Guild Wars 2

I know someone on Piken Square who never takes it off, he or she’s instantly recognisable in WvW even if you disable names.

There are so many countless possible names you can have, even if you choose Lore-Friendly names. Granted it’s harder to get an original lore-friendly name for Sylvari and especially Asura, but you can always use a title prefix.

For example, you want to choose your Asura to be called something like Blaxx. That’s probably taken (I dunno, I’ve not tried!) so if it is, think about what job title he could have. Is he a Peacemaker? Are you making him as a Vigil, Durmand or Whispers member? Perhaps a Lionguard? You can then try:

Peacemaker Blaxx
Lionguard Blaxx
Agent Blaxx

And so on. Suddenly your possibilities open up a lot more than trying a single name.

I don’t know if you’re trying for lore-friendly names, but I hope this helps. The idea of wiping inactive players’ names has been discussed to death many times, and it’ll never happen I’m afraid.

Yeah I wouldn’t say it’s graffiti either. It’s stencilled in as they rebuilt the city I’d say.

I’m Pro-Staff.

The only thing I can think of that thieves need this 1,200 range for is to reach more players in zergs in WvW to get more loot. PvE and PvP certainly doesn’t need it because a thief is barely going to be that far from an enemy unless they’re low on health, retreating!

I’d also like to add that I’ve personally never heard of thieves not having 1,200 range being a problem until this Staff vs Rifle war came about!

The hue of the said dye, couldn’t be whiter. It’s the texture of the material you’re putting it on that’s making it dull. No matter how white they can make a dye, it’ll still do it because of the skin.

Happening to a lot of people – it seems if I stay idle for more than a minute or so, I get DC’d. If I’m moving around or using skills, even in cities, I stay in the client.

We seem to be beating a dead horse with a melee staff now. I wish ArenaNet would get the [Reveal] over and done with, whichever weapon it is. >.<

RubberDougie.2750:

Bump. Why should I have bought HoT when I knew you had a horrible track record of fixing content?

And

RubberDougie.2750:

RoseofGilead.8907:

You really miss the cow race betting/exploiting that much?

Yes, actually. I do.

Your chances of getting Cow Racing as a priority in HoT: You’re a rank outsider I’m afraid.

Terrible puns aside – I think Cow Racing is/was classed as activities. There looks like a hint towards the return of Moa racing as some point in Lion’s Arch.

But I don’t know if any new activities will come in HoT – Adventures seems the closest thing I can think of, being a sort of Hybrid between Renowned Hearts and Activities.

Why should you never kiss a Quaggan?

Because you can end up catching CoooOOOoooties!

I don’t think this is a change – I think that was only because it created your character as new character (which under normal circumstances you only get one anyway) in the new zone – and the new zone didn’t at that time have any charmable pets.

Remember even if you unlock the pet swap under the normal game, if you haven’t charmed anything new, you still only have one pet at the time. So I doubt they are removing the second pet from our rangers

arenta.2953:

uglydan.1638:

Might be possible to get staff AND ranged. The staff might have a spell-like use, shooting bolts of shadow, kind of a shadowy spell thief. If that’s the case, then it remains to be seen if the staff elite is power or condi.

how would that fit a theif….

thats more a necromancer…

no medium armor class uses magic =/
heck even the Druid is pushing it

No medium armour uses magic?
What about ranger spirits, is that not magic?
What about shadow stepping? Is that just normal, every day thing we can all do? Drinking a tonic to turn yourself into a tornado, or throwing one to turn your foe into a Moa sounds like magic to me too!

Edit: I think it was the final rule of Oola, that we all embody magic!

And again, I hope whichever weapon they have chosen for thief, they chose because it’d be a good weapon for the thief, and not based on how many other classes have that weapon.

6 out of 8 classes currently have Spear for underwater, does that mean Revenant should have Speargun & Trident?

Alex.2908:

I dont have to explain anything to anyone, just answer the question if you can, if you can NOT than dont waste MY time and your time with all this blabbering.

Clearly Anet stated that by buying HoT you will also buy GW2 but how can i buy GW2 if i dont get the GW2 features. That is a plain simple logic, i hope it helps you.

