Guild Wars 2

Mini Festive Golem, Mini Infinirarium, and Mini Snowman Please re-add them one more time Plox

Yeah am referring to the Mini Festive Golem, Mini Infinirarium, and Mini Snowman. I’d like another chance to get them and hopefully they will be re-added this year cause it would be sad to be missing those from my collection

Please put this year the miniatures from the very first wintersday pls. It been 2 years we are seeing the minis from the seconds over and over. Please give us the chance to get those too for us who weren’t able to get them during the first wintersday event.

Thanks

Lost a 1 and a half day of winning strike in pvp cause of that. Shame and sucks

The wintersday minis from 2013 were re-released through TP. Great theres the chance to get what we are missing. Spend 120g on gem exchange to buy the 2 i was missing. A few weeks after and with the new wintersday patch suprisingly i saw that though the 11/11 achivement chest and through the pvp wintersday track you can get them for free. That sucks as i could have bough the mini jack-a-loop instead had i knew it would have been free after 2-3 weeks.

To me (and plenty of my friends that fell in the same “trap”) it seems that it would have been nice if instead of the Wintersday 2013 anet would have placed either on tp or through the pvp track to be able to get the minis from wintersday 2012.

Now i feel i was ripped off T_T

Wintersday 2012 mini pets. ITs christmas. come ooooooooooooon

Broken. Not updating

Had so far 4 fights against 3 engis (and multiple others with 3 of the same profession) and none on my team. Rest of my team were single different professions. That’s totally balanced.

I would like to see in the Gem store the wintersday Miniatures that were available in the very First winterdsay

Mini Festive Golem
Mini Snowman
Mini Infinirarium
Mini Foostivoo the Merry

thank you very much for the link ^^

Anyone has any idea where the post with the things we want to see in the gems store went?

Impale.2503:

You guys going on and on about comparing Gwynefrydd to a precursor drop rate, just for argument’s sake, i proved that you can easily get 2 of them.

And over the 2 years i have been playing i only got 4 precursors.

It is NOT EVEN CLOSE. Precursors are way, WAY, WAY, more rare.

Its easy to get a god darn Gwynefrydd, just spend less time complaining more ingame doing 1h of Lab, 1h of Maize Balm farm, rinse n repeat.

Wow.

Seriously.

Ok… So what you are claiming that the drop rate of this mini pet compared with the drop rate of a precursor (as a measure of comparison) is different. Alright.

For someone that has 2 years of Guild wars experience it quite simple to see that your statement is mistaken. You are forgetting that The mini pet comes from bags which you can farm due to the event at large amounts and/or that can be bought of TP for i dont know some times more than 2k gold (like me [solo with no help financial or bags from anyone else) in order to get the minipet.

Alright I have 5k hours in this game. Many times tried the mystic toilet to get a precursor drop. Nothing. Used to farm WvW player with guild raids. Nothing. Did Dungeons/map explorations/events with 300+ MF… Nothing. A friend of mine started gw2 4 months ago. His first attempt in the Mystic toilet. Howler. His 4th?… The chosen. Wow.

Just because you can maximize your chances of getting this minipet JUST because the TP is filled with Trick or Treat bags doesn’t make the chances different with what the precursor is. I spend enough gold that i could easily buy 2 Dawn’s.

I’ve been reading your posts from start. Ok but after some point they just started becoming troll posts. None is arguing about getting this Mini pet as a drop. EVERYONE is arguing that it is NOT tradeable (the discussion on rpecursor drop is purely being made to show anet their Error). Like i said above today i said i would give one last chance for it bought 7.5k bags and got it on the 1000nd bag i opened. after i opened even i dont know how many bags as i just stopped counting after some point.

Gz on getting 2 wolfs but please do us a favor and stop bringing heat in this post. Ty

I decided to spend another 400g in the Trick or Treat bags. Would only buy them once whatever i got i would sell and never bother again for the Mini Pet. I bought and Farmed 7.500 Trick or Treat Bags (30 Stacks). Started opening them slowly and got Gynefyrdd in the Last Bag of the 4th Stack. Alhough am glad i get to sell the remaining 26 stacks and that i got the Mini.

