Guild Wars 2

It just seems like tracking a 16 hour cycle for every tree in the game on every server seemslike a ppoor use of server resources. Wouldn’t just adding a bigger tree version thatis the eequivalent of a rich vein work easier?

Thanks hadn’t thought of that. Do you see any issue with copying mine to an external deive and then copying it to her comp? Or should I pay it safe and stick to hers?

Alright thanks. As for top at that was supposed to be top out at. Ie what is your max.

But nope def have a 10 megabit atm and no matter if we are both on our just one we cap out at 1.4

Just struck me as odd. Having to redownload sucks and becuase her comp is prone to fits of freezing that pop up and we have never figured out why. It just takes a while to do it every month or so becuase the repair kicks in and forces a complete dl

Am moving soon and the new place will have faster internet. Was wondering if waiting would let it dl faster

That could be it. Only thing is we can both patch concurrent at the same 1.4

That’s what got me wondering if it was limited

Behellagh what do you top at in the gw2 launcher?

During a recent patch my wife’s computer froze, trying to re download the game. Hoawever the download caps around 1.4 I am curious if this is my end or anets. Speed test show my Max at 10x this

The downside is this is not the first time I have had to redownload the game due to her comp freaking out. I have an opportunity to upgrade my internet speed but am debating the cost. Would I see her game reinstslled faster or is it capped on anets end

Holy Whirlwind.2067:

I like this thread. Here are my “votes” to the above, or new names.

Karka - I like Rumble, but a what about a Bowling of Karka (cause I feel like a pin when I get hit by one)
Griffon - a Pride of Griffon (Lions)
Unicorn - I like a Rainbow of unicorn (just like the legendary shortbow) alternative mix Narwhal and horse together (pod and herd) to get a “Perd of Unicron”. I believe the current standard however, is a Blessing of Unicorn
Quaggan- a Qoo of Quaggan
Harpy- a Seige of Harpy (Anyone who plays fractals knows what their arrows do, and this is a bird plural) but flock fits any bird type
Skelk - an Appearence of skelk (since the just teleport to you)
Krait - a Slither of Krait
Dragons - what is more bad-kitten than a Guild of Dragons (this is Guild Wars after all)

I like the siege of harpies. Traditionally cranes if I remember right but seems apt here. Thank you for liking the qoo of quaggan, my secret hope is some designer sneaks that into some corner of the game in some event.

Curious would it be qoo all the time or just thier docile state. Would a group of raged out quaggan be called something else? Perhaps a rage or an ire of quaggan?

Alleluia.1320:

Getefix.9150:

(by the way, its a thunder of dragons and a rainbow of unicorns)

A glory of unicorns sounds better. Going with that. :P (#covillefan)

Swarm sounds accurate for karka.

Or a faceroll. You know, cus of the rolling?

Glory sounds good. I always heard talon or wing for dragons.

Lonami.2987:

They’re called swarm during Lost Shores, so there you have.

Source: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Lost_Shores/Phase_1/Dialogues#Dialogue_with_Pastkeeper_Saballa

Plausable but are they using swarm generically or is it the proper name of a group of karka. Many animals can swarm but a group of them is called something else.

But thank you all keep it up. What other species? Any thoughts on a group of murellow? They look like a dog mole mix and are classified as bears according to the wiki. Do we us pack from dogs or a labor from moles or even go the bear route and use sleuth? Or do give them something new?

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Blazing Rathalos.1904:

Well, according to Wode, it’s a “murder” of harpies.

That’s because they are bird-like creatures. Because you would also say “a murder of crows”.

True but its an unkindness of ravens

I like the kark of karka, amusing. I had been thinking a Rumble myself as well.

I do believe gryphons are a pride.

A moist or cuddle of quaggan? He he ok sounds alright. Surprised no one said a qoo of quaggan

after a discussion at work about the names of various groups of animals, like crash of rhinos or murder of crows, I became curious as to the names for various gw2 unique species. To me that would be half the fun of creating a new species would be naming it and what the plural and group is called as much as it’s physical appearance.

So if a member of the lore team could give us official answers so much the better, until then I figure we could try for a consensus on various species that are unique or semi unique to gw2.

Example a group of humans would be a mob or crowd but a group of norn could be called a boast. But back to the karka, I am putting forward a group of karka is called a brood or maybe a screech.

Thoughts? How about other species?

I love the reductions of cheaters in pve. The bots are near non existant anymore. I dont play spvp enough to tell a dif but im sure the is some. Wvw sees less walking thru walls now but could we see about getting some devs/gms to lurk in wvw more? There is a rash of quirky ac behavior lately.

