Guild Wars 2

This was a whole lot of fun yesterday. I hope you had enough interest to keep the rules this way. I did it once before when premades were allowed and that was fun too, but it was nice knowing everyone was on the same footing.

Thanks for putting this event on!

Haleydawn.3764:

I have nothing against them bringing back tribal or stalwart through means in which they were originally obtained, rank gated pvp.
HOWEVER, they should also bring back ALL of the other items which are no longer obtainable without huge amounts of gold on the TP. All the halloween skins, molten jetpack, wings of the sunless, shattered holographic dragon wings, Monocle head item, etcetc.

If you guys want to take away prestige for PvPers lets make it fair and remove it for PvEers too. Lets see how many agree to that.

I’d be fine with that. I have a lot of the old skins myself but I wouldn’t care if they were obtainable again. I got the full stalwart set in pvp before the merge but never made it high enough rank to get the tribal. I’d like a shot at getting it again.

What about re-using some of the original beta weekend finale events?
Critter Hunt – players fight overpowered animals such as racoons, rats, pigs, white rabbits, and black moas to gain server points

Kralkatorrik invades – If a player is killed by one of the branded, they turn into one themselves. Subsequently, characters would receive a set of five skills to use and had their affinity changed to hostile, allowing them to attack unaffected characters. The server with the fewest branded at the end of the week wins.

Sonickeyblade.8415:

Chasind.3128:

Sonickeyblade.8415:

This may seem silly but this was a question I had a year ago when I stopped playing. I wanted this set SO badly and it was never released.

But now I came back to the game and was hoping that it was in by now. Maybe via Gem Store or an achievement…

However, it is not. And I am still sad. Is there some way we can show Anet a show of support so that we can finally get this set? I mean since the set is already in the game, avoiding issues with clipping shouldn’t be a thing and with the new Wardrobe system, you don’t even have to attach stats to it.

I literally think it’s something they forgot about. So I would love to remind them. That and it seems that said skin would fit in well with the new expansion that we are getting… so even though I know they are busy with getting that all squared away, now perhaps is the time to remind them that people still want access to this skin.

If it were available through gemstore, that would be unfair to those who actually worked for it in PvP. PvP rewards are so easy to get now, I wouldn’t be angry if the armor never ever made an appearance again.

A lot of people say that, though I honestly can’t agree. (That doesn’t make you wrong though!)

I feel it’s because people want to stand out as having done something not possible anymore; as a sign of prestige. That’s fine and it has to exists…

But skins for characters aren’t the way to do that in my opinion. Titles… Minatures perhaps… or even weapon skins do that the best. Not Armor skins though. I’ve only been back to the game for a week and people claim that one of the Endgame things to do in Guild Wars 2 is “Fashion Wars”. I don’t know how true that is… but I’d say its a sign that all characters having access to all clothing is the way to go.

Though… if the older PvP players really want something else in place of losing out on the currently exclusive armor… I’d say give them a title or a minature for it. But not this set. This set should be available for everyone. Like it was originally intended to be.

It should be available for everyone…like it was originally intended to be. In PvP, gated by rank.

I would just like that all three consistently eat a full stack of mats per day with a rare chance to eat up to two stacks per day. Tired of them going on hunger strikes and only eating 150 a day.

Evans.6347:

The Revenants tried to hit the underwater enemies, but they mist…

LOL.

I do hope they get trident or harpoon gun. I’d hate to be stuck with only melee under water (spear). I like spear as a weapon, but melee underwater is clunky even when you map a key for the swim down. (I enjoy underwater combat)

Just a flesh wound.3589:

If you haven’t bought the permanent version yet, you might want to get the Royal Pass.
1) it ports you directly to Divinities Reach instead of a ship in a map outside LA
2) from there you can wp to any place in DR free of charge, including your Home Instance
3) the way to get to other cities is really obvious as it’s a large portal right by the Trading Post NPC.

the other difference (if it matters to you)

The airship has a black lion weapon vendor and activities person right there.
The Terrace pass you have to port elsewhere in DR for the black lion vendor and go to LA for the activity of the day person.

I have both and love having both (I keep them on two different characters).

