Guild Wars 2

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Gw1 had traps.

Gw2 has ground targeted skills that are called traps…. but they should actually be called “SNAKES, ROFL CATCH!” “UR ON FIRE NOW, LOL” … “THROWABLE SPIKES, LMAO!”

This made me giggle…and you’re right. If they improve the traps I won’t mind the arming timer thing. It’ll make them more interesting to use, right now I use them as a throwable AOE.

Jaxom.7310:

Mo Mo.1947:

khani.4786:

An interesting thought from Reddit “This makes sense if the theory of Braham picking up Eirs longbow, being the first Dragon Hunter, following his Ranger of a mothers footsteps. In a way, it brings Rangers and Guardians closer together.”

So if that is true, then longbow + traps makes sense. And the name would be because Braham is now focused on taking out Mordremoth and the other dragons.

Is this in the final cinematic or something? Where does Braham pick up Eir’s longbow? I’ve played Season 2 all episodes and don’t recall Braham grabbing a longbow.

Are all specialization names coming from the story? Is thief specialization gonna be “Eggsnatcher”?

they are speculating, it doesn’t/hasn’t happened

Yeah it’s a theory, speculation that this is how Guardian got their specialization.

Story currently has stopped with the Pact fleet going down in the jungle and I guess we’re going to be going out there to find them. That’s all we know for now.

My guesses are

Warrior becomes the Commando and gets pistol.
Ranger is going to be Druid and get staff, what else no idea.
Engie is going to be Mechanic and get the hammer and maybe shouts
Thief will be Sniper and get Rifle and ?_?
Elementalist will be Tempest, get MH Sword and mantras
Necromancer will be Ritualist? and get Greatsword and spirits

An interesting thought from Reddit “This makes sense if the theory of Braham picking up Eirs longbow, being the first Dragon Hunter, following his Ranger of a mothers footsteps. In a way, it brings Rangers and Guardians closer together.”

So if that is true, then longbow + traps makes sense. And the name would be because Braham is now focused on taking out Mordremoth and the other dragons.

Red Jay.2516:

They are making ranger traps ground targeted as baseline. Makes sense the guardians’ will be too.

and don’t forget that traps will also have an “arming” timer now too. I’d assume it’d be the same for all traps game wide (thief & now guard as well as ranger).

Makes me less impressed with the dragonhunter heal trap thing.

Here’s the official Dev response (the latest info on it)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Hall-of-Monuments-Update/page/2#post5017030

Hyenas are jerks….they don’t deserve to live so they get killed (just like those dang leeching thrashers with their stupid tentacles).

For a limited closed beta, I like this better than a straight “raffle” based on you signed up for the newsletter.

What people are forgetting is that this is a closed beta and not everyone is going to get one. RNG is RNG and that’s why some people have gotten multiple portals and others none.

There will be an open beta and I’m assuming everyone who currently has GW2 will get to try it.

What’s interesting is that the skills Rox uses are longbow skills….yet we get a shortbow skin. Hmmmm.

Garambola.2461:

I have loved this game ever since it started. There are very few things that could make me quit. This stuff comes close.

free stuff makes you want to quit?

Gibson.4036:

It’s not a matter of wanting the new content for free. We just don’t want the old content we already earned taken away.

But they’re not taking away your points for doing the skill point challenges.

Skill points earned from leveling & in-game challenges – character progression.
Skill points earned from skill point scrolls – bonus.

The bonus skill points are still earned and can be used as currency. The character progression points are still there and can be applied to the skill & trait lines when they’re redone.

Your progression isn’t being taken away. The journey your character has gone on will still remain in-tact. And the fact remains that just leveling to 80 will get you several builds so even those that only level in WvW will still have some options. Yeah they won’t get every option, so they’ll have to choose how to allocate those points. Like it or not, the game is still centered around PvE and that’s how character progression is being defined.

StinVec.3621:

khani.4786:

the thing I’d like is a way to get rid of the red targeting circle after you ctrl+click something.

Esc makes you stop targeting what you were targeting but that red circle remains forever til the thing with the target dies/goes away/goes invisible….and some things that you can target do none of those things and the circle will remain forever til you target something killable.

Another way to get rid of the Call Target symbol is, if you happen to be a ranger, Call Target your pet and then swap it to your alternate pet. This removes the Call Target symbol. I guess it mimics the scenario of Calling a target and then killing it, without having to enter combat. Or if someone else in your party happens to be a ranger, they can do the swapping after the Call Target has been switched to their pet.

Call Target really isn’t designed all that well. :\ If you Call a target, obviously Calling it again should remove the Call on the target. 30 seconds and one short code block addition to the existing Call Target code and they could add that functionality…

the other, other option is to call target on a mini-pet (they don’t show the target above their head) but still a way to just de-target it in the first place would be nice.

Chrisco.5732:

Test theory 2! was everyone in the last beta?

I was and logged in for the first round of beta stress testing (and did get an armor chest).

the thing I’d like is a way to get rid of the red targeting circle after you ctrl+click something.

Esc makes you stop targeting what you were targeting but that red circle remains forever til the thing with the target dies/goes away/goes invisible….and some things that you can target do none of those things and the circle will remain forever til you target something killable.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Did an Anet GM hit the hidden “generous” button, and send out a mass amount of epic loot for free? If so, I didn’t get anything when last I logged in…

May need to log out and back in? No idea why folks are getting them, but it is super nice.

TY Anet! I appreciate getting the Heroic Armor chest! ^____^

well scratch that. I just logged in and I did get a heroic armor chest, which is nice because I still hadn’t gotten the profane set.

TY Anet!

o.O Pretty sure that isn’t happening.

I got my first beta portal on the first day, another on Friday and my third on Saturday. No heroic chest has arrived (though I wouldn’t complain if I got one).

Not sure where you heard about people getting heroic armor chests, as far as I know you only get that with the game upgrade (I could be wrong).

ZudetGambeous.9573:

What makes you say longbow? Isn’t that the Shortbow Aether in the picture?

It could be Azureflame.

Beldin.5498:

khani.4786:

I love my flower garden footfalls. They’re awesome.

Yeah .. leave my flowers alone

All i really want are also flowers on barrage ^^

YES! Send down a barrage of roses, thorns & all!

I love my flower garden footfalls. They’re awesome.

The bow string however should be shimmery gold or something …

Still, it would be nice to give my husband and best friend the two extra ones I got. I know it’ll never be possible to do, but I’d really like to be sure that I’ll get to play the beta with my husband and friend. But since there’d be no way to stop folks from selling their extras for stupid amounts of gold or whatever I understand why they limited them to being account bound.

check and see if it’s worth it…

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0As-wCpIszrT9dFB3YjVUVFhfenlDUUpXTVBIdm5qWmc&usp=sharing#gid=8

That’s Egg Baron’s Material Promotion sheet.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Please-fix-Fighting-pit-for-Heart/first#post5012779

That post of mine above shows screenshots of her talking about the fighting pit…and the description of the heart mentions the fighting pit.

So the NPE bugged the heart because otherwise why would the NPC AND the heart description both still mention the fighting pit.

This is a bug (IMO) because the in-game description mentions a mechanic that is broken.

If this was purely NPE changing the heart the description and NPC text should have changed too. Otherwise this makes it even more complicated and confusing to a genuinely new player.

Part of the problem is she still mentions the fighting pit and talking to the guy to get it started…but then you talk to the guy and he says yeah you can fight…then nothing happens.

They only sort of removed it.

Reanne.5462:

Is it still botting if you set your skill to auto attack using the capability that is built into the skillbar?

Auto attack doesn’t auto fire unless you’re actively playing as far as I know. If you’re standing there afk and a mob comes and attacks you your character isn’t going to start attacking.

From what the OP describes I’d report for botting and let Anet figure out what’s going on.

Jana.6831:

Ayrilana.1396:

The skill challenges in WvW will be changed to hero challenges or whatever it is that they’re calling them once the update is released. WvW players will still be able to get the new equivalent of skill points for progression in the new system just like they would in PvE.

Still they don’t count today, so they might have to be repeated when the new system hits and still it’s only 13.

