Guild Wars 2

Something similar is going on with the sound in general, because I’ve been noticing that all sound will randomly cut out for random periods of time (generally during combat).

This includes all sound: music, effects, vocals, etc. Hopefully it’ll all be part of the same fix.

As long as the invasions don’t prevent a player from doing map completion, I don’t know why anyone would care that they’re there. The invasion will end up being similar to any other random event that you can either participate in or ignore.

Heck, if the loot remains as good as it is right now, it could be the first viable meta event ANet has added since launch, where people continue to farm it after the initial LS segment ends.

Faranox.4217:

Khunvyel.3972:

I wouldn’t mind it be changed to “set character to 20 if below 20” with the addition of; “if 20+, you get +5 levels”. I find +20 unconditional levels too excessive. +5 is okay.

Why do you feel it’s excessive?

I can’t speak for Khunvyel, but I think 20 levels is excessive because there are far too many ways to level to 80 without actually learning the character. So, we end up with players who have no clue how to play their level 80 effectively.

I do like Drakkon’s idea of just making it award a set amount of exp. I’d actually suggested the same thing in an older thread.

I gather pretty much everything I see, but I don’t craft very often (not much reason to atm). That means when I do need to craft something, I generally have everything I need, with the exception of the exceptionally rare stuff like lodestones.

Unfortunately, selling materials has been far more lucrative for me than selling finished products. Occasionally finding spots to farm materials that are rare on the TP is a fun part of exploring.

I just make sure I have 250 of the material (and its processed equivalent, like planks) in my bank before I start selling extras.

Hmm…Inflation posts (read: arguments) are becoming as common and ‘meaningful’ as OMG (insert class) OP PLZ NERF or NEED MOUNTZ NAO.

Honestly, my game client has crashed so many times due to lag during the Scarlet fight that I really really hope they don’t implement this idea. DC’ing at the very end of the 45 minutes would completely rob the player of the entirety of their meaningful loot, and with an entire map’s population of players in one fight, DC’ing is all too common.

If farmers want to farm champs, they should gravitate toward the minion events, which count enemies killed (and it seems like champs are given more weight than normal mobs) rather than number of events completed.

Aetherblade and Molten Alliance events are the opposite, where you want to complete as many of the events as possible, so people who are going for the event completion can focus on those.

Obviously, once their respective bars are completed, everyone should focus on whatever’s left, as everyone benefits from more loot if you actually defeat Scarlet.

There is a legitimate path (you’re not exploiting anything) you can take that prevents having to fight anything other than Scarlet’s first 8 minions (when you’re saving Lord Faren) and Scarlet herself. Makes the dungeon take about 10 minutes.

It’s probably not the most fulfilling way to complete the dungeon, but if you’re just looking for the achievement, it is the most efficient.

24 hours is awesome. Hopefully they can add that to the tooltip.

Josh Davis.6015:

Another question: For those that aren’t receiving credit, did you disconnect or swap characters during the event?

No. I’ve been present for three entire invasions since Vorpp’s achievement last updated to 4/5 (seven invasions total since I received the communicator). I received the reward for all seven, but only four updated the achievement. That is not counting an eighth invasion where my game did lag so badly that the client crashed during the Scarlet fight.

“Portal Invasion Closer” and “Invasion Canceller” are two different achievements, Mormegil.

“Portal Invasion Closer” supposedly does not require five distinct maps, whereas “Invasion Canceller” requires all 13 separate maps.

Dustfinger.9510:

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bad idea. Only promotes elitism from people who don’t know the difference between “viable” and “optimal”.

Dustfinger hit the nail on the head.

Kjeldoran.3849:

An elementalist with rifle? o.o

An Elementalist sharpshooter? Now THAT would be dreaming outside the bounds of class stereotypes!

I would love if achievements like Thirst Slayer would give humorous titles like Drunkard (GW throwback, too) and maybe All You Can Eat’s title would be Glutton.

There are lots of achievements that have good possibilities for titles.

Yes, these invasions are mind-numbingly boring, and disappointingly have no effect whatsoever on the game world.

Crafting is not intuitive at all. Because most of it is based around the discovery system, you could easily craft stacks of random pieces before you figure out what will actually help you level.

In addition to that, I’ve explained crafting to several people who didn’t understand what the discovery panel was. One of them thought it was another mystic forge, which is a relatively reasonable conclusion, considering there’s no explanation in-game as to how it works.

Or, you can see if anyone you know is in an overflow with the event going on. Join their party, and try to join them in their overflow.

It works more often than you might expect.

In the new invasions, the number of green names blocks just about anything from view. It’s a good thing the Captain mobs are 2x as tall, because that’s the only way I know where they are. Everything else is relying on auto-targeting.

