The letter does nothing to trigger the quest. It just was sent to tell you about it. But it’s over now unless you entered you home instwnce and started the quest during wintersday
You find missing areas for explorer achivement or for anything that is missing really, by changing the content guide settings. It will show a little man hiking on the mini map if you are in the zone that has something unexplored. The man icon thing will be visible instantly on the mini map in one if it’s corners indicating which direction the unexplored area is.
Can confirm. My charater is a slyvari male warrior who says things like save yourself, stand your ground, lyssa confound you, shake it off, over here, grunting and pretty much everything you can think of just when standing still doing nothing in male and female voices of all the other races.
I still say the usual things I’d say in combat with my regular voice but all this other stuff is thrown in. It’s starting to get really annoying.
So you change to sigils of accuracy if you are running a class that reflects and you are fighting something that reflects? Then you switch back to force or monster slaying sigils? I do hope you are doing that or you aren’t reaching your highest DPS potential the few extra percent damage makes all the difference.
Also I already discussed this point as well. Space issue is not an issue. It is workable to have all the slaying sigils you want in your inventory, slaying potions, and even an extra armor set if you need PVT for like running through Arah trash mobs and still have room loot. These sigils are also very cheap which is why some people will switch these sigils in for max DPS. Anyone can do this tho most people won’t bother. When it comes down to it armor and stats don’t matter nearly as much as skill and a couple percent extra damage, which by the way doesn’t scale as well with certain skills making other sigils like accuracy better in certain occasions, is not worth the effort.
Aomine it’s hard to understand what you are saying. Legendary is already more than just a skin. I don’t have any other assumption about that…. It’s more than just a skin and people are not paying more for it. I’m sorry we will have to agree to disagree that the value of the weapon lies in the skin not the ability to change stats or sigil. And again changing stats is more advantageous than a simple sigil change as it is so expensive to craft multiple ascended weapons. However even with the stat change ability this didn’t change people’s mind’s in purchasing a legendary as they are going for the skins as I will explain once again here shortly why people are going for the skins over the perks of it being legendary.
Again… I am being very clear on this…. Since you don’t seem to understand this. The legendary weapons are already not just cosmetic. I don’t know how you missed that in all my comments. Maybe you are just skimming I don’t know. It is already about more than just cosmetic but it isn’t offering any real advantage that people are buying legendaires just because of being able to change stats (which again has already been implemented sorry) and the proposed ability to change sigils. Again if people wanted the legedary weapons for this advantage with changing stats, which is a much bigger deal than just changing sigils, then all the weapons would be comparable in price but they aren’t. Focus is around 150g for precursor while the legend or zap is closer to 1000g. There is much less of a demand for lack luster skins. If you’re argument was calid then the prices would be comparable. I’ve said this 3 or 4 times now. Please read my posts I am reading all of yours.
Also max effiecency is bersker in PvE. I use sigils of bloodlust, force and accuracy. Please tell me how my full ascended scholar rune berserker armor and legendary/ascended weapons wih these sigils is not efficient. Yes if I would do WvW I agree there are better builds than berserker but I’m not making a whole new weapon just to change out the sigil. I’m not lazy I just don’t do WvW more than once a month so it isn’t worth it. If you do both a lot then I can see it being a decent investment or you simply keep a stash of sigils around. Or go with sigils that match up or can work with both builds
So in summary your argument is: The majority of the player base thinks that legendaries look cool, they can change stats, but they can’t change sigils so forget it they aren’t getting one. And once a sigil swap ability would be implemented everyone would change their mind and decide to buy one. Besides you who else is thinking this?
The suggestion that a person must aquire and equip the sigil to be able to swap to it would appropriately fix this concern. Currently no one except extreme elitists are constantly swapping around expensive sigils. Therefore this change will have very minimal, if any impact on the sigil market.
2. This would make legendaries a “must have.”
The change that allowed legendaries to have selectable stats was a much larger change than the proposed sigil change. They did not move into the “must have” category. Furthermore people purchase legendaires primarily for the skin. This is obvious when you look at precursor prices for legendaries that have more ugly skins or less particle effects/footprints ect. Those prices would all be the same if legendaries were moving into the “must have” category due to the stats being able to be selected.
