Guild Wars 2

Oh yeah I remember this. This was the reason I even got GW2 thinking it was going to be different. And about the only thing I remember is we got a beautiful game and the dodge feature out of it. Sadly it lays as a forgotten reminder of what the game could be closer to (I don’t expect the perfect game exactly as they put in that manifesto, but it doesn’t feel anywhere close besides being beautiful)

Can we have some way of switching Bandit Crests to Geodes? maybe like 100 crest per geode or anything. Or maybe make the rewards in Dry Top drop Geodes like in Silverwastes?

I’m not sure if linking gives you any points, but yes you have to buy at least one of the Campaigns and EotN and link it to your Gw2 account. Also HoM rewards are disabled at this current time, so you can’t get anything from it.

EDIT: According to the FAQ in the HoM calculator it seems you will get 3 points from linking accounts.

Q: Why did I receive 3 points for having “Accounts Linked” under the Monument of Honor when I haven’t done any linking yet?

A: When Guild Wars 2 is released, there will be a way to link your Guild Wars account to your Guild Wars 2 account. If you own Eye of the North, you will receive 3 points for linking the accounts together. The Reward Calculator assumes that you will have linked the accounts together, so it automatically gives you those points.

Forum search has been broken since the release of GW1. Of course Anet has acknowledged this bug, but since they cannot make money fixing it, they told players just to use Google search instead.

I’m going to guess you did not participate with the Moa Racing. You placed a bet and if you won you got money, if not you got no money. That’s how any type of gambling works. Losing, Breaking Even, or Winning. Anet should not have to spell every single thing out so that you don’t make a mistake. Also, you didn’t have to use this NPC. This NPC isn’t part of any story and is in a cave with a hidden entrance so its a use are your own risk.

Edit: Funny thing I typed Gambling into the gw2 wiki search bar and it popped up the page for the Mystic Forge xD

So I’ve noticed something with how Anet balances stuff. If they want a big change, it feels like it goes over the top, either with nerf or buff, its not just a small increase, its a huge one. Although they can work out smaller balances, it seems to not be the case for bigger ones. This time it sounds like a Smiter’s Booning on a some what positive part for condi users.

*Smiter’s Booning – mostly used for nerfs, its a change to a skill/trait that is so extreme it completely takes it out of play (pretty much the lazy way out)

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Smiter%27s_Boon_%28PvP%29

For all players who registered the core Guild Wars 2® game prior to January 23, 2015 and who upgrade their account by prepurchasing and registering any Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns edition before Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns‘ launch, we will add one additional character slot to your Guild Wars 2 account.

So if you are a Veteran and want your character slot, you need to buy before launch or you lose out on it.

*This thread was not made to flame just as a reminder or if someone didn’t read slow enough and may have missed it/misread it.

I would totally recommend GW1. On the online store I would recommend the Guild Wars Trilogy and Guild Wars Platinum Edition. This would give you

- Guild Wars
- Guild Wars Factions
- Guild Wars Nightfall
- Guild Wars: Eye of the North
- Bonus Items: Fire Imp combat ally to assist in your adventures, seven exclusive weapons, and M.O.X. the golem hero — a magic-powered engine of destruction that you can add to your party.

All for the low low price of $50 with hours and hours and hours of content.

*Guild Wars is a CORPG, or Competitive/Cooperative Online Role Playing Game.

So I was browsing through old Guild Wars 1 videos on you tube and I found some newer Guild Wars 2 videos that a lot of them take place in WvW land so I thought I would try and share them with everyone else, because they are pretty good.

- The Karma Express

- Bloodbound

I hope you guys enjoy. These aren’t mine, they are another groups work and I thought I would share

I wasn’t sure where to post this so I thought the general forums might be a good place to start. I’ve had some thoughts/questions about the dragons that I’ve been trying to talk to guild mates about (although they haven’t been on so its been kind of difficult). So I thought I would try here.

1.What do the dragons over all threat? Tyria the world? or Tyria the continent?

If its the world, wouldn’t it make sense to try to reach out to Elona or Cantha more? (I know the dragons make this hard to do but if we can kill a dragon I think we can somehow contact them, with any combination or airships/asura gates which have been proven exist in these locations, smoke signals, godly invisibility that NPC’s seem to have)

If its just the continent, could we try and move to elona or cantha somehow (similar to above) until they are done and go back to hibernation?

2. Do the dragons affect the area known as The Mists?

If not, I would think we could just hide in there until everything blows over?

