Guild Wars 2

How about TrahEarne?

I did it with ele, guardian, ranger and engi so far and none of the fights were hard.
I also see no problems as damage out of aoe fields, lagging, bugging, … or short, any design problems with this boss.

Its all about pattern recognition. One head-out-attack, two fist-bumps, time for flaming a wall while the four rocks appear…. bombing plants, kill shadow, ….. and again. That’s all. Just try to watch out for his attack pattern and get your timing right. Although it’s easier with some classes (ele’s mist form can evade the attacks while flaming a wall without interrupting the process).

I love how people start to complain 24 hours after the patch.
How about 1 try per day? You’ll most likely have your two missing boxes within a month and it’s not that frustrating if you do other things in between, too.

I’d suggest an ele. They are a bit squishy at the beginning, but they are incredibly flexible after you’ve figured out which utility skills you have to use at specific situations. Most eles use either dagger/dagger for some high speed damage and support or satff for sike solid high DPSing (while at range – its more or less the only ranged weapon with a really high DPS).
I really love my ele main because of his infinite diversity and possibilities.

Heya!

1) Am I allowed to possess and use multiple accounts, as long as all of them belong to me?
2) Am I allowed to exchange varying sums of money and/or items between my accounts without getting in danger of looking like a goldseller or something?
3) A friend of mine recently quit playing. Is he allowed to gift his account to me or any other person, as long as no real life money is involved and he will stay away from that account forever? (so no account sharing, more of an inheritance)
4) If not, is he allowed to gift sums of money and/or items to other players, as long as no real life money is involved?
5) Is there a certain amount of gold that is okay to just gift away without getting banned as a goldseller?
6) When my girlfriend moves in and we suddenly share the same IP, is there any chance that one or both of us get banned for some reason?

Just to make sure that my long-loved account won’t get banned in any way. Thanks in advance!

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

So, no daily today. Not because I didn’t want to, but because Anet made it impossible…

Already got my daily, so it is possible. If you only have 1h of gaming (what, of course, is perfectly fine) it may be problematic, but you really can’t blame Anet for that.

Season 1 was named Flame and Frost? Wasn’t that just the first part with the Molten Alliance?

IF it’s an expansion (what, seriously, is the only logical explanation) I’m awaiting full map coverage of maguuma wastes, magus falls and woodland cascades, maybe even Janthir.
It would send wrong signs if the only expansion in three years wouldn’t even cover the size of an EotN style expansion.

Aetheldrake.6395:

Creativewild.6319:

Aetheldrake.6395:

you really want to know why they trademarked something new?

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/trailer-point-of-no-return-begins-january-13/

maybe if anybody WATCHED THIS, you’d see there is a giant mordrem rose…

and??? I don’t see the point, can you explain?

heart of thorns

giant mordrem rose

you do the figuring

Every mordrem / Mordremoth is connected with thornes. What makes you think it’s about that specific enemy? What should “Heart of Thornes” means, his name?? Oo Why should they register that? The trademark has even a logo, there’s no way it’s linked to today’s LS update in any way!

Come on, Tequatl fine/masterwork/rare chests are more or less only useless greenies, I’d prefer one single exotic chest over 10 of the lesser ones. Ground chest seems to be bugging since I often can’t loot it with an alt.

Millions of silky sand? Simply use it. Sell everything that is sellable. It’s of course really enervating how many wintersday thingies aren’t worth more than 2 copper, but so you simply throw that away. It’s not like you HAVE to keep it.
If you have many bandit crests, use them for something you need. Or just throw them away if you have everything / aren’t interested in those rare bags.

UnitedChaos.8364:

Carpace, to my knowledge, is dyable.
Luminous, to my knowledge, cannot be dyed and is forever teal.

Nope, you can dye them, even though only certain parts (the non-luminiscent ones) are influenced.

I’ll name mine “underaged” because I could tell a lot of dirty jokes about it.

edit: I hope I didn’t go too far with this one. Shame on me

You may be right. Although, I often read wall of texts from players who complain about lack of content, and when confronted with most new content added in the last 1-2 years, they state “Okay, that may be nice new content, but I don’t like it and I want new content that I can enjoy”.
They often say that jumping puzzles, WvW, fractals and co. (or the SAB, too) aren’t “real” content to get into and that they want different content.