I stand by everyone that this way of getting him was highly …… well not good (cant use any other word or am gonna get the message again). If you have the nerve and strength keep going or else dont even bother especially sisnce ToT bags started skyrocketing again, again TY anet for releasing the Gems items on the TP while everyone was complaining about the terrible RNG for the mini pet and were hoping for cheaper bags until tuesday.

I should be around 2 million bags opened if not more. My hands are aching. Thank god i have my brother to help me out with the clicking all the time. Got 2 zuzus and 3 tonics (the cheap ones that cost 3g now). Should have recycled by know at least 1.5k gold (buying and selling and some crafting here and there to get the losses back [never held in my pocket that amount of gold hence the recycle]) and no Gwynefyrdd. Whats obnoxious is that people get them after 40-100 or 250 even bags and people that opened 10 and 100’s of thousands get nothing. Don’t get me wrong if you got it that fast gratz but the system is ridiculous. Gwynefyrdd in my opinion should be dropable from the bags like it is even with the same low chances but at least be able to sell it on the TP especially that in 1 week all the Trick or Treat Bags will skyrocket in price. Am saving gold each day to finally be able to buy mini karka. None would mind buying Gwynefyrdd however high the price is but being account bound is laughable.

People people, they are gonna do whatever they want. They don’t care. And after a while you are gonna get a mail that if you continue to write in this way you are gonna get a ban like they did to me.

The iron marches part is bugged.

Reason why the achievement fails. All 7 NPC no matter how much time you wait, 10 minutes for the time achievement to end or just do it while its on, ALL 7 NPC’s Die at the end as they fail to cross the portal and leave the map. What happens:

-If u are delayed to get out of the priory cave and the guard tower npcs die the achievement fails.
-if you go anywhere near the final event circle the event fails
-Having ordered all 7 of them to retreat and careful checked they made it from distance to avoid triggering the final event they stop wlaking right infront of the exit portal in contrast with the priory caravan at the end of the entire instance that walks through the portal and leave the instance.

I have tried all of the above however the reason that we all fail is that they npc;s bug? at the end and dont leave. Maybe some of you were lucky and didnt bug out.

same with Strength in numbers. Killed the champion 2 times got rewards and event sucess but no skill. Strength in Numbers Charr guard lvl 38

Same thing here. Killed the wurm for the second time today 30/04/2014 and still didnt get the Wurmicidal Maniac achievement

Blade Syphon.4325:

Telling people to just Guest to another server isn’t solving the issue. Instead of just telling people to guest to another server to do content, we, as well as Anet, should be looking to fix this problem all together.

The biggest way of fixing this would be to, obviously, more accurately show how many players are actively logged onto a realm, not how many characters have been created on that in the world selection. It’s painfully misleading, and alot of new players, returning players, or hell, just people looking to migrate are lulled into a false sense of “Oh wow, every server is Very High, which means there’s people everywhere!” when this is very clearly not the case.

Of course, this only slightly fixes the issue by moving players towards populated realms. Those still stuck on low-pop realms need to have their problem fixed as well, and the only way to do that is to use the “dreaded” word: Realm Merges.

People shouldn’t feel forced to have to constantly guest to another server to complete content, nor should they feel as though they need to pay real money to permanently transfer as well.

GW2’s population is not as high as it was a year ago, and some servers are paying for it, especially when it seems Anet’s developers are either painfully ignorant of the population of their own game, or simply don’t care, and are making content specifically for TTS and similar guild, as well as for Blackgate.

As the game gets older, and more people get frustrated by Anet’s lack of doing anything, or care towards low population servers, the game’s going to only continue to sufffer worst and worst for it. Over Flows will become worst as everyone quite literally migrates to Blackgate or whatever other server is considered to be full, and the other servers are left abandoned, yet will still claim to have “Very High” populations due to how the servers record players.

Guesting is a bandaid fix, nothing more. Instead of telling people “Just Guest to Black Gate to do the event and get your achievements”, we should be telling them to Guest for now, while we continue to try to get Anet to realize the growing problem that the realm population is becoming.

