Guild Wars 2

Be careful with any event items also. The Adventurer’s mask and goggles can’t be salvaged either.

If you purchased the skin before they became sellable, you may be able to fix it. You used to be able to purchase a matching skin from the TP and then you could sell both of them. That’s how I was able to sell my fused dagger.

I have no idea if they fixed it and it requires you to put up 300g to test (and risk losing the 300g also).

Kill the wolf attacking it quickly, then wait around for it to walk there. It also spawns in the same place every time.

I’m having the same issue. Rescue 7 (3 guard tower, 2 near cave, 1 near town, 1 between rocks in the water) and get no achievement.
I think I may see an issue. There are dead NPCs near the end of the instance, once rescued, a couple may die in an odd place outside of the story area.

It would be easy to fix by only considering buy orders within 50% of the highest buy order or the total demand of the top 50 prices. The people placing mass buy orders would need to put up 10000x or more gold to place those orders.

Anet probably likes it though. Advertising for expensive items that people will buy gems to get.

The fall damage traits do have a use. Each class has worse traits that could be fixed first.

Thanks. I never expected anet to fix anything on mesmer.

I was running 2/4/0/5/3 before the patch due to phantasmal haste not working for several phantasms. Has this been fixed? Otherwise, which trait are you using in the Illusions line?

I highly recommend AGAINST making a tank build for PvE. This game uses dodging and abilities to avoid damage rather than trying to soak up damage. Learning how to avoid damage from the start will be better in the long run than relying on soaking damage, you may die a bit more while learning though.

As for classes, both mesmer and elementalist are good in PvE. In WvW, ele is a better fighter in large zergs and mesmer is usually just there for portal/stealth. Mesmer is great in small groups though.

558 chances
1 Favor
3 Toxic Spore Skin
1 Monocle
1 Mini Toxic Hybrid

Not bad for me.

Search the TP for the word “dye”, sort by highest price first. All the special dyes will be at the top. Abyss and Celestial will be mixed in there but mostly it will be the special dye.

I’d love an additional action bar that where we can put consumables or other items (kites) for quick access. Even better if we can add keybinds.

Why can’t we just choose stats any piece of gear? You pick from the pool of all stats 1 major and 2 minor or celestial.

If you still want to require people to have multiple gear sets for multiple stats, make the stat selection permanent.

I can’t move up the tower much past than the master crystal. The beams are no longer objects you can walk on. Picture shows how high you can get now. Why was this removed?

The problem with inflation (of gems and other things) is Anet adding gold as a reward everywhere. There should be more item rewards like t6 mats for doing a dungeon instead of gold.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Maybe the new Upgrade Extractor would be helpful?

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/wintersday-items-and-more-in-the-gem-store/

I’m not sure, but it sounds like just the thing! =)

Buying new divinity runes is cheaper.

You can also just use a trans crystal keeping the ascended look and stats but keep the rune from the exotic.

I predicted this months ago. You don’t need as much gossamer as you did ancient wood, and many people have been stockpiling thousands of gossamer.

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I am a little bit disappointed by the way Aetherblade Retreat and Molten Facility were turned into dungeons. Large chunks of the original dungeons were cut off, and this is a terrible shame. The dungeons in their original design were really good, and it is a terrible loss when bits and pieces get shaved off just to fit it in the Fractals system.

So I’d rather not see them turn the Tower of Nightmares into a fractal, it would ruin it. I’d rather have them make the tower a permanent addition.

I think cutting off after the first boss event was fine for those fractals. The end bosses were made into their own fractals. The only loss was probably the freezing room right after the end of molten fractal. Everything after Frizz and the weapon engineer was trash mobs.

They changed it back to the previous better look; at least for light armor.

New gold sink strategy, items on TP which just eat money.

Don’t feel too bad. I lost some gold to this also. Not enough to bother making a support ticket however.

It takes your money but doesn’t create a buy order, so there is nothing to cancel. Maybe all the orders are just hidden until patch day.

Personal guild banks are a great and cheap way to get storage. There are a few things to consider.

