Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I suspect that english is not your first language (its not for me either btw), or you have been tripping over your keys.

If I understand you right then you want a gemstore that can change souldbound or account bound items to an item you can sell on the tradingpost?

If so. This has been asked before. There are some pro’s and cons to it. But in generally I think it would be a good addition.

I don’t think overflows are created by people guesting. Not any more.
In the early days it was the case. People where only doing Tequatl, fire-ele, shatterer, behemoth, Maw and Jormag. After they made the pop-up box with the garanteed rare accountbound and once a day for each boss. People shifted to take more interest in alternatives like: Wurm, Ulgoth, dredge commissar, Temples, golem mark II, fire shaman.

Also cause it is only once every day there is not much need to guest and I dont think guesting people are the issue. I have seen on the two train maps (Queensdale and Frostgorge) that it does happen there is an overflow when their world bosses are up. I think it is the combination that is causing this.

so your solution wont change a lot im afraid.

However I do understand your fear. Many other events (like recently tequatl) have had this issue. People hear that server x or y is doing them all the time, so they guest there leaving the people who can actually do it out of the loop.

So my solution would be to limit guesting.
The goal for guesting is to be able to play with friends. But in my opinion it should be limited.

1: when guesting if you enter an overflow, you get a lower priority to access the map you want to get into. So if there are 4 people waiting, two guests and two server-residents then the guests get in last ignoring who was waiting longer.

2: when guesting you are not allowed to ‘join in’ to a map that is putting people in overflow.

This means that on busy maps people who are on their home server get preference over people who are guesting. In the end that is only fair it is their home.

Hi,
I know these things happen and I don’t want to say who is wrong and right, but personally think I have to say that in my opinion both sides are wrong.

I know the champion you are talking bout and I know it is an annoying fight. But he does drop a loot box. Besides that skipping (specially with pugs) often results in a wipe as well due to lack of communication, ranger not having control over his pet, or issues with skipping the mobs after the champ. The result is that you still have to kill the champ (skipping only is possible ones).

As it sounds to me the coordination off the party was faulted long before. The discussion and misunderstanding bout the champ was the final drip and the 2 partymembers took the step that was inevitable to disbanded the party.

I disagree with a vote needing to be backed up by three people. I know these kind of experiences aren’t nice, but there are also times that it is needed to kick someone quickly. Besides that, having more people needed to vote leads to more discussion bout the vote and more drama over the kick. For example, yesterday I was doing guildmissions, as officer I was leading one of the many party’s. One person decided to start doing something else halfway (perfectly fine) but didn’t leave the party and another member came online. So needed the spot. I’m happy this could be done quick and without much discussion.

I truly think you are looking too much to builds on the internet. The beauty of this game is that it is easy and straight forward to master but there is no viable build. This has been since GW1 and is even stronger in GW2.

Any good build has its pros and its cons and the classes are pretty good balanced and competetive towards eachother.

Ranged classes can dodge better. Most skills are projectiles, so you can see them coming. being ranged means you can easier dodge or take other measures (mist form, deathshroud, blink, etc.). ‘Melee’ classes (though specially the warrior is pretty good ranged) miss that offcourse. But to counter that they can withstand more damage.

As for Aoe Grinding, again AoE damage is pretty balanced as well. the better the skill is the longer the casting time (preventing you from dodging and having a higher risk of being interupted).

This results in that all those builds out there on the internet are very limited. You can call them the flavour of the month. Build A gets a lot of love from the players. A lot of people start to play it. victums are unhappy by it and find the best counter for the build, and so the build gets useless.

This is why the best builds for PvP are not found on the internet but from personal study. On top of that you keep them for yourself to prevent them for getting too popular and you adept them all the time.

Welcome to the best PvP game around

Magician Kaftan.1732:

Seems inconsiderate to me there is two pages of posts noting this bug (which happened to me too) and ANET has not commented on this with less than 10 minutes to server reset. Thank you ANET.

1: Yes this bug is serious, the amount of pages isn’t saying a lot everyone is affected and 99% of the people aren’t complaining here cause they see the thread and move along or hear bout it from guildies or in mapchat
2: It is sunday. Do you really think they should take time comment?