The other reason to put lvl 50 greens into the forge is that some of the mid-level rares sell for 3-5x what a lvl 70-80 rare does.

GW2Spidy lvl30-50 rare armor

Esplen.3940:

Xhyros.1340:

Evans.6347:

I’ve considered it. The twisted seem to be the missing link, the product of golemancy and necromancy. They seem to be built with the idea of making more of themselves out of dead allies. The step to building more out of dead creatures is close at hand.

Wasn’t there some asuran skill point that talked about the inevitable combination of necromancy and golemancy?

“Necromancy and golemancy have long been destined to collide. One deals with death, and the other, life. I’m on the verge of creating a new kind of golem that creates life from death.” – Oola

Please note that the Twisted are not Golems, but watchwork machinery.

The dividing line between watchwork machinery and golemancy seems to be very indistinct, though. One is based more around magic, while the other is pure mechanism, from what I understand. However, there’s no reason that the two types couldn’t learn from each other. Throw in Oola’s determination that necromancy should be combined with golemancy and you could have the discovery of the Twisted and eventually the Steam Creatures.

This has unfortunately been the case since ANet adjusted many of the cast times and aftercast times on Elementalist skills. The conjured weapon summons are incredibly easy to interrupt either due to an enemy attack or your own skill queue, and they seemingly always go on full cooldown.

Drives me crazy in WvW. Hopefully it can be fixed soon.

You’re probably gonna have to give them more details in order for the support team to offer any sort of assistance.

Some people will be disappointed by losing this farm option, and others won’t be. The farming part of it is not the point of this thread, though.

The fact is that ANet removed rewards that players had already earned through playing legitimate content, which is an abysmally bad decision.

lol. I feel your pain cheshirefox, but that particular achievement isn’t much easier even for high-tier servers.

On a low-tier server, I suppose the biggest problem is getting a sizable group to assault SM at all.

On a high-tier server, the biggest problem is that the groups are so sizable that SM becomes one epic lag-fest.

Stop flushing gold down the mystic toilet. Save up those chunks of 20g and buy the precursor off the TP.

Choose the methods that remove the RNG and you’ll likely end up much happier.

Let other people who insist on gambling drink from the blue swirl. Meanwhile, you’ll get your legendary.

Read Sonia’s post. That should take care of it for you.

In other words, ANet somehow thinks it’s OK to nerf rewards players had already earned legitimately if the player hadn’t opened the bags by the time the patch went live, meanwhile not documenting the change in the patch notes.

The issue is not the rewards going forward. The issue is the rewards that were already earned that ANet simply removed from the game.

I understand the need for the reward change, and most people saw it coming, but it should’ve taken effect on NEW bags, not ones people had already spent considerable time (and money, if the tickets were purchased) farming.

Unfortunately, I doubt it’s a bug. ANet made it clear through their nerfs to Subject 7 and Dead Eye that they didn’t intend for the gauntlet to be used for farming. I’m interpreting it as essentially confirmed since ANet has not responded to any of the threads noting this change, despite quite a bit of dev activity on these forums this afternoon.

EDIT: confirmed that it’s intentional

I’m hoping when they add a new race, they also add a new profession, so I don’t have to make this decision. :P

I have a level 80 Elementalist and a level 80 Mesmer. My necro is only lvl 25, so I really can’t speak to that yet.

I think the biggest thing I can add to the posts above is that the Mesmer can be frustrating to level until you get to 60 and unlock your grandmaster traits. I found that Elementalist relies less on its grandmaster traits for its effectiveness, and was therefore more enjoyable at lower levels.

As nopoet said, the first tag team that came to mind was Warrior and Elementalist. The Warrior has an incredible array of combo finishers, and the Elementalist has an equally good selection of combo fields.

The warrior can spec to be tank-ish, and the Ele can spec toward support for healing, if you’re really stuck on being “old geezers” about it.

PS: I don’t consider myself a traditionalist when it comes to the three roles, but I want my GW healer/protection monk back in the worst way, so I sympathize. :P

I hate to (partially) disagree with the above two posts, but a full PVT Elementalist is giving up a lot of DPS for vitality and toughness, which do very little to help a class that is squishy no matter what. You can start off with full PVT as you’re perfecting your play style, but eventually you’ll probably want to mix in a piece of DPS gear at a time until you find a good balance.

Toughness is absolutely horrible for Eles in PvE, IMO. This is not because of the stat itself, but because toughness is one of the factors in the game’s aggro system. If you stack too much toughness on an Ele and you have your DPS rotations down, you’re going to pull aggro constantly. Eles generally don’t handle aggro well. For this reason, if you have to choose between toughness and vitality, I would suggest going with vitality.

One additional survivability note: a superior sigil of energy on your staff can be an amazing improvement, as it activates when you swap attunements (it does have an internal cooldown of 10s, I think), and gives you an extra dodge immediately.

