Guild Wars 2

Out of interest if we do not say toon what else can we say? I have said character or char sometimes, I haven’t had a problem with any confusion between char and charr so far. I have also said “char type” which worked.

Last weekend the Event got stuck always at the same place. About half way up the steps to the Temple, from memory there is a small statue, pillar or something like that there. We were able to get the group part of the way up from there by pulling mobs close to them from up the steps, they would run up to kill the thing(s) then run back at about twice normal speed to where they were stuck. At the time I did think that if the morale bar very slowly went down with time so the Event would fail. I don’t know how but at some point the Event did reset after getting stuck though.

Sometimes, over several weeks, I have noticed the Southern force stuck on the way to the Rally Point. I found them standing in the direction of Triumph Plaza instead of Hunter’s Table.

I read somewhere that someone who had that problem of the pact force getting stuck was able to pull the champ giant event mob to the pact force killing them for an Event Failed. Worth trying although I suppose you can’t pull him as far as the steps to the temple?

Wiki: Toon is a term popularized by the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit; it commonly refers to characters appearing in cartoons.

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Toon is a role-playing game in which the players take the roles of cartoon characters. It is subtitled The Cartoon Roleplaying Game. Toon was designed by Greg Costikyan and developed by Warren Spector, and first published in 1984 by Steve Jackson Games.

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I don’t think anyone mentioned “roll a new toon”. “Roll” refers to rolling dice which was done when creating a character in Dungeons and Dragons game which gave random attributes.

BTW I was using the word toon when playing the first Diablo game so it isn’t a WoW thing.

Hopefully something I just cannot find in Windows 7 settings.

Sometimes I have problems dodging because I cannot double-tab the movement key fast enough. WW to dodge roll forwards, QQ for left, etc.

Is there a setting somewhere I can change the double-tap speed setting. Hard for me to explain easily but let’s say if default gap between first and second tap of a key is 10 ms I would like to change that to 20 ms. Hope you get the idea of what I need.

I have tried different keyboards so maybe it is just me getting old or something

Thanks Kurajin. I was hoping not to have to buy two new Sigils just so I can decide if I should use it or not. From memory the Trigger is every 2s, although my life is about 24000 I am a A/H/Shout Supportish build so with my regens that will help a bit.

ATM I have whatever that one is that adds Power every kill up to a 25 stack, I think it came with the Axe and I haven’t yet decided whether to change it. As I am still fine-tuning the build maybe I will try an on-crit in the axe to see how that goes, Crits are only about 17% on the Hero Panel but if that goes up with Armour Sigils etc (haven’t decided which to use yet).

I’ll Post the build for suggestions sometime but tbh I am enjoying trying different combinations of stuff so I will hang back on that until I think I have it more or less done.

You might want to look at Racial Skills in the Wiki. Personally I don’t like the Norn (change into a bear, raven, wolf, etc) ones then again I can’t remember the others apart from the Asura circle of poison thingie.

Email: Make one only for GW2. This isn’t mine but something like fdofd7fnDFFD@gmail.com is best.

Password: Random keyboard hitting again. This sort of thing kle6dfgljKK45.

Save the password somewhere if you must. If you have to use a word or phrase include numbers and capital letters like h3ll0mIname1sbr4D “hellomynameisbrad” (no I am not called Brad but you get the idea).

I too was a healer (minstrel) in LOTRO, I found the Elementalist close-ish to what I was used to ie keeping out of the way so I don’t get hit so much. Positioning stuff like that.

I also had a warrior type in LOTRO and other games. As you have played that before try it in GW2.

If you are like me your first character will be one to figure out how to play. Warrior isn’t too bad for that and the one I chose first. Skills are easier to learn than with an Elementalist, play is not easy just different. I have to say that “dodging” is very important and I didnt get the hang of that until I played Elementalist, worth bearing in mind.

I am having great fun fine tuning my most recent build. The other day I decided to try “Superior Sigil of Blood”. My warhorn was new and needed an upgrade anyway so I put it there.

I notice that the Tooltip says "30% on Critical: Steal Life …. ". Last night it occured to me that obviously my Warhorn never Crits. Does anyone know if steal life would be triggered by a crit from my axe, maybe you have experience of what happens with other Sigils? Hard for me to tell if it is doing anything or not.

A general Warrior thing. If you dont know which stat would be best go for Power then Toughness/Vitality and you cannot go far wrong. Power is +damage, toughness/vitality is +live longer.

Been there all day, nice map. Failed maybe 6 times. Each time the floor was littered with dead bodies. Just did it, at the end maybe 3 or 4 dead bodies out of about 25 players. DPS all on the big guy.

I think on this the Wiki has the right numbers. I noticed yesterday at Jormag I was healing for about 1800 a shout. I use 3 so sometimes handing out about 5400 in a second or two, all worth comparing with the heal skill used by me and the other players while remembering my healing stat is pretty low.

