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Is it possible of say a Sylvair to use a Asura tier 3 weapons?
I want the Tier3 dagger for my Sylvari Elementalist, but dont want to spend 63k karma to find out lol…
Answers on a postcard ;->
Traveler Orrian Dagger can also be obtained from Mystic Forge (I got it that way xD )
btw, that Corrupted Shard looks awesome, how do you get it?
Its crafted by weaponsmith
Thanks Zenyatoo, update the Orrian dagger line.
Just a note that Krait Rippers have bad clipping issues when attached to a belt.
Hmmm there have to be more daggers there are over 20+ staffs with particle effects!
Hmmm without RL Cash being used for GW2 there would be no GW2. You want to use in game gold and never “pay” to play GW2 except for the initial game cost then expect GEMS to get far more expensive.
For people who buy GEMS with real life cash the higher the better. And i suspect ANET see’s it the same way. They would prefer people to use real cash to buy GEMS. And you dont “need” anything from he GEM store. everything is cosmetic and quality of life stuff.
ANET have to make some money some how.
ANET did earned more than enough by the box sales.. The gem store it would give them something extra in order for them to provide more “free” content. they said it..not me….What it is now though is Anet being greedy….. and that back fired so far… im praying not to be too late..cause the game otherwise is very nice and have huge potential……
Really? you think Box sales are enough? so in that sense, when i buy say “Dishonored” for the PC i played it for about 30hours for around £24 that’s £1.25 per hours of game play. And the publisher has very little costs for development after release.
Now with GW2 i paid £39.99 and i’m a casual player at around 500hrs since launch, so thats 7.9p an hour of game play. hmmm after release ANET has server costs, bandwidth costs as well as ongoing development costs with two “events” since launch abet they did not work too well considering laggg.
GEMs sales for RL money DIRECTLY affect the longevity of this game, its funny of people think they are are entitled to access to the RL cash GEM resource for as little as possible, so that they never actually have to spend any real money.
If people never want to buy GEMS with RL money that’s fine, but expect the GEMS to just get more and more expensive over time. they will crack 2g for 100 before the end of this year as a regular price.
GEM prices will not stabilize until the cost of buying illegal gold match that of buying legitimate gold via GEM purchase from ANET
GEM costs are driven by the player base wanting to buy with ingame gold the GEMS people buy with RL cash. Thus GEM to Gold ratio increases, and will do for a long time.
Hmmm without RL Cash being used for GW2 there would be no GW2. You want to use in game gold and never “pay” to play GW2 except for the initial game cost then expect GEMS to get far more expensive.
For people who buy GEMS with real life cash the higher the better. And i suspect ANET see’s it the same way. They would prefer people to use real cash to buy GEMS. And you dont “need” anything from he GEM store. everything is cosmetic and quality of life stuff.
ANET have to make some money some how.
In my view Legendaries should be account bound not sellable + SB
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With the current way of acquiring them i’m fine with them being sold on the TP. At the end of the day having a legendary is pretty much about how much gold you have. Its nothing to do with skill or mastery.
If they change the way to get them to be some sort of EPIC undertaking across PvE, PVP and W3 then they should be tied to a single character and be only undertaken once per character./ per legendary item.
Updated with info to this point from peoples posts
and probably Last.
LOL! I was thinking the same thing! I don’t understand why anyone would invest so much time and money into something nobody will ever see.
He did it because he wanted to, and it gave him pleasure and satisfaction. He needs no other reason.
Gratz on your personal achievement!
Gentlemen,
I thought i would start a post to create a list of Daggers that have particle effects, as i cannot find that much info on them in general, though plenty of info on GS and Staffs, and i suspect others are in the same boat as me trying to find information specific to daggers.
So here goes the daggers I have found (BUT NOT CONFIRMED MYSELF!):
(Name / Source / Effect / GWDB / Pic or Vid Links)
Incinerator / Ledgendary / Fire Effects inc Players Arms / Link / Video
Corrupted Shard / Crafting / Blue Aura Effect, icy Mist/ Link / Video1 Video2
Ghastly Dagger / AC Dungeon / Blue Glow, with mist effect in the night / Link / Video of Ghastly Effect on Staff
Peacemaker Dagger / T3 Asura / Purple Mist Effect / Link / Picture
Mystic Spike / Mystic Forge / Electrical Charge Pulsing/ Link / Video
Traveler’s Orrian Dagger / Drop or TP / Dripping Water / Link / PIC
Order of Whispers Dagger / Order of Whispers / Folding Dagger / Link / Pic Folded Pic Unfolded Video
Krait Rippers / Crafting / Dripping Water / Link / Pic
Destroyer daggers / Crafting / Fire Effect on Blade / Link / Pci1 Pic2 Video for destoyer effect on other weapons
So feel free to add others and i will update the post.
Thanks to:
Intigo, Zenyatoo, Fishbait, Norb, Nbikz, Aeyan, Heimlich
Updated 07/12/2012
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is there anywhere that you can get a list of all weapons with a particle effect?
Very good point… can’t be called Gary Sparkles when you change to be Winnetta Sparkles
Simple supply and demand..
Majority of players don’t want to actually spend real money, they want to use in game gold to buy Gems.
Number of people buying gems for real money and converting these to gold is far lower therefore the GEMs they wish to convert are worth more and more.
This has to happen to entice people to buy gems and convert for gold. I buy Gems and i wont convert them to gold unless the conversion is worth it from my point of view. So the high the better…
People buying GEMS for real cash are what support the game development at the end of the day. Expect GEMs for Gold costs to just keep increasing for many months.
Mobot, you should really think about a Lightening Hammer build for levelling, makes the WHOLE process easier.. Well for me anyway. though i think you have to be around level 30 for the build to start to be affective.
Have a read here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Lightning-hammer-build/first#post810555
For levelling around level 40 to 80 this is the way to go from my point of view.
I used the crit build with lightening hammer to level and found it excellent i could take on multiple mobs including veterans with ease.
While i would not recommend this as an 80 build it is for me at least one of the best ways to level an elementalist, it had it all high damage, high regen, nearly a perm blind on mobs, and it fun to boot getting up in a mobs face with a huge hammer made of well lightening!
The fact is lots of people wanted precursor prices to drop. ANET did a “Quick” fix and had them drop to a small percentage of people in the event. But still means hundreds of precursors.
Logging on this morning most have fallen alot in price, and should continue to fall as people decided to sell them today.
If anything the drop rate for these was too low! in the event and could have withstood being 2 or 3 time higher.
They should have dropped enough of these to push to price down to below 100g for all of them.
explain a lvl 80 getting rare lvl 76 items then lol
Hmmm I suspect its level tiers ;→ quite a simple concept really all the exotics i received were 78 to 80..
So if the friend was level 70+ maybe i could see them getting level 80 rewards, but thats some serious levelling to get that high during the 3 day trial.
My friend on a free trial. First time ever in GW2. Followed me through this 3 hour grind fest last event (which is a bad way to sell the game to new people) he opns the loot chest and got 2 (YES TWO) precursors!!!!!!! Dusk and the staff one!!!!!!
WTF!!!
He didnt even know what they were he just told me and I almost fell out my chair.
wtf ArenaNet.
Ive been here since day 1 and have gotten nothing but trash from these chest (no joke)
Errr as loot was scaled to your level, and your friend was scaled up to level 80. I can’t see how he got level 80 rewards when his real level was considerably less.
I did the event with 2 friends who used their alts. (55 and 64) and they got
exotic rewards scaled to their real level. And many people on this very forum have said the same.
I find it hard to believe that a trial player on a low level character got level 80 rewards at the end of the event.
Dusk – Twilight, nearly fell of my chair.
I hope that precursor prices will now drop. Even though I will likely sell the sword and use the gold for the Staff.
The lag is back - Are we really surprised?
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Pointless event…. lagg is out of control..
What a waste of a weekend. ANET this sucks!
While i work the old fashion 9 to 5 job mon to fri, and this event is perfectly timed for me i think it would make far more sense for events to be a max of 1 week long so that all players would be able to participate.
But for the onetime ingame events well these would be hard to have everybody happy. so they have to pick a time when most people are logged in. though it would make sense to split between NA and EU times.
Great guide been using your build and advice since your old thread.. looking forward to the next update of this thread.
Not sure if this hasn’t already been posted on the forum and too drunk to check (spent this months gem money on Gin) but did they fail to see this?
http://morgaren.hubpages.com/hub/Content-Locust-How-They-Change-The-MMO-Landscape
Very interesting read…. and very apt. So these content locusts have infected GW2.
Better get the bugbombs out!
All these guys that are saying they are going to stop playing will still be playing the game it may not be this month or the next but I bet my bottom gold piece if you track those that said they are going to be quitting they will still be around. So, stop your belly aching and enjoy the new content.
This game was always sold on the premise of horizontal progression, i have only ever played treadmill hamster driven games in the past and GW2 was a refreshing change.
Your right hardly anyone in this thread will quit, but by alienating their key demographic and previous loyal customer base, gems sales will fall for real cash, thus ANET profits will drop and less development will happen.
Fact is the hardcore raider type person tend to have more gold (due to the hours upon hours of play time) and will just buy their GEMS for gold thus bring nothing into ANET to develop the game. ANETs key demographic are the people who buy GEMS with cash (the casual player if you will), these people tend to be people with disposable income, and these people don’t play the game for 40 hours a week because they have jobs and families etc.
ANET cannot compete with WoW, RIFT etc in the PvE grinding treadmill, its a recipe for disaster, look at SWTOR. If ANET wants to be successful they should stick to what made their previous GW1 fan base fiercely loyal, and build upon this with innovative mechanics, artificial intelligence, and engaging content.
BTW, i have never played GW1. ex EvE, WoW, SWTOR, AoC, WAR player.. who got all grinded out.
The stat increase is just not needed, for the grinders here who call themselves hardcore (aka more free time that most) ANET could have catered for this with a set of dungeons, making specific dungeon set/s of gear for them the grind grind grind away at, that gets them deeper and deeper into the pixilated treadmill.
And when they leave the dungeon the armor is no better in other areas than other open world armor, thus preserving balance and feeding the grinders among us. Infusion for this infusion for that, hell they could have made it is own dynamic content driven treadmill from heaven.
Though i doubt that this shiny new armor would be as attractive when people realise the stat edge was not usable in normal PvE and PvP etc..
Fact is I think 99% of the content being added is great, but this stat creep in the first 3 months for Tyeria wide use is a bad thing.
Personally if they wanted harder and hard content, they should be investing their time in the AI side of the mobs / bosses within dungeons and creating inventive mechanics to make people think during a dungeon. Also making these mechanics random within a dungeon so people have to dynamically adjust to new sets of problems and scenarios. Rather than traditional gated content done via gear creep.
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No way. If I have an advantage with gear and rofl stomp people because of anets gear grind I expect to use it.
I will have earned that edge with the legendary and ascend gear stat boost so I can kick ur butt and plan to stomp all the badies away thank you very much.
Cant grind like me too bad maybe you can buy it in the store.
LOL, you are not a PvPer you are someone who wants to bring a bazooka to a knife fight.
PvP should be primarily about skill. You are not more skilled than someone because you have more time to play a GAME, you are more skilled because you are a player with deep understanding of class mechanics and situational play.
Gear treadmills have no place balanced PvP. I’m happy to be beaten by a more skilled player, not one with a 10% stat and damage advantage.
Time in game does not equal skill or entitlement, just that you have more free time then others.
Simple way to protest your disagreement.
I for one will continue to play and see where this goes but i’m not happy about the gear stat increase.
So i have deleted my CC information from the Gem store, and will not re-add it until i believe that GW2 is not going to become a Gear Treadmill.
If you want to make a protest but still play then remove your CC information from the GEM Store today. I’m pretty sure the Billing Dept will be tracking such things and if a lot of players remove the CC info it will send a very clear message.
Check my history NEVER EVER POSTED to forums.
But i have to say as an ex WoW, WarHammer, SWTOR, EvE, AoC etc etc etc player. GW2 was a refreshing change to the grind of other games. (BTW never played GW1)
I have a single level 80 in exotics that is functional in WvWvW and on equal par with everyone else. My exotics look crap, but are functional, I can live with that!
I have a full time job and a family and often disappear for days on end without logging in due to that thing called RL.
I like the fact i can log in after time away (even a few days) and start doing stuff with friends where my gear is not an issue.
As an adult with a decent job i have a disposable income and i have already spent over £150 on gems (more than any subscription to a tradition MMO in the same time frame)
People like me are people to pay to keep games like this alive. As my gear gets less and less competitive i will log in less and less and spend less and less until i stop logging in. Because i don’t have time to grind for gear and more importantly i don’t want to grind for gear.
Am i happy about the new patch for 99% of it yes! all sounds cool and good. But ascended items, errrr nope.
ATM a quick bit of maths puts the increased stats at around 8%, for two items this is minimal and won’t affect the game too much, but when every item is now ascended with a total stat increase of 8% across the board that’s a significant stat increase.
In WvWvW two zergs meet… 20 vs 20, 20 without full ascended, and 20 with full ascended. so in real terms that’s 20 players vs. 21.6 players with each player outputting 8% stat increase, so in real terms of extra damage output will be substantial!
Therefore ascended items now become the requirement for WvWvW.