I did try the removal trick and it changed the color. Celestial, frost and midnight fire was he result. As the character did not have those dyes, I assume it was the original combination. It was a bit twitchy at first with the last one taking two tries but I just kept hitting remove dye and it worked. The original set is the default I guess?
I got a Panda Hat for an Asura character and immediately upon putting it on the character the original black and white color vanished and it converted to the dye color I had put on her original hat. It was so bad that I had to make sure it was actually the correct hat I had purchased, but it just mounted the dye like I said instantly with out me choosing it. As I do not have any white and black dye on the character the original panda look is no longer available. I can get close [ think pastels and grays] but its just not the same. Made me feel sad and kind of cheated. Any fix for this?
IMO the whole town cloths limit need needs to go away. It was a limit created early on and I suspect the vision for the game then and where its going now are not exactly the same, but that’s just MMOs for ya. NCSoft definitely knows the value of fluff on gear from their other games so I think it would be a win, win and boost gem sales for the company. I say if people want to fight dragons in panda hats then let them.
Ive wanted to play a Skritt from the first time I saw them. I recall a number of people asking about it too back in beta and right after launch. Would need some really cool hair to go with though
My husband just got kicked with the free trial has no access message. I promise as prepurchase customers we are not trial. I logged out before it happened so I don’t know if it will do it to me too. Also this forum keeps getting hung up so Ill bet the problem is happening to a lot of people.
Magic find definitely is not functioning all the time. I’m calling it “magic” find cause it magically vanishes in function most of the time then gives me a day every now and then where it works.
Asking devs to change something to make your win over other players easier is pretty lame. Use an AE on the downed player and pet, try a little effort.
They just made it available to view on your stats section of the hero window. That being said I don’t think its going anywhere. The stat does seem buggy though as it will work one day for me on my high magic find toon and then go poof! and act like it doesn’t exist. =/
I don’t do much dungeons cause only in a tiny guild but from what Ive seen pugging they are just about learning the tricks, just like every other MMO dungeon. Honestly knowing where to stand and what to bring IMO is not what I think of as engaging content. What it means is experienced players skip a lot of the content and treat it like an annoyance and go straight for what offers the rewards a the fastest pace. Its not Anets fault as this has become an MMO tradition among experienced multi game guilds but if Anet caters to it, then they get to wear the stigma too.
The molten pic has vanity visuals but its not a vanity item as it is a perma pic that functions as the 2nd to highest lvl pic and never has to be replaced. I think OPs issue is more about the exchange rate for cost of gems though?
GW2 has a modest amount of casual things to do but the game tries to push people together, not a bad thing but not always done is the best way IMO. A nice group finder interface not just for dungeons but everything a person can do with others would have made a big difference. I know its in the works but its very late IMO. I’m an old school MMO player from way back and have played a LOT of these games. What usually happens when an interface like this is late is players have already adopted a habit of using other means and just don’t use the interface. I hope this time will be different but honestly Anet your team is crawling at a snails pace on this one. Other than that casual endeavors are rather few but are involved enough to be time consuming so if looking for time syncs I guess they are there. Another problem though is the hardness factor in increasing level zones, people are just simply blown off by the frustrations . Zones are popular only by the highest for rewards or the lowest for getting out from under threats. The middle just seems to suffer from a lack of players IMO for just those reasons.
Forgive me if I’m not up to date on some kind of effects but the newbie areas seem to be sporting harder effects with mobs and events [including champs that were once lesser mobs]. I rolled a new toon recently and haven’t spent this much time visiting repair npcs since pre paid beta. I was just wondering if its event based or some kind of compensation for high lvl players constantly farming newbie zones. Ya I know the ur so lame brag festers will jump in but there really is a noticeable change.
It is a depressing place simply because there seems to be so little space and comfort from the great win before the same thing starts over. I know the zone is mainly about the centaur war but repetitive depression still has a negative effect on the human [actual player] psyche. In MMORPG terms not enough reward [feel good] to counter the I’m constantly beating my head against a brick wall feeling.
Many people just don’t think they have to keep track of what they found [like me]. I almost went insane trying to find that last item and not knowing what I had already done. Turned out to be the ship in the bottle, but I honestly don’t understand why an npc or something wouldn’t have your finds remembered.
If there was a way to get many wham bam thanks for the run man types to stop being abusive or treating group members like props it wouldn’t be so bad. But ya know a person with a healthy mental perspective will only take abuse for so long. Honestly the post WoW era gaming mentality I think has got many to just not understand how to even talk normally anymore. There in a nutshell is why dungeon runs have an unfollowing.
I play solo most of the time and I have not done it yet. I see people asking for a group now and then but I cant see the thing anywhere. Though it might be me , Ive had the flu for a week /cough
Now and then I see people talking about and agree that a lot of people in game are not really trying to get to know each other but tend to use each other as stepping stones. So I thought maybe if players were rewarded for being more social even if pretend, it might just help people acknowledge each other as real people. I know it sounds like a myth but people actually used to make new friends in these games.
What I was thinking of was adding to daily or monthly task things like emoting to actual players or even sending or receiving personal tells.
I never use spirits as range and moving targets makes their hit rating pretty low and long reuse timers make them feel like they mostly just take up space that could be for something useful. I guess for a really long kill it makes sense but I like playing the whole game.
I agree with the OP. GW2 is moving away from one of its best start up features. Ive experienced a lot of abusive behavior from some groups and guilds in my gaming history and its really nice to be able to do things with people and take more time to get to know them. Course other games have sort of trained people to not bother but that’s another would be thread. I do see a few trying now and then.
