Guild Wars 2

“Elite specializations allow you to evolve your existing level 80 characters by training the ability to use a new weapon,…”
http://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/game/specializations

No, the elite specs are HoT exclusive.

No, you need to be level 80.

Chapters were unlocked for free if you logged in during a 2 week window after the release of each chapter.
If you didn’t play during that time, then yes you need to unlock them with gems.

Berserker if I remember correctly.

According to the HoT website there will be two new armor sets with unique looks for light, medium, and heavy armor.

That is not possible.

Notsoperky.4291:

Just a guess, raid size will be 50.

Raid size is 10.

Kirschsahne.2081:

Odin of Ark.4860:

Pretty much, dungeons still clear too fast for a druid to be effective with heals.

I would say it’s the opposite.
Finally you have the chance to play the dungeons as intended.

As intended?
The dungeons were designed with no trinity in mind.
GW2 was advertised as having no hard trinity of dd, healer and tank.

No

More information would probably be helpful.
I haven’t had any crashes in WvW in the last few months and there doesn’t seem to be many complaints about it in this subforum.

It is just another traitline.
You can switch it out of combat without problems.

Why?

I bought the physical version at Amazon and got the extra character slot.

An additional character slot.

Rauderi.8706:

/yawn
Welcome to “statistics” and outliers.
If I had infinite money and time, I could just Agent of Entropy grind my way to the top of the leader boards. But there’s no amount of time or money to make that worth it.

Agent of Entropy is capped at 250 ap.

The game crashes due to an out of memory error.
@BlackRose : Change your OS to 64bit and build more ram in your pc. You barely reach the minimum requirements. Meanwhile you should reduce the graphics and don´t run other programmes while you play.
@Soulistice : Deactivate High-Res Character Textures and set Character Model Limit to Lowest. Restarting the client occasionally should also help to prevent those crashes.

Tyler Bearce.3427:

For Heart of Thorns, we are rebalancing the WvW Lifetime achievement requirements to much more reasonable numbers. At the same time we’ll also be updating many of their associated titles.

• We are not changing the Realm Avenger (“Ultimate Dominator”) achievement requirements or title, as some players have actually obtained it and it’s a bit of a status symbol.
• The “Yakslapper” title will remain, but the requirement is being reduced to 2500 yaks.
• As an example title change: “Ultimate Liberator” will become “Kingmaker”

The crafting subforum as well as several others were archived a few months ago.
No one can post there anymore.

simplesimon.2084:

Good to hear you figured it out. If your friend wants to transfer for free he can by deleting all his characters. Just have him put and non-soulbound gear in the bank and make sure the server he wants isn’t full.

That doesn’t work for ftp accounts.

Deactivate High-Res Character Textures and set Character Model Limit to Lowest.
If it still crashes you could also restart the client before such an event.

If I remember correctly we already had the same kind of event with Scarlet’s invasions.
Therefore I don’t think it is a stress test.

Yes, 24 hours after deleting the character.

It is not appearing in the combat log but otherwise it seems to work.

Zerker P/D build for WvW roaming.
Weaker than the meta D/P builds but it works reasonably well for me.

Did you write down the code you needed to configure the authenticator?
If so you can just install the authenticator and use that code again.
If not if you still have access to the files on your old computer you can copy this file
c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\WinAuth\winauth.xml
to your new pc and import it into the authenticator.
If all this is not possible you need to contact support to remove the authenticator.

Why should it be removed? Has there been any indication for that?

“LIVING WORLD

Of course, the story of Tyria will continue beyond the launch of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns.

If you own the expansion, you’ll be able to simply log in to the game to gain free access to upcoming Living World releases!"

http://heartofthorns.guildwars2.com/game/maguuma

Can’t reproduce on the golems in hotm.
Even when both sigils proc on hunter’s shot I get stealth.

No.

Once Pulmonary is on your target, it will ignore blind, evade, block, even range. The ways to really not take the hit will be through invulnerability, damage inversion (ala Defiant Stance), or damage reduction (protection, Endure Pain).
You could technically land a Pulmonary and if you’re quick enough, activate Basilisk Venom for an unblockable/evadeable stun when it pops… Or use your dodge with Evasive Empowerment to increase the damage.

How would this be more fun?

Try .wpl for the playlist. That is what works for me.

For clarification:
“No – what I said is we won’t be adding an auto-raid party creator that you just queue and it throws you in a group (raid finder).

Or at least, I think that’s what Larry was asking if we were doing, possible I misunderstood"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3j4313/pax_prime_2015_guild_wars_2_is_never_getting_a/cum3nzk

No.
The price would be the same -according to Anet- whether it contained the core game or not.
Veteran players get an extra character slot.

Could you post the playlist you are using?

You can just create the folder.

No. I don’t want to lose Shadow Strike on P/D.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Over the last week we have seen an increased fraud purchase attempt rate for our Heart of Thorns Ultimate edition. Because of this increased fraudulent attempt rate, gem delivery for Heart of Thorns Ultimate may be delayed up to 72 hours after purchase.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/72-hours-to-get-my-gems/first#post5376579

witcher.3197:

Nope, it’s purely cosmetical. On the other hand you have to equip items for the Chest, leg and Boot slots for max armor rating – these can be lvl 1 white items too without stat, you just have to have something in those slots.

There is a PvP build menu on the middle top of your screen while in the Heart of the Mists, you can set your stats there in form of an amulet, along with runes, sigils etc.

Yes.

araskell.9018:

As far as I understand the fp2 account, is that if you level your character to 60, you unlock WvW. I’m fine with that, but you can delete that character and then freely switch servers, make a lvl 1 char and then troll in WvW.
This is my main issue with it. Maybe make the WvW unlock character bound so people can’t do what I just described.
So I’m ablosute fine with restricting fp2 accounts to EotM, so they can’t troll/spy in the regular WvW BLs.

Apparently server transfer is not possible for f2p accounts.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/New-Free-Account-Hidden-Limitations/first#post5435283

Joviti.2410:

I’ve read that with the free account a player will have access to WvW at level 60, will that include the new maps for WvW and content associated with WvW?

At the moment yes.

Character names will be reserved for reuse for 24 hours after deleting a character.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

They send the outfits in batches. Some people get them now, some tomorrow, etc. I don’t know if there’s any specific pattern to it, though.

Zachary Stiers.1879:

The change I mentioned previously is multi-part. The change that makes all arrow carts use line-of-sight did indeed go out today, but the second part about the arrow cart line-of-sight checks being too forgiving was not part of today’s build. The changes to the way arrow cart line-of-sight is calculated is set for an upcoming patch.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Fix-the-AC-Exploit-now/page/3#post5403462

According to other threads it is Friday.

Ascii Red.4029:

From the official ANet Raid blog – "Raids will also tie into our new, advanced Mastery system of progression. "

Its hypocritical to say levels and gear are not being incresed so this means content is not being invalidated and at the same time introduce an entirely new system of progression.

Lightbringer was a single skill, masteries are much much more.

They have no influence on old content so how is it invalidated through the masteries?

False.
Veteran players get an extra character slot.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

They send the outfits in batches. Some people get them now, some tomorrow, etc. I don’t know if there’s any specific pattern to it, though.

Mist Form, Elixir S, Distortion, Stability and Teleport