Guild Wars 2

i’d be up for an option to create an insta-80 tome, but not the level 80 boost and its bonuses. like… the level 20-30-40 scrolls we get from birthdays, the ability to craft those from tomes would be nice, instead of needing to spam a single tome over and over.

its an achievement reward, so yeah, only one per account. however, if you just want the skin of the staff, that can be transmuted. if youre worried about a level 80 exotic weapon, theyre fairly easy to come by as well.

How’s about bringing back the Mad Memories backpiece for this Halloween? you’re bringing back stuff from all of Season 1 Living Story, all the year 1 wintersday stuff, so how about the last vestige of the year 1 content (that wasnt Beta restricted, thats understandably unavailable) and bring back that backpiece?

first, the obligatory “change it back”

second, the change makes it kitten near worthless to even use food/utility buffs for condi now. the BEST food now only gives 6.66%, somewhat hilarious given the nature of condi, but not funny in any other way… down from 20%.

and then the utility? theres now only ONE item that gives condition duration, since you removed it from everything Toxic. and guess what? that item, at its peak, only gives around 5% as well. on a Viper, it gives 3.5% barely. i mean seriously, i get condition was strong, but you’ve effectively made food irrelevant to any condition build. even with party buffs up, you get like what, an extra 2% from the precision boosts? is this really just aimed at raiding parties that can overboost to get everything to 100% or something?

you went in too deep on the expertise changes. double the values and it would actually make sense. the giver’s weapons are fine though. it sucks too, but at least those numbers make sense.

HAH! the new Gauntlets for Weaver are called Antipodes! love it. was it because of me? doubt it. but i still love it!

was just trying to clear out my bank, and I always attune my rings before smashing, but for some reason the Mellaggan’s Whorl (Infused) Ring won’t show up inside of the Forge menu when selecting the other 3 items. seems like the recipe is bugged

Idea: Unbound Salvage Kit.

For those who dont care about Luck(or even have Maxed Magic find) this salvage kit would give you Unbound magic, relative to the amount of Luck you would have received. maybe like 5 magic per Fine essence, and so on, half their Luck value being given in Unbound magic?

could even be an Infinite use Fine Grade salvage kit, to distinguish it from the copper-fed, or just a new kit to buy from heart merchants that sell Unbound Tools.

Edit: also, as much as im sure it wont happen, i’d like to suggest an Infinite Tool exchange, possibly through the same merchant who sells boost powder.. basically allowing you to trade in an infinite tool, for the same type of infinite tool, in a different design, but with maybe a Gem or Gold cost attached to it.

oh, was that not obvious? because Chrono Trigger, thats why! Marle and Lucca could dual tech their Fire and Ice magic to make Antipode spells. would be a great shoutout.

So i heard some things… and all I have to say is this:

if Fire and Water can be mixed to make a skill, there NEEDS to be a skill called “Antipode” that results from mixing Fire and Water.

i can still hope!

DoctorDing.5890:

Danikat.8537:

The bank window is big enough (and I don’t think it can be resized) that I don’t think we’d need to worry about people abusing the system by keeping it open indefinitely.

Bing! You win the prize. People definitely would abuse it. They would open it and then drag it almost completely off the screen and leave it there whilst they farm their kittens off.

and why shouldnt they be able to get the most out of an item that they paid for? im behind the no-auto-close. its not like it would give people an edge in any game mode. you cant use it in pvp, and youre too busy fighting in wvw, and raids would be too hectic.

Just off the top of my head… we need more cool effects for elite specializations using their legendary weapons. examples:

Druid: Solar Beam – Change the beam from its thin bluish white beam to a thick rainbow beam, just like the trail you see come off of projectile attacks.

Reaper: Shroud Form – change the blade of the Scythe into the same effect as whichever legendary is held, if it has one. like the dense black fog for Twilight, the blue astral for Astralaria, to name two.

Scrapper: Grenades – maybe when using Juggernaut, you could change them to be an orb of liquid metal(and perhaps if this isnt already a thing, add in a projectile effect for any bolts or projectiles from other skills while wielding Juggernaut.)

