Guild Wars 2

Just to add, the downscaling system in gw2 also severely limits the usefulness of ascended gear. In low level areas, ascended gear is equivalent to your exotic variant, which means it offers little advantage to tough PVE bosses like tequatl and triple wurm. PVE areas that make full use of ascended gear are Orr, Arah dungeon, dry top, silverwastes, and of course fractals.

No effect in PvP, and variable effect on wvw depending on your playstyle (roamer vs zerg).

In addition, ascended gears are account bound. In the event that you decided to switch your main, those ascended gears can be repurposed. I did this when I switched from guardian to warrior.

Logged into LA, collect gold from TP, Dced. Repeat every 30 seconds. Ragequitted after being DCed 10 times.

Same here. Most of my guildmates reported that they are suffering from horrible lags.

Khisanth.2948:

Mileinnor.7125:

Zaxares.5419:

Hmm, good point, Mileinnor. But I suppose there does need to be some tradeoff between actually braving the Mordrem in SW to open chests as opposed to just opening them in the safety of your HI.

The trade off is that your home instance chest is mediocre compared to even basic chests in SW (you get Perseverance buff immediately when you enter the area), and you only get one per day. Certainly you shouldn’t need a key to open it?

Well except magic find is mostly a lie …
529% MF and what did I get? Nothing worth mentioning.

Perseverance MF on the chests is not related to your personal MF. It only goes up to 5 stacks max. Compared to zero stacks for the home instance chest. As far as how effective it is, I have no idea – personal mileage may vary according to your own luck. I recommend offering lutefisk to your deity of choice.

Draknar.5748:

I get where people who would rather use keys in SW are coming from. But me personally, sometimes I honestly don’t feel like going to SW, but I will end up in my home instance for the daily gatherer at some point. The chest is now just an extra thing I get to open which, in my mind, is a plus. Sure I could go to SW, use a shovel, and open a potentially more lucrative chest, but meh.

You certainly could. But please keep in mind you still need a key to open it. Sooner or later you will run out of keys and crests and you have to go back to SW to farm them.

Zaxares.5419:

Hmm, good point, Mileinnor. But I suppose there does need to be some tradeoff between actually braving the Mordrem in SW to open chests as opposed to just opening them in the safety of your HI.

The trade off is that your home instance chest is mediocre compared to even basic chests in SW (you get Perseverance buff immediately when you enter the area), and you only get one per day. Certainly you shouldn’t need a key to open it?

This is clearly an oversight from anet. Using up a key for the home instance bandit chest is a loss. Unlike SW, you do not have the Perseverance buff (extra MF) when opening it. You are better off hopping to SW, raise your perseverance level and open them.

Please fix it so it doesn’t require keys thanks.

I use both mawdrey and star of gratitude with my lvl 53 alt. Figured I get to salvage cloth armors for linen. The chance to get a rare or exotic is too rare in my opinion. Anyone got an estimated drop rate for rates and exotics with a lvl 80 character?

I know exactly what is Takina going though. I live in SEA region and latency is always an issue. On good days I can get near perfect scores, but when my ISP decides to be non-cooperative, none of the keys I press will be registered correctly, doesn’t matter if I pressed it earlier, just hitting the ring, or in the circle. Doesn’t work.

The achievement itself is very easy for most players, but if you have latency and/or FPS issues, its a nightmare. Thank your stars for your fast ISP and fast PCs, for some of us do not have the luxury to own either.

Subdue.5479:

Honestly I think the main problem with a.net’s change is that they didn’t rename the dailies. It makes ignorant people unable to distinguish the change in function. Perhaps if a.net just said "we’re cancelling the dailies, and adding, “24 hour challenges!” they would have had a better response.

Agreed. The new system offer far greater rewards than the old system. They should just renamed it to daily challenges instead. The world CHALLENGE should sufficiently draw the distinction between the old ‘simple’ dailies and the new ‘harder(?)’ dailies.

I see his problem. He still has the mindset of the old daily. The new daily is no longer the old daily. There is no longer any reason to do it unless for the AP or the bonus rewards. The new dailies are no longer ‘simple’ because the associated rewards have actually IMPROVED.

Rampage.6489:

Mileinnor.7125:

Rampage.6489:

BlueBoy.1236:

Rampage.6489:

Subdue.5479:

Your ignorance is not the fault of the new system.

