4arsie4

They need to start using there "official" website for communication, the amount of players I know who freaked out thinking there accounts were hacked because they could not login into the client or account on the website....

Anet stop using bloody facebook, twitter and reddit for all your official communications or use them but put it on the official forums and official news  / info website too....

Finding info out all the time from third party websites first is just fail.

I'm curious to know if anyone else is a little irritated by the way some of these events are handled. Why are there so many "one time events" that only last a couple of hours (or less)? Wouldn't it be better to have in game events where phases last a few days? Why do they have to be so short?

This Lost Shores event, for example. Why couldn't they have made it one event that lasted a week, which you could work through, rather than releasing splinters of it that only last an hour or less.

How many players got to participate in the whole thing and didn't miss any of it?

Hey everyone, I compiled a list of karma vendors in every zone I leveled in with screenshots of the gear they are selling. I thought this might help some people who are being a bit careful with their karma spending as karma sometimes can be a pain to farm if the zone doesn't have alot of events up. You can get a rough idea of when you can upgrade this slot and how much karma you need etc.

GW2 has alot of leveling zone options and I am not going to be able to get them all in the first pass. However, once I reached 80 with my first character so I will go back and do the ones I missed along the way. So this list should be semi complete within the week or two. Also planning on converting the screenshots with item links to database sites like guildhead sometime in the future so you can view their stats.
This is a work in progress but I thought I might post what I have right now, enjoy!

Master List (click here to see if a zone has being added)
Zones with vendor list currently

• Queensdale (level 1-15)
  
• Metrica Province (level 1-15)
  
• Caledon Forest(level 1-15)
  
• Plains of Ashford (level 1-15)
  
• Wayfarer Foothills (Level 1-15)
  
• Kessex Hills(level 15-25)
  
• Brisban Wildlands (15-25)
  
• Diessa Plateau (15-25)
  
• Snowden Drifts (15-25)
  
• Gendarran Fields (25-35)
  
• Lornar's Pass (25-40)
  
• Fields of Ruin(30-40)
  
• Harathi Hinterlands (35-45)
  
• Dredgehaunt Cliffs (40-50)
  
• Blazeridge Steppes(40-50)
  
• Bloodtide Coast (45-55)
  
• Iron Marches(50-60)
  
• Timberlin Falls (50-60)
  
• Mount Maelstrom (60-70)
  
• Fireheart Rise (60-70)
  
• Frostgorge Sound (70-80)

Why settle for Magic Find when you can have Grawl Slayer?

But yeah, rather than having them change the way it works now, I think a change of clothes depending on the situation is a healthy choice anyway.

im disappointed with all the legendary weapons besides Sunrise and Twilight, Bolt and the Incinerator. the rest dont look legendary, and are all kinda a joke

darkjedipete, on 24 August 2012 - 04:53 AM, said:

There are several ways that A-Net could deal with this problem. It is likely that the server cap is calculated off of active accounts. After an account is inactive for a certain length of time it would be ignored in regards to the limit. Another less likely solution would be to remove long inactive accounts from the world entirely and require the player to re-select a home-world if he or she ever returned to play.

It's perfect for Australia, Queensland. 5 in the afternoon, couldn't be better!

Pve Control

Defiant to the end.

• Introduction
  
• Control effects
  
• Unshakeable
  
• Defiant
  
• Video
  
• Overview

Introduction:
Was not sure where to place this, and I have not seen any other guides for the Unshakeable and Defiant mechanic so I thought I'd do my best and write up a little guide.

In pve, while mobs can have the boon stability often they will have Unshakeable, it is important to understand how this works, as it is vital in learning to use your CC well, and not to waste your more expensive CC based effects such as Knockdown or Stun. Keep in mind Control effects are different then conditions such as immobilize or cripple, and as such they do not effect Unshakeable or Defiant.


Control effects:
Daze, Knockdown, Launch, Pull, Push, Sink, Stun and Float. These are the only effects that will work towards removing or effecting Unshakeable and defiant, it is important to remember these. For ease of understanding I have color coded these so you can see the most important ones, try not to waste these removing stacks of Indignant (explained later) Red is the most valued while Green is the least.

Unshakable:
Unshakeable is the "Control boon*" that many champions have, as you can see in the image below, Unshakeable grants defiant when hit by control effects. It also has the passive effect of reducing the duration of blind by 90% and lowers the duration on weakness and vulnerability by 50%. So in short when you use any control effects on this target it will gain a set amount of Indignant this can be more then one at a time.

*Unshakable cannot be removed by any means, including such skills as the Necromancers Spinal shivers or traits like searing flames from the Guardian.

Defiant:
again look at the picture below, indignant causes the target to become immune to all control effects, however using a control effect on the target will remove one defiant boon, but only one not the entire stack like it would if you where removing a condition from your self. As you can see next to the defiant picture it has two* stacks of it, meaning you will need to use two CC effects to remove it to allow you to land a control effect.

*Due to updated Image there is only one defiant boon, how ever in video you can see two stacks on the target for better understanding.

**Update, The amount of Defiant stacks now depends on the amount of people around the boss within 1600 range. It adds one stack per play near by, so in a party, during a dungeon bosses will apply five stacks of Defiant.

Video:
You can see in the video when pulled the NPC gains two* stacks of Defiant.



Overview:
While this is a short guide I hope it helps you understand the unshakeable mechanic that many champions have. Control is an important aspect of guild wars 2, and understanding how it works will improve your game play. As mentioned before, immobilize and cripple both do not count as control effects, meaning you can keep a champion crippled or immobilized as much as you like.

When using actual control effects however i suggest using Launch, Push and Pull effects to remove the indignant stacks, and then use Stun, Knockdown and Daze to effect the battle in a much more meaningful way.

I think training dummies who we could set up for certain types of training and they could report back to us what we practice on them would be much more useful.

4arsie4, on 08 July 2012 - 01:56 AM, said:

Strawberry Nubcake, on 08 July 2012 - 03:16 AM, said:

Fun fact:  Vekk, the Asura Hero from GW1, was voiced by the same voice actor as Brain.  :-)