Guild Wars 2

I just started to think about this personal story what we are doing in HoT Beta.

1. Fact, I am Revenant
2. Fact, I am doing my personal story
3. Fact, Rytlock comes back from Mists
4. Fact, Rytlock is first Revenant
5. How can I be revenant?

I started to think whole GW2 story from the start, point of view of new player. I make a new character who is a Revenant. I play whole core GW2 game and kill Zhaitan. Then I have decided to buy Living Story 2 and play it thru and learn that Rytlock went to the Mists. When I have finish this Living Story 2 and start to do HoT personal story and during that personal story mission Rytlock is coming back. I have learned that he is first Revenant. So new player start to wonder too, if he/she have brains, how can I be Revenant?

Bawlzdeep.6804:

I love the difficulty of the new mobs! People who die constantly in the beta zone are not playing right. Beware, some are tough and its ideal to stick with 2-3 people.

When I read this, I just started to think those players who are playing alone and don’t have friends to play with.

This comment tells to those people, Do Not Buy HoT. Keep away this expansion and stick with original game. I am just wondering, is it good marketing to ArenaNet. Is that ArenaNet’s business modell to keep some players out of the expansion?

When we are doing testing, we should think about everybody who might to come play this game. Is it suitable to those too who are playing alone, and don’t have any friends.

This is stupid question to ask, but have you add tapestry in your HoM on Valor? If it is showing that tapestry in there, did you add it with this character? Talk to Historian Kimmes in HoM and ask him show only character’s achievements. If there is not tapestry with this character that’s the problem. Try to log in with that character whom have put that tapestry in it’s HoM.

What I have understood, Anet is offering one rollout only if account have been compromised. Otherwise they are not doing recoverys or rollouts. And it is only ONE rollout/account.

I don’t know have they change their actions about rollout, but I doubt that. So I am afraid that your character is gone for good. I hope for your sake that I am wrong tho.

Last patch came 28th of July, Windows 10 at 29th of July. Did you update your operating system to Windows 10? Are you aware that Windows 10 allows other Windows 10 users/downloaders to use your connection bandwith?

So those lags and ping spikes might be affected because of Windows 10. If it is affecting even GW1 it is definetly because of Windows 10.

I know, many of you think that this is grazy idea, but that might be one solutions among others.

I remember, that when we had Guild Wars 2 main game beta testing weekend, there were that kind of meta event going on. There were Dragon and it turned some players to the foes. Those foes killed others and turned them to follow that Dragon. We tried to hold up, but our world tuned all the way foe world. That wasn’t so fun after all.

I agree what OP says in here. Revenant is not bringing anything new to the game.

Shapeshifting would be nice to have tho. In Guild Wars 1 I loved to play Dervish and shapeshifting to the Balthazar or Dwayna. So I will give +1 to idea of Shapeshifting.

Phoenixlin.8624:

sniperman.1738:

Well imo as a veteran player I personally don’t care that new players are getting the core game for free. Because my mentality is good for them, thats more people to play with and maybe more new people for my servers WvW. To many Veterans are outcrying that its not fair like a child, however what they don’t realize is that this deal could gain them new players in there guild, new players for there wvw environment and so on and so forth. Plus lets be realistic most expansions are 50 bucks or more. Now on that note I don’t know i’m a veteran myself and just disappointed at the other veterans who would be so hard headed and selfish as to hinder the chance for our community to grow.

So you are telling us that “Pay 50 bucks for inviting new players to your guild.” You do not even care the FALSE ADVERTISEMENT and SCAM action that ANET is committing right now. You care the new players only.

This what Phoenixlin says is what is the issue in here. It is called Business Ethics. If company is violating Business Ethics, whole situation looks shady. What they did before and after pre-purchase started was violating Business Ethics. In point of view of Business Ethics, Anet is not anymore totally “clean” company. Even they try to fix the situation, that situations should have never occur.

Whole pre-purchase business is kind of stretching Business Ethics too. They are selling product what customers haven’t seen totally. There is no guarantee that the product is exactly what customers believe it to be.

So @sniperman, if Business Ethics is not important to you, to someone else it is very important. If you think that companies are allowed scam you and others as much as they want, that’s fine. But it is not fine in long-term perspective.

joneb.5679:

Has anyone also brought to peoples notice if you don’t buy HoT now you will have to most probably have to spend much more later if you want to also have the rest of the benefit of the Living Story from then on. This is not new but it does mean if you dont pay that $50 or £34.99 now you could have to pay $150 or £100 down the line for waiting. I’m also sure Anet will hold back content so after HoT is released the first LS will be a month later and that will add more dollars if you want it so even after a month your full HoT package with LS will be maybe about £45.99 or $70.

This is just a pre-purchase, you don’t get game yet. There are those adult people who really want to see first is this HoT expansion even worth for their money. And Anet is not continue LS at first day when HoT is released. If they do that then HoT content is worthless. It only means that there is nothing to do in there.

Anet have tried now 2 different type of Living Story style, 1st was Scarlet, be there or lost it forever. 2nd Living Story style was log in and you will get it for free and pay later if you dont. This HoT will be 3rd kind of Living Story style, make an expansion from it. Then they see what of these styles profit most and they will continue doing in that way Living Story.

So there are lot of us, who want to first see where we put our money, is it even worth to put our money in HoT.

This is only a computer game, our lives are not depending from that do we have HoT or not.

I have to quote Melonni now: “This looks bad.”

So what Anet have done till now;

1. they said that HoT price is $50 and GW2 core game is only for new players.
2. they throw Gaile to the wolves and she tried to calm down us, the angry wolves. They know that we trust Gaile.
3. others hide to the bushes and want to see is Gaile eaten alive by wolves
4. they keep silence and wishes that angry wolves will go away

Well, I think it is not working at this time. Or maybe they raise this fuzz by purpose, because there is coming that 23rd update with specialization, because they know that it will be totally big fail.

No matter what Anet’s plan was, but I bet they didn’t expect this kind of riot what we have in here now. Maybe they have that kind of fallacy that their loyal customers are eating anything what they offer. Their customers are blind and not hesitate to spend more money.

This silence is bad business.

Now I will end as Melonni did:

“I would like to change my opinion to: This looks very bad.”

Explodie.9428:

I was thinking, they cant change the pricing on the game anymore!

Because if they lowered it or change it, what would happen to the people who already bought it?

So with other words i dont think complaining or discussing would actually work anymore, wich i think is unfortunatly, they should have anounced it sooner to see what we thought about this, this was just a quick solution and still no release date.

But i think when they anounce a new beta weekend/test day alot of people would buy it though

And maybe arenanet didnt do the pricing but NCsoft did? So i dont know if we are compaining to the right people….

And not that i fully agree with the pricing but;

Blizzard montly costs are roughly € 12

Every 2 years there will be an expansion at the cost of € 44.99

So lets do the math 24*12 = €288 + 44.99 = € 332.99 for an expansion …. (it doesnt include a core game though (With wrath of the lich king it did)

The game exists since 2004 (base game + expansions are total costs of €1952.95 if you played since the start)

And they have “ingame” buyable items for roughly € 10 / € 20 each so i guess it isnt that much what anet is asking us….

Maybe you didn’t know, but now-a-days you can buy game time in WoW with game gold. So you just farm couple hours and get those gold and you have 30 days of game time So you can avoid that sub fee in there too.

But if I go back to the GW2 pre-purchase issue; money is not the subject in here. People are just upset how Anet/Ncsof handle that marketing. They made so many mistakes in here.
1. They put core game sale so close of pre-purchase. Maybe their marketing department was scheduled that sale half a year ago and forgot it. That is bad, because they have to known what kind of bundle they will do with HoT + Core game. No one bother to take off that scheduled sale.
2. They change in silence HoT FAQ (picture included)
3. They are purposly pushing veteran players to delux edition
4. No one knows when game is released
5. No one knows how much content game have
6. No one knows is those events in game like Silverwastes, if they do, it will push away a lot of players.
7. No one knows is expansion story like LS 2 story? So we could call HoT more like LS 3 behind of paywall.

There are many question marks on the air, that people want to wait, until they know more about HoT.

Aidenwolf.5964:

You asked if we understood I’ll answer for myself, new players get the game + the expansion.

For the same money I pay regardless of which package I choose to buy, a new player gets 5x the value I do. Why do I say 5x? Because GW2 is massive and the xpac isn’t.

Base package for me… HoT (that’s it)
Base package for a new player…
HoT
GW2 the whole game
-5 character slots
-1 bank tab
-1 material storage vault

We pay the same you can’t argue that’s equal value

Don’t forget what they will have from GW2 Heroic edition too:
+ Suit of Legacy armor
+ 20 slot Mithril box
+ 10 experience boosters

Those who pre purchase GW2 core game didn’t got these. And now they are only selling Heroic edition. So I bet veteran’s will not get these either….

