Guild Wars 2

One thing to also be aware of is that downscaling can be rather inconsistent. For instance, if I’m on my level 40 Mesmer in a 1-15 zone, I can breeze through the level 3 – 7 areas, but level 8 – 9 areas are suddenly tough, and then when I hit the level 10 -11 areas, foes are suddenly easy again. It’s as if enemies are hitting for way more damage only within the level 8 – 9 area, even though I’m using the same general strategy in each area, and I can’t for the life of me figure out why.

I’m not 100% certain, but I believe your theory is correct. During the Lost Shores finale, it was next to impossible for me to get credit for kills due to the sheer number of players involved and massive lag. However, once I joined a party, I was getting much more XP, as it seems that either your party’s total cumulative damage is taken into account, or as long as one person surpasses the 5% damage marker, all party members are granted XP and a chance for loot.

My idea would be to make it so that the first teleport within 30 mins is free, but subsequent ones within the same period cost increasingly more until it caps out at 1 silver (amount negotiable) per teleport. As time goes by without you using a WP, the price scales back again. (Which means that to reset the cost from 1s to nothing, you’d need to go 30 mins without using a WP.)

If I’d been the one in charge of Trahearne’s story, I’d have made it so in the end he sacrifices himself to destroy Zhaitan (perhaps with the help of Caladbolg) by essentially transforming himself into a new Pale Tree sprout atop the corpse of the Elder Dragon. This is why he dreamt of an Orr that is green and thriving again; it is his destiny to become a new Pale Tree and reclaim the twisted land.

Don’t forget to max out all your karma ingredients in the Crafting Materials tab!

Joseph Skyrim.2470:

wildcode.5403:

Joseph Skyrim.2470:

That is such a great neutral answer. Certainly keeps us Oceanic people guessing till the next event huh? :P To be fair I don’t think he couldn’t have answered differently as the real answer will be how they handle their next few events. If I am not even given the chance to participate then I think this is the wrong game to be spending my time on.

I’ve seen it explained in other threads by ANet people that the timing is based on when they have the greatest number of people on. For us in the western pacific, GW2 is really quiet in our prime time, so to be involved in GW2 prime time event we need to wake up extra early.

If they continue to cater to their “greatest number of people” 100% of the time, then 100% of the time they aren’t catering to anyone else. I just wanted to know for certain, from the horse’s mouth, what their plans were for that.

Given that it sounds like 1 time events aren’t being ditched it will be interesting to see what they actually do. As previously mentioned, if I don’t have a reasonable chance to participate not sure I should stay. Also leads me to wonder why they have european based servers in the first place if they aren’t going to use other timezones. :P

Don’t get me wrong: I don’t mind missing events if I really can’t make them. But if almost everyone in my timezone misses an event due to timing that’s a different story.

Same here. (From Australia.) I was lucky enough that the Lost Shores finale fell in a thin window of opportunity where I could still attend it and head to work afterwards, but I’m well aware that had it just been 1 more hour either way, I’d have missed out.

I’m not against one-time events in theory, but ANet does need to stretch it out so that players from all over the world have a fair chance to attend it. I’m glad that Chris has stated that they are looking at ways to address this issue, but my fears won’t be entirely resolved until I see their solution.

My proposed solution, which I posted on the feedback thread, is as follows:

For future events, have each Phase last for an entire week. This gives players plenty of time to complete scavenger hunts, take part in games and activities, and still be able to do normal GW2 activities without feeling like they’ll be missing out. Just as importantly, this setup means that ANet has time to correct any bugs/errors that may arise without having to extend the event and throwing schedules into chaos.

Secondly, have finale events work in a manner similar to “mission” instances. You form a party, the party leader talks to an NPC and your party (along with possibly up to 3 other parties for a total of 20 players to give a sense of greater numbers) are sent into an instance to battle the “Big Bad Enemy”. Afterwards, the party is sent back to the main area where they can collect their reward from an NPC (only once per character/account, as appropriate). In this way, a finale event can be available over an entire day, lag and culling won’t be such a huge issue, and you still get to retain that sense of a “one-time event that changes the face of Tyria”. Finale events could be limited to just 24 hours, but I think that with this setup, you could let it run for 3 days over the weekend to allow people the maximum opportunity to attend and take part.

