Guild Wars 2

Reaper’s Rumble was the best PvP experience I had in GW2. It was (and I hope it will be) simply awesome. The lack of info about it is kind of frustrating.
:/

It’s a double edged sword.

As a ghost you can use up to 4 (if I remember correctly) different Mad King says commands. There are different cooldowns on one another, so you can spam it 4 times in succession. If you fail to comply, then you are stunned and damaged.

However if you successfully complete one, you get extra score for it.

The most notable effect of the skill however is that it forces the players to drop the bundles from their hands.

Btw, I love being the ghost from the beginning, it’s so much fun.

1)graphics (1-bad…10-amazing) – ⁹
2)sound(1-bad…10-amazing) – ⁷
3)story concept/originality (1-boring…10-captivating) – ⁷
4)loot/reward (1-lost all my money…10-gained amazing items) – ¹⁰
5)stability (1-extremly buggy…10-no bugs) – ⁸
6)network connection/speed (1-laggy,disconnections, 10 – perfect connection) – ⁷
7)a)mini events length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – ¹⁰ – not counting the finale
7)b)mini events length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – ⁴ – the final attack
8)overall event length (1-to long/short…10-just right) – ¹⁰
9)overall Satisfaction (1-worst experience ever,10-best experience ever) – ⁹

If I remember correctly then you can’t activate the same buff twice (I think the ‘Activate’ button will be greyed out). But you can activate different buffs at once.

That might be a bad wording from me. I did not farm or anything (except a few dungeons for tokens with my guild). I played the game. Two months = 30g + cheapest full set of rare. But that is invested time as well. And part of that invested time just got thrown away.

Mungrul.9358:

I’m guessing the content was released this way to drain some gold from people who have acquired their riches “unfairly”.
We all know that those with hundreds of gold pieces likely acquired them by running dungeons when exploits worked and through abusing various other loopholes before ArenaNet closed them.
Releasing desirable skins early on that require huge investment insures that only those who can afford the materials invest in them.
Hopefully, tactics like this go some way towards balancing the economy.

And what about those that worked hard in the last 2 months to gather their riches?

Krimpton.4879:

Bott detection algorithm’s testing and blah blah blah what else…?

What wrong with the good old Mk1 human eyeball….

You know its an amazing thing the old Mk1 if you use it to ‘’look at things’’ you spot things like BOTS… Speed hackers….. flying hacks…. CHEATS.

You go oh look a guy flying in the game…. teleporting from mob to mob. did we program that into the game.. Hmmm no i don’t think we did… = BAN HAMMER..

Oh look 20 naked rangers all running in a line in a circle path around Orr.. hmm hello rangers.. no reply = BAN HAMMER.

Im sorry but i dont believe a word of what Anet says right now, it’s a horrible thing to say i know and i will apologise if im wrong. BUT…
When i see MORE bots now running around than i did before, and they claim to be baning 10k every few weeks… sorry but i dont believe it.

Get some Mk1 human eyeballs on the ground in the game Anet.

What I hope to happen:

Your idea of “solving” things gets implemented. One of the GMs make a mistake with their reliable Mk1 eye and mistake you for a bot, resulting in your permaban. And when you go to back to cry about the GM being wrong, the only reply you would get is: “But we say you did that!”

Seriously please think before you post…

The only thing that annoys me is the sudden change of the status of the 3 items. I mean they are introduced as semi-legendary items, that would cost a lot to craft. And now that it’s a random drop, the TP is literally filled with them for what? The Mad Moon is available for ~12 gold. (I know it’s the players fault for selling them that cheap, but if it’s that cheap, then something is wrong.) The sad part for me is that I already paid for the Recipe as well as the sigils, costing around 20 gold. So if I hadn’t done that I would be the owner of two semi-legendary shields.

I do. Guild management seems a bit lacking in some aspects. If they ever get to fixing little flaws like this, I think they’ll change the motd system to be a little more visible.

I wish the pumpkins wouldn’t reset. It would have been a lot more interesting if you had to explore the areas for pumpkins. Let’s say you need 150 carved and there are like 200-300 spread across the areas.

Maulor.9847:

here’s my contribution: the sweetest sight after a few hours

Naked guy staring into shining pudding? :P

Gz on completing the tower

/cheer @

mushaelf.7358:

But when you’re out of combat, does it appear on your back so it can actually be seen in the screenshot?

And come on guys post some screenshots!

It appears on your back, yes.

It’s a shield. You can get a temporary 4-hour version for 6 silver in LA.

Your charr would look epic with a Mad Moon shield standing next to the Mad Moon, like in the first pic.

