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Sausaletus Rex · Feb 15, 2005, 02:45 AM // 02:45

Alright, the BWE is hours away and, as requested, here's a list of things that this site is interested in obtaining over the course of those few days. If you'd like to help out, we'll certainly accept and appreciate all the aid you can give us.

Our first priorities are screenshots and skills. We'd like to have as many images of thigs as we can to add to the site. And we'd also like to have our skills current and up-to-date. Next is armor, we'd like our armor information to be similarly up-to-date as well as an image of each piece of armor for each sex for each profession (That's a lot but not nearly as much as it sounds like due to armor graphics being reused). And items and their modifiers are also of great interest, we'd like to find and catalog as many modifiers as possible and while we're at it gather some data on items, too. And there are things beyond that we could probably use some help with, too.

This is all, of course, on the "upaid volunteer" basis. None of this is required nor is it meant to be. Your reward is that you'll be helping us out and helping to futher the knowledge of the game.

So, let's go over what all you can do to help out :

Screenshots. Take screenshots of everything and anything. As many as you can. Take picks of your character, your armor, monsters you run into, that lovely explosion when you tag someone with a fireball, whatever you think might be interesting to look at. Then, e-mail or post those images here for us to collect and edit. We'll go over things and determine what's important we just need as many images as possible. At the very least, we'll stick your screens up in our gallery and at best we'll be chopping them up and sticking them into dozens of articles. If you don't have any image hosting of your own look into free image hosting sites such as http://www.imageshack.us/. Those who have bettter computers are, of course, preferred as we'll get better images but even someone running at minimum settings will be welcome to participate.
Skills. There are 450 skills and we want to make sure we're accurate on all of them. We have an idea which ones to look at but can't share that due to NDA restrictions and in any event we'll want to double check everything anyway. Our first priority here are the elite skills and any skill we're missing an image for because we'd like to have those skill icons to post up. But beyond that some skills will be hard to track down as they're not available at a trainer or a boss and will need to be gambled for. You can help us out by providing us a charm or otherwise locating the following skills which would otherwise be unavailable (note this list is subject to change and probably will be due to changes. If we've got the time we'll try and update it as the BWE gets underway). Thanks to esella and his guild Legio Arcanis for compiling the information :

ELEMENTALIST (19 out of 79)

Air Magic

Glimmering Mark {E}
Mind Shock {E}
Thunderclap {E}

Earth Magic

Crystal Wave
Iron Mist
Obsidian Flame
Stone Daggers
Ward Against Foes

Energy Storage

Ether Prodigy {E}
Ether Renewal {E}

Fire Magic

Meteor Shower
Rodgort's Invocation

Water Magic

Armor of Frost
Conjure Frost
Mind Freeze {E}
Mist Form {E}
Swirling Aura

Unattributed

Glyph of Energy {E}
Glyph of Sacrifice

MESMER (23 out of 73)

Domination Magic

Arcane Thievery
Energy Surge {E}
Ignorance
Panic {E}
Power Leak

Fast Casting

Mantra of Recovery {E}

Illusion Magic

Arcane Conundrum
Arcane Echo
Crippling Anguish {E}
Ethereal Burden
Fevered Dreams {E}
Illusion of Weakness
Migraine {E}
Unnatural Signet

Inspiration Magic

Elemental Resistance
Ether Lord
Keystone Signet {E}
Mantra of Persistance
Mantra of Resolve
Physical Resistance

Unattributed

Arcane Mimicry
Mantra of Signets
Signet of Humility

MONK (20 out of 76)

Divine Favor

Blessed Aura
Contemplation of Purity
Divine Healing
Peace and Harmony {E}
Unyielding Aura {E}

Healing Prayers

Dwayna's Kiss
Heal Party
Healing Hands {E}
Healing Seed

Protection Prayers

Aegis
Life Barrier {E}
Protective Bond
Rebirth
Restore Condition {E}
Shield of Deflection {E}
Shield of Regeneration {E}

Smiting Prayers

Zealot's Fire

Unattributed

Light of Dwayna
Purge Signet

NECROMANCER(20 out of 77)

Blood Magic

Awaken the Blood
Blood is Power {E}
Blood Renewal
Order of the Vampire {E}
Soul Leech {E}
Unholy Feast

Curses

Feast of Corruption {E}
Insidious Parasite
Lingering Curse {E}
Malaise
Plague Sending
Plague Signet {E}
Rigor Mortis
Spinal Shivers
Spiteful Spirit {E}

Death Magic

Aura of the Lich {E}
Malign Intervention
Taste of Death
Well of Suffering

Unattributed

Rend Enchantments

RANGER (17 out of 75)

Beastmastery

Call of Disruption
Call of Elemental Protection
Call of Ferocity
Fertile Seaion
Predatory Season

