appletoasty
Member
I am Kanik from ~the future~
speaking of newly acquired halls, i just signed a lease on a new apartment
Congrats
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Guild Wars 2 |OT5| We've got fun and games
- Thread starter Retro
- Start date
- Status
I am Kanik from ~the future~
Congrats
I won a HoT Lanyard today. Yay. The ladies love gamer swag, right?
As a fan of housing, even I have to admit that they're usually just something to goof around with and ignore the majority of the time. Vanguard had a cool housing system and despite the effort that went into crafting both my house and our guild's hall, it was never more than "neat, I moved a chair over there" (though in one memorable instance, Hythloday and I filled the Guild Leaders' office with fish).
GW2's economy and services are too detached for the usual housing setup to have any real impact. For example, if housing determined how much storage space you had based on how many treasure chests you squeezed into it, or having a mailbox at your home be a matter of convenience. They'd have to backpedal on a lot of stuff (and strip out a lot of the convenience) to make housing mechanically worth the trouble, so that's just not going to happen.
But they could always surprise us. I might be reading too much into it, but the comment about "new ways for you and your guild to play, battle, socialize, and progress together through the guild hall system" makes me think Guild Halls are going to have a lot more going on than just "a place to decorate and maybe gather before missions." The "battle" part, specifically, could indicate all sorts of things, from PvP Practice arenas to something like GvG. I don't think we'd have gotten this far since the announcement without hearing about something like that, but who knows?
I'm excited to find out, and I'm pretty sure we'll get a release date at the very least which is worth tuning in for.
As a fan of housing, even I have to admit that they're usually just something to goof around with and ignore the majority of the time. Vanguard had a cool housing system and despite the effort that went into crafting both my house and our guild's hall, it was never more than "neat, I moved a chair over there" (though in one memorable instance, Hythloday and I filled the Guild Leaders' office with fish).
GW2's economy and services are too detached for the usual housing setup to have any real impact. For example, if housing determined how much storage space you had based on how many treasure chests you squeezed into it, or having a mailbox at your home be a matter of convenience. They'd have to backpedal on a lot of stuff (and strip out a lot of the convenience) to make housing mechanically worth the trouble, so that's just not going to happen.
But they could always surprise us. I might be reading too much into it, but the comment about "new ways for you and your guild to play, battle, socialize, and progress together through the guild hall system" makes me think Guild Halls are going to have a lot more going on than just "a place to decorate and maybe gather before missions." The "battle" part, specifically, could indicate all sorts of things, from PvP Practice arenas to something like GvG. I don't think we'd have gotten this far since the announcement without hearing about something like that, but who knows?
I'm excited to find out, and I'm pretty sure we'll get a release date at the very least which is worth tuning in for.
Congrats! Of course they love it, especially if you own it and aren't a massive creep
(I know you're kidding, but I couldn't help myself seeing how I have an ongoing education in psychological coaching and used to be responsible for gaf's dating-age part 4 xD)Kos Luftar
Member
Grats hawk.speaking of newly acquired halls, i just signed a lease on a new apartment
Nemesis121
Member
I thought something was wrong with my PC, it took 5 mins to load into a map with no one around......
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
the hairstyle reminds me of Final Fantasy for some strange reason
Mendax
Member
If I join gafguild but stay on an EU server, will I still be able to do everything together with everyone or are there limits? (dungeons, pvp, guild events)
I'm looking to get back into this and am kinda lonely in it but don't want to spend any money on it right now; so no server transfers for me..
I'm looking to get back into this and am kinda lonely in it but don't want to spend any money on it right now; so no server transfers for me..
unfortunately no, EU players cannot play with US players. However, we have a transfer fund that pays for the transfer fee if you wish to come over. Just tell us if you wish to and we'll see if we can scrounge up the money for it.
Mendax
Member
thanks but those prices are really steep and I'm not sure how much I'll be playing so that wouldn't be worth it I guess. Maybe when we have full details about the expansion...
What are the level of your characters? Would you mind starting over? If you have no characters in your account, you can pick a new server when you create a new character. Plus you'll still keep all your account currencies and stuff in your bank.
Have you achieved anything special on the characters you already have? If you delete every character you can tranfer for free. You can put everything but soulbound items in your account bank and it will stay there during the transfer.
Mendax
Member
Oh that's right you can get gems with gold totally forgot about that
I got loads of achievement points and titles (also from those one-time events), rare skins, crafting levels etc. so starting over isn't really an option. I do have an empty spare account though so that might be an option too. Can I transfer stuff between them if one account is on US and one on EU or is there no contact between servers at all?
appletoasty
Member
You only need to delete your characters. Most of the things you listed are tied to the account, not any character. The only thing you listed that would be lost is crafting levels. You get to keep your material collections, achievements, skins, dyes, everything in your bank, etc
You can mail non-account bound things between accounts, even across servers, but there's a limit of 500g value per week or something
This explains your skill in the game and Adriaaa's admiration of you.
Achievements/points, titles, skins and such are still saved. It's the levels (both normal and crafting) on the characters and soulbound gear you would lose and only that. It's not worth doing if you have 400-500 crafting or a long time level 80 you love, but if you don't have that it's not like you're gonna lose much by just making a new character
You can transfer stuff between EU and NA, but remember that most fun stuff is account bound.
We can certainly transfer your main account with a transfer fund. We'll see how much money we will raise this weekend.
appletoasty
Member
You accepted already but I'm just posting so the other officers know that I gotcha :3
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/skills-and-balance-changes-on-the-next-episode-of-ready-up/
No stream today but on Monday (or do I read this wrong ?)
long stream incoming !
