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Precision, Toughness, CondDamage weapons

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That one doesnt exist. There is however ‘Rabid’ wich gives Condition damage, precission, toughness. According to the wiki only certain MF weapons give that and certain dungeon weapons/wvw weapons (so not craftable, lootable or available for karma).

For dungeons you need tokens from CM, TA, HotW or Arah. For Wvw you need badges of honour.

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Ascended Jewels. Are they worth it?

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The stats combo you are looking at doesn’t exist at ascended, but comparing a ring with primary power to a ring with primary toughness is the issue here.

The ascended rings with power as a main attribute give 103 power on default. But indeed, in the ascended rings they decided to leave out some stat combo’s they (as I asume) would become too OP. The power/precission/touchness/crit. damage is one off them. But if you compare a pure beserker ring like Ruby Orichalcum Ring of the Berserker with e.g. Ring of Red death, you will see that that one is significant better. Your issue is that the stats you want dont exist in ascended trinkets.

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Why haven't...

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Yes indeed, King Thorns powers are huge and even beyond the dragon’s comprehension. However it is the power of Candycorn. At this time of year Candycorn is the most powerfull substance in the world off Tyria. This power flows through the mad kings veins as well off that his family. However this power, bigger then any other power in the world has a limitation. it is only active for 3 weeks per year (mostly the last few days). The rest off the year, the mad king, his son, his followers and everything are as mortally dead as any risen and thats why they hide in the mad kings realm till they are powerfull once more.

The dragons off course know this and are not interested in this time-limited power

That would be my fanfiction to explain it

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Human commoner's story

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Well I have done the commoner’s story alot and I always pick the hospital.
(small explanation here. I farm black lion keys. I start a character, human warrior, commoner. if you pick the hospital you can focus on only the personal story without having to bother bout level, so you get a key pretty quickly)

If you approach the hospital the door is barricaded and the seraph are standing outside. So you have to destroy the door. After you breach through the patients and priests fleed out and you meet some regular goons and the ones you would also meet in the orphanage (they just pretend that some nameless goons go to the other place). You kill them in 3 waves of two. After that you meet the minesterial guard outside and are ordered to go to the orphanage. When you approach the orphanage you need to talk to lt. Francis outside who wants that its going to blo…and it blows up. Then you get the final dialogue that introduces the next storyline (same as when you picked the orphanage).

So bottom line. Ye, the orphanage is destroyed and will blow up. But then again I can get a black lion key in 30 minutes so I’m happy (I know im a bad person)

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the first thing you ever sold on the BLTC...

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I’m not ingame at the moment, so cant post any pictures. I do remember the last beta weekend.

People could purchase gems with real money. They would be refunded to the person who bought them with real money when the game went out. So people did buy them and tested the gemstore. I remember I leveled an ele to level 12-ish and bought the 10 silver book. it was bout to be then end of the beta weekend so I sold everything I had on the TP and used the profits to buy gems. I think I bought 250 gems for bout 10 silver.

Off course after the beta weekend they where deleted and returned to the orignal buyer, but it shows how the economy has changed.

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Not being heard on the forum?

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Place your head in the role of a developer.
First you need to understand two things
1: the more people are complaining and the more severe they are complaining is important for the priority of an issue. You cant make everyone happy. Developping a game is making decisions. Each one has pro’s and cons and will be debated here. The amount of debate is a good way to know what is important.
2: People who are happy play the game. People who are unhappy complain on forums.

GW2 is alive and kicking. The game has many ex-gw1 players, many ex-WoW players, many ex-LotRO players. etc , etc. The game atracked people from many games and is very big and booming. I know that all those people come from different backgrounds and have different expectations.

For now they are all loyal. But I also sense a conflict between those different expectations. Many people are happy with the game but are missing elements. At the moment Areanet is trying to do two things. 1: please all sides long enough. 2: find a long term solutions for this ‘conflict’.As long as 2 isn’t reached, 1 will be important to them. This means making often decissions you dont like and sometimes decisions you do like. If arenanet screws the balance up for you. feel free to leave and no hard feelings. For me personally I dont agree with everything they are doing, but I feel being heard and have enough hopes that they will find the balance needed for the long term solution.

Specially cause for me this is a game. I come to the game to relax and have fun, chat and meet with friends and hang out together while doing fun things.