I use it on my rangers and mesmers all the time.

With ranger it goes nicely with the survival skills are condi clears and since Muddy Terrain is a survival skill it’s fall damage plus condi clear and quite useful for me.

I use my mesmers for jumping puzzles…so I keep it on them.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

severn.3120:

I bought a Captain’s Airship Pass to check it out – on the description it reads “Quick travel to all cities” as one of the features- but I could not find a portal or place to do so, does anyone know if there is a place on the airship to do this?

Also, on the Royal Terrace Pass, if you double click the pass does it teleport you there like the Captain’s Airship Pass or do you have to go to Divinity’s Reach first and gain entry with the pass through the gate?

The Airship has a portal that allows you to choose a destination. IIRC, it’s on the top.

For the Royal Terrace, you can double-click the pass to reach it from anywhere in the open world (similar to other teleports, it won’t work from e.g. home instances).

The airship doesn’t have a portal or indication of how to travel to other cities. You talk to the Airship Captain at the front of the inside cabin (by the crafting stations) and he asks you where you’d like to go.

The royal terrace has a portal inside that you go up to and when you interact you then get a pop up asking you where you’d like to go.

Both of the passes you just double click and you’re there. Even if you’re standing in the zone, just double click and you’re there. .

Yep, that’s a bowstring. I managed to break Kudzu the other day and the bow string just stayed in my hand. It was completely separated from my bow. Even after I swapped weapons I kept the bow string. It was there when I harvested and Kudzu no longer had a string at all.

I threw a rock at Zommoros for giving me a faulty legendary.

xlion.3065:

The bug is still with us, it seems. Anybody knows a work-around?
I’ve created and in-game a bug report 2 weeks ago and just filed a support request, but so far only received a generic answer.

The only work around is to click “Continue this episode” and finish it completely. I’ve got several characters with that stupid grey star and haven’t bothered going back and finishing the episodes I started for achievements.

do some quick & easy key farming?

I loved that map and I miss it greatly. It was my favorite of all the maps.

Venom – TP
Rage – TP
Rodgort’s Flame – bought from a friend who had it drop in Arah (later sold it on TP)
Dusk – bought from a friend (don’t know where he got it)
Leaf of Kudzu – TP
Tooth of Frostfang – two rare pistols & two rare shields in the MF
Dusk – Raptor loot bag in pvp (sold it, bought Dawn & made Eternity)
Chaos Gun – Bag of Gear from Silverwastes
Venom – Bag of Gear from Silverwastes (gave to a friend)
Tooth of Frostfang – Heriloom Seed Pouch champ bag (gave to husband)
Zap – Heirloom Seed Pouch champ bag
Carcharias – Husband got it from 4 random rares in the forge and gave it to me.
Rodgort’s Flame – Husband got it from 4 random rares in the forge and gave it to me.

My husband also lucked out and got Dusk from 3 random rare weapons and 1 rare armor piece in the forge.

I didn’t start getting lucky with precursors until very very recently. after about 6k hours played. I don’t buy rares or exotics to throw in the forge. I only throw in the rare weapons I get as drops. (I salvage the rare armor.)

nexxe.7081:

That’s because one of the living story season 1 events used to have quartz crystals drop quite frequently, but that came to a halt when season 2 started. Dry Top tried to rectify the problem, but nobody really goes to Dry Top anymore either.

Well there are still plenty of people in Dry Top even on a Monday evening. I zoned into DTop right at :40 after the hour to use some of my lockpicks and it was a T4 map with lots of people there. I’ve zoned in there to plenty of T1-2 maps, but its possible there was another full map that got higher. Never know.

Personally I’m at over 1500 quartz and I charge a quartz then I get 25 over that. I don’t hoard mats to sell, I hoard them to use. The only mats I generally sell are T5 mats when I get more than my crafting storage can hold.

I never bought them when they were available precisely because they were tonics (and 10g which was a lot to me at the time).

But there is already a horn helm skin. But a halo helm skin would be nice.

Linken.6345:

but all the professions got a backitem they can craft dont they?