You can argue that they should have fixed this before the daily is over. But personally I disagree. Most people got their achievement for the overaching TA living story. some can be effected. For the daily there where a lot of alternatives. So though a lot of people are affected the impact on their gaming pleasure is low. The result of having a hot fix would be a reset off the WvW matches. This not only kitten es the WvW community off big time, but it has also a lot of effect on the ranking. This ranking is important to the upcomming tournament and the rewards everyone on a server can get.

I rather hope and see that anet does two things.
a: for the upcoming halloween, update one of the easier achievements veryone playing will get with one ap to compensate for this.
b: lower the amount of achievements for the overarching achievement for TA living story with one and give the people who got it maxed out then the backpack and the ap’s for that. If thats not possible atleast track down the people who are missing the achievement and sent them a backpack manually as compensation.

This will ensure that everyone will be happy in the end and it all can be done with the next big update.

Meeting of the minds does give a reward, the only thing is that it isn’t finished after you talk to destiny’s edge in LA

You get the reward (an amulet called ‘priory pride’ or something simular) and the karma at the end of the instance in Rata Sum. The conversation with destiny’s edge is allready part of dredging up the past. This story step consist of three instances:
- the discussion with destiny’s edge (instance called ‘With a single step’)
- the order introduction (instance called ‘meeting my mentor)
- the actually mission in lornar’s pass ( Called ‘dredging up the past’)
After the last instance you get your reward.

The story in the top right corner however is always called dredging up the past.

wait?? what?? Have you actually used Caladbolg????

It is more rubish then the dog. Maybe if you are a guardian or a warrior it is doable to fight with these rubish skills. but for other professions it is just hell on earth. Besides that the damage output of caladbolg on a guardian or warrior is actually lower then your typical melee weapon.

In PvE a build that outlasts enemy’s is very viable (though slow). In PvP it is slightly different. dots is mainly done by conditions. They are armor ignoring but also removable and it takes a lot of stats from both gear and traits to be a real threat. The other dots is aoe, but foes can simply get out of them. Besides that, no defensive gear can survive heavy damage spikes forever. So if your foe is any good you can’t outlast them forever. This makes such kind of builds less viable for one vs one. In WvW and tPvP it is more viable. for example a hammer guardian can deal a good amount of cc (knockdonw) combined with a strong survivability so the rest of the team can nuke the hell out of the enemy. There are however no permabuilds so you should always have some balance between the amount of damage you deal and the amount of self protections. Cause most of the damage can be avoided through dodging and moving, these players skill can tip the balance. That is the reason that most strong players go for high dps combined with good dodging skills to avoid damage through dodging/moving. The better you can prevent getting damage, the more you can invest in your damage output,

Polish,

I think the mean issue is the attitude off people, and honestly yourself included. You are the one calling the farmers lazy and greedy. That name calling is the main reason why many off these events end up in flamewars.

The other day there where bout 100 people farming the bosses, bout 30 people wanted to finish the event. The 30 worked together and we did it with 5 minutes to spare.

The issues is that everyone is too busy flaming. If you work together you can shift the balance easily.

Also the event didn’t got harder. the measure off splitting the spawns has been done to prevent the farming and it actually helps. I never see on my server we don’t make it to the final wave. But if everybody is farming champs then it will fail.

No you can’t. The wings are a reward in participating in a specific event that was only active for 2 weeks. See it as a festival shirt. You only can get the shirt if you was at the festival.

I try to explain again. The option means that you can turn off the name of clones and keep on the name of the mesmer. This also means that you can recognize the real mesmer. So you atre destroying a whole class with a luxurious rubbish option.

Pegaasus, It’s not matter that you are fresh meat cause you are a ranger, but cause most rangers are fresh meat.

Ranger isn’t broken more then any other profession, but the style of the class attracks (generally speaking) a kind of players that are very used to ranged DPS. Something very viable in other games, but to a lesser extend. On top of that the pet means when you are playing PvE you can withhold the ranged dps style till the end of the game.

But it is a matter of learn to play. I know rangers that are very good in PvP and WvW and are high ranking as well. So it’s a matter of learn to play, and thats not something that can or should be fixed by arenanet.

