Guild Wars 2

That’s strange because sometimes I’m having the opposite effect – where I want to turn around but I can’t! I press my ‘about-turn’ key (x) and the character attempts to turn around but is forced back to face where it was. I’m also on Mac Client, but I’m not sure if it’s Mac specific. It’s been going on for me since the Tequatl patch.

They announced it at the end of the Living Story Season 2. Imagine if they didn’t – people would be in the forums raging about no new content for six months, without the knowledge of there being an expansion built.

Would anyone prefer that?

Necromancers got shouts. So did Elementalists.

Edit: And it’s 4/9 Elite Specialisations revealed.

Shinji.8320:

judging by the recently datamined resources;

[…]

Thieves have something to do with either kits or staffs,

[…]

If you’re judging it off data mining, then surely you mean kits and staves, not ‘or’? Since a staff Specialisation background image was clearly data mined as a staff, and the knife shoulder-looking thing is being generally thought of as a kit?

Rin.1046:

Now ele’s tempest is getting shouts, which the reaper is also getting, this to me opens the door to the idea two elite specs can get the same weapon. With this information, and the datamined image, I am even more convinced thief will get staff now.

Agreed. It’s still not 100% definite, but it makes me more hopeful now, especially after playing Revenant Staff during the BWE earlier this month.

I need thief staff in my life.

I wouldn’t mind more chef ingredients that involved fish coming from Barracudas and Tuna etc – but I think I’d rather dive down and hunt fish with my speargun than to stand there dangling a rod in the lake.

[Inserts Gilled Wars 2 pun here]

This has been brought up many times before, and it shouldn’t happen because it’s a huge, huge overhaul, for relatively the same effect. If they lowered the cap to 40, you’d still be hitting the undead in Orr for the same amount of hits as you do now, as you’d still be at the same parr as them, just with different numbers next to yours and the NPC enemy’s names.

To do this, they’d have to completely re-work all the gear first of all, then the level differences of all the zones, from 1 – 15 maps to say, 1 – 7 and so forth. Then there’s the issue of changing all 303 renowned hearts and the gear they sell for karma.

It’s just too much for virtually no additional effect at the end.

I have too many characters that I like to pick a particular favourite, but I must say lately I’ve been liking Scratch and Snikk – the two little orphan rascals of Lion’s Arch.

None of my human characters have turned Branded in the Dragonbrand yet, or Undead in Orr yet, so I highly doubt any PC Sylvari will turn fighting off the Mordrem.

Hybarf Tics.2048:

Why should they make underwater skills for it they don’t even remember how to make lakes, rivers and oceans anymore.

Surely you must understand that even if it’s true that there’ll be no underwater areas at all in HoT (unlikely, don’t know where these conclusions are coming from) you can still play the Revenant in the usual Tyria zones – so they will need the underwater skills anyway.

Revenant is now delayed because of the addition of the weapon swap means they’re having to invent new underwater weapon skills (as well as finish implementing what they were already working on with the original single weapon they were going to have for underwater).

These little things add up, so I guess it’s a good thing they want to get things right before they release an ETA.

Donari.5237:

They can’t tell you when they’ll know the date, because as soon as they know the date they’ll tell us.

It’s a bit like asking a woman who is trying to get pregnant to tell you when she’ll know her due date. (Analogy not great, I know, and I’m not saying ANet is trying to start an expansion .. it’s just all I could think of in terms of projected dates).

So nine months time we’ll see HoT?

I really like the Overcharge idea on your attunements. Well played ArenaNet.

Ranger hate is bandwagon hate. People only hate rangers because it’s some sort of fashion to do so. One person complains about a ranger using Longbow 4 against an enemy they were in the middle of melee about – and the whole crowd followed them with pitchforks.

The same argument the OP has said about rangers can probably be said about most classes, as I’ve heard people saying Necromancers and Mesmers and Guardians are the easiest to play too in various map chat conversations, though there doesn’t seem to be an abhorrent hate following those classes like there is against the ranger.

Good news is good! Welcome back to Tyria!

Hello,

As far as I know, the daily log-on rewards have always gone to the character that receives it, rather than the account – so I think this is actually working as intended, rather than a bug, since you deleted the character that received the log on reward. I can’t be 100% sure on this as I’ve always just collected and banked everything whichever character I’m on at the time of reset.

I would be nice though, if it were account rather than character based. I am sorry for you losing out though in either case.

Wwefan.4982:

Correct as Anet have stated many many times and apparently people don’t understand the words “We don’t have a release date yet once we have one you will have one” how many times do anet need to say this.

Perhaps the OP simply doesn’t frequent the forums as much as we do?

I’m convinced I need a Parrot Shoulder Skin in my life now.

A screenshot wouldn’t prove anything anyway, since there’s the wardrobe system, and the fact you can only mouse over one weapon at a time for the tooltip.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Crimson Clouds.4853:

There are other suggestions that can open up more possibilities when naming characters. E.g. allow lowercase letters to be used at the start of words, upper case letters to be used in the middle of words, having access to apostrophes ( ’ ) and hyphens ( – ).