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Possible U.I. change

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Q: Do you want this to be optional?
if so, then I wont use it but im not against it. But make it fully optional. Cause I like it the way it is now (and I dont use my right mouse all the time I switch alot between different techniques).

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Juwels in amor

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I think you mean that you want jewels to be used to upgrade e.g. a white item wich happens to have a nice skin to exotic with the same skin??

If so, you can allready transfer a skin to an exotic item using transmuation crystals. These are for sale in the gemstore and a rare drop from a bl chest

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Guild Panel

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Hi Naz,
Please dont bump your topics. Anet never reacts to suggestions but are claiming to see them all. This has my fullest support (as well as guildhalls).

In this topic: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Collaborative-Development-Request-for-Topics/page/12#post3065861
Anet is asking the community wich things they should tackle together with the community (and so also quicker then other things).

Myself and many others have named guild management tools. So if we get enough people we get it on the list.

I would also like to add the last representation date. In my guild people don’t have to represent 100% off the time but we treat people who are not presenting the same as people who are offline (both are basicly inactive at that moment). So when we need room for new members we kick the people least active off all.

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Transmute a Wraith Mask?

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depending on the the current level off the mask you need either 2 transmuatation stones or if one of the items involved is level 80 transmuation crystals. You also need a white (basic quality) cheap low level light mask (just pick something on the TP).

1: go on your necro and transmutate the skin of the wraith mask onto the white gear from the TP. This gearpiece should now be account bound.
2: put it into the bank, logon to you mesmer and take it out.
3: either equip it right away or transmuate the skin of the white mask to whatever headgear stats you want or prefer.

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Why am I so unlucky? Terrible rewards

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I had some share off luck as well. so I’m certainly not complaining. Just recently I had Genesis and Entropy drop in one hour for me. Also had Cobalt drop for me.

But at the mystic forge I was unlucky. needed 300+ trys of the single recipe (which should give a more steady outcome then the 10 recipe)

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The /deaths prefix

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Why?? if you dont like it, just dont use it
If you want to challenge yourself this way, try to recognise lag issues (last night there where issues) and dont play that character then.

I know someone who went to the the new bazaar map with his character he wanted to prevent from deaths.

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Does magic find work for this?

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To quote myself: ‘So statistically’
Statistically there is a chance of 0.00000001% I got ran over by a bus today. But if it really happen it wouldn’t be a chance anymore.

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Sigil oddity?

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Sigils have a level requirement.
This requirement is the level off the staff. So a sigil with requirement level 60 dont go on a staff with requirement level 59 or lower.

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Classes... Classes Everywhere :O !!!

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Well warrior fits your points 100%. On a far distance there are some elementalist builds that get near it. But ele’s will always be squishy compared to warriors and the means to be less squishy will come from the amount of damage dealt.

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Does magic find work for this?

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Magic find only influences drops from foes. Not from containers (like plants).
B ut magic find will have 0 influence or even a negative influence on the drop of un-id dyes.

The reason is that those drops are of basic quality (white).
Magic find increases the change off getting an item of a rarer quality (blue, green, yellow, orange). So that means that where you with 0 magic find would have a change of 99% of getting a white item and 1% to get something better, with 100% magic find that is 98% (so lesser white quality).

However cause only a small percentage off the white quality items are un-id dyes, the effect will not be noticable.

So statistically, magic find has no positive effect and a slight change of a slight negative effect of the drop rate of dyes.

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Classes... Classes Everywhere :O !!!

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Very simple: Warrior.
in pvp/wvw formats they can stand 1v5 and even more. They have huge damage output and can take a load of damage.

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I was Vigil and now I'm the Lightbringer

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You have been asked ‘Do you wish to proceed your story to…..’ and you answered yes. So this is not a bug.

The portals wont be functioning till you finish a level 70 story. After that all portals in all 3 orders are working.

Besides rerolling your character and being more carefull there is nothing you can do.

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New Fire-elemental

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Assuming you have default controls.
Step 1: ranged weapons
Step 2: lock the target (click him so it is selected, dont let the auto target system do that cause you switch to embers too easy.)
Step 3: start hitting him, concentrate mostly on your #1 skill (auto-attack). use arrow keys (not wasd) to move around while your hitting him. Do not use any skills with an activation time that requires you tostand still.
Step 4: never stop. If you wanna help a downed person do it but never longer then 2-3 seconds. Defeated players should always waypoint (even if they are not interested in participating anymore, being dead on the ground scales the event up.

