP or SAB ;( Sometimes after taking the fall damage, the game will move you to the floor level; sometimes it won’t. It’s best to do a dodge roll if it still appears you are up above, because it is the one thing you can do to force the game engine to recognize that THAT xyz is your current position. Otherwise, you’ve got no guarantees that you’ll stay up there.

All of Rata Sum is elevated, being multitier and a flying city to boot, so it’s a wonder people are able to survive at all.

This is a well-known issue. NPC mail throws off the count and keeps the hint from firing. Clear out your mailbox entirely and then accumulate 10 mail messages from players only. You may need to log out and back in at some point in the process too.

StinVec.3621:

locoman.1974:

I would have say it might be Mr. E (Mr. Ed?.. .Mr. Equine?) if it wasn’t that because of the short story, chances are E is either a human, sylvari or rather short norn.

Unless it happens that Mr. E isn’t a single person in the first place.

“Mr. Exposition” has long been a term for an individual that only exists for exactly what the name portrays, which is exactly the role this mysterious Mr. E performs within the game. Mr. E is likely not even an actual character in the game that we will ever see and is just a tool the designers use for, well, exposition.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MrExposition

A character whose purpose is to provide “infodumps” and explain the plot. Ostensibly, this is for the benefit of the protagonists, but most of the time their real reason for existing is to provide exposition to the audience.

Yeah. :\ Pretty disappointing, really. They probably thought they were being witty or that it would be seen as funny and creative or something and did not expect people to actually write pages of theories on who it was or how they tied into the ongoing plot of the game.

Heh I commend you on your trope knowledge, but I think the meaning of Mr. E. is less elaborate than that. Mr. E = Mystery. I used to use something similar for an email.

Something more to consider… while these Elder Dragons are potentially mobile, they haven’t been except for Kral. So long as the story stays focused on the dragons, there’s no reason to leave Tyria for Cantha or Elona.

I totally get what you’re saying and agree. Unfortunately, there’s enough kvetching that we AREN’T killing a dragon per year (literally, at that pace), that I figure it’s going to happen.

Rumor has it part 3 is nearly done (for whatever value of ‘done’ that means) but Josh keeps getting other duties. Seems like he’s had his hand in everything lately.

Aetherblades in TA show that they will devote time to these kinds of things… they even created a new set of weapons for it.

Kill xp is still pathetic, even when the enemy is 20 levels higher, and I don’t think anyone could verify the rewards are better. Other than a means of honing your skills, going after enemies that much stronger is kinda pointless :/

Crossplay.2067:

Instead of doing that, they should create separate instances for these world bosses, much like the ones for personal story, that can be activated at the player’s leisure. That would solve so many headaches.

That….. really doesn’t change much, considering how many players these events demand. Unless you are part of a guild that is equal to the size of the manpower required for the event, and you can control who gets in to the instance, you’ll get witless and/or leeching players moving into underpopulated events and taxiing into events near the max.

Trice.4598:

Problem is, you have 500 persons trying to get in 1 organized Wurm run instead of trying to organize one themselves. Tequalt was like that 2-3 months ago, but now, I can join pretty much any overflow and kill it.

If only people were willing to listen and actually try when some people stand out and try to organize, instead of ignoring them and spam join in.

By the way, I’m not blaming you or anyone for this matter, it’s the community in general that has this idea that only 1-2 of the highly populated and organized guild can kill it.

I think I can speak for a lot of the non-guild members when I say, I don’t know this fight well enough to trust someone else, who also may not know it well enough, to guide me to victory. Tequatl is a lot less complicated and infinitely more familiar, so it makes sense that the gw community at large is getting acclimated and comfortable to taking him down, even without TTS at the helm. Plus, when the zerg trusts the experience of the leader, things get done. The team as a whole is more reliable because they fall in line.

The only thing a non-guild server has going for it is that they won’t demand a bandwidth-hogging voice chat program.

I remember bringing this up back during the Assault on Scarlet, where you needed to gather colored attunements before you could damage her hologram. There someone mentioned that they had incorporated different symbols with the colors in order to help differentiate them for people that couldn’t do so via color alone. So that brings up the question, is there any visual indicator that the ring you are standing in is an unfriendly one? Does the glow change? Do the edges rise and fall in little waves? If not, could we add things like that via a shader?

Rouven.7409:

Death Dungeons.

Upon entering you agree that if you die in this dungeon your character and everything on him will be instantly deleted. Only level 80 characters in ascended quality gear may pass.

If you manage to survive and beat the dungeon you deserve the opportunity to open a chest which most likely will contain an item of masterwork quality but with the chance of a super rare skin.

Even these could be farmed. Although leveling your lost character back to 80 would be a pain.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Maybe the AC Spider boss spawns a new group of 12 spider hatchlings every time it is CC’d, for instance.

Kanaxai approves.

Not without a vicious outcry.

Alcarin.9024:

For those interested, I’m tracking new items (within 10 minutes from discovery) and updated items (within about a week from the update) at this page (rss feed also available) http://www.gw2services.com/items/news

That’s pretty much the changes I was alluding to and presented far better than anything I could have made I’ll have to start watching this.

Dusty Moon.4382:

Sariel V.7024:

That would be how. I’ve got them too, and I’ve never once entered PvP.

