Guild Wars 2

Oh, how sad. I wonder if Griever is happier yet.

This is almost how I play anyway. If such a game mode was introduced I’d be all over it probably.

(Not Sartharina’s thing, to be clear)

No, it doesn’t bother me, and not all those players are better.

People still use knives and machetes now to kill and mutilate each so it’s not much of a stretch to think they may still be popular in a fantasy game with megalaser cannons. It’s just one of those things.

STIHL.2489:

I know I have said this a few times, but Charr Drive War Machines, put in a Charr Inspired Motorcycle design, and even if to just ride (read ‘run’) around Lions Arch, people will get a kick out of it, add some sounds, and what have you, a smoke trail, maybe tire tracks.

If you add collision and an animation for said thing then I’ll back this 100%.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Einlanzer.1627:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Einlanzer.1627:

make it feel more immersive.

Yes….staring at some random animal’s kitten is soooo immersive while trying to get the to NPC they are standing on, in, or otherwise in the way of.

/sarcasm off

That’s… really not that much of a problem in other MMOs.

It’s one I almost always run into. I just…don’t enjoy staring at some creature’s rump. Whether I’m trying to get to an NPC, or if I’m just standing around and someone decides they want to be a jerk. Hell, we have issues with people using tonics and intentionally trolling people by stacking on event NPCs and such. I can only imagine what they’d do if you gave them mounts to do that kitten with.

True story: I do this for work. I don’t want to bring my work home so you keep fighting the good fight.

I find ele and thief the most tedious. If I’m ever going to use the booster its going to be for one of them. Except I don’t need another of either.

^ The “throwing all maps into garbage” thread comes close.

And you still have to actually do the daily to get the gold. I can’t see much something for nothing.

I’ve just finished reading the patch notes and they’re impressive enough. A lot more effort went into writing those up.

Donari.5237:

zenleto.6179:

RoseofGilead.8907:

No one knows. Sometime before 2pm Pacific tomorrow.

Which is how many hours from now?

In ten minutes from this post it will be 7 pm pacific time.

7 + 5 = 12. So it is now 5 hours to midnight.

Midnight to noon is 12 more hours. So 17 hours to noon tomorrow.

Add 2 to get to 2 pm and you get 19 hours from the top of this hour.

edit: The patch should be sometime before that because they are doing the AMA at 2 pm Pacific “after the release is live.”

Thank you! I have a timezone app on my ipads but…work phone. Since the patches happen while I’m asleep my excitement level is on a low boil anyway.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Sometime in the next 19 hours and 15 minutes.

Sorry mate, missed it. Thanks also.

RoseofGilead.8907:

No one knows. Sometime before 2pm Pacific tomorrow.

Which is how many hours from now?

I didn’t mind Scarlet. Canach was always more of a mystery.

Donari.5237:

Well as to the reward, it used to be you got a Pact token (maybe you still do?) redeemable for one blue glowy Pact weapon from the Quartermaster at Fort Trinity. As those are tradeable, plenty of them are on the TP. Even at one weapon per alt there are plenty of them people would rather get a gold or two for than unlock the skin themselves.

You also get a dance party, if you talk to the late arrival in the final episode and go all the way through his conversation choices.

No token anymore, just a box where you can select your weapon. The quartermaster is still there though.

Well…grats on reaching 80 finally.

Dante.1508:

Commander tags should be earned not bought..

I’m inclined to agree but I have no idea how. I had no respect for pve commanders until Marionette (where I nearly bought a tag) and later LS1 chapters. I can see the point with TT and the LS2 and HoT maps and have followed some decent commanders with that content so its all evened out.

All you commanders out there, no matter what I think you’ll never hear from me because I’ve never put my money where my mouth is, and you wouldn’t even if I had because I’m nice

For me, partly because the design of some of them aren’t really to my taste, but mostly because the making of them isn’t terribly legendary. Run some content, blow a stack of gold on the tp; it just seems sort of…crap. I’d prefer to go out and collect my own materials but the game isn’t very conducive for that in a reasonable timeframe. That’s my opinion anyway and since you’ve asked I’ve given it.

I have been enjoying the hell out of precursor crafting though. I’m going to have loads of those lol

Who’s defending the game?

Would it be for any of the thousands of reasons we see on here? Or something new? I’m not going to watch it so I’ll leave it up to the thread.

Never heard of him. Was he tall?

What we need is more plain but classy armours from Kryta and Ascalon; more furred, leathered, feathered, chained armours from the Shiverpeaks; and more hand grown and golem-manufactured armours from the Maguuma Jungle.

We aren’t going to get any of them but you can only dream, yeah?

Aha, thanks.