Ok in thatcase I oppose you suggestion. The simple reason that clones go off like players is that mesmers use clones to hide their own identity. You would ruin the mesmer in pvp/wvw

Since you dont give a good solution to that your whole idea is bad for the game.

A few basics bout gear and what is what.

The first is the name. Lets take a gear name as an example:
Celestial Draconic Coat of Balthasar.

Each gearpiece consists of three components
A:The main stats
B: The Rune
C: The skin (or looks)

When buying gear the first and most important are the main stats. Runes can always be replaced, looks can be changed through a TP item (transmutation crystal in case of level 80 gear). But what you are really buying are the stats.

Now to the name i gave as an example. The only important part is ‘celestial’ cause thats the part that names the stats. ‘Dragonic’ means it is the draconic skin. Coat means it is a chest piece and ‘of Balthasar’ means it comes with a rune of Balthasar.

All gear pieces use the same naming system. So it is important.
Dragonic is the default skin made by crafters (real players crafting armor and selling it) and is therefore pretty common available.

For a warrior it is important to ask you what you want to do now your level 80.
What are your goals with that character?.

There are basicly two streams of warriors.
a: those that use beserker gear in all situations
b: those that recognise that beserker gear is best for many dungeons, but for other kinds of game play it is less viable.

So easy you say: Lets go Beserker.
Yeah, but please check the tradepost for the beserker draconic gear. It is a lot more expensive (due to the high demand).

But with 38 gold you should have enough to buy a set (without the proper runes).
The runes you ultimatly want on a beserker set are runes of the scholar. But they are very expensive.

Now what is beserker gear:
It gives you + power, +precission and +critical damage.
This means that you hit hard, you have a high change to hit even harder (critical hit) and if you hit harder you hit even harder then harder :P
This off course means you have little health and toughness. So you are killed quickly. So you have to be prepared to have heavy damage spikes but also receive heavy damage. Knowing how to dodge and avoid damage is the key element.

Having said that it is up to you to go for a beserker set as your first set or for something with more toughness (for example Knights armor) (wich would only cost bout 20 gold for a full set with appropiate runes) and getting beserker gear later on.

On top of that, you can use the knights armor to farm mats and level up to be a level 400 weapon smith so you can make your own beserker gear.

Hope this helps in making the right decision for you

MeGaZlo.9516:

atomic wolf.4701:

put more info…

Hide pet names option – is an option which allows you to hide pet names. Enough information?

I think wolf means is why you would want that option? I assume you are not simply asking the devs to invest time and money in making such an option as a novelty??

Also have do you want this as an option that the owner of the pets has for his pets? or an option someone else has to disable the names of other peoples pets?

What bout the consequences of mesmer clones in PvP and WvW? wouldn’t that put a bomb under one of the main startegy’s a mesmer in pvp/wvw has? Cause the strenght of a mesmer is to get your enemy’s to kill the clones instead of you?? your option would put a bomb under that? how would you solve that problem in your suggestion?

This has allready been discussed. My answer is no.
The reason is that there is no need for it. You are right that there is an absense of ‘rich trees’. But wood is only used in the production of weapons, where ore is used in weapons, armor and jewels. Besides that, there are more tree nodes then ore nodes. The presence of rich ore nodes is to make up for this.

I disagree with this suggestion. But would rather suggest to make a guildpuzzle instanced for the guild. The reason is that it requires everybody’s effort to get the personal AND the guild reward. It shouldn’t be that people who put no effort into it get their reward for free.

Thats why we have an important rule in our guild and that is to WAIT. If you rush ahead without waiting, therefor closing the door for others, you can expect a serious talk with one of the officers. This solves the issue of people missing out.

However! We had several times that people from other guilds came in together with us cause there are not enough guildpuzzles. and a guild can claim access for 30 minutes. So often you have to share. In those situations our internal rule to wait for eachother is worthless.

I do not see why we should be forced to share the area where it is supposed to be a guildactivity.

So make them instanced (but not limited to 5 people obviously). And establish a rule in your guild to wait. Help eachother by shouting the door is open. in all chatchannels (and voip solution).

