Danikat.8537

Here's another one of mine: 2b from Nier Automata.  My husband was playing Nier Automata in the same room and I kept on thinking her outfit looked like GW2 armour, so i decided to make her. I'd have made her a scrapper to get the little flying companion bot, but she was a tempoary character I wasn't taking through to level 80 so I made her a mesmer because I thought the skills fit and it meant she could use a huge greatsword. (On a related note I really need to sort out my screenshots, I'm sure I've got more cosplay characters I can't find but they're somewhere among over 2,400 unsorted screenshots.)

To get the skyscale you need Season 4 of the living story unlocked (which also requires Path of Fire). The special currencies you need are the map currencies for each of the Season 4 maps. There are ways to get them without going to those maps, but you still need the episodes unlocked because the vendors for the saddle items are in the maps. You can find a complete guide to the process here: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Skyscale/Walkthrough Further details on the skyscale saddle collection, including the currencies needed (with links to each one to explain how it's obtained) are here: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Skyscale_Saddle

You don't need to put a code in every time you log in, there's an option to save that network so you only need to put the code in if your IP address changes to one you haven't previously logged in from.

> @"Dawdler.8521" said: > > @"Nokomis.5076" said: > > Many of those might run into a problem if reported. The https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-naming-policy/ states > > > We do not permit names that: > > > [...] > > > Reference names of copyrighted or trademarked characters, materials, or products > > > Use misspellings or alternative spellings of names that violate any of the above rules > > > This seems to be a slippery slope though. > > I mean what if your name is actually Bud Light and you wanted your character named after it? It can happen! > > ... probably already taken. I'm pretty sure that rule is only there so other companies can't sue Anet if they find out about the character. Hypothetically if Disney found out someone was cosplaying Elsa from Frozen or Spiderman or any of their characters they could sue for copyright violation. (Or trade mark violation for the name? I can never remember.) Same goes for any other company, author, comic book writer etc. who finds their work replicated within GW2. If they want to do that they've got two options: one is to try to identify the real person behind that account and sue them, the other is to sue Arenanet because their User Agreement says that legally the game is a service and buying an account just grants you a licence to use that service, not ownership of any part of it including your characters and names (seriously that's in there too) so techically it's their character. Of the two which do you think is likely to be easier and more effective at long-term prevention of the issue? This way Anet can avoid any blame by showing it's against their rules, and hopefully end the issue as soon as a cease and desist letter arrives by forcing a name change. I doubt they'd do that unless someone complained though because it's probably not worth the time and effort otherwise. I've never heard of anyone actually being forced to change the name of a cosplay character. The nearest I remember is when there was a weird trend in GW1 with characters named after Nokia phones standing in LA talking about how great that phone was. I'm not sure if it was an actual marketing attempt or a weird troll but either way apparently they all got banned. > @"Westenev.5289" said: > In regards to names, I'm pretty sure Anet will only enforce bans on offensive names. I mean, you can't ban someone for making an asuran "son goku", since he was a mythical figure in asian myths long before he was an anime icon. No, but you could ban them for making one called Harry Potter or Shōtarō Kaneda, since those are original characters not based on mythology.

Look it up on the official Wiki (link at the top of the page). Not all events are on a fixed timer, some reset a certain amount of time after they were last completed or failed, some depend on other events being completed first or other conditions being met (for example some events will only occur when an area is under enemy control) and some appear to be semi-random. Sometimes it's a bit of both - for example world bosses are on a timer but there's also pre-events which need to be completed first. It doesn't happen very often these days but early on I remember seeing maps where the boss didn't spawn because too many people waited at the spawn point and no one went to complete the pre-events. The Wiki will show a schedule for the events which are on a timer, but it will also explain other conditions. If there isn't a timer check the side bar and the notes section of the page especially as those often include info on the conditions which have to be met for the event to start. And if you find one with no information on when or why it starts either use the feedback tab to let the Wiki krewe know or tell us here. If anyone knows or is able to find out what the start conditions are we can add it.

So in this context 'buttcape' means literally any part of the chest piece that goes below the waist? It doesn't matter if it doesn't look like a trench coat or whatever, anything below the waist is unacceptable? (Even the triumphant armour where the tassets are practically glued to your legs.) By that standard yes I suppose the options are quite limited, but then by that definition many of my real-life t-shirts and other tops also have a 'buttcape'. I've never considered it a problem if an armour piece slightly overlaps the next one, I think it can help to make it look like a realistic outfit with different layers, and with the right combination can make even mix & match skins look like they belong together. If that's the criteria that's being asked for then I think I prefer the options we get currently, even if too many of them do use a similar overall shape.

