Guild Wars 2

Yata.8932:

Yes “asuran” should only be used to refer to something created by the aura

Or belonging to, or … We call those words adjectives

Rather that sticky it make it a random dialogue in Rata Sum
All in all, be glad this is Tyria and not Middle-earth.

Can you be a little more specific?

I know there is an event when the Risen attack the area and slaughter moas. As far as I am aware after that comes a Champion Risen Hylek or something, not a crab.

That said, there is a giant crab nearby, maybe the boss is random.

Remembered another one – in northern Brisban Wildlands around a lake there are some restless ghosts. These are ghosts of the collectors from GW1, those that used to hang around the area, and in the south of the map is the Shattered Henge and Fort Koga.

That would be OP, other races have to suffer the limited intelligence of their pets and so should you. :p (No seriously, that’s not what golems are for and they are not pets)

The Granite Citadel in Dredgehaunt Cliffs. For the heart there you can decipher Dwarven tombstones (or something) which bear the names of the GW1 henchmen.

And of course there is this piece of dialogue from Rurikton in the Reach:

“Found any new scrolls?”
“Yes! I found some rather remarkable scrolls about a group of adventurers some centuries ago.”
“They escaped Ascalon right before the Searing, crossed the Kingdom of Kryta, joined and betrayed the White Mantle, and even faced a lich lord!”
“Wow. Maybe someday, we’ll meet heroes like that.”

Phydeaux.8534:

Or do you need to have evil intent to commit an evil act? In that case, I would argue that they’re not evil.

And how do you define evil intent? If it’s up to the person in question then almost no one is evil.

Wintyre Fraust.6534:

7. Fireworks?

Already in the game. The one easy-to-find vendor I remember is on the bottom of Rata Sum.

Tarkaroshe.8370:

8. Mounts. Variety and complexity. Ranging from simple horses without saddles, to horses that have “slots” for barding (to customise it), to multi-person carriages. There could be different speeds ranging from 10% above running (cheapest) to 50% above running.

This is my personal opinion but no thanks. Once you give people horses they don’t leave their house without them.

11. Ability to find secret entrances (hints from books, lore, tombstones, tablets, etc)

Kind of in the game, there are Dwarven tombs in a certain map you need to get keys for (the keys drop from mobs).

Zenyatoo.4059:

As I mentioned earlier, you could have 13 ticks of bleed per second, or 7, or 2, or if you use other skills perhaps you only get 1 tick of damage per second (with say, lava font or something)

Basically it varies on what situation it’s used in.

Don’t the ticks of a single condition (no matter the number of stacks) happen at the same time? Otherwise I’m seeing some performance issues in there.

Dantan.2843:

But from the charr opening sequence, it says the iron legion invented guns, which leads into cannons.

This might not be be up-to-date but it doesn’t say anything about the invention of guns.

I had serious trouble the first time (being underleveled might have been a reason).

I think the biggest issue is that you cannot direct your friends, if you want to make it somewhere they won’t follow you because they will aggro something along the way. (And yeah, frenzy, hating it since I had to fight Mazdak)

That said, second time through it was pretty easy (if you don’t fight what doesn’t need to be fought):

If you keep off of the path you can reach Mira easily and then simply rush to the General and speak with him, don’t care about the Risen. Then make your way to the lighthouse, again ignore all the Risen, activate the light and jump off the cliff so the Risen won’t follow.

Now you’re back at the entrance, I spent some time trying to get to the central column but I couldn’t make it through the two Risen that kept respawning in the middle so I simply touched the right wall and made it to the two groups of Risen who were fighting the Lionguard and completed the final objective there, didn’t need to kite or anything. YMMV of course, I’m a guardian.

Don’t take this the wrong way but you must be doing something wrong. Where do you keep spending your money? When I was your age (read level) I had well over a gold.

Blizt.3086:

I’d say their reason and motive are justified.

Questioning the message of the tablet is justified. But the Court doesn’t question, they don’t care what’s written in it.

Imagine if the Pale Tree was actually influnenced by a tablet written by a brutal and hateful Centaur, and the majority of the Sylvari race were born to be full of negative emotion. And then some of the Sylvari decided that the tablet has changed their original nature, and they decided to form an organization to fight back and reverse the influence…now would you say they’re doing the wrong thing? That they are evil?