So I’m not sure if there is really a lack of content or more of a mental state many players are in, saying that there’s a difference between added content they like and added content they don’t like. I guess there’s no right or wrong here, because it’s an individual thing to say “I’m happy with what I get” or “I’m unhappy with what I get” or “I get things, its secondary if I like it or not.”

Hey, I hope nobody already had that idea and took a try and posting it here.
I would like it if I could name my bank tabs. If you maxed them out to twelve, it can get quite confusing.

I’m not sure if it would be a complicated or expensive (on programming aspects) feature, but it would be definitely appreciated.

(I know, it’s just a “style” feature and not 100% necessary, and there are other important features that are more important, pooor guys. It would be nice nevertheless.)

I really loved HM back in GW1.

Some basic ideas how I would treat the differences in GW2:

1) Instanced maps, like in story instances. Would prevent zerging.
2) To make it harder, all normal mobs could become veterans. Or you should be forced to get there naked. Or your stats are simply decreased. No down-mode. Endless possibilities to increase the difficulty.
3) Of course there could be other tasks than “kill all mobs in the area”. I wouldnt mind that either, because I really loved to clear every map in GW1, but of course Anet could get a bit more creative, too.
4) The rewards could vary from new skins and titles to a new Rare Collection featuring rewards from all HM maps and rewarding a special price for successfully vanquishing all maps in HM, like a precursor or something.

It would be a perfect feature for me, because its not THAT hard to implement (all maps are already there, only some mob adjustment, instancing and creating rewards are necessary) and it would be finally some fun to play end game content.

PS: Maybe this could be another game feature that uses agony (resistance) to make it harder. Would make fractals and ascended armor a bit more worthy, but of course you should be able to increase your agony resistance without doing fracs.

I smell irony and guys that don’t get it.

Under the present, halfly covered.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Also, the Silverwastes has a lot of rocks and mountains in between. That’s maybe okay, but why can’t we go up there? That would be much more immersive.

I was actually quite entertained when I realized the new Jumping Puzzle there leads from a cave in the north to the outside on the big hills you already knew, leading back underground and around the whole map, until you reached an entirely new area.
I got the feeling there are two very different maps being directly beneath each other (you could jump down in a second from midway JP to the “normal” map and defend a castle there or doing stuff), I really liked that.

GscGunner.2419:

Chapters take max an hour to finish

Show me how you got a biolumiscient armor in a hour please, then.
Did the story instances, the JP, the collecting gold coins all in a hour? You must have amazing skills.
Or did you only counted the story instances? That’s like saying “I don’t like the JP, I don’t like the collections for the armor, I don’t like story instances, so the patch contains absolutely NOTHING for me and I got a play time of zero minutes, SHAME!”

I’d suggest waiting for the next LS patch. It will be the last one for Season 2, yet we haven’t killed Mordremoth (and I don’t think it will happen so fast that it will be in this last patch), so I’d say we definitely have a chance they’ll announce something big like an expansion with a ton of new maps in the direction of the maguuma wastes after this patch (possibly holding a cliff hanger).

The “LS maps” surely can’t be compared to “normal” maps since they were opened piece by piece and have definitely special mechanics that differs them from the “normal” maps (plus, no counting map completion!!). That’s due to the LS character of the maps, so I’m sure a possible expansion would hold maps that are more of your (and my) taste.

You collected the three key pieces directly behind the chest, haven’t you?

Most of you seem to forget that the ONLY remaining daily reward are 10 APs.
No newbie should bother about not getting them until he has access to every game aspect/map.

Most dailies are quite easy. Collecting a few ores/wood/plants… finding a vista… a few events in a map… the only changed thing is the WHERE, since you have a specified map / area to do it. But thats not a big problem if you have a few silvers for porting around.

And again: All former rewards are covered by the daily log in reward system. The daily achievements are only for AP!!

Well, I’m even more interested for the next patch now.

By the way, is it a dead end over there or could there be a place for a portal to another maguuma wastes area?

Its more looking like a big yellow plant.. you know, one of those who look like they got scales all over.

I’m not even sure why you’re complaining at the first or second day of the patch.
Wintersday will last for a whole month!

