Guild Wars 2

Not once had any problems. No need for VOIP, AT ALL.

Best crafting ever here. Never bothered with crafting on other games cuz it usually takes ages and costs alot. Not fun either. Sit there clicking random mats for 4 hours. Yeee.

Bladekill.1487:

No, only rings and backs were added with FotM.

not the question tho is it, can they drop or are they forged…?

WHAT KARKA; WHAT CIRCLE ?

I crashed, can’t join the same instance anyway after that, I knew i was screwed and so was the group. I tried to enter anyway – …everyone got pulled out to LA.
It was the last fractal of the tier as well.

Horrible, horrible design/bug whatever. Fix this ASAP.

seithan.4823:

Reading the advertisement from Anet about the event, it states it opens at 18th, as part of the last event.

where they say that ?

On the announcements they said Friday 30 mins after the event, tho. Fact.

150mb and 20s delay.

Don’t get how Anet keeps failing like this. It’s obvious that absolutely loads of people gona attend this, so why not think ahead ? Because of the lag it was a complete disaster.

Died 4 times, means I lost 40 minutes and 6 silver. Great stuff.

That’s a buy order isn’t it ? so no 190g wasted ?

Agreed. More content more stuff to do always a postive. Anyone can skip all of this if they don’t like it.

Good idea. Only more stuff to work towards and more things to do endgame.
Good update in general.

SO MANY people moan about it. WHY ? It’s optional and you don’t have to get it. People who don’t want them can just ignore it and…well…don’t get it rofl.
LA chat and guild chat filled with stupid complaints and moaning. ‘Anet promised a game with no gear grind and no grind in general’ Bad news they also promised an MMORPG and I don’t see that happening without grind rofl. You’re naive and need to get out of your bubble. Adding new things is always a good thing, especially if none of this is mandatory. Not like they stop your character from progressing and tell you to upgrade your gear before you can continue lol. More gear and more skins to come – always a positive.

Oh dear…people nowadays.

Great idea great update gj I’m excited.
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Always someone brings wow into this. WHY ? I’m guessing some/most have not played it, including me, I played GW1 and I’m happy about these changes. Also guess what not all of us play 2 hours a week. Some have more time to enjoy the game and they reach certain ‘goals’ quicker than others. That’s what Anet also said. They didn’t expect people to reach the legendary hunt so quickly after exotics.
So they add something to keep the players interested and playing.
You don’t want someone in your group to have better gear than you lol or what’s the deal ? so what if you mate got better stuff than you, get over it. In wvw it simply wont matter since a little stat boost wont decide anything in a zerg. What other reason could it be ? Nothing.
You can go for ascended gear whenever you feel like it, and I’m willing to bet sometime, even if it’s in 2 years, you’ll want to progress your character gear wise and think ‘Fk, wasn’t a bad idea after all.’

I think if there’s gonna be ascended weapons then legendary stats should just get boosted.

Salt.3608:

Supply = Low
Demand = High

Price = High

Deal with it, kids.

kitten it, close this topic. The problem’s sorted. Captain Salt knows what’s up.

I don’t think the weapons are actually made to be ‘LEGENDARY’ and owned by 3 people…
The yellow/gold items are called rares…guess what…they’re not rare.
Get over it, it’s just a name.
Also people say that this weapon should be owned by 5-10% of the population. Well I have no idea actually, but I’d say that people who actually are farming for it and the people who are moaning on the forums about it, are actually the 2-3% of the population right now lol maybe more maybe less. I have a guild of 400 active players, some casual and some a bit hardcore. Only 4 of us are on the legendary hunt, most are not planning to get one at all. We are mostly PvE guild.
So I think this random kitten about 1/3 players running around with twilight in LA will NEVER be EVEN CLOSE to being true. Not even 1/10 will own it even after the precursor will be somehow ‘easier’ to get. I think 5% is really realistic with the current system. Maybe within a few years it’ll pass the 5% but also some will quit etc.

Also I’m really happy they’re doing smth about the precursors, about time and definitely the right desicion.

Economy affects everbody…hm didn’t realise that.
Economy is what it is and I can’t do anything to change it that’s why I simply don’t ‘care’ about it. Also you missed by point about the RNG not being involved with the making of a legendary, and having goldsink somewhere else in the game, I know they are required…

Legend was undervalued or not I didn’t know that 2-3 weeks after launch when I started my grind. Fact is that it has increased by 300g and that has really put me off.
I’m not progressing. I have to rely on my luck (…….lol……) or random TP prices for my last piece of the legendary.