Funny. Spent ages on Google and staring at the Wiki, can’t figure how I missed that thing.

/me runs to the optician

Can someone either explain here or give me a link where I can calculate how much my Healing Power Stat effects how much healing I am actually giving to my Party please? I am looking for some kind of mathematical formula I can use.

I am experimenting with an Axe/Horn build, mainly for Dungeons, but I cannot figure out what difference my Healing Stat, currently at 344, is making. I am using “Vigorous Shouts” (Shouts Heal) but I can’t calculate exactly how much I am healing for.

A few things here

- Read the Warrior Forum. You will see many builds that will help you. You won’t be able to copy the builds 100% until you can put points in all your traits but if you read comments etc you will get an idea of why they do what they do.

- Don’t go all out damage. Make sure that you have some toughness in your gear.

- Take your time and avoid anything more than one or two mobs at a time. Use that time to learn how to use your weapon(s), learn how to dodge, etc.

- One way to learn tactics is to stay with mobs at or a couple of levels below your own level, don’t rush to more difficult maps.

- Warriors are not tanks. We do take lots of damage. Never be afraid to run away and/or use a ranged weapon. Even at level 80 I have to back off and get my rifle out from time-to-time.

I play a level 80 Warrior.

The only reason I ever go back to the low level maps is the AC Dungeon. There is a defend the camp Event next to the entrance I do quite often because that is where I go to sell my trash loot, I can’t remember seeing any map level characters there so I suppose you are right in one way but at least that Event is completed every time I have seen it popup.

Map Completion makes no difference to numbers in Events. Most of us just want to get in and out of the map as quickly as possible. I completed that map days ago and I actually avoided Events just so I could get the exploration done as fast as possible, thinking about it the rewards for completing an Event there aren’t worth the effort unless they are done for the Daily Achievement but that only needs a few Events not enough for you to see any significant improvement in numbers.

I don’t think that anything can be done about numbers, in fact it will only get worse as sales of the game drop, less new players equls lower population in those low level maps. I started a new character recently and at the moment I am just trying to levelup at least enough to escape the starting map as fast as I can.

Also because there are four races that means four first maps making things even worse.

Players levelling up will stay away simply because there is nothing more than low reward Events to do.

I think rewards are the issue here. If I can get a decent amount of Karma for those Events I might go back and do them. At the moment I can get maybe 60% higher level dropd there easily but I can get those in higher level areas with very higher Karma rewards.

So, scale up the Karma Rewards. If that is done across all maps players will go back to lower level areas. Otherwise we are stuck with a few people helping friends and guildies with new characters to get to higher level areas with decent rewards.

I am British and I live in Spain.

When I go to www.guildwars2.com I am redirected to www.guildwars2.com/es , the Spanish Website. The same happens if I click on the Forum link at the top any page. I realise that is because my IP Address shows that I live in Spain.

My problem is I can find no option anywhere on either www.guildwars2.com/es or https://forum-es.gw2archive.eu/forum to change the default Website or Forum to English Language.

Can you add something so that I can change my locale or language from Spanish to English?

Events are pretty much all I do. Maybe one day I will get into fighting other players but to be honest I have always been terrible at it in other games. Dungeons are OK too but def Events are my thing. Meta Events can be great when they aren’t bugged, the Balthazar thing is my favourite.

I assumed there was one without looking, wasted open bottles for me then

Seems a logical thing to do, so many achievements are so easy to finish something like that would be very nice.

Rather than select self something like a tick in options to enable my name etc to be shown as well as others would be nice to have. That way you can see what you refer to all the time or not at all, up to you.

Something I would want to avoid is having to bind a key to select myself.

I like the idea. I would say there is a need for Dungeon Name and Minimum Level. Add a tick box against Dungeon for “Story Mode”. I see people asking for level 80s only, needs that level thing or we would still get people asking for 80s only.

The thing would also need something to make sure you get a decent mix of char types otherwise after waiting I don’t know how long you might find yourself in a group made of all Elementalist, all Warriors etc.

In the last game I played (lived in) we had something where the person had to click on one of three things more or less Tank, Healer and something else. I know we cant go tank, healer, etc but maybe Heavy, Medium, Light armour would be possible. Just trying to think of something which could be programmed in without too much work.

“Unravel a mystery of monstrous proportions in The Lost Shores, a massive one-time world event that will change Tyria forever! "

It doesn’t say new map only new Event. Anyone got a link to somewhere it says it is a map?

Trying not to get excited here!

Ignoring bugs and concentrating only on the how to complete it.

Yesterday everything was ready for Balthazar to trigger. We might have been able to do it with the numbers we had but in my opinion it could have gone either way.

