Guild Wars 2

So the title says it all, I think the new LA is absolutely amazing, one of the best designed cities in a fantasy game I’ve seen in a long time.

My only complaint is that I wish the TP, bank, and item merchant were in a more convenient area of one another and in a similar area range of a way point.

Other than that – Great job on re-building the iconic city!

Just add extra character slot to all the versions of HoT.

So HoT is 50$ worth of a game? or is it a few living story instances with some of this and a dash of that?
throw in 500 gems for basic version+character slot
1000gems for deluxe
keep the 4k gems for the ultimate
i think ill wait for hot goes on sale for 10 bucks or so

So my friend gained all the HoM titles after the latest patch- and the catch is he never ever played gw1
how is that possible

new hair and faces! new hair and faces!!

Gaile Gray.6029:

Hey there,

We know that some of you are anticipating a new build for Guild Wars 2 on March 10th. We wanted to give you a heads up that the game update is coming, but it will not be going out on March 10th. At the present time, contents of the build is undergoing additional QA Testing. If we get more information about an anticipated timeframe for the build’s release we’ll try to provide that info in advance. But of course as always, we will update in the forums with detailed update notes when the build goes live.

Thanks for your patience.

Will we be getting new makeover kit options? Like new hair and faces?? That’s about the only thing I’m looking forward to- PLEASE DON’T DENY ME ANY LONGER

I would really hate to have to delete my fully geared lvl 80 just for the revenant- I meant yea I want to try out the rev as do alot of people- now if I stick with it not sure, but that’s why an extra character slot is best here, so those who don’t have the space and would benefit from an extra character slot.

Vieux P.1238:

My new funny spvp clip. Yes, I’ve added voice overs to the enemies & sound fx so to make it ridiculously funny & corny. Hope you like it. Let me know i’ll post a few more funnies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_o2TCDSwSA

It was so obnoxious from the fake laugh to the ‘trash’ talk
0/10 on a funny scale
but you looked like you were having fun so thats what counts.

The only effective thing to do is stay offline and block anyone who tries to come up to you and be unfriendly.

JORA!!! I really hope Jora

Or Nika, even Mhenlo

The thought crossed my mind, and I had this discussion with my guildies and will we have to delete an existing character if our character slots are full of fully geared 80s just to make room for the new class if we choose to play it?
Maybe a half off character slot expansions?
I’m just curious as to what might happen.

I love running dungeons, and I’m somewhat looking forward to the HoT expansion but what I have seen literally nothing on with new content is dungeons.
It seems that almost every other aspect of the game will be has been or plans to be touched on improvement, and changes- except dungeons.
Will we expect to see new permanent dungeons in the future with new armor stats/skins/weapons/tokens in the expansion? I would really hope to think so, to give us more variety of dungeons than the same old regular 7 dungeon hop – even if it’s just an added 3 or so new perma dungeons- for people who enjoy regular dungeon running and for those just jumping into the dungeon scene it would be a big disappointment to never have any new dungeon content beyond the aetherpath in TA that removed an existing TA path.

http://youtu.be/RrcOR927MZg

I was wondering if anyone knew how to play “fallen embers” by enya on the gw2 harp?
I’ve been searching online for the tabs but I can only seem to find the guitar tabs- and I don’t know if that’s anything similar to a harp – or the gw2 harp.

Any info on this would be great!

OlliX.1705:

OlliX.1705:

Just started patching now for me.

And now stuck at 99%. Great. :P

mine was at 99% but i exited out of the launcher and it’s at 0% and 2 files left and nothing happening :C

Larkir.6502:

After a long while of “Connection errors detected”, I suddenly had 99% done and 1 file left. But the progress bar is stuck there and doesn’t move.

same, and when i exited out of gw2 – it’s now at 0% with 2 files downloading and no progress – it’s just downloading with no bar that I can see

SnowHawk.3615:

Still won’t go to 100% for me it’s been stuck at 99% for awhile now

and then i exited out to see maybe if it would zoom to 100% or w/e and it’s at 0 with 2 files to download and nothing going on my internet is great btw

Hi! I’ve been guild-less for along time now after my own guild became very inactive over time, to which I disbanded and now am here!