She’s displeased that she doesn’t have her breather mask on and is basically having to hold her breath.

Kimyrielle.3826:

I find it interesting that this sort of discussion appears in pretty much every MMO. And yet, if the choice to be “average” or “ugly” or “fat” or “old” or “thick” is there…next to nobody ever uses it. Can it just be that the vast majority of us wants to be pretty and young rather than bland and old? And with that in mind, making those body models would just be a giant waste of resources, perhaps?

I remember once reading an article about this. Some game studio (don’t remember who) wanted to address the issue of not making female characters all look like supermodels, so they went out of their way to model “realistic” faces and body shapes, along with realistic armor and costumes. However, after the game was released, they were flooded with complaints from players (male AND female) that they couldn’t make “pretty” characters.

What the entire episode revealed was that the majority of players DO want to look young, sexy and gorgeous, so it makes sense for a developer to provide mostly models that do just that. As a roleplayer, I’m all for including plain/pudgy/grotesque face and body options too, but I can guarantee that only a minority of players would actually use them (and usually these are joke characters where the goal is to make them as hideous as possible).

Kimyrielle.3826:

Personally, I’d rather change the males than the females. I don’t like their over-exaggerated bodies at all, as I picture nordic warriors to be tall and well-trained instead of the brutish bear shapes they gave them. They look more like bouncers that way.

I actually lean the other way. I’d prefer it if Norn females had a body type closer to their male counterparts; more stocky and barrel-shaped. Norn females have more or less the same proportions as Human females; put a very short Norn woman and a very tall Human woman together, and you can barely tell who is who without being familiar with the hairstyles available to each race. But put a very short Norn man and a very tall Human man together and you can instantly tell at a glance who is the Norn.

Oh, the Rise of the Golems results in the destruction of all organic races, after the Golems achieve Magi-technological Singularity and form a new Golem Elder Dragon. At least in the Mists we’ll be able to guilt the Asura over that for the rest of all time.

Alas, the Asura will all be destroyed by the Great Golem Uprising of 1997 AE, leaving Rata Sum in ruins, so enjoy your empire while it lasts, my dimunitive friends!

Great story, GraynX. I can only hope that one day I’ll be able to experience being a proud parent of a gamer myself.

Maybe I should look at joining an RP guild… Trouble is, that would mean I can’t really represent my existing guild, which consists of RL friends I’ve gamed with across several other games. :/

At the same time though, some RP guilds can be pretty strict about attendence and participation. There are times when I just want to log in and run around harvesting/completing hearts because I just don’t feel up to RP at the moment.

Apparently the three most popular Legendaries are Twilight, Sunrise and Bifrost, if their Precursor prices are anything to go by. If Bifrost is high enough in demand, it might explain why they’re so expensive.

Of course, that doesn’t rule out speculators and people investing in unid’ed dyes either.

250 Unidentified Dyes are needed for the Gift of Colour, which is necessary for crafting the Legendary Bifrost. That’s why people are buying them.

Doesn’t the TP work on a LIFO method? If so, it might be possible for somebody to spot the new entry and quickly post a matching item for the same price -1c to nab the gold before the buyer gets it.

A new contender for the title after running around in Salma’s Heath last night:

“You WILL be broken!”

I have personally seen the Matrix Cube Key spawn twice, at the following locations:

1. Hidden inside the bushes in the Poison chamber. It’s completely invisible this way so the only way you know if it’s there is by running up to each bush and seeing if an “Interact/Pick Up” option appears.

2. On the platform with the Veteran Ice Elemental, halfway up the jumping puzzle to the Ice charger. This one can be annoying to get to, however, as you can’t tell if the key’s spawned in this location without going up there yourself.

Apparently the Rich Ori Veins in WvW work differently to the ones in PvE. According to my guildies, they only give about 3 – 4 ores on average. Rich Ori Veins in PvE always give 10, just like other rich metal veins in PvE.

According to what I’ve heard, infusion isn’t really necessary until you start hitting level 20+ in Fractals. It only shows up at level 10+, but the attacks that cause infusion are clearly telegraphed and you can avoid it just by dodging at the right time. Apparently this remains the case all the way to 20+. Above that, it starts becoming problematic, and someone said that infusion is almost necessary for 30+, but by that time you should almost certainly have an infused Ring from one of the end chests.

