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Oreoz.2573:

Anatolian Turk.4057:

if i was you i wouldnt waste your time trying to get legandary precursor using Mystic Forge. You vs RNG. RNG always wins.

i’m inclined to disagree.

While you have no real control, doing it more and more will ONLY increase your chances. The trick is balancing yourself out financially so you don’t lose everything which means not allowing yourself to go below a certain amount if and when you buy the exos to toss in.

On a side note, me and guildee were farming for onyx lodestones the other night.

Between us we found 5 (with me making enough money off loot to buy a 6th) as well as 9 rares.

It was a very lucrative night and proved that RNG does not always win.

Patience does.

Getting a prec after 1000th try is not winning at all. Just calculate the cost and time req for 4000 exos/rares. I feel like I’m robbed instead of feeling lucky.

Koven Acris.5236:

Love how this is a massive issue, but forcing people into FOTM isn’t…

Even you are at fractal lv50 you can just go and do 51 and 52 to have the achi. This imho is fun. But just visiting 30 jps is no way fun.

Once again, i am looking for just one key point with all of those achis, i want to have fun while achieving them.

Aphix.9846:

This is not arguable – the achievement is just simply stupid, I could think of 100 better ones in a minute. I’ve done all of the JP’s and revisiting them is by far the most pointless thing I could think of tbh. Events = profit (gold, karma), wvw kills (badges and fun), fractal (profit and fun anyway imo) etc…
Now JP’s = Massive 100% braindead waste of time, I’ve done them all and they are NOT fun the 2nd time you ‘discover them’ (lol what the kitten??)…
Truely shows how incompetent some people are, honestly…if I was trying my hardest to think of a really bad monthly achievement – I wouldn’t even come up with that, that takes some skills to make up smth that bad.

I could not agree more. What a pointless achievement. I’ve done all the JPs but revisiting them is nothing close to fun. Do I have to teleport to all the 30 JPs and discover them while losing my precious silvers to tp costs or do I have to run all the way and spend one day just running? None of them are fun. This, my friends, is a proof that ANet is loosing their grip of understanding what is fun and what is not anymore.

What I am afraid of is that ANet may not be reading posts here and realise what we are complaining about.

I hope I am wrong. I seriously do…

You are right. I am not using my cleric’s set anymore and not raising in the middle of ANY event if there is still a mob to hit.

Support role is still not encouraged in this system and as far as I know ANET has still no answers on similar topics.

Have fun

I guess ANET is still trying to find the gold/cash sweet point where people can buy gems for gold without any concerns. Imho they are still far away from it since I won’t spend 5$ for 5g80s.

I don’t know if it will help you or not but almost all the essences I’ve got was from the underwater fractal, first part where you free 3 prisoners. The trash mob there are easy to handle with full MF gear even at lv20 and tend to drop essences a lot. I even got 2 once. Also if you can afford it, try having an omnomberry.

Decomposing Brains.7538:

There is no official app…
If you have an android you may want to install these (and posting a on pc version of each too):

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gw2.skilltool – skill tool, unfortunely no stats yet, but good for some basic theorycraft (multiple ones on the computer, http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/ being my favourite from the ones i’ve tryed)

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sirpali.gw2.tradepost.calculator – to search an item you may want and see it’s tendencys while out of the computer (gw2spidy if on the computer)

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.threesixtydev.fotohlfg – a non official dundgeon party finder (gw2lfg.com on the computer)

Besides those on android I’ve tryed most and you may want a dragon timer (they are about as good between them) but not anything that is almost a must

for iphone sorry but can’t advise on anything

Nice collection. The TP app is great and I will be using a dragon timer I have just found a lot. Thanks mate.

Hey guys,

I would like to know if any mobile app development is going on? Any specifications ANET could share would be great like will it be on android or apple first? I would also like to know what can we do with the GW2 mobile app? Any insights? It’s been really long since I’ve last heard from this mobile app idea.

Thanks.

