Guild Wars 2

Balanced? I’d hardly call this balanced.

Everything dies before I even have chance to target and hit the kitten things, even champs die in seconds.

rizzo.1079:

The clock tower would be way better if you didn’t have to wait so long between tries. I gave up after like 5 times because the waiting was very boring…if I fall off let me start right away not 2 minutes later.

Sometimes it can be quicker to leave the instance and re-join another one that may be just starting, though this is random as you could join the same one or a longer waiting one.

Also, when there is less than 1 min 40 on the clock, leave because another round will not start and you just wait for the timer to hit 0 then reload the next match.

Hey guys

Just wanted to share a video I did last night of farming bags in the clock tower, I’ve found this to be the best way to get the most bags, I did the Labyrinth zerg farm for an hour and only got 20-30 bags so it’s much less.

Of course, for this to be effective you have to be good at the jumping puzzle, and complete it on almost every run. I average about 100-130 bags per hour.

Now yes, this may seem pointless to some people as everyone seems to have this mentality of “I’d rather just run Frostgorge zerg and buy them” but if you don’t enjoy mindless champ train zerging, or are not high enough level then this is the best way to get bags. (I actually enjoy running the clock tower)

Also, if it’s like last Halloween, the prices for mats will likely go up after it’s over, so farming these bags to save for a later date could make you some decent money.

Here is the video if you want to check it out.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U7MO7LyvBY

Enjoy the rest of Halloween xD

Be afraid of the witch of Tyria… and her cat!

Just curious, what makes people think that a new playable race has to be in the game already?

People keep saying like Tengu, Kodan, Hylek, Largos and so on are the likely races to be playable, but they could just add a completely new race that’s not in the game at the moment.

I mean, Sylvari were a new race introduced in GW2 so there’s no reason they couldn’t bring in another new race with an expansion and make them playable, or even races that are in the Guild Wars lore but not in the game.

I never played original WoW and started around the end of Lich King stuff but I’m pretty sure I never saw a Pandaren in the game, yet now they are playable. Yes they were in the lore already but wasn’t in the game (as far as I know) so Anet could do the same, there’s no reason a new playable race has to be a race that already has NPC’s running around in game.

I gladly welcome a source of power in my instance.

I hate having to carry them with me and go out to find a SoP I can charge them at, and even more annoying when I’ve hit “Deposit all collectables” without releasing and then getting to a SoP and having to go back to a city.

Why do people keep moaning about how Krait working with others breaks the lore?

Who says they are joining forces by choice? Yes it may not be in their nature to ally with others but if you are being forced, manipulated or under some kind of spell/infection then you have no choice.

The Krait shown in the images are clearly not normal Krait, so they have obviously been corrupted with this Poison/Toxin, or whatever is going on.

Just because Scarlet is behind it, doesn’t mean she went to the Krait and said do you want to team up? and they said yes.

Walhalla.5473:

panzer.6034:

Canach returns….

Or it could be Trahearne, driving the Kraid insane with his speeches. This won’t end well indeed :P

Commander, to me. You need to decide on the course of action you wish to take so I can claim all the credit for your hard work.

Well we are getting 3 “new” fractals according to Anet. The reactor one that was voted for, and then they are adding the Molten Facility and Aetherblade Retreat as 2 new fractals which will be slightly changed to match other fractals.

Anyone else wondering what is up with the glowing green Krait? I’ve not seen krait like that in-game before.

Is this something to do with risen? or Scarlet manipulating them somehow? or are they just more powerful and infected with poison?

Well I’m guessing the 10th and 24th of December patches are going to be heavily focused on Christmas (24th more so) so that only really leaves November to add some real content to the LS and like I said before, I think we will definitely see new fractals and ascended armour in November.

They don’t release them depending on which month it is, it goes solely on every 2 weeks no matter how many weeks are in that month.

So we still get this last one at the end of this month then there is 2 in November and 2 in December.

Edit: This month was kinda different because the first patch landed on the first day of the month which allowed this month to release 3 patches.

DragonWhimsy.6489:

Whitey.6185:

By the way, there will be 4 (5 including this Krait one) more updates before the end of the year, not 3.

Where do you get the idea there will be 5 more patches?

29th October
12th November
26th November
10th December
24th December

Well yeah, they did say the blog was just things they wanted to add before the year is over, not 100% will be in game before then.

If I remember right, someone from Anet said that a new legendary item is the most likely to not make it this year.

By the way, there will be 4 (5 including this Krait one) more updates before the end of the year, not 3.

I’m guessing ascended armour and the new fractals will come at end of November which will be a year since fractals was first added to the game.

This is probably the weakest preview ever. Shows absolutely nothing about the next patch apart from we all get a new healing skill.

To be honest, the only new races I want to be playable are Tengu and Largos.

The Kodan are not of any interest to me, and the only class I would want to play on them is probably a Guardian, whereas Largos I would love to play a Thief, Mesmer and water Ele.

