Guild Wars 2

Believe me when I say that whenever I’ve tried to facetank someone who’s not an NPC while standing in Black Powder, I’ve not done so for very long before I had to dodge out and heal up. And I’m NOT full glass. So I guess you must be trolling.

phys.7689:

the stuff im talking about, you do en mass, like make 120 major sigils, then put em in the mystic forge to get superior runes. Or back in the day, when silk was cheaper than gossamer, promoting cheap silk to gossamer. cores to lodestones, incandescant dust to crystalline, teir 5-> teir 6.
Its not unccomon for a power crafter/merchant to have to do quite a bit at the mystic forge

You don’t need crafting stations to promote sigils or crafting mats. Just do that in Vigil Keep. And after you’re done and need to craft, take the portal to Rata Sum. You’ll be there and crafting in less than 20 seconds.

Whitey.6185:

It does come up in game saying to forget about the miasma level and save as many citizens as possible, but obviously people don’t read.

I’ve always interpreted that as “Don’t worry about the Miasma, it’s not lethal yet! Continue to save citizens (aka what you’re already doing, since you save citizens with all the events as well)!”

I’ve always thought that the dagger autoattack-chain probably does more damage than the sword-chain, but today I’ve tested it on a dummy in the mists and the time it took me to kill it with only using the autoattack was almost exactly the same. I was using a sigil of force on mainhand and a sigil of fire in the offhand.

So uhm… did I miss something, or are those two autoattack-chains equal in terms of damage-output?

Well, there was a recent post somewhere that this is the most OP steal-skill ever, so…

In a power-build, it does nice damage. It also reflects projectiles, which is super-funny if your opponent insists on continuing to auto-attack you with a ranged weapon. Although my most epic reflect-moment was when some warrior used Killshot on me while I was using Daggerstorm…

Well, I would have a big grin in my face if I would kill someone who has full stacks, because I know I’ve really kinda punished them for messing with me, since they’ll now have to get those stacks again.

Oh, and I would also feel a bit proud, because I know they spend MUCH more time in WvW than I do. After all… you need to be at least rank 230 to get both. My main is like rank 32 or so, and together with my alts (when wxp becomes accountbound) it would probably be around rank 50 or maybe even 60 by now. And I feel like there’s much more useful stuff to get, before I’ll even think about getting those two.

So yeah… I don’t really care about those stacks. I don’t recall ever fighting someone with those stacks anyway… maybe I just was lucky or I forgot; dunno.

Carzor Stelatis.9435:

Saturn.6591:

Yet, you’re complaining that Anet wants to make us buy airship passes? You make no sense.

No, we’re complaining that Anet has removed a feature from the game and is trying to sell it back to us as a microtransaction. That’s just scummy behaviour.

Looks like a “no, you’re right” to me. Like, you want to disagree but end up agreeing, and that in the very same sentence. Also, they didn’t remove anything from the game. It’s still there, just that you now need to go to another city for crafting. But like I’ve said before, you don’t really lose time because of this, because everything in LA was quite spread out, while it’s very close together in Vigil Keep and Rata Sum for example. Saves lots of walking (and in some cases loading-screen-due-to-waypointing-in-LA) time, which makes more than up for taking the portal to Rata Sum if you need to craft something.

Carzor Stelatis.9435:

Moka.9641:

Go to Rata Sum, enter WvW from Rata Sum. When you’re done, press Esc and then press Character select. Then double click on your character and you’re back at Rata Sum. I think it’s pretty fast (as fast as the traditional way), so I’ll call it ’’direct’’.

That doesn’t fulfill the ‘without paying waypoint costs’ part of my post, does it?

Hold on… since when do the Asura charge waypoint fees for using the character select screen?

Lambent.6375:

Maybe they should periodically display this message in chat in order to ram it into the heads of most players. I’d bet a large number of players don’t even know this.

For players who attain the highest tier of 1500 citizens saved, there’s a chance for ascended materials and rewards from previous Living World releases.

