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Why magic find doesn't work?

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I just wanted to ask VOL… if your eyes bleed much? LOL That’s a crazy amount of goodies in your bank.

Funny I haven’t updated it in awhile. You should see it now lol.

http://imgur.com/a/yJjU5

I can haz o-o?

Guild Wars 2; BSOD and Crashes.

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Run disk health utilities (each company has their own). BSODs can be caused by disk failures, which means it might be time to upgrade to a new drive.

Stacked Windcatchers - all bound post patch

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It’s masterwork. A quick wiki tells me that these must have come from the vendor. I could have sworn they came from Sprint, but it was so long ago, I don’t really remember. Guess the joke was on me the whole time. Foo.

If the skin is unlocked, that’d mean the items are then account bound. You cant get the skin of an item and then proceed to sell the item.

Increasing trading post tax.

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Come on, lets get back to vilifying wealthy players who must have gotten their fortunes from using the TP

Aside from the gold from dungeons and the piddly copper from events, where do you think us normal players get our gold from too?

and figure out a way to shaft them properly while minimizing blow back onto the unwashed masses.

Sarcasm aside, this is the embodiment of my previous statement. The disparity is fueled by lack of motivation, greed, jealousy, and inability to learn.

Also, figuring out how to make money more easily, or shaving golds off costs for the ways you already make money, IS relevant to this topic because they disagree with the ‘fact’ “money is hard to make” many people are using as the basis of their argument.

Actually, the perceiving problem of some players making lots of profit on the tp, while the masses cant keep up, is its own solution. Bring the masses to the tp and let them make good choices that aim at profit and not instant gratification and there wont be a profit disparity on the TP anymore.

Well… you can lead a dolyak to water….

Everything's too easy now

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Just so you know I never attend teq and wurm, these are also pointless zergfests. I’d like proper scaling. ANY kind of difficulty instead of one minute of spamming 1. Is it really too much to ask for a game you actually have to play?

If you’ve never fought those bosses, what makes you think we should believe you? Quite frankly if you think Wurm is a zergfest and only a zergfest, I have no reason to even read anything else you post.

Mystic Forge Stones

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This is why I only craft the mystic kits when I receive the stones from AP chests.

Missing dungeon chests

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Transmuting Stats

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I just dont get it, they make a huge patch CHANGING stats and they expect everyone NOT to change their equipment. makes total sense

No, that’s just you being peeved about the change. Me? I’m not affected by it at all.

Why magic find doesn't work?

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This makes me wonder if the way MF is worded is having an effect on the way people think about drop rates. If MF was described as an addition (e.g. +0.03%) rather than a multiplication (e.g. x300%) to drop rates, would it make people feel better? I’m not sure it would, but I don’t know, maybe it could help.

It wouldnt. People see “+300% MF” and read it as “+300% loot dropped” and get kittened off when it’s not true.

Why magic find doesn't work?

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ok, thank you. the wiki has misinformation then.

No, the wiki simply has not been updated yet. Wikis are generally player managed, so when information is rendered incorrect by changes in an update, it can take days or weeks (sometimes months) before that information is updated.

Allow finishers like a present please

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If they’re sending the gold back, try telling them the reason you’re giving it to them. If they’re still giving the gold back, perhaps they dont want the finisher? Of course, I’m fairly certain they’d be willing to accept the gold and not get the finisher too.

Dyes haven't crashed as predicted.

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Lots of people that dont know the market have held on to their UIDs or bought some in the aftermath of the patch, so there is a huge supply left thats not on the tp.

Some of my guild members also received thousands of unid dyes the day of the patch. Biggest return I heard about was roughly 3k dyes.

Increasing trading post tax.

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Come on, lets get back to vilifying wealthy players who must have gotten their fortunes from using the TP

Aside from the gold from dungeons and the piddly copper from events, where do you think us normal players get our gold from too?

and figure out a way to shaft them properly while minimizing blow back onto the unwashed masses.

Sarcasm aside, this is the embodiment of my previous statement. The disparity is fueled by lack of motivation, greed, jealousy, and inability to learn.

Also, figuring out how to make money more easily, or shaving golds off costs for the ways you already make money, IS relevant to this topic because they disagree with the ‘fact’ “money is hard to make” many people are using as the basis of their argument.

Increasing trading post tax.

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The only real major investment you would have to put in if you’re buying materials is the silk scraps. Mithril, leather, and the wood you can accumulate just from salvaging items. As long as you’re making the T7 ecto refinements each day, it doesnt matter WHEN in the month you craft the finished resource as long as you do eventually. Damask does make profit however, as long as you’re buying the right items at the right price. Buying bolts of fabric is almost always more expensive than the scraps themselves.