Take for example the puzzle in snowden (the most common situation).

Step 1: some jumping
Step 2: arrival in the room with the ‘geysers’. Everyone waits till the whole guild is there
Step 3: solving the geyser puzzle, as soon as the door op message comes, everyone runs.
Step 4: some jumping
Step 5: arrival at the ice walls. Everyone waits till all did Step 4
Step 6: doing the icewalls
Step 7: some jumping
Step 8: the big lizzard room, everyone waits before going in (to prevent it getting stuck its actually recomended to have only 10 people in the room, the rest waits till the door is open.
Step 9: everyone get sthe chest

So waiting for each other solves your problem, but please make it instanced so we are with people we can kick if they refuse to wait.

The hammer is one of the named drops from the maw. There are also other ways to get it. However the change that it will drop for you is extremely low.

In case of the Maw:
There is a change of 5% you get an exotic drop.
If you get an exotic drop there is a change of 10% it will be a named drop
The Maw has bout 6-7 different named exotics that can drop.
So bottom line is that the avergae change of getting Genesis from the maw or from a lootbox is very very slim.

On top of that, the majority of people who get it as a drop will sell it on the TP, cause they actually don’t want it and want the money for something they want. So best way to get this weapon is to farm the money and buy it. It is currently 33g.

All T6 mats are bout the same price (except dust thats slightly lower atm). So you might as well farm all T6 mats , sell the ones you dont need to buy blood.

Best way to generally farm T6 mats:
a: Daily/monthly – use the laurels for t6 mats containers.
b: level 80 lootbags and direct drops in Cursed shore, Southsun cove and forstgorge
c: champ lootboxes (champtrain in frostgorge)

There is a lot of discussion bout representing. I think pure 100% representing guilds are bad and won’t work. The most annoying fact bout people not representing is not so much the influence your missing out but more that it makes your guild look less active. I see them therefor the same as people who are not online. Or better said, they are (as the people not online) not considered active members. Having too many inactive members can be an issue. Just recently I saw a remark from someone who recently joined saying, ‘wow, you are bad only 50/500 people online’. (it was an afternoon on a weekday).The issue is that we don’t like people who are inactive, but also don’t want to kick them without giving them a fair change. People not representing often have very good reasons and they are NOT bad people. So while it is ok to have some rukitten ut it, it is also important to talk with them bout it. The feedback they can provide you is very valuable.

The way my guild handles it is that it is ok to be inactive/not represent. If not representing we have a talk with you and you are marked (given a different rank with the normal priveleges). If you start representing us again after a good amount of time the mark is lifted. When a new member wants to join our ranks we kick one of the people inactive (either due to not representing or inactive). Simple philosophy behind it is that we rather have active new members then inactive old members..

As for the OP, starting a guild now takes a lot of time to invest. The first and most important thing you have to ask yourself is what makes you unique. Almost all servers have atleast one guild that specializes in WvW with 500 members that can always use now acitve people. Besides that many of the big established guilds are active in WvW as well and have continuous pressence there.

So why should people join you instead of them? You are doing the right things to advertise your guild, but apperantly people are missing a unique selling point.

If you offer the same as the established guilds you won’t get many members.

1: The game is free to play without being pay to win. That is very unique ion the world of MMO’s.
2: The game does not have endless gear grinds. It is reasonable easy to obtain optimum stats when your max level.
3: the rest is all bout looks. To get the bets looking gear you either have to grind OR support the game by buying gems. This is pure optional but you help the devs a lot in keeping it free to play without pay to win.

aspirine.6852:

Hi,
I play on EU desolation and after doing some puzzles I noticed the puzzle jump discoverer was not updated.
Is this been updated so you can only do certain puzzles you have not done before? It was not like that but I could have missed an update.

To make this one not tooeasy only one jumpingpuzzle in LA will register. When you have done one in LA, you need to leave town to find JP’s outside of town.

I disagree with Contigious, they do sell a lot of usefull stuff IF you are doing the hearts at the appropiate level. I find that every other renown heart NPC has something I can use as a levelling alt.

