Guild Wars 2

I’d actually like to thank the people on this thread who took the time to answer the OP, Konig Des Todes, Greyhawk, ShaeMtal, and many others, and point out all the facts. I learned a great deal more about the Sylvari than I knew already since you all laid out the facts and pertinent information so clearly and with a great deal more patience than many people that I know. It can be hard dealing with people who don’t want to learn, and who back out of their own arguments to say that they don’t have a side anymore now that people are pointing out how they were wrong, but as someone who was eating popcorn on the sidelines this whole time your words were not for nothing and I thank you.

Aden Yeshua.2148:

Your tone of your messages seem very hostile and “matter of fact” disposition to them.

Not for nothing, but it’s hard not to sound matter of fact when it -is- fact at this point. There are things that are open to interpretation still, but some of the things that you’re talking about have long since been proven one way or the other and Konig is pointing those out.

TexZero.7910:

Maethor.2810:

TexZero.7910:

It’s also like, they dont remember the very same mechanic is learned in the first fight /shrug.

As Vinceman said, it does differ from the earlier fight as you are in need of aiming them at something. The spreading AoE does add some pressure into getting them down within a certain amount of time but we eased out of that initial panic after the first few cracks at the fight.

Im just sayin, the mechanics are additive in nature. First you’re show the look away and the orb. Then your show a room with 4 distinct corners to fight in. Then you have an almost identical arena with pylons that almost magically appear when the orbs do in the same distinct corners. It shouldn’t be rocket science to figure out what to do if you apply some very basic problem solving skills.

Sure but there’s a difference between ‘use the mechanic you learned’ and ‘try to use the mechanic you learned and have it not work the way it’s intended’ which is what Maethor seems to be saying. Our group tried it and had the spheres in front of us, hit them, and had them literally end up behind us instead, or had 3 spheres attach to one person and be unable to get them off at all.

Your condescending tone isn’t helpful either, js.

Yeah, it’s definitely in all maps, was in Wayfarer and this happened to me as well after attempting to purchase the new dye packs. Thanks for already working on the fix!

Khisanth.2948:

I guess I am the only one bothered by Incinerator’s projectile sound

You are absolutely NOT the only one :| My husband has that and it’s… I mean it’s ok at first but then it just grows and grows on my nerves like a fungus and oh man.

Almost as bad as those SAB minis XD

I have absolutely enjoyed every moment of having The Dreamer, and finding out that it whinnied like that only made it more delightful to me. I understand that people find it annoying, though, and if there could be a way for them to turn off the legendary sounds of other people on their end that would seem to solve the issue. I for one can’t stand the sound of The Super Adventure Box minis , but you can’t have everything.

DGraves.3720:

“Except Quebec.”

Why me?

DGraves, here’s an external article about why Quebec is always excluded from these things.

http://contests.about.com/od/sweepstakes101/f/VoidinQuebec.htm

Sorry no one loves you there </3

Well like I said, I know that they’re not doing anything else with dungeons. But it’s still nice to dream.

And thank you reapex.8546 for adding this to Gaile’s thread! I hadn’t even seen that!

Yes! That would be fantastic! Maybe even split it up per path if possible and get like, statues of the bosses or something when you’ve defeated them X number of times, or something to mark the occasion. Or have a trophy room that works like the Hall of Monuments used to in GW1 where it fills up based on how much you’ve done, just for dungeons. There could be so many things they could do to make it interesting again and not be based on money!

But I really want those glider skins still lol XD

Thanks Mortifier! I never really got into the SAB but I say keep on dreaming for that too!

Well until such a time as they don’t exist at all anymore, I will keep the dream of dungeon glider skins alive

It never hurts to dream, and Journey would kill me if I stopped believing. Just because the current staff doesn’t know the “old stuff”, if that’s the case, doesn’t mean that at some point in the future someone might not come along and revive it.

It’s not like I’m holding my breath. I know it’s a faded dream at this point. But it would be nice is all, especially since people do like them. Ah well.

Thank you so much! Friends and I were doing dungeons and it just clicked as I was looking around at the rewards.

