Guild Wars 2

Runes=purple, Sigils=orange

Mine has a Made in the USA logo and a hologram seal at the back to confirm authenticity. Fakes have different colored logos.

I have my account wxp, passable legendary and ascended, and more costume/look options. Yeah I’ll play more.

Yay. Acct bound WXP and legendary/ascended items alone make it good for me.

Trade it with the new black lion trader NPCs in the home cities.

After logging in, I came to the conclusion that you were changing it from the wardrobe tab instead of the equipment tab.

You might be trying to equip it from the wardrobe?

Must be a bug if true (still patching). Maybe you were trying to change it from the wardrobe? Or did you double click it in your bag/equip screen?

Just unequip and reequip. Should fix it.

Algreg.3629:

Tamryu.5978:

Norn simply aren’t as big as they were in GW1.

Min height female human vs norm (let’s just say max height)
http://oi57.tinypic.com/5yu6b6.jpg

In GW2 even a max height norn wouldn’t look that big compared to a small human.

wow, I did not remember it being that extreme… well, that is a giant girl indeed.

I’m pretty big myself. Twice the height of this human in fact.

As long as you don’t unequip the stacking weapon (as in remove it from your hand and place it in your bag), the stacks will remain.

Well, the game is almost 2 years old, so they probably won’t market it as much as they did back when it was new. It is what it is at this point, and most of the income will come from their existing fanbase. Most everyone probably already knows what GW2 offers.

Looks like faces from generic Korean F2P XXX

Dusty Moon.4382:

Khal Drogo.9631:

uknortherner.2670:

Oh yes – loads of FedEx quests and not much else. Artificial barriers preventing the player from truly exploring the world of Tamriel (the very essence of EVERY ES game) and some of the most laughable, phoned-in voice acting I’ve heard in years.

The wonders of a triple-dip payment system – box, sub and cash shop (not to mention an entire race locked behind a paywall). Of course they can afford to churn out new dungeons to grind every month!

Well imho the voice acting is at least on par or better with GW2’s voice acting – they even got John Cleese saying a few lines. Unless you dont know who John Cleese is of course.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/01/23/the-elder-scrolls-online-voice-cast-includes-john-cleese-and-dumbledore

Err no, its not a “triple dip” system. Go watch popular Twitch streamers playing ESO, people keep repeating the same misconceptions about the cash shop – its only selling a mid tier horse that can be bought with in game gold.

As for a race being locked behind a “pay-wall” yes well its a one time off $20 increase much like how digital edition GW2 was initally released without the option to buy using gems restricting use of one of the best summon elite skills. The race bonuses arent imbalanced in anyway – its just a personal preference.

ESO’s problem is it feels so dead. NPC’s stand, sit, but basically do nothing. They don’t have conversations with each others (although they do talk to themselves). The combat mechanics are terrible. Melee range is a huge radius and you don’t need to be close to anything to kill it Also, it has LESS skills than GW2 and the combat is based on a console FPS combat. You can’t make a good looking character – they all look like they are ‘strung out’.

The Imperial Race lockout IS NOT the same what GW2 does. You can play all the races in GW2, you just get some bling and a finisher – totally different. If you think Mist Wolves are a good elite, you haven’t used the others, it is very mediocre at best.

In ESO, as in SWTOR, they spent there money on actors doing voices, but unlike SWTOR, that is all they did. Michael Gambon as one and John Cleese as the other big voice and all I thought was, this was a waste of time.

During the beta, other players talked about how free the exploration was. Well, I did that and I can tell you it was NOT very explorable. I hit more glass walls than in GW1 and almost every building you walk into is it’s own little map, zoning is everywhere and annoying.

So it’s literally an MMO version of Skyrim then?

I bought 800 gems a few hours ago when they were relatively low.

Flissy.4093:

Shout builds are atrocious for a commander. What use is a commander who isn’t running stability, but has FGJ, SIO and OMM? Oh yes, none, because you’re getting flinged around by every Tornado, Spectral Wall & blocked by every Line under the sun.

0/0/30/20/20, Hammer & Sw/Wh. Full PVT, even with diminishing returns.

Most shout warriors don’t use 3 shouts. They use either dolyak signet or balanced stance (and most likely last stand as well).

