Guild Wars 2

I had to give up, my fingers were going numb after an hour of continually spawning sparks and resurrecting someone who died after a few seconds.

Whatever cutscene might be after the fight I’m not going to see it until they fix the fight…

It’s only a chore if you must have it done now 2 weeks after the expansion is released. Everyone is going to eventually level them, so just take your foot of the accelerator and go around doing whatever you find fun and eventually they will be done.

Gave up on my 4th character, the updrafts just were not working and the shield never works so it was impossible for me to get past the fight. Possibly because this was a Norn character and taller than the others? Either way after about and hour and a half of trying I gave it up. Waste of time.

One thing for Peer Review. On my initial play through I was able to interact with the page but didn’t bother looking for the other pieces. Ever since it has been bugged. The smith in the cave has never spawned for me once.

I’ve done it 3 times now.

First time on a condition mesmer it just took time because it was my first time through. There was no way anything was going to kill me and I got hit by a lot of stuff. The air phases worked mostly.

The second time was on my elementalist who has celestial gear for some reasons and I have no idea about her spec, but it seemed to work. This was actually the toughest run because it bugged in several places. First was the air phases just didn’t work and I died there. Then I had to restart the entire fight because I died and it bugged because the platform didn’t reset so the rift was in mid air and I couldn’t reach it. After dying again it worked properly.

Finally, last night on my Sylvari thief with beserker gear and a straight dps build. Aside from Mordremoth causing confusion damage to my character when I hit him which I’m sure didn’t happen to the other two characters, this was the smoothest run. Everything died very quickly and I had no problems with the air phases. The final phase over extremely quickly as my thief just slaughtered the adds in seconds. The only bug I noticed was one of the updrafts spawned above the surface of the ground and it wasn’t working so that cost me the achievement, but I jumped across to the next updraft and that worked so I didn’t die.

I might give that build a try on my Ele once I unlock tempest on her. Wanderer armour is hard to get though isn’kitten The only place I’ve seen those stats are from leystone armor.

Of have a lot of alts. I have 9 alts already in HoT zones (mostly sitting at the flax farm of course). It doesn’t take long to run them through to get the weapons and that will get me 9 of the 15, +1 from the PvP track. That leaves 5 to farm mats for.

Getting error code: 1083:5:7:1595:101 every time I try to log in. Have tried multiple characters in multiple locations.

There are 3 sets of this armour (light, medium, hard). You get one piece from the personal story, so theoretically run some alts through the personal story to get more pieces, although there are 18 possible pieces so that would take a while.

I assume, like the weapons you get earlier on in the personal story, the armour comes from a vendor on the map somewhere. Likely a vendor that opens up after the zone event similar to the Arah zones.

Once you find the item it is unlocked in your collection and you can salvage/sell/destroy it.

Check the Specialization Collection under achievements and look for Horologicus. The Corpse Flower should still be listed there.

Kravick.4906:

You do have to grind and grind and grind just to progress past several points of the story, however.

Just to comment on this. If you learn the masteries in the right order there is very little grinding in between story elements. You’ll have to do some events, but not that many.

Unfortunately I learned one of the wrong masteries so I’m in for a bit of grinding to get the one I should have learned up to level 2.

The best way to highlight the issue is to stop playing your memsers, especially in structured PvP. The developers nerf/buff classes based on what they see in game and the buffs caused a sudden upswing in the number of people playing their mesmers again. This triggered their “nerf now” impulse as normally no one plays a mesmer.

Okay I logged in to check and it’s not actually available. It says “you have already purchased the maximum number of this item”

The gem store also shows the original digital deluxe upgrade (which I own) as purchasable.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

So basically what you’re saying is Ecto is about to take a spike in price making it even more asininely expensive to craft with. Joy.

They are about 44s on the trading post atm.

Has the price of Ectos gone up yet? That’s when I’ll make some money.

I’ll have to log in to check but I’m pretty sure I saw a HoT upgrade in the gem store as well when I was looking earlier.

You are not buying the game again, you are buying the expansion. It’s up to you if the price for the expansion is worth it or not.

I almost bought the ultimate edition because it defaults to it when you go to make the purchase.

Anyway, as originally thought the problem solved itself. I tried to buy the expansion again tonight and this time it worked properly.

My issue is that I can’t seem to buy it no matter how much I try. Neither the in-game purchase nor the website work for me, both just give errors.

1 would be sufficient.

The GW2 store didn’t work for me either, I got a payment authorisation error (whatever that means).

In game? I haven’t been able to buy it using the in game option yet either.

Ah I see, can’t buy it through the webpage either.

I assume you’ll still be able to be part of a guild even if you don’t have HoT.

Well I’m not trying to buy the Ultimate version (although it keeps trying to make me) but can’t buy the standard version either. I get “an error has occurred, please try later” every time I try to confirm the payment in game.

I assume too many people are trying to do it at once so I’ll try later.

Teleute.1307:

I knew as soon as I saw it was stealth-based that this would be an exercise in frustration… and that’s not counting the multiple, aggravating bugs. I managed to take down a shield, wait for the guy to port, only to end up inside the generator when it respawned. Stuck, nothing I can do.

Not looking forward to trying the achievements on this. If I can ever finish it the first time.:/

There is also no downed state, so if you are one second away from killing all the golems and you die you have to try again. AND it damages your armour even though this is a memory??

Yes bugged for me too and it’s such a long way into the instance I don’t look forward to doing it again.

I’m still waiting for one single pair of pants for female light armour. One… surely that’s not too much to ask, but oh no lets make another set of booby armour to pander to the male gaze.

Conncept.7638:

Those events I remember as being particularly egregious :

Rescue injured Zephyrites from the Inquest inside the mine and escort them outside

This one should be no trouble at all with a small to large group. The key is to have classes there who can heal the Zephyrites as well as speed them up. It is impossible to solo however.

Rescue the captive Zephyrites

This event can be soloed but it take a while. 2-3 people can finish it easily. You don’t need to kill the Inquest, just the cages.

Protect Serene as she recovers crystals lost in the crash

• Serene is just as slow as mollasses in the dead of winter. Speed her up a bit so people don’t feel like they are sacrificing an unreasonable amount of time.

Agreed. This one takes a long time. And because of the location it is rarely done anyway outside of organised T6 maps.

Drive the Mordrem from the Vine Planting area

• Far too many mobs in far too tight of clusters for any single player to handle.

If you are approaching it from the Oasis side there should be no issues. If you are jumping down from the waypoint then yes you might drop in the middle or 2-3 groups.

Tendril Spawns

• The combined burst damage of the large vines throw attack, and the small vines emerge attack, instantly down just about anyone, and if you aggro too many little vines, happens to often to dodge frequently enough.

Disagree. One person can solo these events quite easily. Move and dodge and you should be fine, I’ve done these events solo many times.

Defeat the light-infused Inquest Golem

• You can’t kite it, you can’t tank it; and unless you’re a dodge spam thief, ranger, or mesmer you can’t dodge all its attacks. It needs to deal less damage on its attacks or attack less frequently.

I agree it is very hard to solo this one. It does block a major passageway though so unless your map is empty someone will come along to assist with it soon enough.

Lander.8063:

so you mean that the chaos infused clay pot is allready used on the seed which is why it’s a Cultivated seedling now?

Yes.

So the next step towards making the cultivated backpiece is to add the package of ley line dusted food.

It’s used to make the chaos infused clay pot which you put the seed in. I see you have a seedling in your bag next to the mysterious vine backpiece instead of the base cultivated seed so you must have used it already for that.

Other players.

The only time I die is trying to res other players. Well that and walking off cliffs sometimes.

I don’t buy outfits because I like to mix and match pieces of around to make a unique set.

I would consider this one because it’s quite nice… until I looked at the boots.

I would love to see a female light armour skin that actually has pants. Currently there are none in the game, with the best being the Ascalonian Performer pants, but that isn’t great because it has a short skirt around the waist as well. The leggings from the Incarnate set are also ok, but have the flaps on the side. Remove those and they’d be the best available. Everything else is terrible.

Bought two which takes my character slots to 10 in total. Might be finally time to make a Charr.

Draknar.5748:

Missy.7356:

Mistforged weapons still had 2 ways to gain, wvwvw and the karma train in eotm.

Wait…you got WvW tournament participation credit if you only ran EoTM the entire period???

It was possible yes. You didn’t need to get all the achievements to claim the reward, and you could get enough of them from EoTM to qualify.

The easiest way to do the boss is the stand in the corner where Jennah was. Most of the attacks miss that area and then you just attack the vines with ranged weapons and step out to attack the dragon when it’s attackable.

The only part that is hardish is avoiding the ground attack. Jumping is unreliable so I’d suggest dodging twice to ensure you evade it.

No, in it’s final form the vines merge into your body and you turn into a walking plant-human hybrid. Oh wait…

Xiahou Mao.9701:

There’s people crafting it for the skin, since there were several Mysterious Vines already made two weeks ago, long before Mawdrey II existed.

Oh yes a lot of people made the Mysterious vine, but they aren’t use it. I ran around Lion’s Arch a couple of times today and I was the only one who had it equiped. The same at Tequatl.

Is anyone crafting the back piece for the skin? Or just for the bloodstone dust eating pet?

1,000 badges
1,000 geodes
5 fractal relics

All take about the same time to get, and a very different play styles.

I’ve done this one but still haven’t completed the Sand Shield one which I think is considerably harder to get as no one does it.

Evans.6347:

In the end it is an ascended piece of armor and a bonus item. It takes a long time to craft other ascended equipment too.

You mean like this ascended armour from the living story last year? http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tempered_Spinal_Blades

Time taken to craft… oh about 5 minutes.

SpeedFiend.4521:

It’s unfair? I’m pretty sure the requirements to get the item are exactly the same for everyone, so no, it isn’t unfair. You maybe don’t want to put in the same amount or type of work as others, which actually is unfair.

Except everyone isn’t putting in the same amount of work. People who already run fractals and have a heap of pristine relics saved up put in zero extra work for the crafting. People who have never done fractals or have tried them and don’t care to try them again, they will need to put in 10 or more additional hours into crafting this item. So yes it’s an unfair requirement.

Nil.6289:

Fractals is the most neglected piece of content in GW2. There are only a few people that run them anymore.

And this should tell you what people think of fractals. A very tiny majority like them, but they are being forced on us as a requirement to complete a living world crafted item for no good reason other than Arenanet is annoyed no one is doing their crappy fractal content they spent so much time making.

The majority people who are supporting the inclusion of fractals in the recipe are those who already do fractals, already have relics saved up and put in zero additional effort to get the mist stone.

I’ve now done my 5 daily runs. All up it took me about 12 hours which is a fairly large time impost when compared to every single other part of the crafting which took a couple of hours all up to run around the world and collect everything I needed. So that single step took 6x as long as the entire rest of the crafting process.

I find it a bit rich for supporters of fractals to come here and tell everyone they should just get in there and do it, waste 10 hours to get the mist stone when I can almost guarantee that none of them had to do a single fractal to get the stone. They just used relics they already had saved up. And then dismiss the idea of WvW players using badges they have saved up.

If Arenanet wants people to do fractals then provide us with a reward that makes people want to go in there, not force people into them. Forcing people to do something they don’t want to do is the single worst way to get them interested in something and it isn’t fun.

If you want to entire people into fractals here is a better way to do it in 3 easy steps.
1) Make the daily a single fractal, not 4. Most players just don’t have a full hour and a half+ to devote to fractals, so requiring 4 for the daily immediately means only hardcore players are going to do it.
2) Make pristine relics tradable for stand relics. I.e. 20 standard relic = 1 pristine relic. You can lower the daily reward from 20 to 10 relics and keep the 5/fractal. This means people will need to do more than 1 fractal per day to get a pristine relic, but it still allows people who can only spare enough time to do 1 a day to still work towards a reward.
3) Make it quicker to increase fractal level at lower levels. E.g. 1-9, every fractal done can increase your level. 10-19, two fractals done = 1 level, 20-29, three fractals done = 1 level, 30+ as it currently is. This helps new players get into fractals.

Aside from events that always spawn at a set time, the only new bosses are Giant Beetle which spawns on a tier 5 map and the rare spawn bosses which are at random locations including salamander rise and crash site #1.

The rarespawn bosses I know of are Sol Eater, Grit, and Dune Soarer (champ wind rider) and I don’t believe they have a tier requirement, but they also don’t spawn every time. I’m pretty sure they only spawn in a sandstorm at around the 50min mark.

I can confirm that the beetle will drop the tonic (don’t have it, but seen someone get it), I don’t know about the other bosses.

Shadowmoon.7986:

Have everyone die, don’t release until everyone is dead, then release. Hammer will respawn in the last waypoint. This has been fixed a long time ago. Just because you don’t know the machanics don’t mean that it is bugged.
Yet another Learn2Play issue. If anyone complain about the fractal level requirement the community as a whole should just respond that instead of complaining you should learn how to get better at the game.
This community really makes me wonder. RNG items are A-OK. Skill based items = bad. Boggles the mind.

That’s not a Learn2Play issue that’s a solution you’d discover by accident. That issue with the hammer still not been fixed, there just happens to be a work around that solves the problem. I should also point out that even googling this issue doesn’t give an immediate answer to fixing this (but further investigation of guides does have this solution).

A lot of people defending the inclusion of fractals as a step in the crafting are people that already do fractals, have the relics saved up, and spent absolutely zero additional effort on acquiring them for this back piece.

There is a general unfinished feel to the last section of the map. There are parts where you stand and can see through the world.

The only question I have about it is “Why just bloodstone dust?”

Hopefully we’ll get other pets to take care of the other types of ascended mats clogging up our banks.

Jenna then Phlunt