Guild Wars 2

I don’t buy as many gems as I used to. Mostly since they got rid of mix-n-match clothing.

For the first year and a half of the game, or so, I had a self-imposed monthly sub fee of $10. Every month my calendar would remind me, and I’d buy $10 worth of gems. Save them up, spend them on things as I saw fit. Worked out rather nicely.

I also play FarmAge. Really enjoy the farming and commerce aspect of that game. That is very much pay to win, even if you aren’t even doing any combat or PvP, it can get very expensive to keep in fun things.

Wanze.8410:

notebene.3190:

…near me, and I decided to alt tab out and re-type what they were saying into Google Translate, and it was kinda fun getting to see the conversation. Some of it was broken, as I’m sure they were missing letters here and there and mistyping things as we all do, but it was understandable.

So that got me wondering: Why isn’t there an option to turn that on?

As Google has with everything, I’m sure there’s an API for it, and the burden could ‘totally’ be put on the client side.

Eh, just a thought.

How about an app that also chats for you? And while we are at it, an app to do your dailies, maybe for a couple of gems.

Maybe just learn spanish.

Ah c’mon. That’s not fair. I was trying.

Paulytnz.7619:

I just ignore them and do WvW, it’s MUCH quicker but I agree it’s annoying when it happens. I am not against fractals or loathe doing them I just prefer to do them when I choose to and not when the daily decides I should.

That’s what I usually do, but as it turns out yesterday, there weren’t any of the awesome Bernie Sanders picks to offset the fract-holes. Like “kill a dolly”, “kill a vet”, “secure a shrine thing-a-ma-jig”, “buy something nice for yourself”. Kill a vet would be nice in PvE, and if the argument is that WvW is PvE, well there you go.

I do miss things like res’ing people and ambients and such. But, I’m hopeful the masteries will bring incentives to do some of those things back, in some form.

CorrynnStarr.7942:

yea, as much as people would like this, it is a burden on Anet to not only implement something already available to all players….

But it’s not really ‘readily available’, and that’s the problem. I was having to re-type everything.

Oh well, it was just a thought. It was kinda fun to do, but hard to keep up re-typing, especially since I wasn’t familiar with the words.

Yargesh.4965:

Has been a hope of mine for a while now. Still don’t think it is cost effective or data efficient (need to go from game server to translate server and back) to be worth while yet. As I said though there is always hope.

Well, that’s why I was saying to code it so the client is responsible for it. You can turn it on, but ‘you’ might end up taking a hit. I wouldn’t want to put the burden on the server. I’m not sure how the chat works now, I’m assuming it’s some sort of periodic poll from the client? Even if it was a push, the client would have an opportunity to translate it before throwing it into the box?

…near me, and I decided to alt tab out and re-type what they were saying into Google Translate, and it was kinda fun getting to see the conversation. Some of it was broken, as I’m sure they were missing letters here and there and mistyping things as we all do, but it was understandable.

So that got me wondering: Why isn’t there an option to turn that on?

As Google has with everything, I’m sure there’s an API for it, and the burden could ‘totally’ be put on the client side.

Eh, just a thought.

There are many, many pieces of dialog where there is no audio.

I was wondering if there was a way to move between each character on the character selection screen?

As it stands now, after you launch the game, if you wanted to play the last character you used, you can hit ‘Enter’ all the way through quickly and you are in the game. I haven’t seen a way to move between characters using the keyboard, but if there was such a thing, I’d love to learn how.

Small and petty in the grand scheme of things, but since it works all the way to that point, I thought I’d ask.

OK, great input, thanks folks.

ToT.7018:

Even though i main a mesmer i pick warrior everytime in case i get armour with a strength rune to salvage.

See, that’s kinda what I was thinking. I don’t suppose anyone has done any metrics on it? Like whether you’d just be further ahead salvaging for cloth vs hoping for str runes? Are the str runes common enough? Or is it pretty much just anything can show up?

Tao.1234:

If I’m not mistaken, there is a chance to get even a pre from it.
Since there are named exotics coming out of it.

Well that’s interesting. I already have Bifrost. I wonder if I should alternate between Mesmer and Necro..just in case?

RSLongK.8961:

Light armor, any > sell silk scrap or use to craft the ascended one (bolt of damask) then sell.

Thanks. Everything else is pretty random? With respect to type and runes and the class set you pick?

Chest of Exotic Equipment

If I don’t have anyone coming up that needs anything any more, is there any that’s better to pick than the others? Maybe for salvaging reasons? Do some usually come with better ruins than the others? Are the lights best to get for salvaging mats? If so, any light better than the other (Elementalist/Mesmer/Necro)?

I don’t mind people seeing my AP. It’s 17,311 as of just now. I’ve been to a ‘few’ dungeons a ‘few’ times, but not very experienced. I’ve done some fractals, just enough to get what I needed done for Mawdrey. Had to have it explained to me each time. I think I got ‘OK’ at one of them. Never did anything over 10.

So it’s a terrible indicator of my experience with that type of content.

