Guild Wars 2

Wow… never saw THOSE before!

Tengu have a long history in GW, and in this game there are already several models of Tengu bodies and armors. It would probably be the easiest to flesh out for the devs, and there’s already a Tengu starting area walled off from the rest of Tyria.

Tengu get my vote.

The Snowblind fractal has the most awesome nighttime in the game. I’d LOVE to see that same level of darkness on a moonless Tyrian night.

Wiat- what? I tried to find something saying zerker gear will get nerfed, but couldn’t find it. Where was this said?

As soon as I heard about Agony in Fractals, I thought of the Mursaat. In GW1, they inhabited areas that are not currently open in GW2. These would be Ice Caves, Iron Mines, Thunderhead Keep (one of my fave missions in Prophecies) in the Southern Shiverpeaks and the Ring of Fire islands. They and their Jade constructs used Spectral Agony to devestating effect to anyone who did not have infused armor. (GW wiki says, “Jade constructs do not activate Spectral Agony directly. Instead, the effect is automatically applied if they deal damage to a character.”)

I REALLY hope that all of the new ascended crafting stuff was introduced so we would have time to “infuse” our armor and weapons with agony resistance, in preparation for opening areas where we will encounter the Mursaat and their Jade constructs.

Achievement chests halp a lot, as they give gold the higher you get. That does take a while though.

The wealthiest member of my guild got that way because she buys gems every month with real life money, which she then uses to buy Black Lion Chest keys. She gets valuable dyes which she then sells on the TP, and BL Tickets and Ticket Scraps she uses to buy weapon skins from the Weapon Specialist and sells those on the TP as well.

Keep in mind that it’s not just a matter of making gold, but also NOT SPENDING gold (or silver or copper) on travel. WP costs add up. Are you out at the edge of Tyria and want to go to LA? WP’ing to LA can cost 4 silver and change. Not much, really, unless you do it 10-20 times a day, and that really adds up fast. If you’re not in a hurry, go to the PvP lobby or WvW, then take the Asura gate to LA. That will save you some cash daily, and that adds up over time as well. If you havne’t unlocked the PvP lobby yet, take a few minutes and get it done.

Crafting mats, I think its been said here, are also a great way of making money. Since ascended crafting arrived, things like linen and silk have jumped in price. Are you selling your light armor pieces to the merchant? Shame! Salvaging them for the linen/cotton/silk may make you more cash. ALWAYS check the price of your blues and greens on the TP before you merch them. You’d be surprised to learn that lvl 50 blue cleric’s mace with a merch price of 50 copper can be unloaded to a buy order on the TP for 2 silver. Blue and green shields and maces always (well, ok, 95% of the time) sell for more on the TP than the merch price. Make sure you check your projected profit before clicking sell, as the TP takes slightly more than a 10% cut. Shaman gear and weapons seem to have nice prices as well, especially the weapons. While some rares have TP prices in the low 20 silver range, others will sell for 30+ silver. Check before you salvage for ectos!

Massive server crash. Happened to everyone.

Second time tonight. Now the game won’t even load. I wonder if all the gold sellers have banded together for a DDoS.

Yes. But at level 10 you get a black lion chest key, and later you get some nice rewards as well. XP is great from the PS, too. You can do it, but when leveling up, I’d recommend it just so you can get the best parts of the story in at low level. Your race specific stories are the best ones, and later all become the same when you’re higher level and accepted into one of the orders.

You are incorrect. If you ONLY do that one event, you will see diminishing returns. Remove your toon from the area, do another dynamic event somewhere else. And it DOES matter where- go to a different map. You may notice if you go from a high level event to a low level event (say, Claw of Jormag to Maw), you get less karma, xp, and gold, but that’s because of the level of the event, not because of DR.

The only way to receive 28 and 18 karma for an event is to do them back to back on the same toon without ever leaving the area. Changing toons does matter- it’s toon specific. If I park a toon at Maw and only log into that toon when Maw is up and do the event repeatedly with only that toon, I’ll see less and less karma and loot from Maw.

