Guild Wars 2

I’d be happy if they’d just fix the fact that they are the only tools that force your to unsheathe your weapons and it’s annoying.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there aren’t combat animations and non-combat animations and the person assigned to it used combat animations because it was easier to implement the effects, and now we’re stuck with it. Just slap a command on the end to sheathe weapons if they are unsheathed if that is the case and you can’t change the animation.

I saw I could get a copy of HoT from Amazon for $20, and was thinking it might be fun to start a second account.

I see on the starting account, I have only two character slots. The HoT expansion gives me a 3rd. I seem to recall at launch, we had 5 character slots? Does that sound right?

Is there any sort of package that gets you more character slots out of the gate like we had at release for a new account?

Thank you both. I haven’t had the opportunity to go back and try again.

Update: Was able to get in and complete it today. Not sure what happened the time before, but this is a non-issue.

Thanks folks, I’ll try the map.

If you needed help completing an achievement for a LW map’s meta, would you put your group under that map, or use the ‘Achievement Hunters Central’ category?

Moved the Koda’s Blessing achievement from the A Crack in the Ice achievement category into the Rare Collections category.

This is really a bummer, because now I have to do “Beasts Slain Quick”. This is about the same as getting stuck with the ‘Not So Secret’ dive before completing all the original dives and getting the meta.

DeanBB.4268:

Right click on a salvage kit.

Okay, my productivity just sky rocketed.

Black Iris Flowers.3418:

… when there’s a salvage all … option?

wot! :O

How do you do that?

First time I got the loading screen and the game crashed. Second time I get this:

InstanceCreate failed. Error=1036; Product=9; Module=18; Line=624

Well, after nearly 5 years, I know how to read the ‘x5’ number.

I think this would be a great page for the wiki.

This is just a big griefing tool at the Claw event.

I’d change it so the expiration effect logs the person out to the character select screen.

Rauderi.8706:

HazyDaisy.4107:

Not so secret dive in slow mo and adjusted colors to highlight dangerous parts. Hope it helps.

https://youtu.be/O6ZY1z7dhzg

This right here and OP’s helpful attitude rank among the reasons I love this community.

Absolutely, and “this right here and OP’s helpful attitude” (actually… the OP themselves) is exactly how I finally got this dive done! \o/

Basically the feather family of gliders. I have 3 light armor characters, one in the white, one in the black, and one in the wings of love. All of medium and heavy armor wears ended up in some sort of ‘earth tone’ and gold variant, so the Hawk looks good on them.

What I’d really like for my old magic carpet and broom stick to be ‘granted’ a flight component to equip.

mXz.4512:

notebene.3190:

I don’t know about OP, but they definitely take twice as much work to use. My old infinite tools just used ‘F’. The new tools use ‘F’ and then ‘Z’.

‘Z’..? I’m using mine now and I just press ‘F’ and mats + unbound magic collects.

They force your weapons to unsheathe. The old ones do not do that, nor do regular tools, or any other karma or special tool I’ve used.

I don’t know about OP, but they definitely take twice as much work to use. My old infinite tools just used ‘F’. The new tools use ‘F’ and then ‘Z’.

The new infinite unbound magic gathering tools force your weapons to unsheathe after using them. My Consortium Harvesting Sickle, Chop-It-All Logging Axe and Molten Alliance Mining Pick do not do that.

Please fix the new unbound magic tools so they don’t force weapons to unsheathe.

Thank you.

I have one gripe about the new tools, non-gem related.

My old tools (Consortium Harvesting Sickle, Chop-It-All Logging Axe, Molten Alliance Mining Pick) do not make you unsheathe your weapons.

These new tools make you unsheathe your weapons.

Would be really nice if you can change that part of how they work the old way.

It’s a pet peeve, for sure, and honestly, that goes for any other thing in the game. There are lots of things you interact with that make you unsheathe your weapons, and they just shouldn’t. The only time you should unsheathe your weapons is when you are in combat, or you manually sheathe/unsheathe them.

Astralporing.1957:

Long ago, when Anet released first infinite gathering tools, they were asked if those tools will always remain the best option, or is anet going to release better ones later on. People asked, because that actually had a real impact on the price they were prepared to offer for those tools. We were told, that nothing like that was going to happen, and that anyone investing in them can feel safe.

When Anet released watchwork mining pick, they broke that promise (as the pick was objectively superior to prior infinite picks). They were called up on that, and since that time nothing like that happened again.

True, they released some tools with added chance of gathering some resources (wintersday, and unbound magic ones), but at least they were not infinite, so you could say it’s a trade-off.

With an infinite version of those, from gemshop, no less, it’s again an attempt to introduce gear progression of a sort. Now, you can no longer be sure that any QoL item you buy from gemshop will not be at some point replaced with something that made your previous purchase obsolete.

(basically, anyone that bought a normal infinite tool from gemshop can now rightly feel kittened by Anet)

…and everyone else…

Okay, I kinda remember some of that now, thanks.

