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This is my poetic interpretation of every pvp season as a solo queue.

Could you take a closer look at some of the potted plant decorations. Many of them I’ve found to be way too small in comparison to their root decoration the basic shrub, and in comparison to the amount of materials it takes to make them.

One example is the Blue Orchid which is miniscule considering how many rare seeds you need. Another example is Djinn’s tongue, which isn’t as costly but still extremely small.

Would love for them to be more on the scale of the basic shrub or preferably the potted fan palm.

Potted gold fern is also extremely small.

Some other decorations that seem a bit off in scale are the elegant pillars that you use to make the festive arch. The arch itself is a great size, but the pillars that match are about half the size.

For the guild halls to be so large and the decoration cap to be so low currently, bigger is always better in my book!

Some other cons are the cost of the gems comparative to the cost it would take to craft similar decorations. Also, if they started doing this it might eventually cause them to shy away from creating in game obtainable recipes which I wouldn’t like. Though I like the idea in theory.

One thing I would love is an ability to make finishing kit bundles since you often need more than one kind. I think in general there are still way too many tabs to open and close in the ui. It gets hard to keep up with.

Perhaps a craftable decoration would be nice. I’d also really like it if they kind be created and sold on the trading post, or if the kits could be sold on the trading post.

And lastly, it really needs its own crafting material tab so bags aren’t bogged down with account bound junk.

Don’t think it is in the game, not yet if ever. Would be curious to know what it looks like though. Not that I’d ever get it.

Honestly, if they added way more decorations, made them a little more affordable, and allowed more to be placed in one area as well as raised the cap… there’s no reason you couldn’t build your own miniature guild hall inside of the already existing guild halls. They’re insanely huge and honestly could be turned into your guild’s own personal city with subdevelopments.

Does anyone understand the logic behind harvesting sickles only having 50 charges? Just seems strange when there are far more herb nodes than any others.

I have a ton even after two legendaries. Gotten all mine from airship cargo but then again I seem to never run out of crobars so I haven’t noticed the drop rate

What’s your personal level? Mine is 63 but I’ve done tier 3 dailies for about a week now and gotten next to nothing. One accessory and a couple rings.

Keep trying. The hardest part is that ore nodes are seemingly hard to find. Do events while you’re searching so it doesn’t get too grindy. It only took me a couple of hours and I got mine from a plain mithril ore node just outside the east entrance across from the east watch challenge.

Tried that! No luck. There were a few I was missing but didn’t match. Only thing I haven’t tried is random armor and weapon parts. Would something like a jewel discovery recipe show up in the mystic forge or are these separate?

So I hate to be “that guy” but am I the only one wondering why op had so many Rangers?…

Anyone know what these are used for in the mystic forge? I couldn’t find a single thing to go with them…. Not even crystalline dust in case they were used for gemstones.

Couldn’t find anything online either.

Could have just summed that up in a forum post. Hard to hear you over game volume anyway.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Interesting. Could be just because they also go after ley energy, or it could confirm the small theory that chak might be the DSD’s minions.

Anybody tried getting one from a Karka? Would be interesting if both those and chak were Steve’s minions.

I hope you get it.

I’ve noticed for a few weeks now there are a couple areas or at least one in particular in which there is a wall that either isn’t rendering correctly or is meant to be invisible? If glide to the little hidden room area that is now blocked off from that platform above the arena…. Had to explain… It’s the area with an arch that is blocked off, with a narrow hallway area and two slanted pillars at one end… The walls of this area are not rendering but still have collision. It used to be a visible wall up until a couple patches ago.

Honestly, the biggest complaint I have with them is not only the small decoration cap considering the vast size of the guild halls, but the fact that decorations are hated behind scribing. And not only scribing, but 6 ui windows of various things you have to craft to make the one item you want. They changed scribing in a great way but it still needs to be adjusted for the decoration items. Trying to get one bouquet of balloons should not require you to open 10 tabs to craft one item. And that’s not even a good example. I really wish they would make the decorations more of a blueprint that you can unlock and purchase as many of the item as you want from the decoration vendor. Obviously the price would have to be adjusted accordingly since they apparently want these decorations to be a huge gold sink. But as of right now it takes hours and gold upon gold of materials just to make enough decorations to fill up an area. Add to that the fact that you have to make just the right decoration that matched your guildhall thematically. There also seem to be quite a few areas meant to be unlocked or added to later on if they haven’t been scrapped.