I also see the WoW type slam bam thanks for the run man mentality … a lot. Whats the point of being in a group if many don’t even say hello. Oh yea there’s the make believe stuff we get, but that kind of flies in the face of telling people to group for social reasons.
Currently stuck on 5/6 also but also I have no idea which item I didn’t find as I didn’t write it down. There seems to be no way to tell as even the turn in npcs don’t seem to remember that you gave it to them. Finding a snow or dirt covered spot does not tell you what it was ether, only that you already found it.
To my understanding it works like this. Your guild, just like your name exist on all servers from the beginning. You earn rewards and exp for your guild by doing deeds, gaining renown and so forth on the server. Think of each server as having an empty fort that belongs to your guild, so in order to build upon that fortress you must go there and build on it. In other words your guild exist on every server but not its rewards. You could load up characters to carry your guild bank items over but then you would have to earn the actual bank and have that stuff stay on holding toons till you get your guild bank back.
Its kind of like the Twilight zone where you wake up in another dimension and no one you have gone to battle with or fought for knows you.
Play the low level zones if your having trouble. You will get plenty of exp in them and you should be doing the exploration for exp and reward anyway. I have leveled a toon to 80 never going beyond a teir 2 zone. Also currently the story quest zones [ the teir 2 Charr zone and the teir 1 Norn zone] are offering high bonus exp per kills. Do all the events you see for karma and exp bonuses and try to accomplish the daily’s too.
It sounds to me like your trying to play this like it was a different game, just relax and try to see what you might be missing.
“NCsoft was firm in its decision to stay away from “Asian” themes and keep it “universal.”
As I understand it the original Guild Wars was created before NCSoft bought out Anet. Now it is all up to NCSoft as they own Anet. Perhaps the representation of Asian culture in Guild Wars Factions was not the way they liked? Just guessing. Anyway I never say never in game expansions, a year down the road and things may change a lot.
“our squad of 20 people in front of an enemies home spawning base”
So you were camped while camping a spawn base. In most games spawn camping is considered bad form. Yet your asking for sympathy because someone chose to defend it?
Well I would work with support and try to get it resolved. It could be with all the actual gold spammers that the issue was just gone over too quickly. Also there are some people who will report almost anything in chat with the word gold in the sentence.
If I had a first choice of a new playable race it would be Skritt hands down and Ive seen others say the same thing also.
As for Centaur lore and faction, this game’s history is a progression of history in Guild Wars 1 and there were allied Centaur and even heroes [kind of like a pet only humanoid automated group members] that were Centaur.
Her head is really small and her eyes are really huge [like somebody tried to choke her to death as a cub]. Not that I haven’t seen this kind of miscreant creativity before but what is it with dev teams and abusing the poor npc’s? LOL.
Grawl worship what they think is powerful in their small view of the world. If the Karka are eating some of them then perhaps they would see them that way.
Ive noticed recently that the pet aggro problem seems to be worse. When I noticed it this week I decided to spend some time testing it. I had pet only attack a number of mobs and waited to see what happened. Sure enough the mobs attacked the ranger first as if the initial pet attack was automatically transferring aggro to the ranger. Only after pet was able to get off notable damage to turn the mob did it gain its attention. Now if this is in a more normal situation where the ranger is actually attacking and stacking up hate numbers also imagine how this combat would go. I also noticed that pets are not able to stick with a mob while its attacking the ranger. There seems to be pauses when the pet has to change direction and thus you get a lot of space between a long bow using ranger and pet, also some mobs [like undead] run faster than the pet in combat and so while ticked off monster is closing distance between it self and ranger pet is missing its hits trying to keep up and do damage. The pet triggers attacks , mob is no longer in range and pet needs to wait for cool down to do it again. This in essence is a pet dps breaker unless your using a range damage pet. Often times I have to do odd dancing around the target to help pet close range and get attacks off. These test were done with a damage dealing cat and beast master build so IMHO this should not be happening.
I have a hard time with content that ask me to do what I would not allow children to do, so I just bypass it. It gets old though, I mean everybody kind of expected that kind of bad little boy tude from the Blizzard CEO but the idea that it has kind of normalized bugs me to shards.
First off locking down a portion of the map to give people a reason to beat a boss would not work. It would only take one time to unlock it, and then people would demand that there be stuff in there that made it worth doing. The rate of overcome to move on would be blindingly fast.
Second, I rather resent the pre assumption that Dungeons must be the only way or no one would do them. People will do dungeons when its fun to do, as in useful drops and awards for content in the whole of the dungeon. Nerfing outside content to try to force people to do more dungeons is a recipe for failure and I have seen this in a lot of games [MMO addict since early 2002]. Also it doesn’t stop with that , what happens is early dungeons begin to get bypassed then entire areas gradually abandoned for the most part. Players who are on the fast track mentality will take the fastest rout and move on if there and are likely in guilds that pressure them to do so even if they don’t see it.
Outdoor content gives people who are not connected to each other by guilds to enjoy group content with out pressure. Its an insanely great idea. Not only can people practice their skills working with others outside the pressure and sometimes psychodrama but often players do not feel like they are good enough to do dungeons until they improve their gear. With out the fun of playing dramatic content outside dungeons and pvp a lot of people would just leave, including my self.
I wouldn’t want GW2 to become yet just another mmo with dungeon grinds and not much else.
Ive been having similar problems in various zones. Spending days tying to complete some maps that just seem to be missing parts. Perhaps the completion mechanism needs to be checked to see if its synced properly with new changes.
