Showing Posts For Gopher.4562:
1 2
Hi,
Unfortunately, I do not have hours upon hours to devote to a single dungeon run during the week. I was just wondering which dungeons people have run that do not take up a good 3-4 hours. I know many of the explore modes do eat up a lot of time, and that’s definitely awesome for weekend play, when I don’t have anything to do.
When I get home though, I just wanna hop on and farm a few dungeon runs.
So far I have really only done the quick CoF dungeon and Arah #3 (no one ever wants to finish it though).
I’ve done quite a few story mode dungeons, but I am namely looking for some explore mode dungeons where I can be getting tokens.
So what is your average time per Dungeon, and which path do you take?
I have a love/hate relationship with the system. I’m content with it, but I do feel you on the whole ‘guild community’ thing.
Then again, Guild Community is just that, a community. Your guild should have a website, forums, a ventrilo or mumble or teamspeak; etc.
No one ever reads guild chat anyway.
Then you get a Fraps image, and a GW2 image.
One will goto your Fraps save folder, the other to your GW2 save folder.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Having-problems-netting-money-Don-t-fret
You can check this out, this is for level 80’s though.
Vitality does not give much return, in terms of actual HP. With 30 points in the Vit tree you’re getting maybe 2k HP.
When mobs are hitting you for 5-6k, the extra 2k is definitely nice, but since the Tactics tree is a bit lackluster in terms of skills, and it seems that the majority of the skills that are useful in that tree are broken.
Empower Allies is great, however it does not actually increase the power of anyone.
Shrug it off is also another great ability, however it has yet to ever activate for me (tested this in a dungeon and outside of a dungeon)
For me, who uses a Greatsword/Rifle and Dual Axes everything else in the tree is very lackluster.
I prefer Toughness as that allows me to take more damage than Vitality ever will, and the Toughness tree actually has some decent (non broken) skills.
XP boosters aren’t bad when you hit 80. Especially if you are trying to get fast experience to get more skill points.
Some people prefer PvE over PvP and want to get their 80 exotic sets of gear, so they get to 80 fast.
It makes sense, and it doesn’t make sense.
Essentially it would boost the prices up on EVERYTHING in the Market and make them more valuable (supply/demand).
However, this doesnt’ work with GW2 model because as it stands, players aren’t intended to have loads of extra gold.
The guild stays in tact, and the guild leader would be on a different server.
Most definitely on Blacklights suggestion. If you’re trying to single target mass mobs, it will be very difficult to get loot. Try to make sure you are hitting everything, and fast (the non veteran/champion mobs drop really quick)
Yeah, they make you go through an unnecessary step to lock a target. The option is in your Keybinds.
Not sure why they didn’t make it a tick box like every other game ._.
Welcome to years ago, when it was announced the game would be just like that.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Having-problems-netting-money-Don-t-fret
I just wrote this. You can look into that, and it shows some quick tips.
So lets break down how easy it is to get money in this game:
1x Omnomberry Bar (1hr 40% M.Find 30% Gold Find) (1s 30c from the TP)
1x M.Find set (Optional)
Waypoint to Frostgorge, Malchor’s Leap or Cursed Shore. (at the most this will cost 4s)
1) Dynamic Events – the events in these 3 zones give 1-2s per event. That’s a measly 5-10 minutes of time to cover your Waypoint, and give you some return as well. This excludes any item drops that you may get from the mobs while doing the events.
2) Farm NPCs – I usually kill humans/beasts in areas that I go to. No, I will sadly not tell you my farming spots as I like to be the only one there :P Since you are consuming an Omnomberry Bar, just by killing 3-6 NPCs you will have covered the cost and profited from the Waypoint. Who farms only 3-6 NPCs though? Stay awhile, and farm! You’ve got a good 30 minutes to an hour before you need to change zones. Just of pure coin (excluding item drops) I gain about 50s-1g in an hour.
3) Loot NPCs
-Hit EVERYTHING you can in Dynamic Events. Some of those events spawn a good 100+ mobs (try checking the one in front of Arah). With an Omnomberry Bar, I usually walk away from that event alone with 1-2 yellows, 5-6 greens, 10+ blues, some odd whites, crafting materials and even a few grey junk items that go for a few silver a pop. (that event alone can net me 40-60 silver after putting some items up on the TP
-Sell some loot! Vendor off a couple blues, it’s really not going to hurt. After awhile your bags are going to be overloaded anyway.
