Guild Wars 2

I like it the way it is. No Change!

No offense taken. I continue to consume the luck and do not care about doing something else with the essences of luck.

I don’t know if this is the best method. All I know is that it is what I did. I wrote this out to help out the next guy since I won’t be doing all that TP buying and salvaging anymore.

Convenience Items:

Copper Salvage o’ Matic
Bag Slot Expansions
Artificer (for essences of luck)
100g initial investment

This is how I got to 300% Magic Find. I also ended up with much more gold from selling the salvage items.

First, you need to know what items to salvage. You would want Tier 2 salvage items (Levels 21-39), Tier 3 salvage items (Levels 40-53), and Tier 4 salvage items (Levels 54-62).

Now, if you’re dumb like me and you don’t want to think too much, then the max you would want to bid for Blue items is 80 copper and 1 silver 20 copper for Green items.

If you like thinking and want to push the limit, then know that gloves give 1.5 salvage items, chest armors give you 3 salvage items, and other armors give 2 salvage items. Now, consider the item price < [ # of salvage ] * [ price of salvage ] * .85 from Trading Post fees. From there you can decide if it is a profit.

If you would like the list of Blue items: http://www.gw2spidy.com/type/0/-1/9?rarity_filter=2&min_level=21&max_level=62&sort_max_offer_unit_price=asc

If you would like the list of Green items: http://www.gw2spidy.com/type/0/-1/8?rarity_filter=3&min_level=21&max_level=62&sort_max_offer_unit_price=asc

Tip 1: On your inventory window, click the gear on the upper right. Then click “Hide Bags”.

Tip 2: Stretch your inventory window to a comfortable size.

Tip 3: Most people salvage right to left, or left to right, or up to down, etc. Myself, after salvaging thousands of items, I found I am able to salvage more accurately with fewer misclicks if I do the following process. Salvaging in a snake-like pattern. For example, I have 2 rows of items to salvage. I would salvage the top-left item, then bottom-left, then bottom-right, then top-right. I would continue this pattern until the two rows salvaged the move on to another two rows.

Tip 4: There is a player who will outbid you several times. Placing several bids (out-bidding themself) going 1 copper (or more) several times above your original bid. This was their strategy to try to overwhelm a player into thinking this item dramatically increased in price and so are tempted to remove their bid (or give up.) Do not be deceived.

Tip 5: Check the TP twice a day to check your number of orders in “My Transactions” and then “Buying”. Remember that you can organize your orders from fewest to most. So you can find the orders that you need to add quantity to easily.

Tip 6: Once a day, organize your “Buying” orders by price and click each item to see if you were out-bid. Then raise the price by 1 copper. Having the prices in decending order will allow you remember your place (by the amount) to pick up from the same spot later if you need to do something.

Tip 7: I would order 222 of an item because certain items sell very fast. A problem with my system is if all your orders are bought, it is difficult to know it and order more.

Tip 8: When you hover your cursor over the Magic Find % total, be aware that it includes two types of magic find. Magic find from Luck and magic find from achievements. Make sure your “From Luck” is at 300.

Trivia: I have completed Agent of Entropy 1,323 times.

Trivia 2: You need 4, 295, 450 luck to get 300%MF. That means 85 stacks of exotic essences of luck.

Help the Mad King have more funny jokes!

I enjoyed listening to the GW2 jokes that the Mad King says in Lions Arch. They really bring a new atmosphere to how those characters would see each other. Whoever writes those jokes is does it very well.

I wanted to add a little community interaction to see what we (as a community) can come up with to be funny (and non-sexual). Maybe the devs will find one of them funny and add it to the Mad King’s jokes? I don’t know.

Since last year, I’ve been trying to find jokes and I’ve told them in Lions Arch sometimes. Let’s start!

*What do you call a Charr burned alive?

*What do you make when you chop off a group of Sylvari’s heads?

*What did the dumb Azura get on his test?

*Why did the Sylvari go to the Grove? (Credit to my fiance)

I admit that I’m not that funny. But what funny jokes (non-sexual) can YOU make that is GW2 related.

I look forward to reading them.

PS. I hope this is allowed on this forum. I looked at the list and this is the only forum I can see that I can write this topic in…

Ok guys. Here’s what happened. Good news and Bad news.

Bad News:
I raged. I really did. Again nothing worked. Thank you for the suggestions. None worked for me.

