Guild Wars 2

Zero Angel.9715:

How is this vague?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Predator

If you need more information about how to gather/craft a specific ingredient then click on the link for that ingredient.

OH I see it now. I was looking at it on my phone and with it’s formatting, it wasn’t showing me the materials and things at the bottom. For instance, for Gift of Magic, all I was seeing was:

“A gift used to create legendary weapons.”

Now that I’m back on my desktop, I see everything I’m supposed to and it’s a lot clearer. Thanks anyway :P

I was hoping some kind soul could outline exactly what is required for the legendary rifle, The Predator. I have looked over the wiki and Guildhead and I just am not getting the info I need. I see the list of mats for the final product, but those require lesser materials. When I click on some of these items, both sites give vague, if any, info on how to obtain these items.

I would like someone to plainly outline what I need to get and how to get it. I will be very grateful!

Nocturnal Lunacy.8563:

I still can’t log in either. I am on Dragonbrand even tho the maintenance was announced to be complete an hour ago.
BTW GW2 team has a twitter account where they announce whats going on. You can find it here. https://twitter.com/GuildWars2

I shouldn’t have to have a Twitter account to find out what’s going on in the game.

Usually maintenance is announced. I’m not sure it maintenance.

Oh well, off to watch some Breaking Bad. Be back in 44 minutes…

yep

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Kicked-out-can-t-log-back-in/first#post940838

Glad to know it wasn’t just me then. I was the pourer on our fractals boss fight, so they’d miss me pretty quickly if they’re still in there.

Also – party chat was not usable about 15 minutes prior to this.

In the middle of my fractal too :/

nastyjman.8207:

Sure, you can outrun a centaur… but you will never outrun a deer. And if you do, you would be so traumatized to tell about it.

I don’t have to outrun the deer – I just have to outrun whoever else is in my party.

Yeah, as an engineer I would like to use my missthrower a lot more often, but the #2 ability is obstructed more often than not. And, as the name suggests, its autoattack misses frequently.

Is there anything in the works for setting different buttons for things like loot, revive, pickup, use, etc? I understand you can change the keybind, but the problem is that one button does all of these things.

There are several situations in the game where this becomes a problem, such as trying to pick up a shield in Jade Maw but instead I loot the Jade Colossus lying nearby; or trying to pick up my healing turret in PvP, but instead end up reviving a dead (not downed, dead) ally. Many times, the couple seconds it takes to get back on track in each of these situations is life and death.

Webba.3071:

From my somewhat limited experience I’ve noticed this fight is a lot easier if everyone stays out of range of the tentacle knockdowns. Melee colossus, range tentacles. If you want to ensure that it is impossible to lose the fight have one party member carry a crystal constantly and rez anyone who goes down. You lose dps so the fight takes longer but it makes it practically impossible to wipe.

This is how we ended up beating it with four guys.

I didn’t mean this as a commentary on the difficulty of the encounter. If everything worked like it should have, we would have handled it just fine. I like the concept of the fight, it’s just frustrating when things don’t function how they should. I should have left the tentacle comment out – I was just frustrated at the time and including anything I could think of. The rest of the items on my list were things that I do not feel were working correctly.

Jairlyn.1429:

You might see the skulls better if you weren’t reading the forums instead of helping your group.

This is a fun fight and I enjoy it. Managing the crystals by having some go out and kill tentacles and statues and bringing them back to the group brings something different to the game to do. Why exactly do you guys have EVERYTHING within grabbing distance. Spread out a little bit.

I was dead with literally nothing to do, and no rez in my foreseeable future. I tabbed back in, and was still dead.

Qelris.6901:

As for the reflecting crystals, everytime you kill a tentacle, 1 will spawn. Additionally, several Jades will spawn(limited amount), those drops one each on kill too. You don’t just stand there waiting for a crystal to appear.

I understand that’s SUPPOSED to be the case. But I’m telling you it didn’t happen a few times for us. It wasn’t a huge deal, the main thing that was destroying us was the lack of skulls showing up.

Ze Dos Cavalos.6132:

Amos.8760:

- Tentacles just 1-shot anyone who gets close.

We talking about lvl30+ right?
Because if tentacles 1-shot you at lower lvls something is wrong there.

Well, being an engineer, I was staying long range. I did not know the people I was grouped with – it’s possible they were terrible players with very low health and/or lying about being one-shot, maybe some of their health was already missing. I got downed by tentacles a couple times trying to revive people or retrieve a shield, but in most cases, my health was already low.

Kyloki.1597:

Stop relying so much on your “F” key. Highlight the shards with your mouse and click them, you’ll pick it up and you wont have to worry about getting stuck to rez someone.

