Guild Wars 2

I did the same thing with the same ring….ended up just using it on an alt.

Most of the items the laurel merchant offers have a few variations of the same stat on items. The difference is the type of infusion you can put on (offensive, defensive, utility). If you want two accessories or rings of the same stat and the type of infusion doesn’t really matter to you, just find the other item with those stats.

For example, you got the ring of red death for the berserker stats. The other Berserker stat ring is Crystalline Band, it just has a defensive infusion slot.

Seen this on SBI as well. One possible solution for the excessive seige could be to make designated spots for each type of seige in the keeps/towers similar to cannons and oil. Once you get a certain distance from a keep/tower you should then be allowed to place them anywhere like normal. I realize this would limit defense capability in some cases, but at least if someone is going to waste supply it will be on seige that is in useful locations.

Anyone play Dark Age of Camelot? They had a pretty in depth player housing in which you bought a plot of land, bought a deed to whatever size house you could afford, then upgraded the decorations as you wanted. Each realm had a different architectural style and floor plans. You could also earn achievments during holidays to decorate your house, buy chests for extra storage, set up your own crafting tables, etc…. No doubt in GW2 they would probably charge gems for this though.

Their trading post was also located in player housing interestingly…you could search the listings at the entrance but had to actually walk/ride to the persons house that was selling the item unless you wanted to pay a huge fee. Yes you had to have a house with a merchant to sell your goods on the market. Of course they also had player to player trading as well, something GW2 does not

There are many recipes that need adjusting, like anything that uses karka shells or passion flowers. Ever try to make an exotic ring using those?

On the bright side, this is the first post by anyone at ANET in the crafting forums in months. At least we know that 1 person reads this forum on occasion.

That Mortar elite needs a nerf, way too OP. It’s not fair that engies can carry around siege that can hit me halfway across the map! The projectiles move so fast and the AOE is so huge, it’s impossible to outrun those red rings of death

Kimbald.2697:

Halo.1679:

I messed around with a turret spec last night in WvW and PVE. Turrets are still too weak, but its possible to throw down healing turret and 3 others, overcharge it, then blow up all 4 in the water field for some really good aoe heals. Really helps when everyone has to fall back if you have some set up in the background, the stragglers get some nice heals and blows back the advancing enemy.

Also, I had lots of fun dropping turrets behind me when running from large groups of people. I can just imagine the thoughts of my opponents as I keep detonating accelerant packed turrets in their path

isn’t this basically a healing turret and using the others as mines on long cooldowns?

If turrets are considered viable because we can only blow them up before they die anyhow… than something is seriously wrong in my book.

In the scenario you describe, any one turret should be replaced by throw mine for added boon stripping, and the other skill slot for Bomb Kit for BoB and added fields from the bombs.
The main issue with this would be: why trait accelerant packed turrets just for healing turret?
Picking up this trait makes people feel like they should use more turrets.
But in what you describe, the exact same build would be better of with throw mine and bomb kit. As it happens: the trait before Accelerant packed turrets could increase botht their ranges to something way better than a turret detonate anyhow.

Turrets need changes so they can be used in big fights WITHOUT having to be detonated the first second!
90% less aoe damage or something, as long as direct attacks can take them out, aoe should not.

Well it’s not a tactic that I plan on using normally. As you pointed out there are better ways of doing things. I was just trying to get a feel for the turrets after the patch.

Besides there is always room for optimism, no matter how badly misplaced

I messed around with a turret spec last night in WvW and PVE. Turrets are still too weak, but its possible to throw down healing turret and 3 others, overcharge it, then blow up all 4 in the water field for some really good aoe heals. Really helps when everyone has to fall back if you have some set up in the background, the stragglers get some nice heals and blows back the advancing enemy.