This will only happen if Christmas doesn’t “profit-blocks” you. If for Wintersday you could get the same/similar item stats (consumables included), with different skins. I’m not sure people would really need/want the Halloween themed ones.

Well it really depends on how the guild operates. We are a smaller group of friends and our comm needs are fulfilled by TS.

But I can see why would a larger guild or one with more sophisticated player composition would like to have this improvement. Also if you check the suggestions sub-forum you can find multiple threads about guilds requesting this or something similar.

Xiphoideus.3149:

So either ANet has a really good long-term solution…

I favor the long term solution. The drawback is that it takes longer to set up. Up to this moment ANet never failed me, so as a “fanboy” I still believe in them working hard on the solution.

Our guild had like 3 motd since the 3 day headstart. Two of them was about “represent the guild with your characters, ts info: <xxx>” the last was just gloating that a few of us did good in a dungeon.

So personally I don’t see a need for an update on motd mechanics.

I got an exotic soulbound mystic stuff called Memory. By using it I can recall the fun times I had…

I don’t like to walk around the ruins of Old Ascalon. The fate of the characters from GW1 makes me sad. But I also see this as a great opportunity. I’d love to help put the ghosts to rest, it would be so fitting for an Ascalonian descendant to finally deal with the past of his nation.

Well in Reaper’s Rumble Mad King says:

Play my subjects! Play! But if you don’t play fair, you’ll make me proud!

takatsu.9416:

Would never put a spider on my rangers back. Staff is too creepy for my Mesmer. I don’t rly like any of the skins and won’t try to get it.

Well Halloween is kind of creepy. I hope you’ll find something to your liking in one of the upcoming events.

I think the progress bar is for Act 3, while the Act 1 → Act 2 transition won’t have an ‘event’ like transition. Simply a patch or something that unlocks content similar to when Act 1 first began.

I know what GMT is, and I know that in-game I can see the server time (PDT/PST) and my local time (which happens to be GMT+1). This alone gives enough reason for me for them using Pacific time. (Also I might be late and they may have updated it, but Act 3 time is also given in GMT).

No I was not aware of the fact that DST could be so messed up. I didn’t know that the DST switch could occur over a week instead of a day. So mea culpa on that one.

Because there is an in-game clock that always shows GMT time?

Personally I think that Arachnophobia does look cool on thieves (nice synergy with the poison skills). The Crossing looks cool for necros, the glow effect and the physics on the lantern are neat. The Mad Moon looks so good on my charr warrior that I had to spend most of my money to get the recipe.

It’ a single +7 hours offset. If you have an international guild, then you have to deal with conversions regardless it being PST/PDT.

I don’t see a reason why is it so hard to teach people, that PDT mean GMT-7.

DST only occurs twice in a year. I really hope everyone can live through that event without too much confusion.

I support this idea. But I’d be more suited under Suggestions.

Sernius Alathar.6538:

I would assume it would be the same. Traditional titles in GW1 relating to seasons were also continued through other events.

E.g. If your new to GW2 they have Wintersday which is the equivalent of Christmas, and they have sweets and wintersday gifts and costume brawls as well.

Unlike Gw2 though, GW1 never had an achievment system it was based around titles like Sweetooth or Drunken Title and any alcohol or sweets consumed through myriads of events contributed into your max title. The festival achievement tab looks to be a universal achievement listing area for festivities and I would assume that each year you can continue your achievements otherwise why add them? I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw costume brawl during wintersday activities as well.

One thing though, each Seasonal Event had items purely unique to that event, Wintersday, Dragon Festival, Halloween etc. All had cosmetic items that were only obtained in that year. So those devil horns could be a grawl mask next year, or something else the next. Each year also added extra missions relating to the season.

I’d like to add that different mini games were also available for different events. Snow ball fight, dragon arena (dodgeball), Simon says, etc.

X:00 PDT = (X+7+Y):00 GMT+Y

Not that hard imho.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/On-Botting-and-What-We-re-Doing-About-It/page/12

Last post.

Also from Trick or treat bags. And those are easy to get as well from Haunted doors and/or mob loot.

Shredicus.8706:

Aesthetics are purely subjective though. I find the Halloween skins entirely bland and underwhelming.

+1

Yes, they’re so subjective, that for example the only medium armor I found remotely interesting for my “assassin” is this:

http://i.minus.com/ibbh9NurOoivQO.jpg

I don’t think they’re planning to make an event that only fires once. I expect what Shiren said, being a 24 hour event, firing every 3 hours.

Before the Halloween event, when they revealed the costume brawl event being a BLTC related activity, the wording was very misleading and many have thought that you had to buy a costume from the cash shop if you wanted to participate. This turned out to be false, so it might be that the words does not reflect 100% what they meant by it.

