Blue and gold can be quite regal. Look at Tutenkhamen, or gold fleur de lis on a blue field. It could be your graphics are set lower than his so to him it looks way better, y’know!
Dark blue and actual gold looks good. Pale blue and lemon = forever alone.
I saw one guy wearing pink and sea green.
But we should not make fun of the colour blind.
Seems that winning is more important to SF than playing.
Maybe everyone should transfer to the winning server. That seems like a plan with no downside.
Yes, our massive Zerg of 20 people (if we’re lucky) is practically an unstoppable war machine.
I’d get sphincter speared about it, but…
That was disheartening last night. I logged on for a bit and we had two Commanders running around ET and they were doing a pretty good job of taking back the keeps, garrison, and our towers. But almost as quickly, they would fall to SF again. We just didn’t have the numbers to leave behind to defend so it ultimately turned into a karma/xp train. The group I was with ran out of steam and got wiped near Champs and most of us seemed to head off to bed after that.
Not much point defending or upgrading when SF will take it all back in the morning anyway.
My hat is off to those commanders who can practically conjure a golem army at the drop of a hat and raise someone’s borderland in the blink of an eye. As a logistics operation it was a finely tuned machine.
At one point the golems were knocking down doors so fast that they’d knock down the door of a tower before we had time to finish off the keep lord in the tower before it. We had to sprint from one open keep to the next. My warrior alt had a hard time keeping up.
Why is this event so important? Is it because people want Final Rest? Otherwise I can’t see what drops from this that you couldn’t get more quickly and easily with gold or karma.
FYI the pollen effect means that you are literally spewing plant sperm from your pores as you run….. O.O
Actually plant pollen grains are little multicellular plants that contain the sperm and other cells bound in a protective coating.
Sylvari could be haploids. Haploids that are produced from unfertilised gametes do not have fathers (but they do have grandfathers).
Plants reproduce via haploid offspring. Ants and bees also produce haploid males from unfertilised eggs. Given that Sylvari are plants and a hive race it almost seems inevitable that they are the haploid stage of their species.
Haploids of flowering plants are not at all like their diploid mother. Pollen is actually a haploid plant, but with only a few cells. While plants usually produce fertile haploid “offspring” (these combine to produce a new diploid offspring – e.g. a new tree), I imagine it would be possible for a “hive plant” to produce infertile haploid offspring that are not used for reproduction. Sylvari could be similar to ant and bees, used as workers and warriors rather than for reproduction. The Pale Tree would be the queen.
Presumably, if the pale tree was pollinated, it would produce new pale trees.
However, it’s not impossible that the Sylvari themselves could serve as pollen, but only for other trees (and not with each other). For genetic reasons in might take two Sylari to pollinate one tree.
The genetics of sexual reproduction of plants and hive insects is pretty complicated, and when you combine the possibilities into a hive plant all sorts of weird things could occur.
Badges sometimes drop off camp supervisors and tower/keep lords. I think you need to be one of the top damage dealers to get them. If you solo a camp then you can get badges about half the time.
I have never ever seen a badge drop off a normal (veteran) guard, and I’ve killed a truckload of those solo.
AOE classes seem to get more badges in Zerg fights in my experience, probably because they end up tagging more opponents. You can kill a player solo and not get any badges, but you can hit five players with AOE and end up with bags full of badges when your Zerg rolls over them.
Finishing a player with a stomp (rather than normal damage) also seems to increase badge drop rate, in my experience, but that could be just luck or my imagination.
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Flame aura is pretty cool with GS#3. Even better if you run something like a wolf and both you and your pet get a flame aura.
I haven’t played with whirling axes and combo fields much. I wish it didn’t root you. It can be good against tower doors in WvW.
I was poking around with various settings last night and was getting some really weird results, like worse performance with textures set to low than when set to medium.
The whole blue for boys and pink for girls thing is relatively modern in western society. Prior to the 20th century it would have been quite common for men to wear pink and girls to wear blue. Pink tights used to be quite commonly worn by men during the Middle Ages.
