Guild Wars 2

Skychok.7854:

Auesis.7301:

Unleashed.6195:

A string description and supposed functionality doesn’t produce confidence necessary to feel the question is answered. It’s also not even certain the item will be released, whatever it does. The item also can’t address multiple transmutes (not that this will be as common as individual transmutes).

Yes it will. That’s in the description of the item – if the item has been transmuted multiple times, it will take the item that provides the skin and the item that provides the stats. In that case, you will always get the Legendary back, because if you weren’t totally braindead, you kept the skin.

DO NOT, I repeat: DO NOT listen to the people telling you this garbage. They have no idea what they’re talking about.

Items found while datamining aren’t necessarily going to make it into the game.

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1hy4wp/bank_tab_expansion_exclusive_hairstyles_basket/caz4snx

And yet these strings exist. That means Arenanet have plans for transmuted Legendaries, one way or another.

Stop being a kitten.

There is no exception to the following statement:

If you left boxes unopened or bought a load of stacks just before today came around, legitimately thinking this farm would go unnerfed on the big patch, you are a complete and utter idiot.

Not a single one of you deserves any form of compensation.

Deadeye netted me a Rapier, Komalie’s Dagger, Entropy, Genesis, Crystal Guardian, at least 3 Cobalts, Lord Taeres’ Shadow and recently the Zodiac Greatsword.

Deadeye Dunwell – never forget.

wat?

I don’t even have an Engineer. :|

That said, I’m still too busy to have a hosting role, though I’d be happy to guest again should the show ever come back.

You have just given me a fantastic video idea.

I res often, but I enjoy it more when people deliberately try and disrupt my farm. Breaks the monotony of it, and I get to watch someone get worked up – the illusion they have, thinking that I care at all. It’s highly amusing. Wasting more of their own time than they are mine. G/hour means nothing to me – I’m only here because I have nothing else to do. By all means, brighten up my day

Confirmation? Is there even a rumour? Heard literally nothing about this.

I don’t mind farming him so much. I burned through 2k tickets today, but that was too much even for me. Putting it down to 1k a day instead.

As for how to get through it, music + podcasts + CVG’s GTA 5 previews. So good.

1) S/P
2) 0/30/0/15/25
3) PvE

2) S/D
2) 10/30/0/0/30
3) PvE/WvW

I give it an 8/10 – I’m not the biggest fan of that face template but it works!

Since I got the 10k title, I abandoned the Radiant armor and went back to a much sleeker look for my Guardian. Treated him to Genesis, too.

Grimwolf.7163:

Just occurred to me.
Greatsword on a Thief would let me pair it with P/P, so I could go all Devil May Cry on people’s kittens.
I find myself desperately wanting this, now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvfbT36ao5E

GS, P/P, S/S.

Rebellion, Ebony + Ivory, Agni + Rudra.

I need this now.

I’m not farming all day every day, I’ve been going by Sprockets (you get them out of every box). Doing that, my sprocket total and thus income go up each day. Today I spent ~3 hours and netted ~130g, a profit of about 80g. Tomorrow that profit will go up to about ~120g.

Other than that, I’ve been leveling lower alts in the Pavilion.

^ Pretty much what he said, but I used P/P and Unloaded him to death. Didn’t take long.

P/D + cal+dodgetrops. Easy.

Gaile Gray: “The language filter is not a license to curse.”

raptor.1064:

Shirogatsu.3150:

How about SAB in Rata Sum a while ago?
And for Balthazar sake, this “human political figure” trying to make a peace with charrs for a kitten long period of time, THIS “human policital figure” is a part of YOUR charr history

trying to make peace with the charr

“we can make our golem take the form of our enemies!” golem turns into a charr

as a charr that was very insulting

No. It turns in to Flame Legion.