Being someone who has finished all the jump puzzles, I am really looking forward for this one. The clock tower puzzle was the best bit in the game imho. Please make more of them. Excitement is all I am hoping for. I cannot find much of an excitement in the game nowadays

I got my chest too. No precursor but 20 slot bag and a few exotics calmed me ^^.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

report them and they can’t do it to others. Cull them from the population and the odds of it being done to you grow ever smaller.

Report them please.

Well about reporting.. This may be off topic but I am reporting a group of players for botting for about a week but they are still there at the same time, same group, same place. I wonder if any action has been taken against them. There are a bunch of players with qwerrasdfdsfg like names on Aurora Glade, Gendarran Fiels just west of Cornucopian waypoints about 20:00 GMT which are obviously botting. Please take action and ban them permanently, make them suffer.

Any update? I still need an official explanation on the approach chosen for the distribution of these chests. Any Anet representative reading this post?

I hope i will get my chest someday too ^^

Aurelian Omenkind.2470:

I also got a chest this morning. Contents:

exotic ring L74
exotic shortbow L74
exotic acc L80
20 slot bag
rare axe

very happy. Kudos, Anet! What other MMO keeps an issue like this alive to resolve weeks after the furor has died down? It’s why I’ll keep playing GW2 for the foreseeable future.

Lol, solved the issue? I am still waiting! Some people got their rewards at the event and got their rewards a second time with mail. This is not a solution. They messed this thing up real bad!

Opsfor.2814:

I’m not trolling. I’m just amazed by how greedy people are over a Virtual Item.

I paid real money for the game, you did not?

I just wanted a ‘fair’ game and ANet failed to provide that to me. Even some people had their rewards at the event, they got the mail too. I have proof of being there with screenshots but no reward, no mail, nothing.

I seriously need an answer ANet because I started to think that you messed this up really bad. If something I paid messes up this bad, I have a tendency to get an explanation out of it. What procedures did you follow to decide on who gets the chest? Don’t you think I have a right to know?

I want to know what are the requirements to receive these items. I think I have the right to know the method they were using when deciding on the ‘winners’. Please enlighten us ANet!

Hi ANet,

About the Karka event and its reward, I did participate in the event, disconnected several times and could not loot the last chest. So I heard that you were giving away the "box"es to the participants via an in game mail. I was excited to hear about it, but when I logged in and checked my account there was nothing. Is it lost on the way to me?

I would like to know how did you decide on who will get the box and who will not? Please inform us about the process.

Here are my "evidence"s on being there with different parts of the event. And I am pretty sure that you can see I did not get any chests via ingame mail and did not loot the chest at the end of the event from you logs.

Thanks in advance,
Estalantee.

Same problem here. I am using an AMEX card and I am pretty sure my info is correct. After the payment confirmation screen, the previous payment info screen comes up and nothing happens. No error code or anything.

Garambola.2461:

The Current Monthly Requirements are:

1. Monthly WvWvW Player Kills: 50 to kill
2. Fractal Frequenter: 7 fragments to complete
3. ?
4. ?

No change in Daily.

Thanks Garambola,

timecookie.8570:

Seriously, it takes 2 hours to complete 7 fractals. How can you say “small 50 kills” in WvW?

About the swamp requiring coordination it was a bit fun : you have a countdown that starts when someone pick a wisp up and you also have a mini-map so check it. Each player can complete its path solely (which is basically what happens most of the time).

Anyway, I was more interested in Dungeon Completed rather than exclusively Fractals.
… Unless FotM become wider?

I agree…

Winds.3087:

I think it’s just selfish. Ran into this kind of player in full mf some time ago on fractal 10 and it wasn’t pleasant experience. He died first and forced us to finish most encounters as 4man.
On top of that, carried person pulled his jerk card and insulted us, when we pointed out that he should change his gear.
And you can’t even kick this kind of people in fractal, this is a problem.

The first time I was ‘busted’ with MF gear and asked to change it was at lvl 19. I did so without any opposition. Then at lvl 20 I went in with full rare MF again except +5 ar ring. It was the first dungeon without any repair cost for me, meaning I did not die even once.