ET seems to have recently acquired a serious Golem fetish. We must have all the rich kids on the block partying on ET these days.
I am noticing a pattern in the battles the last few weeks. If at first you don’t succeed, bring more bodies. And when you hit troubled waters again, bring even more bodies with the same exact tactics. Rinse, repeat. Eventually realize you cannot accomplish objective and hide to build golems. And then when you pull through, act like you accomplished a great feat.
Different commanders, tagging out. They might seem like three waves, but they are almost completely different armies.
There are so many NPCs that will start dynamic events if you just take the time to talk to them. They don’t always have obvious icons (but many of them will run up to you and verbally ask for help).
They give you some exposition and send you out to kill X, or collect Y, or protect Z. Sounds like a quest to me. (Many of the DEs that might appear to be “random” to you, are actually someone else’s quest).
Most of these quests are way better designed than traditional MMO quests. Slow down, look around and take some time to appreciate them.
Posting in the 1,483,375th thread about healers.
Maybe you shouldn’t have tried to make your title “Goddess”. That’s just tempting fate.
I only dump level 80 greens in the fountain. Mixing in lower level items seems to really throw off my Rare return rates. This seems consisten with comments that rarity AND level affect precursor return chances.
Yes, if you throw 4x 79 greens in, you seem to get a 80 green more often than you would if you put 4x 80 greens in.
I spend a lot of time in WvW and get way more SP than gold or globs, so for me spending SP is cheaper than other ways to get exotic weapons (ironically, cheaper than badge weapons). I also thing that they have some f the best skins in the game.
A small note: Crafting becomes more significantly profitable when you’re not buying your materials.
People who don’t understand opportunity cost is the other reason crafting is unprofitable.
“Guild” Wars is not about guild wars. Eve Online is not about a naked chick and a snake.
But if you want drama, and corp warfare, and griefing and generally waving your online snake around you should check out Eve.
Isn’t it obvious that the WvW jump puzzles are designed for ganking? The whole setup screams “ambush”.
I’d like to be able to attach a pistol or dagger in a boot holster, or carry a one handed sword (or two) on my back (or two axes), or have a dagger on a sheath on my arm, or have a pistol holstered under my arm (like a concealed weapon).
Perhaps an option from gem store?
Logged on last night and there were about six people from ET in WvW. Grabbed a couple of camps got rolled by a roaming Ferg group, squashed a couple of SF noobs and sat around for a bit to see if we might get enough people for a breakout. We didn’t. Got bored and left again to do PVE.
Too boring. At this rate by the end of the week there won’t be any ET in WvW at all.
No doubt SF (and you can take that abbreviation to mean the server or it’s self-appointed forum champion) will feel godlike, kicking goals on an empty field.
Does being the only halfway intelligent thing in an otherwise empty universe make you it’s de-facto deity? Some sort of prince of limbo, playing toy soldiers with the camp guards and pretending they’re real? Will you start dancing on the corpses of the tower lords, even as they vanish? Will you laugh at the breakout commanders because there is no one else to hear you?
Three, I don’t event know why you actually took the time to post this here. You were very upset about my dance, and I found it hilarious that you were so mad. Not to mention posting it here.
SF now trains their noobs to dace? Wow. Ok that was a real big -1 on the respect-o-meter.
Yeah, I don’t know how much truth there is to any of this, but anyone corpse dancing has zero credibility. Learn to bow if it was a good fight, or just move on.
Also: IBTL.
What do you think?
I think WvW isn’t PVP. It’s PVE, but there are also other players trying to kill you. It doesn’t have to be fair. You have to pick your battles.
I think gear won’t save you from being rolled by a zerg. It won’t help you knock down the walls of stonemist faster either. It won’t get supply into Anz fast enough to hold up against the 24/7 trebbing.
I think good strategy and tactics beat good gear.
I think issues with class balance should be fixed directly, not bandaged over.