While I would love a bunch of exalted guards and visitors in our gilded hollow, my real dream is to turn our guild hall into a new safe multi-layered Skritt city.

I want a peakitten inspired outfit with matching wings. Though I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a peakitten in GW.

Orpheal.8263:

Shortbow could be made easily alot better, if the following things would get added/changed about this weapon:

• Change one of the range related Traits to “Ricochet”, so that Pistols gain again a way to bouncing bullets, while the shortbow could profit from this trait by gettign an additional effect on Trick Shot, like that Trick Shot can steal Boons if bounced arrows hit a target twice and let that trait increase also the range of Shortbows and Pistols back to 1200, so that both weapons can be used also again better in defensive situations from hogher positions, aka in WvW

Change Clusterbomb to a much more powerful Condition Spreader that makes SENSE BY ITS EFFECT. Bleeding makes absolutely no sense..you shoot Explosives that you can let detonate on demand, these explosions should cause BURNING & Vunlerability, so that the Thief gets also access by this skill exclusively to Burning, making this skill more effectful for Condition Spreading, especially when combined with sigils that can cause additional conditions on hit/criticals

Choking Gas should cause Torment instead and poison additionally foes only, if they stay in the aoes longer than 2 seconds to give this skill more crow control functionallity that lead to the point, that you force your enemy to move away from the spot where the AoE effect is. The initial hit should cause also for a half second Daze.. its freaking CHOKING GAS..if something like that doesn’t interupt your current actions, then this skill needs a RENAME…

The skill that lets you evade attacks should get removed the back jump effect and simply let the thief gain that auto evade effect after shooting for several seconds instead. And it should become a skill that grants you stealth for 3 seconds to give this weapon more stealth gameplay synergy for when you are short before changing to an other weapon set, like D/D for example so that you can use SB better for stealth synergy to prepare a burst attack when you are about to change your weapon.

Infiltrators arrow should get a nice side effect to give this skill a bit more utility for the position to where you move to, infiltrators arrow should get the ability to deativate TRAPS that are nearby to the ground target, so if you move with this skil lto a spot and an enemy trap was nearby, then this trap wont do damage to you anymore.
This way would become the SB of the thief finally a nice counter weapon against all these trappers lately that we have now due to the dragonhunter.
If there is a class, that should be able to negate traps, then it has to be logically the Thief!! Masters of the Shadows, which infiltrate locations and know exactly how to detect traps and how to negate them without receiving any harm… they should be the logical counter to any trapping build with SB’s help.

I don’t agree with the trap portion of it simply because I don’t really find them to be that big of an issue unless there are multiple dragonhunters. If nothing else, it’s always fun to have scorpion wire to pull them out of their traps before they have a chance to pull you into them.

But the burning damage instead of bleeding would be great, at least for my power thief. Having that higher burst condition would certainly be better than lower longer lasting bleeding damage.

And the stealth bonus definitely. Pistol Pistol at least had a combo field that had good synergy with bountiful dodge and granting stealth on the fly. I’m really surprised shortbow doesn’t at least have a similar combo field effect. Possibly laying down a poison field and then bountiful dodging out of it and gaining 3 seconds of stealth like you do with pistol pistol 5.

Projectile combo finishers really need a rework anyway I think. Maybe we can get a replacement for one of the two projectile finishers.

Doggie.3184:

cptaylor.2670:

I’ve found a way to make them at next to no cost with a slight initial investment that might net me some profit later. Unfortunately it’s a slow process and will take awhile to accumulate all of them. Do some research, I’m sure you’ll find a more affordable way.

I might know what you’re talking about but I assume Anet will find and nerf it. XD

Probably. Probably just as I finish getting all the ones I need for my legendary.

Hope not though.

I’m hoping for bubbles and Cantha. I’m definitely leaning towards Cantha though. I imagine it will be a very beautiful area with lots of interesting jumping puzzles and waterfalls!

I’ve found a way to make them at next to no cost with a slight initial investment that might net me some profit later. Unfortunately it’s a slow process and will take awhile to accumulate all of them. Do some research, I’m sure you’ll find a more affordable way.

I get kind of a white mantle mursaat vibe from it with the helm at least

Did hope come with a special item? I don’t remember getting one with mine..

It wasn’t in the patch notes so I’m assuming it was just an old clip they threw into the trailer.

Paulytnz.7619:

I think I used a few hundred myself. Thankfully I used them each day as I got them so it broke it up some. Shame you didn’t think to do that…..