They would be good, because they wouldn’t want to be brutal and hateful (i.e. evil) like the centaur. Just like the “current” Nightmare Court is evil because it does evil things whereas Ventari taught others how to be good to each other.
It may not be in Sylvari’s “original” nature to be good (I do think the Thorn Stalkers from GW1 are what Sylvari would be like) and maybe what the Court does is what Sylvari should have been doing but that doesn’t make them not evil.

Unfortunately however, from the viewpoint of most other residents in the world of Tyria, their actions and ways of doing thing are very unacceptable, and thus Nightmare Court is deemed “evil”, just like the Kraits.

The Court seeks to “redeem” the Sylvari through pain and suffering, I’m sorry but that’s evil. The Krait enslave and sacrifice other races, again, that’s evil.

Two tips:
a) events come in chains, if you finish one another one will often follow, just stick around and don’t run away
b) observe the NPCs, quite often they will try to grab your attention (“Need some help over here!”) speak to them, they will show you an ongoing event; sometimes they will just start talking to each other and then they decide to go on a walk or something – this a starting event, follow them

Formis Sage.2638:

/snip
In this case they aren’t, in real life I have yet to see sentient plant complaining about it being eaten.

I’m not sure you understand what cannibalism means – it is eating one’s own species. Not eating something that is sentient.

And of course, them not being mutually exclusive does not make it any better.

It doesn’t but that wasn’t the question.

Vacks.6459:

Sialor.7396:

The drapes don’t necessarily have to match the curtains, do they?

But drapes are curtains, silly.

Meh, you and your silly idioms.

You are not alone, I’ve gotten some harpoons of grawl slaying lately. Not only do they not live in water but the only grawl I’ve met so far were friendly.

You can’t? I transformed into a skale on the first day and the NPCs in the Grove were happily talking to me, haven’t tried that since though.

mercury ranique.2170:

The fact that the wall is Tengu architecture doesn’t mean it is the same area it is blocking you from.

Well it’s kinda of connected and in every map there is at least one tengu telling you it leads into the Dominion of Winds

I would understand if the game was out for a year (well, no I wouldn’t but it’s a nice thing to say) but I don’t really think one month is a lot of time and effort put into a character. Then there are issues with personal storyline as that progress isn’t going to transfer.

That said, why exactly do you want a race change?

Atlas.9704:

Working on a Vigil mission to help Quaggans, if I see any cute baby Quaggans I’ll get screen shots.

You should see them in the last mission. Anyway:
As a Sylvari I visited the Human home instance and the quaggan I saved were there with their young, I guess they should be in every home instance but I haven't checked mine yet.

Formis Sage.2638:

It could be considered vegetarian from other races’ point of view, but generally it could just be considered as cannibalism.

Those two aren’t mutually exclusive.

The drapes don’t necessarily have to match the curtains, do they?

Malicon.8564:

It is ridiculous to have rules against swearing. They are words just like any other word. In fact they are a useful tool when you want to add emphasis or strength to a statement. It’s the people who choose to be offended by these words who turn them into “bad words”. If people don’t want to see bad language, don’t touch the filter and then you’ll never know the difference if someone typed $(*(&%^& or an actual bad word. It’s your fault for turning off the filter, which is on by default.

Then again, if it’s in the ToS, you’re outta luck =P

As far as I am aware the rules are not against swearing in particular, it’s against being rude to each to other which, more often that not, is done through swearing.

There is a wall on the south of Kessex Hills as well as the east of Caledon Forest. The area behind the wall is about the size of a single map but from the looks of it the wall is built in the middle of a sea. The land part of the area might not be that big.

If one progress bar feels grindy having a multitude of them won’t really help.

Not to mention that you would be reducing the amount of ways in which one can fill a heart. You are proposing 4, 4, 3, 5 for each respective task but currently you can do it with 5, 3, 4, 4 as well or even 16, 0, 0, 0 if you’d like. That won’t work under your proposal and I’d much rather fill the heart by killing any and all bandits attacking the farm instead of having to go back and feed the cows because the farmer only cares about the first 5 corpses I made.

Well, given how often events are failed (i.e. almost never) I guess the rare ones are those that follow through the failed chain.

On the other hand there might as well be an event on a 6-month (or even 1-month) clock but how would we know?

Tilarta.9812:

A Golem attempts to power punch a Norn.
The Norn pulls their arm off and throws it into the distance.
One Golem disarmed, literally.

