Guild Wars 2

Hey, everytime i try to join a game of southsun survival @ lionsarch, i am thrown into a spvp game instead of southsun survival. Is there a workaround for this?

Only happened to me as of today.

I personally was expecting the skins to return this year so i dumped my stock, big mistake…
Now i am sitting on a rather big pile of unbreakable bells and Christmas skins, of which the green skins atleast were very common.

What’s your guess on this issue…? Will the christmass skins follow the Halloween trend…will they NOT return and instead will we see new ones?

Hey everyone
I was wondering if the flame and frost dyes are going to get reintroduced at some point, because they are quite pricey at the moment.
Basically; should i buy now or wait for reintroducement if there is any on the way?

and bought another 250g worth of gems…made price go from 7550 gems for 180g to 7150 gems for 180g

bought 85 keys for 180gold, got 14~ keys back. so 99 chests or 100…and got 1 ticket.

Cauldron.1653:

Would be interested to know from those saying they can’t shake account wide DR:
are you guys playing on other toons in between or just on one character?

To the OP: first off, thanks for reporting your findings.
Secondly, are you playing on multiple characters? – not just for farming but generally…

Just trying to find out if playing multiple characters influences drop rates via DR.

i have 5 level 80 characters (mesmer, ranger, elementalist, warrior, thief)
i farm with the warrior, elementalist and thief, all 3 have 120-160magicfind.
Funny thing is sometimes i use the dps gear on my warrior (looks cool) and drops turn to crap when doing that, alot more grey /blue and barely greens. So i’m quite confident to get good returns @ shelter/penitent you will have to equip magicfind gear.
To answer the question; i do not experience any dr on any character…i can go 10 hours on my thief without drops changing, yes i do get streaks of grey items, but 2 minutes later it’s back to normal
I know what DR is like, i remember in octobre/november when they nerfed loot and it was still possible to run steeltide, i did have DR back then but that was reversed within a week or 2 if i remember correctly.

plasmacutter.2709:

Thanks to the 11/15 patch putting me, and many, MANY of my comrades on perma-DR, I don’t have the option to supply my own materials — the option that prevents “wealth gaps” from ever becoming an issue in other games.

the TP are the only source due to DR!
Only the “lucky accounts” and the bots remain.

You’re not the first to throw this around as facts. Would you mind linking some proof about perma DR account and ‘lucky’ accounts? Or is it just a hunch you got?

almost always sell, sometimes my curiousity get’s the best of me and then i get disappointed so sell

prices are going to where they should be thanks to the absence of bots.

If you want powerful bloods you go to the southsun cove island and kill karka’s, you should get 5-15 per hour.

i bought tons of powerful bloods, think those will hit 35s+ this weekend, funny to see ecto’s have broken through 40s finally too.
I’ve seen some bots in lowlevel zones, mostly rangers with bears in the water, not encountered alot of them in the highlevel zones yet. Maybe a.net is keeping them out somehow.

well hang on to your ancient bones, those are becoming quite rare, dón’t know how much stock people are sitting on but they are now dropping at only a fraction of the frequency they used to, thanks to 28th jan patch.
And i have to agree with almost everything vol wrote.

note that i don’t count exotics, those don’t drop often enough to include, i just see them as a occasional bonus that would boost the average up even more.
And while it may just be 3 hours, results are consistent for me and im on a overcrowded server. if you can’t make atleast 5g per hour you’re doing something wrong(no offense meant). i mean i was taking a long biobreak during hour #2 and made myself food…not like i was making the most of it.

This post was just meant to show people farming is not as bad as some make it out to be.

After reading here multiple times how tough it is to get gold through farming and how it is absolutely necessary to use the tradepost if you were to ever acquire enough gold to buy a precursor, i decided to just take some of my time and note down how much gold i make from farming in cursed shore.
Below you find the results of 3 hours of gameplay i did, there was a 5 minutes pause between each hour to tally up the results. Diminishing Returns were never experienced. I play on Desolation, a heavy populated server, medium pop would be best for farming.

