I’m hoping that if/when they add a rapier skin, it has completely different attacks than existing one-handed swords. Said another way, I’m hoping it’s not just a skin. Being a fencing coach and weapons historian, I’m acutely aware of the difference between a rapier, falchion, basket-hilted claymore, and a classic medieval sword. And I don’t really care for greatswords that look like oversized butter knives.
Wow, would that be awesome! This is a mini-game idea I really like!
The screenie shows a toon dual weilding the new Fellblade skins. Getefix.9150, the HoM Fellblade is a two-habded weapon whereas the new Fellblade is a one-handed skin. BIG difference.
I was just up there, at the top waypoint, when Aetherblades started coming in waves. With Champions, even. When did this start?
Yeah, I lol’d when I watched the vid, but noticed right away what the problem was. With Lightning Pull, when going to another Lightning Thing (what’s it called? The tall thin pyramid thing?), look at the skill icon on your bar. If you’re watching, you’ll see it “flip” on your bar, and then the red “out of range” bar gets added to the bottom of the skill icon. You may also notice that the pyramid you want to jump to has lit up. This signifies that LP will automatically send you to the next pyramid without the need to ground target. When the red bar is present and you override it with ground targeting, it’s not as accurate (as the hilarious video shows).
Hope that helps!
Don’t take a party of five. Seriously. Don’t. Just did this last night with 3 other guildies for a party of 4. None of us had done it before, and it was the first time since Prophecies in GW1 (we’ve played together for Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall, and Eye of the North, almost 8 years), that the 4 of us were able to team up. (We could get 2 or 3 of us together a lot, but not 4 due to scheduling conflicts as some of us grew older, got married, and had families.) It was epic just to have the 4 of us together, but for the last step of the personal story- taking down Zhaitan? “Epic” is too small a word.
Having said that, the 4 of us all agreed the whole thing was epic! “Spam 2”? Seroiusly? That’s all you did? Undead swarming EVERYWHERE while we’re trying to, yes, hit skill 2 on the cannon during the giant’s gauntlet, and minion dragon fight, but if you weren’t also using skill 1, especially on the dragon minions, you were looking at a wipe. Trying to man the cannons, clear the deck of Risen, rezzing downed players, getting “feared” off the cannon platform (try it, or jump off, just for the view!), all before Zhaitan even shows up. The four of us were on cannons, firing away at Zhaitan, while the rest of the NPC’s were dead (even the ones on the lower deck). The mega laser gets destroyed after wounding Zhaitan (notice it’s gone along with the upper deck of that oh-so-cool ship), so we felt we HAD to man the cannons or face possible failure. And I’m pretty sure all 4 us us were on cannons. Because of this, we got the sense that WE killed Zhaitan, or at least finished him off after the mega laser couldn’t finish the job. Speaking to the NPC’s afterward, they specifically give your toon the credit for getting Destiny’s Edge back together (maybe this meant more to me because I read the book “Edge of Destiny” before buying the game). So it’s not like you don’t get any credit for anything.
If I had to nit pick, my only gripe would be that Destiny’s Edge doesn’t rez downed players like Rox and Braham did, nor did they fight as enthusiastically.
It encourages those who haven’t completed their story to do so. It’s a big part of the game, and gives unique rewards at higher levels. Leaving it out of the “dailies” rotation almost seems to discourage doing the PS for those with limited playing time. Emphasis on “limited playing time”. One of my guildies is in that boat, and if he has 2 hours to play today and won’t be able to play for another 3 days, he’s usually happy when personal story is part of the daily.
If you’re one of those that likes to do ALL of the dailies for the achievement points, you can always spam LA map chat. Nothing “kitten dumb” about typing, “Anyone mind if I tag along for your PS so I can get my daily?” in map chat. I see a lot of people asking for help with Claw Island PS steps, and have helped people I don’t even know with it just because I like that chapter of the story. I’ve probably just been lucky, but I’ve gotten more exotic drops doing that personal story step than anywhere in the game, on 2 different toons.
