mezuzel.4987

> @"Adibas.6982" said:

> That's a really simple short suggestion.

> Please lower the rendering priority of player characters currently riding a skyscale.

> Skyscale flapping animation can be pretty obnoxious on its own but it is what it is. To some extent it cant be "fixed".

> The problem occurs when a large gathering of players uses them in a limited space at the same time.

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> There are some people who knowingly abuse this issue. By going to any player gathering and useing skyscale float on a minimal possible height.

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> Lowering rendering priority of characters currently floating on a skyscale (while you are not floating) will lessen this issue for anyone not capable of rendering every player in the area.

Completely agree. The wing flapping animation of someone hovering nearby is very irritating while I'm on the ground, so I always end up moving away. If I see someone else is on the ground while I'm in the air, I try to go higher or bring the skyscale to rest somewhere.

But as you said, there are people who will deliberately get their skyscale wings in your face. Once while waiting for a world boss I asked someone to stop it. They assumed I had no skyscale of my own (I do) and was just jealous. Then they encouraged other people to join in the trolling. Not a fun experience.

> @"RyuDragnier.9476" said:

> > @"mezuzel.4987" said:

> > As someone who started playing only a few years ago, these are so weird to see! What's the little blue ^ icon in some of @Veprovina.4876 screenshots? Is that what the hero point icon used to look like?! :open_mouth:

> Correct, that is exactly what they used to look like, but they were known as Skill points back then. We used to have to use Skill Points to buy all our class skills instead of hero points to get it all off a trait ring. Trait books used to be bought from class trainers to teach us the various tiers of traits.

Wow... thanks for the info! So interesting how things have changed over the years.

As someone who started playing only a few years ago, these are so weird to see! What's the little blue ^ icon in some of @Veprovina.4876 screenshots? Is that what the hero point icon used to look like?! :open_mouth:

> @"Cynder.2509" said:

> It progressed to T3 last when I checked. How do I claim the community goal reward? The event text says I need to see a specific NPC but I can't find such thing around there? Will the rewards be given all at the end of the event again or do we need to do it manually? I don't want to miss anything.

After donating to the Crystal Bloom, talk to Lokka, an asura NPC with an icon above her head that looks sort of like a reddish mastery point, in the Eye of the North courtyard. I just did this and got the rewards for T1 and T2 as bouncy chests.

> @"ChampionMasquerade.5283" said:

> Got it, but do the journals still show up for non Charr?

Yes, I play Drizzlewood on a human and I always see the journals.

> @"Stephen.6312" said:

> A thought occurred to me: What if Jormag and Primordus are single-minded, perhaps a hive mind? That might mean that Bangar is referring to them both when he warns Aurene that "they're playing" her, "like a fiddle". The two dragons are secretly working together in a "good cop, bad cop" routine.

Could be interesting - but "they" refers to Jormag, who doesn't really have a gender and thus is referred to with they/them pronouns.

https://deconforming.com/they-them-pronouns/

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbinary-they

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/use-the-singular-they/

> @"AnonBackStabber.8536" said:

> To be completely honest, I was rLy moar interested in what 'phat lewtz' they pharmin' there?!? Dust?!?

I'd guess https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hearty_Sugar_Rib plus dust and elaborate totems.

> @"Swagger.1459" said:

> And it's pretty far reaching to correlate mounts and waypoints with the state of the game.

Agreed. OP seems to be claiming that we'd be having more conversations while running to objectives. But in my experience, if you're running to an objective, you're having to dodge and combat the mobs that are in the way. That's not conducive to typing out a conversation at the same time.

If you look at PoF maps, with far fewer waypoints than core Tyria in order to make mount use more meaningful to players, are people having more conversations on the way to objectives? Not that I've seen. Again, you're busy either avoiding or combating the mobs along the way.

There is most certainly a point to be made about game mechanics encouraging social behavior, something I think GW2 does quite well with its emphasis on cooperation over competition, but I am completely unconvinced that waypoints and mounts are part of it.

