Guild Wars 2

I can’t speak for everyone, of course, but I don’t report people just for teleporting away from a node. Popping up out of nowhere at a node, immediately gathering, then teleporting away, however, I take as warp-hack behavior and I will report that. Even when I do see someone pop up at a node, I often hesitate to report right away, because there have been times I’ve logged a character off at a node and, obviously, you won’t know if they’re gonna just vanish afterwards, until they do. Usually, though, I will see the behavior repeated at 2 or more nodes within a zone, by the same character.

Tea Eye Ay.6248:

This. I was at the Great Jungle Wurm encounter a few minutes ago and it died faster than I could even target it. I didn’t get a hit off so I didn’t get a chest either. Very disappointing, ArenaNet.

This same thing just happened to me. The Wurm was at 25% hp or less when it became targetable, thanks to 80’s spamming their 1 attack manually at its spawn point.

Better scaling sounds good, sure, but I’d argue that the wurm needs to be made invulnerable until it becomes targetable.

~840g cash on the character I use for most of my trading, 2-6g on each of my others (I currently have 10 characters, including 8 at level 80), full exotics on three of them. All crafting maxed over 4 characters, lots and lots of mats, some money invested at any given time…

I’d probably be at around 1100-1200g right now if I hadn’t found trading to be so tedious and taken a break from it. As it stands, I have more gold than I can ever imagine spending, and I don’t care to get a legendary, so I almost never spend any of it.

Yes, I’m quite sure I took taxes into account. I still made a profit, and all of the materials (and the etched weapon) were bought from the tp, in each instance on the same day I made the corrupted weapon.

I’ll pm you the names of the 2 items I referred to. One was from weaponsmithing, and the other was from artificing.

I have maxed all crafts, and made back far more than that total cost by crafting 2 specific rare items. The profit wasn’t huge, but on a good day I would sell over a hundred of them, and that adds up. Now, I’ll grant that I haven’t been crafting those particular items lately, and maybe that situation has changed, but the point is, I’ve found that while many or maybe even most recipes won’t make a solid profit, there are always some that can, and you may have to do some looking to figure out which those are.

As for corrupted weapons, I made some of those last week. They all earned me a profit.

Camaro Charr.2805:

Mustang GT? My Camaro SS will smoke that name.

This makes me want to create a character named Gulf Oil GT40 with a light blue and orange color scheme.

Monsoon.2589:

Now imagine this: you drop your plush icon on that top left starter backpack and voila you have your skin applied…how much more user friendly and intuitive would it be instead of talking about Back and Backpacks and meaning the opposite.

In essence the Tooltip when mouseover the BL item should says instesad: “Customize your BACK item with this plush quaggan cover. (Requires level 35)” or simply enable the sking to be dropped on that starter backpack instead.

Does that answer your question? Oh and thanks for helping to make things clearer…I still hope this gets changed cause I can t be the only one that derped on this process

I don’t know why you keep talking about using it on your “starter backpack” though, because that is a bag. I understand that it could be worded more clearly and accurately, but I hope you can understand why I have tried to get clarification from you on some things – when you keep talking about bags, naturally I wonder if you really understand that it’s to be used on back slot items, not bags.

No, you’re not the only one who has posted on this item, however – to my knowledge – you’re the only one who has apparently vendored the strap.

It looks like you’re still misunderstanding how it works. In the mail you would have received one item, but the thing is, that item is a container and when you double-click it, you will receive from it the skin, plus a leather strap back piece. This is because the skin is only that, a skin, not an actual back slot item itself. You are meant to use the skin on the strap to give you the quaggan backpack skin on that back item. For those that already have a back item, they would ignore the strap and use the skin on their existing back item.

Back, not bag. Do you understand now? You still haven’t made clear whether or not you ever double-clicked the original item you got in the mail. Please understand that I am simply trying to get all the details here, in case it is simply a misunderstanding and not a blindly-vendored item that is the problem.

Serenity.6149:

if you double click on the initial item you got from the mail, you end up with both the skin and the low-level back item to use it on.

