Guild Wars 2

Hattoni.8597:

Hey!

Do you know any heavy armor (for female) which looks like a light one? I’m looking for an armor with very light top + long skirt-like bottom.

If you can post your female war/guard I’d be grateful!

Thanks in advance!

The top of Brahams armor looks at least like medium armor i would say.
I prefer however the aetherblade legs because the have no skirt.

Else i used the zodiac legs for a while on one of my warriors. Those have a skirt
but of course you have to like the blue.

With my last character i did the following :

-Level 20 scroll / birthday booster
-100% Queensdale, Wayfarer Foothills and Hoelbrak
- Do personal story for level 10-30
- do some random stuff up to level 35
- craft up to 55 with cooking, jewlery, artificer
- get a set of knights stuff
- go Dredgehaunt Cliffs do all the fast events there if available and else kill all yellow
mobs

That took me to 80 in 24 hours without having to run in some trains.
Don’t know where the problem is as a “veteran”.

I also upgraded my items mostly all 5 levels .. at 60 first berserker set of course.

atoms.1958:

Same thing happened to me. This part of the story is way to tedious to keep doing to hope that the boss wont bug out. I’ll wait until it’s fixed to even try and go back to the story.

In addition to the crystal being on the other side of the wall, the boss went back up to full health after I died, when he was just at <10% before it killed me. At that point I just quit.

Good thing is that i’m mainly interestet in the light carapace chest, so that i don’t
really have to try it again .. and even if i want the shoulders i think i’d rather grind
1000 bandit crests than trying this again .. at least not before i’m 100% sure that
its fixed.

Yoroiookami.3485:

Levels 15-30 are really really slow. To the point that it makes me cringe. I had plenty of fun at levels 1-10, mostly because how fast it was and how hearts were rewarding. Unfortunately at around level 20 you notice a huge difference in the amount of work you have to put into everything to keep leveling. It’s very noticeable and annoying. Combined with the lack of traits and only some skillpoints, it makes for a terrible experience at least until level 30.

Please fix this. Do something.

The thing is .. lvl 15-30 have always been that slow .. before the NPE only lvl 1-15
were also that slow but they have been made faster.

On my first character that i played just via map exploration and so on it took me
130 hours to get to 80.

I think ANet also said something in the beginning that it should took in average
1 – 1.5 hours per level. However we are getting used to leveling faster and faster
now with lvl 20 scrolls, crafting, birthday booster and whatever .. oh and
of course Champtrains / EoTM and that stuff.

The only “real” problem was the changes to the traits, but not the NPE from the
second feature patch.

Making money via node farming

You can farm all that rich iron and platinum nodes once per day per character, also
the more characters you have the more you can farm lemongrass around Fort Trinity

STRanger.5120:

Beldin.5498:

STRanger.5120:

But the main problem of inflation is the ability to buy gold for real money legally. And that won’t change, ever. Because Anet needs that money unfortunately…

You (like so many other) have no clue how that exchange works it seems.

There is no gold created out of thin air, its just an exchange where people sell the gold
they have farmed for the gems that others bought, and there is even some gold
removed as fee in that process in the same way as if you sell items in the TP.

So now .. its not a source of inflation .. it even works against the inflation.

Well, you obviously haven’t understood what I meant.

You buy gems for $ -> change them into gold which means you create gold and then you add those in the GW2 economy -> inflation.

You haven’t understood what i wrote.

You don’t create gold. You just get the gold that other players have farmed.
There is no new old created in that process.

So hard to understand ?

STRanger.5120:

But the main problem of inflation is the ability to buy gold for real money legally. And that won’t change, ever. Because Anet needs that money unfortunately…

You (like so many other) have no clue how that exchange works it seems.

There is no gold created out of thin air, its just an exchange where people sell the gold
they have farmed for the gems that others bought, and there is even some gold
removed as fee in that process in the same way as if you sell items in the TP.

So now .. its not a source of inflation .. it even works against the inflation.

