Guild Wars 2

Heriticus Spiritus.2489:

Anything Celestial is account bound! So can’t be sold or traded! You’ll just have to charge one crystal a day like everyone else, and then make insigs etc.

Even if its account bound, it could still technically be “sold” to the op. They just would have to invite the person into the guild and have that person deposit it in the GH thing.

Lambent.6375:

What about the people that don’t do any of those?

Well they get a bunch from the login rewards too. Even if they do the daily/slacker pvp, they’ll still get a bunch.

I’m with the op. Please remove the tomes from the chests. imo they should only contain stuff from the gemstore itself.

I thought they said it LS3 wouldn’t start till after Raid Wing 3 was out.

In the same boat as the people above. Wasn’t able to get to the events the first few days, now can’t get the Inquest achievement. Let alone finish the event, since it always fails even though I’ve been focusing on the golems. The golems just spawn too much and rush way too fast (especially the small ones). Doesn’t seem to that many people either at the events now, so that doesn’t help either. Hopefully Anet can fix the scaling on these events because it sucks not being able to even finish the event.

Chaba.5410:

Evan Lesh.3295:

You get everything.

Are you sure this is working right? I got the tier reward shakey things after my first match on this account tonight but I didn’t open them right away. I left the match to spend time opening them. I got the emerald ones, but never saw the amber reward icons pop.

I logged into my alt and opened the icons right away. I got all the emerald and amber rewards. I’m sorry that I didn’t keep track of before/after gold amounts.

Ok, so I’m not the only one that didn’t get the amber rewards. I got the amber->emerald reward, but didn’t get any of the amber tier wiggly chests/icons/things. I did get all of the emerald ones though (I think), since I started in sapphire.

I do need to check tonight to see if I got credit for both tier crossings though. I know I got at least one, since it finished the 3 meta, but I forgot to check in meta 4 to see if I got a tier crossing in it.

Gonna have to join in on this too. As an ele main, I’m getting sick of being nerfed because of the PvP side of Ele. Please separate at least PvP and PvE skills (again).

Sinope.5630:

I would join in blink of eye to TTS or those events what they are running, if I would have Teamspeak. But because I don’t have Teamspeak, I am always out of fun.

Teamspeak isn’t exactly required for TTS though. Its nice if you have it though, as it helps with coordination. You don’t even have to have a mic/talk.

Haleydawn.3764:

As much as I would love this, it would have to drag its bum on the floor while idling or I won’t buy it :P

Doesn’t the Beedog already do this?

khani.4786:

The one place I miss the Hero’s Choice chest the most is Dragon Stand. Right now you get a whole 9? machetes for doing the map from start to end. I don’t remember the exact number, but it was pitiful.

It was 9ish to the door I think, then another 3-6 for bosses/mouth I think. But yeah, we have all these vine pods now, but never enough machetes to open even just the ones that show up on our lanes. I guess if you’ve gotten everything from the other maps collections, you can start using the rewards from those maps to buy more, but that would take awhile.

This please. The account slots don’t quite cut it, since any new keys that we get don’t stack with the ones in the account slots automatically. We have to manually move them up to the slot, which gets quite annoying when keep getting more per event (like the crowbars from VB events).

now, if only they’d bring back the molten jetpack…

Khisanth.2948:

The tenebrous crystals also come from mining the ore node in the guild hall. You get anywhere from 0 to 10 a day.

Its more like anywhere from 0 to 10 per swing. In theory (probably has been someone lucky enough), you could get 30 in a tier 1 node.

Alex Shatter.7956:

skullmount.1758:

We need less salad based stories (#BurnTheGroveDown), and more Asura/Charr centered stories.

so have you ever played the original Guild Wars? Prophecies and Eye of the North was all about Charr, and a good portion of Eye of the North was all about the Asura. It went into great detail about how Abaddon influenced the flame legion, et cetera, and how Primordus drove the Asura out of the ground. I spent a good 3-4 years of my life listening to Anet give me Charr / Asura lore. Let sylvari do things now

I would say each of the norn, asura, and charr had about equal amount of content in Eye of the North. And if you want to compare (actual) expansions, then you have to acknowledge that Sylvari had more focus than those, since thats basically all HoT was focused on, where as Eye focused on three different races.

eNeRgOo.5463:

Why did you buy HoT anyway? It’s supposed to be about Sylvaris and seems like you don’t like them. So why anyway?