If you feel like this, you can take a break….

Or otherwise, if new comers is in this condition, move on, don’t rez…

Rhanoa.3960:

Vanilla WoW $49.99

3yr $14.99 $539.64

1st Xpac TBC $49.99 + $29.99 Base Game

Blizzard’s marketing 2007. Many of would rather go back here than be down there.

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GW2 $69.99

3yr $0.00

1st Xpac Hot $49.99 + Free Base Game

Anet’s marketing 2015. Rather than being here you would rather be up there.
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Time to empty your wallets or move on to your next game!

To me it have been like this:

GW2 €74.99

3yr €6000.00

1st Xpac Hot €44.99 + Free Base Game

So I should have been gone to WoW, it would have been cheaper for me.

Or maybe I just have finance your gaming too while you have farm gold and not support Anet at all. Right?

I think, they see this one and it explains everything:

rapthorne.7345:

To the people trying to compare with WoW, you realise that they get their income bolstered by a mandatory $15/month subscription, right?

Did you know, that in WoW you can now buy game time with game money too? You don’t need to pay a dime anymore to play WoW.

And for notice I didn’t vote in reddit, but I will not buy expansion to my 11 accounts. And I bet there is a lot of us who didn’t vote in reddit, but decide not to buy this overpriced expansion.

Yes, I saw that too. It was a bit disturbing to me too.

It was kind of misinformation what they first gave us about expansion. Anet is quiet now, because they are sleeping and they are dreaming about huge amount of incoming. I bet they will get huge amount of complaining than incoming.

I know now, that all my friends who even consider to buy expansion have said that they are not going to buy it. Last one who I can call white knight too, said that it is not worth to buy at this point. They all will wait until Anet will have sales for this expansion. It will come one day and we can wait.

Anet have done their mind, and they will do these changes no matter we talk in here. We are just a bunch of customers who don’t like this change, we are not happy with it. So only thing what we can do, is what’s customers right. We can always vote with our legs.

I have kind of done that already. I am doing only log-in-wars and get my log-in reward and that’s it. I am not going to buy HoT. I have found better and more rewarding game at this moment. And I have realise that learning new game is even fun.

Yes, I had long term plans to GW2, but sometimes those plans are futile. And after all, this is only a game, not a whole life Game should be entertainment and if I am not feeling it anymore for entertaining, it is better look new game or activities what gives me entertaining again.

So if you are not satisfied this game and changes what will come, just move to another game. Or do something else what you like. You can always come back if you miss it.

I suspect that pre orders are starting at q3, no matter if game is ready or not. And if you order from it digital version you need to pay it same time. Like it was when GW2 was released. That’s why they expecting income increasing at q3 so much.

This is speculation, but expansion itself will come out end of the year or early 2016. All depends when it is ready. Price? Hmmm, I speculate that it will be 45 € or 50 $, if there is collector’s edition, even more.

morrolan.9608:

phys.7689:

• the second trait system pushed back unlocks to higher levels
  so if you were say 60, and had all your grandmasters, you got reset back until you reached 80

Yeah but lvl 80s didn’t have their progress reset. So it should be the same here. And Mike O’Brien specifically said it about HOT.

Even last trait change didn’t affect level 80s, I bet this will do.

Mike O’Brien said that HOT is not affecting max geared character, but we have to remember that this first part of trait and skill Specialization will come BEFORE HoT. Only Elite Specialization will come with HoT. So what ever Mike O’Brian said about game AFTER HoT, is not concluded this first part of Specialization. So they can do what ever they want with this first part of Specialization. They can reset all progress with traits and skills with this first part of Specialization, even from level 80s.

I hope ArenaNet would comment, is our worst fear going to come true.

• Is all those money, time and skill points really wasted what we have done with this new trait system?
• Are we going to be compensated somehow?
• And most of all, Is this new trait and skill Specialization, what is going out before HoT, going to reset all traits and skills?
• Do we really need to hunt at least 65 skill challenges / hero challenges with all our characters to get our core game traits and skill back?

This is true story:
There were 11 of us who started to play Guild Wars 2. We have played from the start, and we preordered our games so we had 3 days head start.

