Jest Chillin
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The vendors at the bottom of Laby Cliffs.
I'm starting playing GW2 again after a long absence due to changes in my workload. I logged back into Gandara and at first thought I was culled from the EU GAF guild. Searching here tells me it's defunct. 
I deleted my chars and transferred over to SBI. I'd really appreciate it if there were a place for me in the US/international guild. I'm not in the least hardcore about GW2 and am looking for a cozy place to socialise and PvE together. Still, I'm a little worried at the lack of players around on SBI at Euro times.
My username is: demonarm.9571
I deleted my chars and transferred over to SBI. I'd really appreciate it if there were a place for me in the US/international guild. I'm not in the least hardcore about GW2 and am looking for a cozy place to socialise and PvE together. Still, I'm a little worried at the lack of players around on SBI at Euro times.
My username is: demonarm.9571
I'm starting playing GW2 again after a long absence due to changes in my workload. I logged back into Gandara and at first thought I was culled from the EU GAF guild. Searching here tells me it's defunct.
I deleted my chars and transferred over to SBI. I'd really appreciate it if there were a place for me in the US/international guild. I'm not in the least hardcore about GW2 and am looking for a cozy place to socialise and PvE together. Still, I'm a little worried at the lack of players around on SBI at Euro times.
My username is: demonarm.9571
Sent you an invite. We have a good 10+ late night crew so at least you'll have some people on. I don't think there's any time of day where literally no one is on in our guild.
Many thanks for the invite! Looking forward to getting back into GF2 with GAF.
Have many of the old EU guild members moved over?
We got most of the real weirdos from the EU side. I'd watch yourself.
Kos Luftar
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Doing the achievement for homeland support for each candidate (20 events in Kryta and Ascalon) got me a ton of kite fortunes, probably more than during the Bazar of four winds. Got lucky and 2 kites got me 50 scraps each.
There should be a GAFGuild calendar.
The event calendar is in the OT and GAFGuild.com has one with everyone's birthdays in case you feel stalkerish.
Kos Luftar
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I think he meant a general calendar which includes pictures of the 10 sexy gaffers...
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/august-06-2013/
HOLY SHITBALLS
Account Wallet for Currency
PvP Solo Queue
Bonus Rewards for Dungeons
Champion Loot Updates
Mini-Game Rotation System
Improved Effects Level of Detail System
World vs. World Supply Mastery
Permanent Finishers
HOLY SHITBALLS
Account Wallet for Currency
PvP Solo Queue
Bonus Rewards for Dungeons
Champion Loot Updates
Mini-Game Rotation System
Improved Effects Level of Detail System
World vs. World Supply Mastery
Permanent Finishers
And 2 ugly ones, to round out the year and make the other 10 look sexier.
Wow. Dat new features section.
Let the new phase of glory begin
So unclear on Crown Pavilion vs. Queen's Gauntlet. But I shall conquer both
FINALLY
Account Wallet for Currency
Keep all of your currencies in one easy-to-find location! This Wallet holds dungeon tokens, coins, karma, laurels, Guild Commendations, Fractal Relics, Badges of Honor, gems, and glory and makes them accessible to any character on your account. Upon logging in with each unique character for the first time after the Wallet has gone live, that character will have all of their currencies deposited into the account-wide collection.
Account Wallet for Currency
Keep all of your currencies in one easy-to-find location! This Wallet holds dungeon tokens, coins, karma, laurels, Guild Commendations, Fractal Relics, Badges of Honor, gems, and glory and makes them accessible to any character on your account. Upon logging in with each unique character for the first time after the Wallet has gone live, that character will have all of their currencies deposited into the account-wide collection.
If it is permanent and unlimited uses that is awesome... no more WP to your city just to get to your home space ... which is my assumption of "personal portal"... Will make it more convenient to get to these which will be nice especially if they start introducing 'home space only' things.. such as the Quartz node.
So, something people may have glossed over;
This means Karma is now account-wide!
Flame Legion stuff.... Dredge Stuff (the big winch/crane on the right)... Molten Alliance is back... but that looks like Kryta, or maybe a few spots in Maguuma; either way, it means the Molten Alliance, or whatever has risen out of its' ashes, is striking into new territory.
