Guild Wars 2

I thought this has happened to me to but you actually did get the achievement. The counter sets back to zero because it is a repeatable achievement.

it seems like the bosses there have a pretty non-random spawn timer. While i was farming the viscount and lich were pretty regular. It stands to reason that on the servers he’s not showing on he’s bugged. Unsure what is causing this but hopefully Anet is looking into it.

I was on an overflow today on blackgate and didn’t see him either after about 4 hours

Been searching for this guy for two days now. Spent a good solid 4 hours in the labyrinth this morning with a zerg. Killed lich and viscount probably 6 times a piece and not once did i see him. Someone else came in and said they experienced the same thing since yesterdays patch. Can this be looked into please?

jsduke.6537:

Sir Erighan.9260:

You can get 80 emp frags in 45min running CoF 2x on 2 chars. Throw in a SE run and you’re at 100 in an hour.

You’re right, I hadn’t thought of that. I will probably start farming the easier dungeon paths to make up the Frag deficit I’ve been working with. It’s a shame to have to do that, though. I doubt it was what devs intended when they were putting the recipe together.

Anyway, thanks for the tip!

I think they envisioned people not rushing to do it in a ridiculously fast amount of time. They want you to earn it from playing multiple facets of the game. Knowing which JP to do is also important. There are 3 in caledon forest that give 7-9 each and really they don’t take long unless you are not very good at them. Add Pirate puzzle from LA and do it again on a second character and you are just about there. This shouldn’t take that long. There are also a couple puzzles that have extra world chests in them like the hexfoundry in sparkfly or the aether puzzle that you can grab two of them only doing the very first part of the puzzle.

In addition know where the world chests are can be useful as well for quick gathering over multiple characters. But I digress, my original argument stands that i don’t think they were looking to give you one quick way to gather these resources or not have a bottleneck of some sort to slow things down.

Just my two cents.

StinVec.3621:

Lopez.7369:

Shiren.9532:

I may have gotten this but 800 gems is far too much for this kind of content. That’s like a monthly subscription and I don’t think that’s worth a month in subscription fees.

What you said is completely contradictory. If you bought it, it’s priced correctly. That’s how supply and demand works.

They didn’t say that they bought it, they said that they may have been interested in buying it had it not been as expensive as it is, that had it been less expensive they’d have probably picked one up.

That is also in line with my feelings on the subject of Infinite Gathering Tools; I don’t mind “Soulbound on Use”, but at 800 Gems each…thanks, but no thanks. If they were 200 Gems each I’d be buying dozens of them. At 800 I won’t even be buying one.

Again, ArenaNet…people are more willing to make many smaller amount purchases over a single larger one, even if it ends up costing more in the long run. At 200 Gems each, I’d happily spend 6000 gems to outfits 10 characters with a single set of Infinite Gathering Tools, instead I’m spending no gems.

I’d also have no problem with buying additional versions of the infinite tools on each of those 10 characters when they are released or made available. I’d swap out to whichever I felt like using at the time. So also buying each variation of each Infinite Gathering Tool across 10 characters would really add up.

Infinite Gathering Tools
10 Characters
3 Infinite Tools Each
3 Variations of Each Tool (when made available)
18,000 – # of Gems I’d spend @ 200 Gems per tool
22,500 – # of Gems I’d spend @ 250 Gems per tool
ZERO – # of Gems I’ve spent and will ever spend on Infinite Tools that cost 800 Gems Each

And that’s just on Infinite Gathering Tools and not even getting into what would have been spent on pieces from a single set of Gem Armor had armor pieces been sold individually in the gem store instead of as full sets.

99% of marketing is psychology.

I wholeheartedly support what this guy said. Sick of seeing 800 gem items. Given that this thing is soulbound and i gather on more than one character there is not a chance in hell i’d pay this much for ONE tool for ONE character. Give us some lower priced options. I know you are in it for making money Anet and no one faults you for this but let’s make this more realistic. Volume Pricing > High Cost.

i’d love to know what people would see as difficult but yet not frustrating. So far people have complained about HP increases on mobs. They then complain about unique encounters like the oozes. How about making a recommendation instead of just whining? So far this new dungeon has had interesting mechanics and utilized good team play. Kudos to anet for it. If you are going to gripe be constructive and offer at least some examples of what you “wouldn’t” complain about.

same here. It doesn’t happen all the time or every day but when it starts it occurs multiple times over a short period. D/C where game client loses connection. Sometimes you can just connect again from char select screen and others i have to crash game client and relaunch

Fungalfoot.7213:

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

There are many other things you can do in game that doesn’t require a zerg and give you good rewards for your time. Seriously, why do you even play?

