Guild Wars 2

WvW solo = Fine
WvW group play = Bottom class. Guilds don’t want them
PvE = Part of the meta with frost spirit, spotter and high damage. IE. in really good spot
PvP = Rlly good home point defender & group fight support. Roaming builds are also on the rise. Mainly condition builds tho

Chaos Archangel.5071:

My vote goes for number 4 “Make this a channeled skill that pulses AOE damage and boon removal while you hold the sword in the ground.”

This would be extremely interesting and give Mesmer some much needed AoE damage in a way that can be used creatively rather than “spam skill & forget”.

Would actually make mesmers a lot more useful in WvW as well.
Depenting on the AoE radius and CD tho

Shyhalu.4891:

I feel like they’re just going to break rangers trying to fix this issue.

Scared of this as well but we just have to trust

1. Ranger
2. Engineer
3. Necromancer

request #224661 is 6 days old now. I would not like to rush you guys into helping me, but I’d like to know how much longer approximately I have to wait

Thank you!

[EDIT]: I got an response now and the issue I had is being worked on.
Thank you a lot

aspirine.6852:

Sandra Martino.3870:

So GH, how much gold did you pay Deso to doubleteam us this week?

wut? You think Deso would listen to us to do that? We will never propose such a thing and I expect to be laughed at by the large deso guilds if we tried.

You can pay me and I could try!
But in all seriousness how can anybody even think that paying a whole server not to attack other of the enemies is even a possibility.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Those rewards are not available in the Fractals at this time, sorry.

Does this include the recipes as well? (Such as: [Recipe: Porent Superior Sharpening Stone]) Or just the unique skins?
I hope it goes to all of em :x

Big Tower.5423:

Failth.2935:

It’s something with Sylvari cultural T3 medium. First I noticed that dye slots were completely changed at least on male. But after trying to fix the dyes I noticed that they react completely differently to the gear after the patch.

I Attached a picture of my gear before and after the patch using the exact same dyes on the same slots

My helmet, shoulders and gloves are not T3 and they look exactly the same as pre-patch, but boots and the chest look completely different

Not sure did this change how every dye react on the gear, but at least glacial dyes look completely different. I had to remove Deep Glacial Sky from boots & chest and I just bought it couple days ago ;__; Such an expensive dye…. feels like wasted now

(Left before -, right after the patch)

Kudos, best sylvari ive seen in my life!

Aww thank you so much <3 ^^

Autumn Frazee.3158:

It’s base healing only applies to the user of the skill.

And not to the rangers pet

Nefara.2186:

Re: the “waxy” look being gone, Kristen said that was a result of having to pick either glow or a specular map, and choosing glow. Specular maps are what give certain areas of the body or armor more or less shininess.

But I don’t think it’s the loss of the specular that’s bothering most people, I think it’s the other tweak she mentioned here:

Kristen Perry

Some of the textures are also better balanced to give you more consistent results… you won’t have to guess what color you need to find to make the red feel red, for example. It will just work.

I think a lot of us very much preferred the gradient and more varied colors we got from different dyes, allowing us to work with a way more rich and interesting palette than other races. Having the colors suddenly be flat like they are on cloth armors removes a lot of the interest and detail that fading from light to dark and from reds to greens and purples to blues offers. Sure, it’s a bit unpredictable but it was unique and beautiful.

Please consider at least reverting that change.

Completely agree with this. The dynamic colors on those armor pieces is what really made them awesome.
Old color scheme + added glow would have made tons of ppl happy instead of the opposite for sure

ZudetGambeous.9573:

This was an intended change as posted by the devs in another post. Previously the “glow” effect was tied into your skin color not your armor color. They have now fixed this. So that is why you are seeing changes. They have added extra dye channels to pieces to change the glow color. You just need to fiddle with it to get the glow of the right color now.

This change has been asked for repeatedly for the past year and they finally got around to it.

I can see the effect on my T3 legs. New dye channel added and that controls the glow – Looks really amazing! However my boots and chest LOST one dye slot and the dyes look completely different on those pieces now. It really looks so much worse

Taku.6352:

+1 to this.

I’ve spent over 2,5k hours and probably over 3k gold to get the looks on my main and with this all of that goes down the drain.

Agreed.

The added glow on the armor is really cool, but the way how it effects the dyes just feels off.

Spent 200g under a week ago + many hours to change my look to the one I wanted – now being completely ruined so I somewhat feel you Taku

I really low the glow now! Thanx!

