Guild Wars 2

do we even have confirmation that MF impacts the outcome of identifying gear in the new expansion? It may have 0 effect on it, kinda like it does on everything else in the game….

BoogerSammich.7189:

Ferelwing.8463:

BoogerSammich.7189:

This mechanic saves bag space.
I don’t see a downside.

Except they could have saved space by just giving us all bags or tokens or pretty much anything else that didn’t require us to first complete a heart, then pay extra to id all that loot that we just worked to get.

Ferelwing.8463:

Except they could have saved space by just giving us all bags or tokens

The bag system is both a part of the economy, and a game mechanic. It has always been present, and always will be. Same as in any other MMO I’ve played. Also, there are tons of ways to get bags without spending gold.

Ferelwing.8463:

anything else that didn’t require us to first complete a heart

Again, hearts are a core game mechanic. No-one is “required” to play the game.

Ferelwing.8463:

then pay extra to id all that loot that we just worked to get.

There is no need to ID the loot. You can simply salvage the unidentified gear, or sell directly to a vendor.

you are right, there is no REQUIREMENT to id the loot, but if you DONT ID it, you lose out on any opportunity to loot an exotic or rare item that can be sold or salvaged for a much higher profit price. Now you MUST pay to get a chance at an exotic or rare, that you would NATURALLY HAVE GOTTEN without having to spend money to ID it.

basically what has happened is, is Anet wants to make us pay for things we already were getting for free(minus cost of salvage kit of course…). That cost is counter productive. Say you pay 1s 68c to id a piece of gear and it turns out to be a blue tier piece. Then you pay another 68c or 1s 20c to salvage that into a mat you can use(cuz the gear is useless to you otherwise or you can sell it for 1s to a vendor). You receive 2 mithril ore from the salvage. So now you have payed 2s 40c – 2s 90c to get 2 mithril that’s worth 60c. Congratulations… now you’re paying 2s 90c for 2 mithril, worth a total of 60c…. enjoy your cake sunshine!

or the alternative is to just salvage it outright and never have another chance at getting an exotic/rare/pre-cursor drop ever again… your choice.

Positives:

Mounts are ok at best…
New areas and enemy types to explore are good.
Looove the new hydra and other enemies!

Negatives:

NO NO NO NO NO DONT MAKE ME PAY AT ALL TO IDENTIFY GEAR, THAT WHEN SALVAGED, ENDS UP COSTING ME MORE THAN THE MATS ARE WORTH!!!

shame on you….

As it stands now, I pay to salvage it already, don’t make me pay for it twice buy making me pay to identify it, then pay AGAIN to salvage it…. kitten ridiculous….

I think this is how it happened…..

(Anet employee): Guys guys guys! I got it (snicker)! Our fans are sooooo stupid…. (snicker)
(Group of Anet employes together): How stupid are they??!?!?!?
(Anet employee): Our fans are sooooooo stupid….(snicker laugh) they will pay “US” for the mats they loot in game now!!!
(Group of Anet employees): AHAHAHAHAHAH!!! YAS!!!!
(Anet employee): (tears in his eyes from laughing so hard) AND…AND… AAAAAND… wait for it…. Get this…. We will give them a gem store item that will identify this gear for them at more cost then the mats are worth!!!! AND AND AND…. (snicker) Itll cost them 1000 GEMS!
(all Anet employees Rolling on the ground with laughter): AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

well…. I’m a bit disappointed actually. We were told that LS would take a bit longer to do this patch, due to it being a finale and that they were gonna roll roughly 2 patches worth of content out in this event. If anything its half as Eventful as draconis mons and so poorly written that plot holes abound! I’m usually happy with the LS stuff, but this…. this has me concerned and unhappy. I feel lied to, let down, and utterly railroaded…. the only thing I DO like, is the fact were back in Orr….

Sooo. Last I remember, we were told that this LS episode would be a lot larger as it was the finale… so it would take longer to make… and it did take longer… but 3 hours of content and done? Really?? the last patch has twice the content this place does and didn’t take as long. Anyone else feeling a bit swindled here?

more like…

Pull our Finger

I spent 150 keys on trying to get this sword…no kittening sword….

Ive used paypal for close on to a decade now…. Ive had numerous game accounts in the past become compromised, and not once have I had to contact paypal to handle any fraudulent charges. I keep separate emails for money accounts vs game accounts, and I believe that is the reason I have never had any issues with it in the past.

there is also a gh deco vendor in the new map that sells rugs paintings etc and more…. its at the bazaar wp area up top.