No stream today but on Monday (or do I read this wrong ?)
long stream incoming !
Mendax
Member
that is some very very strange wording. "this week's livestream" and "watch the show this monday"...
UltimateIke
Member
Very exciting.
Throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care.
I definitely take for granted how smooth the Guild Wars servers are. Between launch to now, I've had only a handful of issues where the servers were down, or characters were reset or I couldn't play when I wanted to. And those were either due to whatever nonsense happened for a few days a month ago and back in August when hackers targeted the game. Outside of that, if I want to play I can play.
I say this because getting a working game of Splatoon where I can connect to a server, find opponents and get into the game without disconnecting is a good day (note, it seems to work fine ironically at peek hours). I started up Elder Scrolls Online last night, sat in queue for 20 mins and then this morning couldn't get in for 30min due to some Xbox Live issue preventing me from logging in. I'm too spoiled being able to just hit play on GW2, maybe download a patch for a min, and then just get in and play.
I say this because getting a working game of Splatoon where I can connect to a server, find opponents and get into the game without disconnecting is a good day (note, it seems to work fine ironically at peek hours). I started up Elder Scrolls Online last night, sat in queue for 20 mins and then this morning couldn't get in for 30min due to some Xbox Live issue preventing me from logging in. I'm too spoiled being able to just hit play on GW2, maybe download a patch for a min, and then just get in and play.
And only better now with the streaming client updating. Went to update on my work PC and I could pretty much play near immediately. Super nice.
Very exciting.
Throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care.
get your boobs outta my face
appletoasty
Member
Includes online features that may expose players to unrated user-generated content (Windows PC) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
UltimateIke
Member
The mini-game is about omnomberry juice, not ale.
Well, there is also the Order of Whispers mission with the pirates...
Well, there is also the Order of Whispers mission with the pirates...
Vigilant Walrus
Member
I'm also on the fence about Guild Halls. They never meant anything to me (in any game) except for Star Wars Galaxies, but that game was build around player cities. It's an unfair comparison.
What eludes me is this; If we have learned anything from ArenaNets behavior it is that they are trying to be about gameplay content outside of the gem store, and so it feels weird, if they are adding this massive gameplay system to the game if it won't have any new gameplay with it.
The fact is; I am numb. I don't have any realistic idea about what would be really cool.
What eludes me is this; If we have learned anything from ArenaNets behavior it is that they are trying to be about gameplay content outside of the gem store, and so it feels weird, if they are adding this massive gameplay system to the game if it won't have any new gameplay with it.
The fact is; I am numb. I don't have any realistic idea about what would be really cool.
Vigilant Walrus
Member
What do you call a car for a Charr?
.....
...
..
A Charriot.
.....
...
..
A Charriot.
Just because of this, I'm going to keep playing Elderscrolls Online and never play GW2 again.
We don't know how far away HoT is but I'd say you have easily enough time to make one & level it organically. If you've got spare resources to powerlevel to L80 then you can hold off until HoT lands if you don't fancy levelling another character ATM.
Today I decided to use the inscriptions I had in my bank to level up Huntsman (it's my last profession that needs leveling). I made roughly 9 Longbows, and usually I sell em for some profit. However, I decided to gamble my luck, and much to my surprise...
Finally karma pays back
Finally karma pays back
Saturday Night Guild Mission Fever in one (1) hour!
Be there orbe square wait until tomorrow at 3pm Eastern.
Hey, Congratulations.
Be there or
Hey, Congratulations.
Excellent missions, everyone!
We got going a tad early with the Supply challenge since another guild had already started it, but Angvar's Trove, Anders bounty and Chicken Rush went super-smooth and super-quick.
Makeup Missions are tomorrow at 3pm Eastern.
Monday is the Skills and Balance Change live stream at 3pm Eastern on the Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel.
Tuesday is E3! ArenaNet will be presenting at the PCGamer show, which begins at 9:30 PM Eastern time, also on the official twitch channel. Colin Johanson will be on hand to discuss Guild Halls (and hopefully more).
We'll also be getting lots of news on Guild Halls throughout the week, leading to a special livestream on Friday. Watch this space for the exact time.
Busy week ahead!
We got going a tad early with the Supply challenge since another guild had already started it, but Angvar's Trove, Anders bounty and Chicken Rush went super-smooth and super-quick.
Makeup Missions are tomorrow at 3pm Eastern.
Monday is the Skills and Balance Change live stream at 3pm Eastern on the Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel.
Tuesday is E3! ArenaNet will be presenting at the PCGamer show, which begins at 9:30 PM Eastern time, also on the official twitch channel. Colin Johanson will be on hand to discuss Guild Halls (and hopefully more).
We'll also be getting lots of news on Guild Halls throughout the week, leading to a special livestream on Friday. Watch this space for the exact time.
Busy week ahead!
Vigilant Walrus
Member
Kanik looks like Moby got a gig as a roleplaying Persian carpet salesman at a french renaissance fair.
Kanik, this is Fashion Wars 2. Not How-can-I-Look-So-Terrible-That-Others-GPUs-Will-Render-Artifacts-Just-By-Watching-The-Abomination.
Kanik, this is Fashion Wars 2. Not How-can-I-Look-So-Terrible-That-Others-GPUs-Will-Render-Artifacts-Just-By-Watching-The-Abomination.
UltimateIke
Member
Where is the guild's Norn and Sylvari representation?
"Damn, Fluffy ain't no joke."
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked