Guild Wars 2

Have been playing around with Sword of Justice a bit in PvE. It feels great to use, first off. A quick burst of relatively long lasting vulnerability stacks in a fairly enormous quantity in addition to some nice AoE burst damage is great, and arguably the most important feature of this skill being that it is a ranged burst damage utility skill which Guardian previously had nothing for. It will be even more valuable later when we don’t have to give up Retreat to put it on our bars.

Have you seen the cost of the Kalla skills as well? For what they do they’re incredibly costly. Hopefully still a work in progress.

Sister Saxifrage.7361:

Endless tonics are as close as we’re going to get, I think. They struggle to put out armor skins as it is.

I think these are a great compromise. Can turn them on/off as needed and collect as many as you want. Just wish they’d convert more of them to combat tonics.

Donari.5237:

I doubt DM surfaced subsequent to us going to EB. When was Zinn around? I get the feeling he was contemporaneous with Oola, so quite some time ago. And per his voice recordings, he’s the reason the DM cavern is terraformed. (Per the Druids, not so much. But either way, it’s an established ecology that has been there a lot longer than the past year or less).

I don’t know the average lifespan of an Asura, but… Zinn (and M.O.X., and Z.O.X. etc.) are all at least 250 years old; they existed in GW1.

A nice, neutral option that could be used for running away or charging forward would be something like

“Rally!”

or

“Rally to me!”

Not that we’ll ever see them change this.

The Crystal Savant outfit is the coolest thing I’ve seen hit the gem store in a very long time. I hope you add more stuff that has lighting and particle effects that change colour based on the dye that you apply. Absolutely love it!

Unless they change the way the projectiles work, you won’t be hitting anything or anyone with all 3 unless you’re standing inside of their hitbox. Good luck.

If they plan to nerf AA and put our damage on other skills then I really hope they also plan to adjust the energy cost of our weaponskills. Utilities cost a ton of energy, and using weaponskills along with them has only been possible up until now because autoattacks are a majority of our “rotation”.

Pushing damage onto other skills is going to be really, really bad if they don’t take this into consideration.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Ok, and how are they porting exactly? Why do they have this magic ability? I mean it’s a pretty good deal if they can do it, but I don’t see how.

I would be personally even more impressed if someone could actually program a bot to run the puzzle, considering all the variables involved.

It seems more likely to me you’re experiencing some kind of lag spike. I’ve had it happen to me a handful of times.

Position hacks. They have existed in every video game since the dawn of time and are not a new thing in GW2. I don’t know where to get one nor do I ever want to learn how to because you’d have to be some kind of special to think that something like that isn’t traceable. All comes down to whether or not someone or something decides to sit down and find you.

Only thing I can really think of to add to this: in addition to the backwards shadowstep even if you miss/are blocked/what have you on sword 5, have it shadowstep to the enemy to execute the pull as well, or make it so you can’t execute the ability if you’re out of range of it landing.

If that seems too strong, increase the cooldown to 30s or something.

Surprised no one mentioned Ogre runes. A full set gives the same amount of power as Strength or Scholar runes, 35 Ferocity, and a static +4% damage that has no activation conditions. The Rock Dog can be a little annoying, but his attacks tend to be worth losing the small amount of Ferocity you’d get from most other Zerker oriented rune sets.

Not horribly expensive either.

Icons below the nameplate of a Herald that shows which facets are active (like the icons that you see on a Rogue in RIFT) would be much less intrusive and would provide the same information to whoever actually finds the ground hologram useful (still don’t know what practical function it has).

That way the Herald themselves wouldn’t have to stare at a giant glowing dragon circle the entire time they play, nor would anyone around them have to be distracted by it, and the people who want to see which Facets the Herald has active (and aren’t in their party or want to read their buffs/debuffs bar) can target them, look at their nameplate, and be done with it.

The hymn that plays constantly is even more annoying. There shouldn’t be a completely untoggleable ambient noise that totally drowns out all of the other music and sounds in the game. It seriously breaks my immersion and enjoyment of the environment when I can’t hear the music of the game because Glint’s Facets can’t stop droning. Toggle option for it pls.

Any recommendations on staff stats? Just go for the standard Berserker, or would something incorporating Healing Power be better considering the nature of the weapon? Pretty much comes down to Berserker or Cleric for this particular staff.