FrizzFreston.5290:

borya.2964:

PookieDaWombat.6209:

Let me repeat the key word in there in case it was missed: FREE.

Good customer. You’re a baby who is sleeping and dreaming in his baby carriage, called liberalism.

Nothing is free, never.

If nothing is free then why does the word even exist?

because it is something we aspire to obtain…. kinda like a good looking woman, who cooks and cleans!

personally…. I find it boring and un-diverse… WVW is nothing but change to the latest meta build and run in packs… PVP is nothing but change to the latest meta build and run in smaller packs… tweaks? yup, change to the new meta and rinse repeat… Don’t like raids either…. play meta build or be excluded… run in slightly larger pack…

Seera.5916:

sophiewhite.3149:

Seera.5916:

Join the group and then report the one who posted the LFG if you think they have broken the rules about what can and can’t be put into the LFG.

anet isnt going to do anything.

How do you know? Do you work for ANet? If not, then you can’t say whether they do not follow the things they have posted they do.

People who do not report because they feel a company does not act are just as bad as the players who break the rules. Because to me, not reporting rule breaking is the same as condoning it.

We don’t need to work for Anet to know nothing will happen…. Just take for instance… Gold Sellers. Been here 4 years and they still going strong with the same advertisements from the same website, selling the same service, using the same broken system that has been in place. Some things they are good at fixing, others not so much. Advertising and spam has been met with no fix and no response for 4 years now. Feel free to post or make a ticket all you like, it isn’t going to change what they are already aware of and not fixing….

ive completed the story and am currently on my second time through, the heart no longer has the grawl firestone for sale for me, and I can no longer loot the suet. Ive already submitted a bug report ingame, so now im just playing the waiting game.

grawl firestone is no longer purchaseable for me. Suet is also no longer dropping either.

I support this as well. It takes too long to redo the whole instance just to get a buggy boss achievement done (and by buggy, I mean that he gets stuck on the rocks a lot, and also that I have killed the ice beast itself, from start of trampling minions, to the final blow killing it outright, in less than 5 minutes, and achievements didn’t trigger… now i’m “triggered”)

Im having the same problem. My cold resistance buff cleared itself somehow, and I am unable to get the firestone to finish the map up in the bittercold area. I can no longer get suet either. I have 55 of the suet and plenty of the other ingredients as well. The blister cauldron tells me I don’t have the recipe to make the elixir, even though I have already made the elixir and beat the ice beast to finish the story. Ive restarted the story, but have not yet gotten to the part where I can remake the elixir yet, guess I will see later today.

I dunno about the rest of you… but im tired of my character being portrayed as a giant kitten…. I want to turn braham over my knee and beat the kitten out of his kitten poor attitude.

so this was intentional?

I noticed today that I am no longer able to harvest both types of guildhalls independently…. was there a stealth nerf or somethin here?

NecroMongress.8691:

Thank you for the reply. Since there is a cap on luck and luck is account bound, what would be the point in storing it? Is there another use for it?

yes there is, it is used in Guild hall upgrades as well. some in small amounts, other upwards of 777 exotic essesnces of luck.

Ive been pretty lucky so far, ive opened 7000 bags so far and found:

1 phospholuminescent
3 oontz green
2 oontz orange
2 mini charles
2 mini zuzu’s
6 jailbrokens
4 onus’s
1 grimpact
3 devil dogs
1 gift of souls
4 pillow cases
1 endless halloween tonic

the rest was a multi mash of candy corn, skulls/nougat/fangs, random halloween foods and tonics roughly to the tune of 40k ofthe corn/fang/skull/nougats and several hundred of the misc tonics and foods.

In essences of luck ive gained enuff to make 800 exotic luck essences

Doh your right, OP is referring to the wearable backpack wings I think…. my bad

Acrisor.8097:

Why does it has to be a HE? What makes you think Labyrinthine Horror is not a SHE?

I vote for: Emanuelle, the Labyrinthine Horror.
We will call it short: Ema

that’s easy if it was a “she” it would be called a Horrorette! or Horroress!

LinseyMurdock.4165:

Dinosaurs.8674:

Rising Dusk.2408:

LinseyMurdock.4165:

It would be extremely hard, if not impossible to make those things stack.

