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Like strifey said above, I have added the new links he has sent me.
I’ll continue to update as more footage comes in.

As always great work and thanks again strifey!

Howling King is amazing

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Specifics please!

The area you fight him in doesn’t have gravelings anymore, and he has a new attack that looks like hyper beam.

During the fight, gravelings will spawn behind you and swarm your group as well. It is just overall much more fun to do this dungeon than before.

I’ll write some more after I finish all 3 paths :P

Howling King is amazing

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Thank you for updating this fight, this dungeon and path in particular are much more fun/entertaining now.

Charged, Warm, Hard and Cold Potions

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Well, I just logged in and you can’t sell them it seems. Going to check and see if I can trade them between characters.

edit: you can now trade them between characters, but that is all.

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So some food for thought about Legs

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Not gonna lie, but someone having that many legendaries is ridiculous LOL

Do you equip your precursor?

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There really isn’t a point to equip your precursor unless you really like the skin. These things are worth hundreds of gold, and if you happen to change your mind about the legendary you want, you’re stuck with the weapon until your forge that particular legendary.

I personally put my dusk in my bank until I gathered the rest of the mats to craft Twilight, as I was still uncertain if I wanted it over sunrise.

Still though, everyone is different so if they want to equip their legendary that’s up to them.

Post your legendary progress!

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Just crafted my twilight today.

T6 mats skyrocketing

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There’s multiple reasons for the price increase.
1. Bots have been banned
- Bots were bringing a large supply of mats to the trading post, so the price for these items were lower than they should have been.

2. More players are hitting 80
- Since more people are hitting the level cap, they’re moving on to crafting their exotic weapons and pursuing legendary weapons.
Berserker Gear is very popular and used in many recipes, not to mention that due to cof becoming increasingly popular for a means on income for players, they are going the route of crafting this gear to speed up their clear times for the dungeon.

3.Syeria covers my other point. The droprate is much more varied now due to the changes in orr.
For example, before the orr patch, powerful venom sacs were 18-21s. After the patch the price stabilized around 9-11s.
The reason being the item was harder to acquire due to the nerf to grubs a few months back, and players weren’t farming hyleks and spiders in orr.

There are many more reasons, but I think you get the general idea. Powerful Blood is a popular item, and since there is a small amount of supply relative to demand, the price goes up.

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Post your legendary progress!

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Finally got dusk from the mystic forge.

Now to work on the lodestones, and I’m set.

Nice! Congratz!

Your chat looks different… is this before they fixed the drop rate?

What do you mean it looks different?

So I tried the mystic forge for a dusk...

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I saw a video on youtube about some guy doing this VERY same thing, and he got a bunch of crap out of Big Z. You could actually HEAR his heart break.

Haha, that was me. I learned from that mistake and only used rares afterwards and set myself a limit of never going below 100g with my attempts.

I just got dusk from the Mystic Forge yesterday, after 4 months of putting swords in.

Exotics Attempts
Getting Dusk

I can completely understand how the OP feels, I was ready to quit after putting those exotics in.
It is much better to use rares as you’ll be able to make some money back, as well as getting a chance to grab a pre-cursor.

Hopefully we can see the scavenger event sometime down the line. I really don’t get why every aspect besides the precursor has a sense of progression.

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So I tried the mystic forge for a dusk...

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You really shouldn’t have put exotics into the mystic forge aside from the ones you get from dungeon tokens.

I know how you feel though, I’ve spent the past 4 months putting my gold into the mystic forge, and only yesterday did I finally get my dusk from the mystic forge.

I don’t know why they made this aspect of the legendary so irritating, there is literally no sense of progression and feels like a waste of time.

Post your legendary progress!

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Finally got dusk from the mystic forge.

Now to work on the lodestones, and I’m set.

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to the both man who sells SPARK on black lion

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John Smith is awesome. That is all.

Flame and Frost: The Gathering Storm

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So Evolved Destroyer is a joke boss now

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Sadly, this is what we can expect to see in the future. The fight wasn’t even that hard before this patch.