I think this bears repeating, because after reading the thread, it isn’t exactly clear to me that you indeed double-clicked the item you received in the mail. Typically when people have issues with this item, the problem is that they don’t realize that the mailed item is a container and you have to double-click it first to get the actual backpack skin and the leather strap out of it. If you have indeed done this already, then disregard my post.

Of the 2 possibilities in mind, that you sold the strap or that you simply haven’t double-clicked the original item that was mailed to you, the latter seems far more likely. Especially since the strap wouldn’t be vendored via the sell junk button.

As far as the question of selling rare weapons vs salvaging for ectos, just know that selling the rares is safer while salvaging involves the RNG. As for making rares to sell, you can indeed make a modest profit selling certain level 80 rare crafted weapons. However, I think a better use of the T5 mats might be to craft cloth or leather level 80 rare armor and salvage those for ectos.

It is possible to throw greens into the forge and get rares, and I have heard of people making money doing that with certain levels of greens, though I don’t have much first-hand experience with that.

What I find surprising about the beggars in GW2 is that it took so long for me to run into any, and now every day there’s someone begging in LA map chat.

I’ve played a lot of EQ and some WoW, and begging was a pretty regular occurance in each – though WoW had way more beggars in it that I saw. I don’t give to beggars, but I have given free stuff to a couple of people in EQ.

One was a rogue who had been away from the game since the days of wearing banded mail armor (a crafted armor that was pretty poor by the time I started the game). He seemed like a good guy and wasn’t actually begging, so I gave him one of my bard’s illusion masks just because it had way more armor value than what he had. The other one couldn’t get a hold of a particular clicky to use in swarm kiting as it was very expensive, so I gave him a comparable item I’d outgrown. (Anyone who played a lot of EQ will probably recognize the references).

I can confirm the title is account-based. I have my maxed crafting spread over different characters and have access to the title.

I was fully prepared to enjoy some variety in dailies, among other aspects of the patch. However, I feel like they’ve really screwed the pooch with the dailies.

Combo Killer – already addressed, wasn’t working as intended.

Daily Crafter – bear in mind as I comment on this that I, personally, craft on a pretty regular basis. That said, I don’t agree with this being implemented, as it is forcing crafting onto some people that would rather not a) spend money on crafting, or b) spend any time on crafting. Regardless of the relative ease of completion, I simply don’t agree with this decision.

Daily Dodger – while I don’t have any great difficulties timing dodges, some players do. I don’t think a less-skilled player should be held back by a deficiency in reflexes or in reading mob animations.

Daily Healer – what this requirement does is encourage players not to help npc’s or other players stay on their feet. The extent to which this can influence players’ behavior remains to be seen, but already in one zone I played in tonight, players were yelling at people to let allies die so that they could get credit on this one.

I hope the requirements for the rest of the week are more thoroughly thought out than these seem to have been.

I thought it might help for me to give a quick rundown on discovery. Basically, for armor and weapon crafting, you’ll need an insignia/inscription, and 2 matching pieces from the “Crafting Components” list in the crafting interface which are of the same tier as the inscription or insignia you’re using. For example: Vital Jute Insignia, Rawhide Chestguard Panel, and Rawhide Chestguard Padding for a leatherworked chest piece.

After crafting these, you would click on the discovery tab, then place each of the 3 items into the boxes in the right-hand pane. You would then see at the bottom of that pane that this will make an undiscovered item – assuming you didn’t already learn that recipe.

Cooking is a bit different from armor and weapon crafting, but I think once you get the hang of discovery mode for the other crafts, you’ll have a good idea of how to learn recipes in cooking as well. Artificer potions are more similar to cooking in the way they’re discovered than the other trades, in my opinion.

I’ve made far more gold from crafting than I ever spent on maxing all the trades.

Manganeez.4801:

This is separate from the 250 that everyone received in the mail that also included the back piece, etc.

Source?

I was under the impression that the mail was to ensure that everyone got at least enough cogs to make 2 of the 5 toy minis, since diminishing returns reduced the number of cogs received in the dungeon for a lot of players, and that wasn’t intended.

