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Charging a weapon at a "Place of Power"

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Thank you for the help, but the oiled horn is indeed in a normal bag and I tried with and w/o charged quartz crystals thinking that might be needed to “charge” it, even though the wiki hadn’t mentioned needing anything else. I have bug reported it and submitted a ticket with SS. I hope they can help.

Charging a weapon at a "Place of Power"

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I’m trying to do this for my Tempest “Machined Warhorn” to make the North Wind. I’ve tried 2 different places of power in VB and neither does anything. I have not charged quartz at one of these in months. I’ve tried researching it, and saw it was bugged for awhile but it seems like that is fixed.

All the wiki says is “Charging this item at any place of power in the Heart of Maguuma will produce Charged Warhorn Horn.”

Is there anything else I need to do besides show up with the oiled horn? I brought some charged quartz crystals with me in case it needed them but that didn’t help.

Thanks for your help.

Lava Skull backpack upgrade

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You can only put Enrichments in amulets. The Magic Find “infusion” (they’re not called infusions any more, they were changed to be called Enrichments a few patches back) is one of 4 you can choose.

So there’s no question of “if they stack” because you can only use one at a time anyway.

You have to use normal infusions for backpieces and other Ascended trinkets.

Electro, thank you for the clarification. I have a lot to learn and relearn, apparently.

Lava Skull backpack upgrade

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Now the question is: do the effects of the Laurel infusions stack? I have 20% MF in neck and want to put another 20% MF on back. The description doesn’t say anything about it being unique but…better safe than sorry!

Lava Skull backpack upgrade

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Sigh. I was afraid that would be the answer=( Thank you for your quick reply.

Lava Skull backpack upgrade

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Came back to the game last week and I just picked up this easy ASC piece, but it seems it doesn’t accept gem upgrades. I don’t know or care if I can put AR infusion in so what can I put in it? Are there any new vendors that sell infusions? Or are there new crafted recipes? Looking for options.

Thanks so much for your help.

Casual PvE Air/Earth/Tempest

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Lol, I’m amazed you were even able to find this post from about a year ago. Still, I’m glad you like what my past self a year ago came up with.

I googled gw2 tempest earth and this thread was the 3rd result.

dagger isn’t a melee weapon (2 of the auto attacks are projectiles actually).

…..are you serious? Staff has 1200 range skills, scepter 900, dagger 240.
Ele has on dagger air the strongest (melee) auto attack in the game.

Yep, I just came upon this when I goggled tempest builds and I love it too. I am old and slow and just came back to game after 6 months so I’m trying to relearn classes. My Ele is not my main and I REALLY had no idea how to play with the staff set-up I had so I thought I might as well try something new before I “relearn” the old set-up. This build is fun! I currently have no fear of getting in close range as I experience the new Fen area.

Thanks so much!

Sigil interaction with single-handed weapons

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Very nice, ty both for the quick replies!

Sigil interaction with single-handed weapons

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I recently started a toon using single-handed weapons, whereas my main used 2 two-handed weapons. This got me wondering how sigils interact on these weapons, since on my 2 handers I get the benefit of both sigils, I assumed my single -handed weapons would get the benefit of each others sigils as well. But idk if that is actually true.

I have read the wiki info, and it gave several examples, but not the ones I needed so here goes:

In my off-hand I wield a torch with a sigil that grants 20% burning duration.

In my main hand I wield a mace with a sigil that grants 7% crit chance.

Does each weapon’s damage get +20% burning and +7% crit chance?

Thanks for your help.

Is DS bugged?

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TY all for the polite answers. I will shelf DS until this gets sorted out.

Is DS bugged?

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DS runs have been failing alot lately. Sometimes due to server crashes. Sometimes due to that strange ending where we kill him and there’s a pause and then as we wait for cut-scene, we fail.

Both of these things happened in tonight’s run and it was just depressing. We recovered from the server crash (around 40 minutes in) with half our squad on another map — and they never came back. We rallied, communicated with each other, taxi’d folks in and ran around those pillars with 2 resets before making it to boss. It took nearly the entire 2 hours to finish this run, only to have it fail.

So is this a bug when u kill the boss, the islands are in good shape, and then suddenly you fail anyhow? Or is there something these maps are missing? Tonight our energy line bar for the islands (not sure what it’s called) was at 50%. The boss was at 0 and maybe 15 seconds later we fail.

If it’s not a a bug, then can anyone tell me what is happening? Or not happening? Thanks for your help.

Hearts and Minds still BUGGED

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Last night this mission was so bugged it CRASHED GAME ON ENTRY. A group of us were standing around discussing this. Earlier, people had been able to enter, only to have final boss bug and game crash, but the more recent folks, my party of 3 included, had game crash completely when we tried to begin it.

What can be Crit?

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Hello all — i recall reading awhile ago that there are actually alot of Champs, etc. that can be crit. In HoT I would like to focus my Ranger on crits but wanted to review this list of non-crittable mobs. I recall objects and most World Bosses, but wonder about HoT champs and bosses.

Could someone give me a quick run-down of crittable mobs, or point me to a link with this info?

Many thx!

Ranger to Druid

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I have a lot of questions, very specific questions about Druid and Ranger. I’ve reviewed the above links and other wiki sources as well as Ranger Forums (which mostly concentrates on PVP).

Can someone recommend sites for detailed info above Druid and CA for a PVE player?

Thanks all, and happy Wintersday!

Mini Professor Mew sounds

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Does this mini make the sounds that they do in the Fractal?

[NA]Vinewrath Vanguard[Close-knit PvE]

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Hello VINE — I’ve been looking for a small, active guild and your guild sounds just right. I live in US, MST and am retired (although my husband still works) so I have a lot of time on my hands. I’ve been playing MMOs for years but consider myself a noob since I usually solo. I have 2 level 80 toons and I’m always willing to help and/or just join in fun. I have mic, do TS, etc.

Feel free to contact me in-game or if you’d like to take me for a test-drive, shoot me a guild invite.

Elementalist -- how to equip Arcane?

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OMG — that info has changed my world=) TY so much for the quick and clear answer!

Elementalist -- how to equip Arcane?

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So I just realized that I can train and equip all attunements — I thought I was limited to 3 total. But i just hit lvl 74 and trained up Arcane specialization, but I can’t equip the skills.

I use staff — is that the problem? I’m so confused atm and hope y’all can help. I’ve just been hitting the little elemental icons over the skill bar to switch attunements — but there isn’t one for Arcane.

New to elementalist

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Hmmm D/D — is that dagger/dagger? Never occurred to me to put 2 of the same weapon. I’ll give it a try and TYVM for the tip=)

New to elementalist

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Hello all — Grandma Noob here, decided to try something new. As always, it must be ranged and ez for soloing.

I like fire, so started there with a staff. But so far most of the abilities are AOE. I switched to focus/scepter and there are too many ground targets for my feebleness.

Here’s my question: I’m looking for more single target abilities AND/OR at least abilities that don’t require ground placement — what can you recommend?

Many thanks for your advice!

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Alt crafting legendary weapon

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TY so much for the quick and clear reply!

Alt crafting legendary weapon

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Before I start this process, I want to make absolutely sure that I can craft the weapon on an alt. My main is maxed in Jeweler and Leatherworking.

Can I do this? Can I have my alts craft the stuff I need and then just put it together with my main? I read some old posts that said this was possible but want to be certain that it is still true.

Thanks!

Ascended weapon

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Many world bosses cannot be crit, as well as some “boss” structures in dungeons, but champions can. Pretty much anything that isn’t a dragon or some type of structure can be crit (svanir shaman, megadestroyer, “champ train” mobs, etc.).

For world bosses (with perhaps the exception of tequatl and tri-wurm) it doesn’t really matter whether your stats are optimized, in a group of 100 people having 5-10% more damage personally amounts to a 0.05%ish increase to group dps. Condi damage on these event bosses is mostly nullified by the game engine condition cap. Assuming you have a decent amount of power in your build (it sounds like you do) you are already doing about as much damage as you can against the non-crit “boss” structures (dragons, etc.).

Should you be concerned about maximum effectiveness for some reason, I’d suggest a full set of Soldier (Power/tough/vit) gear for dragons and the like. It’s pretty cheap to buy, or free to acquire through karma/badges/dungeons. For all other PvE areas, zerker (or as close as you can get without downing excessively) is generally ideal (broad generalization there, no flaming please and thanks.).

TY so much for this analysis! What you’ve said makes a great deal of sense and it is good to know that more mobs can be crit than I believed.

It was a most wonderful moment to get a weapon chest and I hate seeing it just sitting in my bank. It seems my original ideas about this character remain true and I will be able to keep a larger percent of my current gear and more importantly, use a new weapon.

Ascended weapon

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The range has nothing to do with 1-hand vs 2-hand but how often you CRIT % is (PRECISION) and what your crit damage (FEROCITY) increase is. The percentage increase from EXOTIC to ASCENDED of the base weapon damage is just about 5% flat (as I recall) for all weapons.

Before assuming the weapon stat change will greatly effect your overall DPS, you should look at the numbers closer. Especially if you are stacking PRECISION to the point that you are often hitting the 100% CRIT chance cap….(some of your PRECISION is being WASTED in those cases).
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TY for clarifying your damage estimates. Further investigation will be necessary but atm I have no worries about hitting the Prec cap, especially if I use the new weapon.

I may have to look at a new alternate weapon set that still has range.

Ascended weapon

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It’s hard to have too much ferocity, unless you have no precision. Without knowing your exact build I can’t really give exact advice, using a site like: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/ to show all the numbers would help with specifics.

Hello Thrashbarg — regarding Ferocity, I’ve read on the forums that world bosses/champions can not be crit=( Since 3/4’s of my in-game time is spent fighting these mobs, I’ve started throttling back on Ferocity so I can get some +Condi.

It makes me sad, since I love crit-based builds, but I’m not sure what else to do in these situations. Power is already my #1 priority, Precision is #2 so I need something in that 3rd slot to provide damage when something can’t be crit. +Condi is not ideal since I have very few attacks that it will benefit but I assume my stats will affect my pets damage as well so it makes it a nip more useful.

Ascended weapon

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I’m confused as to why you feel that all your armor and weapon stats must be of the same stat set? If someone has told you that’s in some way required, they have misled you. There is no reason to switch out the rest of your gear to use that weapon. Mixing stat sets is quite common (as long as you aren’t speed running Dungeons).

While that weapon stat set is not considered one of the more desirable ones, it could be useful in WvW or another setting where you wanted some increased direct damage protection. The other 2 stats are certainly desirable for any power and critical based build.

To be honest, it is generally considered that an Ascended weapon can give you somewhere between 5% and 12% DPS increase over an Exotic weapon, so the boost is not negligible (but it also certainly not a requirement to play in almost all areas of the game).

Hello Brother Grimm — TY for the info about ascended vs exotic dps, that is what i was looking for. Since bow is 2-handed I’ll assume its increase is closer to 12% than 5% and that would be significant, yay!

To clear up your confusion, the reason I would need to regear is to regain all the +Precision I would be losing if i use the new bow. I do actually mix gear sets — atm I run Berserk and Soldiers armor to get the right mix of stats, but with all that added +Toughness on the new Bow, i would need to ditch the Soldiers to regain more dps and rework jewelry to ditch +Feroc since the new bow has way too much for my liking=)

Ascended weapon

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Hello all, it’s Grandma Newb again. During last night’s taco time I received an ascended weapon chest. Unfortunately, I am not sure it is worth changing out all my gear to try and make it work since the stats are not really desirable for me. So I have questions and need ideas.

My main is a bow Ranger as I’ve found melee very difficult for me in this game. Some MMOs I can melee, some I can’t. He is built with as much: power, precision, toughness as I can manage, in that order.

The weapon provides: toughness, power/ferocity. Thus if i use this weapon I will need to switch out a majority of my newly acquired gear in order to get back the stats i actually want. This is not an insignificant undertaking as I am new and not rich.

Here are my questions:

The weapon only provides 54 more weapon power than my current (ideal statted) weapon, is 54 points a significant amount? It sounds small to me but I really don’t know.

Can you recommend another ranged profession which has better dps AND good survivability? I could easily level another character and simply store the chest.

Since I doubt I will ever fractal or do any high lvl dungeons (my skills preclude this) the infusion slots also don’t impress me as I will more than likely be slotting 2 +4 Precision so it does seem to come down to whether or not the weapon power will provide granny with much better dps=)

Thanks for all your help!

Ascended recipes?

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The recipes for each piece, and insignias are purchased through the vendor. The indiviual componets (i.e bolt of damask, elonian leather) are unlocked at level 500. For each piece of armor you’ll need one “upper” and one “lower” and an insignia, as well as a vision, or lesser vision crystal.

I think you might be looking for this though: http://www.guildwars2hub.com/guides/crafting/how-craft-ascended-armor

Also here: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_armor
This is the list of the recipes by stats and name so you know which recipies to buy.

Hope this helps.

TY for the quick reply. I have been to the second wiki link, but was hoping for a very specific, recipe by recipe list as opposed to this more general info. Since nearly every recipe I’ve looked at for this game tells you the actual ingredients, I find it unusual that you get to some of the best crafted gear and suddenly can’t see the recipe.

Ascended recipes?

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I’m a noob and started jeweler until somewhere around 350 I realized they had no ascended or anything useful so I started a Leatherworker. I am now ready to make ascended armor, but I can’t find a list of the actual ingredients needed for the recipes without buying them. Each link I try on the wiki doesn’t have an ingredient list.

I feel there must be a list somewhere — can anyone point me in the right direction? I need to see what each piece needs ahead of time so I buy the right recipe. No way will I be able to make more than one piece for awhile.

Many thx for all your help!

Green attributes?

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Thanks, I feel quite enlightened!

Green attributes?

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I notice on my hero sheet that some of my attributes are green and I have no idea why. 90% of my attributes have some sort of stat boost from armor/runes etc. but only 3 are green — can anyone explain what it means?

Thanks for enlightening me=)

Temple armor

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TY all for the excellent info and link. And I appreciate the tip about the armor salvage, Rose, but I’m new so my rune will probably be sitting in this armor a long time as I have no hope of making the ascended armor any time soon. Or getting anything better=)

Temple armor

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Hello all — I’ve just discovered the “temple armor” in Orr and found Berserker stats from a vendor and Rabid as well.

What I need, however, is Assassins. Is there a karma vendor that sells the armor with those stats?

As always, many thanks for all your help and Happy Hunting!

World Boss daily reset?

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Bonus chests are rewarded once per day per account. The big reward chest for the world bosses are rewarded once per day per character (with the exception of karka queen, which is once per day per account). The in-game new “day”, which resets daily achievements and world boss completion, starts at midnight server time (which is at 7pm Eastern in the US).

TY so much! 7pm is a very inconvenient time, but at least now I know when it is — 5pm for me=)

“Thump thump,” goes the tail of the loot hound, before she bounds off in search of treasure.

World Boss daily reset?

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I saw on the wiki that these world bosses can be looted once per day. Is there a standard reset time for all bosses? If not, how does the “reset” work because it clearly is not simply once per “day”. I ran bosses all day yesterday and kept track of the times. Today I’m finding I cannot yet loot some bosses that were looted less than 12 hours ago, but I am able to loot some bosses after less than 24 hours but more than 12.

Thanks so much for helping the loot hound track down her loot!

Dungeon Walkthroughs for Noob

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http://gw2dungeons.net/

Really helpful.

I’d also look at the stickies in this sub forum, there is the [NOOB] guild that is made specifically to help teach people.

Hope that helps, and GL, and btw YAY i’m not the only one who hates video guides and prefers to just read!

Although the stickies were not helpful, “http://gw2dungeons.net/”, was EXACTLY what I was looking for.

Devoted Husband joined me and we stumbled through AC on Story mode and had fun and got lots of fine treats, yay!

TY all for the kind offers and great advice — may the loot gods bless you all=)

Dungeon Walkthroughs for Noob

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TY both for the quick replies! And DonQuack, I’m baking you cookies ofc=)

Dungeon Walkthroughs for Noob

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I am looking for step-by-step walkthroughs for any and all GW2 dungeons. I am a brand new player (1 month!) and a grandma with slow keyboard skills but plenty of time=)

I tried typing in the dungeon name in this forum (ie Ascalonian Catacombs) and was surprised when it couldn’t find anything. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong so thought I’d just ask the experts for some links — and the fewer videos the better. My memory has gotten quite poor and I will need to constantly refer to the guide so videos don’t work for me.

Many thanks for your help and Happy Hunting!

Food, Oils, Utility

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Oil are utility buffs, but normal food+ utility do stack.

TY for the info and quick reply!

Food, Oils, Utility

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Do these various effects stack? So I could possibly consume 3 different items to help the noob?

guild benefits?

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Thanks for the insight, Dingo. We’re new so we don’t have gold burning holes yet, but we have played many other MMOs over the years and some have such serious advantages in guilds that you are at a disadvantage if you aren’t in a guild. It doesn’t seem that this is the case in GW2, but we started a guild anyhow and we’ll see how it goes.

If nothing else, it will stop all the spam guild invites=)

guild benefits?

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Well there are guild buffs and missions, as well as the convenience of gathering people to play with. Is there anything you were looking for specifically?

Thx for your reply. For example, as a member of a guild you get: 10% more gold from kills or fast travel to a guild hall or a guild bank with 200 slots.

I’ve seen the “guild banners” that people sometimes put down to gain buffs — is that the only source of guild buff/bonus?

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Are there any benefits to creating a small family guild? Husband and I are thinking it might provide a guild bank to easily share items between us but I’m wondering if there are other in-game benefits?

Thanks so much for all the help you lovely forumites have been and Happy Halloween Hunting!

Trick-or-Treat Bag research

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Wow, how do u get so many bags?? I’m a noob with a lvl 50ish character and I get maybe 20 bags from 5 hours of play…

You need to go to the Mad Kings Labyrinth, there are 2 doors in LA to take you there.

ty for the quick reply. I was afraid this was the answer. I LOVE Halloween so logged on within minutes of the event and tried all the things I could find. All I did was die in the Labyrinth and I did the ghosts/villagers thing twice and received nothing from it=(

I am a grandma gamer; I’m not very fast and of course, only been playing 2 weeks so maybe I’ll get a bit better before the event ends.

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Wow, how do u get so many bags?? I’m a noob with a lvl 50ish character and I get maybe 20 bags from 5 hours of play…

Dye Limit?

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Appears to be broken to me. Searching for the word “dye” still works however.

Thanks for the tip, Alfwyn, I will try that since all the other “solutions” I came up with have not worked=)

Dye Limit?

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Is there a limit to the number of common dyes you can consume/have available? I have a very modest amount, maybe 10-12, and today every time I search the AH for dyes it says none available. Even with all filters off!

Krytan Armor filled up my packs

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TY all for the info and insights. This wardrobe-thing is more complicated than I first realized so I’m glad I came here before tackling the wiki info. I have been to the bank, and it is full=) My packs fill up quickly with: boosts I think I should save/have no immediate use for and crafting things that do not go into the “gather all materials”. So knowing I can destroy the krytan armor is happy news!

TY again and happy hunting!

Krytan Armor filled up my packs

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My new account came with this box of goodies — including a set of decorative armor and apparently a set of consumable “skins” of the armor. That’s a LOT of bag space.

I equipped all the armor pieces so i guess i have the “skins” saved for all my characters, true? Even characters that haven’t been created yet?

Can I now safely destroy all this armor? I don’t have the bank or pack space available to keep it. If it will prove useful down the road I suppose I can create an alt to hold it unless there are other options u can recommend.

Thank you all for all the newb assistance!

Prereq's for Traits

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I’m new and a bit confused about traits from the Trainer. I bought a trait book at lvl 25 and after buying it, it said i couldn’t use it until 30. It did not, however, say anything like that in the mouse-over.

I just hit 30 and am researching the Traits I’m interested in before buying this time. However, the wiki lists all sorts of odd prereqs for the different traits. As an example:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spotter

says i have to befriend some ogres and when I go to the link for this, it says it is a LVL 80 achievement! Are these old prereqs that are no longer used? If not, why on earth are these available to me to buy now at lvl 30?

Thanks for any help you can provide and happy hunting!