There are. Every profession has a set of skins & backpacks you can craft. They’re all account bound even after you use it on someone it stays account bound (it doesn’t soulbind)

There are also fewer people in Dry Top where there is plenty of quartz to harvest which could also account for some of the less quartz available.

But it’s not like there’s no way to get quartz, there are quartz nodes in the open world and a rich quartz node there too.

Semi-related:
Why can’t we get Azurite orbs anymore except from rarely from generosity’s reward? Why can’t we upgrade azurite crystals into orbs? And the only way to get Azurite crystals is in a single fractal (that they removed the Ori nodes from so you can’t get the orbs there anymore)

It gave me a chance to gamble at the ecto vendor to see a likely outcome if I spent what I had there…and as I expected out of ecto and lost about 700g and didnt’ even finish the achievement or get all pieces of they forge conduit. LOL. I liked the risk free environment. Dont’ mind losing anything I got from the forge or as drops.

Menadena.7482:

They just said on POI the animations and voiceovers are not done.

After thinking about it, the animations not being done are probably the biggest reason we’re restricted to human only.

I guess it’s more important to get the class itself right before fleshing out animations for every race rather than making animations for everything, then later they change a skill then have to go back and re-do all the animations.

Makes sense….I still want my sylvari revanent though.

the coming up window is interesting and I’m sure it’d be helpful for someone who doesn’t know what is coming up with their future levels.

I also found when I was using my level 20 scroll on a new character that I could just leave that “coming soon” window there and click to get the level rewards and then finally close that “coming soon” window once when I was done clicking thru the levels.

An option checkbox to [ ] Do not show this message again would be nice, but since I figured out I could ignore it til I was done accepting level rewards I guess it’s okay to be there for me.

BobbyStein.2315:

khani.4786:

Thangorodrim.2748:

I dont understand . I was doing lvl 80 quest of main story , and now i was redirected to lvl 70 quests? should i repeat again the quests??

They put the story back in order but the story steps they moved didn’t get fixed to be the right level. So yeah the story is in the right order but the end bits don’t reflect what chapter they’re supposed to be in. I just finished the story again yesterday and it does go to lvl 80 story then some steps are still level 70 (with level 70 rewards) and then back to level 80 again. It’s weird.

The following steps were restored to their original position in chapter 8.

• Against the Corruption
• Cathedral of Silence
• Romke’s Final Voyage
• Source of Orr

Did you experience the issue in one of the story steps listed above?

I don’t remember all of them as I did it over a series of days. But definitely Source of Orr was listed as level 70 and I got level 70 rewards from doing it and I’m pretty sure the other three restored sections were also lvl 70.
I’m working on the next character’s story now so I’ll pay better attention to where the levels change from 80 back to 70.

Mortifer.2946:

Old animations or riot!
It is really lazy to just disable something in order to fix something else and leave it like that FOR ALMOST A YEAR!

Howler says hello. They broke that over a year ago and haven’t fixed it either.

I don’t play human females (or humans), but I agree they should fix this (and Howler).

Pifil.5193:

Wanze.8410:

hash.8462:

In my opinion they should be salvageable but without giving anything, just the rune / sigil with chance based on the salvage kit used, this would solve everything.

It wouldnt solve the problem of basically rendering the last sink for exotic runes useless.

I don’t think that WvW or karma armours were intended as an exotic rune sink (I mean, until the wardrobe patch they weren’t a sink at all).

The fact that they can’t be salvaged just makes those armours significantly less attractive to players and removes those armour types as a viable karma/badge of honour sink.

And since there is NO in-game warning that you can’t salvage/forge these items they’re a trap for new players. Yeah I want to be able to salvage the few bits of wvw gear I bought early on, but I’d be happy with the tool tip of those items being clear that you cannot salvage/forge them so those who don’t know will know what they’re getting before they buy them.

What else are you supposed to do during phase 2 besides protect the golems then shoot jorlag? The champs despawn when you can run up to Jormag, so where’s the problem?

Thangorodrim.2748:

I dont understand . I was doing lvl 80 quest of main story , and now i was redirected to lvl 70 quests? should i repeat again the quests??