Are you going to seriously associate yourself with the Charr of the Flame Legion? Then you don’t deserve to call yourself a Charr.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Nuka Cola.8520:

anzenketh.3759:

ToT.7018:

Didnt play GW1 so not sure if the anniversary present is on par with those.
Mini will just go in bank never to be seen again, exp scroll i dont need as im lvl 80, booster maybe ok depending on what it boosts.

They are on par with GW1 We just got minis or tunics in GW1. This is actually better as we get a booster and a Scroll of Experience.

You must be joking… In gw1 you had multiple minis, always at least 2 per year going way over 100k AND they were all sellable. Here you will be stuck with an acc bound mini (yet another one… as if we don’t have enough of these), a scroll LOL and a booster~~~~a booooooster haha

I dunno, what’s the joke? “Jungle Troll again?” “WTS Jungle Troll, will pay 500g for you to take it.” “WTS minis, need bank space back…”

Seriously, GW1 minis were useless unless they were the ones people wanted. And then most often it was undedicated only . . . also the ones most often going for 100K+ were bundled in collector’s editions, given as specific prizes, or were the goshdarn Mini Polar Bear.

This.

D/P Thief works exactly the same way. Shadow Shot, Ambush, Steal, Black Powder, spam auto-attack, Scorpion Wire when he runs away, rinse, repeat.

Manoa.5897:

Shpongle.6025:

Manoa.5897:

A Massive Headache.1879:

Manoa.5897:

Crap. Deadeye was probably my best (maybe even only shot) at getting the gambit achievements. Yet another example of ArenaNet’s exploit early and exploit often philosophy. Thanks for ruining things for those who haven’t gotten that far yet farmers!

except this wasn’t an exploit, there were no rules being broken.

This was certainly an exploit. An exploit is taking advantage of a bug or loophole and playing the game in a way that was not intended by the developers. Obviously, it was never intended for players to be making hundreds of gold by farming Deadeye. This farming very much had the potential to significantly impact our in-game economy. If it wasn’t considered an exploit, Deadeye would never have been changed.

Good rule of thumb when it comes to identifying exploits…if it is too good to be true, it most certainly is.

but it wasn’t too good to be true, for every 20 gold you made from opening bags, you had to pay 9 gold to buy more entry tickets…

9 gold = 45 tickets. For those doing 5 gambits, that’s 6 tickets per match. At 6 tickets per match, that’s 7.5 matches. With matches lasting at maximum 2 minutes, that’s 15 minutes at most not including queue times (but let’s be honest, most farming matches were far less time than that).

11g net for less than 15 minutes worth of work? And you seriously think this was working as intended?

Umm, what?

5 tickets is 20 silver. 45 tickets would be 1.8g.

9g would be 225 tickets, or a max back-to-back of 450 minutes (7 and a half hours) without gambits. With 5 tickets (4 gambits is now the norm) per match, you can get that down to 90 minutes maximum, not including over-extending match preps.

It CAN be, but he teleports a lot more randomly now. You’d have a much harder time. Shadow Shot stops that being a problem.

Bovinity.8610:

Patch notes are there to tell us what changed in a patch. They lied.

Simple principle to understand. No need to be so disgustingly bitter.

Maybe ANet just wanted to imagine the looks on everyone’s faces the first time they went back to their Dunwell-Farm and got gibbed.

Well they failed miserably at that. Still happily farming with 4 gambits. They have no idea what they’re doing.

Bovinity.8610:

Yes yes, ANet took your toy away and didn’t send you a personalized letter to let you know. Do make sure you let everyone know how outraged you are.

Patch notes are there to tell us what changed in a patch. They lied.

Simple principle to understand. No need to be so disgustingly bitter.

Doing it perfectly fine on my Thief still.

If they’re going to nerf it, do it properly.

Oh, and MENTION IT ON THE PATCH NOTES. The dishonesty is sickening me.

Patch just nerfed this method VERY hard. Luckily, D/P with 4 gambits (not Crowd Favourite) is still perfectly fine.

Reikou.7068:

Played around with builds a bit more, and have come to the conclusion that S/P IS indeed the superior option.

