Guild Wars 2

Be more creative, add surname for example

it’s possible or was possible a few days ago. But you can only put raw stones,not the upgraded version with jewellery into armor. You can put “ruby orb” but not “embellished ruby orbs” or similar

When i was doing explorer I missed Beggar’s Burrow in Queensdale. It’s just next to Divinity Reach, north of Lake Delavan.

I missed it since entrance is not big, there is no pois etc in area and it’s hard to see that this area is missed and can be unlocked if you simply use map.

remember that the sides switch between 3 worlds(but it’s possible to stay on the same side for few weeks), so one week you map emerald side, then on next you can map ruby side for example. But you have to wait a month or more too map all. And if you play on weak wvw server getting castle points can be hard.

Guilds are accound wide and you can have 5 of them if i’m not wrong. And for every character you have to invidually set which one guild are represented when you play.

So you can have char X that constantly represent guild XYZ and char A who represent guild ABC.

But when on other character your guildies from other guild would see your alt name + account name and info you are not representing at the moment.

You can select invisible as your status in friends window. For others it will show like you are offline. The problem is nobody can whisper to you, or invite you to party(you must initiate whisper and join). And status will show you are offline in both guilds.

The exact percentage was never announced by Anet, and is not sth that can be simply tested by players.

Would it make you feel better if you know that the chance in MF when combining exotics is 0,00025 and not 0,0003 or 0,00022?

It’s like this meteo programs. Like it would make difference if they say “Today there was 35% chance for rain, tomorrow there will be 30%” instead of, “There’s a chance it will rain tomorrow”

I’m almost 100% sure you can open them once in day. As day I mean time between daily resets (it’s at 0:00 GMT) not day in your timezone.

Secondly there is also second timer. So if you opened chest just before daily reset, and visit there just after it, the chest will be still open. Don’t know exact time but it’s 4-8 hours i think. Or maybe just zoning in and out works.

For now you can’t infuse amulets. It’s not the bug, probably Anet wanted to slow down the AR increase and/or didn’t decide and test recipe for infusion.

As for gw2db it only shows that there is item in data files. There are a lot of items that are there and on gw2db that aren’t in game, but part of them where left in database or are used for thing like npc weapons etc.

You can solo everything in PvE except dungeons. You can and probably will do your personal story solo too, onlu last mission, which is dungeon need grouping.

There are same events or some points to explore that would require help of other players(unless you are very skilled already) but it don’r rquire to form a party. Often you will just meet people doing the content.

There is no need to party in WvW too.

Unlike many other MMOs there is hardly any chance for griefing in GW. There is almost no resource/exp/loot etc stealing.

There is a cap of 90% for now i think:
50% from booster
5% from banner
15% from guild bonus
5% from ice-cream
and propably 15% from laurels infusion.

So 90% is max for now, i don’t think there is any upper limit hardcoded anywhere.

lunatuna.6823:

I am finding mithril nodes, but they appear harvested and I can’t interact with them – even in areas I have entered for the first time. My character is only 70, so I haven’t ventured into the other Orr zones yet.

How do you know they are mithril nodes when their are unselectable and appear as mined and don’t show on minimap?

And you say you character is lvl 70. Mithril nodes appear only on lvl 70-80 map, namely:
Cursed Shore
Malchor’s Leap
Straits of Devastation
Frostgorge Sound
Southsun Cove

I guess you don’t see mithril nodes on minimap or they apear “mined”, because they aren’t mithril node but some random decoration stones or place holders for next ore location change. The location of node changes at random and sometimes they are whole areas without them.

Vol.5241:

It’s not a bug.

The medal rewards are not scaled to your level, but scaled to the level of the event.

Lies. Dynamic Events rewards scale to your reward. As lvl 80 doing low level event you earn less then doing level approciate one but more then doing it at event lvl.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dynamic_event#Event_rewards
"Higher level characters can still receive rewards for lower-level content: the rewards are increased if the character’s level is substantially higher than the event level. "

And receiving 2-3 copper is less then lvl 2 would get. For me it looks like either DR works or some bug.

It’s still bound to one instance without logging or zoning off.

It’s easy to get, there is just typo in the achievment name. Correct name is “Lifetime Crafter Achievment” and as it name suggest just collect a lot of mats, so you can craft without need or resupply(there is tp in every city in case you forgot sth). Wait until you are lvl 80(since exp from crafting is scaled to lvl).

