Guild Wars 2

Azure Prower.8701:

Yargesh.4965:

I get a mix of on map level and on character level drops. The bags are always on map level (ie not heavy with 80 mats) and when I break down items I get the cottons etc if it is an area level item. What you are asking for is there already.

Hi there diminishing returns. How are you today?

Good? There is such a thing as moving around?

Good luck with your lawsuit, let us know how much real cash you got to throw at the lawyers to tell you there is no case.

I get a mix of on map level and on character level drops. The bags are always on map level (ie not heavy with 80 mats) and when I break down items I get the cottons etc if it is an area level item. What you are asking for is there already.

Other colours would be great. The design teams seem to get an idea and run with it, sometimes a little too far, greatcoats medium armour and the orange/blue fire effects. Will see over the next year what comes out. They did use white on the armour pieces you get from Achievement chests plus the champ box greatsword cobalt (edit, on screenshots it looks blue, on my computer when I use it it looks white), so white might be the new fashion choice.

Below is the quote from the last post of the closed thread.

Since this issue has already been addressed by Martin, I’m going to close this thread. Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts and opinions about the topic.

As a reminder, here’s the statement about the data-mined image:

We just wanted to respond to the image that has been data-mined from the Edge of the Mists testing branch.

This is a testing branch. We conduct internal experiments for various territories on our testing branches. This particular experiment is not being tested for the West.

As always, keep in mind that we test a lot more than we ship, so data-mining is no guarantee of anything. If we have announcements to make about future content, we’ll make them through the usual official channels.

MRA.4758:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I am confused. I read on the forums that almost all the servers were dead. How is it possible to have so many overflows?

Is this so? I don’t have any numbers, either. Maybe one half of the servers is constantly guesting on the other half, thereby producing constant overflows on the one half and leaving the other half deserted?

~MRA

What one might call a stretch.

mine is 18.4GB. The release schedule is bi-weekly. They will be starting up new releases on the 21st of this month.

You can get drops scaled to your level. If you are 20 and hitting somehow lvl 80 champs you get lvl 20 items. If you are 80 and hit lvl 20 champs you have a chance of getting lvl 80 items (not guaranteed). I have personally gotten a lvl 80 exotic armour from lvl 5 mob. Others have gotten precursors (corrected by Flissy).

Kibazuka.1390:

Flissy.4093:

I’ll give you 2 weeks before you go back on most of what you said.

I play since release day and still play several hours each day and love it.

me too

Madlifey.3561:

So about the transmutation stones
If i put the skin on weapon 1 ( lvl 1 ) and then i played a bit more then got new gear. So if i used the stone on weapon 2 ( lvl 5 ) to combine weapon 1 appearance will it looks like weapon 1 ( skin ) and have the stats of weapon 2 ( lvl 5 and now with skin)

Yes, you need to do that up to lvl 80 though if you always want that skin. Also don’t delete a character that has soulbound items you want to keep. There is a way to account bind an item by transmuting to a white level weapon or armour.

Madlifey.3561:

Im a new player so what you just said confused me by alot, So if i click on a Weapon Skin in my inventory will it apply to my level 1 weapons ? and then when i get new gear can i take them off and re-apply them to it or do i need to buy another set of skins

In a sense, yes. I personally would not put it on a lvl 1 weapon.
wiki on transmutation stones
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Transmutation_Stone
The rest you are told when you double click the skin.

They are used by applying the skin to a weapon or armour you have. After they are applied you need to use transmutation stones (you will get lots and lots as you play) up until lvl 79, then to put onto lvl 80 gear you need the crystal form (from gems store or the rare daily/map complete). Just make sure you do not delete or break down the item or it will be gone for good.

At lvl 21 you really don’t need to do much except learn various ways of playing. You are changing so much depending on what you do that finding the perfect build is not really in your best interest. As Belzebu wrote use everything to get a better idea of how you want to play. I switched around weapons and traits all through my time to 80 and even still modify weapons and armour. I stick with naked bear and devourer when doing longbow, but choose cat for greatsword. Pets are a very individual choice.

Raeysa Penrose.8450:

Coltz.5617:

I agree with the OP I feel the sameway too . They really should make WvW a seperate entity than PvE.

I’m sorry to break it to you, but Anet has stated multiple times that their goal is to bring the playerbase together; more than likely, they’re going to try to encourage more overlap between PvE and PvP/WvW rather than less.

They said this in the Q&A that the OP quotes. I don’t understand it myself but that is their goal and they are quite open about it. They also think that if people need to go into an area they will eventually like it, I don’t understand that philosophy either but I just play the game I don’t make the rules.

Never gotten a key as a drop, just story and map complete. It is very, very easy to farm the lvl 10 story on a human commoner though, not the money grubbing that people like to throw around.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Well, there is the dragon teeter-totter at the orphanage. Maybe it comes from choosing that option in the Human PS.

