Guild Wars 2

…your very casual guildies that never see the forums, or reddit, or anything really start talking, theorizing and speculating in your Whatsapp group about Scarlet and what will happen in the next episodes.

We are all really excited with the season one finale!

I confess that I had doubts about it at the beginning, but I think ANet jumped in the success lane and this will only go better and better in the future.

Here you have my reasons:

1. Time gates. Laurels and Guild Missions are fine for just one character, but too slow for multiple.
2. Ascended. Too expensive, too hard, acquisition based only on crafting and time gated.
3. Build diversity. Having various sets of gear is too expensive. Changing traits is too tedious.
4. Runes and Sigils acquisition methods (or lack of). Related to point 3. Replacing runes and sigils requires you to destroy the old ones, and most of them can only be acquired in the BLTC (or crafted after buying rare ingredients from the BLTC). They are way too expensive.

I do also have things that I like about having multiple Alts.

1. Different personal stories.
2. Play different classes whenever I want.
3. Lots of skins for customization.
4. Harvest T6 nodes on each character
5. I always have something to do, 5 out of my 9 characters are still wearing green under 80 items.
6. Dungeons and Fractals, I can change to a different class if the party misses something.

If I remember correctly, Polla was a doll and it belong to the daughter of Lion’s Arch founder Cobiah Marriner.

Edit: Not daughter, but little sister. Biviane was her name.

Hi all, I have a suggestion regarding the change to the Flamekissed armor design. Since it was decided to replace it with a different design, I think it would have been a good idea to let the people who bought it know about this issue. And by this, I mean sending an in-game notification that the object they purchased would be modified in the future.

I know that there is an official forum post about this, but not everybody reads the forum, and not everybody speaks English.

So if in the future something like this happens again, a think it will be a very good practice to send an in-game message to all the customers impacted.

Count me in for 600+ runs with no fractal weapons. I did got ascended chests, though.

I laugh at that 18% drop confirmed.

I got burned from too much fractal runs, so I’m not doing them anymore, except from the ocassional low level fractal to gear up low level toons.

On the other hand, I’m making way more money now.

Yes, the Anomaly should be ascended.

Congratulations for the best focus in the game

I came to the game as a PvP player. Actually my entire PvP guild from GW1 come to the game. And this is why I don’t play PvP now:

• No metagame. After one year and a half, the play style has not changed, still playing with bunker, roamer, etc…
• No strategy. Battles are too fast, do your skill rotation and repeat. The one with one skill in cool down dies.
• No guilds. There are no prestige from being in a PvP guild.
• No game modes. I don’t specially like the only game mode available. I don’t dislike it either, but it becomes boring and repetitive too soon.
• And the most important reason for me: No GvG.

These are the things that I can think off that may be useful to start playing the TP.

You will have to work your way around three main methods: Flipping items, Converting items (crafting or mystic forging) and Speculation.

Flipping

You have two flavors, massive flipping and finding gaps and walls.

Massive flipping is basically buying a huge amount of materials at the cheapest price, and selling them at the most expensive price possible. The more money you invest, the more money you get back. This method works better with materials that move fast, if you list 250 of Product A, and it gets sold in seconds, then here you have something to work with.

Gaps and Walls is about searching the TP for some special conditions. This can also be combined with other methods. A gap is something like this

Product X – 40 Units – 12.45 silver
Product X – 22 Units – 12.40 silver
Product X – 38 Units – 6.22 silver <- This is a gap, there is a huge jump in price for the same item.
Product X – 14 Units – 6.19 silver

You could instantly buy all the Product X under 6.22 silver and re list them at 12.39 silver. This is a bit more risky, and you have to make sure that this Product X is actually demanded.

