Guild Wars 2

You need about 481 mystic coins for the new legendary weapons.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Tribute

ekarat.1085:

Ayrilana.1396:

Just like the brew of the month for February was proof that we were getting Dragon Bash this month.

We did get Dragon Bash in the form of the Lunar New Year, so it’s not proof, but an indication that it is being thought about. That counts for something.

As stated by another poster, they’re not the same. This is evidenced by the GW1 special events. You’re being confused because Anet decided to move Dragonball (a Dragon Bash activity in GW2) to to the Lunar New Years. Technically it was in both special events in GW1.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Canthan_New_Year
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lunar_New_Year

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Dragon_Festival
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dragon_Bash

ekarat.1085:

Ayrilana.1396:

Just like the brew of the month for February was proof that we were getting Dragon Bash this month.

We did get Dragon Bash in the form of the Lunar New Year, so it’s not proof, but an indication that it is being thought about. That counts for something.

As stated by another poster, they’re not the same. This is evidenced by the GW1 special events. You’re being confused because Anet decided to move Dragonball (a Dragon Bash activity in GW2) to to the Lunar New Years.

Just like the brew of the month for February was proof that we were getting Dragon Bash this month.

Harper.4173:

Ayrilana.1396:

Half tempted to buy up what’s left to prove a point and see if Anet takes action in an upcoming update or at least acknowledges the issue.

Except me and many others are sitting on stacks of coins and would profit greatly if you were to do so – by waiting for you to post and gently undercutting you.

Yep. That’s why it wouldn’t be a great idea to do it while demand has been relatively stable. Now to do it once new legendary weapons and the backpack are released may be something else but I cannot see myself doing it at this time.

Diovid.9506:

Ayrilana.1396:

Kralk didn’t rise in Ascalon.

Somewhat to the north of Ascalon, you’re right, my mistake. He flew south over Ascalon towards the desert, which was my main point.

Yeah. From playing EotN, you’ll see he was resting in Charr Homelands. You can actually see part of him there. He then flew south to the Crystal Desert. The large purple area you see there was where Glint’s Lair was located.

Kralk didn’t rise in Ascalon.

reapex.8546:

Ayrilana.1396:

reapex.8546:

Ayrilana.1396:

It measures experience within the game.

If by experience, you mean how fast you can do easy achievements or pay to get AP then sure. But then it would not be direct experience with the game.

It experience in the game on a general level as stated in previous posts.

Ah, which doesn’t mean much then since a variety of AP can obtain be without understanding the game.

It does in a broad sense. Keep in mind that this in no way is meaning skill level. Someone who has over 5K experience has likely played a decent amount of the game. Yes, someone can sit there doing easy daily achievements but it’s highly unlikely that that is all they did.

Autohotkey is what most use to bind the mouse click to the scroll wheel.

Seera.5916:

Ayrilana.1396:

Behellagh.1468:

The assumption you have Ayrilana is that someone now controls the bulk amount of Mystic Coins not currently on the TP. And that’s where people who do those things get into trouble. Because it quickly becomes a question for every player sitting on a pile of Mystic Coins whether to sell off some of their hoard, knowing prices after shenanigans like this return to normal quickly. If I can make a quick 100 gold now and buy back the number I sold later at half that, the person or group that tried to corner the market is going to take a bath.

Look already it’s down significantly from the spike yesterday. Supply has recovered. Sure prices are up roughly 14% but this is almost the only way to raise a price to the level the market is willing to bear at the current supply/demand equilibrium.

Yeah I know. It’s the main reason why I didn’t just now go and do it to prove a point. I went through various scenarios to see if I could possibly break even quick enough with the higher prices but there was just too much risk to be worth it.

Someone buys the stock.

Someone waiting for the price to go past a price line before dumping their stock now jumps on the ability to set the price where he/she wants it.

Other players with stockpiles see this price and go: ooo, that’s a good price, I’ll sell my stack, but I want mine sold now so I’ll undercut.

The person who bought the stock initially eventually sells the stock before the price crashes too much and they can’t profit.

