Stalwart armor is a mostly unobtainable armor set. The only skin that can be acquired is the Caretaker’s Jacket chest skin by completing a level 40 personal story step on any medium armor wearing class. All other pieces of the set are currently unobtainable, except by players who unlocked the skins during the old PvP reward system. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stalwart_armor
As far as I know they payout the extra slot once a week to people who have pre purchased. So you will get your standard slot when you purchased but should get the extra slot some time during the week.
Guardian is fun whilst bringing a lot of group support and damage to the party, I’ve primarily played one for around 3k hours and thoroughly enjoyed it. The link below is from Obal who will explain everything you need to know for running dungeons with a guard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBfQUMRdobo
I’ve recently started playing a staff elementalist which is one of the highest damage builds around at the moment, whilst providing group support with condition cures and permanent fury. It also has a very simple rotation that is easy to learn and doesn’t really require much of a learning curve. The link below is another build video if you are interested in playing one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsS5TwgbWBo
Don’t feel you have to follow berserker gear as suggested, although this will give you the highest damage output it can take some getting use to with dungeons and learning when to dodge etc. You might wish to use Knights or Soldiers which is around a 10-15% damage loss to berserker gear but staying alive and providing damage is more important than dying and providing no damage. I used Knights for a while until I was happy to swap to berserker.
You may also like to check out gw2dungeons.net it has full guides for every dungeons and shows what skills you should use on what bosses. You may also like to check out youtube video’s of dungeons so you get a general understanding of what is being said in the guides. http://gw2dungeons.net/
I hope this provides you with some useful information!
I quite like the pace of them, was a bit frustrating at first trying to get gliding but once I got use to the map and events it came in pretty fast.
Couple of hours to get my first point in gliding, which was hindered by exploring and getting use to the new elite spec’s. So overall it was quite reasonable.
Once the game is live I’m sure the majority of xp will come in quickly with a lot more events to complete. However I do hope it’s not too quick as I’ve had nothing to work on but PvP stuff since they announced HoT at the start of the year, so something like this in long breaks will give us something to do, with meaningful progress.
This might be of some help for you! She explains it all, although you may want to try knights or soldiers over zerker if you need the extra survivability to stay alive as its only a part DPS loss (I think 10-15%?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsS5TwgbWBo
With ele you should be ok once you get use to swapping attunements for staying alive.
I noticed that you get a reward every second event, but that could just be random or coincidence
Guessing its random unless diminishing returns has something to do with it.
I still managed to get 20 ancient bones in an hour plus some other tier six mats such as giants eye and bloods with heavy moldy bags along with the bonus drop.
Although farming gold then buying from the trading post may still be the way to go for efficiency this will certainly give a nice change of pace to ‘earning’ a legendary.
So I did another twenty events all of which successful. Eight of which rewarded ancient bones and one a giants eye. Seems totally random…Now I’m curious if magic find effects drop rates…
So just wondering if the system is time gated when paying out rewards? If so how long?
I was doing the Melandru event chain in Cursed Shore and each of the events rewarded me with the ancient bone as it should have but if two events were completed in quick concession of each other then the latter event wouldn’t reward you with a bonus material.
I can understand why this is in place…To stop people farming events without sticking it out and flooding the market with materials but could people confirm the times for us? For future reference or feedback etc. So far I only found events that are completed within two minutes of each other to not reward you on the latter events completion. Which I personally find quite reasonable.
Overall I’m very much enjoying myself running around some of the original farming maps with a group of people doing events.
If you’re worried about losing gold and gambling to fund an existing project then don’t use the destabilization merchant. However if you’re not worried about losing some gold then go ahead.
After 180 tries on the exotic 4g/50e package I am now 720 ecto richer and minus 11 gold, which the ecto makes up for anyway. (11g would only buy me around 26ish ecto at current market prices which are raising slowly by hour with this new gamble).
RNG is RNG, I’ll continue and carry on documenting within the spreadsheet.
lost literally everything i have….everyone in mapchat was linking items worth thousands of gold. of course i didnt even get one nice thing. probably just gonna quit at this point. 1 year of saving all gone
How much did you spend?
I dropped 2.2k and 250 ecto and made a loss of around 150g and 100e.
Here ya go… Generally speaking you are going to have a wait a bit, but at least this way you should never have to worry not having enough people or missing out on a boss.
Yeah i know the timers but even then there’s never people, i think they’re in another world?