The only exception is that if Mad King Thorn arrives on the 28th. It would be weird if he arrived like 8 times before finally staying

“With a sequel, I expect all of the convenience options of the previous game to at least be included from the start.”

I can’t understand this view. It would be nice, yes. But to demand, that every little thing that’s only for convenience, be included in a software. That just sounds ridiculous.

The decorations are simply awesome, even the crafting station’s background image is Halloween themed.

Lee One.8640:

I didn’t think the even was working soooo I destroyed my meter to try to ask for a new one but I couldn’t.

No event for me.

Note: You’ll need to have Candy Corn in your inventory to use it.

Kaderin.7584:

Agree with the OP, gw1 events yielded more items than a single headpiece and didnt require hardcore payoff to actually get something

Holiday events shouldnt be so intensive in costs as it is with the BLC rate at the moment

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Halloween_2005 – since 2012 is the first GW2 Halloween event

Did I miss something big in GW1 Halloween events? I remember that the only thing you could get was a headgear.

Leadfoot.9071:

zogrim.6925:

“When players get defeated you get a pitch black screen and your map turns blank. All you can do is wait if someone is around and willing to res you. You see no enemies, no allies only the black screen. If someone resurrects you, you’d have to instantly realize your surrounding and hope that you’re not under an enemy aor circle.”

Compared to a more “realistic” death. The current, you have limited vision, impaired hearing thing is pretty generous…

The only problem with this point is that in GW2 you get a set of skills to use in the downed state – they would be pretty useless if it worked the way you described. Yes it may be “generous” in comparison but it is a gameplay design. The gameplay design is significantly impeded by the camera issues in my (and apparently plenty of others) opinion.

I may have misunderstood it, but he was talking about defeated state, not downed state. I had no problem looking around in downed state btw.

Nurvus.2891:

zogrim.6925:

Besides, please name a game that has npc fall damage. I really couldn’t think of any.

Star Wars the Old Republic

Yes, it’s a crappy game overall, but every game MMO so far has had something worth keeping for future games.

Thanks! I did not know that.

If players could knock down (knock off) NPCs, it would most likely end up being abused. I can see before me several boss battles turning into “let’s push him down the cliff” events.

Besides, please name a game that has npc fall damage. I really couldn’t think of any.

For me: bank/bag slot > character slot > forge stone > salvage kit and the rest is pretty much uninteresting (if I had excessive amounts of gems I’d buy some, but I wouldn’t “farm” to get any).

Male Ascalonian elementalist noble who inherited his name from his predecessor Ascalonian hero elementalist, Trinil Seraph Frail. I came up with the name Trinil Frail for my D&D paladin. I added Seraph as a middle name, to emphasize on him being an elementalist (seraph means “burning ones” – that’s cool for fire ele, also magic is the gift of gods, so a “heavenly” being must be adept at it – at least in my mind).

Female Canthan thief street-rat who inherited her name from her predecessor Canthan heroine assassin, Shimada Ichiro. I was looking for assassin names in Japanese history and found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimada_Ichiro.

I play as an ele. The best damage mitigation skill that’s not invulnerability is earth attuned glyph of storms. It almost keeps constant blind on up to 5 mob. When I use it I usually don’t take any damage at all.

“When players get defeated you get a pitch black screen and your map turns blank. All you can do is wait if someone is around and willing to res you. You see no enemies, no allies only the black screen. If someone resurrects you, you’d have to instantly realize your surrounding and hope that you’re not under an enemy aor circle.”

Compared to a more “realistic” death. The current, you have limited vision, impaired hearing thing is pretty generous…

I wonder if this counts as “real life situation”

“Glyph of Renewal: This skill will now revive downed allies only, not dead ones.” – GW2 Patch – October 11, 2012

Dodge roll! Yaay I can still res people. ^^

(If only :P)

time-damage
0:16 – 2100
0:21 – 3423
0:26 – 1255
0:31 – 1555
0:36 – 1826

That’s about 500 dps, and i was generous with the time frame…

Pff horse… I’d want to ride in a Charr Battle Tank :P

AFAIK the offhand weapon determines the offhand skill damages while the main hand weapon determine the main hand skill damages.

You can also try it out in PvP lobby. Just get a steady main/offhand and try it with normal weapon/offhand combination. Skills 1-2-3 and 4-5 have different damage outputs (steady weapons have very little damage, so it’s really noticable).

I find this ridiculous. At this moment this request should be under Very Low priority…

http://www.howtogeek.com/111859/how-to-batch-rename-files-in-windows-4-ways-to-rename-multiple-files/