Priapus Unbound posted:

Remember that glorious day of the mesmer fall trait having some extra zeroes on the damage? Overhangs were scary as hell in wvw.

Lonk posted:

edit: holy poo poo

Lonk posted:

edit: holy poo poo

"GW2 facebook post posted:

We'd like to extend our deepest thanks to the Old Timers Guild of Yak's Bend. They sent us a thoughtful and delicious gift to commemorate the second anniversary of #GuildWars2. The gift included a variety of Tyrian-themed cookies that were devoured in one day. (Some of our staff asked that we send out an extra-special thanks for the gluten-free ones. Those provided a lot of excitement.)

But what really touched our hearts was the book that you all put together. Your screenshots and personal notes meant more than we can say, and we are honored that you're a part of the Guild Wars 2 community. Thank you, from all of us at ArenaNet.

See the entire book at https://www.flickr.com/photos/arenanet/sets/72157646485761737/ ~RB2 #GW2

Illuyankas posted:

I think SFD should make a motion picture for birthday three. I doubt any food gifts would make it very far.

CLAM DOWN posted:

We're currently having an "art" contest for commander tag prizes, I fully plan to put together the results into a leather bound book and send them to Anet.

CLAM DOWN posted:

We're currently having an "art" contest for commander tag prizes, I fully plan to put together the results into a leather bound book and send them to Anet.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

I'm not supposed to tell you guys this but Arus told me entries that depict our beautiful love are automatic winners

J3ng4 posted:

Your love has nothing to do with WvWvW

Various Meat Prod. posted:

New outfit for my charrior

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

that's what YOU think

Lonk posted:

edit: holy poo poo

CLAM DOWN posted:

Mistfire Wolf is clearly the WvW meta elite.

Lonk posted:

So apparently Maguuma is a dead server for WvW

Yaos posted:

Speaking of that, with the way things are going I will not be surprised if they change how WvW works so it's no longer based on server. They keep moving to make things work without regard to server selection so it will be neat when they can figure out the best way to make changes for WvW. Eventually the whole server concept will probably be dropped, just join the game and pick your team for WvW when you choose to go into it.

jaegerx posted:

Your team is your server though. It's not like we have horde vs whatever the other guys in Warcraft or chaos vs order in warhammer.

I vote humans vs the asura and plant people.

Yaos posted:

I was thinking of it in regards of a way to fix low population in WvW.

Various Meat Prod. posted:

New outfit for my charrior

Dreggon posted:

Baron Snow posted:

Any Dentists that want to be represented in my contest entry should PM me a screen shot of their character.

Laphroaig posted:

http://i.imgur.com/iuG2fcw.jpg

Demaga posted:

I beat the game, at least until they add the greaves and chest to the rewards.

Demaga posted:

I beat the game, at least until they add the greaves and chest to the rewards.

Demaga posted:

I'm around 4600 over two years last I checked.

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Crafting Backpacks, New Leveling Items, and More!

Hi there! I’m Josh Diaz, a game designer here at ArenaNet, and today I’m going to tell you about some of the changes we’re introducing in the September 2014 Feature Pack to make exploring Tyria more rewarding.

New Leveling Items

To start things off, we’ve added in some gear meant specifically to help you level your characters. These weapons and armor will provide crafters and explorers with access to some of the skins found across Tyria’s diverse regions. For example, if you’re lucky enough to come across the Cannon Law, you’ll be able to choose between two stat combinations and receive a level 36 rare rifle with the Krytan Rifle skin and stats that are a little more potent than most rifles of its level.
These items are intended for the up-and-coming heroes of Tyria. As such, they extend up to an exotic level of rarity, but they are all exclusively under level 80. You may find that early explorations of Tyria are easier the second, third, or twenty-third time around with some of this gear.

The recipes for these items are meant for advanced crafters, but we’ve also added versions of the weapons to monster hauls across Tyria that come with a few stat combos intended for characters who are still leveling. If you find one you like that doesn’t work for the character you’re on, you can always store it away for another character on your account. Happy hunting!

Crafter’s Backpacks

These new weapons and armor help crafters get ahead of the game, but we also want crafting to have a strong visual reward so players can show off what they’ve accomplished so far. That led us to the creation of the new Crafter’s Backpacks. They’re only accessible by practicing a crafting discipline, and each discipline gets a unique look that progresses as you advance and builds on top of what you’ve already made! These backpacks don’t take much to build, but they’ll guide players up from novice to adept crafting in each discipline, bring in new looks to your Wardrobe, and come with a bit more combat flexibility than many players might have seen.

Profession Loot

Finally, since we believe that, especially for newer players, good rewards mean things you can play with (and not just things that may happen to valuable on the Trading Post), we’ve made it so that you’re more likely to get loot that you can use. It’s still possible for a warrior to get a new staff to sell or for mesmers to find a rare rifle, but it’ll be a bit less common than it was before. We’d rather that leveling players found things that felt like an immediate and useful upgrade or gave them a look at a new weapon and a chance to expand their skill set, and this seems like a good way of doing that.
These changes should help new players and veterans alike get more out of their leveling experience in Guild Wars 2.

Batham posted:

I hope that this doesn't mean that Mesmers will get more chance on cloth + greatswords at level 80.