Guild Wars 2

Here’s my thief letting the plane know it’s clear to land (despite it being a very short runway)

All armor classes (light, medium and heavy) can wear outfits, as apposed to if it were an armor set (which would have probably been only exclusive to the heavy class, judging by how heavy it looks)

And also no transmutation charges.

Those are the 2 benefits I see in outfits. The only con for me is not being able to mix and match. It’s the only thing I don’t like about them.

I am definitely getting this amazing looking outfit. I do hope though that one day Anet are able to separate each individual piece in outfits, so we can mix and match – so we don’t all look the same.

Call me impatient or whatever, but I’m SO over waiting for the expansion now. I mean, when most games announce something so big, usually they have a price and a release date which follows the announcement, and with most new legendaries for HoT not even being in the beginning stages of conception, worries me a lot.

That’s why today I decided to use up all my tomes of knowledge on my re-rolled engineer, because I have a feeling I’ll be able to get a whole bunch more before HoT is ready, let alone has a release date.

#myhypebarrelisnowempty

Same thing happened to me with some of the glacial dye investments a while back.

And just when I bought all the electro dyes at uber high prices (like 80+ gold EACH), they were introduced to the black lion chest drops and became a hell of a lot cheaper.

You can’t win… You just have to learn to never invest in these limited time dyes (and by ‘limited time’ dyes I mean temporarily-available-in-gemstore-then-once-removed-they-are-added-in-as-drops-to-the-black-lion-chest-and-then-brought-back-again-to-the-gemstore-every-few-months-just-to-annoy-players-who-are-holding-onto-them-as-investments).

It will probably become as dark as a thief wearing armor dyed Shadow Abyss with a poly luminescent undulating refractor (black) gem, in the shadows at night time.

Now THAT is dark.

Sir Black.7423:

No.
We had the same kind of stuff happening leading up to the original release of GW2. Some sites started listing speculative dates and such, possibly just because they needed place-holders in their databases.

Until you see information officially from Arena Net themselves, anything else cannot be relied upon to be correct.

Especially on April Fools. I believe no one.

Almost as good as APRIL FOOLS

Nice try

I have a feeling specialisations won’t give us that much variety/difference when I really think about it – maybe 1 new trait line (which replaces the profession’s main trait line – like arcana for ele, or soul reap for necro etc.) and a different weapon type I assume, so not really looking forward to specialisations anymore.

Instead, I’d rather fancy a sneak peak at some of the new legendary weapons. I realise most don’t want rainbow themed weapons this time – completely understandable. We have the bifrost and the dreamer, and I do think with the new legendaries we need some more serious/fierce looking weapons with unique effects.

In fact I’m thinking about going for the juggernaut legendary for my future revenant, but then today I was thinking – wait, what if there’s a new legendary hammer that I like even more? So I’m kind of on the edge on what to do at the moment.

A few examples I get on a daily basis:

First pic is of me confronting the abuser, saying I think the word he was looking for was ‘wrong’ not ‘ghey’, to which he replies basically in a nutshell, no I meant what I said – super ghey.

The second one is the all too common ’that’s so ghey’ remark. I swear, if I had a dollar for every time I heard this… I would be able to afford a precursor within less than half a year. I mean, it’s like saying ’that’s so heterosexual’ – what has someone’s sexual orientation have to do with something someone is referring to as stupid/bad/wrong/whatever? Nothing. That’s what. Yet people still say this sort of thing daily as if it’s nothing – and it isn’t blocked, and no one else confronts the offender or asks them to stop (I mean, I do, all the time, but that’s mainly because I’m sick of hearing it). In the probably 50+ incidents over the past month, I’ve only ever had 1 other person actually stand up for me. That’s pretty poor. Others actually blame ME and say things like ‘just get over it, it’s only words’.

The third screenshot is of someone referring to their own team as loverboys ‘a.k.a. their ghey-submissive-slaves’. It would be like me saying ‘come on breeders, let’s go’.

There are more words players use, but if you want some good examples, play Edge of the Mists for a day or two. For now, I don’t want to spend any more time here because I know a add-and-remove-words-to-filter-system won’t happen, so I’m kinda wasting my time here, but thought I’d give just a few examples. I hope something is done in the future about it. I really do.

Edit: And yes these screenshots are a bit old – I stopped printscreening the abuse long ago because I see 1-3 cases a day in EOTM, and I already have around 600 screenshots – I don’t need to clog up my file of screenies any more :-/

I report most of them, but I’ve pretty much given up on reporting them, because homophobic words like ‘ghey’ and ‘fahg’ and ‘fegget’ are used SO frequently, and I have my filter on MAX settings (and might I add, these words haven’t been censored on these forums – so it shows how easily they can be used) – I shouldn’t even be seeing these words – yet I do, and I literally get offended on a daily basis – it’s why my block list is so full (I’m actually surprised I haven’t reached some limit on it).

