Guild Wars 2

Lynie.6437:

Can you get the ncsoft support to make gold refunds on human scholars?

IIRC yesterday someone posted about how he opened a ticket about this and got denied. Still I think anyone that feels affected should open a ticket, even if it’s just to show how many people aren’t happy about this.

I usually try to be a more positive tone, but really personally I think Anet really dropped the ball on this one. How I think should have been handled.

First, I don’t think particle-added reskins belong on the gem store in the first place. There have been some very succesful reskins like that in the past (cobalt anyone?) but they’ve been world drops, not gem store items. That said, adding previous race unique items might be justified, as there’s extra work done to them to make them work with other races, but it needed to be done differently.

First, let people know beforehand. Just a line or two on the looking ahead blog post saying that you’re looking into ways to make cultural armor available to other races would have been enough, for example, but let people know so you don’t have cases where people spend over a hundred gold in an item that they though was exclusive and then out of the blue release an (arguably) improved version for half the price and available to everyone (I say arguably because personally I don’t like the flames, but other people do).

Second, if one of the skins you release are cultural, ALL should be cultural, and I’d even go as far as saying that they should be from different races as well (maybe using Norn’s for medium, Charr’s for heavy and so on), not one T3 and two low level karma reskins and make it clear whether you plan on releasing more cultural armors like this on the gem store, and whether the availability is temporary or not.

Sadly, the cat is already out of the bag, and it won’t go back in. Right now there are several dissatisfied costumers because of the way it was handled, and really no way I can see to really please everyone. Taking the skin away and reimbursing whoever bought it wouldn’t be fair to those that purchased it already (just last night I saw 4 people wearing it), whether they were aware of the controversy or just saw a cool skin and bought it.

My advice on how to handle it from now on… first, comunication is the key. Tell us clearly whether it’s a one time deal or whether we can expect more cultural armor released like this on the future. Second, as a good will token, offer whoever purchased the human T3 cultural armor (I’d say within 3 or 4 months, ideally just whoever purchased it in the past) the chance to upgrade them to the look of this version for free (or a small price), kinda like it was done with the guild kite, but much cheaper.

And a last note… if you do intend to release more cultural armors like these… can you do asura medium next?… my charr engineer wants those google helmet.. and please, make sure the armor sets you release work well with charr tails (or give us the option to hide them)

Most main cities are pretty empty because there’s really nothing to do on them except for the crafting stations, bank and TP, but everyone goes to Lion’s Arch for those instead (divinity’s reach was packed with people a couple months ago when they had the queen’s jubilee there, though, as is Rata Sum when the SAB is active).

Queensdale usually has lots of people playing on it but doing the champion farm, which you probably won’t see unless you’re on one of the waypoints of it.

Personally I’ve had no problem doing the tower with 5 people groups (and it became trivial with 8 people)… as long as you’re not in a hurry.

Few days ago, for example, I joined a group of 5 people going trough the third floor…we made our way, careful about not overaggroing enemies, killing them as we went, ressing people that were downed, and we had no issue reaching the end.

Other times I’ve seen groups bigger die because instead they try to just run from purifier to purifier, and I’d say that in my experience groups that do that end up wiping before reaching the end about 60 or 70% of the times (maybe it’s me that it’s unlucky, though), usually becuause you end up overwhelmed by all the mobs you aggroed while in the air purifier, or just the groups gets gradually thinned away as people fall behind when being knocked down or stunned, are killed and if anyone tries to go back to res (without killing any of the attacking mobs) end up dead as well.

Arnath.2319:

We have received NO new armor in game since release, ALL new armor has been via gem store. Now ArenaNet have become so desperate, so lazy, that they are taking in game armor, adding some lazy effects, and selling it on the gem shop.

This game is dying rapidly, i am beyond disgusted with how bad this game has become over the past year.

We have not received new full armor sets. As for new armor, we’ve gotten the molten gauntlets, radiant and hellfire helm, gauntlets and shoulders, watchworks shoulder, halloween shoulders, 3 zephirite helms, gas mask and filter, along with a few back items, and I’m sure I’m forgetting some.

Reset was only for those with a level higher to 30, it would get reset to 30.

adubb.2453:

locoman.1974:

Agree with wanting new non gemstore armor sets (though we have gotten armor pieces here and there).

