Guild Wars 2

The Core game is free now, so you don’t pay for it, just for the Expansion

The only difference between Newbie and Veteran is:

The Veteran only gets the Expansion for his existing, unrestricted Account (+ maybe one Slot) while the Newbie (with F2P-Account) gets an Account without restrictions + Expansion Content.

Behellagh.1468:

darkprecure.6129:

I don’t even think F2P players would be already at lvl 35 to get access to LA, to whisper someone. Your whispers come from old RTM Core Accounts for sure. Unless they grind the levels pretty fast, without WvW and only Starting Areas til lvl 15.

Starting areas til level 10.

Okay, my fault. But LA is still locked til lvl 35.

I don’t even think F2P players would be already at lvl 35 to get access to LA, to whisper someone. Your whispers come from old RTM Core Accounts for sure. Unless they grind the levels pretty fast, without WvW and only Starting Areas til lvl 15.

Just logged into the game and the first thing I saw were 3 pairs of white wings. They ARE popular and many people are wearing them, although they are ugly (IMO, especially on Asura).

The only difference between Ultimate and Deluxe are the 4000 Gems you will get for 25$. Upgrading is only possible by buying the upgrade with Gems in the Ingame-Store, it would be ridiculous to pay the Ultimate with Gems and get 4000 Gems back.

@Just a flesh wound: Maybe it’s because the gift is much more interesting this year?

Who actually cared for the multiple lvl 20 Scrolls (except for Key runners), Queen Jenna^x or the Birthday blaster?

This is too expensive. Even if it’s more than one outfit, people who only want to play characters of one race and one gender will pay the same price. For them, it’s like it was with the HoT+Core Game bundle, you pay for something you don’t get.

It could still be a rifle if it’s just a special skin and something like this: Staff weapon :P

I took Damage by using them, too. Sure, I didn’t die from it, but it seems like this is a bug, would be kind of stupid if it’s working like intended.

Furthermore, I had a bug while using a Mushroom. It seems like I was too close to a wall when I used it and ended up endlessly spinning. Had to use a WP to get out of this situation.

I think they could add more different events during the Night. At the moment it’s only “Defend this Rally Point”, “Escort this Pact Soldier” and to bring Supplies to fortify the Rally Points.

I think there should be more different Events like “Giant Boss/ Tendril appeared on the map, destroy it or you will lose half of your Rally points”. Losing Rally points should make the attacks on the remaining Rally points feel even fiercer and there should be much more enemies. Defending points should feel to be necessary to not getting overwhelmed by the sheer forces of Mordemoth.

Losing all rally Points should result in a “LOSE-Mechanic” with everyone on the map dying, like when failing the Twisted Marionette fight. Surviving the night could reward you with Special Skins / useful Items / other things.

Furthermore, I would like to see Night-Activities. Getting good scores could result in weakening the Enemy-forces. For example: One activity sends you on a Mission to sabotage an enemy formation, you would get tools to decieve them and take them out one by one or to plant a bomb.

Sadly, you will have to pay the full price, but won’t get the Core game unless you register a completely new account (but your old accound won’t get the update that way).

If you want a better price, just look around for special offers. In Europe, there were some special offers for the physical Prepurchase-Box already, the price was around 30-33€.

I hope this will be fixed, soon. It’s a very annoying bug…

DanteZero.9736:

KellyCDB.7138:

Try putting up an LFG asking for help? There are probably other folks who still need to get through that bit too. It is much easier with more than one person. I have solo’d it twice, not too bad on my warrior but it took a LONG time on my thief. Much better with a buddy!

Try playing that particular episode on a mesmer. It’s currently the most mesmer unfriendly place in the game. That one facet that destroys things if you don’t have the right color buff automatically kills off the clones and phantasms summoned because of the AoE field on the ground.

QFT.

Facet of Light is an annoying fight on Mesmer, but still not very hard.
And doing the Master Achievements with Mesmer was fun.

Why did it cost any gold?

/Edit: Didn’t notice the person above me was the OP, so my question was unnecessary.

It’s great to be able to see the Old LA in the PS. But being limited to the small areas of LA in each story step is kind of heartbreaking.

I wished it would be possible to visit the whole map after finishing the fight against Zhaitan. It could be something like a celebration of the victory with the streets full of joyful citizens everywhere… You could even put a video in it, starting when you decide to leave the instance which tells you about all the events of LS Season 1.

I would have loved Elite Luxon… Maybe we’ll get it when we are visiting Cantha… Whenever that will happen.

No, it was Prestige Armor, 15 Platin for a piece. It’s called Elite Woven Armor.

But wou’re right, IMO, it looks much better without wings.

But a warhorn is fitting greatly. Just think about Stormcaller, the legendary horn that destroyed the Charr armies in a large storm that was called upon them by the Player-character (Mission: Nolani Academy).

Maybe the Tempest gets a miniaturized version of it. :P

Or they say: We lied to you, there is actually a new weapon-type – created only for the Tempest: The Fan.

Astralporing.1957:

Because currently a melee main weapon is something that ele needs, while another offhand in addition to already good focus and dagger is way less important.

And because Mesmer hasn’t got any nice Offhand-Weapons, they gave him the Shield, right?

When the Tempest gets the Warhorn… Just imagine a Tempest using Stormcaller… They could destroy every dragon with one blow.

BTW, I noticed there were only 25-Stacks of Conditions on my screen. Has anyone noticed something similar or is it just a coincidence? I hope the Stack limit is not back to how it was before 06/23.

Having a 30 / 24 second CD on the Shout is kind of stupid. The Tome of Wrath had a 180 second CD, lasted 20/30 seconds and you were able to use Zealot’s Fervor once/twice during this time. The CD should be much higher, 120 seconds at least.

Mortifer.2946:

Challenging only now? I don’t know… few days ago I tried 2 organized groups and they failed it both times. I think, with this community, Tequatl was challenging enough.

Really? I thought even PUG-Maps were able to do him recently. Never saw him failing in a long time.

If you don’t believe Teq is doable after the change:

It takes a little longer but it’s fine.

There is no inevitable fail. Teq is fine. Much more fun than before, because it’s now challenging – similar to how it was when he was updated 1 1/2 year ago.

He’s now a challenge again.

We were really slow, but we did it at least. So he’s still doable. Everyone saying otherwise is exaggerating.

Wow, that’s great!

Btw, Infinite Makeover Kits for Mesmers, pls! ;P

kitten , this is gorgeous. Finally, LA has become a town!

But Anet won’t get the full price when buying from a retailer. I believe the 10$ → Gems solution is the best to solve the problem.

Btw, Domain of Anguish wasn’t ready with the release of Nightfall, it was patched in some time after release.

GW1 for Windows Phone (and maybe Android and iOS, too) please.

Maybe we’ll get “Scarlet Briar Bash” when the new Lions Arch rises from the ashes.

Ghastly Grinning Shield Skin from Black Lion Key. Was on one of the last days of Halloween 2012. Completed lvl 10 Story on my Guardian, used the key and… Yay!

Jokubas.4265:

2) Another Mesmer Specialization I’d like to see is a stage magician. Playing off all the clichés like hiding things in hats, turning inanimate objects into birds, sawing people in half, making things appear to disappear, etc.

Nice idea. I think a stage magician could be very enjoyable..

So many nice ideas in this thread. We should put them into the HoT Subforum to give the devs some inspiration for their next Elite-Specializations

Nice Thread.

Specialization: Trickster / Jester
Weapon: Dagger MH + OH
[Illusionary Pin [1/2s Cast, 600 Range]]: Throw an illusionary pin that deals damage and inflicts 1 stack of Bleeding (4s). Auto-Attack 1
V
[Illusionary Dart [1/2s Cast, 600 Range]]: Throw an illusionary dart that deals damage and inflicts 2 stacks of Bleeding (4s). Auto-Attack 2
V
[Phantom Pain [1s Cast, 600 Range]]: Throw another illusionary dart that deals damage and inflicts [Deep Wound = > Doubles Bleeding Damage] (4s) while over the bleeding threshold (6 Stacks). Auto-Attack 3
[Illusionary Pendulum [3/4s Cast, 6s CD, 3 Pulses, 1 Pulse per second, Cone AoE: 480 Range]]: Create an illusionary pendulum in front of you, that inflicts Confusion (2 Stacks, 5s) with the first 2 pulses and deals great damage with the last pulse.
[Summon Nightmare [1s Cast, 10s CD, 900 Range]]: Summons a clone who will use [Illusionary Pin] and [Illusionary Dart] on the enemy.
[Illusion of Weapons [1s Cast, 24s CD, 900 Range]]: Summons a Phantasm with a random weapon (Phantasmal Berserker, Warlock, Swordsman, Warden or Duelist) and grants you and nearby allies Might (5 stacks, 10s).
[Echo of Illusions [2s Cast, 60s CD, 1200 Range]: Cast Illusion of Weapons, Summon Nightmare or Illusionary Pendulum (max. 1200 Range). Your next Attack will inflict Bleeding (3 Stacks, 8s), Chill (5s) and Confusion (4 Stacks, 5s).

Utility: [Trick]

[Illusion of Weakness [Instant, 60s CD]]: Self-Weakness (5 Stacks, 10s Duration), Damage to yourself => gain “Illusion of Weakness” (15s Duration), when life falls under threshold (10% or getting downed): restore to full health and remove 2 conditions.