Necros though, I just don’t like ‘em. I don’t like the skills and don’t like the unique mechanics. I actually do find that one profession to be the least interesting and fun to play. Necro fans, I salute you. You must be pretty dedicated to squeeze real enjoyment from that game play.
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What’s not to like about wading into a bunch of mobs (or players), laying down a bunch of toxic AOE that poisons, cripples, chills and blinds, and then transforming into a diabolical creature that sucks the life out of everything around you? And your allies get heals and a bunch of combo fields at the same time.
And as an added bonus you can really annoy thieves.
What time zone does the OP live in? GMT-15???
I often jump maps when ninja’ing supply camps. I like to mix up the maps so that its not so predictable which camp ill go for. I wouldn’t like to be stuck on one mao for half an hour.
There will be a DE where you debate refugee quotas in a council meeting in Lions Arch.
Ranger pets can’t hit kitten when the player isn’t stealthed, they don’t get any better against a stealthed opponent.
Does this include vets in WvW? Cause I solo them all the time and usually get nothing.
If you’re on the Internet, why aren’t you using a time server to set your time? Windows has been able to do that for at least a decade, and I’m pretty sures it’s the default setting on new machines.
1. Remain calm.
2. Hear me out.
3. Share your thoughts.The new patch brought the laurel system as we know. With it the new ascended amulet. By a rough calculation it would take 20 days to obtain that single item.
What bothers me is that it requires an uninterrupted 1h per day (time for daily + time for monthly roughly divided across the 20 days) x 20 days streak. I am fully aware that the developers have more ways to obtain items planned out for us in the future. But is this a good start?
What I’m trying to say is that a little flexibility would be nice. I don’t think binding laurels to dailies that are lost once skipped is a good idea.
Would it be better if we had a weekly system?
[EDIT] I apologize if this sounded like I’m looking at it as a chore. The point I’m trying to get across is that perhaps there should be a more flexible way to handle laurels. Like something else other than the daily quest, with a weekly cap sort of thing.
If you compare how long it takes to get any ascended gear with the effort required to get exotic gear it seems that the whole raison d’être of ascended gear is to be a massive time sink for OCD players.
Bountys! they interest me, i wonder if players can set bountys on people in wvwvw that would be open to all sorts of abuse
Fixed that for you.
well, you can see it this way… irl you can go out with 2 girl at the same time without any of them knowing that there is another girl. When you open guild tab and see “not representing” it’s like one of the two girl receive a text message saying that you are at the other girl’s home which is problematic. So either you make it clear to both girl that you have too much love to give for only one or you pick the one you prefer.
IRL you can have a wife and a job and play sports without them demanding all your time always (if they do, find a new job/wife/team).
Warhammer used to have trophies that you could hang from your armor. Medals, badges, skulls, shrunken heads etc. I’d love to have stuff like that.
Every time I see one of the overdone greatsword legendaries I wonder if the owner isn’t trying to overcompensate for something.
Seriously, it’s as if Lady Gaga designed a spangly version of the Washington Monument, and then someone decided to sling it on their back and call it a sword.
Without a target it’s aimed based on the camera, which is usually pointed down. So most of the time the ranger shoots at the ground like a complete moron.
If you zoom the camera in and up you can shoot quite a long way – but then you have trouble seeing anything, which is not good when you’re playing spot the thief.
Imagine the epic rage and tears.
The irony of seeing server hopping guilds getting stuck on a server they thought they were only on for one week. Pure poetry.
I dont have Facebook or twitter. I have forums-eng.guildwars2
If you want to just read twitter feeds you don’t need an account, just a browser.
Anet. GW2 Forum users. We need to talk.
Anyone at all have any idea what this abomination lurking around the models section of the GW2.dat file is?
My vote is the next new race.
Sweet Zombie-Jesus!
That’s a secret that only fire can exterminate.
Sounds like most of you would like invulnerable yaks and have supply camps take 10 players so you can get back to running around in zergs without having to worry about small raiding groups outmanoeuvring you.