It’s more of an indicator of time spent playing. However, while high AP doesn’t necessarily mean good player or vice versa, more time spent playing will usually mean a an experienced, savvy player who knows the in and outs of the game.

There’s a reason why the obsidian sanctum JP is in the WvW tournament achievement list. And there’s a reason as well as why you only need to do it once.

It’s supposed to be kitten hard to do it, since people are supposed to kill you on the way.

Terrahero.9358:

So you think that instead arenanet will just let you save up 200 tickets in exchange for just 250 badges?

So, in other words. Instead of spending 300 tickets to buy one mistforged weapon. You can spend an extra 750 badges and get three mistforged weapons?

I admire your optimism, but i really dont think so.

What’s the point of adding the MF recipe then, if you’re gonna go spend MORE and do the extra effort, for the exact same item?

Considering the straight up mistforged is 300 tickets, I find it hard to believe that you will need both, since you need 100 tickets for the weapon, 200 tickets AND 250 badges plus misc items total for 1 mistforged item that you create through the MF.

AH is selfish, but you NEED some kind of sustain in large fights. Either you get it through healway, or something else. As a frontliner and a part of the melee train, you will most likely be going down the AH route as your sustain. That’s why the 0/5/30/30/5 and 0/0/30/30/10 is the meta build for the frontline guard.

Terrahero.9358:

Donut.6914:

You won’t get a Mistforged Hero’s Weapon but you will get a Hero’s Weapon, which can be upgraded into a Mistforged Hero’s Weapon in the mystic forge.

Which takes an ingredient that costs tickets aswell. In the end it costs the same amount of tickets.
So the 6th place and lower servers arent getting a mistforged weapon this season no matter what.

In otherwords, even more reason to have stacked on 1 server. Easier to complete meta achievement and a better reward.
I cant believe someone actually thought this was a good idea.

Most likely it will cost tickets OR badges. Not both.

GW2 is nearing 2 years old. That ship has sailed and gone. Adopting a new system wouldn’t bring the trinity players back, and they’d just anger their current players.

I use 3 pcs of celestial: helm, chest and legs, not for the crit damage, but mostly to round out my stats.

Titan Cronus.9216:

Just thought of the perfect comparison. Capital city and Lion’s Arch maps are non-combat maps in the same way that town clothes are non-combat clothes. Non-combat clothes for non-combat maps. Are they going to change the non-combat maps to combat maps too?

Yes.

DarksunG.9537:

Don’t Worry guys, you’ll have some of your Town Clothes useable as armor now! So you can pay money for Transmutation every time you want to use those Town Clothes! a healthier game!

You don’t need transmutes for outfits.

I have 11k ap, not the highest, but not low either. I also have 3.4k daily ap, so I really REALLY doubt I’d be worrying about this problem for the next 2 years at least. I’m sure most other people as well.

I’m guessing they looked at the numbers, saw that the amount of people who would buy outfits if they were usable in combat outnumbered those who would be affected by the change, and decided that they were willing to risk angering those who regularly used town clothes. That’s probably what happened.

Necro would be best.

At this point of the game’s life, people are already satisfied with their looks. They will only change when new armors or weapons are released.

In my example, I am already satisfied with human T3 cultural armor. Paying a high premium for unlocked skins I would rarely use is an inferior option to paying the 18 or so gold needed for just a single use skin that I would wear for a long time.

Zach.3264:

mtpelion.4562:

You are looking at this the wrong way.

If you have an Abyss dye on 2 of your 5 characters you are not losing 1 Abyss dye, you are gaining 3 free Abyss dyes and 1 Unidentified Dye.

How so?

Have I completely misread the changes page (and the rest of my guild it seems)

From what I understand, I was losing all duplicate dyes, and having them replaced with Unidentified ones?

What he means is that since all 5 of your characters get Abyss, you’re essentially gaining 3 extra Abyss dyes, and 1 unidentified as compensation for the duplicate.

phys.7689:

Shifu.4321:

phys.7689:

Shifu.4321:

It’s only a rental system if you need to return it. It’s more like a clothing store, where you own what you buy, but need to pay for every purchase you make. BUT they give you discounts on repeat purchases, instead of having to pay the full price.