One detail, though… the gemstore version doesn’t cost roughtly the same by far. Buying 800 gems with today’s prices (checkign gw2spidy, not at home so can’t get into the game) would be roughly 70g…. a far cry from 120g you’d need to buy the full T3 set + 16g to get 200 gems to purchase enough transmutation crystals to apply the skins to exotic gear, and that’s for what some consider a cooler version because of the flames (not me, but I’ve never liked flamey armor).

Actually, the current exchange rate is 8g 8s per 100 gems (if you were to convert money -> gems) so it would cost about 91g to buy the gem store version. Granted it’s cheaper, but not that much cheaper.

Anyway, that wasn’t really my concern. I just know that Arena Net is trying to give more paths to obtaining different things. I was wondering more if this translated to armor skins as well, or if armor skins will remain a gem store only item.

8.08 × 8 (for 800 gems) = 64.64 = 64g 64s
Vs.
119g for full T3 + 8.08 × 2 (for enough T. crystals) = 135,16 = 135g 16s

Buying it with gems isn’t even half the price of buying the actual T3 set.

adubb.2453:

First of all, I get that people are upset about the reskinned T3 armor (despite the fact that it costs just as much, if not more then actual T3 if you were to pay enough gold to have 800 gems). This thread is not for that discussion.

My question to the developers is why are there so many armor sets coming out on the Gem Store only? I get that the game needs to continue making money, but I would love it if we could get some new armor sets that were attainable through other means. Means that feel more fulfilling then just “I gave Arena Net my money.”

Some ideas I’ve been thinking up on ways to do this:
Dragon/World Boss Armor – I play on Devona’s Rest server which, despite being a “high population” server, struggles to get enough people to even finish Jormag a lot of times. Not to mention I don’t think we’ve ever downed Tequatl. Why not give people a renewed incentive to take down world bosses? Have each world boss drop the occasional “scale” or some kind of unique item that could then be used to purchase, or even craft their own world boss specific armor. Shatterer armor, anyone? Ice themed Jormag armor? GIMME!

Fractal Armor – Come on, this is as legit dungeon, right? It doesn’t have to be ascended armor, but something to match the fractal weapons would be great! It might give me something to spend all those Fractal Relics on.

Male/Female version toggle – I must admit, while I get that the ladies are supposed to be “sexy” or whatever, I don’t necessarily want to my character to be showing off her underboob all the time, when a male character gets, IMO, a much better look from the exact same set. Example of what I mean: Male / Female.

Agree with wanting new non gemstore armor sets (though we have gotten armor pieces here and there).

One detail, though… the gemstore version doesn’t cost roughtly the same by far. Buying 800 gems with today’s prices (checkign gw2spidy, not at home so can’t get into the game) would be roughly 70g…. a far cry from 120g you’d need to buy the full T3 set + 16g to get 200 gems to purchase enough transmutation crystals to apply the skins to exotic gear, and that’s for what some consider a cooler version because of the flames (not me, but I’ve never liked flamey armor).

Glenstorm.4059:

I couldn’t care less about the price to be honest, it’s the principle. Cultural armor was/is meant to be exclusive to one race and one race only! Naming the “new” set “Flamekissed” doesn’t fool anyone; it’s still the same human T3 set, but it’s now available to all races.

That’s why I’m miffed.

It would have been fair had they released re-skins of all the other races’ T3 light armors. Heck, I’d love the idea of making my human male Ele wear the T3 sylvari armor for a more druid-like look. Or have him wear the asura T3 for a more modern look.

You know, I don’t like the idea of the human T3 being released like that in the gem store (even if the only human char I have is level 30 and with me not liking human cultural armor)… but if they ever do that, I’m going to have to buy the T3 asura medium, just so my charr engineer can use the googles helm thing..

Sailsd.9245:

So we basically now know what ArenaNet thinks gems are worth. 120 gold + 6 transmutation crystals.

Whats more laughable is, that we get a wonderful light armor, and the crap of the game as medium and heavy.

And I’d guess the dyable flame would be a dealwinner here.

I guess it depends on your tastes, the light one is the worst looking one out of those (I’ve never been a fan of human cultural light armor)… and ironically the medium one is the one I like better out of those…. however, I completely understand the outrage of whoever bought human T3 armor beforehand and did it because of its looks/exclusivity and not for the achievement.

