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

So I started up Guild Wars after a long break, and no surprise, I had been kicked from my former guild. So I stroll capeless around Shing Jea for a while until I get invited to a guild. When I accept the invite, I notice a little music cue plays when the invite is confirmed. Just a few second snip, with what sounds like a victorious fanfare. I have never noticed this before, and if I hadn't turned the game's sounds sound down (excluding music) I would never had heard it. I can't imagine many have heard this, it's so subtle (or then I'm just half-deaf).

Anyways, what are your little things that you've never noticed before, but that you stumble upon., Things that make you go "How did I not notice this before?"

Whilst making a gift for a friend, i decided id make his name in armbraces(short name, hehe) in his xunlai chest, so when i got the xx ammount of arms, i met up with a friend, and started trading him them, 1 by 1, when he told me "Just use shift"


It changed my life.

Most of them are part of the scenery.

Murals on the roof, little frogs jumping out of the watter in swamps...

You can't imagine how many things you'll miss when you don't look at the roof or play with the camera zoomed it.

^That one. - The shift thing.


For me tho, it has been prolly...discovering that you can change second prof. after Ascended/that stuff. I've completed eye and prop as N/R, started QQing about how stupid was that combination, thinking to restarting chars....when a guildie saved me. lol.

you got lucky a guildie saved you, when i started with gw i made a Mo/N, but after 4 months i deleted it to make a Mo/E (i think). -_-

So I was browsing GW wiki for cheap collector weapons for my heroes, when I came across an item I had never heard of before.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Gemstone_Staff

Needless to say, I was stunned. How many times in the past 6 years had I passed up that collector in Senji's Corner, thinking he had nothing worth trading for?

A few weeks ago, I just noticed that there is no roof on the Eye of the North outpost.

I have never seen that staff 0.o

Whaaat? But it feels so roofie o.o

Critical hits have their own hit animation

There's a tree/bush thing in spamadan near xunlai chest that's floatingin mid-air.

Take any moa bird tonic and sidestep/move around in a specific way, and it looks like you moonwalk.

I thought the top part of a crystal spider is where the head is until someone told me it's not.

I can kill admiral kantoh through the wall for zaishen bty.

Fevered dreams is imba

Best looking staff for mesmers in the game imo, and took the time to get every one of my dom heroes and my own mes character one. The whole 'gem as the staff's focus' suits the mesmer concept perfectly. If it weren't for the need of a 40/40 set, I'd stick one of these on my pvp slot for whenever I need to roll a mes.

It's basically a glorified gazebo

Oh, and this is just pathetic. I'm one of those jerks who always skips the cut scenes. Only by reading wiki did I.... (plot spoiler for Prophecies....).....realize that Vizier Khilbron is really the Lich (after SIX years of play).

The casting animations for skills eg the gargoyle for conjure nightmares.

I occasionally notice shards, money or greens etc drop for henchies before the game grabs them for the henchie/heroes.

Edit, best looking staff in the game is the platinum staff/wand imho, perhaps followed closely by the willcrusher

About 6 months ago I noticed you can hold both mouse buttons to walk/run.

Holy.... time to go farm something. Ty for that

realizing that in order to delete something from trade window you do not need to restart the trade but can double click on the item you want to remove... meta changing moment for me

Nice thread idea!Thanks for the reminder. It's been a long time, but I do remember hearing it now that you mention it.

Amazing how our standards change over time. For anyone curious, this is about being able to split a stack of items by holding shift while click/dragging. I remember being so amazed and grateful when I first saw the notes for that game update! "How thoughtful and helpful and wonderful of ANet to give us all these amazing new features!" Back then it really did seem like we should've all gone to give thanks in Serenity Temple or something. Over time they've added more and more features with updates, as I've become harder and harder to impress.

The first time I noticed someone wielding a Lotus Staff was one of my own little things. I guess I must've been inactive or uninterested in staffs yet or both when those first arrived. It was maybe 3-4 years ago I went out from Kama with someone to let them see how a skin looked equipped. They were holding a Lotus Staff (which I'm told was also dyed black.) I'd never seen one before, and I was so impressed!

for reminding me about the little thing when I first noticed the Willcrusher's skin and then found there was no chance of getting one as loot with other mods. It was right around the time I had another heartbreak when discovering that the staff skin I saw all those SF NPCs like the high priest wasn't even available in a less-than-ideally stat'ed green form. I still hold out hope that skin will show up accessible for me to get a good look at it, someday, somewhere.

Ditto!!




As to my own contributions:

The first time I noticed the statues of the gods around Ascalon weren't always the same was fun. I hadn't any idea what it meant, but I liked it.

Many years later, the first time I noticed that lava in FoW was not the same as lava in Ring of Fire and I didn't need to run like mad to avoid over-exerting the monks was a nice relief. I'd always wanted to stand around in that lava, but the Monks would get so mad at people who lingered there.

The "little thing" I never noticed before that I thought about when reading your OP, well, a few years ago now I noticed that *some* of the collector 20/20 inscribed and jeweled chakrams and storm/fire/frost artifacts (and earth scrolls) would dye. Then I noticed *some* had more than one possible dye effect depending on which collector they came from. Then I started trying to check my loot for dyeability before merching it. And, well ...

The "little thing" got not-so-little, and I found more curiosity about dye effects than I ever thought of before! I haven't played much at all recently, and I don't know if I'll ever get around to finishing up a good summary with good picture examples of everything I've found. But in case you're curious about dye effects or GW quirks (and up for some reading!) here's the main page where I tried to keep track of my findings.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...kin_Dyeability

I haven't even begun to write up the similar issue with some greens. I *think* it's that certain greens dropped before the dye system change (at the release of NF) appear one color when equipped while those dropped after that point appear a different color. You can't tell from the icons at all - they look identical. You have to equip them to see it. I guess it's caused by the same quirkiness of code that results in there being more than one way certain skins of loot drops might dye, but I'm not at all sure.

If you know the answer, please do PM me!

There are cats in factions

Talking of animals, it iook me ages to notice there are tortises in the isle of meditation guild hall

Kormir (and probably many other NPCs) has variable weapon sets during cinematics.

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.