Guild Wars 2

Just returned after a long hiatus and really enjoying the game, even though the game’s age is starting to show. Don’t get me wrong, It still looks decent and do enjoy the painterly style, but was wondering if any future changes are in development to support higher visual fidelity.

That’s all

Hello there people!

The Crew of Misfits (CoM) is a relaxed, social, guild that has been around since the first week of GW2. We had our days of glory since the early days, doing dungeons, the story, WvW, exploring and doing crazy farming in Cursed shore to get our first legendaries.

Time passed though, and the tight-knit community that made our guild, including myself had to deal with a mysterious thing called RL and slowly our numbers decreased until finally, CoM took a deep sleep for over a year and a half.

BUT now we’re back! And even though many have moved on since then, we are striving to rebuild our community with the intent to keep CoM as it used to be; a small, social guild that accommodates everyone, with every need and understands that people have a RL outside the game.

So, come around, gather around the fire and lets make some interesting stories.

All ages, playstyles are accepted and HoT is not a requirement if you want to remain a free player. We’ll put effort in helping you learn the game if you’re new, and share all knowledge we have in the game to help you achieve your goals.

Some of the goals are:

- Exploration
- Unlocking our guild hall
- Experience Raiding
- Build new legendary weapons.
- Have fun, no drama. But if you’re a drama queen we may give you a crown.

Thanks for reading and hope to hear from you!

PS: Currently seeking Officers!!!

Completed it once, considering to complete with all my alts to gather as much crystalline ore as possible. So, do we get the 40 ore every time?

Alternatively, is DS event better than repeating the story?

Is there a guide out there for this? I just literally found out we can get an ascended version of our class weapon. I did salvage the original exotic bow though…

I tried, I really tried to like my main again, who i’ve spent over 2500 hours on. I still find myself trying to play as warrior but I just can’t make myself stick with it for longer than a few minutes at a time.

Berserker is so repulsive as an elite spec that we are better of without it. But why?

- absolutely selfish play that offers nothing a reaper or revenant can’t. Damage is great if you can actually hit enough to build the kitten adrenaline which decays like freakin plutonium within seconds and when wefinally do manage to berserk, our burst abilities are practically downgrades. Hammer, bow burst? OMFG ballerina on steroids.

- Don’t you dare activate zerker stance out of combat. Its like trying to get angry, but instead you become aroused and finally you find inner peace. Our passive heals are horrible and our active condition removal is absurd, requiring a hit to take effect.

- No group support. My DH can shield the whole group with shield of courage from all dmg for like 6 seconds? And that’s 1 ability! DH heal our group with our heal virtue, trap enemies, mobility is superb and you never have to feel helpless.

kittens

You went on a rampaging kitten over there but:

With how conditions have been buffed, points 3, 4, 37 are practically a necessity

I just suddenly casted a “shake it off” on my stupidity thinking that i have to use a torch when i spec as berserker.

So, After a mild hiatus I’m thinking of coming back and keeping my long loved spec of S/WH + GS.

Would it work? Are there cases where using a torch would be significantly better?

my potential build: http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AggFrASYBrw~

Let me know of your betaxperiences

Greetings all!

Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen quite a few posts of players who spent their Laurels to get Heavy Crafting bags and to see how much profit they can get off selling the T6 mats in the TP. FOR SCIENCE!

Well, thanks for that guys. But even though doing so one can make guaranteed profit, it doesn’t mean they should go ahead and spend 1000 bags in order to see how much profit can be made. This is why i developed this sim, which is the third in the series.

The Laurel Simulator lets the player get insight of potential profit (from Buy + sell orders) from opening up to 10k Heavy Crafting bags in the convenience of a few clicks and selling the mats. This way, a player can choose the best moment to convert their Laurels into gold for the highest returns. All data is updated live from the Gw2 api for your convenience.

Additionally, If you are wondering if crafting legendaries or generating clovers for profit, don’t hesitate to check the Precursor & Mystic Clover Simulators, also on the Guild Wars 2 Simulator.

As always, feel free to share your feedback in the comments section, here, or in game as Athrael Thunderborn. Thanks and happy simming!

For any Questions, bugs , refer to the following links:

email: athrael.gw2@gmail.com | In Game: Ath.2531

apharma.3741:

Ath.2531:

denis.9487:

Unblockable for you because you failed to dodge or stun break and dodge. You stood still and ate it. Same thing happens to all Beserker classes. Stand still let a ranger pepper you. let a warrior hundred blades you. You put on a shirt protector and went 3 times to that buffet.

Which part can you not understand that you can’t dodge instant 1200 distance abilities that happen from stealth? Unless they start dodging like a kitten until they run out of endurance?

Also what part can you not understand that a mesmer can stealth, blink to enter the 1200 zone and 1 shot?

Because if you are suggesting that we should stay farther that 2000 from a mesmer when we see one, then i rest my case. You win

The Mesmer just used all thier defensive utilities…in fact possibly all their utilities to do that, had you been watching and waiting to hit your stun break you could have stun break then dodged and the Mesmer would have been a sitting duck. The Mesmer would then have been forced to switch weapons and either stealth away with torch or continue to kite with staff.

Conditions would destroy this kind of mesmer as they usually don’t have inspiration. What class were you playing, perhaps there’s some advice that can be offered for you to not only not die to these fotm mesmers but turn the tables and wreck.

I did not stun break because i was simply not stunned. I was just 1 shotted from stealth. That same mesmer was fighting 3-4 people at once and consistently stealthed away when he was in trouble, so yes it is quite possible he used torch.

I was playing a Valor/Virtues/Zeal guardian with GS/Hammer or staff. Again, my point isnt that i couldnt beat him. Its that i was killed instantly without being able to react. At one point i saw him and tried to run but he repeated the same process, probably also blinked to reach me and 1 shotted me again.

denis.9487:

Unblockable for you because you failed to dodge or stun break and dodge. You stood still and ate it. Same thing happens to all Beserker classes. Stand still let a ranger pepper you. let a warrior hundred blades you. You put on a shirt protector and went 3 times to that buffet.

Which part can you not understand that you can’t dodge instant 1200 distance abilities that happen from stealth? Unless they start dodging like a kitten until they run out of endurance?

Also what part can you not understand that a mesmer can stealth, blink to enter the 1200 zone and 1 shot?

Because if you are suggesting that we should stay farther that 2000 from a mesmer when we see one, then i rest my case. You win

Asmodal.6489:

LetoII.3782:

12k health is a huge risk, even at full health you’re one-shottable. Knight also offers less power as toughness is it’s primary, Assassin offers precision as it’s. Baseline power is more valuable than precision or ferocity. Same with a bit of vitality, as being dead negatively affects DPS.
A few soldier pieces will give you a bit of uh-oh factor, and add more power over knight or assassin.

one shot means one ability in my book which requires the removal of our inital aegis. If it is made up of several hits then we by defalut block two (another one at 50%) of them when traiting valor.

it is my impression that this is quite enough wiggle room to respond with a dodge in most cases.

WvWvW is a diffrent story. I wouldnt run that glassy there.

Mesmers will 1 shot you with aegis on, while being in stealth. I am at 15k and have been 1 shotted from stealth, multiple times. Thieves can be handled 1v1, but if that aegis goes of you are 1 shottable by practically every class in the game.

Stormbolt.7293:

How have the new traits affected the class? Are we better or worse? Which builds are op and which builds became garbage? Did the patch put Mesmer in a better place overall?

Lets see, I look at a mesmer at around 1500 – 2k distance. He stealths. a couple of seconds later I get 1 shotted.

So, I look at combat log: 3xhits of around 5k each. Also, That ability is unblockable. This happened 3 times in a row until i decided to exit wvw.

Are you guys kittenting me or what?

How i wish i could lock Eternity in its Sunrise version…One can only dream

And no, its not the same as sunrise

As a guardian, this has been a very good QOL change for me.

i’ve tried carrion scepter/torch and i’ll have to say: dont get too used to it because it’s almost definitely getting nerfed.

Currently i’m running medi Hammer/GS with Zeal/Valor/Virtues and i find it quite strong, albeit not kitten easy mode as a condi build. I don’t use the Feel my wrath elite as i really dislike the charge time + that it’s gonna get nerfed so i dont wanna get used to it.

new LA looks like Dorne from game of thrones.

Stuck at work. Pls anet -_-

inb4 wing backpacks can be used as gliders with the intended physics animations

Jerus.4350:

Try moving around, they really screwed up “structure” hitboxes a while ago and never fixed it as far as I know. He counts as a “structure” and therefor was affected. You should be able to hit him somewhere, it just might not necessarily make sense where that is.

I’ll try it. It just kinda bothers me that the last encounter of paid content requires cheesing to get through

Ayrilana.1396:

Ath.2531:

Really? 600 gems for this?

