Guild Wars 2

Hello:)

As the others said take it easy, the first legendary can be quite exhausting and even confusing at times.
But I’d say that you should go for a Vanilla legendary first as the hot ones take a lot longer to aquire.
Predator costs about 2100 gold to make while H.O.P.E requires almost 1k more gold to make. (3090g)
Also one of the things I have found to help a lot is to farm nodes while you do map completion, for the base mats that will be needed:) You also get some mats while farming wvw for gift of battle, when taking castles.
Finding a farm guild that does farm trains will also help a lot.
And setting up an account on gw2 efficiency and linking your account to it, makes everything much easier to keep track off, as it can see everything in your bags and bank, so you will slowly but steadily see the required gold become lower and lower:)
And lastly my first legendary took me around 3 months, while the last one I did took around 3 weeks. So it’s all about taking it slow and use the techniques you learn from the first one on the second one when you reach that goal:) It’s all trial and error really^^
Hope you could use the tips and gl on your legendary hunt:D!

And don’t fall into the mystic toilet unless you have very thick skin
Rye

Hello world:)

I would like to ask some of the revenant mains/experienced what they think about the new elite spec from paper.
I am asking because I am returning from a relatively long break and I want to find a class whose new new elite spec I would enjoy playing.
I am kinda reluctant to play it as even though I love the skills from what I could gather then at the moment revenant’s rotation in pve consists mostly of keeping the facets up and using ability one (with a few number two sometimes).
I know that the test weekend is coming up soon, but though I might get a feel for the class I am sure I wouldn’t be able to figure out a rotation or how to optimize it like some of you have played it for long.
So my question is do you think that Renegade is gonna give Revenant some more meat to it in the rotation department or will it most likely end up still having a simple rotation will focusing more on maintaining its niche?

Other classes I am thinking of maining could be Mesmer or warrior (though I am not really a pvp guy and from what I could gather Warrior is most likely not gonna be that favored in pve).

Looking forward to your reading your thoughts and opinions:)

Rye~~

Same here and it’s still there at the level 10 part of the story instance (picture is from the lvl 10 story).

:(

-Agony Infusions Fills in the bank even though it is used as a form of crafting mat/currency for upgrading.

-Tenebrous Crystal Crafting mat that is just filling up in the bank.

-Bricks of Clay another mat that is filling my bank.

-Mystic Forge Stones Also a form for “mat”.

-Blade Shards also just is in my bank taking up space.

-Philosopher stone I promote a lot so I buy big bulks but I delete them when I am done if there are any left, because I don’t want them wasting space. Would be nice to have them in the material storage as accidently pressing the deposit all materials would have no extra negativ effect as the mats I was using would also just go into the bank anyway.

-Black Lion Chest just clogs up my inventory

-Amalgamated Gemstone When I do my guild farms I am always afraid I might accidentally sell them as I cannot press “deposit material” and it would just be nice.

-Mystic Crystal same as with Philosopher stone.

-Milling Basins expensive and they fill my bags/bank in an unnecessary way.

-Writ of Experience Gotta wait until I have 20 to even use anyway.

-Tome of Knowledge Gotta wait until my credit card is full so I can buy new character slots anyway.

Dara~~

Thank you so much guys!
Thank you for listening to our small voices<3

Rye~~

Btw for anyone saying they are trying to get you to stop playing for awhile:

You have to be online for 30 min on the character, your DR won’t go away by being offline, so you are not playing less you actually end up playing more

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I don’t think ANet is being paternalistic. I think they have set up a system to protect us from the economic harm caused by bots and we have simply become too efficient at farming the lab. It’s entirely possible that they changed nothing and we are just better at defeating the bosses and collecting loot. It’s possible, therefore, that we are running into DR much sooner than ANet expected regular people to do.

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A couple of people have asked ANet to offer more details about how DR works. ANet isn’t likely to do that, because it undermines their anti-botting efforts. (And it would also undermine any attempt to protect us from our own selves.)

DR works best if it’s mysterious, making it harder for bots to work-around and easier to identify accounts that found a programmatic way to avoid it (something us regular players wouldn’t be able to so).

