Guild Wars 2

maddoctor.2738:

I noticed you are at Sapphire, so necros are still viable. If you were higher you would WANT to get matchups like that (5 necros) because they are very easy to defeat.

What I would give for 5 necro opponent teams at Diamond easy kills

I was on a team today that had access to high mobility and we were vsing 4 necros and a DH and lost because everyone wanted to try and win the fight on mid. Mid ruby btw. Pretty funny in hindsight.

Normally I don’t take the RNG threads seriously, but it is possible they changed the drop rates on leystone armour boxes because they did overhaul the pods to give more crystalline ore at one point.

That being said, the 2nd last DS run I did (few weeks ago) I got two boxes (of the same type) back to back.

That achievement is much much easier to do by farming story.

Your issue is not with the raid team but the other teams that have comparatively have plenty of developers (see reddit AMA: 140 minimum working on the live game, 70 on new expac, 150 on ‘live’ minus the 5 – 6 on raid + help from a couple of others here and there – their words) and don’t seem to have accomplished much that we can see and play.

wat

You realise they tested parts of all 3 wings before they were removed?

Nope, just ridiculously rare.

Halvorn.9831:

OK, so I misphrased that.

Suppose now you have to have 3 reclaimed metal plates to buy one of the weapons at DS. They have an abnormally low drop rate. Now what if the drop rate was increased by a factor of 10, but on the other hand you needed 30 to buy the same weapon? On average it takes the same amount of attempts, but you feel progression.

That’s what I meant.

Reclaimed drop rates aren’t really that rare if you’re talking salvaging. Masterwork seems to be about 1/35 (regardless of salvage kit – check the talk page on wiki) while rares are guaranteed. You can either take the ‘safe’ route with respect to rng and buy rares for ~6g buy order, or you can take the (ultimately cheaper for most people) route that is reliant on rng evening out and buy out masterwork weapons. This is what I did to finish the Machined collection – I got kind of unlucky, still cheaper than bids for rares and I was buying out masterworks, not using buy orders.

A question for the ‘anecdotal evidence is king’ folks, the ‘incredibly small sample sizes are sufficient’ gang or the conspiracy theorists among us, I’d genuinely like to know how you think this lucky account business programmed into the game. Do you think the devs just pick out random people that make nice posts about them on the forums? People that haven’t played in a while (personal fav)? Do you think they just pick people in game that look cool or what? Is the choosing random itself? When the chosen have been chosen, do you reckon a couple of devs are just like “alright lets artificially boost his MF by 500%”.

X T D.6458:

John Smith.4610:

Every account has the exact same chance on RNG.

No offense, but I will never believe that for a second.

This is why they generally end up giving up responding to threads like this. It’s why I continue to get a chuckle out of them every time they appear.

Nothing they could ever say will convince those who have already made their minds up.

SirDrygan.1823:

<rng testimony>

So, you tell me if there isn’t a luck factor in a character…..

There isn’t a luck factor in a character. Unless you’re running character-specific MF buffs.

As an aside, I think it’s a lot less buggy now than it was early on in HoT. On a few of my characters it took multiple attempts because of how buggy those updrafts were. On the last 5 – 6, no issues whatsoever. I’m not sure if it was the change to gliding being client side or if they just fixed the updrafts to be much more efficient at throwing you upwards too.

1. Which map is your favorite to EXPLORE?
1. Verdant Brink
2. Tangled Depths
3. Auric Basin
4. Dragon Stand

2. Which map has your favorite MAP META mechanic
1. Auric Basin
2. Tangled Depths
3. Verdant Brink
4. Dragon Stand (note: on first play it was my favourite, it loses its value on repeated plays)

3. Which map has your favorite REWARDS (unique zone rewards)
1. Auric Basin
2. Dragon Stand
3. Tangled Depths
4. Verdant Brink

4. Which map has the best STORY (both personal story and event story)
1. Auric Basin
2. Dragon Stand
3. Verdant Brink
4. Tangled Depths

5. Which map has the best VISUALS (map design, best view)
1. Auric Basin (Golden city mostly)
2. Verdant Brink
3. Tangled Depths
4. Dragon Stand

6. Which map has your favorite MAP CURRENCY acquisition method
1. Auric Basin
2. Verdant Brink
3. Tangled Depths
4. Dragon Stand

7. Which map has the best ENEMY DESIGN (mechanics AND visuals)
1. Verdant Brink
2. Auric Basin
3. Dragon Stand
4. Tangled Depths

8. Overall which zone is your FAVORITE
1. Auric Basin. (Love AB Meta + golden city)
2. Verdant Brink
3. Tangled Depths
4. Dragon Stand

bonus:
9. Which map do you avoid whenever humanly possible?
Dragon’s Stand. Long meta is zzz after repeated playthroughs.

