Donari.5237

X Raptor (set to default) Shift-S Springer Shift-Z Zkimmer Shift-D ~~Dog~~Jackal Shift-A ~~Allmount~~Griffon Shift-X Beetle (no mnemonic on this one, I was running out of keyboard real estate, maybe think of it as Racer X?) Shift-C skysCale Keeps everything near the keys I use the most, uses mnemonics to recall what does what, combo key means I am highly unlikely to mount/dismount in error (and since I can't mount in combat, I have the leisure time to find two keys to press at once, something that can physically hurt my hand when done rapidly under stress, which is also why I want all the keys near the Shift key, less strain!). Also if I want to swap mounts I can hold down Shift, press the key of the mount I'm swapping to (this dismounts me) and press it again a moment later to be on the new mount without having to move my fingers to other keys.

They'd need a decoration system significantly different from guild halls to make personal housing satisfying. Between ESO and Valheim, I'm spoiled by free mix and match of items and robust individual design choice. I've wanted housing in GW2 for many years, and contributed to many threads on it, but at this point I have little confidence that the game's software will allow nearly enough flexibility to make homes truly individual (plus I doubt they'd do like ESO and let an account have many different abodes so each alt can set up a domicile suiting that alt's personality). I'll be happy if they do develop something good, but I don't expect it's going to happen. What will be, will be.

> @"Danikat.8537" said: > and I've just bought Valheim. Say goodbye to doing much of anything else for a while :) GW2 has been by far my main game for many years, I've been in it daily since launch with very limited exceptions. Occasionally ESO gets some attention from me, primarily during events or when I have a project (like when I discovered Antiquities, or recently my second character hit 50 courtesy of the winter event so I have been gearing her and working on her skills). However now I have over 60 hours in Valheim in the past 2 weeks, mostly on my own map but the past few days also helping friends on their server. That thing's addictive. I'm not done with GW2 (and as soon as we get more story releases I'll be fully back in) but Valheim is the first time in a long time I've played a game where I really don't notice the time going by for multiple hours in a session. Still, GW2 is still there, still has projects I can work on, and can still excite me when something new happens. Though once I realized how very many hours of doing the same DRMs I'd have to get through to complete the recipe unlocks for achieves, I fled to my viking land again, heh. My main goal in the soonish future in GW2 is to pug my way through the DRM top responder achieves so I can get /stretch, since recipe gathering ain't a thing. Just not sure pugging is going to work for that, so I keep putting it off.

As I recall, the reason humans got so many new faces and hairs with PoF was because those were designed for the Elonan NPCs and it was an easy port over to add them to player character creation. So ANet decided to give us those even though they didn't have similar offerings for the other races, and they even put them in base creation instead of paid kits. I appreciate them doing so. No matter how much I'd like *all* the races to get a slew of new, good quality options, I'd rather get some new things than none at all. (Now if only they'd give us all the Elonan NPC clothing too). I do hope that part of EoD is in fact a big overhaul or at least expansion of character creation choices.

> @"kharmin.7683" said: > But.... they do sell them on the trading post. From the Wiki: > > "Purchased via the Black Lion Trading Company. Spent in the wardrobe to change appearance. > > — In-game description" The BLTC is different from the Trading Post. BLTC is the gem store where you get many account-bound items. Trading Post is where players sell items to each other. The request here is to make them player tradeable. Which would be one way of evening out the distribution, for sure. I'd love everything to be free to apply. Though I spend plenty in the gem store, I do not buy consumables other than keys; total makeover kits are a side effect of my occasional key purchases and transmute charges come from the chests plus logging in and playing the game. Also I spent a few years slowly saving up gold and finally bought a permanent hair stylist as one never dropped from a chest for me. ANet's not gaining any money from me at least by making appearance changes use resources. In fact they'd make *more* money from me if they A) made account bound unlocked skins convertible to charges or removed the charges requirement so I could delete a pile of skins from my bank to make room for me to buy more that I kinda like but don't have immediate use for and B ) (unrelated to appearance) made a tome that holds all VIP passes so I'd be willing to buy more passes that currently take up way too much space.

