There is a wonderful thread full of Little Known Guild Wars Facts on GuildWarsGuru.com.
I have listed the bulk of them below. I do not know if they are 100% accurate. Enjoy!
Interesting and useful:
- Ghost-in-the-boxes and Snowman summoners when they disappear after being activated, they trigger Necromancers’ Soul Reaping primary attribute. If correctly timed, your Necromancer can get an energy boost when you need it for some reason. These “deaths” also count towards “I Will Avenge You!”, making solo IWAY a possibility, although an expensive one.
- With projectiles, all effects, including weapon effects, are considered when the projectile reaches the target.
- Xunlai Agent is the only NPC that you can talk to, move away, and still be working with.
- An attack has the following percent chances to hit the corresponding part of your armor (if there is no armor, AL turns to 0 for that part) – 12.5% head, 37.5% chest, 12.5% hands, 25% legs, 12.5% feet. Damage reduction or armor from runes, weapons, shields, offhands, and skills are global meaning they come into effect no matter where you are hit.
- Unidentified armors are often worth more than the rune itself…If you get an unidentified armor, ID it, check the trader price for buying that armor, compare it to the ID’d armor price, see if it is worth salvaging.
- Skills activate before skills that trigger when something happens. Example: Orison of healing will heal you before Backfire deals it’s damage for casting a spell.
- White items can be Identified. This not only shows their value, but also increases it. Only effectively useful on near-max items.
- If you hold CTRL while doing certain actions or clicking on certain things, you will announce them in Team chat.
- Targeting someone, holding ctrl, and pressing enter sends a whisper to them.
- Do /kneel in front of statues of Gods, while your region has favor, talk to the avatar to get bonuses for donations.
- Longbows and flatbows have the same range. Longbows have a shorter arc, so are more accurate (less time to move out of the way) while flatbows have a quicker refire time (same refire rate as shortbows.) Recurve bows have the overall best combination of range, refire, and flight time for interrupting, while longbows or flatbows are best for pulling.
- Vampiric weapons do more overall DPS than any other mod against a variety of enemies. Elemental weapons do more damage against enemies that are weak against that element, but do less against enemies with no special weakness or strong against that element. Sundering beats elemental out only when fighting enemies strong against the element. Given a high enough sample size, anyway.
- Holy damage and shadow damage are unaffected by armor. Light, chaos, and dark damage are affected by armor, but there are no armor types that offer a specific bonus against them. Holy and light damage both do double-damage to undead.
- Pressing Shift+F10 brings up Frame Time and Network Traffic graphs. Press Tab to switch between them.
Interesting but worthless:
- You can be level one at Ring of Fire.
- Although most alcohols last 1 minute, some last 3 or even 5 minutes in length. There is a drunken time cap of 5 minutes, meaning that if you drink 6 minutes worth of alcohol at once, it alone will only last 5 minutes.
- Icy Dragon Swords are always max damage, blue, 15^50… they come from one place: Ice Imps in Mineral Springs. They are also probably the only time someone would find a blue with perfect mods, since perfect mod blue drops are very rare.
- For Nigthfall Collector’s Edition, doing /dancenew followed by /dance or another looping emote will do the regular emote, but with the /dancenew collector’s edition special effects.
- You can whisper yourself. You can also add some in-game characters to your friends list, although you cannot whisper them.
- Doubleclick dye and click on your backpack/belt/bags to change it’s color.
- All Ascalon Guards in Old Ascalon will have the dialog of a male even if it is a female who you speak to. Gets very odd when the female guards talk about their children and wife.
Miscellaneous Pre-searing Facts:
- If you go outside the abbey in pre-searing and look in at the shrine you can see a ghost
- You can find a hidden ruin near Fort Ranik behind some trees is a secret entrance.
- You can look at various NPC underwear i.e. and some even have secret messages from dev
- You can death level your characters in pre-searing, just pull a Strider/ Charr to a res shrine and let them kill you after some deaths they level up then if you kill them you get more xp.
- When in pre, over the wall, if you get any casters in the groups of charr if you pull and then run so that the Malay NPC’s withdraw if you wait, the caster NPC will engage you one at a time, makes for easy solo over the wall.
- You can stand with the king viewing the Charr frontal assault
- You can use runes on your armour in pre, just need to find a player with the sup salvage kit; will cost 30k to 80k for one use.
- You can farm ale in pre-searing from the bear hunters near Fort Ranik if you are after the drinking title.
- You can tame a bear in pre, just have 2nd player aggro the bear, you stay just out or aggro range. On the bears 4th attack it will use brutal maul skill. When the bear uses the maul skill you cast charm. The 2nd player who has the aggro should start running in the opposite direction as soon as the bear starts the maul attack so that they pull the bear away. If you time it you will get the bear.
Forbidden Knowledge:
- Gwen is behind the Lich, Abaddon, Shiro, the Searing, the Destruction of Orr, the Mantids in Sunqua Vale, White Dye’s Outreageous Price and the nerfing of Farm Builds…….
Check my other post for more tips.
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