Thanks for proving my point, your problem is thinking this game and update is only for veterans of the game who played for over a year. That attitude is what is destroying the number (and influx) of players good job, if you keep this up there wont be a GW2 one year from now.

Are you done with your daily whining quest? Here’s 10AP for you

If you had even the slightest ability to read you’d know I dont even care about AP.

I don’t understand. If you don’t care about the AP, why do you still do it? All the rewards have been moved to the login system. Doing daily now is practically for the 10 AP or the new bonus associated with the new daily system. New daily =/= old daily.

Oh look another idiot who cant read!
Il just repeat it one more time for the real slow ones: A game should be IMPROVING over time and NOT get worse. Is that really too hard to understand for you kids?

That is entirely your own opinion. I personally like the new login+daily system. It is perfect? No, there’s still improvements to be made, but I MUCH prefer it over the old one. And, you don’t have to be rude. Be civil.

Rampage.6489:

BlueBoy.1236:

Rampage.6489:

Subdue.5479:

Your ignorance is not the fault of the new system.

Thanks for proving my point, your problem is thinking this game and update is only for veterans of the game who played for over a year. That attitude is what is destroying the number (and influx) of players good job, if you keep this up there wont be a GW2 one year from now.

Are you done with your daily whining quest? Here’s 10AP for you

If you had even the slightest ability to read you’d know I dont even care about AP.

I don’t understand. If you don’t care about the AP, why do you still do it? All the rewards have been moved to the login system. Doing daily now is practically for the 10 AP or the new bonus associated with the new daily system. New daily =/= old daily.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Yeah, it’s easy to get too many.

I kind of wish we could salvage dark matter for ecto or crystalline dust. Heck, even T5 dust will be fine with me. :P Or merching them.

Or, you can use those globs to make ascended insignias and sell them for 10g profit per 5 globs.

If DR do indeed affect containers, then all data regarding any containers can be thrown out of the window since they are skewed by DR. Someone would have noticed this a long time ago. Like that one guy who opened up 5000 champion loot boxes?

Danikat.8537:

I’ve seen some people say they have over 100 laurels because they have nothing to spend them on. I assume the other options were put in for those people, so they have a choice. Or maybe they just couldn’t decide what to put in the chest.

I have 450 laurels. And I still find the 20 laurel the best option. Not a legendary weapon chaser, so not particularly in demand for obsidian shards.

Seera.5916:

Mileinnor.7125:

For PVE, I have some concerns over the overtly specific tasks such as kill X world boss, because X boss only spawns at a certain time. I would prefer this to be something like kill ANY world boss or kill X or Y or Z world boss.

If the Event completer one was Region instead of Zone, then it would be great. Especially if the Region required was pure RNG so some days the Regions would all land on the same one for at least 3 categories.

I agree. Even better, make the dailies different between players. So you have players in every single map, instead of cramming into just one specific map.

Jski.6180:

Mileinnor.7125:

Jski.6180:

Mileinnor.7125:

Jski, you can never have enough gold. This is Gold Sink Wars 2 man.

GW2 has next to no real gold sink compared to other games lol. Laurels > gold and if all your doing for the 28 day is going after gold i think the +2% gold find is better in the span of 28 days.

Well, I don’t have much experience in other MMO games, but don’t you think all the collection achievements are gold sinks? Black lion weapons are gold sinks. The option to convert gold to gem is a gold sink. Ascended equipments are gold sinks. Legendary weapons are gold sinks. None of these gives any significant advantage over players who do not pursue them.

Though are not true gold sinks because you do not need to spend your gold to get them to play the game. GW2 main gold sink is way points and using the TP (TP taxes.) I am talking about gold sinks that you MUST have gold of some type to keep playing the game “right.” The option gold sinks are just that you can chose to use them or not and not be better or worst off for the most part.

Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation. I wonder why did they remove the repair fees?

My two cents:

For PVE, I have some concerns over the overtly specific tasks such as kill X world boss, because X boss only spawns at a certain time. I would prefer this to be something like kill ANY world boss or kill X or Y or Z world boss.

For PvP, win a match with X profession is not a good idea. Your match is going to overloaded with X profession. 5 vs 5 decap engineers! Allow some leeway like win with 4 random professions instead.

For WvW, do we really need the extra badges of honors? Can we get something else? like traps, blueprints, wvw food, ascended mats, bag of loot maybe?

