Guild Wars 2

Since you want back to Draconis Mons I assume you actually arrived there before. You should have a waypoint unlocked in the southwest of the map. It’s right on the beach when you arrive, so missing it shouldn’t be possible.

The pricing of boxed copies is up to the retailer in question, not anet.

Like all of the dyeable combos, only the glider. Backpacks simply can not be made dyeable without a complete rework of items, basically.

Living in europe myself, I understand the frustration when it launches late our time, but it would be impossible to launch within the same date worldwide.

When they give a date, that practically have to relate to local time for them.

It means the number of possible unintended synergies or issues are kept down.
Restricting it means that the number of possible interactions stay the same for each new elite spec instead of growing exponentially.

Say the want to do something with chill for a later necro elite spec weapon, used at range. This way they don’t have to evaluate how it can interact with Reaper, because it’s one or the other.

Didn’t you need to be a certain rank too? So while subsequent gifts were easy, you still hade to do some wvw first to rank up…

They need recepie sheets, you can’t discover them. The recepies are on the TP though, and should be really cheap.

Edit: They were apparently a bit more expensive than I expected, but still not too much gold.

Your last question is fairly easy to answer. Balance simplicity.
Specifically, this way they’ll never have to worry about how for instance a new Necro elite spec would interact with Greatsword and vice versa, the new weapon will never interact with the Reaper line.

As the game stands now, there’s minimal gain, but the desicion simplifies adding further elite specs a lot.

Sephas.8793:

Egrimm Van Horstmann.7921:

Is there some reason that they can’t just add the Model Zephyr Sanctum to all the tiers of the vendor for the same price. It seems counter intuitive not to have access to this item necessary for the achievement most of the time. You have to catch the vendor right after a sand storm or it’s 45+ mins of time to waste since there’s no way to get the item for Aurene.

Can’t you buy this from the Laurel vendor?

Not the same item

Interesting concept!
On principle, I like things that enhance synergy!

You need to spend Mastery Points (maybe needing to earn more to have enough) in a track, then you can continue that track.

Crinn.7864:

Tanner Blackfeather.6509:

To both release one every 2-3 months and have them all out before next xpac puts the next xpac at 16-24 months out from now. Running 3-3,5 years between expac 1 and 2, even if they keep LW up, would likely be problematic for the game.

Somehow I doubt Anet is using Lege weapons as their Expansion timeline.

Neither do I. I’m arguing the inverse – that they want (or should) get the legendaries out before xpac 2, and should/will have to increase rate of release.

Because he’s pointing out that it’s still disabled after two years. The question was why, not is it.

Astralporing.1957:

I really hope it won’t be that soon (as i’m pretty sure it’s simply not ready, and would like to avoid next HoT fiasco).

You’ve said this in two places that I’ve noticed. Do you have any particular reason to think that? They will after all have been working on it for two years come this fall, with about 50-60% of their dev staff dedicated to it.

Now, I want to keep my excitement in check too, so I keep reminding myself that we don’t actually have an anouncement yet!

Trying for Mystic Coins from the Clover recepie is practically garantueed to be a loss.
The Coin output from that is more a “here’s your bet back, you’re welcome to try again” thing.

No, “a sale” is a temporary price reduction. This is a permanent reduction.

I expect rather that we’ll get Ep 6 in july/early august, with an announcement and teaser of next expansion, and the expansion launches late october/november. Possibly holding into december to go for the holiday sales.

Swagger.1459:

Astralporing.1957:

If i remember correctly, that number was mentioned already somewhere around the April patch, when MO took over. So nothing has changed since then.

Check this out!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/48zlyd/im_mike_obrien_here_with_gw2_dev_team_ama/

“We have about 120 devs working on the live game, 70 devs on Expac2, and 30 devs on core teams that support both. Within these groups we have cross-discipline teams with focused missions. For example on Live we have the PvP team, the WvW team, the Fractals team, the Raids team, the Living World team, the Legendaries team, and a couple others. The teams are charged with carrying a feature from inception and design through completion. When they finish, we typically package work from multiple teams into a single release, then we hand it off to release teams for final voice integration, localization, QA, and release management.”

So “about” 220 people by MO’s statement, and now they have “nearly 400 people”!

Der HYPE ist real!

Those 220 are only development staff though. That’s presumably not counting QA, HR, Customer Service, Marketing/PR/Community etc. I could imagine another 150 people spread over all that, and suddenly we’re at “nearly 400” total employed.

For stat changing you specifically need the exotic inscription, the ascended will not work.

The ascended inscription is for crafting an ascended weapon yourself.

Danikat.8537:

• If you’re able to meet up in real life they can log into their account and you can put your card details in to buy gems.

I’d strongly advice against doing this. It has, in other games, caused a nasty tangle of unclear ownership of the account. While the gem store offers the selection of saving cc info or not, I’d definitely double check with Customer Support if it’s ok.

Much better to buy a pre-paid card.

Primarily, I think, the “no in-game gifting of gems” policy is to reduce complications in case of RMT-motivated hacking. Adds breaks to the Hack account > Buy gems w stored cc > Transfer process.

To both release one every 2-3 months and have them all out before next xpac puts the next xpac at 16-24 months out from now. Running 3-3,5 years between expac 1 and 2, even if they keep LW up, would likely be problematic for the game.

I instead see it as it should be included for free in the next expansion.

As they’ve said that each expansion will give the previous ones so you “only ever have to purchase the newest one”, that purchase coming with a growing number of holes in the story flow seems counter to their stated goal.