Lets look at the necessary achievements:
1) Spend 3 silver on ho ho tron -> no problem there
2) Spend 3 gold -> you should be able to get three gold, shouldn’t you?
3) Escort the dolyak -> a thing of 5 minutes
4) Collect presents while following him -> may take 4-5 times, but not hard and not much time consuming
5) Open X presents -> no need to pay attention to that one, you’ll get it automatically somewhen
6) Kill X toys -> do Trixx or Toypocalypse once
7) Toypocalypse 50 waves -> that’s one run plus 5 or 6 waves in a second run – all in one maybe a hour of work and not hard at all
8) Toypocalypse Dolyak surviving -> you’ll most likely get it at the first try – its actually quite easy to keep all five dolyaks alive
9) Tixx dungeon completed -> I did it solo and it actually took some time. Do it in a group of five and it will be a piece of cake
10) Tixx everything destroyed -> frustrating if you missed something, but in a way kinda funny. Do it with a group after the boss is defeated to make it easier.
11) 500 correct notes -> most of you think that’s the hardest one. Every song (6 songs per loop) maybe has ~20-25 notes. I needed 4x 6 songs (minus a few where I started midway in a loop), so less then 40 minutes.

Seriously, you have four weeks. There’s no need to freak out after two days. Play only two hours every WEEK and it’s easily doable.

I think I have a twink standing around there, so jeah, that should work

Hey, I’ve started playing GW1 around a year before GW2 came out. I kinda enjoyed the main story, but I only played solo / with heroes. I never became rich or anything and somewhen I stopped playing about 2 years ago. I now want to fill my Hall of Monuments a little more. My biggest problems are: where do I get minis? Where do I get enough money to buy me some weapons and armor (or minis) for displaying?
If you have any tips for me, it would be very appreciated. Also, of course only if you want, you can PM me if you stopped playing and want to donate something. Thanks!

Some options:

1) Do it in a group

2) Get some zerk gear (it doesn’t need to be ascended!) for situations like that

3) Switch your playing style or your main char or just redo all the story with another char

You want the enemies to have less health / less damage for a tank build?
How about tank: less health / MORE damage and zerk: more health / LESS damage? Would make more sense, because more tanky → you can take more damage than a zerker.
They can’t lower BOTH values for tanks (or rise both for zerkers) – cause that would assume that tankers are worse than zerks in every aspect and then there’s no reason to get a tank (why do you like them more btw?)

BrotherBelial.3094:

Rabe.2456:

BrotherBelial.3094:

I don’t like the skins so I’m praying I don’t get one. They’ll rob me of a drop that I could use/sell.

You can sell them now.

Then I hope I get one that sells for a good few gold.

You still can’t sell them via TP. You can just trade them in for a few bags of rubbish armor/weapons.

Got four ambrite weapons now. Just used the keys from the story instance reward + 20 bought ones.

But of course I can understand your anger. As I read the patch notes yesterday, I thought it actually meant that you can get a fossilized insect for those loot bags, and not the other way around. I was a bit confused when I saw that ingame ^^"

SkylightMoon.1980:

You could say the backpiece as well, and it is cool, but honestly I think it was added to give people something to do since it does require a lot of materials and crafting professions.

That sounds like it’s bad to have something to do… ^^"

Maybe it’s just some kind of running gag symbol without an actual connection between each appearances.
Would be kinda disappointing, but who knows…

When logging in, you need to enter the game world with anyone of your chars. You’ll see a green star in the bottom right screen corner (same place at Daily or World boss chests). Just click the star and it will say like “Episode X unlocked”.

That unlock is accountwide. But remember you need a Lv80 char to play the instances.
You can choose any chars, even non-80s, anyway. The story and achievements will be unlocked forever.

1.)
I don’t really see your point. You mean, the appearance of the Bloodstone Fen implies an addition to the accessible Maguuma areas?

2.)
Possible – now that there’s an additional area (Tangle Root) I really can’t remember how that area looks before. I only went there because of map completion and I can’t remember if that valley to the new camp was always there or if there was some path block or anything.
But general, I guess that there are a LOT of those already designed areas ingame where Anet could easily add a new area / a gate to a new region.
I don’t think that they get problems (in near future) with no space… so many “portal dummies” are already there.

3.)
You’re right, and there is many many lore left that they ckittene in the future.

In general, I’m enjoying LS2 much more than LS1, too. Of course it could be just some sort of lucky start, but I really hope/believe that they already planned the whole season 2 and that all episodes are somewhat similar in regard to story and gameplay.

Okay, I’ll try my best.

So the sword is the key to the curse. Leading to the question: Why now? I don’t see any link between Mordremoth and the current state of Ascalon…

I’m really confused… does it mean Ascalon will be freed from the ghosts?
Any lore-expert who can explain what that curse is/was? I only know some pieces of the story because I’ve never played GW1 extensively.