They put the story back in order but the story steps they moved didn’t get fixed to be the right level. So yeah the story is in the right order but the end bits don’t reflect what chapter they’re supposed to be in. I just finished the story again yesterday and it does go to lvl 80 story then some steps are still level 70 (with level 70 rewards) and then back to level 80 again. It’s weird.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Well, do you have the dragonite ore in your inventory when you try to use princess? It won’t work if it’s in your bank or material collection.

You have to have at least 50 dragonite ore in your inventory otherwise you’ll get that message. Like Mawdrey & the star of gratitude, Princess will eat anywhere between 150-300 Dragonite Ore per day (3-6 bags).

My husband and I both still want this fixed.

We need these back & fixed:
Nightime effects (moon & sparkles back)
Proper wolf howl sound effect when blown (not the lackluster what there is currently)
Footsteps to persist just a tiny bit longer. Not much, just a few more steps longer.

I’ve found several of those types of areas in Lion’s Arch. Submit a bug report in game (one of the options is for terrain). You can submit a screenshot thru that showing what’s going on and they’ll get extra in-game data that will help them too.

simplesimon.2084:

Continue with support. Replay to the same email and make sure they know these are gem items. Others have got them back for this same reason.

Yeah I’d reply again to the customer support email, tell them what happened and be polite about it and let them know that it’s the three gemstore tools you’re wanting back. They can check your history and see that you did indeed buy them and they should be able to see your account and know you accidentally deleted those items.

You can purchase them from the vendor but you have to unlock them first before you can purchase another. The content and story is permanent so you just have to find a group to help you with achievements. Try LFG, guildmates, friends, random folks in mapchat…whatever works for you.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Priory_Historian_%28Bandit_Crest_Collector%29

Having now played through the solo instance of Victory or Death here’s my thoughts for what it’s worth

> I miss the champ bags and the little bit of loot you get from the chests. Had hoped to get something for finishing the instance, but you don’t. I know that the mobs won’t drop loot due to it being a story instance now, but it would have been nice to at least leave the dungeon chest spawns in there so you get something along the way. (or give players 3 champ bags plus a couple “bags of loot” at the end after you kill Zhaitan)

> Overall, the Kill Zhaitan mission feels shorter with a lot less standing around.
> The giants were a bit of a pain on my elementalist, but doable.
> The two dragon fight gets really bad when you’re by yourself if you die or are really squishy as I was on my ele. It felt very overwhelming at times and was hard to get back to having things dead so I could operate the canon at the dragons. Tough, but still doable solo.

> I like that you get the arah headpiece for the mission after arah story, and the other loot for finishing personal story is appropriate and nice to get. Though I don’t have much use for lvl 17 anythings, it’s nice you can salvage what you get.
> The Loot Bags from the Hero’s chest were very underwhelming.

Somewhat related:
> The rewards for the restored story missions only give 3 bags of loot and nothing else. It would have been nice to have had a few other things added. Not sure what, but after what you get for all the other story steps it just felt lackluster.

Thanks for everyone’s hard work on fixing the story to make sense, make the final instance soloable, and everything to get this back in game. <3

After going through the puzzle completely I think it would be nice to have a “midpoint” oh crap I fell but I can get back up midway spot. Not an easy way mind you, and I don’t think it will trivialize the puzzle.

In the cafe where the birds are on the lines is where I had the most trouble getting up the wooden scaffolding. Perhaps if there was a way back up in there so if you fell somewhere between key 2 and 3 you could make your way back up and resume the puzzle.

That way when you fall, it’s not too bad just to start over to get to key 1/2 and if you mess up between 2&3 there’s a way to get back up and not have to start completely over.

It’s a hard puzzle, but also pretty darn fun. My only issue was figuring out where to go in the cafe. I tried to use as little guide help as possible and I think I found a faster way to get to key 1 than the guide showed.

It would be better if his crit “spot” was actually targetable.

90% crit chance on my ranger and the only crit I managed was with Barrage because it got the non-targetable spot. You should be able to get the same results with ranged damage as you do with melee cleaving damage. It is stupid. Double HP is fine….just fix it so that you can crit teq on any targetable spot rather than some mystery spot in between his shoulder blades that you can only hit by turning left and bowing to the full moon on a Tuesday.