They DO count today as skill points. Just as the skill points count in Southsun, Dry Top, and Silverwastes. Just because they don’t count towards 100% map completion doesn’t mean they won’t give you points as a skill point/hero challenge.

commnagrom.8637:

khani.4786:

This gives folks a very easy way to get points that are in static locations and they cannot be contested or completed before you get there. It’s win win.

except the ones in Orr…

Yeah those aren’t always easy, but I’ve still managed to get even Balthazaar’s skill point when it was contested (again, not easy, but doable).

~Shrug~

My work won’t be invalidated by their system. I got tired of buying traits after the first two so on subsequent characters I went out and earned them instead. (Only did this for two and I have two more with no map completion or traits).

I’m one of those weird people who enjoy repeating content and am at 70% done on my 15th map completion. No one is saying you have to do 100% map to unlock all of your core specalizations, Only 65 skill points.

If you only play PvP this doesn’t affect you. If you PvE at all then you’ll be going places that have skill points. You do dungeons? Grab the skill points near the dungeons or on the way to them. Go get all of them in the starter cities, get the ones in WvW while you’re there. It isn’t hard, just a little time consuming.

I don’t see the problem. Would you rather be tied to bugged event chains or events that may or may not be available due to someone else finishing it before you got there? This gives folks a very easy way to get points that are in static locations and they cannot be contested or completed before you get there. It’s win win.

My husband and I farmed silverwastes all day yesterday, at the end of the day I did the pacman maze and the tier 2 wiggle chest reward had a portal for me and I saw several others pop up that they got one too around that time. This was after the patch. My husband still doesn’t have one, but he’s happy that I got one at least.

Still going back to the Silverwastes this evening to have fun and do events, but now it’s just to have fun and not worry about getting a portal

Because so many people have it the price of sprockets is reasonable and they’ve kept it available so if you want sprockets easily get one.

Don’t change my pick, I like it as is!

As long as people know ahead of time if the map is going to be a chest farm map then I don’t see an issue. The ones I’ve gone with start with an empty map, taxi folks in and do events here and there, but only to get more shovels.

If someone starts a chest farm in the middle of an in-progress event map…that’s rude.

In the event maps I’ve been on there have been people who wanted to start a chest farm and lots of folks told him to find another map we were doing events.

I don’t see a problem, if you’re on a map where people are doing events and you want to chest farm…find another map. Likewise, if you get dropped onto a chest farm map and want to do events, find another map.

After portal chances are all gone there is going to be one heck of a chest farm with all the shovels I’m getting.

dead jezebel.4359:

velmeister.4187:

dead jezebel.4359:

I often find myself alone ..

Therein lies the rub. Use the LFG tool. Take Charge. Form Groups. Have fun.

PROTIP: You do not need to know how to do a specific task to form a group to complete the task. Fake it till you make it! But, make it eventually.

the problem there is finding a group with the same interest or goal… like ive said… most of the people running around pve are just going for the boss train.

not at all true. Yeah there are lots of people who do the boss train, but many more who do not.

And your complaint about the living story season 1 mobs insta-gibbing folks. Yeah if you get surrounded at a group event and you’re solo you’ll have issues if you don’t know what you’re doing. But with the way they’re doing living story now it’s all instanced and not an issue.

And your complaint about maps being dead….I’ve been working on my 15th map completion and have yet to find a map that I’m the only one there. If you poke your head up in mapchat and start talking you’ll get people talking back. Sometimes you have to take initiative and want to talk to folks, but they’re there and someone will talk back. Don’t assume that since you don’t see people swarming everywhere in every map you go to that the maps are dead and people only want to boss train. That assumption is incorrect.

Drenched Puss.8754:

someone got the key from a bandit chest and posted the video on youtube. u can just search “Portal to the Heart of Maguuma” on youtube.

I looked at it and even in their description “The drop was actually obtained from a event from one of the camps in the SilverWastes during the chestfarming after someone pointed it out…”

So nope, not from Bandit chests that you dig up, only event wiggle chests and mob drops.

I like chest farming….but that’s being put on hold til I have a beta key or there are no beta keys to be had :P

Nova.7261:

Lauren Kamieniecki.6245:

New build just went live that includes a fix for this issue, if you are still having problems please post.

