Guild Wars 2

I just don’t understand… AC P1,2,3 are 1.5g per path… Every other dungeon is just 1g, and then Arah is 3g for 3 paths and then 1.5g for P3. I figured there’d be more diversity then. So by this logic all of COE is just as easy and long as COF P1. Makes sense.

Guess you missed this thread.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/jubilee/Announcer-Voice-Actress/first#post2577677

Bread and Avatara, a majority of the threads that get closed or overlooked by devs are ones that have people flaming each other and starting off topic or rude conversations that have nothing to do with the topic. So please keep things on track here so this can go on without getting locked or ignored, thanks!

Erasculio.2914:

I have all HoM skins unlocked. And it honestly wouldn’t bother me if those skins, or something similar, were available to all players. Let people get the skins they like, you would know you got those skins earlier by playing through the original Guild Wars.

About the Fellblade, I actually enjoy the GW1 effect more than the GW2 one. In the original game, the sword didn’t make smoke; it had a very nice pattern in its blade that made it look like shadows were moving over the sword’s surface. The GW2 variant looks rather less interesting (it’s just a smoke effect), and IMO the purple variant is also a missed opportunity. The first time I saw a screenshot, I thought the purple symbols would move through the weapon’s blade, like the text at the banners in the Holdings of Chokhin.

Yeah this thread was a way to call attention to this and hopefully get the developers to update the visual appearance of the Fellblade in GW2. My vote is make it have the same effect as GW1 but if they instead just replaced the current smoke with the smoke of the new 1h version, I’d be all for that.

Kain Francois.4328:

Is there anyone who wasn’t disappointed with the GW2 fellblade?

Compare with GW1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFDHyyMPmoc

(Someone please upload a better video…)

I’ll upload one this weekend comparing the GW2 version and GW1 version with my in-game characters and post it up here when I have time. I’ll likely just add it to the OP though.

Agreed Navzar. It is really upsetting how dull the Fellblade is compared to the GW1 equivalent or even this new one handed reskin in terms of effects.

Kain Francois.4328:

Agreed. Or at least give Fellblade its GW1 animation with shadowy black clouds.

I was VERY disappointed when I first saw the GW2 Fellblade upon release, since it was my favorite sword in GW1.

PLZ Anet, show some appreciation to your grassroots GW1 supporters!

Thanks for the support. It seems that over 1000 views only gets a few replies so please tell your friends to show support. We forum-goers are the vocal minority so for ArenaNet do anything about this they’ll need a good amount of support from a good number of users.
Thanks!

kimeekat.2548:

Woo, nice suggestion, I totally agree. Would also have been nice for that darkness effect to be what we got paired with the Radiant Skins (light effect and dark effect makes more sense to me than light effect and yet another skin with flames), but I digress.

Also: Laughing at all the people who fail at reading the OP.

Thanks for your support. I’m thinking I should have maybe posted this in a different forum… It keeps getting dumped down off the front page by nerf posts about Queen’s Gauntlet X__x…

And yeah I’m not sure what about the OP made it confusing. I’m guessing some people just didn’t read it.

Heading out to work. I look forward to see what more of you think when I get back!

MauricioCezar.2673:

Well… actually we don’t even know all weapon skins that had already been added in the game lol . We only know some of those, no one can ensure that those are all.

I should have re-worded my OP to reflect this as that’s one of the points of discussion I wanted to address.

Do you guys think there are more undiscovered ones in game? Usually Dulfy gets all of the latest news and I just assumed they had all of the weapons already there but do you think they left some to mystery similar to how Final Rest was discovered?

Danikat.8537:

Yeah, I just reported this in game.

At first I thought I’d done it somehow, then when it happened again I logged out and back in to test it and then reported.

I noticed the wallet seemed oddly determined yesterday. I got the mail about it and didn’t click the ‘Show me’ button, then I got a hint pop-up and I closed that down without clicking the button there either and then the wallet opened anyway.

Understandably so though I mean you have to expect that at on of people don’t read patch notes and just go “WTF IS GOING ON!?” so they need to shove it down peope’s throats to some extent.

Yeah I did the same thing I was like “Umm, ok I didn’t mean to click that.” But then it kept happening so I reported it as well.

I thought I heard of people getting them from loot bags in the champ’s gauntlet?

WompaStompa.3705:

Agreed.

I always felt like the effect on the GW2 Fellblade was lacking in awesomeness.