RE: My mention of complaining – I complained about it months and months ago, making a couple threads about how Anet can improve on the filter system – for example, allowing us players to add and remove words on a filter/block list, so that specific words are filtered completely – including those, like ‘ghey’ and other words that players use to get around the system. But nothing was done about it, and hence why I gave up shouting about it.

I see the worst kind of language in Edge Of The Mists on a daily basis. Mainly homophobic remarks and sexual remarks. Most words, of which, aren’t censored – despite me having my filter on max settings.

Most derogatory homophobic words aren’t censored, and that’s one that surprises me the most because I’ve complained about it many times before, but Anet still does nothing about it. So I’ve just moved on, knowing nothing’s going to be done about it, and I just have to get used to people belittling us gay folk.

Thanks Anet :-/

>_<

Forgot to mention something from my post ages back.

PLEASE change the masteries interface at the bottom. It literally covered my whole screen (not good when being attacked) and I found it really confusing. I didn’t know how many points I had actually spent on gliding, and whether or not the next level of gliding mastery required 2 more points or whether it just meant I had spent 2 points (in total) on it.

I would much rather prefer an interface like the World Ability Points interface for WvW. I find that one a whole lot cleaner and easier to read in general.

All armor for males are replaced by a half nekkid onesie – lord faren’s speedo outfit.
All armor for females are replaced by a half nekkid onesie – kasmeer’s bikini outfit.

Weapons will still be stowable and wieldable.

I must say I was a little disappointed that not all of the new legendaries were finalised already – I would have thought they would be considering HoT was announced a while back :-/ maybe it was announced too early and they’re struggling to get all of the HoT content finished? If this setback is an indication to go by…

Anywho, since all the new legendaries aren’t finished, this would be an ideal time for Anet to bring back the design-a-weapon contest. Months before HoT’s release, and enough time for players to get designing!

I live in hope… :-P

I like the fact the new legendaries and such won’t be tradeable. Wish I could have seen some of the new ones though :-(

I didn’t really mind the lack of content. After all, it was only to stress test the servers and see how they cope with people from all over the world playing it at the same time – not give players an opportunity to have a free-for-all play at a huge chunk of the expansion.

I would, however, hope that sometime in the near future Anet opens the Beta gates to players experiencing the new WvW Borderlands. It looks so epic… and a lot of my time spent in GW2 is doing WvW and EOTM, so that’s the thing that would really float my boat.

I played Rev and Ele. Ended up going back on Rev cause my ele doesn’t survive well at the best of times despite it’s massive damage output – and those mobs just ripped him apart. I think I’ll be playing a more heavy-oriented class when HoT comes out. Just my experience.

I would pay 8-10k gems for an unlimited transmutation stone.

I feel your pain. I wish all gemstore skins were free of charge to apply (once purchased), but I don’t think it’ll ever change :-/ probably the same chance of the engineer’s ‘Juggernaut’ trait ever being fixed – fat chance and no chance.

I’m still waiting for this as well. Been waiting for it ever since it was datamined. I want it so badly but I’ve almost given up hope of when it’s coming cause who really knows at this rate. For all I know it could be released after HoT >_<

I didn’t have any performance issues and it was quite fun. I do have some constructive criticism though to improve upon HoT

I felt as though the skills 7, 8 and 9 on each legend were kinda restrictive – like there’s no variety in terms of what skills we can choose from. It’s sort of like ‘this is the legend and here are their skills and that is that’. Would be cool to include a few more skills for those for a bit of diversity.

Also, I noticed that the revenant literally had 2 heals which felt kinda OP. When I was running low on health in Mallyx’s form, I’d just switch to my other legend and be able to use that legend’s heal too. I think to balance this, perhaps when you use your main heal skill, it should be on recharge for the other legend too, but to compensate for losing a whole other heal, perhaps increase the amount you’re healed for from, say, 4500 (or whatever it was), to 5500 or 6000.

And finally, the gliding was a bit frustrating. I felt like I was half way to my death before the option to glide came up. I think it’s crucial to add some sort of auto-glide ability as soon as you start falling, or at least add it as a feature for high level gliding mastery. I died many times trying to get to a mastery orb simply because it took me forever to try and get my glider up – as it only became available after 2-3 seconds of falling (which, to me, felt far too long).

Overall, I liked the experience and loved the range and skills of the hammer for the revenant. I also liked the axe and mace skills, though I think it would be neat if their range was expanded a bit – the main reason I don’t use those sorts of weapons is the fact that they have such a tiny range (same with swords).

