Guild Wars 2

probably around 12 or 16. I’ve gotten about 2 or 3 a day (4 one day), at the end of the day I open all the bags (usually a little over 100 of them a day), go to the skritt and click on the wrapper option until it no longer appears, don’t really keep count of them. Add to that a couple of days I didn’t play since halloween began.

MrAlanSmith.8329:

On every game MMO, Iv always been the “Healer” Teamworking player but iv read that there is’nt any healer in the game?, I dont understand …

How does this game work?.

Help would be nice on my play style.

There’s no hard trinity in this game (as in, tank, DPS, healer). In theory there should be “soft” trinity of damage, support and control, where you can have characters dedicated to one or a any mix of the three. In practice, though, it’s usually damage and damage with a little support thrown in.

There are no direct healing skills like what you can find in other games, where you target another player and cast heal on them, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to heal other players. Some examples:

Everyone has a self heal (it’ll always be on the position 6 of your skill bar), but some classes also have a heal skill that while it’ll usually heal for less, it’ll also affect other players. The guardian, for example, has healing breeze that heals himself and up to 4 other players in a cone in front of him, engineers can drop a turret that heals anyone near it or a gun that shoots healing packs (heal anyone that walks on them), and so on.

Each different weapon has a specific focus on a class, some of them can heal other characters. For example, guardian staff and mace (actually I think they’re the only ones). The elementalist is a special case, it has 4 attunements you can switch at anytime (fire, air, water, earth), and each attunement is focused on something, water is always focused around healing.

Some skills and traits also do some healing, the guardian (I’m using guardian a lot because it’s my main and the class I know better) has skills that teleports to the nearby ally with the least health and heal them and anyone around.

Combos. Combos are one nice feature of GW2, the way they work is to combine two skills for some extra effects. For example, some skills or attacks create a field of fire in the ground (which might burn or damage enemies), if you shoot an arrow trough the field, it catches fire and apply burning (damage over time) on top of the arrow attack. In general the kind of field defines what will happen, and the kind of attack (blast, projectile, and so on) to whom it’ll be applied. Water fields apply healing if you blast them (basically any skill that explodes or hits the ground), several professions can create them, but the elementalist is the most adept at it. It’s common for a commander to call for water fields when in WvW or some of the harder boss fights.

Any profession can be built to do anything, but if you want to be the closest you can get to a regular healer in other games, I’d recommend you to start with guardian, engineer or elementalist.

Personally I’m not disappointed. It would have been nice to get a new skin for Mad King Says, but I do know several people that didn’t get it last year, or weren’t even playing last year, that are happy that it came back (personally don’t care much either way, haven’t used the skin in the first place either). The clocktower still haven’t managed to finish, but doing it for the fun, since the skins aren’t unique so I don’t really care much about them.

So basically whoever didn’t get the rewards last year has another chance this year (not that the clock), I already got the ones I was interested in, but I have plenty to get this time around, my necro got a new outfit (hexed one… though I’d have liked it if it had the option of the hat the female version gets, but I guess it’s fair considering that females are the ones that usually complain that the male armor is cooler), a new 20 slots bag, and several minis.

At least when it comes to rewards, no complains this year. Now if they only did the same thing next year, but also unlock the Mad King mini-dungeon and the scavenger hunt (I got the basic back piece, but not the upgraded one), I would have no complains at all for the halloween event..

Beldin.5498:

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Shanks.2907:

Sell quality single pieces for 300-400 gems designed for mix and match, and make more money for less work.

They have (the Lawless stuff), and people complained about that as well.

They should release chest and leg armor instead as single pieces .. since that is what
at least i mainly use.

Bought for example Atherblade Heavy 2 times before the wardrobe just because of
the legs. And Brahams heavy also 2 times just for the chest piece.

I would also buy Rainment of the Lich or the Noble Outfit just for the chest piece,
also maybe the Ninja Outfit .. however i don’t really like the leg parts, so no way.

I’m in a similar situation with the ceremonial plated outfit. I really love the shoulders, gloves, boots and helmet for my guardian, don’t particularly love the pants, but I’d use them as well, but the chest piece with the fluffy sleeves and that thing around the neck are deal breakers for me. If I could replace the chest armor for another one, I’d have bought it right away when it was released. As it is, no thanks.

Khisanth.2948:

locoman.1974:

You can use them to wear the skin from the beggining, and also as a way to try it out with other pieces for mixing and matching and playing with dyes, without having to use the free skins or use a transmutation charge.