As I stated earlier in the post, it doesn’t stop anyone, it’s only interrupting legitimate players from farming the way they like.
They should use another way of protecting the economy not using DR that is a DRM clone.

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Also the game emphasise so much on farm, so for it to have something that block that farm is just not viable. Everything in the game requires you to farm for hours, you ca’t have blocks like this in a game that focuses on you farming for hours.

Razor.9872:

Make Rye Known.6273:

Razor.9872:

Does anyone know when DR goes away for a character?

Like, say I run around on my Dragonhunter for an hour, I get DR, and I swap to anther character. How long do I have to wait for my Dragonhunter’s DR to go away?

You have to play on the character in Tyria for it to go away:(

Well, I know that. But for how long do I have to play that character? If that new character I’m playing on starts getting DR, can I go back to playing my Dragonhunter? Or will he still have DR too?

You need to be there for around 30 min and it is character based so you every char that has DR needs to be somewhere else for around 30 min each, it does not get removed from logging off.

I went to bed and woke up around 10 hours later and my chars still had DR:3

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

Make Rye Known.6273:

Also the link wallaby posted is not official>-< the wiki is just people like you and me, so most of it is just speculation:P Anet doesn’t want us too know how it works:s

True, but even anecdotal info can be useful to an extent.

The thing I’m most curious about is if the Clocktower or Ascent can wipe away the DR from Lab…

~EW

Ofc, didn’t mean it to discredit you:) It was good that you linked it ^^ I said it mostly to show how little information Anet have given on the subject:P

But I think Ascent wipes it, a lot of people from my guild are doing those in between, you might just need to be on a map that is not the one you have DR on:b

LadySwan.8751:

I agree though Make Rye Known, they should list this somewhere for people to learn more about. (aside from the link wallaby posted! Though that helps some)

Thank you:) Also the link wallaby posted is not official>-< the wiki is just people like you and me, so most of it is just speculation:P Anet doesn’t want us too know how it works:s

LadySwan.8751:

I’m not entirely sure how DR works but I can say after farmin the event yesterday like crazy, then takin a good few hour break. I’m talkin close to ten plus hours of break time and logging off livin rl and what not, I came back to bad drops. DR was still havin its affects on me and pretty badly if I do say so ..I was only getting Karma and Copper from doors at this point. So I asked around and people said to switch or do other events. So i switched charas to one that’s never been in the lab this year and STILL, just karma and copper from doors and only mobs were dropping treat bags for me and not a lot after a good while of playin.
I’m currently logged and waiting til reset as i heard that can reset the cap on it. Hopefully it does..

Anyone else have an experience like this??

Think of DR like this:

It affects one character at a time, so you can log onto your other characters to bypass it until you don’t have anymore characters not hit by DR.

But to use a character again that has been hit by DR you have to be logged in on that character while doing something else for around half an hour before the DR is removed, logging out does not remove DR.

So if you have 5 characters that are hit by DR, everyone of those characters need to be logged in and doing something else for half an hour each.

just a note; If anet really wants people to be restricted by this, atleast make this information available to players, it’s disgusting buisness practice.

And it is a big deal. The game is built on you farming large amounts of items to reach your goals.

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It’s like saying "I shouldn’t eat candy because it’s not healthy for me*
I want to decide whether I want eat that candy or not.
(sorry about the rage but comments like that kittenes me off it is just reaching for something to sustain your idea that everything is okay).

penelopehannibal.8947:

If DR hits after 1 hour, isn’t that a good thing considering we’re actually meant to be taking a 5-10 minute break from computer games for every hour we play? All you kind of have to do to reset DR is log off and back on again really, or change character. It’s not that big a deal.

I should have the abillity to decide when I want to spend my time playing, the game shouldn’t dictate my game time e.e

and DR doesn’t get removed by going offline, you have to be ingame for it to go off.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Make Rye Known.6273:

Okay guys let’s just get this out of the way..
Fact: DR does lower the amount of ToT bags dropped from mobs significantly after around an hour of play (it’s around the same time the exotic bags stop dropping from boss mobs).