Same. I couldn’t tell you how excited I was to see returning GW1 weapons (being a 7 year player of the game) into GW2. So naturally the first BWE that HoM was available I raced over to it and snagged one of everything and was extremely disappointed at the Fellblade and assured myself that “It’s BWE 1 they’ll fix it before launch.”

It’s the same today. And it’s disappointing. For arguably one of the coolest swords (in my opinion) in GW1, they did not do it proper justice in GW2 – especially with this new 1h that shows off smoke effects that SHOULD have been on the Fellblade to begin with.

Yeah I’ve gotten that several times as well. Pretty annoying.

Edit: just asked my online guild members and they got it last night too since we all congregated to 1 overflow last night every time they joined on us it’d pop up.

Caledore.6271:

Agreed, the shadowy effect should really be far more pronounced on the Fellblade…it’s even in the HoM concept art.

Fellblade is one of my favorite HoM skins but it’s unfortunate it doesn’t really have one of the main signatures of the weapon from GW1.

Yeah I posted the GW2 and GW1 wiki of both Fellblades. People would be able to see the affect of the concept art which accurately depicts a mix of the GW1 Fellblade with this new pink 1h (via smoke around it) and what we got shown in my screenshot is nothing even close to a mix of the two.

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

TehPwnerer.7215:

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

TehPwnerer.7215:

I think it’s pretty simple, really. Some people have more gold than Karma and if they would rather waste hard earned gold on this stuff then so be it. The rewards make sense. These are representatives of those cities / cultures and as such sell weapons that reflect that.

The cost of not only sprockets, but also gold really does make buying these useless, though but it’s really just another alternative way of buying things.

Kind of off topic, but shouldn’t Cultural Weapons and Armor be exotic? At least T3?

Nope, they’re rares.

So did you read any part of my post except for the last part where I asked why they’re rares instead of exotics?

I did but I wasnt responding to that, because theres nothing to respond to there. And from how you worded that I misunderstood. I thought you were asking if they were exotic if they were bought from the cities, and then I was saying no they’re just rares and not exotic.

Apologies then. Yeah no there was just my general thinking behind why they put these items for sale from these merchants. I’d hope to think they aren’t trying to prey on unsuspecting or ignorant players who don’t know these already exist for karma.

The last part was just a little off-topic aside sort of wondering why they’re rares instead of exotics. Especially T3. 64k Karma / 120g and they give us rares.

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

TehPwnerer.7215:

I think it’s pretty simple, really. Some people have more gold than Karma and if they would rather waste hard earned gold on this stuff then so be it. The rewards make sense. These are representatives of those cities / cultures and as such sell weapons that reflect that.

The cost of not only sprockets, but also gold really does make buying these useless, though but it’s really just another alternative way of buying things.

Kind of off topic, but shouldn’t Cultural Weapons and Armor be exotic? At least T3?

Nope, they’re rares.

So did you read any part of my post except for the last part where I asked why they’re rares instead of exotics?

Astralporing.1957:

Agreed. Seeing a reskin of a HoM supposedly unique design being introduced to the game is bad enough. Seeing that this reskin is actually done way better than the original is adding insult to the injury.

That’s a great way of putting it. Because it really is. Let them have their pink sword, but the fact that the effects are 1000x better on the new one than the old one is pretty unfortunate.

On max settings you can hardly see the Fellblade “smoke” affect. This new weapon has obvious and awesome new smoke.

Once again folks I am not requesting that the Fellblade from HoM gets any colored effects. In fact I specifically say:

“And no I am not referring to the pink runes or any sort of runes at all. The sword looks fine but lacks the proper effects.”

I am referring to:
“…is there any chance we can update the Fellblades to share the same smoke effect or even get the old GW1 effect back?”

There are already literally 10 threads on the same topic. I’m sure by now ArenaNet realizes that people are not impressed with the dagger skins (and stakitten and pistols) compared to the other weapons.

I think it’s pretty simple, really. Some people have more gold than Karma and if they would rather waste hard earned gold on this stuff then so be it. The rewards make sense. These are representatives of those cities / cultures and as such sell weapons that reflect that.

The cost of not only sprockets, but also gold really does make buying these useless, though but it’s really just another alternative way of buying things.

Kind of off topic, but shouldn’t Cultural Weapons and Armor be exotic? At least T3?

Ah ok I gotcha. Anyone else think that they will / should add more champion loot-bag weapons in the future?

