Guild Wars 2

First of all, sorry for any possible bad ENGRISHS.

Heya guys! I decided to continue progressing on fractals (currently sitting at lvl 41 with 59 AR) and to do so, looks like i’ll need to find a proper server with a nice amount of pve guilds gathered. (since most LFG fractals are sub 40).

So, any indication of what could be a good server for me to move to? Thanks in advance

I’m having the same problem, using the shortcut trick of adding -assetsrv 62.154.232.187:80 to the target line isnt working either, it prevents the launcher from even downloading something.

Malediktus.9250:

People who vendor their rings are wasting profit. With just 1g per salvage I make good profit on average with matrices being at almost 40s.
Also you should get the ascended salvaging achievement done. I got 3x 20 ascended salvage charges and 1x 1 salvage charge for free (= merely 25 regular fractal relics) from the fractal reliquiary so far.

Weird, i didnt salvaged many rings, but when i did, i got only 1-2 stabilizing matrixes, thats like 40s/80s, not being able to make a profit out of it.

So, either i’m missing something, or players that arelady have their ascended jewelery all BiS will just have to continue selling the ascended rings they get from low level fractals to vendors, instead of having a more viable financial option to salvage them?

Tannin.1920:

The problem continue, i do a downgrade to the drive recommended by NVIDIA and the black screen still happened.

None of Staff ARENA NET see my file to say that numbers on THEYRE SERVER.

Have you even tried to do what i suggested above?

BR translation: Baixa a porra do afterburner e baixa o clock da memoria e do core da GPu em 50hz, 90% de chance que vai resolver teu problema.

Update: 64 bit client started to update, lets see what happens.

I was having the same problem a couple days ago, solved it by downloading MSI afterburner and underclocking my GPU by 50hz. Also i updated my SSD firmware, and my chipset drivers aswell.

Hope that helps.

Same problem here, 64 bit client doesnt run even ater updating trough the 32 bit client.

bump, can anyone else shed some light on this one before i try the support?

Ayrilana.1396:

Have you opened them before on your account?

Nope.

Hi, i’ve been following dulfy’s guide to loot all the strongboxes on verdant brink and grab some sweet additional mastery points, but i noticed that some of the strongboxes are not giving me mastery points at all, only normal loot.

Lethal Vantage
Mellagan’s Valor
Thunderbreaker

Those are the strongboxes that do not contain any mastery points at all, am i missing something here or did Anet reduced the amount of strongboxes that comes with an additional MP?

Thanks in advance.

Thank you very much to both of you for your explanations, it feels wayyyyyyyy easier and simple now. I really appreciated it

First of all, sorry for any possible bad english.

I’m a veteran player that came back to the game a few days ago to check out the new expansion features and maps, and once i stepped into verdant brinks, my head almost exploded.

Lots of icons that give me no idea about what they are identifying on the map, monsters on every inch of the map, making skipping almost impossible. This new mastery system that i dont have any idea on how it works…etc etc

Is there any HoT survival guide that i can use? Right now i’ m just zoning into the new area only to behavior like a headless chicken….

Am i the only one that gets annoyed by that opening/close animation when you use the map? i mean, 9 out of 10 of the last MMO that i’ve played had a real responsive world map, that opens imediately and closes imediately aswell.

Dunno if that wasnt already implemented due to map scripting or performance limitations (too many stuff to load on real time, querying for WP’s current availability, etc), but heres one feature to add on future patches

Took me about two years and 1000 hours played to finally make twilight here’s what i did:

ALL AC paths (~1.7g each)
P1, P2 COF (~1.3g each)
AC tokens = buy exotics (180 tokens each) → salvage for ectos and insignias → sell them on TP
CoF tokens = buy lvl 70 rare armor (30 tokens each) → salvage for ectos → sell on TP

You wont waste more than 2 hours of play in a day to do these things and it will give you some pretty nice gold (depending on your luck on the salvages) :P

Same here, strangely i’m only having the maassive FPS drop/stuttering in Divinity’s Reach o.o, even in LA or in orr temple events clusterfuc*** that doesnt happen, very strange.