Well, you know… I’m all for saving citizens. I’d love to focus on that. But when I do, I will work harder for much less reward in the same timeframe… which is something that most people will never do in an MMO. Also, if we reach 1500, I might get some bloodstone dust and a couple dragon coffers or maybe some azurite gems… well I can tell you, I neither need nor want any of those. I’ve got like 20 (or more) stacks of Bloodstone Dust taking away space in my bank already; I also still have a full stack of dragon coffers (don’t ask me why; I honestly don’t know) and Sentinel-gear is something that I will most likely never use on any of my characters.

Amethyst Lure.5624:

It’s easily illustrated by the fact I get 2x-3x lootbags from this latest world event on my Thief or Elementalist, where the Ele has half my mesmer’s gear

Hm, just out of curiosity: How many of those bags are you getting in one cycle?

I’ve reported this long ago when it happened on FSP… funny enough, someone was streaming it, so we also had a video. I’ve never seen it happen again since then, though it’s not like I was present at every kill since then.

Liston.9708:

Once again derailed by port to another city posts. WE KNOW WE CAN PORT.

Why don’t you do it then? Also, a little hint: You also need to port to the airship. So the airship has no advantage whatsoever over what you already (still) have for free.

Liston.9708:

If people find other places more convenient than la, fine good for them.
Fact is, la was the most convenient one stop shop for many.
Fact is, we had that pre-patch.
Fact is, we don’t now.
Fact is, quite a few don’t like this turn of event.
Guess is, we will have all amenities in 1 hub eventually, but conveniently spread out to foster pass sales.

Your only argument seems to be that LA was where most people were hanging out. Well, guess what… the Vigil Keep and the other cities are A LOT closer to being such a place than the airship. So again… there’s nothing the airship has which you couldn’t also easily get for free. Yet, you’re complaining that Anet wants to make us buy airship passes? You make no sense.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

LA was a free travel all-in-one spot, a central hub on the worldmap and had all important NPCs/places.

So is Vigil Keep, thus the rest of your post is invalid. Oh wait… the crafting stations. They are missing. BUT I daresay that taking the portal to Rata Sum and doing the crafting there doesn’t take more time than doing the crafting in LA, since the crafting stations in LA were quite spread out and you had to cover some distance to the get items from the TP and/or the bank.

Actually, aside from the crafting stations, everything is much closer together in Vigil Keep than it was in LA. Thus I would almost call this a free INCREASE in convenience.

It would be nice if you would only be possible to get the halo-potion if you rescue a certain amount of citizens in total. Like, be able to get it once you’ve personally contributed to save 10000 citizens. The horns on the other hand should be obtainable even if you just zerg all the time without really caring about the citizens.

Though the problem there would then be, that people might get mad at eachother if someone encourages an NPC that they just wanted to encourage…

FLiP.7680:

Probably the enemy removed your boon.

Either that, or directly corrupted.

thefantasticg.3984:

Saturn.6591:

thefantasticg.3984:

Either this is a bug or a stealth nerf.

It has been reported on another thread by more than one person that on alternate accounts the main chest from defeating the Karka Queen more than within a twenty-four hour period is not appearing. This means that the Karka Queen main chest (not the two guaranteed rares) has been moved to once per day per account status instead of once per day per toon multiple times per day per account status.

Had to fix one part of your post.

You just reworded what I said. It means exactly the samething.

No, it doesn’t. What you said is that before the bug/stealth-nerf/whatever, you would get the chest once per day per character. That means if you go there with the same character twice, you will not get it. What I said is, that you will get it multiple times even if you kill her with the same character again. And that’s indeed how it was. So what you’ve said would actually be a nerfed version already of what I have said. ^^

thefantasticg.3984:

Either this is a bug or a stealth nerf.

It has been reported on another thread by more than one person that on alternate accounts the main chest from defeating the Karka Queen more than within a twenty-four hour period is not appearing. This means that the Karka Queen main chest (not the two guaranteed rares) has been moved to once per day per account status instead of once per day per toon multiple times per day per account status.

Had to fix one part of your post.

