Guild Wars 2

“And it’d probably make room for the Queensdale champ runners.

Thoughts?"

Wait? … What? you’re proposing that all those low level player who are using Queensdale (the way it was designed to be used) to level up new characters and play the game should … let me get this straight … go somewhere else and get BLEEP out of your way and let me run my endless, mindless, champ runs in peace?

Here’s an Idea … lets make a server just for champ runners so they can leave the rest of us alone, and while we’re at it make it so once you guest over to this server you can never return to your home server … ever.

The above post is good, but sometimes having someone show you around a bit in game is very helpful, I noticed you post is only a few minutes old so if your on line feel free to hit me up in game and I’ll be happy to give you the dime tour.

Just type /w Nevermore.3820 and If I’m on you’ll get in touch.

Orrmaps.com is correct a few hours after reset, but …. you need to pull down the map list (upper right hand side) for your server and use the maps created by individual players. Do not use the general sever map (the one you get when you click on your sever name from the list on the left hand side), this map seems to be a general time over view of the last few server resets so you can see a pattern develop.

What I do is go up to Frostgorge and find a few nodes for myself (without using Orrmaps) then look at newest maps and see which ones match up best with the nodes I’ve found on my own. If I find one that matches then chances are all the other nodes in Cursed Shore and Malchor’s Leap will match too. If I find that none of the maps are updated I will sometimes find them the old fashion way and make an Orrmap of my own which other can then use.

For example if you were on Crystal Desert I would point you to this map since I have verified that it’s correct: http://www.orrmaps.com/maps/13292

Himei.5379:

Ascended is sooo easy to make, with the only setback is the time gated materials.

the only time gating is for the steel and the wood, both of which can be purchased on the trading post. we should all have more bloodstone dust then we will ever use and the other two are equally easy to get. the time gate in my mind is the time it take to get to 500 but that is also solved by thrown money at it. I’ve seen a number of posts already of peeps with one if not two ascended weapons already.

PS. nice little trick to get the “Star Fragments” I forget there name right now, is simple world chests, all chests that are tucked away out in the world guarded by some random vet give 2 to 4 fragments just like the chests at the end of JP’s. and can be looted by every character in your account. there are 6 in Queensdale alone x5 or 6 characters that’s 100 in about 1 hour without ever living Queensdale.

well just in the OP’s defense there is a deference between RNG that equals a 20% to 30% chance per salvage (roll) and something around 0.005% chance per forge (roll)

I feel the same way, somewhat, I will not use the Mystic Toilet for a precursor if one drops for me then I might look at starting the forging processes or sell it for the precursor I need.

Are dropped Ascended weapons soul bound on pick up? I thought you either got an ascended chest that let you pick your weapon or that dropped weapons were account bound until equipped?

If account bound and even if you had no use for it right now, I’d save it for a new character even if I had to make one that could use it and level it to 80 as some point.

daros.3407:

Prepare 150 – 200g or you have no chance to get to 500. And ofcource you will probably need at least 2 professions so you will need another 150 – 200g for second profession. And ofcourse that will only get you to 500 you still need to farm tons of materials to get you weapons :-)
This is worst update Anet ever did. Game is now only about farming and nothing else.

This is a little extreme, crafting to 500 is going to be EXPENSIVE, but unless you’re looking to be 500 by days end today not that expensive. the thing is most of the “Time Gating” is not cool downs on crafting it’s gathering the mats, before yesterday none of the ascended mats existed in game. Yesterday the game world was flooded with Bloodstone Dust, but the rest of the mats that come from world boss chests, dungeons, and jumping puzzles will need to be farmed.

If ascended weapons were not account bound we would have seen them on the TP by now but only from framing bots from China, where 30 to 50 accounts could have pooled into one and crafted a few that would now be selling for just under what they are selling Legendary’s for.

Your biggest time gate will be the time it takes you to get from 450 to 500, you’ll be able to craft one maybe even two ascended weapons the second you hit 500.
Ascended weapons are account bound you will both need to work on leveling your crafting skills, however that said the amount of mats needed is out of this world even with the last month of hard core farming. So I would suggest if your on good enough terms that you do pool you mats, one of you will get your weapons faster, rather then both of you taking a long time.

I need a detailed overview of what comes with the purchase of the Commander title for 100 gold. I understand the basics that you can lead squads, and you have your in game “Tag” and the need for real leadership, not just the “I’z iz leet commander so you’z all should follow me” mentality that we’ve seen a bit of as of late in PvE.