Maybe if they came up with some sort of secondary weighted score for Dungeons and Fractals and any other new content that comes out that requires small, coordinated teams, that gives you an idea of how experienced they are, totally outside of AP?

We’ll call it your Trump Score.

I don’t mind anyone seeing a number like that on me. I get why people want it. They should come up with something better for it.

Just as it helps people who would like a score like that construct a party, it helps me to determine who I don’t want to party with. Without people playing the Starbelly Sneetch game, I have no idea of who to avoid as well.

I had to look it up , and I’ll leave it here in case anyone else is old.

As long as I can disable it. This is something that happens in ArcheAge that I can’t stand. I have all that hidden, yet it wants to show me big ugly capes and weapons and such on the login, and the last thing I logged out in was a custom t-shirt, shorts and sneakers. Looks silly.

So sure, not an unreasonable request, but for those of us who do ‘not’ want to see all that, we’d need a way to disable it.

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Wanze.8410:

Afak they are only available on some leveling equipment, like cherubs claw but not on lvl 80 gear.

Bummer

I was actually interested in finding this just yesterday for a new 80.

If you look at this , it doesn’t mention it, yet this page references it.

So I’m not entirely sure if it’s something that doesn’t exist yet, or something that was a recipe drop that you can’t get any more, like maybe from LW:S1?

maddoctor.2738:

notebene.3190:

On the one hand, I get the idea that people have paid for things and would like to show them off. That’s huge.

They paid for armor and outfits too but at lower settings they are hidden “for performance reasons”. Yet Weapons, minis and backpacks aren’t affected. Are pink quaggan backpacks so much more important to show off than the Zodiak or Aethrblade armor skins? Or Hellfire/Radiant/Glorious armor skins? Why have two different choices and not treat all skins equally?

Oh I actually agree with this, I was just short in my first point because I was much more interested in making my second point.

But yes, they hide my minis, but I still have to see WoW shoulders and…I presume that’s a sword, looks like a surfboard. I agree with the ‘all things equal’. In fact, when they first put that patch out with the ‘always out’ minis and they had ‘overtuned’ the hiding, I had made a few posts making that very point. I should always see my mini. If you feel you need to hide someone else’s mini that is standing right next to me, then you should also swap in their ‘nameless faceless grey armor’ set.

I’m of two minds on this (the other 5 haven’t learned to assert themselves).

On the one hand, I get the idea that people have paid for things and would like to show them off. That’s huge.

On the other hand, if there were an option to hide running animation, idle animations, khaki shorts, other armor, looks like people are whining about the greatsword again (and I’m sure I’ll just have to move to South Korea or Japan at some point)…or heck, if people just wanted to hide me because I was offensive, but I got to have all those things I used to love and miss dearly? Yeah, I’d be fine with people hiding me.

I’m rich, you know?
I’m rich, you know?
I’m rich, you know?
I’m rich, you know?
I’m rich, you know?

No. They hide them when it becomes too busy.

Having said that, if they deem my mini-pet needs to be hidden because of performance issues, they should hide giant shoulders and back pieces as well. Not sure why those aesthetics are given priority over mini pets, but I digress.

Who am I kidding, I gress.

I like your second idea, that over healing could provide boons.

Anyone use the optical audio out connection for 5.1 or DTS? I had read in a few places there was some issue with using the optical audio out connections and it not working properly.

I’ll admit it. I thought biscuit was the new kitten for the first few lines of this post.

They have probably the best naming system in any game. I just picked a surname and used all my favorite character names with that surname.

Though, I suppose Legolas Lipschitz doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.

Thank you folks!

Trying to get 10,000 ft level concerns covered without reading or spoiling too much ahead of time.

Oh, that’s great actually. Maybe I’ll be a Staff Tempest then.

If you specialize, can you un-specialize, if you just want to run around as a normal Elementalist for a day, then spec back into your specialization?

…then presumably you don’t get to then take your favorite class into the new specializations. Is there something else to do at that point, if you want to keep using the weapon you are using? I’m not really sure how that all works.

I liked hearts. Which is why they got rid of them.

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oh.

thank you.

I haven’t been following very closely, mostly because I think this time around I’d like it all to be as much of a surprise as possible, but I was curious as to whether we know what the Elementalist specialization weapon will be at this point?

Without knowing what the specialization is about necessarily, I’m just curious about what weapon opens up.

Odyssey.6523:

Id one up this and wish that guilds had an in game message board they could post to and check. We already know the trading post is built on a browser so I feel like this could be implemented. Perhaps data storage is an issue?

doh…should have read all the responses first. yes, like this.

As far as data storage, they track an awful lot of information regarding the guild already, and moving things in and out of the guild bank, this wouldn’t be that much more, and the posts wouldn’t have to stay around forever.

Maybe a bulletin board with an email notification would work? Rather than reusing the one MOTD, it would have a history of past messages, and you can elect when you publish the message whether you want to send email notifications of the new posting, and which ranks should receive the push message. The bulletin board could have a visibility filter on it as well, only allowing certain ranks to see it?