My guildies and I jump from world boss to world boss, using the timer at gw2stuff. Claw, Shatterer, Fire Ele, Golem Mark 2, Fire Shaman, Jungle Wurm, Frozen Maw, Shadow Behemoth, Ulgoth, etc. And those are just the ones off the top of my head and don’t include temple runs. If we’re going to hit one of these a second time in the same evening, we swap toons so we can still get the event chest (big one, not the small once a day bonus chest). However, before we swap toons, if we did the aforementioned events in order, we’re still getting max karma on each.

During GW2 beta, there was a feedback feature wherein I asked why there wasn’t a first person view like in GW1. It probably had something to do with optimization, but I’m glad to hear it should be coming to GW2. This game is WAY too beautiful to NOT have it!

“DR” as in “diminishing returns”, not Divinity’s Reach. Its what happens when you have a toon in the same area doing the same event for too long. Its purpose is to prevent or diminish the loot botters get for botting. To rid yourself and your toon of this, simply go to another area briefly and do something. Leaving a toon at an event area so you can log in to it to do the event is a guaranteed way to hit yourself with DR.

Last night, or rather this morning at around 4 am Eastern, me & one guildy, along with another we recruited after we’d done both, did Fire Ele pre and event, then went to Jungle Wurm and completed that as well. We had a 4th show up half way through each, but for the most part it was just the three of us- my guardian, my guildie’s engineer, and an ele (who kept spawning fiery GS and ice bows). Two of the most epic fights I’ve ever done in this game. Claw with 9 people is impressive as well! The fewest I’ve seen at Claw was just over a dozen (I counted 16 from a screen cap). Really gives a sense of accomplishment when you can complete a world boss event with so few people.

Good idea, but seige weapons need supply to be built. Supply comes from supply camps in WvW, so they’d have to add a supply camp to the area.

My fave is the 2 panel meme at the bottom of Shriketalon’s epic post here:
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Hamfast, you win the forums today!

If I can time it right, I try to do just that. But if people close to me are not in my party, it doesn’t always buff them. Hence, SY! for them, and then SYG!.

That would be cool, too. People drop serious cash on gems, so why not on a replica of their toon? I’d do it.

I think a great way to get some of that GW1 feel back would be to introduce more skills to the weapons we already have. When I equip my sword, I have 3 skills to use- my chain auto attack and slot 2 & 3. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to choose from a set of skills for each weapon? Example: skillset A is the weapon or offhand as it currently exists. Skillset B would offer a different chain auto attack, and different skills in slots 2 & 3, but with the same cooldowns. GW1 has 19 sword skills, useable by anyone who wants to equip a sword. GW2 allows you 3 skills, or 5 if you count the chain auto attack (but you can’t “click” the 2nd and 3rd in the chain). I’m not saying my guardian should be able to use the sword skills of a warrior, ranger or a thief or mesmer (although some skills could be crossover skills, like Final Thrust, for example). But adding different “sets” of skills to each weapon and off-hand would allow us to get into some of the build varieties we were able to access in GW1. And as a competitive fencer, I feel anyone with a sword should be allowed access to a riposte! In GW1, my warrior has a collection of shields for every situation in the game; +10 armor vs each element and monster available, as well as damage reduction in stance or enchanted, and 20% at +1 for each attribute in the game. (Yeah, my meager GW1 storage is chock full of stuff like that- I’m a hoarder.) In GW2, my heavy armor toons have 2 (4 really) skills for that shield. Mildly disappointing.

I’d also like Anet to allow heavy armor classes, and maybe even ranger, to use the spear on land as a ranged & melee weapon. How cool would that be?

I also understand that this would involve some extra skill balancing, but think of how much it would add to the game.

Ooooo… it just hit me- Tixx’s toys! I’d love that charr soldier next to my Master Chief that I’ve had for years.

Not to break your immersion, but now that I’ve seen it, I totally want that permanent tonic!

I remember during or after beta there was a survey question that asked something like, “How likely would you be to purchase an action figure from this game?”, or something similar. Then the game was released with a deluxe version wherein you could get a Rytlock statue, and later a charr plush.

Question for the forum readers- Would you like to see action figures, and if so, which one(s) would you want to see most and be likely to purchase?

I know a million “Quaggan!” responses will follow, but how about a little poseable Rooba standing next to her poseable C.L.E.A.N. 5000? Or an Inquest Golem? Vigil guard? A figure in tier 3 cultural with a legendary weapon?

