Guild Wars 2

I got mine randomly gifted to me from a generous soul here in these very forums.

Which, IMO, is FAR cooler then a mystic forge/bag drop/random drop.

:D

I’ve only gotten a few hate PMs. One was on my ranger and I sucessfully 1v1 a thief. I got lucky and dodged his stealth bursts twice. He almost had me before I took him down. But he was very upset, calling my b***h, noob, etc. Although he did destroy me several times during that match, he was still all kitteny about it :P

I had another refuse to kill me while I was downed. Would wait until I had almost rezzed, then drop me back down again. Eventually I gave up and just bled out, but we were joking about it. Not so much hate, but rather cheap move :P

So I’m confused. The log shows that you took a large amount of damage from “Elite Risen Plague Carrier” and correctly displayed that information. But, it didn’t display the other damage that killed you?

Or was it that it only displayed the damage that killed you but didn’t display the damage that downed you?

The unknown was actually a bug from what I understand. Apparently it’s been fixed now, so now the combat log correctly displays the damaged recieved, and where you recieved it from.

Mine (Tooth of frostfang) was actually gifted to me by a generous soul here on these very forums

OP thanks for the offer!! I would love to take you up on it. My guild has a team, seceral actually, but there is a group that plays together regularly. We do well individually, but as a team, well there is room for improvment. I’ll try to take a video next time we play and send you a link. Would love to hear your thoughts.

ofLegends.9853:

Oh okay, I didn’t realize it would be a waste. I thought I could leave it sit or something. Just too new to this game I guess.
I’m already working on a couple other classes that I think will be more interesting.

Thanks for the help :P

Oh you can certainly sit on your warrior, and roll another. You do have 5 character slots, and you can buy up to 64.

Michael Walker.8150:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Is it even possible, given the changes that came about in the world?

as (instanced) raid content perhaps? as some people asked for similar content when it comes to large group coordination.

The only way it could logically work is to have instanced raid conent. The open world nature of the events really would make it near impossible to play. Some of those events took nearly a full map of people to do. Plus having all these past events going on on a continual basis just wouldn’t make sense. So while LA is being attacked, we are also still learning about Scarlett, and the tower of nightmares is in full swing, and Scarlett is also dead? The continuity of it all just makes my head hurt trying to think about it.

But the CDIs talking about raids and such could be a huge plateform for being able to reopen these events. Granted some of the mechanics would need to be tweaked in order for a smaller group to be able to do it.

Oh the horror!!!!

Giant Prince Thorns, Queen Jennahs, Rytlocks and Candy Corn Elementals running everwhere!!

Can you imagine the lag!?

Although it would be fun for a limited time (i.e. April Fools :P)

As a new warrior, I would suggest trying out a few different things first, and seeing what works for you. I myself prefer Axe/Axe, but that was after trying out all the weapons and getting familiar with them. Axe/mace is one of the favorites, but that doesn’t mean you need to be locked into that, especially if you find you don’t really care for it.

As far as other gear, just take what you get get while leveling, and focus on power, as this will probably help you the most to level up.

pupi.2465:

Beautiful game, beautiful graphics, beautiful combat, meh story, meh immersion, taking the lesbian kiss/woman sexy bikinis and cloath of the picture, this game may be more attractive to “very young ppl”.

I miss the real conflict, i miss factions, i miss WAR between GUILDS!

Didn’t the “Guild Wars” actually end years BEFORE the events in GW1?

Well I would reccomend PvP for gearing up your warrior. The dungeon reward tracks offer dungeon gear, as well as dungeon tokens to by more gear. In PvP it doesn’t matter what armor you are wearing, as all the stats are normalized, and gained through amulets.

But if you aren’t enjoying your warrior, roll something else. You can always still get gear for your warrior with your other characters so it’s not a huge deal.

Also I could see ascended food granting agony resistance for a short period, allowing for people to do high level fractals without having to have be fully decked out in ascended gear and agony resistance. But, using it would say increase all CDs by 15% or something.

Zatoichi.1049:

pdavis.8031:

Zatoichi.1049:

skullmount.1758:

Though the other npc says bloodstone dust is not meant for consumption.

that is because he is either uniformed, stubborn, or unwilling to accept/jealous of the other chefs creativity. Chefs get like that when they become complacent, and young inspired chefs come along and find new ways to prepare food, and that’s how change happens in the culinary world.

I don’t know if it’s that, he is a Priory cook, so he might know a thing or two. However, it could very well be a possibility if the second chef decided to try to use it and come up with some recipes anyway. The problem is though, that such recipes while they may provide fantastic buffs, there could be unexpected side effects….

