Guild Wars 2

Its not there, is there something I have to do first to make it show up.

Either I am blind and cant see it or its not showing on my map, but I can not find the story instance in LA.

I have looked all around the dig site and down by the Moran Memorial but still cant find it.

I got my backpack and Mr. Sparkles. Thanks Anet

Still waiting on my backpack and mr. sparkles too

Me personally, I usually pop a cheater scroll to get to level 20. I have several them left as well. I then find various ways to grind up to level 30/35, then start to hit the dungeons heavily until I hit 80. I played one character finishing just about every zone did the entire story line and I am done.

If I start the personal story I usually stop it by claw island. I have most of what I need out of the personal story by then and I am ready to move on the bigger and better things.

If you have never done the personal story it is worth doing at least once, though I do prefer to start it in my late teens or twenties, the story seems to flow better then. I dont have to stop to level up between low level personal story missions.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Rajani Isa.6294:

Also, if you know someone nearby who also plays, try asking the tech help forum for how to copy over the main data file. The way the game is packed, most of that 15gb is one single file.

Note that a default formatted USB drive (FAT32) will NOT copy that large a single file (FAT32 is limited to a 4GB single file). This means the USB drive will have to be formatted with NTFS or you will need a USB hard disk (that defaults to NTFS).

Actually windows 7 can format a large usb drive in NTFS. I have a 32 gig USB drive, I format it all the time in NTFS.

yeah it would be nice if the lfg tool had a cross server living world section. spamming LA on HoD take 10 – 30 min just to find enough people to play toypocalypse, if you find enough at all, and the people you do have grouped up dont leave to do something else before you find enough people.

Viking Jorun.5413:

Let me know when you see a dev thief!

Seen one

He joined us for a bit when we were playing the extra life stuff.

The quaggan path is the longest, and the ginger bread man path is the shortest. The ginger bread man path I think is the hardest path because there are some tricky jumps. The Snowman path and the quaggan path both have a few short cuts that let you shave off a bit of time.

As most people have said, if you are having trouble hold down the right mouse button and use mouse turning. There is plenty of time to get to the platform before the presents, and lots of time to get up the snowball ramps. Twice this afternoon I got hit by the skritt and still made it to the end, although not with much health left. This is all on a glass cannon elemental, so yeah how much health you have is not an issue.

Another thing turn off double tap to dodge, with you hitting so many buttons its easy to accidentally dodge off a snowflake.

If you really want to speed up your times it’s mouse turning and not stopping on the snowflakes, on the larger snow flakes you have a good 2 – 3 steps before you have to jump again, that gives you just enough time to turn the camera to line up for the next jump. Is it easy, no but once you figure it out you can start passing people on the jumping puzzle.

pho.9412:

can we get a definite answer plz. so I could start to throw away trash or keep what is still useful e.e’

I agree, it would be nice to have a definite answer. It would be nice to clean them out of my bank if they are no longer useful.

but there is one that is just a few silver for the achievement point. Yes the 3g achievement can be hard for some people, but not impossible, at lvl 35 you can just run AC a few times and you will have more than enough money.

I agree that some gold sinks are needed. On the WP money most, games besides GW1 had you pay for some type of fast travel. Plus there are some ways to slightly negate the price for the WP cost, an easy one is do a quick event near the wp, there the wp is now just about payed for. You can also just go though WvW or PvP for a free transfer to Lions Arch, yes there are a few more loading screens and a little running but you dont have to pay for the travel. You can also go though LA to another home city and leave from there to save a little coin.

For most people paying 2.5s for a wp across the map isnt that big of deal, they are soon going to be making much more than that so it pays for itself.

For the most part I think Anet has done a good job with the small gold sinks here and there, and with a little planning you can even negate some of those gold sinks so they dont take as much of a bite out of your hard earned gold.

Its a old bug. It happens in more places than just the jumping puzzle. It seems to be happening more in the jp but its been around for a long time. Just do a dodge roll or some emote that forces the character to move and its fixed. It is at times fun to watch a character try and do the jp laying down and funnier to try and fight like that.

The only wind in jp is right after the presents. An easy way though the wind is just to dodge roll though it.

I have done all 3 paths multiple times and have not seen any wind except for after the presents, it is a giant snowman that blows the wind.

yeah I also have cogs and frames, it would be nice to know if I can use them later or is it better to just ditch them to make room in my bank.

LOL, that is a common glitch, it happens in more than just the jp. Just do a dodge roll to get out of it, or have fun and try it laying down.

Zanshin.5379:

What’s the point of having other people beside you if you can’t see them? Just go ahead and make it a completely solo activity, already.

No, snowball fight between races is fun

The orbs are fine. It is the PvP map that i did not like.
If they make the Wintersday JP PvP I will be kitten ed. One of the fun things on the Wintersday map is you can have a snowball fight with your friends while you wait for the jp.

