Guild Wars 2

what sauzo said. a legendary cost huge amount of gold and more to create regardless of which one you choose. thats why you should pick one you like and one you would use a lot. use youtube to see the different legendary and their effects.

if you just pick a legendary at random and you end up not liking it, it would be a waste of effort and resources. some people dont event make legendary but go for one of the exotics created with recipe in the mystic forge that look awesome but cost a lot to make as well.

when they increase the drop rate of moldy bags in Orr, they made all other t6 mats drop a lot more often. at the same as stated in the post above, the changes nerfed the drop rate of t6 mats.
Since we all need large amount of t6 dust its only reasonable that the price increases.

the old AC is long gone. there is no point to wish or complain for its return.

If you want to swap character the safest and best way to do it would be when you do the dungeon with a guild. Guild may not always be the best option for quick daily dungeons, but at least you can swap character without being kicked.

In time when most people have adjusted to the new AC it could be possible that it would be easier to swap character to level up. However, like in the old AC there is still people who prefer lvl 80 and no swaping.

just wait for server reset and hopefully it will be up and working again.

because of the limit of people have been lowered ( which it seems like it has ) is that people who most likely get into overflow start trolling with the timer to make people leave. a side effect that benefit no one in the long run.

the best nerf they can do is to make it 1 chest pr character pr day pr event.
All you need to do now is to guest to another server and you can do the same event all over again with the same character as before. if they remove this part there will be a lot less players getting the chests.

But I dont support the nerf to 1 chest pr day pr account. I rather quit playing than accepting a nerf like that.

Before the update you could easily do all 3 paths within 1h if you had a decent team (decent players all lvl 80 ).
havent done ac enough after the update to see if this is still the case.been too busy at cof and dragons.

you spending 2h to complete all 3 paths is a long time. but as you said, you havent done ac a lot.

why would you even farm corrupted lodestones to begin with? farming money elsewhere to buy lodestones is much more effective.
Also the drop rate on all lodestones is horrible at best, so why not just farm charged lodestones which is worth the most. 1 charged lodestone would give enough money for almost 2 corrupted lodestones.

if they are rude towards you for no reason while your in the dungeon, then why didnt you report them right then and there ????
also, taking screen shot of the party helps, or just hte names in chat so that you have their names at least.

you may not encounter idiots on a daily basis but once in a while you will run into them and at that time its good to have something to remember them by so you can report them.

the monthly achievements is there for you to try different aspects of the game each month, and at the same time be rewarding and not too hard so you wount be able to complete it.

besides, if you die 10-20 times in a low lvl dungeon for doing 5 paths a month. then your clearly doing something wrong. so you should work on that rather than complaining about the monthly achievement which is easy.

no one have been able to buy them yet so no one should know the correct answer. the first time people will be able to buy it will be after doing tomorrows daily and completing march monthly achievement.

bet the price will be down to 5-10g within a week. probably less at this rate.

not to mention there is many who dont have time to level many character to 80 or just began to play the game. those are the people who will suffer. while those who already have 4-5+ characters at lvl 80 will probably benefit from having much better chest rewards and the ability to do the events multiple times pr day.

6 months and no final rest. Then in less than 12 hours there is 7 on the trading post…..

worst update ever- I prefer the horrible loot chest compared to this new change. it will also totally mess up the events due to reasons mentioned earlier in this thread.
Personally I dont see a reason to do the events more than once pr day now at the most. that is if im lucky enough to find a party for them.

there may be many who do the events in hte next week, but slowly im sure the amount will decrease. because once the event is completed for the day, people will not wait around for a 2nd or 3rd time. thus it will be harder to gather enough ppl eventually.

to go trough the dungeon path as fast as possible multiple times to farm money.

shouldnt be hard to find a non berzerker group

dont be distracted when buying items for badges and tokens.
Lots of people make this mistake because your all too impatient to use your tokens. But I dont see the need for a sell back option. If you didnt get full tokens back then maybe a sell back vendor would be nice.

But imo I think the system works just fine as it is. you just have to read what it says on the armor and take your time to buy the correct armor – and buy it with the correct character.

all you need for this fractal is basic coordination. all prepare and be ready at the wasps, then 1 person count down from 3 to 0. and then it should be pretty easy to finish. some accidents or misses may occur, but absolutely no need for voice communication.

If you want a real sale you have to buy the gems from in game gold when you get a decent amount for a certain amount of gold. at times where there is no particular sale or new items.

once a sale like this one or new items is added people go crazy buying gems which in turn rise the price pr gem you buy.
If you buy the gems outside of a buying frenzy and have had time to stabilize a bit you get more gems for your money and will have them available next time new sale or new items is added.