It has been proposed within our guild that we chip in and elect a “Commander” so I’m looking for a guide that will really detail the benefits and problems with this investment, aside from the somewhat expected and hopefully minor guild squabbling what comes with such a large capital outlay.

So I have done every Achievement listed under Queen’s Jubilee other then the Meta Achievement for a total of 14 of 16. I still need 2 more for the Meta Achievement. Where or how do you pick up the last two needed for the meta?

You don’t need to go AFK for this event you just need to know what clues to look for.
The event starts at dawn (game time, not real world time), which is different on each server and each overflow. However the day in game is 2 hours, “day” is 70 minutes long, “night” is 40 minutes and the transition “dawn” and “dusk” are both 5 minutes, together a full 2 hours.
So as you watch the sky and see day turn to night you’ll know you have about 40 minutes to dawn. Give or take a few minutes since it’s hard to tell exactly when day becomes dusk and night becomes dawn and you know how long until the next event.

But DO NOT listen to all the naysayers that keep telling people the event starts on the hour (it might if that’s the way your server is set, but it’s very unlikely), and don’t believe anyone that tells you the events don’t work in overflow, they do, I’ve seen many to date in overflow.

I would love to see all the white level animals become city pets. Just like we have city outfits we should be able to have city pets, something that only rangers can have.

On the combat side of things I would also love to see our pets grow up. right now they are all juvenile, I think the more we use them as active pets the older they get. This would not change their stats just the way they look, bears would be bigger, eagles would get their white heads … and so on.

Bambula.3649:

nope..
10/30/0/0/30 is max dmg, fire-,forsttrap and vipernest.
for more aoe gs and drakes as ranger weapon axe+horn/axe
singel traget, cats and sword+axe/horn and shortbow.
eq full bersi.

Sorry for a very slight hijack but I post this build since it seems very close to the build you list here and I was wondering what others thought?

It’s mostly theory craft right now but based on a condition build nerco.

0/30/10/0/30 full Rabid gear

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VG;4wE-v-r2gDF-0;9k2j;2T9-T;10985;356BK-F6-JG6JHdZH16RH0km0-VWB0aucX-dWj1l2s3-59eWPk4R06Rk06Rs;9;9;9;9;9;3V6s5K

Are you a warrior or a necro?

This makes a difference since necro’s can get up to 133% condition duration (bleed duration) on there scepters, as shown here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_591464&feature=iv&src_vid=bXhjICMN5No&v=x8bpQi6gFIc

cesmode.4257:

Just a thought, I remember a while back they added a waypoint to the bottom tip of Cursed Shore. You get that?

Nice, thanks, that did it.
While that was not the exact point I was missing it did remind me that the character I had the most explored with (no longer my main) had not gotten any of the new Flame and Frost points of interest and that was what was missing.

I’m looking for a little help finishing off my “been there done that” Achievement.

I have 100% of the Hearts, way points, skill points, points of interest and vistas in the open world as well as WvWvW and have received the two Gifts of exploration.

Under my achievements panel I have:
Krytan Explorer 175/175
Orr Explorer 60/60
Maguuma Explorer 167/167
Ascalon Explorer 176/176
Shiverpeak explorer 175/175

But my “Been There Done That” achievement is at 99%

Not sure what I’m missing?

I’ve even gone to every jumping puzzle to see if it’s one of them.

Jusassasin.6259:

if you mean the sample you need to collect with the device from Levvi, its not up the jp – i thought so myself, but i explored around a bit and found it in the red smoke field – you dont need to do the jp to get it

Not the same sample, yes there is one in the red smoke ( called the Vent Sample) but there is also one on the island at the end of the JP called the Islet Sample.

Morrigan.2809:

I got the Flower for my Ranger but since she is not 80 yet I can only preview it.
It actually goes really well with the armour and colours she has now- at least I think so

You can wear it now or at any level so long as you don’e care about the stats. Using a level 80 Transmutation Stone (you only need level 80 stones twice once to bring it down and once to make it 80 once again) transmute it with a piece of armor you can wear, you can take it or any level 80 armor down as low as level 2 white, even soul bound armor becomes account bound.
My ranger has been wearing human T3 armor and level 80 Vigil armor since level 4. Now every time I need new armor as she levels I just transmute what shes wearing into the new armor using the basic transmutation stones.

Since this is a Spineguard the lowest most common item you can use to transmute it with is your personal story back piece at something like 30 however there is two ways I know of to get it lower. The first is a level 15 Holiday gift back item that given out late last year if you happen to still have that sitting in your bank or if you buy Rox’s quiver it comes with a cosmetic (no stats) spineguard that you can use to transmute it with.