Assuming current price is the equilibrium price, prices eventually return to where they are now. Because that’s the law of supply and demand. It won’t necessarily happen quickly, but it will eventually reach the equilibrium price.

Yep. People who have them stockpiled were one such risk as were those who chose to sell their coins from the daily rewards rather than keep them. I couldn’t see myself breaking even quick enough for that reason. Making a profit wasn’t a concern but I wasn’t prepared to take a loss to make the point.

Right now new supply (not held by players) is at a fixed rate. Demand for the coins are fairly high as they’re used for legendary weapons and quite a number of mystic forge recipes. Price has been steadily rising since last month with supply levels dropping. It may have hit equilibrium the beginning of last week but it’s difficult to say. The player(s) who bought a bunch made things sporadic the past few days.

When the next batch of legendary weapons are released, you can be sure that the price for coins will go up. The same can be said about the legendary fractal backpack. This will shift everything to a new level which they will probably not fall back down to how they are now.

Someone buying up a lot of supply to drive up prices does take time to settle back down. Sometime prices go back to where they were and other times they remain slightly elevated. Imagine if someone were to buy up supply just before legendary weapons or backpack were released. Demand would have increased, there would be less people who would be inclined to sell their coins, and a percentage of any supply that got dumped would have been absorbed by the new demand. The price recovering would now be slower.

What if Anet released the next batch a few months after that before prices had settled? It would be an endless cycle of prices going up and then falling back down without reaching previous levels so long as they keep adding new uses for the coins. And during this time, those that need to use them, will struggle because of it. The coins are used for many other recipes other than to make legendary weapons.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

There’s an equilibrium price with the current supply and demand.

And a new higher equilibrium price with higher demand and same supply with the next set of Legendaries.

And a new higher equilibrium price with higher demand and same supply with the next set of Legendaries.

And a new higher equilibrium price with higher demand and same supply with the next set of Legendaries.

And a new higher equilibrium price with higher demand and same supply with the next set of Legendaries.

Which as I understand this thread is the point, that supply needs to be increased at some point.

Yes. That’s what I’m trying to get at. I’m not saying that it’s currently bad but at some point in the future it will be.

Behellagh.1468:

The assumption you have Ayrilana is that someone now controls the bulk amount of Mystic Coins not currently on the TP. And that’s where people who do those things get into trouble. Because it quickly becomes a question for every player sitting on a pile of Mystic Coins whether to sell off some of their hoard, knowing prices after shenanigans like this return to normal quickly. If I can make a quick 100 gold now and buy back the number I sold later at half that, the person or group that tried to corner the market is going to take a bath.

Look already it’s down significantly from the spike yesterday. Supply has recovered. Sure prices are up roughly 14% but this is almost the only way to raise a price to the level the market is willing to bear at the current supply/demand equilibrium.

Yeah I know. It’s the main reason why I didn’t just now go and do it to prove a point. I went through various scenarios to see if I could possibly break even quick enough with the higher prices but there was just too much risk to be worth it.

So let’s say that someone right now went and bought up 12,800 mystic coins which puts the lowest sell order price at 1G. Would you consider there to be an issue then?

Let’s say that person then slowly sells off the mystic coins rather than dump them back into the supply. The price hardly sees an impact from this action as a result. Would you consider there to be an issue now?

What if all of the above happens and then Anet releases something such as the fractal legendary backpack which requires about 250 mystic coins? I doubt many people who are waiting for it have already gone and gotten those coins. The price will likely go up even more. Would you now consider it to be an issue?

Again, same as everything above, but they also add three new legendary weapons. Would you now consider this an issue?

The issue is that there’s not enough supply to cover existing demand at a reasonable (debateble) rate and there most definitely isn’t enough to withstand demand shocks.

Luckily you only need to get 8 mastery points from adventures as there are enough elsewhere to max them.

How many matches need to be completed for the daily? 3?

I’m thinking he wants a blown up version of the GW2 map with details of each zone. I haven’t been able to locate one yet.

Running the story is what I did for most of the auric and Chak weapon collections.

Probably from getting downed. Some achievements have a hidden restriction that you must not get downed. All you should need to do is attack a flower to open it up and then hop onto it for the duration of the attack. I believe you also need to successfully beat the champ to get credit as well.

Just ask for it in say chat. It’s not much of a problem to leave the boss at 5% for the third phase. The only exception tends to be Nuhoch as the defend event does get riskier with each phase compared to the other lanes.

Half tempted to buy up what’s left to prove a point and see if Anet takes action in an upcoming update or at least acknowledges the issue.

https://reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/24yoea/map_high_resolution_map_of_planet_tyria/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/creations/High-Resolution-Zone-Maps-PvE

Only worth salvaging rings if they’re infused.

Ameepa.6793:

You could try getting AdBlock addon for your browser (Firefox, Chrome, Opera) and see if it helps with your problem.

I agree. That’s what I’ve been using on practically all websites except YouTube.

Here’s what I don’t really get. Yes, there are those that create their own LFG with whatever restrictions that they wish. They created the LFG so they are completely free to do this. What I haven’t seen is these players coming onto the forums to chastise players who don’t agree with what they’re doing other than to defend themselves.

What I do see are those that disagree with AP being used as a restriction, which doesn’t even affect them 99% of the time, come onto the forums and belittle them. Who are really the toxic ones here? Those players are not coming into your group demanding all of you to have 5K+ AP or whatever it is that they want. They’re creating their own party for that and those that disagree with it can simply ignore it.

If people start creating restrictions for asura only groups are people going to come on here creating threads/posts about how wrong that is and how toxic those players are for doing so?

Khisanth.2948:

Ayrilana.1396:

Khisanth.2948:

Hmmm I can’t decide what would be more annoying. The current bags full of bags full of bags or having to disable autoloot because it would require constant inventory maintenance in some situations.

That’s true. I forgot about that. I guess it hadn’t come to me since I’ve made it a habit to salvage everything but I can see how it would be an issue for those that do not want to nor have the copper fed tool.

The bigger issue would be having to salvage as you fight.

Did it before loot bags without any issues. Remember that champ bags were not added until a year after release. It takes no more than 30 seconds to salvage a full inventory.

You can also get some in the guild hall by trading commendations and also from the ley matter energy converter.

reapex.8546:

Ayrilana.1396:

It measures experience within the game.

If by experience, you mean how fast you can do easy achievements or pay to get AP then sure. But then it would not be direct experience with the game.

It experience in the game on a general level as stated in previous posts.

sirsquishy.8531:

HoT was a complete disaster by many of our standards and, IMHO, the cost of HoT was not worth the content Anet delivered on the Launch of HoT.
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I do want to point out that this is an opinion as many others felt otherwise.

As far as population numbers go, this happens after every expansion around this time regardless as to whether it were successful or not.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Hope you bought all the coins you need. This thread has drained the market of all its coins. Less than 10k left on the market now, I expect the price will be 1g each by the end of the week.

Probably the point of the thread in the first place lol

There was a similar impact on orbs too. Someone is manipulating the prices. It’s like what someone did with black lion chest and the coins last year. If you give it enough of a shock, the price will likely not return to the value that it was before.

I don’t really pay all that much attention to how people look unless it’s something that stands out such as the charr trying to be Ronald McDonald.

At this point, they may as well add toggles for the rest.

That Guy.5704:

Kayberz.5346:

Ayrilana.1396:

Kayberz.5346:

Ayrilana.1396:

Seera.5916:

Ayrilana.1396:

For orbs, someone posted a suggestion using all of those HoT components that are sitting near vendor value as part of a recipe to craft a new orb that could be used as a substitute. It’ll raise the value of those items, maintain the existing cost to craft ingots, and provide a path to farm the materials by playing in HoT.

As far as mystic coins, I can’t think of a good solution. With how so many recipes use them, there does need to be an additional way to earn them to compensate. Perhaps letting players buy them with laurels and/or commendations.

You buy them from players who sell the ones they don’t use. And there are likely players sitting on stacks of them waiting for the price to go up on them.

