Guild Wars 2

Konig Des Todes.2086:

But people, there are RNG boxes for Sky Pirates.

They’re called Dragon Coffers.

Sky Pirates is simply Dragon Bash p2, just like Last Stand at Southsun was part 2 of Secret of Southsun. Just as those two steps shared RNGs, so too, will the Dragon Bash and Sky Pirates.

Well, except that Dragon Bash part 2 was Dragon Bash part 2. If you want to stubbornly argue this, at least call Sky Pirates Dragon Bash part 3 (except beware that the Dragon Bash festivities, decorations and Dragon Ball are all going to have disappeared, together with the hologram projectors and other Dragon Bash-related content, less the gem store item overlap).

Dedlaw.9130:

Just….no more undead…please?

Death… good!
Kill everything!

The light.. fades.

Because you’re widely believed to be bad sports. In the first week of matchups with your server, a bunch of your players created a guild with the same tag as our server’s top Taiwanese guild ([WvW] Together we are Unbreakable). What did the Maguuman’s call their guild? [WvW] Together we are Terrible. Nice.

That’s why.

I completely agree. Hell, in the developer’s article on the origins of the Dragon Bash theme, I’m pretty sure the dev even says how psyched and excited he is to have the theme he created playing around Lions Arch. I felt kind of bad for him that it doesn’t actually play in Lions Arch at all!

Given it has a very long lead-in, it is a complete non-factor in the character selection screen, most people have selected their character long before listening to even the first bar of the melody.

So yeah, constructive post and I hope ANet take that on board. I think it was also a serious mis-step that they only kept the 8-bit GW2 theme for April Fools (as I recall it was more like the first week of April, but kinda odd they didn’t keep it for the duration of the SAB “event”).

Is that Lord Vanquish twitter account “official” or connected to Anet in any way?

If you want information about it, you are probably better off reading Josh Foreman’s personal blog. He talked quite openly about it there before it went live (though he may have been subsequently cautioned against doing so..)

Some kinda really horrible culling of a flame legion caster’s particle effects maybe?

BTW I really like the spraypaint brush you used for the circles

Just wanna give this a +1, I don’t have a legendary but I think it’s a neat idea! In order to get the most out of the concept and show them off to other players without encouraging people to just ping them in mapchat (because that could get annoying) they’d have to be targetable.

Deified.7520:

The living story is a growing experience (keep in mind Gw2 is one of the first, if not the first, mmo to try to do something like this. It will take time for them to perfect it and they’re looking at player feedback to help) and I enjoy doing it.

Not true. Asheron’s Call used to (and believe still does) do monthly updates based on a connected story arc. That was, what, 1998? And somehow they managed to roll out a whole lot more each month, too.

OP – I think the reason you probably didn’t get much response is that your post seems purely rhetorical. You basically just complain about the game as you left it and are persistently negative, surmising that your post will probably be deleted anyway. What you call “bittersweet shyness” I call arbitrary negativity. Who wants to play with someone like that?

RatsoRizzo.1984:

Thanks guys, so in your opinion, would you rather be looking at the quiver, or that ugly slimy set of arms?

Sounds like you’ve already made up your mind about this one.. the use of “ugly” is a little bit leading.

I think it’s a case of “to each their own”. The popularity of the sclerite karka shell backpack, and how it is paired with other gear/a character’s concept really determines how these things go. A big-kitten char guardian in platemail and a greatsword looks pretty ridiculous whether he’s carrying a quiver or a karka shell backpiece… to each their own.

TL;DR – trust your own judgment. Don’t rely on the approval of (not-even-fully-informed) others.

Caedus.6571:

Ezeriel.9574:

…I’d bet it was just a slab of red meat.

Lucky you. Once got a spike from a wooden chest.

I used to dream of getting a spike from a wooden chest, but unfortunately they’re all stashed in regular bags.

Seriously though, bets on that it probably was a slab of meat, so don’t feel too bad – they account for 95% of wooden chest drops in WvW.

That’s too bad…

Hello Kaineng,

Been on this server since September. We have had some ups and downs that have been well-recorded (I miss Fubuki’s Kaineng battle reports), usually coinciding with transfers in and transfers out.

For a time there, we were starting to get the teamwork thing sorted. Using the WM-provided teamspeak server we had commanders fearlessly commanding/karaoke’ing for most of the day.

