Guild Wars 2

I’d rather pay for something that allows me to turn charges into.. lets say Mystic Coins.
I’m swimming in them.

I was one of the people who actually enjoyed the old sword AA chain, sure it was a pain sometimes that you had trouble moving/dodging, but sword #2 and #3 and Lightning Reflexes solved that for me.
The recent sword AA change actually made me stop playing power ranger and I swapped to condi build. I just can’t get over how awful the new animations look. I’m playing sylvari ranger btw, so not sure how it looks on other races but it just looks as if she’s randomly waving a sword around.
Really missing the ‘dancing’ AA chain that we had before.

If you hover your mouse over the map name on the world map you will see the possible map rewards (the one that you will get for doing events is at the top, the 4 items below it are for doing more events). Be aware that the 4 items below the current reward are there in random order and just sum up all the potential rewards. The order in which you will get rewards is visible on the gw2 wiki (just search map rewards and you’ll see the order of rewards).
Map rewards follow a rotation of 8 weeks. So if you look at a random map we are now in the Week 2 rewards (it will reset on Thursday, and then it will give the “week 3” rewards till the next Thursday). On the wiki you’ll see a list of all the maps and their current reward, if you click on ‘[other rewards]’ in the right part of the table, you’ll get the weekly rewards.

You earn points by doing events, for every golden badge (event participation) you will get 100 points, and every 200 points you will earn a map reward.
Every 4000 and 8000 points you get 10 [insert items], this is probably some extra incentive for you to keep going till you actually get that far.

Map rewards are not influenced by MF, they are influenced by the Map Reward bonus guild boost (max 10%). You can also buy items from the Pact vendors from the Pact Mastery, each item will reward 200 points (so 1 map reward) for a total of 1200 points (thus 6 rewards). be aware that the item will give points to the map completion of the map you are on (and not the map where you bought the item).

They say mini-dungeons and jumping puzzles also reward points, but I haven’t personally tested it.

Have to admit that the guild that I’m in does have a “tax”, but members have the option to donate mats or money (or both if they please).
We keep track of who donates what, which adds a lot of extra work.. An automatic tax would remove the fact that only a certain amount of guildies give up a lot of resources while others “leech” of the stuff that gets added in the guild hall.

Part of me says yes this is a good idea, because fair sharing. Other part feels it would be too much work (for Anet to implement).. because people can just put all their money in personal guild bank, or the system should keep track of how much money/mats you earn in a certain time (can’t donate 5g if you don’t have 5g). Just so many factors that can influence it.

Aeryn Knight.4351:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Reclaim_the_southern_beach_from_the_Risen

This did it!
Thank you guys. =D

Tried Aeryn’s suggestion already.
(S)he also suggested an event in Sparkfly, so will try that one out as well.

So far no luck at Teq, but no harm in trying again. ^^

Yeah I did, had to kill it for the collection as well…
And I need a RISEN one not a normal one.

I have searched pretty much every map were risen krait are and I cannot locate any veteran and/or champion risen krait hypnoss.
Tequatl event spawned a lot but they don’t drop loot and thus no talisman.

Has anyone any clue where I can find the veteran or champion? I’m running out of ideas here.

I am totally not a numbers person, so I’m not one of those people that knows every number related to their build/class/pet. But this was a very interesting read, ty OP!

It saddens me that Smokescale got the treatment it received and with Tiger and Electric Wyvern locked behind a giant meta event I’m kinda sad about the state of our new pets (this is mostly me though, I move through maps like a snail so reaching those 2 is hard for me).
It’s nice to see that the old pets have some nice DPS as well, so still loving those.

I’m not surprised to be honest.. I mean what do you expect when we only got one beta weekend to test it out? Almost looks like the entire first week after the HoT launch is just a beta week for Druid.. and it’s getting ripped apart. Hope Anet learns that one beta weekend for a new elite is not enough (not sure how Scrapper is doing though, so just talking about Druid here).

Don’t get me wrong, I totally agree this is ridiculous. Ranger is my main and so far I’ve had zero interest in Druid just because I have no idea what they want with the elite (all the nerfing does not make it better). For now I’m just sticking to Ranger till Anet figures out what the hell they want Druids to do… Cause it doesn’t seem like they want it to be a good healer.

bluesnacks.2301:

Darksaffey.8479:

There is only one issue I have with the new tag and that is people raging at me for messing up whatever.
I was in an unorganised Labyrinth, carving pumpkins and opening doors when some guy raged that I should follow the commander (there wasn’t one). I said there wasn’t one and some mentor went I’m the commander while adding some unkind words about me opening doors.
Using the mentor tag to lead events is totally fine, but would be nice to announce it instead of raging at people. :s

That’s not a commander issue, that’s you opening doors when you shouldn’t be.

I’m not allowed to open doors in an unorganised map? O.o’

Maybe it wasn’t clear, but the mentor tagged up after someone complained about me in map chat. So he wasn’t even there while I was running around.

There is only one issue I have with the new tag and that is people raging at me for messing up whatever.
I was in an unorganised Labyrinth, carving pumpkins and opening doors when some guy raged that I should follow the commander (there wasn’t one). I said there wasn’t one and some mentor went I’m the commander while adding some unkind words about me opening doors.
Using the mentor tag to lead events is totally fine, but would be nice to announce it instead of raging at people. :s

I am actually actively farming Mount Maelstrom for glacial cores and lodestones (working on Frostfang). I think I farmed like 3 hours the other day, getting mostly t6 mat, a few cores, 2 lodestones and 3 giant eyes…
The giant eyes are nice to sell but I have to admit I do go “I don’t really want you” when i see it as my next reward (Yes I know I can sell them and then buy glacial stuff on the tp, but I’m weird like that). xD

If I had 1000g I would wonder what happened to the other 1.5k I had. x)

On a more serious note, I’m a serious hoarder. I don’t buy anything unless I really, really have to. Only buy some gems every now and then to prepare for possible goodies.

