Guild Wars 2

Leon de Damasco.8105:

16 Days.

There’s something that takes 16 days to complete from the time you start/initiate it?

Ayrilana.1396:

Other than daily map currency gating, I don’t think there is anything.

Okay, thank you. Barely scratched the surface of the new map and story, going to take a break for today and get back on it tomorrow.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

If you’re asking whether people have reason to return to Siren’s Orr? Yes. Plus reason to return to the other five maps, too.

I guess I just meant like that Druid thing from Flashpoint? Where there was an item that you eventually find out about and it takes like 21 days to complete the whole thing, because you can only get so many things in a day? Is there anything like that?

Specifically for any sort of achievement or time gated item? I mean, anything that you buy from a vendor (I have ‘barely’ just arrived at the island, and haven’t finish the story, was thinking about stopping for the day, because I’m getting kinda tired) that requires you to go do other things in other zones or collect magic or zone currency, that’s one thing.

I guess I meant more specifically like that back piece that you have to grow and it literally limits you to how much progress you can make in a day. Is there anything like that?

The short question…
Is there a time gated item achievement/reward this time, like the back piece for Flashpoint?

The longer version…
I just did “Where’s Waldo” (will have to go back to get ‘Block’, knew what I had to do, but messed up the first one b/c I wasn’t awareshe always casts from the same place).

I was hoping to take my time, and do a little each day (was thinking about stopping for the day), but when I did that last time, I heard there was a 21 day (14?) back piece Druid thing (Flashpoint), so felt compelled to push to get that done as soon as possible.

Whether rational or not is not the point (my reasoning is I just wasn’t sure what the steps were going to be, and if it involved needing lots of help, there is always the concern that everyone else is going to burn through it quick, and realistically, how long are you going to have help for, yada yada, one thing led to another, nudge nudge, know what I mean?…), but if there “isn’t” anything like it this time around, then I think I might just do a bit each day, take my time. If there is a big time gated thing, then I’d like to pick up the pace.

Krysard.1364:

They always could tho, I dont understand this patch note

I’m in the same boat. I mean, I can think of jumping puzzles where you ‘have’ to turn in mid air, like around a corner, otherwise you can’t do them? I don’t see how I jump any different now?

I’d be pretty happy if they’d like us pick some old mix-n-match pieces that looked perfectly fine together and have them stitch them together into outfits.

Dawdler.8521:

Or you could not try to name your new ranger xX-Legolas-Xx.

Or surnames: Legolas Smith

Or occupation: Legolas from Accounting

Maybe it’s for Net Neutrality awareness?

Hmm

I like ‘Pot of Food’.

I rather like it, especially the functionality of the quick filter menu.

Tekoneiric.6817:

I just wish we had the option to hide stowed weapons.

+1 the OP idea, and +1 this as well.

This is the 2nd time in a week, 6am PST where Sh. (trying to find an abbreviation that isn’t kittened, I’m not going to type out ererererererer every time, but will gladly stop and type all this out in hyberbolic exasperation at the sillyness of not being able to abbreviate his name without ‘erer’ on the end) has not started after doing the collection and escort quickly.

Someone mentioned that if you don’t escort the collection NPCs all the way back to town, it won’t start? If that is true, that is kinda crazy. In our 15 min windows, it just takes too long, it’s dead space. That needs to be fixed.

Thanks everyone. I guess on the one hand, that’s handy, but on another hand, it’s a bit of a bummer.

Amaimon.7823:

Im not sure i get your drift.
There are only two raid tabs, one for individuals looking for a group, and one for groups looking for more people.
There are currently 13 bosses spanned over 4 wings, 3-3-3-4.
But some bosses require sharp attendance, like Xera and Matthias, theyre mot often queued in the LFG tool since they require a lot of coordination

Oh boy…

Squad, sorry! Not raid.

Are all squads advertised in LFG? Or can people make squads and hide them?

I’ve been back long enough I should know this, but have been using LFG to find squads to do things like Shatterer, and I’m realizing that maybe there are hidden squads out there maybe that are doing things in other instances of a zone, but you can’t see them to join them?

Is it possible that a squad exists, but it’s not listed in the LFG tool?

