Guild Wars 2

Batdogi.7142:

at lower levels the only karma vendor items I really found useful were heart vendor breathing masks and accessories now and then.

That is correct assessment, but if you are not doing ANY crafting during the leveling process (some players don’t enjoy crafting and avoid it), Karma vendors are an option to obtain gear as you level. Per the above statement, you are likely to find better gear for most equipment via drops (if you are exploring, clearing zones, or just doing dailies).

External site, but fairly accurate (keep in mind that if you get put in an overflow all bets are off on locations….). Also note it takes a bit of time for update right after a game update.

http://gw2nodes.com/

Just reporting what I have seen posted. Have not tried this and while your analysis of what is in the patch notes does not seem unreasonable, “Items using a skin will return a base item with the original appearance.” is not worded to give me confidence that the skin is still present, tho the following sentence does imply that. I’m curious as to why they used the term “original appearance”, rather than “applied skin appearance”.

I get you are saying, “The patch notes say splitters work this way”, but that is NOT what is being reported by multiple players. They could certainly be anomaly type bugs, “user error” or all Splitters malfunctioning in this manner, but I would be careful telling others it works this way unless you have actually tried it and it worked for you.

Pray For Kosmos.5849:

its not. anet lied about everything.

…and your statement is just a rather large exaggeration, not a lie?

Avatara.1042:

You lack a point.

Ok…my point was that this resources was NOT rare and easily farmed by all but the lowest level characters. Yes, the current refinement quantity requires more of it than any other wood material, but it is the most abundant wood nodes present in the game (which was the original reason they changed the refinement requirement).

POINT: It takes LONGER but is not more difficult to obtain what you need. It is not unreasonable to request that ANet reconsider the quantity change and revert it, but demanding and ranting for the reversal is just rude and childish.

It’s like having a black sheep, just for the sake of having a black sheep.

That is not accurate as there WAS a reason the number was increased, but I don’t disagree it needs to be re-evaluated now that the new receipts require the resource.

I use this gamepad for all my games. It requires some key assignment up front, but is so much better than trying to use a keyboard to move and press buttons.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126050

Do yourself a favor and don’t waste Karma on Rare or Exotic LVL 35 equipment….not since the recent updates that removed easy karma farming from the game.

Prior to LVL 80, you do not need to “gear up” with rares and exotics….it’s just not necessary. Buying a Rare main weapon from a racial vendor is ok, but spending the karma for full armor at LVL 35 (actually LVL 40) is a huge waste.

Whoa!!!! I’d be very careful with that suggestion as it has been reported on multiple posts on these forums that a Trans Splitters do NOT return skins (as they are NOT items).

Splittters will only return original ITEMS from the last transmutation process. All the reports I have seen of someone attempting what you are suggestion result in total LOSS of the skin.

I think the book is transferable so you can give it to another character….as I recall, they are not even Account Bound.

If it’s something that was in you stash when the update took effect, then it will give you the option to change it to what you want (I’m not sure of the exact details of the choices you get to choose from, however). The Traveler’s to Dire change was only for items being crafted after the update (as I understood it). No existing items automatically changed to a stat spec that I’m aware of.

I’m not sure how this is possible short of an account rollback situation.

I think a mistaken player’s memory about what character was exploring what map is a much more plausible explanation than some random loss of map exploration data in such a sporadic manner. I’m not saying it’s totally impossible, but I’m skeptical this is actually a bug in the game.

Contiguous.1345:

Guardian isn’t necessarily ‘tanky’ and the ranger isn’t necessarily squishy. It really depends a lot on how you set the stats.

A tanky build of any class is going to hit like a wet noodle – so don’t expect your guardian to be able to kill anything. In fact, too much armour/toughness and you can die simply because you can’t kill the thing that’s pecking away at you.

The guardian’s great strength is in protecting and buffing others. It’s a great support class but absolute suicide solo.
You won’t survive an encounter with a Ranger for example.

Wow….a lot of absolute statements that depend on a LOT of things to be true.

You can find a Guardian build that gives good survivablity while putting out decent damage. However, focusing only on defense in this game is very bad idea and any decent player is going to discourage you from going that direction. It is just not rewarded by the current game design.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Time gated or level gated content isn’t the slightest bit fun and I have no idea why game devs keep adding this sort of thing to the games they make.
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Simple answer: They need players in the game for a prolonged period of time.

Will it work? We shall see.

Hmmm….need to check my bank for Silver Doubloons….(I’ve never used any I’ve ever gotten).

The REAL reason to have a Guild Bank is someplace to safely store your “savings” gold. Allows you to budget your money and eliminate the possibility of accidentally wiping out your entire life savings with a mistaken purchase in the TP (there is NO confirm dialog in the TP buy screen).