Good News:
I used the festival tokens from all my gaming so far to buy tomes of knowledge. I got as many levels on my mesmer as I could. Got my mesmer to level 78. Then I crafted/discovered recipes to make it to level 80.

With my level 80 mesmer, I bought zerkers/runes/weapons. After about 10 tries I beat the pirates. Considering that I have no idea how to play a max level mesmer and winging it, I surprised myself.

So this topic is closed.

Conclusion:
Don’t fight the gauntlet pirates with an elementalist. Level another class to do it. The End.

Sobat.8650:

Sounds like you’ve tried the whole gamut of strategies and none worked out so far.
Would it be possible to upload a video of the gauntlet fight so we could critique it?

I will put up a video from fraps after trying new suggestions. Anet’s tweaks helped a little…

KiteoHatto.7018:

My squishy friend tried to do them and he failed a lot of times, switched to a warrior and facerolled them. The only difference is outlasting the damage by either killing them quicker or being tankier. Have you tried a Fiery GS build to burst down Stitches and the captain and then using lightning hammer on the other 2 ?

I have a lvl 80 ele and thats what i used in orr pve(pre risen nerf) and i could take a beating, i did the gauntlet with a necro though, but if i had to use ele for that fight i would go with what i said. Good luck man.

Ok. I googled Firey GS build and got strange searches.

Could you place it here for me to see?:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/

I don’t know what the risen nerf it. But I haven’t tried a fiery greatsword build.
I did try a build that involved using only the lightning hammer and being in water element to heal myself. (I can’t remember the build name). It was successful for damage since it crit a lot. But I still couldn’t kill them.

If you give me the info, I will try it at least 10 times.

Pandaman.4758:

I managed to kill them with my mesmer, so I can’t really give any suggestions on how to do it with an elementalist, but I found that keeping Stiches for last actually helped a lot. She has a huge AoE heal every ten seconds or so, but when she dies they all gain regeneration every second, which is actually a far bigger pain to deal with when you can’t sustain DPS due to constant running/dodging.

I went Captain -> First Mate -> Gunner -> Stitches. Captain first because I wanted to stop his buffing, first mate second because the melee was annoying and I could handle the poison, and gunner third… well, simply because I wanted to leave Stitches for last. Definitely don’t kill gunner first though, he gives them all pistols on death; just bear with his AoEs until you get the first two down.

Yea. A lot of the suggestions were kill stitches first or last. I tried both ways and I tended to get get further if I left stitches last. And I agree about the Gunner.

Do you think my lvl 60+ mesmer can do it?

Ok guys. Here’s the deal. I’ve been playing for a year now.

I was here for the last queens gauntlet. I just. can. not. kill. those pirates. I spent so many tickets and tried so many builds. I’m a casual player and I spent so many gauntlet tickets. I rage quit the gauntlet and never got the chance to kill liadri. All because of those pirates. I even threw away all the gauntlet tickets. (Bad idea, I know. Especially now that gauntlet tickets are ridiculous to get. But that’s another thread)

Here’s the problem. My only lvl 80 is an elementalist. I have a mesmer that is 60 something. I’m sure my only chance to do this is with my elementalist.

DON’T tell me to look what people did last time. I read/watched a lot about those. Nothing worked. I don’t know what to do.

Ok ok. I’m being difficult. How about you TRY the suggestions from last queen’s gauntlet BEFORE telling me to do it.

If I remember correctly:
If I killed kited them while damaging them. I would eventually win, but time out and fall down.
If I did all damage damage damage, I would die from aoes and not enough healing.

Well. Let’s see what you folks got for me. Please help!

In light of the new megaservers…
This is my first post on the forums because I wanted to say goodbye to all my dragonbrand server friends. (I am NOT quitting the game.)

We were spoiled. Having helpful, thoughtful, reasonable people we could depend on. No matter the map, everyone was nice.

Now we’re mixed in with the rest of the server population. Already I read toxic/troll comments in map chats to questions or comments.

I now realize that the people I could depend on will be in hiding, avoiding chat. Unless they want to argue with toxic trolls. I almost never ignore players. My ignore list is very small actually. But I MUST start to ignore (lots and lots of) them to at least keep some borderline civility in chat (since I wouldn’t want to see otherwise).

So I say goodbye to the dragonbrand server population who helped me so much while I was starting the game over a year ago. I hope I even helped you in return. And I hope we can reminisce about the good old days, and maybe I’ll see you in the megaserver.

Thank you for the good times.