Guild Wars 2

Difference between Celestial and White dyes with GW2’s color filters in various locations just cant be seen =)

Yelllllo everybody!
Found this deadfuly helpful thread on the spaces of this forum =) After returning in HoT (was playing with a bunch of friends ~half of year ago) i realized that precursors for old legendaries now can be crafted! Exhale everybody, im not asking for a Dusk As a player who doesnt have very much time to play (due to the work schelude in clinic) i dont know where to get Elonian Leathers for the Dusk Experiment. I know i can craft them, but without a lowlvl character its just impossible to get t2, t3 and t4 leathers for it. So here is my question –
whether there are people ready to share these leathers with me? I will greatly appretiate it, thus, i will not dare to ask for more =)
And will all kindly persons who helped people here have an insta-karma bonus IRL
UPD. EU, Aurora-Glade realm. As requested =)

TheArtOfMouts.7468:

Nice Post. Thx.

Glad somebody did find this helpfull =)

This item was introduced via special event via special legendary boss (guardian of Breachmaker via Assault on Lion’s Arch). Its like asking “oh, can you return whole season 1 on live?” =) This is illogical and pointless.
P.S. And yes, i think that this is stupid to keep Aetherpath be availible in a way other than fractal, because it’s story gone and will never come back. As a fractal this dungeon will be good thought.
P.P.S. And yes, im now playing Grind Wars 2 also (like 95% of all ppl tbh, cuz, you know, NCsoft), cuz i want to make red spinal blades.

I found the best way that in 2 weeks of relaxed farming gave me:
Volcanus (from scratch, bought everything+lvled a cooking, but cooking is cheapish)~400 gold
Living World Season 2 (bought gems) ~200 gold
Balthazar Outfit (again, bought more gems =) )~150 gold
Tempered Spinal Blades ~250 gold (just bought watchwork sprockets and toileted them into Blade Shards). Also, i lvled an Armorsmith to craft Gift of Blades, coins included in 250.
Ofcourse i did buy what i could via orders on TP (some items like lodestones saved me like 50 gold). So you can see that i made ~1000 gold in 2 weeks. And i really didnt do anything over-extendable. I just had lots of free time to do it these weeks.

Now here’s the way i did it.
1)Find a good 4 ppl group. I just friended dude at ToT farming. He throws maize balms very often, and do it fast.
2)ToT farming, look for a good mirror that have not too much ppl.
3)lvl a mesmer. I could get Mantra of Pain and both teleports on lvl 17 (lvled him after prepatch, so… yeah). If you didnt find a mirror that have a thrower on – throw urself. But dont do it alone, cuz people will rage on you. They will. No other variants.
4)If you do not have ppl at all – taxi a full group and throw for them. Most of the times you will have donations that will compensate you cost of balms and, usually, even more. Be more talkable with ppl, do not blame them for anything and maby tell some jokes in process
5)When you got DR (go wiki for Diminishing Return mechanics), usually @260-280 bags, you go into dungeon with ppl from p1.
6)You make dungeons in this order:
-Ascalon full
-CoF p1+p2 (maybe p3, its really easy and takes 15 minutes to do CoF p3 if you have a thief)
-HotW p1 (p2-3 are not eligeble cuz underwater bosses take too long for them to die).
It will take you two diminishing brakes.
7)After third and therefore DR fades do whatever you want =) I found personal Ireo Ore rich nodes farming (there are 100% nodes every 24 hours, and you can make 4 gold per 20 mins with 1 your char. Also, you can repeat it with another characters that you want). Also, IMO, Vinewrath WAY better by reward then cf. But i think im just unlucky, since most money comes from T6mats and exos from cf and i didnt get them enough.

Here’s a little guide to you mate. Pick up this or something from before =)

Oh, i didnt play GW2 in that time, so didnt know that =)

Okey, here is a thing – ANet, did you consider of returning items that were on salve once and never did return in store (Grenth Hood etc) or you didnt? Do a one-day sale is a fair deal IMO, i myself would buy gems to buy these items, and i know that couple of my friends will do it also. =)

Thaddeus.4891:

I just don’t get your math here.

