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The statue of Melandru appears quiet but I can’t get the ‘commune’ because of a rain of projectiles in the area. Previous posts on this topic suggest that I have to magically know that the problem is due to the Pact not owning the nearby Grenth Temple, and that the Grenth statue to the north requires ownership of the Melandru Temple. If this is the devs’ idea of a joke, it’s a sick one. Past time to mend this problem, I think!
If you REALLY LIKE your Ehmry Bay guild, please say why!
After a few months playing another MMORPG, I’m sincerely appreciative of all the work you’ve done and are doing to make GW2 the most fun of all. Just one small suggestion to improve the PvE experience. When we come within range of a renown heart, we get an audible signal. I would appreciate a comparable courtesy signal when I move out of range of that heart, so I don’t have to keep watching the upper right corner of the screen along with everything else.
An inaccuracy in my rant as OP: when you can’t make money by listing the item, the preferred solution is selling to the highest bidder, not to a vendor!
Obviously my viewpoint is that of resource collector, not crafter. If we stopped selling our resources dirt cheap, the price would rise and make collecting more worthwhile. That might raise the price of manufactured goods, however. No free lunch! <sigh>
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BEFORE you list something on TP, determine whether it will make you money or just drag down the economy! The easy way to do this is:
1. If the ‘Lowest Seller’ and ‘Highest Buyer’ Prices are within a nickel or so, forget about it! You will LOSE money on this trade and ruin the market for the rest of us. Sell to a vendor.
2. Otherwise click ‘Match Lowest Seller’ and then divide the Projected Profit by the quantity you are offering. Compare this result to the ‘Meet Highest Buyer’ price. If you aren’t making at least a nickel on each item, forget about it! Prices may well move against you and your items will be stranded on TP when you could have almost the same money immediately by selling to a vendor.
It’s astonishing how many people are selling stuff on TP for less than they would get by vendoring it. DO THE MATH!
(hint: a handheld calculator with BIG keys is a worthwhile investment if you want to stop losing money on TP)
I believe you do get priority on buffs that are limited in the number of people they affect; speed buffs from Eles, for example, are limited to 5… nearby party members now get first dibs!
I recently leveled a warrior and found some unexpected problems in Orr compared to when I was there last winter with my ele: most of the “events” are active most of the time. There are very few players in these zones now, and it appears a lot of corrupted statues and events were added over the past year. This is making some skill points unreasonably difficult because you get bombarded or debuffed or zapped by a cruising champion. I suggest you make some adjustments to these events to better reflect the reduced population base. An excellent start would be to make sure that events despawn after five minutes or so if there’s no action.
I’m having similar problems with sounds absent after conversations with NPC’s beginning with the latest patch. The only resolution I’ve found is to log off and back on again.
D’Oh… don’t I feel dumb! I economized and got some level 78 trinkets and then forgot about it when it came to selecting upgrades. Problem solved!
The Exquisite Ruby Jewel will NOT slot in my Berserker’s Ring or Berserker’s Amulet, and I’m at level 80.
My gear is mostly level 80 exotic and I’ve tried ruby orbs and exquisite ruby jewels on the trinkets with no success, although I had no trouble adding the orbs to my armor. Can you help me with more details about the level requirements? For dummies?
Just hit 80 and need to upgrade my trinkets. I’ve read that gemstones are universal and jewels work for trinkets, but I can’t get my trinkets to upgrade either way. What am I missing?
I think it’s a serious mistake to have the same password for the forums as for game accounts. Do a Google search for “gw2 forums” as I’m sure a countless people a day do. You see several virtually identical listings with different URLs. Sometimes these differences are subtle: forum.guildwars2.com vs guildwars2forum.com, for example. I confused those two a few minutes ago and wound up entering three different usernames with my gw2 password. Suddenly I realized my mistake and hastened to change my password. Hopefully my account will still be there when I log in for WvW this evening. But that other site is ideally positioned to harvest account passwords, along with any site that might contain a similar URL or title, even taking advantage of typos and misspellings. How about Gildwars or Giuldwars, for example?