Daredevil: Dust Strike – when wielding Bifrost maybe it splashes a wave of rainbow colored dust, and when using Nevermore, it looks more like the blue puffs of flame that ascalonian ghosts often strike with.

just the ones i could think of. but the general idea is more effects!!

P.S. please fix the Dreamer <60fps bug. i miss hearing my own legendary due to hardware limitations.

I kinda had a crazy idea a while back for Condi damage but in a Burst fashion:

Condition Detonation.
in instances where you perhaps know the enemy is going to cleanse all the conditions on him, you use a skill that forces the game to immediately apply all remaining ticks of damage, possibly at reduced damage, maybe not… but apply all of it in one cluster of damage. the enemy would be rid of all its conditions, but they would do instant damage. sorta like epidemic, but an implosion of sorts.

Edit: or, perhaps even a skill that causes all conditions for a short time to apply their damage directly, but at only 75% effectiveness? sorta like those skills that make someones attacks unblockable for 5 seconds, basically turns your conditions uncleansable(because they do all damage in 1 tick) for several seconds.

Second Edit: or maybe tone it down a bit and make it a trait that focuses on just one condition, like making all your poisons do instant damage instead of DoT.

any Dev wanna comment on it?

i kinda like the pink look a little, but i was really hoping they would all be that dark rich red. the name Crimson evokes such an image in my mind, at least.

with every other set, the color stays fairly consistent through the whole set, regardless of the weapon being used, but the crimson set is fairly odd in that some skins have a very deep Red color, but others have a Pink color. is this just my eyes messing with me here?

is this just a case of the red skins showing this more prevalent and the previous skins just used such bright colors that it was less noticeable? to me it seems fairly obvious. i would have thought it was a case of the item’s thickness, but the staff head is a fair bit thicker than the greatsword, and, well… here’s 3 of the skins for comparison.

Fairly simple idea, just some form of compensation for excess tribulation tokens. once you have all the skins, maybe give us a way to trade them back to Moto for like, 2 Bubbles each? doesnt have to be a lot, just… right now theyre wasted. i like to run Tribulation for those extra baubles and a chance at better loot. wouldnt mind getting to sell these tokens too.

I never get to hear the sound of Dreamer anymore. apparently some bug about <60FPS causes the sound to never register? i play at capped 30 FPS to reduce the heat of my card, so i never get to hear it, and i miss the sound of it. i like the sound of it neighing on every shot… but now i never hear it…

DarkMonk.4531:

And why should I go through all of this if other instruments such as Harp or Bells have a resonable basic volume? Instruments have been moved to its own sound channel so ppl who are annoyed by it could mute it.

fine, dont do it then.

turn up your GW2 volume in the system volume mixer, then go to GW2 options, audio. set master volume to max, decrease everything except “player instrument volume” and boom. boosted boom box volume.

i dont fully agree with it, BUT, the skins are meant to be farmed over multiple years anyway, as a festival reward. we can get 1 token from the course load daily, then after 8 days we get a box which contains an orange skin, OR 8 tokens. so every 8 days, you can get 16 tokens. across the time given.. thats until the 20th, so 21 dailies at least, you can get 37 tokens if you wanted. if youre like me, and did the dailies last year, you started with about half the progress done, so i’ll be able to get a third box of 8 tokens.. so worst case, you can get enough tokens to buy Two 2-handed weapons, or a few more cheaper ones. best case, you can get 45 tokens, if you had a jump start from last year.

not to mention the people who hoarded the chest from last year get an even better jump on it, since they just changed the contents of the chest, letting them get more tokens for being patient and not opening it.

also, come on anet, that pvp track is pretty useless. 32 baubles as the final reward? cant even give us clovers with it like every other track? should have been 50 BUBBLES not 32 BAUBLES. and really, should have been a choice to get crimson tokens from it. like 2 tokens as a choice in the final box.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

A little birdie said you will be pleasantly surprised!