My main has a set of the old (original?) non-set, individual ones back when they cost 800/ea. I got these new ones since the unbound magic is something I’m really interested in at the moment. I had been buying the karma and farming the Winterberry Bushes in the north once a day, but I think these will be nice to have.

I suppose what would be nice is if there were a way to ‘merge’ infinite tools together so you get the benefit of all the tools you bought at the same time, and then maybe pick your favorite animation skin for each tool.

Astralporing.1957:

Oh kitten. Did the watchwork pick debacle teach them nothing?

I’m honestly not familiar with this, what is/was the issue?

Ashantara.8731:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

The Devs do, however, offer them (some more formal, some more informal) outside the game occasionally.

Really? Do I need to start reading the Reddit forum if I want to participate or are there other platforms they use?

The last story related one here .

My first and only is Bifrost, which I got before HoT. I liked the look of it, but never really understood how busy it was going to be while moving. Not a fan of the rainbow effect behind me (as I’m not a fan of all the woosh effects behind me when I’m running in cities faster with the Pact Commander mastery).

So I skinned it as the healing version of the ascended staff, white chandelier with white engravings.

Sadly for me, I don’t really like a lot of the higher end skins. I like plain and smaller skins. Not a fan of surfboard great swords.

I liked getting the legendary because it gave me something to shoot for. I liked the journey. I was thinking about picking one out to do post HoT rules so I could experience that process, but haven’t picked on out to focus on.

They could introduce a new weapon with a specialization in an expansion, specific to one (or a few) of the classes, with a skin that is very plain (and small! I have a lot of characters who use very plain and small skins for their weapons, thinking about the greatsword skin I have on my guardian). Then have a skin that is obtainable in each of the new zones, maybe a collection skin or two. Add new skins with a current event or two down the road.

I don’t think they need to introduce 20+ skins with a new weapon when they introduce it, especially since you wouldn’t need them for level 1, 5, 10, etc, as you can’t even get to a specialization until you’ve complete your base sets. If they could muster like 8-10 with an expansion, that might work, trickle some more in later.

Edit: Well…and the new animations, which is probably not trivial.

I checked a few when I first opened the mastery, and I didn’t realize the recipe changed every day. I’m going to have to remember to visit them every day.

Turns out I already had the recipe, but I was in such a hurry I didn’t bother to check, so I just spent 25k on something I then had to delete. Oh well.

I was just curious if your title was meant to invoke this, or that’s just where my brain went? Tell me…condi, condi, condi !

I’m killing Ice Elementals in the Reactor in Metrica, and they aren’t dropping the Element of Water.

What is interesting is the Ice Elemental wiki page doesn’t indicate the reactor is some place an Ice Elemental would be (only in some jumping puzzle).

So…why don’t these count? And…why don’t they exist (even though they do)?

And, at the bottom of the wiki, it says “Elementalists can summon these creatures using the Glyph of Elementals skill”, so can’t I just summon them and then auto-loot the item I need when they die?

Cormac.3871:

The wiki says it shows once you have collected the items.

Oh, okay. I wonder what you would need any of that for after you’ve completed the collections?

It’s supposed to show (at least per the Wiki) when you are on the collection quests, but I don’t see anything on that tab?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Supplymaster_Hanjo#vendor34

Linken.6345:

Or, does it consider a swap a swap for both weapons, even if one is used in both weapon sets?

Correct you are my dear sir/mam

That explains it, thanks. That … actually changes quite a bit of things.

I’m looking at a build, and it has me curious as to how weapon sigils that have ‘swapping’ effects on them work, or maybe how swapping works in general.

It reads as though you are getting an effect when you swap to this weapon, but the build I’m looking at has that sigil in the main hand weapon, and then there are various off hand weapons you use, and those all have a non-swap type sigil in them.

So if your main weapon set has, say, a sword and shield, and you have the ‘swap’ sigil in the sword, and your second weapon set you have another sword that has the same sort of sigil your shield has (non-swap), isn’t it your off hand only that is swapping, and not the main hand, since it’s effectively used in both sets?

Or, does it consider a swap a swap for both weapons, even if one is used in both weapon sets?

Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C before posting your reply. Just in case.

On the side topic that popped up, there are some good collection stories. I thought “Lessons Learned” was great.

I’ve been enjoying it myself, but it’s a ‘bit’ much having to do all 4 hearts every day. Maybe if it were 3 pieces to make the item, and you could choose to buy the magic one and then complete any 2 of the 4 hearts. That way you could picks ones that are easiest for you to do, or mix them up so you don’t do the same ones every day. Or, if you want to not burn through your magic, and are trying to save up for other things, you could do 3 hearts each day and not buy the magic one.

HazyDaisy.4107:

Not so secret dive in slow mo and adjusted colors to highlight dangerous parts. Hope it helps.

https://youtu.be/O6ZY1z7dhzg

That is a lot more helpful, thank you.

