Guild Wars 2

I assume they meant shinies, which refers to items whose primary value is in their cosmetic appearance (ie Winter’s Presence is a shiny)

You’d be better off making a bug report in game or in the bug report forum https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs

You get the Living Story free if you logged on at any time the story was active. For LS2 that was about a two week period, for LS3 that’s a 2-3 month period.

Ider.1276:

BrettM.9062:

Give him a time out from what? From Dragon’s Watch? He’s not a member at this point, since he did not agree to join. Send him home? That’s where he went to crack the fang. How do you propose to keep him there and by what right? The best you can do is to withdraw the offer and find someone else to fill the spot in DW.

Or we can smack him in the face and take the bow enchanted with a scroll we earned while he was standing there and doing nothing. And Braham can walk anywhere he wants from there, risking only his own life, not thousands of norns.

I’m all for smacking him in the face but he WAS the one that tracked the scroll down. We helped him in the final fight but he spent months following legends and clues about its whereabouts.

I’m not sure how often they do sales but there was one about a month ago, in late November. It might be too soon for another one

I was just clarifying, they made it sound like everyone can do runs with gw2community

sophiewhite.3149:

quaggan isnt world leader yet foooooOOOOooooo

Queen Jennah is a quaggan in disguise

TheNecrosanct.4028:

I would also recommend gw2community. The only failed TT attempts I’ve ever seen were back when it was just added to the game. I don’t do it on a regular basis anymore, but whenever I do I join gw2community and it never fails. Admittedly I wouldn’t even try it on a random map if people call it out, or by using the LFG system. If you know the times of the event, join gw2community’s TS (it’s open, so no password needed). They usually do it 3 times a day. I even come across shout outs on other maps regularly, stating they’re going to organize the next TT event.

TT is fine. It doesn’t need to be nerfed in any way. Perfectly doable with a group who knows what they’re doing. With all the other world bosses out there, and how easy all of them are, it’s nice to have at least one event like TT. Not everything has to be accessible to everyone. This game has plenty of other things to offer.

Isn’t gw2community on european servers only?

aerial.7021:

Well I got the first tiny chunk done 1-5, so I’m guessing with a little effort I’ll get that done, it is kind of fun I suppose.. I’m just waiting for the abuse “why you not fight back”, no one’s done it yet. or that funny moment when I meet someone else doing the same thing, and we just stare at each other doing nothing. lol

No asking to ‘abuse’ you, but why don’t you run? I get if you don’t want to fight another player, I usually don’t, but depending on class mobility you could get away from them to avoid dying

OriOri.8724:

I’d be happy if it got just the following changes:

• A counter for how many items you can place down out of a clear total. As you get near it, it grows bigger and turns red, possibly starts flashing if you place down more siege. I’m tired of people who won’t listen to me in team chat continue to place down new crap even while the old, upgraded stuff is disappearing in front of their eyes. Replacing a mega cat with a regular one is a downgrade, why the kitten would anyone do that?
• Delete the objects with the lowest health first if you have surpassed the siege cap. Same as above, I’m tired of people just placing down dozens of new objects every round, and they end up deleting my upgraded snowmen, catapults, and few ice walls that are near full health instead of deleting (or, gasp upgrading) some first tier siege that is almost dead.

Making it harder could be fun, but honestly after the first few times I only do this for the daily when it comes up so I don’t mind it being easy. To me, its not worth my time unless the rewards were buffed.

I genuinely did not know there was a siege cap for this, thank you for the information!

OriOri.8724:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Black Iris Flowers.3418:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Does this also mean in other cases where prices are dropping that ANet should increase demand in order to bring prices up?

Putting little used materials into new recipes makes sense to me, yes

This would go for the drop in ecto prices too though (if they didn’t step in to nerf that event).

Well they already said they will be addressing it, though we don’t know how and we don’t know when. Really though its obvious that Anet does step in when the price of a material gets outside the range that ANet wants it to be. If the price is too low, then they (massively over)compensate by adding new sinks or increasing old sinks for the item (as evident with leather). Likewise, if they feel the price is too expensive they also (massively over) compensate by giving us dozens of new sources and cutting down on the sinks available (resonating silvers). The actual question then becomes at what price does Anet think that insert item here (in this case MC) is too expensive/cheap?