Things like in Hills an ac built well South of the Lord room on that porch running around it. The ac doesn’t even have line of sight on the door yet there is aoe arrows hitting every inch of the room dropping centered on things you cant even see from out side the room. Or acs placed outside a shield wall on a keep that then procedes to target everything along the top of the wall and then everything on the far side of the wall. Or acs placed at the ne tower just sw of the last switch bback to the lords pavilion that procedes to clear the entire top of that mesa of seige and manages to target dead center of the claimers room.

It just would be nice to know there are people lurking and improving the detection of these odd behaviors. especially when you see a person with a very high wvw rank take over the ac and then it feels like there is nothing it can’t touch

Very least give us a few more catagories when reporting that fit better, I often wonder if reporting as a bot is even worthwhile, or if they will only check for x y and z when we do and miss the odd ac targeting.

There is I set mine as L

Even if they are on the same level as other pets if they do something new or different it falls under a potential pay to win if it come only from the gem store.

It doesn’t have to be more powerful to fall into paytowin item and thus against anet stated intentions

I came up with this idea in a more Ranger pets thread. But it would easily apply to all classes and potentially beyond too.

The idea is to seed npcs thru high level zones for new content/skill acquisition. Each npc would offer a challenge similar to current skill point challenges, but with a few distinctions.

1 the npc would teach you a new elite skill. This skill would be class specific, race specific, or generic for everyone. Beating the challenge would unlock the skill and let you purchase it for skill points (or be like mistwolf and free once unlocked dev balance tests would determine)
2 accepting the challenge would transport you to a private instance. Fully solo. This is to prevent zerg completions or piggybackers who come in and tag the challenge after you have soloed it to gain completion at no effort. Would also allow challenges to be fine tuned and made to feel like a learning experiance based around how the new skill works.

These type of challenges could start of small adding a generic elite here and there, as wellas ffold into potential expansions. They would also add a low bases for why you character hasn’t had access to that skill since day one of the game. Especially with Living story the potental is there for events and npcs to give rise to new skills.

Due to the mission like nature these would obviously take more time to build and would not be surprised to see only generic elites added at first. Classes would require 8 seperate missions and more likely to go into expansion scope. Race based would onlt be 5 still hefty but possible for the free updates even if unlikely.

As mentioned earlier I came up with this talking about ranger pets, possible new class elites could be for rangers a skill that gives you a new pet who would effectively have two f2 skills, the normal one and the elite after its called out.
Engies could be some new tech introduced ti the world. Etc

Anyway hope you like the idea as a good way to add skills and explain why you didn’t know that skill before.

Pay to win. Even with currency conversion this is too close to a pay to win scenario. Only way it would work would be like the white raven. Idenical but different skin.

Paying for cosmetic pet change yes. Paying for stronger pet type no

If an ogre can have things as pets why can’t I? So want a rock dog.

Thing is giving new pet types unique f2 skills and fitting them into existing traits.

Would love to see elite pets. Uber strong pets attatched to an elite skill (think flesh golem) that replace you currently deployed pet. The pet itself could be on par with other pets but once deployed the elite skill would offer another ability. Esentially functioning like another f2 skill. Could allow for some non typical pets that may be conisdered too strong otherwise.

This would also be great for if they added more elite skills in game for each class that involved elite skill challenges. Perhaps something instanced and personal to aquire. Thus they could add new racial, class, and generic elites to the game over time in high lvl zones. Complete the challenge to unlock the skill and use skill points to aquire.

But this would be a good way to introduce new pets beyond a new area like cantha or other expansion sized additions

Well you need a unique class mechanic before anything. You can theme skills any which way, but its that class mechanic that touches on every build. Worry about that not beinga reskinned version of an existing mechanic. After you have that you can worry about the themeing

You just swim quickly in a direction. No rolls or anything to make it more distinctive. But it is there

You just have to try various times. Anet has commented full is designated at times of high concurrency. Try waiting til fewer people are on for a better chance

From colin

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Rewards-from-TOTAL-Achievement-Points/first#post2101276

nofatchicks.1369:

I was really surprised when they dropped Guild Halls in GW2. They were so convenient when you were trying to meet up with your guild members, stopping for supplies, or just sightseeing. Seeing as how they improved everything else in this game, and made everything so much bigger and involving, this would be perfect! I would definitely join a guild if this became a factor. Right now I just really don’t see the point.

