Guild Wars 2

You do realize you could use skill or effort and get ascended items via fractals as well right? Though it won’t have utility slots it will have options for all the same defensive and offensive infusions as the laurel gear.

The laurel gear is added as an option for people who 1. don’t want to use the skill/effort paths to getting ascendant items or 2. have maxed out on the skill/effort returns and want more still.

In either case I have no issue with time being the alternative to skill/effort.

Other people do it, you will do it too. It’s the last thing I had on mine as well.

Oh god I agree so much. Everytime we get a reset I have to figure out who’s who again.

Maybe we could compile a list of ‘Rare’ chest spawning events and where they’re located and start to prod at them regularly?

I don’t think I’ve ever done some of these before or even seen them.

Diviner > Mysteries in the game are part of the appeal. There’s other games where they tell you where and how to get everything. This is not one of them. And really here we’re talking about a skin, not something vital to play, not something everyone or anyone needs to be successful in the game. What we’re all looking for is only a skin, something pretty and rare that no one else has (and indeed that is why we all want it).

You know the only way to really suss this out is to have a large group of people systematically work through all the events one map at a time right? And hope your sample size is large enough for someone to get it if it’s available. It might take a few passes through the map but that’s the way to find it.

Of course.

In a paid expansion.

I do it whenever I can if only for the Karma jugs (and occasional instant repair kit). I’m hoping the new dailies still include those but I guess we’ll see in 5 days!

Yes.

Once we have it you won’t see massive shifts of guilds between servers. I can’t wait both for Guesting and the transfer free.

There are some extremely rare events that have odd triggers to them, like the one in Metrica Province’s lab where you have to first have the key (which is an extremely rare drop) then you have to know what to do with it to attune it, and then you have to know to open up the area with the creature in it to kill.

I don’t think this is the one that drops Final Rest by any means but I think there’s several others of these sorts of events that only a very small portion of the player population know about and even fewer actually have completed. It’s very likely a rare drop within one of these very rare events.

Awwww you guys are adorable! My SO won’t play with me either!

I would almost like to see two tiers here – with unlocked common dyes shared account wide while rare dyes are only per character. I think it’s still important the ‘rare’ items and colors and things remain rare in the game or they lose their specialness.

If you played Gw1 you would be thrilled dyes aren’t single use.

Closer to 1/20,000 I estimate

That said it’s like flipping a coin, every chest has a 1/X chance of being opened and just because you have opened more than the bottom number, doesn’t mean you will automatically get one.

Wait till you see one doing their stripper dance.

I’m not sure why anyone cares about speed leveling. In all PvP areas we’re all the same level any how. In fact once you get that first anchor character to 80 you can get enough in game money to keep your others fully kitted with ease any how.

In fact, I’m not sure why anyone cares AT ALL about what gear others have or how they got it. In SPvP you have a whole different kit, in PvE you’re not playing against eachother. The ONLY place that what the guy next to you is wearing is going to actually impact your play is in WvWvW and in that case it’s just as likely to be helpful to you as it is to hurt you.

Stop worrying so much of what everyone else has under the hood and enjoy the game.

Yeah they have said that it would be very diffecult to do because of the tie both to your story and your skills.

I think the only way to be able to do it would be to ONLY allow it when you’re level 80 and done your storyline, and also that it wipes any racial skills you have permanently.

For continuity it could be some special race changing potion you drink or something.

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ranger’s pet is useful, but ranger is not =P

You’re so doing it wrong.

There’s at least two magic builds for the ranger. It looks like this dude as the one I call ‘Super Pet’.

Yes you can, you just go to the dungeon entrance at Lion’s Arch and select the ones you want to run.

You can’t get toys with extra characters. The rewards are account bound not soulbound.

It’s about 6 gold each if you don’t want to use RL money

I have been finding the moving around tactic is the most reliable though I haven’t kept a tally yet to be exact.

I usually find a very steep decline after an hour or more in the same place, though I think it’s more a # of kills in the same place because if I’m not killing quickly it seems longer before that drop off happens.

What I get from these events is better than loot. What I get is a whole boat ton of XP.

That said, I did find I had better drop rates (or at least better drops) when I ran it with my farming character in her MF kit.

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Great post and well written OP. I am disgusted as well. I’m litterally sitting with my wallet , ready to dish up some bucks. But I can only get my minis through RNG. So it stays in my pocket until they remove the RNG. Unfortunately it seems that with a lot of players doing that, and being disappointed, business > players.

I think the point everyone misses is you don’t have to spend real money to get the boxes. You can flip 10 g in game into gems and use that and play the Christmas Chest Roulette with out every spending a dime of RL money as well. ANet’s build in that option for all of us (though in truth it’s really only viable for those of us who have high enough level characters to farm efficiently or who have the know how to play with the Trading Post).

I have gotten so far the Candy Cane hammer, the Princess Wand, the wooden dagger and the toy sword. All of which look absolutely adorable.

Good. Stay out. It’s my favorite farm and the fewer people using it the less likely they are to kitten the drop rates more.

You can throw snowballs at these people. Handily you can turn in some of your socks for a package of snow you can carry with you. Then BLAM!

It’s satisfying.

All of these weapons are amazing on Asura. My little elementalist has the wand and toy dagger and my guardian has the toy sword.

I have a sling shot in my bank account as one day I’ll make an Asuran Ranger or thief and they MUST have this.

I don’t foresee these super treats being in the gem store. They’re supposed to be uber rare and available only by chance.