I honestly believe that ANet thinks that the price of MC is getting too high. They have recently introduce several new sources of MC, none of which are farmable to a great extent, most of which are RNG, but they have still been added after these discussions about the high price of MC started becoming more commonplace. Adding new sources indicates that at the least they want to keep the price from climbing too much higher, and if new sources continue to be added, even if they are more of the same (ie RNG sources that are limited per day), it would be a strong argument that ANet wants the price to come back down.

I completely agree. Mystic coins were put into new recipes to make them more valuable, and that definitely succeeded. You’re right to say that the question is how valuable were they aiming for?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Black Iris Flowers.3418:

As of right now, the supply on the TP is 23,660. The demand is 106,505. The demand is over x4 the supply, leading to what feels like an inflated price. I wish there could be other methods of supply to balance it a little better. Maybe add it to the map reward rotation? Make a repeatable achievement for it? (ie like the Wintersday event ones). I do understand that the static acquisition is what makes them special, but many recipes have been added to increase the demand without a change in supply; it feels very unbalanced.

Does this also mean in other cases where prices are dropping that ANet should increase demand in order to bring prices up?

Putting little used materials into new recipes makes sense to me, yes

As of right now, the supply on the TP is 23,660. The demand is 106,505. The demand is over x4 the supply, leading to what feels like an inflated price. I wish there could be other methods of supply to balance it a little better. Maybe add it to the map reward rotation? Make a repeatable achievement for it? (ie like the Wintersday event ones). I do understand that the static acquisition is what makes them special, but many recipes have been added to increase the demand without a change in supply; it feels very unbalanced.

I’d be okay with a harder difficulty for higher rewards. Similar to how SAB has normal mode and tribulation mode

So, I finally finished the story today (I rage quit the last episode at release for various reasons) and what really kitten got me was Braham going ‘You know, I’m glad you didn’t join Destiny’s Edge. My mother wouldn’t have wanted you there!’

Boy. We’ve known your mother wayyy longer than you how about you sit the kitten down.

Annonrae.3681:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Annonrae.3681:

Ember Bay, Bloodstone Fen and Bitterfrost Dailies have their own tab in the Hero panel, listed under the “Daily” in the Achievement panel. The easiest way to see if you received credit for Hablion would be to check there.

The Daily panel does not indicate whether one received event credit or not.

One way would be to check your Karma total before and after the event. If it has increased, you received event credit.

Do be aware, if there are a lot of players participating in the event, it is possible to not do enough damage to fulfill the requirement for credit. This is why some suggest partying up for credit.

It is possible your client could have corrupted file(s), and a -repair of the client would be in order.

Good luck.

At the very least, the panel should indicate whether or not OP has contributed enough damage to the kill to have it count toward the BF daily? I’m honestly asking here.

That is the problem we are trying to solve; if OP got event credit but not reward credit it’s likely a bug. If they didn’t get event credit then they likely didn’t contribute enough to the event

ProtoGunner.4953:

I checked the expansion of a rather big competitor game, which released it a bit before GW2. HoT and their features is about 5times the stuff we have in GW2. 18(!) dungeons, 2 raids, 3 new classes, 1 new race, 9 new zones… the list goes on. And they recently announced even a new expansion… and it was cheaper. Anet, get a grip!

It’s just not there. I liked HoT while it lasted and it lasted about 3-4 months. The scarce content patches they release keeps you playing for another 2-3 hours and while nice there’s no meat on it. And this after a mere 3.5 zones… I really hope the next expansion has like thrice the content HoT has…

Is that game a monthly subscription or a one time payment?

From the sound of it you were only doing this puzzle for the mastery point- there’s plenty of excess in the game you can get instead. Have you done the Quirky Quaggan Quest one in Bitterfrost? It’s really easy, just finding the 7 pieces of the poem- Dulfy has a guide

MoarChaos.8320:

Do you guys really need to go against Super Adventure Box that much? They can work on world 3 as a pet project and release it some April in the future. Content you don’t like doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be in the game no matter how vocal you want to be. It’s a festival. People can’t be happy in Super Adventure Box and hope for world 3 one day because it’s an April fools joke?

The complainers are the loudest. People who don’t like SAB don’t want resources ‘taken away’ from other projects. I don’t like raids and would rather a new SAB map would be developed in it’s place, but the game doesn’t revolve around my interests so

Everyone went into an uproar about how there was no new Halloween or Winterday content but god forbid SAB gets anything new.

