Guild Wars 2

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Currently, the WvW scene of Darkhaven has been more than I expected! And with the current trend of guilds transferring over to join the battles, they have been welcomed with nothing but blood at the tips of their daggers and arrows! You can still hear the lament our enemies as they cower in their keeps and towers!

Long live Darkhaven!

elderan.2638:

Brennen.8051:

A wise man counts the cost first!

How can you count the cost for option 1, since like you said it’s completely RNG based, it could cost you 4 rares or 4000. That’s why people are complaining, if you decide to try to craft it yourself you could literally play this game nonstop for 5 years grinding for the mats to create weapons to throw into the mystic forge and still not get it if your luck is bad enough. And your friend get’s it on his 5th try. Is he more deserving of a legendary than you?

I don’t know how they should change it, but I like the idea someone suggested about receiving tokens for every craft you do at the MF. You can still get the precursor from the actual forge results but if you don’t for a specific number of tokens you can buy it. That way you’re actually progressing toward it even if you’re unlucky. Maybe the precursor you get from the craft is unbound but the token one is bound?

Deserving is probably the wrong word to use here. No one deserves anything when luck is a factor. And yes, knowing full well that the mystic forge is RNG based should alert you that there will be a cost involved. You knew throwing in 4 weapons could potentially give you what you are looking for… Or not. That’s the cost. Whether you believe it or not, this is the truth.

That proposal for the Mysitc Forge token thingy doesn’t sound too bad. Someone did suggest it in a post somewhere, probably drowned by the flames and tears of those not getting precursors.

Like I said, I for one have stopped throwing rares into the forge and will just grind until I get the gold for it. It keeps me… Wait what? Playing the game? MINDEXPLOSION!

We should just chuck this entire post into the mystic forge and see if a precursor will pop out of it…

In all seriousness, we want precursors. 2 ways to get it (3 if you count that reddit post about it dropping in cursed shore. Hello photoshop lol.)

1: offering up 4 rares/exotic lv 80 weapons (great swords is you are wanting dusk/dawn) into the mystic forge has a chance to yield the precursor.

2: Buy it off the trading post.

Make it easier? Why? You have 2 options! Pick one! Or both! Or none… And move on. All this rage about not getting a precursor, when the options are clear, is probably connected to the fact that people are feeling cheated in that they have “invested” all their gold into something that is RNG centered. You know what you were getting yourself into. A wise man counts the cost first!

If you are angry at the exploiters… Don’t be. They will always get what’s coming to them. But the truth is… They have what you want. And you really cannot say that the precursors up on the market right now are purely from exploiters. That is a terrible accusation. You need more proof.

Don’t flame me please. I only call a spade a spade. Lots and LOTS of crybabies here. Me, I’ll roll with the punches. IT’S A GAME PEOPLE! uninstall if it too much for you to handle lol.

I have 110g. I will keep grinding till I get the gold for the cheapest dawn on the market. Then buy it and wear it proudly because I, in my own mind, worked diligently for it. That’s all that really matters to me. say what you want, it makes no difference.

Off topic: where has Lindsey been the past few days. Dead silence form her :-)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/October-monthly-achievement-error-Merged

found it

If an admin would be so kind as to locking this thread. Thank you

Where is the link for this “simple” information? please provide the following

I am looking at my monthly October Achievements and its sitting at 12 of 13 complete (80%) with the 4th objective displaying 3 question marks (???) I believe that objective was to gain a certain amount of experience points before downing or dying (100,000 exp)

I guess the question at hand is, will I obtain the rewards for the monthly completion before it resets?

If this has been address in another forum topic, please point me to the correct post. Thank you in advance.

Ouch! I think you hurt my virtual ego!

/laugh

*cough Anyways… Before all the name calling begins again, I would like to thank everyone for there concerns regarding this topic. So until something changes, I guess we are left with a very aggravated community. I for one will keep crafting great swords, farm events for crafting materials and keep trying for that elusive precursor.

Will I get a legendary. Yes!

When?. . . That’s up to lady luck!

Happy hunting

<3 you vicariuz.

Any chance that we might see this come to pass. I remember leveling weapon smith to 400 and receiving experience points (towards skill point levels) but haven’t seen any gains after hitting 400. I believe a large amount of recipes are between 375-400 and following the crafting scheme, it would have yielded some experience points. I was just curious.

If there has been a post regarding this, I apologize in advance. Thank you.

Archer.6485:

Brennen this isn’t about what we’re forced to do, we’re not forced to play this game at all. This is about what we want to do and it’s in Anet’s interest that we want to play this game. It’s in my interest to play it as well because I really love this game.

This doesn’t change the fact however that we’re being demoralized from playing by a system that is actively gating us from certain content that we really want to do. The biggest problem with the Mystic forge is that there is no progression untill you hit the jackpot. It can be really depressing to loose hundreds of gold(days of play) only to still be at square one.

Anet can make the work towards a legendary as slow as they feel it needs to be but they definitely need to give us that sense of progression while we’re doing it. We need to know that every day we get closer towards that main prize than we were the day before. The Mystic Forge has the opposite effect. Every time you spend the gold on it and don’t gain anything it feels like you’re taking another step backwards.

It may just be perception in a lot of ways but perception is very important in video games. If your perception is that you’re constantly just wasting your time than very soon you stop playing.

I fully agree with you. Thank you for this.

I guess it time to take a moment and reflect on our achievements thus far as a community and realize that this game is still very young. For the overachievers, I commend you. Complain all you want, but 2 things will happen, either you keep at it, or quit.

I would like to encourage everyone… precursors do exist! They are there. Just keep at it!

Vicariuz.1605:

lackofcheese.5617:

With 350g you can have a 100% chance to obtain Dusk right now.

Then where is mine?? lemme check my inventory, nope just a couple breath of flames.

Oh you mean buy it off the TP? So every one should have to farm the gold to buy it off the TP now. After the other discussions lead to, “well you don’t have to buy it, you could forge it yourself.”

Oh btw, its 375g now. 3 minutes after your post.

it gets better, its now 410g. 15 minutes after I editted this post last.

I’m not sure how you feel abused? It’s not like ANet ever forced you to forge a legendary. It’s not for everyone. You may stop at anytime.

And in your case, generating 35 gold in under 15 minutes… Really? Where do YOU farm lol!

Amazing! Congrats!

1,000,000,000 tries? That’s blown out of proportion. Of course you would get a precursor. No, landing a precursor IS NOT like winning the lottery. Obvious reasons being that there are precursor in the trading post and or being held by those lucky few who probably don’t even spend time in these forums listening to countless people vent and nag and complain that they arnt getting their piece of the pie.

Math you say… Let’s do some math then, shall we?

1000 rare Greatsword @ roughly 17.73 silver per synth.

1000 × 17.73 = 177.30 Gold

1000 rares are equivalent 250 attempts in the mystic forge

250 attempts leading to rares only grants another 62.5 attempts

62 attempts leading to rares again grant 15.5 more attempts

15 attempts leading to rares grant 3.75 attempts

We have a grand totally of 330 attempts in 177.30 gold

1:330

now doesnt that look less threatening to you versus the astronomical number such as 1:1000 as some people are seeing. Remember, is 4 weapons per attempt, not 1000 attempts.

Also look at the price of the precursors NOW. If you hit even just ONE precursor, you have doubled your earnings if you chose to sell it outright.

People say it will never happen… So it will pass them by, and happen for others. Then they will cry foul screaming that life just isn’t fair… For them.

Slic.2406:

Brennen.8051:

@archer @slic

I am in agreement with you both regarding the ever rising prices of the precursors, but I can tell in the tone of the message that you have concluded that the only way to obtain said precursors is to buy it out right from the trading post. On the contrary, it is but ONE way, and one way you have chosen to move towards your desired goal.

Lindsey has made it clear that it is through the uses of the mystic forge that one can receive a precursor.

“Can there be a better way to obtain the precursor” you ask, but I say “Does there really need to be one?” As not to provoke you, have you tried to pull a precursor through uses of the forge? I have… And it is quite disheartening, but I will not give up!

The gold you have saved up and are hoarding to buy the precursor outright from the trading post should be spent on the “tries” in the mystic forge. Why? Like you said, you will never catch up to the inflation.

To be honest… You have nothing to lose! . . . I mean, what else were you going to spend that gold on anyways. Prove me wrong! Try your luck in the mystic forge and see that you DON’T pull a precursor… Because I’m totally rooting for you guys!

Sorry, there has been dozens of players now that have spent 500+ rares/exos trying to get it, and none of them have got a precursor, or anything to compensate for the huge loss of time/assets. Do you want me to link a youtube video again? Just search youtube, search forums for video links, there’s plenty of proof that spending 300g+ to get NOTHING is stupid, unacceptable and even downright abusive.

Draconic Korean-rng is Korean. I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Anet IS Korean, after all. I am disappoint, they are being huge hypocrites, and they won’t save face about this for long.

I’ve seen the YouTube video, thanks for that, but you have not said that you have placed in dozens of rares/exotics into the mystic forge. You have no personal experience to validate your claim. You are living through someone else’s shortcoming. I really hate to point that out but you have no platform to speak on. This is purely an observation.

Before you say anything, know this… You CAN do it! You CAN attain your goal! If fear is what motivates you to hold on to the gold and buy the precursor outright, then hold to your convictions. I do wish you the utmost best of luck in your endeavors.

@kami

Couldn’t agree with you more. A vast majority are only seeing the trading post price of there sought after precursor when in fact… They oversight the only way know thus far to obtain a precursor is through the uses of the mystic forge.

They see the prices climb for the precursor and already have a defeated mindset when in fact, if they applied themselves as the game DOES intend you to do to obtain the precursor, you increase your odds of obtaining said item. As I argued before, what ELSE are you going to spend your gold on anyways? Most of these threads are referring to “Legendarys” anyways so the interest is just that. In other words, suck it up and start investing in YOUR goal! You want a legendary, well then go GET IT!

I wonder what would happen if the precursors were account bound on discovery…

@archer @slic

I am in agreement with you both regarding the ever rising prices of the precursors, but I can tell in the tone of the message that you have concluded that the only way to obtain said precursors is to buy it out right from the trading post. On the contrary, it is but ONE way, and one way you have chosen to move towards your desired goal.

Lindsey has made it clear that it is through the uses of the mystic forge that one can receive a precursor.

“Can there be a better way to obtain the precursor” you ask, but I say “Does there really need to be one?” As not to provoke you, have you tried to pull a precursor through uses of the forge? I have… And it is quite disheartening, but I will not give up!

The gold you have saved up and are hoarding to buy the precursor outright from the trading post should be spent on the “tries” in the mystic forge. Why? Like you said, you will never catch up to the inflation.

To be honest… You have nothing to lose! . . . I mean, what else were you going to spend that gold on anyways. Prove me wrong! Try your luck in the mystic forge and see that you DON’T pull a precursor… Because I’m totally rooting for you guys!

What’s the rush for?

You sort of have to ask yourself WHY you would go through all this trouble when by rights, you do not have to. Those who claim to be in pursuit of a Legendary are compelled to do so.

One thing remains constant… The precursors DO exist! And reports of those who have had success in obtaining one should spur others onward. Be encouraged community, it is out there, just hang in there and keep trying.

Make a choice, keep your head down, and keep pushing forward in your pursuit for that legendary status… Or DON’T! The choice has always been yours, the player.

Just wanted to wait before reporting this bug, but after completing a different route in Ascalonian Catacombs : Exploration Mode, I did not receive the correct amount of Tokens (60) but instead received (45). This has happened to me in Honor of the Waves where I completed the first route and received (45) and NOT (60).

Im still running the instances regardless, but just wanting to report this.

*edit: it seems this is also happening to others in the community where party members are reporting that they are receiving 60 tokens and certain individuals are receiving 45 on the first clear of a route.