Guild Wars 2

Wayfarer’s is still my number 1 – it is so fun!

a buffet line for my character to pig out on tyrian cuisines, then go travel while full and boosted (food items give boosts).

in town games and carnival. divinity’s reach has the foundations of a great party, but it needs to be worked on. the animal/zoo thing was interesting, until i realized how short the trip was.

asuran basketball court or that mayan ball game with the stone balls. could be energy balls that kd, or something. or the asurans can have that trampoline/basketball hybrid thing, except with wind gusts from vents.

more golem battles in metrica province to bet silver on.

also, on the subject of beards, how about including beards like the ones on Duck Dynasty (the Robertson clan)? teem be some Beards!

human females and norn have good ponytails. more variety would be good, and i support additional hair options.

i got it for the larger player icon in PvE world. Guild members had a difficult time finding me on the same map, i got it to stand out for them. I might stink at wvw/pvp, and probably most of the pve stuff, but if my guild does not have to hammer me with location issues (where are you?). i had 100 gold to waste at the time, so i bought it.

i probably don’t deserve it, sure, but then give me back my 100 gold. i noticed that since getting the icon, i have been shunned from parties more often than before. also, the random harassment in game is a bit annoying, because the titles turned off, but the buff icon above the utility skill area is still visible, apparently.

i do fractals when i need gold boost. added benefit of fractal tokens for obby shards, because Orr is always contested during my play times. no undead in fractals, either, yet, so i consider it easier than Orr.

i completed the February Monthly last night. took 4 days. i thought it was well-paced, except the dungeon part. Would be nice if fractals was considered a dungeon. 100 events was okay, i guess. daily completion tier was neat, could count the dailies away in that tier. 500 salvages was fun, as well.

Also, the Unidentified Objects sell for a nice amount coin in bunches.

Find hostile Hylek Camp in Caledon Forest
Aggro a single Hylek, but stay in range of it’s Dart Gun attack
Dodge/evade side to side. if lv80, you should out heal the poison effect, or have enough HP to surive while waiting for stamina to regen.
Repeat as necessary.

i used my guardian against the hylek, so i can out-heal the poison at low levels.

Find Hylek
Aggro Hylek, but stay ranged
Hylek uses Poison Dart gun
3-4 dodges/evades given each time

it is such a low level, my guardian can outheal the poison, so i can stand and wait for stamina to recharge and keep going. Took less than 5 minutes.

Also, finished February Monthlies. Thanks to the Hylek Dart Guns

if you mean “mount” as in “getting off the ground to travel”, there is the broomstick option in the gem store. i consider it a mount, because it doesn’t touch the ground unless in a landed state.. like griffons.

for the dodging one, aggro a jungle or plains Wurm, and avoid its rock attack. might take awhile, but it is safer, i think that trying to dodge high-level stuff (which also works well).

suiciding players is much faster i think than spending 30 minutes NPC hunting. yes, there are many places or events with many downed NPCs, but if you end up out in the middle of nowhere, and no NPCs are around, the only gripe i have about the ressing of suiciding players in town is that two occasions now i have had to res 11 times, because one did not count.

siamoths attacking skale are easy resses out in caledon forest. scare them (interact) to the skelk and it solves itself.

maybe the wvw merchants can sell 20 minute animal tonics. then you can be an animal that cannot attack players or structures, but can only fly/crawl/walk into forts when your side has it.

while in animal mode, players cannot attack you, either. or maybe allow players to be attacked – players aren’t that oblivious.

i do not get Badges of Honor in PvE, so keep laurels out of PvP

or chance of laurels on salvaging

finishing the story mode = 50
completion of an individual map = 5
reaching 80 (since you can only do that once per character) = 20
retaking of god temples in Orr = 2/each temple
failing to occupy Grenth’s temple = 90

i am sad that fractals does not count for the dungeon monthly. sure, then i could just do level 1+2 to get that tier done, but i would not mind doing say, lv20 once a day for a week or two.

i just hope i can get some ARAH P3 trips in so i can also get tokens.

this game needs “add 200 players to your friend’s list” tier.

i posted this in another thread, but i started suiciding in game the first night i got fed up with finding NPCs to res.

