Guild Wars 2

Some of the jumping puzzles and vista’s in this game make my Mesmer absolutely priceless, because otherwise one of my guildies might never have gotten all the jp’s and vista’s done.

I’ll definitely make one, though it likely won’t be my main anytime soon, if ever. It certainly sounds interesting, but my main will probably always be one of my 3 day headstart characters.

There’s not much point in going to Cantha, considering all the Elder dragons seem to be focused around the area’s we already have on the map.

That IS the main focus of this game more or less, defeating the Elder Dragons.

Maybe have someone else from the office playing around and wearing headphones while they sort of talk in the background?

Yup. If you’re really tired of the music that plays find some music yourself that you think would be more fitting and just customize the music.

So I’ve had some musing in the past couple days over various plot-points and the like that you encounter during the Personal Story, (Specifically when you’re in Orr.)

With the expansion coming I’ve been working on finishing up the personal storyline on some of my characters, and I’ve noticed a couple things that might imply the Elder Dragon’s may be a bit craftier than previously thought.

First, after seeing the animation for the mission in Orr where you use the Searing Cauldron to wreck some undead Prince, and then recalling how Post-Searing Ascalon looked in GW1.

I started wondering if the Searing Cauldrons are possibly some sort of tool left behind by Kralkatorrik. Since when he flew south over Ascalon he left behind the Dragonbrand which appears quite similar.

Second, when doing the Source of Orr mission where you help Trahearne ‘cleanse’ Orr… it occurred to me just how horrible an idea that was.

According to the newest info, Sylvari are the minions of Mordremoth, or at least were intended to be. And Trahearne is a Sylvari. The sword he used to ‘cleanse’ Orr was given to him by the Pale Tree. And Caladbolg itself is very plant-like.

So I mentioned my musings out loud to my guildies on teamspeak, and we came to the conclusion that it’s entirely possible we essentially just gave Mordremoth some sort of possible control over Orr. That some of the Charr’s most powerful magic ever is a relic of Kralkatorrik, and that we’re totally screwed.

TL;DR: Did we essentially give Mordremoth some influence over Orr when we let Trahearne ‘cleanse’ the Source of Orr with Caladbolg?

Kinda curious what other people’s thoughts on my observations are.

This gem is awesome ANet. My guildie just got the amulet and equipped it to see what it does, the bees buzzing all around him were hilarious, made even more hilarious when he shouted ‘Not the bees!’

Kudos to ANet on an awesome little gem hidden in the Vinewrath’s booty.

Is this where I point out that the Charr effectively commited genocide on the human kingdom of Ascalon, and yet Humans can still work together with them?

Novuake.2691:

Ykfox.3825:

Honestly, I think a completely unexpected race is a possibility, since there’s sort of a hint of a race (Mursaat, maybe? Their home is supposed to be deep in the Maguuma…), but I doubt it’ll be Tengu just yet.

Soooo the mursaat came back in total secrecy over the last 250 years without anyone knowing of their existence?

I doubt.
Not to mention, as far as we know, there is only 1 left.

Just to point out, I have a hard time believing that the entire Mursaat race left their city just to go play with the silly little humans and whatnot.

That would be like every single human on Earth getting into a spaceship to go fight a war on some other planet. EVEN THE ELDERLY AND THE CHILDREN.

There could easily be an entire city/country/etc. full of Mursaat.

Edit: Attached a screenshot of the possible ‘Mursaat’ It looks vaguely similar to how they looked in GW1, with plenty of allowance for style change between then and now etc.

Honestly, I think a completely unexpected race is a possibility, since there’s sort of a hint of a race (Mursaat, maybe? Their home is supposed to be deep in the Maguuma…), but I doubt it’ll be Tengu just yet.

I’ve played GW1 since back when it was just prophecies and getting to Amnoon Oasis before level 20 was considered an achievement/rare. I had thousands of hours logged in GW1, so I naturally came to Guild Wars 2.

Only time I’ve ever had issues with logging in to GW2 is when it’s the fault of my ISP. I’ve been playing since the first BWE so I dunno.

Whatever it is, if it requires money I’m already throwing money at my monitor….

ANet, hurry up and announce it so I can give you money.

Sounds like maybe you just don’t have the right color dyes to match the npc’s. Sky dye iirc is a pretty close match to the blue they use. So is Robin I think.

I’m a bit confused… what do you mean by it’s original state? It should have just been auto-dyed whatever colors your armor was at the time… Luminescent armor does not come with unique dyes or anything…

My Rainbow Phoenix, Imisshimsomuch.

I personally love the one Chef back item. The idea of lugging around what amounts to a barbecue on my back is hilarious and awesome. Hot dog?