What we are now seeing is the server becoming an increasingly chaotic, empty, closed, unco-operative and unfriendly community.

It is the way the new teamspeak server is, and is not, being used that causes me concern. Those guilds who use it typically don’t use the BL channels but instead shut themselves in their guild channels. And then there are the guilds who don’t use it at all.

For example, why don’t the RE commanders (who field probably the most organized group during NA-primetime) use the server teamspeak? The justification I heard from them was that there had been “spies” using the public teamspeak. Not so difficult for a teamspeak server which can be publicly joined, is advertised in map chat in WvW, I’ll grant them that. Their response, which was then to provide me the address for the private RE-ts3 server which they use, seems a little hypocritical.. who’s to say I’m not one of those ghost spies?

The result is, you have a pretty decent RE zerg (which granted, used to do its fair share of kittening about “ kitten PUGs” (always thought the “s” was superfluous myself but figured few of you knew what PUG stood for) which has locked itself in its room while the “pugs” stand, clueless, out in the rain. Those same pugs who could be following your instructions, and a great deal of whom did (myself included) don’t even bother to make up numbers for you any more because they don’t even like to imagine the volume of the kittening about them on your guild ts3 server…

It is all just ineffably sad. I hope the changes to the way match-ups are generated will build some excitement and teamwork again, however I don’t see how that will be possible with everyone locked in their guild channels/servers.

Very best,

Megumi Shino.

AlietteFaye.7316:

Which team made the Southsun Cove dungeon? The Living Story team or the Dungeon team? Just trying to gauge how fun or unfun it will be. Thanks.

Since you posed your question in such a presumptive and prejudiced way, I’m sure they’ll be happy to tell you.

kissofthehell.3720:

Is there time when the event will start or its going to repeat for the whole day of 28th?

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/may-28-2013/

In particular:

<i>"A Monstrous Threat

Even if you manage to capture Canach, can you also foil his master plan? Defend the new settlers on Southsun Cove from a massive final onslaught of rampaging wildlife or die trying! And beginning June 5, a hulking monstrosity joins the fray—without your help, it will destroy the settlers and everything they’ve built! </i>

Don’t think that it will all be available on May 28th by the sounds of the June 5 reference (think we can assume its the Queen to which the achievement is linked).

So yeah, I doubt you’re looking at a blink and you miss it event on the 28th.

Well OP, you’ll be glad to know that if you peruse the entirety of the town clothes catalogue, it will be possible for you to buy:

a) a plaid shirt;
b) some slacks/skinny jeans (they would need to be dyed brown/black respectively);
c) a pair of loafers;
d) some thick, horn-rimmed glasses frames; and
e) a moustache kit for you to tug on gently while you drink from your (preferably cracked) mug of chamomile tea.

Then you can truly express your uniqueness and individuality while all those mainstreamers run around with their vanilla tentacle packs.

SpitFire.4690:

Huygens.4075:

iCryptik.1496:

SpitFire.4690:

The memories will live on but it will RISE again.

Good luck on your next adventure. Unfortunately for KN, I see where DIS is going.

I see what you did there, and I’m tickled PiNK.

Hehe i see that xD but yeah thanks guys, kaiening is jusy a project and we made a hell of it…

I’d say something about your post Jarvan but:

a) I’d get infracted; and
b) Your post speaks for itself.

Real Kaineng won’t miss you.

I’m not going to read beyond the last 4 pages of posts, but I will say:

This has happened to Kaineng before, when WAR (my guild), iSPY and NoQQ left. There was a huge amount of pessimism but also solidarity – we basically accepted that we’d have to eat a huge amount of dirt at the bottom of tier 8 before we found the will to win again.

Not that long after the transfers started, led (I think) by CO from SBI.. to be honest I didn’t pay so much attention to the transfer history. I just remember all these new commander tags popping up and the commanders making disparaging remarks to us PUGs in map chat (“This is why you’re still in tier 8, but don’t worry, we’re here to save you”).

These commanders were (rightly as it turns out) treated with suspicion by the long time Kaineng players. Never mind, Kaineng will return.

That is all.

And my warhorn.
- but not the 8-bit-croc one, I want glowy transparency too.

slow clap rising to standing ovation, accompanied by nodding heads of approval, whoops and a bit of confetti/glitter

And what, pray tell, does the title reflect?

