Guild Wars 2

Miku.6297:

Yep the buy back is a you pay exactly what the merchant gave you to get the item back. If you leave the map or log out, the buyback clears it self.

I still don’t see the concern though, like I said Legendary weapons CANNOT be vendor sold. Take one off and put it in your first bag, then go to the vendor it won’t even appear in the sell window.

Ah I see, I couldn’t make much sense out of the first post you wrote, I have another dagger with the incinerator skin applied to it, that’s probably the one that appeared in the vendor. I figured it would be kind of weird that arenanet made it like this, so I was wrong, my apologies.

Donari.5237:

Bsgapollo.5364:

Randulf.7614:

Every vendor has a buyback tab. if you sell something accidentally, you can buy it back

thanks, I never even noticed that, how does the pricing work though?

If you sold it for 3 silver then you buy it back for 3 silver. I suppose if you somehow spent all your money before visiting the buyback tab that you would not be able to buy it back, but that seems rather unlikely given that you only get the buyback option while you remain logged in on that map anyway (or in that game session? I haven’t tested it on re-zoning).

Well atleast that gives some kind of security, I’m glad Arenanet implemented something like this, worst case scenario I can always sell something else to reach the 3 silver or whisper a friend and ask him to send it to me through mail. thanks for the information.

Randulf.7614:

Every vendor has a buyback tab. if you sell something accidentally, you can buy it back

thanks, I never even noticed that, how does the pricing work though?

I have an invisible bag already but it doesn’t go in automatically, I saw someone mentioned a buyback method, what is that ?

I never understood why arenanet made legendary’s show in vendors, no one is going to sell theirs to the NPC anyway, if they really want to get rid of it they can always destroy it.

Every time I switch weapons from my dagger/dagger to staff I notice it will just put incinerator in my inventory, I’m always scared to missclick when I’m near an NPC to sell my junk, any solution for this?

JustTrogdor.7892:

Birthday blaster, free. Your character needs to have had a second birthday though or party with someone that has it.

I have it, but I hate using it every 10 mins, heck why I use buffs instead.

I’ve been looking around on the web and the cheapest yet most efficient buff to me currently seems Glazed Pear Tart, you can buy it for 4 copper each and gives 22% magic find, 50 power and 15% XP from kills.

Anything else seems to expensive at the moment and just not worth using for a dungeon run, I’m trying to make money not get rid of it, so I’m curious to see what other people use, there might be something better.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Gift of metal requires 400 in weaponsmith:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gift_of_Metal

Gift of liquid flamerequires 400 in chef:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vial_of_Liquid_Flame

Sigh, thats what I expected, thanks for the info anyway.

do I need to have weaponsmith & chef at 400 in order to craft these objects ? I tried doing it in artificing since I’m already +450 on there but it wont let me craft it, and neither does the mystic forge allow it.

I’m about a 100g away now from reaching my first legendary and I’m super excited for it, It would be quite dissapointing to have to spend another 30-50 gold just to level these mastery’s.

Hmm thanks for the replies already guys, I see people gave me the recommendation the do the Silverwastes instead of this but I’ve been doing it for the past few weeks already and I’m started to get burned out, is there anything else out there that gives decent and quick gold cause I’m already doing ascelon 1,2,3 & cof 1,3 combined with the silverwastes and I’m still making only ~75-100 gold a day, not sure if I can keep this up for another 10 days at the rate how many hours I spend in the silverwastes already.

Can anyone give me an estimation on how much you can convert that into gold? Also an explanation on how to do it would be appreciated as well.

I’m currently 700 gold away from reaching my first legendary, so I’m trying to gather gold as quickly as possible.

Enko.6123:

Full dungeon tour provided you can do it quickly followed by SW chest farming. TP trades going while you do everything else.

What does SW stand for and where is it located ? also do I need to do anything special or just follow the commander ?

Also I would probably do more fractels if I had people to do it with, I’m like only level 2 and I find it quite difficult sometimes to figure out what to do once I’m inside, I hate it how Arena net barely gives any explanation once you’re inside a dungeon on what you need to do.

