Little things you never noticed (that suddenly appeared to you).

Just remembered, when you fight the doppelgänger they often come equipped with a tormented spear(and did so I think before they were a playable item)

See? You should look up more often.

well for like 3 years, i was loading skill templates by pressing k (skills) then clicking on that little disc icon then selecting load from template.

BUT, then i discovered i could hotkey the load from template panel! so now i'm just one click away from loading skill bars ... so much easier

I have seen this also. Just a brief *flash* of an item and then gone.

I think the doppleganger had like, a storm bow before they changed it

EDIT: According to wiki, it was an eternal bow
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Doppleganger

Using the shift key for separating stacked items blew my mind. I never knew that could be done before I read it here on Guru, and it made the world a better place

I just thought i was crazy. good to know someone else has seen this

I didn't know you could double click the item. I modified the trade by moving the item to a different inventory slot. Your way is better though.

There as a thread a couple years ago full of useful little known GW tips....

Scattered throughout Kryta will you find pigs with an ax still stuck in them. One that I can remember is at the end of the large bridge in the Divinity Coast mission.

nothing big, just one of those funny little environmental things...

If others in the thread hadn't confirmed this, I would be calling BS. I have never, ever seen this happen before

Characters in this game have amazingly long necks, Elementalists especially. Most noticeable when not having any shoulder padding.

Was it one of those linked in the Q/A sticky thread lists? If not, do you still have the link to post here? It seems appropriate for this thread, right? (Sorry if not! I'm a Riverside noob.) I enjoy reading things like that. You never know what new tidbit you might learn.

This was actually from back in 2006. Man, time flies....

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/l...tml?t=10074109

Some of the info is out of date (obviously) and it has been resurrected a time or two without the original post being updated.

I first noticed it in a cut scene after nightfall, but before tormented weapons were availble to use. The cut scene showed a tormented spear, but when it actually came to use a weapon it used the bow..

Been a while since I did the dopplegager so I always assumed this inconsistancy was still there. Seems they fixed it.

Add this to the list of little things you never noticed

P.s nice thread btw

Thanks for the link Blade! I think I remember seeing that sometime in the past, but it'll be interesting to read it with fresh eyes for sure.

And I second Shanaeri's compliment above. Good idea for a thread, thanks! (The title on the main page got me to click Riverside for the first time in ages.)

After thousands of times in HoH I finally noticed that relic has eyes lol

This may not be so interesting as some of the previous posts, but I've been pleasantly surprised when I found out that you get 50 tournament reward points ( can be traded for 10 Zaishen keys ) when you *first* talk to High Priest Zhang in Temple of Balthazar. I think it was a 2010 update, so all of those who didn't have a chat with the kind man, i gladly recommend.

The things I enjoyed finding out were hotkeys that just made things SOO much easier.

Shift click and drag to split stacks, for years I'd been trading things between accounts to split them up, NO MORE!

C to target closest enemy,
V to target closest ally.

Also, its possible to make money by using artisans to craft rare materials and sell them back to the trader (even buying the common materials at trader price). When I found out this was possible I thought there had been some kind of mistake, but sure enough I made 5g/Elonian Leather I crafted. Not worth the time an effort in anyway but was interesting that it actually worked.
Hope these are helpful.

Speaking of hotkeys, I accidentally started typing a whisper without the chat bar active (where you get all sorts of hotkey effects from the text of your message) the other day. I saw one I'd never seen before though which responded to Y and was some little window about Minions. I will have to figure out what that is and when it was added.

Is that something everybody knows about already? I've yet to study the updates since last Winter/Spring closely, so maybe I simply missed it.



Another :O for me was realizing identifying white loot drops raised the price the merchant would pay for them! If anyone is curious, I recall there was a good bit of discussion about different players' findings and opinions on precisely when it made sense to risk id'ing an item for the likelihood of the merch price increasing beyond the cost of ID kit use. There should be helpful links in that "how to make money" sticky Snograt compiled for the Q/A section.



My most recent :O, with my thanks to End for teaching me how just the other day ...

You do not have to use a skill template to simply send a copyable url text string via GW chat! You can enter

[http://www.guildwarsguru.com/;xx]

in chat and it works like the clunkier way I always did it by starting from cntl-clicking my skill bar, pasting url there, and sending to chat.

So you type a [ then paste the url you want to send then type a ; then type xx] and hit enter.

A LOT of people don't realize that. I forgot the actual threshold where you should be identifying whites but the general rule of thumb is to identify drops from Level 20+ monsters. Also, I've only recently realized that you should always identify ALL blues even ones dropped by low level monsters since the "Improved Sale Value" mod is very common and easily pays for the costs of ident kits.

People also don't realize what they should be using salvage kits on. I'm only now getting a better feel for what salvages into what. (Materials like granite for example, are valuable). Probably worth a sticky thread in its own right. I also never realized that you want to be using a regular salvage kit almost all of the time (I was just using the experts kit). Something like a Gold Conch with a Measure for Measure inscription added to it can easily salvage into 150+ glittering dust.