Guild Wars 2

Never played WoW cause it looked too cartoony for me.
I played Rift for a while, and they lie as often as politicians .
I tried Archeage for a year, but it is the ultimate RNG and pay to win game ever.

So…I play Guild Wars.

It really is nice outside, everyone should try it once and a while. I took this one this past weekend.

That message was added because someone died in Korea playing a video game for like 3 days straight (I do not know what game they were actually playing) If I remember correctly, they didn’t really stop to eat, drink or even go to the bathroom and collapsed and died later.

Edit: I think this is the story…I thought it was in Korea, guess it wasn’t.
http://www.gamesradar.com/man-dies-after-72-hour-gaming-binge/

There are several of these types of stories.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/man-dies-after-3-day-games-binge/1100-6424732/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175410/Teenager-dies-playing-game-40-HOURS-straight-eating.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-12541769

In other words, get up and do stuff required to live once and a while.

Ever been just standing at a crafting station and had the terrain start flashing a certain color? Different sections of terrain Just alternating flashing that color on the screen and then you see the person with some outfit and chaos gloves log in with that color. Than the terrain and character just keep making the entire screen flash until you relog.

Sometimes the entire screen turns in to a kaleidoscope triggered by certain costume/color combinations. This is the only game this happens to me.

Since there is already an option programmed in to the game (albeit for competitive only right now) to show standard character models, it shouldn’t be too difficult for them to add this to the rest of the game. It would help with both performance at the large fights, and would help with the horrible light shows that certain peoples characters create.

1. Hide other players particle effects. (Seriously, this is in every MMO for the last decade)
Boss fights are one giant FX blob at the moment.

2. Standard Player Models for PvE. It already exists for competitive, we need it for performance in PvE too.

On the first tab of options there is a section for Competitive: Standard Enemy Models.

I really wish they would make this a choice for open world as well. Partly for the obnoxious light display that turns my screen into a seizure inducing nightmare but mostly for performance issues. It would make the game run a lot smoother on my end to not have to look at everyone’s glowy, fancy stuff.

I also wish they would add the option (that has been standard in most games for more than a decade) to hide other players effects. I still do not know what most of the bosses in the game look like because of the giant FX blob.

Not really addressed at all. Go to any boss fight and it’s still just a giant effect blob. If the boss has an animation who would know. All you can see is the potentially seizure inducing light show.

The game does not have ANY settings to “hide other players particle effects”.

I miss GM’s in game where they would just permaban people for this sort of thing.

I don’t care if they think they were “protesting” or were morally right…who cares. Not everyone has all the time in the world to play. What they did was ruin an event for a lot of players. This is the sort of thing that gives people, especially newer players, a bad taste for the game. Doesn’t help that it’s an event that really requires everyone to be involved and pay attention and has a lot of mastery points tied to it.

Putting a single box of fun near an npc in a city…seems like harmless fun. Putting the obnoxious crap down that the screenshot shows is not. I hope they just start kicking the trolls out for good. It would go a long way to improving the game.

I have deleted more characters than I can remember because something about them wasn’t right…usually the name. 4 of them have been level 80’s. I actually just deleted another 80 guardian last night to replace it cause I was unhappy with the name…that and I was still mad about deleting the first guardian who was 100% map complete and I blamed the human replacement for it (totally their fault right?)

I try to stick with cultural names mostly or something that I think fits the characters purpose. My mesmer is Asura but named Crisis Averted. Not a really appropriate name for them culturally, but since my wife hates jump puzzles the character is aptly named.

I don’t want to be “that” guy, but I am suspicious of how successful the OP seems to have been during a little over 2 hours of play.

They stated if you got something like a precursor to contact customer service…beyond that, not sure what else they will “help” with.

wiredrawn.7298:

I’ve suffered tremendous mental anguish over this as I was in mid glide, I humbly ask you remove asuras from the game and mail me some phat lewtz to compensate. Thanks for the update.

