To raise cooking I simply pull up a list of recipes, find the items around my current level and start discovering with the ingredients I have already collected (gather at every node I see and can get to reasonably).
Killed the Viscount the other day and Horror showed up when we finally had him down to half health (this was before everyone KNEW to stand in the candy puddles…..so there was LOT of dying and respawing back to the WP going on). It truly a bloody mess.
My armor repair bill was over 10 silver….I think I had one piece of intact armor left.
I saw some others complaining about this the other day and these were the guys running from the candy bombs, using a bow the whole time and being downed most of the encounter. There IS a minimum amount of damage you need to do to get credit for the kill. Here are a few things to keep in mind when asking yourself if you are doing enough damage.
Given all those above, you DO Have to meet a certain percentage requirement of damage (I have NO idea what that number is) in order to be considered contributing to killing him. If you are used to shooting at Claw of Jormag 10 times and hanging back to get the chest….that strategy is NOT going to work here.
I am in no way implying that is what is going on here (there could certainly be some sort of bug), but if you have even the slightest doubt you applied enough damage to count as killing him, then that’s most likely the reason you didn’t get credit.
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Those all came out for 6 year birthday presents…..(so for 6 years MOST ALL tonics ONLY worked in towns).
Why would you NEED to be in tonic form in an exploitable area? I get that it is a “thing” but totally unnecessary for a game play standpoint. Big whup if it gets stripped. As I recall, these tonics could cause all kinds of confusion as they altered the player’s NAME and caused the actual HEROs and HENCHMEN to get generic names….I know Monks HATED those things when they came out.
elshazar is correct, this is NOT a bug and of all the things in this game that may NEED fixing this one would be WAY WAY WAY down the list if it needs fixing at all (I don’t think it does).
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An i7 is only beneficial if you are running high end CAD, imaging or video rendering (any application that runs continual floating point computations for an extended period of time). GW2 does NOT fall into that category (majority of display calculations for games are done via the GPU). A Gaming rig does NOT need an i7….now if you render a lot of video or do a lot of 3D modeling or image work, an i7 would save a lot of time (tho an i5 CAN do those operations…..it would just take longer).
My i5-2500K runs the game just fine and the newer Haswell i5 series would work even better (at a much lower power consumption). Gaming rigs
This was happening to me this morning (Yak’s Bend) prior to ANY events in the area being active (the “all is quiet” message was up). I was just gathering in the area and myself and another player kept getting hit with them. I put in a report and posted here asking about it.
Seems that there is some issue that causes those conditions to apply to random players in the vicinity of the Claw battle despite the actual status of the Claw events. It’s been seen (and reported) on numerous servers over the past month…..it does NOT appear to be directly related to the most recent patch.
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Pretty sure they are NOT going to remove the CD on this item (they already reduced it once). This item has NOT comparable to GW1 tonics as they ONLY worked in towns. They obviously do NOT want a multitude of identical looking fembots in all zones in the game (and I personally thank them for that). It’s a nice novelty item, but should not allow any player to become a permanent Watchknight.
BTW, the “infinte” in the name means it has unlimited uses….not unlimited duration.
Doesn’t he only spawn when one of the other Bosses get’s down to a certain health level? I can’t really see that NOT happening on a regular basis, however.
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Because if it is permanent, I WANT MY 10 LAURELS BACK!
Bravo!….screaming at the sky with shaking fists of rage might make you feel better, but you won’t get Laurels back like that.
Your only hope is to issue a support ticket (and I wouldn’t suggest holding your breath on a positive answer).
As mentioned above this was done in an update …. and reversed (with karma returned to MANY players) due to original outrage. Then it was announced (via posts here and several other placed) that it would be a permanent change in another update to take place in a few weeks (so players could boost and use existing containers). Anet gave everyone ample opportunity to NOT get in the situation you currently find yourself.
I am griefed every time I say I am a Ranger – 99% will ask me if I ‘have another character’.
The sheer meanness of some people who want to control others is just getting awful.
You do realize they have a legit reason to have doubts about taking a Ranger into a Dungeon area, right? Dead Pets do not make for an optimum group and even the BEST Ranger player will agree it’s a disadvantage to the overall group effort.