I went to Lion’s Arch, Malchor’s Leap and Cursed shore to tell players that it was expected to trigger soon (Pact forces had just arrived and ready for escort no bugs yet). Some players came from the places to help.

It didn’t trigger while I was there but it seemed to me a good idea instead of just hoping there were enough on that map to do it. After all it is the people in LA etc who mostly need the open Temple. I don’t remember reading that here before.

What exactly is this bug? I keep seeing people asking where it is open but I don’t know what stops it. At the moment got people waiting for it on Desolation. Quite a few have come from other areas to help, more would be good but we don’t know whether to wait or not. North and South Forces arrived maybe 45 mins ago.

EDIT: My post was merged with this one so sorry it looks like such a stupid question. It was originally post one

A longer warning is a good idea. 30 minutes would be fine for me.

If they are talking about leaving the game because they can’t kill dragons I suggest that you send them to te Wiki, there are other things to do unless they only want to do something which can be beaten on auto-attack.

Hinterlands is always well attended on the Desolation Server. Dragons are popular of course. Straita of Devastation on the other hand is sometimes a bit low on numbers. Not sure of other maps, if you can list a few maps you like I’ll take a look for you.

The Pre-Events are really quite easy, especially when compared with the end Event. I would like to see harder Pre-Events but I think I am in a minority there

I think one problem is that Events prior to that Map are pretty easy. People arrive at the map and are not prepared for such a thing. I did that map in one day, including a succerssful try at this Event but not thanks to me because I just wasn’t expecting it to be hard at all meaning I was one of the many not to retreat and run back until someone shouted at me. The next day I was in Malchor’s Leap but I do go back to Straits of Devestation because I like the Events there.

In other words I now know what to do, most do not. Those who go to that map probably don’t go back unless they have to so there will always be a majority of people new to the Event so it will fail. People will never run back or understand what is happening.

I don’t know if others go back much like I do. Maybe if that happened instead of waiting until they need the Shards it would be completed more often.

EDIT: I have never seen it bugged. Done it many times, failed most but not because of bugs.

The Temple is open on Desolation now.

I know you asked a while ago, I just picked a random thread from the few w eget asking her

happening now on desolation. event that is, watch this space

edit – failed

wow, seems to be up again already here we go … wipe time!

failed again. maybe 10 of us was a bit lowish lol

Maybe if all those that want the thing go to same server it would be quicker than asking here?

Saying “this is my first try” is a must but you might also try YouTube. Watch it through a couple of times before your first visit and again after. I have been told “follow us and do what we do” but that teaches little.

This might help http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/interactive-maps

Including return visits for the Events I would guess in about 4 days of gameplay I have seen it done 3 times. I am sure I would have seen it done more but sometimes there are just too many people expecting a rez instead of running back from somewhere. It needs loads of hits so there really isnt time to rez 20 characters, dodge and kill it.

Just in case you didn’t know you could be 90 minutes or more waiting for it to trigger. Saturday was a good day, I think we only succeeded once but there seemed to be more people there on that day.

I am on the Desolation server.

If you decide to come over and you are a Warrior please put a horn in your pocket and the 4 key working for the run back, if you also have Signet of rage you can sprint back very quickly.

You said “choose a nice build”.

I thought my PvE build was pretty good, a Greatsword Warrior thing. I have 8 or more weapons I can use, many of those can be used in either hand. Some weapons I have never used. Now I am working on a new build, so messing with Traits, skills, armour, weapons and upgrades. Maybe when I finish that build I will go on to another.

Got quite frustrated yesterday. So many small changes then off to test what I did, more changes and so on took all day and still not happy. Struggling a bit now. I am sure it will be ages before I have it exactly how I want it.

Not so sure it is fun but I like doing it. Keeps me busy and not bored.

Just something nice about killing dragons. Big, scary things just calling out for a knight to slay them.

Maybe for some people they just want the Achievements but not me.

The loot is ok sometimes but I could get same or better by doing other things.

I do carry every type of weapon usable by a Warrior (missing the longbow, accidentaly sold).

I only have them all because I want to try different builds. For example at the moment I have played DPS but fancy having a go at something DPS plus a bit more supportive/sharing buff skills for groups mainly because IMHO if there is a lot of DPS in a Dungeon I could better serve the team by buffing them up a bit, dropping more flags than I already do and so on sacrificing a bit of my DPS.

Anyway, when I figure out which 2 or 3 builds I like I will be carrying only those things I need for those builds. A lot less stuff than I carry ATM.

The thing is who are the top contributors? The player who does the most damage, the Player who resses the most players, the Elementalist who throw out the most Heals, The Guardian who supports more than DPS.

The thing is there is more than one way to contribute to an Event not just DPS stuff. I might even stop ressing so I can get more DPS in.

If there are bugs they need to be fixed. I know it can be frustrating for everyone but if noone else wants to have a go at a Group Event why not have a go alone? You’ll probably die many times on a Group Event and fail it anyway.