Actually I did for the first 1000. Was hoping this update would make things easier so I was holding off.

And to the other smart kitten responses, I can resize my window without needing to use the hotkeys but it’s still multiple clicking for an hour doing one at a time. I’d rather not have to buy a new mouse if this single purchase thing is just a bug.

I have 990 furniture tokens for the clouds but it’s only letting me purchase 1 at a time.

I agree that we need more options. I would definitely enjoy it, and when you have to consider Asuran technology as well as weapons such as HOPE, it’s a welcomed addition. People seem to think that because this game isn’t StarCraft all of the gear should look like it came out of a medieval game.

Anyway, I’ll post a pic of the best combo I’ve found for my thief that’s somewhat futuristic. I went after this look to match HOPE. The chest and legs are Strider’s armor, with the rest of the pieces being a mixture of Aetherblade and Magitech armor, with the living season 1 heirloom vendor gas mask for my helmet.

From the Guild vendor though, yo! But if they’re doing one I imagine they will do both.

Still hoping for a removal of the confirmation or a buy multi option though!

I think it’s been stated that Moto will be around after SAB, but I don’t think we’ve had any commentary on the lack of ease for exchanging furniture coins in the guild hall. I’ve been stockpiling my furniture coins the last few days because of how annoying it is having to click so many times exchanging them. By the time the update hits and SAB is gone, I will probably have 1000+ furniture coins left. Will the option to exchange them at the guild hall decoration vendor still be there? Or do I have to go ahead and purchase them before I’m stuck with them until next April? And will this update create an easier way to exchange them so that I don’t have to break my mouse, my finger, and my will to live clicking for half an hour or more?

:-P

I don’t think I’ve ever seriously used a shortbow besides travel on my thief, but I suck at the old-fashioned shortbow/dagger/pistol backstab stealth thief build anyway. More of a staff evade thief.

I still say that the bow is rather boring looking because it’s going to give you a transform on proc to tiger humanoid effect. I could be wrong, but I’m still leaning towards it.

Has anyone seen the effects of this item in game yet?

I’ve tried searching online via google/youtube/wiki and can’t seem to find any visuals.

Didn’t know if anyone frequenting the forums has seen it. I’m assuming it has a bright glowing sparkle effect with possibly an exalted golden trail when running but it’s just an assumption.

Not like I’ll ever get it or any of the other two to drop anyway. >_< Really need that chak item to go with hope and my electro glider.

Well at least we get a release date. Hopefully some teasers about all of the things coming with the patch, even if it’s a vague list of one sentence items. We already know about the ones they’ve announced. Here’s to hoping there are some surprise unannounced features planned.

And the more I thought about it, as disappointing as it is, with Super Adventure Box ending next Tuesday and the pvp season wrapping up it wouldn’t really be that farfetched to assume they want to add a week break in between those and the update. Hope I’m wrong, but pretty sure that’s been the plan.

And no need to go all, “I’m a paying customer,” “I demand..,” or general comments of malice. I’m not going to say I’m happy with this drought, but at least we’re getting SOME responses.

I do have to agree with some of the negative posts about there probably being nothing big planned that they haven’t already announced though, sadly.

Anyone else refreshing each day hoping for some blog post about the coming update. So far we have grind reduction, scribing, wvw, and presumably balance changes. No word on other forms of pve or details on changes. Was hoping for a blog reveal to know what to expect as it is either next week or the week after. Hopefully next week!

There is a large area above the lost precipice mine that has a bunch of wooden structures you can get to via gliding but I’m not sure if they’re accessible after the upgrade

Would be nice to know which guild hall. If it’s the gilded hollow it unlocks an entire little staircase area that leads to the area above the mine and starts in the water area south of the mine. Not sure about lost precipice but I’ll check it out later in my other guilds hall.

And it’s not “GIGANTIC.” She* whatevs

I asked on his twitter if he was talking about the portal across from the divinity reach portal next to sab. It doesn’t have a purple circle icon on the map and the portal itself has a red o on it like it’s prohibited. Not sure if the portal was there before or not. Seems odd they would shut it down though if it led somewhere originally.

So it seems like we’re essentially turning into the chosen exalted or something? I have noticed the wings resemblance, or horns I guess too. It would be cool if Glint’s egg winds up coming to our guild hall and hatching with a big dragon perched on the crystal. But I imagine that’s farfetched.

I didn’t realize it was confirmed every 8 levels, but it makes me even more excited to get these last 3 levels in our guild!

