Guild Wars 2

I have tried a few time, each time I can reach the confirmation screen(payment details and the like are correct) When pressing submit payment on the purchase, the screen changes and briefly flashes for a second a line of text highlighted in red.

Just wanted to let you know.
Also was a bit worried all of a sudden all the failed transactions would suddenly go through charging me for each attempt.

My roaming is normally spent flipping camps, killing yacks, taking ruins and sentries. I’m not skilled enough to take towers.
I’m on a high population server. Touching a tower or keep normally nets me a death by zerg withen a minute or three. Camps are fine but chaining them can get tricky with the RI cool downs and so many competing for the flips.

As to not deserving, why do you deserve the hero points for specializations? Did you collect them in PvE or use the Proofs of Heroics as many WvW players do? I personally don’t care, I would just like an alternative to the be a mindless zerg follower and grind.

Justine.6351:

I’m not understanding your stance on not being able to swap characters, you absolutely can swap with no loss of participation.

I was unaware, last time I had tried it(before the pips) all participation was lost.
(Edit: Character change and the quote part)

All of the new changes I do enjoy(the Outnumbered pips a bit less) but I normally played WvW casually as a roamer. I had not put to much worry into WvW rank since each of my characters could be set up as a different specialty.

Now the pip system is tied to both participation as well as rank. With it being tied to participation it encourages the use of one character(so swapping to be able to better use an item is less than ideal). And rank directly affecting the quantity of pips.
While the most common response will likely be “Just live in WvW then you will get your Ranks insert insult here”, “Use every WXP boost item and run the zerg till your fingers are nubs” or “When the stars align and prayers to RNGesus are loud enough, you can buy a Box of WvW Supplies”.

Can the Tome of Knowledge be changed/traded for something that generates Ranks? This would offer a way to remove some of the grind from WvW, much like Tomes removed the PvE grind for WvW/PvP players. I know there are 9k+ Ranks.

For me over the course of casual play, I am still just in Bronze rank 340 something. During roaming I normally get a level or so after a afternoon of roaming. The likelihood of me making it into the next material rank(for a pip change) is somewhere near a precurser drop. It would be nice if there was an alternate way to skip a few of the 9k ranks.

I really like the current look of it, so mine is a vote of leave it as is.
Though I doubt my vote means much compared with the ton of votes to fix it.

Just wondering, would it be possible to add an option to remove all of a single decoration? It may help with the occasional stuck decoration.
I know we have a full NUKE for decorations to place everything back into storage. A single type removal, would be nice.(Preferably without requiring the rights of the full nuke to prevent accidental disasters)

The new holiday’s scribe items I liked both the appearance of as well as the amazing reduced costs(I didn’t have to sell all my personal belongings to afford them this time).

There is one thing that kinda confused me, with the upgraded Shatter there is no Guild World Event tag?

Can an alternate method for gaining Resonating Slivers be added? Maybe using guild commendations, karma or something?
As it currently stands I have the chance to get 1 to 3(and if RNG blesses me maybe 10) from each guild mission I complete on a weekly basis. If my guild unlocks all 10 missions, we are talking between 10 to 30 slivers per week if I complete every mission.
My scribing is just a bit over 200. To make a Fine Scribing Kit it takes 9 Resonating Slivers. Was it planned that we make one item each week?
And yes, it is fantastic they are on the trading post but due to the volume required to level scribing and the painfully limited supply, the demand has the price above most of the loadstones in the game.
Also before you say, the guild should pitch in. The hall upgrade process has for-filled the feeling of contribution for most players. Not to mention that unless your guild detonates a single player to be the scribe, any volunteered resources are split.
The leveling cost is only compounded by the low amount of discoveries for this craft.

Can we please have an alternate source of Resonating Slivers?

Tim.6450:

Might be raid related.

Resonating Fragment is meant as a level 75 Scribe item.
It would be crazy if you need to run the “get ascended or go home” content to get a recipe for that low if an item. There are 2 more tear of the Resonating items (Core lvl 225 and Lodestone lvl 400). The description of each of the missing ones describes it being made from the the one step lower “Resonating Fragment Crafted from Resonating Slivers by scribes”
Currently unlike the other Slivers in game the Resonating Slivers do not double click to promote. (also don’t show up in the discovery tab or the Mystic Forge)
It would be nice to hear an official word on at least the Resonating items since they are needed to make Blotting Powder part of the Scribing Kit for each grouping.

Mine were gained from in in game mail upon log in.

The mordrem fight shown in the trailer looked amazing, but is this only for the first time a guild is able to beat them?
I don’t know about most player but the guild I’m in is a multi-timezone guild. It’s more than likely that it would be run in an inaccessible time for myself(as well as others) or as an unscheduled whim of a leader.
Will there be an option to rerun the assault(without flattening the progress of the guild’s hall) like a personal story instance?