One thing that’s a bit of a pet peeve of mine…. if they were going to pick up existing armor sets to spice up, could at least have picked some sets that don’t clip with the charr tails, there’s already too few of them as it is, specially medium armors.

On one hand I understand the outrage about placing an updated version of a +100g skin, specially if you like fire effects (I wouldn’t unless I could dye the flames)… on the other hand I kinda wish it starts as a new trend for anet… mainly because I want a version of the asura T3 medium helm for my charr engineer (I’d settle for T2 as well)..

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Asura_cultural_armor/Medium

I’d also like this idea. I’ve only bought one armor in the gem store (primeval) and used 3 pieces on two characters… and the other 3 are sitting on the bank, unlikely that I’ve ever going to use it.

Talissa Chan.7208:

I do wish they’d left the cliffs as a mini town though, was a waste to just fully close it off. The ship could have moved on but the area was awesome even without the ship.

I wouldn’t make sense for the mini town to remain there without the ship, IIRC the whole thing was a temporary place they set up for traders from all the land to come over and offer their wares, and they’d take it with them when they left…. plus, they’re the only ones with access to the crystals, it would be impossible to navigate that area without them.

Of course, that doesn’t explain why we still have access to sanctum sprint, though… but I won’t complain because it’s my favorite mini game..

I’m trying to find the post but IIRC the word they used was periodical, not annual, so for all we know it might come back before a year has passed (like the SAB).

EDIT: found the post, relevant paragraph is this one:

We still want to have some content that can happen each year, our holiday festivals, Super Adventure Box, Zephyr Sanctum, and the new Queens Gauntlet are all intended to be content that will regularly return. The goal of having these in our portfolio of event content that can occur again each year is they allow us the opportunity to easily build on something we’ve already completed as themes for some of our releases for year 2

Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/jubilee/So-EVERYTHING-in-this-patch-is-temporary/first#post2561414

So he does say “return again each year” which makes it look like it’ll be an anual thing, but also includes the SAB in the list of events that will “regularly return”, which does come more often than once in a year, so it can go either way.

Whether it’s true or not in practice in the game, it’s still one of my favorite quotes from the book..

Drops from fractals, or you can make it on the mystic forge, the recipe is:

1 Glob of Coagulated Mists Essence
1 Master’s Salvage Kit
1 Mystic Coin
1 Pile of Crystalline Dust

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vial_of_Condensed_Mists_Essence

There was someone developing one sometime ago, posted a WIP video on youtube:

But as of the last time he posted about it (about 3 days ago) he hasn’t developed it further for a while, aparently mainly because he did a call for help on reddit and while some people responded, nobody ended up doing anything (his own words). You can see the post here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/GuildWarsDyeJob/comments/1r1gsi/armordye_preview_software/cdirsyw?context=3

For me it’s Genesis. It fits perfectly my guardian theme, it has a nice glow and particles, but very subtle, not too over the top (I don’t like excesive particles on weapons).

http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/gw2-genesis-hammer-champion-weapon-skins-181.jpg

Runner ups:

Ascended Hammer:
http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/gw2-ascended-hammer.jpg

Jade warhammer:
http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/gw2-dragons-jade-warhammer-skin.jpg

Fractal hammer:
http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/gw2-fractal-hammer-1.jpg

Guild crusher:
http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/gw2-guild-crusher.jpg

Mecha anchor:
http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/gw2-mecha-anchor-hammer-champion-weapon-skin1.jpg

There are things that are based on lore, others are just done for gameplay sake and that can’t be explained by lore, fractal levels are the second kind, no need to have lore explaining it.

To use another examples…. what’s the lore behind being able to waypoint to safety after falling to your death?… and how comes being killed by poison damages your armor, while falling from the equivalent of 20 stories building into a rock doesn’t?…. or waypoints in general? In the novel Ghosts of Ascalon the heroes had to travel half of ascalon on foot to reach ascalon city… why didn’t they just waypoint there? (again, lore Vs. gameplay)… and why are there even waypoints in Orr if we’re just making headway into it to reach Arah?… and that goes for the whole game… why are you protecting Webb in kessex hills while he recovers his lost heirlooms and lays the ghosts of his family to rest if I just did that a couple hours ago? did he lose them again?… and while you’re there, how come your character became so much weaker by traveling to kessex from frostgorge sound?… what about inventory, how come that if your inventory is full but you can have 255 pieces of metal ore, logs, weapons, armor and so on yet still running at full speed, but the moment you pick up an extra feather you become encumbered and can barely walk?.