Also, I had lots of fun dropping turrets behind me when running from large groups of people. I can just imagine the thoughts of my opponents as I keep detonating accelerant packed turrets in their path

I agree, as much as we are forced to change gear due to class balancing in this game, it becomes a burden to re-stat with normal gear. With standard gear it’s expensive but possible. With ascended, it’s impossible until you can save up more since it’s time gated.

Making it farmable would present other problems and will likely never happen.

What I would love to see is a refund NPC that you could trade Ascended gear to and receive a portion of your laurels back to spend on other alts/gear. Or, at the very least a re-spec NPC where you pay a fee to change the stats on your laurel purchased gear. Similar to the profession trainers where you have the option to pay a fee to re-trait instead of buying the book for 2g every time.

I think you all should go and play DAoC again, that way the server has more people and I can go back

Pros:
-huge open world 3 way realm vs realm pvp with different classes on each realm
-PvX, PvP, RP, Co-op servers
-voted best pvp game of the decade by MMORPG.com
-open world pvp battlegrounds for each range of levels
-has a /duel challenge command you can use anywhere and don’t need an arena for
-gear, traits, skill, spec, level…etc. all matter
-complex and rewarding combat system that takes some skill
-many different builds and skill combinations for every class that all can be fun and viable
-huge amount of PvE zones and content with bosses that take skill, coordination to defeat
-Player housing that you can customize and decorate
-Crafting that matters
-instanced, open world, and PvP dungeons(think Arah but in WvW where there are 2 enemy realms running around as well)

Cons:
-monthly sub(could be a pro if you consider that they dont have to build the game around making money in the cash shop)
-buff bots
-low population(game has been around since 2001 and many people have just moved on)

This is a great idea!

I want the mini pet arena so my mini karka can dominate everything

Since they love RNG gambling so much maybe they could let us place bets on the fights O.o

I am curious as well, but have kept quiet about my opinion because I don’t like foil hat prejudice

I used to use magic find food all the time because I thought it would help. Then I noticed that every time I got a rare drop thinking “oh cool the food is working” I would notice the timer had expired on the buff shortly before I got that drop.

Figured it was just coincidence at first and just pressed on. But, once I had noticed it, I started keeping track of it when I got rare drops and the majority of the time it was when I didn’t have a MF food buff. l have since stopped using MF food altogether and I feel like I get more rare drops now than ever(well except the time before the November patch that ruined drops and ANET denies existing).

Vol is right though, there aren’t really any accurate ways to get a good enough sample to test this. Going to have to wait until a dev shows up to deny there is an issue

Same issues here when i pull someone in WvW. Don’t matter what class i’m pulling, it still does it about half the time. Missing when they are clearly in range, pulling halfway but still hitting with prybar, pulling all the way then warping back somtimes all over. Thought it was just lag on my end, but apparently not.

Haven’t really tried it since the patch last night though.

I find spvp too much like FPS games with their small maps and capture the flag type scoring. This is an MMORPG and to me that means fighting with many other players in a large open world, weather it is pvp or pve.

Also, I played DAoC for years and loved the realm vs. realm 3 way fights in a huge pvp zone. The main reason I bought this game was because it was the only one that sounded close to that. Of course, this games WvWvW and combat system is a pale comarison to DAoC which saddens me greatly.

I agree that something needed to be done about the way these chests were being done.

The larger problem is that people are so starved for decent drops in the rest of the game, that when something like this comes along you rush in to farm it.

Used to get multiple rares per day and an exotic every now and then just from playing content in the open world. Now you are lucky to get one rare in a day. So, of course people are going to abuse these events when drops are garbage everywhere else. Still have yet to get anything but blues from champs…

Dixa.6017:

what is boon punishment?

I believe that means when someone uses their boons to make you damage yourself(i.e. popping confusion, retaliation right before you attempt to burst them down). For some classes/builds that is one of the primary means of DPS.

There are also quite a few things in the quotes at the bottom of item/weapon descriptions.