I finished it on 9 characters all in zerk/vipers/sinister setups. I didn’t think Ele was that bad at all, the damage output is insane. I didn’t have tempest at the time so I was still on water which I guess was helpful on Mordy in some parts. Kill Garm, break Eir then burn Eir, repeat until dead.

I didn’t time all my runs but I definitely did Heart & Minds fastest on my guard, due to having done it a couple of times by then plus best gear and such burst wow. Killed Eir in one burn after breaking her, good times.

Happens a lot in PVE as well after dodge rolls (mostly).

Ulion.5476:

Amurond.4590:

Ulion.5476:

Ex Machina ~800g

I think you’re mixing this up with another collection? It’s no where near 800g.

The cost has decreased since I got it. Less people are focused on it and vials of linseed oil are cheap now. Seem that reclaimed weapons are 1/3 the price now :P.

Makes sense! You can also buy most of the items that need linseed oil on the TP cheaper than making them.

Ulion.5476:

Ex Machina ~800g

I think you’re mixing this up with another collection? It’s no where near 800g.

This is just like the ecto salvage rate threads; a fundamental misunderstanding of randomness.

Curo.2483:

Over 4k hours and never a precursor, BUT I get an ascended box from daily fractals on average once every 3 days. I’ve heard guildies say they went 30+ days without seeing an ascended box. So at least I’ve recognized how the flawed system can be manipulated in my favour. Just random chance you say? That’s fine, I’m going to keep farming fractals every day and keep getting my ascended boxes reliably, and you can label it with whatever statistical lingo you want. The results are there in front of me.

Honestly, I don’t know what you hope to achieve by sharing anecdotes with no evidence like this. What is your point? Regardless, even if what you say is true, that does not go against the concept of randomness. Randomness precisely accounts for the fact you might get these drops while joeblow.2945 won’t get a single one from 500 chests.

Annoying bug.

Btw, I assume you’re tagging all 4 Octovines. You’ll notice the difference between your actual participation % and what the meta event chest says your participation is is 80% if so, i.e the 4 octovine events (gold = 20% each to participation) are not being registered properly by the rewards or the UI text.

Weird though, that all the doors underneath the city still open like a success.

Legendary Dungeon backpiece plz. A boy can dream!

Thanks guys I’ll try that – I didn’t think they’d be able to do anything but I forgot their customer support is pretty good about things like this.

Thought of this thread when I took this happy snap of my new dark fancy astronaut Asura..

If anything is done at all, it should be based off ratios of friendlies to enemies. The basic solutions of having points being reduced during off-peak times are silly. A 5v5 battle for a tower or keep should not inherently be worth less than 50v50. A 50v5, on the other hand… make it based on an improved ‘outnumbered’ mechanic.

So I believe Anet fixed the Mistward armor so that upon obtaining the pieces they will now be account bound. However, pieces obtained before this change are still soulbound to characters that can’t even wear them. What’s more is these armour pieces say they will become soulbound once you select the stats, so I selected the stats from within the bank of each piece but they’re still soulbound to the original characters. Is this going to be fixed ever?

I am aware we can get the skins from the wardrobe but I actually wanted to use the armour + the skin. I’d just like to know if ths a known bug, if it’s ever going to get fixed, or should I waste some gold/tokens/6 transmutation charges and just buy a set of armour and transmute.

Ele… sucks… at break bars?

I had something similar early on in the expansion (without my mail/TP being full) and they just randomly appeared later on when I was on a different map.

Haha some of the apologetics in this thread are ludicrous, yet hilarious. Maybe they were lagging and falling… yeah, good one.

I’ve played MMORPGs for over a decade and I’ve seen this all so many times. It’s amazing the length some people will go to try and convince others they’re innocent despite full well knowing they are not. It never ceases to amaze that people still stand up for them after the fact, too.

I agree that the thread has served it’s purpose now and there doesn’t seem to be much worth discussing. Someone cheated and are upset they got caught, what’s new?