It’s not clear that this is happening to everyone after an hour. What if DR is exactly the same and based not on time but on number of identical mobs tagged within a period of time within a particular map area?

This year, nearly everyone has specializations, there is much more community awareness how to tag efficiently, a few people know how to CC quickly, and the zerg races around nearly as quickly as the game would allow if there were no mobs. That means: we defeat the used-to-be-tough bosses more quickly and more people are able to tag more foes in more events more often.

Further, more of us have true autolooting this year compared to last and we all have salvage-all, so managing inventory is also much, much more efficient.

In other words, some of us hit DR more quickly because we’re actually farming much more efficiently than in past years. And DR has always been designed to put a cap on how quickly people can inhale resources from the aether, since it’s primarily an anti-botting tool.

In other words, what if ANet didn’t change a thing; we’re just a lot faster than we were before?

Regardless, there remain easy work-arounds:

• Swap characters.
• Leave the zone to clear bags out and do something else for 5-15 min.

You’ll still end up earning around a stack of ToTs per hour, just not 1.5 stacks/hour. That’s still 12.5 gold/hour from ToTs alone at the end of the festival (when prices will probably be ~5s/bag) and worth up to 50g/hour if you sell in 9-11 months

Yes, but if you can work around it like that, why even have it? Last years lab was just as bad.

There has been no new content other than lab which DR could interfere with in the same way (as far as I am aware), until Bloodstone Fen came out and there Cleric farm works the same way with DR and it does nothing to stop people from farming it just makes the experience more annoying. (Because of ML and how the new event maps were set up DR haven’t really been a factor)

DR is the same as DRM trying to interfere with Pirate downloads, it does not work. It’s the same way, it restricts legitimate players/costumers, because of illigal activity but it does nothing to those people doing illigal things, sure it might delay them a bit, but they will work around it.

It’s just worse with DR because here the price actually goes up on the item being farmed because it can put people off doing the content and therefore the loss the Bot owners/gold sellers would have taken, from taking a break because of the DR, is nulled.

So what I am trying to say is; It interferes with the legitimate player trying to have a Whole Experience without that experience being all chuncky, as going afk for 15 min in LA andchanging character does (why would you restrict people from playing their main?) and all these impeding mechanics, for what? Going after the bad guy by burning the whole city to the ground?
Be it an hour or 3 hours, DR, it’s just a bad game philosophy.

I would rather have them actually try to counter the goldsellers, than having a system that hurts legitimate players.

Okay guys let’s just get this out of the way..
Fact: DR does lower the amount of ToT bags dropped from mobs significantly after around an hour of play (it’s around the same time the exotic bags stop dropping from boss mobs).
Just try and go into Lab with a character that has not been in lab and see how the loot drops a lot more than on your other chars and then see how it drastically becomes less and less
Also waiting for DR to disapear makes your really sour when you are using magic find booster and a third of it is wasted just waiting in LA or doing small events.

So people please stop defending DR as if it’s good it is not. It makes the gameplay and farm less enjoyable.
I love the game but when Anet does something that is horrendously stupid, I won’t just go “Oh but it’s okay because you can just go do events or wait in LA to reset” that is just dumb excuses people make to justify Anets actions.. You don’t make good gameplay by limiting people from doing what they like to do.
Don’t be a sheep.

Razor.9872:

Does anyone know when DR goes away for a character?

Like, say I run around on my Dragonhunter for an hour, I get DR, and I swap to anther character. How long do I have to wait for my Dragonhunter’s DR to go away?

You have to play on the character in Tyria for it to go away:(

JmoolZZ.6251:

mtpelion.4562:

Excelvior.8520:

Eval.2371:

Thanks for taking the n out of fun for holidays.

epic!
guys I experience DR after half an hour in the maze. It’s not that hard to see it. Check the karma you get from the door events. Trust me, the XP and the loot is also diminished. First door event (with multi-mobs) you may get 30 bags, 15th door you will get 5 bags for the same amount of mobs. It is really a pity having to change toon for something like that. Oh well, we’ll survive, I surely don’t expect changes right now.

