Guild Wars 2

Cypress.3749:

Do booster multipacks stack with one another? It’s possible they intended it to save us some bank space.

Well yeah, it has that possibility, but only if you have the same amount of at least 2 of the boosters, which is unlikely for the majority of people. Also once you open a bag again to use one of the boosters, you now have the stack of packs plus 3 boosters taking space. So unless you use all three when you open the pack, it makes its usefulness not as great.

I would rather see much more useful recipes for boosters, like any 3 boosters + 12 slot bag = 3 random boosters. There are at least a dozen recipes I can come up with that would be more interesting.

Mystic.5934:

it’s not “any 3 boosts” + leather bag = boost multipack?
is that the same bag you get for completing the level 1 story task?

nope only those 3 boosters, and the pack always gives you those 3 boosters. The bag is the one you buy from a general merchant.

yeah i was thinking of miners bags my bad

no cores or lodestones? your rng luck sucks! =D

Why would the devs take the time to put this recipe in the game, which has little purpose that I can think of. I would rather have a recipe that takes 2 crap boosters and turns it into 1 useful one =D

Magic find booster + Karma booster + Experience booster + leather bag = Booster multipack

Booster multipack gives you 1 magic find booster, 1 karma booster and 1 experience booster.

Sure the bag may save space if you have the same amount of all 3, which is unlikely, but really serves no purpose.

In tier 1, they would help you up until the point where you could see the chest, then kill you, followed by dancing, laughing and jumping on your dead body.

Morningstar.6208:

Joining a wining server is for weak go start from lower tiers if you have what it takes.

JQ isn’t a winning server. It almost always comes in 2nd or 3rd place in tier 1. The main point to understand is that they usually do it against all odds. Less coverage, less hardcore guilds, but just a great group that fight hard and succeed with what they can. =D

zarak.2314:

I remember in GW1 HA.. NA vs EU who won most? It got so bad that US players would come to EU cause EU was too strong.. But ye guys NA is so much stronger. Time to wake up. Either way the entire nightcapping is pretty boring and I’m sure VZ is doing this just to kick PRX there butt. I guess Elona will do the same next week.. QQ.

Like I said no NA guild would even dare to come here and get owned and you all know it.

You are trying too hard kid. Everyone knows EU and NA suck compared to Asians. So your argument is moot.

pierwola.9602:

Aequitas.6402:

Pffft.

Europe has German beer, French wine, Belgian chocolate and more!

and Polish women

meh Ukrainian women are better =D

Don’t forget Russian vodka as well

Vol.5241:

Buy the leather bag from any vendor in the world (4 slot bag)

Sometimes you have to put it in first in the forge to make the recipe pop up.

It just gives you a booster (and the same items you put back) so it really does nothing.

thanks that worked, only purpose i can see for this is that you can store all 3 with less space i guess

Told you guys Euros are full of themselves. But we do welcome the Asians =D

I would rather have only Asian/Oceanic players come to NA, they are much better than EU players and not nearly as full of themselves =D

same goes for the el tonics from the mystic chests. I still need 2 of those =D

Smerfy.1546:

The three boosters can be added to a leather bag to give you the booster pack item from the gem shop. (Hope this was helpful ^^).

what kind of leather bag, I tried every color lol

bump, come on Anet, give these tonics some love!

So I buy a lot of ectos and always am on the TP watching them. Many times in the past week I have been seeing some weird activity. Someone in the matter of seconds will buy thousands of ectos from all the buy now orders, and minutes later someone will sell thousands of ectos to the buy orders. Been happening a few times a day and has led to big gaps in ecto prices, though they don’t last long as the market adjusts.

The only thing I could think of to explain the activity was that gold sellers are buying lots of ectos, sending them to their multiple accounts and reselling them to turn back into gold. Yeah they are losing gold that way but trying to avoid Anet’s watching gold transfer more than anything else. I am only bringing it up so that Anet might look into such activity and I don’t condone gold sellers.

I could be wrong but anyone else have a good explanation for this?