Haha this thread never gets old. I reckon it gets posted several times a month.

popcorn

deSade.9437:

Where do you guise farm iron, wood n’ so on, a.k.a. Pressing F Nets More Money Than Clearing The Raid?

this is my personal guild’s motd

Gathering run

[&BMcDAAA=] (Potatos)
[&BKYCAAA=] (Elder)
[&BNUGAAA=] (Passiflora)
[&BGMAAAA=] (Iron)
[&BOAHAAA=] (Flax)
[&BKsAAAA=] (Iron)
[&BL8AAAA=] (Iron)
[&BF4BAAA=] (Iron)

Worth nothing that I downsized this from a larger list for personal use because I do it on multiple characters. If you’re doing it on only one character there’s a couple more rich iron nodes/several rich platinum nodes that are further out of the way/less profitable but I’d add them to the list.

a fuller list is in the comments here
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3snonf/a_tip_for_people_who_have_rich_node_lists_to/

Really though, the Wintersday JP is great money right now if you can get into the instance and don’t suck at it, lol.

bladex.9502:

Logged in to solo Arah as a bit of nostalgia, put LFG up at endboss, nobody joined for 15 minutes.
I guess dungeons are officially dead?

At least I had time to make these screenshots while waiting, I will always be mesmerized by the amazing design Hrouda and his team did on dungeons http://imgur.com/a/IDhVh

I miss the little stories and characters that made the Dungeon grind more entertaining than the other grinds. “See? This is why we need a cohesive plan. People just wander in here and get attacked.” … Fractals have always been soulless in this sense for me.

Shirn Daal.6503:

After attempting Hearts and Minds three times and having progress blocked by the NPCs bugging out and disappearing, I am incredibly frustrated. Most recently, after getting to Modremoth, acquiring all 3 companions left outside, and getting him to the burn phase twice, He disappeared altogether right after my character said “He’s recovered. Regroup.” No new enemies appeared, no portals show up, no interactable objects at all. I jumped off the edge and died to try and see if that that worked, but when I respawned, I was unable to interact with the green quest marker to move back into the arena (as in, there wasn’t even an option to interact.)

Was this after today’s patch? If so, that’s really disappointing. Nearly 2 months on and it’s still buggy as kitten.

Joined an ‘experienced plz’ group for Jade maw challenge mote.

Three of us waiting for more people, one guy starts explaining a bit how we’re going to do it etc. Two people join with between 1 – 2k AP, am sceptical. First one says “What is challenge?” – this should have been where my sadness ended. Leader just tells them not rush ahead and stick with us.

Continue on anyway, the other guy who was with us at start during explanation who wasn’t explaining yolos into Jade Maw starting timer, while one of the low AP guys dies on the way to Maw. Retry.

Timer doesn’t start early this time, but it becomes blatantly obvious that not only have the two low AP guys probably never done this before (one of them never picked up a crystal and got hit every time), the other original two don’t seem to know what they’re doing either, getting hit a couple of times each. Personal favourite: one of them standing on top of a crystal with skull and continues to attack tentacle, never picks up crystal.

experienced

The latest metrics would show that Fractals are more popular than Dungeons therefore that’s what they’re going to concentrate on going forward.

:^)

The event is much easier now due to the bugfixes. It might still need better repeatable rewards though as I can see people not wanting to continue doing it after they get their mistward helm/legendary/pact backpack collectibles.

as for the rest of the thread… guardian staff 1 1 1 1 is not adequate for this event and that is the best part about it.

Now that the bugs for Nevermore have been fixed and the Aussie ping issue seems resolved, I imagine I will be enjoying it again shortly. For the last couple of weeks I’ve been pretty down on HoT.

Kai.7185:

Amurond.4590:

Kai.7185:

Also, Nevermore is uncraftable for those who haven’t purchased Harpy Feathers from the Skritt vendor in the Hinterlands before.

The Harpy Feathers are needed to craft one of the trophies (Nesting Materials) in Nevermore IV. The feathers are account bound and only sold by Skritt Hitkiti after completing the event “Defend the skritt thieves while they steal harpy eggs” in Hinterlands. This event does not start at all on any map IPs, and it’s been like this for months.

I did the event a couple of months ago and you’re the first person I’ve seen have problems with it… are you sure? The feathers are also soulbound too by the way.

Yes, I’m 100% positive. A few month ago when you did it, it wasn’t bugged. If you Google around, you’ll find several reports about this dated around 1 month back. But before knowing that, I’ve been camping at the event for many hours and days straight. While camping, I’ve seen so many others came and left disappointed when they found out it just won’t start. I’m definitely not alone.

Yep and I see they fixed it in the recent patch. I wasn’t doubting that it was broken btw, just the time it had been broken for. I can’t remember when I got mine exactly, but it was definitely the in latter half of 2015 – and the event was running when I turned up there.