I never really said it can’t be done. I said it’s never going to happen because Anet are never going to put that much effort into a race that not enough people care about or want to play.

Colin already said whichever race they add first will be from the pool that people want/ are talking about the most, and from what I can see (in game and on forums) the most wanted are Tengu, Kodan and Largos, which are also probably the 3 most likely to be added, Largos are basically a human so would need little work to make them playable. Kodan are basically Norn, and Tengu are similar to Charr.

Sorry, it just amazes me that you think Anet would even consider redoing all the armour in the game to fit the Krait.

Tengu will be a playable race at some point, there’s no doubt about that.

I doubt it’s just a coincidence that they’ve been set up so perfectly to be playable and besides, they have likely already done a lot of work on the tengu as they was initially going to be playable in the final release game but was held back to focus more on finishing the other 5 races.

You really think ANet are going to go and change every single piece of leg and boot armour in the game just to fit the Krait? They couldn’t even be bothered to fix the tail clipping with Charr so there is slim to no chance of them re-modelling all armour in the game to fit a race with no legs and feet.

But they don’t base adding playable races on lore, that can be explained in the story, to add a payable race it has to play like all the other races.

just like in WoW, every playable race is just a re-skinned human, Krait do not meet that criteria.

Yes, snakes can leap to strike it’s prey, but it’s not jumping (also, Charr can jump, if you stand still and press space they jump like a human) however snakes cannot jump straight up off the ground on the spot.

Can’t really be bothered to argue about this topic to be fair, but I’m just going to say this again, Krait will never be a playable race, even Quaggan have a better chance of being playable.

But there is one major reason why Krait will never be playable, they don’t have a humanoid body. Not only would this cause massive issues with armour and weapons, but you know that spacebar on your keyboard? you know, the one that makes your character jump, not only would jumping Krait look ridiculous, but please explain how that is even possible?

Also, a Krait Guardian? just no.

EDIT: Oh and I never heard anyone saying that Pandaren wouldn’t be able to be playable in WoW, they work because they can wear normal gear and use normal weapons and act like just every other playable races.

You can’t just add a playable race because it would be cool, it has to work with the games mechanics and that is the most important thing.

Sorry but no matter what people come up with for reasons Krait would make good playable races, it’s just never going to happen and I would willingly bet money on it not happening.

Was the same for WoW, I’ve lost count how many people keep going on and on about playable Naga and Murlocs yet it will never, ever happen..

The only races I see a potential of becoming playable is the Tengu, Kodan & Largos (slightly less possibility) and at a push, the Dwarves, however it would need some extreme lore explanations as to how they became living again.

Change Thief F1 skill to give perma stealth until deactivated or attacking an enemy.

I use Razer Naga mouse so have skills 1-10 on 1 through 10 on mouse buttons, then use mouse 11 for dodge and mouse 12 for weapon swap.

WASD for normal movement, Q to withdraw and put away weapon , E for interact and loot, X to target next enemy, Z to target previous enemy and Tab to target nearest. 1-4 (above QWER) for profession skills, C for character panel and I for inventory.

With this setup I never have to remove my fingers from the WASD keys while in combat.

While I would like to see the Largos playable, I just can’t see it happening.

For starters, they wear masks all the time, so that would make 90% of the head armour unusable on them as their mask would interfere with it.

Then going by the wiki, you find more reason that lean towards them not be playable like they are all assassins and wield 2 swords so the only professions that would fit them is Mesmer and Warrior, Thief would fit too but they can’t dual wield swords.

Again, the wiki says they all have white hair, so this coupled with a mask covering up their face makes their customization weak.

Then there is the giant wings on their back which would cause problems with armour, 2 handed weapons and back pieces.

So I would actually love to play a Largos Thief and Mesmer, but what we know of them at the moment doesn’t seem like they would be playable.

As for Krait, never going to happen, same goes for Skritt, Quaggan, Troll, Dredge, Centaur, Ogre and any other lesser race.

Yes, but with a few changes and more features.

Take a look at the release page for details on what to expect.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/october-15-2013/

More challenging? Yes. Enable PvP? No way.

What they should do, is add like levels or tiers to the puzzle. When you reach the top, you can either collect your reward and end it there, or you can gamble your rewards and advance to the next tier, where things get more difficult by objects moving when you’re on them, reduce the time you have, and so on.

If you make it to the top of the next tier run, you get better rewards, but if you do not make it then you get nothing and lose the reward you would have got from tier 1.

This gives a sense of risk and reward, if you make it you can either take it and go or risk what you’ve won to get bigger and better rewards.

There was a notification on the gem store.

When you looked at the item in the store, it had the “Available for (however many hours was left)” with a countdown and the orange banner, meaning it was leaving the store after that time.

Have No Faith In Me.1840:

359 laurels???!?!?! WHAT THE kitten.

Can you PLEASE spend them already, WOW.

I was just about the post the same thing.. WTF 3…5…9…

It’s funny how mad some people get if you do events and champions from “their” train.