- Cannot store account bound items
- Guild upgrades are per server; if you need to transfer, you will have to empty the items, transfer, then re-buy the bank upgrades
- Be careful not to accidentally leave your guild
- You can only be in 5 guilds, this may be hard to fit in for some

You would have to make the full fractal capacitor first, infuse the book (if you want the extra agony slot), then transmute the skin from capacitor to the stats from the infused book.

I’m personally glad the light T3 got it’s old colors back. The first change completely wrecked my look and it was impossible to get the colors back.

aaronday.8279:

I’m happy with the decision to change the Flamekissed skin but I don’t believe it should be removed completely. Upgrading the human T3 light cultural armor with the flame effects would be a great way of keeping it in the game because many people liked it better. It would definitely be worth the 119 gold it costs.

This would be a bad idea. They shouldn’t change graphical looks of things after people get them. I guarantee there are people who don’t want flames. If anything, make a 2nd T3 set for the same price.

They should remodel cultural armor so ALL races can use any of them. This is a lot of work though.

Also, for those complaining about it being “exclusive”, you lost that by choosing the most common race/armor combo.

I find it odd in a fantasy game with multiple species available that people would want to play a human.

Works with necro’s Focused Rituals for wells.

I would be all for the removal of ascended gear. That’s with 4 back pieces (3 infused), 8 accessories, 7 weapons, and a bank tab of rings. AR should have been implemented by adding infusion slots to existing gear.

I also refused to spend cash for gems until either ascended is removed, or full ascended is available from all of the same sources as exotics. And each source needs to be similar in effort (40 laurels+50 ectos is nowhere close to 12 commendations+5g).

They could also implement asinine grind for cosmetics instead of stats.
Specific dungeon titles for 10/20/50k dungeon tokens.
The new TA skins were added with lame RNG. They could have been craftable using 10 Gift of Thorns+collecting corrupted branches from each end boss.
Have world bosses drop special account bound items to combine with other bosses’ special drops and other materials to create some skins.

Many ways to reward doing specific content without resorting to vertical progression, gold giveaways, or horrifically rare RNG.

This item is made to assist bots hitting 100+ nodes/hr.

Absolutely not. I hated him. In fact, I re-rolled after having chosen Order of Whispers on my first character.

Zerg-wide retaliation!

John Smith.4610:

Pandemoniac.4739:

Vol.5241:

John Smith mentioned this awhile back, and he said that constructing an infographic like that takes a lot of time and translation (not sure why that is so tough though)

Taking a snapshot of complex economy data and translating it into a visualization that will enlighten rather than mislead is actually way more work than it sounds like. There is a lot of expertise and thought required even for things that seem simple like whether to use a bar chart or a pie graph.

And then there’s the part where John probably has other work responsibilities that take up his time. If he really loved us though, he stop wasting all that time sleeping and interacting with his friends and family and give us some brightly colored charts to pick apart

This.

Forget the visualization part. The graphics are fluff anyways. Just give us the output in a tabular format. That should be easy unless you use an odd proprietary database format.

The music game was great. No reason to remove it. We should ADD content, not replace existing.

The only things I didn’t like were the gemstore RNG bullkitten, handling of the snowflake jewelry problem, and being spammed with confusion from dolls.

Zoltreez.6435:

you don’t get it do you ? there are sometimes that you CANT walk around or dodge bicous he puts an AoE in every single place multiple ones without any free space in every direction and yeah I have 30K hp + Deathshroud still getting insta killed if this happens circles hitting you multiple times….

I assume you are ranging lupi. When he does his AoE, dodge towards him. If you are at 1200 range, wait for a second before dodging. The projectiles have a semi-slow travel speed and hit closest to him first.

The best strategy for killing the 8 hologram generators is to split up IMO. Each person takes 1. I found out it could be done after the rest of my team died and had to solo the remaining 6 generators on my mesmer.
The electricity deals no damage when downed and you can rally off of the holograms.

I agree the unskippable conversations/movies need to be changed. So annoying.

Overall, the dungeon is fun and mechanics require more than dps→dodge→repeat.

T3 Light armor (legs in particular) had so much texture and color blending options removed, not to mention dyes becoming brighter. All for an unnoticeable glow.