Personally I’m happy, I bought the ultimate edition.
Mind you I’m in the camp that buys gems every so often, normally once every few months. So the $50 in gem cards would be something I would buy over the course of a year.
I was going to get an extra character slot, even if it wasn’t included in the expansion. Since their normally 800 gems, that’s another $10.
To me the expansion with some cosmetics cost me 40 dollars and I spent 60 on gem store.

The rage make little sense to me, unless the player bought it in the last few months at full price(the discounts deep cut the cost).
Combining the two makes it easier for new players. For the people that bought the game previously, you have gotten time in the game to enjoy it before this.
And if you bought more than the original base version you got items that will not be included with the new expansion/base.

If people wanted to rage I could understand it at the reason ANet would want to bundle the core game in, there is no starting zone for the expansion. The expansion is mostly end game content, unlike the first guild wars.
That being said, I personally love the direction the game is headed.

It was worth it imo to at the very least do the first part of the current living story episode with a sylvari. The pale tree’s dialog is very different for the first part when speaking with a sylvari.

When I started the latest story bit on my sylvari, after speaking with the pale tree I noticed that Braham had a guild tag [Lemn], apparently for a guild called Lemon Knights. I don’t remember seeing it when I went through with my asuria but I may have just missed it. Is this a glitch or is Braham now a member of this Lemon Knights guild?

With the move to more structured large scale content, would it be possible to offer a way to let players share resources to any player in an area?
With the new and awesome Tequatl fight, I landed in an overflow with 80+ potions of powerful undead slaying in my bag. (What? It was a cheap way to level Artificer)
I had completely forgotten there is no trade command(like other MMOs). So I started mailing them to the near by players, only to be stopped by the spam filter.
I’m not looking for a bonfire type thing that would tank the economy for consumables but maybe a local communal chest.
Heck for safety make it only apply to non-soul bound consumables, ration limits by the player setting the chest, and heck make any unused ration taken from the chest disappear/disable after a time limit to prevent horders looting events for profit.

The fight started, lots of players without the potion buff and a ton of the silly things stuck in my backpack being useless.

I picked up a Infinite Continue Coin, but the chests still drop the normal Continue Coins. Will there be a use for them? I keep collecting them, but I’m a bit of a pack rat.

If someone placed four Ascended weapons into the Mystic Forge would that offer a chance to jump straight to legendary?

It would seem odd for the exotic precursors to be considered an higher tier return.

I know this is far from cost effective and I’m no where near crafting one yet let alone four.

Did you go to world 3-1? There is a bit more story(it ties nicely in with the story bit ) and 2 achievements attached.

Shadowresli.3782:

and to make matters worse, i already droped them in my bank for 6 of my characters and now they are gone!!

nice work anet

I did the same as you, but they are still in my bank. They are listed as Soulbound on Acquire .

Did they release the final counts? I’m wondering how far apart was the vote gap.

KorKor.9452:

Sorry going to have call bullkitten on them caring about Evon at all. If they had cared in even the slightest would have balanced the rewards and introduced Evon Gnashblade sooner so he would have been as known as Kiel. As it stands they put well liked stuff such as waypoints against heavily hated stuff like RNG keys. It was so obvious who’d win it was painful to even see ANYONE try to call it a real election.

Evon has been around since the game came out, staring at us as we visit the LA trading post.
While we didn’t adventure with him, Kiel was brand new. The story brought Kiel from generic nameless guard to a ship captain. It would have been odd for Evon the insanely rich merchant to join in an adventure.

I voted rather evenly. It may seem wasteful but I would have been happy no matter the winner.

I would have loved to seen the insane changes to Lions Arch Evon would have wrought over the long term. His thinking resembles the Consortium, all for profit. I wager would would have seen more and more dangerous additions in the name of profit.

I liked the Asuran fractal, so Kiel wining is fine.
Now more importantly, the most influential merchant now can raise heck with Kiel undermining her plans. Why? Revenge can be worth more than a stack of gold and I doubt Evon is going to slink off after being humiliated by a mouse.

Foo my ballet didn’t even even offer Ron Quaggan.

While it has been stated that there would not be creation of the second fractal, could there be a bit of lore dump of the fractal?
Story-wise it could be “the preliminary research” by the fractal research team looking into the fractals for each of the candidates.

Will it be possible to hear of what was in the other fractal that is not chosen?