Why magic find doesn't work?

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Today I was discussing with my guild mates some question about magic find. There are few people in my guild who has cap 300% magic find. and few of us who has nearly cap 270%+ And one of guy who has 300% said that just after he reached 300% his drop quality become much worse. Sometimes he spend few days in dungeon/fractals and he doesn’t get any RARE item. I feel like I had better loot when I had ~130-160% mf..

Why there is no information from dev how does mf work.
They said something and there is some info in wiki :
Everytime you kill a monster you roll on a number of tables, inside these tables are different rarity categories. Magic find increases the chances you will get higher categories. For example if there is a 1 in 10 category, and you have 200% magic find you will have 3/10 chances to get that category. This improves not just the rarity of the items you get but can also improve your chances at getting trophies and rare crafting materials like lodestones.

but that is not enought

If an item has a 1/10 chance of dropping, +300% MF means you have a 4/10 chance of the item dropping. It does not mean you’ll drop “four times as much loot” like so many people assume. It merely means you’ve got four times the chances of getting X loot than someone with 0% MF. MF never guaranteed drops, it merely increased your chance to get it.

Cant communicate with people from my Server

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The last thread of this sort was deleted. Perhaps it’s a good idea to edit your posts to be less pointed and argumentative and more constructive/informational. You get problems fixed faster that way than the whole “ERMIGERD, Y U DO DIS 2 MEH” kneejerk reaction.

Allow finishers like a present please

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Send them the gold to buy the finisher and the gold will be your gift.

Increasing trading post tax.

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The wealth disparity is not a class disparity. It’s a self-enforced disparity due to lack of motivation, greed, jealousy, and unwillingness to learn.

In one month, just using level 500 crafts for T7 refinements (assuming I farmed/salvaged all the materials), any player can made on average 650g before sale fees. This is completely disregarding the amount of gold and other materials farmed/salvaged in the process.

It’s only hard to make money if you refuse to do what makes money, and none of it relies on the tradepost to be the source of money. The tradepost is merely the middleman.

Install disk crashing

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“GW2 supports a maximum of 1600×1200 or whatever it is. If you’re running 19xx by yyyy, the client will repeatedly crash until you lower the resolution.”

This is not true. I’ve been running it at 1920 X 1080 since Dec. 2012 and have no crashes at all.

Then the game’s got an issue with custom graphic settings. My monitor (yes it’s really old) supports the 19xx by yyyy resolutions, but the card only allows 1600×1200 as the maximum by default.

crowdsourcing daily bug short term bug fixs

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It’s simple: stay the hell off megaserver maps if you want to keep dailies or anything else tied to the daily reset.

The Red Star in the Sky

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Uh-oh. Threadfall incoming…..

I am shocked I actually understood the reference. One of these days I’ll need to reread those books.

Gem store focus bother anyone else?

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LA was never convenient. Anyone who says otherwise clearly only stood around and used the chat. Oh look, you’re in the middle of the crafting benches and need to use the trade post? Gotta run a mile that way. Forgot you had materials in the guild bank? Run a mile the other way. Please, as if that was convenient. The Grove was far more convenient than LA and even ebonhawke or DR. STILL is more convenient. The airship? Yes, you’re paying for convenience because everything is practically on top of each other.

Seriously? You know that you can use ANY crafting station as a bank, right?

Congratulations, you’ve failed to read. I’ve put the word you conveniently missed in bold. Second, you seemed to have a minor brain fart: resources in the player bank are treated as being in your collection.

Those selling unidentified dyes are fools?

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check TP, there are only 17k dyes.

There are some people in the guild I’m in that possess close to a 1/3rd of that number thanks to the unid dye giveaway.

[Crafting] Time-gated Component timer bug

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Merge thread with the one going already about the daily reset, as that’s where all the posts are being moved to.

[Merged topics] Achievement bug: no chests, dailies stuck

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As speculated, megaserver seems to be at the root of the issue, so I’ve made sure to not be on a megaserver map at the moment the daily reset happened.

Doesnt matter. The moment you move to a megaserver map, your dailies are marked as complete.

What happened to 100% on crit?

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This is more about your choice to rely on word of mouth to make a decision than to wait until patch notes actually come out so you can see what changed, and how it was changed. That or you simply misunderstood what they were in fact changing.

[Merged topics] Achievement bug: no chests, dailies stuck

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Hi, everyone. I’m here with an update.