I've done this sometimes. I make a lot of tempoary characters for various purposes and it's fun to experiment with different looks, including themes from other places. Here's a few examples:  (Someone beat me to the name 'Someone Elsa'.) She's an elementalist, and as soon as I unlocked water magic I used nothing else.  Probably the easiest in-game cosplay I've ever done. He's a thief of course. This is a weird one: this is a re-imagining of Lyo-lyok from The Once and Future King. (I can't believe I've made 2 characters based on geese.) I think she was a guardian, but it was a while ago.  I've got a bunch of screenshots of other people's characters too, but I'm never sure about posting those. > @"Randulf.7614" said: > In the early days, I saw an Ironman or Hulk almost every day. Some were pretty good, especially Hulk when the growth tonic was added There's a guy who does WvW on Desolation as the Hulk. Not sure if it's the same one from the early days or a new one, but it makes me smile every time I see him.

I think the reason we don't have one yet is because how shiny the end result is depends not just on the dye but also the material being dyed. The same colour can look pure black on cloth but have lighter patches or patterns on leather and look shiny on metal. Of the dyes currently available shadow abyss, abyss, black and midnight fire/ice can all result in pure black, but which one is best depends on what you're dying. But it certainly couldn't hurt to have a matte black dye which over-rides or hides the materials effects the way some of the brighter dyes do.

Does it matter? These can only be obtained by making them in the Mystic Forge, using a recipe which only makes these chests so you're never going to be stuck with one you don't want while trying for something else. If you think they're useless just don't make them and then you don't need to worry about it.

There are some medium armour sets without long coats. As well as the ones you mentioned check out the runic and corsair sets from Living World maps, and the triumphant armour from WvW (the first version just requires completing 1 reward track) and the glorious armour from PvP (again just complete the reward track). That's in addition to older skins like the duelist coat, or on humans the scout coat. There's also the festive sweater and Metal Legion t-shirt, which look like normal clothes rather than armour. Those can all be obtained in-game. (BTW I always thought 'buttcape' refered specifically to the tassets or bottom of a tunic on heavy armour, which are usually part of the leggings, due to the way heavy armour is split up. Is it now being used to mean literally any material which hangs below the waist on any armour set?)

> @"Obtena.7952" said: > I THINK you should play the free version to see if how it works solo is what you are looking for ... most of that is Core and most of core can be done solo. Free accounts can't post on this forum, so the OP has already bought the game. They might have just the core game because it is still possible to find that version in some places, but they will have already bought something.

I only have 1 per character, but that's because I can't be bothered with having lots of different ones and swapping between them, even now we have templates. Also I have 11 characters, so I can get a lot of variety without different builds on each one. How many you should get probably depends on what content you like to do and how worried you are about having the best possible stats for what you're doing. For example some people will have different sets for WvW, open-world PvE, raids and possibly other things. Others will find a build which is ok for everything, or use the best one for the area of the game they play most in everything else even if it's not ideal.

It was actually older players with lots of AP who asked for AP from dailies to be capped, because they were sick of feeling like they had to log in and had to do dailies every single day just to keep their place in the leaderboards. It was literally a never-ending task and some of them got quite passionate about how much they hated doing it, but felt like their only choice was to keep going or give up on caring about AP or the leaderboards at all because there was no way to keep up relying purely on other sources. This was years ago so all the discussion about it was on the old forum, but the topics are still archived if you want to find them. Once you've reached the AP cap you will still get the other rewards from dailies, so they can be worth doing for that reason, like the other daily achievement categories. But also to reach the cap you have to have been playing for at least 1,500 days (just over 4 years) so by then you should have a fairly good idea of what's available and what you like doing. If you like AP hunting you can focus on the other achievements - there's no cap for AP from non-repeatable achievements.

I think it depends on how strict you want to be about that. You absolutely can play most of PvE without joining a party or squad or directly working together with other players and certainly without speaking to them. But if you want to do as much as possible genuinely solo, without other people helping, then it's going to be much harder; not just because a lot of the fights are designed for multiple people but because this game has no kill or loot stealing so there's no reason for players not to join in and most will do it without asking first. But as long as you're ok with the fact that there usually will be other people around, often doing the same things you are at the same time you can play most of the game solo.

