gaming Guild Wars 2 Thread

[Cactus 155]

So the new living story is out.

 

There is a gauntlet arena where you are face against several different tiers of enemies.

 

There is an asura announcer who calls out random things when you are in the arena, such as "Our challenger better wrap things up quick!" or "It's always nice to welcome this veteran contender back to our arena!"

 

After hearing her a few times, I found that her voice sounded familiar. But where had I heard it? A few hours later it came to me.

 

It sounded almost exactly like Twilight Sparkle!

And it is! Tara Strong voiced this NPC! A dev has confirmed it on the forums. 

 

"Good call-the asura announcer in the Crown Pavilion is indeed Tara Strong." 

Ahahaha I knew it! What a great little tidbit to have in-game. I keep imagining Twilight when I hear her now.

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So the new living story is out.

 

There is a gauntlet arena where you are face against several different tiers of enemies.

 

There is an asura announcer who calls out random things when you are in the arena, such as "Our challenger better wrap things up quick!" or "It's always nice to welcome this veteran contender back to our arena!"

 

After hearing her a few times, I found that her voice sounded familiar. But where had I heard it? A few hours later it came to me.

 

It sounded almost exactly like Twilight Sparkle!

And it is! Tara Strong voiced this NPC! A dev has confirmed it on the forums. 

 

"Good call-the asura announcer in the Crown Pavilion is indeed Tara Strong." 

Ahahaha I knew it! What a great little tidbit to have in-game. I keep imagining Twilight when I hear her now.

 

Well goodness, now I'm going to have to listen to it more. Also Where is everyone on the gauntlet? I'm at Liadri, think I woulda beat her but my internet froze when she was at 50% HP so I died... Wasn't happy about that one.

Edited August 7, 2013 by ~LowfatEnvelope~

[Cactus 155]

Well goodness, now I'm going to have to listen to it more. Also Where is everyone on the gauntlet? I'm at Liadri, think I woulda beat her but my internet froze when she was at 50% HP so I died... Wasn't happy about that one.

I'm at Liadri as well. I've only faced her a few times, so I haven't gotten past the first part. Taking a from it for now. What's your username in-game?

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I'm at Liadri as well. I've only faced her a few times, so I haven't gotten past the first part. Taking a from it for now. What's your username in-game?

 

LowfatEnvelope, naturally. What's yours?

 

It took me forever to figure out how to actually get to where I can hurt her haha, then I repeatedly failed at getting to that point.

[Celtore 2,770]

Well, looks like Keltore's adventures in Tyria aren't over yet... I WAS going to stay on break a bit longer due to work, but I suppose I will join in a bit on the weekend and see what's going on.

[Cactus 155]

LowfatEnvelope, naturally. What's yours?

 

It took me forever to figure out how to actually get to where I can hurt her haha, then I repeatedly failed at getting to that point.

TheDarkCynder.4618 and I added you.

 

I just got my second of one of the new exotics as a drop. First Monsoon, a staff, and now Impaler, a spear.

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Revival? Maybe?

 

Anyway was wondering what people's opinions on the newest update (Twilight Assault) were, and the incoming update (Blood and Madness) along with the incoming balance updates. And maybe on the Tequatil revamp, though thats been out awhile. Personally I haven't been able to kill Tequatil since the revamp, most I've seen him get to was about 50%. Found the fight fun though. As far as TA goes I've run it twice and really liked it, but I don't think it's something I'd want to do consistently. Maybe I'd do it more for the mini and achievements somewhere down the road. Blood and Madness looks like it could be interesting, hopefully it adds a fair bit of new stuff to the Halloween rotation. Can't wait to read the balance update notes.  

 

On another note I got The Energizer precursor as a drop from a boss chest in Sorrow's Embrace yesterday, quick 200ish gold. Other than that I've just been fiddling with achievements. About 500-600 points away from the 5k point milestone.

Edited October 11, 2013 by LowfatEnvelope

[Raritas 6,820]

Aww... This game looks so good. I'm a huge fan of MMORPG's, but my computer is terrible Hopefully when I get my new PC, I can play it. I'm looking forward to it!

[DusK 1,264]

Tequatl? Their collective heart's in the right place, but I feel the event needs better downward scaling, and a bump in loot, even with the loot buff Taco got when Twilight Assault hit. Thank the Six for Tequatl Terror Squad.

 

Twilight Assault? Awesome. Fun dungeon as long as you're in a good group. Painful in PUGs. I roll a guardian with an absurd amount of toughness, so it's kinda funny seeing a puny guy like me going toe to toe with the clockheart.

 

I haven't been able to dive into Blood and Madness much, having recently gotten Pokemon Y and being kinda busy with a really crappy job.

 

I really wish they'd take the nerfbat to this stupid pure zerker meta that's dominating PVE right now. Gettin' kinda hard to find a group of non-elitists in the dungeon finder.

 

Kinda on topic, but did you guys check out my Super Adventure Box metal cover EP? It got some people at ANet talking, including the composers. Pretty good way to start the month for me.

 

Edit: Someone tried to ask Maclaine and Leif for the tabs for my metal covers. Oops. XD

Edited October 26, 2013 by DusK

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Tequatl? Their collective heart's in the right place, but I feel the event needs better downward scaling, and a bump in loot, even with the loot buff Taco got when Twilight Assault hit. Thank the Six for Tequatl Terror Squad.

 

Twilight Assault? Awesome. Fun dungeon as long as you're in a good group. Painful in PUGs. I roll a guardian with an absurd amount of toughness, so it's kinda funny seeing a puny guy like me going toe to toe with the clockheart.

 

I haven't been able to dive into Blood and Madness much, having recently gotten Pokemon Y and being kinda busy with a really crappy job.

 

I really with they'd take the nerfbat to this stupid pure zerker meta that's dominating PVE right now. Gettin' kinda hard to find a group of non-elitists in the dungeon finder.

 

Kinda on topic, but did you guys check out my Super Adventure Box metal cover EP? It got some people at ANet talking, including the composers. Pretty good way to start the month for me.

 

Edit: Someone tried to ask Maclaine and Leif for the tabs for my metal covers. Oops. XD

 

Haha nice! Really like the music. I've been messing around with Blood and Madness a bit today. So far it's mostly the same as last year, but there is a dungeon tied to it that I haven't run yet, so I'm looking forward to that. 

 

 

 

EDIT: Ok so for the first time in my MMO gaming career, I have 2 max level characters! Not only that, BUT I GEARED THEM BOTH! (Though I mighta kinda used WvW tokens for the second character ). So now I got a Ranger and a Mesmer! For my Mesmer I'm running with S/P (With Jade Weapon skins!) and S/F at the moment, and I ground out the Ghastly Greatsword just cause that thing's awesome. I present to you all... MY MESMER! In video form.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTvU18oyai0&feature=youtu.be

Edited October 22, 2013 by LowfatEnvelope

[Lumen 106]

EDIT: Ok so for the first time in my MMO gaming career, I have 2 max level characters! Not only that, BUT I GEARED THEM BOTH! (Though I mighta kinda used WvW tokens for the second character ). So now I got a Ranger and a Mesmer! For my Mesmer I'm running with S/P (With Jade Weapon skins!) and S/F at the moment, and I ground out the Ghastly Greatsword just cause that thing's awesome. I present to you all... MY MESMER! In video form.

 

Same here. I did have two max level characters in WoW back in the WotLK days but I never bothered to actually gear the secondary character. In GW2 though, gear isn't as stupid as it is in WoW so I was able to gear my alt, who is a mesmer, in a few days, so I actually got to play the game instead of gathering gear for weeks if not months. I REALLY like how ANet did the gear system in GW2. Pretty much everything has the same amount of stats so once you get the exotic gear, you really don't have to bother with gear anymore.

Here's a pic of the mesmer. I use GS and S/F.

 

Yeah. Haven't really been playing at all during the past few weeks. Just haven't felt like playing but I'm sure I'll play more in the near future to get the WvW reward key. :3 I just hope the loot is decent. I also have a short video from around two months ago. Pretty much the most epic thing I've done in GW2:

 

How often have you seen 5 people kill an entire army? almost.. We laughed so hard. One of the guys even woke up his brother! ^^

 

 

Oh, and apparently there's a new patch coming today too.

Edited November 12, 2013 by Lumen

[LowfatEnvelope 335]

Same here. I did have two max level characters in WoW back in the WotLK days but I never bothered to actually gear the secondary character. In GW2 though, gear isn't as stupid as it is in WoW so I was able to gear my alt, who is a mesmer, in a few days, so I actually got to play the game instead of gathering gear for weeks if not months. I REALLY like how ANet did the gear system in GW2. Pretty much everything has the same amount of stats so once you get the exotic gear, you really don't have to bother with gear anymore.

Here's a pic of the mesmer. I use GS and S/F.

 

Yeah. Haven't really been playing at all during the past few weeks. Just haven't felt like playing but I'm sure I'll play more in the near future to get the WvW reward key. :3 I just hope the loot is decent. I also have a short video from around two months ago. Pretty much the most epic thing I've done in GW2:

 

How often have you seen 5 people kill an entire army? almost.. We laughed so hard. One of the guys even woke up his brother! ^^

 

 

Oh, and apparently there's a new patch coming today too.

 

Haha that's pretty funny. Maybe I should fiddle around in WvW more. Plan on at least trying the new map when it comes out. Sadly I probably can't try the new update until Friday, looks like it could be good though. Will be interesting to see player feedback until I can get my hands on it.

