Guild Wars 2

… gosh, that’s just too sweet…

Wiki says Account Bound though. I guess they made all of them account bound, even though introduced in core Tyria.

No, those are items and they stay in your inventory until you destroy / deposit them or you reach the end of the JP with all four cantles.
(It’s not an instance though, even though I know what you mean)

Lady Deedra.3126:

There are anomalies that happen and if the gold is legit and this isn’t some story to lay the groundwork to you buying gold so you can reference this post later than I am sure you will be fine. Just be prepared in case you do get banned to provide them with as much information as possible.

Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure that we would be able to do so. Anyway, only a few guys invite gold sellers to their home so that they share the same IP (at least I guess so)
Neither of us did any shady business in the past, and your post indicates that staff works reasonable enough to listen to arguments.

Gifting items and stuff seems more romantic to me anyways. Maybe he can think of some sort of Advent calendar? I think I’m gonna give him some hints ^^

You can’t buy trailblazer insignias nor marauder insignias. The vendor in the video sells only the recipe for trailblazer insignias.

However you don’t need a huntsman. Armorsmith, leatherworker or tailor is needed for insignias.^^

edit @ above post: HoT insignias are in fact account bound.

Thanks for your input!
I’ve already seen Gaile’s post somewhen but I wasn’t able to find it again.

That seems to be pretty fine. 500g a week is pretty okay to me
Just some basic questions that popped up when reading your posts:
- when sending gold as a gift, it’s better to have a reason (like, “this gold is for item X”)?
- sending items is okay, too? like, he could send me my missing rare collection items via guild bank or letter and it wouldn’t count towards the 500g.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Congrats on your cohabitation!

TY! ^^ Working out pretty well so far :P

Heya boys and girls!
So I got in a pretty special situation recently.

My boyfriend and I moved together some weeks ago. It was only then when I got to know that he was once playing actively too. In fact, he played the trading post pretty much and got rich. I don’t know how rich exactly, but VERY rich (he said his gold amount has 5 digits).
On valentine’s day, he wanted to make me a special gift. Since he isn’t playing anymore and he’s pretty safe that this will stay this way, he wanted to do me a favour and give me his money. I’m still actively playing and I could use it just so well.

However, I’m still pretty unsure about it. I definitely don’t want to get banned. Would it look like gold selling to ArenaNet?
We would use the same IP, so this may seem unlikely if they dig into it. We could also provide all serial keys / attached emails, so it’s not an account theft either.
But would that be enough?

Is there some ArenaNet policy, like “gifting gold is okay, but please no more than X amount in a given timeframe”?
I already contacted customer support to make sure that I’m /we’re not going to do anything forbidden / malicious.
Anyone already made experience with this kind of stuff? Is it even okay for ArenaNet to give that much gold away when I’m deciding to quit playing?

Thanks in advance!

I really like the new map. Before, I didn’t really knew how much I missed Krytan style maps. The feeling of mostly peaceful villages, attacked in a sudden siege, was pretty realistic in my opinion. I haven’t played all events there yet, so there may still be much to discover.
I just wondered what the (ingame lore) reason could be for blocking our access to Lake Doric before the attack. It seems to consist of villages similar to Queensdale’s eastern part, so is there a reason it was “forbidden” to the PC before something dangerous took place there?

I leave the raid to the raiders… but I’m very excited about the location. Will it take us to Janthir Bay somehow? :O

The story missions were fun to play, but I have to replay them to get a better insight.

I’m pretty sure that this is why they invented chat tabs.
It makes the whole chat a bit messy since you have to click through a few tabs, but you’re able to split different guild chats easily. I still like the color thing, but I’m not sure if it would increase the readability of a crammed chat very much.

edit: sorry, missed your paragraph about tabs.
Since they get red whenever something new was posted in there, I don’t have much problems with overseeing important messages.

“… see today’s patch!”

From Twitter:

Monday’s snowstorm caused a power outage at ArenaNet. Due to the aftereffects of that, today’s #GW2 update will be later than usual. ~RB2

I’m usually around 1000 gold, +/- 100 or something.
I’m not playing much at the moment, so my main source of income is selling daily rewards / laurel items from my five accounts.

In the end, it all depends on the percentage of players at MF cap.
I doubt that they’ll invest time in it if it’s less than one percent or something.

And I fear that it’s still a pretty rare phenomenon. I’m still pretty active (around 26k achievement points) and I’m just scrapping at +250% MF through luck, so I doubt that there are many (or any at all) casuals at cap.

Please pass me one of your tinfoil hats.

Colly.4073:

Anet set themselves a deadline months ago for this patch, A couple of hours power outage on Monday isn’t going to make that much of a difference this close to release.

Someone kittened up!

Yeah, because you can preparate everything and just have to press a single button to launch the patch. Not.

A power outage can cause many complications and it’s definitely not Anet’s fault.

Same here. I had the whole day free to play today, so it’s a bit saddening that this bug makes it more or less unplayable now.

So, while reading a book about how Middle Earth is (or was at some point, as planned by Tolkien) an early, prehistoric version of the real world / earth, I decided to check the same for Tyria, just for the lulz.

Surprisingly, I found some similarities… check for yourself :P
(I’m 99% sure that these are just coincidences, but who knows?)

There are “defend against destroyers before they absorb too much ley energy” type of events. Those count, not the following champion events.

I’m a bit unsure if the search doesn’t work right, because I’m pretty sure that I’m not the first one who would like to have a trading post filter for skins you don’t already have.

Any opinions? To be honest, I’m wondering why that feature isn’t already implemented.

OriOri.8724:

The unrest is likely leading up to a revolt of some kind, but I don’t know who would be leading it.

Caudecus, at least as a White Mantle puppet.

I thought about this as well. However, the raid story felt more like an introduction to the whole topic. Anet already said that every important lore coming from raids that will have an impact on LS / expansions will get taught through other ways so that non-raiders will understand everything, too. The pure existence of this statement makes it very likely that raid story will NOT be fully separate.

robertjan.2197:

My issue is that I constantly need to switch to get the persisting flames buff. Firefields are easily created however, there are only few blast finishers of which none among the fire staff skill line

Firefields last longer. That’s a bonus you’ll always get :P
For blast finishers, use your utilities. My tempest has Arcane Brilliance, “Aftershock!” and Arcane Wave, three blast finishers (I’m usually using Mist Form as my last utility for emergencies).

Small content updates every two weeks was too fast, an expansion every year was not enough content, higher quality content updates every two or three months is too… I don’t know? Too “content progress locking”?
I clearly don’t want to be in Anet’s shoes :/

I don’t think so, because it wasn’t exactly a natural disaster. Shiro Tagachi’s scream turned the sea to jade and the woods to stone.

Well, Mordremoth and Bubbles always were the two most mysterious ones. It just would surprise me pretty much if they’d take both of them down this quick.
Plus, it would result in some lore problems. If we would defeat the DSD, it would be theoretically possible again to travel to other continents -> I’m pretty sure that Anet won’t deal with this problem in this phase of the game.

edit: by the way, I’d love to finally see the DSD. I’m a big fan of abyssish ocean dragons and I’m keen on playing a Largos, too^^

What exactly makes it plausible that it will be the DSD next expansion? The HoT indicates Kralkatorrik or maybe Primordus. How would the DSD fit into the current events?
Of course he’s still there and we’ll be going to punsh him eventually. But I don’t think that he’s likely to be next.

Randulf.7614:

btw..context for quote..?

“A Raiding Retrospective from Raid Designers” blog post.

I’m pretty sure that the next raid will come with the next expansion.

“So keep on theorycrafting. Our next destination may surprise you.” – Bobby Stein

I wonder what he’s referring to. Next raid? White Mantle Story? Maybe we get to visit the area around the Isle of Janthir? :O

I got around 40 in 2-3 hours. You just need to follow the ley line champ and take care for its animations, as they indicate the direction where it throws its ley line balls.

The reason for that is Mini Risen Priest of Balthazar. It was a mini that got introduced shortly after release and unlocking it proceeded the Collection I achievement, even though it technically doesn’t belong to Set I.
For that reason, there were 55 minis that proceeded the achievement, but just 54 needed for it. The system back then had no “checklist” but simply counted the number of different minis. In result, you were able to leave out one mini and still get the achievement.

With the recent changes regarding collections, this “bug” got fixed. Now you have to own every available mini from Set I.

Alrighty, thanks. I’m gonna do all fractals anyway for the achievements, but well…
It’s just that I can’t really stand another 40 fractals or so before I get my shiny XD
But yeah, I guess I have to work first x_x
(Anyone willing to sell the run, I’m still fully interested in offers – EU servers by the way)

I usually stick to the beginning of the volcanic fractal. Lots of spawning trash mobs.
You can go leroy jenkins on them, run in, attack, kill, die, respawn and keep attacking. It’s a lot faster than pulling them group by group if you’re a staff ele.
If done, leave fractal, repair armor and hop back in. With one or two magic find boosters, you can easily get around 3 vials / globs / shards per hour even when you do it solo.

I don’t have access to the 75-100 lfg though o:

Hey guys! The last thing I need for Ad Infinitum is the Mai Trin time challenge.
I currently have 140 AR, but I never went past frac level 60, so I don’t have experience with a level 100 frac.

If you want to help me: I would be really glad if you could write me a short ingame mail. Of course I would help during the fight as much as I can, if needed. I’d even pay a small amount like 20 gold if you could help me. Random groups are too much pressure for me as I don’t know about tricks / mechanics in higher levels.

Thanks in advance (:

Wouldn’t mind a little Darksiders themed addon, though. Maybe on another continent?
I fear Anet’s just too understaffed at the moment for anything besides their main story line.

Maybe I was lucky, but I did three adventures, got seven chests all in all and it dropped out of a silver box. (From the Itzel beetle adventure, by the way)
So yeah, it does drop. Maybe it’s rare and I was lucky, or you are unlucky.

Well, the attachment should explain everything. I can’t complete the achievement since the silver reward for sanctum scramble hasn’t counted towards it (yes, I used the silver reward box).
If I remember it correctly, it unlocked something else for the collection – the “glide with a revenant” thing, as far as I remember. I know, it shouldn’t get the highest priority, but I would appreciate a fix.