Or you could pull off the eye crystal and effectively blind them.

If it was that easy the Asura would not be using golems. But since they are using them the only logical conclusion is that it doesn’t work the way you describe

It’s not magnets what holds them together. Even if they were: have you ever been to a large magnet? It’s not easy to pull two apart.

My guardianette:

Consulting the wiki it seems you were given two choices at the end of the quest (like a few times before) – do X or do Y. So you must’ve chosen different paths.

I think it’s an issue with the audio getting lost “in the pipes”, I have played through that story and I don’t remember anything missing, it only started happening about two days ago.

Bay Haven I guess. That was the first time I actually saw a proper building. The sylvari pods just don’t look like houses.

123er, Alt + 123er. How do you clickers move and click at the same time?

Order, because secret agents (and partially because of that old concept art – now Diessa Plateau loading screen – as I thought there would be such an armor to be had in the Order). And I didn’t even know there were secret agents all around the world who only speak to you if you’re in the Order.
That said, going for the Priory next time because of all the knowledge they’ve supposedly gathered.

Tilarta.9812:

I’m pretty sure Quaggans are based on the Sirenian order of marine mammals, most likely manatees.

I don’t know, they look like belugas to me. And belugas eat crabs.

EDIT: That is to say, you shouldn’t base your speculation on how the species looks like.

You can also get it in Kessex Hills (at least the chest and the legs are there, I haven’t completed the zone). It’s called “Seraph issue something” in there.

Well, you can run through the 40-50 zone and avoid getting hit by enemies (shouldn’t be that hard). Or, you can go to Divinity’s Reach and take a gate to Ebonhawke, which is in the zone you’re trying to get into. The gate can be found in Rurikton, southeastern edge of the city.

Have you been in the orders’ headquarters? Just a thought.

Tilarta.9812:

Several of them involve killing (or should that be rekilling?) Ascalonian Ghosts.

Actually, what happens is that you only banish the ghosts. When the Charr “kill” the ghost of Duke Barradin early on they say something along the lines that it will take him weeks to appear again.

Furthermore:

Wouldn’t the other races have issues doing that?

Human: The Ghosts are their ancestors.

Are they? I’d think most of those who became ancestors of today’s Krytans left Ascalon long before the Foefire.

Norn: Respect spirits and would deem killing those who fell in battle unworthy.

Not that kind of spirits. And challenge trumps all in Norn society, doesn’t it?

Syvlari: would feel sympathy for the dead.

Actually, and to my own surprise, Sylvari fight undead on day to day basis (they are close to the sea from which Zhaitan’s Risen come). Undead corpse might be the first enemy a new Sylvari sees outside the Grove.

Asura: Might fight them out of intellectual curiosity (I wonder, what would it be like to fight to a ghost? Can I study it and make new discoveries?), but would ultimately feel pity for the slain.

This one I’m not sure about.

EndlessDreamer.6780:

Engineers don’t get the option to switch weapons due to the fact that you have various gear kits that you can employ. Hope this helps.

And the same is true for Elementalists who have attunements instead of kits.

Have you seen him doing any skills at all though? He does Necrotic Grasp if he feels like it.

Gennadios.8407:

I will support more revealing armor for females when they give my guardian a Kilt.

Heavy armor pics

See the guy on the left? If you want what he’s wearing make your way to Kessex Hills, the “kilt” is sold by Sergeant Rena if I remember right.

Tilarta.9812:

Well, the analogy isn’t perfect.

Yes, it’s not a good idea to put a plant completely underwater, it’ll drown, for lack of a better term.

But a plant’s roots, while immersed in water, can extract what they need to live somehow, provided the water has no salt.

I’m assuming Syvlari are “all plants” really, merging underwater and above water properties.

But a Sylvari isn’t a “whole” plant. Just like an apple isn’t a plant.

Hi, couple suggestions I don’t think were presented:

Can you please allow chat logging (i.e. saving the chat to a text file)? Some NPCs tend to have long conversations and this would save me trouble taking screenshots every so often. Not to mention I wouldn’t need to transcribe it.
And secondly, would it be possible to disable system messages in chat like “screenshot #### taken”? We have checkboxes for /say, /map, /guild and so on but not for this, I don’t think we need to see this in every single chat panel.

According to the wiki, Talismans have been removed from the game. However yesterday after finishing Urmaug’s Secret I found one in the chest. It cannot be slotted into anything.