Event DR (for Karma and XP) is a completely separate and wholly unrelated system from mob loot drop DR.

I agree. I farmed for 4 hours straight yesterday and never swapped characters, the only DR I saw was less karma and experience. It didn’t affect the bags I was getting, or the drops from enemies. DR effects map/event rewards. But if you’re getting ToT bag drops from enemies along the way as well as the doors it’s hardly noticeable.

In those 4 hours I still made 5 stacks of ToT bags. Again, it only affects karma and exp, the change to drop rate if there is one, is hardly noticeable.

That sounds weird:s
DR on loot and DR on events are separate though.

Btw I farmed around 12 hours yesterday, having to change char around every hour or go do events on the char with DR.

SkyShroud.2865:

DR is meant for bot and “exploits”…..but I am a legit player T_T

And that there is the exact problem; It punishes the many because of the few and it is a cheap and lazy way to counter Bot problems and exploits.

PyrateSilly.4710:

DR has been around for a while, including there. Play for a while there then go do an event somewhere else then back to the Lab. Doing that also gives me time to clean out my bags and clean them up without getting killed in the Lab.

Just because it’s been around for “awhile” does not make it a good thing e.e and fine that you want time to clean your bags, but having DR or not does not change anything for you cleaning your bags and porting out.

Also last year was the first time DR was in lab.

“Since DR resets when you do other stuff elsewhere, then it seems that those who enjoy AB/ML will find it the perfect way to reset Labyrinth DR….

~EW"

That’s kind of my problem with DR, it’s not something that can 100% impare your farm, but in the end it just really makes the game feel chuncky and annoying.

Someone in my guild said you can get dr off if you farm 20 to 30 min in tyria before you go back into lab, worth a shot I guess

maxwelgm.4315:

Diminishing returns make sense for the game as a whole, but during festival activities? Hell no, this is the little time we have to play them. I took a week off to play SAB and it was worth every minute; we won’t see it again for a whole year, so why keep the loot at bay?

I agree that it makes sense, but it’s still too extreme a 3 hours period would be fine but 1 hours is just too kitten low:(
And I am on my 4th or 5th char now, I feel sorry for the people that wanted to farm but don’t have 13 lvl 80 available:s

I have played for around 1 hour in lab and already loot has stopped dropping, really anet? Deminishing returns are bad enough as a concept but really? an hour? Stop trying to be my mom and let me enjouy the godkitten game as I like.
If you don’t want to flood the market or something, find another way than limiting our playtime, this is godkitten stupid.

@Danikat, that would be sad if they can’t:( But sending it in the mail with info about the event could also be smart.
@DeanBB, I guess they could see how many of them sold and then donate the cash amount equal to the amount sold, as the gold to gem is still money earned:b

Hello everyone:)
So with Pink day in LA coming up on 22 of October and with its focus on cancer, I thought of an idea for next years Pink Day in LA (since it’s a bit late now).
Everyone likes backpacks and they are one of the things that stand out the most in-game.
The fight against cancer has the symbol of a pink ribbon, so I thought it could be amazing if Arena-net made a big Pink Ribbon Backpack (maybe in the style of the Shadow Assassin outfits robes, but more fluffy) and that it would be sold in the Gemstore on Pink Day in LA, where x amount of the money would go to fighting cancer.
Having this in the store would not only get people who might not have intended to donate to participate, but it would also be something that would stand out for the rest of the year and spread awareness about the subject.

If you want to know more about the event coming up head on over to: http://pinkday.gamergivingback.com/

To donate: http://ccssk.convio.net/site/TR?px=1379709&fr_id=2110&pg=personal

And just fyi I have no part in organizing this event, I just got an idea and wanted to share<3

Rye~~

Can we get the Rampart armor back?
And also could we just have the armor sets be there at all times, because it is really annoying when you make transmogs and you happen to be unable to buy the armor set for a piece you need and then have to wait half a year or more.
It might happen for dungeon armor or other things, but then you atleast have the option to actually work towards it and get it within a reasonable time.
It could just have a tap for itself named “armor sets” under the gemstore.
(not talking about outfits)