Now after all these years what we have been together with Guild Wars 2, it’s expansion is coming. Only one of my friend have said that she will buy that expansion. One of us is still wondering is it worth to buy. And 9 of us are saying that we are NOT going to buy this expansion.

Reason why we are not going to buy this expansion is those recent changes in the game. Game have been gone worse and worse with every changes what Anet have done. Only thing what I like in the game is login reward. That is only good change what they did. But in the game we have so many bugs what have been in there from the start and what Anet is doing. They are not fixing those bugs, they have change something in the game what was working and of course they made it worse.

10 of us don’t like much Silverwastes area and that one who is still thinking, is she going to buy expansion, is afraid that it will have same kind system as Silverwastes area have. Nonstop events preparing defend forts, then comes monsters who try to conquer forts and in the end some strong boss what people try mindlessly to kill. And some people say that Silverwastes is organized place, I don’t see any organized in it. Only thing what people are doing is that they are zerging and spamming their skills mindless and try to kill one boss in their area.

So at least 9 of us will not buy this expansion.

I don’t know, have people estranged from nature so much, that they don’t know how mooses are running.

I saw this kind of incorret things from moose minipet:

• Minipet moose is running like deer and it have short legs
• Mooses can trot and run wild
• Mooses can not be jumpy
• Mooses have long legs.

This only makes me think, that designer who have implement this mini moose not ever seen real moose.

Here is link where moose is running in water:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYlZmV6fvn8

I don’t know, have people estranged from nature so much, that they don’t know how mooses are running.

I saw this kind of incorret things from moose minipet:

• Minipet moose is running like deer and it have short legs
• Mooses can trot and run wild
• Mooses can not be jumpy
• Mooses have long legs.

This only makes me think, that designer who have implement this mini moose ever seen real moose.

Here is link where moose is running in water:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYlZmV6fvn8

I put this comment in here, because I didn’t want to start new thread.

If you need to get help from CustomService, you can start to create ticket from support page.

1. Top there is Support, choose it.
2. From support page top right there is selection Submit a request, click it
3. Then choose what is your problem and continue to fill your ticket. Remember, that you need to give that kind of e-mail address where they can contact you.

When you have got automatic email from there, you can use that email corresponding with those Custom Service guys. Do only one ticket / issue.

Thank you ArenaNet for this year’s April’s Fools Day prank. It was best one, even bit better than last year Bobbleheads. It really made me feel kid again.

That’s why I want to post one humble request.

Thank you ArenaNet this year April’s Fools Day prank. I really enjoy to be like kid again and played this airplane. Voices were so awesome, it was like my sister’s son who is playing airplane by himself. Now I had chanse to play that airplane too, without having weird faces from my neighbours

I just want to have one request. I will attach it with picture in here.

Imagine, my little cute Asuran girl necromancer, yelling For Great Justice with deep and rough Charr male voice.

I didn’t know should I do bug report or call exorcist for help.

I think they have such tight schedule in QA test team, that they are only testing those things what have been mention in release notes. They are testing only those part of game, and if it is working as release notes said, it is qualified. Testing is happening in Test servers. Sometimes it works perfectly in testservers, but when those packages are delivered to real game servers, something funny will always happens.

Imagine what it will be, when expansion will come out.

This is nothing compare for that

You didn’t mention, did you play with your friend as a party and did your friend start the personal story. But I assume this is the case.

What I have seen with these personal stories, if you are playing with someone with a party, that who started story will only get letters. But don’t stop to play with your friend tho, there is solution. This usually help me when I am playing with my husband.

When you have finish the personal story and you don’t receive letter what your friend just did do like this:

• 1. Leave party and zone to another area, and zone back. Mail should come to your mailbox, if it is not full.
• 2. Leave party and log off to character selection screen and log back. Mail should come to your mailbox, if it is not full.

There are some of these personal stories on the way where you need to do this.

I hope this will help to solve your dilemma

Azure The Heartless.3261:

If someone is parked someplace and botting to get rewards, report them.

Otherwise, ignore it. Events get scaled down based on who is actually participating.

I have seen that this is not true. I was in Queensdale with my low level character. There started Bear beating up beehive -event. In that area was one character who was afk and me.

Usually in this event when you are doing it alone, there are coming 3 bears at time to hit those beehives. So it is easy to beat alone. Now there came always 6 bears at time. And finally Bears win. I couldn’t handle all 6 bears all the time with that low level character. So event was lost because of that afk character.