BTW I know there will always be ups and downs on ectos but its recent history has been really erratic even after they fixed that ecto exploit days ago.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19721

How dare you sully his good name by spreading your slanderous filth!

JazzModian.4891:

Prices of endless tonic have actually gone UP from this. I guess people were holding out to see if it could be made. Like someone else said, this is how the MF works, it’s a gamble. I don’t see why people think this isn’t intended as the resulting tonic can be traded, unlike the four you put in. Meaning that this is by design, since you can’t get these tonic any other way.

I agree, Anet would screw out a lot of people who buy and sell those endless tonics on the market by crashing it with a 100% sure return of one. Random is actually a good thing, take your chances and hope…….

Jhuild.4739:

Kyiv.9621:

Jhuild.4739:

janay.1457:

actually someone really made it

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/150vj9/endless_tonics_become_the_princess_you_were_born/?sort=new

Jhuild: “Hey folks. I don’t normally post (so hi for the first time! haha), but I thought I’d mention that forging four endless holiday tonics DOES make the toymaker’s tonic. Just made mine!”

so its probably .. random?

I can confirm that using four tonics DID make it for me. Sorry to hear that its not working for everyone.. really hoping this is some sort of bug.

is it bound or can you sell it? Just wondering how this will affect the price of it on TP

Hah, I was actually just asked this one on Reddit, as well. The one that it created is actually not account bound. The prices are already a little lower (not by much).

thanks for the info, I already have one, just curious lol

Jhuild.4739:

janay.1457:

actually someone really made it

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/150vj9/endless_tonics_become_the_princess_you_were_born/?sort=new

Jhuild: “Hey folks. I don’t normally post (so hi for the first time! haha), but I thought I’d mention that forging four endless holiday tonics DOES make the toymaker’s tonic. Just made mine!”

so its probably .. random?

I can confirm that using four tonics DID make it for me. Sorry to hear that its not working for everyone.. really hoping this is some sort of bug.

is it bound or can you sell it? Just wondering how this will affect the price of it on TP

glad i waited to see someone else do it. Sorry the results were bad for you guys, I was hoping it would make an endless wintersday tonic. Oh well =\

Can you get the endless golem tonic anywhere else?

ReMarkable, not to mention the fact that the snowflakes are a limited time item and therefore even after the market corrected itself, the recipe would eventually vanish as the supply of snowflakes disappeared.

LordByron.8369:

@Kyiv
No nobody think they were “playing the game”

Analog situations already happened in most mmorpgs, and they were exploits and bannable offense.

If you find a formula that makes you get more than you use and its clearly broken, you have to cntact support asap.

If you instead decide to profit despite you know you are damaging economy (and the game for other players) for a personal profit, you deserve to be punished.

Word play cannot hide that nobody will think ppl that abused this bug, didn t do knowing it wasn t legit.
That is just a pretentious excuse….

Once again………

So placing buy orders for cheap on the TP then reselling them for a profit is an exploit in your opinion? People are getting out more than they are putting in. People buying the whole supply of an item and re-listing it at a higher price for personal profit, damages the economy and hurts other players. Just like you said this method did.

What about crafting an item and selling it for more than you put in for ingredients?

So the TP and crafting is broken in your opinion cause there is profit to be made?

Also what exactly was the bug? Salvaging upgrades and ectos has always been in the game and will continue to be. Is the recipe a bug? Or was it an intended recipe that Anet just was ignorant about their own game mechanics and didn’t see the potential of said recipe?

Using your reasoning there is a fine line between legit and not. Anet did the right thing, they shut down the recipe and will probably adjust it to require more jewels and therefore fixing the issue. That is the right thing to do and the only thing they should do.

LordByron.8369:

Doesn anyone thinks that making 100G in a day is legit?

i don t think so.

If you make your time extremely moreprofitable than it should be (without rng factor) then you know you are not only abusing the system but also damaging other players…

But possibly those people thinks only to theimselves…..

I don t think that people who got 400G in few days can hide behind any excuse….
They perfectly knew what they were doing…

They would deserve at least to lose all their money or even better have their account rollbacked to a week ago……

So if someone buys lots of in game gold with real money, then uses that money to buy the stock of a desired low quantity product and then resells that product for twice its worth makes hundreds of gold in a day. Should they be banned too?

They are exploiting the system with their wealth. Anet surely doesn’t intend for the market to be manipulated like that at others expense, but it happens a lot.

My point is, that Anet knows their system and salvaging rares has always been a game mechanic. The only reason it got disabled was because a lot of people started making money off it. Anet doesn’t care about the few wealthy people, but when a lot of people start making money they freak out and nerf something into the ground.

Same thing when people farmed path 3 of Arah for profit. Only once the method got public and a lot of people started doing it did Anet stop it. They even said so themselves they monitored, ran metrics and then decided. No one was banned because it was a legit game mechanic that Anet intended to work the way it did. Just like this jewelry.

The difference is, once people find a way to make money off their intended mechanic, they understandably put an end to it, because they are a business and they need to make money. Doesn’t mean people did anything wrong, they were simply playing the game the way it was setup and using it to their advantage to progress in the game.

Fact is, the only reason people made a lot of money is cause it wasn’t widely known. If everyone knew about it, pristine snowflakes would have been 1g ea, mithril would have been over 1s ea and the profit of it would have been very small. The market would have corrected itself as it does with ALL crafting once a lot of people start crafting the same thing.

I am almost certain people have reported that an infused ascended item loses that infusion when upgraded.

Dyno.9467:

From what I gather someone called Wolfey tested any 3 + stuffing and got nothing..You need 1 of each of the Wintersday minis for it to work

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wintersday/Account-bound-minis/page/2#post1004451

he was wrong i just used 2 of the same one and another and got the quaggan mini

WvW is dead to me for the next two weeks. Those that venture in, good luck and have fun, keep it interesting.

Heiwan.8154:

hmm, I got above ice cream base, and it mixes with flawless snowflake:

flawless snowflake
ice cream base
saffron
… cant figure out 4 yet but its a 400 combine, so Im excited

mangos, its one of the recipes listed

you can buy it on TP but it is not cheap, you will get a bunch from the coming events so just hold off.

i tried all boosters, keys, shards, lodestones, cores, t6 mats, 400 food, scroll etc and nothing.

Wiredgunslinger.5480:

This is a prime example of why JQ loses week after week. You got 15 people camping the jumping puzzle. What a waste of both brains and manpower.

Yeah cause SoS NEVER camps the JP…………. LOL

Firebaall.5127:

Yes, that’s correct. If you add the “new” ones to the older bugged tonics, they become unsaleable, and look like the picture above with only the options use or destroy.

It sure would be swell if we could get a response from an anet staffer on this one. Even “we’re aware of the problem, and looking into it”.

My old tonics were untradable after the patch, but all I had to do was split the stack and they became sellable again. Sadly I only have 1 endless tonic so I can’t test if you split two of those if both would become sellable like it does with the cheapo tonics.

No one forces you to fight the enemy near their spawn. Either back off and wait or go do something else.

Ranc.7192:

Moon.5462:

LOL our record in T1 is 33 wins 4 losses rofl yer we are a failure hahaha

Dude honestly I am from JQ……I dont have a Dog in this fight.

But im geting sick of xTA members bragging how they are 30-0
or in [case] 33-4.

Reality check……..It is a video game no one cares.

50-75% of that 30 win record is only one day matchups, 12 hour matchups and BETA tests.

You guys just want to be in tier1, it hurts you pride to bad being in tier2.

Watch is SOS loses, you guys will transfer to SOR or IOJ

lol this x 1000. I have always said, I would rather lose and go down tiers than rely on the server loyalty of bandwagon, egomaniac server hoppers who don’t want a challenge, but simply an easy button road to success.

I have no problems getting rings. In fact I have too many, please let us SALVAGE them for ectos. We need ectos to infuse, so make em salvage for 3-5 ectos for a normal ascended ring and 3-6 for an infused one.