The Light of Dwayna, Spinal Blades, Desert Rose, Fervid Censor, and Zephyrite Backpack are also all pretty awesome and/or lulzy.

I’m all for more pistol skins… but how exactly are you defining ‘modern’?

Cause I mean, just slapping a desert eagle skin in game or something is something I’m definitely against. More then anything the skins should not look out of place in this game.

I’m sure I speak for the rest of my guild when I wish you a speedy recovery, and good luck. You’re very lucky to have such an awesome guild, and I’m sure they’re lucky to have such an awesome player.

I still occasionally use the infamous name that was at least briefly popular in GW1…

‘Spare Corpse’ – Necromancer/Ranger anyone?

Sariel V.7024:

showatt.9413:

look at them turkeys… huddling together in a dark cold cave…

Will someone please tell them chrismas is over so they can all come out for another 11 month.

Kinda cruel, considering Christmas is in a couple of weeks.

You realize you quoted a post from roughly a YEAR ago?

Exo.2965:

Ykfox.3825:

I actually got my third glove box out of one of the Lost Bandit chests. So you don’t have to set a single foot into the Labyrinth if you don’t want to. You can farm up the 1000 crests and get it that way, or try your hand at the buried chests.

2000 chrests on gloves.
2000 – chest
2000 – leggins
2000 – boots
2000 – helm

farm farm farm MORE farm for the God of Farm. Dont you think that you should have more time to play and not to grind ? Its like you can spent some time with your friends but “NO! Silver Wastes and chrest farm avaits!” … just like that.

Pathetic.

Except for all we know they might go back to getting bonus armor chests for each character, or introduce some new/better way to get the armor chests, or bandit crests.

There’s really no point to complaining about the armor’s that aren’t out yet until they’re out.

I actually got my third glove box out of one of the Lost Bandit chests. So you don’t have to set a single foot into the Labyrinth if you don’t want to. You can farm up the 1000 crests and get it that way, or try your hand at the buried chests.

Ascended trinket’s are account bound, and if you’re just using exotic trinkets make sure to use an a drop/crafted one that can be salvaged so you can get it back if you want.

In all honesty, I wouldn’t be surprised if they do introduce some more plant themed armor’s. With us going after Mordremoth in the Living World atm, it’s basically the perfect time to introduce it. Whether they do it via Gem Store or some other way.

So, I’m curious… why exactly is everyone assuming there won’t be a new dungeon/raid/etc. introduced via Living World?

I mean, they’re clearly moving us towards a confrontation with Mordremoth, and assuming they follow the method they used for Zhaitan, there will eventually be a new dungeon.

IcarusMelody.5312:

Ykfox.3825:

Wow, slamfunction, way to start your post off by insulting someone just because they posted their opinion on a game you apparently like…

Well if you have played FFXIV for a fair amount of time and read OP’s post; it most certainly feels that way.

I confess I haven’t played FFXIV, hence why I didn’t even try to make a comment about it. But there’s still no need to go and immediately start insulting the OP just because he was comparing the two games. After all, the OP was comparing them from his point of view.

I think this would be a terrible idea, because the PvP crowd would complain so hard if PvE got something like this.

Fox.2785:

The good ole unfortunately a error has occurred message, after sending ticket about it, they sent back that it’s my company declining my credit card. Why do I have a feeling that i got charged but didn’t receive my gems. i just wanted a makeover kit ;~;

If you have been charged and don’t get gems, take it up with your credit card company. They should be able to refund you.

When I was first reading about Ebonhawke way back I was SO hopeful there would be open PvP against the Charr as we try to hold them back, and even reclaim the Ascalonian homeland. I still occasionally go back to GW1 just to go north of the Wall and decimate the Charr forces out there.

I actually refused to do the one heart quest in the Charr homeland that has you help to destroy the wall, when I came across that heart I was literally angry. I did eventually get it done by doing events nearby though.

Wow, slamfunction, way to start your post off by insulting someone just because they posted their opinion on a game you apparently like…

Leo G.4501:

So what about the category that doesn’t play and doesn’t read?

Those players probably aren’t reading this thread, and won’t answer. :P

I read the forums, and play the game.

I’ve actually been having a blast in the Labyrinth on my thief, since I try specifically not to use the flower/pollen thing, and rely only on stealth.

It’s pretty fun, and can be pretty challenging to be running around with limited stealth abilities, and see how long you can last before you get tagged. Plus since you have chances to get things like exotics, and the glove armor chest out of the nightmare pods, it’s rewarding enough that I don’t feel like I’m wasting time.

(Sometimes I use the pollen things, but just when I really want to try and get the chest.)

I think by grinding for skins he meant the other generally unique skins, Immobulus, Infinite Light, etc. Not necessarily Ascended Armor/etc.

