Guild Wars 2

Also, try to stand on some higher place, especially if your character is Asura. There are places which are too low, where Asura is not hit by the beam.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

In this case, there’s no shortage at all in supply; the only issue is that we don’t like paying the higher costs for the existing supply.

Hmm, when the API was working for last time (19.3) the situation on the TP for Cured Hardened Leather Square was as follows:

Sell price: 99.95s
Buy price: 93.03s
Demand: 88015
Supply: 4290

This is a SERIOUS supply shortage, because sell/buy prices are almost the same and demand is 20x supply.

From the point of story, it is best to buy (with gems) and play Living Story 2 before the beginning of HoT story.
At least you will be familiar with those new NPCs which you will meet in HoT story.

I did not studied the recipes in depth, but for example Celestial is Account bound because you need to have some account bound materials (Charged Crystals) to make insignia for this armor.
Simply, there are some armors in the game, where if you want them, you must put some effort to get them, besides your credit card (to buy gems and change them to gold).

Sound OK for me.

The OP is most probably writing about yesterday Daily events in Caledon Forest.

Yes, most probably it is not a good idea put those Daily events in starting zones.
Firstly because new players do not know what’s going on and why all those high level players wandering around in 1-15 location.
Secondly, for higher level players, those Daily events in 1-15 locations are PITA too, because events ends too fast and sometimes it is really hard to get to some event before it is already finished.

OniGiri.9461:

The only thing you cant buy from tp are game mode related things.
You can’t buy pvp exclusive stuff
You can’t buy fractal exclusive stuff
You can’t buy wvw exclusive stuff (if there is something like that)
You can’t by raid excluse stuff
And you can’t buy the HoT legendary weapons
Thats it.

Everything else can be bought for gold or gems.

If there were no game mode exclusive stuff much fewer people would play that stuff
(just ask the pvp guys)

You are hiding behind the casual argument but thats nonsense. I am casual. I play how i want and when i want. Still i manage to work on everything i want in game.

This is not entirely correct. You cannot buy Ascended gear on TP, you cannot buy some stuff related to Legendary weapon crafting on TP, you cannot buy dungeons related stuff on TP, you cannot buy some crafted exotic (Sinister, Celestial, Trailblaze, Viper etc.) gear on TP and much more…

Fastest way is IMHO the Bitterfrost map for two rings (attune one of them), one accessory and backpiece.
Bloodstone Fen or Lake Doric map for amulet and Ember bay map for the second accessory.

If you will grind those maps daily with several characters (there is daily limit how much you can harvest daily in Bloodstone Fen and Lake Doric maps), you will have complete Ascended set of trinkets during several days.

Ardid.7203:

To this day I haven’t find a real PUG that would overcome the Vale Guardian. And to use the solved instance from another group feels just miserable and incomplete.

Well, maybe this is the real problem. The VG (and the whole first wing) is not the easiest Raid, but everyone must start here, because of the collection opening.
The evolution of raids in time was as follows:

Wing 1 (VG, Gorse, Sabetha) = hard
Wing 2 (Sloth,…,Mathias) = even harder
Wing 3 (Escort, KC, Xera) = tamed a bit, IMHO easier than Wing 1
Wing 4 = part is easy, part is hard with challenge mode added

IMHO this approach was wrong from the beginning. They should start with Wing 1 as an easiest part of raids, slightly harder than dungeons/fractals (maybe only green rings without teleports and Seekers) and progresively add more mechanics etc. in subsequent wings.

I remeber when we was trying the VG for the first time with our guild. After two hours of trying, we did the first split phase and it took almost four hours to kill this kitten for the first time. Couple of peoples from our guild was so tired that they decided to quit raiding forever.
Rest of us is raiding more or less regulary, but we are doing mostly VG with beginners from our guild (for collection), skipping Gorse and Sabetha and the whole Wing 2 and doing Wing 3 and part of Wing 4.

slashlizardy.9167:

This would be fixed if there was a different legendary armor that was obtained in PVE/PVP/or Fractals.

I really do not fully understand, why some peoples are so obsessed by the legendary armor.

Firstly, it seems that it will be incredibly expensive and time consuming to make it. According to the wiki, every part of the set will be approx. at the same price/material level as a Legendary weapon, besides those LIs from raids.

Secondly, I don’t think that the armor will be much more usefull than Ascended armor. Yes, there will be selectable stats on each piece, like Legendary weapons have. But even the possibility to change stats on weapons is not too practical, because it is not possible to change the sigils easily, because the sigil/rune extractor is an expensive one-time device from gemshop.

Three shared equipment (not inventory) slots for permanent axe, pickaxe and sickle.

You need to have LW3 episodes unlocked (or bought if you was not online when they was free) for your account. As soon as you have those episodes unlocked, all your characters can transport there with teleport to friend or with teleportation scrolls (which are sold on those maps). It is not necessary to do the story on all characters just to get there.
I did the same. Story only with my main character and for rest of characters, I am using teleportation scrolls in shared slots.

BTW, Bitterfrost map is great both for Dragonite ore (from winterberry nodes) and for Empyreal fragments (from chests in Bitterfrost).

I have enough HPs just from leveling to max all core lines. Plus for Elite specialisation, there are Hero points at HoT maps where you will get 10 HPs from each.

You can check this with Books of knowledge and/or those “Instant level 30” items. If you will use for example one “Instant level 30” and 50 books, you will have core character instantly at 80 with enough HPs to fully max all core lines. For Elite, you just need to do couple (25 exactly) Hero places in various HoT maps, which will take one evening if there is a HP train on those maps (use LFG for this).

I am just swapping the slot 7 for Signet of the Hunt for PvE maps (25% movement speed).

My personal build for PvE maps, raids and events is:

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAT8Xn0rC1sitqAGsCEtil9Aj5CEwGBwx176ed52FAGdlI8xA-TBSBABPcBAs4gAQpaPmpEEPdDXt/o8TUVBA4JAQGA9xA-e

As a first approximation, you can always look at those builds:

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Ranger

try some of them and refine them in the future according your tastes.

For Empyreal fragments and Dragonite Ore, the Bitterfrost map is probably the best. Dragonite ore from winterberry nodes farming and Empyreal fragments from chest opening. Those chests respawns after each storm(once per hour ?) and winterberry nodes can be farmed once per day, but you can collect them multiple times with multiple characters.

Also, from those Chapions (9 Champs each hour), you will have rare weapons/gear for salvage to Globs of ectoplasm.

Don’t be affraid, you will have plenty of Dragonite ore and Empyreal fragments after couple of hours of playing, because there is a lot of chests in Bitterfrost.

The main proble with Ascened gear is the daily time gate on those Bolts of Damasc, Elonian Leather squares, Spiritwood planks and Deldrimore ingots subparts.

I am doing the Bitterfrost map daily on my 4 characters (approx. 2 hours of playing), firstly run around the map do some quests and loot all chests and after that, second run around map to harvest winterberry nodes. With this, I daily salvage more or less enough blue/green/yellow weapons/armors to materials to make all four Ascended sub-components before I quit the game. I already have all my characters in Ascended gear, but I am doing this daily routine just to have those Ascended mats in bank, because I am sure that I will need more Asc. gear in future.

Also, you do not need to craft directly Yassith Viper Armor. It is much cheaper to craft for example Berserker (Zojja’s armor) and change the stats in the Mystic forge (look at Wiki how to do that).