[Flying Space Badger 84]

The Tower of Nightmares and Nightmare Within update have so far been quite amazing. Had a blast storming to the top of the tower with some friends and tearing apart the various champions.

[Iridescent Quill 70]

Hello all, I got this game not too long ago and, while I'm having fun, I'd love to find a gaming buddy. I've got a similar post in the gw2 official forums, but I thought I'd try here too. I also would love to be in mlp guild if such a thing exists. I'm on jade quarry, but I'd switch servers for an active mlp guild since my character is like level 12.

[LowfatEnvelope 335]

Hello all, I got this game not too long ago and, while I'm having fun, I'd love to find a gaming buddy. I've got a similar post in the gw2 official forums, but I thought I'd try here too. I also would love to be in mlp guild if such a thing exists. I'm on jade quarry, but I'd switch servers for an active mlp guild since my character is like level 12.

 

Glad you're enjoying it! There's actually (or used to be) a massive Brony guild based on Jade Quarry. I believe it was called the Greater Brony Alliance, though I'm unsure of how active it is at the moment. I might run dungeons or fractals with you sometime if I happen to be on, but I game jump a lot so wouldn't be a very reliable leveling partner.

[Celtore 2,770]

http://twentypercooler.guildlaunch.com/

 

Here's a link to the guild page of the guild in question LFE mentioned. I don't know how the guild is doing, it's was relatively quiet before I stopped playing. The launch of season 4 may have revived the guild chat again, I'm not sure. I may be returning for a little bit over this break, now that I have a chance to breathe

Edited December 18, 2013 by Celtore

[Iridescent Quill 70]

Thanks for the site, I'm checking it out right now. I would love to play with either of you (though I mainly am just doing PVE and learning the game, no dungeons or fractals yet) if you want to add me in game I think it's NovaleePhoenix.1259. Not 100 percent sure though

[Sn0wblind 78]

Have any of you ever played Guild Wars 2 or currently play it? If so, what server do you play on and what's your ID? I was curious because I was planning on dusting off my account some time and was wondering if anyone wanted to team up sometime. 

 

My ID is fooleraid.7301 and I play on Fort Aspenwood

[Delirium 208]

I've played Guild Wars 2 but I can't play it anymore. My account is using a email that I no longer use and I can't change it because the email to change the email my account is using was being sent to my old email which I can't access. 

 

Edit: I guess I could try calling support if I want to.  Do they even have a number I can call?

Edited December 31, 2013 by DragonFlame

[The Mane-iac 1,648]

Been playing since first beta. Only recently got two of my characters to 80, back to back basically because of how I was leveling. I was enjoying the story and kept swapping between characters since I couldn't (and still can't) really decide what profession I like most.

 

Feel free to add me.

Lanakila.1950

Tarnished Coast, but that doesn't really matter much since guesting has been implemented for awhile now.

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@@Sn0wblind,

 

Hey there! We actually already had a big GW2 thread, so I've merged your new one with this older one. Don't forget to search for existing topics before making new ones.  

[Commander Tangent 861]

@@Sn0wblind,

 

I got this game a few days ago actually xD. My name is CMD TAN.3685

 

 

Henge of Denravi.

Edited December 31, 2013 by Commander Tangent

[The Mane-iac 1,648]

The name with the number people use to add you is the name shown in your account settings on the site, character select screen, and the one on your friends list in-game. Who knows where else as well.

Edited December 31, 2013 by The Mane-iac

[DewVoltage 59]

I was just wondering if any of you wonderful people played GW2 and wanted to discuss it a little. I'm new to it myself so I'd love to hear a little bit of game theory/thoughts on classes and gameplay. I'm currently playing a Female Charr Mesmer that's low level. I love to sPVP and I'm not too terrible at it. (I'm usually the PVPer out of my MMO group) but yeah! I play on Tarnished Coast as well and am part of a pretty awesome guild.

[LowfatEnvelope 335]

I was just wondering if any of you wonderful people played GW2 and wanted to discuss it a little. I'm new to it myself so I'd love to hear a little bit of game theory/thoughts on classes and gameplay. I'm currently playing a Female Charr Mesmer that's low level. I love to sPVP and I'm not too terrible at it. (I'm usually the PVPer out of my MMO group) but yeah! I play on Tarnished Coast as well and am part of a pretty awesome guild.

 

Hey there! As a heads up, there's actually a fairly large GW2 thread already, so I've merged your new one into this one.

 

As for classes personally I Main a ranger, but I do have a lvl 80 alt Mesmer which I quite enjoy. I've been getting more into sPvP now that you can buy PvE levels with glory. Also if you like PvP they actually just added a new WvWvW map called Edge of the Mists that's pretty interesting, but if you like the structured small groups of sPvP you might not like WvW as much.