And a Wall is something like this:

Product Y – 230 Units – 40.33 silver
Product Y – 6344 Units – 40.32 silver <- This is a Wall, there are a lot of items at this price
Product Y – 133 Units – 40.31 silver <- This is a good spot to sell because it is closer to the wall
Product Y – 55 Units – 40.22 silver

If you list your stock of Product Y at 40.32 or higher, you will have to wait for those 6344 units to get sold first, but if you list at 40.31, it will sell before those 6344 units. And if you do this with an item that moves very fast, it is very probable that even if your offer is not the best one, eventually it will get sold, even if there are better offers than yours. This is also useful with items that move slowly, you can buy with Buy Orders and let the market reach the Gaps and Walls by itself, then sell all your stock.

So when you are flipping items, you better pay attention at all of this. If you dedicate enough time, you may be able to find at what times of the day some items move faster or slower. Hint: Prime times for Europe and America tend to move the market a lot.

Converting

This is the most simple and almost risk free way to use the TP. Basically, you buy raw materials and convert them into something else, more expensive than those materials alone. Juts pay a visit to gw2spidy a search for profitable recipes.

The problem with this method is that there are probably thousands of people doing the same, and it is very likely that you will get outbid, or that you find a product that look profitable one day but it is not the day after.

There are some recipes that require stuff that cannot be bought, like some Mystic Forge Weapons that require skill points. In this case they may get you more money, but you may run out of skill points.

Speculation

This is the most risky and the most profitable method. Unfortunately it is also the most difficult one. Basically this relies in your ability to foresee how a specific market may change in the future. You only have to remember two rules, if it looks too simple, then there will be thousands of people doing the same; if it looks too complicated, then don’t do it.

Most of the speculation happens with products that are recurrent to some periods of time, or that are affected by updates.

Take for example the crafting disciplines, it is highly possible that Cooking and Jewelry get the same update as the others and can be leveled up to 500. If they follow a similar pattern to the armor and weapons disciplines, it should be fairly simple to find out products with low demand and huge amounts on the TP that may be required to level up those disciplines. You can buy them now, while they are super cheap, and sell them in the future for 2x, 5x or 10x times its current value. The risk here is that you don’t know for sure if it will happen, when will it happen, how many people will be doing the same…

Last remarks

Knowing a bit of programming and building your own Google Spreadsheet (or Excel if you are rich) connected with the gw2spidy api helps a lot. There are also software that let’s you automate parts of this process, but I don’t know if they are legit.

Essence Snow.3194:

Drop rates are too low or random, requirements are too high, and restrictions such as dr are in effect. For a lot of objectives, the only option is gaining gold then buying off the tp. The discrepancy between the two is so large that the former is again not realistic.

Yes, that’s why the game relies too much in the TP. Since I don’t like farming nor playing the TP, I’m limited in what I can do.

But it was not always like this, at the beginning of the game I had multiple choices that I could use, from karma to crafting to TP. Many of these options are now obsolete because now we only have crafting with materials that can only be bought out of the TP.

I’ve seen mentioned a few times that the people complain because they want everything now without effort; while there may be people that think like this, I’m not sure that this is really the case for most of us, I think it goes more on the direction that if I have a goal, I want to be able to achieve it without farming (in the shape of champ trains or speed clears) or playing the TP.

And yes, the TP is great for the game, it works wonders, it is super easy to use and I love that I can buy/sell stuff from anywhere in the world. And as I said in the first post, it is good for the community.

But for me, the player, I don’t care about the others, I don’t care if somebody has a bazillion gold. I do care about what I can do with the time I have to enjoy the game, and what I can do, any goal that I can think off right now can only be achieved using the TP or farming. I don’t want to be limited by something that I don’t like. I’m playing a MMORPG, I want to play with my friends, I want to enjoy the story (btw, I love Scarlet, thanks), I want to have fun with all the awesome things that this game had to offer, like dynamic events, guild missions, difficult dungeons, build design… these are the things that I want to see evolving, and not just new weapons and armors used to get rid of the excess of materials on the TP.

I’m not asking to get rid of ascended items, I’m asking to add more options.
I’m not asking to increase the drop rate of rare materials, they are fine as they are. What I want is new materials rewarded for doing great achievements, account bound so the only value they have is the skill you have to get them.
I’m not asking for free gold. I just want the other currencies that were useful months ago to have the same importance as gold has.

