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Jugalator · Apr 02, 2005, 03:54 AM // 03:54

Since the live server is open for scandinavians since April 1st, and ArenaNet has given people playing there the go for releasing screenshots and info for it during this three day period (no NDA issues there), do Guild Wars Guru have a list of wanted content for its knowledge base somewhere? Or any general guidelines of what I could try to screenshot or get other info for? Should I just look at missing info in this current KB and assume it's up to date and there's no content "lying around" that you already have available?

I remember there use to be a thread for this during the BWE's but couldn't find one now, and was just thinking I could use this "mini BWE" for something useful here.

Spooky · Apr 02, 2005, 05:03 AM // 05:03

Wow, I wasn't expecting to get any offers of help from testers who weren't involved with the site staff, so I didn't put anything up as to what we're looking for and have just been doings things myself.
Off the top of my head, I know that Saus wants to get map screenshots of the trainer locations in Pre-Searing Ascalon and the quests.

bobert · Apr 02, 2005, 05:10 AM // 05:10

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Originally Posted by Spooky

Wow, I wasn't expecting to get any offers of help from testers who weren't involved with the site staff, so I didn't put anything up as to what we're looking for and have just been doings things myself.
Off the top of my head, I know that Saus wants to get map screenshots of the trainer locations in Pre-Searing Ascalon and the quests.

I'd definitely love to have that list of trainers and location (in pre-ascalon that is...).

Weezer_Blue · Apr 02, 2005, 05:41 AM // 05:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spooky

Wow, I wasn't expecting to get any offers of help from testers who weren't involved with the site staff, so I didn't put anything up as to what we're looking for and have just been doings things myself.
Off the top of my head, I know that Saus wants to get map screenshots of the trainer locations in Pre-Searing Ascalon and the quests.

hehe... what's so surprising about that? anyway... if you put up a giant "to do" list then we can become your slaves... crap... i mean... uhh... minions... crap! i mean... uhh... ahh screw it... lets go with slaves.

worthless · Apr 02, 2005, 05:46 AM // 05:46

i say ss of anything new would be nice

Harley · Apr 02, 2005, 05:54 AM // 05:54

a work in progress will try to find who provided this info and link to it but for now here is most of that stuff

Elementalist
Primary Starting Skills: Flare, Aura of Restoration
#1: Elementalist Azuire (Wizards Folly)
Kill a few waves of Ice Elementals with Firestorm
Skills Given: Firestorm, Aura of Restoration, Glyph of Lesser Energy

#2: Rena Stormbringer (Foilbles Fair)
Quest Name: The Power of Air
Kill Hulking Tower Golem
Skills Given: Air Magic Skills (Blinding Flash,?)

#3: None Discovered yet

Mesmer
Starting Primary Skills: Conjure Phantasm, Ether Feast
#1: Lady Althea (Outside Ascalon City on the west road to Green Hill County in front of actor’s stage)
Quest Name: The Rogue Bull
Mission: Kill a Rogue Bull with resistance to Physical attacks
Skills Given: Conjure Phantasm, Ether Feast, Imagined Burden

#2: Vassar (Foibles Fair)
Mission: Kill Skale Brood in the east woods of Wizard’s Folly
Skills Given: Backfire

#3: None Discovered yet

Monk
Starting Primary Skills: Banish, Orison of Healing
#1: Brother Mhenlo (Ashford Abbey)
Quest Name: A Monk’s Mission
Mission: Help Pauluus the Abbot Retrieve a Relic in the catacombs by keeping him alive while he travels in a life draining swamp
Skills Given: Bane Signet, Orison of Healing

#2: Grazden the Protector (Green Hill County)
Quest Name: Protection Prayers
Mission: Keep Farrah alive to kill Alain the Bandit leader.
After Receiving Quest head back to Lake Side County to Activate It
Skills Given: Protection Prayers (Reversal of Fortune, Shielding Hands)

#3: Brother Mhenlo (Ashford Abbey)
Quest Name: Blessings of Balthazar
Mission: Stop Skeletal Invasion of fields outside Ashford
Skills Given: Retribution, Symbol of Wrath

Necromancer
Starting Skills (Vampric gaze, Deathly Swarm)
#1: Necromancer Munne (Catacombs outside Ashford Abbey)
Quest Name: The Necromancer Novice
(Necromancer Munne should lead you on to the proper location on this quest but here are Directions: head into the catacombs and head to the right follow that path till you get to a large rectangular room down a flight of stairs. This room has two exits on the right side the first right leads to the Flame geysers and Necromancer Novice quest.)
Mission: Use bone minions to trip the flame geyser traps and defeat the Tomb Nightmare
Skills Given Animate Bone Horror, Deathly Swarm, Life Siphon

#2: (Blood Magic Necromancer) Green Hill County next to the Grazden Protector
Mission: Head to the catacomb entrance north east of Baradin’s Estate and defeat 3 of the 5 Blood Fanatics
Skills Given: Vampric Touch, Blood Renewal?

