Guild Wars 2

I dc’d just before the moto’s finger room, spent ~2 hours trying to get the baubles achievement/hidden rooms…. The client stuttered for like 2 seconds and I was at the lobby…

I wish they’d add a way to save progress. This is just sadism at its best the way it is at the moment. This is the first living story I will not complete before the deadline.

The difference between killing Tequatl and a failing depends on lowering/eliminating his scale buff. Hylek turret skill 2 gets rid of 1 scale buff. The buff regenerates overtime.

There are only 6 Hylek turrets

So if 2-3 of the turret pilots are clueless, troll, afk, or dies easily….. entire server fail to kill him.

Please add more hylek turrets.

Draknar.5748:

Heh, I got every bauble except the one right before the boss on that drawbridge. Got up to the gong hitter, hit the gong, dropped the drawbridge and then excitedly jumped on the gong hitter to make my way to the final bauble and I bugged into the stupid gong hitter. Literally stuck, couldn’t get out, and believe me, I did everything humanly possible for 15min before deciding I was stuck for good.

I even tried to get creative and invited someone into my party, ported them in, and then tried to fake a DC so I could relog and have my spot saved. Leaving the instance reset the achievement and I got no credit.

Needless to say I raged hard. Real hard. Second time around took half the time because I knew how to do most of the harder spots with ease.

Did you try digging for bunnies?

When you forge W1,W2,W3,W4 tribulation skins of same type you should get something like….

A huge chunk of people playing in SAB1 was because of the bauble farm/dig runs. I think when they nerfed this, less and less people frequent sab. Please remove the cooldown on buried baubles and return the other npc items such as obsidian shards.

I sympathize with OP. I spent more than 2 hours getting my achievement, and if I did not get the achievement in the end like OP I don’t think I would even attempt to try to get it again. The entire thing is just frustrating.

Please make checkpoints have selectable option to choose which one to set/activate. I think it would help with getting achievements faster. I just did w2z2 bauble/ninja/rooms and the final part where you go back to eagle (while dying from fall/bees) took a while and would have been easier if you can set another checkpoint.

(ALSO, a huge thanks to Dulfy’s guides I don’t think I would even attempt these achievements without his/her guides) <3

CryxTryx.9208:

Here is where you’re wrong OP. He reached his target audiance. SAB is a game with in a game. Anet obviously gave him artistic licence to develop content geared toward players with a higher skill level.

Higher skilled players? LOL. After they added infinite continue coins, all “skill” requirements went out the window. Now it’s just a matter of patience and time.

I just leveled both Huntsman to 400 and Leatherwork to 400 and both of them only gave 6 level each to my toon. I remember crafting to 400 giving 10 levels before. Did they change this recently?

(I have both craft xp booster and normal xp booster active)

Edit: Aw I just read the notes about the change. They made it so the 10 level is gained after getting to 500 now. =( sad

They’re still cheap in tp

Iunno about grind but someone’s already about to craft an ascended bow here in Divinity’s Reach…

I love the rainbow trail on the projectiles but every projectile now look the same—-even shockwave has the animation removed. The projectile also looks so small. Is there a way they can make the projectiles be like the old ones but add the rainbow trail instead of the small projectile it is now?

I thought about investing in orichalcum cuz I saw it increase by 3s then change my mind cuz it went back down in price.

So… ecto price is going up fast. People are either gonna gain a lot of money or lose a lot of money with this.

I really hope they make a post of the changes before the September 3 patch.

mtpelion.4562:

Zaeon.3846:

Martin Kerstein.3071:

• Utility Infusion will still work.

Does this mean my magic find utility infusion upgrade will not be removed or changed?

Sounds like it. Most likely because Offensive and Defensive Infusions are pretty pointless.

I really want to find out before Sept 3. I am thinking of changing my magic find infusion with karma infusion and consume 4mil worth of liquid karma but I don’t want to change it if they will not touch mf utility upgrades.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

• Utility Infusion will still work.

Does this mean my magic find utility infusion upgrade will not be removed or changed?

I feel bad for those who spent hundreds of gold on those molten dyes lol.

=D

I think we’re gonna get them!
I collect staff skins and fused staff is the only thing I don’t have.

They might make it so if you forge 4 queen jennah you get 1 of them.

Aah, thank you for the clarification.

I have a question regarding Drips of Liquid Karma. It states in wiki that they give 150 karma, however everytime I consume one it only adds 108 karma even though I even have some karma boosters active on me.

Is this intended?