Can just make a clientside graphical toggle that turns off Aegis effects on your own character or something. I’ve had this complaint for a while, the Aegis effect is pretty ugly and it covers up a lot of stuff.

okay, thank you. I might go with the great sword or sword then just for looks.

Hi guys,

I just luckily received a <a href="http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tequatl%27s_Hoard">Tequatl’s Hoard</a> and I’m not sure how to spend it. I know the stats are quite bad for Guardian, but as someone who isn’t likely to get another Ascended weapon for some time, is it worth using this on Guardian at all outside of a cool skin?

Guess a better way to ask this is, what is the weight of Weapon Damage vs. secondary stats (Power, Precision, Ferocity, etc.)?

Thanks.

here’s what I’m working toward.

Right, minis are 100%. The endless tonics are a separate recipe. They transform your character into the minipet in question and don’t go away after being used like a normal tonic would.

To be fair I fully expected Lyns to be gone after the Lost Shores event, I don’t mind a couple weeks downtime if it means she’ll be sticking around!

tbh the only thing that really caused me any issue with the Ventari was their seemingly passive Retaliation, only because they tend to come in packs. my whirling wraths were bringing me down to 600HP

Lots of lucky people in this thread! Or maybe I’m just unlucky. 30 chests 1 snowman.

I ended up going in solo to do it and broke what I assumed to be everything 3 times without receiving the achievement (except for that bugged piece of charr fencing). Turns out I was missing a teeny tiny barely perceivable set of bars in the charr area, in one of the little homesteads against the wall (I think it may have been the one with the bugged fence actually). Maybe that’s what you’re missing.

This game is all about aesthetics, and some people like to collect minipets. This was the case in GW1 and it is still the case in GW2. I personally bought 30 boxes and only got 1 minipet and nothing else of value out of them (not even a hat), so I’m feeling the sting. Really wish I had the option of just buying the minis.

I definitely would have preferred paying 500 gems for a set of minis. I’d have paid twice so I could get the Quaggan, too…

It’s definitely percent based. My necro took much more DoT damage than my Guardian

Just wanted to say that this is probably the best thing in any game ever. Thank you ANet.

So ANet, can you like, change that worthless Reanimator trait into a trait that lets fear bypass Defiant again? That way other classes are still restricted but Necro still gets their arguably most attractive PvE feature…

For some reason I doubt this change was due to necro to begin with

Thoughts on Knight’s (Toughness/Power/Precision) over Soldier’s for armor?

Particularly since they just had some issues with chest “exploitation” in their last event, which they had to patch.

Wilow.3061:

Prothescar.7842:

If they intended for the chest to be looted only once, they should have made it a one time per account thing, not one time per character. We’ve already seen that they have the means to do such things with the Halloween event.

I know that most of the people I know who got multiple chests participated in a fair portion of the event each time, so it’s not like they were jumping onto different characters and getting free loot from chests that other people worked for.

What part of the Halloween event was once per account? To my knowledge they haven’t shown once the ability to make anything a once per account thing.

I may be misremembering, but I believe that they changed the Champion event chests to once per account per day pretty quickly.

For the record, I personally do not agree with this event being one time only, nor do I agree with the chest being able to hand out precursors. Regular exotics and rares? Fine. A free 20 slot bag? Fantastic. Cool earring? Ok. Precursors? Idk. That’s sorta lame, especially since it means some people are making 100g+ while others are lucky to get 2g, not that the money is what matters when it comes to an event like this, but still.

Would like to know about the minis as well. I collect minipets, but I simply can’t afford the prices that people are asking for them right now. Knowing that their supply won’t be completely cut off would be a nice peace of mind.

If they intended for the chest to be looted only once, they should have made it a one time per account thing, not one time per character. We’ve already seen that they have the means to do such things with the Halloween event.

I know that most of the people I know who got multiple chests participated in a fair portion of the event each time, so it’s not like they were jumping onto different characters and getting free loot from chests that other people worked for.

No, we got them as a bonus after killing the superboss. It was a clickable thing like a map completion/daily. My monthly isn’t complete, so it wasn’t that

So we just finished up the first superboss, and we all got a bonus of some fractal relics. What, exactly, determines how many of these bonus relics that you get? Some got 50, some got 40, I got 20…

Remove the bonus stats, keep the new ascended gear with the special situational slot.

It means that they won’t have to buy the game in order to play this weekend.