That being the case, I also play a Ranger, so I know the grief you are speaking of but it’s much less the “controlling” attitude (I just ignore that) than the rudeness and mean spirited comments that are totally unnecessary. There are far to many players out there that equate being uncompromising in who and how you will play to having no time for ANY form of manners at all. Not having time to be nice does not mean you NEED to be rude.
Just want to point out, hopefully an anet’er reads, it’s harder to report someone when your party chat is wiped out when you leave a party (get kicked out).
I find it an annoying detail that for over a year has not been addressed.
This is a very valid point. I don’t think you can attach an existing screenshot to the report either (you have to generate the screenshot WHILE the report window is opened (or did I just dream that shortfall of the report system?)).
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Get a build with decent speed boost and travel lower level areas clearing the Renound Hearts….they give the best XP in open world zones. Some of them can bog you down with tedious stuff, but they ALL count toward clearing the zone.
That dark red dye might be Heirloom.
There is a rather similar one in Southeastern Frostgorge Sound. Those dredge love their views from the catwalks…..
I agree that particular one is PitA, but it’s certainly not impossible to solo. You do realize that you CAN jump past the gate from the higher areas if you take the right angle (you don’t HAVE to go all the way to the top to open that one gate)? The jumps a bit tricky but that shaves off a LOT of fighting.
BTW, a Necro SHOULD be squishy, but there are plenty of things available to mitigate that fact.
Hope these tips help you.
BTW, I find the Power/Crit build to be very single target oriented, so I have no idea how should be better with multiple targets…..the secret to taking on many targets in a Cond build is to exploit the known AI movement tendencies, use natural choke points to your advantage and switch targets to spread the conditions around to so ALL your enemies are degenerating massive damage while you avoid their attacks…..they will ALL be dead rather quickly. I guess it may be slower than spiking down one target at a time, but I find that method VERY boring on a caster class (and I get plenty of that type of game play from my Thief and Warrior). It IS all about personal preference.
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While I agree this is a good cause…..it’s now in the wrong Forum. The thread changed from a simple question to a petition (which, BTW, I think is against the forum rules….).
This needs to be in Suggestions area.
Nice to know I’m not just suffering from OFGP (Old Fart Gaming Psychosis).
I posted a thread in the Bug forum (tho I’m not SURE the event is bugged):
Seeing some strange stuff in Frostgorge (Yak’s Bend) this morning (and everything seemed fine about 8 hours ago).
- The area near where 1st stage of Claw battle happens is randomly generating the FEAR and “FRIGID whatever” condition when roaming the area….and the Claw event is NOT active (that I can tell)
- I do not recall any Claw events since the last update. Granted, I have not been running it as regularly with 5 or so characters over the past few days, but I think I have been there enough so that I should have been able to participate in at least one Claw event in that time.
- Champ train (running with very few last night) was not present that I could find. Nobody responded to my map chat and when I traveled to Drakkar there was no banner, only a few AFK players standing there and I could easily spot 3 Champs in the area that were actively roaming in their normal pattern (as if they had been in map for quite a while). It was rather early (6AM CST US), but this is the first time I have been in Frostgorge since the Champ Chest change and not seen SOME sort of Champ Train running.
Obviously everyone could be farming Labyrinth (Scarlet Invasions did interrupt the regular trains for a while) or just not in Frostgorge if the Claw event IS in some way bugged there.
Has anyone else seen anything strange in Frosgorge since last update or could this just be my server (Yak’s Bend)? I did send a bug report about the Comditions being applied when Claw event did not appear to be active.
Since the traffic over in the Game Bug forum is not that high (and this IS related to a Dynamic Event), I wanted to post here for any potential feedback.
Thanks!
Seeing some strange stuff in Frostgorge (Yak’s Bend) this morning (and everything seemed fine about 8 hours ago).
Obviously everyone could be farming Labyrinth (Scarlet Invasions did interrupt the regular trains for a while) or just not in Frostgorge if the Claw event IS in some way bugged there.
Has anyone else seen anything strange in Frosgorge since last update or could this just be my server (Yak’s Bend)? I did send a bug report about the Comditions being applied when Claw event did not appear to be active.
Quaggan Dentist will be mad with me…..
It’s an exclusive and limited item. ALL players should not be able to get ALL items.
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I think he causes WAY more deaths than the Bosses…..his Torment is brutal if you don’t bring tons of condition removal.