Funny if you played gw1 from the beginning you would remember that guild halls came after the initial release. Just like they are coming in this game

Gotta say those main hand for engie sound more like thief

1 sonic crack – hyper accelerate your whip to create a sonic assault. Range 600
2 gadgets reach – pull enemy in close. Strike with the butt of the whip to daze
3 digeredoo – spin the whip rapidly above your head. Dmg enemies in close range. Apply confusion ti those within 600. Whirl finisher

Is not kind of bloodstone. Check the lore.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bloodstone

When it comes to presenting a compelling agruement for something, it’s usually better to anticipate the holes in your ideas and the counter agruements that others could make as to why you idea wouldn’t work. Ignoring it actually weakens your idea.

If you want anet to consider an idea and others to support it

Its not like you would go to your boss and say"i have a great idea keys do X" you boss says we can’t do that because of a b and c. You can’t come back with yeah I thought of that but decided to ignore it. You boss expects you to have a plan beyond this would be cool/nice

I said nothing about my mother. Now Jung on the other hand. …

If you are playing that much in a day you may need to seek something to do beyond gw2 14 hours or more a day

I have been watching too much soul Eater. I could see how a scythe could be wielded for combat.

The real question becomes if you add scythe does that mean final rest and scythe would no longer be staves and break a lot of people’s characters that have one of those skins?

Attaching things to leap finishers shouldn’t be too far outta the realm of possibility.

But I would love to see the sclerite tentacles go limp and droop when you don’t have your weapons drawn undulatingslowly like now. And then when in combat stance they are out and thrashing. Would be awesome

Sadly its in game and craft able but isnt a staff. Its a trident. Godskull weapon

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Godskull_Trihorn

While not exactly like the concept is close

I vote for an asura made blueish box that is bigger on the inside. We have seen it in the SAB. Another enterprising asura could appropriate that tech and use it to start up a lucrative business of creating customish gathering places for guilds, councils, peace treaties. Choose from 5 themed layouts and choose from 7 amazing color schemes. Enjoy you hall.

Warning the space is known to rarely glitch and aspects of its original programming may leak thru. These claims of digital monkeys, rabbits and more are pure slander and have never been proven

LieutenantDan.5149:

Garuna.1593:

I would like to change the color of my mesmer skills, could add this to the gem store, Arena net does not know how to earn money = p

The only problem is it could make it unfair for sPvP and/or WvW players. Since every class has a different color for skills (Blue is Guardian, Purple is Mesmer, Green is Ranger, Orange is Warrior, etc) it makes it easier to identify which class is which. Changing that would make it unfair in sPvP or WvW because you could “fake” your class. People do it all the time with transmuting the starting armor.

Maybe but if it’s total conversion designed by anet and not open to any dye tHey could control the shades. Necro blue would be a different shade then Guardian blue. Perhaps duller and darker more a wraith blue over guardian spirit blue.

As for faking classes I know I have my necro decked out and what could be called mesmer gear because I wanted more of a voodoo baron look. If additional color schemes are offered they would be a hand full per class and designed by the devs to retain distinctness.

Besides it could be agrued that colorblind players already have to use the actual spell effects over the color to identify a class. This would just level the playing field

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lore

And the bottom of the page has links to every story so far, as does every other Lore relayed page

It has been said sab will come back eventually. Just hold on to it.

The higher the map the fewer the waypoints. Look at orr or southsun. I expect as more zones are added you will find these safe havens to be sparse or contested often

Anet has already said its coming be patient

Try different times especially off peak. Its stated by anet thakittens about server concurrency to determine full or not.

Starting on a us holiday weekend is gonna be harder. More people on

And if you leave a guild? Or belong to several? Or none? Too many headaches to tie player houses to Guild halls

Banks pay interest because they arein the business of buying and selling money. A rale bank takes the money you deposits and they play the market. They pay you interest for the privilege of doing so.

In game the bank is more the real life equivalent of burying you cash in a coffee can in the back yard.

Until ingame starts using deposited cash to its own ends you need to think of it as a stashnot a bank

Would be a nice cosmetic would prefer it to be on say have 6k total achievement points than the gem store. But either way.