Guesting IS NOT the solution to anything. When i guest into a certain server, due to the fact that everyone is in there i have to be either extremely lucky or guest to that server in like 6 am in order to get in the main. If u guest and get in an overflow when the queue to travel to the main server pops up surprise surprise you get a “Network connection error” or get ported into a different overflow. I personally have been filling bug reports since august up to today about that problem but i guess am only filing those bugs so that only my self can see them. They are not even bothered to fix that.

The only way is to get in guilds such as those you most of the times want to act like ….. and even prefer to lose the event that help you get it if u are not part of their guild. Well nice one. I dont want to be a part of such guilds. Personally i would have preferred this to be an instance from now on and take people from the lfg than just sit and rage all the time. Eventually people will slowly stop playing. IF that is what anet wants well i cant say anything more.

There are 5 minimum topics about the issue of this specific content but i am sure that only we see what we post. They don’t even care.

If i had a design team that cannot deliver after 2 years of this game’s release a content that is bugged free i would have shown them the way out on the spot.

tmakinen.1048:

Autumn Frazee.3158:

Hopefully with the difficulty changes, it will also make it easier for a good server to get ‘Six Minutes to Knightfall’.

Methinks that when an official representative starts talking about “good servers” and alleges that features of the game have been specifically calibrated to exlude those people who dare to stay on an un-good server, then it’s high time to cut losses and respectfully uninstall. Could be just me, though.

Dear tmakinen i made a post about what youa re talking and what the results of making server wide events are the other week (guild creation, guesting to other servers etc) BUT anet deleted them both. looks like they dont want feedback, anyway. My point exactly with this kind of events anet is pushing people away. Small isntances for this events would be a much better idea

Autumn Frazee.3158:

We are currently working on the difficulty of the Assault Knight fights; I realize that sometimes its hard to get a full overflow or that there are non peak hours where server populations will be lighter. Hopefully with the difficulty changes, it will also make it easier for a good server to get ‘Six Minutes to Knightfall’.

Time is running out. People have been granted the achievement due to a bug. It seems unfair for people like me that did the knights in the 6min window and did not get the achievement countless times. Just give everyone the achievement points to be fair to everyone. Fixing it from this point and on is kinda useless for me. Give it to all or remove it from Everyone.

Nice to hear its still bugged. Just automatically give everyone that achievement anet. Pretty much everyone that has that achievement got it through the bug that was randomly given by killing only one knight in under 6 minutes what will be fair is to just give us all that achievement. Personally i did the knights in under 6 minutes about 10 times by guesting to servers and got nothing due to the bug. I just gave up. Please give everyone that achievement IF u want to be fair. I just gave up to tired to rage about not getting the achievement.

Nice to hear its still bugged. Just automatically give everyone that achievement anet. Pretty much everyone that has that achievement got it through the bug that was randomly given by killing only one knight in under 6 minutes what will be fair is to just give us all that achievement. Personally i did the knights in under 6 minutes about 10 times by guesting to servers and got nothing due to the bug. I just gave up. Please give everyone that achievement IF u want to be fair

Since my last post was removed due to caps lock :X here it is again with small letters.

Stop putting server wide events fro living story and bosses please. I am stack with not able to complete my achievements because server wide events need the whole server and skill of all to be completed.

As a result guilds are being made that kick people that are bringing their friends in their overflows and switch to different servers if random people are present. I have been struggling to successfully complete the Tequatl and Wurm and Marrionette events because it a server wide event and all the above apply.

There are many people like me that cant complete their achievements because they are depending on other more often unskilled people to successfully complete it or need an insanely large amount of people to participate. Needless to say that there are people that their game-play time is limited due to real life stuff and cant do that even when a world organizes it.

Please stop putting such events as the only thing that this earns is hatred to the community, rage to other people and many more.

Can you please from now on just produce events into an Instance? I prefer spending hours in such instances with lfg random people and explain it than raging because a server fails or there are unskilled people.

Thank you

P.s. yes i like to get all my achievement points

Yeap. Happens to me every now and then 4v5. Even get 35% of the matches i play 1-2 afk people at spawn. The most irritating thing was the other day when we were inside the map 4 people from my team, the match after the 1:30 minute ready timer was still with us having 4 people and ended without the 5th ever appearing in the game.