The whole event is bout staying alive and not bout DPS. As long as all keep hitting him with #1 you will get him down in time. The other dps skills are there so you have time to heal/down/etc.

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Tequatl needs something

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Hi,

On my server Tequatl is done atleast two times per week (mostly 4 times, 2 completion runs and 2 achievement runs), and we are successfull. I know other servers have simular things going.

It is like the Karka Queen. Some servers never do it and others do it 15-20 times per day

The way my server does Tequatl is:
a special tequatl only guild exist. Those people interested are requested to join that guild. You only have to represent during runs. The ranks in that guild are based on the assigned task everyone has during the event. People not part of the guild are requested to gointo the zerg and the zergs are devided in longrange/melee and shortrange. to maximise comunication the players are asked to join (listen in) on a public TS server.

-edit-
Also a big mistake people are making is not fully understanding the mechanic resulting in people giving up too early.
stage 1: 100%-75%. This is by far the hardest and longest stage. If this takes longer then 10 minutes it is time to panic. But the rest of the stages can be done within the remaining 5 minutes (though it would be preferable off course to have some more time).
stage 2: megalaser round 1. This has to be finished succesfully, otherwise just give up.
stage 3: 75%-50%. cause of the megalaser you should DPS him really hard, getting him to 50% or very close in 30 seconds
Stage 4: Megalaser round 2: This has to be finished, otherwise better give up
Stage 5: 25%-50%: again cause of the mega laser sou should get him to 25% really really quick. full on dps for that.
Stage 6: last megalaser round:This has to be finished, otherwise better give up
Stage 7: 25%-victory. Due to the megalaser full DPS him and again this is done in 30 seconds.

Cause off the Tequatl timer stopping during the mega lasers, having 5 minutes for the final 75% is more then enough.

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What about moving GW2 to the WiiU?

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Lets hear what Colin said:
Q: Any plans for next gen consoles?
A: No, not right now. It is interesting to see how many game companies into the new consoles for MMOs. We want to focus on being the best possible PC game. The regularity we update are extremely hard to do on console. We can’t just update the game whenever we want. A second reason is if you look in the East, which we havn’t launched yet. We sold 3 million copies and not even in some of the most populated MMO market yet. There is very little console players in Asia, China etc.

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halloween event hint at Shadow Knight class?

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Nope, they said no new classes in the near or far future.

you have link to that. because I cant find such a quote on google.

From: http://dulfy.net/2013/07/16/gw2-colin-johanson-livestream-transcript/

Q: What are your plans for future professions/races.
A: Races, no promises of which race to do first. New profession is a lot harder, a lot of the core archtype is covered. We might do additional weapons/skills for current professions before putting in new professions. We have 8 now so if we want to do a new profession is it is probably a 3rd heavy armor to balance it out. New profession is probably the furthest thing out.

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IG chat/loot suggestions

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If you have drops to pick up but your bags are full you can make room (salvage/throw away/sell/tp) and get it anyway. Dying does not influence that. Only when you change zone you will not be able to get the items anymore.
If you have a pop-up chest but cant pick up the loot the pop-up chest will remain in the bottom right corner off your screen, even if you change zone or character.
So it seems that some has been telling you a fairy tale to spook you.

As for world chat: NO. I have played lotro. and it was bad. It was terrible and it was way too much spam. For most purposes we have the lfg-tool and thats good enough.

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Need some sever info

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Hi Mexx, I’m EU so cant answer your question.

But instead of going on others peoples judgement, why not try it for yourself? you can guest to other servers (up to two per day). So that would be the best way to find out wich server suits you best.

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Why am I so unlucky? Terrible rewards

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Hi bigmooky,

I’ve been playing since launch, I have witnessed one genuine precursor drop for a guildmate of mine (Storm). The reason was that he wanted to know what kind of scepter it was..

I see a small amount of people claiming to have even a precursor drop once per week. But silly enough they don’t have the golden title, don’t have a legendary, or any sign of incredible richness.

