Guild Wars 2

awesome. I can finish that off later then.

You have the booster you wish to convert in your inventory?

It is one of the old exp boosters?

idk if powder works on the new exp/item boosts.
Then again I think the new exp boosts give the crafting xp boost anyway.

I immediate thought when I read the blog post was:
Codex arena. (gw1 pvp arena, with rotations on available skills)
Which that was dead as a dodo in next to no time.

The problem with " it encourages you to buy bag slots" is:
The key is on a different char, and I can’t be bothered to keep moving them around via the bank. It’s just annoying. Doesn’t really encourage me to have more bag slots.
Just encourages me to open world on a single character.

It would be such a huge QoL improvement to have them in the wallet ( or keyring: aka wallet #2).

I’m pretty sure it will happen if enough people ask for it though.

Don’t do it!

You’ll need zerker/assassin/sinister/viper for raids most likely.
Two words: Enrage. Timer.

IF you really need a “middle of the road” set for open world, stick with exotics. You don’t even need asc here anyways. So the insane cost is pointless.

As for your “balance of playstyle” thing.. Gear has sod all to do with that. That is 99% influenced by trait/util/weapon choices.

I heard this was causing people to crash.

Anyone know if its been fixed?

check the lfg for taxi, or get a map going by taxi-ing people in.

Some people will still do it. Just depends on the time of day. ( I find things pick up later in the afternoon UTC)

Well, considering HoT looks like 4 LS episodes and a feature pack..

Don’t expect anything for at least 6 more weeks.

I don’t expect anything other than raid wing one before next year tbh.

Akamatzu.6812:

I don’t get what you are complaining about.
Each fractal lvl takes much shorter now, since it is only one and not 3/4.
Meaning that you can farm out fractals much faster with an efficient group.
Also opening the chests is worth it! Ofcause it is not worth it to buy others loot and open it! That has to be a gamble, but if he had farmede the 1000 Fractal Encryptions and spend 120G on opening them he would have made: 262-120=142g.

Or am I missing some point here?

The time to farm out 1000 boxes/keys, could yield more gold in the nerfed reward state dungeons.

I think that is the point you are missing.

So much for “decentived” dungeons in favour of fotm & better fotm rewards. ( which are now worse than before hot)

oh they are the same price as crafting now?

So what is the point in the mastery gated vendor really?

I guess anet is trying to tell us they don’t want us doing fotm either..

It’s funny, I misinterpreted the original info on it. I thought it would req maxed mastery to begin with.

Hidden.2103:

The worst about this is that some classes simply don’t have strong PvE condition based specs. When it comes to power specs, at least every class has a viable spec when it comes to DPS.

This.

condi dps across the classes needs some work.

they only last 24 hours at a time?
Its like birthday booster 24 hours at least, right?

or just a HoT section..

Not sure how weakness works with new defiance. just yet. Though I should look into that.

Still sounds like he hits for around 6k if it wasn’t a glancing hit though. geez.. I’m losing the motivation to finish getting to 100 pretty quickly.

Unfortunately this is what I expect raids to be like too, albeit with enrage timer.

QQ sinister/viper meta inc!

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

No, no.
They don’t have that much more HP (though they probably have more than before starting at a certain point), they have that much more toughness. That’s a difference.
Sinister burns through them much faster than Berserker does, which is bullkitten. Except for the Underground Facility boss because conditions haven’t been fixed on it, so you’re kittened for that one anyway.

The reduced damage in correlation to the high toughness is just… dumb. Can’t put it differently. If I run scales around 80 and I manage to make Archdiviner hit for a measly 4k with his Leap, then I don’t know anymore.

archy @ 80 hits for 4k with his leap?
Did I read that right?
O.o

So, at 70+ & full zerk glass, was that ettin back to one-shotting if you goof up, like pre-hot 50?

somewhat unrelated, but mentioned:
It would be really useful to have a counter for x/y mastery points obtained.

So I’ve not had the chance to try above level 60 yet but..

I’m already finding the fights are incredibly boring.

They just drag out, and don’t feel particularly dangerous.
I’m sure at higher levels bosses stop hitting like wet noodles.

But they feel much more passive now, favouring passive defence over active skill use such as spamming protection over well timed aegis.

Also resulting in a long time spent just AAing due to everything having been used ( eg MS, glyph, whirling wrath).

Couple what seems like long boring (frankly tedious) fights, with what seems like less loot ( it may not be, but getting the best out of the loot is now a lot more complicated).

All in all I’m pretty disappointed with FotM.
I’ll probably get to 100, but unless the “fun factor” improves I’m pretty unlikely to carry on doing them.

Everyone who practices long enough reaches this point.

Eventually you start to notice all the stupid things some players do in group content, like spamming AA and nothing else. or kitting a boss out of an AoE because “ima tank!”.

Then you get the " I did nothin wrong QQ kitten" type pm’s when you boot em out in favour of a player (or many times an empty slot) more productive.

“elitists” in gw2 aren’t unfriendly quite often, some people just act as a catalyst for aggression and frustrations.

I haven’t been to a HP since patch due to only having 15 mins free before work.

Did all the champs get nerfed of just scaled? (scaling would be better imo, so they can be done without waiting for others. I had to wait around to often already cause no one was nearby).

But big +1 for the reduced cost. I actually feel like going an getting the elite specs on any of my characters now ( even more so if I don’t have to rely on others being around to get the new hot hp’s).

edit: Also they weren’t exactly challenging before, just needed someone to kite aggro while 1+ drops dps. tedium <> challenge (bit like the revamped fotm, but that’s a post for another thread).

It has very little to do with being casual.
I have nearly 9k hours, and thought 400 points too much effort for the elite specs.

Aye, having to wait around for other players is one of the major put-offs for me going and getting my elite specs on all my characters.

These need to be completable solo.

I just looked at the wiki page.

Wondering if the maguuma maps each give a mastery point, and is that per character?

I’m kinda hoping 100% map complete of each of the four new HoT maps can give 1 mastery point/char.

I expect they are all gotten the same then.

So I need to finish berserker to get the runes I want on my scrapper.. on top of herald to make that useful. /sigh

Thanks for the info though!

Has anybody found means of getting these runes yet?

So if the ultimate aim is such strict shepherding…

Perhaps remove ALL loot from EVERYTHING.
Then pay players to bias their metrics with dailys.

Also provides a very easy framework with which to control economy.

Cyninja.2954:

You are making a grave mistake.

You are setting equal direct gold loot with gold gained through selling of materials/items.

Those 2 are not the same. If you get materials or items as rewards, you need to exchange them on the trading post and no new gold has entered the economy.

Direct gold loot (as is from dungeons at the moment) does influence the total goldsupply and leads to inflation.

None of the things you mentioned give any where near the same amount of direct gold loot. Just because your gold gain might be the same or higher than dungeons, does not mean it’s the same. Someone else has to give up their gold to you (plus a 15% trading post tax).

If you want to talk rewards for dungeons, then suggest something besides direct gold loot, since arenanet is likely to want to recude that. Maybe have dungeons give a couple of rares per daily or such.

erm, no.

Please go back and read again.

I feel anet has forgotten WHY dungeons got their gold reward hiked up.

World bosses I typically get 2-3 rares every 15 minutes..
I can also go gathering materials during pres.

teq for example i can go mine 50-100 platinum, and 50+ hard wood logs while waiting.
I just finished Karka queen, got 4 rares, 4 champ bags, 6 karka shells.

All this requires is me to run around, and press f & 1.
If we assume the dungeon rewards are being nerfed to 26 silver + 60 tokens once/day (seems like a fair assumption from what i’ve read).

60 tokens = TWO rares, for 5-30 mins work ( with a metazerk team).
As much as 15-60 mins with an average team.

Now lets also remember anet NERFED the drop rate of ectos from those dungeon token rares, to HALF the regular rares a couple of years ago.

some stats that afaik still hold true:

Dungeon token rare: 0.45 ecto/rare
All other rares: 0.9 ecto/rare.

So dungeon rares are worth 1/2 a rare. So 1 path is 1 rare.

This was because ecto prices plummeted after the rares were added to world bosses and due to converting of tokens -> rares -> ectos.

For often more time, always more effort, I get less loot.

to compare:
15-20 (up to 30 for teq) mins of world boss:
lots of gathered materials (anything up to a stack)
2-3 rares (as many as 10 for teq, and 5 for karka).
Karma from events.

Dungeons:
5-30 ( meta zerk) or 15-60 (typical pug run)
1 (Effective) rare.
26 silver.

TL;DR
I feel world boss rewards significantly are too high.
Too many rares and too many ectos.
They aren’t/won’t be scarce, despite being called “rare”.

Eddie Mo.7169:

XPilo.5862:

sicsempertyrannis.3510:

Dungeons don’t sell for $50.

They do for me, I buyed this game mostly for the dungeons.

At least Raids are like dungeons… with 10 people… and harder… Right?

And also time gated to once per WEEK.

It’s hard enough finding groups for dungeons during my evening since it’s so close to reset.
I expect I will have to do all nighters if I want to raid.

I have hard enough time finding groups during UK evenings.

Nerf to reward is going to make it impossible.

So I won’t be doing them even if I want to.

Q.Q

I love how Anet thinks zerging events/mobs in the precious seconds they’ll be up is going to be as fun or feel as rewarding as forming a good dungeon team.

Or how spending 30 mins max doing fotm for inevitablely badly balanced rewards can come close.

Then the claim of “new raid wings every two months” ..
When thermanova fractal took 6?
The kitten is hot, steamy, and brown.

So… Anet, when’s the gw3 announcement?

A whole bunch of it is already in the game client, judging by how much has been data mined + beta weekends.

I suspect if we get any further patches before HoT they will contain some of the data the client needs.

TL;DR
It’s already been partially done like that.

