Guild Wars 2

I do hope that eventhough it isn’t in the schedule, that there will be a big finale event Something in the spirit of the BWE finales (but this time everyone turning into toys or one massive snowball fight in a Wintersday themed WvW map or just a specially designed map) or ofcourse a traditional GW1 type of finale.

But I’m not too worry about that because I can’t imagine a GW event without a big finale. Just hope the one-time-only event whiners didn’t scare you off too much…

First of all, just wait out the event before you start bashing it… Getting really tired of all these people who read a small amount of text and suddenly think they know everything, while the actual event hasn’t even started yet.
Secondly there are still elements in Wintersday that they announced so far that were in GW1, e.g. there will be a Snowball Fight PvP thing and I’m sure there will also be more subtle reminders of what Wintersday meant in GW1.
And finally, you’ll just have to accept that we are now not only following humans, but also 4 other races and new lore has to be created to let every race in the game enjoy festive events. You can’t expect a simple remake of GW1, you’ll have to accept that the story continues to evolve and be glad that it didn’t just freeze after GW1.

It pretty much looks like the Activities are of no priority atm. It figures since there are major bugs that also need fixing, but still a short acknowledgement of the problem would be appreciated. I loved the idea of these fun mini-games throughout the game, but so far we only have a bugged one.

Thereon.3495:

Post after post saying ‘look at the details for the new event’ with no spoiler alerts and youre saying ‘bury your head in the sand’? Plus youve not read or understood my posts which is typical

tl;dr version of my posts: you can satisfy everyone by giving the time and dates of events without spoiling the surprise of the event just by tinkering with the event story a little.

But what parts of this updated info do you consider to be spoilers? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this info out if you’ve participated in the Halloween event and played GW1. Also the realism in the person knowing all this while it’s in the future is all over the game in events and stuff aswell.

I’m pretty sure that there is way more to all the events then the vague info they just released tells us. They just highlighted some of the major parts of the event so people can decide if they want to be there or not, not only based on the time and place but also a bit on the event that’s going to happen in general. A lot of people were disappointed with the cinematic one time only thing during Halloween because they expected too much of it.

Zaxares.5419:

Thereon.3495:

Here’s how I wouldve changed that to work with my ideas:

-snip-

I actually do like your ideas, and upon reflection, I can see how it would actually be feasible for ANet to satisfy your camp and mine. They just need to provide date/time details well in advance (5 days, while pretty generous, is actually still not enough for people like me with busy schedules or families to look after. We typically need at least 2 weeks advance notice to properly arrange our schedules), but without going into too much spoilers about what will happen. In the case of Wintersday, it might simply be a case of saying something like “Toymaker Tixx arrives in Lion’s Arch for the grand celebration! This is the most complex of all his efforts yet – let’s hope nothing goes wrong! Visit his airship workshop and lend a hand to ensure everything goes smoothly!”

I don’t know the exact date but didn’t they tell us about two weeks before the event from when until when the event would be with almost the exact amount of info in your example? The only thing they could improve is releasing the updated info a week before the event starts. I think that would be a nice timeline. Also the approximate dates weren’t a big surprise if you’ve played GW1.

I’m fine with the info they gave out now about Wintersday, it’s definitely an improvement. I also don’t see the huge spoilers. Most of the things the info they released is just a small confirmation of our expectations. Who didn’t expect a JP, Snowball fight PvP, a dungeon/instance, BLTC items and gifts? They didn’t even say anything about “the big finale” or the Candy Cane weapon skins and many other things that will most certainly be present.
Plus if you want it to be a surprise, just don’t read the event page until the event starts next time.

Please don’t create easy modes for JP’s. If you want to finish a difficult JP, practice more like the rest of us who completed the Clocktower. An easy mode would really ruin the experience for people that like JP’s. It would cheapen it. There’s no place for difficulty modes in online games, not even for optional stuff because it’s all about comparing your skills. In the end that’s what all online games are about, otherwise you should just play an offline RPG so you don’t have to worry about a stable internet connection or servers. Plus don’t you think that if you are not able to make it, you do not deserve the reward? Atm I’m not able to get a Legendary item because I don’t invest enough time into the game for that, but I’m not going to ask for a free one because I want it.