#3: Overad the Reviled (Catacombs)
(Directions head into the catacombs and head to the right follow this path untill you get to a large rectangular room down a flight of stairs. This room has two exits on the right side the first right leads to the Flame geysers and The Necromancer Novice quest. The second right leads to a cavern full of spiders head directly down the spider path till you find Overad the Reviled.)
Mission: Defeat 5 Crypt Fiends
Skills Given: Soul Barbs, Faintheartedness

For the Necromancer you can collect the following items and give it to the following people.
5 Skeletal Limbs to collector ??? (In catacomb entrance of Ashford Abbey) for Necromancer Boots.

Ranger
Starting Primary Skills: Power Shot, Troll Urgent
#1: Ranger (Regent valley)
(Directions from Ashford Village follow road over bridge to Regent Valley keep following road)
Mission: Tame an Melandru’s Stalker Cat
Skills Given: Skills (Charm Animal, Troll Urgent, Dual Shot or Comfort Animal)

#2: Ivor Trueshot (Regent valley)
(Directions from Ashford Village follow road over bridge to Regent Valley, once in regent valley stop following road and head over the hill to the left, once over the hill you find a new road follow it till you see a bridge when you see bridge climb the mountain to the right)
Quest Name: A Test of Marksmanship
Mission: Kill 5 indicated Plague worms in under 1:30
Skills Given: Marksman Skills (Read the Wind, Point Blank Shot)

#3: Aidan (Wizards Folly)
(Directions from Foibles Fair head down the road to Lakeside County till you see a forest. Head south east till you come to a river once you cross the river you should be in the fishing village Aidan is on south east edge of the fishing village)
Quest Name: An Unnatural Growth
Mission: Head west to river by waterfall kill Large Aloe Seed for Aloe Root
Skills Given: Preparation Skills (Ignite Arrows, Favorable Winds?)

For the Ranger you can collect the following items and give it to the following people.
5 Grawl necklaces to Collector Kaylee (Near the portal from Lakeside County to Regent Valley) for Rawhide Vest.

Warrior
Starting Primary Skills: Frenzy Stance, Healing Signet
#1: Warmaster Gast (Green Hill County)
Mission: Stop the Grawl Invasion in Vineyard/Down the Road by killing all the "Grawl Invaders"
Skills Given: 2 Sword Skills (Server Artery, Gash)

#2: Duke Barradin (Barradin Estate)
Mission: Kill Agnar the Foot near the vineyard
Skills Given: 2 Hammer Skills

#3 Little Thom (Barradin Estate)
Mission: Stop the Aloe Seeds from spreading in the Duke’s Vineyard
Skills Given: 2 Axe Skills (Dismember, Executioner's Strike)

For the warrior you can collect the following items and give it to the following people.
5 Grawl necklaces to Collector Kaylee (Near the portal from Lakeside County to Regent Valley) for Ringmail Hauberk
5 Dull Caprices to collector ??? (Near the Primary Ranger trainer) for Ring Mail Leggings or Ring mail Boots

Cpt Teancum · Apr 02, 2005, 05:57 AM // 05:57

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Originally Posted by Jugalator

do Guild Wars Guru have a list of wanted content for its knowledge base somewhere? Or any general guidelines of what I could try to screenshot or get other info for? Should I just look at missing info in this current KB and assume it's up to date and there's no content "lying around" that you already have available?

I know there are quite a few people interested in screenshots of the murals of gods found throughout Pre-searing Ascalaon, as well as the statues and plaques. Basically anything you could find on the deities/lore would be great... Nice of someone to offer.

Ciao,
CT

Jugalator · Apr 02, 2005, 07:44 PM // 19:44

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I'd also like to include murals and plaques; I'll see if I have time for that later today, or tomorrow.

