Guild Wars 2

Dasorine.1964:

Zanshin.5379:

Noviere.7309:

There is a good chance SAB will be expanded on in a few months

How do you know that exactly?

Dev has been dropping hints about it and such, basically how they are working on more levels though they wont be out this month nor next sort of makes it sound like when the next levels finished it will pop up again for another month or so.

Adding onto this, if you just look into Josh Foreman’s posts he talks about how the SAB team has been made into a Living World team and makes several mentions about future plans, such as the World 2 release having Daggers and Rifles (and I can’t recall if he said hopefully pistols or yes to pistols). Not this month though, but in the future.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Well, I guess it’s still worth it to collect Bubbles, in case they do expand the game for the other skins, I might enjoy a Super Rifle or Super Pistol, or Super Wear.

Yeah, but keep in mind:

Josh Foreman.8250:

Farming is a bigger issue that I have some ideas about. I’m thinking of tying score to the amount of bauble bubbles you get in the end chests, so you’ll have to actually play the game instead of running from point A to B over and over. Doing that will obviously require re-balancing the cost of skins.

So there might/likely will be some skin cost changes in the future.

I think if I remember correctly it was mentioned that for some reason the Hard Mode was causing server issues so they had to take it out. So, he’s angry cause his content was removed!!

PolarTank.5902:

Josh Foreman.8250:

It’s 1 in 50.

you say that but I disagree cause RNG is bad in this game.

And I would agree, because I got my first skin in about 50 or less runs (having opened about 75 chests now

Yeah I definitely did a similar thing after leaving SAB after a long streak of it hahaha

They would have to be heavily tinted haha Its a cool idea but i imagine that could take a good bit to design armor for all 3 armors for all 5 races. I would love it though if it looks good haha

dulfy.1493:

Video for zone 3 baubles is now up

I have no idea which Bauble I missed because I don’t recall getting any additional baubles but I finished it last night, many thanks Dulfy!

Rhysati.4932:

They may never even work on this again for all we know. The lead developer for it says it’ll all come down to the reception and how much people like it on whether or not more work time is allocated for it.

While very true, judging by its reception with a very large people overjoyed and loving it, it wouldn’t be far-fetched to expect them to continue work.

Three quotes that might help you:

When someone asked if the Rapids was the end:

Chickenshoes.6250:

yes its the end. They’re going to add more this month though.

To which Josh replied:

Josh Foreman.8250:

No no no!!! <:o Not this month. At an unspecified time. Certainly not in the next month.

For this thread

In another thread in a post regarding skins:

Josh Foreman.8250:

For World 2 I absolutely want to make rifle and dagger skins.

For this thread

Edited in links

I would think yes. But its probably something we will have to wait to find out or for Anet to clarify.

They can be separate for each zone. But all zone 1 has to be done at once, same for 2 and 3.

I believe its on boss kill you get it. I did 1 and 2 this morning (failed 3) and I believe that is when it happened.

Also true. I was operating my statement on having run all 8 of my permanent characters and now using my 9th slot to acquire more.

Most character setups I ran took under 6 minutes, skipping to end and cut scenes. The Asuran intro is relatively swift, especially when several people are running the cycle and keeping it moving. Yes i actually timed it haha

dulfy.1493:

thanks for sharing

Video for zone 3 baubles should be ready within the hour for those who prefer videos

Thanks dulfy!

I attempted Z3 baubles earlier today…must have missed one after I swear combing the map. Looking forward to finding out what I missed haha

Hexgame.4802:

Alkron.1345:

Ayrilana.1396:

Why not include zone 3?

Zone 3 takes about 6 minutes while 1 and 2 are roughly 3 a piece. It makes it more efficient to skip the last zone and start over after 2.

Starting a new character, going through the tutorial, running to SAB, entering the zone and watching the cinematic takes roughly 3-4 minutes, so, it actually would be more time efficient to do zone 3.

Assuming
Z1 is 3 min
Z2 is 3 min
Z3 is 6 min
Reset is 4 min

Z1+2, 4 per run
10 minute runs, so 6 runs in an hour so 24 per hour

Z1+2+3, 6 per run
16 minute run, so 3.75 in an hour, so 22.5 (18 for 3 runs, 24 for 4)

Its close but not quite.

Ayrilana.1396:

Why not include zone 3?

Zone 3 takes about 6 minutes while 1 and 2 are roughly 3 a piece. It makes it more efficient to skip the last zone and start over after 2.

NinjaEd.3946:

Something laughable, something to make them forget the non-sense outside, and just kick back with ridiculous cries like, “**** YOU MONKEY!”

Are you watching me play o.o….Its always that one monkey….