Shinarika.5642:

If you go for the other GM water trait you can drop cleansing fire for or the teleport cantrip or another signet, but that’s only when you’re not in a group of course.

I guess it depends on how valuable you see sharing auras & how often you’re grouped.

Well I’ve found that in the end most of the stuff you do is in groups, so I usually don’t take the time to adjust my build to solo play whenever I do something on my own. Not just because it takes some time, but also because the boons are shared with allies you find along the way. But it all depends on your playstyle and where you spend most of your time ingame.

Minion of Vey.4398:

The auras alone won’t give you perma swiftness but switching to air attunement gives enough to fill in the gaps.

Switch to air (swiftness)
Dagger #3 (swiftness)
Switch to water
dagger #4 (swiftness).
Switch to air when it’s off cooldown (swiftness)
Switch out of it asap so you can switch back sooner.
and so on, using air #3 and water #4 as they come off cooldown.

When you get a good amount of boon duration it’s trivial and you can easily maintain 100% swiftness while still using ride the lightning on cooldown.

Staff doesn’t take as much advantage of zephyr’s boon, but you can perma swift yourself there too in similar fashion.

Switch to air (swiftness)
Air #4 (swiftness)
Switch to earth
Earth #3 (swiftness)
Back to air when it’s off cooldown (swiftness), then switch out.
Back to air etc, using Air #4 and Earth #3 as they come off cooldown.

Lots of points in arcane is the main thing really. Besides elemental attunement which is a given at 10 in arcane, arcane not only gives you boon duration, but the lowered attunement cooldown means you get to switch to air more often and thus add more swiftness again.

The auras alone will give you permanent swiftness if you use Fire’s Embrace and Signets. If you use D/D which normally has 3 more auras (but now one combo is broken) or with 2×Sup Rune of the Monk, 2× Sup Rune of the Water and 2× Major Rune of Sanctuary you don’t even need that many signets to keep it up. Not a single point in Arcana is needed for permanent swiftness, but ofcourse it helps.

It’s not a bug because it never worked that way. Autoloot here simply means that when a mob has loot, after you press F you don’t have to select what loot you want and what not, you automatically take everything. But you’ll always have to press F to loot

You beat me to it

www.gw2carthographers.com is a nice source, but it’s very outdated atm. Luckily for world completion it has almost everything, although the maps have a few errors like extra POI’s on unreachable locations and a lot of places don’t have a guide, because you can only change things for yourself on your computer through locally stored data.

But generally use gw2carthographers.com (don’t forget the two extra POI’s in LA that arrived with the Lost Shores update), if you can’t find something compare the wiki lists with your maps (although I only found this useful enough to check for the Explorer achievements)

Yep, trying to bring the attention back to this bug. You say yourself that the threads (so the bug aswell) are about 20 days old now and so far no response. Really want to test my build, but that depends on this combo and so far I don’t even know if I will ever be able to use it, because it’s not yet an acknowledged bug. So my Ele is pretty much on hold atm.

Electro.4173:

Magnetic Grasp still bugs out occassionally, but it does seem to happen less often. Its a step in the right direction, at least, though far from a complete fix (and the buggy leap finisher now is a bummer).

A pretty big bummer The aura build that I have in mind can only work if MG works as a leap combo finisher. So far I still don’t know for sure if it’s supposed to be a leap, but just bugged atm or if Anet intended to remove the leap finisher but just forgot to remove the “Fire Aura” animation and only removed the effects themselves.

A reply confirming that this is either a bug or intended would be nice. Now I still don’t know if I can use this combo in my build or not… Don’t need to know who’s working on it if it’s a bug or when it will be done, just if it is one or not.

TGSlasher.1458:

RTL is sorta fixed, if it doesn’t track the play you just go full distance away, thats what I have noticed anyway. Still much better.

Also as far as I can tell, I get fury and swiftness (air trait, auras give fury + swiftness) from MG + Fire field, but no fire shield.

For some reason I always get the popup “Fire Aura” but never the boons I’m supposed to get with it from my traits. I also never see the Fire Shield icon appear where my boons are (although that does appear when I get Fire Shield from Signets through traits). All I get from this combo is a useless popup and sometimes a nice Fire Shield animation without it having any effect… Can’t imagine this is intended because it does say you should have a Fire Aura when using MG, still I couldn’t find a Anet response to this “bug” so far.