4) Mystic Forge – Take your blues/greens back to the Mystic Forge if you are feeling lucky. Try to turn them into Yellows. Once you have some yellows, you can sell them for 20-25 silver a pop. If you want to take a gamble on Ecto’s, use a Master Salvage Kit and extract those yellows, sell the Ecto’s or use them to make gear and sell the gear.
5) Loot Bags – Open them! A lot of those bags can give you bloods, cloth scraps etc. Gossamer sells for alot, so do bloods.
6) Nodes – Collect everything you see! You pay 4s for the gathering tools, and once those deplete; if you decide to sell what you’ve collected you will make a good 40-50s profit. I’ve found Malchor’s Leap to be a great place for rare nodes such as Orichalcum.
I’m sure there are lots of other ways to net coin, really easily. I’ve given 6 examples on how simple it is to easily profit after using a Waypoint, and get a lot more in return. If you’re cheap, or just starting out at 80 and have limited coin; I would start with the event in front of Arah before beginning your journey ’round the three zones.
Total travel cost to get between the three zones is 9-11 silver, and after a few hours; you will have easily profited a good 2-5 gold.
We killed it twice last night on Crystal Desert before it bugged out again.
I bought my entire tier 1 cultural as soon as I hit 35, and didn’t do anything close to farming. Just played the game naturally. This game literally just throws money at you.
Sorry this just is not True.
At level 46 i have 1 gold 60, and i would need 3 gold to buy the level 35 stuff. I do not waste gold in game.
Its obvious to me that lack of currency is a deliberate move to force the player to buy gems to swap for gold.
rofl 0/10
Fail attempt to troll.
Currency is sokitteneasy to get in this game, especially at 80.
I can farm Frostgorge Sound for 30m to 1hr and come out with 1-2g in profit. Just because people don’t know how to farm, or are new to farming doesn’t mean what you said. Stop putting lies into peoples minds.
I’m having a bit of an annoying problem here, I play full screen mode (not full screen window).
Frequently, my mouse travels over to the right monitor, however if you have dual monitors, while in full screen your mouse cursor should always stay on the game window.
Is this happening to anyone else?
Does anyone have a solution?
It’s really frustrating, especially in PvP when you lose your cursor on the other screen and lose all ability to control your character because the game thinks you are on the other monitor >_<
Signet of Rage is really the only one worth while. It’s like a super steroid on a short cooldown.
I wish they would add some damagey type bonuses to Rampage or Juggernaut or w/e it is.. I would use that skill all the time =(
Again,
eat 1 omnomberry bar. Go kill 3 monsters. You just paid for your waypoint to that area. Go kill 4 more monsters, you have now profited.
Do 3 events in an 80 zone, make your money back
Do 4 events in an 80 zone, profit
Vendor 3-6 blues, you have now profited.
Way points at MOST cost 3-4 silver. That’s near nothing, and beyond esay to get. If you don’t like way points, they are a 100% optional convenience. Don’t want to pay, start running.
@Artorous, except they also made it impossible to get xp and gold from doing stuff in the open world, due to the horribly awful anti-farming garbage.
Have you tried farming in different zones? I haven’t had any problems gaining experience or gold now that I found different spots in each of the 80 zones that I can go to.
Once I hit the cap in one zone, I move to the next, then the next, and I can circulate this for days.
The anti-farming script prevents you from farming the same THING over and over. Not farming in general.
From my experience, the anti-farming loot drop stuff kicks in a few minutes into killing stuff. If it’s of a particular type, leaving the area usually doesn’t matter (i.e., Orr, all the mobs are risen, so the anti-farming stuff kicks in across all of them).
The anti-farming event stuff kicks in in about 20-30 minutes every time, and applies to all events, not just the one you just completed, meaning there’s no reason to do events after it kicks in since you get such terrible rewards.
So yeah, I’m not really talking about hardcore farming behavior, I’m talking about just wandering around an area killing stuff or doing events. The anti-farming system is WAY TOO AGGRESSIVE and prevents even normal play from giving rewards.
But it doesn’t do it for all events.. You can spam some events in Straights of Devastation til you get nerfed, hit up the next zone farm events and you get full rewards from them. Unless there was something changed in the past 15 minutes or you are trying to farm the same thing over and over, then I have no idea.
@Artorous, except they also made it impossible to get xp and gold from doing stuff in the open world, due to the horribly awful anti-farming garbage.
Have you tried farming in different zones? I haven’t had any problems gaining experience or gold now that I found different spots in each of the 80 zones that I can go to.
Once I hit the cap in one zone, I move to the next, then the next, and I can circulate this for days.
The anti-farming script prevents you from farming the same THING over and over. Not farming in general.
The second I hit 80, I went to the WvW Karma Vendor and purchased a green set of 80 pow/tough/vit gear for less than 25k Karma. They offer a blue & yellow set, as well as some yellow trinkets.
Well, if you don’t plan on farming then you don’t need to spend money on waypoints because you don;t have to move or go anywhere. The waypoints in town, while you are in town are absolutely free. You are welcome to mingle and socialize with your friends there.
Now, when you step out to the PvE world, where things start dropping money and events give you money and you start earning items, yes; of course you’re going to have to pay to teleport around.
You have the option of hoofing it, if you don’t want to waypoint. You are in NO way tied to the 100% optional waypoints that the game conveniently offers for us.
The highest I have seen a Waypoint was 4s. That’s nearly nothing, that’s 2 Dynamic Events, 2-4 mobs w/ Omnomberry Bar on, 5 blues vendored, 8 whites vendored or 1 1/2 greens vendored.
Woahh… you mean to tell me that a legendary weapon is actually going to take some time to get? Now this is pretty epic.
I really hate to bring other games into this, but i’m going to use Vanilla WoW as a prime example as to why I personally think this is absolutely awesome.
Thunderfury. Vanilla WoW, this was the god amongst swords, the ultimate legendary weapon of the game. My guild farmed for 2 1/2 years to get the last remaining item we needed for our tank, every week we would go in farm Garr for his little binding. When we finally got it, it was a glorious day.
The fact that it was so difficult to obtain made it truly a legendary weapon. I’m sure if ANet wanted 90% of the population to have a Legendary weapon, they would have named it “rare” or “exotic”.
Read the ‘rarity’ of the item, and stop and think about what you are saying. It’s not Legendary because it’s common, it’s Legendary because it’s EXTREMELY hard to obtain.
It’s also totally optional, there are plenty of other skins out there that you may prefer.
Eochaidh.4106 — I don’t know why I can’t quote you, but w/e.
The ONLY time I’ve ever gotten yellows from a chest is when I have an Omnomberry Bar burning, or when I have my full Mfind set on.
I REALLY don’t know if it actually helps the chest loot or not, or if it’s just tinfoil hat. I do get yellows from chests though, quite often actually (at least once or twice in the 4-5 hours that I play per night).
I would think these types of weapons would be Soulbound on acquire. I would hope they were at the least. That’s just my hope, I don’t know for sure, and I don’t think anyone else does except ANet
Strill, you should go try another zone instead of farming the same few events over and over :P
I’m loving the free blues/greens/yellows that I get from chests. Not sure about you, but I like to goto the Mystic Forge and turn them into better items, or rare crafting materials.
I have a Rifle, a Bow, a GreatSword, 2 axes and 2 swords with my Warrior.
The GW2 forum moderators seem to be a bit infract happy. I received an infraction for asking people to stop feeding the trolls; and in the same post people just continued to troll it, and degrade other users while their posts received 0 infractions.
In anycase, the OP brings up a very valid concern and I feel that the infraction should be removed as well.
So you have Overflow, but claiming that your server has no population? Overflow prevents overpopulation.
Perhaps there is no one interested in running AC as they are unhappy with the gear from it? Have you tried asking your guildmates if they are interested, or your friends?
PvP happened in a PvP zone, someone cried they can’t do PvE things in PvP zone. Nothing new to see here >_>
Yes Denial, and you do that by using a third party program to automate your gameplay.
Robots don’t just rise up from the ground and start playing GW2. People use programs to automate it, which is why botting would be a decent place to report Hackers.
It all falls under third party program usage.
Then use botting. It’s considered a third party program, just as any of the ‘hacks’ are.
I’d say weekly, or bi-weekly. That’s just my professional opinion.
It’s a waste of time to log into the game every few minutes to check the millions of reports on players they are getting.
I’m sure they go in game and monitor the bots while invisible, collect information and as Hedyn said; pop a mass ban like they have already done.
