Guild Wars 2

http://www.guildwars2-crafting.com/crafting-guides/
This is a great guide. If you dont want to follow it, it is still good reference for your questions.

For an ingame gold sink I believe its steep. In the US I’m at around 22% + -. Other games Ive played taxed at 10% for AH/TP transactions.

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Its per character, per day, and per server. so one 1 toon you can do maw 3 times on different servers in one day and still get all chests. [/quote]

Have you done this? I believe it is only 1 chest/toon/day on 1 server.

Yes, though unlike the real world where taxes fund necessities like Fire Dept, Police and Fully Funded Lifetime Healthcare for Senators and Representatives, in GW2 it’s merely a gold sink. Remove gold from the economy. I agree 15% is too high.

WonderfulCT.6278:

Greenthumb Legacy.6549:

I’d like to see Dungeon Vanquish implemented. Upon completion upscaled rewards on top of normal rewards. Skip content if you wish or VQ. Dungeon Vanquisher Title. Increased gold/tokens. Post mentioned upcomming dungeon dificulty revamp(increase) of course.

No one enjoyed vanquishing at all, ever.

I did. As well as scores of pugs I VQ’d with. Trash mob loot wasn’t the draw. End rewards and completion was.
I stand by my opinion.

I’d like to see Dungeon Vanquish implemented. Upon completion upscaled rewards on top of normal rewards. Skip content if you wish or VQ. Dungeon Vanquisher Title. Increased gold/tokens. Post mentioned upcomming dungeon dificulty revamp(increase) of course.

Submit a ticket to support and hope for the best. Good luck!

You will not be able to return for exchange. Laurel and karma vendors ask you if you are sure you want to buy the item. Its free to research the items on wiki before buying.

Where I live we have passion vines all over our fence and every fruit was first a flower. Having harvested soo many fruits on karka island, I figure it’s perpetually late in the season.

OP references Cancer Man, I sprint through the internets to Netflix. Great post too, looking forward to see how future issues are handled concerning the community.

Could this situation be solved with a roll back? I wonder if they image the servers prior to doing a large maintenance.

Also, anyone else seeing improved droprates post patch? (as per Nalora)

Majora.6028:

Hello, everyone. I hope all is well.

I’d like to start off by saying this is a NEW issue. I’m not sure what caused it, but whatever.

When I started a few months ago, Maw was nice, not too many people, it moved at a nice pace, everyone got their share of kills in. Hell, more times than not I was able to get GOLD in every single part, including the weak guys who spam to the right that usually die in seconds.

Recently, however, I’m getting bronze on the 1st part (Protecting the town), the 2nd part (Escorting him to the shrine), and not even ranking on the weak guys. This is due to a huge increase in people participating in the event.

I have NO issue with more people in the event, that’s awesome, this game is about team work, after all.* My issue is that it doesn’t scale like other events do.* In most events the more people participating, the more mobs spawn. This event doesn’t follow this pattern, and when you have a lot of level 80s swooping in and 1 hitting mobs, it is almost impossible to tag anything.

I really do think it needs to be reworked to follow the same pattern as the other events.
Thank you for your time, hopefully the masses agree, and hopefully this is fixed.

:]

I wholeheartedly agree. I’ve noticed the same things breaking down in this event. Today when I ran it the Grawl were so overwhelmed that the few that spawned barely had time to hop a few bounces before evaporating in a cloud of AoE.

Love the event but if it continues to be as well attended it will need some adjustment. More mobs, maybe simultaneous attack during the grawl stage rather than alternating directions. That in itself just creates a back and forth tide of players swooping from one side to the other.

I have great empathy for Nalora. Champs solo’d or duo’d=at most a blue…or nothing.
Vets solo’d=nothing…or a blue.
Running several varied events in varied zones over mutiple days=a handful of merch fodder.
I will admit that the quantity of drops has increased as of late but not the quality(for me). Higher tier mats seem to be increased droprates so that’s nice.
I wont be quitting though. The game is still in it infancy and finding its legs. I’m sure there are polarizing issues within the NCSoft<—→Arena Net interplay so I’m gonna stick it out.

Absolutelu not. As much as I enjoy the adventure of exploration, It’s the shinies that make me boing.

I agree, RNG is still not worth the roll. I’ll be saving up my Laurels for 100% chance at a minipet.