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The Grove is a great spot to suicide (in-game), because all you have to do is jump from the third level (the level with the LA portal) all the way down to the bottom of the hub. way-pointing between levels in the Grove doesn’t usually incur a loading screen (unless going to the Caledon one near the exit), so way-pointing to say, Reckoner’s Waypoint, travel is instantaneous.

suiciding in towns for the achievement is safer – you get FREE way pointing because you are in a town, there are NO enemies to hit you, so you do not suffer repair costs, and NPC hunting is annoying in some areas.
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given it some more thought, and i think i might spend a minute to create a GW2LFG post on the site for suiciding for dailies (if i get that one) tonight. maybe i’ll make some friends helping others.

i was offering in The Grove last night to suicide (in-game) for other players. i have chosen to sacrifice myself to help others, is that bad? if i get that daily again, i am going to continue to suicide for my friends (in-game)

The Grove is a great spot to suicide (in-game), because all you have to do is jump from the third level (the level with the LA portal) all the way down to the bottom of the hub. way-pointing between levels in the Grove doesn’t usually incur a loading screen (unless going to the Caledon one near the exit), so way-pointing to say, Reckoner’s Waypoint, travel is instantaneous.

suiciding in towns for the achievement is safer – you get FREE way pointing because you are in a town, there are NO enemies to hit you, so you do not suffer repair costs, and NPC hunting is annoying in some areas.

i am still puzzled as to why i have to do them all – thought i could do 5/6 to complete.

thanks to the JP chest, i was able to get my Gift of Battle for Bifrost this morning. Zerging and taking forts was not yielding badges for me, so it got tedious and boring quick running around the map looking for fights and repairing damaged armor. Jump Puzzle in Eternal Battlegrounds is more consistent (due to puzzle traps and paths), and do not require me to combat other players (if uncontested), which i do not like doing.

i have to admit i did get a single Badge of Honor…after zerging for 3 hours, and then boringly sat up on a wall to fire the wall cannons for an additional 2 hours. 5 hours for a Badge? that is not fun for me.

thanks to all the mesmers who ported me, also. you players ROCK!

Additionally to the existing Daily Rotations, i would like to see

“Jump 2,000 times”
“Loot 300 items”
“Face-plant 20 times”
“Run for 15 seconds, uninterrupted in Orr”

1) Dailies would be repeatable on alts (once a day for each character)
2) event karma and money rewards would be 10x more (except the experience portion, seems already generous)
3) no more Diminishing Returns. i would impose a flat rate of 20% for all awesome items. maybe remove DR on ITEMS and event rewards and place DR on Experience Gains.
4) involve more dragon/unicorn hybrids into game, somewhere
5) give more healing power options, or shorter CD on ele heals
6) open ring of fire isles, add 9 dragon events onto it
7) new loot standard – items start at rares – no more blues or greens or common (white?)
8) precursors would be craftable, so players can craft in the stats they desire, so when they roll it into the legendary item, it has the stats and looks they want. legendaries themselves would be account bound when crafted/acquired.
9) no more agony in fractals
10) keep ascended gear for PvE only, but give players multiple equipment slots, to switch between game modes (pve armor tab, separate wvwtab, another for town clothes, and one for pvp gear)
11) option to store character trait builds at trainers, so retraining is more worth it for 3.50 silver. intereacting with NPC gives some kind of “i would like to retrain to my [pvp/wvw]pve] skills”.

12) new and varied WvW maps. currently 3 of the 4 available are exactly the same. open up an elonian-themed map, and feature HUGE sand castles and forts, and mud sieges. maybe on map rotation (weekly?) it would shuffle up the 3 borderlan maps, so that there’s the regular one, sand one (desert) and a volcanic one, much like the variety of hall of heroes (guild wars 1 maps)?
13) badges of honor will drop 5-10% of the time guaranteed for players.
14) weather effects will affect players roaming about (get struck by lightning, random meteors in charr or volcanic areas) – not very high percentage though, or it would become too annoying.
15) dragging bosses around outside comfort zone will be okay if done correctly, and the “turn around and run back” limit will be severely increased to 20x, as so players can pull bosses much, MUCH farther if needed.
16) remove boss resets in dungeons. also, halve the amounts of HP they have.
17) add more fun emotes like /tebow or /flex. bring back the guild wars 1 emotes.
18) skills differentiate for each game type like guild wars 1. when in pve, have a skill that does 900 dmg. using same skill in wvw maybe does 500 dmg.