“Then opening the chest…” reads as he got the cogs for the mini, then opened the chest. If Teege is complaining about the chest drops, then it’s just lame loot (in his/her opinion) and not a bug, as far as I know. I’ve gotten the same sort of loot every day in there.

If that is supposed to read the way it appears to, then you have the correct amount of cogs now. 100 per version of the Infinirarium, equalling 300 cogs, which is what I have.

My 2 thoughts on this:

1) maybe it’s time for me to try FT + HGH build again…

2) changing flash and poison grenades to do damage on hit doesn’t make up for the damage loss – they aren’t off cooldown in time to constantly throw them like the 1 skill is.

I’ve been eagerly awaiting this patch since I’m leveling up my ranger now, but one thing I didn’t expect that kind of disappointed me was that Thief axe attacks became more interruptable, but not Ranger 1h sword attacks. When I picked up my Ranger again several days ago to work on him, I started using the 1h sword instead of the axe mh I’d used previously, and my only real annoyance with it is that you get pretty much locked into the continuing attack animation with it, aside from a couple of actions that can interrupt it. I would love to be able to move freely during the sequence.

Otherwise, I mostly like the patch – although it appears they nerfed my Engineer’s grenade damage to compensate for sigils being functional with kits (unless I read that wrong).

I’m pretty sure there are already enough complaints about broken / imbalanced mechanics for Anet to see what people are concerned about there. Do we not have a right as players to complain about a presumably unnecessary cosmetic change for the worse? I spend enough time on the trading post that the new background bothers me.

Same here, I don’t like it.

I can’t give you any easy way to get them, but you do have a chance of one every day that you complete your daily achievements. Still pretty rare, though, in my experience.

Event just ended for the overflow I was in. We were all being asked to leave once we got the chest so others could try to get in. Just thought I’d let folks know here.

Big thank you to helpful people tonight, I may not have gotten a precursor, but at least I got to see the event through to the finish. Thanks from the wife, as well

Appears to be full now

ok I finally got in, thanks so much. Add me to the list of people whom to /join

Nebishtin.

Siphaawal.3475:

plenty or room keep requesting (dont pm)

Just tried. Got the pending member thing, seemed like it was declined.

I’ve tried joining like 4 different names from the last page here, and it’s not giving me any feedback whatsoever – as in, can’t tell the command was even entered.

On the off chance that it’s possible, I’d love an invite if someone would be so kind. Character: Nebishtin

I did the first hour and a half but then had to log off thanks to that pesky real life thing.

Devona’s Rest

Canach bugged, MIA and event won’t start.
Levvi bugged, can’t hand in.

^ this. Between the horrendous lag at the kickoff event, bugged parts of the scavenger hunt activities, and invisible mobs – karka and risen alike at the spiral in Caledon – today’s activities are a mess. I hope they fix some of this stuff really soon.

Iehova.9518:

RetiredBard.5294:

Claw of Jormag.

Buff chest loot to have a significant probability of containing at least 1 lodestone. Problem solved.

Problem not solved. Not when farmers are reporting upwards of 3 lodestones by drawing it out. Now add to that that they were reporting a precursor drop from a champ in phase 2. I don’t think that chance at a lodestone or 2 from the chest is going to discourage farmers drawing out the battle.

I don’t feel that strongly either way about this issue except when it comes to the Claw of Jormag. It’s already an ugly situation thanks to the ongoing conflict between people who want to complete the event, and those that are farming corrupted lodestones. Remove DR and it’s gonna get far uglier. Then again, while I enjoy killing the dragons, I tend to agree with a post I saw in a different topic that maybe the timing of these dragons’ events should be randomized some.

This is giving me flashbacks of WoW and the whole “gear-score” thing.

I think it’s a shame people are excluding non-80s but from what I’ve seen they’re about 20% of the party recruiters in Lion’s Arch, tops. I understand some people wanting to do speed runs to maximize their chance at exotics during a short-term event – there are always going to be min-/maxers, but there are also a lot of friendly, helpful players who don’t mind taking a lower-level character.

I loved it. Yes, there are some bugs, and yes it can cause lots of hand-wringing in frustration, but when you reach the end, it feels great.