Guild Wars 2

I got a key recently from map completion. I didn’t even know they were included as a prize for it.

You can’t force love, Nooka. It either happens or it doesn’t.

Brom Malochson.9306:

Are you in NA? I will help you finish the quest again! Add me to your friend list and whisper me when I’m online. Can I ask about the other encounters? Where was this rampaging beast event? Were the invincible mobs from a hologram projector?

The rampaging beast is probably the one in Gendarran, I’d say. Its always bothered me that the notice is up about Ascalon Settlement being “rampaged” but when I get there the populace is happy as Larry.

Huh. Thanks for that. Figured it would be something simple.

Yeah, what’s with this? I had the message every time I levelled last night. I was going to put a support ticket in but nothing seemed broken so I just kept going about my business instead.

OP, sounds like someone you don’t want to have dealings with anyway. No great loss to you in the long run. He’ll probably ragequit in a few days anyway because he doesn’t know how to play the game.

My guildie and I just spent the last hour or so playing with our rangers and have decided that while they’re obviously a bit different in feel the changes aren’t a killer and in a few days we’ll even forget what they were like before.

Overall, I don’t mind the changes to the classes I’ve tried out this evening.

edit: only tried open world pve

I see your two silver…

I’m thinking warrior.

I don’t know for certain but I’m going to assume so. Fused weapon tickets can still be used so hopefully the vendors for jade ones will hang around too (I have 6 and no idea which characters to use thm on).

JinAtonic, if you revisit this thread this evening and feel like grouping I’ll be on tonight from 8.30 if you want to guest to Isle of Janthir.

Probably should have PMed this but at least you’ll see it.

I always buy a few of these coffers/boxes/crates just to see what they’re like each time. I was lucky this time (thank you RNG deity!) but I still feel like it was a waste of money buy the dopey things. A fool and his money are soon parted…

JinAtonic.2781:

Which populated servers for PvE around my level do you guys reccomend i guest to???

Because my server is literally empty when i try to do my quests,events, defending areas etc.

Any of the ones listed in the post above yours.

Edit: and I would have said come to IoJ for the evening and I’ll run around with you but I’ve gone to bed so that’s not really possible

Aussie here too. Maybe you’re just on the wrong server for our peak time. I’m on IoJ and I always see people running about. Even on the mid level maps. And I’m not even on the best server for the Australian player base. Maybe have a bit of a guest around and check other servers out.

Astral Projections.7320:

nethykins.7986:

Astral Projections.7320:

Are you asking if we currently can or if ANet can add this at some time?
If currently can, then no. We can not.
If they can add it later, maybe. Depends if they add player housing at some time.

IIRC Anet said they were more interested in making the home instance change over what choices you made in the personal story.

Strangely enough, no-body cares what effect it will have on their home instance…since people are way, way more invested in making a home instance or home zone that they have freedom of creation in.

They did say before the game was released that player housing was a possible feature that might do.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Upcoming_changes_and_features
Housing: Guild halls and player housing in their home instance.

So, who knows. Maybe one day.

I haven’t been back to my home instance since I did area completion in the cities. At this point it’s a failed concept imo. At least with the Hall of Monuments in gw1 you were able to update that with tapestries, armor, minipets, weapons, and statues. The personal instance in gw2 is impersonal.

I went back to a home instance belonging to one of my older characters recently and was surprised to find it looking like a Priory library. There wasn’t much to do there though. Have to agree on the failed concept.

Ryuujin.8236:

darkace.8925:

That’s not how things work in civilized societies. If the right to ownership was determined by might alone the strong would own everything and the weak would own nothing. “You have a nice house. You’d better hope you can beat me in a fight, otherwise it’s going to be my house.”

We’re not talking about on a personal scale, but that of governments and nations.

And that is almost exactly how it works in “civilised lands”… take America for example. European settlers arrived, and promptly killed, converted or integrated the local population and took over administration of their land. (Application of force 1)

Later, the war of independence arose, and colonists took the land away from the British and formed their own republic. (Application of force 2). In turn there was the American civil war, where the South wanted to cede from the republic, and were basically beaten into submission (Application of force 3).