This is the first time Anet has posted on this issue in 3 months, when the forum moderator merged the threads.

No, it is not fixed for me.

I looked through your posts to see what you’ve said you’ve tried. You say you’ve tried going Away/online, but did you try invisible/online.

You’ve not mentioned what the error message you’re getting is on the forums either. I realize you’re frustrated but folks here can’t try to help you without knowing what your particular error message is.

I was wondering that. There was one person in mapchat insisting that folks have gotten them from the bandit chests during a chest train. Pretty sure they didnt’ know what they were talking about.

I’m a quite mediocre PvPer and I joined the AspectGG Pug Quest last Saturday for my chance at getting a mini Llama. My team made it to the second round and we qualified to get a mini Llama (I hope I get him soon). The people running the AspectGG Pug Quest were awesome and super nice. And the people that I got put on a team with were also really nice (and helped me get my build a little better too). Yeah we got stomped down in the second round, but the team that beat us went on to place second. I don’t feel bad about losing to them.

In short, you want a Llama…earn one like I did. Try the AspectGG Pug Quest or the one that happens on Monday evenings. You don’t have to place high, just have to win a single round.

Also, if you want to unlock every version of the mini Llama you will need 40 of them. You need 27 if you want the Lavish one only. (if the math in the pvp forum is correct)

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Strill.2591:

The problem is that event-based mobs in silverwastes don’t drop loot.

Not entirely true. The mobs from escort events can all drop loot.

Yes. but the big defend events do not and that’s a huge part of being in the silverwastes.

Unless they’ve changed it so that event mobs DO have a chance to drop this portal (and that’s it) despite them not dropping regular loot then doing the big silverwastes events to try and get this portal might be a huge waste of time and Dry Top would be the better place to try and find one.

they should be traits or a mastery line, not a food buff.

Heart Quest: Help Paenula Train Troops.

Description: Use Paenula’s rifle to capture minotaurs and drakes, then spar with them in the fighting pit.

Problem: Fighting pit never activates. Paenula says to talk to Bracctus to tell him what you want to fight (screen 1 below). Talking to him gives no options to activate the pit (screen 2 below).

This heart is incredibly painful to do when there’s even just 1 other person around doing this heart.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/claim-your-spot-in-the-next-heart-of-thorns-closed-beta/

I hope the RNG on these isn’t too terrible.

Donari.5237:

Actually they’ll change to a wallet currency (per today’s live stream) that will be used to purchase mats. The name of the currency is in flux but will not be “djinngots.”

I still am trying to figure out what happens to people that have full unlocks but not a lot of skill challenges under their belt.

I have several stacks of skill point scrolls…still trying to decide if it’s better to keep them as is or just consume them to save space.

I love my racial sylvari skills. I hope I get to keep them.

Belzebu.3912:

khani.4786:

Ground targeted traps? Did they remove that?

It will be default now, no trait needed.

Awesome thanks. I missed that part.

Ground targeted traps? Did they remove that?

Eolirin.1830:

Are racial skills going away?

I hope not, I enjoy my seed turrets.

phys.7689:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Q: Will the fall damage trait be removed and implemented into each class as a basic class feature?

most logical guess, fall damage will be tied to some core mastery. The special effects other than reduction will probably disapear

I like the idea of moving fall damage traits to a mastery line. I hate having to keep switching to/from my fall damage trait when I want to cliff jump.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I would not store anything valuable in a Guild Vault. Should, heaven forbid, my account be compromised, I would lose everything stored there. It just isn’t a safe place for valuables.

As for storing Gold in the personal bank, I’m ambivalent about the issue.

Same here.

Jermoe Morrow.9501:

Given we have the cook’s outfit, they should probably roll the old town clothes into an outfit using same mechanic. I wouldn’t mind paying a little more for outfits like that in the future.

Yes the old original town clothes were different depending on your race. They were made into tonics and really should have been converted to an outfit. One free outfit for everyone so folks have something they can try to see how they like outfits. The skin is already in the game too, so no work for them except to change the tonic to an outfit.

Hayashi.3416:

The real issue here is how mouseover on the price would make your numbers go into price, rather than into the quantity field YOU ACTUALLY CLICKED.

This.