Guild Wars 2

Lord.6497:

I need karma, ecto, gold and materials to craft a legendary. I’m trying to accumulate all at once. Events provide the best avenue in terms of number of things to kill, karma, and a small amount of silver for completion. I just don’t think normal players like myself should be penalized by code meant to prevent botters.

Don’t forget those of us that are just trying to level our crafting by farming instead of spending lots of coin on the trading post!

I’ve noticed the auto-play counted timer ends and the launcher stays stuck on the validation screen. What’s up with that?

I’ve tried checking and uncheck the auto-play, same result.

LinseyMurdock.4165:

WvW DOES scale all loot to your level, but PvE does not. I don’t know the exact percentage but it’s not a big number, I am sure. We wanted you to be able to go back to low level PvE maps to farm for low level mats.

This can’t be true or it’s not working right.

I’ve wasted a 4 days now on tier 1 and tier 2 leather and cloths and still haven’t gotten my leatherworking caught up to my jewelcrafting. I’m level 42.. I spent 3 days in Queensdale farming rawhide leather and jute.. the only time I got it was from loot bags. Any gear I got was level appropriate to my character and salvaged into either thin or coarse leather.

Now I’m looking for thin leather in Gendarran Fields and it’s the same deal. I’m only getting thin leather from bags, not from loot I can salvage, it all salvages into Coarse.

Their response has been utter silence.

Sparkie.3465:

It’s a drop rate issue, not a mechanics issue. There’s plenty of leather around and it’s got the same gathering mechanism. They just need to tweak the drop rates and drop tables a bit.

It’s absolutely a mechanics issue.

The loot tables change based on level. Instead of getting scrap and armor to salvage for the level 15 zone you’re in, you get scrap and armor for your level 30 character which would be great if you needed those mats, but you don’t.

I’m right there with you. I’m level 42s and the best armor I can make with leatherworkings is 30. Has nothing to do with lack of discovery. I out leveled the starting zone and then the zone after that and didn’t have enough mats to even get to 75. That’s right, I was level 25 and I was struggling to make level 10 armor!

Now I find myself in the same dilemma. I’m sitting here in a zone that’s 7 levels beneath me trying to get enough leather/cloth to catch up.

Jewelcrafting, not a problem. I can farm more copper/silver if I need it without a problem. I currently need gold, but that’s because I haven’t started playing in zones with gold… because I’m still trying to get level for crafting 10 levels beneath me.

I love how arenanet continues to ignore the problem.

I salute you for getting to leatherworking 400. I’m stuck at 112 because I can’t get another thin leather and wool. Before that it was rawhide and jute. The drop rates on mats for leatherworking suck once you out level the zones.

Jemmi.6058:

You gather copper in the 1-15 areas really (Copper is in Kessex Hills, but rare), and can’t wear the armor until 5-10 levels later. Seems silly to me, but OK. Wish they had more copper / less Iron in KH as their seems to be a flood of iron in the market and a lack of copper.

Part of the reason there’s so much Iron is because Iron is the mats you need to start making the rare armor sets.

Be glad you can go back to the previous zone and farm up the ore. If you had to gather leather and cloth, you’d be totally screwed since they drop based off of loot tables and once you out level the zone, the leather/cloth changes to the next tier forcing you to be dependent on the bags droppings with salvage or leather in them.

I think the blue mats being harder to get would be much more tolerable if we weren’t wasting so much time trying to get the right leather after we’ve out leveled the zone and loot tables change.

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

Just use the trading post. Sell the material you don’t need, buy the stuff you need more of. Well, unless you have a good reason why this is unacceptable.

I find the situation unacceptable. I have no trouble with jewelcrafting, but leatherworking…

Curtis, multiple zones of the same level-range don’t help.

Leather and Jute are mostly gear drop base. Once you out level the zone the loot tables change and thus you won’t be looting gear that disassembles into jute and rawhide leather. Even the scrap we can dissemble changes.

The best we can hope for at level 20+ is a loot bag from select level 10 zone mobs and the loot bags have their own loot tables that doesn’t mean jute or leather every time.

Is Arenanet doing anything about the fact that you can’t get enough leather and jute to not need them anymore before moving out of the level ranges they drop at?

As they said, Transmutation stones take care of this. You basically bought a skin, now you have to buy the rest.

Annoyed as well. I’d hope there’d be a way to “recharge” the golem, then I saw the cashshop bank portal.

I’ve gotten keys from 2 sources, completing story missions and open up black lion chests.

If I could use it in combat. Heck, I’d probably buy multiples for different characters.

The Snowden Drifts’s skillpoint in Dragon’s Rising by Lost Child’s Sorrow waypoint npc doesn’t appear.

Forget jute.. give me some leather.

I’ve done some searching but I can’t seem to find any straight answers about a few things, so I figured I’d just ask.

1) How do crafting nodes spawn/respawn? I realized they’re phased, but how often do they respawn? I realize they’re at random locations on respawn, but is there a fix number for spawns?

2) Is there a good site collecting the various discovery recipes along with what levels you can create them and such? I’ve found a few sites, but they’re organized terribly for looking up to see “what can I discover now.” Basically I don’t want to waste making mats to discover patterns for gear and then having nothing left to discover.. I realize I’ll need to make some to level crafting, but I’d rather not lose mats.

And two long term questions..

3) Legendary craft. For the sword, I’ve gathered you need weaponsmith and artificer. However, I can’t figure out if you need them both on the same character. Can I have weaponsmith on one and artificer on another? (I hope so, I don’t want to have multiple weaponsmiths!)

4) Are Legendarys account or character bound (or don’t we know?) I’m assuming that if the mats are account bound from crafting, that the weapon will be character bound, bound to the character that combines all the mats.

Cluisanna.1360:

So it has to be done all on the same character and in the same zone? Ugh -.-

Yes, and on the same server. So don’t be on the overflow then move to the live server when you’re trying to do it. (Also, don’t log out.)

The rewards is new armor/weapon skins, that’s about it.

Not sure how the armor/weapon system works for pvp, here’s a helpful link…

You don’t need to do it, you can stick to your starting gear and go with it, but it’s still something fun.

Maybe less CCs and more condition removal?

BaTcHo CHoY.8354:

Can anyone give me a way to lvl up fast? Because all the leveling guides i’ve seen require me to cook stuff with “sticks of butter”. But ever since that one patch u can’t buy sticks of butter from vendors anymore. i am a asuran necro only lvl 15, but used to hav gaurdian 25.

There’s nothing special waiting for you at level 80. What you do at 15 and 25 will be what you’ll do at 80.

Thanks guys!

I’m kind of surprise appearance change isn’t in there, along with the bank bot.

I’ve seen a few NPCs wear it but since we can’t preview armor on the trade post, I can’t preview everything to see if it exist.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/24/gw013aq.jpg/

Anyone know what armor it is? I’m assuming it’s heavy and either a warrior or guardian set.