The feeling I have right now is that I have too much of everything, but too little gold. And since gold is the only thing that we can use now I’m afraid of wasting it because the next update may bring something that I want and I won’t be able to get it if I spend too much.

@Vol and @LordByron, I think you guys are being too extremist. As I said at the beginning the TP is good for the community as a whole, it helps keeping prices under player control, and it does it extremely well. However, there is also a group of people, like me, who do not like to farm or play the TP, and for us it is quite difficult to find the motivation when all the new content is focused on controlling the TP and farming.

Take for example this: Ascended gear has been designed to get rid of the excess of lower tier materials, and to prevent those materials from spiking in price, they have a 24 hour limit so you can only craft one per day. This is good for the community because it makes a long term goal for people, and since you cannot craft all at once it helps keeping the income of materials into the TP on par with the demand… but for me, the player, it makes me literally destroy all my hard earned t6 materials in order to get dark matter, spend all my money in leveling crafting disciplines (I think that with all my money I can only level two or three disciplines to 500), and in the end go to FS to farm champions, or going back to find gaps and walls to flip items in the TP. Also, I have 9 characters on one account and three in another.

Other currencies like Karma or Dungeon tokens are being forgotten, while Gold gets all the attention. What can I do with my 3+ million Karma points… going for another legendary? I just cannot find the strength to go through that painful experience again.

@tolunart, I played D3 for 9 days before uninstalling it. I asked for a refund but never got it. I would hate for GW2 to become something like D3… I don’t think that will ever happen.

…and while this may be good to the community as whole, it is not that good for the players as individuals.

• The drop rates for quality items are too low.
• Dungeon tokens become outdated due to ascended gear.
• Mastering crafting disciplines used to be something for everybody, now is hardcore zone.
• Legendaries… enough have been said about them.

The masses are driven to FS champion train or dungeon speed clears.

So far I can only think of one thing that shows off for how “good” player you are, and that is the mini Liadri.

I know that I am part of a minority, but please, for this minority, give us more Liadris and less farming and TP playing.

Let me share with you what a playing session looks like now:

Me: Hey, somebody doing something?
Player A: Nah, I still have to run through all of Orr with three more toons to collect all the nodes.
Player B: Hey, does somebody have some linen? where I can farm it?
Me: Well, does somebody want to do some dungeon?
Player C: I already run CoF 1 today, sorry
Player Sure, let’s speed clear CoE, all paths, bring a zerker warrior
Me: But my warrior does not have exotic gear yet
Player oh sorry then
Me: OK, I’ll do some solo queue then… 4vs4 here I go… all is vain
log off

I may just miss the time when we were still discovering dungeons and got frustrated for how difficult they used to be, and learnt how to beat them… I’d love to see difficult content for groups, I want to play with my guild again instead of waiting for they farming for their third ascended weapon.

Sorry for the rant >.< I just had a bad day :p

Title says it all, how do you play in this map? From a Solo Queue perspective.

So I got my first ascended weapon box and it just happen to be a Leftpaw’s box, with Settler’s stats, Toughness, Healing Power and Condition Damage. I usually run Berserker or Rabid (pve and wvw respectively).

Do you know of any useful build that can go with these stats for mesmer? And for other classes? Or should I just keep it as a token from Tybalt?

When using a channeled skill and Retreat!, the shout may cancel the other skill. It doesn’t happen 100% of times, or may happen only in combat. The other shouts work normally, I only had the issue with Retreat!

In my party, we got 4 normal ascended rings, non infused, and we had level 30 as personal reward. So it seems that they now can drop at level 30… on the other hand, I’ve never seen 4 ring drops at the same time, so they may be more common now.

If you look at the map of the instance, you can see a small path leading to the bottom right corner, that path is where the portal is, so instead of leaving the instance normally use that portal.

Very good news, thanks a lot!