Just sayin.

So your solution to the problem is to not do the content? The content you’re on here praising?

Wow, I don’t even know how to respond to that.

I think what he is saying is this is permanent content. It just came out and as such is going to be super busy during peak hours. If you can’t get into it right now just chill out and do something else and try to get in the next time it pops. You only need to get in once for the achievement so it’s no rush really. You can do things while in the overflow like farm resources needed for new crafting to 500 or go do jumping puzzles in the zone for the same reason. You don’t have to just stand around and twiddle your thumbs and gripe on the forums while you wait in overflow.

I am seeing the same thing here. Crash to char select or it does the crash but then can’t connect to login server

3 green skins and 1 yellow here. All achievements that aren’t bugged done and title received. Need a break lol. This was very fun though.

The eagle drops you at the bell outside of the last checkpoint. If you don’t trigger that checkpoint and you kill yourself you will respawn before the portal maze. Checkpoint just after leaving gong tower. You will still be much much closer to the end of the map and have to back track the other direction to get all the baubles in between. I have not successfully gotten the achievement as I experienced the same issue but i can confirm this is how the shortcut eagle works.

I assume that you are also running forward when you hit the combination of keys? Other than a timing issue on hitting the actual buttons this is only other thing you would be missing.

OK cool. My schedule is terrible I just didn’t want to invest a ton of time exploring SAB or trying to solo if i absolutely needed a group. Thanks for the feedback!

First time doing the SAB as i was on hiatus the first time it came around. I have only had time to logon and do World 1, Zone 1 at this time which i did solo. I notice it recommends a group of 5. What is everyone’s opinion on the necessity of a group? Does it get much harder thus requiring the group or is it tempered by player skill.

Ultimately, I am trying to determine how much time i need to invest on finding a group for this rather than just doing it solo as I have time.

Thanks in advance for the input.

I believe with all the invasions you have to participate in enough portal closes (be present at the event end when a portal gets closed successfully). I feel like the number is 5 but not sure where i got this from. Ultimately, this will allow the achievement to tick even if the invasion event runs out of time and fails. Sadly during my normal play hours it is off time for most servers so i have not been able to see invasions to success but I have gotten ticks for all invasions i have done.

I had a stack of tickets and bag rewards in my inventory when update went live. forced to log and download new update. Upon logging back in i started opening some of the bags only to find the money rewards were no longer present. So i spent XX amount of gold on tickets to use for rewards, had already received the rewards but since i hadn’t opened the bags before the update i get screwed? Can we get Anet to confirm if this is a bug or not?

Section – I think the inconsistency is problem due to how people are building in PvP itself. Lot more focus on toughness and also vitality mixed in there as well. On top of this people are focusing heavily on condition removal (no clue what your build focuses on or much about rangers in general).

On the flip side you will experience diminished healing perhaps due to some debuff that got slapped on you. You also need to remember that depending on what style of PvP your doing the amount of players your fighting can greatly impact how well you are going to do. WvW is rough when facing any type of large group because if you get focus fired specifically as a ranger your going to feel like a giant paper bag that dies in two seconds. Best recommendation here especially as a ranged class is do the best you can to avoid getting flanked or sucked in to the larger group that’s attacking. i know this seems obvious but WvW is very high paced and you can get swallowed rather easily. There will also be so many AOE flying around it’s hard to dodge them all but that is a goal as well. You don’t necessarily need to memorize all the skills of other classes but as you play you will start to see some obvious ones that you perhaps want to dodge etc. Just a small amount of insight but hope it helps you to get back in the saddle.

You do not need to win Reapers Rumble. I went in and finished a match (lost) and then once i left and went back to the labyrinth my achievement had updated for that area.

bumping for dev response or anyone who happens to know the answer.

where is the rumble located what zone do you enter from?