This is the build that I am using as of now. 30s turnover time, with 5 gambits.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYAQNAsaVlcmyOHcy4E95Ey2jeqC5J/DklODa6lA-j0yAYLBRiCAZBiKAm8IiWTfg1zioxqrxUuCRa3UbzLiWNA-w

And what rotation do you use? Spam Pistol Whip?

raptor.1064:

Vol.5241:

Don’t stop there. I would also like to get a free precursor, 100g, and 1000 gems.

Because I don’t think getting a single minipet and a scroll is enough!

But then again, demanding gifts for your ‘Birthday’ is a pretty pathetic thing.

lmao this guy didn’t play GW1

I played GW1 since launch and have close to 10k points here, and I’ve had a use for every experience scroll so far (started up a necro, will use the 10k scroll on a second ranger and, on the birthday, engi). You don’t deserve anything just because it’s your character’s birthday. Be grateful you get anything at all for a reason that arbitrary. Besides, if they brought back RNG-based birthday minis you would only hear cries that the end is near because RNG is bad mkay.

I don’t get it. Why was it so fantastic to roll and hope you get a good mini once a year in GW1? I’m glad that nonsense is over.

>Complains about RNG in general
>Complains that we don’t have some more totally RNG minis

I give up. I don’t even. I don’t even so hard.

After reading the mined .dat, I can safely say that NOBODY in this thread is even close to correct.

You’re in for a treat.

Replacing it with boon duration would be glorious.

cerberus.1937:

you will just be spinning your wheels as the saying goes, as they made it perfectly clear in no uncertain terms they will NOT make both fractals; this was officially stated multiple times on multiple threads. The vote was to decide which one was built and winners fractal will be built. For someone to win someone has to lose, that said you are free to do as you wish as long as it falls in the rules of the code of conduct, but don’t expect them to circumvent their decision based on it.

Colin said if there was enough of an uproar, they would make the other Fractal eventually too.

Least boring: Thief
Most boring: Guardian

Guardian is probably my fault, because I just run a cookie-cutter AH hammer build and face-tank everything while AFK and eating cereal.

“Double-click to separate a transmuted item into the two base items it is made from. If the target item has been transmuted more than once, only the current appearance item and the current stat item will be recovered.” – Transmutation Splitter[s]

It must work if strings like this exist in the files at all.

Unleashed.6195:

A string description and supposed functionality doesn’t produce confidence necessary to feel the question is answered. It’s also not even certain the item will be released, whatever it does. The item also can’t address multiple transmutes (not that this will be as common as individual transmutes).

Yes it will. That’s in the description of the item – if the item has been transmuted multiple times, it will take the item that provides the skin and the item that provides the stats. In that case, you will always get the Legendary back, because if you weren’t totally braindead, you kept the skin.

Reddit’s dataminers found a string for an item which supposedly splits up transmuted items back in to their original forms, completely intact with stats, names, sigils etc. I presume you’ll need to get one of those when they come out.

I noticed you never try to land a HS for a backstab. Any reason for that? I would have done that once or twice, I think. If it’s a problem with initiative, I’d probably do it through Smoke Screen instead of Black Powder.

I can’t play until later this week, so I’ll try it for myself then.

OmniPotentes.4817:

Hydra.9573:

I’ve gone through 4 stacks of sprockets buying nothing but tickets and I still cant beat this crap. im overwhelmed by everything thrown at me at once, if I pay attention to one thing im caught by another. It needs to be nerfed. if I cant get this kitten mini then my miniature collection is pretty much useless, guess I wont be buying any of the minis from the gem store anymore. Way to burn a repeat paying customer. hope the 10% of elites can make up for the lost miniature collectors not paying anymore.

I pretty much agree with this. I also have gone through 4 stacks and am quite discouraged by now. Not being able to get that mini seriously makes me want to quit playing all together. I’ll keep trying until the end of the event but if I fail I’m done supporting the gemstore. Hope they can make enough money from the elitist player base they cater to.