Esquilax.3491:

You can’t have the shield hidden when stowed, because it’s silly to pull a shield out of nowhere every time combat starts,

That is entirely subjective. We makes thousands of suspensions of disbelief in games so we can actually play a game and have fun doing it. When I stow my staff, it floats in the air behind my back. Whether it’s suspended because of a choice to make the game fun and enjoyable, or whether it’s a limitation to keep development at a reasonable cost in both dollars and turn around in time (any game could ‘fix’ the stowed floating sheathed staff problem, it would be extraordinarily expensive and time consuming), we come up with wonderful explanations after the fact to explain why things are the way they are, but it’s still about suspension and keeping a game and game.

Esquilax.3491:

and inconsistent with game design being that weapons should be visible on your character at all times.

I doubt there is an internal mission statement that indicates one of their core, fundamental design philosophies is that no design decision should ever:

a) covet thy neighbors wife
b) cause weapons, when sheathed, to become hidden

Flying goes against design philosophy. Mounts go against design philosophy. We had mix and match outfits, now we don’t. All things change.

Making it a toggle would allow you to not feel silly, and allow me to look how I want. Choices and options.

I’d like to see an option to hide any or all stowed weapons. I’d also like them to add an option to automatically sheathe weapons immediately after combat ends.

I suppose it would be nice to have an option to set back item preference between a shield or the back item (or any other item that might come down the road, like a cloak or something else).

It is a neat idea, though.

The mermaid will be wearing a trenchcoat™.

Dust. Wind. Dude.

I wouldn’t mind if they’d let me pay them to create an outfit out of the old mix-n-match outfit pieces.

I think the unbound magic gathering tools, at least with harvesting, do it all in one go, if it has a bonus. So like sometimes when you get 2 or 3 pulls on a single plant? If there is a ‘bonus’ on that plant, it happens entirely on the first pull and you get it all.

I seem to recall this was a bug a long time ago that was fixed. It seems to have appeared again very recently (either the last big patch, or a small post patch).

Sometimes when I zone, or login, or maybe come out of being transformed, or maybe other things, the UI does not indicate which of the attunements is currently active. If you switch to another attunement and back, it’s fine, until whatever causes it happens again.

I mean, we know because of the abilities we have, and even the ‘color’ of those abilities, just a minor annoyance, so I raised my hand.

Disclaimer: I suppose looking back through this, it might look like I’m making fun of you, but I’m really not. And ‘you’ is you and everyone else. I just find it interesting from the perspective of ‘what we choose to call things’ (like calling the ‘Estate Tax’ the ‘Death Tax’ to illicit a certain reaction, even though the underlying thing it references has not changed).

I wonder how much of this is just because of what they were called. ‘Fighting’ cats. If they were described everywhere as ‘playing’ cats, would you have asked about this. The animation isn’t super specific, they could be fighting or playing, but because they were called ‘fighting cats’ to begin with, that is what you see them doing.

If they renamed them everywhere they are described (including the wiki) as ‘playing’ cats, would that make a difference? Is there something specific about the animation that makes it look like they are fighting and not playing? Or is it mostly that you are ‘told’ they are fighting, so that is what they are doing?

I’m just wondering if they could just change the name of them to ‘playing’ (w/ and w/o snowball) and if that would fix it, or if that ship has sailed, and even if their name is changed, we’d see them as fighting because that is what we were told?

If a new person got them after the name change, would they post a thread that says, “I know they are called ‘playing’ cats, but it ‘really’ looks like they are fighting, and I wish they’d change it so it looked like they were playing”?

Add 3-4 daily repeatable hearts, an LW1 currency, some daily quests, maybe a few more events if needed, and put some of the old LW1 items like the Halo (which I have, and have no need to feel like a special snowflake) and maybe some ascended items like the LW3 zones have (I think we could use more earrings, if I’m not mistaken).

I thought of it because…I need more earrings, and saw a post about someone wanting an old Halo item, and this map coming up in the ‘worst maps’ post (simply because there isn’t much to do) and then hopping out there now to talk to the Pack Supply Network person and realizing … there aren’t even really any hearts or vistas or things like that.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

tl;dr bugs happen
(personally, I try not to let it bother me — it doesn’t affect the parts of the game that make it fun; your mileage might vary)

Now that I know it isn’t really a bug as far as they are concerned (as it has been this way awhile, I just wasn’t in a position to realize it), I’ll stop pushing it as such, and I made a ‘quality of life’ suggestion, as it would improve my quality of life, and they can do what they will with that suggestion and I’ll move on.