Perhaps there are people holding onto to them. However, we can use that same reasoning for every item in the game. Just because other players who are not using them can sell them, or some may be stockpiling, doesn’t mean that there could not be an issue with supply.

Edit: Just look at the price trend. Clearly there are hints that there may be a supply issue.

In my view, its not that there is a SHORTAGE of mystic coins now, its that befor HoT there was a SURPLUS of mystic coins
most players had tons of mystic coins that they werent even using, and the price was so cheap people didnt even think twice about just selling the extra ones on the TP right away after they had a stack in the bank

Now i feel mystic coin prices are more in line with what they should be., people were just too used to them being extremely cheap

Except the price is still continuing to rise. You’ll see it get worse with the next batch of legendary weapons.

That should be expected, HoT is still pretty new, and the legendarys weren’t implemented right away, there is more demand for coins now because they have more uses.
Eventually the prices will stabilize, the legendarys werent something people could make immediately after they were released, it takes a decent amount of time to go through all the steps to make one, the people making one are all going at different paces, its not on the top of everyone’s priorities to get all the mystic coins they need first, people usually take it 1 step at a time and will buy the coins when they get to that point, the trending increase in price would be reflective of the general pace in crafting the legendarys amongst the player base

but its the way that prices stabilize that is the issue. a price stabilizes at the point where demand and supply meet i.e. the market clearing price or equilibrium price. a rising price will stabilize either due to a decrease in demand or due to an increase in supply. Because mystic coins CANNOT increase the rate at which supply increases or, put another way, the supply per unit time cannot increase, the equilibrium price will (ceteris paribus) be the result of a decrease in demand due to people not making an item due to mystic coin availability.

Except the price rate is continuing to increase so we haven’t reached equilibrium yet. What if the equilibrium price ends up being 60 silver if no other sinks are added? What if all of the new legendary weapons cause that equilibrium to be 2G per coin? Each additional use, whether by new recipe or new legendary, shifts the demand curve outward resulting in higher prices.

Edit: I may have responded to the wrong person but don’t have time to verify.

Get the poison mastery. That should open up access to everything else. The rest of the masteries are optional unless you’re going for the new legendary weapons. Well stealth detection has some things locked behind it.

FogLeg.9354:

Healix.5819:

If you think the excess of bags is bad, imagine if there were no bags at all, as in they automatically opened and it was seen as dropped loot instead.

That would improve the game dramatically. Just gimme option to auto-open all bags, salvage all the garbage below rare and deposit everything to bank automatically.

Its not just the fact HoT maps have huge number of bags to open, none of those contains anything useful. They all full of pure garbage.

And MF would have a larger use again.

Kayberz.5346:

Ayrilana.1396:

Kayberz.5346:

Ayrilana.1396:

Seera.5916:

Ayrilana.1396:

For orbs, someone posted a suggestion using all of those HoT components that are sitting near vendor value as part of a recipe to craft a new orb that could be used as a substitute. It’ll raise the value of those items, maintain the existing cost to craft ingots, and provide a path to farm the materials by playing in HoT.

As far as mystic coins, I can’t think of a good solution. With how so many recipes use them, there does need to be an additional way to earn them to compensate. Perhaps letting players buy them with laurels and/or commendations.

You buy them from players who sell the ones they don’t use. And there are likely players sitting on stacks of them waiting for the price to go up on them.

Perhaps there are people holding onto to them. However, we can use that same reasoning for every item in the game. Just because other players who are not using them can sell them, or some may be stockpiling, doesn’t mean that there could not be an issue with supply.

Edit: Just look at the price trend. Clearly there are hints that there may be a supply issue.

In my view, its not that there is a SHORTAGE of mystic coins now, its that befor HoT there was a SURPLUS of mystic coins
most players had tons of mystic coins that they werent even using, and the price was so cheap people didnt even think twice about just selling the extra ones on the TP right away after they had a stack in the bank

Now i feel mystic coin prices are more in line with what they should be., people were just too used to them being extremely cheap

Except the price is still continuing to rise. You’ll see it get worse with the next batch of legendary weapons.

That should be expected, HoT is still pretty new, and the legendarys weren’t implemented right away, there is more demand for coins now because they have more uses.
Eventually the prices will stabilize, the legendarys werent something people could make immediately after they were released, it takes a decent amount of time to go through all the steps to make one, the people making one are all going at different paces, its not on the top of everyone’s priorities to get all the mystic coins they need first, people usually take it 1 step at a time and will buy the coins when they get to that point, the trending increase in price would be reflective of the general pace in crafting the legendarys amongst the player base

It took some time because of the requirements such as needing to max all masteries. There was also the roadblock that some of them had such as needing to fail an event or an event being bugged. Future legendary weapons will be obtained much quicker now than before.

The thing is that the price won’t stabilize. Each new batch of legendary weapons will cause more fluctuations in the price of mystic coins. Each new recipe that they add which uses mystic coins will exacerbate the problem further. Just imagine if Fargate Open, of whatever that sword is called, was a mystic forge recipe which required 100 mystic coins. The current supply level and faucets cannot sustain that.

How long do we need to wait and how much do the coins need to increase to before you see this as being a potential issue? If the price went up to 1G per coin, and showed no sign of going down, would you still be saying there’s no issue and that prices will eventually stabilize? What if the actually equilibrium for the price and supply level turned out to be around 1.5G?

That Guy.5704:

Ayrilana.1396:

Kayberz.5346:

Ayrilana.1396:

Seera.5916:

Ayrilana.1396:

For orbs, someone posted a suggestion using all of those HoT components that are sitting near vendor value as part of a recipe to craft a new orb that could be used as a substitute. It’ll raise the value of those items, maintain the existing cost to craft ingots, and provide a path to farm the materials by playing in HoT.

As far as mystic coins, I can’t think of a good solution. With how so many recipes use them, there does need to be an additional way to earn them to compensate. Perhaps letting players buy them with laurels and/or commendations.

You buy them from players who sell the ones they don’t use. And there are likely players sitting on stacks of them waiting for the price to go up on them.

Perhaps there are people holding onto to them. However, we can use that same reasoning for every item in the game. Just because other players who are not using them can sell them, or some may be stockpiling, doesn’t mean that there could not be an issue with supply.

Edit: Just look at the price trend. Clearly there are hints that there may be a supply issue.

In my view, its not that there is a SHORTAGE of mystic coins now, its that befor HoT there was a SURPLUS of mystic coins
most players had tons of mystic coins that they werent even using, and the price was so cheap people didnt even think twice about just selling the extra ones on the TP right away after they had a stack in the bank

Now i feel mystic coin prices are more in line with what they should be., people were just too used to them being extremely cheap

Except the price is still continuing to rise. You’ll see it get worse with the next batch of legendary weapons.

yep, I dont care about the price on the TP right now. I can buy them. Its what the design will cause as time passes, as new legendaries are released and as new mystic coin items are released like the 2 festival shoulders. the changes in the price over time jst highlight the issue, the price isnt the issue itself.

Yep. Anet is adding more sinks to mystic coins without increase any of the faucets for them. Those faucets cannot meet demand by a large margin and that gap will continue to widen with each new sink that they add. I fully expect mystic coins to surpass 50 silver each with the next batch of legendary weapons if they’re more visually appearing than the current three.

Kayberz.5346:

Ayrilana.1396:

Seera.5916:

Ayrilana.1396:

For orbs, someone posted a suggestion using all of those HoT components that are sitting near vendor value as part of a recipe to craft a new orb that could be used as a substitute. It’ll raise the value of those items, maintain the existing cost to craft ingots, and provide a path to farm the materials by playing in HoT.

As far as mystic coins, I can’t think of a good solution. With how so many recipes use them, there does need to be an additional way to earn them to compensate. Perhaps letting players buy them with laurels and/or commendations.

You buy them from players who sell the ones they don’t use. And there are likely players sitting on stacks of them waiting for the price to go up on them.

Perhaps there are people holding onto to them. However, we can use that same reasoning for every item in the game. Just because other players who are not using them can sell them, or some may be stockpiling, doesn’t mean that there could not be an issue with supply.

Edit: Just look at the price trend. Clearly there are hints that there may be a supply issue.

In my view, its not that there is a SHORTAGE of mystic coins now, its that befor HoT there was a SURPLUS of mystic coins
most players had tons of mystic coins that they werent even using, and the price was so cheap people didnt even think twice about just selling the extra ones on the TP right away after they had a stack in the bank

Now i feel mystic coin prices are more in line with what they should be., people were just too used to them being extremely cheap

Except the price is still continuing to rise. You’ll see it get worse with the next batch of legendary weapons.

Wanze.8410:

Imagine the price of mystic coins right now, if they would have introduced the whole sets of new legendary weapons, armor and backpacks with HoT Launch.

$$$$$$$

Seera.5916:

Ayrilana.1396:

For orbs, someone posted a suggestion using all of those HoT components that are sitting near vendor value as part of a recipe to craft a new orb that could be used as a substitute. It’ll raise the value of those items, maintain the existing cost to craft ingots, and provide a path to farm the materials by playing in HoT.

As far as mystic coins, I can’t think of a good solution. With how so many recipes use them, there does need to be an additional way to earn them to compensate. Perhaps letting players buy them with laurels and/or commendations.

You buy them from players who sell the ones they don’t use. And there are likely players sitting on stacks of them waiting for the price to go up on them.

Perhaps there are people holding onto to them. However, we can use that same reasoning for every item in the game. Just because other players who are not using them can sell them, or some may be stockpiling, doesn’t mean that there could not be an issue with supply.

Edit: Just look at the price trend. Clearly there are hints that there may be a supply issue.

For orbs, someone posted a suggestion using all of those HoT components that are sitting near vendor value as part of a recipe to craft a new orb that could be used as a substitute. It’ll raise the value of those items, maintain the existing cost to craft ingots, and provide a path to farm the materials by playing in HoT.

As far as mystic coins, I can’t think of a good solution. With how so many recipes use them, there does need to be an additional way to earn them to compensate. Perhaps letting players buy them with laurels and/or commendations.

Sidizen.9048:

Ayrilana.1396:

The dyes for the backpack and outfit are the same by default.

Is there a way to have outfits restore to their default dyes in the wardrobe?

I’m not sure. If I remember to, I’ll check and see which colors are the defaults tonight.

Edit; I’ve been looking and saw a thread with people complaining that the dyes they set to the outfits changed back to the defaults when changing outfits. Perhaps you can try that if you want the default colors.

The dyes for the backpack and outfit are the same by default.

Morfedel.4165:

Harper.4173:

Morfedel.4165:

Harper.4173:

Morfedel.4165:

Just how hard are these supposed to be to get? I’ve done DS a few times, and decided to start getting some Runes of Leadership. I looked at the 100 per rune, then looked at how much I had after, oh, 4 runs.

35.

Hm.

At that rate, Iets say I work harder at getting the crystalline ore. Focus on it. Get… 10 per run? I’ll have to do DS 60ish runs total to get the amount I need.

Or is there a faster way to get them I dont know about it? I remember once seeing an area that had a LOT of noxious pods after MoM dies, but I dont recall quite where I saw that.

And how can I do this more… efficiently?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

You need to improve.
I can get around 40 per run. Get Machetes in advance – do nothing but open pods during DS – 40/run.

Wow thanks for being a kitten in pointing that out. You know, I feel fairly certain in saying that you probably didn’t do that your first couple times ever as, you know, you need to learn it.

I JUST started doing DS myself. So yeah, I need to get good, because I’m NEW AT DOING THE DS RUN which is WHY I WAS ASKING FOR ADVICE!

Jesus, do you also insult newbies for not knowing the game their first week? SMH

My first couple runs I didn’t go for the pods at all since all I wanted was XP.
I stacked up on keys – and when I had a lot I did that. I don’t really see what I needed to learn.
Also – how am I a kitten for giving you advice? What exactly did I do to offend you? Was it that I told you that you need to improve? Is that an insult now?
Nobody insulted you.

“you need to improve.”