Thanks for the info about staying in corners during the cannon phase. I will have to try that next time I do the fractal.

ThiBash.5634:

CallousEye.5018:

Are you thinking only PVE?

No, not really as I play a staff ele in sPvP too, and it works pretty much the same. If you want good dps, you’ll have to use your other tools too. You can’t (and aren’t supposed to) rely on just your auto attacks.

Anyhow, I’ve been playing a warrior sword + shield / longbow warrior in pvp lately and I very much feel the power inequality between the elementalist and the warrior.

Yeah, eles are much stronger when played right.

Mochann.5298:

I just want them to buff Meteor Shower into shorter cast time. Shorter cooldown would be icing, and buffed damage cherry on top.

Oh and faster cast for fireball.

Give me that and Ele becomes balanced for all the woe we have as glass cannons who die when someone looks at us.

Would be opverpowered, really. Meteor Shower really is fine, it can already deal over 10k damage to multiple targets without a glass cannon build. Faster cast fireball would be ok, although I’d prefer faster flying fireball.

YES faster flying fireball, I totally agree. Most other classes projectiles move faster than my fireball.

When this dungeon first came out the idea during the cannons was to group up and all run in the same direction. This keeps the cannon fire behind the group all the time. A few speed boosts here and there help the entire team stay ahead of the cannons.

I have not heard of the spread out and so small movements technique during cannons.

I went in a high 30 fractal level with some friends and I only had 5 ar and I was playing a glass cannon ele, sure I went down on the bosses, and I really had to be on the ball, but I was able to do it without being too much of a burden on the team.

I do have to say after working for months to get my T3 human light armor I kinda feel cheated that its now on the gem store. Plus being an glass cannon elemental with my primary being in fire, running around with flames would be awesome, but since I already have the T3 human cultural armor I am going to pass on this armor set.

Now if I could dye the flames maybe, MAYBE I might buy the armor for another character.

Once the wp/respawning bug was taken care of I did the Thaumanova Reactor fractal again.
I found it really fun. Some of the Mechanics are tough but once you figure them out I had fun. It wasn’t overly simple, but not overly kittence you figure out the mechanics.

As for Scarlet keep her coming, it is interesting. Its nice to have a constant villian. Batman has Joker, Superman has Lex. We have Scarlet. I am finding the story fun.

I have never had an issue holding the button as a Glass cannon ele. I prefer not holding the buttons, but I can do it.

Same happened to us, logged out to get out of the dungeon. too bad by that time the PUG broke up.

you can always give the candy corn to the kids running around LA, you get a personalized Trick or treat bag. Its not much, but you get some chance at getting some extra stuff besides just more candy corn.

you have to complete the 13 achievements for the living story

The misty balls is nice, but I could take it either way. The advantage of the balls is you dont have a huge norn or Charr blocking your view. But the advantage of the Norn or Charr blocking your view is that it gives you an incentive to get faster so you can move past them so you can see better.
Moving the Jumping puzzle into sPvP was a mistake. Half the fun is racing friends and guild mates to the top of them. Plus it seems that no one really talks to each other in the sPvP setting, its just random people and you could change people after 15 min, before in the PvE arena you could run the same puzzle for hours with the same group so you got to know them and could joke around when you saw them take a bad miss step or congratulate them when they finally made it to the end.

I have no problems with how they did the story. If it is that much of an issue for you, you could skip the grinding of the achievements and just find someone who has done them and finish the story with them.

I didn’t find the achievements all the hard to get, I got most of them the first night, I finished up the 13 points I need to move on, on the second night, and even helped my bother get the majority of his points that he needs. All I did was go into the mad king labyrinth and run around with a few zergs. I got all the bosses multiple times, closed my 50 doors, opened my 50 bags, saved a ton of bags for my brother to open and a few extra to give to guild mates.

I found the labyrinth is a great place as well to level lower level characters that don’t get as much play time. Me and a few guild mates did that on the first night, it was great.

it is a confirmed bug. It is mainly due to a lag issue. When the side of the tower blows out if it is not smooth try reloading the clock tower because the entrance at the top is not at the correct spot anymore, you could jump a sec or two early and might be able to make it.

I feel your pain over this. I ran to the top 8 times and didnt realize it was a lag issue that was stopping me. But after asking here and having it confirmed that it was a lag/bug I went back in and got it the first time I made it to the top.

The misty balls is nice, but I could take it either way. The advantage of the balls is you dont have a huge norn or Charr blocking your view. But the advantage of the Norn or Charr blocking your view is that it gives you an incentive to get faster so you can move past them so you can see better.

Moving the Jumping puzzle into sPvP was a mistake. Half the fun is racing friends and guild mates to the top of them. Plus it seems that no one really talks to each other in the sPvP setting, its just random people and you could change people after 15 min, before in the PvE arena you could run the same puzzle for hours with the same group so you got to know them and could joke around when you saw them take a bad miss step or congratulate them when they finally made it to the end.

