Do it the safe way and buy it of the trade post.
If you try using the MF and dont get anything your basically screwed.
On thursday 20th December I got Dawn from a custom buy order for 301g from the trade post. I was lucky and got it before the price went up again. However, at that time if I were to buy it right away it would have cost me 350-380g.
So I suggest you put in a custom buy order and see if you get lucky, and you will have saved a little gold at the very least.
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The reason people fail on this one is poor teamwork, bad profession composition in the party and poor player skills.
If you dont have agony resistance you need the skills to back it up with to dodge agony attacks, and not count on the group to cover for you. Also having a tactic on how to kill the boss is needed. you can no longer just jump the boss with mass attacks and kill them as you could below level 10.
pretty much of what can be said is already said above me.
well known bug in the trading post regarding many of chief crafting materials.
I dont understand why you Dont want to skip. You get trash rewards for killing most mobs.
And people who do dungeons want the large boss chests and tokens. why waste time and effort killing mobs which give you 3s loot in total????
there have always been possible to search for legendarys in the trading post. I dont see why selling it is such a big deal.
the agony resistance infusion will be lost when you upgrade it. so I suggest you buy a +5 AR infusion for tokens now. this way the loss wount be big.
also the cost of the materials is worth like 40 silver. which means you need at least 2 globs of ecto or you will lose money.
For Fractal dungeons / lions arch I feel one thing is really missing. something like a command where you write: /overflow or something like that, and when you do it you get into an overflow. would make things so much easier.
if universal tokens were to happen most people would stand outside the easiest dungeon and then buy gear from the harder dungeons. And the few who do want to play the dungeon for fun wount be able to do so because there is too few people playing it.
why can you and your friend play the same dungeon regardless of the fact that you need to do different dungeons to get different gear ?? how hard is it to help each other out and have fun switching between playing 2 dungeons instead of just grinding 1 ????
would have been nice if they could implement a command like /join overflow ot just /overflow to get into an overflow. or something like that.
whats also funny is that there is lots of overflows at this time of the day. at least in EU servers.
Anet should implement a command like /join overflow. would make things so much easier.
use http://gw2lfg.com/
to look for an overflow.
99.9% of the people who need to know what you write in the OP is most likely not reading anything on the forums at all. either they dont know, dont care or feel like there is no need to be on the forums.
The reason people dont talk much or upload videos of old tom is because he is easy. well at least if everyone know what their doing.
Most people dont use the tactic shown in the youtube video you have linked.
People walk in and jump onto the walls without going close to old tom. that way you can use the walls to place crystals near the sides. then you start the fight and have 1 person on each location ( 1 left side, 1 right side and 1 at the fan ). the other 2 can place themselves where they want. be sure to start the fight before starting the fan or you will have to deal with the poison til you can start the fan again.
mesmers and guardians can block the ranged attack on the ground easily. which makes it easy for all to melee old tom. most people use a combination of range and melee on him. by the time you have used up your 8 crystals you should have killed on tom. a good team with decent dps can do it faster.
instead of only having the option to leave the dungeon you could just get an options asking if you want to restart the dungeon so you can do another path. when all in the party have accepted ( like fractal ) all start over from the start, as if you had re-entered the dungeon.
crafting is at this point mostly used to level alt characters. highest level items you can craft do not make a profit since in most cases materials is worth more than the items themselves. most of the items you can make with crafting can be bought cheaper on the trade post compared to crafting them yourself.
if you want a legendary weapon you will need 2 skills to max level in crafting. which one depends on the legendary.
Only you can decide if its worth your money / time and effort to get it. everyone else might have a different opinion and the most important thing is for you yourself to be satisfied with your choice.
apparently the seal can still be killed by player skills/attacks after the hammer is first dropped. however, not so easy with all the mobs around it. saw it for the first time today and it was a necro who knew it and killed the seal. took forever to kill it though. apparently the skill he used didnt take much damage and was the best way to destroy the seal from distance without agro the mobs.
the only reason people have 0-15 AR is because they want infused rings to soulbind, and not waste rings, tokens and money to buy whats needed to get infused rings with max AR. Quite understandable if you ask me. + I happen to be one of those with 15 AR. works pretty well with exception of cliff and vulcano.
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and what makes you think they havent adressed it yet ? Because they have. They have posted in threads about the d/c issue. if you look around or search for them you might find your answer. probably not the one you want to hear but an answer non the less.
Happens to Malchor’s quite a lot actually. Most people who do ori ore runs each day knows that malchor nodes can suddenly change.
its well known that crafting the items you need as you level up is not possible. you out level anything you can craft in no time. unless you spend a whole lot of money to buy the items you need from the trade post.
also the items you can craft is not worth selling since the materials is worth more than the crafted items ( with a few exceptions which is hard to find and those who do know keep that to themselves ).
btw, you should sell all blue and green items to npc vendor for money as salvaging them isnt worth it. you get in the long run more money by vendoring it than salvaging the items.
then ask someone in your guild to come along to help you or some friends. If you dont have a guild, join one.