Exotic gear is easy to get now, because the game has been out for 2+ year’s, so everyone knows the easy ways to get exotic gear, and are more focused on working on the rarer skins.

Just as a note, Stealth seems to be perfectly functional against those Luminescent wolves or w/e they are in the Labyrinth.

My suggestion: Find yourself a pair of thieves who are built for stealth and tag along with them. Get enough thieves and you can actually perma-stealth through there, I’d imagine.

ANet has already said that this isn’t something that will be released anywhere besides China.

Going to slowly work towards putting her into the Luminescent armor, at least some of it. Finally unlocked the shoulder skins today, so promptly changed her color’s.

She used to be colored to match Mawdrey, but now Mawdrey is just an accessory.

I’m pretty sure even if there was a loot cap people would still zerg. Simply because it’s just easier/faster to kill stuff in a zerg, and even if you hit this ‘X amount of items per minute’ loot cap, most people seem to run with a zerg for potentially hours at a time.

As long as there’s open PvP against any Centaur in human lands I have no problem with this.

Edit: Since I didn’t actually say what I’d like added as an additional race, I’d honestly like to see some sort of Harpy-esque race added.

It takes like… an hour, tops, if all you want is the waypoints in a given zone, and that’s with some of the more annoying ones to get around, like Straights of Devastation….

In fairness, traits did make leveling a Mesmer a LOT easier. I’m glad mine was leveled way back before the trait’s were changed.

Honestly, I just want bar-brawls and polymock….

They hardly waste their time replying to threads like this, it’s fast and easy for them to reply to these threads since it won’t start a raging discussion/war. And by replying to easy threads like these it proves they are paying attention to the forums.

And they are reading the serious threads, case in point Gaile’s posts about the infamous Engineer Hobo-sack. There’s finally proof that Dev’s are looking at solutions for the poor Hobo-gineer’s.

(Disclaimer: I do have an Engineer, and the sack does frustrate me as well, any mocking is intended in a light-hearted and joking manner!)

Honestly, it’s not that bad. I’ve leveled a new character up to 45+, and it’s actually just as easy and fun as it used to be. The delay in getting the weapon skills actually made me appreciate them a little bit more then I otherwise would have.

Admittedly, I didn’t like the concept of the vista’s/skill-points being level gated, but they seem to have fixed that for accounts that already unlocked them.

Vayne.8563:

You can solo the daily fractal if you do a low level 1. My wife and I sometimes two man one.

Some Fractals can be solo’d, some inherently can’t. Swamp/Dredge fractals offhand, need a minimum of 3 players.

The maps in GW2 are small enough that you don’t need mounts, if you’re traveling far enough that you would need a mount, you can just waypoint closer to your destination.

Silverwastes doesn’t need more waypoints either, since it’s small enough that you can get from one side to the other ridiculously quick. Even without any speedbuff’s active on a character.

The only possible way to justify mounts would be to remove the waypoints altogether, which would be AWFUL.

You could, arguably put in mounts for appearance only, but then people would complain about not getting a speedbuff/etc. And if they added speedbuff’s people would demand mounted combat, etc. etc.

End result is no matter how they implement mounts, it would snowball into more and more work for ANet. I’d rather they focus on adding new zones/etc. which everyone will enjoy to some degree, rather then mounts which only a percentage of player’s would want/enjoy. (At least, want/enjoy more than new zones.)

Souto.2716:

Behellagh.1468:

Because vets do roll new characters from time to time and we can remember the time that …

It’s bad enough to play someone so underpowered compared to the tricked out 80 you had been playing but adding in limitations until you are level X to be able to do Y can grate a bit.

This is partly the point i was trying to make with it making it so new players have the time with each skill/util/trait to figure out it’s ins and outs. I can understand being annoying but the only argument is that it’s not what you were used to.

A more important argument is what was mentioned about the ps being changed. Which i feel wouldnt be a problem wasn’t that the cap is 80(seriously, that’s way too high…)

Off topic though… Why is everyone getting a like(+1) except my first post… even the person asking what the npe was got a like… T.T

For reference, that +1 point you see next to everyone’s post? That’s so YOU can +1 that post. Obviously you can’t +1 your own post’s, so you don’t see it next to your own earlier post.

Why even bother naming the guilds that…? If you’re using rifles it obviously wouldn’t even be an attempt at recreating the Charr/Human war….

Yeah, but here’s the thing… the owner would still hear it. And he’s the one who bought it. If the rest of us really want to hear it then we can buy one ourselves. Some people though don’t WANT to hear it.

Honestly I’d prefer if they just made it so only the OWNER of the backpack actually hears it talk. I don’t want to turn off instruments, there are some awesome songs you’ll occasionally hear in the cities.

But I don’t want to hear the backpack.