Guild Wars 2

Does someone know the name of the song played at 4.20min+ on the Rock the Nightmare contest guitar video?

Maclaine Diemer plays it, and I just can’t stop earing it.

Spear skills are awesome #_#

My Guardian can use a spear underwater, why can’t he use it out of it?

Wouldn’t it be awesome if we were able to use some underwater weapons out of water?

Anet please consider!

1v1 Duels
2v2/3v3 Arenas

We need them.

I’m tired of asking for that, I show up here from time to time and ask for them.

The current PvP format that is implement isn’t working.

You know it is failing, and failing HARD, when you watch a “semi-pro” cup, and there are only 200 people watching xD

Just watching blizzcom, and they had 41k watching they’re 3v3 Arenas. And you know? I actually enjoy watching that, unlike the boring GW2 sPvP.

I’m just sad, cause I love the game, and it had potential, but it will to late allready when Anet open they’re eyes.

I give it a couple more months until sPvP dies for good.

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

F2P Games these days are a lot better than this one here. I doubt this one has a future, whith the high concurrence out there . . .

sPvP is empty. no one plays it anymore.

until we get Duels and Arenas, there wont be much to do in this game.

people play PvP to kill eachother and to test they’re skills, not to just sit on a spot and watch the points go.

I don’t know about you guys, but for me and my friends what GW2 really needs are Duels outsider sPvP.

I understand that you don’t want to see the main cities full of people bashing eachother, and neather do I.
I also think that WvW isn’t the right place to do it, because it doesn’t go with the game type.

My idea was to use the Queen Gauntlet Arena for 1v1 and 2v2 Duels.
The Arenas are allready done, we just need an NPC to talk to, which can easily be programed and patched next week.

I know the game isn’t balanced for Duels, but still it would be incredible fun to fight our friends with our PvE Armor and Builds.

This is the feature that in our (my friends and mine) opinion is missing from GW2.

TLDR: use Queen Gauntlet for 1v1 and 2v2 Duels. Make GW2 players happy =)

The shield that spawns while using the Guardian sword skill 3 does not match the direction of your character.

This bug has been posted allready, and after a couple of weeks it still hasn’t been fixed.

I also have this. Its really anoying.

I love you guys ^~

Thank you =D

I would like to know, if anyone else is having the same problem?

Maybe a Red post just confirming.

My Guild also can’t hear the skill sound, so this might be an importante bug.

Meteor Shower no longer makes sound.

The skill is total muted during the animation.

I tried everything. Guild Mates have the same problem.

3vs3 Arenas
1vs1 Duels

5v5 and 8v8 is just a kittening mess.

Untill we get Arenas or Duels me and my friends are not touching PvP.

any EU temple open?

Tooltip says 70 toughness instead of 150.

Stinson.5972:

I agree with OP, but would go one further. I think they should do away with gold to gems. Don’t grab the pitchforks.

From Anet’s perspective, if they add content into the game, they have to price it knowing that people can obtain it by running CoF a ton and converting the gold to gems. Therefore, they

1. Have to set the price of items very high to make doing that inconvenient and
2. Make much of the content temporary so that people need gold on hand to convert in gems, rather than have months to grind for the thing they want and
3. Introduce RNG into every way of obtaining items to obscure the very high price. (Besides being annoying, that’s all RNG really is – it’s a way to make someone spend $1 one hundred times and make the thing feel cheaper, rather than charge $100 outright.)

What I mean is that if Anet knew when they put items in the gemstore that people would pay CASH for those items, not grind gold and convert it to gems, they could put weapon skins in the store and expect to do well from it.

As is, however, the existence of people with huge gold stores who play the game (read, run CoF) all the time but therefore don’t need to buy gems is built into the price of every item. This is why the sclerite skins were basically only obtainable by burning piles of money at the RNG altar. That makes the prices for regular players, who wouldn’t mind buying a skin for say two or three dollars, much higher than they would otherwise be.

There should be a wall between what can be purchased with money and what can be purchased with gold. Let those two economies exist separately, and most people will be better off.

This is what I’m talking about.

Anet puts items on the Gem Store expecting to get money, but people just do CoF and convert Gold.

And yes, RNG is just a way of making you spend 100euros, by making you buy 100x 1euro boxes.

Not to talk that some people get the skins from the 1st or 2nd skin, making Anet lose money.

If Anet sells the skin for the equivalent price of 100boxes, they would get 100% the RNG money, yet making us happier and more confident.

