This is what I was referring to.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/GW2-gold-for-GW1-gold/first#post2560855
That’s up to you both to decide (I’ve seen 1G = 1-2 ecto) but I’d check first to make sure it doesn’t violate the ToS.
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More like 14g every plank and 9g for for every ingot. And all it takes is a hour farming nodes everyday. No dungeon can beat this.
Oh. I’m referring to profit from placing buy orders for the materials and selling the crafted item.
Yep. Can’t beat an easy 6-8G per day for one account. Especially since we know legendary armor will likely require a lot of it.
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Megaserver is the best server.
Servers only really matter for WvW (or at least for now).
For volume 1? Wait for a reset (when there’s a patch) or periodically check the map.
Edit: Direct link to article failed. Try this.
The two that were interviewed were specifically talking about themselves and not Anet as a whole.
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So choose wisely I suppose.
It all comes down to luck. I finally got my first completion yesterday and that run went flawlessly. Nuhoch downed their Gerent in phase 2 and everyone else finished theirs off with over 2 minutes left in phase 3.
Virtually everyone on the map was there to participate. We had so many people that we had trouble figuring out where to place the late-comers after all lanes were “full”. People ate food. People brought their DPS. And it was super easy.
It’s all luck. You get lucky and have good players on your map. Or you get unlucky and have too many bad players. RNG when it comes to loot is frustrating but RNG when it comes to players is even worse.
Guild organized or pug?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Raids-are-Casual-Friendly/first#post5834209
Sums up my opinion on raids.
The TD event rewards is in line with the other maps in my opinion.
One thing that Anet could do would be to add unique, desirable weapon skins as rare drops from the TD chest. It’ll improve the rewards for that meta and add more skins to the game that can be obtained outside of the gem store.
Well I couldn’t loot the chest but got the items from it for the collection when I was still in the lane.
I would just compare the inventory before and after. If nothing is added after you beat it, and you can’t loot it, report it as a bug.
I finally got the 1,000 airship parts so I can now buy the remaining plated weapons the next time I do DS. I got lucky and hopped onto a map that was about halfway through the day cycle going for T4. I probably made about 300 currency through the end of the night cycle. Having a map with a decent sized population helps but is kind of difficult until they fix the megaserver issue. Already dreading the 2,250 currency I need to farm on the maps to get my title.
Check your inventory. I thought it was bugged at first but loot automatically goes into your inventory.
Assuming you have the mastery. One thing you can do is disable auto-loot and see or compare your inventory before and after you beat VW.
You don’t need to pick players. There’s enough room for error with the event that you don’t need perfection.
For pugs there aren’t, otherwise why couldn’t we get a >50% win rate now?
Yes there is. Like I’ve said several times already, people are still learning.
Gerent event, in its current state is poisonous.
In one squad I had joined, on this past saturday, the commander told me to ping my armor and equipment. I asked why and was promptly booted from the squad and asked to taxi to a different server so “people who were qualified to play” could be taxied in .
What changed to make people act this way? I don’t remember Ever encountering that bad of an attitude, before, in GW2.
That almost never happens and is not representative of how the atmosphere of the meta normally is. I’m sorry that you ran into someone like that.
Rather than just use the BiS term by itself, include whether you’re referring to stats alone or any additional functionality. It beats arguing over the definition.
Then the issue is with the players rather than the event itself.
How are you going to pick players in open map then? This is the biggest problem.
Finally got 1 win, I don’t need to be bothered by this meta ever again.
You don’t need to pick players. There’s enough room for error with the event that you don’t need perfection.
Why should it not be? It’s a design choice that Anet made to make this meta a little more difficult than the others.
I’d start the timer as of when the patch was released rather than a month or two ago. Many people got frustrated with the RNG fails at Nuhoch.
And it resulted that people are not doing it well.
It has been 1 week already, tell me the success rate?
It’s improving.
For the discussion on it
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3vz9sx/azimuth_staff_has_appeared_on_the_trading_post/
I saw someone link an ascended with that skin transmuted on it. I’m not sure if there’s any chat code that allows you to do that so there’s at least another person with the skin.
People need to find a map first? It’s not that difficult to just hop onto a map and ferry people on to it. If you require all of the events to be done then you can include the time it takes to do the events for VB, DS, SW, and AB to beat those metas.
Setting up in 10 minutes is not difficult. All you’re doing is splitting into four squads. If that takes more than 10 minutes then there’s issues outside of the game.
Yes, very few people are willing to start a map. Most of the ppl don’t want to do those events as well.
It is for pugs. They make all the mistakes and being late.
Then the issue is with the players rather than the event itself.
It’s because they were easy. AB has a very lax timer as does DS. DS only became successful because people went with the circle strategy instead of the designed one. Not saying that the circle strategy is wrong. You’re not going to get a 50% success rate this soon.
Why should it be so hard then? The reward aren’t better.
It has been a month and you said not this soon?
Why should it not be? It’s a design choice that Anet made to make this meta a little more difficult than the others.