This was like empirical study on the event scaling down, and it is not working as dev’s are telling us. Instead of 3 bears, there were 6 of them. Event didn’t scale down.

I have said this before, and I will say it again:

HoT will be just Living Story season 3 + couple feature packs + one profession behind of pay wall. It’s going to be one bigger map with 3 layers.

So if you are waiting for something extraordinary-cool-fantastic-huge expansion, you will be really dissapointed.

How did I came in this conclusion? Well Anet is testing different kind of Living Story types.

• Living Story 1 was available only short time of period. It was like Be there or you will miss it all type test. People didn’t like it, many miss it and they were complaining about it.
• Living Story 2 was permanent and free in short time of period. It was like Login and you will get it free type test. People liked it, because it was free, except those who didn’t log in that free time period. Those people started to complain because others got it free and they didn’t. Now they need to pay for it and it felt unfair to them and price didn’t felt good either.
• Living Story 3 a.k.a HoT, is next stage of test. It will be like Wrap Living Story episode 3 in Expansion paper. Everybody who wants next living story need to pay for it.

After this release, Anet will look statistics and see what was most profitable way to make living story and continue to do that way all next living story episodes. (Yes a lot of expansios will come in future )

I remember that Carapace Glove Box reward was tied to Tangled Paths Episode Achievement. And because you can do only once episode Achievements, you get them only once by doing story.

So only way how you get other Carapace Glove Boxes you need to buy them with 1000 bandit Crests. Or if you are lukcy, you might get them in rare drop from the Greater Nightmare Pod or Lost Bandit Chests.

IMO Anet is testing different kind of LS types. Why I have this kind of opinion?

1) Living Story Season 1 was temporal, and playerbase was yelling when they missed it. So that was testing number one, be there or miss it forever.

2) Living Story Season 2 was permanent and free in specific time of period. Log in and you get it for free. (No incoming at that point). But those who miss log in during that time of period need to pay for it. (Some kind of incoming.) But now those who didn’t log in in proper time are yelling that it is too expensive to buy those episodes. So this was testing number 2, some people thinks it’s unfair.

3) Wrap Living Story Season 3 to Expansion paper and everybody need to pay for it. (Incoming is quaranteed so it is like LS Season 3 behind of pay wall). End situation is same as Living Story Season 2, it is permanent, but you need to pay for it to get it. No pay no LS season 3… cough.. expansion. And when they wrap that LS Season 3 in Expanison paper they figure out that only LS would not be satisfied their playerbase, so they put in there for extra improvements. So everybody needs to buy it.

Then they read statistics and see which these LS types was most popular and continue doing future LS types in that way.

So this is only my own opinion what’s going on.

Xiahou Mao.9701:

Well, I can offer some advice that hopefully can help.

For your traits, try 6/6/2/0/0, grabbing the condi cleanse in stealth trait from Shadow Arts. You do need condi cleanse against Mordrem! And as mentioned above, forget about the PVT gear, go Berserker’s. Your goal is to kill everything before it can kill you.

What part of D/D makes you sick? Is it just Death Blossom, which you shouldn’t be using anyway? If it’s Heartseeker too, then that’d cause issues. If you can’t make D/D work, then try S/D instead. You still get the stealth on command via Cloak and Dagger, while you get increased damage via melee and the ability to cleave three enemies at once. Thief is only single target damage focused with P/P, so once you can get away from that weak weaponset you’ll be able to take things down more quickly. Even main-hand dagger cleaves two enemies now with auto-attacks.

You could also use S/P and try to rely on Black Powder to blind enemies and lock them down. This isn’t as effective as it used to be, though, and it removes your easy stealth access for condi cleanses. S/D is probably the overall more reliable way to go, as a result, if D/D isn’t an option for you. It’ll also help once you get to the bosses with Defiance that are immune to Blind, so that you’re better prepared to deal with them.

Keep Shortbow as your secondary weapon, regardless of what main set you go with. Being able to flip to it and do some extra evades with Disabling Shot can be a lifesaver while you wait for your heal to recharge. Shadow Refuge can be used similarly to buy yourself some time as well.

p/p is not totally single target weaponset. If you use from Trickery Ricochet trait, then your bullets are bouncing from foe to foe and you can hit even 32 times while using unload skill. And all your bullets are bouncing, what ever skill you use, but most effective is unload skill.