I would love to see the Personal Story continue after Zhaitan and IN the unopened zones from the GW1 Prophecies & Eye of the North map. The Crystal Desert has the end of the Dragonbrand, and is probably (still) home to Kralkatorrik (in Glint’s old hangout), and Destiny’d Edge has unfinished business there. After our PS, we’re credited with reuniting Destiny’s Edge, so it would be pretty cool to have them invite us into a personal story kind of mission/journey (i.e. more than one story step) to avenge Snaff’s death. Of course, we’d probably have to clear the way for a Krewe or three to establish some waypoints & camps so we could resupply, but we’re Pact Commanders, so that shouldn’t be too difficult. And let OUR toons get the credit, while certain other Pact leaders get to work cleansing Orr.
Dougal Keane has a reputation (from Ghosts of Ascalon) that could lead to him being chosen to help lead a team to the Fire Islands, Magumma Wastes, or the Isles of Janthir. The Far Shiverpeaks and Blood Legion Homelands could pull us there to help Eir or Rytlock, or we ask for their help for our PS in those areas. Or maybe there are Elder Dragons in some of those areas? With Mursaat minions? Good excuse to get us to Fractals for some agony resistance armor & accessories.
As part of this, it might be a good idea to bring back an idea grom GW1- unique drops from specific creatures and or/ new areas. If I wanted a Magmas Shield in GW1, I’d have to farm the Fire Islands (or Ring of Fire) because that was the only place they’d drop (aside from the Zaishen Chest). Or maybe make new skins as rewards for those portions of the new personal story. But no need to raise the level cap to do so. Millions played Prophecies in GW1 up to a max level of 20, and then took that same toon through Factions, Nightfall, and Eye of the North. The “carrot on the stick” in that instance was new skills and skins, as well as new classes. Translated to GW2, barring new classes, new skills from new weapon types might be cool, too, but that’s an idea for a different topic.
Kestin, I laughed hard at that.
ilr, very well written!
I gave both +1.
The whole evolution of the tune, with samples. Hope this helps:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-origins-of-the-dragon-bash-theme-song/
“We’re aware that people want new armor skins. I want new ones as well, and we’re working on things. Armor skins are much more time/resource consuming and difficult as opposed to weapons.”
How about taking skin designs from GW1? I’d love to have my elite gladiator armor again, or the Defender (or Tower) shield skin, Draconic Aegis, Emblazoned Defender, Eternal shield, or Norn shield. And these are just the Prophecies skins. I’m hoping in the future, the Fire Islands open up and we get a chance for a Magmas shield drop. There are some beautiful designs from Factions and Nightfall as well, but I’d hope those might come with a future expansion, along with Celestial and Zodiac skins, and Vabbian armor.
Watched the little promo vid before logging into the game today, and I have to admit- that catchy tune has been with me all day. It reminds me of an Irish drinking song.
Kudos to whomever wrote the lyrics & music!
Vigil Oudre Wraithwoe is still in Diessa Plateau, in Nolan at the crossroads in the town. Her icon doesn’t show anymore but she still collects them. This issue has been posted in several threads in the F&F section.
Thanks for posting! I was just looking for the icons, and the collectors I had seen before. Hadn’t been to see Vigil Wraithwoe before. Guildies say to thank you as well!
Grabbed a few audio logs in Wayfarer, but no collectors listed on the map, nor visible to the pixelated eye. Went to Diessa Plateau, no audio log collectors there, either. Nothing in the patch noted that I could find. What happened?
It wasn’t in my personal story, but hilarious NPC dialogue everywhere at Meatoberfest.
Also, how do you bring yourself to delete an NPC mail titled, “Quaggan Loves You”?
I’ll get crucified for this, I’m sure, but here goes:
Since there are (or SEEM to be) two types of “chests” in the game, persistent PvE chests such as those found in and around PvE zones & at the end of jumping puzzles (i.e. those that do not “spawn”), and those that spawn after a meta-event or a dragon (where you cannot loot the dragon’s corpse, for example), are BOTH immune to one’s magic find percentage?