Made some changes to my build, based on feedback I received on guildwars2guru.com, I’ve edited the links in my original post.

Hi there,

Just noticed a minor text bug. When buying a Superior rune of the Monk from Historian Symon in LA, you get a popup message that asks you if you are sure, but the text reads: “Are you sure you want to purchase Superior Rune of the Monk of the Monk”.

No rush in fixing this, but just so you know.

Regards

PS: The worth of the Runes of the Monk at Historian Symon (when hoovering over them with your mouse) are incorrect. They are actually lower (same as other runes of their rarity) when you actually sell them at a Merchant.

Bumping this up for attention since it hasn’t been addressed yet. It’s a pretty important combo for Aura builds. Pretty equal to the Dragon’s Tooth combo finisher bug which makes S/D less useful.

Hi all!

I’ve been working on the build I want to use, but before I get the Exotics I would like some feedback on my build. I have the most doubts about my stats.

EDIT: I now have two builds, one is the original which uses Signets for Auras, the other is without Signets but this one really depends on the Ring of Fire→Magnetic Grasp combo Aura to be fixed.

Here are some links (because some sites aren’t always up).

D/D Auramancer+Cantrips:
1
2
3
4

D/D Auramancer+Cantrips (without Signets):
1
2
3
4

If possible I’ve added a PvP Amulet+Jewel on the page aswell for the calculator, although I’m going with the gear mentioned in the description.

Regards

Hi there,

I just noticed that all Master Crafters let you buy stuff like recipes from them even if you don’t have their crafting discipline, except for the Master Jewelers. They only show this option if you actually are a Jeweler.

Noticed this when I had to buy a recipe for my Jeweler alt and I couldn’t. Luckily there is a workaround, in Divinity’s Reach (and maybe also in other cities besides LA) there are also Apprentices and the Apprentice next to the Master Jeweler does let you buy the recipes when you’re not a Jeweler. Still it’s something to look at and fix.

Regards

I would recommend it to a friend and I am.

Don’t really get what all the fuss is about. So there is a new tier of gear, if you don’t want it, don’t get it. Or just wait until they’ve fully implemented it. They already made statements on where Ascended items are heading to. Atm it would be a grind to get it, but this is only an early stage. And what’s so terrible about it being a grind to get it, you are not required to get it so now the people that like grinds can grind and the people that don’t really like it (myself aswell) can ignore it for now. Only concerns could be that they are (going to) be usable in WvW, where you might have a minor disadvantage if you use Exotics instead of Ascendeds. But by the time you can have a full Ascended set, FotM won’t be the only way to get them anymore.

I would like to apologize for getting sucked into this nonsense and basically reinforcing the OP in staying off-topic.

I hope it’s not too late for this topic to go back to it’s initial discussion, but at least I’m done with all this off-topic kitten

We’ll see how the event and the lore surrounding the event turns out. So far I see no warning signs and I’m definitely looking forward to joining in on the festivities in all the major cities this time! Looks promising, this might be the beginning of the end of the ghost towns^^ Keep’em coming Anet!

Shadowlancer.7102:

@ Wesley.4590

Congratulations, you changed the quote to a new quote, after my comment. Are you proud of yourself? Also please do not waste my time about no “Edit” is being shown, you can edit something within 1 minute or less before the “Edit” can be shown, thus you can ninja edit things.

Anyways, just wanted to point that out since you are being so smug about it. Good night.

Don’t even answer my previous question, because this post already gave me the answer.

Yeah sure, I ninja edited my post if that even exists. And how do you explain that if I did it within that short amount of time, you still saw the original version containing the other quote I presumably made? Or are you just that pathetic that you keep on refreshing this page every second when you are not typing?

Admitting you made a mistake really isn’t the end of the world you know… But please, go talk to someone about all of this, it could really help you out.

PS: How could I have changed my post within a minute or so, if I presumably changed it after I read your response to it? Do you see the conflict here?!