Azure Prower.8701:

Kyiv.9621:

Azure Prower.8701:

Accusations like these is the reason the JQ is constantly given the title ‘JQQ’.

Please SoS and SBI cry just as much as anyone else. Well don’t know about SOS so much, they weren’t relevant in WvW until HoD guilds moved to them and made them noticeable.

It was the common phrase I saw when browsing the HoD v SBI v JQ threads on the forum. But still. Missing the point that you do not want to be the bad apple giving your server a bad name. Thus my reply to the other poster.

Yes there were kids who called JQ, JQQ. And SBI, SBCry. And HoD, House of kittens. 12 year olds are like that.

Azure Prower.8701:

Accusations like these is the reason the JQ is constantly given the title ‘JQQ’.

Please SoS and SBI cry just as much as anyone else. Well don’t know about SOS so much, they weren’t relevant in WvW until HoD guilds moved to them and made them noticeable.

Cover Girl.2580:

Kyiv.9621:

Jedbacca.6297:

My guess is those teams from SBI and SoS seen that swords were initially going up in hardcore areas so they probably spent time just running upgrades on their with holdings and figured if the other server is hitting you from the other side, it’d be easy pickins to hit the same target.

True, but the logic of such actions makes no sense. SoS has won the last several weeks, SoS has a decent lead and by all experience has the ability to keep it. SBI has to make a choice, try to win or try to play for 2nd. If SoS owns SM and starts attacking the 3rd place team, it would seem more tactically logical, at least to me, to use that chance to attack SoS, especially SM.

Yeah SBI may gain new points, but SOS will gain just as much or more. I call it the HoD syndrome. A server starts to become perceived as unbeatable, so the other 2 servers develop a defeatist attitude where they figure their only choice is to attack each other and play for 2nd. This only serves to facilitate the image of the top server being unbeatable.

SoS knows this and knows it well.

You have how wvw works ALL wrong. Quick naked scenario:

SOS has 100 players
SBI has 70 players
JQ has 40 players

You say that SBI should attack SOS. who will JQ attack? they will attack SBI. so now SBI will have do fight 140 players and will get crushed. Now once SBI is crushed. SOS will attack JQs 40 players and easily crush them. Now SOS owns all the points and the entire map.

RIGHT now, as I type this. JQ is on their borderland trebbing the bay which is owned by SBI. While they do this, SOS is taking everything to the east. Why would SBI ignore JQ to attack SOS, when JQ will come right behind them to attack? This is a weekly thing. JQ ignoring anything and everything to come after SBI. It’s fine, no complaints. Just dont get upset when we fight back.
What would make MOST sense is for JQ to ignore SBI and attack SOS. As it is, JQ has MINIMAL coverage, so they are an easy target when they buck up and push on SBI.
It’s nothing personal…it’s strategy. Try leading your team against SOS instead of SBI.

JQ finished 2nd place last week, SBI was third. 2nd and third flip flop every week. Here is what an SoS player said on another forum.

“SBI and JQ was double teaming us for 2-4 hours, so we farmed badges waiting on an someone to side with us, JQ guys just kept attacking us, so we sided up with sbi and wiped JQ off EB with sbi. Next time dont keep attacking sos and sos will help u wipe sbi off the map. Choice is yours. First to side with us wins, or keep double teaming us and we badge farm.”

Obviously JQ was attacking SOS and persistently. Your example about bay makes NO sense whatsoever, because there is always 1 guy trebbing bay from the garrison. You can’t treb hills from the garrison. I already said it is an issue of both JQ and SBI. SBI does it just as much, so don’t try and say it is only a JQ issue.

Your scenario is actually what happened in EB. SBI and SoS spent hours double teaming JQ, once they wiped JQ, SoS proceeded to wipe SBI from JQ lands. SoS still has SM, then had all of JQ and SBI was left with nothing but their own lands, a 2nd place deficit and another week at losing.

If anything you PROVED my point by explaining how it plays into the hands of SoS cause the other two servers are too ignorant or defeated to play it with any logical sense. HoD syndrome, people start playing for 2nd and ignore the correct tactics to actually try and win it themselves.

KyleQuest.4639:

^+1 to pretty much what everyone has said. This is a non issue as you’re being the bad sport. What are you even doing chasing them that far???

Is it me or are some SBI obsessed with JQ? I don’t get it since the top spot is being held by Sea of Sorrows. OP, you’ll never be #1, if all you think about is #2’s.

SBI has HoD syndrome.

Jedbacca.6297:

My guess is those teams from SBI and SoS seen that swords were initially going up in hardcore areas so they probably spent time just running upgrades on their with holdings and figured if the other server is hitting you from the other side, it’d be easy pickins to hit the same target.

True, but the logic of such actions makes no sense. SoS has won the last several weeks, SoS has a decent lead and by all experience has the ability to keep it. SBI has to make a choice, try to win or try to play for 2nd. If SoS owns SM and starts attacking the 3rd place team, it would seem more tactically logical, at least to me, to use that chance to attack SoS, especially SM.

Yeah SBI may gain new points, but SOS will gain just as much or more. I call it the HoD syndrome. A server starts to become perceived as unbeatable, so the other 2 servers develop a defeatist attitude where they figure their only choice is to attack each other and play for 2nd. This only serves to facilitate the image of the top server being unbeatable.

SoS knows this and knows it well.

Cover Girl.2580:

don’t blame us because jq doesnt have anyone online today.

Most people i play with didn’t play much tonight cause the lag was horrible. Pretty much like SM lords room everywhere on the map. Just another reason that will keep people from playing WvW for awhile.

mcovellone.2981:

I’m not one to make accusations but…

So 1st and 2nd place spend 5 hours double teaming 3rd place on EB with barely attacking each other. SoS spawn camps JQ while SBI takes keep, then SoS withdraws?

Shame they are so scared to fight each other, JQ should take this as a compliment, takes two T1 servers to beat em lol

Yeah there is a workaround, but frankly since the workaround exists, they should just make them account bound and be done with it.

Avatara.1042:

Predator.7321:

I hate guilds that hop around and boost servers to where they shouldn’t be only to have them get pummeled

Thank you for insulting all of SoS.

I don’t he was intentionally trying to SoS, but instead speaking generally about these no loyalty server hoppers that use the “want a new experience” excuse.

Alcyon.7098:

Ok so maybe a dev can answer : Are ascended gear salvage kit coming in an update ?

I don’t even care about the infusion, I just want to salvage the rings for ectos. A lot of ectos are required to do upgrades for ascended items so it would be a good idea to allow us to salvage them for ectos. 3-5 for an uninfused item and 4-6 ectos fro an infused item.

Hopefully they change it in the future.

Buy orders are now up to 68g. Never knew people cared about them so much lol

morphemass.2850:

Sadly it seems that any tonics obtained before the patch are still account/soul bound even though the tooltip no longer shows that they are. Any tonics obtained now from trick or treat bags seem to be sellable.

This seems bugged to me….

ahh that makes sense thanks. A good item for Anet might be to make a Mystic Forge recipe that uses certain halloween items to make personalized trick or treat bags. It would get rid of the massive amount of those items on the TP and give people a better chance to get an everlasting tonic.

Anet should change the everlasting tonics that dropped from mystic chests, from soulbound to account bound. Some people have multiples of the same tonic and it would be nice to give to an alt so they can carry around and use it.

Someone currently has an endless halloween tonic for sale on the TP for 199g99s99c. Yes it is for sale and not a buy order, it shows 1 available and the cheapest buy order is 40g.

What I want to know is how was he able to place it for sale? I don’t have the option for mine, though I don’t want to sell mine, I was just wondering. Also while I am on the subject, Anet should really change the EL tonics that came out of the mystic chests from soulbound to account bound. I have multiples of those tonics and would like to give them to an alt to carry around.