You can get the Personal Guild Bank without spending any gold if you have some extra Laurels.

I bought one before they expanded the limit to 12 and could not use it. I submitted a ticket explaining the issue and was refunded my gems in a few days. I was buying one slot and had already reached the limit (but I was blissfully unaware there even WAS a limit).

It wasn’t a big deal, but something to check the limit WOULD reduce needless Customer Service issues like these.

Are you possibly both logging onto the PC via the same user (and what OS is being used)?

There is something very strange going on here…..

Isn’t the IP range authorization the OP is asking about already available? I certainly have a list under MY ACCOUNT > SECURITY that lets me manage the IP ranges that have attempted to access my account. Is this only available to certain servers / regions?

So the hacker can still log into the account after the mobile authentication has been activated? I find that very hard to believe.

mercury ranique.2170:

This only works for skins. So it is actually how to make soulbound skins accountbound. And it is actually a very old method being used since the beginning. At the moment most people have issues with soulbound stats.

Stats are tied to what MAKES an item Soulbound, so that issue is never going to have a solution (but nothing you said is invalid).

mercury ranique.2170:

Fasyx.9347:

What if I transmute a legendary? What about the stats? Will the white item still count as “legendary”?

Nope, you will loose the stats and only keep the looks. You also won’t be able too choose your stats when double clicking.

From my understanding (NOTE: I HAVE NOT DONE THIS), you can transfer the transmuted Legendary Weapon to the desired character and THEN use a TRANSMUTATION SPLITTER to retrieve the original Legendary Weapon with stat swapping working as intended (it is now soulbound to the character that SPLIT it). This process does NOT generate a SOULBOUND ON USE Legendary Weapon that can be sold or given to other characters.

NOTE: this will NOT work the same way to try and obtain a SKIN that has been applied to a weapon.

CTRL is used for much more than that in game….maybe you should find another Push 2 talk button?

Nothing in any of the updates notes indicate any change in how MF actually works in terms of drops, chests or loot boxes, so I’d say that indicates that if there were changes, nobody that knows about them is going to fess up in this thread.

Adine.2184:

Honestly i would set it aside for a while and grab a new class to level up for a while then when you come back to it it will feel fresher than before .

This is good advice. If you have open slots available, do this rather than just delete the character.

I see all these threads and I have yet to fully understand WHY players must be in the main server instance? Does the Tequ battle not take place in an overflow? Are the rewards diminished? I’m guessing it has to do with the quality of players and odds of success, but I fail to see how being in the main instance in any way garantees 3 or 4 idiots won’t take control of the turrets. Keep in mind I have never done the event, so forgive my ignorance and inform me.

The Overflows are a technical requirement. What is “acceptable” to the OP is irrelevant to the technical constraints of the hardware and connections that run the game. I guess you can continue to complain or figure out some way to deal with the realities of this content release.

oZii.2864:

I got a BL salvage kit yesterday from my daily. That is all I have to add to this thread.

I got one this morning. Lame conspiracy theory is lame….

I concur……WHY?

Lisa.6102:

The dog ate my homework

Yes, but WHO tells the dog what to do? eh?

nudge, nudge, wink, wink

SAY NO MORE!

If player X can go obtain item Y in any significant quantity within a reasonable period of time (relatively guaranteed) , then that item CANNOT be monopolized on the TP. No significant control of a particular market can exist without some sort of control on the SUPPLY and while speculators can attempt to buy up all the crafting materials on the TP, the game constantly generates more that is beyond control.

Again, Precursors are an anomoly in this system as they are only GENERATED via very small percentage drops from 2 sources (at the moment). Talk about how to fix Precursor prices should have no bearing on discussions of how to fix the overall TP.

This is a good question. My guess is it will lose it’s ability to choose stats when you transmute it, but a splitter (used by the new owner) should be able to get the ability back.

Basically, they found a way to make some money when players pass around Legendary weapons with that transmute exploit.

Vukanigia.5496:

Opacus, as i said before, no1 will hurt you or any other fine gentle mans while you pick your flowers in the wild area of Or, filled with dangerous spices and savages. You can play tetris game while other people will do some pvp.
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Your first post was reasonable and balanced, yet you revert to this PvP Elitist belittling rant at your first opportunity. This entire statement is meant to be a backhand insult to ALL PvE players, so the comment that there is no need for an insult is laughable.
THAT kind of “look down upon the lowly PvE players” attitude is what those that play PvE REALLY don’t want ruining their enjoyment of the game in open world areas.

I’m not saying your idea is the worst thing I’ve ever heard, but this boils down to “not in my neighborhood” and I can’t blame anyone that opposes the idea based on the above quote.