Shadowlancer.7102:

-snip- fully knowing that Arenanet is watching this thread very closely and watching my every move. -snip-

Yeah Anet is definitely watching your every move closely and this topic, that’s why they closed it already…

By any chance do you regularly have the feeling that you’re being followed and the whole world is plotting against you?

Shadowlancer.7102:

@ Wesley.4590

Seems you misunderstood what I said about me listing things what I know will happen versus your acclaims of disbelief towards me. My reply was for @ Kill.3458 about that list, not you @ Wesley.4590.

However its okay, people make mistakes.

Read the post of you that I quoted in my message again. I wasn’t even talking about your post @ Kill.3458. I was responding to an earlier post of you directed at me. It’s even in the quote! I never even made acclaims of disbelief towards you, all I said was that you shouldn’t jump to conclusions about Wintersday while Anet has only released 4 sentences of information about it so far and that your whole attitude in this topic is disrespectful!

For someone claiming to be so much smarter than all of us, you do need a lot of explaining… Hope you get it this time.

Shadowlancer.7102:

-snip-
Note: Screen shoted this just so I can relish the day it happens and proof of you accusation towards me.

Wow did you actually just do this or were you just kidding there? Because that would be so sad… “Relish the day it happens” that you were right about stuff like lag during a holiday event in a game, no kitten Sherlock! Let me try that aswell!
I predict:
- Gem prices rising even further in the upcoming weeks because of Wintersday
- A Wintersday-themed Town Clothing Hat for participating in the finale
- Major cities being decorated with Wintersday-themes
- My account and character names staying the same during the event
- Hundreds of double complain post topics about Wintersday on the forum
- A lot of people also enjoying Wintersday

When these genius predictions of mine come true, I will finally feel like I’ve accomplished something in my life! And I feel entitled to call myself a real gamer and smarter than all of you!

Yeah… I’m not going to do that, sorry… It’s just too pathetic.

Shadowlancer.7102:

@ Wesley.4590

You are the very reason, among many other folks, why MMOs have gone to crap. So because I posted an opinion of finding a plot hole in the lore, I am on a high horse?

You Sir are fail! I do not pity people like you and for your information, I have a better understanding what people fall for, which you fall under that category, of quantity type games rather than quality.

I am embarrassed to be around people that claim to be gamers which in all reality, you are nothing close to being a gamer and the fact you have the audacity to say you have a valid opinion about the situation is a mockery.

However, please continue on talking about … well nothing. I think its very clear what Arenanets “Winter Day” ’s event is aiming for.

No actually that’s nowhere near what I actually posted… Here it is one more time, specifically for you:
I never said you were on a high horse because you posted an opinion of “finding a plot hole in the lore”, I said you were on a high horse because you just can’t accept that some people have different thoughts than you and that that doesn’t immediatly make them stupid. If you even read my previous post you would have noticed this.

But hey according to your logic, I disagree with you so I must be a “fail”, “the very reason, among many other folks (because you don’t want to give me too much credit, I understand), why MMOs have gone to crap”, plus I have to be “nothing close to being a gamer” and ofcourse I can’t have a valid opinion (sorry that I couldn’t copy that one, but that’s because of the phrasing).

Do you see how many times you’ve tried to insult me there just because I don’t share your opinion? While all I was doing was sharing my own opinion here, just like you did in your first post. And the most ironic thing about all this is that most people now probably think of you exactly what you think of me or even worse

But let’s get back to my initial point. I would advise you to have some patience and wait until they give us the backgroundstory. That way you have the complete picture instead of only a small fragment of the new lore. If you decide then that you still don’t like it, then let them know here. If it turns out it wasn’t all that bad afterall, maybe you can learn a lesson from this and next time don’t start bashing something new until you have all the information to make a good judgement.

Regards

Shadowlancer.7102:

@ TheAmpca.1753

Quote: No one understood inception but everyone liked it.

Yes and this is what ticks me off, people’s intelligence are slim to non, this is why people who are smarter, get aggravated when games try to combine Sci-Fi with Magic, because it causes too many loop holes and plot holes, which is clearly shown here.

Ofcourse people, who don’t understand like it, for v arias reasons, enjoy the illusion of it. Unfortuantly with GW2, most people view MMOs as “Content Update”, “Shinies”, “Mounts”, and “PvP”.