Later on I figured that I do not die as much as full exo proper gear wearers and infact I keep alive longer that most of them. I guess that is because;

1) I have a +5 ar ring
2) I know how to dodge and know which boss’ which attack puts agony.
3) I have a guardian and have lots of shields which help me block agony attacks.

Sorry for this personal request but could someone post the monthly achievement requirements? I’m can read the posts but cannot log in now. Also if there is any change to daily could you please post them too if that is not too much to ask?

Thanks in advance.

Do fractals without MF armor!

Last night I figured that if I use non MF armor, the loot bags drop often (otherwise you will drop equipment frequently). And the bags will give you T6 items most of the time.

With two fractal runs last night I had more than ten T6 items of different kinds.

You know what would be better? A fractal raid!

Fractals are the best!

We need more fractal dungeons!

Nox Aeterna.2965:

Phantom.8130:

the way i look at it, if i wanted a raid i’d go play WoW. i don’t want a raid, so i play GW2.

I agree with this , and i hope Anet also do not bring this game closer to WoW then it already is with the gear grind.

There is NO need for raids in my opinion.

Did you participate the event? Do you think the servers were ‘serving’ well? If you don’t think that the servers were capable of handling this event then why are you opposing to a solution for this problem?

I don’t play PvP but I never opposed the idea to have it with this game.

I am pretty sure most of the opposing people here got their rewards from the one time event and want others not to have the same.

/signed.

I was there trying to participate the event but disconnecting regularly and killing mobs and not counting towards kill count was frustrating and I quit. Then learned that if I could go for like 1 hour (without disconnecting of course) I could get a precursor. This is not what I am paying for.

Paradox.5498:

But I guess you’re the type of person rejecting people for AC story mode if they’re not lvl80 too.

The assumption you are making is based on no solid ground. You sound like a 9 year old when bringing people’s personal opinions into discussion even without knowing what they really are.

In a discussion, if you want to stand your point, you back it up with solid evidence or your personal view on the subject and I see you fail on that.

If all the party is equipped with just blue gear, you will either fail badly or if you are so skilled to press 7-8 buttons in order, it will just take too long. In another topic I suggested people to test it with doing AC exp with 5 lv35 guys and then doing the same route with 5 lv80s. Then decide if it depends on gear or not. I did and I am sharing my experience with you. With lv35s, it takes about 1.5-2 hours to finish AC path 2, that is if you can finish. With lv80s it takes about half an hour. The best time I had was 21 mins. So it absolutely depends.

Out of topic; I did NEVER reject someone because they are low level and I will NEVER do so. But I have the freedom to choose the guys I want to party with and I do so!

Olba.5376:

Tempest.1069:

2. Inspect, where we can inspect other players equips (if they dont want to get inspected, just simply check “Dont Inspect”)
3. Mounts (Optional though, since we have fast travels) but it would be cool if we have mounts.

No to both of these.

Inspect, in any form, is going to be abused by elitist dungeon monkeys.

Mounts don’t really have much of a point. We have way points and all classes get some form of speed boost already.

So I have to endure 4 people running a dungeon, having full traveler’s set? I don’t think so.

I feel like I have the right to check people and know if I can trust them for an hour long run.

If I have the right to call someone a monkey, those will be the ones ruining my dungeon run with their greed for gold.

I, also, don’t see the reason behind this mechanic. Why do we have to pay 40s each time we want to change to a profession we have mastered? I have mastered 4 professions, wanted to master all but this cost of changing profession stopped me to do so. It feels like I am being punished to be a master of all the professions and I don’t even know the reason behind. If a gold sink needs to be placed in this area, 40s is not reasonable price here.

In FFXI you could master all the classes and the professions in just one char and switch between them easily without a cost. I don’t think that ruined any part of the game.

I meant that, I think they will add all those builds, varieties to the game but step by step. Step by step meaning with each expansion, upgrade or whatever. So I think the ‘something is missing’ feeling you are having will be addressed eventually.

BabelFish.7234:

That’s a pretty kittenumption to make. I can kill 1-2 players. I can’t kill 3+ solo.

