Guild Wars 2

Nicely done, i wasn’t sure how it would sound but you pulled it off nicely.

Have to agree regarding you getting an unbreakable bell (so long as more music comes our way :P).

I fully unstand why you feel a bit cheated (despite not being affected myself).

The cogs have a value of 2 silver per 200 and are now of no use to you (as you have all the pets), the gems wasted (due to the fact the free cogs could have been used instead) would have been worth over 5 gold.

Both my asura are clutural only.

Guardian full Tier 2 armor (i like it the best) with all T3 Staff, GS, Hammer, Mace, Shield, Focus and Scepter (i’ll be getting the Sword when i’m done with my elemental).

Not posting the elemental until he’s done (just has all the Teir 1 and 2 clutural armor – no weapons yet).

Zimlobo.3962:

Princess because I find it terrifying. I don’t feel like she’s fallowing me so much as I’m running from her.

That made me chuckle, and i do agree she is kinda freaky looking.

The Toy Golem, even though it’s pretty poor looking compaired to the other mini robots, i rate it the best toy simply because my Asura loves mini robots.

In saying that, the griffon is a new level of cute and is just far to distracting to have around.

I love it so much, it’s great and far nice than them boring Quaggans (i really don’t like them), i just wish they could fix the follow speed so it stays beside/near me.

Still not as good as the mini robots though, as an Asuara i will always place my robot pets over any other pet.

Is it?, aww i’ll never get those 27 points required for that.

/crying.

Am i the only 1 who would love this item?, as soon as i saw Toxx i just though “ohh yes, a Mini Red PK 632Z would be awesome!”.

As an Asura i only have the Asura based items (all things cultural) and the Mini Robots, so i would love (and i mean with cuddles and everything!) a Mini Toxx.

You know you wanna add it!, and you know we Asura would be greatful and perhaps even allow you into our elite club (such an honor!).

elderan.2638:

I’m confused, doesn’t the recipe require an ecto? How exactly does this net you ectos?

The main item that was part of the main build required 1 ecto, after this all that was needed was mithril. With each salvage you got back the main item and as such after the 1st salavge all that was required from then on was mithril.

Simply put, you only needed 1 ecto to get you started.

PS.
I haven’t done it at all, i just read up on how it was done.

Yeah, this should be a top priority bug that needs to be fixed ASAP – these are actual weapon attacks on a class with few weapon choices.

If your within range of a target it SHOULD hit the target.

I had not really noticed how bad this was until the wintersday events started (granted i was away from the ele for some time), it’s impossible to hit the turrets in the WD dungeon event using dagger 1.

Shouldn’t a main attack skill not hitting be top priority?, more so on a class with limited weapons.

This neeeds a wider arch or something – it’s not right when you are within range and have the target dead ahead that you can miss loads when you should clearly be hitting.

It’s not the bunker that’s the issue, it’s the way the game type is setup.

Simply put, the way in which the capture system is designed is wrong, it needs to be changed so if you have more players than the other team on the point – you start capping the point.

Constantly nerfing a build will not fix the issue, adjusting the capture system will.

It’s almost like 2 people are working on fixes but not talking to each other (i’m not saying that is what happens, just that it looks like it when things like this happen with no explanation as to why).

Basically it’s like 1 person decides to buff the duration because of the buff/heal AOE nerf but doesn’t put it in correctly and as such only the tooltip gets changed. Next month the other person notices that the duration doesn’t match the tooltip for some reason so edits the tooltip to match the duration as a fix – when the actual fix was ment to be the duration to be increased to match the tooltip as per the previous month.

It’s a very strange one indeed, i would really love to know why and how this happened.

What disapoints me is, each day the chain gets longer and harder and each day the chest at the end gets less and less of a reward.

After today in the chest i got a single present and a star, on the 1st run.

The zone is simply a daily farmable ore node, that’s it. I go once every day on my mains to do the rich node and leave – there is nothing worth hanging around for as the drops aren’t good enough.

I don’t think it’s your imagination (i noticed this aswell) – i use a shout build aswell (SY, HtL and SyG) and am indeed getting less of a heal when i use them.

About the same (4 times total – 3 yesterday 1 today), unlike the mad king “dungeon” these are simply not worth doing over and over due to the very harsh DR that kicks in after 1 run.

Basically after 1 run the reward is not worth the time it takes to do the event chain, i can get the reward from the chest by opening 1 world present box.

Am i the only one who finds the toys no issue at all?, i can solo them on my guardian and elemental quite easily.

ref.8196:

AH was OP. It was nerfed. Makes sense to me.

I think most would agree with this, AH was OP with VP the way it was and it did need a nerf. However they went way overboard with how much they nerfed it (which seems to happen a lot) – and that’s the issue.

They could have simply tried a slight adjustment like 2 seconds or even 2.5 seconds BUT nope, they went strait to 5 seconds.

This is another one of these to much/to little changes Anet seem to like to do to Guardians.

Like SoW changed from 10 seconds to 20 seconds then changed to add 10% extra damage to make up for it, AOE healing/buffing from unlimted to 5 then being given an extra 2 seconds of might on empower to make up for it (which we never actully got and now is removed), and now AH from 1to5 vigar heal/s every second (if you crit every second) to 1to5 vigar heal/s every 5 seconds.

I’d be ok with it if it was perhaps 2 seconds of vigar on a 2 second cooldown (even 2.5 seconds), but alas i’m getting used to how we get these changes (and why i seem to be playing my Guardian less and less).

It seems to be a random amount, i did it and didn’t get 1 minute of fury, i got like 30 seconds of it.

It’s kinda disheartening to read patch notes that “fix” loot for fractals/dungeons and add even more variety to the drops aswell – and not see one thing even mentioned regarding openworld loot. Just read under fractals/dungeons and look at all the loot changes and well, it’s kinda clear where we are now ment to go for loot.

I mean there isn’t even a fix to the champion/boss drops in openworld.

God no, after mad king i will never buy keys again – not even for gold due to the current conversion rate.

PowerCat.5738:

I posted about this thread in the “live response team” post, and it quickly got deleted:

http://i.imgur.com/Y1uTh.jpg

Looks like they’re starting to suppress this.

Yeah i noticed that, it was apparantly considered flaming and disrespectful (that’s what the final closing thread post states). I don’t quite see how it was either of those things as it was a statement about a bug (the champion loot), an issue (the loot rate in the rest of the game) and a request for a red response (the link to here) – it certainly isn’t what i would call a rude post either (blunt perhaps, but not rude).

Anyways, the patch tomorrow will be a deciding factor for me, i haven’t really played at all in the past 2 weeks due to this issue and am close to giving up out right.

There are loads of awards for GOTY over various sites and as such games can easily advertise themselfs as being number 1/GOTY if any of them give the game the award.

Take GW2, Time magazine voted GW2 as GOTY and as such GW2 can now advertise itself as GOTY/No 1 RPG of the year, this is despite the fact that Time isn’t really something that most gamers would even look at for gaming advice.

Now i’m not saying GW2 should or should not win a GOTY, i’m jut pointing out that it’s actully possible for loads of games to advertise themselfs as No 1 because so many places give out awards for it.

What should be done is quite simple and all GOTY games should do this.

Get the #1 RPG of 2012 as voted for by Time magazine & PC Gamer

Change “Time magazine/PC Gamer” to whoever gave the award.

This seems to have only started happening for me – i swear it wasn’t like this before.

Below is a picture of a forum thread i just opened – look at how wide the name area is, i’m almost certain it wasn’t like this a few days ago and it is like this on all my browsers (IE9, FF, Chrome).

Yeah compaired to a standard mmo mage type they really aren’t hard at all, i mean in Rift on my mage i had full bars of stuff to manage (it really wasn’t a macro friendly class/build).

However as Hekmatyar states, in this game they’re harder to play than nearly all other classes just because there is more to manage – but it’s a case of really easy (other classes) VS just easy (elementalist) .

I get this all the time on my Guardian and it’s actully gotten me killed quite a few times (when i haven’t had a weapon/skill available with a means to break it) – due to this it’s one of the reasons i always keep a GS on hand so i can leap out of it.

I do wish this one would be fixed and soon.

Gaile Gray.6028:

I just sent over a bunch of names. We have several people looking at this from various angles. Be assured we are on the case. It’s Friday, nearly mid-day, and I can’t make you any sort of promise that we’ll get this sorted today. But please, please know we are actively reviewing this, and I truly believe that those of you who qualify will get your chests!

Thanks, once again, for your patience.

You’ve sent over a bunch of names?, is that names for people to be sent a chest?.

Anyways, it’s fine if it’s not sorted today and if it isn’t – have a good weekend.

Gaile Gray.6028:

I wanted to add a note: I don’t see how it is possible — given the coding for the distribution — that someone who did not log into the event at all would have received a chest in yesterday’s distribution. Maybe they forgot they logged in, but the way the distribution was configured persuades me that they did attend and that it why they received the chest.

Let’s be sure we don’t get into “I know a guy who…” discussions, but keep the topic ON topic and relevant to the discussion. If there is an issue, we’ll fix it!

Hi Gaile, thanks for your responses but i have a question relating to this.

As the script was ment to be that all who earned a chest was supposed to get one, how come some people who already looted the initial chest (in some cases more than once via overflows) got sent an extra one? – was this not ment to happen?.

Now for me it’s not a case of me knowing a guy etc, it’s been posted quite a lot from people all over the forum. If this wasn’t ment to happen, will the people who got a mail when they shouldn’t have be required to perhaps delete/refund the extra loot etc? or will it be a case of certain people simply having extra bonus loot over others?.

Manasa Devi.7958:

I’d really like to know what the criteria for qualifying are.

I can’t help feeling it involves happenstance and randomness, judging from what I’ve been reading and hearing.

Yeah i’d like to know aswell, it just seems so strange that people who managed to loot the chest in the 1st place (and in some cases more than once via overflow) somehow did meat the criteria for a chest.

Unspecified.9142:

You were only supposed to be able to do the event ONCE. Period. I’ll translate what you said accordingly:

“I found and tried to abuse the heck out of an exploit to get the chest multiple times. Unfortunately connection issues prevented me from getting rewarded for my exploiting. I should be compensated for my failed exploitation attempts.”

Do you see the problem?

Wrong, Anet confirmed back then that it wass perfectly fine to do the event again if you could get onto other servers that had it running – even if you had already finished it and had looted the chest.

It was said quite clearly it wasn’t an exploit after people asked for the exploiters to be punished.

Higante.8429:

I got the Karka chest 2 times during the event through overflow travelling. Was going through my third on my necro before Anet switched off the event. Since she technically DC’d when the event was switched off… I guess that counted?

Thanks Anet for giving me a third box today… will come in handy for future alts.

If this is true then i should get 2 extra as i DCed from 2 but managed to loot a chest on the 3rd, but alas i bet i won’t any (i’ve had the worst luck with things in this game)

However, i’m now wondering seeing as a few people are saying they’ve gotten a chest even though they’ve looted one already, are they simply sending everyone in the game a free chest?.

Pray For Kosmos.5849:

Just got the chest. I never participated in the event. Anet should give everyone in the entire game a chest now.

I was so hoping this wouldn’t happen, i’m guessing it’s easier to just send chests to all who didn’t loot it in the 1st place than it was to filter out all the people that did the chain and didn’t loot it.

Ahh well, at least people who did the chain and didn’t get to loot it got their reward, it’s just a shame some people will likely have a chance at major loot for doing nothing at all.

I’ll say thanks for fixing it for those that deserved the reward.

Confirmed, mist form does indeed remove weapon stats, and as before (with the trait bug) if you happen to have a vitality based weapon you can loose a load of health because of it.

Loosing things like precision, toughness, power and crit damage etc is fine as in mist form these do nothing, but loosing vitality and/or healing power is quite an issue just like the trait loss was.

Be sure to create a bug thread in the games bug section, this to needs to be fixed ASAP.

Fishbait.6723:

Still bugged, thought they patched this?