Unfortunately, we were not able to integrate fixes for the bug affecting the stuck Daily Achievements today.

I understand that this is inconvenient, frustrating, and disappointing, particularly because a lot of you all play over the weekend and were probably looking to get some play time in and complete your dailies after the release of the Feature Patch. We apologize that this is affecting your game play experience.

We’re going to try and fix this at our next earliest opportunity, and that’s going to be early next week.

I really do hope Anet’s got some sort of compensation in mind for all players because the longer this bug goes untreated, the more players will be affected by it. By you only asking players to “bear with it” until it’s fixed, you’re telling players you dont give a kitten about their loss. Some players are going to be going without rewards and other benefits of gameplay for at least a week by the time this fix rolls around. Quite frankly, I’m hoping the bug resolves itself in the next 45 minutes so I can continue crafting ascended materials. I’m going to keep hoping, because I know there’s about a minute chance in hell Anet’s going to compensate those losses.

To top it off, if this bug is so problematic, why isnt anet forcing overtime to get the fix pushed out the door ASAP. I get that weekends arent “business days,” but it’s like telling your customers you’ll come fix their heating system on Monday, and they’ve already gone four days with a defunct system and it’s -30 outside. Talk about abysmal practices. I’d hate to see what anet would do if there was an even more severe game-breaking bug or (god forbid) massive server crash over the weekend when no one was required to work.

Tired of ascended mats being 'rewards'

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Guess you’ll have to trash them then. Maybe one day they’ll make at least Vision Crystals tradable.

Orr box pet / cult wep

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So? There are skins you can only get by participating in limited time events. Should you ask for a refund of 300g because you couldnt drop Scarlet’s rifle skin during the LA event and had to buy it? Nope. Dont ask for a refund when you arent deprived of anything. Besides, there are skins bought exclusively with karma, like the temple armors. If you want those skins, you have no choice BUT to pay with karma.

Tired of ascended mats being 'rewards'

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Use them to level crafts from 450 to 475 and then trash them. Or just trash them. Simpler than asking anet to change how you obtain them, especially when you arent the last person to be finished with ascended crafting. In fact, I still have to craft 2 ascended light sets (god help me on the silk scraps), along with 4 more ascended weapons, possibly 5.

What happened to 100% on crit?

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Just because you made an assumption doesnt mean it’s actually going to happen. A lot of sigils that USED to be on crit (water sigils for example) were changed to on hit. Not all of them are even a 100% chance either.

LFG lockout/Ragequitting reportability

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I havent had a day where I didnt encounter a group that didnt have a mixture of this

I run a PVT staff/gs guardian for dungeons and open world content. Never had issues when the group knows what they’re supposed to do. Personally I like PVT better than zerker because it’s amusing for me to watch zerkers die and then flip out and wonder why I’m not dying to the same things.

They die because you’re not doing enough DPS and causing the runs to be longer than their gear can handle. That’s why zerkers don’t like to play with those who have low DPS.

This is the mentality that makes me think I should never run zerker in the first place. IF my lack of critical hits is what you count as “not enough dps,” and on top of disregarding any other damage, then quite frankly you should learn to dodge and avoid damage more. In the meantime, I’ll keep killing things while you’re taking a dirt nap. Bye mr elitist.

Gem store focus bother anyone else?

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Go take a look at the Grove then. I’ve never found any of the other cities better for crafting. And it seems people still dont know the shortcut behind the TP npc if you’re crafting at any of the benches on the left side of the circle.

LFG lockout/Ragequitting reportability

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I havent had a day where I didnt encounter a group that didnt have a mixture of this

I run a PVT staff/gs guardian for dungeons and open world content. Never had issues when the group knows what they’re supposed to do. Personally I like PVT better than zerker because it’s amusing for me to watch zerkers die and then flip out and wonder why I’m not dying to the same things.

[Merged topics] Achievement bug: no chests, dailies stuck

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I’ve got the daily each day though, so my daily is resetting. So this is seperate issue. or maybe the same issue, but crossed with that issue

It’s mixed in with that issue. There’s currently a bug caused by the megaserver implementation that causes daily timers to fail to reset each day.

GW2 fatal error

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Run the -repair shortcut command. If the error still persists, I strongly recommend running the appropriate disk health utility from your drive’s manufacturer.

Game closes when hitting play

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You realize this “tech support” forum is for support from players. If you want someone from anet’s staff to actually give you an answer, file a CS ticket.

That being said, you’re providing zero information for people to attempt to help fix your problem. A post that amounts to “IT NO WERK” is going to get looked at, a shrug, and ignored. Post specs, including resolution. Then you’ll get help.