Zacchary.6183:

Anet gets their money but loses customer loyalty and risks hurting themselves through word-of-mouth advertising.

Agreed.

Anet image and Gem store is broken because of the RNG boxes.

People spending hundreds of Euros, and opening 2000+ normal boxes / 100rich and getting nothing.

Personally I had to spend 40euros and 300g just to get a single ticket. Opened 105rich coffers and nothing.

Vol.5241:

The best way to fix this is to operate on a system that rewards failures so that if you are unlucky enough to fail on rolls, you get rewarded in the end.

Here is how the system works. Typically, you get a ticket from the chest that you can exchange for a skin. Let’s say 1 Fused ticket can be exchanged for 1 skin.

Well let’s say that you open a chest and you don’t get a ticket. Instead, you are given a token. You continue to open several more chests, and all of them failed, but you still get tokens. For each fail, you get 1 token.

Now Arenanet can set a predetermined number of tokens that you can exchange for a ticket.

We can set that at 30 – meaning, if you fail at RNG enough that you have failed 30 times, you should have 30 tokens and you shall be able to exchange those 30 tokens for 1 ticket.

The great thing about this is that this can even entice players to spend even more on the shop. For example, let’s say that I open 15 chests. 14 of those failed, so I have 14 tokens, but the 15th one gave me a ticket to exchange. Hurray!

But now I have 14 tokens left, so it’d be a waste to just have them lying around. I should try and open 16 more tokens so that I could buy another skin that I wouldn’t have went for otherwise!

I like this.

They used something similar on the Halloween.

I would also like to hear what ArenaNet thinks of this idea as well.

munkiman.3068:

How about just letting us buy the skins for gems? What good would having yet another currency do but maybe add more confusion? Just get rid of them or let us buy em outright.

The problem is:

If they put the skins for Normal Gems, people will just convert gold and buy them, instead of gambling on RNG.

This would make ArenaNet lose way to much money.

If you put them for Red Gems people would be forced to buy them for Cash.
They would still be able to buy the skins from Gold or Normal Gems, but would be 2x more expensive.

Like 4000 normal gems, 2000 Red gems.

This makes ArenaNet more profitable, while making us more happy.

You can still always play on RNG.

By playing on RNG you could have the skins for less money, making it more attractive.

jheryn.8390:

Arcanis.2437:

I hate RNG, but unlike people like you, I give suggestions and try to fix the problem.
I don’t want to take RNG out of the game, I just want to give people other “options”.

First of all, where in my post did I say that I hated RNG? I don’t hate it at all. I was defending it. I think it is perfectly fine. Maybe you need to read my post again.

I also don’t remember saying there was a problem other than the complaints people make about RNG. I think RNG is great. I don’t want everyone to have everything I do. I also don’t want to have everything everyone else does. It makes the game interesting to me. “People like me” don’t have a problem with RNG. You do. There is no problem to be fixed in my opinion. “People like you” are the ones thinking that there is a problem.

You said above you hate RNG and then go on to say you don’t want it out of the game. What’s up with that?

Next time you want to call me out on a post, maybe you should read it better and understand what I was saying.

This post isn’t about you or your me complex.

This is about opinions and solution from people that want options other than RNG.

I want to read what people think about my opinion and if they think that should be options other than RNG.

I would also love to read what ArenaNet think about my idea, and about the option to have skins from ways other than RNG.

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

RNG is fine. GW1 had it too and it worked out pretty well. Sometimes it can be frustrating though. I can remember of a friend which got mini-ghostly and crystal-blade out of the HoH-Chest in about 30 runs.
Buying just the skins you want is . . . boring. If you want spend gold / money on something, everybody needs to have the same chance.

That’s why I don’t want RNG out of the game.

You can buy a “cheap” RNG Chest and try to get the item, or you can buy the item from the shop for a “moderately high” amount of cash.

The trick is:

You have to spend an average of 100g to get the item from RNG.
You can buy the item for 100g from Gem Store.

SO you can buy RNG chest, and try to be lucky. If you’re lucky you would save money.

If you think you’re lucky then gamble 50g on chests and try to get lucky.
If you think you’re unlucky or you’re tired of RNG then just buy it from Gem Store.

Either way, ArenaNet would increase the profit and players would be happy.

jheryn.8390:

Another “I hate RNG post?” Really? I do not understand why there is so much complaint about RNG. One of the initials is for the word “random.” Random never means guaranteed.

Also people complain about those that can constantly grind and get stuff or those with money able to buy gems where others cannot. This also doesn’t mean they will get anything either. I know two guys that this applies to.

One is a friend who is retired and plays all day grinding out gold, mats, and drops. He wanted one of molten tickets so bad he could taste it, and with all the drops and gold converted to gems to buy keys, he still didn’t get one ticket.

Another friend of mine has money to burn and bought a huge amount of the rich coffers. Over $250 RL money to get them and didn’t get one Jade Weapon ticket.

Having money and time also does not guaranty that you will get some of those rare things. Only dumb luck will get you these drops. And again, random is the key word. Not one person playing the game is guaranteed anything. That is the nature of the game.

Also it is Anet’s game and they can place rarity at whatever levels they want. It is up to all of us to decide how hard (or not) or how much money (if any) we want to fork over for better chances at these RNG items. Personally, if I get them “Great!” if not, “So what?” Either way I know there are other skins down the road that will come up and eventually I’ll get one.

I hate RNG, but unlike people like you, I give suggestions and try to fix the problem.
I don’t want to take RNG out of the game, I just want to give people other “options”.

As for the other posts:

With the model I present people would be able to get the Skins from Gold or From Real life cash. Both from a guaranteed ticket or from RNG.

If you want to grind the Skins you could simply farm 100gold. But if you work and don’t have time for time for that, just spend 20-25euros and its done.

You could still convert Gems->Gold and Gold-> but the Red Gems would only be available via Cash, and could only be spent on Gem Store Items.

The difference is that Red Gems would have 50% discount, BUT forcing people to buy them, instead of converting Gold, making ArenaNet profit increase.

Edit: Also making players happy because they would have another way to get items instead of RNG.

You can still play RNG if you think you’re lucky, but like me, after opening 3500 chest and nothing, I would be happy to buy a couple of those for Real life cash.

LHound.8964:

Double post:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/How-to-fix-RNG-and-increase-ArenaNet-income/first#post2206213

/close

Double exposure.

I love when people try to do the mods job.

Duo to this surge of RNG boxes, people have become disappointed with the game, and both ArenaNet and BLTC image was ruined.

I have a simple solution to fix this problem. Both players and ArenaNet would benefit from this solution.

I propose the introduction of Red/VIP Gems. And before the rage starts I’ll explain it.

- Normal Gems can be converted to Gold, and Gold can be converted to Gems.
– Red/VIP would not be allowed to convert to Gold, nor Gold to Red/VIP Gems.

Red/VIP Gems could only be used to buy Skins and special items, but for half the price.

You could still convert Gold to Normal Gems and buy RNG Boxes, or buy Normal Gems and convert them to Gold.

Example:

Jade Weapon Ticket – 4000 Normal Gems / 2000 Red/VIP Gems.

You can convert 100g~ to Normal gems (which is the average amount of money you have to spend on RNG to get a ticket) and buy the Ticket if you hate RNG, or you can buy 2000 VIP Gems for 20 bucks and buy it.

You could still play on RNG if you like gamble.

With this solution, ArenaNet would increase their income, players would be happier and there would be another Gold Sink in the game.

I can’t see a reason not to implement this solution.

Post what you think. Maybe if you like it we can draw some attention.

EDIT: I won’t spend money on RNG because I know it sucks, but if ArenaNet had this solution I would easily spend 200euros and buy all the skins. I know you guys would do the same.

ArenaNet, please open your eyes.

Duo to this surge of RNG boxes, people have become disappointed with the game, and both ArenaNet and BLTC image was ruined.

I have a simple solution to fix this problem. Both players and ArenaNet would benefit from this solution.

I propose the introduction of Red/VIP Gems. And before the rage starts I’ll explain it.

- Normal Gems can be converted to Gold, and Gold can be converted to Gems.
- Red/VIP would not be allowed to convert to Gold, nor Gold to Red/VIP Gems.

Red/VIP Gems could only be used to buy Skins and special items, but for half the price.

You could still convert Gold to Normal Gems and buy RNG Boxes, or buy Normal Gems and convert them to Gold.

Example:

Jade Weapon Ticket – 4000 Normal Gems / 2000 Red/VIP Gems.

You can convert 100g~ to Normal gems (which is the average amount of money you have to spend on RNG to get a ticket) and buy the Ticket if you hate RNG, or you can buy 2000 VIP Gems for 20 bucks and buy it.