The main reason is because the lvl 38 in group with 4 lvl 80 makes the dungeon harder for the 4. it will actually be easier to just go 4 lvl 80s rather than taking the lvl 38 thief since he would die quickly and easily anywhere in the dungeon. thus the 4 lvl 80s have to heal or rez the lvl 80 and force 3 people to do the fighting.

I do take low levels in ac with me. once I event took a pug lvl 30 first timer with me. just to show him/her the dungeon and why so many people didnt want him/her in their dungeon party. The main reason I let that lvl 30 stay was because he/she was an elementalist and had at least conjure frostbow.

The frostbow is exstremly overpowered in AC for path 1 & 3 so any lvl elementalist(s) with this utility skill is at the very least useful and helps the team. even if they cant contribute to much else.

Since I do ac more or less on a daily basis for tokens I want a quick run so that I am finished with all 3 paths in 1h or less. having a low level will make it slower and harder. thats just the facts. like many before me here have pointed out.

for the exotics your wearing salvaging is pretty much the best option you have. and if you use black lion kit you also get runes/sigils back which you can either use or sell.

1 million karma is nothing. it takes you a while but you should have at least 1mill or more by the time you have everything else you need.

There is also daily rewards and monthly rewards that give you lots of karma jugs. or if you play a lot of wvw 1mill karma shouldnt be an issue.

you level up so fast in gw2 that you will not be able to keep up with your crafting lvl to get lvl appropriate gear at all times. unless you spend a lot of gold buying materials, which isnt worth it.

in 99% of the cases its cheaper to buy the items you want from the trading post compared to making the item yourself. the reason is that the finished product is cheaper on the trade post compared to the cost of the materials.

right now the only thing crafting is good for is when creating a legendary weapon or just to get achievement points, which do nothing.

you kicked the person who started the dungeon. each dungeon instance have to belong to one person, and that is the person who first enters. if he leaves the party or get kicked off the party the dungeon ends and everyone get kicked out.

If you dont like skipping then that is just fine. just create your own group and find people who dont like skipping to play with. There is a lot more people who prefer skipping over killing everything in dungeons, so dont come and force ppl to play the way want to.

and it also requires more skill to skip rather than just stand and fight everything that comes at you. for instance in AC you have mobs that knocks you down by jumping on you and easily kill you if there is more than 1 mob around. or have a scream that do the same for a long time and many times instant down people.

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Aragorn Son of Arathorn.4015:

1) Fractals of the Mists don’t count toward your monthly achievement.

How did I get January’s monthly quota then? I did nothing but fractals. I haven’t set foot in one of the old dungeons since the FoTM came out, because most of the old ones are horrible and bug-ridden.

Confirming that Fractals do NOT count towards monthly. Sorry but it doesn’t.

Shaman is one of the hardest bosses, yes, but he’s still easily doable so long as you dodge appropriately.

Again, then, how on earth did I achieve the monthly last month? Is this a Feburary change? Didn’t see it in the patch notes.
I. Never. Set. Foot. In. Anything. Other. Than. A. Fractal. Last. Month.
…And got my monthly.

Just telling you, they don’t count. There isn’t anything else to say. Fact is fact. Nothing to argue.

Monthly achievement for January had a fractal requirement for completing it. February monthly achievement require that you do other dungeons than fractals ( since they dont count for this month )

I havent noticed any difference in AC path 2 since the update. I feel its pretty much the same as before.

wvw is considered in the pve part of the game, and thats where you need to get the 50 monthly kills.

even for 100% map completion you need point of interest, vistats and skill challanges in wvw.

on gw2 wiki the utility infusions is listed without any agony resistance.
Im looking at it this way. you need 2 sets of rings/amulets. 1 set with agony resistance for fractals and another set you can use in pve that has utility slots.

rather then wasting your time complaining you should play hte game and get one. maybe you get lucky in a chest or the mystic toilet or even farm the gold for it.

just because the price is redicoulus doesnt mean anything. just dont buy it. simple as that. wait for the price to go down. place a lower custom order and hope someone sell to you < that works, because thats how i bought dawn for 301g over 1 month ago.

it appears new rings have been added and they have utility slots.

and yes OP, utility infusions only go into utility infusion slot.
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Edit: appears I was wrong. Some guildies did lvl 10 fractal and linked the rings they got. and apparently someone else linked a neckless as a joke to them, and I misstook it for a ring he got in the fractals.

if you cant do the dodge daily, then I would assume you must die a lot while playing this game. because dodging is hte main way to prevent yourself from being hit by attacks.

balthazar has been nerfed in the update 2 days ago so it shouldnt be a problem to complete the chain anymore. just ask guild or random ppl in cursed shire, malchor, strait of devestation and lions arch to help.

Did the gift of mastery first. At the same time I started getting my mystic clovers.
While doing this I spent a lot of time making money and luckily enough 22nd december Dawn prices wasnt so bad and I got one for 301g on custom offer.