My guildies and I have been testing dragon events (spawning chests, not persistent) for the last few weeks, and here is an example:
Guild 10% magic find for 3 days is active, full party of 5 guildies fights Tequatl the Sunless (not a lvl 80 event). Two party members are in full MF gear/weapons/omnoms, with MF at 185% and 190%, including the guild 10%. Each loots 2 rares, a lvl 80 crest, and greens from the spawned chest. Three party members are in karma armor, with no MF except the guild 10%, and each loots a lvl 65 medallion, and a bunch of blues.
So we keep our eyes on the dragon timers, and hit Shatterer and Claw of Jormag the same night. Again, the two loaded up with MF pull rares, including orbs and crests, and an exotic from the Frozen Chest, and the three with nothing but the guild 10% MF loot lvl 65 medallions and a bunch of blues, even from the Frozen Chest. Three events, not even a green for the non-MF guildies.
So we try again the next night (all 3 dragon events), the only difference being the non-MF guildies loot a green or two with their blues.
One player, seeing what his guildies are getting, buys MF armor & accessories, 5 Runes of the Traveler and one Rune of the Pirate, and gets an omnon bar from another guildie. First dragon event we do, he gets his first exotic ever, a rare, an orb, a crest, and some greens and blues. With his new set of MF gear, we see him getting much better results from dragon-spawned chests (as well as normal drops, but that’s to be expected). No significant changes for the other 4 guildies.
Coincidence? It sure doesn’t seem like it.
Isaiah, can you calrify? Are all chests created equal?
LOL! I used an onomonopeia to describe the mining pick sound, and it got replaced by the word “kitten!”
After an evening of events in Cursed Shore, I have all my events, gathering, and kills for my daily, but only 2 creature types. Visit Frostgorge Sound and kill enough to get to 14 creature types. I want Karka shells (what crafter doesn’t?), so I figure, “Haven’t been to Southsun Cove for a few weeks & only need ONE karka kill for my daily, so off I go.” Port in, find a Young Karka and kill it, look to the right edge of my screen, waiting….waiting…. no daily chest. Check my progress- still 14 of 15 types. Kill another to make sure, still doesn’t count. Hmmm… check the next day when dailies reset, kill a Karka, check progress, and nope. Karka don’t count toward dailies two days in a row.
Same thing happened to me in Malchor’s Leap with the rich mithral vein in the NW corner of the zone. Ehmry Bay server (not sure if that’s important). I specifically equipped the BL picks and went there because the previous day I’d run out of picks and couldn’t hit the vein. Frustrating, right? Moreso when you go back with high expectations because you’re lucky enough to have received the BL picks from a BL chest. Then one “kitten!” and the “rich node” is done.
I submitted a bug report when it happened, but wanted to mention it here as well. In Cliffside fractal, while making my way up the platforms where you have a chance to get blown off by the gusting winds from the wall-mounted faces, I was initiall relieved when the second face knocked me not off the platform, but to the side into the cliff face. However, it put me in a small spot where I could stand but not move or jump. I was on my mesmer, so naturally I thought to try to blink out. Nope. My 4 team mates tried to finish without me so we could continue, but that was’t going to happen either. Screenshot was submitted with the bug report, but I didn’t take one to save, being unaware of this forum topic at the time.
Anyone else get stuck there? The /stuck command didn’t work either.
Found the post link at the bottom of the page on Magic Find on the wiki:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magic_find
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Magic-Find-Chests
“They only work on creature kills, chests however have a better table then normal kills. We wanted to avoid the game play of killing a boss and then having to equip your whole Magic Find set before opening the chest.
Also magic find is calculated from when the creature is killed so it’s also not viable to use your normal gear set kill a boss then switch to magic find.” -Isaiah Cartwright.
My memory isn’t what it used to be when I was younger, but I got the gist of it, I believe. But the important thing in his quote is, “…before opening the chest.”
So rizzo.1079, try loading up on mf armor/gear/jewelry/consumables next time you do one of the dragon events and see if it makes a difference in your event chest loot. I’ll wager you’ll notice a difference.
