Guild Wars 2

I get motion sickness extremely easily when traveling and from some visual effects, but I have had zero problems with the raptor mount. I keep my field of view maxed, motion blur off, camera shake off, and keep my camera zoomed out a fair amount.

Dawdler.8521:

Amaimon.7823:

Dawdler.8521:

Jayne.9251:

Dawdler.8521:

Amaimon.7823:

For me it’s a big problem that all the tickets are in the last chest.
Playing several sessions a week, and only able to get close to (not guaranteed to finish) the second chest, means I have to almost quit my job if I want to get more than 10 tickets a week. If I can just get 5 more tickets from the attempt of the second I can at least get somewhere….

How do people do it.. you have to play 2 hours before you start earning pips, and then it takes ages to get somewhere once you start earning pips

I am on vacation so that’s how I do it but that last part is just ridiculous. You dont have to play for 2 hours before earning pips unless you try to gain them AFKing at spawn on logon. About two camps should be enough for T3, which is done in 10 minutes tops. If there is a zerg on the map you can often just go there and leech whatever they where doing to get T3 within the tick.

Ok I’m confused. People in this thread are complaining about how slow it is to gain tickets by afking at spawn and can get them quicker if they just participate?

… wat?

I was pointing out his claim that it take 2 hours before even starting to earning ticks. What are you reading?

Are we playing the same game?
my problem is that every round takes two hours. Within those two hours you need to reach tier 3 or higher. THEN you need to maintain the tier 3 or higher for the remainder period, and only THEN will ticks start coming in. I could start playing when there’s only 20 minutes left on the counter, but I don’t really have the luxury of deciding when I start playing. The problem is, you don’t start earning ticks until the second skirmish after entering WvW, and sometimes the time left in the first skirmish is all the time I have to play. I can get to tier 3 in 5-10 minutes, that’s no problem, but ticks don’t care, ticks don’t start until you’ve been actively playing during the transition of skirmish 1 to skirmish 2.

How much I AFK or how much I am actively tier 6 won’t change the fact I need to play 1 to 2 hours before I can start earning rewards

Uhm, obviously we arent playing the same game since the skirmish is irrelevant to the pip gain. You reach T3 participation and then you get pips (max of what you can get regardless of T3-T6 participation) every 5 minutes. It doesnt matter if its 110 minute left in the skirmish or 10 minutes. You get pips every 5 minutes as long as participation is kept over T3, period.

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I think maybe the confusion from the previous poster is that at the end of the skirmish it tells you how many pips you earned during that skirmish. However, if you watch the popups and the UI, you can definitely see that once you hit T3 you are earning them every five minutes. It’s quite easy to keep participation up too, so it’s easy to make a little progress even with just a short amount of time.

I do agree that it would be nice to get tickets at the end of each round of the current chest rather than not until the very end.

Going to add my request to please fix this soon. It’s really annoying that I have to uncheck it every time I log in. I have dual monitors and run the game in fullscreen windowed, so I am often alt tabbing to look at the wiki, forum, etc. If I do this while watching a story cut scene or something, I instantly lose the audio now if I forget to recheck the option.

Ubi.4136:

I get that some people find it inconvenient, but they want people who join WvW maps to be doing that content. If you only went to a WvW map to craft and leave, you obviously weren’t interested in WvW (at that moment), so you really don’t need to be there.

The change actually makes sense.

I totally agree with that. However, at the same time, this removed a feature from PvE. Adding crafting tables to the PvP lobby sounds like a good compromise and should make everyone happy.

MithranArkanere.8957:

The PvP lobby is to ‘close’ to LA to get crafting stations. You can just walk through the gate to get to the ones at LA.

It’s not hard to get to other crafting stations, but the WvW one was the only one that allowed you to keep your “place” in the outside world. Going to Lion’s Arch means you lose it.

Or to the PvP lobby.

CrashTestAuto.9108:

Conski Deshan.2057:

ElenaDragon.8401:

Devs, if you’re reading, please consider adding a title or some other reward for completing all the tribulation mode achievements.

This is what I’m hoping too, I hadn’t bothered with the achievements previously but I unlocked them all when this happened just in-case.
They should wait till after SAB ends to do it though so that players don’t figure out a way to cheat on those too.

I think the best case scenario would be adding new recolours next year (or this year and just don’t turn SAB off) for W1 and W2 trib modes. It sucks for people who’ve already done the content, but at least they’ve learned the routes. The current skins have been totally devalued and its the only way to salvage the system.

I think they will save the new colors for new worlds, if they ever add them. I’ve got my fingers crossed for next year.

ToT.7018:

Khyan.7039:

ToT.7018:

Can you salvage the kaiser snake weapon to get moto’s bauble infusion so it can be inserted into another weapon or armor ?

You don’t need to salvage it.

I currently have it on a sword, but if i wanted to put it on another weapon is it possible?

You need to use an Infusion Extractor to extract the aura infusion.

CrashTestAuto.9108:

They could have just not said anything. Or said it was an exploit and then fixed it later.