3. In 2012 Anet said that ascended and legendary are supposed to best in slot; that this proposed change gives legendary a huge advantage over ascended so Anet won’t do this.
Anet already changed their stance on this as you can now select stats on a legendary. If Anet stuck with this stance they would have had you choose the stats one time for you legendary.
4. This would save a person too much space if they had a legendary.
This may be slightly true for the minority of the player base. Few people are crafting multiple ascended with multiple sigils and always carrying around these multiple weapons and sigils. Either way this is not a significant advantage and space issues can be remedied in so many ways you can figure it out.
5. The cost of legendaires will sky rocket along with their matts because this change is too OP
Again people are primarily buying these weapons for the skin as you can tell by prices of lack luster skins.
6. Other points to consider
this change is much less significant than the change where legendary weapons became stat selectable. It costs so much more to craft multiple ascended weapons with different stats than to just simply change out sigils once and awhile.
most people aren’t changing out their sigils constantly; they simply use their legendary skin on an exotic if they want to have different sigils for something like WvW
if you aren’t running WvW there is very little point to ever changing your sigils or stats on your weapon except for possibly slaying sigils which are very cheap.
it takes so much time and energy to craft a legendary. You can easily craft 10 times the amount of ascended for the effort it takes to make one legendary. Therefore some horizatonal advantage to a legendary is not asking too much.
there are very few dissenters in this thread but they keep posting the same points over and over while mostly ignoring the counter arguments.
That is the question that should be asked here. The amount of work required to craft a legendary weapon does not warrant a ruined sigil market, the price of some costly sigils would plummet heavily.
Back in GW1 there was a salvage kit that removed weapon and armor addons without destroying the items tied to them, it was a salvage kit obtainable in-game. GW1 and GW2 were both B2P games with no subscription, why is this item not an in-game purchase in GW2? Gems can be bought with gold but the cost of such a kit far exceeds ANY of the sigils’s prices, it’s not worth it. Adding a Perfect Salvage Kit to GW2 would fix this problem without throwing the prices of sigils under the bus just to cater to the lazy.
How many people with legendaries are switching around expensive sigils constantly? Maybe a very very few do this but primarily the sigils people will switch are the slaying sigils which already is dirt cheap, which is why people do it.
This is a terrible argument nothing is going to happen to the sigil market. Did anything happen to the ascended crafting mat market when legendaries were stat selectable? Nope. If someone wants different sigils/stats for WvW and they currently own a legendary, most of them are just using exotic and re skinning it or maybe making ascended and reskinning it.However I’m not opposed to having to unlock the sigils by owning one or applying it to the weapon so it’s stored in the legendary weapon to be swapped later.
Sigh, anyway, I already proposed everything I want to say. Anet will read them and take consideration of consequences, that is enough for me. They may find a clever way to implant it, and try not to messed up market too much. It’s all up to Anet now.
It is pointless to argue with those who already own legendaries and wouldn’t have ANY consequences if Anet implant this system (they’d be smiling wildly ofc), but it has huge consequences for anyone who currently doesn’t own the legendary. I won’t bump and reply this post anymore. All I want to say had been said and Anet will see it.
And not owning a legendary makes you not biased? I already explained that I don’t care either way. I won’t be changing my sigils or stats as I barely do as is because frankly I don’t care and primarily PvE and PvP. WvW is really the only reason to not go berserker and therefore change stats and sigils. The only reason I decided to post here is because the counter arguments are terrible. This is mostly a huge consequence to people like yourself who have crafted multiple ascended weapons when you could have been putting that money toward a legendary which is about to become more easily accessible, as I also explained earlier. This is what I think your problem is and why your bias is showing so much.
Ultimately, no cost swapping, whether it’s one, five or infinite, still puts Legendary into a true category above Ascended which Anet never intended it to be. If they change their stance, great. But have to assume this is it until they say otherwise.