That is beautiful.
This means Karma is now account-wide!
Flame Legion stuff.... Dredge Stuff (the big winch/crane on the right)... Molten Alliance is back... but that looks like Kryta, or maybe a few spots in Maguuma; either way, it means the Molten Alliance, or whatever has risen out of its' ashes, is striking into new territory.
That is beautiful.
Winners are the people who realize while reading this that AC Story just became more worthwhile to run.
Can't wait til we have our list of bonus rewards per dungeon path, but top of my head:
AC Story, all my lovely AC exp paths, CM Story, SE1, SE3, TA Up, and yeah sure COF1. So much easy gold to be had each day.
As far as the 3 gold paths... would convince me to run HOTW again. And of course Arah will suddenly be a viable option for hundreds of people. And anything that gets more people to try COE is great success in my book.
Really can't wait for this. Especially because the boss-loot "nerf" is really just boss loot being made consistently better (if leaving our Gilded Infusions up in the air), which is to say...
I am so ready for this, GAF. Yes, it will make focusing down champs at big world events, like, not a complete waste of time. But what I'm really psyched for personally is just hunting in the open world. Don't be surprised to hear me just forming Champ bounty hunting groups in guild chat. We will just pick a random zone and go.
theMrCravens
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Those armor sets a permanent thing in the store ?
Might dip on the Magitech one if not.
Might dip on the Magitech one if not.
They are.
My guess as to what's going on with the Molten Alliance stuff:
The arena is magical, and can create specific "arenas" for different types of "mankind's mightiest enemies".
One of the enemies must be the Molten Alliance.
OR:
It's a representation of all of humanity's greatest threats: It looks like there's a group of ogres, a couple of flame legion artifacts, and a dredge wench. It may not be molten alliance, but rather multiple enemies from the world.
The arena is magical, and can create specific "arenas" for different types of "mankind's mightiest enemies".
One of the enemies must be the Molten Alliance.
OR:
It's a representation of all of humanity's greatest threats: It looks like there's a group of ogres, a couple of flame legion artifacts, and a dredge wench. It may not be molten alliance, but rather multiple enemies from the world.
Account Wallet and Permanent Finishers (in both PvP and WvW; it's been nearly a year since I bothered using a finisher consumable for WvW so I had forgotten) are what have me most excited. I'll definitely start buying up finishers off the gem store. Solo Queue was expected, but I'm glad to see it finally in place.
Next month is probably LFG *fingers crossed*
Really, this just gives me more excuses to play sPvP and rank up more. I'm still in the 20s (dolyak), ashamedly.
Next month is probably LFG *fingers crossed*
Really, this just gives me more excuses to play sPvP and rank up more. I'm still in the 20s (dolyak), ashamedly.
Kos Luftar
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Holyshit...that's Rox and Brahm!!!
Yep, that's what I'm thinking too. First, in that first screenshot, you can see that the room is divided, with Flame Legion-looking pieces on the right, but rough-hewn wood fortifications on the left, like what Centaurs use.
Then there's this, from the official update page:
So here's what I'm thinking; the big, glass-domed elevator lowers you into the Great Collapse (over which the new Arena is built; you can see in this picture that it appears to go down pretty deep). It's a large, divided area, with different enemies in each section; the elevator lowers you into one of those divided sections and you have to fight whatever's in it. You could get different enemies each time.
Only a week away too....
Wait I missed the part where braham's armor is now in the gem store.
HNGGGGGGG.
EDIT: Oh man we are so going to end up fighting the watchknights. No one just makes robotic sentinels without planning to have them go haywire.
EDIT2:
Oh man does this mean I can be a champion of Hoelbrak?
HNGGGGGGG.
EDIT: Oh man we are so going to end up fighting the watchknights. No one just makes robotic sentinels without planning to have them go haywire.
EDIT2:
Oh man does this mean I can be a champion of Hoelbrak?
..... Where?
Yeah, I updated the OT to include the bullet points for the next update, and that's in there. You guys also might want to be aware of this; https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/fancy-new-items-in-the-gem-store/
It's supposed to be 5 tickets for one skin instead of one for one... so if you're holding out, get em now.