Jski.6180:

Mileinnor.7125:

Jski, you can never have enough gold. This is Gold Sink Wars 2 man.

GW2 has next to no real gold sink compared to other games lol. Laurels > gold and if all your doing for the 28 day is going after gold i think the +2% gold find is better in the span of 28 days.

Well, I don’t have much experience in other MMO games, but don’t you think all the collection achievements are gold sinks? Black lion weapons are gold sinks. The option to convert gold to gem is a gold sink. Ascended equipments are gold sinks. Legendary weapons are gold sinks. None of these gives any significant advantage over players who do not pursue them.

And I thought the 3 week time gate for Mawdrey was bad. ONE year time gate if you miss Wintersday? XD

Jski, you can never have enough gold. This is Gold Sink Wars 2 man.

1 laurel on the second day of first week, 2 laurels on the second day of the second week, 3 laurels on the second day of third week, 4 laurels on the second day of fourth week, and then 10 bonus laurel on the 7th day of the first week, 15 bonus laurels on the 7th day of third week, and 20 laurels for the finisher.

I see a pattern there.

Just a question, does this mean that new players would not be able to get the Star of Gratitude once Wintersday ends? At least with Mawdrey you can get all the components even without doing the storyline.

Somewhat unrelated, but is there any reason to not pick the 20 laurels on the 28th day? The other options seems very lackluster and 20 laurels can be exchanged for about 30g in T6 mats. The closest option is to get lucky with vision crystal + 2 damask bolts (29g~).

Old system: In 31 consecutive days you get max 41 laurels.
New system: In 28 consecutive days you get max 55 laurels.

In my humble opinion, the new login system is better.

Got my exotic breather in less than 100 giant wintersday gifts. RNG is being RNG. I don’t think there’s any diminishing returns ever with containers.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Login_rewards
Third time’s the charm.

You can get up to 55 laurels in 28 days just by logging in.

Behellagh.1468:

Mileinnor.7125:

According to the wiki: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Black_Lion_Chest/Drop_rate and this guy: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2dbbbe/1000_black_lion_keys/

Ticket scrap is between 30%-40%, full ticket is ~2%.

Except that was during the time they doubled the odds on scraps and tickets. 20% chance for scraps (1/10th of a ticket), 1% for a whole ticket. So 3 tickets out of every 100 chests ON AVERAGE but not guaranteed. It’s really not very good odds and not worth it if all you are planning to do is sell a skin(s) you get for tickets unless you farmed those keys. It’s cheaper to buy the skins gold wise rather than converting the gold to gems for keys or buying gems for cash and converting them to gold rather than buying keys.

Oh man. That makes it even worse.

According to the wiki: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Black_Lion_Chest/Drop_rate and this guy: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2dbbbe/1000_black_lion_keys/

Ticket scrap is between 30%-40%, full ticket is ~2%.

Just a few minutes ago i was trait-hunting in Dredgehaunt Cliffs, specifically the mini dungeon Forsaken Fortune. This event is relatively unknown to most players, so I activated it and shout out to the map so those wants to explore/get their traits can join me. When we reached the part with levers, I went around and activated all the levers, but that means I am quite a way behind from the door to the last boss, Fleshgrazer. I specifically told the group to wait for me because I needed to kill the boss for my trait. You know what everyone did? They all went and killed the boss without me. And now the boss doesn’t respawn, and I can’t reactivate the event. And then everyone just left without a single word, not even a word of apology or anything.

I’ve been playing this game for nearly 2 years, and this is the first time I am very disappointed in the attitudes of some players. Like what the hell man, can’t you wait 1 minute for me to reach the boss? It’s not easy since the whole place is pitch black with falling rocks.

Also anet, please redesign the trait unlock system. I am NOT enjoying the new system.

Necromancer of course. It raised this year old thread from the grave.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Female-Greatsword-Animation
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/human/Human-female-greatsword
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/human/Human-Female-Greatsword-Stance

The above are several topics on the human female greatsword stance. According to several posters, the human female greatsword stance is the actually a correct practical stance in the real world. Personally, I think it suits for females due to the use of skill rather than brute force.

Hi there, it seems that I have an issue in which the client crashes every few minutes. Below is the crash log:
http://textuploader.com/1cpr

I tried using the -repair command, but it doesn’t work. Any ideas how to fix the problem?

