One of the reasons I haven’t transmuted my Twilight yet, too many bugs with transmuting atm. Just wait, when ascended come out, people with transmuted legendaries won’t get upgraded. I can just see the rage coming now.
Actually, using an experience scroll on a level 1 character will get you to level 20. With 16 skillpoints. You can use these skillpoints for mystic forge recipes. I used all 8 experience scrolls I had to get 77 Mystic Clovers that I needed for my Legendary (2x the 10 clover recipe + 4x the 1 clover recipe).
If your recipe fails you get t6 mats or lodestones, which are also nice.
I wish I had more of these scrolls… they’re so useful.
The best analogy I can make here is that GW2 will be like a Final Fantasy game. Shares same names, locations and concepts, but is fundamentally different than its predecessor(s) and it might even be unfair to expect a full sequel.
Seriously, after I adapted that thought model, I became much less jaded about GW2 failing to meet GW1 expections.
I think this is what we all must realize. GW1 is dead and is never coming back, GW2 is not a replacement. I always hoped that with every update they would ‘fix’ GW2 and add Heroes Ascent, GvG, Guild Halls, cosmetic grind only, and pretty much everything I LOVED about GW1. But I now realize that I must let this dream go.
The only reason the others went up is because new recipes were discovered that made them useful. So unless a new awesome discovery is made with them, they’ll still be worth the least.
to be honest, at this point arenanet should start merging worlds. Making the population bigger. I don’t mind having more overflows. I like having other people running around though. Usually when I play on a map I’m sooo happy if I see another player. Sometimes it just feels like the entire map has 5 players roaming it. It shouldn’t be like this.
Merge worlds, make it happen!
It feels like gw1 had waaaaay more players than this game, and gw1 didn’t even have shared instances. How messed up is that?
While I do agree about the token nerf, it’s hard to get dungeon vendor items now. I don’t agree with you just sticking to Mesmer or Warrior. They’ve given dungeons a more casual route now, sorta like dailies. It doesn’t matter what class you bring, the reward is accountbound.
This is great for me, cause now I get to choose whatever class I feel like playing and just do some dungeon dailies.
The gold nerf is awesome, get more gold for less work (though it’s limited in the farm). The token nerf is awful, they should make vendor items cheaper, or reward more tokens on daily basis.
With 55G you can buy 137500 normal pickaxes (1375 “stacks”). Assuming you use them all on Orichalcum ores and a (trade post) profit of 3,5 silver per ore, this would get you roughly 4757,5 (4812,5-55) gold, not counting any jewels you might find during mining.
With the 20% chance of sprockets, mining 137500 times would get you 27500 sprockets. Assuming a profit per sprocket of 45c (in between current price of 40-57, minus TP tax), these would make you 123,75 gold. The new pickaxe is 25% more expensive than the MAMP, which if the gem/gold rate is still the same would equal to 68,75 gold.
4812,5+123,75-68,75 = 4867,5 gold after 137500 uses. Roughly 2,3% more than with normal pickaxes or a MAMP, still not counting any jewels found during mining.
As the investment costs are higher and most people are unlikely to mine even 50000 times, buying the new pickaxe seems dumb and you should be happy you didn’t waste money on it.
That said, just buying normal picks seems still the best option, though a little less convenient.
People don’t realize this when they cry: “Pay-to-win item!”. It’s not like you’re making any money on getting these picks.
Only thing I agree with in OP and first reply is that players use TP as a “trash bin” to free up inventory. Certainly that can be regarded as an exploit of sorts?
I rarely do this. There’s no profit for putting up trash items, cause there’s a 15% cut for the TP, usually selling to the vendor is more profitable. Furthermore, the only items I would put up on TP while out in an instance are items I would put up there anyway (Like crystals/orbs I mine, for instance). There’s merchants everywhere, so why would anyone use it to ‘free up inventory’? Do you have any proof of this?
Besides, the ‘junk’ items you’re talking about, might come in handy or are actually useful for low level players. What’s considered junk to you, might be valuable for other players. Why do you care what’s on the TP? Is it your server that it’s running on, and you have to pay the bandwidth prices?
After a few updates ago I’ve been having major lag with the Harp. The flute has been working perfectly though. It’s really strange, sometimes it just ‘hangs’ for a bit and then plays a note really late. Also when you wait for a few seconds and start to play again it takes a long time before the first note is hit.
The random delays are really annoying and are really hampering my playing ability on them. Can this be looked at please?
EDIT: Thanks for the fix on the delay on the first note.
It will take longer with unoptimized groups but these are generally easy/fast dungeons.
You’re gonna compare this to an average pug? Heck, with an optimized organized group like that you can even do Arah p4 in 10 minutes.
The best dungeons for an average group are:
CoF 1, 2
SE 1, 3
Hotw P1
TA Up
CoE all paths
Arah p2
AC 1,3 (p2 sometimes bugs at the end, where you either have to leave the instance, or lure mobs and kill the npc. Which takes forever cause the NPC is the best tank in the game for some reason)
What’s up with the mini slot resetting after login or character change? It’s annoying having to set it every time I login. I thought the feature patch would solve the problem of having to take it out every time?
The best way to level a discipline is to do other stuff, assemble gold, and just buy the materials you need from the trading post. That being said, Weaponsmith is probably the most expensive one to max. Darksteel ingots cost a lot to make, and the materials are pricey too. Armorsmith wasn’t that bad if I remember correctly. Cooking however, is currently the cheapest discipline to max (If you buy all the cooking ingredients from TP you would spend around 1.5g to max cooking).
That being said, it really depends on why you’re leveling your discipline in the first place. Do you want to make the best items? If so, then I hate to break it to you, but it’s usually cheaper to just buy the item from trading post than to craft it. If you’re looking at the craftprice and buyprice.
If you want to make a legendary, then I don’t see the need for a change, you’ll get level 400 discipline eventually. And it’s actually the least of your worries.
Quick Note:
GW2 Spidy is not hacking, they are not doing anything illegal, it’s a fantastic site.
So, why aren’t you guys from arenanet building your own version ike you did with the wiki?
Do you think it’s a good idea to have such a crowdattractor in third party hands where it’s just a matter of time until the site-owner decides there’s enough unique IP adresses visitting and decides to upload a trojan to empty a few thousand accounts.