‘it might go up when some1 decides to buy a bunch of sell listings’

Well that’s great, I’ll keep that in mind as I’m ‘progressing’ towards my legendary, i’ll rely on that one guy buying sell listings randomly and see how much gold I need. Or gamble.
What a great system.

Getting a legendary – huge load of gold or luck. No skill or actual achievements required. RNG is great !!!

Jericho.5940:

1. Why RNG is a bad thing to this game please explain. It’s a perfectly designed gold sink to keep the economy healthy plus drive up the interest for the in game purchase if necessary.

I don’t give a … about a gold sink or the economy, that’s all Anet making money and whatnot but why have it in the making of a legendary ? what’s legendary about RNG. They make legendary weapons a big deal and so desirable and put RNG in there to mess with people. Where’s the sense in that ? Have the RNG and gold sink elsewhere. The amount of people who I know that have quit because of this is silly.

Drive up the interest of the game ? My interest will be gone after I spend 200-300g in MF and leave empty handed. No doubt. So tell me what’s good about RNG for me ? It’s horrible and I hate it and if you’d open your eyes many other people hate it too. I’m mainly talking about precursors.

I used to gamble on the forge, putting random 3x 76 exotics + mystic stone and I loved the thrill of the gamble etc, never knowing what I might get. It was optional. But RNG as a necessary part for a legendary weapon ? No.
And don’t tell me to buy it off TP, RNG is still the initial way how they are aquired. Also for me it costs 400g (legend) and when I started farming for my legendary it costed 100-120g. Yeah well done. 300g increase, that has simply kittened me up. By the time I reach that, it may be over 500g. Feels like week after week I’m not making any progress at all. Gambling aint rewarding me either so what’s left ? Also I keep in mind that some people got it on their 4th try from forge, some dropped it off an ooze, some bought them for 25g months ago, apparently rumors saying that some precursor were acquired by exploiting and gold buying, that’s frustrating. Legendary weapon indeed.

nice guide thanks.

btw level 0 and 225 discoveries didn’t work for me.

Mystaquetz ?? what are you talking about ?
Getting ores gives you at least 1g, but if that takes an hours it’s pointless. Buy MF gear and farm plinx WITH a group. Gets you 1-2g per hour depending on your luck. Gather mithril and elder wood and by the end of the day I sell my mats for about 2g. On an average day I get about 5-7g, but I have got 15g. I mean all junk items and normal mats, no exo or dusk drops lol.

If this RNG system would have never been in the legendary weapon making, then no one would have complained to start with.
Let’s say there would have been a fixed recipe for a precursor from the launch, no one would have ever come on the forums saying ‘WE WANT PRECURSORS TO DROP FROM THE FORGE WITH A 0.01% CHANCE, THIS FIXED RECIPE AND MAKING PROGRESS SUCKS, I WANT RNG’
This kitten in the game mostly cuz Anet wants to earn some money…fixed recipe will only make the game better and players happier tho.

anyway

What annoys me is that some players got their precursors for 25-50g months ago, and some exploited. Me ? I either gotta gamble my gold which I got farming Plinx and lose a lot of money because I know my luck, or farm 400 gold (more of PLINX).

Great stuff.

Atm legendary weapon involves wvw, dungeons, events, crafting, farming mats etc whatever. What it does not involve are achievements and personal story completion. IMO they both should be components somehow in the precursor recipe. Some token you can get when you have let’s say 3k achievement points (remove that agent of entropy kitten) and a Pact token you get from finishing story, then another 2 components…could be whatever…dungeon master title, shards, clovers…

Yeah I want progress as well. I do not want to gamble and I do not want to grind another 350g by doing Plinx and then month later look at the TP – 500g.
If that ever happens I will quit.

Boo hoo.
Why was there salvaging before ? I hate salvaging.

Being in queue for over 10 hours now.
That part of the game is literally unaccessible for me. Slim chance I get in, the kitten game decides to crash and I get kicked back into LA.
I want to wvw, I can’t, I want to get my 500 badges, I can’t.

Especially on a high pop server like Desolation I don’t see myself getting in for the next 5 weeks.

kittening horrible system.

Thats pretty much same as 1x and 10x clover recipes, instead having a scroll in it.
But I have some shards and karma left myself and wonder if they can be used for smth.

Well the answer is Plinx.
Very good karma along with finishing your daily/monthy.
Also gives you a lot of gold. During my 1mil karma hunt I got around 150g from junk + ectos and mats, which is pretty average I guess.