I look forward to your tales of travel as you run across every map in the game to get where you want to go. Removing Asura (and all the tech that they maintain, so every form of fast travel except teleport to friend) would also remove the gates they created and the waypoints they maintain.

If you log in every day, you have a ‘chance’ at getting one each week due to the daily log in rewards (Chest of Black Lion Goods) . Which means you “could” get up to 4 a month doing nothing but logging in. However, I am not one of those lucky people like all of you above who seem to have them raining down upon you as you log in.

I log in every day even if it is just for 1 minute to take the daily chest. I have gotten 2 Black Lion Salvage Kits this year…total. The second salvage kit I got last week. (I got 3 last year) I pretty much always get bank access, trading post access or a repair canisters from the chest (at least those stack cause I have tons of each now). Since I rarely get them, I only use them to salvage expensive runes/sigils out of my own gear when I change/upgrade.

I doubt Anet will add a permanent one, but if they do it will be a low RNG one in a Black Lion Gambling Box.

Ashandar.2570:

A massive +1 on this! I wish they’d make this happen, but since there’s no legendary team they’ll never even consider it..

Seems like someone is still working on legendaries.

Matthew Pennebaker.7921:

It’s being worked on!

from this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Can-we-get-a-nicer-bow-string-for-Kudzu/first#post6292661

Started about 2 hours ago. Constantly being disconnected to the character screen. I have tested internet connectivity while the game is in it’s 30 second freeze and it’s not my internet. The only thing that happens is the game freezes then gives me a disconnect error and I’m at the character screen.

Anyone else having this problem too?

I just want them to put in the GW1 skins the way they were (copy/paste code to save time). All the weapons I put into the Hall of Monuments, I should be able to use as skins.

“Here, this is the cool bow your great, great, great, (300 years or so worth of greats) great grandfather/mother left you…go have fun.”

It’s not just nostalgia kicking in, I still think most of the GW1 skins and armor look way better than what GW2 has given us. Even their reimagined versions.

OK, technically, there is a nearly invisible line above and below our toons (see the attached screenshot I just took), I had to zoom the picture to over 200% to even realize there was anything there.

Can we get this changed to actually show in game? 1920×1080 is pretty standard, and those lines are basically non-existent at that resolution.

Jon Olson.8439:

There is already a highlight around your own tile in the squad panel.

No…there isn’t. Is it a checkbox feature that I am overlooking? If so, why is it turned off by default? People in the same instance show up as green like we are, but in no way does the game differentiate the individual player from the squad.

What most of us seem to be doing is searching the 50 player blob for our class picture, and they finding ourselves by name.

Vacheron.9870:

Complaining about this is like complaining: kitten a Ferrari is so expensive, it’s just a car, why can’t it be as expensive as a Mustang?

No, it isn’t anything like that. It is the equivalent of buying a Land Rover and then wondering why only 3 of the 4 windows go down. Then the dealership says they can add the ability to make the 4th window go down for a few thousand dollars more.

You spend time and money getting your character to look the way you want. You can choose (by checking/unchecking a box) to make 3 pieces of armor not show helping complete the look you want without sacrificing stats. But, the 4th piece of armor that could be hidden has a ridiculous RNG/expense added to it.

Played since launch:

Account 1 – 4000 hours – 0
Account 2 – 3600 hours – 0
Account 3 – 1500 hours – 0

Think Ranger and longbow…then picture Dragonhunter (given to Guardian). Careful what you wish for. They will likely end up adding a spear elite (so people can play Paragon again) and give it to Guardians as well.

Yes, it is likely that someone is benefitting from information before the rest of us get it. That isn’t going to change. They will never acknowledge it either way.

I never understood why people defend “playing” the auction house with the argument that that is how it is in real life.

Imagine going to the store to buy a new keyboard (sword, greatsword, etc. in game), because yours isn’t as good as it could be or you just want a new look. But, when you get to Best Buy they have completely sold out of every keyboard (both in store and on their website). Also, all of their suppliers have been bought out as well. (the same holds true with jeans, t-shirts, Arby’s, Domino’s, etc) So, in order to get a new keyboard, you need to go behind Best Buy to the guy that bought them all and pay him 5 times the cost of what it would have been in the store. This is what the trading post is like.