And that’s something done in any entertainment media… for example, what’s the lore behind being able to save and load in single player games?… are we all yetis? (bonus points to whoever sees where that came from.. )… what about food and water?… most RPGs I’ve played those are only used to heal, don’t your character deal with malnutrition or dehidration?… what about going to the bathroom?… if your character is female, does she suffer from abdominal cramps and pain every month? (actually I knew one guy heavy into roleplay that actually timed his female character’s time of the month so he would act extra cranky).

Anyway, if you want some extra lore, well, maybe Dessa managed to stabilize 5 extra areas of the mists (3 new fractals + 2 new bosses) by adjusting the frequency or the attunement system in the mistlock laboratory, but that new frequency makes it unable to tune into the post level 30 versions of the older stable fractals, creating all new post level 30 ones that nees to be unlocked again. Also the new system can detect people that are attuned to you trough the mists, so you can share the memories and experiences of past fractals with them (hence making fractal levels account instead of character based). Add some extra asura technobabble in random parts of that and you have your lore based explanation..

Blanger.3162:

Olba.5376:

Blanger.3162:

Astral Projections.7320:

Blanger.3162:

I kinda’ have to disagree to a point there is a substantial amount of RL money that is brought into the game everyday through people buying gems with RL money. What I’m saying is they only convert and bank, they do not buy anything with the gold.

Snip

If you are saying here that real life money brings gold into the game, then you are incorrect.

When someone, let’s say me, buys gems with real money and sells them on the TP, no gold is generated. The gold I get is 100% from other players who are buying gems with ingame gold, no new gold is created. This gold is directly transferred from their bank to mine. Zero gold is generated and zero inflation occurs.

But what about the people who use RL money to buy gems then convert those gem to gold on the TP? Doesn’t that add a new amount of gold to the system?

No, that would be gold from the gold-to-gem side of things.

K….but someone is going to have to explain the difference to me please.

NOTE: this is how I think it works, nobody outside Anet is 100% sure of that. Also I’m going to round up the exchange tax to make it easier

For example, let’s say at release Anet started the market by placing 1g and 100 gems into the system (using made up numbers to make it easy). That means that at that point 100 gems would be worth 1g.

Now supose someone purchases 50 gems with 50 silver, now there are 50 gems and 1g 50s in the bank. So at this point 50 gems are worth 1g and 50s, or what’s the same, 100 gems are worth 3g.

Then someone sells 50 gems (doesn’t matter whether they were bought with gold or money) for 1g (the 50s would be the tax), there are noe 100 gems and 50s in the exchange, so now 100 gems are worth 50s.

That’s how it works in general, anytime you purchase gems with gold you drive the exchange upwards, anytime you sell gems you drive the exchange downwards. It balances itself, the higher the price goes, the more attractive it is to purchase gems with money and sell them for gold, but as more people do that, the price starts to go down until it eventually balances itself.

Where that balance is changes with time, BTW… anytime something very cool or desirable is added to the gem store, gem prices will tend to go up as more people purchase gems with gold to get them, if there are long periods without anything good added to the gem store (or prices become too high so it wouldn’t be worth it), then people will stop buying as much gold, but others will see it as an oportunity to get more gold from their money by purchasing gems and selling them, driving the price down. The fact that the price keeps climbing means that, a year later, it still hasn’t found it’s balance point.

BTW, Anet doesn’t care whether gems are purchased with gold or money, they just care that gems keep being purchased… each and every gems sold (whether it was with gold or money) has been paid with real money to anet at one point.

Arikyali.5804:

Eh, compared to this, the only thing I’d be jealous of is the mithril box. But after almost one year of playing, I’m pretty sure I can make all the 18 slot bags I’ll need. I won’t miss it. :/

I personally don’t like the armor skins (but I understand why people would be annoyed if they did like it). Besides, I thought they released them in the gem store before, so aren’t they not as rare anyway?