So, tell me – if that’s not how civilised countries set their borders, shouldn’t the folks in the US be giving back that land right about now?

Like I say, people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones and if you’re reading this in a first world country; you’re living in a glass house, because you are the charr

I’m pretty sure darkace was talking about now , not colonial times.

gennyt.3428:

stayBlind.7849:

All things have a right to grow.

Except those Centaur. Centaur don’t have a right to grow.

LOL at this.

I’m surprised Anet went that way with it, haven’t met a cool centaur in GW2 yet (R.i.p Zhed Shadowhoof). And that quote made it all the more ironic since it’s part of Ventari’s (a centaur) teachings.

The one in the Norn brawl storyline seems a bit o fun. A bit of obvious personality does wonders.

Vayne.8563:

I think Erasculio has a valid point.

While I did love the cut scene (I thought it was extremely well done), I don’t “feel” my characters as much in Guild Wars 2 as I do in Guild Wars 1. I started wondering why that might be.

In Guild Wars 1, I could repeat cut scenes with my character in it, and in fact, did so every time I did a mission. It was me standing there talking to Prince Rurik or being blocked by a minion who was attacking Togo. lol But it was still me.

If we appeared in some of these scenes, and if we could repeat certain scenes, I’d feel more attached to my characters. The way Guild Wars 2 is set up now, I’m not nearly as attached to my characters as I was in Guild Wars 1.

Maybe but I’m not bothered by it. I like my characters so much I could sit around and have beers with them if they were real. Though the drunken boasting would get a bit much. I don’t feel they need to be seen in every cut scene, they’re there observing.

(I need to get a life!)

Erasculio.2914:

Nope, those cinematics are bad.

For the records, this is a good example of how the opinions of players are more often than not misleading. It’s very easy to see the new cinematic system and think “ooooh, shiny!” and go gushing all over it.

There is a huge, critical flaw in them, though: they do not work with our characters. They require premade images showing premade characters, and cannot be adapted as they are to work with variable characters (aka, the PC characters).

So if you people want ArenaNet to keep using them… This means making stories about the NPCs, not about our characters. As if watching Traheanne’s rise to glory wasn’t enough, do you really want to see more stories in which our characters are only footnotes?

This kind of cinematic isn’t even that new to the game – the opening cinematic immediately after character creation uses a much smoother combination of concept art and in-game graphics, in a way that actually can show our characters as a part of the story. Too bad that ArenaNet can’t do much more of that, given how many of the artists involved have left the company.

Boooo!

And yes to everything else. I nearly fell out of my chair when the Dead End scene started. I’m a sucker for that sort of stuff.

(No offense Erasculio)

Aeonblade.8709:

Here’s an idea: Heart Tiers, 3 tiers of heart rewards Gold>Platinum>Diamond. Increasing rewards for each tier. Only gold is required for map completion, other tiers take much much longer to fill, but can reward with some nice items.

Oh wait that’s PQs from Warhammer which everyone hated, nevermind, I’ll slink out of here before I get attacked for having a thought.

Heck I’d probably PvE again though!

I didn’t mind that from Warhammer. Didn’t mind the game overall either, burnt out very quickly though. I think this is a pretty good idea.

In before you get attacked for having a thought!

I See No Tomorrow.7302:

I bound ‘interact’ to E. I press E to win.

Makes it even eezee-er!

Gasoline.2570:

zenleto.6179:

Nope. I haven’t.

Why, sir, I think you and I are playing another game. Does your game have chocobo imitations?

If I knew what they were I’d be able to say.

I was thinking he just wanted to do hearts over and over as a way to level quickly.

And I’ve never been able to catch those bloody kegs!

Nope. I haven’t.

digiowl.9620:

Ashen.2907:

Vayne.8563:

The OP said, and I quote:

“Looks like they forgot about the “Multiplayer” aspect of MMO.”

In order for Anet to have forgotten about it, they have to not done it more than once. Surely this is an overstatement of how often they forget about the multiplayer aspect, since they’ve had the muliplayer aspect in both of the living stories before this.