Obviously saying that it was an exploit, then admitting they couldn’t stop it isn’t a good idea, but they could have done something like:

Dev: “We consider this to be an exploit, and it is not in line with the terms an conditions.”

Dev (after SAB has finished): “To those concerned that we have not punished exploiters. We apologise, but we do not have the resources to do this at this time. As we hope you understand, we also have other priorities in game right now. We will however fix this exploit before the next release of SAB. We do continue to take exploiting seriously, and it is unfortunate that due to the specific nature of this exploit we are unable to take further action.”

That would have minimised the damage done by the exploit, appeased the people wanting transparency, and not involved any kind of dishonesty.

Of course, staying silent would also have achieved most of that. Basically the only thing they could do to entirely devalue the skins was exactly what they did.

I wish this was the route they had taken. I’ve been spending 2+ hours every day in tribulation mode trying to get the tokens for the achievement. I was excited to have items actually locked behind difficult content and I love SAB. Telling people it’s okay to use a bug to circumvent the content and get these with no effort really disappoints me.

Devs, if you’re reading, please consider adding a title or some other reward for completing all the tribulation mode achievements. My only other hope is that when SAB returns next year it will have world 3 with new items and achievements for tribulation mode that cannot be bought.

rsimoes.3851:

Rhyav.4812:

Even though I’d love to see this feature, I can’t imagine how they’d implement it. Imagine you have 250 Bandit Coin Purses and you open them all at once 90% of the items you receive would go to the “You’re encumbered!” bag and you’ll end up spending the same amount of time (if not more) clearing bag slots for the items to fill them immediately, so you’re unable to salvage until you have nothing else on the encumbered bag, which will take quite some time.
I think I’d prefer a “Salvage all possible non-rare items” option and I feel is more viable.

Actually it’s not that hard, they can easily implement a function that will check if you have any inventory space left before opening the next bag, and stop if you don’t.

Except that it’s probably implemented not to randomly generate the loot until it is opened, and the number of items you get out of a bag can vary.

Amurond.4590:

Ele… sucks… at break bars?

For ele: Gust (staff air 3), and utility skills Aftershock (if Tempest) and Signet of Earth. Also Tornado I think? The breakbar doesn’t last long enough to do all of those.

Also, if you happen to be Asura (of any class), Technobabble.

It is starting to seem like bombing the dragon is a better way to break the stun bar though.

I’m happy for the revamp, and like the interesting new mechanics, but I would enjoy the fight a lot more if not for two things:

1. Camera issues. I like to keep my camera all the way zoomed out for boss fights so I can actually see what’s going on. Every time I glided and dropped near the Shatterer, my camera would zoom in again, so I’d have to zoom it out manually. This was quite tedious.

2. As others have mentioned, lag. I’m hopeful that this is just because it is new, but it’s difficult to react to all the new stuff when you can’t see what’s going on, can’t cast your skills, and can’t always deploy a glider. My game normally runs fine with graphics turned all the way up, and I had turned them all the way down for the fight, so I don’t think it’s on my end.

I think the fight would be really fun without these two issues! Definitely better than the previous auto attack afk fight.

OMG, I have wanted this since day one!! It seems like such a small thing, but there are many benefits. Being able to see myself as the smallest asura possible will help greatly, as well as being able to see at a glance which guild I’m representing and what title is equipped. Thank you!!

Patch notes say it is fixed. Haven’t tried it myself, but thanks ANET!

I’m also getting this a lot. Very frustrating.

With centaur runes, signet, and heal mantra, I now have 100% swiftness on my mesmer, and have stacked over a minute of swiftness (over time of recasting and running around).

It’s not a puzzle, just a rocky ledge.

Seems like a good thing to submit a bug report on.

Did you spend a mastery point on it once the progress bar finished?

I can hear some notes of the Storm Top SAB track in the new Verdant Brink music. Hoping the new tracks will be up on SoundCloud!

I would love a title for completing all the jumping puzzles in the game.

I collect endless tonics, so I really want the gift one. :P

I did the same. I would love to know if there is a way to get the recipes other than getting lucky with gifts or paying between 25g and 100g EACH on the TP.

This is happening to me today as well. I’ve already attempted the achievement on two different characters, but now the challenge mote is not showing up. I exited and reset the instance, but no luck.

Thanks Anymras! The workaround worked for me. After it teleported me back to the beginning, I just left through the portal behind me and talked to the golem on the outside to be teleported to stormy.

I am getting the improperly aligned error too, even though I got the attunement (tried it twice). I’ve done this JP many times before and never hit this when getting the attunement. Seems to be bugged to me.

I arrived and the quest was nearly over, mobs were spawning, but no one had yet turned in any spores. Quest failed.

Someone started it again and the entire timer ran out without a single mob spawning (only a few of us here… maybe it is dependent on number of players?).

Someone else started it a third time (more people here by now), and mobs started spawning right away. Finished the event, yay!

So if you’re having trouble, stick around and hopefully it will work for you.

I don’t mind the dialog the first time around (though I wish NPCs would run instead of walking slowly everywhere), but it would be nice if you could skip it once you’ve finished the story. Sometimes you might have to do the whole instance a few times for some of the achievements, and the waiting does get tedious.