I took pity on him and used my Hallowed Ground, allowing him 12 seconds of immunity from snowball knockdown. But then those bullies started to throw snowballs at ME!

My real name written in reverse. Pretty common name from where I’m from.

Bumping this. 15char

Got a Belladonna of Dreams on my first run. It’s in the last boss chest.

First and foremost, this is entirely my own personal view, which may or may not conform to yours. Also, English is not my first language, so be nice to me

When the first batch of ascended equipment was released, it was the backpiece and rings. There are two ways to get the backpiece on the get go, which is either through the mystic forge or collecting fractal relics. Rings, however, were only available as RNG drop from the jade maw chest at the beginning. Players obviously didn’t like it, thus Anet introduced pristine fractal relics as a currency for it. Later one you could by rings with laurels. Next, when amulets were introduced, they can be obtained by laurels, or by mystic forging the triforge pendant. Soon earrings were introduced, and you the option of buying it with laurels or guild commendations. Finally, Anet enabled wvw laurel vendor that accepts badges. At the present time, there are at least 2 reliable methods of acquisition for each type of ascended trinkets.

In terms of time gating, backpiece does not have any, rings are time gated by pristine relics or laurels, amulets are time gated by laurels, and earrings are time gated by laurels or guild commendations. Now, I am aware of the fact that you are able to receive some of them from bonus chest, but this method is unreliable and no one likes RNG.

Finally, we have ascended weapons, and there is only 1 method of acquisition – crafting. You are time gated by lump of mithrillium and glob of elder wood residue, BUT you are able to buy deldrimor steel and spiritwood planks. Huh? Why would Anet allow that? Assuming that you buy deldrimor steel and spiritwood planks to craft ascended weapons, the limiting material will then be bloodstone dust, dragonite ore and empyreal fragments. Which makes me wonder why time gating mithrillium and elder spirit is even needed. If time gating is used to slow down the progress of hardcore players, wouldn’t it make more sense to timegate the final product, ie the weapon itself? Or make all ascended materials untradeable?

Now for a suggestion, would it be possible to allow the ability to ascend certain named weapons? If triforge pendant can be ascended, I’m sure weapons like Mjolnir and Infinite Light are also good candidates. Allow laurels and/or guild commendations to be traded, albeit at a higher cost, for ascended weapons maybe? This should be in line with the other ascended trinkets – multiple reliable acquisition methods.

I’m fine with time gated content, but time gated + only one method of acquisition makes me sad.

PS: I just realized I misspelled my title. So much for proofreading.

A guildie of mine confirmed that you get those new stat inscription by salvaging exotics that has the corresponding stats. Beware however, that you do not get the inscription 100% of the time.

I think you need the new stat inscriptions. You can get them (with a CHANCE) by salvaging exotics with non craftable stats (like the new Dire stat).

Is there any difference in salvage rate between dungeon exotics, crafted exotics and named exotics? I salvaged 12 dungeon exotic armors just to get 4 globs, but when salvaged 2 named exotics i got 3 globs. I used black lion kit for all.

Salvaged 2 named exotics with black lion kit, got 3 dark matter. I’ve heard from my guild mates that dungeon token exotics have very low drop rate.

You were in LA asking others on how to get to 450, and we all told you the same thing, discover recipes. You actually had to come to the forums to ask the same question?

Since my original thread got locked up, I just want to say that Robert will be missed.

… Looks like I opened a can of worms huh? I won’t get infracted for this right?

Vol, check the “About” section on the left side of the page.

I have no idea. Google isn’t helping much, other than the post in his FB (I assume that’s the real Hrouda’s FB profile and not some impostor.)

I haven’t seen Robert Hrouda posting in the forums for a while now, so I went and search his last post. According to the records, https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/members/Robert-Hrouda-1327/showposts , his last post was on the 10th of August. I then did a quick search on FB to see what he’s been up to, and boy I was surprised. In his profile he has the job title “former Content Designer at Arenanet”, and has posted that on August 20th is the last of his work that will be live on GW2.

So, an important person working for GW2 has just left, and we’re not even informed? Someone please tell me that he’s still working for Arenanet and I’m totally wrong.

I rescind my previous statement. You do get achievement even for failing an event, however according to Dev you need to tag a champion twisted nightmare. Which means I’m at 12/13 and I have no idea which map I’m missing. Throws my invasion note away