I’m a real fanboy since day 1. Plus, I have never planned on getting one of the new legendaries, nor am I too disappointed with the HoT content.
I still think that this is a major slap in the face for many players.

Maybe you should bring up what takes so long for all this. Maybe the skin is the easiest part and you can create a new set of bltc weapons in a few hours, but most people only see how many new cash shop items (compared to actual new ingame skins) are coming this days.

I don’t know much about finances, company politics etc.
But you seem a bit understaffed the last ~year.

I’ve finished the HoT maps + story on 7 of my 9 chars, plus did a ton of meta event farming to complete some skin collections. I’d guess, around 250 hours by now, but that won’t be all.
If you’re counting ALL HoT stuff, like precursor collections, fractals etc, it will be much more, but I can’t really estimate any numbers.

Well, I “only” encountered two (and a half) problems with the gliding phases.
1) after the initial jump, there’s a small delay where you can’t open the glider. If you press space directly after jumping, it won’t work. I usually try to tap space 2-3 times to make sure. (That could lead to insta-undeploying the glider again, but it hasn’t happen to me during my 7 Mordremoth fights).
2) Mordremoth spawns this circular AoE that sucks you into the center (the only place where you don’t get damaged) – sometimes this AoE is bad timed and stays during the start of a gliding phase. This will suck you towards the ground even if you’re in the air at that moment when you’re flying above it…
3) I didn’t try it often, but Braham’s shield doesn’t seem to be very helpful. However, I’m not sure if this is a bug or not. It would be a bit strange if you could simply skip all gliding phases just by joining the NPCs.

PS: I saw a developer on reddit a few days ago, and he mentioned that he’ll look into some Heart and Mind story bugs. Maybe this will fix the most common problems.

You’ll get enough hero points to max out anything, so just continue playing

As far as I remember, they were able to resist because of Ventari’s tenets.
Stronger connection to Ventari’s dogma -> higher resistance against Mordremoth. For that reason, it’s not unlikely that the other pale tree(s) didn’t have such a resistance mechanism.

By the way, I wouldn’t compare Sylvari to Icebrood / Branded. As far as I know, those are “just normal guys” – poor Quaggans – that got corrupted by the Brand or by Jormag’s “I’ll give you power in exchange” (like the mordrem for Mordremoth). Sylvari are “true” dragon minions, a bit like destroyers.

Nice evening everybody!

I’m pretty keen to get as many achievements as possible, so I’ll definitely level my scriber to 400 (at whatever cost).
My guild already has an official scriber, so a) I’m not really useful for them and b) they can’t or won’t support me that much with needed mats.

So I thought – hey, maybe some guild out there still needs a scriber at 400. I’m not rich enough to spend 800-1000 gold on it, especially because you need so many resonating slivers. So basically my idea was some kind of exchange. You’ll give me parts of the needed mats, I can produce whatever you want once my scriber is high enough.
I got 2 or 3 open guild slots, so if there’s more than one guild, it’s a) faster and b) cheaper for each individual guild to help me out.

Once I’m at 400, I’ll of course complete the Uzolan collection, so that I’m able to build his orchester, too, if you want it.
I’m on an European server – don’t know if that matters at all. My guild already has all needed upgrades, so all I need is mats.

If you’re interested, contact me ingame and I’ll reply as soon as possible.

To be honest, I kinda liked The Floor is Lava, as it was necessary to memorize a certain path and to be skilled enough to do the right jumps etc.
It was completely unrandom and you got better and better if you tried, so I’m really okay with the difficulcy of that one.

I’d suggest to specify some of your toons for PvE stuff and some for WvW stuff.
PvP doesn’t use your equipment stats anyways.

PvE toons should still work fine in berserk (or for conditions, viper or sinister or something) equipment, while WvW could use some more defensive stats.
I’d personally wouldn’t craft two armor sets for each toon (especially when you’re a perfectionist like me and only using ascended stuff). At the moment, I’m using guardian and necro and thief in WvW and the rest in PvE. Ele/tempest should work fine in WvW too, but it’s my main, so I’m mostly doing PvE stuff with him.

If you’re planning to get legendary armor, it will work perfect for your main as you can easily change stats between game modes.

Special tip: It’s way cheaper to build another ascended insignia to build a weapon with other stats, and then convert this weapon with an exotic sinister insignia via mystic forge.
Those black diamonds will make you poor otherwise

I personally like the staff ele/tempest, as he has powerful range attacks. The problem with HoT enemies is, that you have to react quick and get a feeling for when to dodge / when to just move out of the danger zone / when to run.
It depends on your equipment, too. Do you have at least exotics?

Most situations should be fine if you keep moving, keep a distance between you and the mobs, time your evades etc.
The dragon@grove is doable if you stay out of the AoE and time your jumps (when he’s doing his mega AoE). The mobs should be easily killable when you’re using staff.

Since megaservers, there’s no difference PvE-wise.

I think the more reasonable fix would be to simply shorten the time after killing the Maw until you get credit. I never understood why it takes so long…