Guild Wars 2

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Satakal.6971:

If Arenanet is okay with selling legendaries

You guys fail to realize that Anet doesn’t sell Legendaries. It’s us players who do.

And to put it simply, if you don’t like the fact that we have these for sale, don’t buy them. We aren’t forcing you to do anything against your free will.

Way to take a sentence out of context and miss the point of the post. It doesn’t matter who is selling legendaries, players, Anet, whoever, bit I will indulge you and clarify myself – If Arenanet is okay with players selling legendaries. Did that take so much effort to figure out?

I don’t want to repeat myself. I do want to say that I’m fine with purely wealth based items on the TP – Volcanus for 600 hundred million gold? Fine! Precursors even, fine. A legendary which is achievement based? No.

Ask yourself why is botting wrong?

Not just for influence of the market, why is botting different (worse) from someone “manually” running in circles for 8 hours a day and farming?

What does botting have to do with legendaries? Time and fairness. As Runescape devs put it, botting disrespects the time “regular” players put in the game. And buying a legendary off the TP disrespects the time of players who have crafted it themselves. And with what it takes to make one, that’s a big deal.

If Arenanet is okay with selling legendaries they should be okay with botting.

I just yesterday noticed that there are hovering machines spraying snow in LA.

All classes have both ranged and melee or near-melee options available to them, as well as self healing, so it’s really about the flavor you are looking for, what sounds the most interesting to you, do you want to be a warrior or an engineer… A guardian is a good start, he is predominantly melee, has heavy armor and plenty of healing and will have an easier time soloing the harder “veteran” monsters, but I advise you to try more classes out.

Well, if you are following this guide, why are you even gearing up? You’re going into dungeons undergeared, going into WvW undergeared, going into fractals undergeared, so obviously you don’t even need the gear, why spend so much time?

Won’t happen because of character slots. Most players would either have to delete an alt to make a character of the new race/profession, or buy a slot, and I don’t believe they would make us do that. They will include one or two more character slots with a paid expansion for new races/professions, if any are added.

Uhh, What map changes? I haven’t noticed anything different?

There were actually even more rams behind me but they couldn’t fit in the shot.

Great video. What’s the song name btw?

Vane.2387:

My warrior and elementalist =]

…or space marine and angel thing.

I love your elementalist, very unique. Post more pics if you can.

The Dreamer fires rainbows instead of arrows, so I think it’s awesome. Kraitkin looks really good, too bad it looks like there is exactly one person willing to craft it.

My favorite is Sunrise, I know, everybody loves the greatswords …

Remember when they first announced it in 2007 and they were like “we’re gonna have a beta in late 2008”. I wanna know what the game looked like in 2008 so bad. It’s probably not even the same game, and I’m thankful we got the game we got, but I am sooo curious.

Maybe the remains of the original Rata Sum, because it used to look a little different.

http://youtu.be/FjCehYrEbO0?t=2m43s

Phoenixfudge.5290:

IMO legendaries should be account bound.

I believe all, or most of the components are account bound already so a person playing on alts can still work towards a legendary, which is why the legendary should be account bound too.

Blazeridge Steppes and Fields of Ruin.
Blazeridge radiates energy and I can almost hear the chaos present on the screen, and for Fields the scale of the place is just amazing.

Oglaf.1074:

Princess Wand > All

That would mean even Princess Wand > Dragon

@Brutality

Just because something is intended to be by the devs does not mean it’s not bad, or that it could not be bugged. And even if it isn’t bugged, if a feature is indistinguishable from a bug, it needs to be reworked. Needing 2 war and 2 guard goes against the philosophy that any group make up is viable (a philosophy which should outrank their philosophy about difficulty).

I did it lots of times with absolutely no spawns. I kept looking at those icy portals with dread regardless. Today, they just kept respawning. Aldus has a huge health pool, for a straightforward fight with a stationary boss, that’s okay. Not for a boss that keeps respawning tough adds who summon their own adds in turn (the elementals).

My LA loading screen takes about 70 seconds when I haven’t been there for a while, or just started the game. It definitely wasn’t like that during betas and early launch, but I guess as players have acquired more variety in armor there are more resources to load. It’s a bit annoying but understandable.

Here’s my norn. I did not match the dyes completely, the Sons use a blue that is a touch “too blue” for me, but the basic idea is there…

For a little while I thought Fear Not This Night might have been a clue, because the lyrics go “Dawn is just a heartbeat away, hope is just a Sunrise away …”, but the recipes have been figured out long before so I gave up on trying to make anything of it.

Anagna.8376:

The Uncategorised Fractal is actually really high up.