You don’t need to lvl all 400 craftin levels. At lvl 80 you need to craft enough to get 2 full exp bar.
advancing from 0 to150 or from 300 to 350 in single run is enough

Lvl 80 with full-exo equip would perform better then lvl 70, but it’s very slight difference in case of getting map completion. Your abilities as player would effect required time a lot more. But if you one of people who have problem with timing dodge or don’t see these red circles on ground you will need every single handicap.

If you switch from EU to US and if you guild is on Eu servers you will basically lose it. You will retain membership, but lose access to all upgardes and you won’t be able to even play with players from your guild (Eu server).

There are people doing Arah both in EU and US servers, just turn to EU tab on lfg. Of course getting group won’t be instant and it’s possible you have to wait a while or for better time frame, since story modes are not so popular. Evenings are your best bet since there is a more people then.

And if you want to switch servers only to do once a singe dungeon it’s not worth it. Getting a group can take a while but that’s all.

There are soldier’s weapons but they are all non-craftables, which means they are either named uniques(random drop) without prefixes, so searching for them is hard, and dungeon gear that is soulbound.

Dungeons tokens are the only guaranteed, and at the same time easiest way to get them.
Tokens from Dungeons: Ascalonian Catacombs, Sorrow’s Embrace , Honor of the Waves.

You get tokens from running explorable mode of dungeon(you don’t need to finish story if your party leader/instance owner have finished it.). You can exchange tokens with dungeon merchants at Fort Marriner in Lion’s Arch. Just remember to select “exotic” tab and browse/preview, maybe there is also some with both stats and skins you like.

In future: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Prefix#Triple_attribute

Ps. Every dungeon have 3 different sets of weapon/armor stats ex. AC have Soldier’s, Rampager’s and Magi’s sets. Remember to double check and select the one you want.

check if weapon lvl is higher then lvl of sigil.

superior sigil require lvl60 weapon or higher
major sigil can only by put on lvl 35 or higher
for minor sigils don’t have requirement.

Lvl of upgrade can’t be higher then lvl of equipment.

And are you sure you are using sigils not runes?

maybe try to unequip weapon and put sigil from inventory window and not hero panel.

They stack as far as I’m informed. tt won’t work with 2 sigils but they come from different sources → skill, sigil and trait.

It happened to all players. And Weapon master is also affected. My lucky guess is caused by same change in achievement system and getting ready to get laurels from them.

Probably for same system reason it was needed to re-earn them for new achievement system count them property. And to avoid some bugs.

Ps. Didn’t look, but really survivor is also effected? I hope i have enough crafting mats…

You should write: don’t play shortbow ranger with bear when farming in the same place for several hours, and for whole time don’t move your character when shoting, don’t change a pet and weapon, don’t evade or do any movement if mobs start attacking you. Ignore events and players in your area. And by no means answer other players if they ask you sth.

My guess you played like a bot, got raported by other players and got banned. And why do you think they should give you laurels?

Jezath.7395:

So any future discs will need a region change on your player and this is locked to only be used 3 times or so..

I don’t remember to ever put my GW2 game disk into player. Even if you would bought expansion on disk i can bet you can just write code in account and download all from the net. Hell, you wound probably need to download it anyway because of zero-day patch.

winterlove.6834:

now fractal comacitors do they have any stats other then an upgrade slot? like id like to make a fractale capictor with power, toughness, and critacal

Yes they have stats. The vendor inside the fractal portal have several exotic version of capacitor with different stats. Just enter alone, so you can browse them peacefully.

The ascended version get the bonuses from exotic that was used to made it.

Naqaj.6219:

Laurel ascended gear does not have Agony resist, does it?

It’s not infused so no, but if it have offensive/defensive slots, you can put versatile infusion with +5 AR. The infusion is bought for 75 tokens inside the fractal. And by the time you get to lvl 10 where Agony starts(and AR it’s not needed at 10) you will get enought tokens to buy it.

Jezath.7395:

usually yes the sigil in the offhand would be a critical chance for that weapon attack from that hand if you get me. There are exceptions though.

From my experience with sigil of fire it work for any dmg attack that have critical chance as long as you have the weapon with it currently equipped.