I suspect that Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim and Bob Odenkirk would be proud of this

This is all good, but can anyone who has purchased the purse indicate whether they see ANYTHING in their UI that indicates they own it (I presume the number of baubles would go beyond 250, but evidently I haven’t got there yet).

I would have expected the purse to show up somewhere on the hotkeys for 6 – 0 or elsewhere in the UI, but nada. Perhaps someone who has purchased it can confirm?

Chaotic Storm.2815:

somewhere in world 1 zone 3… around the middle I think. its in 1 of the shops I know that for sure

Its in world 1 zone 3 in a shop that requires a bit of tricky jumping – across one of the carnivorous plants – to get to. It is not especially hidden.

Although I haven’t had an answer, I have another question. Are the items account bound or (as I suspect) character bound? Just wondering if I run through with my alt tonight whether its worth buying the purse again.

I had really expected the purse to appear somewhere on the UI so if I somehow lost it by dying/re-entering the instance, it’d be good to know!

Yeah, I think that’s pretty much as far as I got too. The sword coming down and striking through the shield in the intro is reminiscent of Adventure Time, but I presume that the use in AT was in itself referential of Zelda.

BTW, just want to say whoever did the dialogue in the SAB deserves many colorful bouquets. I was literally in tears with the dialogue of the shopkeeper when smashing up his stuff, especially, paraphrasing: “Thank you for destroying my items. Now I realize that my hoarding brought me nothing but sadness” as well as the gnome after destroying his wagon: “… I only had a few more payments on that, too.”

Whoever wrote those lines should take over all of the comical writing for the game (or at least become the unofficial comical writing editor).

Hi all,

Just quickly – SAB is an amazing, amazing piece of content by ANet. I was laughing pretty much the entire time (peppered with a few expletives in the water fountain puzzle in zone 3

I also like the fact that Josh is here to answer questions about it and receive much-deserved bouquets (gotta accept them when they’re on offer, right?)

My question is this: is there any inventory item, or UI confirmation, that you have bought the bauble purse (costs 250 baubles, allows you to hold 500)? I bought it today on my first and only run through (I died not that long after on the frog boss) before realizing I had nothing in my UI that indicated I had purchased the purse. I assume that it is something that is supposed to remain with you on future runs through the dungeon.

Hope to get a definitive answer either way because it would suck if I had lost it somehow.

Cheers.

Yup, I’ve tagged this to watch later (not such a good look at work)

Although you’ve said you’re not a huge zerg man, make sure you play with plague form as your elite – just tearing into an enemy zerg spamming the blindness condition and having “Missed!” appear in a sea around you is awesomely satisfying. It is also on such a long cooldown that you won’t find youself getting bored of doing so, either.

There will be loot bags.

Now I know you worked your little butts off to get these boys and girls (as well as getting very lucky) but these sorts of complaints have a touch of spoilt brat to them.

Most of us want shinier footsteps so that we can increase the processor load on our teammates in WvW, but please remember 99% still need to get their legendary first..

Hi all,

Mystic forge question. After hearing a bit of conflicting info I am keen for an authoritative answer on this. If I use 4 major runes/sigils/crests of the same type, am I guaranteed (or even more likely) to receive a rune/sigil/crest or medallion or the same type?

I sense the answer is no, but I haven’t actually been breaking up my stacks in order to flush the stuff of the same variety. Any bona fide answer welcome

Icy.6709:

Q: I have a question about this patch, mostly dealing with the Fused weapons skins. I was wondering. . .how long do have until those are no longer within the chests?

Asking as I don’t get paid until monday afternoon, in which from what I was told/heard, that’s when the patch will change and some were saying they won’t be obtainable anymore after that.

Thank you in advance!

Hi Icy, not being mean but if you are living on the bones of your bum atm, blowing your paycheck on BLC keys is probably not a good idea. Opened 11 and got nothing unique to the new patch, last time I buy BLC keys

With that said, whilst there will probably be a new patch adding new content on 1 April (or 31 March) for April Fools, I am sure they won’t remove the fused weapon skins from the chests so quickly. I know this because I am psychic.

I think it is only zergier due to a patch day influx. If you don’t want a zerg, go to a BL that you don’t have many people active in – I’m sure you’ll be able to rally a nice small-sized group.

As for:

poopsock made it past the filters!

This. ^^

Yep, it is pretty great.