You can play around with the mix and match anyway using the wardrobe.

But wardrobe isn’t 100% perfect. It gives you a perfect 100% white light, there are very few places in the world that give you that kind of lighting so sometimes armor you see working perfectly together in the wardrobe don’t look as good in the general world, plus if you want to play with dyes the only way to do it is by previewing dyes, but doing so previews the dye in the same channel for all armors, so you can’t see how it would look if you want a specific dye in channel 1 of one piece of armor and channel 2 on another.

You can use them to wear the skin from the beggining, and also as a way to try it out with other pieces for mixing and matching and playing with dyes, without having to use the free skins or use a transmutation charge.

When it’s daily ambient killer I usually do it in the swamp in queensdale. Start at one end of the wooden path that goes around it with either my guardian with a staff, or my flamthrower engineer, and go around killing everything around it. Usually I’m done with the daily before the end of the path, or I’m very close to it.

I’d like to have some more extra body types as well, do things like having a fat monk type of character or maybe a fat warrior (see Thulsa Doom on the original Conan movies, for example) or something like that. Right now closest you could have to a fat human would be a male norn with the “robust” body type and the minimun possible size (still would be bigger than the biggest human, but not by much)

BTW, working out like you do in tyria doesn’t necessarily mean you’d be thin… check sumo wrestlers, those guys spend most of the day training and exercising, but their diet and lifestyle is mainly directed to build muscle and skin fat that’s not as unhealthy (still is, though) as the visceral fat most of us fatties have. Also if you see power lifting competitions (or basically any body strength competition that isn’t related to body building) you’d see many competitors, even in the top spots, that would be considered fat on first glance.

And one for those thieves and necromancers that want to both punch and stab at the same time (but you need to have played GW1 for a while to get it)…

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Centurions_Claw

(xposted from reddit)..

Nerone.1724:

Thanks guys !!! … but I did not understand, if one has the ability to spend money to buy sweets, and thus have a higher number than mine, will decrease my chances of winning? or is still random?

Yes and yes. One wrapper is selected at random for each skin out of all the wrappers handed in, whoever handed that particular wrapper, gets the skin. So, it is random, but whoever submits a higher number of wrappers has a higher chance to win something, and the more wrappers are submitted, the chance to win for each wrapper is lower.

Doing the math, let’s say that 1000000 wrappers are handed in at the end of the 2 weeks period (chances are they’ll be much higher) and you handed in 100 of them. There are 1000 total possible prizes (100 each of the greatsaw and ghastly shield, 200 each of the rifle, dagger, chainsword and scythe skins), your chances are 1 in 10 to win one of the prizes (I used this website because I was too lazy to calculate it myself: http://contests.about.com/library/blsweepstakesoddscalculator.htm ). Someone that submitted 500 wrappers would hace 1 in 2 chances to win something, and so on. Using the same numbers but changing them to 2000000 wrappers submitted in total lowers the chances to 1:20 for you and 1:2 for the other (using the same numbers).

But of course, all is at the mercy of the RNG gods, you could have someone that submitted just 5 wrappers walk away with 5 grinning shield skins (one of the most wanted) and someone that submitted 4000 of them not winning anything.

NEOCROM.8957:

Thx. At mad king i mean, when you can fight him, not the “Mad king says” event.

We can’t. The mad king fight was a mini dungeon that was in the 2012 halloween event and hasn’t returned since then

You have to eat them. Anytime you eat one of them you get a random boost for 10 min and one Shiny Foil Candy Wrapper, then you can go to Collector Terksli on Lion’s Arch (where the trading post used to be) and give them to him. You get one chance to win one of the weapon skins for each wrapper you give him.

You can also get the wrappers sometimes from the trick or treat bags.

Astral Projections.7320:

Redxon.6832:

I want AP because even some people act like it doesn’t matter, but AP is the first thing people look at, it carries more weight than any legendary or any skin. and nowadays good arah groups require at least 7k AP. I’m trying to get 11k ap asap and then 15k then just coast to infinity for rest of my life.

what do you mean dry top is permanent? how come stuff like the marionette and thing from he past were not?

Dry top, like Southsun, is an added map so it’s permanent. The events there are regular dynamic events, not part of the Living Story.

Marionette was part of the living story. When that part was over, it was removed.

