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I made one already thanks, but that is not the point – please reread my OP.
5 laurels and 3 gold is not chump change in this game even with a player with a healthy wallet.
My point in case you like me are suffering late night woes is that the warning on already having weapons unlocked like on all other recipes does not appear in the first layer of the ascended recipes – the warning only appears after the selection is made, a selection we can not recover from. Hardly logical.
If you’ve already made one can I have some of your money?
onestly it is no funny with the weapon, cause u have to farm gold or mat, and in the gw2 manifesto was wrote “no grind no farm” i think that u made it wrong with weapon but is already done, you also need alot of money for crafting exotic for reach the lvl 500 many ppl doesent farm gold, omg its gw2 not other mmo let me fun, not farm, a big mistake, cause now who dont have alot of money is *
with armor i suggest to require, karma that u got from ANY part of game with the same quantity, skill points cause u learn xp in ANY part of the game, a BIT of laurel, so u just have to play all THAT U WANT, not a part of a game, and a small ammount of fractal relics and token, wth its ascended its for ppl that play fotm, why those ppl doesent anything more than others, they need it for play his favorite dungeon…
i know its the best set on the game (except legendary, same stat but more cool) but i dont wanna farm, i just wanna play like manifesto saiddont talk me about easyest and faster then other games cause i dont care about that gw2 should be different, if ppl that like to farm and keep them busy wanna be superbusy just make really hard to do legendary stuff, but for ppl that have a job and life and can play 1-2 hours per day and in those time dont wanna do (they also cant) champ farm, temple farm, 4000 dungeon.. but we wanna just play and have fun
and also dont talk me about “you dont need ascended for play” cause i want it, i like fotm, and i’d like do pairs lvl over 50 so stop with useless reply and be constructive if u dont like my idea find another solution, but i dont wanna play at grind wars 2thanks
Hi there! Grinding exists, but Anet isn’t forcing you to do so. Because you want an Ascended weapon, you must choose between voluntary grinding, or waiting to get a lucky drop. So the Manifesto still applies.
Okay, here’s the deal, this is and always will be an incredibly stupid argument. The exact same reasons people grind end game gear in an MMO like WoW are not suddenly different because the MMO is GW2. It DOES grant a competitive edge, and it IS a tedious grind. And we are grinding because having the best gear is important to an MMO, AND it is how developers balance their end game content. Not to mention minor differences make all the world in WvW, and the gap between full exotic equipment and full ascended equipment continues to grow with the inclusion of more and more ascended equipmentl
They expect people to take around 2 weeks per weapon. So that is around 35 fragments/dragonite/bloodstone dust per day. So that is around 2 temples and 2 dungeon runs per day. If you are killing the champs rather than skipping everything in dungeons then you should be getting enough of the dust as well.
For folks not into running fractals, you could try doing a tour of the chests dotted around the PVE zones – I hit maybe 70% of the ones listed on the wiki, and came away with 114 fragments. It is small numbers though – between 1-4 fragments, so together with jumping puzzles it will still take a few days to gather 500.
Do you have a link to the specific wiki you are referring to for these PVE chests?
so… three to four hours of gameplay every day? Of stuff not everyone wants to do?
…except that the gw2crafts bot does not faciliate refining of the ascended materials from 450 onwards, which are time-gated but offer a steady income of crafting xp with absolutely NO additional cost, just do a dungeon, a world boss or some WvW and get those ascended basic mats for refinement.
The real cheapest way is:
Mining runs on all your lv80 toons to get ori and wood;
Refine those until 425;
Discover a few exotics until 450;
Do world bosses, dungeons, WvW, jumping puzzles… (aka – just play the kitten game);
Refine ascended materials.
No, it is the cheapest on the sight based on prices of the mats you are mining. Just because you spend time mining mats as opposed to spending gold for them does not change the market value of the mats
Not necessarily, no. When you played the game as it should be played, you gathered enough mats to get to 400 already. By then, you should have a character at 70, minimum. Then go to Orr and join the champion farm train there. That’ll get you the materials you need, and when you chop and mine along the way, getting to 500 should be easier than you think.
Orr is really bloody tedious
I found that the best way to get Empyreal is to do high level fractals. I did lvl 38 twice already and got 32-33 each time. I assume that if you go even higher, the amount will increase.
As for dragonite ore, I got 30 pcs from Dwayna, Lyssa and Grenth. I saw people doing Blathazar that got 43 pcs. Dragons give you between 18-25. Golem gave me 18. Lower map bosses such as fire elemental and maw gave me 4.
So far the hardest, well the most expensive thing to obtain, is the dark matter. After salvaging exotics with black lion kit, I’d say the chance is the same as with ectos.
Bloodstone dust… I have a bank tab full with it.
Orr is Really bloody tedious.
You don’t need anywhere near 1000g to level your crafting to 500.
Just save those mats and level your crafting at the pace you can afford it. Don’t sweat. Each ascended weapon will require 500 of each of those dust and fragments (and dragonite ore) so it will be good to start stocking them early.
If you want to make some money in the meantime, level your crafting to 450, craft your daily Deldrimor Steel Ingot and Spiritwood Plank and sell them in the TP for some nice profit.
It just costs 200 gold instead.
Or you can just take your time and sell Ancient Wood logs fo 12-15s apiece while the rush lasts. 36-75s per node is not bad.
Look. I don’t play that terribly often. When I play I prefer to do WvW. I don’t want to be forced to grind out content for materials. It makes me hate that content. They have introduced a very serious grind to get ascended weapons, and I can’t imagine this will be any better a grind for ascended armor.
I don’t make much money in game. A good WvW night I might make 1 gold for 2 hours. I made more gold running invasions for 40 minutes then I did doing WvW for a week. Which means, for me to realistically get ascended stuff I either cut out WvW and Roleplaying with my limited time to grind PvE, or I just never get it. But then I am locked out of the highest teir of weapons, which is something I thought was against the game philosophy.
I do not play this game to grind. I hate grinding. I’ll run content two or three times to see it and enjoy it. But after that, it starts to become dull. One of the reasons I picked up GW2 was a perceived stance of anti grind. And there was. Exotics were not hard to get. But now this ascended stuff is coming out and suddenly we are back into the same archetypes all MMOs have, and if I liked that sort of thing I’d play WoW.
I dunno, 20 per dungeon run doesn’t seem bad to me. If you really wanted to grind out an ascended weapon, it wouldn’t be hard to do 25 dungeon runs in a few days, and for everyone else the 2 week estimate is eminently reasonable. And for people who’d rather zerg, the way you can with meta events for dragonite, there’s wvw camps and towers.
yeah, if you had no life or job and dedicated yourself to playing solely this game for that period of time….
You don’t need anywhere near 1000g to level your crafting to 500.
Just save those mats and level your crafting at the pace you can afford it. Don’t sweat. Each ascended weapon will require 500 of each of those dust and fragments (and dragonite ore) so it will be good to start stocking them early.
If you want to make some money in the meantime, level your crafting to 450, craft your daily Deldrimor Steel Ingot and Spiritwood Plank and sell them in the TP for some nice profit.
It just costs 200 gold instead.
You’d only get that many stacks from grinding and farming the Aetherblades this past week/2 weeks. A-net didn’t want you to grind, remember?
They didn’t? Then why introduce a new set of gear that requires intense amounts of grinding to get?
It is a grind of either mats or gold to get from 400 to 500, and then a further grind of mats AND gold to get the actual ascended stuff. And unlike legendaries this comes with a buff to stats, and oh yeah they plan of doing this with armor too.
There goes the inflation from last month’s zerging if you’re a regular player. If this is the case it shouldn’t hit you too hard at all.
I made 40 gold net total over the zerging. That leaves me with 60.
Being a WvWer I’ve ALWAYS had less money then pvers, and the insane expenses of getting to ascended crafting combined with the increased need for it in WvW is really, REALLY upsetting me, to the point of whether the effort is worth keeping to play the game for
It is currently over 200 gold for artificing.
Even after the economy stabilizes, the amount of material you require is… obscenely expensive.
What he said. And good to know the new tier 7 mats drop in decent quantities, too. The new crafting process really isn’t as bad as people thought it would be.
It takes over 200 gold to craft your way from 400 to 500 in artificing.
This is not fun.