They are being added at a later date. Look up the pistol/rifle missing complaint and Josh replied saying they just didnt have the time capabilities to design all the weapo s without sacrificing time dedicated to developing the event itself (heavily paraphrased but more or less what he said). Also said they will be coming in the future with more world releases. In another thread he said not to expect the next world this month.

Highlord.7158:

I completely agree with the OP. The Super Adventure Box had (and will have, once I’m back form work) me grinning like an idiot the whole time playing. The 8-bit midi music, the awesome world and art (all you Playstation-era kiddies can just go to hell. It looks awesome) and the gripping storyline is great. Interfere with MY picnic will you?! You and me, you kitten! One on one!

Only thing that would make it better is a proper rectangular controller (and some holographic Dagger skins. Seriously. What the hell?)

I’ve discovered a bug though. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right B, A <spacebar>, <Enter> isn’t working. :P

Should do you good to know Dagger skins are coming so stock up on your baubles

Force.5861:

Alkron.1345:

Azure Prower.8701:

It’s before the frog boss checkpoint. Across the crocodile and turtle in the swamp. There’s a little shop hidden around a large tree stump.

I have not seen that one so I’ll have to check it out, thanks!

that is the slingshot, IIRC. the wallet is to your right, at the checkpoint BEFORE that one. it is fairly high up on the front-right corner of the area, and you need to jump across a flytrap to get there

Thanks! Dulfy updated the post as well so I watched a video and plan to do it tonight!

RainbowSyrup.4130:

Just farm zone 1 and 2 on alts. I got my 50 baubles and my greatsword yesterday.

I did all 3 zones for 6 bauble baubles similarly and got my backpack this morning haha Now i have to stockpile for when they add pistols!!

With more than one person it is easy. And i think the honeycomb gave 20 baubels and she gave 10? I dont remember exactly but if you have another person, just stunlock it with the whip.

Azure Prower.8701:

It’s before the frog boss checkpoint. Across the crocodile and turtle in the swamp. There’s a little shop hidden around a large tree stump.

I have not seen that one so I’ll have to check it out, thanks!

I guess the problem is i’ve only seen the first and last zone 3 shops, which neither have it I think

Can anyone tell me where the wallet upgrade is? I know it has to exist but I repeatedly must be overlooking the Shop for it. Help? Please and thanks!

I already have the Slingshot, Bomb, Whip, Candle, and Shovel so I’m missing two things I assume?

I did…

Asura Engineer
Norn Ranger
Human Elementalist
Human Guardian
Charr Thief
Charr Warrior
Sylvari Mesmer
Sylvari Necromancer

Had to make sure to do one of each as a minimal haha

Spiuk.8421:

Or just switch to the guardian and use the skill 5 of your ult.

That’s another option to bring the 5th as a Guard and have him hit that ult, but then it’d cut back on the Toss Elixir R from 100% to 80% down’d hp/s

Do you mean Grenade Barrage just as kit refinement or as kit refinement trigger AND the toolbelt skill. Cause that would kill it as a toolbelt skill, essentially making it grenade skill 1 with a larger aoe.

I think with Fire Salsa and Runes of Mercy, the most health we can rally with is 55% of our health pool. Base rally health is 25%. Salsa increases it by 100% (25%) and Mercy revives allowed with 20% more (5%) so a rally at 55% means we would be able to sustain an additional hit if agony dmg is below that. Now, if that Mercy bonus stacks, then that would give everyone 70% health on rally (25% + 25% + 5%x4) which I doubt the mechanic operates in this way.

All this is based on what the description says, I didn’t run Mercy runes very long wo it could mean an additional 20% to the overall health pool. When I did run it I never paid attention to how it applied either haha

Also, with the bowl of fire salsa, we would need to use rune sets and any traits (if any exist for engi) that also improve that rally health pool.

I’m game for giving it a go! hahaha Also in two weeks I’ll also have 40AR (not using my laurels to get accessories but if someone has a guild that is doing Rush (that gives commends right?) I would love to join :p…seriously…i Would love more than 2 commends a week) and by this theory all 5 of us could survive as well. We might be able to do that though!

Actually 5x Elixir R in itself my be enough to sustain, Super Elixir would be icing to the cake I suppose. But that’s only a 6 second duration, which the first tick of R would have to tick right after the first tick in downed occurred.

Yeah it was your thread haha and Elixir S(hrink) toss is the Invis or Stability. That was my initial thought but the agony might out endure the Toss Elixir R so something like Medkits and Super Elixir with the goal of not even hitting downd and Elixir R toss being there as a safety net. Good to hear that the toss will be a guarantee reflect. Although I run S and R the majority of the time. And that would possibly continually down/rally the engineer which would possibly destroy the victim as well.