Most people don’t care about lore because they are too simple minded to understand deep lore about things. A perfect example is “Wizard” PC game and “Everquest”, people stop understanding it so todays MMOs have to dumb it down quite a bit.

So you are basically saying that everyone who disagrees with you here is too simple minded to understand you and not as intelligent as you are?
Must be pretty lonely up there on your high horse…

Why can’t you understand that people can have different opinions about a subject, while their opinions say nothing about intelligence but more on the way they look at things or even taste? I mean you have to admit that your post was pretty tasteless.

panzer.6034:

This is an important point. Most people don’t stop to realize that pretty much NOTHING about RL christmas is actually christian or from a single source, from the date on the calender (birth of mitra), the presents (saturnalia) to the tree (northern non-christian celebration of yule). The holiday in RL is a crazy mash-up of different cultures crammed together into one package, so it makes perfect sense for it to be treated similarly in GW.

Exactly!

Shadowlancer, buddy, Tyria is a fictional world created and owned by Anet.
-snip-
Cheers,
Emboric.

This is also a good point. In the end it’s up to them what the backgroundstories will be. It’s not like the entire lore of all the races is already finished and now they are trying to remove or edit parts of it, all they are doing is adding more. Don’t forget that they will have to build some bridges between the races that we never heard of before GW2, so that everyone can enjoy events when they take place, no matter what race you chose. And this will only lead to a more connected world instead of having basically 5 seperate racial worlds in GW2.

Regards

mulch.2586:

It being a human holiday about (absent) human gods…

Having the other races do it is like Christians have a Pesach Seder.

Not really, because for humans Wintersday means what it meant in GW1, since we only followed humans there. But the post clearly states: “While each race celebrates Wintersday in their own unique way …”. This means that while for humans Wintersday may be all about the battle between Dwayna and Grenth, for other races it could be about something else. We never knew of the other sides of the Wintersday story before in GW1 because you only looked at the world through the eyes of a human character.

What they’ve created in GW2 now actually mimics how we celebrate Christmas/New Year in RL very accurately, because in RL the reason why and how you celebrate a holiday depends on your view of the world (e.g. for some Christmas means a Christmas tree and Santa Claus and for others it means the birth of Christ).

Regards

PS: @OP To me your reasoning why a Golem Airship is impossible in a fantasy game is what boggles me. You are jumping to conclusions, so far we don’t know much about how the other races celebrate the holidays so we are not familiar with that part of their lore. I bet they have nice story behind this Toymaker Tixx so first wait for that and then decide if you like it or not. You are now basing this conclusion on only 4 sentences about a holiday event that will last for almost 3 weeks…

Hi,

If I select my character in the Character Select screen it tells me my character has completed 95% of the map, but when I’m logged in and check it on the map itself it only says I’ve completed 94%. It looks like there might be a difference in rounding off the percentages, because I’ve also seen them display the same percentages.

Regards

Hi,

There is a bug with the Rune of the Monk’s sell price. At Historian Symon the ingame description says the Major Rune of the Monk is worth 8s64c but if you try to sell it to Merchants it will say it’s worth 1s8c. I looted one from a chest in the dungeon and on that one the ingame description is correct and does tell you it’s worth 1s8c. I believe this is probably also the same with the Minor and Superior version, but I don’t have one of those so I can’t confirm it.

Regards

Daroth.4285:

You probably have “Fast-Cast Ground Targeting” on in the options menu so thats why you don’t see the arrow.

Yep that was the problem! Thanks for the help all

Ah now I see, I had the Fast-Cast Ground Targeting option enabled and that’s the reason why I never saw the arrow. So for me it used to just cast automatically whenever I used the skill :P I’ll just keep it disabled then. Probably better anyway.

Ah so that’s what it’s following? Good to know, might be good to either change the skill discription to this or change the skill so that it either launches you forward or at your target like RtL. Or am I the only one who didn’t get how this worked?

I believe it shouldn’t use up a Grandmaster slot but an Adept slot like it does in every other profession. The Earth trait would indeed be the most logical place for it considering other professions.