If someone is soloing your yaks, points and supply camps (even towers) 1-2 competent players can easily ruin their day. A 4 person team can easily roam the map and nail solo players. Most solo players will move on to easier pastures or retreat to the zerg if they keep running into small gangs.
BTW walking along with the Yak or standing around the camp is dumb. Move around. Ganking a player who’s distracted while soloing the yak/cp/camp is much easier.
I believe they have said they are also looking at ways of players being able to acquire ascended gear outside FotM, from other areas of the game inside and outside PvE.
I hope so, because I want a quiver, and I don’t want to do fractals to get one.
FoTM would be less of an issue if the stuff wasn’t account bound.
I have found GW2 pretty light on bugs, especially for a newly released MMO. WoW had more back when I played it. W:AR was just terrible.
As for non-MMOs, games like Skyrim, Fallout, Diablo were full of bugs. Skyrim still crashes way more often than GW2, and there are still some broken quests years after the release.
Not that any number of bugs is a good thing.
Guild Wars 2 is rated T for teen. 13 years and older.
I think nudity requires a mature rating of M 17+ or an adult rating of 18+.
Says something that you can stab someone in the back and then stomp on them when they’re downed and get a teen rating, but take you clothes off and suddenly it’s adults only.
I guess you’ve never held a tower for 4 hours under constant attack. Or driven an enemy out of your lord room, fought them toe to toe back down the stairs and finally sent them to the bottom of the lake. Or mortared down enemy trebuchets as fast as they can build them.
ANet has officially stated that Legendary stats will be bumped to Ascended when Ascended weapons are introduced.
The entire purpose of pursuing a Legendary weapon is to obtain something that cannot be obtained through anything else but hard work and due diligence.
Legendary weapons can be purchased off of the TP…Gold can be purchased with gems which can be purchased with real $$$. Legendary weapons are no longer the product of hard work and due diligence, just who has money.
Because the game is not a gear grind. Or a drink-the-raid-aid game where you have to play with 20 other players you’d rather not spend time with over and over and over to get a chance at the drop you want.
Soul binding is bad.
basically, only WoW and EvE succeeded at endgame.
its not easy to design a good endgame.
what can there be ?gw2 you grind for look.
its allright.
if i was anet i would really gamble on making the wvwvw experience as good as possible. with guild halls, guild vs guilds, duels, and some kind of icon showing how badkitten you are in wvw. sonthat when ou see a player you re like “omg he rocks”.
as it is now its; “omg he farmed a lot or paid to win”.
that mentality isnt long term.in the end anyway, its a computer game.. maybe ita meant to be played only for a while (even if that “a while” can easily be 500h like gw2!)
EVE has no endgame. If anything EVE is the total opposite of what the OP wants. Almost anything can be soloed, there is no end game, there is no gear grind. Most importantly there is no sound bound best in slot item that you are forced to play with 20 others to get.
The game certainly doesn’t force players into corps. In fact weak corps (guilds) don’t last long in EVE because they are a liability (and a target). Good corps only last because they actually do something useful for their members, and work together well.
If I was forced to have a group/guild in order to progress I would quit and find another game.
The only reason Everquest succeeded with this mindset is because it was the only choice on the market, Final Fantasy XIV tried to force players to group and it died one of the quickest deaths in MMO history.
We cannot have this attitude going forward.
MMOs offer a very unique proposition in the way that they foster cooperative or competitive gameplay with progression intertwined. There is no other genre that offers it, and the core differentiator is the group content that makes it all possible.
We cannot any longer try to facilitate solo players into this content designed for groups. It’s making the overall experience for everyone anemic and any unique advantages about the genre are evaporating.
The NFL doesn’t field teams of volunteers. The Rolling Stones are not compromised of walk-on musicians. They are well practiced and consistent teams. The same must be said for MMO group content unless we want to see the genre wither away.
Bad analogy. The NFL has hardly any players. That’s what you get for being elitist. GW2 is not a professional sport. It’s junior league, school ground, friends in the park, pick-up.
It’s a game.