I suspect some stuff is being left out due to bugs/conflicts/datamine leakage etc. Anet is probably doing as much as they can on that

Yeah I went hunting and found a reddit post on it.
I hope those numbers get trimmed down a bit.

I was expecting around 90, for a trait line + skill set. Then maybe a few more for skins.

Source for that datamine?

Only got 189 hero challenges right now.
So either anet would have to add hero challenges (only seen mastery points in beta) in new maps, or we have to forgo having some of the skills/traits to get the skins ( which sounds pretty sadistic to me, since that char would be better deleted and remade after getting the skins).

If anet intends us to level each and every class to 80, then delete it and start over just to get the skins & have a char that is mechanically viable, I’m pretty sure there will be outrage.

I would definitely like buffs to affect all 10 in raids.

Will allow ( or require?) more diverse party comps.
& I like war/guard/ranger/rev over war/war/guard/guard for 4 of the classes..

Adding the option to select a quantity to buy from vendors would make me a happy lamb.

I think I remember a thread on that particular idea popping up a few months back come to think of it..

rng on which item you receive seems fine to me..

However it really does need to be every event, not every second event.

It make it seem disappointing, and almost chore-like to go find another event on a map that has been swarmed by players.

JP’s were included in the new loot? Those should definitely not require two completed for loot either if so.
& I might actually go do JP’s more often in the future too.

Were mini dungeons included in the new loot? Those could use some love too.

NumenorLord.6539:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Due to its current unintended behavior, the Symbolic Avenger trait has been temporarily disabled until the next scheduled release. If you were using this trait, we suggest you select a different one until the trait is re-enabled.

Thank you for the heads up Gaile. May I suggtest that while the team is fixing Symbolic Avenger to consider boosting Shattered Aegis damage so it becomes a viable option too? Giving Sword a % dmg or a speed buff modifier when traited would be appreciated too because the current Right Hand Strength (20% reduced recharge on Sword skills) is not useful compared to the old trait.

1h sword attack speed buff? that’d be a cool option..

Stratos.9375:

I believe they must have normalized it.

Precision – 841.xxx – 74 (which is the difference from 1000 to 926) / 21.xxx
It makes 4%.
Tested with 1090 precision, and It shows 8.28% in my panel, and it works with the formula, so I believe they did that.

I think they wanted it to stay at 4% for the base precision.

So we “gained” base prec, only to have it be completely useless anyway?

I sincerely hope not, as that would very much suck.

edit:
It looks like we are running at base 4.0%
Which still seems wrong since we “gained” 74 base precision, which is doing essentially nothing.

MithranArkanere.8957:

I have 4.0%.

You probably have something giving you 3.5% extra.

no. I don’t have something extra.

- see screenshot.
- Also see the wiki link to precision.

~ 1000 base prec we should have 7.5% crit chance, not 4.0%

I see your ninja edit. There are ( as far as I know) no utility items that LOWER crit chance.

926 prec -> 4.0% crit chance.
1000 prec -> 7.5% crit chance.

As per the formula here:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Precision

With no gear, attrib panel is only showing 4.0% crit chance with the new base 1000 prec.

ey, just tested it properly. Tooltip is wrong.

I’m guessing its a bug, as it seems to be functioning as “powerful blades”.
Tooltips shouldn’t alter without retal, if at all. However sword/spear damage is changing without any prerec condition.

Jaxom.7310:

Artemis Thuras.8795:

This trait is described as a 10% damage boost while under retal.

It is applying a damage mod to sword/spear, much like powerful blades did.

r u saying it is only applying it to sword/spear, and no other weapons?

I’m saying those two weapons are getting increased damage in tooltip when it is equipped.

This trait is described as a 10% damage boost while under retal.

It is applying a damage mod to sword/spear, much like powerful blades did.

Nightblade.8295:

snip

PLEASE GIVE VETERAN PLAYERS A SUBSTANTIAL IN-GAME GIFT of:
/examples/
a) several thousands of gems;
b) a precursor of a choice (or even a legendary) (account bound on acquire to prevent market exploits);
c) BIG pile of materials of choice (saaaaay- a thousand lodestones of choice)..

any 2 of those should make us happy

-be reasonable in your wishes-
snip

Try following your own guidelines OP?

Jawmeow.4502:

I am not opening them and not adding them to my other toons inventory because their inventories also nearly full. I’m not really into the skins, I want the armors and weapons stats for my toons later when they’re level 80. (They will be geared from all the stuffs I have in bank )

• For example for my low level ranger: I need the 6 pieces of the glorious armor, and like 6 weapons boxes of arah (for longbow, shortbow, greatsword, warhorn, sword and axe) total is 12. 12 slots is too much if it’s possible for them to take only 2 slots.

And since I’m not sure how many boxes I would need later for my toons, I’m not opening them to throw them in Mytic forge.

So keep those 12 on that char, ready to open when it hits 80?
You could even open them ready, so you know why they are there.

& you just freed up nearly half a tab of bank space.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Those may, or may not, be Pre-purchase Editions. Make sure you read the fine print.

Good luck.

Did you look at the links?

They are the pre-purchase versions.