One that can recall off the top of my head is an accessory sold by Mad Mardine in Diessa Plateau after the Cattlepult testing. He sells an accessory called a Cowbell and the quote at the bottom says “Everyone says we need more of these. I think we’ve got enough”. That is a reference to the SNL act with Will Farrel and Christopher Walken when they are playing “Don’t fear the reaper” by Blue oyster cult.

My female human necro when a minion dies, says in a resigned voice-
“Now I’ll have to make another one…”

Skritt in LA talking about the sewers

2 skritt guarding a random outpost-
Skritt 1-“Guarding”
Skritt 2-“Guarding..Guarding”
Skritt 1-“Guarding…Guarding…Guarding”
Skritt 2-“Guarding…Guarding…Guarding…Guarding”
Skritt 1-“Guarding…Guarding…Guarding…Guarding…Guarding”
Skritt 2-“Guarding……….Aaaah you win..”

Same here. I got one empty, but no small amount of bones and whites from chests also. Have gotten greens and yelllows from corpses too.

Only happens to me in Orr whether I have been there 1 minute or 1 hour.

There is obviously an issue here just like Vet/Champ drops, MF stat, etc…They need to get rid of the loot gremlins in this game and stop blaming RNG for everything.

Got abyss dye during head-start also. I hung on to it because I didn’t know which alt to use it on. Ended up selling it later for 14g.

On the other hand, I had a ton of passion flowers from opening consortium chests. Not realizing they would go up in value, I used them all to level my crafting up….Looking at the prices now, I could have sold them and bought a precursor /facepalm

What I want to know is how the current laurel system gets you to go back and experience content from all the maps no one uses any more. That was supposed to be one of the big highlights of this new system, to make the lower level zones more rewarding and worth playing in again.

As it is right now, there is no reason to visit different zones since new daily and monthly can be done in any zone. Sure they are easier to do in a lowbie zone, but the reward is the same either way.

The living story somewhat does this, but, it took me a whole 10 min to complete so not really feeling that one. I really hope they will be adding more ways to get laurels by doing achievements in different zones in the next patch. I’m pretty sure they mentioned this was coming in the next 6 months somewhere, but I can’t seem to find it.

By unnamed, do you mean they just say “Axe” or “Longbow”? If thats the case, then I have only seen them drop from dungeons, usually fractals. There are no recipies that I am aware of for those and if there was it would take the same amount of Mats as the normal ones.

I think the loot tables in Orr may be set up different than other zones. I ran around wayfarer foothills looking for the new storyline stuff(never found it), and completing my daily. I got way more drops than usual. I didnt get exact numbers but it was very noticable. I even got a lvl 76 rare from a svanir.

I did not see a single chest, everything(including greens and rare) was looted from corpses. Maybe the chests were under the corpses and I just didnt see them?

I then decided to go farm pent and shelter events to see if there were the same increases in drops there. Nope, if anything I got less than usual there. I did however see my first chest there. It had a blue armor in it…..I looted other blues and greens from corpses, unless there were chests under them too. I think I got 8 mody bags in 3 events and I usually get 10 or more per event so the buff in drop rate did not affect me for some reason.

Plus, the recipe makes 2 omnom bars per 1 berry. So, the disparity in price may not be as much as you think.

“It’s like I’ve got a fever…. and the only prescription….. is more cowbell!”
Christopher Walken, SNL

Could never be evil

It would be great to be able to make use of all the extra skins, tonics, cogs, toy frames etc. in the forge. I’m not going to spend the gold on stuffing and glue to make the rest of the mini’s so all that stuff will probably get deleted after wintersday.

And yes you can get foostivoo from the wintersday boxes purchased on the Black lion. I spent 1600 gems on 20 boxes and got 1 festive golem and one foostivoo, along with a couple hats and skins. They just said the primary way was to combine 3, but he drops occasionally also.