It’s really interesting to think about how large this space is. GW2 has huge draw distance, and all the fractals that are “open” need to be far away from each other so that players don’t see the other ones, even if they fall off.

At the same time I’m kind of sad that I got to see the behind the scenes stuff, it’s harder to get immersed now. :S

1. head start
2. somewhere around 500
3. 30g
4. two level 80s
5. dungeons, mostly HotW, CoF and fractals
6. not
7. one exotic drop, Emberspire, from a mob in Urban Battlefield
8. a few from Mad King and Karka chests.
9. dunno, ten? wasn’t keeping track
10. expect 1 or 2 rares and 0 exotics per hour
11. three lodestones (not counting cores?)
12. crafting is a bad joke, but i do it on alts for the xp (not the items). they should remove the xp from crafting
13. saving
14. mostly
15. loot

I fell there once from a fractal and the game ressed me, I could walk around. The pillars are used to mark locations on the fractals which are above in the sky. One of them had “jade” written around it and the jade maw was directly above it (it’s where I fell from).

Here in the background you can see the urban battlefield, from the outside…

Downscaling doesn’t make all zones 80 and endgame. It makes them “practically 80 and endgame”, but the leveling curve is stretched between the starter areas and Cursed Shore regardless. I’ve been thinking on the subject but what good can that do now? None, it’s way too late. This game could have easily set the maximum level somewhere around the time players finish Kessex Hills for example. So 25. And all the currently 25+ zones would be level 25 zones. It would have made a big psychological difference and would have been so much more elegant.

Come on, they’re like 5 seconds each.

1. a single map chat shared between all the cities.
2. a single LFG chat channel shared between all the cities.

Problem solved.

You should be dead after one slice with a sword but you aren’t, so you could argue that players already are demigods. On the other hand, if you take level scaling into account, your level 80 “demigod” character isn’t any more powerful than a level 1. In fact, as far as the game world is concerned, levels and giant health pools don’t exist, your character isn’t a demigod, and the champion bandit isn’t a demigod, he is just a regular human who is a little stronger than you.

I think they should add options to change hair style or maybe even the physical attributes/race of your character to the gem store, but other than that, I like that it isn’t bloated with crap (and consequently that the game isn’t bloated with crap).

This skill has been playing the unsheathe sound along it’s normal sound for ages now, on my male asura mesmer. I don’t know why I didn’t report it earlier, I figured it’s kind of an obvious bug and would be fixed but I guess not… I made a short video (0:54) using MSI Afterburner to demonstrate. At the end I use a Potion of Ascalonian Mages to show that it doesn’t have the sound bug.

Normally my sound quality is set to medium but I used these settings for the recording:

A thought on the precursor thing… To think that arenanet has these items like precursors that are normally very rare and hard to get and to then add them to the loot table of a special event is kind of disheartening. It’s like, being lured there instead of deciding to go there. Feeling a little manipulated. I didn’t know how big the rewards were going to be at the end of the event, but next event, this is what I’ll be thinking. I’ve only decided I want a legendary a week ago, I am absolutely nowhere near that goal but nonetheless I wouldn’t appreciate arenanet making shortcuts for me. Lowering the value of precursors lowers the value of the goal I set for me.

I think the opposite is going to happen. Everyone is able to do level 1. The higher you go, the less players are available. Seen some reached 8 and 9 apparently. How many levels does this thing got? When you get to, I dunno, 30, with lots of agony and stuff, there is going to be 10 people on the server who can go there. Which may be the point. Those 10 people will need to stop being a PUG and bond a little. May be a fun experience.

Dungeon lengths are spot on, everything has a mechanic to it, the art design is breathtaking. Have not tried level 2 dificulty yet, very excited to go for that tomorrow.

Went from ~2.2k to 1480

Still seeing bots in Frostgorge Sound.

Happens to my asura too after waypointing or loading into a crowded area, like LA or WvW. It doesn’t happen always. And when it does happen it’s usually fine when I’m standing still letting the game load everything, but if I start to run, my neck collapses. I think it’s kinda funny. It fixes itself within a few seconds.

Paradox.5498:

Satakal.6971:

Yoh.5129:

Lion Arch is just too small for main city) i mean the center is lacking of space lol so crowded all day and so dark..

Speaking of space and crowding, I’ve been annoyed by the placement of the mystic forge ever since beta, but I thought it was petty to say anything about it. That place is the primary gathering place in LA, and here’s the HUGE forge right in the dead center of it. Why couldn’t they have put it closer to the edge, near the crafting area, or where the twin bridges over the canal are is beyond me.

Phew, I finally got that off my chest.