They already changed their stance. The post you keep referring to is over two years old. Obviously the stance was changed when they implemented the ability to change stats on legendary weapons. This was a much bigger change than say if they allowed legendary weapons to change sigils as proposed. It is much more expensive obviously to craft multiple ascended than to change sigils out once and awhile. If they wanted legendary status to stay on par with ascended they would have allowed you to choose stats for your legendary weapon one time only; like they do with several new items where you choose its stats once before you can equip it.
/-******* Everyone please understand ******** This proposed change is not nearly as significant as giving legendary users the ability to choose stats. Anet already gave legendary users the ability to do this I am sorry your argument for this is too late. Yes this put legndaries above ascended weapons and some people have a problem with that. But it takes a lot of work (unless you just buy it with your credit card) to get a legendary. If you have a problem with people buying legendaries with their credit card I think a lot of the player base would agree with you. But that isn’t going to change and is a completely different discussion.
For a majority of the player base. No. Space saving is not a big deal. I’m sorry you are clearly the minority here And refuse to see the bigger picture. Also I’m curious how carrying around geos/keys/sand/SW bags/currencies is maximizing your performance. Maybe try putting the siege on a mule or in the bank when you aren’t in WvW. Same with the WvW food.
Also you have 80 free spaces? Maybe you should invest in some of the “omatic” salvage kits. You really don’t need more than 20 free spaces. So there you go 60 more spaces
No I would not craft another ascended weapon just for WvW. I would just use exotic if I was that desperate I really wouldn’t care. You assume a lot thinking I bought my legendaries off the TP. They are way over priced. I would only be able to have maybe 2 off the TP for the price of making 5 which I worked very very hard for. You are not keeping up with the times. Precursors are dropping in price. There is less demand as the legendary mastery is coming out and people are waiting. The precursors are not going to be a money sink with the mastery. Most people agree that it is going to be similar to obtaining luminescent armor if you want a general idea. But it’s quite obvious it will be a time sink more than a money sink. People will put time into doing achivements, collections, and events over farming hours of dungeons for a precursor or mystic toilet. Anyway you do sound jealous. I’m sorry you put so much time into making several different ascended weapons as well as the gold. Personally I would never have bothered with that. The only reason ascended is worth it is for high level fractals which is all zerker all time. Sure the slight damage increase is also nice in dungeons but I for one am not going around making tons of different sets for things like WvW where condi and builds with things like Vitalilty and Healing are useful. The difference is so minimal it isn’t worth the effort especially just for the weapon. Although I admit I’ve done enough feactals to have 4 zerker sets, 2 condi sets, 1 PVT set and 1 celestial set. Tho I rarely use anything but berserker.
Also you are clearly missing the point. It’s already not just a skin as you can change stats. How did this affect the price? Can you tell me that? It doesn’t. Again the primary reason people buy legendary is because of the skin. Please refer to exhibit A and B again. If the prices for precursors were conparable in price then I would agree. That people are buying them for being more than just a skin over ascended. And I already explained that adding sigils isn’t going to affect the market in any significant way, certainly not anymore than the ability to change the stats. If you refuse to really consider my points I’m sorry but I won’t argue with you. They are very valid and logical points. If there is some sort of counter argument I would like to hear it. But talking I circles is not going to help you in this debate.