The ones offered there have been on the gem store from release day for 500 gems

Blanger.3162:

Astral Projections.7320:

Blanger.3162:

I kinda’ have to disagree to a point there is a substantial amount of RL money that is brought into the game everyday through people buying gems with RL money. What I’m saying is they only convert and bank, they do not buy anything with the gold.

Snip

If you are saying here that real life money brings gold into the game, then you are incorrect.

When someone, let’s say me, buys gems with real money and sells them on the TP, no gold is generated. The gold I get is 100% from other players who are buying gems with ingame gold, no new gold is created. This gold is directly transferred from their bank to mine. Zero gold is generated and zero inflation occurs.

But what about the people who use RL money to buy gems then convert those gem to gold on the TP? Doesn’t that add a new amount of gold to the system?

Actually, it removes gold out of the system.

There’s roughly a 30% tax on gold to gems exchange. Assuming someone buys 100 gems and then sells them for 7g (rounding up the number), the fact that he can do that means that someone purchased 100 gems for 10g, so 3g were removed from the system as a gold sink.

Ursan.7846:

EgonVenkman.1907:

Supply and Demand to a degree, a variety of factors outside of this keep the price artificially high.

As for gem inflation plan, unlikely that the market will turn south. It is in Anet’s best financial interest to increase the Gem to Gold ratio as that will take more money away from gold sellers. Outside of very large bulk purchases ($100+), the Gem to Gold Ratio is getting very close matching gold sellers. Why spend $10 on site A and risk getting banned when you get almost the same amount from Anet directly?

Good. If people are willing to buy Gems to convert to Gold to buy legendaries, we should cater to them since it’s a win-win-win: Anet makes real $, gem/gold ratio decreases for people like me who spend gold to buy gems, and the transaction of the Legendary will sink gold out of the economy.

The transaction of the legendary would not sink gold out of the economy, since it still remains in the system but it just changed hands. However, people using gold to purchase gems will sink gold out, since there’s a tax of about 30% for the gems exchange (if you buy gems with gold, then sell the gems right away, you’ll end up with about 30% less gold).

Expansion usually means new areas to play in, further progression (be it vertical or horizontal), new gear and in general new things to do. Other things that can be added in expansions are increase of the level caps, new races, new classes and stuff like that.

For some examples, GW1 after being released had 2 new campaigns and one expansion released. Each campaign was a full game on its own (you didn’t even had to own the original game to get a new campaign), included areas from beggining to level cap, full new storyline, and each had 2 new classes added (no new playable races were added in GW1, it was all human). The expansion (EotN) added new maps and a new story as well, but they were all meant for level 20 (they upleveled your character, much like GW2 does) but didn’t add new classes to play on.

The other game I’ve played where I’ve played expansions is WoW, which is also what most people use as a yardstick to compare expansions to, this is what they added:

The Burning Legion: Increase of level cap (10 extra levels), a new full continent (I’d estimate about 1/3 of the full WoW map in size), 2 new races with their corresponding starter areas, 2 existing classes becoming available (paladins used to be alliance only, shamans horde only, they became available to the oposite faction as well), and it’s corresponding dungeons, raids and gear.

Wrath of the Lich King: Increase of level cap (10 extra levels again), a new full continent (I think a little bigger than outland from TBC), 1 new heroic class (started at level 50) with its corresponding starter area, and new dungeons, raids and gears.

A new living story issue will come out where all 5 remaining elder dragons team up and attack tyria together and turns out Scarlett was creating these alliances left and right so that they all fight the dragons together and she was the good guy (girl) and we ally with her to fight them..

I’d say that if it’s based on one of the dragons, it’s probably primordius.

It looks simmilar to the pose Primordius had when he was asleep in GW1 (actually looks like waking up from that pose):

http://i.imgur.com/K9kF9iP.jpg

Iit also has the spikes in the back and the nose horn thing.

AzzaCin.3691:

Astral Projections.7320:

You can’t show pics from preview for each one? Kinda hard to judge unless you just want people to flip a coin.

Oh no not me I was asking if anyone has chosen a Charr to use the gas mask on that they would like to share a pic.

Here’s a pic of my charr engineer using it, if you want others to see it better let me know but you’d have to wait until tonight when I get home.

Back on topic, I’d say that I couldn’t chose without looking at each character’s armor first, to see if it fits together.