Last time I checked, no one in Tyria was saying anything about the 5 star cuisine coming out of the Priory. He is basically akin to a military chef, or a school lunch chef, probably making the same dishes day in and day out for years, to feed lots and lots of people. That certainly is what creates complacency in the culinary world.

I will say though, I do like the idea of food with great buffs and penalties as well, providing the penalties aren’t substantial.

While he may be more akin to a military cook, or school lunch chef, his response (at least to me) implies that he had thought of using the dust himself. But was dissuaded by the scholars and those in the know about bloodstone dust to be a bad idea. I wouldn’t put it past the Priory to have at least tried it at some point, but the results were less then favorable (i.e. people died horrible deaths) and thus it was declared unfit for consumption.

Xillllix.3485:

- New amazing looking PvE map that relies on WvW mechanics
- West part of the map looks like a GvG map teaser
- Little area to show us that open world PvP is quite possible and easy (we could have optional duels, opens possibilities for battle arenas)
- Finally an amazing Living story glass/crystal area that would be a perfect ambience for a dungeon or PvP arena but instead is made to be played alone

Is this a teaser of things to come? Competitive players have been waiting for new content for a year…

I agree, there are some very cool things that can be done with this new map, and other areas introduced in the LS. However, I believe the area you are referring to about open world PvP, was actually a bug, and not intended as it has been fixed.

•Fixed an issue in which players who paid to safely enter a bandit camp in the Silverwastes were attackable by normal players.

However, it does show that the mechanics can be used for open world PvP (open world referring to arenas and special areas to do such things, as I feel a completely open world PvP would not be very popular in this game, and with the way co-operation is encouraged and needed in PvE, just wouldn’t fit very well IMO) and may be a foreshadowing of things to come.

Zatoichi.1049:

skullmount.1758:

Though the other npc says bloodstone dust is not meant for consumption.

that is because he is either uniformed, stubborn, or unwilling to accept/jealous of the other chefs creativity. Chefs get like that when they become complacent, and young inspired chefs come along and find new ways to prepare food, and that’s how change happens in the culinary world.

I don’t know if it’s that, he is a Priory cook, so he might know a thing or two. However, it could very well be a possibility if the second chef decided to try to use it and come up with some recipes anyway. The problem is though, that such recipes while they may provide fantastic buffs, there could be unexpected side effects….

Gudy.3607:

It’s been like that for ages, yeah. I’d love to see that marker moved closer to the Priory.

I was not aware of that. I haven’t played the PS in ages so :P

Maybe it’s me, but it may be a bug. The entrance to the story step is near Thunderhorns WP at the north end of the map, but the actual story takes place in the Priory itself. When you start it, it teleports you back to the Priory. Anyone else notice this? Or am I just trippin’?

Eurantien.4632:

THIS JUST IN!!!!! ANET ADDED TERRAIN FOR PLAYERS TO STAND BEHIND TO OBSTRUCT THE INCOMING ARROWS!!!! BUT THAT’S NOT ALL!!! THEY ALSO ADDED A DODGE MECHANIC FOR EVERY GLASS SO THEY CAN DODGE IT IF THEY CAN’T GET BEHIND A WALL, TREE, GRAVESTONE, OR WHATEVER!!!

Update: New weapon skills and utilities has just been confirmed. Block and reflect.
Update 2: New condition “Blind” has been added, causing any incoming damage to miss during the duration of said condition.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

That book is just a reference to the lore forum threads like this one that try to create a connection, but fail to.

Thats what I was thinking it was too. :P However, it is something IN game that one can point to as evidence of no connections. (IF they choose to interpret it that way). Either way, I am looking forward to going back and reading ALL the books.

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

pdavis.8031:

OP = Over Populated.

Rangers are easy to play. Thats why so many people are running them now days.

Easy to play =/= Being effective.

Of course easy to play does not equal being effective. But that doesn’t mean they are overpowered either. Warrior is also easy to play, but in the hands of a poor player they are not effective.

I think many people are subscribing to the idea that rangers are OP, so “if you can’t beat em, join em”. So they roll a ranger so they can be OP in PvP, and get easy kills/wins. But unless they are a decent player to begin with, they tend to find that the opposite is true and aren’t all that OP.

I thought it was a great fight!

Loved the mechanics. Granted it took a few tries to figure it out, but it was lots of fun. I liked how you actually had to think, and be aware of whats going on around you. It made for a more interesting fight, which is what we’ve been clamoring for for a long time now. I didn’t find it too difficult, after you figured out what to do, it was fun

OP = Over Populated.