Blueshield.6291:

Greenthumb Legacy.6549:

BobbyT.7192:

grabbed 2 engineer boxes, got a lvl 79 rare pistol and rifle of perception with cleric stats.

So you spent 10 laurels on 2 boxes and got 2 items?
1 box=5 laurels=2 itmes/box (per wiki)

How do you have 10 laurels to spend, or was it you spent 5 laurels on 1 box and got 2 weps?

What was the lvl/rarity of the rifle?

Actually, if you look at the wiki more closely (or visit the laurel vendor), you’ll see that you get 2 boxes for 5 laurels. So, he spent 5 laurels on two boxes and got one weapon per box.

I have looked at wiki and seen that in () there is a qty #. So the items with (10) following indicate you rec. 10 items?

edit:changed boxes to items the qty lvls are confusing. For the gear boxes you get (2) boxes for 5L? But for the items(Dyes etc) you get the (qty modifier)?

BobbyT.7192:

grabbed 2 engineer boxes, got a lvl 79 rare pistol and rifle of perception with cleric stats.

So you spent 10 laurels on 2 boxes and got 2 items?
1 box=5 laurels=2 itmes/box (per wiki)http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Laurel_merchant

How do you have 10 laurels to spend, or was it you spent 5 laurels on 1 box and got 2 weps?

What was the lvl/rarity of the rifle?

Ive had 3 mob chests. 1 Blue 2 green.
Ive had several ~10 blues/greens drop yesterday from corpses on the ground and 1 yellow from a corpse.
Chest not consistent but I’ve had no trouble seeing it on the ground.

I completed this map a while ago and of course got my reward. Then a net added the new wp and It reverted to99%. As expected I didn’t receive the chest again at 100%. There may be a bug preventing you from collecting the reward due to the new wp.

12 Boxes Bought
3gold from Lodestones Sales on TP
75s from Unidentifieds
1 Obby Shard
Not a waste of Karma for me.
I do think that the droprate for Mini Balthazar will be nerfed soon. Lots of those linked in chat.

Homonavn.6348:

“Areas, chests, and merchants in Orr now offer better rewards.”

Guys… You know what this means? Bigger chance to get final rest! (if it is dropped from orr!)

They also patched the shadow behemoth

Ran this today(happened to be in the area)was kinda sad for the group of Fina Rest hopefuls SWEARING that it HAD to drop there. We’ll see, but I’m gonna wait for confirmation. I got the regular blues and 1 green.

I downed SB today on Jade Quarry.
seemed to function properly.

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

My guess is that it’s in the chest after defeating Champion Rhendak the Crazed. He’s the final boss of a little-completed mini-dungeon that spawns a large chest afterward. He’s also a ghost, who you put to rest in underwater crypts. If someone gets it, please send me 25 gold of your profits. IGN: Nevets Crimsongear.

Also, it’s level 26 so I bet very few 80s came back to do it. Why would they? There is no achievement for it, there’s a pre-event to even get into the dungeon, and you may need a party to get past the (often bugged) gargoyle flame heads. All of these factors are huge disincentives for doing the dungeon…

Of all the other posts in the thread, I think the hydra girl is probably the next best guess. Just because she’s “rare” in that she’s one of the only bosses to not have a consistent spawn.

After reading up on the wiki, this theory has a ring of truth to it. At least as much as some of the others. I’m going to give this a better look ingame. Also, how long is this thread going to remain in the “Crafting” section? I realize it was moved here, but really. This item is not crafted. “General Discussion” was more appropriate.

Astralporing.1957:

Since i want them to introduce Ritualists next, i’m obviously against making the next prof heavy armor one.

Oh how I miss me some Ghost Spamming!!!!

On Topic: Sure another heavy class. I play a Guardian but not interested in Warrior. A control class would be nice. C’mon get yer stun on!

I ran 1 set of full Rare MF AND a set of Exotic non-MF on my Guardian for a long time. Out of curtesy I’d always ask a dungeon group if the minded me running my MF. If any grumbled I put my “dungeon” gear on. Some players may have had survivability issues but I really didnt and most groups didnt care which armor I ran. The twist is I really didnt see ANY improvement in quality of my drops with Full MF or without. So I salvaged the MF set and now I just have my Temple gear.
Whatever, its just 1’s and 0’s.

plasmacutter.2709:

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

Thanks, I’ll check it out Monday, though most of the replies I saw were about champions (which are used in [Group] events), so they aren’t intended to be soloable.

please just upgrade that spider to champion. don’t nerf it!