Thank you both! I bought the wings/glider and have not found any dyes that make it really super bright like other wings, but that's fine. I'm now playing around with some pastel colors to see if I can get a ley-line-ish effect. :)

:o

**_Selbbub is coming!_**

> @"Khisanth.2948" said:

> > @"Jilora.9524" said:

> > I doubt most gather them they just play obtain a ton of unidentified gear and champ bag type things and open and salvage and get them that way. If you do find that rich node you can hit it on all your alts once a day until it moves when update or that map closes. There used to be static one's in the same spot like in southsun but idk if those still around where we used to park our alts back in the day

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> There is a static rich one in Crystal Oasis. Static non-rich one Auric Basic but that one is really not worth the effort. Several other easy to find locations in AB. Also good for Ancient Wood too.

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> There is a rich one in VB that moves around but finding it is fairly easy. Even easier with mounts.

There's also a rich node on the peaks in the middle of Kourna, which I always end up mining once a week because it's in my volatile magic gathering path for the Kourna daily. I think it moves around a little bit but not too far.

If anyone's willing to provide info and/or pictures, I'd like to know how the new Nightspeaker wings take dyes. How many channels are there and is it possible to get the wings brighter than the dark grey in the preview?

I still want to tame that Juvenile Frog in the starting area of Caledon. >.

> @"Kunzaito.8169" said:

> Any ideas why they did this? It's not the worst thing but it seems pointless.

I've been wondering if it's related to the legendary armory feature, coming Soon . Surely the armory is going to be integrated somehow into Equipment and/or Wardrobe, so they could be making some advance changes to prepare for that.

> @"Gryphon.2875" said:

> Who even uses the compact function?

Like @"Katsugankz.7156" said, I always use the deposit and compact options together. I'm very happy with this update - less clicking for me.

My characters tend to have titles that fit my headcanon stories for them, like Archaeologist for the asura who I think of as having been involved in some kind of archaeology expedition that dug too deep and wound up becoming Destroyers. Or it just fits the aesthetic, like Golden or The Golden Child for my character with that color scheme.

I'm not sure I'll ever get the Shadow of a Shadow title, due to my veeeeeery sloooow progress in running the Maw of Torment meta over and over, but if I do get it, I'll probably put it on my main, who uses shadow magic. Right now she's The Tormentor due to also using torment magic (she's a scourge).

> @"Super Hayes.6890" said:

> ? Am I the only one that likes this one?

Yeah, maybe it's just my semi-potato computer, but I don't understand what everyone's objecting to. It looks like a nice skin to me. Not one I want enough to buy, but still seems fine.

> @"crepuscular.9047" said:

> the effects are pretty cool, for some reason I felt I have seen some of them with very similar skin, just with the effects

It looks like the effect when Jormag is whispering to you in Bjora Marches, but with the colors inverted. I like it!

Several of my characters have aspects of my personality to some degree - as a writer that's kind of unavoidable, as someone on the first page said - but I've only ever made one character to actually represent myself in game. The goal was to explore whether it might help a little bit in banishing some of my personal demons, like defeating her doppleganger in Elon Riverlands to reflect on certain depressive thoughts, and so on. So far it's been sort of helpful in some ways, but not so helpful in other ways. Now she's mostly become my Drizzlewood meta commander and lab farm tagger. :P

At any rate, most of my characters are from my personal GW2 headcanon, plus a few more I made just for fun.

Another reason is lore - there's often a lot of story background or other lore to be learned from doing smaller events.

It's been a couple days and like OP, I have now gotten this "achievement" at reset twice, in addition to getting it sometimes while salvaging. Hopefully today's fractal rush update will fix it.

For me I think it was something like 5-8 metas before it dropped.

I may be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure you need advanced gliding (lean forward to go faster) in order to complete that puzzle. There are one or two long glides you probably can't make without it.

I have this problem too, not just sometimes but all the time. It's really unsettling on characters who are supposed to be dark-skinned. Restarting the game doesn't fix it.

I had figured it was related to having the Reshade addon, but if you don't have that @"Jokuc.3478", then it must be something else.

I've seen this occasionally while opening and salvaging unidentified gear in Mistlock lounge. Doing a lot of that gets you the repeating achievement about salvaging things (I forget the name, possibly entropy something) and I think it was this thing that popped up instead of the salvager achievement sometimes. I've seen it at least twice this way.

Pretty sure I was doing this a couple hours after reset but I could be misremembering.