Nope that just fixed a crash issue and the jumping.

Whats worrying though is a post in the elemental section regarding a similar issue (mist form not working with 20% cooldown reduction) is that it was stated a new build won’t be put out until the 14th at the latest, yet in another post it read as though a fix for this would go out today.

So i wonder, is a fix coming today or do we have to wait until the 14th at the latest?.

JonPeters.5630:

Yeah, thanks for this report I put in a fix for this a few minutes ago that will go live as soon as we have a build that pushes content. 12/14 at the latest.

Jon

Wait, does this mean the new transform trait issue (the one that drops health etc) will likely not be fixed until around the same time?.

Yeah still bugged in PvE and WvW, this is a really weird issue because there is a fix that works as they have it in sPvP.

I wonder why they can make it work in 1 aspect of the game but not the othes?.

So was this fixed in the update 4 hour ago?, it mentions the crash aspect of the issue some reported but states nothing on the trait loss.

I can’t test it right now.

Nemui.6753:

what’s that health/trait issue?

Using transform skills like RTL, Mist Form etc wipe out all traits and trait points, meaning when used you can loose up to 3000 health/300 toughness etc (and any offensive boosts like crit chance/damage etc).

cznrhubarb.5946:

So I assume this also means that RtL does less damage for those of us traited in Fire or Air?

I didn’t even think of this, i was focused on the health/defense loss and forgot about the actual hit.

henry.1420:

100% agree. Given the many things that are broken because of the patch, totally should revert it.

I have to agree, with this and the transform health/trait issue it needs to be reverted if a hotfix that fixes these can’t be put out within a couple of hours.

Yeah it seems to be transforms only from what i can tell.

It’s made mist form (for example) even worse to take as in PvE and WvW it already wiped out the 20% cantrap cooldown reduction (the 20% reduction currently only works in sPvP). With this isuse it now wipes out up to (i’ll list defensives only) 3000 health, 300 toughness, any traited regens (up to 300 healing on top of this) and 20% cantrap cooldown reduction.

Basically some skills are now death traps at lowish health (3000 or less) in a lot of situations with this issue.

@ Master Age, yeah just testing this and you are right it affects any transform skill.

This means on my D/D elemental i have 2 skills that can kill me if i use them (RTL/Mist Form).

This needs to be hotfixed ASAP, now way should any skill take up to 3000 health off someone (and 300 toughness if traited) and actully have a chance to kill the user.

There is a serious bug with the elemental “ride the lightning” skill (and it seems any transform skills).
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When used they wipe out all traits you have and all trait points spent, this means if you have 30 points in water (if an elemental) then using a transform skill (RTL, Mist form etc) it will take away 3000 health from you (same thing for any other traits aswell). Because of this you can possibly kill yourself when you are at low health and use a transform skill, also it gives enemys an easier chance to kill you because you instantly loose up to 3000 health and any other traits.

I’ve posted this here as i assume this must be a bug and this is the game bugs section.
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Edit.
This seems to be even worse as it seems to be any and all transform skills, as such i’ve edit the title and thread – it was originally just about RTL.

Master Age.7391:

The bug topic was deleted

I know, i just got the PM from a mod telling me i’m not allowed to post it as it was a cross post (because i linked this thread).

As such i’ve made a new thread that doesn’t link this thread as stated it’s a bug report and not a cross post.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Transform-skills-health-bug-3-12-12

If this was intentional, then it’s a shocking (no pun intended) change to say the least.

I mean we now have a skill that can actully kill ourself when we use it, or actully help an enemy kill us easier.

Please post in the bug thread i made.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Transform-skills-health-bug-3-12-12

If we can down ourselfs then this needs reverted ASAP. Well it needs reverting anyways, but this is a very seriuos issue if we can now kill ourselfs by using a skill.

Ohh happy days, it’s great that there will be an option to remove all colors.

I’ve wanted that since day 1.

Then as said, it needs a hotfix ASAP – it’s a pretty serious bug that a players own skill will knock a load of health off for it’s duration. Anyone who happnes to attack you while you use it is getting a free massive hit.