As Tree said, I should have posted this in the Suggestions thread. If a mod is reading this, can you move it?

laharl.8435:

I had over 500 fractals completed before I had a character reach 48. Got my warrior to 30 very early, then got guardian to 48 eventually. I got my first fractal skin at scale 46. At scale 48 I seem to get about 1 skin out of every 3 or 4 runs. It seems the chances of getting a skin are exponentially higher at 48.

@laharl do you usually play level 48, maybe 48 and higher levels, or do you still play lower levels in the 20’s and 30’s levels? In my observations, we had several runs at 48 were nobody from the party got a skin.

In any case, do not focus only on the skins please, even if it is the most popular issue, I would like to bring this thread to the attention of the devs so your opinions on the other problems will be much appreciated.

Problem: The average rate of rewards do not improve in higher levels. I’ve played fractals a lot, way more than 100 runs, and what I found is that the most optimal fractal level to play is level 10. Why? Because in the end you will end up with the same rewards that somebody doing level 48, but in half the time. If rewards do really have a higher chance the higher the level, I have never experienced that.
Proposal: The higher the level, the better the rewards. To try to keep this balanced, this should be in line with my previous proposals. Then, to increase the rewards, you can start with the basic Fractals stuff. Let’s say for example, from level 30 onward, you get two pristine fractal relics, instead of one. Another thing to improve will be the chance to get Cores and Lodestones, either from the monsters or from the chests. And finally, add a chest similar to world bosses to each fractal, with a daily granted rare, so if you do the 9 fractal maps you can get 9 rares (doing a fractal takes more time and effort than killing a world boss).

And my last proposal will be, obviously, for the fractal skins:

Problem: Fractal skins and the double chance. Fractal skins are way too rare, and even if you get one, you may not be able to use it, and to top it off they are not even weapons or skins; you can only use them after transmuting them.
Proposal: ???. To be completely honest, I cannot find a solution that pleases everybody, so this is what I come up with… Do not change them, just make it easier to get either the skin you want or the stats you want, and convert them in items like the old Magic Find items, so you can double click them and select the stats, but only once. AND add a new set of fractal weapons that can be obtained with tokens (like in any other dungeon), ideally this set should really be something prestigious to show off that you really are a Fractal Master, so maybe make it so this new token only drops from levels 30+, or 40+ or 50+ or whatever you think is good.

Thanks for reading!!!

Some time ago I started recording the rewards me and my wife got from Fractals with the intention to find out the chance to get a fractal skin, so 100 successful runs later, here I am with 0 (zero) fractal skins and a few things that I would like to share.

I’m going to start with the most obvious things I observed in these months.

Problem: Random Map Rotation “forces” players to go back to the observatory until the Swamp is the first fractal. Specially in higher level fractals. While this is not really a major issue, I think it is quite boring and stupid. The reason for this is that there are some really quick fractals, while other are very very slow and may take forever to complete, and people just want to try to avoid getting three long fractal maps in the same run.
Proposal: Map Rotation based on Fractal Length: I think that instead of completely random, the fractal maps could be classified by expected time to complete, and then rotate them so you will always get short and long fractal maps. For example, split them in Fast (Aquatic, Snow, Swamp), Normal (Urban, Uncategorized, Volcanic) and Slow (Cliffside, Underground, Volcanic) maps; then you will always get 1 from Fast, 1 from Normal, and 1 from Slow.

Problem: Fractal Specific Rewards have no uses. And by this I mean the Mists Essences (ascended material) and the Pristine Fractal Relics. These rewards have very limited uses compared with other similar rewards (for example, like dungeon tokens, or any other material). As far as I know Mist Essences can only be used for either A) Infusing ascended rings, or Crafting (very expensive) ascended back items. And let me put this “very expensive” statement in perspective… I’m in the process of crafting my fourth Prototype Fractal Capacitator, and in all this time I’m not even close to get the materials required to craft one of the other back items.
Proposal: Add more uses to these rewards. In the case of the Pristine Fractal Relics, I would add the same rewards that you can get with Standard Fractal Relics but with a Pristine Fractal Relic version. I mean the Obsidian Shards, Fractal Capacitators, 20 slot bags, etc… And in the case of the Mist Essences I would convert them in materials that can be used with the artisan disciplines. Maybe adding some cooking recipes (who knows, they may be delicious) and stuff like that. Also, maybe upgrade them in the same way Ectoplasms were updated, so we can salvage them for Dust or Ectoplasm.

