Kos Luftar
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LiveSpartan235
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The support page just posted these FAQs
Dyes
https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/45889307-Dyes
Wardrobe
https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/46419166-Wardrobe
Town Clothes
https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/45944258-Town-Clothes
Dyes
https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/45889307-Dyes
Wardrobe
https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/46419166-Wardrobe
Town Clothes
https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/45944258-Town-Clothes
I was waiting for someone to say this. I love how it implies that changing stats on the fly is the ultimate function of a legendary and not the looks. I'm sure a lot of people spent all those hours making theirs so they can swap from zerkers to knights at will. I have two Infinite Lights which don't even have that ability either.
Voyevoda007
Neo Member
Got 2 weeks paid off work since i fucked up my leg. Need something to keep me busy for a while. Is this game still worth it? I played WoW and FFXIV. Loved it. I also played Tera and KOTOR. Hated them. Anyways just really want to know if the game is active. Should I just go back to WoW and FFXIV.
If any of your characters are wearing or own any piece of an armor set (such as the Profane armor set or the Magitech armor set), all of the remaining pieces will be unlocked in your Wardrobe in addition to any pieces currently on your character or in your inventory.
I have the original heavy Armor, and I fuckin deleted two pieces by accident back in the day. Now I have ALL OF THEM
Fuck, that means glasses are in. WE IN THIS
What’s happening to town clothes with the April 2104 Feature Build?
tee hee
I have the original heavy Armor, and I fuckin deleted two pieces by accident back in the day. Now I have ALL OF THEM
Fuck, that means glasses are in. WE IN THIS
What’s happening to town clothes with the April 2104 Feature Build?
tee hee
Voyevoda007
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This game still worth playing or not?.
Won't find many here who will say no. GAF has been a great guild since pre-launch and many of us are still here and going strong. It's a great time to get into the game, too, with an upcoming patch of expansion-like features before the next season of story content and world vs. world play begin.
It doesn't have the vertical raid and item progression of WoW and FFXII/XIV, so if you need that then there might be better choices. But if you just want a fun game with tons of
stuff to do and an awesome guild this is a great option.
Yup. Guild most nights has around 20 people on. More on event nights and such. Server population seems stable at a reasonable number other than maybe world v world since a new season is starting soon and there's some flux with that.
It's an argument for why those who grinded out duplicate legendary weapons still have exception. All the work it took for anyone who went down this completely optional path still has value.
And the legendary's stat changing capability is its ultimate function. While most people want it for the stature, its functionality as a weapon is best in game.
shysaursoft
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Still very worth it. More active than ever. Better than WoW and FFXIV combined*.
*my opinion anyway
The game and GAF guild are very active; however, you will not get anything really remotely similar from it as you would from WoW or FFXIV. It really depends what you are looking for. If you have any specific questions along the lines of "Does GW2 have ____?" then feel free to ask here.
Voyevoda007
Neo Member
How fun is it to level?
How is PVP?
How is PVP?
MakeshiftChef
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It is very fun to level as everything you do gives you xp. So how you level is entirely up to you and what you decide. I can't speak to the PvP as I haven't really participated in it.
Was finally going to start this tonight until I got to the character creation. They give you a crap ton of options, it's pretty crazy. Not used to this kind of customization options in my MMOs. Gonna need to take some time to go through it all since character creation is the most difficult part of MMOs.
shysaursoft
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Leveling is arguably the easiest part of the game, with the most content geared towards it. Your Personal Story is the main magnet pulling you through zones and up levels fast. Exploring those zones, doing Renown Hearts along the way, finding Vistas, harvesting, etc, all give even more experience. Leveling fast is almost unavoidable. The zones in themselves can be interesting (personal tastes has a big impact here, naturally).
PvP needs a bit of work in terms of the structure around it - right now it's a glorified multiplayer client with very rudimentary hotjoin matches for fun or tournaments for slightly more rewarding fun. But the core game loop in multiplayer I think is solid, though the upcoming trait changes in April will mix things up. When you go into PvP, it's like a second character - you're made level 80 automatically, it's a second skill/weapon/armour loadout different from PvE, and buying armour/weapons is free, but only usable in the PvP area.