got most of the easy stuff done like gathers, so i felt accomplished enough to grab the stuff i don’t like getting (arah shards, badges, clovers, precursor). with enough stuff invested beforehand, i would stick with it all the way.

if i did all the more involved stuff first, i would have probably given up sooner.

pre-downloading the new content is better – it wouldn’t be very fun to log in to see lots of broken stuff.

in GW1, i just altered the shortcut with a -image command. i don’t know if it works now.

go to wvw and avoid seige/arrowcart attacks?

please involve maybe quest markers, such as the Green ones for the storyline missions. unless you find them, the gold ones do not show up on the map.

or maybe use the Event arrows and circle combos to point the way. also, maybe a tracking thing for the in game mail characters get – when they open to read the email, there could be maybe a “track this quest” type thing. in any case, thanks for getting me back into these areas! (idea working as intended)

> i wish the refugees could just tell me about what ails them – asking about the weather all the time doesn’t seem fitting there.

Zeus CM.1692:

30 Laurels per Amulet is too much. You can get only 1 per month wtf… + infusions extra month.

but it gives longevity to playing, i suppose. if the daily gave you ~900 laurels, you could have everything you wanted sooner, thus getting bored quicker, because you have everything in a few minutes.

i am normally all-for getting stuff cheap and early (though i kind of pace myself), and have made peace with the current laurel prices. i just hope the prices don’t INCREASE with all of the griping about laurels.

> get it while the gettin’s good

for the ressing one, just res the npcs at the end of the ascalon (searing) before going on to the next fractal, if you are doing fractals.

i asked my friend to de-armor themselves and jump off a cliff a bunch of times.

since i did not have a crafting tier last night, does that mean it is a randomly generated list every day? i enjoy the bar in the corner of my UI screen, but i wish it also listed the tiers, not just overall progress %. i wish they modified it to track in the UI, like the renown hearts and Events do.

if i could do arah path 3 more often, i could learn to play it better. however, the lfg site specifies “experienced only”, which excludes myself.

> implying i need 440 more arah tokens for legendary.

the only reason for me to run fractals now is for Obsidian Shards, and cheap +5 infusion upgrades. i will probably camp and do daily levels as much as possible, because shards are 15 tokens/each, and i am out of karma right now after buying up 150 shards for Mystic Clovers. The monthly for February is going to be tricky, because i would like to get the ascended Thackeray pendant, to replace my exotic piece. but the monthly can also give me shards. tough choice, at the moment.

I enjoyed Obal’s patience and presence while in the dungeon. I was downed a few times, but he picked me back up with kind words

i would like to go more often if you need spots filled. my times are good on weekends, and late thursday nights. I lost my saturdays, so i can only game saturday afternoons. right now evenings are good (between 9-11pm PST) and all day friday.

yup. i am happy that it only takes that many. i am currently weighing whether i should get 30 Obby Shards next month, or the Thackeray Family Crest or Mark of the Imperial Guard pendants.

Long term, i can keep doing fractals for shards (15 tokens for 1), or every 3 days get 3 shards through dailies. I ran my karma dry last night when balth’s temple opened for the first time in awhile, so i went and picked up 50 shards before bed.

you can also res downed NPCs out in the world for the ressing one. You can also have a friend jump to their death from a jump puzzle, or something numerous times. also, i think you have to initiate the res for it to count – with 3 players ressing another, i jumped in late, and did not get credit (it may be i didn’t res enough %, idk)

the dodging one i had trouble with last night – but at the ascalon fractal, the arrow carts give 3 evades per volley (might be more, my reaction time is slow). after dodging like crazy at the gate/seigemaster, i was able to finish my daily for the night.

last night’s daily seemed to take longer, which, if the intention was for players to play longer per session, it is working so far. it definitely took me more than an hour last night vs 30-40 minutes last week. Thankfully, the enemy types and # of kills is still there. if they were not there, i would rage.

