Guild Wars 2

Ooo I take it back, I just logged in and my box of Berserker’s Draconic Armor was waiting for me in the mail also.

Thanks ANet for finally honouring this, it only took 2 months…

Does this mean you will also be sending me a Berserker’s Destroyer Rifle to replace the Valkyrie one I made?

Oh Good for you, they never sent me mine despite saying they would “at some point in the future”.

Yeah I cannot play at the moment, the camera changes are horrible, makes me feel really sick after just a couple of minutes

I logged in and after less than 2 minutes was feeling really sick and disorientated – what did they do to the camera in the latest patch?

Redoing Arah SM doesn’t give you access to that area, only redoing the personal storyline (which means either rolling a new toon or finding someone who hasn’t completed and doing Co-Op mode with them) allows you back into that area – so none of this makes sense.

Can I just get clarification on this please.

The token we get to make up for our loot being messed up at the end of our storyline quest (if we completed it prior to the patch) which needs to be handed in to Requisitioner Hargrove is unusable because we already completed the storyline and thus cannot gain access to the instance where the NPC is?

Would it be wrong for me to ask who had the wonderful insight to give us a token we can’t use?

Well if they were using conventional programming they could just use regular expressions for the name filters which would avoid any of these silly mix-ups.

@Red Falcon

So I am not allowed to use my real name because I am a political person?

From one of the images seems to be farming Plinx for Karma which is bugged on our server and therefore is exploitable….
(not sure if the same is true on his server – just saying)

Except it is not Unique as presumably other people can also get it from Mystic Forge? (unique means there is only 1).

lackofcheese.5617:

It’s easy enough to convert between one and the other, so the most important thing is to provide sufficient data and be clear as to what is meant.

Yes, the number of combines is more useful for probabilities, and the number of rares bought/crafted is useful for profitability analysis, but the number of rares put into the forge isn’t directly useful for either of those purposes.

As such, I don’t think it’s worth noting how many rares were put into the forge, as it is easily confused with the number of rares bought/crafted.

But frankly, what you think is irrelevant. The point of the thread is to find out how many weapons are being put into the forge before a pre-cursor comes out – I know that is the point of the thread because I started the thread and that is what my intention was. I don’t give a kitten about profitability or how many weapons people craft/buy, I only care about how many weapons are being put in the forge for a pre-cursor to pop.

ANet, please understand that the anti-bot code you added to TP to give a fake error when someone tries to list a certain number of items over a certain time frame is annoying as kitten.

When will you understand that these measure do nothing but annoy real players? It would have taken the bot managers about 1 minute to add a pause to their scripts thus circumventing your attempts to stop them but it creates a huge problem for real players who have a lot of items to list and massively increases the amount of time and clicks required to do so.

Please, please, please remove it and stop coming up with bandaid solutions to try and fix a severed artery!!!

Why you all nerfing yourselves with Rune of the Pirate? Slot 4 and 6 are a waste on those runes – you are better off using Runes of the Traveller for 5 and Rune of the Pirate for 1 (because slot 6 on the traveller isn’t very useful). I would rather have the extra vitality than shouting Yarrr!

Why do people keep throwing around %s as fact when the fact is ANet have not released the drop rate percentages so please stop claiming the percentage is this, that or the other – it doesn’t help.

You can hit lvl 15 on 1-400 with crafting boosters (my Guardian and my Fiancée’s Ranger are both proof of this) so if you got less than 10 lvls I would say something is definitely wrong.

ANet should rename the game to NerfWars 2

@sin
No they don’t. They may spawn once a day for you but for many others they are spawning once an hour.

Ummm no, the only reason you get any XP on those mobs at the moment is exactly because they are immune until they get to a certain point. The bots would just condition them then fear them then set their bears onto them and they would never get to the point they are supposed to get to. You can see this exact thing happening with the patrols which come in between events (when the event isn’t broken which it currently is on our server).

If they do as you suggest then all hope is lost for Cursed Shore.

You only need to hit them once to get XP and therefore a chance at Loot afaik.

Mithril is not 24 hour respawn – neither is orichalcum (I have been able to mine same orichalcum nodes after about 6 hours and same mithril after about an hour) so if the patch was supposed to make these 24 hour “spawns” it failed.

@tolunart

You said:
“People keep saying things like this, it’s a huge leap to an uncertain conclusion based on absolutely no evidence.”

And then proceed to write 5 more paragraphs based on nothing but assumptions with no evidence to support them.

It is not known that “many scammers steal legitimate accounts” nor is it “logical to conclude they make use of stolen credit cards.”

You have no evidence to support either of these statements.

It may well be that -some- scammers have indeed used other people’s accounts and it also may well be that some scammers have used stolen credit card details but it may also be that there are some big companies out there that value customer trust and the law (in order to continue to be in business).