Thanks

Technically this is two, but they are related:

1) No action or passive event should make you sheathe/unsheathe your weapons other than a) combat or b) binding a key to sheathe/unsheathe your weapons.

There are lots of things that do it, like the state you are left in sometimes after you use objects in the world, but more recently, obtaining the new unbound magic gathering tools. The basic tools you buy in the world and the first version of unlimited tools introduced in the game (which I own) do ‘not’ unsheathe your weapons. I’m being told that many of the other (all?) introduced after that time force the unsheathe.

And speaking of sheathing and weapons…

2) It would be nice to be able to have a setting to hide your weapons when sheathed, as well as the ability to toggle that setting via a key bind. Additionally, when the setting is enabled to hide weapons, whether or not to show a small UI indicator (somewhere) indicating which set of weapons you currently have equipped (as…we would not be able to see them if set to hide). Although, that is less necessary, as you can bind a key to ‘sheathe/unsheathe’ and just toggle that quickly to remind yourself.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

notebene.3190:

They still force your weapons to unsheathe when using them, and it’s rather annoying. Thank you.

This happens with other tools, too.

Really? It doesn’t happen with the standard tools or the first set of unlimited tools we got (which are the only tools I have experience with).

That’s a bummer if it’s true, it’s really, really annoying. So like robo-tron, fireflys, all the other types, force your weapons to unsheathe?

At any rate, still happens after 6/20 patch.

They still force your weapons to unsheathe when using them, and it’s rather annoying. Thank you.

Major Domo.9250:

On a serious note, I think they’ve been treating the symptoms and not the disease – that certain skills (engie turrets, necro minions etc.) not only allow but encourage idle play. How about making these skills more active? Beefed up, mannable turrets for point defense? Controllable minions and ranger pets that reward micromanagement?

Interactive Guardian spirit weapons might be too much to ask for, however.

/twobirds

I wouldn’t be very excited about changing those two classes so you had to manage those things more closely. While I’m not a turret Engi (except my healing turret, and the occasional elite turret…thing (I forget what it’s called…the box of surprises), I do use two minions on my Necro, and would hate to have to play busy body with them.

I think they should make turrets and pets stop doing damage and attacking and drop all agro if there hasn’t been any input in 30 seconds.

What’s weird is the past few days, I have hardly seen any Necros loitering around berry trees when I do my berry run with my Ranger.

I kinda miss them, as they made the run a little bit easier, as I like to clear out each area before picking my berries, rather than training mobs over everyone, which seems to be the way many people do it.

Kaltyn of Torbins Deep.2946:

notebene.3190:

Now that you made things like Winter Berries things that can be stored in collections, you need to give us a way to see how much of each of those currencies we have in the wallet. So we don’t have to drive to Arkansas to check the collections in our bank.

Clicking on an item that requires that currency (in the vendor buy window) will show you down at the bottom how much you have of that currency – I think it is on the left side and the price being on the right side by the “buy” button.

Thank you. I guess I knew that, just making the point that it’s not very convenient when some items that are currencies are not in the wallet and others are. It wouldn’t be terribly useful if there were no wallet, and there were no indication as to how much gold you had accumulated in the game, unless you found a vendor that would sell you something, and then clicked on it, to see your total. Which, is why I thought the quality of life would be greatly improved if there were some consistency in the wallet UI, showing the total of all currencies you have accumulated.

Asgards with big, floppy ears flying Goa’uld spaceships?

Vegeta.2563:

notebene.3190:

Tryhard Pants.9745:

Can you see your back item when using the glider?

Tested that for you. No, you can’t.

Dyable?

There isn’t any color boxes next to it, so I guess that means no.

Tryhard Pants.9745:

Can you see your back item when using the glider?

Tested that for you. No, you can’t.

Now, did they change the way the ‘toy use’ happens now (carpet and broom) such that if you are using either as your ‘walking around’ look, it doesn’t KILL you when you jump off something to glide, forcing you back into that passive ‘use’ mode, and plunging to your death?

Endless Soul.5178:

Wow, Anet actually listened! I’m so getting one!

~still waiting for Broom Glider~

Yeah, this is awesome, also excited for a broom glider.