The character: thief/shortbow 138%magicfind+10%guildbuff+10%banner during hour #2/3
location: shelter’s camp / penitent camp ( jofast’s camp and plinx when previous 2 are not active)

hour #1 = 6g 7s (12g 17s including exo)
(broken down)
coin 7silver—-> 1g 38s = 1g 31s
tier 6 mats 1 blood 1 dust 1 fang 56s after taxes
tier 5 mats 4blood 5fang 5scale 8venomsac 1totem 3claw 8 dust 3bone= 50s after tax
heavy moldy bags = 83 = 2g40s after taxes
unidentified dyes = 3 = 50s after taxes
rares = 2 = 62s after taxes
salvagebles = 15s
9 mithril ore mined=3 silver
exotics = 1 the ugly stick 6g 10s after taxes

hour #2 = 6g 48 total (7g 88s including exo)
(broken down)
coin 6silver—-> 1g40s = 1g34s
tier 6 mats 2venomsac 1fang 1claw = 50s after taxes
tier 5 mats 2blood 6fang 5scale 4venomsac 3totem 8claw 6dust 6bone = 64s after tax
heavy moldy bags = 63 = 1g 76s after taxes
unidentified dyes = 0
salvagebles = 12s
mithril ore mined= 6= 2s
rares = 6 = 2g10s after taxes
exotics = rampager’s short bow of accuracy 1g40s after taxes

hour #3 = 6g 4s
(broken down)
coin 6silver—-> 1g 22s = 1g 16s
tier 6 mats 4venomsac 3dust 2totem = 1g 11s
tier 5 mats 6blood 4fang 4scale 4venomsac 7totem 3claw 12dust 2bone = 60s
heavy moldy bags = 64 = 1g 79s
unidentified dyes = 1 = 17s
salvagebles = 11s
mithril ore mined = 12= 3s
rares = 3 = 1g 7s
exotics = 0

tldr; you make 6 gold per hour if you know what you’re doing, claims of 3/4g max per hour are false.

Tips:
1.thief/warrior/elementalist are best for farming due to their strong aoe with low cd’s
2.cooldown on shelter= 12/14 minutes, cooldown on penitent=16/18 minutes, you can do other stuff while waiting (tradepost/farm sparks/collect ori ore)
3.always join a party, more %damage done to the mob results in better loot
4.make your own guild so you can always have the 10%magicfind guildbuff up

63 -15% tax=54,55
So if people are actually making these cores with 14,5 silver dust and 26 silver wine they are making a 2 silver profit per lodestone at the expensive of 0,6 skillpoints…wow that’s terrible.

How much more are they going to drop? Well i think people must be pretty dumb to try and craft these stones with their skillpoints already. So i dont expect to see the molten lodestone dive any further at all unless the molten core prices falls further.

And your comment about farming all the ingredients yourself; people can farm faster in other places and just buy these underpriced lodestones from the tradepost themselves if they need em or ignore them all together.

This program gives an unfair advantage…manually checking 30 buyorders take a while, while people who use this just do other fun stuff, wait for a popup and act on it.
I suspect that’s why this program was made. It’s tedious to check for that many buyorders every 10 minutes.

suggestion for anet;
Add a column on the buyorders page stating green text ‘highest bidder’ or in red text ’you’re not the highest bidder’. That way people won’t have to compete with people running third party crap and you’ve added some much needed functionality to the game.

Let’s see what has happened;
-heavy moldy bags dropping rougly twice more often than before the patch, containing same loot
-risen humanoid mobs now drop other tier 6 mats besides ancient bones

So there’s going to be a big flood of tier6 mats due to more bags and higher availability off the risen humanoids. The only material that should become more rare are the ancient bones, due to them competing with other t6 mats on the risen their loottables.

What’s your take on this?

they are already rising again…seriously panic sales

got 10 random lodestones from 1.5 mil karma..panic sales that is all

you can’t fix manipulation without destroying the whole trading aspect. If you increase the amount of precursors, more people will get one and for example more tier 6 mats will be purchased. This will simply make ’’manipulation’’ shift to the new limiting item.

Budchgon.2108:

As I stated, Holiday skins (specifically princess wand skins) are rising every day (seems every hour as people are bulk buying them)

Look at ghastly grinning shield… 2 weeks ago 20g now 150+g
Passion fruit seems to be rising to as people speculate on new recipe needs

passion fruit rising? a few days ago i bought 28k and they went up to 1sc80c for a few minutes. i lost 200g doing that. They are not rising at all.

MagnusLL.8473:

I’ve started to dabble in TP playing a little over a month ago and, I think, I’ve had some decent success, raising the amount of gold available to me from somewhere in the low 20 to nearly ten times that amount.
My problem is that the ratio between the amount of time sunk into the TP and the total amount of gold gained tends to suck. After all is said and done, I think if I had just farmed CoF 1 for the same amount of time I’ve wasted on the TP I’d probably have more money by now. Admittedly, playing the TP is at least vaguely more interesting than redoing the same dungeon path over and over again, but it’s getting boring fast anyway.

I keep reading of these people who have 100-150g to invest and just do “login – 15 minutes to place buy/sell orders – logout” and the next day they have made something like 20-50 gold out of it. Every day.

How the hell do you do that?

First of all i think alot of the people who claim to get those profits daily are exaggerating.
As far as flipping goes, buyorder prices tend go down during the night, so place some buyorders in the evening, the lower the better (and the more risk you take not getting your order filled ofcourse). Collect your orders in the morning, then sell in the afternoon when prices are rising. Personally i cba with flipping all the time, i do it every now and then for maybe 10 to 60 minutes and make 1-10 gold or lose some.

A very lucrative market i’ve discovered a month ago is the skin market. I’m sitting on quite a few skins from 2 events and i’m waitin for the right moment to sell them for a profit. I could sell them right now and profit but if i sell them in 6 months i’ll make alot more. And since i have enough gold to do the other stuff this game offers that is exactly what i do, sit and wait. So this really isn’t very labor intensive at all, you just need patience.

maybe vol, but bot bans also meant less tier5 mats, so price of the mats goes up, people craft less or when they do craft it becomes more expensive, thus the price goes up. Also it should not be forgotten how much rares each bot can find per 24 hours and since they are now temporarily out of the picture, another reason the price goes up.
taking a look @ gw2spidy reveals a supply of 5000 and a demand of 88000….ouch

well there’s about 75% chance to get ecto’s from rares on average and crafting the tier5 rares costs you well over 30 silver(think it’s 31s for cloth with the cheap silk and well over 33s with anything that neeeds mithril) . So it’s still cheaper and less effort to just buy ecto’s for now. Another thing i foresee is that once people do start crafting the prices of t5 mats will increase even more.

Has anyone noticed the small supply of ectoplasms that is left on the tradepost? There’s a few stacks of 200/300 and then after 40 theres nothing….is it going to dry up this evening? I’m going to watch whats going to happen

define useless. The people who bought for 30copper and sold for 1s50c probably disagree with you.

pretty sure the skins will be available again next year. But that wouldn’t matter for the price, no1 is going to sit around for 10 more months for their chainsaw skin. People will be paying 500g in a few months, mark my words.

lol, all passion fruit gone

haha, passion fruit speculation has already begun. wonder where it’s going to end, i place my bet at 3s, and then crash back to 1 :P

You earn alot more money with trading a legendary than with a chain sword skin. That’s why the rich don’t bother with these lowely items. Which is good for us, items like arachnophobia and greatsword saw skin have been gaining more and more worth.
Arachnophobia for example was 45g a month ago, it’s now up to 80g and it will keep rising, crafting that thing costs well over 170 gold.

i think you guys are underestimating just how much armored scales people have stockpiled. This was the most botted tier 6 material by far.
The real question is; What happens first? People depleting their stockpiles or bots coming back?
Personally i think we need another week before we’ve burned through most of the supply some people are holding and the bots could already be back by then…hmm.

all bots on desolation cursed shore are gone
i just bought up all ancient bones till 2 s, shame i dont got more gold available atm

skins from events are good, the halloween ones are still going up in price, for example i bought 40 dagger skins for 2g40s two days ago, selling them for 5 each now

the tradepost is currently down for maintenance, that could be why its been longer than usual

I was thinking the same thing, underwater bots get reported less because less people see/report them so that could explain why scales won’t go up (yet).

This will be interesting, let’s see how long it takes before the prices come down again, or if they stay at this new pricepoint. If tons of bots are still active they should flood the market with their big supply and bring prices down again. If the price stays up, then their supply isnt bigger than the demand, which could mean bots are being banned right now.

went from 6 to 9s each in a few hours…whats happening? its been around 6-7s for a month

still lots of bots on desolation, none have been removed from the usual spots.

Poor Leno.3582:

I’m fairly certain that our fiat curreny is not backed by gold, as per 1971 abolishment of the gold standard.