1) Your 345 × 3 is just weird. The auto-attack have 3 strike, but they don’t all have the same damage, nor the same speed.

2) 345 × 3 × 2.3 x 2.35 = 5594.175 but you said around 7.5k

3) 2700 Power? You obviously forget the 1000 base Power dude. That’s like a huge mistake. So now the minimum base dps is 1427, which is very far from your 345 × 3.

4)

When was the last time you were in a pug where you had everything? Let’s uncheck some boxes and see what the Zerker number goes down to.

- No EA, Spotter, or Frost Spirit
- Accuracy instead of Night sigil
- Strength instead of Scholar runes

Wait a second. You compare zerker dps of a RANGER, but you remove Spotter and Frost Spirit? And change Scholar for Strength?? I could see that if you are a other classe than Ranger, but seriously?

I actually agree that condition is close to direct damage right now. But that’s not with that kind of math that you will change the popular opinion.

Ayrilana.1396:

Congrats. You compared the auto attack chain from a berserker ranger using sword to the Axe #2 with the combination of other skills including the ~60 second elite from a sinister spec’d ranger. Definitely a fair comparison and not to mention inconsistent.

Fair conclusion to this Archimedes we have in thread head.
Dude, burning got nerfed, relax. With my warrior a barely do 1.7k burning ticks (before nerf they’re 3-4k common nubmers). Lets nerf Bleeding now.
Btw, where can i check patchnotes of it? Link, if you can please. Didnt find myself.

Quickness buff now actually not only cut animation time of charges like warrior’s GS 3 and 5, Guardian GS 3 etc. in half, but also distance fo these skills in half. All charging and moving skills that i saw and tryed myself are suffering from it.

The only problem why people cant kill it is because ANet screwed up last patch and recently nerfes just merged with each other.
1)New dowsnscaling system (that is completely broken) make any DS’ed char be in green items equivalent. Personally i lvled my chars with rare weapons, so now it’ll be basically better then lvl 80 in asc gear. No matter what. With crit chance downscaling so badly crit builds wont work also, so… Yeah, you got the point.
2)Doubling Teq HP (which wasnt a bad idea actually, but only if p.3 would work correctly)
3)Critting a bosses is completely freaking broken. There mustn’t ba a crit spot, its obviously a critical bug, patch notes said “this bosses can be crit”. Nothing about crit spots.
That’s all. That’s why fail. Make p1 and p3 work and it will be HARDER and KILLABLE for semi-afking maps (which are most or mirrors, ppl always afk, sometimes they have ignorance to do it even inside guns).
P.S. Was just with 5 commanders and full mirror – didnt kill it.

No, Brother Grimm, for example i say some feedback on this system overall. In my opinion it is broken overall now, since gear is scaling to exact green items that you can get in this location. And the is a problem not with scaling itself. It’s with scaling in what items exactly. This system now doesnt save the rarity of the items, that’s the problem. With that i have a feeling that all asc/exo gear i crafted/grinded just puff gone and my character has the same stats as if i’d never got these items.

As i said before, i see a point of whole downscale system to make more strong people help weaker people do some stuff. You see a player fighting a mob – you helped him to kill it. You see a player in trouble – you revived him. Etc etc etc. But with that fact that you make me weaker to do that (which i really dont mind), do not make my personal achievements vanish to the game mechanics.

Hulkmaster.1724:

Mafusail.9305:

Teevell.1684:

So yeah, if a level 80 warrior in ascended is getting wrecked by a level 11 mob, that’s a l2p issue. A new patch, especially one this big, means people have to adjust.

If im not mistaken, he said about elite mob. And yes, warriors could be killed by gold elite easily before prepatch, i dont even want to check how is it now. But anyway.
Bro, this DS breaks builds. This DS breaks your gear. Why the hell i spent hundreds of gold for ascended items? To see them DS to green items? I could just by 3silver green crap from TP and go to low lvl locations in it. If you do downscale – dont make it break builds working on lvl 80 that i already used alot. If i made ascended – i want ascended. Make it scaling to ascended stats. Rare stats. Exo stats. Not god kitten green crap.

But low levels don’t have builds )
I think most low lvl locations hasn’t been calculated, to handle “80lvl builds”, thats why they shouldn’t be useful there )

But i had already made it. Why should i loose they playstyle i like when i come to a location that i like / i need? =) Why should i return to place where i was month ago (by in-game progress, if you understand clearly what i mean).

Teevell.1684:

So yeah, if a level 80 warrior in ascended is getting wrecked by a level 11 mob, that’s a l2p issue. A new patch, especially one this big, means people have to adjust.

If im not mistaken, he said about elite mob. And yes, warriors could be killed by gold elite easily before prepatch, i dont even want to check how is it now. But anyway.
Bro, this DS breaks builds. This DS breaks your gear. Why the hell i spent hundreds of gold for ascended items? To see them DS to green items? I could just by 3silver green crap from TP and go to low lvl locations in it. If you do downscale – dont make it break builds working on lvl 80 that i already used alot. If i made ascended – i want ascended. Make it scaling to ascended stats. Rare stats. Exo stats. Not god kitten green crap.

DragonicTerror.6412:

Thieves have the lowest HP pool so I don’t see why so many people are disgruntled. Everyone wants to be downleveled but still be super powerful. Yeah I lose my ascended stats to Masterwork since that’s the HIGHEST TIER FOR THAT LEVEL

That’s the point, man. Why would i play as my high lvl char then? I would rather create new one and just not waste my time. Make a profit from it. When i got to low lvl location with my main character, i want everything to be fast, but not so furious. Instead i have just good-looking character of exactly that level with exactly that gear. And by the way, you have green analog. When i was lvling my alt, i always bought him rare weapons. So, now its maby that lvl 80 will be even weaker in some situation. This reqire testing ofcourse, but sounds fair right now to me imo.

The point of that system is not to god kitten make highlvl characters equal to lowlvl. The point is to make them be able to help lowlvl players without lowlvl ones feel too slow/squishy/weak.

It must bring the feeling that “yes, i remember that times, but hey, i dont really want them back. WTF i grinded all my asc/exo gear? For what? To be killed by some bronze elite in 1-15 area?” (im actually exaggerating, but srsly, not THAT much).

I made some actual in-game research – killed 10 mobs in Orr locations (wihtout downscaling) and in Sparkly Fen (with DS to lvl 68). With Rapid fire and self-might-buffs (6 might, actually, pet+SotP) mobs in Orr got ~80% (-5%) hp damage from my skill. In Sparkly Fen mobs got ~50% (-10%) damage. We can see from it that actually character is twice weaker in lowlvl location then it must be. That’s why how this system got broken as hell. Not by numbers/etc.

The perfect desision IMO is to just lower the Power attribute (and i think it was, but im not sure). The thing is – there are two types of actually working builds now – crit ones and condition ones. To EVERY critical-based build in location before lvl 30 you can say bye-byeeeeeeeeeeeeee right now. Condition builds dont work cuz… You know… you have NO condition damage at all! That’s about some sigils also. Stacking sigils had some minimum before (5 per stack, if im not mistaking), now in 1-15 area you have no actual attribute if you have 25 stacks. Well, okey, you have 3 power from power stacking sigil. Yeah, right.

Therefore, Spotter trait works perfect because he gives that 7% crit chance no matter in what location you are now. And that’s where you can understand that some thing works good. The other works not good. Third arent working at all and all other were cut off and forgotten to bring them back.

I have my build working in fractals/dungeons and god kitten , i do want it to work in some lowlvl location, dont you think that?

Sorry for my mistakes here, english isnt my native language =)