I’ve just read a pastebin containing supposedly leaked patchnotes. I won’t link them here since I don’t want to risk an infraction, but the link was posted in another class-subforum. Some interesting changes are coming, if they are real.

I’ve got to agree with the OP here.

Also, I really wonder why I get spam-blocked if I go to a place with no players or even NPC’s nearby and preview different pieces of equipment with the help of chatcodes in /say. Or when I ask if someone’s up for toypocalypse like two times in 4 minutes. On the other hand, I’ve seen players spam the same emote like 50 times in one minute in front of the bank in LA, making it impossible to read anything that’s actually written in chat, without getting spam-blocked.

Hold on; for all I know you could loot that chest at least two times a day with the same character. Just the extra-chest with the guaranteed rare that pops up in the UI won’t be there anymore.

Was there any change to this?

/squadjoin nameofacommander

That way, you will only see one commander-tag on the map… no matter how many of those are there.

/squadleave to undo it.

He was tired of getting beaten every single time and found a way to become stronger. Maybe he practiced with the remaining risen after Zhaitans defeat, so he has better chances of avenging his master.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Somebody would mention to him “Have you seen what they’re selling?” And he’d respond with “BY OGDEN’S HAMMER WHAT SAVINGS!” He was near the Mystic Forge.

Aaah, I see. Thanks!

ghostwriter.5826:

I think he said “Bei Ogdens Hammer! Was für Preise!” I always thought he meant high prices though… By Ogden’s Hammer, all the savings I missed!

Thank you!

My memory was stuck at “was für”. I still don’t know how many times I’ve actually really seen that NPC, haha.

Zaxares.5419:

ANet, you REALLY missed out on a golden opportunity for him to say, “By Odgen’s Hammer, what a saving!” when you talk to him.

Lol; that would have been hilarious! xD

But, and here’s the catch, probably only in english.

On a sidenote; does anybody know if Ellen Kiel is somewhere to be found other than during the airship-evacuation in LA (which I’ve yet to see)? I’d be curious to see her dialogue, if we’d be able to talk to her.

Lol; those cards are awesome!

Backward Sass.6791:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gxrk7MWJk

Looks like someone was REALLY bored at some point…

Hm, while I am familiar with the saying “by ogden’s hammer”, I don’t remember that NPC at all. Neither do I remember the “what savings” part… that might be cause I’m playing with the german version, but I also don’t remember anything similar to what I would translate it to. Hmmm… where was this NPC btw? Where was he standing? What did he do?

Kaiyanwan.8521:

The guide in my signature, read it. It is probably your best call… ^^

Was totally going to link that one haha.

That being said; I myself played from lvl 1 to way beyond lvl 80 as a condition Mesmer with staff (and sword/focus as offhand for special purposes).

I’ve just checked out the “Totally Fair Fight” video of him, and all I wonder is… how did his armor change colors during the fight?

Edit: Is it maybe an effect of the hammer?

I have actually found Canach at Vigil Keep yesterday somewhen after the patch hit. So I guess he changes positions depending on the stage of the fights in LA?

Kitta.3657:

Regina already said it clear that there are no destiny’s edge 2.0, that the living story characters are called bi-conics and they were created because destiny’s edge is too involved in your personal story. Voilà.

This.

I mean I’m like at rank 11 or so, and I don’t play PvP much. However, even if I would be at like 30 or 40… I think I still wouldn’t care enough to actually wear anything else than my standard outfit in PvP (the one you have from the start). After all, there’s no time to look at armor and weapons anyway while fighting… so why would I want to look super-awesome?

I usually wouldn’t ever be able to tell how my opponents looked like at the end of a match. After all, they don’t really stand still so I can look at them… they usually attack me and I need to fight back. And GW2 isn’t very static when it comes to fighting. ^^

Peacemaker Xeranan.4508:

Bonus
Phantasms Trigger Confusing Combatants now

Are you sure? And I also really wonder how you’ve made that screenshot. The target golem has full health and you’ve got no illusions out. How did the phantasm die? Did you attack another target? But even then, if the phantasm died due to the target dying, it wouldn’t apply any on-death conditions anyway, even if it were a clone. At least I’ve always thought that to be the case… dying due to a dead target doesn’t count as “dying” for the purpose of those traits.