@ zavulon – why? because it allowed USD to have a real value? look at how much the dollar devalued since 71? since 1990 even?. Right now, our Fed, the guaranteer of our money, is making the same mistakes that it made during the 08 crash. Just look at interest rates. 0% are you kidding me, for five+ years!? It’s been declared indefinite! imagine if our government, once its debt increases to 18-20 trillion and if interest rates were allowed to rise to where they would naturally be, had to start paying 4% interest on all of that? That’s 35% of our entire tax revenue out the window.
Instead of taking our medicine now and allowing the market to correct itself, we are padding it up with stimulus and QE and just allowing the problem to fester.

just look at the price of gold over the past 12 years and you’ll see where the real value is.

I’m pretty sure the dollar devalued due to being dependant on oil prices, as you stated they got rid of the gold standard in 1971.

i hope they do get banned rather soon. On desolation there’s tons of bots running around again since a few weeks and despite me reporting a ton they are still around, and there seem to be more each day.

And i have to disagree with 2 posts above me that bots help balance the market…bots are cheaters and compete with legitimate players on the tradepost driving prices down so legitimate players might just stop farming since it’s not worth the time.

John Smith.4610:

Quick Note:
GW2 Spidy is not hacking, they are not doing anything illegal, it’s a fantastic site.

So, why aren’t you guys from arenanet building your own version ike you did with the wiki?
Do you think it’s a good idea to have such a crowdattractor in third party hands where it’s just a matter of time until the site-owner decides there’s enough unique IP adresses visitting and decides to upload a trojan to empty a few thousand accounts.

Fabsm.5897:

But why? They don’t give you more orbs than the other salvage kits… Am i missing something?

yes, you salvage with these and can make ‘alot’ of money so when prices of these kits drop with 30% you spend 6 silver less per salvage, now if you salvage a couple of hundred items that adds up, this is basicly a good time to stock up on these. I’ve dropped 100gold on gems just now myself.

So yesterday i could buy 1060gems for 18g, right now i’m paying 18g for 900 and it is probably going to get worse. Funny how this item has such a big impact

So here i am doing my daily level 10 fractals, it’s all going fine.
And then someone disconnects….seriously spending half an hour and then having someone go offline where we really needed 5 people ( please spare me the we-can-3-man-it remarks) kittening sucks. It’’s happening more often than not. Twice today…..yesterday….. What’s the deal? why can’t people just reconnect and continue?

This morning i got another 250 cogs in the mail, so i could make my third toy, just had to get some magic glue, and then when purchasing this i noticed the price was doubled from yesterday.
Do you think the mails everyone got this morning is going to make glue and stuffing go up even more? And will we get more cogs through the mail to make the 4/5th toy?

Anyway ive already profitted from this, buyorders @ 1s 3c-7c were filled extremely fast and the lowest price was @ 1s30c, so thats 4/8c per glue profit or 10s/20s per stack which i was able to move in seconds. Still works right now too@europe.

on europe they are up to 8s again, from 5s 24 hours ago, seems they are steady now @ 8 as they did not dip below 6 during the night.

I’ve spend about 120 gold on gems in the last week, still turning it into a decent profit, so in that light i can’t say they are too expensive yet. Also i’m pretty sure in a few more months they will cost even than now.

all this means is that volcanus is going to cost 700g instead of 500g

Logun.5360:

2) Arena has heard the cry of their people and decided double the amount of some T6 items that drop from containers. Since they’ve caved on this, they may increase supply on other items that they deem are over priced.

•The quantity of vials of Powerful Blood, Vicious Fangs, and Elaborate Totems that drop from loot containers is now 1-2 instead of just 1.
Just to clarify it’s these 3.

edit; I think if blood and totems come down to a point of say 12 silver, more people will start using them for crafting gifts, raising the need for the other tier6 mats that did not get their droprate increased. That would mean powerful venom sacs( fluctuating between 16 27 yesterday alone on european market) and vicious claws might go up quite a bit.

majorkong.9073:

You know, “fake” orders get really filled, and if you try to drive the price of something up too far beyond equilibrium your fake orders will begin to get filled very quickly. It’s playing with fire.

IMO all you guys who want to “fix” market “manipulation” in this game are tilting at windmills. Placing lots of buy orders on commodity goods lasts only as long as the placer of such orders is willing to fade the pain of having them filled faster than he can sell at the higher price.

totally agree

So if i place a big order on intricate totems(2 × 250 for 1s50c each. =7.5gold x 0,05=37,5silver to list my buyorder), and someone else outbuyorders me by 1 copper with an order of 500, and someone else outbuyorders him and me, and so on and so on.
I need those totems to craft so i am going to have to cancel my buyorder and lose my 37,5 silver, or wait for buyorder to fill for god knows how long and not be able to craft. Bad.