You could still play on RNG if you like gamble.

With this solution, ArenaNet would increase their income, players would be happier and there would be another Gold Sink in the game.

I can’t see a reason not to implement this solution.

Post what you think. Maybe if you like it we can draw some attention.

EDIT: I won’t spend money on RNG because I know it sucks, but if ArenaNet had this solution I would easily spend 200euros and buy all the skins. I know you guys would do the same.

ArenaNet, please open your eyes.

bought 150 RICH dragon coffers.

got 0 tickets.

kitten you, srsly, just kitten you.

Just went through the patch notes and found nothing about the so much talked Dragon Bash Armors sets.

Both review sites and Gw2 Guru said something about them.

So are they coming? When? Maybe not coming at all?

Are they real to start with?

Hi there!

A friend of mine got his Account hacked.

They changed his email and now he cant log in.

He made a support account and sent a ticket but the support team told him to “change the password” on his account.

The problem is, the hackers changed his email and that is impossible.

Just came here to seek some help, since the support team seams unable to understand the problem.

I can give you (Anet staff) my friends account email, prior to the hackers change.

I would thank any help.

lejean.9615:

Gift of light is for spectral weapons…. Infinite Light would use DIFFERENT gift. Maybe gift of metal, music, entertaiment?

I know that, but theres nothing that says that Gift of Light cnt be used on that weapon also. Just try Gift of Light with Ori Sword blade.

Gift of fortune seems just to expensive.

Striefer.5130:

We should get the same group of genius farmers now to discover how to obtain the Infinite Blade

Eldrish Scroll + Gift of Light + Coins + Ori Sword blade ?
(sword not GS)

EDIT: eather Gift of Light, Lightning or Energy. My money is one of these 3!

I can’t do it, i just heard it could be done or something.

Well, thanks anyway.

Hi there guys.

I need you guys to help me with this question:

If i transmute my Soulbound item to a lvl1 white item, and then again to a lvl1 white item can i send it to a friend of mine via Mail?

Ty for the attention

Total price is allmost 200g.

I wasted so much money trying to find the recipe that i cant craft it now.

Its funny that one of the guys that tryed the hardest to find the recipe will be one of the last to have it, GG.

Im 30g short, i guess ill just farm the crap out of me.

Gratz on the weapon, and ty to everyone who helped with the recipe!

This is pretty simple:

Ask someone thats going for a Legendary weapon to see if Eldrish Scroll fits with Gift of History / Light / Energy.

Its one of those 3 for sure.
Eldrish Scroll + Gift + Ori comp + Coins.

Velladin.2578:

Okay, I was able to get my hands on a scroll and ill soon have a gift of ascalon.
Does anyone know if gift of history combines? I don’t want to waste 10g

To craft Gift of History you need like 120gold in mats.
Its 100x Onyx Lodestones, wich are selling for 1gold each.

EDIT: I lost my hope here. I wasted hundreds of Gold and hundreds of hours trying to find this recipe, and there are some guys who know the recipe and are not telling. If at least they wanted to sell the item to make money i would understand, but they are not even selling them!!
Srsly, this comunity…..

Velladin.2578:

Glacial doesn’t make much sense. The weapon is ghostly not icy.

Ilusion type weapons, AKA Mesmer weapons use Ectoplasm.

They have nothing to do with ectoplasm, they are Ilusions.

Anet just used Ectos in the recipe couse they are purple xDDDDD

Same goes with most of the Named Exotic recipes.

EDIT: I think someone tryed mixing Glacial stuff with the Eldrish Scroll and it dosent fit. Im NOT sure about it.

Darx.9842:

Arcanis.2437:

Scroll does no go with Ascalonian Tears , or the Gift of Ascalon.

It might go with a Gift that uses Gift of Ascalon in it.

So it would be: Eldrish Scroll + Gift + Component + X

X can be Mystic Coins, Lodestones, Cores or even T6 Dust.

Gift i would say it can be Gift of History, or Gift of Energy.
Both use Cystalline Dust on them. And History use Gift of Ascalon.

I fell we are so close to finding the recipe.

We just need to ask people who allready have the Gifts to see if they fit with the Scroll.