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Leveling quickly shouldn’t ruin my experience i hope.
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Sorry but it will. On your first character, it is less about how FAST you level, but in what manner. Intentionally leveling via crafting (again, for your first character) is a BAD idea. I’m not saying a few levels of crafting along the way is terrible, but you should explore the zones and complete hearts, and visit the vistas, skill points and points of interest if for nothing more than seeing the vast world of Tyria. Sure you can go back to the lower level areas at 80, but the experience is certainly NOT the same.
Certainly play how you want, but remember that I cautioned you.
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Yeah, I know GWnodes.com is updated by players and can be a PitA to keep 100% accurate during update periods. It also doesn’t help that the map overlay itself seems to be a tad buggy and I often have to reload the page several times to get a valid display (the site DOES say BETA all over it, so I’m not complaining…..it’s a highly useful resource in general).
I’m not exactly sure of the resupply timing, but I have noticed that T6 nodes seem to take longer to resupply than the lower tiers. I’ve seen plenty of other players indicate the same observations.
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I can’t see pools of nuffin in dat zerg.
The pools actually form a good way out from the main zerg, but I agree it’s a visual mess.
To be honest, the first reaction I had to the pools was, “OMG! Gotta get out of this red ring of death!” I then realized there was no red ring and thought, “OMG! Another bug”.
There are nodes in open world…..you just don’t find 3 on every view of the mini-map like last year.
They obviously wanted to decrease the available stock of this resource and this is one of the ways to do it.
On the other hand the number of nodes in the Labyrinth does seem a bit excessive….
Or just melee. He never throws candy at his feet, it’s always ranged, and with big enough zerg his melee range aoe-s can be pretty much ignored completely.
But if you get candy coated and THEN melee you do MUCH more damage to him. If EVERYONE does this, he goes down in minutes….not tens of minutes.
There were actually 3 updates over the past few days that cause a LOT of confusion on these nodes. The site above (gw2nodes.com) was VERY incorrect for my server (Yak’s Bend) for quite a while during the confusion.
As of last night, all locations checked out for me.
If the chest appears for you to see, you can always “open” it. It is possible that the graphic will NOT update to indicate the chest is opened (due to the massive number of players you are currently viewing), but you should see the reward items you get on the right hand of the screen above the mini-map.
The damage requirement for “tagging” a Champ is pretty low but the chest will not visually spawn for you to see if you did not contribute enough to count in the kill.
Almost all Champions will have the word “Champion” in their name (but not all of them).
The key to staying alive in this game is NOT getting damaged (or minimizing the damage) in the first place (proper timing of dodges, blocks, boons and intelligent movement). If you are relying on your healing skill alone to keep you alive, you WILL die a lot….
The requirement of an active gameplay style for survival is one of the key differences between GW2 and most other MMOs.
Do yourself (and every player you ever run into) a favor and PLEASE don’t craft level up your first character….actually learning to play the game via REAL leveling (on at least your first character) is invaluable experience that teaches you how the game works (for both you and other players).
Ok…I’ll as the question everyone won’t…..where is a new player going to obtain 100G? IMHO, this will RUIN your initial experience with introduction to the game, but welcome to GW2 anyway.
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Ok folks, these are the TOP tier of weapons (sans the Legendary which isn’t directly crafted). They SHOULD involve some expense and effort to generate compared to the lower tiers.
The 21K karma is much more of an issue than 5 Laurels, BTW. Most players just have enough karma (and Laurels) saved up that this expense is a non-issue. Keep in mind this is a ONE time expense for that weapon.
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How is it another discussion lol… it’s the whole reason I made this thread, two 1Hers are time-gated for much longer than just crafting one 2Her
I meant time gating in general (thus the OVERALL part of the comment). I get that was not clear…my bad.
It takes more resources in general to make 2 weapons instead of one, so the time gating is just a side effect of that fact….. I certainly consider that gearing up with 2 1H weapons is going to cost me more in just about every respect and accept it (I AM getting twice as many weapons out of the process). Guess you don’t, so we will just disagree about this myriad of issues.
If you want some “better” gear while working toward Exotic, I suggest looking at RARE (YELLOW) armor on the TP. Relatively cheap and will get you decent stats so you can WvW or do Dungeons.
