https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vial_of_Powerful_Blood
we literally bottle it up and sell it to each other!
I don’t get it… the graph you showed has MC’s having a very stable supply and demand over a full year of time. The price has not reached equilibrium yet since people continue to hoard coins instead of sell them. This will stop when they reach correct market value and the number of people selling them equals the number of people buying them.
If the price is rising that means people have more money they wish to spend then they do coins. This seems to be functioning exactly like it is supposed to. With a nearly constant supply over a years time people clear have coins to sell so I don’t see the “problem”?
I think it is awesome. I look forward to seeing the other sets when they are done. I mostly play light armor classes and I just don’t see how a cloth armor set can transform like that. It will be interesting to see what Anet comes up with. I’m glad they are making progress on some real raid rewards finally. Hopefully the next raid comes out soon.
Well new dps numbers are out for raids… necros have fallen to 20k… behind every class except mesmer, even lower than PS warrior.
It may have been cheese but it made its dps only 10% LOWER than ele… now what?
Well condi necro dps got slashed ~40%… that’s probably the single biggest nerf Anet has ever done to a profession. It might still get a place in epi bounce fights, but on all the other fights it can’t even come close to other condis now.
It’s kind of ridiculous way to cheat the system to maximize your loot, we’re already seeing the repercussions of it effecting the economy of Ectoplasms dropping to nearly 20s a piece. What is ANET doing to fix this?
What exactly is it that you think is broken? What is wrong with ecto being 20s per glob? Is there a magic number which is too low? And another which is too high?
Cheap ecto is great for folks trying to complete legendaries or infuse their rings for fractals.
Sure, AB/ML is an unintended consequence of making so many exalted chests available so easily on every instance of successful AB maps. And sure it’s had an enormous impact on TP values for all sorts of things. But that doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily horrible for everyone in the game.
Well I think the fact that I can play just about any other activity in the game and pull in between 10-12 g/hr… Or I could go to AB multiloot and make 50g an hr… would be the crux of the problem.
So is anet going to take any action on Halloween drops/items? The economy for these items was totally and utterly ruined last year. Candy corn is the most supplied item on the TP, with no uses. It dropped WAY too much last year. Will it be toned down and given new sinks this year?
What about T5 mats? They dropped in such abundance from the maze that they never recovered in price. Getting T5 mats is worthless for an entire year because of one event. Will this be fixed this year?
Even things that were supposed to be rare like the tattered wings are over supplied and selling for almost nothing.
Please fix halloween this year and make it a festival, not a grind fest loot farm.
GW2 is the most grindy MMO on the market currently. At any moment you can lose 6+ months work due to “balance”. A single set of gear costs 1000’s of gold and respeccing it costs casual players months of play time.
It is much easier to gear up in WoW or SWTOR or similar MMO’s. Unless you have 4000+ hours in GW2 or a lot of money to burn prepare to spend months and months grinding for gear that could be rendered useless at any moment.
People seem very confused. Let me try and clear up some of that confusion.
Example 1, ectos: Players think that ectos should be worth ~35s. John has repeatedly changed drop rates, added new drops, added sinks (salvage to crystalline dust), etc. to keep ectos at ~35s. This is what people have come to expect for ectos. Thus when AB multi-loot started dumping a crap ton of ectos into the market the market just kept absorbing them at 35s because that is what it expected them to be. People thought for sure that John would nerf AB to keep ectos at this price. Ectos actually gained value because people kept buying them up since they were sure it would be nerfed and ecto prices would rise anyway. Then the major patch came and no nerf was made. People panicked because they had been hoarding ectos for months since they were sure John would adjust the price. Since the nerf didn’t come the market finally crashed and ectos dropped from 55s to 25s in a month. Their price is still correcting but finally it is no longer tied to the perceived price but to supply and demand.
Example 2, Mystic coins: For some reason their is a perceived value of these being high. Even though these are showered on you just for logging in people have this perception that they are rare and valuable. John even came right out and said that far more are coming into the economy then are being spent. But people keep up this false perception. Even in this very thread people are predicting the rise of MC prices which is the exact opposite of reality. But the prices will rise because of this perception until people finally get a grip.
Other examples of economy interference: T2-5 cloth, leather, wood, ore being added as drops to new maps.
No sarcasm here. What story aspect?
Check out the “sad anomaly” portion of this post:
There is a rather interesting story developing stemming from previous current events and the current living story.
Yeah this one was much more interesting to figure out. I liked that it had a story aspect in addition to the more grindy part.