I’d start the timer as of when the patch was released rather than a month or two ago. Many people got frustrated with the RNG fails at Nuhoch.
It used to be that we could doing the chapters as we levels as they were not tiered like they are now.
I have personally leveled 7 characters by doing map completion. This let’s you explore all of the maps and experience the various events that pop up if you choose to do them.
You do not need to set up that far in advance. You select a map, ferry people onto it. You can fill the map in about 5 minutes depending on the time of day. It helps to have the four commanders beforehand as people tend to leave if they don’t think it is organized. Setting up only takes 10 minutes at most as all you’re doing is splitting people into four squads and have those commanders explain the mechanics.
Well you can consider all of the TD meta event chains for the four camps then if you’re going to count the DS events.
You need to find a map first. And people will lose confidence if they see it was not organized(not just tags) because this meta is very hard. Also 10 mins usually it a bit too tight for pugs to organize, especially if you taxi ppl in so late.
But people are not bothered to do it because the meta is based on the timer, not progress. Also if DS’ difficulty was that high, it would also have been different.
People need to find a map first? It’s not that difficult to just hop onto a map and ferry people on to it. If you require all of the events to be done then you can include the time it takes to do the events for VB, DS, SW, and AB to beat those metas.
Setting up in 10 minutes is not difficult. All you’re doing is splitting into four squads. If that takes more than 10 minutes then there’s issues outside of the game.
I’m not going to bet with you on something that takes time for people as a whole to learn. You seem to be under the impression that this should be faceroll easy that people can master in little time.
When HoT had been out for a week other metas have way higher success rate. It doesn’t take that long to learn.
It has been a month since release and one week since the bug is fixed, I’m not even asking people to master, just a >50%, only 50% chance to win as pugs after so long.
It’s because they were easy. AB has a very lax timer as does DS. DS only became successful because people went with the circle strategy instead of the designed one. Not saying that the circle strategy is wrong. You’re not going to get a 50% success rate this soon.
This game can be quite expensive.
45€ for the core game and another 80€ to craft ascended gear to get raid access. Then if you want cool looking skins you either need to spend a lot more cash or grind for hundreds of hours to farm enough gold.
You do not need to buy gold in this game.
So which is it? In the first post you claim that it is a “ghost town” and in the second you do not. In the second post you even agree that TT gets done several times a day.
There are people doing it now, but for a long long while, it’s truly a ghost town, I try to check it everyday near all the timers and nobody was doing it.
Now, are you willing to bet with me or not?
I’m not going to bet with you on something that takes time for people as a whole to learn. You seem to be under the impression that this should be faceroll easy that people can master in little time.
It takes 10 minutes to set up and the entire meta is 15 min.
No, you need luck to find a map first, which you need to start check 30mins-1hour before the map, or you have to bet yourself lucky.
The organization will also take longer to do, if people get taxi in and don’t see it organized at least 20 mins before the meta starts, they usually leave.
But DS has a much higher success rate and you get all the loots/exp on the way, not just the final chest.
You do not need to set up that far in advance. You select a map, ferry people onto it. You can fill the map in about 5 minutes depending on the time of day. It helps to have the four commanders beforehand as people tend to leave if they don’t think it is organized. Setting up only takes 10 minutes at most as all you’re doing is splitting people into four squads and have those commanders explain the mechanics.
Well you can consider all of the TD meta event chains for the four camps then if you’re going to count the DS events.
How long had TT been a ghost town?
That’s present time, for a long while it became a ghost town, I’ve tried for months to find a group, nop, no taxi, no map other than some guild run.
So which is it? In the first post you claim that it is a “ghost town” and in the second you do not. In the second post you even agree that TT gets done several times a day.
Rewards for TT are also not the greatest compared to the time spent. One of the larger complaints about that boss.
Same thing for TD, compare to the time to find a map and organize, other metas are way better like SW.
This isn’t the era of Teq as well, which we have few super meta, SW, Teq, AB and DS all gave very good reward and they are much easier to finish.
Now, are you willing to bet that the success rate of TD Meta with pugs will be above 50% by tomorrow? Free 200g to spare!
It takes 10 minutes to set up and the entire meta is 15 min.
DS chest is pretty much the same as the TD with the exception being a slightly different loot table. DS requires at least an hour commitment compared to TD which requires less than that. AB is about a 20-25 commitment with the primary loot being from the chests that you only get a few keys for when doing the defend tarir.
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Rewards for TT are also not the greatest compared to the time spent. One of the larger complaints about that boss.
And in GW1, it’s on the 19th.
GW1 is no longer a good predictor of timing for GW2: every single event in GW1 now happens on the same date, even if the underlying RL holiday has a variable date (Sweet Treats no longer aligns with Passover/Easter, Canthan New Year no longer aligns with the Lunar New Year, and Wintersday won’t be convenient to Christmas weekend).
That is, GW1 Wintersday now starts on 19 Dec every year while the GW2 date can still vary.