Expertise

Practiced Stance {E}
Whirling Defense

Marksmanship

Crippling Shot {E}
Determined Shot {E}
Punishing Shot {E}

Wilderness Survival

Barbed Trap
Frozen Soil
Greater Conflagration
Melandru's Arrows {E}
Muddy Terrain {E}
Poison Arrow {E}
Storm Chaser
Winnowing

WARRIOR (21 out of 75)

Axe Mastery

Axe Twist
Eviscerate {E}

Hammer Mastery

Crushing Blow
Devastating Hammer

Strength

Battle Rage {E}
Bull's Charge {E}
Dwarven Battle Stance {E}
Griffon's Sweep
Shield Bash {E}

Swordsmanship

Final Thrust
Pure Strike
Savage Slash

Tactics

"Fear Me!"
"Victory is Mine!" {E}
Deadly Riposte
Desperation Blow
Gladiator's Defense {E}

Unattributed

Flourish {E}
Thrill of Victory
Wild Blow
Armor. If you've got a set of armor, we'd like a screenshot of it. If you've got a lv20 character and access to all the armor crafters we'd like to know what their figures are for all the armors they can craft. If you've got piles of dye we'd like to see what armors look like when dyed. We plan on running a character of each of the six professions to lv20 ourselves to find this sort of thing out but crafting each and every set will probably prove too expensive. We'll try and post a list of which armors we already have and which ones we need to coordinate things.
Items. We want to catalog all the modifications out there. If you get an item, try and record its mods, especially if it's one you haven't seen before. If you want to go crazy, record the level of the monster that dropped the item as well as the map where it dropped as well as what it turns into when you salvage it, too, although from personal experience, I can tell you that's a long and slow process.
Monsters. Pictures of every kind of monster out there would be nice. We'd also like information on things like what skills they use and what maps they show up on.
Areas. We'll want to find out the relevant information about all the publically available areas as well as try and get screenshots of what they look like, what the maps look like, and probably even a world map, as well.
Runes. We'll want to try and track down as many runes as possible so we can get pictures and see if our information is still accurate. If you find a rune we don't have, record it and tell us about it.

That's what we really want to find, although, of course, we actually want to find anything and everything. So, if you've got something besides what's listed above you're interested in finding out - say you want to help confirm Ensign's damage equation or Zrave's weapon speeds or want to see whether stances cancel the stance you're currently using - feel free both to post your ideas here as well as to go ahead on your own and tell us all about it.

Thanks in advance fr your help and don't forget to have some fun while you're at it.

SpineLok · Feb 15, 2005, 03:02 AM // 03:02

You got it, I'll do what I can.

I run that game with all details on except no post processing. 8xS AA, 16X Aniso, vertical sync, trilinear optimizations on @1600x1200 res. My plan is to do a bit more gambling this time around to see if I can land a few rare skills. Also I will try to catelog any rare items I get. I will do my best to take screens of my armors. Like always I will try to get some good screenies.

Do you have a preference for the screenshot res? Would you rather 1280x1024, or 1024x768? Also do you like the screens with or without the user GUI/HUD?

Cheers

EDIT: Here is a LINK to some of the images I took in the last Beta @ 1280x1024

bobert · Feb 15, 2005, 04:26 AM // 04:26

Last BWE I completely forgot about taking screenshots. This event I'll be taking as many as possible. Also, whats the key combo to remove the GUI/HUD?

bobert

Fezz · Feb 15, 2005, 04:31 AM // 04:31

Shift+Prt Screen

I'll try to get as many usefull pics as I can, but I only have 10 Gig left.

Brett Kuntz · Feb 15, 2005, 07:06 AM // 07:06

http://www.gwforum.ca/viewtopic.php?t=75

You're free to use any or all of those screens for whatever you wish, there's over 300 high res one's. I'm expecting to take another 200-500 screens this weekend now that I have a few new hd's and better computer.

I'd also like to remind people to take screens of their map so we can help MOOMANiBE complete the map project.

Next weekend I'll be rolling out my gwminer proggy, which was specifically built to leech gw info like skill descriptions and quest descriptions (like thottbot.com/cosmos did). Hopefully it gathers lots of info whilst keeping the crashes to a minimum. If it's successfull, I'll be able to almost instantly obtain a fully up to date description for each skill, quest, item, what have you.

SpineLok · Feb 15, 2005, 07:12 AM // 07:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by kunt0r

Next weekend I'll be rolling out my gwminer proggy, which was specifically built to leech gw info like skill descriptions and quest descriptions (like thottbot.com/cosmos did). Hopefully it gathers lots of info whilst keeping the crashes to a minimum. If it's successfull, I'll be able to almost instantly obtain a fully up to date description for each skill, quest, item, what have you.

That will be awesome if that proggy works without any trouble. *Crossing Fingers For Ya* I'm really interested to see what kind of info you end up with by the end of the next beta. Nice Work!

TheRealDecoy · Feb 15, 2005, 08:15 AM // 08:15

I know it's already in the original post, but for the love of God someone please either find Blood is Power or do your best to spread the charms around. Far too many skills are way to hard to get.