Good luck.

well if it has anything to do with the Copter back/glider combo, i saw those. looks ok. but i wasnt referring to that. still hopeful though

So we already have the Glider, looks like a little 8-bit jetpack with big blue wings… i’d love to see this as a backpack too. either just a little jetpack, like minus the wings, like they deploy FROM that…. or i’d love to see the wings constantly out. any chance we could see that, Devs? maybe as a gift to anyone who bought the original glider, and in addition to any future purchases of the original glider?

you know this gerent drop is still a thing. is it really supposed to be not guaranteed? i mean we’re talking something that only happens every 2 hours, and takes planning and a bit of dedication to pull off.

i just park a character there and load them everyday.

its like they hate trailblazer’s stats.. its now 60 gold just for the flowers, per inscription/insignia. what is the point, guys? you make the “best” DPS stat easy to get by giving black diamonds to us in a choice, but then you make a fun condi tank set unattainable?

I just wanna say how much i LOVE this staff. i love how tall it is, the design of the top reminds me of Magical Girl stuff. i kinda wish the stone sparkled, or spun at the tip, but otherwise its fantastic. would even love to see like a full set of weapons with this design, even. as a side note, love the Devoted skins, too. whoever designed those, theyre great. Garish in the absolute best of ways.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You can watch the Guild Chat pertinent to Bitterfrost Frontier; the Devs state they will have the Effects Team look at it.

Good luck.

huh… somehow missed that… thanks for the heads up.

is there a reason it cant look exactly like the way it looks when youre holding a Koda torch?

for comparison, here’s the image from the Wiki, which honestly feels like false advertisement at this point.

here’s a shot with me wearing all my equipment.

Im really quite disappointed in this infusion… i had seen a human wearing it, saw it was a nice bright orange glow.. but then i wear it on my Charr, and its basically not even there. becomes even harder to see with my other infusion effects on.

i only noticed random screaming when bloodstone fen hit. and in fact, i only see it in bloodstone fen and ember bay. i see it nowhere else.

wish it had a Carni Cannon to launch you to any Heart Merchant on the map.

basically like a “Main” slot huh? well not a terrible idea i suppose. though not very practical. if you play a character enough to want them at the beginning, theyre probably already at the beginning, and searching through your character list isnt that bad. i wouldnt mind a list for character select though. i like the portraits, but sometimes it IS hard to find the character im looking for(i have almost 30, and yes, i know more people have more)

while we’re on the subject of Chambers that need updating, what about the Grove’s Omphalos Chamber? why cant you even talk to the Pale Tree about Trahearne’s Death? I mean seriously, its been almost a year. I mean you included an option to talk about Scarlet, but none for Trahearne? Her almost prized firstborn? talk about immersion breaking.

Could be a legendary or just a fun Mystic Forge skin, but, I would love to see a Focus called The Singularity, that looks like, or similar to, the Infinity Ball. due to the account bound nature of Dark Matter, and the relative lack of sinks for it, could be a fun way to get rid of it. It could use the same formula as The Anomaly, but simply substitute the 250 Ectoplasm, with 250 Dark Matter.

Back in my day, we got a Mystic Coin in the daily! and you know what? people complained that they were worthless! cant please everyone.

i lost 7000 destroyer cores. bought them 10 minutes after the patch went live, then somehow when i went to buy them again, i was magically too late to purchase them. i had to sit and watch as the price steadily rose to its current standing, constantly being told “the item was already sold” and not getting a single purchase in.

Ceesa.1350:

It took me 3 tries to find a whirlpool and then 2 tries to get sucked in. Both of the whirlpools that I saw appeared in front of teq at the end of the first phase of the fight, almost right as he goes invuln and before everyone runs to batteries. The first time I wasn’t able to run to one in time, but the second time I made it. Each time there were only 2 whirlpools that I saw.

I don’t know if you’re trying to contribute to the fight, but my recommendation is that you don’t. Just hang out about 600-1000 range from his head as his health starts to drop and ping him with a longbow or something while you scan the ground with your eyes like a hawk. They don’t have orange AOE circles, so you have to look for the graphical effect.

Just keep trying, I’m sure you can do it!

well, finally managed to find that just horrible enough map. the kind of map that has enough people to win, but not enough to chain burns. still though, this needs to change ANet.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

LazySummer.2568:

Another oversight in legendary collections and people trying to justify it and shrugging it off like it’s nothing special…I’m not surprised at all

I think you misunderstand what some folks are saying: that the whirlpools spawn more often than others of us have noticed and that it requires standing in the right part of the map just before the first defense phase.