Solution is to insist on different passwords for the account and the forum.
There’s considerable unnecessary nuisance around people leaving a group. Best way to fix is similar to WoW (you should pardon the expression): Person starting group is designated Leader until he leaves group, then the next-most senior member inherits leadership. That way, losing a member in an instance will not be so disruptive because the group owns the instance, and if a person goes off-line without remembering to surrender group membership, we don’t have to dissolve and re-form the group to reclaim his space.
1. Any time I switch to Air Attunement, any nearby enemy will be struck by lightning, whether or not I have targeted that enemy.
2. Any time I approach any enemy while “in combat” with Air Attunement, that enemy will be targeted for Arc Lightning, whether or not I have previously targeted that enemy.
These problems result in unwanted combat initiation with high frequency and distressing outcomes.
OK you can’t show everything and I agree that it’s important to see enemies but it’s also important to be able to see our own commanders at least. Please fix this!
With wait times for WvW reaching to an hour on our server, it would be very helpful if the pop-up announcing availability were accompanied by some sort of audible signal so one could do other things with one’s computer without the risk of missing one’s opportunity to travel.
It’s bugged again! :-(
Agree with above comments: GM Training Manual needs to be made more clear that it doesn’t work again to reset traits. RIP OFF!
@waeren: what actually happened is that we are a large guild who has done well in WvW, and we were all horrified to learn that the new culling was being attacked because we had all found it to be a major improvement. So yes, you see a coordinated attack on the topic. That’s how we became a leader in WvW <s>.
I spent several minutes finding a thread that covered my issue and then tried to add a reply. The forum then asked me for a login. After the login, I was sent to the forum’s front page, so I had to repeat the search for my topic. Most forum software is not so rude!
I would be willing to PAY for a spot in the transfer queue rather than having to camp on the choose server list for hours to maybe get a spot on the server where my friends are!
Last evening I went with a guild group to Citadel of Flame. After fighting our way there and mastering the events that open the instance, we got part way through the instance before one of our members had an emergency and had to go AFK. To our horror, we all got booted from the instance, apparently because the member who left us was the first one in and therefore “owned” the instance. An hour of hard work to do over! In any other MMORPG I know of, the group would have been allowed to recruit a new member to replace the missing one. This made a very disappointing evening!
I haven’t found a way to use the “looking for group” panel in this game that helps me find others (or helps others find me) for a specific instance (e.g. Crucible of Eternity – Story). Other games offer a drop-down menu where you can indicate which instance you are hoping to group for. Yelling in chat is of limited value due to the enormous amount of chatter in the main cities. Some games have a LFG channel that can also be helpful, since it’s server-wide rather than limited to a particular map or guild. It seems much harder to find PUGs here than elsewhere, and I hope that will be attended to.
I struggled in vain with this one at level 70. It was much easier at level 75. I think the bug at the battle at the gate may be related to the route you pick back from the Lumber Camp. I had the problem with the quest not progressing after the first batch of mobs when I returned via the obvious shortcut. The alternate problem was way too many mobs and very little help from NPCs. When I came back by the main road, the enemy was already engaged with our guards, but in reasonable numbers. I had time to get the arrow machines working, and when we were overrun, the NPCs fell back to the gate, which gave me a chance to rez them between fights. It’s still a hard fight because of too many enemies, all pulling at once, and most NPCs in the fort ignore the fight when it comes inside. ArenaNet should look at re-balancing this fight to make it a bit easier.
This is still badly bugged. It would help if you would break it into segments so a bugged segment can be repeated without repeating the whole disaster. The battle at the gate either stops after the first, easy wave, or spawns overwhelming legions of mobs who are very hard to defeat. After an hour I had all my armor broken. If you really want that many mobs, at least let us pull them one at a time! Then after the defense of the docks, where the difficulty was trivial, it glitched terminally at Throw the Left Switch, Throw the Right Switch. I threw both switches and they became inoperative, but the quest is stuck on that step. I do not intend to invest any more time and gold in this badly bugged quest. It’s a disgrace!