It is always there for my characters I run for keys.

nexxe.7081:

Not only that, but the only way to actually turn our character, while standing still, is with the keyboard. It’s the only MMO, that i’ve tried, that doesn’t let us turn our character with right-mouse button held down.

Hold down right mouse, turn the camera, click left mouse button, you turn on the spot without moving.

Odds are good for a new playable race. Odds are lower for a new profession. There are going to be uses. Whether it is worth it to keep the space occupied until then is up to each person.

VOLKON.1290:

Phantom.8130:

the thing is, though, it certainly wasn’t the entire community. in fact, there was a lot of people who repeatedly argued against those calling for a gear treadmill to be put in. in fact, if you take a look at the NCsoft’s financial report, when they announced ascended gear in november, their stock value plummeted. it took months for it to even stabilize and never gained back how much they lost. it was clearly a bad decision that being pushed by a minority. instead of caving, anet should have just said “no. that goes against our intention for the game and the expectations given to our customers. we’re not going to flush our game down the toilet because a very vocal minorty can’t accept that this isn’t WoW.” and the entire debacle would have been avoided. they would have lost those who would were calling for a treadmill, but would have kept a lot more players in the long run.

I um… oh my. Well, a couple things. First, there’s no treadmill in the game still. Second, ascended gear did not result in NCSoft stock dropping in value. I’m at a loss for words to think anyone would even try to make that connection. Seriously.

There is no treadmill. Understand this.

There is the endless loop of this discussion though.

buy them from the npc that sells them. You do not need to buy gems to do this.

Grumpdogg.6910:

Isn’t the next update already late?

Arenanet online advertisements boasted of updates every two weeks. Lawsuits incoming.

21st.

Neural.1824:

semi-off topic: Has anyone mapped out the locations of the “do not touch” things? Are they just random, or do they form a pattern?

I remember reading and seeing the maps, looked like rudolf the rednosed reindeer to me when connect the dots was used.

Belzebu.3912:

Skill points no, but you get those easily in huge amounts soon enough, so don’t worry about that.
Traits can be reset talking with the same NPC that sell the book that unlock the traits, it cost a small fee (at lvl 80 it is about 3s).

This, just make sure you don’t buy the books. It is a separate line in the text when you talk to your prof trainer.

Ele
Seriously they can be amazing solo when you get the attunements working right.

Other than that the default hit things till they fall down and move on to next is the warrior. Not what I call fun but less worries about playing it without mistakes.

Begging is frowned upon in most games.

An Siorai Tharian.4516:

Shadey Dancer, out of curiosity, did you, even once, answer one of their whispers? Even if it was to say “No I will not stop rezing these NPC’s!”?

Bots don’t rez. Verbal abuse could be a problem for the OP but that is all.

You are pretty safe from anything unless you got into a mud slinging match. As others have written abusing the report function can lead to temp bans.

you can transmute order armour (all armour actually) onto white and it is account bound.

I personally would not mind that metronome (hint, hint).

It could be any of the theories, will be fun to see over the next 4 releases what turns up.
The clock way back before the queens jubilee was a direct reference to clockwork creatures. Wonder what the metronome directly references.

Elementalist can be tricky to figure out. Hunter and guard from your choices could be good. Hunter pet takes agro and guard is kind of boring in a you know the outcome kind of way.

There are splitters that give a skin back but it stays soulbound. Best is to use a transmutation stone or crystal to a white item, you then have an account bound item.

It would be nice if they completely reworked the Zhaitan finish.

The game has been out for quite a while. People come in all the time true but it cannot be full every zone all the time. After the first play through you do not follow the same path leveling, some craft, some WvW, some focus only on specific zones.
Give a shout in map chat you would be surprised how many are around and just doing their thing.

They could make better use of the Heralds in every city by having them give cinematics of old/upcoming content. They where sort of supposed to do this but frankly they are not useful at all.

I have never found a game yet that I got any pleasure out of pvp. The closest was Atlantica Online and even then I did not get any real joy out of it.

lordkrall.7241:

Ah, yes. Why should we believe what they say?
It is of course much more likely that they are spreading blatant lies and showing completely incorrect information, because we all know that they will gain so much more with that then when not saying anything at all

Well Duh!
lol

Blude.6812:

Yargesh.4965:

Wryscher.1432:

Vayne.8563:

Let’s see.

Changes that persist.

Moa Racing (Lion’s Arch)
Not So Secret Jumping Puzzle (Gendarran Fields)
Twilight Arbor Aetherblade Path (Caledon Forest)
Tequatl (Sparkfly Swamp) completely redone
Sanctum Sprint (minigame)
Southsun Survival (minigame)
Kessex Hills (new events, hearts have changed, new daily chest)
WvW (ruins, ranks with specializations, traps, new area for GvG set aside)
PvP (solo queue for tournaments, observation mode and new arenas)
Crafting (six crafting professions now go up to 500)
Ascalon Catacombs revamp

Then there’s recurring content that isnt’ there today but is in fact new content that you can experience. Stuff like Dragon Bash, Bazarre of the Four Winds, the Queen’s Gauntlet and SAB.