This is a fabulous idea I would love to go and smash some PvE “pros” with my guild while they try amd grind out t3 cultural armor!

Another example of why this is a bad idea. It’s much less about the actual game play changes and much more about the intolerant, buly-boy, elitist attitude that seems to permeate the PvP based commnity. Why would anyone want to invite thugs into their backyard?

Face it, the game is segregated PvE / PvP for a reason and trying to integrate it is just not something you can do and please everyone. Hey, it would be great if this HUGE rift between PvP & PvE did not exist, but PvPers continue to look down their noses at the unskilled, unwashed PvEers and the PvEers continue to retaliate and call all PvPers Elitist bullies. I don’t see those things ending anytime soon.

I’m not sure what is gained by trying to shove these 2 extremes together (other than giving a griefer and potential PKer idiots a target rich environment). I know there are a lot of players that both PvP and PvE that are stuck in the middle and see both sides of the arguments, but these players seem to enjoy “playing” and ignore all the angst between the extremist in both groups.

I seriously don’t see a lack of players in the majority of game areas. If you are on a mainly PvP server, your mileage in open world zones may certainly vary.

Not to take away from the lore karma of an Asura Engineer, but the animations of an Asura Warrior are some of the most entertaining in the game….just saying.

Evidence (based on complaints I have seen elsewhere on forums) is that the Skin is NOT considered one of the ITEMS being split and is NOT generated from the split. The real issue here is that any experimentation is likely to result in the loss of the skin itself, so it’s very dangerous (obviously why you are asking the question).

A Dev response would be nice on this issue, but until then, I would consider the Splitter item unable to return the original skin (that does kind of make sense as it is NOT reallly an equipment item).

It would be interesting to see if the Splitter would even allow you use it on an item that just had a skin applied (and was not actually transmuted)…..I doubt it and that would support the theory that it should NOT return a Skin from a transmuted item.

I hate to admit it but I deleted a LVL 66 Theif only because I didn’t like the Sylvari story nor how she looked. Very shallow, I know. I replaced her with a Human Thief that I have since raised to 80. My only regret is that at the time, she had about 80K karma that I lost.

Sounds like the 3D was enable in your driver and set to override game settings. Reinstalling the drivers seems to have reset the setting (just a guess).

Since I despise the 3D hype trend, I simply customize the driver install and DON’T EVAR install the 3D software for the video card.

Keep in mind that a SKIN is handled differently than an actual equipment item. You claim you were “officially” told the skin would be generated from the split, but I’m sure support is going to ask for that quote and it’s source (and I’m curious myself).

I think there has been a lot of confusion on this issue but it certainly appears that the Splitter knows NOTHING about the skin applied to the item being split. That Definately needs to be cleared up, but I’m not sure how you make it plain to anyone purchasing the Splitter (a disclaimer on the item description in the Gem Store that states it does NOT return skins…only items?).

tolunart.2095:

People complain about this sort of thing often. I’ve done it myself. Anet is not responsible for the players’ carelessness.

This is absolutely true.

I guess it is possible that in this instance, Support MIGHT consider the roll-back due to the double click mechanic of the Guild Bank working differently than Account Bank (I am assuming this is the case….have not tested it myself). Keep in mind that they are NOT going to give you back the dyes, just roll back your ENTIRE account to before you used the dye and that is going to make everything you have done on the account since then destroyed. If you have done a lot, you may want to reconsider the request.

Hinging your argument on min-pets and and a convenience item that is used in a mini-game is pretty far from anything important and compelling to a large portion of the player base.

There ARE actual issues that should possibly be examined and questioned when it comes to the financial direction ANet appears to be headed (in terms of content distribution and continued revenue streams), but those examples are not ones the majority of the player base are going to consider grounds for requesting a wholesale change in ANet’s financial policy.

Also, telling someone you will NEVER financially support them (buy gems) and then ask them to revamp their business model is pretty ballsy….

Khisanth.2948:

Influence you ‘generate’ always goes to your homeworld.

…and from the Dev comments I’ve seen there is no intention to change this (but that certainly could have changed….but I doubt it).

Astral Projections.7320:

Khisanth.2948:

or you can just /w yourself

Didn’t know that. While I talk to myself all the time in real life it never occurred to me to whisper myself in game. ^^

This is also the secret to setting up a quick and dirty waypoint list while in a zone (like while riding the Champ Train).

azurrei.5691:

Drunken Mad King.8193:

Crafting was intended to assist in leveling it was not intended to simply easily level a character to 80. To those that choose to do it this method I hardly feel your complaints about cost are justified.

Then why did they make such a big deal out of “you can craft from 1-80?” It was a feature, but they decided to adjust it – oh well.

