Guild Wars 2

That’s compensation for the original storyline, where we have Destiny’s Edge plus another sylvari, namely Trahearne, as main characters. /jk

Crimson Clouds.4853:

Aaah, my good friend Job-o-tron (aka Annoy-o-tron). I love it. I have it on my “golemancer style” Asura guardian.

“BOING”
“Faster… FAAAASTERR”
“Your-grawl-impression-is-really-coming-along”
“Turbo-mode… ENGAAAAAAGED”

Yeah, that thing! It drives me insane just coming across people who have it, I can’t imagine how bad it’d be if I had it myself…

I don’t even know the name of it, some back item maybe? Some asura something-tron I’d guess, which comments everything you do, from getting buffs to taking damage.

When you go to the journal entries for lw2 gates of maguuma, do you have a button that says “Replay this episode” ? If you click on that they should appear

I think you have to complete lw2 first?

Or it could be that you need to go to the journal and start that part from there.

Imo, as soon as you do something to deliberately annoy other people, you should be prepared that there might be consequences. I doubt that Anet will ban you or do anything drastic if there’s just a few reports though.

I think those situations are funny and in most cases wouldn’t bother with a report, but I can understand if someone gets angry. And depending on the situation, it could be impeding in addition to annoying. Saw a vid a while ago, where in eotm the portal sent people from a chest straight off the islands, plummeting to their deaths. So now those people had to somehow try to get back to the train somewhere on the other side of the map and the zerg was suddenly a good amount of people short, which might cause problems when meeting the enemy zerg.

Throw high lvl rare/exotic staffs into the forge. Of course it will cost you A LOT of money, but that’s the only way afaik to get the exact precursor you want unless you buy it of the tp.
No telling how many thousands of gold you’ll need though (unless you’re super lucky).

Taltevus.3289:

If you have 10 expansions of GW2 the person who’s played and PAYED for all 10 of them B****es would have spent 500-600 dollars while the new guy hanging out and just picked up the game for 50-60 bucks just got all ten of them for 50-60 bucks.

It doesn’t seem like people are looking out far enough to see just how WRONG this is. I’d much rather just have a subscription and have a well tailored game versus all this Bull**** to try and finagle money from it’s players left and right just to have the ball, forget about getting and keeping it rolling, that’s a whole other struggle.

I’m not gonna go into the rest of the rant, but this part here caught my eye. Let’s do a little math!
Let’s be generous and say 10 dollar subscription a month and one expansion a year (which is quite unrealistic). So we have 120 bucks a year for 10 years (at which point the 10th expac comes out, which would add some more months of play, but for simplicity let’s stay at 10 years). Makes a grand total of 1200 dollars. Don’t know about you, but 500-600 dollars sounds like a hell of a lot better deal to me than more than 1k.

And now let’s imagine a player getting into the game at the time of the 10th expansion. They play for 6 months to a total of 60$ in subsription fees, but have all the content you have now paid 1260$ for. Oh noes, how unfair right?

I generally don’t care if someone does it. I myself don’t do it because I like to see my own chara clearly.
Also, not sure how often that happens but sometimes you don’t see another at the position they’re actually in due to server lag or the like, so it could happen accidentally. You think you’re standing right next to them, but in reality you overlap.

Most sylvari I’ve seen tend to be in the blue/green spectrum, followed by rose tones. Haven’t seen too many dark brown ones, so that’d be the most “unusual” (of course that’s only what I’ve seen, there might have been dozens always hiding behind my back, so I couldn’t see’em)

assasin oates.3018:

Who is Primordius?

That’s the first of the Elder dragons to awaken, who commands the destroyers.

Hm, I don’t really think a new dragon to be that possible. It would seriously mess up the current setup, like all the scripts talking of 6 dragons, and the vision in LS2.

As for who’s next, I’d go with Kralka. Just because we currently have the egg (or more precisely we don’t). I can see this going two ways, dragonet hatches and we try to get it back to Glint’s home in the crystal desert or maybe take revenge for Glint’s death.
All speculation though

Kjell.8379:

If you can easily get multiple crafting disciplines to 500, paying fifty silver every time you need to swap is nothing.

Maybe so, but personally, I don’t want to spend those 50s if its not neccessary. Also, I do have a few crafts at 500 but I’m not exactly swimming in gold, so those 50s every time could add up to a more substantial loss for me.

Yeah, if you accidentally accepted and don’t need it, it’s no big deal to switch to something else.