SkiTz.4590:

Belmont.4682:

Would be hilarious if this feature pack go live without the precurosr crafting that they promised to deliver back in 2013. It would be like as if they simply threw the idea in the dumpster so that it may not see day light again, lol

There’s a lot of things the community will be displeased about from this feature patch thats for sure….but if sPvP/WvW isn’t the priority in this feature patch, there will be a kittenstorm lol…those 2 things have been soo neglected its not even funny anymore… sPvP/WvW is a lot of players endgame and it has rarely been touched, it needs a revamp more than anything PvE related

At least you dont have to deal with RNG when you wanna rank up in WvW or raid a keep/castle :P

Would be hilarious if this feature pack go live without the precurosr crafting that they promised to deliver back in 2013. It would be like as if they simply threw the idea in the dumpster so that it may not see day light again, lol

Just wanted to pop here to say that Marjory’s VO when...she was in the ground, mourning the death of her beloved sister was just AWESOME, i could literally feel what was happening in her heart in that moment. Sumalee definitelly earned my thumbs up for that great voice acting

Obtena.7952:

I would need to see the quotation but IIRC, it was not a definite statement of “we are putting in precursor crafting this year”. To their credit, ascended weapons might be part of that crafting scheme for all we know.

Brother Grimm.5176:

I don’t recall Precursor Crafting EVER being mentioned with any potential release time span (certainly NEVER “by the end of the year”). These kinds of post are how misinformation and claims of breaking promises get proliferated among players.

Obtena.7952:

I don’t think it ever was supposed to come out this year.

Jump to 13m24s if the url doesnt carry on with the video arguments.

MAGIKS BEING MADE HERE.

Now seriously, can we get a word from colin on this matter? since we’re already 1/3 on december and a sign of precursor crafting is still nowhere to be seen.

Wohoooo i’m kinda happy with those changes

CoF P1 & P2 in ~15 minutes = 2g
AC 3 paths in ~1 hour = 4.5g

6.5g in 1 hour 15 minutes? hell yeah.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

“Legendary Gear and Precursors

We aren’t quite ready to go into all the details here, but what I can say is you will see a specific way to build precursor items on your way to a legendary. On top of this, you’ll also see new legendary weapons and new types of legendary gear in 2013. Building your precursor will require a large amount of the new crafting material rewards listed above, 500 in crafting, and likely a combination of other items earned for completing more specific content in the game.

In addition, we’ll also improve the functionality of legendaries, allowing you to set their stats when out of combat to any stat combo available, so you don’t need to transmute stat changes for legendaries. Legendary gear will remain with the same tier of stats as ascended gear and will not be made more powerful than other gear, it will simply be slightly more convenient since it will no longer need transmutations to change stats."

There we go, assuming this new method will not include hardcore RNG like the toilet, i guess we can /thread this

Zogyark.4597:

great, you just got what i’ve been grinding for months now, this makes me feel better.

Same thing here, but hey!, RNG is fun and fair!

Same problem here, started happening after the last hotfix following the march 26th update.

Snow White.9680:

Aisling Dreamphase
The Dragon Slayer

mmmmmm

Karyuu No Houkou!

JaironKalach.4938:

On top of that, the way the game is currently designed, a sufficiently large group cannot even be dented by a smaller group. This leads to a lot of frustration.

Why frustation? Ever since the stone age of MMO’s if you werent able to dispatch a group of enemies by going toe to toe with them in a group of same number, you would call for help and then kill them by taking advantage of the upper hand in numbers that you have. Comaplaining/Getting frustrated with this kind of “issue” is the same as complaining/getting frustrated at the fact you cant choose wich item an npc in orr will drop for you.

JaironKalach.4938:

Additionally, it is easier for people to feel that they have made a significant contribution and earned their reward, when they are part of a small group, rather than part of a much larger group.

50%/50% for this one, indeed its great when you and your 3-4 friends group up and manage to take/defend a tower all by yourselves. But considering the exp/karma/money reward for doing so is the same, its kinda pointless.

JaironKalach.4938:

Finally, larger groups have a (mostly deserved) reputation of being mindless and skill-less, mostly winning fights by large numbers.

Well, i do rely most on zergs for some simple reasons: 1) I dont live in the US, and my latency to the game servers is over 300 or so, wich means i’ll always have the disvantage if i decide to fight someones that has an almost real-time response from the server. 2) My gear is kinda crappy and i’m not willing to spend money on it till i get my legendary, thus one more reason to rely on large groups to accomplish objectives.
3) Isnt what grouping together is supposed to do? try to overcome skill gaps between the players involved by outnumbering them?

Also let us not forget about the tons of undergeared/“underreallevelled” players out there that rely mostly on the large groups on WvW in order to be useful in some way :P

Could someone explain to me whats the big deal regarding zerging in a large scale war map? Because i’ve been trying really hard to understand whats the point in all of these complaints and still didnt found any sense..

Tons of middle age wars were won by…an army surrouding and zerging a castle/city afaik, not by splitting your army in groups of 5 and sending them to each city in the country. Napoleon invaded russia with an army of like 600k also and i’m almost sure he didnt splitted his army into a bazillion of groups.

If zerging isnt fair then lets fix thieves using guerilla tatics aswell, how dare they strike our supply caravans in a blink of an eye to make our keeps and towers suffer supply starvation!!

Just two small examples that complaining about war tatics in a war environment is just…pointless

Didnt read it all nor i will, so i’ll just give my 2 cents.

For the vet mobs requirement: Do any temple event in orr.
For the combo moves requirement: Do any temple event in orr.

Cant be that hard.

sostronk.8167:

I tried both for mine. Cost me 1.6million, whilst others cleared it with 500k karma. In all honesty, after been karma drained by Mr MF I believe the 10x is better. Although, RNG luck has a massive effect. Different people will have a massively different experience. They are both 30% chance.

Sad, i was hoping to get the 77 clovers with this single full recipe pack but many people including my friends have told me that minimal is the number of persons that got lucky and obtained them right off the bat =/ (some expending even less than 500k karma)

Btw ty for the info.

I just completed a “full recipe pack” for the clovers (250 ectos, 250 obs shards, etc etc) and i was wondering wich recipe i should try. The 10x one seems like a russian roullete to me, if you get lucky you can get the job done in 8 tries and will still have plenty of mats left. The 1x one sounds more safe but kind of painful if you get a bad craft result streak

Nefar.8135:

Jason King.2647:

Thanks for the reports, everyone! This is an issue we’ve been tracking for a while now, and I’ve heard we may have a fix for it in the next few days. If you continue seeing it, please let us know.

Posted 4 months ago and still no fix or update. Wonderful.

Yeah, as Yamagawa said up there, memory allocation bugs are hard to snatch and isolate, but having to wait for over 4 months to see such annoying bug fixed…yeah, kinda pisses me off too, isn’t about time for Anet to contact the Fmod devs in order to get more info on what they can do to fix it? or at least turnaround it… Or peraphs change the sub-system entirely for another one, but this seems unlikely to happen since no other audio library has the same or near wide-range of compatibility Fmod has with the Operational Systems out there.

Jolene.7316:

The pulsating sound is the fmod audio subsystem telling the user it is out of memory:

“When the FMOD mixer thread does an allocation and it fails, it is almost impossible to recover from this gracefully (because of the threaded nature of the system, there is no function to return an error from), and sounds would start to drop out. Because we think this is fatal, and leads to subtle or not so subtle audio bugs – the mixer now emits a pulsating sine wave noise to tell you it is out of memory.”

http://www.fmod.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=15120

or http://preview.tinyurl.com/fmodbug

Bumping with the quote that seems to contain critical info regarding the root cause of this issue. Hope Anet take a look

C’mon Anet, 10 days to fix a DOOR, srsly? what kind of programmers do you guys have?

Fingers Crossed (2)

The legendary run is driving away a ton of players from the game, including 3 of my friends that said they’re going to pandas since there legendaries requires both personal and group effort and not this bullkitten asian RNG thing.

Why would someone waste tons of a gold on a weapon skin? :O

namastex.8906:

Two weeks ago I got a dusk with using about 40 rares into the mystic forge. Today I decided to sell it for 360 g which left me with 320g. I tried over 200 exotics and did not receive another dusk/dawn. 320g down the drain. Well played arena net, well played.

This would be insta quit for me.

0.12%, srsly Anet?

Well, considering naegling and many other weapons have their own recipes, i wont be surprised if we find out that theres already precursors recipes out there while we’re here asking Anet to add one, lol.

@RedHellsing What makes you think you found or have a clue about said recipe?

@Wahaha

Prices constantly going up due to godskull exploiters controlling their prices?

And what about this one?

Wow, and i though it was because of my laptop overheating Oo, happy to see its software-related.

Tomcat.8375:

A good example for Dusk:
Gift of Dusk – Karma (one for each precursor to make the recipe unique)
E. Scroll – Skill points
100 Mystic Coins – rewards for completing achievements
250 Ectos – luck from salvaging

I had a similar idea (using another one that was on a deleted thread):

Dusk = Hilt of Dusk + Blade of Dusk + 50 Globs of Ectoplasm + Gift of Dusk

Hilt of Dusk = 50 Orichalcum Greatsword Hilts + 50 Mystic Coins + Gift of Balthazar + 50 Crystals

Blade of Dusk = 50 Orichalcum Greatsword Blades + 50 Mystic Coins + Gift of Balthazar + 50 Crystals

Gift of Balthazar = Purchased at the temple of balthazar for 50k Karma, the point here is to make different gifts for reach legendary precursor, so we’ll have gift of balthazar, dwayna, etc.

Gift of Dusk = 20 Onyx Lodestones + Gift of Zhaitan + Gift of the Nobleman + 1 Eldrich Scroll.

x20 Onyx Lodestones = 80s x 20 = 16g
x1 Eldrich Scroll = 50 SP
100 Crystals = 60 SP

100 Mystic Coins = Not sure, cant log in now to see their price on TP, last time they were 2s, so 2g.

50 Orichalcum Greatsword Hilt = 3 Orichalcum Ingots/Hilt = 150 orichalcum ingots = 150 × 7s (not sure) = 10,5g

50 Orichalcum Greatsword Blade = 3 Orichalcum Ingots/Blade = 150 orichalcum ingots = 150 × 7s (not sure) = 10,5g

50 Globs of Ectoplasm = ~9g

2x Gift of “GodName” = 100k Karma

Total Cost: Time spent mastering different dungeons, 100k Karma, ~49g, 110 SP.

Pretty fair price, will improve your knowledge on other dungeons in the game, and will kitten you even more with karma farming

So, 3 pages, more than 100 posts, and no word has been given by Anet regarding this subject? Cant we at least get a “okay guys, we acknowledge this and will be discussing it later” or a “sorry guys, not gonna happen”?

Edit: nevermind https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/Official-Response-Drop-Rate-of-Legendary-Precursors

U’ll get tons of those trying to get mystic clovers btw

Malediktus.9250:

Looks like that thread got deleted. I get the following message: Cannot find topic with that permalink!

Smells like censorship

Cant we get a red on this subject? Linsey? Also if you could spare some more time, there is a worth reading (imo) proposal on this post https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/Could-a-dev-please-confirm-if-this-is-a-genuine-dev-reply-regarding-exotic-precursors/page/2#post349637

Archer.6485:

Personally I don’t care if people get super rich from luck, hell I don’t even care that much if it’s exploits as long as it doesn’t completely destroy the economy.

I only care if a certain aspect of PvE is locked out from me for years because i’m not and never will be among the 1% richest players. That’s exactly what I hoped to get away from when I started playing GW2.

The rich players will be able to make the legendary 10 times faster than I do. By the time I make one nobody will even care, I just want it for my personal sense of achievement.

And now you’re telling me I don’t get to have it because I’m trying to obtain it at my own pace? And you’re calling me entitled?

The line between having or not having the legendary should be whether you’re willing to put in the time and effort not whether or not you’re among the richest players in the world.

I do agree with you except by the part of “when i make mine no one will GaF about it” i loved the skin, i dont care if people will look at me and say “wow, you got yours NOW? srsly”, i want to log into my account just to see that freaking awesome sword in my back, i will never do a single normal step again, i want to move in the word just by spamming my 3rd greatsword skill (the warrior one, forgot the name) just to see the AMAZING effect it produces in the skill.

To me (and i guess for a lot of people here), your last sentence would be changed to "The line between having or not having the legendary should be whether you’re willing to put in the time and effort not whether or not you’re among the luckiest players in the world. "

Anet, would be too much to ask you to AT LEAST bring this issue/suggestion to your tables?

Malediktus.9250:

Please add more ways to get the precursor weapons. I dont care if they are redicilous expensive recipes or a million of karma or anything. But mystic forge is too much about luck (unless there is a 100% recipe noone found yet). You could go through hundreths of tries and not get one, while someone else gets lucky and finds precursor on first try.

About buying them on the trading post: Although I believe I have good money making methods, without using trading or exploiting or goldsellers of course, the prices on the trading post raise much faster than I can make money. Dawn of Rage for example went up over 50g over the last couple of days.
Also I dont see why I should be forced to reward some lucky guy with 150+g.

This. I though Anet had learned from “that game” that you can make an extremely hard to obtain gear and still make the entire process very fun without a RNG factor involved.