Guild Wars 2

Head down to the second level of Rata Sum via any of the ramps around the periphery. In the center area you’ll find the bank as well the BLTC merchants and such.

My ranger and mesmer support this thread :/

Nilkemia.8507:

sazberryftw.3809:

If you have no continue coins, you could go back to the Hub, and rejoin your party with 5 lives. So therefore you would port out instead of dying and having to spend baubles on a continue coin, as leaving and rejoining would be more efficient, which is kind of cheating. Therefore, you have 1 life instead of 5.

Um, going back to the hub just gives you one life, not 5. Unless that’s unique to being in a party. I don’t think it gives you extra lives otherwise, and it only gives you an extra life if you don’t have any extras to begin with.

Correct, back in April though you could take advantage of such a loophole which is why they fixed it to the way it is now with only 1 life.

Nope, that’s just a “preview”.

Like Azure said, stun lock the first with the whip and keep him stunned the whole raft ride…easy peasy.

I still have some pics of my mes from a while back to help compare…sadly only scepter/sword and staff. Hard to say on the staff pic, not really clear…you can def see that effect on the sword though.

On the whole I can’t say I disagree with you. However you have to keep in mind with still 2 worlds to go how the difficulty curve likely would have ended up had no changes been made. In essence, as it was, it was akin to going through the first stage of SMB3 and jumping from that right into taking out the final Koopa Kid on that ridiculous airship/tank/boat level. Things needed to be initially toned down so that the difficulty follows a more natural, gradual/linear increase instead of a sudden spike.

Odd, I’ve had the og backpack, sword, gs, staff, and scepter on my mesmer since April and they’ve always had the effect on them.

It’s challenging sure, but not that hard (speaking only for normal mode here)…even less so after the patch. While I do have the ICC now I did my initial Infantile/Normal runs without it, relying on coins I had stocked up. W2Z1 took around an hour initially with both W2Z2 and Z3 each taking a couple of hours. As far as lives expended…I was around 50 some odd coins when I started and got as low as 32 or so. After that though, the initial run of each area, you end up spending a lot less.

Like Cryx said, they’ve always been that way when wielded.

All 3 zones? Just making sure…

^While that is true I find that to not always be reliable. Dunno how it will be now with the patch though.

It’s not a commitment that Anet requires of you but one which you’ve imposed on yourself. Deal with it or not, it’s your issue to solve and no one else’s.

Daroon.1736:

Playing world 2 level 1 for the bauble and hidden room achievement at the moment and overall it’s quite fun – but having real difficulty with the ascent up the rapids to the hidden hillybilly cave where the last jump on the rapids seems very random. Same positioning, same leap and 95% of the time its just instant death – most frustrating.

A tiny bit more leeway on the rapids jumps looks like it would improve things greatly.

Works best if you jump and then move towards the last rock. Least that’s what I found. Anytime I tried moving towards the rock to get momentum for the jump I’d get caught in the rapids and in most cases subsequently launched out of the cave.

Personally it really doesn’t matter to me as I already have all the original skins I want for my mesmer from SAB debut run…save for maybe a 2nd sword but I can just buy that off the TP if I really need it. I know some people are sticklers about stuff staying limited and all but I don’t find that it really bothers me all that much. Aside from that it would seem to me that that’s sort of why they bothered implementing the different world color skins you can make through TM so that there’s a base level of skins and then “status” skins for those that want them.

If that’s the first waterfall on frogger river then yes it’s mentioned.

Either that or why not just have it actually shoot at whatever you have targeted? Either would be fine by me.

Sweet, thanks man. Just knocked off all baubles for W2Z1 so this will be another one down for me

Check this thread for W2Z1, worked for me… https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/sab-bts/Bauble-Checklist-for-World-2-Zone-1-Rapids/first#post2787688

…I would agree though, the lack of any counter to check progress is annoying. Dunno if logistically there’s something that prevents them from doing it or not (one wouldn’t think so due to other achievements having trackers but who knows).

sazberryftw.3809:

Wow that’s depressing, didn’t get the achievement.
Swear I followed it to the word.

Edit: Are you 100% sure this is complete? If it counts I believe you missed a secret room, and there is a purple bauble there.

Dunno man, I followed it to the letter and managed to get it.

+1 to this man, great work. That’s one less headache for me to deal with

Pifil.5193:

However, it takes pedantry to a whole new level. It’s like refusing to walk out an “exit” because it was mistakenly marked as an “entrance” or use an obviously working elevator because it was marked as “out of order”.

This pretty much sums up the OP, unfreakingbelievable…

Not all “hidden” areas count…just so you know.