I was hoping to get a dev response on this. I know for a fact I won’t be able to make this as it seems based on prior posts there are a lot of people that can’t. Can a dev let us know if you will miss out on an event achievement if you are not able to participate in this? I know i’ll miss the cool event and all but was really hoping it wouldn’t impede my ability to complete all the Halloween events.

Thanks in advance for the response – Also if this was posted in a prior post and I missed it can someone link it?

Perhaps I am naive and someone will debunk my theory but I don’t believe we’ve seen all there is to see with regards to the skins. Everyone is so impatient but this is day one of the event. Anet already stated they will be doing this in a rollout of four acts. Perhaps they are going to roll out additional skins in the next three phases. This is purely speculation on my part but given that there will be unique portions for all phases why not apply that same logic to the skins? The end of the event could come and I may eat my words but I for one am not going to get worked up because of the limited choices right now.

Haha the fireworks thing was a good one. We’ve gotten them to revive elsewhere by having a large character model (huge charr or norn) sit on them. This most often effectively blocks their view of anything. If you aren’t in a hurry they will give up relatively fast from what i’ve experienced.

Not that i enjoyed getting hammered in IoJ borderlands garrison by both JQ and SBI but man that was the most epic WvW battle i’ve had to date. Was 30 minutes of fighting in that lord room and on the upper walkways. Hats off to all teams so far in this fight it’s been a pleasure to be a part of it. Oh and War machine – quit portal bombing us – my GPU can’t handle it

I also am having a similiar problem. I’m actually at 98 % map completion. I spent some coin today and went to every zone and all are showing as 100 % completion (this includes lion’s arch/hearts of mist/and all 4 WvW maps). I have the one PoI in chantry of whispers but the overall completion shows i’m missing 6 waypoints, 6 vistas and 17 Points of interest. I have completed my entire story save for the “Kill Zhaitan” quest which i assume some of the PoI may be in there but not sure sure about the WP or the vistas (I have completed ARAH storymode). Anyone that has some other thoughts it would be most appreciated. Want to get this out there before I submit this as a bug.

“R E F L H E X.8413
8 hour assault on sm with a decent force harrassing cd and nothing else for 8 entre hours while green had noone on the map. The force that was harrassing cd that was getting back capped could’ve taken the entire green location (who was on and off for most points) in 20 min or so then harrassed cd. It was lso fun seeing a bunch of golems at the keep dropping a couple arrow carts, rooting the entire team right before the gate fell then jumping right back on an arrowcart, that attack was epic in the area of fail XD. Really need one of the comedians to think of a good gag name for the server, massly suicidal for 8 hours (then green takes it LOL), it was like an ioj cult koolaid party in sm.”

I love how one sided this statement is. Just because positions on the map weren’t changing doesn’t mean we zerged you and did nothing for 8 hours. Green did have a presence in EB. Points were taken and attempts made on that side but the moment we let up on your bunkered down castle you came out at us in force. If we’d just ignored your stance in the middle of the map we’d have been overrun in the other areas we’d fought hard to get back. I don’t remember when I started Friday evening but we had next to nothing in EB at that time. We needed to dislodge you so we had a place to strike out from into the bottom half of the map without you flanking us. Our forces were not so disparate with regards to the numbers. Green did have enough defenders waiting to hit us when we engaged their points with the token forces sent down (all we could spare) and a few times we actually ran into a mini zerg of CD players that killed us trying to take greens southernmost supply camp and then you didn’t even cap it. Overall I appreciate how close this fight has been and I think that just stating we wasted 8 hours against one objective is not a valid statement considering we held you at bay while increasing our point total which does seem to have carried over into Saturday’s match.

Some mats may have less value than others but it is still something. It can minimize your output as far as coin is concerned. Nobody said crafting was going to be free it is something you work at.

With that being said something I have found that helps is magic find. This does in fact impact the amount you get from what you farm. You said in an hour of crafting you can make one inscription and based on my own experience that can be 3/8/15 per combine. In some of my farming spots i can farm 50-100 of a mat in an hour ballpark as it is still random (ish). But try it! You can purchase some food from a chef that can increase this magic find percentage as well as gems/armor that have that stat.