Rangers are easy to play. Thats why so many people are running them now days. They work well with others in a team. I can sit at range, picking off enemies while another runs in and keeps them distracted, but I guess that means they are OP. But then any ranged profession can do exactly the same with the same outcome. There are more then enough counters to rangers that if the other team has the right setup (any blocks, reflects, gap closers, etc.) they can burn rangers like firewood. In that case rangers are more of a liability than anything. No rangers are not overpowered, they are just “ultra cheese mode” against players who don’t know how to handle them.

I thought it was great!!

Many questions were answered, and many others left more questions. I like that! It encourages exploration and research

As far as the first part, I thought it was done well. It did bring closure to Belindas death, but also the possibilities of the Delaqua family blade being infused. As far as the ghosts in Fort Salama, I thought they behaved almost exactly like the Ascalonian ghosts, in that they viewed everyone as an enemy. And it fits very nicely. I am hoping the next chapter deals with the ghost infused blade, and can see it tying in somehow to Rytlocks mission and the Ascalonian ghosts.

Don’t forget you can also get a 20 slot bag for free on the halloween PvP track…

If you don’t feel comfortable with accepting it you can always send it back with a note. Chances are it was someone trying to mail it to someone else, and accidently sent it to the wrong person. It happens. But it could also be just a random act of kindness. Either way there should be no repercussions for just sending it back, with a note saying that you don’t feel comfortable about recieving it. If it was an accident, great the person sending it didn’t get screwed, and if it was a legit random gift, then the sender will probably be grateful, and send them again…

Ok I don’t know if you have played the new living story yet (spoiler alerts) but I found a book in the Durmond Priory story step that deals with this subject. I can’t remember the exact wording of the quote but it essence is says That there is many discussions about the connections of the 6 gods and the dragons, however there is no proof of any such connections.

Might want to check it out. All sorts of great information there

StinVec.3621:

“Now that EEEVERYONE has a permanent set of tools and a permanent unlimited use of slavages nobody needs to go to a merchant!!”

I still need to go to a merchant to sell all of that random junk and useless bag clutter that every single one of them are more than happy to buy from me without hesitation.

Also, as much as I’d like to have my goto merchant, it does not matter which merchant I visit as they all pay the same amount for my junk. This means that there is no point in exercising merchant loyalty due to one offering better prices for my junk than everyone else who also desires to buy it. A merchant is a merchant. :\

They should give all merchants the “Honorary Skritt” title

OOOOO

Necro Spectral walk grants stealth, BUT loses stealth when you attack.

darres.8203:

Kitt.2567:

pdavis.8031:

Top OP professions:
Warrior (Hambow)
Elementalist (Celestial D/D)
Ranger (Longbow)
Engineer (Turret)
Thief (Just in general)
Necro (Minion and Terror)
Mesmer (Just in general)
Guardian (meditation)

I agree to this. I think this is just simple and clear op list. due to this limitation, i gave up using my favorite weapon set but just hambow, meaningless my warrior life :p. anet made op way like this so i had no other choices.

lol…
either everthing is op or you two are just bad
take your pick

I think I am just bad :P
Although I do alright on my necro and ranger, then I do on my warrior or ele

@ Chaotic and Booms

Just because I don’t have a “high rank” doesn’t automatically disqualify anything I say. However, My list and the shot at meditation guards, was more tongue in cheek. If you are to believe the forums, then every profession, and every build is OP.

Also, while meditation guards may not be popular in high rank tpvp, I do see a fair number of them in the dredges of the lower ranks. My guess would be that it’s more a cheese build, and once players begin to improve and climb rank, they realize that meditation builds aren’t all that and a bag of chips and switch to something else.

Ok so I was listening to Lorde: Glory and Gore earlier, and I thought “Hey, this is a great song!” So I am trying to come up with other songs, that have the same “feel” (if you know what I mean) for a PvP soundtrack. I know you can change the music (have to find the thread with instructions again) and I think this song, and others like it would be a great PvP soundtrack. Any ideas? Or your own personal soundtracks you’ve put together?

Thanks!

Edit: Here is the customizing soundtrack think I was talking about: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Customized_soundtrack

Jerus.4350:

Project 99 was great, when I got to it they had added initial release Kunark to it. I got back up to lvl 57 and pretty well decked out, those last 3 levels were a PAIN. I don’t think I ever hit lvl 60 till like late velious/luclin even back in the day. And… bard OP! killing entire fields of enemies all at once… so much fun.