So next time you want to write an epic post don’t contradict yourself after the first 2 paragraphs. If you believe that what you wrote is true, provide evidence to support it (and no that doesn’t mean link me to wikipedia or what ANet say in their blog posts, it means link to real evidence such as court cases) and sit back and accept that even if some scammers do engage in such activities, it certainly isn’t all and probably isnt even a majority.

Oh and btw, the word “scammers” is purely subjective – they are not scamming anyone if they are providing a service that people want to use.

I don’t think many of you realise what the problem is. Yes DR is a problem, but there is a new issue in Orr (certainly in Cursed Shore) where the events are simply not starting – they are bugged, lots and lots of them. There are currently very few working events in Cursed Shore.

Corian.4068:

It’s very intentional that you get about 20 chests* per 1 key* in the course of your normal gameplay. Very, very, very intentional.

If you’d like to justify buying some keys on the gem store, however, consider subscription games. 15 bucks a month, right?

If you drop 15 bucks a month on gems, that’s quite a lot of keys. You ultimately don’t HAVE to, but the entire point of making the chests a common drop is to encourage you to buy keys off the gem store.

Finally, you can exchange gold for gems and buy keys with those, but if we’re talking say 1 gold* for, oh, three keys* or so, it’s probably not worth it.

• - Numbers are largely arbitrary and meant to create a general example, rather than for accuracy.

Wrong and wrong again.

The first wrong – you do not get approx 1 key for every 20 chests. You get a few keys at very low level and then they stop dropping (or that is the experience of everyone in our guild).

The second wrong – 15 bucks a month doesn’t buy you a lot of keys, it buys you a few, like 15ish – I average 5-10 chests a day so in order to keep up with the number of chests I get I would need to spend around $300 per month at the top end and $150 per month at the bottom end – that is a lot of money especially when you get junk out of the chests.

And just so you can confirm the math:

2x(5 keys@450 gems) = 900 Gems ($10 = 800 gems but rounding it up to be nice to 900)

30x $10 = $300 This would allow me to open all chests if I average 10 chests per day – half of that if I only average 5 chests a day is $150 per month. Many of us have many hundreds of chests which will never be opened.

Cursed Shore seems to be broken. I think the latest attempts to deal with Bots by simply stopping mobs from spawning is having unexpected consequences

My Fiancée and I joked about ANet’s next step against bots would be to simply stop mobs spawning but we never really expected it to happen. However, that is exactly what has happened. When will the DE’s in Cursed Shore be fixed, currently they are none existent on Borlis Pass server? They all seem to be bugged and not spawning.

Colbear.6425:

200 exotics is “40 attempts”, I’d like to point out.

Your math is bad – 200 /4 = 50 plus you get another 50 weapons from those attempts which is a further 12 (with 2 left over) which gives you in turn another 3 attempts (with 3 left over plus the previous 2 left over gives you 1 more attempt).

In total 66 attempts.

My Fiancée and I just crafted Firebringer after spending a couple of days collecting the resources for it. It is a lovely sword when it is drawn but when it is sheathed it looks terrible. Why was the decision made to remove particle effects when sheathed on some weapons but not on others?

For example, the corrupted and mist weapons have their particle effects when sheathed – but the destroyer and Firebringer weapons do not, yet the FDS does (but is only available to GW1 players). It is completely inconsistent.

My Fiancée now has one of the most expensive swords in the game and she hates it, but it is soul bound so she can’t even get her money back.

@Cerise
The problem is what works for you doesn’t work for everyone else – such is the problem with RNG. My fiancée has put over 200 exotics in and got no base out so far which is 100% more than your estimate and still climbing.

@Hippocampus

Maybe you should start using other regions of your brain other than the hippocampus you might comprehend a little better. 375G is the equiv of 3000 rare items not 1000 making the pre-cursors currently 3x over priced as I said to you just this morning but you failed to either read or comprehend or both.

ANet should remove -all- pre-cursors which were obtained through an exploit, it would make the vast majority of the game’s community happy and the only people that would lose out are those who cheated in the first place and frankly, I don’t give a rat’s kitten about how they feel

Kimmuriel.3495:

Judging from a screenshotsite there are quite some more armors with hanging stuff looking to get in the way all the time than there are really practical looking armors.
I didn’t (yet) look for heavy armor for my male character, but I saw 4 pants, and no shorts. So I still have hope to combine something with nice shoulders and helmet.
One of those pants I saw on the south-east corner of blazeridge steppe at a heart vendor where you have to help seraph(lionguard? some humans and charrs) against ogres or stop infighting.
Also, durmand priory (strange silhouette though) or order of whispers (don’t look at the backside or the helmet though) have pants too. And the story reward skin (might make you look fat though) has pants too although I think you dont get the pants from the story.