I do believe those are the kind of people who thinks its a funny prank. It is very easy to fake a precursor drop by pasting the code in chat.

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Fractals 50+

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I’m not talking about new fractals, I’m talking about evolving game mechanics as you go deeper in the fractals. Not just always addind more mobs that have more levels. The game mechanics could be more challenging and complex when they open lvl 50+.

Ps : you guys should have voted for the abbadon fractal, instead you voted for cheaper teleportation? You guys are crazy.

Abbadon-blah. To spoil that story, he looses and is cast into the realm of torment where is is imprisoned. We all know what happened. But what happened with the reactor is much less known and more exiting.

Don’t get me wrong I actually agree with your suggestion. But saying that fractals are not getting love cause they did something with a regular dungeon is wrong. I’m personally not a big lover of fractals but I do think your suggestion the right one. That doesnt mean that all the love should go to fractals. They are working on new fractals content so pls be patient

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Away for almost a year, what has changed?

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LFG tool: press Y (or Z if you have a german keyboard like me) and go to the second tab
Magic find: it isnt gone but it has been redesigned. you can find it in the also redesigned achievement window (press h). Most magic find comes from luck you consume. for each full bar of luck you get 1% of magic find. the amount of luck needed to progress increases but the max is 300% magic find from luck. You get luck from salvaging blue and green items.

Karma: it is now accountbound. So all your characters share the same pool and no need to store it in your bank
Money: it is now stored account bound. So all your characters share the same pool and no need to store it in your bank

and much much more.

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Why do cultural armor sets cost coins??

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Surprisingly enough, they do seem to have been karma at one point. I thought they were always gold.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cultural_armorsmith
Cultural armorsmith
Cultural armorsmith icon.
Cultural armorsmiths are NPCs that sell racially restricted cultural armors to your character in exchange for gold (changed from karma, see below).
Armorsmiths have “[Cultural Armorsmith Tier #]” as a suffix to their names, where # is 1, 2, or 3.

Each armor set sold by cultural armorsmiths features a unique skin and increases in attribute bonuses, defense levels, and cost as the tier increases.

Doesn’t say there when it changed.

It does: “see below” refers to a note where it says that it was changed to coins sometime in September 2012. I got there somehow but I don’t remember via which link exactly.

To explain this. I had to do some diggings. The wiki is maintained and handled by players. untill the september 7, 2012 the icon on the wiki was of an armorsmith with a karma symbol. However there is no indication when the actual in game change was. The update notes don’t mention it. In those days the active contributors to the wiki where extremely busy cause the game was just recently released. So it is very possible that the merchants where karma merchants only during beta.

A change like this magnitude would be noted i nthe update notes, I’ve gone through all update notes in august and september 2012, and it isn’t mentioned. so it is safe to say that from the release off the game the cultural armor always have sold for gold. Anything during beta falls udner a non-disclosure agreement that still stands, but should never been seen as a desirable state of the game.

As an example revisions of the achievement shows there where also plans to make 4 tiers of cultural armor instead of 3. This pre-release redesign can easily be done on purpose.

As for the suggestion to change it to karma armor (not back cause technically it has never been that way) I would say no. The recent karma patch made karma less available and harder to get.

The amount of gold needed to buy a set of cultural armor is cheap, but the achievment points rewarded are steep as well.

Also keep in mind the title is an elitst title. As in any game not all titles should be easy one-two click. most are, but some are not.

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A blocked player can see my lfg and join

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How can it be intended? No: blocking means no more interactions, yet the lfg tool bypasses my explicit wishes, so it’s a bug. No need to find excuses for a behavior that is clearly a bug.

No I disagree with you. Blocking means not no more interactions. You want the person you blocked to be limited in what he can do. That is not up to you. So it is a side effect. But also read my post again. I also say that it is an undesired side effect that, if possible, should be countered. But it is not easy and I don’t see how it can be done without limiting the person being blocked.

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General Suggestions - Xpost from post in WvW

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1: SAB returned, halloween returned. It is likely that the bazaar will return and dragonbash will return. The molten alliance dungeon and the first aetherblade dungeon are being made into fractals. So yip they are listening.