Saelune.5316:

Not every issue has to be dealt with so black and white. If something doesnt work, fix it, dont remove it.

This. Ranger pets have never been perfect but they really need to fix them at some point. It’s getting old.

Got a few today as well. Kind of odd.

nicknamenick.2437:

even swords.. i want a MASSIVE warrior sword..
Not a tiny pirate sword.. doesnt fit a warrior
The twin blade looks freaking ugly
And pls a PURPLE sword? what?? only mesmers would like it..

But ofc 2x best hammers (i dont use… )
And ofc we get again more nice GS skins..

Ok so you just listed off some of the weapons we got in the patch but didn’t really answer anything from the OP. Do you want to see more weapons?

Over 200 views and no one else has replied? No one has any thoughts on this?

I agree. My main is a condition damage character and I had to switch to a berserker to get any sort of progress in this thing. It appears to be the only way to go and I really hate that design.

Everyone I know (friends or guildies) that beat Liadri did so with Berserker gear because their main gear sets / specs weren’t cutting it. Very unfortunate to see content designed around this mentality that made CoF P1 farming so elitist and wrong.

“No Zerker gear? Get out then.”

Does anybody know any information on whether or not down the road more weapons will be added to the pool of existing champion loot bag weapons? I gotta say a LOT of the new weapons look great but some of the weapon categories fell flat (just check the threads made about daggers, pistols, and staffs).

I think it’d be cool to see more weapons added every now and then to champion-bag loot only. What do you guys think? Will / should they add more down the road?

They said they did this for community. So that people will revive each other. Too bad nobody wants to revive you if anyone is even there.

Mad Rasputin.7809:

Mystic forge recipes containing fractal relics as ingredients are now broken.

Any word on this? This very question was brought up over a week ago in this thread and politely blown off.

Yeah I wonder that too. I’m actually getting close to needing those recipes as well. Pretty sure it was an oversight.

Thank you. Obviously you can all preview the new weapon from the TP to see the true effects that actually do it justice since a screenshot does not. Either way I am begging ArenaNet to apply the effect to Fellblades.

And no I am not referring to the pink runes or any sort of runes at all. The sword looks fine but lacks the proper effects.

For everyone’s information I put this topic in this forum because the item with the effect I’m referring to was released in this patch. I also feel like it being in this topic would also get it more views since nobody seems to check (players or Anet) any other threads except the current living story one.

And honestly I’d be fine if instead of the smoke off the new 1h versions we could get just the GW1 effect again. No smoke – just the blade effect. That’d be a great too instead of smoke. Really anything to update the look to make it look as good (particle-wise) as the new ones will be fine.

And once again I don’t mean anything regarding the runes, the rune color, or any color in general.

Lucky.9421:

TehPwnerer.7215:

Yeah I’m not sure what’s going on with all the steampunk crap but we seem to get more and more of it every patch. Can’t wait for it to be done with.

OK but the Asura/Inquest are not steampunk if that’s what people are implying. They are magitek.

They combined with the Aetherblades, who were steampunk, to make a sort of hybrid steampunk aesthetic with lighting magic mixed in. But all of that was after the Reactor anyway.

I was referring to the skypirates / aetherblade stuff that seems to be crammed further down our throats every new update.

Zackee.4671:

And throwing a long, hateful post in everyones faces is mature and civil?

Pretty much what he asked. This entire event has been a community dividing disaster.

Kirschwasser.3972:

Harper.4173:

Kirschwasser.3972:

You must have missed a great amount of text in GW1 if you feel that GW2 is sillier. I feel that if GW1 was fully voice-acted as GW2 is, that it would feel sillier. There was a LOT of silly dialog in GW1, but very few of it was in the cutscenes.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Bleached_Bones

Show me something similarly dark and beautifully made in GW2.

One instance of superb writing does not invalidate my claim that, as a whole, GW1 still had a great amount of silly moments.

That’s true, but it’s painfully obvious that aside from the map and a few of the returning character professions, this game has hardly anything to do with GW1 and that’s unfortunate. I’d like to see that change.

Lucky.9421:

What’s this about steampunk? Did I miss a memo?

Yeah I’m not sure what’s going on with all the steampunk crap but we seem to get more and more of it every patch. Can’t wait for it to be done with.

On topic, I still have yet to see any of the character or passion that they put into the GW1 lore in GW2. We ask for more GW1 related things because it’s the same map.. same universe.. same everything but 200 years later. It’s a shame that there’s not more GW1 references or callbacks and the fact that they seem to be steering further and further away from it is sad to see.