Please provide a Dev quoting this as a game “feature” or as some sort of promotional media…..I think you are highly confused about who said what about crafting and leveling.

yeah they severely gimpt that system because someone in canada way back leveled from 1-80 on one of their toons without stepping foot outside of the major city for his race and taking donations from his guild mates to level the crafting.

You are also mistaken. This method of “leveling” has been used by multitudes of players to simply “buy” a Level 80 character. I doubt who did it first has any bearing on this change (and I’m not sure it was something intentional to thwart “buy Level 80”….only a Dev could answer that.

Doesn’t make any sense to me that they would nerf it that drastically either considering this was supposed to be a game where you could play as you like and we all know a certain portion of every mmo community are simply crafters and nothing more.

While I know it’s 30%…..exactly how is that “drastic”?
400/500 = 0.8
7/10 = 0.7 (and this is likely closer to 8 levels than 7)
The ratio seems to track, so the change appears to just spread the XP over the full range of Crating.

While I don’t disagree that it is now much more expensive to get the additional 3 levels per craft, 3 levels is easy to get otherwise….so just don’t get them via crafting if the expense bothers you.

It seems obvious to me that the lack of any “announcement” in the patch notes is an indication of ANet’s thoughts on using crafting as a means to level up…..not intended so not worth a “warning”.

Hey, keep whining about it as Anet has changed things that matter much more for less QQing by players.

Note: Be careful when you use the preview option when selecting. Apparently the entire selection menu / process is rather non-intuative and there have been a LOT of people complaining that they were viewing a bunch of options and some how picked the wrong weapon. Never been confirmed if it’s a bug or just player error/confusion over a questionable menu / UI design.

I never had an issue, but quite a few other players have reported that they THOUGHT they selected one weapon yet actually unlocked another.

Have you thought about how overpowered an extended Stealth capability would be? As mentioned above, more than 3s of Stealth can be accomplished but only in a fixed, ground targeted areas (that just scream “I’m Stealthing Peeps!”, to anyone that cares to open their eyes).

The Stealth mechanic in GW2 is not really about sneaking around the map, but giving a combat option based on hit & run tactics.

ricohman.7302:

I dont get this, you generally must be a bad player. I started playing 2months ago have only 300hrs play time but have 76gold. I was lucky at the start i managed to have 8 gold by level 14 on my 1st character by selling holographic dragon wings on the tp. But the rest of the gold has been got farming and selling mostly everything.

I would class myself as a noob player, ive only played AC dungeon no other ones. I have 3 other characters all about level 10 yet i have 70 gold and you cant get by 10.

This is typical of a player that is only SPENDING gold on 1 character. Earning gold isn’t usually a problem, but SAVING it up can be if you are gearing up a number of characters along the way.

The contents of bags and boxes dropped by enemies is set when the item drops, so the loot will NOT get better as you level higher (or a higher level character opens it).

I’m not 100% sure about reward boxes, but from my experience during the Clockwerk Invasions, their contents also appears to be set when generated (not when opened).

My question to the complaint is, “Whyyyy?”.

If you don’t like the event, don’t participate….by your own admission you are loosing nothing by NOT doing it.

In terms of collecting a stockpile of Quartz, I think your are out of luck, but you can still collect a limited amount by entering the Home Instance Zone with someone that DID get the node unlocked. Those that have it unlocked can only mine the Quartz once per day (in their own home instance), but I think if you enter another player instance with them, you can mine unlimited nodes per day (but I could be wrong in that). Pretty sure Quartz is available on the TP for a reasonable price. You can also get Quartz from running the Sanctum Sprint mini-game.

The real issue is that you need 25 Quartz to obtain 1 CHARGED QUARTZ (at a Skill Point Place of Power), and that can only be done once per day per account….and those are account bound, so basically it would take a month to make to make the material for the inscriptions (IF you had the required quartz). You also need the recipes for the needed inscriptions and each armor piece (those ARE being sold on the TP and last I looked they were fairly inexpensive).

How are you identifying your MF ? The base MF is displayed on the Achievement tab of the HERO window.

That value only changes as you USE Luck Essence, but that bar only indicates how close you are to the NEXT 1% of base MF %.

There are still a few items that effect MF, so the front Hero display would take that into account and could be different from character to character.

I think he is wearing town gear, not actual armor.

How much you can accumulate easily is very dependent on how many characters you are currently needing / trying to “gear up”. I have 8, so I plan to be cash poor for a long time.

Like all instances, a party is required.

This instance was added via one of the LS updates (Dragon Bash?). It added a Point of Interest that originally could not be obtained without access to the instance via the LS mission (that was not available after the LS content was removed). This has since been corrected and you can pick up the PoI from outside the gate.