Your rudeness towards the other player in the first paragraph is starting to show your true colours. That person replied to try and help you understand our perspective – in that, why is it so important for you to know about infractions, if you don’t plan on breaking any rules in the ToS? If you don’t want people to ask you this, then perhaps you shouldn’t be asking your question in a public forum.

Secondly, having no infraction points on an account is not a feature of Guild Wars 2! Fraction points are ‘awarded’ for bad behaviour. Having zero infraction points is for good behaviour, not simply for buying the game.

The free GW2 part of the HoT expansion is for new players, so they don’t have to buy two separate packages, so it’ll have no bearing on your account if you choose to add the HoT part to an existing account.

Alex.2908:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

What are you talking about? Permanent ban after buying the expansion?

no, if u have several points and you get 1 more for… other reasons than buying the expansion

You don’t get an infraction point for buying Heart of Thorns.

Buying Heart of Thorns doesn’t change how a player has behaved in the past. If you’ve been naughty and you are trying to better your ways, then this is a good thing, and I believe over a very long period of time, those infraction points will decrease.

But if you just want to teeter over the brink of punishment in your behaviour towards others, acting negatively but in a way to always be one step away from permanent punishment, then of course infraction points shouldn’t be reset just for purchasing HoT. Nor should there be a way to see your infraction points.

I hope this would never happen, I understand where you’re coming from, but to single out new characters (and especially, new players who might want to ask a few questions about the game without asking publicly) is a terrible idea, sorry.

All this idea would do is stop them whispering, and they would start map chat advertising, which we’re left in the same boat in still needing to Right Click>Block>Report each one anyway.

Yeah getting it all day, Forums, Website and TP. Luckily it’s not permanent, as refreshing the page or re-opening the TP usually fixes it.

If you want a serious answer from the Devs, I suggest you submit a ticket to Support by clicking the link at the top of the screen.

Also, try to calm down and remain constructive before you do so. You’re not the only one having similar problems.

yolo swaggins.2570:

And suddenly the melee staff is not a melee staff but a not-so-great hybrid design like p/p.

I’m wondering how Pistol/Pistol is a hybrid between Ranged & Melee confused smily

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

(I know! at this crazy time)!

Someone’s in Germany already I guess ready for Gamescom!

I have a question:

Will there be a ton of new currencies in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, to prevent long-serving and established players from instantly getting new in-game purchasable content? For example, a new Karma-type currency, so players currently with over 1million karma can’t just get everything instantly?

McViolin.8547:

By buying extra content from Anet and supporting them through other means

You’re not doing anything different to most other players in the game, my friend. I’m a sucker for a good deal when it comes to items in the gem store. I can’t even count the amount of times I’ve bought Black Lion Chest Keys with gems bought with real money.

I still don’t have the title!! And by rights, because I’ve not earned them in GW1, I shouldn’t have. Why should you be any different?

Honestly, this thread needs locking now I think. You’re not getting your titles back, unless you play GW1 and earn them like everyone else. You can earn those titles now that you’re old enough to play Guild Wars 1.

McViolin.8547:

I got that by driving down to my local Best Buy and bought GW2 gems to support Anet, and made a character on the day that Anet was giving out the titles. I think I’ve earned those titles and they meant a lot to me. Because of those titles, I was able to meet new friends.

People who have put more hours into this game have paid the same (if not more) money into this game than you, and have still not earned those titles. Those titles were not for buying the game – those titles were for the die-est of die hard Guild Wars 1 players, a group of people no matter how much work I put into GW2, I will never earn the right to be a part of.

So I’m sorry, but I, and probably most of the player base, will disagree with your opinion that you ‘earned’ those titles simply by purchasing the game the same as everybody else did. Otherwise, we would all have that title.

Also, have you told these friends that you got that title without playing Guild Wars 1? If not, will you do?

McViolin.8547:

No offense, but I have been a customer since the beta and a supporter of Anet amidst all the haters, so I don’t see this as being unreasonable. This is something I’d rather talk to an Anet employee about

I’ve not been around since the beta, but I have put in nearly 12,000 hours into Guild Wars 2. I never achieved ‘God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals’ in Guild Wars 1, so it wouldn’t be right that I get awarded it.

