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MacBook Air Gamer
May 6, 2007

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Hello new thread I am very excited for Heart of Thorns 100% yes.

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May 6, 2007

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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:


I've noticed that the LS2 bundle is on sale, is worth picking up? I don't have any chapters unlocked and thought it might be worth it for the mastery xp.

If you're a fan of guild wars story/lore, it's a pretty solid purchase if you want insight in to events pre-hot.

Season 1 living story is currently inaccessible. I think Scarlet's hideout in Lornar's is still available if you have any keys left over from the Marionette event but other than that, there's no official way to access previous limited-time living story content. (Edit: the trikey chest from the Kessex nightmare tower is in Lion's Arch too if you have any keys leftover from that event too)

MacBook Air Gamer fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Oct 27, 2015

MacBook Air Gamer
May 6, 2007

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I keep getting a "Network Error" pop up when I try to log on a character after downloading the latest patch.

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May 6, 2007

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Still unable to log-in. Anytime I try to boot up a character the zone loading screen goes on then eventually brings up the Network Error popup and boots me back to the launcher. What the gently caress.

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May 6, 2007

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Xun posted:

Did they reactivate that fractal mastery vendor yet

They did!

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May 6, 2007

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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

if I may quote gchat from a few days ago

Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns Edition - I feel like they didn't think this through

Guild Wars 2: We've made a huge tiny mistake

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May 6, 2007

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Kessel posted:

Updated the map completion rewards for Southsun Cove to better reflect the effort required.
Bye bye, easy exotics :negative:

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May 6, 2007

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Super Adventure Box will come back, designed by every single laid off dev from Wild Star.

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May 6, 2007

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Game is dead, time to go to wildstar.

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May 6, 2007

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shrach posted:

Speaking of casual raiding. Here's the video from a Gorseval kill. Cletus is explaining the fight mechanics as we go along because it was one person's very first time facing the boss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge1rpoycRcE

Oh hooray, I'm in this video :)

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May 6, 2007

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whydirt posted:

I realize it's super easy, but running around setting up defenses in Toypocalypse is very relaxing.

There's something oddly satisfying about setting up your own armada of snowball catapults and watching them all fire at once as soon as mobs spawn.

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May 6, 2007

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I'm pretty sure they recycled some chak sound effects from Super Adventure Box and nothing will convince me otherwise.

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May 6, 2007

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Today is National Bird Day so please give your love to bird leader.

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May 6, 2007

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Full 360 degree viewing of lovingly rendered asuran rear end.

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May 6, 2007

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I always knew Tybalt would come back to us one day...

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May 6, 2007

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I can only think the only reason they're adding new fractals is to redo the entire Fractal level system so that people stop running endless swamps for their daily chieves.

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May 6, 2007

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Why do they have to nerf Chronomancer before I got a chance to really play it :smith:

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May 6, 2007

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So are thieves the new rangers?

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May 6, 2007

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Could this be considered animal abuse?

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May 6, 2007

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What kind of person takes offense to other people making the characters they want?

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May 6, 2007

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quote:

The Storage Expander upgrade limit has been raised. You can now buy two more to raise your banked material storage stack size to 2000.

gently caress this.

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May 6, 2007

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This post is not supposed to exist, sorry.

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May 6, 2007

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It's possible to change the stats of ascended weapons and armor in the Mystic Forge!

MacBook Air Gamer
May 6, 2007

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Can't wait to play World 3 SAB in 2018

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May 6, 2007

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Maybe they'll make cliffside actually playable without a having to spend half an hour or more there

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May 6, 2007

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quote:

Scorched Earth: Fixed a bug that caused Cleansing Ire to activate more than once.

Well it was nice while it lasted.

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06/14/2016 – June 14 Release Notes

RAIDS

The victory at Salvation Pass revealed the terrible truth of the White Mantle’s return. Take the fight to the enemy and strike at their heart, deep in the Maguuma Jungle, where unknown dangers and powerful enemies lurk. All is not as it seems in the Stronghold of the Faithful, where the White Mantle’s innermost secrets and dark magic fester. It’s a race against time to stop the plans in motion in this high-stakes, white-knuckle conclusion to the Forsaken Thicket raid.

Thanks!
Some members of the following guilds had access to the raid at some stage in development. We’d like to thank them for their time and feedback.
[ATT] Attuned
[DD] Dragons Descent
[EG] Ethereal Guardians
[KING] Immortal Kingdom
[NA] The Sickest Guild
[RAID] Immortal Raiders
[RtG] Rise to Glory
[SC] Snow Crows


Spirit Woods

Adjusted Gorseval’s AI to improve its willingness to follow the player with the highest toughness.
Fixed a bug that prevented Gorseval’s Rampage pattern from properly resetting in some situations.


Salvation Pass

A ley-line gliding path will now appear after clearing all of the raid bosses, leading players to Stronghold of the Faithful.
Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the cage cinematic to trigger during the Matthias Gabrel encounter.


