Guild Wars 2

That’s been there since the start, and the reason is that the instructor recognizes that she’s very talented with a blade. But she wants to throw spells around and is upset at the idea of swapping paths. I wouldn’t read anything into that.

Zenyatoo.4059:

The truth is a little less glamorous. Iron marches is one of the least complete zones in the entire game. That text you see there is a note from a graphic designer to either his co-workers or himself. Reminding them to quite literally “cut out” that piece. There’s another one somewhere in iron marshes that says something like “content not finished” on the floor.

This is what I would figure it was, but I hadn’t seen it. I am in that zone now and will check these out.
Kind of funny when these kinds of things are missed — not that it’s easy to catch them with so many art and texture resources in a game like this — and visible in the playable world.

I was just by there last night, but I didn’t look at the ground closely enough obviously. Ha, now I am going to be looking for messages all over the world. :/

One thing you could do is transmute the Memoires with another back piece, selecting the visuals you’d prefer and the stats you’d prefer when you merge them. While I have not personally done this, it is my understanding that this would give the book back piece an actual level so that you can add higher-level jewels and upgrades.

But that would kill the cleric’s backpiece in the process, so *shrug*.

rgrwng.4072:

is it safe to play ranger? i have not been playing my fem-norn ranger because i am scared i may get picked out while leveling.

i am working on my guardian right now, but almost ready to start on my ranger.

My ranger is kind of just hanging out in Black Citadel at level 4.
I figure since he’s not human and as long as I don’t tame a bear, he might be safe, but we’ll see.

haha I kid.
Mostly.

Headgear has been pretty :/ ever since GW:Prophecies was launched.

Clones spam auto-attack, can often be one- or two-shot, and are lucky to register more than a single digit of damage on a target.
Phantasms will do actual damage, but they also have much longer CDs and cannot be spammed. A mesmer looking to build up damage via phantasms has to be more careful about when she shatters as a result, making quick spawns and shatters potentially far from ideal. And likely the phantasms are dead or irrelevant by the time another is spawned.

Shattering only allows mesmers to always daze if the mesmer is traited for it. Otherwise only one of them does, and it’s not got the shortest cooldown.

The brief stealth provided by decoy or veil are kind of "oh crap" buttons, not really all that great imo, but I am sure the more veteran PvP mesmer players would be happy to talk about those skills for anyone interested. In any case, as an ele you can counter with plenty of AoE and interrupts.

If it seems I am only defending mesmers, it’s because I get the impression this thread was created due to some unhappy experiences you’ve been having against them. As such, I see no reason to list the cool things eles can do, or any other class, and am just trying to point out that, in my opinion, the accusations that the class is OP or needs to be further nerfed aren’t good.

How and why are you equating attunement, a class mechanic, to clone generation, a weapon/utility spell mechanic? Attunement swapping is more akin to weapon swapping, being as it replaces that for elementalists. And given that, elementalists can swap through four different sets of 1-5 skills much more quickly than any other class can swap among two. The long wait is only if you insist on swapping between just two.

Clones themselves don’t do damage; shattering them does. The shatters all have cooldowns already, so there’s no need to impose additional cooldowns on clones.

"Watch, I’ll shut down this boss’s melee. Nuke’em down."

"I’ve got interrupts on all these casts."

RIP, GW1 mesmers. RIP :(

I’ve never caused fear while wearing it on any character.
It just lights my way at night.

Also: "Mad Memoires"

psirca.9452:

I don’t think all the mods follow the same rules. I even reread the Code of Conduct to see if I just missed it but there was nothing that said don’t talk about other games.

It’s become pretty clear that following the code of conduct alone isn’t enough to be sure a post won’t receive an infraction or a thread get closed or whatever. The mod staff has some kind of collection of rules that seem to be enforced based on whomever is driving the moderator account at the time.

Friendly offensive spells don’t have a ring visible to you. Ones that can be used for combos and boons should still be visible, however (i.e. healing areas and fields). If all friendly spells had a visible circle in the beta events, that must have been taken out prior to the headstart/launch weekend.

And of course hostile ones are visible.