What you really want to pin down when pursuing LVL 80 armor is the LOOK you want. Keep in mind that transmutation stones do add some expense, but give you complete control over the stats you want on whatever armor skin you desire (same goes for weapons).
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It procs on any crit you do, and for bloodlust you only need to have the weapon active when the kill occurs.
….and after you get the max stacks, you can change the weapon out (for a different sigil) and the max stacks stays in place (until you zone or die). Note that you can only have 1 type of stacking bonus active at one time.
I get you are frustrated, but you are seriously going to blame this entire issue on ANet?
There are dozens of connections between you and their servers so just ASSUMING their servers are the reason you were disconnected is not fair….internet disruptions happen and data gets corrupted. Trying to place blame and figure out who’s fault it is does not fix the problem.
With that out of the way, you need to realize that if the game “suspects” there is a problem with the GW2.DAT database, it starts downloading it again. However, you can manually try repairing the DB with the -repair option. You may need to download some files again, but at least it won’t be all of them. The thread mentioned above has the instructions and you can also find them here: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments
Hope this helps.
I’m gonna bookmark this thread in case I need to do this. I saved the info though if I can’t access the net at some point.
GW2 is unusable in general if you can’t access the net….
Only reason I am aware they will rollback (and ONLY once) is if your account get’s hacked.
What is the issue with guesting?
NA / EU servers or does guesting just not allow you access the personal guild bank?
Gotta say that how these doors work is less than clear and quite an annoyance. The porting back to LA is a MAJOR inconvenience as it is FAR too easy to accidentally enter the door rather than loot nearby items.
Putting LOOT on a different key is a possible solution to this, but should NOT be necessary….kind of a sloppy design (just like the location of the loot chests and balloon travel being too close together on the QJ towers).
You should realized from the past few months of content that anet ignores complaints.
Sorry but… “You should realize that based on previous content” would have been a better response.. And yeah they do but Complaints are often more of a personal outlet as opposed to game changers (with some notable exceptions.) so I complained nonetheless.
Was I playing the game where the Dev’s changed the 8-bit jumping zone content when people complained or did I dream that….?
These forums are full of such massive exaggeration and flat out lies it’s not even entertaining any longer….
IMO, they DO need to adjust the crafting requirements down for the weapons, but other than that all these complaints boil down to, “it’s not the same as last year….whhaaaaa!!!!”
This is a great thread!
Myself i’ve only started 2-3 weeks ago. I levelled up a ranger so far but struggling in dungeons finding a supportive group to take noobs. Im finding ranger hard in dungeons because of the close proximity and relatively low dps (but constant).
You are going to find it a long haul to get accepted into a Dungeon group as a Ranger. The pet mechanic is NOT good in most Dungeons (Dead pets = not 100% effective) and groups will avoid you just on that fact alone. Not saying it’s fair, but it is an issue you need to be aware of.
There’s a little bit of catch-22 once you reach 80. Need better gears which seems to be from dungeons, but cant do dungeons because I lack experience / tactics.
There are dozens of other sources to get Exotic equipment from…..Crafting, WvW vendors, Laurel vendors, Trading Post, etc. Here’s a tip, gear up with Rare’s (Yellow) items first. You can get them cheaply off TP or other sources and they are a good alternative increase in gear until you can obtain Exotics.
I’ve never done any Dungeon instance (over 50% of the players haven’t either). If you want the Dungeon set skins, your MUST do the them however.
Another tip: DO THE DAILY ACHIEVEMENTS. If possible. In doing them regularly, you are nearly guaranteed to get the MONTHLY as well. Laurels (main achievement reward) are good sources of income and equipment later in the game….start hording them now. Also, the Achievement chests (one of the BEST updates to the game content, IMO) contain all sorts of useful items and are a great long term goal.
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Coming from a WoW player, and an MMO player since 1997, this game is one of the most difficult I have had to play.
The classes are unbalanced in that some you can dominate from the beginning, while others you have to really be on top of things.
I like a lot that the game has to offer, but there is so much that is difficult to overcome, or is poorly designed (ie: dying and choosing a way point to rez that says it is clear, only to find it surrounded by mobs and dying again.)
I have only been playing for a week, and I am on the fence as to whether or not I like the game.
This game is nothing like WoW, and makes the challenge of WoW look like the Sims.
My opinion.
You may need to read some of these posts and linked threads as I have NEVER heard this game described as, “one of the most difficult I have had to play.”. I can only think you are playing the game based on a incorrect assumption of how to play it (standing still attacking, not dodging, fighting in areas you are not leveled or equipped for, etc.) The contents of this thread (or links contained here) may help with that.
One players “unbalanced” is another players “different” and what you consider a “poor design” I might consider “challenging and realistic”. BTW, no waypoint in an open world zone should ever be considered 100% SAFE. There are those that I have never seen an enemy near, but you have to learn the zones to find them.
Not sure what you expect from a PuG in a Dungeon.
I’m not justifying the other players actions, but getting upset and attempting to seek some sort of “revenge” because you got called a name in an on-line video game is rather childish itself. Report the guy and move on.
You are justifying other players actions.
You seem to think it’s okay for things like this to happen.
When you start up a game, it is meant to be fun. I don’t think calling names is fun, whether it’s in a game or not. The fun factor in RPGs is progress, which takes time.
When you spend time on something and someone takes away your rewards, you would not be happy! Thus it would be time to do something about that.
You obviously don’t know what the word “justify” means, if you truly believe what I posted indicated it was ok for anyone to cursing at you. I just said it’s going to happen in any online environment (GW2 is much less than most) and all you CAN do is report them. The reporting is built in and easy to use (instructions in one of the other posts). Having a major personal crisis over it is just stressing yourself out over something you have no control over. I do it all the time and at some point in your life you will realize it’s not worth it.
Here are my 2 cents:
While leveling:
did this on a guardian over the weekend with no problems. Hammer auto attack, stand your ground, save yourselves, and retreat were all enough to keep the npcs alive too. I dont even remember the small spiders being an issue. They died in a single auto attack chain.
Wiki didn’t indicate they were an issue other than delaying you getting to the BOSS. It implied there was some sort of Buffing Glitch if you took too long getting to him (triggering the cut-scene).
@ Falunel – That’s more like it….(your first suggestions were not very specific).
If you like Dodging, you need to check out the Thief Acrobatics Trait line….
One handers should be easier to get, then. I thought that point was pretty kitten obvious…
They do require less overall materials, but not much (so that could be changed, to make them a bit easier to obtain).
BTW, I was being slightly sarcastic with my previous remark and I see that was not clear….
They actually require more overall materials. It takes 9 Deldrimor Steel Ingots for both an ascended GS and an ascended Sword. It takes 3 Spiritwood Planks for both as well (the inscription is the same).
So making two 1H swords is twice the materials as a single 2H greatsword.
EDIT: And as described by the OP, twice as long due to the time gating (assuming you don’t buy the ingots/planks off the TP).
Materials required should be examined for a change (I have already stated that), but your other points is a generic weapon mechanic “issue” (1-2H vs 2-1H) that has existed since the game came out. It is NOT an Ascended weapon crafting issue at all.
The overall time-gating issue is another discussion also.
One handers should be easier to get, then. I thought that point was pretty kitten obvious…
They do require less overall materials, but not much so while that could be changed, to make them a bit easier to obtain, but I doubt that is going to happen due to those already crafted.
BTW, I was being slightly sarcastic with my previous remark and I see that was not clear….sorry.
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According to dulfy.net gallery there are 74 dagger skins and 79 Greatsword skins. Overall the balance is not that out of wack (tho I get that you are talking about Exotic uniques).
According to the Wiki here is a count of the named weapons (all Exotics and Legendary’s):
Average is 13.3 so Daggers are low by one and there are many other weapons that have been slighted more (tho, some of them are understandable….like MACE which only 2 classes can use).
What’s up with Focus having over twice as many as the average? There are also nearly 90 Focus skins total (compared with an average of about 76 for other weapons).
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Are you trying to craft with the materials you gather during regular play? That’s really hard to do if you’re on your first character.
Unless you have some gold to buy materials with, doing this with one character is nearly impossible. I ran 5 characters up at about the same pace and was able to craft some useful equipment along the way, but until you get some resources (gold, gathered mats or both), you are going to run into roadblocks with crafting.
Those guides are a good way to plan some crafting and you will find that cooking is the anomaly of the crafting professions and artificer is the oddball weapon craft.
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