STRUCTURED PLAYER VS. PLAYER

The Heart of Maguuma PvP reward track now includes Chak weapons, Auric weapons, Plated weapons, Bladed armor, and Leystone armor as options in the Mordremoth Cache.
The Silverwastes PvP reward track Carapace Armor Box now contains all pieces of Carapace armor instead of just the gloves.
Gathering tools can now be equipped when double-clicked in the PvP lobby.


WORLD VS. WORLD

The Reward Track and Participation systems are officially out of beta testing!
Added the Gift of Battle Item reward track and removed the vendors that previously sold gifts of battle.
Daily achievement chests now award Potions of WvW Rewards instead of Experience Boosters.
The Outnumbered effect now also grants 50% increased participation gain.
Added a new guild hall upgrade to the war room that unlocks a new potion at the tavern that increases WvW reward-track gain.
A new reward track has been added that awards the WvW Hero’s weapon skins.
The Heart of Maguuma WvW reward track now includes Chak weapons, Auric weapons, Plated weapons, Bladed armor, and Leystone armor as an option in the Mordremoth Cache.
The Silverwastes WvW reward track Carapace Armor Box now contains all pieces of Carapace armor instead of just the gloves.
The Provisions Master now has a sixth pip that allows players to buy Heart of Thorns™ recipes, sigils, and runes from the Heroics Notary vendor for proofs of heroics and gold.
The Max Supply +5 upgrade is now the first Guild Objective Aura upgrade guilds unlock.
The Magic Find +20% upgrade is now the last Guild Objective Aura guilds unlock.
Updated the Outnumbered effect to no longer list that it grants bonus experience, as experience gain is disabled in WvW.
Shield Generator—Force Dome: Stability duration has been reduced from 9 seconds to 6 seconds.
Fixed a bug in which trebuchet conditions were allowed to scale based on player stats.

The WvW tick timer has been reduced from 15 minutes to 5 minutes.
Objective Points per Tick (PPT) has been rebalanced to support the faster ticks.
Camps—2 points
Towers—4 points
Keeps—8 points
Castle—12 points

This results in slightly more total war score earned from objectives.

Reward-track points awarded for participation have also been rebalanced to support faster ticks.
Tier 1—25 points
Tier 2—60 points
Tier 3—95 points
Tier 4—125 points
Tier 5—160 points
Tier 6—195 points

This results in slightly more reward-track points earned.

Eternal Battlegrounds

Klovan Gully: Fixed a display bug in which the blue “Defend Klovan Gully” event would list an additional event objective.

Alpine Borderlands

Fixed a bug that prevented hero challenges from displaying or functioning correctly.
Tower Northeast: Fixed a bug that prevented the tower lord’s health from scaling properly.

Desert Borderlands

Fixed a bug with the teleporter on the dunes above the Fire Keep.
Fixed a bug with automatic blessing at the east Earth Shrine.
Fixed a bug with a jump pad on the north side of the Air Keep.
Fixed a bug with a floating mortar in the Air Keep.

Obsidian Sanctum

Fixed a bug in which players were no longer given immunity while standing at their starting location.


GENERAL

Fixed a bug that would cause Mai Trin to teleport to walls.
Fixed an issue in which, once selected, the guild music themes “The Music of the Barren Heights” and “The Music of the Golden Chambers” did not play upon reentry to the guild hall. Once a guild in Lost Precipice has selected the theme “The Music of the Barren Heights,” the song will now consistently play first upon entry to the guild hall and then cycle through the songs belonging to its theme set. Once a guild in Gilded Hollow has selected the theme “The Music of the Golden Chambers,” the song will now consistently play upon first entry to the guild hall and then cycle through the songs belonging to its theme set.
Added Amalgamated Gemstones as a choice on the Verdant Brink, Auric Basin, Tangled Depths, and Dragon’s Stand Hero’s Choice Chests.
Unrest is spreading in Kryta.


BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE

New Items and Promotions
A new Phoenix Glider is available for a very limited time in the Style category of the Gem Store for 500 gems.
The Heroes Dye Pack includes one of each of the following dye kits: Taimi’s, Glint’s, Lion’s Arch Survivors, Lion’s Arch Rebuild, and Lion’s Arch Commemorative. This can be found in the Style category of the Gem Store for 500 gems.
The new Privateer weapon set is now available at Black Lion Weapons Specialists for 1 Black Lion Claim Ticket. Unlike previous weapon sets, these are account bound and cannot be traded once purchased.
Crystallized Magic no longer drops from Black Lion Chests. Contracts have returned to normal drop rates.

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CLAM DOWN posted:

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


Probably new current events stuff

Privateer weapon gallery is up on dulfy

http://dulfy.net/2016/06/14/gw2-privateer-weapon-skins-gallery/

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May 6, 2007

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Next April Fool's Day prank revealed: everyone gets boobs. All races, all genders. Boobs.

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May 6, 2007

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Personally I am confused as to why Hoelbrak gives territory to the Sons of Svanir since they pledge their loyalty to an Elder Dragon which historically are pure evil and apocalypse-causing.

