Guild Wars 2

LoreChief,
These are my suggestions.

Here are two snapshots of my weak tree engi.
… and thank ANet for the awesome artworks.

Is it possible to add some diversity to Engineer’s Kits?

I used Kits very often but they always look the same ever since. Is there a way to give them a different look?

(1) The “BACK” item among the 6 accessories, decides the appearance of Elixir Gun, Flamethrower, Bomb Kits, etc. Anyway, it never shows any graphic.

(2) The “family (Cleric, Knight, etc)” of the main hand weapon decides the appearance of our kits, or probably the rarity, at least in the case of Exotic and Legendary, can give them a different look.

Unpredictability:
I heard there had been such a key back into a beta weekend for a short period of time or so.

I logged in and the last two times it was normal.

I checked control panel and realized I have only ONE physical audio device, even though the sound can come out from my built-in speaker or from my plugged-in earphones.

Probably after the new patch GW2 can’t detect if there is any earphone plugged in?

Unpredictability.4086:

1 – The high quality setting is more than just turning all the graphical effects. It’s related to getting textures and such to be the biggest resolution and last time it worked it was having problems.

Probably resolution doesn’t need to be reset for picture taking purpose. I feel this will greatly affect the smoothness of game play.

Unpredictability.4086:

1 – The high quality setting is more than just turning all the graphical effects. It’s related to getting textures and such to be the biggest resolution and last time it worked it was having problems.

Perhaps let’s be able to store two custom settings: one is High, another is Good.
Two (picture taking) keys are mapped to the two settings respectively.

It can be useful for mobile players whose internet conditions vary everyday.

Thank you, Refraction. I will check again later when I can and will reply here.

There was sound in the past and now and then there is still sound upon login.

Re: Screenshot full so quickly
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Screenshot folder can hold only 999 pictures.
Can we make the automated numbering like Char_Name_yymmdd_nnn?
I am actually taking more than 1000 pictures a week.

I think adding Char_Name shall be helpful to those who play multiple toons?

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Re: High Resolution Pure Landscape Picture taking
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Very often I have to stop, open up settings, adjust all distance dependent details to maximum, close all UI, take a few shots, resume UI, then resume Graphic Quality settings to get acceptable FPS for combats. I spent a lot of time taking pictures, and am wondering if there can be

(1) a key bound to take High Quality picture without need to change setting?

(2) a key bound to close all UI, take a picture, and resume all UI?

I also took pictures in combat, but the current key functions forced me to either stop moving & stand still to take a picture without UI, or otherwise in order to keep my toon in action, I have to take a picture with UI on.

As a result, I very often fight blindly without using UI just so that I can take pictures.

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Re: UI / Combat Pictures taking

If the above key mappings will not be in the right direction for any reason, I am wondering if there can be a minimalist UI.

Probably only a bar with a 10-pixel height, 10% of monitor width or so, to show HP.
It is black or transparent when HP is full. Nothing else, just so that I know when to switch the UI back on and stop picture taking.

Or to be more functional, we may have a row with a 10-pixel height at the bottom of the screen, showing status of all weapon/skill buttons. It will look like a minimum status bar, which does not show any graphic but the status colours of each button: (Or it can be actually a “windowed” status bar “outside” the game graphics).

The buttons are void of text content, black when no status / conditions are applied, black when the key is available not in cool down, black when health is full… These buttons may include:

f1-f2-f3-f4-1-2-3-4-5-RED Bar (HP)-Yellow Bar (Endurance)- Coloured Status Bar (Condition Indication)-6-7-8-9-0 ….

All the names or status of the mobs/npc/players, all text, all looted or rewarded items are disabled in this minimized UI mode.

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At any rate, I think a key to automatically take pictures without UI at the best graphical quality setting is the best solution. However, I do enjoy savouring the landscape, solving the jump puzzles with the UI all turned off.

After logging in, it is often No Sound.

I can hear volume adjustment or system sound via my ear phone but no sound from the Game, no matter which device is chosen.

Once the selected audio device is set to a different device or reselected/reset, the sound comes out immediately.

Is it a bug?

System: Windows 7 under BootCamp, iMac 27" 2010.

I tried logging in Mac Beta Version again after update, it still crashed the whole OS X a few minutes after logging in and forced hardware reboot.

+1 to OP.
+1 to Ghostwind.

I haven’t been there yet but that’s all I will be saying when I were to face it.

I also tried resetting SMC and rebooting. The syndrome persists.

Thank you, FlamingFoxx!

Very nice suggestion. When I save screenshots outside the game, they are saved as .jpg and into a folder outside desktop.

However, in GW2, the screenshots are saved as .png and onto desktop, regardless of all the modified settings.

And, it still freezes the whole screen for more than 3 seconds to finish, even though my toon is actually still running or acting underneath the frozen screen.

With the same iMac 27" 2.66GHz i5 8GB Ram, the screenshots can be taken smoothly, unlimitedly, almost without pause during the combats, when the game runs under Bootcamp Windows 7. However, in Mac OS X 10.8.2, the same machine has to spend more than 3 seconds to “render” the whole screen…

There must be something wrong. Or is there anything else I shall check?

I tried again playing Mac version, it crashed OS X like 3 minutes after logging in.

This indeed bothers me as well. As we “logged in first”, my friends have already seen me “logged in”. And then, I turn invisible after notifying them I’ve just logged in?? I can’t understand it.

I second this feature. Do not save on the desktop.
My desktop is so clean that there are only two disk icons.

I took like more than one hundred or two each night I played. Very very troublesome to rename all these files and put them into different folders.

After 3 additional system crashes under Mac OS X, Rebooted into Windows and successfully entered the game.

Crashed when I attempted a jump at Straits of Devastation.
The whole system halted. Forced to reboot.

After rebooting into Mac OS X. Everything worked well as usual except GW2.

• GW2 login success.
• World/Character Screen OK.
• Whole system halted at Map entering screen: The cityscape screen showed when loading the Map; First cycle seemed completed successfully. The refreshed and then the whole system halted again. Forced to reboot.

It happened again and again.

Taking a screenshot will freeze my screen for about 3 seconds. I can’t take pictures in combat this way! I am a journalist, a photographer. I can’t make a living at all.

My char can run for a distance about the same as the range of a pistol, during the time the screen is frozen.

Does anyone suffer from the same issue? This annoyed me to the extent that I am returning to play under Bootcamp. I don’t wanna miss the fantastic decisive moments for picture taking.

I second this. Command key is just in the right place, larger and easier to use.
Control keys in Apple’s keyboard are not friendly to gaming.

Server: Henge of Denver
Map: Plains of Ashford
Skill Point: near Tela Range, in the northwestern most corner, NPC missing.

-Hanging out with friends
-Teamwork accomplishment
-Beautiful and unique scenery
-Interesting and diverse story
-Unforgiving mess your face up difficulty

I enjoyed all the same as you said in a dungeon. Our first try was totally a messed-up failure. It took us 3 hours and we only proceeded to half way of the story mode.

However, the second time we finished it in 90 minutes. Half of us are new to MMORPG. We had a great deal of fun. More than that, I was glad after the first fight, I found I needed to change my skill slots and traits, just like I did after I failed in some personal story instances. I bet the others had thought it over as well. And before the second try, we all made some adjustment, skill used, traits, etc. There was a lot of swearing and laughter. It was a great fun.

I found it enjoyable that our roles can actually be different from dungeon to dungeon, from team to team, or from strategy to strategy.

We bought the games for ourselves. I am glad you can enjoy the game all the same as we did.

Happy gaming.