To the OP. Have you heard bout the gw2 wiki?
It is a great place to learn bout terms and bout how the game works.
For example ‘http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zerg’ explains a lot bout what a zerg is.
You can also visit the wiki from the game. type ‘/wiki’ in the chat (without the quotation marks) to go to the wiki main page, or ‘/wiki zerg’ if you want to know more bout zergs (and offcourse zerg can be any term you want more info bout).

Since I did the achievement ‘Cleaning up the neighborhood’ on my guardian, the posters stay teared down on my other characters.

This means that finishing the renown heart ‘Help the people of Ebonhawke’ is significantly harder.

According to the wiki the achievement should be done in one day so I asume that they don’t reset at the daily reset as they should do.

Hi, These kind of suggestions are not new but are in my opinion rather changeless. The reason is that there is a reason for the dyes being soulbound and not accountbound. That is to actually force people to buying them again. This is a so called money sink. Although money sinks are for many a faul word, there is a good reason for them to be ingame. The reason is that money drops constantly from foes, events, chests and dungeons as well as the money from selling other kind of drops. So to keep the games economy leveled they also have to take money out of the game at more or less the same rate.

So a simple question. If you want this, what alternative money sink would you suggest?

http://www.gw2armorgallery.com/norn-heavy.htm

Please look for yourself, these are all the available sets (change race to your own race if needed to see the races cultural options). As far as I can see there is no armor open on the sides besides those two.

Actually both. The Charr is a race of warriors. Everyone (inlcuding woman) are part of the mighty war machine. Many as direct soldiers, someothers as builders or cooks. Cubs are taking at young age to be trained as a soldier and progression in rank is through your fighting skills. In Charr society there is no difference between the people and the military so Tribunes are both leaders of the people as leaders of the soldiers.

Serverlimitations are so that this isn’t easy. Cause of the open world the game doesnt work instanced like gw1.

It would be great if their would be 1 or 2 worlds on both sides (EU and NA) that where dedicated and published as worlds that specialize on 24 hour gameplay. Getting those things organized now a year after the start is a bit too late I’m afraid. Best is that one of the group gives in. I know a good amount of europeans playing on NA servers, and a good amount of NA-ers playing on EU-servers.

Several guilds and people are reviving pink day in LA. The goal is to raise awareness for breastcancer. One of the results is that everyone is wearing pink armor and pink dye prices are rising cause of that.

My suggestion is simple that Anet (quickly) introduces a pink dye pack to the store for e.g. 100 gems. All profit off sales go to breast cancer research. That way people can actually show support financially when participating in the event.

Jornophelanthas.1475:

So if you want both heroes and miniatures, you need to play part of the storyline.

Or create a second character, and use the xunlai chest to transfer the second tapestry to your main character.

Though I would stick to the companionship statue myself as well.

Unfortunally Gaming addiction happens and is a serious condition. specially in MMORPG’s like GW2 (though this happens in other games as well, or even more).
The symptoms are an over attachement to the virtual world and taking it too serious. A game like this should be an escape from everyday trouble. For many it is, but some loose themselfes in it completely and have lost that goal with it. If you meet someone who is showing these symptoms and you don’t know him, then isolate and ignore them (just like you would ignore a crackjunk on the street). If you know the person personally then try to talk. Be supportive and urge the person to get professional help. both in Europe and the US there are special rehab-cliniques specialized in this.

Don’t feel angry bout them, but pity them

Personally, the witcher feels a lot as necromancers. They have the same cruel look on the world while still remaining the romance off them.

The answer is that I think it would. I think I know how the transmuatation process works and also how the splitter works. So IF my analysis is right it should be ok. Having said that I would highly recommend to not try it!! I think I know, but I’m not sure. If you want to dedicate your hard work to science please do so. But make sure you tape it all and publish every step here so all future generations know its ok. If you don’t want to take the risk then dont take it.

Hi,

Your feedback is imo short sighted and most off all too long.
I’m not even bothered to reading it all So I react only to your summary:

‘Orders quest chains are too short’ With a total of 4 introduction story steps, and then 15 storysteps the order arc gets much more attention then any other arc. Besides that the orders are not dead, you keep working with all the orders after retribution untill the very end.