It would be interesting to get some developer input as to why they decreased the hp on this boss.
The Alpha reduction is understandable as he was a pug killer, but as for this boss?

Mystic Binding Agent

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10 laurels is worth much more than 2g 52s. You’re better off using 5 laurels to get a gear box and selling those exotics. Sigh. What was arenanet thinking with this?

Mystic Binding Agent

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What do you mean, what exactly does the mystic binding agent do? I’ve been wanting to get it, but don’t want to waste my money if it just does the same thing as the current mf recipe.

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Wat ?

You should had bought Dusk wiht those 550 gold.

He was doing it for science!

So about Dusk

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Apparently spending 2-3 minutes asking for dev input equates to wasting time complaining. Some people. LOL

So about Dusk

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If someone is willing to pay 900g for a Dusk, then Dusk has been underpriced the whole time. The price of an item is what the seller and buying are willing to sell/buy it for.

Nothing to see here folks.

This isn’t a buy order, it’s a sale listing. the highest buy order was 550g at the time of my post.

So about Dusk

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That’s what you get if everyone wants a rare item. Demand vastly outpaces supply. Prices rise. This patch made almost every other component in Twilight cheaper, so the price of Dusk goes up by a similar amount. Perfectly normal.

Go get another item. Don’t stare yourself blind on that Ferrari your neighbor has.

First of all, I have no interest in Twilight, so you keep your assumptions to yourself.
I only made this thread in the interest of receiving developer input and creating discussion.

The only thing from your post that is correct is your comment about the scarcity of the item.

Using your logic, Dawn should be 900g, yet it’s only listed for 600g. Only difference? Lodestone types.

Ferrari’s? What?

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So about Dusk

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That thing is crazy expensive now. Are we going to see new ways to get these items? I It was just 600g, about two days ago.

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n PvE, if a player is awarded loot by killing a creature and the loot is of uncommon rarity or higher, a chest will appear that contains the loot that would previously have been on the corpse. If the rarity of the loot on the creature is lower than uncommon, the loot will remain on the creature’s corpse.

Can someone please explain what this means, I am so confused.

If you kill something and it drops rare or higher loot, a chest will appear now?

Video Guides To all Explorable Mode Dungeons

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Updated the op with path 1 and mesmer builds by strifey.

So Triforge?

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Now now, if you are trying to troll, do it better. There are some classes that just don’t work good with glass cannon builds.
I do agree that the divinity type stat sets are in general inferior to specialized ones, of course, but Berserker really is NOT the only valid approach.

I’m not trolling. I kick all non-Warriors from my party. Anyone not wearing full zerkers gear gets kicked. Greatsword or dual-axe only, or kick.

It’s the harsh truth, but any profession/build except for Berserker Warrior is inferior and therefore not viable.

I’m guessing you don’t do fractals? =P

Is this healthy for the game?

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I see one proven dusk, the rest could just be random swords, and the “dawn” swords could be just that one named something with the golden sword, it has the same skin. Looks like someone wanting to brag more then actual truth. All i see is a dusk and about 10-20 g of items (and 100 g in the bank of course)

This image is back from early september,last year.

It’s entirely plausible that these weapons are khrysaor’s which have the same skin as dawn, however to use that much gold at an early point in the game just to pretend you have a bunch of dawn’s is kind of weird.

There were also other images of players who had similar results, as there was a big thread on gw2guru which people were using to do the goldskull thingie.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/65857-mystic-forge-4-rares-into-lgd-precursors-have-been-changed/

Is this healthy for the game?

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What does everyone think about this matter?

That some people care to much about others insteand of theirselves and even make assumptions which arent legit without proof, or try to mislead a valid reason of why this guy has that.

In my pov…good for him, he probably used the mf or trade wars or bough a lot of precursors in the early days where the cost was like 10-15 gold…or even less.

At the end…i dont give a cat.

Except precursors were never at 10-15g. During pre-release dusk and dawn were listed for 60g.

The author of this image also admitted to using the goldskull exploit, so you’re the only one here making assumptions.

Is this healthy for the game?

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This is very old screenshot that illustrates a results of so-called “Godskull exploit” that existed in first months after release. The exploit was fixed but afaik the exploiters weren’t banned and exploited precursors weren’t remove from the game.

IMO it was the biggest mistake Anet ever did with GW2. But whatever happened, happened.

Oh this is an old screenshot? I guess that sort of makes sense then. Still though, you’d think that if someone had that many, they would just make 1 twilight and 1 sunrise, while keeping to rest to sell at a later time like now, where the weapons average 600g each. =P

Is this healthy for the game?

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I recently came across this image of someone with multiple legendary precursors. I am in disbelief, as it appears that those who were saying players are controlling the precursor market were correct.

What does everyone think about this matter?

edit: Can a moderator please move this thread to the Black Lion Trading Company forum? Thanks.

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Strifey just uploaded an arah path 2 guide, I’ve added it into the op.

No longer able to ress in combat?

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I think they mean that people won’t be able to res at way-points.

Kind of like Fractals are now, where you can’t res at the checkpoint while people are still in combat.

If this is true, then I am ok with it. I just hope it isn’t the other method I assumed it was they were talking about.

No longer able to ress in combat?

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If it’s only about resurrecting truly dead players…we usually walked when we were truly dead anyway, because reviving someone would have taken too long.

This is true, but in fractals there are no waypoints, so with this change you’ll have to wipe if a key person in your group ends up dying.

No longer able to ress in combat?

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Edit: I misinterpreted the statements.

The change:

Just to clarify, you’ll no longer be able to use waypoints when a party member is in combat inside a dungeon. This is prevent people from using waypoints to rush and kill bosses or clear areas, which is not intended game play.
All other forms of res remain unchanged.

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Forge your legend(ary)

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I don’t get how anyone can claim that the majority of people bought their legendary when they still have to be made to be bought in the first place. I really doubt most of the people who went through the effort of making a legendary in the first place did it just to sell it on the AH, there are much better ways of making money.

edit: Heck, I’d say that the very fact that the person who makes the legendary has to consciously decide they want to sell it kind of invalidates the idea that someone buying it “taints” the experience of everyone else. Becoming a max level crafter isn’t ruined by someone buying crafted items on the trading post.

My friend is crafting sunrise just to sell it on the trading post, although he does already have twilight, lol.

Forge your legend(ary)

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At the end of the day, you can purchase a legendary weapon directly from the trading post.

You really don’t have to show you’re good at the game to acquire one either.

The only difficult thing is the lodestones and precursor/clovers if you have bad luck. I average 3 charged lodestones as well as 10g per day just from dungeons alone.

If I chose to I could get sunrise within a month, but I’m not sure if I want it at this point. Everyday I see someone new with a legendary, hell I was recently in a dungeon with someone who had 4.

Outside of karma and the badges which are incredibly easy to gain, especially with the changes arenanet has made over the past months, all you need to reliably make a legendary is gold.

I mean you even have to buy 100 of an item for 1g each. If I get a Sunrise, it’s only because it looks good, and that’s the only reason.

I honestly won’t feel like I accomplished anything considering how easy it is to make.

Will the new update stop skipping?

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Make it known you don’t want to skip mobs beforehand, or form groups with your friends.

Everyone has a different way of playing, you can’t tell people not to skip mobs and for them to listen, if they don’t want to.

Where's the Scavenger Hunt post?

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Thanks for the information Colin, I look forward to the blog post next week. Have a great weekend!

Thank you.

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I believe his name is Colin Johanson.

Exclusive Market Based Guild

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Well that turned out well..

Lodestone prices [Merged]

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Theh best part is glacial lodestones and cores are absolutely worthless, yet they still haven’t given them a use. Just compare their price to the other lodestones.

Cores and Lodestones

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It’s been like this the past couple months. This patch was a perfect time to make them more desirable, but the only thing they changed was adding them to a rune recipe, for the new runes in this patch.

Pretty lame, but yea.