Not really “a full 24 hours” unless they’ve changed it. It lasts until next reset, so an elixir can last 24 hours (if done just after reser) or it can last minutes (if done just before).

By scale I mean how many forges you can realistically do in a given time. This is pretty drastically increased by not having to zone anywhere.

The point of the conduit is that being able to MF right next to the vendor that offers the items offers a “convenience” that utterly changes the scale of how much you can do.

Not enough to become a problem, especially as any market flooding is somewhat self-correcting.

ArchonWing.9480:

They can also be swapped at a small cost.

AFAIK it’s only the Bloodstone ones that can be statswapped after the initial choice.

Easiest way for some Carapace armor pieces, and items for a second Mawdrey. I think that’s really about it.

Oh, and choice on who to do the achievements on, if you want a slow, sturdy build for some and a fast, glassy for some and that fits different characters.

Anet hasn’t actually said that supply outstrips demand. What they have said is that approx 10% more coins are created than destroyed. So the number of coins existing in the game is actually continually growing.

Given the already streamlined acquisition of generation 2B (Eureka and onwards) I really think the wait is one or both of:

• Finishing art & animation
• Not shock the economy by adding a bunch at once.

I really don’t think there’s that much more implementation streamlining to be done.

ChiSama.2590:

And the next LS map will be…

Isn’t that just Bastion of the Penitent? The latest raid?

Also, other avenues can potentially bring legal doubt regarding licensing and such avoided here by user agreements etc. There’s a lot of opaque legal stuff regarding suggestions :/

There was a klicking sound when wielded, the same sound as the healing turret, meant to match the spinning barrels I’m sure.

Either way, folks, it’s completely unrelated to what the OP asks about.

They ask about Story. Grindiness of maps are irrelevant.

Male Charr Heavy armor suffers a lot from this!

Personally, I learn a class better when I get the traits and skills gradually. I have really struggled to, get a good grip on both my Thief (boosted from 30-ish) and Mesmer (tomed a lot in low levels and from 50-ish to 80), so for me it’s best to play a level or two between each tome if it’s a new class.

If instead you work better with having everything from the start, toming up and then doing story/maps is a good idea.

I’ll give folks the point about bag slots. However, you’ll have to weigh it against potential price for a race change. Essentially, if the race change would cost 2k gems (a price point suggested in this thread iirc), that’s equal to a character slot + 3 bag slots at full price.

Looking at VB, and going from memory, there’s like 6 channeling HPs, 3 I’ve done duo (my general play “mode”) and 2 I’ve needed the help of a couple randoms or just jump in when I see a few others doing it.
I might misremember one or two easily duoable as channeling just from lack of challenge.

Sales are never announced beforehand, but they’ve happend preceding several (but not all!) of the new Living World episodes, and one of those are coming soon, likely sometime end of april or early may.

For you who want a race change, a few questions to figure out what the core wish/issue is:

1) What is it that you absolutely want to keep from your old character?
2) What of the above is not achieved by making a new character and keeping the old. Seeing as anything gained from birthday presents are account bound, and /age isn’t visible to others.

Edit: Of course I understand the answers will differ from player to player, I’m curious about different perspectives.

The Hearts are essentially meant to point you to areas with Dynamic Events. The events are the meat-and-potatoes of GW2 content. Head out into an area, maybe around one of the hearts, and start following any events (orange-ish text and symbols on the map) you notice.

Uh, Illconcieved, this was about Elite Specializations, not Masteries. Completely separate things…

There is an edit on the wiki from jan 29 this year regarding the amount healed, roughly matching that. No idea if it’s actually a nerf or just correcting an incorrect note, as there’s no discussion on the talk page or links to any other discussion.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/index.php?title=Superior_Rune_of_the_Defender&diff=next&oldid=1343154

Legendary Grenth.3561:

Okay but what if I don’t want to salvage my legendary back item to replace an aura effect or remove a +15 infusion, there you go. well worth the 35g

Since the only thing slotted in a legendary backpiece is infusions, I’d recomend getting an infusion extractor for a couple silver instead.

That’s not the matter here. This is a question of why they gate some LW3 zones (not BFF) on a character basis.

No, the new legendaries did not take you 8-10 minutes to make, you’d just spent the time they take beforehand.

I was really sceptical, but came to enjoy off-peak roaming. However, I understand your frustration.

One option is to do WvW dailies that you find ok – I recomend Big Spender, Veteran Creature Slayer and Master of Monuments as these can generally be done without much interference from enemy players. The Warg in Alpine Borderland is usually a spot where people from different servers don’t initiate fighting if you’re just standing around (at least on EU servers).

If you can play on off peak hours, it’s a lot easier to avoid other players. Those times Camp Capturer, Land Claimer, Caravan Disruptor and Guard Killer are generally free from interference.

All of the above are essentially PvE objectives, and as dailies offer a Reward Track Potion giving 250 points progress. You’ll need 80 to finish a track without any other progress – do dailies and hang around for a little bit for extra progress when it’s calm, bug out as soon as dailies are done if there’s a lot of fighting.

Lost Precipice was inhabited by those who became the Exalted (or their families?) if I’ve understood correctly. The SE ruins I’m really curious about however.

The “no Tarir in GW1” question is easy. It was built later, in the 250 year span between the games.

logan.5846:

If we can dye the spectral glider I don’t see any reason why we shouldn’t be able to dye spectral weapons.

Then you haven’t read (or understood) the dev responses to requests for dyeable weapons.