I know and it’s so awful since I really loved them when I was first able to do them as a natural offshoot of the story. I mean, I guess never say never? And the fact that they ARE still here just gives me the faintest glimmer of hope for a future of the game with dungeons in it that are maintained maybe.

Ugh but I know, can you imagine? Icicle shard glider skin for Honor. Asura polished mecha skin for CoE. Awful Dredge one for SE. I would go back and do every dungeon a thousand times for these. Hell, I’m thinking of sketching them.

Clearly Dungeons are not a priority anymore. I know that, I accept that. I do them anyway with friends because I love them. I like the rewards (mostly) and I like that they’re collections to work for. With the introduction of gliding into Central Tyria I think that even for no other reason than to make dungeons a little more exciting again for the people who still play them, coming out with glider skins for each of the core dungeons would be nifty. Something else to work for and spend tokens on when everything else is boring and done to death. Just my $0.02 that no one asked for lol.

Tattered AC wings that glow at night. Nice plant gliders with flowers from TA. Dark bones and sinew from Arah. Burning lava from CoF. It would be really rather awesome to earn things like that.

I love the new Shatterer fight, much more to do and much more opportunity to make it harder for yourselves in trying to get the achievements, while still making it easy enough for on levels to do. I feel like the Alacrity Nerf was needed but a bit much, though otherwise have nothing constructive to add other than to thank you for posting this thread, thank you for reading our feedback, and thank you for the work that you have done and continue to do for the game we all play and love!

I’m unsure about where to put this so I made a new topic and you can feel free to put this where it’s supposed to go since I didn’t see a section about this itself after looking for a while. After doing the story steps toward the end (and I will keep this spoiler free as much as possible here) I noticed a mechanic that I’m rather put off by.

The penalty box.

In the middle of a fight, if you fall to the enemy you end up above the fight, unable to do anything, in what I’m calling the penalty box for lack of a better word. Usually you can use a rez orb, or one of your friends can try and revive you if you’re with someone else in the instance, but now it seems that you’re just out of the fight entirely. This happened during the last fight of the story when I was the instance owner and with two other people, and thanks to the penalty box mechanic when I ended up defeated I was out of combat and the instance bugged out, unable to continue.

While I understand that this is the direction that you want to go in, I was up in the penalty box, unable to play, unable to leave, and feeling very frustrated. Could there possibly be a way to fight your way back down to the action? A Return Mote after you defeat an enemy yourself? A gun to fire while you’re up there and if you do enough damage you can come back down? It feels entirely useless to be sitting around and hoping that you can come back at the end, hoping that it doesn’t break because you’re not there to do something important, and leaving your friends in the lurch.

Are there plans to do anything else with this mechanic or are we, for all intents and purposes, stuck in the box from now on?

Nah, bro. Her tunic was just dirty, so they ran it through the Wash.

You can’t take the sky from me.

Awesome! Thanks for the heads up! I can’t wait to see this year’s festivities and try the clocktower again. And again. And again. And again… <.<

Yes, but as stated in the wiki, there are two ways this can go. Either Dwayna stealths on a 45 second timer (which is how it’s supposed to happen), or “The seer path may also bug at the fight with Simi, the priestess of Dwayna. When this happens, she will hide every time her health reaches 50%, regardless of time spent gathering the sparks or fighting her.” Which is what was happening still. Since this was a collection, I thought I would point out that it was still bugged.

If I may add, as of last night:
Arah P4: Dwayna still bugs out at 50% and goes invulnerable at that point no matter what you do to get her past that.

People will think that it’s amusing is all that she meant, Spyder.

There’s a couple people I know who had their points and achievement titles removed, so that’s likely the case.

Thank you for the update, sir! And for your work and the work of the team/person/wombat/demigod responsible!

Thank you so much, Lauren, for the update! And pass on our thanks to the team responsible for working on this as well!

I just sincerely hope that the devs all know that the people who are constantly asking for updates don’t speak for the rest of us who are patiently waiting. They could be doing some nice things while they’re tinkering around in the Hall of Monuments, and we’ll never know. We’ve had more updates than some people who have been waiting for other things, and of course the expansion is taking more of their resources. That’s to be expected.