Out of curiosity, do you know the mechanics for the fight and how to damage him?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Mystery_Cave

Yeah i’ve done exactly what i have to do and when he’s in the middle of the big fire, no melee attack will damage him

Really? 600 gems for this?

Greetings all,

Athrael here, Author of the recently released Guild Wars 2 Simulator

I am seeking user feedback on what the next GW2 simulator will be in the series!

So far I have developed a sim for Precursors and Mystic Clovers so I am contemplating on which one will be next.

So, what shall it be?
- Heavy Moldy Bags – Worth opening or selling?
- Ebroidered Belt Pouch – Worth farming chests or are events better in Silverwastes?

Feel free to share your opinions. Also let me know if you have data to share with your findings!!!

Best,

Athrael

Do I have to specify a specific item by id every time?

of a specific weapon/armor type.

I am currently making ajax/api calls to get the cheapest sell/buy price for a given item Id but i currently don’t have a way to get price information something for an api call in the nature of: Cheapest price for a rare quality weapon type. For example:

I want the cheapest price for a lvl 80 rare greatsword.

If not, Is there an API call that could return at least the top/bottim x number of listings of a specific weapon type? That way i could sort the list and get the topmost element.

This goes toward further development of the Mystic Forge Simulator

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Ath.2531:

I would say no, it’s not a good idea to gamble with only that amount of gold.

The Mystic Forge Calculator will give you a hint on how the process works.

Once there, select Precursor and proceed. At the config page:
1) Enter 300 for your gold investment
2) Select the precursor you are aiming for
3) Adjust how much you buy your rares for and an average on how much you sell any exotics that you get out of your forges. Do NOT put the exotics back in.

Proceed and run the sim a few times. I hope it helps.

Considering that sim said 2 precursors and a large net profit when I ran it through with 300 gold, I’m not sure how accurate it is.

1 run is definitely not a statistic. Run it a few hundred times. There is an option that allows you to do 5-100 sims at once. You will notice that many of the times you will get no pre.

ENSURE that you have set the config right. Check pics

I would say no, it’s not a good idea to gamble with only that amount of gold.

The Mystic Forge Calculator will give you a hint on how the process works.

Once there, select Precursor and proceed. At the config page:
1) Enter 300 for your gold investment
2) Select the precursor you are aiming for
3) Adjust how much you buy your rares for and an average on how much you sell any exotics that you get out of your forges. Do NOT put the exotics back in.

Proceed and run the sim a few times. I hope it helps.

Greetings all!

The Gw2 Simulator 0.2b is live!

This update features:
1) A cleaner, more precise Precursor sim which now works with live, API-seeded values for precursors. The sim will now calculate profits based on the precursor aimed, which can be selected in the Config menu.
2) Error/invalid input validation has been added. Still not perfect though!
3) Increased precision, solved bugs which will result in much more realistic results.
4) Precursor sim can use extra work in the automation of additional parameters, ex: when “Frostfang” is selected, prices for cheapest rare and most expensive exotic should be set automatically.

Noted bugs/To Do’s:
1) Rapid api calls will occasionally cause an error. Working on a fix for this.
2) Style needs work. I’m obviously no designer. All feedback appreciated.

So, can you make gold by playing with the Mystic Forge? Well, head out to http://athrael.net to find out! At the “Choose your sim” dropdown, select “Precursor” or “Mystic Clover” and proceed.

Share what your next preferred simulator shall be!
- Loot bags?
- Laurel conversion to gold?
- ????

As always, feel free to share your feedback in the comments section, here, or in game as Athrael Thunderborn. Thanks and happy simming!

For any Questions, bugs , refer to the following links:

email: athrael.gw2@gmail.com | Twitter: https://twitter.com/Athraelgw2 | Github: https://github.com/athraelgw2 | In Game: Ath.2531

Resolved minor bug which made selling go buy highest buy order instead by highest sell offer. Now, the sim would show more profitability from Clover Making.

Greetings all!

Just released the second sim in the series, called the Mystic Clover Sim that lets the player toy with the mystic forge in the convenience of a few clicks!
Main question to be asked here is: Can the method of Attempting Mystic Clovers be used to make gold? Well, head out to athrael.net to find out! At the “Choose your sim” dropdown, select “Mystic Clover” and proceed.

As always, feel free to share your feedback in the comments section, here, or in game as Athrael Thunderborn. Thanks and happy simming!