In any case, initial feedback from Chris’s AMA on Reddit indicates that ANet is implementing different ways to get Ascended items apart from farming Fractals, so if the current system is really cheesing you off, take a break. Play some sPvP/WvW/level alts etc. Wait and see what the new methods will be; for all we know crafters will be able to upgrade Exotic items to Ascended via new recipes in the future!

As the others have suggested, I’d sell the Precursor if it’s not one that you’re intending to get a Legendary with yourself. ANet is working on new ways to get Precursors (Lindsey mentioned a scavenger hunt), and if future one-time event chests also drop Precursors, you can expect to see prices for them continue to slide over time.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I was just repeating what I read off the Wiki a while ago. They are account bound though, right? They must be, otherwise we’d see people selling Legendaries on the TP.

I’m getting flashbacks of Shadow Warrior… XD

LordYz.8941:

I spend $0.00 on the gem store and get the some of the stuff ppl complain about and I only play 4-5 hours a day.

Only 4-5 hours?? O.o

(Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to play the game for that many hours per day too. XD I’m lucky if I can get half that time though.)

I generally love having Romance options in RPGs, but I think it extremely unlikely ANet will ever include them. It takes an enormous amount of writing to write a romance, and then you have to try and cater for a wide variety of tastes and inclinations. Even more so when you have non-human races like Charr, Asura and Sylvari in the mix.

draxynnic.3719:

Zaxares.5419:

I imagine that, like most birds, male Tengu will be slightly larger than females. They will have a larger plumage and more colourful feathers than females, but otherwise both genders conform to the same general build.

According to the Factions Manuscripts: “Females are generally larger than the males of their species, though their plumage is plainer, even drab.”

Oooh, didn’t know that. Even better then! That would make female Tengu unique among playable races for having females that are bigger than the males. I love variety.

Picture this. You’re running merrily down the road, perhaps whistling a jaunty tune, when you spot a Troll in your way. As you pull out your bow/rifle/staff, you say to yourself, “Aha! One lonesome Troll! This should not be a problem.” You focus your attention on the Troll and launch a deadly opening volley… Only to have your shot sail off in a completely different direction and strike another Troll far behind the first one. This second Troll, understandably irate at being attacked when it’s not yet his turn to be aggro’ed, charges forth to convey his disapproval. So now you have TWO angry Trolls to deal with, even when the first Troll is still firmly in your targeting sights. Panic ensues, with appropriately hilarious music.

Now, has this happened to anyone else? Where you DEFINITELY selected a specific target, only to have your skill shoot out and attack somebody else? (And this is occuring even when I have the “Lock targeting” option selected.) It’s only amusing the first time, as my poor squishy Asura will attest.

We know that, but there HAVE been some cases where Secrets in the Swamp remained dormant for well over 5 hours (and yes, I can attest to this because I DID spend 5 hours there once waiting for it to spawn). It’s supposed to trigger about once every 2 or 3 hours, according to the devs. In such cases it can be hard to figure out if the event is truly broken or whether you just have horribly unlucky timing. :P (Once Secrets DOES pop, it can be over in less than 15 mins if there’s lots of people around the Swamp to complete the various pre-events.)

I like this idea. Both as somebody who goes to rez people and as somebody who’s died before and wondered if anybody was going to come help.

Of course, there are situations where somebody has died in a spot that I can’t get to without dying myself. In that case, you’re on your own.

No. There is an upcoming Makeover Kit which presumably will allow you to change your character’s appearance, but I doubt it will let you change your profession.

You might be able to get it back by doing the following:

1. Start a new Thief character and pick the same hood. (Item 1)
2. Get the new character to a city and buy the cheapest white Medium helmet you can find off the TP. (Item 2)
3. Transmute Item 1 and Item 2 together to produce Item 3. (It will say that Item 3 is soulbound, but ignore that.)
4. Put Item 3 into the Bank.
5. Retrieve Item 3 from the Bank on your main Thief and transmute it to your final headgear (Item 4). Item 4 should be wearable by your main character.

This is the workaround I used to get back some of my starter headgears after I sold them a month or so ago. However, I’ve heard that ANet may have patched it so this workaround no longer works, so you may want to wait for more feedback from others before trying this method.

