Guild Wars 2

You could always go do the exciting, click boxes until RNG decides you are worth of getting a poxy bag that does nothing quest on the shoreline of Laggy kitten sorry Lions Arch. If you dont find that exciting there is clearly something wrong with us, i mean you.

I do sparkfly every day for my dailies, run outer ring for the 15 types and then the headlands camp for the 5 events and 20 harvests. I’ve got it down to a 30min window for my dailies and then im off to other zones nice and quick. Also has the added bonus of having lots of verdant herb patches to give vanilla and a big, fat solo’able dragon who gives high lvl yellows if you have the RNG magic luck. You just have to find a place that you like and set up a route. There are 4 events round the middle camp and by the time you finish them one will already be resetting.

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I find it hard to believe that some of you have soloed a champion. I want to see video of it. If your lvl 80 and its a lvl 20 champion then maybe.

I can solo Tequatl the Sunless with my ele. It’s as easy as getting under his belly, equipping a staff and spamming 1,2,3 and 5 on his right foot and saving the 4 key for when the bloaters hold their arms up, at that point hit 4 and instantly evade the hit. Rinse and repeat for 1 hour and you have solo’d a dragon.

My only fear is that one day i will find him with a bad belly and get mired in dragon kitten

This was demonstrated with the bugged cannon quest. I ran that quest for 3 days getting tons of loot and when the group got too big i would take a rest and explore the rest of the zone. I noticed very quickly that almost all the people in the zone at that time we farming that event or runnning between ore nodes. This is a farming based game where people need to farm, events need to reflect that. If the end of the event signals the end of the grind then people will obviously hold it open to ensure they get the best return rates.

When a game is based around farming for 100’s of hours for gear you cant blame players for working the system to do that efficiently.

Thanks, you reminded me to check my server, underworld, and it was free for the first time in nearly a month. Ignore Mr Naysay above and take my thanks for the reminder. Thanks to you and some random zerg squad i finally got my full set of Balthazar armour and am ele-stomping!

Now if i could just find the back door to the bank and a Jaguar XJS i’d be minted too.

I’m an avid farmer and have noticed that every 30-45 mins or so i get a big run on porous bones and then it goes back to loot. Since the Nov 5 update i have also noticed that running my MF gear and my Balthazar gear made no difference in loot quality. Coupled with that the normal woods,ores,gathers are spawning fine but the top tier is nowhere to be found.

I suspect they have had a behind the scenes change to maybe test out some things or smooth out some inconsistencies but i think we will need more time to be able to prove it or see what it is they have done. I’m currently of the thinking that the blues and greens drop rate has been reduced slightly but the yellows have remained the same but need more farm time to prove reliably.

I also noticed yesterday that a lot of the DE’s have had their timings changed, my old route round penitent path is no longer valid and the missions behave slightly differently in themselves.

I may be totally wrong but im confident something has been changed in these areas.

I think some of the problem is related to perception of action. When a game comes out people expect bugs, but they also expect things to be done about those bugs and in a sensible timeframe. What people are perceiving at the moment is a lot of new content that is focussed on gems giving an advantage. Couple this with areas of the game remaining bugged to the point of unplayability and the ‘moneygrabbing’ mindset starts to creep in. At the moment the people doing well are perceived to be those who have paid to get ahead and those who are super lucky in the RNG. As both of these things are hated by gamers it is inevitable that ire will be felt towards the game creator and their forum.

What you are seeing is those with little tolerance gradually wearing down those with more tolerance until we get to a point where it’s a free for all. People cant express their anger when there is no person to direct it too from Anet.

What needs to be done is some management of peoples perceptions and expectations but Anet is chosing to focus their efforts elsewhere. I fully expect it to get worse over the next few months as more people realise that the items they want are either 200 days of grinding, credit card debt or server switching to find unbugged vendors/mats.

50 attempts later and i am finally in, seems just plugging at it works sometimes?

Seems to be a UK thing then as i have the same issue, pretty much stopping me from playing at this point.

It’s realism, if you do business with randoms you take a risk. Nothing you can do if it goes wrong but thats the chance you take for 10% off the price or whatever it is. The 15% tp cost in this case is insurance against thieves and blaggards.

As for mail trading, i mail thousands of items between friends and have had no problems with punishment. I dual farmed one of my friends through the mats for armoursmithing and artificing 1-400. Thousands of wood, metal, mats went back and forth.

I also use the mail system when farming as a 50 slot bank. Just put ‘RTS’ on the mail and send to a friend while farming, they send it back to you and you have your bag space plus mail slots to hold the farming mats. Simple and easy.

It’s the same on Underworld, getting very bored waiting for the only items i want and seeing it locked for over 2 weeks now. Am getting to the point now where im bored being gracious about imbalances. Shouldn’t have to change servers to find a world that works.

I dont mind hard work but many areas are now just lucky timing.

People like myself are also making sure that if we see a lowbie dead or dying we will get them up or out of trouble. I’ve also seen people asking for carries and getting them regularly so the community will help if you ask.

Tequatl the sunless, tier 2 dragon, played as staff elementalist in full water spec, stand under belly, target, hit ‘1’ key. Heal self slowly killing boss. God bless autoattack. Hardest part is pressin ‘q’ to run back after he fears you for no damage.

Thankfully after taking less damage than i could heal and getting boss down in health a valiant warrior appeared and tanked for me. I duly nodded in his general direction and my ranged autohealing kept him up too without me pressing a button.

Agreed, great puzzle, should be done solo or in a party. Also disliking the lvl of hatred for the two ‘fat’ races. Lucky i chose a sylvari so i dont have to put up with the hating.

Would love this puzzle if it was able to be done outside of the zerg on a 2" platform.

I had this problem and it was due to a friend being in the instance with me. If you are doing it with a friend you can come out and redo it. Took me two more attempts but if i did the camp then stood in the doorway the whole time it worked.

Hope it works for you.

Why is it not a good idea. The foundation of a community is it’s education.

If people know about this in advance and it has an effect on Anet in a negative way they may do something about it. As it stands this game is riddled with bugs and yet Anet only respond to small issues like QQ’ing about not getting what people want from chests. If they ignored the chest rewards and fixed the entire maps whose quests were bugged or glitched events that spawn infinite loot people would be less inclined to hit them in the pocket and more inclined to further the community.

Make your game work or people will find ways to exploit it and you.

It comes down to the simple fact that by botting you can make a profit, there is no real risk to you as a player if done properly. You could buy two accounts, play one and bot one. The bot one may get banned one day but not before you have farmed enough to cover your outlay and probably a lot more.

Also consider that when Anet say “We banned 10,000 accounts”, they are actually saying, we have now sold an extra 10,000 copies to cover the banned accounts and 5,000 of them are valid sales, not card fraud so thanks for the free money"

Just out of curiosity what on earth is there that you would want to make more than 999 of in one go! I’ve got to know.

Fantastic, now i can turn up to the xmas party in halloween gear.

Anet also patch the cannon quest this morning that everyone has been farming for days and have still completely ignored the issues in the Straights of Devastation. I have been waiting for over a week to go see the npcs there to get my next tier armour and been held up by the constantly bugged quests. I found it galling they would allow the cannon glitch to carry on so long but this was tempered by the fact i could farm it too and in some small way benefit from their laxity but now thats fixed too i cant even do that. I dread to think how much gold and gear was put into the economy thanks to that glitch.

I’d like to think they have been busy with halloween issues but this issue predates them and at this point i can only assume they dont really care at the moment about end game players and are just looking to promote the event and gain a few more box sales.

Loving the game, hating the support.

MHO

Cathederal of glorious victory has not been accessable for over a week now. Please consider putting npcs in areas of the game which dont bug for weeks at a time. Im being held up in many areas of this game by bugs atm and it’s quite frustrating. I appreciate bugs are the nature of the beast but if you are unable to fix them at least move the things they block to areas we can access still. Im getting bored sitting on hundreds of thousands of karma points i cant use.

Many thanks.

I’ve been a 400 tailor for a while now and have found no reliable source of gossamer. Metal crafting profs can easily go and mine orichalcum at top tier but i am smashing every cloth item and opening the bags and have found around 6-8 scraps in lots of hours of play. Am i missing something or is gossamer unfairly rare? Any help would be appreciated. It’s quite frustrating knowing you can mine high lvl mats for other tiers but tailoring seems to be unnecessarily hard to get mats for.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Both ways are the best, myself and the guy i play alongside are realising that when we get a 70+ rare we should check it’s value on the auction hall, if worth it then sell, if not smash. We have a good reserve of ecto and sigils etc now and every so often we find a rare bow thats worth half a gold.

For white, blue and green, sell green to vendor and smash all blue and white. Gives a decent mis of income vs mats this way.

As for mystic forge, like roulette this is something that should only be approach by the rich or the drunk!

Because Anet wants them, read the sticky thread. It suggests they realise there is nothing they can do to stop them so they maintain silence so as not to antagonise the remaining player base. The sticky also shows players and potential players that Anet acknowledges the problem and then spends over a month doing nothing about it, finally signing off with a warning to legit players about posting and then locking the thread.

If you want to be competitive or make lots of money simply buy another account, bot it, launder money to main. Simple really. If you consider how many gems the cost of the game is worth and then convert that into what you can make before you potentially lose your bot account you will see it’s a viable profit.