Thanks for including me in this stress test BETA, and I hope one day perhaps we get to experience the new WvW borderlands? – that would be an EPIC beta! crosses fingers

I agree. I was really struggling trying to get the glider up – I fell quite a bit before I even had the option to glide.

It would be nice to see some sort of automatic-glide-when-falling option. Even if it’s put in as high level gliding mastery. I think it’s really needed.

I’d consider buying this if all the other infinite mining tools were upgraded to give ‘extras’ like the watchwork mining pick – after all, why would I want to buy something that gives me less money than the ultimate infinite mining pick (watchwork)?

My Charrdian;

Me I can’t wait to play the revenant!

I’m going to play Revenant. Love love LOVE the fact that the hammer is a ranged weapon on revs. The main reason I don’t use things like sword/mace/hammer is the fact that they have such a short range I find it difficult to hit anything.

And I think I’m going to play Revenant a lot when HoT comes out, so definitely rev.

I finally received my first (and probably last! XD) precursor while playing EOTM (I play eotm daily but despite that didn’t get one in over 2900 ranks), and I was attacking enemies blasting at the wurm gate on the Badlands side. I used siege disablers and destroyed their rams with my fire spells and successfully made them leave.

Afterwards, I checked my inventory to see what loot I gained from the few players I also killed at the same time, and to my surprise I saw ‘Tooth of Frostfang’. Made an easy 500g or so and was able to buy a few shadow weapon skins and the shadow abyss dye, which I absolutely love and am using on a few of my characters.

Hmm I’m struggling to find out the exact time I’ll need to be on. I need the time to be converted to NZST :-/ is this correct for New Zealanders?

Wednesday, 25 March from 8:00 a.m → 10:00 am & 1:00 pm → 3:00 pm?

O-M-G I can’t believe it. I got chosen too. I never get chosen for these kinda things. Thanks Anet!

I am going to really enjoy this. I can’t wait to try out the revenant! <3333333333

Ok thanks muchly

So the longbow won’t actually be backwards when I wield it? I wanna buy it but not if it faces backwards :-/

Edit: Just photoshopped a picture of how I want it to look. Shouldn’t be that hard to show it properly if indeed the longbow faces outwards when you wield it, as apposed to the preview where it shoes it facing inwards?

Can someone please help me? I REALLY want to get the shadow longbow, but upon previewing it I noticed the handle part faces inwards – which is really unattractive to me.

Just wondering if this is what it really looks like when you wield it or whether it faces the correct way (outwards) when wielded and the preview just isn’t showing it correctly?

I’m really hoping Anet release it soon. My warrior NEEDS this.

Yeah there’s new legendaries in HoT. I’m not saving any normal t6 mats we currently have access to now though cause the new weapons will probably require ingredients from the new areas – so rich players can’t just immediately buy them. To invest in lots of t6 mats is risky, it’s a gamble really – could go either way.

Would be nice to be chosen for Beta, but my chances are about the same as getting those valentines day cards from Anet that some players are fortunate enough to get, while the rest of us are forgotten about – so, fat chance, and no chance.

But good luck to those who are chosen for Beta – do it for those of us that will miss out and be sure to share all the juicy info.

My expectations are somewhat low in terms of anything big being hidden from us. It’s nice to be drip fed on things coming from HoT, but really, until there’s a release date of when it’s all actually coming, I feel like a bear in hibernation, waiting… and waiting… and waiting.

Would be awesome too to have one person show footage of all things dyes/dye channels/clothing/outfits related too. The amount of investigating I had to do to find out the dye channels of the mistward armor and especially the blindfolds – since NO ONE covered it (this was before the codes became available of course).

People were too busy talking about masteries and traits and all the things that were going to obviously be covered by every single person experiencing the demo at those PAX events – yet not one person covered all the dye channels of the mistward armor (revenant/rytlock armor as it’s also known as).

And it wouldn’t have taken long either – to show the dye channels. In the end someone told me about a news page which had a blue sylvari and a different colored symbol on the blindfold – I did find it, but I would have thought those covering the demo’s would have thought about these things or at least say to each other ‘ok it’s obvious we’re all going to talk about the main things people want to know, but what about things like armor and dye channels? Someone should cover that’.

But nope.

As a guy who WvW’s everyday (almost 3000 ranks now), I’m really excited about the new map, however I’m worried Anet has forgotten about adding in new rewards too. We hardly ever get any new rewards or updates to WvW at the best of times (and no, wvw seasons don’t count cause the rewards are temporary and you can’t get said items any time you want to).

I guess we’ll see when it’s out, but as far as I can tell, we’re only getting a new map :-/ I hope I’m wrong.

Legendary Armor will probably happen eventually, right? They’d have the same stats as ascended, but would also have the ability to change stats when out of combat, as well as the aesthetics of it of course.