If you’d like, send me a message on the here and i’ll provide you with a very sound strategy that you can use all the way through 20+ fractal level that makes that fight even easier then it already is.

Highlighting the shards with your mouse is not always possible with dead Jades/players/turrets around. We got through the encounter eventually, even after a player dropped and we 4-manned it.

It’d be fine if the skulls appeared like they are supposed to. Here’s our current run (I’m downed right now):

- Skulls are not appearing over player’s heads a good part of the time.
– Shield USUALLY appears when it’s supposed to, sometimes we don’t get one.
– Tentacles just 1-shot anyone who gets close.
– When I did get a shield, it killed ME when I threw it at the boss (nothing else was around).
– The F button does EVERYTHING but pick up a shield. It picks up my turrets, revives the downed ally right next to the shield, and loots Jade Colossi (particularly frustrating when my bags are full). Can we PLEASE be able to set different buttons for things like this? It’s beyond frustrating.

If you’re finishing a downed player in PVP, you can hit Elixir S during the finishing move, and it will not interrupt it. I’ll usually start my finish move, then hit Elixir S if I know the class can interrupt me, and I really need them dead right now (teammate needs to rally or something).

Also, while Elixir S is active, it removes your 1-5 skills, but you can switch to a kit during this time and get in some damage while you’re invulnerable.

I’ve found the supply drop elite to be a lot more useful when used early on in the fight. For a long time, I would use it only when I would need the extra heal and I was really missing out on the benefits of the other turrets throughout the fight. Now I try and use it earlier in a fight and when I would like to stun.

I’ll try and think of some others.

Still happening – and now in the middle of a tournament game we were winning. I have no idea what happened, if I’ll get credit, or if I’ll be booted from the group.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/The-TANKCAT-build-Prybar-some-faces/first

I never go dungeoneering without Elixir R. I have saved so many people with it’s toolbelt ability. The toss range is really far, and YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE THERE TO REVIVE THEM.

I caps locked that because it’s so amazing. Teammate downed in some nasty AOE? No problem. Teammate downed across a gap that I can’t get across? No problem. Multiple people down close together? I’ll rez them all with one press of a button.

I will never dungeon again without Elixir R.

I’ll vouch for that build. I’m using it now.

I like your idea for it, but I’d like to see it become chain skill that you can activate early if you like. Flame Blast → Detonate Flame Blast.

Misch you are hilarious. Thanks for this awesome build. I’ve incorporated it into some sPVP and tPVP builds (great for point holding/denial), but after seeing your video, I think I’ll be trying out some WvW!

This has happened every time I am watching for it. At least a few dozen times. I have literally never seen the losing team get the new player in an even match. Is this intended? It’s incredibly frustrating.

SamTheGuardian.2938:

and witnessed people run through walls and hoping across the map.

I’m guilty of hoping in every spvp game I enter.

You can’t take my hope.

Guys, the solution is easy. Just keep flying west through time zones until you reach yesterday. Then log in real quick and finish your daily.

This has started happening to me more and more – three times tonight alone.

Engineer 262 hours played
1173 deaths. (sPVP)

Does cheating with Jump Shot count?

Alk Trio Fan.6357:

I managed to bug, I think through lag once, slipped of an edge but got caught for a while while still falling, then it catapulted me into the ground for an epic 5 million damage. Wish I had screenshotted it now!

That’s nothing. This one time I got hit by Hundred Blades.

Sounds a bit like mine. I usually run rifle with Flamethrower, Grenade Kit, and Toolkit if I’m soloing. Lots of utility there. If I’m in a dungeon, I’ll switch out Toolkit for Elixir R to revive teammates from a distance. I do a lot of knocking back, snaring, and crits.

Tried this out a bit this morning. I was impressed with the survivability of this build. I used to run a rifle/crit build and try to stay out of the fray. It’s a lot of fun running right in and causing chaos. I didn’t do as well as I’d hoped, but I attribute that to adjusting to a new build and my having never used pistol/shield before.

Erasculio.2914:

Take a look here.

For those saying, “LOL, not everyone who plays GW2 uses Xfire”, please read here.

In that wiki you linked (lol) – did you read the part about what an unbiased sample is? An Xfire sample does not fit those criteria.

plasmacutter.2709:

protips for inventory management:
1 – you can and should salvage anything white or blue that you don’t use with salvage kits

I’ve been finding it more cost effective to vendor those items and then just buy whatever mats I need off the TP.

So I missed pretty much this entire Lost Shores event. I’ve heard of these dungeons, but have no idea how to get started. Everyone is looking for FotM level 2+. I assume that I start at FotM level 1 and work up from there, but I can never find a ‘starter’ group.