Malin.2490:

Guardians will die a lot at first. I know I did. The reason is while you have heavy armour, you also has a low health pool. It is a lot tricker to learn to play than for example warrior, who has both armor and a large health pool.

As others have said here, a lot of the guardian’s strength comes from simply not being hit. And that is REALLY hard when you are starting out. A lot of the skills and traits you get as you level make you tons better, so this can actually be a deceptively difficult class at the start, especially if you go in and expect something super tanky.

The new trait system made that just worse i think.

Else i would also say : get 3 points in radiance ASAP .. that gives you an extra blind that
you can spam on each fight

Malin.2490:

The elementalist can be a bit more tricky as it is more fragile. Playing with a staff is safe and rather boring, while wielding two daggers can be very dangerous when leveling but is so fun.

Leveled my first with dagger / dagger .. my second with scepter / dagger .. must say
i had the feeling that was much easier .. however i also had a level 20 scroll and got
Lightning Hammer directly from the start

Out of the list i would say Frostfang.

Else personal my favorites are :
Meteorlogicus
Kudzu
Sunrise

And the Komaoholi whatever underwater weapon with the shark .. sadly i hate
underwater combat.

Agree .. especially the sorting of the mats in the images looks very good

NNYinsanenature.5684:

Keep in mind farming random mobs scattered about are subject to diminishing returns. Mobs that spawn from events are immune.

There is no DR on crafting mats .. believe me .. i farmed one day Arctodus in FGS
for nearly 10 hours and wrote down after all 30 minutes how much T6 mats i got
and in average it was still the same after 10 hours.

You get less drops of weapons / armor after maybe an hour .. but crafting mats are
not affected.

I also don’t think that MF affects crafting mats, at least i don’t get more now with
200% than i got 1 year ago with 50% or whatever.

DiamondMeteor.8345:

Soft wood is up in price due to people crafting Bandit Weapons.

T3 and T4 wood is also rising again, T4 was again over 2s last night.
Also iron gets up again

mtpelion.4562:

I noticed this too. The non-mordrem appear to have better T6 rates.
Both types are still better than any other map though.

Not sure if they really drop better than the Arctodus in FGS .. however the last times
i tried to farm them i always had the feeling they drop less and less .. but maybe its
just that i prefer harvesting nodes when its more profitable since there i simply have
no RNG .. as long as i don’t farm lemongrass ^^

Good thing is that it seems iron, platinum, t3 and t4 wood are rising again

wasted.6817:

Yea, i was wondering how long it will take people to figure it out. Yak nerf incoming. Hahah. And i’am just gonna throw it in here. If you have enough ppl on yak it will spawn champs and those champs will drop bags. Hf.

Did that events a lot in the first days, but can’t say that i really got much T6 there.
Had the feeling mostly i got T6 from the non-mordrem mobs like scorpions, hyenas
and drakes.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

The sad thing is that this is the SECOND expansion that WoW has launched since GW2 came out… WoW has released more content in a single expansion than the entire game of GW2 contains since launch… and now they are adding 100% more…

The sad thing is, that when WoW released its first expansion after 2 years !! Everquest 2
already released its THIRD expansion .. and still more people played that crappy game.

I wonder if there was also so much DOOM in the WoW forums where everybody
wrote that WoW would die if they not finally get an expansion.

kitten .9460:

Beldin.5498:

So if i ever want to play RIFT again i have now level from 50 to 70 ? And then realize
again that all the good stuff is only gated behind dungeons / raids and all the open
world content just gives crap rewards at max level ?

Rewards in Rift are pretty streamlined now, you get the same reward (currency) to buy whatever you want in pvp, open world, raids, dungeons, etc.

A really ? Played it from beta and 4-5 month after release, and then was so annoyed
that at 50 the purple shards from zone events didn’t even gave any lvl 50 items.

Oh .. and crafting receipes that only dropped in dungeons, even since maybe those
persons that don’t play dungeons were the ones who needed crafted stuff.

So if i ever want to play RIFT again i have now level from 50 to 70 ? And then realize
again that all the good stuff is only gated behind dungeons / raids and all the open
world content just gives crap rewards at max level ?

I patched that game meanwhile 4-5 times .. and just logged in sorted the crap in my
mailbox .. and logged out again since i simply don’t feel like doing that again.

Tao.5096:

Queensdale and Metrica Province are quite good.

Plains of Ashford are better

@thread
Really ? As if there were no places to farm before ^^

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Beldin.5498:

And what does such an expansion bring in the end ? Higher numbers. Else its like
destroying all your items, and regrind them new.

People would call this change, and many of them prefert that over stagnation.

While I do not play the other game, I clearly prefer change over stagnation. Sometimes a carrot on a stick is better than starving to death without anything there to hunt.

The thing for me is .. a new skin is something i can use even in 10 year, while new
weapons / armor with higher stats will only be good as long as we don’t get the
next tier of raids or next expansion with a new max level. Then you can simply
destroy it.
In the end its more or less like the ladder resets in Diablo 2 where you just started
new characters from scratch and had to regrind everything you had before again.

Funny is also that people so often talk as if asian games were only about grinding
while Diablo in the end was the grandfather of all grinders.

I will never understand why so many people play this crappy game. I never managed
to play it for longer than 3-4 hours.
Beside the ugly graphics .. just take a look at the map .. that thing is the worst map
i’ve ever seen in any MMO. You stand at the point the map shows you but in reality
you are 200 meters away from it.

And what does such an expansion bring in the end ? Higher numbers. Else its like
destroying all your items, and regrind them new.

Lishtenbird.2814:

So when you see a farmer get a Vicious Claw, you think “Dat =@#:! just got 50 silver! Inflation, exploit, ban!”, while in reality he only generated 13 copper which is the vendor price of the item! Let’s see what happens when the farmer sells this item to you:

• The farmer places a Vicious Claw (which has a vendor value of 13c) for 50s.
• A casual player who doesn’t want to mindlessly farm buys it.
• The TP subtracts the two fees (5% and 10%) for a total of 7s50c.
• 13c-7s50c = 7s37c removed from the money supply!

That is what a lot of people really don’t understand i think. The same as many think
that buying gold via gems creates new gold out of thin air while in reality its also
just gold that other players have farmed that is moved to the buyer.

Buttercup.5871:

Etien.4601:

We tested 4 jars last night few times and we did not get a better profit. Most of the items are below 80 and cheap as before so I don’t see what’s the fuss all about.

The point of this thread was not whether you could make a profit anymore forging jars. The point of this thread is the utter destruction of the jewelry market following the introduction of ONE trinket, twister in a jar:

https://www.gw2tp.com/item/13499-sapphire-orichalcum-amulet
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/13501-ruby-orichalcum-amulet
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/13498-chrysocola-orichalcum-amulet
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/45941-opal-orichalcum-amulet
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/13503-emerald-orichalcum-amulet
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/13504-beryl-orichalcum-amulet

This is just amulets. The graphs on crafted rings and earrings and jewels look exactly the same. The graphs on dropped exotic trinkets now look exactly the same, too.

One item literally destroyed them all.

So much about the zerker-meta than

Seriously .. i don’t really understand it, since the Jar has stats that a lot players
not really want .. AND it has no exquiste jewel, and that is normally the most
expensive part on trinkets.

Just take a look here :
http://www.gw2spidy.com/recipe/3660

3g84s total price .. 3g62s of that is the price for the exqusit jewels.

Also .. why has just the price of amulets gone down but not earrings, since the twister
seems to be an earring (accessory) ?

Ayrilana.1396:

Are you sure that you have the correct color buff and the barrier around the vortex matches that color? Did you still have the color buff when you reached the vortex as it does wear off.

Aerinndis.2730:

I am assuming you killed the Summoned Facet (little guy) and got the colored aura but then you ALSO have to get the Fragile bubble while you have the colored aura on and THEN run to the light to take out the vortex (stand till vortex takes the fragile debuff and one hit usually takes it down). Color of the aura and the light do have to match. I had one run where I got a different color so I waited that out and tried again when I got the next which had the right color.

There was no other color than GREEN available in my instance. So i always got a
GREEN buff and always was knocked back when i wanted to go to the vortex that
was in the GREEN field.

Also as soon as the green buff wears of, i was able to get into the green field again
however then the fragile was also off.

So maybe i had first get the green buff, wait until it was nearly worn off, get the fragile
then, and try to kill it when the green buff went down but i had still the fragil ?
However i think that the red rings of death then instantly would have killed me.

Check if you virus scanner maybe has removed it. Happens sometimes when some
over sensitive scanner thinks that a file is a virus because it was changed by an update.

Kapersky is famous for that.

Had something like that once after i played in Silverwaste for a while. I wanted to
switch my character, there i noticed that the background was totally black, then
i logged in to Hoelbrak and had horrible FPS.
Tryed to close the game, but it didn’t shut down so after a while i terminated it
via Taskmanager. After restart all was normal again.

That was however at the 4th ot 5th i think.

Yeah .. if i would be ANet i would simply expect that GW2 runs on Win-10 as good
as on Win7 after it is released and AMD and NVidia have released proper drivers.

There are no different Versions of Games for XP, Vista, Win7 or 8 .. so why should
there be a different version for Win 10 ?

Else in general it would only make sense to upgrade the engine for DX-11 or create
a 64-bit client.

STRanger.5120:

Beldin.5498:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Whoa, I make a casual comment and look what happens!

I love Rangers. I have loved Rangers since my first online game, where she was called a Rogue and ran around killing a huge red demon in a dark, dark dungeon. You might remember the title… Hey, I had an NPC named after me in its second installment!

Yay .. i also played a rouge in that game, that was also my first online game

Rouge is actually Red in French, I guess that’s not a class from that game m8

Oh yeah rogue of course .. i know as a german that is a typo i always make since years and maybe never will learn

Gaile Gray.6029:

Whoa, I make a casual comment and look what happens!

I love Rangers. I have loved Rangers since my first online game, where she was called a Rogue and ran around killing a huge red demon in a dark, dark dungeon. You might remember the title… Hey, I had an NPC named after me in its second installment!

Yay .. i also played a rouge in that game, that was also my first online game

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I really preferred the content and delivery of LS Season One, but I do like the new Silverwastes map.

For me? Both years had their high points…and some things I didn’t enjoy as much.

Still, I think ArenaNet is learning and trying to improve as time goes by. It’s difficult, though, to please everyone as we all have different preferences.

Silverwastes in the end is the best of both worlds .. its something compareable to
the battle in Lions Arch but as permanent content.

And that is maybe what i expect really as permanent LS content and not those
instances that i mostly will never touch more than once.

Biggest problem for me in 2014 was in the end that it was just a big break followed
by the next big break, and even another big break since the end of LS1.

misterman.1530:

So, I’ve never been back. Have they nerfed the mobs to allow some sort of solo play?

Nope .. they are still a pita .. also those reef drakes with their confusion.

But if they ever get neferd i see already all those people that haven’t been there for
years beside maybe a Queens zerg, crying out loud that the only “challenging” mobs
are nerfed.

In the end those mobs were a direct result of people that were posting in the forums
all the time that they want more challenge if we ever get new maps.

And yes, i think its sad that that beautiful zone is more or less a wasteland because of that.

How much money is now in champ-bags in average ? If its 4s that means 4 gold that is
newly created per hour/player if that player gets 100 bags.
Now compared to speed-runners that create 15+ from running dungeons, that is not
really much.

The big question is, if now in total more money is created since more people farm or
if in the end less money is created because less people do dungeons that generate
a lot more money.

Also in the end the prices of mats / items that drop often there will go down and so
the farm will maybe get less interesting after a while.

Example :
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/44960

XP-64 had never proper driver support AFAIK, so even if you get it to run the
performance will maybe more than bad.

foufos.4809:

All this topic was kind of feedback to Anet guys so that they know GW still having issues on Windows 10 build 9860 even if at the pre-release build 9841 i did have none!

Why should ANet care about that ? Its a problem of NVidia and AMD that they have
to release better drivers.

5% is listing fee, that will always be taken directly from your wallet.
10% is sales fee that will be subtracted from the money you get in the TP.

Shadelang.3012:

Rangers are getting a tiny bit smarter about letting there pets tank dangerous mobs for them while stabbing them in the back instead of going for full damage. (while doing full damage on many of the bosses is still necessary as long as they don’t die)

Was first there with my warrior, but now switched to ranger .. that feels a lot better
At least for my ranger .. my poor wolf however has not such a good time

Ayrilana.1396:

You need to have the correct buff. You can’t use the red buff on the green aura around the vortex. You will occasionally get more than one of the small golem things which have different color buffs.

You talk from another boss maybe .. at the last boss there was only the green buff available .. it maybe changes when you are able to destroy the vortex .. but that simply was not possible.

Aerinndis.2730:

I couldn’t get any of the fragile buffs in the last fight because they were all smack in the middle of multiple rings upon rings of instant death. Marjory was stuck in the middle of that whacking away at the Vortex and could not move away.

I really don’t want to do this over again either. Checkpoints would be nice on this one. It just became too long for me to keep focused. I did think the fights were interesting and was figuring them out but the last one was a deal breaker for me.

Yeah .. nearly the same here .. i also wrote that in the bug section that some
checkpoints would really help in such overlong instances, especially if its either bugged
or you have a DC.

I could get the fragile buff when i got the green buff first, but as soon as i had the
fragile buff i was knocked back when i tried to attack the vortex until the fragil buff
normally timed out.

Repair client ?

skullmount.1758:

Theres this one for during the Battle of/for Lions Arch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpIS8sYhwS8

Haha .. thx for that link .. nice video

Yeah .. finally again a more “flat” map. I really like them more than when i want to
play there a little more.

jackaljag.8637:

That’s because you’re supposed to transfer the Fragile buff to it so that it can be one-shotted.

I wasn’t able to do that, whenever i had the fragile buff i was simply knocked back from the vortex.

I would try a repair at first.

Malkavian.4516:

Yeah, it’s not fair. Why do Trahearne and Jory use a GS while my Necro doesn’t? I’m pretty sure she can hold it up just fine.

Trahearne ? Be careful what you wish for, else you end with godly greatsword powers like that

Have no problem with it. Its just 10 pixels in height, so not really much wasted space.

Palador.2170:

All I want is pants! A decent pair of pants!
(Seriously.)

If we could only mix heavy and medium .. that would fix it, since heavy has the
butcape always at the pants, while medium always has the trenchoat on the
chest piece but has a lot of pants.

But yeah .. please less butt-capes and trenchcoats.

Sube Dai.8496:

To be fair there plenty of medium pants, but there is only one chest piece that is not a coat and that is the new PvP armour.

No .. we have duelist armor and krytan + strider from the shop .. so .. yay

Irmo.1862:

1. Kill facet
2. Stand in bubble
3. Stand in vortex
4. Kill vortex
That makes the boss take damage

Problem for me was that the vortex is unkillable, i could do 2-3 hits and then it always
healed up to max hitpoints.

Tomo.1084:

Its not bugged, at beggining of exploding crystals field, Their is a shimmering box, stand inside and you will receive a Fragile buff, get too The Vortex crystal and it kills in instantly, Hope this solves the problem for you guys.

Nope .. fragile buff only made me knock back whenever i try to attack .. and also with
ranged attacks the mob simply heals up after 2-3 attacks.

Byron Miller.4629:

Thanks for the heads up, Memphis. We’ve identified the problem and we are working on a solution!

.b

Thats nice .. but i really don’t have any interest to do that whole zone again from zero.
I’ve now spended over 1 hour in that zone.

Maybe you really should implement some checkpoints where you can continue if
you want to retry it .. its also annoying on longer instances if you have a DC and
you need to start from zero.

Ahh .. found the thread with the datamined armors .. here :

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2dv4ev/update_armor_viewer_bonus_datamined_armor