For any Questions, bugs, general feedback also refer to the following links:

email: athrael.gw2@gmail.com | Twitter | Github | In Game: Ath.2531

website back in business!

Updates:
- The ‘about’ Section has been updated.
- A small guild wars RSS feed added in the front page.
- New feature: Users can now also choose the Mystic Clover option from the dropdown menu in the main page. Even though the feature is not completed, it will provide a list of materials that can be generated when a Mystic clover fails. The completed version will allow a simulation of Attempting to generate Mystic Clovers in the mf and will give some insight whether this is a viable way of generating income.

Enjoy and as always, feedback is appreciated

Over the last few weeks i’ve been developing some sims for the mystic forge to better view how it behaves in larger numbers and i have to say it’s been pretty fun.

Just making this post to share a website i’ve been working on which specifically sims the crafting of precursors in the mf. Please note that this is not yet completely finished and serves as a fun way to see what could happen if you invested insane amounts of gold in the mf. Once this is complete i will also add a sim for Mystic clovers and then who knows?

Feel free to check it out at:

http://athrael.net

and share your feedback in the comments section, here, or in game as Athrael Thunderborn. Thanks and happy simming!

Hello peeps,

Over the last few weeks i’ve been developing some sims for the mystic forge to better view how it behaves in larger numbers and i have to say it’s been pretty fun.

Just making this post to share a website i’ve been working on which specifically sims the crafting of precursors in the mf. Please note that this is not yet completely finished and serves as a fun way to see what could happen if you invested insane amounts of gold in the mf. Once this is complete i will also add a sim for Mystic clovers and then who knows?

Feel free to check it out at athrael.net and share your feedback in the comments section, here, or in game as Athrael Thunderborn.

Thanks and happy simming!

Op,

Your lack of understanding of numbers if what is causing you such disheartening.

The mystic forge is build around a model which has the disposition to be Unrewarding for small investments of gold or conversions.

At such low investments there is a very high variance between reward and failure. As the investment grows, the variance reduces and a statistic can be revealed. This is why so many people invest 500g and get nothing and sine get a precursor in 8 tries.

When you know the probability of a success our failure, you will no longer be upset by the rng

Arnath.2319:

Check out this reddit thread, very clever man has basically figured this all out already and this new poem basically confirms his theory.

Scarlet is a Champion of Primordus

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1un4tt/scarlet_as_a_champion_of_primordus/

Basically after reading that my first thought was…POWER RANGERS

No thanks…

I’m still waiting for the “expansion’s worth of content” that was supposed to come sometime this year.

zMajc.4659:

I like it personally, after 10+ years it’s refreshing to play a MMO where DPS classes are not laughed upon when they search for dungeons/instances and stand around for hours whereas tanks and healers instantly get invited.

I won’t say it’s a perfect system but it works for me.

As a warrior i cannot count the times a ranger/necro/engi got kicked from a group, simply because they are considered not effective enough.

Trust me, its exactly the same thing

Mea.5491:

alcopaul.2156:

frostgorge is 2 gold per hour. kitten place to farm.

You either have bad luck or doing it wrong. Frostgorge champ farm (with lotsa people) grants an average 7 gold / hour. My daily goal is 20 gold, most of the time I can make it in 2 hours or less (depends on drops). (I have 98% magic find atm, I don’t use food).

If overstatement was a person you just became a murderer

Buttercup.5871:

A flaming mankini would be even better.

The thread has been won. Now i can move along

In most cases you will not be able to beat them. The good part is that if you choose so, they won’t be able to beat you either.

After having put close to 1500 hrs on my warrior i am at a point where i will win 25%, lose 25% and ignore them 50%.

P/D is a troll build and the best way to counter is is to troll them back with S/wh + GS. Seek a window of opportunity where they have wasted most of their stealth abilities and suprise them witha bullsrush+100b. Denying them C&D is also very punishing for them.

So, Human T3 Light is in the gem store for 800 gems.
I would love my Norn warrior getting his hands on a Human Heavy T3 for 800 gems. I would definitely not want to spend 120g for it.

Any plans to add this in the near future? It would surely make me happy

The truth is that with every living world update, new items show up in the gem store and that generates money. It is the best system currently in place for a F2P game. There is no denying that The game in its entirety is a profit-making organization and we the players are but a resource to sustain it.