So I thought… what would I want legendary armor to look like? Well, for starters, I’d want them all to be animated (though some probably wouldn’t want this and that’s awesome too), and when I was watching a music video of Sugababes and their song ‘Shape’ and saw this animated butterfly dress, I thought it would be an amazing homage to the Mesmer.

(skip to 2:44 for the butterfly dress)

Then I remembered The Hunger Games where a couple of the main characters are wearing fiery clothing. Wouldn’t it be awesome if, for example, as an elementalist, you switched attunements from fire to water, and it would change from a fiery animation to a water themed animation and vice versa? And with the earth attunement, you’d have floating rocks surrounding your armor or something. The possibilities are endless really…

(skip to 2:06 for the fiery clothing)

If Anet really wanted to go the extra mile, it would be cool to customise what the armor looks like. For example, for legendary elementalist themed armor, if you’re in earth attunement, you could customise the position of where the rocks/spikes are, on your armor. This way people with the same armor can look relatively different, depending on how you’ve positioned pieces on said armor.

TL;DR: Feel free to post your ideas and any inspiration for concepts of Legendary Armor

Edit: Added a screenshot of the butterfly armor (left) and fiery armor (right) from the videos

And while Anet’s at it, please put in measures to stop players from chucking down troll portals in areas where chests pop up after you kill an npc. Today some troll Mesmer killed half our zerg (which in my opinion is sabotage and disruptive behaviour) by placing a portal on top of a reward chest, ultimately leading to the edge of a cliff. No one was expecting to take the portal, but it just so happened to be what people interacted with in that particular second when attempting to aoe the loot from said chest, only to find a portal opening up to their death. Including mine. Luckily I was able to teleport in time, but we don’t need people sabotaging our own teams, and still this goes on…

Lava Font from Ele
Meteor from Ele
Tornado from Ele
Fiery Greatsword from Ele
Portals from Mesmer
Flamethrower #1 skill from Engi
Focus #4 pulling skill From Mesmer (so much fun pulling people off towers etc.)
Fear from Necro
Spectral Wall from Necro
Healing Signet from Warrior
Hammer #5 skill from Guardian (that knockback distance is sweet – shame about the small range to use the skill though)
Ranger longbow #2 skill (quick damage)
Ranger quickening zephyr skill (for attacking faster)
All the stealth skills from thief
Guardian staff #1 skill (great for tagging multiple enemies for loot)
All the signets that give +25% movement speed. Saves me from having to buy 6 superior runes of speed – like for my guardian and Mesmer, in particular >_< I think all professions should have this skill.

1. WvW/EOTM

2. The thing that scared me the most when I first heard about GW2 was the combat. And I don’t know why because I love it now. Being able to cast a spell where you want it to go and place things where you want them to be placed is a lot of fun, and it brings a huge amount of freedom and skill with it.

3. Skins also attract me. When I used to play Runescape (played it for 10 years), armors would be tied with specific stats, and there was no way to change the appearance of that armor to something you like, while keeping the stats (it might have changed since I quit though?), which is why I like having the ability to change my character’s appearance, but keep the stats I want. It’s a win-win.

4. No monthly subscription

Woke up to yet another disappointing morning, reading main page to see nothing new >_<

I think we should all just assume (since they’re not communicating any further) that it’ll be pushed to Tuesday. Either that or just give up all hope and have zero expectations of it coming.

I keep waking up looking immediately at the GW2 main page hoping to see an update, but to no avail :-( would be nice to get some more info.

As a player with 2969 WvW rank ability points, I don’t care if world completion is now easier and doesn’t require the WvW maps. I remember going for world comp on my guardian and how frustrating it was, waiting for a week when our server became green or blue or red, for example.

I think it’s nice for those it affects.

I’m really intrigued by the shadow weapons. I wonder what they’ll look like. Haven’t seen any leaks or pics of them :-( was kinda hoping there was before I go to bed but I guess I’ll have to wait till it’s released.

Edit: About all the people buying up mini kasmeers… how do you know it’s a recipe that will improve or upgrade said mini? What if it’s a recipe to make more of said mini? Just saying… I wouldn’t put all my eggs in 1 basket based on a sentence that could make or break your wallet depending on your own interpretation of a few words.

On an additional note, the Mjolnir is extremely hard to admire in the preview interface :-/ Anet fix please?

Well, with all the pact helicopters and such in the HoT trailers, it’s why it makes me even more certain the engi specialisation will be the commando.

Maybe engi’s will get more variety in their tops too? No more trenchcoats. Though that is wishful thinking on my part… I had to get the glorious chest for my medium classes because it was literally the only top skin that didn’t cover my derrière. Things we have to do…

I want this meaty greatsword as a skin: