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And I am done! I finally obtained my Incinerator!
Thanks to the Dungeon Finder being enabled on my account, I was able to get all 500 dungeon tokens required in one day (I was exhausted afterwards however!).
Very happy I am finally done with it, now I can work on regaining all the gold I spend on it, since I am feeling really poor now!
Latest update on my Incinerator progress:
Gift of Fortune: Done
Gift of Mastery: Done
Gift of Incinerator: Still the 500 dungeon tokens remaining. Luckily we are getting the dungeon finder soon, so hopefully I will finally be able to get this soon.
Precursor: Obtained, wooo! Cost me 510gold from the Trading Post, but it was cheaper than it has been in a while. Yay for buy orders!
Loving moto's backpack plush and boom box
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What songs does the boombox play? I assume the 3 World 1 zone themes, maybe the dark forest area in Zone 2, and… what else? I’m secretly hoping its the April Fools day 8-bit remix of the character select theme, but I doubt it (that would make me buy the thing right away though, loved that song).
Just the World 1 themes. I imagine we’ll have to buy another boombox for every world.
Tribulation mode needs to look more 'evil'
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I actually think World 2 Zone 3 made everything look a bit scarier due to it simply being darker.
Just got my Storm Wizard Short Bow, happy I made it through! Probably will not do World 2 Tribulation again however, it simply takes too long.
[GLITCHHH] - NO REWARD - w1 z3 in TRIBU-mode
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Timer on opening of the chest. Problem solved. Only if you opened the chest the timer should start.
Edit: Another question: Can you complete the same zone again at the same day and open the chest if you couldn’t open it the first time? Or does this still count as “opened” for that day and you have to wait 1 day because of the daily restrictions?
It only counts as opened if you actually opened the chest. Finishing the zone without looting the chest does not count, so you can run it again to get the loot if you missed it.
So, any reason why no rainbow clouds appear here after you defeat the boss, just like in world 1-2?
I just defeated the Frog King, but died immediately afterwards for some reason. But as no rainbow cloud appeared, I died over and over again trying to get back to the chest, until the countdown was done. As a result? Two hours wasted as I was not able to get my reward.
From what I noticed from the waterspouts in the jumping puzzle underneath the Adventure Box hub, the knockback actually happens if you are in the air while the previous waterspout dissappears.
regarding the 2 1 handers vs 2 hander thing:
actually the 2 hander users tend to get shaft more:
1) classes that use 2 handers with the 1 exception of an elementalist tend to use both weapon sets and often the secondary set is just as important as the primary to a good player
2) 2 handers get the shaft on sigils, only 1 sigil per 2 handeri play a warrior and use a hammer + sword/warhorn, if i didnt already have all of those as legendaries (thankfully i do), id be looking at having to get 3 ascended pieces! (having a 2 hander isnt as much a help here as ya might think given that we spend up to 50% of our time in s/w with our current build)
Are you saying classes that do not use two-handed weapons only use one weaponset? Because that makes no sense whatsoever.
As a Thief, most of the time I run with D/D and P/P. I will need four ascended weapons.
It just started working again for me. Lets hope it stays that way now.
No, the posts I read weren’t from 2 weeks ago, all were from today. Both here in the account support section.
Would you mind giving me a link to them? I am only able to find the ones from two weeks ago.
I googled this issue. Found a lot of posts in the last few hours.
As “support” we get only 2 posts which only ask if we tried to restart.
Then a lot of answers saying we did and nothing. Then silence.
Can we have any acknoledgement of the issue and an ETA?
As far as I am aware, those posts were from two weeks ago when the exact same issue appeared. Why is this happening again?
I am assuming something has gotten messed up with the free trial accounts again, but then, why do only EU accounts seem to be affected?
I doubt we are going to get much support until Tuesday, seeing as it is a holiday weekend. Best we can do is hope it fixes itself shortly, otherwise we will be without the TP for a day or two.
Are you having the problem of the Trading Post telling you to upgrade to a full account as well? If so, those two problems are related. Hopefully it will be resolved soon and all lost items refunded.
Same problem here. It seems to affect only EU accounts as well, from what I gather in-game.
Why does everyone automatically assume a story quest will be easy?
(Most) People want to feel like they earned their legendary, not bought it directly with gems—>gold (or massive farming) or just got super lucky with drops.
I wish we had some sort of long, solo, hard, instanced quest that just couldn’t be zerked to victory.
It’s good that they are letting us craft them finally, but if it is going to cost as many t6 (or 7) mats and/or lodestones as a legendary that doesn’t really solve the problem.
I agree, such a quest would be the best solution. It should be very hard however, much like Liadri was in the Queen’s Gauntlet (of course with better visibility).
and maybe not one-shot/time-gated fight? perhaps they’d like to include lag victims this time (like anyone who lives far from the servers).
I just meant to refer to a difficulty level, not the exact same fight. Of course it should be possible to complete no matter where in the world you live, as well as being able to take as long as you want to.
If you want to take eight hours to defeat it, by all means, you should be able to do that.
(Most) People want to feel like they earned their legendary, not bought it directly with gems—>gold (or massive farming) or just got super lucky with drops.
I wish we had some sort of long, solo, hard, instanced quest that just couldn’t be zerked to victory.
It’s good that they are letting us craft them finally, but if it is going to cost as many t6 (or 7) mats and/or lodestones as a legendary that doesn’t really solve the problem.
I agree, such a quest would be the best solution. It should be very hard however, much like Liadri was in the Queen’s Gauntlet (of course with better visibility).
If it was not for RNG and TP prices everyone would have a legendary… Everything else is pretty cheat and easy to get. Specially with how easy it is to get gold now.
Noone is asking to making obtaining a precursor easy. What we are asking for is an alternative to grinding to you drop, grind some more, and then buy it. There is nothing legendary or hard about that, it is just annoying.
So basically you want a free precursor that you can get in an hour?
You are assuming the “hunt” would take an hour and free.
As it is right now, it is already free and not even takes an hour for the people that got it out of a JP chest, or WvW random kill, or dragon kill… is that harder than a quest? I sincerely think your statement makes no sense.
If you want to take a gamble and be lucky then by all means. But don’t complain when you don’t get anything, considering that there are non RNG, guaranteed ways of getting a precursor.
If you want a precursor, go buy a cheap one. Go buy The Bard or an underwater precursor.
Like?
The only way to obtain a precursor is by RNG. Even if you buy it from another person, that person obtained it by RNG.
Your comment about buying just any precursor is absolutely meaningless as well. I would be all too happy to buy The Bard if it would let me craft Incinerator, but it does not work that way, now does it?
Please, no more RNG. We are almost at the point where we have RNG on RNG on RNG.
Thanks to the fix, I have now received the gift on all characters that were supposed to get it. Thank you!
Seems like the whiners finally got what they wanted.
Instead of putting in some effort, you can just craft them.Whining on forums really pays off in this game.
Sounds like someone has been selling precursors at ridiculous prices, and is now sad he will not be able to do that anymore.
Crafted precursors should have their own set of legendaries.
That way, people know who the real “legendary” players are and who got their legendary from easy-mode crafting.
As opposed to easy-mode buying it on the Trading Post?
I really wish they would give us an update on this. The pricing for the precursors has now really gotten out of hand.
Update:
Gift of Fortune: Done
Gift of Mastery: Done
Gift of Incinerator: Just the 500 dungeon tokens remaining. Which is going to take ages because of “experienced only!”. Not going to get experience if you do not let me come.
And of course, the precursor. The price just went up again, so I think I am just going to pause my quest for this legendary. I can not keep up with the constant price increases.
No gift on my main either. I have three characters I created at launch, and only one received the gift. The one I had not even logged in yet since creation.
In my opinion, it is never worth it to gamble. The most likely scenario will be that you end up spending way more than 740gold on items tossed into the Forge.
The Information which parts of an achievement are done / not done would be helpful:
I open that window(!) , but I don’t see the list: maybe I have to change something in the options, but I don’t know how to do it
It is an image to show an example of how it can be done. It is not currently possible in-game.
I have just done Lornar’s Pass three times, which was the only one I am missing. Yet on all three occassions, the achievement did not update. I did it twice in an overflow, and once in the main server, but I am still stuck at 12/13.
I know 100% sure this is the one I miss, since this is the only zone that is still virtually unexplored.
I used three of them, and got teleported twice, and knocked down once.
The first time it teleported me to the Vista within the dredge-cave in Dredgehaunt Cliffs (the one with all the scaffolding). The second time it teleported me to a Vista in Lornar’s Pass, the one on the pirate ship in the middle of the lake.
Congratulations Thorzilla!
Another update on my progress to craft Incinerator.
Gift of Fortune: Done
Gift of Mastery: Nearly done, still need to complete Lornar’s Pass and Brisban Wildlands
Gift of Incinerator: Just the 500 dungeon tokens remaining.
So really all that is left to do is do a bunch of dungeons, and then either farm an additional 500 gold to buy Spark, or wait till they finally introduce an alternative method of obtaining precursors.
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It would be if we could do that when we want to. As it is, we can not, since we need to wait on a ridiculously long cooldown for a measly five minutes of “uniqueness”.
Really, what is the problem with being able to use it for as long as you like? Does it break the game in any way?
It’s because they don’t want you to run in this tonic all the time. The fact that you can fight in it for 5 minutes is a tremendous bonus and is enough of a benefit to offset the cooldown timer.
After this event is over people won’t even bother complaining about this minor issue.
How, exactly, is that a benefit? Does it make my character stronger? Do I get more loot? Not at all, no benefit whatsoever.
Small update on my progress!
I now have completed the Gift of Fortune, and am one zone completion away from Gift of the Explorer. I have the rest of the materials for the Gift of Mastery already, so that part is also almost done. I got most of the ingots for the Gift of Metal gathered as well, just need a couple more platinum.
Aside from that, I need 80 more Destroyer Lodestones and 100 more Molten Lodestones, as well as a whole bunch of Citadel of Flame runs to create the Vial of Liquid Flame. Then 100 Icy Runestones and I can create the Gift of the Incinerator.
And then the waiting game begins, since I do not have the precursor yet.
I’m fine with most of the mechanics, but one of them really annoys me: the distortion effect that blinds you. Along with the awkward camera near the walls, the blind effect is really annoying, and forces you to simply memorize the fight. It’s artificial difficulty and it’s a time sink, requiring you to repeat the fight dozens of times to memorize it instead of reacting to what happens. It’s a good fight apart from that.
Disable post-processing in your graphic settings, the blind will not be effecting you anymore then (a little bit of cheating is okay sometimes!)
Just beat Liadri myself as well, using the build and tips in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWdac-LBPwM
Now I want to try for some Gambits to get the meta-achievement, and I have a question about that. Does the perma-blind on Chomper work during most Gambits as well? If so, I am just going to fight him and do it the same way as I did before.
You can’t guarantee that you will get any random item. I’m just telling you how to actually have a reasonable chance at getting one.
Take the tips or don’t, but don’t complain about random being random if you aren’t willing to help your odds.
And that is exactly the problem. They should not be random. They should be challenging to get, not luck-based. If I increase my odds and still do not get one after three years, what good did that do me?
The prices are not ridiculous as the orders are being filled.
If your plan is to have a precursor fall into your lap, you are going to have a very long wait. You need to focus your attention on getting one which means doing the following:
1. World Boss Circuit – Get that bonus chest each day. The rare/exotic is going to mitigate your costs as well as provide you with “free” chances. The bonus chest and boss chest also have high precursor drop chances.
2. Determine the cheapest way to obtain chances
A. Find the cost to buy the materials to make an exotic weapon of the type you want.
B. Find the cost to buy the materials to make a rare weapon of the type you want and multiply by 5.
C. Find the cost to buy the cheapest rare (times 5) or exotic weapon of the type you want on the TP.
3. Use the cheapest method from 2. above and obtain a bunch of weapons. Drop them into the Mystic Forge. Monitor the sigils on the output, if you get any valuable ones, salvage the weapon instead of MF (to offset your purchasing costs).Your best chance at a precursor is to put 4 exotic weapons of the type you want into the MF. The steps above will help you do that in the least expensive way.
I never said I expect one to fall into my lap. You can say I need to do all those things, but they still do not guarantee a precursor. You could theoretically do that for five years and still do not see one. As I said, it is all about luck. Having luck is not challenging.
I am also in the process of chasing a legendary, and have only one or two more T6 mats to go and then Dawn. It is going to be so difficult to get a hold of dawn, but anet needs to fix nothing.
I’m getting tired of people crying about not getting a precursor. They were deliberately designed, and vocally stated by the Dev team to be super rare. It is a RARE item. Some people get lucky in the forge. Some people get lucky a hundred times in the forge but who cares. Get on with your own game and get that pre.
More fool you actually for spending a thousand gold in it without stopping and just buying it on the top.
Keep precursors rare. Thanks.
I do not have a problem with them being rare. I do however, have a problem with the way they are obtained. The prices are ridiculous, this is no longer a matter of being challenging to obtain a legendary, but a matter of either being rich enough in real life to buy $250 worth of gems to obtain enough gold, or being lucky enough to ever see one drop.
I have only just started on seriously working on Incinerator, but I just got Gift of Magic and Gift of Might. I have the materials set aside for the Mystic Clovers as well (just need Balthazar to open so I can buy the Obsidian Shards). Then I just need to gather more Ectos before I complete that step and have the Gift of Fortune.
After that I will go for World Completion so I can create the Gift of Mastery.
Of course, none of this really matters so far since I do not have the precursor, and with the current prices it is unlikely I will ever get it, but at least I will be prepared if I ever get lucky and have it drop for me.
Their play time wouldn’t be less valuable than others. I’d say capturing whatever you can, upgrading it, and filling it full of siege for the next group is a lot more valuable than you think.
Before the prime timers log, they try and leave the SEA crowd something to work with, so they can concentrate on offense. Vice versa, the SEA crowd should be leaving as much as they can for the next group to come on.
The PPT is basically a by-product of whats going on and doesn’t need to be ticking during the off hours. It’s not a measure of skill nor a reflection of a servers capability to have large amounts of people playing from different time zones.
People need to ask themselves these 2 things:
1) If Anet does decide to shut off PPT during the off hours, what are the SEA people going to do who have the capability to play during a time slot where it ticks? Do they swap severs? Could this be a possible answer to server population mismatches? For Anet, the quickest and easiest solution to many blowout matches is to just turn off the PPT during off hours.
2) How exactly would T1 look if the PPT was shut off during off hours? On reset night, it was pretty much dead even up until people started logging off. It was close, it was fun (minus the skill lag of course). I can’t speak for others, but I think people have more fun in close matches than they do during the extreme blow out matches that we see.
There is lots of chest thumping going on in this thread (which is fine), but there isn’t much to chest thump about unless your talking about even numbers at all times. This is especially true in cases where those who are outnumbered, still continue to beat the larger zergs.
As someone who plays during off-hours, this would make me quit WvW alltogether. You may say it our time is not less valuable in that scenario, but it is. We would only contribute to the strength of towers/keeps, not to point-gain. People playing during prime-time get to contribute to both. Meaning, one is more valuable than the other.
Getting punished just because I live in a different timezone is not something I see as a good idea.
Hahaha!!!
You know this has been what’s happening for this matchup. We just need to be a bit more faster to take stuff >3<
I can see myself!
And yes, that is pretty much what has been happening since reset so far. We get the inner door down, and then get mowed down instantly.
I would wait for a bit before transferring. TC’s population has been dropping to transferrable levels much more often lately.
Is it me or is the rating-gap between TC and IoJ getting smaller? It was 25.000 this morning, it seems to be just 15.000 now.
Can you confirm that the full guild-name is “The Jesters”?
If you can, could you please sent these screenshots as a link in a private message?
I am not sure whether there are multiple guilds with the [JEST] tag, but I am a member of The Jesters who use the same tag. We are not a WvW guild but do have a few members who enjoy participating in WvW.
If you have a screenshot of one of us exploiting, please, let me know so I can notify our officers. None of us agree with exploiting, so we would like to know who is doing it.
I think the chances of the Coast moving up are incredibly low. The point different between Isle of Janthir and Tarnished Coast is too big to close in a single week, considering both servers tend to gain or lose very few points.
Look at it this way, at least we have plenty to take back. Keeps us busy!
Funny you should mention the arrowcarts at the top of the arena! That is exactly where I always die. I can get through the rest of the jumping puzzle with little to no issue, occassionally coming across a CD player who I have a little fight with.
But that arena, no way to get through the arrowcart barrage. Last time I checked there were four arrowcarts there.
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