So I’m sitting in class (not paying attention obviously) and had an idea that triggered from another engineer thread weeks ago that mentioned the idea of a 5-engi fractal.

I don’t know how well it could be executed and i have not crunched the numbers but wonder if in theory, a team of 5 engineers could make maybe a 35+ AR engineer survive the agony of a 40 or even 50+ fractal.

If all 5 or 4 executed skills such as:
-Multiple bandage drops stacked
-Super Elixir
-Toss Elixir R
-Supply crate post agony start for more bandages and healing turrets
-Possibly traited bombs to heal spam

There might be enough bandages and small heals to keep one alive, if not at least survive into the downd state, which then the excess of turrets could possibly tank agro from the a maw’s laser. Granted these agony ticks hurt a ton and might not be possible at all. Or maybe for only frac 40+ with 40+ AR. But that would be determined by number crunching.

Any thoughts if this could provide enough heals to keep one engineer up? I’m a fractal 49 but rarely do I see another engineer in fotm.

You can, but remember that the general population isn’t up there so you would need a more specific group, let alone even the 40s can take a bit to get a group and only a few times have i seen 50+. Also, i am pretty sure most, if not all, methods to complete this are still not how anet intended the fight to be finished.

You could just find out how many gems it would take to convert to 1g (assuming you have some gems, currently 100 gems is about 1.51g) then just figure it out using basic math. Using your standard calculator.

I actually love the fractal gs and changed from wanting Twilight to the gs (pursuing Bolt instead). But it depends per weapon. Mace? Pretty dang cool for the fractal weapon. Daggers? Not so much.

You mean this?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/I-found-a-dragon-beneath-the-map/first#post1251682

You seriously could have just google’d “gw2 dragon straits of devastation underwater” and it shows up. I didn’t even know what I was looking for and found it…

Seeing all these ecto forums makes me wish I had actually kept track of when I went through about 12+ BLS Kits….

Not nerfed though, I’m still maintaining a roughly same salvage rate. Some nights I’ll pull out 10+ ectos from 5 rares, other nights only 1 or 2.

OP, and everyone really, please remember RNG is RNG (as tiring and ridiculous as it is to keep hearing that) and it’s easier to stick to a negative viewpoint (Only 5 ectos from 10 rares? NERF’D!) as opposed to positive (17 Ectos from 10 rares? Must have been a buff!) [Combine those two situations and you just pulled in 22 ectos from 20 rares]

Because of DST, it’s reasonable to assume at 5PM PST now. And no, they have to be part of the guild participating to my knowledge (multiple guilds can have the bounty active though and get credit for a single kill however).

Oh, and a Laurel system that rewards you for completing dailies. If you complete 5 dailies from the list, you get a Laurel (10 for Monthly completion) and these can be used to purchase Ascended gear as well, among other items.

Also, Guild Missions were very recently added, most guilds, if at all, can do Guild Bounties.

Nekrothaft.6390:

Well I’m trying but there’s a ridiculous amount of update notes… was hoping for a sum-up..
Also.. what’s ascended gear?

Yeah I know what you mean, essentially, a ton of nerfs and buffs. It’s hard to consolidate it all.

Fractals of the Mist is a new set of mini-dungeons essentially. You run 3 mini-dungeons and on even levels (Start Personal Level 1, do a set of fractals, advance to Personal Level 2) and on those even level fractals (2,4,6, etc) there’s an additional boss. You may or may not have been around for that but by asking what Ascended Gear is, I assume you weren’t.

Ascended gear is a new tier of gear slightly better than exotic (maybe 1-5% better? in stats tops?) I personally find it marginal, however, it can give you Agony Resistance (AR) which is used to mitigate Agony, which occurs in boss fights, best described as a condition, however it can’t be mitigated and isn’t truely a condition, in Fractals Level 10+ (Agony damage increases every 10 levels so you need more and more AR over time).

Geotherma.2395:

But keep in mind as far as I know green MF gear has the same stats as exotic MF gear. But that doesn’t mean the mobs will take it easier on you :P

^ Truth. That’s why I run Exo minimizing the stat difference (Masterwork vs Exotic has a BIT of a difference :p)

Jeahanne.5209:

Wanderbeard.3291:

Honest question here. Why do you use 4 pirates and 2 noble runes?

I know I use 5 pirates and one of something else that gives +MF because the last stat for Superior Rune of the Pirate only summons a bird, and does nothing for MF. It’s better to skip the 6th rune and replace it for something that ups MF instead of having an essentially wasted spot.

Yeah I meant 5 Pirate, 1 Noble whoops! I’ll go edit that haha But like Jeahanne said, I skip the 6th rune to sub in 1 Superior Noble for an additional 10% MF

Shimond.2478:

Keep in mind what people forget with Magic Find is it only improves the base chance of better stuff dropping. 300% magic find only means you have 4x whatever that base chance is (so if it’s 1% now it’s 4% – still tiny).