I think elementalist would be a good choice, because they have quick access to lots of different options by switching attunements, so you can let your son take the lead and quickly adjust what you're doing to what's needed - for example quickly swap between providing defensive boons and doing more damage depending on how the fight is going. But elementalist can be tricky to play because of all the swapping around, and starts off quite squishy which can be challenging. Otherwise I agree guardian or another ranger would be a good choice. Rangers can be good support characters, even before they get elite specs, I think Healing Spring is still one of the better AoE heals in the game and several of their pets and skills can provide boons to allies.

The boost is useful, but you get a lot of choices and not a lot of direction at level 80, so it's not a good idea to use it unless you're confident you know what you're doing with your character and the game. Depending on how long you've been away and how far you got before that it might be fine, or it might be better to level at least one character normally first so you can learn the game and then use the boost on another one to give you more options. The level 80 ticket in the store is identical to the ones you've got, it's just in the store so players who want to boost more characters have that option. Personally I wouldn't buy it because levelling normally doesn't take that long in this game and there's a lot of content, even some of the stuff level 80 players are doing like dungeons and world bosses, available before you get to level 80. You also get Tomes of Knowledge from login rewards (and WvW if you play it) which give 1 level each, so if you wait a while before making a new character you can level them instantly for free. I always keep at least Tomes in the bank, just in case I want another max level character at short notice.

They had 1 round of layoffs almost 2 years ago. That hasn't been repeated since. Yes individual staff have left since then but that happens all the time at any company with more than a handful of staff. 3 people have left my department at work in the past few months, but it's nothing to do with the organisation I work for - one is going into business with a friend, one has been talking about retiring for 5 years and one moved away to look after his parents. Unless you know their specific reasons you can't read too much into someone leaving a job, there's a huge number of reasons that could happen which have nothing to do with the work the company are doing overall. Other than that we just had a new update last Tuesday, we know we're getting a festival next month and the next chapter of the story in March and they've already announced they're working on an expansion to be released later, probably later on this year. So no, there is no reason to think GW2 is going to be shut down any time soon.

> @"kharmin.7683" said: > > @"Danikat.8537" said: > > > @"Rhaazyk.6374" said: > > > Yay for even MORE trash, just like all the armor I get on my lvl 80 guy that ends up being trash and broken down. I have gone through so many salvage kits that I now make sure I have 100 of them before I go out for a day of killing stuff. > > > > If you have Mystic Forge Stones you can use them to make a [Mystic Salvage Kit](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Salvage_Kit), which has 250 uses. I make them with stones from login rewards and I find them much more convenient than the default kits. One day I might get one of the permanent ones, but as long as I've got mystic forge stones to use up I don't see the need. > > > Yeah, I do this, too especially for the Mystic Forger daily. I try to wait for the daily, but sometimes that I end up with 2-3 spare kits in my bank and have to make something else to stop them building up, or I run out of kits and hold off on making new ones, then the day after I give up and make one the daily comes along. :s But if you can time it right it's a good idea to make a kit when Mystic Forger is one of the dailies.

I don't play PvP, but it's not because of a lack of rewards and I don't think additional rewards would persuade me to start. I collect mini pets and there's a whole series of mini llamas which are only available from PvP but I've never gotten beyond "winning" the first one when it was a participation prize in a tournament (with possibly the worst team in the history of PvP, who are all legends for agreeing to help me even though none of us knew what we were doing). The problem, if you can call it that, is a combination of the fact that the game mode itself does not interest me at all and there's so many other things to do that I've never felt the need to resort to playing a part of the game I don't enjoy just for the rewards. Instead I can spend my time doing things I find fun, and get other rewards while I'm doing it. If Anet want me to start playing PvP the way to do it would be to add more match types or other options. In GW1 I only did PvP in Fort Aspenwood and Jade Quarry, so if there was something similar in GW2 I might do it occasionally. But it still wouldn't get me into the existing match types because it's just not something I find fun and I've got too many other options (both in this game and outside of it) to waste my free time on playing a game that's not fun for me.