People think they have exclusive rights to champions just because they are in a big zerg, you shouldn’t do an event or kill a champ if the zerg is not there because it’s theirs and they have been running it all day…

Sorry but this is a terrible decision.

When we heard we were getting new permanent content everyone was happy, but if we had known current content would be removed we would have thought differently.

Not only have you removed a dungeon that people like to do, you’ve now split the dungeon up and a level 55 can now only run 2 paths and must wait till level 80 to do the 3rd path (every other dungeon has same level paths).

I really don’t know what goes on in the minds of Anet devs, I swear you guys must sit there and think, ‘Ok we’ve made some new content, we must remove something now so we can put it in the game’

I am glad we are getting some new dungeon content, but the fact we’re also losing some is just saddening.

I think it should be much harder, was too easy last time.

Not sure how it would be done, but it would be cool if they made a mode that requires team work.

I also agree with people saying making it private would just make it even more boring, SAB is quite fun when playing in a group but there’s no need at all to do it in a group and I always run SAB alone now because it’s quicker.

Also, people saying big characters ruined their run, I don’t see why… I did it on a small Asura and while I couldn’t see my character at times, it was still easy.

A video of me doing it last year on my Asura… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZIa4BzsWgY

Wait, I thought hotjoin was pretty worthless for rank points? How exactly are people rank farming?

40g an hour? I seriously doubt that.

People run something once, get extremely lucky and then claim everyone can make that much an hour, when most likely you will earn half that.

I think they nerfed it way too much, seems hard to get Karma now, mine hasn’t been going up much lately at all.

It costs over 1mil karma to get a legendary, which seems a really long task now and if you want to get multiple legendaries, you better start farming and not spend a single karma on anything not legendary related.

Draco.2806:

This topic got me thinking, actually. I think I know what the problem is.

Speaking of luck, I got a BLC Key from a random bandit in Queensdale the other day. That’s after a year or so of on-and-off play. Turns out they DO drop like the description says! Except almost never.

Yeah, I also got my first ever key drop from a mob not too long ago.

I’ve played close to 2000 hours now and only ever saw 1 key drop in all that time. They do drop from any mob, but extremely rare, probably same chance as a precursor.

I also used a scroll to boost my level 2 character to 20 and just bought the white stuff from the vendor in the city as that’s enough to do anything related to your level.

Besides, once you’ve killed a few mobs, done some events and levelled up, you will likely be replacing all that gear any way.

I’ve never bought gear off the TP for low level characters as it’s not needed. I’ve still been able to perform just fine with a level 40 character using level 20 gear.

khani.4786:

I always ran in MF gear, then crafted celestial (when it had MF)

Yeah, for the most part my luck suck.

Grr. I did finally break through the RNG to get a good drop from my fractal daily chest and get a fractal torch “skin” and an ascended weapon chest….but that’s likely where that’ll stop. Because shortly after that it was "Oh you want to salvage an exotic light shoulders you got? Here’s a single silk scrap. " Facepalm

I hate that feeling so much, you salvage an exo (or even a rare) and get 1 measly T5 material that sells for 10c.

Then again, I still feel like a boss when I salvage and get 3 ecto, 3 dark matters, sup rune and T6 material.

I don’t even know who or what the Hyrda is.

I saw the achievement in the list and never knew what it was or where this Queen is.

You spent 3g on level 20 gear? what the hell were you buying? I can kit a level 20 out in 6 silver.

Sai.5908:

It depends on the idea , there were some ideas on this game that I did not agree with such as the LFG tool which brings bad memories from another MMO , but there were some that I Didn’t shoot down such as PvP leveling and dynamic quests .

LFG tool is one of the best things ever added to this game.

I’m not 100% sure but I think only world bosses can’t be critically hit, guess it’s to stop them dying too quick when being attacked by 100 people.

As far as I know, you can crit dungeon bosses and regular ones.

Of course it has to be.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZZ7oFKsKzY

You can use your finishers in WvW.

I’ve used mine in WvW, and I’ve also been stomped by the explosive finisher in WvW.

Halloween is my favourite time of the year, and the Halloween release is still the best one so far in my opinion.

If they do bring the clock tower back, they should make it twice as hard, was too easy I think after you did it first time.

I would also like to see them add the other weapon skins, seeing as a lot of weapons didn’t get a Halloween skin. I would like a scepter and axe to finish my Necro look, maybe even a warhorn.

Most fun = Necro. Least fun = Necro.

Would have to be Human Warrior, especially if using a GS. 100B animation on Humans makes me feel a little sick.

Besides, it’s a fantasy game, why would you play something so real and generic like a Human?

I really wish ArenaNet would drop the whole idea of spend more money for a chance of getting what you want.

I would be more than happy to pay for an item I want knowing that I’m going to get it straight away, but what I’m not willing to do is spend £100 or more just for a slim chance that I will get what I’m after.

I wouldn’t gamble in real life, so why on earth would I do it in a game with real money.