Its like a store, where you can only wear one set of clothes at a time, and every time you want a new outfit you have to pay the store. How often do you think people would wear new looks if that was the system in real life?

What? Isn’t that how real life works? I was of the assumption that you have to pay for a new outfit. When I buy a new shirt and pants, I pay money.

I have multiple sets of armor of the same stat, because I want different looks. It costs me bag space, but eh, I rarely hoard stuff.

yeah but i dont have to pay for the outfit i already bought everytime i decide i want to have a different look.

Then make another armor set of the same stats. Exotic armor can be had for a minimal cost, and all you’d be giving up is bagspace.

In real life, you don’t throw away clothes when you decide you want a different look. You have multiple shirts, pants, socks in your closet (or bag).

phys.7689:

Shifu.4321:

It’s only a rental system if you need to return it. It’s more like a clothing store, where you own what you buy, but need to pay for every purchase you make. BUT they give you discounts on repeat purchases, instead of having to pay the full price.

Its like a store, where you can only wear one set of clothes at a time, and every time you want a new outfit you have to pay the store. How often do you think people would wear new looks if that was the system in real life?

What? Isn’t that how real life works? I was of the assumption that you have to pay for a new outfit. When I buy a new shirt and pants, I pay money.

I have multiple sets of armor of the same stat, because I want different looks. It costs me bag space, but eh, I rarely hoard stuff.

Probably many people only saw “skin wardrobe”, felt happy. Then they thought about it some more, and realized that it’s basically a streamlining of the status quo, and felt betrayed because it wasn’t what they expected (an unlimited use wardrobe).

Yes, it is like the old system at its core.

It’s only a rental system if you need to return it. It’s more like a clothing store, where you own what you buy, but need to pay for every purchase you make. BUT they give you discounts on repeat purchases, instead of having to pay the full price.

You can still use the skin for the first time you got it (for example buying the Viper armor from the gemstore). It’s when you transmute it to other stuff that you need charges – EXACTLY like what we have now with crystals and stones.

It’s not really changing the system, but rather streamlining and making it more convenient.

You just need the toy for that.

Is it a better deal than the T6 bag? At 55 silver per dye, doesn’t seem that big a difference.

It’s basically the same system we have now (use an item to transmute, etc.), except that you don’t have to buy multiple skins anymore.

Sonia.7910:

Well they only have to treat them the same way as always, only allowing you to combine them with other pieces of town clothing. As if they were a 4th kind of armor. I don’t think it is so complicated (it is probably the way they treated them till now, I guess). So I doubt that’s the main problem

(Also there’s a lot of clipping with normal armor so what’s the matter with a bit more?)

What I’m thinking is that they wanted town clothes with town clothes only, so if you only used,say, a shirt – that meant that you didn’t wear anything else. Anet probably didn’t want naked people running around, and couldn’t be bothered to code the town clothes with actual armor, so they went with a compromise.

Just trying to explain a probable reason why individual clothes weren’t allowed.

I think the opposite might happen. It will drop since people who want 2 legendaries of the same kind won’t need to make another one, and those who want legendaries on multiple characters will only now just need to transmute, drying up demand.

Most likely it would be a problem with clipping or coding issues of individual pieces of town clothing with actual armor.

From my understanding, the skins remain skins, but they’re saved in the locker. So the skin itself remains free to use, but using it multiple times will cost charges.

Jordo.5913:

but i thought the first pic was 3 non asuran characters wearing asuran cultural armor

i too am hoping to god that they unlock for all characters….just make the requirement to buy them to the race…and make it only buyable at 80

That’s COE armor

Most likely it will be like the PVP locker, so 99.9% chance that it stays the status quo.

Mungrul.9358:

Basically, they could have had me back as a paying customer again, but through the callousness and obviousness of their monetisation strategies, they’ve lost all potential access to my money.
Treat me like a hapless mark and I’ll treat you like the near-criminal fraudster scum you are ArenaNet.

You realize that T crystals are one of the biggest moneymakers for Anet? if they remove it, and make all skins free, they’re basically doing away with a large chunk of their revenue.

I can use my mad king armor in combat.

Yeah! Finally a use for my 70+ t-stones.

It doesn’t really fit the GW2 aesthetic. Something more along the lines of human T3 heavy would be better.

Well, what else are you gonna frontline with?