But gives you an idea on what the latest day it may be released. Even then, they typically do content releases on Tuesdays so the 22nd would tend to be out of the question. That leaves the 1st, 8th, or 15th. Since only one of them hasn’t passed yet, and it falls within the range of dates that they have typically released Wintersday in the past, this is the more likely date that it will be released. This ignoring that they’ve specifically stated when it would be available.
Here’s a question for people who view this thread as I’m not sure of what the answer is. How long did it take before Teq was on farm status?
The people who design those items are not the ones working on the other areas in the game fixing bugs or improving gameplay.
It may appear less as groups get filled up quicker than others.
About half of the precursors cost more to craft than to buy them at their buy order price. About 5 of them cost more than the sell order price to craft. These appear to be primarily the wood based ones. The Legend, Spark, The Lover, The Colossus, and Storm are not worth doing at all for the time being.
People tend to get better with time. A lot of DPS is lost because players take too much damage when fighting the gerent.
Whether it’s open world or instanced doesn’t matter. Just because something is open world does not mean that it must be inherently easy that practically anyone can do it with ease.
What do you mean “People”? Some people will get better, some won’t, and how are you going to know are they good or not when you enter the map? Even if you do it with a good group, you might not meet them next time. Even if people tend to learn, you might meet newbies next time.
Not this garbage again, are you saying that spend much effort to find map, take 15-30 mins or even hours to organize and couldn’t beat it at a >80% rate, is simply “not inherently easy”? Right not the rate is less than 25%.
I’m using people generically as I’m not going to label every single possible group that someone can fit it. Yes, some players will get better while others won’t. This is largely up to that particular player and whether they choose to allow themselves to get better.
From my experience, there are more people that are willing to learn and make the effort to get better than not. These people will outweigh those that choose not to. The a TD meta is forgiving enough to allow this. You just need to allow enough time to get a certain percentage of the player base to the level where it can be completed on a consistent basis similar to how Teq, Tarir, Marionnete, VW, and so on we’re done.
It doesn’t take more than a few minutes to find a map and populate it. AB maps tend to fill up in about that time. It just takes people to put up LFG posts to ferry people into the map. It also doesn’t take more than 5-10 min to organize so long as people are attentive and listen to the commanders. It’ll still take time for the playerbase to be able to beat it at the same percentage as AB.
My personal opinion with the above is that a larger percentage of players would have exhausted content much more quickly under the suggested changes and we’d still have the same posts, if not more, of people bored.
Let’s make some assumptions and I want to get people’s opinion about this. They can disagree or agree with it.
- 16 maps exactly like core Tyria
- Map meta no more difficult than what you find in core Tyria
- Everything is scalable like in core Tyria
- Masteries require half the XP they do now and can be done anywhere
- Masteries require fewer MP than they do now
- All items that are bought with currency require 50% less
- All precursor collections cost less than to buy and are worth doing
- HoT story is as long as the personal story
- Elite specializations require 100 hero points to fully unlock
- All HoT hero points can be done solo
Essentially what I’m getting at is if the expansion was essentially what some of the vocal people on the forums with negative impressions of the expansion want.
How much sooner do you think players would have exhausted content compared to the existing iteration of the expansion?
The pug groups were not performing well. They don’t need to be on par with coordinated guilds but they still could do much better.
and how are you going to make sure they will perform well? you can’t even kick them out if they just want to do HP.
This is OPEN WORLD, not instance.
People tend to get better with time. A lot of DPS is lost because players take too much damage when fighting the gerent.
Whether it’s open world or instanced doesn’t matter. Just because something is open world does not mean that it must be inherently easy that practically anyone can do it with ease.
Airship parts seems to be the more difficult currency to earn compared to the others.
And in GW1, it’s on the 19th.
Wintersday should be in about a week.
I would agree if they had a steep learning curve like raids with little room for mishaps. There are guilds completing it in as early as the second phase so there’s quite enough wiggle room with DPS for pugs, who are not in full DPS, to beat it. The mechanics for each of the lanes are fairly simple.
Not with pugs, I’ve tried so many times since last week because I want to see how hard it is for pugs after the patch. The success rate is still below 25%.
The mechanics are simple, but the DPS check is tight, which means it won’t be much easier even after you know how to do.
The pug groups were not performing well. They don’t need to be on par with coordinated guilds but they still could do much better.
I’m kind of confused where these “hard” metas stand now. We have raids now, they are hard, they are for hardcore people.
Wouldn’t it make sense to ease up these hard metas? Especially ones that are based more on DPS checks (the TD one)?
I would agree if they had a steep learning curve like raids with little room for mishaps. There are guilds completing it in as early as the second phase so there’s quite enough wiggle room with DPS for pugs, who are not in full DPS, to beat it. The mechanics for each of the lanes are fairly simple.
I’m personally hoping for greatsword, otherwise I’m going to craft a few of the older legendaries.
I’ll craft the ones that I intend to use which are below the buy order price. I will probably wait until I see what the next batch of legendary weapons will be though.
It is as I did that for my Engi several weeks ago. Works for the weapons too. Much cheaper by having to only craft the inscription/insignia rather than the armor too.