I would also very much appreciate if we got the ghost added onto the everlasting tonic.

Look, I was pretty upset about the initial Black Lion Chests, but you know what? The fact that ANet did this at all and gave us a second, free, chance at the items? That’s pretty cool. I don’t see why anyone has real ground to complain about it when they didn’t have to give these chests to us at all.

Male Charr:

Oh… I think I see. The smaller gift recipe using wine is for the RECIPE of the actual gift, which uses the lodestones and everything… then what do you use with the final exotic gift to make the final exotic weapon…?

I actually hope we never find out, because I’d feel pretty bad for anyone who sinks so many resources into it. :\

So the lodestones and stuff are for an exotic gift… which is put into something to make the weapons? This is way more convoluted than it has to be, seriously.

250 Candy Corn + 10 Crystalline Dust + 40 Elonian Wine + 100 of X Rare Halloween Crafting Material = Gift

Gift of Souls + 250 Orichalcum Ingot + 100 Charged Lodestone + 20 Glob of Ectoplasm = Staff

Gift of Spiders + 250 Orichalcum Ingot + 100 Destroyer Lodestone + 20 Glob of Ectoplasm = Short Bow

Gift of the Moon + 250 Orichalcum Ingot + 100 Corrupted Lodestone + 20 Glob of Ectoplasm = Shield

? This about right?

…that’s ridiculous. Who are they trying to market these weapons to? Who is going to sink that many resources into weapons that are really only passably cool looking, especially compared to the BLC offerings?

What did they use with the gift to make the weapon?

Solirus.1754:

A single gift per item is somewhat more reasonable. However, does this mean there are only 3 weapons to make? Because that leaves a lot of players hanging out to dry. My Warrior can only use one of those 3 weapons.

Pretty sure it’s just the 3 temporary ones from the candy corn merchant.

Again guys, that recipe is tentative. We only know for sure what’s required to make the gifts. We don’t know how exactly to use the gifts to make a weapon.

I doubt anyone’s been able to make all 3 gifts to confirm yet. If it’s a single Gift only it would be far more reasonable, but still pretty extreme for a holiday item

PotatoOverdose.6583:

Ah, just let the people in this thread wallow in their misery.
“Woe is me, woe is me, I can’t get that one cosmetic item!”

GW1 had FoW armor, Vabbi armor, and the like which were much, much harder to get. To say nothing of Crystalline Swords. So yeah, GW1 had ‘absurd’ cosmetic items as well.

How many hundreds of ectos did a gold Crystalline Sword cost in GW1? Yeah exactly.

Reactions to this event on other media (e.g. reddit) and in game are overwhelmingly positive, so with that I’m done with this thread.

Those weren’t Holiday Event items that were only obtainable for a week and meant to be for fun. Your comparison is off base and irrelevant.

Zaxares.5419:

Wait… What do you mean by “Temporary Weapon”? Do you mean just any appropriate weapon type, or as in one of the 3-hour limited weapons that’s only available during Halloween?

Because if so, then there’s a very, very short window of opportunity to craft these perma-Halloween weapons, which pretty much will lock out a large part of the player base. I can’t see that going over well considering the discontent already bubbling over the low drop rate of Halloween skins from the BLC’s…

Yes, the limited time skins that you buy with candy corn

Effectively if the second step is true, a majority of the player base won’t be able to get these weapons because of the insane requirement of the wines and other time constraint issues

“Also, what do you mean by ‘X Halloween Item’?”

(sorry, quote button’s broken again)

Plastic Teeth, Skulls, not sure what the third item is. 100 of each should correspond to each Gift. I’m trying to figure out how they expect us to amass 750 Candy Corn + enough to buy the base weapons + all 300 of the rare materials in just one week… and that’s only for one Exotic weapon…

Confirmed…

why ANet…

Well… here’s all the information I’ve been able to scrounge up from the alpha leaks. Bit more searching shows that it isn’t quite as bad as the above recipes, but it’s still very unfortunate. Template seems to be…

Gift: 250 Candy Corn + 10 Crystalline Dust + 40 Elonian Wine + 100 of X Halloween Item

Weapon: Gift of the Moon + Gift of Spiders + Gift of Souls + Temporary Weapon

Sincerely hoping this isn’t the case. I don’t want my Halloween experience to be building a miniature legendary…