Guild Wars 2

That would be so awesome if Howler got a unique and standapart howl….perhaps something similar to the mordrem wolf howl (that still sends shivers down my spine when I hear it from behind me). Or any other epic sort of howl.

You will never get Emperyal Fragments from world bosses. General rule Large group content (world bosses) – Dragonite, small group content (dungeons, jumping puzzles, open world chests) – Emperyal Fragments, Champ bags = Bloodstone Dust.

Orangensaft.7139:

make it BIGGER!

OMG that’s awesome. which transform were you using? I was just using a princess doll tonig.

They’re everywhere! I do love the detail on the chicken though. o.o

Do silverwastes chest farms or do dungeons. You get tons of them from doing dungeons.

cafard.8953:

The Pirate Sledge. Ain’t nothing like hammering their faces with a rusty anchor!

Others yet unmentioned here: the priory hammer and the candy cane.

I prefer Black Fleet Bludgeon to the Pirate Sledge.
I also really like Entropy.

I love the effect of Juggernaut, but the hammer itself is a giant thermometer.

It will show up when you get to level 15.

Azrael.4960:

Well done. I’m building up the courage to go do it for a 4th time XD

I’m working on my 14th time o.o….waiting and waiting til we get to be the next color in WvW and working on everything else in the meantime. 71% done.

Exeon.4358:

There is no reason to leave this broken, I think we’ll see big changes once they announce the actual legendary changes, but still, till then i feel like we need to keep this thread going

Agreed. I really want this warhorn for myself and my husband wants his fixed. Why haven’t they said anything one way or the other regarding why this has been broken since last April (2014)…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/The-New-Dailies-Feedback-welcome

Darren.3427:

Pretty sure you guys can hide outfit shoulders. All you have to do is go into your normal equipment page and uncheck the shoulders and it should hide the outfit shoulders. Reason I say this is because I use the cooks outfit for my charr engi and I can hid the helm and gloves on the outfit.

That only works for some outfits, not all of them unfortunately.

They should be a rare drop from risen giants at least. I made Immobulous but it was really expensive and that’s when giant eyes were ~1g each.

the new “Port to friend” stones found in Black Lion chests are good for that too. That’s how we got one of the Silverwastes golden badges. LOL.

For me it’s sporadic when I press and hold W that my character stays put on my screen (but moves for other people). Haven’t seen any commonality as to when or why it happens.

Thanks for the ready-up info. Looks neat and I can’t wait to play with it in game.

“Keybind toggle for holding right mouse down / click once to toggle option”

That is on my wishlist and hope it’s someday possible. <3 That would make it so I could more easily play with a keyboard only and not have to hold down right click the whole time.

Something like that happens to me too where I press and hold W to move forward but my character just stands there and roots herself in place. However, on my husband’s screen my character has run off in the direction I’ve moved (Often running into walls) and when I stop pressing W my character snaps back to where I am on my screen. No idea what causes that to happen though.

I wish this was a bug and Giant eyes were meant to drop somewhere other than Heavy Moldy Bags. I have gotten 2 out of bags since launch. I always thought it was odd that every other crafting material in the game also drops off mobs directly where this one does not.

It’d be so nice to get one of the red names to respond and let us know hey, Yeah we know about this and it’s on the to-do list but we can’t say when it’ll be fixed. Even a response like that would be appreciated rather than overwhelming silence.

Yes please.

1- Make the head piece like it was in GW1 where you can either use the one from the outfit OR your regular armor

2- If the slot has a toggle, it should work on the outfit too. Head, shoulder, AND gloves.

Happyfool.8951:

are we talking about the same game where i leveled a new toon to 80 in 2 weeks just doing events? and that’s slow compared to others using the really quick methods.

if you’re having trouble, have you tried asking in map chat or getting in a guild?

You have to remember that us older folks who have been here a while have account bonuses including bonuses to XP gain. On a brand new account on their very first few characters it’s going to feel a whole lot different. Yeah my lastest character got to 80 in 36 hours after a lvl 20 scroll, but I had boosters, account bonuses, etc.

Advice for the OP:
Use food, use a utility item. Doesn’t matter what they do they all have a bonus 10-15% XP gain from kills. Strawberry ghosts are uber cheap and they give you +15% bonus xp from kills. The trading post actually sorts properly now so go to Other > Utility Effects to see which of the utility items are appropriate for your level.

Get some of the exploding draketails (They’re currently the cheapest of the fireworks) from the lunar new year from the trading post and spam use about 15-20 of them all at once to get up to a 2 hr +10% XP gain from absolutely everything that isn’t a consumable (This includes uncovering a new section of the map, finding a waypoint, killing something, harvesting, etc).

If you have any of the XP boosters use them too, all of these bonuses stack. Just with the boosts you can get from the trading post that’s +35% XP gain from kills and +10% bonus for finding new places and things. That should help.