1) he then went on to explain what that statement meant. Taking him out of context doesn’t make your argument less of a strawman. You are either purposefully putting words into his mouth, or are unintentionally reading more into what was said than is actually there.

2) You don’t have to neglect to do something more than once in order for it to have been forgotten. The very first time you failed to remember to send in the rent check, even if you never made that mistake again, it was an example of having forgotten something.

It is Vayne, so your efforts are sadly wasted. Him and a few others makes me wonder what happened to the ignore “functionality” in this forum (it was present in a non-functional state at launch but later vanished).

If there was an ignore function I wouldn’t have anything to read! I’d have to hunt down Springer reruns instead.

They should make it so that anyone tagged as having done one of the three pres gets better loot. That’ll wake the slackers up.

Daoc vet here too.

I’ve just been getting into WvW recently. I’d been ignoring it since I didn’t think it would be much like RvR. Its better than I thought it would be but doesn’t have the open Frontier RvR feel, more like the battlegrounds. If you liked running around in them then you still may enjoy WvW.

I doubt if you’ll find anything to match Daoc RvR so maybe consign that to the Fond Memory Vault and give this another try.

I just logged in with no problems. Logged straight back out though so I don’t know about crash issues.

Did you change the title?

DigitalKirin.9714:

I long ago used to be a forum posting frequenter.

The mood rarely strikes me now to debate with people. I just play online with my guild and enjoy myself.

I’m getting to this stage with the forums. Very little substance, same old stuff going round and round.

I don’t play Forum Wars like you, Vayne

Yep.

/15playlikeVaynes

As soon as people realise that there is no hard, pointy-ended purpose at the end of this game then the sooner they will be happier, or at the least more content, within the game.

Or they can take the other step.

Nice one!

(Mortt is the way to go btw)

Drayven.6408:

snippety snip

Also, like you, I truly hope that they are able to take it to a whole new level too… I just hope I don’t have to wait until I have to buy a new expansion for this to happen.

Absolutely! I’d imagine the dev team hope so too. It’ll just depend on when the string-pullers tug on the strings.

Calae.1738:

zenleto.6179:

Calae.1738:

This game is a haven for casual players. Maybe that’s a good thing. When a AAA hardcore MMO is released that requires actual skill and minimal brain activity; the casual players can stay right here.

I’m more than happy to let those with minimal brain activity get their jollies elsewhere.

The implication was that Guild Wars 2 requires no brain functions what so ever to succeed. But I see what you did there. Well played sir.

Thanks. I really couldn’t let that one pass through.

Drayven.6408:

It has pulled me away from World of Warcraft, and others away from all their MMO’s, but at the rate it is going now, it won’t even get the chance to really succeed.

That fact that you’ve been pulled away from another game, and so have other people, already makes this one a success. To a degree.

Also, that you’re here to try and push them to better their efforts is also a success, to a degree. You are still here and want more.

I really hope they can get to some sort of diamond-crusted, platinum-dusted success level. That would be pretty awesome. But they aren’t doing too bad now. Yes, they can do better.

You’re winning this thread so far, Iorazcyk.

The ones we fight are just the junior flunkies. I hope by the time we meet their bosses then the whole fight dynamic will be more, dare I say, hardcore.

I still have the buzz when I play this its just not the massive one of something new and shiny.

I suppose the difference between us is that it took me only a few weeks to realise that grinding for gold/materials just wasn’t going to be the same in this to what I knew. I didn’t leave it at the door but I left it in the hallway, so to speak. I still farm occasionally just because I get the itch.

I just play this game as I find it. I level my alts and plan out their exciting blood-soaked lives. I run around and do whatever I see needs doing.

Psst! Hey you. Paragraphs.

I’ve been playing since the first week of the year and while I don’t have the massive buzz I first had I still think this is the mmo that will see out my mmo playing days. Yes, plenty of potential and I’m happy to see where it’s all going to go. I’ve hardly dungeoned or wvwed so there’s content that’s new to me after all these months. Can’t even say year or years yet.

I miss Daoc too btw.