That means not only for MH and OH weapons but also on utility skills that do dmg or your downed abilities. If you have trait that apply dmg on dodge(warrior 5 strengh minor trait for example) it can also trigger the sigil…

that +5% critical chance propably also apply to all attacks.

winterlove.6834:

(…) must be my build or how im playing (…)

So share with us what’s your build or how you play.

winterlove.6834:

my gear is ascolinian armor bought with tears and i still die alot

First, what’s important about equip is 1) if it’s exotic/rare etc? 2) What’s stats you have on them like power+thoughness+vitality etc.

Just wild guess, but are you using by any chance the rare equip you can get from dungeon and not exotic one?

illrepute.2194:

What class has the most available options, playstyles, and builds while remaining effective in WvW, SPvP, and PvE/dungeons?

There is only 1 class like that. A warrior with general bar(5 signets) in CoF berserk gear with gs on both weapon sets. Remember to choose Nord od Charr as race, because they have THE BIGGEST Swords.

Just to note. There is no build of any class that is effective in WvW, sPvP and PvE at the same time.

You can compromise between WvW and PvE build so you don’t have to switch traits but it will be exacly that… a compromise.

I played warrior the most but i think all classes have a lot of different builds. On warrior there are build for huge dps, some for durable builds that can take a lot, you can go support and healing with banners or shouts, and many builds in-between. You can also try for ranged warrior with rifle or longbow(or both). Never tried it but there is nothing holding you…

the guilds are not tied to servers, so every guild exist on every server. But the guild upgrade’s are tied to them so if you on other server you won’t get access to thing like guild bank, armorsmith or guild bonuses to mf or karma etc. Guild influence is also separated.

So.
1) the only limitation is that you will always get guild bonuses of your orginal world, so if you guild is active only on the server you guesting you won’t get any access to upgrade’s, unless you build them on your orginal world.
2)Yes
3) If you mean by joining party in events and dungeons then yes.
4) You can represent but all influence you earn will go to influence of guild in your home server not the guesting one, and only people from your home server would have access to that influence.

You will get daily chest regardless of your personal level, as long as you do even leveled fractal. But your personal level decides which tier daily chest and boss chest you get.

Tier is set of 10 levels( with exeption for tier 0 since there is no lvl 0 fractal and tier 8 where there is only lvl 80
tier 0 is levels 01-09
tier 1 is levels 10-19
tier 2 is levels 20-29
and so on…
lvl 2 is tier 0 (lvl1-9) so regardless if you do lvl 14(tier 1) lvl 32(tier 3), etc, you will only get daily chest from tier 0. You won’t get any items that appear only in higher tiers.

To note. If your personal lvl is lvl 9, and you do lvl 10 you will get tier 0 daily chest(so you won’t get any at lvl 2,4,6,8 if you do them after) but you can do lvl 10 again, and since your personal level advanced now to lvl 10 you will get tier 1 daily chest(for lvl 10,12,14,16,18).

Kraggy.4169:

How the heck is a RANGER supposed to get this? We have pets, we’re not suposed to be hit.

Well warrior have only 2 evades and that’s all,

But ranger not only have trait 50% increased endurance regen(so evade recharge faster), but even on shortbow have evade skill.

Now ranger with sword/dagger can have around 4 different evade skills not counting the 2 from endurance(“v”)

I can bet that even developers themselves are not 100% sure which area will be covered and which won’t. And it’s not like they will tell you, just because you ask.

Do you use any swiftness boons? And best just post printscreen of it. There are many animations that can make particles around your character.

Ps. If you class is warrior and you use signet of rage(elite skill) sometimes the signet charging animation can stuck to your toon, until you sheathe your weapon (default it’s “z” key). Guess same other abilities also can stuck on animation, but for me it only happens with signet of rage.

Fractals also count as dungeons. I was doing lvl12 fractal, and after defeating Maw and returning to Lab i got increase of that achievement. I haven’t done yet any other dungeons in this month.

But unlike fractal achievement, you have to complete whole fractal run, which mean 3 fractals for uneven lvls, and 4 with even.

There’s also possibility that it count only for even dungeons and you have to kill Maw to get achievment.

Yulan.4069:

1. Is it legal for me to ask for a friend to send me 200g so I can deposit it and easily get the title?

2. Can it be considered an exploit or something?

3. Is ANET still tagging people who transfers a huge quantity of gold through mail as gold-sellers (and hence suspending their accounts?)

Thanks for the attention!

1. It is.

2. It’s not exploit

3. For obvious reason ANET can’t explain how the anti-RMT mechanism work, but from my (little) research it’s not simple as “You send 100g and you are banned for gold-selling” like some people claim.
I’m almost 99% sure that system before tagging check if both players are “friends”. For example it check for thing like: are they in the some guild?, did they do dungeons or event together? Form a party and how often etc.

The other thing is that you are banned for both gold-selling and gold-buying. In most cases that people were banned after receiving money from friends are cases where the other person(that friend) is tagged for gold-buying. Since you received money from person that is proven guilty or is involved in RMT, you can get banned too.

So for your third question if both you and your friend was not involved in RMT you are safe.

thewaterguy.4796:

Why aren’t they working?
I got daily healer and daily dodger
dodging is not working at all for me even when I am very precise at dodgin attacks
and healer doesn’t seem to work on npc’s
What gives Anet?

The kill variety was annoying enough to do
these new dailies are just impossible why aren’t they working?

Anyone else having this problem?

Healer works on players, just go hunt Jormag if you don’t run dungeons.

Dodger works too since i got it. You need to dodge attack so words evade appear. I got mine in 2-3 min in dungeon but you can go to some area with ranged mobs and just evade when the arrow is shot at you…

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

I wish I could sell those siege thingies I got from map completion…. I might scratch them soon. Don’t assume everybody who does that JP does them for the siege thingies.

If you want to scrap them, better announce in /map or whisper a commander that you want to give for free some siege blueprints. A lot better then simply scraping them.

I think sigil of fire don’t work underwater.

It does matter since only members of the order can access order armorsmith (and weaponsmith).

So you thief which joined vigil can’t buy whispers armor.

Now there is solution, but you do it on your own risk( i mean there is a chance it wouldn’t work and you would lose some time and gold)

Even if your thief can’t you other character who joined whispers can. In worst case you have to create alt, play him until joining a order, then you can buy armor. Unfortunately order armors are soulbound on acquire so it’s soulbound to your alt.

BUT
You can transmute looks of it into white armor(choosing white armor stats so it become white item). Now it should make it account bound instead soulbound. Now your thief can equip it and trasmute it skin with stats you want. You need 2 fine transmutation stones per piece.

Ps. Personally i would wait until 28 Jan, because there is slight hope for un-soulbinding items. Like really tiny, but who knows.

hithlain.4385:

This is the proof monsters are stupid ^^ Hey, I’m sure an enemy player will target the highest dps weaker opponent first.

I’m almost 100% sure that same enemies and especially boss and semi-bosses in dungeon have unique aggro rules. The general rule is as above but i meet some enemies with additional rules who like to target players with weakest armor, or with low health, or priority downed or reviving players.

You need to close and reopen

I don’t know if it was suggested before but:

Magic Find was set so player would choose to have worse stats and gear and gain better chances for rare items and equipment. For solo let’s say it works like intended, but there is a huge problem with parties.

Mainly player with MF gear in party not only make it harder for himself, but for all players in the party becouse he lowers capability . We can’t check others MF directly when creating party, so it’s often that 3-4 players with no-MF gear need to do a lot more work, and only these 2-1 kitten with full-MF gear equipped gain profits.

Well i would like to see MF of other players so i can kick them before starting dungeons, but it’s impossible and probably will stay that way.

What i suggest is Party MF. If whole party need to work harder because of 1-2 players, so whole party should gain profits.

Example:
There are 4 players with 5 MF and 1 player with 180MF. System would take MF from all players – 200MF in total, and dividie it, let’s say by 5 = 40MF.

Ideal by me would be granting all 5 players 40MF(so the player with 180 would be kittened from 180 to 40). But i would welcome even giving it as additional MF so we will have 4 players with 45 MF and one with 220 MF.

Never done it myself but you can try transmute it to blue or white backpiece. That will should make it account bound. Then you can transmute it again for the stats.

I know it worked some time ago, but first i’m not sure if it work for backpieces, second you would lose all ascended stats and i don’t now if transmuted capacitor would work in mystic forge.

So do it at you own risk.

Yes. You can only stack one thing. What’s you stack depend on which weapon attacked first and get a stack.

The some thing happen when you have sigils on different weapon sets(ele don;t have them but many classes have) or unequip weapons and equip other with different stack runes.

There is no workaround because you can have only one stacking slot (similar to food slot or technical slot) and i think it’s intended.

There are some other limitations for sigil so best read http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil. Especially notes at the bottom of the page.

There is a limit of 5 players, but some abilities like banners for example don’t only grant boons when placed but emit “wave” every second of it duration. And each of the “waves” can effect different players.

You can solo all PvE and Personal Story(except last mission). In WvW you would have problem to do anything alone, but you don’t need to join any groups or parties. You can as Lone Wolf ;P just meet and join to help some zerg when it’s taking a keep or tower and disappear in Mists when siege is done.

There is no way to solo dungeons so you need a party, and without them your equip and money-making oportunites are much less.

I may be wrong, but all servers in region (Europe/USA) are in the some location physically. So i don’t think there will be big and constant difference in ping. You can only try to transfer to another region(so if you are in USA server to Europe one).

The cheapest upgrade would be buying more ram, and using 64-bit system. Unless there is some reason why you can’t use 64-bit system.

There is no point of having 4gb ram if your system can only use around 2,5 (you can make it to 3, but i encountered many errors and freezing with that.)

Otherwise as stated above

30. But you can repeat them every new day(every time you get new daily), and there are counted on enter to jumping puzzle area so you don’t need to even finish them.
So you can just repeat Lion Arch 3 jp for 10 days and you will get the achievement.

If I’m correct there are 44 different jumping puzzle in the game, not counting two holiday jp.

Well actually most bank don’t actually charge your card/account until 7 days after payment, the reason is that you can cancel the paymant in these 7 days, so to prevent many problems with retrieval of money they hold onto them for that time.

For these 7 days the money are actually still in your account but are blocked for the transfer in 7 days(so you can’t use them and from customer perspective there are gone).

In your case the initial request for charge was send so the money were blocked. The message of cancelling was send also, but again to avoid any problems (for example if there was a error for intermediary, but service was actually provided by seller) they hold the “block” until confirmation of the failed paymant is send. Some banks would also wait until they accounting hour(don’t know if it’s proper english) to cancel a blockade.

So in case of failing you should wait at least 24h. Then you should contact your bank. Banks like to hold your money so it can take some more time

I think it’s global, but maybe in your country sth is different.

ScribeTheMad.7614:

Um, It’s 11, 40 and 60 isn’t it?

Don’t understand why I can’t just wait and get the one Grandmaster book, I’ve put in the extra effort to play to that point without them, geez.

It’s your choice. Next time sb decide to run to lvl 80 naked and without spending singe skill point and start demanding free legendary.

What’s more wasted is waiting to lvl80 to buy that book, when you could buy and try using it on lvl60. At least you could save the time and efford spend on the last 20 lvls.

Basically, you done sth unnecessary, counter-productive and demand reward for it. And why should it be rewarded?

In the time you wasted by leveling with only few traits you would get a lot more gold then these 1g you wanted to save.

Ps. Sometimes there is a chance to buy traits book cheaper on TP. I know some people who bought 8 grandmaster books thinking, there are necessary for resetting traits in PvE, and wanted to stock them

If gold would be (too) easy to get it would be worthless dirt.

What’s your level?

My advice: Don’t travel by waypoints every time. You can go to LA (and by it to every main city) for free using Pvp Area (crossed swords in your upper right corner).

If you are in the Grove and want to go to area in Iron Marches, teleport to LA (by Mists) then use asura gate to Black Citadel. From there even if you would go by waypoint it would cost 30% of orginal.

Shpongle.6025:

and if i wanted to preview how the dye looks when i dye my whole armor with it, then I would have to buy 4 of them….because you cant peview a full armor preview with only 1 single abyss die, you need 4….

You can preview full armor with all four of dye slots of abyss dye, without having any of the items (both armor and dye).

For me, it looks like red or green because of surrounding light which is reflected in shiny surface (and by making background of surface black, you make sth like mirror). The only solution would be using less “black” or changing to items with flat surface.