Glacial Lonestone -> Lodestone = FINALLY!

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Now, let’s see if the price catches up to the other lodestones, now that it’s easier to spot in the TP.

That would require it to actually be desirable. There’s not much you can do with glacial lodestones compared to the other lodestones.

Video Guides To all Explorable Mode Dungeons

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I have updated the OP, with new and up to date videos contributed by strifey. I haven’t been playing as much as I’d like to, so I don’t have good recorded footage as of yet.

Deluxe Editon being given for free

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>OP

In the business world, it’s called a “sale”. Use Google to look it up.

I can’t recall the last time a AAA title had a sale within the first 3 months. If something is continuing to sell well why reduce the price so soon?

Lupicus Melee Solo, 15 mins

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Great video, it’s too bad there isn’t a title or something =/

Dec 3 patch notes

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Looks like no fix to fractals disconnections. That’s rather unfortunate.

Inquiry on status/stability of the market.

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The lost shores event was not the only modification to precursors.

We’re tracking the changing economy. The changed prices come from a lack of supply relative to demand, not from a substantial increase in inflation (this is apparent when you look at the TP as a whole bundle of good rather than just a few items).

Does this mean you are looking at ways to bring up the supply to meet the demand, or are you waiting it out a bit more to see what happens?

None of the processes are black and white. What I can say is that making decisions (or assumptions) without a complete understanding of everything involved would be a mistake. When dealing with large economies, small changes can have huge effects, it’s important to understand the effect of any changes on the game as a whole in both the short and long run.

I agree with what you said, but the problem is you guys implemented a new tier of gear which the majority of the player-base will find desirable, without increasing the rate in which players can acquire the ectoplasm and t6 materials necessary to craft these new items.

This in turn has also affected those seeking other items unrelated to ascended items, such as the wonderful looking named exotics which requires multiple stacks of t6 mats to craft.

I feel like making small changes such as giving us the ability to purchase these mats with karma, or within the new dungeon would help alleviate the current situation we are in. I know plenty of people with hundreds of thousands of karma, myself included(470k) and it would be nice to be able to do something with it for a change :P

Inquiry on status/stability of the market.

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The lost shores event was not the only modification to precursors.

We’re tracking the changing economy. The changed prices come from a lack of supply relative to demand, not from a substantial increase in inflation (this is apparent when you look at the TP as a whole bundle of good rather than just a few items).

Does this mean you are looking at ways to bring up the supply to meet the demand, or are you waiting it out a bit more to see what happens?

Precursors From Mystic Forge

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Here, I’ll explain.

If you want a greatsword precursor, all 4 weapons have to be a greatsword to guarantee you will receive a greatsword back. This in turn, could possibly be a precursor.

I would personally wait until they actually implement the scavenger hunt as they said they would, and work on the other items required for your legendary. This is all up to you though!

My feedback on Legendary crafting

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“And besides the gift of exploration and gift of battle, farm 1,000,000 karma (with daily and monthly that is not that hard now) and buy gold with gems…. May as well just put the skins on the TP for all they are really worth”
Well… Legendaries cost about 1200g (roughly)
So with this argument/point
Math:
100 Gems = 1 Gold
4000 gems = $50
4000/100= 40G
40G = $50
1200G/40G = 30
30x $50 = $1500
$1500 for a skin.
No one in their right mind will spend $1500 for a legendary.

You would be surprised. The guy who crafted eternity first, admitted to dumping thousands into the gem store, and converted his gems into gold to purchase the mats to craft it.

And you think thats wrong? I think it has 2 positives, the guy has his legendary and Arenanet made more money than from 50+ avarage players.

Remeber .. Arenanet is company, their main goal is to make money. What do you think will players spend more real money on??? Expensive legendary weapons, where they need to farm 1000 g or some story, where you dont need any gold at all?

Where did I say there was anything wrong with what the player decided to do with his money?
The person I was responding to made a comment and I replied to it, I don’t know why you’re attempting to paint it as though I have a problem with someone deciding to spend their money on a in-game item.