I generally turn up one minute before or even on the spawn time and there is 9 times out of ten enough people to kill the boss.
If you’re talking about triple wurm and teq then you may need to dedicate some wait time, Teq you can usually find a taxi five minutes before spawn and get a decent map.
Wurm usually needs a little more time due to setting up the three groups.
Also consider playtime, only a small minority do world bosses in the early hours compared to daytime/primetime.
Ok I have news everyone, please advise me on next course of action.
The player through some miracle came online today, after a bit of friendly chit chat I got him to acknowledge and admit that he owes me the money, he then told me that he no longer has the money he owes me and did not return it because we did not meet online since then and it felt weird to him to just send it back through mail, even though he received it the same way.
After I asked him to please work out a way to return it, he told me to “**** off” and blocked me. I have the entire conversation screened and it is fresh in the logs.
I suspect he actually does have the gold and just does not feel like returning it.
Are these sufficient grounds for scamming report?
All you can do is submit the screenshots to anet and let them deal with it. I think the same punishment will apply here as when someone scams players for paying for dungeon runs then leaving with the money.
They get dealt with via a ban or suspension but you will not get your gold back.
Anyways, I doubt it will be for weddings. Just a cosmetic feature in the game which players could choose to use with their game play type.
They should allow us to decorate our home instances/guild halls before weddings. RP’ers will at least be able to hold their own weddings with their guilds this way, and carry on buying the name change to have the same last name.
Although these little features are quite nice, Anet should have bigger priorities on their list to please the majority of the community.
Edge of the Mists is basically a champ train, that’s what I do now that the other trains are dead… I can never find a decent map for that chest thing so I just stick with EotM., I get the same money I used to get from Frostgorge train so I’m happy.
If your EU side then add me as a friend, I farm the chest train at least once a day and would gladly offer you a taxi into the same map.
The Silverwastes is probably your best bet right now. Jump in a map and start to do the event meta and rake in the crests to spend on bandit chest keys for lost bandit chests.
Join a chest farm map, you can easily reach 70-100 champion bags per hour with a semi-decent commander to follow. Each chest requires one key, each key costs 5 crests.
Alternately, you could do SE P1 for a steady income of champion bags in minimal time.
Unfortunately, a steady income of bloodstone dust requires a steady income of champion bags.
Two weeks of dedicated dungeon farming will net you 500g+ providing you sell most of the mats you receive in that time. If you can’t run Arah efficiently then hit dungeons along with some world bosses also worth doing rich ore run if you’ve got the watchwork pick.
P2W? Someone could buy a ledg via gems to gold yet another person could easily obtain the same ledg with two months of dungeon farming. They both get the same item. Its down to time, I personally have enough time to farm dungeons four hours a day whereas others don’t. People also have bigger entertainment budgets than others.
What really needs to be asked is what advantage does that gems to gold user really achieve? Apart from a skin anyone who is dedicated enough can obtain. There is nothing wrong with buying gems but don’t confuse Guild Wars 2 with a pay to win model.
Three of which (Tooth of Frostfang) I got in under 25 forges y.day, 4th Feb.
The Lover again from MF at 700 hours
And the first ever one was Storm at 400 hours from a trash spider in TA UP.
I’d like to do Arah Story Mode (well, all the dungeons Story Mode at some point) to finish the personal story as well.
How PUGable are the Story Modes of dungeons? After years in other MMOs I’m strongly PUG-averse (and I gather PUGs here offer toxicity on top of the usual issues, since apparently there’s a “vote-kick” mechanism…) but there may be no other choice. I might be able to do Arah SM in guild since there seem to be a lot of us who need it, the trick will be scheduling. Getting the other Story Modes done appears to be PUG or nothing though.
I take it the rewards for Story Mode dungeons are poor/nonexistant, or the time to run them is very long such that reward/time is terrible? It sounds like they’re de facto once per character content, whether or not that was Anet’s intent (for obvious game design reasons I presume it wasn’t).
Story mode are more ‘PuG-friendly’ than explorable mode due to how easy the two compare to each other. Never had any issues with foul attitude in story mode dungeons even if there has been multiple wipes.
Explorable however can be very noob unwelcoming. If in any doubt just create the LFG yourself and state that its your first time or whatever. Also check out gw2dungeons.net/ this site helped me out a lot when first starting to play in dungeons.