When you buy rox’s Quiver and double click it it brakes into two items a skin that can be used on any spineguard and the above mentioned white level cosmetic spineguard.

I think most people equipped the exotic back piece because it was the first day of the event, it was a …
“Look how good I am, I finished the whole event in 6 hours” brag. Now these same people are here on the forums talking about how the event sucks, that it was too easy, not enough content … and so on and on and on.

Personally I don’t like the exotic back piece, it’s too big and doesn’t fit with any of my characters themes or armor, the rare flower back piece however fits perfectly with my plant themed necromancer and I plan to have that item equipped months from now.

You’re asking two very different questions here, so let me try and answer them in order.

People that run speed runs and tell classes other the Warriors and Mesmer’s that they are not allowed are jerks; they are lazy and are looking for the fastest route to the minimum reward so they can achieve the minimum again and again.

Generally speaking these runs are path 1 of CoF but could be other dungeons as well. Sometimes you run into peeps doing speed runs in which everyone is welcome but require you to at least know the dungeon. This type of run is more about going quickly and skipping as many of the trash mobs as they can.

A Ranger will never perform as well as a Warrior in full Zurker armor as it relates to these CoF runs; it’s like a quarterback trying to compete with a marathon runner both are very good at what they do but you just can’t do it all.

That said rangers face some challenges in dungeons with pet management and the like but are by no means worthless or even unwanted in normal dungeon runs.
If your told you’re not welcome simply because you’re a ranger, just move on and thanks them because you didn’t want to join that team anyway.

So this is my theory craft build for a Condition/BM Ranger.

As stated this build is theory craft as my ranger is still in her mid levels, but it barrows heavily from my level 80 condition necromancer and like a conditionmancer it’s based on bleeds and bleed duration with my pet acting as tank to give the bleeds time to work.

So for now I would like to get some thoughts and ideas from more experienced rangers

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VG;4wE-v-r2gDF-0;9F7E;2T9-T;10985;356BK-F6-JG6JHdZH16RH0km0-VWB0aucX-dWj1l2s3-59eWPk4R06Rk06Rs;9;9;9;9;9;3V6s5b

Bleeds do 105+ damage per tick.
With food and utility bleed duration is 130%
The down side as I see it is a lack of heals.

Thanks for your feedback.

The Temple karma vendors in Orr sell exotic level spineguards that are a lot cheaper then the costly guild armorer.

OK first to get the new Waypoint in Crigstead all you need to do is run up to the gates, you will need to get right up on them for it to trigger. You do not need to go into the mission.
The issue that Pyx is having is that there is a point of interest and a skill point (that have always been there) underneath Crigstead in the spider cave; you will need to go around the side of the mountain to find the entrance to the cave.

So maybe I’ll try something like this:
10: V
10: V
20: I IX (Swapping IX for V when facing heavy ranged mobs)
30: VI VIII XII
0:

Then adding two pieces of healing/precision/vitality (Armageddon) exotic karma gear for two pieces of knights’ gear to buff the heal on shouts a bit. I can also switch one of my knights’ rings for a berserker’s ring to make up for some of the lost power.

Two things that I won’t do however is switch back to a full set of healing gear or make a build that locks me into a Great Sword, I just like 1 handed weapons more.

Oglaf.1074:

You’re never going to be a healer nor a tank as a Warrior.

That’s reserved for Guardians… sadly.

I also have a level 80 Guardian that I’m starting to exotic out and she will be pure support/heals for dungeon runs, but that another topic for now I’m asking about traits for a tank build warrior.

Should I stick with shouts or go banners?
Should I keep the 20 points in strength or put them in arms and discipline for more crit chance.

This will be pure PvE lots of time spent solo working on gathering resources and getting 100% world completion and running dungeons when we need a warrior over a Guardian.

Hello

When my warrior hit 80 I wanted her to be a support tank/healer so I got shouts heal and slotted in 6 soldiers runes for condition removal. However I was underwhelmed to say the least with the heals from shouts, even while in full exotic clerics gear it just wasn’t enough to call her a heal tank.

Since then I’ve been focusing more on just making her a pure tank and I’m wonder what my build should be. Should I stay with shouts or maybe switch it up to banners or stances?

My currant build is:

20: V X
0:
20: I IX
30: VI VIII XII
0:

I have 3 pieces of crafted exotic knight’s gear and 3 pieces of exotic karma soldiers gear.
I have 2 exotic knights’ earrings and 2 exotic knights’ rings and an exotic berserker’s amulet.