I’ve always wondered about the mysterious cave from the personal story too.

Where did that cave lead? Because on the other side the only thing it would lead to would be the forsaken thicket, but there aren’t really any exalted ruins in that area other than the vale guardian platform. So where did that archway and door lead unless it was specifically to that podium?

Are we going to come across more exalted and use their help to fight Lazzarus the Dire in the next raid wing?

1. I’m sure there are lots of things they could do that wouldn’t add a huge effect in and of themselves but collectively create a more rich atmosphere.

2. Are you talking about player housing? While within the confines of a guild it would be much more manageable, but wouldn’t be entirely different than what they already are. If you REALLY wanted to there are plenty of spacious rooms in both guild halls that you could decorate and claim for your own. The one thing I would add would be more decorations including a bed, for sure. More guild hall specific themed decorations that aren’t gated behind scribe.

Would also add that it would be nice to place your home farmable nodes in the guild halls instead so they could get more use out of them and wouldn’t require you to go to your home instance.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Killance.4158:

… or some wish we could. If Guild Wars dev team decided to put that into the game like many MMO’s have started too, would you support it?

Why or why not?

And the argument “its so easy to level!” doesn’t hold. WoW has the easiest leveling and yet they are the first ones to introduce buying a max level(to my knowledge).

You can already do that now.

• Buy gems.
• Convert to Gold
• Go gw2crafts.net, from the TP, buy everything on the shopping list.
• Use appropriate XP boosters (also on the TP).

It’s not “insta-80” (which is easy for veterans, with excess tomes of knowledge), but it gets the job done.

Not to mention how many tomes of knowledge you get from black lion chests if you just spent all of that money on keys.

Another thread got me thinking, what are people’s thoughts on the crystal in the guild hall?

Is it pretty much assumed it has to tie in with Glint and potentially the egg?

Think there might be more to it than just a theoretical place of power that we use to safeguard our established guild halls?

Oh, and a Rata Novus/Asura themed guild hall would be great as well.

I love the Arah guild hall idea. Would be great to see it returned at least somewhat to its former glory.

I’d even settle for somekind of Fractal with the city in the background and only a small part of it explorable.

Not sure about the other areas as I’m not a huge gw2 lore nerd.

I think if we do go to Cantha at some point we’re pretty much guaranteed to get a Cantha-themed guild hall.

At this point I just hope they keep adding things to the guild halls and making them more interactive. Give them a wider variety of affordable decorations and expand on what’s already existing to get it where they think they could mimic it in other areas.

Right now they’re just large pretty but empty zones that you can spend a fortune decorating and upgrading with not much use otherwise.

Would also be nice to get a new building or upgrade that allows a bank/trading post. The bank we already have with the scribing station so the only thing we would be missing would be the trading post which would be a highly welcomed thing considering how much stuff you have to buy and trade for the upgrades.

Really interested in seeing what they have planned with this Crystal too. If I remember right they hinted at the crystal being a pretty significant thing in the future they didn’t want to spoil.

I wish we could buy them off the trading post.

I support this if I get a special helicopter wing spinning blade glider matching Hope, or a jetpack that spits out blue and pink lightning!

Has anyone heard anything or read about any plans they have to add to guild halls in the coming future? Such as more upgrades or a second further exploration-esque upgrade? More interactive features?

Was hoping there would be exciting new changes coming in the April update but there hasn’t been a whole lot of details about the April update anyway.

For recipes to not require you to have to have an excel spreadsheet or bubble chart to keep up with, like wanting to make one decoration and realizing you need 3 different things, each composed of 3 other things, which are made out of 3 other things, all needing an extremely large quantity of expensive or hard to come by mats.

I can kind of understand the logic they had when designing this profession, but it seems like they were really gearing this towards having one designated person in the guild doing this profession… in which they should have made it a permissions thing in guild ranking so that people could funnel everything they have to that one person. Otherwise, as a small guild or as an individual that just wants to make decorations for the guild hall, it just isn’t practical.

At the very least there needs to be a significant exp boost based on what you craft or how many mats it takes to make something. Like, 10 levels, not 1 or part of 1 level.

There really isn’t much I WOULDN’T change about the profession as it is right now. It would be nice if it were more in-line with other professions in terms of individual-hobby leveling. Especially since the things you make are gated by resonance anyway. (Another thing I don’t like about it.)

I think my biggest issue in general is just how hard, expensive, and how high of a skill level you need to make decorations.. especially given how expensive the decorations are to begin with.