Well there was other stuff to be had instead of story, like the elite specs, gliding, legendaries, and LS3 (since that will requite HoT).

eNeRgOo.5463:

The most important lore is getting to know if there are other Sylvari and what happened to these infected by Mordrem after Modremoth’s death.

Theres more relevant lore/stories that needs to be done before we worry about some (now) minor side story from the original personal story.
What about the egg?
More info on the exalted (yes glint created them, made to protect the egg, but what do they do after it hatches/leaves?)
What is the pact going to do now? (both with the sylvari and as an organization)
Does phlunt finally get whats coming to him?
How long before Taimi rebuilds Scruffy?
Will Jenna reopen Crown Pavilion/Boss Blitz?
How will the other Norn (those still around hoelbrak) react to Eir’s demise?
Will Rytlock be able to finish the ritual to cleanse the ghosts (doubtful, since maps are kinda locked in time)?

Why not finish all the other previous unresolved stuff instead of just one?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3rh6j0/spoilers_unawnsered_questions_and_impressions/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2u2ve2/lets_make_a_list_of_unresolved_lorestoryline/ (some of those were resolved though in the expansion)

Or how about what happened with the pieces of Magdaer ?
Or what about the future versions/events/etc that were hinted at during the Asuran PS?
Or the White Mantle from the Humans personal story? (more hinted at now with Wing 2/Salvation Pass)
I’m sure theres some in the Norn and Charr PS too (didn’t quite pay close attention to those).

And yes I know the Malyck story line was before Zaitan (its the only sylvari storyline I played through). It doesn’t mean he or his tree were not still in the area when Mordy awoke and started corrupting more. Also, who is to say Modry wasn’t doing stuff at that time? There was the shadow of the dragon was in the beginning story of Sylvari characters, people thought it represented Zhaitan but maybe it was really Mordy trying to breach the dream. And with Scarlet, Mordy was doing stuff with her (mentally anyways) before Zhaitan’s demise.

SirDrygan.1823:

Wanna bet he is already been killed millions times over?

Just think of it this way. He went west into the jungle where Mordy is and doesn’t have the dream to sorta protect him (though he may have the focus/determination/whatnot to resist the call, like Canach). Even if he didn’t answer the call, he could still have been captured like the DE group, only noone saved him. Either way, he became a Mordrem. Then we killed him (with lots of fire).
End of story, on to the needed Asura/Charr/Norn focused living stories.

Taimi and Scruffy were the only emotional-ish part of the story for me.
Eir – ehh, was expected.
Trahearne, didn’t necessarily hate him, but don’t really care about him/that he finally got killed.

BrotherBelial wasn’t entirely wrong though. It (the living story) basically all revolved around Sylvari in one form or another (like all the team ups, all focused on Scarlet, a Sylvari). Heck one of the main protagonists in one of the first LS (Southsun cove first/second time) was focused on a Sylvari (Canach).

Dante.1508:

Redenaz.8631:

You do NOT get the individual level-up rewards. I used mine on an alt, so I can confirm it.

I was actually relieved by this, because what you do get is better than anything you get, then immediately outgrow using tomes, but if you were hoping for one of the items you would get leveling up, you should know you’ll bypass it with the level 80 boost.

It’s a heck of a lot less clicking and inventory work, let me tell you.

Strange Question…

If i level to 79 then use my 80 boost do you still get the rewards?

I believe I read a post by an Anet person saying that you will. You’d get the 1-79 rewards and then the one from the boost.

Redenaz.8631:

I boosted from ~17 to 80, so I can’t answer guarantee it from experience, but you should still get the boost package without getting the level-up rewards. From 79-80, you’d miss out on an obsidian shard and 15 spirit shards.

At that point, I would just finish that last level and use the boost on an alt. Even if you have only a tiny bit of interest in alts, it seems like a waste to use all that just to go up one level.

Edit: I found this video by Anet very helpful in explaining what I was getting into before I used the boost. I recommend it.