> @"Rhaazyk.6374" said: > Yay for even MORE trash, just like all the armor I get on my lvl 80 guy that ends up being trash and broken down. I have gone through so many salvage kits that I now make sure I have 100 of them before I go out for a day of killing stuff. If you have Mystic Forge Stones you can use them to make a [Mystic Salvage Kit](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Salvage_Kit), which has 250 uses. I make them with stones from login rewards and I find them much more convenient than the default kits. One day I might get one of the permanent ones, but as long as I've got mystic forge stones to use up I don't see the need. > @"Alexa Scorpionwitch.8567" said: > Its just a way to convert statuettes to gold if you want to. I think you're right. It was introduced as basically a way of putting gold into black lion chests, but in a way players notice instead of it going straight into the wallet and they're left wondering why they've got 1 less item. Putting it onto the statuette vendor lets players who want to convert them into gold, but without just giving them a vendor value so no one can sell them before realising what they're for.

This topic is from August 2019, about a year and a half ago so a lot of the replies may be out of date. Having said that I don't think Dragon's Stand has been dead at any time, but it is probably the prime example of a map where you need to use LFG and some planning to get into an active map rather than simply showing up when the event starts. So if you're not in the habit of doing that it's probably not clear immediately how frequently it does get done.

> @"Dawdler.8521" said: > Europe already have servers and Asia has an entirerly different version of GW2. China has a different version, but as far as I know it's not available to anyone outside of China, even in other parts of Asia. It might be possible to get hold of a Chinese copy in other countries but I think there's restrictions on who can create an account, because part of the reason for having a different version is so it's only people from China playing it. (The other reason being that Chinese law says the distribution has to be done through a company based in China.) > @"Hans Yulian.6510" said: > Since the guild wars 2 can have multiple instance of the same map, wouldn't it be better if we can have instance in asia & europe? my latency to US is so high becase i am half world away in from US. A singapore instance server would be able to help me reduce the latency and also helping with fractal & raid combat also. Maybe we can have a settings to have preference in which server we prefer to play and we might also able to see which server is a group at, we can switch to that server for temporarily and move back to our prefered server when changing map again or so Anet could make Asian servers if they thought there were enough players in the region, but it wouldn't work like this. Having an instance labelled as Asia wouldn't help your latency, because the server running it would still be in America or Europe. They'd have to set up a new server cluster (actual physical computers running the game, somewhere in Asia) and then it would have the same restrictions as the existing North American and European regions: the Trading Post is shared between both and I think you can send mail to players in the other region but that's it. You can't play together with people in the other region like you can with people on a different server in your region unless you pay to transfer to another server, wait for that process to complete (which can take a while and involve logging out completely and back in) and then pay to transfer back again. So it can be done but it's not at all practical to do that when you're changing maps or just to play with a group temporarily, it's usually only something players do because they want to permanently move to a new server.

I've seen a lot of variations on fishing in games and never found one I enjoyed. At best it's a tolerable mini game to do until I've gotten the reward/s I needed and then never again, or so quick and simplified that it doesn't really count as an activity (the equivalent of gathering from crafting nodes in GW2). I've never seen a version I actually enjoyed and wanted to do more than absolutely necessary. So if they added an adventure where you're fishing, or fish gathering nodes where you push F, see a short animation and then you've got a fish I'd be ok with it, but anything else would probably fall into the middle ground where it's not worth the hassle and I'd rather just ignore it, in which case I hope it's something I can ignore and not required for anything. I'd love to get my own siege turtle, but that seems unlikely since one of the things we know changed after GW1 is the Luxons and Kurzicks were forced to fully integrate into Canthan society, so their unique traits are probably gone by now. (Also siege turtles are massive, so I'm not sure that would be practical.) Whatever we get I'm sure it will be related to Cantha in some way, but we don't really know what Cantha is like now so it's hard to guess.

> @"DeanBB.4268" said: > How about, "Why are you notifying my core-only accounts that this content is available?" > > I have no plans to ever upgrade my extra accounts. > > Yeah, I know the answer is, "Because I signed up to receive notifications." Yeah it's probably a combination of it being easier to send the same updates to everyone and hoping something in the emails will persuade people they want to play the new content enough to upgrade. Of course that's unlikely to happen when it's a second account. (I'm also signed up twice, I'm not entirely sure why, but at least I didn't sign my free account up as well.)

Addressing the email to a character still seems weird to me. It's not as strange if it uses my main character's name, but only because I've used her name as an online pseudonym several times (Danikat is actually a mash up of both our names) so I've periodically gotten emails addressed to her for years. With anyone else my first reaction is "Why are you using my email address? Why are you getting email at all?" =) It makes sense with in-game mail, but I think the fact that the email is otherwise out-of-universe marketing for the update makes addressing it to the character seem out of place. Especially when it's coming to my email address, not theirs.