The main reason people dont play level 1 is because those who do it dont have a clue on what to do and thus they die. after a death or 2 or taking too much time someone always quit.
what I dont understand is why you dont do path 3. Path 3 is the easiest path now that they nerfed the burrow spawns in the first part of path 3 like a month back or more.
unless you have an offensive infusion slot I suggest you buy a defensive +5 agony for 75 fractal tokens.
too many people have maxed all or some crafting skills. there is nothing to be made from crafting. materials is also very expensive, which is why selling materials is a good way to make money.
what you need crafting for at this point is to create legendary weapons.
There is some crafted items you can make money on but you will have to spend lots of time figuring that out yourself. I can say that the top level items will not yield any profit as the materials is worth more than the items.
Chief might be the only useful skill left and can be maxed fairly easily and cheap.
many use crafting to level up alternative characters. from 0-400 in 1 crafting skill you get about 10 total levels on your character. so in a few hours you can max all crafting skills and thus get lvl 80 in no time. as long as you have the gold to waste on doing so. it will not be cheap.
if you want weapons or armor you should either use dropped items from mobs and chest or buy them from the trade post. you will out level anything you craft so dont think you can craft the items you use as you level up.
trade post is cheaper, especially if you use “place custom order” and not buy it directly.
and this is why most people who buy and sell on the trade post use an external calculator where both the 5% and 10% fee is included so that you can get the actual loss/profit on items.
it all depends on your skills. my brother got to level 20 without agony resistance and have been doing several 20 dailys without agony resistance. though he die at maw.
from level 10 it is good to have agony resistance, the more you have hte better it is. it gives you and your team survivability. the more resistance everyone have the bigger is the chance at going trough fractals without problems.
didnt you know that what happened to you now is all thx to the fix for the first fix that failed completely.
Im starting to wonder how many times they need to fix this boss before it becomes as first intented.
the Eta on the fix is when its ready. That could be anytime from tomorrow til months from now.
yes, other recipes have been found, however, you still need 250 globs of ecto.
click on this link and you will find all the info you need.
http://dulfy.net/2012/11/17/gw2-ascended-gear-and-infusion-recipes/
what should be includes in a dungeon tool is the ability to join an overflow and search for fractals over all servers.
what fractals really need is a good dungeon finder and a way to access overflow without when there is too few people in LA. its easy to find a group on the player made gwlfg site, however, at certain times of the day its impossible to play due to no overflow. Because all the players who want to play same level as you is not on the same server.
(4.) Make Agony tick evenly across on all players every 30sec of a boss encounter. Scale its damage accordingly to adjust for this.
I dont agree to this point. right now you can avoid most agony attacks with the exception of the Maw. this is all about skill and concentration. besides at 20+ without much agony resistance you would die quickly by being hit with agony attacks every 30 sec.
(3.) Keep the current system but allow players to buy the ring of their choice from the golem vendor for a high amount of Fractal Relics.
I dont see how point 3 is going to work well. at level 10-18 you get normal ascended rings. at 20+ you have a chance of getting ascended infused rings. if you were to upgrade to infused yourself it would cost you an arm and a leg in gold to upgrade it. If you were to get these easily by just farming daily rewards and lower lvl fractals it certainly wouldnt be balanced.
In this battle plan you have not mentioned his agony attack which you will see from level 10 and up. for levels lower than 10 the attack will just be a fire ball, but at 10+ the fire ball will also contain agony.
You can dodge it, however, the further your away from the boss the easier it is to see it coming, and the fire ball is quite fast. It is something that will make it more difficult for you to get close to him when he is close to go into his bubble. Especially alongside all the fire elemental’s spawning.
I think I have read that you can change the sigil on precursors without causing any harm for your legendary upgrade. However, dont take my word for confirmation as I currently dont own a precursor so I havent tested that myself just yet.
A 20 fractal relic bonus as well as Bag of Gold is given in a Bonus Chest that appears as a reward for completing even levels (2,4,6,8,,), but only once per 10 levels (1-9,10-19,20-29,,) per day per character. In this chest from lvl 10 and up you have a small chance of getting an ascended ring.
It has nothing to do with how many fractals you have done or do per day. Only what you get in this one daily chest every 10th fractal level ( 10-18, 20-28, 30-38). I havent heard of anyone getting to level 40 yest so you have max 3 chances pr day pr character to get a ring.