KorKor.9452:

I plan to just keep mine in the collectible tab and never ever use them at all. I’d prefer to not be reminded about how poorly this event was implemented and how boring the story is going to be from now on due to it.

Agreed. Another boring, goody two shoes Trahearne 2.0 storyline where we do things and she takes the credit. Do yourself a favor and just delete her mini. It’s a small victory, but a victory nonetheless.

I already deleted my Kiel mini. Will never know what she has to say. And I’m glad.

Why was it not Ellen who would have conducted research into the Abaddon Fractal? She is a human, those are human Gods after all, so why would she not be interested in that over Gnashblade?

This thread is not to discuss the ridiculous outcome of the election. I want to know what the reasoning behind giving the Charr the human God fractal instead of giving it to Ellen?

The Fall of Abaddon took place over something like 1000 years before the events of GW1.

Farzo.8410:

Evon Gnashblade was a random Charr thrown in versus Ellen Kiel that we have played with since some of the first Living Stories.

I call the voting bullkitten to begin with.

Random Charr character that we know to almost nothing about Vs. Ellen Kiel that we have played with this whole time.

Pretty much. This was such a fair vote though. /sarcasm.

How is the community becoming divided at all a good thing?

SpyderArachnid.5619:

It is because there is way too many threads on the same subject. No matter how differently the titles are worded, they are all the same thing said in every single thread.

So instead of spamming up the forum with new threads about the same thing over and over, keep it consolidated to only one.

As well, this thread will probably be locked/deleted too.

Not really. It was the only one I saw that made specifically not to complain, but contained valid points about why voting was a bad idea especially when content depended on it.

The only reason it’s becoming inflammatory is because we have people who don’t care or voted Ellen saying things like “Your tears taste great” and crap.

Midnight.7526:

I could care less for the Abaddon fractal. Abaddon is dead. Thaumanova sounds more relevant.

Asura aren’t as smart as they are and blew something up. Again. There I just saved you the 20 minute fractal run.

Notably the “Seriously Anet NEVER do this again” thread. It was someone voicing concerns about diving the playerbase and the mods are just deleting threads that are relevant where we’re expressing how we feel about the stuff you’re doing?

I didn’t make the thread but it had good points and shouldn’t have been deleted.

Grounder.7381:

accept it.! embrace it.!
have a good sportsmanship.!
say gbye to the fall of abadon.. FOREVER

People like you really make me hate this divided community. And I guess you may not entirely be to blame. ArenaNet made it this way by pitting players against each other on this grand of a scale.

Randulf.7614:

It generated strong emotions, lively discussion, lots of roleplaying and an event which will be talked about for a while. For better or worse, any games dev would be jumping for joy at the reaction their game has got.

Yeah because kitten ing off 48% of your playerbase is something all game developers should hope to achieve..

Devildoc.6721:

Isaiah Cartwright.8569:

While the Citizen of Tyria for a Better Tomorrow Tomorrow fully support Evon we must congratulate Kiel on a well earned victory.

Nope.

Screw the whole voting thing. You guys round filed a good concept of a fractal, gambling it on a vote. Now it’ll never be made.

You tied voting on the fractal to an event where people who DON’T EVEN RUN FRACTALS voted on it and people who chose Ellen for whatever other reason other than the fractal get to decide what content people who do run fractals get to do.

This was a massive screwup.

Agreed. This is garbage.

Couldn’t agree more. I was so excited to hear that Fall of Abaddon was going to be a fractal event in GW2. Apparently people wanted a less exciting alternative. And player voting was the cause of us not seeing that. Really a shame. Especially since everything surrounding both NPCs had Gnashblade set up to fail.

Lily Miranda.5407:

I think it’s good that Kiel won because of the sheer amount of hype surrounding Abbadon. I feel that the Abbadon fractal would have been a disappointment because of that hype, no matter how well done it actually was. It could be the best fractal ever and there would be people saying it didn’t live up to their expectations.

Whereas… everyone has been saying Thaumanova is boring and won’t be any good, meaning that it will very likely exceed expectations.

That’s a good point. I am hoping we eventually will get to see something related to more GW1 lore – UW, FoW, Fall of Abaddon, done right. I’m also hoping that We eventually get to see Cantha again because I think it’s pretty BS that they removed the Canthan district of Divinity’s Reach even though the Elonian one got to stay.