2: +1

3: No, thats raid content. The problem I have with that is that it makes elitism. you allready see that in e.g. dungeons. Rangers are not welcome. not because the class is bad, but the class attracks lesser silled players (though there are very good rangers). I know afk-ers during tequatl is annoying like hell, but it can be overcome and its not such a big issue as some people are making it last monday I participated in an organised run and there where only 4 corpses permanently there. And who are you to judge when someone is productive?
4: see my asnwer to 1, its going to happen. off course for a fractal it has to be shortened. But I do hope that trap room and the final fight off the molten alliance will make tit to that fractal.
5: I actually agree with you but on the prohibition it is on a per server basis AND when creating a second district the eventtimers are copied.

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Solo-Friendly leveling path?

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I’d agree, but in my case, I’m on my ninth character getting to 80, with a few more still, so leveling is more of a hassle than an enjoyable part of the game.

I know, Just saying it cause I dont know if the OP took a break while leveling his first or his fifth character and also cause others might read this forum

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Living Story Monthly Arcs!

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I do believe that this is actually the plan. They did this with Dragonbash/skypirates. Bazaar/cutthroat and queens jubilee/clockwork chaos. However the September was a bit of a difficulty. They wanted to release the new tequatl, the new SAB and introduce the legendary weapons. so it was impossible to do all that AND a full scale living story arch as we where used to.

This month we had an issue called halloween (I love halloween and think they should do it every year). But that left too little room for a full range double arch as they did before. So they did TA the way they did. With the build up to the next living story (not spoiling but check out kessex hills) I truly think november will be a double arch ones more.

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Fast Acknowledgements of Server Issues

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Hi,

I understand your frustration but in this case it is not something that could be done. I’m an IT guy myself and know a thing or two bout it. What happened this evening is that there where performance issues. This started actually with this forum that had issues all day. But slowly found a way into the game. Cause lag and TP to go down. At one point i saw a lot of my friends in the friendslist dc-ing. But still many others where still in the game.

So the issue at hand was that there where performance issues and they where increasing. Combined with the normal lag (even the kind that you normally dont notice) it resulted in the situation that many people where affected.

These kind of things accumulate over time and it is pretty hard to tell when you have to give out a general notice. Also keep in mind that the bug section thread bout this only has 19 posts. That is normally the most active thread. With past downtime for all players in EU, NA or both such threads counted over 200 reactions within the first 30 minutes. (so not trying ignore your personal pain, but it was not as wide spread to call it a real full downtime)

However. With real downtime that is considering everyone you would have a great point. communications then are way too slow as well.

I think this would be a task for the mods here. Server admins can see diagrams and reports bout performance and get an alert if there is something wrong. These however doesnt give any indication how it actual impacts the community. The mods here can see that an issue is getting out of hand. For example if in 15 minutes time atleast 50 people complain bout an issue they take two steps.
a: posting a short reaction in the thread or threads bout this. ‘We are investigating this issue.’
b: Reporting it to a community manager who contacts the serveradmins to see what the issue is, to check if this is allready being handled by them. This person then brings out a more formal statement both on twitter and here saying ’We are aware on the issue and working very hard to solve it.

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Larcenous Builds = killed...no pressure

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first off all Lithril, if you look at the sticky you see anet claiming to read all suggestions.
The second thing is that you have to keep in mind that they changed the guardian trait pure of voice so it only removes one condition any more. This means guardians are much more sensitive to condition nowadays. So the other skills off the sword/dagger combo are all being buffed when facing a warrior.

Thiefs where and still are very OP competitive gameplay. but yip you lost a bit of capacity to always win.

Maybe instead of going here and crying bout how unfair it is, you should think bout how you can turn things in your favor again. Thiefs are still very balanced and powerfull and I know a few ways of making very good use off a sword/dagger build, specially against guardians.

There is a mechanic in PvP MMO’s called flavor of the month. It goes like this.
A: a smart person finds a combination of stats/gear/skills/traits that is pretty succesfull.
B: other people see that this person is very succesfull and start copying it
C: other people get annoyed by being killed all the time and are trying to find counters to that specific combination.
D: It goes back to A with next months flavor.

A combination of stats gets OP when it stays flavor of the month for too long and is in need of balancing. Thiefs really needed to be balanced and to be honest anet didn’t do enough yet. But please judge this recent skillbalance as a whole and dont pick one element out. Guardians got picked on as well and so does many other classes. See it as a whole and see how you can be on top of the flavor off the month and be the smart guy.