When people asked for armor glow, they wanted it ADDED to their set. Not to completely kill the detail in order to get glow.

+1 for reverting.

I think the skills it has are pretty good. Maybe a slight buff to range. I have never even looked at the damage component, it could be horrible too. The main problem is mobility IMO. It’s only use seems to be defending keeps/towers; not that this is bad but it should be useful more often.

Mortar can have more than 5 skills since it overrides your utility slots. I think a skill in the 6th slot should be created which would be Pack-up, turns the mortar into a bundle object, with one ability called Deploy, setup the mortar to fire again. To not completely undermine the trade-off of immobility, put them on a 3-5 second cast time.

Assuming points at http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Achievement are fairly accurate. The total possible excluding dailies is 10432 (yes, I included the impossible to get WvW points). Top NA players have over 16000.

Even with the recent flood of points from living story, over 50% of all points possible come from dailies/monthlies. If they continue issuing rewards near the top scale of points, people who start later won’t have much chance to get them.

I just want a 2nd hotbar for food, other consumables (ie bundles/fire ele powder).
Macros to swap weapons out of combat more easily would be nice too.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

The only numbers that matter are the amount of opponents you face on the battlefield.

In terms of the weekly matchup, this is true. This is NOT true for individual skirmishes. Even zerg vs zerg where the initial burst matters. Having ascended gives you higher burst on contact or more vit/toughness to survive the enemy burst.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Ascended gear has better stats than Exotic gear, but there’s no advantage to the player who wears Ascended gear.

This is just…uh…I don’t even know how someone can think this way. Higher stats is an advantage. How is it not? You may argue there are more important things that stats, but that does not negate the fact that higher stats is an advantage.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Actually, Anet admitted that they underestimated the player base’s dedication to the game. Exotics were the final tier, until a majority of the players maxed out within months of the game’s release.

I don’t see a problem with this.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

So they added the next, and supposedly last tier, which is Ascended. So it wasn’t because of the vocal minority of the game that triggered it, it was a vast majority of active players.

They assumed that since a “majority” of players had exotics that we wanted another full tier of gear? Oh wait, they said it was going to be added from the start but didn’t tell anyone and are implementing it horribly. A player’s actions now does not tell you what they would like to see happen in the future.

And seeing as you have access to anet’s metrics, please let me know the number of full and non-full exotic players in October. If you can’t, then you can’t say kitten about anything being a majority.

This bug happens with all classes as far as I have encountered. Had it happen on guardian, mesmer, and warrior. Very annoying on warrior after placing banners (100 second cooldown) and swapping the 3rd utility, the swapped utility could be FGJ or Balanced Stance that will go on a 100 second cooldown like the banners.

Never have seen anyone reproduce it however. Great job on that.

Edit:
On warrior here is what I found:
Use Skill 8: Signet of Might
9: Banner of Strength, swap to Frenzy, no CD
9: Banner of Strength, swap to Shake it Off, goes on CD
9: Bolas, swap to Frezny, goes on CD
9: Signet of Stamina, swap to Frenzy, no CD
9: Signet of Stamina, swap to FGJ, goes on CD

This actually seems to only cause cooldowns on FGJ, SIO, and Frenzy. The order of skills in the utility bar does not seem to matter either. FGJ and SIO always go on cooldown when swapped to if another utility is on cooldown. Frenzy seems to depend on the starting utility or the utility used (ie use Bolas, swap Signet of Might to Frenzy or use Signet, swap Bolas to Frenzy has same effect).

Mesmer is harder to pin down and sometimes requires using 2 utilities before swapping 3rd. Use Feedback, Null Field, swap Mantra of Resolve to Mirror Images and you’ll get a cooldown. Clone skills seem to be the culprit here.

You realize you can whisper your pvp opponents directly to insult them in this game. The other game prevented this using faction specific languages and had to rely on emotes.

But why can’t I /lick someone?

The new hairstyles show way too much forehead.

Can someone shoot me an invite to this Overflow One guild? That would be awesome.