So are you suggesting that a system is faulty if you cannot beat it solo? I cannot take the Stonemist Castle alone. I can kill 1-3 NPC’s bu I can’t take 4, even when no PC’s around, I cannot take it. So the system should be faulty, broken. I should take a castle, a castle in a PvP content map, solo. Those ANET developers, what were they thinking?

Dogblaster.6713:

I already have 6x 80 lvl … and nearly 900 hours played.

What the kitten!?

So you have played 15 hours a day roughly? Everyday? Without even skipping one or covering for the one you have skipped? Seriously? Any real life going on?

So If I gather enough people in any castle in any W3 map and defend it like it was the end of the world and you couldn’t siege it, will you still be writing/posting about it?

So what do you suggest ANET for their expansions to come?

DigitalKirin.9714:

Or you could do it like FFXI. Gather 18-40 of your closest friends twice a week for a year to run Dynamis at a million Gil a run.

Yea, I remember that… Takes about 2 years to gather all the gil and items for an end game dagger. My THF/DNC was really sorry cause I couldn’t invest all the time required for her dagger ^^.

But ANET should include some ‘legendary’ dungeon runs or boss fights instead of a legendary gambling skill. I’ve played quite a lot of MMO and by far GW2’s legendary requirements are the most boring. The only thing you need is to grind and gamble. It makes me feel like I’m playing a gambling MMO instead of a fantasy MMO.

In the end, when they ask me about the story of obtaining my legendary weapon, all I can tell will be “I’ve traveled every corner of the world for three weeks and then threw 2000 great swords into a pool after months of grinding for gold and karma, which was basically doing THE KITTEN SAME process for about 1000 times and then got my Twilight”. Yea, a story to be told!

Don’t get me wrong. GW2 is the best game I’ve played for a really long time. I love playing PvE and W3 but this doesn’t mean I hate some methods they force us to get an ‘cosmetic’ item.

PS. the second most boring method to get an epic weapon was Knight Online, a stupid free MMO. Which had almost the same legendary requirements as GW2. Gathering and gambling. No need to face any ‘challenges’.

I liked the idea of a trait/skill being a dungeon reward. You should bring this up in suggestion forums too.

I saw someone in WvWvW, EB jump puzzle to be exact, using thief copies, teleporting, going invisible, running away from a guardian with “Retreat” (me), using a bow, rallying from downed state and owning three lv80s all at the same time. If this is not cheating what is?

Seriously, someone answer me what the kitten is this? Is this intended? Can you explain it with “pure losers”, is this an “epic win” or is this a cheating player? All I want to have is an explanation of what may be the case here?

I couldn’t read all the posts but wanted to post my opinions on this one, sorry if I repeat anyone here.

I’ve full AC armor and running towards my Gift of Ascalon so I have lots of AC experience and observations. Believe it or not I’ve completed path 2 with 4 50’s while I was the only 80. But it took 1.5 hour. In general, 5 experienced 80s will finish it in 25 mins max. I guess this is purely on gear and unlocked skills difference.

The easiest way to test this is to go in AC with 4 50s and check how long it takes to kill the first spider boss. Then do the same thing with 4 80s and check the time again. Then compare. I’m a full support guardian and keep level 50s up without a problem on that fight so death zerging is not the cause of the time consumption either.

That being said, if I don’t want to spend 1.5 hour to a dungeon that I can finish in half an hour that does not make me an elitist. At worst I can be selective or time conservative.

Thanks for all the input again guys. I guess I’ll buy a heavy armor skin and some bag/bank space upgrades instead with my hard earned gems ^^.

ilJumperMT.4871:

aegis is suppose to block only ONE attack

Virtue’s aegis
Retreat’s aegis
Save Your Selves’ aegis
Skill 5 of Focus (its like 3 aegises)

So yea, I can in fact block at least 6 times in a fight. Maybe not consecutive but still effective. Consider if you are up against me if you realize you have been blocked excessively before blaming the bug ^^.

Hi guys,

I want buy Digital Deluxe Upgrade for Mistfire Wolf but not sure if it is worth the gems. I also have some questions about it. If anyone can help, I’d appreciate a lot.