Nice!

ok back on topic….

Dungeon selling really isn’t that much of an issue.

Jerus.4350:

pdavis.8031:

dlonie.6547:

Jerus.4350:

The wife was an avid craftswoman. She would do that stuff all day and sell things off bringing in a huge profit.

Hehe thats awesome!

But I think they were refering to crafting in EQ, where it is entirely possible to be much more profitable than crafting in GW2

^^ yeah, though at that time it was a MUCH smaller profit than it had been before.(IMO not worth it, but she enjoyed it so /shrug)

Way back in original EQ the tradeskillers were the filthy wealthy people along with a handful of hardcore players who got and were willing to sell some ridiculously good items. My first guild ever was actually “Yarblek Industries” which was a merchant guild where we crafted sub combines for each other for cheap.

The only EQ I really got into was project 1999, it was vanilla but mostly older nostalgic players. I never pursued crafting, but if teamed up with a farmer, I could imagine it could be somewhat profitable.

Chaotic.9742:

I love all the meditation guard OP comments. Must be why they run rampant in teamQ. Oh wait…

I actually see quite a few…One of my guildies, with whom we play frequently tpvp, sometimes will run a meditation guard. So yeah….

@OP

Just a few things.

On the customer service. While yes there is the possibility for an increase of tickets to deal with, with griefers, scammers, etc. Again that is what CS is being paid to do. I have worked CS for many years, and while it can be a very rewarding job, it also has it’s downsides. But thats the job you signed up for and need to take the bad with the good. If there are people in the CS dept. that feel they cannot handle the tickets concerning dungeon selling, then they wouldn’t still be working there.

As far as the ToS is concerned. It’s not against the ToS. Buying a run is a valid form of playing the game. To pay for the run they either had to play the game to get the gold, or use gems to convert, which are paid for with real money. Granted if they get scammed, they can certainly report the person/submit a ticket, but they won’t recieve their gold back.

In any case, it doesn’t really “harm” the game or effect anything. If you feel such thing is bad or wrong, don’t participate. Just play and let play. You’ll live longer.

dlonie.6547:

Jerus.4350:

The wife was an avid craftswoman. She would do that stuff all day and sell things off bringing in a huge profit.

Hehe thats awesome!

But I think they were refering to crafting in EQ, where it is entirely possible to be much more profitable than crafting in GW2

I don’t know if the captains are in charge of the whole region, but rather a leader of a large group (like a centerion is over 100 people). Even if they were over a region, it would make sense to have more than 1 in the Harathi Hinterlands, as that is pretty much a war zone, and the more the merrier so to speak.

As a ranger player, I would reccomend sticking close to your turrets, and pulling them in if you can. (That is if you are playing turrets.) The only times I’ve been able to 1v1 turret engis is if I can get them away from their turrets. And as said before, if you can some reflects up, that will hurt the ranger BAD. It really sucks to take a face full of your own rapid fire.

I am just starting to get into engi, and don’t know a whole lot, but taking out rangers can be done fairly easily. (either that or I am just a terrible player :P )

Top OP professions:
Warrior (Hambow)
Elementalist (Celestial D/D)
Ranger (Longbow)
Engineer (Turret)
Thief (Just in general)
Necro (Minion and Terror)
Mesmer (Just in general)
Guardian (meditation)

I didn’t even know that this was an option until now!!
Time to go be even more OP in PvP now :P

A necro is viable 60% of the time, every time.

Alright Mord, I’ll play :P

Necro wells + Ele water fields = basically healing wells
Warrior leaps + Thief stealth = invisi-leap FTW!
Beserker power + necro lifeforce = More life force = more damage
Ranger rapid fire + Phalanx strength = ranger stacking might

Azure The Heartless.3261:

would macroing a key to do a single mouse click, then holding said macro down work?

In theory it should, its just one button == one action, however it’s the holding it down that might cause issues, unless it could be on a delay so that it’s not rapid, but as fast as double clicking would be.

Of course this is something that you will never get an official yea or nay on. At the most you’ll get a link or a quote from a dev concerning their macro policy.

Behellagh.1468:

Cerpin.9152:

Halloween is a nightmare without fluffy bunny ears !

LOL!

I always think of this when I hear bunny ears….

I don’t think I fall into any of those catagories. So I am going to go with E.