Not sure how that is “like” the real world for most things.

Finally got a screen.

I really, really hope not. I loved the stormbow skin in GW1, and, although that skin is ok looking, it is NOT the stormbow. Every time they try and “modernize” the skins for GW2, they just make them worse. I have read tons of threads over the last 4 years, and players have been asking for the original armor/weapon skins…not someone’s reimagined version.

This, imo, is the reason so many of the movie reboots fail. People liked the original. Stop trying to change things that were great already.

If you look out in front of me, you will see a couple sparkles (instapoof). That sparkle lasts maybe half a second. That is all I ever get, on every map. Even when on the map where everyone is waiting. I’ve seen the Dulfy screen that shows a nice red cloud and an animal underneath. I have never seen that. Just a fraction of a second poof.

Khisanth.2948:

Daroon.1736:

Khisanth.2948:

At least this is now “fixable” now that Levvi’s Device correctly shows whether or not a creature has been killed on a particular map. It just takes someone to organize a big enough group.

Does it really?

All I see is a tiny red cloud that you have no chance of seeing unless you are fully zoomed in, that pops up for a millisecond and then vanishes.

Perhaps the Devs thought that players would enjoy a ‘clever’ new puzzle game where players have to decode and identify the information contained in the little red cloud?

There is an animal under each cloud. Standing on some sort of cliff edge and facing out is the ideal viewing location.

Granted, my video card isn’t amazing (it’s an R9 280x), but even on max settings all I get is a single red cloud that goes instapoof. There are no animals, and the cloud lasts less than a second.

I just saw one during the last AB meta (east gate). It looked like the ley anomaly we chased around Timber Falls (and a couple other zones) only it was average human height. Vanished right as I was trying to get a screenshot.

This happens even if you haven’t harvested anything in days.

Good example is east gate of AB. There is at times an ancient sapling on the waypoint level and one lower by the door. On multiple occasions, having not harvested anything in the last 48 or more hours, will log in, see the 2 ancient saplings and have the second one become unavailable just as I finish harvesting the first.

I’ll admit it is a little disturbing that after several tries no flags were raised.

I logged in to GW1 last night just to look around, and ended up opening years of presents and putting endless gift vouchers in my storage. Other than 1 seemingly real player talking in trade, it was nothing but gold spam from tons of different sites. Seriously, they were all just named their website or Ecto Trade or crap like that. It’s nice that they left GW1 running so people can go back and get achievements (which I still can’t bring myself to do), but it has definitely been abandoned by Anet.

It’s a public relations statement. It is a nerf to bloodstone gathering (for people who were doing it on multiple characters). But, they say it in a positive way to make the average player excited about possibly getting more bloodstone.

I only gather on one toon (the one with my unlimited tools). And, despite their “positive spin” on the “increase”, have noticed I am getting less nodes (and thus less bloodstone) per day.

No idea why they didn’t add the option to “turn off other players effects”.

It is a pretty standard option in games for the last 8 years. If we were arresting zone bosses and they put them in a police lineup in Lion’s Arch, I couldn’t identify the perpetrator from any fight in GW2. It has just been one giant graphic blur.

He could always just move to a fractal where his job is still available (or he is at least wanted).

I’m guessing the OP is going for innuendo…and thought we would be amused by replying as if we were Beavis and Butthead.

If not…I don’t get it.

SimBilly.8047:

The Ele nerf, on the other hand…

was needed.

Looking forward to trying the new stuff later tonight.

It’s funny to read this thread compared to the multimap AB thread.

People on this thread don’t want anything changed cause they don’t want to lose the value of mats they have stored/or have increased supply cut into their profit.