Did you get event credit but not daily credit? Or did you get neither?

Adding to the Zephyr Sanctum, according to Dulfy the Dry Top map HAS to be at tier 1 to buy it

by hab do you mean Justiciar Hablion in Bloodstone Fen? (asking for clarity)

aerial.7021:

electricwater.1572:

aerial.7021:

So I spent a lot of time running about doing the legendary journey which was kind of fun for the most part, it’s not covered anywhere I searched so thought I’d just ask here.

The Legend – obviously isn’t bifrost to my shock and horror when building it, it’s only ‘part’ The Biforst, so am I correct in assuming that the only way to obtain said bifrost is to obtain ‘Gifts’ ?

Normally I wouldn’t care it’d just be another collection of stuff, except one of those gifts involves PvP which I point blank refuse to engage in, unless it’s snow ball fight then fine so am I better off just saving gold and buying off the TP?

If that’s the case I’m a little sad at the effort and gold I put into get the legend as I need not have bothered.

I craft legendaries regularly, so I’ll break it down for you.

Crafting precursor The Legend will cost you approximately 794 gold at the moment. After you have that, you’ll need another 1k (again approximately) to turn it into Bifrost. That’s assuming you don’t have the required mats already. If you don’t think you can handle such costs, then don’t even start.

Wiki lists everything you need, so follow it.

You don’t have to pvp, but you will need to spend 8-10 hours in WvW for the gift of battle, you get if from the reward track. WvW is quite easy, just follow the commander and tag someone once in a while, that’s it.

You will also need Gift of Exploration, so you’ll need to finish all vanilla core version maps. That’s quite lengthy and boring, but doable and not hard.

You will also need artificer 400 and chef 400 for this legendary. If you don’t have those trained yet, you will also need additional gold to get to 400.

Getting mystic clovers is a gamble. There are 2 recipes: for 1 mystic clover or 10 at a time. But it is always a 1/3 chance (in my own experience even lower), you can also drop other materials from throwing these 4 ingredients into mf. So better stock up on ecto, mystic coins and obsidian shards.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Clover

You will also need to do Arah dungeon a few times to get 500 tokens to buy Gift of Zhaitan that you use in Gift of Color.

For the rest, follow wiki lists for materials you’ll need.

Making a legendary is not supposed to be easy and it’s supposed to cost people time and gold, so think whether it’s worth it or not for you GL

Gift of Exploration got 8 of those and room 4 more with either 3 existing map uncomplete characters or make a new, but I think I am set with that

Cost doesn’t bother me, I tend to chip away at things over time little bit here little bit there it’s taken me 2.3 years to make my first “The Legend” and that was only due to the new system they put in which made it kind of fun to go after such a thing.

WvW as I expected a few seconds ago when I jumped into it, instantly killed by some roaming player. For some reason my server (shard, thing) is always on the losing side, guess I can live with it by just harassing stuff, so should you trip over Aerial in the wild don’t expect her to fight back too much, she’ll just take the beating and go off to some other area to get points, sorry but I find it hilariously funny watching you button mash away furiously like you life depends on it expecting a reaction and none given. lmao. might be just time zone I guess but I don’t see any commander’s doing anything on my side either so yeah.

Crafting I’ve maxed pretty much all of them out already apart from huntsman but thanks for the reminder on that.

Thanks for your advice, I’ll chip away at it likely over time. see you in 4.6 years lol

When in WvW, use /team chat and ask if there are any groups roaming around. Check all 3 borderlands as well as the eternal battlegrounds for commander tags.

I don’t understand people who don’t look up all the requirements for building a legendary before hand

BeLZedaR.4790:

With that in mind, there are some issues. First of all, the fractal ascended box vendor. I don’t know who came up with these prices, but last time I checked you pay 2x the cost to actually craft the item in addition to the daily gated pages.

Did you include the cost of levelling a crafting profession to grandmaster? Leatherworking, for example, costs over 110g to get from 0 to 500. gw2crafts.net has regularly updated pricing. Regardless, you’re paying the upcharge of convenience. No time gates

Let’s just say I picked a bad time to finish my gift of fortune

Prices are likely to just continue rising

Do they just add butt capes so nobody can ogle at the female characters asses?

Khisanth.2948:

For rarely used it would have to be rifle since it is only usable by two class to begin with and even for those it isn’t great.

