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Guild Wars 2 Launch Date announced: August 28th, 2012

Personally, I'm hoping for additional templates and slider options anyways. I feel like the asura kinda got screwed, especially in the hair department

My friend told me from BWE3 to the ST they added in more body types for the asura and more eye colors for the human females so I'd expect more options all around come launch.
 
Thanks a ton to theMrCravens for everything!

So hey: How much will a rare and unique miniature cost me if I don't care which?

5k some steel, some grinding.....and a jolt through Sorrow's Furnace for the black Mora chick (unique iirc).

Otherwise, I think I saw people selling uniquest for over 50k.
 
The black Moa chick is a unique minipet you can get by doing a scavenger hunt through the three campaigns. Its the cheapest way to get a unique. Otherwise you are looking to spend 50k or more. Prolly more.


On my phone atm or I'd link to the wiki for more info. The goodthing with doing the black moa is it also will net you the Sorrow's Furnace trophy in Honor.
 
Attention everyone who thinks it is necessary to copy down sliders to achieve names quickly ; it will be far more efficient to just 'Skip to End' five times to poach the names you want as soon as the servers go live on August 25th, and then delete those names to claim them with your real character designs.

Deleted names have a 24 hour period of reservation for your account, meaning that no one else can get the names you delete within 24 hours of that name you delete.

Now if you're just trying to maximize early playing time on August 25th, then proceed.

So... create account, skip through character creation, claim name, then delete character and take your time doing a new character, since the name you did in the first one will be reserved for 24h?
 
Asura animations make up for everything ever

During one of the weekends, I was having more fun just because I loved my little asura so much. I doubt I even like the engineer, but that asura made me want to main him.. calling out to me.

err, whatever. Humans for life!
 
Sometime this month I have a couple of birthday gifts due on characters.

I got to say though that rushing through to get HoM points is probably not a fun experience. Best way to play is doing Nightfall and EotN, though I am not sure that is the best route for HoM points.
 
You can get a few. And you have to play EotN for the tapestries.

edit: Unless helpful gaffers give them to you.
 
Hmm. 20 points left on my HoM until 30.

I've been there forever, but it's so hard to log in to GW. I've had the game since Prophecies came out and I can't bring myself to play it any more. All those years waiting for GW2 made it impossible for me to play GW1. Every time I tried I was reminded about how either we knew nothing of GW2 yet, or that it was no where near release.
 
I don't get the Felicia Day hate, I'll admit I don't see much of her but that unboxing was hopelessly cute.

Just hit 8/30 HoM, sigh. It's going to be another long day of mini hunting!
 
I don't get the Felicia Day hate, I'll admit I don't see much of her but that unboxing was hopelessly cute.
Yup. Also, are Minipets in GW2 only available through the cash shop, or can they (or some of them) be obtained ingame, too?
 
Yup. Also, are Minipets in GW2 only available through the cash shop, or can they (or some of them) be obtained ingame, too?
You are able to trade in-game gold for gems. Then you use the gems for the minipet. Oh, and you can get specific minipets from the trade post.
 
Yup. Also, are Minipets in GW2 only available through the cash shop, or can they (or some of them) be obtained ingame, too?

Couple things here:

1) All minipets (at least those obtained from the Gem Store) are tradable on the Trading Post for in-game currency.
2) Any time you wish, you can trade in-game currency for gems for the Gem Store (as well as vice versa). Effectively, letting you buy anything at the 'cash shop' with in-game currency.

So yes, they are very much obtainable in-game.
 
I have no idea who Felicia Day is.

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Couple things here:

1) All minipets (at least those obtained from the Gem Store) are tradable on the Trading Post for in-game currency.
2) Any time you wish, you can trade in-game currency for gems for the Gem Store (as well as vice versa). Effectively, letting you buy anything at the 'cash shop' with in-game currency.

So yes, they are very much obtainable in-game.

Well yeah :) But that's not exactly how I meant it, and I'm sure you know that :P
I'll rephrase: Can I find Minipets through gameplay, as a drop/DE reward/other reward, without actually buying them at the Trading Post for whatever currency?
 
I've never thought much one way or the other about her work, except for that shit related to Dragon Age which was certainly worth mocking.
 
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This is 'Felicia's' face in Dragon Age II DLC

Bioware just needs to stop with celebrity faces. The only one they've ever gotten right is male Shepard's face model.
 