3.Glint had eggs. We know atleast 1 hatched (although not sure if it survived) and another egg is around (Living Story) So can the Elder Dragons lay eggs like their champions? If so, could they hatch and do the same thing the current elder Dragons are doing? Or are the current champions actually their children now?

This is the question that really intrigues me. Because to me this means that if they can lay eggs and their eggs survive, then the cycle will continue and we just keep postponing the end of all life. and could explain why Tequatl got uber powerful now, we killed its mom and its kittened.

4.The Zephyrites talk of the Elder dragons as forces of nature. The dragons rise, consume all magic, go to sleep, magic leaks out and returns to the world, repeat. So If we did kill all the dragons, what would happen to the world known as Tyria? Would a new threat appear? Would magic just go out of control?

I’m not really sure about the answer to this one, but even if we don’t see anything close to this, I think its something interesting to think about.

Sorry if these questions have already been asked/answered but, curiosity got the best of me and I posted this, I hope at least I may of gotten someone something interesting to think about.

Extreme.8350:

Interesting idea they could rebuild it and add all the tapestries and items
Then also rebuild skrying pool where u can see epic moments of ur gw1 character and u can invite ur friends to party

Not hall of monuments, Heart of the Mists which is the pvp lobby and where you are required to be if you want to que up for pvp matches. Yes I agree something needs to be done with it, make it fresh and new along with all the pushing for PvP Legends Tourny’s and other pvp activity’s.

I hope that it will utterly blow my mind for as long as its taking/with the drought that is happening right now besides gem store releases (which I know is part of making money but one can only take so many new backpack skins) so I feel like the pressure is on, otherwise I think its going to be an overpriced, over-hyped feature pack, but I won’t judge too much until I can get my hands on it and play with the new features.

Ignore it.

For 1, it says at the bottom, sent by another player not by ArenaNet which has a special mail logo if they do.

2 they won’t send a mail/email to you stating they are shutting your account down, they just do it and then will reactive it if need be later after you contact support.

So with this latest patch, I thought I would try and get a beta portal. After my first vine wrath I remember all the times of being in Silverwastes trying to get the collections done. Tried to go to Dry top..wasn’t much better. But while I remembered all this, I also remembered Guild Wars 1, and thought I would give it another try. And I got to say, it was a lot of fun. Even with all the limited graphics and limited movement with skills and what not, I had a blast. So I want to thank Anet for all the repetitive/stagnate content that has given me even more reason to play gw1 and actually have fun since all the terrible wvw patches/buggy living story.

To be honest, I got to agree with OP. While I wouldn’t say its all “Anet Promises” and “Anet Lied”, I do think that when the hype was real, they made a lot of bold..claims. Saying their game was going to be different, and while it is different, there is a lot of stuff they can improve on, but they don’t because it costs money. Another reason why they spend so much time on the gem store. To be honest, I think I got what I payed for at launch, but with so many patches, that pretty much left some stuff in permanant ruin, I think for in the future Anet needs to be mindful of such articles like OP mentioned and really work on polishing any Xpacs they do, and after all that, try and polish the game so people don’t remember the buggy game that was bugged for forever, but remember the nice game that was interesting and actually different from every other game on the market.

So I watched this awesome video, about what this game company is trying to do to re invent the standard mmo formula So I just wanted to post it here, so that maybe you guys could get some inspiration about what you could do in the future.

Josh Davis.6015:

Hi all,

As a follow-up to my post from last Friday, I wanted to give you a run-down of the changes we’re looking to make to the engineer’s turrets:

• Engineer turrets will be able to be critically hit. (Edit for clarity: this change means the turrets can take critical hits against them, but they still cannot deal critical hits themselves.)
• Engineer turrets will be able to be affected by conditions.

Considering most minions/summoned pets are already susceptible to the aforementioned changes we feel that this is a fair way to bring turrets more inline with the rest of the game. These changes should only slightly affect the viability of turrets in PvE/WvW (low creature crit chance/condition application), while providing for more counterplay against turrets.

We’d love to hear your feedback on these changes. Feel free to respond below with your comments.

-Grouch

Could we then get the ability for our turrets to follow us like minions/pet do so turrets can be more inline with the rest of the game? I feel like the stationary life of a turret can explain it being slightly more powerful in the way of not taking condi damage/crit damage. And if we can get the ability of them being mobile then, I can see the nerfs making sense.

Next time, please just give me a black screen and let me know when to log back in, because every time you give some “wacky” thing, it gives me a headache and visually put off.