If the ones you are referring to are the ones I think you are referring to they are either all shorts or have pants + skirt. I just want pants.

Since all the women started a thread on female armor, I figured why not do one for masculine armor – I mean seriously, I scoured the whole world (at a huge cost of teleports) looking for heavy leg armor for a male that wasn’t either a skirt or shorts – still yet to find any!

We want pants, kittenit!

@penatbater
So what if they do want more people to go warrior/guardian/mesmer/ranger – it doesn’t make greatsword special.

Any warrior using greatsword is nerfing themselves – I ran tests with dual weapons vs greatsword and do more damage with dual weapons due to the extra sigil.

If Anet are going to provide more than 1 legendary for 1 type of weapon, they should do it for all types of weapons or it simply isn’t fair – there is no argument against that.

@Artorous
Tell that to my Fiancée who has put over 200 lvl 76+ exotics in and has no pre-legendary yet.

And you have it wrong about the exploiters. First off as far as anyone knows, no-one got banned for the latest exploit so there were no requirements for them to get unbanned, they kept all the pre-legendaries and are making a nice profit. Second, the Karma weapon bans were asked to delete the items when they got unbanned – this was not enforced (nor is it enforceable as by their own admission GMs have no ability to interact with your inventory or bank so they cannot remove them).

And if you don’t believe the latter next time you lose an item or get a bugged item, email support and read very carefully the response you get.

Hippocampus.8470:

There’s already a thread from someone who recently got Dawn.

And if it is indeed a thousand rares on average before getting a precursor, then I’d say 300g is just about exactly right. Anything lower means it’s underpriced.

And you would be wrong because that would equate to almost 3000 rares in cost which is 3x more expensive. Rares cost ~12s each to make (this fluctuates marginally at different times of day) so 1000×12s = 120G – whereas, as I type this, the cheapest Dusk for sale is 375G and the cheapest Dawn is 348G. So Dusk is > 3x as expensive and Dawn is close to 3x as expensive.

Eternity shouldn’t even exist, neither should one of either Sunrise or Twilight – it is completely unfair that there are 3 greatsword legendaries and only 1 of each of the other types of weapon. ANet need to either increase the legendaries for other weapons or remove 2 of the 3 greatsword legendaries from the game.

Grim.6415:

People should also post the numbers for exotics as well to see what the actual rate difference is between using rares and exotics.

It might also be worth noting how many exotics you received from putting your rares in and if you received any other named exotics during your attempts.

It’s a bit of extra work, but all useful information.

Yeah I am only counting the rares I craft, obviously any rares I get back I throw in as well. So far I have received 8 exotics back on the axes of which 1 was named (Faithful). So with a little math, I have put in another 75 lvl 80 rare axes ((332/4)-8) will update post and sig accordingly.

I sell the exotics to try and offset the price of making the rares.

Not a bug as such but couldn’t find another forum that seemed relevant.

What codes can be used in Signatures? I have read the formatting options but it doesn’t specify if these work in signatures or not. Also, can you use colours in signatures (or forum posts) if so what is the code to do so please?

Vanilla rates suck, period. ANet should have fixed this weeks ago.

I thought this thread might be useful for people.

Post here how many attempts it takes you to get your pre-legendary from mystic forge.

Mystic Forge Attempts for Pre-Legendary
Lvl 80 Axes : Rare: 483; Exotic: 4 – Frostfang: 0
Lvl 80 Swords : Rare: 20; Exotic: 0 – Zap: 0

If enough people post it will allow us to get a better idea of drop rate over time.

forums@arena.net >> /dev/null && from what I can tell. My fiancée emailed them about not being able to access the forums due to an error about a week ago and has yet to even receive an acknowledgement, let alone a reply.

Please can you change “Projected Profit” when adding something to the TP to subtract the listing fee. As it stands it only deducts the sales tax not the listing fee, from the sale price which is somewhat misleading. It would be much clearer to everyone if it included the listing fee as well as the sales tax and give an accurate figure for determining margins.

I doubt I am the only person who gets annoyed that recipes keep moving around in the list or that when you reach 400 the lists is so long. I know we have filters but they are not very good so please can you introduce a “favourites” group for recipes we use all the time and allow us to right click a recipe to add it to the group?

Also it would be nice if we could just click on the final item if we have the raw materials to make the components instead of having to go through the laborious task of making the ingots/bolts/planks/dowels/inscriptions/insignias/lining/panels/hafts/blades/hilts etc before finally getting to craft our item.

Thanks.

Please do not replace the current IP/Email authentication with this Mobile 2 Factor Auth system. As a privacy professional who has been fighting against Google’s attempts to turn every person on the planet into a product at the expense of their privacy I do not use any Google products and if you require us to use this service in order to play I will simply stop playing.