I don’t like having to get to Sparkfly nearly an hour early in order to get a full map. Just before the double HP patch I did teq on a map that I zoned into 10 minutes before hand. People got on turrets, manned defenses and we won despite just getting there. After patch lots of maps are failing (though the one I was on succeeded with 4 min to spare).

Shouldn’t Clarion Bond’s internal cooldown sync with the cooldown of pet swap (20 seconds). Also there is no tool tip stating cool down on that trait.

Right now Clarion Bond doesn’t always trigger when you swap pets because the cool down is more than the cool down for pet swap. I’d like to see the cool down on that trait reduced to match the petswap recharge since it’s meant to be used with pet swap.

Thanks!

No, personal story itself works fine from what I’ve found. When you finish personal story it jumps to episode 8 of the Living story rather than episode 1 (or wherever you left off).

Edit: it’s not a huge deal if you’re paying attention to where you are in the story, but if you’re not paying attention (or unaware there’s a problem), then you’ll wind up doing living world season 2 out of order.

BobbyStein.2315:

Thanks for all the info. I’ll be following up with QA and some other people and taking a closer look at this issue.

Yeah, I just finished the personal story on two of my characters. The first had one part of the living world and was actually started on one of the episodes when I went back to try Victory or Death. I finished Victory or Death & then it put me at Ep. 8 (I was working on Ep. 4). The other character hadn’t touched Living Story yet and it also put her right at Episode 8 when she finished Victory or Death. I put in an official bug report with screenshot in game. Hope that helps!

Yeah, it did need an ICD to fix the tonic bug (that was broken), but 30 seconds is way too long. I’d rather 20 seconds so that it lined up better with torch 5 & pet swap as it is now, now I’m considering not using it because it doesn’t line up right with pet swapping and It’s frustrating swapping pets and it not going off.

We still couldn’t crit Shatterer either.

She must have a sister that lives in the swamp in Brisbane…she gives you some weird soup and eating it makes you stronger apparently.

I didn’t go out of my way looking for a night map….and had no problems. What requires it to be night time?

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Better realism…….

Yes, because the fact that I have an unlimited number of giant spikes in my pocket to deploy every x number of seconds is realistic.

I don’t care as much about the arming timer junk, but I want my ground targeted traps back.

Kal Spiro.9745:

I’m pretty sure it’s a bug. They were absolutely ground targeted on Tuesday. Since I couldn’t swap out of the karka gun to use longbow 5, I used spike trap to view the floor without light.

Any class that had a trait which causes a skill set to become ground targeted got that trait made baseline. That is Necros and Rangers both. If it’s not working now, after half a dozen additional patches, then it is probably a bug.

No, they killed ground targeted traps (and that makes me sad but I’ll deal).

Necro does not have traps.
Thief has traps and they’ve never had the ability to ground target….do they also have to deal with the arming timer? (I haven’t checked)

All traps should work the same across all classes. There’s no reason to make them behave differently on thief/dragon hunter.

The other pets besides the Arid Devourer I’ve wanted are the Hirstute Ice Spider (Dredgehaunt Cliffs) and a baby karka. I would love to see some of the changes here. Looks really nice!

I’ve gotten at least one I’ve noticed as a drop (from Champ tendril in the silverwastes) and another couple from champ bags. Over time I don’t think it’s going to be an issue of getting them. But we’ll see.

This is the same thing that happens on a heart in Sparkfly when you try to take the mine out of the water.

There is something up with engie getting a bundle and then leaving or entering water. I’d think this bug is related to that and it would be nice to get that fixed.

mtpelion.4562:

I like Karka more than MW coins because Karka provide an audio cue to their presence.

And there were hints in the hero panel if you got stuck.

Press & hold ALT then click & drag to an open spot. you can then split the stack.

the wiggle chests for world bosses are also just numbers. that’s placeholder text I think.

azizul.8469:

it’s an ecto sink….

I’d say rather a gold sink.

I did the ascended one once. Lost 75g, gained 200 ectos.