Nephziel.6053:

I also think they should add A tab in the bank where you could go and preview armors untill you find one you were looking for.

They could name it “Wardrobe”

Well I could do that, but the last time I did that it took me a week to find it. Also will I remember the exact piece of armor it was? What if it was a complete set? And will it look similar on the character I am on at the time? Who knows.

EDIT: Also I never found it in the wardrobe, I had to look online for it, which was even harder since I had no name for it. With this feature I could get the information a lot faster and not have to spend hours and hours and hours looking in a wardrobe.

Doggie.3184:

But being social and asking them, and telling them how amazing they look could make them feel special. :o Don’t be shy.

And I have done this. Sadly not everyone wants to be social and take time to tell you about their amazing armor set.

PaxTheGreatOne.9472:

As long as it only provides the skin name…

and you can ping armor by left clicking while holding shift….

I hate gear checks. And do generally do not join people asking for it. I want to trust people.

People joining a ZERK group and clearly not having zerk armor are fast on my blocklist, as I repect the honest, not the leechers and/or trolls. I -never- remove ppl from my blocklist…

If you read the post then you might understand that this is only for armor skins not stats, and yes one could ping their armor, but what if they don’t? Then you have to search for it yourself, instead of just being to click their name and find out what it was. (which the last time that happened to me, I found out about a month later it was a gender locked outfit).

The Idea
So if Anet would add this feature, it would allow you to check other players current armor skins or outfits. It would be purely cosmetic, not showing stats either total player stats or armor stats.

How it would work:
I would imagine that you could click on someone, right click their picture bringing down the drop down menu, and you could click Armor Skin Check. It would then bring up the Equipment Preview showing their character and the current armor skins they have/or the outfit. It could be then be tweaked from there, like which dyes are primarily used or you could include weapon skins as well. (but may be a little complicated).

Why would we want something like this?
Well I know when I explore or when I run in circles in town talking/paying attention to guild chat, I see some pretty amazing armor sets on people, some like to talk about them, some not so much. With this feature you could check and see what the armor is without having to disturb them. I have also noticed that there are quite a few sites where people can go show off their armor combinations and this would be another idea of how to show off some of the incredible armor that is in the game and people creative minds.

Another Idea
If you guys are still against any “armor inspection tool of any kind” then maybe instead of being able to do it live, there could be a way, you could make a template of it (similar to trait templates) where you could either use the preview function or what your current skins to build a cool armor set, and save it in a way you could send/link it to others. This could be useful for players that like to make armor combinations and tell similar minded players about them.

I apologize eithinan, I guess my brain did not read each individual word that was in your post. Personally I think that 500 crests for 5 shovels would be a number, but for 250 crest/shovel I think is a little high myself, but I have not done the math to see how much 1 lost bandit chest actually gives you compared to what 1 piece of rare gear can give you.

I think it would also be interesting to see/hear what Anet wanted The Silverwastes to become (if they haven’t already, I do not cover all parts of their expansive communication to the players) Personally to my it looks like it could be a stage for the past Living story, and if that is not going on, it is a complete loop of a back and forth between the Pact and the Elder Dragon. (Sadly this formula makes this area easily farmed either by events or by lost bandit chest)

eithinan.9841:

Maybe time gate it to 5/day instead of 5/VW. This may be more inline with this suggestion and what Anet has done in the past. Also each should cost at minimum 100 crests. One can grind 500 crests easy in a day doing the events.

This could work as well. Maybe 5/day for 250 Bandit Crest. It all boils down to how to balance it. Right now I feel though that this thread is becoming like a Stack or Do not stack thread, getting stuck at, the map is for defending and take forts or chest farming.

So you think Silverwastes is all about take or defending forts? If so then I don’t know why they added Bandit Chests, a giant JP underneath everything, or a labyrinth that is all about FINDING CHESTS.

EDIT:
Bonus chests for completion of events in The Silverwastes
Rare drop from enemies in The Silverwastes

According to wiki, the shovels are not just from Fort events but supposedly from any event in Silverwastes

This is just an idea, how about we add a merchant at the end of Vinewrath where we can buy shovels from. I would probably limit it at 5 shovels per Vinewrath and maybe add something where you need Hero of the Wastes to buy them, that way you still have to earn the shovels in a way.

EDIT 2

5 Shovels/day at 500 Bandit Crests still having to complete Vinewrath. And please don’t make this into a "I dislike chest farming people or Silverwastes is only for defending or taking events thread.

maddoctor.2738:

Instead of removing the Account Bound property off items, I want a different system. I call it “Party Bound” gear, so certain types of gear that have no value to the one getting them, although very important to a party member, can be traded freely between members of the same party. OR they could make a panel open when these types of items drop, bound to the entire party, and any member can assign their items to another party member.