Agreed.
No nerf, just re-label and boost her loot table.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Keirion.9105:

There is a vet spider event in the ruins in the SW of timberline falls that spawns on top of the commune skill point there that does not scale down correctly.

There is a vet spider that spawns outside of the event in the same location that does spawn correctly.

If you’re talking about the one in the cave near the ruins, I know that spider. It seems to have the HP of a Champion, and hits like one.

I know this “Veteran” Spider well. Lvl 80m Guardian in Exotic Temple Armor and I solo’d this mob down 3/4 in about 15 mins of Princess Wand kiting then 2 other players showed up to help finish her off. Yep, that spider is way out of Veteran league. Best part of that time invested?
A Blue Medium Armor chest piece.

I’ve noticed an uptick in dye drops roaming mobs as well as from gathering. 1 today, 2 yest, 2 the day before and one of those was Illumination

For about 4 days now I’ve adjusted my playstyle away from the regular lvl 80 circular event treadmill to zone completions. Just doing hearts, POI’s and Vistas. Kill mobs and gather nodes along the way.

infrequentia.3465:

no1 even mentions the missing mouse in that pic? you need a mouse hoverd over the item

Sometimes my mouse arrow disappears when hovering over a pane both when used normally AND when salvaging.

On Topic:sigh and we keep beating the bushes for the wild goose.

BelleroPhone.4238:

Fake.
You can see that the stat window has been cut out of the preview, since his character is visible where we should see the swamp. (Semi-transparent windows and all
Sorry, but nice try

Good catch, also the inventory panes “behind” the stats dont line up. I would immediately have linked it into chat as well…

Keiran.1896:

Heh, I found it!

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/396625FinalRest.png

So you’re saying it dropped from the swamp chest after killing the Behemouth?
How long ago was this? You’ve got a few Wintersday items in your inventory…

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

Dabrixmgp.4758:

Rustypipes.6238:

Grunties.6841:

The intent is to get folks buying gems with real money and converting to gold. Farming has been nerfed.

This is misleading, farming got nerfed because of exploits and bots, not because players were legitimately earning too much and Anet wanted to force them into their wallets.

There has to be check and balances or the economy will fail.

I wished you people with your tin foil hat theories would stop with this drivel.

Wait so they punish honest players just to get their point across? Awesome thats such a great position to take.

Except honest players aren’t being punished. There are so many ways to make gold it’s a complete joke.

Well in less than 30mins(1 omnom bar) I go from blues and maybe a green to only Trophies in Orr. I have 130% MF with OmnomBar. Without MF armor/Bar its worse. Feels like I’m being penalized for killing in one zone for <30mins.

lavern.9213:

The fungus will appear if you change your environment settings under graphics to high instead of low.

Shouldnt have to adjust from low setting to see structural environment. Lame.

Hey, I’ve been a little upset with our first Winterday since we left GW1. I really do miss the mob dropped treats/consumables and an actual “Wintersday” themed hat every year. Now it’s different. Not so much on the “Wow, I have X stacks of Candy Canes!!” or the like this year.

Convoluted collecting and choosing between which items do I want to gamble with to come away with some cool stuff is well…a drag. Full disclosure: I have not spent a cent of real $ on this game other than the purchace price. Not even the free gems we got a couple times during assorted betas/WEs. I enjoy this game. In a different way than GW1. GW1 seemed to be brimming over with free crap quite literally falling from the sky. Those days are 250 yeas gone and thats ok with me. Just still a bit let down by our innaugural Wintersday.

Until now. Thanx A Net for making an effort to patch things up. Twice during this event. We like free stuff. 1’s and 0’s given to us simply for being there. Rewards for dificult content or challenges are great too, but I think you remember the glee in towns and outposts we shared 25o years past.

I’m sticking around in hopes that as we age together in Tyria, lessons will be learned on both sides as to where we go from here. I expect to be very pleased with our first Canthan New Year when it comes around. Bear in mind Canthans would never abandon Lunar Fortunes or sparkly creature pals.

Didnt help me. Logged in several times earlier. 45 mins now getting error 42:(

edit Resolved itself after a patch.