The ghosting of other players is a huge improvement, but setting the clock tower in pvp I think is a huge set back. Last year part of the fun was running with friends and joking around with players between sets. This year no one talks, they just run it and then leave, even if you do try and chat up the other players most of them tend to ignore you.

I will be very disappointed if they do this to the Christmas jumping puzzle as well. Half the fun of the Christmas one is throwing snowballs at your friends and guild mates as you wait for the next round.

If Anet really wanted to improve the clock tower give us something to do while we wait for the next round to start. Dont use PVP for jps anymore PLEASE.

awesome you are right it is a lag/bug issue. When I went in this time, all the animations were smooth and I made it and jumped right into it.

Today I have made it to the top of the clock tower 8 time, 4 times in a row. so getting up is no issue. The problem I am having is the last jump into the tower. I will jump at the broken window and nothing. I hit an invisible wall and fall down. I dont know if it was changed from last year but I dont remember it being this hard to get inside the clock tower.

I am using a normal size sylvari character so its not like I have a huge character that I am dealing with.

I finally beat it after making it to the last jump 10 times.

Is it me or did they make the hit box for the last jump smaller.

when I downloaded it seems to be about 300mb

I thought I read somewhere you get a piece of armor like last year

It took me at least 5 tries to enter the clock tower. I dont know if this is a normal issue or if it was because I was in overflow. First few times I got a message like tournament had ended. I just played around in the mad king area for awhile then tried it twice more before it let me in.

You are welcome to open the Temples on HoD anytime. The only people in orr on HoD are doing resource runs and Arah.

I have no issues with the Champ farming in Queensdale, though I will not wait for the farm to come to start a champ. I yell out that the champ is up and start the fight. I figure that if they miss one champ in the chain it is not going to hurt them, there is another that is up anyway.

In fact this has happen so many times now in HoD that the champ farm just moves onto the next champ.

My biggest issue with the champ farm is that they dont yell out when they are about to start a champ. So if you are close by you cant join in unless you are already in the champ farm or are already at the champ.

I have an 8350 stock clock, and a 7950 video card, I got about 39fps in LA and on Tequatal zerg I was getting in the 20’s. I have everything turn on high except for Render Sampling at Native and Character Model Limit set to Low (I dont care about seeing people).

The only reason I see of the trait reset in the gem store is so you dont have to go to your trainer to reset your traits.

Otherwise if someone wants to buy it, it is their choice, its their gems. You can still use the trainer to reset if you need to.

The dungeon is not too hard, its a great dungeon.

I for sure am going to run the dungeon again. I have 2 more 80’s both of which I plan on running the dungeon again before server reset.

I got my living story meta in my first dungeon run.

Thanks Anet for the awesome dungeon.
the pug I join we were able to figure out all the puzzle with little difficulty.

While there were a few party wipes, but we were able to figure out how to beat each boss and each challenge.

Thanks again Anet, it is a great dungeon.

Getting no net profit on the trade post is a common problem.

More than half the time when I craft something if I were to put it on the Trade Post the item there would be for less money than what the resources cost. Also the going price is less than if I were to vendor the item. Yes I know there is a check for vendor prices but that check it before the TP takes its cut not after. So you can still end up loosing money. Where if you vendor’d the item you actually make a bit of money.

I had the same problem and I wasnt even guesting.
one of our party went ahead and started world 1, while the rest got the pop up to go in when we hit it, it didn’t teleport us in, so we ran to the world. by that time the other party member had started world 1, when the rest of us went to join him we could not get into the same instance as he was in even though we were in a party and there was no option to join him. He had to quit and we all had to try and start again in the little meeting room before the zone selection.

Meglobob.8620:

I like underwater fighting…should have been at least 1 boss underwater.

If you want a underwater boss. Its called Honor of the Waves, Path 2 and 3. Both have a underwater boss.

I have completed the jumping puzzle about 5 times now. Twice with my human ele and three times with my human mesmer. I don’t think portals are a problem if someone wants to ask for a portal that is their choice. It doesn’t stop you from not using it. I personally use the portals as a safety net. On the harder jumps I will place a portal in case I fall so I can get back or if I know a lot of people have issues with an area I will place a portal for those who want to go around it. You dont have to take my portal you can go ahead and try the normal way.

Last night I was portaling people from the end chest back to the top of the airship, and a few portals from the ground to the airship. Why cause someone asked me. There were a fair amount of people trying to get to the goggles and doing the jump. So the portals were an easier way for them to get back up and try again without having to do the entire thing over again.

If you see a portal its your choice to take it, it wont ruin anything if you don’t take it, but for some a few tries and a portal looks like a good option. Its not like the person cant go back later and try it all without portals later.