Actually it was part of living story, but was season 1. After so many complains about temporary content they changed the way living story works with season 2, so now anything that’s added in the living story in the open world (like Dry Top) is permanent content. Same goes for the actual living story, the story parts are instanced, and unlocked for free on your account as long as you log in at least once while that particular episode is live (if you don’t, you have to pay 200 gems to unlock it), you can go to the story pane in the hero panel, activate the specific story episode you want to do and do it at anytime you want, and complete the achievements related to that particular living story episode anytime you want as well.

Since it didn’t work like that in season 1 you can’t replay or do achievements related to it, but they did say they want to make season 1 replayable as well, but since it would be a massive undertaking there’s no ETA or timefame for that to happen.

The only things that are temporary now are the festivals (like Halloween), so going back to your original question, if I were you I’d focus first on doing the halloween related achievements.

An extra note… if you don’t have season 2 unlocked and want to see the story, you can do them with a friend that has them unlocked like you do with the personal story, but you won’t be able to do any of the achievements unless you unlock them in your account.

Yoroiookami.3485:

locoman.1974:

And here I though you were meaning something like this: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Warrior_Charr_Hide_armor but with quaggans..

Not that I would pay money for something like that… not too much at least..

Humans are monsters! D;

Why do you think the Tengu are so isolationist and reacted so violently when LA was attacked killing everything that came near their gate whoever they were?.. look what was happening 250 years ago

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guide_to_feather_farming

And here I though you were meaning something like this: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Warrior_Charr_Hide_armor but with quaggans..

Not that I would pay money for something like that… not too much at least..

DoomKnightMax.6592:

Titus.4285:

YES! IT’S FINALLY LIVE!

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Signed yours sincerely, Oswald.

Liar. (Unless on EU. I don’t know about EU.)

I guess someone didn’t read the signature..

(HINT: King Oswald “Mad King” Thorn)…

RuneCrimson.7380:

They have no right to ask me to rep their guild during an event. I already rep a guild 100% of the time I am not going to get kicked out of my guild for reping another guild nor will I disrespect my guild for some elitest guild forcing people to rep their guild just cause they want to hog the map for one event. Don’t tell me what to do nor how to play and thats what they are trying to do. I don’t owe them crap either and I did not say they owed me anything but they have no right to tell me to do anything I do not wish to do nor will they force me off a map I am playing. Let them organize their little guild events if I want to stand on a event and play it without being in a guild or a TS channel thats my right.

You don’t want to rep, just don’t join the guild, simple as that.

Every guild has its own rules, your guild’s rule is 100% rep, TTS (which is the one I assume you’re talking to) has the rule to rep if you’re a member during one of the events they organize, that’s it. If you don’t want to rep, just don’t join the guild, show up when it’s about to start, join the TS server they give out in public map chat, get taxied to the correct map once they find it, do the event, and done, no harm done. Don’t really see what’s so elitist about that (then again, I do consider elitist that any guild that kicks you for not repping 100% of the time you’re online but to each their own).

There’s no way to force anyone out of the map, at most they can ask you to leave the map if they want to bring more of their people but it’s entirely up to you whether you do it or not, and there’s nothing they could do if you decide to stay.

And if they start being rude to try to get you to leave, don’t get to their level, just report and ignore, they can be facing a temporal suspension or even a complete account ban if they keep at it, and don’t worry if they threaten to report you or something, Anet doesn’t do automatic suspensions no matter how many reports go in without looking at the logs first and seeing what really happened.

Sorean.5379:

We need an aquatic race,but I think Quaggans are bad for a playable race (don’t get me wrong,I love them,but I wouldn’t like to play as them)

Largos…hm…I don’t know but IMO they lack a lot of details,they don’t seem to be a playable race because they lack so much details,I can’t see how we could customize them,also they have Wings…if people are already mad with Charr’s tail,just imagine how it would go with wings…people would go nuts

But oh well…just imagine if ArenaNet remade them (so they would look like their art concepts) and added a Claw weapon…My thief would love that.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/7/73/Largos_male_concept_art_3.jpg

I don’t think Largos are a good option for a playable race, IMHO.

A big part of what makes largos cool and wanted as playable races is the air of mystery around them, they’re stealthy, brooding assassins with dark armor, long white hair and permanently covered faces…

Imagine how “cool” would a male largos look wearing a full set of feathered armor ( http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Feathered_armor#Human ) dyed bright pink…. actually I’m making that if largos are ever released as a playable race..