I weld, for the most part an Ax/shield combo with both a mace and a war horn that I can switch to if needed and a bow in the off weapon slot. I also carry great sword if needed, all exotic with knights stats and 1 or 2 clerics left over from when I was going full heal.

So how would you suggest rebuilding her to bring her more in line with a full tank with enough power to at least kill somewhat fast when solo.

Also what food buffs shoulkittenep on hand, I have a 400 level cook as one of my other characters

Oh and I forgot to mention this is for PvE only.

Thanks guys.

And why couldn’t you have said this two weeks ago and saved us all a major headache?

I mean really is it that hard to be honest with the player base? If you had said this from the start I wouldn’t have felt the need to get upset. This makes since and at last we have the truth, not just some BS line about “I realize it’s frustrating, and all I can do is apologize”.

So with that in mind
Thank You

Rajani Isa.6294:

1 – It is NOT your right as customer to degrade, intentionally, other players’ experiences. Spamming the support system would be doing exactly that, and open you up for getting a ban (abuse of the ticket system).

1a – And Insert your foot into your own mouth – no where did Jeffrey V say this would slow down fixing other bugs – the people who deal with your support tickets are not the bug fixers. Notice he said it would slow down helping PLAYERS with account/support issues.

2 – A 1/1000th of a percent increase isn’t what happened. I myself have experienced something along the lines of an increase of 300-400% . Others have noticed as much as 1000%. much different than a 0.001% increase. Enough that I saw them selling (unidentified) for less than 2 silver after practically being locked in place at 3.5 silver for weeks.

3 – We have no idea exactly what has broken in this story step. The dye seems to have been a mere decimal getting moved somewhere, somehow.

4 – One reason the dye fixed might of been pushed through is the economy of the game. The hatchery bug doesn’t affect that.

I’m not going to argue, you may be right and I don’t want this thread closed too.

Truth is I’m trying very hard to not be abusively angry, I sat quietly on the side lines waiting for a fix that time and time again was ignored (Seemingly) while other seemingly lesser fixes were hot patched live right in the middle of peak play times. While it’s true more then one bug is worked on at a time the disparity between a bug being fixed in 12 hours and a bug taking a month is too great to ignore. At this point in time I’m just no longer willing to wait quietly on the sidelines for a fix that is long over due.

The foot in mouth commit was about Jeffrey posting that “the next content update” would contain the fix and the fact that he posted that statement just 2 hours before the next content update that did not contain the bug fix.

If this bug is such a game breaker that it takes over a month to test then why doesn’t someone in testing come on line and tell us that and maybe give us a brief explanation as to why and no a paragraph written and passed on to Jeffery to post on someones behave would not take any time away from getting said patch pushed to live.

As for Jeffrey personally I have no animosity towards him, he has in fact done his job but he is also the face of customer service and should be able to answer our concerns with real truthful answer or be able to find said answer, not just next patch after 5 patches have gone live with no fix.

As for the economy of the game? well it is broken and yes they are working to fix it but now not only is the economy broken but so is the personal story.

/sarcasm
So lets see … the economy is broken, the personal story is broken, what else is left … well there’s the core game it’s self but that’s broken to with all the other bugs like the invulnerability bug, so what else is left? Oh right the Holiday events, who know what would happen should those ever have a bug that can’t be fixed within 12 hours. [/sarcasm]

However the most egregious insult of all to me and to the player base as a whole is that they are willfully allowing this bug to exist in a way that continues to trap other players within its web. No attempt has been made to warn people that they should avoid the Skritt story line either in game by locking that arc or with a daily pop up when you log in or even a warning on the main web page. To me this just screams willful negligence.

Game Update Notes – November 5, 2012

• Corrected drop rate for Unidentified Dye.
On November 1, we introduced a change that unintentionally increased the drop rate of Unidentified Dye. Today’s game update corrects the drop rate for Unidentified Dye.

So this is the game breaking, economy destroying game bug that stopped thousands of players dead in their tracks that needed to be hot fixed with increasing hast? Never mind a small bug that only effects one personal story arc … after all that bug only effects maybe at most ten or twenty players?

“Doing that isn’t going to get things fixed any faster, it’s only going to slow down response time for players with hacked accounts or other support issues.”

I think that it is my right as a customer to do everything in my power to bring ever increasing attention to anything that directly effects my ability to enjoy what I paid for and if that means slowing down the response time for other bugs then so be it. Who’s to say that the bug that’s affecting me is unworthy of being fixed in an expedient manner? However an unintentional increase of … what 0.001% in the drop rate of unidentified dyes gets a fast and immediate hot fix?