They probably couldn’t find a way to fix how they broke it and so shrugged their shoulders and moved on. An unintended Nerf, but one none the less
We have a thread necro here!
also having a word filter up makes this thread hilarious
Death to furries!!!!
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how are you spiking 8k off your blurred frenzy?
I get maybe 6k with three illusions up.
does this make us better then theives and bunker eles? :P
I am pleased to see some minor buffs. Though 15second CD perhaps is a bit much on Protections.
mantras are just so bad.
They even have a bloody delay between casts. I mean christ on a crutch.
Mantras are only useful for healing specs or if you want to try and stack 23 percent more damage
Depends on the theif, but if I am thinking the typeof thief you mean, you need a counter for their initial steal and murder combo. Staff 2 is very good. Distortion MIGHT work, but I haven’t done that one.
The main problem is that after you counter their burst what do you do? there’s very little in the mesmer’s arsenal, especially in WvW, that can assure that you finish off a good thief. They’ll just stealth and leave.
Reading this and many other threads, I have come to the conclusion that what Anet needs most is a competent PR department
Illusionary Berserker has not received a direct damage decrease. Instead, is seems that the damage reduction you (and I) are seeing is most likely associated this fix:
“Fixed a bug that caused many piercing, boomerang, and bouncing projectiles (those that hit more than 1 target) to continually increase in damage the more targets they hit.”
We are aware that this particular phantasm is now experiencing a significant drop in damage and are looking at getting it back to a more effective state.
Thanks for keeping the post civil and constructive!
-Karl
Movement tracking for the duelist also seems bugged
As someone who has played his Mesmer extensively, i can tell you that this change was kinda needed as it made the class pretty easymode to play, not even having to play attention at all to what your enemy is doing or what buffs he has up and if he doesnt react swift & accordingly to you while you ride them, then they will die.
Also dont understand why other mesmer players seem to think its fine to completly ignore game mechanics such as block, blind or los. all other classes have to deal with it, what would the mesmer make an exception? hell, ive even seen some threads about how phantasm cooldowns should be refunded if the attack fails. Should a warrior get his bull’s charge CD back too when its gets dodged? should a thief get his initiative back too when he heartseeker’s into distortion/block/whatever?
It gives double the evasion chance. They can avoid the cast. Or they can avoid the attack of the phantasm.
Also they did something to tracking of all phantasms.
we did get some kind of reply by spamming them in the asura ear thread
the main problem is that illusions themselves can be dodged and avoided. So unlike every other ability in the game, illusions can be avoided twice.
Hello Kabuki Dude,
Could you tell me if this issue is still affecting your character? Did relogging change revert your ears to a svelte pre-patch look?
Anyone else encountering this problem, please post a screenshot (if you have it) of the before and after, similar to what Kabuki posted. If you do not have a before shot, please still post a screenshot of your character.
Thank you!
What about the mesmer iberzerker bug?
We are gathering the mesmer bug collection here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Overview-of-mesmer-bugs-after-patch/first#post752978
It is not finished, but MAYBE a dev wants to have a look..
:-)
to be fair, some of those are probably not bugs. The iberzerker thing IS a bug, and a very serious one considering how it ruins the utility of a GS.
Hey all, we are aware of the bug with Ranger traps. A fix is slated for to take care of this tonight.
What about the damage nerf to iberzerkers?
I am experiencing this as well
with full mantras and illusions, blurred frenzy can max out at 8k right now
I played a shatter build. But most of my damage still came from phantasms. Well blurred frenzy when I got a hit on someone
Stop being a baby, our class dominates in PVP, they only fixed a blatant BUG and increased our portal CD.
I am proud of my class and regardless of changes, I will adapt and play to the best of my ability
does still dominate though?
They do seem weaker, but that may be just psychology. Or they may have broken something by accident. Patching is not a smooth process, and fixing a LoS issue might have had them accidentally shuffle a number somewhere
And the problem with LoS is that it is incredibly buggy, half the stuff in this game ends up being obscured, and suddenly our ability is on CD
Also with how often people run around in PvP, having a loooong kitten CD as people kitten around behind you is a pain.
Also, can Anet fix mantras sometime? The mantras themselves are just completely terrible and only exist for trait benefits. They are just so bad.
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