The story panel seems to be able to accomodate large texts nicely:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:September_2014_Feature_Pack_Story_Panel.jpg

Maybe add something like that where the stories are unlocked for reading after finishing some milestones, an extra panel for lore stories. For example, finishing the story for Last Stand at Southsun would unlock the Canach short story. Or maybe make them just unlock them when a living story chapter is released.

Personally I have no problem with them being out of the game, provided the relevant information is also available in the game. To put two examples, on the bad side I’d put Rox’s Tale. IMHO it’s a great bit of story that makes you connect and care about her character and motivations a bit more, but that information isn’t available anywhere (that I remember offhand) in the game. On the good side I’d put What Scarlet Saw, even if you haven’t read it all the relevant information is eventually revealed in the game as the characters investigate about Scarlet. Reading it is a plus, but isn’t really necessary to get the full story. It’s sorta like watching a movie after you’ve already read the book it was based on.

Chalk another one excited for halloween… and this year I AM going to finish that clocktower!!!…

What do you mean by one legendary and one ascended?.

To get the title you need to have made the legendary weapon twice, not just apply the skin to another dagger (which is what I understand you did when you say one is legendary and one is ascended). The title is basically a way to compensate those that made the same legendary twice so they could dual wield it before the wardrobe came out, since now you’d make it only once and apply the skin to another weapon.

As far as I understand it, you’d need two incinerators, both of them legendary, to get the title.

Branden Gee.2150:

Shockwave.1230:

Is the harsh camera zoom when encountering walls/obstacles covered anywhere? Would love transparency on objects/walls or something to help with that.

This is covered by “Stop ‘random snapping’ from happening”. It’s actually a pretty interesting issue due to how guild wars 2 handles objects in the world. In order to do something like transparency you would need some way to either ‘tag’ objects as being able to be transparent or detect in real time that the objects can be ignored. To go back and tag each individual object in each map would take quite a long time and there is the possibility that some things could be missed or other objects end up getting tagged that shouldn’t have been.

Or maybe we could have an alternative, tag only the player character as being able to go transparent. I have no idea how easy or hard it would be, but for example, currently when the camera “bumps” into a wall or something the camera can snap to a point where we lose all visibility, all we see is wall and our character’s back, making it hard to see which way we can walk to move away from the wall or even if there’s something else blocking us from doing that (which is bad for PvE, but can mean the difference between winning and losing in PvP) .

The way I’d see it working (no idea how easy or hard it would be) is that once the camera reaches a certain distance from the character model (either from player input or pushed by an obstacle) the character starts becoming transparent, the closer the camera is, the more transparent the player character is, and once it reaches an even closer threshold, the camera moves to where the PC model’s head is and the character becomes completely transparent (invisible), AKA, first person mode, until it moves away from whatever obstruction caused it in the first place. At least that’s how I’ve seen it work in other games, but granted, the ones I’ve played that have done that are single player, no real idea whether the fact that you’re playing online makes it harder to implement or not.

These ones (in order):

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mr._Sparkles,_A_Tale_of_the_Asura (this one was released before the game)
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/brahams-story/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/roxs-tale/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/welcome-to-paradise/ (southsun introduction)
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/canachs-story-an-after-hours-meeting/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/marjorys-story-the-last-straw-part-1/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/marjorys-story-the-last-straw-part-2/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/community-news/short-story-the-trek-of-the-zephyrites/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-shipwreck-how-ellen-met-magnus/ (Ellen Kiel)
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/short-story-evon-gnashblade-disembarks/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/delegation/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/short-story-what-scarlet-saw/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/short-story-shadowbox/ (SAB)
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/short-story-twilight-preparations/ (before twilight arbour’s new path)
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-family-business/ (halloween backstory)

Another yak bending the bend….

Kurrilino.2706:

Dear lord………………

if you think these are the most urgent problems GW2 has you need some reality checks.

If i wouldn’t know better i would say this is a perfect A-Net answer.

People: we want contend. A-Net:
We agree, we will work on a wardrobe.

People: We want more skills and more game play.
A-Net: We totally agree… this armor clipping must be fixed

People: There is nothing beside farming and countless repeating
A-Net: We see this is a huge problem. Soon we will deliver a hair make over kit.

You should send your papers to A-Net they will hire you instantly

While I do agree those aren’t exactly the more urgent problems of the game, the wardrobe system (or something very close to it) at least was a very frequently requested feature, and IMHO it is one of the things Anet did very good in the game.