Regarding listening, I hope they fix those unlimited unbound magic gathering tools so they stop forcing your weapons to unsheathe.

Ashantara.8731:

I think the OP might be on to something! (No, I am not joking.) My female human Necromancer does sport a visible smirk, too, as soon as she starts walking. My elementalist, however, does not.

Edit: Anet said they were going to remove facial expressions?!? What? When? Why?? I miss the movie dialogues (they were well done), and I miss my characters showing emotions via facial expressions. Please, don’t remove those!

My test was a Guardian at Camp Resolve. Tried my Necro because of your comment, the lighting was a bit different, I guess there is a very subtle change to her expression, but nothing like the OP was suggesting, which without a screen shot of what they are seeing, I can only speculate is the crazy smile that you see when you ride a broom (or at least, what it used to look like when you rode a broom, haven’t done it in quite awhile).

I just tested this and don’t experience it, unless it’s really subtle and I don’t see it because it’s hard to focus on her face when she’s walking (with ‘Use Free Camera’ on).

Maybe a screen shot?

Is it the crazy smile like riding a broom?

2017.06.06 Update
They still force your character to unsheathe weapons when used.

I was thinking about this just the other day, but more from a developer creativity point of view, wondering if it starts by looking at the map in the tool itself, or is it more born out of running around in the world after it’s largely created, things like that.

I really like the angle you are thinking about it from, however. I’ve been watching a bunch of Wooden Potatoes on my Roku before bed as of late, mostly the lore videos, and think it would be funny if there were a lore character associated with them.

The cat cubs, because they are a nice hybrid between a cat and a dog: Lion Cub, Jag Cub. My main Elementalist and a few others use them.

My Thief has the mini puppy (non-cowboy).

My Norn Warrior uses a Hawk, it just worked.

My Revenant has the Monk outfit on with a staff and a Sturdy Leatherworker’s Backpack and has a whole ‘Monk’ thing going, so I have a bear cub following her around.

My Mesmer has a ghostly cat because her clones kinda look like ghosts and I’m using Mist skins on her weapons.

And of course, I use a lot of seasonal ones like mini ghost and princess doll.

Drant.5902:

http://gw2timer.com/riftstabilizer

Since you asked, I’ve added the Rift Stabilizer locations to the world map (Collectible Items section). The labels in Roman numerals are the same as the wiki’s; inactive locations are not included. For example, if you want the location in Bloodtide Coast, dial “VIII”, then dial “VI” on the Rift Stabilizer “telephone”. Coordinates credits go to Tim.

Click on the green circles to “check off” that location. The connecting lines are just to make it easier to see the locations, you don’t have to do it in that order.

Wow, thanks!

Now, I did the first 13 to get the Class II RS. Does something happen if you visit all the available locations with the Class II RS now?

When I go to a place, should I just stay there awhile and use the device to see if a rift will show up to go to the next place?

I ask because I went to III from Holbrek, and then a minute or two later, I could open and stabilize the rift I just came through there. I’m at IV now and have been trying to use the device there, but a rift doesn’t seem to want to show up there.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You do.

Okay, thanks.

Do you have to keep track of the destinations you’ve been to yourself?

Thanks folks! I was directed to go look at the page that explains how to flip the colors, and then wasn’t sure if the roman numerals would then appear after that or not, and it sounds like it does.

I just have the class 1 device and wanted to start learning how to use it and make the next one. Came across a post in General related to it, and I didn’t know what it was, and it sounded like more content to mess around with.

Well, now I have the device, and it doesn’t do like anything that it says it’s supposed to do in the wiki. I don’t see roman numerals. I see … shoot, it went away, was going to get a screen shot. I had like purple and light blue buttons that were labeled ‘A’ and ‘B’ when you moused over them, and as you pressed buttons, the 5 skills changed around between which were A and which were B.

Is there something at like GW2Timer or some other information that will help me find these things I can jump in to teleport to some pond to click on a ‘???’ item to start this whole process of obtaining these stabilizer devices ?

Edit: I advertised a party for help and someone helped me, so never mind.

Now that you made things like Winter Berries things that can be stored in collections, you need to give us a way to see how much of each of those currencies we have in the wallet. So we don’t have to drive to Arkansas to check the collections in our bank.