I’m hoping thief gets a rifle as their next elite spec

The wiki says one existed during the Festival of the Four Winds, but I don’t believe there is anything in game that does right now

ZacHank.1358:

Black Iris Flowers.3418:

Fractals are a good source, to save time and effort T3 would be better. You’re more likely to find a group, the instances are usually faster, rewards are almost as good. Raw material farming is a very consistent option- Sparkfly Fen is the best place for platinum and hard wood. Be warned though that right now, during the Wintersday event, many crafting materials are at a record low price for the year. Everyone is selling off their materials to get Winter’s Presence items.

Thanks for the tips!

Personally I’ve found T3’s to be more difficult than T4’s. It seems people know what their doing better at T4 which makes for a smoother run. Also my guild does T4’s from time to time I’ll definitely keep at that then.

As to raw material farming, are there any guides for this? Any estimate at the gold per hour?

That depends entirely on the market and your farm rate. I suggest a daredevil- with traits, skills, and boosters you can have perma swiftness. My farmer also runes of the traveler for 25% passive movement speed. Short bow for the shadow step. Item boosters and heroic boosters will increase your gathering as well- if you decide you want to do this long term get permanent gathering tools (watchwork pick axes gives you watchwork sprockets every time you gather- that extra silver adds up!).

Rough estimate, 5-10 gold in an hour. Websites like gw2bltc.com can help you track market prices for items to help you decide what to farm and what to list your sell prices as. https://www.gw2bltc.com/en/item/19702-Platinum-Ore

OriOri.8724:

Tom Gore.4035:

Not that anyone will ever read this but.

• Consent only open world PvP (voluntary flagging, dueling and guild wars)
• More RP tools (sheet music for instruments, sitting on chairs, leaning on walls, etc.)
• Graphics engine update to DX 11 or even 12

Give me these and I’ll spend 100 bucks on the gem store with a snap of my finger.

$100 isn’t that much honestly.

Besides, GW2 already has WvW, which is a map wide PvP arena. PvP has no business in PvE maps, hence why the game modes are separate.

For a lot of people it is, actually

Fractals are a good source, to save time and effort T3 would be better. You’re more likely to find a group, the instances are usually faster, rewards are almost as good. Raw material farming is a very consistent option- Sparkfly Fen is the best place for platinum and hard wood. Be warned though that right now, during the Wintersday event, many crafting materials are at a record low price for the year. Everyone is selling off their materials to get Winter’s Presence items.

If it’s in gold lettering, that’s how many masteries a person has unlocked. It’s in white its their level. All those who have masteries are level 80

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Danikat.8537:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

A simple solution would be to release a GW2 app that you can monitor, play with, and feed Aurene on your smartphone.

If you have a smartphone…

Also release it as a browser mini-game so you can play at work?

I want whatever job you have where it’s okay to just kitten off and play games

Nightshade.5924:

Must be nice. I’m done w/ this nonsense. I got to the ELEVENTH snowflake FOUR times. Two or three times it either blew up or melted beneath me, I’m not sure which. But I ended up back at the start, so I guess it’s immaterial.

The one time I got past that, I actually got to the SEVENTEENTH snowflake. And it disappeared even as I landed. Not sure how I got that far, It was like the snowflakes stopped melting for a few seconds.

I have tried and tried and TRIED this JP this season. I’m upwards of fifty attempts, which is more than twice as much as I have tried it in any preceding season, and SEVENTEEN is now my new number. With at least four more past that.

This puzzle is JUST TOO FAST. I over jump or under jump or I jump at the wrong angle EVERY single TIME I try to “match the pace” that this JP demands. I’m done banging my head.

I renew MY DEMAND THAT THE DEVS EITHER REMOVE THIS REQUIREMENT FROM WP, OR FURNISH US NON-JUMPERS WITH SOME OTHER METHOD TO COMPLETE THE ACHIEVEMENT.

Anything less is a direct slap in the face to those of us WHO CANNOT DO THIS.

You are never going to beat the puzzle if you are this upset. I know if I’m upset or over emotional I fall every time. How long would you say you spend on each snowflake? It takes a few seconds for one to dissolve. You say you die in the same spot every time, Are you consciously trying to change your technique every time you do it? It’s easy to get stuck just doing the same mistakes over and over when you’re frustrated. It took me dozens of tries and many hours before I ever finished the puzzle

Khisanth.2948:

Wanze.8410:

My home instance would be a great spot for a snow truffle farm as well

just sayin´

heh I could just imagine what would happen to the price of those nodes if they increased/remove the limit on how many you can have in your home instance. space would not be an issue since they could make it work like the guild nodes where they just provide additional gather attempts

it has the added benefit for making the black lion keys potentially much more valuable too

Please Anet let this become a thing!

I am okay with raids having their own unique legendary armor. However I do not like that raids are the only way to acquire any kind of legendary armor. Hopefully they do what many of us hope and add legendary armor to other parts of the game; I don’t care how difficult it is to get but I’d like the options

icy.9250:

Do you really think it’d be so bad for the GW2 community? All I’m asking for is an experimental zone, in the same way that Bloodstone Fen has its glider skills that are not seen anywhere else. Fen was a test, more or less self-contained in its one area, and in the same way I think we could test this idea out without hugely impacting the ideals of GW2.

The biggest contradiction to GW2 ideals is the loot stealing. Would create a rather unpleasant environment. I could see say, a thief, waiting for someone to do most of the damage on a difficult mob then bursting the player down and stealing the loot. As well as other scenarios

Dawdler.8521:

Black Iris Flowers.3418:

Considering PvP and PvE are completely separate worlds/platforms in the coding system, an entirely new platform would have to be built into the programming. I don’t know if it’s logistically possible

Completely and utterly false statement.

Anet enabled PvP in Plains of Ashford (ie PvE) during the Shatterer invasion event in the beta of GW2. Players where corrupted by the Shatterer and could engage in combat with regular players (and get instakilled by level 80 Eir and Rytlock NPCs when every player was downscaled to normal PvE level in the zone, lol).

They have never repeated anything close to that event but it most definetly possible.

Plus, Anet says it themselves, on official record – WvW is PvE.

I must have misunderstood the posts I’ve read about it thus far, thank you for clarifying

OriOri.8724:

If we were to get large amounts of underwater combat with the new expansion, I would want to see a mastery line with is.

• Move faster while in water
• Access to up/down-currents to allow you to surface/dive quickly
• Stealth while dodging underwater (almost exactly the same as stealth gliding)
• Something
• Access to more powerful currents, basically underwater leylines to travel quickly to where you want to go
• All underwater content is marked as complete and all rewards, current and future are handed to you. You’ve shown enough dedication that ANet has decided to never force you to do underwater content again.

+1 to this and other underwater mastery support

Glad I opted not to save up for this. I’m not rocking blue hair

Considering PvP and PvE are completely separate worlds/platforms in the coding system, an entirely new platform would have to be built into the programming. I don’t know if it’s logistically possible

Oh and I’d like to add, following market trends from previous years wintersday gifts will keep lowering in price as the event goes on. Sell the presents immediately, don’t hoard them!

According to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/5jku67/science_drop_rates_from_80k_wintersday_gifts/

It’s an estimated 1 in 100,000 chance

The devs have commented on this before, letting players enter as a group breaks things in PvP and they’ve yet to find a way to fix it

Amaimon.7823:

Missy.6803:

I have a guildie who had over 1k gold. He is broke now to under 100g

first world problems, mate
‘broke with under 100g’
If you 100g is insignificant to you, you know where to mail it

I think the point was ‘over 900 gold spent’

Healix.5819:

Waypoints are great for casual play, but they’re actually really bad for an MMO because they take people out of the area. Seeing people running through a zone for example vs everyone waypointing to a world boss and immediately leaving. By moving through the world, you’re going to see a lot more going on and be far more likely to participate.

Now that GW2’s world is expanding into uncharted territory, they have an excuse to cut down on future waypoints. If ArenaNet wasn’t so against traditional MMO features, I’d expect to see mounts next expansion in the same way HoT add gliders. Waypoints should only exist in secured camps, and if needed, revival points like in GW1 should be added.

+1

I feel like one of the only ones who appreciated the fact there wasn’t many waypoints. Sure it’s convenient, but it doesn’t make any sense story wise to have a ton right off the bat

Jumping puzzle awards 10 gifts in about 2 minutes, assuming you don’t fall off

Every 15 successful runs gets you an extra +5 personalized wintersday gifts

Since they moved Winter’s Presence into the rare collections rather than a festival meta, and put Festival Imbiber into the Community Achievement tab, could people work on it in the off season this year?