Before adding more underwater weapons I’d say add underwater builds that you switch to when you go underwater, just like the head armor does. My engineer, for example, uses a flamethrower build most of the time… which means that several of my traits become useless the moment I step into the water where I can’t use it.

If you got to the point where you’re trying to figure out why you’re playing a game, it’s time to take a break because chances are, you’re no longer having fun with it, and when you get to the bottom of it, that’s the one and only reason we do play games to begin with.

That’s the beauty if it, if you’ve already done all that, then I’m guessing you got waay more than your money’s worth out of the game, there’s no shame or anything bad about going out, play other MMOs, or other online/offline games, and if you ever get the itch again, come back anytime. And if you keep in installed and remember to log in every 2 weeks once the living story kicks off again, then you’d most likely have at least some to do for a little while if you do come back later..

Conncept.7638:

locoman.1974:

The fact that they give birth to live babies doesn’t necessarily mean they’re mammals.

No but this does: http://guildwars2.pl/about_lore_and_mechanics_with_eric_flannum_guildwarspl_exclusive,a545

Eric Flannum

Asura are mammals and female asura do have mammary glands

True… but he doesn’t say the mammary glands are on their chest (he does say they’re not as prominent as other races, though)… so maybe either they’re located elsewhere… or since female ones look exactly like the male ones they just don’t care about covering them.. (heck, for all we know about Asuran reproduction, maybe even the male is the one that nurses the young)..

Sooo… this conversation went from a complain about an outfit to a discussion about Asuran’s biology and reproduction..

Astral Projections.7320:

Rognik.2579:

Snip
As for the asura, I associate them as a goblinoid race. I haven’t done extensive research into this field of fantasy, but I don’t ever really seeing them classified as mammalian. It’s not discussed in the game, but I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if there is an asura hatchery somewhere in Rata Sum where asuran children are left until they are hatched and then sent to school. It could also explain why there never seems to be a parent-child bond between asura and progeny as we see in human or even norn culture.

The Asura are actually placental mammals that give birth to live young.
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img198/4270/h1hh.png

As to their family feelings: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Asura
“Asura have a strong sense of family and extended family, they affectionately refer to their children as “progeny” or “offspring”. They also venerate their parents, and grandparents. Asura traditionally cremate their dead.”

The fact that they give birth to live babies doesn’t necessarily mean they’re mammals. Lots of skinks (a kind of lizard) are viviparous, so are sea snakes, as do several other kinds of reptiles. And there’s also Oviviparity, where an egg is laid but inside the mother’s body where it eventually hatches and the baby emerges fully formed, which is common in several kinds of frogs, salamanders, sea horses and others… and of course, that’s in our world, not in a completely alien one and on a species that evolved completely isolated from the surface..

AysonCurrax.3254:

Weindrasi.3805:

There have been multiple armors that make charr and asura females topless since launch. There are no breasts. What’s weird is putting a cat in a bra.

Charr arent cats, they Anthropomorphic at best. and even if they might be cat like, they would still have teats.

I am aware of those other armors, but personally i think none of those has been this bad yet.

I don’t see it being anything worse than these:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pit_Fighter_armor#Charr
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Barbaric_armor#Charr
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gladiator_armor#Charr
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Braham%27s_Heavy_Armor_Skin#Charr
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Feathered_armor#Charr

WolftheAngel.4089:

I just saw this on my female Charr this morning. o.o

As someone who plays all Charr, and one Asura this looks awful. Not only is there no tail, ears, or horns, but my character’s chests are exposed. My Charr are all female. I would make sense on a male charr, but not on a female charr.

I previewed it on my female Asura as well. =O

I don’t know if gender change is possible, but she definitely looks like a man with that outfit.

This is exactly why I never buy my characters any nice things. >.<

Well, it’s not like female charr and asura with exposed chests are unheard of:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pit_Fighter_armor#Charr
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Barbaric_armor#Charr
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gladiator_armor#Charr
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Braham%27s_Heavy_Armor_Skin#Charr
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Feathered_armor#Charr

I like some of the outfits, both current and upcoming (based on what I’ve seen of data mining)… but I’m also a big fan of mix and match which is why I haven’t purchased more of them.