How do these dungeons work, and what do I need to do to get started?

Would it be possible to adjust the Dev Tracker to not include posts where the devs are only posting for maintenance? Such as:

Hello everyone.

Just a quick reminder: try to stay on topic and avoid personal battles or off-topic posting as this does not bring anything meaningful to the other people writing in it.

Thanks!

We go to the dev tracker to read relevant posts on game topics, not to see posters get reprimanded (EDIT: Maybe some people do). A good portion of the tracker page are these maintenance posts.

Along those lines, would it be possible to remove the red quote indicator from the thread title when a dev responds to enforce a rule? Nothing is more frustrating than seeing a topic you are excited about get a dev response, and then when you open it the dev response is “please keep your discussions free from personal attacks”.

I understand these are automatic functions, but if there’s a way to implement my ideas, I’m sure many people would appreciate it!

Thanks for reading.

I’m disappointed in the class changes, especially for my class, which is Engineer. We can’t get any sort of an update from a dev in our forums, and there are still huge, well-known problems with the class. Learning that there are only two even looking at this sort of thing is disheartening. I’m not going anywhere – I plan to play for a long time, but the changes I read were really a letdown. I was looking forward to this patch being the one to get my Engineer’s bugs and combat issues in order, but it was a lot of stuff that I didn’t even know was a problem with the class.

My only wish is to have a dev post their thoughts on Engineer in our forums. What they think of it now, and what they plan to do with it in the future.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combo

Darfod.9375:

@ The OP…

It’s not that people are afraid of PKs / PVP: They just don’t want to be forced into PVP areas to complete PVE titles.

I am not afraid of PVP.
I have PVPd in every game I play.
I learned to fight in a world where if I killed you, I could loot you of ALL your armour and weapons, and leave you naked and unarmed. (I would love to see this implemented in WvWvW; but I know it’s never going to happen, so it’s not something I complain about.)

What I, (and many others), object to is that PVErs are forced into PVP maps in order to claim a PVE title like “map completion”

If I am PVEing, I will search-out waypoints, vistas, etc, for the sake of “completion.”
If I am PVPing in W3, I will PK / attack keeps / etc. I don’t want to have to think “Oooh! I need to stop fighting, and try to get that vista.”

The “not separating PVE maps from PVP maps” is a mistake which ANET have carried-over from GW1 – I hated having to run around PVP maps on a PVE character, just to get the cartographer title.

TL:DR – We are not afraid of PVP; we just don’t want our PVE characters to be forced onto PVP maps.

I missed the part where Map Completion was labeled as a PVE achievement by ANET. It is clearly a PVX title, as it includes both PVE and PVP elements. If you want this PVX achievement, it’s fairly likely that you’re going to have to do both the PVE and PVP requirements.

“This thread has a lot of trolls lol!”

I only count 1…

The Cow King.3086:

Chamone.6890:

It won’t be every month. Halloween is a special event like Xmas in the US. I’d expect 3 or 4 events / updates like this per year

Actually, if you view the homepage, you can see they’re planning a big event release for each month. This month’s is “The Lost Shores.” May not be on the scale of the Halloween event, but they are planning monthly events.

That being said, there were 5 major recurring events annual for GW1 – Christmas, Halloween, “Canthan” New Year, Dragon Festival, and the Anniversary celebrations. Then there were many minor events – St. Patrick’s day, Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas in July, Talk Like a Pirate day.. And I’m sure they’ve only thought of more.

The more I hear about GW1, the more I feel like I should have tried it…

Yeah, I liked the candy corn texture too. This event was just so well done.

Just saw this on the bottom of the plastic spider model.

Loving the details!

(To best see this, get turned into a plastic spider, zoom all the way in, look straight up towards the sky, and jump)

Hi, I’m an engineer with a grenade kit. I don’t see the problem here.

31 and loving it!

Dragonbrand has been great so far! I think I only saw 1-2 trolls in Divinity’s Reach chat early on. I assume they’ve since been turned into pandas.

Try a human engineer – he spells it out nicely for you:

“I need healing – seriously.”

You mean a notification in addition to the red on the screen, your black health circle and the character voice comment?

This will be my first Anet holiday event. Hopefully they really wow me!

Having a great time on my engineer. Am 53, just started doing sPVP and WvW last night, and loved every minute of it. However, I can see how an engineer would be overwhelming if you PVP right off the bat. I had time to get used to a lot of my skills before I started to PVP, and the playstyle is just great. Sometimes it feels frantic, but with quick kit switches, comboing with yourself, and having just about every type of ability in the game available to you (knockbacks, slows, poisons, combos, etc), you feel like you always have a good ability for the situation.