Guild Wars 2

[Draegan]

I never played GW1 past the first 5 levels of the original game.  Makes me sad that I missed it.

[Lantyssa]

You can still get them.  I'm up to 16 points.

Need. Moar. Minis.

[Zetor]

Yeah, the FAQ says you can even get the points after GW2 is released.

I'm really tempted to get to 30 points, but it seems... far away. 15 is a more reasonable goal, and that's where the zombie chicken is!

[Nevermore]

How the hell do I have 23 out of 50 points?    I haven't played GW1 for years.  I tried to give it a try again a few months ago but I found the slow, unadjustable turn speed of all things too annoying so I couldn't get back into it.

Of course, now I *have* to somehow get two more points for the white raven.

[Lantyssa]

I have a few minis to trade if you don't have them.

Other stuff is harder to help with.  You can do a breakdown of all the categories to see exactly where your points come from.

[Ingmar]

I only have 8 points total, maybe I should play some GW this weekend...

One thing I never did was get any upgraded armor art for my heroes, maybe I will look into that.

[LK]

Well, I consider this an arguement against sequels. I feel like a bastard for not playing GW1 more and yet am hyper-excited for 2.

Yeah, the FAQ says you can even get the points after GW2 is released.

Nevermind.

[Mattemeo]

I think I'm going to have to reinstall GW just to find out what the hell any of my characters are called. The system didn't recognize any of the ones I tried, and there's at least one go-to character name amongst them.

[Nevermore]

That could be a problem.  They added a security measure a while back where you have to enter the name of one of the characters on the account to log in.

[Ard]

You can put in a support ticket to get them to send you one of the names.  It's what I had to do earlier today.

[Mattemeo]

That could be a problem.  They added a security measure a while back where you have to enter the name of one of the characters on the account to log in.

It was a problem for a few minutes. My face fell a bit when I got it installed, but I did some mental calisthenics and tried to remember some old DAoC char names and one of them stuck, hooray!
The really worrying part was that all my chars looked wrong/had been generic'd on the log-in screen but when they actually logged in they looked fine. Weird. Whole bunch o' Birthday Minis on all three of my vanilla chars though. Including a tiny Charr and whatever the GW2 gnomealikes are called pet.

On the other hand, the Hall of Monuments seems to still not recognize any of my chars. Why aren't I in bed?

[EDIT] Aha! Just tried typing my chars' names (with an underscore between first and surname) at the end of the 'demo mode' URL and bingo, we have recognition.

27 points on my Ranger/Elementalist! What does it mean! Nothing in Devotion or Valor on any char, either. So cryptic. So tired.

[caladein]

Yeah, I'm stuck waiting for a reply to a support ticket that asked for everything short of birthmark descriptions.

I'm all for enhanced security (I've had an authenticator for ages) but I didn't know I'd have to remember what the names of my mostly throw-away PvP-only characters were .

[Lantyssa]

23 and 27 points?  What am I doing wrong?

[Furiously]

I'm guild leader!!!!!

[Mattemeo]

23 and 27 points?  What am I doing wrong?

If I had even the slightest clue what any of it meant, I'd tell you!

I might be giving the game another go in earnest if I can track down a copy of Nightfall, though right now it seems the best bet is to just pick up the complete GW edition from amazon for stupidly cheap.
I wanna play a Dervish.

[Maledict]

I'm not a huge poster here, but I've been happily soloing my way through Prophecies with a Mesmer for the last couple of months to relax and any guild / group just to chat with as i play would be great. I already have a level 20 elementalist and necro, both from Nightfall, but have never participated in any of the high end stuff (or even finished the campaigns). Thanks to guild wars pay structure I often find myself coming back to it at random times for fun.

I also have an absolute ton of minitures including some duplicates if anyone is after them. (Duplicates only of the easy to get ones I'm afraid).

[Lantyssa]

I'll be happy to take duplicates I don't have, but don't want to get too greedy.  The mini I want most is a Water Djinn.  I love their look.

[Sjofn]

I played for the first time in a loooooong time last night. I'm glad Ingmar has been playing more frequently than me, I mostly just followed him around and hexed things with my mesmer until nothing was alive anymore. I totally forget how to play! Also no jump and tiny little ledges preventing me from moving forward never get annoying ever!

We theoretically are working towards me actually getting some heroes and then seeing how awesome a duo we are, we'll see if it actually happens!

[Furiously]

I love my discoway hero setup. Course when I don't have bodies to exploit it stinks.

[Ingmar]

23 and 27 points?  What am I doing wrong?

If I had even the slightest clue what any of it meant, I'd tell you!

I might be giving the game another go in earnest if I can track down a copy of Nightfall, though right now it seems the best bet is to just pick up the complete GW edition from amazon for stupidly cheap.
I wanna play a Dervish.

23 and 27 are impossible without a pretty extreme amount of grinding titles and 15 plat armor sets and minipets and hero alternate armor and such, so unless you remember actually played the game that much I'm going to lean towards 'it is buggy'.

