A Call to Arms : How you can help us during the BWE

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.

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

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

Shift+Prt Screen

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

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.

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!

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.

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...

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.

You want screenies, you'll get screenies~

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...

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

~ Kui

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 .

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.

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).

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

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

Elite Elementalist glyph image (same for all):

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

Part 2:

Gah minerbot is a failed project. I have no idea where they've hid the skill listings. I came to the conclusion they are client sided, as turning my firewall to 'block all' and running a few tests on the code caused the skill descriptions to still show up in game, and packet logging didn't turn up anything that would make me believe they're entirely server sided. Only issue is, even when looking at a skill description like Banish, it shows up no where in memory that I can find. Though the skills on my bar do show up, and the one's in my 'owned' skill pane, all of them do not. My only option now would be to make something monitor memory for what skills do happen to be there, give it out to some guild mates, and hope after a few weeks of playing retail they've mined most of the skills and quests.

Hope this will help...

After viewing your "Areas" link on your main page, that place Oglemoor's Overlook caught my attention because it had the exact skills I needed. To get there it says "From the sage-lands, travel south-east." So I traveled south-east for 10 minutes and instead found a place called Druids Overlook. Inside, the skill trainer had the exact skills that was said to be in Oglemoor's. Maybe they replaced it, or maybe Oglemoor's was more southeast.

Here is a screenshot of Druids from the over-map.

It's the same area, it just had its name changed. I'm actually surprised the old one lasted as long as it did... one really must wonder what was overlooked that they had to ogle more. I'll update the names now to clear up any confusion.

The whole idea of the name simply being changed never struck my tiny brain.

pics:




Also holding skill charms for:
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Meteor Shower
Rodgort's Invocation
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Fevered Dreams
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Shield of Deflection
Light of Dwanya
Purge Signet
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Order of the Vampire
Malaise
Spiteful Spirit
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Eviscerate
Crushing Blow
Fear Me
Flourish

Just waitin' to hear a ping from someone. [As Pavel Losneti]

~Kui

Is there an email where I can sent the zipped screenshots to? There's a few rare item shots and the rest are shots of the scattered collector's requested items. Don't know whether they're useful to you guys.

Hoping someone'll pop up to grab these skill charms that can use them and grab images/etc. [Pavel Losneti]

~Kui

Thanks to everyone for the help. We'll leave this thread open for now in case anyone still recovering wants to chip in something later but we certainly appreciated all your hard work and aid over the weekend. There's a lot of things to sift through, but hopefully we'll be making some big site updates soon.

In fact, I don't know if everyone caught this over the weekend but we've already had at least one good change to things here as we're now linking skill pages to their associated skill trainers, bosses, monsters, and builds. Check out the front page or look at this example here.

Somewhat minor, but good to add to your condition/world effect database:

outside magumma stade:


in divinity coast mission (the one with the annoy eye):

I missed this post before the BWE went live. Be sure to create one for us next BWE, I'd be delighted to run and help with the points on the list.

Since I couldn't find someone for a hand-off during the BWE on Sunday, and had nowhere near enough resources to check them out myself, I took screenies of the skill charms. For posterity I suppose. Or exact wording on some skills. I dunno.







Hrm... ok... so not allowed to post 'em all in a single post. Have 9 more of:

Dolyak Signet
Crushing Blow
Spiteful Spirit
Order of the Vampire
Malaise
Shield of Deflection
Purge Signet
Light of Dwanya
Fevered Dreams

Do we at all care for skill charm shots of these, or PM, or...?

- Kui

What about upgrade compontents? Would be nice with a listing of all and a discussion/rundown of which ones are actually worth it. like, +20 health might look pretty hot right now but in say Diablo 2 rolling a rare with a heath modifier was crap since then you missed out on some possible damage modifier.

Read at guild hall somone found an upgrade component that increases speed of adren intake, sounds too good to be true...

Going to transmute my warrior into an axewielding one during the March BWE so I could buy Eviscerate if you still have it. Not that this skill was part of my build or anything, but I could check it out

Here's a list of most of the upgrade components I found: