Guild Wars 2

CopperPhoenix.8592:

They do NOT need to make this content vanish. I all but quit the game when they removed the F&F content because I enjoyed it more than anything else they put out so far. It was fun getting to see new stories unfold and the new dungeon was great fun. The majority of the group I played with has moved on to other games after that content was taken away. I personally think it could be easy for Anet to keep the old content by simply adding historians to a zone like one of the major cities or the EOTN zone where you can go to get hotm rewards and making that a place we could use to access the elapsed living world content as “new histories” of Tyria much the same way as the historians with the books worked in the first game.

I agree 100%, I just got back online after a few months, I broke my mouse hand and couldn’t play for a while. I missed the last part of frost and flame, so I was a bit ticked off that I would never get to play it. I talked myself into playing again today only to log and and see I missed an entire new set of content. So now I’m trying to read the forums figuring out if Anet has any plans to let us replay it and it looks like a big NO. I think that is insane. I like the idea of the world changing, but why there is no way to go back into a old instanced shard to participate in the story just drives me nuts. Even if they needed time to develop the system, I don’t see why they couldn’t make an extra server you could guest to that does nothing but cycle the old content every 2 weeks or so.

Anyway I have no plans to stick around if I’m missing out on content. I thought this was suppose to be a game, not a job where I have to show up daily or get left behind.

No, Flash sales announced on twitter. I can’t wait for something I want to go on sale when I’m at work.

They have more problems than just the guesting issue though. I got a bronze on the Shatterer and I was there the entire fight trying to hit the boss the entire time, the next time I got a silver lol… Skills wont fire or take 15+ seconds of repeated tapping just to work. To many people and to many people guesting from other servers. I’m seeing a Que at midnight-2am eastern time.

I think they need to give priority to home server accounts, but they still have some issues with population per area which may end up putting people into ques if they thin out the amount per area so it fixes the major lagging problem.

Zogyark.4597:

Shadow Behemoth was farmed for about a month after the fix in January, not a single Final Rest drops, comes last february patch and 20, maybe more are found in half a day. Either the loot table was messed up and fixed last patch or the drop rate was increased significally.

It looks they drop rate was increased to what the others are like Wisteria and Shard of the deep from the other world bosses, plus the increased drop rate added to chests in general.

While I’m willing to believe that the drop rate was insanely low before hand and in the loot tables, I still find it impossibly hard to believe that it wasn’t somehow bugged. Especially considering how much it was farmed the past month and the length of time it’s been out. I did it myself 5-10 times a day with guesting, now it’s only 1 time a day (unless you have several high lvl toons).

Hexgame.4802:

Glad I was able to get 186g for mine last night

ugg I’m so jealous, I knew that was going to happen. I’m so freaking pooor lol. I spend 4 hours last night waiting at the SB event because it kept getting reset by the patches. I hit 3 back to back to back, I only had 1 level 80 toon though so I figured I would only get the one shot since we had one chest per day crap now.

looks like 3-4 were just found after this last round of SB kills by looking at orders filled on the TP lol.

Oh well one of these days I guess Ill be able to make my fortune. By the time people figure out Final rest is dropping every couple hours I imagine it should be down to 10g or less with in a day or so. Get the money while you can peeps lol

SouthernCross.5286:

Well for maw at least if you fail to stop the summoning shaman the elemental is unleashed and you have a big fight event akin to shadow behemoth, I’m not sure if that event rewards the exact same chest as the shaman or a different one, since I did that a long time ago before maw was farmed.

There was someone going ape-kitten on the Maw event saying that if we had only waited 15 minutes to let the elemental appear we would get a better chest. One of the nice things about playing at 4am in the morning , lol, people can almost get away with seeing where dynamic events can go. I solo’d the Shadow Behemoth one night although I wondered what would happen if I didn’t fight it.