However with the patch, how dyes react to the cultural gear completely changed. Was this intended?
Here is before and after pic with the exact same dyes on the same slots (Noticeable on boots & chest). A bit sad, since the main color, Deep glacial sky dye which I just bought under a week ago to perfect my look now looks like something I never wanted. Feels like I lost so much money for nothing ;__; (120g for that one dye alone. Not to mention some other glacial dyes I bought…)

PS. Left is before, right is after

Last patch bought 25 keys with ~25€ (I consider it being A LOT of money for virtual items)

Got 5 scraps as well. I knew it was a gamble but still… a bit irritating

This is my before (left) and after (right)

I have the exact same dyes on the armor pieces on both pictures ON the same gear dye spots. (Ignore helm, shoulders & gloves. They are not T3)

As you can see on the boots & chest, the SAME dye looks completely different

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Failth.2935:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I think I like the after, Failth. It looks like they opened up the dyable areas a little bit and added some better shading.

Left side is before, right is after. They added a dye slot to the legs and they look better now after the fix, but 1 dye slot was removed from the chest and boots as well I think

Yeah, it’s the right side that I like.

I spent hours and nearly 200g on glacial dyes to get the look that I wanted and now they look completely different on boots & chest, hell all dyes look different than what they used to. Left side is the look that I liked and I’m still trying to go for the same kind of look after the patch. Just feels frustrating spending tons of money to get the look that I wanted just to see it all gone under a week

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I think I like the after, Failth. It looks like they opened up the dyable areas a little bit and added some better shading.

Left side is before, right is after. They added a dye slot to the legs and they look better now after the fix, but 1 dye slot was removed from the chest and boots as well I think

It’s something with Sylvari cultural T3 medium. First I noticed that dye slots were completely changed at least on male. But after trying to fix the dyes I noticed that they react completely differently to the gear after the patch.

I Attached a picture of my gear before and after the patch using the exact same dyes on the same slots

My helmet, shoulders and gloves are not T3 and they look exactly the same as pre-patch, but boots and the chest look completely different

Not sure did this change how every dye react on the gear, but at least glacial dyes look completely different. I had to remove Deep Glacial Sky from boots & chest and I just bought it couple days ago ;__; Such an expensive dye…. feels like wasted now

(Left before -, right after the patch)

You should be able to re-enter by speaking with the NPC (Check patch notes)

Vince Ste Marie.2081:

How do you like the way the Warhorn sounds?

Oh it’s awesome!
Thank you guys
btw. Does any other new super weapons have new sounds? I know pistol has one

I was trying to open that wall for 30 minutes! I thought you can’t play 3 -3 (2 same notes in a row) fast. I always waited for the sound to finish >.< oh silly me

I had to come here and give my own feedback about this since I feel like so many ppl are hating this content.

Foremost: Thank you so much. This is the most fun I’ve had in ages. First when we went trough W2Z1 & W2Z2 (normal mode) with my mates, the latter felt really long and challenging. At the end we were just rushing it, hoping it to be over asap. I thought I would never even try tribulation mode. (Extra hours were lost on trying to find everything hidden. I love trying to find them!)

Oh well, I take a good long sleep and came back. Decided I will do most of the achievements by myself. I felt like I don’t need to worry about others when I’m alone, making me go trough the maps way faster. Also I felt like I wouldn’t be slowing anyone down by trying to find these hidden places (ps. Ty for the flute btw! I love it – helps so much)

So to the point: Tribulation mode first ~30 minutes: ‘’This is crazy, there is no way I will have enough lives and patience to even try other maps. They must be insane! And I don’t want to waste my time farming more lives’’

And then at the end of W1Z1: ‘’Yes! Finally did it!….Holy smokes the reward! So much loot, yay I totally deserve this!’’
Also then I realized that buying continue coins only with Bauble bubbles (Don’t care about the blue skins) I actually started getting more lives back at the end than I lost in the encounter.
Also since I got the 1st piece to craft green weapon and how happy I felt at the end I couldn’t resist going forward and trying the next map.

Skipping to this day, Green weapon achieved, Yellow weapon achieved, tribulation achs soon done and I feel so happy. After a while you start getting the point of how to do this mode correctly, allrdy foresee what paths you most likely have to take, allrdy guess how and where there would be spike traps. Going trough W1 on tribunal now feels easy and fast. Does not take long at all and gives tons of baubles at the end (And green weapons to alts, well why not).

Seriously finally getting W2 done felt…. so amazing. I felt like I seriously achieved something. Also I felt like I achieved this totally by myself, not with random luck or just mindless rushing till I got it trough.
Crafting the yellow weapon almost felt like making my kudzu 8-9 months ago. Actually
it felt better better in a way since it was not gotten with time spent into the game (farming), it was gained with skill.

I am in love with this, thank you SO MUCH! Finally I felt like having a REAL challenge in this game – I felt like finally I got a weapon not many ppl cannot have only because they just can’t do it.

Also the extra checkpoints – Perfect, works so well and gives you enough to puzzle trough until you reach the next one, not too few and also not too much to handle.

Also W2Z2.. My GOD was it long (Yes still talking about tribunal mode). At the end I actually got really scared what if I DC, I’ve been on this for 3 hours AT LEAST!
Getting it trough felt so good, told everyone ‘’kitten this level – finally got it, never coming back!’’ (Actually I’m going back today bcos of the stump I missed… and since it’s so close to the end I might as well make another yellow weapon, since Z1 and Z3 didn’t rlly take that long to go trough, especially since I now know exactly what to do and since I now heard that the warhorn has special sound – I am so making it! A bit disappointed about the yellow GS not having the cool smoke effect which the green shield had. Or anything different beside the color change – but don’t mind that much since I feel like it’s allrdy a trophy to show off.

I actually loved Z3 after Z2. Lots of precise challenging jumps instead of being afraid of the spikes. Climbing on the walls all the time trough whole level was so much fun and the darkness gave lots of feel to it (Tho it felt too easy after Z2 at times. I felt like it was rushed, prolly bcos of so few invisible spikes killing you compared to other maps. Things replaced with clouds Still I liked it, A LOT! After Z2 it felt so much fun to go trough. Z2 burned me out at the end bcos it was a 3-4 hour long puzzle which I had to solve. Z3 didn’t take so much brain work, just good eye to realize the paths. It felt refreshing and fun again after burnout from Z2.

Hope some of you who worked on this content reads this wall of text, because I am SO happy about this new SAB. Thank you so much! Seriously haven’t had this much challenge and fun in a long while.

Ps. Can’t wait to get my second yellow today! Warhorn with different sound? Want! I wonder how many other weapons have special effects, since the GS didn’t. Any hints?

tl;dr
Thank you devs for making a real challenge. Thank you for finally making weapon skins which are hard to get because of the skill cap and not because of the farming required.
One of my top favorite patches.
W2Z2 a bit too long

Lil Puppy.5216:

Screenshot (trib mode) I’ve spent more time and lives on this single aspect than the entirety of the game so far. This rock jumps and hits you before you can get out of your ‘get up’ animation cycle, this jump to the safe spot (that requires you to use the jumping rock itself to get to) is absolutely pure luck. Not to mention that if he knocks you to a spot left or right of the safe area and you’re still on it but your body hangs over the lava pit while downed, you die. So if my feet are still in the safe zone ( i could stand up if I weren’t getting knocked down all the time) I would be safe still but my hair is hanging into the pit so I die.

If you are fast enough, you can find a spot where the rock triggers – take a step back and then rush on to the rock and off from it. Even better you can run towards it (or object near it) and dodge towards it. Will make it easy to go up and to safe spot after the knockback is dodged (well easy and easy. You REALLY have to be fast). Or 3rd to way to do it is: Jumpdodge

Since the monthly got changed/rolled back by accident will I have this stuck with me for ever?

Since there is no way to complete/move to next tier with this achievement because it does not exist anymore.

(And yes I tried to complete it)

henry.1420:

My observasion:
If you don’t disconnect at all during the event, stay on the map for the full 45 minutes and participate in each wave, achievement will correctly credit.

There might be flags that say you must be present when each wave is defeated in order for the achievement to progress.

Still stuck on my last map, was there till the beginning on all waves, Did not disconnect.
Still didn’t get my last map which I’m missing on the achievement

Another post here made 4 months ago:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/New-WvW-Weapons-aren-t-Mystic-Forge-able

UnknownOffender.2158:

Bump. Because this kitten just happened to me.

Same. Bought Berserker stat weapons thinking ‘’yay maby they have better chance!’’
4g and 600 badges gone. For nothing :< Can’t even salvage them!

That’s just ridiculous….

What level exotics are you using? Just wondering if that matters….
So far over 550g lost on lvl 76 exotics myself and this thread just makes me sad
And jelly….. so jelly

Sic ’Em gets removed after pet uses F2 ability

I’ve kept telling ppl that the cut scene was amazing.
Loved it! Thank god I was not the only one :P

Have you tried switching in combat

Gz from enemy Zealot <Legio DCLXVI>
Good old WHOnline days

Seda Khold.5428:

Yeah I run the 30-20-0-0-20 with feline/drake. I like it so far.

What’s so important to take in 20 BM trait line instead of 10% dmg while flanking from Skirmishing? :o

kozeljko.8201:

No link to the build?

Signet glass build, bumping all dmg boost on maul.
Signet of the wild 25% dmg + Attack of opportunity 50% dmg from Signet of the Hunt + 10% while flanking trait.
= Big maul crits ^^ Yeh it’s fun to do once in a while

1. is not so black and white, it can be done smartly as well.
(Example if you’re against melee after you’ve knocked him back and he is closing on you again I might do barrage on top of me with petswap quickness, making the cast time reasonable fast and at the same time switching to my burst pet. Afterwards I switch to my greatsword and ohmagad the burst from sick em + jaguar stealth + Maul + Hilt Bash + Barrage damage & cripple)

Tho if barrage didn’t have the cripple effect I would say kitten it, but in certain situations it helps a ton.

Even when they made pets hit moving targets more reliably, they still miss tons of attacks if the enemy is not crippled/chilled.

Then again I only had 1v1 skirmish in mind, maby 2v1 – but it’s so situational that you can’t say ‘’doing this, like ever, is a bad idea’’. Sure if you run ranged weapons only then I see no point in doing that. Also if the enemy is allrdy chewing down on your health bar then it would not be an good option to do since the skill locks you do for so long even with quickness.

But meh…. Shortbow > Longbow anyway

I just did daily today, completed it about 10-15 minutes before posting this. I completed it 6/5 I think because I got level up daily done at the same time I got 5 events done, so my daily jumped from 4/5 → 6/5. I think I got the 50 daily kills couple seconds before finishing the event on the event mobs itself, maby even on the last mob which would have made it 3/5 → 6/5 but don’t think it makes a difference anyway. But because I skipped the 5/5 and went straight to 6/5 maby that caused the bug to occur? Blah don’t know… I just deeply hope I get the chest later on, I hate missing days on the kitten laurels or w/e they are (Sorry for bad english, extremely tired…)

Kacigarka.5176:

Failth.2935:

Kacigarka.5176:

Failth.2935:

When I made my Kudzu on 30th of 11 it was actually ACCOUNT bound and became soul-bound on equip. IE. not sellable and yes I am sure, because I checked it before equipping.

So are you telling me it actually was a bug? :/ That would suck.
And yes I would have sold it, because farming karma for second legendary would not be a problem for me, but farming money in this game is.

Nice try man I know a lot of people who crafted Legendary weapons in period from release till now (incluse myself) and they were always soulbound on use, always go check vides how players craft them, vides from september, october, november etc … Every single of them Soulbound on use .. so please stop making up things that YOUR Legendary was actually Acound bound because it wasnt. Give us your screenshot if you want to prove us wrong, if you didnt make it .. then hah

Why the hell I would make things up? Makes no sense.
+I never said they are not soulbound on use, I said the opposite.

If they would not have been account bound earlier why there was NONE on the TP till now? Not even buy orders – Because they were bugged. If mine wasn’t account bound I’m still 100% sure it was not sellable.

And nice try…? On what? I don’t get you.

I remember it as clear as the sky – I told my mates that ‘’guess what? You can actually sell legendaries’’ and then having to correct myself after making Kudzu because it was not sellable. Ofc I would have linked picture with my post, but only one I have is this: http://imgur.com/a/iK4kp#0 and it does not even have mouse hovered over the bow not to mention right clicking it.

Account bound or not, my main point is it sure was not sellable item

‘’Nice try’’ was aimed to your comment that Legendaries were before actually acount bound. Because they were always tradeable. You could MAIL your Legendary to anyone from release, so that means they were always sellable/tradeable, and only because TP was bugged doesnt mean they were account bound

So once again, legendaries werent bugged, but TP was. You could send them via mail to anyone from release.

So it was obvious this TP bugg is going to be fixed

So just TP was bugged then, I see. Well thanx for clarifying it to me, you could have just said it in the first place

Kacigarka.5176:

Failth.2935:

When I made my Kudzu on 30th of 11 it was actually ACCOUNT bound and became soul-bound on equip. IE. not sellable and yes I am sure, because I checked it before equipping.

So are you telling me it actually was a bug? :/ That would suck.
And yes I would have sold it, because farming karma for second legendary would not be a problem for me, but farming money in this game is.

Nice try man I know a lot of people who crafted Legendary weapons in period from release till now (incluse myself) and they were always soulbound on use, always go check vides how players craft them, vides from september, october, november etc … Every single of them Soulbound on use .. so please stop making up things that YOUR Legendary was actually Acound bound because it wasnt. Give us your screenshot if you want to prove us wrong, if you didnt make it .. then hah

Why the hell I would make things up? Makes no sense.
+I never said they are not soulbound on use, I said the opposite.