I was also under the impression i could choose to do 4/5 to do to finish it. Guess i was wrong.

why not just go to Orr-tunnel to get combo fields? you don’t have to party up (as solo as you wanna be), and players use SOME KIND of AOE or field, there. that’s like, one event of combo fields. or get a guild member to throw some down for you, but that would take cooperation, with another player.

for 5 gold/day, i’ll gladly help you out by throwing some fields down with my ele….

so far, the speed for my download is going pretty well. Hovering between screenshot and 1.89MB/s. on my lunch break, hope to play later tonight.

also, with the slayer achievements. under “kill 1,000 plants”, sylvari don’t count, and should be noted. “giant” should be expanded, as well, because the Giant whale in forstgorge did not count.

why not just use the Consortium, instead of the Zaishen? the Consortium showed up because Karka were introduced. they don’t have much going for them at the moment, maybe they can expand the consortium a bit more. Karka -related dailies, perhaps?

just thought that the consortium introduced fractals and Karka stuff, they don’t actually compete with the Black lion traders in any way i can see. hmm…black lion gangs vs consortium gangs…. could be interesting.

a monthly TP purge i would support. i don’t sell much anyways, but all of those outstanding orders for items have to go.

yay! an answer to my PvE needs! world v world in a pve setting allows me to be part of the community, while NOT fighting other players, which i dislike with a passion (i like killing AI, not other players). might also serve as a good WvW (pvpve) introduction. at the moment, you go to a borderland, and just zerg around with not much instruction. at least , it being in Orr, and level 80 zones, it would be a nice introduction to the game play, while offering lots of MORE fun for all players.

at this point:

*-The battle begins scaling upward above the current player population, eventually becoming a fight meant for 2-3 times the current player base.
-Veterans and extra siege equipment are introduced over time.
-World bosses begin stirring, performing strafing runs.
-Champion mobs enter the battlefield.
-A World Boss enters the fray.
-Normal Undead are replaced by veterans.
-Double world bosses attack.
-Keep scaling. The programming should find a way to ensure that the match becomes absolutely unwinnable by the best of teams and almost never occur, but provide for the one in a million possibility with a fun and engaging battle. Break the players or break the server. Either way, crush them!*

will the last phase have a chance for precursors, SHOULD ORR BE THEN 100% PLAYER OWNED?? if eliminating drops, replacing with higher karma rewards (and possibly karma discounts), this might be a neat addition, along with the assumed money drops (events giving karma and money)? Inb4 precursor drop rates and making legendaries easier to obtain, because SOMEONE HAD TO ASK. sorry to ask, but i am imagining tha the last phase with the 2 bosses could play out similarly to the Giant Karka event (except you have 2 of those at the same time).

> standard dragon battles are cool, too, if it’s easier to program/design for.

have you tried the transmutation stones?

/kapernick for norn or a /tebow would be cool for ends of quests and dungeons. be cool to /tebow when i get my legendary.

is it weird to want to go for tokens? i guess you get them anyways, but i have yet to attempt or enter this dungeon. my main is ele, but i have a guardian with some ascended rings, and exotics (power/tough/vit). i use a scepter/shield, and a staff. currently on Kaineng server.

working on legendary and it turns out i need 500 of those. i second that the LFG site is full of “experienced only posts”. it is discouraging, i posted my noobness there and received no response back.

thanks for the offer.

he crash lands in a box SE of the spiral skillpoint. you have to revive him, to start the Escort/Protect quest.

why can’t i just AOE the nodes, so they drop stuff? maybe i don’t mind the tools as much, but if i run out of tools (at 2/3 gathers), i always try to AOE the node, anyways out of anger and despair, just to see if it works one day.

when i feel chancy, i use the OTHER SIDE of the forge, instead of the side closest to the bank NPCs. i guess that is an adventure , too, because i explored the other side of the forge!

i am currently worried about being able to to the ARAH dungeons for the arah shards. i am working on getting badges, ectos, obsidian shards, and clovers. this “epic journey” advertised does not feel legendary, and neither are the “eppec trypz” to the forge or TP to pick up purchased items.

I agree with the CTRL+SHIFT+H combo.

Eir, (the sylvari explorer/story buddy), the beach lieutenant at claw island.

Ganzicus.1426:

I parked all of my 7 characters at the entrance to Urmaug’s Secret. Logged in to each of them each day after the daily reset time, moved around a bit if I didn’t see the achievement progressing by 1. Quick and easy, no running or jumping involved.

^ similar to what i did. i only have 3 characters, so i parked them at the 3 LA ones, and proceeded to log out and back in on each in sequence. took about 10 minutes of just logging in and out to finish.

Guild Wars 2: Logan’s Run.