I like to run dungeons alot- and I like taking new players through paths, and I just generally like dungeons- and anything PvE related
I do some PvP.
Anyways… yea! please invite if you’d like to have me

I am in TC server US

Is it just me or has nearly everyone been experiencing rubber banding, or some sort of screen freeze lag since the Halloween patch?

After the recent Living Story update I have noticed the lag has gotten even worse- including disconnecting, so I took a break for a few days from Guild Wars hoping the lag/disconnecting would be somehow ‘fixed’ or something through an update- and it was actually worse when I got on last night.
My whole party disconnected in every single dungeon I entered, or would stall because of their extreme lag and eventually leave the dungeon after saying something like “I can’t play with this lag, good luck everyone.” etc. something along those lines.
I did check my internet connection – but I can play other games in the highest graphics except Guild Wars anymore it seems, and even turning down the graphics doesn’t save me since the latest few patches- to which I NEVER ever had lag before the Halloween patch.
Anyone else experience this?
I know my computer has nothing to do with this, and my internet is fine. I can play all sorts of online games via computer or PS3 with 0 lag, disconnecting, or frame rate issues.

Evian.8741:

I want curls. The closest hairstyle to it is a short wavy bob, but it’s not what I’m looking for. I want wild wolf-woman curls.

Alright I’ll try to get to work on a wild one soon- Ill do a long and short version.
If any other ideas please let me know, and I’ll try to relate them.

OmaiGodman.2098:

I just checked and it seems to be true, my female human characters only look around a bit, and occasionally brush their hair aside.

I understand that it made some shoulderpieces clip with the head but frankly, I never cared about that

thats actually what Norn females do, seems like all females except Sylvari and Asura do it.

I went to change a piece of armor using 2 transmute charges to do so and both were used but only one piece of armor was changed, at first I thought maybe I made a mistake and I checked again and again just making sure and sure enough, there was no mistake my charge was used but my armor did not change.

Lag issue maybe? I normally don’t lag but lately I’ve been having lag spikes due to megaserver.

Out of boredom I doodled up some Norn hairstyles for females!
I was super disappointed with the last batch of hairstyles.

heres some ideas i thought of
for female sylvari
if they suck just say so— like “ew i wouldnt want either of those!”
thats okay if not!

one is similar to one we already have but a shorter version that in hopes wouldnt crop shoulder pads or armor
second is a sunflower bun thing with the leaves as bangs
third is — idk just blue leaves with a small dahlia
and the fourth is like a venus fly trap chignon

This is my sad attempt at art after a long break
my sister’s Ranger, her two favorite pets, grey wolf and raven
my Norn Mesmer and my best friend’s Norn Warrior with our Legendary’s

Kadj.6725:

Absconditus.6804:

I don’t really see myself as a Mesmer running around bashing people with a Hammer, I’d rather see Engineer’s get that as a new weapon available to them.

Aww, the idea of smashing your own illusions to get an effect doesn’t do anything for ya? I felt pretty brilliant when I thought of it.

But there’s still currently existing weapons that each profession could get to use, before we get to the need of making new models, animations and so on forth for totally new weapon types. Existing stuff tends to share animations across professions, with the visual spell effects being what sets them apart.

As much as I’d like to see engineers with hammers, I’ve come to dislike this “make it as easy as possible on the devs” ideal going around. No, screw that. We’re two years into the game, we’re not getting an expansion, and I’ve specifically said “no, I am not buying that” to things I’ve wanted on the gem store because of how Anet has been treating the game lately.

Screw easy. I’m not giving them another cent until I see something BIG happen, something to actually restore my faith in the game. The correct answer here is “give us THREE weapons, at least one being entirely new to the game.” “Give us new utility and elite skills.” “Fix meaningful things.” We’re not just playing a game here – we are their customers. It’s not our job to worry about how much trouble they go through every night for us – our job is to give them money for goods or services, and we want something new, something for everyone.