PS: Rytlock uses the sword from that ghost king dude, right?
That place looks a bit like a bloodstone.. or is it just some Ascalonian ruin?

Really excited :O

Lasica.5068:

When this was originally posted on Reddit it was described as the last area of the dry top map which is a possibility as it seems to seal off an area that is identical in size to Southsun Cove.

There is at least one other area (most likely added in the update after the next one), leading north from the atm accessible areas. This one is quite unfinished atm (placeholder textures etc) so I don’t think it will be added next week.

Farm in 80s maps (like Dry Top atm – many T6 crafting materials and lodestones). Don’t store the crafting materials, but sell them from time to time. It sums up quite fast to high amounts of gold.
If you want/are able to, run a few easy dungeon paths for instant extra money.

Plus, be willing to save up some gold instead of buying things you may find attractive on the first sight but not so much on the second.

Only if you assume the order of them “being activated” has a connection to their awakening (or any other connection to something, like their defeat).
As far as I remember, the order of dragons awakening would be wrong anyway, even if the green orb represents Zaithan.

DDCarvalho.2071:

Currently I support the theory that, in the Entanglement cinematic, the orb uniting into the center is Zaithan, with its energy returning to Tyria.

I just don’t see why there are so many theorys about the GREEN orb being Zaithan and the greyish one (therefore) being Mordremoth… It makes just way more sense the other way around.

Shiren.9532:

I really like that these weapons essential reward players who play the new content instead of people who simply buy everything off of the trading post. Anyone interested in the weapons has to go out into the world and earn them themselves. The fastest way to acquire one isn’t to flip gem store weapon skins or chain farm dungeons every day, you actually have to do events in Dry Top and explore the world for chests.

I’m not a fan of the heavy use of RNG involved in this, but I see this step as a very important one when it comes to how content is awarded to players. Gold shouldn’t be the be-all end-all method of acquisition and selling them on the TP would reduce these items to just that.

Exactly my thoughts… I think it would be just really perfect when they would add a mechanic like “fossilized bug drop rate increases with every opened chest until a fossilized bug is found. Drop rate resets when bug is found. 100% drop rate at 50 chests”.
Would be a perfect mix of “You have to do something for your reward” and “Not to easy, but not fully dependent on RNG”.

I’d really just keep them. Imagine they add something else to do with them the next episode what you really really want. And then you don’t find anymore of them, of course.

Attention, spoiler….

I’ve read somewhere that the seed of the Pale Tree, with other seeds, was guarded by enemy plant creatures.
So I guess that those seeds (or those Pale Trees) were in fact Mordremoth minions (his champions like those Tequatls for Zhaitan?) and the one Tree that produces the Sylvari was turned to good by Ventari and Ronan. It would explain why the Sylvari are so fragile to get sort of corrupted by Mordremoth (Scarlet, Aerin..) – even though their Pale Tree is good, they can be brought back to their original purpose – serving the dragon.

In fact, I’m a bit scared what could happen to the Pale Tree (we’re going to visit her in the next episode…) – could she also get corrupted? Would it make sense for the devs to cut off the head of an entire (playable) species? Is she going to be the new arch enemy? Well, we’ll see I guess.

PS: In which story mission do we find out about that water orb? I’ve played the whole story 3x but can’t remember.

Dikeido.8436:

Gaile Gray.6029:

EDIT TO CLARIFY:

To unlock the content, you need to enter the game world. You cannot simply log onto the character selection screen.

Ok so if I have for example have 20 character does that mean I have to login each any every one of those character to unlock it for all 20 of them or do I just need to login one character? In other words is the unlocking account bound or just character bound?

Account bound, of course :P

OmniPotentes.4817:

Let me put it this way. Once you have unlocked all keys related to the achievements which is about 15 of them, you’ll have better odds of getting a fossil then unlocking T4.

Depends… if you’re only around on organized T5 maps, you have more problems with insects than with the recipes.

Got 2 with around 15 keys. Unfortunately I selected one wrong insect, therefore I need about ~2 more now because I want to get sword, shield and mace.

Aah, mixed up millipede and centipede. Do you think it’s worth a try writing the support for an exchange?

How can we know about your hardware? I play with around 40 FPS on highest settings, what should be way enough… so it’s either a problem that occurs only sometimes, or it’s because of your hardware (maybe yours work fine for EotM, but for some reason not for Dry Top? Who knows…)