If I had been awarded it, I wouldn’t take it as a ‘punishment’ to have titles taken off me that I never earned in the first place. I’m sorry if you feel differently to the titles being taken off you, but there is a work-around to this:

You can of course, play Guild Wars 1 to earn the ‘GWAMM’ title (which should give you the 50/50 or so Hall of Monuments points too towards the other titles) – that way you would have put in the time everyone else did to achieve GWAMM.

“God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals” is a Guild Wars 1 title that is carried over to Guild Wars 2 players who link their accounts. Have you played Guild Wars 1 and got said title? Because if not, there was a recent ArenaNet fix that fixed players getting titles and Hall of Monument rewards that they shouldn’t have had.

And if it is the case that you received the titles in error with this bug, then I suspect the ‘Golem’ is some player who knows and is trolling you, sending you a mail.

I’m sure they’ll do a rollback. Don’t panic, Mr Manwairing.

AegisFLCL.7623:

My biggest issue is that 99% of the current staff skins would likely look AWFUL with melee animations.

I thought this at first too, but after trying Revenant melee staff with a few of the existing skins, it didn’t look half bad at all.

Tyr.6097:

pepper.6179:

sebradle.7034:

We should just start a thread on why we all really just want off hand sword plox. Right everyone?

why not focus!

Because thiefs are far away from magic?

Yeah, going into complete invisibility and shadow-stepping is not magical at all!

DevilLordLaser.8619:

This is before we learn that the assumed Hammer Engineer elite spec is, in fact, also a melee Staff set,

It is already quoted by ArenaNet themselves that some profession is getting the hammer:

“while some other lucky profession will finally get access to a hammer.”

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/specializations-part-two-reward-tracks-and-elite-specializations/

Tyr.6097:

6 of 9 classes will using staves, 2 of 9 classes currently using rifles.

I’d rather the thief get a weapon based on the skills and theme it would have, rather than based on how many other classes already have said weapon.

If you’ve been to the website – change your password to your game AND email address pronto!

Barab.9016:

Am I the only one who would love a melee staff thief ?

No!

Thief gets Mace. Except it’s mace in a can.

Have you tried temporarily switching languages in the launcher? Try clicking the flag of a different language in the top right of the launcher, sometimes that works when the client is stuck at a certain point whilst downloading. Then you can switch back again after it’s fully loaded.

Because Guild Wars 2 wants to break away from the norm, and do things slightly differently to traditional MMOs. When you think about ranged greatswords and melee staves, Elementalists & Necromancers being able to shout magic words isn’t that far fetched.

Who knows, maybe even thief will get shouts? Or perhaps, since they’re sneaky, they’d be whispers instead.

It’s says you get to choose between Hellfire Vambraces, possibly meaning you choose either the left Vambrace or the right Vambrace?

CureForLiving.5360:

Garambola.2461:

And you can just ignore jumping puzzles. Though if you don’t, you will get better and they won’t be quite that awful anymore. Some people absolutely love them, they deserve something they like in the game too.

This.
It’s not (well maybe… world completion needs a couple of JPs) mandatory content, and some people love it.

I think there’s only The Breached Wall (Diessa Plateau) and Vizier’s Tower (Straits of Devastation) that I can think of where you need to do a Jumping Puzzle to get to areas for Map Completion.

I think the Kübler-Ross model can be applied to some degree here.

Stage 1: Denial “That’s not a staff. It could easily be a rifle or a musket”

Stage 2: Anger “If thief gets this, I’m not @£#!$% buying HoT!!!”

Stage 3: Bargaining “[Suggestion] Thief Rifle skills – Look, how about including some skills that I think are super cool like…”

Stage 4: Depression “It’s going to be a sad day if Thief gets staff, I don’t feel like playing at the moment”

Stage 5: Acceptance “Hey, looks like we’re getting staff. I would have preferred rifle, but let’s see how it goes at the reveal.”