WvW is the 2nd PvP mode, which uses your character from PvE, and is a much larger, objective based, three-way brawl between three servers, with up to 150 players per map. That can be a riot and a lot of fun, but a lot of servers/people do take it too seriously. Going to be very dependent on the server you join, and how much you personally like it.
Complistic
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The biography questions are largely used for what missions your character will play through for the first third or so of your branching personal story. Hope that helps.
finding a unidentified dye made loot feel special. now oranges will be the only loot i even look at!
Yaska
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Been wondering about few things; How to get more transmutation charges ( are they paywalled with gems?, the Buy more button in hero panel looks to point this way), and if the Gift of Colour will be behind Laurels (unidentified dyes) from now on, making some legendaries a lot more expensive.
1. Transmutation has always had a gem store component, but they're also given out as a reward for dailies (rarely) and map completion. I don't think I transmute my armor any more or less than the average player and I always seem to have plenty.
2. They are changing the components for gift of color to compensate for the changes.
Edit: I'm home now so here's the link on the Gift of Color change. It will only require 100 dyes: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Dye-Changes-Feedback-Questions/page/8#post3811742
Mr_Antimatter
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It basically drained the other zones of life by making it so much faster and better in terms of loot to just do the train then to do pretty much any other events.
It hasn't bothered me personally, but people dislike that it's in the starting zone, and it shows people a really rough side of the community right at the start. Rude people in starter zones, basically.
I wouldn't consider the population of other zones to be a problem at all (well, it is a problem, but not one exclusive to GW2, and not because of the train). As Lunar said, it's the location of the train, not the train itself. You literally cannot stop a certain subset of the community from actively seeking out the path of least resistance; no matter how boring it is, that's just all they want. There's no way to stop that.
The problem is that humans are the most popular race, which means Queensdale is the most popular starting zone, which means for the majority of players their introduction to Guild Wars 2 is in Queensdale. First impressions are everything, and right now the train gives people the impression that Guild Wars 2 is just farming champions until you're ready to move to the next zone. I've seen it at least twice now where someone will wander into Kessex and ask "Where's the train?", not understanding that 99% of the game just doesn't work like that.
The Queensdale Train also behaves very badly, which is in direct contrast with the rest of the game that has such a strong, friendly community. The constant, entitled whining about people 'sniping' their kills (as if they own them), going out of order, etc. leaves new players with a bad taste in their mouth.
If it were in Frostgorge, or Orr, or anywhere else where players won't accidentally bump into it and have it warp their impression of the game, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Hell, the Frostgorge train is a thing, but it behaves (the mobs are harder so it's not completely mindless, which leads to people getting chatty) and new players don't encounter it until much later. Nobody cares about the Frostgorge train because it's not setting a bad example.
And it just so happens to be in the starting zone most chosen by new players. Humans are always the most popular race in video games.
It's mind boggling to me that they haven't nerfed it by this point. They've nerfed other trains before, so it's just kinda strange that they've let this one go on as long as it has.
It's mind boggling to me that they haven't nerfed it by this point. They've nerfed other trains before, so it's just kinda strange that they've let this one go on as long as it has.
Come on ANet, where's my blog post =(
It's coming. The devs dislike it more than we do, probably because they're privy to the data that shows exactly how toxic it is to the game's population. They make no secret of their displeasure, at least.
It's coming. The devs dislike it more than we do, probably because they're privy to the data that shows exactly how toxic it is to the game's population. They make no secret of their displeasure, at least.
Coriolanus
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So that's why there are people announcing champions up in every zone I've created a character so far... Interesting.
And humans are the most popular race? Man, that's kinda sad. Any site where i can see the race/class spread?
And humans are the most popular race? Man, that's kinda sad. Any site where i can see the race/class spread?
LumpOfCole
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One of the three posts next week is about 'Facilitating Friendly Play' - I'm so confident that at least one of those posts will directly address the Queensdale Train (as in talk about changes that will obliterate it) that I will give away a Mini Tybalt next week at Guild Missions if I am wrong.
But why wait? I feel like it's a pretty easy nerf, but then again, I'm no game designer.
So the new wardrobe thing has got my blood boiling and I cant contain my excitement. Havent felt this way since launch actually, enough to cancel my sub from WoW. My alts are finally going to be beautiful.