I’m cool with daggers. I’m cool with hammers, rifles, whatever. But don’t say “fans would be cool, but it would be easier if they didn’t.” Their cost-benefit evaluator guys would see that statement and be like “Oh, maybe it’s not that popular an idea, let’s pursue something else.”

Anet, the bottom line: I WANT MORE WEAPON CHOICES.

yeah! +232131134353453

Lana Del Rey.1873:

I want claws like Wolverine, in pink.

you win hands down.

I don’t think dagger because they already have enough of 1v1 type weapons and not enough AoE through weapons so maybe longbow with lots of bouncing and aoe blasts.
Maybe even axe axe with the stationary spin along with an AoE blast somehow that bounces axes around from enemy to enemy with a powerful phantasm.

dual wielding greatswords

or whips

hihey.1075:

SnowHawk.3615:

Hello! So I have always been interested in PvP/WvW fights but mostly PvP.
I usually main a mesmer in PvP and a warrior, but I’m really perplexed about a thief- at least in PvP, I am getting that Thief isn’t necessarily noob friendly in PvP- but most classes can be like that I guess.. at least for me.

Check out Sizer’s Twitch channel, he is probably the best PvP thief around, you can surely learn something from him.
I actually asked another thief in game for some tips because I wasn’t sure on what to use for a beginner and got negative feedback- and anyone else would just say Dagger Pistol heartseeker spam. That doesn’t help me learn the class in a competitive element, I do prefer Dagger Dagger as my main hand weapons, and either shortbow for secondary or sword pistol – which is what i mostly use in PvE and dungeons, (D/D S/P) Unless it’s TA which I switch to shortbow for the blossoms.
I have looked up builds but most I find are out of date, or do not share equipment etc. But in all they look fun- but I don’t know what play style would suit me- because I don’t want to be the best thief but I do want to be a good and effective thief.

Any help?! <33

Avoid Dagger Dagger if you want to be a “good and effective” thief.
There are 3 viable PvP builds for thief.
D/P+Shortbow: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAoaVl0MpypdPx0J8PNBNBt9wbQE8OMfpMaFAA-TJBFwACODAl2foaZAAPCAA

Sw/D+Shortbow:http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAsaVl0MpypdPx0J8PNBNB5dY+SZ0KAdHl+eEA-TJBFwACODAl2foaZAAPCAA

Sw/P+Shortbow:http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAsaVl0MpypdPx0J8PNBNBt9wbQE8OMfpMaFAA-TJBFwACODAl2foaZAAPCAA

Thief is not “noob friendly” because you not only need to be good at fighting, but also at evaluating the battle and the whole match. Warrior, for example, only requires to be good at battle (and it’s way more forgiving at that), because he is a sitting duck and you can do well just camping a point, staying alive and spamming AoEs.
A thief, on the other hand, needs to pick weakened or glass targets, kill them fast, then help with rezzing/stomping/interrupting/debuffing, and finally needs to know where he is needed most, where the enemy is located, when to disengage and all this stuff.

AH thank you so much!
Ill be taking a serious look at those builds, also your advice literally could not have been more clear.
Maybe I should’ve also asked about WvW would any of those builds be decent in WvW?

Hello! So I have always been interested in PvP/WvW fights but mostly PvP.
I usually main a mesmer in PvP and a warrior, but I’m really perplexed about a thief- at least in PvP, I am getting that Thief isn’t necessarily noob friendly in PvP- but most classes can be like that I guess.. at least for me.
I actually asked another thief in game for some tips because I wasn’t sure on what to use for a beginner and got negative feedback- and anyone else would just say Dagger Pistol heartseeker spam. That doesn’t help me learn the class in a competitive element, I do prefer Dagger Dagger as my main hand weapons, and either shortbow for secondary or sword pistol – which is what i mostly use in PvE and dungeons, (D/D S/P) Unless it’s TA which I switch to shortbow for the blossoms.
I have looked up builds but most I find are out of date, or do not share equipment etc. But in all they look fun- but I don’t know what play style would suit me- because I don’t want to be the best thief but I do want to be a good and effective thief.