I play because I find it fun. I enjoy exploring a bit, but not the the point where I feel compelled to have 100% map completion on all my characters. (only have it on one, for the gift of exploration). I enjoy dungeon runs from time to time, as well as PvP. But I’m not driven by scores, levels, etc. I don’t seek out cosmetics or unique items. But I do have a group of friends I play with, whether dungeons, world bosses, WvW, or PvP. I find this is a great casual game where I can log iin and fart around for a couple of hours and have fun doing what ever. As far as fulfillment, I don’t find fulfillment in this game as far as rewards, feeling of acomplishments, etc. What I do find satisfying though, is killing some mobs/players in a really fun environment and relaxing. Not having to think to much, and just unwind and have fun.

GazaKnight.8206:

I do understand you guys, but what Im saying is that these days in this game there is not holy Trinity but there is only DPS trinity (from my own experience) most all dungeons require player to have a DPS build or Else, they get kicked, and that is because the dungeons dont require a tank, healer or support players in the party because most of the time speed runs will skip most parts of a dungeon or keep stacking in a corner, and these 2 tactics dont require to have a tank healer or Condtion AOE, which is why its a bad gameplay design, what Im trying to say is ArenaNet still have a the chance to fix this by making the dungeons as hard as its for level 35 or 65 players (regardless of experienced or not), so we wont see the “80s, ZERKERS, EXPERIENCED” trinity anymore, specially in the lower level dungeons

Ok so it seems that your issue is not so much that there is no trinity (i.e. no healing or tank roles), but that with the current combat and dungeon design is that it makes traditional roles of the tank and healer obsolete. There will always be “zerker only 80 exp” groups as long as combat is the way it is.

There is NO way to fix this. You make dungeons harder? Well people will be even more picky about their groups, instead of “zerker” only, you’ll have “zerker meta only” For the type of people who start/join these types of group are looking for speed runs. They don’t want to spend any more time then absolutley necessary in the dungeon. You nerf beserker again, so that it is completely useless? Assassins becomes the meta. Nerf that, then what Valk? Soldiers? Where do you stop? The problem isn’t in the gear, or the combat mechanics. The problem is that people want to play in the most effecient way possible, and will find out the best possible way to do that. It’s not a game flaw, it’s a people “flaw” (if you can consider it that). And there is nothing you can change or do in game to change that.

Although some of these are good ideas, and I love the train of thought, I have a feeling that it is much more simple than that. There are 6 gods, and 6 dragons. There is little known about the 6 gods, and even less about the dragons. We do know that the last batch of gods, were not the only ones, and in fact had predessors. The only thing we do know about the dragons, is that they woke up about 20,000 years ago, and have been around for forever.

So I’m thinking that both the dragons and gods can be seen as a type of Yin and Yang. They balance each other out. The gods brought/bring magic to Tyria, and the dragons consume it. The gods are the guardians of Tyria representing the peoples/creature on the earth (i.e. life, death, illusion, beauty, etc.) while the dragons are the antagonists, representing the earth itself (i.e. Plants, nature, elements, etc.) Its an eternal war that cannot be won by either side. The dragons wake up, cause mass destruction, and devour magic, then go back to sleep. The gods arrive, bring magic and restoration to the races of Tyria, then leave. Then after so many eons, the cycle begins again.

Astral Projections.7320:

pdavis.8031:

mtpelion.4562:

Only other thing I can think of is that the stock got bought out (maybe lowbies who want to use the Labyrinth for leveling?) and the high price was just ancient listings.

Thats what I was thinking, but the highest price was just a few days ago on the 27th. So maybe there was a surge for the labyrinth, then leveled out again. I don’t know about lowbies leveling in the labyrinth though, but it certainly could be useful. Although I don’t think that you can use sigils on the weapons in the labyrinth. So there had to be another reason those things get super popular for a bit. The only other reason I can think of was that someone DID buy out all the stock, and slowly trickled them back in to set the new price and make some money.

Why can’t you use the sigils in the labyrinth? You use your own gear in there. Perhaps you are thinking of the PvP game inquisition?

You’re right my bad…I suppose then that could be the case, instead of the tinfoil hat theory that someone TP baron is manipulating the prices :P

mtpelion.4562:

Only other thing I can think of is that the stock got bought out (maybe lowbies who want to use the Labyrinth for leveling?) and the high price was just ancient listings.

Thats what I was thinking, but the highest price was just a few days ago on the 27th. So maybe there was a surge for the labyrinth, then leveled out again. I don’t know about lowbies leveling in the labyrinth though, but it certainly could be useful. Although I don’t think that you can use sigils on the weapons in the labyrinth. So there had to be another reason those things get super popular for a bit. The only other reason I can think of was that someone DID buy out all the stock, and slowly trickled them back in to set the new price and make some money.