Are dungeons still the most efficient way to gather gold? Or is there something else I don’t know of.

What dungeons would you recommend that are the easiest or rather doable for the average player ? Cause you guys sometimes write stuff that is just too advanced for me.

dlonie.6547:

http://gw2dungeons.net/ has info and guides for all of the dungeons.

Common farming paths are:

AC: 123
CM: 123
TA: f/u
SE: 13
CoF: 12
CoE: 123
Arah: 1234 (with good group. Maybe just 2/3, or none at all, otherwise).

Are you NA or EU? That will matter for guild invites, and you may want to also check out the stickied threads in this forum.

Thanks for that already, what do you mean with the f/u behind twilight arbor btw ?
Also I’m on EU @ ruins of surmia.

Hey, I haven’t played this game in several months and i’ve always done pvp, now I’d like to get more into pve since I’d like to save up for my legendary, I’ve already got map completion so the only thing I’m currently missing is gold, thing is, I don’t really know where to farm, is there a guide somewhere where most people are currently farming and what areas are active ? Currently I’m doing Ascelonian & Citidal only, any suggestions would be welcome since I’m quite new to this. If you want to help me even further a guild invite would be appreciated as well.

And found this

If you wanna have a laugh feel free to watch it.

Evizerate.1064:

that’s weird, changing my system from 16bit to 32bit color fixed this problem as well. it works now.. the heck? you guys should try it, it might work.

Worked for me, thanks.

You’re the worst mod.

http://www.twitch.tv/zellqt/c/3851273

Seriously tho, It’s been a while since I’ve laughed so hard. Yesterday was definitely a day to remember.

Arganthium.5638:

Juan Ignacio.8903:

how can u say that any class in this game is hard? -_-

He never said it was hard, just hardest.

I don’t think any class is difficult, but if you really want to play thief… artfully (in a manner of speaking), then you really need to have some serious skills. It certainly isn’t a 3 spam or a 5-2-1 spam- at least, it’s certainly not any more spammy or faceroll-y than any other class.

And Apollo, just cut it. We all know you play ele, and nobody argues that ele isn’t one of the two most underpowered classes by a huge margin. That being said, I and others have already given you pages worth of advice for countering thieves, and your complete ignorance to our advice is, at the very least, rude, if not downright outrageous and hypocritical.

I actually have taken some of your advice and I’m using some of it at this very moment. I just find it hilarious how someone can think that thief is one of the hardest classes to play while there are tons of other classes out there that require a lot more depth.

pdemo.8312:

this guy^ must play the worst thief in the game if thats what he does. Thief is hardest class to play in the game if u wanna play it well. But the meta is d/p

LMFAO

ensoriki.5789:

I remember threads like this about the same time last year for Warrior.

The difference is warriors had to endure their suffering only for a couple months (3 or so). Ele’s on the other hand have doubled that amount already, they have been bad for the past 6 months if not even longer.

Norvos.9304:

I’ve seen you on your Thief Bsg, dont lie. Get on the bandwagon with the rest of the clowns you dummy.
Move along now.

Malediktus.9250:

You cant buy wintersday presents anymore.

Oh kitten I still got 60k left and I was planning to spend it on that.. fml

Jerry Attrick.5963:

I wish I could get a reward for all the time I spent in pvp compared to pve. However, there is nothing for me to spend my glory on.

I made it to r61 and I had 1,800,000 glory (I never bought anything).

When Wintersday was happening I spent 500k on wintersday gifts and sold them on the Black Lion trading company. It was nice, I made a very large chunk of change.

But, the problem is I saved 1.3 million glory.

I heard that Glory is going away and spent 400k on various rank chest and at this point, I am getting nothing new out of the chest.

I have nothing to spend my 900k+ glory on.

Also, I have around 190 glory boosters that are about to be nothing.

I feel that my time spent playing 6800 games compared to PvE or WvW does not measure up.