Maybe a system could be implemented so that checkboxes are added to the outfit wardrobe to hide specific sections of the outfit, making it show the armor your character has equipped in that slot, and to fully hide that slot you’d have to hide it both in the outfit and in the armor windows.

Just a quick idea, I’d buy the ceremonial plated outfit in a heartbeat (for example) for my guardian if I could just replace the chest piece with the armor he’s using right now (primeval).

Gryphon.2875:

Jairyn.6913:

I just want some skimpy armor options for male avatars. I can’t even find one that bares my arms. Especially something like a more cutaway version of masquerade armor, sophisticated/skimpy.

Equal representation and more options/customization the ftw!

Yeah that’s my gripe with the torso of the Pit Fighter. Yeah it shows the chest and back pretty well, but it hides the arms. PLUS it’s ONLY heavy… which makes no sense… There’s no Light armor more skimpy than a HEAVY one?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Feathered_armor

Depends on location.

In the preview window you have a perfectly white completely lit ambient lighting… but turns out that there’s really no (or very few) areas of the world that are like that, lighting changes depending on where you are in the world. In one place it might look orangeish, in others bluish and so on depending on what color the ambient light is set to.

Ok, assuming absolutely 0 karma, laurels, gold and materials for crafting.

- Fastest way to get it would be by karma, IMHO… you’d need a little over 10k karma to get a full set of green quality gear from regular karma vendors (looking at Orr vendors). Join Edge of the Mist (hit B on your keyboard), see where the commander icon is, and run to it (you’ll probably die trying, also keep your eye on chat to see if the waypoint is pinged, it usually means the zerg will WP back). Once you reach the commander icon and complementary zerg just follow them, and when a base is captured, run inside the circle to get credit even if you didn’t do any damage. Note that even if you don’t have any weapon equipped, there are skills that you can use to do some damage, so you can get some champion bags that might also contain gear for you. Get a salvage kit as soon as you can so you can salvage anything you get as drops that might not work for your character but will sell on TP. If you get a good commander, you can probably make enough karma for a full set in a couple hours. (quick tip, if you join right after EotM resets, every 4 hours, you have a better chance to join the commander from the beginning and get quick and easier karma by captured unclaimed events).

As an added bonus you’ll also get skill points, badges of honor and WxP… WxP is useful because when you level up your WxP rank you get two bonus chests with 2 green or higher pieces of gear inside and sometimes also some siege blueprints (more on that later) which you can use (if they’re good for your character) or just sell for some extra coin.

- For bags create a new character and level it to level 3 (should be close by the time you end the tutorial), you’ll get a 4 slot bag as a reward. Put it in bank, repeat 4 times to get 4 4slot bags (not much, but it’s a start). Once you get some more coin you can replace them with bigger ones.

- Consider white gear as a start. You can get a full set of berserker white quality gear for as little as 10s on the vendors in LA, might work as a start, and will probably be enough to do things like world bosses. Use the website gw2timer.com to see which boss is the next in the rotation (skip tequatl and triple trouble for now).

- Going back on badges of honor, buy siege blueprints, promote and then sell them. For example, you can buy 2 arrow cart blueprints for 12 badges of honor, combine with 5 mithril, 5 elder wood (easily mined/logged from most higher level maps or EotM) and 1 siege masters guide (sold by miyani for 1 skill point) and you can sell them on TP for about 15s, which then you can use to buy some gear on TP.

- Get some friends/guildies to take you trough dungeons. 4 geared level 80’s are probably more than enough to take you trough a run of the easiest dungeons (CoF path 1, for example), each run will get you over 1g, drops from bosses/chests and enough dungeon badges to get one piece of rare quality gear.

This is the medium version of that set:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vigil%27s_Honor_armor_

Let’s say you purchase a cell phone from a store, and you pay extra to get one that comes with an extra battery and a cool case. The next year the same store starts a promotion that for the same price, you also get a free memory card… would you expect the store to go trough its records and start calling everyone that bought the cell phone the year before to give them a free memory card?

BTW, you could just get 10$ (800 gem) worth of gems, buy the legacy armor (which is 500 gem), sell the other 300 gem and you’d have enough gold to buy 18 slots bags for several characters.

From what I’ve read, the “polearm” class of weapon has been there since the beggining, probably a throwback from development when the final classes and weapons hadn’t been set in stone and were trying to other things (maybe something like the spears used by the paragon in GW1).

So, to add to the discussion… what do you think these outfits will be for?