Full list of previously PvP-only/now unobtainable(?) skins:
Guild Archmage Cowl
Guild Archmage Mantle
Guild Archmage Gloves
Guild Archmage Pants
Guild Archmage Shoes
Guild Watchman Faceguard
Guild Watchman Shoulderguards
Guild Watchman Gloves
Guild Watchman Leggings
Guild Watchman Boots
Guild Defender Shoulderplate
Guild Defender Legguards
Marauder Gloves
Marauder Boots
Apostle Cowl
Apostle Epaulets
Apostle Wraps
Apostle Leggings
Apostle Shoes
Stalwart Helm
Stalwart Shoulders
Stalwart Gloves
Stalwart Leggings
Stalwart Boots
Heavy Scale Helm
Heavy Scale Shoulderguards
Heavy Scale Armguards
Heavy Scale Leggings
Heavy Scale Shinguards
Tribal Headdress
Tribal Mantle
Tribal Vestments
Tribal Bangles
Tribal Leggings
Tribal Walkers
Flame Harpoon
Krytan Harpoon Gun
Krytan Harpoon
Lionguard Harpoon Gun
Lionguard Harpoon
Lionguard Trispear
Ebon Vanguard Harpoon
Hawk Trident
Warden Harpoon Gun
Makeshift Spear
Etched Short Bow (may be available via event merchant; very likely bugged if so)
Legionnaire Harpoon
Guild Speargun
Dark Moon Shield
Destroyer Scythe
Gladium Trident
Primitive Pike
Primitive Pillar
Reaper of Souls
Worn Voltaic Spear

Many of the skins do have a counterpart in PvE. They just have a different name.

I’ve spent weeks researching this. THESE do not.

BrunoBRS.5178:

i’ll just leave this other franchise’s elder dragon here.

Tracy Hickman just called, something about “Tomb of Martek” and “Lawsuit”….

Basically you want Snake Pliskin as a stand-in for Keiran Thackeray’s Vanguard friends or Kilroy Stonekins.

Louveepine.7630:

Our heroes are also serial killers. Our characters as they kill with a smile. We are crazy!

We are warriors. There is a difference. Now, if we could target random defenseless innocent NPCs and slaughter them for the lulz, then we’d see some serial killers ;D

Well, once again, they’re keeping Josh busy with other things. This time around it was the new JP.

Shardelyss.4807:

BobbyStein.2315:

Zin.1673:

The character is indeed voiced. Did you ever played your personal story ?

Warning: nerdy devspeak ahead!

The player character (PC) hasn’t had new voice recorded since the game launched, so you’ll only hear your character speak in the following circumstances: conditional chatter, in cinematic conversations in the Personal Story, and in painterly “full” cinematics. We retired cinematic conversations with the Living World, so right now the PC can only “talk” through unvoiced dialog trees.

We’re exploring some technical improvements that may allow the PC to speak under new circumstances, but it’s actually a bigger undertaking than one would imagine due to the complexity of player voice implementation (10 possible voices, currently shared lines of dialog that we want to split out, scene timing per language, etc.). That’s about all I can say at the moment.

In short, we’re looking to make the PC speak again, but it’s going to take a bit of time to redo the code and content pipelines to make it work, not to mention updating our tools to allow us to generate PC lines that deviate based on race & gender, prior accomplishments, etc. We’re not ready to announce what those changes will actually be or when they might be deployed, but we’re seriously looking into it.

As always, thanks for playing.

If this is true, then you have no idea how happy that made me to read. I had the first fan girl moment of a lifetime and I don’t normally squeee at all considering I’m usually so pessimistic.

But yay! This would be incredibly awesome if my characters can speak again. Even if it starts off as being generic dialogue at first…. but to just have a voice again and not be the invisible person holding the door for other characters to walk through.

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Braham: Hey there.

Me: Hi, how are you doing?

Braham: Did you… just talk?

Taimi: What’s going on?

Braham: I think he just talked.

Me: Hi, shorty.

Taimi: HEY! He did talk. Hey wait a minute, did you just call me shorty? You do remember I have Scruffy here.

Me: (laughs) Never Change.

Kasmeer: Hey guys? Ready to move on? Is something wrong with our friend here?

Me: Taimi is threatening to flatten me with her Golem.

Taimi: It was only a warning.

Kasmeer: Did… he just speak?

Braham: Yeah. All this time and I thought he was a mute.

Jory: I heard talking, what’s going on here?

Kasmeer: The Commander just…talked.

Jory: Right. You didn’t just talk, did you?

Me: I might have, the verdict is still not in yet.

Jory: @#$%?! Does Rox know?

Me: Well -

Rox: Oh I knew already. Why do you think I’m sitting way over here. That guy can’t shut up for two minutes.

Me: O:-)

peruses skit

We should be friends. From ages ago XD

When YOU become the next avatar of Lyssa, you can do all the neat tricks Kas can:

- Dismantle sky-high illusions.
- Maintain an army of phantasms.
- Detect lies.
- Portal self at will.
- Effortlessly charm females.
- Substitute aether as clothing.
- Wield the gaudiest staff in the game.
- And much, much more!

This particular pain-in-the-kitten is caused by the npc wandering off. When you are separated by a certain distance, the dialogue shuts. These Skritt rarely stop/