I first proposed this when FotM was first released, as a better loot distribution system for the game, that won’t affect the game in any significant way.

Items like Fractal Skins, Fractal Rings, Ascended Boxes (Armor and Weapon), Account Bound minis, Luminescent boxes, Accound Bound Exotics (FotM) etc can be used with this system.

I don’t want “Account bound” to be removed, otherwise people would get those items without doing the content. You could give all your spare Lumi Coats to 10 people that aren’t even level 10 yet. With my system everyone has to earn their gear by doing the appropriate content BUT it offers better chances when you are in a party.

Yeah, Maybe an idea like this would work out better. I remember a game i used to play, where your party was in a dungeon and if certain items (usually rarer items) came up, you could either say, I want that or you don’t, and between everyone who wanted it, got a RNG roll and it was given randomly. Even something like this could be useful to some who don’t need certain items but when party’d with people who do, could actually get them.

Conski Deshan.2057:

kamedin.4698:

Conski Deshan.2057:

Account binding is an important aspect of the game for various reasons and should not be removed.

The idea of the Carapace boxes being account bound is that the person must do the work themselves. I believe the one you actually have a problem with is the Coat box since it’s the only RNG based one. In which case the RNG is more of your issue.

Well since I have gotten about 14 coat boxes, I don’t think RNG is my issue. My issue is all I can do is see my friends sad because they can’t get one even though they put in the same time into getting it. I only wish for a way to convert those boxes (although I have had multiple kinds of boxes other people need) to a version I could gift to them.

Your issue is the RNG, not that its bad for you but that the RNG is present. For which there is a several page thread in the Living story sub-section.

I will say though that using RNG to enforce rarity is also a common thing, a rare item is generally something 10 people try their best to get but only 1 gets and the like, not saying it’s fair but it does make it rarer.

Makes sense to me on some level, but my brain can’t fully wrap itself around that type of rarity. My sense of rarity is like for precursors, rare because there aren’t a lot of them around and hard to get, and not really any one way of getting it, besides using a credit card. But for items such as the Carapace boxes, there are more ways of getting them and more guarantee of getting it.

If items weren’t bound by RNG, then there would be no need for this suggestion. I can see if you can bind something for a skin and then unbind and keep the skin, yes this would be op, you would have to lose the skin along with the unbind. For challenge yes, things could be harder to find/obtain but rng locked items =/= does not each challenge, it equals luck. Besides as time goes on the challenge goes away, even with Living story 1, the challenge of doing the content was just giving away through the laurels. Another idea is give the unbind items a similar code that couldn’t be sold on the tp but could be in sent in the mail.

I am not saying all items have to be able to be un-binded, but I believe there are some that really don’t have to be. And if they want to charge real money, go for it. For anet it gives them more money and then I would have the option of sharing the spoils of the fight.

Brother Grimm.5176:

It’s the economy, stu….err….sir!

This suggestion shows just how narrow-minded and self-centered the general player base can often be (just making a point, not calling anyone in particular names).

Yes, to want the option to gift someone a box of armor that I have no use for is self-centered and narrow-minded, I totally forgot about that when I put up this suggestion.

Conski Deshan.2057:

Account binding is an important aspect of the game for various reasons and should not be removed.

The idea of the Carapace boxes being account bound is that the person must do the work themselves. I believe the one you actually have a problem with is the Coat box since it’s the only RNG based one. In which case the RNG is more of your issue.

Well since I have gotten about 14 coat boxes, I don’t think RNG is my issue. My issue is all I can do is see my friends sad because they can’t get one even though they put in the same time into getting it. I only wish for a way to convert those boxes (although I have had multiple kinds of boxes other people need) to a version I could gift to them.

How about for some items like Carapace equipment boxes, there could be a recipe for the mystic forge that allows me to throw that equipment box in and with the magic of Zommoros it becomes not account bound that is trade able between players so that we may share with our friends or family that have been less lucky.

Why Anet WHY?!?! You make us kill dolyak parents in front of their kids. Then we must kidnap the kids to work for NPC’s. Then we figure out after we done all of that, they get eaten?!?! I thought we was the heroes of this world not part of the evil sadistic foes that we have to slay.
(This may need moved, I meant to post under Guild Wars 2 Discussion but mis clicked, I was just so distraught upon seeing this cruelty in the world that I didn’t double check the section it was under

I think I may have picked a bad word choice when I wrote the original post. I think Teq may be in a good place now, but when you can skip an entire part of its mechanic (the turrets), it just seems like it makes it kinda broken/pointless to have it.