I for one am grateful that we’ve had as much communication as we have, and will continue to work on my Hall of Monuments as I have been. Whenever it does come back, it’ll be awesome and we’ll all have a lot of stuff to open up, like our birthdays. or winter holiday of choice. That’s all we really need.

I don’t know what they can really say other than ‘Yep, still working on the problem’. Which people whine at them for anyway, so what’s the point? They’re working, and we should be grateful that they haven’t just said they’re going to leave it closed. Sheesh.

Thank you, ANet! I don’t know what I did, but I never did get the armors so that’s appreciated! Woo

Thank you for letting us know!

I just caught wind of this and would love to toss ideas in for as long as I’m there. I’ve been doing Tabletop for many years, and helped playtest for a few systems, and in the creation of one of them for friends. That’s a bit late for me as well, but I can usually hang around for a while before I pass out. Hope it’s alright to add one more!

Anyone have any other ideas? I’m not able to do anything else other than wait through this every time I exit the client and open the game again.

In a stern voice and everything. No treats until it starts behaving better, that’s for sure.

Hmm, but this is happening before it even loads the game at all, and with me in two completely different locations, on two different characters, when I logged out before it happened each time. I hope it does stop though because sitting through it counting down the files as it runs through them isn’t doing my anxiety any good at all.

Nope, none of that. I just redownloaded it to a new hard drive too.

The last two times that I tried to play the game, I was told with a pop-up that the game needed to check its files because there may be a problem, and then needed to sit through it going through 285K+ files and ‘Verifying Archives…’ to tell me that there’s no issues. Is this something that’s just going to happen every time now? How can I get this to go away?

…and looking for a good home!

About us:

Around since beta, we’re two people who love to go ‘ooh what’s in there’ and explore, and don’t put a lot of emphasis on builds/specs. PvX. We love to help, and there’s a lot we’re still wanting to do in the game that we haven’t gotten to yet.

Looking for:

A friendly group of people to do guild things with. Metas, dungeons, missions, puzzles, world events, etc. Lenient rep requirements (80%? We have other guilds, just not huge ones, and mostly ones with friends that we want to keep). We’re looking for a guild with a healthy sense of humor and a distinct lack of petty drama.

I do promise we don’t bite unless you ask, and at least one of us can fetch. But only rum, for some reason.

I’d like to offer my services as well. Feel free to send me what you have and I will happily answer any questions!

What I don’t understand is how you adopt an attitude of ‘it only counts if it’s in the game’ when you publish written pieces out of the game itself and consider them backstory or fluff. That’s entirely inconsistent.

My group has done this twice now, two separate occasions, and both times no matter what we do she bugs out at 50%, no matter how we’re statted or what we’re doing. We’ve followed every idea and there’s just no way to get past this. It’s really off putting.

The only way to know for sure is to set a trap. Attack the Queen and Logan will come running, as we have seen time and time again….

13 characters
8 level 80s
1 100% completion.

I haven’t seen him in game :/

I’m around as well, same bat-times, same bat-channels.

I will not be around, but have fun you guys!

By the way, what am I missing out on?

I have to go to sleep now, for it is Monday here now and I must be functional early and all that. Sorry we couldn’t get together :/

If we’re running story modes like we said? Probably, yeah.

Awesome! As soon as I get home I’ll be logging in, so I’ll poke people once I’m in and good to go.

Hey all! So in terms of tomorrow, I have somewhere I need to be at 10:00 server time (1:00 PM Eastern). I should be home at or around 12:00 server time (~3:00 PM Eastern) . If that works for everyone, I’ll be happy to do another run with you guys Let me know!

11:00 AM Server time works just fine for me!

I’m good for anything between the hours of 12 and 5-ish on Saturday, definitely. My family does dinner at 6:30 and bedtime for our son at 7, so after that at around 7:30 or 8 I’m free again. If people need other times, I can work it out with my husband All times are Eastern US.

waves I’m the crime partner And rather excited for this too!

I had been, but it’s entirely up to you. As you have your own way of doing this, then whatever is fine with me. I had thought it was 20g per person and was fully planning on covering that, as it was within my means with the people participating, and I don’t know what 100g you’re talking about Thal and Konig covering? If you think it should be less, then that’s what it is. No worries, mate