So don’t believe all things what these guys tell you, read from Wiki what different traits do, and you will learn to understand what is best weapon set to you. Do you want to do mass damage with bounching bullets, or do you want do mass damage in close combat with daggers.

As you can see, not even all “Thief Specialist” what they claim to be, don’t know that p/p can be really effective weaponset

My opinion is this:
GW2 HoT is not exactly expansion. It is Living Story season 3 behind of pay wall. They will put in there whole Living Story season 3, couple planned feature packs (wvw, pvp + Guild Halls) and one new profession, what would have come during Living Story season 3 anyways.

Why they did this solution to make Living Story season 3 behind of pay wall?

• People have said during season 2 that two weeks period is too slow for them, they want whole season at once, so Season 3 is coming like that
• People have demand expansion, so they will give LS Season 3 in Expansion mode (yes if there is collector’s edition, there will be Rytlock doll again, but this time he will have blindfold on his head)
• People did’t like that 200 gems system for Season 2, at least when they had to buy it one shot
• Free living story is history, because people didn’t mention that they liked that free log in system for living story.

Lets see, They are now testing this type of Living Story mode, if there is a lot of players who will buy it, it will continue in that way. And because it is boxed version, it will cost more than what Living Story season 2 did, all marketing fees, material costs, delivery costs and so on. So if whole season 2 would have cost like 20 euro’s when you bought whole thing, I can imagine that Living Story season 3 standard version will cost at least 40 – 50 euro’s because of more other costs.

Those who have core game, I bet they won’t have access new wvw map or new pvp, and they won’t have Guild Halls either, those are included to the “expansion” now. Core game players don’t have access Revenant profession, or specialization or masteries or new pve map either.

Well, this is how I imagine that Revenant can do normal Personal Story:

Rytlock was in the Mists and there I bet he found friendly “ghosts” or people. They started to follow Rytlock and wanted to get back to the world. So Revenants are coming from the Mists. They are reincarnations of humans, norns, charrs, asurans and sylvaries. So when you choose first options and after that step to the game, you are reborn to the world from Mists and start your story from beginning.

My speculations is this:

We have access thru that door to the Crystal Desert. Those markings in the door are like Elona Reach, Thirsty River and Dunes of Despair. So maybe they are paths to those cities in Crystal Desert. Maybe there are three paths; 1. Elona Reach, 2. Dune of Despair and 3. Thirsty River. (So dungeon or mini dungeon perhaps?) Those places were in Guild Wars Prophecies Ascension places, where characters got all secondary professions. And last characters had to fight against Doppelganger and finished that ascension.

Now starts hardest part of my speculations:

So we might get access to those cities from these paths and in there we can learn Secondary professions, and after that all professions can start to use all kind of weapons.

Stupid idea, I know…

Wiki tell quite well what happens in Living World Season 2.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_World_season_2

Game itself tell very specific way what level you need to be to start Living World Season 2:

Sdamius.4587:

Please prepare yourself for some really noob questions, sorry.
I wanted to ask how do you access your profession skills? I played till level 8 and I have no idea how to use them. I’m a Charr Engineer, so I’m expecting to be able to pull out a turret and stuff, but how do I do it? I understand that there’s weapons skills, but are they different than the profession skill?

Turrets are Utility skills, so they are skills what you need to buy with skill points. You will open your first utility skill in level 13, second utility skill will open when you are level 17, third utility skill will open when you are level 19, and last elite skill you will open at level 31. So you should level more at least 5 levels to get first utility skill slot open.

All these utility skills and elite skills you need to buy with skill points, what you will earn in Skill challenges and some point of leveling.

You can find leveling rewards from this site:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Leveling_rewards

ozmaniandevil.6805:

misterman noticed the same thing I did. Wherever and whatever you have to gather…ANet has cut out A LOT of those nodes.

This is not so huge problem, if you do have those harvesting nodes in your home instance.

When there is harvesting dailies in specific areas, I do them like this:

• Ascalon = Charr home instance
• Kryta = Human Home Instance
• Shiverpeaks = Norn Home Instance
• Maguma = Asuran / Sylvari Home instance

But yes, if you don’t have those nodes in your home instances, then it is problem. You really need to run whole map to find best place to harvest those specific nodes.

I am using this page, it is easy access from the game:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World_boss

You just need to type in game chat:
/wiki World Boss
And right page opens to you

I agree, this has been awesome year at game. You have done a lot for us in this game.