I’ve opened around 4000 gifts of different types. Nothing worthwhile to show for it. No unbreakable bell, no toy-maker or endless tonics. Just clothes, snowflakes, 1 stack of 25 stuffing, and a few recipes.

I made the griffon mini and used the rest I had at attempts for endless tonic. No luck on the tonic. I really wish there was a way to grind more stuffing and glue since I spent all my money on gifts….

On a good note though, I opened 20 boxes from TP and got the golem and foostivoo mini. Must have used up all my luck with that

Well they did say that they doubled the drop rate….not that it means anything. If you double say .0001 you end up with .0002 lol

I had a ton of flowers from consortium chests….that I used to level my crafting >.<

Really wish I would have known how rare these would become, I could sell them and buy a precursor.

It must be pretty random on what drops out besides the sweaters and such. I’ve probably opened around 200 gifts since I just farm them and don’t buy them. I have yet to get any skin. All I got was wool clothes and snowflakes with a couple recipes that were low lvl.

There is a Mystic forge recipe for endless toy tonic. I wonder if someone will find an endless bell one?

First, all he said was that if you do the first 5 events you will have enough to make 2 toys. I don’t think we should read into it too much, it was just simple math.

That doesn’t mean “OMG! we only can make 2 ever.” Who is to say the lions arch dungeons won’t reset daily? We are not even past the first day yet. Why don’t we wait and see once he gets to LA?

I wonder if it’s the same as the Lost Shores recipe or if they just forgot to take it off? II I recall wasn’t it 3 boosters and 6 mystery tonics? It gave you a consortium chest as a result.

They were trying to get rid of all the mystery tonics and boosters people got from the black lion chests before they updated the drops. Maybe they are doing it again since they just updated the BL chests again this patch.

I agree that it would be great to have the NPC sell value of an item at least as high as the cost of NPC only items used in its creation. This would be things like runes of holding bought with gold. That would at least set a baseline that’s fair.

As far as the materials that can be obtained by means other than NPC gold purchase, those are a reflection of someones time and effort. This includes wood, fine mats, karma items, etc. Who is to say what their time and effort is worth? That will keep the market from stagnating and keep things in line with a normal supply and demand market.

The swords I used were bought off the TP. Just tried it with 4 level 80 green swords bought from the TP and got the same results.

So, I was wandering Mount Maelstrom yesterday and there, randomly sitting next to a tree was a chest. No creatures guarding it, so I go over and open it. No loot comes out; instead out pops this skritt carrying a sack over its shoulder and a mini event to catch it.

I gave chase and and nearly killed it before despawn, but due to no cripple, stun, etc..being equipped no luck this time. My advice to anyone finding a chest in an odd location: Make sure to have plenty of CC ready before opening the chest. That Skritt Burglar is fast and likes to run.

I never had the issue until i tried doing exactly what you did. I bought a bunch of lvl 75 masterwork swords and every single combine gave me a blue back. They were all the exact same lvl and type of sword and I still got random items like armor from it, all blue.

I then re-combined the items i got back and some were still blue but a few upgraded to green. This happened before any of the recent patches so I think its an older bug.
Haven’t put any masterwork swords in since then and I’ve yet to have the forge downgrade items since.

They increased the drop rate of vanilla during the Halloween patch . Besides Caledon and Metrica, you can also get it in sparkfly fen, mount malestrom, and brisban wildlands. It should drop in bloodtide as well, but I’ve never gotten any there for some reason.

So, I use 2 different PC’s to play GW2 from time to time and have noticed that the one with the ATI graphics card is not affected nearly as bad as the other that has an Nvidia card.

From what others are posting about having to restart, it sounds like a memory leak of some kind. Sometimes those are associated with certain brands and models of GPU’s and could be a contributing factor here.

I played DAOC for years and they still never fixed the memory leak with certain ATI cards. If I wasn’t using the Nvidia card when in PvP, I would get a message “out of memory” and have to re-log. At least there I could see all the players until my memory filled up lol.