Needa ask, does anyone know if I can make Eternity if I use a transmutation splitter on a Sunrise/Twilight could I combine them to make it on a singular character? (I have sunrise on war and twilight on guard). Im asking because it seems that all 3 skins would be unlocked regardless.
Thanks for the help.
EDIT: Holy ****, account bound dyes too.
Needa ask, does anyone know if I can make Eternity if I use a transmutation splitter on a Sunrise/Twilight could I combine them to make it on a singular character? (I have sunrise on war and twilight on guard). Im asking because it seems that all 3 skins would be unlocked regardless.
Thanks for the help.
EDIT: Holy ****, account bound dyes too.
Sort of. Champions are pretty rewarding because of a guaranteed loot bag drop, and are often very tough to take down alone. So it's common to announce one in map chat to get assistance/offer the kill to others in the zone as you come across them, and there are champions in every zone. The only zones with "trains," where you continuously waypoint along a known optimal pathway of Champions to keep killing them as they respawn, are Queendale and Frostgorge Sound
By far. I don't think a recent one has been done, but this is year one:
Not quite sure what you're attempting to get at- I think you could just combine the sunrise and twilight with the mystic forge recipe, no transmutation splitting required? Unless, you mean that they've already been transmuted for some reason and need to get the original "true" legendaries back?
Yeah, I've got no problem with champ trains. The game is basically built for it at this point. It's just the rude behavior coming out of a starting zone that isn't super great.
Also, I'd love to see that list updated for 2013/2014. It always blows my mind that Warrior and Ranger are 1+2. I always think Ele and Guardian are going to be tops.
Also, I'd love to see that list updated for 2013/2014. It always blows my mind that Warrior and Ranger are 1+2. I always think Ele and Guardian are going to be tops.
No, um I have the legendary's on 2 different characters. I was wondering if I could transmute either Sunrise/Twilight onto a white, then use a splitter on the other character. So essentially could I forge them into Eternity or do I needa make another sunrise/twilight?
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I wonder if Unidentified Dye price will go up or down.
The class distribution is really remarkably even. You can't hope for much better than that.
They had an infographic up around the one year anniversary, which you can view here. Humans are first at 36%, Norn at 19%, Asura at 16%, Sylvari at 15% and Charr at 13%.
As far as announcing Champions go, I actually really enjoy Vyrance's World Event train. It's always very light-hearted (the fact that a GAFer runs it almost assures that), good money and he makes a point of going off the beaten trail for stuff like Orr Temples and some of the rarer events. The train also stops, which is an important part the Queensdale train fails to remember.
It being a three-part blog, I'm 99.9% sure it will be about something a bit bigger than the Queensdale train.
Thursday has two blog articles, "Removing Restrictions" and "Account-Bound". Those both sound like they might answer your question clearly, since right now we only have the Wardrobe and Dye pieces of the puzzle. They've been carefully sidestepping weapons, even though they have a tab on the wardrobe page.
Forgive my ignorance on this subject but why does the soulbinding matter for crafting eternity? Will items like that not even come out of your bank?
If that's the case then you pick one or the other and do what you just said, transmute onto a white, bank, retrieve, split.
@above- agreed, I'd wait for those blog posts Retro mentioned before anything. You never know
It's come down a little since yesterday, but it's still high (47s, which is about 15s higher than it was before the announcement). However, on the 15th everyone with duplicate dyes will have an influx of them to sell, flooding the market. Prices should drop back down to the 30-20s range, I would guess. Some people will try to burn them for a chance at rare dyes, so the identified dye market will have an influx too, driving those prices down as well. At least, in theory. I'm not an economist or anything.
Bullshit. Less Bookahs, more Engineers.
Ahhh k, should be interesting thanks.
Edit: Double post.
Pretty small article. Nice that guilds are getting some extra management tools, as now removing inactive players will be easier and safer.
Everything else is just sort of 'meh'.
Hopefully there's more than just what they mentioned coming; It would be nice if there were guild Doritos and such.
Pretty small article. Nice that guilds are getting some extra management tools, as now removing inactive players will be easier and safer.
Everything else is just sort of 'meh'.
Hopefully there's more than just what they mentioned coming; It would be nice if there were guild Doritos and such.
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