Acknowledged is low priority but still a fun thing to make us more unique snowflakes.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Teraphas.6210:

Necro whip main hand
1 scourge – dmg and bleed target extra damage if you attack from behind
2 false penance – flog yourself to gain might and fury small chance of inflicting fear on nearby enemies
3 hangman’s noose – channel dark energy thru the whip to immobilize and damage your foe (maybe the new condie depending on its final theming)

Excellent suggestions, I particularly like the self-flogging… it would be difficult to do with an 8 foot bullwhip, but it is very creative and befitting of a necromancer…

Well technically you wouldn’t need to use the full length just grab a length or use it while it’s coiled

There has been a few suggestions like it this. Most tend to involve flying vehicles/mounts operating as unit/classes operating on a map made specifically for them and not letting them lose in the world at large.

Just like the snowball battle during winter’s day festival

Omg A Hotpocket.7683:

I think they’ll probably do it. We’ll find out in a couple of months anyway. If there isn’t some sort of birthday present then that’ll be really disappointing.

What’d be even better if they made the gifts based on how old your account is rather than how old your characters are. For every character slot you have, that’s another present you get. I may be biased though since I only have one character I made within a month of launch and the rest were made anywhere from 3 months ago to a week ago =/

EDIT: Oh, and keep the presents to minis.

And that’s why I made all my characters in the first days of the game even if I didn’t play them till later. Banking on them doing birthdays again.

Crab toss challange really isn’t hard. If you failed that fast your designated runner screwed up.
My guild has run that one numerous times. If you can’t last till the big Karka show up you need to rethink who you have holding.

In fact last time we ran that one we failed Because one person didn’t listen and clear the area around the runner and the new runner. They ended up intercepting the crab, freaked out and weapon swapped dropping the crab for the fail.

They are supposed to be challenges, don’t get upset. If you had really researched like you said you would have had more challenges already queued up just incase. No matter the challenge you should have more ready. In fact if your Guild had just started them yet running multiple a week. Even if you don’t get merits or commendations the learning of the different challenges is worthwhile

Only part I worry about is the gear check people. Even if they don’t nessicarily increase in numbers with inspects/armory added, they do gain a tool to judge others extremely easy. With the addition of such a feature there would be a larger outcry of people getting kicked when forming groups ‘for no reason’

And it will all be becuase gear checkers would just boot people after inspecting with likely not saying a word.

Frankly for the effort needed to implement something like that I don’t think it’s worth the potential damage to the community that they trying to Foster. The dev resources would be better used elsewhere.

Simply put inspects lead to elitest griefing.

Oh the recieve plenty of money. If they didn’t you wouldn’t be able to buy gems with gold.

The gems available for gold is a finite resource. If players don’t buy gems with real cash and exchange it for gold there is none for you to buy. so every gem in game has real cash behind it.

And no gems people buy and directly buy things do not end up for you to buy with gold. Once gems are used to buy stuff they cease to be. The gold/gem exchange is purely player driven

My bad rereading it for the 5th time I finally registered the on hit part. Had been registering the always on part and was seeing the every x seconds as a pulse like a well or symbol. Not as an internal cooldown.

That being said why even have a full cooldown? In fights you will still end up in the loops as you will likely get hit each time the icd is up. Meaning that after 50 to 60 seconds of buffs you will have 60 seconds of nothing. Would be better to adjust the icd for each to balance than worry about number of charges vs downtime. Especially as you can only have one at a time. That aso makes little sense to have the auras as both class mech and skills.

Too me if now seems even clunkier than I originally perceived. Los of timers and counters to watch. Goes against the design philosophy of playing the game not the interface.

Take you movement ward.

As is it would grant you 3 seconds of swifness every 5 seconds for 50 seconds. It would then shut off for 60 seconds. Then start over again. There would be no holding it. It would trigger for 50 seconds straight. You would be stuck in a 110 second loop that never ends.

Add to it that your movement speed when it is up would be in flux could lead to motion sickness with the rapid swings in speed

The thing is the game considers you an ally so any that grant bonds would just cycle straight thru

So confused are wards the class mechanic or just heal/utility skills? They seem to make more sense as utilies.

Not sure you need charges as it sounds like the pulse so you just need the duration and pulse times.

If its a class mechanic am I right in interpreting it as one ward that changes with the wespon equiped that you have off most of the time popping when you get incombat hoping it doesn’t run out before combat ends or face a hefty cooldown. Seems a bit off potentially either weak or overpowered if the duration power or duratiin isn’t just right

Necro whip main hand
1 scourge – dmg and bleed target extra damage if you attack from behind
2 false penance – flog yourself to gain might and fury small chance of inflicting fear on nearby enemies
3 hangman’s noose – channel dark energy thru the whip to immobilize and damage your foe (maybe the new condie depending on its final theming)