I’m not sure whether it’s related, but we’re noticing a few issues with lag across on entire battleground (i.e., there is a 3 zerg fight of 100 ppl or so in SMC, and people standing around at camps can’t get skills to fire because of the lag).

That is a pity, but, I think I actually prefer having no invisible enemies

Questions for OP:

1. How many hours of WvW do you play per week on average?
2. Would you like rewards that would make you an 00ber d00d?
3. Can you imagine the outcry if the progression rewards enabled you to completely crush others because you’d spent many more hours WvWing than them?
4. Can you therefore see why these tweaks/xp/improvements have to be “slowly slowly” (at least until we see our first top-ranked WvWers and what they’re capable of with fully unlocked abilities?)

I think it is way, way, way, WAY too early to be complaining here about them until you see the impact they have on the game.

I’m pretty sure Anet will disregard this thread. I sure hope they do.

My biggest hope is that people who play WvW will stop pretending they are completely separated from the PvE game, are a persecuted minority, and zomg should never have to do anything else but cap out and recap out BLs and EB again and again and again.

Well, I think improvements to loot also mean that a lot of people have more money to spend, especially if they’re shifting 20+ ectos per day…

LFk.1408:

When I played the Elder Scrolls series, I… there were even fully written and fleshed out books that you could read in the world (in Skyrim), and there was nothing off-putting or goofy.

Four words for you: “The Lusty Argonian Maid”.

Well, you can see from last month’s equivalent thread that it appears the patch went live very close to midnight on patch day (i.e., the end of the 26th) – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/When-will-the-patch-be-released-Merged/page/3

I thought the OP was very funny

hyuk hyuk, real purty eyes she gone and got.

Careful with your expressions of opinion, all. I got infracted for expressing the view in another thread that they might <censored> be<censored> with their sch<censored> <censored> <censored> <censored> <censored> on the basis of “posting untruths”. ROFL.

Malediktus.9250:

declan.3968:

Izzy Katsu.6024:

I think this might just make the whole thing worse. Now we’re going to have zergs that hunt people instead of towers and it’s basically just going to be a big gang kitten to get more points.

I don’t really have any ideas for solutions atm, but I imagine someone out there probably does.

What’s wrong with this? Not everyone plays WvW to flip keeps and towers.

Easy to fix: Give tons of points for flipping or defending stuff but few for kills.

^^ This. And tweak outmanned slightly so that world xp rewards are buffed. This will avoid everyone joining the zerg in their BL/EB and send people into the enemy BLs.

I think the volume of whinging would be twice as loud if they decided to award xp on contribution to the kill. Everyone would re-roll dps builds and squeal about how unviable their tanks were for WvW. Every design decision by anet has been based on making sure you’re not directly competing with fellow players when you’re co-operating with them. Why should they abandon it now? Besides, all serious WvWers will probably unlock what they need pretty quickly (I can’t imagine it being as laborious as the SPvP rank grind).

Too much QQ here.

TL; DR:

Anet turned the Canthans into Kodan. Go to Frostgorge Sound sometime and see for yourself

Yeah, I’m saving for it. Who needs ascended gear? I just want to be able to make a dignified exit from keeps in WvW when they’re about to fall (the reindeer transformations already work surprisingly well for running past enemy zergs, but that might just be the culling effect

There have been a few threads about this already (in this forum and WvW).

The prevailing fear is that anet are behind schedule on their update or having trouble fixing aspects of it.

Since March had been named (replacing February) as a huge update for WvW, including ranking, special new skills, etc., the silence at this stage and lack of confirmed functionality is, well, deafening.

If you’re going to deliver bad news, leaving it until the last minute will avoid a lot of howling on the forums in the short-term, but it is not exactly a sound PR strategy (look at Maxis and SimCity atm).

Rofl.

I’m glad there is a thread calling this. The lack of event teaser suggests to me that either they are behind schedule/won’t be able to deliver the content promised for February or.. actually no, that is probably the only explanation, coupled with the fact they don’t want an anet flame-fest leading up to patch day by actually exposing the (frankly, embarrassing (lack of)) progress they have made.

OP hit the nail on the head. When part 2 came up I went and spoke to the heralds in both Black Citadel and Hoelbraek. They sounded more disinterested than I was.. they said something like “Something about…” or something equally boring. There was no sense that they were engaged in the events around me. Why should I be?