I usually do it either on diessa plateau, around the meatoberfest area or fireheart rise, on the area where you have to get support of the three grawl tribes, or if no events there, I head south to the pig iron quarry, there are usually events to take or defend the quarry and/or the beach nearby.

Uvatha.5476:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

If it is the daily associated with Nightmares Within, they are pointing you toward the tower. They do show up in some of the random chambers, as well as elsewhere within the tower. =)

When you fight the hybrid at the end the molten alliance shows up during the part with the 3 portals you have to destroy. Just run the hybrid a couple of times and it’s a done deal.

You don’t even need to run it more than once, they keep spawning as long as there’s a portal up, just keep the last portal active until you complete the achievement.

Each profesion from 0 to 400 gives you roughly 7 levels, 4 profesions would put you at level 30 (assuming you’re level 2 by the time you leave the tutorial area).

According to http://www.gw2crafts.net/total.html cheapest profesions to level would be jewelcrafting, artificing, leatherworking and tailoring, which would cost about 50g to level up, assuming you don’t have any materials and have to buy them all (there’s a checklist of the materials you’ll need on each guide), and including the money you earn back by selling what you craft.

I had posted a couple already (though guardian has changed since then), but here’s my 80’s lineup. In the order of attachments:

Charr Engineer:
- Gas mask helmet
- Twisted Watchwork shoulders
- Rascal’s coat
- Fused gauntlets
- Noble pants
- CoF shoes.

Sylvari Guardian:
- Zephyrite Wind helm
- Vigil shoulders
- Primeval chest
- Radiant gloves
- HotW leggings
- Heritage boots.

Norn Mesmer:
- Starter Harlequin mask
- Heritage shoulders, chest, pants and boots
- Radiant gloves.

Asura Warrior
- Horns of the Dragon helm
- Primeval shoulders and gauntlets
- Priory breastplate
- CoF pants and boots.

The second time the box opened was roughly 4 months after it closed (april 30 – september 3), so if they keep the same cadence I’d say somewhere around february.

However, think it’s most likely that the SAB will return on april 1st, so there’s a chance that we’ll either have to wait until then, or maybe they’ll do an intermediate opening between the end of september one and april’s 1st (maybe somewhere in january?)

And so the farming begins, and within a few days silver doubloons will be worth a few silvers at most..

It will give you extra XP for the actual kill, but not for the event.

Every mob you kill in the game gives you XP, champions are not the exception, you get XP for killing them. However, several champions (most of the ones in queensdale like the ones you mentioned) also have an event tied to them which will give you XP on complete (substantially more than just kill XP), that won’t be affected by the food buff.

The travel golems have a powerful neomagtherium reactor inside that uses silver and copper based alloys to generate enough energy to activate the crystallonium spacial relocator that transport you between them, it just happens that the silver and copper alloys in the coins are a perfect match to the alloys needed to generate the most energy possible, it really it’s so simple even a bookah would understand it.

BTW, pay no attention to the asura assistant that’s removing coins from the back of the golems, those coins were put there by us for safekeeping sometime ago and are entirely unrelated to the ones you inserted into the golems.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I am sorry for your loss. And curious. What difference would it make if the scammer was ‘face-to-face’ with you? I mean, if the method of exchange was the same….whether he is across the zone or standing right in front of you, you would still have trusted enough to send him the gold first, no?

The system in most MMOs I’ve played requires both players to put what they’re trading in the trading window and hit “accept”. Neither gets the item until both hit accept, and when both do, both parties get their items (or money) at the same time. If you change the item you’re offering, the other person’s accept button deactivates so he/she has a chance to check the new item before accepting the trade. Still some people did get scammed with such a system, sometimes people tried to sell much cheaper items with simmilar icons to more expensive ones, or advertised to craft an item if you gave them the materials, then ran way with them.

If you do the trade by mail, whoever sends the first one is at risk, since the other person can just never send the payment/item back. Still it’s highly unlikely a face to face trading system will be added to the game, since they already have the trading post that serves as both as a trading system and as a gold sink.

A quick tip… if you’re going in and a party/zerg runs by and you want to tag along but for some reason don’t want to party (in my case I usually don’t because I don’t know if I’ll have to leave to get water to the baby or help him go to the bathroom while his mother is getting him to sleep), target someone in the group and hit ctrl+t, this will put the a big red target reticle on top of that player that will help you follow it.