Vulcano and drege is already maps everyone avoids due to the difficulties and the fact that these maps take too much time regardless how good your group is. Unless cliffside get a fix asap most people will avoid it as much as possible. Just like vulcano and drege.
if you want more people or a group go here
http://gw2lfg.com/
and dont post topics like these in the forum. read pinned topic:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/STOP-lf1m-posts-use-lfg-site/first
They are working on fixing the disconnect issue, and there are countless developer posts reassuring us of that. However, it is not a simple task, so give them some time. If it really bothers you that much, just don’t do FotM until it’s fixed! There’s plenty of other stuff to do in the meantime.
I have played 129 fractals since it came out. Today was the very first day I got kicked out of a dungeon thx to Anet and todays update. Never had any problems with the dungeon before.
Played level 20 and like 10-15 seconds after I finished loading the bonus map (4th map), the LA loading screen suddenly appear. All of a sudden I find myself in LA. same happened to one more in my party. This is no simple disconnect. It definitively isnt a problem with my internet or connection. This is due to the patch.
Anet care more about kitten fix of some time saving exploits than actually fixing thing or implementing things that actually work properly. and these kitten exploits they fixed created more and 10 times worse buggs and problems.
Since I got kicked out of the dungeon I had to redo it. wasting lots of time, thank you very much Anet, my party encountered another bugg. We finished out first map ( ice fractal ), but only 4 of us was transferd to the next map. One was left behind. we all did a suicide and luckely the 5th person was able to join us on after we went back to checkpoint.
Things I never have hear or seen before happened in 2/2 occasions. I dont want to have to worry about being kicked out of the dungeon at random or 1 or more in my party to suddenly disappear hanging over me while playing a dungeon.
Clearly the more Anet tries to fix the fractals the more their ruin.
Fractals was fun, at least until you had to start to worry about being kicked out at random. And I dont see why I should go and do something else because Anet kittened up the dungeon with a so called patch that was aimed to fix things. Would be better if they reverted it back to how it was 2 days ago and properly fix hte so called patch. downgrade is what is really is.
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Thank you so much for wasting my time Anet.
We were a party on level 20 fractal. On our 3rd map when all died being dolphins one of the party members suddenly found himself out of hte dungeon. normal disconnect we thought.
Completed the 3rd map and went to bonus map. At the start after loading screen about 10 seconds later Lions arch loading screen pops up and me and another person in the party find ourselves in Lions Arch. FOR NO OBVIOUS REASON. we got kicked out by non other than you Anet. probably those “bug” fixes in the latest update created new bugs or problems.
I have never heard or encountered anything like it up til today.
so now i have to redo all of fractal 20 to even get a chance of a ring. waste a lot more time and effort. Time I dont have today. thank you so much. yes i did deliver a bug report in game but that doesnt do much since my time is already wasted.
^^that happened. what more do you need ?
At level 375 you need to talk to the crafting master in your profession. He sell recipes so that you can create level 375 and 400 items. you buy them with karma.
next time try to start with using a guide. that way you dont have to waste money and resources by doing it teh wrong way. or least efficient way.
http://www.gw2wiz.com/index.php/cg1400menu < main page for guides in all crafting skills
http://www.gw2wiz.com/index.php/cg1400menu/leather1400/leatherworking-guide-1-400 < leatherworking guide.
If I were you I wouldnt event want to try transmuting it since it is likely what you say would happen. that is if you can transmute them at all.
take a look here as to what you can make:
http://dulfy.net/2012/11/17/gw2-ascended-gear-and-infusion-recipes/
However, there is nothing “cheap” to create quickly.
The reason divinity runes is good is that they give lots of overall stats in all stats. That means you can change your character build any way you like at any time without worry that the runes you have on your armor would not fit.
if you still want divinity runes I suggest you find a cheaper alternative until the prices goes down to something you feel is the right price for you to pay.
I would guess that the precursor scavenger hunt is still months away before its implemented into the game.
Because they can afford to screw it up and it has to be done right the first time. And this will take time.
OP is not selfish but have a valid point. The rich ore is way too easy and because of that the market get flooded and idiots keep undercutting by 10c, 20c, 1s etc because they want to sell first and dont mind less profit because its easy to obtain.
the reward for collecting all other ori ore is diminishing each day and the price drops more and more non stop.
the selfish ones if those of you who actually think the rich ori ore where it is right now is a good thing. because your most likely the lazy ones who dont go collecting ori ore elsewhere because it takes time. the amount of ori ore you get in Southsun Cove is a lot more than either cursed shore or malchors leap. one of these areas + frostgorge equals the same amount you get easily with no effort in Southsun Cove.
http://www.gw2wiz.com/index.php/cg1400menu/jeweler-1-400/jeweler-crafting-1-400
read the end part of this guide. should explane all you need to get 400