If they would not have been account bound earlier why there was NONE on the TP till now? Not even buy orders – Because they were bugged. If mine wasn’t account bound I’m still 100% sure it was not sellable.

And nice try…? On what? I don’t get you.

I remember it as clear as the sky – I told my mates that ‘’guess what? You can actually sell legendaries’’ and then having to correct myself after making Kudzu because it was not sellable. Ofc I would have linked picture with my post, but only one I have is this: http://imgur.com/a/iK4kp#0 and it does not even have mouse hovered over the bow not to mention right clicking it.

Account bound or not, my main point is it sure was not sellable item

Can I get my logs checked as well please?

I open couple black lion chests once in a while prtty often.

Gaile Gray.6028:

CptSlater.2457:

Official answer from Support:

“If you’ve found any Legendary items for sale on the Trading Post, this is not
functioning as designed and should not be possible. We would need more information
on what you saw, as well as screenshots to investigate this issue further.”

So it’s a bug or some error in Trading Post.

Hey, guys,

You need to know: Legendaries are not soul-bound until equipped. So they can, legitimately, be sold on the TP. Once equipped, however, they become soul-bound.

I’m sorry that someone got an incorrect answer from Support about this issue. We have identified the ticket and we will begin the beati…. I mean “gently correct the agent who gave the misinformation.”

When I made my Kudzu on 30th of 11 it was actually ACCOUNT bound and became soul-bound on equip. IE. not sellable and yes I am sure, because I checked it before equipping.

So are you telling me it actually was a bug? :/ That would suck.
And yes I would have sold it, because farming karma for second legendary would not be a problem for me, but farming money in this game is.

Lorana.2468:

for those of you who got the chest, what part of the world are you in?
for those of you who havent yet, same question.

perhaps this could solve the mystery as to why some people are getting it now and others arent.

No chest – EU – Piken Square

Still no chest and I DC’d on the event :/ (Actually DC:d 2-3 times total)
Oh well I guess they are still coming!

I made kudzu about week ago bcos I love the spec I keep running with (Longbow/Shortbow) and Kudzu clearly won the battle against dreamer in my eyes because of all the effects I get with it :p

Here is the list of effects I’ve noticed:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/142uq9/better_legendary_bows_needed/c79n5xs?context=3

Lots of ppl have requested a video about the effects, so I might do it later today when I get back home

When you got your money, did you double check the buy order amount?
Bcos after the event precursor prices crashed and most the buy orders were filled within couple of seconds

I was at 3k and when I logged today I was at 1,8k
Instantly knew it was a bug and just thought it was funny

Oh man if they do something with the clovers….
I just used ~400k-500k karma TRYING to get them today.
I don’t know would they be good or bad news for me tbh. Since I still need 33 more…. hmmm – To be happy, or not to be

Just gotta say….

Opened 6 Black lion chests (Bought 5 keys) → Got the scythe skin
Opened around 7-9 New Mad King chests → Got Heavy shoulder skin + Recipe: Gift of the Souls

So yeh… I am satisfied But even if I didn’t get any of those, I would still be. Bcos unlike most ppl here it seems, I knew it was a gamble and the chances are ridiculously low to get the skins or the rare recipes. That’s why I only bought 5 keys in the first place.

If you want to have somebody to blame, blame yourself. If you buy tons of Chests so you can get the skin it is your own fault being so stupid. If you want one of the BLC skins buy them off the TP. Don’t throw your money around like a fool and hope things you want fall from the sky on your lap.

I really can’t believe how ppl whine so much if they were stupid enough to spend so much money on gambling and rlly think it would definitely get something out of it.

It was allrdy known that the skins were RARE. I don’t cry either if I don’t win in the lottery, even after I’ve spent tons of money on it.

I am prtty sure it is not even suppose to count towards the Emissary of the Mad King tittle achievement

Eveningstar.7834:

Can a dev give me a hint about how look for a hint? XD
Nah, I just kind of want to know how difficult they think they made the ingame hints.

While I do know a bit about the Foefire lore… Nothing screams of specific items. Unless I can somehow throw a ghost in the mystic forge and hope for the best?

Tbh I have to agree >.> I’m fed of this allrdy, wasted so many days & hours trying to research this.

Latest place was Zho’qafa Catacombs, since the place lookd rlly mysterious and had alot of spectral weapon mobs in there. Spend so many hours there, nothing! I even got event into that place, researchers trying to find something mysterious or interesting from there. Nothing :/ They said water cleaned all the things away from there so there is nothing to be found. There is not water that near from the place, hmm…

Btw any1 know any other areas with spectral weapon mobs? (Apart from that Catacombs and Ascalonian, been all over there all ready)

Ugh, I’m running out of energy