Guild Wars 2

This feels odd. I just did Null duo with a friend because no one else was online from our guild. We had no idea what to expect and it took us 3 tries. We honestly couldn`t imagine him being any kind of difficult with a full group…

We are Guardian (as much DPS as is healthy for a guard) and Necro (condition + healing). We just pulled him to a corner of the room and facetanked him there disabling the closest 2 mines whenever we could. When one of those lightning elementals came close we just evaded and ran around a bit till it was gone.

There really wasn`t much action going on and it didn`t really feel exciting. I can`t imagine where those problems with a full group could come from. It`s definitely not the DPS.

Afaik survival of the fittest does not mean only the strong survive. It means those who adapt to their environment the best survive. In that sense it is very true for GW 2 but doesn`t really depend on the class but the player imo.

Healing power is very strong already. This is not your typical numbers game where your healers numbers simply have to be bigger than the bosses damage numbers. Never facetank bosses, always use evade and blocking.

If used correctly it increases the survival rate of your party by a lot.

Astraea.6075:

Except people could easily have reached 40 laurels a couple of days ago… I’m sitting on 32 after missing a few dailies and I haven’t even finished the monthly yet, so what’s so special about today?

You have to consider that the majority of players baught their ascended amulett as soon as they could (there were no accessories available at that time). Today is the day all those players got the 40 laurels required for the accessory.

I didn`t know about the announcement but I don`t think it will make that much of a difference. I hope the price will now stabilize around 26-27s instead of dropping further and further. The spike might be caused by a combination of both.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Well manipulators aren’t controlling the ecto market, but the devs certainly are.

Ectos fall 10s-> devs panic -> nerf drop rates to hell -> ectos rise 10s in 20 minutes.

I suspect they will fall again, but the devs sure know how to stimulate the market in the direction they desire.

Do you seriously believe a nerf to ecto drop rate would have such drastic consequences? It would take most people quite some time to realise the rate was nerfed and the price would rise slowly.

The spike you noticed a few hours ago was because people got their 40 laurels and everyone was dumb enough to just instantly buy their 50 ectos for an ascended accessory. I would guesss there were at least twice as many ectos sold yesterday than on that day John showed us.

I was really amazed that people just kept buying so I sold my whole stack of ectos for around 33s and will just buy them again next week when they are back to 25s

I don`t think you can actually see if the graph is at 0 or 1. It`s not detailed enough to distinguish between those values imo. If it really were 0 I believe John would not have drawn the line any further than 354. I simply can`t think of any other reason to draw the line to exactly 2544. If you can think of something I`ll be glad to read it

But of course that is only speculation, only John can tell us what the real max value is and how many players actually sold that amount of ectos.

Amun Ra.6435:

What was the quoted amount? 140k? I would liket point out that 60k+ of those ectos are at buy orders for 3s or less…nothing to do with my point and does kitten to disprove market manipulation. People are going off topic by arguing over the current price, not my point.

Wow. It seems like you didn`t understand Johns post at all or just don`t want to…
150k is the amount of ectos that was SOLD on a single day, not the amount of buy orders. The highest amount a single player sold on that day was 2544 (I`m sure that`s the case there wouldn`t be any other reason to mark that specific point on the graph) which is nothing compared to the total amount traded on that day.
Even if a dozen players worked together they wouldn`t be able to control most of the ecto market.

SilverThorn.5047:

mehyaM.3042:

I like the part where everyone seems to be missing the increase in supply which results into a lower price. Good times.

i know that drop rate has considerably increased and i am quiet pleased. 25s isnt a bad deal considering it came from a rare worth 1s… however, why would someone put up a small bunch priced @ 24.73s when there was already a highest offer of 25s for 80 pieces?

What i am trying to create here is awareness…. especially for the newbies who just assume the market price from the lowest seller.

Let me tell you why that happens:
First there seem to be a lot of players who sell ectos at buy order price (instant selling).

Now lets say current highest buy order is 20 ectos for 25s and some farmer wants to instantly sell his ecto production of the day (lets say 30 ectos). He uses the option “match highest buyer” and puts in his stack of 30 ectos, 20 of those will be sold instantly to whoever posted that buy order but the other 10 will be put in as an offer for 25s.

If you watch closely you will notice that those unreasonably low offers are at the same price the buy order was just a few moments ago and since there are a lot of people instant selling you see this happen quite often.

You seem to forget all those SP that are scattered across the map. You need about half of them to get all your skills and the rest can be used however you want. Running through some maps and collecting 50 SP only takes a few hours. For Orr it would be recommended to either play a thief or have a second player with you pulling the mobs away.

I only really dislike the non-cultural shoes. They spent so much time on so many details but didn`t adjust the shoes to the feet of asura. Either the toes are cut off or show through the sides of the shoes. I find that so ugly that I`m forced to wear cultural shoes even though I would like others more if they were fixed.

/Away no chest x1
/Away + recieved x2

No one in my guild participated because the event did not start on our overflow but 2 members got the mail with a chest.