When you find new armor/weapons as drops check to see if you can use them. Every little upgrade helps. Yeah hearts can be boring, but you get decent xp from doing them. Doing your personal story gives you huge amounts of xp for each segment completed, so try that out too. At the end of your level 10 story you’ll get a black lion key and you have the chance to get boosters and other items.

Good luck. Hope this helps.

Akagami.9861:

Wolfheart.7483:

Akagami.9861:

…and NO no matter how skilled you are you can’t kill a champion alone. Champions are by definition something you do with a party or a group of people. …

The majority of the champions in the game can be defeated solo….

I dare you, i double dare you to defeat them alone. They are created to encourage team play…otherwise what’s the point.

Sure maybe with a ranger or mesmer from a safe distance and in like 30 minutes…sure…but that’s no fun

I’ve soloed most champs and group events in this game, not just the low level zone ones either. On melee range necro, melee/ranged ranger, warrior…rifle warrior even (God rifle sucks), Guardian, and even on my mesmer too. I’m starting to play my thief more right now and I will absolutely jump right on top of any champ I come across with or without help with few exceptions (I"m looking at you Krait Witches that are not in kessex – Those are a pain even with a group). You need to know what skills the champ has, what they have that will kill you in one hit and when to dodge.

Behellagh.1468:

Wylf.2586:

khani.4786:

You mean it isn’t reasonable that I can’t even make 1 soft wood plank per tree I chop down? / sarcasm.

About as reasonable as it is to go around chopping down saplings instead of fully grown trees. :P

Which would explain the need for the quantity needed then. After all you are just one guy with an ax, it’s not like you are going to try taking down a mighty scotch pine. That’s what the various lumber mills in the world are for.

An axe?! That’s what I’ve been doing wrong. All this time I’ve been using a herring.

But, yeah…it is what it is like it or not. XD

maddoctor.2738:

khani.4786:

My question is what if your “Auto attack” is set to a skill other than skill #1… will taunt make the player only use sill #1 or will it actually make them use what skill is set as auto attack. And what if an auto attack skill is not set?

I think by auto attack they mean weapon skill 1, otherwise what happens to those that have no skill set to auto attack?

That’s what I was thinking, but then they need to clarify what they mean.

My question is what if your “Auto attack” is set to a skill other than skill #1… will taunt make the player only use sill #1 or will it actually make them use what skill is set as auto attack. And what if an auto attack skill is not set?

I’d rather not have more gifts of exploration personally. I have 20 unused gifts myself and I know other folks who have as many or more than me. Map completion isn’t hard and if the rumor is true you won’t even need WvW maps for completion after the expansion comes out so mapping will be even easier than now.

I hope that with HoT mapping all of the new zones completely will give mastery points or whatever we’ll need for the mastery system. Right now there’s no reason for me to get that last POI in Southsun/Dry Top/Silverwastes.

You mean it isn’t reasonable that I can’t even make 1 soft wood plank per tree I chop down? / sarcasm.

Either trees that give soft wood should give 4 logs or it should be 3 logs per plank. I hate that change they made.

I just want to say thank you to Anet for putting them under collections. I really appreciate it.

I just wish I’d bought more when they were cheaper. I have several legendaries I want to make and don’t have near enough clovers or T6 mats.

Never give up. Howler needs to be fixed.

One of my most favorite exchanges in the game in Bloodtide Coast.

Explorer Smatti in Bloodtide Coast:
Female Norn: I’m starting to think this is a fool’s errand you’ve brought us on little one.
Male Norn: And you’ve made DRY fools of us at that. When will we have those drinks you promised us?
Smatti: Now listen to me you miserable sots. We can return to camp when we have those artifacts and no sooner. ALSO, I never promised you drinks! It’s as if you only have a single thought between the two of you. Finish the job at hand!

Isn’t the reason this is usually done AFTER the FE is because you need the Fire Elemental to get the last charge on the key?

Yeah you can charge your key and come back later, but most people find the key during the pre-event and charge it up when the FE dies then go for the ogre….then find that it’s been done recently.

Okay…I’ll play too.

I’m a female with more than 35 trips around the sun. I have a wonderful husband who also plays GW2 and together we have a rotund feline and a tiny canine.

I have two Masters Degrees and now work as tech support for a college library, and most days it’s fun…sometimes frustrating but I enjoy my job.

My free time is spent in guild wars 2. I picked up GW1 a few months before launch and got my 30 HOM points in a whole 2 months.

We have an extensive video game collection and I still have my original NES. While I started out a console gamer I’ve come to love the beauty of PC games….though nothing has been able to hold my attention as much as GW2 has.

P.S. Pirates are way cooler than ninjas.

Yeah I saw some in Heart of the Mists too this evening.