^^ This ^^ would be a nice QoL upgrade. There are lots of names that include one or more of these options. Robin du Monde; Michael O’Tamlin; Beth Haven-Grace. Not sure of the upper-case letters in the middle of words, though. However, that may be my ignorance.

I agree. I’d love to be able to see names like Mickey O’Jones, but not MiCkEy O’PwNz.

Healix.5819:

If they were going to allow anyone to use whatever name, they should just drop names entirely and make them cosmetic only. Your display name would be used instead where it mattered, such as chat. As an option, you could toggle between showing character or display names above the character and by pressing ctrl/whatever, both would be shown.

But what if someone uses one of your character names to troll and discredit you, but doesn’t use the chat box? For example – going AFK during a PvP match without saying a word?

Names still matter in the open world, not just in the chat box, as that’s where we see most of player’s names anyway. I don’t want to see a character called, I dunno, Fred Strange, and run up to him, thinking it’s one of my friends, but then when I say “Hi” they go “Who are you?”

I don’t like the idea of there being two Tony Hannibals.

Blurr out your email address in the picture, or remove the image altogether, as hackers can get hold of your account easier if they know what log on email address to use.

Conncept.7638:

penelopehannibal.8947:

Remember, warhorn is not giving you two extra weapon skills, it’s giving you at least eight different weapon skills, if not ten, if Tempest gets access to a new attunement via F5 skill!

That’s not going to happen, seriously, how does anybody think that’s going to happen?

A fifth attunement would require new skills for every existing weapon, meaning that would be 25 new weapon skills for a single specialization.

EDIT: I think? 10 for the warhorn for all attunements, two for each off hand for 4 total, three for each mainhand for 6 total, and 5 for the only twohander. Yup that’s 25.

Well, why not? After all, the Elementalist doesn’t have weapon swap. I only said if – if the new specialisation gets a new attunement.

RoseofGilead.8907:

skullfaerie.7203:

Guess I’ll start looking for a new class, then, so I can have some specialization to enjoy. Meh.

Or you could wait until the reveal of the specialization before dramatically abandoning your ele.

Exactly this! Also, elite specialisations are more than just a new weapon – they are the new Heal, Utility & Elite skills too!

Remember, warhorn is not giving you two extra weapon skills, it’s giving you at least eight different weapon skills, if not ten, if Tempest gets access to a new attunement via F5 skill!

Sekai.2987:

well , gj at kittening it up anet , cant belive we get such a useless piece of kitten , majority of ppl i talked to wanted the sword so bad and new we get that junk

and not to mention that fantasy wise it would make more sense that an ele can create a sword from fire or lighting to fight and a kittening warhorn belongs to the warriors , who the kitten thinks of a warhorn when you talk about elementalists

i was looking so much forward to the new weapon and new we get that junk , im incredible dissapointed and i think you have made a huge mistake anet

i simply lost any to motivation to play ele at all, guess i will spend my time on thief/mes from now on

Oh, you already know what weapon skills and utility skills the Tempest Specialisation will get? Please share us your inside knowledge!

What is Meta?

Baby don’t hurt me. Don’t hurt me. No more.

Time to warn Piken Square!

I think certain other names that are short for ‘William’ are not allowed, but I am surprised at this name, never would have thought your name would mean what the Urban Dictionary link is saying. I certainly wouldn’t have reported the name if I saw it in-game (and I’ve reported quite a lot over the past three years!) but I suppose it depends on locality.

As JT said, take it up with CS, it doesn’t seem obviously graphic to me, but as I said, as it’s not common near where I live, I couldn’t comment if you will get a review or not. Good luck though.

This thread is borderline creepy. Is it any wonder you’re not hearing from them?

What happens if you buy a book from the TP and it’s filled with childish obscenities?
What happens if someone sells a book with graphical eroticism in it, bearing in mind this is a 12+ game?
What happens if you spend 1 gold on a book with only two sentences in it?
What happens if someone creatively manages to use the font to create naughty pictures?

I’m sorry, I don’t think it’s a good idea. Firstly because you wouldn’t always get what you pay for, and secondly, it’d just blow the doors wide open to 4chan style puerility, that the customer has ended up paying for in gold.

They will do, though probably not until HoT is released. When the black ones were released, they said it was an introduction of ‘future content’ – though I don’t have the link to confirm this.

JustTrogdor.7892:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Character_Slot_Expansion

On July 10th, 2015, they increased the character slot limit to 67 because of the veteran player Heart of Thorns bonus character slot. This slot was free if you purchased Heart of Thorns on a older account, otherwise it can be purchased with gems.

In addition to JT’s confirmation, a player in the following thread has confirmed the cap is now 67 if you include the ‘veteran character slot bonus’

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Pre-purchase-bonus-character-slot-to-a-dev/first#post5217021

There are a couple of screenshots there too showing at least 66 slots.