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Scarlet is Queen Jenna’s future self—leader of the aetherblades from a distant future.
Remember the cloaked stranger in the Living Story? The watchknight technology is the precursor to steam creature technology.

During the speech, Queen Jenna will give birth to hundreds of mini queen jenna’s and the minis will walk toward 1 year old players.

Also don’t forget to get the pavillion npc buffs before fight such as regen/crit damage etc…. the regen one might help you keep your hp up. Those buffs help a lot. The anti-pirate buff might be good too.

Are you killing the healer first?

She will announce in her speech that Logan and her are expecting a royal baby….. and we get to vote on the child’s gender/name….

crestpiemangler.7631:

No, not really. You do realize that every time you get gold from selling one of those items implies that those items will get cheaper over time?

yea, realized that last night. The prices on the skins will keep dropping, and as more ppl equip them they will become less desirable. The demand to zerg champs will drop.

Kagamiku.9731:

Sounds like you just got really lucky with your drops.

And this is just temporary content, CoF is forever nerfed. This may affect the economy to some degree, but it wont last.

It wasn’t just me, the commander leading the zerg said he’s openned around 800 champ chests already and gotten money to buy another legendary from the skins he’s sold. Then I see people linking their hundreds of stacks of unopened champ loots. I didn’t even know I got 2 crystal guardian skins til I went to tp to sell and found out there was 2 in my inventory.

Deadeye farming and Champ trains = bad for the game, bad for the economy, bad for everyone.

I went around with Frostgorge champ train for a little over 4 hours. In that time I got 2 Crystal Guardian skins (34g each), ~10 lodestones, ~14g coins, exotics and rares that sold for ~10g, and a lot of other mats and around 143 karma drips. That’s more than 100g in less than 5 hours.

And if you think that’s a lot… don’t even wanna talk about Deadeye farming…

Though I love getting easy gold, I feel uneasy whether this is the path Anet want GW2 to go to. These non-challenging money sources are tempting people to ignore other aspects of the game in favor of mindless repetitive activities….

I also fear for gw2 economy if this continues, the people who suffer the most are the new, and casual players.

We could look back later and say this is the Living Story content that broke our economy.

Vol.5241:

I’m not sure if they can assassinate her. Isn’t she an integral part of the personal story?

Can’t fix that.

If anything
-she will get kidnapped
-one of the disposable living story characters get cut, such as Kiel, Rox, Braham, e.t.c
-DR gets sacked and we see permanent changes to the city ala LA

I didn’t say she is going to die. Maybe you didn’t read the entirety of my post.

… queen will be assassinated during her speech
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…. don’t worry the one killed will be a queen’s double, a mechanical watchknight magically cloaked to look like her.

Supervillain.8617:

I feel alienated by this fight, not because of the challenge, but because I’ve been screwed out of a reward. I’ve already beaten Liadri 5 times now, but still have yet to actually receive credit. Every time, she dies, her visions disappear, and I’m left in the arena alone. After about 10 seconds, the announcer starts counting down from 5, and the floor opens up dumping me to the floor far below.

Aside from the camera issues, the whip reflection bug, and the red-circle-camouflaging floor pattern, the fight is fine.

OUCH. That only happened to me once mid fight, she just disappears and I was stuck in the arena alone in combat mode and can’t port out. Had to relog.

Can finally post here!
Mesmer — all you need to know as a mesmer is Phantasmal Warden casted while Liadri is doing the swirling whip attack pwns her and takes away about 40% of her hp. All you will need to do is land 2 of this and then finish her off. I used a 2-3 day old lvl 80 mesmer to beat her so if I can do it on a mesmer that I havent played a lot on before, anyone can do it.

Oh and on phase 2, in order to avoid aoe, you just walk to where the previous aoe just finished, it only alternates into safe spot>unsafe spot.

OP here. I finally got it! All the stars alligned in the right moments— meat from Strugar/Chomper stayed after someone else’s fight and I got it for dps boost. All my phantasmal warden casted at the right moment both took away 80% of Liadri’s hp. And an orb spawned in the right time to rally me up! Luck and fast lvling a mesmer for this thing paid off.

VitalSuit.1980:

Zaeon.3846:

One could be condition duration reduction. Maybe it’s typo.

Condition duration reduction wouldn’t make sense for a sigil. For a rune, maybe. For a sigil, no.

Why wouldn’t it make sense? There are off-hand items that are considered “defensive” after all, like shield, focus etc…

Calae.1738:

Zaeon.3846:

Even for hardcore players the phase 2 depends largely on luck.

This statement is false.

There is some luck but; if you pay attention and get the timing right; it’s not luck at all.

It’s funny how you contradicted yourself with your post.

One could be condition duration reduction. Maybe it’s typo.

JayMack.8295:

Zaeon.3846:

Auesis.7301:

Go watch the twitch.tv preview. They said this is supposed to be hard, and not everyone is supposed to be able to complete it.

And it IS coming back, it’s confirmed in another thread.

I know it is coming back but as to whether the achievements and the mini will remain doable after the event is still unaddressed.

It’s been confirmed the achievements will, too.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Queen’s Gauntlet will return, possibly as part of the activity rotation or even other events. In any case, you’ll be able to complete those achievements at a later date.

Thanks, that is a relief to know! I will wait til they fix the poor camera pov then going to try again later.

Auesis.7301:

Go watch the twitch.tv preview. They said this is supposed to be hard, and not everyone is supposed to be able to complete it.

And it IS coming back, it’s confirmed in another thread.

I know it is coming back but as to whether the achievements and the mini will remain doable after the event is still unaddressed.

I had to lvl my mesmer to 80 because it’s very kitten ele.

About the despawning shards even while you are holding them, I agree that that one is very annoying.

Dear dev and management,
This content, considering it’s limited time only, is very hard. Even for hardcore players the phase 2 depends largely on luck. The problem with the difficulty lies with the poor camera/player’s pov (I feel even more sorry for larger toons like Charr and Norns). Please redesign the camera zoom effect in the future. But for now I think this content have alienated those who aren’t lucky/aren’t rich/don’t have as much free time who are still
- mini collectors
- living story completionists
- low spec pc/bad connection laggy players
- Norns, Charrs,
- those with only 1 toon, I have almost 8.5k ap on ele but had to make a lvl 80 mesmer for this thing

Please at least make this achievement/mini obtainable during the activity rotation.

I know you are satisfying some playerbase with very hard/luck involved contents but think about how many you are neglecting in the process.

Update: I finally got it! All the stars alligned in the right moments— meat from Strugar/Chomper stayed after someone else’s fight and I got it for dps boost. All my phantasmal warden casted at the right moment both took away 80% of Liadri’s hp. And an orb spawned in the right time to rally me up! Luck and fast lvling a mesmer for this thing paid off.

(I still hope they fix the camera view, random enemies lingering after fights, got two Liadris one time but can’t target one of them)

I see so many people with the Liadri mini already.

I don’t get the hype on these… they look plain boring when stowed away— no glow at all.
And in a couple of days they’ll be less than 10g in tp just like how Final Rest was 80-100g on first day it was added and now 2g each.

Every update/patch where they add new skins the greatsword enthusiasts always ’gasms with excitement.

The staff enthusiasts are always left to go back to crafting Bifrost….

The majority of the player population love the account wallet but a lot are also uncomfortable of carrying huge amounts of gold in one place. Server lags can cause people to click more than once thinking nothing is buying then later on finding out they purchased more than they had hoped to purchase. Sometimes people sending mail accidentally put wrong numbers or numbers in the wrong spot when sending gold. There are instances where devious players prey on careless individuals by pricing items way higher than their normal price range (it happens to fractal rares, where first 1-2 items in the listing are normal and the third item and beyond are priced 10x the normal—-preying on people who buy a lot of the same item to forge precursors).

Accidents happen.

So I am suggesting that maybe they can place some sort of a threshold that prompts the system to notify you, and ask for confirmation whenever you purchase something that requires a certain amount of gold. Example: threshold of 50g. Any action that you make that require more than that amount and you get a notification/confirmation before going through.

Navzar.2938:

laokoko.7403:

Zaeon.3846:

How exactly do personal guild vaults work? More specifically, can you accidentally disband the guild and lose the vault contents? Or do you have to empty a vault first to disband the guild?

I never tried, but I think if you accidently clicked step down, you lost everything. So I dont’ put anything of important in my guildbank. Mostly trakittenem.

Anyhow, I think the best way is to keep a “mule” to represent your guild bank all the time. Instead of keep representing guild to guild, so you won’t accidently click leave guild.

It doesn’t matter if no one is representing. All that matters is if there is at least one person in the guild. So as long as you don’t leave your guild, it’s good. There’s also a confirmation for leaving guilds saying “Are you sure you want to leave [insert guild name here]?”, so it’s not something that’s likely to happen by mistake.

ah. I did some reading around and found a bunch of instances where people’s guilds just disappeared without disbanding it or transferring to another server. The thought of that makes me distrust putting 10 months worth of saved gold into a guild bank. I think I’ll just put those golds in tp orders.