Also who is this “everyone else” that is crafting multiple ascended with different sigils and stats. Really those people are far and few between. The effort does not match the reward for a majority of the player base in that case. It seems to me you are one of those few that have put time into making multiple ascended weapons with different stats and sigils. In that case you are quite biased because if this would go through all that work you did would be for nothing if you got a legendary. So you are understandably against legndaries in general. Of course I am biased because I have 5 but I can honestly say I made them for the skin, I dislike WvW and run it maybe once a month which might be when I change my stats if I remember or feel like doing it, and I doubt I’d ever bother changing the sigils even if this went through. Actually the only reason I decided to post was because of these counter arguments which don’t make any sense and aren’t giving a substantial reason against this implementation. Maybe some of your points would have made sense before the ability to change stats on legendary weapons but yeah…
Do you want to know what is actually going to make the market for T6 and lodestones go crazy? The legendary mastery where legendaries will be much more accessible. Everyone arguing against this has terrible points. I know lots of people with legndaries and I have 5 myself. I never bother changing my sigils it really isn’t worth the effort or gold to do so. I once in awhile change the stats and yes they don’t match up with the sigils but whatever. It would be nice to be able to have them match up but I’m not going to go change my sigils around just for WvW to only change them back when I do some fractals. Seriously no one is taking the pricey sigils and swaping them around. The only thing people swap sigils for is enemy slaying. In that case it is a space issue that this proposed change would have an advantage on over ascended. If you are really that desperate for space buy some gems and get more tabs. Also those sigils cost next to nothing so don’t go crying about the economy relating to that point. Lastly, GW 2 legendary weapons will always be appealing primarily for the skin. i
Exhibit A: The Bard, probably one of the most ugly legendary weapons is the focus. It’s music note effect is slightly cool but the weapon itself looks sad. Take note the price of this precursor and compare it to Exhibit B: The legend. The legendary staff is super cool looking with footprints. It’s also costs 10x more for the legend over the bard. …….Why?….. Apparently some people wouldn’t undersrand this phenomenon based on the logic of several posts in the thread. Anyway this would in no significant way hurt the game or be at all game breaking… Anyone who believes otherwise is just over analyzing or wish they had a legendary as well.
Well most likely that is due to the people you are trying to join are EU. You can talk join guilds and whisper and I believe party people who are on different sever based locations but you can’t join their shards.
This is only true if you talked to him at least once before the end of wintersday. The letter itself doesn’t do anything. You technically could have went to your home instance during wintersday, and by never checking your mail, complete the quest.
When I was a noob I watched YouTube videos of the path I was about to do to learn the tactics and mechanics. Yes it takes some time but you do it once and you don’t make everyone else in the party suffer or risk getting kicked. And of course there may be some small differences from the YouTube video you pick (try to find a more current one) and what everyone actually ends up doing. But at least you will know basic boss mechanics and dungeon skips. Just saying…. It doesn’t take much effort. Also referring to the wiki for the a more detailed explanation of boss mechanics helps too.
It’s actually called swamp. And the time it takes to roll it is significantly less than doing harpy, ascalon, and possibly the same amount Of time as underwater tho a lot of people don’t like underwater or don’t have the AR for it. So if you want to do an extra 15-20 mins in your run then don’t roll swamp. And to be brutally honest if you don’t bother to do that you most likely don’t know or don’t bother with the other little things that make fractals go faster or easier.
Some examples:
Mesmer using focus pulls to stack mobs in ascalon, uncategorized, dredge etc.
Warrior using signet of might on shaman to immobilize it in the bubble with LB 5
Stacking might stacking vulnerability
Group stacking at Mai and knowing how to survive
Logging in and out at Mai if fully dead
Dodging shamans fire arrows
Zerker gear
This could go on an on….
There’s so many little things that add up to a lot of time and can make the difference between a fractal in 50ish minutes to a fractal run in almost 2 hours where people are always wiping because I’m the only dodging shaman Fire arrows. Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion but as a fractal vet dealing with people who don’t want to bother to make the run at least a little shorter really isn’t worth the effort.
Edit: #Type1Proud. and I would like to dedicate this post to the Warriors who refuse to run war banner when I am running PS with full 25 might stack up time and Ele’s permanent fury
Just fill out the support ticket. The thing is more than likely, after there’s enough reports filed against you, they would change the name anyway. This way you get to pick your name.
bug still in effect. Sure would be nice if Anet/GW2 people would fix things.
Umm there was no bug described here. It was user error. Seems you didn’t read the thread but if you have the OP’s problem make sure you are playing on the charater thr did the Living Story as the ability to do the achivements is charater bound. Maybe you didn’t do the living story the first time through as well. Not sure but either way your response is too vague.
That would be terribly unbalanced. It would take at least 10 times longer to do what you are suggesting in PVP than PVE map completion. Dungeon master title and achievement points are there for a reason and not part of map completion. Also you have a lot of technical issues with your suggestion like how do you get to rank 80 two or three times even? If you want more than 2 gifts of exploration you are going to have to do it multiple times.
