Guild Wars 2

Nah. Sorry man. Gw2 is no better then many of the f2p grind games anymore. With HoT and a bunch of the new items requiring 16 to make one. The superior reaper rune uses one such item.
Plus the additional 80 levels that there are no quests for like there are in the original part of the game.
Plus the gem store with vanity items and boosters.
Competitive pvp is nice, but looking good is a large part of guildwars. Always has been.
So, there are many new items that also require a huge amount of grind and with the $50-$100 pricetag, it’s not unrealistic to think they could have done better.
Also, yes, you forget about WvW, where the gear you can obtain DOES play a HUGE role in how good you are.
PvP, PvE and WvW are all part of the game. Yes, the endless batwing brew is just a skin thing, but a net has clearly stated that casuals can enjoy all aspects of the game equally to hardcore players. This includes vanity items.
If you played gw1 you would get it.

It could be buried under a bunch of unsuspecting items. Giving anet the benefit of the doubt that they did put it in last year, but nobody bothered because it had no real purpose. Now, it does. Anet claims that gw2 can be played by casual players and they can still get all the cool stuff.
With the claim it took an average of 30,000 tot bags to get one. That’s not very casual. Lol
So if it is there, a yes from a dev would be nice. Not asking for a clue even. Although, I’m sure others will IF it exists.
If there is no recipe then why does it say there was supposed to be one last year?

So, on reddit, someone was kind enough to point out that the endless batwing brew was supposed to have a recipe for it in 2014. Here we are after the 2015 Halloween festival is over and still no endless batwing potion recipe.
Anyway, hoping maybe a dev or someone “in the know” might be able to confirm IF there is a recipe for the endless batwing brew and if there isn’t, why isn’t it there after over a year of saying that there is?

They went down because you get lots during the event. When the event is over the mats will go back up. Most of them already have.

pfft. Precursors and silk. lol
Precursors went down because of the new legendary crafting. That should be expected. However, the crafted legendary’s apparently aren’t the same as the ones we got before.

So, by fixing the game economy, do they mean make everything more expensive?
So far I have seen most items go UP in price, not down.
For example, the endless batwing potion used to be 170g and now it is about 400g.
There was a VERY temp drop in price for a lot of things directly after update, but it only lasted a couple days.
So, how has the economy been fixed? So far I have not seen this glorious economy fix they claimed to have implemented.

Heya.
I have been running around PvP, WvW, dungeons and other PvE stuffs as a minion master for awhile now. The recent changes have allowed for the minion master to become very simple to play. Life stealing on the front line with a dagger has become a practical thing to do and with reaper coming out, it will make it all work even better, even without the use of minions.
That being said.
Here are the links.
PvP
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBIhZakhGarxuawpGYvxx0QNfgL4YlDQBEA0Z4FSBA-TJRFABAcKASZ/hkfCAWVGAA

WvW
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBIhZakh2QTbtt2uaXNO1maYv93OmGq5DcBHrcAKgAgODvQKA-TVRFABAcKFSZ/hlU+l8TKwKlgAA-w

PvE
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBIhZakh2QTbtt2uaXNO1maYv93OmGq5DcBHrcAKgAgODvQKA-TRRFABAcKFSZ/hlU+l8TKwKlgAA-e

Is pretty straight forward. Jumping in and out of shroud gives your minions and yourself protection.
Death shroud should be saved for shatter mes, teefs and keeping yourself from dying (very low hp hit death shroud). The AoE tends to expose the teefs and mess up any illusions close enough to get sucked dry by it.
Maximizing either bleed, fear or chill will give the best results.

Have fun!
Bloody Tymon