Guild Wars 2

I unfortunately did not complete all of the achievements either, but I don’t mind the challenge within the dungeon. Achievements should be difficult, otherwise nothing has been achieved.

Some of the others such as killing 50 in Shiverpeaks – blegh. That is not an achievement – that is spawn camping.

Excellent to know, many thanks for the feedback.

I’ve been doing the 95% for some time, but today I hit a couple karma pots and it didn’t appear to give the full 95%. Actually it appeared to give about 45% (booster not working). Anyone else?

Guild with 2 active members and a dozen that never log in anymore looking for an active, laid back new home. Both he and I have each class lv80, and have completed each path of each dungeon. Not looking for anything too “Pro,” just a friendly, entertaining, humorous, and active guild for PvX.

Message/Mail me in game: Cupcakeses

Racist! :P /15charlen

I have a guard named Cupcakeses. Unfortunately SoR based, otherwise this would be a win. Random side note: Munkeytoto, don’t scrap your ranger! They may not be the most versatile, but they can be very useful in dungeons as buffers/dpsers.

Coldtart.4785:

Pay attention to the [Group Event] tag. It means the event is made specifically for groups. Many still can be done solo, but they aren’t made for it.

This. I’ve never not been able to solo a non [Group Event], and I even give the group events a shot because I enjoy the challenge (Branded Army, which I as well completed solo. 25+ mobs and a champ). I’m usually successful even if there are a couple people sitting at wps within the event. While the champion tends to have more health as more people are around, or the mobs come in greater quantities, I don’t want to be hit too frequently even if there aren’t people around, so really it just makes the fight take longer.

That said, are they worth the rewards? Not really, but I stop to do them for the challenge. If you are only looking for reward vs. time spent, there are plenty at high-level. At low level XP is usually the most sought after reward, so just avoid the [Group Event] as stated if you are only interested in the reward, and no one is around, or no one comes after linking the wp in map chat.

As the game currently exists there is something for everyone, that doesn’t mean that everything is for everyone.

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I really want the mace, which appears to not exist, which makes me sad.

I gave the princess wand to my Male Necro because it’s funny.

Side note, I like the big size on my Asuran guard. Wish it were norn sized for her… though probably again because it amuses me.

What I’d really like is a mist version of a mace for my guardian to match the Wall of the Mists. Is this even available? Seems like almost every other weapon has a version, but I’ve tried a bunch of combinations, and looked in many crevices online and found nothing.

Jairlyn.1429:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Jrunyon.3012:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

RNG for real money is GAMBLING no matter how you look at it and it should be ILLEGAL and should be BANNED and DISCOURAGED.

I personally don’t spend money for RNG nor I even support RNG with gold in game. I hate it and ANET should be a shame for doing this with REAL MONEY.

Yeah okay Sir Vincent III, What are you, 10?

You don’t have to be a minor to see that it is gambling — with REAL MONEY — and there’s a law about that and in many States, it’s ILLEGAL.

I’d rather like to see ANET’s response to this issue since this is not just virtual money, but REAL MONEY.

Gambling is paying money for a chance at more money and if you lose you get nothing.
Here you are paying for a random reward but you do get something. Just because it is not what you want doesnt mean its you are not getting something.
Why should Anet respond to you about gambling? Their response is in the fact they are selling random rewards in the first place around the world.
If you feel its illegal then grab an attorney. I’d rather like to see their response to you.

^ This and the previous poster. If it were illegal there would be no baseball cards.

I’m sure people are angry about those too and go to stores complaining they didn’t get the rare version of whatever card they wanted. I remember I used to do that all the time… right? cough

Have you tried running the -repair command? This is usually a quick fix as it sounds as though some of your files may have been corrupted. Used to happen pretty frequently until I replaced my RAM.

I had this happen to me as well just a few days ago on a lv20, so you aren’t going insane. I will be honest though; didn’t really mind because after running 3 toons through lv1-10 this vial at lv20 was only my 5th, which is kind of the magic number. So while not working as intended; s’okay for the time being

This to me is actually one of the easier fractals when done properly. The only really annoying thing is the short immobilizes the adds repeatedly throw at you, but that isn’t even a huge deal.

Most parties fail because they DPS the boss too hard during non-add phases. Take your time to regen and regain any cds you may have had to blow if you have to. The only race to this is when adds are up, and that isn’t even a sprint when done properly.

Honestly if there were a recipe it could just require a gift of entertainment (10g, some mats, some gems & a little bit of dungeon work), and 3 performance roses one could receive for scoring 600, different color for each part high, mid, low. Still expensive enough to appease the crowds that already bought it without completely ruining the trade value, and provide an alternative route to the lottery which is based on just playing the game.

I did this the hard way hour 1, but honestly, I don’t mind the change because I feel I won the lottery with my random group. Groups that I fell into later had people building snow walls out in bke talking about protecting one of their spawn points which lead to the npcs breaking them down and running over and killing dolyaks…

With random grouping and 95% of the population running around like candy cane vigilantes, another 3% building snow castles for princess dolls, and neither having a kitten clue how to keep any dolyaks alive; random grouping made this a pretty awful achievement to strive for as it was.

I’m getting some pretty fantastic spikes at a rate of about once every half hour with no lag at all in between; which has pretty much cut me off from fractals at this point.

Catamaran Nights.2630:

The worst part is with the toy minis. We only get enough cogs to make 2 of the 5, which means if we want all 5 we have to buy the 3 we don’t make from the gem store.

The Tixx instances are live until the third when wintersday ends. That is more than plenty dailies to get all 5 minis without purchasing anything assuming drops for dailies don’t change after the event hits LA.

I don’t know this for certain as I haven’t done it, but I would assume that what comes out of the forge will have nothing to do with your infusion – meaning it will be gone. Reason being: The output of fixed mystic forge recipes are generally fixed as well.

shaktiboi.5194:

Just adding my two bits that I strongly dislike and am very disappointed by “time pressure” jumping puzzles. That’s not fun, nor creative. You forget that many MMOers play MMOs because they don’t have twitch reflexes in the first place. And you also forget that lag makes such puzzles essentially impossible for some people.

Please stop making jumping puzzles like these.

I find jumping puzzles and timed jumping puzzles to be very fun and creative. Not to play advocate here, you are allowed your opinion, but to “stop making them” because of your opinion is silly. Read up, there are plenty of people (myself included) that love these things, and if we didn’t, we just wouldn’t do them!

There are plenty of other ways to get the achievment done for Wintersday. ANet left us options so that we could all do things that we liked to do.

I’ve saved getting my precursor until very last of all legendary items to acquire because it has been known for awhile now that the price would go down due to changes in the works for precursors. Even today with prices way down from what they were, it will still be the last thing I get for my legendary because I know there are more changes coming. Whether that makes me foolish to wait further; we’ll find out, but I’ll live with it either way because I know it was my choice to do things in this order and methodical pace.

Have you seenall the maps to FotM yet, or are you just judging based on principle? It is actually quite a fun instance that isn’t static, so when you go in, you aren’t doing the exact same 3 paths over and over again. As for the progression, you don’t really need ascended for anything but higher levels of FotM, and if you aren’t interested in the lower levels, then I’m sure higher levels are a moot point. As for the powerful blood, yes, they are rare, but not required to make ascended back pieces. Even if they were, I’ve gotten 15 of them from the instance itself through 6 levels of play.

Lastly, Orr farming and traveling the world. As posted you do have to travel the world to get 100% completion, but you’re right, most people spend much of their time in orr afterward. Honestly though, it’s just the same as anywhere. I can travel the world but I spend most of my time at home because it is most profitable (job, cheaper cost of living, etc.) Just because I spend most of my time at home does not mean I’ve not experienced everywhere else I’ve traveled.

I had no screenies, but I will say that I have many mental screenies of my overflow server wipe which to me was hilarious. Enjoyed it immensely, cheers!

Thank you ANet!

Honestly I feel more need to say just those 3 words and move along, realize this is a new game and can’t be compared with older games, and update their PCs to handle it accordingly. I have a far longer rant for the Negative Nancys that complain about bonnus features than that, but I will instead stick to the point – I enjoyed myself. I experienced very minimal and only periodic lag on a good computer with 100s fighting around me. The only issue for me was Noll and that chain, but I can live with that. The new dungeon is quite fun and has quite a bit of staying power (though I agree the lv system needs a bit of work or it’ll be hard to find groups eventually).

Appreciatively looking forward to Wintersday

It all depends on what you want to do. I mean, I run minion master on my necro in open world, but they die far too quickly in dungeons to make it useful. While I have never traited for pet on my ranger, I will say that my pets can stick around for a bit on open world maps (I use bear/moa), but die very quickly in dungeons as well. Soooo, if you plan on doing dungeons and such, a retrait might not be a bad idea. Open world, soloing, events, while I prefer traps for extra AoE, it’s a preference, it doesn’t make another build “crappy.”

Stormleaf.1769:

People rage and whine about a “stealth nerf” without even pausing to think for a moment it might be a bug, it’s then confirmed as a bug that will be fixed the same night that it’s introduced, and people respond with yet more irrational insults. You just refuse to give ArenaNet even a drop of respect, don’t you?

Stop behaving like irrational brats just because you didn’t get every single buff you dreamed of in one patch. ArenaNet doesn’t deserve this kind of grief, regardless of what you all think.

^ This. I’m sure none of you have ever unintentionally oopsed anything up in your life.

Sweet, this was killing me

If you could get the exact crafting price from a vendor for secondary mats that it cost to make the item, you have essentially gotten free xp which is what folks are trying to explain. It’s small scale in the line of logs, but if you buy 300 logs, make them into planks, and then sell them for the same 9s that you spent, you have just gotten xp and 20 crafting levels for free.

Same here, glad it’s not just me, but I’m sure you aren’t. It appears every time I try to load an instanced area (ie I’ve been clearing the beginning towns so all (Home) regions, Idea Induction lab, etc.) I’ve not gotten one to load all the way through yet today, and have had to force close the client each time

Count me in on this. It’s awful, and while picking up an item fixes this, it usually only fixes this for one item, and then I get the error again.

This is still an issue. I finished the fight, got the cut scene, and the eye was in the middle with barely any health left and an invulnerable state for 7minutes doing it’s laser beam attacks. I decided to wait out the invulnerability. Not a great idea either apparently because then I killed him, and now nothing. I can wander, but there is no completion. Can we please fix this? This fight is far too long, tedious, and boring to have to do more than once per toon.

Cheers

I have traited mm solely as well as I find it more survivable as well as a decent amount of dps. I trait for

30 Blood: Minions siphon health, Siphoning is 50% more effective, Siphon upon crit
30 Death: Bigger marks, 20% staff cd, +50% minion health
10 Curses: Bleeding lasts 20% longer

Essentially with this build it’s all about precision, DoTs, and the added bonuses to each. If my DoTs are critting, I’m essentially always gaining health from minions as well as the critting of DoTs which is near perpetual with the amount of bleeds and poisons I’m throwing out there. Not to mention, with 6+ minons out at any given time I get 20% toughness (120%) and then another 5% of my toughness gain to power so everything hits harder except the mobs.

Whether this does more damage than others… meh, it’s close, but I don’t think I’ve ever had the 20s per mob issue (though I do prefer bunching everything up with this build as there is plenty of AoE to go around).

Staff, Axe/Dagger
Heal: Well of Blood (though quite survivable on their own, [my flesh golem solos lv80 mobs] keeping minions up, keeps everything rolling along)
Utility: Bone Minions, Bone Fiend, Shadow Fiend, Flesh Golem

Yep, same. I’ve tried a variety of combinations at this point and found that if you have 2 of the same type (ex: 2x +7 power) equipped when something is downed, then it adds +2 to the stack.

Otherwise, as said, the first to be applied is the only stack that will be created, with main hand taking priority over offhand (ex: I had a +condition main, and +luck offhand, the condition applied and the only way to get luck to apply was to swap to mainhand for a mob with no other stacks started).

Lastly, entering and exiting a story will wipe the stack, which is a bit annoying, but I suppose could be WAI so that people aren’t building stacks then entering instances with a stack built.

Is all of that WAI, or no?

This! I actually figured I’d throw some green master stuff in here just to see how things worked before I threw anything else in, and I got nothing, no message, no item, nada. Now I’m scared of it.

Follow Up:
I did finally get it to go past to the cutscene by starting over a 3rd time and trying a new way. I’m sure this wasn’t the issue, but I attempted to kill some trolls prior to closing the gates… Many times which forced me to restart from a checkpoint…. many times. Everything seemed to work properly from there

Same story spot, different issue. Once I get to defend the docks, I clear a wave, a guy says oho, what’s that up there as the dragon flies about, and nothing else spawns. Im stuck with “Defend the Docks” and at this point the only thing I can kill is the big bone ship by swimming out there and beating on it for 5 minutes (am I supposed to be able to blow that thing up with my spear? lol). So, I’m stuck. Tried reset, no go.

Race: Man
Class: Necro
Level: 76
Order: Priory

Cheers!