Season’s Greetings to all ArenaNet employees!!!

(This picture is most hilarious moment from this year in the game)

I LIKE new dailies and new Log-in rewards

ArenaNet did well to change these dailies and giving us log-in rewards. Even one part of the dailies will give to players rewards. That is nice change. If I don’t want to do Achievement points, but I want some xp and nice stuff, I just do couple easy dailies.

I think this might be good change to those too, who are Achievement Pointholics too. They don’t need to do much to get at least 10 Achevement Points. I have to admit, that I am not Achievement Pointholic, but I am altholic nonetheless. That means I have multiple accounts. So it is pointless to gather Achievement points to every account. This daily type is ideal to me

I love you ArenaNet, you did really great change now. Thank you for this update

Oh, now I have to rush to have fun in Wintersday activities

Season’s Greetings to all ArenaNet employees and for your families.

(Sorry about my bad English, but it is not my native language).

I don’t know would this help your issue. If you don’t want to see player’s display name in your follower list, you can give nicknames to them.

1) Go to the followers list
2) Right click player name
3) Choose “Set Nickname”
4) Give a nickname

If you don’t want to see their character’s name, this is not working. It works only for display names.

I have also one person in game who is stalking me. Fortunately he does not know who I am in RL. So that stalking is happening only in the game.

Only solution, what I have found in my case, is that I am playing only invisible mode. You know that when you are logging in the game, in your character selection screen you can access your contacts, in there you can choose what mode you are playing. If you are playing invisible mode, others see you offline. So stalkers will leave you alone.

Never ever tell in the online game your real name, your real living place or any other information.

This Living Story episode was same as Guild Wars Bonus Mission Pack in Guild Wars 1.

In this Bonus Mission Pack you could live thru:

• The Battle of Jahai (Turai’s Story)
• The Flight North (Gwen’s Story)
• The Rise of the White Mantle (Saul’s Story)
• The Tengu Accords (Togo’s Story)

Players used those characters skills (Turai, Saul and Togo), threw rocks and played dead (Gwen). It was fun after all when players learn to use those skills.

Same was in Caithe’s Story, it started to be fun when I learned to use all those skills. I just hope that real Thief would have that kind of animation and skills too. Man that would be really acrobatic profession after that. After the Caithe’s talent, I think Sylvari Thieves have been get lazy and use those lame thief skills like other races too. Or maybe Caithe just didn’t want to teach newborn Sylvari thieves to use her skills.

But yes, I liked this episode just because it remids me so much about that GW1 Bonus Mission Pack.

Manathail.3014:

rhapsody.3615:

You were probably talking to some people who recently had guild drama. My best advice is to join a larger guild for guild missions and any other large group activities. If you have a few good friends, make a private guild with them which you can rep and talk when you aren’t doing something with your large guild.

Can you join two guilds at once? O.o Or did you mean joining on different characters?

You can join 5 guild totally, but you can represent only one at time. When you join a guild your all characters in your account can represent that guild, you just have to make it manually. When you are making new character it is not automaticly in the guild, you have to choose what guild that character is representing

I hope you will find good guilds with you.

Ayrilana.1396:

I got crests quickly by rotating around through the various defend events. Last night I went around just doing enough to get credit before moving to the next. Any event I saw along the way I would kills a few mobs to get credit before continuing on to the forts.

Since we’re getting head/chest next episode and legs/feet in the one after that; expect more of a grind.

So you were leeching. You just did in all events a bit and those who stayed and finnish them, did that event for you infact.

Imagine situation that everybody starts to leeching, not even one event will be done and all will fail. Nice, nice indeed.

Phew, I am so happy that armor is looking so crappy. I got best looking part of it what was that shoulder piece. Otherwise that armor is not worth to hunt those scraps.

I am dissapointed tho, that Anet decide to put this armor piece behind of the first achievement. It is like facepalm to those players who wanted all armor classes. Maybe they wanted to check out who is really so desperate to get those armor pieces by grinding.

Raina.8642:

I have 10 80’s… I don’t like camping one class/race and certainly don’t have the time to run living story 10 times. Please unlock this!

I have totally 50 level 80’s… and I want to run LS with each and every one of them! So please do not unlock this!! I do like to run LS 50 times. Then I have good reason to play each and every of my characters.

Please Anet, keep LS as it is now. There are still those who really want to play LS with all characters, and love every moment of it