Anyway, despite the complete lack of information, the aNet hints and interviews are enough to divine how this will pan out. They wanted us to spend time in n00b zones and Southsun Cove, because they were empty after the Lost Shores debacle…

SPOILER ALERT********

The entire event is plot development for the first expansion pack, which will revolve around fighting and defeating Jormag (it should drop about a year post release, so let’s say September 2013). The dredge/flame legion/grawl/sons of svanir have begun worshipping Jormag or something. As a result, another part of Jormag will drop in the final part (April 26), probably a flame based dragon, who will be in Southsun Cove, snf who will act as a kind of companion battle to the Claw of Jormag fight in Frostgorge Sound. They will also add some pretty refugee homes to Southsun Cove this month that will give you another reason to return to those sunny shores (for about 5 minutes, or if you’re a masochist, 5 hours of passion flower farming).

All of the above I know because I am psychic.

Vol.5241:

Ectos are going to go up. I envision Arenanet is going to fix guesting a bit – perhaps limit chest farming to account

Unless I’m wrong, the chest opening is per character per day, and is not linked to server, so there is no advantage in guesting to chest farm (although admittedly I haven’t tried it).

My jaw would hit the floor if I were wrong about this, so let me know if I am.

There is a long and established thread on this subject: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Fear-is-my-weapon-6x-fear-WvW-build/page/4#post1526555

Nay of the Ether.8913:

Radio Isotope.3045:

ahh if they are not supposed to stack then, they need to tell me on the skill description (Does not stack) But as it is now, it doesn’t say that (like some other skills do) and therefore is a bug as it leads me to believe the opposite of it not stacking. And I double checked this to make sure I wasn’t wrong about it not saying (does not stack). But also on a side note if it is not supposed to stack, when you use SotL passive and then use Locust Swarm, the higher movement speed does not take over.

I think it’s just a matter of perception, I have outrun people next to me many times while using SotL then hitting Locust Swarm. I pull away from them (this is when they are using their own passive 25% boost). Sometimes it’s hard to tell there is an increase unless you have something to specifically compare it to. And the reason it doesn’t state that the speed boons don’t stack, is because it’s a universal mechanic for the whole game. It’s like them not having to inform you that a condition removal removes all stacks on a condition, not just a single stack at a time. Those things are covered in the game guide that comes with the game (or the downloadable version) and it’s the player’s responsibility to review it before play. Not trying to sound like an azzhat, but that’s the way it is. You can also refer to the wiki for mechanics questions, and while it might not always be the perfect solution, most of the info on there is pretty legit.

Nay is right, locust swarm always takes over from the signet of the locust passive. I have run this trait/weapon combo on my necro forever in WvW, so I see its effect whenever I am running with a zerg.

OP is correct that it doesn’t stack though. I agree it should be noted on the trait/skill description.

This is not a mistake by a player. It is a misdescription of an item available from a vendor, as explained above.

Vinny.6924:

These answers are what I have gathered from MF data threads or Devs themselves.

1. 1 hour
2. The entire map
3. Unknown to the people
4. Unknown

Anet had stated that any activity over an hour in the same general area or events will trigger the DR code. Many other things will set it off as well. Mechanical type movement. Targetting specific mobs and skipping others. I have a friend who got banned but is now back for botting camps in CS, but it was him there everyday taking the same paths for hours over and over.

They want you to move to different maps in all level zones. Why the buffes drop rates and levels in lower level zones.

Some people claim that DR can become a permanent effect on you. I believe I have experienced this several times. As I will go days without getting anything but porous bones and blues. Same with ecto salvaging, streaks of 20+ rares without an ecto.

Guess the guesting question you have will have to be tested out. Seeing as guesting just came out I doubt there is an answer for it.

Hi Vinny,

Thanks for your answer. I am a little concerned if indeed its true that 1 hour in an entire map is all it takes to trigger DR. Would zoning out occasionally for PvP stop this occurring?

Personally, I don’t think 1 hour could be right, because anyone running map completion would spend more than 1 hour in a zone, especially Orr/Frostgorge Sound, and would see this mechanic kick in just from cruising around killing the odd mob.

I understand that Anet don’t want to set out the exact details of it (given that it would lead to gamers, being gamers, trying to exploit/circumvent it for ill ends), but I think a greater degree of transparency about these changes would help to maintain the confidence of the gaming community. Moreover, given they introduce items that require 50 lodestones, how can players who want those items acquire them without farming for them? Strewth.