Bah. Just because Asuran constructs are always shorting out and exploding, committing acts of genocide or enslaving their former masters doesn't mean all mechanical life is predestined to go rogue.
Zod the Bear
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I am excited for party times.
Dude, I saw terminator. I think know how this works. And I think we all know that Anet knows too. (at least those who have run SE Story know this.)
Hmmm, I figured Aspect Arena and Sanctum Sprit were out, because you couldn't use the aspects after the Sanctum departs. Guess that's wrong though- so where's Aspect Arena? I've only played like 5 matches but I love it. Oh well. Looking forward to mopping up in Crab Toss like old times. Having it on a daily rotation is a little bit brilliant. Log in, see what the day's minigame is, hop in to kill time if it's one you like.
So curious about this one. Obviously it's an important engine improvement (Lyssa yesterday was so goddamned silly). But how does it work, really? Configurable to any degree? Do effects doing large damage spikes or adding conditions get priority over flashy but less impactful moves? This is the one thing I'm most interested in seeing demoed.
Of course, also pumped to try the Solo Queue, and the account currency wallet, depending on how it works, will free up 50%-90% of my inventory and bank space. Then of course there's the actually new content associated with the release- the Pavilion, if we understand correctly, is a non-instanced mini-zone, and the gauntlet a singleplayer boss attack. Sounds like an improvised jumping puzzle in DR with the torches, too.
So that's a week from today.
And do NOT be surprised when stuff that they haven't told us about kicks in on the 13th or so to begin to tie the story together for some kind of surprise on the 20th, aka one-year anniversary release. At this point, I have a strong suspicion that the LFG system will also be unveiled in that update.
Just playing at my own pace over the last week, without "grinding" a single thing, I've accomplished a lot and yet still have a few things I want to take care of within the next 7 days. I got my Evon mini last night, but I should like the Kiel one too, and I definitely want my fill of Aspect Arena now that I know it won't be in the first rotation. Still need a desert rose and one of the dreamcatchers for my Engi (edit: And the Aetherized pistol and shield for my Engi, shit!). Plus, I don't know about you guys, but I'm really going to miss the Zephyr Sanctum. Hopefully I can find the time to just go climbing up to the top and dive off one last time.
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He's absolutely right. Great catch, Mr. Luftar.
Note Rox's shoulder armor
Kos Luftar
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And Hawkian breathes (well, the robo-equivalent) a sigh of relief.
You have too many legendaries to be anxious about anything. What are they gonna do, make it so you only play 200 more hours instead of 400?
Guys, after the dust settles (I'll wait to the end of the day to make sure none of the features get pulled) I'm going to be setting up a guild event for next Wednesday, August 7th.
Kos Luftar
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What will the guild event be for? Guild Missions?
I can't believe no one noticed that Rox actually has 4 horns (hawkian's post above).
Don't forget there will be "SURPRISES" in this update!!!
Wonder if some juicy info got gathered last night *wink*!!!
I can't believe no one noticed that Rox actually has 4 horns (hawkian's post above).
Don't forget there will be "SURPRISES" in this update!!!
Wonder if some juicy info got gathered last night *wink*!!!
Nope, I stay connected to Mumble to track any server crashes, nobody but Jira, Ash and myself were on last night.
Kos Luftar
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It's gonna be a bit like our old school newbie-days zone mobbing, but with a twist- our mob will be out for Champion blood. We'll pick a less-popular zone (I'm gonna have us vote between a few to decide!) and I'll have open a list of every champ in that zone off the API. Then we hunt.
Guild missions will continue as scheduled; it's been going very well.
What's that, Kos? Bounty NPCs are all technically champions, meaning this change will also inject new life into Guild Bounties? Very good point!
Attaboy, Ursa Centaurhu!
Kos Luftar
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I recommend Snowden Drifts or Timberline Falls.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_champions (reddit is trying to populate this before update goes live)
PS: Bounties do not get killed they get CAPCHED so you ain't getting extra loot for them even though they are champions.
You amaze me with your noob suggestions...it is like you rarely play now-a-days.
Centursa.
We'll see but that would be a bit of a missed opportunity for them to include. You get event rewards on "kill" so if they added the Champ rewards to them as well,
Also, Snowden Drifts and Timberline Falls are now off the table cause you're a jerk.
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