I love how someone said something like this: ’ Where’s the problem ? I did 5000 forges and got 3 precursors.’
Well that’s kittening great. Now if you’d use your brain for just a second, you will maybe realise how RNG works. I can do 15 000 forges and still get absolutely nothing. If I spend 400gold forging and get nothing, then farm another 50gold and go for another spree, then that does not mean I have higher chances. ‘Oh I’ve spent so much gold I have to get it now!!’

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And then there’s: ‘Oh hey I got my Dusk after 40 tries, where’s the problem guys ? You all just complain for no reason duh, 2 ez l2p.’

Really please get a clue.
Hi ?

Rng is bad and doesn’t belong in this game. So far legendary needs you to do dungeons, wvw, events, rng(clovers) etc random stuff, but it does not involve any skills or achievements and it definitely should. Fix the broken system please.

legendaries dont all have to have same reicipes…
switch out exploration gift with whatever new comes out or whatever lol, maybe we’ll need to discover the recipe again

andyes u get 2x explo gifts per character

wheres the problem

Do 1x recipe no matter what imo.
I got my 77 with 230 shards.
That’s basically exactly 1/3 chance, also got about 13-15g worth of mats and lodestones.
My mate got his done in 239 shards with 1x and another mate, who tried the 10x recipe, made 40 clovers with 250 shards.

1x all the way.

NetherDiver.6079:

With a good chance for exos, rare crafting mats, a good amount of exp and gold. Not to mention an epic boss fight.

That truly was an epic boss fight. It’s soloable with spamming ‘1’ for 50 minutes.
Are you mental ?

But yeah the loot was bad.

I agree but the only complaint is that for example beating the mad king in the dungeon is not worth it. I solod it because I can’t group and basically it was a waste of time, since the only achievement you get there is the one when you enter. Loot was absolutely abysmal. :/
Otherwise it’s all good, just the common mistake in GW2 of dungeons not rewarding people anything.

Yeah I think most people did it solo. Not hard at all just boring and not worth it at all.

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para.9351:

Why don’t you use a non-“girly” weapon instead of moaning about getting legendaries changed? There are tons of weapons out there and no one is forcing you to use one you don’t even like the look of.

I choose the weapon which is actually good and useful for the profession as well for both PvP and PvE.
Please think for at least 2 seconds before posting utter kitten.

I think it’s not about gender also, don’t take things so literally, it’s just that some weapons look horrible and don’t have effects. There should be 2 options for each legendary, not just greatswords.
You can make weapons a bit more ‘neutral’ looking. The bifrost is 100% ‘girly fairy pixie unicorn kitty’ weapon simply because it’s a white stick with rainbow particles effects and trails. Now what the kitten should a necromancer do with that ?
Why does it HAVE to be rainbows and colours ? there’s 567 other options which would suit professions like necro and at the same time go well with mesmers and eles.

That’s the problem.

You forgot the most girly weapon of them all :S
The Staff. Rainbow glow + trail etc. Very girly weapon imo, and also ridiculous to use for necro.
Otherwise I agree.

I don’t mind if its hard to get, but it should NOT involve 400-500g prices (precursor) or korean type RNG, 0.01% and 0.1% chance rates. That does not belong to this game, neither has RNG nothing to do with being legendary.

Am I entitled to a legendary ? (I really feel like this is a stupid question)
Yes I bought the game I am entitled to everything in the game, I am farming for my weapon slowly and working hard and I deserve it. That’s it.

The moaning is about RNG. RNG is what ruins it. Horrible system. Remove the RNG and no one should moan. Make a 100% recipe which requires some sort of achievements, dungeon master title, personal story completion, karma, gold whatever.

Tbh for me the weapon is mandatory, I have all the armor and weapon skins I want besides a legendary weapon skin. If it weren’t for the legendaries I would have quit since there is really not much to do after level 80. Few dungeons and wvw – that’s about it. Legendary is keeping me busy untill events like halloween and expansions/content releases, which then will keep me playing longer and probably go for another legendary weapon.

Desolation EU – Uncontested right from this minute.

The best part of the whole event for me. Fun and challenging, did it myself in 15minutes of trying, some guildmates tried for 4 hours lol. Guess some people can jump and some cant. No reason to moan about it. And it doesn’t even count for the Mad King title achievement.

But there should be more puzzles like this coming tbh. I wouldn’t want all to be like this, but for events and big expansions these are perfect.

If you mean why do greatswords look amazing and others don’t (all have same stats). Good question.