Mirta.5029:

kamedin.4698:

Just dps Tequatl down and if a bone wall comes up just kill it and continue dps. That’s what happened in my last 2 maps. It all comes down to having enough people to dps.

film it sometime, because hardened scales bog down the possible DPS. If it’s above 10 you’ll be doing like 25% of your damage.

I will be happy to film it if it ever happens again, but it seems like if you have enough people, it just seems to work

Keneth.6490:

I have never seen a run succeed without any turrets. If one side fails, you might still make it, but without any turrets, it’s not bloody likely, especially in the first phase.

I’m sorta okay with the difficulty of the event as it stands.

I’d much rather see an overhaul of other world bosses than another Tequatl update just because PUGs can actually do it consistently now.

I wish I had not seen it done, but it happens, and that is what made me lose my faith in Tequatl. That map we had 3 bone walls come up but we just dps them down and continued.

evanlegion.7680:

Pls teach me how you do 100%-75% hp phase without turrents

Just dps Tequatl down and if a bone wall comes up just kill it and continue dps. That’s what happened in my last 2 maps. It all comes down to having enough people to dps.

So the past (50ish) times that I have done Tequatl have been pretty good, with super organized maps to meh organized maps, but they have all succeeded, but the past couple maps have taught me that you no longer need the turrets, as long as you have enough people. So Anet will you at some point redesign Tequatl so it may be a challenge again or have some mechanics to it or will it just fall under all the world bosses and just be a press 1 fest?

I’ve seen this happen so many times that its not funny anymore. Plz Anet fix this bug so that Indigo Cave supplies isn’t crippled in our fight for freedom from the dragons.

If I remember right, Anet adopted a new policy that said they could only share any information with us, if it was done, tested, and ready to ship out. So my question is why the lack of information? Besides a little bit of whats coming, there is no release date, pricing, what kind of editions there will be, and more. So did Anet change their policy of no information until its ready or did they forget about?

This collection cannot be completed because of many of the items, are unobtainable due to bugged events. Is there a chance that these will be fixed before you try and make an expansion (that will be infested with bugs ((like the base game))?

exp: Protect Scholar Breandan while he examines the seabed near Broken Spit stalls many many times. so does Protect krewe leader Dobbs as the krewe clears the excavation site

That has happened as well, but it has also happened just in mid fight, feet on the ground, all of a sudden, can’t do anything and I have immobilized on me, and I die, because I can’t heal and I can’t use my condition removal either.

I’ve been noticing when I’m in Silverwastes, I would get immobilized by something and then all of a sudden my character goes full kitten and I’m not allowed to use any skills with a cast time. And with some of the immobilized lasting upwards to 15 seconds, stuck in a large group of Mordremoth’s minions, it often leads to my death. So is this intended or not? To my knowledge it was only supposed to restrict me moving around, not restricting all my skills from being used.

For the love of Balthazar Anet fix your lag. its just so bad I can’t play your game and on the flip side, its stopping you guys from making money from the gem store, so plz fix it.

Thank you for all the good people who also play this game. If it wasn’t for you I would of stopped logging in long ago, so thank you. I really do love this game, but it really is the people that keep me logging in and playing, And Anet, this really pains me to say this but if the community is the only thing that keeps people playing your game, that is a bad sign.

okay, thank you for your input. Dyes haven’t probably been the hardest thing for me in this game trying to get them to exist nicely together and fighting some of the armor pieces for not getting the color to appear right, so I thank you guys

So I’ve been playing this game for a while and collecting dyes through that time. I have since decided to try and make my characters pretty, and I’ve got the armor skins that I want on my characters but I don’t have the slightest clue where to start with the dyes. My goal is get dye combinations that kind of relate to my characters professions. (i.e. guard – blues/whites or necro – black or green) So my question is: Which colors would go with each of the professions? I’ve notice some are easy to figure out but some is not. (ie ele, warrior, necro) Thank you any who decide to give helpful feedback to a clueless player.

Well, this is an annoying bug, I hope Anet fixes it because its bugged for me as well.

Unfortunately, if you look close he is not a merchant. He is in charge of the snowball activity. The Festive Lionguard I’m looking for are merchants that takes the Ugly Hats/Sweaters/Socks like they did last year.