Even the two dungeons that were available and taken away have returned to the Fractals, as new fractals…along with mistlock instabilities from level 31-50.

Those who say nothing has changed obviously aren’t looking very hard.

Edit: That’s not counting QoL updates of which their were many, including changes to champion bags.

Thank you. this is much more helpful then the previous if you dont like it go away post. Now I have some things to go check out.

I did not say go away, I said you tried it and found it wanting. Why would you want to suffer, unless you get a kick out of suffering.

“The game does not live up to your standards/expectations. What have you lost exactly? The market is huge, go out and find something enjoyable that meets your needs.”
Sure seems like a go away post to me.

Or it is a post that you do not find the game enjoyable and would enjoy something else better?

Wryscher.1432:

Vayne.8563:

Let’s see.

Changes that persist.

Moa Racing (Lion’s Arch)
Not So Secret Jumping Puzzle (Gendarran Fields)
Twilight Arbor Aetherblade Path (Caledon Forest)
Tequatl (Sparkfly Swamp) completely redone
Sanctum Sprint (minigame)
Southsun Survival (minigame)
Kessex Hills (new events, hearts have changed, new daily chest)
WvW (ruins, ranks with specializations, traps, new area for GvG set aside)
PvP (solo queue for tournaments, observation mode and new arenas)
Crafting (six crafting professions now go up to 500)
Ascalon Catacombs revamp

Then there’s recurring content that isnt’ there today but is in fact new content that you can experience. Stuff like Dragon Bash, Bazarre of the Four Winds, the Queen’s Gauntlet and SAB.

Even the two dungeons that were available and taken away have returned to the Fractals, as new fractals…along with mistlock instabilities from level 31-50.

Those who say nothing has changed obviously aren’t looking very hard.

Edit: That’s not counting QoL updates of which their were many, including changes to champion bags.

Thank you. this is much more helpful then the previous if you dont like it go away post. Now I have some things to go check out.

I did not say go away, I said you tried it and found it wanting. Why would you want to suffer, unless you get a kick out of suffering.

Sirlath.1672:

Soo, I went ahead and bought them. I must say it’s quite convenient having infinite usage mining tools.
The only thing that bugs me is that I have to switch them between my characters to use them, and that’s a bit of an annoyance. Maybe they could make it so that you were them account wide and there’s no need to transfer them to another character.

They went from soul bound to account bound.

I have no problem with Scarlet.
This thread has others that did not have a problem with Scarlet.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/Am-I-the-only-Player-that-Likes-Scarlet/first#post3421045

The game does not live up to your standards/expectations. What have you lost exactly? The market is huge, go out and find something enjoyable that meets your needs.

Isha.4278:

For those looking http://www.guildwars2sweepstakes.com/Entry.aspx

Does not look like a legit site.

They are cheaper than buying individually (1000 each when they are out) they are even cheaper than the soulbound version which was 800 each. They are convenience.

This seems to be a thing USA companies do on a regular basis. I don’t understand the thoughts behind it. They know that they have customers outside of the states but still do this. My advice is to stop with the physical stuff that leads to problems and stick to ingame stuff that does not.

Kevan.8912:

no. it’s easier just to quit a game and start another, rather than to try to explain what do you expected from it (and of course anet knows what we all expected, as they stated it years ago).

Go for it, you bought the game you can leave the game. Everyone can.

So my first question is who are these people?
Second is why they started the hype now?
In an ideal universe the hype should start very close to the actual release of information. Hopefully it is not a release a bit, wait 2 months release a dribble wait 2 months until people get frustrated and dissapointed that it was not what they where seeing in their heads.

5.) The “Press F to do everything” mechanic doesn’t work well.

Keybind the aoe loot to something else, I use c key. The situation you describe is not what you might call common. In fact I don’t think I have run into it since headstart personally. You can empty your bags via deposit all for mats, break things down, sell directly to tp or throw away. Sitting and waiting for a despawn is a little poorly thought out by you not the game.
Camera problems I have read others talk about but personally have never noticed.
I personally think that it is great that if you attack anything in this game they have the ability to attack back. The only ones that can’t are white nametags and those are used to build up weapon kills for points.
Repetitive mobs are pretty much going to be in any game. Orcs or orcs or zombies or on and on. Waste of resources to have every single npc unique.

VOLKON.1290:

Looks like they’ll be dragon out the secret for awhile yet.

You are causing pain and anguish

WazzaProblem.3698:

Hi im on the server Aurora Glade and it says that it is a very high server but still i barely see any players at all i might have seen like 20 players in total and im lvl 8 so im wondering is there like a main city were everyone is or what?

I am on AG and 5 hours ago there where a ton at Karka queen, about 3 flagged commaders as well. LA is the hub city. The other cities are starter and since the game is a year and a half old and it takes a month to hit 80 first time players have moved on.