Devs ?

ryokoalways.3450:

Just to offer some other pointers, you absolutely should go after precursor before anything else. Going after t6 (stabilized to cost dirt cheap), ecto (will never vary past 12s-18s), coins (super cheap whenever monthly is available for completion), icy runestones (price is constant), ores/wood/etc (stable with sufficient supply), etc is just not smart. Those should all be saved till much later. Having discussed about legendary making process with another individual that’s half way through a second legendary, the points agreed on in terms of monetary necessities are

-Always save for precursor first, whether it’s to gamble via forge or to buy outright.

-Work on Lodestones second. This is something I did not do, and I’m now paying for it with spiked charge lodestone prices

-Work on everything else.

You always want to get rid of the components that’s the most unstable. That is the correct way to go about building a legendary. I’ve seen so many that finished gift of fortune and “legendary name” first. Note that the amount of money you spent on those 2 gifts would equate to a precursor. With the price of charged lodestones, my gift of bolt would cost more than a precursor at the moment.

Precursor for last simply because they will only go down in price tbh, like I’ve seen with many precursor I’ve been looking for at least…Also got a really strong feeling Anet will do something about it. I’d feel incredibly stupid if I buy it for 400g and the next week Anet: ‘there you got a fixed recipe for a precursor 100g gl hf’
Making all my gifts 1st then leaving precursor for last since it’s just ONE item left. I can sell all my rares and whatever to get all the gold needed…

And untill Anet hasn’t made an official reply on it then I’ll just keep collecting gold untill they change it(if they change it, good, if not, then I’ll just keep going) or I have ~400g. ATM this is smarter imo.

Agemnon.4608:

You could collect mats and make the rare staves yourself, for free.

Yeah guys lets collect lots of mats(=GOLD) and make the staves for ‘FREE’.

Sorry, but people who say farming/gathering mats and making stuff yourself makes the item ‘free’ just annoys me, it’s beyond stupid.

Nothing to do with opinions tbh. Anyone can see with a bit of common sense Greatswords have received way more love than most of the other legendaries. Like the skin or not, one can still compare GS effects, detail, particles etc to other weapons.

If you NEED to buy them then that’s your little weird issue tbh. EARN money and go BUY them. Only way it’s done atm.

Other then that the drop rate of those things need to be increased obviously.

Really don’t get people who want to buy all mats :/ You realise farming all the mats doesn’t make your weapon ‘free’ ? or you just wanna get them all yourself for the sake of farming ?

‘MMOs are not about grinding.’

Oh wow how wrong is that ? Grinding imo is nearly the same as progressing. Skins or stats or achievement points, dont matter.

The ‘winning’ on THIS game IS skins.

Some crazy person put The Legend on TP for 510 gold. Yes he did.

Anlyon.8375:

Most people in this thread:
You dont need
legendaries

That’s the most kitten argument I keep seeing on this topic. Guess what ? I don’t need to level to 80, I don’t need to do dungeons, I don’t need to do absolutely anything including playing this video game. Guess what mister genius ? I want to. I also want a legendary weapon and I want it in a normal way not 0.001% chance RNG/400gold.

which puzzle did you do ? the borderlands or eternal ?

21 and very nice1 game.

so whats the recipe and there’s some guy saying that twilight only has its effects during night time and sunrise during daytime ? is that true or are they the same no matter what time of the server is ?

oh boo hoo
Let’s all make a necromancer and get a rainbow unicorn fairy pixie wingy staff…

ye this must be bullkitten, no man can play this much to get 2 legendaries in less then 2 months + who knows how much karma/gold whatever was needed for eternity recipe.
honestly I keep checking the date and time on my PC, looking at this screen of eternity makes me think I have somehow been frozen in time for like 4 months cuz apparently now eternities are flying about GW2. WHat the kitten ?
Honestly I cannot fit this kitten into my head.

HUH ?

Oh well…gratz

Well the skins on those staffs are useless and not unique at all, besides final rest which is only a chest drop apparently.
Pillar of ulgoth has a normal skin off a karma vendor (lvl 43). I have it, looks good, it glows pink-ish flame from the top.
Rest skins are really, really bad and most probably just random green skins lol, pretty sure I’ve seen them around.
Wolfborn staff is the Tier 3 Norn cultural weapon ?…

Please don’t post this crap, got me excited that there may actually be some decent staff skins.
Gonna have to roll Warrior probs, yay for greatswords…Foefire, volcanus, twilight and 10 more skins I can think of actually look better then every single staff I’ve seen.

I got full CoF and it’s red, not sure about PvP gear.