You gotta decide which stages some of you are at. Also, feel free to repost this, editing it for the Pro-Staff crowd instead of the Pro-Rifle crowd. And I still think we could end up with anything, I’m not saying it’s definitely staff, just looking towards that way!!

Linken.6345:

sebradle.7034:

You know I was just thinking the most damaging thing against this http://i.imgur.com/xA8qvVk.png picture is that the guy is in full sneak-thief. So there is no elite spec armor piece on him. The only thing that could be it is the gloves but they are too heavily stylized to really tell.

Yea that could be a staff and it could be the barrel of long rifle we dont see the whole weapon, as I stated earlier both are up for grabs since both weapons represent what they lack atm a 1200 range weapon and a 2h melee one.

Never said I wanted either just dont like people claiming they get this as fact when it aint.
What ever the thief get my alt will probabely still sport shortbow/sword+pistol still

Yeah, it could be a rifle, or a staff in that picture. Except, it’s a staff! >.<

Was he left in the fort, alone, at any point?

Seabreeze.8437:

Can anyone link where exactly an Anet dev said no two professions will get the same elite spec weapon?

Anyways, I’m pumped for melee staff thief. I hope it’s flashy and acrobatic, being that thieves are supposed to be the most nimble and agile class around.

Also, they’ve been revealing elite specs at such a slow pace! The wait is killing me! I hope we get more elite specs shown to us soon.

Soon….

Soon™

I’m with you – Pro-Staff too! I just wish they put us out of our misery by now – the No it’s rifle/No it’s staff war has been going on far too long now!

Orangensaft.7139:

penelopehannibal.8947:

ShelBlackblood.7826:

Gosh, I need to stop writing things to sarcastically.

As you said

“PS: don’t ban me pls, i’m just bored c:”

then I’m sure you’re aware that it’s probably not allowed, so I wouldn’t risk it. I’ll just leave it at that.

what would be not allowed about it??

he isnt exploiting anything and not using any third party mechanics or hacks to get there

I don’t really want to have a protracted conversation about this topic, but I will answer this.

I don’t know if it is or not bannable for that particular area, since there are no mining nodes, no POI, Vistas or Jumping Puzzles etc to access.

However, it would become dangerous territory if ArenaNet started saying some kinds of map breaking is ok, but others aren’t, so for this reason and in my view it is probably best if ArenaNet adopts a zero tolerance policy on map breaking on purpose.

ShelBlackblood.7826:

Gosh, I need to stop writing things to sarcastically.

As you said

“PS: don’t ban me pls, i’m just bored c:”

then I’m sure you’re aware that it’s probably not allowed, so I wouldn’t risk it. I’ll just leave it at that.

Have you just made this post simply to rock the boat some more or are you genuinely asking?

Cyvien.8049:

Based on the available data-mined “evidences”, it is hard to argue for or against it since they are vague and ambiguous.
Based on the class/weapon revealed, we can predict unique weapon for each class (since Druid is known to have staff, so thief doesn’t). Revenant is not a good case against it since the Glint photo can very well be Glint himself.

You’re putting quotations on ‘evidences’ of pictures that are there, but a prediction is not evidence either.

Linken.6345:

was not glint a she?

Yeah, she had many eggs in Guild Wars 1 which were part of a bonus mission (that I was never good enough to complete grumble grumble) and one of her eggs is being protected in Living Story Season 2.

We need to stop looking too deeply into ‘patterns’ that don’t even exist! They said they will reveal each Elite Specialisation when they are ready to showcase them.

It has been mentioned in the past that going to areas that are supposed to be inaccessible is a punishable offence. Too long ago for me to find a link, but it has been said in the past. It was more specifically to do with people accessing the Uninstanced Salma, but was mentioned any form of map breaking was bad.

The Points of Interest is up later tonight, 20:00 BST.

When I was a boy, £35 (or $50) got you 2-3 Sega Mega Drive games, with about 2 hours content each.

It’s a lag issue – usually happens worse when it’s Daily Activity Participant (as it is today) as it happened to me on the first race four times that i over-jumped a platform. It was happening whilst people were loading into the maps just after reset whilst I was in mid-race.

When it’s not Daily Activity Participant, I have no or near to no issue with it.