Dear Jeffery:
Note to self, when opening mouth please try not to insert foot.

Sorry Jeffrey, I personally can’t believe you, since that post there have been four content updates more than one of which fixed personal story or core game bugs. The 1st, the 30th the 24th and the 22ed.

However maybe your words will be poetic … it seems a new build will be released in one hour, will this be “the next content update” that this fix will be on or will it be yet another “Mistake”?

Well as I said in an earlier post I was willing to wait until the 5th for this bug to be fixed, as it was posted by Jeffrey Vaughn before he went back and edited it a week and a half after he posted it. However being that the 5th has come and gone with no patch it has become painfully clear that there is no one in customer service or development staff that can be trusted to answer our complaints honestly, there priority is Holiday events and all else be kitten including the player base.

I propose it’s time to take our complaints out of the forums where they fall on deaf and indifferent ears and into the game. I call for everyone effected by this bug to enter their missions once per day and file a costumer service ticket, if a thousand players a day file a thousand tickets a day someone will have to read them and close them out, it’s unlikely they have the power to just delete a ticket.

Let your voice be heard in civil protest or let them continue to blow smoke up our azz’s when every they have something funner to work on.

My question to this reply is while I understand what your saying, how rigorous can this testing be if you find a bug, fix the bug and push it to live all in less then 12 hours when it’s a Halloween event bug that allows some to get to a ledge that they shouldn’t but when it’s a total show stopper for a huge chunk of the player base it tales over 3 weeks and still no ETA.

I know a lot of people get overly worked up when a bug like this effects them personally and you get a lot of angry one sentence posts that don’t help while cooler heads sit on the side lines and let things play out for a while. I’ve been following both threads and I’m willing to wait but when the mods come in and close a post because their don’t want to deal with it anymore, well that starts to really tic off even the cooler minds on the subject. Now then, I’ve read your reply’s in both posts and very early on you said the fix would be released with the Nov. 5 content patch and I’ve been willing to wait for that and I still am … but should that date come and go with no fix I think you’ll find people will no longer be willing to wait. This is not a small bug that can be brushed under the rug, if you want another SWtoR on your hands just keep it up, trust is hard to earn and easily lost and no game is to good to fail.

I would suggest that you act preemptively from this point forward and write the code needed to allow a player to put in a ticket and have costumer service skip that player though a bugged mission and get it tested and pushed to live now, so that when this happens again and it will the work around is in place and we don’t have to wait for the fix. (Yes I know this will take weeks and it wont be of any help for us right now, but it will be a ready build workaround for next time)

What armor set should I be wearing and how would you if needed tweak this build?
My thoughts here are a modified condition/shouts warrior, as I understand it the pure condition warrior is substandard so I want to bring that build up to par. This is a PvE/Dungeon lead build.

My thought is joining the Whispers for the Rabid armor and using jewelry for +power

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAscUnkOEFcyDWPwEZABpwKyijCoIATPKD0INA;TsAqsMZJyymlLLZWrKGVcK4VwsCA

(Copy paste link to view)

Thanks for any feedback

Follow up questions (not related to above)

When slotting runes take the Soldier Rune for example if I slot 6 does that mean I get +165 vitality and +50 toughness or just the 6 line Shouts remove a condition?

Second I don’t really understand endurance in this game, in other games all powers use some amount of endurance but in this game it seems to me that the only use of endurance is your dodge roll?

Ok I don’t want to jump down anyone’s throat and I’m not pointing at any one person here but why the heck can’t people just log out if there going to be AFK for more then a few minutes? It takes what 45 seconds to log back in, it’s not like SWtoR day one where there were 3 hour ques to log into a server.

Meanwhile there are new players looking to join servers where all their friends are but can’t because the server is “Full” due to so many AFK’ers.

If I need to answer the door or the phone I’ll AFK but if I’m leaving the house or cooking I log out, simple and as for AFK with an auto power running at a DE spawn point, game function or not you should just know your asking for the ban stick.

MMO’s by there very nature are dynamic the developers put stuff in that they think will work and find out that they were grossly wrong and quickly remove or change it in someway, expect auto fire and auto target and healing traits to all be gone or radically changed very soon.
I just don’t know why they don’t already have an auto log out timer on anyone AFK without movement function yet, maybe 20 minutes and poof your logged out.

So a friend of mine is signing up a new account and wants to play on the same server as me, but the server shows as “Full” and wont let him select that server as his home server.

I know sever populations change throughout the day so is that all he needs to do is want for the populations to drop or is that server forever locked out to new accounts?

Thanks