Correct. You need to be of an order to wear its armor.

Map clearing and Orr zerging have worked well for me.

Seriously. Last night I spent a little under a gold for some materials for crafting before churning out some of that. I then went through a map or two to unlock karma vendors to get pieces of armor for a transmutation I wanted to do on my gear. By the end, I had that gold back and a little more.

I also haven’t been rushing to level, playing various characters and running around the world, but I did recently get one of them to 80. I was exploring in Orr and found all of the other players, or at least a nice large chunk of them, and followed the zerg through events. Within an hour or so of playing and getting drops, I made a gold or two easy.

These are not the only ways, to be sure, but as I currently wouldn’t describe my play style as "farming" I think it’s a good indication of how easy it should be for you to get a little bit of cash coming in on your character, or at least see if these avenues are worth it to you.

As above, and then you should be able to move that skin to new armor with transmutation stones, yeah.

You should have an idea of what your IP address should look like.
If you get an email with an IP address and you aren’t confident if it is yours, or if you just want to check, you can go to sites like whatsmyip.org to have it shown to you if you don’t know where to look. Or, check in your router’s admin pages for a status display -- your IP should be there, as well.

In any case, never just approve any old IP.

JeffVader.3691:

I’m sorry if this has ever been covered, but I’m brand new to the game (and forums). I’ve been looking online but I don’t see any info on where I can purchase microtransactions. Has this feature been implemented yet? If so, where can I find it?

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Microtransactions are the purchases made in the gem store.

If you are looking for the store itself, it’s part of the Black Lion Trading Co. This is accessed via the lion-head looking icon at the upper-left of the screen when in-game or via a keyboard shortcut -- I believe "Y" is the default key to bring it up. OR by talking to trading post NPCs.

Then look at the tab that has a gem icon for the gem store.
The buy/sell tabs and the like are for in-game trading of in-game items and currency.

I don’t know why some people seem to think gold sellers are the only people who run bots. I am sure a ton of bots are also just players who don’t feel like farming, want to see what they can get away with, like having a program play the game for them while they sleep or go to work, enjoy getting in-game wealth with minimal effort, etc.

Altering the price of gems isn’t going to make bots go away.

Hearts are those quests. Some of them even involve turning in trophies.
Personally, I feel that the GW2 system of heart areas and dynamic events makes questing a more fluid part of exploration since it all comes along with hitting PoI and vistas and gathering resources, not a rote and banal series of repetitive events driven by a bunch of lazy NPCs with punctuation above their heads. Sure, overall we’re doing the same exact thing, there’s no two ways around that, but I don’t know, at least for now I don’t feel like sighing as much when I enter a new explorable map.

Not that all quests done in the "traditional" sense were bad -- quite the contrary. There have been some great quests in various games launched by our !-equipped, coded friends.

Edit/addition:
Though it’s my opinion that we could all benefit from quest-driven events for "cool" gear. Don’t get me wrong -- the current legendary system has some really neat looking skins and gives the endgame play an carrot on a stick. That’s cool. But I am disappointed that it’s essentially just a matter of grinding (be it for the mats or the money) and buying with no neat storyline or event. But I don’t want to get to off-topic, so I’ll reign myself in here...

I have no surprise believing they are full. I am on Crystal Desert, and there are always tons of people in LA with some smaller clumps in the other cities. Without fail. Orr, too, often has at least one decent-sized zerg running around in its three zones.

While I run across other players pretty often while leveling a character who are also out killing things or completing maps, I also run across AFK players in random places all over, as well. It’s difficult to gauge how many people are actually logged in merely based on map chat and who you might see.

And if you add in all of the silent, non-speaking bots that are hanging out in significantly large groups in various zones throughout the world, I’d wager that adds up similarly to the huge throngs of players in the starting areas we all saw in the first week or two.

Charr Guardian.1497:

I keep track of all the bots I’ve reported, and there’s some that I reported over a month ago, still running rampant.

This is the part that’s the most sad. I certainly won’t stop reporting them, but I’d love to see some kind of end result come to fruition.
While I don’t doubt [or, at least, I certainly hope] someone on the development team is looking into the bot code that is floating around on the web to see about how it might be countered, it would be really rad to see staff in-game nuking these bots.