‘No drama. Epic battles look dull and smeared’
I’m not sure what you mean by no drama, but your friend and mentor being killed, a big dragon swooping down from the air

‘Enemies appear from everywhere in absurd places from a puff of smoke’
I start to have the feeling you have been skipping cutscenes, its not jsut a puff of green smoke. it falls from the air,the green smoke is their corruption spreading. If you actually took time to watch cutscenes you would have known this.

‘Too weak allies and heroes. Spoil the impression dying from chicken’s fart.’
In many stories the allies can already solo the whole thing while you go akitten a corner.
But guess you want it even more easier and boring!

‘Illogicality of stories. Unnatural, foolish actions and events. Allied armies flee from 3 mobs. The defense of the camp of the enemies that appear right inside. etc’
I actually had to look up in the walls of text what you mean and still don’t have a clue what your talking bout.

‘Trumped-up drama. Detonators are constantly broken. Heroes like to blow themselves up on the spot and die there, where it is not necessary.’
First there is not drama? then it is wrong drama?? pfffft

‘The personal story is cut off from the world. Run from one quest instance to another. Does not leave any consequences in the world upon completion.’
It actually does and you are so very wrong. If you do the stories at the recommended level and if you visit zones at the recommended level you will clearly see the impact. In the starterzones you find no presence of the orders cause they haven’t introduced to you yet. When your doing the order storyline the maps of those levels makes you meet people from the different orders. The higher level zones however have members of the pact. But guess if you level up by crafting you wouldn’t notice such things.

‘No decorative quests. Without the genocide and murder. Showing some epic events. Tell the story of what is happening. Story cannot hold players in impression or stress. Monotonous.’
Again, the cutscenes dialogues do a lot of storytelling, skipping them does make you miss out a lot.

‘Lame cut scenes. Sometimes can’t understand what you want to show at all.’ Then don’t skip them, as you obvious have been doing.

‘No normal awards. Neither decorative. Neither interesting. Neither the titles. No special privileges.’
The rewards are awesome, unique skins. good balanced introduction of available elemtns (like a pie at level 34-ish to introduce foods).

‘Un-repeatability. The monstrous waste of potential.’
Create a new character and you can complete it again.

It seems to me you are skipping all cutscenes (or atleast not paying attention to them and then are complaining you don’t understand whats going on. Feedback is good, but unfunded and bad feedback is wrong. I have some criticism bout the story, but overall it is pretty good. Some choices they made wouldn’t be mine, but I understand them. It is also good that they are using the living story to test out new concepts.

I urge you to replay the story with a new character. Pick different options, watch the cutscenes and the dialogues. Then pick out one or two things you really find bad and take them on. You took a lot of time and effort in making this wall of text and I think your reall feedback is much much smaller and your making things bigger to prove a point. The end effect is that you are covering your true point in a bunch of vague and half true recommendations.

I really can’t find it.

I’m on an EU-server so I can’t help you.
With all the statue skillpoints it is often a lot easier to do it when it is not activate. In case of Melandru this happens when the temple of Melandru in Crused shore is uncontested.

You can either help your own world to achieve this by going to the temple and helping out with the DE’s or you can check a site like gw2 bear ( http://www.gw2bear.com/status.quaggan?check=Melandru&server=NA ) to finds out wich worlds have it uncontested and guest there.

Good Luck

Brother Grimm.5176:

While not a definative nor numeric answer to your issues, Guesting to an NA server is very quick and simple thing to try out.

Sorry to correct you but this answer is wrong. While EU-players can transfer to NA worlds and NA players can transfer to EU-worlds, it is NOT possible to guest on an NA world when your homeworld is an EU-world. Just as an account with an NA homeworld can’t guest to an EU-world.

New permanent content:
1: fractals, a set of mini dungeons with an ever increasing difficulty level (amount of mobs and something called ‘agony’ that gets harder and heavier while you progress.

2: higher rewards for defeating world bosses and higher rewards for defeating champs. This has let to a shift in balance from events to champions and world bosses.