Unrelated to the primary thrust of this topic, but couldn’t you add a Mystic Forge recipe to combine 4 25-use BL kits into 1 100-use BL kit, and then 2 100-use BL kits with 2 25-use BL kits to get a 250-use BL kit? That would be pretty legendary if so, because I currently have ~30 BL kits and they’re way too valuable to just waste.

yeah if i could replace my 25-use kits with 10x less 250-use kits that would be pretty swell

I’m happy to poke the Commerce Team about adding some kind of conversion to allow folks to condense multiple 25 use BL salvage kits into one larger kit. I only promise to poke, I can’t promise they will do it

I think making them stackable on the charges would solve any issue…. make it like a normal tool, drag and drop to increase charge to 250… or follow the ascended salvage too kit you are already using.

I haven’t seen nor have any of my guildies seen any of them drop since event has started… wonder if there is a bug?

PLEASE don’t forget to go over SCRIBE mats…. there are a lot of scribe materials that desperately need added to the mat storage area…

my scribe toon has 5, 20 slot bags constantly tied up with crap that wont deposit.

Scenario 1) OP = anet staff in disguise feeling the waters on figuring out more ways to squeeze money from us…
Scenario 2) how much they payin you to post things like this?

there is already a work around in place for this… if you do the dungeon achievement you get a box that allows you to choose 150 tokens of your choice from it after every 8th path you do… doesn’t matter the path, or how many times you repeat it, after 8 paths you get 150 of your choice. just do AC paths over and over, or COE… or COF… whatever floats your boat.

dye it blue and say hello to megaman cirqa 1988

lets do the maths…. first run thru the tower = 10 bags max. subsequent 2 successful runs = 5 bags each. you can only make the run 5 times per 15 minute period, for a total of 55 bags per 15 min run, “IF” you were successful on EVERY SINGLE RUN. You might make a total of 225 bags an hour. You can get 55 bags in less then 10 minutes following a zerg totaling roughly 335 bags per hour at MINIMUM for an hour run. Now typically you see 2-3 successful runs in the tower on average(unless your really good at jump puzzles, and I mean top level good). this averages 100-140 bags an hour for the normal joe.

Anyone else see a reason to be in the clocktower? Cuz it isn’t very comparable to the ascent or the lab by my calculations…

Let the dictatorships begin…..

this is an MMO, its all about keeping the player base happy enuff to stay and play, all the while, wasting as much of that time as they can. its a business model used since mmo inception.

Thelgar.7214:

Cut someone’s grass. Gem-to-Gold.

hah! truth brother…mow a yard for an hour, get 20-30 bucks…300g. best gph ever!

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Vacheron.9870:

1. Does it stack with Ghostly Infusion?

To date, all infusions stack.

Vacheron.9870:

2. Does it conflict with any other auras?

To date, there are no conflicting auras (except if you don’t like the combination).

Vacheron.9870:

3. So far only the condition dmg version is on trading post, will there be a power dmg version?

The power version shows up in the API, meaning that someone in the game found one. My guess is that no one is yet willing to sell it for love or money.

Thank you! Hopefully this will help out other people who are wondering about the same things as well.

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Looted one today, sold it for 1300 gold… thank you Anet!

Im all for an increase on the MF cap if you guys want it. The thing i Dont get is, Why bother in the first place? Its only usable in extremely rare cases with bags, and mobs. its like they said “here… have HUUUUUGE magic find numbers… but nothing to allow you to actually use it” neither are very useful for the effort and potential gold offset.

cyn.2157:

Edit: seriously? The contraction for do not + comma + its = censored? That’s an overly aggressive regex /filter if ever I saw one.

of course it is…. cuz contained within that contraction and the beginning of the second one is a slang term for female breasts example isn’T IT lovely?

Ben K.6238:

That’s a mistake. If players are going to make a report, they already have a good idea of which option they’re looking for. So long as they’re unambiguous, you’re fine.

Not including those options in there means problems don’t get reported at all.
Firstly because if players have to go to the effort of opening up the website and submitting a ticket, they’re not going to bother most of the time – unless it’s serious, e.g. they’ve lost gold.
Secondly because even if they do submit a ticket, there’s too many chances to miss, or misspell, important information and thus nothing happens.
In some cases the in-game report is more reliable simply because it has access to information the players don’t – the proliferation of obscene guild names in WvW has happened precisely because the ticket-based reporting system doesn’t work.