While the election will have dramatic effects on the living story going forwards, personally I’d like the see the massive corruption, financially oriented machinations and general amoral behavior Evon would offer. That being said I truly want to know more about the Reactor. I’ll likely vote for the chaotic good Kiel, but my bet is that Evon wins. So while walking with the gods gets unlocked, does the lore of the Thaumanova Reactor vanish from the eyes of all but the inquest’s archives to the shelf of forlorn developer dreams?

I’m hoping that they continue with something like the kite fortune system. A rough but reasonable goal(unlike the jawbreakers or dragon coffers) to buy the skins with a stack of whatever the new consolation prize is.

The charged quartz is not only gated(mostly since you have a rare chance to get one from the mining node in your home instance) but it’s also an account bound material with no discover-able recipes(all the recipes are learned from scrolls) .
When you add the talk of ascended gear needing be a combination of existing materials. To me this places quartz as one of two things, either this will be an extremely sought material for some ascension gear combination. With the acquisition for most players will be a yearly(or when kits roll back in) gated resource for most like snowflakes of the winters day or candy from Halloween.
Or this will be a dead end resource allowing for the odd creation of exotic gear from a few crafters. I hope it’s not the latter because it would be sad for still growing pile of glint bones in my home instances to be a pointless resource.
(also a note for those that don’t want to do the extra waypointing, quartz has no base mining limit so create a lvl 1 alt and park it next to a home instance with copper picks. To avoid the other WP as frequently, have another alt withdraw a few days worth and park them on one of the starter zone focus points(like the dead worm in shiverpeaks) so you can just log these alts in and do the 2 minutes of gathering & charging.)

Why does a char care about gods? Why does the human want to care about technical research way above her ability to comprehend?

It would seem to make more sense for Evanto be interested in the reactor.

I only brought it up because for Warriors or Elementalists can gain their all of their (non-aquatic) skills in less than 2 minutes. It’s purely because the player is a lvl 20 vs lvl 1 mobs without a adjustment cap.
It would only be a bit longer on the outside in a level caped area where each mob takes more hits to die. My apologies for bringing up something inconsequential.

I’m not certain if this is an exploit or working as intended. If one uses the Golem Banker(sent by mail to deluxe or above accounts) in the instance immediately after character creation, you can get a stored Experience Scroll as well as any weapons you would like to fully train on.
Since the level of the first personal story instance is not capped, after using the scroll a single hit opens the next weapon unlock vs the level 1 monsters. Since the Golem Banker gives well bank access you can have other characters on the account feed weapons to the newly created level 20. You can even log out of the new character without completing the instance and return to the instance.
Since we get a scroll with every Massive Achievement Chest, it can offer for deluxe(or better) accounts one extra layer of ease to new character creations.

Would it be possible to add a toggle, much like the disable double tap to evade for outside movement bonuses?
I ask because each time there is an outside jumping puzzle(unlike the awesome halloween or wintersday ones) attached to the living story, the issue often arises of group speed boons being used by players. Attempting precision jumping and hearing “Retreat!” can make your heart sink as you sail clear over your landing point and into whatever pit lays below. Mind you that Guardians are far from the only class that’s movement boons are aoe.
So rather than some elaborate method for preventing movement bonuses all together, this will allow players to just disable external speed boons. Also swapping the responsibility from the casters of these to the often frustrated players affected.
If that mechanic is not possible or too difficult, then maybe a new low crafting level food or artificer potion that prevents movement buffs?

Thank you very much. I forgot there was a mailbox limit

I bought a bag slot item from the store during the sale, it never showed up. At the moment, it shows in the purchase history an under construction icon(I had seen it in the beta) with no description.
I bought a 10 pack of mystic stones today. They also haven’t shown up.

Is anyone else having delivery issues?

I think you may be able to miss it as long as you’ve traveled to the tower once. Since there are six achievements, missing one should be fine since the Emissary of the Mad King is 5 Halloween achievements completed.

Orion Magus.5348:

Saying “just run ahead of the pack” is asinine. There is only so fast you can go

This depends on the class. I know that elementalists with a One with Air trait still work. They have the option of being out in front. (I think there are other classes with movement traits that stay. )
Also the grouping moment, after the initial flights of stairs, the platform are useable moments before the blocks are in place. You can do the leaps of faith if you know where the platforms should be and time it right. It normally places you in front of or in a far smaller pack.

This is so far one of the best halloween events in any game I have ever played. Even with minor hiccups, it has been a blast.

I’ve completed the puzzle with three characters a norn, a charr, and a asura.
I have to say the easiest was the Asura, it felt like there was a lot more leeway given in my jumps. My winning run I flubbed at least 5 jumps and landed on “edges” that should have had me in the green goo. Some of the “edges” looked more like air than actual platform. Maybe the pack part is the rougher part of the run but the platforming was much easier.
As the larger characters the platforms were felt significantly less forgiving to jumping mistakes.