3: Southsun cove world boss event. A new world boss added there

4: Tequatl the sunless overhaul. This world boss was pretty easy but now requires a lot of teamwork and coordination

5: Better daily/monthly’s with a new currency system called Laurels that give both unique and semi-unique rewards

6: Guild missions. Specific content (hunt bosses, large scale dynamic event, race track and gorup jumping puzzles) you can do specifically with your guild. These also gives recommendations that can be traded for unique and semi-unique rewards.

7: new PvP maps

8: a lot of things have been added to the gemstore/cashshop.

9: turning off culling, you can actually see how active the game is.

10: new ascended gear level (weapons allready, armour soon)

11: Achievement point rewards. You get now rewarded for title hunting.

12: Scarlets minions evade: 4 times per day Scarlets minions invade a specific map (announced in chat). This consist of a massive amount of dynamic events popping up. involving clearing up different kind of mobs. After surviving 5 waves you can take on Scarlet (if you make it that far). The amount of enemy’s and the amount of champions makes this very lucrative.

So overall, the gaming experience has been widely altered. Despite the narrow minded views of some in this topic.

The living world was mostly consisting of temporary content, but due to a large amount of criticism. This is shifting. For example.
June had the skypirates of Tyria/dragonbash. This consisted off a new jumping puzzle, a new dungeon, a scavenger hunt and a set of weaponskins. After the event only the skins and the jumping puzzle remained in game (the dungeon will return in the fractals of the mist in a skinnier form).

This month we had a replacement path in the dungeon twilight arbor specifc for level 80. This path is there to stay, is challenging and fun and has an achievement track for their own.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Policy-3rd-Party-Programs-Multi-Boxing-Macros/first#post354869

This post is in my opinion very clear. Anet doesn’t support third party programs and you use them on your own risk. This also means that Anet doesn’t take time to test and review program X or program y to see if it is ok to use or not. It is unsupported, so also the question wether it is allowed is unsupported.

So lets review:
1: “Does this program allow someone to play faster, better, longer, or more accurately than someone who doesn’t use it?”
Sweet FX enhances images, it doesn’t allow you to play faster better or more accuratly.

2:“Does this program allow someone to ‘play’ when he/she is not at the computer?”
Nope

3: “Does this program allow the user to gain undeserved rewards?”
Well you get better quality graphics, but I’m pretty sure thats not what they mean by reward So No.

Answer therefore is that it is absolutly ok to use SweetFX. Keep in mind that you use it on your own risk. This means you can’t get any (graphical) technical support while using SweetFX on the game. But it is easy to turn off and be fully supported again.

The lines between europe and the US are pretty good and there is not a real reason to expect you to lag more. The strengt and speed of a connection is based on the weakest link. Cause your connection might make more hubs getting there there is a slight risk on having a bad hub on the way. But the change is still very very slim. The main reasons for having servers in europe is that the connections between eu and us are pretty good but also very expensive. so online services (like this game) try to help by avoiding them.

Cause network lag is very depending on the hubs your using and cause that is decided by your ISP (or atleast they are responsable) there isn’t a straight answer. If you dont havetrouble now I don’t think you will have trouble if you switch, but in the end, the only way to find out is by trying it out yourself.

First off all, do not use WvW to go to lions arch but the hearts of the mists. Going through WvW means you might be taking someones spot for a brief moment and your not doing your world a favor cause you pressence counts for the underpowered buff.

You can easily go to the hearts of the mists using the two crossed swords. You have to do a tutorial once, but after that you are directly in front of the portal to la.

As for your suggestion, it is a good one but it won’t happen. Waypointing is a moneysink. By bypassing waypointing and making it easier (one loading screen instead of two) more people will use this method instead of using a waypoint.

ok great advise here. just my two cents. This game doesn’t have regular healers and tanks like other games. But you can get close. However, the game mechanic asks actually the reflexes your wife is afraid she doesn’t have. DPS-playstyles are considered easy and even OP while good healers/bunkers are less common and are many times the more skilled players.

So I would strongly advice your wife to just try dps in this game. Warrior and Ranger are excellent for that and have some good extra control mechanisms to make things less forgiving.

When picking warrior you have an OP class that only has the limitation to be a DPS class from start to finish. A ranger is as easy to play, but can be used very well for support (if the build is right). the class knows a good amount off players that are ok, but less then good. This means that for end game you need prove yourself more then others.