There’s another outfit also data mined (won’t link to it but it’s easy to find on reddit) that was shown before this one that looks like desert clothes, would be perfect for a trip to deeper desert, maybe to be released as more of the dry top map is released. So, where does this outfit fit in?… personally I got two theories.

First one is that this is a new wintersday outfit. It’s october, we do know wintersday is coming, so it makes sense from a point of view. However, if we compare it with the previous wintersday outfit released, the focus of this one is obviously different. Previous wintersday outfit is clearly a celebration outfit, something you’d wear for a christmas party, for example. This one looks much rougher, and the bag thing on the side and the rope on the other makes it look like it’s something an adventurer would wear to an icy or frozen area.

So that’s my theory number two (the hype train one!!!)… maybe the living story will move forward and eventually take us to a previously unnaccesible very cold area, maybe the far shiverpeaks or something?..

Speculate away!!!..

If you play only on weekends, a 3 day suspension might mean nothing… or might mean you don’t get to play for that week, depending on when it happens.

Still, suspensions are not only time out for the game, they’re meant to be warnings as well… if you get a suspension it’s meant to be a warning to stop doing whatever you were doing, and from what I’ve read 2 suspensions is as many as you can get, as the third time would mean a permanent account termination (AKA, permanent ban).

And yet last night I logged into EotM as green (I’m on Yak’s Bend) and we were completely overwhelmed for the whole night, a few times we managed to get some outposts only to be slaughtered and wiped shortly afterwards, sometimes by regular zergs, other times by organized guild zergs. In the end we spent most of the time I was playing defending the keep with lots of AC and other siege, followed by some quick captures on nearby bases before being wiped and back to the keep to defend…

And TBH that time spent defending was some of the most fun I’ve had in EotM so far, even if only the keep and green airship were the only things green in the map most of the time…

I just want an affordable/easier to get version of this one:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Severed_Dagger_Skin

My necromancer uses scepter/dagger, would be a perfect match for this scepter:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zhaitan%27s_Reach

Nausiation.1469:

so it is actually paying for quests? wow, I’m surprised and disappointed. the whole point of not having a subscription is I can take breaks from the game without having to pay for it.

It’s paying for the living story.

During season 1 if you weren’t there when a living story was live, you lost it forever, no way to play it. Now you have the option of paying 200gems to unlock it on your account if you weren’t there (note, if you log in at any time, even for a second, while the living story episode is live, you unlock it for free forever), so while it is indeed paying for the story you missed if you’ve been away for a while, it’s an option to miss it completely and never be able to play it again if you missed it.

BTW, you’re paying for the actual instanced story elements, everything else added (new bosses, maps, and so on) is added for free, so if you don’t want to pay you can also just read the story on the wiki, or watch it on youtube, and then get the follow up for free when it resumes in november.

I remember reading that the hylek infuse themselves with poison somehow (drinking it… injecting it?) to use in their attacks, and that their skin color changes depending on how much poison they have in their bodies at the time.

EDIT: Found where I read it, it doesn’t specifically say that they change colors, but it says it’s related:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Go_Forth_and_Multiply:_The_Hylek

“Individual tribes are extremely territorial and it is rare for them to cooperate with one another. The various tribes of the hylek are differentiated by color, which also hints at how aggressive that particular tribe is. In fact, the color of a hylek tribe is also a good indication of the strength of the toxins that they generate; those tribes that produce the deadliest toxins are the most aggressive and dangerous to outsiders.”

So, if the color is related to the strength of the toxins produced, maybe the color is also related to which toxin is being used by that particular hylek. If that’s true, maybe Amoxtli just changed colors when she decided to use a stronger (or different) toxin more suited to the dangerous environment she found herself into. After all, the Hylek do sell potions that change your color:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hylek_Potion

Or, it could also be just a bug or oversight… if that’s the case, Anet, you’re free to use my excuse to justify it..

