Guild Wars 2

Not on the phantasm, but on the projectile. The skill was changed recently and it now throws a projectile + cast a phantasm.

If you have a legendary greatsword, the projectile thrown by Phantasmal Berserker shows the standard model, instead of the GS. I’d love if this could be updated to look like the Warrior boomerang GS skill.

I’m out of words… I’d love to know what was the reason for that particular number of apples, or what purpose it serves.

Hi there, quick question on the Hungry Hal achievement for Raising Flames episode, do I really have to get the apples 1 by 1, 50 times? Am I missing something here?

I was lucky and got into a new instance of the map. Right after the event to clean up the Temple of Balthazar finished, the event to escort the pact to the Antheneum started and I’ve been able to get the item I was missing.

If only I could connect at patch time apparently this event has been bugged for at least a year. It seems it runs once, and never restarts; or it doesn’t run at all.

Thanks for your help anyway

It may be bugged, apparently there are more events bugged in this instance of the map.

Can somebody help me to find an uncontested Antheneum in Straits of Devastation (EU)?. I can’t find the event that leads there, I know I did in the past, but since I have this collection I can’t find it any more.

Only events that trigger there are the Pact Galleon and Lyssa’s priest, which I did multiple times, but they just keep repeating themselves.

Thanks a lot guys, I’ve been able to get the Shatterer done by switching servers right after completing the pre-event and finally got encased in the crystal in a not-so-empty server.

I have not been so lucky with the Corals, so I guess I still have some grind to do.

Now I see the light at the end of the tunnel :p

Thanks again!

Hi guys, I need help with two items, the Vials of Manganese Dioxide and the Shatterer.

I’ve been farming Corals for days but I only have 1 Vial, am I missing something here? Is there any Coral farm out there? I tried from Cursed Shore to Maelstrom but I already got bored of this.

Regarding the Shatterer, has there been any comment made about fixing this “get encased in crystal” thing? I remember that there was an achievement for breaking those crystals and freeing the people inside, but he does not use this attack anymore.

I’ve invested a lot in this collection and it is getting super frustrating.

Thanks!

Can somebody brief me in what’s going on with Fractal rewards? It looks like the wiki has not been updated yet. I did levels 56,57 and 58 today, and got nothing, not even a pristine fractal relic or un-infused ring. In case it matters, personal level reward was 50, 51 and 52 for each fractal.

Hi, I heard that to get to the canopy in Verdant Brinks you need to get a helicopter? When do they appear and where?

I also want to quickly share my thoughts, at least on the stuff I’ve been able to test.

The good stuff

1. The map looks and feels really nice. Didn’t make any screenshots yet, but I know when the expansion is live my Print Screen button will burn down.
2. Gliding is so kitten awesome!
3. The Reaper, was my favorite elite specialization so far. Not sure if it can find a place in the dungeon groups, but it was fun as hell.
4. Chronomancer was also nice, the wells seem to be pretty good and the new shatter is awesome.
5. My toons speaking, it really helps to get immersed in the story.
6. Rytlock, kitten Rytlock. Nuf said.

The I don’t know how to feel about it stuff

1. Masteries… I could only unlock the first tier (or is it track?) of Gliding. Dungeons didn’t progress the exp bar, and since there were no events in Verdant Brinks I could barely progress it. I couldn’t really get a glimpse of how fast is to progress them for non-hardcore people.
2. The Revenant feels a little bit like a wannabe Thief, instead that he is not going invisible but traveling through the mists. Also, the mace+axe combo feels so superior to any other weapon sets that the rest of the weapons feel a bit odd. Also, Shiro legend was totally not what I expected, and the healing ability on Shiro’s was pretty week in my opinion, I always had to switch out to have a proper heal.
3. The Dragonhunter, love the name… but it felt reaaaaaally weak. I was expecting something totally overpowered, but just found support traits, and the longbow doesn’t really fit with the Guardian.

The bad stuff

1. Outposts, I don’t really understand them. I see an icon in the map, but then there is nothing when you get there.
2. The Tempest was not good at all for me. Tried the overloads, and deleted it. Was thinking about PvP when I tried this one, and honestly, if you active an overload, you are pretty much dead meat. Maybe it is because the Ele is already in a very good position, but I don’t think the Tempest is providing anything to the Ele right now. The Warhorn skills are all melee oriented, but all of them looks worst than off-hand dagger or focus skills.
3. The Mobs in the open world, they look great for group content, but when the people starts rotating through maps with better rewards, what will happen when only 1 or 2 people are doing the events in older maps?

I like this idea, +1ed… I’m so so tired of fractals and aetherpath…

Thanks guys, couldn’t find this information in the FAQ

The copy of the core game I get with the pre-order, will be linked to my email or can I give it to somebody else?

Sorry, I’ve been a bit late to the party and there are too many posts now… quick question, has this been confirmed by ANet? How is it that some unknown source has this information before anybody else?

I got Drawn (600 gold at the time) from the mystic forge, and entropy from a champion bag from HotW (90 gold). Also one abyss and one celestial dye that I kept to myself.

Also some runes and sigils worth up to 8 gold each.