Next I finished off the clovers and bought most of the items for gift of fortune. ( took a while tho, but collecting it all yourself is insane. collecting a decent amount isnt that bad). Gift of metal was easy since I already had most ores.

then I spent the next 2 week farming charged lodestones and got about 50-55 before I bought cores to make the rest. and last I bought the icy runestones so that I could forge my Sunrise.

I think I was downed in the lava pool when there was no lava in it. but I died exstremly fast and as far as I can remember the shaman didint hit me.

when I was in hte empty lava pool I kept seeing myself losing hit points. and over twice as much hit points when lava appeared in the pool. rest of the team tried ot revive me but we got wiped. When I revived at checkpoint I have 4 stacks of lava buff on me and killed me instantly. had to log out ot character select to get it off.

What annoyes me the most is the Ice boss buff. its exstremly hard to dodge his agony attack since it appear and hit me almost faster than I can react.

Did get a drege fractal with ice boss today on lvl 10 with guildies. all 4 of them had 0 AR and was wiped exstremly fast and the only thing that kept me alive was 25 AR. I have done ice boss many times before at lvl 20 before patch and it hasnt been a problem, however, the agony attack appear and hit way much faster than before. as if it wasnt annoying even before the path but at least you were able to dodge it.

2-3 weeks back charged lodestones spiked to 4.30g each or so. I then sold off my 40 charged lodestones for 4.25g each. charged lodestones I had been saving up trough farming and fractals for my sunrise. Once sold I bought cores which I made into lodestones for a total price of 3.20g for each lodestone. this allowed me to get more lodestones than I had before.

just because more lodestones have been added to the market doesnt mean market manipulators. It could simply be people who have been holding on to their lodestones decided to sell since the price went down so much for a brief amount of time.

Im assuming that is because the tripendant is worth a lot more, and its the whole item.
The emerald pendant is only 1/3rd of the full item.

no one would know that until sufficient amount of them have been bought and opened.

the market will adjust itself after todays update and it might take some days .

I have hte same problem OP. I too keep them in the hope of salvaging them.
I wouldnt mind ectos from a salvaged ascended ring, but ascended mats ( glob, crystal etc) could be useful too. would help to get enough to upgrade rings I do want to keep.

I would recommend Fractals.

Fractals give a lot of yellow items, sometimes exotic as well as core and lodestones along with lots of blue and green items.

Yellow items can be salvaged so that you get glob of ectoplasm. which you need quite a lot of ( each is worth 37 silver right now). Getting them yourself will save you money.

cores and lodestones can be sold for a decent price. And all other loot give you some income in gold as well.

There is other dungeons that can be farmed such as Cof path 1, AC and more.
Farming shelter and pentient waypoints in cursed shore ( with magic find gear on ) give 2-4g an hour. farming in southsun cove ( karka area ) can give around the same income as pent/shelter.

For farming lodestones I would recommend charged lodestones. they sell atm for 4g each and is much easier to farm than onyx. charged lodestones is dropped by sparks in malchor and cursed shore and have very little hp. thus your able to kill more sparks pr hour. all lodestones have the same horrible drop rate. which is why you should farm the most expensive one. makes it more worthwhile. 1 lodestone pr hour when using 100%+ magic find is a normal average. more if your lucky.

onyx lodestones is hard to farm since you need to kill earth elementals. they have a lot more hp than sparks and takes more time to kill. farm charged lodestones, sell them and buy the lodestones you need. will save you a lot of time.

If I were you id combine a lot of ways to make money so that you dont get too bored while making money.

Your work here in this thread is awesome.
I read that your busy, I would love to get one of my Norn warrior.
The armor is norn cultural armor Tier 3 heavy.

Edit: fixed the images
Edit2: Did a change of hairstyle since I uploaded the images last time so I switched them out with new ones as you havent started on mine yet.
Had too since I saw a character in game that looked too much like me (same hair, armor and sunrise ) :P

the exploit with path 1 boss will most likely disappear in tomorrows patch. problem solved until new bugs/exploits is found.

and most other ways to make gold mentioned here on this forum will most likely not make you any money by tomorrow since there would be lots and lots of ppl using the methods to make money.

or they could do nothing to the lodestones and the prices may stay the same.

What character do you use 1 handed sword with the most ?
I would use the legendary with the character I use the particular weapon the most with.

regarding the rumor I suggest you dont trust that. lots of rumors is about what people/player want/wish for, not what Anet will do in the future.

I think if one need to use an exploit to get more crystals at maw, then I think the people must be very pathetic.

A good party dont let all the crystals just disappear, but keep taking them up so that they dont disappear. which makes it a whole lot easier and not to mention faster to kill maw.

why blame the game for your own mistake??

next time remember to read before clicking.

If you wield it or change the sigil it will become soulbound. But I dont think you need to change the sigil back to the original when forging a legendary.