If you are playing on EU then I have no issue helping you through them, story and explorable.
Are you NA? I’m in a helping mood this week and have done Arah Story on plenty of alts so I can explain the fights to a group that’s willing to wait for me to type info before they charge in.
If my guildies are on I can see if any of them want to help fill it out, but the last time I saw someone asking for Arah Story I was able to corral 3 more people just in the map and we zipped right through the dungeon.
This, apart from I’m EU, so if you are on EU as well then add me as a friend and I’ll help you run through it with a group.
Tried refreshing the instance five-six times before giving up for the night. Submitted an in-game bug report as this is blocking progress towards my last luminous armor piece.
About the Tome of knowledge how can I get those from pvp?
Tell me more about this karmatrain in Edge of The Mists please.
Tomes can be farmed from the PvP Reward track, its probably faster to do map completion than PvP though.
Karma train in EoTM is basically following the zerg whilst capping events then letting the other two teams take it back so you can re-cap. Each capture is an event thus gaining karma and xp, very quick and effective way to level.
Never tested mid range tier mats but I did open 369 Boss Blitz chests at level 80:
263 x Gold
68 x Silver
38 x Bronze
Opening the chests gave me 34 rares (salvaged to ecto)
5 Exo (sold at 22g 18s – one was a Str rune)
3402 x Champion bags
Made 69g coin from champ bags/selling minor and major runes from salvaging. (2s02c per bag)
Total of 12 exo’s (sold at 28g 61s)
Total of 116 rares (salvaged to ecto – With master kit)
Roughly 26.5k tokens used on 88 T6 mats (264 T6 mats) (sold at roughly 120g)
Salvaged all blue and green items with copper salvage gem store bot (total 116k luck)
Attachment below is all the mats and luck I got. Only some of the gauntlet tickets are shown as used quite a few so far. The total T6 mats does not include the 88 mat bags I stated above.
Try the Clown Pavilion. Baka Blitz has a pretty good karma payout if you get in an organized map. I find myself with more karma than I know what to do with.
This! Gold Crown Pavilion gather near 3k per event with boosts every 5-10mins (depends how quick bosses die and donations).
Otherwise do Teq something near 20k karma per run. Although you generally have to turn up 30 mins early to get a decent organized server or ask for a taxi in open world LFG.
Mix it up with EoTM as well, saves farming karma in one place unless you really enjoy that content.
If you don’t mind a bit of farming you could take advantage of the gold Crown Pavilion. Items in the reward chests plus ten champ bags so plenty of stuff to salvage.
Would love to…. spent 2h searching for one and found nothing….. any good ways to find blitz?
EU or NA? We have a guild set up purely for gold CP on EU. Organized runs daily at 20:30CEST-00:00CEST with afternoon runs being created at random times (usually 3pm CEST) dependant on organizers.
Sorry for my English, i don’t speak english very well but I will try to make me understand.
I lost the globs of ectoplasm in bank, i think someone has broken into my account.
Is there a way to see who it was?
Ty guys.
If you really believe your account has been compromised then change your password and post a support ticket.
Sounds like it would be in your collection tab though.
never gonna happen. unfortunately your work was wasted time.
All is not quite lost.
As quoted by Martin Kerstein. ‘We will introduce player housing at some point after launch, and at that time we will also implement guild halls.’
As quoted by Regina Buenaobra. ‘As we have said in the past, we do plan to have guild halls one day, but it’s not a feature we’re currently actively working on.’
We all know they are not working on them yet but as the title suggests this is a suggestion post for the devs to be able to look at for feedback from the community to what we would like to see when it does come to development.
I’d like something that feels like my adventures, money, and hard work are shaping and changing it, especially if there were house upgrades/unlocks for different game content completed and not just gem store options.
Possibly allowing completed Renowned Heart Karma Merchants offering certain housing items, something to do with the area and level.
Being able to purchase from a farmer in Queensdale an ‘Old Wooden Chair’ for XX amount of karma or after completing the a heart in Blazeridge that Sentinel Erria allows you to purchase a ‘Dragonbrand Table’. This would allow people to work for items in their house through adventuring, being able to show of their adventure (if they wish to) through their collection of furniture.
Of course this is just one way to obtain items, there is all sorts such as crafting, housing merchants, gem store etc etc.
I can never find a decent map for that chest thing so I just stick with EotM., I get the same money I used to get from Frostgorge train so I’m happy.