Anyway, a few fixes for Nevermore today. Better late than never.

Don’t want to get my hopes up in case it disappears again but…. Aussie ping is back to the beloved 250

say no to 400

Kai.7185:

Also, Nevermore is uncraftable for those who haven’t purchased Harpy Feathers from the Skritt vendor in the Hinterlands before.

The Harpy Feathers are needed to craft one of the trophies (Nesting Materials) in Nevermore IV. The feathers are account bound and only sold by Skritt Hitkiti after completing the event “Defend the skritt thieves while they steal harpy eggs” in Hinterlands. This event does not start at all on any map IPs, and it’s been like this for months.

I did the event a couple of months ago and you’re the first person I’ve seen have problems with it… are you sure? The feathers are also soulbound too by the way.

Man this is starting to be like the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. So many other aspects of this game are frustrating me, the last thing I want on top of that is more visual nerfs.

Talk to us kitten . Not saying a word getting beyond pathetic.

Man I would just love to have my old 250 ping (i.e from launch until a couple of weeks ago) back. It’s been nearly 2 weeks now of constant 400 ping.

Can we please, please hear something about this… it has been over a week now, 10 days or something.

Gliding jumps in HoT that require near immediate release of glider wings are completely pointless to attempt. I’ve been getting around a couple by using experimental rifle guns. Dare I say it, unplayable. It’s ridiculous. Even a “we’re looking into it” or “we’re aware of this issue” or a “it’s not a problem on our end” would suffice!

I think the frustrating thing for some of us, maybe a lot of us, is we were willing to spend the extra gold so that we could have the new legendary as soon as possible. It probably ended up costing me a few 100 gold more because I wanted it quickly. It’s a trade-off that while is never really a smart one long-term, it was one I consciously and even happily made. It’s hard not to feel cheated, then, when you choose this more expensive path only for the end result to be unobtainable, making that extra gold you were happy to part with completely and utterly wasted. Unobtainable because of a couple of stupid bugs.

The ‘Friend of the Rabbits’ is what really grinds my gears. This event seems to not have occurred since the NPE was introduced. Another link.. Bugs like Friend of the Pups I can handle, although I do still think it should have been hotfixed much faster than this… but how… how do they miss something like an event that hasn’t been seen for over 5 months, and possibly not once since the NPE was introduced?

Haha tell him he’s dreamin’.

If you never binded it to your account and simply acquired the staff then it’s not a bug. It’d be a pretty pointless part of the collection if you could just buy it, have it unlocked, then resell it. If you binded it to your account and still didn’t count then yeah that’s a bug.

Would like to hear some more information about this, whether it’s an issue on Anet’s end or not.

Haha I got ridiculously lucky then. Turned up and it was halfway through.

I think I read somewhere (reddit comment?) the next patch is December 1st. Hoping we don’t have to wait that long but I’m thinking we will.

Seraphic.6318:

I have the same problem.
I play from Australia, so ping spikes are nothing new, but now my ping has gone up to a consistent 350-450, instead of the usual 200-250 I am used to.
This has made most HoT content unplayable for me, as I am usually dead before I can react, and my glider fails to open up in time. I’m not well versed in how connections work, so all I can give about this problem are tracerts of the Auric Basin map I was in and screenshots of the ping shown in the options menu, in this link: http://imgur.com/a/GZndt

Exact same issue for me, down to the pings you stated. I am also with Telstra. Have you had any luck explaining the issue to them?

The only difference is that speedtest.net is saying I have 23 ms ping and 9.53 Mbps download speed…

For a few days now I had this issue and my average ping has increased by 100 – 150. I was so happy when people said that clearing the cache fixed the newfeed not loading, so I tried it and it worked too. Unfortunately it did nothing for these perhaps coincidental ping issues

Hint: That isn’t Lornar’s Pass.

Fireball looks awful. Why is it that other classes auto attacks are still huge (in comparison now) yet Fireball is so ridiculously small? The Dreamer’s skill effects are now like 30x the size of Fireball…. why?

Let us choose what we want to see, I don’t want to see fire spitballs coming from my Ele thanks.

I’ve moved on for now because I’m enjoying the new content, but I would love it if the experience rewards were halfway between what they are now & and what they were before. You know, so actually completing the paths were rewarding mastery exp rather than sitting and mashing 1 on a staff guardian in CoF P1 for 10 hours. What is their obsession with mindless autoattack spamming.

might not work for everyone, but running the -repair on client has fixed this issue for me.