Not looking forward to doing all those portals again, but at least I have the list of them all now.
I finished going through all 58 possible class II active portals, but nothing happened. There was no new dialog, no new items, no nothing… is this currently bugged? I certainly hope i’m not going to have to do it again…
It is pretty clear that ML is becoming a real cancer in this game. It should have been removed a long time ago but for some reason they let it continue. Hopefully they will remove it soon before the damage is long lasting.
It is pretty obvious that getting 60 rares in 20 minutes is over the top.
And what is your reasoning for this aside from “muh feels” and/or “Muh ecto hoard value”?
Ectos are a central commodity in the GW2 economy. A substantial change in their value affects the value of nearly everything else. Ascended gear, legendaries, unique skins. You name it and ectos are involved. The devs have said multiple times over the years that they try to keep the value of ectos stable and high to keep items in the game from becoming worthless. If ectos dip much further items with prestige and long term goals will evaporate and the long term stability of the game will suffer.
It is pretty clear that ML is becoming a real cancer in this game. It should have been removed a long time ago but for some reason they let it continue. Hopefully they will remove it soon before the damage is long lasting.
It is pretty obvious that getting 60 rares in 20 minutes is over the top.
Anyone know what is happening with the economy? It seems to be crumbling and in utter shambles. Gold is given out like candy corn now, getting 2g a day just for logging on. However the value of all goods is plummeting in price. Common goods, luxury goods, crafting materials, they are all going down.
You haven’t listed any examples that support the idea that the “economy is crumbling” or “in shambles.” Demand changes due to changes in content. T5 totems are up due to Eureka (although that should have impacted all T5 fine mats, but that’s a different discussion). Leather is high, ecto is low, refined spiritwood is up, mystic coins are way up, etc
As long as people can sell whatever they don’t want and use the funds gained to buy what they need/want, the economy is fine. It doesn’t really matter if any one or 100 items is lower priced (or higher priced, for that matter). Pricing affects whether one’s hoarded goods are high value or not, not whether the economy is in good shape or not.
I’m not really interested in short term spikes due to radical changes like adding a new legendary. Obviously things associated with Eureka are up. I’m talking about the long term, 6 month+ downward trend on many different items.
The items I listed are a wide selection of items ranging from high volume to low volume that all show the same downward pressure on the price. This indicates a problem with the economy. Obviously individual items will spike and crash due to changes in the game, but high velocity items such as ectos are generally a good indicator of the health of the overall economy.
Even things you listed as being “high” show this trend.
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/46736-spiritwood-plank
is down about 15% over the last 6 months
You claim mystic coins are “way up” yet they show only a 10% change in the last 6 months that varies on a monthly cycle with now being the high point of the month at the same price point of the last 4 high points:
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/19976-mystic-coin
The items I have listed show very little change in supply on the TP compared to the change in the price leading me to believe that the problem is a lack of demand. Possibly the population is down? Or the TP is not needed as people are now able to get everything they need as direct drops?
Anyone know what is happening with the economy? It seems to be crumbling and in utter shambles. Gold is given out like candy corn now, getting 2g a day just for logging on. However the value of all goods is plummeting in price. Common goods, luxury goods, crafting materials, they are all going down. See:
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/19721-glob-of-ectoplasm
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/24295-vial-of-powerful-blood
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/24358-ancient-bone
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/19748-silk-scrap
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/19729-thick-leather-section
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/31069-whisperblade
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/30704-twilight
What is the cause of this massive deflation in the value of goods over the last 6 months? Is there just not enough people buying things anymore? Are drops too generous causing the value of things to crash? Based on the current trend of giving out too much gold AND too much stuff the entire economy will be useless soon. Everyone will have everything and nothing will be rare or fun to get.
People do know that you can click on interactable objects to give them interact priority right? I have never once been blocked from interacting with something. You can always click on the object and then interact with it. This is a non-issue by people who aren’t aware of all ingame options.
Go ahead, click that harpoon
Ok well that is on a different level then placing a single NPC on something. That is clearly trolling and destructive behavior. Things like that should indeed be removed. There is no reason to be able to drop multiple items in a single area like that.
no..you can replay the last bit for achievements
How do I replay just the last bit? Sorry, it isn’t obvious to me
Go to your story journel and restart the episode. All story instances will be available and marked by a purple instead of green instance marker. You can just replay the final story instance as many times as you want this way.
People do know that you can click on interactable objects to give them interact priority right? I have never once been blocked from interacting with something. You can always click on the object and then interact with it. This is a non-issue by people who aren’t aware of all ingame options.
Its a constant reminder anet are wasting the marketing budget on a tournament even PVP players don’t care about…
You have a source for that? I don’t recall a poll being sent out to anyone.
I think the fact that there are 3 million GW2 players yet only like 5k people watch the world tournament PvP match and only like 500 people even participated in it is a good starting point…
Lol i remember when they first introduced it as just infinite with no AP limit.
There were 40k+ AP people within 24 hours… They very quickly removed those AP’s and capped it.
They left it “infinite” however as it allows you to track the total amount of salvages you’ve done. No further changes are needed.
It is going to be rough on any one running burn as there main damage.
Hoping for a mastery or something. They can’t realistically proceed against Destroyers w/o solving the burning dps issue.
Trailer does look good. Can’t wait for next week. Bloodstone was a very cool map, but doesn’t really have much staying power.
They didn’t in GW1, you had to change your skills as they where immune to fire damage.
The flexibility of the gw1 skill system allowed for. Here it would severely hamper many eles and make Berserkers next to useless in pve. They couldnt get away with it here if we are taking on destroyers for a sustained period.
You say that like there are.no other options open to those classes, Ele have Water air and earth, warriors can focus on physical damage over condition damage. So I don’t see why they need to do anything.
Sure just spend 1000g to regear out of one build into another for a single LS episode… completely reasonable.
The key with thief is not to get hit. With multiple blinks, stealth, and shadowsteps you go in do 10k dmg in a burst, go back out, heal up and go back in. The opponent should never get a hit on you and they will die after 2-3 rounds of this.
Warriors, rangers, and guardians counter thief pretty hard because they have out of control regen, invuln, and burst. Do not 1v1 these classes.
Necros and eles are free kills, pretty much impossible to lose to these classes
mesmer, revs and engineers depend a lot on the people playing them. You can probably beat them but it may not be worth the time. Your time would be better spent +1’ing a fight or decapping something.
MC’s have had a stable price for 5 months. There does not seem to be any measurable imbalance. Please provide evidence for this “imbalance” or shut down this thread please.
The problem is that elite specs keep getting more and more burst while necros damage avoidance hasn’t changed. Same problem with stuns. More and more stuns keep getting added but necros stab is still non existent.
Necros just got left behind. They are just free kills at this point. The class needs a complete overhaul or every other class needs to have their burst and stuns removed.
2 DH’s can melt through a necros LF and health bar in less than 1 second. They have no invulns or blocks or even vigor so their only option is to just die.
I tried to get this when the wardrobe first came out as I did the achievements but support wouldn’t help me out. Maybe i’ll give it another try since it seems people here have had some luck.
Underwater combat was abandoned shortly after launch. Water was removed from PvP, removed from most starting maps and mostly removed from WvW. Underwater weapon development was also stopped thus why non of the new weapon sets have underwater weapons. When HoT came around new skills that could not be instantly transferred to underwater (i.e. things that had to be converted from AOE circles to spheres) were just left out since there was no point.
I bought 75 keys last night. Was it worth it? For me yes. I got lucky and got a few skins that was able to flip for a solid gold. Black lion tickets that I will save and pick a skin that I can sell for most profit. (like to camp on those and wait and sell months down the road),
Many boosters which helps me.
75 keys at the discount price is 4725 gems.
That means you would have had to have sold 1217g worth of stuff to break even as that’s what you could have gotten for just exchanging the gems directly for gold.
If you think you got more than that then it was worth it (i.e. just about never)
How do you not beat a necro? I’m not being mean or trying to make you feel bad i’m honestly wondering. Using everything I have I can SOMETIMES get a warrior to 80% health before he kills me, but generally that is only if he has terrible dodge timing. Usually he is at 90% or more health at the end of the fight. Warriors have 3-4 total damage immunities, 40+ seconds of resistance and tick a heal equal to 8 stacks of bleed every second. On top of that they burst almost as much as a thief and have multiple stuns and blocks.
If there is some secret strategy to make warriors lose, please share!
Well the game is free and requires no monthly subscription… so congrats they will give it to you for free and not charge you to play today!
1 rollback and 2 server maintenance cycles in 4 years… other MMO’s have this amount of down time WEEKLY. Suck it up and stop complaining.
Can we get a warning before the servers come up? The TP is going to be a kitten show… can we at least all get a fair chance at it?
Woops… hope you get it fixed soon!
Any word on the new current events? The second NPC never spawned…
Best option is to stop queuing. Game is much better now that I don’t PvP anymore. Once enough people stop playing they might finally get the hint and try balancing the game for a change.
Is it better to buy Hot now or later?
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Posted by: ZudetGambeous.9573
If you are a brand new player then I would not get HoT right away. The games difficulty grows as your character grows, with HoT content being pretty frustrating if you haven’t taken the time to level up normally and learn the ropes. You are expected to be a pretty decent player in HoT zones and have at least exotic level gear. If you use the boost to 80 you will not have the experience to do HoT content and you will kill low level content too easily (even with level adjustment) to learn the skills you need well.
I would highly recommend leveling a character to 80 naturally at least once before purchasing HoT. Or buy it right away but don’t use the booster. Save the booster for a second or third character, you will be glad you did later.
Yes if you do the current events you will understand better what is going on:
Spoilers if you haven’t done them:
Ley energy has been building up, culminating in a series of ley line events recently. It started a random energy, but the energy destroyed a number of researchers. Later the energy reformed in the shape of anomalies that rampaged across tyria, which is speculated to be the spirits of the researchers destroyed by the ley energy. After the bloodstone catastrophe additional ley line anomalies (pictured in OP) are popping in and out of existence trying to make it back to our world due to the weakening barrier and huge outflow of magic into the world. As is pretty obvious from their forms they are in terrible pain and misery but the only way to help them is to destroy them so far.
I’ve been trying to get the new PvP achievements in revenge of the capricorn but I can’t seem to find any way to only queue up for this map. I am not interested in any of the other maps and have no intention of playing on them. I generally just go get a snack or take a break when I get another map, because I can’t seem to find a way to leave the worthless maps, but people seem to be upset by this. I’m certainly not going to spend 15 minutes of my time playing a worthless map, but I can’t find any option to leave or only play the worthwhile map. So does anyone know how I can only queue for this map?
You mean 9 month content droughts and failing to deliver 50% of an expansion people paid for aren’t good for a game? huh… who would have thought…
It seems like almost every class got a huge buff while necro got multiple nerfs this season. We were already reduced in season 3 and now that season 4 has started I just can’t keep up. I’m getting slaughtered in fights I used to win with ease.
Is there a new meta build for necros this season or are we just completely out of the meta now?
Warriors, Thieves, Guards, Revs and Rangers currently just obliterate every other class. It’s great that you’ve managed to reasonable balance those classes with each other, but unfortunately are still 4 other classes. If we play those other classes should we just stop playing PvP now or will balance be fixed via hotfix?
Any comment on the multiple reports of CS giving access to GW2 accounts without the information you mentioned?
There is at least one person on reddit who has posted proof of gaining access to over 5 accounts and having them deactivate 2-factor even without the right information.
Previously you could only farm 6 bloodstone shards per day per CHARACTER. After 6 all nodes were replaced by mithril nodes on your character.
After the patch you can now farm 30 bloodstone shards per day per ACCOUNT. Now you get a lot more but it is account wide, so people with more than 5 characters can’t farm faster than everyone else.
For 99% of the players in this game it is a buff. 1% of hardcore alt farmers were nerfed.
Umm 2 days for a raid level item is insane… it takes 3-4 weeks of clearing raids to get this item.
They need to significantly nerf the ruby rate if anything.
Can we downgrade these form “mastery” points to “casual” points? I thought the whole point was to have to work towards them and learn to master aspects of the game. Now they throw so many at you that you just get plopped in front of it is just not fun to get them anymore.
At least the raid mastery point additions took a few hours work to learn the fights.
According to dulfy you can only mine 6 bloodstone nodes a day. After 6 the remaining nodes turn into mithril nodes until reset.
Not sure if this is a bug or not, but that is the current functionality.
Hmm weird I never had any of the NPC’s die. They enemies were much too pathetic to have a chance to kill them.
What sort of gear are you running? You might want to swap into some more damage gear. The enemies shouldn’t have enough time to kill the NPC’s if you are progressing at a normal rate.
can we have entrance portal into Bloodstone Fen please, I dont want to go through Story for my other Characters to access the Map
Sorry but there is no portal there. The only way to get there is by airship since the area is a giant crater. It doesn’t make any sense that there would be an asura gate there.
You can also purchase a portal using unbound magic after your first character finishes their run through.
I feel like they must have misspoke. They can’t honestly expect people to wait for an entire extra raid to get legendary armor?