THIS!!!!! SOOOOOO MUCH THIS!!!!!!!!! I cant tell you the number of times ive seen sexual references in a players guild name, with no real way to report it. Ive tried using the inappropriate player name… ive tried engaging them in chat to describe the meaning of their guild name and reported the chat… still, I see 90% of the players with offensive guild names STILL using the said name. ts not like I report frivolously on anything that REMOTELY seems inappropriate, but when I see names like “we Fuchs U MoM” or other similarly named names/guild names, I report that… and nothing happens.

We need a way to directly report guild names as an option. I still see a person I reported that uses a female name with the last name Fuchs that I know several of my guild members have reported, and I myself have reported. I keep that person on my friends list just to see if the name gets changed, and guess what…. its still there, 2 months later….

in theory yes… heres patch note quote…

“Items that have gone through skin progression, like legendary weapons or Spinal Blade back items, will unlock all the skins in their direct progression line (e.g., if players have Twilight, they will get access to both Twilight and Dusk across their account.)”

Still doesn’t make my point any less valid. It may be a bug, anet may fix it, but there are tons of other instances where we see vendors omitted from areas they would be most conveniently used in… guild halls… for a big example. no craft stations other than scribe, no BLTC vendor in there either… And don’t tell me you don’t see why bank express/trading express/ BL express are gem store purchase items, and not sold any other way…

your pleas are wasted on closed ears and minds…. they clearly want sylvari to be the main thing for every kitten thing in this game that is story related. Its like the old management Cliché…. Manager hires employee(the sylvari), employee turns out to be a dud. Manager doesn’t want to look like a failure, so doesn’t fire the employee even though everyone around can see this needs to happen. So to not admit the failure and be thought bad of, the manager doubles down on the employee and makes him a lead worker…things get worse, other employees start looking for other jobs… company stagnates under closed minded leadership… the end.

all you have to do is pop stability and the pull wont happen…. so you have 2 options… either dodge the first attack, or pop stability… either way… spear negated… end of story…

Zoid.2568:

JaddynnStarr.5201:

aaaaaaand now you just stumbled upon their true intentions…. waste as much time as possible, so that you stay in game longer and have to come back more often, and buy more gems to speed the process up! DING DING DING!!!!!!

I will never spend cash on TP summon. Maybe for increased bag space or some cool skin, but that’s it. I will waste 1 minute everytime I go to LA.

yeaaaaaa but, you do understand that the micro transactions are a part of almost every game now, and it is the primary driving force for these games to get revenue… just because YOU don’t, doesn’t mean OTHERS wont. I’m just stating that you are discovering this system that you didn’t seem to recognize before is all.

aaaaaaand now you just stumbled upon their true intentions…. waste as much time as possible, so that you stay in game longer and have to come back more often, and buy more gems to speed the process up! DING DING DING!!!!!!

unblockable virtue pull? wtf, have you never heard of stability? it counters it all the time….pfff

X T D.6458:

You don’t want to try new things like wvw or pvp, and yet you are complaining about things being boring because they are too repetitive…really? Try something new or take a break…

but isn’t pvp and wvw just the same ol maps repeated over and over again… run to A, smash buttons, run to B, smash buttons, run to C, smash buttons, run back to A, smash buttons… while the concepts of pvp and wvw are cool, the boring repetitiveness of capturing the same 4-5 points for years on end is just not that appealing. Even roaming wild loses its appeal after you dominate it day in and day out… my vote is for the break… I take them every couple of months or so.

its a new attack. you must experience 9000 screams, then throw a punch.

its not just the PC… Marjory gets a dig in too. But at the same time, marjorys response to the PC about what she does with a demi god on the groups behalf is just stupid and childish…

Map is good, lots to explore, but seriously… you guys need to hire better designers for the reward armor. nothing SCREAMS dragon armor like wearing a huge kitten cottonball for a helmet…. really?? the shoulders at least have scales on them…

I like to do the JP’s too, I run a large norn with ad infinitum wings on when I do JP. the harder I can make it on myself makes it all the more easy to do in the future. 99% of my guild cringes at aether jp goggles and other places that are difficult to jump to. but because i’ve trained myself enough on them in the hardest conditions I can make for myself, I can now just take 15 seconds and do the puzzle. the only time I ever take a portal from a Mesmer is if I am on a severely limited time schedule, which isn’t very often.