People in the AB thread don’t want it nerfed cause it isn’t affecting anyone (their argument) or their gameplay so they say why should it be changed. Funny, cause if someone had previously stockpiled ecto, they have currenty lost more than 20% of the value of that due to the AB farm, and the price of ecto is still trending down.

Move along…Move along.
or
Just Passing Through.

They really should rename the skill though. I think the only time it’s on someone’s bar is when they are just running past mobs, and hoping to not fight anything.

What’s funny, is people used to teleport past the entry circle and retain their class/skills and kill the dogs that way to get the achieve. The devs actually want us to die endlessly doing this achieve, cause they changed it so that the dogs don’t spawn until you change into a bunny, and there is no way into the room without transforming now.

This really is horribly designed, not a “challenge” just a tedious, attack, die, res, repeat festival.

It’s not pants, but I think it looks pretty good.

There are tons of things that can be done as guild activities.
Meta events
RP events
Kill a dragon or two.

If you’re not quite to raiding yet, you could still likely get enough people to go in and give it a go, and maybe you get lucky and get a kill. But, to make it fun you could always do a “last man standing” gets “X” reward while in there (or any other type of challenge).

Naked races across Tangled Depths using nothing but dodge…etc.

The game doesn’t have to provide extra rewards for things to be guild activities. You just have to make it interesting. If you do a guild lottery, instead of just drawing names for everything, you could set up different types of challenges each week for 1 or 2 items. JP races or best armor/dye combination (guild could vote in the guild hall…this is fashion wars after all).

Just be creative.

Ascended gear is already acct bound. There really is no reason to keep the rest soulbound.

If Anet intended for people to get 20+ grand chests every octovine event, they would have put that many chests on one map. The multimap is clearly creative use of game mechanics and should be patched.

My thought is that they will likely try to make it so you can’t join a completed map till the timer runs out like in DS, preventing the excessive looting.

I’ve seen requests like this in previous games, and it usually is a person who streams or uploads PvP videos but doesn’t want everyone to see that they have everything macro’d on 1 to 3 keys.

Most guild functions have been changed since HoT came out.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Guild_upgrades

I would read through a lot of this. I know you need the expansion to use a lot of guild functions…and, certain things like claiming camps require minimum guild levels.

Not sure if you’re totally screwed, but I would read some of the wiki.

Since this is where the stole the idea for more than half the backpieces in the game, we might as well get the armor too.

Now, if we could cash in Huggies and Pampers rewards for gems or something…that would be great. Otherwise…no.

Sooo many diaper changes…sooo many.

Maybe when the toddler learns to play I can get her to farm me some mats…maybe.

slashlizardy.9167:

Yvw! Thanks for that post Sarnax. Yeah, I’m not sure how those titles would be attained. The way they are worded, they could be obtained through playstyle or through what sounds like, maybe from wearing leggie armors.

My guess would be those are tied to legendary armor and not the weapons.
Of course, I say that now, and later we’ll find out they are a gem store item. “Can be purchased for 800 gems if you are wearing X number of legendary armor pieces.”

SAB – retro gaming adventure brought to you by an Asura (in Rata Sum)

Wintersday – gift giving holiday brought to you by an Asura (now only in Divinity’s Reach)

I look forward to future events in other cities created by your overlords…the Asura.

P.S. Don’t forget to thank your overlords daily for their travel gates and maintaining of the fast travel waypoints.

Even the wiki says the skill does 25% more than it should. (bug) They already have our money for HoT, so this is likely never going to change. They will, however, have new gem store items within 2 weeks.

You have to go to the actual TP vendor. The UI interact is just for information and to purchase.

If it shows no gold to pick up, the buyer likely used gold from a RMT seller and Anet reclaimed the gold before you could collect it. Nothing we can do for you. Contact customer service but they have been less then helpful for these.

It was per character in GW1, and is that way in 2. I would prefer it stay per character.

This must be a new thing, perhaps related to the new quests. I have done more map completions then I know what to do with, and it was never like this. Wasn’t like this 2 weeks ago.