It’s not like Arenanet dropped a huge forge in the middle of a crowd. The forge was there first, it’s the players who choose to gather around it. Move the forge to the sewers and ppl will move to the sewers as well, probably. I honestly don’t see what’s wrong with a forge in the middle of a rather spacious square.

Because it’s no longer a spacious square. It’s a square right in between the bank and trading post, the crafting area, and the trainers are there too. It’s everything you want in a city in terms of services. It’s not rocket science, players are going to gather here. So lets put a gigantic forge right in the middle… But like I said, it’s a little petty, and not like they’re ever going to consider changing it.

Yoh.5129:

Lion Arch is just too small for main city) i mean the center is lacking of space lol so crowded all day and so dark..

Speaking of space and crowding, I’ve been annoyed by the placement of the mystic forge ever since beta, but I thought it was petty to say anything about it. That place is the primary gathering place in LA, and here’s the HUGE forge right in the dead center of it. Why couldn’t they have put it closer to the edge, near the crafting area, or where the twin bridges over the canal are is beyond me.

Phew, I finally got that off my chest.

They should drop tokens for mysterious mystic forge stuff.

What would be “custom dyes” ? Would that mean you wouldn’t be dyed red or blue but would be able to keep your dyes?

Very excited for mesmer changes! Hope they’re not nefrs lol.

Happened to the player in my party after tonight’s second build, he got disconnected right after we killed Ginva in HotW, or when he was at 1% health or something like that, and he couldn’t get the reward.

Earlier i was disconnected too while in the dungeon (before the new build) and the game displayed the error that my password was incorrect. It was weird and sort of frightening.

They should find Ludor’s descendants and help them restart the family business.

(in GW1 you’d show your festival hat to this NPC and he would thereafter be able to make one for you and your other characters at any time)

Zenyatoo.4059:

Satakal, you can pull those quaggans by auto attacking, rolling backwards, and then waiting near the water, they have a longer aggro leash than the boss, so you can keep them but not him. It’s how i’ve always done it if there was no necro available.

Yeah i know, but his auto attack was a bouncing attack so he pulled all three of them. I had to laugh.

“7. to thief: Go pull now. What? How? Use Scorpion Wire, stand here. Pull this. Do it properly.”

Reminds me of a situation in Honor of the Waves with the boss with the two quaggan adds, where the thief was like ‘stand back, i’ll pull a quaggan’ … he then uses shortbow #1, the bouncing attack. It was so funny.

Weird idea, try to get another mesmer to make a portal near you, and see if you can use it to get out. Very weird that you would be so superglued that even a waypoint wouldn’t work.

Hair and sideburns disappeared with Adept Helm. I’m not sure when, I haven’t worn this helm in a little while and also had headgear hidden, I found this out today. I can only assume it happened with a patch, which one I can’t tell. The last screenshot where I still have hair with the helm was taken on october 12.

Race, sex, class: asura, male, mesmer.
Item: Adept Helm of the Traveler (transmuted), acquired from Frinna [Cultural Armorsmith Tier1] in Rata Sum

Renari.4209:

This version does:
http://www.gw2db.com/items/27849-mystery-tonic-s

Just tested this, it does indeed work. I didn’t even know I can make tonics. Though it looks like an oversight to me.

Evo Sapien.5298:

That was an assumption on your part JaiShen not Anet being misleading.

And it was a fair assumption to to make given what we knew about it (nothing) and what an “event” is in Guild Wars 2. I’m not here to apologize though.

Male asura mesmer. When wearing the tier 2 asura cultural pants Genius Leggings (transmuted), back slot item appears horizontally. The items are Mad Memoires and Mad Memoires: Complete Edition. This also happens when I preview shields, but as I cant use them I didn’t feel it was important to report. It looks fine when wearing other leg armor.

edit: different screenshot

Norn guardian, no speed boost. Beat it after about maybe 1.5 or 2 hours? It was so amazing! My heart was pounding like crazy, I haven’t felt this excited since the fist time I got into GW2. For the added challenge I beat it with my asura mesmer today.

There is no such thing as universal appeal, all that leads to is blandness for the sake of not going into any one direction too much, and I would hope that Arenanet would know that and not go that way. However NCsoft is the boss and they’re having difficulty with their games in the west…

I would like to say that Factions is my favorite Guild Wars campaign and that Cantha is what I would consider my “GW home” if you will. Tyria is very pretty and all that, but it’s not “mine”, it’s not personally as fascinating as Cantha was. If we’re going to be fighting dragons for five years instead of returning there (or making and exploring new culturally different continents) i might just lose all motivation to play. What’s it gonna be, a boss fight and poof goes a dragon? There’s five years of content in one sentence. Please don’t, Anet.