I muted my hues from my previous post. The dyes super-saturate, and the horns and main body/wing sections share a channel so making the horns look right can be tricky. I noted the red eye liner issue Solanum reports; it's also traced through the collar. I don't see any ground clipping, at least not on flat pavement. It is definitely a slightly small mount for a norn though. New dyes: Tar, Frostbite Blue, Old Jeans, Spirits. Dyes https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/405207401315434496/813851049562734592/IsskaldrLunarDyes.JPG Above average height norn https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/405207401315434496/813853113072484362/IsskaldurSize.JPG A note, it breathes standard orange fire. And putting it on my sylvari warrior, with his standard skyscale hues of Swampblack, Glint’s Ambition, Enameled Longevity, Toxin, seems to work nicely. https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/405207401315434496/813855721640427600/AndretLunar.JPG?width=566&height=644

I just bought it. Here are the dye channels (not at all my intended look, these dyes were much more subdued on Bioluminescent, ha). https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/405207401315434496/813845485760413776/LunarSkyDyes.JPG Dyes are Legend, Prismatic, Imperial Gold, Celestial Blue.

Dulfy's guide, though *severely* dated, does group earlier jp's by map and difficulty (as of a time before gliding or mounts, which can help in many jp's today despite no-fly zones). http://dulfy.net/2012/09/16/gw2-jumping-puzzles-guides-guild-wars-2/

> @"Danikat.8537" said: > > @"Sigmoid.7082" said: > > > @"alcopaul.2156" said: > > > well no one made the petition yet so how can you be sure that ANET wants them to underperform? > > > > > > lelz. > > > > Because they have come to us and said exactly that. That they are deliberately designed to be weak so race isn't a factor when picking class. > > Yep. It never got as far as anyone making a petition, they stated while the game was still in development that they didn't want race to be a factor in builds, they wanted all races to be equally viable in all builds so players never felt they had to pick a certain one or had to make a new character to be acceptable to meta groups. One of the ways they did that was to make racial skills underperform compared to profession skills so they're available for flavour or role-playing if you want them but there's almost no chance anyone is going to make meta builds which require a specific race. Not only that, they nerfed some norn and sylvari skills, iirc, when those were proving way too useful in WvW. They *really* don't want racials to become part of any meta build and thus required before groups let you in.

I personally like simple small straight blades for daggers (or plausibly curved). And simple longer ones for swords, and somewhat longer ones for greatswords. I've done rl swordplay and just can't get into massive boards on sticks as weapons. I'm not any more 'right' about this than those who do like the bizarre-to-me twisty glowing paddles, it's subjective, but no I do not get annoyed by realistic blades. I applaud them.

Just moving it is fastest. You can also save the file that has all your custom info (keybinds etc), pull that aside, do a fresh install on the HDD if you want to be super sure you have a clean copy, and then repaste your custom file. But that'll take however long your connection needs to do a full install. Quick search found this reddit thread that may help with the details (though it's from hdd to ssd but the process is the same):

I was coming here to link Terrible Trio (but Linsey beat me to it) as I've made their Charr Meat on a Stick several times and it's always glorious. I recommend that one *highly*. Due to my available kitchen stuff I use wood skewers soaked for 3 hours as recommended and cook under a broiler rather than over a grill, and I'm still in rapture at the results.

It's in the Known Issues Tracker (last updated April 2020). I just ran the missing rift *again* and still don't have my 25 AP. I am 11 AP away from completing Radiant and Hellfire (except the back items) and it sure would be nice to finally get achievement credit for this one after a very long time of occasionally tossing various alts through that rift. Last Known Issues update: https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047216173-Known-Issues-List API confirmation that NE Metrica is my missing one: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/405207401315434496/806691524498817044/unknown.png

Then there is the issue where even if you do them all you don't get credit .. a very long time now I've been occasionally doing the ne Metrica one to try to get my 25 AP. Nope. Put in my API key and confirmed I don't have credit for that one. I have done it on many alts over the course of many patches. Was hoping they'd stealth fixed it, but it's still in the Known Issues Tracker from April 2020. My API key map: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/405207401315434496/806691524498817044/unknown.png

Now that combat is a rare part of it I've had good results on my Staff/P/P Daredevil. He gets three dodges, his heal stealths him, so does his steal. So I tend to get high contribution on tributes since I almost never get combat tagged, and do reasonably on the horse race if I am alert enough to the whirlwinds to dodge/horse dash through them. Stealth also helps me concentrate on targets in boar and monkey events. I congregate with my fellow players on the mob killing event so I can range things. A scrapper with a stealth gyro might also do well on the non-combat events.