I confess that I haven’t seen this myself, so I can’t confirm. However, before absolutely denying it as a possibility (or guaranteed spawn), I plan to return and check it out. I hope you consider doing that, too.

And just because this particular achievement/collection requirement might turn out to be easier than we thought… it still could be true that too many of the legendary collection requirements are blocked by unrealistic event triggers. ANet has acknowledged this and asked for specific examples, so they can fix them. (This, in my opinion, is one of the most significant reasons why other legendary weapons have been indefinitely postponed: ANet only recently realized just how much they need to adjust in the game to make them relatively special and effective.)

tl;dr focus on the issue at hand, try not to bite the heads off folks who are making an effort to help

I’m also still continuing to try. waiting for help isnt getting me anywhere, but im glad you at least agree things arent the way they should be.

i have maximized graphical settings at all times. its not any sort of ‘cant see it’ thing. they just. dont. spawn.

and yet another tequatl without a single whirlpool spawning. and yet somehow, everyone else is saying “oh they spawn regularly”

i even did as people said, i joined a map late. i joined it 5 minutes AFTER he spawned, and STILl there wasnt a single whirlpool.

yeah i put my permanent bank stone in there. i used to have to put it inthe bank and swap each character next to a bank to pull it out, but now, i have bank access almost anywhere. still cant use it in some places, like during pvp matches or inside of SAB, but i suppose thats ok, given those two places dont need bank access all that much. with the free one i got from HoT, i put my perm merchant in there. so now i can bank AND sell anywhere. if i ever got a third, i’d try to get the TP merch, then i wouldnt need cities ever again.

im not here to talk about the kitten skins, i dont care. if you say you see whirlpools constantly, then give proof. all youre doing is creating disbelief in my story.

as i said, there is a chance spawn that occurs when he is summoning fingers just as he enters battery phase. the game thinks he’s in phase 2, so instead of just summoning fingers, it adds whirlpools to the attack. this might be a viable method, if not for the very short window that it happens in, and the irregularity of it.

So, since whirlpools are required for…. basically every legendary collection, is it? how about NOT locking them behind a failure, or a chance occurrence at his first battery phase entrance?

I mean seriously, every day its the same thing. I enter a map, and no matter how much i ask, no one is willing to slow burn to allow him to summon whirlpools. constantly im told to seek another map, to find a fail Tequatl, to shut my mouth, to eat unsavory appendages, or any other colorful euphemism for “no” all because the only way to make whirlpools spawn with any amount of frequency is to, yet again, do the event ‘wrong’.

Its not even just Tequatl, this problem was brought up countless times before.. requiring people to fail Grenth or Dwayna, or any other temple defense, because they needed the specific Capture event. and maybe not even the event, but a debuff that only occurs during the capture, from a mob that doesnt spawn during the defend… or a single Champion Risen Wraith that only spawns if an event takes too long, and only if the area has a high number of players nearby to force the event to scale. sound familiar?

Bottom line is, you need to make a more faithful manner for whirlpools to spawn.. maybe add them to his phase 1 attack chain, maybe trigger him to summon whirlpools every time he enters a battery phase, regardless of HOW he entered the battery phase? or maybe just stop putting these ridiculous failure mechanics in collection achievements.

seems to happen because i manage to get behind a cloud, and then activate it somehow. however, this one ocurred during normal travel, i was just walking along the rainbow, and suddenly i was stuck.

well… got lucky, he spawned at the beginning of the lyssa event.

only been doing it a couple days, but to require a mob that only spawns when the event scales, to also be dependant on it’s sister event NOT being completed before it, is an absolutely atrocious requirement. it would be different if you could get it from ANY risen wraith of champion rank, but i cant even find another one.

I also like how I was told by someone from their support team that i should report players who are intentionally preventing me from getting the achievement… it makes me want to report everyone, but I cant, since the only think theyre doing is trying to complete an event. i literally cannot do anything.