@PaxTheGreatOne
I think it’s totally fine to use class abilities to do jumping puzzles, because it does not make the jumping easier per say, but completely avoiding any part of the jumping puzzle is kinda what gets me:b
But it’s nice that they have patched it then:3

Omg?! Really?! awesome thank you for the info guys:D

Hey, I was thinking if it would be possible to get a story mode for the raiding content, similar to Arah.
The reason I would like this is that though it is not as big a story gab from living season 1 to season 2 if you didn’t play in 1, it still feels like I am missing parts of the story and it’s just a bit annoying tbh.
It shouldn’t drop loot or anything but just a mode you can go into for the story an take your time.
I am not a raider but I know if I was raiding I wouldn’t be focused on the story, so it could probably also be nice for some of the raiders.

and also what do you guys think about this idea?:3
(sorry if it has been asked before, I haven’t been on the forums for a looooong time).
Rye

I love every single one of them, especially the sword and I am the proud owner of the staff which I steal peoples coats with, on my thief.

Here’s my Thief: http://gw2style.com/look.php?id=8579

My Necromancer: http://gw2style.com/look.php?id=8635

In order of my attachments are:

My Mesmer
My Guardian
My Thief’s Daredevil outfit
My Ranger
My Warrior
And my Elementalist

Hope ya peepz like em!

Captain Unusual.9163:

Has anyone actually confirmed that it comes from the VB meta chain? Last I knew that was pure speculation, and no one had gotten it at all.

It says on the tier bar, that at tier 4 you have a chance at the bladed armor box

Guys the biggest problem is the fact that you can’t get it without having a tier 4 map and even then it is RNG.
Yes my dream scenario is that you could buy it from the vendor.
But the problem is that through my eight hours of farming I only had one chance at rolling the dice, since it is very unlikely that you will get tier 4.
What they could have done was either to make it a 100 % drop rate at tier 4 or just make it so that each tiers increases your chance of getting a box when the timer is up.
You also have to think about that it is not just one time you will have to get the RNG gods on your side, but a whole three times if you want the achievement/armor sets.
And this is not a legendary, it is a piece of equipment on the same level as the Carapace armor set.

I’m all for the fact people have to work for stuff, but this is just out of hand for a piece of exotic armor, from the first map.

Today I’ve spent at least 8 hours doing verdant brink event farms and only one of the maps managed to get tier 4.
Why is it exactly that the Bladed Coat Box is the only one from the set that can not be bought from the vendor? and must instead be acquired through hours of farming, the RNG wall and the tears of the innocent.

So yeah, it would be nice with some “other” hint hint way of acquiring the coat box <3

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Rye, you do realize that the way you just stated it, you do very much care that you “have to wait” to do the new HoT content. It wouldn’t matter if it was due to the xpac being postponed or due to Halloween, look at the way you phrased it. You DO care, and you feel pressured into changing your plans, and it irks you. Thus, the whole initial point of your post calling “poor timing.”

Edit Besides, when they told us it was coming in October, most of us figured Halloween would come right around the same time. We just didn’t figure we’d get anything new (which we were wrong about).

Yes I care that I have to wait?
Not because I couldn’t wait for the release but because I thought I’d be playing hot on those days.
And not all people have played the Halloween events before so not all thought it would be coming out at the same time.

But yeah, sure you know how I feel and I definitely wouldn’t have been happy had they had the release date later.
How can you be so good at reading peoples minds? it’s like you are me!

Basicly:
Don’t get people excited on something a long time before it comes and then drop the bomb that something you have been looking foward too is also gonna be on the same date.
I guess that’s kinda where I wanted this post to go?

Yes I don’t care if I have to wait? I have been looking forward to doing the personal story and play the new content for a long time (I thought I would be able to do it at the date they said) but now I have to do the halloween instead, because why would I want to miss out on rewards that are only there for a certain amount of time?
And I think it’s cool that people have the ability to choose, just say it at the same time, so people plans don’t get kittened.

I don’t think you guys understand what I am getting at, but meh.