I got it on the first day, it’s easier to do with multiple people though. You’re probably missing a little tree.

I think she’s just moved to make room for the snow ball fight in that space. You’ll be able to cash in your tokens in the new year.

NO.

If all you save is the skin it is no longer a legendary weapon. You’ve gutted it.

There is no need for acended or legendary weapons at this juncture. None. And anyone who tells you other wise is lying.

For ages my level 80 char had level 75 armor and weapons and I have done it all – fractals, dungeons, WvW, the whole story quest, and never found this to be limiting. What it did allow me to do is save up for the weapons and armor I really wanted.

In the mean time there’s plenty of ways to obtain items with passable stats for cheap until you can get your target items – I suggest dungeons and the karma merchants in Orr for obtaining the stats you want, then transmute, transmute, transmute if you don’t like the look of them.

There is no race. And not having nifty things is not stopping you from being competitive in the least. How you play is a far bigger issue than what you play with.

Bitfrost looks awesome. The septer and focus though are meh.

Honestly compared to the great swords ALL the other legendaries are lacking.

I think I’m going to have to buy a few of these and throw them in the bank as every future mesmer I have must have one.

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Of course its at the top of the charts, its an amazing game

After 15 years of chasing a carrot and being yelled at by 12 year olds I would hope that a vast majority of the MMO community would be open to change.

So, why is it different? Chasing the carrot has been introduced here too. It’s called Fractals/Ascended.

GW2 has a lot of positives, just not the ones that matter to me, but the carrot is here.

You are not forced to do anything in this game.

You could play the entire game in blue gear and you’d be just fine.

Fractals are not a forced loot chase and a Legendary is not a grind, if you don’t want to do those things then don’t do them.

The Fractals/Legendary are here for the players that want to chase after the better gear. People have been brainwashed by WoW into thinking you have to chase after better gear, you don’t.

If you willfully subject yourself to doing something that you don’t want to do, that’s your fault. That’s not ANet’s fault.

Saying you’re not “forced” to chase after better gear is disingenuous. You’re not “forced” to chase after better gear in any MMOG game – including WoW. By your standard, WoW didn’t brainwash anyone into thinking that they had to chase after better gear – it was the players “willfully subjecting themselves to doing something they didn’t want to do”.

When people say that they are “forced” to grind for better gear, what they mean is that in order to develop a character that is maxed out power-wise, they must grind. It doesn’t mean anyone has a gun to their head or that any company is physically forcing them to do anything. It doesn’t mean that there is nothing else to do in the game.

If game mechanics require you to grind content in order to max out character power, then the common phrase for that – which even ANET developers have employed – is “forced” grinding.

GW2 has forced grinding in the same sense that WoW has forced grinding.

I disagree heavily. Player stat progression is very important to raiding on WoW, to the point of not being able to be included in raids and parties for raiding if one can’t hit certain values, necessitating a gear/stat grind and heavy min maxing to be able to fully participate in the game.

GW2’s philiosphy seems to be firmly rooted in allowing players to opt in and out of what ever aspects of the game they want. I can decide I want to level my character from level 2 to 80 in WvWvW if I want. Or if I would rather do nothing but PvE that’s perfectly fine as well (I might miss some of those monthly awards that encourage exploring different aspects of the game but it won’t be the end of the world).

The only aspects of the game that is level capped are dungeons and the recommended levels for zones and even these are suggestions not limits. Even the level limits on gear can be gotten around via transmutations if you just want a skin.

I like this. I like this a lot. Do I give a kitten about Fractals? None. Guess what? I don’t need to do them. Do I love WvW? Sure. I can totally spend a month doing nothing but and STILL make my daily achievement every day.

Do I need to grind? Never if I don’t want to (frankly I find competing with myself to figure out what I can pull in an hour is fun). Level appropriate armor and weapons will always fall through my regular play and unless I want specific skins or stats I can certainly make due.

Don’t let other players ever make you feel like you MUST play certain aspects of the game to be a real player, cause that’s a bunch of bullkitten.

Rootnode> Go to bed now, get up early, be awake when you know the patch will be available in the morning.

That was adorable.

If you miss the one day visits to the various cities they will be available again once Tix gets to Lion’s Arch on the 20th. After that you will have 2 weeks to do the instances to your heart’s delight on all your alts.

I don’t believe these items are for sale I think they can only be earned via the instances in the individual cities.

They will post the patch notes once the patch goes live.

Buy the game for them for Xmas? Winter’s day is a great time to try the game I think.

Chill. It will come out at some point today.

^ Next year though I would love to see the Char try and ‘outdo’ Tixx with a bigger, badder warship.

Given what I suspect to be the nature of the January event, I don’t think we will be seeing another Asura one so never fear!

I think they said there would be separate Christmas chests. If that’s the case I might. I’m kinda hoping there’s a mini pack I can get on it’s own though.

Thank you Pandem

It says on the itinerary that it starts at 10am PST/1pm EST

Also, just because we have only gotten the schedule up to the 20th, doesn’t mean there won’t be any events after the 20th.

They have already said that most winter events will be available multiple times (the one time things during Tix’s arrival will be replayable at the end of the 3 weeks) and that the main event rewards will be available for 2 weeks. They’ve also said that the items for recipes and such will only (or maybe mostly) be available from the events themselves.

Eek I hope your comp gets fixed.

The good thing about speculating on crafting ingredients, eventually they’ll become valuable enough to turn a profit on again regardless of what happens.