Haha. ^^

/15chars

Awesome! =0

Really.

Nice! =)

/15chars ^^

Nice video!

Where’s that house with the library btw? o.o

And I take it that lovely Asura lady with the harp was another player?

Awwwwww. =)

Happy belated Valentine’s Day to you too! ^^

Edit: Btw, I’m a fan of your quaggan chess as well. I’ve actually made a thread about it here after I’ve stumbled over it while searching for something with Google.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Necro is axe, although I prefer dagger – still 1h.

I daresay that dagger provides way more dps than axe for Necros; provided they manage to stay up close to the target. I think the highest dps in an organized speedrun-group for Necros can be done with spoj’s build (to be found somewhere in the Necro-forums and in his signature). Attempts with some more survivability involve axe… Nemesis made some guides for builds like that for example.

But yeah, to stay more on topic… it indeed seems like the only profession where the highest possible dps isn’t on a one-handed weapon, is Elementalist. And well, Engineer kinda (Bombs, Grenades, or maybe Rifle with Static Discharge).

Lmao @third pic xD.

The other two pics are really nice too of course.

Getting chased all over the map by a giant spider… I don’t like the sound of this. ^^

I’m quite sure FSP is still doing it 1-3 times each day.

I think this was brought up many times before. And also, Anet already stated that they’re not trying to create a new Destiny’s Edge. So maybe nobody of them will die.

Why do people always expect major characters to die? This ain’t no horror-movie.

Gabby.3205:

We have water closets.

Indeed. Love that dialogue.

My most painful experience with retaliation was with my Thief in the labyrinth during Halloween. Tons of skeletons with retaliation in one part… auto-attacking with shortbow meant a fast and cruel death; and detonating a cluster bomb would pretty much equal a onehit-down. Even auto-attacking a single skeleton with a dagger would hurt. Good thing that players don’t have access to such strong retaliation, and also that you don’t see long-lasting retaliation in zergs very often.

I remember my reaction when (during my personal story) Anise summoned like 6 clones at once: “Omg; I wish I would be able to do that too! ”

But yeah, obviously such things would hardly be balanced. ^^

Mikuchan.7261:

They didn’t listen when Cobiah wanted a fortress on Claw island. He got it done anyways and it has proven very useful throughout history.
Kiel doesn’t have what it takes and now Lion’s Arch will fall.

Cobiah is one of the founders of the city. Kiel is “just” the newest member of the council. Obviously, her voice doesn’t have as much weight yet.

And I’ve not seen a single movie with Kurt Russell. Hence I had no idea why someone was bringing him up in a topic in a guildforum, until I’ve checked wikipedia. All I knew was, that he’s probably an actor (didn’t even know how he looks like (well and still wouldn’t really recognize him on a picture)).

Did I miss something? Are the movies worth to be watched?

Jackums.3496:

Then take the Ele, which currently lacks any significant survivability, and also relies on Evasive Arcana quite heavily in most builds. Nerfing their vigor access would be a totally unnecessary nerf to an already relatively weak profession.

They actually intended to nerf this one in the last balance patch, but then refrained from doing so due to community feedback.

Turtle Dragon.9241:

I cant find any part of history where I can compare a shortbow shooting ghostly rainbow ponies to a pistol shooting out confetti. I dont think we should look at history.

Lmao.

BoB.6082:

They actually haven’t changed any other vigor on crit traits in other classes.

Actually, they did nerf access to vigor for quite a few classes already.

Yeah, the upcoming release certainly is a case for F.I.S.H.!

Oh, and… Bubbles. <3

LieutenantDan.5149:

I would much rather pull my own teeth out with safety scissors.

Ewwwwww! No, thanks. I would rather do the Dredge-fractal 10 times in a row than doing this. ^^