Depends on how many tomes you have. Some of us have stacks, so it wouldn’t be that much of a problem. Actually leveling to 79 and then using the boost might be a waste though.

We need less salad based stories (#BurnTheGroveDown), and more Asura/Charr centered stories.

Any chance of bringing the molten jackpack back in the forge (or somewhere else) somehow? Pretty please?

Sorry in advance to anyone in the next seasons, but it’ll wind up being 4v5 in ranked if the new skyhammer gets put into it. I’ll probably abandon the map and take the dishonor if it gets chosen thats how much I dislike the new changes (mainly the missing breakable platforms). Its just so boring now.

It would also be nice if we could have the toggle weapon drawn in the wardrobe.

They’re not deleted per say. They rotate the items in and out of the gemstore every once in a while. Just keep checking, I’m sure they’ll be back at some point. And be sure to check when they do sales, they tend to bring a couple things back each time.

It keeps being asked and all we keep getting told is that those skins will be back eventually. I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for them to actually return.

My 2cents on skyhammer: Its now just like the other maps. There is no real uniqueness to it anymore. At least bring back the breakable floor panels. They at least gave you something to have to think about instead of just fighting like on all the other maps. The wall around the map is fine I guess since it was always open which potentially didn’t give you as much of a chance to escape like the breakable floor ones. The hammer change I guess is all right, though it doesn’t seem to really affect the match.

If anything changes with the map, I would just want the floor panels back.

Thaddeus.4891:

…
In the AMA that you can see on dulfy Anet say this : ‘’Ascended drops were actually increased significantly in the 26-50 range, and while they’re slightly lower in the 51-75 range, the addition of the 76-100 tier means the overall chance of getting Ascended from your dailies is a lot better!’’
…

To be fair, how many other times have they said they’ve increased (significantly) the ascended drop rates? And for some of us, they still drop just as frequently as they did before they say it (i.o.w. not that often).

You can still get them out of the other daily fracal achievement chests. I think you can still get ascended out of it. Doing almost all of them (I think only tier 4 mai was left?) after reset yesterday, I think I got 2-3 ToK, 1 Deldrimor Ingot, 1 20s junk item (can’t remember name), 2 pages, a chest of black lion goods, +1 agonies, and a couple other things (can’t remember what they were now…).

Can only comment on skyhammer currently but I have to agree with the OP, its completely BORING now. If I only wanted to actually fight someone I would have chosen one of the other two maps that are build for it (forest/foefire). At least bring back the breakable platforms. Change to the cannon is fine I guess, but having the wall around the whole map (or at least on the side that had B, don’t think I payed attention to the other side) and no breakable platforms make this the same as any other map and gives it no uniqueness (other than the rare/occasional skyhammer shot).

Cynz.9437:

Mitch.4781:

I never understood the hate for this map and spirit watch? Why? Aren’t you guys bored of the same old maps?? I really hope they introduce new ones this year.

Probably because you didn’t play those maps in ranked when canon was undodgeable, platforms would disappear fast not to mention the orb in spirit watch still heavily favors classes with blocks, leaps etc. You also probably don’t play classes that rely on ports – you get “no valid path” error on 90% of the terrain there: try to use shadowstep to break stun? NOPE. Try to use steal to interrupt enemy? NOPE.

God forbid you actually change up how you play. And so what if ports didn’t work, range still doesn’t completely work on all the maps (still get obstructed even when nothing in the way). Now this map will be just as boring to play on as the others. At least spirit watch (and temple) still have some interesting mechanics that can still sway the match.

They might as well just make maps that are completely flat with no terrain or any kind of interesting mechanics from what you guys say you want…

This will make the majority happy I guess (not myself).

https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/722146097892876288

and reddits ‘thread’:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4fdgx4/teaser_skyhammer_overhaul/

Looks like hammer itself is moving (and its control console).
Looks like theres more ways up to the console? (the three arch things where the console used to placed-ish)
The breakable platforms look to be removed (the worst change in my opinion )

Yeah, thanks for bringing the best content back (even though its temporary again ).

Hopefully next year we’ll get zone 3 (I really want the red weapons).