Some people actually think 20% magic find means a 1/5 chance of something (or something better) dropping.

You mean my 200% magic find doesn’t mean I get 3 rares instead of 1? jk haha

Like Shimond said, it essentially helps make a small chance, less small. I’ll typically see more blues/greens than whites in a full set.

And in map chat, if any elitist sees that question you can expect them to shoot it down. It’s a pretty mixed feeling topic at times.

DonFoe.9604:

this is my 3rd alt, my main is a ranger. i play that primarily in wvw, but my guild is a little short on necros. so, me being a good guildie, i made a necro and leveled it as fast as possible.

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oh, and that 98g included all exotic costs. not just materials.

Yeah I feel you, after a while it’s a pain to level (5 lvl 80s right now and one in the 20s, which only happened cause I was helping teach a newbie the ropes of the game so I ran with him)

Oh that makes more sense then. I also trimmed costs by having materials, once I burned through my collectibles it definitely started denting my wallet.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

My ranger typically has no MF whatsoever and it still finds rares on a regular basis.

I added 22% MF with a consumable and the whole duration all I got was junk, 1 rare, and copper and a few blues. No greens at all. This was during a Fractals run and I can tell you , same difficulty level without any MF would yield much better loot.

As previously stated, 22% is near nothing for MF. A single sample run means absolutely nothing.

Here’s something that has a slightly larger grounds:
When running MF gear (Exo Armor, 5x Pirates, 1x Noble, Omnom Bar/Peach Tart, maybe a few other points thrown in via Guild/Banners/etc) I saw a noticeable increase in Shards of Mist Essense (up to 3 per run, often at least 1) however, once I transitioned out of my MF set for higher fractals, my Shard collection count has noticeably dropped, occasionally 1 per run, only a couple times in over 20 runs have I acquired 2 shards in no MF.

Overall, when leveling from 10-26, I was pulling 2-3 Globs/Mist (Globs in 10-19, Shards 20+) per run on average while in MF Gear. After I cut the MF Gear, 0-1 on average.

That’s is an effect of MF I believe (from what I could tell, people were complaining about never seeing any of those mist drops while I was pulling in several so I believe it’s the MF).

Also to remember, MF is very difficult to statistically show as justified and much easier to say it’s not, such as you have shown. Personally, having played months with 100%+ MF, I’ve seen a positive effect of MF.

Edited – Changed 4x Pirate, 2x Noble to 5x Pirate, 1x Noble. Small mistake whoops haha

Jackums.3496:

How are people so sensitive to leveling via crafting? You’re not the one doing it. Is it so insulting or hard to believe that someone simply doesn’t want to go through all of that PvE content again? How about people that enjoy the endgame more than the process of getting there? It’s still a part of the game, so why is it any different from playing to enjoy the early levels? How about people that like the PvP content (sPvP and WvW)?

Agreed.

Personally, after my first alt, the level 10-50 range became hell for me since after 100% map completion, seeing all the hearts and areas again lost its allure, on top of not having a full spectrum of skills and traits.

Personally, I find it a worthwhile investment. It’s an upfront investment for a longterm payoff. Keep in mind it’s a very difficult statistic to justify and there is a prejudice against MF in groups.

In short, MF pays off long run, you won’t necessarily see short term gains. I acquired my two sets for my Engi and Mes long ago before the prices spiked, and its an exotic set to minimize how much I hurt my stats. Also, I find if you can play skillfully, it works fine. If you plan to use it for more than just farming dynamics, get exotic.

If it helps you justify it any more, Knight’s armor is main stat Toughness, alt stats Power/Prec. Explorer’s armor is main stat Magic Find, alt stats Power/Prec. So literally it’s a trade of Toughness for MF and if you can play to where you don’t need the toughness, it’s essentially equal to Knight’s. If you’re going to pick MF Runes, pick a set that will be most beneficial to your play as well.

I often run MF because with my build I can make up for the tradeoff for toughness, however, for more difficult content you won’t see me in MF (Ex: Frac 40+ you won’t even see me with a MF food buff)

DonFoe.9604:

now, ready for the price? 98g- which isnt really that bad if you think about it. when the game first came out, it seemed impossible. but now that its 6months in, 100g really isnt kitten compared to everything else.

well, just thought i would share with you how easy it can be to lvl a toon to 80.

Jeeze! That’s a ton still…when I powerlevel’d my alt’s via crafting it didn’t cost nearly that much, and more often I did just base level 10 to 50-60 and the rest I did dynamic chains so I could get a better feel for the class than going in fresh at 80.