Dara Potocska.8196:

Hey friends,

I wanted to let you know that we are investigating this.

Thank you for the reply. =D
Guild has been looking forward to the guild hall a lot, so this was a bit of a bummer.

Edit: it’s working now, tyvm!

Now my entire guild can’t access “guild data”, your guild panel shows empty and all amounts are set to 0.
Also no guild tag in front of names in chat anymore.

Only having this problem for this guild, the other guilds I’m part of load just fine.

Edit: this fixed itself after 30min, still no guild hall though.

As soon kitten players are in the guild hall all otheres that try to enter get a “this world is full” message.
So we don’t even get instances or something, it just won’t let more people enter.

Today my guild claimed Gilded Hollow and no matter what we do (relogging, telling everyone to get out of the gh in order for it to reset or something, etc) it keeps a 5 player limit.

Is there any way to fix this or is it a known bug?

msquared.3452:

Vexx.3169:

Can confirm Fire Wyvern in the first HoT map.

http://puu.sh/kUM4s.jpg Link shows the route. Canopy above the Pale Reavers, then you fly off.

do u know how to get up there?

Use a chopper (night time) to get to the canopy near the Pact Commander WP. From there glide to the area where the legendary wyvern spawns (I think), you can’t miss it it’s a big grey “arena”. From there glide to the green island south of it.
There was only one fire wyvern there, took some time to locate it as well.

Wolf: Anubis
Hound: Barkspawn
Murellow: Crush
Panther: Dusk
Birds: Scrambled Eggs

To be honest I don’t really get the interest in stomping (other than showing a fun finisher), from what I’ve seen 9/10 times it’s safer to just AoE/attack spam a downed opponent than running in to attempt and stomp him.
And most of the time it’s safer to use a stability skill why trying to stomp anyone (not ranger specific), so just use that and you’re fine. If it wasn’t a ranger you were trying to kill you would probably use stability anyway.

And if a possible fix woud be to add the UI I really don’t see the complaint of your post.. it’s not like knowing that the ranger has an UI makes any difference. A ranger knows its pet can attack, no need to have th UI above the downed skills.

I don’t really understand the logic behind your request.
When a ranger goes down the pet just goes into “I must defend my master”-mode and will keep fighting till it’s dead. We can respawn it with skill 3 yes, but that takes way longer than the cooldown on the teleport skill for other classes.

And it’s not like a pet is super useful when you are downed. For the small chance that a pet can heal you in PvP (and maybe WvW, I don’t know) you have to keep the pet close to you (so it doesn’t have to run back to you and waste time when you hit 3). Meaning you are easily downed in all the damage people might throw on your pet.. and while it is healing you it is so easy to kill (while you take AoE or cleaving damage as well).

If you want my advice, don’t try to stomp a ranger just attack it normally, and when the pet runs towards the ranger to heal in downed state just switch target and fear/knockback/etc it away.

There is 1 heart in Caledon (right at the start, where you enter from the Grove).
2 hearts have been added to Plains of Ashford (don’t know exact location, sorry).

Dragonite Ore: Use a lvl 80 character and do the priest events in Orr (give ~30 ore), smaller world events (like Fire ele, Behemoth) also give Ore but a lower amount.
Obsidian Shards: If you are experienced in WvW cap camps and/or join EB to cap Stonemist three times. For both achievements you’ll get a chest with obsidian shards (WvW season 2 achievements). Or you can buy them with karma from the merchant at the Balthazar Temple in SoD (2.1k karma for 1 shard), if you are short on karma just run EotM for a few hours. Or buy them with fractal relics in FotM or buy them with laurels.
Thermocatalytic regeant: Purchase from master craftsmen
Augur Stone: Buy from Miyani (next to mystic forge) for 20 skill points

Good luck.

Tonight my guild tried to do missions and with every mission type we had to taxi guild members to the right map. I don’t mind doing it for 1 mission, but doing it for 4 is just insane especially since you are on a timer (it’s bad with bounty, other missions are okay but still annoying).

With the puzzle we actually had to wait in line because 3 other guilds were before us, in the end we decided to accompany the guild before us which turned into a big mess (>75 people running over ledges and stuff), most people did manage to finish the puzzle but we didn’t enjoy it at all.

Challenge.. we got the challenge in Blazeridge (destroying the crystals), when we got there again 3 other guilds were already waiting. And this time megaserver decided to work flawlessly: leaving party and/or guild, the game refused to put any member on a different map, we were stuck in the queue for the challenge.
We figured no big deal, we had world event available so we decided to do Karka Queen. When we got back to challenge a guild was already doing it but no other guilds waiting. So we just waited till they finished, then when we were about to activate it some guy from a different guild runs towards the challenge marker, activates it and then just runs off. Forcing us to wait 20 minutes (again!) before we can start it ourselves. And the guy(‘s guild) didn’t even do the challenge, he just ran off. And as Solitary pointed out, you cannot pick up the weapons unless you are part of the guild who activated the mission.

Is this really how megaservers are supposed to work; dumping people on different maps when doing missions. It would be nice if the game would check if any guild mission is active and then make 100% sure to place guildies on the same map.
We used to be able to finish missions in 1.5 hours, but now with all the waiting and taxing it took us almost twice as long.