I don’t have time (patience really) to sit and try to get into the main server (on SoR, good kittening luck) for hours. I have mostly given up hope on overflows.

I’d love an invite.

Eaglemut.6348:

bag slot – 20 slots – 400 gems
bank tab – 30 slots – 600 gems
Seems like a fair price to me, already bought quite a few.

Bag Slot – 20 slots – 400 gems (~19g gold→gems) – 20 gems/slot
Bank Tab – 30 slots – 600 gems (~28g gold→gems) – 20 gems/slot
Guild Stash – 50 slots – 5g (~150 gems→gold) – 2.5 gems/slot
Treasure Trove – 100 slots – 40g (~1225 gems→gold) after stash – 13 gems/slot
Deep Cave – 100 slots – 60g (~1800 gems→gold) after Trove – 18 gems/slot

This is at the current gem→gold rate. If you want to spend gold for storage, it’s even better for buying guild storage. 56g for 60 bank slots vs 45g for 150 guild slots; yes, over double the storage for less gold.

How does it look now?

Delryn.7235:

Striker.9413:

Ascended gear should be available the same way as exotics are now.
Drops, karma, dungeons, crafting, WvW, fractals.

Delryn.7235:

Grileenor.1497:

Delryn.7235:

Now I can understand where you’re coming from with the slippery slope business. But the game does need ascended gear when you think about it.

No, it doesn’t. If ArenaNet hadn’t introduced ascended stuff in the first place, nobody would talk about it and nobody would miss it. It would be all about skins and it would work as well.

I had a hard time finding something to do before it was introduced. Once I reached Lv80 I got my stats and was done. I then worked on getting a full Arah armor for the look I wanted which I quickly achieved, then I had literally nothing left to work for since I didn’t care for the Legendaries.

Ascended gives us something to work for which really requires time and a bit of effort. Even a high level dungeon armor can be obtained fairly quickly.

So you get bored when you don’t have stats to grind for? Is there nothing else to do that you would find fun?
Also, the time and effort for ascended is simply to login and complete 5 menial tasks everyday.

Of course not. There’s a lot to do that I find fun.

What I mean is that the game was missing gear that felt epic and required more than a button click.

Though you can get amulets, accessories, and rings with laurels, both accessories and rings are really not worth getting with laurels. I wouldn’t be crazy enough to actually spend laurels, which is such a precious currency, on accessories and rings.

Accessories require a large guild to coordinate and complete difficult tasks to get the commendations.

Rings require completing higher level fractals to be obtained.

All more fun, entertaining and engaging than just buying something off the TP.

No doubt fractals and guild missions are fun. That’s why you should do them. But ascended gear shouldn’t be exclusive to this type of content. Rings, amulets, accessories, backpieces, and the new armor should all be available through fractals, commendations, and even laurels. They should also be made available through dungeon tokens, karma, crafting, and even make some sellable.

In fact even with laurels it’s still more fun and engaging than just buying something off the TP.

I disagree. I get just as much fun buying from TP as buying from the laurel vendor; which is none.

Ascended gear should be available the same way as exotics are now.
Drops, karma, dungeons, crafting, WvW, fractals.

Delryn.7235:

Grileenor.1497:

Delryn.7235:

Now I can understand where you’re coming from with the slippery slope business. But the game does need ascended gear when you think about it.

No, it doesn’t. If ArenaNet hadn’t introduced ascended stuff in the first place, nobody would talk about it and nobody would miss it. It would be all about skins and it would work as well.

I had a hard time finding something to do before it was introduced. Once I reached Lv80 I got my stats and was done. I then worked on getting a full Arah armor for the look I wanted which I quickly achieved, then I had literally nothing left to work for since I didn’t care for the Legendaries.

Ascended gives us something to work for which really requires time and a bit of effort. Even a high level dungeon armor can be obtained fairly quickly.

So you get bored when you don’t have stats to grind for? Is there nothing else to do that you would find fun?
Also, the time and effort for ascended is simply to login and complete 5 menial tasks everyday.

When using the infinite watchknight tonic, Deceptive Evasion trait does not produce a clone. Decoy also does not make a clone (stealth still works).