Lil Puppy.5216:

Yes, unlock skin option account binds it. There are literally no options for unlocking a skin and being able to profit from it.

You either account/soul bind it (via equip or unlock skin), destroy it, salvage it, or mystic forge it.

If it has a vendor price, you can still vendor it after unlocking it.

Nabrok.9023:

ElenaDragon.8401:

Nabrok.9023:

The reason it isn’t there is because they don’t want people using HotM as a quick bank and then returning to their previous location.

I’d be ok if they removed the return to previous location function, leaving only the LA/Gendarren portal.

It’s pretty easy to use WvW for this already.

Not on tier 1 it isn’t.

Good point. That’s something I forget since I’m on a lower tier server myself. However, I believe that if ANet wanted to prevent players from accessing a bank easily without losing their PvE place, they would not have included it in WvW.

Okay, thanks! I wish that had been clear in the update notes.

My question is really about the recipe itself. Does it require the rare version of the dye packs to work?

Nabrok.9023:

The reason it isn’t there is because they don’t want people using HotM as a quick bank and then returning to their previous location.

I’d be ok if they removed the return to previous location function, leaving only the LA/Gendarren portal.

It’s pretty easy to use WvW for this already.

Has anyone crafted any unidentified dyes in the mystic forge? Although it doesn’t seem financially advantageous to do so right now, I was curious about the recipe and created four of the common brown dye packs with cooking. However, when I went to the mystic forge, they were greyed out.

Just in case devs are reading this, I’m adding my support/request for bringing SAB back. It has been some of the most enjoyable content for me in the game, and I would love to see worlds 3 and 4 added!

You could also park them at harvesting locations, like potato or strawberry farms and harvest daily. Sell what you harvest.

This is a great idea. With set times for events now, it would be great to be able to see these timers when mousing over the area in the map or something.

According to the notes for the small update yesterday, they raised the price to 5 tickets.

This is my biggest problem with playing female asura characters (which are by far my favorite), especially with light armor. I’m not looking for revealing, but it just seems like far more time is spent making the female versions of the armor look good than the male versions (which is what female charr and asura get).

Wanze.8410:

I got about 200 rare dyes on buy order for 5s yesterday. Throw them in the forge, got abyss on second forge, celestial on 8th. Stopped and listed all remaining dyes for 30-50s each.

I had a very lucky day as well. I received about 190 unidentified dyes from duplicates. I opened them all and got 2 abyss dyes. Then I threw the remaining duplicates into the forge and got a third abyss dye! Could not believe my luck! Before yesterday, the best dye I had ever found since launch was gold dye, which sold for about 3g at the time.

Yeah, you don’t need to collect any of the dyes again. If you have a dye on any of your characters, after the patch they will be available to ALL your characters.

You get three transmutation stones for map completion on each city. You can just keep creating new characters and mapping out the cities. Or just keep doing the same city on newly created characters if it’s faster (I like Rata Sum, for example, because I know where everything is). You can do all five racial cities plus Lion’s Arch for 18 total stones I believe. Rinse and repeat as you like.

Champ trains are popular because they’re fast and give good loot for the time required. Reduce the respawn rate or make them more random and the trains won’t work. If the champions only spawn once in a while or on a random timer, then when they’re up, people already on the map can pull together to defeat them, but the trains will fall apart.

So if you’ve been thinking about creating any new characters, do so before April 15th.

I would love to to find a clip of the robot song, the little tune that asura robots sing from time to time.

I hope to see the return of SAB! Maybe it won’t line up with an April 1st release date, but I have really enjoyed the first two releases and would love to see the next soon. It’s one of my favorite parts of the game.

DeadlySynz.3471:

I’ve heard a few people in game say this method is quite time consuming..

Time is money, would it be not be far more efficient to just buy the keys if you really want them?

You can also make decent gold from both dungeons and farming in frostgorge.. would it not be quicker to farm the gold to buy gems with to get the keys?

Yes, it would be far quicker for me to buy them directly with either gems or converted gold for gems. However, I disagree with the sale of black lion keys for gems on principle.

Astral Projections.7320:

I buy 10 to 20 dollars worth of gems each month. I’m happy to do that to buy DIRECTLY the things I want. But I do key runs because I disapprove of gambling using real money.

Same here. I buy plenty of gems with cash regularly, but refuse to spend gems on RNG items, except for the occasional dye pack or mini set, when I have some idea of what I’m getting. I do key runs from time to time in the hope to one day get enough tickets to get a fused weapon (mostly a pipe dream at this point).

For many of the recent LS events, I have far better luck with overflow maps than I do with my own server. I guest so I can get into an overflow with more people as my home server simply cannot complete many of the latest events, especially at non prime time hours.

I would prefer that the events be balanced for lower population servers so that I can do these on my home server without having to resort to overflows.

I tried equipping mine after the patch, and it wouldn’t let me without selecting stats (with a warning that it would become soulbound). It seems that they changed the behavior.