New Pre-searing Ascalon Collector/Trainer Map

http://hem.bredband.net/b240685/gw/g...scaOverlay.jpg
http://hem.bredband.net/b240685/gw/gwg/MapReference.txt
(it's not even near complete, but the plan is to renumber it later, and maybe also add quest givers on it as well... of course, the reference text is only in a raw .txt file, but that's stuff that could be HTML-ified... maybe a map like this could be useful? I just based it on Moonaibe's nice work right now)

DarkWasp · Apr 02, 2005, 08:04 PM // 20:04

I always like the screen shots with great scenery.

Jugalator · Apr 02, 2005, 09:13 PM // 21:13

Again, it would be especially good to know Grenth's main statue in pre-searing Ascalon.

Mss Drizzt · Apr 02, 2005, 09:24 PM // 21:24

Ty for all the great pics.

Spooky · Apr 02, 2005, 09:44 PM // 21:44

Hmm.. looks like i'll be setting off in search of Grenth's Lore, among other things.
That's a lot of nice pictures though, it looks like we'll be able to put up a pretty comprehensive 'Lore' area for the deities thanks to your work. It's been an interesting topic of discussion about the forums lately, so i'm sure people reading here appreciate it as much as we do.
It does give me a few ideas, though. Most of it will have to wait until after release, due to the rules for what is / isn't allowable content on fansites at the moment, but it might be interesting to go around gathering the various bits of in-game Lore to construct a timeline of sorts. (Providing they don't beat us to the punch with this one, in whatever they may include in the manual.)

Sausaletus Rex · Apr 02, 2005, 09:51 PM // 21:51

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Originally Posted by Harley

a work in progress will try to find who provided this info and link to it but for now here is most of that stuff

That looks like OragneArrows stuff. Most of which we already have aor will have by the end of the weekend. There's a rather massive update to things going on behind the scenes around here, so I'm holding off on any new additions to the CMS until that's complete (Not out of, I assure you, laziness) but once I'm satisfied everythign's correct I'll probably slap it up in a post.

Although I'll probably have to clean up my notes some. For example :

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.The Supremacy of Air
Area- Foible's Fair
Description - 1) Travel to the Wizard's Tower where the Elementalist's Experiment quest is located. 2) Find and kill the Tower Golem (lv5 creature, Air does a lot of damage). 3) Talk to Elementalist Aziure, near the Tower, to complete the quest.
Given by - Ralena Stormbringer
Location - Foible's Fair
Requirements - Elemenatlist mastery / Complete Elemenatlist Experiment Quest / be an Elementalist
Reward - 250XP, Blinding Flash, Lightning Javelin
Text -
Elementalist Aziure has been trying squandering her time with her overly complicated magic rituals. I've been tryign to tell her forever that magic isn't about subtle trickery. A bolt of lightning that sears your enemy's flesh. That's magic. A glash of lightning that shocks your foe and blinds him too. That's magic. // You can help me prove it. There's a brute of a creature called the Tower Golem up the noad near the big tower. I'll give you a few spells that will help you fight it. I'd like you to destroy the Golem and then let Aziure know. // {Sounds like fun. = Yes} / {That doesn't sound like a good idea. = No} /// {Relena wanted me to tell you I destroyed the Tower Golem.} // Indeed you did. Doing so was no mean feat and shows that you have real promise. Nevertheless, I should warn you Ralena teaches a branch of magic that appeals to the reckless and the brash. As you mature as an Elementalist, I think you will find that there is a great deal of value to broadening your magical horizons. // Rewards / 250 Experience // {Accept} / {Decline}

Summary -
+Folow the road up to the wizard tower. Destroy the Tower Golem.

[Text]

Reward:
250 Experience

What we could really use are the screenshots relating to such quests. Especially ones that show locations and the like (Great work on that, Juggulator, btw). Pics of the quest dialog and quest logs would also be nice. Especially the "main" ones, the ones that lead up to getting into the Academy - the Sir Tydus, "Whatever" Test, Havesdan ones, basically.

And, of course, information on item mods, armor, skills (There are some new Ranger pet attacks I'd like to have info about), skill trainers, crafters, armor, and anything else you'd care to think of. The more info, the better, but no worries, just have fun. We appreciate anything you might gather and we'll certainly try to make use of it but anything you get us is a bonus.

Cpt Teancum · Apr 02, 2005, 10:08 PM // 22:08

Jugalator,
That's some quality work--thanks for the posts.

Spooky,
I think a "lore" section would be a great addition to the site. I, for one, enjoy the RPG aspects of the game, and the deeper you can get into the lore, the better.