Also consider this. In GW1 I had a sin build I developed mostly on my own and that was really OP. I never shared it with anyone and kept it for myself. This resulted in a a situation I have used this build for several years succesfull. I am pretty sure that if I would have shared, it would have become flavour of the month and people would start bringing the one skill that could counter it. Cause nobody knew my ‘secret’ and cause i only played casual PvP (so never high ranking), it wasn’t an issue and my build lasted for a long time. So how could you utilize this balance of skills to be good again??

Good luck figuring that out

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animation

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

Hi Tammy and welcome to the forum.
Arenanet really welcomes player ideas and although it is impossible to please all, they really take our opinion here into account. They are claiming to read all suggestions (though they never comment, as I understand that has to do with possible copyright claims over an idea they adopt)

However. To make a suggest you need to go to https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions And click on ‘Create Topic’.

What you did now is comment on someone elses suggestion and went what is called off topic. It is kinda unrespectfull to the OP (original poster, the person who made this suggestion). Though seeing your history here it seems you are really new to this.

Keep practicing and you will get the hang of it

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WvW Queue overhaul and Overflow

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Hi, I know queues are notpleassant, but I think anet is going to solve it differently: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-edge-of-the-mists-a-new-map-is-coming-to-wvw/

A special map without a queue at all where you can play WvW while you wait for the borderlands/EB to be open for you.

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New Party / Instance owning system

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I don’t think there is anything wrong with the party kicking option. I know it isn’t nice to be kicked out of a party, but nobody should be forced to be in a party. The voting system makes it fair. However griefing people by misusing this system is allready against the User Agreement. I do think that Anet should use the user agreement more to punish the bad people. If kicking half of your party at the end boss to being able to invite your friends to steal the reward. would be punished with a proper 72 hours time out of the game (longer if someone has a bad record allready), it would not be worth the risk anymore. Besides that we sill have the full control to play with whoever we want.

As for instance ownership. Yes I totally agree with you. If the instance owner leaves, ownership should go to another partymember. It should go as follows.

When forming a party everyone gets a number asigned by the system. The person who invites the first person or who started the advert in LFG gets number 1. The first person joining gets number 2, the second gets number 3, etc. The first instance owner is the person who starts the instance (nothing new), but if that person leaves or dc-ed the person with number 1 will get the instance ownership. If that person also is gone/dc-ed (or was the person who started the instance in the first place) it would go to number 2. Off course when there is nobody around, the instance is closed.

If someone is votekicked he would be pushed out of the instance regardless of the number.

I do disagree with making 3 people needed for a kick cause there are many valid reasons to kick (e.g. someone who is offline for 5 minutes). It shouldnt be too hard to make a valid kick.

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Taidha Covington after buffs

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

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Did this event just before the halloween patch. We had bout 20 guildmembers and 4 others who happened to be there. 3 minute into the event the message for 5 minutes till update popped up and we killed her actually easily. It was hard in the way that its harder then the average world boss like e.g. behemoth or jungle wurm, but the only in guild coordination we had was to rez downed people and wp when dead.

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Neutrality in WvW

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

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If I may add to this idea, I would suggest this… When entering WvW, have a UI popup with a choice of Neutral and Participant. The Participant status would allow you to play normally The Neutral would effectively render you invincible, disable all chat functions, and allow you to only interact with with map locations and such things as the chest at the end of the JP. I don’t know if this is even possible but that’s my two cents worth.

This. 1000000x this. This needs to happen. Just have to make sure the neutrality cannot be in any way disabled unless you leave the WvW and re-enter.

Still this would lead to spying, almost all servers have a WvW TS/mumble/vent server as well as most guilds.

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a Daily i'd like to see implemented

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All good except the actual advertising.. That would cause massive spams and cluttering the system with fake adverts. Better to reward the daily when you open the lfg window.

Also it does actually work very good for the dungeons. Just not really for open world content.

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Entropy/Genesis farm

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I got both actually in one day (yeah I know, I’m a lucky kitten, but it was my first and only lucky day ever). Genesis dropped first from Tequatl (I really can’t remember wich of the chests it was) Entropy dropped later from the gates of Arah event.

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Solo-Friendly leveling path?