Lol. Then you are hearing what you want to hear.
They could either have waited with releasing hot until later or pushed halloween a few days.
What I am annoyed about is the fact that they chose to set the date on the same day as halloween, so now I’ve been waiting for the 23 of october for a long time, and suddenly I have to wait longer instead of just getting a release date later.

It’s just kinda annoying, new content comes out which we have been waiting on for a long time and then we get told that the halloween stuff comes out at release.
Why?
Now I’ll have to wait even longer to play the new content, since I don’t want to miss this limited event -.-
Just seems like bad planning tbh.

Thanks all for the response and answers!:)

Thought I might show mine since there’s been so many pretty sylvaris in this thread uvu

Why is it this face is so popular for Sylvari characters?

It’s not to slam anyone but I just don’t see the appeal and almost every Sylvari I see has it >_< even the Zodiac helm uses it (which makes me a bit sad because I’d like it to change depending on which face I have).

So I’d like to hear the reasons for why people like it and if people feel like I do, what faces do they normally roll uvu?<3

Yes, but that still doesn’t make sense.. Why would they take off items that are potential revenue, before people get the money to buy it.
The whole reason with the announcement of the items going out of store is a normal sales trick to get you to buy it, so why would they remove it before people have the chance to buy it?

Hello

I’d just like to ask why the items are being removed before the month has even ended?
I understand the whole seasonal and such, but I just don’t understand why it would be removed just after a big sale event and just before a large portion of your player base gets their monthly salary?

The reason I ask this is because I had used quite a bit of my money on the anniversary sale, but I needed some of the pieces from the viper armor set (for my asura engineer), so I decided to instead buy the items that would be on sale and then wait until the next month with buying the armor set, but now I won’t be able to.

Just want to know the reasoning behind this choice of date and also hear if it could be extended so it can be bought by people that wanted to buy it at the start of next month.
And also if stuff like this could be announced a bit before the seven days count down.

Yours sincerely
Rye the Known

Narrrz.7532:

Ooh i like the idea of crossbows.
Edit: it’s hard to envision a crossbow as a high attack speed weapon though…

Actually High speed crossbows have been used in China for hundreds of years:3
They where used by the peasants to defend their homes and so the emperor could equip inexperienced soldiers with easy to use weapons.
The bow skill took years to master so it was cheaper and easier to just have a hundred men with small crossbows, instead of soldiers that would have to have been trained since childhood.

Link to youtube video of such a weapon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDeAxTxzorE

For anyone asking about the Blooms, the buff states that as you do more events you will be better rewarded, so I think the people who got 5 blooms where rewarded as if they had only done one event in the 30 minute timer.
Would be nice if we could get some clarification on this though:b <3

actually think it’s supposed to be 5 tokens per event done (from the buff) in the 30 min event:3 but the kitten is bugged e.e

Hello everyone!
So as you probably know the vanilla game has gone free to play, which means more people are going to buy the game and the items in the store which equals more content!
So what I am thinking we should do is either buy some cheap (or expensive) dyes and then go to the different low level areas and ask in the map chat if anyone wants some dyes.
All you’ll have to do is add them to your friendslist (you can delete them afterwards if you want) and then send some dyes in the mail.

So the reason why I want to start this initiative is so we get the new players into the game in a good way and show them how community friendly the playerbase is (this is probably the least toxic gaming community I have ever been a part of).

I also feel it’s a good way to show them how much customization there is in this game, when it comes to gear and the way your character looks
There are a lot of different things we could give them but I feel that colours really is what sets this game a part in terms of looks, so I hope you guys are gonna go show them how awesome the Guild Wars community is and give them a good start

Have a nice day everyone and thanks for reading <3

Rye the Guy out ~~

and you could always just write random stuff in so you don’t know the password=p

#Ardenwolfe

As I wrote earlier it’s not a solution but it puts up a barrier, which at least for people with ADHD makes it a lot less attractive.
And if you are trying to prevent it and you know you have a problem you will most likely try to get someone to help you=p or at least the person should;)

#Crimson Cloud
Thanks for the great advice:D
Think I will try that (y)