The ONLY plus side is I have a cool finisher

Just spend it on the winterday packages, get gold out of it and save it for later incase you don’t want anything right now.

You’re kittening stupid if you call caed a terrible thief lol. This is coming from an ele if you must know.

Dahkeus.8243:

YourFriendMarvin.4127:

KOPPER.1458:

Does this mean my 10+ stack of tourney chests in my bank are gonna disappear :/

Why collect so many and never open them? I can’t imagine that those rewards matter that much to you if you have so many. Otherwise open before the 18th.

No point to opening them, after doing 4k+ tourneys, and getting same gear. Saving them hoping the rewards would implement better stuff in it.

Open them, then salvage gear for Luck. That’s as good as it gets. The devs have already confirmed that you should open them and that this is as good as it gets.

Could you perhaps give me a link for this ? I’ve been looking for it on the forums but can’t seem to find it.

It’s been the worst map from the start. It was abused by countless of people who got milions of glory and now they were able to generate all that glory into gold. Just like back then a dam thing didn’t happen against those abusers don’t expect anything to happen against this. We have been asking for months now to remove this abomination of a map, there was even a straw poll indicating that 80% of the entire community hated it but hey, according to the devs it’s 50/50 right ?

Writetyper.1985:

why did you have to tell everyone

Because it’s a valid point and it should be looked at asap.

About silent storm and in general you’re mostly right but on Forest you’re not. Especially if the enemy team has a thief.

1. Guardians
2. Rangers
3. Thieves
4. Necro’s
5. Warriors
6. Engineers
7. Mesmers
8. Ele’s

Good video man, Nice to see these guides for beginning elementalist players.

Myst.5783:

S/F and D/F is about the best you can get on ele right now.

Anyways, I haven’t been playing ele much after having one as my main for near a year. I mean I still small group roam WvW with a cheese zerk d/d build every now and then, but thats it.

Not even close to being true, people are misguided to think focus is better than off hand dagger for some reason. Have you even compared the skills between the 2 weapons ? Some people prefer to run focus because it’s ranged but personally I’ve been running scepter dagger since beta and I’m still more then fine with. Truth is it doesn’t matter that much which weapon set you run, most of them are equally good (or equally bad.) It depends on what playstyle you prefer and what weapons you think will do better in most scenario’s.

Travlane.5948:

my MAIN point is that even in 1v1 (where a thief should excell)

I actually spat a little on my screen when I read that, makes no sense whatsoever.

Arthas the Great.8765:

Anyway, I started a warrior now, was thinking of a mesmer, which seems more fun, but I can’t take the chance on another light armor prof again.

Probably how ever player reacts when starting with ele currently, goodluck though lol.

Yeah your crit dmg is really now. It should be at least between 50~60%. Otherwise you won’t be able to kill anything.

infantrydiv.1620:

Lachanche.6859:

What are you talking about infantrydiv, do you even know what balanced mean ?
Guardians can offer team support and take massive punishment with a bunker build OR dish out an acceptable amount of damage with a meditation build.
Both builds are killable in 1v1, both builds renounce to something to get something else.
Things like hard counters or thieves locking out every other berserker build from the game are unbalanced.

Being forced to take a certain class because that class is so good is the opposite of balance.

It’s like that with every game really, other mmo’s healer = must. Guardian is no different in this game. Guardians are actually balanced in my eyes cause all they offer is team support and being able to stand on a node, it’s not like they can deal insane amounts of damage while being able to sustain themselves for a long time like warriors.

Either they spec into defensive trees to gain more survivability and team support, or they spec into offensive trees to have more offensive power and way less sustain. Every class should be like that. Sarcrafice something to gain the other, not have both at the same time.

You can’t possible be serious..

That was the best.

Ah right, my math is so off sometimes, it’s been a while since I had to use it =p
Thanks for clearing things up Magic, also nice tip Columbo.

Rezz.8019:

Skyhammer is awesome. It requires a lot more than standard boring Foefire style mid point bunkering. It should be added in team arena as well together with Spirit Watch. That would increase the skill level of people in team arena because they would actually have to develop different tactics and builds.

Can’t tell is serious or….

magic fly.2041:

Bsgapollo.5364:

Well this is certainly intresting. Honestly never though about it this way, so let me get this straight just to make sure. If I were to have a 10% damage trait and I would combine it with for example a 5% dmg sigel and ogre runs which give an extra 4% damage I wouldn’t end up with 19% extra damage but with 19.9% extra damage, correct ?

My math is telling me that that would be a 20.12% bonus
1.1*1.05*1.04=1.2012

Isn’t it 20.20%? 19% + 1.2012 = 20.20(12)%, Maybe I’m overlooking something. I’ll try one on my own again, you can correct me if it’s wrong. 20% (2.2) x 10% (1.1) x 5% (1.05) x 4% (1.04) x 10% (1.1) = 2.90% extra on a total of 49% damage.

Well this is certainly intresting. Honestly never though about it this way, so let me get this straight just to make sure. If I were to have a 10% damage trait and I would combine it with for example a 5% damage sigel and ogre runs which give an extra 4% damage I wouldn’t end up with 19% extra damage but with 19.9% extra damage, correct ?

magic fly.2041:

Bsgapollo.5364:

magic fly.2041:

Bsgapollo.5364:

30%. How did you end up with 32% in the first place ?

Lets say that you do 100 damage.
The 10% damage bonus to 100 damage would make 110 damage. 110 damage with a 20% bonus would be 132.

It is multiplied separately to the damage, meaning that multiple weaker bonuses is more powerful than one big bonus.

Are you sure about that ? I just tested some things ingame to see if vulnerability would actually decrease my toughness, then you’re theory about multiplying the damage bonuses would be correct, yet that didn’t happen. Is it just not visible or is this just a wild assumption? If not got any evidence to back it up?

Vulnerability increases the damage a target takes by a %
It doesn’t touch toughness.

I should actually be doing homework right now, so I will get some screenshots for you to prove how the damage bonuses stack in about 3-4 hours once I finish here.

If you don’t want to wait, just go to the pvp lobby, equip a steady weapon, and two damage bonus traits, and record the damage without the traits, with the traits, and with each individual trait. You will see that two 10% damage traits doesn’t lead to 20% bonus damage.

I’ll wait, bet you can explain it better than I can figure it out anyway.

magic fly.2041:

Bsgapollo.5364:

30%. How did you end up with 32% in the first place ?

Lets say that you do 100 damage.
The 10% damage bonus to 100 damage would make 110 damage. 110 damage with a 20% bonus would be 132.

It is multiplied separately to the damage, meaning that multiple weaker bonuses is more powerful than one big bonus.

Are you sure about that ? I just tested some things ingame to see if vulnerability would actually decrease my toughness, then you’re theory about multiplying the damage bonuses would be correct, yet that didn’t happen. Is it just not visible or is this just a wild assumption? If not got any evidence to back it up?

magic fly.2041:

I tested something similar with my guardian with the bonus damage to burning targets, and bonus damage to targets with conditions traits.
They are entirely separate. Two 5% damage bonus skills is worth a little more than one 10% damage bonus. It is also the reason why I’ve changed my mind and I now think vulnerability is actually useful.

It is not much by itself, but it certainly adds up fast the more damage bonuses you get.

You will do 32% more.

Am I missing something ? How did you end up with 32% ?

30%. How did you end up with 32% in the first place ?

That’s 900 range, so a bit more then a double of that. Still a fairly long range if you ask me.

Skyhammer is dogkitten, the map is desinged for classes with a lot of knockback cc and stealth pulls. Not only that but freaking skyhammer itself is undodgeable which makes heavy armor classes or classes who take no damage over a certain amount of time have a greater advantage over others. I could go on and say what else is wrong with this absurd map like laying down marks infront of the gateway to skyhammer, but really what’s the point. It’s been said countless times already how bad this map is in competitive play and the devs refuse to do something about it.