Any help?! <33

No, you didnt PvP and obtain the armor yourself – is not anyone else’s problem but your own.
You cannot obtain any armors through PvP anymore. Unless it’s through the reward track of dungeons.
I actually participated in PvP and made the armor except for the shoe wraps because I ran out of wolf rank tokens. So now its in my wardrobe, but I’d be a little irritated if it was brought back because all the work I put into PvP to get it just went down the drain, because originally that is why I started to PvP to obtain the “Wolf” gear since that is the rank you had to be to be able to even attempt to craft it in PvP, and it would defeat the purpose of what I did.
So no, don’t bring the armor back because others were too lazy or just didn’t make it to PvP in time.

Even if it was brought back I think that it should remain in PvP as a high rank reward track.

We need Guild battles and many other things that would actually make the game better- not mounts. It would be like “dang they spent all their time designing mounts, when we could have had more things to improve the game, but no instead all we get are mounts.”

if there were mounts you would only be able to use them in pve and nothing else. not WvW not dungeons not eotm or PvP. but anet ignores everything except pve so whatever, but then they have permission to take out swiftness, and when you die since they would remove every wp in the game, since because of mounts you wouldn’t need them at all- youd have to restart the zone and run alllll the way back- yeah i see mounts as a positive thing.

I’ve seen this but you should just ignore it. The only time I get irritated is when someone has never done the dungeon and won’t let us know or ask for help in fear that we will kick them, which we will not- we do not mind explaining paths to players if they need the help.
Honestly I get a little worried when they have under 1k ap, but I won’t kick them because of it and I try not to go based on that because I have been proven wrong.

I feel that in Gw1 EotN the spirit animals that Norns were blessed by were more important, but everyone was a bear and I remember seeing a female norn guard shapeshift into a werebear and being like WTF OMG I WANNA DO THAT OASDasdadkasdbaASDHASKDASDa!!! Then it was announced that norns would be playable and I was ecstatic! I couldn’t wait to do whatever it was Norns did, I couldn’t wait to turn into a bear – but I chose raven because of my mesmer. If I remember correctly the awesome norn Jora, lost her spirit because of her brother Svanir? It’s been so long idr why she was cursed— But her journey was to retrieve and kill her brother and her spirit would be restored or something, I feel that norn animal form is just like w/e they can do it but it’s supremely useless.

I wish it had more entied with their story and character development, like if you chose a spirit that was the only one you can turn into to make it feel more personalized like if you chose wolf, you could only become a werewolf and maybe get a special marking along with it only associated with that spirit. – Instead you can choose any spirit to shapeshift into if you get enough skill points to purchase them, so there is literally no reason why the animal choice in the character screen should be implemented. No you don’t have to purchase any of the other shapeshifting skills.
Animal form should have more use than just to goof off with- because atm it is one of the most useless skills in the entire game.
So I did some quick brainstorming on what they could do to help the skill- please give your opinions on what else to add!

All forms give stability and might
Bear – stability, 8 stacks of might, fury and knockdown with high crit chance, stomp skill which gives stability to the party.
Leopard – stability, 8 stacks of might, 3 additional stacks with skill usage, stealth, knockdown, fear.
Raven – stability, constant regen to self and party, random conditions applied on skill use, leap and knockdown, 3 stacks of might on skill use.
Wolf – stability, 10 stacks of might, fear, swipe = high crit chance fury to party, bleeds, headbutt and knockdown.
And you could move while performing each attack.

Maybe even more use than what I listed- but I feel that I was so excited for Norn, and what they might be capable of and blah, blah – but I was sorely let down by the lack of potential added for them I have two norns currently but I wish there was more to identify them with other than tattoos, inhuman height, and drinking.