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

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Oh yeah, go to the Labyrinth, pop on an experience booster or food, and you can get levels like crazy in there.

I would not advise this if this is your first character. You miss too much off the game. Besides that. This game is different then others in that it isnt a rush to max level. At level 80 you can and will be still doing the same things you can do at level 20. So better enjoy the path to level 80 and take your time.

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Sigil of Intelligence

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@mercury ranique: You didn’t answer my question in your first posts, you just told me to activate the signet after using the attack i needed it for…

@Lindbur: It would work but I don’t want it this way. It’s like you buy a new car with an expensive car radio that doesn’t work and the salesclerk tells you to use your mp3-player instead.

At least I know now that A-Net screwed up one more thing.

Actually I did answer your question. I said there is nothing wrong with it. But as said. This is turning into a complaint. that belongs in general discussion and not here. This section is to be helpfull to eachother. You dont want to be helpfull (bout this topic) and you don’t want to be helped. You want to complain bout it (perfectly fine off course, I disagree with you, but each our opinion). But please do it in the right section

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animation

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

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Hey, its a perfect fine suggestion.
There are two sides to this. The first (and I think everyone agrees with us here) is that it would look pretty awesome.

However. It wouldn’t make sense. on e.g an ele. The left hand dagger is the main hand. This give you the skills 1-2-3 and the animation uses that hand for those skills. The right hand dagger is the offhand. This gives you the skills 4-5 and the animation uses that hand for those skills.

On a thief it is slightly different. skil 1-2 are tied to the main hand dagger. Skill 4-5 are tied to the off hand dagger and skill 3 is actually an attack that uses both skills (left right left if I remember right). This is unique to the thief.

So I’m not against it, but also not for it. I fear that changing this makes the difference between on hand and off hand harder to see. Also it means that dual wielding would be promoted for visuals, resulting in people choosing that for the wrong reasons. But ye it would look cooler.

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Collectors Edition

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Yeah only some things where added to the new heroic edition and digital deluxe (heroic edition). Nothing was removed. The collectors edition is still for sale through some resellers. This edition isn’t remade and was sold out at arenanets store pretty early.

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A vial for dye from Gem Store

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

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Hi,
First off all it is against the rules off this forum to bump threads. So don’t do it

The same reasons as for why dyes will not turn account bound apply. It is designed as a moneysink.
Keep in mind in GW1 dyes where one use only. You dyed your clothes e.g. black. If it was pinkday in LA you either had to get new armor or dye your armor pink (loosing the black) and afterwards buying new black dye.

So the GW2 system is a huge improvement. deleting a character should always be done after you made very good considerations. I have one character I would love to reroll. But it has my (now level 470) weaponsmith on it as well as many recipes. This too can’t be transferred. So I think I get a name contract and a make over kit soon.

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add some blood effects in this game

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

First off all, not all boxes are the same, in Europe a different rating system is used compared to the US. Mine is not saying blood. However it is the amount that decides the rating. Adding this option will very likely move it into the mature rating for ESRB and 16 for PEGI.

On top of that it can make resellers decide to not sell it anymore and locking out many potential buyers. all cause people wanted a bit more special effects.

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Guild Airships!

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

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Very easy and short answer. The concept is awesome, but no.
I think that Anet should be ashamed off not having guildhalls. They should have been implemented one year ago. To make it up they should in my personal opinion do this as soon as possible. I think it would be easy to use an existing instance (e.g. home instances) for this purpose.

1: The Technique exist. GW2 is build on a heavy modified gw1 engine. You can’t tell me they modified it so far that the possibility for guildhalls is gone. So using an existing skin means this can be done in 2 weeks time.
2: What bout representing? If this is an issue give every member access. but lock the merchants inside (just like it is right now with certain merchants like the banker)

So I like this, but they should first just bring us the halls asap.

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Transferring dye?

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

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I think you mean that your ranger have a couple of dyes in his/her inventory and you want to know you to get them on your mesmer?
afaik all dyes are tradable. So you can put them in your account bank. there you can pick it up on your mesmer and use it.

After you used a dye (double clicked it) it is locked to that character and there is no way back.

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Zenith wings

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

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1s glow: dont know what your talking bout.
But for the rest an excellend suggestion. not sure if it should be an additional ap reward or something else. but I like the potential looks

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