Bobangry · Feb 15, 2005, 08:46 AM // 08:46

I think you mean www.imageshack.us Saus.

Also I can surely help with the screenshots, I'm a screenshot RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO. (1k+, from the WPE on, not even counting the many from E3) I'll be sure to hit that PrintScreen button like a double cheeseburger...

Brett Kuntz · Feb 15, 2005, 08:59 AM // 08:59

If you guys need screenshot hosting, I can offer it free of charge, you can even put up your own little php webpage or whatever. This offer's only open to those planning on uploading at least 100 nice screenshots.

Klael · Feb 15, 2005, 02:48 PM // 14:48

You want screenies, you'll get screenies~

Sausaletus Rex · Feb 15, 2005, 04:08 PM // 16:08

Thanks for all the replies and offers of help so far. They're much appreciated and I'm sure we'll be takingsome of you up on them...

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpineLok

Do you have a preference for the screenshot res? Would you rather 1280x1024, or 1024x768? Also do you like the screens with or without the user GUI/HUD?

No, I don't think we have a preference for resolution. We're not that picky. As for GUI, it depends on what you're taking a screenshot of, I suppose. If you want to take a picture of your armor, I'd take it off so nothing gets in the way, but if you want to snap a pic of some item's stats then obviously, you want it on. It's really up to you which you feel is appropriate. We do want skill icons and will probably find some use for pictures of the various parts of the GUI just as much as we love beautifully unadorned pictures of things, so either way is good with us.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobert

whats the key combo to remove the GUI/HUD?

Fezz is correct but I believe that CTRL+SHIFT+H will also hide the HUD when you're not taking a screenshot although I haven't checked in a while if that command's still available.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bobangry

I think you mean www.imageshack.us Saus.

Yes I do. Sorry about that, I'll correct the top post.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kunt0r

I'd also like to remind people to take screens of their map so we can help MOOMANiBE complete the map project.

Absolutely seconded. Maps are low on our priority list here because there's both so much else to get to as well as the fact that it's all bound to change by release but we're interested in compiling that sort of stuff eventually and we'll appreciate that, too. But, if we're not going to do it and MOOMANiBE is, feel free to help him out.

I should also point out that we're not asking for you to give us these pictures or information *exclusively* we intend to make all the info and pics you give us public precisely so they can be shared and used by other projects. Those pics, those tidbits, are yours to do with what you wish, we'd just appreciate you sharing them with us so that we can all benefit.

Cyrus the Mighty · Feb 15, 2005, 04:45 PM // 16:45

I can provide you guys with a charm of Battle Rage, assuming there was no wipe.

Kui · Feb 15, 2005, 05:08 PM // 17:08

Stipulation above valid - I've got Arcane Conundrum, just need to grab a charm for it.

~ Kui

Cyrus the Mighty · Feb 15, 2005, 09:59 PM // 21:59

Found an answer to the wipe question:

http://www.guild-hall.net/forum/show...109#post103109

Now I just wonder if we can still make level 20 RP chars

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Weezer_Blue · Feb 15, 2005, 10:06 PM // 22:06

Alright. I'll try and get as many screenshots as I possibly can if I can remember to through all the excitement of the Beta Weekend. By the way, it's extremely easy to get a picture of Thunderclap if you make a pre-made Shock Sniper. Infact... I might even have one if I forgot to take the UI out of any of my pictures. I'll go check....

i think it's the skill on the far right of my skill bar - that was when my pre-made was better than my from-scratch for a minute. hehe.

Freyas · Feb 16, 2005, 04:24 AM // 04:24

I've got several of the skills on the list, either on my characters, or on my guildmates characters, as I spent several thousand gold last BWE gambling for skill charms. I'll see which ones we have, and get skill charms from my guildmates for skills they have that we need. A few can also be found on premades, so we can use those characters to get skill icons and descriptions for them(though the variable ranges might be difficult).

Dragonne · Feb 17, 2005, 11:42 PM // 23:42

I definitely have Meteor Shower, and maybe a few others. I'll get what I can.

Fythux · Feb 19, 2005, 04:51 AM // 04:51

Ah, found it. Sorry, couldn't find this thread earlier when I posted a separate topic. Arcane Conundrum can be found in The Black Curtain near the Temple of Ages. Exiting the Temple of Ages, take a right and hunt in the swamp area. On the other side of the water, you will find Gack the Mindwrecker. He is a mesmer named mob that casts Arcane Conundrum, among other things. Just use your Signet of Capture and enjoy

It's quite useful. Hope this helps a little. I can make a charm, if needed. Full in-game name is: Fythux Trituw

Dragonne · Feb 19, 2005, 05:13 AM // 05:13

Elite Elementalist glyph image (same for all):

MOOMANiBE · Feb 19, 2005, 06:22 AM // 06:22

Here's some of the skills that had missing pictures: