Guild Wars 2

Correct. On the Eastwatch pylon events, right after you activate the third pylon, Sage Korin gets eaten by a Legendary Vinetooth Prime that you have to defeat on a 10 minute timer. The boss needs heavy cc for burn phases and if that breakbar isn’t depleted, it instantly kills a player character and receives a growing damage buff.

The area prevents you from efficiently reviving downed state players because it reduces the effectiveness by half during the fight. So reviving dead players isn’t an option on the strict timer. It’s a little difficult.

I was wondering maybe if we could get a small organized group going for others like me after the collection item? If so, hit me up in game.

Buy order at 2500g.
Anet, there needs to be a compromise. Some kind of compromise that actually makes us work for it at least, because as it stands no one here can make 2500g in an honest amount of time before the events end.

Since it’s memorial day today, and the Anet staff may have today off, I can understand silence and no hotfixes. Crossing fingers that something changes tomorrow, otherwise, I think Anet has had enough time in the last few days to choose whether or not they think this needs to be fixed, and I’m scared of the prospect of them thinking that this is okay.

The latest buy order is literally 2000g now. Absolutely ridiculous. A recipe that costs as much as a legendary is incredible to see in my time here on gw2, lol.

1500 tickets, no drop. Just adding my data to the pool.

An Anet dev stated that they would look at the drop rate of the recipe but I really hope that if anyone sees this, that they really take it to heart that we feel this needs to change.

Backpieces that aren’t even at Legendary quality should not be this hard obtain, at least not with its current implementation. If the pavilion was permanent content I’m sure there would be less complaining, but I can’t help but feel pressed for time and pressured to farm knowing that the recipe has a timer on it.

Let’s hope there’s a patch fix for this tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

ANET, for your consideration, there have already been four different threads in three different subforums all saying the same thing my thread has been saying.

This needs to change.

Both videos available, to my knowledge on youtube, or of two people equipping the backpiece with legendary weapons. Backpieces never have footfalls.

I just wanted to chime in on some observations.

Currently my buy order is within the seven highest orders so far on the recipe, and so far only one has dropped in the last two in a half days. If even seven recipes dropped the prices would go down, if even 10 dropped and were sold to buy orders the prices would go down. Hell, I’d even get the recipe itself even if seven WORLDWIDE across all servers, dropped. Yet there has been nothing. Not even any listings.

Either the drop rate should change or the tickets should become more accessible, but both of these are really hurting the supply. I mean hell there HASN’T been any supply. There should have been more than one drop by now.

Just saying, ANET, if you see this, please give some consideration about changing it. Thank you.

After 500+ runs without any drops and a bit of bitterness, I would appreciate some feedback from an ANET dev on this subject but I wanted to ask to any passerby developers that can explain to me why the drop rate for this recipe is so low?

There have been buy orders of upwards 600+g in the last two days and they haven’t been filled. I do not know if this is intended but this doesn’t follow the latest trend that Shadow of Grenth and Light of Dwayna has followed; those recipes were rare, yes, but they’re cheap, and the reason is because they were dropped from readily accessible presents last Wintersday.

The problem I feel is that since tickets and tokens are much more harder to come by, the Queen’s Gauntlet isn’t often run. But when it is farmed, not only are you spending money and receiving one token in return, but you’re also not getting anything else. No coins to make up for the money loss, no sprockets to trade in for more tickets, no nothing.

Compounding the problem that the Chaos of Lyssa recipe is so horribly low in drop rate that I can’t understand why this would be intentional. If I wanted to go further, the backpiece itself takes 15 days to make(and 50g) or you can make it in one day with 250g instead. Whichever you choose, it’s still expensive to make.

That backpiece would only appeal to a niche amount of players anyways just like the previous two god backpieces, so why is this one so special? I ask again, is this intended?

All of the terrible people before the new dungeon reward system were concentrated in CoF p1.

All those people now are spreadout among the game and most commonly in invasions now because its the most lucrative thing out there.

These people were always here, they were just avoidable back then.

People don’t know how to read.

Per reddit it’s been confirmed that they are adding Assassin’s stat combinations (PREC, POWER, CRIT DAMAGE) in place of Explorers and I wanted feedback on how this might change up the Berserker mesmer builds out there.

Do you think sacrificing power over crit is worth it? How much crit should a mesmer even have? Is this OP?

http://puu.sh/3yKWt/d0c060c3dd.jpg

This error message pops up immediately when the character selection screen shows up with:
—> Crash <—
Exception: c0000005
Memory at address 00000074 could not be read
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 4228
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 20583
When: 2013-07-09T17:08:18Z 2013-07-09T12:08:18-05:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:00:15
Flags: 0×1

But the game is still playable and I can select Play from the menu.

But when I press play, it crashes a second time and gives me another error message with:

—> Crash <—
Assertion: !index || m_refArray[index]
File: p:\code\arena\services\IdMgr/IdMgr.h(88)
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 4228
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 20583
When: 2013-07-09T17:08:54Z 2013-07-09T12:08:54-05:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:00:51
Flags: 0×1

God, this video again.

Er, yeah. 20.

Woops

Elementalists cannot swap weapons but that doesn’t mean they have anything short of “class complexity” compared to others.

They have attunements, you’re supposed to memorize the four attunements and swap them in battle to make effective use of a good Elementalist class. (Giving you 20 skills per weapon.)

Every other class can swap weapons in combat, btw. Elementalists cannot.

Try new classes.

I literally saw no one kitten about those things “breaking immersion” and yet here we are having this thread simply because ArenaNet made something retro and cute that doesn’t fit into the style of the existing content. So what?

Yes, Immersion is important. But you don’t have to have it to enjoy this game all the time. They’ve done things like this before, and if you don’t like it, get a new game.

You are completely avoiding the prospect of why Guild Missions were installed into the game anyway. It isn’t hard for a small guild to get influence, party up, do dungeons, do events, there are actually(gasp) influence bonuses for doing things with other guild members.

There are actually(double gasp)small guilds that aren’t upset by this update, because they know they’ll get it eventually, because they’re going to work for it. (A party worth of people is not a guild)

Whether or not you want to get to know people and invite them to help out with influence is YOUR issue, not the game. Whether or not you want to work for with it and the rest of your guild is THEIR issue, not the game. There are plenty of ways to get the content you want to build, so instead of actually complaining about it on a forum, why don’t you go actually… i dunno, work for it??? All this time crying tears could actually be spent(triple gasp) GETTING INFLUENCE.

What a concept.

That sounded petty, but whatever the case, working for these missions or not is your own prerogative. These missions are not meant for simple walks in the park and I’m fine with that.

No idea dude, not my issue. Just chimed in to say from what I’ve received from experience.

Guild Missions are gonna be hard to unlock; they will be hard to complete. Precursors drop from these missions. What did you expect?

Two, three, four, five people doesn’t make a guild. Recruit people and get to know them, make friends and invite them to your guild.

The guild missions are not meant for small guilds anyway.
We just finished one mission at tier 1 and we failed tier 2 three times with more than 20 people spreading out to suspected zones as to where to find the convicts.

Our guild on Jade Quarry has initiated the Guild Bounties, but everytime we open up the mission panel to look at the Bounty upgrade as its in progress, it crashes everyone.

We can’t look at the hints to find the bounties, we’ve just been searching in the dark.

This game doesn’t require you to grind for max gear. It simply does not. Wanting max gear is your own endeavor, you can still play dungeons without max gear, you can still play in level 80 areas with max gear, you can still walk around Lion’s Arch without max gear, you can still waypoint to other zones without max gear, you can still complete the map without max gear.

This game was not targeted for the “casuals!!!!”, this game was targeted for any kind of kitten player that decided to buy the game in the first place. That is why Fractals exists, that is why map completion exists, that is why sPvP exists, that is why WvW exists, and that is why you can play any one part of these things that GW2 has to offer in any way you wish.

Skins are purposely grindy because they’re optional, Legendaries fall into this. You also cannot argue about the stat changes to a Legendary and deeming it “required” just because it’s going to get an update to its stats after Ascended weapons come out. You are forgetting that first and foremost an ASCENDED WEAPON will exist.

The only thing I can agree is about Ascended items and Agony, but instead of arguing on the forum for countless hours about the grind, why don’t you either:

1. Play the kitten game
or
2. Leave

This game does not force you to play. It has no subscription. ArenaNet will not miss you.
That is the truth.

It really just seems like a lot of the people arguing back and forth in this thread are all one-sided with narrow viewpoints.

Although it’s true that some classes can use builds better than others, I don’t see how the holy trinity keeps “people together” and “gives more depth” than what GW2 has to offer right now. This new system grants freedom. So many classes can build in so many ways, the way you want to…

And a healing class can only heal.

And on the “no coordination” part… what? This is simply not true. There is coordination if you go out and try to coordinate. There can also be no coordination if you don’t look for it. Do you always run with PUGs? Have you tried running with friends or guild members? This entire game is promoting these aspects in a way where it wants you to get social and interact with players. If there is no coordination then that is the party’s fault, not the game.

This game gives you the tools to make builds and play whatever you want in dungeons, it’s up to you if you want to utilize them or not, it is also up to you to “coordinate” with party members. The trait refund fee is low for a reason.

Here’s my necromancer with Arah gear.

Screenshot taken before I was able to nab the arah pants. The pants I’m wearing in the screenshot is the Shadow armor set.

I’d be interested as well to run with you, Obal. I run a level 80 condition Necro with full exotic trinkets/weapons, but I also have a level 80 Banner warrior specced with Regen and full exotics. I’ve done path 3 before, but I would appreciate if you could do other paths as well? I’d like to learn about most of the paths save for Dwayna.

I’d like an invite! Please add me if you would kindly.

I actually seem pretty interested in you guys. I’ll drop by an application on your forums sometime?