1) Can I unlock the skill on my Lv80 character? I’ve read it on some forum that you cannot unlock it on characters before the upgrade, but only new characters after the upgrade. Maybe an AN staff can answer this one. Is that true?

2) Is it worth the gems? I have a norn guardian which I rarely use an elite skill with. They are all useless. Is this Mistfire Wolf worth using? I’ve never seen it in game so maybe people don’t find it usefull. Any opinions?

3) How good/bad is it in PvP/WvW?

Thanks in advance.

Norn female guardian.

Nobody wants to see a male *.

Mitsu.5193:

yesterday, was doing some heaths with my ele alt (4x) at harathi hinterlands, then idontknowwhy i entered to a cave, found out i had to put stones on some spots to open the door, after that there was this huge room with rock floor, i started walking and guess what, the floor just fellt down and i was dead with a cute achiviement, i laughed for 5 mins.

i tryed 3 more times till i could pass it lol

How did you open that gate? I stumbled upon the cave but as far as I recall there were 3 or 4 spots to put rocks on, and the rocks I put was not lowering the platform but standing on it was. So I thought I would need a few more people to pass that point.

One of the really high vistas over a sea (I guess it was in Orr) had a diving goggle. You could take it and jump down to sea with your swimsuit on. That was the best vista I guess.

Well I don’t usually suggest anything on any game mechanics since I believe suggesting won’t do any good, but I will on this one.

I think it would be nice to rise my chances of getting a precursor if I contributed to solving world’s problems. That feels like more legendary.

Eg.:
RNG * (number of renowned hearts finished * a constant here / max renowned hearts) * (number of individual events finished * a constant here / max event type count) * (cumulative count of events finished / max event type count)

This way you could encourage people to do every event and give them hope saying “You will eventually get it, keep trying and rising your RNG multiplier”. Otherwise people like me are afraid of throwing thousands of weapons and getting nothing. I don’t like gambling and if I must, I would do anything to rise my chances.

Thanks for all the input. I need to clarify a few things though.

I do know that I can buy coins from TP but I do need all the gold I can get for lodestones. Also they are not that cheap when you try to buy 1k of them since you will need some more for other items, amulets for example.

I do 2 different dungeons runs, WvW jump puzzle, daily achievements and ori/log farming on a daily basis. These take up to 3.5 hours of my day. For the last half an hour, I do crafting or market research. I, of course, will have more time when I finish farming for 500 badges of honor and dungeon tokens but still I don’t think I can earn 15 skill points or 50k karma with the time I left. Also bear in mind that those figures are the figures that you can accomplish simultaneously, not if you focus on one item a day but all together.

By the way, here is the recipe I use;

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsKnPQG8z5HSdEw3T0J6bFBjMjI4VnpZd2hidTNyUUE#gid=0

Feel free to correct me if anything on the list is wrong.

Thanks in advance.

Hi guys,

I need directions to shorten the time I need to invest farming for my legendary weapon and if possible make it more fun.

I play about 4 hours a day, which I think is a lot already and the figures below are my rough estimates from my experiences on the last 1.5 month.

I find it really long to farm for a year just to get a legendary weapon. I feel like I’ll be missing a lot of content while chasing a legendary. So here are my questions.

1) I know karma can be gathered via excessive farming but with my available time I won’t be getting all before 142 weeks. That’s a lot of farming. I do not want to camp in Orr to farm the same event over and over for about 3 years. Any better, fun way to gather it?

2) As far as I know, only ways to gather mystic coins are daily and monthly achievements, which will sum up to 50 a month. So in order to get the 770 mystic coins needed, I need to log in every day and do daily/monthly achievements for 16 months! I really want an explanation on this from ANET too. Is this really the way to go? You couldn’t came up with anything better? I am looking for a better, fun way to gather them too.

TLDR; Farming just for karma and mystic coins for a legendary weapon takes about one and a half year according to me. Any ideas to make it fast, fun or ideally both?

Well from another point of view;

Why would someone sell an item that can be bought for 5g lower?