On the Bullies: If they are verbally abusing you – right click and report. Joining a party and someone “not reading the LFG” is not an excuse for verbal abuse.

On the LFG: Advertise your own party. Usually people who aren’t particularly looking for Zerker-Zerker meta put “P1 80 Exp”

It’s a shame because I too don’t like Zerker-Zerker Meta, none of my characters are full Zerker (one or two might have Zerker weapon but no armour is) and the ones that I run dungeons with run them very well.

I think taking stats out of Trait Lines was a good idea, but I think to take them away from weapons might be a bit of a taller order, for very little affect to be honest, as stats would have to be moved somewhere, which leaves only armour & trinkets – and people will still be demanding Zerker-Zerker Meta.

Yes, this has always been the case. However, when the original hour is up, you will get moved anyway to a different megaserver, and without a warning that it’s going to happen.

You topple the shiny things (which were originally stolen items) so they too busy picking them back up to steal something else later on. You might actually be doing the Skritt a favour. You topple a shiny gear, so the skritt don’t go out and steal something that might end up being too dangerous for them to handle!

I’m sure the numbers aren’t final yet.

I’m sure when we see the Thief Elite Specialisation, our minds on this matter will be put at rest.

I think Magic Find is meant to be earned as you go along – if you grind for find, you’re wasting some energy that could be spent on playing the game for fun. Grind for other things, don’t grind for find!

It’s the steal & initiative that’s unique to Thief, not stealth.

Because a Revenant can handle it.

They’re not likely to, as it’d be a major overhaul of the PvE area.

Not only is it for absolute beginners, but I also think it makes the situation more intense. I think that’s the point of the last ditch effort to get yourself back up on your feet.

Ayrilana.1396:

Underwater weapons don’t really go with the core trait lines so that’s why they’re likely not being counted. It’s not like they’re going to add another legend just for underwater such as Quaggan.

Thanks for destroying the dream. T_T

ZudetGambeous.9573:

phokus.8934:

Shirley you jest that it was removed from WvW…

where is there water in WvW? remember, borderlands are being replaced with a desert. As far as I know there is no swim-able water in the oasis, just streams, though I haven’t gotten to play it yet.

The existing borderlands aren’t going away as far as I’m aware, just on a rotational basis.

I doubt it will happen, for the same reasons as why we’ve not go it in the first place. To quote Gaile:

Gaile Gray.6029:

I want to change my display name

• This is not a service that is available, either through a purchase or through Support. Unless there is a specific privacy issues — that is, you used your real name or your email address for you in-game and forum display name — the name is permanent. If you fall into the small number of people who did use your real name or email address, contact Support for assistance. Please do not write Support asking for exceptions, for they will not be made.

More about Display Name Changes

There are very good reasons why we do not offer the changes as a service at this time. It’s important in any game — and especially in an MMO with the high number and visibility of player interactions — to create a “personal history” for an account. I don’t mean your in-game “personal story” but a history of your account as viewed in the game.

If we allow changes of display names, a person who has been harassing another player will be hidden from that victim’s sight. A person who has built up a reputation for cheating, or botting, or doing other breaches of the UA, becomes invisible to those players who were aware of the issue and were awaiting action on the matter. Several other factors of “individual accountability” can be negated by simply hiding behind a new display name.

I take on board things like typos in making a name. But assessing the difference between a change and a correction can be difficult, and at this time, we’re holding firm on the “no changes” policy. There are two reasonable exceptions:

• An offensive name will be changed — once — and it will be changed by a GM using an anagram system, so the user does not get the privilege of choosing the second name.
• A display name will be changed to prevent the disclosure of personal information. For instance, the display name is the player’s real name or even email address. We have improved the account creation process to make it clear how display names function, and we even have expanded the User Agreement to accomplish the same objective. If players know that your display name is actually displayed in the game and on the forums, they’ll be less likely to use a name that poses a security risk. If they know that using an offensive name results in a randomly chosen name, they’ll be less likely — one hopes — to choose an unacceptable name.

Some of the same arguments about display name changes also applied to character names, but as you know, we made that option available when the feature could be properly developed. At some point we may make a feature available that allows a player to change his/her display name, but if we do, I am confident it will take into consideration all the risks of those changes, and address them effectively.

In the meantime, and with all due respect, we will decline to change display names unless they involve one of the two exceptions cited above.

From the topic: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Name-Questions-Please-read-merged/first#post2087181

I find solo-ing a champ is the best way to test your build in PvE. They fight back you see, so you can test your Dodge/Defence/Boons/Vitality etc as well.

There was a saying when this was happening to the Queensdale Champ Train before that got nerfed:

“You may pwn the champs, but you don’t own the champs”

I guess the same can be applied to ambients in this case – you can really only hope to report them for verbal abuse or harassment if they truly did.

Cash.2385:

heavy should easy beat light classes regardless of build. OR op profession.

So, what would the point of being a light armour class then if you are not supposed to kill anything above you? You’ve kind of defeated your own argument.