If you don’t see how that might sound condescending, I can’t think how to explain it to you. Seriously, people don’t learn these things by osmosis, which is precisely WHY I was here posting in the first place, to ask for advice on the best way to go about it. I don’t need someone pointing out I need to improve. It really is condescending, and how you don’t see that is beyond me.

It’s not an insult to tell someone that they need to improve. If a group consistently cannot get past VG, would it be an insult for someone telling them that they need to improve? No. They stated that you needed to improve your runs and gave you advice on how to do so.

Khisanth.2948:

Hmmm I can’t decide what would be more annoying. The current bags full of bags full of bags or having to disable autoloot because it would require constant inventory maintenance in some situations.

That’s true. I forgot about that. I guess it hadn’t come to me since I’ve made it a habit to salvage everything but I can see how it would be an issue for those that do not want to nor have the copper fed tool.

laokoko.7403:

Ayrilana.1396:

Nivelis.8763:

Neural.1824:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

If you guys really want a lower price then you should be campaigning to reduce the price of T3-5 dust. There are millions and millions of lower tier crystals that are flooding the market, but they can’t be upgraded because dust is too expensive.

Instead of asking for flat out price nerfs that will never happen in 1000 years, look for the root causes of the prices, in this case, dust, and ask for the drop rate there to be changed.

Of course the devs already know this, which is why radiant dust has dropped 50% in price the last month since its drop rate was adjusted. Now they just need to add another source and do similar things for T3 and 5 dust.

This is the best suggestion so far.

yes + incandescent dust direct drop from something + orbs/crests as perma drop from dungeon chest

Incandescent dust actually does have a few direct drops from things. I made the mistake thinking that it didn’t. Ascalonian ghosts in Fireheart Rise have a decent drop rate. They also have what seems like a fairly quick respawn.

I tried farming there. I think the rate is about 80 dust per hour. Which equals to about 4 gold + junk.

At least one good thing coming out of all this is it’s more profitable mining orichalcum ore now.

Yeah. That’s roughly how much I figured I would get based on the 10 minutes I spent there. Like the majority of things it seems, it’s better to go for what yields the most gold, sell it, and then purchase what you want on the TP.

I agree with all but #3

Yeah. The different loot bags not stacking does get annoying when trying to conserve inventory space. Viewing this thread actually reminded me of this video I saw the other day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW8KIsMSWa0

I admit that I do miss the old days when mobs dropped loot directly rather than through containers.

It’s like the Elder Scrolls series. How much are the actual Elder Scrolls a part of those games? They’re just there for the plot.

Lightsbane.9012:

I mean when i first heard of the game i thought of actual guild wars, not some martin-esque power struggle that isn’t even mentioned at all in any point of the game.

Actually, it is mentioned in the game.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Ayrilana.1396:

gennyt.3428:

Remember when GW expansions were whole continents?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Guild Wars has never done an expansion that was an entire continent.

Picking a really tiny nit here. Can we please drop the stupid excuse of stand-alone game v. expansion. Bringing it up serves no purpose beyond obfuscation and a silly attempt to “win” the internet.

I know. I only bring it up because there are those whose position regarding that changes depending on whether it would support their argument or not. If standalone and expansion being the same thing supports their argument, then they treat them as the same. If not, they treat them as being different.

Nivelis.8763:

Neural.1824:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

If you guys really want a lower price then you should be campaigning to reduce the price of T3-5 dust. There are millions and millions of lower tier crystals that are flooding the market, but they can’t be upgraded because dust is too expensive.

Instead of asking for flat out price nerfs that will never happen in 1000 years, look for the root causes of the prices, in this case, dust, and ask for the drop rate there to be changed.

Of course the devs already know this, which is why radiant dust has dropped 50% in price the last month since its drop rate was adjusted. Now they just need to add another source and do similar things for T3 and 5 dust.

This is the best suggestion so far.

yes + incandescent dust direct drop from something + orbs/crests as perma drop from dungeon chest

Incandescent dust actually does have a few direct drops from things. I made the mistake thinking that it didn’t. Ascalonian ghosts in Fireheart Rise have a decent drop rate. They also have what seems like a fairly quick respawn.