It’s probably something too evident to lots, specially those that are used to semi-organized dungeon runs, but just something I found useful while on the tower..

Probably the same thing Blizzard did with the gates of ahn’qiraj event, force it to complete on any server that hasn’t completed it by a certain date.

BTW, for those that don’t know, the gates of ahn’qiraj was a server wide event they did on vanilla WoW, basically everyone was turning in several materials of all tiers of crafting to advance it, and there was a huge quest chain that top guilds would do (required, among other things, several raid size instanced and open world quests to be completed) to get the key, once someone got the key and the server had handed out enough materials, the gate could be unlocked to unlock a series of raids (plus a big one time event that usually meant the servers crashed because they couldn’t handle so many people in one place).

Romek.4201:

they can – it need just a filter cause its always same Seller-Site and same message they spam

And within 10 minutes the message will change to bypass the filter. IIRC blizzard for a while (not sure if they still do) had a big filtering war going on against the bots, it took longer for them to apply the filter than it took the spambots to find a way to counter it (adding DOT instead of dots in the URLs, adding spaces, using leetspeak, using free URL shorteners, things like that).

It’s much easier to just report + block… plus, letting them spam a little more might help them find out where they’re being sent from, and maybe make security tighter (most spam messages in most games I’ve played are usually sent from compromised accounts).

Are you doing it on the same character? At least I do remember their responses being different back during the queen’s jubilee if I talked to them with a new character than if I did with the one I used during flame and frost (I usually try to do most living story things first with my guardian), I do remember Rox talking to me as someone she already knew during the tequatl one, and while they don’t seem to react differently whether you already knew them or not in this particular living story, they haven’t (at least to me) say anything that makes you think you didn’t knew them already.

Some places where you can get some ideas is in the mix n’match thread in this forum or here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/guildwarsdyejob

Darketower.5218:

Lindelle.3718:

I think it was a joke regarding the primary colors.

But… green isn’t a primary color (it’s a combination of blue and yellow).

RedCobra.7693:

well i cheated xD i just looked at the preview pic for the next LS and saw the Three colours and thought hmmmmm

Tangent… but the preview pic for the next LS made me think of the Thaumanova Reactor explosion, with the fabric of reality shattering. (And we are due for that Fractal soon, aren’t we?)

Green is a primary light color.

Primary colors in pigment: yellow, blue (cyan, specifically) and red (actually, magenta), in light the primary colors are red, green and blue, and you can get a yellow light by combining a red and a green light

That’s how giant LED screens work, actually, each pixel is three LED lights, red, green and blue close together. When seen from a certain distance (which varies for each screen depending on how close together they are) you see the three LEDs as a single unit, and every color can be achieved by combining different intensities of those three colors.

Hammer guardian here (gear is mostly knight), I found the last boss rather easy to solo. I went down twice getting to him (thank the pale tree that kasmeer resurrects you), but no problems to fight him at all, actually I think only twice I got lower than 50% hp. Of course, it helps that the hammer does nice AoE damage so I was always maneuvering the boss so that I was hitting him and something else (the flower when it showed up, adds and so on)

SnidgetAsphodel.7961:

Draknar.5748:

Other than a Dolyak, what animals can even be ridden in Tyria? Stags? lol

There are no horses that I’ve seen.

I am pretty darn certain they exist in Tyria. I’ve seen references to them once or twice in game (cannot remember where specifically) and seen a concept art piece or two with someone on a horse.

I for one would love to have one for my human characters. Though it would be ridiculous to see other races on them. Race specific mounts would be cool. Hopefully restricted from cities and WvW, though.

They existed at some point in tyrian history. In the mad king memories it’s mentioned how mad king thorn killed his horse when he was a kid, there are images of horses in divinity’s reach, and iirc there were mounted skeletal horsemen in gw1. Probably they went extinct sometime in tyria’s past or at least in the known area of the world in the two games.

EDIT: it wasn’t his horse he killed, it was his 12 years old friend. He fed her horse hot peppers and then smiled as it trampled her to death.

Contact support, they’re really the only ones that could help you… However, from what I’ve read, chances are you’re kittened.