Also got Sam and Eternal Ice before the collections, so they were not really worth much and soulbinded them

Hi, found this bug in game, it is very easy to reproduce:

With Harmonious Mantras you get 3 charges for every Mantra. If you get downed, any Mantra that was at 3 charges loses 1 charge, so if you rally you will have them at 2 charges.

This only happens with mantras at 3 charges. If they were at 2 or 1 charge when you get downed, they will remain the same when you rally.

I have a better idea, what if there was a way to acquire fractal weapons? :p

Kyle.9523:

while I soloq into team arena and play with people that come expecting to play as a team.

Agree with you on the solo and team arenas, but team arenas should be for teams.

Solo arena = mandatory no party
Team arena = mandatory party of 5

Both queues as ranked, and then remove the unranked queue. I don’t really see the point in having two queues that are basically the same, except for the fact that guilds go to unranked to farm rank in skyhammer/courtyard.

Hi there, I’ve started using the normal carapace heavy armor and noticed this low quality texture in the legs piece;low quality compared with the rest of the armor.

I just want to mention a few things that I think have been great additions to the game.

The quest for Mawdrey II. I finished this a few days ago and overall I think it was genuinely fun to go through all those mini tasks and recipes. Except for those elusive foxfires, it was nice to find each part, and then all the ingredients for the recipe (but I wouldn’t mind if there were no daily cap crafting). It got reminiscences from the Mad Memories quest, and from the Mini Moa from GW1. I’d love to see more like this, maybe with better rewards at the end, because I didn’t really have much use for the back piece.

Dry Top and Silverwastes. The vertical movement of Dry Top and the new mechanics in both maps have been really nice. I specially love the way Silverwastes forces us to split, and how the events cannot be ruined by just 1 person (Marionette, I’m looking at you). Also with the add of the Labyrinth we got a really nice change of pace between the killing rampage and this pacman like scenario. The rewards in the Silverwastes are pretty awesome, I think I got two exotics in the last two weeks and lots of rares, really nice.

Tangled Paths Achievements. I love that the achievements can be completed in just one run of each mini-story. Some of the previous chapters really got in my nerves, specially repeating the “Party Politics” one for the Nth time. Shame on me, but I decided to use a guide to complete the Party Politics achievements , first time I don’t play something by myself.

Luminescent armor acquisition. I think it is very well balanced between the limit of normal playing vs farming. While I don’t particularly like the design of the new armor, I’m still unlocking it just for the fun of doing it.

The entire Season Two. I’m always looking forward to the next chapter, and to see how the story unveils. I don’t want to spoil the last chapter, but I will say that I was all like “No way, they won’t dare…”, but yeah, you dared!

So, does somebody has something to add here? Anything that you feel has been a great accomplishment from ANet?

Why do you pay 2 gold to an NPC? :p

To open the Tarnished chest, you have to kill the two veterans there and disable the traps. The guy who wanted to get your 2 gold will the appear next to the machine to disable the traps, if you kill him, you get the Tarnished key. (projectile reflection is very useful, since the boss is a thief with dual pistols, and Unloads a lot)

I tried disabling the traps without killing the veterans but it didn’t trigger the boss this way.

The reward form the chest is a rare weapon with a Bandit skin.

Thanks guys, I think I will go for the Dungeoneer title. I was aiming to get all the dungeon skins even before the wardrobe update, so it looks like a good objective.

For the others, I don’t really see the point ^^ I don’t have the money to get any of them anyway…

I got the Raiment’s of the Lich outfit, so my next obvious buy will be the wings to match the outfit from GW1

Recently I completed my first collection, Tricks and Treats, and got a mini pet. I’ve been looking at some of the default collections that I have pending but I think that the effort required to complete them is way higher than the value of the reward that I get back. So my question is if there are any hidden collections worth completing.

I’m all in for rewards based on skill.

RNG should be a supporting method for other tools, call it tokens, quests, raids, whatever.

I have to admit that the devs made a great job with the TP, so if you are not lucky enough, you can still buy the stuff you want… however, only the luckiests ones have the money to compete in the TP-war, and the unlucky ones will still be poor.

Also, in an RNG system like the one we have it is very difficult to satisfy the needs of the people playing, take a look at the “graph” below:

Miserably Unlucky——Just Unlucky——Majority of People——Lucker——Such Precursor, Many Golde, w0w

With this distribution, even people standing in the “Lucker” part of the bar will feel miserable when comparing themselves with the ones in the right extreme of the “graph”. And who do you think are the most vocal ones? Well, I don’t know, but probably the ones that have something to brag about…

So yeah, I’m not happy with the rewards in the game, mainly because of the RNG mechanics. I do have Eternity, so I’m served in that part of the game, but I get shivers when I think about the kitten precursors… Fractal skins? Zero… Tequatl? Nada… Wurm? Cannot even join an organized event… Prestige items from Living Story/Holiday Festivals? Nope

But I do have my Mini Liadri and Mini Clockheart I know every nook and cranny of every dungeon and fractal map, legit dungeon master here! Killed Lupicus with random builds (and got 1 green and 1 blue)

I’m back to my prayers to the FSM… cya…

This thread is awesome. Thanks John!