It’s very hard to get into T1 servers like TC or BG. You have to camp basically and wait for one person to move their account to another server so you can get that one spot. also note that if you do this, the charater select screen does not update when someone moves their account so it won’t change from full to very high unless you keep going in and out of the charater select screen while you camp out. Good luck
Yeah the link I linked above explained that. You don’t get the letter until you are level 30 which is kind of confusing. I figured it would work itself out once you all hit 30. So it is resolved then correct?
It breaks when there are a lot of players in the story instance. It happens when somone uses a bank golem and they level up with tomes from their bank. They go through the events too quickly which breaks it. When the servers reset it fixes it.
Ok that makes sense. Although it’s still hard to understand your hypothesis. It becomes convoluted when you don’t have to have all shards be the same. Because if it is a bug it will follow a pattern. So your hypothesis has to be something like…. When running 2 fractal runs in a day where no one else that day had run fractals for the second run. You expect to get the same ring or rewards and the same shards for the second run except the third shard will be different.
Except you got aetherblade for your 3rd instead of shaman as described in your original post. I don’t have time to test your hypothesis. When I join groups I’ll ask if they ran fractals earlier that day or not but I am not going to leave the group if one person already ran a fractal that day. If you really want to get a Dev response or for this community to recognize your claim as at all legitimate you will test it and report back. However until that point I am done responding to this thread so good luck to you.
Sorry I was being a bit sarcastic there sorry haha. I meant if it was not pulsing and gave a and did something else to keep me rooted, I would put that back onto you with arcane thievery and that would be pretty broken. The thing is at this point it is intended. The descriptions aren’t all that detailed in the skill tip. They would need to write 4 or 5 sentences to explain every skill in detail. But that’s why we have the wiki even tho it’s player driven it describes skills in more detail. If you go soley off the skill tip to understand a skill, I could easily argue another 10-20 other skills are “bugged” as well. The game would look completely different then in terms of balance.
Although the issue of it being blocked is clearly a bug. And maybe stealth is a bug. But the pulsating of the skill is not a bug.
Sorry I believe I was confused with another quest that sounds similar in description to the Liberation quest. Maybe try guesting to another server. I’m really unsure what the problem is here tho. Otherwise just level by doing hearts and map exploring until you get to level 30. If it doesn’t work itself out when you level to 30 you can try to put a support ticket in to customer service by following the support tab on the upper left part of this page.
Just ignore this guy. He is assuming a lot we don’t even know what the situation was with the OP and if he was advertising that he and the rest of the party were or were not zerker. It’s easy enough to tell someone isn’t zerker by the DPS. If you seriously have a problem with it then have everyone link their gear. If they don’t then you can leave; it’s as simple as that. Also going off HP is a terrible idea. How do you know that the someone isn’t full power toughness condition gear? Being able to tell by HP only leaves out so many sets that aren’t bersker but also don’t add Vit.
And this guy using the third party program came in at Lupi meaning a lot of the dungeon was already done for him. Even if the party was not full zerker he would have still gotten through it faster than starting a new party with full zerker from the beginning. Of course player skill is a big factor here but there’s no way to judge whether the party was bad at understanding the mechanics or not of the fight since we have no idea. I won’t be responding to anymore of this debate to whether or not this guys party was zerker or if they even claimed to be all zerker or maybe they knew they weren’t zerker but wanted someone who was zerker. Who cares?
The bottom line is there is no need for a 3rd party program and you will risk a ban for using it period. And OP if you could flag this thread to be closed that would be great.
You may want to refer to the wiki. Yes it immobilizes until destroyed. But it’s pulses to do the immobilize. It’s like SR it pulses stealth for 3 seconds so that it ends up stealthing you for a long time but if you are knocked out of it early you don’t get the full stealth duration. So if I use condi cleanse right after a pulse I can walk right out of entangled. Now you could argue that stealthing shouldn’t stop the pulse of immobilize but I kind of view it like AI because it also is doing direct damage. And AI will stop doing damage and therefore the immobilize pulse while stealthed. I do still agree that it should be unblockable right when you use it. It is unblockable once the person is immobilized so that they can’t get around the immobilize by blocking a pulse which would let them walk right out. Only the initial use of the skill blocks it which really isn’t right.
