Guild Wars 2

The post was not for the concern of the key drops. You need 375 stabalizing matrix for the 3rd tier of the back piece and a stack right now is 100g. We don’t even know how many will need for the 4th tier. The only way they drop is in the chests or by salvaging rings. I am out of rings to salvage and don’t have a reliquary. Is there any way to farm ascended rings?

Wiki says these only come in chests which are daily and salvaging ascended. Did anyone to figure out an effective way to farm the matrixes?

Does this item still drop?

Please extend this event longer than Monday. Maybe another week or 2. Some of us don’t have time to grind out 15-45 blooms every 2 hours. The map bonus is great. Is it possible to extend this event another week?

Whatever weapons you choose, make sure you look awesome!!!!

Is there a way to get past gem store wearables that are no longer on the TP, such as a vendor that sells old black lion weapon skins?

We should make gift of exploration a daily achievement for us fractal players since we don’t like running around a map for hours.

Was saying for when you get chilled and chained and get interrupted on your rotation, rebound will now free you and replenish your boons.

Do you think rebound will have good synergy with superior rune of lyssa in PvP as an additional condition removal?

I’m a PvE D/F player. For PVE it is a big let down. The focus has a better fire field. The use of swirling winds and obsidian flesh determines life or death at some points. The war horn has knock backs which are not great when stacking.
The warhorn has great animations. There should be some damage multipliers somewhere in the tempest trait line. Even water a supportive trait line has 10% over 90 health.

If we choose the new specialization such as tempestfor ele, are we locked in to using warhorn and the new heals utilities and elite. Or can you mix and match old weapons and utilites.

uhohhotdog.3598:

Why would you open the chest when you’re taking a picture

accident

It said we won the match so I think the other team did also.

We got a tie in ranked pvp

I was thinking mace or torch seems the most realistic. Sword is too much like dagger. Eles already have enough range to get a gun or bow. The gs is going to necro. The shield doesnt make much sense. The hammer maybe, but going to the reverent.

It doesn’t have to be real life animals. It can be a rare skritt with a cotton tail, or a jute tail. Yeah it would be like skinning. If skinning is not user friendly there can other ways such as asking for a piece of it.

Maybe something like a pair of shears. You can chase sheep, alligators etc to farm wool, cotton, and leather.

Incinerator should give you a firey aura around you the same way bolt gives you electricity.

I ran a dungeon with a guildie I usually do and they didn’t even notice I just got Incinerator. I think it should put a fire aura around you like the way bolt does. I’ll put that in suggestions.

TexRob.5183:

I’m honestly asking, but if people say increased MF will increase exotic drops, why will this not increase precursor drops? I am no expert, so maybe there is something I don’t know about that you all do.

The odds of getting a precursor is like winning the lottery. If you have 300% MF its like having 4 tickets to the lottery. There is a higher chance of winning. This does not conclude there will be more precursors that drop since the odds are very slim and the variance is still incredibly high. Its not like going from 1/200- 4/100. You are going from something like 1/1,000,000,000- 4/1,000,000,000. I do not know the odds of a precursor dropping from a dirty little skirt., but you get my point.

haviz.1340:

lunyboy.8672:

After rolling a Guardian, I have to say the most common exploit is playing a Guardian.

We have a winner!

1. No one ever wants a guardian on LFG
2. Every LFG post requests 2 or more eles with FGS
3. I once played a PVP match where a whole team stood in a corner and waited for me to take their whole team down with one fiery rush.
4. No one craft levels 0-80 in a day
5. I am currently not craft leveling a guardian
6. FGS makes pugging so much easier and prevents wipes.
7. You can’t speed run any dungeon unless you have FGS
8. The cool down on FGS is practically zero.
9. My ele has should have 100 blades, WOR, stealth, clones, a pet, turrets, and death shroud.
10. My ele should have a 5th attunement Heart so i can summon Captain Planet.
11. Guardians are the most OP class because they start each day with a well balanced breakfast. Bacon and Aegis.
12. Eles should have Aegis

Eles have one skill that is op on a FEW PVE bosses and should be nerfed? C’mon

Korossive.7085:

Sorry to rain on your post, but having it in LA is actually convenient.
Comparing it to CoF where you have to port to Fireheart Rise and then CoF (2 x loading screen, by then someone left the group or groupy complains where you are).

Instead when you finish you fractal relics run, you hit leave group and you pop back to LA bank/TP where you left off … what’s better?

Its the same if you are starting FOTM. No one runs to the entrance portal. You have to use another WP in LA which takes for ever. Then to go to the bank you have to use a WP across the map. There is still 2x if you start the instance. Fractals is not like other dungeons. People sometimes leave the dungeon to heal their armor. Again one or 2 loading screens. Its convenient when you leave for the people who didnt’ start the instance, but it takes a loading screen to get back in the game. When you are done with COF you don’t have to go back to LA unless you need the MF. There are 5 other cities that have almost no loading which has crafting, and TP.

I think fractals needs its own zone with a bank, vendor, and shield. Whenever you want to go to fractals you have to go through Lions Arch which now has the worst loading screens. If you need to leave because you forgot something and need to get something from the bank or if someone dcs it takes a while to get back in.

I read in a recent post of someone comparing a person who likes zerg farming to someone playing a slot machine. I myself like farming but do not like zerg farming. I also do not like slot machines. I generally like dungeon farming. I also like playing poker. I can see some correlation because dungeon farming has a lot more variables. I curious to everyone.
Do you like farming? If so, what kind do you enjoy the most?
Do you like gambling? If so, what games do you play the most?

I don’t know if anyone addressed this. If you have no traits in arcana it takes 15 seconds for attunement recharge rate. If you have 30 in arcana you have 60% attunement recharge rate which is 9 seconds which means the cooldown should be 6 seconds. How come when you have full arcana the cool down is 9 seconds?

I really like the idea of the living story. I think they should make the world living too and by making the players have the choice and impacting the world not just for rewards.
I think Anet is on the right track by voting for Gnashblade and Kiel. I think the fractal thing is nice but its not really appealing for all people. For the Living World I think that the NPCs and real life players should be given personalities. I also think 2 weeks is a little too short to put out more temporary content. I think the 3-4 weeks would work better so people don’t feel rushed to get new things and not miss the content. I also think there should be permanent and temporary positive and negative effects for peoples decisions in the living story.

This is what I mean:
Example 1: Gnashblade turns out to be devious and uses political influence to build a ray gun for something evil. The players now choose for the next month if they want to help him build it or help him destroy it.
Instead of just voting there could be a mini game where at the end you either build a piece of the gun or destroy a piece. You will need a ticket to play this mini game. The way you get a ticket to play is by completing a series of new events put in the game.
A consequence of the laser being built could be some of the quartz oil used to power the laser leaked into the water in lions arch permanently pink, or maybe the laser destroyed a statue/building. When new players would ask about why is this like this we would respond “because we voted for that kitten Gnashblade.” The next patch could be how to get rid of this guy, how to solve the problem or we could get a new problem, or a new scenario where we make 2 new choices. Some other side effects of the gun could be torrential rain in lions arch for X weeks. Maybe change the weather pattern of 2 zones causing jormag or another world boss to spawn in a different zone, maybe adding a new boss, npcs walking backwards for 3 weeks,

Example 2
Gnashblade could be good and want to fix lions arch electricity problem causing the mystic forge to malfunction and be in a different city everyday. We could get a mini game on how to solve this problem with 2 choices. Again to play the mini game do a bunch of new events. The next patch could be another consequence of the way we fixed it.

Example 3
A portal is opening up in the sky caused by a new race who seems evil. We choose if want to open it or let them stay in. If we let them in some scenario happens. If we close the portal maybe they go to a different planet and make another random race homeless by taking over their planet. Now they have to move to tyria. We help them out by donating and random armor to them. At the end of patch the most donated of each armor for chest, legs, gloves is now their permanent look. All the NPCs of this race will now have all mix and matched armor because thats what the players gave them.

I like the idea of a mini game to make your vote. This means you actually did something to impact the game/world. Also make the length of the events to get your mini game ticket about 30min-1 hour and include a gathering event, boss event, escort, puzzle etc. This will somewhat limit a single players influence. Or just make a set of achievements daily to get your mini game ticket. I also don’t think you should lose your mini game ticket until you complete the mini game. This could prevent people from being upset for failing and not getting to vote. The mini game could also have 3 settings, beginner, moderate and advanced so its fun and challenging for all types of players. I also think once you decide to go with your choice you shouldn’t be able to choose the other one too. e.g. voting for both kiel and Gnashblade. This could closely mirror real life.

I feel there can be so many more living things like this that would make this game not only about rewards and still be fun. I put a lot of thought into this because I love this game I would like to see this game successful.

ac is a terrible example, you can’t crit burrows, so ptv performs the exact same as zerker against burrows[/quote]

It is not a terrible example. Requesting zerkers will guarantee all exotics with the main stat power. Pugging will get you a random mix of gear and not always exotics.

I’m not saying you have to play one play style. There are bad zerkers. Some are also trying to learn to play damage builds. There are good players. Alot of the zerkers have done content already 20 times and the fun is seeing how fast you can do it. When I first do new content I take my time to do it and I’m sure most zerkers do. The reason people want zerkers is because it almost guarantees getting through certain content.
No matter how well you know mechanics there is some content that needs dps. If you don’t agree with me you pug cof path 2 and ac path 1 and 3 a bunch of times on lfg.
You will not get through burrows if you do not have dps and guarding mag is a nightmare w/o zerkers or close to it.
It goes something like this
LFG zerkers cof path 2 no skipping = 15-30mins
LFG cof path 2 =30-1h30mins after multiple wipes on mag, occasional fails on gather boulders.
LFG zerkes ac path 1 and 3= 30 mins-1hour
LFG path 3= 30mins to 2 hours

There are some dungeon paths i would not request zerkers because they are less forgiving to weaker players.

