Changes to adventures should start with :
-removing all associated mastery points from them
-removing the attached requirement to do X,Y and Z adventures for specialization collections
-removing the attached requirement to do X,Y and Z adventures for new legendary weapons
- changes to timers for certain adventures
-insert other changes here
Please do that. It helps us immensely in cutting down on RMT spam, and, more importantly, on nailing the people who steal accounts. (It’s often a stolen account being used to advertise, so your report can help on two levels.)
While we are on topic of gold sellers,RMT and similar activities…Can you explain please to me and other players why nothing is done to botters in game?Because I`m in same position as the poster under your post.How many months have to pass before you(Anet) do something like ban them?Why i have to see at my block list every time I have logged in game last few weeks botters(all of them verified with video-recording software before reported) happily jumping between mid-level maps and gathering resources underground?Sure some of them appear offline,but i have seen botters shown offline gathering resources.Support is of no use-wasted my time writing to it.Received typical copy/paste answer and lip-service.Facts remain the same – botters online,nothing done to them.
And I have seen from thread for Star Wars…Really?Your colleagues apparently have no time to ban people in game who actively botting for few weeks,but have time to monitor game chat and ban people who talk about a movie in details.
Adventures are awful and badly implemented.How i feel about them?From indifference(when I have heard about them) to bad feeling(when i saw how many mastery point are gated behind them) to dislike with passion(after i have done some of them for mastery points.)You cant unlock all masteries without them,you cant get your specialization weapon without them,you cant get any of new legendary weapons implemented with HoT without them.
Anet is fully aware of the fact that neither JPs nor various activities are popular among majority of players.And yet they choose to completely ignore the fact and implemented the adventures.Anet intentionally choose to gate behind them mastery points(of which there are not enough in general PvE -by design),new legendary weapons,specialization weapons.Therefore forcing people to spend their game time doing adventures (which judging from the endless “queues” outside them are not exactly popular) if they want to craft new legendary weapon or get their specialization weapon or unlock all masteries.
I have done some of them(got gold in few of easiest ones) and no I did not like them-not at all.Still need 2 more points to unlock last mastery line-sooner or later will do more of these awful adventures.After that-as many have said it will be Never again!
Adventures are not fun,awful,badly implemented,with lots of RNG,timers for some of them are too short.I have read many good suggestions how to improve them none of which will be implemented actually simply because Anet will not change their direction-will continue gating things behind them.At very least should be equal number of mastery points available in PvE(not gated behind rubbish as JPs and adventures) and adventure requirement should be either removed(my preferred option) or lowered to bronze for all specialization collections. Sure set the number of points you can get and let players choose how to get them-by doing activities they actually like and not forcing annoying awful little games on them.
After December 1st patch event Stop Captain Wiley before he finishes scouring the ship for treasure required for collection is still bugged.Champion captain Wiley required for the collection(23/24-missing only him) is nowhere to be seen from weeks(at least from 17th November). The same event is regularly broken-very rarely I have seen it while playing the game for 3+years.Contacted the support after seeing they have been giving a missing item to Nevermore crafters.They have been of no use- apparently cant spawn the champion,cant automatically finish the collection(sitting for weeks at 23/24),cant mail me the token required.
P.S Would be nice of someone from Anet in charge of such things at least inform us what is going on with all the bugs with legendary collections and when we can expect fixes -lots of people are simply unable to progress after spending their time and lots of resources.
Predator collection:
-tier II
At one of the stages master huntsman (used the one in Ebonhawke) is asking for wrong kind of items -instead the appropriate rifle parts he is asking for small hafts(crafted from weapon smiths)
-tier III
Champion Captain Wiley(Gendaran Fields) required for collection is missing.Event is bugged from at least November 17th patch -effectively preventing me(and everyone else ) from finishing the collection since I`m at 23/24 and crafting the rifle.
Spy kit required for collection has misleading hint- sending you to Caledon Forest.When in reality you have to go to Malchor Leap and do event with hylek champion down in the water near Union Waypoint in order for NPC selling the kit to show up.
Generally expected more from precursor collection-for the amount of time presumable spend designing it there should not be so many bugs,missing items,wrong hints,bugged events preventing us from finishing any of the precursor collection.
Map and Location: Frostgorge Sound -Firesnake’s Tail PoI
Map and Location :Malchor’s Leap – area near Pagga’s Waypoint farming earth elementals and anything moving there
Map and Location : Cursed Shore area between Jofast’s Waypoint and Meddler’s Waypoint
Server – Gandara
Time – practically 24h/day
All the above areas have same bots usually 4-5 in a group killing everything in sight from weeks.The ones from Malchors Leap were recently moved from the beach at Southsun Cove.Despite being reported from hundreds of individual players already they are still in game.
And what about all those teleporting around and harvesting nodes botters?They are in every area of the game very hard to report.For last couple of days ive reported 4 just doing their bussiness in Frostgorge Sound/Malchor Leap/Cursed Shore.Today mere minutes after zoning in Lornars Pass saw another one at grape farm there and could not even managed to right click at his name to report-popped up and teleported away very fast.
There are plenty of things to do, people just don’t do them.
Exactly this.There are so many things to do even at lv 80-dungeons,map completion,world versus world,crafting,doing various achievements…I have 3 lv 80,close to 800 hours played,highest with 81% world map discovered and not feeling bored at all.Lots of things to do in game from my point of view.
Thank you OP-great post and good info for newcomers to the game.Actually i`ve chosen to equip my third lv 80 in similar way and will do same for my still at lv 2 engineer.Already done with AC power/vit/toughness set and 2 pieces away from CoF dps set.In between doing all the runs i was really surprise how much money i have made.Certainly was more enjoyable for me than getting all the karma for full temple set from Orr for my first character.Also running dungeons can net you a good piece of jewellery you can eventually use,money to buy the trinkets you need or one of those super rare recipes for jewellers which cost almost nothing to craft.
On topic for skill points-best way from my point of view is doing skill challenges and dungeons(you almost get a full level worth of experience when finish the path).Currently i have almost 300 skill points at one character with nothing to spend on apart from occasional crystals to convert cores i have in lodestones.
Groups still do throw crystals provided they are charged of course.What you did observed most probably is not hoarding of crystals-they simply wanted to put them at more save spot(read at spot away from tentacles).Or did not throw the crystal although is charged because they have reviving a dead player.Yet to see players simply keeping crystals and doing nothing with them in fractals runs i`ve done.
You can`t equip 2 ascended rings with same names because they are unique.Simply put the second one in your bank to use it with an alt.Thanks to current system you can get the pristine relics for a ring of your choice very fast.
If you want a ring with absolutely same stats as red ring of death take a look at Crystalline Band or ring with slightly different stats- at Bagh Nakh/Vine of the Pale Tree(last two have +18 vitality instead +18 Precision ).
I have 3 alltogether all from Frostgorge Sound.1 from a trash during Claw Of Jormag fight,1 from icebrood elemental in far NW edge of map and 3rd from HoTW.They have very low drop rate almost non-existent.So if want them better start buy from TP lodestones and cores-look around for mystic forge recipe to make a lodestone from 2 cores plus some more items.Ideally should be feasible to farm them…but i would rather farm the money and buy lodestones.Having taking part in tens Claw Of Jormag events and making sure i take active part in killing all those icebrood net me for all the time just 1 corrupted lodestone.
@ Kraken.7514 I will certainly report it and make sure all people in area do so when/if such things happen again.As for orbs-well coming from reading other topics about fly stealing orbs,persons running away underground etc-it is either a bug which i doubt or seems someone at Gandara learned same "secret"for doing such exploits too sadly.It is time ArenaNet to issue a patch fixing all kind of such exploits and also give proper “reward” for players doing them.
What is matters night capping do favour to none actually.As for Baruch Bay as a player from Gandara can confirm it-in each and every single match we had with them they did night-capping with little to non-existent battle spirit during actual time when you see well players logging to play Wv3.And as from today a server resorting to hack/cheat/exploiting to take over Bluebriar tower.Tower being ours for all the time i have been in Gandara Borderland around noon-roughly 2 hours.Tower they did try several times to capture without success.Best they can do at our map at that time-cap the workshop camp for few minutes with supply caravan sitting there-they had no keep no tower at that time.And above mentioned hack happened in front my eyes-i was in Bluebriar at that time.And it was not a portal-no sane person would sit in captured tower doing nothing missing opportunities for almost 2 hours.From time to time all of us defenders were outside retaking workshop or fighting near their spawn base.But since it is ok to night-cap and being even proud from it reading topics at other 3rd party forums well guess it is ok for them to resort to cheats to capture towers and keeps.
Should be a bug.For me rich mithril nodes(have not been in lower level areas for some time) still reward same amount of 10.Sometimes both normal/rich even give additional piece-3+1 for normal,10+1 for rich.Encountered a bugged guess ori node in Cursed Shore which gave me only 2 instead of 3 ores.Also yesterday harvested a whole 8 pieces from same orian truffel node in Cursed Shore.
Will be nice addition but nothing really game-changing.There are enough for karma points around.Still using the one from Timberline Falls-almost no difference with lv 80 ones.And you can do just fine wearing aquatic helm from starter areas in underwater combats.
Thank you.Nice and clean list-will using it.To effectively gather all the farms better have open all waypoints near them otherwise will be too time-consuming.Also for those who love doing jumping puzzles-doing Troll`s End in Lion`s Arch just near the chest there are several spawns combination of some of above mentioned vegetables.
Cursed Shore have 5 spawns,Malchor`s Leap-another 5,Frostgorge Sound -2 .Also 2 more including a rich vein in Obsidian Sanctum/Eternal Battleground.So plenty around although with long respawn timer.Just go to Cursed Shore for example and ask in map chat where are current spawns of ores-people will answer with link to closest waypoint/point of interest.After-go collect them and move to next area.Having 250 ores and 30ish ingots already without putting too much efforts to regularly gather all avaible spawns.
While OP raises some valid questions,reading all the answers is crystal clear to me-a vast majority of posters in this one topic are not interested at all in any kind of dialogue-they are here just to blame ArenaNet.Complainers conviniently avoid even to answer those few reasonable posters.Also just plain refusing even to consider for a moment the effects they might suffer are unintentionally introduced and just bugs which will be fixed.At my high populated server i`m yet to see a single complain in map chat in Cursed Shore/Malchor`s Leap/Frostgorge Sound-areas i`m spending almost all my game time currently.Not even campers doing those 2 defending events in Cursed Shore are complaining…Doing events in these areas from the beginning to end reward good enough karma points in reasonable time.And what kind of DR while farming for fine crafting mats some people talking about?Killing some trolls and bears near them in Frostgorge Sound net me 1 powerful blood,few normal ones and surprisingly for first time some bones.Drop rate was more than fair for the amount i`ve spent.Quickly doing end event of Dwayna chain and all the events for Lyssa-over 1,5k in karma,exp,some silver,2 rares,lots of items to salvage,8 bones and items from both chest as rewards.And this with like 120-130 % MF if matters at all.Correct me if i`m wrong but i do think all the items i`ve had at the end are more than enough for the time i`ve spent doing those events.Reduced drop rate from risens?I wished they do drop something else apart from bones/venoms/dust as fine crafting mats.Over 100 bones,second stack of c.dust etc – good enough drop rate.But again i do not expect 100% chance to get something from each kill nor expecting to farm enough karma for 1 temple piece per day.So from my point of view and from those few positive posters in this topic-play the game in normal way and everything will be fine.But if some of complainers are like the few people i`ve noticed jumping from event to event or intentionally failing Grenth chain-well i do think 1 karma point is too much really for such behaviour.It is not the way game is meant to be played.Don`t blame ArenaNet for introducing such system and inevitable bugs with it -blame first of all all kind of botters/cheaters/exploiters/gold buyers.They are the reasons game companies spending and wasting so much time to try combat them instead to put said time in fixing bugs and introdusing new fun content.If you intend to start dialogue-instead just to put blame at others,saying i`m quitting,my guild members are quitting because of side effects/bugs of such system-better come with reasonable suggestions to improve it not to hurt legitimate players at all.
You should not need excess amount of vanilla unless you follow one of those “guides” to level up your cooking skill.Had just few pieces in my bank and bought about 20 more most of them left over once i`ve reached 400 in cooking.You should be able to pass over 142 with just discoveries.Take a look at all cooking recipes available at Guild Wars 2 database sites.Checking one of them i can see lots of recipes with skill 125.Are you sure you did discover all of them apart from the ones automatically granted?Levelling your cooking if not willing to spend money at TP depends of your actual level in game,how many various cooking ingredients you have gathered while levelling and how many of heart NPCs selling in bulk various fruits/vegetables/seasonings you have opened.Generally you should not spam crafting anything just to level up-all is from discoveries and crafting the ingredients like soups for example you need to discover a new recipe.Only one item i`ve spammed crafted while levelling my cooking was Peach Tart-dessert giving +26% Magic Find at lv 70 .
Good point Silencer .I`m doing Orr zones in similar manner like you and yet to be “hit” from some kind DR.Several thousands of karma points,few rares,many blue and greens,some money,lots of various crafting items are end result of my run through Orr zones – more than enough as a reward for doing them.Actually from my point of view people experiencing a very low karma rewards are affected from a bug of implemented system-it is not intended to be in a such way and will be fix soon most probably.
Very good question indeed.I will be more willing to start collecting all the items required to craft a fancy looking armour piece than for a weapon.Let`s hope is possible to do such thing in Mystic Forge.
OP it will take some time but will get used to play solo in Orr zones.Started from dyeing several times while running through them at the beginning to not go even in downed state now.Don`t expect to solo champions or group events.Apart from these all vistas/skill points and points of interests can be done solo without problems.Might take a bit,but will learn which risens to just run pass not bothering with them and which ones is better to stop and clear.Now generally speaking I`m enjoying Orr.
All those complaining-have you considered for a moment the effect you experience might be just bugs of implemented system?Not a "farmer"but already have 4 crafting professions at 400 with little to no “grinding” and enough karma for 3 temple pieces.I dont know how much time it takes -but doing like yesterday whole Dwayna chain,risen champions in the labyrinth and after defending WP near Cursed Shore portal all net me gold participation and normal 300+ karma per event without any side effects.Did twice in a row path 2 in HoTW and second time got much more “teddy bears” and exp than i`ve expecting after reading all the complains in dungeon section of the forum.Going through Frostgorge Sound/Malchor`s Leap/Cursed Shore while collecting all ore/ancient wood spawns and doing all available DE give really lots of karma without being “hit” by any DR.You are getting all karma points for temple gear in a reasonable time.You do not get one-shotted in Wv3 or explorable instances if wearing less than excellent items-as we all know no items will help you survive when tens of people are hitting you or instance boss put his attention at you.I think being able to farm karma points for 1 piece of temple gear every few days is a good enough.Blame botters/exploiters/cheaters/farmers for putting such system in place not Arena Net.Actually it is not enough-still seeing botters and tens of people constantly AoE-ing while doing those 2 sad defending DEs in Cursed Shore.
Few days ago i have levelled cooking from 0 to 400 at newly created character.Did plenty of discoveries at 400 without problems.But i do not know if it is intended or no-got 0 character exp while doing them.
Sure crafting legendary require lots of various items,money,karma but skill points are very easy to get.I had almost 190(at roughly 60% map completion) before spend some to craft 2h hammer in mystic forge.Purchased almost all skills as warrior although i do not need/use some of them.Missing just several-like those 2 cute looking but useless hounds of Balthazar.Most probably till hit 100 % map completion will have enough for 2 legendary weapons not i have intention to make one for now.
You get 2 high-level exotic items for 100% map completion for Cursed Shore/Malchor`s Leap/Frostgorge plus few more items.Today i`ve been lucky and got very nice 2h exotic sword as reward for finishing Malchor`s Leap.If have all the items you can craft an exotic weapon,alternatively have a look at mystic forge weapons at guild wars 2 wiki-some of them are very cheap to make.For armour-again if have the items can craft,have a look at temple armors-visit temples of gods in Cursed Shore/Malchor`s Leap and Straits of Devastation and make your choice.Also check dungeon vendors in Lion`s Arch.After you make your choice of desired armor/stats/look start working towards it.Dont be afraid of price of temple armor in karma points.It is quite easy to gather all the required karma.But for start craft/buy from TP set of magic find gear and jewellery and if wish so regular set in blue/green.Prices of such gear are very low.Also take a look at all those superior runes of dwayna/noble/pirate/soldier etc.Of course if have the gold TP is full with all kind exotic weapons and armor pieces.
P.S.Take a look of all the items you need to craft a legendary weapon-if you decide you want one well start gathering the items now.But you need lots of items,money,karma points,time,crafting profession(s) at 400 etc.
There are 5 nodes in each zone- Cursed Shore and Malchor`s Leap spread across the zone map.There are also 2 nodes in Frostgorge Sound-around Claw Of Jormag area mostly.If having trouble finding them simply ask in map chat.Usually people are helpfull and responding with links to waypoint they are near to.All you can do after go and collect them while trying to avoid all those very annoying risens.
Either HoTW explorable as i`ve heard or from elementals in Frostgorge Sound.Yet to see a drop for me from instance,but already got 2 corupted lodestones as drop-one from elementals in north/north-west part of map and second one from one of elementals during first phase of Claw Of Jormag fight.In both cases will need a lot of luck.Best way in my opinion regularly check TP and buy all lodestones/cores.Will be faster than kiling numerous icebrood elementals.
It is working at Gandara-did it in the afternoon on my way to buy some bulk cooking items from nearby heart NPC.Should be working across all servers after patch!This morning patch fixed lots of broken DEs/skill point challenges-lots of “finally”,“at last” etc in map chat in Cursed Shore/Malchor`s Leap/Frostgorge Sound today.Personally managed to finish at last Malchor`s Leap and Frostgorge Sound after several days waiting because of broken skill points challenges.So if not working at your servers report it as bug,send screenshot and will be fixed in next patch.All you need is a bit of patience
Hello.There is a topic with list of some locations/animals in crafting section of guildwars 2 guru.But same animals/humanoids drop same fine crafting item just different tiers depending of their level.So once you completely gathered tier 2 items you need for your crafting proffesion just move to next higher level zone and start gather tier 3 from same animals/humanoids preferably with around 10 levels higher than those in previous zone you have been.Dont expect wonders though-drop rate generally is low.With luck and some magic find gear and depending of time you spending farming them each tier could takes from few to several days. Apart from last tier 6 fine crafting items of course-they are very rare.
Not an "expert"chef but cooking is not broken .Started in the afternoon today and managed to reach 100 in cooking before had to log out for today.But these 100 point were made entirely with discoveries and cooking occasionall alreaday discovered single bowl/pie/biscuit for future discoveries.Spent few thousand karma points for bulk cooking items and 3-4 silver to buy some potatoes.As it stands for now there are plenty of opportunities to level up cooking.Sure might be not so efficient/fast as with using those chili peppers/vanilla beans but i personally like the current state of cooking.Only negative side you need lots of bag space(not sure if you put cooking ingredients in bank slots they will show in discovery tab) for single/few items you need to keep in order to do discoveries-currently starter bag and 4×15 slots bags in my charr thief are full with various cooked items. There is absolutely no need to level up cooking making and stockpiling tens upon tens of already known bowls/pies etc.It is a waste of precious cooking items.And people levelling their cooking in such way-they are doing it wrong.Actually i was surprised how easy is to level cooking even to skill 100 compared to armorsmith/jeweller which i have both at 400.Look at list of raw items you need to level your cooking to lets say 100 at one of guild wars 2 database sites.Collect them,free lots of bag slots and start cooking.This of course you have alreday gathered some cooking items on your way to lv 80.If starting to play the game now and want to be cook with your first character-will be hard unless have extra gold to buy items you need from Trade Post.
It should be bug.After this morning patch i`ve spent few thousand karma points to buy cooking materials from vendors across Tyria.To regain it back i went back and did many DEs most in Cursed Shore-mainly Arah chain,few in Malchor`s Leap and even manage to do twice Claw Of Jormag.For each of these DEs reward was same for gold 348 karma,silver-forget already,bronze-140ish karma points .
not i have intention to make one for now.