I’ve never even heard of indigo mushrooms before this thread. Is this something that needs to be unlocked? I’d check myself but…work phone.

I can see how people would think this way but I think its great. My 80s are now free to wander Tyria and do whatever they want with me not watching the bar fill up. I feel a type of freedom.

Of course, if they did something to make it reward-style rewarding again if a player was stuck on maxed mastery bars I wouldn’t cry about it.

Mortifer.2946:

zenleto.6179:

Mortifer.2946:

By the way, raids are awesome and I bet majority of their haters are people incapable of making friends in game to raid properly.

As someone who hasn’t raided yet I’d say many of the “actively distrustful dislikers” have poor experiences of similar content in other games. Casting aspersions on people like this is pretty poor.

Okay, maybe it wasn’t nice to say 90% percent, but from my experience I know there are many people hating it just for that reason. If you didn’t try raiding in GW2 you definitely should! It is very different to WoW raiding. And actually not even that hard. The last raid night with my guild we killed the first two bosses on the first try and the last boss on like the third. I must tell you it is extremely rewarding seeing how you and your friends get better and better until you are actually able to finish the whole wing before the 1 hour long food consumable runs out

Yeah, I’m sure there are people hating raids “just because” but there are many reasons. Amazingly enough, and honestly you didn’t strike a nerve, but I was thinking just during the week that I’ve been playing this game for over three years now and haven’t met anyone in game that I’ve wanted to know for more than the conversation I had with them. Doing the raids is something I want to try at some point but I have a load of things to do in game. What you’re experiencing with your guild is something I love about MMOs. Nice work.

^ doh! If I’d known that I would have bought one.

^ yeah, there’s one in Timberline in the middle of the aggressive grawl camp that’s been there for ages. I’d love to know how many bags that player has picked up. I’ve reported it just to make a point but “pointless” springs to mind.

Alas poor Apatia! She was very Norn: seemingly of infinite strength but was overwhelmed at the end.

They can be quite slippery in parts but like many things in the game its a matter of practice. At the risk of comparing myself to anyone (I don’t make many judgements on skill) I enjoy running up this to grab the chest from under the nose of the screeching witch.

Celtic Lady.3729:

General Health.9678:

Dante.1508:

Hopefully make it easier to solo..

How would you solo meta..

They could make the HCs soloable as well as map completions. Previous core Tyria maps didn’t require you to either do the story or play the events in order to get 100% completion. I’d like to see the HoT maps go back to this.

Same. I like that some of them are hard, even in a small group, but for GW2’s more “typical” player I think a softening of things like this would draw more players into the expansion.

Cue song from Clerks.

I don’t care what they do as long as the encounter is progressing well and it isn’t a ranger that likes to press 4 on targets others are close combatting (that don’t have a break bars).

You can buy them at level 2, at least. And yes, the wardrobe will save the skin.

Headcase.4618:

Donari.5237:

The overall selection seems rather sparse to me. I hope it expands over time; Gaile’s thread asking what merchandise we’d like to see has a ton of nifty ideas.

Do you have a link to that thread?

It’s on this page.

Well after jumping like a madman around that section again I now think I’ve never used that cloud. I did get Infantile done a few days ago while doing the bauble achieve so either it wasn’t needed and is just there to balls people up, or something else is happening. It still seems to familiar though. Sorry to be not very helpful.

I’m fairly certain I’ve used that cloud and cracked Infantile. If you haven’t had any joy in the next few hours then I’ll give it another go later and see what’s what.

ekarat.1085:

zenleto.6179:

ekarat.1085:

Caveat: It is possible people mean something different than I do, so feel free to clarify what you mean by Trinity if you think my example doesn’t fit.

This is what I thought DGraves was getting at in his post. I thought it had become something of a reality in HoT. The next round of elites may change it again.

I think that the druid elite is a healer version of the ranger. A different ranger elite might be better with a bow, but we’d still have the druid, which is mutually exclusive with the new elite. Eventually, all classes would have an elite for each role.

Ah yeah, very true. I have to say I’m looking forward to what the future elites will bring for the game.

ekarat.1085:

Caveat: It is possible people mean something different than I do, so feel free to clarify what you mean by Trinity if you think my example doesn’t fit.

This is what I thought DGraves was getting at in his post. I thought it had become something of a reality in HoT. The next round of elites may change it again.

If you want to shackle yourself to a rigid role then go right ahead and all power to you. You’ve given some examples to suit you. For those us who want to play how we want with whatever profession we want then all power to us. The system is already in place with varying degrees of success per profession. Seems win/win to me.

Edit. On second read you didn’t give any examples to suit you but I’ll still stand by most of my comment.