The next point may be controversial, so let me give you the rationale behind it. In my observations I found out that the average drops are very similar regardless of the level played, actually, for one specific type of drop I got worst results the higher the level. Let me put this in perspective, in these 100 runs, I got exactly 31 ascended rings, this means 0.31 rings per run (yes, I’m super lucky with rings, except that I only get 5 silver from each ring from vendoring :p ). Now, when I look at this statistic by fractal level, I found that my average is always very close to 0.31 in levels 10 to 19, also 0.31 in levels 20 to 29, again 0.31 in levels 30 to 39… This may be pure coincidence, but I got the same results with other drops, like Mist Essences, and the same again for Cores, and again for Lodestones. I haven’t got enough Exotics (only 4), or Fractal Skins (0) or Ascended boxes (0) but I believe that it is the same for them. So the conclusion I got is that I’ve been averaging the same number of rings in level 10 than in level 30 (yes, I know that in level 26+ you get ascended and infused rings, but what I’m looking at is the number of drops).

What really gets better, is that you get more Standard Fractal Relics, and more karma. And that’s it.

So now you may say… But I know that people doing level 48 get lots of Fractal Skins, and Ascended Boxes, and Precursors… Well, I don’t have enough data to claim this to be true or false with a 100% of accuracy, BUT, it is true that usually people doing level 48 will be farming this level, or just increasing their personal reward level playing higher levels, so obviously most of their drops will always be at level 48, but this does not mean that if they were doing level 26 they were not getting the same things. So finally, based on my observation, the next point is:

I like it, and I want more like it.

Out of curiosity, now that you have that much money, what are you using it for?

I have one legendary, Twilight, and crafting it was the biggest effort I’ve ever made in any video game. So no, selling it was not an option for me.

As the title says, I opened Oola’s lab today in Metrica Province, and while I was killing the guardian golemns there, I got points for the WvW Season 1 Achievement “Guard Slayer”.

Same with pristine fractal relics.

You have no idea… the wooden sword on the pirate outfit is the most OP… Invulnerable on 2, multi attack on 1, and I even have a canon! A CANON!!!

My 500 legitimate victories prove me right!

If you want to prove that you were in last year Halloween event you can do it with the Witch Hat that they gave for free. They will probably give a different hat this year.

And that’s the only thing that I can say because you almost left me out of words…

it probably is the same dragon that you can see flying around everywhere, they may have the model in the map as an asset that can be quickly cloned

Eve’s armor!

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Eve

1. More game modes
2. GvG
3. Longer battles so ability is more important than skill rotation (or build of the week). Battles where planning and strategy can have an impact. What I mean by longer battles is that you have to focus fire on somebody to bring him down, and not having a guy who can go down in 1.3 seconds.

And one more comment for point 3. The current system is not very friendly to newcomers and outsiders, because everything happens so fast that they will never know whats going on. Plus the fact that the traits are “hidden” makes it very difficult to understand for those people. This may be of special interest for viewers in external sources like the ESL. Making traits more visible may help understanding what’s happening. I may make a separate post for this as a suggestion.

I’ll try to keep it simple.

1. Rewards. Reward systems, RNG, rewards vs long and short term objectives. What do you, the devs, and us the players, understand for rewards?
2. Money and BLTC. Playing the game vs Playing the BLTC. Why is so much more lucrative to play the BLTC than to do anything else? Effect of the BLTC on non hardcore players.
3. Content for Groups. Currently we only have dungeons and guild missions, the last updates we had on the living world tend to separate parties instead of bringing them together.

There you go, my 3 key points. I’ve seen some interesting proposals from some people, that gave a new point of view on some matters. I think whatever ANet chooses as key points will be good.