“Magic find doesn’t work on chests.” Correct, but don’t confuse Claw of Jormag’s Frozen Chest (or any chest that spawns at the end of a mega-event) with chests that are hidden in PvE zones or chests at the end of jumping puzzles. Isaiah Cartwright said somewhere in a forum post on magic find (I just spent the last 30 minutes trying to find the post using the search function-maybe it was on the wiki?) that (quoting from memory) “Magic find is applied when you kill a monster, not when you open the chest. So putting your MF armor on after killing a monster and then opening the chest will not help.” Isaiah specifically mentioned opening a chest at the end of a mega-event. I’ll keep looking and post a link when I find it.
Are you ONLY doing dragon events? There are so many event chains you can do where the karma piles up fast. Cursed Shore seems to be everyone’s favorite, but there are big chains in Hirathi Hinterlands (NE corner of the zone, chest there as well), Malchor’s Leap, Caledon Forest, and several other zones. Wiki has a list of event chains for each zone as well, and I’ve found these lists to be quite handy when looking for something different to do. If you’re not in a guild, I’d suggest joining one, as many guilds, including my own, keep up a “15% karma boost for events” upgrade, and 5% karma banners that help boost earned karma.
Are you making sure you do your dailies? I’d suggest saving your daily jugs until you get lucky from a Black Lion chest and get a 50% karma booster, then do your jugs all at once with either or both boosters (or buy a karma booster with gems). If you’re NOT doing your dailies, there’s 4500 karma a day right there you’re missing (and 5 silver, and maybe other stuff, depending on the day and your level, like armor repair cannisters). My guild makes sure we have karma banners ready to go every Sunday night for the guildies to hit before using the karma jugs received from doing dailies.
As for loot, are you using magic find armor, jewelry, and consumables? If not, you may want to craft a set for those occasions when you’re dragon hunting. IMHO and personal experience, it does make a difference. With no magic find (or low magic find %), I seem to get blues and greens from Jormag, Tequatl, and the Shatterer. When I put on my MF armor, weapons, jewelry, and consumables, I seem to get more rare and exotics not only from the dragon’s chests, but from random drops in PvE, WvW, and personal story lines as well. It helps to have your crafting up to 400 in armorer, weaponsmith, and/or jeweler, but you can still craft magic find stuff at lower crafting levels. If you don’t, someone in your guild (again, join one if your not already in one) would be happy to craft for you if you can send them the mats. My guildies and I do it for each other all the time. “Hey, I hit 40/60/80 and need new armor/weapons/jewelry. Can I send you some materials so you can make something for me?” Sure thing- that’s why we’re guildies!
Regarding the cost of zoning, an easy way to avoid spending so much is to go to the PvP lobby or WvW from where ever you are, then take the Asura gate to LA, then the LA Asura gate to the city closest to your destination, run to the edge of the city closest to your destination (or zone free of cost then run to the edge), and then zone to your intended waypoint. Using this method, I’ve yet to spend more than 2 silver crossing the entire continent (southern Cursed Shore to Jormag, for example, 1s 94c). One of my guildies was complaining of the 4-6 silver cost of zoning to a waypoint, until I told him about this method of travel. Sure, it takes a few extra seconds (maybe an extra minute and a half if you load slow), but the savings is surely worth the extra travel time.
Hope that helps!
Issue with Reserved name from Guild Wars 1 (from my own account, from pre-purchase access)
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Posted by: Sinbold.8723
I thought I had the same problem with a character name I used in the beta (which is also a character name I use in DCUO) being taken. But after reading the suggestion above of entering the name on the contacts list, I see that someone else liked the single-word name I came up with so much that they beat me to creating a GW2 character with it.
Badges? Wow, I know I’ve missed some loot in WvW, but I’ve never had a badge in any loot I did get. And I’ve played what I would consider quite a bit of WvW; finished several downed players, taken towers, and all sorts of stuff mentioned and not mentioned above. I wonder how many badges I’ve left on the battlefield?
Yes. Please make something that important automatically go into my inventory.