Zergs.9715:

I think that Anet hit the jackpot with introduction of Mawdrey. It removed rng and added complex but meaningful mix of interaction with environment and gathering. Its challenging but not in a “hurr durr get 250 charged lodestones” kind of way.

- Item is cool looking
- it sends me on an adventure across Tyria
- it put some meaning into 500 crafting
- it gives me additional functionality in a form of Mawdrey II
- no praying to RNGesus required

What else could one want? It’s perfect!

It’s most likely that they recognized the potential of such system, considering that they are introducing similar structured way of obtaining precursors, but I can only hope they revisit everything, all item pool, including Mystic Forge crafted exotics.

As someone who is playing since release (with one pause) and has almost nothing to show off except random rares and extremely rare exotic no one needs, I’m naturally opposed to current rng system. In fact I detest it.

While I still don’t particularly care for the overall play style and gamer types I seem to meet (whether or typical or not), Dos Mawdrey got me into a ‘few’ fractals, just enough. I still don’t care for fractals, but I’ll try to muddle through them yet again in search of a back pack, I suppose.

Fractals aside, I found the overall experience of working on the Dos Mawdrey quite fun. I don’t often fractal, but when I do, it’s for Dos Mawdrey.

Wasn’t clear to me whether I’d have to go to a fractal to work on a Legendary back pack or if the wording meant there were places in fractals ‘and’ PvE that you could pick up the same mats. I guess it’s probably the former. [emoticon redacted]

NoTrigger.8396:

notebene.3190:

Aerinndis.2730:

Nividia just posted updated drivers so that may help any video card issues for those cards.

Biggest reason I’m holding off is this and this .

you cant disable automatic updates, but you can disable automatic driver updates via win update. press win+pause -> advanced settings -> hardware -> idk what its called in english but should be something like "hardware installation settings.

there you can disable automatic driver updates via win updates.

then you can install the graphic drivers you downloaded from nvidia or amd.

Ah, very nice, thank you!

Ameepa.6793:

Yes please. I was once again reminded about this annoyance after having to stay near one of the SAB minis for an hour.

Mute option for minis only would be awesome.

wok wok wokka…wok
wok wok wok wokka…wok

:)

Well, if the topic is becoming things that have just become too big and get in the way, let’s talk about those white and black giant wings. Those make the mini dragon look like that little rock.

Nothing says “Hey, did my video card just over heat?” like a Char walking into your FOV between the camera and your character wearing black wings.

Aerinndis.2730:

Nividia just posted updated drivers so that may help any video card issues for those cards.

Biggest reason I’m holding off is this and this .

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Natsu.2589:

To be honest, I am pretty glad these animations are gone. I found them annoying as hell. Seeing females in heavy or even medium armor doing these … things … it just broke my immersion – big time. I didn’t even wanted to see the animations on my light armor character, because it doesn’t fit her one single bit. She is a tough girl, not some sort of a … chicken, scratching with her feet to find some corn in the sand … blagh …

I sincerely hope they’ll never come back. However, this would be the perfect opportunity for Arenanet to give us options. Why not sell different animation sets in the Gem Store? Or how about putting them into some achievements? I’d very much like to see this.

This is the part that is confusing to me. I totally respect your point of view, and where you are coming from. You seem to totally respect the idea of people liking them. We’re both happy to make sure we each get what we want.

Why is the answer always to do something like this one way or another, rather than making ‘everything’ available, and…bonus…[drum roll]… monetizing it. Seems like a no brainer.

pdavis.8031:

I finally got to see it last night.
It was just as awesome as I thought it would be!
Great job!!

Also, the chest was pretty cool….but don’t open Scarlet’s gift…. ;P

I really enjoyed the recap, of course, looking forward to replayable, but this was a good way to bridge the gap for people that can’t play it in the mean time.

I opened it. I forgot. It was a box. It was shiny.

nottsgman.8206:

because 4 silver is just too much?

Yes plus it would be nice prize to get from time to time.

And I did disclose my frugal…ness…itude (sp?).

Thank you plus more characters.

They stack to 1000. Or, better yet, make them something you use that turns into a currency and disappears.

You get 1-2 for every daily you complete. And maybe hand some out periodically in those login daily rewards. Or other things.

Any time you use a way point, it first uses ticket currency, else it uses the designated cost.

Yes, I’m frugal.

BrotherBelial.3094:

Yay patch broke everything! even reset the dailies

Whew, hadn’t started yet. Feel bad for anyone that was mid-completion for the day.

Juclesia Elcritian.8410:

What he’s trying to say is the Training tab has been completely locked. All my skills have been un-learned (but they are still available in the skill bar, just greyed out in the Training tab of the Hero Panel).

It’s a bug. Tons of bugs in this release. Season 2 is completely locked and asking me to buy it again, even though I have all the achievements from it already.

While I haven’t tried it yet (b/c I’m trying to get all my dailies and world boss rounds done! :p), we got an email regarding the LW1 recap, and it would seem that maybe they relocked LW2 until we go do that ‘recap’, and then it opens again?

As far as the ‘Training’ tab goes, that’s just messed up.

But I bet if they gave us the shorts back and the old running and idle animations, it’d fix it! \o/