As far as play style, the best thing you can do is perfect using the AoE CCs, as that is really where staff Ele shines. Work the CCs into your DPS rotations, even when you’re fighting single mobs. It’s good practice for group situations like dungeons and WvW, and you’ll find you’ll also do better against PvE mobs.

The biggest thing most staff eles are terrible at is using Eruption effectively as a combo finisher. It has a significant delay, so you’ll need to practice the timing to make it effective. You have a ton of combo fields that work very well with blast finishers, so this is important even if you’re also using Arcane Wave. Since you said you switch between DPS and healing/group support (which any Ele should do while attunement dancing), it’s worth practicing the timing with placing Eruption and then immediately swapping to water and getting a Geyser or Healing Rain on top of it for an AoE heal. Eruption + Geyser is probably the trickiest of all of the staff Ele’s self-combos, so if you can get a feel for that, the others will seem much easier.

As far as solo roaming in WvW, there really isn’t much you can do against other players as a staff Ele. Staff isn’t set up as a solo PvP weapon. It’s set up for group play. However, the same CCs that are extremely effective in group combat are very good for escaping other players when they try to gank you. You’re just not likely to DPS them down, although I have seen it done.

Hope all of that helps…/walloftext :P

So if I understand correctly, you want the gem store skins (once purchased) to be added into a library similar to what we now have for HoM and Achievements?

I think that makes sense. It would save bank space, and it’d make those 800 gem price tags easier to justify if the skins were reproducible on an account basis.

My only additional request would be that it would also take effect retroactively for any player who had already purchased the skins.

Transferring skill points is probably why champ bags now have the chance to drop the skill point scrolls that are account bound.

True, it’s not a direct transfer, but it’s certainly a big improvement.

This has got to be a troll post.

In addition to the absurdity of the assertion that warriors are underrepresented at all, you claim they’re underrepresented in all aspects of the game, and then list two that aren’t even real issues.

I actually thought the colors might be significant as well, because those three colors looked very familiar for some reason. I went back through the previous LS announcement pages to see if any of those colors had been used before, and didn’t see them. I’ve looked a few other places, but can’t seem to figure out why they look familiar.

Topher.1684:

Sure, so long as they also introduce a phys dmg immunity. You gain immunity from all damage after a heal for a few seconds. Damage simply over run heals, for example, you heal and and immediately get hit again…….. Whats the point in healing?

Unfortunately, ANet doesn’t want healing to be anywhere close to as effective as damage. They stated as much back when they nerfed the Ele healing builds that were actually effective. IIRC, they nerfed the regeneration boon itself, reduced the healing power effectiveness on Water skills, and later nerfed the Cleansing Water trait that actually gave Eles mass condition removal.

I’ve heard lots of people say it, and as obnoxious as it sounds, ANet continues to reinforce that the only thing that matters to them is DPS. Many of the Queen’s Gauntlet mechanics and time limits are prime examples.

As much as I like this game, it has very little of the varied strategy that made GW great.

Can we please have an NPC that lets us trade Sovereign skins 1:1?

I realize RNG is RNG, but it’d be nice to be able to take weapons your character can’t use and trade for ones they can.

Thanks for your consideration.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

I know that what happens in the Mystic Forge is all mysterious and such, but this is not where babies come from. :-P

…but if getting a baby from Zommoros has similar odds as getting an exotic, then maybe Logan just needs to have the Mystic Stones to try again.

Kristen Perry.5260:

I’ve noticed for faces, most requests are at the end of the spectrum… folks seem to want pretty or creature, not as much in between. Interesting. Out of curiosity, why not? The race was designed to live in the in between. Any thoughts? :}

In games, we can pursue extremes without significant repercussions, whereas IRL, people tend to be extremely judgmental, even about things that don’t affect them in the slightest. It is easier to make the more imaginative or what we perceive as the non-conformist choice in a game than it is IRL. By creating ethereal nymph-like beauty or the roughest plant features, people feel an illusion of vicarious uniqueness.

Ultimately, though, I think the ‘extreme’ features also have the most life in them, or the most character. With a bland face, you can sit at the creation screen for hours and never feel involved with the character no matter how many times you push/pull a slider, whereas with a strongly designed face, you can feel an immediate connection.

On a side note, then you have the anomaly with dyes whereby if you want gamer status, you “have” to use black or white, so everyone ends up looking the same. So people try to make their characters unique, only to drown it in monochrome…

As far as ideas for hair:

plant pouf

Venus Flytrap mohawk? <—the dual mohawk

BRAIN! <—glowing brain zombie sylvari!

Dragon’s Blood Tree Fro <—even has a lore-ready name!

Aloe Spikes <—picture hair similar to the T3 helm

Yes, the paint splotches are intentional.