Reset on all Hearts, Skill Points and Events would be good for all servers every day. Seems logical.

No guaranteed anything for these Events, they are already over attended making them so easy that they are some of the easiest events in the whoe game.

I think drops in map PvE are good as they are. So many greens just makes me smile if I get something better, especially if it something I can wear. The lowish possibility of finding something decent is morwe of an incentive than a problem to me. If I knew there was a guaranteed drop for some things again I might get bored and start thinking “can’t be bothered to revisit that dungeon it is the same every time”, dungeons are always the same giving a guranteed drop just makes them boring.

Being swamped by 10 or so mobs at the same time is not a challenge it is certain death unless you are level 80 i a level 5 part of a map.

Gathering. I thought some more and interruption is logical. A small change in my opinion. Shouldn’t be too hard to implement, it already happens if you try to commune to get a SP before killing any mobs attacking you.

The last game I played there were up to 3 levels of difficulty which worked well. I would say what we have now is all 3 levels squeezed into one dungeon.

Good idea allowing people to choose their level of difficulty.

It seems to happen more in some areas than others. Personally I don’t mind at all if the player who sends the mobs my way is running for his/her life but just running for no reason other than to complete map, get to a node or whatever is annoying.

Of course it is a game but if you think about it if a group of wolves was chasing someone else and that person managed to escape you would be attacked by the wolves on their way back to the den or whatever.

Gathering while being attacked. I have done it, started to gather then been attacked. Mostly I have finished the gathering before killing the mob. I think it should be up to the player whether or not it is worth the risk.

I think it is official forums that tend to attract “whiners” more than any other. The reason being that they want the developer to read their commets rather than players, imho.

This Forum is certainly moderated. Not long ago I posted something expressing an opinion of some players behaviour, I was hoping for some feedback not intending to “whine”. My post was deleted “Threads posted for the sake of complaining are not allowed as they do not invite constructive discussion. Please refrain from creating such post in the future”.

I hope I am not infarcting anything my posting this comment. Just trying to point out that posts do get deleted sometimes.

I will add that I have visited oficial forums for many games, these are not too bad. I remember one I stopped reading because it was nothing more than page after page of complaining with almost no posts from moderators or developers unlike here.

I like these Forums.

You mention “Orrion truffle and meat stew”. Could someone please post what that does? Would be handy

/me runs off to Google.

Nice post.

[EDIT]
FoodRequired Level: 80
Nourishment(1h,30m):
100% chance to gain might when you dodge.
+40% to your Endurance refill rate.
+10 Experience from kills

Answered my own question.

I suppose there is lower level food out there with +Endurance, worth a Google for others.

I will add that the Warrior Trait “Building Momentum” restores Endurance upon using the burst skill. If it doesn’t mess up your build too much might be worth thinking about.

Firstly I would like to say how refreshing it is to know someone from Arenanet is regulary exploring Dungeons, +1.

I could write a lot for you of my opinions but I think most of them have been said. However I do see people commenting about difficulty here, something I feel strongly about so I will limit what I say to that.

Player skill is not dependent upon level, if you play long enough you will eventually reach level 80 even if your skill at playing makes anything over a level 70 area too hard for you. I do think that Dungeons should be scalable with a minimum level, for example AC from 35-80. However please remember that some level 80s are not as good as others. I suggest scalable but include “Normal” and “Hard” modes.

I like your first post DownyTif. I have stayed away from Dungeons recently because I too had problems with most PUG groups. At the moment I only want to run AC because I would like to have that set.

I read here that there is a bug when trying to Guest between NA and EU Servers so I will not try to join you but good luck anyway.

I have a very small friends list but I did start adding those people I had a good run with to that list thinking I could message them if I fancy a run so I will be doing just that today. Worth thinking of if anyone reads this and also wants to find a group of people who suit their style of Dungeon gameplay.

Seems logical to me that Jewellery should be available as a reward for completing Dungeons as Armour and Weapons. You are right that Jewellery is as much a part of gear as other items.

Maybe because you did not do a lot of damage as a Support character? Just wondering.

I used to feel a bit let down as an Elementalist getting bronze on some Events which I assumed at the time was because I was using my healing skills more than most other things.

Some Crafting Item such as [Onyx Fragment] described in the tooltip as “Crafting Material” the same as logs etc have to be stored in the bank and cannot be stored in “Collections”.

I could be wrong but I think they are drops rather than bonuses from Gathering so I can understand that they are not exactly Collected with tools so maybe rename Collections to something else too? Minipets are also not gathered but they can be kept in “Collections”.

BTW I mentioned that I think [Onyx Fragment] is a drop. Crafting Materials come from both Gathering and Salvaging so maybe Gathered stuff was not the right word to use above.