My 2 cents : The CD is relatively short on this skill and as an AoE skill it is rather strong. Which is why there is several ways to counter it. For instance as a mesmer I can blink out, wait a little to have the immobilize stack with bleeds and use arcane thievery to give it to you while I walk out of the root, or stealth. I’d also like to mention if it immobilized until destroyed (in the way you are envisioning it) and I used arcane theievery on you, you would have to to figure out which root I was in and destroy it to rid yourself of immobilize IF the skill didn’t pulse. I would welcome that change lol.
If you find one of these solutions works if you could also post it in the other thread.
It does seem odd both of you are having the same problem and finished downloading around the same time but maybe it’s just coincidence.
The only other thing I can think of is an update that could have occurred while you were downloading the game over a longer period of time. A patch update will have the client restart and start downloading again then restart to install. However a patch update is short and won’t take nearly as long as downloading the game. At most it shouldn’t take more than half an hour for the regular patches we have had that are simple bug fixes or adding some skins.
Where is this green swirl/star? If you haven’t finished liberation it should be at the bandit caves in Queensdale. If it isn’t there then you are most likely at the end of the chain and everything will work out once you hit 30.
Entangle does direct damage and immobilize every 1.5 seconds as a pulse. This is why you can remove the immobilize and walk right out of it with condition removal so you dont have to destroy it. Maybe you are seeing this happen sometimes? I think this is also why stealth works because it is also dealing direct damage that comes with the immobilize. I would agree with the block as it’s listed as unblockable.
It would also be nice if directional skills didn’t go on full CD if the player moves behind you. The same issue happens with mesmer magic bullet and I’m sure other classes have similar problems.
You should be looking for the gw2.exe file and clicking on that. If you are clicking the setup file it won’t do you much good except for when it asks where you want to install it, the file should already be in there unless you changed it manually. So that would tell you where to look if you are unsure how to use the windows search.
If you don’t want an account ban then don’t run third party programs even if you think they are legitimate. Idk about the ToS for GW (1) but I know that would be against the GW 2 ToS (terms of service). So simply don’t run them if you are afraid your account will be band. If you can’t enjoy playing GW (1) without these third party programs and therefore you think it’s worth the risk then you run the chance of being banned.
Anyway good luck to you I won’t be replying anymore in this thread.
I’m sorry we will have to agree to disagree. I will tell you I’ve run at least 1,750 fractals which is 7,000 shards. I ran 4 a day with different charaters before Fractured when rewards were charater bound. I’m telling you this not to brag but to just show you that I have a lot of experience in this area and my opinion should have some merit. I’ve noticed patterns before but that’s just because of RNG.
List the date and the time (with time zone) that this happened if you remember. I’m not sure how long the game keeps a log for issues like this but it may help them out. However I’m sure he is still using it so it’s liekly if they check he will get banned.
He can’t see your exact health pool numbers. The only way you can tell if someone isn’t bersker would be closely watching their bar when getting hit with aoe and seeing how much it drops compared to your health pool as a berserker and given their profession you might be able to tell what their gear is leaning towards. But that would be extremely difficult to do unless you are just sitting there watching the health bar. Please report this player.
Try putting a ticket in with support following the support tab in the upper left. Hopefully they can help you out. Sorry the easy fixes didn’t work for you. Also you might want to make sure your drivers are up to date as well as Direct X. You don’t have an issue launching the game then right? It’s just when you try to actually go past the charater creation screen? It doesn’t seem like a over heating issue because of that. So I would try to do those updates and see if anything happens otherwise I really have no idea and hopefully CS can help.
Yes it was fixed then was broken again shortly after. It’s been reported a couple times since it was broken again. Although most people are used to just waiting for the npcs now so it doesn’t get many posts here in the forums since we are used to working around it.
and I would like to dedicate this post to the Warriors who refuse to run war banner when I am running PS with full 25 might stack up time and Ele’s permanent fury