Charr Guardian.1497:

EDIT: Just discovered the word L I T is being replaced for I T T E N. What’s this?

It’s a side effect of having an extremely unintelligent word filter for all swear words and other "bad" phrases at the moderating team’s discretion. It likes to ignore the context of the letters and filter them even when they aren’t being used as a swear or vulgar word. In your case, since you didn’t mention the K, I am assuming you have a string or strings containing K, L, I, and T, which the filter is set to see as close enough to another word starting with C and just edit regardless of any letters around it or spaces in the middle.

For example, let me toss it inside a bunch of gibberish, and I’ll even add a space between:
dgsgsghkittendsdg

I just got it, too, while playing and fighting some dredge. I checked my email and the account page here on the site to make sure there was no funny business. It just looks like something weird on their end, but it’s unfortunate that the error code implies a password issue.

Huh, I’ve never thought to look for that option in WoW. That’s pretty terrific, even if it does make some clutter.

Do other games offer anything to aid folks who are colorblind?
I’m not looking to rain on anyone’s parade, as the more people who can play a fun game the better imo, but I also am not sure this is a problem specific to Anet. However if any of you have knowledge of things implemented in other games I’d be interested in reading about them.

Sebalon.5913:

Lyssa confound you!

I was using that skill for a while, as it worked well with my utility and I was having fun with the effects. But holy moly that audio clip got old in a heartbeat. I am hesitant to run with the prayer.

Oh My God
Splinter Barrage was like the best thing. When ritualists came out, I first wanted to spam spirits all over, but they weren’t mobile.
Then I made my ranger a R/rit. Oh dear, that was the best day.

I mean, ritualists became amazing, and many cool builds could be made throughout GW’s updates, but splinter/barrage was one of those ones that just shouted at you "Please use me and laugh maniacally as the entire screen fills with damage numbers".

I still want to know why Kuunavang had celestial powers for players and was so much stronger than any saltspray dragon. If that means she gets tied to an elder dragon like Glint, so be it.

I have a preference for whiskeys, and I like to play charr.
Does that count?

Weren’t those just griffons and rock dogs in costume?

Mhenlo, Togo, Evennia, the NPCs in the newer content after the events of EotN, and so on ... When not acting as henchman, the NPCs were decently useful in their own ways. Even Rurik’s Leeroy mentality was somewhat effective. So far, my experience has been that the DE members are there to deliver lines only.

Just make them not targetable/part of the fight, like Kormir for almost all of Nightfall when she came along on a mission, and be done with it.

BlakThornArrow.2389:

guys question: whats a largos exactly?? or is this a race from gw2 cause i dont remember a race called like that in gw1

They have been introduced in a few places here in GW2 and had no mention in GW1, much like some of the secondary/minor races.

While I think tengu and kodan lore is interesting and could be quite enjoyable to explore, I would be pretty happy to know that things like skritt and quaggan and all that won’t ever be more than NPCs.

City layout is one of the least important issues for me.
It’s not like people ever use anything besides LA for much anyway.

The only thing missing is him giving me a call on my codec to tell me all about sneaking around genome soldiers.

Not but really Forgal is awesome, as is Paul Eiding.

Alternatively, if the preview window would just adopt your current color scheme, like a new piece of armor does when you swap it in to wear it, that would be enough in my opinion.

In any case, you /can/ drag dye to the preview window to see what different colors my look like, but as far as I am aware that requires you to have the dye bottles in your inventory rather than just unlocked.

edit [as I didn’t see a need to add a new post]: Oh I’m not saying that using dye bottles like that is at all useful for previewing stuff you don’t have -- it seems to be more for previewing dyes you might want to unlock. I just mentioned it for completeness’s sake.

Agreed.
None of the NPCs run like this, so either have our charr run bipedal or let them have an out-of-combat run on four legs like we do.

Whoa. That resolution takes me back a lot of years.

In any case, it looks like that element of the character select screen wasn’t made to scale, unfortunately, so you are likely stuck with that until you can change resolutions and/or replace your monitor.