I’ve read several cases of people deleting important items that was in a character’s inventory when deleting it, and the answer usually is to be more careful in the future when deleting a character (to be sure to go trough the inventory and put everything important in the bank first), and that the support tools they have don’t let them give away items (to prevent people trying to abuse the support system to get free items), only allows them to do complete account rollbacks to a previous date but they only do it once per account and if it’s proven that it wasn’t due to player error (as in, because of a game glitch or a hacked account).

Maybe Isgarren doesn’t care about what happens outside his little town (have the toxic kraitt attacked it at all?… haven’t been there since patch)…

Or maybe he is helping in his own way but does it from the background. Kasmeer mentions how it was really luck that she found the perfect spell to dispell the tower’s illusion… maybe the wizard planted the sugestion in her mind.

Or maybe the wizard has died already and before he did he moved his castle closer to the town and left the castle running on automatic to keep the elementals helping the people.

Or maybe he just likes to color green….

Or maybe Scarlet is really the wizard in disguise and we’ll eventually get a scooby doo style unmasking…

My money is on the last one..

Adine.2184:

Well the fastest without having an experience scroll is probably the Queensdale zerg as much as i hate to admit it .

I’d say it depends. I’ve never done the math myself, but personally I felt that the queensdale zerg gives decent XP if it’s running well enough… but if there’s more than one train (as usual anytime I’ve done it) then you get lots of waiting as champions are killed out of order and you have to go to the next one or wait for one to spawn. In those cases I felt it was faster XP to just roam around doing hearts and moving on when done, and doing events as they pop up nearby (which they usually also count for the hearts).

Fastest way would be to use a experience scroll to level 20 (you get them on your character’s birthdays and every 5000 achievement points), craft the remaining 10 levels (use http://www.gw2crafts.net/ as a guide for the cheapest ones).

Other ways to level quick:
WvW karma trains, most servers do them the day before the reset, and some guilds run as it as an event for powerleveling.
Queensdaly champion farm. Unlike other champion farms, you can start it right from the beggining, plus each champion counts as an event so it’ll give you a fair share of XP, though it’s questionable whether it’s faster to just fill hearts at first.

MrRuin.9740:

… Text needs to remain as a mainstay anyway. Not everyone lives in quiet solitude.
I have a family. Do you want to hear my kids yelling on voice chat? Or their TV shows? Or the music? Or anything else from my rather noisy household? I don’t suppose you would and it’s more of a courtesy that I stay off voice-chat and use text while there’s a lot of background noise. There’s alot of reasons some people may not be able to use voice as freely as others.

This one is mine, I don’t even have a mic (or want to get one). I usually game when the baby and most times wife is asleep, I don’t want to wake her up anytime I’m gaming, which I usually do late at night.

Kojiden.8405:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Here’s a couple of issues within this thread:

1) What difference does it make it characters of the same gender are close? Obviously the writers aren’t providing all the details, and rightfully so, because you don’t want to open Pandora’s Box in this day and age. Clever hints allow the player’s imagination to go where it goes.

2) Don’t assume all close relationships are sexual in nature. This goes for both same or opposite gender couplings. I have a guy friend who I buy stuff for all the time, but that doesn’t make me gay nor place us in a relationship. The term “brotherly love” comes to mind.

Obviously how it’s going to go is that Kasmeer already has a thing for Marjory, but Marjory does not have a thing for Kasmeer. However events will occur (probably in the next update) that will put Kasmeer in a good light to Marjory. This will start to change Marjory’s feelings for Kasmeer but isn’t enough quite yet. Later something else will happen that clearly states that Kasmeer has a thing for Marjory, which will cause Marjory to suddenly discover that she has a thing for Kasmeer as well.

This is a really common storytelling trope. The reason it doesn’t apply to Logan/Rytlock is because the trope has a pre-requisite that one person needs to have a crush on the other first. And neither Logan or Rytlock has a crush on the other. So this trope does not apply for them.

The question will be if ArenaNet milks this to push an agenda or if they will try to make it seem natural and seamless.

This is the way it feels to me, specially because the “she can’t have you” seems to have taken Marjory by surprise. Here’s the full dialogue:

Marjory Delaqua: I’ve been thinking about Scarlet.
Kasmeer Meade: She can’t have you.
Marjory Delaqua: She’s behind all these crazy alliances. I’d rest my reputation on…wait. What did you say?
Kasmeer Meade: (laugh) I think you’re right. She has all the landmarks of a blooming psycho hag.