Anyone can play how they want and I will still run dungeons with you I dont care.

I dont care about the armor people are wearing either for the most part. The point I am trying to make is that people demand zerker because it allegedly means you have a better understanding of the mechanics of the game because you don’t rely on your armor and you know how to use your skills better. There are exceptions such as condition necros and engineers.

After reading a bunch of zerker articles it appears a lot of people have the misconception of people who play zerker toons, as did I when I first started. During the first few months I would die a good amount of the time and my first solution was to get tanky gear.

If you make you gear tanky enough you can just not move and spam 1 and heal occasionally (Now the conception of what zerk warriors do). My first character was an elementalist and this is what i would do and occasionally switch elements. If you make tanky enough gear you can play this game with little effort as possible.

I would play dungeons and people would die multiple time and say it was because they are “glass cannons”. I just thought they sucked (which is possible). I would have the mentality not to rez them some of the time because they kept dying.

As I got better and wanted to do more damage I converted most of my armor to zerker. I learned. From experience if you do this you will learn so much about the class you are using. This forces you to use your F skills, 3-5 skills and choose wisely your 7-0 skills.

When playing dungeons with 5 zerkers everyone contributes more than people think (reflect, blind, immobilize, knockdown, pull this npc/mob, evasive skill, knowing when to rez people, dropping banners etc.) You are forced to go beyond attacking when going full damage.

In harder dungeon’s/fractals you need the teamwork to get through certain parts. This is my first MMO so maybe in an abstract view this might be the trinity that people are upset is not in this game. In harder content every class can play a role.

If you enjoy playing the way you do its cool. I suggest to everyone to try and slowly go zerker. And yes I will do dungeons with non zerkers. And no I did not like to farm cof with anything other then wars/thieves and a mesmer.

I don’t think I am amazing at this game but there are some things I play with a party preference. I feel that people who play zekrer or close to it will understand the mechanis of fights a little more than others. The challenge in this game is not always the content but the character you play.

This is a suggestion.

Everyone know how hard it is to get the fractal weapon skin they want. I think there is a viable solution people will agree upon.
Step 1: Make a vendor that has all the skins and cost 5 or 10 fractal weapon tokens.
Step 2: The only way to get these tokens is by salvaging an unused weapon skin.

This eliminates selling and everyone knows how hard it is just to get a skin. I feel this could make both sides happy.

I agree also the magic find infusion will be useless too.

SynfulChaot.3169:

SoDeep.1739:

I feel like all outcomes of this will be bad.
1. If this encourages more people to do dungeons and everyone has gold, prices of EVERYTHING will go up respectively and drive legendarys even higher. This will discourage newer players because you don’t earn any gold really until you are level 80 and can do multiple dungeons without horrible experiences. They will not have enough money to buy things off the TP early on.
2. Possibly no one extra will do dungeons because you already earn almost a gold in most paths from boss drops and final reward . People who didn’t in the past still wont do 2-3 hour arah paths for just 3 gold. And possibly even the farmer players will do minimal to no dungeons anymore.
3.The people who farm cof are now doing the optimal rotation of dungeons. These people are still mindlessly doing the same paths every day. This will also imply a pointless change for the new dungeon system.

Not all bad. It is still greater rewards for those that more casually play dungeons. It’s only really a nerf for those that grind for money.

The question is what will take the place for those players. Or more importantly, is there something that cant take that place. You know … other than TP flipping. Which should not be promoted as the be all/end all of money acquisition.

COF is approx 4-7g an hour. I personally can do other dungeons fast as cof but I just have fun racing through it. When I feel like farming I will just find a dungeon rotation that makes this amount of money or close and run it with multiple toons. If people only have the option to casually play they are now playing less than when they spend time farming also.

I feel like all outcomes of this will be bad.
1. If this encourages more people to do dungeons and everyone has gold, prices of EVERYTHING will go up respectively and drive legendarys even higher. This will discourage newer players because you don’t earn any gold really until you are level 80 and can do multiple dungeons without horrible experiences. They will not have enough money to buy things off the TP early on.
2. Possibly no one extra will do dungeons because you already earn almost a gold in most paths from boss drops and final reward . People who didn’t in the past still wont do 2-3 hour arah paths for just 3 gold. And possibly even the farmer players will do minimal to no dungeons anymore.
3.The people who farm cof are now doing the optimal rotation of dungeons. These people are still mindlessly doing the same paths every day. This will also imply a pointless change for the new dungeon system.

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