It doesn’t matter if we have a passive speed buff and RtL, because you can’t always avoid falling down. I like that Anet seems to focus more on vertical terrains aswell, but my Elementalist doesn’t like eating grass and mud everytime she wants to follow another profession down. Sure it’s probably a great gold sink because we either need to bring someone else along to revive us or we have to wp our way out. Atm Elementalists can’t enjoy the vertical terrains as much as others because of this and your profession choice shouldn’t be an impairment in certain areas.

Btw I really suggest you all try the Griffonrook Run Jumping Puzzle and try to get to the chest with the bomb. Keep count of how often you die because you had to jump down before you could regen enough just to avoid being hit by a Griffon. Great way to bump your death count up.
Eventually I gave up and just tried to finish it without that bomb and that was still pretty difficult.

Hi,

Is it just me or does Fiery Whirl not at all makes you advance forward? I’ve used it a couple of times but it always launches me in different directions. If I position myself to look at a mob and use the skill I start whirling away from the mob most of the times instead of towards it. It doesn’t seem to care if you target anything like RtL. To me it feels this skill is now totally random. Anyone else had this same problem?

Regards

Yeah everything is headgear-less in cinematics now. It looks weird in some cases (like Zojja) and it doesn’t make sense because after the cinematic they immediatly wear their headgear again.

Maybe a stupid question but did you check if the quest didn’t change? Because after the completion or Arah you have to regroup with Destiny’s Edge just outside of Fort Trinity for a little ego boosting. Just did it yesterday and I received my rewards, I’m not quite sure if I got them after completing the dungeon or after completing the entire quest.

Would be nice to get an Anet response to this, because I can’t imagine they forgot to give Ele’s one so it has to be intentional. But I don’t see any reason for this. Either give all professions the trait, or none and make it a consumable or something like that.

Just double posted this, sorry about that.
I also noticed this. It seems to happen only after finishing your personal storyline. Or at least whenever you didn’t just finish a quest inside the instance.
Not a huge bug but it should be looked at, especially if in the future new features are added that might promote visiting your home instance every once in a while (like player housing).

Btw at OP, you’re not using the Q&A feature correctly. This is just a bug report, you didn’t ask any questions in your post :P

Regards

Let’s give this one a bump. I don’t get why every single profession except Elementalist has a 50% reduced falling damage trait. Elementalists now clearly have a disadvantage when it comes to vertical maps and it looks like Anet wants to create more of these (which is nice by itself). E.g. the new PvP map, but also some jumping puzzles like Griffonrook Run. This puzzle actually requires you to let yourself fall down a number of times while not getting hit by any of the Griffon mobs flying around at the drop points within 3 minutes. So please give us our 50% reduced falling damage trait to even things out. Having 4 elements can be an advantage, but when it comes down to falling damage it doesn’t help you at all. Plus it’s weird since we use both Air and Earth, but somehow we suck at it that much that we can’t use it at our advantage when we fall off of a cliff…

Here’s one of mine:

And this one: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lostshores/Lost-Shores-Feedback-Thread-1/first
So how many official statements do you want exactly? They are looking into it, so just be patient instead of creating double threads on the forum…

Well they did make it enormously large and placed it on the ramp back up… Plus there was probably a pretty big group of players around it shouting exotics and stuff in the chat.

HERO.2057:

All my exotics (2 pieces), were level 78.

Then you weren’t lvl 80 yourself I guess? So far I’ve only seen lower lvls getting loot under lvl 80 from the chest.

They posted somewhere on the forum that you’d better hold onto them for the final event or something like that. But it doesn’t look like you need them or ever needed them.

EDIT: Found the post: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lostshores/Safe-to-delete-Phase-1-event-items/first#post775261

Hi,

I believe some more are experiencing the same thing. I got all the wp’s in Southsun Cove earlier but reentering the zone I’m missing half of them. I only have Pride Point Waypoint, Lion Point Waypoint and Owen’s Refuge Waypoint now.

Regards

Thank you for the detailed explanation. Really cleared things up for me! Please keep on posting in this manner Anet-staff

Hmm I don’t keep track of it that well. I did notice the decrease but I assumed the points were fixed now in the new build. But you are still missing some? Well you can’t do anything with them anyway.