Just want to add… Thanks for this amazing initiative.

just in case, a picture of zhaitan corpse…

Vayne.8563:

Well, except that if you wanted a Voltaic spear, you can go to the Slaver’s Exile dungeon and you know it will drop there for sure. I bought my 1st one, and got 4 more from drops.

The frog scepter was a drop from the Bogroot Growths, so you only need to do this specific dungeon.

Celestial compass, dropped in the underworld.

Mini Yakkington from the Gift of the Traveler.

Mini Polar Bear, ok, this one was rare, only during Wintersday, but at least you know where to get it.

Zodiac weapons, The Deep and Urgoz’s Warren.

Ectoplasms, Underworld and Tomb of the Primeval Kings. And they were more common than all the T6 materials together.

Black and White dyes, in Pre-Searing Ascalon.

Now tell me, if I want a Dusk, where do I go to get it? If I want a fractal skin, where does it drop (in fractals yeah, a lot… lol)? Entropy? Bonetti’s? What if I just want T6 blood, where does it drop?

There is only 1 thing that I wanted and could never put my hands on in GW1… the mini ghostly hero, and only because my pvp guild disbanded before it was introduced and I didn’t want to spend platinum on it. However the list of things I have given up in GW2 is only increasing…

Hi there, I would like to propose something for making it easier for non-crafters to get ascended gear.

We have at least two currencies that have not been updated since release, tokens and karma.

We also have a few ascended materials that have little to no use, Vials, Globs and Shards of Mists Essence.

And finally we have something that costs 500 Fractal Relics called Gift of Ascension.

And by now I think all the readers may have found out where I’m trying to go.

What if you combine all of this and create new Mystic Forge recipe that allow players to upgrade their exotic items to ascended.

This could be done in a similar way to what we have for legendaries, requiring more gifts and materials for more complex recipes, and it will probably help getting people out of those champion farms and bring them back to do dungeons and fractals.

And another +1 here for morrolan.

There is a risk here. Those updates are converting something fun and new into something tedious that could be found in any other legacy MMO.

The new crafting system requires you to waste the most expensive and hard to get materials to craft exotics and then destroy them for a chance (always a chance) to get dark matter. And then, you are limited to craft certain items only once per day. I’m not a crafter, so I’m not even leveling to 500, but if somebody enjoys crafting, or wants to make a profit from it, why are they time limited? What’s the purpose of this limitation?

The new ascended weapons can only be obtained by crafting (and probably will be the same for the armor), what happened to the dungeon tokens and the karma and the wvw tokens? Why are these currencies not being updated as well?

We even have a Gift of Ascension available for 500 Fractal Relics, why cannot we use this item to upgrade our vanity items to ascended level? I spent 250 ectos and 250 skill points to build The Anomaly, and this is even cheap compared with a guildie who crafted Azureflame… and now these items are “simple” exotics.

And what about all the armor bought with gems, I already “lost” a gem armor set to the magic find update, and I’m not getting those gems back, when the ascended armor comes what will happen with the cultural sets (119 gold for t3 + transmute down the drain), or other sets customized with gems?

I honestly think the game should go back to its roots.

But what can we do… I can see lots of people with ascended weapons already, so I guess I’m the minority here, and what the people really want is only to farm champions and play the tp…

I find that hard to believe. It is well known that the higher the fractal level the worst the drop… and the amount of fractal skins that I have proves me right. (it is a number between nothing and none)

Just a bit of humor here

Nah, they may drop in high fractal levels, but it is still super ultra rare, I don’t think I will ever do other than fractal level 10, I get more cores and lodestones there than in level 30 and way more faster :p I don’t even need agony resistance! (btw worst mechanic ever)

I’m yet to see an exotic from one of those chests or wvw events… and even if I got an ascended, it would be random… so I don’t those are very good means to get one…

Best:

-Dungeon Tokens to choose your reward
-Jumping Puzzles
-Difficult stuff like Liadri, the new Tequatl, etc…
-Anything that has to be played in group
-Dynamic events

Worst:

-PvP
-The new (and unbelievable) crafting mechanics
-Random or non-existent rewards (except for dungeon tokens)
-Too much “solo play” content (like the queen’s gauntlet, the scarlet farm, etc…)
-Guild missions (except for the puzzle and the race)

Has there been any mention about getting ascended gear via something other than crafting?