It’s probably so the node feels like a reward for beating that champion. Although I’ve noticed that most players just use summons/pets/stealth to ignore the guardian altogether and just harvest and run.

The devs have confirmed that MF does NOT work on chests. It only applies to loot dropped from monsters.

Time of day/week may also have something to do it. I’m an Australian player on Tarnished Coast (US server), and it’s not unusual for my weekday nights to be very quiet. (I’m still getting my characters through the starter zones.) I know there are other people in the map, because I will see them from time to time, and occasionally there’s a conversation going on in map chat, but I can do a few Hearts and not see another soul, because I’m playing at a time when most US players are asleep.

On the weekends it’s a completely different story. I’m now on at times when US players are normally on, and the maps are PACKED with people. As a result, I usually leave tough Group Events or jumping puzzles for the weekend so I can have some help.

Highly unlikely, as several of the Avatar skills are already rolled into the Human elite skills. We might see the Scythe come back as a weapon, but it’s unlikely to offer much in the way of new functionality since most melee weapons already strike up to 3 targets.

I think ANet has also stated that they are not looking to add more classes, although they are looking at new races.

To clarify, Tarnished Coast is the unofficial US RP server. Piken Square is the other unofficial RP server for Europe.

Why not both? I have one character of each race, and I love them all equally.

Ah yes! I forgot about that. (Went with Reeva for my sparring partner, y’see.)

It took me a while to get it, but now that I have, I support it. Was a bit disappointed the Great Bookah didn’t pull it out during his finale.

Yep, that’s what happens if you get attacked while gathering. (Although curiously it doesn’t seem to apply to T1 nodes, at least in my experience.) Always clear out nearby enemies before mining!

The Ancient Karka Shell is account bound, right? Why not just save it for your next level 80 character?

I imagine that, like most birds, male Tengu will be slightly larger than females. They will have a larger plumage and more colourful feathers than females, but otherwise both genders conform to the same general build.

The Asura seem to be a race with a very high metabolism, as indicated by their rapid movements and energetic animations. Their large brains and high intelligence also means that they probably consume a lot of calories per day. The downside to having a rapid metabolism is that you tend to have a short lifespan; your cells burn out and die a lot faster than larger, slower creatures. (This is why small creatures like rats, rabbits, cats, dogs etc. have much shorter lifespans than humans.)

As such, I expect that Asura probably have lifespans that are half (or less) the length of humans and larger races, although perhaps magic and medical technology can prolong their life to a comparative level.

I don’t remember it being stated anywhere that Charr have litters, but that would be logical, considering Charr females have six nipples. (It would be evolutionarily useless to evolve so many nipples if you didn’t birth multiple offspring at a time.)

All Legendary weapons are currently soulbound, although ANet has indicated they may change it to account bound in the future. Still, to be safe I’d create the Legendary on the character you want to give it to.

A couple more I noticed this morning in Wayfarer Foothills:

The Grekvelnn Burrows:

Ulfred’s event chain is broken. Despite there not being a statue in the Grawl cave, the Grawl are permanently peaceful, while Ulfred is walking around in the ice caves talking about building a statue, but his event is not active.

Doldenvan Passage:

Lunt’s event is broken. The Dredge are constantly respawning and attacking his fireplace, but the fireplace is invulnerable/destroyed and the event is not showing up.

It may quite possibly be bugged. Secrets in the Swamp appears to be a meta-event that breaks frequently. ANet is aware of the issue and working to discover the cause, but in the meantime, your best hope is to park a character near the Swamp and wait for a server reset.

I actually saw the Rogue Bull event pop up just this morning on Tarnished Coast. Only the second time I’ve ever seen it despite taking 5 characters through Queensdale.

It can be done. I’ve managed to catch one keg doing this, but you pretty much need to stand directly underneath the keg when it lands, which can be tough to judge. The others are right though; it’s much, MUCH easier to fill the heart for that quest by either bringing out frozen kegs, waking up passed out drunks, or (my favourite) just walking into the cave and slaughtering any Ice Wurms you see.

If I was ANet, I would make it give back a Glob of Globby Goo. XD

What the heck happened with your post there, Shaileya? O.o

Heck no! My highest level character is only 41! I’m just repeating what I’ve heard from other players and the Wiki.