I’m on Crystal Desert, one of the more populated servers. If I queue in for our server Borderlands, it generally takes 20-30 minutes. The other two are near instant though. :P
I wouldn’t mind them offering like 25-100 karma per dungeon. I think the bulk of Karma should be earned through Dynamic Events though.
It would be silly if you could get EVERYTHING you need from dungeons alone.
haha, back in the day we filtered the “F” word to “Fluffy Bunny” on our forums. Soglad that Anet did this hahaha
The anti-farm thing works per zone, not for events in whole.
This means you can’t sit there and zerg down events for hours on end. You actually need to go out and explore and stop doing the same 3 events over and over.
Working at a game company myself Widener, that would take a HUGE amount of resources/money.
The game has sold over 2 million copies, even if only 50,000 of those people purchased gold, do you know how long it would take for a GM/Customer Support to go through that, on top of all the issues they currently have to deal with?
Are you prepared to start paying 10-15 dollars an hour to hire a a team of 20-40 people working 40-60 hours a week to JUST go through one small annoyance in the game that you can easily filter out yourself?
Maybe adding a CAPTCHA type thing to each mail could narrow things down without the unnecessary use of hiring a ton of people.
(edited by Gopher.4562)
The utility skill Dolyak Signet is pretty easy to figure out.
Look at your Toughness without it, and look at your Toughness with it. The difference = how much Toughness that Signet gave you. I don’t know the exact value since I didn’t write it down.
But that’s all it does is + Toughness.
I haven’t tried out the auto-use traits (endure pain or shake it off) so I can’t really comment on it. I would hope that it doesn’t though, that would seem silly >_<
I usually have
Shake it Off (clear a condition on yourself & group member(s)), Endure Pain for the oshi moments, and lately been using For Great Justice.
I usually use Signet of Rage for my Elite.
Specced into GS at the moment, but have been contemplating axe/axe
Dungeons: If a GROUP is dying, then you blame the group. It’s not any one persons fault that the 5 people in your party were unable to quickly get to your party member, and give him that 3-5 second click to get them out of the downed state.
There is no “aimlessly attacking” in dungeons, well; I guess there are if you want to set yourself up to fail. Personally, when it comes to dungeons, I am constantly in motion, dodging, planning my attacks, figuring out when a good time to unleash my melee and swap to range is.
Since this game is designed to allow build diversity, there is no right or wrong with how someone else picks their traits. It depends on how that person likes to play the game.
World Bosses: are expected to be some what easy for the most part, I mean hell you have tons of people zerging it down. I’d like to see you stand in one place on some of the dragons though. You will be dead so fast.
Questing/Exploring: How would you propose they do it? It’s already totally innovative. I, like many others personally love the way they do the events in this game. Sure some may be run of the mill Kill X, but do you expect EVERY SINGLE quest in the game to be different from one another? You do realize that it is a physical impossibility, don’t you? Sadly, like EVERY single game that will ever release, these quests will be there. They are filler quests. Guild Wars 2 brings plentiful variety to quests.
Gear: And that’s exactly how this game was advertised. Don’t blame ArenaNET because you failed to do your homework.
sPvP: I haven’t done enough to comment.
WvW: Yes, there may be lots of zerging involved, but zergs don’t matter if the other server is communicating with each other and has better tactics than your server. There is lots of strategy in WvW, you just need to get in there and learn.
All in all though, you claim lack of end game, but I see it as this:
There are 32 different possible dungeons you can do at 80
There is WvW which is endless combat / fun
sPvP
I highly doubt you have 100% world completion
You don’t craft or haven’t crafted, there is something else you can be doing to work toward.
Plenty of fun/crazy events in the world that I’m sure you haven’t even seen.
I would just check the Lion’s Arch merchants and preview the different sets.
What do you mean Prodigy? My current gear has a set of gear with Emerald Orbs attached it it, aren’t Jewels the upgrade to the Orbs?
Or am I mistaken?
I know in sPvP you can only use the runes they give, but I think the gear may react differently in the PvE world.
I don’t think 68k karma is enough for even half of a greatsword :O
You may be able to pick one up from one of the heart merchants in the 80 zones.
aggro is very random in the game, there is no ‘true’ way to tank anything. They kinda do what they wanna do.
anet please ignore dungeons are fine threads by people that did 1 dungeon
let me guess, you’re stacked glass cannon with 0 points in your defensive tree line?
1 2