I spent so much money on this that i can’t craft Foefire if we find the recipe xD

Why wouldn’t you suspect Gift of Light as well? It has gift of ascalon as an ingrediant, it is a Gift for the legendary greatsword, it includes charged lodestones which I would say are the closest lodestone to foefire, and Gift of “Light”.. Foefire was a burst of light right? Also, light is very sononomous with Guardian/paladin type classes.

A couple of posts ago I also said that.
Im just trying to reduce the possibilitys so people can know where to start.

But yes, Gift of Light is also a possibility.

About the Lodestones, i dunno if Foefire has more to do with “Charged” or “Glacial”. They are both blue and both have little to do with the “Foefire” xD

Scroll does no go with Ascalonian Tears , or the Gift of Ascalon.

It might go with a Gift that uses Gift of Ascalon in it.

So it would be: Eldrish Scroll + Gift + Component + X

X can be Mystic Coins, Lodestones, Cores or even T6 Dust.

Gift i would say it can be Gift of History, or Gift of Energy.
Both use Cystalline Dust on them. And History use Gift of Ascalon.

I fell we are so close to finding the recipe.

We just need to ask people who allready have the Gifts to see if they fit with the Scroll.

I spent so much money on this that i can’t craft Foefire if we find the recipe xD

Neather the Ghastly Weapon, Glacial Core or Gift os Ascalon fit in with Eldrish Scroll.

Need to confirm if Scroll fits with Gift of History, and then we find the 3rd and 4th item.

Velladin.2578:

Does the ghastly great sword mix with anything?
Maybe gift of ascalon, greatsword, coins scroll?

I just said on the post above. I think the Ascalonians weapons do not fit.
Someone sad that a couple of posts ago.

EDIT: I just got PMed in game, aparently the Ascalonians weapon DO get in the Forge.
Yet we dont know if they fit with the Scroll.

Maybe, but what weapon would that be?

I think Ascalonians dont fit.

munkiman.3068:

Would it be wrong to assume that this has an actual base weapon (like the glacial blade) instead of crafted component base pieces? I say this since some of them actually do have recipes not found yet….

The weapon is Blue, yet it has nothing to do with Glacial.

The weapon is made from “Foefire”, its a kinda of magical blue fire.

Worst case it would combine with Ascalonian weapons, not Glacial =/

But i don’t know, maybe Anet recipe is just to combine every blue mat on the market >_>
Untill someone finds the recipe we’re open to sugestions!

Lucubration.8361:

Someone probably trying to drive up the price of Glacial Cores on speculation. Or just trolling in general.

I hade hope for just a minute =/

Someone reported the recipe on Reddit:

1 Eldrish Scroll + 100 Base Comp + Gift of History + 100 Glacial Core.

Yet he didnt post a picture!

You can get the hammer, or any conjured elemental weapon.

You can also get any spirit weapon from the Guardian weapons.

This is a Named Exotic. Its expensive by nature.

Are you expecting to craft this for 5gold? i would say x10 that.

Gifts should be tryed 1st, like Gift of History, then Energy and finaly eather Light/Dark.
All of them use Gift os Ascalon, and Gift of Energy uses 250x of each Dust (wich drops from ghosts).

These Gifts are the most likely ones to fit with the Eldrish Scroll.

Its a longshot =/

If indeed it uses a Gift, it would be the History one, but we are not sure =S

I would try it but im out of skill points, need to farm 30 more lvls.

Trollface.9186:

I’m thinking to craft the Gift of History, but if it won’t match with anything at the forge I think I’ll be done with GW2.

Do not do it mate.

Ask arround on map chat, ask your friends, your guild mates.

Im sure someone in your server has Gift of History, ask them to see if it fits with the Scroll.

Like i said before, my guts tells me its Gift of History.

Gift of Energy seems good to couse it uses 250x each of the top 4 dusts. Dusts drop from Ghosts. So you see…..

Regarding the Gift of Light, its also a possibility, but it seems more likely to be used on the Conjured Elemental Hammer =S

We just need people that allready have those Gifts to see if they fit with the Eldrish Scroll.

Ask arround your friends and guildmates!

Prophet.6954:

What if it’s not on the other side of the wall? What if it’s moved as the ghost says in your description? Remember, he says that his comrades died at the wall but he ran…what if he died @ the graveyard with the book and is just wandering.

I checked the place where the graveyard was back in GW1 and the graveyard is no longer there. (“Tome of the Fallen” was a mission in GW1, called Naoli Academy. The bonus mission was to get the tome and bring it to a graveyard).

I have no idea wich other graveyards are there =S