I hope someone figures out how to some day superimpose the key strokes they are pressing while they are diving, so you can see at what points they are WASD-ing while falling to change directions.

Like when you first jump off and it looks like you are going to hit rock, then you go through the rock and you can see things below you, are you moving forward that whole time in mid air until you see below you?

Moonlit.6421:

notebene.3190:

Not So Secret!

And teach me how to do that dive please.

I have a Mesmer parked at the chest and diving goggles here so if you happen to see me online feel free to hit me up for a port. I can try and show you how to do the dive but if you’d prefer to watch it dully has a video showing how to do it which probably explains it better than me. ^^"

I tried watching the dive, but I keep dying there for some reason. What’s funny is I’ve done so many others. I did the new Flashpoint one recently. Hit the ledge a few times, but eventually got it. Of course, I had a ‘target’ there. Someone was tagged up and I just had to aim for them.

I’ll try to watch some more, see if I can figure out when they are moving in the air to adjust and when they are just dropping, that is the hardest thing, and keep an eye out for you, thanks!

Not So Secret!

And teach me how to do that dive please.

I’m watching a Dulfy video for one of the collection achievements, and I notice she has these markers on the map for each of the places she’s going.

How do you make those markers?

Edit: ALT+click! nm

At the character select screen, when the mouse is over the list of characters at the bottom, with the left and right arrows (if you have more than one character – the ‘carousel’, the mouse wheel should roll the carousel.

While the original idea makes sense, it wouldn’t help all the people who already have the cat, plus you’d be locked into your choice if you made a mistake.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

The OP’s idea makes sense and I agree with Djinn’s embellishment of the idea. Or alternatively, we could have an NPC in the home instance that toggles on|of what we see in our home instance, e.g.

• Hide cats: yes|no
• Hide personal story NPCs: yes|no
• Hide living world NPCs: yes|no

I like this idea better, seems like it would be easier for them to put it all in one place anyways, and it would be something that would be easy to expand on.

Hopefully he or she is someone you can give books to so they can put them in your personal library.

Cronospere.8143:

If I’m right, you should get it back when you’re in Draconis Mons

This happens, thank you!

I opened one of the 4 lab things and got a buff from a tree. Put me in a green ball. Got tired, and had to log out. Today I logged back in in LA and I don’t have the buff or green ball effect any more, but I’ve still completed that 1 of 4 vaults for one level of buff.

Can I get that back when I go back, or will it appear on me again? Do I have to drop the quest and some how start it again to get all 4 before I continue? Is this something I have to plan to do all in one sitting?

+1 to all “make all [same things] one item” suggestions.

Didn’t want them, but if they are going to make them, can’t I just have a horse? I’m not super excited about riding around on Fugly, Crusty, Grim et al. Dwarves that didn’t make the cut.

Wasn’t in favor of mounts, but I guess since they are adding them, it would be kinda nice to have a nice looking horse to ride around on.

Oh wait…

Akrib.4297:

Goldfox.5729:

Akrib.4297:

RIP in piece TP (2012-2017)

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You just said RIP (Rest in peace) twice, and you misspelled ’’piece’’.

I know , that’s the joke lol.

Don’t forget the backward broken heart

Rest in Peace in Peace

It’s like the World of World of Warcraft

ArchonWing.9480:

Thanks! I forgot that forum existed.

Me too, I was looking in ‘News’ and ‘Account Issues’. Guess I always thought Bug was for letting development know about game functionality issues, not so much about service issues.

It started for a me a few hours into my morning boss run, was definitely not available when I did AB earlier. Somewhere between 3-4 hours I think?

Actually surprised I don’t see more threads about it. I looked in News and didn’t see any schedule for it, though admittedly I’m not very savvy at knowing which forums (or other medium) they post things about scheduled activities like this.

Thanks folks. I guess I don’t need the space that bad, it was half a nostalgia question, prompted by seeing the item, and having only been back since December (and absent 15 months before that start after the HoT release), I have forgotten about some things and couldn’t remember if it was recurring or not.

Like learning that the sky ship one wasn’t going to come back any more. I think of all the pre-HoT recurring activities, that was one of my favorites to participate in.

Ashen.2907:

I would be tempted to buy that.

It would be my first glider purchase.

While it would be ‘unfortunate’ to have to buy a glider version of a broom and magic carpet I already own, I would be willing to pay to support the cause.

This reminds me of a wish I had once upon a time. They have all these old ‘single piece’ mix-n-match town clothing pieces laying around. I’d pay $50 to have a custom made outfit made from old mix-n-match pieces. In my case, I only need 3 pieces for each costume I’d like made (tunic, pants, shoes).

I have two outfits that I can think of. I’d like the original town clothes as a real outfit, not a tonic. I have an old mix-n-match I was really fond of. Depending on what that School Uniform looks like, I might want that as well.