Yeap. Definetly needs anet to look into it. There are many problems like that ingame. Even the gloves from flame and frost didn’t show properly on certain armors. Taking into account though how much effort, gold, time it takes and also the emotions of finally crafting such an expensive legendary its a shame for its effects to be obliterated just because its an offhand or because Norns and Charrs are bigger characters with big armor pieces

Aaaaaaaand it happened again….

Since the final patch that was release (Tower of nightmares) am experiencing a lot of game crashes. the screen either goes completely black or goes black with a message saying network connection lost and on some rare occasions i get error 42. I know its not my internet service because many people are complaining about it. We had 2 days ago on a WvW raid a massive crash where over 15 people crashed at the same time. I don’t know what is happening but i am sure it has something to do with anet server or the patch. Also lately everyone tends to have massive lag everywhere, while pveing, dungeons, WvW, chat, everywhere.

The irritating thing is that this crash tends to happen more often lately. For an example the yesterday i got crasher (network error) 3 times in a row. Crashed, logged in, then crashed, loged in and crashed again.

Please take a look at this problem

Aluna Darklady.3165:

I run a condition damage build with s/d and all signets (Air, Water, and Earth, as well as Healing, plus Glyph of Elementals for Elite). http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1|b.1h.h5.8.1h.h1h|0.0.0.0.0.0|1k.716.1k.a2.1h.716.1h.716.1h.716.1k.716|21l.e12.1k.68.1k.68.1h.62.1h.62.ck.68|u67c.0.u23c.0.a5|0.0|e I wear a mix of Carrion/Cleric’s armor and accessories, with Carrion weapons.

I agree with NinjaEd about the precision thing. I don’t think it’s viable to go for a small amount of precision; you’re better off stacking higher in another area. I don’t get anything with precision stats. I can’t imagine the “Written In Stone” is useful if you aren’t running signets. DEKeyz has a lot of great things to say so I won’t bother getting into that.

If you’ve gotten this far, then I’m sure you know this, but Ele’s are just squishy. Learning to dodge and kite and move around is the biggest way to help with survivability. I mean, we can stack toughness, but it only helps so much.

One thing I’m curious about…how are all your stats so high? I’m level 80 and fully geared (except back piece) and all my stat points equal about 1000 less than yours?!

I did play around with going full Carrion and forgetting the Healing Power altogether. But it didn’t raise my stats a significant amount to make it worth regearing. Now, in PvP, I ran full Carrion with Runes of the Adventurer, basically to maximize my power and cond damage. I haven’t run it much yet, but if I hadn’t already geared in PvE I may have went for that.

The other thing is, like DEKeyz mentioned, carrying weapons for situational use. I had a hard time with this at first, as I’m quite comfortable with s/d, but I have come to see the wisdom in it. I have an exotic Staff in my inv I carry at all times, and use it when necessary for ranged situations, like the Nightmare Tree in TA, or the Flame Legion Assassins in CoFP2. I also swap out my Utility Skills in situations where say, I need Ice Bow for AC burrows, or I need some AoE, so I put in Glyph of Storms for a bit. Etc. I think it helps to know what you’re capable of in addition to what is comfortable for you.

I will try swapping my accesories with ones that have critical dmg. Thnx As it comes to the stats i have listed all the armor/runes/accessories i’ ve equiped my ele. But which of the stats are u talking about specificly. However am thinking of equiping my staff with the sigil of bloodlust which seems nice enough.. For daggers i’ll go bloodlust+battle

sbr.8170:

DEKeyzToChaos.7381:

Check out Glyph of Elemental Power instead of Signet of Fire (think about this: Meteor storm or Glyph of Storms + burning), and also look into Arcane Wave – that blast finisher is awesome with all the fields that a staff ele gets.

Trait-wise, swap out Earth XII for Earth VIII (20% longer bleeds) or possibly Earth IV (5% more damage to bleeding enemies – I think even when not in earth attunement).

And if you don’t have a sigil you love, get yourself a Major/Superior Sigil of Battle (2/3 stacks of might (20sec) on [attunement] swap, internal cooldown of 9 seconds) for more might-stacking awesomeness.

Changing attunements counts for changing weapons on those? I feel like I should have know that already.

Attunment change counts as weapon change

DEKeyzToChaos.7381:

First, two questions: what sigil are you using, and what 6-0 skills do you use most often?