Edmo.7159:

Because I have seen many people who like PK, and they like to kill PVE players.
In WVW we have only PVP players, they are all prepared to fight.
The grace of PK is killing people unprepared or busy, kill people while they are killing The Shatterer

“Because we want to kill people who have no interest in PvP. The PvP players are too difficult.” That’s how that reads, in addition to the implication that you’d rather screw with people who are leveling/grinding and keep them from doing what they are doing by forcing a different activity onto them.

WvWvW shouldn’t be a good place to gauge whether or not you are having difficulty seeing a thief, at least not in the larger groups. The culling issue can sometimes make even fatty warriors seem invisible.

Clark Skinner.4902:

If you don’t want to regulate thieves, you should at least give other classes abilities which similarly debuff the player (not the character), like a skill that turns the opponent’s screen black, or gives their fingers a shock through the keyboard.

OK, OK, troll thread, I took the bait. Whoops.

I opened this thread to see if there were any tweaks beyond the options provided in-game or in the Nvidia control panel, and then I was greeted with almost three full pages of back-and-forth about overclocking and whether or not someone’s computer counts as high end.

The first post has a decent list of general tips for reducing heat and helping keep a machine run OK, I guess.

Can we trim out all of the fluff and actually make an Nvidia tweak thread?

Also I was a bit amused that the opening post implies that a "high end" machine cannot also run other programs, including a browser, while playing.

In any case ever since the Headstart Weekend, I have updated my graphics drivers a few times. Currently on 306.97; they did a good job, in my opinion, with their September-October updates getting better SLI performance in GW2. I haven’t felt need to edit settings from the normal ones for GW2.exe in the control panel, and I run with everything high in game.

Oh
right
There’s maintanence happening now, I think. Around 9:45 EST there was a message about that from the system that mentioned "in 2 hours", so perhaps that’s it. Sometimes when they are tinkering with the servers, since they can do it without kicking players offline or taking the worlds down, guild stuff gets wonky.

Prophecy.5204:

Ever since the quick dye update Nov 7, our guild is gone and party chat does not work at all. Some are also reporting that guild chat and whispers are broken.

How’s the future? Do you know the lottery numbers?

[I can’t reproduce this at the moment, so I cannot offer you any suggestions aside from the usual stand down/re-represent or relog.]

I liked that he is Forgal.
I am also very happy that Crispin Freeman is all over the place as NPCs in this game. I keep thinking Togusa is going to pop out and help me solve a case or something.

I have seen listed that Michael Dorn is the male norn voice. Haha holy crap, I better go roll a male norn!!

Personally, I find "Curse your eyes" more confusing than any of those.

"It begins!" -- combat / a chance to turn you undead, perhaps
"Return. Die." --- "hey come back here and die." ?
"Return to Orr." -- I may be reading too much into this, but I see it as an "invitation" to be killed and serve Zhaitan like all of the other Orrians.

Previewing items and light/medium/heavy filtering are the only things I really find lacking currently.

It would be nice if those of us who selected the smallest UI got text that was a little clearer, but I believe that is the fault of the developer of the browser interface that the trading post uses and not the fault of the game.

@skirge: The kingdom of Orr was sunk into the sea with all of its inhabitants turned into undead. It is now Zhaitan’s home. Aside from the lack of grasping ghouls and phantoms, it makes sense to me to only see undead, though there are the occasional elementals.

Hanging out with charr is typically entertaining to me, so I went with them on my Vigil character that’s gotten that far so far. I may select differently in the future.

They’re listed as an option among the rewards for medium-armor classes in "The Orders of Tyria" human mission, so that might be what the above is referencing by "bind on acquire".

I don’t recall seeing these as I leveled leatherworking or got random drops on my thief, but I certainly didn’t look at all of the heart/karma vendors, either. Hmm.

I swapped my warrior to longbow for its AoE and tricks like blind and immobilize, but I still think the rifle has solid single-target DPS and utility.

But I might be naive?

bosses / group events that aren’t just tons of hit points with some red circle dodging

more personal story flavour thrown throughout the storyline, connecting earlier choices with later ones