Just farmed the same 5 mithril nodes in Cursed Shore twice in less than 3 hours – so much for the 24 hour respawn rate huh?

@Shadowbane
No it is 15. I did starter quest (doesn’t lvl you to lvl 2) and then went straight to LA and crafted Huntsman to 400 – I did nothing else, absolutely nothing else. No wondering around, no discovering, no killing a few mobs here and there – the sole purpose of my alt was to get 400 in Huntsman and that is what I did.

By the end I was almost lvl 16 (about 90% through 15) – I gained 15 lvls through crafting. I used crafting boosters for most of it.

Please stop trying to tell people what they did or didn’t do, I think those of us who have done it are quite capable of knowing what we did and how we did it, thanks.

Gideon.2071:

Paladine – Just stop. You’re completely wrong in every post and you’re embarrassing yourself. Putting out false facts and lies is not going to protect you from being banned for buying and/or selling gold (you’re obviously doing one of those).

Mavajo – A controlled market will always fail. Anet cannot simply adjust gem prices to fix the problem, they have to switch to a free market like the FLEX system for that to work. Yes, gold sellers can buy all the gems. But then people will buy more gems an the gold sellers will never make any money. They would just end up with a ton of virtual gems that come out of thin air. That doesn’t help their cause at all. Selling those gems back for in game gold won’t get them money, and the people will determine how much gold they get for the exchange.

Careful who you accuse, I haven’t purchased any gold nor sold any, in fact I have spent $150 on Gems.

As for being wrong, no I am not, it is my job and I know these issues incredibly well – but thanks for your feedback and have a lovely evening.

godofstorm.6201:

Given that all that our characters “are” and “do” are database registers and fields, the appropiate datamining scripts could fairly easily identify gold sellers and even goldbuyers. Crossing those datamining scripts with others that look at mails sent and received, Anet could create a fairly effective and nearly error-free method.

As stated before, the errors in the system could be corrected by human customer service professionals.

Except reading the in game emails of players would be a criminal breach of California Law (and several other US States), Canadian Law, European Directives (specifically the ePrivacy Directive), Korean Law, Japanese Law, Mexican Law, Brazillian Law, Australian Law (do I need to go on?)

Just because it is a game it doesn’t mean private communications between users are not protected by the same laws as every other private communication.

@Lucubration
I don’t need to look at some external web site, I can look at my purchases right there in my client and see exactly what I have been paying since the game launched. I can check my Fiancée’s purchases too and see the exact same rates.

@Dmorin
Then the update is broken because it is not a 24 hour spawn time on mithril nodes and I don’t care what the French Community Manager says, I know how often I mine them, thanks. Ancient Wood and Ori nodes are indeed 24 hours, Mithril is not.

Lucubration.8361:

Compare the sale price of 250 Mithril Ore, 5 Dust, and 1 Orichalcum Ore to the sale price of 20 Orichalcum Ore and you have your answer. It’s risen completely proportional to Orichalcum Ore, which went from just over 2s to just under 4s in the last week due to increased respawn timers.

I buy hundreds of ori ore per day it has not been under 3s for some time.

Promega.7628:

Ori was down to almost 2silver per piece and is approaching 4s per peice, which is nearing a 100% increase, not 15-20% like you claim.

Ori has not been under 3s per piece for several weeks. The last 3-5 days mithril price has doubled – ori price has increased about 15-20% again try READING before commenting.

Promega.7628:

Paladine.6082:

IceBlink.4317:

It could simply be that people buy mithril in bulk to convert into orichalcum… maybe. XD

People have been doing that for weeks and it hasn’t led to an increase in price – the price increase over the past 2 days has been waaaay faster for that to be the explanation. Plus the cost of the mithril for full stack at 40c each would mean you would make a loss transmogrifying to orichalcum in most cases as you would need to get around 30+ orichalcum from each mystic forge attempt, which is very rare.

Some math using your own numbers:

250 mithril (40c) = 1g
250 mithirl converts to 30+ orichalcum (3.8s) = 1.14g+

You didnt read what I said. I said you would need to get approx 30+ ori ore from transmogrifying to make it worth while not that you do get 30+. It is incredibly rare to get 30+ the average I see with myself and my guildies/fiancée is 20 ori from 250 mithril which as I said makes it a loss leader.

Please read before commenting.

Promega.7628:

Demand for mithril has gone up for its use in the mystic forge for converting to orichalcum.

If you look at the cost of most other high end crafting mats (T6 fine mats, ectos, etc) you will see that they are in fact declining as people are getting mostly geared out in their primary set now and the supply is growing relative to demand.

Supply on exotics continues to rise, I am selling 100+ pieces a day rising at a rate of 5-10 pieces every 30 hours or so – so again that theory doesn’t work.