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May 6, 2007

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I saw this on tumblr last night and it kinda terrified me so I have to share it with y'all.

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May 6, 2007

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Are there any good condition builds for Mesmer?

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May 6, 2007

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Pesterchum posted:

It's okay, he apparently said a bunch of words that mean nothing on the forums because other sites are handling actually talking about it instead. I guess.

http://massivelyop.com/2016/07/12/a-sneak-peek-at-guild-wars-2s-living-world-season-3-episode-1-out-of-the-shadows/

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/11006/Guild-Wars-2-Living-Story-Season-3-Out-of-the-Shadows-Begins-July-26th.html

So maybe the 26th.

quote:

Fractals are due for updates during the season as well. First we have the Chaos Isles fractal. You’ll see elements from several past fractals combined into one thanks to a character tentatively named as “Mysterious Asura.” No, really, that’s literally all I was told. Dessa is still in charge of figuring out what’s up with the fractals, so players will be helping her figure out not only what’s going on in the Chaos Isles but who this other Asura is and why they can control the fractal. Chaos Isles won’t be a single, complete story, but the start of a new arc that will parallel the main Season 3 plot.

Then you have “Revenge of the Capricorn,” a revamped version of the retired Raid on the Capricorn. The old map was removed due to the underwater element, as the team wanted to focus more on land combat (so no, we won’t have any underwater battles here). It’s a move I’m particularly disappointed with, as I really enjoyed the underwater combat. It’s a big reason RotC was my favorite PvP map. At least players will be able to enjoy some Lion’s Arch architecture again!

As before, you’ll have three points to capture, but now in addition to players, you’ll have the pirates of the Capricorn roaming the map for revenge. Players are supposed to need to unite at times to fight against the third faction. To help with this, there will be a new bell objective capturable at 3-minute intervals that signals a canon fires on the Capricorn. It also awards your team some points, and capturing it multiple times in a row gives you an additional bonus (first 25, then 50, 75). The idea is that the objective can be used as both a “winning more” mechanic or a way of making a comeback.

Neat.

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May 6, 2007

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Personally I'm kinda pissed the "Season 3 Trailer" is 95% just a "Previously on" recapping the Heart of Thorns story.

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Gem Store updates so far today:

-Unbreakable Gathering Tools (basically exact same as normal Pickaxe/Axe/Sickle, just infinite use - no special animation or effect)
2400 Gems for the full set (totals to 200 gems cheaper per tool than buying actual cool gathering tools separately)

-Black Lion Keys & Scraps Package (10 BL keys and 2 Black Lion Claim Ticket Scraps
900 Gems (Same price as buying 10 keys only you get TWO SCRAPS TOO!!)

-Shared inventory slot limit upgraded to 13 (14 with the free one from the Lv80 Booster)
700 Gems each

:geno:

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Azazell0 posted:

I don't have an asura character, but wasn't there a storyline where the asura player comes from the future or something, where they are an evil overlord who built the steam creatures and tries to take over the world (the infinity ball thingie)

and then ANet decided LOL RETCON IT WAS SCARLET WHO DID ALL THAT

It wasn't Scarlet who did all of that, Scarlet's machines are separate ones from those. I think at most she just reverse-engineered her own Watchwork beings from the steam creatures and the ones she hijacked from DR.

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https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/meet-the-new-voice-of-the-male-charr-player-character/

I thought my character sounded different in the last raid wing and now I know why.

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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:

How off does the new voice sound? there any examples out there?

The only example is in the Stronghold of the Faithful raid wing. It's different but I have come to appreciate it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRo57QKMVYc

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:siren: GLIDE-R-TRON IS NOW AVAILABLE :siren:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWjGXOx4fXw

also another season 3 trailer I guess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJtqbid9x6o

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CLAM DOWN posted:

Someone do the rest of the HoT personal story with me before this new one comes out, it got so loving boring that I just gave up and have had zero desire to ever finish it, but it might be tolerable with someone else. I'm on some step to follow anime charr's dumb footprints in a starship troopers bug tunnel or something.

Spoilers: you kill Mordremoth. Eir and Trahearne die in the process. A lost Asuran city in the jungle reveals that every elder dragon has a respective weakness. (What are they? Don't worry about it!) Mordremoth's death releases huge amounts of magic into the world, causing anomalies to form, dragon minions from the remaining dragons to rush around consuming it, and organizations like the Inquest, the Consortium, and the White Mantle coming out to gather it for their own uses.

Mizuti posted:

I'm glad to see more stuff about the living season. Still, is it just me or is this an odd time to bring up the White Mantle story arc? We just got to this massive jungle filled with brand new people, areas, and plot threads, yet we're getting bounced back to Kryta to wrap up a GW1 story. Aside from the raid and the bandit events, they haven't been involved with Heart of Thorns.

Aside from Rata Novus and Glint's egg in Tarir, there's really not much else to explore in the Jungle. The entire area was literally the actual Jungle Dragon so now that it's dead...yeah!

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