Does McFarlane still make figures? Imagine what they could do with GW2!

I think Anet is REALLY missing out on a LOT of income by not having pursued this earlier, and doing so would give them another income stream besides gems for the TP.

As mentioned above, skill #5 on the bazooka, Fire Shield, can be self cancelled by moving forward, backward, or sideways. When you do this, it goes to a 3.5 second cooldown, rather than a 30 second cooldown if you let the yellow activation bar go to the end. Fire Shield can be used to shield you from the fear spam, and as Khisanth mentioned, there is a “tell”, you just have to be watching for it.

Of course, it helps to have warriors nearby shouting, “Shake it off!”, and (what I do) guardians with “Save yourselves!” to pull fear from allies around, followed by “Stand your ground!” to shake fear off the guardian. Guardians using both shouts seem to be able to remove fear from several (5-10?) nearby allies.

Bump!

This needs to be seen, and it would be cool to see a comment from anyone at Anet.

I’m an avid player. Played GW1 for 7 years and loved the lore and storytelling. Bought the game early to participate in beta, and when it went live, I didn’t miss a day of logging in and doing my daily, DE’s, world bosses, and even some WvW. Didn’t miss a SINGLE day.

I agree with the many posts on why Scarlet is a poorly written character. I don’t dislike her because she is a villian, but because she’s poorly implimented. When I read here on the forums that Scarlet was responsible for the reactor meltdown, I was so disappointed that I didn’t log in for 3 whole days.

Three. Whole. Days.

Anet, please can the story, and bring Jeff Grubb back to craft the kind of story (or stories) that made Nightfall and GW:EN so enjoyable.

For those asking for some sort of compensation for lost FotM levels- have you read or did you follow the posts when people were complaining about the change in magic find gear? Many of the comments were similar to what I’ve read here. Anet offered no compensation to people who had several sets of armor & weapons, including MF armor & weapons.

“Oh, but you could change the stats to whatever you wanted after the patch, so you DID get something!” Many people already had everything anyway, so a duplicate set wasn’t going to do them any good. And recall the ambiguous language used regarding “account bound”? If Anet is going to reply to your satisfaction, you can bet that in order to avoid the same mess in this situation, any answer is going to be reviewed by all the devs involved before it gets posted.

As someone who spent time, money, and materials on MF armor, weapons, and trinkets (but only to solo farm, as I did not like the lost stat while in dungeons), I feel your pain. But don’t hold your breath waiting for compensation, cuz it ain’t hapnin’! Can you imaging the poo-storm from those people if high ranked FotM players got some sort of compensation?

Geez, Shriketalon.1937, when is Mike O’Brien gonna PM you and offer you a job!?! Everything I’ve read from you tonight has been epic.

Also, “Strap me to some stilts and call me a Bookah!” Great line. Shriketalon.1937, you have written the game I honestly thought Anet was making before beta, and one I had hoped I was buying.

Not done reading everything yet, but I HAD to log in just to say how much I LOL’d at the first jpeg’s lower meme, “Get in line, impudent weed!”

lordhelmos.7623, you had me at “piano finisher”! I LOL’d hard.

The rest of it is brilliant. A fantastic read! Has Anet offered you a job yet?

DarksunG.9537, don’t forget this from the GW1 wiki, “All Mursaat and some jade constructs use Spectral Agony, which requires intense healing and/or protection for any characters not wearing infused armor to survive.”

So before we can confront them, we have to have ascended armor with agony resistance, just like in GW1.

And I’m all aboard for anything in the Wizard’s Tower! We saw it for years in GW1 and always wondered if we would ever get inside. We were all so happy to find it in GW2. I’d enjoy a maze of some sort inside the tower during the Mad King’s festival, even. But then I’d want more.

I agree wholeheartedly. Implementing something like this would encourage better play and active participation. I’ve seen fully dead players (not downed) sit for a long time (7-10 min) at Teq, so a system like those above, especially dodgycookies.4562’s idea, would encourage the dead to WP and run back. As it is, too many people sit and wait for a rez, even while laying in a poison cloud. Not everyone reads these forums (sadly), and many do not understand how badly they hurt the chance of success at the event by laying there dead. If, after laying dead for a period of time, they got a warning that they’ll be kicked, you bet they’d WP and run back. If they’re AFK and get kicked, all the better for those fighting hard to win.

Several still for sale on Ebay as of Sept. 17, 2013.

Tried to get there- got disconnected. Relog, DC again. Relog…. and DC with network error. So I didn’t even get to try the encounter. I WANT to try it, but it’s so freaking frustrating to DC so many times. I’m staying away until the disconnect issue is resolved. And it’s BEEN happening at Teq, apparently, before the update. I was DC’d on the 15th and 16th at Teq, and here it’s Spet. 17, and I’m thinking the issue is resolved. Nope. And it doesn’t happen to me anywhere else in the game. Not sure if it had anything to do with the chat issue.

Inculpatus cedo.9234 wrote, “I am not sure about the rate being high or low, but I got a precursor from the Karka event. Some people had good luck with the boxes distributed, and some not-so-good luck.”

So you did NOT have a precursor sent to your in-game mail by Anet, as was implied, you got it from good old fashioned RNG. Unless your wording is unclear, you state you got it from “the Karka event.” If you received a “box” via in-game mail, and were lucky with RNG and got a precursor out of it, that’s very different. If someone gave you a scratch-off lottery ticket that they spent a dollar on, and you won $100 scratching if off, did you receive the $100 from the guy that spent a dollar on the ticket? No. Someone spent a dollar to give you a chance.

Paris’s post made it sound like some people received an in-game mail that went something like this: “Please accept our apology! Here is your free Tooth of Frostfang (or Spark, the Energizer, Chaos Gun, Storm, Zap, Bard, Chosen, Howl, Rotgort’s Flame, the Lover, Hunter, Legend, Rage, Venom, etc.) to speed your progress toward your Legendary Weapon!”

Sorry, but miss-information and bad rumors really get my goat. It’s bad enough Anet was extremely unclear about the magic find armor and trinkets becoming account bound. We don’t need players & forum posters starting rumors based on bad info or misunderstanding.

Ok, so scratch laurels frm my previous post. It’s still a valid statement.

If some players found an exploit that allowed them to get extra laurels, karma jugs, and mystic coins, they would be punished for grabbing that advantage the rest of the honest players wouldn’t dare try to get. But because this is not an exploit that allows others to get extra karma, coins, and laurels, well….

Too risky to fix? Seriously? You wiped out my 2/4 completed monthlies. I’m now at 0/4, with what looks like reduced credit in the remaining catagories. At least I didn’t lose the achievement points for completing the two I completed before the update. That would make it worse.

After looking at this post for 30 minutes deciding whether to post it ot not (because this is my first ever post with an unhappy rant), I’m going ahead with posting it, and adding the following:

Please slow the two week update pace until you get enough QA testing to make sure enormous goof-ups like this do not occur. These forums are jammed with requests like this, and before this update I wasn’t firmly in that camp. Although I’m not REALLY negatively impacted (no loss of AP’s), will players like GoddessOfTheWinds be able to get a second monthly achievement in the same month? I don’t care about the karma (over 4 million so far), but the laurels and coins can give some players an advantage the rest of us won’t have the opportunity to receive. IF this is the case, and seeing as how “fixing” the error is “too risky”, how about throwing us ALL a bone and giving us 10 Laurels & Mystic Coins?

Parisalchuck.9230 wrote, “This is like last November all over again where people who may or may not have done the Southsun event can get free loot which included a relatively high rate of precursors.”

Anet did not give anyone a free precursor. Ever. Especially not at a “high rate”. Where did you get this idea from?

One of my guildies got that a few times and eventually fell for it. Lost a few hundred gold. When the hacker(s) were in on his account, a bunch of us in the guild were on, and we wondered why he didn’t answer us in chat. Hacker also invited 2 others into the guild, who then accessed our guild bank within the same minute (cross referenced the history on each), but fortunately got nothing as we don’t keep valuables or cash there. The invitees left the guild shortly thereafter. When my guildie found out, he ran some antivirus programs to remove any keyloggers that may have invaded his system and then changed his password to something unique. This post should be stickied.

Any word that ends in “t” or “sh” cannot be followed by the word “it” without some crazy mashup like “wakittens” or “flukitten”, leaving the reader to stop for a second to figure out what’s supposed to be there. In these examples, “wash” and “flush” would be followed by “it” or “its” when the poster typed it, but the silly filter thinks someone is trying to sneak in a reference to excrement.

To all of us that read and post on the forums, THIS is a “Quality of Life” issue. Can this be addressed sometime in the near future, or are we stuck with it?

Just looked at the Dulfy info- there’s an achievement called “Tail Flail”. Now I’m REALLY looking forward to seeing this!

Tequatl soloable? I’d like to see that. It’s the only dragon event I’ve ever seen FAIL. And it was EPIC! The place looked like Cursed Shore/Risen Frat Party, but eventually more people came and we beat it. Got 2 rewards as well, one for the failure and one for the win.

I’m looking forward to seeing what they’ve come up with. I hope it includes some awareness that the mobs attacking him are not in front but next to him. A little bite/claw/claw/stomp/tail lash would be nice, too.

You will be able to change your MF gear to any other “craftable” gear. Glad I held off on making a Knight’s set or armor- I can make my current MF armor into that after the patch.

What mildly bums me out is that right after the patch, I won’t be able to have the same MF% as I currently have with all my MF armor, weapons, and trinkets. From what I understand, I’ll have to salvabe a lot of blues and greens for the luck boosters.

IF you were lucky enough to get a Sentinel recipie, you will still have it. If, like me, you bought your inscriptions on the TP from someone kind enough to list them for sale and then crafted your Sentinel’s armor & weapon set, well…. you don’t get to get the crafting XP you’d have earned had you waited to craft that set. And I bought my inscriptions for 1g 90s each; a quick check shows them listed now for 29g 99s. Guess my Azurite gems might be worth a bit more now.

I logged in to GW1 on my warrior and equipped my req 9 Zodiac Sword and my req 9 str Zodiac Shield to compare against the previews at the vendor in GW2. As someone who has posted about bringing more GW1 skins to this game and having done a side by side comparison while logged in to both games so I see both at the same time, I just want to say two words to the team responsible for the GW2 Zodiac skins:

THANK YOU!!!!!!

On a side note- Scarlet and the Aetherblades have invented the aerosol spray can!

Not sure if it’s been mentioned before in this post, but my guess is she’ll announce that the Trade Agreement has been finalized with the Zephyrites and a new shop will be opening in Lion’s Arch. Someone said the other day in LA map chat that there were workers making a new shop/building near the Captain’s Council (although I couldn’t find it when I looked), so I figured that’s what it may be. And with the new crafting mats Anet has been introducing to the game that have exclusive or unique places they’re found (like where can you get crystals if you missed the achievement and don’t have a node in your home instance, other than the TP, and watchwork pieces when the Pavilion is gone?), and crafting going up to level 500, this would seem to make sense.

Of course, AFTER she finishes the important sentence of the above announcement, all Full Grown Cat (no “kitten” here!) breaks loose, as the Aetherblades arrive with the Mysterious Stranger and complete their take-over of the Watchwork Knights and proceed to attempt to demolish everything and everyone in sight.

Well, this month’s Monthly includes veteran slayer, so many people are killing the vet spawns at Claw of Jormag because it counts toward the Monthly. Toward the end of the month, I’ll bet you see fewer people going after the vets and champs. That is, until the champs start dropping unique loot. Then the vets will be ignored and everyone will forget about the wall until the champs go down in phase 1.

ilr.9675 has a point about phase 2 of CoJ; getting the golems saftley through to the boss helps the battle.

My guild is also having trouble with influence. I’ve submitted a bug report as well, but after logging in this afternoon and seeing that the guild history shows us getting credit for only one person logging in yesterday, I had to come here and check if this is a known issue. We had four of us log in (and yes, we had some problems with the connectivity issue due to maintenance) on Ehmry Bay for several hours, doing many events together. We are a small guild with some avid players who’ve been together since Prophecies in GW1 (almost 8 years!), and we need our influence!

Guild name: Alliance of Heroes
Tag: [Hero]
server: Ehmry Bay