NP 15 charracters…

Use the second flower to launch yourself into the cave behind the waterfall below to your right. After going through that are you’ll come out at the top of the cliff on the right where the river turns left. Just follow the ledges back around till you get to your bauble.

Ah, thought it would be tacked on after like the first time SAB was around /facepalm

Absolutionis.9427:

Beat w2 and then go over to the w3 hut.

Here’s the thing…there is no hut for me. I beat Storm Wizard, get dropped in a pit with robbers and after that’s done I get thrown back out in the SAB hub.

skullmount.1758:

God, 3 1/2 hours to finish zone 2-2. Even knowing what to do, its takes forever. How much shorter does the eagle actually make it?

If you stay on the eagle the whole time…drops you off right on top of the bell for the boss of the zone.

Add me to the list…31/33 :/

Evans.6347:

Purple colour weapons, not legendary weapon rarity.
Though beating world 4 on tib mode by itself will be legendary.

This is what worries me. I have no interest in getting any of the “colored” SAB weps save for a set of purps to go with my mesmer. I fear this is a task which will spell my doom.

Obvious nemesis is obvious…least that was my thinking on the whole matter. That was even before I got the mail bomb.

I can’t say as I only did it once which got me my mini Princess.

Other than taking the shortcut eagle? Nothing really comes to mind.

2nd one from the left isn’t trapped

I noticed one earlier, just popped up in map chat/across the middle of the screen with yellow text like when they announce a new build or what have you.

Other than the trading post? Nope.

Ridiculous…way to steep a difficulty increase over world 1.

I loved it originally and hell even loved the new hub. That all went out the window with world 2 though :/ Not a fan, not a fan at all…

The vendor on the upper floor of the BLTC in LA won’t be going anywhere so if you want to hold on to it no harm there unless you’re strapped for inv/bank space. Who knows if anything new will be added (not likely imo but the possibility is always there) down the road…really depends on how often the bazaar comes back.

I disagree that air 2 should pull rather than push/knockdown. I think as is it’s fine, just requires a bit of common sense to not use it when a crystal carrier is near scoring. Rather, I like to air 3 past them, between where they score and where they are and then use air 2 to knock them back into the group that’s chasing them. Manage that along with someone using lightning 4 (sun 4 kinda works also if it wasn’t so hit and miss half the time) and very rarely are they able to recover and score.

I don’t think so, I’ll take something over nothing (warts and all) as long as it’s free.

It’s still pretty decent range, i.e. near the edge of the minimap in relation to you. I’ve not had any issues tracking anyone down when I decide to.

Razor.9872:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Gnashblade however will be in LA. Counting his money and planning to betray everyone.

Like I said, he’s not planning on betraying anyone. He honestly does have the best interests for Lion’s Arch.

Uh huh, sure he does.

Um, you can see survivors on the minimap when you’re a ghost. They’re the orangish-red dots you see moving around or standing still.

…and this is one of the biggest problems with this minigame. The scoring system runs counter to the actual objective and the stupid achievement makes it even worse.

synk.6907:

Currently, my opinion of Kiel is mostly tied to my lack of opinion about Evon. Her presence in multiple Living Story elements helped to show, rather than merely tell, her role in the world, at least somewhat, and gave my characters a reason to give her attention (and me a reason to want to learn about her).

Then they let Gnashblade waltz into a dialogue scene and suddenly also be important. I had actually not realized who he was until NPCs started talking (“Ohh, that’s the Black Lion head!?”). He had zero impact on me, both as a player and as someone interested in the game’s world, until this latest patch.

I realize you requested that we not make this a “vs. Evon” style of thread, so I do owe you an apology. But Kiel has been pretty straightforward about what she’s doing — putting on a good face for the public, ostensibly working with the player character to uphold justice, doing Magnus’s bidding — and, even if that might be a little bland, I can’t fault her for it. She’s not great or anything, but she’s not bad, either. Evon hasn’t done a thing that we’ve really seen until now, and what they’ve given us with him is a little bit of Snidley Whiplash levels of cartoonish villainy in a few lines and a couple promises.

Personally, I don’t find her even half as frustrating as Trahearne, so I can’t quite throw my hat in with others on that.

I guess, ultimately, I wouldn’t say I like her, but I don’t see a reason to dislike her, either. And given where the story has now taken her, it’s difficult to not be influenced by comparisons to her peers when continuing to evolve that opinion.

Sums it up nigh perfectly for me, agreed.

Wat? Not sure what support reminders have to do at all with farming CoF? It’s free money, if you don’t want it then give it to me.

Kiel, or Skritt King…screw Evon.

More fun and needs less work to improve than SSS does (talk about a great idea with horrid implementation).

I’ve gotten credit for it shortly after the patch went live.