If she really likes the game and want a challenge I think the guardian will suit her playstyle. It is melee range healer. it requires healing and buffing your party while you fight at melee range (and can almost tank). But it takes some experience to know when to dodge away. If you are melee you need to safe yourself and your party at the same time (and you deal a lot more dps when melee so thats a plus). so it take a good bunch off experience to know how long you can stay melee and when you have to dodge away. That makes it a challenging class, but most guardians are good and some are awesome!

Just Trogdor is right, you can change for free.
But before you do so two advices.
1: take your time to guest on other servers. you can do so by clicking world selection on the character select screen, clicking another world and choose guest. This will load in your current character into the same maps on a different world so you can easily try them out. This is off course very helpfull to pick your world

2: currently there is a discount on world transfers. this last till next monday. So although just trogdors advice is a good one, it might be more tempting to use the discount. But advice one to try another world out first is much much more important.

mjasa.5821:

Getting the world completion you need to have all areas seen on the map. If there is an area like blurred out somewhere you wont get it. You also have to go to every WvW area and get all the wp, poi and vistas. Compare your maps with the ones on the wiki and see if there is blurred are somewhere if you are not getting the achievement.

This is really wrong information.
For world exploration you do NOT need to unblur every bit of map. you need to do all waypoint, poi, vista, skill challenge and renown heart in all PvE maps, all 4 WvW maps, and claw island and chantry of secrets. This means unblurring like 99% of the map, but it has nothing to do with it.

There is an alternate set of titles that requires you to unblur every area in e.g. Orr. That has nothing to do with these titles though.

This is a bug. It has happened before. and best thing to do is to report a bug ( /bug in game)

level 10 story reward is indeed always a black lion key and weapon usefull for your class (you get to choose from three kinds, and generally the choices are different then the ones you got for completing the level 0 story)

Do not worry too much bout stats untill you are getting your level 80 exotic gear. However do experiment with your lower level gear so you can experience for your own what the difference is and what suits your playstyle. When leveling a new class I allow my character an new gear piece every 3 levels. together with the weapons this means my whole gear is replaced in 20 levels. It also makes sure that you change your gear gradually with small bits and you can stear into different directions to try it out.

For some endgame content people expect warriors to go full zerker, but definitely not for everything. Many warriors choose to use two sets, one is zerker, but the other is for more common PvE. Best is to find your own way and understand what works for you then to just follow the flavour of the month.

The backpack that is reasonable easy leaves at the end of the month. In my case I needed to do 3 daily achievements and the dungeon.

For the mini you need to put in a bit more effort but this is a permanent achievement and reward.

Montezuma.1436:

this topic is about end-game. When you have >1k g, legendaries and ascended why do you run more 5man instances? What for?
Lots are moving to WvW. Some quit.
End-game PvE should be more challenging and rewarding.

Legendary: 3-4 months of gameplay. most classes can wield atleast 4 weapons, you got 5 characterslots on default, so you can currently grind 3 months * 4 weapons * 5 characters = 60 months = 5 years of gameplay.

Many people are against raids, and the forum is full off reports from people who actually left WoW because of the raid gear grind WoW involved. Besides that I decided to not play the TP or grind the same boring dungeon over but take my time. The result is a lot more fun and bout 12 months needed to gather enough resources for my legendary.

On top of that, the living story is also ment to be end game. You can say that it has lacked difficulty in the past but with tequatl, the new TA path and the queens gauntlet thats not a valid argument either.

So If your goal with raids is to add pointless and endkitten ring geargrinds I say no no no no no never ever no. Anet is trying to please all but in different ways, give them time and if you dislike the result go to a game that pleases you.

From : http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/That_Had_to_Burn
‘As of the September 17, 2013 update, players are not able to get this achievement even if Tequatl is defeated and the Megalaser is fired multiple times.’

Mr Fisken.6053:

i just completed Cursed Shore on 100% and i dident get any chest reward for completing it.

is it a bug or?

Mvh
Fisken

Yes it is a bug, but one you can very likely fix yourself.
a: go to the chantry of whispers
b: leave
c: enjoy your reward