Syeria.4812:

Healix.5819:

Syeria.4812:

Bashing Bauxite Alchemicals

I’ve progressed that meta event to the final stage, but never actually completed it myself. I have seen it completed (I arrived just in time to see the conversation the wiki notes follows completion of the last step). However, I don’t think you can ever use the portal, and suspect there’s no chest from the boss.

Doing the final event (Destroy the Mark II golem) spawns a “Secure Container” chest and grants you access to the asura portal, which teleports you outside to the EVAC-U-ATOR 9000 karma merchant.

In that case, it seems like a perfect candidate for the drop. It’s so incredibly rarely done but grants a chest. Honestly, I’d be surprised if the grand total of times my entire server had completed it was more than 5.

Add that to that fact every time I’ve come across this event it’s bugged halfway through.

I don’t understand why they need to base this game on RNG. It’s just irritating in my opinion. If they want to add excitement then add RNG as an very rare thing, 1/100th of what it is now, don’t base the game on RNG though. Have a goal that is obtainable by x amount of time, and an rare chance of something really unique dropping and make it account bound so you don’t give people an unearned advantage in the market and gem store. I don’t think anything as valuable as a precursor should ever drop from RNG and be sellable, that is just plain foolish… The only thing RNG currently does is drive me away from bothering to play this game for an extended period of time.

BTW if you really don’t understand that this is a game played to escape the “unfairness” of real life, I don’t know what to say to you. Maybe we could make it so you only have 100 days to play your character and at any times your toon can just be just be deleted by the RNG gods….

You know a good questions would to ask the Devs? Has anyone done this event/boss in the past yet? Or is this event listed on the Wiki at all, without blatantly saying what it is.

I don’t mean to sound overly nuts here but it seems obvious to me that this is either a very very rare event to come across or a constantly bugged event or bugged chest drop. Perhaps even an event where everything in the event has to fail in order to get to the point that the boss spawns, ie, something moving in and taking over an area and not being pushed backed by players.

I know I keep finding stuff and hidden champ fights as well, like the Mysterious creature on Mount Maelstrom where you have to bring 4 green items and place it in the lava so the thing spawns. I just did that event a week ago but it didn’t drop a chest (although I did get about 70s worth of mats off the thing since the adds would drop stuff) That was a fun solo fight but anyhow, I think there must be something else like this we are missing.

If memory serves me right when I fought the Demagogue I just got some lvl 20ish junk from it’s chest, I was lvl 80 at the time.

Yeah, I don’t think I ever failed to loot a body in that game unless I left it on purpose and needed to run for my life, and even then the different colors of the light beams told me if it was worth running back in to loot the body. That was by far the best loot indicator and looting system I’ve seen in any MMO I’ve played yet.

Yeah, I’ve only seen 2 or 3 Rare or Exotic items actually come from the 12-15 chests I’ve gotten, and usually it’s just a white item.

I think they are also much harder to spot. I’m always combing over an area I’ve blown up with AOE’s now just to make sure i’m not missing them, and I’ve still caught myself 3 times missing the chests only catching them when I was running back through because I noticed I was going the wrong way. I don’t understand why they make it so hard to see loot-able bodies and chests to begin with, especially the chests now considering they are suppose to have the better drops now… SWTOR had a great loot spotting system and an multiple area loot option that I thought was great, I would love to see that in GW2.

Jason King.2647:

If you’re not receiving loot from a champ/vet, it’s most likely because you’re not getting kill credit. We’re currently working on some improvements to this so that it will be easier to get rewards when you kill a creature.

Yikes, out of the frying pan and into the fire lol…

I’ve soloed numerous champions and vets and got nothing but a single blue item once or twice and usually nothing at all but some junk XP, so I’m not sure what you mean by kill credit.

It sounds like the DR system they have in place. You can’t finish more than 2 of the same big events (like the Dragons) in a row. On the 3rd try you get no chest.

ie if you run “The Shatterer” 2 times you have to take that character to another event like Jormag for example. After completing the Jormag fight (up t 2 times) you then can go back and run “The Shatterer” up to 2 times before needing to rest the DR system.

Anyhow, that is how it seems to work, since I’ve been doing this I haven’t missed a single chest in the last week.

Are you guys serious? How in the world could this not be considered an exploit? The question should be why in the world hasn’t Anet banned people for it yet? This exploit early exploit often crap is getting old in MMO’s. It seems unless it’s some major economic issue at play like the Karma weapons or Snowflakes they don’t care about the obvious exploits being used.

Power/Toughness/Vitality is my favorite build at the moment, it just fits my play style more. I haven’t invested into an exotic set yet but even with rares It’s really nice.

If your really good at evading damage the Hybrid Damage build looks really nice Condition/Power/Precision. I can see me liking that one also but I don’t have any gear at the moment to try it out. I really would like to have a Power/Cond/Toughness but I don’t think that gear exists at the moment. I would like it I thinks though…

I never liked the full Condition build because of the caps on corruptions and It always seemed to gimp the support options in group play.

Interesting idea, I can’t say I would ever pay for something like this simply because it seems a bit on the shady side, not to mention the cost is insanely high IMO. It has a lot of room for abuse from 2 people starting a group and kicking people in order to get the slots. To be honest it actually keeps me from even doing pug’s for Arah knowing that it would be a possibility if this takes off. However I’m a free market person so good luck to those who want to start a business doing this, but I hope it fails because it has some major downsides.

I got to say I really like this build, been thinking about it on my own for a bit but never took the time to get into it. I’ve been playing more of a Power wells/Minion Staff/Septer/Dagger build and have always found it decent for the most part. Conditionmancer although has GREAT dps just never fit my playstyle, epidemic still works from others in a group member conditions setting anyhow.

I played around with it in PVP and WOW, I’ve been ambushed by 2 Glass cannons at the same time and still keep going, I killed one and still get close to taking out the other, with some more time learning the skill-set I can easily see taking them both out. I like the stand off power with the staff and the upclose combat with the dagger a lot. Time to actually spend some gold on the Exotic’s it looks like for WvW and PVE.

This just started yesterday for me. After IDK how many months? I’m getting it every 3 or 4 hours now. Happened in in the Cursed Shores, WvWvW, FOTM, and COF Path 2.

I haven’t updated any drivers in months, just updated them today to see if it would cure it but it’s happening again after the update. Slider doesn’t work at all for me.

I saw the same thing a few days ago, I have no idea if he was actually getting a chest reset each time though.

loneknight.8425:

Learn to use the shortcut between the two homebases. Be willing to die while focusing on gift carrier only.

Yep, that’s what I did to. keep hidden in trees and behind boulders and then when you see your chance, stealth and hit him with a full charge of your big one shot him and then drop him fast with what ever you have left. I can’t say I eve stopped a group but that’s not what matters, just get the gift carrier at all costs.

yep, Catapults and Snowmen. we had them all over the place and only a few got through to hit some of the dolyaks. We placed them around the spawn area 2nd, first we put them all over the ring. It went really well toys dropped fast. Just keep building and don’t ever stop. upgraded the ring first and then the outer ones. unless i was to far away then I just made what I could. I think we had 3 Skrit Mercs up also lol.

Sativo.9754:

Seriously, this jump puzzle was easy. If you disagree then you’re just bad at jump puzzles and everyone that isn’t shouldn’t have to be brought down to your level because you feel entitled to doing something you can’t. So much tears on this forum over easy kitten.

I must be really bad at jumping puzzles then, I completed Clocktower 20 times in about 3 hours and Griffonrook run with a bomb twice in about 4 hours, and this one about 15 times in around 4 hours This one isn’t easy either, more forgiving yes but you have way more fail points.

lol, I was wondering why it didn’t seem to do anything. I only played for a little bit last night before I ran off to do other stuff so I didn’t notice it was actually broken.

Yeah, I think it would be fine if they gave a gift giant gift every 100 points. I don’t think they need to make it anything crazy if you happen to make a perfect score by any means, Just more incentive to keep playing.

Yeah I’ve gotten hit with it a few times also. I’m not going to try to get a perfect score, but I’d like to be the top guy at lease once lol. It’s just a bit sad that the rewards aren’t so great for getting a higher score. I stopped doing the Bell choir and went back to the jumping puzzle.

I think this one was harder than the Clock Tower. I know it’s crazy to say such a thing… I’m not saying harder in complexity necessarily, bu you have waaaayyy more fail points.

This one has more Jumps, Multiple traps, and 3 different paths and a Longer run time.

The clock tower was rather easy once you got past the pack at the start and then trained your eyes to stop fixating on the swirls.

Everyone has their problem areas, thinking this one is just plain easy is rather foolish though.

I mastered the Clocktower in about an hour and then mastered it on all alts (9) all races, in about 2 hours. By mastered I mean I could run it back to back to back without failing or thinking I would fail. I’ve only been able to run this one 2 times in a row without failing at some point. I don’t consider that having it mastered.

I may be in the minority here but i think the Clock Tower was easier, The clock tower took a little longer to master do but it loaded faster, had less jumps (less chances for mistakes) and instead of 1 path you need to learn 3 of them.

I mastered the clock tower around an hour or so, and from then on I could easily run it consistently back to back. I think I did it 13-14 times, getting the boots on my 9 toons. Now I’ve ran the wintersmaddness puzzle way too many times, I have somewhere around 15 completions, but I consistently mess up over and over again.

You can’t really slow down in this puzzle, if you do your going to get killed by the frostbite DOT. My camera goes crazy in several spots, I had to turn off my double tap for evades which then makes it harder if from the AOE chill rings near the end. I had the Tower down to a science, I’m not sure why this one is giving me problems, i think it’s the shiny snow flakes, or it could be the fact I haven’t had a smoke in 2 days and i’m loaded on caffeine.

Anyhow, I would say it’s easier in some regards to the Clock tower, but harder in the fact you have a lot more jumps to screw up on.

Downsides:

The Norn and Charr mess up the view again, if you get more than 3 people starting you can lose track of your toon easy, I usually hold back for a second to let the others get a little bit ahead of me and then speed up once they have fallen off or I over take them 1 at a time.

WAIT TIME, holy crap, that is what kills me every time, it’s even worse if you screw up right at the start with a bad jump. 2 minute waits are just plain evil, I usually run over the fence to watch the other guys jumping secretly hoping that they fall off quickly, then I hit rock bottom once they get past the gifts and I can’t see them, while I wait and wait and wait some more.

Anyway, Interesting puzzle, seems like the easiest way to get gifts at the moment in terms of time vs reward, IF your not cracked out on caffeine and can do these consistently.

Mkalafut.1273:

Not sure how you got over 100 keys without buying them. I have yet to see 1 drop from the world. Just the personal story ones are all I’ve ever gotten without buying them.

You can convert Commendations at the vender for Black lion keys, and you can get commendations from using candy corn amulets in the mystic forge.

Serbaayuu.3051:

This makes me really, really sad.

I’ve always wanted a game with one-time events that I can actually miss, that make me feel like I’m shaping the world, and have IMPACT because they don’t repeat every three hours for a full day or two.

And now, with this survey… well, it’s safe to assume that the people taking it will tell ArenaNet that they HATE HATE HATE one time events!

Why can’t the players who want a good game have nice things? Instead, the incredibly vocal group of players who hate anything that doesn’t get them the prime loot is going to be coddled. Again. And the players who want a game with unique events will be completely screwed, as always.

Maybe the next MMO will have them.

I’m sure I would also enjoy 1 time events if I didn’t have to take a day off of work losing several hundred dollars and while at the same time missing out on epic looting ranging from 10-300 gold in value.

Wow, a new gear grind treadmill progression for PVE. I could have sworn this was promised not to happen and one of the main selling points for me. The only question I have is can I get a refund on this game now?

What motivated me was all the people who said they couldn’t do it. So naturally I had to do it.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Farming? Well, they are BoA, so when done, why delete again?

Black Lion salvage kit = Ectos, Runes and probably the highest tier ore, leather, and cloth every 10-20 minutes. Unless for some reason these items aren’t salvageable. (never did check just assumed they where)

About 12am EST last night I took my first trip into the jumping puzzle. I just got back into town (missed half the events) and more importantly back to my own computer and keyboard/mouse setup. I was really worried after reading all the posts about it. At first i thought it was going to be somewhat difficult but then after about 5 tries I was thinking to myself “there is no way I’m going to be able to do this”. 1-1/2 hours later I finished it and then read that I could get the lvl 80 exotic shoes on all my toons even my 5 level 2’s… So about 4:30am I got my final toon through and for a total of 9 toons and then another 3-4 extra runs just to see if anything dropped.

so 12 wins in 4 1/2 hours
All Classes and all races completed. 9 lvl 80 exotic shoes! If I was a shoe person I would be in heaven lol.

It’s to bad that I only had last night to run it. I could have kept deleting/making toons and farming exotics for materials, I’m really kind of sad about that. I hate missing these money making schemes from farming limited time stuff.

I’m interested to know as well. I fly out of town tomorrow afternoon and hoped I can do act 2 before then.

Question about the Acts and the dates.

If we miss the date range between some acts will we be able to still do them at a later date?

I’m going out of town on the 25th and wont return till the around the 30th. So does that mean I will miss acts 2 and possibly 3 completely, or will I still be able to do the act 2 and 3 content say on the 31st after act 4 is online?

Melk.6958:

I don’t understand the current gem economy, something is broken with your formula ANet.

Apparently there is a HUUUUUUUUGE demand for “GOLD TO GEM” transactions. Evidence of this is that when I started playing, 1g would net 277 gems. Now, 1g gets you 170 gems. That’s a big change.

However, the opposite is not true for “gem to gold” exchange. If I spent 1g to buy gems now, and then I turned around to sell gems for gold, I would lose 30silver. This doesn’t make any sense to me, at all. If there is huge influx in “gold to gem” trading, shouldn’t it RAISE the price of “gem to gold” by like… A LOT as well? Shouldn’t gems sell for more if they cost more to buy? What gives? You don’t seem to want people to actually sell gems for gold.

Hence, enter the gold sellers, hence the economy of GW2 is in deep kitten.

I don’t know the formula but they are not equal exchanges. If the Gem to coin ratio was equal or higher then to make money all you would have to do is buy gems with cash and sit there all day and exchange back and forth.

From what I see happening is people have been buying Gold from gold sellers, then converting them to gems and getting a better deal in the process then simply buying gems for cash from ANet. I have no idea how much of a difference this makes because I have no data, it’s just speculation.

Now the coin to gem ratio was always going to rise simply because people are hitting 80 and are making gold faster and faster from world drops. It won’t level out until the ratio is so high that people decide that buying it for cash is faster or easier. (1.333 hours of work at a real job for minimum wage will net you at least 800 gems) So, once the the ratio gets so high that you would have to spend X hours of playtime to get 800 gems people will just slap down real cash. God knows I’ve left work early enough times in the last 2 months I’ve easily lost $300-$400, yet i’m sitting here talking about not spending real money for gems.

LazerEagle.7209:

This rampant inflation can only be solved by us. Less people want the Gems, so the price will continue to increase. Simple Economics. Now, us as players can reverse this. What we have to do is start using ALL of our Coin to buy Gems. Because Demand increases the price will steadily drop. And the supply of Gems will significantly increase in addition. If we want these Gem prices to go down, them buy Gems. It’s the only way.

Actually your doing the opposite of what needs to be done, and you’ll drive the prices up not down.

Venge.6893:

Not to get off-topic, but if you’re speaking in terms of health insurance, the effect of scammers is relatively minimal. In reality it’s the pharmaceutical industry and the extensive government regulation lobbied for that drives the price up. It allows them to control the market and charge whatever they want. Maybe they profess to sell medicine and cures, but they’re always the most profitable industry in the US making a whopping 17% profit return on their revenue, the most of ANY industry. Health insurance is high because the pharmaceutics industry has a government-regulated monopoly, not because the free-market is being abused. Insurance companies carefully tread between profit and loss because the price of healthcare is so artificially high.

Nope, I never eluded to health insurance. I wasn’t even trying to say insurance scamming as being close to equal to the difference in gem conversions and gold sellers. Just that there are outside forces that break the game laws and do have a detrimental effect on the market.

John Smith.4610:

That is correct, there has never been a completely free market in any MMO, patches and fixes modify markets. For the sake of this argument though I think you have to assume (you know economist really don’t like assuming :P ) that the game design is static.

Hypothetically speaking even being as close to static as possible, The game still incorporates price controls via price minimum and also you have the monopoly of overpriced certain items which no matter how industrious we are in game we can never make for ourselves at a cheaper price. ie see the 10g Bag issue, it’s cheaper to convert right now to 400 gems and get a 5-15 item bag then it is to make or sell a 20 slot bag and it also has an eqel or greater return in value. In order for it to make sense 400 gems would need to cost around 10g and that is a scarryyy thought.

You also have 2 different versions of real cash to Gold conversions(one illegal, and one legal) I also think that is one huge reason for the Gold to Gem prices sky rocketing, You are not getting the offset of the people paying real cash to Anet to lower the Gem cost for those who don’t. (I assume anet wants to make some cash so it must play into the conversion rate) I hate to see this but it’s the same reason Insurance prices are so high, some people scam the system and it costs more for us. However Anet could lower their price to compete or find a way to stop gold sellers, really only 2 options there I currently see.

Anyhow, you can’t have a free market in this game the way it is set up. you can lean towards it, yes… You can’t have it though and free markets don’t work unless they are truly free. I think trying to juggle multiple economic ideas just causes more and more problems.

So NO I say to free markets, (I think I just had a mild heart attack, my libertartian ideals thought I was talking about real life for a second and tried to snuff me out)

John Smith.4610:

Out of curiosity, how many feel that a 100% free market would be a good idea?

You can’t have anything resembling a free market is this game (or any game for that matter), Anet, is basically the God of GW2, anything you do to the game (bugs, fixes, added content. Node respawns etc…) can destroy or create markets in minutes. So It would make no sense to do such a thing or even pretend to do such a thing.

Arrrggg…. I knew it was only going to be about a week long. I’m going to miss most of it. I’m hoping that the four acts they speak of in Festival aren’t on some kind of lockout till a certain day.

During the Trading post problems I’m also missing all the money from the items I sold, 20-30 items. Perhaps more (but not less), not sure since I don’t keep perfect track of all the items. I do know for a fact though the 20-30 items I put on the TP were showing as selling but no money was coming in to receive and then the trading post went down and up and down and up…. and still have no money 20hours later. I’m thinking I’m also missing around 50s from my inventory but I’m not 100% sure. Tried to buy 3 items for ~15 silver each and they never went through. I have no items in my inventory and I’m almost certain that there is around a 50s difference.

edited – Just found out where the missing 50s was (tied up in a order request) so I did not lose that but I still have not received the money for the sold items.

Same thing, no loot, I’m not sure if it just a joke or a bug lol. I sent in a bug report though. Still happy I got it though took me forever and I thought it was impossible but i got it done non the less lol…