Dante.1508:

+1 op Guildwars 2 armor is bleh… very few actual armors i look at and think wow that looks awesome..

Even the top of the game armors don’t appeal.. Weapons are similar basic all through the game, horrible..

Legendaries are beyond hideous, all that grinding for an ugly weapon… i think not.

Bet you’re glad you’re back then, yeah?

:)

Well I’ll move over as well.

Yes. Unless I’m not playing anymore then No.

Fair enough. It didn’t look like it was much of an issue for you

Yes. Unless I’m not playing anymore then No.

Donari, the muddy brown thing can be rectified by switching back to the old piece and then back to new again. In case you weren’t aware.

Felahr.9830:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

You want a conspiracy? Try creating a male human toon, then remove all the facial hair. Most of the faces look feminine or at least androgynous. Why is that? My tin foil hat is tingling.

There are no androgynous looking male human faces. theyre all plain, coarse, and ugly. theres some small variations, very limited, but for the most part theyre all coarse 40something men with wide faces and ugly features. the one with a black eye is the closest to “androgynous” you can get, and even hes fugly

What??? I can’t roll more than the two human males I have because the rest of the looks are too boy band prissy.

And as for the topic, I don’t mind many of the heavy choices but after a while the medium and light gear can get a bit samey (or a lot). It can be a touch hard getting a theme together. Disclaimer: I have a lot of characters.

There’s a good chance you’re cold as well.

Seera.5916:

Belier.9864:

Seera.5916:

They said selling Dungeon runs is legal if you do not exploit to do so.

Many, including myself, feel that joining an SAB group at the end to get the rewards is an exploit. And therefore should be against the rules as it should be the same as selling Dungeon runs.

There would not be the backlash there is if it wasn’t an exploit to join an already started SAB instance.

Many, including myself, feel that joining a group of any kind in order to recieve the benefits so long as you are willing to give payment for the service is a legitimate service of the people. Therefore, it should be allowed by the rules and should be allowed just as much for SAB as for any other run of sorts.

The same opinion works in the same logic from the other side. :P

There are backlashes about everything, and no-one is ever fully satisfied. That said though, I still think people are focusing too much on a symptom of the problem, I.E. An SAB exploit, than the real problem, currency being able to be bought with real money. Additionally, people are making -way- too big of a deal about items of which the entirety of its components can be bought on the TP and/or crafted, in addition to the fact the skins are only a literal color spectrum change and add nothing truly unique to the item.

Here’s the thing about the exploit as well: They could just as easily remove the code restrictions about joining, and it would literally be the same as any dungeon or raid run selling service to players. Ultimately, it is Anet’s decision — and honestly, I feel the fact they allow gold to legitimately be bought in game says way more about their stance and policies than temporarily allowing an exploit which isn’t really much of an exploit, considering they allow it in almost -every- other sense of the game.

The problem is, the next time there is an exploit, those caught by ANet will go “but it’s not that much of an exploit and you allowed it for SAB when that was also not that much of an exploit”.

It sets a very very very bad precedent.

And no one should be able to be allowed to benefit from an exploit. No matter how large or small. Banned for it? Not necessarily in all instances and I wouldn’t say they should be banned for this one. But they should still not be allowed to use an exploit and benefit from it.

Just chiming in to say yeah, pretty much. This whole debacle is uncomfortable.

thingol.8730:

No it ‘|’ didn’t work into naming. I think he maybe use his name likes
I Drizzt I

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this guy. Besides thinking that hardly anybody does the Drizzt way anymore (as far I’ve seen) I also thought his “border” was fairly original. I’d never seen it before anyway.

Selling dungeon spots has always been a bit grubby but if that’s what people want to do then its up to them. With Anet’s PvP there aren’t any outside effects that can affect it. It’s very self contained.

I’m going to buy them. Nice looking t-shirts.

edit: though exchange rate issues will stop me from doing it any time soon.

No but only because it gives me something to do with 80s and I find it fun. I have 64 characters and only one with 100% map. The rest just chip away at it until something better comes along, like LS3. I enjoy it.

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

zenleto.6179:

They could shut SAB down until its fixed. Would anyone be happy with that? Serious question, by the way.

No. Why punish those that don’t use that exploit? But if it would allow me to get that tribulation shop in W1Z1, I’d jump right in… I did that tribulation mode once on my main account to get the shops, I doubt I’ll find the drive to do it again on my second account. I really don’t like that tribulation mode, but I would like to get that coin exchange…

Yeah, me either. I’ve been enjoying my SAB. Still working through world 2 on normal let alone Tribulation mode. I’d be dirty if my head of steam was interrupted. I can’t really see an option other than that if they were to try and combat this exploit until its fixed. Except for bans of course.