Guild Wars 2

I’ll surely remember my legendary journey of battling support reps. It’ll be a story to tell someones grand kids one day.

What a mess…

Yep! It’s fixed!

I got it off the 10th Elemental outside R&D Waypoint in cursed shore. When I get home from work I’ll finish Rodgort.

Next response, straight up false. I’m getting really tired of this.

“There should be a quick patch that was released today. If not it may take till the next update. This is a known issue and is being worked on. The patches should clear it up.”

I got the following response:

Hey Fredrik,
There is another update that is coming out if you could please try it once more after. This is a known issue that’s been worked on. We’ll be waiting for your response after doing this =)

Regards,

GM Indubious

I asked them for a timeframe, and also why we have to wait for the same problem Nevermore crafters didn’t have to. Even though we’ve been waiting longer.

Well, if that’s the case I’ll of course share my support ID so you can refer to it for the support rep. It’s both a problem and an asset that if they do it for one they have to do it for all to not give anyone an advantage.

In my line of work I hate doing “favours” for people because I know clients talk with each other and once someone gets a foot in you eventually have a whole swarm of people demanding the same thing.

But this situation has already gone out of hand if they’re giving out trophies to Nevermore crafters but not Rodgorts… not to mention how long this has been a problem.

Well, let’s see what responses I and Circling Skies get. It’s a big organisation so it’s not unthinkable that information has not made it to all departments, I know how hard my own department of 10 people have communicating with eachother…

Please tell me this is a joke. It’s exactly the same problem, it has less of an economic impact, it’s been broken much longer, why would there be any difference? There goes my smile for the day…

That looks like a browser hijack specifically targeted for GW players, I’m not implying you tried to download hacks of some sort, but you definetly clicked on something you shouldn’t. The path in the second picture “C:\ArenaNet[..]” is not a path used by Guild Wars, but it’s for the hack to disguise itself as legit.

If a scan doesn’t detect anything I’d recommend wiping your OS and regardless of what you do activate a 2-way authenticator to make sure nobody rips your account.

Yeah I did the same after I read about Nevermore, it’s exactly the same issue, a trophy required which does not exist, haven’t received an answer yet but I assume they had a flood of e-mails after it came to light that they had done this. I asked for this a few weeks ago but then they said no.

Yeah I did the same, also went to sloven pitch and baelfire to no avail

Tar elemental Core for Rodgort III still seems bugged.

phylanara.9145:

RAGE III

It is impossible to get rid of the now-useless friendship bracelets. Two can be sold, all the others are both account bound and un-destroyable (when I try to destroy them, I get the “type the name in” popup but even after typing the name in, the “yes” button does not become available). Now I’ve got 16 slots of bag permanently taken up

If you have a free char slot, create a char, transfer them to him, delete the char. It’s not optimal but it free’s up your bag space

kaozuki.8023:

not just u….

btw.. anyone an idea whats up with the “fallen tar elemental” part? a fallen tar elemental? a hint on orr? was wondering about that for a while now….

there aren’t any other “fallen” enemys in the game….

As probably anyone in this thread has googled “Tar elemental Core” you’ve surely seen Hardened Tar Elemental Core, this is a karma accessory sold my Scholar Merla at Cachistic R&D (in-game: [&BAADAAA=]), This camp is occasionally attacked by Tar Elementals.

The flavor text of the Hardened Tar Elemental Core says “We finally got it to harden! Now we just need to figure out…you know…what to do with it.”. This hints that they have tried for some time and/or done many attempts, implying that there’s plenty of the Tar Elemental Cores.

edit: I misread what you where actually asking for. I interpret “a fallen tar elemental” as a dead tar elemental.

tl;dr: according to the hints it should drop from Tar elementals around [&BAADAAA=], but it doesn’t or it has a beyond terrible drop rate.

Server maintenance does not necessarily mean patch, I understand your frustration and I share it fully, as long as the problem has been acknowledged in some form I can be slightly more patient, let’s not lose our cools!

kaozuki.8023:

just got an response from support.
it said they know about the problem and are on it to fix it.

at least a little light of hope

Very happy to hear this, especially after the “yes/no/maybe” farce they replied to me with.

In the meantime I’ve killed Shoggroth in Arah atleast 6 times without any results. My entire Rodgort is just about complete, missing 300 dungeon tokens and the tar elemental core, fingers crossed they deploy a fix by next patch day. (which is tomorrow…?)

Kaozuki, I think we’ve all made tickets, both to support and in-game. They refuse to say anything on this topic and they are very confused to what the actual problem is.
But it would be great if you could get a different response :/ I see other prec masteries being solved, this one keeps being bugged.

Sorry guys, I’ve got nothing. Tried Shoggroth yet again, and the veterans, and the monstrous.

I Actually just stood there for 10-ish minutes and suddenly the event just started.

The chain consists of:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Clear_out_the_Branded_creatures_in_Doomspy's_Watch
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Escort_Vanguard_supplies_to_Doomspy's_Watch_with_Kestra
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Defend_Doomspy's_Watch_and_defeat_the_Branded
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Draw_out_and_defeat_the_giant_Branded_griffon

I might have gotten the order wrong.. But they all occur in that general area, it should be visible from there atleast

Killed Shoggroth today after the latest patch, no drop from him. Killed another few 30-40 tar elementals in Cursed Shore and Fireheart Rise in hope that they’d drop it, No luck.
Problem persists.

Dear god please let this topic die. Every time I see it bumped up to the front page my heart skips and then I’m disappointed when I see it’s this one… :’(

Yaki.8450:

Legendary Achievement bug on Rodgort’s II

Speak to Master Hunterman
-> I am working on Rodgort
->Improve my Touch Head or Improve my Touch Handle

( collect Touch Head / Handle / Deldrimor Steel / Spiritwood )

Although I had bring the right quantity of thos items, then speak to NPC. However NPC without any further choose or text let me continuous.

I had no problems completing this one, but I think people aren’t reading carefully enough.

For improving of your torch head you bring him 5 of each torch head except deldrimor torch head where you only need one, same thing for handles, 5 of each except spiritwood where only one is needed. You’re gonna get stuck on Rodgort III tho :/

Anyone had any luck with “Tar elemental core” for Rodgort yet? It doesn’t drop from Tar elementals as stated.

There seems to have been some sort of change with the patch now, if you look at tool tip of the tar elemental core it now says “crafting material: huntsman”. I tried monstrous tar elemental once, I haven’t gotten around to try shoggroth again, hopefully I’ll have a chance tomorrow.

Might sound dumb, but did you open it? I didn’t get credit for wild abandon on my warrior until i opened the chest.

Hello,

I just played an SPVP game and I got the achievment “Paragon” but I’ve never played a guardian in my entire life, and the game that awarded the achievement was played as a warrior. See attached screenshots.

Edit: could only attach one, here’s the second http://i.imgur.com/d7dbOKE.jpg
Edit2: Just won another game, and got another point towards the achievment http://i.imgur.com/QimCzJV.jpg

Slightly OOT,
I recently found the option “allow skill retargeting” in the options panel, I’ve no idea when this was added, but for the past 3 years I’ve been going crazy with how target skills with long activation times where so static not allowing you to adjust to situational changes.

After activating this option I’ve had some interesting glitches with warrior skills, GS5 being one of them. Sometimes when I switch target during Rush my character also retargets and rushes a new target, but the duration/distance seems to reset somewhat. I’ve had one occurence of changing targets twice in one rush, I can’t say for sure if I ran three times the original distance. But I absolutely ran much longer than intended.

I’ve also encountered one occurence with LB1 where I switched mid-shot causing one arrow shooting target number 1 and one arrow shooting target number 2, It might have been just a visual glitch, but it looked hella cool.

To bring it fully back to topic. GS5’s uses outside of travelling are very unreliable.

I think they also dissapear if you use it to a zone where a cinematic is played. I didn’t think of using asura gates after I came back from my 12 month break and used 2-3 stones to bring some alts to LA, the cinematic of LA being rebuilt was played, but afterwards I was still in the previous zone.

I did the same as you, among the results I found they said that Shoggroth did not drop it. But I’m open to try aswell. I think that’s the only thing I haven’t personally tried. I’ll hit you up in game.

A fourth support representative responded to my case now and said the following:

I would like to start apologizing for any confusion the previous responses may have caused. We do not have an official report that this item is indeed bugged or unavailable. We encourage you to bring this topic to the official forums where you will not only help catch the attention of the development team but also receive assistance from other players in similar situations.

We are sorry we are not able to further assist with this, but do not hesitate to contact us again whenever you need assistance.

It sounds so outlandish to me that it would be impossible to check if an item is part of the loot-table or not. I just want a confirmation that it’s not actually part of the game yet so I can move on and do other things. If the rest of the collection wouldn’t have been so broken and misguided I wouldn’t be as obsessed with finishing it.

If you have many characters you can quite a bit of money in a short time from harvesting popular nodes like Iron and Flax, There’s 2 big flax farms in maguuma (one in Jaka Itzel and one in Tangled depths, check Youtube for vids) which take little time to get to and yields quite a bit of dosh, in Brisban Wildlands at the north-western most waypoint there’s a cluster of Iron nodes, I usually get these out of the way immediatly when I login, little effort for lots of shinies.

Also, just an FYI, you only need to make one incinerator, then you can make an ascended dagger and give it incinerator skin for same stats

Support case for reference: 1951612

I’ve spoken to three different support representatives about the “Tar Elemental Core” not dropping from Tar Elementals as it’s supposed to.

Summary from my ticket:
I’m using the legendary weapons mastery track to craft the precursor “Rodgort’s flame” for legendary torch “Rodgort”.

The final stage to craft it requires 4 components:

Essence of Burning
Spirit of the Perfected Torch
Everburning Flame
Dragon Statue

The Everburning flame has a component called “Fuel for the fire”

Fuel for the fire requires additional 4 components:

Tar Elemental Core
30 Elder wood planks
5 Mystic crystals
1 Spiritwood plank

The tooltip of “Tar Elemental core” states “Looted from a fallen tar elemental”. But neither me nor a good bunch of people I have talked to can seem to find this component regardless of trying any variation of tar elementals found in game.

Official responses (canned responses omitted)
GM#1 Just looked into this a bit more for you and this may have been something that changed. I was unable to find this item or that it was needed to create Rodgort’s Flame.
[…] I even tried digging into the Tar Elemental Core and was only able to find this: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hardened_Tar_Elemental_Core

<followed by me clarifying that this has nothing to do with the other suggestions he offered me>

GM#2 It seems there might be a bug preventing this item from dropping.

<followed by me stating that it’s blocking progress and asking if there is any way to get around this>

GM#3 Unfortunately we would not be able to send you this item, We have confirmed that it is in game, but since this item was not gained on your account we cannot issue it to you.

tl;dr GM#1+2+3, Tar Elemental Core is in game but a bug is preventing it from dropping.

What gives?

Anyone had any luck finding this Tar elemental core? Today I’ve focused on Fireheart rise, trying the events that spawns tar elementals but I can’t find it.

A developer response confirming that this is a bug would certainly ease my mind…

Been playing around a few games with this build now, really liking it! Weapon swap is a bit slow but this build has potential, I’ve had scenarios where I’ve completely blown out 1-2 people, but also scenarios where I’m completely shut down and violated. So far it looks good though!

I even managed to get a “wtf..?” out of a Daredevil

edit: is it better than rampage or shoutbow? Probably not, but it’s hella fun to play something different.

edit2: I’m having a LOT of fun with this!

Interesting choice of weapons, been dying (lol get it?) to put my GS to rest and try something else entirely.

I’ll definitely give this a try when I get home!

Just imagine a tiny helmet on his head and a GS instead of a spaghetti! Flailing wildly!

I’ll photoshop it when I get home from work.

When I read the suggestion on running while doing 100b I immediatly saw this image in my head.

http://i.imgur.com/0dcys.jpg

Give back template codes! And watch the meta change at an alarming rate!

If I understand your post correctly, you bought a precursor for howler and later on soulbound it. Then you realized you could craft howler precursor from legendary mastery track.

If you finish the Legendary with the TP bought precursor it should be unbound (keyword: should) sell it, and make a new legendary with your crafting precursor?

But what I don’t understand is, did you already finish crafting your mastery precursor? Didn’t people whine massively about the time-gate and gold cost associated with precursor crafting?

AndyJo.8794:

@Numri; we have known Batwing was required for Nightfury for over a week, and the price inflated at this discovery to settle in the 70-100 gold range. Right now they have spiked about 400%, much like Linseed Oil has. Because they are not as easily got as Linseed Oil, their price will take some time to drop down comparatively, but before too long all the people who MUST HAVE NIGHTFURY RIGHT THIS SECOND will have bought theirs, and the price will normalize again. Probably a bit higher than your average endless tonic, which would put them in the 90-120 gold range. There is no shortage of ToT Bags in the world, which means there will be no shortage of new tonics being added to the economy.

Linseed Oil spiking is natural as it’s needed for a lot of new content, I have no doubt that this will settle in somewhere along the levels of T6 mats before long.

The tonic spiking after the full discovery is really not surprising to anyone as it means that people can make an active decision if they want/can make that investment instead of buying it early and then “maybe” needing another 5k gold to finish the rest.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see it settle at around 90-120g, but I don’t believe that will be the case. Have a look at the documented mass-openings of ToT-bags. If you google “Gw2 open 10000 Trick-or-treat bags” you’ll find a couple of post, neither of the posts record a single endless brew being looted.

Perhaps it was considered “trash” back then and not included, however some of them are pretty detailed.

The rarity in conjunction with the availability is what leads me to believe that your statement is wrong.

I agree with you that the amount of whine is uncalled for, it’s a pretty sweet item and working for is by no means as impossible as they put it out to be.

However the only problem I have with your statement is that Endless Bat-wing brew will go down in price, that’s an absolute fallacy, it has nowhere else to go but up.

And I’m fairly certain it will reach ridiculous levels over the next 10-ish months, only to slightly drop off for next halloween (assuming it will be available then) and then go back to ramp up.

Did you find the recipe on the laurel vendor? It’s kinda stupid to have to pay for it just because that character does not have that profession :/

Hmm.. I think the laurel vendor sells you the recipe for 1 laurel + some gold, but you should definetly have received it when you received the helmet, you didnt get the item afaik, you auto-learned it if you where armorsmith… I could be wrong, but go check the laurel vendor, last tab.

I really enjoy the potential of the shattering blow skill, with the offensive capability and the defensive reflect.

However it feels like it’s not working properly. Half the time the animation just wont come out, it feels like it’s even more susceptible to height differences between caster and target than GS4.

The few times that I get the animation out it usually ends up missing due to the way the targeting works.

Anyone else experience this?

They should give it a target vector like GS3 and do something about that constant failing of casting.

You unlock this rune when you finish your Berserker traitline for PVE, shouldn’t this unlock it for PVP aswell? I remember checking last night and it was still locked even though I have the recipe to create it in PVE.

Edit: to unlock it it’s 5g. But it feels like it’s a bug if you’ve completed your traits and it’s still locked.

Last night I climbed on top of the Guild initative HQ and went out on the tip of the flagpole. I stood there for a moment, contemplating if my gliding abilities where only a matter of faith. I walked around precariously on the pole, almost trying to make myself fall. But I didn’t fall. I just stood there.

Did I dare take leap? Would I be able to live my life to the fullest if I didn’t?

After roughly 20 minutes i decided to climb back down and go get drunk in the tavern.

I really appreciate the time you took to explain this Slayer, I’ve been struggling with this exact information. It kind-of deviates from my 1st post, but I’m glad we took a detour on this one

It’s not, I just feel it’s too arbitrary for a few reasons,

• Timestamp is hh:mm, meaning it’s hard for me to see exactly how long the target was affected by a certain condition damage and calculate where in my rotation it spikes, and where it falls off.

• Not being able to export the contents for easy summaries and grouping (i.e. Excel), manual number crunching is so 1993

Having played a direct-damage Warrior for 3 years I’m finding it very hard to transition into condition builds, just because I can’t gauge the effective damage.

I did realize last night after writing this post that I have been playing with “simple conditions” setting since god knows how long back, making every condition fight a messy rupture of floating combat text with no actual weight to the numbers. After turning that off it’s a bit easier for me to estimate damage and differentiate bleeding from burning now. However I’m still pretty lost with how to attack the data.

Tips on benchmark methods are absolutely appreciated.

I’m really feeling the mace, but not so much the sword offhand, the shield looks like a better choice to me. More ways to securely land Grinder right in their face.

The debate on whether a damage meter enriches or poisons a game is a neverending one and I’d rather not go into it.

My suggestion is that the dummies in the Heart of the mists would show you a death breakdown (like the one you get when you die in PvP) but from the assailants point-of-view.

Where it shows what skills did what damage, how many instances of damage and maybe how long it took for the dummy to go from 100% – 0% hp.

This seems like a rather unintrusive way to give people a hint of what damage sources are actually working for them and what isn’t.

Besides, in the heart of the mists you already use normalized equipment with all runes available for easy testing purposes.

With the release of HoT I’d love to try a Bow + Sword/Sword condition damage Berserker, but with all the small instances of damage there is no way for me to effectively say “This is better/worse/up to par” with build/rune/weapon XYZ.

I’m terrified of chucking my full ascended zerk gear with strength runes into the Mystic fountain to reroll them into condition damage, and buy new runes only to realize that it’s not viable and pay roughly 100g to restore my gear to it’s previous point.

The question of what is considered viable is in itself a big one, I’m not much on letting metabattle decide for me what’s best even though i appreciate the hard work behind it and definitely take hints from it.

Also I do realize that training dummies do not tell the whole story since different fights have different environmental variables, but it’s still enough to establish a baseline.

tl;dr: I want training dummies to give me an abuse-summary.

Thoughts?

If you’re one person short it shouldn’t be an issue to “hire” someone or bring a friend to temporarily rep your guild to help you out with the missions, I’m glad to see small guilds of 5-10 players being included in the content and missions being available for as little as 3 people, but not letting a 2-people guild build a hall doesn’t seem all that unfair (to me atleast).

What I mean is, to me it sounds like a problem I could solve myself.

edit: I might have misunderstood something, I thought 3 players was minimum to finish a guild mission, thus the “being one person short” suggestion. (what is the minimum?) If you need more, scale it up! Consider it like hiring builders