Ciao,
CT

Jugalator · Apr 03, 2005, 12:16 AM // 00:16

Gaile has recently talked about a lot of juicy lore in the game manual, btw...

I also just explored the entire presearing Northern Wall area with Aelrik of AB and got some screenies for those who haven't seen it much.

1 2 3 4 no 5 6 (cool color change once you get close to a Charr flame altar) 7 8 9 (sunglasses on! :s) 10 11

Maybe you haven't seen the new item modifier coloring by the way...

mods1 mods2

Hmm... I'm thinking of any special "new stuff" in this BWE but can't come to think of much...

They have some PvP char creation UI changes though... And they also added new hair (and skin) colors, as has been mentioned before:

UI1 UI2 UI3
(hey, women are the fairer sex... lol)

A change in the UI itself is the new gender symbol.

You asked for ranger skill info. I assume the new skills you mean are those in the new "Pet Attack" class. Here they are, I think it's all. All these have Beast Mastery as the attribute they depend on. I'll list how much each increase their "green" attribute per point in Beast Mastery next to the links.

Bestial Pounce
5 base dmg, 17 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. +1 dmg / point

Brutal Strike
same as above, for both dmg's

Disrupting Lunge
1 base dmg, 10 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. less than +1 dmg / point

Scavenger Strike
1st value: 5 base dmg, 17 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. +1 dmg / point
2nd value: 1 base dmg, 12 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. tiny bit less than +1 dmg/point

Predator's Pounce
1st value: 5 base dmg, 17 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. +1 dmg / point
2nd value: 5 base health, 41 health with 12 BM, i.e. +3 health / point

Melandru's Assault
5 base dmg, 17 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. +1 dmg / point

Maiming Strike
1st value: 5 base dmg, 17 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. +1 dmg / point
2nd value: 3 sec cripple, 13 with 12 BM, i.e. less than +1 dmg / point

Ferocious Strike
1st value: 5 base dmg, 17 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. +1 dmg / point
2nd value: 1 energy, 8 with 12 BM, i.e. less than +1 dmg / point

Feral Lunge
1st value: 5 base dmg, 17 dmg with 12 BM, i.e. +1 dmg / point
2nd value: 3 sec base bleeding, 21 sec with 12 BM

You can of course find mana cost and recast times in the images themselves. "base dmg" (for example) is the damage with 0 in Beast Mastery. Some of those screenies were taken with 1 point in BM so don't get confused by that. All these skills and their increasing amounts were simply checked in the PvP Char Creator with "unlock all skills" checked and playing with the attribute points.

Finally, please note I may not keep those screenshots on my web account for too long. Grab what you need!

OK, now I'm going to bed, hehe...

Bladen Skull · Apr 03, 2005, 12:27 AM // 00:27

Wow thank you very much! Can you check and see if there are any new male hair changes?

Jugalator · Apr 03, 2005, 12:45 AM // 00:45

OK, last post before bed, hehe...

No problem, I like to be useful during a WPE for once!

Regarding the hair changes, I'm no expert at Monks but during the alpha (yes, I'm one of those testers

) I started feeling I was either suffering from memory loss or they made a lot of changes to them. :s Here's a most if not all of his styles, and didn't he used to have a lot horrible "half head shaved" styles? Unfortunately, the female Monk still has a lot of that going on; I don't like it.

I also included a weird new (at least I think so) male Necro style in VIOLET. lol

Here's my hair collage! (I didn't include other professions, didn't notice much change for males otherwise)
http://hem.bredband.net/b240685/gw/gwg/hair.jpg

I also almost forgot some pretty new loading screens

http://hem.bredband.net/b240685/gw/gwg/loading1.jpg
http://hem.bredband.net/b240685/gw/gwg/loading2.jpg

Before it gets old, you don't mind the loading times at all

Jayling · Apr 03, 2005, 01:08 AM // 01:08

Wow, Juggie, thank you! It was cool to see the collage of monk hairdos. If you have time tomorrow, could you grab some of the female ranger faces and 'dos also? Don't forget to sleep and eat, buddy!

Thanks again, Jug

J.

DarkWasp · Apr 03, 2005, 01:25 AM // 01:25

Yeah that would be cool. But isnt it the last day of the beta for them, isnt it shutting down midnight tonight?

Joysze · Apr 03, 2005, 01:31 AM // 01:31

Jugalator, you rock!! I'm so envious!! Ooh, if you're taking requests, could you take some screens of the female mesmer's hair?

Do you know of any new skills for the mesmer? ^.^