[Nevermore]

It must be.  I've never visited that 'Hall of Monuments' (in game) to register anything, or whatever you need to do to get credit for stuff, and it still has me at 23 points.  I'm still not entirely clear on how you actually get the stuff and 'register' it to get the points even though the process has sort of been explained to me already.  I'm just that unfamiliar with the game now after all the time I've been away from it.

[Zetor]

Massively is running a series this week about getting 30 [or even 50!] points with a minimum of fuss*

* yeah, even that minimum of fuss is going to mean a lot of grind... but I want that zombie chicken dammit  

edit: miniature info here

[Furiously]

Running the nightfall challenges for the hero armor isn't too bad. I'm struggling with the worm one though. I'm not getting any high scores but I think the first one took like an hour or two for four heroes to get the armor.

I also need to get the master bonus on the tree singer mission in factions. Kifu furiously is my assassin.

[Mosesandstick]

As somebody who played GW for around an hour but thinks he'll end up playing GW2 (for a lot more), can somebody explain if this should matter to me?

[Ard]

Do you want to be a pretty, pretty princess with fabulous titles and pets?  Because I do!  

I suppose I should also note that I already owned all the GW1 expansions though, so it's not like I need to go out of my way to do this.

[Typhon]

Do you want to be a pretty, pretty princess with fabulous titles and pets?  Because I do!  

LOL

[Ingmar]

Sitting at 11 points - 20 minipets displayed (all rarities), 1 ranger pet, 1 hero, 3 campaign win statues. Getting any farther is going to take *work*. Although I guess I'm not sure just how low-hanging the hero alternate armor fruit is.

[Furiously]

Really low for prophecies. Day or two for all the challenge.

Actually if you have a good glints group EOTN armor isnt bad either.

[Mattemeo]

Massively is running a series this week about getting 30 [or even 50!] points with a minimum of fuss*

* yeah, even that minimum of fuss is going to mean a lot of grind... but I want that zombie chicken dammit  

edit: miniature info here

It's worrying that even when someone's dilligently explaining how any of this works, I just don't get it. Has GW become some sort of inexorable environment since I stopped playing?
I logged on the other night just to see what was what and I came away with the feeling that I'd somehow lost a whole gamut of knowledge and information that isn't showing any sign of returning. Admittedly I only ever played Vanilla (to 'completion' vis-a-vis the storyline, mind) and never had the oppurtunity to do any Underworld stuff, so the mass of expansions information isn't helping any.

I mean, I have no idea if there's any storage system available, for example; I think there's a mail system - I recall there being one... I think! But all three of my original characters have but a smattering of bags between them and they all seem to be full of animal parts and pets. I wouldn't even know where to start getting back into the game because of it, really.

[Lantyssa]

Running the nightfall challenges for the hero armor isn't too bad. I'm struggling with the worm one though. I'm not getting any high scores but I think the first one took like an hour or two for four heroes to get the armor.

Geez, how?  I could never get shards to drop when I was exploring the worm area for Cartographer.  (97.9% Canthan;  Once that's done I'm Legendary.)

I mean, I have no idea if there's any storage system available, for example; I think there's a mail system - I recall there being one... I think! But all three of my original characters have but a smattering of bags between them and they all seem to be full of animal parts and pets. I wouldn't even know where to start getting back into the game because of it, really.

Xunlai chests are in every city and outpost of the world.  You open an account and up to four tabs plus material storage with the Xunlai Agent standing next to them.  This is shared storage across your account.  (Anyone that did the special deal during their 4th Anniversary has a free fifth tab.)

There is no mail system.

Send me a PM if you have specific questions.  I'll only charge you a handful of mini's.

[Furiously]

I have not done the worm area - I'm working on the portal one now. I completed the corsair one last night. So like 7 down, I think I'm going to go grab the bird later tonight too.

[Trippy]

How many minis are there are where are they all listed? I only see 4 on the HoM calculator and on the Wiki but from what Lantyssa has been posting it seems like there are a lot more than that.

[Lantyssa]

List of all miniatures
Fourteen released each birthday, plus a bunch of others.  Some limited by time and promotions, others always obtainable.

[Zetor]

Part 2 (heroes/pets) and Part 3 (titles) are up now.

I gotta say, those titles seem a bit... overly grindy. Good thing I'm not going for 50!

OTOH, the hero/pet stuff is fairly painless, I already got all the armor from the corsair challenge mission in less than 40 minutes and leveled the phoenix that I got from doing factions back in the day (doing luxon hardmode runs to get more points for the eventual luxon elite armor as well). I've read that "drop rates" in those other two hero challenges are not as good, but we'll see -- any experiences?

[Ingmar]

The titles are INCREDIBLY grindy. Like worse than LotRO deeds grindy. But hey at least you aren't paying them to do it, right?