[Sympathetic Visage [1s Cast, 30s CD, 900 Range]: When your enemy attacks you during the next 5s, block his attack and: he will lose all of his energy (PVP) / you inflict chill (10s) and deal damage to him. (PVE)
[Displacement [Instant, kitten CD, 1200 Range]: Stun break. Swap places with any of your clones (if no clone exists, create one in a random position (600 Radius) around your enemy and swap positions with it)
[Arcane Conundrum [1s Cast, 60s CD, 1200 Range]]: Slow (5s) an enemy. Your allies around him get Quickness (5s), nearby enemies get Confusion (2 Stacks, 8s).
[Crippling Illusion [3s Channeling, 1 hit/second, 30s CD, 1200 Range]]: Deal damage and inflict Chill (2s) and Cripple (2s) to your foe with every hit. Remove Swiftness, Quickness and Alacrity from the enemy.

Elite: [Migraine [1s Cast, 180s CD, 240 Radius, 900 Range]]: Dazes your enemies (2s) and then inflicts Slow (8s) and Deep Wound (10s).

Shatter: [Accumulated Pain [60s CD]
Effect: Deals high amounts of damage to enemies who are above the Bleeding (6 Stacks) and / or Confusion (5 Stacks) threshold. (Base power (according to the amount of clones shattered) +10% &/or +15%)

Traits:
[Minor 1]: Gain Vigor (5s) and Regeneration (5s), when hitting an enemy with Deep Wound. ( Internal CD: 15s)
[Adept 1]: Inflicting Deep Wound will remove a Boon from the enemy.
[Adept 2]: Inflicting Deep Wound will remove a Condition from you.
[Adept 3]: Inflicting Deep Wound will apply Vulnerability (4 Stacks, 4s) to an enemy.
[Minor 2]: Damage of Dagger skills and F5 Shatter will be affected by Condition damage.
[Master 1]: Confusion you inflict lasts 50% longer.
[Master 2]: Whenever inflicting Deep Wound, it lasts 1s longer.
[Master 3]: +100 Confusion Damage
[Minor 3]: Chill (4s) an enemy who is above the Confusion threshold (5 Stacks). (Internal CD: kitten
[GM 1]: Conditions last 25% longer, Dagger skills recharge 20% faster, Clones will also cast Phantom Pain.
[GM 2]: Your Phantasms inflict Confusion (2 Stacks, 4s) and Bleeding (3 Stack, 10s) with each hit + their attacks are unblockable. (Internal CD: 2s)
[GM 3]: Deal 25% more Damage to Enemies with Chill or less than 50% Energy.

Just some stupid attempt to think of a new Specialization.

Too bad, my guess was wrong ^^. But Guardian will get Paragon Wings! Yay!

Mesmer was the last profession that was revealed before release, so I thought it could be the first one this time This would make the Elementalist specialisation the last one (of the Core classes) to be revealed… But well, who knows?

My guess:
Mesmer → Engineer →Thief → Guardian → Necromancer → Ranger → Warrior → Elementalist → Revenant

Strill.2591:

Shield-based Chronomancer is a blatant reference to Homura Akemi from Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

But I want a spear (on land, not underwater)! Kyouko Sakura ftw ;P

B2T: I don’t think a rifle would fit the Chronomancer… 5 skills would be nice, but what has a rifle to do with time-manipulation? Shields ar at least round like a clock.

Ghastly Grinning shield or the default Chronomancer Shield-Skin.

Too bad we won’t see any new MH weapons for Chronomancers, because new weapons will be always connected to Elite-specialisations.

I’d love to see a Ranged MH Dagger or a Melee MH Pistol. Would be a nice twist to these weapons.

I think it’s a great idea. Thumbs up.

When I saw the title I thought he got it from ambient creatures… But no, it should be impossible to get a Precursor from 4 white items in the Mystic Forge.

They should give out the new Currency or Hero-Points for SP spent on Skills, too.
It would be unfair to those people who bought all Skills when they could have bought Mystic Forge items or just saved them aswell.

They could make two versions of the skill. One ground targeting version and one without it.

A funny story. I like it.

kuben.9826:

@ OP Imagine You live in Poland. You know what? I’ve never seen MMO translated into polish and probably I’ll never see.

GW1 had a polish translation (+ Russian, Japanese, Korean and Bork! Bork! Bork!) ! It’s not a MMORPG, but at least a CORPG.

Anet, make it happen! Just bring all these languages back. (My native languages is already supported, but I still prefer the english client)

Who cares if it’s near the entrances for WvW? Just press “B” and choose where you want to go. And if you want to leave WvW by using the asura gates, you won’t need the WP, either.

And we have to wait and see… LA has to be rebuilt first.

Akikaze.1307:

Not the characters you requested but here’s my attempt at Rosa from FF IV.

Awesome! That’s great.

Are there any Terra Branfords, Rydias, Kefkas or Celes Chères around? :O
I want to see more FF VI and IV love ^^