As long as you have the other pieces that come from the PvP tournament (meta achievements and stuff from the vendor), you should still be able to craft it later on after this year is done. Just be sure to get all the items from the PvP seasons while they’re up (now you’ll have to wait till the third, whenever that one will be, if you haven’t gotten all of them.)

https://twitter.com/that_shaman/status/720687923331534848

;)

Randulf.7614:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4eqvee/any_news_on_whether_or_not_they_will_keep_the/

Think they answered yes to both if I am reading that correctly

oh didn’t see that response yet. Cool. Now if only they could get rid of the kitten confirmation window. Took way too many clicks yesterday to get through a stack of the coins.

Randulf.7614:

I believe they said yes on Reddit yesterday

I think all they said was Moto was going to stay, which means you can spend the baubles not the furniture coins. Those are spend at the guild hall guy.
I would be nice if the clouds stayed in that vendors list (and removed the kittening confirmation).

https://twitter.com/that_shaman/status/721011262881193988

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

TenTonHammer has the video of it, if interested.

Well other sites do now too. MassivelyOP and PCgamer have released articles too, with the same video.

I’d rather go after the pony bow. This looks like a modified ascended shortbow (just increase its width…).

Ellie.5913:

Eh hopefully something for people who don’t do fractals or raids….

Doubt it. In the AMA (iirc) they basically said LS3 isn’t coming till after the third wing and thats not supposed be out till May/June (I think).

My theory is another content drought till raid wing 3 is out or until till LS3 (for those of us that don’t raid), though ANet could prove me wrong…

Depends on how good at jumping you are.
Some of the acheives (like collect all the baubles in a zone) can take a awhile (depending on how familiar you are with the zone and guide(s).
Trib mode can take a while too. For myself it took 2-3 hours just to finish W2Z2 trib mode. Current speed runs of trib can help with trib (though you’ll have to consult with other guides to get the tough customer (shops) and honeycomb/tree stump achieves in trib mode.

Yes, I believe you can just create a toon and buy the armor (if you have the gold) (also a good way to get all the starter class skins).
No, progression shouldn’t be removed since I believe it ties into the wardrobe which never has anything removed.

probably by the time LW S3 comes out…
He has said they’re in central Tyria, so I doubt it has anything to do with the last Raid Wing.

Kinda want/need to get more than 5, since they apparently don’t want to give us a keyring like system for all the chests…

All should flail. Its a unique feature to the SAB skins, so it should be fixed for the others.

eh, at least the trib mode is only a couple seconds compared to the normal mode one where we have to watch moto being capture each time.

Duke Darkwood.4237:

… their GW2 experience is an obligation, and not enjoyable to them, I really don’t want to see SAB relegated to such a status.
…

Thats the thing though. It currently is an obligation, since we only have it for two-ish weeks. If it was permanent, I wouldn’t feel the need to only play SAB and pretty much ignore everything else. When they make things temporary, it makes it feel more like a job to have to play that content, at least for me, because it’ll be the only time I get to play the content. And it would allow me to work on trib mode (at least world 2) more on my own pace instead of trying to grind it out in two weeks.

Ayrilana.1396:

Hop onto another character…

Though he’d have to get all the SAB ‘upgrades’ again on a new character.

Manuhell.2759:

It should just be permanent. Keep separate SAB dailies for the orange weapons and make people do them at their leisure, without them feeling like a chore.
If there is something i hate with a passion, it’s being forced to do something because of a timegate. Especially when it is possible only within 3 weeks out of a year.
Add a world every 1st april, and that’s it. Fresh new content when the festival comes, eventually make items cheaper on festival time to incentive people doing SAB at that time, and let’s be done.

This. Also, especially since we now have a collection for the weapons, it be nice to be able to work on them all year (especially tribulation world 2).
And even if making it permanent makes it “lose its value/novelty”, when they introduce new worlds it will bring the hype back.

Electro.4173:

You need to do the full HoTstory on each alt to even play the final mission. All story mission progress is character-bound.

Manuhell.2759:

I hoped they would have kept it permanent this time. And expand it further when the festival came.

This is what I had hoped as well. That way we can still farm tribulation mode to get the other colors (since world 2 takes/took forever to do just on normal).

(come on Anet, just make it permanent please)

It was character bound.
So if you did it before, use the character that you played through it with before.

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