Humans. The males look like they’re from a boy band and the females remind me of my ex sister in law for some reason. That isn’t a bad thing but I don’t really want the reminder of my ex’s pos family.

Zelyhn.8069:

Facepunch.5710:

RedCobra.7693:

…id say that 100% of the praise i have recieved from being skilled has never come from me telling someone, its because they either instanced with me and wanted to add me or dueled me in wvw

This comment in conjunction with my own experiences in game (not saying I’m skilled, I mean when I play with people who are clearly more skilled than I) reinforces my opinion that there isn’t rampant “talent hate” in this community.

If I’m in Arah and my group nearly wipes on Lupi in P3, but we have one guy who stays up, handles Lupi’s aggro, and gets someone else up and we recover, I recognize that he needed skill to do that and I appreciate him for it.

Same in WvW when following a skilled commander.

I just don’t see where this idea that people dislike skilled players comes from, so it’s easiest to assume that your experiences are coming from players picking up on an attitude from you that you are more skilled than they are. You may not have that attitude, and I may be wrong. But in that case please explain what your experiences are that led you to post this, because the points you’ve made so far don’t resonate with me at all.

Why should players feel bad about the fact that some players are better than them?

The question should be “Why do some players…”

Not everyone is secure enough in themselves to handle being around being around those who have greater talent or knowledge or whatever. It’s just more thing that makes people individuals.

Zelyhn.8069:

Please read the OP accurately, and do not make this discussion about whether I am a bad person for having made such post but more about the behaviour of the community.
Read my replies and you will understand that there is no reason to make it personal

Maybe edit your post a bit or put in a disclaimer. Might help with new readers.

Calae.1738:

This game is a haven for casual players. Maybe that’s a good thing. When a AAA hardcore MMO is released that requires actual skill and minimal brain activity; the casual players can stay right here.

I’m more than happy to let those with minimal brain activity get their jollies elsewhere.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

RedCobra.7693:

i dont think anyone is understanding the OP’s point,
he is referring to the skill that you compare with fellow challenge seekers, healthy competition likewise,
i do the same thing, if im friendly with someone and ive skyped them before ill teae them about something they dont have, its what makes you want to get unique items, it all links,
He is NOT refferring to going up to new players and laughing in theyre facing because they are still coming to terms with the game.
Read before commenting or you just look ignorant

Then he shouldn’t have lead with ‘go into LA and say you’re a good player’ and see what happens. Of course, you’re going to get jumped on. It’s not that people aren’t, or don’t want to be, aware that they are other, more skilled players than them in the game. It’s that they dont necessarily want it rubbed in their face. Only kittenholes do that, and walking into a town and announcing ’I’m a good player’ is going to precieved as exactly that.

Perhaps it was a bad example, but that’s precisely what I got from the initial post.

Same.

Zelyhn.8069:

I am not talking about boasting etc, I dislike skilled players who despise average players, but I like competition, I like to dream, I like to strive to be the best (in a healthy way), I like the fun and the motivation I get from being challenged! yet people hate me for my yearnings.

Elitism is not the problem here, what is wrong is averageism !!

Nobody knows you so I very much doubt if anybody hates you.

People generally admire talent, maybe even feel a little envious, but generally nobody likes a braggart.

VOLKON.1290:

C’mon all, it’s pretty simple. You have a mini-pet (helmed moa racer) that’s effectively being sold for in game gold, and that value has a luck factor tied to it. If you’re doing it to make gold, well, you’re not going to. If you’re doing it for the mini-pet then you’re doing it right.

I’m only going to chip away at it for the achievement. The pet isn’t for me.

I have to agree. 50s seems pretty over the top. I’ve had two goes for a fail and a second place. Pretty much got my coins back on the placing but I started thinking about the potential for a run of bad luck and so I ran away.

I should add that I also enjoy the concept. Reminds me of work.

It’s fixed itself! Feel free to cancel 130612-000965.

Into Collections maybe?

Thanks a lot, mate.

Tyqer.6413:

I got mine and my Minis vanished when I zoned. Contact support?

They didn’t end up in the Collections?