Nice idea, but I doubt that ArenaNet will implement something like that, because they are sellign bank slots for gems.

ron.6157:

ok one last time I DO NOT CRAFT no way no how I don’t use chest of loyalty to get mats for something I don’t do so getting some thing I never use is pointless

Hmm, then probably you simply cannot have everything in this game, because crafting is an integral part of the PvE part of the game.

ron.6157:

I to have a major Kitten on this I just got all the scavenger hut parts done and find I now need a vision crystal I don’t craft or do fractals and PVE
and will not spend money just to get in to lava lounge to get a salvage tool
did any one at Arena Net stop to think that people by choice do not craft or do PVP fractals yet in PVE all I ever hear is you don’t need ascended gear Well I say KITTENS
I busted my kitten just like every one else to do HOT and get it done now that there is a chance to get an ascended item based on that I get KITTENS Tossed in my face and told tough luck go do something other then PVE your not worthy of an ascended weapon or armor

As a PvE player, I never had any problem to craft any Ascended piece. Materials are everywhere and especially Vision Crystal is cheap (you do not need to buy anything at TP). You only need 500 Bloodstone dust, 500 Dragonite ore and 500 Empyreal fragments, one minor thing (Augur stone – 20 Spirit shards) bought from Myiany and some Obsidian shards. That’s all.
Bloodstone dust, Dragonite ore and Empyreal fragments are everywhere, I have something like 5000-15000 of each of those materials in my bank just from simply playing the game.

BTW, those Vision crystals are a normal part of every Asc. weapon and you need one for every Asc. armor set, so I can imagine that almost everyone is crafting them from time to time. I did a lot of them for my 7 or 8 Asc. armor sets and more than 20 Asc. weapons.

Kayte.5378:

Eudoxus.5302:

Strange, I am quite happy with my Rev in open world PvE and in Fractals.

Yup. Revs are fine for open world/Fractals and even raids, but comparatively speaking, Revs is the worst overall class. They provide literally nothing to the table that other classes cannot, and other classes do it better.

For me personally, Rev is cool, because it is relatively simple to play it in PvE, Fractals and Raids.
I am relatively older player (52 y.o.) and I hate complex rotations etc.

So far I have:

1. Tempest – very good class, but low health and dying too frequently in Raids/Dungs
2. Druid – nice and very good for solo in PvE
3. Condi necro – also OK, but nothing fancy in Raids after nerf last year.
4. Revenant – I really like this class
5. PS Warrior – I really do not like this class.
6. Chrono – too complex for me

Strange, I am quite happy with my Rev in open world PvE and in Fractals.

I have all professions maxed, including Scribe. I like crafting and it is kind of necessary for Ascended gear making.

I have this for PvE maps. But this food is not optimal for raid builds.

Thx, I already found it. BTW, the price of Orrian Truffles is also rising terribly.
Truffle steaks will cost more too…

I can’t search this thread. Do you have a link, please ?

The price of Rare Veggie Pizza went crazy today, from 38s to 55s per piece.

Does it means that there was some information leak about the Condi food after 22.2.2017 balancing patch ?

If so, what are newest gossips about condi necro for example ?

Same here. As I already wrote in another thread, this is happening since Tuesday patch. The last time I was able to succesfully finish the DS meta was Monday evening. Since the Tuesday patch, everytime I die under the Ley Islands, I am unable to ressurect at the nearest WP.
And if I ressurect on some other map and try to go back to DS map, I am not able to join my squad on right version of DS map.
The last time, I died during the ending video sequence, when MoMordremorth was already dead and I was not able to get the meta event chest, look for those Noxious Pods, do Mastery points etc. Pretty annoying…

Yes, I am getting the same bug everytime in DS since the Tuesday patch/build. First time, I saw this error Tuesday evening and second time I had this problem yesterday evening.

Always the same. When I die in the last moments of DS battle, I cannot ressurect on any waypoint on the map (game asks if I want to be transferred to waypoint, I select Yes but nothing happens). When I choose a WP outside the map, the game move me to selected WP on another map. BUT it is not possible to return back to the DS map where my squad is, when I select the “Join in …. map”. Only the Network error message appears.