Wardrobe: Aquabreather Skin unobtainable

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Unlocking the medium/heavy skin should unlock it for the light skin.

[Merged topics] Achievement bug: no chests, dailies stuck

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Can confirm,

Second day in a row now we (TXS) have completed the Triple Trouble Evolved Jungle Wurm event in Bloodtide Coast, and both times (post patch) has resulted in 1/4 – 1/3 of our participants across all three wurm heads, not recieving the daily “The Wurm’s Golden Chest” achievement even though we get the large in game chest and full event participation rewards (karma and xp)

You will not get the reward from wurm, or ANY other daily reward chest, until Anet fixes the time issue. It is currently the reason I can no longer do daily achievements, dungeons, meta bosses, and T7 ascended refinements.

Losing More Dyes Than Gaining Them

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^

The entire reason you’ve been given UNID dyes is because Anet chose to refund you with those so you can either sell them or open them for more colors. They would not have given you free dyes you dont have directly because that defeats the purpose of opening unid dyes.

GPS dosen't have a right combination

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You need to watch the lightning bolts that come from the 3 consoles. It’s essentially the simon says game with left, bottom, right, instead of red/blue/green/yellow.

Gem store focus bother anyone else?

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And for Carzors point of the LA-convenience, that’s exactly what it is, convenience. I can still go to any of the Major Cities (I’m a big fan of Rata Sum) for any of the things that used to be in LA, for the Mystic Forge I quickly hope into PvP or the Vigil Keep, so I once again don’t see the issue with them offering those Airship passes. I still get the exact same services, I just have to walk a tiny bit further. Now if they locked the Mystic Forge, Laurel Vendors and Crafting stations behind a gem-store purchase with no other way of accessing them, we’d have a point.

It’s the principle which is the problem though: they took a feature out of the game we paid for and want us to buy it as a microtransaction, despite the fact that we already paid for it when we bought the game.

LA was never convenient. Anyone who says otherwise clearly only stood around and used the chat. Oh look, you’re in the middle of the crafting benches and need to use the trade post? Gotta run a mile that way. Forgot you had materials in the guild bank? Run a mile the other way. Please, as if that was convenient. The Grove was far more convenient than LA and even ebonhawke or DR. STILL is more convenient. The airship? Yes, you’re paying for convenience because everything is practically on top of each other.

Something seriously wrong with this RNG

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Yay more conspiracy theories. If it’s that problematic for you, save up the money and buy one. GW2 doesnt force you to need a legendary weapon.

LFG lockout/Ragequitting reportability

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No. Players should not be punished for leaving a group in a dungeon regardless of the reason. kitten happens. When kitten happens, people often need to drop what they’re doing and leave. If friends come over 15 minutes earlier than I expected, I should not be required to tell them “hang on, gotta finish this dungeon” because I cant leave the party.

Second, if I’m in a party where the other 4 people have absolutely no clue how to play their class, the dungeon, or the mechanics where they mesh, like hell I’m staying in such a party. I actually want to complete the dungeon at some point.

two sigil slots

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When you apply a sigil to a 2-handed weapon, you have a popup box that appears. You should see a blank section immediately under the current sigil that says “unused/empty upgrade slot.” You select that.

Rune of ice seems decent why so cheap?

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look like the god of bleeds runes. Yet, they are cheap.

Looking like something is distinctly different from BEING that something. This is why I use Undead runes for my condi necro than the Krait runes. The underwhelming condi application on elite from Krait runes doesnt even match the condi damage buff from Undead runes.

Rune of ice seems decent why so cheap?

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Limited ways to chill someone. Other runes increase dps more. Best for some type of balance gear on a elementalist.

Hammer guardian. Can be traited for chill on critical hits.

Transmute stones vs. Transmute charges

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No, it gave us, those who no longer leveled characters, the ability to use those worthless trans stones to skin gear above level 79. Additionally, you still get trans charges for city completion, and most cities can be completed in as little as 10 minutes.

Fear STILL removing Stability

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The feature patch “buffed” Fear so that it is now a full interrupt (like dazing and several mesmer skills). Additionally, it may be a result of traits. One such trait is a triggered Spinal Shivers cast when hitting something 50% or lower. It strips boons in the process.
Additionally, if there are minions around, they may have had the trait that grants minions a chance to strip boons on hit.

Install disk crashing

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If it’s crashing with the memory error, the resolution will not affect it. The resolution change will fix your original issue. It will not have an impact on a memory read error. Again, to fix that error, you need to run the client as an administrator. Other solutions involve restarting your computer as well.