What do you call it when a Norn throws a Sylvari?

Tossing the salad.

Shin is wrong her face was released.
There is a face just like hers, while Caithe’s nose is large and has a bend in it- scarlet’s was small – I wish I had a picture of the face, the lips are heart shaped it’s one of the newer faces but it was not included in the recent reskin faces it was the one before that – the one versions that came with the bug eyes and no nose one, it came along with that

AH i have a picture of it— this is my sister’s Sylvari with Scarlet’s face. Since now they released her hair- you can create it – red hair and dark ?green? skin idr what she looked like exactly.

Protoavis.9107:

I prefer the one of the left but they’re basically the same sylvari (same face and hair, same chest and pants) just in different colours. The right one is fairly bland in it’s colour scheme despite the chest and pants being the same the colours just make the right one look plain. Might just be the specific green and yellow being used, possibly add in some pink like the kudzu flowers to break it up a bit like the sylvari’s skin or something, I dunno.

SnowHawk.3615:

I like them both , the color schemes you stuck with are spot on, the only thing I do not like about the both of them is their faces with the hair, the face is so masculine and the hair is kinda meh, boyish and not manly.

I wouldn’t really consider any of the sylvari hair “manly” in a heteronormative hyper masculine way.

Okay hrm – the hair too is goofy for that face, imo. Flat hair on a ‘large’ face makes the head even larger in appearance is what I meant.
He needs something that accentuates his features like a hair that flows back or something.

I am at 131 keys and nothing still.

I think you should be able to complete zone specific tasks in order to get the fossil, not this RNG crap.

They cannot transform into actual animals- she/he can only turn into the werebeasts that weren’t destroyed by Jormag.
It is magic that turns them into the full thing- similar to a mesmer illusion, since every race can achieve this if blessed by the shamaness or shaman.

10/10 beautiful

My norn mesmer, Mahzarin.
I really really wanted to capture the panoramic of the scene, those stars are just so pretty!

I like them both , the color schemes you stuck with are spot on, the only thing I do not like about the both of them is their faces with the hair, the face is so masculine and the hair is kinda meh, boyish and not manly.

I would like something like these.

Bird of Paradise Mohawk thing

Cactus bun maybe with a flower?

Lotus flower bud w/leaf bangs.

hrmm 9/10 for me.

I have two Sylvari
Cerynitian my female guardian
Firstborn Una my female thief

Sylvari.

………….

SYLVARI

S-Y-L-V-A-R-I

seel-vahr-ee

I agree- but I will add stop giving us useless NPCs that can do things 200000 times better than our own profession can- like Kasmeer casting 3 timewarps seconds apart.
Or Countess Anise casting 10 illusions while mesmer can only cast 3.

No please ever. Gw needs actual Guild Battles NOT mounts.

Cameirus.8407:

Humor.5763:

Ok, thanks guys. Appreciate it

better question would be: why is the female version so different from the male one….no hood, and massive stupid kitten bow.

Because traditionally womens clothing is different from mens anywhere.
If Anet made them look the same- which i wouldn’t argue, I want to look like Scorpion or Subzero on my female too- but people would complain about no diversity.

SO in the original Guild Wars, you could team up guilds against one another in a massive PvP GvG awesome sauce type- hence the name Guild Wars.
So will we ever get a battle ground so that Guilds of different tiers can face off??

No thanks. gw AINT NEVA BEEN BOUT MOUNTS AND GON START NOW
go play wow or some other game that gives you mounts if you want them.

I think the drop should be a little more common than it is now. It’s only an exotic and it seems more rare than that- I think everyone should have a equal chance of getting it, i dont care if everyone has it- because I just want the dagger. I already bought the recipe to make it- now im just farming keys and chests.
GIVE ME THA DAGGA!!!

I want something like this for female sylvari, I hate the new hairstyles for them- along with the norn male and female.