BE AWARE though, that while you won’t lose any progress on your crafting levels, it does cost a fee to switch back to a formerly known crafting discipline, if you ever want it back. It’s 10 copper per crafting level, so 50s for a maxed one at 500. So I’d advise on no more than 2 crafts per chara, unless you get additional crafting licenses.

Afaik, that’s the intended setup for outfits. Already had a thread about it somewhere.

While I certainly understand your sadness that many things you have come to hold dear simply don’t exist anymore, I can’t quite get behind some of your reasoning.
You ask if people have become stupid because they can only have one profession. Well, why could charas in gw1 only have 2? Were they too stupid/too lazy to learn more? Why was there no crafting? I’m sure some people back then knew how to make weapons and the like? You ask why there are no healer roles, but why not ask for farmers or butchers? Just because they exist ingame, doesn’t mean they’re playable.

Don’t get me wrong, I see what you’re missing, but to explain it like this in lore terms is a bit silly.

I’d say that we’ll get to the deep sea dragon eventually, the way the game is set up. Question is only when.
New races however is a bit more questionable. Not sure we’ll ever get them, and even if we do, which ones? There’s quite a few that come to mind as possible, starting with tengu, kodan, largos or quaggan. Though I kind of doubt that the quaggan would become playable, since they are counted among the “lesser races” (don’t really like that term).

Ice.5162:

Deleting a character in this game is not as big of a deal as you’d think, the only thing you lose by deleting a character and re-leveling it is the soulbound armor (which you can salvage) and possible bag slot expansions you invested in, otherwise all progress you did is account bound, just delete and re-level.

Of course it depends on the character, but there are a few things you could lose, that are not that easily replaced. For instance, crafting levels and recipes you have learned on that character.
Also, depending on when you made that chara, it could set you way back in terms of getting anniversary presents. A friend of mine made a character somewhat close to the original game release, then took a longer break in between and is now back and somewhat displeased with a character he made back then. So that would be more than two years of progress towards the 3rd birthday present lost in case he deleted it.

CandyHearts.6025:

I still fail to see the problem I guess. I never dye in a rush and figuring it out takes seconds for me. o.o

It is not really a big problem, I agree. It would just be a convenient option and given that armors save their dyes, it seems not too difficult to implement for outfits as well.

CandyHearts.6025:

It takes 2s to redye it though

It doesn’t, if you don’t remember the exact dyes used, which OP was talking about

circuitnerd.5863:

I don’t have my 3-day headstart character anymore. Do I still get the outfit? I pre-ordered the Collectors Edition of the game.

This one’s regardless of your characters’ or account’s age, as long as you bought the game, you’ll get it. Give it a few days

I admit I’m a bit worried, too, since my experience with f2p (while small) has not been that good so far. But I will wait and see how it turns out. Since I won’t claim to know much about business models and that stuff, I’ll trust Anet to make sound decisions for the development of the game and keep unwanted company like bots and the like out even with f2p.
I enjoy the game way too much to leave over some “what could be”. If it does turn out otherwise, I can still leave after. But I sure hope not.

Taiyoroku.1028:

well you cant confirm who’s your friend or can we, so goldspamers can add on map people an them wisper no?

It’s for mutual friends, so you’d need to add them too. Just them adding you won’t cut it.

sparkhawk.4708:

Question: i already got my 3rd year birthday gift, but didn’t got the outfit. Is this ok, or i will get the outfit later this week?

It’s separate from the bday gifts, you’ll get it later

Donari.5237:

… but it sounds like “daughter.” How hard is that to figure out?

Ok ok I’ve been reading fantasy of all sorts since I was a kid, including old Norse sagas, original Grimm fairy tales, Greek myths, etc. And I’ve done Viking reenactment. So maybe it’s more obvious to me. But … dottir = daughter. It seems so no-brainer.

It may sound like a no-brainer going from English. But what if that person speaks something else? It might be a lot less clear.
Also, sounding the same doesn’t always equal meaning the same. One example from German-English: ‘bekommen’ = ‘to become’ would be a no-brainer, right? Nope, ‘bekommen’ means ‘to get’.

One thing to also consider is that many names of this style have come to be used as normal surnames over time, without any regard to what they originally meant. One example would be Swedish actress Greta Garbo, born as a Gustafsson. She was neither a son, nor was her father named Gustaf.
So if we bring modern naming conventions into play, those names aren’t even neccessarily false.