Rewards for winning 10 games isn’t enough for me to try and win. Every single other activity in the game has some sort of reward for winning and a consolation prize for losing. As it is currently Dragon Ball doesn’t not line up with the rewards for the rest of the activities and should be fixed.

Here are my current Sylvari Baes. (Ele, Necro, Ranger, Guard, Mesmer, Warrior, Thief & Engie all accounted for) Chamerian needs a name change and I don’t know what her name will be….but it needs to be a planty kind of pun of some sort.

My Revenant will join my lovely garden when she can…I have her name reserved and a general idea what she will look like, but I cannot be sure how she’ll look in the end.

The demon masque still shows pupils thru the mask. I really liked how my asura necro looked with it before and now it just looks…odd.

That’s the problem with some coats (and Pants). Some coats cover the gloves so you only see the hands and basic gloves and some pants too go over the boots. I personally like that some of the coats/pants have this, but I understand that you like this particular coat and wish it didn’t for the purpose of your look. It’s just how some of the different coats are. They can’t all tuck into your gloves/boots and it’s nice to have that variety. You might want to try clicking through the wardrobe to see if there’s a similar coat that you like for his look that doesn’t have that issue with the gloves.

Paffus Piffus.9430:

Dude I didn’t mean it like that, more a case of they haven’t done anything in a year so don’t stress yourself out about it.

And that’s the biggest issue I see. They’ve updated numerous other legendaries since they broke Howler and this issue has been known and reported many times since last April and yet they’ve told us nothing about a potential fix or even acknowledging here in the forums that yes, we see your issue and we will fix it. Not even a “Yeah but we can’t fix it because then you’ll get the endless howl back.” response. Just…silence. It’s sad that many people have made Howler and love the night time effects…and they just turn them off one day and refuse to say anything about it. That is not okay.

Personally for the Bloodtide wurm and Teq I just drop my settings back to “best performance” and I haven’t crashed since. Everything else in the game (including massive wvw zergs) I put my settings back to Autodetect (max that my computer will run).

Genesis.8572:

NPCs often have abilities that PCs do not. Don’t sweat it.

Like Traherne’s multiple flesh wurms and 6 flesh golems?

I want 6 flesh golems that will join me in a lively line dance.

Or I don’t know just have a disclaimer at the beginning of the story that you are experiencing events that occurred in the past much like we had in GW1. Just because we got Nightfall and you were a dervish, they didn’t change how the story progressed in the other campaigns and you could go back and do these things on your new class that was created much later in the timeline.

Similar.7695:

ow. I didn’t know they counted as a crafting material (and I can’t believe I didn’t check my bank either).

All present and accounted for. Thank you!

Also, you can spend them from your bank now. As long as they’re in either a bank tab or crafting material slot you should be able to see them when you’re at Sonders as available currency.

My husband made howler ages ago and doesn’t post here, but he really hates that the howl was taken away and that they removed all of the night time effects in the process. He once submitted a ticket to tell them that they broke the visual effects (this was shortly after they broke it) and they responded saying that he should make a suggestion to see if other people want the effects….and never acknowledged that it was a bug that they broke the legendary weapon. That was ages ago and it’s now approaching a year that they broke Howler and all we’ve gotten is a message from Gaile a month or so ago saying she’d report it broken. Do the devs agree it’s broken or do they think they fixed it last April and have washed their hands of it?

Can they please take the muzzle off of Howler and let him howl at least some once again? It’s sad that there are so many other warhorns that have unique sounds, but Howler doesn’t. I’d love to make Howler myself, but they need to fix it first. Broken Howler is sad.

It would be really nice if Gaile could stop by and let us know if/when they’re going to fix it.

I started out with doing 5 wins daily, but then on the third day as I was torturing myself trying my hardest at getting a win and then after an hour I finally got a win (third for the day) and it didn’t count. I yelled at the screen (scared the cat) and said screw it. I will try to eventually get 3 more wins to get up to 10, but I refuse to do 5 wins a day again. If I start a match fresh I will try to win and play as I should, but if my team sucks I will feed the other team kills to get it over with to get my 2 participations for the day. Unlike every other activity in the game there is no incentive to win or stay in a match til the end. Not even 1 karma or 1 copper for a loss (or win)….yeah not worth me stressing out grinding out wins.

I hate Dragon Ball so much now and that sucks. It’s an interesting map and could have been enjoyable even with a loss if there were rewards like every other activity in the game. Instead, there’s nothing unless you’re lucky to get 10 wins. I have words for this game that the forums would filter to kittens so I’ll leave it at that.