Contemplating opening my set of year 1-7 presents considering the price of minis atm. I suppose I should work on getting the campaigns completed in the meantime while I think.
 
Contemplating opening my set of year 1-7 presents considering the price of minis atm. I suppose I should work on getting the campaigns completed in the meantime while I think.

DON'T OPEN YEAR 7 OR EVEN YEAR 6, MAYBE EVEN YEAR 5. Selling a year 7 present will get you a guaranteed 30 ectos.
 
Well Uniques are going for 100k and rares are 50k, some uncommons are even going for 30k. Oppressors are going for 100k as well now. Will have to check to see what the most economical way forward is. Apparently gw2 estimator has 7 years as high as 35e
 
Just bought the Digital Deluxe Edition, trying to log in to my old GW account now but it looks like I've forgot the name of my character(s), which is strange cause I always use the same names... (and they are uncommon enough)

Ah well, send a mail to support, hoping they can help me out.

Anything I should know about benefits you get from playing GW? Can't remember what level I was and I think I've only played vanilla, maybe the first expansion as well, been ages... Shit :)
 
Well Uniques are going for 100k and rares are 50k, some uncommons are even going for 30k. Oppressors are going for 100k as well now. Will have to check to see what the most economical way forward is. Apparently gw2 estimator has 7 years as high as 35e

You can get the Oppressor weapon from finishing war in kryta in a day or two so no worries there. You can get a unique from doing some sorrow's furnace stuff for the black moa chick so no money spent there.

Just bought the Digital Deluxe Edition, trying to log in to my old GW account now but it looks like I've forgot the name of my character(s), which is strange cause I always use the same names... (and they are uncommon enough)

Ah well, send a mail to support, hoping they can help me out.

Anything I should know about benefits you get from playing GW? Can't remember what level I was and I think I've only played vanilla, maybe the first expansion as well, been ages... Shit :)

Cosmetic gear, ranger pets, titles.
 
Stress test starts at 9pm, great. Planned to go to a local bar tonight, but I could just stay home and play Guild Wars 2. What to dooooo.
 
Well, you can at least be satisfied that all the Felicia Day haters will have to avoid playing an Asura because she's one of the main voice actors.

Ah thanks for pointing that out, I'll be avoiding Asura like the plague then. A shame they didn't get a proper voice actress that can actually act and who's voice doesn't grate on the nerves as much :(
 
Ah thanks for pointing that out, I'll be avoiding Asura like the plague then. A shame they didn't get a proper voice actress that can actually act and who's voice doesn't grate on the nerves as much :(

Careful, say anything bad about her and you can be banned by the Felicia Day elf appreciation brigade :)
 
Will it be possible to change your Guild Wars 2 username? Mine is in lowercase but it doesn't fit my GAF nickname so I'd like to change it with a capital C.
 
Some supposed leaks:

These are supposed leaks from an internal tester calling himself "Leakbro" on 4chan. Apparently some of his earlier leaks have been true. Let's take this with a grain of salt but still assume the following changes happen: Thief and Necro players, what say you?

Thief
Dagger

•Wild Strike – Gain 10 Endurance with a sucessful strike.
•Lotus Strike – 3s Weakness → 2s Poison

Thief
Sword

•Tactical Strike: 1s Daze→2s Daze; can move while using this
•Crippling Strike: Added 2s Weakness
•Infiltrator’s Strike: 2 init→3 init. Added 1s Immob
•Flanking Strike: removes 1 boon Thief Shortbow
•Disabling Shot: 2s→3s Cripple
•Shadow Refuge – now pulses health to downed allies as well. Increased the Heal from 1000-1600 to 1500-2500

Necro:

•Death Shroud skill 2: Now adds 3 stacks of bleed so that condie spec’d necro gets more out of death shroud. Plus Dark Path just sucked.
• Skill 1on scepter, combo 1 and combo 2: 7 sec → 5 sec bleed (was too good)
• Skill 2: 5 sec bleed → 7 sec bleed (picks up the slack from the nerf to Curse)
• Dagger 1: Combo damage changed from .3/.6/1 to .6/.6/1

We might find out today depending on if these changes are in yet or not.
 
alright, I'm going to try to login for the stress test with a hostel connection onto an American server ... from Europe. When will it start (in CEST/GMT+2)?
 
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