My ele runs the 0/10/0/30/30 spec and uses zerker’s/knight’s gear so I can switch from a staff powerhouse to a D/D or S/D aurasharer at will, but I have some friends that run some variation on 30/x/30/x/x and those are viable builds.

It seems like you are trying to mix a condi ele with a bit of a signet build, but I’m not sure how well those two mesh together for you without knowing your 6-0 skills. You are doing a great job on maxing out your condition damage except in your ascended gear (sorry, I know that stuff is a pain to get). A P/T/V back isn’t a bad choice for survivability, but your rings are sub-optimal. As NinjaEd said, you either want to stack precision (in addition to your condition damage, which would require a complete redo of your gear for little change in your DPS) or avoid it. Similarly, unless you truly believe that the +% MF really helps your drops, scrap that in favor of more Power/Cond Dmg/Toughness/Vitality.

Staff is a good weapon for condition damage builds, as is Scepter/Dagger (plus carry a focus for situational use). Dagger/Dagger is usually considered a weaker weapon set for pure condition builds, but is good for a signet/aura build.

As far as traits go, if you want to go for more condition damage, check out Earth IV and Earth VIII. If you happen to use a lot of cantrips, then check out Fire IV, as well. If you use solely signets, then you may want to look into running a signet/aura build when you use scepter/dagger, scepter/focus, or dagger/dagger, which makes use of Fire IX, Earth II, Earth V and Earth XII – traiting 10 into Air for the Air I major trait also boosts this signet/aura build even more.

Overall, great job on boosting your damage while maintaining some survivability.

My Healing Skill is – Glyph of Elemental Harmony
My Utility Skills are:
7 – Glyph of Storms
8- Arcane Shield
9- Signet of Fire
My Elite Skill is – Glyph of Elementals

As you can see am not a signet build ele.. I mainly use the Trait for maintaining the Signet effect mainly just to maintain the crit. chance it has . But am seeing its useless so am thinking of checking out other traits for that one

Terok.7315:

The Art of Killing.8643:

Am wearing full Carrion Armor
Toughness
Vitality
Condition Damage

Isn’t carrion Power, Vitality, condition damage?

Yeah your right.. My bad am correcting it now

Hey i wanted just to gather some opinions about my ele’s build in order to find whether there are ways to improve it. I feel really squishy and cant understand whether am doing good damage or not. I can only tell when i swap to dagger/dagger XD

I am a mainly staff elementalist
Traits are 30 fire/0 air/30 earth/ 0 water/ 10 arcana
for fire i use III (Ember’s might) VI (Internal Flame) XII (Pyromancer’s Puissance)
for earth i use III (Earth’s Embrace) X (Geomancer’s Alacrity) XII (Written in Stone)
for arcana V (Elemental Attunement)

Am wearing full Carrion Armor
Power
Vitality
Condition Damage

Accessories:
Backpack: Fractal Capacitor- Power, Toughness, Vitality
Amulet: Thackeray Family Crest – Toughness, Power, Vitality (x2 all)
Ring(1): Vassarar’s Band (Infused) – Toughness(x2), Vitality, Condition Damage (x2), Precision
Ring(2): Circle of Light- Toughness(x2), Vitality(x2), Power, Magic Find
Earings(1+2): still green trying to buy ascended
My staff is also Carrion Staff

With superior rune of the undeadnwhich grants me
(1): +28 Condition Damage
(2): +15 Toughness
(3): +55 Condition Damage
(4): +35 Toughness
(5): +100 Condition Damage
(6): 5% of Toughness.png Toughness becomes Condition Damage

Attributes:
1803 Power
2914 Attack
1100 precision
13% Crit. chance
1649 Toughness
2569 armor
1497 Vitality
16615 health
1299 Condition Dmg
30% Condition duration
10% boon Duration
0 Healing Power
0% Crit. Dmg
20 Attunement Recharge

I know.. but i have unlocked Gladiator and am nearly 1000 points above that

Hey i am rank 11 in PvP already holding the “gladiator” title and when i open the pvp tab it shows that am a deer. However there appears to be a bug with the game as in the main menu screen it continues to show me the rabbit rank symbol. Anyone has any idea of what to do to fix this?

No2 looks nice