I’ve never been a crafter until gw2, this mmo was the first that had a system that I actually enjoyed, and I even levelled all the artesanies to 400… just to find out this aberrant ascended thing…

Will we ever get methods like what we had with exotics? Like dungeon tokens, or wvw tokens?

Does somebody know if the ascended armors will also follow this wow-like system?

As far as I know it is random, it depends on the rank token you put in… So the recipe is always the same, and you may get something from the rank you put in or below.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_reward

And the recipe is in the wiki as well: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge#Structured_PvP

I did this with a group of 5 and we got 4 keys in 1 hour, so I would say we were around 15 minutes. But since keys are not very useful we are not doing this anymore.

When you right click on an item on your inventory and select “Mail item to…” it automatically changes the “To:” field to whoever you had selected, or your last selection, even if you already have another account name there.

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Is the program to join the testers still open? If so, how can I apply?

I don’t think they are in the game yet. They may be added later as rewards from black lion chests, as it happened with the aetherized weapons.

Or maybe they are the new “Final Rest”.

I’m around 150€, at this point I spend all my gold in gems, so I don’t see myself buying more gems with money in the near future…

I have one concern regarding the solo Q… Invading roles were way more rewarding than bunkers, so do you think that we will have people willing to play bunkers? Or will we have teams made of 5 berserkers?

I’m not an achievement hunter, and I’m on the 8k points. I’ve been playing since day 1 – 3. I missed lots of dailies and a few monthlies as well. I only did PvP achievements for the first 2-3 weeks (rank 13 or 14 I think), so almost all my points are from PvE.

Sindustrial.1875:

Am I the only one feeling cheapened with the Digital Deluxe edition?

Our banker golems lasted 1 week, and we had to spend an extra 20 dollars for it.

Mini Rytlock? Garbage.
Mistfire? Useless elite 2012, candidate for 2013.
Band of Heros? Ran out of juice in 10-30 levels.

And Banker Golem, a week of bank access. Why not permanent Arena Net?

So you paid 20 dollars for a banker golem that lasts 5 days? If you don’t like any of the things that were included in the deluxe edition, why did you buy it?

I have the DD and I don’t feel cheated at all. I used the banker golem with all my characters, and every time I create a new character, I get a new golem… plus the ring, and a free elite skill that I don’t have to spend points in and can use as soon as I’m level 30, and an awesome Rytlock mini that is my favorite character from Destiny’s Edge.

And I think you forgot the free glory points, and influence points for your guild…

There are two types of PvP, you have Structured PvP and World vs World vs World.

sPvP is a completely different world. You get leveled up to 80 automatically, and you get new PvP specific gear for free. You also get a new currency called Glory that you can use to get new skins (randomly). You can access sPvP clicking in the icon with two swords crossed in the top left corner of your screen.

WvWvW is like open world PvP, you compete with your PvE character, armor and weapons. You can access WvWvW pressing B, and then selecting one of the 4 maps available.

When you are walking with a Charr, one of the footsteps will be pointing in the same direction that I’m moving to, while the other will be pointing backwards.

I have two Charr (Warrior and Engineer, males) characters and it happens to both of them.

This comes only from my observation, so I’m not 100% sure, but if somebody else can try it and share results, that would be great.

The thing is, if you kill an enemy (or more than one) with the damage caused ONLY by feedback, you will not get any loot.

I notice this in the Harathi Hinterlands, in the event that you have to defend two campaments and there are waves of centaurs coming, just before you raid the big centaur campament in the north east. I usually cast feedback on ranged mobs, while using my attacks on others. I can see all the damage returned by Feedback, but then they have no loot for me.

If I use Feedback, and then I land at least 1 auto-attack on them, then they will drop something.

It may be that I’m extremely unlucky, but I’ve seen this behaviour quite a few times already.