ANet created themed propaganda like this for the War in Kryta releases in GW, as well. It made things quite entertaining leading up to the actual patch, and I think it’s one of the more creative uses of online media that I’ve seen.

Astral Projections.7320:

1 Logan + 3 Jennah: into the mystic forge to get 1 baby mini wearing suspiciously saggy diapers who crawls behind you and screams at the top of his lungs, continuously.

Enewia.1356:

VOLKON.1290:

Aerinndis.2730:

OMG it will be a LoJen!!!!!!

Priceless.

Or… maybe a JenLo?

A J-Lo

If it’s a J-Lo, it wouldn’t have a saggy diaper. That thing would be unbelievably taut.

I like the elemental theme in the poem, with time being the fifth, overarching element.

fog : air
sand : earth
flames : fire

The reference to permanent ink would indicate that it would otherwise get washed away, which is a vague reference to water.

It’s probably not important, but I appreciated it.

EpicHenchman.6594:

Astral Projections.7320:

You get a birthday present on each characters birthday. So if you made them 6 weeks after launch, it will be 1 year later.

Wait, what!? Surely if their character is 6 weeks after launch then they will get their present 6 weeks after launch? Other than the fact it was announced on the same page as the next LS, there is nothing actually linking it with the event. In GW1 the presents were just linked to the individual characters birthday so I think it would be a safe bet on this being the same. It wouldn’t be much of a birthday present if it wasn’t actually on your characters birthday.

I’m pretty sure that’s what he meant by 1 year later: 1 year from the day you created your character.

Unless it’s totally different from GW, that’s how I expect it to work.

I agree that it’s probably a second half of the current JP, but it’s not impossible for it to be an entirely different puzzle. Dark Reverie is placed right after Morgan’s Leap.

Although, on a side note, looking at the names of the two puzzles literally and with a morbid interpretation, I would think Dark Reverie should precede Morgan’s Leap.

tolunart.2095:

NONE of the infinite use tools were made to pay for themselves. They are items of convenience, and anyone who knows anything about business knows that convenience costs extra. People don’t save money when they go for something that’s convenient….

Your argument is valid to a point. However, there is also a point at which the convenience up-charge puts the company in question out of business. To make your examples more applicable:

If I bought a pack of cigarettes, I would not also pay 3 cents for each cigarette every time I pulled one out.

When I buy a bottle of soda, no matter what size, I am not also going to spend 3 cents every time I want to open the cap.

If I eat in a restaurant, I am not going to pay 3 cents every time I lift my fork.

Paying for 800 gems up front IS the cost of convenience, as most players will never use the infinite item enough times to break even just with that initial cost. This was a complaint that came up already with the infinite gathering tools. With the salvage kit, the additional 3c per use is an add-insult-to-injury situation.

Ultimately, it is up to each person to decide how much they will pay for convenience. However, putting 800 gems on the table up front and then having a barely-reduced cost per salvage is ridiculous, IMO.

Elbegast.6970:

…Livia (aka ‘Scarlet’) has come out of hiding…

Having Livia nicknamed Scarlet would actually make a lot of sense, given her hair and tendency toward that color (as seen in GW). Then, the question would be how/why she got involved with the Aetherblades, since they seem to be the enemy of choice.

Perhaps we’ll find out that the Aetherblades have a legitimate reason for attacking. If, for example, Minister Caudecus placed an imposter Jennah on the throne, and the players have been defending the wrong queen. The “queen’s” mysterious announcement could be naming Caudecus as her heir, at which point chaos breaks out.

An attempted coup using an imposter Jennah would also help explain the existence of the watchwork knights, as they are extremely suspicious.

After mowing them down for weeks, will we actually team up with the Aetherblades? :o

The recipes are all available on the TP and were dirt cheap last I checked.

I’ve had this happen on and off for the past month or so:

While building siege, if the build “channel” is broken prematurely (player moves their character, build completes, etc.), the player’s character becomes totally unresponsive for several seconds.

I don’t know if it’s related, but I only started noticing this after I maxed Build Mastery. It seems to happen most frequently with rams, but I’ve also had it happen with other siege types. It does not seem to be lag-related, as I have no other evidence of lag when this happens, and my FPS is consistent throughout any of the Borderlands maps (Eternal is a different story).

As I said, it’s not a consistently reproducible bug, but hopefully you can find it, because it’s proven deadly more than once. :/

I use the flame eye on my Sylvari Ele, and for a while it seemed to be sporadic as to whether it showed up at all (haven’t really paid attention recently, this was a few weeks back that I noticed it). I was usually able to get it to reappear by toggling the show/hide check box several times.

I realize that the most recent patch notes claim this has been fixed, but I had an ooze not despawn just last night while I went in to fight Deadeye, so the issue still exists.