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Tracing route to 64.25.33-1.ncsoft.com [64.25.39.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
0 Dragonbash [10.0.0.2]
1 10.0.0.1
2 96.120.108.41
3 xe-10-0-0-0-sur01.sharpsridge.tn.knox.comcast.net [69.139.205.193]
4 xe-10-2-0-0-sur02.sharpsridge.tn.knox.comcast.net [162.151.76.30]
5 xe-0-1-5-0-ar02.bluelight.tn.knox.comcast.net [162.151.76.25]
6 xe-0-0-7-0-ar01.goodslettvll.tn.nash.comcast.net [162.151.9.57]
7 he-5-4-0-0-cr01.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.189]
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0 Dragonbash [10.0.0.2]
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2 12ms 1/ 25 = 4% 1/ 25 = 4% 96.120.108.41
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3 15ms 0/ 25 = 0% 0/ 25 = 0% xe-10-0-0-0-sur01.sharpsridge.tn.knox.comcast.net [69.139.205.193]
1/ 25 = 4% |
4 19ms 2/ 25 = 8% 1/ 25 = 4% xe-10-2-0-0-sur02.sharpsridge.tn.knox.comcast.net [162.151.76.30]
0/ 25 = 0% |
5 17ms 1/ 25 = 4% 0/ 25 = 0% xe-0-1-5-0-ar02.bluelight.tn.knox.comcast.net [162.151.76.25]
0/ 25 = 0% |
6 22ms 1/ 25 = 4% 0/ 25 = 0% xe-0-0-7-0-ar01.goodslettvll.tn.nash.comcast.net [162.151.9.57]
1/ 25 = 4% |
7 30ms 2/ 25 = 8% 0/ 25 = 0% he-5-4-0-0-cr01.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.189]

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I’m trying to narrow down where the issue is and why my husband and I are getting severe lag and constant disconnects (like every 20 minutes). We have a new router, with updated firmware, bought a new modem and still there’s an issue. Had Comcast send a refresh signal and still terrible lag and disconnects. I did a -Diag on the gw2 client and there is some packet loss along the way and there were two connection fails with the diagnostic servers. I don’t know if that’s causing our issues or not. I know the issue is not with our equipment because it’s all new and updated, but there is an issue somewhere between my modem and Anet. Can anyone help me figure out what to do because this is getting insane. It hurts to play like this and it’s frustrating. If the problem is Comcasts, what do I tell them?

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= Tracing network paths
—> pathping -w 500 -q 25 -4 206.127.158.1 <--

Tracing route to 206-127-158-1.ncsoft.com [206.127.158.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
0 Dragonbash [10.0.0.2]
1 10.0.0.1
2 96.120.108.41
3 xe-10-0-0-0-sur01.sharpsridge.tn.knox.comcast.net [69.139.205.193]
4 xe-11-0-0-0-sur02.sharpsridge.tn.knox.comcast.net [162.151.8.242]
5 xe-0-1-4-0-ar02.bluelight.tn.knox.comcast.net [162.151.76.17]
6 xe-0-0-1-0-ar01.goodslettvll.tn.nash.comcast.net [68.85.171.190]
7 he-5-5-0-0-cr01.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.101]
8 * * *
Computing statistics for 43 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Dragonbash [10.0.0.2] 0/ 25 = 0% |
1 1ms 0/ 25 = 0% 0/ 25 = 0% 10.0.0.1 1/ 25 = 4% |
2 11ms 1/ 25 = 4% 0/ 25 = 0% 96.120.108.41 0/ 25 = 0% |
3 15ms 1/ 25 = 4% 0/ 25 = 0% xe-10-0-0-0-sur01.sharpsridge.tn.knox.comcast.net [69.139.205.193] 0/ 25 = 0% |
4 18ms 1/ 25 = 4% 0/ 25 = 0% xe-11-0-0-0-sur02.sharpsridge.tn.knox.comcast.net [162.151.8.242] 0/ 25 = 0% |
5 16ms 1/ 25 = 4% 0/ 25 = 0% xe-0-1-4-0-ar02.bluelight.tn.knox.comcast.net [162.151.76.17] 1/ 25 = 4% |
6 20ms 2/ 25 = 8% 0/ 25 = 0% xe-0-0-1-0-ar01.goodslettvll.tn.nash.comcast.net [68.85.171.190] 0/ 25 = 0% |
7 29ms 2/ 25 = 8% 0/ 25 = 0% he-5-5-0-0-cr01.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.101]

Trace complete.
—> pathping -w 500 -q 25 -4 64.25.39.1 <--

Bugged since last April…. a little info here and a huge list of threads about bugged Howler. Really wish they’d fix it. (Yeah the thread was originally about Incinerator, but the linked post is about Howler)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Incinerator-Flame-Extinguished/first#post4632747

If it got changed to account bound star I’d want a star added for every character who has map completion done XD (That would be silly and ridiculous looking…up to 12 and working on 13th completion)

Zephyra.4709:

It’s still been 2/5 for me when someone requests a kick. Is it supposed to be 3/5? Meh.

I was wondering this too…how are people seeing 3/5 to kick someone. It has always been 2/5 for a kick.