I really respect the artist’s, developer’s and community staff’s work. It is state of the art in most aspects. But i dislike every single thing about the living story. Its non immersive, recycleable, non repeatable content that most won’t remember a week after its gone. No exciting long term goals apart from a legendaries which are an endless grind (been there done that) and a gear grind which is a slap in the face from what the game was advertised as before release.

All i see is new items for spending real money on, week after week after week. I find my childhood cartoons to have had better villains that every single one we have every 2 weeks. I mean seriously, what kind of fantasy world introduces a new villain or event every 2 weeks? It makes them feel meaning less and not threatening at all

Sorry if i ruined your Christmas but this is as close as it gets to answer your question in my humble opinion

Just stack up materials just as you would if you were planning to build a legendary or ascended weapons. I would definitely recommend that you stack a lot of dragonite ingot, empyreal star and bloodstone brick. It is the only safe bet to prepare yourself for the future release of ascended armor and legendaries. Don’e expect precursor building to be any easier than now. They definitely do not want 50% of the game population having one.

Well hello there ladies

If you bought entropy for 65g, its a brain you want refunded not your gold

Behellagh.1468:

Problem with champ rewards was they were “exploited” into champ trains in Queensdale. Waypoints weren’t being cleared, regular content not being done, open hostility if the sequence was interrupted by another, etc. At least back in the day of speed running that one dungeon path you had level limits and instances to limit participation and not in the open world or a starter zone.

I understand that players will naturally evolve their game play to the most optimal means to achieve their goals whether it’s XP or coin but what champ trains did was disrupt the game play of newcomers and that’s really a no-no. The reduced rewards are likely a means to reduce the attractiveness of trains so players will actually go off and participate in the rest of the game than mindlessly running/waypointing from champ to champ for an entire evening.

Well said. The endless porting and rushing to catch up with the zerg was almost a game killer for me.

Beldin.5498:

Personally i dislike the Bloodstone nerf the most, since i don’t do Dungeons, and mainly did Champs now and then for Bloodstones. Now with this nerf i have to do even more Champs if i wanted to craft more ascended Weapons.

And yes .. i know the dungeon runners drown in that stuff .. i however have much more Dragonite and Fragments than Bloodstone.

Do tell us what you’ve been doing for the past few weeks if you really needed Bloodstone dust.

McFly.2134:

This is just a new thread about the conversation we were having here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/More-wings/first#post3128523

I vote “No” and in my opinion you probably should find a way to control your hoarding. You must love every single other aspect of GW2 for something so trivial to be at the forefront of your concerns.

Your response is much appreciated even though i disagree with your approach in your post in the other thread simply due to the fact that you assume the most ineffective way of storage.

Weapon/armor storage can simply store skins, not all the armors with the stat variations in them. Doing otherwise would be nothing short of insanity. I have mentioned the example of spvp armor/weapon storage which works great. Transmuting those skins back could require transmutation stones as it does now, without having to lose the skin itself.

SHIELD NERF INC!

Oh wait…

As the title suggests, a need for armor storage is something that is becoming more and more evident as the game progresses. Each armor set takes 6 slots from our bank excluding trinkets and weapons. And each time we get an armor from the gem store we have to have 6 pieces of armor to put it on. At a certain point this is becoming a real issue, no matter how many bank slots we get.

Something similar exists in spvp and i believe its quite successfull. So…a lot of the code for this is already there. I understand that this is probably more technically challenging but it is quite unfair having to lose skins which cost us $ to buy just to be able to use a different skin.

Its been 1 year already and i would like to know if this functionality is still planned. An official response would be greatly appreciated.

phaeris.7604:

Haha, I’m glad I didn’t spend those laurels on my warrior just yet. Although I did get him completely kitted out in exotics… :/

After playing him these last few days in WvW, the only weakness I had was getting kitteny and jumping into 8 people, because I knew there was a good chance I could get someone and get away.

Kited 7 enemies around ogre watch, ended up killing 2, other 5 gave up. The only guy to stay was another hammer warrior, we ended up having a 10 minute fight (which I won), and only reason i could beat him, was because I was a hammer warrior.

I was fully about to do the whole ascended gear etc on my warrior, but even I felt cheap killing with him, it was just too easy with regen and having earthshaker up so often.

For the damage I can output i’m way too tanky.

Typical fotm reroller attitude and one of the reasons im happy we’re getting nerfed. Better Not gear your necro just yet! You never know which the next target is! Maybe Gear your mesmer instead?