There are several uses for karma, but not continued ones. For example:

- You need about 1m karma to make a legendary weapon (which can be replaced for about 7k fractal relics or 500+ laurels, but karma is much easier to get than either one).
- You can get exotic armor with an unique skin in Orr temples for 63k karma a piece (252k for a full set). Worth getting at least once if you like the skins to unlock in wardrobe, and if you have lots of karma it’s a cheap way to gear up characters when hitting 80, but be aware, if you plan on making ascended armor later, temple armor can’t be salvaged so any expensive rune you place on them is lost if you replace the armor later. The temple vendors also sell exotic accessories for the same price.
- At level 80 you can get cultural weapons in each of the capitals, they’re weapon sets with unique skins themed after each race for 63k karma each. They’re rare quality so chances are you’ll later replace them for exotics, but the weapon skin is now unlocked so you can apply it to it. Worth getting if you like the skins. Note, there are cheaper lower level cultural weapons, but they share skins with common world drops, not worth to get IMHO. There are also other cultural weapons you can get themed after the Lionguard (LA), Pirate ones (at the end of the pirate jumping puzzle in LA) and Ebonhawke (in Ebonhawke).
- There are other uses, like getting recipes for crafting (21k for ascended crafting recipe, less than 450 for all the others) and materials in bulk, but usually they’re cheap enough that most people don’t really pay attention to them.

Thing is, most of them are either of limited use (not everyone will get a legendary weapon, for example, or if they do, biggest hurdle is the gold needed not the karma) or just used once (gearing an alt or unlocking a skin), so not enough karma is drained compared to how easy it is to get it, specially in EotM.

Either a bug (with the game itself or with the combat log), or maybe a reflect or skill that healed him when receiving damage or something… just pooling some ideas

Currently there’s no way to get the guild defender shoulderplate if you didn’t unlock it with the old PvP rewards system. However, you can get the banded pauldrons that are practically identical.

Save for the chest (which you can get from guild armorers) all guild armor sets have a PvE set that’s almost identical, heavy is the banded armor (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Banded_armor), which you can get from the TP (IIRC medium is like the caduceus manor medium armor, light is crafted with tailoring).

Countess Aire.9410:

Nothing happens. He disappears and the timer resets. It is a beginning zone boss. Nothing changes, it just resets. At least that what use to happens.

Would be fun if he did something like yell “the dragon is coming, you shall be his sacrifices!!!” and kills anyone nearby that is downleveled by 10 or more..

Right now you’d need 116g to be able to purchase a character slot. Some ideas from someone that’s not that good with gold in the first place (other than the ones already outlined)..

- Check on your materials, if you’re not interested in crafting you could probably make some extra money selling them on the TP.
- Look for foxfire clusters, they sell for about 40s each on the TP. They drop from any T5/T6 tree (basically any tree in level 70+ areas). A quick tip, go to Pagga’s Post in Malchor’s Leap ( http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pagga's_Post ), and head directly west there’s a broken pillar surrounded by several trees that can drop foxfire clusters and usually there’s at least one guild gathering boost banner either around it or at the WP, I’d say that on average I can get 1 or 2 a day just by harvesting those trees and the ones I find while walking from the WP to there in a single character (sometimes I get none, other I’ve gotten up to 5), and you can do it with each character you have.
- Do the champion train in frostgorge sound or the karma train in Edge of the Mists, open the champion bags you get as a result and sell materials you get from those or from salvaging the contents. A quick tip, if you have a character between levels 44 and 63, open all the bags you have with that character, Tier 4 materials salvaged and obtained between those levels sell for more on the TP (specially the linen) than the T5 and 6 you’ll get with a level 80.
- Do dungeons. Don’t get burnt out on them, though, there are some paths that can be done rather quickly (15 mins or so) like CoF P1 and 2, AC path 3 and so on.
- Hang around on Cursed Shore, even after the nerf to some events there are still several events there that spawn lots of enemies that can drop loot. It’s better if you bring along a class that can easily AoE, like a staff guardian or a flamethrower engineer.
- Do key runs (maybe?.. not sure). Post patch a key run should take (according from what I’ve read) about 45 mins or so, but if you get lucky and land a ticket (drop rates are supposed to be increased, and you can also get scraps, 10 scraps = 1 ticket) you can buy a skin that can be sold for a lot of gold (80+g), probably more if you wait to sell it until the next story begins and it starts costing 3 tickets instead of 1.

Just some quick ideas. Also, I’d recommend against getting burned up doing only one thing… maybe one day you do some dungeons, next day do a key run, the other day participate in the boss train for a little while and so on. Also, I’d recommend buying the gems right away instead of waiting for when you have the full money… gems price can increase, and it’ll probably will anytime they add something cool to the gem store or a cool looking weapon set to the BL specialist. Plus it helps if you already have the gems in hand if they do a flash sale of character slots… I have 4 of them (1 still unused), and I’ve bought them all anytime there has been a sale.