So far I thought of Glob of Ectoplasm, Mystic Coin and Karka Shell, but they cannot be put together in they Mystic Toilet. >.<

This is a very nice idea, I would love to participate.

Your location: Spain
Time and date of incident: Right now, 19:50 CEST
Game World: Baruch’s Bay
Brief description of what you’re seeing: Lag, skills do not activate, rubberbanding, teleport skills don’t work, people running against walls. Other online services work flawlessly.

Hi, as the title says. In Twilight Arbor, the spider boss Malrona has a projectile attack that used to be blocked by reflection skills like Wall of Reflection or Feedback. We did this path today, and neither WoR or Feedback were working. All her projectiles passed through them.

Staff is my favorite one, got one for my guardian on the TP (so expensive… ) . The bows are great. The sword and GS are meh…

Not only phantasms. The summoned Thieves Guild deal 0 damage as well. We found out in a party with 2 mesmers and 1 thief

So I guess summoned creatures in general deal 0 damage.

+1 thank you so much. I love the projectile effect with Twilight and Sunrise together, it is so kitten awesome!!!

If I transmute a legendary skin into an exotic weapon, do the trail effects and footsteps are shown in the new weapon?

It was a long time since I played a fractal and today a guildie asked to do a level 45 fractal so I decided to help. Since the fractal update I only played 6 times, so my personal reward level is only 36, and I’ve only seen a few of the mistlock instabilities.

The level 45 instability is about a frost area that deals a small amount of damage and applies chill.

We got the dredge fractal, and we couldn’t make it through the locked cage, because this instability was interrupting the one on the door mechanism all the time. We had to quit.

Also, in the past I used to stay in one of the pressure plates trying to stay alive, since I usually play Guardian and the Wall of Reflection helped a lot, but it looks like they do not shoot projectiles anymore, so we had a really hard time with this.

So what’s the general strategy with this? Since dredge cannot be blinded, reflections don’t work anymore, and stability has a limited duration? We couldn’t figure out how to avoid the instability and how to stay alive long enough.

In the recent post about runes balance I read something that got my attention:

“One of our main considerations with this balance pass was encouraging players to use one whole rune set, rather than mixing and matching one or two from several different sets.”

This mixing and matching thing… how many people really do this? In my guild everybody does this mixing and matching, but not with the purpose of creating a super perfect build. It’s because runes are very difficult to get and expensive as hell.

In my opinion, to encourage players to use one whole rune set, I would made said rune set easier to find.

Guardian, Thief and Mesmer are my main. Use them for almost everything except fractals (got burned) and spvp (don’t like).

My other six 80’s are occasionally used for finishing dailies if there is something simple, like using karma or gathering. I quit playing with them and buying new slots since I have not geared them with exotic items yet, and I’m trying to dress my three main characters with ascended.

I agree with the OP. Current skins are too expensive for one time usage. Actually I’m not buying more skins because I already have skins in my characters and don’t want to delete them. If they were of infinite use I would have bought all of them… In Spain with 10€ I can have breakfast in the bar for 6 days, or have lunch three times in a cheap place. I don’t have problems with money, but by my standards skins are way too expensive.

Other ways to get ascended items, and gw1 pvp and gvg.

I recently cashed out my bank to craft eternity. So I have 1 eternity, a bunch of materials for jewellery that I kept, and around 200€ in gems spent in convenience stuff, costumes, harvesting tools… in cash I still owe 80 gold from the time I crafted twilight, and 700 gold from when I crafted sunrise (my friends are awesome and they lend me lots of t6 materials), so I’m in negative numbers.

I also have 9 level 80 characters, 3 off them are full exotic with ascended jewellery.

Also armorsmith levelled to 471, and the others levelled to 400.

Nothing invested in the TP right now.

My opinion is that they are too expensive for a one use item. If they could be used unlimited times, for the same price, I would have bought all of them.

I also miss new items in-game. Specially an update to the token system.

No attunement and no loot here

Maybe because it took too long? The patch notes said that they have to be killed simultaneously… somebody can confirm?

Same here, except we only got the green circle, red and blue MIA.

Also, we didn’t get loot I killed red and blue and got nothing… possible bug?

Hi, there is a large number of users in Spain that have problems connecting/playing the game. All of us have something in common, our ISP is Ono, a Spanish company.

I believe that the problem may be with Ono’s network, but I think it may worth to investigate on your side as well.

These are the symptoms that we have:

• Most of the times we cannot login. We get errors 42:1000 or 7:1000.
• If we can log in, we have extreme lag, and eventually we get kicked out.
• Pinging the GW2 servers in Germany works just fine, and the response time is normal, no sign of packet loss.
• Using the command line parameter “-clientport 80” to start the game does not show any difference.

Thanks for looking at this.

I’m interested in this as well. I also thought about selling them, and I think the price may be half of the gift of fortune, maybe cheaper.

I haven’t done any research on this, and I don’t know of anybody willing to do this.

The problem here would be for the buyer, I mean, if I was the buyer, why should I trust you?