So everyone should be able to do all content, no problem? I should be able to walk in to the final showdown against all the remaining Elder Dragons with my 0/0/0/0/0 naked Elementalist and auto-attack them to death with a white scepter. It’s only fair for everyone then!

Seriously, this is one mini, one achievement, in one area, within one city, of the entire game. Get over yourself.

What happened to players that relished challenge? Nope, everyone just wants everything handed to them now. A single obstacle to overcome and it’s “TO THE FORUMS!” where the tears commence. It’s pathetic.

Or you could just do the exact same strategy against Strugar and Chomper, with Crowd Favourite instead of Exhausted. The Quaggan isn’t even worth paying attention to. Dodgetrops your way to certain victory.

You can’t reason with people. Every player from every level of skill must be able to complete all content with no fuss and no hassle, otherwise it’s GG Anet.

Oh, how I wish I could afford to buy everyone here a copy of Dark Souls so they could man up.

Korval.3751:

ESKan.6782:

No, don’t nerf it. It’s the first achievement that actually feels like an accomplishment! Personally, I want more of those in the game, not only in temporary content.

I want to feel a sense of achievement when getting those difficult ones, not relief it’s over.

97% of the players who somehow manage, if ever, to complete it will not feel joy when it is done. They also represent over 90% of the players who buy gems. Who is Arenanet going to make happy? Those who PAY to keep the game alive… or those who CRY for more uber difficult content that only a small percentage will ever complete?

95% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Sorry, carry on Michael Pachter.

Go watch the twitch.tv preview. They said this is supposed to be hard, and not everyone is supposed to be able to complete it.

And it IS coming back, it’s confirmed in another thread.

I doubt Lightbringer would be it, considering that’s a rank in the Order of Whispers.

Got another skin set to round off my collection (Zerk/Scholar, Celestial/Divinity, Valk and Carrion). Guess which one this is.

While Melee is preferable in 99.99999999999999999999999% of situations, I do think that at least one ranged weapon being able to reach 1200 units would be nice.

I don’t know the exact build layout, but I know my Ele buddy used Fresh Air, Zephyr’s Focus and Renewing Stamina along with Sigils of Battle and Energy. S/D. Basically used the burst potential of Air switching while staying on the move.

Everything goes together – love it! 10/10

Updated my Warrior with a new chest and GS, and my Thief with a Scholar set (never got around to it until now).

Gilded Strongbox dropped it for me.

Thomassassinate.9370:

Silly boy you havent realised, this whole gauntlet favors professions, i even helped an elementalist out, he asked how to beat it on his elementalist i told him to log off and pick a different alt.

I know at least three Elementalists who have beaten it. S/D, Fresh Air, Zephyr’s Focus and Sigils of Energy + Battle go a long way.

You should immediately stop giving advice to anyone, ever.

Thomassassinate.9370:

If you’re a thief the achievment is a cake walk. No title needed.

So what about the 7 other professions that succeed in doing it? Do they not deserve it?

Get over your pitiful vendetta.

The game just needs cooler titles in general. That said, I think completing the whole gauntlet meta would be more suitable for a title than just one of the achievements.

Aedil.1296:

Worst update ever. All in my guilds are saying a normal player cannot do this, and I agree. Fortunatly Anet stated GW2 was for casual players….woooooot!?!?!?

a casual player will NEVER do this. most of hardcore games too are having serious problems.

That’s the way it should be.

Arenanet said themselves in the preview stream that this is SUPPOSED to be incredibly difficult, and not everyone is supposed to be able to complete it.

Fix the glaring camera issues, arena placement, visibility issues etc. but DO NOT make it easier.

This hard-mode content has its own separate achievement section, away from the main Jubilee section. You don’t have to do it, and you’re not expected to.

God forbid some difficult content comes along.

Now bring back UW and FoW.